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ANCIENT CLASSICS.
\Venice; 1474.
sition to any collection. There is an account of this impression
in Freytag’s Adpar. Litterar. vol. i. p. 669 ; and in Seemiller’s Incunab.
Typog. Fasc. iv. p. 34. Laire, Index Libror. vol. ii. p. 186, briefly
notices it; and refers, not quite accurately, to the Bibliogr. Instruct.
vol. v. n°. 4940; where the Roman edition appears to have been the
only one seen by De Bure. The present copy is elegantly bound in
russia.
246. Herodotus Latine. Printed hy Iacobus
Bubeus. Venice. 14/4. Folio.
Editio Princeps. On the recto of the first leaf is the commence-
ment of the address of Benedictus Brognolus to Nicolaus Donatus;
having this preflx:
Integerrimo Atq; Optimo Patricio Nicolao Donato Bene>
dictus Brognolus Salutem Plurimam dicit.
This is an interesting preface. The destruction of the Alexandrian
library, is thus slightly noticed at the bottom of the first page : ‘ ea
calamitas semel ptolemaide aecidit uel in omne tempus deflenda ut ad
septingenta millia uoluminum dum a barbaris urbs ea diripitur incensa
fuerint.’ The address or preface terminates at the middle of the recto
of the 4th leaf. On the recto of the 5th leaf commences the first
book of the version of Herodotus, with a title in one line, lower-case.
There are 35 lines to a full page ; and the volume contains 259 (pencii-
numbered) leaves. The colophon at bottom of fol. 259, reverse, is as
follows:
Herodoti Halicarnassei patris historise traductio e gra?co
in latinu habita p uiR' eruditissimu Lauretiu Yalese si-
gularem nostris teporibus ciue romanu sub Nicolao. y.
surao potifice. Venetiis ipressu e hoc opus p Iacobu
Rubeu natione Gallicu. Anno dni. M.cccc.lxxiiii. Ni-
colao Marcello duce Ven.
There is eonsiderable similarity, at first glance, between the types
of this impression and those of Jenson. I suspect, indeed, tliat the
fount of letter, both of capitals and lower-ease, is preeisely the same;
and that the superior skill of Jenson, in working his press, together
ANCIENT CLASSICS.
\Venice; 1474.
sition to any collection. There is an account of this impression
in Freytag’s Adpar. Litterar. vol. i. p. 669 ; and in Seemiller’s Incunab.
Typog. Fasc. iv. p. 34. Laire, Index Libror. vol. ii. p. 186, briefly
notices it; and refers, not quite accurately, to the Bibliogr. Instruct.
vol. v. n°. 4940; where the Roman edition appears to have been the
only one seen by De Bure. The present copy is elegantly bound in
russia.
246. Herodotus Latine. Printed hy Iacobus
Bubeus. Venice. 14/4. Folio.
Editio Princeps. On the recto of the first leaf is the commence-
ment of the address of Benedictus Brognolus to Nicolaus Donatus;
having this preflx:
Integerrimo Atq; Optimo Patricio Nicolao Donato Bene>
dictus Brognolus Salutem Plurimam dicit.
This is an interesting preface. The destruction of the Alexandrian
library, is thus slightly noticed at the bottom of the first page : ‘ ea
calamitas semel ptolemaide aecidit uel in omne tempus deflenda ut ad
septingenta millia uoluminum dum a barbaris urbs ea diripitur incensa
fuerint.’ The address or preface terminates at the middle of the recto
of the 4th leaf. On the recto of the 5th leaf commences the first
book of the version of Herodotus, with a title in one line, lower-case.
There are 35 lines to a full page ; and the volume contains 259 (pencii-
numbered) leaves. The colophon at bottom of fol. 259, reverse, is as
follows:
Herodoti Halicarnassei patris historise traductio e gra?co
in latinu habita p uiR' eruditissimu Lauretiu Yalese si-
gularem nostris teporibus ciue romanu sub Nicolao. y.
surao potifice. Venetiis ipressu e hoc opus p Iacobu
Rubeu natione Gallicu. Anno dni. M.cccc.lxxiiii. Ni-
colao Marcello duce Ven.
There is eonsiderable similarity, at first glance, between the types
of this impression and those of Jenson. I suspect, indeed, tliat the
fount of letter, both of capitals and lower-ease, is preeisely the same;
and that the superior skill of Jenson, in working his press, together