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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews
+Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University, by Anonymous
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+Title: Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
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+Author: Anonymous
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+Release Date: October 9, 2005 [EBook #16844]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATALOGUE OF EARLY BOOKS ***
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+Transcriber's Note: Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling found in
+the original book have been retained in this version. A list of these
+inconsistencies is found at the end of the text.
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+
+      CATALOGUE OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS
+
+
+
+
+                 CATALOGUE
+
+                   OF THE
+
+           WILLIAM LORING ANDREWS
+
+         COLLECTION OF EARLY BOOKS
+
+                   IN THE
+
+         LIBRARY OF YALE UNIVERSITY
+
+
+
+              [Printer's Seal]
+
+
+
+      NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
+          LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
+          OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
+                  MCMXIII
+
+
+
+
+              COPYRIGHT, 1913
+                     BY
+           YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
+
+Printed from type October, 1913. 300 copies
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+The collection of early printed books presented to the Library of Yale
+University in 1894 by Mr. William Loring Andrews, of New York, was
+formed to illustrate the first century of printing, which is a better
+boundary for the survey than the half-century ending with the year 1500,
+more often chosen. The latter, the so-styled cradle period of the art,
+is wanting in real definition, being at most a convenient halting place,
+not a completed stage, whereas at the middle of the sixteenth century
+the printed book of the better class had acquired most of its maturer
+features and no longer has for us an unfamiliar look. Designed to serve
+as a permanent exhibition, it is a selection rather than a collection,
+not large, but wisely chosen, and no less attractive than instructive,
+having been formed a quarter of a century ago, at a time when
+opportunities were unusually favorable.
+
+The surviving books of the first presses, which are the chief sources of
+our knowledge of the early art, are at the same time, when obtainable,
+the most efficient teachers. For the illustration of the typography, the
+feature of first importance, there is nothing comparable to the open
+pages of a representative series of the original books, such as are here
+spread out before us. The best of the available substitutes, phototype
+reproductions of specimen pages, apart from other limitations, must
+always lack the authority and the impressiveness of the originals.
+
+While it is the main office of the present collection to set before the
+students of the University as a whole the more general features of the
+art of the early printer, a further service which it is prepared to
+render must not be overlooked. To such as are prompted to go into the
+subject more deeply it offers an excellent body of the original
+material upon which any serious study must of necessity be based.
+
+The two fine fifteenth century MSS. at the head of the collection, far
+from serving a merely ornamental purpose, like their own illuminated
+initials for example, are a needful introduction. It is obvious that
+from such sources the first printers got the models of their types, and
+the MSS. in which Jenson found the prototypes of his famous roman
+characters, which in the judgment of some are still unsurpassed, could
+not have been very remote from these. Some of the more striking features
+which distinguish the early printed books from the later were not
+original with them, but only survivals from the MSS. The abbreviations
+and contractions in which both abound were the labor-saving devices of
+the copyists, adopted without hesitation by the printers who used the
+MSS. as copy and only slowly abandoned. The copyist left spaces in his
+MS. for initials to be supplied by the illuminator, without which his
+work was not considered complete, and for about a hundred years the
+printer continued to do the same. If the copyist saw fit to attach his
+name to his work, we look for it at the end of the volume and there also
+the printer placed his colophon. Signatures and catchwords, to guide the
+binder in the arrangement of the sheets, did not come in with the
+printed book, but had long been in use in the MSS.
+
+Although out of the hundreds of presses active during the first century
+only a score are here represented, leaving wide gaps in the series, it
+is better, because more nearly in the natural line of development, that
+the books should be ranged under the country, the locality and the press
+to which they severally belong, than that they should be kept in strict
+chronological order. A general chronological order underlies the
+geographical even where it does not come to the surface. By right of
+seniority Germany stands at the head, and Mainz, the birthplace of
+printing, is followed by the other German towns in the order of their
+press age. Next come the presses of Italy, France, Holland and England,
+arranged in like order. To prevent, however, too wide a departure from
+the chronological succession which would result from the strict
+application of this rule, the later, i.e., the sixteenth century, Venice
+and Paris books are separated from the earlier and transferred to the
+end of the list, where in point of development they properly belong.
+Placed in the order thus indicated, the books, as befits so small a
+total, are numbered consecutively in one series. The conspectus, which
+brings into one view the titles, dates, places and printers' names, will
+serve also as a sufficient index.
+
+While we are here most concerned with the genealogy and family history
+of the books, or in other words with their press relationships, the
+personal history attaching to them--_habent sua fata libelli_--is not
+without interest. The Zeno MS. and the Philo, printed on vellum, are the
+dedication copies, not merely set apart, but specially prepared for this
+use. In a few of the volumes are found the names or the arms of early
+owners. The Livy MS. and one-half of the printed books are from the
+library, dispersed in 1886, of Michael Wodhull (1740-1816) of Thenford,
+Northamptonshire, the first translator into English verse of all the
+extant works of Euripides, the most assiduous and painstaking and in
+some departments of bibliography the best equipped among the book
+collectors of his day. It was his custom (well illustrated in the
+present collection) to enter on the fly-leaf of each purchase the source
+and the cost, adding as a separate item the binding, often by Roger
+Payne, and to affix his name and the date. His _visé_ "Collat: &
+complet:" is seldom wanting and often bibliographical notes and
+references to authorities are added. Justinian's _Novellae_, printed by
+Schoeffer, and all the Aldine press books save one are from the library
+gathered at Syston Park, Lincolnshire, by Sir John Thorold and his son,
+Sir John Hayford Thorold, between 1775 and 1831 and sold in 1884.
+
+One valued mark of ownership, common to all the volumes, is the _ex
+libris_ of the lover of choice books who united them in one family, not
+again to be separated, and gave them into the keeping of the University
+Library.
+
+The accompanying list of Authorities, as will be apparent, is intended
+to supply merely the details necessary to complete the references of the
+catalogue.
+
+Acknowledgments are due from the compiler to his associates in the
+Library and the University for assistance in the catalogue.
+
+ADDISON VAN NAME, _Librarian Emeritus_.
+
+Yale University Library, September, 1913.
+
+
+
+
+AUTHORITIES.
+
+Ames, J. Typographical antiquities, or, History of printing in
+    England, Scotland and Ireland, enlarged by T.F. Dibdin. 4 v. 4^o.
+    Lond., 1810-19.
+
+Blades, W. The life and typography of William Caxton. 2 v. 4^o. Lond.,
+    1861-3.
+
+British Museum. Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in
+    the British Museum. Pt. i, ii. 4^o. Lond., 1908-12.
+
+Brown, H.F. The Venetian printing press. 4^o. N.Y. and Lond., 1891.
+
+Brunet, J.C. Manuel du libraire. 5^e éd. 6 v. 8^o. Paris, 1860-5.
+
+Burger, K. Deutsche und italienische Inkunabeln. Lief. i-ix. f^o.
+    Berlin, 1892-1912.
+
+Campbell, M.F.A.G. Annales de l'imprimerie néerlandaise au XV^e siècle.
+    8^o. La Haye, 1874-90.
+
+Claudin, A. The first Paris press: an account of the books printed for
+    G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne 1470-72. [Bibl. Soc.
+    Illust. Monogr. vi.] 4^o. Lond., 1897.
+
+Copinger, W.A. Incunabula Biblica. 4^o. Lond., 1892.
+
+---- Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 pt. in 3 v.
+    8^o. Lond., 1895-1902.
+
+Crevenna, P.A. Bolongaro. Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de M.
+    Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna. 5 v. 8^o. Amsterdam, 1789.
+
+De Vinne, T.L. Notable printers of Italy during the fifteenth century.
+    4^o. New York, 1910.
+
+Didot, A. Firmin. Alde Manuce et l'Hellénisme à Venise. 8^o. Paris,
+    1875.
+
+Duff, E. Gordon. A century of the English book trade. 4^o. Lond., 1905.
+
+---- Hand-lists of English printers 1501-1556. Pt. i, ii. 4^o. Lond.,
+    1895-6.
+
+Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 v. in 4 pt. 8^o. Stuttgart,
+    1826-38.
+
+Le Long, J. Bibliotheca sacra, continuata ab A.G. Masch. 2 pt. in 5 v.
+    4^o. Halae, 1778-90.
+
+Morgan, J. Pierpont. Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books
+    now forming a portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan. 3 v.
+    f^o. Lond., 1907.
+
+Panzer, G.W. Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum
+    MDXXXVI. 11 v. 4^o. Norimbergae, 1793-1803.
+
+Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques
+    publiques de France. T. i-iii. 8^o. Paris, 1897-1909.
+
+Philippe, J. Origine de l'imprimerie à Paris. 8^o. Paris, 1885.
+
+Pollard, A.W. An essay on colophons. [Caxton Club]. 4^o. Chicago, 1905.
+
+Proctor, R. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum.
+    8^o. Lond., 1898.
+
+---- The printing of Greek in the fifteenth century. [Bibl. Soc. Illust.
+    Monogr. viii]. 4^o. Lond., 1900.
+
+Quaritch, B., _ed._ Contributions toward a dictionary of English
+    book-collectors. Pt. i-xiii. 8^o. Lond., 1892-9.
+
+Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde. 3^e éd. 8^o. Paris,
+    1834.
+
+---- Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne. 2^e éd. 8^o. Paris, 1843.
+
+Ricci, Seymour de. Catalogue raisonné des premières impressions de
+    Mayence (1445-1467). [Veröff. der Gutenberg-Gesellseh. viii-ix].
+    4^o. Mainz, 1911.
+
+---- A census of Caxtons. [Bibl. Soc. Illust. Monogr. xvi]. 4^o. Lond.,
+    1909.
+
+
+
+
+CONSPECTUS
+
+MANUSCRIPTS
+
+
+                                                                         PAGE
+
+ 1. ZENO. Vita Caroli Zeni                                                  1
+ 2. LIVIUS. Historiarum libri I-X                                           3
+
+
+PRINTED BOOKS
+
+ 1. BIBLIA LATINA               Mainz        J. Fust & P.           1462   5
+                                                Schoeffer
+ 2. JUSTINIANUS. Novellae          "         P. Schoeffer           1477   6
+ 3. ISIDORUS. Etymologiae       [Strassburg] [J. Mentelin]      [c. 1473]  8
+ 4. GESTA ROMANORUM             [Cologne]    [U. Zell]          [c. 1473] 10
+ 5. GREGORIUS I. Homiliae       [Augsburg]   [G. Zainer]            1473  11
+ 6. PSALTERIUM LATINUM             "              "             [c. 1473] 12
+ 7. MODUS perveniendi ad
+      sapientiam                   "              "             [c. 1473] 13
+ 8. HUGO. De arrha animae          "              "                 1473  13
+ 9. CARACCIOLUS. De
+      poenitentia               Venice       Wendelin of Speier     1472  14
+10. VALLA. Elegantiae linguae
+      Latinae                      "         N. Jenson              1471  15
+11. PLINIUS. Naturalis historia    "              "                 1472  17
+12. NONIUS MARCELLUS. De
+      compendiosa doctrina         "              "                 1476  19
+13. DULLAERT. Quaestiones super              F. Renner & Nicolas
+      Aristotelem de anima         "            of Frankf.          1473  21
+14. ARISTOTELES. De animalibus     "         John of Cologne &
+                                                J. Manthen          1476  22
+15. UBERTINUS. Arbor vitae
+      crucifixae Jesu              "         A. de Bonetis          1485  23
+16. ALBERTIS. De amoris
+      remedio                   [Florence]                          1471  24
+17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabulae    [Milan]      Bonus Accursius    [c. 1480] 26
+18. OVIDIUS. Metamorphoses      Parma        A. Portilia            1480  28
+19. PIUS II. De duobus          [Paris]      [Friburger, Gering
+      amantibus                                 & Crantz]          [1472] 28
+20. PIUS II. De curialium
+      miseria                      "              "                [1472] 29
+21. PLATO. Epistolae               "              "                [1472] 30
+22. MAGNI. Sophologium             "         Crantz, Gering &       1477  32
+                                                Friburger
+23. HIERONYMUS. Vaderboeck      [Zwolle]     P. van Os              1490  33
+24. HIGDEN. Polychronicon       Westminster  W. Caxton             [1482] 34
+25. ORDINARY of Christians      London       W. de Worde            1506  38
+26. INTRATIONES                    "         R. Pynson              1510  40
+27. PLUTARCHUS. Moralia         Venice       Aldus Manutius         1509  41
+28. SCRIPTORES rei rusticae        "              "                 1514  43
+29. CICERO. Rhetorica              "         Andrea d'Asola         1521  45
+30. CELSUS. De medicina            "              "                 1528  47
+31. CICERO. Epistolae ad
+      Atticum                      "         Aldi filii             1540  47
+32. CICERO. Orationes              "              "                 1546  49
+33. PTOLEMAEUS. Planisphaerium     "         Paulus Manutius        1558  50
+34. LIVIUS. Historiae Romanae      "              "                 1572  51
+35. BIBLIA LATINA                Paris       Vidua Th. Kerver       1549  52
+36. PHILO. De divinis decem        "         C. Stephanus           1554  55
+      oraculis
+
+
+
+
+MANUSCRIPTS
+
+
+1. ZENO, JACOPO. Vitæ, morum, rerumque gestarum Caroli Zeni libri X.
+    1458.
+
+Fine white vellum, 192 leaves, in 19 quires of ten leaves each and two
+additional leaves at the end, the last of which is blank. Signed on the
+lower inner angle of the last page of each quire by a letter (A-T) which
+is repeated at the point directly facing it on the first page of the next
+quire. Leaves four to seven of the first quire and all of quires three to
+eight, a total of sixty-four leaves, have 28 lines to the page, the rest
+27 lines. Ruled on one side only with a hard point. Leaf 10-1/2 × 7 in.,
+text-page 7 × 3-3/4 in.
+
+Written in regular Italian minuscules of the 15th century, formed on the
+models of the 11th and 12th centuries.
+
+The subject of the memoir is the distinguished Venetian Admiral Carlo
+Zeno (1334-1418), brother of Nicolo and Antonio, reputed discoverers of
+America. His biographer, Jacopo Zeno (1417-1481), Bishop of Feltre and
+Belluno, and later of Padua, was his grandson. The work is dedicated to
+Pius II. in honor of his recent elevation to the papal throne, and since
+this is evidently the dedication copy, the accession of Enea Silvio
+Piccolomini in August, 1458, fixes approximately the date of the MS. In
+April, 1460, Jacopo Zeno was translated to the see of Padua.
+
+The execution and the decoration of the MS. are in keeping with its
+special use. The gratulatory preface occupying ten pages is introduced
+by the following heading in letters of burnished gold:
+
+IN LIBROS VITÆ MORVM RERVMQ: GESTARVM CAROLI ZENI VENETI. AD PIVM
+SECVNDVM PONTIFICEM MAXIMVM. IACOBI FELTRENSIS ET BELLVNENSIS
+ANTISTITIS PRAEFATIO: [G]LORIOSA.... The ornamentation of the ten-line
+illuminated initial G is of the interlaced style, and a border of
+similar pattern surrounds the entire page, enclosing on the front margin
+vignettes--a vase, two rabbits and a stork--and at the foot the
+Piccolomini arms, supported by kneeling angels and surmounted by the
+papal keys and tiara. Each of the ten books has a heading in burnished
+gold in which the dedication to Pius II. is repeated, and an initial of
+like character to that of the preface, with a marginal ornament. The
+occasional marginal subject-headings and the book-number at the top of
+each leaf are likewise in gold.
+
+The Latin text has thus far been printed only in Muratori's Rerum
+Italicarum Scriptores (of which a new edition is now in progress), vol.
+xix, Milan, 1731, from a MS. then, and still, preserved in the library
+of the Episcopal Seminary at Padua. This MS., the only one which he was
+able to discover, Muratori describes in the following language: "Codex
+autem Patavinus quamquam pervetustus a non satis docto Librario
+profectus est ac proinde occurrunt ibi quaedam parum castigata, quaedam
+etiam plane vitiata. Mutilus praeterea est in fine, ubi non multa quidem
+sed tamen aliqua desiderantur." Muratori's text breaks off in the middle
+of a sentence at the end of the nineteenth (i.e. the last full) quire of
+our MS., and accordingly lacks only the seventeen lines contained on the
+next leaf, which is the last. If, as seems quite possible, the quiring
+of the two MSS. is the same, the loss of the single unprotected leaf at
+the end is the more readily explained.
+
+In 1591 there was published at Bergamo an abridged Italian version, made
+from an illuminated MS. which had once belonged to the famous library of
+Matthias Corvinus, but was then in the possession of Caterino Zeno,
+governor of Bergamo. It had been among the spoils carried to
+Constantinople after the capture of Buda by the Turks in 1526. There,
+seven years later, it had been bought and carried back to Italy by
+Caterino's father, the younger Nicolo, who, in 1558, first gave to the
+world the narrative of his ancestors' voyages. For no better reasons
+than that the Paduan MS. also was illuminated in gold and colors, and
+that it had been bought twenty-five years before (c. 1700) in Venice
+where this branch of the Zeno family had become extinct, Muratori was
+inclined to identify it with the Corvinus MS. The relations between Pius
+II. and the king of Hungary, who was his ally in the proposed crusade
+against the Turks upon which he was just embarking when overtaken by
+death, and to whom the 48,000 ducats which he left behind him were sent
+in aid of the prosecution of war, suggest another possibility. It may be
+safely assumed that between the present MS., given only an opportunity
+to acquire it, and any other copy the king's choice could not have
+hesitated.
+
+The MS. is in 18th-century Italian binding, red morocco, gilt edges.
+Sold with other MSS. from the library of the Trivulzio family of Milan
+at Leavitt's auction, New York City, November, 1886.
+
+
+2. LIVIUS, TITUS. Historiarum Romanarum libri I-X. Late 15th century.
+
+Vellum. 336 leaves, the last blank. 34 quires all having ten leaves,
+except the 17th and 34th which have eight each. 31 lines to the page;
+catchword placed at right angles with the last line of the quire; ruled
+on both sides with plummet. Leaf 14-1/2 × 10 in., text-page 9 × 6 in.
+
+Written in very regular, bold Italian minuscules of the period of the
+Renaissance.
+
+The first page of the preface is surrounded by an illuminated border in
+gold and colors in the Renaissance style of ornament, into which are
+introduced the Caraccioli arms belonging to the distinguished Neapolitan
+family of that name. The initial F on this page is historiated with a
+view of Rome, and each of the ten books has an eight-line initial of
+dull gold on a background of red, blue and green, with marginal
+ornamentation.
+
+From the close agreement, even in punctuation, between this MS. and the
+edition printed at Milan in 1495 by Ulrich Scinzenzeler for Alexander
+Minutianus, and from other features which forbid the supposition that
+one is taken directly from the other, we must conclude that they both
+reproduce a common ancestor.
+
+This MS. of the first Decade of Livy is in unusually fine preservation,
+and is bound in russia extra, with broad borders of gold and gilt
+marbled edges.
+
+Brought from Palermo by Dr. Anthony Askew (1722-1772), it was sold with
+his collection of MSS. in 1785. Michael Wodhull, Esq., of Thenford,
+Northamptonshire, who gave seven guineas for the volume at "White's
+sale" in March, 1798, added to his customary entry of these details on
+the fly-leaf this note: "This appears to be the very Book which I saw
+Sir W. Burrell purchase at Dr. Askew's manuscript Auction (No. 482) for
+thirty-two guineas; in Sir W. Burrell's Auction, May, 1796, it is said
+to have gone for about five (No. 657). The note in _Bib. Askev.
+manuscripta_ is: 'Ex Panormo in Sicilia hunc cod. adduxit secum Cl.
+Askevius.' & '300 annor. MSS. longe pulcherrimus.'"
+
+At the sale of the Wodhull library in January, 1886, the Livy MS. and
+the greater part of the 15th-century books hereinafter described were
+acquired by the donor of the collection, William Loring Andrews, M.A.,
+of New York City.
+
+
+
+
+PRINTED BOOKS
+
+
+1. BIBLIA LATINA. Moguntiae, Johannes Fust et Petrus Schoeffer, 14
+    August, 1462.
+
+[Folio. 481 leaves, 2 columns, 48 lines to the column, gothic letter,
+without signatures, catchwords or pagination.]
+
+Leaves 204, 205 containing Judith xiv. 17--Esther iv. 4.
+
+     _Fol. 204^b, col. 1_ (red): expl_icit_ liber iudith secundu_m_
+     ieronimu_m_. Incipit p_r_ologus in libru_m_ hester. _Col. 2_ (red):
+     Explicit p_r_olog_us_. Incip. liber hester. Hain *3050. Pellechet
+     2281. Copinger 4. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 22. Burger pl. 74.
+     De Ricci 79.
+
+Five-line initial of prologue and fourteen-line initial I of Esther i. 1
+supplied in colors. Heading of leaf in alternate red and blue capitals.
+Initial-strokes in red on text capitals. Measurement 16-1/4 × 11-1/2 in.
+
+The fourth printed Bible, and the first in which place, printers' names
+and date are given. These details, which are wanting in so many of the
+books of the early printers, Fust and Schoeffer--and Schoeffer when he
+carried on the business alone--rarely failed to add to anything large
+enough to be called a book that came from their press. This is their
+fifth book and the colophon attached to the first, the famous Psalter of
+1457, was repeated in them all, with no essential change beyond the
+date, and continued to do duty for ten years longer. In the present
+Bible among the typographical differences found in the copies are three
+varieties of the colophon, two of which however are identical in
+language and differ only in the printers' use of contractions and
+capitals. The more common of the forms affirms that: "This present work
+by the ingenious invention of printing or stamping letters without any
+scratching of the pen has been thus fashioned in the city of Mainz and
+to the worship of God has been diligently brought to completion by
+Johann Fust citizen and Peter Schoeffer clerk of the same diocese in the
+year of the Lord 1462, on the eve of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary."
+
+In Seymour de Ricci's "Catalogue raisonné des premières impressions de
+Mayence (1445-1467)," Mainz, 1911, 61 known copies of this Bible, 36 of
+them on vellum, are enumerated and 41 copies which cannot now be traced.
+The fragment in our possession is entered (No. 115) as one leaf only,
+instead of two.
+
+The second dated Bible, the eleventh in the series of printed Bibles,
+was that of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471; the third was a reprint
+by Schoeffer in 1472 of the present edition, page for page, line for
+line and in the same type.
+
+
+2. JUSTINIANUS. Novellae constitutiones, sive Authenticum. Consuetudines
+    feudorum. Codicis libri X-XII. Moguntiae, Petrus Schoeffer, 21
+    August, 1477.
+
+_Fol. 1^a._ [Text (red)]: In no_m_i_n_e d_omi_ni n_ost_ri ih_es_u
+chr_ist_i. de heredib_us_ et falcidia _con_st_ituti_o prima si heres
+legata soluere noluerit Incipit co_n_stitutio Imp_er_atoris Iustiniani.
+a. Ioha_n_ni p_a_pe secu_n_do. [Commentary]: [I]N nomine d_omi_ni.
+Iustinianus opus suu_m_ laudabile deo attribuit. _Fol. 169^b._ Explicit
+liber aute_n_ticor_um_. _Fol. 170^a._ [Text (red)]: Incipiu_n_t
+_con_suetudines feudor_um_. _Fol. 206^a._ [Text (red)]: Codicis d_omi_ni
+iustiniani sacratissimi principis perpetui augusti repetite
+p_re_lectionis incipit liber decimus. _Fol. 300^b_, COLOPHON (red): Anno
+incarnac_i_o_n_is d_omi_nice .M.cccc.lxxvii. xii. kale_n_dis septembrijs!
+Sanctissimo in chr_ist_o patre ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Sixto p_a_pa .iiii.
+po_n_tifice maximo. Illustrissimo noblissime domus austrie d_omi_no,
+d_omi_no Friderico Romanorum Imp_er_atore inuictissimo, monarchie
+chr_is_tiane d_omi_nis! Reuerendissimo deoq_ue_ amabili in Chr_ist_o
+p_at_re ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Diethero archip_re_sule Maguntino; in
+ciuitate Maguncia impressorie artis inue_n_trice atq_ue_ elimatrice
+p_ri_ma .x. collac_i_onu_m_ triu_m_q_ue_ libroru_m_ Codicu_m_ opus
+egregiu_m_, Petrus Schoiffer de Gernsheim, glorioso faue_n_te deo suis
+consignando scutis, feliciter finiuit. [PRINTER'S DEVICE in red.]
+
+     Folio. 1. Novellae: quires [1^{10}, 2^8, 3-6^{10}, 7-8^6, 9^{10},
+     10^8, 11-12^{10}, 13^8, 14^{10}, 15^8, 16^6, 17-18^{10}, 19^{10-1}
+     (the blank second leaf cut away)], 169 leaves. 2. Consuetudines
+     feudorum: quires [1-3^{10}, 4^6], 36 leaves. 3. Codicis libri
+     X-XII: quires [1^8, 2^{10}, 3-5^8, 6^{10}, 7^8, 8^4, 9-10^{10},
+     11^{10+1} (the additional leaf prefixed)], 95 leaves. In all 300
+     leaves, two columns of text and two of commentary, 51 lines of text
+     and 66 of commentary to the column, gothic letter, without printed
+     signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line spaces, some
+     with guide-letters, left for capitals. Two pinholes, the use of
+     which Schoeffer was thought to have abandoned a little earlier than
+     the date of this volume. Titles and colophon printed in red. The
+     text type is that of the Bible of 1462. Hain *9623. Brit. Mus. 15th
+     cent., I, p. 33 (IC. 217).
+
+The first page of each of the three works is ornamented with a floral
+scroll border in colors. At the head of the several books are thirteen
+initials in gold and colors. Chapter initials in alternate red and blue;
+initial-strokes in red in both text and commentary.
+
+The present volume agrees in contents with the fifth and last volume of
+the Corpus juris as it is found arranged in the medieval MSS., except
+for the omission of the Institutiones, already sufficiently accessible
+in separate editions, of which no less than fifty were printed in the
+15th century, the first of them by Schoeffer himself in 1468. The first
+three volumes of the Corpus were occupied by the Digests, the fourth by
+the Codex lib. i-ix. The last three books of the Codex relate mainly to
+public law and having lost much of their importance were transferred to
+the fifth volume.
+
+That the order of the three parts in the present copy, viz. 1. Novellae,
+2. Consuetudines, 3. Codex lib. x-xii, is that intended by the printer,
+is clear both from the position and from the language of the
+colophon--the position because the colophon is attached to the Codex,
+and the language because it describes the volume as consisting of "the
+ten Collations and the three books of the Codes." The Novellae were
+usually divided by the commentators into nine Collations, perhaps, as
+Savigny suggests, to parallel the first nine books of the Codex.
+Sometimes, however, as in the present case, the Consuetudines feudorum
+were joined with them and reckoned as a tenth collation. Notwithstanding
+these plain indications, in the copy described by Hain *9623, and in the
+British Museum copy (as at present, though not as originally, bound),
+the Codex x-xii is placed between the Novellae and the Consuetudines,
+thus removing the colophon from its natural place at the end of the
+volume. In the first edition of these works, printed by Vitus Puecher,
+Rome, 1476, they were placed in the order last named, but the colophon
+was there attached to the Consuetudines.
+
+After the death of his father-in-law and partner Fust, late in 1466 or
+early in 1467, Schoeffer conducted the press alone until his death in
+1502. After 1478, however, his activity as a printer was much
+diminished.
+
+The present large and fine copy (leaf 15-3/4 × 11-1/4 in.), with the
+manuscript signatures still in part preserved, is from the library of
+Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831) of Syston Park, Lincolnshire, sold
+in December, 1884. In the Meerman sale at the Hague, 1824, this same
+copy, bound as at present in russia gilt, sold for 64 florins.
+
+
+3. ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. Etymologiarum libri XX. [Strassburg, Johann
+    Mentelin, c. 1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: INCIPIT EPISTOLA ISIDORI IVNIORIS
+HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI AD BRAVLIONEM CESARAVGVSTANVM EPISCOPVM. [Three
+other letters to the same and two replies; tabula generalis.] _Fol. 3^b,
+col. 2_: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA PRIMI LIBRI. INCIPIT LIBER PRIMVS
+ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI. DE DISCIPLINA ET ARTE.
+_Fol. 27^b, col. 1_: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. _Fol. 27^b, col.
+2_: PREFACIO. [D]Omino et filio syseputo ysidor_us_..... INCIPIT LIBER
+YSIDORI DE RERVM NATVRA AD SISEPVTVM REGEM. _Fol. 37^a, col. 2_:
+INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. INCIPIT LIBER QVARTVS DE MEDICINA.
+_Fol. 142^a_, COLOPHON: EXPLICIT LIBER ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI
+HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI.
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-13^{10}, 14^{12}], 142 leaves, the first blank, 2
+     columns, 51 lines to the column, without signatures, catchwords,
+     pagination, printer's name, place or date. Gothic lower-case type,
+     roman capitals. Book and chapter headings printed wholly in
+     majuscules. Large woodcut diagrams. Three-to nine-line spaces left
+     for chapter and book initials, also spaces for occasional Greek
+     words (mostly left unsupplied) and for small diagrams. Two
+     pinholes, which in Mentelin's use point to a date not later than
+     1473. Hain *9270. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 57 (IC. 586). Burger
+     pl. 170.
+
+On the first page large illuminated initial with floral border ornament,
+and similar initials at the head of the several books. Chapter initials
+supplied in red or blue; initial-strokes in red throughout the volume.
+Blank first leaf wanting.
+
+Incorporated with the present edition of the Etymologiae by way of
+supplement, though not named in the table of contents, is an earlier
+treatise of Isidore's entitled _De natura rerum_, written at the request
+of Sisebut, king of the Visigoths, 612-621, and dedicated to him. It
+contains the sum of the physical philosophy of his time, and, being
+largely astronomical, is sometimes found in the MSS. under the title
+_Liber de astronomia_. In order to bring it into immediate connection
+with the corresponding section of the Etymologiae, it is placed
+immediately after the third book (devoted to the _quadrivium_, the last
+division of which is astronomy) and given irregularly the heading "Liber
+quartus," the regular _Liber quartus (De medicina)_ beginning twenty
+pages later. Two of the 48 chapters of which it is composed are wanting
+here, but by the subdivision of other chapters the number is raised to
+58. Zainer of Augsburg, the printer of the first edition of the
+Etymologiae, dated 19 November, 1472, followed it the next month with an
+edition of _De responsione mundi et astrorum ordinatione ad Sesibutum
+regem_, which is the work in question under another title. Printed with
+the same type and the same number of lines to the page, it was in effect
+treated as a supplement to the Etymologiae.
+
+According to the testimony of a fellow printer, de Lignamine, in the
+"Chronica summorum Pontificum," Rome, 1474, Mentelin as early as 1458
+was printing at Strassburg 300 sheets a day. The third Latin Bible
+(1460-1461) and the first German Bible came from his press, but the
+first work to which he affixed his name and a date was the _Speculum
+historiale_ of Vincent of Beauvais in 1473. He died in 1478.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at "Hayes's sale" in 1794 for £5.5s., and bound
+in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, by Mrs. Weir for £1.2s. Leaf
+15-3/4 × 11 in.
+
+
+4. GESTA ROMANORUM. [Cologne, Ulrich Zell, c. 1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Ex gestis romanor_um_ hystorie no_ta_biles:
+de vitijs v_ir_tutibusq_ue_ tracta_n_tes: cu_m_ applicac_i_onib_us_
+moralizatis et misticis: Incipiunt feliciter. _Fol. 160^b, col. 1_,
+COLOPHON: Ex gestis ro_ma_no_rum_ cu_m_ plurib_u_s applicatis historijs:
+de v_ir_tutib_us_ et vitijs mistice ad intellectum tra_n_ssum_p_tis
+Recollectorij finis est feliciter. LAVS. DEO. _Fol. 160^b, col. 2_:
+Incipiu_n_t tituli numerorum om_n_i_u_m capitulo_rum_ et exemplo_rum_.
+_Fol. 163^a_: Tabula o_mn_i_u_m exe_m_plo_rum_ _et_ capitulo_rum_
+op_er_is præcedentis. sec_un_d_u_m ordine_m_ alphabeti. _Fol. 170^a_:
+Explicit tabula. _Fol. 170^b, blank._
+
+     Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2
+     columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures,
+     catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to
+     five-line spaces left for capitals. One pinhole in side margin,
+     others possibly cut away in binding. Hain 7734, Pellechet 5247.
+     Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 196 (IB. 2994).
+
+On fol. 2^a and 163^a five-line initials in blue with graceful pen
+decoration in red. Initials of chapters and morals supplied in alternate
+red and blue. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red; headings
+underlined in red. Blank first leaf wanting.
+
+This edition of the Gesta contains 181 chapters and appears to have been
+preceded only by another undated edition printed at Utrecht by Ketelaer
+and Leempt, in long lines, with 152 chapters and no index.
+
+Ulrich Zell was the first printer of Cologne. His first dated book was
+issued in 1466 and he continued to print quite up to the close of the
+fifteenth century. Nearly all his books are, like the present, without
+place, date or printer's name. Of the 177 books which he is known to
+have printed, the British Museum possesses 123.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bound in russia, gilt edges. Leaf 10-3/4 × 7-1/2 in.
+Mem. on fly-leaf: "Pateson's Auction. £5.5s; washing, cleaning, mending
+and binding by Roger Payne £1.2s.6d. M. Wodhull, May 25th, 1786."
+
+
+5. GREGORIUS I. Homiliæ XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer.]
+    28 August, 1473.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Ordo .xl. omeliaru_m_ beati gregorij pape ad secundinu_m_
+episcopum Thauronitaru_m_. _Fol. 1^b_: SEQVITVR EPISTOLA
+[R]Euerendissimo et sa_n_ctissimo frati secundino coepiscopo.
+Gregori_us_ seruus seruoru_m_ dei. _Fol. 2^a_: EXPLICIT EPISTOLA INCIPIT
+EWANGELIVM. S. LVCAM.... Omelia prima beati Gregorij pape. _Fol. 141^b_,
+COLOPHON: Adeptus est finis amba_rum_ parciu_m_ omelia_rum_ beatissimi
+gregorii pape vrbis rome jn die s_an_cti hermetis sub Anno d_omi_ni M
+cccc lxxiij. _Fol. 142^a_: _Table of the homilies in the order of the
+liturgical year._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-13^{10}, 14^{12}], 142 leaves, 33 lines to the
+     page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
+     place or printer's name. Two- and three-line spaces left for
+     capitals, which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and
+     initial-strokes in red. Hain *7948, Pellechet 5366. Brit. Mus. 15th
+     cent., II, p. 319 (IB. 5457).
+
+Gregory's Homilies, of which this is the first edition, and the three
+next following works bound with it, are from the press of Günther
+Zainer, of Reutlingen, the first printer of Augsburg. All are in the
+same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by
+the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently
+printed at about the same time. He was the first printer in Germany to
+make use of roman type, of which the earliest example seems to have been
+his "Calendarium pro anno 1472." He died in 1478, ten years after the
+appearance of his first dated book.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt. Leaf 12 × 8-1/4
+in. Mem. on fly-leaf: "Payne's sale. £2.12.6, binding and restoring
+17s.6d. These four pieces were taken out of old monastic binding. M.
+Wodhull, Jan. 5th, 1795."
+
+
+6. PSALTERIUM LATINUM. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer, c. 1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Prologus beati jeronimi p_re_sbiteri in psalteriu_m_ q_uo_d
+ipse de hebraico transtulit in latinu_m_ [E]Vsebius jeronim_us_
+soffronio suo salutem. _Fol. 1^b_: Explicit p_ro_logus beati jeronimi.
+Incipit psalterium Psalmos dauid primus. _Fol. 51^a_: Canticu_m_ Ysaie
+capitulo lxxij (_sic_), _followed by cantica of Hezekiah, Hannah, Moses
+(2), Habakkuk_. _Fol. 54^a_, COLOPHON: Explicit tra_ns_lacio
+soli_lo_q_ui_oru_m_ siue psalterij beatissimi Ieronimi eusebii
+p_resbiteri_ q_uo_d ad peti_ci_one_m_ soffronij tra_n_stulit ut in
+ep_isto_la_m_ ante psalteriu_m_ imp_re_ssa p_rae_mittit_ur_ _etc._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-5^{10}, 6^4], 54 leaves, 33 lines to the page,
+     gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place,
+     printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for initials,
+     which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in
+     red. Hain *13470. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5560).
+
+Jerome's final translations of the Old Testament books direct from the
+Hebrew were all adopted into the received Latin version, the Vulgate,
+except this of the Psalms. Here his earlier revision of the old Italic
+version on the basis of the Septuagint had become so firmly established
+in liturgical use that the translation from the Hebrew, though more
+exact, could not displace it. This appears to be the first printed
+edition.
+
+Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliæ.
+
+
+7. MODUS PERVENIENDI AD SUMMAM SAPIENTIAM. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer, c.
+    1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: [S]Entite de do_m_ino in bo_n_itate e_t_ in simplicitate
+cordis q_uae_rite illu_m_. _Fol. 2^a_: Explicit prologus Incipit modus
+ad summam p_er_veniendi sapienciam. _Fol. 24^a, l. 33_, END: sibi sparso
+diuinit_us_ in ip_sum_ ardentissime se extendit _etc._ _Fol. 24^b,
+blank._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-2^{10}, 3^4], 24 leaves, 33 lines to the page,
+     gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination, place,
+     printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for capitals,
+     which are supplied in red. Initial-strokes in red. Hain *11490.
+     Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5531).
+
+Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.
+
+
+8. HUGO de SANCTO VICTORE. Soliloquium de arrha animae. [Augsburg,
+    Günther Zainer.] 12 October, 1473.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Incipit soliloquium beatissimi Augustini episcopi yponensi
+(_sic_) de arra anime. _Fol. 7^b_, END: Rapt_us_ est finis hui_us_
+tractat_us_ August_in_i de arra ani_m_e. feria t_er_cia post festu_m_
+s_an_cti Dyonisy Anno d_omi_ni lxxiij _etc._ _Fol. 8, blank._
+
+     Folio. 8 leaves, the last blank, 33 lines to the page, gothic
+     letter, without place or printer's name. Three-line space for first
+     initial and initial-strokes supplied in red. Blank last leaf
+     wanting. Hain *2021. Pellechet 1525. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., p. 319
+     (IB. 5451).
+
+The author of the work here directly ascribed to St. Augustine was the
+mystic theologian Hugo de Sancto Victore (1097-1140), member of the
+Canons Regular of St. Augustine and head of the abbey school of St.
+Victor, near Paris. From his familiarity with the writings of Augustine
+and likeness to his spirit, he was styled _Alter Augustinus_, a title
+which furnishes a plausible but not wholly satisfactory explanation of
+the confusion in the present case. For among the spurious writings which
+have been put under Augustine's name more than one has been borrowed
+from this author. For example, chapters 5-10 of the _Liber de diligendo
+Deo_ are taken almost word for word from the present treatise.
+
+In the present edition of this soliloquy cast in the form of a dialogue
+the interlocutors are _Augustinus_ and _Anima_ (both names always
+printed in capitals); in a Strassburg edition of about the same date,
+_Hugo_ and _anima sua_; in the collected edition of Hugo's works, _homo_
+and _anima_.
+
+Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.
+
+
+9. CARACCIOLUS, ROBERTUS, de Licio. Opus quadragesimale quod de
+    poenitentia dictum est. Venetiis, Wendelinus de Spira, 20 July, 1472.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Hec est tabula omniu_m_ sermonu_m_
+contentorum hoc in uolumine. _Fol. 3^a_: Sacre theologie magistri necnon
+sacri eloquij preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis
+Minor_um_ professoris op_us_ quadragesimale p_er_utilissimum quod de
+penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit. _Fol. 267^a_, COLOPHON:
+
+    Vendelinus ego gentis _co_gnomine spiere!
+    Roberti haec caste purgata uolumi_n_a pressi!
+    Sedis apostolice Romano praeside Sixto
+    Magnanimo _et_ uenetum Nicolao pr_in_cipe Truno
+         M.cccclxxij.xx.quintilis.
+
+_Fol. 267^b, 268, blank._ _Fol. 269^a_: Sermo i_n_ festo
+a_n_nu_n_tiat_i_o_n_is u_ir_ginis marie _et_ eiusdem Roberti cum tribus
+(_sic_) aliis sermonib_us_ seque_n_tib_us_. s. de p_re_destinato
+nume_ro_ damnator_um_ _et_ de cathenis. _Fol. 289^b_: Finis triu_m_
+sermonu_m_ Fratris Roberti... _Fol. 290, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-7^{10}, 8^{12}, 9-11^{10}, 12^8, 13-15^{10},
+     16^8, 17-27^{10}, 28-30^6, 31^4], 290 leaves, 1, 268, 290 blank, 40
+     lines to the page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords
+     or pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left
+     for initials. Two pinholes on side. Initials and paragraph-marks
+     supplied in red. Blank leaf 268 wanting. Hain-Copinger 4424.
+     Pellechet 3244. Proctor 3524.
+
+Wendelin of Speier succeeded in 1470 to the press established in 1469 by
+his brother John, the first printer of Venice, who lived to complete
+only four books. Gothic type was introduced into Italy by Wendelin.
+
+Roberto Caraccioli, born at Lecce in 1425, was bishop of his native city
+from 1484 to 1495. The great reputation which these sermons enjoyed is
+attested by the fact that four editions, three of them printed in
+Venice, appeared in 1472, and four more in 1473, one of which was
+Wendelin's second edition, an exact reprint of the present.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at the sale of the library of Samuel Tyssen, in
+1801, for £1.1s., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a
+further cost of 19 shillings. Leaf 10-1/8 × 7-1/2 in.
+
+
+10. VALLA, LAURENTIUS. Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Venetiis, Nicolaus
+    Jenson, 1471.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS ELega_n_tia_rum_ co_m_pendiosæ
+collectio_n_is in ordinem alphabeti directæ principium. _Fol. 9^a,
+blank._ _Fol. 9^b_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS VIRI CLARISSIMI ET DE LINGVA
+LATINA BENE MERENTIS AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM: CVI OPUS
+ELEGANTIARVM LINGVAE LATINAE DEDICAT EPISTOLA. _Fol. 11^a_: LAVRENTII
+VALLENSIS PATRICII ROMANI COMMENTARIORVM GRAMMATICORVM SECVNDVM
+ELEGANTIAM LINGVAE LATINAE LIBER PRIMVS DE NOMINE VERBOQVE. ET EX HIS
+DVOBVS COMPOSITO PARTICIPIO INCTPIT PROOEMIVM. _Fol. 159^b_: LAVRENTII
+VALLENSIS DE LANGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA TERTIVS LIBER FINIT: INCIPIT
+IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS. [_For_ TERTIVS _read_ QVINTUS;
+_for_ IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS _read_ VI. DE NOTIS
+SCRIPTORVM.] _Fol. 190^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE
+ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM LIBER
+INCIPIT. _Fol. 200^b_, COLOPHON: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE
+ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM PER
+ME M. NICOLAVM IENSON VENETIIS OPVS FELICITER IMPRESSVM EST. M.CCCCLXXI.
+_Fol. 201, 202, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1^8, 2^{12}, 3-4^{10}, 5^{12}, 6-7^{10}, 8^{12},
+     9^{14}, 10-11^{10}, 12^{12}, 13^8, 14^6, 15-19^{10}, 20^8], 202
+     leaves, the last two blank, roman letter, 39 lines to the page,
+     without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line
+     spaces left for capitals and spaces also for Greek words, to be
+     supplied in manuscript. Two pinholes on side. The type is Jenson's
+     first font. Hain 15802. Proctor 4071.
+
+At the head of the first page is a large initial of the interlaced vine
+pattern in gold and colors, with a border of the same pattern enclosing
+the entire page. The remaining five books, the prefatory epistle and the
+supplement _De ego, mei et sui_ are introduced by initials of the same
+size and style. Alternate red and blue capitals at the head of chapters,
+paragraph-marks also in red and blue.
+
+A few of the spaces left for Greek words are filled in manuscript, but
+more are left vacant. When Jenson later in the same year printed
+Cicero's Letters, he was provided with Greek type. The blank fol. 9^a is
+occupied by a transcript in an early hand of the greater part of lib. i,
+cap. iv (_De ficu_), from a MS. the readings of which differ materially
+from the printed text.
+
+For the purposes of the index the six books have been divided into a
+continuous series of 479 chapters, designated in the margins of the text
+by manuscript roman numerals, but in the index by printed numerals. The
+references are not, as in later editions, to book and chapter, but to
+chapters only. The index, alphabetized by the first letter of the word
+only, printed on different paper and forming a separate quire, is here
+placed at the beginning of the volume; but traces of earlier manuscript
+signatures still remaining, bear witness to a former order in which the
+text preceded the index, as is still the case in some copies of this
+edition.
+
+Most of Jenson's early books were folios. But notwithstanding the size
+of the leaf (13 × 8 in.), this is a quarto, as both the direction of the
+chain-lines and the position of the water-mark prove. However, because
+of the limitations of the early presses, it was doubtless printed on
+half-sheets, folio-wise, two pages at most at one impression.
+
+Of the twenty-four 15th-century editions of the _Elegantiae_ the three
+earliest, one of which was Jenson's, were printed in 1471.
+
+Although the tradition that Nicolas Jenson, master of the mint at Tours,
+was sent by Charles VII. in 1458 to Mainz to learn the secrets of the
+newly discovered art of printing is otherwise unsupported and, in view
+of the manner in which the invention was afterwards carried to France as
+well as to other countries by private initiative, improbable, he was
+already a master of the art, wherever and however acquired, when he
+established in 1470 the press which held the leading place at Venice
+until his death in 1480.
+
+The present exceptionally fine copy of the _Elegantiae_, bound in citron
+morocco, with gold borders and gilt edges, is the Wodhull copy, bought
+in 1786 of Payne for £10.10s.
+
+
+11. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C. Naturalis historia. Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson,
+    1472.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: CAIVS PLYNIVS MARCO SVO SALVTEM. _Fol.
+4^a_: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .I. CAIVS PLYNIVS
+SECVNDVS NOVOCOMENSIS DOMITIANO SVO SALVTEM. PRAEFATIO. _Fol. 21^a_:
+CAII PLINII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .II. _Fol. 355^a_,
+COLOPHON: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBRI TRICESIMI
+SEPTIMI ET VLTIMI FINIS IMPRESSI VENETIIS PER NICOLAVM IENSON GALLICVM
+.M.CCCC.LXXII. NICOLAO TRONO INCLYTO VENETIARVM DVCE. _Followed by_:
+Iohannis andreæ episcopi aleriensis ad pontificem summum Paulum secundum
+uenetum epistola. _Fol. 356^a_: Hereneus lugdunensis episcopus: item
+Iustinus ex philosopho martyr: item cum diuo Hieronymo Eusebius
+cæsariensis: serio posteritatem adiurarunt: ut eorum descripturi opera
+conferrent diligenter exemplaria: et sollerti studio emendarent. Idem
+ego tum in cæteris libris omnibus tum maxime i_n_ Plynio ut fiat;
+uehementer obsecro: obtestor: atq_ue_ adiuro: ne ad priora menda: _et_
+tenebras i_n_extricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabat_ur_. Instauratu_m_
+aliqua_n_tulu_m_ sub romano po_n_tifice maximo Paulo secu_n_do ueneto.
+_Fol. 356^b, blank._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1^{12}, 2^8, 3-8^{10}, 9^{12}, 10-15^{10}, 16^8,
+     17-27^{10}, 28^6, 29-30^{10}, 31-35^8, 36^{12}, 37^8], 356 leaves,
+     first blank, 50 lines to the page, roman letter, without
+     signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to twelve-line spaces
+     left for capitals, with guide-letters; also spaces for occasional
+     Greek words. Greek type sparingly used, oftener transliteration in
+     roman. Two pinholes. Hain *13089. Proctor 4087. Morgan Cat. II, p.
+     39, n. 297.
+
+The rubrication of the present copy is not only elaborate but also of
+unusual merit. The first of the twelve-line initials of the thirty-seven
+books is finely illuminated in gold and colors. The others, in the
+outlines of which grotesque features are occasionally introduced, are
+set off by skilful pen-work, harmonizing in general effect, but
+carefully avoiding repetition in details. The chapter initials also, a
+thousand or more in number, in alternate red and blue, or red and green,
+have much variety and grace. The initial L, for example, occurring
+twenty-eight times in the first book, is never repeated in the same form
+and color. The blank fol. 3^b is occupied by the name Jesus in very
+large and ornate characters, in different colors, surrounded by scroll
+and figure decoration. The Bagneri arms, included in the ornamentation
+of the first initial, point to an early ownership of the volume, and the
+arms of the Antella family of Florence at the foot of the first page, to
+a later ownership.
+
+The introductory epistle of the younger Pliny, describing his uncle's
+manner of life, was addressed to his friend Macer, who here becomes
+Marcus by the easy transposition of Macro to Marco. Less easily
+explained is the substitution in the dedication of Domitian for his
+brother Titus Vespasian, to whom Pliny dedicated the work.
+
+Two editions of the _Naturalis Historia_ preceded this, the first
+printed by John of Speier in 1469, with a five years' privilege from the
+Venetian senate, which expired at his death in 1470, the second by
+Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1470. With the first of these, Jenson's
+edition agrees in the number of pages and of lines to the page. From the
+second he reprinted the letter addressed by the editor Johannes Andreas,
+Bishop of Aleria, to his patron Pope Paul II., and the earnest appeal
+for care on the part of any who should reprint his Pliny, "_ne ad priora
+menda et tenebras inextricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabatur_." Fifteen
+more editions were printed before the close of the 15th century.
+Jenson's Pliny is generally regarded as the finest production of his
+press. The type is his first font.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought of Thomas Payne, book-seller, in 1791 for
+£12.12s., and bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on
+side, at the additional cost of £1. Leaf 15-1/4 × 10-1/4 in.
+
+
+12. NONIUS MARCELLUS. De compendiosa doctrina. Venetiis, Nicolaus
+    Jenson, 1476.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2-20, alphabetical index._ _Fol. 21, blank._
+_Fol. 22^a_: NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA
+DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM. _Fol. 194^a_, COLOPHON:
+NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIVM
+DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM IMPRESSA VENETIIS INDVSTRIA ATQVE IMPENDIO
+NICOLAI IENSON GALLICI. .M.CCCC.LXXVI. _Fol. 194^b, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-c^{10}, d-y^8, z^{12}, 194 leaves, 1 and 21 blank,
+     34 lines to the page, roman letter, without catchwords or
+     pagination. Seven- and eight-line spaces left for capitals, some
+     with guide-letters. The type is Jenson's first roman trimmed or
+     recast the second time on a slightly smaller body. Greek words as a
+     rule printed with Greek type, not transliterated. Hain 11901.
+     Proctor 4098.
+
+On the first page of text a large initial S in gold on a panel of color,
+with marginal decoration. Other large chapter initials in red and blue
+alternately. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. Blank
+first leaf wanting.
+
+The index, which occupies the first nineteen leaves, is alphabetized as
+far as the second letter of the word. The references are by roman
+numerals to the leaves (not pages) of the work, which themselves have
+only manuscript foliation in arabic figures.
+
+The first edition of Nonius was printed at Rome in 1470 by Lauer; the
+second, in 1471, was without place or name. Jenson's edition, which is
+the third, borrowed from both of these but added also something of
+value. The correct title, _De compendiosa doctrina_, first appears here.
+The usual title, _De proprietate sermonum_, belongs strictly to the
+first chapter. As in all the early editions, the third chapter is
+lacking, having been discovered later and first included in the 1513
+edition of Aldus. Jenson's Greek type long remained in favor for
+incidental use in Latin books after it had been displaced in Greek books
+by Aldine types.
+
+The Wodhull copy, "Payne's sale, £5.5s., January, 1792." Bound by Roger
+Payne in red morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 11 × 8 in.
+
+
+13. DULLAERT, JOHANNES, de Janduno or Gandavo. Quaestiones super tres
+    libros Aristotelis de anima. Venetiis, Franciscus de Hailbrun et
+    Nicolaus de Franckfordia socii, 1473.
+
+_Fol. 1^a, blank._ _1^b_: Tabula q_ue_stio_n_u_m_ d_omi_ni Joh_ann_is de
+Janduno sup_er_ tres libros de anima Aristotelis. _Fol. 2^a_: [I]Nest
+enim me_n_tib_us_ hominu_m_ Veri boni naturalis inserta cupiditas. _Fol.
+92^b_, COLOPHON: Expliciunt questiones d_omi_ni Joh_ann_is de Janduno
+sup_er_ tres libros de a_n_i_m_a Ar_istotelis_ i_m_presse Venetijs p_er_
+Franciscu_m_ de Hailbrun _et_ Nicolau_m_ de Franckfordia socios.
+M.CCCCLXXiii.
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-8^{10}, 9^{12}], 92 leaves, 2 columns, 71 lines to
+     the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or
+     pagination. Six- to twelve-line spaces left for capitals. Two
+     pinholes. Arabic figures used to the exclusion of roman numerals
+     not only in table of contents, but throughout the text to mark
+     subdivisions of the argument or individual books of a treatise.
+     Hain 7458. Burger pl. 99.
+
+On first page of text a twenty-four line initial illuminated in gold and
+colors, with border ornament. Book and chapter initials in alternate red
+and blue. Arabic numerals, which made their first appearance in printed
+books in 1470, were very sparingly used even at a considerably later
+date than 1473.
+
+The author, commonly known as Johannes de Gandavo (Ghent), of the early
+part of the 14th century, wrote commentaries also on other works of
+Aristotle. Of the present work five editions, of which this is the
+first, were printed at Venice in the 15th century.
+
+Franz Renner of Heilbronn conducted a press at Venice from 1471 to 1483,
+having as partner from 1473 to 1477 Nicolas of Frankfort. The present
+volume is printed in a small round-faced gothic type, the second of the
+nine fonts which he used.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at the Maffei Pinelli sale, London, 1789, for
+£1.13s. Bound in hf. vellum. Leaf 16-3/4 × 11-1/2 in.
+
+
+14. ARISTOTELES. Libri de animalibus interprete Theodoro Gaza. Venetiis,
+    Johannes de Colonia sociusque Johannes Manthen, 1476.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: THEODORI: GEAECI: THESSALONICENSIS:
+PRAEFATIO: IN LIBROS: DE ANIMALIBVS: ARISTOTELIS: PHILOSOPHI: AD XYSTVM:
+QVARTVM: MAXIMVM. _Fol. 7^b_: ARISTOTELIS: DE HISTORIA: ANIMALIVM: LIBER
+PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 131^a_: ARISTOTELIS DE PARTIBVS
+ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 184^a_: ARISTOTELIS DE
+GENERATIONE ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 250^b_,
+COLOPHON: Finiunt libri de animalibus Aristotelis interprete Theodoro
+Gaze. V. clarissimo: quos Ludouicus podocatharus Cyprius ex Archetypo
+ipsius Theodori fideliter _et_ dilige_n_ter auscultauit: _et_ formulis
+imprimi curauit Venetiis per Iohannem de Colonia sociu_m_q_ue_ eius
+Iohanne_m_ ma_n_the_n_ de Gherretze_m_. Anno domini .M.CCCC.LXXVI. _Fol.
+251^a_: Tabula cartarum secundum ordinem ponendarum. _Fol. 251^b, 252,
+blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-b^{10}, c-d^8, e^{10}, f^8, g^{10}, h^8, i^{10},
+     k^8, l-t^{10}, u^8, x^{10}, aa-dd^{10}, ee^8, ff^6. 252 leaves, the
+     first and the last blank, roman letter, 35 lines to the page,
+     without pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces left for initials,
+     with guide-letters. Hain *1699. Proctor 4312. Morgan Cat., II, p.
+     48, n. 313. Burger pl. 199.
+
+The border surrounding the first page of text, and eighteen initials of
+the several books, are illuminated in gold and colors. Chapter initials
+supplied in red and blue alternately.
+
+Printed signatures, which appear to have been first introduced by
+Zarotto of Milan in 1470, and a register of sheets, first used by John
+of Cologne in 1475, are both found in this volume. The register, which
+may give only the number of sheets in each of the quires, or the first
+word of each sheet of the quire, is here of the latter kind.
+Unfortunately two sheets escaped registration and the words are supplied
+in manuscript.
+
+Three separate treatises of Aristotle are contained in this volume:
+Historia de animalibus libri ix; De partibus animalium libri iv; De
+generatione animalium libri v.
+
+Theodore Gaza, the translator, was a learned Greek from Thessalonica,
+who took up his residence in Italy on the capture of his native city by
+the Turks. The translation was made at the instance of Nicolas V., who
+had invited him to Rome in 1450, but was first printed in the present
+edition (Venice, 1476) and dedicated in a flattering epistle of eleven
+pages to the reigning pope, Sixtus IV. The fifty scudi which the pope
+sent in acknowledgment of the dedication copy Gaza is said to have
+thrown in disgust into the Tiber. It is interesting to note in this
+connection that while the Venice editions of 1492 and 1498 retain the
+name of Sixtus IV. in the dedication, Aldus after having omitted the
+epistle altogether in his 1504 edition, in that of 1513 quietly
+substituted the name of Nicolas V., the earlier and worthier patron,
+without a word of change in the language of the dedication itself. Later
+editions have followed the example of Aldus.
+
+John of Cologne, established as a printer at Venice as early as 1471,
+was associated 1472-1473 with Wendelin of Speier, whose business and
+types he took over in 1474. He had as partner, 1474-1480, John Manthen,
+and in 1480, Nicolas Jenson. The type of the _Aristotle_ is a close
+imitation of the first font of John and Wendelin of Speier.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at the Pinelli sale for £2.12s.6d. Bound in hf.
+vellum. Leaf 12 × 8-1/4 in.
+
+
+15. UBERTINUS DE CASALI. Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu. Venetiis, Andreas
+    de Bonetis de Papia, 12 March, 1485.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: INCIPIT PROLOGVS IN LIBRVM QVI INTITVLATVR
+ARBOR VITE CRVCIFIXE IESV. ET DICITVR OPVS VBERTINI DE CASALI. QVI FVIT
+FRATER PROFESSVS ORDINIS MINORVM BEATI FRANCISCI. _Fol. 4^a, col. 2_:
+Explicit p_ri_mus p_ro_logus. Incipit secu_n_dus. _Fol. 5^a, col. 2_:
+Explicit p_ro_logus secundus. Incipit liber primus. _Fol. 248^b, col.
+2_, COLOPHON: Liber qui intitulatur Arbor uite crucifixe Iesu
+deuotissimi fratris Vbertini de Casali ordinis minoru_m_ felicit_er_
+explicit. Impressus Venetiis p_er_ Andrea_m_ de Bonettis de Papia. Anno
+.M.CCCC.LXXXV. Die.xii.Martii. Ioa_n_ne Mocenico inclyto principe
+regnante. _Fol. 249^a_: Tabula capitulo_rum_. _Fol. 249^b, col. 2_:
+Registrum. _Fol. 250, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-z^8, A^8, B^{12}, C-G^8, H^6. 250 leaves, 1, 204,
+     250 blank, 2 columns and head-line, 58 lines to the column, roman
+     letter. The head-lines give the subject, book and chapter numbers.
+     Eight-line spaces left for the initials of the five books and
+     three-line spaces, some with guide-letters, for the chapter
+     initials, both supplied in red. Blank first and last leaves
+     wanting. Hain *4551. Pellechet 3331. Proctor 4816.
+
+Bound in olive green morocco with gold borders and gilt edges.
+Book-stamp of J. Richard, D.M., on first and last leaf of text, and
+book-plate of another owner, Jules Frayssenet, of Fleurance, printed on
+full leaf inserted between the fly-leaves, front and back, and the text.
+Leaf 10-1/4 × 7-3/4 in.
+
+Andreas de Bonetis, of Pavia, printed at Venice from 1483 to 1487.
+
+
+16. ALBERTIS, LEO BAPTISTA DE. De amoris remedio. 1471.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: BATISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS PRAECLARVM IN
+AMORIS REMEDIO FELICITER INCIPIT. _Fol. 20^b_, COLOPHON: BAPTISTAE DE
+ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS IN AMORIS REMEDIO VTILISSIMVM FELICITER
+FINIT. .M.CCCC.LXXI.
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1^8, 2^{12}], 20 leaves, 25 lines to the page,
+     roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place or
+     printer's name. Two- to six-line spaces left for initials, but the
+     present copy is without rubrication. Hain *422. Panzer iii. 82, 69;
+     iv. 5, 16. Pellechet 268. Proctor 7346.
+
+Notwithstanding the Latin title, the work itself is wholly in Italian
+and both in the MSS. and in later printed editions is found also under
+the title _Deifira ossia del mal principiato amore_. A companion volume
+by the same author, with the Latin title _De amore liber_, and the
+Italian, _Ecatomfilea ossia del vero amore_, was printed the same year,
+in the same type, the same number of leaves and lines to the page. Still
+another work in the same type and form and apparently of the same date,
+entitled _Historieta amorosa fra Leonora de' Bardi e Hippolito
+Bondelmonti_, is attributed on good evidence to De Albertis. Copies of
+all three works, printed alike on vellum and bound together in one
+volume, formerly in the Mac-Carthy Collection (Catalogue, Paris, 1815,
+no. 3595), are now in the Bibliothèque Nationale (_Vélins_ 1964). In the
+present copy of _De amoris remedio_ the manuscript signatures _b_ and
+_c_, partly cut away, point to an earlier binding, in which the
+_Historieta_ consisting of only twelve leaves may possibly have formed
+the signature _a_.
+
+Panzer was disposed to identify the peculiar roman type of these volumes
+with that used by the fourth printer of Venice, Clemente of Padua,
+between whom and Zarotto of Milan, Hain was later in doubt. But Proctor
+was convinced that the small group of books to which these belong,
+nearly all of them connected in some way with Florence, were the
+productions of the first, so far unidentified, press of that city. The
+date they bear (1471) places them among the earliest books printed in
+the Italian language. Witness the following first editions: Petrarch's
+Canzoniere, 1470; Il Decamerone, 1471; La Divina Commedia, 1472.
+
+The present copy, bound in blue morocco, with the crest of the Marquis
+of Blandford on side, was sold in his (White Knights) sale in 1819 for
+£2. Leaf 9-1/4 × 6-3/4 in.
+
+From the Syston Park sale, December, 1884, with book-plate and the
+monogram (J.H.T.) of Sir John Hayford Thorold.
+
+
+17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabulae græce. Vita et fabulae latine. Fabulae
+    selectae græce et latine. [Milan], Bonus Accursius, c. 1480.
+
+_Part I._ _Fol. 1^a_: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo sapientissimo
+ducali quæstori Iohanni Francisco turriano salutem plurimam dicit. _Fol.
+2^a_: ΑΙΣΩΠΟΥ ΒΙΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΜΥΘΟΠΟΙΟΥ ΜΑΞΙΜΩ ΤΩ ΠΛΑΝΟΥΔΗ
+ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΙΣ. _Fol. 33^a_: ΑΙΣΩΠΟΥ ΜΥΘΟΙ. _Fol. 70^a_:
+Τελος των του Αισωπου Μυθων. _Part II._ _Fol. 1^a_: Vita Aesopi
+fabulatoris clarissimi e græco latina p_er_ Rynucium facta ad
+Reuere_n_dissimu_m_ Patre_m_ Dominu_m_ Antonium tituli Sancti Chrysogoni
+Presbyteru_m_ Cardinalem _et_ primo prohoemium. _Fol. 32^b_: FINIS.
+_Fol. 33^a_: Argumentum fabula_rum_ Aesopi e græco i_n_ latinu_m_. _Fol.
+59^b_: Finis. Vita Aesopi per Rynucium thettalum traducta. Verum quoniam
+ab eo non nulla fueru_n_t praetetermissa (_sic_): fortassis q_ui_a
+græcus eius codex esset minus emendatus: Ego Bonus accursius Pisanus:
+eadem in ea omnia correxi; _et_ emendaui. _Fol. 60, blank._ _Part III._
+_Fol. 1^a, blank._ _Fol. 1^b_: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo ac
+sapientissimo ducali Quæstori Iohanni francisco Turriano salutem
+plurimam dicit. _Fol. 2^a, col. 1_: ΜΥΘΟΙ ΑΙΣΩΠΟΥ, _col. 2_:
+Fabulae Aesopi. _Fol. 38^a, col. 1_: ΤΕΛΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΑΙΣΩΠΟΥ
+ΜΥΘΩΝ. _Col. 2_: FINIS AESOPI FABVLARVM. Bonus Accursius pisanus
+impressit: qui non doctorum hominum sed rudium ac puerorum gratia hunc
+laborem suscepit.
+
+     Quarto. Pt. I, sign. [A-H^8, I^6] not printed, but stamped
+     irregularly on the extreme lower margin and partially cut away in
+     the binding, 70 leaves. Pt. II, sign, a-g^8, and four unsigned
+     leaves at the end, 60 leaves. Pt. III, sign. a-b^8, C-D^8, E^6, 38
+     leaves, the Greek text and the word-for-word Latin translation in
+     two parallel columns. Both the Greek and the Latin have 25 lines to
+     the page or column. Two- to five-line spaces for capitals, with
+     guide-letters, in both texts, but no rubrication. Two pinholes.
+     Hain *265+272. Pellechet 185+192. Proctor, Printing of Greek in the
+     15th cent., p. 60.
+
+This is the first printed edition of any of the Greek classics, and the
+third book printed entirely in Greek, or in Greek with a Latin
+translation; the first being the Grammar of Lascaris, Milan, 1476, and
+the second the Lexicon of Crastonus not later than 1478. All three were
+printed with the same font of Greek type made by, or under the
+supervision of, Demetrius Damilas, the son of Milanese parents settled
+in Crete. Bonus Accursius was rather the publisher than the actual
+printer, who in the case of the Lascaris was Dionysius Paravisinus, and
+in the case of the Crastonus and the Aesop, probably the brothers de
+Honate, who at that date were the possessors of the peculiar roman type
+used in the Latin translations. After the Aesop this particular font of
+Greek type next appeared in the first edition of Homer, printed at
+Florence in 1488 by Bartolommeo di Libri, and in three of his subsequent
+books, once at Rome early in the 16th century, after which it disappears
+altogether.
+
+In the present edition the Fabulae græce number 147, the Fabulae latine
+100, the Fabulae selectae 62. The translator, Rinuccio d'Arezzo, who
+dedicates his work to Cardinal Antonio Cerdano, tells him in closing
+that he sends all that have come into his hands, though probably not all
+that Aesop wrote, since while they stand in alphabetical order, some
+letters are wanting and others have not their full quota. Not all copies
+have all the three parts, nor are they always bound in the same order.
+The present copy, though in all respects complete, is bound irregularly,
+as follows: 1. Fabulae selectae. 2. Fabulae græce. 3. Vita Aesopi græce.
+4. Vita et fabulae latine. On the verso of the last blank leaf is
+written in an early hand "olim fuit _Reverendissimi_ m_agistri_ georgii
+de casali."
+
+Mr. Wodhull paid "Edwards" for this copy, in 1799, £14.14s. Bound by
+Mrs. Weir in green morocco extra, gilt edges. Leaf 9 × 6 in.
+
+
+18. OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Metamorphoses. Parma, Andreas Portilia, 15
+    May, 1480.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank_, _2^a_: TABVLAE F∀BVLARVM (_sic_) OVIDII
+METAMORPHOSEOS. _Fol. 6^a_: Domitius Calderinus Veronensis. [D]E Ouidii
+uita nihil a nobis i_n_ hoc loco scribe_n_du_m_ _est_. _Fol. 7^a_: P.
+OVIDII NASONIS SVLMONENSIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 187^b_,
+COLOPHON: FINIS Impressum Parmæ Opera Et Impensis Andre_æ_ Portili_æ_
+.M.CCCC.LXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani Illustrissimo
+Duce Regna_n_te Fœliciter. _Fol. 188, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a^6, b-q^8, r^{10}, s-y^8, z^6, &^6. 188 unnumbered
+     leaves, the first and last blank, 40 lines to the page, roman
+     letter. Three- to eight-line spaces, with guide-letters, left for
+     the initials of the fifteen books. Hain *12160.
+
+First initial of each book supplied in red; heading of each book and
+each fable underlined in red; initial-strokes in every verse and
+paragraph-marks in red. Without the last blank leaf.
+
+Andreas Portilia was the first printer at Parma, where his press was
+established in 1472 and continued, with two brief transfers to Bologna
+and Reggio, till 1486.
+
+Mr. Wodhull's copy, for which he paid, at the sale of Dr. Chauncy's
+library in 1790, £2. Bound in red morocco, with rich gold tooling on
+back and sides, and book-plate of Charles Chauncy, M.D. (1706-1777).
+Leaf 12 × 8 in.
+
+
+19. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De duobus amantibus. [Paris,
+    Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]
+
+_Fol. 1_: Aeneæ siluii poætæ laureati, in hystoria_m_ de duobus
+ama_n_tibus p_r_æfatio prima ad perq_uam_ generosum milite_m_ Casparem
+Slik fœliciter incipit. _Fol. 2^b_: Aeneæ siluii in hystoria_m_ de
+duobus ama_n_tibus p_rae_fatio secunda ad Martinu_m_ Sozinu_m_,
+Senensem, iuris utriusque p_er_spicacissimum interpretem iocunde
+incipit. _Fol. 4^a_: Aeneæ siluii de duobus ama_n_tibus hystoria
+perq_uam_ iocunde incipit! _Fol. 44^b_: Vale. ex Vienna quinto nonas
+Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo quarto; COLOPHON:
+Aene_æ_ Siluii po_æ_te laureati de duobus ama_n_tibus eurialo _et_
+lucresia, finit fœlicit_er_. _Fol. 45, 46, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^6], 46 leaves, the last two blank, 23
+     lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords,
+     pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to six-line spaces
+     left for capitals. Claudin XIX. Pellechet 147. Hain 216.
+
+Large initial on first page supplied in blue and gold, with pen
+ornamentation in red and blue. Other capitals and the paragraph-marks in
+alternate red and blue. Last blank leaf wanting.
+
+This and the two next works of the present list bound with it were
+printed at the first Paris press, a private press set up in the Sorbonne
+in 1470 by Johann Heynlin, Prior, and Guillaume Fichet, Librarian, of
+the University, and maintained by them until April, 1473. During these
+three years twenty-two books were printed, all in the same roman type,
+copied from the _Cæsar_ of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469. In only
+two of them are the actual printers, Friburger and his associates,
+named.
+
+To the twenty-eight 15th-century editions--not to speak of the
+translations--of this novel described by Hain, Copinger's Supplement
+adds half as many more. The present edition is perhaps the third.
+Claudin, who makes it the nineteenth in the list of the Sorbonne books,
+could trace but four copies. This makes a fifth.
+
+The three books from the Sorbonne press are bound in one volume, red
+morocco, gilt edges, with book-plate of Sir William Burrell. It passed
+from his possession some years before his death and was bought by
+Michael Wodhull at Payne's sale April 7, 1789, for £4.4s. The binder,
+possibly mistaking the date of the author's subscription (Vienna, 1444)
+for that of the printing, has placed it on the back of the volume. Leaf
+7-3/4 × 5-1/4 in.
+
+
+20. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De curialium miseria. [Paris,
+    Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Aeneæ Siluii poætæ laureati (cui _et_ pro pontificali
+dignitate Pio nomen est) in disputatione_m_ de curialiu_m_ miseria ad
+perspicacissimu_m_ iurisconsultu_m_ Iohanne_m_ Ech, serenissimi
+diuiq_ue_ principis, Alberti, cæsaris inuictissimi! Alberti quoque
+austriæ ducies inclyti consiliariu_m_ atq_ue_ oratore_m_ præfacio
+fœliciter incipit; _Fol. 34^a_: Vale uir (nisi ex curialibus unus
+esses) meo iudicio prudens; COLOPHON: Aeneæ Siluii de curialiu_m_
+miseria disputatio finem habet fœlicem; _Fol. 35, 36, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-3^{10}, 4^6], 36 leaves, the last two blank, 23
+     lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords,
+     pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- and six-line spaces
+     left for capitals. Claudin XX. Pellechet 132. Hain 198.
+
+First initial rubricated in the same style and by the same hand as in
+the _De duobus amantibus_. Other capitals and paragraph-marks in red and
+blue alternately. Initial-strokes in yellow. At the bottom of fol. 29^a
+a line accidentally dropped by the compositor is supplied in manuscript
+by a contemporary hand, viz., "non te uolunt. Quida_m_ uero pote_n_tes
+sunt! ac ex." Both the recto and the verso of the leaf have the full
+complement of 23 lines but there is a hiatus in the text. The copies in
+the Bibliothèque Nationale, and the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, have
+the line supplied in manuscript in like manner, but instead of _uero_
+read _non_, which does not suit the context.
+
+According to Claudin this is the twentieth book printed at the Sorbonne
+press. To the five copies known to him this adds a sixth.
+
+Bound with No. 19. De duobus amantibus.
+
+
+21. PLATO. Epistolae. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin
+    Crantz, 1472.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Ad prudentem _et_ magnificum uirum Cosma_m_ de medicis
+florentinu_m_, Leonardi Aretini clarissimi oratoris, in ep_isto_las
+plato_n_is quas ex græcis latinas fecit! p_rae_fatio; _Fol. 52^a_,
+COLOPHON: FINIS.
+
+    Discite rectores diuinitus, ore platonis!
+    Quid uos, q_ui_d ciues reddat in urbe bonos;
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^8, 6^2, 7^2], 52 leaves, 23 lines to
+     the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
+     place, printer's name or date. Three- to five-line spaces left for
+     capitals. The first initial supplied in blue and red, other
+     capitals in blue and red alternately. Initial strokes in yellow.
+     Claudia XIV. Philippe VII. Crevenna 1523. Hain 13066.
+
+Leonardo Bruni, often called Leonardo Aretini from his birthplace
+Arezzo, translated five of the dialogues of Plato in addition to the
+letters.
+
+The first notice of this edition is found in the _Catalogue
+Bolongaro-Crevenna_ (Amst., 1789), where it is described as containing
+52 printed leaves. It appears from the price-list printed after the sale
+in 1790 that it had not been sold, but was "retenu, faute de commissions
+ou de concurrence," and was still obtainable at the price of 15 florins.
+No trace of it has since been found and Panzer and Hain were able only
+to copy the catalogue description. Philippe (1885) described Heynlin's
+copy, which is preserved in the library of the University of Basel, as
+consisting of one first blank leaf, forty-nine printed leaves and two
+blank leaves at the end. Claudin (1898), with a second copy discovered
+meantime in the Bibliothèque d'Angers at his command, finds one first
+blank and forty-nine printed leaves, and remarks that the two blank
+leaves placed by Philippe at the beginning [should be _end_] are only
+independent fly-leaves. Our copy has fifty-two printed leaves and no
+blanks and no occasion for them, since the printed leaves, of
+themselves, form complete quires. Claudin's collation, which gives both
+the quires and a register of the first words of each quire, shows that
+both his copies lack the sixth quire of our copy, composed like the
+seventh of only two leaves and beginning "_sibus interdixistis_." There
+is moreover still unexplained and not easily explainable in the
+descriptions of both the Basel and Angers copies the presence of a
+troublesome first blank leaf and the absence of another leaf of text, in
+addition to the lacking sixth quire. It follows that, at least until the
+Crevenna copy, which appears to have been in agreement with ours, comes
+to light again, this must remain the only complete copy known.
+
+Bound with Nos. 19 and 20, from the same press.
+
+
+22. MAGNI, JACOBUS [Jacques Le Grand]. Sophologium. Paris, Martin
+    Crantz, Ulric Gering and Michael Friburger, 1 June, 1477.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Sequitur tabula capituloru_m_ Sophologij.
+_Fol. 5^a_: Doctissimi atq_ue_ excellentissimi patris: sacraru_m_
+litteraru_m_ doctoris deuotissimi: fratris Iacobi magni: religionis
+fratru_m_ heremitaru_m_: sancti Augustini sophologiu_m_ incipit. Cuius
+p_ri_ncipalis intentio est inducere legentis animu_m_ ad sapientie
+amorem. _Fol. 218^a_: Jacobi Magni sophologium finit feliciter. _Fol.
+218^b_: Epigramma ad huius operis conspectore_m_ [five distichs.]
+COLOPHON: Anno do_mi_ni millesimo .cccc.lxxvij. die .i. mensis Iunij.
+Impressum fuit istud sophologium parisius p_er_ Martinu_m_ crantz.
+Vdalricu_m_ gering, et Michaele_m_ friburger.
+
+     Quarto. Sign. a-x^{10}, y^8, 218 leaves, the first blank, 32 lines
+     to the page, gothic lower-case type, roman capitals. Two- to
+     six-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. Hain 10478.
+
+Border ornamentation in color on fol. 5^a. Initials at the head of the
+first four of the ten books in dull gold and color; those of the
+remaining books in color only. Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in
+alternate red and blue. Blank first leaf wanting. The bottom line of
+fol. 116^b which had been accidentally moved across to the foot of fol.
+115^a (the companion page on the imposing stone) is supplied in
+manuscript where it was lacking and the misplaced line of print is
+canceled.
+
+On the discontinuance of the Sorbonne press in 1473, the printers,
+Crantz, Gering, and Friburger, moved into the neighboring Rue
+Saint-Jacques and set up a press, with new type, on their own account.
+An edition of the Sophologium had been one of the last books printed at
+the old press. A second edition was issued from the new press in 1475,
+of which the present edition is, in type, number of pages and lines, an
+exact reprint, but has printed signatures and is a quarto while that was
+a folio. Caxton's "Book of Good Manners," printed in 1487, was a
+translation of "Le livre des bonnes meurs," another work by the same
+author.
+
+The present copy, bound in green morocco with gold borders and gilt
+edges, is from the Syston Park library, sold in December, 1884. Leaf
+10-3/4 × 7-1/4 in.
+
+
+23. HIERONYMUS. Vaderboeck. [Zwolle], Peter van Os, 1 April, 1490.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_, TITLE: DIt boeck is ghenomet. dat vader boeck. dat in den
+latijne is ghehieten Vitas patru_m_. inhoudende dye historien en_de_
+legenden der heyligher vaderen die hare leue_n_ in stre_n_gher
+penitencie ouerghebracht hebbe_n_ Ouergheset in goeder versta_n_delre
+duytscer sprake. [Rest of page occupied by two woodcuts.] _Fol. 1^b_:
+[H]Ier beghint die tafele va_n_ desen boecke dat ghehieten is dat va
+(_sic_) vader boeck. _Fol. 4^b_: Hier eyndet die tafef (_sic_) van den
+boecke..... _Fol. 5^a_: [Woodcut of the Annunciation, which is repeated
+on the verso of the leaf.] _Fol. 6^a_: Hier beghinnet dat eerste deel
+va_n_ desen boecke dat ghenoemet is Vitaspatrum in latijne. _Fol.
+165^b_, COLOPHON: Hier eyndet dat derde deel va_n_ desen boecke van den
+wo_n_derlijke wercken en_de_ goede exempele_n_ en_de_ goede leri_n_ghen
+der heigher (_sic_) vadere_n_ so als die heylige leraer Jeronim_us_ vut
+de_n_ griecke_n_ in den latine ghetoge_n_ heeft Ouergheset in goeder
+v_er_standelre duytscer spraken om salicheit alre goeder kersten
+me_n_scen. Ghedruct bi mi Peter va_n_ Os In de_n_ iare ons heren Mcccc
+en_de_ xc. den eersten dach va_n_ den April. [PRINTER'S DEVICE,
+(shields of Zwolle and of the printer combined).] _Fol. 166, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. A^4, a^8, b-z^6, A^4, B-D^6, 166 leaves, the last
+     blank, 6-165 numbered i-clx. 2 columns, 36 lines to the column,
+     gothic letter. Two- to six-line spaces left for capitals. The first
+     initial of the title is a ten-line ornamental woodcut D. The two
+     woodcuts on the title-page are printed from sections cut from the
+     blocks of the Latin Biblia Pauperum, that on the left (Descent of
+     the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost) from the central panel of
+     sign. p., that on the right (Jacob's dream), from the right-hand
+     panel of the sign. t. Other sections of these blocks were used in
+     like manner in other books of van Os. In place of blank fol. 5 cut
+     away, is inserted a full page woodcut of the Annunciation, printed
+     on both sides of the leaf, on paper unlike any other used in the
+     book. Campbell 938. Proctor 9135.
+
+Prologue initial on fol. 6^a supplied in blue with pen ornamentation in
+red. Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue.
+Initial-strokes in red. Blank last leaf wanting.
+
+Bound by Alfred Matthews in three-quarter levant morocco with blind
+tooling, gilt edges. Leaf 10-1/2 × 8 in.
+
+Peter van Os, of Breda, was actively engaged in printing at Zwolle from
+1479 till the end of the century, except for the three years 1481-1484.
+
+The English translation of the "Vitas Patrum," which was the closing
+labor of Caxton's life, was printed in 1495 by Wynken de Worde with this
+colophon: "Thus endyth the moost vertuouse hystorye of the deuoute and
+right renowned lyues of holy faders lyuynge in deserte, worthy of
+remembraunce to all wel dysposed persons which hath be_n_ translated
+oute of Frenche into Englisshe by William Caxton of Westmynstre late
+deed and fynysshed at the laste daye of hys lyff."
+
+
+24. HIGDEN, RANULPH. Polychronicon, translated into English by Trevisa
+    and continued by Caxton. [Westminster]. William Caxton, [1482].
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Prohemye. [G]Rete thankynges lawde &
+honoure we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde and offre vnto wryters of
+hystoryes, whiche gretely haue prouffyted oure mortal lyf, that shewe
+vnto the reders and herers by the ensamples of thynges passyd, what
+thynge is to be desyred. [Fol. 4-20, alphabetical table; 21, blank;
+22-24, dialogue between the Clerke and the Lorde on translation,
+Trevisa's epistle to Lord Berkeley; 25, blank.] _Fol. 26^a_:
+Prolicionycion. Prefacio prima ad historiam. [A]Fter solempne and wyse
+wryters of Arte and of scyence.... _Fol. 389^b_: God be thanked of al
+his dedes. This translacion is ended on a thursdaye the eyghtenth daye
+of Apryll the yere of our lord a thousand thre hondred and .lvij. The
+xxxj yere of Kyng Edward the thyrd after the Conquest of Englond, the
+yere of my lordes age Syr thomas lord of berkley that made me make this
+translacion fyue and thyrtty. [390^a, Caxton's epilogue to Trevisa;
+390^b, blank.] _Fol. 391^a_: Jncipit Liber vltimus. _Fol. 449^a_: Ended
+the second day of Juyll the xxij yere of the regne of kynge Edward the
+fourth & of the Incarnacion of oure lord a thousand foure score and
+tweyne. Fynysshed per Caxton. _Fol. 449^b, 450, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-b^8, C^4, 1-28^8, [28*^2], 29-48^8, 49^4, 50^8,
+     52-55^8, 450 leaves, of which five (a, 1; 1, 1; 1, 5; 28*,2; 55, 8)
+     are blank. The folios of sign. 1,2-55,7 are numbered 1-ccccxxviii
+     (blanks 1, 5 and 28*,2 counted as iv and ccxxvi), with many errors
+     which are mostly corrected on the following leaves, but in the case
+     of fol. ccxli on the verso of the same leaf. There is, however, no
+     clx, and ccccxiii is duplicated, errors which balance each other
+     and do not disturb the final numeration. The omission of a
+     signature 51 is accidental, the text continuing without a break.
+     The purpose of the unsigned single sheet following sign. 28,
+     consisting of one printed and one blank leaf, was evidently to
+     carry the last remaining leaf of the fourth book and thereby make
+     possible a division of the volume at this point into two nearly
+     equal parts. Advantage has apparently been taken of this division
+     to bind the Grenville copy (Brit. Mus. IB. 55060) in two volumes.
+     Wynkyn de Worde, who reprinted the Polychronicon in 1495, followed
+     in this particular Caxton's example and in order to begin the fifth
+     book with a new signature left at the end of the fourth book nearly
+     a whole leaf blank, though he separated the other books by a blank
+     space of no more than three or four lines. Caxton's use of arabic
+     figures for signatures was confined to the years 1481-1483; after
+     that date he used letters only. The first few chapter-headings of
+     each book have Latin ordinals (Capitulum primum, secundum, etc.)
+     which are soon dropped for arabic figures. Gothic letter, Caxton's
+     fourth font, forty lines to the page, with headline. Two- to
+     seven-line spaces left for chapter and book initials, which are
+     supplied in red. Chapter-headings underlined in red. Blades ii,
+     172. Ames-Dibdin i, 138. Seymour de Ricci p. 60.
+
+Seventy-two leaves, including the five blanks, are wanting in this copy,
+viz.: sign. a-C; 1, 1, 4, 5, 8; 2, 1, 4, 5; 3, 2; 4, 1; 27, 3; [28*,2];
+44, 7; 50-55. The lacking parts comprise the first twenty leaves
+(Prohemye and alphabetical index), the last forty leaves (Caxton's
+eighth book), and twelve intermediate leaves. Of these the Proheyme is
+supplied in facsimile and sign. 4, 1 in manuscript. What is possibly an
+original impression of Caxton's large device is placed at the end of the
+volume. This was used by Caxton only during his last years, 1487-91, and
+by Wynkyn de Worde, into whose hands the original block passed, in his
+folios for thirty years longer. From one of the latter this may have
+been taken, possibly from the Polychronicon of 1495, where the other
+side of the leaf it occupied was blank, as is the case here also.
+
+Trevisa's translation of Higden was completed, according to the best
+MSS., in 1387, not in 1357 as stated on fol. 389^b. (In 1357 the 18th of
+April fell on Tuesday, not Thursday, and Thomas Lord Berkeley was then
+in the fifth, not the thirty-fifth year of his age.) Caxton was himself
+the translator of twenty-two of the one hundred books which he printed
+and it was therefore not strange that Trevisa's English should have been
+in his hands, as the proem states, "a lytel embelysshed fro tholde
+makyng." In what these embellishments consisted is partially explained
+in the epilogue: "Therfore I William Caxton a symple persone haue
+endeuoyred me to wryte fyrst ouer all the sayd book of proloconycon, and
+somewhat haue chaunged the rude and old Englyssh, that is to wete
+certayn wordes, which in these dayes [1482] be neyther usyd ne
+understanden". He went however further than this and so changed the
+inflections and orthography that the language is no longer of the
+fourteenth but rather of the fifteenth century. But in no other way
+could it have been made to harmonize with his proposed continuation,
+concerning which he proceeds to say: "and also am auysed to make another
+booke after this sayd werke whiche shal be sett here after the same, And
+shal haue his chapytres and his table a parte. For I dar not presume to
+sette my book ne ioyne hit to his, for dyuerse causes". Accordingly he
+begins his "Liber ultimus" with a new signature, preceded by a blank
+page. His "table" nevertheless is combined with that of the preceding
+seven books in one alphabet. Wynkyn de Worde's edition has a more
+elaborate index of ninety pages in which each of the eight books is
+indexed in a separate alphabet.
+
+Apart from the interest attaching to this "Liber ultimus" as the only
+original work of any length from Caxton's pen, the Polychronicon is next
+to the Golden Legend his largest book, and in the Prohemye they are
+grouped together as the "twoo bookes notable" which treat of history. It
+happens also, probably because of larger editions printed, that of these
+two books many more copies have survived than of any of his other books,
+about one-fourth of which are now represented only by single copies. Of
+the Polychronicon, Seymour de Ricci's "Census of Caxtons" (1909)
+enumerates forty known copies (very few of them entirely complete),
+evenly divided between public and private libraries. To this list he
+adds, under the heading "Present owners untraced," forty-eight copies
+(nos. 41-88) which appeared at sales between 1698 and 1901, some of them
+possibly identical with copies already described as "known." In this
+second division is found the present copy (no. 79), purchased by the
+donor of this collection at the Smets sale, New York, May, 1868, in calf
+binding, with the name of the owner "A.A. Smets, Savannah, May 28, 1836"
+on the fly-leaf. It was at once sent to Francis Bedford for binding,
+with instructions to have the "inlaying, repairing etc. done over in
+the very best manner, by the best restorer in France or England." Bound
+in brown morocco, richly blind-tooled, with Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis and
+acorn emblems. Leaf 10-1/4 × 7-1/2 in. The Smets fly-leaf and the
+original instructions sent to Mr. Bedford with the volume and returned
+by him with an added note over his own signature, laid in.
+
+Other copies of the Polychronicon which have passed through Mr.
+Bedford's hands have been bound in the same style, among them the
+Menzies copy, sold New York, November, 1876, which de Ricci wrongly
+conjectured might be identical with the Smets.
+
+
+25. ORDINARY OF CHRISTIAN MEN. London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1506.
+
+_Fol. 1^a._ TITLE: Thordinary of Crysten men [woodcut below.] _Fol.
+1^b-4^b, table of contents._ _Fol. 5^a_ [woodcut above]: Here begynneth
+a notable treatyse and ful necessarye to all crysten men for to knowe &
+it is named the Ordynary of Crystyens or of crysten men. _Fol. 217^b_:
+Here endeth the book named the ordynarye of crysten men newely hystoryed
+and translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe. Enprynted in the cyte of
+London in the Fletestrete in the sygne of y^e sonne by Wnykyn de worde.
+y^e yere of our lorde .M.CCCCC.vi. _Fol. 218^a, title repeated over
+woodcut._ _Fol. 218^b_, [PRINTER'S DEVICE]
+
+     Quarto. Sign. Aa^4, A^6, B^4, C-X, AA-NN^{8, 4 (altern.)}, OO^6,
+     PP^{5}+{1}. 218 leaves, gothic letter, 34 lines (marginal citations
+     60 lines) to the page, without foliation. Title cut in large
+     lower-case letters on block 2 × 4 in. Five- and six-line initials
+     at the head of the larger divisions of the text. Ten woodcuts, one
+     repeated. The final blank PP. 6 has been replaced by an independent
+     leaf having on the one side the title repeated with woodcut, and on
+     the other the printer's device, either of which may in the binding
+     be made the recto. The device is the first of his so-called
+     "Sagittarius" forms, and the one most commonly used from 1506 to
+     1518. Ames-Dibdin, ii, p. 103. Morgan Cat. iii, p. 214, n. 743.
+
+The present copy lacks the first four leaves, containing the title and
+the table of contents; but both the title and the woodcut accompanying
+it are repeated elsewhere in the volume, the title on fol. 218^a, the
+woodcut on fol. 87^a.
+
+Of the French original, _L'ordinaire des chrestiens_, at least six
+editions were printed before 1500, the earliest apparently at Rouen, c.
+1487. In them it is stated that the writing was commenced 22 May, 1467
+and finished (_consommé_) 22 May, 1469. The corresponding dates in the
+prologue and epilogue of the translation are "fyrst begonne to be
+wryten" 14 Jan., 1467, "fyrst consumed" 14 Jan., 1500. The confusion,
+common to both the French and the English of the 15th century, in the
+derivatives of _consummare_ and _consumere_ relieves the translator,
+Andrew Chertsey, from the appearance of an over-literal translation, but
+the change in the date of the completed work can hardly be in the
+direction of accuracy.
+
+The woodcuts which appeared in the first edition of the "Ordinary"
+printed in 1502 are in this second edition replaced by others of
+different design and better execution, borrowed mainly from "The crafte
+to lyve well and to dye well", printed by de Worde in 1505 and like the
+present work translated by Chertsey from a French original, _L'art de
+bien vivre et de bien mourir_. Two of these illustrations, "Temptation
+to Impatience" (fol. 73^b) and "Soul leaving the Body" (fol. 218^a), are
+copied from the early block-book _Ars moriendi_.
+
+Bound by Alfred Matthews in blind-tooled crimson morocco, with inside
+gold borders and gilt edges. Leaf 8-1/4 × 5-3/4 in.
+
+Wynkyn de Worde, Caxton's assistant, was a native of Wörth, Alsace. He
+came into possession of his master's printing materials on his death in
+1491 and continued to occupy his house in Westminster until 1500 when he
+moved to Fleet Street within the city. In the number of his books,
+almost eight hundred, he surpassed all the early printers, but many of
+them were works of small size and consequence. Some of his largest and
+finest books were reprints of Caxton's folios. Mention has been made of
+his use of Caxton's original device without addition. In all of his own
+various devices also, the place of honor in the center is given to
+Caxton's initials and cipher, plainly as a mark of loyalty to the
+master, not an advertisement of himself as the successor.
+
+
+26. INTRATIONES. London, Richard Pynson, 28 Feb. 1510.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_, TITLE: INtrationu_m_ excellentissimus liber perq_uam_
+necessarius o_mn_ibus leg_is_ hominib_us_: fere in se continens o_mn_em
+medullam diversa_rum_ materia_rum_ ac pl_ac_ito_rum_ tam realiu_m_,
+personalium, q_uam_ mixt_orum_. Necno_n_ multorum breuium tam
+executionu_m_ q_uam_ aliorum valde vtilium illis hunc librum inspecturis
+aut inscrutandis. Que quide_m_ supradicta facilit_er_ possunt inveniri
+p_er_ indice_m_ alphabeticu_m_ p_er_uigila_n_ti studio co_n_fectu_m_ &
+p_er_ ordine_m_ l_itte_raru_m_ redactu_m_... _Fol. 1^b_, [Full page
+woodcut of the king's arms crowned, supported by a dragon and a
+greyhound, with a portcullis on either side and a rose and two angels
+above.] _Fol. 2^a_: Intrationu_m_ libri Index Alphabetic_us_. _Fol.
+10^b_: Finis tabule Intrationum. _Fol. 193^a_, COLOPHON: Explicit opus
+excellentissimu_m_ & perutile in se continens multas materias o_mn_ibus
+leg_is_ ho_min_ib_us_ p_er_q_uam_ necessarias nouiter Impressum,
+correctum, emendatum, & no_n_ minimo labore reuisum London_i_ in vico
+vulgariter nu_n_cupato Fletstrete in officina ere ac impensis honesti
+viri Ricardi Pynson Regis Impressoris moram suam trahentis sub signo
+diui Georgii Anno n_ost_re redemptionis .M.CCCCC.x. Die vero vltima
+Mensis Februarii. _Fol. 193^b_, [PRINTER'S DEVICE.] _Fol. 194, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. Aa^6, Bb^4, a-z, &, 9, A-E^6, F^4. 194 leaves, the
+     last blank, 11-193 numbered i-clxxxv, but with the omission of li
+     and liv and other irregularities. Gothic letter, 54 lines to the
+     page, with marginal side-headings. The title, occupying seventeen
+     lines of bold heavy-faced type, is printed in red and black and in
+     the form of an inverted triangle. The _Index Alphabeticus_ is
+     introduced by a ten-line initial A with a rose above and a
+     portcullis below the middle bar, found also in the same printer's
+     Sarum missal of 1520. The other divisions of the index have mostly
+     four-line woodcut initials, some of grotesque pattern. Five-line
+     space with guide-letter for the first initial of the text.
+     Ornaments of four patterns, repeated singly or in combination, are
+     used to lengthen out the frequent short end lines of paragraphs in
+     order to give more solidity to the appearance of the page. Three of
+     the same ornaments are found also on the title-page of Whitinton's
+     _Vulgaria_, printed by W. de Worde in 1521. Ames-Dibdin ii, 441.
+
+In the present copy the index (sign. Aa. 2-6, Bb. 1-4) is separated from
+the title (Aa. 1) and placed at the end of the volume. Name of _Johēs
+Coningesby_ written in a sixteenth century hand on the first page of
+both text and index. The device is the fourth of Pynson's seven devices
+and was in use 1496-1513. Allusion is made in the colophon to an earlier
+edition, no copy of which appears to be known. The work was reprinted by
+Henry Smythe, London, 1546.
+
+Richard Pynson, a Norman by birth, established himself in London about
+1490, taking over, as there is good reason to believe, the business of
+Machlinia, a printer of law books, for which his knowledge of
+Norman-French especially fitted him. In 1508 he was made Printer to the
+King and in that year also he printed two books in roman type, the first
+use of that character in England. He is known to have printed at least
+371 books, a much smaller number than de Worde, but as a rule larger and
+more important books. He is regarded as the best English printer of his
+time and the _Liber Intrationum_ is one of his finest books.
+
+Bound in red velvet, with silk linings and gilt edges. Leaf 12-3/4 ×
+9-1/4 in.
+
+From the Syston Park library, with the book-plate and monogram of Sir
+John Henry Thorold.
+
+
+27. PLUTARCHUS. Moralia Graece. Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et Andreæ
+    soceri, 1509.
+
+TITLE: PLVTARCHI OPVSCVLA. LXXXXII. Index Moralium omnium, & eorum quæ
+in ipsis tractantur, habetur in hoc quaternione. Numerus autem
+Arithmeticus remittit lectorem ad semipagina_m_, ubi tractantur
+singula. [Aldine anchor]. _P. 1050_, COLOPHON: Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi
+& Andreæ Asulani Soceri. mense Martio. M. D. IX. [Blank leaf with anchor
+on verso.]
+
+     Quarto. Sign. *, a-z, &, aa-zz, aaa-sss^8, ttt^6. 8 unnumbered
+     preliminary leaves (sign * not included in register on p. 1050)
+     containing title, dedicatory epistle of Aldus to Jacopo Antiquario,
+     index, four couplets of Jerome Aleander, preface of the editor
+     Demetrius Doukas (all except title and dedication in Greek); 1050
+     numbered pages of Greek text, final blank leaf with anchor on
+     verso. The type is Aldus's fourth Greek font, 46 lines to the page,
+     five- to eight-line spaces left for initials. The _semipagina_ (the
+     equivalent of our _page_) to which the index directs the reader,
+     shows that _pagina_ still had its older meaning _leaf_, and
+     incidentally that the numbering of the page instead of the leaf was
+     an innovation. The anchor and dolphin device, the symbol of the
+     motto _Festina lente_, which first appeared in the Dante of 1502,
+     is here in its first form, but of the larger size suitable for
+     folios and enclosed in double lines, on the title-page without
+     name, but on the last leaf with the addition ALDVS.MA.RO. Although
+     on the evidence of the chain-lines and the water-mark technically a
+     quarto, the volume on account of its unusual size was doubtless
+     printed like a folio on half sheets. Renouard, p. 55. Firmin-Didot,
+     p. 317.
+
+Plutarch's _Moralia_ belongs to that imposing series of first editions
+of the Greek classics which among all the services of Aldus Manutius to
+the revival of learning are perhaps his best title to enduring fame.
+When he set up his press in 1495 five in all, and but one, Homer, of the
+first rank, had been printed. When he died twenty years later his first
+editions outnumbered those of all his contemporaries put together, and
+the rank was even more significant than the number, for among them were
+included Aristotle, Plato, Thucydides, Herodotus, Aristophanes,
+Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar and Demosthenes. The Plutarch was printed
+from MSS. still preserved in the library of St. Mark.
+
+The Greek type of Aldus was a new departure, based on the cursive or
+business handwriting of his day in distinction from the older book-hand
+which had served as the model for the first Greek fonts. It gained
+immediate popularity and for more than two hundred years, either
+directly or through fonts based upon it, dominated the Greek printing
+of Europe. At length, mainly because of the ligatures and contractions,
+it was supplanted by type of more open and regular forms.
+
+In 1508 Aldus took as partner his father-in-law, Andrea Torresano
+d'Asola, a Venetian printer who in 1480 had taken over the business of
+Nicolas Jenson. The imprint which had hitherto been _apud Aldum_ or _in
+aedibus Aldi_ now became _in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri_. After the
+death of Aldus in 1515 the press was conducted without change of name by
+the surviving partner until his own death in 1529.
+
+Thick paper copy. Leaf 10-3/4 × 7 in. On p. 1050 is written _Collegii
+Societatis Jesu Embricae 1605_.
+
+From the library of Sir J.H. Thorold of Syston Park, with book-plate.
+Bound by R. Storr, Grantham, in red morocco, gilt edges, with anchor on
+sides. The "Dictionary of English Book-collectors," pt. 2, calls
+attention to the Aldine anchor (made more realistic by an end of rope
+cable twisted about it) stamped by the Grantham bookbinders Messrs.
+Storr & Ridge upon many of the Thorold books, "not only those bound by
+themselves, but also those bound by far better men." Examples of both
+kinds are found in the present collection.
+
+As an illustration of the first Greek type of Aldus there is joined to
+this collection a finely executed manuscript facsimile on vellum of his
+_Musaeus_ of 1495, his second book (preceded by the Grammar of
+Lascaris), but the first in which the font appeared in its completed
+state. From the Syston Park library. Bound by Bozérian Jeune, in blue
+morocco extra.
+
+
+28. SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE. Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et Andreae soceri,
+    1514.
+
+TITLE: LIBRI DE RE RVSTICA. M. CATONIS LIB. I. M. TERENTII VARRONIS LIB.
+III. L. IVNII MODERATI COLVMELLAE LIB. XII. Eiusdem de arboribus liber
+separatus ab alijs, quare autem id factum fuerit: ostenditur in
+epistola ad lectorem. PALLADII LIB. XIIII. De duobus dierum generibus:
+simulq_ue_ de umbris, et horis, quæ apud Palladium, in alia epistola ad
+lectorem. Georgij Alexandrini enarrationes priscarum dictionum, quæ in
+his libris Catonis: Varronis: Columellæ. [Aldine anchor]. Hos libros
+Pontificis etiam Leonis decreto, nequis alius usquam locorum impune
+imprimat, cautum est. _Fol. 308^a_: COLOPHON: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI
+ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE MAIO M.D.XIIII. [Aldine anchor on verso].
+
+     Quarto. Sign. *, aa, bb^8, cc^{10}, a-h^8, i^4, k-z, A-Q^8. 8
+     unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title, privilege of Leo X.
+     countersigned by P. Bembo, papal secretary, preface of the editor,
+     Fra Giocondo, addressed to Leo X., _Aldus lectori_ (two epistles,
+     the first relating to the position of the _De arboribus_ of
+     Columella, an independent treatise, in previous editions inserted
+     in his _De re rustica_ as liber lii, but here correctly placed
+     after that work, the second, to the hours of Palladius, varying in
+     length with the seasons, and the use of the gnomon in determining
+     them), _errata_; 26 unnumbered leaves (preceded by a second title
+     with anchor and mention of the privileges of Alexander VI., Julius
+     II. and Leo. X.) containing explanations of unfamiliar words and
+     table of contents, last leaf blank; 308 numbered leaves of text,
+     Sign. * is not included in the register on fol. 308^a and being
+     followed by a second title-page its absence, if accidentally
+     omitted, might pass unnoticed. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page,
+     six- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for the initials
+     of the thirty books, which in the present copy are supplied in gold
+     and colors. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue.
+     Ruled in red. Renouard, p. 66. Firmin-Didot, p. 370.
+
+The italic type of Aldus, a cursive or semi-cursive roman, the
+counterpart of his cursive Greek, was modeled as he himself informs us
+on the handwriting of Petrarch _a lettra per lettra_. It first appeared
+in the Vergil of 1501, the first of his octavo series of classics and
+only three months later, as was but just, in _Le cose volgari_ of
+Petrarch. It had at the outset, corresponding to the Greek ligatures,
+many double letters and even groups of three cast on the same body,
+which were for the most part eliminated later by Paulus Manutius.
+Originally it consisted only of lower-case letters and borrowed the
+capitals of the roman font, using for economy of space small capitals
+which DeVinne points out as the useful invention of Aldus. Aldus was
+sensible of the deficiency and the last clause of his will was a request
+to his partner, Andrea, to have suitable capitals made by the celebrated
+engraver, Giulio Campagnola. It was, however, not until 1558 that they
+were finally supplied by Paulus, in connection with a new italic font.
+What has now ceased to be anything more than a useful auxiliary type was
+by Aldus employed as a text type, a chief recommendation being that it
+was more condensed than the roman and enabled him to greatly reduce the
+price of his books by making an octavo do the work of a quarto or folio.
+In 1501 he printed six, and in 1502 eleven octavos, whereas all his
+earlier books, with one unimportant exception, had been of the larger
+forms.
+
+In 1496 the Venetian Senate granted to Aldus protection for his Greek
+type and the books printed with it for the period of twenty years, and
+in 1502 a like privilege covering both his italic and Greek type for ten
+years. A similar grant made by Alexander VI. in 1502 was renewed by
+Julius II. in January, 1513, for fifteen years and confirmed by his
+successor, Leo X., in December of the same year.
+
+From the library of Robert Samuel Turner, sold in 1888.
+
+Bound in red morocco extra, with gold tooling in the Grolier style,
+edges gilt over red. Leaf 8-1/2 × 5-1/4 in. Book-stamp on verso of last
+leaf: "Ex libris J.B.P.H. Caqué, D.M. Rem. 1775".
+
+
+29. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Rhetorica. Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et
+    Andreae soceri, 1521.
+
+TITLE: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium
+lib. IIII. M.T. Ciceronis de inuentione lib. II. Eiusdem de oratore ad
+Quintum fratrem lib. III. Eiusdem de claris oratoribus, q_ui_ dicitur
+Brutus lib. I. Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum lib. I. Eiusdem Topica ad
+Trebatium lib. I. Eiusdem oratoriæ partitiones lib. I. Eiusdem de optimo
+genere oratorum præfatio quædam. Index rerum notabilium, quæ toto opere
+continentur, per ordinem alphabeti. [Aldine anchor] Hos libros etiam
+Pontificum Alexandri, Iulij, ac Leonis demum decretis, neq_u_is alius
+usquam locorum impune imprimat, cautum est. _Fol. 245^a_, COLOPHON:
+VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE OCTOBRI M.D.XXI.
+[Blank leaf with anchor on verso].
+
+     Quarto. Sign. *, **, a-k^8, l^4, m-z, A-G^8, H^{10}. 16 unnumbered
+     preliminary leaves, containing preface by Aldus addressed to Andrea
+     Navagero and alphabetical index (the blank last leaf wanting in
+     this copy); 245 numbered leaves of text and final blank leaf with
+     anchor. Sign. * and ** have eight leaves each, not ten as stated in
+     the register on p. 245. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page, three-
+     to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. The
+     anchor is of the second, somewhat ungraceful, pattern in use
+     1519-1524, after which there was for some years a return to the
+     first form. Renouard, p. 93.
+
+Reprinted, with only the addition of the index, from the 1514 edition of
+Aldus. In the preface is found the often quoted inscription placed over
+the door of Aldus to discourage the idle visitor: _Quisquis es: rogat te
+Aldus etiam: atque etiam: ut, si quid est, quod a se velis: perpaucis
+agas_, etc. The edition of 1533, with the imprint _in ædibus haeredum
+Aldi Manutii Romani & Andreae Asulani Soceri_ and a short preface by
+Paulus Manutius (it was his first book as director of the press) is also
+essentially unchanged, but his edition of 1546, in octavo, was
+thoroughly revised in text and accompanied by a folio volume of variorum
+commentaries.
+
+Bound by Roger Payne, in blue morocco, gilt edges, with cipher of Sir
+Mark Masterman Sykes on back, at whose sale in 1824 it brought
+£1.11s.6d. The Syston Park copy with book-plate, and monogram of Sir
+John Hayford Thorold. Leaf 8-1/2 × 5-1/4 in.
+
+
+30. CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS. De medicina. SERENUS, QUINTUS. De
+    medicina. Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et Andreæ soceri, 1528.
+
+TITLE: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. AVRELII CORNELII CELSI
+MEDICINAE LIBRI .VIII. QVAM EMENDATISSIMI, GRAECIS ETIAM OMNIBVS
+DICTIONIBVS RESTITVTIS. QVINTI SERENI LIBER DE MEDICINA ET IPSE
+CASTIGATISS. ACCEDIT INDEX IN CELSVM ET SERENVM SANE QVAM COPIOSVS.
+[Aldine anchor] Venetorum decreto, ne quis aliquo in loco Venetæ
+ditionis hos libros imprimat, impressosue alibi uendat, cautum est.
+_Fol. 1^a_: AVRELII CORNELII CELSI ARTIVM LIBER SEXTVS, IDEM MEDICINAE
+LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 164^a_: COLOPHON: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET
+ANDREAE ASVLANI SOCERI MENSE MARTIO. M.D.XXVIII. [Aldine anchor on
+verso].
+
+     Quarto. 8 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing title,
+     dedicatory epistle of the editor, Giovanni Baptista Egnazio, to
+     Cardinal Hercules Gonzaga and index; 164 numbered leaves of text
+     (fol. 148 blank). Italic letter, three- to seven-line spaces with
+     guide-letter left for initials. Renouard, p. 105.
+
+The _De Medicina_ of Celsus is the second and only surviving part of his
+Encyclopædia entitled _Artes_, in five divisions. The first division,
+_De Agricultura_, consisted of five books, so that the sixth book of
+_Artes_ was at the same time the first of _De Medicina_.
+
+The Syston Park copy, uncut. Bound by Roger Payne in red morocco. Leaf
+9 × 5-1/2 in.
+
+
+31. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Epistolæ ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad
+    Quintum fratrem. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1540.
+
+TITLE: M.TVLLII CICERONIS EPISTOLAE ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad
+Quintu_m_ fratrem, summa diligentia castigatæ, ut in ijs menda, quæ
+plurima erant, paucissima jam supersint. PAVLI MANVTII IN EASDEM
+EPISTOLAS Scholia, quibus abditi locorum sensus ostenduntur, cum
+explicatione castigationum, quæ in his epistolis pene innumerabilis
+factæ sunt. [Aldine anchor] PAVLVS MANVTIVS ALDI F. VENETIIS, M.D.XL.
+_Fol. 344^a_, COLOPHON: APVD ALDI FILIOS. VENETIIS, M.D.XL. MENSE
+AVGVSTO. [Aldine anchor on verso]
+
+     Octavo. 2 preliminary leaves containing title and dedication by
+     Paulus Manutius to Guillaume Pellicier, Bishop of Montpellier, 331
+     numbered leaves of text, 10 unnumbered leaves of translations of
+     the Greek passages, conjectural emendations which the editor "would
+     not hesitate to adopt it he should ever find an ancient MS. to
+     confirm them" and a final leaf with colophon and anchor. The
+     Scholia, 24 unnumbered leaves, have a separate title, with notice
+     of copyright granted by Paul III. (the fourth pope to grant this
+     privilege) and the Venetian senate; colophon and anchor repeated on
+     last leaf. Italic letter, 30 lines to the page, five-line spaces
+     with guide-letters left for initials. Renouard, p. 120.
+
+Except for the interval 1533-6 the press was inactive from 1529 to 1540,
+on account of dissensions between the heirs of Andrea and Aldus. The
+partnership having been dissolved the press was reopened in 1540 by the
+sons of Aldus (_apud Aldi filios_) under the direction of the youngest,
+Paulus Manutius (1512-74), who restored and added to its lustre. Of
+Cicero, his favorite author, he revised the entire text and printed
+repeated editions of some of the works: e.g. of the _Epistolae ad
+Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem_ not less than ten, of which
+this is the first. The brief scholia he expanded later into full and
+valuable commentaries, on the Letters to Atticus in 1547, on the Letters
+to Brutus and Quintus in 1557.
+
+It was Petrarch who in 1345 discovered in a Verona MS. the long lost
+Letters to Atticus, Brutus and Quintus and copied them with his own
+hand. Both the MS. and Petrarch's copy are lost. But of the MS. another
+transcript, procured by Petrarch's friend Salutati in 1389, is preserved
+in the Laurentian Library, and of the Petrarch copy we have here a
+replica in the type which Aldus characterized as _manum mentiens_.
+
+From the Syston Park library, with book-plate. Bound by Roger Payne, in
+blue morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 6-1/2 × 4 in.
+
+
+32. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Orationes. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1546.
+
+TITLE: M. TVLLII CICERONIS ORATIONVM PARS I. [Aldine anchor] CORRIGENTE
+PAVLO MANVTIO, ALDI FILIO. VENETIIS, M.D.XLVI. _Fol. 308^a_, COLOPHON:
+VENETIIS, APVD ALDI FILIOS, M.D.XXXXVI.
+
+     Octavo. 4 unnumbered preliminary leaves, containing title and
+     preface of Paulus Manutius addressed to Cardinal Benedetto Accolto,
+     303 numbered leaves of text and a final leaf with register and
+     colophon on the recto and anchor on the verso. Italic letter, 30
+     lines to the page, five-line spaces with guide-letters left for
+     initials. Renouard, p. 136.
+
+The second edition of the Orations printed by Paulus, vol. I only (II,
+III wanting), on large paper. Renouard (who knew of no complete copy of
+the three volumes l.p.) remarks, p. 141, on the too elongated form of
+most of the Aldine large paper octavos, in which all the increased space
+is at the bottom. In the present copy it is divided between the bottom
+and the outer margin, the inner margin and the top having no increase of
+width--an arrangement well adapted for marginal annotations and perhaps
+designed for that use. An early owner of this copy has in fact added to
+the printed title (_Orationum Pars I_) with a pen the word _Commentata_,
+but proceeded no further with his plan than simply to underscore a
+number of words on the first three pages, leaving the margins untouched.
+
+The most important of the commentaries of Paulus was that on the
+Orations, completed not long before his death and printed by his son
+Aldus in 1578-9 in three folio volumes.
+
+From the Syston Park library, with book-plate and the monogram of Sir
+J.H. Thorold. Bound in red morocco, gilt edges, with Aldine anchor in
+gold on sides. Leaf 8 × 5-1/4 in.
+
+
+33. PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Planisphærium. JORDANUS NEMORANUS. Planisphærium.
+    Venetiis, [apud Paulum Manutium], 1558.
+
+TITLE: PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM. IORDANI PLANISPHAERIVM. FEDERICI
+COMMANDINI VRBINATIS IN PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM COMMENTARIVS. In quo
+uniuersa Scenographices ratio quam breuissime traditur, ac
+demonstrationibus confirmatur. [Aldine anchor] VENETIIS, M.D.LVIII.
+
+     Quarto (not octavo, as described by Renouard). _Part 1._ 4
+     unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title and dedicatory
+     preface of Commandino to Cardinal Rainuccio Farnese, 37 numbered
+     leaves of text (1-25 Ptolemy, 26-37 Jordanus), final blank leaf
+     with anchor on verso. _Part 2._ 28 numbered leaves of commentary,
+     with separate title, anchor both on title and on verso of last
+     leaf. Text in roman, 25 lines to the page; commentary in italic, 34
+     lines to the page. Many woodcut diagrams. Both text and commentary
+     are introduced by a seven-line woodcut initial belonging to a
+     mythological series found in other books of Paulus of this period,
+     C picturing Calypso bidding adieu to Ulysses, I, Juno seated on a
+     car drawn by peacocks. The original italic font of Aldus, the
+     so-called _Aldino_ type, which appears to have passed into the
+     possession of the Torresani relatives at about this date, is here
+     replaced by a new font having a perceptibly larger face, though
+     only a slightly larger body (20 lines of the new equalling 21 of
+     the old) and consequently showing less white between the lines.
+     Renouard, p. 173.
+
+In 1554 the subscription assumed the new form _apud Paulum Manutium Aldi
+F._, showing that Paulus had acquired his brothers' rights in the press.
+At the same time he returned to the earlier and simpler form of the
+anchor with the name _Aldus_, instead of the _Aldi filii_ and the
+ornamental border in use since 1546. Sometimes, as in the present
+volume, the subscription is omitted altogether and the anchor with the
+name Aldus alone used. Here moreover the place and date appear only on
+the title-page and the colophon is dropped as no longer useful.
+
+The original Greek text of Ptolemy's Planisphere is lost. To the present
+Latin translation, made by an unknown hand from the Arabic, is appended
+(fol. 25) this subscription: _Facta est translatio haec Tolosae Cal.
+Iunii Anno Domini MCXLIIII_. The revival of the study of the Greek
+mathematicians in the sixteenth century was largely due to the admirable
+translations and commentaries of Federigo Commandino of Urbino
+(1509-75). This edition of Ptolemy's Planisphere still remains the best.
+In the same year Paulus printed _Archimedis Opera nonnulla a Federico
+Commandino Vrbinate nuper in latinum conversa et commentariis
+illustrata_.
+
+Uncut copy, bound in blue morocco, with vellum fly-leaves. Leaf 8-3/4 ×
+6-1/2 in. From the Syston Park library with book-plate and monogram of
+Sir John Hayford Thorold.
+
+
+34. LIVIUS, TITUS. Historiarum ab urbe condita libri. Venetiis, in
+    ædibus Manutianis, 1572.
+
+TITLE: T.LIVII PATAVINI, Historiarum ab urbe condita, LIBRI. QVI.
+EXSTANT XXXV CVM. VNIVERSAE. HISTORIAE. EPITOMIS Caroli Sigonij Scholia,
+quibus ijdem libri, atque epitomae partim emendantur, partim etiam
+explanantur, Ab Auctore multis in partibus aucta. [Printer's device]
+VENETIIS ∞ DLXXII. In Aedibus Manutianis.
+
+     Folio. Part 1. 48 unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title,
+     preface of Sigonius, _Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia ab
+     Aldo Manutio Paulli F. Aldi N. collecta, Libri primi epitome, Rerum
+     et vocum apud T. Liuium index copiosissimus_; 399 numbered leaves
+     of text (blank last leaf wanting). Part 2. _Caroli Sigonii
+     Scholia_, with separate title and device, 109 numbered leaves and
+     blank end leaf. Part 3. _Caroli Sigonii Livianorum Scholiorum
+     aliquot Defensiones adversus Glareanum et Robortellum_, with
+     separate title and device, 52 numbered pages. Roman character,
+     except _epitomae_ i-xlv and _index_ which are in the italic type of
+     the Ptolemy commentary, and the preface which is a large and
+     unusual italic, first found in a notice prefixed to the _Medici
+     antiqui_ of 1547, once as a text type in 1550, afterwards only in
+     an occasional preface or title-page. Like the smaller italic of
+     Paulus it is provided with capitals. The large woodcut initials of
+     the several books belong to the mythological series found in the
+     Ptolemy but are here much worn. Renouard, p. 215.
+
+Editions of Livy with the Scholia of Sigonius were issued from the
+Aldine press in 1555, 1566, 1572 and 1592. This third edition is
+distinguished from those which preceded it by some additions to the
+Scholia and an appendix in which the editor defends his views on the
+chronology of Livy against the attacks of two opponents. But
+typographically it is inferior to the second edition as the second was
+inferior to the first, which alone was printed under the active
+supervision of Paulus. In 1561 he went to Rome to undertake the
+direction of a press which Pius IV. was about to establish and died
+there in 1574, having made only one brief visit to Venice in the
+intervening thirteen years. In his absence the Venice press, when not
+inactive or leased, was mainly in the charge of his son, the younger
+Aldus (1547-97), who in spite of the promise of his early years failed
+both as a scholar and as a printer to sustain the reputation of his
+father and grandfather. To the present edition Aldus contributed the
+_Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia_, and he is also
+unquestionably responsible for the large and strange device which
+replaces the simple anchor for which his father had shown so marked a
+preference. It consists of the arms granted to Paulus in 1571 by the
+Emperor Maximilian II. (in which the Aldine anchor occupies a
+subordinate place) surrounded by a border of heavy ornament with the
+addition: _Ex privilegio Maximiliani II. Imp. Caes. Aug._ When his
+father's death had made him the head of the press he continued for some
+years to employ the same device. For the Livy of 1592, much inferior to
+the present edition, and of interest only as showing the decline into
+which the Aldine press, and the Italian presses in general, had fallen
+at the end of the sixteenth century, he was only indirectly responsible.
+He left Venice in 1585 and spent the last years of his life at Rome, as
+professor of belles-lettres and joint director of the Vatican press.
+
+
+35. BIBLIA LATINA. Parisiis, Yolande Bonhomme, vidua Thielmanni Kerver,
+    August 14, 1549.
+
+TITLE: Biblia sacra, integru_m_ vtriusq_ue_ testame_n_ti corpus
+co_m_plecte_n_s, dilige_n_ter recognita et eme_n_data. Cu_m_
+concorda_n_tijs simul et argume_n_tis: cu_m_q_ue_ iuris canoni_c_i
+allegationib_us_ passim adnotatis. Insup_er_ i_n_ calce eiusde_m_ annexe
+su_n_t no_m_i_nu_m Hebraico_rum_, Chaldeo_rum_, atq_ue_ Greco_rum_
+interp_re_tatio_n_es. Huic editio_n_i adiect_us_ e_st_ Index re_rum_ et
+sente_n_tia_rum_ vetr_is_ _et_ noui testame_nti_. [Printer's device
+(shield bearing the initials T.K. suspended from a tree and supported by
+two unicorns, with name THIELMAN.KERVER. at foot), both the title and
+the device framed in a woodcut border]. _Fol. 562^a_, COLOPHON:
+Parisijs, ex officina libraria yola_n_de bonhomme, Uidue spectabilis
+viri Thielmanni Keruer, sub signo vnicornis in vico sancti Jacobi vbi et
+venundatur. Absolutum Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo
+nono Decimo nono Calendas Septembris. [Printer's device on verso].
+
+     Octavo. Sign. A^8, B^4, a-z, aa-zz, A-Y^8, Z^6, aaa-eee^8. 602
+     leaves, comprising 12 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing
+     title, _Ad divinarum literarum verarumque divitiarum amatores
+     exhortatio, Librorum ordo, Biblie summarium_. Gabriel Bruno's
+     _Tabula alphabetica historiarum_; fol. i-cccccxx, text; 30
+     unnumbered leaves _Index rerum et sententiarum_; 40 unnumbered
+     leaves _Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum_, etc. Very small
+     gothic letter, double columns, 58 lines to the column. Six- to
+     eight-line woodcut initials of the several books, the unicorns of
+     Kerver's device appearing in that of Gen. i. Le Long-Masch iii, 2,
+     149.
+
+The octavo Latin Bibles of the Kerver press, fifteen editions of which
+appeared between 1508 and 1560, were closely patterned after Froben's
+edition, Basel, 1591 (the first Bible printed in octavo form), both as
+regards the text, based on the "Fontibus ex Græcis" editions, 1478 ff.,
+and the introductory and supplementary matter of various origin
+accompanying it. The earliest of these supplements, _Interpretationes
+nominum Hebraicorum_, an etymological index of Hebrew proper names,
+appeared first in the Bible of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471, and
+was reprinted without change in most of the editions previous to 1515.
+In the Complutensian Polyglot it underwent revision and the revised form
+appears in all the editions of Yolande Bonhomme, with due
+acknowledgment to Cardinal Ximenes. The _Index rerum et sententiarum_,
+however, announced in the title as a new addition to this edition (as it
+had been also announced in the edition of 1546, not mentioned by Masch
+and Copinger, of which this is an exact duplicate) was borrowed from the
+Bible of Robert Stephens, Paris, 1534, without acknowledgment, perhaps
+in order the better to escape the suspicion of heresy attached to his
+work. In Copinger's chronological table of the printed editions of the
+Latin Bible during the 15th and 16th centuries (_Incunabula Biblica_, p.
+207) this is no. 339, total number 562.
+
+The Kerver press was less celebrated for its Bibles than for liturgical
+works, and for the books of private devotion (_Horae, Heures_) of which
+Brunet (_Manuel_, v, col. 1614-27) enumerates no less than fifty-six,
+printed by Thielmann, his widow, or his sons, between 1497 and 1571. The
+wood-engravings with which they were illustrated were repeated in the
+successive editions and occasionally also in the Bibles. Two of these
+borrowed cuts are found in the present edition, facing the Old and the
+New Testament. The first represents the Expulsion from the Garden, but
+the verse printed underneath (Gen. ii. 7) calls for the Creation of
+Adam, which in Yolande's editions of 1526 and 1534 is actually present,
+while here another engraving has been substituted, but the verse left
+standing. Facing the New Testament, under the heading _Jesu Christi
+secundum carnem genealogia_, is a genealogical tree springing from "the
+root of Jesse."
+
+Following the usual alphabetical order of the signatures (A-Z, aaa-eee),
+the _Index rerum et sententiarum_ (sign. U-Z) is here placed before the
+_Interpretationes_ (sign. aaa-eee). This is contrary to the direction of
+the _Collectio codicum_ found on the last leaf of the _Index_ (Z6),
+where the order prescribed is A-T, aaa-eee, U-Z, which is further
+supported by the colophon and printer's device on Z6. The _Index_ as the
+latest supplement was meant to stand at the end of the volume.
+
+Bound in oak boards covered with stamped leather, brass corners and
+bosses, gilt gauffred edges. Around the central boss of the back cover
+is stamped the date A.D. 1571, and on the front cover, in corresponding
+position and order, the initials F E P L P F.
+
+From the Osterley Park sale, May, 1885, with the book-plate of Victor
+Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey. Leaf 6-1/2 × 4-1/2 in.
+
+
+36. PHILO JUDÆUS. De divinis decem oraculis. Lutetiæ, apud Carolum
+Stephanum, 1554.
+
+TITLE: Philonis Iudæi DE DIVINIS DECEM oraculis, quæ summa sunt legum
+capita Liber, Iohanne Væuræo interprete. [Printer's device] LVTETIAE,
+Apud Carolum Stephanum, Typographum Regium. M.D.LIIII.
+
+     Octavo. 72 numbered pages, followed by one leaf _Ad lectorem_ and
+     one blank. Pp. 3-6, dedication by the translator to Charles de
+     Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, Archbishop of Reims, to whom was also
+     dedicated the first edition of the works of Philo in Greek, printed
+     by Turnebus, Paris 1552. Printed on vellum. On p. 7 a beautiful
+     seven-line engraved initial R. The device is that chosen by the
+     printer's brother Robert, the olive tree and the motto _Noli altum
+     sapere_, without the addition _sed time_.
+
+Renouard, _Annales de l'impr. des Estienne_, 2^e éd., p. 106; adds to
+his description of the volume the following note: "Dédié au cardinal de
+Lorraine, pour lequel il en fut tiré sur vélin un exemplaire que depuis
+l'on a vu relié en maroq. jaune ancien, avec une tête en or sur la
+couverture. Il a passé dans une Bibliothèque inconnue." The present copy
+answers completely to this description and is without doubt the
+dedication copy in question. The binding (17th cent.) is yellow morocco,
+browned by age, gilt edges, with a medallion head in gold embossed on
+the back cover. Within are written names of former owners; on the title
+page _N. Tetel_, _1644 datum Remis_ and _Claude Henry Corrard_; on the
+cover linings _ex Libris Claudii Tetel ad Mussey_(?); _Ce livre
+appartient à m^{lle} Jean Collot_.
+
+By an oversight Renouard omitted this volume from his list (p. 271) of
+"Editions Stéphaniennes dont on connoit un on plusieurs exemplaires
+imprimés sur vélin." It increases the number to twenty-three, seventeen
+of them printed by the first Henri and only six by his descendants.
+
+Charles Estienne (1504?-1564), a member of a second remarkable family of
+scholar-printers of the sixteenth century, whose history forms so
+interesting a parallel to that of Aldus and his descendants, though he
+does not rank with his brother Robert, or Robert's son the second Henry,
+certainly brought no discredit on the family name. He was educated as a
+physician, but when Robert withdrew to Geneva to escape the persecutions
+of the Sorbonne, he took charge of the Paris press and conducted it with
+ability from 1551 to 1561, printing one hundred volumes and receiving
+the appointment of king's printer. Aside from this attractive volume no
+vellum copy of his books is known.
+
+From the Wodhull sale, with the Wodhull arms stamped in gold on the
+front cover. Mem. within: "Payne's sale. £3 3s. M. Wodhull, Apr. 14^{th}
+1792. Collat & complet." On the last blank leaf is entered the date
+"Oct. 17^{th} 1808," a record possibly of a later "visitation." Similar
+dates, some years later than the date of purchase are found on the end
+leaves of other Wodhull books. Leaf 7 × 4-1/2 in.
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+The following inconsistencies found in the text have been retained:
+
+head-line / headline
+Homiliæ / Homiliae (in referring to the same book)
+De Vinne / DeVinne
+Prohemye / Proheyme
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews
+Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University, by Anonymous
+
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+Title: Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
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+Author: Anonymous
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+Release Date: October 9, 2005 [EBook #16844]
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+Transcriber's Note: This book has a number of characters which cannot be
+represented in a text format. The following coding has been used for
+these characters.
+
+[upturned A]  A printed upside down
+[=e]          e with macron
+[oe]          oe ligature
+
+Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling found in the original book
+have been retained in this version. A list of these inconsistencies is
+found at the end of the text.
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+
+
+
+
+      CATALOGUE OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS
+
+
+
+
+                 CATALOGUE
+
+                   OF THE
+
+           WILLIAM LORING ANDREWS
+
+         COLLECTION OF EARLY BOOKS
+
+                   IN THE
+
+         LIBRARY OF YALE UNIVERSITY
+
+
+
+              [Printer's Seal]
+
+
+
+      NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
+          LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
+          OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
+                  MCMXIII
+
+
+
+
+              COPYRIGHT, 1913
+                     BY
+           YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
+
+Printed from type October, 1913. 300 copies
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+The collection of early printed books presented to the Library of Yale
+University in 1894 by Mr. William Loring Andrews, of New York, was
+formed to illustrate the first century of printing, which is a better
+boundary for the survey than the half-century ending with the year 1500,
+more often chosen. The latter, the so-styled cradle period of the art,
+is wanting in real definition, being at most a convenient halting place,
+not a completed stage, whereas at the middle of the sixteenth century
+the printed book of the better class had acquired most of its maturer
+features and no longer has for us an unfamiliar look. Designed to serve
+as a permanent exhibition, it is a selection rather than a collection,
+not large, but wisely chosen, and no less attractive than instructive,
+having been formed a quarter of a century ago, at a time when
+opportunities were unusually favorable.
+
+The surviving books of the first presses, which are the chief sources of
+our knowledge of the early art, are at the same time, when obtainable,
+the most efficient teachers. For the illustration of the typography, the
+feature of first importance, there is nothing comparable to the open
+pages of a representative series of the original books, such as are here
+spread out before us. The best of the available substitutes, phototype
+reproductions of specimen pages, apart from other limitations, must
+always lack the authority and the impressiveness of the originals.
+
+While it is the main office of the present collection to set before the
+students of the University as a whole the more general features of the
+art of the early printer, a further service which it is prepared to
+render must not be overlooked. To such as are prompted to go into the
+subject more deeply it offers an excellent body of the original
+material upon which any serious study must of necessity be based.
+
+The two fine fifteenth century MSS. at the head of the collection, far
+from serving a merely ornamental purpose, like their own illuminated
+initials for example, are a needful introduction. It is obvious that
+from such sources the first printers got the models of their types, and
+the MSS. in which Jenson found the prototypes of his famous roman
+characters, which in the judgment of some are still unsurpassed, could
+not have been very remote from these. Some of the more striking features
+which distinguish the early printed books from the later were not
+original with them, but only survivals from the MSS. The abbreviations
+and contractions in which both abound were the labor-saving devices of
+the copyists, adopted without hesitation by the printers who used the
+MSS. as copy and only slowly abandoned. The copyist left spaces in his
+MS. for initials to be supplied by the illuminator, without which his
+work was not considered complete, and for about a hundred years the
+printer continued to do the same. If the copyist saw fit to attach his
+name to his work, we look for it at the end of the volume and there also
+the printer placed his colophon. Signatures and catchwords, to guide the
+binder in the arrangement of the sheets, did not come in with the
+printed book, but had long been in use in the MSS.
+
+Although out of the hundreds of presses active during the first century
+only a score are here represented, leaving wide gaps in the series, it
+is better, because more nearly in the natural line of development, that
+the books should be ranged under the country, the locality and the press
+to which they severally belong, than that they should be kept in strict
+chronological order. A general chronological order underlies the
+geographical even where it does not come to the surface. By right of
+seniority Germany stands at the head, and Mainz, the birthplace of
+printing, is followed by the other German towns in the order of their
+press age. Next come the presses of Italy, France, Holland and England,
+arranged in like order. To prevent, however, too wide a departure from
+the chronological succession which would result from the strict
+application of this rule, the later, i.e., the sixteenth century, Venice
+and Paris books are separated from the earlier and transferred to the
+end of the list, where in point of development they properly belong.
+Placed in the order thus indicated, the books, as befits so small a
+total, are numbered consecutively in one series. The conspectus, which
+brings into one view the titles, dates, places and printers' names, will
+serve also as a sufficient index.
+
+While we are here most concerned with the genealogy and family history
+of the books, or in other words with their press relationships, the
+personal history attaching to them--_habent sua fata libelli_--is not
+without interest. The Zeno MS. and the Philo, printed on vellum, are the
+dedication copies, not merely set apart, but specially prepared for this
+use. In a few of the volumes are found the names or the arms of early
+owners. The Livy MS. and one-half of the printed books are from the
+library, dispersed in 1886, of Michael Wodhull (1740-1816) of Thenford,
+Northamptonshire, the first translator into English verse of all the
+extant works of Euripides, the most assiduous and painstaking and in
+some departments of bibliography the best equipped among the book
+collectors of his day. It was his custom (well illustrated in the
+present collection) to enter on the fly-leaf of each purchase the source
+and the cost, adding as a separate item the binding, often by Roger
+Payne, and to affix his name and the date. His _vis�_ "Collat: &
+complet:" is seldom wanting and often bibliographical notes and
+references to authorities are added. Justinian's _Novellae_, printed by
+Schoeffer, and all the Aldine press books save one are from the library
+gathered at Syston Park, Lincolnshire, by Sir John Thorold and his son,
+Sir John Hayford Thorold, between 1775 and 1831 and sold in 1884.
+
+One valued mark of ownership, common to all the volumes, is the _ex
+libris_ of the lover of choice books who united them in one family, not
+again to be separated, and gave them into the keeping of the University
+Library.
+
+The accompanying list of Authorities, as will be apparent, is intended
+to supply merely the details necessary to complete the references of the
+catalogue.
+
+Acknowledgments are due from the compiler to his associates in the
+Library and the University for assistance in the catalogue.
+
+ADDISON VAN NAME, _Librarian Emeritus_.
+
+Yale University Library, September, 1913.
+
+
+
+
+AUTHORITIES.
+
+Ames, J. Typographical antiquities, or, History of printing in
+    England, Scotland and Ireland, enlarged by T.F. Dibdin. 4 v. 4^o.
+    Lond., 1810-19.
+
+Blades, W. The life and typography of William Caxton. 2 v. 4^o. Lond.,
+    1861-3.
+
+British Museum. Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in
+    the British Museum. Pt. i, ii. 4^o. Lond., 1908-12.
+
+Brown, H.F. The Venetian printing press. 4^o. N.Y. and Lond., 1891.
+
+Brunet, J.C. Manuel du libraire. 5^e �d. 6 v. 8^o. Paris, 1860-5.
+
+Burger, K. Deutsche und italienische Inkunabeln. Lief. i-ix. f^o.
+    Berlin, 1892-1912.
+
+Campbell, M.F.A.G. Annales de l'imprimerie n�erlandaise au XV^e si�cle.
+    8^o. La Haye, 1874-90.
+
+Claudin, A. The first Paris press: an account of the books printed for
+    G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne 1470-72. [Bibl. Soc.
+    Illust. Monogr. vi.] 4^o. Lond., 1897.
+
+Copinger, W.A. Incunabula Biblica. 4^o. Lond., 1892.
+
+---- Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 pt. in 3 v.
+    8^o. Lond., 1895-1902.
+
+Crevenna, P.A. Bolongaro. Catalogue des livres de la biblioth�que de M.
+    Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna. 5 v. 8^o. Amsterdam, 1789.
+
+De Vinne, T.L. Notable printers of Italy during the fifteenth century.
+    4^o. New York, 1910.
+
+Didot, A. Firmin. Alde Manuce et l'Hell�nisme � Venise. 8^o. Paris,
+    1875.
+
+Duff, E. Gordon. A century of the English book trade. 4^o. Lond., 1905.
+
+---- Hand-lists of English printers 1501-1556. Pt. i, ii. 4^o. Lond.,
+    1895-6.
+
+Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 v. in 4 pt. 8^o. Stuttgart,
+    1826-38.
+
+Le Long, J. Bibliotheca sacra, continuata ab A.G. Masch. 2 pt. in 5 v.
+    4^o. Halae, 1778-90.
+
+Morgan, J. Pierpont. Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books
+    now forming a portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan. 3 v.
+    f^o. Lond., 1907.
+
+Panzer, G.W. Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum
+    MDXXXVI. 11 v. 4^o. Norimbergae, 1793-1803.
+
+Pellechet, M. Catalogue g�n�ral des incunables des biblioth�ques
+    publiques de France. T. i-iii. 8^o. Paris, 1897-1909.
+
+Philippe, J. Origine de l'imprimerie � Paris. 8^o. Paris, 1885.
+
+Pollard, A.W. An essay on colophons. [Caxton Club]. 4^o. Chicago, 1905.
+
+Proctor, R. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum.
+    8^o. Lond., 1898.
+
+---- The printing of Greek in the fifteenth century. [Bibl. Soc. Illust.
+    Monogr. viii]. 4^o. Lond., 1900.
+
+Quaritch, B., _ed._ Contributions toward a dictionary of English
+    book-collectors. Pt. i-xiii. 8^o. Lond., 1892-9.
+
+Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde. 3^e �d. 8^o. Paris,
+    1834.
+
+---- Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne. 2^e �d. 8^o. Paris, 1843.
+
+Ricci, Seymour de. Catalogue raisonn� des premi�res impressions de
+    Mayence (1445-1467). [Ver�ff. der Gutenberg-Gesellseh. viii-ix].
+    4^o. Mainz, 1911.
+
+---- A census of Caxtons. [Bibl. Soc. Illust. Monogr. xvi]. 4^o. Lond.,
+    1909.
+
+
+
+
+CONSPECTUS
+
+MANUSCRIPTS
+
+
+                                                                         PAGE
+
+ 1. ZENO. Vita Caroli Zeni                                                  1
+ 2. LIVIUS. Historiarum libri I-X                                           3
+
+
+PRINTED BOOKS
+
+ 1. BIBLIA LATINA               Mainz        J. Fust & P.           1462   5
+                                                Schoeffer
+ 2. JUSTINIANUS. Novellae          "         P. Schoeffer           1477   6
+ 3. ISIDORUS. Etymologiae       [Strassburg] [J. Mentelin]      [c. 1473]  8
+ 4. GESTA ROMANORUM             [Cologne]    [U. Zell]          [c. 1473] 10
+ 5. GREGORIUS I. Homiliae       [Augsburg]   [G. Zainer]            1473  11
+ 6. PSALTERIUM LATINUM             "              "             [c. 1473] 12
+ 7. MODUS perveniendi ad
+      sapientiam                   "              "             [c. 1473] 13
+ 8. HUGO. De arrha animae          "              "                 1473  13
+ 9. CARACCIOLUS. De
+      poenitentia               Venice       Wendelin of Speier     1472  14
+10. VALLA. Elegantiae linguae
+      Latinae                      "         N. Jenson              1471  15
+11. PLINIUS. Naturalis historia    "              "                 1472  17
+12. NONIUS MARCELLUS. De
+      compendiosa doctrina         "              "                 1476  19
+13. DULLAERT. Quaestiones super              F. Renner & Nicolas
+      Aristotelem de anima         "            of Frankf.          1473  21
+14. ARISTOTELES. De animalibus     "         John of Cologne &
+                                                J. Manthen          1476  22
+15. UBERTINUS. Arbor vitae
+      crucifixae Jesu              "         A. de Bonetis          1485  23
+16. ALBERTIS. De amoris
+      remedio                   [Florence]                          1471  24
+17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabulae    [Milan]      Bonus Accursius    [c. 1480] 26
+18. OVIDIUS. Metamorphoses      Parma        A. Portilia            1480  28
+19. PIUS II. De duobus          [Paris]      [Friburger, Gering
+      amantibus                                 & Crantz]          [1472] 28
+20. PIUS II. De curialium
+      miseria                      "              "                [1472] 29
+21. PLATO. Epistolae               "              "                [1472] 30
+22. MAGNI. Sophologium             "         Crantz, Gering &       1477  32
+                                                Friburger
+23. HIERONYMUS. Vaderboeck      [Zwolle]     P. van Os              1490  33
+24. HIGDEN. Polychronicon       Westminster  W. Caxton             [1482] 34
+25. ORDINARY of Christians      London       W. de Worde            1506  38
+26. INTRATIONES                    "         R. Pynson              1510  40
+27. PLUTARCHUS. Moralia         Venice       Aldus Manutius         1509  41
+28. SCRIPTORES rei rusticae        "              "                 1514  43
+29. CICERO. Rhetorica              "         Andrea d'Asola         1521  45
+30. CELSUS. De medicina            "              "                 1528  47
+31. CICERO. Epistolae ad
+      Atticum                      "         Aldi filii             1540  47
+32. CICERO. Orationes              "              "                 1546  49
+33. PTOLEMAEUS. Planisphaerium     "         Paulus Manutius        1558  50
+34. LIVIUS. Historiae Romanae      "              "                 1572  51
+35. BIBLIA LATINA                Paris       Vidua Th. Kerver       1549  52
+36. PHILO. De divinis decem        "         C. Stephanus           1554  55
+      oraculis
+
+
+
+
+MANUSCRIPTS
+
+
+1. ZENO, JACOPO. Vit�, morum, rerumque gestarum Caroli Zeni libri X.
+    1458.
+
+Fine white vellum, 192 leaves, in 19 quires of ten leaves each and two
+additional leaves at the end, the last of which is blank. Signed on the
+lower inner angle of the last page of each quire by a letter (A-T) which
+is repeated at the point directly facing it on the first page of the next
+quire. Leaves four to seven of the first quire and all of quires three to
+eight, a total of sixty-four leaves, have 28 lines to the page, the rest
+27 lines. Ruled on one side only with a hard point. Leaf 10-1/2 � 7 in.,
+text-page 7 � 3-3/4 in.
+
+Written in regular Italian minuscules of the 15th century, formed on the
+models of the 11th and 12th centuries.
+
+The subject of the memoir is the distinguished Venetian Admiral Carlo
+Zeno (1334-1418), brother of Nicolo and Antonio, reputed discoverers of
+America. His biographer, Jacopo Zeno (1417-1481), Bishop of Feltre and
+Belluno, and later of Padua, was his grandson. The work is dedicated to
+Pius II. in honor of his recent elevation to the papal throne, and since
+this is evidently the dedication copy, the accession of Enea Silvio
+Piccolomini in August, 1458, fixes approximately the date of the MS. In
+April, 1460, Jacopo Zeno was translated to the see of Padua.
+
+The execution and the decoration of the MS. are in keeping with its
+special use. The gratulatory preface occupying ten pages is introduced
+by the following heading in letters of burnished gold:
+
+IN LIBROS VIT� MORVM RERVMQ: GESTARVM CAROLI ZENI VENETI. AD PIVM
+SECVNDVM PONTIFICEM MAXIMVM. IACOBI FELTRENSIS ET BELLVNENSIS
+ANTISTITIS PRAEFATIO: [G]LORIOSA.... The ornamentation of the ten-line
+illuminated initial G is of the interlaced style, and a border of
+similar pattern surrounds the entire page, enclosing on the front margin
+vignettes--a vase, two rabbits and a stork--and at the foot the
+Piccolomini arms, supported by kneeling angels and surmounted by the
+papal keys and tiara. Each of the ten books has a heading in burnished
+gold in which the dedication to Pius II. is repeated, and an initial of
+like character to that of the preface, with a marginal ornament. The
+occasional marginal subject-headings and the book-number at the top of
+each leaf are likewise in gold.
+
+The Latin text has thus far been printed only in Muratori's Rerum
+Italicarum Scriptores (of which a new edition is now in progress), vol.
+xix, Milan, 1731, from a MS. then, and still, preserved in the library
+of the Episcopal Seminary at Padua. This MS., the only one which he was
+able to discover, Muratori describes in the following language: "Codex
+autem Patavinus quamquam pervetustus a non satis docto Librario
+profectus est ac proinde occurrunt ibi quaedam parum castigata, quaedam
+etiam plane vitiata. Mutilus praeterea est in fine, ubi non multa quidem
+sed tamen aliqua desiderantur." Muratori's text breaks off in the middle
+of a sentence at the end of the nineteenth (i.e. the last full) quire of
+our MS., and accordingly lacks only the seventeen lines contained on the
+next leaf, which is the last. If, as seems quite possible, the quiring
+of the two MSS. is the same, the loss of the single unprotected leaf at
+the end is the more readily explained.
+
+In 1591 there was published at Bergamo an abridged Italian version, made
+from an illuminated MS. which had once belonged to the famous library of
+Matthias Corvinus, but was then in the possession of Caterino Zeno,
+governor of Bergamo. It had been among the spoils carried to
+Constantinople after the capture of Buda by the Turks in 1526. There,
+seven years later, it had been bought and carried back to Italy by
+Caterino's father, the younger Nicolo, who, in 1558, first gave to the
+world the narrative of his ancestors' voyages. For no better reasons
+than that the Paduan MS. also was illuminated in gold and colors, and
+that it had been bought twenty-five years before (c. 1700) in Venice
+where this branch of the Zeno family had become extinct, Muratori was
+inclined to identify it with the Corvinus MS. The relations between Pius
+II. and the king of Hungary, who was his ally in the proposed crusade
+against the Turks upon which he was just embarking when overtaken by
+death, and to whom the 48,000 ducats which he left behind him were sent
+in aid of the prosecution of war, suggest another possibility. It may be
+safely assumed that between the present MS., given only an opportunity
+to acquire it, and any other copy the king's choice could not have
+hesitated.
+
+The MS. is in 18th-century Italian binding, red morocco, gilt edges.
+Sold with other MSS. from the library of the Trivulzio family of Milan
+at Leavitt's auction, New York City, November, 1886.
+
+
+2. LIVIUS, TITUS. Historiarum Romanarum libri I-X. Late 15th century.
+
+Vellum. 336 leaves, the last blank. 34 quires all having ten leaves,
+except the 17th and 34th which have eight each. 31 lines to the page;
+catchword placed at right angles with the last line of the quire; ruled
+on both sides with plummet. Leaf 14-1/2 � 10 in., text-page 9 � 6 in.
+
+Written in very regular, bold Italian minuscules of the period of the
+Renaissance.
+
+The first page of the preface is surrounded by an illuminated border in
+gold and colors in the Renaissance style of ornament, into which are
+introduced the Caraccioli arms belonging to the distinguished Neapolitan
+family of that name. The initial F on this page is historiated with a
+view of Rome, and each of the ten books has an eight-line initial of
+dull gold on a background of red, blue and green, with marginal
+ornamentation.
+
+From the close agreement, even in punctuation, between this MS. and the
+edition printed at Milan in 1495 by Ulrich Scinzenzeler for Alexander
+Minutianus, and from other features which forbid the supposition that
+one is taken directly from the other, we must conclude that they both
+reproduce a common ancestor.
+
+This MS. of the first Decade of Livy is in unusually fine preservation,
+and is bound in russia extra, with broad borders of gold and gilt
+marbled edges.
+
+Brought from Palermo by Dr. Anthony Askew (1722-1772), it was sold with
+his collection of MSS. in 1785. Michael Wodhull, Esq., of Thenford,
+Northamptonshire, who gave seven guineas for the volume at "White's
+sale" in March, 1798, added to his customary entry of these details on
+the fly-leaf this note: "This appears to be the very Book which I saw
+Sir W. Burrell purchase at Dr. Askew's manuscript Auction (No. 482) for
+thirty-two guineas; in Sir W. Burrell's Auction, May, 1796, it is said
+to have gone for about five (No. 657). The note in _Bib. Askev.
+manuscripta_ is: 'Ex Panormo in Sicilia hunc cod. adduxit secum Cl.
+Askevius.' & '300 annor. MSS. longe pulcherrimus.'"
+
+At the sale of the Wodhull library in January, 1886, the Livy MS. and
+the greater part of the 15th-century books hereinafter described were
+acquired by the donor of the collection, William Loring Andrews, M.A.,
+of New York City.
+
+
+
+
+PRINTED BOOKS
+
+
+1. BIBLIA LATINA. Moguntiae, Johannes Fust et Petrus Schoeffer, 14
+    August, 1462.
+
+[Folio. 481 leaves, 2 columns, 48 lines to the column, gothic letter,
+without signatures, catchwords or pagination.]
+
+Leaves 204, 205 containing Judith xiv. 17--Esther iv. 4.
+
+     _Fol. 204^b, col. 1_ (red): expl_icit_ liber iudith secundu_m_
+     ieronimu_m_. Incipit p_r_ologus in libru_m_ hester. _Col. 2_ (red):
+     Explicit p_r_olog_us_. Incip. liber hester. Hain *3050. Pellechet
+     2281. Copinger 4. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 22. Burger pl. 74.
+     De Ricci 79.
+
+Five-line initial of prologue and fourteen-line initial I of Esther i. 1
+supplied in colors. Heading of leaf in alternate red and blue capitals.
+Initial-strokes in red on text capitals. Measurement 16-1/4 � 11-1/2 in.
+
+The fourth printed Bible, and the first in which place, printers' names
+and date are given. These details, which are wanting in so many of the
+books of the early printers, Fust and Schoeffer--and Schoeffer when he
+carried on the business alone--rarely failed to add to anything large
+enough to be called a book that came from their press. This is their
+fifth book and the colophon attached to the first, the famous Psalter of
+1457, was repeated in them all, with no essential change beyond the
+date, and continued to do duty for ten years longer. In the present
+Bible among the typographical differences found in the copies are three
+varieties of the colophon, two of which however are identical in
+language and differ only in the printers' use of contractions and
+capitals. The more common of the forms affirms that: "This present work
+by the ingenious invention of printing or stamping letters without any
+scratching of the pen has been thus fashioned in the city of Mainz and
+to the worship of God has been diligently brought to completion by
+Johann Fust citizen and Peter Schoeffer clerk of the same diocese in the
+year of the Lord 1462, on the eve of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary."
+
+In Seymour de Ricci's "Catalogue raisonn� des premi�res impressions de
+Mayence (1445-1467)," Mainz, 1911, 61 known copies of this Bible, 36 of
+them on vellum, are enumerated and 41 copies which cannot now be traced.
+The fragment in our possession is entered (No. 115) as one leaf only,
+instead of two.
+
+The second dated Bible, the eleventh in the series of printed Bibles,
+was that of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471; the third was a reprint
+by Schoeffer in 1472 of the present edition, page for page, line for
+line and in the same type.
+
+
+2. JUSTINIANUS. Novellae constitutiones, sive Authenticum. Consuetudines
+    feudorum. Codicis libri X-XII. Moguntiae, Petrus Schoeffer, 21
+    August, 1477.
+
+_Fol. 1^a._ [Text (red)]: In no_m_i_n_e d_omi_ni n_ost_ri ih_es_u
+chr_ist_i. de heredib_us_ et falcidia _con_st_ituti_o prima si heres
+legata soluere noluerit Incipit co_n_stitutio Imp_er_atoris Iustiniani.
+a. Ioha_n_ni p_a_pe secu_n_do. [Commentary]: [I]N nomine d_omi_ni.
+Iustinianus opus suu_m_ laudabile deo attribuit. _Fol. 169^b._ Explicit
+liber aute_n_ticor_um_. _Fol. 170^a._ [Text (red)]: Incipiu_n_t
+_con_suetudines feudor_um_. _Fol. 206^a._ [Text (red)]: Codicis d_omi_ni
+iustiniani sacratissimi principis perpetui augusti repetite
+p_re_lectionis incipit liber decimus. _Fol. 300^b_, COLOPHON (red): Anno
+incarnac_i_o_n_is d_omi_nice .M.cccc.lxxvii. xii. kale_n_dis septembrijs!
+Sanctissimo in chr_ist_o patre ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Sixto p_a_pa .iiii.
+po_n_tifice maximo. Illustrissimo noblissime domus austrie d_omi_no,
+d_omi_no Friderico Romanorum Imp_er_atore inuictissimo, monarchie
+chr_is_tiane d_omi_nis! Reuerendissimo deoq_ue_ amabili in Chr_ist_o
+p_at_re ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Diethero archip_re_sule Maguntino; in
+ciuitate Maguncia impressorie artis inue_n_trice atq_ue_ elimatrice
+p_ri_ma .x. collac_i_onu_m_ triu_m_q_ue_ libroru_m_ Codicu_m_ opus
+egregiu_m_, Petrus Schoiffer de Gernsheim, glorioso faue_n_te deo suis
+consignando scutis, feliciter finiuit. [PRINTER'S DEVICE in red.]
+
+     Folio. 1. Novellae: quires [1^{10}, 2^8, 3-6^{10}, 7-8^6, 9^{10},
+     10^8, 11-12^{10}, 13^8, 14^{10}, 15^8, 16^6, 17-18^{10}, 19^{10-1}
+     (the blank second leaf cut away)], 169 leaves. 2. Consuetudines
+     feudorum: quires [1-3^{10}, 4^6], 36 leaves. 3. Codicis libri
+     X-XII: quires [1^8, 2^{10}, 3-5^8, 6^{10}, 7^8, 8^4, 9-10^{10},
+     11^{10+1} (the additional leaf prefixed)], 95 leaves. In all 300
+     leaves, two columns of text and two of commentary, 51 lines of text
+     and 66 of commentary to the column, gothic letter, without printed
+     signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line spaces, some
+     with guide-letters, left for capitals. Two pinholes, the use of
+     which Schoeffer was thought to have abandoned a little earlier than
+     the date of this volume. Titles and colophon printed in red. The
+     text type is that of the Bible of 1462. Hain *9623. Brit. Mus. 15th
+     cent., I, p. 33 (IC. 217).
+
+The first page of each of the three works is ornamented with a floral
+scroll border in colors. At the head of the several books are thirteen
+initials in gold and colors. Chapter initials in alternate red and blue;
+initial-strokes in red in both text and commentary.
+
+The present volume agrees in contents with the fifth and last volume of
+the Corpus juris as it is found arranged in the medieval MSS., except
+for the omission of the Institutiones, already sufficiently accessible
+in separate editions, of which no less than fifty were printed in the
+15th century, the first of them by Schoeffer himself in 1468. The first
+three volumes of the Corpus were occupied by the Digests, the fourth by
+the Codex lib. i-ix. The last three books of the Codex relate mainly to
+public law and having lost much of their importance were transferred to
+the fifth volume.
+
+That the order of the three parts in the present copy, viz. 1. Novellae,
+2. Consuetudines, 3. Codex lib. x-xii, is that intended by the printer,
+is clear both from the position and from the language of the
+colophon--the position because the colophon is attached to the Codex,
+and the language because it describes the volume as consisting of "the
+ten Collations and the three books of the Codes." The Novellae were
+usually divided by the commentators into nine Collations, perhaps, as
+Savigny suggests, to parallel the first nine books of the Codex.
+Sometimes, however, as in the present case, the Consuetudines feudorum
+were joined with them and reckoned as a tenth collation. Notwithstanding
+these plain indications, in the copy described by Hain *9623, and in the
+British Museum copy (as at present, though not as originally, bound),
+the Codex x-xii is placed between the Novellae and the Consuetudines,
+thus removing the colophon from its natural place at the end of the
+volume. In the first edition of these works, printed by Vitus Puecher,
+Rome, 1476, they were placed in the order last named, but the colophon
+was there attached to the Consuetudines.
+
+After the death of his father-in-law and partner Fust, late in 1466 or
+early in 1467, Schoeffer conducted the press alone until his death in
+1502. After 1478, however, his activity as a printer was much
+diminished.
+
+The present large and fine copy (leaf 15-3/4 � 11-1/4 in.), with the
+manuscript signatures still in part preserved, is from the library of
+Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831) of Syston Park, Lincolnshire, sold
+in December, 1884. In the Meerman sale at the Hague, 1824, this same
+copy, bound as at present in russia gilt, sold for 64 florins.
+
+
+3. ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. Etymologiarum libri XX. [Strassburg, Johann
+    Mentelin, c. 1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: INCIPIT EPISTOLA ISIDORI IVNIORIS
+HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI AD BRAVLIONEM CESARAVGVSTANVM EPISCOPVM. [Three
+other letters to the same and two replies; tabula generalis.] _Fol. 3^b,
+col. 2_: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA PRIMI LIBRI. INCIPIT LIBER PRIMVS
+ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI. DE DISCIPLINA ET ARTE.
+_Fol. 27^b, col. 1_: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. _Fol. 27^b, col.
+2_: PREFACIO. [D]Omino et filio syseputo ysidor_us_..... INCIPIT LIBER
+YSIDORI DE RERVM NATVRA AD SISEPVTVM REGEM. _Fol. 37^a, col. 2_:
+INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. INCIPIT LIBER QVARTVS DE MEDICINA.
+_Fol. 142^a_, COLOPHON: EXPLICIT LIBER ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI
+HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI.
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-13^{10}, 14^{12}], 142 leaves, the first blank, 2
+     columns, 51 lines to the column, without signatures, catchwords,
+     pagination, printer's name, place or date. Gothic lower-case type,
+     roman capitals. Book and chapter headings printed wholly in
+     majuscules. Large woodcut diagrams. Three-to nine-line spaces left
+     for chapter and book initials, also spaces for occasional Greek
+     words (mostly left unsupplied) and for small diagrams. Two
+     pinholes, which in Mentelin's use point to a date not later than
+     1473. Hain *9270. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 57 (IC. 586). Burger
+     pl. 170.
+
+On the first page large illuminated initial with floral border ornament,
+and similar initials at the head of the several books. Chapter initials
+supplied in red or blue; initial-strokes in red throughout the volume.
+Blank first leaf wanting.
+
+Incorporated with the present edition of the Etymologiae by way of
+supplement, though not named in the table of contents, is an earlier
+treatise of Isidore's entitled _De natura rerum_, written at the request
+of Sisebut, king of the Visigoths, 612-621, and dedicated to him. It
+contains the sum of the physical philosophy of his time, and, being
+largely astronomical, is sometimes found in the MSS. under the title
+_Liber de astronomia_. In order to bring it into immediate connection
+with the corresponding section of the Etymologiae, it is placed
+immediately after the third book (devoted to the _quadrivium_, the last
+division of which is astronomy) and given irregularly the heading "Liber
+quartus," the regular _Liber quartus (De medicina)_ beginning twenty
+pages later. Two of the 48 chapters of which it is composed are wanting
+here, but by the subdivision of other chapters the number is raised to
+58. Zainer of Augsburg, the printer of the first edition of the
+Etymologiae, dated 19 November, 1472, followed it the next month with an
+edition of _De responsione mundi et astrorum ordinatione ad Sesibutum
+regem_, which is the work in question under another title. Printed with
+the same type and the same number of lines to the page, it was in effect
+treated as a supplement to the Etymologiae.
+
+According to the testimony of a fellow printer, de Lignamine, in the
+"Chronica summorum Pontificum," Rome, 1474, Mentelin as early as 1458
+was printing at Strassburg 300 sheets a day. The third Latin Bible
+(1460-1461) and the first German Bible came from his press, but the
+first work to which he affixed his name and a date was the _Speculum
+historiale_ of Vincent of Beauvais in 1473. He died in 1478.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at "Hayes's sale" in 1794 for �5.5s., and bound
+in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, by Mrs. Weir for �1.2s. Leaf
+15-3/4 � 11 in.
+
+
+4. GESTA ROMANORUM. [Cologne, Ulrich Zell, c. 1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Ex gestis romanor_um_ hystorie no_ta_biles:
+de vitijs v_ir_tutibusq_ue_ tracta_n_tes: cu_m_ applicac_i_onib_us_
+moralizatis et misticis: Incipiunt feliciter. _Fol. 160^b, col. 1_,
+COLOPHON: Ex gestis ro_ma_no_rum_ cu_m_ plurib_u_s applicatis historijs:
+de v_ir_tutib_us_ et vitijs mistice ad intellectum tra_n_ssum_p_tis
+Recollectorij finis est feliciter. LAVS. DEO. _Fol. 160^b, col. 2_:
+Incipiu_n_t tituli numerorum om_n_i_u_m capitulo_rum_ et exemplo_rum_.
+_Fol. 163^a_: Tabula o_mn_i_u_m exe_m_plo_rum_ _et_ capitulo_rum_
+op_er_is pr�cedentis. sec_un_d_u_m ordine_m_ alphabeti. _Fol. 170^a_:
+Explicit tabula. _Fol. 170^b, blank._
+
+     Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2
+     columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures,
+     catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to
+     five-line spaces left for capitals. One pinhole in side margin,
+     others possibly cut away in binding. Hain 7734, Pellechet 5247.
+     Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 196 (IB. 2994).
+
+On fol. 2^a and 163^a five-line initials in blue with graceful pen
+decoration in red. Initials of chapters and morals supplied in alternate
+red and blue. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red; headings
+underlined in red. Blank first leaf wanting.
+
+This edition of the Gesta contains 181 chapters and appears to have been
+preceded only by another undated edition printed at Utrecht by Ketelaer
+and Leempt, in long lines, with 152 chapters and no index.
+
+Ulrich Zell was the first printer of Cologne. His first dated book was
+issued in 1466 and he continued to print quite up to the close of the
+fifteenth century. Nearly all his books are, like the present, without
+place, date or printer's name. Of the 177 books which he is known to
+have printed, the British Museum possesses 123.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bound in russia, gilt edges. Leaf 10-3/4 � 7-1/2 in.
+Mem. on fly-leaf: "Pateson's Auction. �5.5s; washing, cleaning, mending
+and binding by Roger Payne �1.2s.6d. M. Wodhull, May 25th, 1786."
+
+
+5. GREGORIUS I. Homili� XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, G�nther Zainer.]
+    28 August, 1473.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Ordo .xl. omeliaru_m_ beati gregorij pape ad secundinu_m_
+episcopum Thauronitaru_m_. _Fol. 1^b_: SEQVITVR EPISTOLA
+[R]Euerendissimo et sa_n_ctissimo frati secundino coepiscopo.
+Gregori_us_ seruus seruoru_m_ dei. _Fol. 2^a_: EXPLICIT EPISTOLA INCIPIT
+EWANGELIVM. S. LVCAM.... Omelia prima beati Gregorij pape. _Fol. 141^b_,
+COLOPHON: Adeptus est finis amba_rum_ parciu_m_ omelia_rum_ beatissimi
+gregorii pape vrbis rome jn die s_an_cti hermetis sub Anno d_omi_ni M
+cccc lxxiij. _Fol. 142^a_: _Table of the homilies in the order of the
+liturgical year._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-13^{10}, 14^{12}], 142 leaves, 33 lines to the
+     page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
+     place or printer's name. Two- and three-line spaces left for
+     capitals, which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and
+     initial-strokes in red. Hain *7948, Pellechet 5366. Brit. Mus. 15th
+     cent., II, p. 319 (IB. 5457).
+
+Gregory's Homilies, of which this is the first edition, and the three
+next following works bound with it, are from the press of G�nther
+Zainer, of Reutlingen, the first printer of Augsburg. All are in the
+same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by
+the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently
+printed at about the same time. He was the first printer in Germany to
+make use of roman type, of which the earliest example seems to have been
+his "Calendarium pro anno 1472." He died in 1478, ten years after the
+appearance of his first dated book.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt. Leaf 12 � 8-1/4
+in. Mem. on fly-leaf: "Payne's sale. �2.12.6, binding and restoring
+17s.6d. These four pieces were taken out of old monastic binding. M.
+Wodhull, Jan. 5th, 1795."
+
+
+6. PSALTERIUM LATINUM. [Augsburg, G�nther Zainer, c. 1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Prologus beati jeronimi p_re_sbiteri in psalteriu_m_ q_uo_d
+ipse de hebraico transtulit in latinu_m_ [E]Vsebius jeronim_us_
+soffronio suo salutem. _Fol. 1^b_: Explicit p_ro_logus beati jeronimi.
+Incipit psalterium Psalmos dauid primus. _Fol. 51^a_: Canticu_m_ Ysaie
+capitulo lxxij (_sic_), _followed by cantica of Hezekiah, Hannah, Moses
+(2), Habakkuk_. _Fol. 54^a_, COLOPHON: Explicit tra_ns_lacio
+soli_lo_q_ui_oru_m_ siue psalterij beatissimi Ieronimi eusebii
+p_resbiteri_ q_uo_d ad peti_ci_one_m_ soffronij tra_n_stulit ut in
+ep_isto_la_m_ ante psalteriu_m_ imp_re_ssa p_rae_mittit_ur_ _etc._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-5^{10}, 6^4], 54 leaves, 33 lines to the page,
+     gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place,
+     printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for initials,
+     which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in
+     red. Hain *13470. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5560).
+
+Jerome's final translations of the Old Testament books direct from the
+Hebrew were all adopted into the received Latin version, the Vulgate,
+except this of the Psalms. Here his earlier revision of the old Italic
+version on the basis of the Septuagint had become so firmly established
+in liturgical use that the translation from the Hebrew, though more
+exact, could not displace it. This appears to be the first printed
+edition.
+
+Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homili�.
+
+
+7. MODUS PERVENIENDI AD SUMMAM SAPIENTIAM. [Augsburg, G�nther Zainer, c.
+    1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: [S]Entite de do_m_ino in bo_n_itate e_t_ in simplicitate
+cordis q_uae_rite illu_m_. _Fol. 2^a_: Explicit prologus Incipit modus
+ad summam p_er_veniendi sapienciam. _Fol. 24^a, l. 33_, END: sibi sparso
+diuinit_us_ in ip_sum_ ardentissime se extendit _etc._ _Fol. 24^b,
+blank._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-2^{10}, 3^4], 24 leaves, 33 lines to the page,
+     gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination, place,
+     printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for capitals,
+     which are supplied in red. Initial-strokes in red. Hain *11490.
+     Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5531).
+
+Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.
+
+
+8. HUGO de SANCTO VICTORE. Soliloquium de arrha animae. [Augsburg,
+    G�nther Zainer.] 12 October, 1473.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Incipit soliloquium beatissimi Augustini episcopi yponensi
+(_sic_) de arra anime. _Fol. 7^b_, END: Rapt_us_ est finis hui_us_
+tractat_us_ August_in_i de arra ani_m_e. feria t_er_cia post festu_m_
+s_an_cti Dyonisy Anno d_omi_ni lxxiij _etc._ _Fol. 8, blank._
+
+     Folio. 8 leaves, the last blank, 33 lines to the page, gothic
+     letter, without place or printer's name. Three-line space for first
+     initial and initial-strokes supplied in red. Blank last leaf
+     wanting. Hain *2021. Pellechet 1525. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., p. 319
+     (IB. 5451).
+
+The author of the work here directly ascribed to St. Augustine was the
+mystic theologian Hugo de Sancto Victore (1097-1140), member of the
+Canons Regular of St. Augustine and head of the abbey school of St.
+Victor, near Paris. From his familiarity with the writings of Augustine
+and likeness to his spirit, he was styled _Alter Augustinus_, a title
+which furnishes a plausible but not wholly satisfactory explanation of
+the confusion in the present case. For among the spurious writings which
+have been put under Augustine's name more than one has been borrowed
+from this author. For example, chapters 5-10 of the _Liber de diligendo
+Deo_ are taken almost word for word from the present treatise.
+
+In the present edition of this soliloquy cast in the form of a dialogue
+the interlocutors are _Augustinus_ and _Anima_ (both names always
+printed in capitals); in a Strassburg edition of about the same date,
+_Hugo_ and _anima sua_; in the collected edition of Hugo's works, _homo_
+and _anima_.
+
+Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.
+
+
+9. CARACCIOLUS, ROBERTUS, de Licio. Opus quadragesimale quod de
+    poenitentia dictum est. Venetiis, Wendelinus de Spira, 20 July, 1472.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Hec est tabula omniu_m_ sermonu_m_
+contentorum hoc in uolumine. _Fol. 3^a_: Sacre theologie magistri necnon
+sacri eloquij preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis
+Minor_um_ professoris op_us_ quadragesimale p_er_utilissimum quod de
+penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit. _Fol. 267^a_, COLOPHON:
+
+    Vendelinus ego gentis _co_gnomine spiere!
+    Roberti haec caste purgata uolumi_n_a pressi!
+    Sedis apostolice Romano praeside Sixto
+    Magnanimo _et_ uenetum Nicolao pr_in_cipe Truno
+         M.cccclxxij.xx.quintilis.
+
+_Fol. 267^b, 268, blank._ _Fol. 269^a_: Sermo i_n_ festo
+a_n_nu_n_tiat_i_o_n_is u_ir_ginis marie _et_ eiusdem Roberti cum tribus
+(_sic_) aliis sermonib_us_ seque_n_tib_us_. s. de p_re_destinato
+nume_ro_ damnator_um_ _et_ de cathenis. _Fol. 289^b_: Finis triu_m_
+sermonu_m_ Fratris Roberti... _Fol. 290, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-7^{10}, 8^{12}, 9-11^{10}, 12^8, 13-15^{10},
+     16^8, 17-27^{10}, 28-30^6, 31^4], 290 leaves, 1, 268, 290 blank, 40
+     lines to the page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords
+     or pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left
+     for initials. Two pinholes on side. Initials and paragraph-marks
+     supplied in red. Blank leaf 268 wanting. Hain-Copinger 4424.
+     Pellechet 3244. Proctor 3524.
+
+Wendelin of Speier succeeded in 1470 to the press established in 1469 by
+his brother John, the first printer of Venice, who lived to complete
+only four books. Gothic type was introduced into Italy by Wendelin.
+
+Roberto Caraccioli, born at Lecce in 1425, was bishop of his native city
+from 1484 to 1495. The great reputation which these sermons enjoyed is
+attested by the fact that four editions, three of them printed in
+Venice, appeared in 1472, and four more in 1473, one of which was
+Wendelin's second edition, an exact reprint of the present.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at the sale of the library of Samuel Tyssen, in
+1801, for �1.1s., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a
+further cost of 19 shillings. Leaf 10-1/8 � 7-1/2 in.
+
+
+10. VALLA, LAURENTIUS. Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Venetiis, Nicolaus
+    Jenson, 1471.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS ELega_n_tia_rum_ co_m_pendios�
+collectio_n_is in ordinem alphabeti direct� principium. _Fol. 9^a,
+blank._ _Fol. 9^b_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS VIRI CLARISSIMI ET DE LINGVA
+LATINA BENE MERENTIS AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM: CVI OPUS
+ELEGANTIARVM LINGVAE LATINAE DEDICAT EPISTOLA. _Fol. 11^a_: LAVRENTII
+VALLENSIS PATRICII ROMANI COMMENTARIORVM GRAMMATICORVM SECVNDVM
+ELEGANTIAM LINGVAE LATINAE LIBER PRIMVS DE NOMINE VERBOQVE. ET EX HIS
+DVOBVS COMPOSITO PARTICIPIO INCTPIT PROOEMIVM. _Fol. 159^b_: LAVRENTII
+VALLENSIS DE LANGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA TERTIVS LIBER FINIT: INCIPIT
+IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS. [_For_ TERTIVS _read_ QVINTUS;
+_for_ IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS _read_ VI. DE NOTIS
+SCRIPTORVM.] _Fol. 190^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE
+ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM LIBER
+INCIPIT. _Fol. 200^b_, COLOPHON: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE
+ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM PER
+ME M. NICOLAVM IENSON VENETIIS OPVS FELICITER IMPRESSVM EST. M.CCCCLXXI.
+_Fol. 201, 202, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1^8, 2^{12}, 3-4^{10}, 5^{12}, 6-7^{10}, 8^{12},
+     9^{14}, 10-11^{10}, 12^{12}, 13^8, 14^6, 15-19^{10}, 20^8], 202
+     leaves, the last two blank, roman letter, 39 lines to the page,
+     without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line
+     spaces left for capitals and spaces also for Greek words, to be
+     supplied in manuscript. Two pinholes on side. The type is Jenson's
+     first font. Hain 15802. Proctor 4071.
+
+At the head of the first page is a large initial of the interlaced vine
+pattern in gold and colors, with a border of the same pattern enclosing
+the entire page. The remaining five books, the prefatory epistle and the
+supplement _De ego, mei et sui_ are introduced by initials of the same
+size and style. Alternate red and blue capitals at the head of chapters,
+paragraph-marks also in red and blue.
+
+A few of the spaces left for Greek words are filled in manuscript, but
+more are left vacant. When Jenson later in the same year printed
+Cicero's Letters, he was provided with Greek type. The blank fol. 9^a is
+occupied by a transcript in an early hand of the greater part of lib. i,
+cap. iv (_De ficu_), from a MS. the readings of which differ materially
+from the printed text.
+
+For the purposes of the index the six books have been divided into a
+continuous series of 479 chapters, designated in the margins of the text
+by manuscript roman numerals, but in the index by printed numerals. The
+references are not, as in later editions, to book and chapter, but to
+chapters only. The index, alphabetized by the first letter of the word
+only, printed on different paper and forming a separate quire, is here
+placed at the beginning of the volume; but traces of earlier manuscript
+signatures still remaining, bear witness to a former order in which the
+text preceded the index, as is still the case in some copies of this
+edition.
+
+Most of Jenson's early books were folios. But notwithstanding the size
+of the leaf (13 � 8 in.), this is a quarto, as both the direction of the
+chain-lines and the position of the water-mark prove. However, because
+of the limitations of the early presses, it was doubtless printed on
+half-sheets, folio-wise, two pages at most at one impression.
+
+Of the twenty-four 15th-century editions of the _Elegantiae_ the three
+earliest, one of which was Jenson's, were printed in 1471.
+
+Although the tradition that Nicolas Jenson, master of the mint at Tours,
+was sent by Charles VII. in 1458 to Mainz to learn the secrets of the
+newly discovered art of printing is otherwise unsupported and, in view
+of the manner in which the invention was afterwards carried to France as
+well as to other countries by private initiative, improbable, he was
+already a master of the art, wherever and however acquired, when he
+established in 1470 the press which held the leading place at Venice
+until his death in 1480.
+
+The present exceptionally fine copy of the _Elegantiae_, bound in citron
+morocco, with gold borders and gilt edges, is the Wodhull copy, bought
+in 1786 of Payne for �10.10s.
+
+
+11. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C. Naturalis historia. Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson,
+    1472.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: CAIVS PLYNIVS MARCO SVO SALVTEM. _Fol.
+4^a_: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .I. CAIVS PLYNIVS
+SECVNDVS NOVOCOMENSIS DOMITIANO SVO SALVTEM. PRAEFATIO. _Fol. 21^a_:
+CAII PLINII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .II. _Fol. 355^a_,
+COLOPHON: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBRI TRICESIMI
+SEPTIMI ET VLTIMI FINIS IMPRESSI VENETIIS PER NICOLAVM IENSON GALLICVM
+.M.CCCC.LXXII. NICOLAO TRONO INCLYTO VENETIARVM DVCE. _Followed by_:
+Iohannis andre� episcopi aleriensis ad pontificem summum Paulum secundum
+uenetum epistola. _Fol. 356^a_: Hereneus lugdunensis episcopus: item
+Iustinus ex philosopho martyr: item cum diuo Hieronymo Eusebius
+c�sariensis: serio posteritatem adiurarunt: ut eorum descripturi opera
+conferrent diligenter exemplaria: et sollerti studio emendarent. Idem
+ego tum in c�teris libris omnibus tum maxime i_n_ Plynio ut fiat;
+uehementer obsecro: obtestor: atq_ue_ adiuro: ne ad priora menda: _et_
+tenebras i_n_extricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabat_ur_. Instauratu_m_
+aliqua_n_tulu_m_ sub romano po_n_tifice maximo Paulo secu_n_do ueneto.
+_Fol. 356^b, blank._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1^{12}, 2^8, 3-8^{10}, 9^{12}, 10-15^{10}, 16^8,
+     17-27^{10}, 28^6, 29-30^{10}, 31-35^8, 36^{12}, 37^8], 356 leaves,
+     first blank, 50 lines to the page, roman letter, without
+     signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to twelve-line spaces
+     left for capitals, with guide-letters; also spaces for occasional
+     Greek words. Greek type sparingly used, oftener transliteration in
+     roman. Two pinholes. Hain *13089. Proctor 4087. Morgan Cat. II, p.
+     39, n. 297.
+
+The rubrication of the present copy is not only elaborate but also of
+unusual merit. The first of the twelve-line initials of the thirty-seven
+books is finely illuminated in gold and colors. The others, in the
+outlines of which grotesque features are occasionally introduced, are
+set off by skilful pen-work, harmonizing in general effect, but
+carefully avoiding repetition in details. The chapter initials also, a
+thousand or more in number, in alternate red and blue, or red and green,
+have much variety and grace. The initial L, for example, occurring
+twenty-eight times in the first book, is never repeated in the same form
+and color. The blank fol. 3^b is occupied by the name Jesus in very
+large and ornate characters, in different colors, surrounded by scroll
+and figure decoration. The Bagneri arms, included in the ornamentation
+of the first initial, point to an early ownership of the volume, and the
+arms of the Antella family of Florence at the foot of the first page, to
+a later ownership.
+
+The introductory epistle of the younger Pliny, describing his uncle's
+manner of life, was addressed to his friend Macer, who here becomes
+Marcus by the easy transposition of Macro to Marco. Less easily
+explained is the substitution in the dedication of Domitian for his
+brother Titus Vespasian, to whom Pliny dedicated the work.
+
+Two editions of the _Naturalis Historia_ preceded this, the first
+printed by John of Speier in 1469, with a five years' privilege from the
+Venetian senate, which expired at his death in 1470, the second by
+Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1470. With the first of these, Jenson's
+edition agrees in the number of pages and of lines to the page. From the
+second he reprinted the letter addressed by the editor Johannes Andreas,
+Bishop of Aleria, to his patron Pope Paul II., and the earnest appeal
+for care on the part of any who should reprint his Pliny, "_ne ad priora
+menda et tenebras inextricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabatur_." Fifteen
+more editions were printed before the close of the 15th century.
+Jenson's Pliny is generally regarded as the finest production of his
+press. The type is his first font.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought of Thomas Payne, book-seller, in 1791 for
+�12.12s., and bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on
+side, at the additional cost of �1. Leaf 15-1/4 � 10-1/4 in.
+
+
+12. NONIUS MARCELLUS. De compendiosa doctrina. Venetiis, Nicolaus
+    Jenson, 1476.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2-20, alphabetical index._ _Fol. 21, blank._
+_Fol. 22^a_: NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA
+DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM. _Fol. 194^a_, COLOPHON:
+NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIVM
+DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM IMPRESSA VENETIIS INDVSTRIA ATQVE IMPENDIO
+NICOLAI IENSON GALLICI. .M.CCCC.LXXVI. _Fol. 194^b, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-c^{10}, d-y^8, z^{12}, 194 leaves, 1 and 21 blank,
+     34 lines to the page, roman letter, without catchwords or
+     pagination. Seven- and eight-line spaces left for capitals, some
+     with guide-letters. The type is Jenson's first roman trimmed or
+     recast the second time on a slightly smaller body. Greek words as a
+     rule printed with Greek type, not transliterated. Hain 11901.
+     Proctor 4098.
+
+On the first page of text a large initial S in gold on a panel of color,
+with marginal decoration. Other large chapter initials in red and blue
+alternately. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. Blank
+first leaf wanting.
+
+The index, which occupies the first nineteen leaves, is alphabetized as
+far as the second letter of the word. The references are by roman
+numerals to the leaves (not pages) of the work, which themselves have
+only manuscript foliation in arabic figures.
+
+The first edition of Nonius was printed at Rome in 1470 by Lauer; the
+second, in 1471, was without place or name. Jenson's edition, which is
+the third, borrowed from both of these but added also something of
+value. The correct title, _De compendiosa doctrina_, first appears here.
+The usual title, _De proprietate sermonum_, belongs strictly to the
+first chapter. As in all the early editions, the third chapter is
+lacking, having been discovered later and first included in the 1513
+edition of Aldus. Jenson's Greek type long remained in favor for
+incidental use in Latin books after it had been displaced in Greek books
+by Aldine types.
+
+The Wodhull copy, "Payne's sale, �5.5s., January, 1792." Bound by Roger
+Payne in red morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 11 � 8 in.
+
+
+13. DULLAERT, JOHANNES, de Janduno or Gandavo. Quaestiones super tres
+    libros Aristotelis de anima. Venetiis, Franciscus de Hailbrun et
+    Nicolaus de Franckfordia socii, 1473.
+
+_Fol. 1^a, blank._ _1^b_: Tabula q_ue_stio_n_u_m_ d_omi_ni Joh_ann_is de
+Janduno sup_er_ tres libros de anima Aristotelis. _Fol. 2^a_: [I]Nest
+enim me_n_tib_us_ hominu_m_ Veri boni naturalis inserta cupiditas. _Fol.
+92^b_, COLOPHON: Expliciunt questiones d_omi_ni Joh_ann_is de Janduno
+sup_er_ tres libros de a_n_i_m_a Ar_istotelis_ i_m_presse Venetijs p_er_
+Franciscu_m_ de Hailbrun _et_ Nicolau_m_ de Franckfordia socios.
+M.CCCCLXXiii.
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-8^{10}, 9^{12}], 92 leaves, 2 columns, 71 lines to
+     the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or
+     pagination. Six- to twelve-line spaces left for capitals. Two
+     pinholes. Arabic figures used to the exclusion of roman numerals
+     not only in table of contents, but throughout the text to mark
+     subdivisions of the argument or individual books of a treatise.
+     Hain 7458. Burger pl. 99.
+
+On first page of text a twenty-four line initial illuminated in gold and
+colors, with border ornament. Book and chapter initials in alternate red
+and blue. Arabic numerals, which made their first appearance in printed
+books in 1470, were very sparingly used even at a considerably later
+date than 1473.
+
+The author, commonly known as Johannes de Gandavo (Ghent), of the early
+part of the 14th century, wrote commentaries also on other works of
+Aristotle. Of the present work five editions, of which this is the
+first, were printed at Venice in the 15th century.
+
+Franz Renner of Heilbronn conducted a press at Venice from 1471 to 1483,
+having as partner from 1473 to 1477 Nicolas of Frankfort. The present
+volume is printed in a small round-faced gothic type, the second of the
+nine fonts which he used.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at the Maffei Pinelli sale, London, 1789, for
+�1.13s. Bound in hf. vellum. Leaf 16-3/4 � 11-1/2 in.
+
+
+14. ARISTOTELES. Libri de animalibus interprete Theodoro Gaza. Venetiis,
+    Johannes de Colonia sociusque Johannes Manthen, 1476.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: THEODORI: GEAECI: THESSALONICENSIS:
+PRAEFATIO: IN LIBROS: DE ANIMALIBVS: ARISTOTELIS: PHILOSOPHI: AD XYSTVM:
+QVARTVM: MAXIMVM. _Fol. 7^b_: ARISTOTELIS: DE HISTORIA: ANIMALIVM: LIBER
+PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 131^a_: ARISTOTELIS DE PARTIBVS
+ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 184^a_: ARISTOTELIS DE
+GENERATIONE ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 250^b_,
+COLOPHON: Finiunt libri de animalibus Aristotelis interprete Theodoro
+Gaze. V. clarissimo: quos Ludouicus podocatharus Cyprius ex Archetypo
+ipsius Theodori fideliter _et_ dilige_n_ter auscultauit: _et_ formulis
+imprimi curauit Venetiis per Iohannem de Colonia sociu_m_q_ue_ eius
+Iohanne_m_ ma_n_the_n_ de Gherretze_m_. Anno domini .M.CCCC.LXXVI. _Fol.
+251^a_: Tabula cartarum secundum ordinem ponendarum. _Fol. 251^b, 252,
+blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-b^{10}, c-d^8, e^{10}, f^8, g^{10}, h^8, i^{10},
+     k^8, l-t^{10}, u^8, x^{10}, aa-dd^{10}, ee^8, ff^6. 252 leaves, the
+     first and the last blank, roman letter, 35 lines to the page,
+     without pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces left for initials,
+     with guide-letters. Hain *1699. Proctor 4312. Morgan Cat., II, p.
+     48, n. 313. Burger pl. 199.
+
+The border surrounding the first page of text, and eighteen initials of
+the several books, are illuminated in gold and colors. Chapter initials
+supplied in red and blue alternately.
+
+Printed signatures, which appear to have been first introduced by
+Zarotto of Milan in 1470, and a register of sheets, first used by John
+of Cologne in 1475, are both found in this volume. The register, which
+may give only the number of sheets in each of the quires, or the first
+word of each sheet of the quire, is here of the latter kind.
+Unfortunately two sheets escaped registration and the words are supplied
+in manuscript.
+
+Three separate treatises of Aristotle are contained in this volume:
+Historia de animalibus libri ix; De partibus animalium libri iv; De
+generatione animalium libri v.
+
+Theodore Gaza, the translator, was a learned Greek from Thessalonica,
+who took up his residence in Italy on the capture of his native city by
+the Turks. The translation was made at the instance of Nicolas V., who
+had invited him to Rome in 1450, but was first printed in the present
+edition (Venice, 1476) and dedicated in a flattering epistle of eleven
+pages to the reigning pope, Sixtus IV. The fifty scudi which the pope
+sent in acknowledgment of the dedication copy Gaza is said to have
+thrown in disgust into the Tiber. It is interesting to note in this
+connection that while the Venice editions of 1492 and 1498 retain the
+name of Sixtus IV. in the dedication, Aldus after having omitted the
+epistle altogether in his 1504 edition, in that of 1513 quietly
+substituted the name of Nicolas V., the earlier and worthier patron,
+without a word of change in the language of the dedication itself. Later
+editions have followed the example of Aldus.
+
+John of Cologne, established as a printer at Venice as early as 1471,
+was associated 1472-1473 with Wendelin of Speier, whose business and
+types he took over in 1474. He had as partner, 1474-1480, John Manthen,
+and in 1480, Nicolas Jenson. The type of the _Aristotle_ is a close
+imitation of the first font of John and Wendelin of Speier.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at the Pinelli sale for �2.12s.6d. Bound in hf.
+vellum. Leaf 12 � 8-1/4 in.
+
+
+15. UBERTINUS DE CASALI. Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu. Venetiis, Andreas
+    de Bonetis de Papia, 12 March, 1485.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: INCIPIT PROLOGVS IN LIBRVM QVI INTITVLATVR
+ARBOR VITE CRVCIFIXE IESV. ET DICITVR OPVS VBERTINI DE CASALI. QVI FVIT
+FRATER PROFESSVS ORDINIS MINORVM BEATI FRANCISCI. _Fol. 4^a, col. 2_:
+Explicit p_ri_mus p_ro_logus. Incipit secu_n_dus. _Fol. 5^a, col. 2_:
+Explicit p_ro_logus secundus. Incipit liber primus. _Fol. 248^b, col.
+2_, COLOPHON: Liber qui intitulatur Arbor uite crucifixe Iesu
+deuotissimi fratris Vbertini de Casali ordinis minoru_m_ felicit_er_
+explicit. Impressus Venetiis p_er_ Andrea_m_ de Bonettis de Papia. Anno
+.M.CCCC.LXXXV. Die.xii.Martii. Ioa_n_ne Mocenico inclyto principe
+regnante. _Fol. 249^a_: Tabula capitulo_rum_. _Fol. 249^b, col. 2_:
+Registrum. _Fol. 250, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-z^8, A^8, B^{12}, C-G^8, H^6. 250 leaves, 1, 204,
+     250 blank, 2 columns and head-line, 58 lines to the column, roman
+     letter. The head-lines give the subject, book and chapter numbers.
+     Eight-line spaces left for the initials of the five books and
+     three-line spaces, some with guide-letters, for the chapter
+     initials, both supplied in red. Blank first and last leaves
+     wanting. Hain *4551. Pellechet 3331. Proctor 4816.
+
+Bound in olive green morocco with gold borders and gilt edges.
+Book-stamp of J. Richard, D.M., on first and last leaf of text, and
+book-plate of another owner, Jules Frayssenet, of Fleurance, printed on
+full leaf inserted between the fly-leaves, front and back, and the text.
+Leaf 10-1/4 � 7-3/4 in.
+
+Andreas de Bonetis, of Pavia, printed at Venice from 1483 to 1487.
+
+
+16. ALBERTIS, LEO BAPTISTA DE. De amoris remedio. 1471.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: BATISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS PRAECLARVM IN
+AMORIS REMEDIO FELICITER INCIPIT. _Fol. 20^b_, COLOPHON: BAPTISTAE DE
+ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS IN AMORIS REMEDIO VTILISSIMVM FELICITER
+FINIT. .M.CCCC.LXXI.
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1^8, 2^{12}], 20 leaves, 25 lines to the page,
+     roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place or
+     printer's name. Two- to six-line spaces left for initials, but the
+     present copy is without rubrication. Hain *422. Panzer iii. 82, 69;
+     iv. 5, 16. Pellechet 268. Proctor 7346.
+
+Notwithstanding the Latin title, the work itself is wholly in Italian
+and both in the MSS. and in later printed editions is found also under
+the title _Deifira ossia del mal principiato amore_. A companion volume
+by the same author, with the Latin title _De amore liber_, and the
+Italian, _Ecatomfilea ossia del vero amore_, was printed the same year,
+in the same type, the same number of leaves and lines to the page. Still
+another work in the same type and form and apparently of the same date,
+entitled _Historieta amorosa fra Leonora de' Bardi e Hippolito
+Bondelmonti_, is attributed on good evidence to De Albertis. Copies of
+all three works, printed alike on vellum and bound together in one
+volume, formerly in the Mac-Carthy Collection (Catalogue, Paris, 1815,
+no. 3595), are now in the Biblioth�que Nationale (_V�lins_ 1964). In the
+present copy of _De amoris remedio_ the manuscript signatures _b_ and
+_c_, partly cut away, point to an earlier binding, in which the
+_Historieta_ consisting of only twelve leaves may possibly have formed
+the signature _a_.
+
+Panzer was disposed to identify the peculiar roman type of these volumes
+with that used by the fourth printer of Venice, Clemente of Padua,
+between whom and Zarotto of Milan, Hain was later in doubt. But Proctor
+was convinced that the small group of books to which these belong,
+nearly all of them connected in some way with Florence, were the
+productions of the first, so far unidentified, press of that city. The
+date they bear (1471) places them among the earliest books printed in
+the Italian language. Witness the following first editions: Petrarch's
+Canzoniere, 1470; Il Decamerone, 1471; La Divina Commedia, 1472.
+
+The present copy, bound in blue morocco, with the crest of the Marquis
+of Blandford on side, was sold in his (White Knights) sale in 1819 for
+�2. Leaf 9-1/4 � 6-3/4 in.
+
+From the Syston Park sale, December, 1884, with book-plate and the
+monogram (J.H.T.) of Sir John Hayford Thorold.
+
+
+17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabulae gr�ce. Vita et fabulae latine. Fabulae
+    selectae gr�ce et latine. [Milan], Bonus Accursius, c. 1480.
+
+_Part I._ _Fol. 1^a_: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo sapientissimo
+ducali qu�stori Iohanni Francisco turriano salutem plurimam dicit. _Fol.
+2^a_: [Greek: AIS�POU BIOS TOU MYTHOPOIOU MAXIM� T� PLANOUD�
+SYNGRAPHEIS]. _Fol. 33^a_: [Greek: AIS�POU MYTHOI]. _Fol. 70^a_: [Greek:
+Telos t�n tou Ais�pou Myth�n]. _Part II._ _Fol. 1^a_: Vita Aesopi
+fabulatoris clarissimi e gr�co latina p_er_ Rynucium facta ad
+Reuere_n_dissimu_m_ Patre_m_ Dominu_m_ Antonium tituli Sancti Chrysogoni
+Presbyteru_m_ Cardinalem _et_ primo prohoemium. _Fol. 32^b_: FINIS.
+_Fol. 33^a_: Argumentum fabula_rum_ Aesopi e gr�co i_n_ latinu_m_. _Fol.
+59^b_: Finis. Vita Aesopi per Rynucium thettalum traducta. Verum quoniam
+ab eo non nulla fueru_n_t praetetermissa (_sic_): fortassis q_ui_a
+gr�cus eius codex esset minus emendatus: Ego Bonus accursius Pisanus:
+eadem in ea omnia correxi; _et_ emendaui. _Fol. 60, blank._ _Part III._
+_Fol. 1^a, blank._ _Fol. 1^b_: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo ac
+sapientissimo ducali Qu�stori Iohanni francisco Turriano salutem
+plurimam dicit. _Fol. 2^a, col. 1_: [Greek: MYTHOI AIS�POU], _col. 2_:
+Fabulae Aesopi. _Fol. 38^a, col. 1_: [Greek: TELOS T�N TOU AIS�POU
+MYTH�N]. _Col. 2_: FINIS AESOPI FABVLARVM. Bonus Accursius pisanus
+impressit: qui non doctorum hominum sed rudium ac puerorum gratia hunc
+laborem suscepit.
+
+     Quarto. Pt. I, sign. [A-H^8, I^6] not printed, but stamped
+     irregularly on the extreme lower margin and partially cut away in
+     the binding, 70 leaves. Pt. II, sign, a-g^8, and four unsigned
+     leaves at the end, 60 leaves. Pt. III, sign. a-b^8, C-D^8, E^6, 38
+     leaves, the Greek text and the word-for-word Latin translation in
+     two parallel columns. Both the Greek and the Latin have 25 lines to
+     the page or column. Two- to five-line spaces for capitals, with
+     guide-letters, in both texts, but no rubrication. Two pinholes.
+     Hain *265+272. Pellechet 185+192. Proctor, Printing of Greek in the
+     15th cent., p. 60.
+
+This is the first printed edition of any of the Greek classics, and the
+third book printed entirely in Greek, or in Greek with a Latin
+translation; the first being the Grammar of Lascaris, Milan, 1476, and
+the second the Lexicon of Crastonus not later than 1478. All three were
+printed with the same font of Greek type made by, or under the
+supervision of, Demetrius Damilas, the son of Milanese parents settled
+in Crete. Bonus Accursius was rather the publisher than the actual
+printer, who in the case of the Lascaris was Dionysius Paravisinus, and
+in the case of the Crastonus and the Aesop, probably the brothers de
+Honate, who at that date were the possessors of the peculiar roman type
+used in the Latin translations. After the Aesop this particular font of
+Greek type next appeared in the first edition of Homer, printed at
+Florence in 1488 by Bartolommeo di Libri, and in three of his subsequent
+books, once at Rome early in the 16th century, after which it disappears
+altogether.
+
+In the present edition the Fabulae gr�ce number 147, the Fabulae latine
+100, the Fabulae selectae 62. The translator, Rinuccio d'Arezzo, who
+dedicates his work to Cardinal Antonio Cerdano, tells him in closing
+that he sends all that have come into his hands, though probably not all
+that Aesop wrote, since while they stand in alphabetical order, some
+letters are wanting and others have not their full quota. Not all copies
+have all the three parts, nor are they always bound in the same order.
+The present copy, though in all respects complete, is bound irregularly,
+as follows: 1. Fabulae selectae. 2. Fabulae gr�ce. 3. Vita Aesopi gr�ce.
+4. Vita et fabulae latine. On the verso of the last blank leaf is
+written in an early hand "olim fuit _Reverendissimi_ m_agistri_ georgii
+de casali."
+
+Mr. Wodhull paid "Edwards" for this copy, in 1799, �14.14s. Bound by
+Mrs. Weir in green morocco extra, gilt edges. Leaf 9 � 6 in.
+
+
+18. OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Metamorphoses. Parma, Andreas Portilia, 15
+    May, 1480.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank_, _2^a_: TABVLAE F[upturned A]BVLARVM (_sic_) OVIDII
+METAMORPHOSEOS. _Fol. 6^a_: Domitius Calderinus Veronensis. [D]E Ouidii
+uita nihil a nobis i_n_ hoc loco scribe_n_du_m_ _est_. _Fol. 7^a_: P.
+OVIDII NASONIS SVLMONENSIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 187^b_,
+COLOPHON: FINIS Impressum Parm� Opera Et Impensis Andre_�_ Portili_�_
+.M.CCCC.LXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani Illustrissimo
+Duce Regna_n_te F[oe]liciter. _Fol. 188, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a^6, b-q^8, r^{10}, s-y^8, z^6, &^6. 188 unnumbered
+     leaves, the first and last blank, 40 lines to the page, roman
+     letter. Three- to eight-line spaces, with guide-letters, left for
+     the initials of the fifteen books. Hain *12160.
+
+First initial of each book supplied in red; heading of each book and
+each fable underlined in red; initial-strokes in every verse and
+paragraph-marks in red. Without the last blank leaf.
+
+Andreas Portilia was the first printer at Parma, where his press was
+established in 1472 and continued, with two brief transfers to Bologna
+and Reggio, till 1486.
+
+Mr. Wodhull's copy, for which he paid, at the sale of Dr. Chauncy's
+library in 1790, �2. Bound in red morocco, with rich gold tooling on
+back and sides, and book-plate of Charles Chauncy, M.D. (1706-1777).
+Leaf 12 � 8 in.
+
+
+19. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De duobus amantibus. [Paris,
+    Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]
+
+_Fol. 1_: Aene� siluii po�t� laureati, in hystoria_m_ de duobus
+ama_n_tibus p_r_�fatio prima ad perq_uam_ generosum milite_m_ Casparem
+Slik f[oe]liciter incipit. _Fol. 2^b_: Aene� siluii in hystoria_m_ de
+duobus ama_n_tibus p_rae_fatio secunda ad Martinu_m_ Sozinu_m_,
+Senensem, iuris utriusque p_er_spicacissimum interpretem iocunde
+incipit. _Fol. 4^a_: Aene� siluii de duobus ama_n_tibus hystoria
+perq_uam_ iocunde incipit! _Fol. 44^b_: Vale. ex Vienna quinto nonas
+Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo quarto; COLOPHON:
+Aene_�_ Siluii po_�_te laureati de duobus ama_n_tibus eurialo _et_
+lucresia, finit f[oe]licit_er_. _Fol. 45, 46, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^6], 46 leaves, the last two blank, 23
+     lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords,
+     pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to six-line spaces
+     left for capitals. Claudin XIX. Pellechet 147. Hain 216.
+
+Large initial on first page supplied in blue and gold, with pen
+ornamentation in red and blue. Other capitals and the paragraph-marks in
+alternate red and blue. Last blank leaf wanting.
+
+This and the two next works of the present list bound with it were
+printed at the first Paris press, a private press set up in the Sorbonne
+in 1470 by Johann Heynlin, Prior, and Guillaume Fichet, Librarian, of
+the University, and maintained by them until April, 1473. During these
+three years twenty-two books were printed, all in the same roman type,
+copied from the _C�sar_ of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469. In only
+two of them are the actual printers, Friburger and his associates,
+named.
+
+To the twenty-eight 15th-century editions--not to speak of the
+translations--of this novel described by Hain, Copinger's Supplement
+adds half as many more. The present edition is perhaps the third.
+Claudin, who makes it the nineteenth in the list of the Sorbonne books,
+could trace but four copies. This makes a fifth.
+
+The three books from the Sorbonne press are bound in one volume, red
+morocco, gilt edges, with book-plate of Sir William Burrell. It passed
+from his possession some years before his death and was bought by
+Michael Wodhull at Payne's sale April 7, 1789, for �4.4s. The binder,
+possibly mistaking the date of the author's subscription (Vienna, 1444)
+for that of the printing, has placed it on the back of the volume. Leaf
+7-3/4 � 5-1/4 in.
+
+
+20. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De curialium miseria. [Paris,
+    Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Aene� Siluii po�t� laureati (cui _et_ pro pontificali
+dignitate Pio nomen est) in disputatione_m_ de curialiu_m_ miseria ad
+perspicacissimu_m_ iurisconsultu_m_ Iohanne_m_ Ech, serenissimi
+diuiq_ue_ principis, Alberti, c�saris inuictissimi! Alberti quoque
+austri� ducies inclyti consiliariu_m_ atq_ue_ oratore_m_ pr�facio
+f[oe]liciter incipit; _Fol. 34^a_: Vale uir (nisi ex curialibus unus
+esses) meo iudicio prudens; COLOPHON: Aene� Siluii de curialiu_m_
+miseria disputatio finem habet f[oe]licem; _Fol. 35, 36, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-3^{10}, 4^6], 36 leaves, the last two blank, 23
+     lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords,
+     pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- and six-line spaces
+     left for capitals. Claudin XX. Pellechet 132. Hain 198.
+
+First initial rubricated in the same style and by the same hand as in
+the _De duobus amantibus_. Other capitals and paragraph-marks in red and
+blue alternately. Initial-strokes in yellow. At the bottom of fol. 29^a
+a line accidentally dropped by the compositor is supplied in manuscript
+by a contemporary hand, viz., "non te uolunt. Quida_m_ uero pote_n_tes
+sunt! ac ex." Both the recto and the verso of the leaf have the full
+complement of 23 lines but there is a hiatus in the text. The copies in
+the Biblioth�que Nationale, and the Biblioth�que Mazarine, Paris, have
+the line supplied in manuscript in like manner, but instead of _uero_
+read _non_, which does not suit the context.
+
+According to Claudin this is the twentieth book printed at the Sorbonne
+press. To the five copies known to him this adds a sixth.
+
+Bound with No. 19. De duobus amantibus.
+
+
+21. PLATO. Epistolae. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin
+    Crantz, 1472.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Ad prudentem _et_ magnificum uirum Cosma_m_ de medicis
+florentinu_m_, Leonardi Aretini clarissimi oratoris, in ep_isto_las
+plato_n_is quas ex gr�cis latinas fecit! p_rae_fatio; _Fol. 52^a_,
+COLOPHON: FINIS.
+
+    Discite rectores diuinitus, ore platonis!
+    Quid uos, q_ui_d ciues reddat in urbe bonos;
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^8, 6^2, 7^2], 52 leaves, 23 lines to
+     the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
+     place, printer's name or date. Three- to five-line spaces left for
+     capitals. The first initial supplied in blue and red, other
+     capitals in blue and red alternately. Initial strokes in yellow.
+     Claudia XIV. Philippe VII. Crevenna 1523. Hain 13066.
+
+Leonardo Bruni, often called Leonardo Aretini from his birthplace
+Arezzo, translated five of the dialogues of Plato in addition to the
+letters.
+
+The first notice of this edition is found in the _Catalogue
+Bolongaro-Crevenna_ (Amst., 1789), where it is described as containing
+52 printed leaves. It appears from the price-list printed after the sale
+in 1790 that it had not been sold, but was "retenu, faute de commissions
+ou de concurrence," and was still obtainable at the price of 15 florins.
+No trace of it has since been found and Panzer and Hain were able only
+to copy the catalogue description. Philippe (1885) described Heynlin's
+copy, which is preserved in the library of the University of Basel, as
+consisting of one first blank leaf, forty-nine printed leaves and two
+blank leaves at the end. Claudin (1898), with a second copy discovered
+meantime in the Biblioth�que d'Angers at his command, finds one first
+blank and forty-nine printed leaves, and remarks that the two blank
+leaves placed by Philippe at the beginning [should be _end_] are only
+independent fly-leaves. Our copy has fifty-two printed leaves and no
+blanks and no occasion for them, since the printed leaves, of
+themselves, form complete quires. Claudin's collation, which gives both
+the quires and a register of the first words of each quire, shows that
+both his copies lack the sixth quire of our copy, composed like the
+seventh of only two leaves and beginning "_sibus interdixistis_." There
+is moreover still unexplained and not easily explainable in the
+descriptions of both the Basel and Angers copies the presence of a
+troublesome first blank leaf and the absence of another leaf of text, in
+addition to the lacking sixth quire. It follows that, at least until the
+Crevenna copy, which appears to have been in agreement with ours, comes
+to light again, this must remain the only complete copy known.
+
+Bound with Nos. 19 and 20, from the same press.
+
+
+22. MAGNI, JACOBUS [Jacques Le Grand]. Sophologium. Paris, Martin
+    Crantz, Ulric Gering and Michael Friburger, 1 June, 1477.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Sequitur tabula capituloru_m_ Sophologij.
+_Fol. 5^a_: Doctissimi atq_ue_ excellentissimi patris: sacraru_m_
+litteraru_m_ doctoris deuotissimi: fratris Iacobi magni: religionis
+fratru_m_ heremitaru_m_: sancti Augustini sophologiu_m_ incipit. Cuius
+p_ri_ncipalis intentio est inducere legentis animu_m_ ad sapientie
+amorem. _Fol. 218^a_: Jacobi Magni sophologium finit feliciter. _Fol.
+218^b_: Epigramma ad huius operis conspectore_m_ [five distichs.]
+COLOPHON: Anno do_mi_ni millesimo .cccc.lxxvij. die .i. mensis Iunij.
+Impressum fuit istud sophologium parisius p_er_ Martinu_m_ crantz.
+Vdalricu_m_ gering, et Michaele_m_ friburger.
+
+     Quarto. Sign. a-x^{10}, y^8, 218 leaves, the first blank, 32 lines
+     to the page, gothic lower-case type, roman capitals. Two- to
+     six-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. Hain 10478.
+
+Border ornamentation in color on fol. 5^a. Initials at the head of the
+first four of the ten books in dull gold and color; those of the
+remaining books in color only. Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in
+alternate red and blue. Blank first leaf wanting. The bottom line of
+fol. 116^b which had been accidentally moved across to the foot of fol.
+115^a (the companion page on the imposing stone) is supplied in
+manuscript where it was lacking and the misplaced line of print is
+canceled.
+
+On the discontinuance of the Sorbonne press in 1473, the printers,
+Crantz, Gering, and Friburger, moved into the neighboring Rue
+Saint-Jacques and set up a press, with new type, on their own account.
+An edition of the Sophologium had been one of the last books printed at
+the old press. A second edition was issued from the new press in 1475,
+of which the present edition is, in type, number of pages and lines, an
+exact reprint, but has printed signatures and is a quarto while that was
+a folio. Caxton's "Book of Good Manners," printed in 1487, was a
+translation of "Le livre des bonnes meurs," another work by the same
+author.
+
+The present copy, bound in green morocco with gold borders and gilt
+edges, is from the Syston Park library, sold in December, 1884. Leaf
+10-3/4 � 7-1/4 in.
+
+
+23. HIERONYMUS. Vaderboeck. [Zwolle], Peter van Os, 1 April, 1490.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_, TITLE: DIt boeck is ghenomet. dat vader boeck. dat in den
+latijne is ghehieten Vitas patru_m_. inhoudende dye historien en_de_
+legenden der heyligher vaderen die hare leue_n_ in stre_n_gher
+penitencie ouerghebracht hebbe_n_ Ouergheset in goeder versta_n_delre
+duytscer sprake. [Rest of page occupied by two woodcuts.] _Fol. 1^b_:
+[H]Ier beghint die tafele va_n_ desen boecke dat ghehieten is dat va
+(_sic_) vader boeck. _Fol. 4^b_: Hier eyndet die tafef (_sic_) van den
+boecke..... _Fol. 5^a_: [Woodcut of the Annunciation, which is repeated
+on the verso of the leaf.] _Fol. 6^a_: Hier beghinnet dat eerste deel
+va_n_ desen boecke dat ghenoemet is Vitaspatrum in latijne. _Fol.
+165^b_, COLOPHON: Hier eyndet dat derde deel va_n_ desen boecke van den
+wo_n_derlijke wercken en_de_ goede exempele_n_ en_de_ goede leri_n_ghen
+der heigher (_sic_) vadere_n_ so als die heylige leraer Jeronim_us_ vut
+de_n_ griecke_n_ in den latine ghetoge_n_ heeft Ouergheset in goeder
+v_er_standelre duytscer spraken om salicheit alre goeder kersten
+me_n_scen. Ghedruct bi mi Peter va_n_ Os In de_n_ iare ons heren Mcccc
+en_de_ xc. den eersten dach va_n_ den April. [PRINTER'S DEVICE,
+(shields of Zwolle and of the printer combined).] _Fol. 166, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. A^4, a^8, b-z^6, A^4, B-D^6, 166 leaves, the last
+     blank, 6-165 numbered i-clx. 2 columns, 36 lines to the column,
+     gothic letter. Two- to six-line spaces left for capitals. The first
+     initial of the title is a ten-line ornamental woodcut D. The two
+     woodcuts on the title-page are printed from sections cut from the
+     blocks of the Latin Biblia Pauperum, that on the left (Descent of
+     the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost) from the central panel of
+     sign. p., that on the right (Jacob's dream), from the right-hand
+     panel of the sign. t. Other sections of these blocks were used in
+     like manner in other books of van Os. In place of blank fol. 5 cut
+     away, is inserted a full page woodcut of the Annunciation, printed
+     on both sides of the leaf, on paper unlike any other used in the
+     book. Campbell 938. Proctor 9135.
+
+Prologue initial on fol. 6^a supplied in blue with pen ornamentation in
+red. Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue.
+Initial-strokes in red. Blank last leaf wanting.
+
+Bound by Alfred Matthews in three-quarter levant morocco with blind
+tooling, gilt edges. Leaf 10-1/2 � 8 in.
+
+Peter van Os, of Breda, was actively engaged in printing at Zwolle from
+1479 till the end of the century, except for the three years 1481-1484.
+
+The English translation of the "Vitas Patrum," which was the closing
+labor of Caxton's life, was printed in 1495 by Wynken de Worde with this
+colophon: "Thus endyth the moost vertuouse hystorye of the deuoute and
+right renowned lyues of holy faders lyuynge in deserte, worthy of
+remembraunce to all wel dysposed persons which hath be_n_ translated
+oute of Frenche into Englisshe by William Caxton of Westmynstre late
+deed and fynysshed at the laste daye of hys lyff."
+
+
+24. HIGDEN, RANULPH. Polychronicon, translated into English by Trevisa
+    and continued by Caxton. [Westminster]. William Caxton, [1482].
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Prohemye. [G]Rete thankynges lawde &
+honoure we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde and offre vnto wryters of
+hystoryes, whiche gretely haue prouffyted oure mortal lyf, that shewe
+vnto the reders and herers by the ensamples of thynges passyd, what
+thynge is to be desyred. [Fol. 4-20, alphabetical table; 21, blank;
+22-24, dialogue between the Clerke and the Lorde on translation,
+Trevisa's epistle to Lord Berkeley; 25, blank.] _Fol. 26^a_:
+Prolicionycion. Prefacio prima ad historiam. [A]Fter solempne and wyse
+wryters of Arte and of scyence.... _Fol. 389^b_: God be thanked of al
+his dedes. This translacion is ended on a thursdaye the eyghtenth daye
+of Apryll the yere of our lord a thousand thre hondred and .lvij. The
+xxxj yere of Kyng Edward the thyrd after the Conquest of Englond, the
+yere of my lordes age Syr thomas lord of berkley that made me make this
+translacion fyue and thyrtty. [390^a, Caxton's epilogue to Trevisa;
+390^b, blank.] _Fol. 391^a_: Jncipit Liber vltimus. _Fol. 449^a_: Ended
+the second day of Juyll the xxij yere of the regne of kynge Edward the
+fourth & of the Incarnacion of oure lord a thousand foure score and
+tweyne. Fynysshed per Caxton. _Fol. 449^b, 450, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-b^8, C^4, 1-28^8, [28*^2], 29-48^8, 49^4, 50^8,
+     52-55^8, 450 leaves, of which five (a, 1; 1, 1; 1, 5; 28*,2; 55, 8)
+     are blank. The folios of sign. 1,2-55,7 are numbered 1-ccccxxviii
+     (blanks 1, 5 and 28*,2 counted as iv and ccxxvi), with many errors
+     which are mostly corrected on the following leaves, but in the case
+     of fol. ccxli on the verso of the same leaf. There is, however, no
+     clx, and ccccxiii is duplicated, errors which balance each other
+     and do not disturb the final numeration. The omission of a
+     signature 51 is accidental, the text continuing without a break.
+     The purpose of the unsigned single sheet following sign. 28,
+     consisting of one printed and one blank leaf, was evidently to
+     carry the last remaining leaf of the fourth book and thereby make
+     possible a division of the volume at this point into two nearly
+     equal parts. Advantage has apparently been taken of this division
+     to bind the Grenville copy (Brit. Mus. IB. 55060) in two volumes.
+     Wynkyn de Worde, who reprinted the Polychronicon in 1495, followed
+     in this particular Caxton's example and in order to begin the fifth
+     book with a new signature left at the end of the fourth book nearly
+     a whole leaf blank, though he separated the other books by a blank
+     space of no more than three or four lines. Caxton's use of arabic
+     figures for signatures was confined to the years 1481-1483; after
+     that date he used letters only. The first few chapter-headings of
+     each book have Latin ordinals (Capitulum primum, secundum, etc.)
+     which are soon dropped for arabic figures. Gothic letter, Caxton's
+     fourth font, forty lines to the page, with headline. Two- to
+     seven-line spaces left for chapter and book initials, which are
+     supplied in red. Chapter-headings underlined in red. Blades ii,
+     172. Ames-Dibdin i, 138. Seymour de Ricci p. 60.
+
+Seventy-two leaves, including the five blanks, are wanting in this copy,
+viz.: sign. a-C; 1, 1, 4, 5, 8; 2, 1, 4, 5; 3, 2; 4, 1; 27, 3; [28*,2];
+44, 7; 50-55. The lacking parts comprise the first twenty leaves
+(Prohemye and alphabetical index), the last forty leaves (Caxton's
+eighth book), and twelve intermediate leaves. Of these the Proheyme is
+supplied in facsimile and sign. 4, 1 in manuscript. What is possibly an
+original impression of Caxton's large device is placed at the end of the
+volume. This was used by Caxton only during his last years, 1487-91, and
+by Wynkyn de Worde, into whose hands the original block passed, in his
+folios for thirty years longer. From one of the latter this may have
+been taken, possibly from the Polychronicon of 1495, where the other
+side of the leaf it occupied was blank, as is the case here also.
+
+Trevisa's translation of Higden was completed, according to the best
+MSS., in 1387, not in 1357 as stated on fol. 389^b. (In 1357 the 18th of
+April fell on Tuesday, not Thursday, and Thomas Lord Berkeley was then
+in the fifth, not the thirty-fifth year of his age.) Caxton was himself
+the translator of twenty-two of the one hundred books which he printed
+and it was therefore not strange that Trevisa's English should have been
+in his hands, as the proem states, "a lytel embelysshed fro tholde
+makyng." In what these embellishments consisted is partially explained
+in the epilogue: "Therfore I William Caxton a symple persone haue
+endeuoyred me to wryte fyrst ouer all the sayd book of proloconycon, and
+somewhat haue chaunged the rude and old Englyssh, that is to wete
+certayn wordes, which in these dayes [1482] be neyther usyd ne
+understanden". He went however further than this and so changed the
+inflections and orthography that the language is no longer of the
+fourteenth but rather of the fifteenth century. But in no other way
+could it have been made to harmonize with his proposed continuation,
+concerning which he proceeds to say: "and also am auysed to make another
+booke after this sayd werke whiche shal be sett here after the same, And
+shal haue his chapytres and his table a parte. For I dar not presume to
+sette my book ne ioyne hit to his, for dyuerse causes". Accordingly he
+begins his "Liber ultimus" with a new signature, preceded by a blank
+page. His "table" nevertheless is combined with that of the preceding
+seven books in one alphabet. Wynkyn de Worde's edition has a more
+elaborate index of ninety pages in which each of the eight books is
+indexed in a separate alphabet.
+
+Apart from the interest attaching to this "Liber ultimus" as the only
+original work of any length from Caxton's pen, the Polychronicon is next
+to the Golden Legend his largest book, and in the Prohemye they are
+grouped together as the "twoo bookes notable" which treat of history. It
+happens also, probably because of larger editions printed, that of these
+two books many more copies have survived than of any of his other books,
+about one-fourth of which are now represented only by single copies. Of
+the Polychronicon, Seymour de Ricci's "Census of Caxtons" (1909)
+enumerates forty known copies (very few of them entirely complete),
+evenly divided between public and private libraries. To this list he
+adds, under the heading "Present owners untraced," forty-eight copies
+(nos. 41-88) which appeared at sales between 1698 and 1901, some of them
+possibly identical with copies already described as "known." In this
+second division is found the present copy (no. 79), purchased by the
+donor of this collection at the Smets sale, New York, May, 1868, in calf
+binding, with the name of the owner "A.A. Smets, Savannah, May 28, 1836"
+on the fly-leaf. It was at once sent to Francis Bedford for binding,
+with instructions to have the "inlaying, repairing etc. done over in
+the very best manner, by the best restorer in France or England." Bound
+in brown morocco, richly blind-tooled, with Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis and
+acorn emblems. Leaf 10-1/4 � 7-1/2 in. The Smets fly-leaf and the
+original instructions sent to Mr. Bedford with the volume and returned
+by him with an added note over his own signature, laid in.
+
+Other copies of the Polychronicon which have passed through Mr.
+Bedford's hands have been bound in the same style, among them the
+Menzies copy, sold New York, November, 1876, which de Ricci wrongly
+conjectured might be identical with the Smets.
+
+
+25. ORDINARY OF CHRISTIAN MEN. London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1506.
+
+_Fol. 1^a._ TITLE: Thordinary of Crysten men [woodcut below.] _Fol.
+1^b-4^b, table of contents._ _Fol. 5^a_ [woodcut above]: Here begynneth
+a notable treatyse and ful necessarye to all crysten men for to knowe &
+it is named the Ordynary of Crystyens or of crysten men. _Fol. 217^b_:
+Here endeth the book named the ordynarye of crysten men newely hystoryed
+and translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe. Enprynted in the cyte of
+London in the Fletestrete in the sygne of y^e sonne by Wnykyn de worde.
+y^e yere of our lorde .M.CCCCC.vi. _Fol. 218^a, title repeated over
+woodcut._ _Fol. 218^b_, [PRINTER'S DEVICE]
+
+     Quarto. Sign. Aa^4, A^6, B^4, C-X, AA-NN^{8, 4 (altern.)}, OO^6,
+     PP^{5}+{1}. 218 leaves, gothic letter, 34 lines (marginal citations
+     60 lines) to the page, without foliation. Title cut in large
+     lower-case letters on block 2 � 4 in. Five- and six-line initials
+     at the head of the larger divisions of the text. Ten woodcuts, one
+     repeated. The final blank PP. 6 has been replaced by an independent
+     leaf having on the one side the title repeated with woodcut, and on
+     the other the printer's device, either of which may in the binding
+     be made the recto. The device is the first of his so-called
+     "Sagittarius" forms, and the one most commonly used from 1506 to
+     1518. Ames-Dibdin, ii, p. 103. Morgan Cat. iii, p. 214, n. 743.
+
+The present copy lacks the first four leaves, containing the title and
+the table of contents; but both the title and the woodcut accompanying
+it are repeated elsewhere in the volume, the title on fol. 218^a, the
+woodcut on fol. 87^a.
+
+Of the French original, _L'ordinaire des chrestiens_, at least six
+editions were printed before 1500, the earliest apparently at Rouen, c.
+1487. In them it is stated that the writing was commenced 22 May, 1467
+and finished (_consomm�_) 22 May, 1469. The corresponding dates in the
+prologue and epilogue of the translation are "fyrst begonne to be
+wryten" 14 Jan., 1467, "fyrst consumed" 14 Jan., 1500. The confusion,
+common to both the French and the English of the 15th century, in the
+derivatives of _consummare_ and _consumere_ relieves the translator,
+Andrew Chertsey, from the appearance of an over-literal translation, but
+the change in the date of the completed work can hardly be in the
+direction of accuracy.
+
+The woodcuts which appeared in the first edition of the "Ordinary"
+printed in 1502 are in this second edition replaced by others of
+different design and better execution, borrowed mainly from "The crafte
+to lyve well and to dye well", printed by de Worde in 1505 and like the
+present work translated by Chertsey from a French original, _L'art de
+bien vivre et de bien mourir_. Two of these illustrations, "Temptation
+to Impatience" (fol. 73^b) and "Soul leaving the Body" (fol. 218^a), are
+copied from the early block-book _Ars moriendi_.
+
+Bound by Alfred Matthews in blind-tooled crimson morocco, with inside
+gold borders and gilt edges. Leaf 8-1/4 � 5-3/4 in.
+
+Wynkyn de Worde, Caxton's assistant, was a native of W�rth, Alsace. He
+came into possession of his master's printing materials on his death in
+1491 and continued to occupy his house in Westminster until 1500 when he
+moved to Fleet Street within the city. In the number of his books,
+almost eight hundred, he surpassed all the early printers, but many of
+them were works of small size and consequence. Some of his largest and
+finest books were reprints of Caxton's folios. Mention has been made of
+his use of Caxton's original device without addition. In all of his own
+various devices also, the place of honor in the center is given to
+Caxton's initials and cipher, plainly as a mark of loyalty to the
+master, not an advertisement of himself as the successor.
+
+
+26. INTRATIONES. London, Richard Pynson, 28 Feb. 1510.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_, TITLE: INtrationu_m_ excellentissimus liber perq_uam_
+necessarius o_mn_ibus leg_is_ hominib_us_: fere in se continens o_mn_em
+medullam diversa_rum_ materia_rum_ ac pl_ac_ito_rum_ tam realiu_m_,
+personalium, q_uam_ mixt_orum_. Necno_n_ multorum breuium tam
+executionu_m_ q_uam_ aliorum valde vtilium illis hunc librum inspecturis
+aut inscrutandis. Que quide_m_ supradicta facilit_er_ possunt inveniri
+p_er_ indice_m_ alphabeticu_m_ p_er_uigila_n_ti studio co_n_fectu_m_ &
+p_er_ ordine_m_ l_itte_raru_m_ redactu_m_... _Fol. 1^b_, [Full page
+woodcut of the king's arms crowned, supported by a dragon and a
+greyhound, with a portcullis on either side and a rose and two angels
+above.] _Fol. 2^a_: Intrationu_m_ libri Index Alphabetic_us_. _Fol.
+10^b_: Finis tabule Intrationum. _Fol. 193^a_, COLOPHON: Explicit opus
+excellentissimu_m_ & perutile in se continens multas materias o_mn_ibus
+leg_is_ ho_min_ib_us_ p_er_q_uam_ necessarias nouiter Impressum,
+correctum, emendatum, & no_n_ minimo labore reuisum London_i_ in vico
+vulgariter nu_n_cupato Fletstrete in officina ere ac impensis honesti
+viri Ricardi Pynson Regis Impressoris moram suam trahentis sub signo
+diui Georgii Anno n_ost_re redemptionis .M.CCCCC.x. Die vero vltima
+Mensis Februarii. _Fol. 193^b_, [PRINTER'S DEVICE.] _Fol. 194, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. Aa^6, Bb^4, a-z, &, 9, A-E^6, F^4. 194 leaves, the
+     last blank, 11-193 numbered i-clxxxv, but with the omission of li
+     and liv and other irregularities. Gothic letter, 54 lines to the
+     page, with marginal side-headings. The title, occupying seventeen
+     lines of bold heavy-faced type, is printed in red and black and in
+     the form of an inverted triangle. The _Index Alphabeticus_ is
+     introduced by a ten-line initial A with a rose above and a
+     portcullis below the middle bar, found also in the same printer's
+     Sarum missal of 1520. The other divisions of the index have mostly
+     four-line woodcut initials, some of grotesque pattern. Five-line
+     space with guide-letter for the first initial of the text.
+     Ornaments of four patterns, repeated singly or in combination, are
+     used to lengthen out the frequent short end lines of paragraphs in
+     order to give more solidity to the appearance of the page. Three of
+     the same ornaments are found also on the title-page of Whitinton's
+     _Vulgaria_, printed by W. de Worde in 1521. Ames-Dibdin ii, 441.
+
+In the present copy the index (sign. Aa. 2-6, Bb. 1-4) is separated from
+the title (Aa. 1) and placed at the end of the volume. Name of _Joh[=e]s
+Coningesby_ written in a sixteenth century hand on the first page of
+both text and index. The device is the fourth of Pynson's seven devices
+and was in use 1496-1513. Allusion is made in the colophon to an earlier
+edition, no copy of which appears to be known. The work was reprinted by
+Henry Smythe, London, 1546.
+
+Richard Pynson, a Norman by birth, established himself in London about
+1490, taking over, as there is good reason to believe, the business of
+Machlinia, a printer of law books, for which his knowledge of
+Norman-French especially fitted him. In 1508 he was made Printer to the
+King and in that year also he printed two books in roman type, the first
+use of that character in England. He is known to have printed at least
+371 books, a much smaller number than de Worde, but as a rule larger and
+more important books. He is regarded as the best English printer of his
+time and the _Liber Intrationum_ is one of his finest books.
+
+Bound in red velvet, with silk linings and gilt edges. Leaf 12-3/4 �
+9-1/4 in.
+
+From the Syston Park library, with the book-plate and monogram of Sir
+John Henry Thorold.
+
+
+27. PLUTARCHUS. Moralia Graece. Venetiis, in �dibus Aldi et Andre�
+    soceri, 1509.
+
+TITLE: PLVTARCHI OPVSCVLA. LXXXXII. Index Moralium omnium, & eorum qu�
+in ipsis tractantur, habetur in hoc quaternione. Numerus autem
+Arithmeticus remittit lectorem ad semipagina_m_, ubi tractantur
+singula. [Aldine anchor]. _P. 1050_, COLOPHON: Venetiis, in �dibus Aldi
+& Andre� Asulani Soceri. mense Martio. M. D. IX. [Blank leaf with anchor
+on verso.]
+
+     Quarto. Sign. *, a-z, &, aa-zz, aaa-sss^8, ttt^6. 8 unnumbered
+     preliminary leaves (sign * not included in register on p. 1050)
+     containing title, dedicatory epistle of Aldus to Jacopo Antiquario,
+     index, four couplets of Jerome Aleander, preface of the editor
+     Demetrius Doukas (all except title and dedication in Greek); 1050
+     numbered pages of Greek text, final blank leaf with anchor on
+     verso. The type is Aldus's fourth Greek font, 46 lines to the page,
+     five- to eight-line spaces left for initials. The _semipagina_ (the
+     equivalent of our _page_) to which the index directs the reader,
+     shows that _pagina_ still had its older meaning _leaf_, and
+     incidentally that the numbering of the page instead of the leaf was
+     an innovation. The anchor and dolphin device, the symbol of the
+     motto _Festina lente_, which first appeared in the Dante of 1502,
+     is here in its first form, but of the larger size suitable for
+     folios and enclosed in double lines, on the title-page without
+     name, but on the last leaf with the addition ALDVS.MA.RO. Although
+     on the evidence of the chain-lines and the water-mark technically a
+     quarto, the volume on account of its unusual size was doubtless
+     printed like a folio on half sheets. Renouard, p. 55. Firmin-Didot,
+     p. 317.
+
+Plutarch's _Moralia_ belongs to that imposing series of first editions
+of the Greek classics which among all the services of Aldus Manutius to
+the revival of learning are perhaps his best title to enduring fame.
+When he set up his press in 1495 five in all, and but one, Homer, of the
+first rank, had been printed. When he died twenty years later his first
+editions outnumbered those of all his contemporaries put together, and
+the rank was even more significant than the number, for among them were
+included Aristotle, Plato, Thucydides, Herodotus, Aristophanes,
+Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar and Demosthenes. The Plutarch was printed
+from MSS. still preserved in the library of St. Mark.
+
+The Greek type of Aldus was a new departure, based on the cursive or
+business handwriting of his day in distinction from the older book-hand
+which had served as the model for the first Greek fonts. It gained
+immediate popularity and for more than two hundred years, either
+directly or through fonts based upon it, dominated the Greek printing
+of Europe. At length, mainly because of the ligatures and contractions,
+it was supplanted by type of more open and regular forms.
+
+In 1508 Aldus took as partner his father-in-law, Andrea Torresano
+d'Asola, a Venetian printer who in 1480 had taken over the business of
+Nicolas Jenson. The imprint which had hitherto been _apud Aldum_ or _in
+aedibus Aldi_ now became _in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri_. After the
+death of Aldus in 1515 the press was conducted without change of name by
+the surviving partner until his own death in 1529.
+
+Thick paper copy. Leaf 10-3/4 � 7 in. On p. 1050 is written _Collegii
+Societatis Jesu Embricae 1605_.
+
+From the library of Sir J.H. Thorold of Syston Park, with book-plate.
+Bound by R. Storr, Grantham, in red morocco, gilt edges, with anchor on
+sides. The "Dictionary of English Book-collectors," pt. 2, calls
+attention to the Aldine anchor (made more realistic by an end of rope
+cable twisted about it) stamped by the Grantham bookbinders Messrs.
+Storr & Ridge upon many of the Thorold books, "not only those bound by
+themselves, but also those bound by far better men." Examples of both
+kinds are found in the present collection.
+
+As an illustration of the first Greek type of Aldus there is joined to
+this collection a finely executed manuscript facsimile on vellum of his
+_Musaeus_ of 1495, his second book (preceded by the Grammar of
+Lascaris), but the first in which the font appeared in its completed
+state. From the Syston Park library. Bound by Boz�rian Jeune, in blue
+morocco extra.
+
+
+28. SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE. Venetiis, in �dibus Aldi et Andreae soceri,
+    1514.
+
+TITLE: LIBRI DE RE RVSTICA. M. CATONIS LIB. I. M. TERENTII VARRONIS LIB.
+III. L. IVNII MODERATI COLVMELLAE LIB. XII. Eiusdem de arboribus liber
+separatus ab alijs, quare autem id factum fuerit: ostenditur in
+epistola ad lectorem. PALLADII LIB. XIIII. De duobus dierum generibus:
+simulq_ue_ de umbris, et horis, qu� apud Palladium, in alia epistola ad
+lectorem. Georgij Alexandrini enarrationes priscarum dictionum, qu� in
+his libris Catonis: Varronis: Columell�. [Aldine anchor]. Hos libros
+Pontificis etiam Leonis decreto, nequis alius usquam locorum impune
+imprimat, cautum est. _Fol. 308^a_: COLOPHON: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI
+ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE MAIO M.D.XIIII. [Aldine anchor on verso].
+
+     Quarto. Sign. *, aa, bb^8, cc^{10}, a-h^8, i^4, k-z, A-Q^8. 8
+     unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title, privilege of Leo X.
+     countersigned by P. Bembo, papal secretary, preface of the editor,
+     Fra Giocondo, addressed to Leo X., _Aldus lectori_ (two epistles,
+     the first relating to the position of the _De arboribus_ of
+     Columella, an independent treatise, in previous editions inserted
+     in his _De re rustica_ as liber lii, but here correctly placed
+     after that work, the second, to the hours of Palladius, varying in
+     length with the seasons, and the use of the gnomon in determining
+     them), _errata_; 26 unnumbered leaves (preceded by a second title
+     with anchor and mention of the privileges of Alexander VI., Julius
+     II. and Leo. X.) containing explanations of unfamiliar words and
+     table of contents, last leaf blank; 308 numbered leaves of text,
+     Sign. * is not included in the register on fol. 308^a and being
+     followed by a second title-page its absence, if accidentally
+     omitted, might pass unnoticed. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page,
+     six- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for the initials
+     of the thirty books, which in the present copy are supplied in gold
+     and colors. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue.
+     Ruled in red. Renouard, p. 66. Firmin-Didot, p. 370.
+
+The italic type of Aldus, a cursive or semi-cursive roman, the
+counterpart of his cursive Greek, was modeled as he himself informs us
+on the handwriting of Petrarch _a lettra per lettra_. It first appeared
+in the Vergil of 1501, the first of his octavo series of classics and
+only three months later, as was but just, in _Le cose volgari_ of
+Petrarch. It had at the outset, corresponding to the Greek ligatures,
+many double letters and even groups of three cast on the same body,
+which were for the most part eliminated later by Paulus Manutius.
+Originally it consisted only of lower-case letters and borrowed the
+capitals of the roman font, using for economy of space small capitals
+which DeVinne points out as the useful invention of Aldus. Aldus was
+sensible of the deficiency and the last clause of his will was a request
+to his partner, Andrea, to have suitable capitals made by the celebrated
+engraver, Giulio Campagnola. It was, however, not until 1558 that they
+were finally supplied by Paulus, in connection with a new italic font.
+What has now ceased to be anything more than a useful auxiliary type was
+by Aldus employed as a text type, a chief recommendation being that it
+was more condensed than the roman and enabled him to greatly reduce the
+price of his books by making an octavo do the work of a quarto or folio.
+In 1501 he printed six, and in 1502 eleven octavos, whereas all his
+earlier books, with one unimportant exception, had been of the larger
+forms.
+
+In 1496 the Venetian Senate granted to Aldus protection for his Greek
+type and the books printed with it for the period of twenty years, and
+in 1502 a like privilege covering both his italic and Greek type for ten
+years. A similar grant made by Alexander VI. in 1502 was renewed by
+Julius II. in January, 1513, for fifteen years and confirmed by his
+successor, Leo X., in December of the same year.
+
+From the library of Robert Samuel Turner, sold in 1888.
+
+Bound in red morocco extra, with gold tooling in the Grolier style,
+edges gilt over red. Leaf 8-1/2 � 5-1/4 in. Book-stamp on verso of last
+leaf: "Ex libris J.B.P.H. Caqu�, D.M. Rem. 1775".
+
+
+29. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Rhetorica. Venetiis, in �dibus Aldi et
+    Andreae soceri, 1521.
+
+TITLE: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium
+lib. IIII. M.T. Ciceronis de inuentione lib. II. Eiusdem de oratore ad
+Quintum fratrem lib. III. Eiusdem de claris oratoribus, q_ui_ dicitur
+Brutus lib. I. Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum lib. I. Eiusdem Topica ad
+Trebatium lib. I. Eiusdem oratori� partitiones lib. I. Eiusdem de optimo
+genere oratorum pr�fatio qu�dam. Index rerum notabilium, qu� toto opere
+continentur, per ordinem alphabeti. [Aldine anchor] Hos libros etiam
+Pontificum Alexandri, Iulij, ac Leonis demum decretis, neq_u_is alius
+usquam locorum impune imprimat, cautum est. _Fol. 245^a_, COLOPHON:
+VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE OCTOBRI M.D.XXI.
+[Blank leaf with anchor on verso].
+
+     Quarto. Sign. *, **, a-k^8, l^4, m-z, A-G^8, H^{10}. 16 unnumbered
+     preliminary leaves, containing preface by Aldus addressed to Andrea
+     Navagero and alphabetical index (the blank last leaf wanting in
+     this copy); 245 numbered leaves of text and final blank leaf with
+     anchor. Sign. * and ** have eight leaves each, not ten as stated in
+     the register on p. 245. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page, three-
+     to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. The
+     anchor is of the second, somewhat ungraceful, pattern in use
+     1519-1524, after which there was for some years a return to the
+     first form. Renouard, p. 93.
+
+Reprinted, with only the addition of the index, from the 1514 edition of
+Aldus. In the preface is found the often quoted inscription placed over
+the door of Aldus to discourage the idle visitor: _Quisquis es: rogat te
+Aldus etiam: atque etiam: ut, si quid est, quod a se velis: perpaucis
+agas_, etc. The edition of 1533, with the imprint _in �dibus haeredum
+Aldi Manutii Romani & Andreae Asulani Soceri_ and a short preface by
+Paulus Manutius (it was his first book as director of the press) is also
+essentially unchanged, but his edition of 1546, in octavo, was
+thoroughly revised in text and accompanied by a folio volume of variorum
+commentaries.
+
+Bound by Roger Payne, in blue morocco, gilt edges, with cipher of Sir
+Mark Masterman Sykes on back, at whose sale in 1824 it brought
+�1.11s.6d. The Syston Park copy with book-plate, and monogram of Sir
+John Hayford Thorold. Leaf 8-1/2 � 5-1/4 in.
+
+
+30. CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS. De medicina. SERENUS, QUINTUS. De
+    medicina. Venetiis, in �dibus Aldi et Andre� soceri, 1528.
+
+TITLE: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. AVRELII CORNELII CELSI
+MEDICINAE LIBRI .VIII. QVAM EMENDATISSIMI, GRAECIS ETIAM OMNIBVS
+DICTIONIBVS RESTITVTIS. QVINTI SERENI LIBER DE MEDICINA ET IPSE
+CASTIGATISS. ACCEDIT INDEX IN CELSVM ET SERENVM SANE QVAM COPIOSVS.
+[Aldine anchor] Venetorum decreto, ne quis aliquo in loco Venet�
+ditionis hos libros imprimat, impressosue alibi uendat, cautum est.
+_Fol. 1^a_: AVRELII CORNELII CELSI ARTIVM LIBER SEXTVS, IDEM MEDICINAE
+LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 164^a_: COLOPHON: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET
+ANDREAE ASVLANI SOCERI MENSE MARTIO. M.D.XXVIII. [Aldine anchor on
+verso].
+
+     Quarto. 8 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing title,
+     dedicatory epistle of the editor, Giovanni Baptista Egnazio, to
+     Cardinal Hercules Gonzaga and index; 164 numbered leaves of text
+     (fol. 148 blank). Italic letter, three- to seven-line spaces with
+     guide-letter left for initials. Renouard, p. 105.
+
+The _De Medicina_ of Celsus is the second and only surviving part of his
+Encyclop�dia entitled _Artes_, in five divisions. The first division,
+_De Agricultura_, consisted of five books, so that the sixth book of
+_Artes_ was at the same time the first of _De Medicina_.
+
+The Syston Park copy, uncut. Bound by Roger Payne in red morocco. Leaf
+9 � 5-1/2 in.
+
+
+31. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Epistol� ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad
+    Quintum fratrem. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1540.
+
+TITLE: M.TVLLII CICERONIS EPISTOLAE ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad
+Quintu_m_ fratrem, summa diligentia castigat�, ut in ijs menda, qu�
+plurima erant, paucissima jam supersint. PAVLI MANVTII IN EASDEM
+EPISTOLAS Scholia, quibus abditi locorum sensus ostenduntur, cum
+explicatione castigationum, qu� in his epistolis pene innumerabilis
+fact� sunt. [Aldine anchor] PAVLVS MANVTIVS ALDI F. VENETIIS, M.D.XL.
+_Fol. 344^a_, COLOPHON: APVD ALDI FILIOS. VENETIIS, M.D.XL. MENSE
+AVGVSTO. [Aldine anchor on verso]
+
+     Octavo. 2 preliminary leaves containing title and dedication by
+     Paulus Manutius to Guillaume Pellicier, Bishop of Montpellier, 331
+     numbered leaves of text, 10 unnumbered leaves of translations of
+     the Greek passages, conjectural emendations which the editor "would
+     not hesitate to adopt it he should ever find an ancient MS. to
+     confirm them" and a final leaf with colophon and anchor. The
+     Scholia, 24 unnumbered leaves, have a separate title, with notice
+     of copyright granted by Paul III. (the fourth pope to grant this
+     privilege) and the Venetian senate; colophon and anchor repeated on
+     last leaf. Italic letter, 30 lines to the page, five-line spaces
+     with guide-letters left for initials. Renouard, p. 120.
+
+Except for the interval 1533-6 the press was inactive from 1529 to 1540,
+on account of dissensions between the heirs of Andrea and Aldus. The
+partnership having been dissolved the press was reopened in 1540 by the
+sons of Aldus (_apud Aldi filios_) under the direction of the youngest,
+Paulus Manutius (1512-74), who restored and added to its lustre. Of
+Cicero, his favorite author, he revised the entire text and printed
+repeated editions of some of the works: e.g. of the _Epistolae ad
+Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem_ not less than ten, of which
+this is the first. The brief scholia he expanded later into full and
+valuable commentaries, on the Letters to Atticus in 1547, on the Letters
+to Brutus and Quintus in 1557.
+
+It was Petrarch who in 1345 discovered in a Verona MS. the long lost
+Letters to Atticus, Brutus and Quintus and copied them with his own
+hand. Both the MS. and Petrarch's copy are lost. But of the MS. another
+transcript, procured by Petrarch's friend Salutati in 1389, is preserved
+in the Laurentian Library, and of the Petrarch copy we have here a
+replica in the type which Aldus characterized as _manum mentiens_.
+
+From the Syston Park library, with book-plate. Bound by Roger Payne, in
+blue morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 6-1/2 � 4 in.
+
+
+32. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Orationes. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1546.
+
+TITLE: M. TVLLII CICERONIS ORATIONVM PARS I. [Aldine anchor] CORRIGENTE
+PAVLO MANVTIO, ALDI FILIO. VENETIIS, M.D.XLVI. _Fol. 308^a_, COLOPHON:
+VENETIIS, APVD ALDI FILIOS, M.D.XXXXVI.
+
+     Octavo. 4 unnumbered preliminary leaves, containing title and
+     preface of Paulus Manutius addressed to Cardinal Benedetto Accolto,
+     303 numbered leaves of text and a final leaf with register and
+     colophon on the recto and anchor on the verso. Italic letter, 30
+     lines to the page, five-line spaces with guide-letters left for
+     initials. Renouard, p. 136.
+
+The second edition of the Orations printed by Paulus, vol. I only (II,
+III wanting), on large paper. Renouard (who knew of no complete copy of
+the three volumes l.p.) remarks, p. 141, on the too elongated form of
+most of the Aldine large paper octavos, in which all the increased space
+is at the bottom. In the present copy it is divided between the bottom
+and the outer margin, the inner margin and the top having no increase of
+width--an arrangement well adapted for marginal annotations and perhaps
+designed for that use. An early owner of this copy has in fact added to
+the printed title (_Orationum Pars I_) with a pen the word _Commentata_,
+but proceeded no further with his plan than simply to underscore a
+number of words on the first three pages, leaving the margins untouched.
+
+The most important of the commentaries of Paulus was that on the
+Orations, completed not long before his death and printed by his son
+Aldus in 1578-9 in three folio volumes.
+
+From the Syston Park library, with book-plate and the monogram of Sir
+J.H. Thorold. Bound in red morocco, gilt edges, with Aldine anchor in
+gold on sides. Leaf 8 � 5-1/4 in.
+
+
+33. PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Planisph�rium. JORDANUS NEMORANUS. Planisph�rium.
+    Venetiis, [apud Paulum Manutium], 1558.
+
+TITLE: PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM. IORDANI PLANISPHAERIVM. FEDERICI
+COMMANDINI VRBINATIS IN PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM COMMENTARIVS. In quo
+uniuersa Scenographices ratio quam breuissime traditur, ac
+demonstrationibus confirmatur. [Aldine anchor] VENETIIS, M.D.LVIII.
+
+     Quarto (not octavo, as described by Renouard). _Part 1._ 4
+     unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title and dedicatory
+     preface of Commandino to Cardinal Rainuccio Farnese, 37 numbered
+     leaves of text (1-25 Ptolemy, 26-37 Jordanus), final blank leaf
+     with anchor on verso. _Part 2._ 28 numbered leaves of commentary,
+     with separate title, anchor both on title and on verso of last
+     leaf. Text in roman, 25 lines to the page; commentary in italic, 34
+     lines to the page. Many woodcut diagrams. Both text and commentary
+     are introduced by a seven-line woodcut initial belonging to a
+     mythological series found in other books of Paulus of this period,
+     C picturing Calypso bidding adieu to Ulysses, I, Juno seated on a
+     car drawn by peacocks. The original italic font of Aldus, the
+     so-called _Aldino_ type, which appears to have passed into the
+     possession of the Torresani relatives at about this date, is here
+     replaced by a new font having a perceptibly larger face, though
+     only a slightly larger body (20 lines of the new equalling 21 of
+     the old) and consequently showing less white between the lines.
+     Renouard, p. 173.
+
+In 1554 the subscription assumed the new form _apud Paulum Manutium Aldi
+F._, showing that Paulus had acquired his brothers' rights in the press.
+At the same time he returned to the earlier and simpler form of the
+anchor with the name _Aldus_, instead of the _Aldi filii_ and the
+ornamental border in use since 1546. Sometimes, as in the present
+volume, the subscription is omitted altogether and the anchor with the
+name Aldus alone used. Here moreover the place and date appear only on
+the title-page and the colophon is dropped as no longer useful.
+
+The original Greek text of Ptolemy's Planisphere is lost. To the present
+Latin translation, made by an unknown hand from the Arabic, is appended
+(fol. 25) this subscription: _Facta est translatio haec Tolosae Cal.
+Iunii Anno Domini MCXLIIII_. The revival of the study of the Greek
+mathematicians in the sixteenth century was largely due to the admirable
+translations and commentaries of Federigo Commandino of Urbino
+(1509-75). This edition of Ptolemy's Planisphere still remains the best.
+In the same year Paulus printed _Archimedis Opera nonnulla a Federico
+Commandino Vrbinate nuper in latinum conversa et commentariis
+illustrata_.
+
+Uncut copy, bound in blue morocco, with vellum fly-leaves. Leaf 8-3/4 �
+6-1/2 in. From the Syston Park library with book-plate and monogram of
+Sir John Hayford Thorold.
+
+
+34. LIVIUS, TITUS. Historiarum ab urbe condita libri. Venetiis, in
+    �dibus Manutianis, 1572.
+
+TITLE: T.LIVII PATAVINI, Historiarum ab urbe condita, LIBRI. QVI.
+EXSTANT XXXV CVM. VNIVERSAE. HISTORIAE. EPITOMIS Caroli Sigonij Scholia,
+quibus ijdem libri, atque epitomae partim emendantur, partim etiam
+explanantur, Ab Auctore multis in partibus aucta. [Printer's device]
+VENETIIS [Symbol: Infinity] DLXXII. In Aedibus Manutianis.
+
+     Folio. Part 1. 48 unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title,
+     preface of Sigonius, _Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia ab
+     Aldo Manutio Paulli F. Aldi N. collecta, Libri primi epitome, Rerum
+     et vocum apud T. Liuium index copiosissimus_; 399 numbered leaves
+     of text (blank last leaf wanting). Part 2. _Caroli Sigonii
+     Scholia_, with separate title and device, 109 numbered leaves and
+     blank end leaf. Part 3. _Caroli Sigonii Livianorum Scholiorum
+     aliquot Defensiones adversus Glareanum et Robortellum_, with
+     separate title and device, 52 numbered pages. Roman character,
+     except _epitomae_ i-xlv and _index_ which are in the italic type of
+     the Ptolemy commentary, and the preface which is a large and
+     unusual italic, first found in a notice prefixed to the _Medici
+     antiqui_ of 1547, once as a text type in 1550, afterwards only in
+     an occasional preface or title-page. Like the smaller italic of
+     Paulus it is provided with capitals. The large woodcut initials of
+     the several books belong to the mythological series found in the
+     Ptolemy but are here much worn. Renouard, p. 215.
+
+Editions of Livy with the Scholia of Sigonius were issued from the
+Aldine press in 1555, 1566, 1572 and 1592. This third edition is
+distinguished from those which preceded it by some additions to the
+Scholia and an appendix in which the editor defends his views on the
+chronology of Livy against the attacks of two opponents. But
+typographically it is inferior to the second edition as the second was
+inferior to the first, which alone was printed under the active
+supervision of Paulus. In 1561 he went to Rome to undertake the
+direction of a press which Pius IV. was about to establish and died
+there in 1574, having made only one brief visit to Venice in the
+intervening thirteen years. In his absence the Venice press, when not
+inactive or leased, was mainly in the charge of his son, the younger
+Aldus (1547-97), who in spite of the promise of his early years failed
+both as a scholar and as a printer to sustain the reputation of his
+father and grandfather. To the present edition Aldus contributed the
+_Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia_, and he is also
+unquestionably responsible for the large and strange device which
+replaces the simple anchor for which his father had shown so marked a
+preference. It consists of the arms granted to Paulus in 1571 by the
+Emperor Maximilian II. (in which the Aldine anchor occupies a
+subordinate place) surrounded by a border of heavy ornament with the
+addition: _Ex privilegio Maximiliani II. Imp. Caes. Aug._ When his
+father's death had made him the head of the press he continued for some
+years to employ the same device. For the Livy of 1592, much inferior to
+the present edition, and of interest only as showing the decline into
+which the Aldine press, and the Italian presses in general, had fallen
+at the end of the sixteenth century, he was only indirectly responsible.
+He left Venice in 1585 and spent the last years of his life at Rome, as
+professor of belles-lettres and joint director of the Vatican press.
+
+
+35. BIBLIA LATINA. Parisiis, Yolande Bonhomme, vidua Thielmanni Kerver,
+    August 14, 1549.
+
+TITLE: Biblia sacra, integru_m_ vtriusq_ue_ testame_n_ti corpus
+co_m_plecte_n_s, dilige_n_ter recognita et eme_n_data. Cu_m_
+concorda_n_tijs simul et argume_n_tis: cu_m_q_ue_ iuris canoni_c_i
+allegationib_us_ passim adnotatis. Insup_er_ i_n_ calce eiusde_m_ annexe
+su_n_t no_m_i_nu_m Hebraico_rum_, Chaldeo_rum_, atq_ue_ Greco_rum_
+interp_re_tatio_n_es. Huic editio_n_i adiect_us_ e_st_ Index re_rum_ et
+sente_n_tia_rum_ vetr_is_ _et_ noui testame_nti_. [Printer's device
+(shield bearing the initials T.K. suspended from a tree and supported by
+two unicorns, with name THIELMAN.KERVER. at foot), both the title and
+the device framed in a woodcut border]. _Fol. 562^a_, COLOPHON:
+Parisijs, ex officina libraria yola_n_de bonhomme, Uidue spectabilis
+viri Thielmanni Keruer, sub signo vnicornis in vico sancti Jacobi vbi et
+venundatur. Absolutum Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo
+nono Decimo nono Calendas Septembris. [Printer's device on verso].
+
+     Octavo. Sign. A^8, B^4, a-z, aa-zz, A-Y^8, Z^6, aaa-eee^8. 602
+     leaves, comprising 12 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing
+     title, _Ad divinarum literarum verarumque divitiarum amatores
+     exhortatio, Librorum ordo, Biblie summarium_. Gabriel Bruno's
+     _Tabula alphabetica historiarum_; fol. i-cccccxx, text; 30
+     unnumbered leaves _Index rerum et sententiarum_; 40 unnumbered
+     leaves _Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum_, etc. Very small
+     gothic letter, double columns, 58 lines to the column. Six- to
+     eight-line woodcut initials of the several books, the unicorns of
+     Kerver's device appearing in that of Gen. i. Le Long-Masch iii, 2,
+     149.
+
+The octavo Latin Bibles of the Kerver press, fifteen editions of which
+appeared between 1508 and 1560, were closely patterned after Froben's
+edition, Basel, 1591 (the first Bible printed in octavo form), both as
+regards the text, based on the "Fontibus ex Gr�cis" editions, 1478 ff.,
+and the introductory and supplementary matter of various origin
+accompanying it. The earliest of these supplements, _Interpretationes
+nominum Hebraicorum_, an etymological index of Hebrew proper names,
+appeared first in the Bible of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471, and
+was reprinted without change in most of the editions previous to 1515.
+In the Complutensian Polyglot it underwent revision and the revised form
+appears in all the editions of Yolande Bonhomme, with due
+acknowledgment to Cardinal Ximenes. The _Index rerum et sententiarum_,
+however, announced in the title as a new addition to this edition (as it
+had been also announced in the edition of 1546, not mentioned by Masch
+and Copinger, of which this is an exact duplicate) was borrowed from the
+Bible of Robert Stephens, Paris, 1534, without acknowledgment, perhaps
+in order the better to escape the suspicion of heresy attached to his
+work. In Copinger's chronological table of the printed editions of the
+Latin Bible during the 15th and 16th centuries (_Incunabula Biblica_, p.
+207) this is no. 339, total number 562.
+
+The Kerver press was less celebrated for its Bibles than for liturgical
+works, and for the books of private devotion (_Horae, Heures_) of which
+Brunet (_Manuel_, v, col. 1614-27) enumerates no less than fifty-six,
+printed by Thielmann, his widow, or his sons, between 1497 and 1571. The
+wood-engravings with which they were illustrated were repeated in the
+successive editions and occasionally also in the Bibles. Two of these
+borrowed cuts are found in the present edition, facing the Old and the
+New Testament. The first represents the Expulsion from the Garden, but
+the verse printed underneath (Gen. ii. 7) calls for the Creation of
+Adam, which in Yolande's editions of 1526 and 1534 is actually present,
+while here another engraving has been substituted, but the verse left
+standing. Facing the New Testament, under the heading _Jesu Christi
+secundum carnem genealogia_, is a genealogical tree springing from "the
+root of Jesse."
+
+Following the usual alphabetical order of the signatures (A-Z, aaa-eee),
+the _Index rerum et sententiarum_ (sign. U-Z) is here placed before the
+_Interpretationes_ (sign. aaa-eee). This is contrary to the direction of
+the _Collectio codicum_ found on the last leaf of the _Index_ (Z6),
+where the order prescribed is A-T, aaa-eee, U-Z, which is further
+supported by the colophon and printer's device on Z6. The _Index_ as the
+latest supplement was meant to stand at the end of the volume.
+
+Bound in oak boards covered with stamped leather, brass corners and
+bosses, gilt gauffred edges. Around the central boss of the back cover
+is stamped the date A.D. 1571, and on the front cover, in corresponding
+position and order, the initials F E P L P F.
+
+From the Osterley Park sale, May, 1885, with the book-plate of Victor
+Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey. Leaf 6-1/2 � 4-1/2 in.
+
+
+36. PHILO JUD�US. De divinis decem oraculis. Luteti�, apud Carolum
+Stephanum, 1554.
+
+TITLE: Philonis Iud�i DE DIVINIS DECEM oraculis, qu� summa sunt legum
+capita Liber, Iohanne V�ur�o interprete. [Printer's device] LVTETIAE,
+Apud Carolum Stephanum, Typographum Regium. M.D.LIIII.
+
+     Octavo. 72 numbered pages, followed by one leaf _Ad lectorem_ and
+     one blank. Pp. 3-6, dedication by the translator to Charles de
+     Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, Archbishop of Reims, to whom was also
+     dedicated the first edition of the works of Philo in Greek, printed
+     by Turnebus, Paris 1552. Printed on vellum. On p. 7 a beautiful
+     seven-line engraved initial R. The device is that chosen by the
+     printer's brother Robert, the olive tree and the motto _Noli altum
+     sapere_, without the addition _sed time_.
+
+Renouard, _Annales de l'impr. des Estienne_, 2^e �d., p. 106; adds to
+his description of the volume the following note: "D�di� au cardinal de
+Lorraine, pour lequel il en fut tir� sur v�lin un exemplaire que depuis
+l'on a vu reli� en maroq. jaune ancien, avec une t�te en or sur la
+couverture. Il a pass� dans une Biblioth�que inconnue." The present copy
+answers completely to this description and is without doubt the
+dedication copy in question. The binding (17th cent.) is yellow morocco,
+browned by age, gilt edges, with a medallion head in gold embossed on
+the back cover. Within are written names of former owners; on the title
+page _N. Tetel_, _1644 datum Remis_ and _Claude Henry Corrard_; on the
+cover linings _ex Libris Claudii Tetel ad Mussey_(?); _Ce livre
+appartient � m^{lle} Jean Collot_.
+
+By an oversight Renouard omitted this volume from his list (p. 271) of
+"Editions St�phaniennes dont on connoit un on plusieurs exemplaires
+imprim�s sur v�lin." It increases the number to twenty-three, seventeen
+of them printed by the first Henri and only six by his descendants.
+
+Charles Estienne (1504?-1564), a member of a second remarkable family of
+scholar-printers of the sixteenth century, whose history forms so
+interesting a parallel to that of Aldus and his descendants, though he
+does not rank with his brother Robert, or Robert's son the second Henry,
+certainly brought no discredit on the family name. He was educated as a
+physician, but when Robert withdrew to Geneva to escape the persecutions
+of the Sorbonne, he took charge of the Paris press and conducted it with
+ability from 1551 to 1561, printing one hundred volumes and receiving
+the appointment of king's printer. Aside from this attractive volume no
+vellum copy of his books is known.
+
+From the Wodhull sale, with the Wodhull arms stamped in gold on the
+front cover. Mem. within: "Payne's sale. �3 3s. M. Wodhull, Apr. 14^{th}
+1792. Collat & complet." On the last blank leaf is entered the date
+"Oct. 17^{th} 1808," a record possibly of a later "visitation." Similar
+dates, some years later than the date of purchase are found on the end
+leaves of other Wodhull books. Leaf 7 � 4-1/2 in.
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+The following inconsistencies found in the text have been retained:
+
+head-line / headline
+Homili� / Homiliae (in referring to the same book)
+De Vinne / DeVinne
+Prohemye / Proheyme
+
+
+
+
+
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+<p>Transcriber's Note: Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling found in
+the original book have been retained in this version. A list of these
+inconsistencies is found at the end of the text.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[i]<a name="Page_i" id="Page_i"></a></span></p>
+
+
+<h2>CATALOGUE OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS</h2>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[ii]<a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii"></a></span>&nbsp;<br />
+<span class='pagenum'>[iii]<a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii"></a></span>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h1 style="margin-top: 1em;">CATALOGUE</h1>
+<h3 class="sectionhead">OF THE</h3>
+<h1 style="margin-top: 1em;"><span class="smcap">William Loring Andrews</span></h1>
+<h1><span class="smcap">Collection of Early Books</span></h1>
+<h3 class="sectionhead">IN THE</h3>
+<h2 style="margin-top: 1.5em;">LIBRARY OF YALE UNIVERSITY</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px; margin-top: 2em;">
+<img src="images/img01.jpg" width="100" height="101" alt="Publisher Seal" title="Publisher Seal" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="center" style="margin-top: 2em;">NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS<br />
+LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD<br />
+OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS<br />
+MCMXIII</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[iv]<a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv"></a></span></p>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Copyright, 1913<br />
+by<br />
+Yale University Press</span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 4em; border: solid black 1px;" />
+
+<p class="center">Printed from type October, 1913. 300 copies</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[v]<a name="Page_v" id="Page_v"></a></span></p>
+
+<h2 class="chapterhead">PREFACE</h2>
+
+<p>The collection of early printed books presented to the Library of Yale
+University in 1894 by Mr. William Loring Andrews, of New York, was
+formed to illustrate the first century of printing, which is a better
+boundary for the survey than the half-century ending with the year 1500,
+more often chosen. The latter, the so-styled cradle period of the art,
+is wanting in real definition, being at most a convenient halting place,
+not a completed stage, whereas at the middle of the sixteenth century
+the printed book of the better class had acquired most of its maturer
+features and no longer has for us an unfamiliar look. Designed to serve
+as a permanent exhibition, it is a selection rather than a collection,
+not large, but wisely chosen, and no less attractive than instructive,
+having been formed a quarter of a century ago, at a time when
+opportunities were unusually favorable.</p>
+
+<p>The surviving books of the first presses, which are the chief sources of
+our knowledge of the early art, are at the same time, when obtainable,
+the most efficient teachers. For the illustration of the typography, the
+feature of first importance, there is nothing comparable to the open
+pages of a representative series of the original books, such as are here
+spread out before us. The best of the available substitutes, phototype
+reproductions of specimen pages, apart from other limitations, must
+always lack the authority and the impressiveness of the originals.</p>
+
+<p>While it is the main office of the present collection to set before the
+students of the University as a whole the more general features of the
+art of the early printer, a further service which it is prepared to
+render must not be overlooked. To such as are prompted to go into the
+subject more deeply it offers an excellent body of the original
+<span class='pagenum'>[vi]<a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi"></a></span>
+material upon which any serious study must of necessity be based.</p>
+
+<p>The two fine fifteenth century MSS. at the head of the collection, far
+from serving a merely ornamental purpose, like their own illuminated
+initials for example, are a needful introduction. It is obvious that
+from such sources the first printers got the models of their types, and
+the MSS. in which Jenson found the prototypes of his famous roman
+characters, which in the judgment of some are still unsurpassed, could
+not have been very remote from these. Some of the more striking features
+which distinguish the early printed books from the later were not
+original with them, but only survivals from the MSS. The abbreviations
+and contractions in which both abound were the labor-saving devices of
+the copyists, adopted without hesitation by the printers who used the
+MSS. as copy and only slowly abandoned. The copyist left spaces in his
+MS. for initials to be supplied by the illuminator, without which his
+work was not considered complete, and for about a hundred years the
+printer continued to do the same. If the copyist saw fit to attach his
+name to his work, we look for it at the end of the volume and there also
+the printer placed his colophon. Signatures and catchwords, to guide the
+binder in the arrangement of the sheets, did not come in with the
+printed book, but had long been in use in the MSS.</p>
+
+<p>Although out of the hundreds of presses active during the first century
+only a score are here represented, leaving wide gaps in the series, it
+is better, because more nearly in the natural line of development, that
+the books should be ranged under the country, the locality and the press
+to which they severally belong, than that they should be kept in strict
+chronological order. A general chronological order underlies the
+geographical even where it does not come to the surface. By right of
+seniority Germany stands at the head, and Mainz, the birthplace of
+<span class='pagenum'>[vii]<a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii"></a></span>
+printing, is followed by the other German towns in the order of their
+press age. Next come the presses of Italy, France, Holland and England,
+arranged in like order. To prevent, however, too wide a departure from
+the chronological succession which would result from the strict
+application of this rule, the later, i.e., the sixteenth century, Venice
+and Paris books are separated from the earlier and transferred to the
+end of the list, where in point of development they properly belong.
+Placed in the order thus indicated, the books, as befits so small a
+total, are numbered consecutively in one series. The conspectus, which
+brings into one view the titles, dates, places and printers' names, will
+serve also as a sufficient index.</p>
+
+<p>While we are here most concerned with the genealogy and family history
+of the books, or in other words with their press relationships, the
+personal history attaching to them&mdash;<i>habent sua fata libelli</i>&mdash;is not
+without interest. The Zeno MS. and the Philo, printed on vellum, are the
+dedication copies, not merely set apart, but specially prepared for this
+use. In a few of the volumes are found the names or the arms of early
+owners. The Livy MS. and one-half of the printed books are from the
+library, dispersed in 1886, of Michael Wodhull (1740-1816) of Thenford,
+Northamptonshire, the first translator into English verse of all the
+extant works of Euripides, the most assiduous and painstaking and in
+some departments of bibliography the best equipped among the book
+collectors of his day. It was his custom (well illustrated in the
+present collection) to enter on the fly-leaf of each purchase the source
+and the cost, adding as a separate item the binding, often by Roger
+Payne, and to affix his name and the date. His <i>vis&eacute;</i> "Collat: &amp;
+complet:" is seldom wanting and often bibliographical notes and
+references to authorities are added. Justinian's <i>Novellae</i>, printed by
+Schoeffer, and all the Aldine press books save one are from the library
+gathered at Syston Park, Lincolnshire, <span class='pagenum'>[viii]<a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii"></a></span>
+by Sir John Thorold and his son,
+Sir John Hayford Thorold, between 1775 and 1831 and sold in 1884.</p>
+
+<p>One valued mark of ownership, common to all the volumes, is the <i>ex
+libris</i> of the lover of choice books who united them in one family, not
+again to be separated, and gave them into the keeping of the University
+Library.</p>
+
+<p>The accompanying list of Authorities, as will be apparent, is intended
+to supply merely the details necessary to complete the references of the
+catalogue.</p>
+
+<p>Acknowledgments are due from the compiler to his associates in the
+Library and the University for assistance in the catalogue.</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Addison Van Name</span>, <i>Librarian Emeritus</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Yale University Library, September, 1913.</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[ix]<a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix"></a></span></p>
+
+<h2 class="chapterhead">AUTHORITIES.</h2>
+
+<div class="hanging"><p>Ames, J. Typographical antiquities, or, History
+of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland, enlarged by T.&nbsp;F.
+Dibdin. 4 v. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1810-19.</p>
+
+<p>Blades, W. The life and typography of William Caxton. 2 v. 4<span
+class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1861-3.</p>
+
+<p>British Museum. Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in
+the British Museum. Pt. i, ii. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond.,
+1908-12.</p>
+
+<p>Brown, H.&nbsp;F. The Venetian printing press. 4<span
+class="super2">o</span>. N.Y. and Lond., 1891.</p>
+
+<p>Brunet, J.&nbsp;C. Manuel du libraire. 5<span class="super2">e</span>
+&eacute;d. 6 v. 8<span class="super2">o</span>. Paris, 1860-5.</p>
+
+<p>Burger, K. Deutsche und italienische Inkunabeln. Lief. i-ix. f<span
+class="super2">o</span>. Berlin, 1892-1912.</p>
+
+<p>Campbell, M.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;G. Annales de l'imprimerie
+n&eacute;erlandaise au XV<span class="super2">e</span> si&egrave;cle.
+8<span class="super2">o</span>. La Haye, 1874-90.</p>
+
+<p>Claudin, A. The first Paris press: an account of the books printed for
+G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne 1470-72. [Bibl. Soc. Illust.
+Monogr. vi.] 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1897.</p>
+
+<p>Copinger, W.&nbsp;A. Incunabula Biblica. 4<span
+class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1892.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;&mdash; Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 pt.
+in 3 v. 8<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1895-1902.</p>
+
+<p>Crevenna, P.&nbsp;A. Bolongaro. Catalogue des livres de la
+biblioth&egrave;que de M. Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna. 5 v. 8<span
+class="super2">o</span>. Amsterdam, 1789.</p>
+
+<p>De Vinne, T.&nbsp;L. Notable printers of Italy during the fifteenth
+century. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. New York, 1910.</p>
+
+<p>Didot, A. Firmin. Alde Manuce et l'Hell&eacute;nisme &agrave; Venise.
+8<span class="super2">o</span>. Paris, 1875.</p>
+
+<p>Duff, E. Gordon. A century of the English book trade. 4<span
+class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1905.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;&mdash; Hand-lists of English printers 1501-1556. Pt. i, ii.
+4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1895-6.</p>
+
+<p>Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 v. in 4 pt. 8<span
+class="super2">o</span>. Stuttgart, 1826-38.</p>
+
+<p>Le Long, J. Bibliotheca sacra, continuata ab A.&nbsp;G. Masch. 2 pt.
+in 5 v. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Halae, 1778-90.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[x]<a name="Page_x" id="Page_x"></a></span></p>
+
+<div class="hanging"><p>Morgan, J. Pierpont. Catalogue of manuscripts and
+early printed books now forming a portion of the library of J. Pierpont
+Morgan. 3 v. f<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1907.</p>
+
+<p>Panzer, G.&nbsp;W. Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad
+annum MDXXXVI. 11 v. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Norimbergae,
+1793-1803.</p>
+
+<p>Pellechet, M. Catalogue g&eacute;n&eacute;ral des incunables des
+biblioth&egrave;ques publiques de France. T. i-iii. 8<span
+class="super2">o</span>. Paris, 1897-1909.</p>
+
+<p>Philippe, J. Origine de l'imprimerie &agrave; Paris. 8<span
+class="super2">o</span>. Paris, 1885.</p>
+
+<p>Pollard, A.&nbsp;W. An essay on colophons. [Caxton Club]. 4<span
+class="super2">o</span>. Chicago, 1905.</p>
+
+<p>Proctor, R. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum.
+8<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1898.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;&mdash; The printing of Greek in the fifteenth century. [Bibl.
+Soc. Illust. Monogr. viii]. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond.,
+1900.</p>
+
+<p>Quaritch, B., <i>ed.</i> Contributions toward a dictionary of English
+book-collectors. Pt. i-xiii. 8<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond.,
+1892-9.</p>
+
+<p>Renouard, A.&nbsp;A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde. 3<span
+class="super2">e</span> &eacute;d. 8<span class="super2">o</span>. Paris,
+1834.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;&mdash; Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne. 2<span
+class="super2">e</span> &eacute;d. 8<span class="super2">o</span>. Paris,
+1843.</p>
+
+<p>Ricci, Seymour de. Catalogue raisonn&eacute; des premi&egrave;res
+impressions de Mayence (1445-1467). [Ver&ouml;ff. der
+Gutenberg-Gesellseh. viii-ix]. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Mainz,
+1911.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;&mdash; A census of Caxtons. [Bibl. Soc. Illust. Monogr. xvi].
+4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1909.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[xi]<a name="Page_xi" id="Page_xi"></a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[xii]<a name="Page_xii" id="Page_xii"></a></span></p>
+
+<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="CONSPECTUS" id="CONSPECTUS"></a>CONSPECTUS</h2>
+
+<hr style="width: 50px; border: solid black 1px;" />
+
+<p class="center">MANUSCRIPTS</p>
+
+
+<table class="contents" summary="Manuscripts">
+<tr><td style="width: 1.5em;"></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td style="text-align: right; width: 2em;">PAGE</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;1.</td>
+    <td><a href="#M1"><span class="smcap">Zeno.</span> Vita Caroli Zeni</a></td>
+    <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="#M1">1</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;2.</td>
+    <td><a href="#M2"><span class="smcap">Livius.</span> Historiarum libri I-X</a></td>
+    <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="#M2">3</a></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<p class="center" style="margin-top: 1.5em;">PRINTED BOOKS</p>
+
+<table class="contents" summary="Printed Books">
+<tr><td style="width: 1.5em;">&nbsp;&nbsp;1.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P1"><span class="smcap">Biblia Latina</span></a></td>
+    <td style="width: 6em;">Mainz</td>
+    <td>J. Fust &amp; P. Schoeffer</td>
+    <td style="text-align: right; width: 5em;">1462&nbsp;</td>
+    <td style="text-align: right; width: 2em;"><a href="#P1">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;2.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P2"><span class="smcap">Justinianus.</span> Novellae</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>P. Schoeffer</td>
+    <td class="right">1477&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P2">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;3.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P3"><span class="smcap">Isidorus.</span> Etymologiae</a></td>
+    <td>[Strassburg]</td>
+    <td>[J. Mentelin]</td>
+    <td class="right">[c. 1473]</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P3">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;4.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P4"><span class="smcap">Gesta Romanorum</span></a></td>
+    <td>[Cologne]</td>
+    <td>[U. Zell]</td>
+    <td class="right">[c. 1473]</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P4">10</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;5.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P5"><span class="smcap">Gregorius I.</span> Homiliae</a></td>
+    <td>[Augsburg]</td>
+    <td>[G. Zainer]</td>
+    <td class="right">1473&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P5">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;6.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P6"><span class="smcap">Psalterium Latinum</span></a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">[c. 1473]</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P6">12</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;7.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P7"><span class="smcap">Modus</span> perveniendi ad sapientiam</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">[c. 1473]</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P7">13</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;8.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P8"><span class="smcap">Hugo.</span> De arrha animae</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">1473&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P8">13</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;9.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P9"><span class="smcap">Caracciolus.</span> De poenitentia</a></td>
+    <td>Venice</td>
+    <td>Wendelin of Speier</td>
+    <td class="right">1472&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P9">14</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>10.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P10"><span class="smcap">Valla.</span> Elegantiae linguae Latinae</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>N. Jenson</td>
+    <td class="right">1471&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P10">15</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>11.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P11"><span class="smcap">Plinius.</span> Naturalis historia</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">1472&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P11">17</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>12.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P12"><span class="smcap">Nonius Marcellus.</span> De compendiosa doctrina</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">1476&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P12">19</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>13.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P13"><span class="smcap">Dullaert.</span> Quaestiones super Aristotelem de anima</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>F. Renner &amp; Nicolas of Frankf.</td>
+    <td class="right">1473&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P13">21</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>14.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P14"><span class="smcap">Aristoteles.</span> De animalibus</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>John of Cologne &amp; J. Manthen</td>
+    <td class="right">1476&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P14">22</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>15.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P15"><span class="smcap">Ubertinus.</span> Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>A. de Bonetis</td>
+    <td class="right">1485&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P15">23</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>16.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P16"><span class="smcap">Albertis.</span> De amoris remedio</a></td>
+    <td>[Florence]</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="right">1471&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P16">24</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>17.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P17"><span class="smcap">Aesopus.</span> Vita et fabulae</a></td>
+    <td>[Milan]</td>
+    <td>Bonus Accursius</td>
+    <td class="right">[c. 1480]</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P17">26</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>18.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P18"><span class="smcap">Ovidius.</span> Metamorphoses</a></td>
+    <td>Parma</td>
+    <td>A. Portilia</td>
+    <td class="right">1480&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P18">28</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>19.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P19"><span class="smcap">Pius II.</span> De duobus amantibus</a></td>
+    <td>[Paris]</td>
+    <td>[Friburger, Gering &amp; Crantz]</td>
+    <td class="right">[1472]</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P19">28</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>20.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P20"><span class="smcap">Pius II.</span> De curialium miseria</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 40%;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">[1472]</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P20">29</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>21.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P21"><span class="smcap">Plato.</span> Epistolae</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 40%;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">[1472]</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P21">30</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>22.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P22"><span class="smcap">Magni.</span> Sophologium</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.2em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>Crantz, Gering &amp; Friburger</td>
+    <td class="right">1477&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P22">32</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>23.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P23"><span class="smcap">Hieronymus.</span> Vaderboeck</a></td>
+    <td>[Zwolle]</td>
+    <td>P. van Os</td>
+    <td class="right">1490&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P23">33</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>24.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P24"><span class="smcap">Higden.</span> Polychronicon</a></td>
+    <td>Westminster</td>
+    <td>W. Caxton</td>
+    <td class="right">[1482]</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P24">34</a><span class='pagenum'>[xiii]<a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii"></a></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td>25.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P25"><span class="smcap">Ordinary</span> of Christians</a></td>
+    <td>London</td>
+    <td>W. de Worde</td>
+    <td class="right">1506&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P25">38</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>26.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P26"><span class="smcap">Intrationes</span></a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.4em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>R. Pynson</td>
+    <td class="right">1510&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P26">40</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>27.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P27"><span class="smcap">Plutarchus.</span> Moralia</a></td>
+    <td>Venice</td>
+    <td>Aldus Manutius</td>
+    <td class="right">1509&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P27">41</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>28.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P28"><span class="smcap">Scriptores</span> rei rusticae</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2.6em;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">1514&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P28">43</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>29.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P29"><span class="smcap">Cicero.</span> Rhetorica</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>Andrea d'Asola</td>
+    <td class="right">1521&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P29">45</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>30.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P30"><span class="smcap">Celsus.</span> De medicina</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2.6em;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">1528&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P30">47</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>31.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P31"><span class="smcap">Cicero.</span> Epistolae ad Atticum</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>Aldi filii</td>
+    <td class="right">1540&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P31">47</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>32.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P32"><span class="smcap">Cicero.</span> Orationes</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">1546&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P32">49</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>33.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P33"><span class="smcap">Ptolemaeus.</span> Planisphaerium</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>Paulus Manutius</td>
+    <td class="right">1558&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P33">50</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>34.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P34"><span class="smcap">Livius.</span> Historiae Romanae</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 2.6em;">"</span></td>
+    <td class="right">1572&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P34">51</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>35.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P35"><span class="smcap">Biblia Latina</span></a></td>
+    <td>Paris</td>
+    <td>Vidua Th. Kerver</td>
+    <td class="right">1549&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P35">52</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>36.</td>
+    <td><a href="#P36"><span class="smcap">Philo.</span> De divinis decem oraculis</a></td>
+    <td><span style="margin-left: 1em;">"</span></td>
+    <td>C. Stephanus</td>
+    <td class="right">1554&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="right"><a href="#P36">55</a></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[xiv]<a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv"></a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[1]<a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></a></span></p>
+
+<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="MANUSCRIPTS" id="MANUSCRIPTS"></a>MANUSCRIPTS</h2>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="M1" id="M1"></a>1. ZENO, <span
+class="smcap">Jacopo</span>. Vit&aelig;, morum, rerumque gestarum Caroli
+Zeni libri X. 1458.</p></div>
+
+<p>Fine white vellum, 192 leaves, in 19 quires of ten leaves each and two
+additional leaves at the end, the last of which is blank. Signed on the
+lower inner angle of the last page of each quire by a letter (A-T) which
+is repeated at the point directly facing it on the first page of the
+next quire. Leaves four to seven of the first quire and all of quires
+three to eight, a total of sixty-four leaves, have 28 lines to the page,
+the rest 27 lines. Ruled on one side only with a hard point. Leaf
+10<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;7
+ in., text-page 7&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;3<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+<p>Written in regular Italian minuscules of the 15th century, formed on the
+models of the 11th and 12th centuries.</p>
+
+<p>The subject of the memoir is the distinguished Venetian Admiral Carlo
+Zeno (1334-1418), brother of Nicolo and Antonio, reputed discoverers of
+America. His biographer, Jacopo Zeno (1417-1481), Bishop of Feltre and
+Belluno, and later of Padua, was his grandson. The work is dedicated to
+Pius II. in honor of his recent elevation to the papal throne, and since
+this is evidently the dedication copy, the accession of Enea Silvio
+Piccolomini in August, 1458, fixes approximately the date of the MS. In
+April, 1460, Jacopo Zeno was translated to the see of Padua.</p>
+
+<p>The execution and the decoration of the MS. are in keeping with its
+special use. The gratulatory preface occupying ten pages is introduced
+by the following heading in letters of burnished gold:</p>
+
+<p>IN LIBROS VIT&AElig; MORVM RERVMQ: GESTARVM CAROLI ZENI VENETI. AD PIVM
+SECVN<span class='pagenum'>[2]<a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a></span>DVM
+PONTIFICEM MAXIMVM. IACOBI FELTRENSIS ET BELLVNENSIS
+ANTISTITIS PRAEFATIO: [G]LORIOSA.... The ornamentation of the ten-line
+illuminated initial G is of the interlaced style, and a border of
+similar pattern surrounds the entire page, enclosing on the front margin
+vignettes&mdash;a vase, two rabbits and a stork&mdash;and at the foot the
+Piccolomini arms, supported by kneeling angels and surmounted by the
+papal keys and tiara. Each of the ten books has a heading in burnished
+gold in which the dedication to Pius II. is repeated, and an initial of
+like character to that of the preface, with a marginal ornament. The
+occasional marginal subject-headings and the book-number at the top of
+each leaf are likewise in gold.</p>
+
+<p>The Latin text has thus far been printed only in Muratori's Rerum
+Italicarum Scriptores (of which a new edition is now in progress), vol.
+xix, Milan, 1731, from a MS. then, and still, preserved in the library
+of the Episcopal Seminary at Padua. This MS., the only one which he was
+able to discover, Muratori describes in the following language: "Codex
+autem Patavinus quamquam pervetustus a non satis docto Librario
+profectus est ac proinde occurrunt ibi quaedam parum castigata, quaedam
+etiam plane vitiata. Mutilus praeterea est in fine, ubi non multa quidem
+sed tamen aliqua desiderantur." Muratori's text breaks off in the middle
+of a sentence at the end of the nineteenth (i.e. the last full) quire of
+our MS., and accordingly lacks only the seventeen lines contained on the
+next leaf, which is the last. If, as seems quite possible, the quiring
+of the two MSS. is the same, the loss of the single unprotected leaf at
+the end is the more readily explained.</p>
+
+<p>In 1591 there was published at Bergamo an abridged Italian version, made
+from an illuminated MS. which had once belonged to the famous library of
+Matthias Corvinus, but was then in the possession of Caterino Zeno,
+governor of Bergamo. It had been among the spoils car<span class='pagenum'>[3]<a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a></span>ried to
+Constantinople after the capture of Buda by the Turks in 1526. There,
+seven years later, it had been bought and carried back to Italy by
+Caterino's father, the younger Nicolo, who, in 1558, first gave to the
+world the narrative of his ancestors' voyages. For no better reasons
+than that the Paduan MS. also was illuminated in gold and colors, and
+that it had been bought twenty-five years before (c. 1700) in Venice
+where this branch of the Zeno family had become extinct, Muratori was
+inclined to identify it with the Corvinus MS. The relations between Pius
+II. and the king of Hungary, who was his ally in the proposed crusade
+against the Turks upon which he was just embarking when overtaken by
+death, and to whom the 48,000 ducats which he left behind him were sent
+in aid of the prosecution of war, suggest another possibility. It may be
+safely assumed that between the present MS., given only an opportunity
+to acquire it, and any other copy the king's choice could not have
+hesitated.</p>
+
+<p>The MS. is in 18th-century Italian binding, red morocco, gilt edges.
+Sold with other MSS. from the library of the Trivulzio family of Milan
+at Leavitt's auction, New York City, November, 1886.</p>
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="M2" id="M2"></a>2. <span class="smcap">LIVIUS, Titus.</span> Historiarum Romanarum libri I-X. Late 15th
+century.</p></div>
+
+<p>Vellum. 336 leaves, the last blank. 34 quires all having ten leaves,
+except the 17th and 34th which have eight each. 31 lines to the page;
+catchword placed at right angles with the last line of the quire; ruled
+on both sides with plummet. Leaf 14<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;10 in., text-page 9&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;6 in.</p>
+
+<p>Written in very regular, bold Italian minuscules of the period of the
+Renaissance.</p>
+
+<p>The first page of the preface is surrounded by an illuminated border in
+gold and colors in the Renaissance style of ornament, into which are
+introduced the Caraccioli arms belonging to the distinguished Neapolitan
+<span class='pagenum'>[4]<a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a></span>family of that name. The initial F on this page is historiated with a
+view of Rome, and each of the ten books has an eight-line initial of
+dull gold on a background of red, blue and green, with marginal
+ornamentation.</p>
+
+<p>From the close agreement, even in punctuation, between this MS. and the
+edition printed at Milan in 1495 by Ulrich Scinzenzeler for Alexander
+Minutianus, and from other features which forbid the supposition that
+one is taken directly from the other, we must conclude that they both
+reproduce a common ancestor.</p>
+
+<p>This MS. of the first Decade of Livy is in unusually fine preservation,
+and is bound in russia extra, with broad borders of gold and gilt
+marbled edges.</p>
+
+<p>Brought from Palermo by Dr. Anthony Askew (1722-1772), it was sold with
+his collection of MSS. in 1785. Michael Wodhull, Esq., of Thenford,
+Northamptonshire, who gave seven guineas for the volume at "White's
+sale" in March, 1798, added to his customary entry of these details on
+the fly-leaf this note: "This appears to be the very Book which I saw
+Sir W. Burrell purchase at Dr. Askew's manuscript Auction (No. 482) for
+thirty-two guineas; in Sir W. Burrell's Auction, May, 1796, it is said
+to have gone for about five (No. 657). The note in <i>Bib. Askev.
+manuscripta</i> is: 'Ex Panormo in Sicilia hunc cod. adduxit secum Cl.
+Askevius.' &amp; '300 annor. MSS. longe pulcherrimus.'"</p>
+
+<p>At the sale of the Wodhull library in January, 1886, the Livy MS. and
+the greater part of the 15th-century books hereinafter described were
+acquired by the donor of the collection, William Loring Andrews, M.A.,
+of New York City.</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[5]<a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a></span></p>
+
+
+<h2 class="chapterhead">PRINTED BOOKS</h2>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P1" id="P1"></a>1. BIBLIA LATINA. Moguntiae, Johannes Fust et Petrus Schoeffer, 14
+August, 1462.</p></div>
+
+<p>[Folio. 481 leaves, 2 columns, 48 lines to the column, gothic letter,
+without signatures, catchwords or pagination.]</p>
+
+<p>Leaves 204, 205 containing Judith xiv. 17&mdash;Esther iv. 4.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Fol. 204</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. 1</i> (red): expl<i>icit</i> liber iudith secundu<i>m</i>
+ieronimu<i>m</i>. Incipit p<i>r</i>ologus in libru<i>m</i> hester. <i>Col. 2</i> (red):
+Explicit p<i>r</i>olog<i>us</i>. Incip. liber hester. Hain *3050. Pellechet
+2281. Copinger 4. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 22. Burger pl. 74.
+De Ricci 79.</p></div>
+
+<p>Five-line initial of prologue and fourteen-line initial I of Esther i. 1
+supplied in colors. Heading of leaf in alternate red and blue capitals.
+Initial-strokes in red on text capitals. Measurement 16<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;11<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p>
+
+<p>The fourth printed Bible, and the first in which place, printers' names
+and date are given. These details, which are wanting in so many of the
+books of the early printers, Fust and Schoeffer&mdash;and Schoeffer when he
+carried on the business alone&mdash;rarely failed to add to anything large
+enough to be called a book that came from their press. This is their
+fifth book and the colophon attached to the first, the famous Psalter of
+1457, was repeated in them all, with no essential change beyond the
+date, and continued to do duty for ten years longer. In the present
+Bible among the typographical differences found in the copies are three
+varieties of the colophon, two of which however are identical in
+language and differ only in the printers' use of contractions and
+capitals. The more common of the forms affirms that: "This present work
+by the ingenious invention of printing or stamping letters <span class='pagenum'>[6]<a name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></a></span>without any
+scratching of the pen has been thus fashioned in the city of Mainz and
+to the worship of God has been diligently brought to completion by
+Johann Fust citizen and Peter Schoeffer clerk of the same diocese in the
+year of the Lord 1462, on the eve of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary."</p>
+
+<p>In Seymour de Ricci's "Catalogue raisonn&eacute; des premi&egrave;res impressions de
+Mayence (1445-1467)," Mainz, 1911, 61 known copies of this Bible, 36 of
+them on vellum, are enumerated and 41 copies which cannot now be traced.
+The fragment in our possession is entered (No. 115) as one leaf only,
+instead of two.</p>
+
+<p>The second dated Bible, the eleventh in the series of printed Bibles,
+was that of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471; the third was a reprint
+by Schoeffer in 1472 of the present edition, page for page, line for
+line and in the same type.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P2" id="P2"></a>2. JUSTINIANUS. Novellae constitutiones, sive Authenticum.
+Consuetudines feudorum. Codicis libri X-XII. Moguntiae, Petrus
+Schoeffer, 21 August, 1477.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>. [Text (red)]: In no<i>m</i>i<i>n</i>e d<i>omi</i>ni n<i>ost</i>ri ih<i>es</i>u
+chr<i>ist</i>i. de heredib<i>us</i> et falcidia <i>con</i>st<i>ituti</i>o prima si heres
+legata soluere noluerit Incipit co<i>n</i>stitutio Imp<i>er</i>atoris Iustiniani.
+a. Ioha<i>n</i>ni p<i>a</i>pe secu<i>n</i>do. [Commentary]: [I]N nomine d<i>omi</i>ni.
+Iustinianus opus suu<i>m</i> laudabile deo attribuit. <i>Fol. 169</i><span class="super">b</span>. Explicit
+liber aute<i>n</i>ticor<i>um</i>. <i>Fol. 170</i><span class="super2">a</span>. [Text (red)]: Incipiu<i>n</i>t
+<i>con</i>suetudines feudor<i>um</i>. <i>Fol. 206</i><span class="super2">a</span>. [Text (red)]: Codicis d<i>omi</i>ni
+iustiniani sacratissimi principis perpetui augusti repetite
+p<i>re</i>lectionis incipit liber decimus. <i>Fol. 300</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>
+(red): Anno incarnac<i>i</i>o<i>n</i>is d<i>omi</i>nice .M.cccc.lxxvii. xii. kale<i>n</i>dis
+septembrijs! Sanctissimo in chr<i>ist</i>o patre ac d<i>omi</i>no, d<i>omi</i>no Sixto
+p<i>a</i>pa .iiii. po<i>n</i>tifice maximo. Illustrissimo noblissime domus austrie
+d<i>omi</i>no, d<i>omi</i>no Friderico Romanorum Imp<i>er</i>atore inuictissimo,
+monarchie chr<i>is</i>tiane <span class='pagenum'>[7]<a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></a></span>d<i>omi</i>nis! Reuerendissimo deoq<i>ue</i> amabili in
+Chr<i>ist</i>o p<i>at</i>re ac d<i>omi</i>no, d<i>omi</i>no Diethero archip<i>re</i>sule
+Maguntino; in ciuitate Maguncia impressorie artis inue<i>n</i>trice atq<i>ue</i>
+elimatrice p<i>ri</i>ma .x. collac<i>i</i>onu<i>m</i> triu<i>m</i>q<i>ue</i> libroru<i>m</i> Codicu<i>m</i>
+opus egregiu<i>m</i>, Petrus Schoiffer de Gernsheim, glorioso faue<i>n</i>te deo
+suis consignando scutis, feliciter finiuit. [<span class="smcap">Printer's Device</span>
+in red.]</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. 1. Novellae: quires [1<span class="super">10</span>, 2<span class="super">8</span>, 3-6<span class="super">10</span>, 7-8<span class="super">6</span>, 9<span class="super">10</span>,
+10<span class="super">8</span>, 11-12<span class="super">10</span>, 13<span class="super">8</span>, 14<span class="super">10</span>, 15<span class="super">8</span>, 16<span class="super">6</span>, 17-18<span class="super">10</span>, 19<span class="super">10-1</span>
+(the blank second leaf cut away)], 169 leaves. 2. Consuetudines
+feudorum: quires [1-3<span class="super">10</span>, 4<span class="super">6</span>], 36 leaves. 3. Codicis libri
+X-XII: quires [1<span class="super">8</span>, 2<span class="super">10</span>, 3-5<span class="super">8</span>, 6<span class="super">10</span>, 7<span class="super">8</span>, 8<span class="super">4</span>, 9-10<span class="super">10</span>,
+11<span class="super">10+1</span> (the additional leaf prefixed)], 95 leaves. In all 300
+leaves, two columns of text and two of commentary, 51 lines of text
+and 66 of commentary to the column, gothic letter, without printed
+signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line spaces, some
+with guide-letters, left for capitals. Two pinholes, the use of
+which Schoeffer was thought to have abandoned a little earlier than
+the date of this volume. Titles and colophon printed in red. The
+text type is that of the Bible of 1462. Hain *9623. Brit. Mus. 15th
+cent., I, p. 33 (IC. 217).</p></div>
+
+<p>The first page of each of the three works is ornamented with a floral
+scroll border in colors. At the head of the several books are thirteen
+initials in gold and colors. Chapter initials in alternate red and blue;
+initial-strokes in red in both text and commentary.</p>
+
+<p>The present volume agrees in contents with the fifth and last volume of
+the Corpus juris as it is found arranged in the medieval MSS., except
+for the omission of the Institutiones, already sufficiently accessible
+in separate editions, of which no less than fifty were printed in the
+15th century, the first of them by Schoeffer himself in 1468. The first
+three volumes of the Corpus were occupied by the Digests, the fourth by
+the Codex lib. i-ix. The last three books of the Codex relate mainly to
+public law and having lost much of their importance were transferred to
+the fifth volume.</p>
+
+<p>That the order of the three parts in the present copy, viz. 1. Novellae,
+2. Consuetudines, 3. Codex lib. x-xii, is that intended by the printer,
+is clear both from the position and from the language of the
+colophon&mdash;the position because the colophon is attached to the Codex,
+and <span class='pagenum'>[8]<a name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></a></span>the language because it describes the volume as consisting of "the
+ten Collations and the three books of the Codes." The Novellae were
+usually divided by the commentators into nine Collations, perhaps, as
+Savigny suggests, to parallel the first nine books of the Codex.
+Sometimes, however, as in the present case, the Consuetudines feudorum
+were joined with them and reckoned as a tenth collation. Notwithstanding
+these plain indications, in the copy described by Hain *9623, and in the
+British Museum copy (as at present, though not as originally, bound),
+the Codex x-xii is placed between the Novellae and the Consuetudines,
+thus removing the colophon from its natural place at the end of the
+volume. In the first edition of these works, printed by Vitus Puecher,
+Rome, 1476, they were placed in the order last named, but the colophon
+was there attached to the Consuetudines.</p>
+
+<p>After the death of his father-in-law and partner Fust, late in 1466 or
+early in 1467, Schoeffer conducted the press alone until his death in
+1502. After 1478, however, his activity as a printer was much
+diminished.</p>
+
+<p>The present large and fine copy (leaf 15<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;11<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.), with the
+manuscript signatures still in part preserved, is from the library of
+Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831) of Syston Park, Lincolnshire, sold
+in December, 1884. In the Meerman sale at the Hague, 1824, this same
+copy, bound as at present in russia gilt, sold for 64 florins.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P3" id="P3"></a>3. ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. Etymologiarum libri XX. [Strassburg, Johann
+Mentelin, c. 1473.]</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: INCIPIT EPISTOLA ISIDORI IVNIORIS
+HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI AD BRAVLIONEM CESARAVGVSTANVM EPISCOPVM. [Three
+other letters to the same and two replies; tabula generalis.] <i>Fol. 3</i><span class="super">b</span><i>,
+col. 2</i>: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA PRIMI LIBRI. INCIPIT LIBER PRIMVS
+ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI. DE DIS<span class='pagenum'>[9]<a name="Page_9" id="Page_9"></a></span>CIPLINA ET ARTE.
+<i>Fol. 27</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. 1</i>: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. <i>Fol. 27</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col.
+2</i>: PREFACIO. [D]Omino et filio syseputo ysidor<i>us</i>..... INCIPIT LIBER
+YSIDORI DE RERVM NATVRA AD SISEPVTVM REGEM. <i>Fol. 37</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, col. 2</i>:
+INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. INCIPIT LIBER QVARTVS DE MEDICINA.
+<i>Fol. 142</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: EXPLICIT LIBER ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI
+HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1-13<span class="super">10</span>, 14<span class="super">12</span>], 142 leaves, the first blank, 2
+columns, 51 lines to the column, without signatures, catchwords,
+pagination, printer's name, place or date. Gothic lower-case type,
+roman capitals. Book and chapter headings printed wholly in
+majuscules. Large woodcut diagrams. Three-to nine-line spaces left
+for chapter and book initials, also spaces for occasional Greek
+words (mostly left unsupplied) and for small diagrams. Two
+pinholes, which in Mentelin's use point to a date not later than
+1473. Hain *9270. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 57 (IC. 586). Burger
+pl. 170.</p></div>
+
+<p>On the first page large illuminated initial with floral border ornament,
+and similar initials at the head of the several books. Chapter initials
+supplied in red or blue; initial-strokes in red throughout the volume.
+Blank first leaf wanting.</p>
+
+<p>Incorporated with the present edition of the Etymologiae by way of
+supplement, though not named in the table of contents, is an earlier
+treatise of Isidore's entitled <i>De natura rerum</i>, written at the request
+of Sisebut, king of the Visigoths, 612-621, and dedicated to him. It
+contains the sum of the physical philosophy of his time, and, being
+largely astronomical, is sometimes found in the MSS. under the title
+<i>Liber de astronomia</i>. In order to bring it into immediate connection
+with the corresponding section of the Etymologiae, it is placed
+immediately after the third book (devoted to the <i>quadrivium</i>, the last
+division of which is astronomy) and given irregularly the heading "Liber
+quartus," the regular <i>Liber quartus (De medicina)</i> beginning twenty
+pages later. Two of the 48 chapters of which it is composed are wanting
+here, but by the subdivision of other chapters the
+<span class='pagenum'>[10]<a name="Page_10" id="Page_10"></a></span>number is raised to
+58. Zainer of Augsburg, the printer of the first edition of the
+Etymologiae, dated 19 November, 1472, followed it the next month with an
+edition of <i>De responsione mundi et astrorum ordinatione ad Sesibutum
+regem</i>, which is the work in question under another title. Printed with
+the same type and the same number of lines to the page, it was in effect
+treated as a supplement to the Etymologiae.</p>
+
+<p>According to the testimony of a fellow printer, de Lignamine, in the
+"Chronica summorum Pontificum," Rome, 1474, Mentelin as early as 1458
+was printing at Strassburg 300 sheets a day. The third Latin Bible
+(1460-1461) and the first German Bible came from his press, but the
+first work to which he affixed his name and a date was the <i>Speculum
+historiale</i> of Vincent of Beauvais in 1473. He died in 1478.</p>
+
+<p>The Wodhull copy, bought at "Hayes's sale" in 1794 for &pound;5.5s., and bound
+in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, by Mrs. Weir for &pound;1.2s. Leaf
+15<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;11 in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P4" id="P4"></a>4. GESTA ROMANORUM. [Cologne, Ulrich Zell, c. 1473.]</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Ex gestis romanor<i>um</i> hystorie no<i>ta</i>biles:
+de vitijs v<i>ir</i>tutibusq<i>ue</i> tracta<i>n</i>tes: cu<i>m</i> applicac<i>i</i>onib<i>us</i>
+moralizatis et misticis: Incipiunt feliciter. <i>Fol. 160</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. 1</i>,
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Ex gestis ro<i>ma</i>no<i>rum</i> cu<i>m</i> plurib<i>u</i>s applicatis
+historijs: de v<i>ir</i>tutib<i>us</i> et vitijs mistice ad intellectum
+tra<i>n</i>ssum<i>p</i>tis Recollectorij finis est feliciter. LAVS. DEO. <i>Fol.
+160</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. 2</i>: Incipiu<i>n</i>t tituli numerorum om<i>n</i>i<i>u</i>m capitulo<i>rum</i> et
+exemplo<i>rum</i>. <i>Fol. 163</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Tabula o<i>mn</i>i<i>u</i>m exe<i>m</i>plo<i>rum</i> <i>et</i>
+capitulo<i>rum</i> op<i>er</i>is pr&aelig;cedentis. sec<i>un</i>d<i>u</i>m ordine<i>m</i> alphabeti.
+<i>Fol. 170</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Explicit tabula. <i>Fol. 170</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2
+columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures,
+catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to
+five-line spaces left for capitals. One pinhole in side margin,
+others possibly cut away in binding. Hain 7734, Pellechet 5247.
+Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 196 (IB. 2994).</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[11]<a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>On fol. 2<span class="super2">a</span> and 163<span class="super2">a</span> five-line initials in blue with graceful pen
+decoration in red. Initials of chapters and morals supplied in alternate
+red and blue. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red; headings
+underlined in red. Blank first leaf wanting.</p>
+
+<p>This edition of the Gesta contains 181 chapters and appears to have been
+preceded only by another undated edition printed at Utrecht by Ketelaer
+and Leempt, in long lines, with 152 chapters and no index.</p>
+
+<p>Ulrich Zell was the first printer of Cologne. His first dated book was
+issued in 1466 and he continued to print quite up to the close of the
+fifteenth century. Nearly all his books are, like the present, without
+place, date or printer's name. Of the 177 books which he is known to
+have printed, the British Museum possesses 123.</p>
+
+<p>The Wodhull copy, bound in russia, gilt edges. Leaf 10<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;7<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.
+Mem. on fly-leaf: "Pateson's Auction. &pound;5.5s; washing, cleaning, mending
+and binding by Roger Payne &pound;1.2s.6d. M. Wodhull, May 25th, 1786."</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P5" id="P5"></a>5. GREGORIUS I. Homili&aelig; XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, G&uuml;nther
+Zainer.] 28 August, 1473.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Ordo .xl. omeliaru<i>m</i> beati gregorij pape ad secundinu<i>m</i>
+episcopum Thauronitaru<i>m</i>. <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>: SEQVITVR EPISTOLA
+[R]Euerendissimo et sa<i>n</i>ctissimo frati secundino coepiscopo.
+Gregori<i>us</i> seruus seruoru<i>m</i> dei. <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: EXPLICIT EPISTOLA INCIPIT
+EWANGELIVM. S. LVCAM.... Omelia prima beati Gregorij pape. <i>Fol. 141</i><span class="super">b</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Adeptus est finis amba<i>rum</i> parciu<i>m</i> omelia<i>rum</i>
+beatissimi gregorii pape vrbis rome jn die s<i>an</i>cti hermetis sub Anno
+d<i>omi</i>ni M cccc lxxiij. <i>Fol. 142</i><span class="super2">a</span>: <i>Table of the homilies in the
+order of the liturgical year.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1-13<span class="super">10</span>, 14<span class="super">12</span>], 142 leaves, 33 lines to the
+page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
+place or printer's name. Two- and three-line spaces left for
+capitals, which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and
+initial-strokes in red. Hain *7948, Pellechet 5366. Brit. Mus. 15th
+cent., II, p. 319 (IB. 5457).</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[12]<a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>Gregory's Homilies, of which this is the first edition, and the three
+next following works bound with it, are from the press of G&uuml;nther
+Zainer, of Reutlingen, the first printer of Augsburg. All are in the
+same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by
+the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently
+printed at about the same time. He was the first printer in Germany to
+make use of roman type, of which the earliest example seems to have been
+his "Calendarium pro anno 1472." He died in 1478, ten years after the
+appearance of his first dated book.</p>
+
+<p>The Wodhull copy, bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt. Leaf 12&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;8<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span>
+in. Mem. on fly-leaf: "Payne's sale. &pound;2.12.6, binding and restoring
+17s.6d. These four pieces were taken out of old monastic binding. M.
+Wodhull, Jan. 5th, 1795."</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P6" id="P6"></a>6. PSALTERIUM LATINUM. [Augsburg, G&uuml;nther Zainer, c. 1473.]</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Prologus beati jeronimi p<i>re</i>sbiteri in psalteriu<i>m</i> q<i>uo</i>d
+ipse de hebraico transtulit in latinu<i>m</i> [E]Vsebius jeronim<i>us</i>
+soffronio suo salutem. <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>: Explicit p<i>ro</i>logus beati jeronimi.
+Incipit psalterium Psalmos dauid primus. <i>Fol. 51</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Canticu<i>m</i> Ysaie
+capitulo lxxij (<i>sic</i>), <i>followed by cantica of Hezekiah, Hannah, Moses
+(2), Habakkuk</i>. <i>Fol. 54</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Explicit tra<i>ns</i>lacio
+soli<i>lo</i>q<i>ui</i>oru<i>m</i> siue psalterij beatissimi Ieronimi eusebii
+p<i>resbiteri</i> q<i>uo</i>d ad peti<i>ci</i>one<i>m</i> soffronij tra<i>n</i>stulit ut in
+ep<i>isto</i>la<i>m</i> ante psalteriu<i>m</i> imp<i>re</i>ssa p<i>rae</i>mittit<i>ur</i> <i>etc.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1-5<span class="super">10</span>, 6<span class="super">4</span>], 54 leaves, 33 lines to the page,
+gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place,
+printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for initials,
+which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in
+red. Hain *13470. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5560).</p></div>
+
+<p>Jerome's final translations of the Old Testament books direct from the
+Hebrew were all adopted into the received Latin version, the Vulgate,
+except this of the Psalms.<span class='pagenum'>[13]<a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a></span>
+Here his earlier revision of the old Italic
+version on the basis of the Septuagint had become so firmly established
+in liturgical use that the translation from the Hebrew, though more
+exact, could not displace it. This appears to be the first printed
+edition.</p>
+
+<p>Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homili&aelig;.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P7" id="P7"></a>7. MODUS PERVENIENDI AD SUMMAM SAPIENTIAM. [Augsburg, G&uuml;nther Zainer,
+c. 1473.]</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: [S]Entite de do<i>m</i>ino in bo<i>n</i>itate e<i>t</i> in simplicitate
+cordis q<i>uae</i>rite illu<i>m</i>. <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Explicit prologus Incipit modus
+ad summam p<i>er</i>veniendi sapienciam. <i>Fol. 24</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, l. 33</i>, <span class="smcap">End</span>:
+sibi sparso diuinit<i>us</i> in ip<i>sum</i> ardentissime se extendit <i>etc.</i> <i>Fol.
+24</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1-2<span class="super">10</span>, 3<span class="super">4</span>], 24 leaves, 33 lines to the page,
+gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination, place,
+printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for capitals,
+which are supplied in red. Initial-strokes in red. Hain *11490.
+Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5531).</p></div>
+
+<p>Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P8" id="P8"></a>8. HUGO de SANCTO VICTORE. Soliloquium de arrha animae. [Augsburg,
+G&uuml;nther Zainer.] 12 October, 1473.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Incipit soliloquium beatissimi Augustini episcopi yponensi
+(<i>sic</i>) de arra anime. <i>Fol. 7</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">End</span>: Rapt<i>us</i> est finis
+hui<i>us</i> tractat<i>us</i> August<i>in</i>i de arra ani<i>m</i>e. feria t<i>er</i>cia post
+festu<i>m</i> s<i>an</i>cti Dyonisy Anno d<i>omi</i>ni lxxiij <i>etc.</i> <i>Fol. 8, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. 8 leaves, the last blank, 33 lines to the page, gothic
+letter, without place or printer's name. Three-line space for first
+initial and initial-strokes supplied in red. Blank last leaf
+wanting. Hain *2021. Pellechet 1525. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., p. 319
+(IB. 5451).</p></div>
+
+<p>The author of the work here directly ascribed to St. Augustine was the
+mystic theologian Hugo de Sancto Victore (1097-1140), member of the
+Canons Regular of St. Augustine and head of the abbey school of St.
+Victor, near Paris. From his familiarity with the writings of<span class='pagenum'>[14]<a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a></span>
+Augustine and likeness to his spirit, he was styled <i>Alter Augustinus</i>, a title
+which furnishes a plausible but not wholly satisfactory explanation of
+the confusion in the present case. For among the spurious writings which
+have been put under Augustine's name more than one has been borrowed
+from this author. For example, chapters 5-10 of the <i>Liber de diligendo
+Deo</i> are taken almost word for word from the present treatise.</p>
+
+<p>In the present edition of this soliloquy cast in the form of a dialogue
+the interlocutors are <i>Augustinus</i> and <i>Anima</i> (both names always
+printed in capitals); in a Strassburg edition of about the same date,
+<i>Hugo</i> and <i>anima sua</i>; in the collected edition of Hugo's works, <i>homo</i>
+and <i>anima</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P9" id="P9"></a>9. <span class="smcap">CARACCIOLUS, Robertus</span>, de Licio. Opus quadragesimale quod
+de poenitentia dictum est. Venetiis, Wendelinus de Spira, 20 July, 1472.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Hec est tabula omniu<i>m</i> sermonu<i>m</i>
+contentorum hoc in uolumine. <i>Fol. 3</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Sacre theologie magistri necnon
+sacri eloquij preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis
+Minor<i>um</i> professoris op<i>us</i> quadragesimale p<i>er</i>utilissimum quod de
+penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit. <i>Fol. 267</i><span class="super2">a</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Vendelinus ego gentis <i>co</i>gnomine spiere!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Roberti haec caste purgata uolumi<i>n</i>a pressi!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sedis apostolice Romano praeside Sixto<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Magnanimo <i>et</i> uenetum Nicolao pr<i>in</i>cipe Truno<br /></span>
+<span class="i5">M.cccclxxij.xx.quintilis.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 267</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, 268, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 269</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Sermo i<i>n</i> festo
+a<i>n</i>nu<i>n</i>tiat<i>i</i>o<i>n</i>is u<i>ir</i>ginis marie <i>et</i> eiusdem Roberti cum tribus
+(<i>sic</i>) aliis sermonib<i>us</i> seque<i>n</i>tib<i>us</i>. s. de p<i>re</i>destinato
+nume<i>ro</i> damnator<i>um</i> <i>et</i> de cathenis. <i>Fol. 289</i><span class="super">b</span>: Finis triu<i>m</i>
+sermonu<i>m</i> Fratris Roberti... <i>Fol. 290, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1-7<span class="super">10</span>, 8<span class="super">12</span>, 9-11<span class="super">10</span>, 12<span class="super">8</span>, 13-15<span class="super">10</span>,
+16<span class="super">8</span>, 17-27<span class="super">10</span>, 28-30<span class="super">6</span>, 31<span class="super">4</span>], 290 leaves, 1, 268, 290 blank, 40
+lines to the page, gothic letter, without <span class='pagenum'>[15]<a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a></span>
+signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces with
+guide-letters left for initials. Two pinholes on side. Initials and
+paragraph-marks supplied in red. Blank leaf 268 wanting. Hain-Copinger
+4424. Pellechet 3244. Proctor 3524.</p></div>
+
+<p>Wendelin of Speier succeeded in 1470 to the press established in 1469 by
+his brother John, the first printer of Venice, who lived to complete
+only four books. Gothic type was introduced into Italy by Wendelin.</p>
+
+<p>Roberto Caraccioli, born at Lecce in 1425, was bishop of his native city
+from 1484 to 1495. The great reputation which these sermons enjoyed is
+attested by the fact that four editions, three of them printed in
+Venice, appeared in 1472, and four more in 1473, one of which was
+Wendelin's second edition, an exact reprint of the present.</p>
+
+<p>The Wodhull copy, bought at the sale of the library of Samuel Tyssen, in
+1801, for &pound;1.1s., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a
+further cost of 19 shillings. Leaf 10<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">8</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;7<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P10" id="P10"></a>10. <span class="smcap">VALLA, Laurentius.</span> Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Venetiis,
+Nicolaus Jenson, 1471.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS ELega<i>n</i>tia<i>rum</i> co<i>m</i>pendios&aelig;
+collectio<i>n</i>is in ordinem alphabeti direct&aelig; principium. <i>Fol. 9</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>,
+blank.</i> <i>Fol. 9</i><span class="super">b</span>: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS VIRI CLARISSIMI ET DE LINGVA
+LATINA BENE MERENTIS AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM: CVI OPUS
+ELEGANTIARVM LINGVAE LATINAE DEDICAT EPISTOLA. <i>Fol. 11</i><span class="super2">a</span>: LAVRENTII
+VALLENSIS PATRICII ROMANI COMMENTARIORVM GRAMMATICORVM SECVNDVM
+ELEGANTIAM LINGVAE LATINAE LIBER PRIMVS DE NOMINE VERBOQVE. ET EX HIS
+DVOBVS COMPOSITO PARTICIPIO INCTPIT PROOEMIVM. <i>Fol. 159</i><span class="super">b</span>: LAVRENTII
+VALLENSIS DE LANGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA TERTIVS LIBER FINIT: INCIPIT
+IIII. DE NOMINVM<span class='pagenum'>[16]<a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a></span>
+SIGNIFICATIONIBVS. [<i>For</i> TERTIVS <i>read</i> QVINTUS;
+<i>for</i> IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS <i>read</i> VI. DE NOTIS
+SCRIPTORVM.] <i>Fol. 190</i><span class="super2">a</span>: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE
+ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM LIBER
+INCIPIT. <i>Fol. 200</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE
+LATINAE ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM
+ARETINVM PER ME M. NICOLAVM IENSON VENETIIS OPVS FELICITER IMPRESSVM
+EST. M.CCCCLXXI. <i>Fol. 201, 202, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1<span class="super">8</span>, 2<span class="super">12</span>, 3-4<span class="super">10</span>, 5<span class="super">12</span>, 6-7<span class="super">10</span>, 8<span class="super">12</span>,
+9<span class="super">14</span>, 10-11<span class="super">10</span>, 12<span class="super">12</span>, 13<span class="super">8</span>, 14<span class="super">6</span>, 15-19<span class="super">10</span>, 20<span class="super">8</span>], 202
+leaves, the last two blank, roman letter, 39 lines to the page,
+without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line
+spaces left for capitals and spaces also for Greek words, to be
+supplied in manuscript. Two pinholes on side. The type is Jenson's
+first font. Hain 15802. Proctor 4071.</p></div>
+
+<p>At the head of the first page is a large initial of the interlaced vine
+pattern in gold and colors, with a border of the same pattern enclosing
+the entire page. The remaining five books, the prefatory epistle and the
+supplement <i>De ego, mei et sui</i> are introduced by initials of the same
+size and style. Alternate red and blue capitals at the head of chapters,
+paragraph-marks also in red and blue.</p>
+
+<p>A few of the spaces left for Greek words are filled in manuscript, but
+more are left vacant. When Jenson later in the same year printed
+Cicero's Letters, he was provided with Greek type. The blank fol. 9<span class="super2">a</span> is
+occupied by a transcript in an early hand of the greater part of lib. i,
+cap. iv (<i>De ficu</i>), from a MS. the readings of which differ materially
+from the printed text.</p>
+
+<p>For the purposes of the index the six books have been divided into a
+continuous series of 479 chapters, designated in the margins of the text
+by manuscript roman numerals, but in the index by printed numerals. The
+<span class='pagenum'>[17]<a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a></span>
+references are not, as in later editions, to book and chapter, but to
+chapters only. The index, alphabetized by the first letter of the word
+only, printed on different paper and forming a separate quire, is here
+placed at the beginning of the volume; but traces of earlier manuscript
+signatures still remaining, bear witness to a former order in which the
+text preceded the index, as is still the case in some copies of this
+edition.</p>
+
+<p>Most of Jenson's early books were folios. But notwithstanding the size
+of the leaf (13&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;8 in.), this is a quarto, as both the direction of the
+chain-lines and the position of the water-mark prove. However, because
+of the limitations of the early presses, it was doubtless printed on
+half-sheets, folio-wise, two pages at most at one impression.</p>
+
+<p>Of the twenty-four 15th-century editions of the <i>Elegantiae</i> the three
+earliest, one of which was Jenson's, were printed in 1471.</p>
+
+<p>Although the tradition that Nicolas Jenson, master of the mint at Tours,
+was sent by Charles VII. in 1458 to Mainz to learn the secrets of the
+newly discovered art of printing is otherwise unsupported and, in view
+of the manner in which the invention was afterwards carried to France as
+well as to other countries by private initiative, improbable, he was
+already a master of the art, wherever and however acquired, when he
+established in 1470 the press which held the leading place at Venice
+until his death in 1480.</p>
+
+<p>The present exceptionally fine copy of the <i>Elegantiae</i>, bound in citron
+morocco, with gold borders and gilt edges, is the Wodhull copy, bought
+in 1786 of Payne for &pound;10.10s.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P11" id="P11"></a>11. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C. Naturalis historia. Venetiis, Nicolaus
+Jenson, 1472.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: CAIVS PLYNIVS MARCO SVO SALVTEM. <i>Fol.
+4</i><span class="super2">a</span>: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI<span class='pagenum'>[18]<a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a></span>
+NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .I. CAIVS PLYNIVS
+SECVNDVS NOVOCOMENSIS DOMITIANO SVO SALVTEM. PRAEFATIO. <i>Fol. 21</i><span class="super2">a</span>:
+CAII PLINII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .II. <i>Fol. 355</i><span class="super2">a</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBRI
+TRICESIMI SEPTIMI ET VLTIMI FINIS IMPRESSI VENETIIS PER NICOLAVM IENSON
+GALLICVM .M.CCCC.LXXII. NICOLAO TRONO INCLYTO VENETIARVM DVCE. <i>Followed
+by</i>: Iohannis andre&aelig; episcopi aleriensis ad pontificem summum Paulum
+secundum uenetum epistola. <i>Fol. 356</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Hereneus lugdunensis episcopus:
+item Iustinus ex philosopho martyr: item cum diuo Hieronymo Eusebius
+c&aelig;sariensis: serio posteritatem adiurarunt: ut eorum descripturi opera
+conferrent diligenter exemplaria: et sollerti studio emendarent. Idem
+ego tum in c&aelig;teris libris omnibus tum maxime i<i>n</i> Plynio ut fiat;
+uehementer obsecro: obtestor: atq<i>ue</i> adiuro: ne ad priora menda: <i>et</i>
+tenebras i<i>n</i>extricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabat<i>ur</i>. Instauratu<i>m</i>
+aliqua<i>n</i>tulu<i>m</i> sub romano po<i>n</i>tifice maximo Paulo secu<i>n</i>do ueneto.
+<i>Fol. 356</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1<span class="super">12</span>, 2<span class="super">8</span>, 3-8<span class="super">10</span>, 9<span class="super">12</span>, 10-15<span class="super">10</span>, 16<span class="super">8</span>,
+17-27<span class="super">10</span>, 28<span class="super">6</span>, 29-30<span class="super">10</span>, 31-35<span class="super">8</span>, 36<span class="super">12</span>, 37<span class="super">8</span>], 356 leaves,
+first blank, 50 lines to the page, roman letter, without
+signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to twelve-line spaces
+left for capitals, with guide-letters; also spaces for occasional
+Greek words. Greek type sparingly used, oftener transliteration in
+roman. Two pinholes. Hain *13089. Proctor 4087. Morgan Cat. II, p.
+39, n. 297.</p></div>
+
+<p>The rubrication of the present copy is not only elaborate but also of
+unusual merit. The first of the twelve-line initials of the thirty-seven
+books is finely illuminated in gold and colors. The others, in the
+outlines of which grotesque features are occasionally introduced, are
+set off by skilful pen-work, harmonizing in general effect, but
+carefully avoiding repetition in details. The chapter initials also, a
+thousand or more in number, in alternate red and blue, or red and green,
+have much variety and grace. The initial L, for example, occurring
+twenty-eight times in the first book, is never repeated in the same form
+<span class='pagenum'>[19]<a name="Page_19" id="Page_19"></a></span>
+and color. The blank fol. 3<span class="super">b</span> is occupied by the name Jesus in very
+large and ornate characters, in different colors, surrounded by scroll
+and figure decoration. The Bagneri arms, included in the ornamentation
+of the first initial, point to an early ownership of the volume, and the
+arms of the Antella family of Florence at the foot of the first page, to
+a later ownership.</p>
+
+<p>The introductory epistle of the younger Pliny, describing his uncle's
+manner of life, was addressed to his friend Macer, who here becomes
+Marcus by the easy transposition of Macro to Marco. Less easily
+explained is the substitution in the dedication of Domitian for his
+brother Titus Vespasian, to whom Pliny dedicated the work.</p>
+
+<p>Two editions of the <i>Naturalis Historia</i> preceded this, the first
+printed by John of Speier in 1469, with a five years' privilege from the
+Venetian senate, which expired at his death in 1470, the second by
+Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1470. With the first of these, Jenson's
+edition agrees in the number of pages and of lines to the page. From the
+second he reprinted the letter addressed by the editor Johannes Andreas,
+Bishop of Aleria, to his patron Pope Paul II., and the earnest appeal
+for care on the part of any who should reprint his Pliny, "<i>ne ad priora
+menda et tenebras inextricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabatur</i>." Fifteen
+more editions were printed before the close of the 15th century.
+Jenson's Pliny is generally regarded as the finest production of his
+press. The type is his first font.</p>
+
+<p>The Wodhull copy, bought of Thomas Payne, book-seller, in 1791 for
+&pound;12.12s., and bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on
+side, at the additional cost of &pound;1. Leaf 15<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;10<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P12" id="P12"></a>12. NONIUS MARCELLUS. De compendiosa doctrina. Venetiis, Nicolaus
+Jenson, 1476.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2-20, alphabetical index.</i> <i>Fol. 21, blank.</i>
+<i>Fol. 22</i><span class="super2">a</span>: NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI
+<span class='pagenum'>[20]<a name="Page_20" id="Page_20"></a></span> TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA
+DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM. <i>Fol. 194</i><span class="super2">a</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA
+DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM IMPRESSA VENETIIS INDVSTRIA
+ATQVE IMPENDIO NICOLAI IENSON GALLICI. .M.CCCC.LXXVI. <i>Fol. 194</i><span class="super">b</span><i>,
+blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. a-c<span class="super">10</span>, d-y<span class="super">8</span>, z<span class="super">12</span>, 194 leaves, 1 and 21 blank,
+34 lines to the page, roman letter, without catchwords or
+pagination. Seven- and eight-line spaces left for capitals, some
+with guide-letters. The type is Jenson's first roman trimmed or
+recast the second time on a slightly smaller body. Greek words as a
+rule printed with Greek type, not transliterated. Hain 11901.
+Proctor 4098.</p></div>
+
+<p>On the first page of text a large initial S in gold on a panel of color,
+with marginal decoration. Other large chapter initials in red and blue
+alternately. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. Blank
+first leaf wanting.</p>
+
+<p>The index, which occupies the first nineteen leaves, is alphabetized as
+far as the second letter of the word. The references are by roman
+numerals to the leaves (not pages) of the work, which themselves have
+only manuscript foliation in arabic figures.</p>
+
+<p>The first edition of Nonius was printed at Rome in 1470 by Lauer; the
+second, in 1471, was without place or name. Jenson's edition, which is
+the third, borrowed from both of these but added also something of
+value. The correct title, <i>De compendiosa doctrina</i>, first appears here.
+The usual title, <i>De proprietate sermonum</i>, belongs strictly to the
+first chapter. As in all the early editions, the third chapter is
+lacking, having been discovered later and first included in the 1513
+edition of Aldus. Jenson's Greek type long remained in favor for
+incidental use in Latin books after it had been displaced in Greek books
+by Aldine types.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[21]<a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Wodhull copy, "Payne's sale, &pound;5.5s., January, 1792." Bound by Roger
+Payne in red morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 11&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;8 in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P13" id="P13"></a>13. <span class="smcap">DULLAERT, Johannes</span>, de Janduno or Gandavo. Quaestiones
+super tres libros Aristotelis de anima. Venetiis, Franciscus de Hailbrun
+et Nicolaus de Franckfordia socii, 1473.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, blank. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>: Tabula q<i>ue</i>stio<i>n</i>u<i>m</i> d<i>omi</i>ni Joh<i>ann</i>is de
+Janduno sup<i>er</i> tres libros de anima Aristotelis. <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: [I]Nest
+enim me<i>n</i>tib<i>us</i> hominu<i>m</i> Veri boni naturalis inserta cupiditas. <i>Fol.
+92</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Expliciunt questiones d<i>omi</i>ni Joh<i>ann</i>is de
+Janduno sup<i>er</i> tres libros de a<i>n</i>i<i>m</i>a Ar<i>istotelis</i> i<i>m</i>presse
+Venetijs p<i>er</i> Franciscu<i>m</i> de Hailbrun <i>et</i> Nicolau<i>m</i> de Franckfordia
+socios. M.CCCCLXXiii.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1-8<span class="super">10</span>, 9<span class="super">12</span>], 92 leaves, 2 columns, 71 lines to
+the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or
+pagination. Six- to twelve-line spaces left for capitals. Two
+pinholes. Arabic figures used to the exclusion of roman numerals
+not only in table of contents, but throughout the text to mark
+subdivisions of the argument or individual books of a treatise.
+Hain 7458. Burger pl. 99.</p></div>
+
+<p>On first page of text a twenty-four line initial illuminated in gold and
+colors, with border ornament. Book and chapter initials in alternate red
+and blue. Arabic numerals, which made their first appearance in printed
+books in 1470, were very sparingly used even at a considerably later
+date than 1473.</p>
+
+<p>The author, commonly known as Johannes de Gandavo (Ghent), of the early
+part of the 14th century, wrote commentaries also on other works of
+Aristotle. Of the present work five editions, of which this is the
+first, were printed at Venice in the 15th century.</p>
+
+<p>Franz Renner of Heilbronn conducted a press at Venice from 1471 to 1483,
+having as partner from 1473 to 1477 Nicolas of Frankfort. The present
+volume is printed in a small round-faced gothic type, the second of the
+nine fonts which he used.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[22]<a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Wodhull copy, bought at the Maffei Pinelli sale, London, 1789, for
+&pound;1.13s. Bound in hf. vellum. Leaf 16<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;11<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P14" id="P14"></a>14. ARISTOTELES. Libri de animalibus interprete Theodoro Gaza.
+Venetiis, Johannes de Colonia sociusque Johannes Manthen, 1476.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: THEODORI: GEAECI: THESSALONICENSIS:
+PRAEFATIO: IN LIBROS: DE ANIMALIBVS: ARISTOTELIS: PHILOSOPHI: AD XYSTVM:
+QVARTVM: MAXIMVM. <i>Fol. 7</i><span class="super">b</span>: ARISTOTELIS: DE HISTORIA: ANIMALIVM: LIBER
+PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. <i>Fol. 131</i><span class="super2">a</span>: ARISTOTELIS DE PARTIBVS
+ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. <i>Fol. 184</i><span class="super2">a</span>: ARISTOTELIS DE
+GENERATIONE ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. <i>Fol. 250</i><span class="super">b</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Finiunt libri de animalibus Aristotelis interprete
+Theodoro Gaze. V. clarissimo: quos Ludouicus podocatharus Cyprius ex
+Archetypo ipsius Theodori fideliter <i>et</i> dilige<i>n</i>ter auscultauit: <i>et</i>
+formulis imprimi curauit Venetiis per Iohannem de Colonia sociu<i>m</i>q<i>ue</i>
+eius Iohanne<i>m</i> ma<i>n</i>the<i>n</i> de Gherretze<i>m</i>. Anno domini .M.CCCC.LXXVI.
+<i>Fol. 251</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Tabula cartarum secundum ordinem ponendarum. <i>Fol. 251</i><span class="super">b</span><i>,
+252, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. a-b<span class="super">10</span>, c-d<span class="super">8</span>, e<span class="super">10</span>, f<span class="super">8</span>, g<span class="super">10</span>, h<span class="super">8</span>, i<span class="super">10</span>,
+k<span class="super">8</span>, l-t<span class="super">10</span>, u<span class="super">8</span>, x<span class="super">10</span>, aa-dd<span class="super">10</span>, ee<span class="super">8</span>, ff<span class="super">6</span>. 252 leaves, the
+first and the last blank, roman letter, 35 lines to the page,
+without pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces left for initials,
+with guide-letters. Hain *1699. Proctor 4312. Morgan Cat., II, p.
+48, n. 313. Burger pl. 199.</p></div>
+
+<p>The border surrounding the first page of text, and eighteen initials of
+the several books, are illuminated in gold and colors. Chapter initials
+supplied in red and blue alternately.</p>
+
+<p>Printed signatures, which appear to have been first introduced by
+Zarotto of Milan in 1470, and a register of sheets, first used by John
+of Cologne in 1475, are both found in this volume. The register, which
+may give only the number of sheets in each of the quires, or the
+<span class='pagenum'>[23]<a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a></span>first
+word of each sheet of the quire, is here of the latter kind.
+Unfortunately two sheets escaped registration and the words are supplied
+in manuscript.</p>
+
+<p>Three separate treatises of Aristotle are contained in this volume:
+Historia de animalibus libri ix; De partibus animalium libri iv; De
+generatione animalium libri v.</p>
+
+<p>Theodore Gaza, the translator, was a learned Greek from Thessalonica,
+who took up his residence in Italy on the capture of his native city by
+the Turks. The translation was made at the instance of Nicolas V., who
+had invited him to Rome in 1450, but was first printed in the present
+edition (Venice, 1476) and dedicated in a flattering epistle of eleven
+pages to the reigning pope, Sixtus IV. The fifty scudi which the pope
+sent in acknowledgment of the dedication copy Gaza is said to have
+thrown in disgust into the Tiber. It is interesting to note in this
+connection that while the Venice editions of 1492 and 1498 retain the
+name of Sixtus IV. in the dedication, Aldus after having omitted the
+epistle altogether in his 1504 edition, in that of 1513 quietly
+substituted the name of Nicolas V., the earlier and worthier patron,
+without a word of change in the language of the dedication itself. Later
+editions have followed the example of Aldus.</p>
+
+<p>John of Cologne, established as a printer at Venice as early as 1471,
+was associated 1472-1473 with Wendelin of Speier, whose business and
+types he took over in 1474. He had as partner, 1474-1480, John Manthen,
+and in 1480, Nicolas Jenson. The type of the <i>Aristotle</i> is a close
+imitation of the first font of John and Wendelin of Speier.</p>
+
+<p>The Wodhull copy, bought at the Pinelli sale for &pound;2.12s.6d. Bound in hf.
+vellum. Leaf 12&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;8<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P15" id="P15"></a>15. UBERTINUS DE CASALI. Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu. Venetiis,
+Andreas de Bonetis de Papia, 12 March, 1485.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: INCIPIT PROLOGVS IN
+LI<span class='pagenum'>[24]<a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a></span>BRVM QVI INTITVLATVR
+ARBOR VITE CRVCIFIXE IESV. ET DICITVR OPVS VBERTINI DE CASALI. QVI FVIT
+FRATER PROFESSVS ORDINIS MINORVM BEATI FRANCISCI. <i>Fol. 4</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, col. 2</i>:
+Explicit p<i>ri</i>mus p<i>ro</i>logus. Incipit secu<i>n</i>dus. <i>Fol. 5</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, col. 2</i>:
+Explicit p<i>ro</i>logus secundus. Incipit liber primus. <i>Fol. 248</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col.
+2</i>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Liber qui intitulatur Arbor uite crucifixe Iesu
+deuotissimi fratris Vbertini de Casali ordinis minoru<i>m</i> felicit<i>er</i>
+explicit. Impressus Venetiis p<i>er</i> Andrea<i>m</i> de Bonettis de Papia. Anno
+.M.CCCC.LXXXV. Die.xii.Martii. Ioa<i>n</i>ne Mocenico inclyto principe
+regnante. <i>Fol. 249</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Tabula capitulo<i>rum</i>. <i>Fol. 249</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. 2</i>:
+Registrum. <i>Fol. 250, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. a-z<span class="super">8</span>, A<span class="super">8</span>, B<span class="super">12</span>, C-G<span class="super">8</span>, H<span class="super">6</span>. 250 leaves, 1, 204,
+250 blank, 2 columns and head-line, 58 lines to the column, roman
+letter. The head-lines give the subject, book and chapter numbers.
+Eight-line spaces left for the initials of the five books and
+three-line spaces, some with guide-letters, for the chapter
+initials, both supplied in red. Blank first and last leaves
+wanting. Hain *4551. Pellechet 3331. Proctor 4816.</p></div>
+
+<p>Bound in olive green morocco with gold borders and gilt edges.
+Book-stamp of J. Richard, D.M., on first and last leaf of text, and
+book-plate of another owner, Jules Frayssenet, of Fleurance, printed on
+full leaf inserted between the fly-leaves, front and back, and the text.
+Leaf 10<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;7<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+<p>Andreas de Bonetis, of Pavia, printed at Venice from 1483 to 1487.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P16" id="P16"></a>16. <span class="smcap">ALBERTIS, Leo Baptista de.</span> De amoris remedio. 1471.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: BATISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS PRAECLARVM IN
+AMORIS REMEDIO FELICITER INCIPIT. <i>Fol. 20</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>:
+BAPTISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS IN AMORIS REMEDIO VTILISSIMVM
+FELICITER FINIT. .M.CCCC.LXXI.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1<span class="super">8</span>, 2<span class="super">12</span>], 20 leaves, 25 lines to the page,
+roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place or
+printer's name. Two- to <span class='pagenum'>[25]<a name="Page_25" id="Page_25"></a></span>
+six-line spaces left for initials, but the
+present copy is without rubrication. Hain *422. Panzer iii. 82, 69;
+iv. 5, 16. Pellechet 268. Proctor 7346.</p></div>
+
+<p>Notwithstanding the Latin title, the work itself is wholly in Italian
+and both in the MSS. and in later printed editions is found also under
+the title <i>Deifira ossia del mal principiato amore</i>. A companion volume
+by the same author, with the Latin title <i>De amore liber</i>, and the
+Italian, <i>Ecatomfilea ossia del vero amore</i>, was printed the same year,
+in the same type, the same number of leaves and lines to the page. Still
+another work in the same type and form and apparently of the same date,
+entitled <i>Historieta amorosa fra Leonora de' Bardi e Hippolito
+Bondelmonti</i>, is attributed on good evidence to De Albertis. Copies of
+all three works, printed alike on vellum and bound together in one
+volume, formerly in the Mac-Carthy Collection (Catalogue, Paris, 1815,
+no. 3595), are now in the Biblioth&egrave;que Nationale (<i>V&eacute;lins</i> 1964). In the
+present copy of <i>De amoris remedio</i> the manuscript signatures <i>b</i> and
+<i>c</i>, partly cut away, point to an earlier binding, in which the
+<i>Historieta</i> consisting of only twelve leaves may possibly have formed
+the signature <i>a</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Panzer was disposed to identify the peculiar roman type of these volumes
+with that used by the fourth printer of Venice, Clemente of Padua,
+between whom and Zarotto of Milan, Hain was later in doubt. But Proctor
+was convinced that the small group of books to which these belong,
+nearly all of them connected in some way with Florence, were the
+productions of the first, so far unidentified, press of that city. The
+date they bear (1471) places them among the earliest books printed in
+the Italian language. Witness the following first editions: Petrarch's
+Canzoniere, 1470; Il Decamerone, 1471; La Divina Commedia, 1472.</p>
+
+<p>The present copy, bound in blue morocco, with the crest of the Marquis
+of Blandford on side, was sold in his (White Knights) sale in 1819 for
+&pound;2. Leaf 9<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;6<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[26]<a name="Page_26" id="Page_26"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>From the Syston Park sale, December, 1884, with book-plate and the
+monogram (J.H.T.) of Sir John Hayford Thorold.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P17" id="P17"></a>17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabulae gr&aelig;ce. Vita et fabulae latine. Fabulae
+selectae gr&aelig;ce et latine. [Milan], Bonus Accursius, c. 1480.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Part I.</i> <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo sapientissimo
+ducali qu&aelig;stori Iohanni Francisco turriano salutem plurimam dicit. <i>Fol.
+2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: &#7944;&#921;&#931;&#937;&#928;&#927;&#933; &#914;&#921;&#927;&#931; &#932;&#927;&#933;
+&#924;&#933;&#920;&#927;&#928;&#927;&#921;&#927;&#933;
+&#924;&#913;&#926;&#921;&#924;&#937; &#932;&#937; &#928;&#923;&#913;&#925;&#927;&#933;&#916;&#919;
+&#931;&#933;&#915;&#915;&#929;&#913;&#934;&#917;&#921;&#931;. <i>Fol. 33</i><span class="super2">a</span>:
+&#7944;&#921;&#931;&#937;&#928;&#927;&#933; &#924;&#933;&#920;&#927;&#921;. <i>Fol. 70</i><span class="super2">a</span>:
+&#932;&#941;&#955;&#959;&#962; &#964;&#8035;&#957; &#964;&#959;&#8019; &#7944;&#953;&#963;&#974;&#960;&#959;&#965; &#924;&#973;&#952;&#969;&#957;. <i>Part II.</i> <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Vita Aesopi
+fabulatoris clarissimi e gr&aelig;co latina p<i>er</i> Rynucium facta ad
+Reuere<i>n</i>dissimu<i>m</i> Patre<i>m</i> Dominu<i>m</i> Antonium tituli Sancti Chrysogoni
+Presbyteru<i>m</i> Cardinalem <i>et</i> primo prohoemium. <i>Fol. 32</i><span class="super">b</span>: FINIS.
+<i>Fol. 33</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Argumentum fabula<i>rum</i> Aesopi e gr&aelig;co i<i>n</i> latinu<i>m</i>. <i>Fol.
+59</i><span class="super">b</span>: Finis. Vita Aesopi per Rynucium thettalum traducta. Verum quoniam
+ab eo non nulla fueru<i>n</i>t praetetermissa (<i>sic</i>): fortassis q<i>ui</i>a
+gr&aelig;cus eius codex esset minus emendatus: Ego Bonus accursius Pisanus:
+eadem in ea omnia correxi; <i>et</i> emendaui. <i>Fol. 60, blank.</i> <i>Part III.</i>
+<i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo ac
+sapientissimo ducali Qu&aelig;stori Iohanni francisco Turriano salutem
+plurimam dicit. <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, col. 1</i>:
+&#924;&#933;&#920;&#927;&#921; &#7944;&#921;&#931;&#937;&#928;&#927;&#933;, <i>col. 2</i>:
+Fabulae Aesopi. <i>Fol. 38</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, col. 1</i>:
+&#932;&#917;&#923;&#927;&#931; &#932;&#937;&#925; &#932;&#927;&#933;
+&#7944;&#921;&#931;&#937;&#928;&#927;&#933;
+&#924;&#933;&#920;&#937;&#925;. <i>Col. 2</i>: FINIS AESOPI FABVLARVM. Bonus Accursius pisanus
+impressit: qui non doctorum hominum sed rudium ac puerorum gratia hunc
+laborem suscepit.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Pt. I, sign. [A-H<span class="super">8</span>, I<span class="super">6</span>] not printed, but stamped
+irregularly on the extreme lower margin and partially cut away in
+the binding, 70 leaves. Pt. II, sign, a-g<span class="super">8</span>, and four unsigned
+leaves at the end, 60 leaves. Pt. III, sign. a-b<span class="super">8</span>, C-D<span class="super">8</span>, E<span class="super">6</span>, 38
+leaves, the Greek text and the word-for-word Latin translation in
+two parallel columns. Both the Greek and the Latin have 25 lines to
+the page or column. Two- to five-line spaces for capitals, with
+guide-letters, in both texts, but no rubrication. Two pinholes.
+Hain *265+272. Pellechet 185+192. Proctor, Printing of Greek in the
+15th cent., p. 60.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[27]<a name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>This is the first printed edition of any of the Greek classics, and the
+third book printed entirely in Greek, or in Greek with a Latin
+translation; the first being the Grammar of Lascaris, Milan, 1476, and
+the second the Lexicon of Crastonus not later than 1478. All three were
+printed with the same font of Greek type made by, or under the
+supervision of, Demetrius Damilas, the son of Milanese parents settled
+in Crete. Bonus Accursius was rather the publisher than the actual
+printer, who in the case of the Lascaris was Dionysius Paravisinus, and
+in the case of the Crastonus and the Aesop, probably the brothers de
+Honate, who at that date were the possessors of the peculiar roman type
+used in the Latin translations. After the Aesop this particular font of
+Greek type next appeared in the first edition of Homer, printed at
+Florence in 1488 by Bartolommeo di Libri, and in three of his subsequent
+books, once at Rome early in the 16th century, after which it disappears
+altogether.</p>
+
+<p>In the present edition the Fabulae gr&aelig;ce number 147, the Fabulae latine
+100, the Fabulae selectae 62. The translator, Rinuccio d'Arezzo, who
+dedicates his work to Cardinal Antonio Cerdano, tells him in closing
+that he sends all that have come into his hands, though probably not all
+that Aesop wrote, since while they stand in alphabetical order, some
+letters are wanting and others have not their full quota. Not all copies
+have all the three parts, nor are they always bound in the same order.
+The present copy, though in all respects complete, is bound irregularly,
+as follows: 1. Fabulae selectae. 2. Fabulae gr&aelig;ce. 3. Vita Aesopi gr&aelig;ce.
+4. Vita et fabulae latine. On the verso of the last blank leaf is
+written in an early hand "olim fuit <i>Reverendissimi</i> m<i>agistri</i> georgii
+de casali."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Wodhull paid "Edwards" for this copy, in 1799, &pound;14.14s. Bound by
+Mrs. Weir in green morocco extra, gilt edges. Leaf 9&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;6 in.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[28]<a name="Page_28" id="Page_28"></a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P18" id="P18"></a>18. <span class="smcap">OVIDIUS NASO, Publius.</span> Metamorphoses. Parma, Andreas
+Portilia, 15 May, 1480.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1, blank</i>, <i>2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: TABVLAE F&#8704;BVLARVM (<i>sic</i>) OVIDII
+METAMORPHOSEOS. <i>Fol. 6</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Domitius Calderinus Veronensis. [D]E Ouidii
+uita nihil a nobis i<i>n</i> hoc loco scribe<i>n</i>du<i>m</i> <i>est</i>. <i>Fol. 7</i><span class="super2">a</span>: P.
+OVIDII NASONIS SVLMONENSIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS. <i>Fol. 187</i><span class="super">b</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: FINIS Impressum Parm&aelig; Opera Et Impensis Andre<i>&aelig;</i>
+Portili<i>&aelig;</i> .M.CCCC.LXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani
+Illustrissimo Duce Regna<i>n</i>te F&oelig;liciter. <i>Fol. 188, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. a<span class="super">6</span>, b-q<span class="super">8</span>, r<span class="super">10</span>, s-y<span class="super">8</span>, z<span class="super">6</span>, &amp;<span class="super">6</span>. 188 unnumbered
+leaves, the first and last blank, 40 lines to the page, roman
+letter. Three- to eight-line spaces, with guide-letters, left for
+the initials of the fifteen books. Hain *12160.</p></div>
+
+<p>First initial of each book supplied in red; heading of each book and
+each fable underlined in red; initial-strokes in every verse and
+paragraph-marks in red. Without the last blank leaf.</p>
+
+<p>Andreas Portilia was the first printer at Parma, where his press was
+established in 1472 and continued, with two brief transfers to Bologna
+and Reggio, till 1486.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Wodhull's copy, for which he paid, at the sale of Dr. Chauncy's
+library in 1790, &pound;2. Bound in red morocco, with rich gold tooling on
+back and sides, and book-plate of Charles Chauncy, M.D. (1706-1777).
+Leaf 12&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;8 in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P19" id="P19"></a>19. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De duobus amantibus.
+[Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i>: Aene&aelig; siluii po&aelig;t&aelig; laureati, in hystoria<i>m</i> de duobus
+ama<i>n</i>tibus p<i>r</i>&aelig;fatio prima ad perq<i>uam</i> generosum milite<i>m</i> Casparem
+Slik f&oelig;liciter incipit. <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super">b</span>: Aene&aelig; siluii in hystoria<i>m</i> de
+duobus ama<i>n</i>tibus p<i>rae</i>fatio secunda ad Martinu<i>m</i> Sozinu<i>m</i>,
+Senensem, iuris utriusque p<i>er</i>spicacissimum interpretem iocunde
+incipit. <i>Fol. 4</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Aene&aelig; siluii de duobus ama<i>n</i>tibus hystoria
+perq<i>uam</i> iocunde incipit! <i>Fol. 44</i><span class="super">b</span>: Vale. ex Vienna quinto nonas
+Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadrage<span class='pagenum'>[29]<a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"></a></span>simo quarto;
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Aene<i>&aelig;</i> Siluii po<i>&aelig;</i>te laureati de duobus ama<i>n</i>tibus
+eurialo <i>et</i> lucresia, finit f&oelig;licit<i>er</i>. <i>Fol. 45, 46, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1-4<span class="super">10</span>, 5<span class="super">6</span>], 46 leaves, the last two blank, 23
+lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords,
+pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to six-line spaces
+left for capitals. Claudin XIX. Pellechet 147. Hain 216.</p></div>
+
+<p>Large initial on first page supplied in blue and gold, with pen
+ornamentation in red and blue. Other capitals and the paragraph-marks in
+alternate red and blue. Last blank leaf wanting.</p>
+
+<p>This and the two next works of the present list bound with it were
+printed at the first Paris press, a private press set up in the Sorbonne
+in 1470 by Johann Heynlin, Prior, and Guillaume Fichet, Librarian, of
+the University, and maintained by them until April, 1473. During these
+three years twenty-two books were printed, all in the same roman type,
+copied from the <i>C&aelig;sar</i> of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469. In only
+two of them are the actual printers, Friburger and his associates,
+named.</p>
+
+<p>To the twenty-eight 15th-century editions&mdash;not to speak of the
+translations&mdash;of this novel described by Hain, Copinger's Supplement
+adds half as many more. The present edition is perhaps the third.
+Claudin, who makes it the nineteenth in the list of the Sorbonne books,
+could trace but four copies. This makes a fifth.</p>
+
+<p>The three books from the Sorbonne press are bound in one volume, red
+morocco, gilt edges, with book-plate of Sir Willim Burrell. It passed
+from his possession some years before his death and was bought by
+Michael Wodhull at Payne's sale April 7, 1789, for &pound;4.4s. The binder,
+possibly mistaking the date of the author's subscription (Vienna, 1444)
+for that of the printing, has placed it on the back of the volume. Leaf
+7<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;5<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P20" id="P20"></a>20. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De curialium miseria.
+[Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[30]<a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"></a></span></p>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Aene&aelig; Siluii po&aelig;t&aelig; laureati (cui <i>et</i> pro pontificali
+dignitate Pio nomen est) in disputatione<i>m</i> de curialiu<i>m</i> miseria ad
+perspicacissimu<i>m</i> iurisconsultu<i>m</i> Iohanne<i>m</i> Ech, serenissimi
+diuiq<i>ue</i> principis, Alberti, c&aelig;saris inuictissimi! Alberti quoque
+austri&aelig; ducies inclyti consiliariu<i>m</i> atq<i>ue</i> oratore<i>m</i> pr&aelig;facio
+f&oelig;liciter incipit; <i>Fol. 34</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Vale uir (nisi ex curialibus unus
+esses) meo iudicio prudens; <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Aene&aelig; Siluii de
+curialiu<i>m</i> miseria disputatio finem habet f&oelig;licem; <i>Fol. 35, 36,
+blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1-3<span class="super">10</span>, 4<span class="super">6</span>], 36 leaves, the last two blank, 23
+lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords,
+pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- and six-line spaces
+left for capitals. Claudin XX. Pellechet 132. Hain 198.</p></div>
+
+<p>First initial rubricated in the same style and by the same hand as in
+the <i>De duobus amantibus</i>. Other capitals and paragraph-marks in red and
+blue alternately. Initial-strokes in yellow. At the bottom of fol. 29<span class="super2">a</span>
+a line accidentally dropped by the compositor is supplied in manuscript
+by a contemporary hand, viz., "non te uolunt. Quida<i>m</i> uero pote<i>n</i>tes
+sunt! ac ex." Both the recto and the verso of the leaf have the full
+complement of 23 lines but there is a hiatus in the text. The copies in
+the Biblioth&egrave;que Nationale, and the Biblioth&egrave;que Mazarine, Paris, have
+the line supplied in manuscript in like manner, but instead of <i>uero</i>
+read <i>non</i>, which does not suit the context.</p>
+
+<p>According to Claudin this is the twentieth book printed at the Sorbonne
+press. To the five copies known to him this adds a sixth.</p>
+
+<p>Bound with No. 19. De duobus amantibus.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P21" id="P21"></a>21. PLATO. Epistolae. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and
+Martin Crantz, 1472.]</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Ad prudentem <i>et</i> magnificum uirum Cosma<i>m</i> de medicis
+florentinu<i>m</i>, Leonardi Aretini clarissimi ora<span class='pagenum'>[31]<a name="Page_31" id="Page_31"></a></span>toris, in ep<i>isto</i>las
+plato<i>n</i>is quas ex gr&aelig;cis latinas fecit! p<i>rae</i>fatio; <i>Fol. 52</i><span class="super2">a</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: FINIS.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Discite rectores diuinitus, ore platonis!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Quid uos, q<i>ui</i>d ciues reddat in urbe bonos;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1-4<span class="super">10</span>, 5<span class="super">8</span>, 6<span class="super">2</span>, 7<span class="super">2</span>], 52 leaves, 23 lines to
+the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
+place, printer's name or date. Three- to five-line spaces left for
+capitals. The first initial supplied in blue and red, other
+capitals in blue and red alternately. Initial strokes in yellow.
+Claudia XIV. Philippe VII. Crevenna 1523. Hain 13066.</p></div>
+
+<p>Leonardo Bruni, often called Leonardo Aretini from his birthplace
+Arezzo, translated five of the dialogues of Plato in addition to the
+letters.</p>
+
+<p>The first notice of this edition is found in the <i>Catalogue
+Bolongaro-Crevenna</i> (Amst., 1789), where it is described as containing
+52 printed leaves. It appears from the price-list printed after the sale
+in 1790 that it had not been sold, but was "retenu, faute de commissions
+ou de concurrence," and was still obtainable at the price of 15 florins.
+No trace of it has since been found and Panzer and Hain were able only
+to copy the catalogue description. Philippe (1885) described Heynlin's
+copy, which is preserved in the library of the University of Basel, as
+consisting of one first blank leaf, forty-nine printed leaves and two
+blank leaves at the end. Claudin (1898), with a second copy discovered
+meantime in the Biblioth&egrave;que d'Angers at his command, finds one first
+blank and forty-nine printed leaves, and remarks that the two blank
+leaves placed by Philippe at the beginning [should be <i>end</i>] are only
+independent fly-leaves. Our copy has fifty-two printed leaves and no
+blanks and no occasion for them, since the printed leaves, of
+themselves, form complete quires. Claudin's collation, which gives both
+the quires and a register of the first words of each quire, shows that
+both his copies lack the sixth quire of our copy, composed like the
+seventh of only two leaves and beginning "<i>sibus interdixistis</i>." There
+is moreover still unexplained and not easily explainable in the
+<span class='pagenum'>[32]<a name="Page_32" id="Page_32"></a></span>
+descriptions of both the Basel and Angers copies the presence of a
+troublesome first blank leaf and the absence of another leaf of text, in
+addition to the lacking sixth quire. It follows that, at least until the
+Crevenna copy, which appears to have been in agreement with ours, comes
+to light again, this must remain the only complete copy known.</p>
+
+<p>Bound with Nos. 19 and 20, from the same press.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P22" id="P22"></a>22. <span class="smcap">MAGNI, Jacobus</span> [Jacques Le Grand]. Sophologium. Paris,
+Martin Crantz, Ulric Gering and Michael Friburger, 1 June, 1477.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Sequitur tabula capituloru<i>m</i> Sophologij.
+<i>Fol. 5</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Doctissimi atq<i>ue</i> excellentissimi patris: sacraru<i>m</i>
+litteraru<i>m</i> doctoris deuotissimi: fratris Iacobi magni: religionis
+fratru<i>m</i> heremitaru<i>m</i>: sancti Augustini sophologiu<i>m</i> incipit. Cuius
+p<i>ri</i>ncipalis intentio est inducere legentis animu<i>m</i> ad sapientie
+amorem. <i>Fol. 218</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Jacobi Magni sophologium finit feliciter. <i>Fol.
+218</i><span class="super">b</span>: Epigramma ad huius operis conspectore<i>m</i> [five distichs.]
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Anno do<i>mi</i>ni millesimo .cccc.lxxvij. die .i. mensis
+Iunij. Impressum fuit istud sophologium parisius p<i>er</i> Martinu<i>m</i>
+crantz. Vdalricu<i>m</i> gering, et Michaele<i>m</i> friburger.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Sign. a-x<span class="super">10</span>, y<span class="super">8</span>, 218 leaves, the first blank, 32 lines
+to the page, gothic lower-case type, roman capitals. Two- to
+six-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. Hain 10478.</p></div>
+
+<p>Border ornamentation in color on fol. 5<span class="super2">a</span>. Initials at the head of the
+first four of the ten books in dull gold and color; those of the
+remaining books in color only. Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in
+alternate red and blue. Blank first leaf wanting. The bottom line of
+fol. 116<span class="super">b</span> which had been accidentally moved across to the foot of fol.
+115<span class="super2">a</span> (the companion page on the imposing stone) is supplied in
+manuscript where it was lacking and the misplaced line of print is
+canceled.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[33]<a name="Page_33" id="Page_33"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>On the discontinuance of the Sorbonne press in 1473, the printers,
+Crantz, Gering, and Friburger, moved into the neighboring Rue
+Saint-Jacques and set up a press, with new type, on their own account.
+An edition of the Sophologium had been one of the last books printed at
+the old press. A second edition was issued from the new press in 1475,
+of which the present edition is, in type, number of pages and lines, an
+exact reprint, but has printed signatures and is a quarto while that was
+a folio. Caxton's "Book of Good Manners," printed in 1487, was a
+translation of "Le livre des bonnes meurs," another work by the same
+author.</p>
+
+<p>The present copy, bound in green morocco with gold borders and gilt
+edges, is from the Syston Park library, sold in December, 1884. Leaf
+10<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;7<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P23" id="P23"></a>23. HIERONYMUS. Vaderboeck. [Zwolle], Peter van Os, 1 April, 1490.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Title</span>: DIt boeck is ghenomet. dat vader boeck. dat
+in den latijne is ghehieten Vitas patru<i>m</i>. inhoudende dye historien
+en<i>de</i> legenden der heyligher vaderen die hare leue<i>n</i> in stre<i>n</i>gher
+penitencie ouerghebracht hebbe<i>n</i> Ouergheset in goeder versta<i>n</i>delre
+duytscer sprake. [Rest of page occupied by two woodcuts.] <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>:
+[H]Ier beghint die tafele va<i>n</i> desen boecke dat ghehieten is dat va
+(<i>sic</i>) vader boeck. <i>Fol. 4</i><span class="super">b</span>: Hier eyndet die tafef (<i>sic</i>) van den
+boecke..... <i>Fol. 5</i><span class="super2">a</span>: [Woodcut of the Annunciation, which is repeated
+on the verso of the leaf.] <i>Fol. 6</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Hier beghinnet dat eerste deel
+va<i>n</i> desen boecke dat ghenoemet is Vitaspatrum in latijne. <i>Fol.
+165</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Hier eyndet dat derde deel va<i>n</i> desen boecke
+van den wo<i>n</i>derlijke wercken en<i>de</i> goede exempele<i>n</i> en<i>de</i> goede
+leri<i>n</i>ghen der heigher (<i>sic</i>) vadere<i>n</i> so als die heylige leraer
+Jeronim<i>us</i> vut de<i>n</i> griecke<i>n</i> in den latine ghetoge<i>n</i> heeft
+Ouergheset in goeder v<i>er</i>standelre duytscer spraken om salicheit alre
+goeder kersten me<i>n</i>scen. Ghedruct bi mi Peter va<i>n</i> Os In de<i>n</i> iare
+ons heren Mcccc <span class='pagenum'>[34]<a name="Page_34" id="Page_34"></a></span>
+en<i>de</i> xc. den eersten dach va<i>n</i> den April.
+[<span class="smcap">Printer's Device</span>, (shields of Zwolle and of the printer
+combined).] <i>Fol. 166, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. A<span class="super">4</span>, a<span class="super">8</span>, b-z<span class="super">6</span>, A<span class="super">4</span>, B-D<span class="super">6</span>, 166 leaves, the last
+blank, 6-165 numbered i-clx. 2 columns, 36 lines to the column,
+gothic letter. Two- to six-line spaces left for capitals. The first
+initial of the title is a ten-line ornamental woodcut D. The two
+woodcuts on the title-page are printed from sections cut from the
+blocks of the Latin Biblia Pauperum, that on the left (Descent of
+the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost) from the central panel of
+sign. p., that on the right (Jacob's dream), from the right-hand
+panel of the sign. t. Other sections of these blocks were used in
+like manner in other books of van Os. In place of blank fol. 5 cut
+away, is inserted a full page woodcut of the Annunciation, printed
+on both sides of the leaf, on paper unlike any other used in the
+book. Campbell 938. Proctor 9135.</p></div>
+
+<p>Prologue initial on fol. 6<span class="super2">a</span> supplied in blue with pen ornamentation in
+red. Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue.
+Initial-strokes in red. Blank last leaf wanting.</p>
+
+<p>Bound by Alfred Matthews in three-quarter levant morocco with blind
+tooling, gilt edges. Leaf 10<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;8 in.</p>
+
+<p>Peter van Os, of Breda, was actively engaged in printing at Zwolle from
+1479 till the end of the century, except for the three years 1481-1484.</p>
+
+<p>The English translation of the "Vitas Patrum," which was the closing
+labor of Caxton's life, was printed in 1495 by Wynken de Worde with this
+colophon: "Thus endyth the moost vertuouse hystorye of the deuoute and
+right renowned lyues of holy faders lyuynge in deserte, worthy of
+remembraunce to all wel dysposed persons which hath be<i>n</i> translated
+oute of Frenche into Englisshe by William Caxton of Westmynstre late
+deed and fynysshed at the laste daye of hys lyff."</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P24" id="P24"></a>24. HIGDEN, RANULPH. Polychronicon, translated into English by
+Trevisa and continued by Caxton. [Westminster]. William Caxton, [1482].</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Prohemye. [G]Rete thankynges lawde &amp;
+honoure we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde <span class='pagenum'>[35]<a name="Page_35" id="Page_35"></a></span>and offre vnto wryters of
+hystoryes, whiche gretely haue prouffyted oure mortal lyf, that shewe
+vnto the reders and herers by the ensamples of thynges passyd, what
+thynge is to be desyred. [Fol. 4-20, alphabetical table; 21, blank;
+22-24, dialogue between the Clerke and the Lorde on translation,
+Trevisa's epistle to Lord Berkeley; 25, blank.] <i>Fol. 26</i><span class="super2">a</span>:
+Prolicionycion. Prefacio prima ad historiam. [A]Fter solempne and wyse
+wryters of Arte and of scyence.... <i>Fol. 389</i><span class="super">b</span>: God be thanked of al
+his dedes. This translacion is ended on a thursdaye the eyghtenth daye
+of Apryll the yere of our lord a thousand thre hondred and .lvij. The
+xxxj yere of Kyng Edward the thyrd after the Conquest of Englond, the
+yere of my lordes age Syr thomas lord of berkley that made me make this
+translacion fyue and thyrtty. [390<span class="super2">a</span>, Caxton's epilogue to Trevisa;
+390<span class="super">b</span>, blank.] <i>Fol. 391</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Jncipit Liber vltimus. <i>Fol. 449</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Ended
+the second day of Juyll the xxij yere of the regne of kynge Edward the
+fourth &amp; of the Incarnacion of oure lord a thousand foure score and
+tweyne. Fynysshed per Caxton. <i>Fol. 449</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, 450, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. a-b<span class="super">8</span>, C<span class="super">4</span>, 1-28<span class="super">8</span>, [28*<span class="super">2</span>], 29-48<span class="super">8</span>, 49<span class="super">4</span>, 50<span class="super">8</span>,
+52-55<span class="super">8</span>, 450 leaves, of which five (a, 1; 1, 1; 1, 5; 28*,2; 55, 8)
+are blank. The folios of sign. 1,2-55,7 are numbered 1-ccccxxviii
+(blanks 1, 5 and 28*,2 counted as iv and ccxxvi), with many errors
+which are mostly corrected on the following leaves, but in the case
+of fol. ccxli on the verso of the same leaf. There is, however, no
+clx, and ccccxiii is duplicated, errors which balance each other
+and do not disturb the final numeration. The omission of a
+signature 51 is accidental, the text continuing without a break.
+The purpose of the unsigned single sheet following sign. 28,
+consisting of one printed and one blank leaf, was evidently to
+carry the last remaining leaf of the fourth book and thereby make
+possible a division of the volume at this point into two nearly
+equal parts. Advantage has apparently been taken of this division
+to bind the Grenville copy (Brit. Mus. IB. 55060) in two volumes.
+Wynkyn de Worde, who reprinted the Polychronicon in 1495, followed
+in this particular Caxton's example and in order to begin the fifth
+book with a new signature left at the end of the fourth book nearly
+a whole leaf blank, though he separated the other books by a blank
+space of no more than three or four lines. Caxton's use of arabic
+figures for signatures was confined to the years 1481-1483; after
+that date he used letters only. The first few chapter-headings of
+each book have Latin ordinals (Capitulum primum, secundum, etc.)
+which <span class='pagenum'>[36]<a name="Page_36" id="Page_36"></a></span>
+are soon dropped for arabic figures. Gothic letter, Caxton's
+fourth font, forty lines to the page, with headline. Two- to
+seven-line spaces left for chapter and book initials, which are
+supplied in red. Chapter-headings underlined in red. Blades ii,
+172. Ames-Dibdin i, 138. Seymour de Ricci p. 60.</p></div>
+
+<p>Seventy-two leaves, including the five blanks, are wanting in this copy,
+viz.: sign. a-C; 1, <span class="super3">1, 4, 5, 8</span>; 2,
+<span class="super3">1, 4, 5</span>; 3, <span class="super3">2</span>;
+4, <span class="super3">1</span>; 27, <span class="super3">3</span>;
+[28*,<span class="super3">2</span>]; 44, <span class="super3">7</span>;
+50-55. The lacking parts comprise the first twenty leaves
+(Prohemye and alphabetical index), the last forty leaves (Caxton's
+eighth book), and twelve intermediate leaves. Of these the Proheyme is
+supplied in facsimile and sign. 4, <span class="super3">1</span> in manuscript. What is possibly an
+original impression of Caxton's large device is placed at the end of the
+volume. This was used by Caxton only during his last years, 1487-91, and
+by Wynkyn de Worde, into whose hands the original block passed, in his
+folios for thirty years longer. From one of the latter this may have
+been taken, possibly from the Polychronicon of 1495, where the other
+side of the leaf it occupied was blank, as is the case here also.</p>
+
+<p>Trevisa's translation of Higden was completed, according to the best
+MSS., in 1387, not in 1357 as stated on fol. 389<span class="super">b</span>. (In 1357 the 18th of
+April fell on Tuesday, not Thursday, and Thomas Lord Berkeley was then
+in the fifth, not the thirty-fifth year of his age.) Caxton was himself
+the translator of twenty-two of the one hundred books which he printed
+and it was therefore not strange that Trevisa's English should have been
+in his hands, as the proem states, "a lytel embelysshed fro tholde
+makyng." In what these embellishments consisted is partially explained
+in the epilogue: "Therfore I William Caxton a symple persone haue
+endeuoyred me to wryte fyrst ouer all the sayd book of proloconycon, and
+somewhat haue chaunged the rude and old Englyssh, that is to wete
+certayn wordes, which in these dayes [1482] be neyther usyd ne
+understanden". He went however further than this and so changed the
+inflections and orthography that the language is no longer of the
+four<span class='pagenum'>[37]<a name="Page_37" id="Page_37"></a></span>teenth
+but rather of the fifteenth century. But in no other way
+could it have been made to harmonize with his proposed continuation,
+concerning which he proceeds to say: "and also am auysed to make another
+booke after this sayd werke whiche shal be sett here after the same, And
+shal haue his chapytres and his table a parte. For I dar not presume to
+sette my book ne ioyne hit to his, for dyuerse causes". Accordingly he
+begins his "Liber ultimus" with a new signature, preceded by a blank
+page. His "table" nevertheless is combined with that of the preceding
+seven books in one alphabet. Wynkyn de Worde's edition has a more
+elaborate index of ninety pages in which each of the eight books is
+indexed in a separate alphabet.</p>
+
+<p>Apart from the interest attaching to this "Liber ultimus" as the only
+original work of any length from Caxton's pen, the Polychronicon is next
+to the Golden Legend his largest book, and in the Prohemye they are
+grouped together as the "twoo bookes notable" which treat of history. It
+happens also, probably because of larger editions printed, that of these
+two books many more copies have survived than of any of his other books,
+about one-fourth of which are now represented only by single copies. Of
+the Polychronicon, Seymour de Ricci's "Census of Caxtons" (1909)
+enumerates forty known copies (very few of them entirely complete),
+evenly divided between public and private libraries. To this list he
+adds, under the heading "Present owners untraced," forty-eight copies
+(nos. 41-88) which appeared at sales between 1698 and 1901, some of them
+possibly identical with copies already described as "known." In this
+second division is found the present copy (no. 79), purchased by the
+donor of this collection at the Smets sale, New York, May, 1868, in calf
+binding, with the name of the owner "A.&nbsp;A. Smets, Savannah, May 28, 1836"
+on the fly-leaf. It was at once sent to Francis Bedford for binding,
+with instructions to have the "inlaying, repair<span class='pagenum'>[38]<a name="Page_38" id="Page_38"></a></span>ing etc. done over in
+the very best manner, by the best restorer in France or England." Bound
+in brown morocco, richly blind-tooled, with Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis and
+acorn emblems. Leaf 10<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;7<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in. The Smets fly-leaf and the
+original instructions sent to Mr. Bedford with the volume and returned
+by him with an added note over his own signature, laid in.</p>
+
+<p>Other copies of the Polychronicon which have passed through Mr.
+Bedford's hands have been bound in the same style, among them the
+Menzies copy, sold New York, November, 1876, which de Ricci wrongly
+conjectured might be identical with the Smets.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P25" id="P25"></a>25. ORDINARY OF CHRISTIAN MEN. London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1506.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>. <span class="smcap">Title</span>: Thordinary of Crysten men [woodcut below.]
+<i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span><i>-4</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, table of contents.</i> <i>Fol. 5</i><span class="super2">a</span> [woodcut above]: Here
+begynneth a notable treatyse and ful necessarye to all crysten men for
+to knowe &amp; it is named the Ordynary of Crystyens or of crysten men.
+<i>Fol. 217</i><span class="super">b</span>: Here endeth the book named the ordynarye of crysten men
+newely hystoryed and translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe.
+Enprynted in the cyte of London in the Fletestrete in the sygne of y<span class="super2">e</span>
+sonne by Wnykyn de worde. y<span class="super2">e</span> yere of our lorde .M.CCCCC.vi. <i>Fol.
+218</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, title repeated over woodcut.</i> <i>Fol. 218</i><span class="super">b</span>, [<span class="smcap">Printer's
+Device</span>]</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Sign. Aa<span class="super">4</span>, A<span class="super">6</span>, B<span class="super">4</span>, C-X, AA-NN<span class="super">8, 4 (altern.)</span>, OO<span class="super">6</span>,
+PP<span class="super">5</span>+<span class="super">1</span>. 218 leaves, gothic letter, 34 lines (marginal citations
+60 lines) to the page, without foliation. Title cut in large
+lower-case letters on block 2&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;4 in. Five- and six-line initials
+at the head of the larger divisions of the text. Ten woodcuts, one
+repeated. The final blank PP. 6 has been replaced by an independent
+leaf having on the one side the title repeated with woodcut, and on
+the other the printer's device, either of which may in the binding
+be made the recto. The device is the first of his so-called
+"Sagittarius" forms, and the one most commonly used from 1506 to
+1518. Ames-Dibdin, ii, p. 103. Morgan Cat. iii, p. 214, n. 743.</p></div>
+
+<p>The present copy lacks the first four leaves, containing the title and
+the table of contents; but both the title and <span class='pagenum'>[39]<a name="Page_39" id="Page_39"></a></span>the woodcut accompanying
+it are repeated elsewhere in the volume, the title on fol. 218<span class="super2">a</span>, the
+woodcut on fol. 87<span class="super2">a</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Of the French original, <i>L'ordinaire des chrestiens</i>, at least six
+editions were printed before 1500, the earliest apparently at Rouen, c.
+1487. In them it is stated that the writing was commenced 22 May, 1467
+and finished (<i>consomm&eacute;</i>) 22 May, 1469. The corresponding dates in the
+prologue and epilogue of the translation are "fyrst begonne to be
+wryten" 14 Jan., 1467, "fyrst consumed" 14 Jan., 1500. The confusion,
+common to both the French and the English of the 15th century, in the
+derivatives of <i>consummare</i> and <i>consumere</i> relieves the translator,
+Andrew Chertsey, from the appearance of an over-literal translation, but
+the change in the date of the completed work can hardly be in the
+direction of accuracy.</p>
+
+<p>The woodcuts which appeared in the first edition of the "Ordinary"
+printed in 1502 are in this second edition replaced by others of
+different design and better execution, borrowed mainly from "The crafte
+to lyve well and to dye well", printed by de Worde in 1505 and like the
+present work translated by Chertsey from a French original, <i>L'art de
+bien vivre et de bien mourir</i>. Two of these illustrations, "Temptation
+to Impatience" (fol. 73<span class="super">b</span>) and "Soul leaving the Body" (fol. 218<span class="super2">a</span>), are
+copied from the early block-book <i>Ars moriendi</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Bound by Alfred Matthews in blind-tooled crimson morocco, with inside
+gold borders and gilt edges. Leaf 8<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;5<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+<p>Wynkyn de Worde, Caxton's assistant, was a native of W&ouml;rth, Alsace. He
+came into possession of his master's printing materials on his death in
+1491 and continued to occupy his house in Westminster until 1500 when he
+moved to Fleet Street within the city. In the number of his books,
+almost eight hundred, he surpassed all the early printers, but many of
+them were works of small size and consequence. Some of his largest and
+finest books were reprints of Caxton's folios. Mention has
+<span class='pagenum'>[40]<a name="Page_40" id="Page_40"></a></span>been made of
+his use of Caxton's original device without addition. In all of his own
+various devices also, the place of honor in the center is given to
+Caxton's initials and cipher, plainly as a mark of loyalty to the
+master, not an advertisement of himself as the successor.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P26" id="P26"></a>26. INTRATIONES. London, Richard Pynson, 28 Feb. 1510.</p></div>
+
+<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Title</span>: INtrationu<i>m</i> excellentissimus liber
+perq<i>uam</i> necessarius o<i>mn</i>ibus leg<i>is</i> hominib<i>us</i>: fere in se
+continens o<i>mn</i>em medullam diversa<i>rum</i> materia<i>rum</i> ac pl<i>ac</i>ito<i>rum</i>
+tam realiu<i>m</i>, personalium, q<i>uam</i> mixt<i>orum</i>. Necno<i>n</i> multorum breuium
+tam executionu<i>m</i> q<i>uam</i> aliorum valde vtilium illis hunc librum
+inspecturis aut inscrutandis. Que quide<i>m</i> supradicta facilit<i>er</i>
+possunt inveniri p<i>er</i> indice<i>m</i> alphabeticu<i>m</i> p<i>er</i>uigila<i>n</i>ti studio
+co<i>n</i>fectu<i>m</i> &amp; p<i>er</i> ordine<i>m</i> l<i>itte</i>raru<i>m</i> redactu<i>m</i>... <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>,
+[Full page woodcut of the king's arms crowned, supported by a dragon and
+a greyhound, with a portcullis on either side and a rose and two angels
+above.] <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Intrationu<i>m</i> libri Index Alphabetic<i>us</i>. <i>Fol.
+10</i><span class="super">b</span>: Finis tabule Intrationum. <i>Fol. 193</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>:
+Explicit opus excellentissimu<i>m</i> &amp; perutile in se continens multas
+materias o<i>mn</i>ibus leg<i>is</i> ho<i>min</i>ib<i>us</i> p<i>er</i>q<i>uam</i> necessarias nouiter
+Impressum, correctum, emendatum, &amp; no<i>n</i> minimo labore reuisum London<i>i</i>
+in vico vulgariter nu<i>n</i>cupato Fletstrete in officina ere ac impensis
+honesti viri Ricardi Pynson Regis Impressoris moram suam trahentis sub
+signo diui Georgii Anno n<i>ost</i>re redemptionis .M.CCCCC.x. Die vero
+vltima Mensis Februarii. <i>Fol. 193</i><span class="super">b</span>, [<span class="smcap">Printer's Device.</span>]
+<i>Fol. 194, blank.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. Aa<span class="super">6</span>, Bb<span class="super">4</span>, a-z, &amp;, 9, A-E<span class="super">6</span>, F<span class="super">4</span>. 194 leaves, the
+last blank, 11-193 numbered i-clxxxv, but with the omission of li
+and liv and other irregularities. Gothic letter, 54 lines to the
+page, with marginal side-headings. The title, occupying seventeen
+lines of bold heavy-faced type, is printed in red and black and in
+the form of an inverted triangle. The <i>Index Alphabeticus</i> is
+introduced by a ten-line initial A with a rose above and a
+portcullis below the middle bar, found also in the same printer's
+<span class='pagenum'>[41]<a name="Page_41" id="Page_41"></a></span>
+Sarum missal of 1520. The other divisions of the index have mostly
+four-line woodcut initials, some of grotesque pattern. Five-line
+space with guide-letter for the first initial of the text.
+Ornaments of four patterns, repeated singly or in combination, are
+used to lengthen out the frequent short end lines of paragraphs in
+order to give more solidity to the appearance of the page. Three of
+the same ornaments are found also on the title-page of Whitinton's
+<i>Vulgaria</i>, printed by W. de Worde in 1521. Ames-Dibdin ii, 441.</p></div>
+
+<p>In the present copy the index (sign. Aa. 2-6, Bb. 1-4) is separated from
+the title (Aa. 1) and placed at the end of the volume. Name of <i>Joh&#275;s
+Coningesby</i> written in a sixteenth century hand on the first page of
+both text and index. The device is the fourth of Pynson's seven devices
+and was in use 1496-1513. Allusion is made in the colophon to an earlier
+edition, no copy of which appears to be known. The work was reprinted by
+Henry Smythe, London, 1546.</p>
+
+<p>Richard Pynson, a Norman by birth, established himself in London about
+1490, taking over, as there is good reason to believe, the business of
+Machlinia, a printer of law books, for which his knowledge of
+Norman-French especially fitted him. In 1508 he was made Printer to the
+King and in that year also he printed two books in roman type, the first
+use of that character in England. He is known to have printed at least
+371 books, a much smaller number than de Worde, but as a rule larger and
+more important books. He is regarded as the best English printer of his
+time and the <i>Liber Intrationum</i> is one of his finest books.</p>
+
+<p>Bound in red velvet, with silk linings and gilt edges. Leaf 12<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;
+9<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+<p>From the Syston Park library, with the book-plate and monogram of Sir
+John Henry Thorold.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P27" id="P27"></a>27. PLUTARCHUS. Moralia Graece. Venetiis, in &aelig;dibus Aldi et Andre&aelig;
+soceri, 1509.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: PLVTARCHI OPVSCVLA. LXXXXII. Index Moralium omnium, &amp;
+eorum qu&aelig; in ipsis tractantur, habetur in hoc quaternione. Numerus autem
+Arithmeticus <span class='pagenum'>[42]<a name="Page_42" id="Page_42"></a></span>
+remittit lectorem ad semipagina<i>m</i>, ubi tractantur
+singula. [Aldine anchor]. <i>P. 1050</i>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Venetiis, in
+&aelig;dibus Aldi &amp; Andre&aelig; Asulani Soceri. mense Martio. M. D. IX. [Blank leaf
+with anchor on verso.]</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Sign. <span class="lower">*</span>, a-z, &amp;, aa-zz, aaa-sss<span class="super">8</span>, ttt<span class="super">6</span>. 8 unnumbered
+preliminary leaves (sign <span class="lower">*</span> not included in register on p. 1050)
+containing title, dedicatory epistle of Aldus to Jacopo Antiquario,
+index, four couplets of Jerome Aleander, preface of the editor
+Demetrius Doukas (all except title and dedication in Greek); 1050
+numbered pages of Greek text, final blank leaf with anchor on
+verso. The type is Aldus's fourth Greek font, 46 lines to the page,
+five- to eight-line spaces left for initials. The <i>semipagina</i> (the
+equivalent of our <i>page</i>) to which the index directs the reader,
+shows that <i>pagina</i> still had its older meaning <i>leaf</i>, and
+incidentally that the numbering of the page instead of the leaf was
+an innovation. The anchor and dolphin device, the symbol of the
+motto <i>Festina lente</i>, which first appeared in the Dante of 1502,
+is here in its first form, but of the larger size suitable for
+folios and enclosed in double lines, on the title-page without
+name, but on the last leaf with the addition ALDVS.MA.RO. Although
+on the evidence of the chain-lines and the water-mark technically a
+quarto, the volume on account of its unusual size was doubtless
+printed like a folio on half sheets. Renouard, p. 55. Firmin-Didot,
+p. 317.</p></div>
+
+<p>Plutarch's <i>Moralia</i> belongs to that imposing series of first editions
+of the Greek classics which among all the services of Aldus Manutius to
+the revival of learning are perhaps his best title to enduring fame.
+When he set up his press in 1495 five in all, and but one, Homer, of the
+first rank, had been printed. When he died twenty years later his first
+editions outnumbered those of all his contemporaries put together, and
+the rank was even more significant than the number, for among them were
+included Aristotle, Plato, Thucydides, Herodotus, Aristophanes,
+Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar and Demosthenes. The Plutarch was printed
+from MSS. still preserved in the library of St. Mark.</p>
+
+<p>The Greek type of Aldus was a new departure, based on the cursive or
+business handwriting of his day in distinction from the older book-hand
+which had served as the model for the first Greek fonts. It gained
+immediate popularity and for more than two hundred years, either
+directly or through fonts based upon it, dominated the
+<span class='pagenum'>[43]<a name="Page_43" id="Page_43"></a></span> Greek printing
+of Europe. At length, mainly because of the ligatures and contractions,
+it was supplanted by type of more open and regular forms.</p>
+
+<p>In 1508 Aldus took as partner his father-in-law, Andrea Torresano
+d'Asola, a Venetian printer who in 1480 had taken over the business of
+Nicolas Jenson. The imprint which had hitherto been <i>apud Aldum</i> or <i>in
+aedibus Aldi</i> now became <i>in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri</i>. After the
+death of Aldus in 1515 the press was conducted without change of name by
+the surviving partner until his own death in 1529.</p>
+
+<p>Thick paper copy. Leaf 10<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;7 in. On p. 1050 is written <i>Collegii
+Societatis Jesu Embricae 1605</i>.</p>
+
+<p>From the library of Sir J.&nbsp;H. Thorold of Syston Park, with book-plate.
+Bound by R. Storr, Grantham, in red morocco, gilt edges, with anchor on
+sides. The "Dictionary of English Book-collectors," pt. 2, calls
+attention to the Aldine anchor (made more realistic by an end of rope
+cable twisted about it) stamped by the Grantham bookbinders Messrs.
+Storr &amp; Ridge upon many of the Thorold books, "not only those bound by
+themselves, but also those bound by far better men." Examples of both
+kinds are found in the present collection.</p>
+
+<p>As an illustration of the first Greek type of Aldus there is joined to
+this collection a finely executed manuscript facsimile on vellum of his
+<i>Musaeus</i> of 1495, his second book (preceded by the Grammar of
+Lascaris), but the first in which the font appeared in its completed
+state. From the Syston Park library. Bound by Boz&eacute;rian Jeune, in blue
+morocco extra.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P28" id="P28"></a>28. SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE. Venetiis, in &aelig;dibus Aldi et Andreae
+soceri, 1514.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: LIBRI DE RE RVSTICA. M. CATONIS LIB. I. M. TERENTII
+VARRONIS LIB. III. L. IVNII MODERATI COLVMELLAE LIB. XII. Eiusdem de
+arboribus liber separatus ab alijs, quare autem id factum
+<span class='pagenum'>[44]<a name="Page_44" id="Page_44"></a></span>fuerit:
+ostenditur in epistola ad lectorem. PALLADII LIB. XIIII. De duobus
+dierum generibus: simulq<i>ue</i> de umbris, et horis, qu&aelig; apud Palladium, in
+alia epistola ad lectorem. Georgij Alexandrini enarrationes priscarum
+dictionum, qu&aelig; in his libris Catonis: Varronis: Columell&aelig;. [Aldine
+anchor]. Hos libros Pontificis etiam Leonis decreto, nequis alius usquam
+locorum impune imprimat, cautum est. <i>Fol. 308</i><span class="super2">a</span>: <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>:
+VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE MAIO M.D.XIIII. [Aldine
+anchor on verso].</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Sign. <span class="lower">*</span>, aa, bb<span class="super">8</span>, cc<span class="super">10</span>, a-h<span class="super">8</span>, i<span class="super">4</span>, k-z, A-Q<span class="super">8</span>. 8
+unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title, privilege of Leo X.
+countersigned by P. Bembo, papal secretary, preface of the editor,
+Fra Giocondo, addressed to Leo X., <i>Aldus lectori</i> (two epistles,
+the first relating to the position of the <i>De arboribus</i> of
+Columella, an independent treatise, in previous editions inserted
+in his <i>De re rustica</i> as liber lii, but here correctly placed
+after that work, the second, to the hours of Palladius, varying in
+length with the seasons, and the use of the gnomon in determining
+them), <i>errata</i>; 26 unnumbered leaves (preceded by a second title
+with anchor and mention of the privileges of Alexander VI., Julius
+II. and Leo. X.) containing explanations of unfamiliar words and
+table of contents, last leaf blank; 308 numbered leaves of text,
+Sign. <span class="lower">*</span> is not included in the register on fol. 308<span class="super2">a</span> and being
+followed by a second title-page its absence, if accidentally
+omitted, might pass unnoticed. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page,
+six- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for the initials
+of the thirty books, which in the present copy are supplied in gold
+and colors. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue.
+Ruled in red. Renouard, p. 66. Firmin-Didot, p. 370.</p></div>
+
+<p>The italic type of Aldus, a cursive or semi-cursive roman, the
+counterpart of his cursive Greek, was modeled as he himself informs us
+on the handwriting of Petrarch <i>a lettra per lettra</i>. It first appeared
+in the Vergil of 1501, the first of his octavo series of classics and
+only three months later, as was but just, in <i>Le cose volgari</i> of
+Petrarch. It had at the outset, corresponding to the Greek ligatures,
+many double letters and even groups of three cast on the same body,
+which were for the most part eliminated later by Paulus Manutius.
+Originally it consisted only of lower-case letters and borrowed the
+capitals of the roman font, using for economy of space small
+<span class='pagenum'>[45]<a name="Page_45" id="Page_45"></a></span>capitals
+which DeVinne points out as the useful invention of Aldus. Aldus was
+sensible of the deficiency and the last clause of his will was a request
+to his partner, Andrea, to have suitable capitals made by the celebrated
+engraver, Giulio Campagnola. It was, however, not until 1558 that they
+were finally supplied by Paulus, in connection with a new italic font.
+What has now ceased to be anything more than a useful auxiliary type was
+by Aldus employed as a text type, a chief recommendation being that it
+was more condensed than the roman and enabled him to greatly reduce the
+price of his books by making an octavo do the work of a quarto or folio.
+In 1501 he printed six, and in 1502 eleven octavos, whereas all his
+earlier books, with one unimportant exception, had been of the larger
+forms.</p>
+
+<p>In 1496 the Venetian Senate granted to Aldus protection for his Greek
+type and the books printed with it for the period of twenty years, and
+in 1502 a like privilege covering both his italic and Greek type for ten
+years. A similar grant made by Alexander VI. in 1502 was renewed by
+Julius II. in January, 1513, for fifteen years and confirmed by his
+successor, Leo X., in December of the same year.</p>
+
+<p>From the library of Robert Samuel Turner, sold in 1888.</p>
+
+<p>Bound in red morocco extra, with gold tooling in the Grolier style,
+edges gilt over red. Leaf 8<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;5<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in. Book-stamp on verso of last
+leaf: "Ex libris J.B.P.H. Caqu&eacute;, D.M. Rem. 1775".</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P29" id="P29"></a>29. <span class="smcap">CICERO, Marcus Tullius.</span> Rhetorica. Venetiis, in &aelig;dibus
+Aldi et Andreae soceri, 1521.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. Rhetoricorum ad C.
+Herennium lib. IIII. M.&nbsp;T. Ciceronis de inuentione lib. II. Eiusdem de
+oratore ad Quintum fratrem lib. III. Eiusdem de claris oratori<span class='pagenum'>[46]<a name="Page_46" id="Page_46"></a></span>bus,
+q<i>ui</i> dicitur Brutus lib. I. Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum lib. I. Eiusdem
+Topica ad Trebatium lib. I. Eiusdem oratori&aelig; partitiones lib. I. Eiusdem
+de optimo genere oratorum pr&aelig;fatio qu&aelig;dam. Index rerum notabilium, qu&aelig;
+toto opere continentur, per ordinem alphabeti. [Aldine anchor] Hos
+libros etiam Pontificum Alexandri, Iulij, ac Leonis demum decretis,
+neq<i>u</i>is alius usquam locorum impune imprimat, cautum est. <i>Fol. 245</i><span class="super2">a</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE
+OCTOBRI M.D.XXI. [Blank leaf with anchor on verso].</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Sign. <span class="lower">*</span>, <span class="lower">**</span>,
+a-k<span class="super">8</span>, l<span class="super">4</span>, m-z, A-G<span class="super">8</span>, H<span class="super">10</span>. 16 unnumbered
+preliminary leaves, containing preface by Aldus addressed to Andrea
+Navagero and alphabetical index (the blank last leaf wanting in
+this copy); 245 numbered leaves of text and final blank leaf with
+anchor. Sign. <span class="lower">*</span> and <span class="lower">**</span> have eight leaves each, not ten as stated in
+the register on p. 245. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page, three-
+to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. The
+anchor is of the second, somewhat ungraceful, pattern in use
+1519-1524, after which there was for some years a return to the
+first form. Renouard, p. 93.</p></div>
+
+<p>Reprinted, with only the addition of the index, from the 1514 edition of
+Aldus. In the preface is found the often quoted inscription placed over
+the door of Aldus to discourage the idle visitor: <i>Quisquis es: rogat te
+Aldus etiam: atque etiam: ut, si quid est, quod a se velis: perpaucis
+agas</i>, etc. The edition of 1533, with the imprint <i>in &aelig;dibus haeredum
+Aldi Manutii Romani &amp; Andreae Asulani Soceri</i> and a short preface by
+Paulus Manutius (it was his first book as director of the press) is also
+essentially unchanged, but his edition of 1546, in octavo, was
+thoroughly revised in text and accompanied by a folio volume of variorum
+commentaries.</p>
+
+<p>Bound by Roger Payne, in blue morocco, gilt edges, with cipher of Sir
+Mark Masterman Sykes on back, at whose sale in 1824 it brought
+&pound;1.11s.6d. The Syston Park copy with book-plate, and monogram of Sir
+John Hayford Thorold. Leaf 8<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;5<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[47]<a name="Page_47" id="Page_47"></a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P30" id="P30"></a>30. <span class="smcap">CELSUS, Aurelius Cornelius.</span> De medicina. <span class="smcap">SERENUS,
+Quintus.</span> De medicina. Venetiis, in &aelig;dibus Aldi et Andre&aelig; soceri,
+1528.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. AVRELII CORNELII CELSI
+MEDICINAE LIBRI .VIII. QVAM EMENDATISSIMI, GRAECIS ETIAM OMNIBVS
+DICTIONIBVS RESTITVTIS. QVINTI SERENI LIBER DE MEDICINA ET IPSE
+CASTIGATISS. ACCEDIT INDEX IN CELSVM ET SERENVM SANE QVAM COPIOSVS.
+[Aldine anchor] Venetorum decreto, ne quis aliquo in loco Venet&aelig;
+ditionis hos libros imprimat, impressosue alibi uendat, cautum est.
+<i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: AVRELII CORNELII CELSI ARTIVM LIBER SEXTVS, IDEM MEDICINAE
+LIBER PRIMVS. <i>Fol. 164</i><span class="super2">a</span>: <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI,
+ET ANDREAE ASVLANI SOCERI MENSE MARTIO. M.D.XXVIII. [Aldine anchor on
+verso].</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. 8 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing title,
+dedicatory epistle of the editor, Giovanni Baptista Egnazio, to
+Cardinal Hercules Gonzaga and index; 164 numbered leaves of text
+(fol. 148 blank). Italic letter, three- to seven-line spaces with
+guide-letter left for initials. Renouard, p. 105.</p></div>
+
+<p>The <i>De Medicina</i> of Celsus is the second and only surviving part of his
+Encyclop&aelig;dia entitled <i>Artes</i>, in five divisions. The first division,
+<i>De Agricultura</i>, consisted of five books, so that the sixth book of
+<i>Artes</i> was at the same time the first of <i>De Medicina</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The Syston Park copy, uncut. Bound by Roger Payne in red morocco. Leaf
+9&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;5<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P31" id="P31"></a>31. <span class="smcap">CICERO, Marcus Tullius.</span> Epistol&aelig; ad Atticum, ad M.
+Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1540.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: M.TVLLII CICERONIS EPISTOLAE ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum,
+ad Quintu<i>m</i> fratrem, summa diligentia castigat&aelig;, ut in ijs menda, qu&aelig;
+plurima erant, pau<span class='pagenum'>[48]<a name="Page_48" id="Page_48"></a></span>cissima
+jam supersint. PAVLI MANVTII IN EASDEM
+EPISTOLAS Scholia, quibus abditi locorum sensus ostenduntur, cum
+explicatione castigationum, qu&aelig; in his epistolis pene innumerabilis
+fact&aelig; sunt. [Aldine anchor] PAVLVS MANVTIVS ALDI F. VENETIIS, M.D.XL.
+<i>Fol. 344</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: APVD ALDI FILIOS. VENETIIS, M.D.XL.
+MENSE AVGVSTO. [Aldine anchor on verso]</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Octavo. 2 preliminary leaves containing title and dedication by
+Paulus Manutius to Guillaume Pellicier, Bishop of Montpellier, 331
+numbered leaves of text, 10 unnumbered leaves of translations of
+the Greek passages, conjectural emendations which the editor "would
+not hesitate to adopt it he should ever find an ancient MS. to
+confirm them" and a final leaf with colophon and anchor. The
+Scholia, 24 unnumbered leaves, have a separate title, with notice
+of copyright granted by Paul III. (the fourth pope to grant this
+privilege) and the Venetian senate; colophon and anchor repeated on
+last leaf. Italic letter, 30 lines to the page, five-line spaces
+with guide-letters left for initials. Renouard, p. 120.</p></div>
+
+<p>Except for the interval 1533-6 the press was inactive from 1529 to 1540,
+on account of dissensions between the heirs of Andrea and Aldus. The
+partnership having been dissolved the press was reopened in 1540 by the
+sons of Aldus (<i>apud Aldi filios</i>) under the direction of the youngest,
+Paulus Manutius (1512-74), who restored and added to its lustre. Of
+Cicero, his favorite author, he revised the entire text and printed
+repeated editions of some of the works: e.g. of the <i>Epistolae ad
+Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem</i> not less than ten, of which
+this is the first. The brief scholia he expanded later into full and
+valuable commentaries, on the Letters to Atticus in 1547, on the Letters
+to Brutus and Quintus in 1557.</p>
+
+<p>It was Petrarch who in 1345 discovered in a Verona MS. the long lost
+Letters to Atticus, Brutus and Quintus and copied them with his own
+hand. Both the MS. and Petrarch's copy are lost. But of the MS. another
+transcript, procured by Petrarch's friend Salutati in 1389, is preserved
+in the Laurentian Library, and of the Petrarch copy we have here a
+replica in the type which Aldus characterized as <i>manum mentiens</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[49]<a name="Page_49" id="Page_49"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>From the Syston Park library, with book-plate. Bound by Roger Payne, in
+blue morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 6<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;4 in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P32" id="P32"></a>32. <span class="smcap">CICERO, Marcus Tullius.</span> Orationes. Venetiis, apud Aldi
+filios, 1546.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: M. TVLLII CICERONIS ORATIONVM PARS I. [Aldine anchor]
+CORRIGENTE PAVLO MANVTIO, ALDI FILIO. VENETIIS, M.D.XLVI. <i>Fol. 308</i><span class="super2">a</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: VENETIIS, APVD ALDI FILIOS, M.D.XXXXVI.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Octavo. 4 unnumbered preliminary leaves, containing title and
+preface of Paulus Manutius addressed to Cardinal Benedetto Accolto,
+303 numbered leaves of text and a final leaf with register and
+colophon on the recto and anchor on the verso. Italic letter, 30
+lines to the page, five-line spaces with guide-letters left for
+initials. Renouard, p. 136.</p></div>
+
+<p>The second edition of the Orations printed by Paulus, vol. I only (II,
+III wanting), on large paper. Renouard (who knew of no complete copy of
+the three volumes l.p.) remarks, p. 141, on the too elongated form of
+most of the Aldine large paper octavos, in which all the increased space
+is at the bottom. In the present copy it is divided between the bottom
+and the outer margin, the inner margin and the top having no increase of
+width&mdash;an arrangement well adapted for marginal annotations and perhaps
+designed for that use. An early owner of this copy has in fact added to
+the printed title (<i>Orationum Pars I</i>) with a pen the word <i>Commentata</i>,
+but proceeded no further with his plan than simply to underscore a
+number of words on the first three pages, leaving the margins untouched.</p>
+
+<p>The most important of the commentaries of Paulus was that on the
+Orations, completed not long before his death and printed by his son
+Aldus in 1578-9 in three folio volumes.</p>
+
+<p>From the Syston Park library, with book-plate and the monogram of Sir
+J.&nbsp;H. Thorold. Bound in red morocco, gilt edges, with Aldine anchor in
+gold on sides. Leaf 8&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;5<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[50]<a name="Page_50" id="Page_50"></a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P33" id="P33"></a>33. <span class="smcap">PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius.</span> Planisph&aelig;rium. JORDANUS NEMORANUS.
+Planisph&aelig;rium. Venetiis, [apud Paulum Manutium], 1558.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM. IORDANI PLANISPHAERIVM.
+FEDERICI COMMANDINI VRBINATIS IN PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM COMMENTARIVS.
+In quo uniuersa Scenographices ratio quam breuissime traditur, ac
+demonstrationibus confirmatur. [Aldine anchor] VENETIIS, M.D.LVIII.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto (not octavo, as described by Renouard). <i>Part 1.</i> 4
+unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title and dedicatory
+preface of Commandino to Cardinal Rainuccio Farnese, 37 numbered
+leaves of text (1-25 Ptolemy, 26-37 Jordanus), final blank leaf
+with anchor on verso. <i>Part 2.</i> 28 numbered leaves of commentary,
+with separate title, anchor both on title and on verso of last
+leaf. Text in roman, 25 lines to the page; commentary in italic, 34
+lines to the page. Many woodcut diagrams. Both text and commentary
+are introduced by a seven-line woodcut initial belonging to a
+mythological series found in other books of Paulus of this period,
+C picturing Calypso bidding adieu to Ulysses, I, Juno seated on a
+car drawn by peacocks. The original italic font of Aldus, the
+so-called <i>Aldino</i> type, which appears to have passed into the
+possession of the Torresani relatives at about this date, is here
+replaced by a new font having a perceptibly larger face, though
+only a slightly larger body (20 lines of the new equalling 21 of
+the old) and consequently showing less white between the lines.
+Renouard, p. 173.</p></div>
+
+<p>In 1554 the subscription assumed the new form <i>apud Paulum Manutium Aldi
+F.</i>, showing that Paulus had acquired his brothers' rights in the press.
+At the same time he returned to the earlier and simpler form of the
+anchor with the name <i>Aldus</i>, instead of the <i>Aldi filii</i> and the
+ornamental border in use since 1546. Sometimes, as in the present
+volume, the subscription is omitted altogether and the anchor with the
+name Aldus alone used. Here moreover the place and date appear only on
+the title-page and the colophon is dropped as no longer useful.</p>
+
+<p>The original Greek text of Ptolemy's Planisphere is lost. To the present
+Latin translation, made by an unknown hand from the Arabic, is appended
+(fol. 25) this subscription: <i>Facta est translatio haec Tolosae Cal.
+Iunii</i><span class='pagenum'>[51]<a name="Page_51" id="Page_51"></a></span><i> Anno Domini MCXLIIII</i>. The revival of the study of the Greek
+mathematicians in the sixteenth century was largely due to the admirable
+translations and commentaries of Federigo Commandino of Urbino
+(1509-75). This edition of Ptolemy's Planisphere still remains the best.
+In the same year Paulus printed <i>Archimedis Opera nonnulla a Federico
+Commandino Vrbinate nuper in latinum conversa et commentariis
+illustrata</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Uncut copy, bound in blue morocco, with vellum fly-leaves. Leaf
+8<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;6<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span>
+in. From the Syston Park library with book-plate and monogram of
+Sir John Hayford Thorold.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P34" id="P34"></a>34. <span class="smcap">LIVIUS, Titus.</span> Historiarum ab urbe condita libri.
+Venetiis, in &aelig;dibus Manutianis, 1572.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: T.LIVII PATAVINI, Historiarum ab urbe condita, LIBRI.
+QVI. EXSTANT XXXV CVM. VNIVERSAE. HISTORIAE. EPITOMIS Caroli Sigonij
+Scholia, quibus ijdem libri, atque epitomae partim emendantur, partim
+etiam explanantur, Ab Auctore multis in partibus aucta. [Printer's
+device] VENETIIS <span style="font-size: 150%">&#8734;</span> DLXXII. In Aedibus Manutianis.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Part 1. 48 unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title,
+preface of Sigonius, <i>Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia ab
+Aldo Manutio Paulli F. Aldi N. collecta, Libri primi epitome, Rerum
+et vocum apud T. Liuium index copiosissimus</i>; 399 numbered leaves
+of text (blank last leaf wanting). Part 2. <i>Caroli Sigonii
+Scholia</i>, with separate title and device, 109 numbered leaves and
+blank end leaf. Part 3. <i>Caroli Sigonii Livianorum Scholiorum
+aliquot Defensiones adversus Glareanum et Robortellum</i>, with
+separate title and device, 52 numbered pages. Roman character,
+except <i>epitomae</i> i-xlv and <i>index</i> which are in the italic type of
+the Ptolemy commentary, and the preface which is a large and
+unusual italic, first found in a notice prefixed to the <i>Medici
+antiqui</i> of 1547, once as a text type in 1550, afterwards only in
+an occasional preface or title-page. Like the smaller italic of
+Paulus it is provided with capitals. The large woodcut initials of
+the several books belong to the mythological series found in the
+Ptolemy but are here much worn. Renouard, p. 215.</p></div>
+
+<p>Editions of Livy with the Scholia of Sigonius were issued from the
+Aldine press in 1555, 1566, 1572 and 1592. This third edition is
+distinguished from those which pre<span class='pagenum'>[52]<a name="Page_52" id="Page_52"></a></span>ceded it by some additions to the
+Scholia and an appendix in which the editor defends his views on the
+chronology of Livy against the attacks of two opponents. But
+typographically it is inferior to the second edition as the second was
+inferior to the first, which alone was printed under the active
+supervision of Paulus. In 1561 he went to Rome to undertake the
+direction of a press which Pius IV. was about to establish and died
+there in 1574, having made only one brief visit to Venice in the
+intervening thirteen years. In his absence the Venice press, when not
+inactive or leased, was mainly in the charge of his son, the younger
+Aldus (1547-97), who in spite of the promise of his early years failed
+both as a scholar and as a printer to sustain the reputation of his
+father and grandfather. To the present edition Aldus contributed the
+<i>Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia</i>, and he is also
+unquestionably responsible for the large and strange device which
+replaces the simple anchor for which his father had shown so marked a
+preference. It consists of the arms granted to Paulus in 1571 by the
+Emperor Maximilian II. (in which the Aldine anchor occupies a
+subordinate place) surrounded by a border of heavy ornament with the
+addition: <i>Ex privilegio Maximiliani II. Imp. Caes. Aug.</i> When his
+father's death had made him the head of the press he continued for some
+years to employ the same device. For the Livy of 1592, much inferior to
+the present edition, and of interest only as showing the decline into
+which the Aldine press, and the Italian presses in general, had fallen
+at the end of the sixteenth century, he was only indirectly responsible.
+He left Venice in 1585 and spent the last years of his life at Rome, as
+professor of belles-lettres and joint director of the Vatican press.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P35" id="P35"></a>35. BIBLIA LATINA. Parisiis, Yolande Bonhomme, vidua Thielmanni
+Kerver, August 14, 1549.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: Biblia sacra, integru<i>m</i> vtriusq<i>ue</i> testame<i>n</i>ti corpus
+co<i>m</i>plecte<i>n</i>s, dilige<i>n</i>ter recognita et eme<i>n</i>data.
+<span class='pagenum'>[53]<a name="Page_53" id="Page_53"></a></span> Cu<i>m</i>
+concorda<i>n</i>tijs simul et argume<i>n</i>tis: cu<i>m</i>q<i>ue</i> iuris canoni<i>c</i>i
+allegationib<i>us</i> passim adnotatis. Insup<i>er</i> i<i>n</i> calce eiusde<i>m</i> annexe
+su<i>n</i>t no<i>m</i>i<i>nu</i>m Hebraico<i>rum</i>, Chaldeo<i>rum</i>, atq<i>ue</i> Greco<i>rum</i>
+interp<i>re</i>tatio<i>n</i>es. Huic editio<i>n</i>i adiect<i>us</i> e<i>st</i> Index re<i>rum</i> et
+sente<i>n</i>tia<i>rum</i> vetr<i>is</i> <i>et</i> noui testame<i>nti</i>. [Printer's device
+(shield bearing the initials T.&nbsp;K. suspended from a tree and supported by
+two unicorns, with name THIELMAN.KERVER. at foot), both the title and
+the device framed in a woodcut border]. <i>Fol. 562</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>:
+Parisijs, ex officina libraria yola<i>n</i>de bonhomme, Uidue spectabilis
+viri Thielmanni Keruer, sub signo vnicornis in vico sancti Jacobi vbi et
+venundatur. Absolutum Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo
+nono Decimo nono Calendas Septembris. [Printer's device on verso].</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Octavo. Sign. A<span class="super">8</span>, B<span class="super">4</span>, a-z, aa-zz, A-Y<span class="super">8</span>, Z<span class="super">6</span>, aaa-eee<span class="super">8</span>. 602
+leaves, comprising 12 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing
+title, <i>Ad divinarum literarum verarumque divitiarum amatores
+exhortatio, Librorum ordo, Biblie summarium</i>. Gabriel Bruno's
+<i>Tabula alphabetica historiarum</i>; fol. i-cccccxx, text; 30
+unnumbered leaves <i>Index rerum et sententiarum</i>; 40 unnumbered
+leaves <i>Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum</i>, etc. Very small
+gothic letter, double columns, 58 lines to the column. Six- to
+eight-line woodcut initials of the several books, the unicorns of
+Kerver's device appearing in that of Gen. i. Le Long-Masch iii, 2,
+149.</p></div>
+
+<p>The octavo Latin Bibles of the Kerver press, fifteen editions of which
+appeared between 1508 and 1560, were closely patterned after Froben's
+edition, Basel, 1591 (the first Bible printed in octavo form), both as
+regards the text, based on the "Fontibus ex Gr&aelig;cis" editions, 1478 ff.,
+and the introductory and supplementary matter of various origin
+accompanying it. The earliest of these supplements, <i>Interpretationes
+nominum Hebraicorum</i>, an etymological index of Hebrew proper names,
+appeared first in the Bible of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471, and
+was reprinted without change in most of the editions previous to 1515.
+In the Complutensian Polyglot it underwent revision and the revised form
+appears in all the editions of Yolande Bonhomme, with due
+acknowl<span class='pagenum'>[54]<a name="Page_54" id="Page_54"></a></span>edgment
+to Cardinal Ximenes. The <i>Index rerum et sententiarum</i>,
+however, announced in the title as a new addition to this edition (as it
+had been also announced in the edition of 1546, not mentioned by Masch
+and Copinger, of which this is an exact duplicate) was borrowed from the
+Bible of Robert Stephens, Paris, 1534, without acknowledgment, perhaps
+in order the better to escape the suspicion of heresy attached to his
+work. In Copinger's chronological table of the printed editions of the
+Latin Bible during the 15th and 16th centuries (<i>Incunabula Biblica</i>, p.
+207) this is no. 339, total number 562.</p>
+
+<p>The Kerver press was less celebrated for its Bibles than for liturgical
+works, and for the books of private devotion (<i>Horae, Heures</i>) of which
+Brunet (<i>Manuel</i>, v, col. 1614-27) enumerates no less than fifty-six,
+printed by Thielmann, his widow, or his sons, between 1497 and 1571. The
+wood-engravings with which they were illustrated were repeated in the
+successive editions and occasionally also in the Bibles. Two of these
+borrowed cuts are found in the present edition, facing the Old and the
+New Testament. The first represents the Expulsion from the Garden, but
+the verse printed underneath (Gen. ii. 7) calls for the Creation of
+Adam, which in Yolande's editions of 1526 and 1534 is actually present,
+while here another engraving has been substituted, but the verse left
+standing. Facing the New Testament, under the heading <i>Jesu Christi
+secundum carnem genealogia</i>, is a genealogical tree springing from "the
+root of Jesse."</p>
+
+<p>Following the usual alphabetical order of the signatures (A-Z, aaa-eee),
+the <i>Index rerum et sententiarum</i> (sign. U-Z) is here placed before the
+<i>Interpretationes</i> (sign. aaa-eee). This is contrary to the direction of
+the <i>Collectio codicum</i> found on the last leaf of the <i>Index</i> (Z6),
+where the order prescribed is A-T, aaa-eee, U-Z, which is further
+supported by the colophon and printer's device on Z6. The <i>Index</i> as the
+latest supplement was meant to stand at the end of the volume.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[55]<a name="Page_55" id="Page_55"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>Bound in oak boards covered with stamped leather, brass corners and
+bosses, gilt gauffred edges. Around the central boss of the back cover
+is stamped the date A.D. 1571, and on the front cover, in corresponding
+position and order, the initials F E P L P F.</p>
+
+<p>From the Osterley Park sale, May, 1885, with the book-plate of Victor
+Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey. Leaf 6<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span>&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;4<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p>
+
+
+<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P36" id="P36"></a>36. PHILO JUD&AElig;US. De divinis decem oraculis. Luteti&aelig;, apud Carolum
+Stephanum, 1554.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: Philonis Iud&aelig;i DE DIVINIS DECEM oraculis, qu&aelig; summa sunt
+legum capita Liber, Iohanne V&aelig;ur&aelig;o interprete. [Printer's device]
+LVTETIAE, Apud Carolum Stephanum, Typographum Regium. M.D.LIIII.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Octavo. 72 numbered pages, followed by one leaf <i>Ad lectorem</i> and
+one blank. Pp. 3-6, dedication by the translator to Charles de
+Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, Archbishop of Reims, to whom was also
+dedicated the first edition of the works of Philo in Greek, printed
+by Turnebus, Paris 1552. Printed on vellum. On p. 7 a beautiful
+seven-line engraved initial R. The device is that chosen by the
+printer's brother Robert, the olive tree and the motto <i>Noli altum
+sapere</i>, without the addition <i>sed time</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p>Renouard, <i>Annales de l'impr. des Estienne</i>, 2<span class="super2">e</span> &eacute;d., p. 106; adds to
+his description of the volume the following note: "D&eacute;di&eacute; au cardinal de
+Lorraine, pour lequel il en fut tir&eacute; sur v&eacute;lin un exemplaire que depuis
+l'on a vu reli&eacute; en maroq. jaune ancien, avec une t&ecirc;te en or sur la
+couverture. Il a pass&eacute; dans une Biblioth&egrave;que inconnue." The present copy
+answers completely to this description and is without doubt the
+dedication copy in question. The binding (17th cent.) is yellow morocco,
+browned by age, gilt edges, with a medallion head in gold embossed on
+the back cover. Within are written names of former owners; on the title
+page <i>N. Tetel</i>, <i>1644 datum Remis</i> and <i>Claude Henry Corrard</i>; on the
+cover linings <i>ex Libris Claudii Tetel ad Mussey</i>(?); <i>Ce livre
+appartient &agrave; m<span class="super">lle</span> Jean Collot</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[56]<a name="Page_56" id="Page_56"></a></span></p>
+
+<p>By an oversight Renouard omitted this volume from his list (p. 271) of
+"Editions St&eacute;phaniennes dont on connoit un on plusieurs exemplaires
+imprim&eacute;s sur v&eacute;lin." It increases the number to twenty-three, seventeen
+of them printed by the first Henri and only six by his descendants.</p>
+
+<p>Charles Estienne (1504?-1564), a member of a second remarkable family of
+scholar-printers of the sixteenth century, whose history forms so
+interesting a parallel to that of Aldus and his descendants, though he
+does not rank with his brother Robert, or Robert's son the second Henry,
+certainly brought no discredit on the family name. He was educated as a
+physician, but when Robert withdrew to Geneva to escape the persecutions
+of the Sorbonne, he took charge of the Paris press and conducted it with
+ability from 1551 to 1561, printing one hundred volumes and receiving
+the appointment of king's printer. Aside from this attractive volume no
+vellum copy of his books is known.</p>
+
+<p>From the Wodhull sale, with the Wodhull arms stamped in gold on the
+front cover. Mem. within: "Payne's sale. &pound;3 3s. M. Wodhull, Apr. 14<span class="super">th</span>
+1792. Collat &amp; complet." On the last blank leaf is entered the date
+"Oct. 17<span class="super">th</span> 1808," a record possibly of a later "visitation." Similar
+dates, some years later than the date of purchase are found on the end
+leaves of other Wodhull books. Leaf 7&nbsp;&times;&nbsp;4<span style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
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+<p>Transcriber's Note:</p>
+
+<p>The following inconsistencies found in the text have been retained:</p>
+
+<p>head-line / headline<br />
+Homili&aelig; / Homiliae (in referring to the same book)<br />
+De Vinne / DeVinne<br />
+Prohemye / Proheyme</p>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews
+Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University, by Anonymous
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+
+Title: Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+Release Date: October 9, 2005 [EBook #16844]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATALOGUE OF EARLY BOOKS ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries
+(http://www.archive.org/details/toronto), Jason Isbell,
+Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
+at https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note: This book has a number of characters which cannot be
+represented in a text format. The following coding has been used for
+these characters.
+
+[upturned A]  A printed upside down
+[=e]          e with macron
+[oe]          oe ligature
+
+Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling found in the original book
+have been retained in this version. A list of these inconsistencies is
+found at the end of the text.
+
+
+
+
+
+      CATALOGUE OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS
+
+
+
+
+                 CATALOGUE
+
+                   OF THE
+
+           WILLIAM LORING ANDREWS
+
+         COLLECTION OF EARLY BOOKS
+
+                   IN THE
+
+         LIBRARY OF YALE UNIVERSITY
+
+
+
+              [Printer's Seal]
+
+
+
+      NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
+          LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
+          OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
+                  MCMXIII
+
+
+
+
+              COPYRIGHT, 1913
+                     BY
+           YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
+
+Printed from type October, 1913. 300 copies
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+The collection of early printed books presented to the Library of Yale
+University in 1894 by Mr. William Loring Andrews, of New York, was
+formed to illustrate the first century of printing, which is a better
+boundary for the survey than the half-century ending with the year 1500,
+more often chosen. The latter, the so-styled cradle period of the art,
+is wanting in real definition, being at most a convenient halting place,
+not a completed stage, whereas at the middle of the sixteenth century
+the printed book of the better class had acquired most of its maturer
+features and no longer has for us an unfamiliar look. Designed to serve
+as a permanent exhibition, it is a selection rather than a collection,
+not large, but wisely chosen, and no less attractive than instructive,
+having been formed a quarter of a century ago, at a time when
+opportunities were unusually favorable.
+
+The surviving books of the first presses, which are the chief sources of
+our knowledge of the early art, are at the same time, when obtainable,
+the most efficient teachers. For the illustration of the typography, the
+feature of first importance, there is nothing comparable to the open
+pages of a representative series of the original books, such as are here
+spread out before us. The best of the available substitutes, phototype
+reproductions of specimen pages, apart from other limitations, must
+always lack the authority and the impressiveness of the originals.
+
+While it is the main office of the present collection to set before the
+students of the University as a whole the more general features of the
+art of the early printer, a further service which it is prepared to
+render must not be overlooked. To such as are prompted to go into the
+subject more deeply it offers an excellent body of the original
+material upon which any serious study must of necessity be based.
+
+The two fine fifteenth century MSS. at the head of the collection, far
+from serving a merely ornamental purpose, like their own illuminated
+initials for example, are a needful introduction. It is obvious that
+from such sources the first printers got the models of their types, and
+the MSS. in which Jenson found the prototypes of his famous roman
+characters, which in the judgment of some are still unsurpassed, could
+not have been very remote from these. Some of the more striking features
+which distinguish the early printed books from the later were not
+original with them, but only survivals from the MSS. The abbreviations
+and contractions in which both abound were the labor-saving devices of
+the copyists, adopted without hesitation by the printers who used the
+MSS. as copy and only slowly abandoned. The copyist left spaces in his
+MS. for initials to be supplied by the illuminator, without which his
+work was not considered complete, and for about a hundred years the
+printer continued to do the same. If the copyist saw fit to attach his
+name to his work, we look for it at the end of the volume and there also
+the printer placed his colophon. Signatures and catchwords, to guide the
+binder in the arrangement of the sheets, did not come in with the
+printed book, but had long been in use in the MSS.
+
+Although out of the hundreds of presses active during the first century
+only a score are here represented, leaving wide gaps in the series, it
+is better, because more nearly in the natural line of development, that
+the books should be ranged under the country, the locality and the press
+to which they severally belong, than that they should be kept in strict
+chronological order. A general chronological order underlies the
+geographical even where it does not come to the surface. By right of
+seniority Germany stands at the head, and Mainz, the birthplace of
+printing, is followed by the other German towns in the order of their
+press age. Next come the presses of Italy, France, Holland and England,
+arranged in like order. To prevent, however, too wide a departure from
+the chronological succession which would result from the strict
+application of this rule, the later, i.e., the sixteenth century, Venice
+and Paris books are separated from the earlier and transferred to the
+end of the list, where in point of development they properly belong.
+Placed in the order thus indicated, the books, as befits so small a
+total, are numbered consecutively in one series. The conspectus, which
+brings into one view the titles, dates, places and printers' names, will
+serve also as a sufficient index.
+
+While we are here most concerned with the genealogy and family history
+of the books, or in other words with their press relationships, the
+personal history attaching to them--_habent sua fata libelli_--is not
+without interest. The Zeno MS. and the Philo, printed on vellum, are the
+dedication copies, not merely set apart, but specially prepared for this
+use. In a few of the volumes are found the names or the arms of early
+owners. The Livy MS. and one-half of the printed books are from the
+library, dispersed in 1886, of Michael Wodhull (1740-1816) of Thenford,
+Northamptonshire, the first translator into English verse of all the
+extant works of Euripides, the most assiduous and painstaking and in
+some departments of bibliography the best equipped among the book
+collectors of his day. It was his custom (well illustrated in the
+present collection) to enter on the fly-leaf of each purchase the source
+and the cost, adding as a separate item the binding, often by Roger
+Payne, and to affix his name and the date. His _vise_ "Collat: &
+complet:" is seldom wanting and often bibliographical notes and
+references to authorities are added. Justinian's _Novellae_, printed by
+Schoeffer, and all the Aldine press books save one are from the library
+gathered at Syston Park, Lincolnshire, by Sir John Thorold and his son,
+Sir John Hayford Thorold, between 1775 and 1831 and sold in 1884.
+
+One valued mark of ownership, common to all the volumes, is the _ex
+libris_ of the lover of choice books who united them in one family, not
+again to be separated, and gave them into the keeping of the University
+Library.
+
+The accompanying list of Authorities, as will be apparent, is intended
+to supply merely the details necessary to complete the references of the
+catalogue.
+
+Acknowledgments are due from the compiler to his associates in the
+Library and the University for assistance in the catalogue.
+
+ADDISON VAN NAME, _Librarian Emeritus_.
+
+Yale University Library, September, 1913.
+
+
+
+
+AUTHORITIES.
+
+Ames, J. Typographical antiquities, or, History of printing in
+    England, Scotland and Ireland, enlarged by T.F. Dibdin. 4 v. 4^o.
+    Lond., 1810-19.
+
+Blades, W. The life and typography of William Caxton. 2 v. 4^o. Lond.,
+    1861-3.
+
+British Museum. Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in
+    the British Museum. Pt. i, ii. 4^o. Lond., 1908-12.
+
+Brown, H.F. The Venetian printing press. 4^o. N.Y. and Lond., 1891.
+
+Brunet, J.C. Manuel du libraire. 5^e ed. 6 v. 8^o. Paris, 1860-5.
+
+Burger, K. Deutsche und italienische Inkunabeln. Lief. i-ix. f^o.
+    Berlin, 1892-1912.
+
+Campbell, M.F.A.G. Annales de l'imprimerie neerlandaise au XV^e siecle.
+    8^o. La Haye, 1874-90.
+
+Claudin, A. The first Paris press: an account of the books printed for
+    G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne 1470-72. [Bibl. Soc.
+    Illust. Monogr. vi.] 4^o. Lond., 1897.
+
+Copinger, W.A. Incunabula Biblica. 4^o. Lond., 1892.
+
+---- Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 pt. in 3 v.
+    8^o. Lond., 1895-1902.
+
+Crevenna, P.A. Bolongaro. Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque de M.
+    Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna. 5 v. 8^o. Amsterdam, 1789.
+
+De Vinne, T.L. Notable printers of Italy during the fifteenth century.
+    4^o. New York, 1910.
+
+Didot, A. Firmin. Alde Manuce et l'Hellenisme a Venise. 8^o. Paris,
+    1875.
+
+Duff, E. Gordon. A century of the English book trade. 4^o. Lond., 1905.
+
+---- Hand-lists of English printers 1501-1556. Pt. i, ii. 4^o. Lond.,
+    1895-6.
+
+Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 v. in 4 pt. 8^o. Stuttgart,
+    1826-38.
+
+Le Long, J. Bibliotheca sacra, continuata ab A.G. Masch. 2 pt. in 5 v.
+    4^o. Halae, 1778-90.
+
+Morgan, J. Pierpont. Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books
+    now forming a portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan. 3 v.
+    f^o. Lond., 1907.
+
+Panzer, G.W. Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum
+    MDXXXVI. 11 v. 4^o. Norimbergae, 1793-1803.
+
+Pellechet, M. Catalogue general des incunables des bibliotheques
+    publiques de France. T. i-iii. 8^o. Paris, 1897-1909.
+
+Philippe, J. Origine de l'imprimerie a Paris. 8^o. Paris, 1885.
+
+Pollard, A.W. An essay on colophons. [Caxton Club]. 4^o. Chicago, 1905.
+
+Proctor, R. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum.
+    8^o. Lond., 1898.
+
+---- The printing of Greek in the fifteenth century. [Bibl. Soc. Illust.
+    Monogr. viii]. 4^o. Lond., 1900.
+
+Quaritch, B., _ed._ Contributions toward a dictionary of English
+    book-collectors. Pt. i-xiii. 8^o. Lond., 1892-9.
+
+Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde. 3^e ed. 8^o. Paris,
+    1834.
+
+---- Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne. 2^e ed. 8^o. Paris, 1843.
+
+Ricci, Seymour de. Catalogue raisonne des premieres impressions de
+    Mayence (1445-1467). [Veroeff. der Gutenberg-Gesellseh. viii-ix].
+    4^o. Mainz, 1911.
+
+---- A census of Caxtons. [Bibl. Soc. Illust. Monogr. xvi]. 4^o. Lond.,
+    1909.
+
+
+
+
+CONSPECTUS
+
+MANUSCRIPTS
+
+
+                                                                         PAGE
+
+ 1. ZENO. Vita Caroli Zeni                                                  1
+ 2. LIVIUS. Historiarum libri I-X                                           3
+
+
+PRINTED BOOKS
+
+ 1. BIBLIA LATINA               Mainz        J. Fust & P.           1462   5
+                                                Schoeffer
+ 2. JUSTINIANUS. Novellae          "         P. Schoeffer           1477   6
+ 3. ISIDORUS. Etymologiae       [Strassburg] [J. Mentelin]      [c. 1473]  8
+ 4. GESTA ROMANORUM             [Cologne]    [U. Zell]          [c. 1473] 10
+ 5. GREGORIUS I. Homiliae       [Augsburg]   [G. Zainer]            1473  11
+ 6. PSALTERIUM LATINUM             "              "             [c. 1473] 12
+ 7. MODUS perveniendi ad
+      sapientiam                   "              "             [c. 1473] 13
+ 8. HUGO. De arrha animae          "              "                 1473  13
+ 9. CARACCIOLUS. De
+      poenitentia               Venice       Wendelin of Speier     1472  14
+10. VALLA. Elegantiae linguae
+      Latinae                      "         N. Jenson              1471  15
+11. PLINIUS. Naturalis historia    "              "                 1472  17
+12. NONIUS MARCELLUS. De
+      compendiosa doctrina         "              "                 1476  19
+13. DULLAERT. Quaestiones super              F. Renner & Nicolas
+      Aristotelem de anima         "            of Frankf.          1473  21
+14. ARISTOTELES. De animalibus     "         John of Cologne &
+                                                J. Manthen          1476  22
+15. UBERTINUS. Arbor vitae
+      crucifixae Jesu              "         A. de Bonetis          1485  23
+16. ALBERTIS. De amoris
+      remedio                   [Florence]                          1471  24
+17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabulae    [Milan]      Bonus Accursius    [c. 1480] 26
+18. OVIDIUS. Metamorphoses      Parma        A. Portilia            1480  28
+19. PIUS II. De duobus          [Paris]      [Friburger, Gering
+      amantibus                                 & Crantz]          [1472] 28
+20. PIUS II. De curialium
+      miseria                      "              "                [1472] 29
+21. PLATO. Epistolae               "              "                [1472] 30
+22. MAGNI. Sophologium             "         Crantz, Gering &       1477  32
+                                                Friburger
+23. HIERONYMUS. Vaderboeck      [Zwolle]     P. van Os              1490  33
+24. HIGDEN. Polychronicon       Westminster  W. Caxton             [1482] 34
+25. ORDINARY of Christians      London       W. de Worde            1506  38
+26. INTRATIONES                    "         R. Pynson              1510  40
+27. PLUTARCHUS. Moralia         Venice       Aldus Manutius         1509  41
+28. SCRIPTORES rei rusticae        "              "                 1514  43
+29. CICERO. Rhetorica              "         Andrea d'Asola         1521  45
+30. CELSUS. De medicina            "              "                 1528  47
+31. CICERO. Epistolae ad
+      Atticum                      "         Aldi filii             1540  47
+32. CICERO. Orationes              "              "                 1546  49
+33. PTOLEMAEUS. Planisphaerium     "         Paulus Manutius        1558  50
+34. LIVIUS. Historiae Romanae      "              "                 1572  51
+35. BIBLIA LATINA                Paris       Vidua Th. Kerver       1549  52
+36. PHILO. De divinis decem        "         C. Stephanus           1554  55
+      oraculis
+
+
+
+
+MANUSCRIPTS
+
+
+1. ZENO, JACOPO. Vitae, morum, rerumque gestarum Caroli Zeni libri X.
+    1458.
+
+Fine white vellum, 192 leaves, in 19 quires of ten leaves each and two
+additional leaves at the end, the last of which is blank. Signed on the
+lower inner angle of the last page of each quire by a letter (A-T) which
+is repeated at the point directly facing it on the first page of the next
+quire. Leaves four to seven of the first quire and all of quires three to
+eight, a total of sixty-four leaves, have 28 lines to the page, the rest
+27 lines. Ruled on one side only with a hard point. Leaf 10-1/2 x 7 in.,
+text-page 7 x 3-3/4 in.
+
+Written in regular Italian minuscules of the 15th century, formed on the
+models of the 11th and 12th centuries.
+
+The subject of the memoir is the distinguished Venetian Admiral Carlo
+Zeno (1334-1418), brother of Nicolo and Antonio, reputed discoverers of
+America. His biographer, Jacopo Zeno (1417-1481), Bishop of Feltre and
+Belluno, and later of Padua, was his grandson. The work is dedicated to
+Pius II. in honor of his recent elevation to the papal throne, and since
+this is evidently the dedication copy, the accession of Enea Silvio
+Piccolomini in August, 1458, fixes approximately the date of the MS. In
+April, 1460, Jacopo Zeno was translated to the see of Padua.
+
+The execution and the decoration of the MS. are in keeping with its
+special use. The gratulatory preface occupying ten pages is introduced
+by the following heading in letters of burnished gold:
+
+IN LIBROS VITAE MORVM RERVMQ: GESTARVM CAROLI ZENI VENETI. AD PIVM
+SECVNDVM PONTIFICEM MAXIMVM. IACOBI FELTRENSIS ET BELLVNENSIS
+ANTISTITIS PRAEFATIO: [G]LORIOSA.... The ornamentation of the ten-line
+illuminated initial G is of the interlaced style, and a border of
+similar pattern surrounds the entire page, enclosing on the front margin
+vignettes--a vase, two rabbits and a stork--and at the foot the
+Piccolomini arms, supported by kneeling angels and surmounted by the
+papal keys and tiara. Each of the ten books has a heading in burnished
+gold in which the dedication to Pius II. is repeated, and an initial of
+like character to that of the preface, with a marginal ornament. The
+occasional marginal subject-headings and the book-number at the top of
+each leaf are likewise in gold.
+
+The Latin text has thus far been printed only in Muratori's Rerum
+Italicarum Scriptores (of which a new edition is now in progress), vol.
+xix, Milan, 1731, from a MS. then, and still, preserved in the library
+of the Episcopal Seminary at Padua. This MS., the only one which he was
+able to discover, Muratori describes in the following language: "Codex
+autem Patavinus quamquam pervetustus a non satis docto Librario
+profectus est ac proinde occurrunt ibi quaedam parum castigata, quaedam
+etiam plane vitiata. Mutilus praeterea est in fine, ubi non multa quidem
+sed tamen aliqua desiderantur." Muratori's text breaks off in the middle
+of a sentence at the end of the nineteenth (i.e. the last full) quire of
+our MS., and accordingly lacks only the seventeen lines contained on the
+next leaf, which is the last. If, as seems quite possible, the quiring
+of the two MSS. is the same, the loss of the single unprotected leaf at
+the end is the more readily explained.
+
+In 1591 there was published at Bergamo an abridged Italian version, made
+from an illuminated MS. which had once belonged to the famous library of
+Matthias Corvinus, but was then in the possession of Caterino Zeno,
+governor of Bergamo. It had been among the spoils carried to
+Constantinople after the capture of Buda by the Turks in 1526. There,
+seven years later, it had been bought and carried back to Italy by
+Caterino's father, the younger Nicolo, who, in 1558, first gave to the
+world the narrative of his ancestors' voyages. For no better reasons
+than that the Paduan MS. also was illuminated in gold and colors, and
+that it had been bought twenty-five years before (c. 1700) in Venice
+where this branch of the Zeno family had become extinct, Muratori was
+inclined to identify it with the Corvinus MS. The relations between Pius
+II. and the king of Hungary, who was his ally in the proposed crusade
+against the Turks upon which he was just embarking when overtaken by
+death, and to whom the 48,000 ducats which he left behind him were sent
+in aid of the prosecution of war, suggest another possibility. It may be
+safely assumed that between the present MS., given only an opportunity
+to acquire it, and any other copy the king's choice could not have
+hesitated.
+
+The MS. is in 18th-century Italian binding, red morocco, gilt edges.
+Sold with other MSS. from the library of the Trivulzio family of Milan
+at Leavitt's auction, New York City, November, 1886.
+
+
+2. LIVIUS, TITUS. Historiarum Romanarum libri I-X. Late 15th century.
+
+Vellum. 336 leaves, the last blank. 34 quires all having ten leaves,
+except the 17th and 34th which have eight each. 31 lines to the page;
+catchword placed at right angles with the last line of the quire; ruled
+on both sides with plummet. Leaf 14-1/2 x 10 in., text-page 9 x 6 in.
+
+Written in very regular, bold Italian minuscules of the period of the
+Renaissance.
+
+The first page of the preface is surrounded by an illuminated border in
+gold and colors in the Renaissance style of ornament, into which are
+introduced the Caraccioli arms belonging to the distinguished Neapolitan
+family of that name. The initial F on this page is historiated with a
+view of Rome, and each of the ten books has an eight-line initial of
+dull gold on a background of red, blue and green, with marginal
+ornamentation.
+
+From the close agreement, even in punctuation, between this MS. and the
+edition printed at Milan in 1495 by Ulrich Scinzenzeler for Alexander
+Minutianus, and from other features which forbid the supposition that
+one is taken directly from the other, we must conclude that they both
+reproduce a common ancestor.
+
+This MS. of the first Decade of Livy is in unusually fine preservation,
+and is bound in russia extra, with broad borders of gold and gilt
+marbled edges.
+
+Brought from Palermo by Dr. Anthony Askew (1722-1772), it was sold with
+his collection of MSS. in 1785. Michael Wodhull, Esq., of Thenford,
+Northamptonshire, who gave seven guineas for the volume at "White's
+sale" in March, 1798, added to his customary entry of these details on
+the fly-leaf this note: "This appears to be the very Book which I saw
+Sir W. Burrell purchase at Dr. Askew's manuscript Auction (No. 482) for
+thirty-two guineas; in Sir W. Burrell's Auction, May, 1796, it is said
+to have gone for about five (No. 657). The note in _Bib. Askev.
+manuscripta_ is: 'Ex Panormo in Sicilia hunc cod. adduxit secum Cl.
+Askevius.' & '300 annor. MSS. longe pulcherrimus.'"
+
+At the sale of the Wodhull library in January, 1886, the Livy MS. and
+the greater part of the 15th-century books hereinafter described were
+acquired by the donor of the collection, William Loring Andrews, M.A.,
+of New York City.
+
+
+
+
+PRINTED BOOKS
+
+
+1. BIBLIA LATINA. Moguntiae, Johannes Fust et Petrus Schoeffer, 14
+    August, 1462.
+
+[Folio. 481 leaves, 2 columns, 48 lines to the column, gothic letter,
+without signatures, catchwords or pagination.]
+
+Leaves 204, 205 containing Judith xiv. 17--Esther iv. 4.
+
+     _Fol. 204^b, col. 1_ (red): expl_icit_ liber iudith secundu_m_
+     ieronimu_m_. Incipit p_r_ologus in libru_m_ hester. _Col. 2_ (red):
+     Explicit p_r_olog_us_. Incip. liber hester. Hain *3050. Pellechet
+     2281. Copinger 4. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 22. Burger pl. 74.
+     De Ricci 79.
+
+Five-line initial of prologue and fourteen-line initial I of Esther i. 1
+supplied in colors. Heading of leaf in alternate red and blue capitals.
+Initial-strokes in red on text capitals. Measurement 16-1/4 x 11-1/2 in.
+
+The fourth printed Bible, and the first in which place, printers' names
+and date are given. These details, which are wanting in so many of the
+books of the early printers, Fust and Schoeffer--and Schoeffer when he
+carried on the business alone--rarely failed to add to anything large
+enough to be called a book that came from their press. This is their
+fifth book and the colophon attached to the first, the famous Psalter of
+1457, was repeated in them all, with no essential change beyond the
+date, and continued to do duty for ten years longer. In the present
+Bible among the typographical differences found in the copies are three
+varieties of the colophon, two of which however are identical in
+language and differ only in the printers' use of contractions and
+capitals. The more common of the forms affirms that: "This present work
+by the ingenious invention of printing or stamping letters without any
+scratching of the pen has been thus fashioned in the city of Mainz and
+to the worship of God has been diligently brought to completion by
+Johann Fust citizen and Peter Schoeffer clerk of the same diocese in the
+year of the Lord 1462, on the eve of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary."
+
+In Seymour de Ricci's "Catalogue raisonne des premieres impressions de
+Mayence (1445-1467)," Mainz, 1911, 61 known copies of this Bible, 36 of
+them on vellum, are enumerated and 41 copies which cannot now be traced.
+The fragment in our possession is entered (No. 115) as one leaf only,
+instead of two.
+
+The second dated Bible, the eleventh in the series of printed Bibles,
+was that of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471; the third was a reprint
+by Schoeffer in 1472 of the present edition, page for page, line for
+line and in the same type.
+
+
+2. JUSTINIANUS. Novellae constitutiones, sive Authenticum. Consuetudines
+    feudorum. Codicis libri X-XII. Moguntiae, Petrus Schoeffer, 21
+    August, 1477.
+
+_Fol. 1^a._ [Text (red)]: In no_m_i_n_e d_omi_ni n_ost_ri ih_es_u
+chr_ist_i. de heredib_us_ et falcidia _con_st_ituti_o prima si heres
+legata soluere noluerit Incipit co_n_stitutio Imp_er_atoris Iustiniani.
+a. Ioha_n_ni p_a_pe secu_n_do. [Commentary]: [I]N nomine d_omi_ni.
+Iustinianus opus suu_m_ laudabile deo attribuit. _Fol. 169^b._ Explicit
+liber aute_n_ticor_um_. _Fol. 170^a._ [Text (red)]: Incipiu_n_t
+_con_suetudines feudor_um_. _Fol. 206^a._ [Text (red)]: Codicis d_omi_ni
+iustiniani sacratissimi principis perpetui augusti repetite
+p_re_lectionis incipit liber decimus. _Fol. 300^b_, COLOPHON (red): Anno
+incarnac_i_o_n_is d_omi_nice .M.cccc.lxxvii. xii. kale_n_dis septembrijs!
+Sanctissimo in chr_ist_o patre ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Sixto p_a_pa .iiii.
+po_n_tifice maximo. Illustrissimo noblissime domus austrie d_omi_no,
+d_omi_no Friderico Romanorum Imp_er_atore inuictissimo, monarchie
+chr_is_tiane d_omi_nis! Reuerendissimo deoq_ue_ amabili in Chr_ist_o
+p_at_re ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Diethero archip_re_sule Maguntino; in
+ciuitate Maguncia impressorie artis inue_n_trice atq_ue_ elimatrice
+p_ri_ma .x. collac_i_onu_m_ triu_m_q_ue_ libroru_m_ Codicu_m_ opus
+egregiu_m_, Petrus Schoiffer de Gernsheim, glorioso faue_n_te deo suis
+consignando scutis, feliciter finiuit. [PRINTER'S DEVICE in red.]
+
+     Folio. 1. Novellae: quires [1^{10}, 2^8, 3-6^{10}, 7-8^6, 9^{10},
+     10^8, 11-12^{10}, 13^8, 14^{10}, 15^8, 16^6, 17-18^{10}, 19^{10-1}
+     (the blank second leaf cut away)], 169 leaves. 2. Consuetudines
+     feudorum: quires [1-3^{10}, 4^6], 36 leaves. 3. Codicis libri
+     X-XII: quires [1^8, 2^{10}, 3-5^8, 6^{10}, 7^8, 8^4, 9-10^{10},
+     11^{10+1} (the additional leaf prefixed)], 95 leaves. In all 300
+     leaves, two columns of text and two of commentary, 51 lines of text
+     and 66 of commentary to the column, gothic letter, without printed
+     signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line spaces, some
+     with guide-letters, left for capitals. Two pinholes, the use of
+     which Schoeffer was thought to have abandoned a little earlier than
+     the date of this volume. Titles and colophon printed in red. The
+     text type is that of the Bible of 1462. Hain *9623. Brit. Mus. 15th
+     cent., I, p. 33 (IC. 217).
+
+The first page of each of the three works is ornamented with a floral
+scroll border in colors. At the head of the several books are thirteen
+initials in gold and colors. Chapter initials in alternate red and blue;
+initial-strokes in red in both text and commentary.
+
+The present volume agrees in contents with the fifth and last volume of
+the Corpus juris as it is found arranged in the medieval MSS., except
+for the omission of the Institutiones, already sufficiently accessible
+in separate editions, of which no less than fifty were printed in the
+15th century, the first of them by Schoeffer himself in 1468. The first
+three volumes of the Corpus were occupied by the Digests, the fourth by
+the Codex lib. i-ix. The last three books of the Codex relate mainly to
+public law and having lost much of their importance were transferred to
+the fifth volume.
+
+That the order of the three parts in the present copy, viz. 1. Novellae,
+2. Consuetudines, 3. Codex lib. x-xii, is that intended by the printer,
+is clear both from the position and from the language of the
+colophon--the position because the colophon is attached to the Codex,
+and the language because it describes the volume as consisting of "the
+ten Collations and the three books of the Codes." The Novellae were
+usually divided by the commentators into nine Collations, perhaps, as
+Savigny suggests, to parallel the first nine books of the Codex.
+Sometimes, however, as in the present case, the Consuetudines feudorum
+were joined with them and reckoned as a tenth collation. Notwithstanding
+these plain indications, in the copy described by Hain *9623, and in the
+British Museum copy (as at present, though not as originally, bound),
+the Codex x-xii is placed between the Novellae and the Consuetudines,
+thus removing the colophon from its natural place at the end of the
+volume. In the first edition of these works, printed by Vitus Puecher,
+Rome, 1476, they were placed in the order last named, but the colophon
+was there attached to the Consuetudines.
+
+After the death of his father-in-law and partner Fust, late in 1466 or
+early in 1467, Schoeffer conducted the press alone until his death in
+1502. After 1478, however, his activity as a printer was much
+diminished.
+
+The present large and fine copy (leaf 15-3/4 x 11-1/4 in.), with the
+manuscript signatures still in part preserved, is from the library of
+Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831) of Syston Park, Lincolnshire, sold
+in December, 1884. In the Meerman sale at the Hague, 1824, this same
+copy, bound as at present in russia gilt, sold for 64 florins.
+
+
+3. ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. Etymologiarum libri XX. [Strassburg, Johann
+    Mentelin, c. 1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: INCIPIT EPISTOLA ISIDORI IVNIORIS
+HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI AD BRAVLIONEM CESARAVGVSTANVM EPISCOPVM. [Three
+other letters to the same and two replies; tabula generalis.] _Fol. 3^b,
+col. 2_: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA PRIMI LIBRI. INCIPIT LIBER PRIMVS
+ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI. DE DISCIPLINA ET ARTE.
+_Fol. 27^b, col. 1_: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. _Fol. 27^b, col.
+2_: PREFACIO. [D]Omino et filio syseputo ysidor_us_..... INCIPIT LIBER
+YSIDORI DE RERVM NATVRA AD SISEPVTVM REGEM. _Fol. 37^a, col. 2_:
+INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. INCIPIT LIBER QVARTVS DE MEDICINA.
+_Fol. 142^a_, COLOPHON: EXPLICIT LIBER ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI
+HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI.
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-13^{10}, 14^{12}], 142 leaves, the first blank, 2
+     columns, 51 lines to the column, without signatures, catchwords,
+     pagination, printer's name, place or date. Gothic lower-case type,
+     roman capitals. Book and chapter headings printed wholly in
+     majuscules. Large woodcut diagrams. Three-to nine-line spaces left
+     for chapter and book initials, also spaces for occasional Greek
+     words (mostly left unsupplied) and for small diagrams. Two
+     pinholes, which in Mentelin's use point to a date not later than
+     1473. Hain *9270. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 57 (IC. 586). Burger
+     pl. 170.
+
+On the first page large illuminated initial with floral border ornament,
+and similar initials at the head of the several books. Chapter initials
+supplied in red or blue; initial-strokes in red throughout the volume.
+Blank first leaf wanting.
+
+Incorporated with the present edition of the Etymologiae by way of
+supplement, though not named in the table of contents, is an earlier
+treatise of Isidore's entitled _De natura rerum_, written at the request
+of Sisebut, king of the Visigoths, 612-621, and dedicated to him. It
+contains the sum of the physical philosophy of his time, and, being
+largely astronomical, is sometimes found in the MSS. under the title
+_Liber de astronomia_. In order to bring it into immediate connection
+with the corresponding section of the Etymologiae, it is placed
+immediately after the third book (devoted to the _quadrivium_, the last
+division of which is astronomy) and given irregularly the heading "Liber
+quartus," the regular _Liber quartus (De medicina)_ beginning twenty
+pages later. Two of the 48 chapters of which it is composed are wanting
+here, but by the subdivision of other chapters the number is raised to
+58. Zainer of Augsburg, the printer of the first edition of the
+Etymologiae, dated 19 November, 1472, followed it the next month with an
+edition of _De responsione mundi et astrorum ordinatione ad Sesibutum
+regem_, which is the work in question under another title. Printed with
+the same type and the same number of lines to the page, it was in effect
+treated as a supplement to the Etymologiae.
+
+According to the testimony of a fellow printer, de Lignamine, in the
+"Chronica summorum Pontificum," Rome, 1474, Mentelin as early as 1458
+was printing at Strassburg 300 sheets a day. The third Latin Bible
+(1460-1461) and the first German Bible came from his press, but the
+first work to which he affixed his name and a date was the _Speculum
+historiale_ of Vincent of Beauvais in 1473. He died in 1478.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at "Hayes's sale" in 1794 for L5.5s., and bound
+in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, by Mrs. Weir for L1.2s. Leaf
+15-3/4 x 11 in.
+
+
+4. GESTA ROMANORUM. [Cologne, Ulrich Zell, c. 1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Ex gestis romanor_um_ hystorie no_ta_biles:
+de vitijs v_ir_tutibusq_ue_ tracta_n_tes: cu_m_ applicac_i_onib_us_
+moralizatis et misticis: Incipiunt feliciter. _Fol. 160^b, col. 1_,
+COLOPHON: Ex gestis ro_ma_no_rum_ cu_m_ plurib_u_s applicatis historijs:
+de v_ir_tutib_us_ et vitijs mistice ad intellectum tra_n_ssum_p_tis
+Recollectorij finis est feliciter. LAVS. DEO. _Fol. 160^b, col. 2_:
+Incipiu_n_t tituli numerorum om_n_i_u_m capitulo_rum_ et exemplo_rum_.
+_Fol. 163^a_: Tabula o_mn_i_u_m exe_m_plo_rum_ _et_ capitulo_rum_
+op_er_is praecedentis. sec_un_d_u_m ordine_m_ alphabeti. _Fol. 170^a_:
+Explicit tabula. _Fol. 170^b, blank._
+
+     Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2
+     columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures,
+     catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to
+     five-line spaces left for capitals. One pinhole in side margin,
+     others possibly cut away in binding. Hain 7734, Pellechet 5247.
+     Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 196 (IB. 2994).
+
+On fol. 2^a and 163^a five-line initials in blue with graceful pen
+decoration in red. Initials of chapters and morals supplied in alternate
+red and blue. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red; headings
+underlined in red. Blank first leaf wanting.
+
+This edition of the Gesta contains 181 chapters and appears to have been
+preceded only by another undated edition printed at Utrecht by Ketelaer
+and Leempt, in long lines, with 152 chapters and no index.
+
+Ulrich Zell was the first printer of Cologne. His first dated book was
+issued in 1466 and he continued to print quite up to the close of the
+fifteenth century. Nearly all his books are, like the present, without
+place, date or printer's name. Of the 177 books which he is known to
+have printed, the British Museum possesses 123.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bound in russia, gilt edges. Leaf 10-3/4 x 7-1/2 in.
+Mem. on fly-leaf: "Pateson's Auction. L5.5s; washing, cleaning, mending
+and binding by Roger Payne L1.2s.6d. M. Wodhull, May 25th, 1786."
+
+
+5. GREGORIUS I. Homiliae XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, Guenther Zainer.]
+    28 August, 1473.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Ordo .xl. omeliaru_m_ beati gregorij pape ad secundinu_m_
+episcopum Thauronitaru_m_. _Fol. 1^b_: SEQVITVR EPISTOLA
+[R]Euerendissimo et sa_n_ctissimo frati secundino coepiscopo.
+Gregori_us_ seruus seruoru_m_ dei. _Fol. 2^a_: EXPLICIT EPISTOLA INCIPIT
+EWANGELIVM. S. LVCAM.... Omelia prima beati Gregorij pape. _Fol. 141^b_,
+COLOPHON: Adeptus est finis amba_rum_ parciu_m_ omelia_rum_ beatissimi
+gregorii pape vrbis rome jn die s_an_cti hermetis sub Anno d_omi_ni M
+cccc lxxiij. _Fol. 142^a_: _Table of the homilies in the order of the
+liturgical year._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-13^{10}, 14^{12}], 142 leaves, 33 lines to the
+     page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
+     place or printer's name. Two- and three-line spaces left for
+     capitals, which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and
+     initial-strokes in red. Hain *7948, Pellechet 5366. Brit. Mus. 15th
+     cent., II, p. 319 (IB. 5457).
+
+Gregory's Homilies, of which this is the first edition, and the three
+next following works bound with it, are from the press of Guenther
+Zainer, of Reutlingen, the first printer of Augsburg. All are in the
+same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by
+the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently
+printed at about the same time. He was the first printer in Germany to
+make use of roman type, of which the earliest example seems to have been
+his "Calendarium pro anno 1472." He died in 1478, ten years after the
+appearance of his first dated book.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt. Leaf 12 x 8-1/4
+in. Mem. on fly-leaf: "Payne's sale. L2.12.6, binding and restoring
+17s.6d. These four pieces were taken out of old monastic binding. M.
+Wodhull, Jan. 5th, 1795."
+
+
+6. PSALTERIUM LATINUM. [Augsburg, Guenther Zainer, c. 1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Prologus beati jeronimi p_re_sbiteri in psalteriu_m_ q_uo_d
+ipse de hebraico transtulit in latinu_m_ [E]Vsebius jeronim_us_
+soffronio suo salutem. _Fol. 1^b_: Explicit p_ro_logus beati jeronimi.
+Incipit psalterium Psalmos dauid primus. _Fol. 51^a_: Canticu_m_ Ysaie
+capitulo lxxij (_sic_), _followed by cantica of Hezekiah, Hannah, Moses
+(2), Habakkuk_. _Fol. 54^a_, COLOPHON: Explicit tra_ns_lacio
+soli_lo_q_ui_oru_m_ siue psalterij beatissimi Ieronimi eusebii
+p_resbiteri_ q_uo_d ad peti_ci_one_m_ soffronij tra_n_stulit ut in
+ep_isto_la_m_ ante psalteriu_m_ imp_re_ssa p_rae_mittit_ur_ _etc._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-5^{10}, 6^4], 54 leaves, 33 lines to the page,
+     gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place,
+     printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for initials,
+     which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in
+     red. Hain *13470. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5560).
+
+Jerome's final translations of the Old Testament books direct from the
+Hebrew were all adopted into the received Latin version, the Vulgate,
+except this of the Psalms. Here his earlier revision of the old Italic
+version on the basis of the Septuagint had become so firmly established
+in liturgical use that the translation from the Hebrew, though more
+exact, could not displace it. This appears to be the first printed
+edition.
+
+Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.
+
+
+7. MODUS PERVENIENDI AD SUMMAM SAPIENTIAM. [Augsburg, Guenther Zainer, c.
+    1473.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: [S]Entite de do_m_ino in bo_n_itate e_t_ in simplicitate
+cordis q_uae_rite illu_m_. _Fol. 2^a_: Explicit prologus Incipit modus
+ad summam p_er_veniendi sapienciam. _Fol. 24^a, l. 33_, END: sibi sparso
+diuinit_us_ in ip_sum_ ardentissime se extendit _etc._ _Fol. 24^b,
+blank._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-2^{10}, 3^4], 24 leaves, 33 lines to the page,
+     gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination, place,
+     printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for capitals,
+     which are supplied in red. Initial-strokes in red. Hain *11490.
+     Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5531).
+
+Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.
+
+
+8. HUGO de SANCTO VICTORE. Soliloquium de arrha animae. [Augsburg,
+    Guenther Zainer.] 12 October, 1473.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Incipit soliloquium beatissimi Augustini episcopi yponensi
+(_sic_) de arra anime. _Fol. 7^b_, END: Rapt_us_ est finis hui_us_
+tractat_us_ August_in_i de arra ani_m_e. feria t_er_cia post festu_m_
+s_an_cti Dyonisy Anno d_omi_ni lxxiij _etc._ _Fol. 8, blank._
+
+     Folio. 8 leaves, the last blank, 33 lines to the page, gothic
+     letter, without place or printer's name. Three-line space for first
+     initial and initial-strokes supplied in red. Blank last leaf
+     wanting. Hain *2021. Pellechet 1525. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., p. 319
+     (IB. 5451).
+
+The author of the work here directly ascribed to St. Augustine was the
+mystic theologian Hugo de Sancto Victore (1097-1140), member of the
+Canons Regular of St. Augustine and head of the abbey school of St.
+Victor, near Paris. From his familiarity with the writings of Augustine
+and likeness to his spirit, he was styled _Alter Augustinus_, a title
+which furnishes a plausible but not wholly satisfactory explanation of
+the confusion in the present case. For among the spurious writings which
+have been put under Augustine's name more than one has been borrowed
+from this author. For example, chapters 5-10 of the _Liber de diligendo
+Deo_ are taken almost word for word from the present treatise.
+
+In the present edition of this soliloquy cast in the form of a dialogue
+the interlocutors are _Augustinus_ and _Anima_ (both names always
+printed in capitals); in a Strassburg edition of about the same date,
+_Hugo_ and _anima sua_; in the collected edition of Hugo's works, _homo_
+and _anima_.
+
+Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.
+
+
+9. CARACCIOLUS, ROBERTUS, de Licio. Opus quadragesimale quod de
+    poenitentia dictum est. Venetiis, Wendelinus de Spira, 20 July, 1472.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Hec est tabula omniu_m_ sermonu_m_
+contentorum hoc in uolumine. _Fol. 3^a_: Sacre theologie magistri necnon
+sacri eloquij preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis
+Minor_um_ professoris op_us_ quadragesimale p_er_utilissimum quod de
+penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit. _Fol. 267^a_, COLOPHON:
+
+    Vendelinus ego gentis _co_gnomine spiere!
+    Roberti haec caste purgata uolumi_n_a pressi!
+    Sedis apostolice Romano praeside Sixto
+    Magnanimo _et_ uenetum Nicolao pr_in_cipe Truno
+         M.cccclxxij.xx.quintilis.
+
+_Fol. 267^b, 268, blank._ _Fol. 269^a_: Sermo i_n_ festo
+a_n_nu_n_tiat_i_o_n_is u_ir_ginis marie _et_ eiusdem Roberti cum tribus
+(_sic_) aliis sermonib_us_ seque_n_tib_us_. s. de p_re_destinato
+nume_ro_ damnator_um_ _et_ de cathenis. _Fol. 289^b_: Finis triu_m_
+sermonu_m_ Fratris Roberti... _Fol. 290, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-7^{10}, 8^{12}, 9-11^{10}, 12^8, 13-15^{10},
+     16^8, 17-27^{10}, 28-30^6, 31^4], 290 leaves, 1, 268, 290 blank, 40
+     lines to the page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords
+     or pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left
+     for initials. Two pinholes on side. Initials and paragraph-marks
+     supplied in red. Blank leaf 268 wanting. Hain-Copinger 4424.
+     Pellechet 3244. Proctor 3524.
+
+Wendelin of Speier succeeded in 1470 to the press established in 1469 by
+his brother John, the first printer of Venice, who lived to complete
+only four books. Gothic type was introduced into Italy by Wendelin.
+
+Roberto Caraccioli, born at Lecce in 1425, was bishop of his native city
+from 1484 to 1495. The great reputation which these sermons enjoyed is
+attested by the fact that four editions, three of them printed in
+Venice, appeared in 1472, and four more in 1473, one of which was
+Wendelin's second edition, an exact reprint of the present.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at the sale of the library of Samuel Tyssen, in
+1801, for L1.1s., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a
+further cost of 19 shillings. Leaf 10-1/8 x 7-1/2 in.
+
+
+10. VALLA, LAURENTIUS. Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Venetiis, Nicolaus
+    Jenson, 1471.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS ELega_n_tia_rum_ co_m_pendiosae
+collectio_n_is in ordinem alphabeti directae principium. _Fol. 9^a,
+blank._ _Fol. 9^b_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS VIRI CLARISSIMI ET DE LINGVA
+LATINA BENE MERENTIS AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM: CVI OPUS
+ELEGANTIARVM LINGVAE LATINAE DEDICAT EPISTOLA. _Fol. 11^a_: LAVRENTII
+VALLENSIS PATRICII ROMANI COMMENTARIORVM GRAMMATICORVM SECVNDVM
+ELEGANTIAM LINGVAE LATINAE LIBER PRIMVS DE NOMINE VERBOQVE. ET EX HIS
+DVOBVS COMPOSITO PARTICIPIO INCTPIT PROOEMIVM. _Fol. 159^b_: LAVRENTII
+VALLENSIS DE LANGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA TERTIVS LIBER FINIT: INCIPIT
+IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS. [_For_ TERTIVS _read_ QVINTUS;
+_for_ IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS _read_ VI. DE NOTIS
+SCRIPTORVM.] _Fol. 190^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE
+ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM LIBER
+INCIPIT. _Fol. 200^b_, COLOPHON: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE
+ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM PER
+ME M. NICOLAVM IENSON VENETIIS OPVS FELICITER IMPRESSVM EST. M.CCCCLXXI.
+_Fol. 201, 202, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1^8, 2^{12}, 3-4^{10}, 5^{12}, 6-7^{10}, 8^{12},
+     9^{14}, 10-11^{10}, 12^{12}, 13^8, 14^6, 15-19^{10}, 20^8], 202
+     leaves, the last two blank, roman letter, 39 lines to the page,
+     without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line
+     spaces left for capitals and spaces also for Greek words, to be
+     supplied in manuscript. Two pinholes on side. The type is Jenson's
+     first font. Hain 15802. Proctor 4071.
+
+At the head of the first page is a large initial of the interlaced vine
+pattern in gold and colors, with a border of the same pattern enclosing
+the entire page. The remaining five books, the prefatory epistle and the
+supplement _De ego, mei et sui_ are introduced by initials of the same
+size and style. Alternate red and blue capitals at the head of chapters,
+paragraph-marks also in red and blue.
+
+A few of the spaces left for Greek words are filled in manuscript, but
+more are left vacant. When Jenson later in the same year printed
+Cicero's Letters, he was provided with Greek type. The blank fol. 9^a is
+occupied by a transcript in an early hand of the greater part of lib. i,
+cap. iv (_De ficu_), from a MS. the readings of which differ materially
+from the printed text.
+
+For the purposes of the index the six books have been divided into a
+continuous series of 479 chapters, designated in the margins of the text
+by manuscript roman numerals, but in the index by printed numerals. The
+references are not, as in later editions, to book and chapter, but to
+chapters only. The index, alphabetized by the first letter of the word
+only, printed on different paper and forming a separate quire, is here
+placed at the beginning of the volume; but traces of earlier manuscript
+signatures still remaining, bear witness to a former order in which the
+text preceded the index, as is still the case in some copies of this
+edition.
+
+Most of Jenson's early books were folios. But notwithstanding the size
+of the leaf (13 x 8 in.), this is a quarto, as both the direction of the
+chain-lines and the position of the water-mark prove. However, because
+of the limitations of the early presses, it was doubtless printed on
+half-sheets, folio-wise, two pages at most at one impression.
+
+Of the twenty-four 15th-century editions of the _Elegantiae_ the three
+earliest, one of which was Jenson's, were printed in 1471.
+
+Although the tradition that Nicolas Jenson, master of the mint at Tours,
+was sent by Charles VII. in 1458 to Mainz to learn the secrets of the
+newly discovered art of printing is otherwise unsupported and, in view
+of the manner in which the invention was afterwards carried to France as
+well as to other countries by private initiative, improbable, he was
+already a master of the art, wherever and however acquired, when he
+established in 1470 the press which held the leading place at Venice
+until his death in 1480.
+
+The present exceptionally fine copy of the _Elegantiae_, bound in citron
+morocco, with gold borders and gilt edges, is the Wodhull copy, bought
+in 1786 of Payne for L10.10s.
+
+
+11. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C. Naturalis historia. Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson,
+    1472.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: CAIVS PLYNIVS MARCO SVO SALVTEM. _Fol.
+4^a_: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .I. CAIVS PLYNIVS
+SECVNDVS NOVOCOMENSIS DOMITIANO SVO SALVTEM. PRAEFATIO. _Fol. 21^a_:
+CAII PLINII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .II. _Fol. 355^a_,
+COLOPHON: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBRI TRICESIMI
+SEPTIMI ET VLTIMI FINIS IMPRESSI VENETIIS PER NICOLAVM IENSON GALLICVM
+.M.CCCC.LXXII. NICOLAO TRONO INCLYTO VENETIARVM DVCE. _Followed by_:
+Iohannis andreae episcopi aleriensis ad pontificem summum Paulum secundum
+uenetum epistola. _Fol. 356^a_: Hereneus lugdunensis episcopus: item
+Iustinus ex philosopho martyr: item cum diuo Hieronymo Eusebius
+caesariensis: serio posteritatem adiurarunt: ut eorum descripturi opera
+conferrent diligenter exemplaria: et sollerti studio emendarent. Idem
+ego tum in caeteris libris omnibus tum maxime i_n_ Plynio ut fiat;
+uehementer obsecro: obtestor: atq_ue_ adiuro: ne ad priora menda: _et_
+tenebras i_n_extricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabat_ur_. Instauratu_m_
+aliqua_n_tulu_m_ sub romano po_n_tifice maximo Paulo secu_n_do ueneto.
+_Fol. 356^b, blank._
+
+     Folio. Quires [1^{12}, 2^8, 3-8^{10}, 9^{12}, 10-15^{10}, 16^8,
+     17-27^{10}, 28^6, 29-30^{10}, 31-35^8, 36^{12}, 37^8], 356 leaves,
+     first blank, 50 lines to the page, roman letter, without
+     signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to twelve-line spaces
+     left for capitals, with guide-letters; also spaces for occasional
+     Greek words. Greek type sparingly used, oftener transliteration in
+     roman. Two pinholes. Hain *13089. Proctor 4087. Morgan Cat. II, p.
+     39, n. 297.
+
+The rubrication of the present copy is not only elaborate but also of
+unusual merit. The first of the twelve-line initials of the thirty-seven
+books is finely illuminated in gold and colors. The others, in the
+outlines of which grotesque features are occasionally introduced, are
+set off by skilful pen-work, harmonizing in general effect, but
+carefully avoiding repetition in details. The chapter initials also, a
+thousand or more in number, in alternate red and blue, or red and green,
+have much variety and grace. The initial L, for example, occurring
+twenty-eight times in the first book, is never repeated in the same form
+and color. The blank fol. 3^b is occupied by the name Jesus in very
+large and ornate characters, in different colors, surrounded by scroll
+and figure decoration. The Bagneri arms, included in the ornamentation
+of the first initial, point to an early ownership of the volume, and the
+arms of the Antella family of Florence at the foot of the first page, to
+a later ownership.
+
+The introductory epistle of the younger Pliny, describing his uncle's
+manner of life, was addressed to his friend Macer, who here becomes
+Marcus by the easy transposition of Macro to Marco. Less easily
+explained is the substitution in the dedication of Domitian for his
+brother Titus Vespasian, to whom Pliny dedicated the work.
+
+Two editions of the _Naturalis Historia_ preceded this, the first
+printed by John of Speier in 1469, with a five years' privilege from the
+Venetian senate, which expired at his death in 1470, the second by
+Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1470. With the first of these, Jenson's
+edition agrees in the number of pages and of lines to the page. From the
+second he reprinted the letter addressed by the editor Johannes Andreas,
+Bishop of Aleria, to his patron Pope Paul II., and the earnest appeal
+for care on the part of any who should reprint his Pliny, "_ne ad priora
+menda et tenebras inextricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabatur_." Fifteen
+more editions were printed before the close of the 15th century.
+Jenson's Pliny is generally regarded as the finest production of his
+press. The type is his first font.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought of Thomas Payne, book-seller, in 1791 for
+L12.12s., and bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on
+side, at the additional cost of L1. Leaf 15-1/4 x 10-1/4 in.
+
+
+12. NONIUS MARCELLUS. De compendiosa doctrina. Venetiis, Nicolaus
+    Jenson, 1476.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2-20, alphabetical index._ _Fol. 21, blank._
+_Fol. 22^a_: NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA
+DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM. _Fol. 194^a_, COLOPHON:
+NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIVM
+DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM IMPRESSA VENETIIS INDVSTRIA ATQVE IMPENDIO
+NICOLAI IENSON GALLICI. .M.CCCC.LXXVI. _Fol. 194^b, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-c^{10}, d-y^8, z^{12}, 194 leaves, 1 and 21 blank,
+     34 lines to the page, roman letter, without catchwords or
+     pagination. Seven- and eight-line spaces left for capitals, some
+     with guide-letters. The type is Jenson's first roman trimmed or
+     recast the second time on a slightly smaller body. Greek words as a
+     rule printed with Greek type, not transliterated. Hain 11901.
+     Proctor 4098.
+
+On the first page of text a large initial S in gold on a panel of color,
+with marginal decoration. Other large chapter initials in red and blue
+alternately. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. Blank
+first leaf wanting.
+
+The index, which occupies the first nineteen leaves, is alphabetized as
+far as the second letter of the word. The references are by roman
+numerals to the leaves (not pages) of the work, which themselves have
+only manuscript foliation in arabic figures.
+
+The first edition of Nonius was printed at Rome in 1470 by Lauer; the
+second, in 1471, was without place or name. Jenson's edition, which is
+the third, borrowed from both of these but added also something of
+value. The correct title, _De compendiosa doctrina_, first appears here.
+The usual title, _De proprietate sermonum_, belongs strictly to the
+first chapter. As in all the early editions, the third chapter is
+lacking, having been discovered later and first included in the 1513
+edition of Aldus. Jenson's Greek type long remained in favor for
+incidental use in Latin books after it had been displaced in Greek books
+by Aldine types.
+
+The Wodhull copy, "Payne's sale, L5.5s., January, 1792." Bound by Roger
+Payne in red morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 11 x 8 in.
+
+
+13. DULLAERT, JOHANNES, de Janduno or Gandavo. Quaestiones super tres
+    libros Aristotelis de anima. Venetiis, Franciscus de Hailbrun et
+    Nicolaus de Franckfordia socii, 1473.
+
+_Fol. 1^a, blank._ _1^b_: Tabula q_ue_stio_n_u_m_ d_omi_ni Joh_ann_is de
+Janduno sup_er_ tres libros de anima Aristotelis. _Fol. 2^a_: [I]Nest
+enim me_n_tib_us_ hominu_m_ Veri boni naturalis inserta cupiditas. _Fol.
+92^b_, COLOPHON: Expliciunt questiones d_omi_ni Joh_ann_is de Janduno
+sup_er_ tres libros de a_n_i_m_a Ar_istotelis_ i_m_presse Venetijs p_er_
+Franciscu_m_ de Hailbrun _et_ Nicolau_m_ de Franckfordia socios.
+M.CCCCLXXiii.
+
+     Folio. Quires [1-8^{10}, 9^{12}], 92 leaves, 2 columns, 71 lines to
+     the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or
+     pagination. Six- to twelve-line spaces left for capitals. Two
+     pinholes. Arabic figures used to the exclusion of roman numerals
+     not only in table of contents, but throughout the text to mark
+     subdivisions of the argument or individual books of a treatise.
+     Hain 7458. Burger pl. 99.
+
+On first page of text a twenty-four line initial illuminated in gold and
+colors, with border ornament. Book and chapter initials in alternate red
+and blue. Arabic numerals, which made their first appearance in printed
+books in 1470, were very sparingly used even at a considerably later
+date than 1473.
+
+The author, commonly known as Johannes de Gandavo (Ghent), of the early
+part of the 14th century, wrote commentaries also on other works of
+Aristotle. Of the present work five editions, of which this is the
+first, were printed at Venice in the 15th century.
+
+Franz Renner of Heilbronn conducted a press at Venice from 1471 to 1483,
+having as partner from 1473 to 1477 Nicolas of Frankfort. The present
+volume is printed in a small round-faced gothic type, the second of the
+nine fonts which he used.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at the Maffei Pinelli sale, London, 1789, for
+L1.13s. Bound in hf. vellum. Leaf 16-3/4 x 11-1/2 in.
+
+
+14. ARISTOTELES. Libri de animalibus interprete Theodoro Gaza. Venetiis,
+    Johannes de Colonia sociusque Johannes Manthen, 1476.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: THEODORI: GEAECI: THESSALONICENSIS:
+PRAEFATIO: IN LIBROS: DE ANIMALIBVS: ARISTOTELIS: PHILOSOPHI: AD XYSTVM:
+QVARTVM: MAXIMVM. _Fol. 7^b_: ARISTOTELIS: DE HISTORIA: ANIMALIVM: LIBER
+PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 131^a_: ARISTOTELIS DE PARTIBVS
+ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 184^a_: ARISTOTELIS DE
+GENERATIONE ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 250^b_,
+COLOPHON: Finiunt libri de animalibus Aristotelis interprete Theodoro
+Gaze. V. clarissimo: quos Ludouicus podocatharus Cyprius ex Archetypo
+ipsius Theodori fideliter _et_ dilige_n_ter auscultauit: _et_ formulis
+imprimi curauit Venetiis per Iohannem de Colonia sociu_m_q_ue_ eius
+Iohanne_m_ ma_n_the_n_ de Gherretze_m_. Anno domini .M.CCCC.LXXVI. _Fol.
+251^a_: Tabula cartarum secundum ordinem ponendarum. _Fol. 251^b, 252,
+blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-b^{10}, c-d^8, e^{10}, f^8, g^{10}, h^8, i^{10},
+     k^8, l-t^{10}, u^8, x^{10}, aa-dd^{10}, ee^8, ff^6. 252 leaves, the
+     first and the last blank, roman letter, 35 lines to the page,
+     without pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces left for initials,
+     with guide-letters. Hain *1699. Proctor 4312. Morgan Cat., II, p.
+     48, n. 313. Burger pl. 199.
+
+The border surrounding the first page of text, and eighteen initials of
+the several books, are illuminated in gold and colors. Chapter initials
+supplied in red and blue alternately.
+
+Printed signatures, which appear to have been first introduced by
+Zarotto of Milan in 1470, and a register of sheets, first used by John
+of Cologne in 1475, are both found in this volume. The register, which
+may give only the number of sheets in each of the quires, or the first
+word of each sheet of the quire, is here of the latter kind.
+Unfortunately two sheets escaped registration and the words are supplied
+in manuscript.
+
+Three separate treatises of Aristotle are contained in this volume:
+Historia de animalibus libri ix; De partibus animalium libri iv; De
+generatione animalium libri v.
+
+Theodore Gaza, the translator, was a learned Greek from Thessalonica,
+who took up his residence in Italy on the capture of his native city by
+the Turks. The translation was made at the instance of Nicolas V., who
+had invited him to Rome in 1450, but was first printed in the present
+edition (Venice, 1476) and dedicated in a flattering epistle of eleven
+pages to the reigning pope, Sixtus IV. The fifty scudi which the pope
+sent in acknowledgment of the dedication copy Gaza is said to have
+thrown in disgust into the Tiber. It is interesting to note in this
+connection that while the Venice editions of 1492 and 1498 retain the
+name of Sixtus IV. in the dedication, Aldus after having omitted the
+epistle altogether in his 1504 edition, in that of 1513 quietly
+substituted the name of Nicolas V., the earlier and worthier patron,
+without a word of change in the language of the dedication itself. Later
+editions have followed the example of Aldus.
+
+John of Cologne, established as a printer at Venice as early as 1471,
+was associated 1472-1473 with Wendelin of Speier, whose business and
+types he took over in 1474. He had as partner, 1474-1480, John Manthen,
+and in 1480, Nicolas Jenson. The type of the _Aristotle_ is a close
+imitation of the first font of John and Wendelin of Speier.
+
+The Wodhull copy, bought at the Pinelli sale for L2.12s.6d. Bound in hf.
+vellum. Leaf 12 x 8-1/4 in.
+
+
+15. UBERTINUS DE CASALI. Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu. Venetiis, Andreas
+    de Bonetis de Papia, 12 March, 1485.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: INCIPIT PROLOGVS IN LIBRVM QVI INTITVLATVR
+ARBOR VITE CRVCIFIXE IESV. ET DICITVR OPVS VBERTINI DE CASALI. QVI FVIT
+FRATER PROFESSVS ORDINIS MINORVM BEATI FRANCISCI. _Fol. 4^a, col. 2_:
+Explicit p_ri_mus p_ro_logus. Incipit secu_n_dus. _Fol. 5^a, col. 2_:
+Explicit p_ro_logus secundus. Incipit liber primus. _Fol. 248^b, col.
+2_, COLOPHON: Liber qui intitulatur Arbor uite crucifixe Iesu
+deuotissimi fratris Vbertini de Casali ordinis minoru_m_ felicit_er_
+explicit. Impressus Venetiis p_er_ Andrea_m_ de Bonettis de Papia. Anno
+.M.CCCC.LXXXV. Die.xii.Martii. Ioa_n_ne Mocenico inclyto principe
+regnante. _Fol. 249^a_: Tabula capitulo_rum_. _Fol. 249^b, col. 2_:
+Registrum. _Fol. 250, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-z^8, A^8, B^{12}, C-G^8, H^6. 250 leaves, 1, 204,
+     250 blank, 2 columns and head-line, 58 lines to the column, roman
+     letter. The head-lines give the subject, book and chapter numbers.
+     Eight-line spaces left for the initials of the five books and
+     three-line spaces, some with guide-letters, for the chapter
+     initials, both supplied in red. Blank first and last leaves
+     wanting. Hain *4551. Pellechet 3331. Proctor 4816.
+
+Bound in olive green morocco with gold borders and gilt edges.
+Book-stamp of J. Richard, D.M., on first and last leaf of text, and
+book-plate of another owner, Jules Frayssenet, of Fleurance, printed on
+full leaf inserted between the fly-leaves, front and back, and the text.
+Leaf 10-1/4 x 7-3/4 in.
+
+Andreas de Bonetis, of Pavia, printed at Venice from 1483 to 1487.
+
+
+16. ALBERTIS, LEO BAPTISTA DE. De amoris remedio. 1471.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: BATISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS PRAECLARVM IN
+AMORIS REMEDIO FELICITER INCIPIT. _Fol. 20^b_, COLOPHON: BAPTISTAE DE
+ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS IN AMORIS REMEDIO VTILISSIMVM FELICITER
+FINIT. .M.CCCC.LXXI.
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1^8, 2^{12}], 20 leaves, 25 lines to the page,
+     roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place or
+     printer's name. Two- to six-line spaces left for initials, but the
+     present copy is without rubrication. Hain *422. Panzer iii. 82, 69;
+     iv. 5, 16. Pellechet 268. Proctor 7346.
+
+Notwithstanding the Latin title, the work itself is wholly in Italian
+and both in the MSS. and in later printed editions is found also under
+the title _Deifira ossia del mal principiato amore_. A companion volume
+by the same author, with the Latin title _De amore liber_, and the
+Italian, _Ecatomfilea ossia del vero amore_, was printed the same year,
+in the same type, the same number of leaves and lines to the page. Still
+another work in the same type and form and apparently of the same date,
+entitled _Historieta amorosa fra Leonora de' Bardi e Hippolito
+Bondelmonti_, is attributed on good evidence to De Albertis. Copies of
+all three works, printed alike on vellum and bound together in one
+volume, formerly in the Mac-Carthy Collection (Catalogue, Paris, 1815,
+no. 3595), are now in the Bibliotheque Nationale (_Velins_ 1964). In the
+present copy of _De amoris remedio_ the manuscript signatures _b_ and
+_c_, partly cut away, point to an earlier binding, in which the
+_Historieta_ consisting of only twelve leaves may possibly have formed
+the signature _a_.
+
+Panzer was disposed to identify the peculiar roman type of these volumes
+with that used by the fourth printer of Venice, Clemente of Padua,
+between whom and Zarotto of Milan, Hain was later in doubt. But Proctor
+was convinced that the small group of books to which these belong,
+nearly all of them connected in some way with Florence, were the
+productions of the first, so far unidentified, press of that city. The
+date they bear (1471) places them among the earliest books printed in
+the Italian language. Witness the following first editions: Petrarch's
+Canzoniere, 1470; Il Decamerone, 1471; La Divina Commedia, 1472.
+
+The present copy, bound in blue morocco, with the crest of the Marquis
+of Blandford on side, was sold in his (White Knights) sale in 1819 for
+L2. Leaf 9-1/4 x 6-3/4 in.
+
+From the Syston Park sale, December, 1884, with book-plate and the
+monogram (J.H.T.) of Sir John Hayford Thorold.
+
+
+17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabulae graece. Vita et fabulae latine. Fabulae
+    selectae graece et latine. [Milan], Bonus Accursius, c. 1480.
+
+_Part I._ _Fol. 1^a_: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo sapientissimo
+ducali quaestori Iohanni Francisco turriano salutem plurimam dicit. _Fol.
+2^a_: [Greek: AISOPOU BIOS TOU MYTHOPOIOU MAXIMO TO PLANOUDE
+SYNGRAPHEIS]. _Fol. 33^a_: [Greek: AISOPOU MYTHOI]. _Fol. 70^a_: [Greek:
+Telos ton tou Aisopou Mython]. _Part II._ _Fol. 1^a_: Vita Aesopi
+fabulatoris clarissimi e graeco latina p_er_ Rynucium facta ad
+Reuere_n_dissimu_m_ Patre_m_ Dominu_m_ Antonium tituli Sancti Chrysogoni
+Presbyteru_m_ Cardinalem _et_ primo prohoemium. _Fol. 32^b_: FINIS.
+_Fol. 33^a_: Argumentum fabula_rum_ Aesopi e graeco i_n_ latinu_m_. _Fol.
+59^b_: Finis. Vita Aesopi per Rynucium thettalum traducta. Verum quoniam
+ab eo non nulla fueru_n_t praetetermissa (_sic_): fortassis q_ui_a
+graecus eius codex esset minus emendatus: Ego Bonus accursius Pisanus:
+eadem in ea omnia correxi; _et_ emendaui. _Fol. 60, blank._ _Part III._
+_Fol. 1^a, blank._ _Fol. 1^b_: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo ac
+sapientissimo ducali Quaestori Iohanni francisco Turriano salutem
+plurimam dicit. _Fol. 2^a, col. 1_: [Greek: MYTHOI AISOPOU], _col. 2_:
+Fabulae Aesopi. _Fol. 38^a, col. 1_: [Greek: TELOS TON TOU AISOPOU
+MYTHON]. _Col. 2_: FINIS AESOPI FABVLARVM. Bonus Accursius pisanus
+impressit: qui non doctorum hominum sed rudium ac puerorum gratia hunc
+laborem suscepit.
+
+     Quarto. Pt. I, sign. [A-H^8, I^6] not printed, but stamped
+     irregularly on the extreme lower margin and partially cut away in
+     the binding, 70 leaves. Pt. II, sign, a-g^8, and four unsigned
+     leaves at the end, 60 leaves. Pt. III, sign. a-b^8, C-D^8, E^6, 38
+     leaves, the Greek text and the word-for-word Latin translation in
+     two parallel columns. Both the Greek and the Latin have 25 lines to
+     the page or column. Two- to five-line spaces for capitals, with
+     guide-letters, in both texts, but no rubrication. Two pinholes.
+     Hain *265+272. Pellechet 185+192. Proctor, Printing of Greek in the
+     15th cent., p. 60.
+
+This is the first printed edition of any of the Greek classics, and the
+third book printed entirely in Greek, or in Greek with a Latin
+translation; the first being the Grammar of Lascaris, Milan, 1476, and
+the second the Lexicon of Crastonus not later than 1478. All three were
+printed with the same font of Greek type made by, or under the
+supervision of, Demetrius Damilas, the son of Milanese parents settled
+in Crete. Bonus Accursius was rather the publisher than the actual
+printer, who in the case of the Lascaris was Dionysius Paravisinus, and
+in the case of the Crastonus and the Aesop, probably the brothers de
+Honate, who at that date were the possessors of the peculiar roman type
+used in the Latin translations. After the Aesop this particular font of
+Greek type next appeared in the first edition of Homer, printed at
+Florence in 1488 by Bartolommeo di Libri, and in three of his subsequent
+books, once at Rome early in the 16th century, after which it disappears
+altogether.
+
+In the present edition the Fabulae graece number 147, the Fabulae latine
+100, the Fabulae selectae 62. The translator, Rinuccio d'Arezzo, who
+dedicates his work to Cardinal Antonio Cerdano, tells him in closing
+that he sends all that have come into his hands, though probably not all
+that Aesop wrote, since while they stand in alphabetical order, some
+letters are wanting and others have not their full quota. Not all copies
+have all the three parts, nor are they always bound in the same order.
+The present copy, though in all respects complete, is bound irregularly,
+as follows: 1. Fabulae selectae. 2. Fabulae graece. 3. Vita Aesopi graece.
+4. Vita et fabulae latine. On the verso of the last blank leaf is
+written in an early hand "olim fuit _Reverendissimi_ m_agistri_ georgii
+de casali."
+
+Mr. Wodhull paid "Edwards" for this copy, in 1799, L14.14s. Bound by
+Mrs. Weir in green morocco extra, gilt edges. Leaf 9 x 6 in.
+
+
+18. OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Metamorphoses. Parma, Andreas Portilia, 15
+    May, 1480.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank_, _2^a_: TABVLAE F[upturned A]BVLARVM (_sic_) OVIDII
+METAMORPHOSEOS. _Fol. 6^a_: Domitius Calderinus Veronensis. [D]E Ouidii
+uita nihil a nobis i_n_ hoc loco scribe_n_du_m_ _est_. _Fol. 7^a_: P.
+OVIDII NASONIS SVLMONENSIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 187^b_,
+COLOPHON: FINIS Impressum Parmae Opera Et Impensis Andre_ae_ Portili_ae_
+.M.CCCC.LXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani Illustrissimo
+Duce Regna_n_te F[oe]liciter. _Fol. 188, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a^6, b-q^8, r^{10}, s-y^8, z^6, &^6. 188 unnumbered
+     leaves, the first and last blank, 40 lines to the page, roman
+     letter. Three- to eight-line spaces, with guide-letters, left for
+     the initials of the fifteen books. Hain *12160.
+
+First initial of each book supplied in red; heading of each book and
+each fable underlined in red; initial-strokes in every verse and
+paragraph-marks in red. Without the last blank leaf.
+
+Andreas Portilia was the first printer at Parma, where his press was
+established in 1472 and continued, with two brief transfers to Bologna
+and Reggio, till 1486.
+
+Mr. Wodhull's copy, for which he paid, at the sale of Dr. Chauncy's
+library in 1790, L2. Bound in red morocco, with rich gold tooling on
+back and sides, and book-plate of Charles Chauncy, M.D. (1706-1777).
+Leaf 12 x 8 in.
+
+
+19. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De duobus amantibus. [Paris,
+    Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]
+
+_Fol. 1_: Aeneae siluii poaetae laureati, in hystoria_m_ de duobus
+ama_n_tibus p_r_aefatio prima ad perq_uam_ generosum milite_m_ Casparem
+Slik f[oe]liciter incipit. _Fol. 2^b_: Aeneae siluii in hystoria_m_ de
+duobus ama_n_tibus p_rae_fatio secunda ad Martinu_m_ Sozinu_m_,
+Senensem, iuris utriusque p_er_spicacissimum interpretem iocunde
+incipit. _Fol. 4^a_: Aeneae siluii de duobus ama_n_tibus hystoria
+perq_uam_ iocunde incipit! _Fol. 44^b_: Vale. ex Vienna quinto nonas
+Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo quarto; COLOPHON:
+Aene_ae_ Siluii po_ae_te laureati de duobus ama_n_tibus eurialo _et_
+lucresia, finit f[oe]licit_er_. _Fol. 45, 46, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^6], 46 leaves, the last two blank, 23
+     lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords,
+     pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to six-line spaces
+     left for capitals. Claudin XIX. Pellechet 147. Hain 216.
+
+Large initial on first page supplied in blue and gold, with pen
+ornamentation in red and blue. Other capitals and the paragraph-marks in
+alternate red and blue. Last blank leaf wanting.
+
+This and the two next works of the present list bound with it were
+printed at the first Paris press, a private press set up in the Sorbonne
+in 1470 by Johann Heynlin, Prior, and Guillaume Fichet, Librarian, of
+the University, and maintained by them until April, 1473. During these
+three years twenty-two books were printed, all in the same roman type,
+copied from the _Caesar_ of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469. In only
+two of them are the actual printers, Friburger and his associates,
+named.
+
+To the twenty-eight 15th-century editions--not to speak of the
+translations--of this novel described by Hain, Copinger's Supplement
+adds half as many more. The present edition is perhaps the third.
+Claudin, who makes it the nineteenth in the list of the Sorbonne books,
+could trace but four copies. This makes a fifth.
+
+The three books from the Sorbonne press are bound in one volume, red
+morocco, gilt edges, with book-plate of Sir William Burrell. It passed
+from his possession some years before his death and was bought by
+Michael Wodhull at Payne's sale April 7, 1789, for L4.4s. The binder,
+possibly mistaking the date of the author's subscription (Vienna, 1444)
+for that of the printing, has placed it on the back of the volume. Leaf
+7-3/4 x 5-1/4 in.
+
+
+20. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De curialium miseria. [Paris,
+    Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Aeneae Siluii poaetae laureati (cui _et_ pro pontificali
+dignitate Pio nomen est) in disputatione_m_ de curialiu_m_ miseria ad
+perspicacissimu_m_ iurisconsultu_m_ Iohanne_m_ Ech, serenissimi
+diuiq_ue_ principis, Alberti, caesaris inuictissimi! Alberti quoque
+austriae ducies inclyti consiliariu_m_ atq_ue_ oratore_m_ praefacio
+f[oe]liciter incipit; _Fol. 34^a_: Vale uir (nisi ex curialibus unus
+esses) meo iudicio prudens; COLOPHON: Aeneae Siluii de curialiu_m_
+miseria disputatio finem habet f[oe]licem; _Fol. 35, 36, blank._
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-3^{10}, 4^6], 36 leaves, the last two blank, 23
+     lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords,
+     pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- and six-line spaces
+     left for capitals. Claudin XX. Pellechet 132. Hain 198.
+
+First initial rubricated in the same style and by the same hand as in
+the _De duobus amantibus_. Other capitals and paragraph-marks in red and
+blue alternately. Initial-strokes in yellow. At the bottom of fol. 29^a
+a line accidentally dropped by the compositor is supplied in manuscript
+by a contemporary hand, viz., "non te uolunt. Quida_m_ uero pote_n_tes
+sunt! ac ex." Both the recto and the verso of the leaf have the full
+complement of 23 lines but there is a hiatus in the text. The copies in
+the Bibliotheque Nationale, and the Bibliotheque Mazarine, Paris, have
+the line supplied in manuscript in like manner, but instead of _uero_
+read _non_, which does not suit the context.
+
+According to Claudin this is the twentieth book printed at the Sorbonne
+press. To the five copies known to him this adds a sixth.
+
+Bound with No. 19. De duobus amantibus.
+
+
+21. PLATO. Epistolae. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin
+    Crantz, 1472.]
+
+_Fol. 1^a_: Ad prudentem _et_ magnificum uirum Cosma_m_ de medicis
+florentinu_m_, Leonardi Aretini clarissimi oratoris, in ep_isto_las
+plato_n_is quas ex graecis latinas fecit! p_rae_fatio; _Fol. 52^a_,
+COLOPHON: FINIS.
+
+    Discite rectores diuinitus, ore platonis!
+    Quid uos, q_ui_d ciues reddat in urbe bonos;
+
+     Quarto. Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^8, 6^2, 7^2], 52 leaves, 23 lines to
+     the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
+     place, printer's name or date. Three- to five-line spaces left for
+     capitals. The first initial supplied in blue and red, other
+     capitals in blue and red alternately. Initial strokes in yellow.
+     Claudia XIV. Philippe VII. Crevenna 1523. Hain 13066.
+
+Leonardo Bruni, often called Leonardo Aretini from his birthplace
+Arezzo, translated five of the dialogues of Plato in addition to the
+letters.
+
+The first notice of this edition is found in the _Catalogue
+Bolongaro-Crevenna_ (Amst., 1789), where it is described as containing
+52 printed leaves. It appears from the price-list printed after the sale
+in 1790 that it had not been sold, but was "retenu, faute de commissions
+ou de concurrence," and was still obtainable at the price of 15 florins.
+No trace of it has since been found and Panzer and Hain were able only
+to copy the catalogue description. Philippe (1885) described Heynlin's
+copy, which is preserved in the library of the University of Basel, as
+consisting of one first blank leaf, forty-nine printed leaves and two
+blank leaves at the end. Claudin (1898), with a second copy discovered
+meantime in the Bibliotheque d'Angers at his command, finds one first
+blank and forty-nine printed leaves, and remarks that the two blank
+leaves placed by Philippe at the beginning [should be _end_] are only
+independent fly-leaves. Our copy has fifty-two printed leaves and no
+blanks and no occasion for them, since the printed leaves, of
+themselves, form complete quires. Claudin's collation, which gives both
+the quires and a register of the first words of each quire, shows that
+both his copies lack the sixth quire of our copy, composed like the
+seventh of only two leaves and beginning "_sibus interdixistis_." There
+is moreover still unexplained and not easily explainable in the
+descriptions of both the Basel and Angers copies the presence of a
+troublesome first blank leaf and the absence of another leaf of text, in
+addition to the lacking sixth quire. It follows that, at least until the
+Crevenna copy, which appears to have been in agreement with ours, comes
+to light again, this must remain the only complete copy known.
+
+Bound with Nos. 19 and 20, from the same press.
+
+
+22. MAGNI, JACOBUS [Jacques Le Grand]. Sophologium. Paris, Martin
+    Crantz, Ulric Gering and Michael Friburger, 1 June, 1477.
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Sequitur tabula capituloru_m_ Sophologij.
+_Fol. 5^a_: Doctissimi atq_ue_ excellentissimi patris: sacraru_m_
+litteraru_m_ doctoris deuotissimi: fratris Iacobi magni: religionis
+fratru_m_ heremitaru_m_: sancti Augustini sophologiu_m_ incipit. Cuius
+p_ri_ncipalis intentio est inducere legentis animu_m_ ad sapientie
+amorem. _Fol. 218^a_: Jacobi Magni sophologium finit feliciter. _Fol.
+218^b_: Epigramma ad huius operis conspectore_m_ [five distichs.]
+COLOPHON: Anno do_mi_ni millesimo .cccc.lxxvij. die .i. mensis Iunij.
+Impressum fuit istud sophologium parisius p_er_ Martinu_m_ crantz.
+Vdalricu_m_ gering, et Michaele_m_ friburger.
+
+     Quarto. Sign. a-x^{10}, y^8, 218 leaves, the first blank, 32 lines
+     to the page, gothic lower-case type, roman capitals. Two- to
+     six-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. Hain 10478.
+
+Border ornamentation in color on fol. 5^a. Initials at the head of the
+first four of the ten books in dull gold and color; those of the
+remaining books in color only. Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in
+alternate red and blue. Blank first leaf wanting. The bottom line of
+fol. 116^b which had been accidentally moved across to the foot of fol.
+115^a (the companion page on the imposing stone) is supplied in
+manuscript where it was lacking and the misplaced line of print is
+canceled.
+
+On the discontinuance of the Sorbonne press in 1473, the printers,
+Crantz, Gering, and Friburger, moved into the neighboring Rue
+Saint-Jacques and set up a press, with new type, on their own account.
+An edition of the Sophologium had been one of the last books printed at
+the old press. A second edition was issued from the new press in 1475,
+of which the present edition is, in type, number of pages and lines, an
+exact reprint, but has printed signatures and is a quarto while that was
+a folio. Caxton's "Book of Good Manners," printed in 1487, was a
+translation of "Le livre des bonnes meurs," another work by the same
+author.
+
+The present copy, bound in green morocco with gold borders and gilt
+edges, is from the Syston Park library, sold in December, 1884. Leaf
+10-3/4 x 7-1/4 in.
+
+
+23. HIERONYMUS. Vaderboeck. [Zwolle], Peter van Os, 1 April, 1490.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_, TITLE: DIt boeck is ghenomet. dat vader boeck. dat in den
+latijne is ghehieten Vitas patru_m_. inhoudende dye historien en_de_
+legenden der heyligher vaderen die hare leue_n_ in stre_n_gher
+penitencie ouerghebracht hebbe_n_ Ouergheset in goeder versta_n_delre
+duytscer sprake. [Rest of page occupied by two woodcuts.] _Fol. 1^b_:
+[H]Ier beghint die tafele va_n_ desen boecke dat ghehieten is dat va
+(_sic_) vader boeck. _Fol. 4^b_: Hier eyndet die tafef (_sic_) van den
+boecke..... _Fol. 5^a_: [Woodcut of the Annunciation, which is repeated
+on the verso of the leaf.] _Fol. 6^a_: Hier beghinnet dat eerste deel
+va_n_ desen boecke dat ghenoemet is Vitaspatrum in latijne. _Fol.
+165^b_, COLOPHON: Hier eyndet dat derde deel va_n_ desen boecke van den
+wo_n_derlijke wercken en_de_ goede exempele_n_ en_de_ goede leri_n_ghen
+der heigher (_sic_) vadere_n_ so als die heylige leraer Jeronim_us_ vut
+de_n_ griecke_n_ in den latine ghetoge_n_ heeft Ouergheset in goeder
+v_er_standelre duytscer spraken om salicheit alre goeder kersten
+me_n_scen. Ghedruct bi mi Peter va_n_ Os In de_n_ iare ons heren Mcccc
+en_de_ xc. den eersten dach va_n_ den April. [PRINTER'S DEVICE,
+(shields of Zwolle and of the printer combined).] _Fol. 166, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. A^4, a^8, b-z^6, A^4, B-D^6, 166 leaves, the last
+     blank, 6-165 numbered i-clx. 2 columns, 36 lines to the column,
+     gothic letter. Two- to six-line spaces left for capitals. The first
+     initial of the title is a ten-line ornamental woodcut D. The two
+     woodcuts on the title-page are printed from sections cut from the
+     blocks of the Latin Biblia Pauperum, that on the left (Descent of
+     the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost) from the central panel of
+     sign. p., that on the right (Jacob's dream), from the right-hand
+     panel of the sign. t. Other sections of these blocks were used in
+     like manner in other books of van Os. In place of blank fol. 5 cut
+     away, is inserted a full page woodcut of the Annunciation, printed
+     on both sides of the leaf, on paper unlike any other used in the
+     book. Campbell 938. Proctor 9135.
+
+Prologue initial on fol. 6^a supplied in blue with pen ornamentation in
+red. Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue.
+Initial-strokes in red. Blank last leaf wanting.
+
+Bound by Alfred Matthews in three-quarter levant morocco with blind
+tooling, gilt edges. Leaf 10-1/2 x 8 in.
+
+Peter van Os, of Breda, was actively engaged in printing at Zwolle from
+1479 till the end of the century, except for the three years 1481-1484.
+
+The English translation of the "Vitas Patrum," which was the closing
+labor of Caxton's life, was printed in 1495 by Wynken de Worde with this
+colophon: "Thus endyth the moost vertuouse hystorye of the deuoute and
+right renowned lyues of holy faders lyuynge in deserte, worthy of
+remembraunce to all wel dysposed persons which hath be_n_ translated
+oute of Frenche into Englisshe by William Caxton of Westmynstre late
+deed and fynysshed at the laste daye of hys lyff."
+
+
+24. HIGDEN, RANULPH. Polychronicon, translated into English by Trevisa
+    and continued by Caxton. [Westminster]. William Caxton, [1482].
+
+_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Prohemye. [G]Rete thankynges lawde &
+honoure we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde and offre vnto wryters of
+hystoryes, whiche gretely haue prouffyted oure mortal lyf, that shewe
+vnto the reders and herers by the ensamples of thynges passyd, what
+thynge is to be desyred. [Fol. 4-20, alphabetical table; 21, blank;
+22-24, dialogue between the Clerke and the Lorde on translation,
+Trevisa's epistle to Lord Berkeley; 25, blank.] _Fol. 26^a_:
+Prolicionycion. Prefacio prima ad historiam. [A]Fter solempne and wyse
+wryters of Arte and of scyence.... _Fol. 389^b_: God be thanked of al
+his dedes. This translacion is ended on a thursdaye the eyghtenth daye
+of Apryll the yere of our lord a thousand thre hondred and .lvij. The
+xxxj yere of Kyng Edward the thyrd after the Conquest of Englond, the
+yere of my lordes age Syr thomas lord of berkley that made me make this
+translacion fyue and thyrtty. [390^a, Caxton's epilogue to Trevisa;
+390^b, blank.] _Fol. 391^a_: Jncipit Liber vltimus. _Fol. 449^a_: Ended
+the second day of Juyll the xxij yere of the regne of kynge Edward the
+fourth & of the Incarnacion of oure lord a thousand foure score and
+tweyne. Fynysshed per Caxton. _Fol. 449^b, 450, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. a-b^8, C^4, 1-28^8, [28*^2], 29-48^8, 49^4, 50^8,
+     52-55^8, 450 leaves, of which five (a, 1; 1, 1; 1, 5; 28*,2; 55, 8)
+     are blank. The folios of sign. 1,2-55,7 are numbered 1-ccccxxviii
+     (blanks 1, 5 and 28*,2 counted as iv and ccxxvi), with many errors
+     which are mostly corrected on the following leaves, but in the case
+     of fol. ccxli on the verso of the same leaf. There is, however, no
+     clx, and ccccxiii is duplicated, errors which balance each other
+     and do not disturb the final numeration. The omission of a
+     signature 51 is accidental, the text continuing without a break.
+     The purpose of the unsigned single sheet following sign. 28,
+     consisting of one printed and one blank leaf, was evidently to
+     carry the last remaining leaf of the fourth book and thereby make
+     possible a division of the volume at this point into two nearly
+     equal parts. Advantage has apparently been taken of this division
+     to bind the Grenville copy (Brit. Mus. IB. 55060) in two volumes.
+     Wynkyn de Worde, who reprinted the Polychronicon in 1495, followed
+     in this particular Caxton's example and in order to begin the fifth
+     book with a new signature left at the end of the fourth book nearly
+     a whole leaf blank, though he separated the other books by a blank
+     space of no more than three or four lines. Caxton's use of arabic
+     figures for signatures was confined to the years 1481-1483; after
+     that date he used letters only. The first few chapter-headings of
+     each book have Latin ordinals (Capitulum primum, secundum, etc.)
+     which are soon dropped for arabic figures. Gothic letter, Caxton's
+     fourth font, forty lines to the page, with headline. Two- to
+     seven-line spaces left for chapter and book initials, which are
+     supplied in red. Chapter-headings underlined in red. Blades ii,
+     172. Ames-Dibdin i, 138. Seymour de Ricci p. 60.
+
+Seventy-two leaves, including the five blanks, are wanting in this copy,
+viz.: sign. a-C; 1, 1, 4, 5, 8; 2, 1, 4, 5; 3, 2; 4, 1; 27, 3; [28*,2];
+44, 7; 50-55. The lacking parts comprise the first twenty leaves
+(Prohemye and alphabetical index), the last forty leaves (Caxton's
+eighth book), and twelve intermediate leaves. Of these the Proheyme is
+supplied in facsimile and sign. 4, 1 in manuscript. What is possibly an
+original impression of Caxton's large device is placed at the end of the
+volume. This was used by Caxton only during his last years, 1487-91, and
+by Wynkyn de Worde, into whose hands the original block passed, in his
+folios for thirty years longer. From one of the latter this may have
+been taken, possibly from the Polychronicon of 1495, where the other
+side of the leaf it occupied was blank, as is the case here also.
+
+Trevisa's translation of Higden was completed, according to the best
+MSS., in 1387, not in 1357 as stated on fol. 389^b. (In 1357 the 18th of
+April fell on Tuesday, not Thursday, and Thomas Lord Berkeley was then
+in the fifth, not the thirty-fifth year of his age.) Caxton was himself
+the translator of twenty-two of the one hundred books which he printed
+and it was therefore not strange that Trevisa's English should have been
+in his hands, as the proem states, "a lytel embelysshed fro tholde
+makyng." In what these embellishments consisted is partially explained
+in the epilogue: "Therfore I William Caxton a symple persone haue
+endeuoyred me to wryte fyrst ouer all the sayd book of proloconycon, and
+somewhat haue chaunged the rude and old Englyssh, that is to wete
+certayn wordes, which in these dayes [1482] be neyther usyd ne
+understanden". He went however further than this and so changed the
+inflections and orthography that the language is no longer of the
+fourteenth but rather of the fifteenth century. But in no other way
+could it have been made to harmonize with his proposed continuation,
+concerning which he proceeds to say: "and also am auysed to make another
+booke after this sayd werke whiche shal be sett here after the same, And
+shal haue his chapytres and his table a parte. For I dar not presume to
+sette my book ne ioyne hit to his, for dyuerse causes". Accordingly he
+begins his "Liber ultimus" with a new signature, preceded by a blank
+page. His "table" nevertheless is combined with that of the preceding
+seven books in one alphabet. Wynkyn de Worde's edition has a more
+elaborate index of ninety pages in which each of the eight books is
+indexed in a separate alphabet.
+
+Apart from the interest attaching to this "Liber ultimus" as the only
+original work of any length from Caxton's pen, the Polychronicon is next
+to the Golden Legend his largest book, and in the Prohemye they are
+grouped together as the "twoo bookes notable" which treat of history. It
+happens also, probably because of larger editions printed, that of these
+two books many more copies have survived than of any of his other books,
+about one-fourth of which are now represented only by single copies. Of
+the Polychronicon, Seymour de Ricci's "Census of Caxtons" (1909)
+enumerates forty known copies (very few of them entirely complete),
+evenly divided between public and private libraries. To this list he
+adds, under the heading "Present owners untraced," forty-eight copies
+(nos. 41-88) which appeared at sales between 1698 and 1901, some of them
+possibly identical with copies already described as "known." In this
+second division is found the present copy (no. 79), purchased by the
+donor of this collection at the Smets sale, New York, May, 1868, in calf
+binding, with the name of the owner "A.A. Smets, Savannah, May 28, 1836"
+on the fly-leaf. It was at once sent to Francis Bedford for binding,
+with instructions to have the "inlaying, repairing etc. done over in
+the very best manner, by the best restorer in France or England." Bound
+in brown morocco, richly blind-tooled, with Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis and
+acorn emblems. Leaf 10-1/4 x 7-1/2 in. The Smets fly-leaf and the
+original instructions sent to Mr. Bedford with the volume and returned
+by him with an added note over his own signature, laid in.
+
+Other copies of the Polychronicon which have passed through Mr.
+Bedford's hands have been bound in the same style, among them the
+Menzies copy, sold New York, November, 1876, which de Ricci wrongly
+conjectured might be identical with the Smets.
+
+
+25. ORDINARY OF CHRISTIAN MEN. London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1506.
+
+_Fol. 1^a._ TITLE: Thordinary of Crysten men [woodcut below.] _Fol.
+1^b-4^b, table of contents._ _Fol. 5^a_ [woodcut above]: Here begynneth
+a notable treatyse and ful necessarye to all crysten men for to knowe &
+it is named the Ordynary of Crystyens or of crysten men. _Fol. 217^b_:
+Here endeth the book named the ordynarye of crysten men newely hystoryed
+and translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe. Enprynted in the cyte of
+London in the Fletestrete in the sygne of y^e sonne by Wnykyn de worde.
+y^e yere of our lorde .M.CCCCC.vi. _Fol. 218^a, title repeated over
+woodcut._ _Fol. 218^b_, [PRINTER'S DEVICE]
+
+     Quarto. Sign. Aa^4, A^6, B^4, C-X, AA-NN^{8, 4 (altern.)}, OO^6,
+     PP^{5}+{1}. 218 leaves, gothic letter, 34 lines (marginal citations
+     60 lines) to the page, without foliation. Title cut in large
+     lower-case letters on block 2 x 4 in. Five- and six-line initials
+     at the head of the larger divisions of the text. Ten woodcuts, one
+     repeated. The final blank PP. 6 has been replaced by an independent
+     leaf having on the one side the title repeated with woodcut, and on
+     the other the printer's device, either of which may in the binding
+     be made the recto. The device is the first of his so-called
+     "Sagittarius" forms, and the one most commonly used from 1506 to
+     1518. Ames-Dibdin, ii, p. 103. Morgan Cat. iii, p. 214, n. 743.
+
+The present copy lacks the first four leaves, containing the title and
+the table of contents; but both the title and the woodcut accompanying
+it are repeated elsewhere in the volume, the title on fol. 218^a, the
+woodcut on fol. 87^a.
+
+Of the French original, _L'ordinaire des chrestiens_, at least six
+editions were printed before 1500, the earliest apparently at Rouen, c.
+1487. In them it is stated that the writing was commenced 22 May, 1467
+and finished (_consomme_) 22 May, 1469. The corresponding dates in the
+prologue and epilogue of the translation are "fyrst begonne to be
+wryten" 14 Jan., 1467, "fyrst consumed" 14 Jan., 1500. The confusion,
+common to both the French and the English of the 15th century, in the
+derivatives of _consummare_ and _consumere_ relieves the translator,
+Andrew Chertsey, from the appearance of an over-literal translation, but
+the change in the date of the completed work can hardly be in the
+direction of accuracy.
+
+The woodcuts which appeared in the first edition of the "Ordinary"
+printed in 1502 are in this second edition replaced by others of
+different design and better execution, borrowed mainly from "The crafte
+to lyve well and to dye well", printed by de Worde in 1505 and like the
+present work translated by Chertsey from a French original, _L'art de
+bien vivre et de bien mourir_. Two of these illustrations, "Temptation
+to Impatience" (fol. 73^b) and "Soul leaving the Body" (fol. 218^a), are
+copied from the early block-book _Ars moriendi_.
+
+Bound by Alfred Matthews in blind-tooled crimson morocco, with inside
+gold borders and gilt edges. Leaf 8-1/4 x 5-3/4 in.
+
+Wynkyn de Worde, Caxton's assistant, was a native of Woerth, Alsace. He
+came into possession of his master's printing materials on his death in
+1491 and continued to occupy his house in Westminster until 1500 when he
+moved to Fleet Street within the city. In the number of his books,
+almost eight hundred, he surpassed all the early printers, but many of
+them were works of small size and consequence. Some of his largest and
+finest books were reprints of Caxton's folios. Mention has been made of
+his use of Caxton's original device without addition. In all of his own
+various devices also, the place of honor in the center is given to
+Caxton's initials and cipher, plainly as a mark of loyalty to the
+master, not an advertisement of himself as the successor.
+
+
+26. INTRATIONES. London, Richard Pynson, 28 Feb. 1510.
+
+_Fol. 1^a_, TITLE: INtrationu_m_ excellentissimus liber perq_uam_
+necessarius o_mn_ibus leg_is_ hominib_us_: fere in se continens o_mn_em
+medullam diversa_rum_ materia_rum_ ac pl_ac_ito_rum_ tam realiu_m_,
+personalium, q_uam_ mixt_orum_. Necno_n_ multorum breuium tam
+executionu_m_ q_uam_ aliorum valde vtilium illis hunc librum inspecturis
+aut inscrutandis. Que quide_m_ supradicta facilit_er_ possunt inveniri
+p_er_ indice_m_ alphabeticu_m_ p_er_uigila_n_ti studio co_n_fectu_m_ &
+p_er_ ordine_m_ l_itte_raru_m_ redactu_m_... _Fol. 1^b_, [Full page
+woodcut of the king's arms crowned, supported by a dragon and a
+greyhound, with a portcullis on either side and a rose and two angels
+above.] _Fol. 2^a_: Intrationu_m_ libri Index Alphabetic_us_. _Fol.
+10^b_: Finis tabule Intrationum. _Fol. 193^a_, COLOPHON: Explicit opus
+excellentissimu_m_ & perutile in se continens multas materias o_mn_ibus
+leg_is_ ho_min_ib_us_ p_er_q_uam_ necessarias nouiter Impressum,
+correctum, emendatum, & no_n_ minimo labore reuisum London_i_ in vico
+vulgariter nu_n_cupato Fletstrete in officina ere ac impensis honesti
+viri Ricardi Pynson Regis Impressoris moram suam trahentis sub signo
+diui Georgii Anno n_ost_re redemptionis .M.CCCCC.x. Die vero vltima
+Mensis Februarii. _Fol. 193^b_, [PRINTER'S DEVICE.] _Fol. 194, blank._
+
+     Folio. Sign. Aa^6, Bb^4, a-z, &, 9, A-E^6, F^4. 194 leaves, the
+     last blank, 11-193 numbered i-clxxxv, but with the omission of li
+     and liv and other irregularities. Gothic letter, 54 lines to the
+     page, with marginal side-headings. The title, occupying seventeen
+     lines of bold heavy-faced type, is printed in red and black and in
+     the form of an inverted triangle. The _Index Alphabeticus_ is
+     introduced by a ten-line initial A with a rose above and a
+     portcullis below the middle bar, found also in the same printer's
+     Sarum missal of 1520. The other divisions of the index have mostly
+     four-line woodcut initials, some of grotesque pattern. Five-line
+     space with guide-letter for the first initial of the text.
+     Ornaments of four patterns, repeated singly or in combination, are
+     used to lengthen out the frequent short end lines of paragraphs in
+     order to give more solidity to the appearance of the page. Three of
+     the same ornaments are found also on the title-page of Whitinton's
+     _Vulgaria_, printed by W. de Worde in 1521. Ames-Dibdin ii, 441.
+
+In the present copy the index (sign. Aa. 2-6, Bb. 1-4) is separated from
+the title (Aa. 1) and placed at the end of the volume. Name of _Joh[=e]s
+Coningesby_ written in a sixteenth century hand on the first page of
+both text and index. The device is the fourth of Pynson's seven devices
+and was in use 1496-1513. Allusion is made in the colophon to an earlier
+edition, no copy of which appears to be known. The work was reprinted by
+Henry Smythe, London, 1546.
+
+Richard Pynson, a Norman by birth, established himself in London about
+1490, taking over, as there is good reason to believe, the business of
+Machlinia, a printer of law books, for which his knowledge of
+Norman-French especially fitted him. In 1508 he was made Printer to the
+King and in that year also he printed two books in roman type, the first
+use of that character in England. He is known to have printed at least
+371 books, a much smaller number than de Worde, but as a rule larger and
+more important books. He is regarded as the best English printer of his
+time and the _Liber Intrationum_ is one of his finest books.
+
+Bound in red velvet, with silk linings and gilt edges. Leaf 12-3/4 x
+9-1/4 in.
+
+From the Syston Park library, with the book-plate and monogram of Sir
+John Henry Thorold.
+
+
+27. PLUTARCHUS. Moralia Graece. Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae
+    soceri, 1509.
+
+TITLE: PLVTARCHI OPVSCVLA. LXXXXII. Index Moralium omnium, & eorum quae
+in ipsis tractantur, habetur in hoc quaternione. Numerus autem
+Arithmeticus remittit lectorem ad semipagina_m_, ubi tractantur
+singula. [Aldine anchor]. _P. 1050_, COLOPHON: Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi
+& Andreae Asulani Soceri. mense Martio. M. D. IX. [Blank leaf with anchor
+on verso.]
+
+     Quarto. Sign. *, a-z, &, aa-zz, aaa-sss^8, ttt^6. 8 unnumbered
+     preliminary leaves (sign * not included in register on p. 1050)
+     containing title, dedicatory epistle of Aldus to Jacopo Antiquario,
+     index, four couplets of Jerome Aleander, preface of the editor
+     Demetrius Doukas (all except title and dedication in Greek); 1050
+     numbered pages of Greek text, final blank leaf with anchor on
+     verso. The type is Aldus's fourth Greek font, 46 lines to the page,
+     five- to eight-line spaces left for initials. The _semipagina_ (the
+     equivalent of our _page_) to which the index directs the reader,
+     shows that _pagina_ still had its older meaning _leaf_, and
+     incidentally that the numbering of the page instead of the leaf was
+     an innovation. The anchor and dolphin device, the symbol of the
+     motto _Festina lente_, which first appeared in the Dante of 1502,
+     is here in its first form, but of the larger size suitable for
+     folios and enclosed in double lines, on the title-page without
+     name, but on the last leaf with the addition ALDVS.MA.RO. Although
+     on the evidence of the chain-lines and the water-mark technically a
+     quarto, the volume on account of its unusual size was doubtless
+     printed like a folio on half sheets. Renouard, p. 55. Firmin-Didot,
+     p. 317.
+
+Plutarch's _Moralia_ belongs to that imposing series of first editions
+of the Greek classics which among all the services of Aldus Manutius to
+the revival of learning are perhaps his best title to enduring fame.
+When he set up his press in 1495 five in all, and but one, Homer, of the
+first rank, had been printed. When he died twenty years later his first
+editions outnumbered those of all his contemporaries put together, and
+the rank was even more significant than the number, for among them were
+included Aristotle, Plato, Thucydides, Herodotus, Aristophanes,
+Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar and Demosthenes. The Plutarch was printed
+from MSS. still preserved in the library of St. Mark.
+
+The Greek type of Aldus was a new departure, based on the cursive or
+business handwriting of his day in distinction from the older book-hand
+which had served as the model for the first Greek fonts. It gained
+immediate popularity and for more than two hundred years, either
+directly or through fonts based upon it, dominated the Greek printing
+of Europe. At length, mainly because of the ligatures and contractions,
+it was supplanted by type of more open and regular forms.
+
+In 1508 Aldus took as partner his father-in-law, Andrea Torresano
+d'Asola, a Venetian printer who in 1480 had taken over the business of
+Nicolas Jenson. The imprint which had hitherto been _apud Aldum_ or _in
+aedibus Aldi_ now became _in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri_. After the
+death of Aldus in 1515 the press was conducted without change of name by
+the surviving partner until his own death in 1529.
+
+Thick paper copy. Leaf 10-3/4 x 7 in. On p. 1050 is written _Collegii
+Societatis Jesu Embricae 1605_.
+
+From the library of Sir J.H. Thorold of Syston Park, with book-plate.
+Bound by R. Storr, Grantham, in red morocco, gilt edges, with anchor on
+sides. The "Dictionary of English Book-collectors," pt. 2, calls
+attention to the Aldine anchor (made more realistic by an end of rope
+cable twisted about it) stamped by the Grantham bookbinders Messrs.
+Storr & Ridge upon many of the Thorold books, "not only those bound by
+themselves, but also those bound by far better men." Examples of both
+kinds are found in the present collection.
+
+As an illustration of the first Greek type of Aldus there is joined to
+this collection a finely executed manuscript facsimile on vellum of his
+_Musaeus_ of 1495, his second book (preceded by the Grammar of
+Lascaris), but the first in which the font appeared in its completed
+state. From the Syston Park library. Bound by Bozerian Jeune, in blue
+morocco extra.
+
+
+28. SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE. Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri,
+    1514.
+
+TITLE: LIBRI DE RE RVSTICA. M. CATONIS LIB. I. M. TERENTII VARRONIS LIB.
+III. L. IVNII MODERATI COLVMELLAE LIB. XII. Eiusdem de arboribus liber
+separatus ab alijs, quare autem id factum fuerit: ostenditur in
+epistola ad lectorem. PALLADII LIB. XIIII. De duobus dierum generibus:
+simulq_ue_ de umbris, et horis, quae apud Palladium, in alia epistola ad
+lectorem. Georgij Alexandrini enarrationes priscarum dictionum, quae in
+his libris Catonis: Varronis: Columellae. [Aldine anchor]. Hos libros
+Pontificis etiam Leonis decreto, nequis alius usquam locorum impune
+imprimat, cautum est. _Fol. 308^a_: COLOPHON: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI
+ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE MAIO M.D.XIIII. [Aldine anchor on verso].
+
+     Quarto. Sign. *, aa, bb^8, cc^{10}, a-h^8, i^4, k-z, A-Q^8. 8
+     unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title, privilege of Leo X.
+     countersigned by P. Bembo, papal secretary, preface of the editor,
+     Fra Giocondo, addressed to Leo X., _Aldus lectori_ (two epistles,
+     the first relating to the position of the _De arboribus_ of
+     Columella, an independent treatise, in previous editions inserted
+     in his _De re rustica_ as liber lii, but here correctly placed
+     after that work, the second, to the hours of Palladius, varying in
+     length with the seasons, and the use of the gnomon in determining
+     them), _errata_; 26 unnumbered leaves (preceded by a second title
+     with anchor and mention of the privileges of Alexander VI., Julius
+     II. and Leo. X.) containing explanations of unfamiliar words and
+     table of contents, last leaf blank; 308 numbered leaves of text,
+     Sign. * is not included in the register on fol. 308^a and being
+     followed by a second title-page its absence, if accidentally
+     omitted, might pass unnoticed. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page,
+     six- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for the initials
+     of the thirty books, which in the present copy are supplied in gold
+     and colors. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue.
+     Ruled in red. Renouard, p. 66. Firmin-Didot, p. 370.
+
+The italic type of Aldus, a cursive or semi-cursive roman, the
+counterpart of his cursive Greek, was modeled as he himself informs us
+on the handwriting of Petrarch _a lettra per lettra_. It first appeared
+in the Vergil of 1501, the first of his octavo series of classics and
+only three months later, as was but just, in _Le cose volgari_ of
+Petrarch. It had at the outset, corresponding to the Greek ligatures,
+many double letters and even groups of three cast on the same body,
+which were for the most part eliminated later by Paulus Manutius.
+Originally it consisted only of lower-case letters and borrowed the
+capitals of the roman font, using for economy of space small capitals
+which DeVinne points out as the useful invention of Aldus. Aldus was
+sensible of the deficiency and the last clause of his will was a request
+to his partner, Andrea, to have suitable capitals made by the celebrated
+engraver, Giulio Campagnola. It was, however, not until 1558 that they
+were finally supplied by Paulus, in connection with a new italic font.
+What has now ceased to be anything more than a useful auxiliary type was
+by Aldus employed as a text type, a chief recommendation being that it
+was more condensed than the roman and enabled him to greatly reduce the
+price of his books by making an octavo do the work of a quarto or folio.
+In 1501 he printed six, and in 1502 eleven octavos, whereas all his
+earlier books, with one unimportant exception, had been of the larger
+forms.
+
+In 1496 the Venetian Senate granted to Aldus protection for his Greek
+type and the books printed with it for the period of twenty years, and
+in 1502 a like privilege covering both his italic and Greek type for ten
+years. A similar grant made by Alexander VI. in 1502 was renewed by
+Julius II. in January, 1513, for fifteen years and confirmed by his
+successor, Leo X., in December of the same year.
+
+From the library of Robert Samuel Turner, sold in 1888.
+
+Bound in red morocco extra, with gold tooling in the Grolier style,
+edges gilt over red. Leaf 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. Book-stamp on verso of last
+leaf: "Ex libris J.B.P.H. Caque, D.M. Rem. 1775".
+
+
+29. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Rhetorica. Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi et
+    Andreae soceri, 1521.
+
+TITLE: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium
+lib. IIII. M.T. Ciceronis de inuentione lib. II. Eiusdem de oratore ad
+Quintum fratrem lib. III. Eiusdem de claris oratoribus, q_ui_ dicitur
+Brutus lib. I. Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum lib. I. Eiusdem Topica ad
+Trebatium lib. I. Eiusdem oratoriae partitiones lib. I. Eiusdem de optimo
+genere oratorum praefatio quaedam. Index rerum notabilium, quae toto opere
+continentur, per ordinem alphabeti. [Aldine anchor] Hos libros etiam
+Pontificum Alexandri, Iulij, ac Leonis demum decretis, neq_u_is alius
+usquam locorum impune imprimat, cautum est. _Fol. 245^a_, COLOPHON:
+VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE OCTOBRI M.D.XXI.
+[Blank leaf with anchor on verso].
+
+     Quarto. Sign. *, **, a-k^8, l^4, m-z, A-G^8, H^{10}. 16 unnumbered
+     preliminary leaves, containing preface by Aldus addressed to Andrea
+     Navagero and alphabetical index (the blank last leaf wanting in
+     this copy); 245 numbered leaves of text and final blank leaf with
+     anchor. Sign. * and ** have eight leaves each, not ten as stated in
+     the register on p. 245. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page, three-
+     to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. The
+     anchor is of the second, somewhat ungraceful, pattern in use
+     1519-1524, after which there was for some years a return to the
+     first form. Renouard, p. 93.
+
+Reprinted, with only the addition of the index, from the 1514 edition of
+Aldus. In the preface is found the often quoted inscription placed over
+the door of Aldus to discourage the idle visitor: _Quisquis es: rogat te
+Aldus etiam: atque etiam: ut, si quid est, quod a se velis: perpaucis
+agas_, etc. The edition of 1533, with the imprint _in aedibus haeredum
+Aldi Manutii Romani & Andreae Asulani Soceri_ and a short preface by
+Paulus Manutius (it was his first book as director of the press) is also
+essentially unchanged, but his edition of 1546, in octavo, was
+thoroughly revised in text and accompanied by a folio volume of variorum
+commentaries.
+
+Bound by Roger Payne, in blue morocco, gilt edges, with cipher of Sir
+Mark Masterman Sykes on back, at whose sale in 1824 it brought
+L1.11s.6d. The Syston Park copy with book-plate, and monogram of Sir
+John Hayford Thorold. Leaf 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 in.
+
+
+30. CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS. De medicina. SERENUS, QUINTUS. De
+    medicina. Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, 1528.
+
+TITLE: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. AVRELII CORNELII CELSI
+MEDICINAE LIBRI .VIII. QVAM EMENDATISSIMI, GRAECIS ETIAM OMNIBVS
+DICTIONIBVS RESTITVTIS. QVINTI SERENI LIBER DE MEDICINA ET IPSE
+CASTIGATISS. ACCEDIT INDEX IN CELSVM ET SERENVM SANE QVAM COPIOSVS.
+[Aldine anchor] Venetorum decreto, ne quis aliquo in loco Venetae
+ditionis hos libros imprimat, impressosue alibi uendat, cautum est.
+_Fol. 1^a_: AVRELII CORNELII CELSI ARTIVM LIBER SEXTVS, IDEM MEDICINAE
+LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 164^a_: COLOPHON: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET
+ANDREAE ASVLANI SOCERI MENSE MARTIO. M.D.XXVIII. [Aldine anchor on
+verso].
+
+     Quarto. 8 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing title,
+     dedicatory epistle of the editor, Giovanni Baptista Egnazio, to
+     Cardinal Hercules Gonzaga and index; 164 numbered leaves of text
+     (fol. 148 blank). Italic letter, three- to seven-line spaces with
+     guide-letter left for initials. Renouard, p. 105.
+
+The _De Medicina_ of Celsus is the second and only surviving part of his
+Encyclopaedia entitled _Artes_, in five divisions. The first division,
+_De Agricultura_, consisted of five books, so that the sixth book of
+_Artes_ was at the same time the first of _De Medicina_.
+
+The Syston Park copy, uncut. Bound by Roger Payne in red morocco. Leaf
+9 x 5-1/2 in.
+
+
+31. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad
+    Quintum fratrem. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1540.
+
+TITLE: M.TVLLII CICERONIS EPISTOLAE ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad
+Quintu_m_ fratrem, summa diligentia castigatae, ut in ijs menda, quae
+plurima erant, paucissima jam supersint. PAVLI MANVTII IN EASDEM
+EPISTOLAS Scholia, quibus abditi locorum sensus ostenduntur, cum
+explicatione castigationum, quae in his epistolis pene innumerabilis
+factae sunt. [Aldine anchor] PAVLVS MANVTIVS ALDI F. VENETIIS, M.D.XL.
+_Fol. 344^a_, COLOPHON: APVD ALDI FILIOS. VENETIIS, M.D.XL. MENSE
+AVGVSTO. [Aldine anchor on verso]
+
+     Octavo. 2 preliminary leaves containing title and dedication by
+     Paulus Manutius to Guillaume Pellicier, Bishop of Montpellier, 331
+     numbered leaves of text, 10 unnumbered leaves of translations of
+     the Greek passages, conjectural emendations which the editor "would
+     not hesitate to adopt it he should ever find an ancient MS. to
+     confirm them" and a final leaf with colophon and anchor. The
+     Scholia, 24 unnumbered leaves, have a separate title, with notice
+     of copyright granted by Paul III. (the fourth pope to grant this
+     privilege) and the Venetian senate; colophon and anchor repeated on
+     last leaf. Italic letter, 30 lines to the page, five-line spaces
+     with guide-letters left for initials. Renouard, p. 120.
+
+Except for the interval 1533-6 the press was inactive from 1529 to 1540,
+on account of dissensions between the heirs of Andrea and Aldus. The
+partnership having been dissolved the press was reopened in 1540 by the
+sons of Aldus (_apud Aldi filios_) under the direction of the youngest,
+Paulus Manutius (1512-74), who restored and added to its lustre. Of
+Cicero, his favorite author, he revised the entire text and printed
+repeated editions of some of the works: e.g. of the _Epistolae ad
+Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem_ not less than ten, of which
+this is the first. The brief scholia he expanded later into full and
+valuable commentaries, on the Letters to Atticus in 1547, on the Letters
+to Brutus and Quintus in 1557.
+
+It was Petrarch who in 1345 discovered in a Verona MS. the long lost
+Letters to Atticus, Brutus and Quintus and copied them with his own
+hand. Both the MS. and Petrarch's copy are lost. But of the MS. another
+transcript, procured by Petrarch's friend Salutati in 1389, is preserved
+in the Laurentian Library, and of the Petrarch copy we have here a
+replica in the type which Aldus characterized as _manum mentiens_.
+
+From the Syston Park library, with book-plate. Bound by Roger Payne, in
+blue morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 6-1/2 x 4 in.
+
+
+32. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Orationes. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1546.
+
+TITLE: M. TVLLII CICERONIS ORATIONVM PARS I. [Aldine anchor] CORRIGENTE
+PAVLO MANVTIO, ALDI FILIO. VENETIIS, M.D.XLVI. _Fol. 308^a_, COLOPHON:
+VENETIIS, APVD ALDI FILIOS, M.D.XXXXVI.
+
+     Octavo. 4 unnumbered preliminary leaves, containing title and
+     preface of Paulus Manutius addressed to Cardinal Benedetto Accolto,
+     303 numbered leaves of text and a final leaf with register and
+     colophon on the recto and anchor on the verso. Italic letter, 30
+     lines to the page, five-line spaces with guide-letters left for
+     initials. Renouard, p. 136.
+
+The second edition of the Orations printed by Paulus, vol. I only (II,
+III wanting), on large paper. Renouard (who knew of no complete copy of
+the three volumes l.p.) remarks, p. 141, on the too elongated form of
+most of the Aldine large paper octavos, in which all the increased space
+is at the bottom. In the present copy it is divided between the bottom
+and the outer margin, the inner margin and the top having no increase of
+width--an arrangement well adapted for marginal annotations and perhaps
+designed for that use. An early owner of this copy has in fact added to
+the printed title (_Orationum Pars I_) with a pen the word _Commentata_,
+but proceeded no further with his plan than simply to underscore a
+number of words on the first three pages, leaving the margins untouched.
+
+The most important of the commentaries of Paulus was that on the
+Orations, completed not long before his death and printed by his son
+Aldus in 1578-9 in three folio volumes.
+
+From the Syston Park library, with book-plate and the monogram of Sir
+J.H. Thorold. Bound in red morocco, gilt edges, with Aldine anchor in
+gold on sides. Leaf 8 x 5-1/4 in.
+
+
+33. PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Planisphaerium. JORDANUS NEMORANUS. Planisphaerium.
+    Venetiis, [apud Paulum Manutium], 1558.
+
+TITLE: PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM. IORDANI PLANISPHAERIVM. FEDERICI
+COMMANDINI VRBINATIS IN PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM COMMENTARIVS. In quo
+uniuersa Scenographices ratio quam breuissime traditur, ac
+demonstrationibus confirmatur. [Aldine anchor] VENETIIS, M.D.LVIII.
+
+     Quarto (not octavo, as described by Renouard). _Part 1._ 4
+     unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title and dedicatory
+     preface of Commandino to Cardinal Rainuccio Farnese, 37 numbered
+     leaves of text (1-25 Ptolemy, 26-37 Jordanus), final blank leaf
+     with anchor on verso. _Part 2._ 28 numbered leaves of commentary,
+     with separate title, anchor both on title and on verso of last
+     leaf. Text in roman, 25 lines to the page; commentary in italic, 34
+     lines to the page. Many woodcut diagrams. Both text and commentary
+     are introduced by a seven-line woodcut initial belonging to a
+     mythological series found in other books of Paulus of this period,
+     C picturing Calypso bidding adieu to Ulysses, I, Juno seated on a
+     car drawn by peacocks. The original italic font of Aldus, the
+     so-called _Aldino_ type, which appears to have passed into the
+     possession of the Torresani relatives at about this date, is here
+     replaced by a new font having a perceptibly larger face, though
+     only a slightly larger body (20 lines of the new equalling 21 of
+     the old) and consequently showing less white between the lines.
+     Renouard, p. 173.
+
+In 1554 the subscription assumed the new form _apud Paulum Manutium Aldi
+F._, showing that Paulus had acquired his brothers' rights in the press.
+At the same time he returned to the earlier and simpler form of the
+anchor with the name _Aldus_, instead of the _Aldi filii_ and the
+ornamental border in use since 1546. Sometimes, as in the present
+volume, the subscription is omitted altogether and the anchor with the
+name Aldus alone used. Here moreover the place and date appear only on
+the title-page and the colophon is dropped as no longer useful.
+
+The original Greek text of Ptolemy's Planisphere is lost. To the present
+Latin translation, made by an unknown hand from the Arabic, is appended
+(fol. 25) this subscription: _Facta est translatio haec Tolosae Cal.
+Iunii Anno Domini MCXLIIII_. The revival of the study of the Greek
+mathematicians in the sixteenth century was largely due to the admirable
+translations and commentaries of Federigo Commandino of Urbino
+(1509-75). This edition of Ptolemy's Planisphere still remains the best.
+In the same year Paulus printed _Archimedis Opera nonnulla a Federico
+Commandino Vrbinate nuper in latinum conversa et commentariis
+illustrata_.
+
+Uncut copy, bound in blue morocco, with vellum fly-leaves. Leaf 8-3/4 x
+6-1/2 in. From the Syston Park library with book-plate and monogram of
+Sir John Hayford Thorold.
+
+
+34. LIVIUS, TITUS. Historiarum ab urbe condita libri. Venetiis, in
+    aedibus Manutianis, 1572.
+
+TITLE: T.LIVII PATAVINI, Historiarum ab urbe condita, LIBRI. QVI.
+EXSTANT XXXV CVM. VNIVERSAE. HISTORIAE. EPITOMIS Caroli Sigonij Scholia,
+quibus ijdem libri, atque epitomae partim emendantur, partim etiam
+explanantur, Ab Auctore multis in partibus aucta. [Printer's device]
+VENETIIS [Symbol: Infinity] DLXXII. In Aedibus Manutianis.
+
+     Folio. Part 1. 48 unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title,
+     preface of Sigonius, _Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia ab
+     Aldo Manutio Paulli F. Aldi N. collecta, Libri primi epitome, Rerum
+     et vocum apud T. Liuium index copiosissimus_; 399 numbered leaves
+     of text (blank last leaf wanting). Part 2. _Caroli Sigonii
+     Scholia_, with separate title and device, 109 numbered leaves and
+     blank end leaf. Part 3. _Caroli Sigonii Livianorum Scholiorum
+     aliquot Defensiones adversus Glareanum et Robortellum_, with
+     separate title and device, 52 numbered pages. Roman character,
+     except _epitomae_ i-xlv and _index_ which are in the italic type of
+     the Ptolemy commentary, and the preface which is a large and
+     unusual italic, first found in a notice prefixed to the _Medici
+     antiqui_ of 1547, once as a text type in 1550, afterwards only in
+     an occasional preface or title-page. Like the smaller italic of
+     Paulus it is provided with capitals. The large woodcut initials of
+     the several books belong to the mythological series found in the
+     Ptolemy but are here much worn. Renouard, p. 215.
+
+Editions of Livy with the Scholia of Sigonius were issued from the
+Aldine press in 1555, 1566, 1572 and 1592. This third edition is
+distinguished from those which preceded it by some additions to the
+Scholia and an appendix in which the editor defends his views on the
+chronology of Livy against the attacks of two opponents. But
+typographically it is inferior to the second edition as the second was
+inferior to the first, which alone was printed under the active
+supervision of Paulus. In 1561 he went to Rome to undertake the
+direction of a press which Pius IV. was about to establish and died
+there in 1574, having made only one brief visit to Venice in the
+intervening thirteen years. In his absence the Venice press, when not
+inactive or leased, was mainly in the charge of his son, the younger
+Aldus (1547-97), who in spite of the promise of his early years failed
+both as a scholar and as a printer to sustain the reputation of his
+father and grandfather. To the present edition Aldus contributed the
+_Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia_, and he is also
+unquestionably responsible for the large and strange device which
+replaces the simple anchor for which his father had shown so marked a
+preference. It consists of the arms granted to Paulus in 1571 by the
+Emperor Maximilian II. (in which the Aldine anchor occupies a
+subordinate place) surrounded by a border of heavy ornament with the
+addition: _Ex privilegio Maximiliani II. Imp. Caes. Aug._ When his
+father's death had made him the head of the press he continued for some
+years to employ the same device. For the Livy of 1592, much inferior to
+the present edition, and of interest only as showing the decline into
+which the Aldine press, and the Italian presses in general, had fallen
+at the end of the sixteenth century, he was only indirectly responsible.
+He left Venice in 1585 and spent the last years of his life at Rome, as
+professor of belles-lettres and joint director of the Vatican press.
+
+
+35. BIBLIA LATINA. Parisiis, Yolande Bonhomme, vidua Thielmanni Kerver,
+    August 14, 1549.
+
+TITLE: Biblia sacra, integru_m_ vtriusq_ue_ testame_n_ti corpus
+co_m_plecte_n_s, dilige_n_ter recognita et eme_n_data. Cu_m_
+concorda_n_tijs simul et argume_n_tis: cu_m_q_ue_ iuris canoni_c_i
+allegationib_us_ passim adnotatis. Insup_er_ i_n_ calce eiusde_m_ annexe
+su_n_t no_m_i_nu_m Hebraico_rum_, Chaldeo_rum_, atq_ue_ Greco_rum_
+interp_re_tatio_n_es. Huic editio_n_i adiect_us_ e_st_ Index re_rum_ et
+sente_n_tia_rum_ vetr_is_ _et_ noui testame_nti_. [Printer's device
+(shield bearing the initials T.K. suspended from a tree and supported by
+two unicorns, with name THIELMAN.KERVER. at foot), both the title and
+the device framed in a woodcut border]. _Fol. 562^a_, COLOPHON:
+Parisijs, ex officina libraria yola_n_de bonhomme, Uidue spectabilis
+viri Thielmanni Keruer, sub signo vnicornis in vico sancti Jacobi vbi et
+venundatur. Absolutum Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo
+nono Decimo nono Calendas Septembris. [Printer's device on verso].
+
+     Octavo. Sign. A^8, B^4, a-z, aa-zz, A-Y^8, Z^6, aaa-eee^8. 602
+     leaves, comprising 12 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing
+     title, _Ad divinarum literarum verarumque divitiarum amatores
+     exhortatio, Librorum ordo, Biblie summarium_. Gabriel Bruno's
+     _Tabula alphabetica historiarum_; fol. i-cccccxx, text; 30
+     unnumbered leaves _Index rerum et sententiarum_; 40 unnumbered
+     leaves _Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum_, etc. Very small
+     gothic letter, double columns, 58 lines to the column. Six- to
+     eight-line woodcut initials of the several books, the unicorns of
+     Kerver's device appearing in that of Gen. i. Le Long-Masch iii, 2,
+     149.
+
+The octavo Latin Bibles of the Kerver press, fifteen editions of which
+appeared between 1508 and 1560, were closely patterned after Froben's
+edition, Basel, 1591 (the first Bible printed in octavo form), both as
+regards the text, based on the "Fontibus ex Graecis" editions, 1478 ff.,
+and the introductory and supplementary matter of various origin
+accompanying it. The earliest of these supplements, _Interpretationes
+nominum Hebraicorum_, an etymological index of Hebrew proper names,
+appeared first in the Bible of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471, and
+was reprinted without change in most of the editions previous to 1515.
+In the Complutensian Polyglot it underwent revision and the revised form
+appears in all the editions of Yolande Bonhomme, with due
+acknowledgment to Cardinal Ximenes. The _Index rerum et sententiarum_,
+however, announced in the title as a new addition to this edition (as it
+had been also announced in the edition of 1546, not mentioned by Masch
+and Copinger, of which this is an exact duplicate) was borrowed from the
+Bible of Robert Stephens, Paris, 1534, without acknowledgment, perhaps
+in order the better to escape the suspicion of heresy attached to his
+work. In Copinger's chronological table of the printed editions of the
+Latin Bible during the 15th and 16th centuries (_Incunabula Biblica_, p.
+207) this is no. 339, total number 562.
+
+The Kerver press was less celebrated for its Bibles than for liturgical
+works, and for the books of private devotion (_Horae, Heures_) of which
+Brunet (_Manuel_, v, col. 1614-27) enumerates no less than fifty-six,
+printed by Thielmann, his widow, or his sons, between 1497 and 1571. The
+wood-engravings with which they were illustrated were repeated in the
+successive editions and occasionally also in the Bibles. Two of these
+borrowed cuts are found in the present edition, facing the Old and the
+New Testament. The first represents the Expulsion from the Garden, but
+the verse printed underneath (Gen. ii. 7) calls for the Creation of
+Adam, which in Yolande's editions of 1526 and 1534 is actually present,
+while here another engraving has been substituted, but the verse left
+standing. Facing the New Testament, under the heading _Jesu Christi
+secundum carnem genealogia_, is a genealogical tree springing from "the
+root of Jesse."
+
+Following the usual alphabetical order of the signatures (A-Z, aaa-eee),
+the _Index rerum et sententiarum_ (sign. U-Z) is here placed before the
+_Interpretationes_ (sign. aaa-eee). This is contrary to the direction of
+the _Collectio codicum_ found on the last leaf of the _Index_ (Z6),
+where the order prescribed is A-T, aaa-eee, U-Z, which is further
+supported by the colophon and printer's device on Z6. The _Index_ as the
+latest supplement was meant to stand at the end of the volume.
+
+Bound in oak boards covered with stamped leather, brass corners and
+bosses, gilt gauffred edges. Around the central boss of the back cover
+is stamped the date A.D. 1571, and on the front cover, in corresponding
+position and order, the initials F E P L P F.
+
+From the Osterley Park sale, May, 1885, with the book-plate of Victor
+Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey. Leaf 6-1/2 x 4-1/2 in.
+
+
+36. PHILO JUDAEUS. De divinis decem oraculis. Lutetiae, apud Carolum
+Stephanum, 1554.
+
+TITLE: Philonis Iudaei DE DIVINIS DECEM oraculis, quae summa sunt legum
+capita Liber, Iohanne Vaeuraeo interprete. [Printer's device] LVTETIAE,
+Apud Carolum Stephanum, Typographum Regium. M.D.LIIII.
+
+     Octavo. 72 numbered pages, followed by one leaf _Ad lectorem_ and
+     one blank. Pp. 3-6, dedication by the translator to Charles de
+     Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, Archbishop of Reims, to whom was also
+     dedicated the first edition of the works of Philo in Greek, printed
+     by Turnebus, Paris 1552. Printed on vellum. On p. 7 a beautiful
+     seven-line engraved initial R. The device is that chosen by the
+     printer's brother Robert, the olive tree and the motto _Noli altum
+     sapere_, without the addition _sed time_.
+
+Renouard, _Annales de l'impr. des Estienne_, 2^e ed., p. 106; adds to
+his description of the volume the following note: "Dedie au cardinal de
+Lorraine, pour lequel il en fut tire sur velin un exemplaire que depuis
+l'on a vu relie en maroq. jaune ancien, avec une tete en or sur la
+couverture. Il a passe dans une Bibliotheque inconnue." The present copy
+answers completely to this description and is without doubt the
+dedication copy in question. The binding (17th cent.) is yellow morocco,
+browned by age, gilt edges, with a medallion head in gold embossed on
+the back cover. Within are written names of former owners; on the title
+page _N. Tetel_, _1644 datum Remis_ and _Claude Henry Corrard_; on the
+cover linings _ex Libris Claudii Tetel ad Mussey_(?); _Ce livre
+appartient a m^{lle} Jean Collot_.
+
+By an oversight Renouard omitted this volume from his list (p. 271) of
+"Editions Stephaniennes dont on connoit un on plusieurs exemplaires
+imprimes sur velin." It increases the number to twenty-three, seventeen
+of them printed by the first Henri and only six by his descendants.
+
+Charles Estienne (1504?-1564), a member of a second remarkable family of
+scholar-printers of the sixteenth century, whose history forms so
+interesting a parallel to that of Aldus and his descendants, though he
+does not rank with his brother Robert, or Robert's son the second Henry,
+certainly brought no discredit on the family name. He was educated as a
+physician, but when Robert withdrew to Geneva to escape the persecutions
+of the Sorbonne, he took charge of the Paris press and conducted it with
+ability from 1551 to 1561, printing one hundred volumes and receiving
+the appointment of king's printer. Aside from this attractive volume no
+vellum copy of his books is known.
+
+From the Wodhull sale, with the Wodhull arms stamped in gold on the
+front cover. Mem. within: "Payne's sale. L3 3s. M. Wodhull, Apr. 14^{th}
+1792. Collat & complet." On the last blank leaf is entered the date
+"Oct. 17^{th} 1808," a record possibly of a later "visitation." Similar
+dates, some years later than the date of purchase are found on the end
+leaves of other Wodhull books. Leaf 7 x 4-1/2 in.
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+The following inconsistencies found in the text have been retained:
+
+head-line / headline
+Homiliae / Homiliae (in referring to the same book)
+De Vinne / DeVinne
+Prohemye / Proheyme
+
+
+
+
+
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