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ANCIENT CLASSICS. \W\thout Date.
possessor of the splendid one from the Pinelli collection : Bibl. Pinell.
vol. ii. n°. 2823. The late Duke de la Valliere possessed a copy of it
upon vkllum ; which was lent him during life, to be returned, on his
death, to the public library at Lyons. The present copy, although
large, is not of equai beauty and condition with the preceding and
succeeding eopies. It is bound in blue morocco.
289. Livius. Decades Tres. Printed by IJlric
Han. JRome. FFithout Date Folio. 2 vols.
The reader has been led to l’equire some reasons for placing this
impression in its present order. These are gathered chiefly from the
intrcductory address of Campanus, the editor; and are presumed to
be satisfactory in favour of the pi’esent arrangement. It will be ob-
served that Campanus talks of erronecus impressions of his author—
or rather of the ignorance and carelessness of printers, as if the work
had been at least once printed. The address begins thus : ‘ CAMPANVS
Cardinali Papiensi meo salutem. Tres T. Liuii decades : tot enim su-
persunt librariorum inscitia magna ex parte deprauatas iussu tuo recepi.
emendandas Almost the whole address (in 35 lines) is devoted to
an abuse of printers—thus, * librariorum cohorti errores’—‘ Nec idem
erunt impressorum futuri errores—Legi poterit iam a nostris Liuii
historia: si qualern ipsi reddidimus tale & impressores cseterique
effinxerint.: &e. It is at least conclusive, from this last sentence, that
the text of the historian had been before erroneously printed—for
Campanus says—‘ Legi poterit iain a nostris Liuii historia:’
Audiffredi is unusually copious upon this edition ; which he places the
first in the list of those printed in the year 1470. The reader will draw
his own conclusion respecting its appearance, or not, subsequently to
the impression of Vindelin de Spira. De Eure has started an opinion
that this present edition may have been printed at two separate times;
on account of the colophonic verses with which the Ist Decad con-
cludes. Tle supposes that the flrst Decad may have been printed in
1469, and the IlSd and IVth Decads in 1470: but, prudently, does
not make the least decision upon the subject. ‘ Sans vouloir rien de-
cider a cet egard, nous rapportons simplement ici le sentiment des uns
et des autres, d’autant plus que celui des derniers ne nous a pas paru
tout-h-fait destitue de probabilite, ayant trouve nous memes differentes
fois dans le commerce, des exemplaires de la premiere Decade separes,
ANCIENT CLASSICS. \W\thout Date.
possessor of the splendid one from the Pinelli collection : Bibl. Pinell.
vol. ii. n°. 2823. The late Duke de la Valliere possessed a copy of it
upon vkllum ; which was lent him during life, to be returned, on his
death, to the public library at Lyons. The present copy, although
large, is not of equai beauty and condition with the preceding and
succeeding eopies. It is bound in blue morocco.
289. Livius. Decades Tres. Printed by IJlric
Han. JRome. FFithout Date Folio. 2 vols.
The reader has been led to l’equire some reasons for placing this
impression in its present order. These are gathered chiefly from the
intrcductory address of Campanus, the editor; and are presumed to
be satisfactory in favour of the pi’esent arrangement. It will be ob-
served that Campanus talks of erronecus impressions of his author—
or rather of the ignorance and carelessness of printers, as if the work
had been at least once printed. The address begins thus : ‘ CAMPANVS
Cardinali Papiensi meo salutem. Tres T. Liuii decades : tot enim su-
persunt librariorum inscitia magna ex parte deprauatas iussu tuo recepi.
emendandas Almost the whole address (in 35 lines) is devoted to
an abuse of printers—thus, * librariorum cohorti errores’—‘ Nec idem
erunt impressorum futuri errores—Legi poterit iam a nostris Liuii
historia: si qualern ipsi reddidimus tale & impressores cseterique
effinxerint.: &e. It is at least conclusive, from this last sentence, that
the text of the historian had been before erroneously printed—for
Campanus says—‘ Legi poterit iain a nostris Liuii historia:’
Audiffredi is unusually copious upon this edition ; which he places the
first in the list of those printed in the year 1470. The reader will draw
his own conclusion respecting its appearance, or not, subsequently to
the impression of Vindelin de Spira. De Eure has started an opinion
that this present edition may have been printed at two separate times;
on account of the colophonic verses with which the Ist Decad con-
cludes. Tle supposes that the flrst Decad may have been printed in
1469, and the IlSd and IVth Decads in 1470: but, prudently, does
not make the least decision upon the subject. ‘ Sans vouloir rien de-
cider a cet egard, nous rapportons simplement ici le sentiment des uns
et des autres, d’autant plus que celui des derniers ne nous a pas paru
tout-h-fait destitue de probabilite, ayant trouve nous memes differentes
fois dans le commerce, des exemplaires de la premiere Decade separes,