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MISCELLANEOUS. sMentz ; 1459.
3 parts, or rather 7 books. Sorae copies have the capital initials cut in
wood; and some (as the one under description) lxave blank spaces for
the introduction of such initials by the illuminator. On the recto of
the 16‘0th and last leaf, beneath 9 iines of text, we read the ensuing
colophon—in types similar to those with which the Bible of 1462 is
executed—and two sizes larger than that of the body of the work.
It is printed in red ink, and is as follows :
$rc£cn.0 rnconalitj tr’inois coticr officoif
Ocnustatc capitalisi OccoratuO. ruliricati-
onifiugqst Oistinctu.O. ^Crtisicio^aatiinustio-
nc imprimcntii ac caractcri$an&i:
calami craration gic csfigiattt^. €t ati cu>
^cfiiam tici intiugtric c£t tfumatug pcr
JjCofjannc fuot ciuc Si9agutinu$. €t pctru
€»cms$fjc|mL* Clcricum tiioccs’ ciugiicm.
3snno tini ^illcsimo quatiringcntcoimo
quiquagcoimonono. &zi tiic <£>ctofcri£.
Hence it appears that this is the third book printed with a date; the
Psalter of 1459 having been printed in the month of August in the
same year. Maittaire and Wiirdtwein are comparatively superficial.
The copy in the Crevenna Collection was perfect, but mildewed; and
was sold for only 920 ssorins. The copy in the Lomenie Collection,
both for size, condition, and binding, appears to have been most
desirable; and was sold for 3400 livres. See Laire, ibii. All the
known copies, like the present, are printed upon vellum ; but Wiirdt-
wein, apparently upon the authority os V. F. de Gudenis, Recens. Cod.
Mogunt. in Bibl. Cathed. Syl. i. p. 401, notices a copy in the Cathedral
Library at Mentz, partly vellum and partly paper ; but I suspect that the
paper leaves are not printed in the type of Fust and Schoeffer. Bibl.
Mogunt. p. 65. The copy under description may vie with any hitherto
known. It is very large and clean, and bound in blue morocco.
* Wiirdtwein thinks the words * Schoiffher de’ were omitted by the carelessness of the
workmen.
MISCELLANEOUS. sMentz ; 1459.
3 parts, or rather 7 books. Sorae copies have the capital initials cut in
wood; and some (as the one under description) lxave blank spaces for
the introduction of such initials by the illuminator. On the recto of
the 16‘0th and last leaf, beneath 9 iines of text, we read the ensuing
colophon—in types similar to those with which the Bible of 1462 is
executed—and two sizes larger than that of the body of the work.
It is printed in red ink, and is as follows :
$rc£cn.0 rnconalitj tr’inois coticr officoif
Ocnustatc capitalisi OccoratuO. ruliricati-
onifiugqst Oistinctu.O. ^Crtisicio^aatiinustio-
nc imprimcntii ac caractcri$an&i:
calami craration gic csfigiattt^. €t ati cu>
^cfiiam tici intiugtric c£t tfumatug pcr
JjCofjannc fuot ciuc Si9agutinu$. €t pctru
€»cms$fjc|mL* Clcricum tiioccs’ ciugiicm.
3snno tini ^illcsimo quatiringcntcoimo
quiquagcoimonono. &zi tiic <£>ctofcri£.
Hence it appears that this is the third book printed with a date; the
Psalter of 1459 having been printed in the month of August in the
same year. Maittaire and Wiirdtwein are comparatively superficial.
The copy in the Crevenna Collection was perfect, but mildewed; and
was sold for only 920 ssorins. The copy in the Lomenie Collection,
both for size, condition, and binding, appears to have been most
desirable; and was sold for 3400 livres. See Laire, ibii. All the
known copies, like the present, are printed upon vellum ; but Wiirdt-
wein, apparently upon the authority os V. F. de Gudenis, Recens. Cod.
Mogunt. in Bibl. Cathed. Syl. i. p. 401, notices a copy in the Cathedral
Library at Mentz, partly vellum and partly paper ; but I suspect that the
paper leaves are not printed in the type of Fust and Schoeffer. Bibl.
Mogunt. p. 65. The copy under description may vie with any hitherto
known. It is very large and clean, and bound in blue morocco.
* Wiirdtwein thinks the words * Schoiffher de’ were omitted by the carelessness of the
workmen.