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SUPPLEMENT.
501
you have the dominical year 1466. The other points need not be
dilated upon. Beneath the colophon, are 23 lines of prose—‘ so obscure
(continues Laire) that nothing can be collected from them, unless we
are to learn that the author and printer were natives of Mentz, and that
the work was the composition of a monk, for the use of the monastic
order/ The reader shall have a specimen only of its commencement:
‘ Idibus nuper septembris. qh inter cetera nostra que si elaborata
adprime forent opuscula. perspecta plurimum et fratribus non minime
profutura censisti. compendiosam satis & hanc ut aiebas gramatice
methadii.* longo iam annorum interuallo puta decennio prsetermissam.
otius perfici oportere. opido satque suadere pernisus es,’ &c. This pre-
cious volume was obtained at a price proportionate to its extraordinary
rarity. It has been lately bound in blue morocco.
96/\ Gorion (Josephus). Historia Judaica.
Hebraice. TVithout Plcice or Date. Folio.
The learned De Rossi, in his valuable Annales Hebrceo.Typogra-
phici, pt. ii. p. 114-120, has given a copious and interesting account of
this impression; which, in opposition to the received opinions of
preceding bibliographers, he considers to have been executed at
Mantua, before the year 1480—probably in 1476. The copy under
description corresponds exactly with the one noticed by De Rossi:
that is to say, it has 136 leaves, including the last blank onef—30 lines
in a full page—aud the impression is executed in double columns, (in
the Rabbinical characters) without numerals, signatures, or catchwords.
It is a volume, therefore, of no trifling value, both in a typographical
and critical point of view; sinceit presents us with a very early speci-
men of Hebrew printing, and contains a text which was frequently re-
printed in various translations. I shall present the reader with only
the commencement and termination of the text in the impression before
us. On the recto of the first leaf, leaving a space at top, and another
for the introduction of the first word we read as follows :
w m tVh
riK TVin toi
* Sic.
t Within 6 leaves of the commencement, 2 leaves are cut out in the present copy.
VOL. IV.
3 T
501
you have the dominical year 1466. The other points need not be
dilated upon. Beneath the colophon, are 23 lines of prose—‘ so obscure
(continues Laire) that nothing can be collected from them, unless we
are to learn that the author and printer were natives of Mentz, and that
the work was the composition of a monk, for the use of the monastic
order/ The reader shall have a specimen only of its commencement:
‘ Idibus nuper septembris. qh inter cetera nostra que si elaborata
adprime forent opuscula. perspecta plurimum et fratribus non minime
profutura censisti. compendiosam satis & hanc ut aiebas gramatice
methadii.* longo iam annorum interuallo puta decennio prsetermissam.
otius perfici oportere. opido satque suadere pernisus es,’ &c. This pre-
cious volume was obtained at a price proportionate to its extraordinary
rarity. It has been lately bound in blue morocco.
96/\ Gorion (Josephus). Historia Judaica.
Hebraice. TVithout Plcice or Date. Folio.
The learned De Rossi, in his valuable Annales Hebrceo.Typogra-
phici, pt. ii. p. 114-120, has given a copious and interesting account of
this impression; which, in opposition to the received opinions of
preceding bibliographers, he considers to have been executed at
Mantua, before the year 1480—probably in 1476. The copy under
description corresponds exactly with the one noticed by De Rossi:
that is to say, it has 136 leaves, including the last blank onef—30 lines
in a full page—aud the impression is executed in double columns, (in
the Rabbinical characters) without numerals, signatures, or catchwords.
It is a volume, therefore, of no trifling value, both in a typographical
and critical point of view; sinceit presents us with a very early speci-
men of Hebrew printing, and contains a text which was frequently re-
printed in various translations. I shall present the reader with only
the commencement and termination of the text in the impression before
us. On the recto of the first leaf, leaving a space at top, and another
for the introduction of the first word we read as follows :
w m tVh
riK TVin toi
* Sic.
t Within 6 leaves of the commencement, 2 leaves are cut out in the present copy.
VOL. IV.
3 T