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MAIUS.
91
Naples; 1475.]
effloruit. Que cosilio Blasii monachi romerii uiri sacris
lris instituti ac sanctis moribus ,pbati: hac nra urbe
excepisse gratulamur . Qui quide tih libroi^ omnis generis
jpuentum attulit: ut magna adepti oportunitate uideant:
qui lrarum studio ad gloria copandam enitunt. 8cc.
On the recto of the following leaf, a ii, the work begins without any
pretix at top of the first column; and continues from a to z, with 10
leaves to each signature. Then R> with 12 leaves. Next, aato mrn, in-
clusively, irx tens ; the last leaf being blank. On the recto of mm ix,
is another address of Maius—with this prefix:
Iunianus Maius. Magistro henrico : Archiepo Ache
rontino Regioq; confessori plurimum uerendo.
In the course of this address, we are presented with the following
pleasing picture of the author’s activity of mind :
Nullum profecto tempus superuacuu meo unq honesto
otio prtetermisi: quin a magnis autoribus: qui in meis studiis
comites semper fuere : aut lectissimu quodq; excerperem ;
autexcerpta colligerem. Deniq; post plurimaslucubraciones
lioc opus in luce dedimus pluraq; daturi siquid per otium
licuerit. 8cc.
Maius goes on to observe, tliat e there are many things to be amended,
and to be reduced to better order, in this work: that his design was
not to give it every polish of which it was capable, but to collect the
scattei’ed notices, as they existed, into one body; and to submit them,
in this form, to the candid judgment of the public.’ In remarking upon
the fortunate coincidence of his being a native of that city (Naples,)
where such poets as Statius and Virgil were born, he is perhaps more
lavish in his commendations of the former than contemporaneous
or subsequent crities; but, in a few strong and apposite words, he
assigns toVirgil a transcendant superiority. The imprint and colophon,
on the reverse of this leaf, are as follow:
Iuniani Maii parthenopei ad
inuictissimu Rege ferdinadu.
91
Naples; 1475.]
effloruit. Que cosilio Blasii monachi romerii uiri sacris
lris instituti ac sanctis moribus ,pbati: hac nra urbe
excepisse gratulamur . Qui quide tih libroi^ omnis generis
jpuentum attulit: ut magna adepti oportunitate uideant:
qui lrarum studio ad gloria copandam enitunt. 8cc.
On the recto of the following leaf, a ii, the work begins without any
pretix at top of the first column; and continues from a to z, with 10
leaves to each signature. Then R> with 12 leaves. Next, aato mrn, in-
clusively, irx tens ; the last leaf being blank. On the recto of mm ix,
is another address of Maius—with this prefix:
Iunianus Maius. Magistro henrico : Archiepo Ache
rontino Regioq; confessori plurimum uerendo.
In the course of this address, we are presented with the following
pleasing picture of the author’s activity of mind :
Nullum profecto tempus superuacuu meo unq honesto
otio prtetermisi: quin a magnis autoribus: qui in meis studiis
comites semper fuere : aut lectissimu quodq; excerperem ;
autexcerpta colligerem. Deniq; post plurimaslucubraciones
lioc opus in luce dedimus pluraq; daturi siquid per otium
licuerit. 8cc.
Maius goes on to observe, tliat e there are many things to be amended,
and to be reduced to better order, in this work: that his design was
not to give it every polish of which it was capable, but to collect the
scattei’ed notices, as they existed, into one body; and to submit them,
in this form, to the candid judgment of the public.’ In remarking upon
the fortunate coincidence of his being a native of that city (Naples,)
where such poets as Statius and Virgil were born, he is perhaps more
lavish in his commendations of the former than contemporaneous
or subsequent crities; but, in a few strong and apposite words, he
assigns toVirgil a transcendant superiority. The imprint and colophon,
on the reverse of this leaf, are as follow:
Iuniani Maii parthenopei ad
inuictissimu Rege ferdinadu.