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GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS. sMilan; 1476*.
562. Lascaris. Grammatica Gr2eca. Gr. Printed
hy Dionysius Paravismus. Milan. 14?6.
Quarto.
Editio Princeps. The production of this First Eook printed in
the Greek Language, will ever be considered the glory of the Milan
Press; and the possession of it no common boast for the classical
collector. That a country, attached like our own, to the cultivation of
Grecian literature, should probably possess more copies of this precious
book than any other eountry, is no slight matter of congratulation.
Exclusively of the sound copy of it under description, w re may notice
those which are in the Royal,* Cracherode,t and Pembroke libraries ;
and in the collections of Er. Charles Burney, and Mr. Jolines:—the
latter, of considerable beauty. The late Mr. Knight of Portland
Place had also a copy. The impression opens with a Latin and Greek
address of Pisanus, which occupies tlie first two leaves : a copy of the
former (referred to in vol. ii. p. 59, note) is as follows :
Demetrius Cretensis Ingenuis ac studiosissimis adolescentibus salutem.
Cum uos rerum bonarum ac literarum graecarum adipiscendae
disciplinae studiosos uiderem: sane et uestram tam egregiam ad huius-
modi res intentionem non iniuria sum admiratus : et animi uestri
generositatem exeellentiamque beatam existimans: multum ac diu
cogitabam: qua in re uobis graecae amantissimis disciplinae gratisicari
possem: et quod studio uestro d'gnum gratumque esset: praestarem.
Haec igitur animo uolutans inueniebam uobis quidem pergratum ac
nihilominus utile fore: si uobis copia librorum graecorum sine
multa impensa difficultateque esset: quo et ad discendum impensius
et propositum uobis libentiori animo assequendum alacriores essetis :
mihi uero optatissimum memoratuque dignum siquid tale uestra
meaque causa recte efficere possem. Qua propter cum multum mente
plurimum uero experientia laborauimus: uix tandem inueni: X quonam
* Purchased for 21/. 10s. from tbe Askew Collection : Bibl. Askev. no. 2055.
t This copy was bequeatlied to Mr. Cracherode by the Revd. T. Crosts. It was reserved
out of the sale of his library ; see Bibl. Crosts, no. 102.
t ‘ In publicis tabulis societatis initiaa inter primos Mediolanenses typographos, quas
superius vulgavimus, adnotatum legitur, “ Antonio Zaroto parmensi imposituin fuisse onus
conficiendi characteres latinos, et Grascos, tum veteres, tum recentes.” An vero susceptam
GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS. sMilan; 1476*.
562. Lascaris. Grammatica Gr2eca. Gr. Printed
hy Dionysius Paravismus. Milan. 14?6.
Quarto.
Editio Princeps. The production of this First Eook printed in
the Greek Language, will ever be considered the glory of the Milan
Press; and the possession of it no common boast for the classical
collector. That a country, attached like our own, to the cultivation of
Grecian literature, should probably possess more copies of this precious
book than any other eountry, is no slight matter of congratulation.
Exclusively of the sound copy of it under description, w re may notice
those which are in the Royal,* Cracherode,t and Pembroke libraries ;
and in the collections of Er. Charles Burney, and Mr. Jolines:—the
latter, of considerable beauty. The late Mr. Knight of Portland
Place had also a copy. The impression opens with a Latin and Greek
address of Pisanus, which occupies tlie first two leaves : a copy of the
former (referred to in vol. ii. p. 59, note) is as follows :
Demetrius Cretensis Ingenuis ac studiosissimis adolescentibus salutem.
Cum uos rerum bonarum ac literarum graecarum adipiscendae
disciplinae studiosos uiderem: sane et uestram tam egregiam ad huius-
modi res intentionem non iniuria sum admiratus : et animi uestri
generositatem exeellentiamque beatam existimans: multum ac diu
cogitabam: qua in re uobis graecae amantissimis disciplinae gratisicari
possem: et quod studio uestro d'gnum gratumque esset: praestarem.
Haec igitur animo uolutans inueniebam uobis quidem pergratum ac
nihilominus utile fore: si uobis copia librorum graecorum sine
multa impensa difficultateque esset: quo et ad discendum impensius
et propositum uobis libentiori animo assequendum alacriores essetis :
mihi uero optatissimum memoratuque dignum siquid tale uestra
meaque causa recte efficere possem. Qua propter cum multum mente
plurimum uero experientia laborauimus: uix tandem inueni: X quonam
* Purchased for 21/. 10s. from tbe Askew Collection : Bibl. Askev. no. 2055.
t This copy was bequeatlied to Mr. Cracherode by the Revd. T. Crosts. It was reserved
out of the sale of his library ; see Bibl. Crosts, no. 102.
t ‘ In publicis tabulis societatis initiaa inter primos Mediolanenses typographos, quas
superius vulgavimus, adnotatum legitur, “ Antonio Zaroto parmensi imposituin fuisse onus
conficiendi characteres latinos, et Grascos, tum veteres, tum recentes.” An vero susceptam