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COLLECTION S. sFlorence ; 1/194.
present noble Owner of it, that its original exterior has been exchanged
for a modern and less appropriate binding. We proceed to a bib-
liographical description of the volume. The recto of the first leaf
is blank. On the reverse, is an account of the contents of the im-
pression; preceded by the Greek alphabet. On the recto of A II,
the text commences thus :
APXIOT. EI2 TOT2 TE22APA2
AmNA^ .
E'^SAPE'S ET^IN ATsiNES A'N’E'AAA'AA. TE't
^APE^ I'POI'.
OT Aro ME'Nj 0NHTX2N. O'l ATO A’A'OA,
NA'THN
&c. &c. &c.
On the recto of the concluding leaf of the Greek text, we read the
epigram of Lascaris, subscribed AA^KA'PEslS. The signatures
extend entirely through the first alphabet, and as far as KK VIII of the
second : uniformly in eights. The Latin epistle of the same scholar,
to Pietro de Medici, follows on the reverse of this leaf; and occupies,
inclusively, 7 leaves; without any signature. On the reverse of this
7th and last leaf, we read the imprint, thus :
Impressvm Florentiaje per Lavrentivm Francisci
de Alopa Venetvm. iii. idvs avgvsti M. CCCC
LXXXXnn:
The reader niust again be reminded that the entire impression is
executed in capital letters. He must also be informed that this
Latin epistle of Lascaris is sometimes missing, and supplied by a
rep; int: — a circumstance which excited so lively an indignation in
Maittaire (‘ verilm non patiar hoc JtsipjAiov diutius, tanquam pro
deperdito, prse magna Exemplarium paucitate haberi, et in omnium,
quotquot sunt doctrinae reconditioris studiosi, manibus non fre-
quentari ’ *) that he reprinted it, line for line, in the first edition of
his Annal. Typog. 1719, p. 270-283 ; but unaccountably omitted the
* Maittaire tlius contiriues : ‘ Apage vilem illam, invidam, et nunquam satis exibilandam
exagitandamque quorundam angustioribus animis hominum (pi\ccv rc\u.vt qui modis omnibus,
quicquid us])iam est pretiosioris litterariae supellectilis, per sordidam et insatiabilem orexiu
corradunt, non tam ut ipsi, quam ut soli, congestis thesauris incubent:’ &c. Ibid.
COLLECTION S. sFlorence ; 1/194.
present noble Owner of it, that its original exterior has been exchanged
for a modern and less appropriate binding. We proceed to a bib-
liographical description of the volume. The recto of the first leaf
is blank. On the reverse, is an account of the contents of the im-
pression; preceded by the Greek alphabet. On the recto of A II,
the text commences thus :
APXIOT. EI2 TOT2 TE22APA2
AmNA^ .
E'^SAPE'S ET^IN ATsiNES A'N’E'AAA'AA. TE't
^APE^ I'POI'.
OT Aro ME'Nj 0NHTX2N. O'l ATO A’A'OA,
NA'THN
&c. &c. &c.
On the recto of the concluding leaf of the Greek text, we read the
epigram of Lascaris, subscribed AA^KA'PEslS. The signatures
extend entirely through the first alphabet, and as far as KK VIII of the
second : uniformly in eights. The Latin epistle of the same scholar,
to Pietro de Medici, follows on the reverse of this leaf; and occupies,
inclusively, 7 leaves; without any signature. On the reverse of this
7th and last leaf, we read the imprint, thus :
Impressvm Florentiaje per Lavrentivm Francisci
de Alopa Venetvm. iii. idvs avgvsti M. CCCC
LXXXXnn:
The reader niust again be reminded that the entire impression is
executed in capital letters. He must also be informed that this
Latin epistle of Lascaris is sometimes missing, and supplied by a
rep; int: — a circumstance which excited so lively an indignation in
Maittaire (‘ verilm non patiar hoc JtsipjAiov diutius, tanquam pro
deperdito, prse magna Exemplarium paucitate haberi, et in omnium,
quotquot sunt doctrinae reconditioris studiosi, manibus non fre-
quentari ’ *) that he reprinted it, line for line, in the first edition of
his Annal. Typog. 1719, p. 270-283 ; but unaccountably omitted the
* Maittaire tlius contiriues : ‘ Apage vilem illam, invidam, et nunquam satis exibilandam
exagitandamque quorundam angustioribus animis hominum (pi\ccv rc\u.vt qui modis omnibus,
quicquid us])iam est pretiosioris litterariae supellectilis, per sordidam et insatiabilem orexiu
corradunt, non tam ut ipsi, quam ut soli, congestis thesauris incubent:’ &c. Ibid.