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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +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: ISO-8859-1 + +*** 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 _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_: [Greek: AISÔPOU BIOS TOU MYTHOPOIOU MAXIMÔ TÔ PLANOUDÊ +SYNGRAPHEIS]. _Fol. 33^a_: [Greek: AISÔPOU MYTHOI]. _Fol. 70^a_: [Greek: +Telos tôn tou Aisôpou Mythôn]. _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_: [Greek: MYTHOI AISÔPOU], _col. 2_: +Fabulae Aesopi. _Fol. 38^a, col. 1_: [Greek: TELOS TÔN TOU AISÔPOU +MYTHÔN]. _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[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 Parmæ Opera Et Impensis Andre_æ_ Portili_æ_ +.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_: Aeneæ siluii poætæ laureati, in hystoria_m_ de duobus +ama_n_tibus p_r_æfatio prima ad perq_uam_ generosum milite_m_ Casparem +Slik f[oe]liciter 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 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 _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 +f[oe]liciter incipit; _Fol. 34^a_: Vale uir (nisi ex curialibus unus +esses) meo iudicio prudens; COLOPHON: Aeneæ 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 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 _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 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 [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 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. 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