Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Oth.]: Bibliotheca Spenceriana: or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer (Band 3) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-3]

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Milan; 1479.] TERENTIANUS MAURUS.

Terentianum de Metris 8c Syllabis Horatii
Fortunatianum de Carminibus Horatii
Velium longum de Orthographia
Adamantium de Orthographia
Catholica probi
Cornelii Frontonis elegantias.

On the recto of the ensuing leaf is an address of Georgius Galbiatus to
Jacobus Andrea; in which we find the following well-merited eulogy*
upon the work.

Terentianum ex omni munero emittere: impressioniq;
tradere costitui: excultu sane opus: Miraberis statim
in praefatione ingeniu: doctrinam k facilitatem in
carmine: de litteris: syllabis: genere metro$ : k
pmutatione n5 prosa oratioe: sed numeris tantu
praeceptatradit: 8c exempla. 8cc.—Nihil in hoc genere
aut eruditius: aut exquisitius latinis litteris proditu.

On the reverse commences the preface of the author, thus:

TERENTIANI MAVRI PRAEFATIO

AVDIVI ueterum uirum
Vulgo dicere fabulam :

Quendam qui ter olympia
Vicisset ioue prasside
Postq accedere liuidum
Virtutis senium uidet:

8cc. 8cc. 8cc.

* Fabricius adduces the following testimony of St.Austin in praise of Terentianus Maurus;
“ Iste igitur vir tam insignis excellentisque peritiee, ut quod de illo etiam Terentianus
elegantissimo versiculo breviter ait, vir doctissimus usquequaque Varro.” De Civit. Dei.
lib. vi. cap. ii. ‘ Nulla imbutus poetica disciplina, Terentianum Maumm sine magistro
attingere non auderes.’ cap. 17. And Fabricius himself is warm in commendation of his
poem, which he calls —‘ omni elegantiarum genere conditum, et amabili quadam ingenit
amoenitate temperatum.’ Bibl. Lat. Edit. Ernesti, vol. iii. p, 415.

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