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THEOLOGY.
[PJister; 1460.
Damasus concerning' the Four Gospels. The first five lines are indented,
to make room for the (illuminated) letter B. It ends on the reverse
of the last leaf, at top of the second column, with,
SDicit, q tcgtv
monium iotonum <t£tU
am. ^enio eito amcn. tEleni tio^
minc it|c£u* 45racia txomini no^
’Stri ifieou cri^ti cutn omniii$ uo^
Iti^ amen.
This copy is perfect at the commencement and conclusion of each
volume, but it wants the Prophets and tlie Libri Hagiographi. A perfect
copy, according to Masch, contains 264 leaves in the first volume,
310 in the second, and296 in the third: 870leaves in the whole work.
There are neither running titles, numerals, signatures, catchwords,
nor capital initials: nor are the chapters distinguished by any liead-
title. A full page contains 36 lines. The water-mark is too much
overpowered by the text to be distinctly deciphered; but the paper
is of a very excellent. manufacture : being firm, delicate, and of a
soft and creamy tint. In regard to the readings of tlie text, Masch
tells us that they frequently vary from tliose of the Mentz impression of
1462. He exhibits numerous specimens of these variations ; in which,
however, Schelhorn has been more copious. He conceives that the
types are cut, in wood, from their comparative rudcness, and differing
from each other: but this may be questionable. In the copy now
under consideration, the beginning of each volume is printed much
better than the conclusion ; although the second volume is pretty uni-
formly executed throughout. The workmen probably became more
careless towards the conclusion, which may account for the disparity.
A copy of fhis Bible is in the Brunswick Library ; another is in that
of the University of Jena ; Schelhorn had an imperfect one, and Pan-
zer’s concluded with the Psalter; which had been transposed. A frag-
ment of it is in the Leipsic Library. That in the Gaignat, collection,
which was upon vejllum, was sold for 2100 livres : a price greatly
beneath its value; occasioned, perhaps, from the artiele being so super-
ficially described. See Cat. de Gaignat: vol. i. n°. 16. It is now in
Count M‘Carthy’s collection. His Majesty is in possession of a perfect
paper copy.
THEOLOGY.
[PJister; 1460.
Damasus concerning' the Four Gospels. The first five lines are indented,
to make room for the (illuminated) letter B. It ends on the reverse
of the last leaf, at top of the second column, with,
SDicit, q tcgtv
monium iotonum <t£tU
am. ^enio eito amcn. tEleni tio^
minc it|c£u* 45racia txomini no^
’Stri ifieou cri^ti cutn omniii$ uo^
Iti^ amen.
This copy is perfect at the commencement and conclusion of each
volume, but it wants the Prophets and tlie Libri Hagiographi. A perfect
copy, according to Masch, contains 264 leaves in the first volume,
310 in the second, and296 in the third: 870leaves in the whole work.
There are neither running titles, numerals, signatures, catchwords,
nor capital initials: nor are the chapters distinguished by any liead-
title. A full page contains 36 lines. The water-mark is too much
overpowered by the text to be distinctly deciphered; but the paper
is of a very excellent. manufacture : being firm, delicate, and of a
soft and creamy tint. In regard to the readings of tlie text, Masch
tells us that they frequently vary from tliose of the Mentz impression of
1462. He exhibits numerous specimens of these variations ; in which,
however, Schelhorn has been more copious. He conceives that the
types are cut, in wood, from their comparative rudcness, and differing
from each other: but this may be questionable. In the copy now
under consideration, the beginning of each volume is printed much
better than the conclusion ; although the second volume is pretty uni-
formly executed throughout. The workmen probably became more
careless towards the conclusion, which may account for the disparity.
A copy of fhis Bible is in the Brunswick Library ; another is in that
of the University of Jena ; Schelhorn had an imperfect one, and Pan-
zer’s concluded with the Psalter; which had been transposed. A frag-
ment of it is in the Leipsic Library. That in the Gaignat, collection,
which was upon vejllum, was sold for 2100 livres : a price greatly
beneath its value; occasioned, perhaps, from the artiele being so super-
ficially described. See Cat. de Gaignat: vol. i. n°. 16. It is now in
Count M‘Carthy’s collection. His Majesty is in possession of a perfect
paper copy.