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Mantua ; 1479.]
EUSEBIUS.
309
685. Eusebius. HistomaEcclesiastica. Latine.
Printed by Schallus. Mantua. 1479. Folio.
The printer of this work was a physician.* Tlie volumes which
issued from his press are of equal beauty and rarity; and it is seldom
that we behold a more elegant specimen of ancient typography than
that which is now before us. The types are a mixture of those used
at the early Milan and Parma presses : being, bowever, taller and
more beautiful than either of them. As Mittarelli has justly observed,
Schallus was ignorant of the previous impressions of 1474 and 1476;
or he would not, in his prefatory address to Frederic Gonzaga, sMantua-
norum Princeps ’] have said that he had first rescued his author from
the dust and obscurity of antiquity. If, howevei', Schallus has con-
sulted unknown MSS. of the version of Rufinus, his edition is the
more estimable. On the reverse of the first leaf, is the address to
Gonzaga: towards the end of which, at the bottom of the second page,
the editor and printer thus remarks :
----- Huius ego
libri multiplicem utilitatem. uberrimam frugem.
8c modestis ac piis ingeniis profuturam lectionem in>
telligens. ignorari eum 8c intenebris iacentem. situ
blattisq; consumi ferre non potui. sed instaurari.
ac diuino nuper inuenti magisterii beneficio mul
tiplicari. 8c uelut ex una uite multis per propagines
palmitibus educatis uineam conficere curaui. 8cc.
The heads of the chapters occupy the 6 following leaves; the pro-
logue of Rufinus filling the recto of the 9th leaf. Then, on the recto
of the 11th, is this prefix to the text of the version :
* See the conclusion of the colophon to the Scrutinitjm Scripturarum, executed by
Schallus in 1475:
Hoc opus impressit rerum scrutinia Schallus
Iohannes doctor artis Apollinee
Panzer, vol. ii. p. 4-5. It is probably upon the strength of this that Schoenneman remarks:
‘ Ioh. Schallus Germanus, arte pariter ac Lignamineus medicus, vtrumque et curam et typos
liovae editioni accomodauit.’ &c. Bibl. Patrum. Latinor. vol. i. p. 594.
EUSEBIUS.
309
685. Eusebius. HistomaEcclesiastica. Latine.
Printed by Schallus. Mantua. 1479. Folio.
The printer of this work was a physician.* Tlie volumes which
issued from his press are of equal beauty and rarity; and it is seldom
that we behold a more elegant specimen of ancient typography than
that which is now before us. The types are a mixture of those used
at the early Milan and Parma presses : being, bowever, taller and
more beautiful than either of them. As Mittarelli has justly observed,
Schallus was ignorant of the previous impressions of 1474 and 1476;
or he would not, in his prefatory address to Frederic Gonzaga, sMantua-
norum Princeps ’] have said that he had first rescued his author from
the dust and obscurity of antiquity. If, howevei', Schallus has con-
sulted unknown MSS. of the version of Rufinus, his edition is the
more estimable. On the reverse of the first leaf, is the address to
Gonzaga: towards the end of which, at the bottom of the second page,
the editor and printer thus remarks :
----- Huius ego
libri multiplicem utilitatem. uberrimam frugem.
8c modestis ac piis ingeniis profuturam lectionem in>
telligens. ignorari eum 8c intenebris iacentem. situ
blattisq; consumi ferre non potui. sed instaurari.
ac diuino nuper inuenti magisterii beneficio mul
tiplicari. 8c uelut ex una uite multis per propagines
palmitibus educatis uineam conficere curaui. 8cc.
The heads of the chapters occupy the 6 following leaves; the pro-
logue of Rufinus filling the recto of the 9th leaf. Then, on the recto
of the 11th, is this prefix to the text of the version :
* See the conclusion of the colophon to the Scrutinitjm Scripturarum, executed by
Schallus in 1475:
Hoc opus impressit rerum scrutinia Schallus
Iohannes doctor artis Apollinee
Panzer, vol. ii. p. 4-5. It is probably upon the strength of this that Schoenneman remarks:
‘ Ioh. Schallus Germanus, arte pariter ac Lignamineus medicus, vtrumque et curam et typos
liovae editioni accomodauit.’ &c. Bibl. Patrum. Latinor. vol. i. p. 594.