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TACITUS.
391
Spira; JVo Date. ]
altitudinem: Argumentum Quomodo magnitudo terrae deprehedenda
sit: De Gnomonica Institutione, & Umbrarum discursu: Quotiens in
leuca rotetur rota.’ On the reverse of this first leaf is the address of
Bartholomaeus Cynischus Amerinus, in 16 lines. On the recto of a 2,
is a poetical address from the same person, and a similar one from
Marcus Antonius Casanova in praise of Symmachus and of his editor
Cynischus. On the reverse are two more poetical addresses. Then an
entire blank leaf. The recto of the ensuing and 4th leaf is blank, and
on the reverse of it is the account of Procopius concerning the author.
On the recto of the 5th leaf, sign. b, commence the Epistles of Sym-
machus. A full page has 25 lines. There are two alphabets of sig-
natures; each running in fours. The first alphabet is entire; the
second extends to dd iiij ; on the recto of which we read this
subscription :
Epistolarurn Symmachi Senatoris Romani
Finis.
The reverse is blank. This is rather an indifferent copy, in calf
binding.
460. Tacitus. Printed hy Vindelin de Spira.
PVithout Date. Folio.
Editio Princeps ; containing only the Six Last Books of the Annals,
and thefirst Five Books of the Histories. Jt has been the common opinion
of bibliographers that this very rare and valuable impression was the
first effort of the press of John de Spira ; but I incline to the opinion
of La Serna Santander, that it is, with greater probability, the earliest
production of the press of Vindelin de Spira—as, in one of the editions
of Cicero’s Familiar Epistles, the former gives us to understand that
such edition was the * primus labor’ of his press: see vol. i. p. 321-2 :
also the Dict. Bihliogr. Choisi, vol. i. p. 177 ; vol. iii. p. 383. There is
another ground upon which such an opinion may be supported. The
manner of working the letter-press is different from that in the volumes
printed by the elder brother, John de Spira; and the characters in
this volume have not that appearance of neatness and freshness which
are observable in the acknowledged productions of J. de Spira. On
the other hand, it is remarked, that the catchwords, in this impression,
are no where repeated in the publications of V. de Spira ; but, for the
391
Spira; JVo Date. ]
altitudinem: Argumentum Quomodo magnitudo terrae deprehedenda
sit: De Gnomonica Institutione, & Umbrarum discursu: Quotiens in
leuca rotetur rota.’ On the reverse of this first leaf is the address of
Bartholomaeus Cynischus Amerinus, in 16 lines. On the recto of a 2,
is a poetical address from the same person, and a similar one from
Marcus Antonius Casanova in praise of Symmachus and of his editor
Cynischus. On the reverse are two more poetical addresses. Then an
entire blank leaf. The recto of the ensuing and 4th leaf is blank, and
on the reverse of it is the account of Procopius concerning the author.
On the recto of the 5th leaf, sign. b, commence the Epistles of Sym-
machus. A full page has 25 lines. There are two alphabets of sig-
natures; each running in fours. The first alphabet is entire; the
second extends to dd iiij ; on the recto of which we read this
subscription :
Epistolarurn Symmachi Senatoris Romani
Finis.
The reverse is blank. This is rather an indifferent copy, in calf
binding.
460. Tacitus. Printed hy Vindelin de Spira.
PVithout Date. Folio.
Editio Princeps ; containing only the Six Last Books of the Annals,
and thefirst Five Books of the Histories. Jt has been the common opinion
of bibliographers that this very rare and valuable impression was the
first effort of the press of John de Spira ; but I incline to the opinion
of La Serna Santander, that it is, with greater probability, the earliest
production of the press of Vindelin de Spira—as, in one of the editions
of Cicero’s Familiar Epistles, the former gives us to understand that
such edition was the * primus labor’ of his press: see vol. i. p. 321-2 :
also the Dict. Bihliogr. Choisi, vol. i. p. 177 ; vol. iii. p. 383. There is
another ground upon which such an opinion may be supported. The
manner of working the letter-press is different from that in the volumes
printed by the elder brother, John de Spira; and the characters in
this volume have not that appearance of neatness and freshness which
are observable in the acknowledged productions of J. de Spira. On
the other hand, it is remarked, that the catchwords, in this impression,
are no where repeated in the publications of V. de Spira ; but, for the