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Without Date.]
TERENCE.
407
There are neither numerals, signatui’es, nor catchwords. The type
resembles that. with which the Yalerius Maximus, (vide post,) and the
Virgil, in the Valliere catalogue, (vol. ii. n°. 2433, see also post,) are
executed. The paper is equally connnendable for its colour and sub-
stance. This edition is inserted in the Catalogue ofMr. Edwards, 1794,
n°. 1103, without price.
I cannot conclude this elaborate article without subjoining the
memorandum of the late Bishop of Ely, attached to his own copy of
this ‘ precious’ edition. ‘ Editionis infrequentia notanda est. Prseter
exemplar a Lairio memoratum, quod in Museum illud '7roXudgv\\rjlov
Viri nobilissimi Comitis Sfencer transiit, nullum aliud tunc temporis
cognitum fuisse exinde apparet. Et re vera, mihi plusquam triginta
annos editionum veterum notitiam undique diligenter conquirenti, hicce
liber pretiosus me ante Lairium usque latuit, neque tertium exemplar
in hac regione extare credo. Quod aliis classicorum, ut vocantur,
Auctorurn editionibus in Germania sub initio artis impressis accidit, in
liac abundh conspicitur. Correctorum curas non expertee codices
fideliter exprimunt, et e ipsa ruditate et corruptionibus materiam
hominibus criticis verse lectionis eruendse in qualibet pagina abundb
prsebent. Operse pretium foret poetse suavissimi novam editionem ex
hoc ipso archetypo contexere.’
The present is a clean and large copy of it, in green morocco,
foreign binding. What is very singular, it retains the coeval ms. note
of one Sigismond Meysterlin, the original owner of it: — which
note will be found decyphered in Panzer’s Annal. Typog. vol. iv. p. 224,
n°. 409; as it was transmitted to Panzer by Seemiller, who discovered
this identical copy, bound with the Valerius Maximus printed in the
same character. The note is dated 1470 ; and is written in Latin, in
the secretary Gothic character, with the usual contractions of the age,
in red ink.—It is to this effect: ‘ In the year of our Lord, 1470, I
bought this edition of Terence, at the Noerdlingen Fair, for one florin (orrix
aollar). The impression of Valerius Maximus was a gratuitous addition to
the bargain. It is printed by thefamous Adolfus de Inguilen,* whoseface
I never saw'
* Panzer refers us to Schoepflin’s Vindicitz Typographic<e, p. 99 ; where it seems that
Adolphus liuschius Ingvilanus was a citizen and printer of Strashourg, and married one of
Meptelin’s daughters. Panzer suggests that Henry de Inguiler,who printed at Strashourg
in 1483, was a son of this Adolphus.
TERENCE.
407
There are neither numerals, signatui’es, nor catchwords. The type
resembles that. with which the Yalerius Maximus, (vide post,) and the
Virgil, in the Valliere catalogue, (vol. ii. n°. 2433, see also post,) are
executed. The paper is equally connnendable for its colour and sub-
stance. This edition is inserted in the Catalogue ofMr. Edwards, 1794,
n°. 1103, without price.
I cannot conclude this elaborate article without subjoining the
memorandum of the late Bishop of Ely, attached to his own copy of
this ‘ precious’ edition. ‘ Editionis infrequentia notanda est. Prseter
exemplar a Lairio memoratum, quod in Museum illud '7roXudgv\\rjlov
Viri nobilissimi Comitis Sfencer transiit, nullum aliud tunc temporis
cognitum fuisse exinde apparet. Et re vera, mihi plusquam triginta
annos editionum veterum notitiam undique diligenter conquirenti, hicce
liber pretiosus me ante Lairium usque latuit, neque tertium exemplar
in hac regione extare credo. Quod aliis classicorum, ut vocantur,
Auctorurn editionibus in Germania sub initio artis impressis accidit, in
liac abundh conspicitur. Correctorum curas non expertee codices
fideliter exprimunt, et e ipsa ruditate et corruptionibus materiam
hominibus criticis verse lectionis eruendse in qualibet pagina abundb
prsebent. Operse pretium foret poetse suavissimi novam editionem ex
hoc ipso archetypo contexere.’
The present is a clean and large copy of it, in green morocco,
foreign binding. What is very singular, it retains the coeval ms. note
of one Sigismond Meysterlin, the original owner of it: — which
note will be found decyphered in Panzer’s Annal. Typog. vol. iv. p. 224,
n°. 409; as it was transmitted to Panzer by Seemiller, who discovered
this identical copy, bound with the Valerius Maximus printed in the
same character. The note is dated 1470 ; and is written in Latin, in
the secretary Gothic character, with the usual contractions of the age,
in red ink.—It is to this effect: ‘ In the year of our Lord, 1470, I
bought this edition of Terence, at the Noerdlingen Fair, for one florin (orrix
aollar). The impression of Valerius Maximus was a gratuitous addition to
the bargain. It is printed by thefamous Adolfus de Inguilen,* whoseface
I never saw'
* Panzer refers us to Schoepflin’s Vindicitz Typographic<e, p. 99 ; where it seems that
Adolphus liuschius Ingvilanus was a citizen and printer of Strashourg, and married one of
Meptelin’s daughters. Panzer suggests that Henry de Inguiler,who printed at Strashourg
in 1483, was a son of this Adolphus.