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THEOLOGY. [Fustj Mentzj 1462.
extracted in Schelhorn’s Amoenitates Literarice; vol. vii. p. 287-8.
Schelhorn justly remarks upon the fatal effects of this plunder, in the
total cessation of the Mentz press from tlie year 146‘2 to 1465 ; for,
says he, ‘ it cannot be supposed that so slender a work as ‘ Cicero’s
Offices,’ printed in tliis latter year, and the only one that exhibits
the earliest subsequent date to that of 1462, could have exercised the
press of Fust and Schoeffer, for the wliole intervening period ?’ Ibid,
p. 287.*
After so copious an enumeration of vellum and paper copies, it only
remains to refer the reader to Bibl. Hohendorf, n°. 1. 1720, 8vo; Bibl.
Menars, n°. 1.; Bibl. Colbert, vol. 1. n°. 40; Bibl. Iloym, n D. 45; Bibl.
Boze, n°. 19; Bibl. Smith; p. lii ; Bibl. Lauragais, p. 2. n°. 5; Bibl. Cre-
venn.f vol. 1. n°. 67, edit. 1789; Bibl. Soubise, n°. 80; Bibl. Pinell. n°.
5035 ; Bibl. Lamoignon, A rol. i. n°. 48; exclusively of the collections
referred to in the preceding pages. It may be worth remarking that
the vellum copies in Baron Hohendorf s and Count Hoym’s colleetions,
are not referred to by Lambinet; but tlie latter is noticed by Osmont,
in his Dict. Typograph. vol. i. p. 101. The copy upon paper, in the
collection of J. J. Charron, Marquis of Menars (A. D. 1720), is de-
scribed, in the catalogue, in large letters, as a very beautiful one, and
to be sold immediately after the sale of the MSS. in theology. Lam-
binet informs us that some of the sacred books in this impression,
together with St. Jerom’s prefaces or prologues, are either omitted,
or placed in a different order, in the famous Bible of Sixtus V. and
Clement VIII. It is hardly necessary to refer the reader to the just
eulogiums of Fournier upon the typographical beauty and exactness
of this splendid work: Orig. de VLnpr. p. 112. Fischer calls the types,
‘ semigothic and very beautiful.’ Essai sur les monumens typog. de
Gutenburg; p. 91.
* But Schelhorn had forgotten, or was ignorant of, the SEXTUS DECRETALIUM of
1465, folio. Whoever looks into Wurdtwein, Bibl. Mogunt. p. 84, will find an interest-
ing notice of the fate of Fust in the year 1464.
•f* The above was a vellum copy, which was sold for 1460 fiorins. A perfect copy,
upon paper, was sold at the sale of Crevenna’s books at Amsterdam, in 1790, for 3139
livres.
THEOLOGY. [Fustj Mentzj 1462.
extracted in Schelhorn’s Amoenitates Literarice; vol. vii. p. 287-8.
Schelhorn justly remarks upon the fatal effects of this plunder, in the
total cessation of the Mentz press from tlie year 146‘2 to 1465 ; for,
says he, ‘ it cannot be supposed that so slender a work as ‘ Cicero’s
Offices,’ printed in tliis latter year, and the only one that exhibits
the earliest subsequent date to that of 1462, could have exercised the
press of Fust and Schoeffer, for the wliole intervening period ?’ Ibid,
p. 287.*
After so copious an enumeration of vellum and paper copies, it only
remains to refer the reader to Bibl. Hohendorf, n°. 1. 1720, 8vo; Bibl.
Menars, n°. 1.; Bibl. Colbert, vol. 1. n°. 40; Bibl. Iloym, n D. 45; Bibl.
Boze, n°. 19; Bibl. Smith; p. lii ; Bibl. Lauragais, p. 2. n°. 5; Bibl. Cre-
venn.f vol. 1. n°. 67, edit. 1789; Bibl. Soubise, n°. 80; Bibl. Pinell. n°.
5035 ; Bibl. Lamoignon, A rol. i. n°. 48; exclusively of the collections
referred to in the preceding pages. It may be worth remarking that
the vellum copies in Baron Hohendorf s and Count Hoym’s colleetions,
are not referred to by Lambinet; but tlie latter is noticed by Osmont,
in his Dict. Typograph. vol. i. p. 101. The copy upon paper, in the
collection of J. J. Charron, Marquis of Menars (A. D. 1720), is de-
scribed, in the catalogue, in large letters, as a very beautiful one, and
to be sold immediately after the sale of the MSS. in theology. Lam-
binet informs us that some of the sacred books in this impression,
together with St. Jerom’s prefaces or prologues, are either omitted,
or placed in a different order, in the famous Bible of Sixtus V. and
Clement VIII. It is hardly necessary to refer the reader to the just
eulogiums of Fournier upon the typographical beauty and exactness
of this splendid work: Orig. de VLnpr. p. 112. Fischer calls the types,
‘ semigothic and very beautiful.’ Essai sur les monumens typog. de
Gutenburg; p. 91.
* But Schelhorn had forgotten, or was ignorant of, the SEXTUS DECRETALIUM of
1465, folio. Whoever looks into Wurdtwein, Bibl. Mogunt. p. 84, will find an interest-
ing notice of the fate of Fust in the year 1464.
•f* The above was a vellum copy, which was sold for 1460 fiorins. A perfect copy,
upon paper, was sold at the sale of Crevenna’s books at Amsterdam, in 1790, for 3139
livres.