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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597. ^Eneas Syevius. De Duobus Amantibus.

(Printed hy Ulric Zel^) JVithout Place or Date.

Quarto.

The editions of the Opuscula of iEneas Sylvius, or Cardinal Picco-
loraini, afterwards Pope Pius II., are almost innumerable. That this
Pontiff was an exceedingly popular author in his age, is unquestionable
—from the testimony only of upwards of five columns of Panzer’s
Index (vol. v. p. 8-10,) being filled with a list of the impressions of
his works in the XVth century. His pieces were small, and therefore
easily put forth; but none of them, as it should seem from the fore-
mentioned authority, had experienced so general and so rapid a circu-
lation as that of which we are about to treat. Notwithstanding there
is an edition os his ‘Miseria Curialium' os the date of 1473, (videp. 142,
post) I conceive the present impression to be an anterior publication—-
as it bears the usual marks of having been printed by Zel about the
years 1470-2. It is therefore, in all probability, the Editio Princeps
of the work. Panzer has made only one solitary reference, to the
Weltenberg monastic library: vol. iv. p. 278. The volume is executed
in the usual style of Zel’s printing ;—having 27 lines in a full page,
and presenting us with ink of a fine jet lustre, upon paper of equal
excellence. On the recto of the first leaf we read the following title :

€ncc jmtc ^cnsBis. iic mnati
fms oBurialo t SucrcBia. opuscu ati s^arianu
^o^init fclicitcr jncipit. grcfado.

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