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LIST
OF THE
FAC-SIMILES TN LITHOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATING THE
VARIOUS STYLES OF HAND-WRITING
USED BY
PHILIP MELANCTHON.
PLATE I—facing the Title.
These specimens have been selected from various portions, as
stated, of Melancthon’s Common Place Book, No. 4637; many
others might have been given, as will be observed by the reader in
the examination of that extraordinary volume; for example, see
pages 120, 330, 410-23, 491, &c. 499, 604, 829, &c.
The signatures at the bottom are taken from pages 461, 184, 546,
and 810.
PLATE II—page 50.
No. I, II, III, and IV are from the Latin Bible, No. 710, to which the
reader is referred to the note there given. A careful and minute
examination of the volume itself will, it is believed, satisfactorily
shew the correctness of the observations on the peculiar character
of the writing.
On reference to the Catalogue, No. 3147, from which No. 5 and 6 have
been taken, no reference is made of the MS. notes by Melancthon:
this circumstance was owing to some accident, as the numerous
interlineary gloss with which the greater part of the text is illus-
trated, is beautifully written, and very much corresponding with that
and of the notes in No. 710- The specimen, No. 6, shewing the
imitation of the type, is also very curious.
No. VII.—The reader is here presented with, probably, the most minute
and beautiful specimen from Melancthon’s pen ; and in which
a few words are written in imitation of type.
No. VIII.—On the recto of the leaf from which this specimen is taken,
is an epigram, written by Melancthon, in imitation of type.
No. IX.—The selection of this peculiar style of writing was given to
shew the similarity between the word “Philippus” and Melanc-
thon’s signature at the bottom of Plate I.
OF THE
FAC-SIMILES TN LITHOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATING THE
VARIOUS STYLES OF HAND-WRITING
USED BY
PHILIP MELANCTHON.
PLATE I—facing the Title.
These specimens have been selected from various portions, as
stated, of Melancthon’s Common Place Book, No. 4637; many
others might have been given, as will be observed by the reader in
the examination of that extraordinary volume; for example, see
pages 120, 330, 410-23, 491, &c. 499, 604, 829, &c.
The signatures at the bottom are taken from pages 461, 184, 546,
and 810.
PLATE II—page 50.
No. I, II, III, and IV are from the Latin Bible, No. 710, to which the
reader is referred to the note there given. A careful and minute
examination of the volume itself will, it is believed, satisfactorily
shew the correctness of the observations on the peculiar character
of the writing.
On reference to the Catalogue, No. 3147, from which No. 5 and 6 have
been taken, no reference is made of the MS. notes by Melancthon:
this circumstance was owing to some accident, as the numerous
interlineary gloss with which the greater part of the text is illus-
trated, is beautifully written, and very much corresponding with that
and of the notes in No. 710- The specimen, No. 6, shewing the
imitation of the type, is also very curious.
No. VII.—The reader is here presented with, probably, the most minute
and beautiful specimen from Melancthon’s pen ; and in which
a few words are written in imitation of type.
No. VIII.—On the recto of the leaf from which this specimen is taken,
is an epigram, written by Melancthon, in imitation of type.
No. IX.—The selection of this peculiar style of writing was given to
shew the similarity between the word “Philippus” and Melanc-
thon’s signature at the bottom of Plate I.