JACOBI, Henry ‹ LBT 28411 ›
floruit 1505 (B)—1514 (B); Male
Will
| Will (Ref., Piece, Image) | Will Dates | Intestate | Probate Dates | Administration Dates | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1514-12-11 | Duff, E.G. (1905) - admin. 'was granted to William Bretton through his agent Joyce Pelgrim. [Oxf.Univ. Archives]' --- |
Occupations (3)
| Occupation | Comment |
|---|---|
| Stationer | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
| Bookseller | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
| Bookbinder | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
Addresses (2)
| Date | Address | Trade at Addr | Source | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxfordshire - Oxford | Duff, E.G. (1905) | |||
| St Paul's Churchyard | Duff, E.G. (1905) | - the sing of the Trinity |
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
- probably a Frenchman
Duff, E.G. (1905), pp.79-80
JACOBI (HENRY), stationer in London and Oxford, was most probably a Frenchman and his name first occurs in an entry in a manuscript [Add. MS. 7099, fol. 93] in the British Museum which speaks of him as a bookseller in 1505, when Henry VII bought from him books to the value of forty-six pounds ten shillings to present to the monastery at Richmond. In 1506 in partnership with another bookseller Joyce Pelgrim { PELGRIM, Joyce ‹ LBT 30076 › }, and assisted by a wealthy London merchant William Bretton { BRETTON, William ( - 1526) ‹ LBT 02590 › }, he issued three books, a Psalterium cum hymnis, a Horae ad usum Sarum, and the Constitutiones of Lyndewode and Athon. In 1507 and 1508 three grammatical books were printed for them at Antwerp, probably by Thierry Martens. In 1509 Jacobi was at work by himself and commissioned a part of an edition of the Ortus Vocabulorum printed by Pynson { PYNSON, Richard ( - 1529) ‹ LBT 28537 › }. While some copies were to be sold by the printer, others have an imprint stating that they were to be sold by Jacobi at his shop in St. Paul's Churchyard at the sign of the Trinity. In 1510 Bretton again paid for the printing of two books, the Pupilla Oculi of J. de Burgo and the Speculum Spiritualium of Richard Rolle of Hampole. These books were printed at Paris by W. Hopyl and certain copies have his imprint on the titlepage in place of that of Jacobi. Between September, 1510, and the end of May, 1511, four small works of Savonarola were printed at Paris by Badius Ascensius, all of which were to be sold by Jean Petit, Henry Jacobi and Ascensius. It is probable that Jacobi was in Paris at this time but he was back again in London in 1512, when he published an edition of the Sarum Diurnale printed for him at Paris by W. Hopyl. This little book also contains on the last leaf the device of Francis Byrckman { BIRCKMAN, Francis ( - 1530) ‹ LBT 28355 › }, who may have joined with Jacobi in its production. Soon after this Jacobi moved to Oxford and opened a shop there with his old London sign of the Trinity, and issued an edition of the Formalitates of Antonius Sirectus, printed for him at London by Wynkyn de Worde { WORDE, Wynkyn de ( - 1534) ‹ LBT 02699 › }. On December 11th, 1514, administration of the effects of Henricus Jacobi, deceased, was granted to William Bretton through his agent Joyce Pelgrim. [Oxf. Univ. Archives.] Jacobi's shop in London was the sign of the Trinity in St. Paul's Churchyard. It was at the east side at the new schools built by Colet. He used two devices; the first, used when he was in partnership with Pelgrim, consisted of a blank shield with a ribbon behind it on which was printed "Nosce teipsum" with his mark and initials on one side and Pelgrim's on the other. His second device, found only in the book issued at Oxford, contains a representation of the Trinity with a king and knight in armour on either side and his name and mark below. This device was used afterwards by Henry Pepwell { PEPWELL, Henry ( - 1541) ‹ LBT 28281 › } with the name Jacobi cut out. Jacobi was also a bookbinder and used three pairs of panels containing the arms of France and England crowned supported by the dragon and greyhound, and the Tudor rose surrounded by a ribbon with a motto and supported by two angels. These have also his initials and mark. Another pair contain pictures of an Image of Pity and of Our Lady of Pity round which runs the legend beginning "Salve mater misericordiae" and ending with the initials H. I. joined by a knot. An example in the Bodleian containing some tracts of Savonarola, including some printed for Jacobi, has an inscription showing that it was executed in 1510. Besides these he also made use of a large square die with the figure of a dragon which had belonged to Caxton { CAXTON, William (1421 - 1492) ‹ LBT 02731 ›}. [Bibliographica, I, pp. 92-113, 189-191.]