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GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS. sMentz; 1460.
The reverse is blank. This beautiful book is printed in the usual
style of elegance of the press of Calliergus. The capital initials (vide
post Art. ‘ Etymologicon Magnum’) are ornamented, and printed in red
ink. The titles, to the several tracts contained in the impression,
are also uniformly in red. The reader may consult two useful notes in
Maittaire’s Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 96, 712. The beautiful condition
of this copy (in russia binding) can hardly be exceeded.
538. Catholicon; seu Grammatica et Lexicon
Joannis Balbi de Janua. TVithout Name of
JPrinter; hut supposed to have heen executed
hy Gutenherg. Mentz. 1460. Eolio.
Editio Princeps. Before we notice the contents of this magnifi-
cent and very rare production of ancient typography, it may be gratify-
ing to the reader to be presented with a brief aceount of the manner
in which it has been alluded to, or described, by preceding bibliogra-
phers. Such an account must necessarily involve a good deal of labour
and research; but the present is a publication of no ordinary occurrence,
and must ever continue to be considered as a splendid monument of
the ingenuity and perseverance of the inventor of the art of printing
with metal types.
Although Prosper Marchand has referred to the treatise of Mentelius,
upon the origin and progress of the Art of Printing, (1644, 4to.) yet,
as this treatise appears in the 1st volume of Wolf’s Monumenta Typo-
graphica, p. 1S9-404, no mention is made in it (which I have been able
to discover,) oftlie Catholicon of 1460. Mentelius notices the labours
of Mallinkrot, (1640, 4to.;) but among these, in the same publica-
tion, p. 549-802, there is also no mention made of the Catholicon.
Mentelius had alcnowledge of the Durandus of 1459, and of the Bible
of 1462; and Mallinkrot passes in silence over the publications
between the Durandus and the Offices of Cicero of 1465 : idem. p.
686-8. La Caille, in his Hist. de Vlmprimerie et cle ia Librairie, 1689,
4to. p. 11, gives a brief description of the work under consideration;
which description has been borrowed by Chevillier in his Hist. de
VImprimerie de Paris, 1694, 4to. p. 14. Each of these bibliographers
..assigns the work to the press of Fust and Schoeffer.
GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS. sMentz; 1460.
The reverse is blank. This beautiful book is printed in the usual
style of elegance of the press of Calliergus. The capital initials (vide
post Art. ‘ Etymologicon Magnum’) are ornamented, and printed in red
ink. The titles, to the several tracts contained in the impression,
are also uniformly in red. The reader may consult two useful notes in
Maittaire’s Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 96, 712. The beautiful condition
of this copy (in russia binding) can hardly be exceeded.
538. Catholicon; seu Grammatica et Lexicon
Joannis Balbi de Janua. TVithout Name of
JPrinter; hut supposed to have heen executed
hy Gutenherg. Mentz. 1460. Eolio.
Editio Princeps. Before we notice the contents of this magnifi-
cent and very rare production of ancient typography, it may be gratify-
ing to the reader to be presented with a brief aceount of the manner
in which it has been alluded to, or described, by preceding bibliogra-
phers. Such an account must necessarily involve a good deal of labour
and research; but the present is a publication of no ordinary occurrence,
and must ever continue to be considered as a splendid monument of
the ingenuity and perseverance of the inventor of the art of printing
with metal types.
Although Prosper Marchand has referred to the treatise of Mentelius,
upon the origin and progress of the Art of Printing, (1644, 4to.) yet,
as this treatise appears in the 1st volume of Wolf’s Monumenta Typo-
graphica, p. 1S9-404, no mention is made in it (which I have been able
to discover,) oftlie Catholicon of 1460. Mentelius notices the labours
of Mallinkrot, (1640, 4to.;) but among these, in the same publica-
tion, p. 549-802, there is also no mention made of the Catholicon.
Mentelius had alcnowledge of the Durandus of 1459, and of the Bible
of 1462; and Mallinkrot passes in silence over the publications
between the Durandus and the Offices of Cicero of 1465 : idem. p.
686-8. La Caille, in his Hist. de Vlmprimerie et cle ia Librairie, 1689,
4to. p. 11, gives a brief description of the work under consideration;
which description has been borrowed by Chevillier in his Hist. de
VImprimerie de Paris, 1694, 4to. p. 14. Each of these bibliographers
..assigns the work to the press of Fust and Schoeffer.