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]

SUETONIUS.

Florence; 1478.]

389

A full page has <24 lines. On the reverse of the 15th and last leaf, at
bottom, the text terminates thus :

be causis rppter quas mori destinasset diu
ac more contionantis redditis abstinuit
cibo. FINIS AMEN

The present is rather a soiled copy; in blue morocco binding.

458. Suetonius. De Cearis Grammaticis 8c
Rhetoribus. Printed hy S. J. Pe Ripoli.
Florence. 1478. Quarto.

On the recto of tbe first leaf, the text begins thus :

C. SVETONII . TRANQVILLI .

DE GRAMMATICIS . ET RHE
TORIBVS . CLARIS . LIBER . IN
CIPIT.

g RAMMATICA. ROMAE
ne in usu quidem olim ne du in
honore ullo erat: rudi scilicet ac
Scc. Scc. 8cc.

This commences on what should be sign. a i. The same signature
regularly follows: marked as far as a vii, and concluding the volume
on the reverse of a xiv.—thus :

NIL . AMPLIVS . REPERITVR.

IMPRESSVM FLORENTIAE A
PVD SANCTVM IACOBUM DE
RIPOLI . MCCCCLXXVIII

The present is a beautiful copy, in russia binding. Panzer refers to
the Valliere and Pinelli Catalogues. Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 406.