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ISIDORE.
75
Without Date.]
used by Schuzler, Lucas Brandis, and in the Soubiaco monastery: being
much more elegant than either of the sets of character observable in the
impressions of the forementioned authors. Panzer assigns the volume
to the press of Mentelin ; but neither Seemiller nor Brrun throw out
the least intimation of that printer’s having executed it; and the ac-
cordance of the capital letters alone, with those of the Speculum of
Bellovacensis, seems rather too slender a foundation for such a conclu-
sion being- unquestionable. Seemiller thinks that the impression, if not
earlier, cannot be much later, than that of Zainer’s. He properly
notices the lustre of the ink, ancl the firmness of the paper. Incunab.
Tijpog. scisc. i. p. 172; Not, Hist. Lit. de Libr. Rar. pt. i. p. 17, 18.
Laire has hastily remarked that the character is similar to that of the
Speculum—without observing that the capitals only have this simila-
rity; and as hastily perhaps concludes tlie impression to be the * Editio
Princeps’ of the work. Index Libror. vol. i. p. 145.
We proceed to tlie book itself. The first 4 pages have the usual
introductory Epistles between Isidore and Braulio. The following
prefix is at top of the first column of the first leaf:
INCIPIT EPISTOLA ISIDORI IV
NIORIS HISPALENSIS EPISCO?
PI AD BRAVLIONEM CESARAV
GVSTANVM EPiSCOPVM.
The first book begins about the middle of the second column on the
reverse of fol. 2. A full page has 51 lines. There are neither signa-
tures, numerals, nor catchwords; and according to Seemiller and
Braun, the volume comprehends 141 leaves. On the recto of the 141st
leaf, it concludes thus :
DE INSTRVMENTIS EQVO^.
.- - - Quod
int’dum jp signo .interdu jp cura adhibet.
ut vis morbi ignis ardore siccetur .
The reverse is blank. The present is a sound copy, having the initials
illuminated. It is bound in russia.
75
Without Date.]
used by Schuzler, Lucas Brandis, and in the Soubiaco monastery: being
much more elegant than either of the sets of character observable in the
impressions of the forementioned authors. Panzer assigns the volume
to the press of Mentelin ; but neither Seemiller nor Brrun throw out
the least intimation of that printer’s having executed it; and the ac-
cordance of the capital letters alone, with those of the Speculum of
Bellovacensis, seems rather too slender a foundation for such a conclu-
sion being- unquestionable. Seemiller thinks that the impression, if not
earlier, cannot be much later, than that of Zainer’s. He properly
notices the lustre of the ink, ancl the firmness of the paper. Incunab.
Tijpog. scisc. i. p. 172; Not, Hist. Lit. de Libr. Rar. pt. i. p. 17, 18.
Laire has hastily remarked that the character is similar to that of the
Speculum—without observing that the capitals only have this simila-
rity; and as hastily perhaps concludes tlie impression to be the * Editio
Princeps’ of the work. Index Libror. vol. i. p. 145.
We proceed to tlie book itself. The first 4 pages have the usual
introductory Epistles between Isidore and Braulio. The following
prefix is at top of the first column of the first leaf:
INCIPIT EPISTOLA ISIDORI IV
NIORIS HISPALENSIS EPISCO?
PI AD BRAVLIONEM CESARAV
GVSTANVM EPiSCOPVM.
The first book begins about the middle of the second column on the
reverse of fol. 2. A full page has 51 lines. There are neither signa-
tures, numerals, nor catchwords; and according to Seemiller and
Braun, the volume comprehends 141 leaves. On the recto of the 141st
leaf, it concludes thus :
DE INSTRVMENTIS EQVO^.
.- - - Quod
int’dum jp signo .interdu jp cura adhibet.
ut vis morbi ignis ardore siccetur .
The reverse is blank. The present is a sound copy, having the initials
illuminated. It is bound in russia.