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ANCIENT CLASSICS.
[JVithout JDate.
regard to a supposed earlier edition tlian the present one, noticed by
Ernesti as being in the Senate Library at Leipsic—‘ octonis facta, sine
tit.ulo, auctoris et libri nomine, sine praefatione, sine loci et anni nota,
et, in fine “ Pomponii Mellae Cosmographiae liber explicit”—the reader
will presently observe, that this supposed earlier impression is no
other than the one here next descrihed; and that, as containing sig-
natures, it must almost necessarily have been printed subsequently to
the year 1472. Ernesti thought it executed ‘ in prir.cipiis artis typo-
graphicae:’ see his Fabric. Bibl. Lat. vol. ii. p. 76. The impression
under description has neither signatures, numerals, nor catchwords.
Saxius, in his Hist. Lit. Typog. Mediol. p. dlix. note g, has briefly but
well described it; although it may be doubtful whether the printer of
itwas Zarotus, as he intimates—‘cum per illud tempus Mediolanensem
Typographiam solus ipse exerceret.’ Yet the types of it have some
resemblance to those of the Horace of 1474, vide p. 71 ante,) and of
the Quintilian of 1476: vide post. It remains only to add, that the
present is rather a cropt, but desirable, copy of this neatly executed
and uncommon impression. It is bound in red morocco.
383. Pomponius Mela. Without Date, Place,
or Name of Printer. Quarto.
This is the impression which Ernesti considered to be ‘ a very early
specimen of the Italian press.’ I eonclude it to be the same edition as
the one described by him, from the exact conformity of the colophon
with that which he has specified. We may be brief, but particular, in
the present description of it. On the reeto of the first leaf, it is thus :
RBIS SITVM DICERE ag,
gredior impeditu opus 8c fa,
cundim minime capax. Costat
8ec. 8cc. 8cc.
A full page contains 22 lines. The signatures run in the following
order : a lias 7, and the rest, as far as h, have 8 leaves : on the reverse
of h iiij we read the colophon as given by Ernesti:
Pomponii Meilae Cosmographim liber
explicit.
ANCIENT CLASSICS.
[JVithout JDate.
regard to a supposed earlier edition tlian the present one, noticed by
Ernesti as being in the Senate Library at Leipsic—‘ octonis facta, sine
tit.ulo, auctoris et libri nomine, sine praefatione, sine loci et anni nota,
et, in fine “ Pomponii Mellae Cosmographiae liber explicit”—the reader
will presently observe, that this supposed earlier impression is no
other than the one here next descrihed; and that, as containing sig-
natures, it must almost necessarily have been printed subsequently to
the year 1472. Ernesti thought it executed ‘ in prir.cipiis artis typo-
graphicae:’ see his Fabric. Bibl. Lat. vol. ii. p. 76. The impression
under description has neither signatures, numerals, nor catchwords.
Saxius, in his Hist. Lit. Typog. Mediol. p. dlix. note g, has briefly but
well described it; although it may be doubtful whether the printer of
itwas Zarotus, as he intimates—‘cum per illud tempus Mediolanensem
Typographiam solus ipse exerceret.’ Yet the types of it have some
resemblance to those of the Horace of 1474, vide p. 71 ante,) and of
the Quintilian of 1476: vide post. It remains only to add, that the
present is rather a cropt, but desirable, copy of this neatly executed
and uncommon impression. It is bound in red morocco.
383. Pomponius Mela. Without Date, Place,
or Name of Printer. Quarto.
This is the impression which Ernesti considered to be ‘ a very early
specimen of the Italian press.’ I eonclude it to be the same edition as
the one described by him, from the exact conformity of the colophon
with that which he has specified. We may be brief, but particular, in
the present description of it. On the reeto of the first leaf, it is thus :
RBIS SITVM DICERE ag,
gredior impeditu opus 8c fa,
cundim minime capax. Costat
8ec. 8cc. 8cc.
A full page contains 22 lines. The signatures run in the following
order : a lias 7, and the rest, as far as h, have 8 leaves : on the reverse
of h iiij we read the colophon as given by Ernesti:
Pomponii Meilae Cosmographim liber
explicit.