188
MISCELLANEOUS. [.Bolugna; 1473.
IMPRESSVM VENETIIS IN
AEDIBVS ALDI RO
MANI MENSE FE
BRVARIO AN
NO . M .
. VD .
The signatures A, B, and C, are in eights; but D has only six leaves ;
upon the reverse of the last of which is the above colophon. A full
page contains 22 lines. The present is a beautiful copy of this desir-
able little volume, and is bound in green morocco.
633. Bergomensis (Petrus). Index in Thomam
Aquinam. Printed hy jBalthasar Azoguidi.
Pologna. 1473. Folio.
Panzer appears to have been almost entirely indebted to Mittarelli
for his description of this curious and elaborate performance. ‘ Azoguidi
(says Mittarelli) about two years before had introduced, or rather
promoted,* the art of printing in his own country. The edition before
us is neat, and exhibits an elegant typographical character, but it is
deformed by tlie most extravagant sintemperantissimas] abbreviations
which occur in almost every word.’ Appdx. Bibl. Cod. Monast. St. Mich.
col. 349. He continues : ‘ The author of the table, in the lastpart of
the prefix, thus observes: “ Quinto sciendum est, quod in ista tabula
non serventur regule orthographie in aspirationibus, ac diphthongis et
hujus modi; sed omnia scribuntur secundum communem usum, ut
quelibet conelusio facilius inueniatur . Nec aliquid queratur in literis
k . vel y nisi ymnus et moyses.” Ibid. On the recto of the first
leaf t is this prefix :
Religiosissimi uiri frls Petri de bergomo odinis pdicato^
sacre theologie jpfessoris eximii sup omla opa diuini
doctoris Thome aquinatis tabula felicit Icipit .
* He was thesirst printer atBologna : see his Ovid, as described in vol. ii.191.
t Tlie text is preceded by 2 leaves, containing an epistle froraRabanus, Bishop of Toulouse,
and another epistle from the University of Paris.
MISCELLANEOUS. [.Bolugna; 1473.
IMPRESSVM VENETIIS IN
AEDIBVS ALDI RO
MANI MENSE FE
BRVARIO AN
NO . M .
. VD .
The signatures A, B, and C, are in eights; but D has only six leaves ;
upon the reverse of the last of which is the above colophon. A full
page contains 22 lines. The present is a beautiful copy of this desir-
able little volume, and is bound in green morocco.
633. Bergomensis (Petrus). Index in Thomam
Aquinam. Printed hy jBalthasar Azoguidi.
Pologna. 1473. Folio.
Panzer appears to have been almost entirely indebted to Mittarelli
for his description of this curious and elaborate performance. ‘ Azoguidi
(says Mittarelli) about two years before had introduced, or rather
promoted,* the art of printing in his own country. The edition before
us is neat, and exhibits an elegant typographical character, but it is
deformed by tlie most extravagant sintemperantissimas] abbreviations
which occur in almost every word.’ Appdx. Bibl. Cod. Monast. St. Mich.
col. 349. He continues : ‘ The author of the table, in the lastpart of
the prefix, thus observes: “ Quinto sciendum est, quod in ista tabula
non serventur regule orthographie in aspirationibus, ac diphthongis et
hujus modi; sed omnia scribuntur secundum communem usum, ut
quelibet conelusio facilius inueniatur . Nec aliquid queratur in literis
k . vel y nisi ymnus et moyses.” Ibid. On the recto of the first
leaf t is this prefix :
Religiosissimi uiri frls Petri de bergomo odinis pdicato^
sacre theologie jpfessoris eximii sup omla opa diuini
doctoris Thome aquinatis tabula felicit Icipit .
* He was thesirst printer atBologna : see his Ovid, as described in vol. ii.191.
t Tlie text is preceded by 2 leaves, containing an epistle froraRabanus, Bishop of Toulouse,
and another epistle from the University of Paris.