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ANCIENT CLASSICS. [Without Date.
‘ Edition peu consideree des Savans, mais assez recherchee des Curieux,
parcequ’elle est la premifere ’ — is rather circumstantial. Seemiller is
also worth consultation. Incunab. Typog. fasc. iv. p. 153. We may be
brief in our description of it. On the recto of the first leaf, a ii, begins
an interesting ‘proheme’ of Laurentius Valla to Pope Nicolas V. This
proheme fills each side of the leaf. On the recto of the following leaf,
a iii, we read this prefix to the Latin version:
THVCYDIDIS HISTORIARVM PELOPONNENSIVM LIBER PRI
MVS.
There are 42 lines below: a full page contains 45 lines. The signa-
tures, from a to r, run regularly in eights ; (a blank leaf forming a i)
and on the recto of r v, is the following subscription:
THVCYDIDIS ATHENIENSIS HISTORICI GRAVISSIMI LIBER
OCTAVVS ET VLTIMVS:
FINIT.
L A V S D E O
On the reverse of this leaf is the address of Bartholonueus Parthenius
to Francis, ‘ the son of Louis Theonus.’ On the recto of the ensuing
leaf, is the Life of Thucydides by the same Parthenius ‘ ex Mareellino
Graeco;’ ending on the reverse of the same leaf. The recto of the
following leaf is blank; but a register is on the reverse of it, from
which we learn the order of the signatures as before described. The
present is a large and beautiful copy of this well printed book. It is
in russia binding.
486. Tibullus. Supposed to have heen printed
hy Florentius de Argentina. Without Place,
or Date. Quarto.
Morelli has given a particular and animated description of this
splendidly-executed little volume. He considers it to be the first
separate publication of the poet, and justly observes that. its rarity is
equal to its beauty. Bibl. Pinell. vol. ii. p. 383. The printer of it has
been already introduced to the notice of the reader, in an account of an
edition of Rufus Sextus, at page 322 ante. On the reeto of the first
leaf, we read as follows :
ANCIENT CLASSICS. [Without Date.
‘ Edition peu consideree des Savans, mais assez recherchee des Curieux,
parcequ’elle est la premifere ’ — is rather circumstantial. Seemiller is
also worth consultation. Incunab. Typog. fasc. iv. p. 153. We may be
brief in our description of it. On the recto of the first leaf, a ii, begins
an interesting ‘proheme’ of Laurentius Valla to Pope Nicolas V. This
proheme fills each side of the leaf. On the recto of the following leaf,
a iii, we read this prefix to the Latin version:
THVCYDIDIS HISTORIARVM PELOPONNENSIVM LIBER PRI
MVS.
There are 42 lines below: a full page contains 45 lines. The signa-
tures, from a to r, run regularly in eights ; (a blank leaf forming a i)
and on the recto of r v, is the following subscription:
THVCYDIDIS ATHENIENSIS HISTORICI GRAVISSIMI LIBER
OCTAVVS ET VLTIMVS:
FINIT.
L A V S D E O
On the reverse of this leaf is the address of Bartholonueus Parthenius
to Francis, ‘ the son of Louis Theonus.’ On the recto of the ensuing
leaf, is the Life of Thucydides by the same Parthenius ‘ ex Mareellino
Graeco;’ ending on the reverse of the same leaf. The recto of the
following leaf is blank; but a register is on the reverse of it, from
which we learn the order of the signatures as before described. The
present is a large and beautiful copy of this well printed book. It is
in russia binding.
486. Tibullus. Supposed to have heen printed
hy Florentius de Argentina. Without Place,
or Date. Quarto.
Morelli has given a particular and animated description of this
splendidly-executed little volume. He considers it to be the first
separate publication of the poet, and justly observes that. its rarity is
equal to its beauty. Bibl. Pinell. vol. ii. p. 383. The printer of it has
been already introduced to the notice of the reader, in an account of an
edition of Rufus Sextus, at page 322 ante. On the reeto of the first
leaf, we read as follows :