Pierre Hongre
Pierre Hongre (also Petrus Hungarus, Peter the Hungarian ; * in (?) Bártfa in Hungary ; † not before 1510, probably in Lyon ) was an early printer and bookseller in Lyon and Toulouse . As Petrus de Bartua he worked temporarily in Venice .
Life
Hongre or Hungarus probably came from Bártfa in what is now eastern Slovakia . From 1477 to 1479 he was in Venice under the name Pietro or Petrus de Bartua business partner of Francisus Renner , to whom he cast the letters .
Hongre can be proven to have been a printer in Lyon since 1482. The following year he printed the French version of La Légende dorée of the Legenda aurea with Matthias Huß . After Konrad Haebler , Hongre was the sponsor of this partnership. The letters of the richly illustrated work were then used by Sixtus Glockengiesser and other Lyon printers. Even Guillaume Le Roy used type alphabets of Hongre.
By 1491 at the latest, Hongre stayed in Toulouse, where he made letters for Henry Mayer . In a notarial deed the following year he was listed as a bookseller (Mercator Librorum) . Hongre returned to Lyon in the same year and to Hungary in 1493. In 1492 he was considered wealthy with a fortune of 120 livres tournois .
Two or three years later, Hongre opened a new publishing house in Lyon. He specialized in small format prints and used the city's smallest types ( 5 point ). Although his Lyon Missal 1500 was one of the most successful printing works, he was temporarily unable to pay his taxes and was only released because of his services to the city's printing trade. A partnership with the type founder Antoine Doulcet (also Doulzet ) has been proven until 1510 .
In a colophon from 1497, Hongre describes himself as “ Magister ” and “totius artis impressorie peritissimus” (master of the art of printing) . He did not have his own printer brand , but ended his work with five lines that ended with "laus deo" (Praise be to God) .
Printed works
Works printed by Petrus de Bartua and Franz Renner (selection)
- Nicolaus de Ausmo : Supplementum summae Pisanellae . Alexander de Nevo: Consilia contra Iudaeos fenerantes . Astesanus: Canones poenitentiales . Venice 1477.
- Thomas de Aquino : Summa theologica . Pars secunda, primus liber , Venice 1478; Pars secunda, secundus liber , Venice 1479.
Works printed by Pierre Hongre (selection)
- Bartholomaeus Anglicus : De proprietatibus rerum . Lyon 1482.
- Johannes Reuchlin : Vocabularius breviloquus (With additions of Guarinus Veronensis ). Lyon 1482.
- Jacobus de Voragine : Legenda aurea (Latin). Lyon 1483.
- Jacobus de Voragine: La Légende dorée (French). Lyon 1483 - with Matthias Huss .
- Missal Lugdunense . Lyon 1500.
literature
- Frédéric Barbier (ed.): Le Berceau du livre. Autour des incunables . Droz, Geneva 2004. pp. 228ff.
- Gulyás Pál: A Könyv sorsa Magyarországon . OSZK , Budapest 1961. p. 31.
- Claude Dalbanne : La Légende dorée, Matieu Husz et Pierre Hongre, 1483 . Association Guillaume Le Roy, Lyon 1925.
Web links
- Prints by Pierre Hongre in the complete catalog of cradle prints (= GW)
- Prints by Petrus de Bartua in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNB: Bartua, Petrus de . (accessed on July 3, 2019)
- ↑ GW M26257
- ↑ GW M46472
- ↑ GW M46495
- ↑ GW 03406
- ^ Digitized version of the Madrid University Library
- ↑ GW M37919
- ↑ GW M11235
- ↑ GW M11235
- ↑ GW M24507
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hongre, Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ungre, Pierre (French name); Ungar, Peter the (German name); Bartua, Petrus de; Ungarus, P .; Hungarus, Petrus (Latin names); Bartua, Pietro da (Italian name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Printer and dealer in Venice, Lyon and Toulouse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1450 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Bártfa , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1510 |
| Place of death | unsure: Lyon |