Johannes Numeister

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The edition of Dante's Divine Comedy printed by Numeister in Foligno in 1472 ; Copy of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence

Johannes Numeister or Neumeister from Mainz († between 1507 and 1512 in Lyon ) was a printer . In 1472 he printed an early edition of the Divine Comedy in Foligno ( GW 7958). He is considered a prime example of a traveling printer.

Life

In the final writings of books he has printed, Johannes Numeister de Maguncia calls himself , that is, as coming from Mainz. He could be identical to the Johannes Nuwemeister de Treisa , who matriculated in Erfurt in 1454 . Whether or not Johannes Numeister learned the printing trade from Johannes Gutenberg has to remain undecided according to today's research (August 2008). In the years 1470–1472 he printed in Foligno Leonardo Bruni's De Bello italico adversus Gothos (GW 5600), Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares (GW 6804) and the first edition of Dante's Divina Commedia . The goldsmith and papal mint master Emiliano Orfini appears as Numeister's business partner in the first two prints. The Divina Commedia , however, was financed by Evangelista Angelini from Trevi. In 1473 Johannes Numeister was taken into custody. In 1481 he printed the Meditationes (GW M48252) of Juan de Torquemada in Albi . He used the same shot cuts that were created in 1479 for the Mainz edition (GW M48255) of this work. The Mainz edition of Meditationes, as well as a ritual book of the same type (GW 468) is therefore ascribed to Johannes Numeister. In Albi he printed four or five more works until about 1483. From 1483 Johannes Neumeister can be found in Lyon tax lists. The Archbishop of Lyon Charles de Bourbon commissioned him to print a Missal Lugdunense (GW M24503) in 1487 . This main work by Johannes Numeister was followed by other liturgical prints, such as the Missale Ucetiense (GW M24821) in 1495, on which Michel Topié contributed. Nevertheless, Numeister always seems to have been poor, after 1498 he worked for his former employee Michel Topié. He must have died around 1507–1512 without heirs and completely impoverished.

literature

  • Anatole Claudin: Origines de l'imprimerie à Albi en Languedoc (1480–1484). Les pérégrinations de J. Neumeister, compagnon de Gutenberg, en Allemagne, en Italie et en France (1463–1484), son établissement définitif à Lyon (1485–1507) (= Antiquités typographiques de la France. I). Claudin, Paris 1880 ( digitized on Gallica ).
  • Matthieu Desachy (Ed.): Incunables albigeois. Les ateliers d'imprimerie de l'Aenas Sylvius (av. 1475 - c. 1480) et de Jean Neumeister (1481 - 1483) . Éditions du Rouergue, Rodez 2005, ISBN 2-84156-705-2 ( Trésors écrits Albigeois , I).
  • Dictionnaire des imprimeurs et libraires lyonnais du XVe siècle . In: Frédéric Barbier (ed.): Le berceau du livre: Autour des Incunables. Études et essais offerts au Professeur Pierre Aquilon par ses élèves, ses collèges et ses amis. Droz, Geneva 2004, ( Revue française d'histoire du livre , Nos 118–121), pp. 209–275, here p. 241 f. No. 106 Neumeister, Jean .
  • Ferdinand Geldner : On the earliest German and Italian book printing (Mainz - Baiern - Foligno. Johannes Numeister and Ulrich Han?). Hans Widmann (March 28, 1908 - December 19, 1975) in memory . In: Gutenberg yearbook . 54, 1979, pp. 18-38 ( digi-journals ).
  • Konrad Haebler : Les Incunables d'Albi . In: Revue du Tarn (1935) 2, pp. 92-104 ( digitized on Gallica )
  • Franz Götz:  Numeister, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 374 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Cornelia Schneider: Mainzer Drucker - Printing in Mainz (II) . In: City of Mainz (ed.): Gutenberg. event and art. From secret company to the first media revolution . Schmidt, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-87439-507-3 , pp. 212-235, here pp. 226-229.
  • Karl Steiff :  Numeister: Johann N. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 52-55.

Remarks

  1. ^ So (GW 5507), cf. (GW M36158).
  2. ↑ Hermann Weissenborn (arrangement): Acts of the Erfurt University. I. Theil (= historical sources of the province of Saxony and adjacent areas. Volume 8.1). Halle 1881, p. 243, line 23 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ), cf. but ibid. p. 175 line 7 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Nicole Le Pottier and Matthieu Desachy: La production des ateliers dit de l'Aenas Sylvius (non post 1475–1480) et de Jean Neumeister, dit Jean d'Albi (1481–1483). In: Matthieu Desachy (ed.): Incunables albigeois. Pp. 38–47, here p. 43.
  4. ↑ See Paola Tentori:  Angelini, Evangelista, detto Evangelista da Foligno. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 3. Rome 1961, pp. 213-214.
  5. ↑ (GW 5102), (GW 7012), (GW M10849) and (GW M23908), in Jacobus de Theramo: Procès de Belial (Mainz, Martinus-Bibliothek Inc. 46) the assignment to Albi or Lyon is disputed. Incunables albigeois, pp. 62-65 and pp. 94-105.

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personal data
SURNAME Numeister, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumeister, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Traveling printer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH between 1507 and 1512
Place of death Lyon