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GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS. sMilan; 1497.
must be confessed to be of no elevated eharacter. Copies of this mag-
nificent and estimable volume are in most of our public and private
collections of eminence. The present is beautiful and large. In
russia binding.
584. Terentianus Maurus. De Litteris, Syl-
labis, et Metris Horatii. Printed hy Scin-
zenzeler. Milan. 1497- Folio.
Editio Princeps. The old school of bibliographers (if I may be
allowed the expression) had a very high opinion of the extraordinary
rarity of the first edition of this work. Nor was such opinion entirely
groundless; since, as I shall endeavour to prove, the book had never
been seen by Fabricius, Saxius, or De Bure. Ernesti w ras also ignorant
of any collection in which a copy was to be found; and his account of
it, in the Bibl. Lat. Fabricii, vol. iii. p. 415-6, is nothing more than
what had appeared in the quarto edition of the same work; 1728, vol. ii.
p. 472. Why Fabricius should say the work was originally published
with Ausonius, of the same date, does not decidedly appear; although
there was a copy of it, with the Venetian Ausonius of 1496, in the
Soubise Collection: see Bibl. Soubise, p. 333, n°. 4840. We proceed in
the first place to give a bibliographical description of this rare volume.
On the recto of the first leaf is the title only, as follows :
TERENTIANVS DE
LITTERIS SYL
LABIS ET
METRIS
HORA
TII
The reverse is blank. The recto of the ensuing leaf is also blank; but
on tbe reverse is an address, beginning * Ludovicus Maria Sfortia
Anglus Dux Mediolani,” &c.: dated at the end, with a list of the con-
tents of the impression, thus:
Datse Vi
gleuani sub fide sigilli nostri: Die qnto septembris
Anno. M.cccc.lxxxx.sexto.
GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS. sMilan; 1497.
must be confessed to be of no elevated eharacter. Copies of this mag-
nificent and estimable volume are in most of our public and private
collections of eminence. The present is beautiful and large. In
russia binding.
584. Terentianus Maurus. De Litteris, Syl-
labis, et Metris Horatii. Printed hy Scin-
zenzeler. Milan. 1497- Folio.
Editio Princeps. The old school of bibliographers (if I may be
allowed the expression) had a very high opinion of the extraordinary
rarity of the first edition of this work. Nor was such opinion entirely
groundless; since, as I shall endeavour to prove, the book had never
been seen by Fabricius, Saxius, or De Bure. Ernesti w ras also ignorant
of any collection in which a copy was to be found; and his account of
it, in the Bibl. Lat. Fabricii, vol. iii. p. 415-6, is nothing more than
what had appeared in the quarto edition of the same work; 1728, vol. ii.
p. 472. Why Fabricius should say the work was originally published
with Ausonius, of the same date, does not decidedly appear; although
there was a copy of it, with the Venetian Ausonius of 1496, in the
Soubise Collection: see Bibl. Soubise, p. 333, n°. 4840. We proceed in
the first place to give a bibliographical description of this rare volume.
On the recto of the first leaf is the title only, as follows :
TERENTIANVS DE
LITTERIS SYL
LABIS ET
METRIS
HORA
TII
The reverse is blank. The recto of the ensuing leaf is also blank; but
on tbe reverse is an address, beginning * Ludovicus Maria Sfortia
Anglus Dux Mediolani,” &c.: dated at the end, with a list of the con-
tents of the impression, thus:
Datse Vi
gleuani sub fide sigilli nostri: Die qnto septembris
Anno. M.cccc.lxxxx.sexto.