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chap, in.] SPECULUM HUMANAE SALVATIONIS.
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are not true, and the admission of consequences which do not ne-
cessarily follow those premises.
Enough has been already said to prove that Junius was not the
inventor of the traditions which he recorded; and that, without
outrage to probability, those traditions may readily be supposed
to have been preserved and handed down in the way which he and
the other writers, who have been cited, describe. I shall now offer
two or three remarks on some of the particulars of Junius's account;
which, far from meriting the title of romance, by which Lambinet
and many other writers have designated it, bears very strong marks
of genuine testimony.
" Habitavit ante annos centum duodetriginta Harlemi in aedibus
" satis splendidis, &c.—Laurentius Joannes cognomento Aedituus
" Custosve, (quod tunc opimum et honorificum munus familia eo
" nomine clara haereditario jure possidebat) &c."
Junius, it appears, was in error when he asserted that the office
of Custos (Coster) was hereditary in the family of Laurent Janszoon;
but this trifling incorrectness can in no wise impeach the verity of
his narrative generally: that Laurent Janszoon was really the
Custos of the church of St. Bavon, at Harlem, appeasr from the
registers of that church, of the years 1423-1426-1432, and 1433,
and it is very probable that, in consequence of his office, he was often
called by the surname of Coster.
" Is forte in suburbano nemore spatiatus (ut solent, &c.) coepit
" faginos cortices principio in literarum typos conformare," &c.
It has been urged, in objection to this passage, that the bark
of the beech-tree is unfit for the purpose of making letters for
printing; being soft, when it is green ; and too brittle to withstand
the force of the press, when dry. To this objection, it may be
answered, that Junius does not assert that these small sentences
were printed with a press:—they might have been printed, letter
by letter, with the hand; and the letters might have been cut on
square pieces of the bark of the beech-tree, prepared for the purpose,
" ith a certain thickness of the solid wood attached to them, so as
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are not true, and the admission of consequences which do not ne-
cessarily follow those premises.
Enough has been already said to prove that Junius was not the
inventor of the traditions which he recorded; and that, without
outrage to probability, those traditions may readily be supposed
to have been preserved and handed down in the way which he and
the other writers, who have been cited, describe. I shall now offer
two or three remarks on some of the particulars of Junius's account;
which, far from meriting the title of romance, by which Lambinet
and many other writers have designated it, bears very strong marks
of genuine testimony.
" Habitavit ante annos centum duodetriginta Harlemi in aedibus
" satis splendidis, &c.—Laurentius Joannes cognomento Aedituus
" Custosve, (quod tunc opimum et honorificum munus familia eo
" nomine clara haereditario jure possidebat) &c."
Junius, it appears, was in error when he asserted that the office
of Custos (Coster) was hereditary in the family of Laurent Janszoon;
but this trifling incorrectness can in no wise impeach the verity of
his narrative generally: that Laurent Janszoon was really the
Custos of the church of St. Bavon, at Harlem, appeasr from the
registers of that church, of the years 1423-1426-1432, and 1433,
and it is very probable that, in consequence of his office, he was often
called by the surname of Coster.
" Is forte in suburbano nemore spatiatus (ut solent, &c.) coepit
" faginos cortices principio in literarum typos conformare," &c.
It has been urged, in objection to this passage, that the bark
of the beech-tree is unfit for the purpose of making letters for
printing; being soft, when it is green ; and too brittle to withstand
the force of the press, when dry. To this objection, it may be
answered, that Junius does not assert that these small sentences
were printed with a press:—they might have been printed, letter
by letter, with the hand; and the letters might have been cut on
square pieces of the bark of the beech-tree, prepared for the purpose,
" ith a certain thickness of the solid wood attached to them, so as
2 c 2