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]

388 ANCIENT CLASSICS. [De Gram. %c.

A full page has 24 lines. There are neither numerals, signatures, nor
catchwords. On the recto of the 32nd and last leaf, we read as
follows:

DE REBYS PRAECLARE GE
STIS VIRORYM ILLVSTRIVM
Romanas acies regu que illustria facta.

Si cupis hoc suas fac breue lector opus :

Quod breue sit quauis Igetia podera reru.

Continet 8c ueteru fortia facta uirum.

The reverse is blank. This impression is justly attributed to the Milan
press, and is executed in the same type with which the Solinus, noticed
at p. 362 ante, is printed. A sound copy; in red moroeco binding.

457- Suetonius. De Grammaticis & Rheto-
ribus cearissimis. Without Name of Printer,
Place, or Pate. Quarto.

There can be hardly any question but that the present elegant little
volume came from the press of Jenson. This was the opinion of the
compiler of the Crevenna Collection ; (Bibl. Crevenn. vol. iv. p. 218, n°.
7335,) in which Sardini coincides, and assigna the date ‘verso il 1471’
to the impression. Storia Critica di Nicolao Jenson, lib. iii. p. 20. It
is without signatures, numerals, and catchwords; and commences thus
on the recto of the first leaf:

SVETONII TRANQVILLI DE
GRAMMATICIS ET RETHORI
BVS CLARISSIMIS LIBELLVS
FOELICITER INCIPIT.

Rammatica Romse ne in
usu quidem olim ne du in
g honore ullo erat. rudi. s. ac

bellicosa etiam tu ciuitate.
nec dum magnopere libe^-
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.