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jRome ; 1470.]
SUETOMUS.
381
profiteri, quae quamdiu vetus typographia apud mortales in honoi’e
erit, tamdiu inter praestantiores semper habebuntur?—concludes the
animated and indignant Audiffredi.’ Well might Fossi (acceding fully
to the same opinion) thus commence his description of tbe voluine
before us ; — ‘ Editione hac vix elegantiorem reperies—elegantissimis
chai’acteribus rotundis admodum conspicuis’ &c. Bibl. Magliabech.
vol. ii. col. 624.
On the recto of the first leaf, we read the brief and prefatory letter
of Campanus to Cardinal Piccolomini; in which Campanus observes
that, * he had read Suetonius whcn a boy—but of that, of whieh he
had formerly only tasted, he now enjoys an abundant draught.’ No
notice is taken in it of any existing, or projected, edition. Indeed
this should seem very improbable; since the present one, although
printed in the same Dominical year, was put forth in the sixlh year of
the Papacy of Paul II: and the ensuing one in the seventh year of the
same papacy. The epist.le of Campanus, comprehending only 19 lines,
is printed entire (as Audiffredi observes) in the works of Campanus
edited by Fernus in 1495, fol. xlv. This epistle is immediately suc-
ceeded by a table, referring to the folios in the volume, with the
following prefix:
Sequutur Rubrice librorum p ordinem.
The table concludes on the reverse of the first leaf. The text of the
author commences on the recto of the ensui ng leaf, thus :
Nnum agens Cpsar sextudecimum Patre
amisit. Sequentibusq; consulibus flamendi
alis destinatus dimissa consutia qup familia
equestri sed admodum diues prptextato
disponsata fuerat Corneliam Cinnp quater
consulis filiam duxit uxorem. Ex qua illi
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.
A full page has 35 lines. There are neither signatures, numerals, nor
catchwords. The Greek passages (in character precisely similar to
the fac-simile at p. 307 ante) are regularly printed. The chapters
are uniformly destitute of titles, or heads ; and on the reverse of the
125th and last leaf, we read the eolophon thus :
SUETOMUS.
381
profiteri, quae quamdiu vetus typographia apud mortales in honoi’e
erit, tamdiu inter praestantiores semper habebuntur?—concludes the
animated and indignant Audiffredi.’ Well might Fossi (acceding fully
to the same opinion) thus commence his description of tbe voluine
before us ; — ‘ Editione hac vix elegantiorem reperies—elegantissimis
chai’acteribus rotundis admodum conspicuis’ &c. Bibl. Magliabech.
vol. ii. col. 624.
On the recto of the first leaf, we read the brief and prefatory letter
of Campanus to Cardinal Piccolomini; in which Campanus observes
that, * he had read Suetonius whcn a boy—but of that, of whieh he
had formerly only tasted, he now enjoys an abundant draught.’ No
notice is taken in it of any existing, or projected, edition. Indeed
this should seem very improbable; since the present one, although
printed in the same Dominical year, was put forth in the sixlh year of
the Papacy of Paul II: and the ensuing one in the seventh year of the
same papacy. The epist.le of Campanus, comprehending only 19 lines,
is printed entire (as Audiffredi observes) in the works of Campanus
edited by Fernus in 1495, fol. xlv. This epistle is immediately suc-
ceeded by a table, referring to the folios in the volume, with the
following prefix:
Sequutur Rubrice librorum p ordinem.
The table concludes on the reverse of the first leaf. The text of the
author commences on the recto of the ensui ng leaf, thus :
Nnum agens Cpsar sextudecimum Patre
amisit. Sequentibusq; consulibus flamendi
alis destinatus dimissa consutia qup familia
equestri sed admodum diues prptextato
disponsata fuerat Corneliam Cinnp quater
consulis filiam duxit uxorem. Ex qua illi
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.
A full page has 35 lines. There are neither signatures, numerals, nor
catchwords. The Greek passages (in character precisely similar to
the fac-simile at p. 307 ante) are regularly printed. The chapters
are uniformly destitute of titles, or heads ; and on the reverse of the
125th and last leaf, we read the eolophon thus :