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1471.]
NONIUS MARCELLUS.
95
571. Nonius Marcellus. Printed in the Year
1471. Folio.
‘ It is a pity (says Audiffredi, Edit. Rom. p. 92,) that posterity are
not made acquainted with the name of the printer of this elegant
edition; which resembles rather the Venetian than the Roman style
of printing.’ Why either Ulric Han, or Jenson, is considered to be the
artist who executed it, does not appear very satisfactory. The former
is assigned to it in the Cat. de la Valliere, n°. 2183 ; and the latter by
Panzer, vol. iii. p. 7S. Maittaire, vol. i. p. 304, note *, merely sub-
joins the date ; and De Bure is equally silent respecting the supposed
printer. Dict. Bibliogr. vol. iii. n°. 2264. Laire, in his Spec. Hist.
Typog. Rom. p. 176, note (ee) relies upon the insertion of this edition
in Dr. Mead's Catalogue,f p. 86, n°. 651, as a Roman one, and as being
the ‘ Edit. Prin.’ He also quotes Maittaire ; but had never seen the
book itself. We are therefore left to conjecture respecting the printer
and place of its execution. Yet I ineline to think that it was not
executed at Venice ; at least I cannot, at this moment, recolleet any
artist who, in the year 1471, printed at Venice with types similar to
those of the present volume: since they are diffei’ent from such as
were used by either of the Spiras, or Jenson, or Valdarfer, or I. de
Colonia. There is rather an appearance of the Parma or Modena early
style of printing about the book; but we are at present ignorant of
any work, printed at either of these places, which has so early a date
subjoined. Possibly it might have been executed at Milan:+ but the
collector shall judge for himself.
On the recto of the first leaf, without any title or prefix, commences
an alphabetical table, in 3 columns, which comprehends 12 leaves.
This table ends on the reverse of the 12th leafi with the word FINIS.
On the recto of the 13th leaf, without title or prefix, the work begins
thus :
ENIYM EST TEDIVM ET ODium
dictum a senectute : q> senes omnibus odio
t On consulting my own copy of this Catalogue, which has the prices, and a great num-
ber of the names of the purchasers, I iind that Osborne the bookseller gave stl. 2s. for
Dr. Mead’s copy of the above work.
t Could it have been printed at Treviso ? The ‘ h’ is peculiar.
NONIUS MARCELLUS.
95
571. Nonius Marcellus. Printed in the Year
1471. Folio.
‘ It is a pity (says Audiffredi, Edit. Rom. p. 92,) that posterity are
not made acquainted with the name of the printer of this elegant
edition; which resembles rather the Venetian than the Roman style
of printing.’ Why either Ulric Han, or Jenson, is considered to be the
artist who executed it, does not appear very satisfactory. The former
is assigned to it in the Cat. de la Valliere, n°. 2183 ; and the latter by
Panzer, vol. iii. p. 7S. Maittaire, vol. i. p. 304, note *, merely sub-
joins the date ; and De Bure is equally silent respecting the supposed
printer. Dict. Bibliogr. vol. iii. n°. 2264. Laire, in his Spec. Hist.
Typog. Rom. p. 176, note (ee) relies upon the insertion of this edition
in Dr. Mead's Catalogue,f p. 86, n°. 651, as a Roman one, and as being
the ‘ Edit. Prin.’ He also quotes Maittaire ; but had never seen the
book itself. We are therefore left to conjecture respecting the printer
and place of its execution. Yet I ineline to think that it was not
executed at Venice ; at least I cannot, at this moment, recolleet any
artist who, in the year 1471, printed at Venice with types similar to
those of the present volume: since they are diffei’ent from such as
were used by either of the Spiras, or Jenson, or Valdarfer, or I. de
Colonia. There is rather an appearance of the Parma or Modena early
style of printing about the book; but we are at present ignorant of
any work, printed at either of these places, which has so early a date
subjoined. Possibly it might have been executed at Milan:+ but the
collector shall judge for himself.
On the recto of the first leaf, without any title or prefix, commences
an alphabetical table, in 3 columns, which comprehends 12 leaves.
This table ends on the reverse of the 12th leafi with the word FINIS.
On the recto of the 13th leaf, without title or prefix, the work begins
thus :
ENIYM EST TEDIVM ET ODium
dictum a senectute : q> senes omnibus odio
t On consulting my own copy of this Catalogue, which has the prices, and a great num-
ber of the names of the purchasers, I iind that Osborne the bookseller gave stl. 2s. for
Dr. Mead’s copy of the above work.
t Could it have been printed at Treviso ? The ‘ h’ is peculiar.