Johann Veldener
Johann Veldener (* in Würzburg ; † in Löwen between 1486 and 1496 , also known as Jan Veldener or Johan Veldenaer ) was an early book printer in Flanders .
Career
He worked as a stamp cutter and printer in Cologne together with William Caxton , who may have financed his first books. They both moved to Flanders in 1472. Caxton set up his own print shop in Bruges . There he printed, with Veldener's support, The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy by Raoul Lefèvre in 1472/73 . Then Veldener went to Leuven and built his workshop there. He became the second printer in Leuven after Johann von Westphalen and the third or fourth in the Netherlands. On July 30, 1473 he was accepted into the medical faculty of the University of Leuven . In Leuven he printed the universal story Fasciculus temporum by Werner Rolevinck . The print was equipped with 15 woodcuts and the Veldeners signet.
He left Leuven in 1477 after the death of Charles the Bold caused unrest in the city and went to Utrecht . In 1480 he printed the Fasciculus temporum translated into Dutch . The other of his Utrecht printed works were religious writings. When things got restless in this city too, he moved to Culemborg in 1482 and returned to Leuven in 1484.
Veldener was also known for creating fonts . Caxton is said to have taken some of Veldener's fonts to England and used them, among other things, for the first edition of the Canterbury Tales . He may have bought more fonts from Veldener later.
In Utrecht, Veldener supposedly printed the Chronyck van Hollandt, Zeelandt, ende Westvrieslandt , a chronicle about Holland , Zeeland and West Friesland . It was reprinted in Utrecht in 1650. Other works attributed to him are the Cronijcken van Enghelant on the English kings until 1460, the Cronijcken van Utrecht on the bishops of Utrecht , the Cronijcken van Gelre , the Cronijcken van Cleve and the Cronijcken van Brabant . It is assumed that these are anonymous works printed by him and that later attributions to him as the author are incorrect.
Works printed by Veldener
In Cologne (1471–1472)
- Walter Burley : De vita philosophorum
- Pope Pius II : De duobus amantibus
- Gesta Romanorum
- Flores Sancti Augustini
- Bartholomaeus Anglicus : De proprietatibus rerum
In Leuven (1473–1477)
1473
- Giovanni Boccaccio : Genealogia deorum
1474
- Jacobus de Theramo : Consolatio peccatorum (in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress )
- Pietro de 'Crescenzi : Liber ruralium commodorum
1475
- Angelus de Gambiglionibus de Aretio, also known as Angeli Aretini or Angelo Gambiglioni : Lectura super institutionibus
- Werner Rolevinck : Fasciculus temporum (the second printed book in the Netherlands)
- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus : Pharsalia
- Lorenzo Valla : Elegantiae linguae latinae
1476
- An almanac that is considered the oldest printed almanac in the Netherlands
- Carolus Maneken : Formulas epistolarum (first print of this book)
- Pope Pius II .: Epistolae familiares et in cardinalatu editae and Legatio Friderici III ad summum Pontificem super declaratione concordiae
1477
- Marcus Tullius Cicero : Epistolae ad familiares
- Raimundus Peraudi : Avisamenta confessorum
- Thomas Aquinas : De beatitudine aeternitatis
In Utrecht (1478–1481)
1478
- Epistolae et Evangelia or Alle die Epistolen en Ewangelien, metten Sermoenen van den gheheelen jare (reprinted in 1479 and 1481)
1479
- Pope Gregory I : Homiliae super Evangeliis / Omelie in duutschen
1480
- Werner Rolevinck: Boeck datmen is called Fasciculus temporum (reprinted with some additional chronicles, sometimes ascribed to Veldener; first translation of this book, published in Latin in 1474 and printed by Veldener in 1475)
- Jacobus de Voragine : Dat passionael ofte gulden legend with the martirologium
- Lucas de Tollentis : Litterae indulgentiarum anni jubilaei causa 1480
In Culemborg (1483–1484)
1483
- Spieghel of the human slippery behoudenisse
- Boec van den Houte
- Spinroc
1484
- Kruidboeck in Dietsche (possibly printed in Löwen)
Again in Leuven (1484–1487?)
- Alphabetum divini amoris (two editions)
- Vocabularius (in French, Dutch and Latin)
1484
- Pope Innocent VIII , Regulae cancellariae apostolicae, Lectae 23 Sept. 1484
- Michael Scotus , Liber physiognomiae
- Franciscus de Zabarellis , Repetitio super capitulo Perpendimus de sententia excommunicationis
1485
- Herbarius in Latino (reprinted with illustrations in 1486)
1486
- Matheolus Perusinus : De memoria augenda
- Paulus de Middelburgo : Prognosticon (in Dutch)
- Cornelius Roelans de Mechlinia : Opusculum aegritudinum puerorum
1487
- Valuacie van den gelde
literature
- Ferdinand Geldner : The German incunabula printer. A manual of the German printer of the XV. Century by place of printing. Second volume: The foreign language areas. Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-7772-7022-9 . Pp. 319ff, 323ff, 329, 338ff, 343.
- Karl Steiff : Veldener, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 571-573.
Web links
- Prints by Jan Veldener in the complete catalog of the cradle prints
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The German incunable printers. Volume 2, p. 323.
- ↑ a b The German incunable printer. Volume 2, p. 319.
- ↑ Lotte Hellinga: The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume 3 . Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-57346-7 , p. 832 (accessed August 7, 2012).
- ^ Caxton's Chaucer 1. The printing type . British Library. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
- ^ Marijke Carasso-Kok: Repertorium van Verhalende Historische Bronnen uit de Middeleeuwen ( Dutch ). Brill Archive, 1981, ISBN 90-247-9132-4 , p. 498 (accessed August 8, 2012).
- ↑ Tijd gebonden ( Dutch ) Royal Library of the Netherlands. Archived from the original on February 8, 2010. Retrieved on August 8, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veldener, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Veldener, Jan (maiden name); Veldenaer, Johan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Book printer in Flanders |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th century or 15th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1486 and 1496 |
| Place of death | Lions |