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 2) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-2]

RUFUS SEXTUS

321

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sion contains only 12 leaves. On tlie recto of the 12th ancl last, we
read as follows:

Sexti Ruffi : Viri Cousularis* Valentiano
Augusto de historia: Ro : Libellus finit:

SIXTVS. RVESINGER.

The present is a desirable copy, in green morocco binding.

406. Rufus Sextus. TVithout Name of Printer,
Place, or P)ate. Quarto.

Aithough this edition be printed in the same characters with which
the Aurelius Victor (described at p. 269 of the preceding volume,) is
executed, and although, in each work, the type resembles that with
which Sachsel and Golsch printed the Ammianus, and Sabinus in
Juvenalem, of the date of 1474, yet 1 apprehend the present edition
to be diflferent from either of those described by Audiflfredi at p. 387
of the Edit. Rom. On the recto of the first leaf commences the address
of ‘Angelvs. Tiphernas amplissimo dno Baptiste d’ Vrsinis;’ conclud-
ing thus:

cosultu bii existimabo. Tu uale 8c me ama.

On the reverse, at t.op, are the words ANGELVS TIPHERNAS. A
table ensues, on the recto of the second leaf: at bottom of which we
read as follows :

SEXTI RVFI uiri Consularis Valenti
ano Augusto de histora Ro. libellus Incipit

Then succeeds, on the reverse, the text as in the extract from the pre-
eeding impression. On the recto of the 15th and last leaf, we read
this imprint or subscription :

Sexti Rufi. Viri Consularis Valentiano
Augusto deHistoria Ro. Libeli9 Finit:

The reverse is blank. A ms. date of 1470 is gratuitously added in the
present copy; which, although cropt, is a very fair one, and bound
with great neatness and skill, in green morocco.

VOL. XI.

* Sic.

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