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GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS.
540. Chalcondylas (Demetrius) et Moscho-
pulus. Erotemata. Corinthus, de Dialectis.
Gr. TVitliout Place, or Date ; hut supposed to
have heen printed at Milan, towards the close of
the XVth Century. Folio.
We are about to describe a volume of such uncommon rarity, that
the late Revd. T. Crofts imagined there were not three copies of
it in existence. Paterson, who sold the library of Crofts, has added,
from the notice of De Bure, that ‘ Saxius mentions another copy in
the Ambrosian Library at Milan.’ See Bibl. Crofts, n°. 105. Mr.
Crofts’s copy was purchased by Mr. King for 81. De Bure con-
fesses that he had never seen this edition; but the Pinelli and Crevenna
collections each supply a copy of it. Bibl. Pinell. vol. iii. n°. 7154;
Bibl. Crevenn. vol. iii. n°. 2988. The Pinelli copy is the one under
description; it having been pui’chased by Lord Spencer for 19/. 8s. 6d.
The Cardinal Lomenie de Brienne had also a copy; see Laire’s Index
Libror., vol. ii. p. 3-4. Laire refers to the Bibl. Portatile of Boni and
Gamba, edit. 1780, p. 123 : which notice of it (exactly repeated in the
subsequent edition of 1793, vol. i. p. 195) is brief and not very satis-
factory. Panzer has given a sufficiently detailed description of it,
from a ‘ well preserved copy ’ in the library of Harles. Annal. Typog.
vol. ii. p. 97. Maittaire sirst made the public acquainted with the
copy in the Sunderland (now Blenheim) Collection : as appears from
his description in the Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 753, note 7. Saxius
has an excellent account of the learned and celebrated editor of the
work, and a brief one of the edition, in his Hist. Lit. Typog. Mediol.
col. ccccxx-iv, p. dcxi. note (t). It is now time to bring the book
itself under the notice of the l’eader. On the recto of a (i) we read
thus:
Ta iv TYj ypafXsj,oiTix.Yi svpi(rx.6(xev<x <r<Qu\sxciTa. ev tocv-
tij nepie'XpvToa Trjcr sAI6i xco tive<t S7ncnj/xsiw(re(cr.
This, and every full page, contains 35 lines. On the recto of a ii,
AYjfxrjlplov y'a.XKOv'bvXov epwTr]sxcilci crvvoTrhxoi tojv oxtvj
tov Aosov [/.epwv sxelu hvoov xpYj<rly,oov xuvovoov.
&c. &c. &c.
GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS.
540. Chalcondylas (Demetrius) et Moscho-
pulus. Erotemata. Corinthus, de Dialectis.
Gr. TVitliout Place, or Date ; hut supposed to
have heen printed at Milan, towards the close of
the XVth Century. Folio.
We are about to describe a volume of such uncommon rarity, that
the late Revd. T. Crofts imagined there were not three copies of
it in existence. Paterson, who sold the library of Crofts, has added,
from the notice of De Bure, that ‘ Saxius mentions another copy in
the Ambrosian Library at Milan.’ See Bibl. Crofts, n°. 105. Mr.
Crofts’s copy was purchased by Mr. King for 81. De Bure con-
fesses that he had never seen this edition; but the Pinelli and Crevenna
collections each supply a copy of it. Bibl. Pinell. vol. iii. n°. 7154;
Bibl. Crevenn. vol. iii. n°. 2988. The Pinelli copy is the one under
description; it having been pui’chased by Lord Spencer for 19/. 8s. 6d.
The Cardinal Lomenie de Brienne had also a copy; see Laire’s Index
Libror., vol. ii. p. 3-4. Laire refers to the Bibl. Portatile of Boni and
Gamba, edit. 1780, p. 123 : which notice of it (exactly repeated in the
subsequent edition of 1793, vol. i. p. 195) is brief and not very satis-
factory. Panzer has given a sufficiently detailed description of it,
from a ‘ well preserved copy ’ in the library of Harles. Annal. Typog.
vol. ii. p. 97. Maittaire sirst made the public acquainted with the
copy in the Sunderland (now Blenheim) Collection : as appears from
his description in the Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 753, note 7. Saxius
has an excellent account of the learned and celebrated editor of the
work, and a brief one of the edition, in his Hist. Lit. Typog. Mediol.
col. ccccxx-iv, p. dcxi. note (t). It is now time to bring the book
itself under the notice of the l’eader. On the recto of a (i) we read
thus:
Ta iv TYj ypafXsj,oiTix.Yi svpi(rx.6(xev<x <r<Qu\sxciTa. ev tocv-
tij nepie'XpvToa Trjcr sAI6i xco tive<t S7ncnj/xsiw(re(cr.
This, and every full page, contains 35 lines. On the recto of a ii,
AYjfxrjlplov y'a.XKOv'bvXov epwTr]sxcilci crvvoTrhxoi tojv oxtvj
tov Aosov [/.epwv sxelu hvoov xpYj<rly,oov xuvovoov.
&c. &c. &c.