Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Oth.]: Bibliotheca Spenceriana: or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer (Band 1) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-1]

CICERO.

357

Rome; 1472.]

1792, for 3555 livres ; but I iind no such copy specified in the Cata-
logue of the same books ‘ Faisant suite cl I'lndex Librorum ab Inv. Typog.
&c. p. 37-S. It remains only to add, that the present is a beautiful
and legitimate copy of this fine and rare edition. Bound in blue
morocco.

198. Cicero. Orationes. Printed hy Adam de
Amhergaa. fPomeJ. 1472. Folio

This impression, although only a reprint of the preceding one, is
valued by the curious, as coming from the press of Adam, or Adam de
Ambergau; one and the same printer:—as is sufficiently attested,
from the verses of the eolophon (* Ambergau natus’). It begins
thus, on the recto of the first leaf:

M. T. C. pro magno Pompeio Luculentissima ad
Quirites Oratio fceliciter incipit.

VANQVAM. MIHI. SEMPER
FREQVENS. CONSPECTVS
uester multo iucudissimus: hic autem locus
ad agendum amplissimus: ad dicendu orna/
tissimus est uisus Quirites : tamen hoc aditu
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.

This first page contains 35 lines, but a full one has 37 lines. The
titles to the Orations are printed in small, or lower-case, letter. On
the reverse of fol. 300 (according to ancient ms. numerals) we read
the following colophon:

Hoc ingens Ciceronis opus : causasq; forenses
Quas inter patres dixit 8c in populo
Tu quicunq; leges. Ambergau natus ahenis
Impressit formis. Ecce magister Adam.

. M . C C C C . LXXII.

The learned Audiffredi has devoted a considerable portion of his
account of this impression, to a refutation of the opinion that Adam and
Adam de Ambergau were different printers. In regard to the dis-