Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Bearb.]: 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]

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ANCIENT CLASSICS. [Vit. C<bs. 1471.

These occupy the first leaf, and conclude orx the recto of the second.
On the reverse of the second is tlxe table, with tliis prefix:

Sequuntur Rubrice librorum per ordinem.

On the recto of the third leaf, at top, it is thus:

C. Suetonii Tranquilli de duodecim
Cesaribus liber. C. Xulii Cesaris uita.

Nnum agens Cesar sextumdecimu Patrem
amisit. Sequentibusq; consulibus Flamen
dialis destinatus dimissa cosutia que familia
equestri sed admodum diues pretextato dL
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.

A full page has 38 lines. The Greek passages are inserted; and on the
reeto of fol. 107 and last, we read the following date beneath 8 verses
of a poetical colophon:

. M. CCCC. LXX.

The titles to the chapters are in small, or lower-case letter. Consult
the authorities in the Introd. to the Classics, vol. ii. p. 238. The pi’esent
copy, with the ornamental eapitals, is a very fine one, in red morocco
binding. That, without such ornaments, is an indiffei’ent one.

453. Suetonius. De Vitis XII. Caesarum.
Printed by lenson. Venice. 1471* Quarto.

Audiffredi and Sardini con’ectly designate this volume as a quarto,
and not a folio—as De Bure has done. The account of the latter is,
it lnust be confessed, equally brief and bari'en. On the recto of the
first leaf, after five commendatory verses of Ausonius, we read as
follows :

CAII SVETONII TRANQVILLI DE VITA. XII.
CAESARVM LIBER PRIMVS DIVVS IVLIVS
CAESAR INCIPIT FOELICITER.

VLIVS CAESAR ANNVM AGENS
sextudecimum patrem amisit : sequentibusq;