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Without Date.] SPECULUM HUM. SALV.
9
On the reverse is a short epistle from Franciscus Philelphus to the
author, with the following' date at bottom :
Mediolani ex asdibus nostris sixto Idus luniaSj M.cccc.
Ixxviiii.
The reader will do well to consult Saxius’s Hist. Liter.Typog. col, ccii,
p. cccclxxiv-v—dlxxi, where there is a good account of the labours
of Simoneta, and where the above-mentioned preface of the author,
and the epistle of Philelphus, are extracted. Saxius thinks the edition
itself should bear date 14S0. He observes, also, that the original MS.
of the work is yet among the descendants of the author. The present
may be called a fine and desirable copy : in russia binding.
780. Speculum Humanje Salvationis ; Lat. et
Germ. (Printed hy Gunther or lohn Zainer.)
IVithout Plaee, or Pate. Folio.
Tlie noble Owner of this very curious and uncommon book has
prefixed to it the following memorandum, in pencil, on the fly leaf.
£ Vid. Panzer Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 133 ; Ejusd. Annal. clcr altem
Deutschen Lilterat. p. 6; Heinecken, Idde Gdnerale, &c. p. 464;
Seemiller, Incunab. Typog. fctsc. i. p. l c25 ; Denis, Suppl. p. 489,
n°. 4185 ; and Braun, Notit. Hist. Lit., &c. pt. i. p. 37- The preceding
authors (continues his Lordship) attribute this book to the press of
Gunther Zainer, at Augsbourg. Its character resembles that of some
of the books by this printer, but the same cliaracter was also used by
John Zainer. [see fac-simile, p. 242, of vol. i.] at Ulm, and it there-
fore remains doubtful to which of these two printers it belongs. If it
could be supposed that the three last lines of the book [see post.] relate
to the printer, rather than to the author of the Abridgement at the end
of it, it would determine the question by ascertaining it to be J ohn,
and not Gunther, Zainer/* As this point will perhaps ever remain
* The earliest books which I have discovered, with tlie name of JohnZainer subjoined,
are those of Boccaccio de Clans Midieribus, of the date of 1473, and an edition of what
we call Patient Grisel, without date, but executed in the same character. My friend Mr.
Douce possesses a fme copy of each of these very rare and curious volumes, and a copy of
the first work is in the library of the Marquis of Exeter, at Burleigh Ilouse in Northamp-
9
On the reverse is a short epistle from Franciscus Philelphus to the
author, with the following' date at bottom :
Mediolani ex asdibus nostris sixto Idus luniaSj M.cccc.
Ixxviiii.
The reader will do well to consult Saxius’s Hist. Liter.Typog. col, ccii,
p. cccclxxiv-v—dlxxi, where there is a good account of the labours
of Simoneta, and where the above-mentioned preface of the author,
and the epistle of Philelphus, are extracted. Saxius thinks the edition
itself should bear date 14S0. He observes, also, that the original MS.
of the work is yet among the descendants of the author. The present
may be called a fine and desirable copy : in russia binding.
780. Speculum Humanje Salvationis ; Lat. et
Germ. (Printed hy Gunther or lohn Zainer.)
IVithout Plaee, or Pate. Folio.
Tlie noble Owner of this very curious and uncommon book has
prefixed to it the following memorandum, in pencil, on the fly leaf.
£ Vid. Panzer Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 133 ; Ejusd. Annal. clcr altem
Deutschen Lilterat. p. 6; Heinecken, Idde Gdnerale, &c. p. 464;
Seemiller, Incunab. Typog. fctsc. i. p. l c25 ; Denis, Suppl. p. 489,
n°. 4185 ; and Braun, Notit. Hist. Lit., &c. pt. i. p. 37- The preceding
authors (continues his Lordship) attribute this book to the press of
Gunther Zainer, at Augsbourg. Its character resembles that of some
of the books by this printer, but the same cliaracter was also used by
John Zainer. [see fac-simile, p. 242, of vol. i.] at Ulm, and it there-
fore remains doubtful to which of these two printers it belongs. If it
could be supposed that the three last lines of the book [see post.] relate
to the printer, rather than to the author of the Abridgement at the end
of it, it would determine the question by ascertaining it to be J ohn,
and not Gunther, Zainer/* As this point will perhaps ever remain
* The earliest books which I have discovered, with tlie name of JohnZainer subjoined,
are those of Boccaccio de Clans Midieribus, of the date of 1473, and an edition of what
we call Patient Grisel, without date, but executed in the same character. My friend Mr.
Douce possesses a fme copy of each of these very rare and curious volumes, and a copy of
the first work is in the library of the Marquis of Exeter, at Burleigh Ilouse in Northamp-