NOTARY, Julian ‹ LBT 30071 ›
Badges
Floruit 1496 (B) — 1515 (A); Male
Occupations (3)
| Occupation | Comment |
|---|---|
| Printer | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
| Stationer | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
| Bookbinder | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
Addresses (4)
| Date | Address | Trade at Addr | Source | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1498, (1498) | Westminster | Duff, E.G. (1905) | ||
| circa-, 1501, (1501) | Temple Bar | Duff, E.G. (1905) | - the sign of the Three Kings | |
| 1510, (1510) | St Paul's Churchyard | Duff, E.G. (1905) | - also - little shop - same sing | |
| 1515, (1515) | St Paul's Churchyard | Duff, E.G. (1905) | - beside the West door, beside the Bishop's palace |
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Bib.Soc., Hand-lists (1913), contrib. E.G.Duff.
Duff, E.G. (1905), pp.112-14
NOTARY (JULIAN), printer and stationer in Westminster and London, appears to have begun to print about 1496. Many writers have suggested that he was a notary who had taken up printing, but the form of his name in his earliest books and device, Julianus Notarii, show that he was the son of one. The assertion that he was a Frenchman rests on the slight grounds of his being associated for a year or two with Jean Barbier { BARBIER, Jean ‹ LBT 28350 › } and spelling his name Notaire in the colophon of the Missal of 1498. About 1496 an edition of the Questiones Alberti de modis significandi was printed at London by St. Thomas Apostle Church. No printers' names are given but there is a device, used later by Notary alone, containing the initials I.N., I.B., and I.H. This same device is found in a Sarum Horae printed April 3rd, 1497, at the same address for Wynkyn de Worde { WORDE, Wynkyn de ( - 1534) ‹ LBT 02699 › }. The first two sets of initials stand doubtless for Julian Notary and Jean Barbier, but the last cannot be settled with any certainty. The most probable suggestion is that I.H. is Jean Huvin { }, a printer or stationer of Rouen, who was connected about this time with the production of Sarum service books. In 1498 Notary and Barbier printed a Sarum Missal for W. de Worde. They were then settled 'in Westminster and used the same device, from which the initials I.H. had been cut out. On January 2nd, 1500, was issued the Liber Festivalis. It is dated 1499 in the colophon, but Notary began his year on the 25th of March. It is an exact copy of the edition issued six months before by Pynson { PYNSON, Richard ( - 1529) ‹ LBT 28537 › }, and contains the old device with all the initials cut out and the name Julianus Notarii inserted in type. A very small sized edition of the Horae was printed in April of the same year, and about this time an edition of Chaucer's Love and complaints between Mars and Venus also appeared. At the end of 1500 W. de Worde left Westminster and very soon after Notary followed his example settling in a shop just outside Temple Bar which was probably the one lately vacated by Pynson. It had apparently had no sign previous to his occupation and he attached to it the sign of the Three Kings. The first book issued from this new address was probably a Sarum Horae assigned to 1503 though not dated, and this was followed in February, 1504, by an edition of the Golden Legend. The date in the colophon of this book is February 16th, 1503, in the 19th year of Henry VII, which shows that Notary did not begin his year until March 25th. In 1510 appeared an edition of the Sermones de tempore et sanctis which has an interesting imprint on the titlepage, which may be translated "They are to be sold (where they have been printed) at London in the suburb of Temple Bar near the porch of St. Clement's in the house of Julian Notary printer and bookseller carrying on business under the sign of the Three Kings. And they will also be found for sale in St Paul's churchyard in the same man's little shop [cellula] from which also hangs the same sign of the Three Kings." After this Notary apparently gave up his house by Temple Bar, and when he next appears, in 1515, he was living in St. Paul's Churchyard beside the west door and beside the Bishop of London's palace. The Chronicle of England printed this year mentions no sign, but two grammars issued in the year following mention the sign of St. Mark and this in 1518 was changed back to the old one of the Three Kings. Nothing is known of Notary after 1520. He printed in all about forty-eight books and used three devices. The first, mentioned earlier, is simply his mark, the second is a smaller variety of the mark alone with his initials and the last contains his mark on a shield with a helmet above and mantling: this fitted inside and is sometimes used with, an engraved border of birds, flowers, trees and fabulous animals. Besides being a printer Notary was also a binder and used two panel stamps. On one is a shield bearing the arms of France and England, ensigned with a crown and supported by the dragon and greyhound, on the other the Tudor rose between two scrolls inscribed with a motto and supported by angels. Beneath the rose are Notary's initials and mark. He used two different varieties of these panels which differ very slightly in minute detail, one point being that the initial N inside the mark has in one case the middle stroke running the wrong way. [D.N.B.]