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Florence; 1494.] GREEK ANTHOLOGY.
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reimpression in his second edition of the same volume:—for which he
has been severely criticised by Seiz, in his Ann. Scec. Tert. Art. Typog.
1741, 8vo. p, 11. For want of seeing- this epistle (which, as the reader
may have already remai'ked, has the preceding date subjoined,) bibliogra-
phers have mentioned an edition of the Anthology, printed in like man-
ner, without date or place ; whicli is no other than a mutilated copy
of tlie present edition. Seemiller notices three copies with such defi-
ciency ; andall the vellum copies seen by De Bure appear to have been
equally defective. Incunab. Typog. Fasc. iv. p. 54; Bibliogr. Instruct.
vol. iii. p. 200. Clement, although he mentions a fine and perfect copy
ofit upont vellum, in the Royal libraryat Paris, has deseribed it ‘ sans
lieu ni date,’* in the text of his Bibl. Curieuse, vol. i. p. 361. The
same bibliographer needed not, for one moment, have countenanced
the supposition that there was a Florentine impression of the date of
1488—aecording to the intimation of the Bibl. Marckiana, pt. i. p. 111,
1727, Svo.
There does not appear to have been any vellum copy of this Editio
Princeps, in the Harleian or Mead Collections ; but Dr. Askew had
a similar copy, which was purchased at his sale by Dr. Hunter for
281. 7s. and is now in the Hunter Museum at Glasgow. The Duke
de la Valliere’s vellum copy was returned, upon his death, to the
monastery of St. Genevieve, by order of the Duchess de Chastillon:
it having been lent him only during life. Cat. de la Valliere, vol. ii.
n°. 2353. The Gaignat and Lomenie copies were upon paper; the
former having the reprint of the epistle. Cat. de Gaignat. vol. i.
n°. 1520; Index Libror. vol. ii. p. 193-4. In tlie copy of it, upon
vellum, which was in the Soubise Collection, some ignorant scribe
had effaced the word * Impressum ’ and substituted ‘ Scriptum.’
Cat. de Soubise, p. 325, n°. 4713. A very beautiful vellum copy of
it is in the Craeherode Collection, in the British Museum; of which
the ancient binding is in perfect taste. The condition of the present
very splendid and desirable copy has been before described.
It remains to observe, that this interesting Collection of fugitive
pieces of ancient Greek poetry, was compiled by Maximus Pla-
nudes,^ a monk and professor of rhetoric at Constantinople, in
* Even De Thou’s copy (according to Renouard’s Catalogue Des Livres d'Assortiment,
1813, no.180) had the reimpression of the Epistle of Lascaris.
t Consult the various authorities referred to by Saxius, in his Onomast. Literar. vol. ii.
p. 354-5; and Ilarles’s Fabric. Bibl. Grcec. vol. iv. p. 429.
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reimpression in his second edition of the same volume:—for which he
has been severely criticised by Seiz, in his Ann. Scec. Tert. Art. Typog.
1741, 8vo. p, 11. For want of seeing- this epistle (which, as the reader
may have already remai'ked, has the preceding date subjoined,) bibliogra-
phers have mentioned an edition of the Anthology, printed in like man-
ner, without date or place ; whicli is no other than a mutilated copy
of tlie present edition. Seemiller notices three copies with such defi-
ciency ; andall the vellum copies seen by De Bure appear to have been
equally defective. Incunab. Typog. Fasc. iv. p. 54; Bibliogr. Instruct.
vol. iii. p. 200. Clement, although he mentions a fine and perfect copy
ofit upont vellum, in the Royal libraryat Paris, has deseribed it ‘ sans
lieu ni date,’* in the text of his Bibl. Curieuse, vol. i. p. 361. The
same bibliographer needed not, for one moment, have countenanced
the supposition that there was a Florentine impression of the date of
1488—aecording to the intimation of the Bibl. Marckiana, pt. i. p. 111,
1727, Svo.
There does not appear to have been any vellum copy of this Editio
Princeps, in the Harleian or Mead Collections ; but Dr. Askew had
a similar copy, which was purchased at his sale by Dr. Hunter for
281. 7s. and is now in the Hunter Museum at Glasgow. The Duke
de la Valliere’s vellum copy was returned, upon his death, to the
monastery of St. Genevieve, by order of the Duchess de Chastillon:
it having been lent him only during life. Cat. de la Valliere, vol. ii.
n°. 2353. The Gaignat and Lomenie copies were upon paper; the
former having the reprint of the epistle. Cat. de Gaignat. vol. i.
n°. 1520; Index Libror. vol. ii. p. 193-4. In tlie copy of it, upon
vellum, which was in the Soubise Collection, some ignorant scribe
had effaced the word * Impressum ’ and substituted ‘ Scriptum.’
Cat. de Soubise, p. 325, n°. 4713. A very beautiful vellum copy of
it is in the Craeherode Collection, in the British Museum; of which
the ancient binding is in perfect taste. The condition of the present
very splendid and desirable copy has been before described.
It remains to observe, that this interesting Collection of fugitive
pieces of ancient Greek poetry, was compiled by Maximus Pla-
nudes,^ a monk and professor of rhetoric at Constantinople, in
* Even De Thou’s copy (according to Renouard’s Catalogue Des Livres d'Assortiment,
1813, no.180) had the reimpression of the Epistle of Lascaris.
t Consult the various authorities referred to by Saxius, in his Onomast. Literar. vol. ii.
p. 354-5; and Ilarles’s Fabric. Bibl. Grcec. vol. iv. p. 429.