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S UPPLEMENT.
966. Grammatica Rhythmica. Printed hy Fust
and Schoeffer. Mentz. 1466. Folio.
Editio Princeps. It is not without reason that Wurdtwein pro-
nounces this book to be * cimelium summae raritatis since it is
questionable whether any volume from the office of the first Mentz
printers—including even the Psalter of 1457—exceed it on the score
of mere rarity. The copy under description was obtained from a
quarter * from which Wurdtwein received his aceount of the impres-
sion; and the only other known copy is tliat which was purchased at
the sale of the Lomenie library, for 3300 livres, for the Royal Library
at Paris. Accordingly, it is only in the Bibl. Mogunt. p. 86-7, and Index
Libror, vol. i. p. 62, t.hat any satisfactory account of it will be found:
as Zapf and Denis are only copyists of their predecessors: Suppl.
Maitt. p. 1; Aelteste Buchdruckergeschichte von Mainz, p. 38. Iteferring
the reader to a description of the second impression of 146S, (also of
excessive rarity) in vol. iii. p. 69, we proceed to make him acquainted
with the one before us.
This edition is a thin volume, or tract, of only 11 leaves ;f executed in
the smallest fount of letter of the printers. The first page, which is a full
one, contains 51 lines. It has no prefix, but the firstline is as follows :
<9 pri4 et’m£ fbng teiuate btatefirib* f otttib afi int’mb
nuc rutila ttntfirib.
On the reverse of the 11th and last leaf, beneath the 13th line of
text, we read the ensuing eolophon, from which the date of the impres-
sion is obtained:
5ictib ttrbcni iufiilaniinig octo fiib annib
$£oguncia rtni me ton&it t impimit arnnib
f)inc na^artm bontt otia ora ioijannib
bereni luminib cbf btatutigo gtnnib.
The year, the place, and the printer (says Laire) are comprehenaed
in these verses. A jubilee is 50 years : twenty-nine times 50 years
gives us the year 1450 : to which, add twice eight, or sixteen yeai’s, and
* From the Library of the College of St. Bartholomew, Franckfort.
t It has no second part—beginning r Superioribus nuper diebus’—as in the edition of 1468.
S UPPLEMENT.
966. Grammatica Rhythmica. Printed hy Fust
and Schoeffer. Mentz. 1466. Folio.
Editio Princeps. It is not without reason that Wurdtwein pro-
nounces this book to be * cimelium summae raritatis since it is
questionable whether any volume from the office of the first Mentz
printers—including even the Psalter of 1457—exceed it on the score
of mere rarity. The copy under description was obtained from a
quarter * from which Wurdtwein received his aceount of the impres-
sion; and the only other known copy is tliat which was purchased at
the sale of the Lomenie library, for 3300 livres, for the Royal Library
at Paris. Accordingly, it is only in the Bibl. Mogunt. p. 86-7, and Index
Libror, vol. i. p. 62, t.hat any satisfactory account of it will be found:
as Zapf and Denis are only copyists of their predecessors: Suppl.
Maitt. p. 1; Aelteste Buchdruckergeschichte von Mainz, p. 38. Iteferring
the reader to a description of the second impression of 146S, (also of
excessive rarity) in vol. iii. p. 69, we proceed to make him acquainted
with the one before us.
This edition is a thin volume, or tract, of only 11 leaves ;f executed in
the smallest fount of letter of the printers. The first page, which is a full
one, contains 51 lines. It has no prefix, but the firstline is as follows :
<9 pri4 et’m£ fbng teiuate btatefirib* f otttib afi int’mb
nuc rutila ttntfirib.
On the reverse of the 11th and last leaf, beneath the 13th line of
text, we read the ensuing eolophon, from which the date of the impres-
sion is obtained:
5ictib ttrbcni iufiilaniinig octo fiib annib
$£oguncia rtni me ton&it t impimit arnnib
f)inc na^artm bontt otia ora ioijannib
bereni luminib cbf btatutigo gtnnib.
The year, the place, and the printer (says Laire) are comprehenaed
in these verses. A jubilee is 50 years : twenty-nine times 50 years
gives us the year 1450 : to which, add twice eight, or sixteen yeai’s, and
* From the Library of the College of St. Bartholomew, Franckfort.
t It has no second part—beginning r Superioribus nuper diebus’—as in the edition of 1468.