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MISCELLANEOUS. [Florence; 1497.
797. Zenobius. Epitome Proverbiorum Tar-
rhaei, &c. Gr. Printed hy Philip Junta.
Florence. 1497- Quarto.
Editio Princeps. We at length reach the last article in the copious
and perplexing department of Miscellaneous Authors. This first
specimen of the Junta press enables us to make rather an interesting
conclusion; since it was unknown to Fabricius, and has been
so briefly described by Maittaire, that we may doubt wliether he
ever saw it. Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 637• Panzer, in his 4th vol.
p. 313, has, by the aid of Fossi, (Bibl. Magliabech. vol. ii. col. 841)
given a much better description of it than in his first vol. p. 427.
Bandini designates the edition as * very rareand observes that, as
well as the copy in his own library, there are copies in the Magliabecchi,
Bodleian, and Royal Society, Collections. Annal. Juntar. pt. ii. p. 1.
He is tolerably particular in his description. Mr. Beloe, in his Anec-
a &
dotes of Literature, Src.vol. iv.p. 351, has given some account of it; justly
observing, that the prefatory epistle of Ricardinus, leads us to expect
that the same editor contemplated an edition of Aristophanes (which
he never published) and that the types of this impression ‘ entirely
resemble ’ those of the Orpheus of 1500, noticed at vol. ii. p. 189 ante.
They are, in fact, the same Greek characters with which the first
iEsop, and the first Homer are printed; and it is extraordinary that
the Juntae should have made no other use of them before the year 1500.
At least we have, at present, no testimony of such intermediate use of
them.
Bandini tells us that this volume contains 65 leaves; but there are
66 leaves in the copy under description—as each of them is marked
with a pen on the recto. It is evident that the prefatory epistle was
printed subsequently to the body of the work—both because it has no
signature, and because it contains a notice of errata. It is printed in
a rude, and 9ather large Gothic character, having this prefix:
CSHtr fteucretm i cf)ri£to ijominft ^eorgiu 2Da
tfju canonicu floratfinft: ac taicariu epi arretini
fcignifeimu: 23cnctiicti ricartiini florentiiti
epi^toia.
MISCELLANEOUS. [Florence; 1497.
797. Zenobius. Epitome Proverbiorum Tar-
rhaei, &c. Gr. Printed hy Philip Junta.
Florence. 1497- Quarto.
Editio Princeps. We at length reach the last article in the copious
and perplexing department of Miscellaneous Authors. This first
specimen of the Junta press enables us to make rather an interesting
conclusion; since it was unknown to Fabricius, and has been
so briefly described by Maittaire, that we may doubt wliether he
ever saw it. Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 637• Panzer, in his 4th vol.
p. 313, has, by the aid of Fossi, (Bibl. Magliabech. vol. ii. col. 841)
given a much better description of it than in his first vol. p. 427.
Bandini designates the edition as * very rareand observes that, as
well as the copy in his own library, there are copies in the Magliabecchi,
Bodleian, and Royal Society, Collections. Annal. Juntar. pt. ii. p. 1.
He is tolerably particular in his description. Mr. Beloe, in his Anec-
a &
dotes of Literature, Src.vol. iv.p. 351, has given some account of it; justly
observing, that the prefatory epistle of Ricardinus, leads us to expect
that the same editor contemplated an edition of Aristophanes (which
he never published) and that the types of this impression ‘ entirely
resemble ’ those of the Orpheus of 1500, noticed at vol. ii. p. 189 ante.
They are, in fact, the same Greek characters with which the first
iEsop, and the first Homer are printed; and it is extraordinary that
the Juntae should have made no other use of them before the year 1500.
At least we have, at present, no testimony of such intermediate use of
them.
Bandini tells us that this volume contains 65 leaves; but there are
66 leaves in the copy under description—as each of them is marked
with a pen on the recto. It is evident that the prefatory epistle was
printed subsequently to the body of the work—both because it has no
signature, and because it contains a notice of errata. It is printed in
a rude, and 9ather large Gothic character, having this prefix:
CSHtr fteucretm i cf)ri£to ijominft ^eorgiu 2Da
tfju canonicu floratfinft: ac taicariu epi arretini
fcignifeimu: 23cnctiicti ricartiini florentiiti
epi^toia.