THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES 


 
 JOHN SIBERCH 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 
 
 l886 I905 
 
 BY 
 
 ROBERT BOWES 
 
 AND 
 
 G. J. GRAY 
 
 £1 
 
 With Facfimiles of Title-pages, Colophons, Ornaments, 
 Initial Letters, Woodcuts, &c., ufed by John 
 Siberch. 
 
 
 If Printed by John Ci.ay, M.A. 
 
 Printer to the Univerfity of Cambridge 
 
 for Hubert Bowes and George Brimley Bowes, M.A. 
 
 (Macmillan and Bowes) 
 
 No. 1 Trinity Street, over againft Saint Mary's Church 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 It is now twenty-one years since I gave in " Biographical 
 Notes on University Printers " the little that was then known of 
 John Siberch the first Cambridge Printer. Two years later 
 there appeared Mr Bradshaw's Introduction to Bullock's Oratio, 
 showing the order of issue of the eight books, and the method 
 pursued in arriving at that order. In 1894 I found in the 
 Library of Trinity College, Dublin, a copy of Linacre's Galen de 
 Temperamentis differing from the other copies that I had seen, 
 and a description of which I gave in a communication to the 
 Cambridge Antiquarian Society, the 22nd of October 1894 
 {Proceedings IX. 1), and now reprint. I had a facsimile of the 
 last two leaves (Q 5, 6) made at the time by Mr Dew Smith, but 
 the issue of these was delayed, from a desire to include with 
 them the result of discoveries that had then been made, and the 
 hope that others might follow. 
 
 My own inquiries with regard to Siberch and the other early 
 Cambridge Printers had been limited to their work as Printers. 
 But Mr G. J. Gray in his work on Early Cambridge Bookbinding 
 for the admirable monograph issued by the Bibliographical 
 Society in 1904, has made many interesting discoveries, and he 
 
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 4 PREFACK. 
 
 now brings together all new matter that has come to light 
 respecting Siberch since the issue of Mr Bradshaw's Bibliography 
 in 1886. 
 
 To enumerate here all the information brought together by 
 Mr Gray is quite unnecessary. The chief interest centres in the 
 discovery of the hitherto unknown work printed by Siberch — 
 Lily & Erasmus, de octo partium orationis constructione libellus — 
 found along with two other most important fragments, the letter 
 of Peter Kaetz to Siberch, and the actual printer's " copy " of a 
 portion of Croke's Introductiones hi rudimenta Graeca, printed in 
 1520 for Siberch, and of which we know of a copy in Siberch's 
 own binding. These fragments, found along with a sheet of 
 Papyrius Gemmus, seem to bring us into direct personal contact 
 with the printer after a space of more than three hundred years. 
 
 Then along with the discovery of the two editions of Linacre's 
 Galen de Temperamentis, is the curious varying condition of the 
 vellum copies of that work. 
 
 Mr Bradshaw had noted the different impressions of the 
 woodcut border of Baldwin's Sermo, and now it has been found 
 that we have the work in two states, one of which, the only copy 
 known, is put forward as that (probably the proof) sent to the 
 Bishop of Ely to whom the work was dedicated. 
 
 The record of the existence at one time of a bond of £20 
 given to the University on behalf of Siberch seems to point to 
 his having some official connection with the University. 
 
 The Subsidy Rolls 22 April, 1523 — 21 April, 1524, show that 
 Siberch was not in Cambridge during that time. A point in 
 Siberch's later history is gained by meeting with some of his 
 binding rolls in the possession of Nicholas Spierinck, who used 
 them with his own.
 
 PREFACE. 5 
 
 Facsimiles are given in this volume of title-pages and colo- 
 phons of the books printed by Siberch which have not been 
 reproduced in facsimile — including the single page of the Lily 
 & Erasmus: ornamental borders, woodcuts, and initial letters 
 are also brought together. 
 
 With the Galen, Bullock, Augustine, and Papyrius Geminus, 
 previously issued in facsimile, this volume will give specimens 
 of each of Siberch's works, as far as our present knowledge 
 extends. 
 
 Thanks are due to many persons, especially to Mr F. J. H. 
 Jenkinson and Mr Falconer Madan, for information given to 
 myself and to Mr Gray; and to Mr A. W. Pollard on behalf of 
 the Bibliographical Society, for the loan of the facsimile from a 
 book of German Hours, 1491, printed on page 47. 
 
 ROBERT BOWES. 
 
 Cambridge, October 11, 1905.
 
 COiNTENTS. 
 
 Preface 
 
 On Linacre's Galen de Temperamentis, at Dublin, by R. Bowes 
 Notes on John Siberch, by G. J. Gray: 
 
 Prefatory remarks 
 
 § i. Number and order of the books . 
 
 § 2. Bibliographical list of books : 
 i. Henrici Bulloci oratio 
 
 2. Augustini sermo, &c. 
 
 3. Luciani ntpl St^aScoi' 
 
 Facsimile of Title-page and Colophon 
 
 4. Balduini sermo 
 
 Facsimile of Title-page and Colophon of State A 
 „ ,, Title-page, State B . 
 
 5. Erasmus, de conscribendis epistolis. 
 
 Facsimile of Title-page and Colophon 
 
 „ of Folio xxiii (proof) from Mr Bowes's 
 ments .... 
 
 6. Galen, de temperamentis . 
 
 Facsimile of sigs. Q 5, 6 of State A 
 
 7. Joannis Roffensis episcopi contio 
 
 Facsimile of Title-page and Colophon 
 
 8. Papyrii Gemini Eleatis Hermathena 
 
 9. Lily & Erasmus, de octo partium oration 
 
 libellus 
 Facsimile of signature D 
 § 3. Siberch's type, ornaments, &c 
 
 Facsimiles . 
 
 § 4. Siberch's bindings 
 
 § 5. Of Siberch himself 
 
 Notes ..... 
 
 Illustrations .... 
 
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 afte 
 
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 9 
 
 12 
 13 
 
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 14 
 14 
 
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 35,36 
 37 
 17 
 
 38,39 
 
 40 
 
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 r p. 48 
 
 25 
 41,42 
 
 2 5 
 
 25 
 43 
 26 
 44-47 
 29 
 29 
 32 
 33
 
 ON A COPY OF LINACRE'S GALEN DE TEMPERA- 
 MENTIS, CAMBRIDGE, 1521, IN THE LIBRARY 
 OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, BY ROBERT 
 BOWES. 
 
 [Read before the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 
 Monday, 22nd October, 1894.] 
 
 Being in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, a few weeks 
 since, I took the opportunity of looking at a copy which I knew 
 to be there of Linacre's Galen de Temperameiitis, printed at 
 Cambridge, by John Siberch, in 1521. I soon saw that it had 
 some features that did not belong to any of the other copies I 
 had seen, which I will shortly describe. For convenience of 
 description I will call the Dublin copy the first issue, and the 
 other copies the second issue. The first issue (Dublin) consists 
 of 74 leaves, title and preliminary matter 8 leaves + A-P 4 , 
 Q 6 , 66. The second of 82 leaves, title and preliminary matter 
 8 leaves -4- A-R 4 , S", 74. The two issues agree exactly up to 
 Q 4. In the first issue of O 5 recto the first 3 lines are the same 
 as R 1 recto of the second issue, but the remaining lines arc 
 arranged in hour-glass fashion and end with the de Tempera- 
 mentis : 
 
 Galeni de temperamcntis, Thoma Linacro Anglo interprete, 
 libri tertij, & ultimi, Finis.
 
 IO LINACRES GALEN AT DUBLIN. 
 
 On Q 5 verso is a wood-cut, the Adoration of the Shepherds, 
 with imprint below: Impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam 
 per Joannem Siberch. An. M. D. XXI. 
 
 Q 6 recto is blank. 
 
 Q 6 verso has the 8vo. block, the Anna Regia, and below 
 the date M.D. X.X.I., to which I will refer later. 
 
 It will be seen that the Dublin copy has only the first treatise 
 — the de Temperamentis — and in this it differs from the other 
 copies that are known to me. It, however, has the same title- 
 page, on which the de inequali Intemperie is mentioned, and the 
 same contents, in which appear references to folios that it does 
 not possess. From this I think we may conclude that after the 
 printing was finished, but before the book had been published, 
 Linacre determined to add the second treatise. To do this he 
 cancelled the two last leaves, 5 and 6 of Q, and began a new 
 sheet, R. This might be inferred from the fact that Q is marked 
 up to iiij as for a quire of six leaves, while all the previous sheets 
 are marked only up to iij ; but it is made quite certain from the 
 guards of the two cancelled leaves appearing quite plainly in 
 some copies. 
 
 The first issue explains some peculiarities in the printing of 
 the second. What Mr Bradshaw took for cancelled leaves, Q 3 
 and 4, are simply the original centre leaves of the sheet, but as 
 he knew nothing of a previous issue this was for him the only 
 probable explanation. The new matter, beginning on R 1, 
 differs from the previous by having the Folios marked, and 
 marginal notes. Mr Bradshaw placed the Galen sixth of those 
 printed by Siberch in 1521. This first issue exactly agrees as 
 regards the condition of the wood-cuts with the Erasmus, which
 
 LINACRE'S GALEN AT DUBLIN. II 
 
 he placed fifth, and we may therefore leave the numbers and 
 call it 5* 1 . 
 
 I alluded above to the 8vo. wood-cut Anna Regia, with the 
 date below, which is on the last page of the first issue of Q 6 
 verso. In Mr Bradshaw's introduction to the Siberch books 
 prefixed to the Bullock, there is a note on page 14. alluding to 
 a similar leaf that I found in a mutilated condition in the 
 Bagford Fragments in the British Museum, and which was 
 assigned to the Lucian, as the only Siberch book then known 
 of which a copy had not been seen with its last leaf. Having 
 compared the photograph of the last leaf in the Dublin volume 
 with this fragment, I found them to be identical ; the Bagford 
 specimen (Harl. MSS. 5929, No. 368) must therefore be assigned 
 to the first Galen, and the last leaf of the Lucian is still to seek. 
 
 Dr Noble Johnson, who wrote the life of Linacre, states that 
 a second edition of both treatises was published during Linacre's 
 lifetime : it is quite possible, therefore, that he had seen or heard 
 of this Dublin copy or of a similar one. 
 
 With regard to the wood-cut, the Adoration of the Shepherds, 
 it would be interesting to discover where it was first used, and 
 how it passed into the hands of Siberch. Sir Martin Conway 
 considers it to be " clearly a Low-Country woodcut of about 
 1485." 
 
 1 Mr Gray calls it (p. 18) State A which is a better description. 
 
 [After this was written Dr J. Frank Payne acquired a still more interesting copy 
 which is now in the library of the Royal College of Physicians, a description of which 
 is given on p. 20. K. P. 190.5.]
 
 JOHN SIBERCH: by G. J. Gray. 
 
 The publication in 1886 of the late Mr Henry Bradshaw's 
 Notes on the Books printed by John Siberch at Cambridge in 
 1521 and 1522 1 , was the first attempt towards an account of this 
 printer and the books printed by him, and would have been 
 more complete had he not been suddenly taken from us. 
 
 Mr Bradshaw's work has been gradually continued by others, 
 and the following four papers have been read before the Cam- 
 bridge Antiquarian Society : 
 
 18 Nov. 1889. ' On a unique fragment of a book printed at 
 Cambridge early in the XVIth century,' by F. J. H. 
 Jenkinson 2 . 
 20 Oct. 1890. 'On a Letter from P. Kaetz to J. Siborch, 
 Printer at Cambridge,' by F. J. H. Jenkinson 3 . 
 
 30 Nov. 1891. 'On two books printed by Siberch, in All 
 
 Souls College, Oxford,' by J. E. Foster 4 . 
 22 Oct. 1894. 'On a copy of Linacre's Galen de Tempera- 
 
 mentis, Cambridge, 1521, in the Library of Trinity 
 
 College, Dublin,' by Robert Bowes 5 . 
 
 The discoveries conveyed in these papers, with other informa- 
 tion, were summarized in The Earlier Cambridge Stationers and 
 Bookbinders and the First Cambridge Printer, by G. J. Gray, 
 issued by the Bibliographical Society in 1904. 
 
 Since this work was issued some of the copies of the known 
 books printed by Siberch have been re-examined, and new 
 information gained. 
 
 As these notes are intended to supplement those of Mr 
 Bradshaw, the same order of the Books is followed, after which 
 will follow other particulars concerning the printer and his work.
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1 3 
 
 § I. Number and order of tJie books. 
 
 Although so much information concerning the books has 
 been discovered since Mr Bradshaw ingeniously worked out the 
 order of their printing, his order remains undisturbed. 
 
 But to the eight books he described must now be added 
 another : 
 
 9. Lily & Erasmus. De octo partium orationis construclione 
 libellus. 4 , 
 
 which is described in § 2, p. 25. 
 
 § 2. Bibliographical list of the books. 
 
 1. Henrici Bulloci oratio s . 
 
 No other copies have been discovered. 
 
 The printed signature B which Mr Bradshaw says is in the 
 Bodleian copy, and not in that at Lambeth, also occurs in the 
 British Museum copy. 
 
 Leaf 8 (blank) is in neither the British Museum nor the 
 Bodleian copies. 
 
 The Bodleian copy is bound with foannis Roffensis episcopi 
 contio (see § 2, No. 7) and other tracts of the same period, 
 some printed by Pynson, 15 18. The volume is bound in plain 
 white vellum — Bodleian XVI Ith century binding — and belonged 
 to Robert Burton, author of the Anatomy of Melancholy \ and 
 passed to the Bodleian by legacy from him in 1640 7 . 
 
 The Lambeth copy is bound with Luciani irepl 8iylrd8<ov (see 
 § 2, No. 3) and three other works: the binding with R. B. on 
 sides— Archbishop Bancroft's copy.
 
 14 JOHN SIBERCH. 
 
 2. Augustini sermo, &c. 8 
 
 No other copy has been discovered. 
 
 No woodcut initials are used in this book, but space is left 
 for a 3-line U on Aij a and a 2-line N on Biiij b . In the copy 
 known the U is filled in with a pen, but the N space is left 
 blank. 
 
 The copy is bound with other pieces in half leather of 
 the first half of the XlXth century. It belonged to John 
 Selden, and presumably went with his books to the Bodleian 
 by legacy in 1659. 
 
 3. Luciani irepl BrfaScov*. 
 
 No other copies have been discovered. 
 
 No woodcut initials are used in this work, but 3-line spaces 
 were left in which the letters were printed in the ordinary capital 
 type as used in the text. 
 
 The copy in St John's College Library is bound with 
 Erasmus, de conscribendis epistolis (see § 2, No. 5) and two other 
 works of about the same date, one printed by Pynson in 1521. 
 The volume belonged at one time to Thomas Baker, the 
 historian of the College. 
 
 The fragment amongst the Bagford fragments in the British 
 Museum, supposed to have been the last leaf of this work, is 
 now stated by Mr Bowes 5 to be the last leaf of Galen, de Tempe- 
 ramentis, state A, so that the last leaf of this work has yet to be 
 found. 
 
 4. Balduini sermo de altaris sacramento. 
 
 Siberch had evidently not received all his woodcut initials 
 when this work was printed. For the first time he uses one, 
 * Facsimile of Title-page and Colophon on pp. 33, 34.
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1 5 
 
 the 6-line S on sig. Ai. 3-line spaces were left on folio i b and 
 on sig. Dij, in which were printed the initials H and E, in 
 the ordinary capital type as in the previously mentioned book 
 (L ucian). 
 
 Two sentences in Greek type are printed on Aij a . 
 Mr Bradshaw said that 'the border round the title-page 
 shows in some copies a second state.' A discovery recently 
 made adds to this statement, so that the existing copies have 
 to be re-arranged under two divisions : 
 State A*: 
 
 University Library, Cambridge, Syn. 7. 52. 20 (formerly 
 2. 40. 84). 
 State Bf: 
 
 University Library, Cambridge, Syn. 7. 52. 19 (formerly 
 
 8. 28. 9). 
 Trinity College, Cambridge, Vi c . 3. 1 (IV). 
 +A11 Souls College, Oxford, MMM. n. 14. 
 ^Peterborough Cathedral Library. 
 Bodleian, A. 15. 11. Line. 
 
 „ 4 M. 69. Art (2 leaves only). 
 Lincoln Cathedral Library (imperfect), Ii. 7. 28. 
 State A : 
 
 The copy in the University Library, in addition to the border 
 round the title being unbroken, has two words on the title-page 
 wrongly printed, which were corrected in after-copies : 
 
 Reverndissimi (state A), Reverendissimi (state B) 
 Cathuariensis „ Cantuariensis „ 
 
 * Facsimile of Title-page and Colophon on pp. 35, 36. 
 t Facsimile of Title-page on p. 37. 
 1 Additions to Mr Bradshaw's list.
 
 \6 JOHN SIBERCH. 
 
 Whilst this correction was made, another mistake remained 
 uncorrected — the catchword at the bottom of folio i b 'scribimus' 
 being carried up to the commencement of folio 2 a and printed 
 1 scridimus.' In state A ' Reverndissimi ' occupies the same 
 width as the succeeding lines on the title-page, but in state B 
 the corrected word stands out wider than the other lines. 
 This copy belonged to John Moore, Bishop of Ely, whose 
 library was given to the University by George I. Unfortunately 
 it has been rebound and the edges cut. The presence of the 
 small book-plate with the engraver's initials ' J. B.' shows that it 
 was rebound at the end of the XVIIIth century. "At the time 
 John Baldrey was working for the University, a large number of 
 the volumes given by George I required rebinding, and as Pine's 
 plates were worn out or lost, Baldrey was commissioned to 
 execute a copy of the earlier design in order to supply a book- 
 plate for the rebound volumes." 9 
 
 It seems very probable that this copy was the one sent to 
 Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely, to whom the work was dedicated. 
 
 State B : with ' Reverendissimi ' on title-page, and a small 
 break in the upper edge of the second quarter of the shield in 
 the sill of the border. 
 
 The Bodleian copy, A. 15. 11. Line, is bound with Joannis 
 Roffensis episcopi contio (see § 2, No. 7) in plain limp white 
 vellum of the XVI Ith century. It probably belonged to Thomas 
 Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, and went to the library by his legacy 
 in 1693-4. 
 
 The Bodleian copy of the first two leaves probably came out 
 of the end cover of Compendium Chronicorum Flandriae per 
 Jacobum Meyerum, Norimbergae, 1538, 4 (4. M. 69 Art), where
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1 7 
 
 they still remain. With them are (i) a strip of MS. (German 
 writing of a Latin theological work, XHIth century), and (2) two 
 leaves of a printed work Lutherus adversus Latomum, with the 
 XVIth century signature of Humfrey Hughes. 
 
 The All Souls copy is bound, with other pieces, in sheep. 
 
 The Peterborough copy is, with other works dated 1508-13, 
 in a binding of Nicholas Spierinck, a Cambridge binder who is 
 found using „,me of Siberch's rolls in conjunction with his own 
 on bindings of books dated but a few years after 1521 10 . 
 
 5. Erasmus de conscribendis epistolis*. 
 
 No other copies have been discovered. 
 
 Siberch had now command of the 6-line woodcut initials, 
 and used them as mentioned in Mr Bradshaw's notes. But the 
 C was used twice instead of only once as there stated. 
 
 The 3-line initials are still wanting. On Aiij b and Aiiij b the 
 spaces are left and the letters I and V are printed there in the 
 capital type as in the two previously described books — Lucian 
 and Baldwin. 
 
 Greek type is used in Siberch's dedication on Ai b , and in the 
 Lectori, Aiij a . 
 
 The work is folioed : ' Folium ' I, &c. ' Folium ' being at the 
 head of the left (verso) page, whilst the number is at the head of 
 the right (recto). Folium xxvn is printed XXV, and xxxvi is 
 printed XXXII. 
 
 The copy in St John's College is bound with the Lucian (see 
 § 2, No. 3) and other works, and after the Colophon has Thomas 
 Baker's note about Cambridge printing — sec facsimile on p. 39. 
 
 * Facsimile of Title-page and Colophon, pp. 38, 39.
 
 TS JOHN SIBERCH. 
 
 The copy in Corpus Christi College was bound by Nicholas 
 Spierinck, and the binding is reproduced in Gray's Cambridge 
 Stationers, plate XI. 
 
 The fragments in Mr Bowes's possession (or some of them) 
 are undoubtedly proof-sheets, for in addition to the errors of the 
 press mentioned by Mr Jenkinson, Gij and iij are printed on 
 paper with a different water-mark to that on the paper used for 
 the copies of the perfect work : Folio xxill, signature Gij is 
 reproduced in facsimile (p. 40) from Mr Bowes's fragments and 
 shows the first line different to that in copies of the complete 
 work, where it is 
 
 " rum adeptioe, Retentione, Augmento, aut incom " 
 
 6. Galeni de Temperamentis 11 . 
 
 As in the case of the Baldwin, recent discoveries necessitate 
 a rearrangement of existing copies : 
 
 State A : 
 
 Trinity College, Dublin, K. 1. 4, No. 2. 
 *Fragment of last leaf in the Bagford fragments, British 
 Museum (Harl. MSS. vol. 5929). 
 
 States A and B : 
 
 * Royal College of Physicians, London. 
 
 State B, printed on vellum : 
 
 Bodleian, Arch. D. subt. 15 (formerly 4 J. 3 Med.). 
 All Souls College, Oxford, 3. d. 3. 
 
 State B, ordinary copies : 
 
 British Museum, C. 31. e. 35. 
 
 * Additions to Mr Bradshaw's list.
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 19 
 
 *Bodleian (imperfect), Wood, 497. 
 
 *Cambridge University Library (Sandars Collection). 
 
 „ „ „ (imperfect) Syn. 7. 52. 21 
 
 (formerly Bb. 10. 9). 
 Trinity College, Cambridge, Vl c . 3. la. 
 Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Cf. 2. 18. 
 Duke of Devonshire. 
 Mr R. Bowes. 
 
 State A 
 
 has been fully described by Mr R. Bowes in his paper On Lin- 
 acre's Galen de Temperamentis' 5 (ante p. 9). 
 
 It consists of 74 leaves. Title and preliminary matter 
 8 leaves + Sigs. A — P 4 Q 6 , 66 leaves. This state contains only 
 the de Temperamentis, ending on Q 5* with the end of the text 
 arranged in hour-glass fashion f, and the lines 
 
 Galeni de temperamentis, Thoma Lina* 
 cro Anglo interprete, libri tertij, & ultimi, 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 Q 5 b contains a woodcut of the Adoration of the Shepherds, with 
 imprint below 
 
 Impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam per Io 
 annem Siberch. An. M.D.XXI. 
 
 Q6 a blank, Q6 b has the block of the Arma Regia, under which 
 is printed the date 
 
 M.D.X.X.I. 
 
 * Additions to Mr Bradshaw's list, 
 t See Facsimile at end of this work.
 
 20 JOHN SIBERCH. 
 
 Although this state A contains only the de Temperamentis, it 
 has the same title-page as that belonging to state B : 
 
 CALENI PERGAMEN* | SIS DE TEMPERA* | MENTIS, ET DE 
 IN* | AEQVALI INTEMPE | RIE LIBRI TRES | THOMA LINACRO | 
 ANGLO INTER* | PRETE .'. | &C. 
 
 as given in Mr Bradshaw's notes, and the Elenchus refers to both 
 treatises. This inconsistency is explained after an examination 
 of copies of both states. Signatures A to Q are printed on 
 paper showing from six to eight horizontal wire-marks with 
 intervening space of from \\ to if inches. The preliminary 
 eight leaves are printed on paper showing four horizontal wire- 
 marks with intervening space of about if inch, and the same 
 paper was used for signatures R and S added to the re-issue 
 which is here called state B. This proves that the whole of the 
 text of de Temperamentis was printed off before it was decided 
 to add the other treatise, and as the title-page and preliminary 
 matter had not been printed, it was decided (possibly to save 
 expense) to use the title-page and preliminary matter, containing 
 the Elenchus, &c, as printed for the re-issue (state B), with the 
 few copies of the de Temperamentis which we find in this state. 
 The copy at Trinity College, Dublin, is the one described by 
 Mr Bowes. 
 
 The copy in the Royal College of Physicians is an extremely 
 interesting one, and quite unique, as it contains all the matter of 
 the book as in state A, some of which was cancelled, and the 
 additions belonging to state B. Unfortunately the half sheet 
 with signatures Qiij and iiij is missing, but this does not lessen 
 the importance of the copy. It has at the end the book-plate 
 of Sir Francis Freeling, formerly Secretary to the Post Office
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 21 
 
 (died 1836). It was purchased at the sale of the library of 
 John D. Heaton, M.D., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and afterwards 
 presented to the Royal College of Physicians by Joseph Frank 
 Payne, M.D. 
 
 State B : 
 
 As previously suggested, when the whole of the de Tempera- 
 mentis was printed off, and before the title-page and preliminary 
 matter was printed, it was decided to add the treatise de 
 inaequali intemperie. To do this it was necessary to cancel the 
 two last leaves, Q 5 and 6, and reprint the matter, beginning a 
 new sheet (R). The cancelling was done by cutting away the 
 two leaves, and this can be seen in most copies of this state. 
 From the commencement of sheet R the work is folioed from 
 ' Fo. lxv' to lxxiij ; folio 74 (the last) is not marked. The page 
 is set up with marginal notes, a feature that does not appear 
 in the earlier portion of the work. The collation is as printed in 
 Mr Bradshaw's notes. 
 
 Whilst the Elenchus comprises the whole work, it is curious 
 to find that the Index erratorum only notes errors up to folio 
 lxiiij — the de Temperamentis only. And at the end of the 
 de inaequali intemperie is printed 
 
 Finis Tertij de Temperamentis 
 
 Thoma Linacro Anglo 
 
 Interprete. 
 
 Greek type occurs on sigs. Ii a , Kiiij a , and Rij 1 '. 
 
 Siberch's use of the 6-line C (sig. A i :i ) instead of the one he 
 generally employed can possibly be accounted for. He used a
 
 22 JOHN SIBERCH. 
 
 6-line C (with St George and the dragon) in the work (Erasmus) 
 presumably printed before this one, and also in the Fisher printed 
 next after the Galen, and yet he did not use it in either the 
 vellum or the ordinary editions of the Galen. Is it possible that 
 when the first sheet of Galen was being set up, the C (with 
 St George and the dragon) was locked up in the Erasmus which 
 might then have been in progress of printing, and so Siberch 
 was obliged to use a C of a different character which he had 
 ready to hand ? This may account for the first and only 
 appearance of this woodcut initial, with part of the border cut 
 away so as to fit in the required space. 
 
 State B, printed on vellum : 
 
 The Bodleian copy was given to the library by Dr Thomas 
 Clayton and contains the following note : 
 
 "Decemb. 2 1634. 
 
 Liber Bibliothecse Bodleianse ex dono Thomas Clayton in Medicina, 
 Doctoris & Professoris Regij nee non Collegij Pembrokiensis Magistri 
 Primi. 
 
 Ipsissimum volumen, qu6d Doctissimus ille Linacer Medicus Regius 
 et quondam Leonis Decimi condiscipulus, qui hunc Galeni Librum 
 Latinitate donavit, Regi suo Henrico 8 V0 dono obtulit. 
 
 Hunc Librum dedit Henricus 8 VUS Cuthberto Tonstallo tunc tem- 
 poris Episcopo Londinensi. Ille vero cuidam amico suo nomine 
 Spechefordo, Anno Dni 1530*. Quo mortuo (vt verisimile est) cum per 
 diversos (ita vt fit) possessores pererrasset, tandem feliciter in manus 
 prgesentis Donatoris incidit, Qui Eum Thesauro Bodleiano (Ipse Biblio- 
 thecEe Bodleianae Curator) tanquam KeifxrjXeov pretiosum perpetuo 
 asservandum concredidit." 
 
 * Altered from 1630.
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 23 
 
 At the end of the book is written : 
 
 Suw Sparchefordi dono 
 
 R. Spar. 
 Keverendi patris Chutheberti 
 Londoniensis Episcopi. An;/o christi. 1530. 
 
 Followed by another inscription, rather indistinct : 
 
 nunc ecclesiae parochialis ludlowe (?) 
 
 Est ex donatione facta per Kicardum Sp^rcheford 
 
 Archidiacomim Salopens^w xvj° Junij Anno domini 
 
 1560. 
 
 ["Richard Sparkford (Sparchesforde) ; chaplain, B.A. 1 July 15 10; 
 M.A. 21 April, 1513; rector of St Botolph Bishopsgate, London, 1525; 
 and vicar of Sawbridgeworth, Herts, 1527 ; canon of St Paul's, 1525, 
 and of York, 1534; archdeacon of Salop, 1536; and canon of Hereford, 
 1539; died 1560." Foster's Alumni Oxon., Early Series, p. 1395.] 
 
 The copy is bound in calf, by a London binder, with each 
 side stamped in a panel of two block stamps ; the lower block 
 consisting of the royal arms supported by a greyhound and a 
 dragon, one on each side, above each of which is the City of 
 London arms, with the sun on the left hand, and the moon on 
 the right ; the upper block contains a double-leaved rose with 
 pomegranate underneath, surrounded by a ribbon with the 
 quotation : 
 
 Hec rosa virtutis de celo missa sereno 
 Eternu florens regia sceptra fcret. 
 
 supported by an angel on each side, with the sun above on the 
 left, and the moon above on the right ; edges gilt.
 
 24 JOHN SIBERCH. 
 
 There is a peculiarity in these copies printed on vellum, in 
 connection with the woodcut initials. The 6-line C should have 
 been printed on folio Ai a , and a 4-line A on folio Fij b , but in 
 the Bodleian copy they do not appear, the space being left 
 vacant. In the All Souls copy the C and the A are both filled 
 in artistically with a pen. The absence of these initials in the 
 early part of the copies printed on vellum can hardly be 
 explained, as all the woodcut initials in the sheets after signature 
 F are printed as in the ordinary edition. 
 
 In the Bodleian copy a portion of the last sheet (S) is 
 wrongly printed. The sheet consists of 6 leaves ; Si, 2, 5 and 6 
 were printed off together, and S 3 and 4 also together. Folios 
 69 b 70 s 73 b and 74* would naturally be printed on the sheet 
 forming signatures S i b ij a 5 b and 6 a . This side of the sheet was 
 laid on the printing press the wrong way, so that in folding and 
 binding the book the result would be as in this copy. 
 
 It seems hardly credible that such a copy as this, with 
 initials not filled in, and a sheet wrongly printed, should be 
 presented to Henry VIII by the translator. 
 
 State B, ordinary copies: 
 
 The Bodleian copy wants the first four leaves. It is bound 
 in plain white limp vellum of the XVIth century. Bequeathed 
 to the Ashmolean by Anthony Wood in 1695, and transferred 
 to the Bodleian in 1858. 
 
 The copy in the Cambridge University Library, Syn. 7. 52. 
 21, wants the first eight leaves. It contains many manuscript 
 notes on the text. It came with Bishop Moore's library pre- 
 sented to the University by George I. Probably it was in the 
 possession of Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely, as well as the
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 25 
 
 Baldwin previously mentioned, which came to the University 
 Library in the same way. Unfortunately, like the Baldwin, it 
 was rebound at the end of the XVIIIth century, and has the 
 book-plate engraved by J. B. 
 
 7. Joannis Roffensis episcopi contio*. 
 No other copies have been discovered. 
 
 The Bodleian copy, A. 15. 11, Line, is bound with the 
 Baldwin (see § 2, No. 4); the other, 4 . B. 16. Th., is bound with 
 the Bullock (see § 2, No. 1) and other tracts of the same period. 
 
 Earl Spencer's copy is now in the John Rylands Library, in 
 Manchester. 
 
 8. Papyrii Gemini Eleatis Hermathena 1 -, 
 
 Mr Bradshaw's copy (state 1) is now in the Cambridge 
 University Library (Syn. 6. 52. 10). 
 
 fA copy of the first sheet (state 3) was found in the binding 
 of Clichtoveus, de vita et moribus sacerdotum, 15 19 (see § 2, 
 No. 9). 
 
 The British Museum copy wants leaf 26 containing the im- 
 print and devices. 
 
 The Lincoln Cathedral Library copy is of state 2. 
 
 The Titles of the three states in facsimile, and the variations 
 in the text arc given in full, with an appendix by Mr Jenkinson, 
 in the facsimile reprint". 
 
 Greek type is used on sigs. Ai-, Bi 1 , Di 1 , and Ei 1 . 
 
 9. Lily & Erasmus, de octo partium orationis constructione 
 libellus. 4". 
 
 This work is at present only represented by a single leaf (of 
 
 * Facsimile of Title-page and Colophon on pp. 41, 42. 
 t" Addition to Mr Bradshaw's list.
 
 26 JOHN SIBERCH. 
 
 sheet D) discovered by Mr E. Gordon Duff in 1889 in the 
 binding of Clichtoveus, de vita et moribas sacerdotum, Paris, 
 H. Stephanus, 15 19, in the Chapter Library at Westminster. 
 Along with it were the first sheet of the Papyrius Geminus, a 
 letter from Petrus Kaetz to Siberch 14 , and a fragment of the 
 MS. 'copy' of Croke's Introductiones in rudimenta Graeca (printed 
 1520) marked with directions for the printer 15 . 
 
 To help to identify copies of this work it may be mentioned 
 that this leaf has the signature D (see p. 43) and commences 
 with the heading 
 
 DE CONSTRVCTIONE NOMINIS. 
 
 At present we cannot say with certainty who bound this 
 work 16 . It certainly seems unlikely that these fragments of 
 printing and manuscripts would be anywhere else than in 
 Siberch's own workshop, so that we may say that it was pro- 
 bably bound by him in December 1522 (as the binding con- 
 tained a fragment of Papyrius Geminus, printed in December), 
 or shortly afterwards. 
 
 § 3. Siberclis type, ornaments, &c. 
 
 Mr Jenkinson remarks 1 that " it was undoubtedly Mr Brad- 
 shaw's intention to say something of Siberch's types and 
 ornaments, and the sources from which they probably came." 
 This investigation has not yet been made by anyone else. 
 
 The Bodleian copies oftheBullock andFis/ier are, as previously 
 mentioned (§ 2, Nos. 1, 7), bound up with other tracts of the 
 same period. Immediately after the Btdlock is Cuthberti Ton- 
 stalli in landem matrimonii oratio habita in sponsalibus Mariae 
 potentissimi regis A ngliae Henrici octavi filiae et Francisci CJiristi- 
 anissimi Francornm regis primogeniti. Impressa Londini Anno
 
 TYPES, ORNAMENTS, ETC. 27 
 
 Verbi incarnati MDXViij. Idibus Novembris per Richard 
 Pynson. The type used in this book and in Siberch's Bullock 
 seems the same, and Pynson uses a 6-line V on folio A 2 a 
 identical with the one used by Siberch. Mr Jenkinson has 
 remarked that most of the 6-line initials used by Siberch are 
 used by Pynson. 
 
 Is it probable that, instead of looking abroad for the sources 
 of the types and ornaments used by Siberch, we have a printer 
 going from Pynson to Siberch at Cambridge, and that the 
 types and initial letters came from Pynson, or from the same 
 source whence Pynson purchased his ? 
 
 Greek type was used in the Augustine, Lucian % Baldwin, 
 Erasmus, Galen, and Papyrius Geminus. 
 6-line initials (see pp. 44 — 46) : 
 
 A in Erasmus, Galen, Fisher, Papyrius Geminus. 
 
 C (with St George and the Dragon) in Erasmus, Fisher. 
 
 E in Erasmus, Papyrius Geminus. 
 
 G and H in Erasmus. 
 
 I in Erasmus, Galen. 
 
 M in Erasmus, Papyrius Geminus. 
 
 N in Erasmus, Galen, Papyrius Geminus. 
 
 O in Erasmus. 
 
 [Q] : for this the G was used inverted in Erasmus. 
 
 S in Baldwin, Erasmus. 
 
 V in Erasmus, Fisher. 
 
 C (different in character) in Galen (see p. 46). 
 4-line A in Galen (see p. 46). 
 
 Most of the 6-line initials were used by Pynson — not the last 
 mentioned C, which Mr C. E. Sayle thinks may be of local 
 origin 17 . Some are found at Abingdon in 1528 17 . The A was
 
 28 JOHN SIBERCH. 
 
 used by Wynkyn de Worde in a book of Twenty Songs, 
 I530 18 , and also the S 19 . 
 
 Woodcut border with the royal arms at foot is used as border 
 on the title-pages of Lucian, Baldwin, Erasmus, and Galen (see 
 
 PP- 33, 36, 37. 38). 
 
 Two upright woodcuts, each containing three scenes connected 
 with the Last Judgment, in canopied compartments, used on the 
 title-page of the Augustine (see p. 46). Mr Jenkinson has 
 stated that two cuts resembling them in the minutest details 
 (not however identical) form part of a set of fourteen used to 
 illustrate the Vigilie Mortuorum in an 8vo. Horae, probably 
 printed in 1490 by Mark Reynhardt of Strasburg, who printed 
 at Lyons in 1477-82, or Johann Reynhard ; since shown by 
 Mr Proctor (Bibliographical Essays, 1905, p. 29) to have been 
 printed probably at Kirchheim, along with the German book of 
 Hours mentioned in a lower paragraph. The cuts are mostly 
 the same in the two books. 
 
 At the time of Mr Bradshaw's death in 1886, the work was 
 lying in his room at King's College where Mr Jenkinson saw it. 
 It then belonged to Messrs H. Stevens and Son, by whom 
 it was afterwards sold to the British Museum. 
 
 Three narrow horizontal woodcuts are used in the various 
 states of the Papyrius Geminus. Two (1 and 2) on leaf 26 a of 
 all states, one of them (2) being used on the title of the second 
 state with (3), whilst all three are on the title of the third state 
 (see p. 47). The woodcut (1) is found used as a border in a 
 German book of Hours printed at Kirchheim, 1491 (see previous 
 paragraph). The page is given in facsimile in Mr Proctor's 
 Essays 1905, p. 32, and is included on p. 47 by permission 
 of Mr A. W Pollard, on behalf of the Bibliographical Society.
 
 BINDINGS: EIOGRAPHY. 29 
 
 Woodcut of the Adoration of the Shepherds used only in 
 state A of the Galen*. Sir W. Martin Conway considers this to 
 be "clearly a Low-Country woodcut of about 1485 " (see p. 11). 
 
 Woodcut of the Anna Regia (the sign of the house Siberch 
 lived in), used in the Baldwin, Erasmus, Galen (states A and B), 
 FisJier, and Papyrius Geminus (see p. 41). 
 
 Woodcut of the printer's initials and mark, used in the Fisher, 
 and Papyrius Geminus (see p. 42). 
 
 Siberch used the same paper for the printing of all his 
 books. The principal water-marks were the hand and star, the 
 hand alone, and a P with star. Other water-marks were the 
 Unicorn, three fleurs-de-lis on shield surmounted by a star, jug 
 with star above, three fleurs-de-lis on shield surmounted by a 
 cross, but they do not appear very often. 
 
 § 4. Siberch 's bindings. 
 
 A full description of the books bound by Siberch is given in 
 G. J. Gray's Earlier Cambridge Stationers (p. 60) with facsimiles 
 of three of the six books known, and also facsimiles of the rolls 
 used ; two of which we know were afterwards used by Nicholas 
 Spierinck in conjunction with his own rolls. On one of the 
 rolls with the I. S., he plainly and badly altered the I, by 
 stamping N over that letter. 
 
 § 5. Of Siberch himself. 
 
 There is nothing to add to the account given in Gray's 
 Earlier Cambridge Stationers. But a brief chronological sum- 
 mary is here given. 
 
 Croke's Iutrodiictioues in rudimenta Graeca was printed 
 
 See Facsimile at end of this work.
 
 30 JOHN SIBERCH. 
 
 " Coloniae in aedibus Eucharii Cervicorni, anno a Christo nato 
 MDXX mense Maio expensis providi viri domini Ioannis Laer 
 de Siborch." By the fortunate discovery of a MS. fragment of 
 the printer's "copy 15 " of this work by Mr E. Gordon Duff in the 
 binding of Clichtoveus, de vita etmoribus sacerdotum, 1519, along 
 with a fragment of the Papyrius Geminus, &c, we are led to 
 conclude that Siberch was in Cambridge when this work was 
 printed for him — the colophon is dated May 1520. 
 
 He lived in the house with the sign of the Arma Regia, on 
 ground now occupied by the Tree Court of Gonville and Caius 
 College. This explains the woodcut used by him in some of 
 the books. 
 
 From February 1521 to December 1522 we know that he 
 printed nine works — including the Lily and Erasmus \ and that 
 he bound books like other printers of his time. 
 
 He was evidently well known to the scholars then at Cam- 
 bridge, and we find him mentioned in letters of Erasmus, who, 
 according to Dr Caius, " when publicly lecturing on St Jerome 
 resided at the Anna Regia, where lived John Siberch the 
 printer." 
 
 Two of the books he printed are dedicated to Nicholas 
 West, Bishop of Ely — the Lucian, and the Baldwin. The copy 
 of Baldwin in the Cambridge University Library (state A) is 
 presumably the one sent to him by the printer; and the Galen 
 in the same Library (Syn. 7. 52. 21) may have also belonged 
 to him. 
 
 Siberch claimed (in his dedication of Baldwin to the Bishop 
 of Ely) to be the first printer of Greek in England. As shown 
 under § 3 he used Greek type in six of his books, but only in a 
 very small way.
 
 BIOGRAPHY. 3 1 
 
 About October 1521 he printed the Erasmus "cum gratia 
 et privilegio." 
 
 The record of the existence at one time of a bond for £20 
 given to the University on his behalf by Drs Ridley, Bullock, 
 Wakefield, and Maundefelde seems to point to the conclusion 
 that he may have been appointed the University Printer, and 
 so was under the protection of the University, like Garrett 
 Godfrey, Nicholas Spierinck and the other stationers of his 
 time. 
 
 He was not in Cambridge when the Subsidy Roll, 22 April 
 1523 to 21 April 1524, was made or his name would have 
 appeared thereon. But he evidently was there for some time in 
 1523, according to the letter from Peter Kaetz, which is appa- 
 rently of this date. The copy of Valla's commentationes, printed 
 at Venice, with colophon dated 10 November 1522, bound by 
 Siberch, was probably bound some little while after this date. 
 Then the copy of Clichtoveus, de vita et moribus sacerdotum, 
 15 19, containing in the covers, amongst other fragments, one of 
 Papyrius Geminus, which was printed 8 December 1522, must 
 have been bound after this date. 
 
 So that from the early part of 1523 we have no information 
 concerning Siberch, except that we find some of his binding 
 rolls in the possession of Nicholas Spierinck, a contemporary 
 Cambridge stationer, who used one along with one of his own 
 on a book dated 1536.
 
 32 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 i. Edited by F. J. H. Jenkinson, and printed as an Introduction to the 
 facsimile of Henrici Bulloci Oratio, 1521, published by Macmillan & Bowes, 
 Cambridge, 1886. pp. 12, 26. 
 
 2. Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Proceedings vii. 104. p. 12. 
 
 3. ib. vii. 188. p. 12. 
 
 4. ib. viii. 31. p. 12. 
 
 5. ib. ix. 1, reprinted at pp. 9 — 11. pp. 12, 19. 
 
 6. Facsimile, with Bibliographical Introduction by Henry Bradshaw, 
 published by Macmillan & Bowes, Cambridge, 1886. p. 13. 
 
 7. Information concerning the books in the Bodleian has been kindly 
 supplied by Mr F. Madan. p. 13. 
 
 8. Facsimile published by Macmillan & Bowes, Cambridge, 1886. p. 14. 
 
 9. W. J. Hardy's Book-plates, 1893, p. 60. p. 16. 
 
 10. G. J. Gray's Earlier Cambridge Stationers and Bookbinders, 1904. 
 p. 17. 
 
 11. Facsimile (stale B), with an Introduction by J. F. Payne, M.D., 
 published by Macmillan & Bowes, Cambridge, 1881. p. 18. 
 
 12. Facsimile published by Macmillan & Bowes, Cambridge, 1886. p. 25. 
 
 13. Published by Macmillan & Bowes, 1886. p. 25. 
 
 14. C.A.S. Proceedings, vii. 188. Facsimile in Gray's Earlier Stationers, 
 plate xxiv. p. 26. 
 
 1 5. Facsimile in Gray's Earlier Stationers, plate xxv. p. 26. 
 
 16. ib. plate xxi. p. 26. 
 
 17. Initial Letters in Early English Printed Books. Transactions of 
 Bibliographical Society vii. 29. p. 27. 
 
 18. Facsimile in British Museum Guide to the Exhibition in the King's 
 Library illustrating the History of Printing, Music-printing, and Book- 
 binding, 1901, p. 104. p. 28. 
 
 19. Facsimile 6 in R. Steele's Earliest Music Printing, 1903. p. 28.
 
 33 
 
 3. Lucian. Title-page.
 
 34 
 
 Sentcntia? aliquot, Grxcac 
 &Latinae. 
 
 Fidos amicos fratres exiftimare debes . 
 
 No eft inuenire uiuabfcp mold tia iiffa, 
 
 Deocertenullusfortunatus hoimflne 
 
 Mali's conucrfins &ipfccuadt\s malus , 
 
 Impreflumeft hocopufctilwm Can* 
 
 tabrigixjperloannem Sibercb, 
 
 Anno, M. D. XXL 
 
 3. Lucian. Colophon.
 
 35 
 
 ^ts , time wit mactcroum : fed perfc&a in ordiae 
 
 (u.Adquam gloriam nos perducat, 
 
 unumqnemque to ordinc fuo, 
 
 dcu? t quidtbenedi&us 
 infccula* 
 
 Scrmonis reucr endiis.in Chrifto patriae domi* 
 <ni,domini BaIduini,Cantuaricn(is cpifcop j , dc uc 
 nerabili altaris (acramencoitmprcfli Cantabrigia?, 
 An. ML D* XX J, finis adeft fehciflirniis. 
 
 Io. Dun. Tetraftychon. 
 Hmc fugiant facer eft caxade ftirpe libeflus 
 
 Progeni'ti,qiiorumMufancfanda doccr. 
 Hinc fugianc Din's qui nil nifi impia Myfta? 
 
 Crcdunr, ncc Chrifto>quifaaarnentadcdit. 
 
 4. Baldwin. Colophon (state A). 
 
 3~2
 
 36 
 
 &*-& 
 
 REVERNDISSIMI 
 in Chrifto patris, ac domi * 
 niydhi Balduini, Cathuail'cn 
 (is archicpifcopi^dc uenerabi 
 li,acdfuiniffimoakaris {acra 
 mento, (ermo deuotiffimus, 
 (acrajcp fcripturae floribus / 
 undiquac£ rdpcrfus. 
 
 Ex prxdara CantabrigienGaca 
 demia, An, M, D« XXI: 
 
 munm 
 
 4. Baldwin. Title-page (state A).
 
 37 
 
 £ 
 
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 (j o o o ■» 
 
 REVERENDISSIMI 
 in Chrifto patris, ac dorni * 
 ni,dni Balduini, Cantuarien 
 fis archtepifcopi,dc uenerabi 
 li,acdiuini(IimoaItaris (acra 
 memo, (crmo deuotiflimus, 
 facracp feipturae floribus 
 undiquacp refperfus. 
 
 Ex pra:c!ara Cantabngicrtfiaca 
 demia, Ail M. D. XXI 
 
 
 Jtf5 
 
 'W^L! 
 
 4. Baldwin. Title-page (state B).
 
 $* 
 
 $fr 
 
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 Libcllusde ConiaibcuUis epi» 
 ftoltfsAuiorcD. Erafmo, opus 
 obraabcodcmcGcpium/cd pru 
 mamaqa , mQX expoliricacptii, 
 ie.d liucrmiilum^iuicpmnuni 
 pro*a4 mluam 
 
 Apud prardaram Caocabrigien 
 
 kin Aeidarucdu* A iiMD.xxi; 
 
 Cum gratia & priuikgio 
 
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 5. Erasmus. Title-page.
 
 39 
 
 LXXVL 
 u c^cflator omnium ceflatorum maxinie JxlWmri 
 bi denunciatums cram, quod tu iam fexcentos an* 
 nos nihilfcribis ,muka abeunti polliritus ♦lam pa* 
 rati fecialis , pacerq? patratus. Iam hafta coni jden* 
 da,ni Scrtorius tuam caufam do&tfsirne egiflct, 
 ho Ciceroe ipfo patronus no inferior.Habebat cau 
 Gm (ane difTidiliiriam , & ludicem minfme acquu, 
 Quid cxc uiauit iiiquiesCNon negotia tua , non ta# 
 bdianorum penuriam, non perfidiam Aft a 
 enim aiiriqua (line mendatia , & te noui, 
 Pfacauit uero me, quod chiragra te 
 hborarcdioefet.Riderrmep^ 
 . cascSrdEfcufapiogal* 
 lumuoucas 
 oportet, 
 Vale. 
 FINIS, 
 
 ImprefsumCantabrigi^pcr loannem Siberch 
 Anno MR XX L Menfe 0<2obri. 
 
 Scftc* «c$e^o Soofeyg ft^.^ SW o^ otfW 
 {fM^ipiM&S fti^/g22S2S* ?^*pi2^~ 
 
 5. Erasmus. Colophon.
 
 40 
 
 an 
 
 mm adepunoc,re<toHione, jugmcnto,autincom 
 modoruroeuitauoi w prde^^diminuttQe, Eft an 
 tem duplex caufa>p\taf ip4i$,cV acceffbria* Prinri 
 palis , ut occidit hgniu 7 o» r% <_;uo pecuniae rriaxi* 
 mam fummam {pe^b*ai&\.# ^Tbriispratereanon 
 ignoras fe Clod»o,hifius.4ii7i jcoaeerrimoregra* 
 tarn facluru.Locus o^portuuus, an impohunus, Locus, 
 anguftus,amplus,nernc- ofiis, montuofusf Iongin 
 quus,an propinqui^jCeJebriSjan dcferfus ,fecer an 
 prophanus jpubKcu* ar priu^jwT * $■* &■ »dam an Mollis, 
 uijpalamanoccljkejpcrfuaCbt /. ^ntc auda* 
 derancaptibfe^infc^ens ^p^^, VdmoKanodio* 
 Materia^Fufteanglid^ara^^ '^\ ** f 9&*«**'* 
 bus*Nunc quomcn Jo rs{U9t&*&£ •*$ fn$, 
 
 uentantur^ exempla fubi ia>'n^ji N '- pa^f poUii 
 
 tri*c Cat ilina^nifihui&sjrc i .. ' iZ^mcx. fv« .- >v * 
 rir^non eft audiendus. £a emm .iolife^ , Jjiv '**,' v C1 
 ioribusmwsfum,iit(inerefiAus,idclem€r&rj: V- vVrcu 
 rinondebeatis* A torfcfeo mill's expellendus cf A ^o 
 CtcerQi quurnhsecfine teftibus dicat , quod mihi r ; ^ 
 fern per inimicus fuerit, &riobilitati C utp'ote no»f$; 
 ULis homo )infeftus*Nam ueftrrc prudentiae iudi A ^ ^rfb 
 ces eft earn poteftatem , talibus ui'ris non concedeua iudicii 
 re,ne fi$is argumentis nobiles homines drcumue A re 
 nianr»Non enim tanri (celeris frtpicfonemfinetefti Aioco ♦ 
 bus approoare debetisPf azfeitim io ic republic A caufa, 
 
 G H ca ? in 
 
 5. Erasmus. Proof-sheet of folio xxiii.
 
 41 
 
 ONTIO QVAM AN, 
 IGLICE HABVIT RE= 
 VERENDVS PATER 
 IOANNES ROFFEN. 
 ISIS EP1SCOPVS IN 
 |cefeberrimo Nobilium Ccns 
 ueiitu Londini , eo dic,quo Martini Luiheri (ai? 
 pta publico appararu in jgnem corriecfra fimt,uer* 
 ia in Latinij.per Richardum Pacarum a Screnifii= 
 mi REGIS ANGLiE SecreSs^vimm Grecc 
 & LatinePeritiflimuiiK 
 
 
 CVM GRATIA 'ET PRIVILEGICV. 
 
 7. Fisher. Title-page.
 
 4= 
 
 EXCVDEBATVR IN PRAECLA 
 
 RACANTABRIGIENSI 
 
 ACADEMIA PER 
 
 IOANNEM 
 
 SIBERCH 
 
 A°,M.D.XXI. 
 
 ♦ •♦ 
 
 7. Fisher. Colophon.
 
 43 
 
 DE CONSTRVCTJONE NOMINIS 
 
 magnopcrc placuerunf, 
 
 COMPARATiVA.jDRDO. V. 
 (?*}rnparatiua ct Superlatiuagtm cxiguu Vt,fum mi 
 norfratui,deduobus.Sum minimus fratru,deplu* 
 ribus.Et turn exponuturper inter Jnter fratre$ Velex 
 fratrib 9 .Na coparatiua cu exponuturj)quia,abIun 
 a(cifciir,Pra:ftantiorte. Eloqucrior olbus prscierqua 
 Cicerone A. qua Cicero, Additur et alter abltus figni 
 ficans modu exceflus. Eft maior te quatuor annis . 
 Digico Iato te^cerior. Mulco potior ,Muho,et Ioge 
 apponuturetluperlatiuis. Multo omnium doftilfi* 
 musJLonge peiftmus, omnium, 
 DiSTRiB VT. ET PART1TI . ORDO.VI 
 Item Nomukpartiuua^ucpartitiuepofita^ieliit quif 
 eJjquifquiSjquicucpjquida^uis itcrrogatiuLT,ct qufs 
 proal/quis, AIiqius,vtcrq?, neuter, vteruir,utercucp 
 nemo/iulIus,(oIus,vnus,medius. Quifcp hui 9 nau'o 
 iig^Vnu quodcg animantiii. Prouocat vnuquclibet 
 \ < eftru. Vtru horu mauis,accipe«Expoiiutur g inter, 
 uel ex . vnus oim .i % folu9t>Im.Mediiis duoru A, int?r 
 duos. Et dimidiii animas . Item >alter alius, et his equi* 
 pcUctiapronomiahicet ille,et aducrbiupartiro. 
 
 APPENDIX. I._ 
 
 Qyacp in his gtis fignificas totu,in ahucafu fepe ucr« 
 iijur.Quis hoiiiiuiditcEt,qi!ishouiduC.Neuter Ca 
 tonu.Et neuter CatoAnirrianium-velanimanua^alia 
 
 D, font uofavilia 
 
 9. Lily and Erasmus.
 
 44 
 
 Initials.
 
 45 
 
 Initials.
 
 4 6 
 
 
 2. Augustine : woodcuts. 
 6. Galen: initials.
 
 47 
 
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 JBf f ifcflfgr crt5uc ttcc £fi trifle 
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 4. German Book of Hours, 1491. 
 fSet- 1.. .'S.I
 
 utTOca!idum,m adhominem eft ,ex (pcdebm eo 
 
 niin,qux ex eo quod in ipiis prarpoller, dicuntur> 
 
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