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LATIN BIBLES.
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Mentz ; 1462.]
In the Imperial Library tliere is a complete copy, which came frora
the Brera collection, at Milan: there is also a magnificent second.
volume of another copy, which came from the monastery of St.
Brigitte, at Termunda. Tlie Arsenal libraries at Paris, Tours, Mentz,
Cassel, Saxe-Gotha, and Wurtzburg, each possess a copy. At Nancy,
Mons. d’Ourches has a copy, which belonged to the 4 Chartreux’ at
Buxheim. Meerman’s copy had been formerly Dr. Meaa’s; and liad
previously belonged to the monastery of St. James at Mentz.
This copy was seen by Palmer, and is noticed by him (together with
another copy, upon vellum, at a Mr. Woodman’s, bookseller) in his
General Hist. of Printing; 1733, 4to. p. 7S. The Bodleian copy,
in 4 vols., has acknowledged a variety of possessors ; viz. tliePresident
A. de Harlay, the Duke de la Valliere, Gerardot de Prefond, Count
M eCarthy, the elder De Bure, and Crevenna. His Majesty, and Mr.
Willet of Merly, have also copies ; and another is in the library of the
late Bishop of Ely. The last which I am enabled to mention (from
Lambinet) is at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal.
It is not known what has become of the copies of the Marquis of
Menard, Pelau and Mansart, the Marquis of Westerloo, Prosper Mar-
chand (who procured his from the * Trinitaires de Cologne ’), Count
Wassenaer, Schwarz (who had only the first volume), Jardel (who
hadthe second only), Maugerad,* Pinelli, and Kuypers the bookseller;
which latter copy Lambinet saw a long time at Louvain, and for which
the owner asked an hundred louis,
The reader may be surprised at the number of known copies of this
extraordinary work, considering tlie fate of the city which gave birth
to it, towards the latter end of the same year in which it Avas printed.
Trithemius has vividly described the sacking of Mentz in liis Comment.
de reb. gest. Fricl. Palat. Elect. 1602, 4to. edit. Freher: as it appeara
University of Paris, acknowledge to have sold to the illustrious and learned Master
Williara of Tourneville, archbishop and canon of Angiers, my most respectable lord and
master, a BIBLE AT MENTZ, printed upon vellum, in two columns, for the price and
sum of forty crowns, which I have absolutely received. Which sale I ratify by these
presents, promising to abide by the same, and guaranteeing my Lord, purchaser of the
said Bible, against every one who would dispossess him. In ratification of which I have
hereunto affixed my seal, this 5th day of the month of April, in the year of our Lord
M.CCCC.LXX. Herman/ See Meermanni Orig. Typog. vol, i. p. 7 : quoted and cor-
rected by Lambinet.
* This copy was sold at a sale in Paris in the year 1792, for 1801 livres: it was after-
wards resold to a Portuguese bookseller for 2400 livres.
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VOL. X.
17
Mentz ; 1462.]
In the Imperial Library tliere is a complete copy, which came frora
the Brera collection, at Milan: there is also a magnificent second.
volume of another copy, which came from the monastery of St.
Brigitte, at Termunda. Tlie Arsenal libraries at Paris, Tours, Mentz,
Cassel, Saxe-Gotha, and Wurtzburg, each possess a copy. At Nancy,
Mons. d’Ourches has a copy, which belonged to the 4 Chartreux’ at
Buxheim. Meerman’s copy had been formerly Dr. Meaa’s; and liad
previously belonged to the monastery of St. James at Mentz.
This copy was seen by Palmer, and is noticed by him (together with
another copy, upon vellum, at a Mr. Woodman’s, bookseller) in his
General Hist. of Printing; 1733, 4to. p. 7S. The Bodleian copy,
in 4 vols., has acknowledged a variety of possessors ; viz. tliePresident
A. de Harlay, the Duke de la Valliere, Gerardot de Prefond, Count
M eCarthy, the elder De Bure, and Crevenna. His Majesty, and Mr.
Willet of Merly, have also copies ; and another is in the library of the
late Bishop of Ely. The last which I am enabled to mention (from
Lambinet) is at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal.
It is not known what has become of the copies of the Marquis of
Menard, Pelau and Mansart, the Marquis of Westerloo, Prosper Mar-
chand (who procured his from the * Trinitaires de Cologne ’), Count
Wassenaer, Schwarz (who had only the first volume), Jardel (who
hadthe second only), Maugerad,* Pinelli, and Kuypers the bookseller;
which latter copy Lambinet saw a long time at Louvain, and for which
the owner asked an hundred louis,
The reader may be surprised at the number of known copies of this
extraordinary work, considering tlie fate of the city which gave birth
to it, towards the latter end of the same year in which it Avas printed.
Trithemius has vividly described the sacking of Mentz in liis Comment.
de reb. gest. Fricl. Palat. Elect. 1602, 4to. edit. Freher: as it appeara
University of Paris, acknowledge to have sold to the illustrious and learned Master
Williara of Tourneville, archbishop and canon of Angiers, my most respectable lord and
master, a BIBLE AT MENTZ, printed upon vellum, in two columns, for the price and
sum of forty crowns, which I have absolutely received. Which sale I ratify by these
presents, promising to abide by the same, and guaranteeing my Lord, purchaser of the
said Bible, against every one who would dispossess him. In ratification of which I have
hereunto affixed my seal, this 5th day of the month of April, in the year of our Lord
M.CCCC.LXX. Herman/ See Meermanni Orig. Typog. vol, i. p. 7 : quoted and cor-
rected by Lambinet.
* This copy was sold at a sale in Paris in the year 1792, for 1801 livres: it was after-
wards resold to a Portuguese bookseller for 2400 livres.
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