Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Oth.]: Bibliotheca Spenceriana: or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer (Band 3) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-3]

Padua ; 1473.]

MAUROCENUS.

421

words, and numerals. There are 78 leaves, and the 7 last pages are
devoted to an account of ‘ the City of God,’ on the authority of
Lactantius. The recto of the last leaf, orthe 7th page of this treatise,
presents us with the following colophon:

FINIS.

Patauii. iiii kl’s maias. M.cccc.lxxiii.

Summa coluna dei fidei firmata potetis :

In obstinata hebreoa? perfidiaque sua.
Christocolai veneto grates hoc reddite paulo:

Et patauo qui nunc nobile pressit opus.

Bartholomaeus patauus
Martinus de septem arboribus prutenus

The reverse is blank. The variation in the colophon, before alluded
to, is the printing of the second verse thus—in the copies above men-
tioned:

In loquor hebreos, perfidiasque suas
and, beneath the last verse, the name sometimes stands as follows :

Bartholomaeus Campanus Ponticuruanus.

This book is among the earliest productions of the Padua press ; and
is a very fair and creditable specimen of the talents of Bartholomaeus,
or Martinus de S. A. Prutenus, in particular. The Pinelli eopy is
described to be in a condition as if it had * just come from the press :’
the present has not. to boast of such perfection of condition It is
bound in blue morocco.