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MISCELLANEOUS.
sVenice ; 1495.
632. Bembus (Petrus). De ^Etna. Printed by
jdldus. Venice. 1495. Quarto.
Editio Princeps. This is probably the most beautiful specimen
extant of the Roman type of Aldus. The paper, press-work, ink, mode
of setting up the page — all, on repeated examination, is elegant and
interesting. Nor is the rarity of the book much inferior to its beauty.
Renouard confesses his ignorance of any copy of it upon vellum, but
it is by no means unlikely that more than one such copy is in existence.
What is somewhat remarkable, neither De Bure nor Brunet notice
this edition; although copies of it were in the Crevenna and Pinelli
Collections. Fournier, in his Dict. Portatis cle Bibliogr. 1809, p. 59,
has mentioned it; and adds, (without specifying any authority,) * On
en a tire des exemplaires sur velin.’
The work itself is the composition of Petrus Bembus ; otherwise, the
celebrated Cardinal Bembo. It is addressed or dedicated to Angelo
Chabrieli, who, with the author, had a short time before made a tour
into Sicily, and were attracted by the eruptions of Mount iEtna.
Chabrieli was then probably a young man as well as the author; the
latter of whom, at the time of the impression appearing, could not be
much above 25 years old. They each seem to have been anxious to
know the causes and consequences of these volcanic eruptions; and,
under this impression, the present work was probably planned and
executed; since the instruction conveyed comes from the mouth of
Bernardus Bembus, the father of Peter. On the recto of the first
leaf, signature A, the text commences thus:
PETRI BEMBI DE AETNA AD
ANGELVM CHABRIELEM
LIBER.
Factum a nobis pueris est, et quidem se*
dulo Angele; quod meminisse te certo
scio; ut fructus studiorum nostrorum,
quos ferebat illa setas no tam maturos,, q
ubereSj semper tibi aliquos promeremus:
8cc. &cc. Scc.
MISCELLANEOUS.
sVenice ; 1495.
632. Bembus (Petrus). De ^Etna. Printed by
jdldus. Venice. 1495. Quarto.
Editio Princeps. This is probably the most beautiful specimen
extant of the Roman type of Aldus. The paper, press-work, ink, mode
of setting up the page — all, on repeated examination, is elegant and
interesting. Nor is the rarity of the book much inferior to its beauty.
Renouard confesses his ignorance of any copy of it upon vellum, but
it is by no means unlikely that more than one such copy is in existence.
What is somewhat remarkable, neither De Bure nor Brunet notice
this edition; although copies of it were in the Crevenna and Pinelli
Collections. Fournier, in his Dict. Portatis cle Bibliogr. 1809, p. 59,
has mentioned it; and adds, (without specifying any authority,) * On
en a tire des exemplaires sur velin.’
The work itself is the composition of Petrus Bembus ; otherwise, the
celebrated Cardinal Bembo. It is addressed or dedicated to Angelo
Chabrieli, who, with the author, had a short time before made a tour
into Sicily, and were attracted by the eruptions of Mount iEtna.
Chabrieli was then probably a young man as well as the author; the
latter of whom, at the time of the impression appearing, could not be
much above 25 years old. They each seem to have been anxious to
know the causes and consequences of these volcanic eruptions; and,
under this impression, the present work was probably planned and
executed; since the instruction conveyed comes from the mouth of
Bernardus Bembus, the father of Peter. On the recto of the first
leaf, signature A, the text commences thus:
PETRI BEMBI DE AETNA AD
ANGELVM CHABRIELEM
LIBER.
Factum a nobis pueris est, et quidem se*
dulo Angele; quod meminisse te certo
scio; ut fructus studiorum nostrorum,
quos ferebat illa setas no tam maturos,, q
ubereSj semper tibi aliquos promeremus:
8cc. &cc. Scc.