DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.30697#0109
Milan; 1471.] POMPEIUS FESTUS.
101
576. Pompeius Festus. De Priscorum Verborum
Significationibus. Printed at Milan. 1471.
Quarto.
Editio Princeps. This is one of the most elegantly printed volumes
of the early Milan press with which I am acquainted. It is well
described by Saxius, as presenting us with * a very neat Roman letter,
upon excellent paper, with a broad margin.’ The same bibliographer
is quite decisive in attributing the execution of it to Zarotus. Hist. Lit.
Typog. Mediol. p. dlix, note (h). A copy of it was sold at the sale of
the Valliere library for 254 livres. On the recto of the first leaf,
without prefix, we read as follows:
VGVSTVS LOCVS SANCTVS ab aui
um gestu idest quia ab auibus significatus e
sic dictus . siueab auiu gustatu quiaaues pa
stas id ratum fecere .
A full page has 31 (long) lines. Thereare neither numerals, signatures,
nor catchwords; and the Greek words are uniformly omitted; although
the Latin explanations of them are subjoined. On the reverse of fol.
79, and last, after 3 lines of text, the subscription is thus :
F I N I S
Laudetur Christus per quinque foramina Iesus.
FESTI POMPEY LIBER EXPLETVS EST
Mediolani Tertio Nonas Augustas. Millesimo :
Quadringentessimo: Septuagessimo Primo Ad :
Honorem: 8c Laudem: Illustrissimi Ac Inuictissimi
Galeaz Mariae Mediolani Ducis Quinti.
Ac Ducatus Sui Anno Quinto.
It was hardly necessary for Panzer, vol. ii. p. 12, to make even the
slightest mention of the supposed Milan impression of 1470, upon the
wretched authority of Beughem. The most fortunate Collector can
seldom possess a copy of an early and scarce book, in a higher stat©
of preservation than is the present: in blue morocco binding.
101
576. Pompeius Festus. De Priscorum Verborum
Significationibus. Printed at Milan. 1471.
Quarto.
Editio Princeps. This is one of the most elegantly printed volumes
of the early Milan press with which I am acquainted. It is well
described by Saxius, as presenting us with * a very neat Roman letter,
upon excellent paper, with a broad margin.’ The same bibliographer
is quite decisive in attributing the execution of it to Zarotus. Hist. Lit.
Typog. Mediol. p. dlix, note (h). A copy of it was sold at the sale of
the Valliere library for 254 livres. On the recto of the first leaf,
without prefix, we read as follows:
VGVSTVS LOCVS SANCTVS ab aui
um gestu idest quia ab auibus significatus e
sic dictus . siueab auiu gustatu quiaaues pa
stas id ratum fecere .
A full page has 31 (long) lines. Thereare neither numerals, signatures,
nor catchwords; and the Greek words are uniformly omitted; although
the Latin explanations of them are subjoined. On the reverse of fol.
79, and last, after 3 lines of text, the subscription is thus :
F I N I S
Laudetur Christus per quinque foramina Iesus.
FESTI POMPEY LIBER EXPLETVS EST
Mediolani Tertio Nonas Augustas. Millesimo :
Quadringentessimo: Septuagessimo Primo Ad :
Honorem: 8c Laudem: Illustrissimi Ac Inuictissimi
Galeaz Mariae Mediolani Ducis Quinti.
Ac Ducatus Sui Anno Quinto.
It was hardly necessary for Panzer, vol. ii. p. 12, to make even the
slightest mention of the supposed Milan impression of 1470, upon the
wretched authority of Beughem. The most fortunate Collector can
seldom possess a copy of an early and scarce book, in a higher stat©
of preservation than is the present: in blue morocco binding.