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[Hallei 1472.]
LUCAN.
143
296. Lucanus. Printed at Halle. 1472. fSpu-
rious Date.j Quarto.
It is rather extraordinary that Count Reviczky, at p. 78-9 of his Bibl.
Gr. et Lat. should apparently have attached some little importance to
an edition like the present; which has, palpably, a spurious date sub-
joined. ‘ Optime monuit (says Panzer) Cl. Martyni-Laguna in
Epistola ad virum incl. C. G. Heyne p. xxxi. cum adsit praefatio
Petri Aeolici, qui anno 1496 Lipsiae publice enarravit Lucani carmen,
in anni numero Raudem vel errorem subesse, legendum forte esse
.M.CCCCC.XXII. Primus, quem ego quidem novi, liber, Halae Saxon.
impressus, est ann. 1520.’ Annal. Typog. vol. iv. p. 9.
We will briefly describe the impression, and subjoin a remark or
two upon its probable date. On the recto of the first leaf, towards
the top, we read the £ Epitauium Lucani’ as at p. 138 ante. The re-
verse is blank. On the recto of the second leaf is the preface of
Eolicus, occupying both sides of it: on the recto of the third the text
of the poet begins thus :
3Hmtei Sitcani Corfciufini
£is $t)ars‘afte Hite primttS*
<6iia g nnatljioS jritts® ciuiiia ca^oS
3[ugg; fciatfi sccicri caninrt: popuifui;
Ctcntcm
There is a wide space between each line, and a full page contains
only 19 verses. The signatures run thus; A to j in sixes : Aa to Nn
in sixes : Nn, eight. On the recto of Nn viij are the concluding verses
of Sulpitius’s complaint on the imperfect conclusion of the Pharsalia:
beneath which we read the date thus:
f alae
Immediately below which, is the device of the printer; being fwo
shields suspended to a bough—on one of them a half moon, star, and
circle—on the other the town of Halle—both the back grounds, black.
I have no hesitation in calling the foregoing a forged date. In the
first place, it is seldom if ever tliat books of this period have a titular
LUCAN.
143
296. Lucanus. Printed at Halle. 1472. fSpu-
rious Date.j Quarto.
It is rather extraordinary that Count Reviczky, at p. 78-9 of his Bibl.
Gr. et Lat. should apparently have attached some little importance to
an edition like the present; which has, palpably, a spurious date sub-
joined. ‘ Optime monuit (says Panzer) Cl. Martyni-Laguna in
Epistola ad virum incl. C. G. Heyne p. xxxi. cum adsit praefatio
Petri Aeolici, qui anno 1496 Lipsiae publice enarravit Lucani carmen,
in anni numero Raudem vel errorem subesse, legendum forte esse
.M.CCCCC.XXII. Primus, quem ego quidem novi, liber, Halae Saxon.
impressus, est ann. 1520.’ Annal. Typog. vol. iv. p. 9.
We will briefly describe the impression, and subjoin a remark or
two upon its probable date. On the recto of the first leaf, towards
the top, we read the £ Epitauium Lucani’ as at p. 138 ante. The re-
verse is blank. On the recto of the second leaf is the preface of
Eolicus, occupying both sides of it: on the recto of the third the text
of the poet begins thus :
3Hmtei Sitcani Corfciufini
£is $t)ars‘afte Hite primttS*
<6iia g nnatljioS jritts® ciuiiia ca^oS
3[ugg; fciatfi sccicri caninrt: popuifui;
Ctcntcm
There is a wide space between each line, and a full page contains
only 19 verses. The signatures run thus; A to j in sixes : Aa to Nn
in sixes : Nn, eight. On the recto of Nn viij are the concluding verses
of Sulpitius’s complaint on the imperfect conclusion of the Pharsalia:
beneath which we read the date thus:
f alae
Immediately below which, is the device of the printer; being fwo
shields suspended to a bough—on one of them a half moon, star, and
circle—on the other the town of Halle—both the back grounds, black.
I have no hesitation in calling the foregoing a forged date. In the
first place, it is seldom if ever tliat books of this period have a titular