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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 + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<p>Transcriber's Note: Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling found in +the original book have been retained in this version. A list of these +inconsistencies is found at the end of the text.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[i]<a name="Page_i" id="Page_i"></a></span></p> + + +<h2>CATALOGUE OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS</h2> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[ii]<a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii"></a></span> <br /> +<span class='pagenum'>[iii]<a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii"></a></span> </p> + +<h1 style="margin-top: 1em;">CATALOGUE</h1> +<h3 class="sectionhead">OF THE</h3> +<h1 style="margin-top: 1em;"><span class="smcap">William Loring Andrews</span></h1> +<h1><span class="smcap">Collection of Early Books</span></h1> +<h3 class="sectionhead">IN THE</h3> +<h2 style="margin-top: 1.5em;">LIBRARY OF YALE UNIVERSITY</h2> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px; margin-top: 2em;"> +<img src="images/img01.jpg" width="100" height="101" alt="Publisher Seal" title="Publisher Seal" /> +</div> + +<p class="center" style="margin-top: 2em;">NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS<br /> +LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD<br /> +OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS<br /> +MCMXIII</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'>[iv]<a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv"></a></span></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Copyright, 1913<br /> +by<br /> +Yale University Press</span></p> + +<hr style="width: 4em; border: solid black 1px;" /> + +<p class="center">Printed from type October, 1913. 300 copies</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'>[v]<a name="Page_v" id="Page_v"></a></span></p> + +<h2 class="chapterhead">PREFACE</h2> + +<p>The collection of early printed books presented to the Library of Yale +University in 1894 by Mr. William Loring Andrews, of New York, was +formed to illustrate the first century of printing, which is a better +boundary for the survey than the half-century ending with the year 1500, +more often chosen. The latter, the so-styled cradle period of the art, +is wanting in real definition, being at most a convenient halting place, +not a completed stage, whereas at the middle of the sixteenth century +the printed book of the better class had acquired most of its maturer +features and no longer has for us an unfamiliar look. Designed to serve +as a permanent exhibition, it is a selection rather than a collection, +not large, but wisely chosen, and no less attractive than instructive, +having been formed a quarter of a century ago, at a time when +opportunities were unusually favorable.</p> + +<p>The surviving books of the first presses, which are the chief sources of +our knowledge of the early art, are at the same time, when obtainable, +the most efficient teachers. For the illustration of the typography, the +feature of first importance, there is nothing comparable to the open +pages of a representative series of the original books, such as are here +spread out before us. The best of the available substitutes, phototype +reproductions of specimen pages, apart from other limitations, must +always lack the authority and the impressiveness of the originals.</p> + +<p>While it is the main office of the present collection to set before the +students of the University as a whole the more general features of the +art of the early printer, a further service which it is prepared to +render must not be overlooked. To such as are prompted to go into the +subject more deeply it offers an excellent body of the original +<span class='pagenum'>[vi]<a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi"></a></span> +material upon which any serious study must of necessity be based.</p> + +<p>The two fine fifteenth century MSS. at the head of the collection, far +from serving a merely ornamental purpose, like their own illuminated +initials for example, are a needful introduction. It is obvious that +from such sources the first printers got the models of their types, and +the MSS. in which Jenson found the prototypes of his famous roman +characters, which in the judgment of some are still unsurpassed, could +not have been very remote from these. Some of the more striking features +which distinguish the early printed books from the later were not +original with them, but only survivals from the MSS. The abbreviations +and contractions in which both abound were the labor-saving devices of +the copyists, adopted without hesitation by the printers who used the +MSS. as copy and only slowly abandoned. The copyist left spaces in his +MS. for initials to be supplied by the illuminator, without which his +work was not considered complete, and for about a hundred years the +printer continued to do the same. If the copyist saw fit to attach his +name to his work, we look for it at the end of the volume and there also +the printer placed his colophon. Signatures and catchwords, to guide the +binder in the arrangement of the sheets, did not come in with the +printed book, but had long been in use in the MSS.</p> + +<p>Although out of the hundreds of presses active during the first century +only a score are here represented, leaving wide gaps in the series, it +is better, because more nearly in the natural line of development, that +the books should be ranged under the country, the locality and the press +to which they severally belong, than that they should be kept in strict +chronological order. A general chronological order underlies the +geographical even where it does not come to the surface. By right of +seniority Germany stands at the head, and Mainz, the birthplace of +<span class='pagenum'>[vii]<a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii"></a></span> +printing, is followed by the other German towns in the order of their +press age. Next come the presses of Italy, France, Holland and England, +arranged in like order. To prevent, however, too wide a departure from +the chronological succession which would result from the strict +application of this rule, the later, i.e., the sixteenth century, Venice +and Paris books are separated from the earlier and transferred to the +end of the list, where in point of development they properly belong. +Placed in the order thus indicated, the books, as befits so small a +total, are numbered consecutively in one series. The conspectus, which +brings into one view the titles, dates, places and printers' names, will +serve also as a sufficient index.</p> + +<p>While we are here most concerned with the genealogy and family history +of the books, or in other words with their press relationships, the +personal history attaching to them—<i>habent sua fata libelli</i>—is not +without interest. The Zeno MS. and the Philo, printed on vellum, are the +dedication copies, not merely set apart, but specially prepared for this +use. In a few of the volumes are found the names or the arms of early +owners. The Livy MS. and one-half of the printed books are from the +library, dispersed in 1886, of Michael Wodhull (1740-1816) of Thenford, +Northamptonshire, the first translator into English verse of all the +extant works of Euripides, the most assiduous and painstaking and in +some departments of bibliography the best equipped among the book +collectors of his day. It was his custom (well illustrated in the +present collection) to enter on the fly-leaf of each purchase the source +and the cost, adding as a separate item the binding, often by Roger +Payne, and to affix his name and the date. His <i>visé</i> "Collat: & +complet:" is seldom wanting and often bibliographical notes and +references to authorities are added. Justinian's <i>Novellae</i>, printed by +Schoeffer, and all the Aldine press books save one are from the library +gathered at Syston Park, Lincolnshire, <span class='pagenum'>[viii]<a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii"></a></span> +by Sir John Thorold and his son, +Sir John Hayford Thorold, between 1775 and 1831 and sold in 1884.</p> + +<p>One valued mark of ownership, common to all the volumes, is the <i>ex +libris</i> of the lover of choice books who united them in one family, not +again to be separated, and gave them into the keeping of the University +Library.</p> + +<p>The accompanying list of Authorities, as will be apparent, is intended +to supply merely the details necessary to complete the references of the +catalogue.</p> + +<p>Acknowledgments are due from the compiler to his associates in the +Library and the University for assistance in the catalogue.</p> + +<p class="right"> +<span class="smcap">Addison Van Name</span>, <i>Librarian Emeritus</i>.</p> + +<p>Yale University Library, September, 1913.</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'>[ix]<a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix"></a></span></p> + +<h2 class="chapterhead">AUTHORITIES.</h2> + +<div class="hanging"><p>Ames, J. Typographical antiquities, or, History +of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland, enlarged by T. F. +Dibdin. 4 v. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1810-19.</p> + +<p>Blades, W. The life and typography of William Caxton. 2 v. 4<span +class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1861-3.</p> + +<p>British Museum. Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in +the British Museum. Pt. i, ii. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., +1908-12.</p> + +<p>Brown, H. F. The Venetian printing press. 4<span +class="super2">o</span>. N.Y. and Lond., 1891.</p> + +<p>Brunet, J. C. Manuel du libraire. 5<span class="super2">e</span> +éd. 6 v. 8<span class="super2">o</span>. Paris, 1860-5.</p> + +<p>Burger, K. Deutsche und italienische Inkunabeln. Lief. i-ix. f<span +class="super2">o</span>. Berlin, 1892-1912.</p> + +<p>Campbell, M. F. A. G. Annales de l'imprimerie +néerlandaise au XV<span class="super2">e</span> siècle. +8<span class="super2">o</span>. La Haye, 1874-90.</p> + +<p>Claudin, A. The first Paris press: an account of the books printed for +G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne 1470-72. [Bibl. Soc. Illust. +Monogr. vi.] 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1897.</p> + +<p>Copinger, W. A. Incunabula Biblica. 4<span +class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1892.</p> + +<p>—— Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 pt. +in 3 v. 8<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1895-1902.</p> + +<p>Crevenna, P. A. Bolongaro. Catalogue des livres de la +bibliothèque de M. Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna. 5 v. 8<span +class="super2">o</span>. Amsterdam, 1789.</p> + +<p>De Vinne, T. L. Notable printers of Italy during the fifteenth +century. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. New York, 1910.</p> + +<p>Didot, A. Firmin. Alde Manuce et l'Hellénisme à Venise. +8<span class="super2">o</span>. Paris, 1875.</p> + +<p>Duff, E. Gordon. A century of the English book trade. 4<span +class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1905.</p> + +<p>—— Hand-lists of English printers 1501-1556. Pt. i, ii. +4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1895-6.</p> + +<p>Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 v. in 4 pt. 8<span +class="super2">o</span>. Stuttgart, 1826-38.</p> + +<p>Le Long, J. Bibliotheca sacra, continuata ab A. G. Masch. 2 pt. +in 5 v. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Halae, 1778-90.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[x]<a name="Page_x" id="Page_x"></a></span></p> + +<div class="hanging"><p>Morgan, J. Pierpont. Catalogue of manuscripts and +early printed books now forming a portion of the library of J. Pierpont +Morgan. 3 v. f<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1907.</p> + +<p>Panzer, G. W. Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad +annum MDXXXVI. 11 v. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Norimbergae, +1793-1803.</p> + +<p>Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des +bibliothèques publiques de France. T. i-iii. 8<span +class="super2">o</span>. Paris, 1897-1909.</p> + +<p>Philippe, J. Origine de l'imprimerie à Paris. 8<span +class="super2">o</span>. Paris, 1885.</p> + +<p>Pollard, A. W. An essay on colophons. [Caxton Club]. 4<span +class="super2">o</span>. Chicago, 1905.</p> + +<p>Proctor, R. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum. +8<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1898.</p> + +<p>—— The printing of Greek in the fifteenth century. [Bibl. +Soc. Illust. Monogr. viii]. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., +1900.</p> + +<p>Quaritch, B., <i>ed.</i> Contributions toward a dictionary of English +book-collectors. Pt. i-xiii. 8<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., +1892-9.</p> + +<p>Renouard, A. A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde. 3<span +class="super2">e</span> éd. 8<span class="super2">o</span>. Paris, +1834.</p> + +<p>—— Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne. 2<span +class="super2">e</span> éd. 8<span class="super2">o</span>. Paris, +1843.</p> + +<p>Ricci, Seymour de. Catalogue raisonné des premières +impressions de Mayence (1445-1467). [Veröff. der +Gutenberg-Gesellseh. viii-ix]. 4<span class="super2">o</span>. Mainz, +1911.</p> + +<p>—— A census of Caxtons. [Bibl. Soc. Illust. Monogr. xvi]. +4<span class="super2">o</span>. Lond., 1909.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[xi]<a name="Page_xi" id="Page_xi"></a></span></p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'>[xii]<a name="Page_xii" id="Page_xii"></a></span></p> + +<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="CONSPECTUS" id="CONSPECTUS"></a>CONSPECTUS</h2> + +<hr style="width: 50px; border: solid black 1px;" /> + +<p class="center">MANUSCRIPTS</p> + + +<table class="contents" summary="Manuscripts"> +<tr><td style="width: 1.5em;"></td> + <td></td> + <td style="text-align: right; width: 2em;">PAGE</td></tr> +<tr><td> 1.</td> + <td><a href="#M1"><span class="smcap">Zeno.</span> Vita Caroli Zeni</a></td> + <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="#M1">1</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> 2.</td> + <td><a href="#M2"><span class="smcap">Livius.</span> Historiarum libri I-X</a></td> + <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="#M2">3</a></td></tr> +</table> + + +<p class="center" style="margin-top: 1.5em;">PRINTED BOOKS</p> + +<table class="contents" summary="Printed Books"> +<tr><td style="width: 1.5em;"> 1.</td> + <td><a href="#P1"><span class="smcap">Biblia Latina</span></a></td> + <td style="width: 6em;">Mainz</td> + <td>J. Fust & P. Schoeffer</td> + <td style="text-align: right; width: 5em;">1462 </td> + <td style="text-align: right; width: 2em;"><a href="#P1">5</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> 2.</td> + <td><a href="#P2"><span class="smcap">Justinianus.</span> Novellae</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.2em;">"</span></td> + <td>P. Schoeffer</td> + <td class="right">1477 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P2">6</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> 3.</td> + <td><a href="#P3"><span class="smcap">Isidorus.</span> Etymologiae</a></td> + <td>[Strassburg]</td> + <td>[J. Mentelin]</td> + <td class="right">[c. 1473]</td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P3">8</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> 4.</td> + <td><a href="#P4"><span class="smcap">Gesta Romanorum</span></a></td> + <td>[Cologne]</td> + <td>[U. Zell]</td> + <td class="right">[c. 1473]</td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P4">10</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> 5.</td> + <td><a href="#P5"><span class="smcap">Gregorius I.</span> Homiliae</a></td> + <td>[Augsburg]</td> + <td>[G. Zainer]</td> + <td class="right">1473 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P5">11</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> 6.</td> + <td><a href="#P6"><span class="smcap">Psalterium Latinum</span></a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">[c. 1473]</td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P6">12</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> 7.</td> + <td><a href="#P7"><span class="smcap">Modus</span> perveniendi ad sapientiam</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">[c. 1473]</td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P7">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> 8.</td> + <td><a href="#P8"><span class="smcap">Hugo.</span> De arrha animae</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">1473 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P8">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> 9.</td> + <td><a href="#P9"><span class="smcap">Caracciolus.</span> De poenitentia</a></td> + <td>Venice</td> + <td>Wendelin of Speier</td> + <td class="right">1472 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P9">14</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>10.</td> + <td><a href="#P10"><span class="smcap">Valla.</span> Elegantiae linguae Latinae</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td>N. Jenson</td> + <td class="right">1471 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P10">15</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>11.</td> + <td><a href="#P11"><span class="smcap">Plinius.</span> Naturalis historia</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">1472 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P11">17</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>12.</td> + <td><a href="#P12"><span class="smcap">Nonius Marcellus.</span> De compendiosa doctrina</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2em;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">1476 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P12">19</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>13.</td> + <td><a href="#P13"><span class="smcap">Dullaert.</span> Quaestiones super Aristotelem de anima</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td>F. Renner & Nicolas of Frankf.</td> + <td class="right">1473 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P13">21</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>14.</td> + <td><a href="#P14"><span class="smcap">Aristoteles.</span> De animalibus</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td>John of Cologne & J. Manthen</td> + <td class="right">1476 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P14">22</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>15.</td> + <td><a href="#P15"><span class="smcap">Ubertinus.</span> Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td>A. de Bonetis</td> + <td class="right">1485 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P15">23</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>16.</td> + <td><a href="#P16"><span class="smcap">Albertis.</span> De amoris remedio</a></td> + <td>[Florence]</td> + <td></td> + <td class="right">1471 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P16">24</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>17.</td> + <td><a href="#P17"><span class="smcap">Aesopus.</span> Vita et fabulae</a></td> + <td>[Milan]</td> + <td>Bonus Accursius</td> + <td class="right">[c. 1480]</td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P17">26</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>18.</td> + <td><a href="#P18"><span class="smcap">Ovidius.</span> Metamorphoses</a></td> + <td>Parma</td> + <td>A. Portilia</td> + <td class="right">1480 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P18">28</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>19.</td> + <td><a href="#P19"><span class="smcap">Pius II.</span> De duobus amantibus</a></td> + <td>[Paris]</td> + <td>[Friburger, Gering & Crantz]</td> + <td class="right">[1472]</td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P19">28</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>20.</td> + <td><a href="#P20"><span class="smcap">Pius II.</span> De curialium miseria</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.2em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 40%;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">[1472]</td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P20">29</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>21.</td> + <td><a href="#P21"><span class="smcap">Plato.</span> Epistolae</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.2em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 40%;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">[1472]</td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P21">30</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>22.</td> + <td><a href="#P22"><span class="smcap">Magni.</span> Sophologium</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.2em;">"</span></td> + <td>Crantz, Gering & Friburger</td> + <td class="right">1477 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P22">32</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>23.</td> + <td><a href="#P23"><span class="smcap">Hieronymus.</span> Vaderboeck</a></td> + <td>[Zwolle]</td> + <td>P. van Os</td> + <td class="right">1490 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P23">33</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>24.</td> + <td><a href="#P24"><span class="smcap">Higden.</span> Polychronicon</a></td> + <td>Westminster</td> + <td>W. Caxton</td> + <td class="right">[1482]</td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P24">34</a><span class='pagenum'>[xiii]<a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii"></a></span></td></tr> +<tr><td>25.</td> + <td><a href="#P25"><span class="smcap">Ordinary</span> of Christians</a></td> + <td>London</td> + <td>W. de Worde</td> + <td class="right">1506 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P25">38</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>26.</td> + <td><a href="#P26"><span class="smcap">Intrationes</span></a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.4em;">"</span></td> + <td>R. Pynson</td> + <td class="right">1510 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P26">40</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>27.</td> + <td><a href="#P27"><span class="smcap">Plutarchus.</span> Moralia</a></td> + <td>Venice</td> + <td>Aldus Manutius</td> + <td class="right">1509 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P27">41</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>28.</td> + <td><a href="#P28"><span class="smcap">Scriptores</span> rei rusticae</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2.6em;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">1514 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P28">43</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>29.</td> + <td><a href="#P29"><span class="smcap">Cicero.</span> Rhetorica</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td>Andrea d'Asola</td> + <td class="right">1521 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P29">45</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>30.</td> + <td><a href="#P30"><span class="smcap">Celsus.</span> De medicina</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2.6em;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">1528 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P30">47</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>31.</td> + <td><a href="#P31"><span class="smcap">Cicero.</span> Epistolae ad Atticum</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td>Aldi filii</td> + <td class="right">1540 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P31">47</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>32.</td> + <td><a href="#P32"><span class="smcap">Cicero.</span> Orationes</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">1546 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P32">49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>33.</td> + <td><a href="#P33"><span class="smcap">Ptolemaeus.</span> Planisphaerium</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td>Paulus Manutius</td> + <td class="right">1558 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P33">50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>34.</td> + <td><a href="#P34"><span class="smcap">Livius.</span> Historiae Romanae</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1.3em;">"</span></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 2.6em;">"</span></td> + <td class="right">1572 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P34">51</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>35.</td> + <td><a href="#P35"><span class="smcap">Biblia Latina</span></a></td> + <td>Paris</td> + <td>Vidua Th. Kerver</td> + <td class="right">1549 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P35">52</a></td></tr> +<tr><td>36.</td> + <td><a href="#P36"><span class="smcap">Philo.</span> De divinis decem oraculis</a></td> + <td><span style="margin-left: 1em;">"</span></td> + <td>C. Stephanus</td> + <td class="right">1554 </td> + <td class="right"><a href="#P36">55</a></td></tr> +</table> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[xiv]<a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv"></a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'>[1]<a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></a></span></p> + +<h2 class="chapterhead"><a name="MANUSCRIPTS" id="MANUSCRIPTS"></a>MANUSCRIPTS</h2> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="M1" id="M1"></a>1. ZENO, <span +class="smcap">Jacopo</span>. Vitæ, morum, rerumque gestarum Caroli +Zeni libri X. 1458.</p></div> + +<p>Fine white vellum, 192 leaves, in 19 quires of ten leaves each and two +additional leaves at the end, the last of which is blank. Signed on the +lower inner angle of the last page of each quire by a letter (A-T) which +is repeated at the point directly facing it on the first page of the +next quire. Leaves four to seven of the first quire and all of quires +three to eight, a total of sixty-four leaves, have 28 lines to the page, +the rest 27 lines. Ruled on one side only with a hard point. Leaf +10<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> × 7 + in., text-page 7 × 3<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + +<p>Written in regular Italian minuscules of the 15th century, formed on the +models of the 11th and 12th centuries.</p> + +<p>The subject of the memoir is the distinguished Venetian Admiral Carlo +Zeno (1334-1418), brother of Nicolo and Antonio, reputed discoverers of +America. His biographer, Jacopo Zeno (1417-1481), Bishop of Feltre and +Belluno, and later of Padua, was his grandson. The work is dedicated to +Pius II. in honor of his recent elevation to the papal throne, and since +this is evidently the dedication copy, the accession of Enea Silvio +Piccolomini in August, 1458, fixes approximately the date of the MS. In +April, 1460, Jacopo Zeno was translated to the see of Padua.</p> + +<p>The execution and the decoration of the MS. are in keeping with its +special use. The gratulatory preface occupying ten pages is introduced +by the following heading in letters of burnished gold:</p> + +<p>IN LIBROS VITÆ MORVM RERVMQ: GESTARVM CAROLI ZENI VENETI. AD PIVM +SECVN<span class='pagenum'>[2]<a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a></span>DVM +PONTIFICEM MAXIMVM. IACOBI FELTRENSIS ET BELLVNENSIS +ANTISTITIS PRAEFATIO: [G]LORIOSA.... The ornamentation of the ten-line +illuminated initial G is of the interlaced style, and a border of +similar pattern surrounds the entire page, enclosing on the front margin +vignettes—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.</p> + +<p>The Latin text has thus far been printed only in Muratori's Rerum +Italicarum Scriptores (of which a new edition is now in progress), vol. +xix, Milan, 1731, from a MS. then, and still, preserved in the library +of the Episcopal Seminary at Padua. This MS., the only one which he was +able to discover, Muratori describes in the following language: "Codex +autem Patavinus quamquam pervetustus a non satis docto Librario +profectus est ac proinde occurrunt ibi quaedam parum castigata, quaedam +etiam plane vitiata. Mutilus praeterea est in fine, ubi non multa quidem +sed tamen aliqua desiderantur." Muratori's text breaks off in the middle +of a sentence at the end of the nineteenth (i.e. the last full) quire of +our MS., and accordingly lacks only the seventeen lines contained on the +next leaf, which is the last. If, as seems quite possible, the quiring +of the two MSS. is the same, the loss of the single unprotected leaf at +the end is the more readily explained.</p> + +<p>In 1591 there was published at Bergamo an abridged Italian version, made +from an illuminated MS. which had once belonged to the famous library of +Matthias Corvinus, but was then in the possession of Caterino Zeno, +governor of Bergamo. It had been among the spoils car<span class='pagenum'>[3]<a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a></span>ried to +Constantinople after the capture of Buda by the Turks in 1526. There, +seven years later, it had been bought and carried back to Italy by +Caterino's father, the younger Nicolo, who, in 1558, first gave to the +world the narrative of his ancestors' voyages. For no better reasons +than that the Paduan MS. also was illuminated in gold and colors, and +that it had been bought twenty-five years before (c. 1700) in Venice +where this branch of the Zeno family had become extinct, Muratori was +inclined to identify it with the Corvinus MS. The relations between Pius +II. and the king of Hungary, who was his ally in the proposed crusade +against the Turks upon which he was just embarking when overtaken by +death, and to whom the 48,000 ducats which he left behind him were sent +in aid of the prosecution of war, suggest another possibility. It may be +safely assumed that between the present MS., given only an opportunity +to acquire it, and any other copy the king's choice could not have +hesitated.</p> + +<p>The MS. is in 18th-century Italian binding, red morocco, gilt edges. +Sold with other MSS. from the library of the Trivulzio family of Milan +at Leavitt's auction, New York City, November, 1886.</p> + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="M2" id="M2"></a>2. <span class="smcap">LIVIUS, Titus.</span> Historiarum Romanarum libri I-X. Late 15th +century.</p></div> + +<p>Vellum. 336 leaves, the last blank. 34 quires all having ten leaves, +except the 17th and 34th which have eight each. 31 lines to the page; +catchword placed at right angles with the last line of the quire; ruled +on both sides with plummet. Leaf 14<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> × 10 in., text-page 9 × 6 in.</p> + +<p>Written in very regular, bold Italian minuscules of the period of the +Renaissance.</p> + +<p>The first page of the preface is surrounded by an illuminated border in +gold and colors in the Renaissance style of ornament, into which are +introduced the Caraccioli arms belonging to the distinguished Neapolitan +<span class='pagenum'>[4]<a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a></span>family of that name. The initial F on this page is historiated with a +view of Rome, and each of the ten books has an eight-line initial of +dull gold on a background of red, blue and green, with marginal +ornamentation.</p> + +<p>From the close agreement, even in punctuation, between this MS. and the +edition printed at Milan in 1495 by Ulrich Scinzenzeler for Alexander +Minutianus, and from other features which forbid the supposition that +one is taken directly from the other, we must conclude that they both +reproduce a common ancestor.</p> + +<p>This MS. of the first Decade of Livy is in unusually fine preservation, +and is bound in russia extra, with broad borders of gold and gilt +marbled edges.</p> + +<p>Brought from Palermo by Dr. Anthony Askew (1722-1772), it was sold with +his collection of MSS. in 1785. Michael Wodhull, Esq., of Thenford, +Northamptonshire, who gave seven guineas for the volume at "White's +sale" in March, 1798, added to his customary entry of these details on +the fly-leaf this note: "This appears to be the very Book which I saw +Sir W. Burrell purchase at Dr. Askew's manuscript Auction (No. 482) for +thirty-two guineas; in Sir W. Burrell's Auction, May, 1796, it is said +to have gone for about five (No. 657). The note in <i>Bib. Askev. +manuscripta</i> is: 'Ex Panormo in Sicilia hunc cod. adduxit secum Cl. +Askevius.' & '300 annor. MSS. longe pulcherrimus.'"</p> + +<p>At the sale of the Wodhull library in January, 1886, the Livy MS. and +the greater part of the 15th-century books hereinafter described were +acquired by the donor of the collection, William Loring Andrews, M.A., +of New York City.</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'>[5]<a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a></span></p> + + +<h2 class="chapterhead">PRINTED BOOKS</h2> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P1" id="P1"></a>1. BIBLIA LATINA. Moguntiae, Johannes Fust et Petrus Schoeffer, 14 +August, 1462.</p></div> + +<p>[Folio. 481 leaves, 2 columns, 48 lines to the column, gothic letter, +without signatures, catchwords or pagination.]</p> + +<p>Leaves 204, 205 containing Judith xiv. 17—Esther iv. 4.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Fol. 204</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. 1</i> (red): expl<i>icit</i> liber iudith secundu<i>m</i> +ieronimu<i>m</i>. Incipit p<i>r</i>ologus in libru<i>m</i> hester. <i>Col. 2</i> (red): +Explicit p<i>r</i>olog<i>us</i>. Incip. liber hester. Hain *3050. Pellechet +2281. Copinger 4. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 22. Burger pl. 74. +De Ricci 79.</p></div> + +<p>Five-line initial of prologue and fourteen-line initial I of Esther i. 1 +supplied in colors. Heading of leaf in alternate red and blue capitals. +Initial-strokes in red on text capitals. Measurement 16<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 11<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p> + +<p>The fourth printed Bible, and the first in which place, printers' names +and date are given. These details, which are wanting in so many of the +books of the early printers, Fust and Schoeffer—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 <span class='pagenum'>[6]<a name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></a></span>without any +scratching of the pen has been thus fashioned in the city of Mainz and +to the worship of God has been diligently brought to completion by +Johann Fust citizen and Peter Schoeffer clerk of the same diocese in the +year of the Lord 1462, on the eve of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary."</p> + +<p>In Seymour de Ricci's "Catalogue 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.</p> + +<p>The second dated Bible, the eleventh in the series of printed Bibles, +was that of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471; the third was a reprint +by Schoeffer in 1472 of the present edition, page for page, line for +line and in the same type.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P2" id="P2"></a>2. JUSTINIANUS. Novellae constitutiones, sive Authenticum. +Consuetudines feudorum. Codicis libri X-XII. Moguntiae, Petrus +Schoeffer, 21 August, 1477.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>. [Text (red)]: In no<i>m</i>i<i>n</i>e d<i>omi</i>ni n<i>ost</i>ri ih<i>es</i>u +chr<i>ist</i>i. de heredib<i>us</i> et falcidia <i>con</i>st<i>ituti</i>o prima si heres +legata soluere noluerit Incipit co<i>n</i>stitutio Imp<i>er</i>atoris Iustiniani. +a. Ioha<i>n</i>ni p<i>a</i>pe secu<i>n</i>do. [Commentary]: [I]N nomine d<i>omi</i>ni. +Iustinianus opus suu<i>m</i> laudabile deo attribuit. <i>Fol. 169</i><span class="super">b</span>. Explicit +liber aute<i>n</i>ticor<i>um</i>. <i>Fol. 170</i><span class="super2">a</span>. [Text (red)]: Incipiu<i>n</i>t +<i>con</i>suetudines feudor<i>um</i>. <i>Fol. 206</i><span class="super2">a</span>. [Text (red)]: Codicis d<i>omi</i>ni +iustiniani sacratissimi principis perpetui augusti repetite +p<i>re</i>lectionis incipit liber decimus. <i>Fol. 300</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span> +(red): Anno incarnac<i>i</i>o<i>n</i>is d<i>omi</i>nice .M.cccc.lxxvii. xii. kale<i>n</i>dis +septembrijs! Sanctissimo in chr<i>ist</i>o patre ac d<i>omi</i>no, d<i>omi</i>no Sixto +p<i>a</i>pa .iiii. po<i>n</i>tifice maximo. Illustrissimo noblissime domus austrie +d<i>omi</i>no, d<i>omi</i>no Friderico Romanorum Imp<i>er</i>atore inuictissimo, +monarchie chr<i>is</i>tiane <span class='pagenum'>[7]<a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></a></span>d<i>omi</i>nis! Reuerendissimo deoq<i>ue</i> amabili in +Chr<i>ist</i>o p<i>at</i>re ac d<i>omi</i>no, d<i>omi</i>no Diethero archip<i>re</i>sule +Maguntino; in ciuitate Maguncia impressorie artis inue<i>n</i>trice atq<i>ue</i> +elimatrice p<i>ri</i>ma .x. collac<i>i</i>onu<i>m</i> triu<i>m</i>q<i>ue</i> libroru<i>m</i> Codicu<i>m</i> +opus egregiu<i>m</i>, Petrus Schoiffer de Gernsheim, glorioso faue<i>n</i>te deo +suis consignando scutis, feliciter finiuit. [<span class="smcap">Printer's Device</span> +in red.]</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. 1. Novellae: quires [1<span class="super">10</span>, 2<span class="super">8</span>, 3-6<span class="super">10</span>, 7-8<span class="super">6</span>, 9<span class="super">10</span>, +10<span class="super">8</span>, 11-12<span class="super">10</span>, 13<span class="super">8</span>, 14<span class="super">10</span>, 15<span class="super">8</span>, 16<span class="super">6</span>, 17-18<span class="super">10</span>, 19<span class="super">10-1</span> +(the blank second leaf cut away)], 169 leaves. 2. Consuetudines +feudorum: quires [1-3<span class="super">10</span>, 4<span class="super">6</span>], 36 leaves. 3. Codicis libri +X-XII: quires [1<span class="super">8</span>, 2<span class="super">10</span>, 3-5<span class="super">8</span>, 6<span class="super">10</span>, 7<span class="super">8</span>, 8<span class="super">4</span>, 9-10<span class="super">10</span>, +11<span class="super">10+1</span> (the additional leaf prefixed)], 95 leaves. In all 300 +leaves, two columns of text and two of commentary, 51 lines of text +and 66 of commentary to the column, gothic letter, without printed +signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line spaces, some +with guide-letters, left for capitals. Two pinholes, the use of +which Schoeffer was thought to have abandoned a little earlier than +the date of this volume. Titles and colophon printed in red. The +text type is that of the Bible of 1462. Hain *9623. Brit. Mus. 15th +cent., I, p. 33 (IC. 217).</p></div> + +<p>The first page of each of the three works is ornamented with a floral +scroll border in colors. At the head of the several books are thirteen +initials in gold and colors. Chapter initials in alternate red and blue; +initial-strokes in red in both text and commentary.</p> + +<p>The present volume agrees in contents with the fifth and last volume of +the Corpus juris as it is found arranged in the medieval MSS., except +for the omission of the Institutiones, already sufficiently accessible +in separate editions, of which no less than fifty were printed in the +15th century, the first of them by Schoeffer himself in 1468. The first +three volumes of the Corpus were occupied by the Digests, the fourth by +the Codex lib. i-ix. The last three books of the Codex relate mainly to +public law and having lost much of their importance were transferred to +the fifth volume.</p> + +<p>That the order of the three parts in the present copy, viz. 1. Novellae, +2. Consuetudines, 3. Codex lib. x-xii, is that intended by the printer, +is clear both from the position and from the language of the +colophon—the position because the colophon is attached to the Codex, +and <span class='pagenum'>[8]<a name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></a></span>the language because it describes the volume as consisting of "the +ten Collations and the three books of the Codes." The Novellae were +usually divided by the commentators into nine Collations, perhaps, as +Savigny suggests, to parallel the first nine books of the Codex. +Sometimes, however, as in the present case, the Consuetudines feudorum +were joined with them and reckoned as a tenth collation. Notwithstanding +these plain indications, in the copy described by Hain *9623, and in the +British Museum copy (as at present, though not as originally, bound), +the Codex x-xii is placed between the Novellae and the Consuetudines, +thus removing the colophon from its natural place at the end of the +volume. In the first edition of these works, printed by Vitus Puecher, +Rome, 1476, they were placed in the order last named, but the colophon +was there attached to the Consuetudines.</p> + +<p>After the death of his father-in-law and partner Fust, late in 1466 or +early in 1467, Schoeffer conducted the press alone until his death in +1502. After 1478, however, his activity as a printer was much +diminished.</p> + +<p>The present large and fine copy (leaf 15<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 11<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.), with the +manuscript signatures still in part preserved, is from the library of +Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831) of Syston Park, Lincolnshire, sold +in December, 1884. In the Meerman sale at the Hague, 1824, this same +copy, bound as at present in russia gilt, sold for 64 florins.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P3" id="P3"></a>3. ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. Etymologiarum libri XX. [Strassburg, Johann +Mentelin, c. 1473.]</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: INCIPIT EPISTOLA ISIDORI IVNIORIS +HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI AD BRAVLIONEM CESARAVGVSTANVM EPISCOPVM. [Three +other letters to the same and two replies; tabula generalis.] <i>Fol. 3</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, +col. 2</i>: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA PRIMI LIBRI. INCIPIT LIBER PRIMVS +ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI. DE DIS<span class='pagenum'>[9]<a name="Page_9" id="Page_9"></a></span>CIPLINA ET ARTE. +<i>Fol. 27</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. 1</i>: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. <i>Fol. 27</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. +2</i>: PREFACIO. [D]Omino et filio syseputo ysidor<i>us</i>..... INCIPIT LIBER +YSIDORI DE RERVM NATVRA AD SISEPVTVM REGEM. <i>Fol. 37</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, col. 2</i>: +INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. INCIPIT LIBER QVARTVS DE MEDICINA. +<i>Fol. 142</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: EXPLICIT LIBER ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI +HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1-13<span class="super">10</span>, 14<span class="super">12</span>], 142 leaves, the first blank, 2 +columns, 51 lines to the column, without signatures, catchwords, +pagination, printer's name, place or date. Gothic lower-case type, +roman capitals. Book and chapter headings printed wholly in +majuscules. Large woodcut diagrams. Three-to nine-line spaces left +for chapter and book initials, also spaces for occasional Greek +words (mostly left unsupplied) and for small diagrams. Two +pinholes, which in Mentelin's use point to a date not later than +1473. Hain *9270. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 57 (IC. 586). Burger +pl. 170.</p></div> + +<p>On the first page large illuminated initial with floral border ornament, +and similar initials at the head of the several books. Chapter initials +supplied in red or blue; initial-strokes in red throughout the volume. +Blank first leaf wanting.</p> + +<p>Incorporated with the present edition of the Etymologiae by way of +supplement, though not named in the table of contents, is an earlier +treatise of Isidore's entitled <i>De natura rerum</i>, written at the request +of Sisebut, king of the Visigoths, 612-621, and dedicated to him. It +contains the sum of the physical philosophy of his time, and, being +largely astronomical, is sometimes found in the MSS. under the title +<i>Liber de astronomia</i>. In order to bring it into immediate connection +with the corresponding section of the Etymologiae, it is placed +immediately after the third book (devoted to the <i>quadrivium</i>, the last +division of which is astronomy) and given irregularly the heading "Liber +quartus," the regular <i>Liber quartus (De medicina)</i> beginning twenty +pages later. Two of the 48 chapters of which it is composed are wanting +here, but by the subdivision of other chapters the +<span class='pagenum'>[10]<a name="Page_10" id="Page_10"></a></span>number is raised to +58. Zainer of Augsburg, the printer of the first edition of the +Etymologiae, dated 19 November, 1472, followed it the next month with an +edition of <i>De responsione mundi et astrorum ordinatione ad Sesibutum +regem</i>, which is the work in question under another title. Printed with +the same type and the same number of lines to the page, it was in effect +treated as a supplement to the Etymologiae.</p> + +<p>According to the testimony of a fellow printer, de Lignamine, in the +"Chronica summorum Pontificum," Rome, 1474, Mentelin as early as 1458 +was printing at Strassburg 300 sheets a day. The third Latin Bible +(1460-1461) and the first German Bible came from his press, but the +first work to which he affixed his name and a date was the <i>Speculum +historiale</i> of Vincent of Beauvais in 1473. He died in 1478.</p> + +<p>The Wodhull copy, bought at "Hayes's sale" in 1794 for £5.5s., and bound +in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, by Mrs. Weir for £1.2s. Leaf +15<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 11 in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P4" id="P4"></a>4. GESTA ROMANORUM. [Cologne, Ulrich Zell, c. 1473.]</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Ex gestis romanor<i>um</i> hystorie no<i>ta</i>biles: +de vitijs v<i>ir</i>tutibusq<i>ue</i> tracta<i>n</i>tes: cu<i>m</i> applicac<i>i</i>onib<i>us</i> +moralizatis et misticis: Incipiunt feliciter. <i>Fol. 160</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. 1</i>, +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Ex gestis ro<i>ma</i>no<i>rum</i> cu<i>m</i> plurib<i>u</i>s applicatis +historijs: de v<i>ir</i>tutib<i>us</i> et vitijs mistice ad intellectum +tra<i>n</i>ssum<i>p</i>tis Recollectorij finis est feliciter. LAVS. DEO. <i>Fol. +160</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. 2</i>: Incipiu<i>n</i>t tituli numerorum om<i>n</i>i<i>u</i>m capitulo<i>rum</i> et +exemplo<i>rum</i>. <i>Fol. 163</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Tabula o<i>mn</i>i<i>u</i>m exe<i>m</i>plo<i>rum</i> <i>et</i> +capitulo<i>rum</i> op<i>er</i>is præcedentis. sec<i>un</i>d<i>u</i>m ordine<i>m</i> alphabeti. +<i>Fol. 170</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Explicit tabula. <i>Fol. 170</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2 +columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures, +catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to +five-line spaces left for capitals. One pinhole in side margin, +others possibly cut away in binding. Hain 7734, Pellechet 5247. +Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 196 (IB. 2994).</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[11]<a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a></span></p> + +<p>On fol. 2<span class="super2">a</span> and 163<span class="super2">a</span> five-line initials in blue with graceful pen +decoration in red. Initials of chapters and morals supplied in alternate +red and blue. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red; headings +underlined in red. Blank first leaf wanting.</p> + +<p>This edition of the Gesta contains 181 chapters and appears to have been +preceded only by another undated edition printed at Utrecht by Ketelaer +and Leempt, in long lines, with 152 chapters and no index.</p> + +<p>Ulrich Zell was the first printer of Cologne. His first dated book was +issued in 1466 and he continued to print quite up to the close of the +fifteenth century. Nearly all his books are, like the present, without +place, date or printer's name. Of the 177 books which he is known to +have printed, the British Museum possesses 123.</p> + +<p>The Wodhull copy, bound in russia, gilt edges. Leaf 10<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 7<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> 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."</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P5" id="P5"></a>5. GREGORIUS I. Homiliæ XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, Günther +Zainer.] 28 August, 1473.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Ordo .xl. omeliaru<i>m</i> beati gregorij pape ad secundinu<i>m</i> +episcopum Thauronitaru<i>m</i>. <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>: SEQVITVR EPISTOLA +[R]Euerendissimo et sa<i>n</i>ctissimo frati secundino coepiscopo. +Gregori<i>us</i> seruus seruoru<i>m</i> dei. <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: EXPLICIT EPISTOLA INCIPIT +EWANGELIVM. S. LVCAM.... Omelia prima beati Gregorij pape. <i>Fol. 141</i><span class="super">b</span>, +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Adeptus est finis amba<i>rum</i> parciu<i>m</i> omelia<i>rum</i> +beatissimi gregorii pape vrbis rome jn die s<i>an</i>cti hermetis sub Anno +d<i>omi</i>ni M cccc lxxiij. <i>Fol. 142</i><span class="super2">a</span>: <i>Table of the homilies in the +order of the liturgical year.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1-13<span class="super">10</span>, 14<span class="super">12</span>], 142 leaves, 33 lines to the +page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, +place or printer's name. Two- and three-line spaces left for +capitals, which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and +initial-strokes in red. Hain *7948, Pellechet 5366. Brit. Mus. 15th +cent., II, p. 319 (IB. 5457).</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[12]<a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a></span></p> + +<p>Gregory's Homilies, of which this is the first edition, and the three +next following works bound with it, are from the press of 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.</p> + +<p>The Wodhull copy, bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt. Leaf 12 × 8<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> +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."</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P6" id="P6"></a>6. PSALTERIUM LATINUM. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer, c. 1473.]</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Prologus beati jeronimi p<i>re</i>sbiteri in psalteriu<i>m</i> q<i>uo</i>d +ipse de hebraico transtulit in latinu<i>m</i> [E]Vsebius jeronim<i>us</i> +soffronio suo salutem. <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>: Explicit p<i>ro</i>logus beati jeronimi. +Incipit psalterium Psalmos dauid primus. <i>Fol. 51</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Canticu<i>m</i> Ysaie +capitulo lxxij (<i>sic</i>), <i>followed by cantica of Hezekiah, Hannah, Moses +(2), Habakkuk</i>. <i>Fol. 54</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Explicit tra<i>ns</i>lacio +soli<i>lo</i>q<i>ui</i>oru<i>m</i> siue psalterij beatissimi Ieronimi eusebii +p<i>resbiteri</i> q<i>uo</i>d ad peti<i>ci</i>one<i>m</i> soffronij tra<i>n</i>stulit ut in +ep<i>isto</i>la<i>m</i> ante psalteriu<i>m</i> imp<i>re</i>ssa p<i>rae</i>mittit<i>ur</i> <i>etc.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1-5<span class="super">10</span>, 6<span class="super">4</span>], 54 leaves, 33 lines to the page, +gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place, +printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for initials, +which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in +red. Hain *13470. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5560).</p></div> + +<p>Jerome's final translations of the Old Testament books direct from the +Hebrew were all adopted into the received Latin version, the Vulgate, +except this of the Psalms.<span class='pagenum'>[13]<a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a></span> +Here his earlier revision of the old Italic +version on the basis of the Septuagint had become so firmly established +in liturgical use that the translation from the Hebrew, though more +exact, could not displace it. This appears to be the first printed +edition.</p> + +<p>Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliæ.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P7" id="P7"></a>7. MODUS PERVENIENDI AD SUMMAM SAPIENTIAM. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer, +c. 1473.]</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: [S]Entite de do<i>m</i>ino in bo<i>n</i>itate e<i>t</i> in simplicitate +cordis q<i>uae</i>rite illu<i>m</i>. <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Explicit prologus Incipit modus +ad summam p<i>er</i>veniendi sapienciam. <i>Fol. 24</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, l. 33</i>, <span class="smcap">End</span>: +sibi sparso diuinit<i>us</i> in ip<i>sum</i> ardentissime se extendit <i>etc.</i> <i>Fol. +24</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1-2<span class="super">10</span>, 3<span class="super">4</span>], 24 leaves, 33 lines to the page, +gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination, place, +printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for capitals, +which are supplied in red. Initial-strokes in red. Hain *11490. +Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5531).</p></div> + +<p>Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P8" id="P8"></a>8. HUGO de SANCTO VICTORE. Soliloquium de arrha animae. [Augsburg, +Günther Zainer.] 12 October, 1473.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Incipit soliloquium beatissimi Augustini episcopi yponensi +(<i>sic</i>) de arra anime. <i>Fol. 7</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">End</span>: Rapt<i>us</i> est finis +hui<i>us</i> tractat<i>us</i> August<i>in</i>i de arra ani<i>m</i>e. feria t<i>er</i>cia post +festu<i>m</i> s<i>an</i>cti Dyonisy Anno d<i>omi</i>ni lxxiij <i>etc.</i> <i>Fol. 8, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. 8 leaves, the last blank, 33 lines to the page, gothic +letter, without place or printer's name. Three-line space for first +initial and initial-strokes supplied in red. Blank last leaf +wanting. Hain *2021. Pellechet 1525. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., p. 319 +(IB. 5451).</p></div> + +<p>The author of the work here directly ascribed to St. Augustine was the +mystic theologian Hugo de Sancto Victore (1097-1140), member of the +Canons Regular of St. Augustine and head of the abbey school of St. +Victor, near Paris. From his familiarity with the writings of<span class='pagenum'>[14]<a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a></span> +Augustine and likeness to his spirit, he was styled <i>Alter Augustinus</i>, a title +which furnishes a plausible but not wholly satisfactory explanation of +the confusion in the present case. For among the spurious writings which +have been put under Augustine's name more than one has been borrowed +from this author. For example, chapters 5-10 of the <i>Liber de diligendo +Deo</i> are taken almost word for word from the present treatise.</p> + +<p>In the present edition of this soliloquy cast in the form of a dialogue +the interlocutors are <i>Augustinus</i> and <i>Anima</i> (both names always +printed in capitals); in a Strassburg edition of about the same date, +<i>Hugo</i> and <i>anima sua</i>; in the collected edition of Hugo's works, <i>homo</i> +and <i>anima</i>.</p> + +<p>Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P9" id="P9"></a>9. <span class="smcap">CARACCIOLUS, Robertus</span>, de Licio. Opus quadragesimale quod +de poenitentia dictum est. Venetiis, Wendelinus de Spira, 20 July, 1472.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Hec est tabula omniu<i>m</i> sermonu<i>m</i> +contentorum hoc in uolumine. <i>Fol. 3</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Sacre theologie magistri necnon +sacri eloquij preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis +Minor<i>um</i> professoris op<i>us</i> quadragesimale p<i>er</i>utilissimum quod de +penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit. <i>Fol. 267</i><span class="super2">a</span>, +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Vendelinus ego gentis <i>co</i>gnomine spiere!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Roberti haec caste purgata uolumi<i>n</i>a pressi!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sedis apostolice Romano praeside Sixto<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Magnanimo <i>et</i> uenetum Nicolao pr<i>in</i>cipe Truno<br /></span> +<span class="i5">M.cccclxxij.xx.quintilis.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 267</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, 268, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 269</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Sermo i<i>n</i> festo +a<i>n</i>nu<i>n</i>tiat<i>i</i>o<i>n</i>is u<i>ir</i>ginis marie <i>et</i> eiusdem Roberti cum tribus +(<i>sic</i>) aliis sermonib<i>us</i> seque<i>n</i>tib<i>us</i>. s. de p<i>re</i>destinato +nume<i>ro</i> damnator<i>um</i> <i>et</i> de cathenis. <i>Fol. 289</i><span class="super">b</span>: Finis triu<i>m</i> +sermonu<i>m</i> Fratris Roberti... <i>Fol. 290, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1-7<span class="super">10</span>, 8<span class="super">12</span>, 9-11<span class="super">10</span>, 12<span class="super">8</span>, 13-15<span class="super">10</span>, +16<span class="super">8</span>, 17-27<span class="super">10</span>, 28-30<span class="super">6</span>, 31<span class="super">4</span>], 290 leaves, 1, 268, 290 blank, 40 +lines to the page, gothic letter, without <span class='pagenum'>[15]<a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a></span> +signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces with +guide-letters left for initials. Two pinholes on side. Initials and +paragraph-marks supplied in red. Blank leaf 268 wanting. Hain-Copinger +4424. Pellechet 3244. Proctor 3524.</p></div> + +<p>Wendelin of Speier succeeded in 1470 to the press established in 1469 by +his brother John, the first printer of Venice, who lived to complete +only four books. Gothic type was introduced into Italy by Wendelin.</p> + +<p>Roberto Caraccioli, born at Lecce in 1425, was bishop of his native city +from 1484 to 1495. The great reputation which these sermons enjoyed is +attested by the fact that four editions, three of them printed in +Venice, appeared in 1472, and four more in 1473, one of which was +Wendelin's second edition, an exact reprint of the present.</p> + +<p>The Wodhull copy, bought at the sale of the library of Samuel Tyssen, in +1801, for £1.1s., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a +further cost of 19 shillings. Leaf 10<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">8</span> × 7<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P10" id="P10"></a>10. <span class="smcap">VALLA, Laurentius.</span> Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Venetiis, +Nicolaus Jenson, 1471.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS ELega<i>n</i>tia<i>rum</i> co<i>m</i>pendiosæ +collectio<i>n</i>is in ordinem alphabeti directæ principium. <i>Fol. 9</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, +blank.</i> <i>Fol. 9</i><span class="super">b</span>: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS VIRI CLARISSIMI ET DE LINGVA +LATINA BENE MERENTIS AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM: CVI OPUS +ELEGANTIARVM LINGVAE LATINAE DEDICAT EPISTOLA. <i>Fol. 11</i><span class="super2">a</span>: LAVRENTII +VALLENSIS PATRICII ROMANI COMMENTARIORVM GRAMMATICORVM SECVNDVM +ELEGANTIAM LINGVAE LATINAE LIBER PRIMVS DE NOMINE VERBOQVE. ET EX HIS +DVOBVS COMPOSITO PARTICIPIO INCTPIT PROOEMIVM. <i>Fol. 159</i><span class="super">b</span>: LAVRENTII +VALLENSIS DE LANGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA TERTIVS LIBER FINIT: INCIPIT +IIII. DE NOMINVM<span class='pagenum'>[16]<a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a></span> +SIGNIFICATIONIBVS. [<i>For</i> TERTIVS <i>read</i> QVINTUS; +<i>for</i> IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS <i>read</i> VI. DE NOTIS +SCRIPTORVM.] <i>Fol. 190</i><span class="super2">a</span>: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE +ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM LIBER +INCIPIT. <i>Fol. 200</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE +LATINAE ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM +ARETINVM PER ME M. NICOLAVM IENSON VENETIIS OPVS FELICITER IMPRESSVM +EST. M.CCCCLXXI. <i>Fol. 201, 202, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1<span class="super">8</span>, 2<span class="super">12</span>, 3-4<span class="super">10</span>, 5<span class="super">12</span>, 6-7<span class="super">10</span>, 8<span class="super">12</span>, +9<span class="super">14</span>, 10-11<span class="super">10</span>, 12<span class="super">12</span>, 13<span class="super">8</span>, 14<span class="super">6</span>, 15-19<span class="super">10</span>, 20<span class="super">8</span>], 202 +leaves, the last two blank, roman letter, 39 lines to the page, +without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line +spaces left for capitals and spaces also for Greek words, to be +supplied in manuscript. Two pinholes on side. The type is Jenson's +first font. Hain 15802. Proctor 4071.</p></div> + +<p>At the head of the first page is a large initial of the interlaced vine +pattern in gold and colors, with a border of the same pattern enclosing +the entire page. The remaining five books, the prefatory epistle and the +supplement <i>De ego, mei et sui</i> are introduced by initials of the same +size and style. Alternate red and blue capitals at the head of chapters, +paragraph-marks also in red and blue.</p> + +<p>A few of the spaces left for Greek words are filled in manuscript, but +more are left vacant. When Jenson later in the same year printed +Cicero's Letters, he was provided with Greek type. The blank fol. 9<span class="super2">a</span> is +occupied by a transcript in an early hand of the greater part of lib. i, +cap. iv (<i>De ficu</i>), from a MS. the readings of which differ materially +from the printed text.</p> + +<p>For the purposes of the index the six books have been divided into a +continuous series of 479 chapters, designated in the margins of the text +by manuscript roman numerals, but in the index by printed numerals. The +<span class='pagenum'>[17]<a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a></span> +references are not, as in later editions, to book and chapter, but to +chapters only. The index, alphabetized by the first letter of the word +only, printed on different paper and forming a separate quire, is here +placed at the beginning of the volume; but traces of earlier manuscript +signatures still remaining, bear witness to a former order in which the +text preceded the index, as is still the case in some copies of this +edition.</p> + +<p>Most of Jenson's early books were folios. But notwithstanding the size +of the leaf (13 × 8 in.), this is a quarto, as both the direction of the +chain-lines and the position of the water-mark prove. However, because +of the limitations of the early presses, it was doubtless printed on +half-sheets, folio-wise, two pages at most at one impression.</p> + +<p>Of the twenty-four 15th-century editions of the <i>Elegantiae</i> the three +earliest, one of which was Jenson's, were printed in 1471.</p> + +<p>Although the tradition that Nicolas Jenson, master of the mint at Tours, +was sent by Charles VII. in 1458 to Mainz to learn the secrets of the +newly discovered art of printing is otherwise unsupported and, in view +of the manner in which the invention was afterwards carried to France as +well as to other countries by private initiative, improbable, he was +already a master of the art, wherever and however acquired, when he +established in 1470 the press which held the leading place at Venice +until his death in 1480.</p> + +<p>The present exceptionally fine copy of the <i>Elegantiae</i>, bound in citron +morocco, with gold borders and gilt edges, is the Wodhull copy, bought +in 1786 of Payne for £10.10s.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P11" id="P11"></a>11. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C. Naturalis historia. Venetiis, Nicolaus +Jenson, 1472.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: CAIVS PLYNIVS MARCO SVO SALVTEM. <i>Fol. +4</i><span class="super2">a</span>: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI<span class='pagenum'>[18]<a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a></span> +NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .I. CAIVS PLYNIVS +SECVNDVS NOVOCOMENSIS DOMITIANO SVO SALVTEM. PRAEFATIO. <i>Fol. 21</i><span class="super2">a</span>: +CAII PLINII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .II. <i>Fol. 355</i><span class="super2">a</span>, +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBRI +TRICESIMI SEPTIMI ET VLTIMI FINIS IMPRESSI VENETIIS PER NICOLAVM IENSON +GALLICVM .M.CCCC.LXXII. NICOLAO TRONO INCLYTO VENETIARVM DVCE. <i>Followed +by</i>: Iohannis andreæ episcopi aleriensis ad pontificem summum Paulum +secundum uenetum epistola. <i>Fol. 356</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Hereneus lugdunensis episcopus: +item Iustinus ex philosopho martyr: item cum diuo Hieronymo Eusebius +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<i>n</i> Plynio ut fiat; +uehementer obsecro: obtestor: atq<i>ue</i> adiuro: ne ad priora menda: <i>et</i> +tenebras i<i>n</i>extricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabat<i>ur</i>. Instauratu<i>m</i> +aliqua<i>n</i>tulu<i>m</i> sub romano po<i>n</i>tifice maximo Paulo secu<i>n</i>do ueneto. +<i>Fol. 356</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1<span class="super">12</span>, 2<span class="super">8</span>, 3-8<span class="super">10</span>, 9<span class="super">12</span>, 10-15<span class="super">10</span>, 16<span class="super">8</span>, +17-27<span class="super">10</span>, 28<span class="super">6</span>, 29-30<span class="super">10</span>, 31-35<span class="super">8</span>, 36<span class="super">12</span>, 37<span class="super">8</span>], 356 leaves, +first blank, 50 lines to the page, roman letter, without +signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to twelve-line spaces +left for capitals, with guide-letters; also spaces for occasional +Greek words. Greek type sparingly used, oftener transliteration in +roman. Two pinholes. Hain *13089. Proctor 4087. Morgan Cat. II, p. +39, n. 297.</p></div> + +<p>The rubrication of the present copy is not only elaborate but also of +unusual merit. The first of the twelve-line initials of the thirty-seven +books is finely illuminated in gold and colors. The others, in the +outlines of which grotesque features are occasionally introduced, are +set off by skilful pen-work, harmonizing in general effect, but +carefully avoiding repetition in details. The chapter initials also, a +thousand or more in number, in alternate red and blue, or red and green, +have much variety and grace. The initial L, for example, occurring +twenty-eight times in the first book, is never repeated in the same form +<span class='pagenum'>[19]<a name="Page_19" id="Page_19"></a></span> +and color. The blank fol. 3<span class="super">b</span> is occupied by the name Jesus in very +large and ornate characters, in different colors, surrounded by scroll +and figure decoration. The Bagneri arms, included in the ornamentation +of the first initial, point to an early ownership of the volume, and the +arms of the Antella family of Florence at the foot of the first page, to +a later ownership.</p> + +<p>The introductory epistle of the younger Pliny, describing his uncle's +manner of life, was addressed to his friend Macer, who here becomes +Marcus by the easy transposition of Macro to Marco. Less easily +explained is the substitution in the dedication of Domitian for his +brother Titus Vespasian, to whom Pliny dedicated the work.</p> + +<p>Two editions of the <i>Naturalis Historia</i> preceded this, the first +printed by John of Speier in 1469, with a five years' privilege from the +Venetian senate, which expired at his death in 1470, the second by +Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1470. With the first of these, Jenson's +edition agrees in the number of pages and of lines to the page. From the +second he reprinted the letter addressed by the editor Johannes Andreas, +Bishop of Aleria, to his patron Pope Paul II., and the earnest appeal +for care on the part of any who should reprint his Pliny, "<i>ne ad priora +menda et tenebras inextricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabatur</i>." Fifteen +more editions were printed before the close of the 15th century. +Jenson's Pliny is generally regarded as the finest production of his +press. The type is his first font.</p> + +<p>The Wodhull copy, bought of Thomas Payne, book-seller, in 1791 for +£12.12s., and bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on +side, at the additional cost of £1. Leaf 15<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 10<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P12" id="P12"></a>12. NONIUS MARCELLUS. De compendiosa doctrina. Venetiis, Nicolaus +Jenson, 1476.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2-20, alphabetical index.</i> <i>Fol. 21, blank.</i> +<i>Fol. 22</i><span class="super2">a</span>: NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI +<span class='pagenum'>[20]<a name="Page_20" id="Page_20"></a></span> TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA +DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM. <i>Fol. 194</i><span class="super2">a</span>, +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA +DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM IMPRESSA VENETIIS INDVSTRIA +ATQVE IMPENDIO NICOLAI IENSON GALLICI. .M.CCCC.LXXVI. <i>Fol. 194</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, +blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. a-c<span class="super">10</span>, d-y<span class="super">8</span>, z<span class="super">12</span>, 194 leaves, 1 and 21 blank, +34 lines to the page, roman letter, without catchwords or +pagination. Seven- and eight-line spaces left for capitals, some +with guide-letters. The type is Jenson's first roman trimmed or +recast the second time on a slightly smaller body. Greek words as a +rule printed with Greek type, not transliterated. Hain 11901. +Proctor 4098.</p></div> + +<p>On the first page of text a large initial S in gold on a panel of color, +with marginal decoration. Other large chapter initials in red and blue +alternately. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. Blank +first leaf wanting.</p> + +<p>The index, which occupies the first nineteen leaves, is alphabetized as +far as the second letter of the word. The references are by roman +numerals to the leaves (not pages) of the work, which themselves have +only manuscript foliation in arabic figures.</p> + +<p>The first edition of Nonius was printed at Rome in 1470 by Lauer; the +second, in 1471, was without place or name. Jenson's edition, which is +the third, borrowed from both of these but added also something of +value. The correct title, <i>De compendiosa doctrina</i>, first appears here. +The usual title, <i>De proprietate sermonum</i>, belongs strictly to the +first chapter. As in all the early editions, the third chapter is +lacking, having been discovered later and first included in the 1513 +edition of Aldus. Jenson's Greek type long remained in favor for +incidental use in Latin books after it had been displaced in Greek books +by Aldine types.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[21]<a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a></span></p> + +<p>The Wodhull copy, "Payne's sale, £5.5s., January, 1792." Bound by Roger +Payne in red morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 11 × 8 in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P13" id="P13"></a>13. <span class="smcap">DULLAERT, Johannes</span>, de Janduno or Gandavo. Quaestiones +super tres libros Aristotelis de anima. Venetiis, Franciscus de Hailbrun +et Nicolaus de Franckfordia socii, 1473.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, blank. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>: Tabula q<i>ue</i>stio<i>n</i>u<i>m</i> d<i>omi</i>ni Joh<i>ann</i>is de +Janduno sup<i>er</i> tres libros de anima Aristotelis. <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: [I]Nest +enim me<i>n</i>tib<i>us</i> hominu<i>m</i> Veri boni naturalis inserta cupiditas. <i>Fol. +92</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Expliciunt questiones d<i>omi</i>ni Joh<i>ann</i>is de +Janduno sup<i>er</i> tres libros de a<i>n</i>i<i>m</i>a Ar<i>istotelis</i> i<i>m</i>presse +Venetijs p<i>er</i> Franciscu<i>m</i> de Hailbrun <i>et</i> Nicolau<i>m</i> de Franckfordia +socios. M.CCCCLXXiii.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Quires [1-8<span class="super">10</span>, 9<span class="super">12</span>], 92 leaves, 2 columns, 71 lines to +the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or +pagination. Six- to twelve-line spaces left for capitals. Two +pinholes. Arabic figures used to the exclusion of roman numerals +not only in table of contents, but throughout the text to mark +subdivisions of the argument or individual books of a treatise. +Hain 7458. Burger pl. 99.</p></div> + +<p>On first page of text a twenty-four line initial illuminated in gold and +colors, with border ornament. Book and chapter initials in alternate red +and blue. Arabic numerals, which made their first appearance in printed +books in 1470, were very sparingly used even at a considerably later +date than 1473.</p> + +<p>The author, commonly known as Johannes de Gandavo (Ghent), of the early +part of the 14th century, wrote commentaries also on other works of +Aristotle. Of the present work five editions, of which this is the +first, were printed at Venice in the 15th century.</p> + +<p>Franz Renner of Heilbronn conducted a press at Venice from 1471 to 1483, +having as partner from 1473 to 1477 Nicolas of Frankfort. The present +volume is printed in a small round-faced gothic type, the second of the +nine fonts which he used.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[22]<a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a></span></p> + +<p>The Wodhull copy, bought at the Maffei Pinelli sale, London, 1789, for +£1.13s. Bound in hf. vellum. Leaf 16<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 11<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P14" id="P14"></a>14. ARISTOTELES. Libri de animalibus interprete Theodoro Gaza. +Venetiis, Johannes de Colonia sociusque Johannes Manthen, 1476.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: THEODORI: GEAECI: THESSALONICENSIS: +PRAEFATIO: IN LIBROS: DE ANIMALIBVS: ARISTOTELIS: PHILOSOPHI: AD XYSTVM: +QVARTVM: MAXIMVM. <i>Fol. 7</i><span class="super">b</span>: ARISTOTELIS: DE HISTORIA: ANIMALIVM: LIBER +PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. <i>Fol. 131</i><span class="super2">a</span>: ARISTOTELIS DE PARTIBVS +ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. <i>Fol. 184</i><span class="super2">a</span>: ARISTOTELIS DE +GENERATIONE ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. <i>Fol. 250</i><span class="super">b</span>, +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Finiunt libri de animalibus Aristotelis interprete +Theodoro Gaze. V. clarissimo: quos Ludouicus podocatharus Cyprius ex +Archetypo ipsius Theodori fideliter <i>et</i> dilige<i>n</i>ter auscultauit: <i>et</i> +formulis imprimi curauit Venetiis per Iohannem de Colonia sociu<i>m</i>q<i>ue</i> +eius Iohanne<i>m</i> ma<i>n</i>the<i>n</i> de Gherretze<i>m</i>. Anno domini .M.CCCC.LXXVI. +<i>Fol. 251</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Tabula cartarum secundum ordinem ponendarum. <i>Fol. 251</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, +252, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. a-b<span class="super">10</span>, c-d<span class="super">8</span>, e<span class="super">10</span>, f<span class="super">8</span>, g<span class="super">10</span>, h<span class="super">8</span>, i<span class="super">10</span>, +k<span class="super">8</span>, l-t<span class="super">10</span>, u<span class="super">8</span>, x<span class="super">10</span>, aa-dd<span class="super">10</span>, ee<span class="super">8</span>, ff<span class="super">6</span>. 252 leaves, the +first and the last blank, roman letter, 35 lines to the page, +without pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces left for initials, +with guide-letters. Hain *1699. Proctor 4312. Morgan Cat., II, p. +48, n. 313. Burger pl. 199.</p></div> + +<p>The border surrounding the first page of text, and eighteen initials of +the several books, are illuminated in gold and colors. Chapter initials +supplied in red and blue alternately.</p> + +<p>Printed signatures, which appear to have been first introduced by +Zarotto of Milan in 1470, and a register of sheets, first used by John +of Cologne in 1475, are both found in this volume. The register, which +may give only the number of sheets in each of the quires, or the +<span class='pagenum'>[23]<a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a></span>first +word of each sheet of the quire, is here of the latter kind. +Unfortunately two sheets escaped registration and the words are supplied +in manuscript.</p> + +<p>Three separate treatises of Aristotle are contained in this volume: +Historia de animalibus libri ix; De partibus animalium libri iv; De +generatione animalium libri v.</p> + +<p>Theodore Gaza, the translator, was a learned Greek from Thessalonica, +who took up his residence in Italy on the capture of his native city by +the Turks. The translation was made at the instance of Nicolas V., who +had invited him to Rome in 1450, but was first printed in the present +edition (Venice, 1476) and dedicated in a flattering epistle of eleven +pages to the reigning pope, Sixtus IV. The fifty scudi which the pope +sent in acknowledgment of the dedication copy Gaza is said to have +thrown in disgust into the Tiber. It is interesting to note in this +connection that while the Venice editions of 1492 and 1498 retain the +name of Sixtus IV. in the dedication, Aldus after having omitted the +epistle altogether in his 1504 edition, in that of 1513 quietly +substituted the name of Nicolas V., the earlier and worthier patron, +without a word of change in the language of the dedication itself. Later +editions have followed the example of Aldus.</p> + +<p>John of Cologne, established as a printer at Venice as early as 1471, +was associated 1472-1473 with Wendelin of Speier, whose business and +types he took over in 1474. He had as partner, 1474-1480, John Manthen, +and in 1480, Nicolas Jenson. The type of the <i>Aristotle</i> is a close +imitation of the first font of John and Wendelin of Speier.</p> + +<p>The Wodhull copy, bought at the Pinelli sale for £2.12s.6d. Bound in hf. +vellum. Leaf 12 × 8<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P15" id="P15"></a>15. UBERTINUS DE CASALI. Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu. Venetiis, +Andreas de Bonetis de Papia, 12 March, 1485.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: INCIPIT PROLOGVS IN +LI<span class='pagenum'>[24]<a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a></span>BRVM QVI INTITVLATVR +ARBOR VITE CRVCIFIXE IESV. ET DICITVR OPVS VBERTINI DE CASALI. QVI FVIT +FRATER PROFESSVS ORDINIS MINORVM BEATI FRANCISCI. <i>Fol. 4</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, col. 2</i>: +Explicit p<i>ri</i>mus p<i>ro</i>logus. Incipit secu<i>n</i>dus. <i>Fol. 5</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, col. 2</i>: +Explicit p<i>ro</i>logus secundus. Incipit liber primus. <i>Fol. 248</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. +2</i>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Liber qui intitulatur Arbor uite crucifixe Iesu +deuotissimi fratris Vbertini de Casali ordinis minoru<i>m</i> felicit<i>er</i> +explicit. Impressus Venetiis p<i>er</i> Andrea<i>m</i> de Bonettis de Papia. Anno +.M.CCCC.LXXXV. Die.xii.Martii. Ioa<i>n</i>ne Mocenico inclyto principe +regnante. <i>Fol. 249</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Tabula capitulo<i>rum</i>. <i>Fol. 249</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, col. 2</i>: +Registrum. <i>Fol. 250, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. a-z<span class="super">8</span>, A<span class="super">8</span>, B<span class="super">12</span>, C-G<span class="super">8</span>, H<span class="super">6</span>. 250 leaves, 1, 204, +250 blank, 2 columns and head-line, 58 lines to the column, roman +letter. The head-lines give the subject, book and chapter numbers. +Eight-line spaces left for the initials of the five books and +three-line spaces, some with guide-letters, for the chapter +initials, both supplied in red. Blank first and last leaves +wanting. Hain *4551. Pellechet 3331. Proctor 4816.</p></div> + +<p>Bound in olive green morocco with gold borders and gilt edges. +Book-stamp of J. Richard, D.M., on first and last leaf of text, and +book-plate of another owner, Jules Frayssenet, of Fleurance, printed on +full leaf inserted between the fly-leaves, front and back, and the text. +Leaf 10<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 7<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + +<p>Andreas de Bonetis, of Pavia, printed at Venice from 1483 to 1487.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P16" id="P16"></a>16. <span class="smcap">ALBERTIS, Leo Baptista de.</span> De amoris remedio. 1471.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: BATISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS PRAECLARVM IN +AMORIS REMEDIO FELICITER INCIPIT. <i>Fol. 20</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: +BAPTISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS IN AMORIS REMEDIO VTILISSIMVM +FELICITER FINIT. .M.CCCC.LXXI.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1<span class="super">8</span>, 2<span class="super">12</span>], 20 leaves, 25 lines to the page, +roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place or +printer's name. Two- to <span class='pagenum'>[25]<a name="Page_25" id="Page_25"></a></span> +six-line spaces left for initials, but the +present copy is without rubrication. Hain *422. Panzer iii. 82, 69; +iv. 5, 16. Pellechet 268. Proctor 7346.</p></div> + +<p>Notwithstanding the Latin title, the work itself is wholly in Italian +and both in the MSS. and in later printed editions is found also under +the title <i>Deifira ossia del mal principiato amore</i>. A companion volume +by the same author, with the Latin title <i>De amore liber</i>, and the +Italian, <i>Ecatomfilea ossia del vero amore</i>, was printed the same year, +in the same type, the same number of leaves and lines to the page. Still +another work in the same type and form and apparently of the same date, +entitled <i>Historieta amorosa fra Leonora de' Bardi e Hippolito +Bondelmonti</i>, is attributed on good evidence to De Albertis. Copies of +all three works, printed alike on vellum and bound together in one +volume, formerly in the Mac-Carthy Collection (Catalogue, Paris, 1815, +no. 3595), are now in the Bibliothèque Nationale (<i>Vélins</i> 1964). In the +present copy of <i>De amoris remedio</i> the manuscript signatures <i>b</i> and +<i>c</i>, partly cut away, point to an earlier binding, in which the +<i>Historieta</i> consisting of only twelve leaves may possibly have formed +the signature <i>a</i>.</p> + +<p>Panzer was disposed to identify the peculiar roman type of these volumes +with that used by the fourth printer of Venice, Clemente of Padua, +between whom and Zarotto of Milan, Hain was later in doubt. But Proctor +was convinced that the small group of books to which these belong, +nearly all of them connected in some way with Florence, were the +productions of the first, so far unidentified, press of that city. The +date they bear (1471) places them among the earliest books printed in +the Italian language. Witness the following first editions: Petrarch's +Canzoniere, 1470; Il Decamerone, 1471; La Divina Commedia, 1472.</p> + +<p>The present copy, bound in blue morocco, with the crest of the Marquis +of Blandford on side, was sold in his (White Knights) sale in 1819 for +£2. Leaf 9<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 6<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[26]<a name="Page_26" id="Page_26"></a></span></p> + +<p>From the Syston Park sale, December, 1884, with book-plate and the +monogram (J.H.T.) of Sir John Hayford Thorold.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P17" id="P17"></a>17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabulae græce. Vita et fabulae latine. Fabulae +selectae græce et latine. [Milan], Bonus Accursius, c. 1480.</p></div> + +<p><i>Part I.</i> <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo sapientissimo +ducali quæstori Iohanni Francisco turriano salutem plurimam dicit. <i>Fol. +2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: ἈΙΣΩΠΟΥ ΒΙΟΣ ΤΟΥ +ΜΥΘΟΠΟΙΟΥ +ΜΑΞΙΜΩ ΤΩ ΠΛΑΝΟΥΔΗ +ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΙΣ. <i>Fol. 33</i><span class="super2">a</span>: +ἈΙΣΩΠΟΥ ΜΥΘΟΙ. <i>Fol. 70</i><span class="super2">a</span>: +Τέλος τὣν τοὓ Ἀισώπου Μύθων. <i>Part II.</i> <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Vita Aesopi +fabulatoris clarissimi e græco latina p<i>er</i> Rynucium facta ad +Reuere<i>n</i>dissimu<i>m</i> Patre<i>m</i> Dominu<i>m</i> Antonium tituli Sancti Chrysogoni +Presbyteru<i>m</i> Cardinalem <i>et</i> primo prohoemium. <i>Fol. 32</i><span class="super">b</span>: FINIS. +<i>Fol. 33</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Argumentum fabula<i>rum</i> Aesopi e græco i<i>n</i> latinu<i>m</i>. <i>Fol. +59</i><span class="super">b</span>: Finis. Vita Aesopi per Rynucium thettalum traducta. Verum quoniam +ab eo non nulla fueru<i>n</i>t praetetermissa (<i>sic</i>): fortassis q<i>ui</i>a +græcus eius codex esset minus emendatus: Ego Bonus accursius Pisanus: +eadem in ea omnia correxi; <i>et</i> emendaui. <i>Fol. 60, blank.</i> <i>Part III.</i> +<i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo ac +sapientissimo ducali Quæstori Iohanni francisco Turriano salutem +plurimam dicit. <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, col. 1</i>: +ΜΥΘΟΙ ἈΙΣΩΠΟΥ, <i>col. 2</i>: +Fabulae Aesopi. <i>Fol. 38</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, col. 1</i>: +ΤΕΛΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΤΟΥ +ἈΙΣΩΠΟΥ +ΜΥΘΩΝ. <i>Col. 2</i>: FINIS AESOPI FABVLARVM. Bonus Accursius pisanus +impressit: qui non doctorum hominum sed rudium ac puerorum gratia hunc +laborem suscepit.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Pt. I, sign. [A-H<span class="super">8</span>, I<span class="super">6</span>] not printed, but stamped +irregularly on the extreme lower margin and partially cut away in +the binding, 70 leaves. Pt. II, sign, a-g<span class="super">8</span>, and four unsigned +leaves at the end, 60 leaves. Pt. III, sign. a-b<span class="super">8</span>, C-D<span class="super">8</span>, E<span class="super">6</span>, 38 +leaves, the Greek text and the word-for-word Latin translation in +two parallel columns. Both the Greek and the Latin have 25 lines to +the page or column. Two- to five-line spaces for capitals, with +guide-letters, in both texts, but no rubrication. Two pinholes. +Hain *265+272. Pellechet 185+192. Proctor, Printing of Greek in the +15th cent., p. 60.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[27]<a name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></a></span></p> + +<p>This is the first printed edition of any of the Greek classics, and the +third book printed entirely in Greek, or in Greek with a Latin +translation; the first being the Grammar of Lascaris, Milan, 1476, and +the second the Lexicon of Crastonus not later than 1478. All three were +printed with the same font of Greek type made by, or under the +supervision of, Demetrius Damilas, the son of Milanese parents settled +in Crete. Bonus Accursius was rather the publisher than the actual +printer, who in the case of the Lascaris was Dionysius Paravisinus, and +in the case of the Crastonus and the Aesop, probably the brothers de +Honate, who at that date were the possessors of the peculiar roman type +used in the Latin translations. After the Aesop this particular font of +Greek type next appeared in the first edition of Homer, printed at +Florence in 1488 by Bartolommeo di Libri, and in three of his subsequent +books, once at Rome early in the 16th century, after which it disappears +altogether.</p> + +<p>In the present edition the Fabulae 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 <i>Reverendissimi</i> m<i>agistri</i> georgii +de casali."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[28]<a name="Page_28" id="Page_28"></a></span></p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P18" id="P18"></a>18. <span class="smcap">OVIDIUS NASO, Publius.</span> Metamorphoses. Parma, Andreas +Portilia, 15 May, 1480.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1, blank</i>, <i>2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: TABVLAE F∀BVLARVM (<i>sic</i>) OVIDII +METAMORPHOSEOS. <i>Fol. 6</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Domitius Calderinus Veronensis. [D]E Ouidii +uita nihil a nobis i<i>n</i> hoc loco scribe<i>n</i>du<i>m</i> <i>est</i>. <i>Fol. 7</i><span class="super2">a</span>: P. +OVIDII NASONIS SVLMONENSIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS. <i>Fol. 187</i><span class="super">b</span>, +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: FINIS Impressum Parmæ Opera Et Impensis Andre<i>æ</i> +Portili<i>æ</i> .M.CCCC.LXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani +Illustrissimo Duce Regna<i>n</i>te Fœliciter. <i>Fol. 188, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. a<span class="super">6</span>, b-q<span class="super">8</span>, r<span class="super">10</span>, s-y<span class="super">8</span>, z<span class="super">6</span>, &<span class="super">6</span>. 188 unnumbered +leaves, the first and last blank, 40 lines to the page, roman +letter. Three- to eight-line spaces, with guide-letters, left for +the initials of the fifteen books. Hain *12160.</p></div> + +<p>First initial of each book supplied in red; heading of each book and +each fable underlined in red; initial-strokes in every verse and +paragraph-marks in red. Without the last blank leaf.</p> + +<p>Andreas Portilia was the first printer at Parma, where his press was +established in 1472 and continued, with two brief transfers to Bologna +and Reggio, till 1486.</p> + +<p>Mr. Wodhull's copy, for which he paid, at the sale of Dr. Chauncy's +library in 1790, £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.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P19" id="P19"></a>19. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De duobus amantibus. +[Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i>: Aeneæ siluii poætæ laureati, in hystoria<i>m</i> de duobus +ama<i>n</i>tibus p<i>r</i>æfatio prima ad perq<i>uam</i> generosum milite<i>m</i> Casparem +Slik fœliciter incipit. <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super">b</span>: Aeneæ siluii in hystoria<i>m</i> de +duobus ama<i>n</i>tibus p<i>rae</i>fatio secunda ad Martinu<i>m</i> Sozinu<i>m</i>, +Senensem, iuris utriusque p<i>er</i>spicacissimum interpretem iocunde +incipit. <i>Fol. 4</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Aeneæ siluii de duobus ama<i>n</i>tibus hystoria +perq<i>uam</i> iocunde incipit! <i>Fol. 44</i><span class="super">b</span>: Vale. ex Vienna quinto nonas +Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadrage<span class='pagenum'>[29]<a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"></a></span>simo quarto; +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Aene<i>æ</i> Siluii po<i>æ</i>te laureati de duobus ama<i>n</i>tibus +eurialo <i>et</i> lucresia, finit fœlicit<i>er</i>. <i>Fol. 45, 46, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1-4<span class="super">10</span>, 5<span class="super">6</span>], 46 leaves, the last two blank, 23 +lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, +pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to six-line spaces +left for capitals. Claudin XIX. Pellechet 147. Hain 216.</p></div> + +<p>Large initial on first page supplied in blue and gold, with pen +ornamentation in red and blue. Other capitals and the paragraph-marks in +alternate red and blue. Last blank leaf wanting.</p> + +<p>This and the two next works of the present list bound with it were +printed at the first Paris press, a private press set up in the Sorbonne +in 1470 by Johann Heynlin, Prior, and Guillaume Fichet, Librarian, of +the University, and maintained by them until April, 1473. During these +three years twenty-two books were printed, all in the same roman type, +copied from the <i>Cæsar</i> of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469. In only +two of them are the actual printers, Friburger and his associates, +named.</p> + +<p>To the twenty-eight 15th-century editions—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.</p> + +<p>The three books from the Sorbonne press are bound in one volume, red +morocco, gilt edges, with book-plate of Sir Willim Burrell. It passed +from his possession some years before his death and was bought by +Michael Wodhull at Payne's sale April 7, 1789, for £4.4s. The binder, +possibly mistaking the date of the author's subscription (Vienna, 1444) +for that of the printing, has placed it on the back of the volume. Leaf +7<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 5<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P20" id="P20"></a>20. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De curialium miseria. +[Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[30]<a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"></a></span></p> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Aeneæ Siluii poætæ laureati (cui <i>et</i> pro pontificali +dignitate Pio nomen est) in disputatione<i>m</i> de curialiu<i>m</i> miseria ad +perspicacissimu<i>m</i> iurisconsultu<i>m</i> Iohanne<i>m</i> Ech, serenissimi +diuiq<i>ue</i> principis, Alberti, cæsaris inuictissimi! Alberti quoque +austriæ ducies inclyti consiliariu<i>m</i> atq<i>ue</i> oratore<i>m</i> præfacio +fœliciter incipit; <i>Fol. 34</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Vale uir (nisi ex curialibus unus +esses) meo iudicio prudens; <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Aeneæ Siluii de +curialiu<i>m</i> miseria disputatio finem habet fœlicem; <i>Fol. 35, 36, +blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1-3<span class="super">10</span>, 4<span class="super">6</span>], 36 leaves, the last two blank, 23 +lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, +pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- and six-line spaces +left for capitals. Claudin XX. Pellechet 132. Hain 198.</p></div> + +<p>First initial rubricated in the same style and by the same hand as in +the <i>De duobus amantibus</i>. Other capitals and paragraph-marks in red and +blue alternately. Initial-strokes in yellow. At the bottom of fol. 29<span class="super2">a</span> +a line accidentally dropped by the compositor is supplied in manuscript +by a contemporary hand, viz., "non te uolunt. Quida<i>m</i> uero pote<i>n</i>tes +sunt! ac ex." Both the recto and the verso of the leaf have the full +complement of 23 lines but there is a hiatus in the text. The copies in +the Bibliothèque Nationale, and the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, have +the line supplied in manuscript in like manner, but instead of <i>uero</i> +read <i>non</i>, which does not suit the context.</p> + +<p>According to Claudin this is the twentieth book printed at the Sorbonne +press. To the five copies known to him this adds a sixth.</p> + +<p>Bound with No. 19. De duobus amantibus.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P21" id="P21"></a>21. PLATO. Epistolae. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and +Martin Crantz, 1472.]</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Ad prudentem <i>et</i> magnificum uirum Cosma<i>m</i> de medicis +florentinu<i>m</i>, Leonardi Aretini clarissimi ora<span class='pagenum'>[31]<a name="Page_31" id="Page_31"></a></span>toris, in ep<i>isto</i>las +plato<i>n</i>is quas ex græcis latinas fecit! p<i>rae</i>fatio; <i>Fol. 52</i><span class="super2">a</span>, +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: FINIS.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Discite rectores diuinitus, ore platonis!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Quid uos, q<i>ui</i>d ciues reddat in urbe bonos;<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Quires [1-4<span class="super">10</span>, 5<span class="super">8</span>, 6<span class="super">2</span>, 7<span class="super">2</span>], 52 leaves, 23 lines to +the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, +place, printer's name or date. Three- to five-line spaces left for +capitals. The first initial supplied in blue and red, other +capitals in blue and red alternately. Initial strokes in yellow. +Claudia XIV. Philippe VII. Crevenna 1523. Hain 13066.</p></div> + +<p>Leonardo Bruni, often called Leonardo Aretini from his birthplace +Arezzo, translated five of the dialogues of Plato in addition to the +letters.</p> + +<p>The first notice of this edition is found in the <i>Catalogue +Bolongaro-Crevenna</i> (Amst., 1789), where it is described as containing +52 printed leaves. It appears from the price-list printed after the sale +in 1790 that it had not been sold, but was "retenu, faute de commissions +ou de concurrence," and was still obtainable at the price of 15 florins. +No trace of it has since been found and Panzer and Hain were able only +to copy the catalogue description. Philippe (1885) described Heynlin's +copy, which is preserved in the library of the University of Basel, as +consisting of one first blank leaf, forty-nine printed leaves and two +blank leaves at the end. Claudin (1898), with a second copy discovered +meantime in the 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 <i>end</i>] are only +independent fly-leaves. Our copy has fifty-two printed leaves and no +blanks and no occasion for them, since the printed leaves, of +themselves, form complete quires. Claudin's collation, which gives both +the quires and a register of the first words of each quire, shows that +both his copies lack the sixth quire of our copy, composed like the +seventh of only two leaves and beginning "<i>sibus interdixistis</i>." There +is moreover still unexplained and not easily explainable in the +<span class='pagenum'>[32]<a name="Page_32" id="Page_32"></a></span> +descriptions of both the Basel and Angers copies the presence of a +troublesome first blank leaf and the absence of another leaf of text, in +addition to the lacking sixth quire. It follows that, at least until the +Crevenna copy, which appears to have been in agreement with ours, comes +to light again, this must remain the only complete copy known.</p> + +<p>Bound with Nos. 19 and 20, from the same press.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P22" id="P22"></a>22. <span class="smcap">MAGNI, Jacobus</span> [Jacques Le Grand]. Sophologium. Paris, +Martin Crantz, Ulric Gering and Michael Friburger, 1 June, 1477.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Sequitur tabula capituloru<i>m</i> Sophologij. +<i>Fol. 5</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Doctissimi atq<i>ue</i> excellentissimi patris: sacraru<i>m</i> +litteraru<i>m</i> doctoris deuotissimi: fratris Iacobi magni: religionis +fratru<i>m</i> heremitaru<i>m</i>: sancti Augustini sophologiu<i>m</i> incipit. Cuius +p<i>ri</i>ncipalis intentio est inducere legentis animu<i>m</i> ad sapientie +amorem. <i>Fol. 218</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Jacobi Magni sophologium finit feliciter. <i>Fol. +218</i><span class="super">b</span>: Epigramma ad huius operis conspectore<i>m</i> [five distichs.] +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Anno do<i>mi</i>ni millesimo .cccc.lxxvij. die .i. mensis +Iunij. Impressum fuit istud sophologium parisius p<i>er</i> Martinu<i>m</i> +crantz. Vdalricu<i>m</i> gering, et Michaele<i>m</i> friburger.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Sign. a-x<span class="super">10</span>, y<span class="super">8</span>, 218 leaves, the first blank, 32 lines +to the page, gothic lower-case type, roman capitals. Two- to +six-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. Hain 10478.</p></div> + +<p>Border ornamentation in color on fol. 5<span class="super2">a</span>. Initials at the head of the +first four of the ten books in dull gold and color; those of the +remaining books in color only. Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in +alternate red and blue. Blank first leaf wanting. The bottom line of +fol. 116<span class="super">b</span> which had been accidentally moved across to the foot of fol. +115<span class="super2">a</span> (the companion page on the imposing stone) is supplied in +manuscript where it was lacking and the misplaced line of print is +canceled.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[33]<a name="Page_33" id="Page_33"></a></span></p> + +<p>On the discontinuance of the Sorbonne press in 1473, the printers, +Crantz, Gering, and Friburger, moved into the neighboring Rue +Saint-Jacques and set up a press, with new type, on their own account. +An edition of the Sophologium had been one of the last books printed at +the old press. A second edition was issued from the new press in 1475, +of which the present edition is, in type, number of pages and lines, an +exact reprint, but has printed signatures and is a quarto while that was +a folio. Caxton's "Book of Good Manners," printed in 1487, was a +translation of "Le livre des bonnes meurs," another work by the same +author.</p> + +<p>The present copy, bound in green morocco with gold borders and gilt +edges, is from the Syston Park library, sold in December, 1884. Leaf +10<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 7<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P23" id="P23"></a>23. HIERONYMUS. Vaderboeck. [Zwolle], Peter van Os, 1 April, 1490.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Title</span>: DIt boeck is ghenomet. dat vader boeck. dat +in den latijne is ghehieten Vitas patru<i>m</i>. inhoudende dye historien +en<i>de</i> legenden der heyligher vaderen die hare leue<i>n</i> in stre<i>n</i>gher +penitencie ouerghebracht hebbe<i>n</i> Ouergheset in goeder versta<i>n</i>delre +duytscer sprake. [Rest of page occupied by two woodcuts.] <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>: +[H]Ier beghint die tafele va<i>n</i> desen boecke dat ghehieten is dat va +(<i>sic</i>) vader boeck. <i>Fol. 4</i><span class="super">b</span>: Hier eyndet die tafef (<i>sic</i>) van den +boecke..... <i>Fol. 5</i><span class="super2">a</span>: [Woodcut of the Annunciation, which is repeated +on the verso of the leaf.] <i>Fol. 6</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Hier beghinnet dat eerste deel +va<i>n</i> desen boecke dat ghenoemet is Vitaspatrum in latijne. <i>Fol. +165</i><span class="super">b</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Hier eyndet dat derde deel va<i>n</i> desen boecke +van den wo<i>n</i>derlijke wercken en<i>de</i> goede exempele<i>n</i> en<i>de</i> goede +leri<i>n</i>ghen der heigher (<i>sic</i>) vadere<i>n</i> so als die heylige leraer +Jeronim<i>us</i> vut de<i>n</i> griecke<i>n</i> in den latine ghetoge<i>n</i> heeft +Ouergheset in goeder v<i>er</i>standelre duytscer spraken om salicheit alre +goeder kersten me<i>n</i>scen. Ghedruct bi mi Peter va<i>n</i> Os In de<i>n</i> iare +ons heren Mcccc <span class='pagenum'>[34]<a name="Page_34" id="Page_34"></a></span> +en<i>de</i> xc. den eersten dach va<i>n</i> den April. +[<span class="smcap">Printer's Device</span>, (shields of Zwolle and of the printer +combined).] <i>Fol. 166, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. A<span class="super">4</span>, a<span class="super">8</span>, b-z<span class="super">6</span>, A<span class="super">4</span>, B-D<span class="super">6</span>, 166 leaves, the last +blank, 6-165 numbered i-clx. 2 columns, 36 lines to the column, +gothic letter. Two- to six-line spaces left for capitals. The first +initial of the title is a ten-line ornamental woodcut D. The two +woodcuts on the title-page are printed from sections cut from the +blocks of the Latin Biblia Pauperum, that on the left (Descent of +the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost) from the central panel of +sign. p., that on the right (Jacob's dream), from the right-hand +panel of the sign. t. Other sections of these blocks were used in +like manner in other books of van Os. In place of blank fol. 5 cut +away, is inserted a full page woodcut of the Annunciation, printed +on both sides of the leaf, on paper unlike any other used in the +book. Campbell 938. Proctor 9135.</p></div> + +<p>Prologue initial on fol. 6<span class="super2">a</span> supplied in blue with pen ornamentation in +red. Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. +Initial-strokes in red. Blank last leaf wanting.</p> + +<p>Bound by Alfred Matthews in three-quarter levant morocco with blind +tooling, gilt edges. Leaf 10<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> × 8 in.</p> + +<p>Peter van Os, of Breda, was actively engaged in printing at Zwolle from +1479 till the end of the century, except for the three years 1481-1484.</p> + +<p>The English translation of the "Vitas Patrum," which was the closing +labor of Caxton's life, was printed in 1495 by Wynken de Worde with this +colophon: "Thus endyth the moost vertuouse hystorye of the deuoute and +right renowned lyues of holy faders lyuynge in deserte, worthy of +remembraunce to all wel dysposed persons which hath be<i>n</i> translated +oute of Frenche into Englisshe by William Caxton of Westmynstre late +deed and fynysshed at the laste daye of hys lyff."</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P24" id="P24"></a>24. HIGDEN, RANULPH. Polychronicon, translated into English by +Trevisa and continued by Caxton. [Westminster]. William Caxton, [1482].</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1, blank.</i> <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Prohemye. [G]Rete thankynges lawde & +honoure we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde <span class='pagenum'>[35]<a name="Page_35" id="Page_35"></a></span>and offre vnto wryters of +hystoryes, whiche gretely haue prouffyted oure mortal lyf, that shewe +vnto the reders and herers by the ensamples of thynges passyd, what +thynge is to be desyred. [Fol. 4-20, alphabetical table; 21, blank; +22-24, dialogue between the Clerke and the Lorde on translation, +Trevisa's epistle to Lord Berkeley; 25, blank.] <i>Fol. 26</i><span class="super2">a</span>: +Prolicionycion. Prefacio prima ad historiam. [A]Fter solempne and wyse +wryters of Arte and of scyence.... <i>Fol. 389</i><span class="super">b</span>: God be thanked of al +his dedes. This translacion is ended on a thursdaye the eyghtenth daye +of Apryll the yere of our lord a thousand thre hondred and .lvij. The +xxxj yere of Kyng Edward the thyrd after the Conquest of Englond, the +yere of my lordes age Syr thomas lord of berkley that made me make this +translacion fyue and thyrtty. [390<span class="super2">a</span>, Caxton's epilogue to Trevisa; +390<span class="super">b</span>, blank.] <i>Fol. 391</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Jncipit Liber vltimus. <i>Fol. 449</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Ended +the second day of Juyll the xxij yere of the regne of kynge Edward the +fourth & of the Incarnacion of oure lord a thousand foure score and +tweyne. Fynysshed per Caxton. <i>Fol. 449</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, 450, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. a-b<span class="super">8</span>, C<span class="super">4</span>, 1-28<span class="super">8</span>, [28*<span class="super">2</span>], 29-48<span class="super">8</span>, 49<span class="super">4</span>, 50<span class="super">8</span>, +52-55<span class="super">8</span>, 450 leaves, of which five (a, 1; 1, 1; 1, 5; 28*,2; 55, 8) +are blank. The folios of sign. 1,2-55,7 are numbered 1-ccccxxviii +(blanks 1, 5 and 28*,2 counted as iv and ccxxvi), with many errors +which are mostly corrected on the following leaves, but in the case +of fol. ccxli on the verso of the same leaf. There is, however, no +clx, and ccccxiii is duplicated, errors which balance each other +and do not disturb the final numeration. The omission of a +signature 51 is accidental, the text continuing without a break. +The purpose of the unsigned single sheet following sign. 28, +consisting of one printed and one blank leaf, was evidently to +carry the last remaining leaf of the fourth book and thereby make +possible a division of the volume at this point into two nearly +equal parts. Advantage has apparently been taken of this division +to bind the Grenville copy (Brit. Mus. IB. 55060) in two volumes. +Wynkyn de Worde, who reprinted the Polychronicon in 1495, followed +in this particular Caxton's example and in order to begin the fifth +book with a new signature left at the end of the fourth book nearly +a whole leaf blank, though he separated the other books by a blank +space of no more than three or four lines. Caxton's use of arabic +figures for signatures was confined to the years 1481-1483; after +that date he used letters only. The first few chapter-headings of +each book have Latin ordinals (Capitulum primum, secundum, etc.) +which <span class='pagenum'>[36]<a name="Page_36" id="Page_36"></a></span> +are soon dropped for arabic figures. Gothic letter, Caxton's +fourth font, forty lines to the page, with headline. Two- to +seven-line spaces left for chapter and book initials, which are +supplied in red. Chapter-headings underlined in red. Blades ii, +172. Ames-Dibdin i, 138. Seymour de Ricci p. 60.</p></div> + +<p>Seventy-two leaves, including the five blanks, are wanting in this copy, +viz.: sign. a-C; 1, <span class="super3">1, 4, 5, 8</span>; 2, +<span class="super3">1, 4, 5</span>; 3, <span class="super3">2</span>; +4, <span class="super3">1</span>; 27, <span class="super3">3</span>; +[28*,<span class="super3">2</span>]; 44, <span class="super3">7</span>; +50-55. The lacking parts comprise the first twenty leaves +(Prohemye and alphabetical index), the last forty leaves (Caxton's +eighth book), and twelve intermediate leaves. Of these the Proheyme is +supplied in facsimile and sign. 4, <span class="super3">1</span> in manuscript. What is possibly an +original impression of Caxton's large device is placed at the end of the +volume. This was used by Caxton only during his last years, 1487-91, and +by Wynkyn de Worde, into whose hands the original block passed, in his +folios for thirty years longer. From one of the latter this may have +been taken, possibly from the Polychronicon of 1495, where the other +side of the leaf it occupied was blank, as is the case here also.</p> + +<p>Trevisa's translation of Higden was completed, according to the best +MSS., in 1387, not in 1357 as stated on fol. 389<span class="super">b</span>. (In 1357 the 18th of +April fell on Tuesday, not Thursday, and Thomas Lord Berkeley was then +in the fifth, not the thirty-fifth year of his age.) Caxton was himself +the translator of twenty-two of the one hundred books which he printed +and it was therefore not strange that Trevisa's English should have been +in his hands, as the proem states, "a lytel embelysshed fro tholde +makyng." In what these embellishments consisted is partially explained +in the epilogue: "Therfore I William Caxton a symple persone haue +endeuoyred me to wryte fyrst ouer all the sayd book of proloconycon, and +somewhat haue chaunged the rude and old Englyssh, that is to wete +certayn wordes, which in these dayes [1482] be neyther usyd ne +understanden". He went however further than this and so changed the +inflections and orthography that the language is no longer of the +four<span class='pagenum'>[37]<a name="Page_37" id="Page_37"></a></span>teenth +but rather of the fifteenth century. But in no other way +could it have been made to harmonize with his proposed continuation, +concerning which he proceeds to say: "and also am auysed to make another +booke after this sayd werke whiche shal be sett here after the same, And +shal haue his chapytres and his table a parte. For I dar not presume to +sette my book ne ioyne hit to his, for dyuerse causes". Accordingly he +begins his "Liber ultimus" with a new signature, preceded by a blank +page. His "table" nevertheless is combined with that of the preceding +seven books in one alphabet. Wynkyn de Worde's edition has a more +elaborate index of ninety pages in which each of the eight books is +indexed in a separate alphabet.</p> + +<p>Apart from the interest attaching to this "Liber ultimus" as the only +original work of any length from Caxton's pen, the Polychronicon is next +to the Golden Legend his largest book, and in the Prohemye they are +grouped together as the "twoo bookes notable" which treat of history. It +happens also, probably because of larger editions printed, that of these +two books many more copies have survived than of any of his other books, +about one-fourth of which are now represented only by single copies. Of +the Polychronicon, Seymour de Ricci's "Census of Caxtons" (1909) +enumerates forty known copies (very few of them entirely complete), +evenly divided between public and private libraries. To this list he +adds, under the heading "Present owners untraced," forty-eight copies +(nos. 41-88) which appeared at sales between 1698 and 1901, some of them +possibly identical with copies already described as "known." In this +second division is found the present copy (no. 79), purchased by the +donor of this collection at the Smets sale, New York, May, 1868, in calf +binding, with the name of the owner "A. A. Smets, Savannah, May 28, 1836" +on the fly-leaf. It was at once sent to Francis Bedford for binding, +with instructions to have the "inlaying, repair<span class='pagenum'>[38]<a name="Page_38" id="Page_38"></a></span>ing etc. done over in +the very best manner, by the best restorer in France or England." Bound +in brown morocco, richly blind-tooled, with Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis and +acorn emblems. Leaf 10<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 7<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in. The Smets fly-leaf and the +original instructions sent to Mr. Bedford with the volume and returned +by him with an added note over his own signature, laid in.</p> + +<p>Other copies of the Polychronicon which have passed through Mr. +Bedford's hands have been bound in the same style, among them the +Menzies copy, sold New York, November, 1876, which de Ricci wrongly +conjectured might be identical with the Smets.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P25" id="P25"></a>25. ORDINARY OF CHRISTIAN MEN. London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1506.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>. <span class="smcap">Title</span>: Thordinary of Crysten men [woodcut below.] +<i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span><i>-4</i><span class="super">b</span><i>, table of contents.</i> <i>Fol. 5</i><span class="super2">a</span> [woodcut above]: Here +begynneth a notable treatyse and ful necessarye to all crysten men for +to knowe & it is named the Ordynary of Crystyens or of crysten men. +<i>Fol. 217</i><span class="super">b</span>: Here endeth the book named the ordynarye of crysten men +newely hystoryed and translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe. +Enprynted in the cyte of London in the Fletestrete in the sygne of y<span class="super2">e</span> +sonne by Wnykyn de worde. y<span class="super2">e</span> yere of our lorde .M.CCCCC.vi. <i>Fol. +218</i><span class="super2">a</span><i>, title repeated over woodcut.</i> <i>Fol. 218</i><span class="super">b</span>, [<span class="smcap">Printer's +Device</span>]</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Sign. Aa<span class="super">4</span>, A<span class="super">6</span>, B<span class="super">4</span>, C-X, AA-NN<span class="super">8, 4 (altern.)</span>, OO<span class="super">6</span>, +PP<span class="super">5</span>+<span class="super">1</span>. 218 leaves, gothic letter, 34 lines (marginal citations +60 lines) to the page, without foliation. Title cut in large +lower-case letters on block 2 × 4 in. Five- and six-line initials +at the head of the larger divisions of the text. Ten woodcuts, one +repeated. The final blank PP. 6 has been replaced by an independent +leaf having on the one side the title repeated with woodcut, and on +the other the printer's device, either of which may in the binding +be made the recto. The device is the first of his so-called +"Sagittarius" forms, and the one most commonly used from 1506 to +1518. Ames-Dibdin, ii, p. 103. Morgan Cat. iii, p. 214, n. 743.</p></div> + +<p>The present copy lacks the first four leaves, containing the title and +the table of contents; but both the title and <span class='pagenum'>[39]<a name="Page_39" id="Page_39"></a></span>the woodcut accompanying +it are repeated elsewhere in the volume, the title on fol. 218<span class="super2">a</span>, the +woodcut on fol. 87<span class="super2">a</span>.</p> + +<p>Of the French original, <i>L'ordinaire des chrestiens</i>, at least six +editions were printed before 1500, the earliest apparently at Rouen, c. +1487. In them it is stated that the writing was commenced 22 May, 1467 +and finished (<i>consommé</i>) 22 May, 1469. The corresponding dates in the +prologue and epilogue of the translation are "fyrst begonne to be +wryten" 14 Jan., 1467, "fyrst consumed" 14 Jan., 1500. The confusion, +common to both the French and the English of the 15th century, in the +derivatives of <i>consummare</i> and <i>consumere</i> relieves the translator, +Andrew Chertsey, from the appearance of an over-literal translation, but +the change in the date of the completed work can hardly be in the +direction of accuracy.</p> + +<p>The woodcuts which appeared in the first edition of the "Ordinary" +printed in 1502 are in this second edition replaced by others of +different design and better execution, borrowed mainly from "The crafte +to lyve well and to dye well", printed by de Worde in 1505 and like the +present work translated by Chertsey from a French original, <i>L'art de +bien vivre et de bien mourir</i>. Two of these illustrations, "Temptation +to Impatience" (fol. 73<span class="super">b</span>) and "Soul leaving the Body" (fol. 218<span class="super2">a</span>), are +copied from the early block-book <i>Ars moriendi</i>.</p> + +<p>Bound by Alfred Matthews in blind-tooled crimson morocco, with inside +gold borders and gilt edges. Leaf 8<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 5<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + +<p>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 +<span class='pagenum'>[40]<a name="Page_40" id="Page_40"></a></span>been made of +his use of Caxton's original device without addition. In all of his own +various devices also, the place of honor in the center is given to +Caxton's initials and cipher, plainly as a mark of loyalty to the +master, not an advertisement of himself as the successor.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P26" id="P26"></a>26. INTRATIONES. London, Richard Pynson, 28 Feb. 1510.</p></div> + +<p><i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Title</span>: INtrationu<i>m</i> excellentissimus liber +perq<i>uam</i> necessarius o<i>mn</i>ibus leg<i>is</i> hominib<i>us</i>: fere in se +continens o<i>mn</i>em medullam diversa<i>rum</i> materia<i>rum</i> ac pl<i>ac</i>ito<i>rum</i> +tam realiu<i>m</i>, personalium, q<i>uam</i> mixt<i>orum</i>. Necno<i>n</i> multorum breuium +tam executionu<i>m</i> q<i>uam</i> aliorum valde vtilium illis hunc librum +inspecturis aut inscrutandis. Que quide<i>m</i> supradicta facilit<i>er</i> +possunt inveniri p<i>er</i> indice<i>m</i> alphabeticu<i>m</i> p<i>er</i>uigila<i>n</i>ti studio +co<i>n</i>fectu<i>m</i> & p<i>er</i> ordine<i>m</i> l<i>itte</i>raru<i>m</i> redactu<i>m</i>... <i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super">b</span>, +[Full page woodcut of the king's arms crowned, supported by a dragon and +a greyhound, with a portcullis on either side and a rose and two angels +above.] <i>Fol. 2</i><span class="super2">a</span>: Intrationu<i>m</i> libri Index Alphabetic<i>us</i>. <i>Fol. +10</i><span class="super">b</span>: Finis tabule Intrationum. <i>Fol. 193</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: +Explicit opus excellentissimu<i>m</i> & perutile in se continens multas +materias o<i>mn</i>ibus leg<i>is</i> ho<i>min</i>ib<i>us</i> p<i>er</i>q<i>uam</i> necessarias nouiter +Impressum, correctum, emendatum, & no<i>n</i> minimo labore reuisum London<i>i</i> +in vico vulgariter nu<i>n</i>cupato Fletstrete in officina ere ac impensis +honesti viri Ricardi Pynson Regis Impressoris moram suam trahentis sub +signo diui Georgii Anno n<i>ost</i>re redemptionis .M.CCCCC.x. Die vero +vltima Mensis Februarii. <i>Fol. 193</i><span class="super">b</span>, [<span class="smcap">Printer's Device.</span>] +<i>Fol. 194, blank.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Sign. Aa<span class="super">6</span>, Bb<span class="super">4</span>, a-z, &, 9, A-E<span class="super">6</span>, F<span class="super">4</span>. 194 leaves, the +last blank, 11-193 numbered i-clxxxv, but with the omission of li +and liv and other irregularities. Gothic letter, 54 lines to the +page, with marginal side-headings. The title, occupying seventeen +lines of bold heavy-faced type, is printed in red and black and in +the form of an inverted triangle. The <i>Index Alphabeticus</i> is +introduced by a ten-line initial A with a rose above and a +portcullis below the middle bar, found also in the same printer's +<span class='pagenum'>[41]<a name="Page_41" id="Page_41"></a></span> +Sarum missal of 1520. The other divisions of the index have mostly +four-line woodcut initials, some of grotesque pattern. Five-line +space with guide-letter for the first initial of the text. +Ornaments of four patterns, repeated singly or in combination, are +used to lengthen out the frequent short end lines of paragraphs in +order to give more solidity to the appearance of the page. Three of +the same ornaments are found also on the title-page of Whitinton's +<i>Vulgaria</i>, printed by W. de Worde in 1521. Ames-Dibdin ii, 441.</p></div> + +<p>In the present copy the index (sign. Aa. 2-6, Bb. 1-4) is separated from +the title (Aa. 1) and placed at the end of the volume. Name of <i>Johēs +Coningesby</i> written in a sixteenth century hand on the first page of +both text and index. The device is the fourth of Pynson's seven devices +and was in use 1496-1513. Allusion is made in the colophon to an earlier +edition, no copy of which appears to be known. The work was reprinted by +Henry Smythe, London, 1546.</p> + +<p>Richard Pynson, a Norman by birth, established himself in London about +1490, taking over, as there is good reason to believe, the business of +Machlinia, a printer of law books, for which his knowledge of +Norman-French especially fitted him. In 1508 he was made Printer to the +King and in that year also he printed two books in roman type, the first +use of that character in England. He is known to have printed at least +371 books, a much smaller number than de Worde, but as a rule larger and +more important books. He is regarded as the best English printer of his +time and the <i>Liber Intrationum</i> is one of his finest books.</p> + +<p>Bound in red velvet, with silk linings and gilt edges. Leaf 12<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × +9<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + +<p>From the Syston Park library, with the book-plate and monogram of Sir +John Henry Thorold.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P27" id="P27"></a>27. PLUTARCHUS. Moralia Graece. Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et Andreæ +soceri, 1509.</p></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: PLVTARCHI OPVSCVLA. LXXXXII. Index Moralium omnium, & +eorum quæ in ipsis tractantur, habetur in hoc quaternione. Numerus autem +Arithmeticus <span class='pagenum'>[42]<a name="Page_42" id="Page_42"></a></span> +remittit lectorem ad semipagina<i>m</i>, ubi tractantur +singula. [Aldine anchor]. <i>P. 1050</i>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: Venetiis, in +ædibus Aldi & Andreæ Asulani Soceri. mense Martio. M. D. IX. [Blank leaf +with anchor on verso.]</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Sign. <span class="lower">*</span>, a-z, &, aa-zz, aaa-sss<span class="super">8</span>, ttt<span class="super">6</span>. 8 unnumbered +preliminary leaves (sign <span class="lower">*</span> not included in register on p. 1050) +containing title, dedicatory epistle of Aldus to Jacopo Antiquario, +index, four couplets of Jerome Aleander, preface of the editor +Demetrius Doukas (all except title and dedication in Greek); 1050 +numbered pages of Greek text, final blank leaf with anchor on +verso. The type is Aldus's fourth Greek font, 46 lines to the page, +five- to eight-line spaces left for initials. The <i>semipagina</i> (the +equivalent of our <i>page</i>) to which the index directs the reader, +shows that <i>pagina</i> still had its older meaning <i>leaf</i>, and +incidentally that the numbering of the page instead of the leaf was +an innovation. The anchor and dolphin device, the symbol of the +motto <i>Festina lente</i>, which first appeared in the Dante of 1502, +is here in its first form, but of the larger size suitable for +folios and enclosed in double lines, on the title-page without +name, but on the last leaf with the addition ALDVS.MA.RO. Although +on the evidence of the chain-lines and the water-mark technically a +quarto, the volume on account of its unusual size was doubtless +printed like a folio on half sheets. Renouard, p. 55. Firmin-Didot, +p. 317.</p></div> + +<p>Plutarch's <i>Moralia</i> belongs to that imposing series of first editions +of the Greek classics which among all the services of Aldus Manutius to +the revival of learning are perhaps his best title to enduring fame. +When he set up his press in 1495 five in all, and but one, Homer, of the +first rank, had been printed. When he died twenty years later his first +editions outnumbered those of all his contemporaries put together, and +the rank was even more significant than the number, for among them were +included Aristotle, Plato, Thucydides, Herodotus, Aristophanes, +Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar and Demosthenes. The Plutarch was printed +from MSS. still preserved in the library of St. Mark.</p> + +<p>The Greek type of Aldus was a new departure, based on the cursive or +business handwriting of his day in distinction from the older book-hand +which had served as the model for the first Greek fonts. It gained +immediate popularity and for more than two hundred years, either +directly or through fonts based upon it, dominated the +<span class='pagenum'>[43]<a name="Page_43" id="Page_43"></a></span> Greek printing +of Europe. At length, mainly because of the ligatures and contractions, +it was supplanted by type of more open and regular forms.</p> + +<p>In 1508 Aldus took as partner his father-in-law, Andrea Torresano +d'Asola, a Venetian printer who in 1480 had taken over the business of +Nicolas Jenson. The imprint which had hitherto been <i>apud Aldum</i> or <i>in +aedibus Aldi</i> now became <i>in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri</i>. After the +death of Aldus in 1515 the press was conducted without change of name by +the surviving partner until his own death in 1529.</p> + +<p>Thick paper copy. Leaf 10<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 7 in. On p. 1050 is written <i>Collegii +Societatis Jesu Embricae 1605</i>.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>As an illustration of the first Greek type of Aldus there is joined to +this collection a finely executed manuscript facsimile on vellum of his +<i>Musaeus</i> of 1495, his second book (preceded by the Grammar of +Lascaris), but the first in which the font appeared in its completed +state. From the Syston Park library. Bound by Bozérian Jeune, in blue +morocco extra.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P28" id="P28"></a>28. SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE. Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et Andreae +soceri, 1514.</p></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: LIBRI DE RE RVSTICA. M. CATONIS LIB. I. M. TERENTII +VARRONIS LIB. III. L. IVNII MODERATI COLVMELLAE LIB. XII. Eiusdem de +arboribus liber separatus ab alijs, quare autem id factum +<span class='pagenum'>[44]<a name="Page_44" id="Page_44"></a></span>fuerit: +ostenditur in epistola ad lectorem. PALLADII LIB. XIIII. De duobus +dierum generibus: simulq<i>ue</i> de umbris, et horis, 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. <i>Fol. 308</i><span class="super2">a</span>: <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: +VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE MAIO M.D.XIIII. [Aldine +anchor on verso].</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Sign. <span class="lower">*</span>, aa, bb<span class="super">8</span>, cc<span class="super">10</span>, a-h<span class="super">8</span>, i<span class="super">4</span>, k-z, A-Q<span class="super">8</span>. 8 +unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title, privilege of Leo X. +countersigned by P. Bembo, papal secretary, preface of the editor, +Fra Giocondo, addressed to Leo X., <i>Aldus lectori</i> (two epistles, +the first relating to the position of the <i>De arboribus</i> of +Columella, an independent treatise, in previous editions inserted +in his <i>De re rustica</i> as liber lii, but here correctly placed +after that work, the second, to the hours of Palladius, varying in +length with the seasons, and the use of the gnomon in determining +them), <i>errata</i>; 26 unnumbered leaves (preceded by a second title +with anchor and mention of the privileges of Alexander VI., Julius +II. and Leo. X.) containing explanations of unfamiliar words and +table of contents, last leaf blank; 308 numbered leaves of text, +Sign. <span class="lower">*</span> is not included in the register on fol. 308<span class="super2">a</span> and being +followed by a second title-page its absence, if accidentally +omitted, might pass unnoticed. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page, +six- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for the initials +of the thirty books, which in the present copy are supplied in gold +and colors. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. +Ruled in red. Renouard, p. 66. Firmin-Didot, p. 370.</p></div> + +<p>The italic type of Aldus, a cursive or semi-cursive roman, the +counterpart of his cursive Greek, was modeled as he himself informs us +on the handwriting of Petrarch <i>a lettra per lettra</i>. It first appeared +in the Vergil of 1501, the first of his octavo series of classics and +only three months later, as was but just, in <i>Le cose volgari</i> of +Petrarch. It had at the outset, corresponding to the Greek ligatures, +many double letters and even groups of three cast on the same body, +which were for the most part eliminated later by Paulus Manutius. +Originally it consisted only of lower-case letters and borrowed the +capitals of the roman font, using for economy of space small +<span class='pagenum'>[45]<a name="Page_45" id="Page_45"></a></span>capitals +which DeVinne points out as the useful invention of Aldus. Aldus was +sensible of the deficiency and the last clause of his will was a request +to his partner, Andrea, to have suitable capitals made by the celebrated +engraver, Giulio Campagnola. It was, however, not until 1558 that they +were finally supplied by Paulus, in connection with a new italic font. +What has now ceased to be anything more than a useful auxiliary type was +by Aldus employed as a text type, a chief recommendation being that it +was more condensed than the roman and enabled him to greatly reduce the +price of his books by making an octavo do the work of a quarto or folio. +In 1501 he printed six, and in 1502 eleven octavos, whereas all his +earlier books, with one unimportant exception, had been of the larger +forms.</p> + +<p>In 1496 the Venetian Senate granted to Aldus protection for his Greek +type and the books printed with it for the period of twenty years, and +in 1502 a like privilege covering both his italic and Greek type for ten +years. A similar grant made by Alexander VI. in 1502 was renewed by +Julius II. in January, 1513, for fifteen years and confirmed by his +successor, Leo X., in December of the same year.</p> + +<p>From the library of Robert Samuel Turner, sold in 1888.</p> + +<p>Bound in red morocco extra, with gold tooling in the Grolier style, +edges gilt over red. Leaf 8<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> × 5<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in. Book-stamp on verso of last +leaf: "Ex libris J.B.P.H. Caqué, D.M. Rem. 1775".</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P29" id="P29"></a>29. <span class="smcap">CICERO, Marcus Tullius.</span> Rhetorica. Venetiis, in ædibus +Aldi et Andreae soceri, 1521.</p></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. Rhetoricorum ad C. +Herennium lib. IIII. M. T. Ciceronis de inuentione lib. II. Eiusdem de +oratore ad Quintum fratrem lib. III. Eiusdem de claris oratori<span class='pagenum'>[46]<a name="Page_46" id="Page_46"></a></span>bus, +q<i>ui</i> dicitur Brutus lib. I. Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum lib. I. Eiusdem +Topica ad Trebatium lib. I. Eiusdem 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<i>u</i>is alius usquam locorum impune imprimat, cautum est. <i>Fol. 245</i><span class="super2">a</span>, +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE +OCTOBRI M.D.XXI. [Blank leaf with anchor on verso].</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. Sign. <span class="lower">*</span>, <span class="lower">**</span>, +a-k<span class="super">8</span>, l<span class="super">4</span>, m-z, A-G<span class="super">8</span>, H<span class="super">10</span>. 16 unnumbered +preliminary leaves, containing preface by Aldus addressed to Andrea +Navagero and alphabetical index (the blank last leaf wanting in +this copy); 245 numbered leaves of text and final blank leaf with +anchor. Sign. <span class="lower">*</span> and <span class="lower">**</span> have eight leaves each, not ten as stated in +the register on p. 245. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page, three- +to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. The +anchor is of the second, somewhat ungraceful, pattern in use +1519-1524, after which there was for some years a return to the +first form. Renouard, p. 93.</p></div> + +<p>Reprinted, with only the addition of the index, from the 1514 edition of +Aldus. In the preface is found the often quoted inscription placed over +the door of Aldus to discourage the idle visitor: <i>Quisquis es: rogat te +Aldus etiam: atque etiam: ut, si quid est, quod a se velis: perpaucis +agas</i>, etc. The edition of 1533, with the imprint <i>in ædibus haeredum +Aldi Manutii Romani & Andreae Asulani Soceri</i> and a short preface by +Paulus Manutius (it was his first book as director of the press) is also +essentially unchanged, but his edition of 1546, in octavo, was +thoroughly revised in text and accompanied by a folio volume of variorum +commentaries.</p> + +<p>Bound by Roger Payne, in blue morocco, gilt edges, with cipher of Sir +Mark Masterman Sykes on back, at whose sale in 1824 it brought +£1.11s.6d. The Syston Park copy with book-plate, and monogram of Sir +John Hayford Thorold. Leaf 8<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> × 5<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[47]<a name="Page_47" id="Page_47"></a></span></p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P30" id="P30"></a>30. <span class="smcap">CELSUS, Aurelius Cornelius.</span> De medicina. <span class="smcap">SERENUS, +Quintus.</span> De medicina. Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et Andreæ soceri, +1528.</p></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. AVRELII CORNELII CELSI +MEDICINAE LIBRI .VIII. QVAM EMENDATISSIMI, GRAECIS ETIAM OMNIBVS +DICTIONIBVS RESTITVTIS. QVINTI SERENI LIBER DE MEDICINA ET IPSE +CASTIGATISS. ACCEDIT INDEX IN CELSVM ET SERENVM SANE QVAM COPIOSVS. +[Aldine anchor] Venetorum decreto, ne quis aliquo in loco Venetæ +ditionis hos libros imprimat, impressosue alibi uendat, cautum est. +<i>Fol. 1</i><span class="super2">a</span>: AVRELII CORNELII CELSI ARTIVM LIBER SEXTVS, IDEM MEDICINAE +LIBER PRIMVS. <i>Fol. 164</i><span class="super2">a</span>: <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, +ET ANDREAE ASVLANI SOCERI MENSE MARTIO. M.D.XXVIII. [Aldine anchor on +verso].</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto. 8 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing title, +dedicatory epistle of the editor, Giovanni Baptista Egnazio, to +Cardinal Hercules Gonzaga and index; 164 numbered leaves of text +(fol. 148 blank). Italic letter, three- to seven-line spaces with +guide-letter left for initials. Renouard, p. 105.</p></div> + +<p>The <i>De Medicina</i> of Celsus is the second and only surviving part of his +Encyclopædia entitled <i>Artes</i>, in five divisions. The first division, +<i>De Agricultura</i>, consisted of five books, so that the sixth book of +<i>Artes</i> was at the same time the first of <i>De Medicina</i>.</p> + +<p>The Syston Park copy, uncut. Bound by Roger Payne in red morocco. Leaf +9 × 5<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P31" id="P31"></a>31. <span class="smcap">CICERO, Marcus Tullius.</span> Epistolæ ad Atticum, ad M. +Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1540.</p></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: M.TVLLII CICERONIS EPISTOLAE ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, +ad Quintu<i>m</i> fratrem, summa diligentia castigatæ, ut in ijs menda, quæ +plurima erant, pau<span class='pagenum'>[48]<a name="Page_48" id="Page_48"></a></span>cissima +jam supersint. PAVLI MANVTII IN EASDEM +EPISTOLAS Scholia, quibus abditi locorum sensus ostenduntur, cum +explicatione castigationum, quæ in his epistolis pene innumerabilis +factæ sunt. [Aldine anchor] PAVLVS MANVTIVS ALDI F. VENETIIS, M.D.XL. +<i>Fol. 344</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: APVD ALDI FILIOS. VENETIIS, M.D.XL. +MENSE AVGVSTO. [Aldine anchor on verso]</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Octavo. 2 preliminary leaves containing title and dedication by +Paulus Manutius to Guillaume Pellicier, Bishop of Montpellier, 331 +numbered leaves of text, 10 unnumbered leaves of translations of +the Greek passages, conjectural emendations which the editor "would +not hesitate to adopt it he should ever find an ancient MS. to +confirm them" and a final leaf with colophon and anchor. The +Scholia, 24 unnumbered leaves, have a separate title, with notice +of copyright granted by Paul III. (the fourth pope to grant this +privilege) and the Venetian senate; colophon and anchor repeated on +last leaf. Italic letter, 30 lines to the page, five-line spaces +with guide-letters left for initials. Renouard, p. 120.</p></div> + +<p>Except for the interval 1533-6 the press was inactive from 1529 to 1540, +on account of dissensions between the heirs of Andrea and Aldus. The +partnership having been dissolved the press was reopened in 1540 by the +sons of Aldus (<i>apud Aldi filios</i>) under the direction of the youngest, +Paulus Manutius (1512-74), who restored and added to its lustre. Of +Cicero, his favorite author, he revised the entire text and printed +repeated editions of some of the works: e.g. of the <i>Epistolae ad +Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem</i> not less than ten, of which +this is the first. The brief scholia he expanded later into full and +valuable commentaries, on the Letters to Atticus in 1547, on the Letters +to Brutus and Quintus in 1557.</p> + +<p>It was Petrarch who in 1345 discovered in a Verona MS. the long lost +Letters to Atticus, Brutus and Quintus and copied them with his own +hand. Both the MS. and Petrarch's copy are lost. But of the MS. another +transcript, procured by Petrarch's friend Salutati in 1389, is preserved +in the Laurentian Library, and of the Petrarch copy we have here a +replica in the type which Aldus characterized as <i>manum mentiens</i>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[49]<a name="Page_49" id="Page_49"></a></span></p> + +<p>From the Syston Park library, with book-plate. Bound by Roger Payne, in +blue morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 6<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> × 4 in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P32" id="P32"></a>32. <span class="smcap">CICERO, Marcus Tullius.</span> Orationes. Venetiis, apud Aldi +filios, 1546.</p></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: M. TVLLII CICERONIS ORATIONVM PARS I. [Aldine anchor] +CORRIGENTE PAVLO MANVTIO, ALDI FILIO. VENETIIS, M.D.XLVI. <i>Fol. 308</i><span class="super2">a</span>, +<span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: VENETIIS, APVD ALDI FILIOS, M.D.XXXXVI.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Octavo. 4 unnumbered preliminary leaves, containing title and +preface of Paulus Manutius addressed to Cardinal Benedetto Accolto, +303 numbered leaves of text and a final leaf with register and +colophon on the recto and anchor on the verso. Italic letter, 30 +lines to the page, five-line spaces with guide-letters left for +initials. Renouard, p. 136.</p></div> + +<p>The second edition of the Orations printed by Paulus, vol. I only (II, +III wanting), on large paper. Renouard (who knew of no complete copy of +the three volumes l.p.) remarks, p. 141, on the too elongated form of +most of the Aldine large paper octavos, in which all the increased space +is at the bottom. In the present copy it is divided between the bottom +and the outer margin, the inner margin and the top having no increase of +width—an arrangement well adapted for marginal annotations and perhaps +designed for that use. An early owner of this copy has in fact added to +the printed title (<i>Orationum Pars I</i>) with a pen the word <i>Commentata</i>, +but proceeded no further with his plan than simply to underscore a +number of words on the first three pages, leaving the margins untouched.</p> + +<p>The most important of the commentaries of Paulus was that on the +Orations, completed not long before his death and printed by his son +Aldus in 1578-9 in three folio volumes.</p> + +<p>From the Syston Park library, with book-plate and the monogram of Sir +J. H. Thorold. Bound in red morocco, gilt edges, with Aldine anchor in +gold on sides. Leaf 8 × 5<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">4</span> in.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[50]<a name="Page_50" id="Page_50"></a></span></p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P33" id="P33"></a>33. <span class="smcap">PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius.</span> Planisphærium. JORDANUS NEMORANUS. +Planisphærium. Venetiis, [apud Paulum Manutium], 1558.</p></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM. IORDANI PLANISPHAERIVM. +FEDERICI COMMANDINI VRBINATIS IN PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM COMMENTARIVS. +In quo uniuersa Scenographices ratio quam breuissime traditur, ac +demonstrationibus confirmatur. [Aldine anchor] VENETIIS, M.D.LVIII.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Quarto (not octavo, as described by Renouard). <i>Part 1.</i> 4 +unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title and dedicatory +preface of Commandino to Cardinal Rainuccio Farnese, 37 numbered +leaves of text (1-25 Ptolemy, 26-37 Jordanus), final blank leaf +with anchor on verso. <i>Part 2.</i> 28 numbered leaves of commentary, +with separate title, anchor both on title and on verso of last +leaf. Text in roman, 25 lines to the page; commentary in italic, 34 +lines to the page. Many woodcut diagrams. Both text and commentary +are introduced by a seven-line woodcut initial belonging to a +mythological series found in other books of Paulus of this period, +C picturing Calypso bidding adieu to Ulysses, I, Juno seated on a +car drawn by peacocks. The original italic font of Aldus, the +so-called <i>Aldino</i> type, which appears to have passed into the +possession of the Torresani relatives at about this date, is here +replaced by a new font having a perceptibly larger face, though +only a slightly larger body (20 lines of the new equalling 21 of +the old) and consequently showing less white between the lines. +Renouard, p. 173.</p></div> + +<p>In 1554 the subscription assumed the new form <i>apud Paulum Manutium Aldi +F.</i>, showing that Paulus had acquired his brothers' rights in the press. +At the same time he returned to the earlier and simpler form of the +anchor with the name <i>Aldus</i>, instead of the <i>Aldi filii</i> and the +ornamental border in use since 1546. Sometimes, as in the present +volume, the subscription is omitted altogether and the anchor with the +name Aldus alone used. Here moreover the place and date appear only on +the title-page and the colophon is dropped as no longer useful.</p> + +<p>The original Greek text of Ptolemy's Planisphere is lost. To the present +Latin translation, made by an unknown hand from the Arabic, is appended +(fol. 25) this subscription: <i>Facta est translatio haec Tolosae Cal. +Iunii</i><span class='pagenum'>[51]<a name="Page_51" id="Page_51"></a></span><i> Anno Domini MCXLIIII</i>. The revival of the study of the Greek +mathematicians in the sixteenth century was largely due to the admirable +translations and commentaries of Federigo Commandino of Urbino +(1509-75). This edition of Ptolemy's Planisphere still remains the best. +In the same year Paulus printed <i>Archimedis Opera nonnulla a Federico +Commandino Vrbinate nuper in latinum conversa et commentariis +illustrata</i>.</p> + +<p>Uncut copy, bound in blue morocco, with vellum fly-leaves. Leaf +8<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">3</span>/<span class="den">4</span> × 6<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> +in. From the Syston Park library with book-plate and monogram of +Sir John Hayford Thorold.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P34" id="P34"></a>34. <span class="smcap">LIVIUS, Titus.</span> Historiarum ab urbe condita libri. +Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis, 1572.</p></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: T.LIVII PATAVINI, Historiarum ab urbe condita, LIBRI. +QVI. EXSTANT XXXV CVM. VNIVERSAE. HISTORIAE. EPITOMIS Caroli Sigonij +Scholia, quibus ijdem libri, atque epitomae partim emendantur, partim +etiam explanantur, Ab Auctore multis in partibus aucta. [Printer's +device] VENETIIS <span style="font-size: 150%">∞</span> DLXXII. In Aedibus Manutianis.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Folio. Part 1. 48 unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title, +preface of Sigonius, <i>Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia ab +Aldo Manutio Paulli F. Aldi N. collecta, Libri primi epitome, Rerum +et vocum apud T. Liuium index copiosissimus</i>; 399 numbered leaves +of text (blank last leaf wanting). Part 2. <i>Caroli Sigonii +Scholia</i>, with separate title and device, 109 numbered leaves and +blank end leaf. Part 3. <i>Caroli Sigonii Livianorum Scholiorum +aliquot Defensiones adversus Glareanum et Robortellum</i>, with +separate title and device, 52 numbered pages. Roman character, +except <i>epitomae</i> i-xlv and <i>index</i> which are in the italic type of +the Ptolemy commentary, and the preface which is a large and +unusual italic, first found in a notice prefixed to the <i>Medici +antiqui</i> of 1547, once as a text type in 1550, afterwards only in +an occasional preface or title-page. Like the smaller italic of +Paulus it is provided with capitals. The large woodcut initials of +the several books belong to the mythological series found in the +Ptolemy but are here much worn. Renouard, p. 215.</p></div> + +<p>Editions of Livy with the Scholia of Sigonius were issued from the +Aldine press in 1555, 1566, 1572 and 1592. This third edition is +distinguished from those which pre<span class='pagenum'>[52]<a name="Page_52" id="Page_52"></a></span>ceded it by some additions to the +Scholia and an appendix in which the editor defends his views on the +chronology of Livy against the attacks of two opponents. But +typographically it is inferior to the second edition as the second was +inferior to the first, which alone was printed under the active +supervision of Paulus. In 1561 he went to Rome to undertake the +direction of a press which Pius IV. was about to establish and died +there in 1574, having made only one brief visit to Venice in the +intervening thirteen years. In his absence the Venice press, when not +inactive or leased, was mainly in the charge of his son, the younger +Aldus (1547-97), who in spite of the promise of his early years failed +both as a scholar and as a printer to sustain the reputation of his +father and grandfather. To the present edition Aldus contributed the +<i>Veterum scriptorum de T. Liuio testimonia</i>, and he is also +unquestionably responsible for the large and strange device which +replaces the simple anchor for which his father had shown so marked a +preference. It consists of the arms granted to Paulus in 1571 by the +Emperor Maximilian II. (in which the Aldine anchor occupies a +subordinate place) surrounded by a border of heavy ornament with the +addition: <i>Ex privilegio Maximiliani II. Imp. Caes. Aug.</i> When his +father's death had made him the head of the press he continued for some +years to employ the same device. For the Livy of 1592, much inferior to +the present edition, and of interest only as showing the decline into +which the Aldine press, and the Italian presses in general, had fallen +at the end of the sixteenth century, he was only indirectly responsible. +He left Venice in 1585 and spent the last years of his life at Rome, as +professor of belles-lettres and joint director of the Vatican press.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P35" id="P35"></a>35. BIBLIA LATINA. Parisiis, Yolande Bonhomme, vidua Thielmanni +Kerver, August 14, 1549.</p></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: Biblia sacra, integru<i>m</i> vtriusq<i>ue</i> testame<i>n</i>ti corpus +co<i>m</i>plecte<i>n</i>s, dilige<i>n</i>ter recognita et eme<i>n</i>data. +<span class='pagenum'>[53]<a name="Page_53" id="Page_53"></a></span> Cu<i>m</i> +concorda<i>n</i>tijs simul et argume<i>n</i>tis: cu<i>m</i>q<i>ue</i> iuris canoni<i>c</i>i +allegationib<i>us</i> passim adnotatis. Insup<i>er</i> i<i>n</i> calce eiusde<i>m</i> annexe +su<i>n</i>t no<i>m</i>i<i>nu</i>m Hebraico<i>rum</i>, Chaldeo<i>rum</i>, atq<i>ue</i> Greco<i>rum</i> +interp<i>re</i>tatio<i>n</i>es. Huic editio<i>n</i>i adiect<i>us</i> e<i>st</i> Index re<i>rum</i> et +sente<i>n</i>tia<i>rum</i> vetr<i>is</i> <i>et</i> noui testame<i>nti</i>. [Printer's device +(shield bearing the initials T. K. suspended from a tree and supported by +two unicorns, with name THIELMAN.KERVER. at foot), both the title and +the device framed in a woodcut border]. <i>Fol. 562</i><span class="super2">a</span>, <span class="smcap">Colophon</span>: +Parisijs, ex officina libraria yola<i>n</i>de bonhomme, Uidue spectabilis +viri Thielmanni Keruer, sub signo vnicornis in vico sancti Jacobi vbi et +venundatur. Absolutum Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo +nono Decimo nono Calendas Septembris. [Printer's device on verso].</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Octavo. Sign. A<span class="super">8</span>, B<span class="super">4</span>, a-z, aa-zz, A-Y<span class="super">8</span>, Z<span class="super">6</span>, aaa-eee<span class="super">8</span>. 602 +leaves, comprising 12 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing +title, <i>Ad divinarum literarum verarumque divitiarum amatores +exhortatio, Librorum ordo, Biblie summarium</i>. Gabriel Bruno's +<i>Tabula alphabetica historiarum</i>; fol. i-cccccxx, text; 30 +unnumbered leaves <i>Index rerum et sententiarum</i>; 40 unnumbered +leaves <i>Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum</i>, etc. Very small +gothic letter, double columns, 58 lines to the column. Six- to +eight-line woodcut initials of the several books, the unicorns of +Kerver's device appearing in that of Gen. i. Le Long-Masch iii, 2, +149.</p></div> + +<p>The octavo Latin Bibles of the Kerver press, fifteen editions of which +appeared between 1508 and 1560, were closely patterned after Froben's +edition, Basel, 1591 (the first Bible printed in octavo form), both as +regards the text, based on the "Fontibus ex Græcis" editions, 1478 ff., +and the introductory and supplementary matter of various origin +accompanying it. The earliest of these supplements, <i>Interpretationes +nominum Hebraicorum</i>, an etymological index of Hebrew proper names, +appeared first in the Bible of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471, and +was reprinted without change in most of the editions previous to 1515. +In the Complutensian Polyglot it underwent revision and the revised form +appears in all the editions of Yolande Bonhomme, with due +acknowl<span class='pagenum'>[54]<a name="Page_54" id="Page_54"></a></span>edgment +to Cardinal Ximenes. The <i>Index rerum et sententiarum</i>, +however, announced in the title as a new addition to this edition (as it +had been also announced in the edition of 1546, not mentioned by Masch +and Copinger, of which this is an exact duplicate) was borrowed from the +Bible of Robert Stephens, Paris, 1534, without acknowledgment, perhaps +in order the better to escape the suspicion of heresy attached to his +work. In Copinger's chronological table of the printed editions of the +Latin Bible during the 15th and 16th centuries (<i>Incunabula Biblica</i>, p. +207) this is no. 339, total number 562.</p> + +<p>The Kerver press was less celebrated for its Bibles than for liturgical +works, and for the books of private devotion (<i>Horae, Heures</i>) of which +Brunet (<i>Manuel</i>, v, col. 1614-27) enumerates no less than fifty-six, +printed by Thielmann, his widow, or his sons, between 1497 and 1571. The +wood-engravings with which they were illustrated were repeated in the +successive editions and occasionally also in the Bibles. Two of these +borrowed cuts are found in the present edition, facing the Old and the +New Testament. The first represents the Expulsion from the Garden, but +the verse printed underneath (Gen. ii. 7) calls for the Creation of +Adam, which in Yolande's editions of 1526 and 1534 is actually present, +while here another engraving has been substituted, but the verse left +standing. Facing the New Testament, under the heading <i>Jesu Christi +secundum carnem genealogia</i>, is a genealogical tree springing from "the +root of Jesse."</p> + +<p>Following the usual alphabetical order of the signatures (A-Z, aaa-eee), +the <i>Index rerum et sententiarum</i> (sign. U-Z) is here placed before the +<i>Interpretationes</i> (sign. aaa-eee). This is contrary to the direction of +the <i>Collectio codicum</i> found on the last leaf of the <i>Index</i> (Z6), +where the order prescribed is A-T, aaa-eee, U-Z, which is further +supported by the colophon and printer's device on Z6. The <i>Index</i> as the +latest supplement was meant to stand at the end of the volume.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[55]<a name="Page_55" id="Page_55"></a></span></p> + +<p>Bound in oak boards covered with stamped leather, brass corners and +bosses, gilt gauffred edges. Around the central boss of the back cover +is stamped the date A.D. 1571, and on the front cover, in corresponding +position and order, the initials F E P L P F.</p> + +<p>From the Osterley Park sale, May, 1885, with the book-plate of Victor +Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey. Leaf 6<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> × 4<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p> + + +<div class="hanging"><p><a name="P36" id="P36"></a>36. PHILO JUDÆUS. De divinis decem oraculis. Lutetiæ, apud Carolum +Stephanum, 1554.</p></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Title</span>: 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.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Octavo. 72 numbered pages, followed by one leaf <i>Ad lectorem</i> and +one blank. Pp. 3-6, dedication by the translator to Charles de +Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, Archbishop of Reims, to whom was also +dedicated the first edition of the works of Philo in Greek, printed +by Turnebus, Paris 1552. Printed on vellum. On p. 7 a beautiful +seven-line engraved initial R. The device is that chosen by the +printer's brother Robert, the olive tree and the motto <i>Noli altum +sapere</i>, without the addition <i>sed time</i>.</p></div> + +<p>Renouard, <i>Annales de l'impr. des Estienne</i>, 2<span class="super2">e</span> 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 <i>N. Tetel</i>, <i>1644 datum Remis</i> and <i>Claude Henry Corrard</i>; on the +cover linings <i>ex Libris Claudii Tetel ad Mussey</i>(?); <i>Ce livre +appartient à m<span class="super">lle</span> Jean Collot</i>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[56]<a name="Page_56" id="Page_56"></a></span></p> + +<p>By an oversight Renouard omitted this volume from his list (p. 271) of +"Editions 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.</p> + +<p>Charles Estienne (1504?-1564), a member of a second remarkable family of +scholar-printers of the sixteenth century, whose history forms so +interesting a parallel to that of Aldus and his descendants, though he +does not rank with his brother Robert, or Robert's son the second Henry, +certainly brought no discredit on the family name. He was educated as a +physician, but when Robert withdrew to Geneva to escape the persecutions +of the Sorbonne, he took charge of the Paris press and conducted it with +ability from 1551 to 1561, printing one hundred volumes and receiving +the appointment of king's printer. Aside from this attractive volume no +vellum copy of his books is known.</p> + +<p>From the Wodhull sale, with the Wodhull arms stamped in gold on the +front cover. Mem. within: "Payne's sale. £3 3s. M. Wodhull, Apr. 14<span class="super">th</span> +1792. Collat & complet." On the last blank leaf is entered the date +"Oct. 17<span class="super">th</span> 1808," a record possibly of a later "visitation." Similar +dates, some years later than the date of purchase are found on the end +leaves of other Wodhull books. Leaf 7 × 4<span style="display:none;"> </span><span class="num">1</span>/<span class="den">2</span> in.</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p>Transcriber's Note:</p> + +<p>The following inconsistencies found in the text have been retained:</p> + +<p>head-line / headline<br /> +Homiliæ / Homiliae (in referring to the same book)<br /> +De Vinne / DeVinne<br /> +Prohemye / Proheyme</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Catalogue of the William Loring +Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATALOGUE OF EARLY BOOKS *** + +***** This file should be named 16844-h.htm or 16844-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16844/ + +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 + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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