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BESSARION.
189
A full page has 42 (long') lines. The arabic numerals are very abun-
dant. The type is small, and not very elegant; being similar to that
of Regerius and Bertochus in the Manilius of 1474, and to the smallest
Roman types of Ulric Han and Hailbrun. It is therefore very dis-
similar to the type used by the same printer in the Ovid of 14Jl: see
the fac-simile of this latter at p. 192 of vol. ii. The press-work must
have been exceedingly difficult, owing to the quantity and variety of
matter which is crowded into one page. There are neither signatures,
numerals, nor catchwords. On the reverse of fol. 265, andlast, beneath
the 9th line of text, we read the following colophon:
Anno dni . Mcccclxxiii. die udecimo martii ex officina
Baldaseris azoguidi Ciuis bononiensis . Bononie .
Laire has a superficial notice of this edition, in his Index Libror. vol. i.
p. 318; but neither Maittaire, Mittarelli, Laire, nor Panzer, make
mention ofany copyofit upon vellum, as isthe present copy. The
vellum is delicate, but in general badly coloured. This rare and precious
volume is bound in russia.
634. Bessarion. Contra Calumniatores Pla-
tonis. Printed hy Sweynheym and Pannartz.
Pome. TVithout Pate. Folio.
This is among the best specimens of the press of the above early
Roman printers. The page is elegant in proportion, the margin is
ample, and the Greek characters are executed with rather unusual
neatness. We may be brief, however, in our account. The first 14
leaves are occupied by a table. On the recto of the 15th leaf the work
begins, without prefix, thus :
sI]Ncidit nup in manus nostras liber ^dam : Xcc.
On the reverse of fol. 230, and last, we read the metrical colophon of 8
verses, as at page 157 ante. It appears from the authorities cited in
Panzer, vol, ii. p. 411, that this edition was executed in 1469—and it
stands in this order in the celebrated epistle of these printers pre-
fixed to their edition of De Lyra’s Commentary upon the Bible: see
vol. i. p. 160-1. The present copy, is not free from ms. memoranda and
the ravages of a worm. It is bound in russia.
BESSARION.
189
A full page has 42 (long') lines. The arabic numerals are very abun-
dant. The type is small, and not very elegant; being similar to that
of Regerius and Bertochus in the Manilius of 1474, and to the smallest
Roman types of Ulric Han and Hailbrun. It is therefore very dis-
similar to the type used by the same printer in the Ovid of 14Jl: see
the fac-simile of this latter at p. 192 of vol. ii. The press-work must
have been exceedingly difficult, owing to the quantity and variety of
matter which is crowded into one page. There are neither signatures,
numerals, nor catchwords. On the reverse of fol. 265, andlast, beneath
the 9th line of text, we read the following colophon:
Anno dni . Mcccclxxiii. die udecimo martii ex officina
Baldaseris azoguidi Ciuis bononiensis . Bononie .
Laire has a superficial notice of this edition, in his Index Libror. vol. i.
p. 318; but neither Maittaire, Mittarelli, Laire, nor Panzer, make
mention ofany copyofit upon vellum, as isthe present copy. The
vellum is delicate, but in general badly coloured. This rare and precious
volume is bound in russia.
634. Bessarion. Contra Calumniatores Pla-
tonis. Printed hy Sweynheym and Pannartz.
Pome. TVithout Pate. Folio.
This is among the best specimens of the press of the above early
Roman printers. The page is elegant in proportion, the margin is
ample, and the Greek characters are executed with rather unusual
neatness. We may be brief, however, in our account. The first 14
leaves are occupied by a table. On the recto of the 15th leaf the work
begins, without prefix, thus :
sI]Ncidit nup in manus nostras liber ^dam : Xcc.
On the reverse of fol. 230, and last, we read the metrical colophon of 8
verses, as at page 157 ante. It appears from the authorities cited in
Panzer, vol, ii. p. 411, that this edition was executed in 1469—and it
stands in this order in the celebrated epistle of these printers pre-
fixed to their edition of De Lyra’s Commentary upon the Bible: see
vol. i. p. 160-1. The present copy, is not free from ms. memoranda and
the ravages of a worm. It is bound in russia.