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Early English Literature. Miniatures. Bindings. 15
tant Missionaries have labored. Alphabetically arranged, and so
constructed as to give a particulai and central History of Missions
throughout the World; with an appendix containing an alphabetical
List of Missionaries, their Stations, the Time of entering, removal,
or decease. Woodstock (Vermont), D. Watson, 1825. 8vo. Calf. $7.50
*35 CICERO, MARCUS TULIUS.
DE OFFICIIS, PARADOXA, DE AMICITIA, DE SENECTUTE,
SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS. Naples (Arnaldus de Bruxella), 1474. Folio.
Roman type. 118 unn. leaves without sign. 34 lines. 4 initials
painted in colours with semiborders. Capitals supplied in red. Rubri-
cated throughout. Contemporary blind stamped half calf over wooden
boards. (Rcbacked’.) $ 2250.—
Hain, 5260. Pell. 3733. Fava & Bresciano, Stampa a Napoli II,
pp. 78/79.
A MAGNIFICENT AND EXCESSIVELY RARE IMPRINT
of such beauty that two of the best k n o w n
modern Printers have stated that they consider
this monument of printing superior to Jenson’s
productions. This Cicero as well as other classics printed by
Arnaldus of Brussels, is of highest importance for the scholar
because the printer used manuscripts which probably have perished,
but which ranked amongst the best manuscripts then existing. It has
not yet been definitely decided whether Arnaldus of Brussels
the humanist and savant calligrapher and copyist of manuscripts, and
Arnaldus, the excellent and equally savant printer, are identical. It
seems however from the very convincing notes of Delisle and Fava
and Bresciano, that the person who signed his imprints Arnaldus
de Bruxella and signed manuscripts as Arnaldo de L i s -
hout da Bruxelles or Arnaldo de Steccatis da
Bruxelles or Arnaldo da Bruxelles is the same.
The purity of the text of his editions, going back to very old
and invaluable manuscripts, can also be seen from the fact that
O r e 11 i used Arnold of Brussels’s edition of Cicero’s Epistulae for his
edition of the works of Cicero, which is still the Standard today.
Besides their scientific importance and beauty, the productions
of this press are remarkable for their extreme rarity. The
worldfamed H race in the John Rylands Library is unique, and of
none of the few classics Arnaldus printed do more than three copies
seem to have survived. The British Museum possesses only Lucianus.
Two more copies of this Cicero are in ex-
ist e n c e: one in the Bibliotheca Riccardiana at Florence, the other
in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris. The latter has at the beginning
a biography of Cicero (Vita Ciceronis), and therefore all bibliographers
state that a complete copy should consist of 122 leaves. Evidently
they either have not sufficiently examined these pages, or they have
merely copied the description, for the type is different from any type used
PAUL GOTTSCHALK, Berlin W. 8, Unter den Linden 3 a.
tant Missionaries have labored. Alphabetically arranged, and so
constructed as to give a particulai and central History of Missions
throughout the World; with an appendix containing an alphabetical
List of Missionaries, their Stations, the Time of entering, removal,
or decease. Woodstock (Vermont), D. Watson, 1825. 8vo. Calf. $7.50
*35 CICERO, MARCUS TULIUS.
DE OFFICIIS, PARADOXA, DE AMICITIA, DE SENECTUTE,
SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS. Naples (Arnaldus de Bruxella), 1474. Folio.
Roman type. 118 unn. leaves without sign. 34 lines. 4 initials
painted in colours with semiborders. Capitals supplied in red. Rubri-
cated throughout. Contemporary blind stamped half calf over wooden
boards. (Rcbacked’.) $ 2250.—
Hain, 5260. Pell. 3733. Fava & Bresciano, Stampa a Napoli II,
pp. 78/79.
A MAGNIFICENT AND EXCESSIVELY RARE IMPRINT
of such beauty that two of the best k n o w n
modern Printers have stated that they consider
this monument of printing superior to Jenson’s
productions. This Cicero as well as other classics printed by
Arnaldus of Brussels, is of highest importance for the scholar
because the printer used manuscripts which probably have perished,
but which ranked amongst the best manuscripts then existing. It has
not yet been definitely decided whether Arnaldus of Brussels
the humanist and savant calligrapher and copyist of manuscripts, and
Arnaldus, the excellent and equally savant printer, are identical. It
seems however from the very convincing notes of Delisle and Fava
and Bresciano, that the person who signed his imprints Arnaldus
de Bruxella and signed manuscripts as Arnaldo de L i s -
hout da Bruxelles or Arnaldo de Steccatis da
Bruxelles or Arnaldo da Bruxelles is the same.
The purity of the text of his editions, going back to very old
and invaluable manuscripts, can also be seen from the fact that
O r e 11 i used Arnold of Brussels’s edition of Cicero’s Epistulae for his
edition of the works of Cicero, which is still the Standard today.
Besides their scientific importance and beauty, the productions
of this press are remarkable for their extreme rarity. The
worldfamed H race in the John Rylands Library is unique, and of
none of the few classics Arnaldus printed do more than three copies
seem to have survived. The British Museum possesses only Lucianus.
Two more copies of this Cicero are in ex-
ist e n c e: one in the Bibliotheca Riccardiana at Florence, the other
in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris. The latter has at the beginning
a biography of Cicero (Vita Ciceronis), and therefore all bibliographers
state that a complete copy should consist of 122 leaves. Evidently
they either have not sufficiently examined these pages, or they have
merely copied the description, for the type is different from any type used
PAUL GOTTSCHALK, Berlin W. 8, Unter den Linden 3 a.
