1471, 1472.]

SUETONIUS.

385

consulibus flamendialis destinatus : dimissa
Cossutia quae familia equestri sed admodum
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.

A full page has 32 lines. The text is divided into sections as well as
into chapters; and it terminates on the recto of the 162nd and last
leaf: followed by the verses of Ausonius (as in the preceding edition)
upon the Lives of the Caesars. On the reverse of the same leaf,
beneath the word FINIS, we read this quaint colophon :

H oc eg;o nicoleos gallus cognomine ienson
Impressi: miras quis negSc artis opus ?

A t tibi dum legitur docili suetonius ore :

Artificis nomen fac rogo lector ames.

. M. CCCC. LXXI.

There are blank spaces for the insertion of the Greek passages ; which
may prove that the volume was published before the Tortellius of the
same date. This impression is executed in the usually elegant style
of Jenson’s printing. I remember to have seen a fine copy of it—
* with illuminations, and the heads of the Twelve Csesars beautifully
carved in ivory, and inlaid on red velvet in the interior of the binding’—
which was sold at a public auction, in 1804, for 44l. There is pro-
bably a copy of this interesting volume upon vellum, in some hitherto
unsearched collection. The reader may consult the Edit. Rom. p. 65 ;
Storia Critica di Nicolao Jenson, lib. iii. p. 13; and Introd. to the
Classics, vol. ii. p. 238-9. The present is a large and rather fine copy:
in red-morocco binding.

454. Suetonius. JDe Yitis XII. Caesarum.
Printed hy Sweynheym and Pannartz. Itome.
1472. Folio.

Like Audiffredi, we may be brief in the description of this im-
pression. lt is a complete reprint of its precursor, from the same
press. Like the second Roman Strabo, it seems to have been pub-
lished without the prefatory matter of the preceding edition; as no
copy of it has yet been described which contains the preface of the
vol. n. 3 d