Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Oth.]: Bibliotheca Spenceriana: or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer (Band 3) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-3]

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COLLECTIONS.

[Bologna; 1495-6*.

532. Scriptores De Re Mieitari. Printed hy
Plato de Penedictis. Bologna. 1495-6. Folio.

„ The title page, in foui' lines, informs us that this impression con-
tains the texts os Frontinus, Vegetius, iElian, and Modestus. The
prefatory epistle of P. Beroaldus is on the reverse of the first leaf.
On A A. ii, begins the text of Frontinus ; which concludes on the
recto ofFF iv, in sixes, with the following imprint:

Impressum Bononite per Platonem de Benedictis librorum
cussore Anno. MCCCCLXXXXV. die uero decimo luiii.

The device, as at page 39 ofvol. ii, is beneath. The reverse is blank.
The recto of G G i, is also blank; and on the reverse begins the
address of S. Verulanus, as in the preceding impression. On the
reverse of R R v, after LAVS DEO, we read the ensuing general
colophon to the whole :

DE Arte Militari: Frontinum : Vegetium : Aelianum
et Modestu auctores penitus Diuinos q castigatissime
impressit omni solertia Plato de Benedictis Bononiensis
In alma ciuitate Bononiae Anno salutis . M . cccc.lxxxxvi.
Decimosexto kalen. Februarias.

The device, as before, is below. From the register, on the recto of
the ensuing and last leaf, we gather that the signatures run in sixes;
with the exception of F F, which has only two Ieaves. Maittaire (as
Panzer correctly notices) has inserted the latter colophon at p. 609 of
his first volume: the title of Frontinus only being introduced at
p. 590: sub anno 1495. The present is a fair sound copy; in calf
binding.