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%\0 SPECULUM HUMANAE SALVATIONIS. [chap.
I had reason to flatter myself* would put me in possession of the
information sought for. Being aware of the possibility that my
queries might be put into the hands of a decided partizan of Coster,
and, perhaps, a strenuous supporter of the hypothesis of Meerman,
I took care not to preface them by any thing which might lead
my then unknown correspondent to suppose that their writer had
any particular doubts as to the priority of the edition which Meer-
man has taken so much pains to prove to be the first. The ques-
tions, as to the fractures in the blocks, were confined to six in
number ; which, with the answers received, are here inserted.
Query 1.—In the impression of the Second Cut, in the first Latin
edition of the Speculum, the base of the central pillar, dividing the
two subjects, has one of its perpendicular lines wanting: thus—
Is this line wanting in thefirst Dutch, and in the second Latin edition ?
Answer.—" The part of the line, marked with points,* is open in
" the first Dutch" as above, " but complete in the second Latin edi-
" tion;"—thus:
■,iHIIII^C.
that at Leyden, and Correspondent of the
Dutch Institute. Mr. Westreenen had the
goodness to forward my queries to his corres-
pondent at Harlem, the learned bookseller
and poet, Loorjes, and to transmit me the
answers here given. I regret that I have not
had the opportunity of seeing a work upon the
discovery of printing, which Mr. Westreenen
informs me he himself published in 1809.
* In my letter to Holland, I had used points
to mark the vacant places concerning which I
desired to be informed, in order to fix the at-
tention of my correspondent to those particulars
the more effectually. They are here omitted.
I had reason to flatter myself* would put me in possession of the
information sought for. Being aware of the possibility that my
queries might be put into the hands of a decided partizan of Coster,
and, perhaps, a strenuous supporter of the hypothesis of Meerman,
I took care not to preface them by any thing which might lead
my then unknown correspondent to suppose that their writer had
any particular doubts as to the priority of the edition which Meer-
man has taken so much pains to prove to be the first. The ques-
tions, as to the fractures in the blocks, were confined to six in
number ; which, with the answers received, are here inserted.
Query 1.—In the impression of the Second Cut, in the first Latin
edition of the Speculum, the base of the central pillar, dividing the
two subjects, has one of its perpendicular lines wanting: thus—
Is this line wanting in thefirst Dutch, and in the second Latin edition ?
Answer.—" The part of the line, marked with points,* is open in
" the first Dutch" as above, " but complete in the second Latin edi-
" tion;"—thus:
■,iHIIII^C.
that at Leyden, and Correspondent of the
Dutch Institute. Mr. Westreenen had the
goodness to forward my queries to his corres-
pondent at Harlem, the learned bookseller
and poet, Loorjes, and to transmit me the
answers here given. I regret that I have not
had the opportunity of seeing a work upon the
discovery of printing, which Mr. Westreenen
informs me he himself published in 1809.
* In my letter to Holland, I had used points
to mark the vacant places concerning which I
desired to be informed, in order to fix the at-
tention of my correspondent to those particulars
the more effectually. They are here omitted.