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Venicei 1471.] LAURENTIUS VALLA.
On the reverse of fol. 219 and last, is the colophon :
Summi Oratoris. Lauretii Vallen. De Elegantia
Latin^ lingu£ Sextus Liber Explicit fpliciter
Anno gratip. M. CCCC. Lxxi. Romp In Pinia
Regioe Paulo sedete. ii. Anno Potificato. sui.vii.
There are neither numerals, signatures, nor catchwords, and a full
page contains 34 lines. The prices sor which the Gaignat, La Val-
liere,* Pinelli, and Crevenna copies of this noble volume were sold,
sufficiently attest the value in which it is held by scholars and collec-
tors. The type of it is precisely similar to that of which a fac-simile
is given at p. 307 of vol. ii. of this work. The present is a beautiful
copy, in red morocco binding. From the Pinelli Collection.
567- L.xurentius Valla. Printed hy Jenson.
Venice. 1471. Folio.
Panzer rightly qualifies his description of this elegant volume, by
calling it ‘the second, if it be not the sirst.’ We have besore observed
that the impression by Philip de Lignamine must be considered as
anterior. It is clear that De Bure had never seen this impression,
as he relies entirely upon Maittaire. Laire is positive about the genuine
form of it being a quarto, from the horizontal water marks; yet he
admits that the volume has every appearance of a folio, Sardini,
whose description is brief and uninteresting, calls it ‘ a large quarto.’
See Maittaire, vol. i. p. 304, note 3 ; Panzer, vol. iii. p. 77; Bibliogr.
Instruct. vol. iii. p. 51, n°. 226‘7; Index Libror. vol. i. p. 255 ;t Storia
Critica di Nicolao Jenson, lib. iii, p. 17, 1S. In conformity with
Maittaire, the work is above described as a folio ; and very consderable
havoc indeed must have been made with the fore edges of the present
copy, if the original shape of the volume assumed the least. appearance
of a quarto; since it may be almost called an elongated folio. But we
proceed to the description of it.
The recto of the first leaf is blank. The reverse of it presents us
* Cat. de la Valliere, vol. ii. p. 13, no. 2191. 'Ulric Han is here sairl, erroneousiy, to
have been the printer of it,
t Erroneously numbered 355 ;—the errors of pagination, iu the work above referred to,
are so frequent as to be absolutely disgraceful to the printer.
Venicei 1471.] LAURENTIUS VALLA.
On the reverse of fol. 219 and last, is the colophon :
Summi Oratoris. Lauretii Vallen. De Elegantia
Latin^ lingu£ Sextus Liber Explicit fpliciter
Anno gratip. M. CCCC. Lxxi. Romp In Pinia
Regioe Paulo sedete. ii. Anno Potificato. sui.vii.
There are neither numerals, signatures, nor catchwords, and a full
page contains 34 lines. The prices sor which the Gaignat, La Val-
liere,* Pinelli, and Crevenna copies of this noble volume were sold,
sufficiently attest the value in which it is held by scholars and collec-
tors. The type of it is precisely similar to that of which a fac-simile
is given at p. 307 of vol. ii. of this work. The present is a beautiful
copy, in red morocco binding. From the Pinelli Collection.
567- L.xurentius Valla. Printed hy Jenson.
Venice. 1471. Folio.
Panzer rightly qualifies his description of this elegant volume, by
calling it ‘the second, if it be not the sirst.’ We have besore observed
that the impression by Philip de Lignamine must be considered as
anterior. It is clear that De Bure had never seen this impression,
as he relies entirely upon Maittaire. Laire is positive about the genuine
form of it being a quarto, from the horizontal water marks; yet he
admits that the volume has every appearance of a folio, Sardini,
whose description is brief and uninteresting, calls it ‘ a large quarto.’
See Maittaire, vol. i. p. 304, note 3 ; Panzer, vol. iii. p. 77; Bibliogr.
Instruct. vol. iii. p. 51, n°. 226‘7; Index Libror. vol. i. p. 255 ;t Storia
Critica di Nicolao Jenson, lib. iii, p. 17, 1S. In conformity with
Maittaire, the work is above described as a folio ; and very consderable
havoc indeed must have been made with the fore edges of the present
copy, if the original shape of the volume assumed the least. appearance
of a quarto; since it may be almost called an elongated folio. But we
proceed to the description of it.
The recto of the first leaf is blank. The reverse of it presents us
* Cat. de la Valliere, vol. ii. p. 13, no. 2191. 'Ulric Han is here sairl, erroneousiy, to
have been the printer of it,
t Erroneously numbered 355 ;—the errors of pagination, iu the work above referred to,
are so frequent as to be absolutely disgraceful to the printer.