LIBRARY "Sag?*" $\H 3 3 -J iWIVtRSllY UF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO .UJQtU. CAUFORWA CATALOGUE OF EAELY PRINTED BOOKS CATALOGUE OF THE William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books IN THE LIBRARY OF YALE UNIVERSITY NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MCMXIII Copyright, 1913 BY Yale University Press Printed from type October, 1913. 300 copies PREFACE The collection of early printed books presented to the Library of Yale University in 1894 by Mr. William Loring Andrews, of New York, was formed to illustrate the first century of printing, which is a better boundary for the survey than the half -century ending with the year 1500, more often chosen. The latter, the so-styled cradle period of the art, is wanting in real definition, being at most a convenient halting place, not a completed stage, whereas at the middle of the sixteenth century the printed book of the better class had acquired most of its maturer features and no longer has for us an unfamiliar look. Designed to serve as a permanent exhibition, it is a selec- tion rather than a collection, not large, but wisely chosen, and no less attractive than instructive, having been formed a quarter of a century ago, at a time when opportunities were unusually favorable. The surviving books of the first presses, which are the chief sources of our knowledge of the early art, are at the same time, when obtainable, the most efficient teach- ers. For the illustration of the typography, the feature of first importance, there is nothing comparable to the open pages of a representative series of the original books, such as are here spread out before us. The best of the available substitutes, phototype reproductions of specimen pages, apart from other limitations, must always lack the authority and the impressiveness of the originals. While it is the main office of the present collection to set before the students of the University as a whole the more general features of the art of the early printer, a further service which it is prepared to render must not be overlooked. To such as are prompted to go into the vi PREFACE subject more deeply it offers an excellent body of the original material upon which any serious study must of necessity be based. The two fine fifteenth century MSS. at the head of the collection, far from serving a merely ornamental purpose, like their own illuminated initials for example, are a needful introduction. It is obvious that from such sources the first printers got the models of their types, and the MSS. in which Jenson found the prototypes of his famous roman characters, which in the judgment of some are still unsurpassed, could not have been very remote from these. Some of the more striking features which distinguish the early printed books from the later were not original with them, but only survivals from the MSS. The abbreviations and contractions in which both abound were the labor-saving devices of the copyists, adopted without hesitation by the printers who used the MSS. as copy and only slowly abandoned. The copyist left spaces in his MS. for initials to be supplied by the illuminator, without which his work was not considered complete, and for about a hundred years the printer con- tinued to do the same. If the copyist saw fit to attach his name to his work, we look for it at the end of the vol- ume and there also the printer placed his colophon. Sig- natures and catchwords, to guide the binder in the arrangement of the sheets, did not come in with the printed book, but had long been in use in the MSS. Although out of the hundreds of presses active during the first century only a score are here represented, leav- ing wide gaps in the series, it is better, because more nearly in the natural line of development, that the books should be ranged under the country, the locality and the press to which they severally belong, than that they should be kept in strict chronological order. A general chronological order underlies the geographical even where it does not come to the surface. By right of seniority Germany stands at the head, and Mainz, the PREFACE vii birthplace of printing, is followed by the other German towns in the order of their press age. Next come the presses of Italy, France, Holland and England, arranged in like order. To prevent, however, too wide a departure from the chronological succession which would result from the strict application of this rule, the later, i.e., the sixteenth century, Venice and Paris books are separated from the earlier and transferred to the end of the list, where in point of development they properly belong. Placed in the order thus indicated, the books, as befits so small a total, are numbered consecutively in one series. The conspectus, which brings into one view the titles, dates, places and printers' names, will serve also as a sufficient index. While we are here most concerned with the genealogy and family history of the books, or in other words with their press relationships, the personal history attaching to them — habent sua fata libelli — is not without interest. The Zeno MS. and the Philo, printed on vellum, are the dedication copies, not merely set apart, but specially pre- pared for this use. In a few of the volumes are found the names or the arms of early owners. The Livy MS. and one-half of the printed books are from the library, dis- persed in 1886, of Michael Wodhull (1740-1816) of Then- ford, Northamptonshire, the first translator into English verse of all the extant works of Euripides, the most as- siduous and painstaking and in some departments of bibliography the best equipped among the book collectors of his day. It was his custom (well illustrated in the present collection) to enter on the fly-leaf of each pur- chase the source and the cost, adding as a separate item the binding, often by Roger Payne, and to affix his name and the date. His vise l ' Collat : & complet : " is seldom wanting and often bibliographical notes and references to authorities are added. Justinian's Novellae, printed by Schoeffer, and all the Aldine press books save one are from the library gathered at Syston Park, Lincolnshire, PREFACE viii Thorold, between 1775 »^^«Sffl« to all the vol- One valued mark of °™*™° rf cW books who umes, is the ex Ubns of the lover ted and united them in one family,™ ^XersityLibrary. gave them into tte keepmg ^^ ag ^ appar - js xsn& «■* ,? r ils necessary SU.-^'^^fSS^S: compiler to .his jsrwasr - - u ^ rsity for assist - ance in the catalogue. Addison Van Name, Librarian Ementus. Yale University Library, September, 1913. AUTHORITIES. Ames, J. Typographical antiquities, or, History of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland, enlarged by T. F. Dibdin. 4 v. 4°. Lond., 1810-19. Blades, W. The life and typography of William Caxton. 2 v. 4°. Lond., 1861-3. British Museum. Catalogue of books printed in the XVth cen- tury now in the British Museum. Pt. i, ii. 4°. Lond., 1908- 12. Brown, H. F. The Venetian printing press. 4°. N. Y. and Lond., 1891. Brunet, J. C. Manuel du libraire. 5 e ed. 6 v. 8°. Paris, 1860-5. Burger, K. Deutsche und italienische Inkunabeln. Lief. i-ix. f°. Berlin, 1892-1912. Campbell, M. F. A. G. Annales de l'imprimerie neerlandaise au XV e siecle. 8°. La Haye, 1874-90. Claudin, A. The first Paris press: an account of the books printed for G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne 1470-72. [Bibl. Soc. Illust. Monogr. vi.] 4°. Lond., 1897. Copinger, W. A. Incunabula Biblica. 4°. Lond., 1892. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 pt. in 3 v. 8°. Lond., 1895-1902. Crevenna, P. A. Bolongaro. Catalogue des livres de la biblio- theque de M. Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna. 5 v. 8°. Amsterdam, 1789. De Vinne, T. L. Notable printers of Italy during the fifteenth century. 4°. New York, 1910. Didot, A. Firmin. Aide Manuce et l'Hellenisme a Venise. 8° Paris, 1875. Duff, E. Gordon. A century of the English book trade. 4° Lond., 1905. Hand-lists of English printers 1501-1556. Pt. i, ii. 4° Lond., 1895-6. Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 v. in 4 pt. 8° Stuttgart, 1826-38. Le Long, J. Bibliotheca sacra, continuata ab A. G. Masch. 2 pt in5v. 4°. Halae, 1778-90. x AUTHORITIES Morgan, J. Pierpont. Catalogue of manuscripts and early- printed books now forming a portion of the library of J. Pierpont Morgan. 3 v. f °. Lond., 1907. Panzer, G. W. Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine ad annum MDXXXVI. 11 v. 4°. Norimbergae, 1793-1803. Pellechet, M. Catalogue general des incunables des biblio- theques publiques de France. T. i-iii. 8°. Paris, 1897-1909. Philippe, J. Origine de l'imprimerie a Paris. 8°. Paris, 1885. Pollard, A. "W. An essay on colophons. [Caxton Club]. 4°. Chicago, 1905. Proctor, R. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum. 8°. Lond., 1898. The printing of Greek in the fifteenth century. [Bibl. Soc. Illust. Monogr. viii] . 4°. Lond., 1900. Quaritch, B., ed. Contributions toward a dictionary of English book-collectors. Pt. i-xiii. 8°. Lond., 1892-9. Renouard, A. A. .Annales de l'imprimerie des Aide. 3 e ed. 8°. Paris, 1834. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne. 2 e ed. 8°. Paris, 1843. Ricci, Seymour de. Catalogue raisonne des premieres impres- sions de Mayence (1445-1467). [Veroff. der Gutenberg- Gesellsch. viii-ix] . 4°. Mainz, 1911. A census of Caxtons. [Bibl. Soc. Illust. Monogr. xvi]. 4°. Lond., 1909. CONSPECTUS MANUSCRIPTS 1. Zeno. Vita Caroli Zeni . 2. Livius. Historiarum libri I-X PAGE 1 3 PRINTED BOOKS 1. Biblia Latin a .... 2. Justinianus. Novellae 3. Isidorus. Etymologiae 4. Gesta Komanorum 5. Gregorius I. Homiliae 6. Psalterium Latinum . 7. Modus perveniendi ad sapien tiam 8. Hugo. De arrha animae . 9. Caracciolus. De poenitentia 10. Valla. Elegantiae linguae Latinae 11. Plinius. Naturalis historia 12. Nonius Marcellus. De com- pendiosa doctrina 13. Dullaert. Quaestiones super Aristotelem de anima 14. Aristoteles. De animalibus . 15. Ubertinus. Arbor vitae cru- cifixae Jesu 16. Albertis. De amoris remedio 17. Aesopus. Vita et fabulae 18. Ovidius. Metamorphoses . 19. Pius II. De duobus amantibus 20. Pius II. De curialium miseria 21. Plato. Epistolae .... 22. Magni. Sophologium . . . 23. Hieronymus. Vaderboeck Mainz [Strassburg] [Cologne] [Augsburg] Venice J. Fust & P. Schoeffer 1462 P. Schoeffer [J. Mentelin] [U. Zell] [G. Zainer] 1477 [c. 1473] [c. 1473] 1473 [c. 1473] N. Jenson " [c. 1473] 13 " 1473 13 Wendelin of Speier 1472 14 1471 15 1472 17 " 1476 19 F. Eenner & Nicolas of Frankf. 1473 21 John of Cologne & J. Manthen 1476 22 < < A. de Bonetis 1485 23 [Florence] 1471 24 [Milan] Bonus Accursius [c. 1480] 26 Parma A. Portilia 1480 28 [Paris] [Friburger, Gering & Crantz] [1472] 28 << 1 1 [1472] 29 « ( i i [1472] 30 1 1 Crantz, Gering & Fri- burger 1477 32 [Zwolle] P. van Os 1490 33 CONSPECTUS x\\% Higden. Polychronicon . . Westminster Ordinary of Christians . . London Intrationes Plutarchus. Moralia . . Venice Scriptores rei rusticae Cicero. Ehetorica . 30. Celsus. De medicina . 31. Cicero. Epistolae ad Atticum " 32. Cicero. Orationes .... " 33. Ptolemaeus. Planisphaerium " Livius. Historiae Eomanae . " Biblia Latina Paris Philo. De divinis decern ora- culis " 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 34. 35. 36. W. Caxton W. de Worde E. Pynson Aldus Manutius Andrea d'Asola Aldi filii Paulus Manutius Vidua Th. Kerver C. Stephanus PAGE [1482] 34 1506 38 1510 40 1509 41 1514 43 1521 45 1528 47 1540 47 1546 49 1558 50 1572 51 1549 52 1554 55 MANUSCRIPTS 1. ZENO, Jacopo. Vitae, morum, rerumque gestarum Caroli Zeni libri X. 1458. Fine white vellum, 192 leaves, in 19 quires of ten leaves each and two additional leaves at the end, the last of which is blank. Signed on the lower inner angle of the last page of each quire by a letter (A-T) which is repeated at the point directly facing it on the first page of the next quire. Leaves four to seven of the first quire and all of quires three to eight, a total of sixty-four leaves, have 28 lines to the page, the rest 27 lines. Ruled on one side only with a hard point. Leaf 10y 2 X 7 in., text-page 7 X 3% in. Written in regular Italian minuscules of the 15th cen- tury, formed on the models of the 11th and 12th centuries. The subject of the memoir is the distinguished Vene- tian Admiral Carlo Zeno (1334-1418), brother of Nicolo and Antonio, reputed discoverers of America. His biog- rapher, Jacopo Zeno (1417-1481), Bishop of Feltre and Belluno, and later of Padua, was his grandson. The work is dedicated to Pius II. in honor of his recent elevation to the papal throne, and since this is evidently the dedica- tion copy, the accession of Enea Silvio Piccolomini in August, 1458, fixes approximately the date of the MS. In April, 1460, Jacopo Zeno was translated to the see of Padua. The execution and the decoration of the MS. are in keeping with its special use. The gratulatory preface occupying ten pages is introduced by the following head- ing in letters of burnished gold : IN LIBROS VIT^E MORVM RERVMQ: GESTA- RVM CAROLI ZENI VENETI. AD PIVM SECVN- 2 CATALOGUE OF DVM PONTIFICEM MAXIMVM. IACOBI FEL- TRENSIS ET BELLVNENSIS ANTISTITIS. PRAE- FATIO: [GJLORIOSA .... The ornamentation of the ten-line illuminated initial G is of the interlaced style, and a border of similar pattern surrounds the entire page, enclosing on the front margin vignettes — a vase, two rabbits and a stork — and at the foot the Piccolomini arms, supported by kneeling angels and surmounted by the papal keys and tiara. Each of the ten books has a heading in burnished gold in which the dedication to Pius II. is repeated, and an initial of like character to that of the preface, with a marginal ornament. The occa- sional marginal subject-headings and the book-number at the top of each leaf are likewise in gold. The Latin text has thus far been printed only in Muratori's Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (of which a new edition is now in progress), vol. xix, Milan, 1731, from a MS. then, and still, preserved in the library of the Epis- copal Seminary at Padua. This MS., the only one which he was able to discover, Muratori describes in the follow- ing language: "Codex autem Patavinus quamquam per- vetustus a non satis docto Librario profectus est ac proinde occurrunt ibi quaedam parum castigata, quaedam etiam plane vitiata. Mutilus praeterea est in fine, ubi non multa quidem sed tamen aliqua desiderantur. " Mura- tori's text breaks off in the middle of a sentence at the end of the nineteenth (i.e. the last full) quire of our MS., and accordingly lacks only the seventeen lines contained on the next leaf, which is the last. If, as seems quite pos- sible, the quiring of the two MSS. is the same, the loss of the single unprotected leaf at the end is the more readily explained. In 1591 there was published at Bergamo an abridged Italian version, made from an illuminated MS. which had once belonged to the famous library of Matthias Cor- vinus, but was then in the possession of Caterino Zeno, governor of Bergamo. It had been among the spoils car- EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 3 ried to Constantinople after the capture of Buda by the Turks in 1526. There, seven years later, it had been bought and carried back to Italy by Caterino's father, the younger Nicolo, who, in 1558, first gave to the world the narrative of his ancestors' voyages. For no better reasons than that the Paduan MS. also was illuminated in gold and colors, and that it had been bought twenty- five years before (c. 1700) in Venice where this branch of the Zeno family had become extinct, Muratori was in- clined to identify it with the Corvinus MS. The relations between Pius II. and the king of Hungary, who was his ally in the proposed crusade against the Turks upon which he was just embarking when overtaken by death, and to whom the 48,000 ducats which he left behind him were sent in aid of the prosecution of war, suggest another possibility. It may be safely assumed that between the present MS., given only an opportunity to acquire it, and any other copy the king's choice could not have hesitated. The MS. is in 18th-century Italian binding, red morocco, gilt edges. Sold with other MSS. from the library of the Trivulzio family of Milan at Leavitt's auction, New York City, November, 1886. 2. LIVIUS, Titus. Historiarum Eomanarum libri I-X. Late 15th century. Vellum. 336 leaves, the last blank. 34 quires all hav- ing ten leaves, except the 17th and 34th which have eight each. 31 lines to the page; catchword placed at right angles with the last line of the quire ; ruled on both sides with plummet. Leaf 14^ X 10 in., text-page 9 X 6 in. Written in very regular, bold Italian minuscules of the period of the Renaissance. The first page of the preface is surrounded by an illu- minated border in gold and colors in the Renaissance style of ornament, into which are introduced the Carac- cioli arms belonging to the distinguished Neapolitan 4 CATALOGUE OF family of that name. The initial F on this page is histo- riated with a view of Eome, and each of the ten books has an eight-line initial of dull gold on a background of red, blue and green, with marginal ornamentation. From the close agreement, even in punctuation, be- tween this MS. and the edition printed at Milan in 1495 by Ulrich Scinzenzeler for Alexander Minutianus, and from other features which forbid the supposition that one is taken directly from the other, we must conclude that they both reproduce a common ancestor. This MS. of the first Decade of Livy is in unusually fine preservation, and is bound in russia extra, with broad borders of gold and gilt marbled edges. Brought from Palermo by Dr. Anthony Askew (1722- 1772), it was sold with his collection of MSS. in 1785. Michael Wodhull, Esq., of Thenford, Northamptonshire, who gave seven guineas for the volume at "White's sale" in March, 1798, added to his customary entry of these details on the fly-leaf this note: "This appears to be the very Book which I saw Sir W. Burrell purchase at Dr. Askew 's manuscript Auction (No. 482) for thirty- two guineas ; in Sir W. Burrell 's Auction, May, 1796, it is said to have gone for about five (No. 657). The note in Bib. Askev. manuscripta is: 'Ex Panormo in Sicilia hunc cod. adduxit secum CI. Askevius.' & '300 annor. MSS. longe pulcherrimus. ' " At the sale of the Wodhull library in January, 1886, the Livy MS. and the greater part of the 15th-century books hereinafter described were acquired by the donor of the collection, William Loring Andrews, M. A., of New York City. PRINTED BOOKS 1. BIBLIA LATINA. Moguntiae, Johannes Fust et Petrus Schoeffer, 14 August, 1462. [Folio. 481 leaves, 2 columns, 48 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagina- tion.] Leaves 204, 205 containing Judith xiv. 17 — Esther iv. 4. Fol. 204^>, col. 1 (red) : explicit liber iudith secundum ieronimum. Incipit prologus in librum hester. Col. 2 (red) : Explicit prologws. Incip. liber hester. Hain *3050. Pellechet 2281. Copinger 4. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 22. Burger pi. 74. De Eicci 79. Five-line initial of prologue and fourteen-line initial I of Esther i. 1 supplied in colors. Heading of leaf in alternate red and blue capitals. Initial-strokes in red on text capitals. Measurement 16^4 X 11^ in. The fourth printed Bible, and the first in which place, printers ' names and date are given. These details, which are wanting in so many of the books of the early printers, Fust and Schoeffer — and Schoeffer when he carried on the business alone — rarely failed to add to anything large enough to be called a book that came from their press. This is their fifth book and the colophon attached to the first, the famous Psalter of 1457, was repeated in them all, with no essential change beyond the date, and con- tinued to do duty for ten years longer. In the present Bible among the typographical differences found in the copies are three varieties of the colophon, two of which however are identical in language and differ only in the printers' use of contractions and capitals. The more common of the forms affirms that: "This present work by the ingenious invention of printing or stamping letters 6 CATALOGUE OF without any scratching of the pen has been thus fashioned in the city of Mainz and to the worship of God has been diligently brought to completion by Johann Fust citizen and Peter Schoeffer clerk of the same diocese in the year of the Lord 1462, on the eve of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary." In Seymour de Ricci's "Catalogue raisonne des pre- mieres impressions de Mayence (1445-1467)," Mainz, 1911, 61 known copies of this Bible, 36 of them on vellum, are enumerated and 41 copies which cannot now be traced. The fragment in our possession is entered (No. 115) as one leaf only, instead of two. The second dated Bible, the eleventh in the series of printed Bibles, was that of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1471 ; the third was a reprint by Schoeffer in 1472 of the present edition, page for page, line for line and in the same type. 2. JUSTINIANUS. Novellae constitutiones, sive Au- thenticum. Consuetudines feudorum. Codicis libri X-XII. Moguntiae, Petrus Schoeffer, 21 August, 1477. Fol. T. [Text (red)] : In nomiwe domini nostri ihesu ckristi. de heredibws et falcidia constitutio prima si heres legata soluere noluerit Incipit cowstitutio Impera- toris Iustiniani. a. Iohawni pape secuwdo. [Commentary] : [I]N nomine domini. Iustinianus opus suum laudabile deo attribuit. Fol. 16 9 b . Explicit liber autewticorwm. Fol. 170*. [Text (red)] : Incipkmt consuetudines feudo- rum. Fol. 206*. [Text (red)] : Codicis domini iustiniani sacratissimi principis perpetui augusti repetite prelec- tionis incipit liber decimus. Fol. 300 h , Colophon (red) : Anno incarnaciowis dominice .M.cccc.lxxvii. xii. kalewdis septembrijs! Sanctissimo in ohvisto patre ac domino, domino Sixto papa .iiii. pontifice maximo. Illustrissimo noblissime domus austrie domino, domino Friderico Ro- manorum Imperatore inuictissimo, monarchic chris^iane EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 7 dominis! Reuerendissimo deoqwe amabili in Chxisto pa£re ac domino, domino Diethero archipresule Magun- tino; in ciuitate Maguncia impressorie artis inuewtrice atqwe elimatrice prima .x. collacionum triumqwe librorum Codicum opus egregium, Petrus Schoiffer de Gernsheiin, glorioso fauewte deo suis consignando scutis, feliciter finiuit. [Pkinter's Device in red.] Folio. 1. Novellae: quires [iw, 28, 3-6io, 7-86, 910, ios, 11-121°, 138, 1410, 158, 166, 17-18io, 19io-i (the blank second leaf cut away)], 169 leaves. 2. Consuetudines feudorum: quires [1-31°, 4 6 ], 36 leaves. 3. Codicis libri X-XII: quires [18, 210, 3-58, 6^ 7s, g*, 9-1010, 1110 + 1 (the additional leaf prefixed)], 95 leaves. In all 300 leaves, two columns of text and two of com- mentary, 51 lines of text and 66 of commentary to the column, gothic letter, without printed signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line spaces, some with guide-letters, left for capitals. Two pinholes, the use of which Schoeffer was thought to have abandoned a little earlier than the date of this volume. Titles and colophon printed in red. The text type is that of the Bible of 1462. Hain *9623. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 33 (IC. 217). The first page of each of the three works is ornamented with a floral scroll border in colors. At the head of the several books are thirteen initials in gold and colors. Chapter initials in alternate red and blue ; initial-strokes in red in both text and commentary. The present volume agrees in contents with the fifth and last volume of the Corpus juris as it is found arranged in the medieval MSS., except for the omission of the Institutiones, already sufficiently accessible in sepa- rate editions, of which no less than fifty were printed in the 15th century, the first of them by Schoeffer himself in 1468. The first three volumes of the Corpus were occupied by the Digests, the fourth by the Codex lib. i-ix. The last three books of the Codex relate mainly to public law and having lost much of their importance were transferred to the fifth volume. That the order of the three parts in the present copy, viz. 1. Novellae, 2. Consuetudines, 3. Codex lib. x-xii, is that intended by the printer, is clear both from the position and from the language of the colophon — the po- sition because the colophon is attached to the Codex, and 8 CATALOGUE OF the language because it describes the volume as consist- ing of "the ten Collations and the three books of the Codes. ' ' The Novellae were usually divided by the com- mentators into nine Collations, perhaps, as Savigny sug- gests, to parallel the first nine books of the Codex. Some- times, however, as in the present case, the Consuetudines feudorum were joined with them and reckoned as a tenth collation. Notwithstanding these plain indications, in the copy described by Hain *9623, and in the British Museum copy (as at present, though not as originally, bound), the Codex x-xii is placed between the Novellae and the Con- suetudines, thus removing the colophon from its natural place at the end of the volume. In the first edition of these works, printed by Vitus Puecher, Rome, 1476, they were placed in the order last named, but the colophon was there attached to the Consuetudines. After the death of his father-in-law and partner Fust, late in 1466 or early in 1467, Schoeffer conducted the press alone until his death in 1502. After 1478, however, his activity as a printer was much diminished. The present large and fine copy (leaf 15% X 11^4 i n -)> with the manuscript signatures still in part preserved, is from the library of Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773- 1831) of Syston Park, Lincolnshire, sold in December, 1884. In the Meerman sale at the Hague, 1824, this same copy, bound as at present in russia gilt, sold for 64 florins. 3. ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. Etymologiarum libri XX. [Strassburg, Johann Mentelin, c. 1473.] Fol 1, blank. Fol. 2 & : INCIPIT EPISTOLA ISIDORI IVNIORIS HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI AD BRAVLIO- NEM CESARAVGVSTANVM EPISCOPVM. [Three other letters to the same and two replies ; tabula genera- lise Fol 3\ col 2: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA PRIMI LIBRI. INCIPIT LIBER PRIMVS ETHIMOLOGIA- RVM ISIDORI HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI. DE DIS- EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 9 CIPLINA ET ARTE. Fol. 27\ col. 1: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. Fol. 27 h , col. 2: PRE- FACIO. [DJOrnino et filio syseputo ysidorws IN- CIPIT LIBER YSIDORI DE RERVM NATVRA AD SISEPVTVM REGEM. Fol. 37% col. 2: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. INCIPIT LIBER QVARTVS DE MEDICINA. Fol. 142% Colophon: EXPLICIT LIBER ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI. Folio. Quires [1-1310, 1412], 142 leaves, the first blank, 2 columns, 51 lines to the column, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, printer's name, place or date. Gothic lower-case type, roman capitals. Book and chapter headings printed wholly in majuscules. Large woodcut diagrams. Three- to nine-line spaces left for chapter and book initials, also spaces for occa- sional Greek words (mostly left unsupplied) and for small diagrams. Two pinholes, which in Mentelin 's use point to a date not later than 1473. Hain *9270. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 57 (IC. 586). Burger pi. 170. On the first page large illuminated initial with floral border ornament, and similar initials at the head of the several books. Chapter initials supplied in red or blue ; initial-strokes in red throughout the volume. Blank first leaf wanting. Incorporated with the present edition of the Etymol- ogiae by way of supplement, though not named in the table of contents, is an earlier treatise of Isidore's en- titled Be natura rerum, written at- the request of Sisebut, king of the Visigoths, 612-621, and dedicated to him. It contains the sum of the physical philosophy of his time, and, being largely astronomical, is sometimes found in the MSS. under the title Liber de astronomia. In order to bring it into immediate connection with the corre- sponding section of the Etymologiae, it is placed imme- diately after the third book (devoted to the quadrivium, the last division of which is astronomy) and given irregu- larly the heading "Liber quartus," the regular Liber quartus (De medicina) beginning twenty pages later. Two of the 48 chapters of which it is composed are want- ing here > but by the subdivision of other chapters the 10 CATALOGUE OF number is raised to 58. Zainer of Augsburg, the printer of the first edition of the Etyniologiae, dated 19 Novem- ber, 1472, followed it the next month with an edition of De responsione mundi et astrorum ordinatione ad Sesi- butum regem, which is the work in question under an- other title. Printed with the same type and the same number of lines to the page, it was in effect treated as a supplement to the Etymologiae. According to the testimony of a fellow printer, de Lignamine, in the ''Chronica summorum Pontificum," Rome, 1474, Mentelin as early as 1458 was printing at Strassburg 300 sheets a day. The third Latin Bible (1460-1461) and the first German Bible came from his press, but the first work to which he affixed his name and a date was the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beau- vais in 1473. He died in 1478. The Wodhull copy, bought at "Hayes's sale" in 1794 for £5.5s., and bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, by Mrs. Weir for £1.2s. Leaf 15% X 11 in. 4. GESTA ROMANORUM. [Cologne, Ulrich Zell, c. 1473.] Fol. 1, blank. Fol. 2*: Ex gestis romanorwm hystorie notabiles : de vitijs virtutibusqwe tractantes : cum appli- cacionibws moralizatis et misticis: Incipiunt feliciter. Fol. 160 b , col. 1, Colophon: Ex gestis romanorwm cum plurib^s applicatis historijs : de virtutibws et vitijs mis- tice ad intellectum trawssumptis Recollectorij finis est feliciter. LAVS. DEO. Fol. 160 h , col. 2: Incipiunt tituli numerorum omnium capitulorim et exemplorwm. Fol. 163": Tabula omnium, exemplorwm et capitulonm operis prsecedentis. secundum ordinem alphabeti. Fol. 170": Explicit tabula. Fol. 170 h , blank. Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2 columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagina- tion, place, printer 's name or date. Two- to five-line spaces left for capitals. One pinhole in side margin, others possibly cut away in binding. Hain 7734. Pellechet 5247. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 196 (IB. 2994). EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 11 On foL 2 a and 163 a five-line initials in blue with graceful pen decoration in red. Initials of chapters and morals supplied in alternate red and blue. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red; headings underlined in red. Blank first leaf wanting. This edition of the Gesta contains 181 chapters and appears to have been preceded only by another undated edition printed at Utrecht by Ketelaer and Leempt, in long lines, with 152 chapters and no index. Ulrich Zell was the first printer of Cologne. His first dated book was issued in 1466 and he continued to print quite up to the close of the fifteenth century. Nearly all his books are, like the present, without place, date or printer's name. Of the 177 books which he is known to have printed, the British Museum possesses 123. The Wodhull copy, bound in russia, gilt edges. Leaf 10% X 7y 2 in. Mem. on fly-leaf: "Pateson's Auction. £5.5s ; washing, cleaning, mending and binding by Roger Payne £1.2s.6d. M. Wodhull, May 25th, 1786." ' 5. GREGORIUS I. Homilige XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, Gimther Zainer.] 28 August, 1473. Fol. T: Ordo .xl. omeliarum beati gregorij pape ad se- cundinum episcopum Thauronitarum. Fol. l h : SEQVI- TVR EPISTOLA [RjEuerendissimo et sawctisshno frati secundino coepiscopo. Gregoriws seruus seruorum dei. Fol. 2\ EXPLICIT EPISTOLA INCIPIT EWAN- GELIVM. S. LVCAM .... Omelia prima beati Gregorij pape. Fol. 141 h , Colophon: Adeptus est finis ambarwm parcium omeliarwm beatissimi gregorii pape vrbis rome jn die sancti hermetis sub Anno domini M cccc lxxiij. Fol. 142*: Table of the homilies in the order of the liturgical year. Folio. Quires [1-131°, 1412], 142 leaves, 33 lines to the page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place or printer's name. Two- and three-line spaces left for capitals, which are supplied in red. Para- graph-marks and initial-strokes in red. Hain *7948, Pellechet 5366. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 319 (IB. 5457). 12 CATALOGUE OF Gregory's Homilies, of which this is the first edition, and the three next following works bound with it, are from the press of Giinther Zainer, of Reutlingen, the first printer of Augsburg. All are in the same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently printed at about the same time. He was the first printer in Germany to make use of roman type, of which the earliest example seems to have been his ' ' Cal- endarium pro anno 1472." He died in 1478, ten years after the appearance of his first dated book. The Wodhull copy, bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt. Leaf 12 X 8^4 in. Mem. on fly-leaf : "Payne's sale. £2.12.6, binding and restoring 17s.6d. These four pieces were taken out of old monastic binding. M. Wodhull, Jan. 5th, 1795.' ' 6. PSALTERIUM LATINUM. [Augsburg, Giinther Zainer, c. 1473.] Fol. l a : Prologus beati jeronimi presbiteri in psalterium quod ipse de hebraico transtulit in latinum [EJVsebius jeronim^s soffronio suo salutem. Fol. l b : Explicit pro- logus beati jeronimi. Incipit psalterium Psalmos dauid primus. Fol. 5T: Canticum Ysaie capitulo lxxij {sic), followed by cantica of Hezekiah, Hannah, Moses (2), Habakkuk. Fol. 54*, Colophon: Explicit trawslacio solifoqmorum siue psalterij beatissimi Ieronimi eusebii presbiteri qwod ad peticionera soffronij transtulit ut in episfolam ante psalterium impressa praemittitwr etc. Folio. Quires [l-5io, 6*], 54 leaves, 33 lines to the page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for initials, which are supplied in red. Para- graph-marks and initial-strokes in red. Hain *13470. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5560). Jerome's final translations of the Old Testament books direct from the Hebrew were all adopted into the received Latin version, the Vulgate, except this of the Psalms. EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 13 Here his earlier revision of the old Italic version on the basis of the Septuagint had become so firmly established in liturgical use that the translation from the Hebrew, though more exact, could not displace it. This appears to be the first printed edition. Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae. 7. MODUS PERVENIENDI AD SUMMAM SAPIEN- TIAM. [Augsburg, Giinther Zainer, c. 1473.] Fol. l a ; [SjEntite de domino in bowitate et in simpli- citate cordis qwaerite ilium. Fol. 2*: Explicit prologus Incipit modus ad sum mam perveniendi sapienciam. Fol. 24* f I. 33, End: sibi sparso diuinitws in ipsum ardentis- sime se extendit etc. Fol. 24 h , blank. Folio. Quires [1-2W, 3*], 24 leaves, 33 lines to the page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for capitals, which are supplied in red. Initial- strokes in red. Hain *11490. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5531). Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae. 8. HUGO de SANCTO VICTORE. Soliloquium de arrha animae. [Augsburg, Giinther Zainer.] 12 October, 1473. Fol. 1*: Incipit soliloquium beatissimi Augustini epis- copi yponensi (sic) de arra anime. Fol. 7 h , End: Raptws est finis hums tractates Augustmi de arra anime. feria tercia post festum sancti Dyonisy Anno dommi lxxiij etc. Fol. 8, blank. Folio. 8 leaves, the last blank, 33 lines to the page, gothic letter, without place or printer's name. Three-line space for first initial and initial-strokes supplied in red. Blank last leaf wanting. Hain *2021. Pellechet 1525. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., p. 319 (IB. 5451). The author of the work here directly ascribed to St. Augustine was the mystic theologian Hugo de Sancto Victore (1097-1140), member of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine and head of the abbey school of St. Victor, near Paris. From his familiarity with the writings of 14 CATALOGUE OF Augustine and likeness to his spirit, lie was styled Alter Augustinus, a title which furnishes a plausible but not wholly satisfactory explanation of the confusion in the present case. For among the spurious writings which have been put under Augustine's name more than one has been borrowed from this author. For example, chapters 5-10 of the Liber de diligendo Deo are taken almost word for word from the present treatise. In the present edition of this soliloquy cast in the form of a dialogue the interlocutors are Augustinus and Anima (both names always printed in capitals) ; in a Strassburg edition of about the same date, Hugo and anima sua; in the collected edition of Hugo's works, homo and anima. Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae. 9. CARACCIOLUS, Robertus, de Licio. Opus quad- ragesimale quod de poenitentia dictum est. Venetiis, Wendelinus de Spira, 20 July, 1472. Fol. 1, blank. Fol. 2*: Hec est tabula omnium sermonum contentorum hoc in uolumine. Fol. 5 a : Sacre theologie magistri necnon sacri eloquij preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis Minorwm professoris opws quad- ragesimale perutilissimum quod de penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit. Fol. 267*, Colophon : Yendelinus ego gentis cognomine spiere! Roberti haec caste purgata uolumiwa pressi ! Sedis apostolice Romano praeside Sixto Magnanimo et uenetum Nicolao precipe Truno M.cccclxxij.xx.quintilis. Fol. 267 h , 268, blank. Fol. 269*: Sermo in festo annmi- tiationis uirginis marie et eiusdem Roberti cum tribus (sic) aliis sermonib-ws sequewtibws. s. de predestinato numero damnatorwm et de cathenis. Fol. 289 h : Finis trium sermonum Fratris Roberti. . . Fol. 290, blank. Quarto. Quires [1-7™, 812, 9-11W, 128, 13-15™, 168, 17.2710, 28-306, 31«], 290 leaves, 1, 268, 290 blank, 40 lines to the page, gothic letter, without EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 15 signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces with guide- letters left for initials. Two pinholes on side. Initials and paragraph-marks supplied in red. Blank leaf 268 wanting. Hain-Copinger 4424. Pellechet 3244. Proctor 3524. Wendelin of Speier succeeded in 1470 to the press established in 1469 by his brother John, the first printer of Venice, who lived to complete only four books. Gothic type was introduced into Italy by Wendelin. Eoberto Caraccioli, born at Lecce in 1425, was bishop of his native city from 1484 to 1495. The great reputa- tion which these sermons enjoyed is attested by the fact that four editions, three of them printed in Venice, appeared in 1472, and four more in 1473, one of which was Wendelin 's second edition, an exact reprint of the present. The Wodhull copy, bought at the sale of the library of Samuel Tyssen, in 1801, for £l.ls., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a further cost of 19 shillings. Leaf 10y 8 X 7% in. 10. VAT/LA, Laueentius. Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson, 1471. Fol. 1*: LAVEENTII VALLENSIS ELegantiarwm compendiosae collections in ordinem alphabeti directs principium. Fol. 9\ blank. Fol. 9 h : LAVEENTII VAL- LENSIS VIEI CLAEISSIMI ET DE LINGVA LA- TINA BENE MEEENTIS AD IOANNEM TOETEL- LIVM AEETINVM: CVI OPUS ELEGANTIAE VM LINGVAE LATINAE DEDICAT EPISTOLA. Fol. 11*: LAVEENTII VALLENSIS PATEICII EOMANI COMMENTAEIOEVM GEAMMATICOEVM SECVN- DVM ELEGANTIAM LINGVAE LATINAE LIBEE PEIMVS DE NOMINE VEEBOQVE. ET EX HIS DVOBVS COMPOSITO PAETICIPIO INCIPIT PEO- OEMIVM. Fol. 159 h : LAVEENTII VALLENSIS DE LANGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA TEETIVS LIBEE FINIT: INCIPIT IIIL DE NOMINVM 16 CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICATIONIBVS. [For TERTIVS read QVIN- TUS; for IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS read VI. DE NOTIS SCRIPTORVM.] Fol. 190 a : LAV- RENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE ELE- GANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD 10 AN- NEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM LIBER INCIPIT. Fol 200\ Colophon: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM PER ME M. NICOLAVM IENSON VENETIIS OPVS FELICITER IMPRESSVM EST. M.CCCCLXXI. Fol. 201, 202, blank. Quarto. Quires [1», 2", 3-4M, 512, 6-71°, 812, 9", lO-ll™, 1212, 138, 146, 15-19 10 , 20 8 ], 202 leaves, the last two blank, roman letter, 39 lines to the page, without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to six-line spaces left for capitals and spaces also for Greek words, to be supplied in manu- script. Two pinholes on side. The type is Jenson's first font. Hain 15802. Proctor 4071. At the head of the first page is a large initial of the interlaced vine pattern in gold and colors, with a border of the same pattern enclosing the entire page. The remaining five books, the prefatory epistle and the sup- plement Be ego, mei et sui are introduced by initials of the same size and style. Alternate red and blue capitals at the head of chapters, paragraph-marks also in red and blue. A few of the spaces left for Greek words are filled in manuscript, but more are left vacant. When Jenson later in the same year printed Cicero's Letters, he was pro- vided with Greek type. The blank fol. 9 a is occupied by a transcript in an early hand of the greater part of lib. i, cap. iv (De ficu), from a MS. the readings of which differ materially from the printed text. For the purposes of the index the six books have been divided into a continuous series of 479 chapters, desig- nated in the margins of the text by manuscript roman numerals, but in the index by printed numerals. The EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 17 references are not, as in later editions, to book and chap- ter, but to chapters only. The index, alphabetized by the first letter of the word only, printed on different paper and forming a separate quire, is here placed at the begin- ning of the volume; but traces of earlier manuscript signatures still remaining, bear witness to a former order in which the text preceded the index, as is still the case in some copies of this edition. Most of Jenson 's early books were folios. But not- withstanding the size of the leaf (13 X 8 in.), this is a quarto, as both the direction of the chain-lines and the position of the water-mark prove. However, because of the limitations of the early presses, it was doubtless printed on half-sheets, folio-wise, two pages at most at one impression. Of the twenty-four 15th-century editions of the Ele- gantiae the three earliest, one of which was Jenson's, were printed in 1471. Although the tradition that Nicolas Jenson, master of the mint at Tours, was sent by Charles VII. in 1458 to Mainz to learn the secrets of the newly discovered art of printing is otherwise unsupported and, in view of the manner in which the invention was afterwards carried to France as well as to other countries by private initia- tive, improbable, he was already a master of the art, wherever and however acquired, when he established in 1470 the press which held the leading place at Venice until his death in 1480. The present exceptionally fine copy of the Elegantiae, bound in citron morocco, with gold borders and gilt edges, is the Wodhull copy, bought in 1786 of Payne for £10.10s. 11. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, C. Naturalis historia. Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson, 1472. Fol. 1, blank. Fol 2*: CAIVS PLYNIVS MARCO SVO SALVTEM. Fol. 4\- CAII PLYNII SECVNDI 18 CATALOGUE OF NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER X CAIVS PLY- NIVS SECVNDVS NOVOCOMENSIS DOMITIANO SVO SALVTEM. PRAEFATIO. Fol. 21*: CAII PLINII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .n. Fol. 355% Colophon: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBRI TRICESIMI SEP- TIMI ET VLTLMI FINIS IMPRESSI VENETIIS PER NICOLAVM IENSON GALLICVM .M.CCCC.LXXII. NICOLAO TRONO INCLYTO VENETIARVM DVCE. Followed by: lohannis andreae episcopi aleriensis ad pon- tificem summum Paulum secundum uenetum epistola. Fol. 356*: Hereneus lugdunensis episcopus : item Iustinus ex pkilosopho martyr: item cum diuo Hieronymo Euse- bius csesariensis : serio posteritatem adiurarunt: ut eorum descripturi opera conferrent diligenter exempla- ria: et sollerti studio emendarent. Idem ego turn in caateris libris omnibus turn maxime in Plynio ut fiat; uehementer obsecro : obtestor : atque adiuro : ne ad priora menda : et tenebras iwextricabiles tanti sudoris opus rela- batwr. Instauratum aliquawtulum sub romano powtifice maximo Paulo secuwdo ueneto. Fol. 356 h , blank. Folio. Quires [112, 28, 3-81°, 912, 10-1510, 168, 17-271", 286, 29-3010, 31-358, 361 2 , 37 8 ], 356 leaves, first blank, 50 lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Two- to twelve-line spaces left for capitals, with guide-letters; also spaces for occasional Greek words. Greek type sparingly used, oftener transliteration in roman. Two pinholes. Hain *13089. Proctor 4087. Morgan Cat. II, p. 39, n. 297. The rubrication of the present copy is not only elabo- rate but also of unusual merit. The first of the twelve- line initials of the thirty-seven books is finely illuminated in gold and colors. The others, in the outlines of which grotesque features are occasionally introduced, are set off by skilful pen-work, harmonizing in general effect, but carefully avoiding repetition in details. The chapter initials also, a thousand or more in number, in alternate red and blue, or red and green, have much variety and grace. The initial L, for example, occurring twenty-eight times in the first book, is never repeated in the same form EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 19 and color. The blank fol. 3 b is occupied by the name Jesus in very large and ornate characters, in different colors, surrounded by scroll and figure decoration. The Bagneri arms, included in the ornamentation of the first initial, point to an early ownership of the volume, and the arms of the Antella family of Florence at the foot of the first page, to a later ownership. The introductory epistle of the younger Pliny, describ- ing his uncle's manner of life, was addressed to his friend Macer, who here becomes Marcus by the easy trans- position of Macro to Marco. Less easily explained is the substitution in the dedication of Domitian for his brother Titus Vespasian, to whom Pliny dedicated the work. Two editions of the Naturalis Historic/, preceded this, the first printed by John of Speier in 1469, with a five years ' privilege from the Venetian senate, which expired at his death in 1470, the second by Sweynheym and Pan- nartz, Eome, 1470. With the first of these, Jenson's edi- tion agrees in the number of pages and of lines to the page. From the second he reprinted the letter addressed by the editor Johannes Andreas, Bishop of Aleria, to his patron Pope Paul II., and the earnest appeal for care on the part of any who should reprint his Pliny, "ne ad priora menda et tenebras inextricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabatur." Fifteen more editions were printed before the close of the 15th century. Jenson's Pliny is gen- erally regarded as the finest production of his press. The type is his first font. The Wodhull copy, bought of Thomas Payne, book- seller, in 1791 for £12.12s., and bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at the additional cost of £1. Leaf 15% X 10% in. 12. NONIUS MARCELLUS. De compendiosa doctrina. Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson, 1476. Fol. 1, blank. Fol. 2-20, alphabetical index. Fol. 21, blank. Fol. 22* : NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI 20 CATALOGUE OF TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM. Fol. 194% Colophon : NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TI- BVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM IM- PRESSA VENETIIS INDVSTRIA ATQVE IMPEN- DIO NICOLAI IENSON GALLIC! .M.CCCC.LXXVL Fol. 194 h , blank. Folio. Sign. a-ci°, d-y 8 , zi2, 194 leaves, 1 and 21 blank, 34 lines to the page, roman letter, without catchwords or pagination. Seven- and eight-line spaces left for capitals, some with guide-letters. The type is Jenson's first roman trimmed or recast the second time on a slightly smaller body. Greek words as a rule printed with Greek type, not transliterated. Hain 11901. Proctor 4098. On the first page of text a large initial S in gold on a panel of color, with marginal decoration. Other large chapter initials in red and blue alternately. Numerous paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. Blank first leaf wanting. The index, which occupies the first nineteen leaves, is alphabetized as far as the second letter of the word. The references are by roman numerals to the leaves (not pages) of the work, which themselves have only manu- script foliation in arabic figures. The first edition of Nonius was printed at Rome in 1470 by Lauer ; the second, in 1471, was without place or name. Jenson's edition, which is the third, borrowed from both of these but added also something of value. The correct title, De compendiosa doctrina, first appears here. The usual title, De proprietate sermonum, belongs strictly to the first chapter. As in all the early editions, the third chapter is lacking, having been discovered later and first included in the 1513 edition of Aldus. Jenson's Greek type long remained in favor for incidental use in Latin books after it had been displaced in Greek books by Aldine types. EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 21 The Wodhull copy, "Payne's sale, £5.5s., January, 1792." Bound by Roger Payne in red morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 11 X 8 in. 13. DULLAERT, Johannes, de Janduno or Gandavo. Quaestiones super tres libros Aristotelis de anima. Venetiis, Franciscus de Hailbrun et Nicolaus de Franckfordia socii, 1473. Fol. 1 & , blank. l h : Tabula qwestiowum domim Johannis de Janduno super tres libros de anima Aristotelis. Fol. 2*: [I] Nest enim mentibus hominum Veri boni naturalis inserta cupiditas. Fol. 92 h , Colophon: Expliciunt ques- tiones domini Johannis de Janduno super tres libros de anima Aristotelis irapresse Venetijs per Franeiscum de Hailbrun et Nicolaum de Franckfordia socios. M.CCCC- LXXiii. Folio. Quires [1-8 10 , 9 12 ], 92 leaves, 2 columns, 71 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination. Six- to twelve- line spaces left for capitals. Two pinholes. Arabic figures used to the exclusion of roman numerals not only in table of contents, but throughout the text to mark subdivisions of the argument or individual books of a treatise. Hain 7458. Burger pi. 99. On first page of text a twenty-four line initial illumi- nated in gold and colors, with border ornament. Book and chapter initials in alternate red and blue. Arabic numerals, which made their first appearance in printed books in 1470, were very sparingly used even at a considerably later date than 1473. The author, commonly known as Johannes de Gandavo (Ghent), of the early part of the 14th century, wrote com- mentaries also on other works of Aristotle. Of the pres- ent work five editions, of which this is the first, were printed at Venice in the 15th century. Franz Renner of Heilbronn conducted a press at Venice from 1471 to 1483, having as partner from 1473 to 1477 Nicolas of Frankfort. The present volume is printed in a small round-faced gothic type, the second of the nine fonts which he used. 22 CATALOGUE OF The Wodhull copy, bought at the Mallei Pinelli sale, London, 1789, for £1.13s. Bound in hf. vellum. Leaf 16% X liy 2 in. 14. ARISTOTELES. Libri de animalibus interprete Theodoro Gaza. Venetiis, Johannes de Colonia sociusque Johannes Manthen, 1476. Fol. 1, blank. Fol. 2*: THEODORI: GRAECI: THES- SALONICENSIS: PRAEFATIO: IN LIBROS: DE ANIMALIBVS: ARISTOTELIS: PHILOSOPHI: AD XYSTVM: QVARTVM: MAXIMVM. Fol. 7 h : ARIS- TOTELIS: DE HISTORIA: ANIMALIVM: LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. Fol. 131*: ARISTOTELIS DE PARTIBVS ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. Fol. 184*: ARISTOTELIS DE GENERATIONE ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. Fol. 250 h , Colophon: Finiunt libri de animalibus Aristotelis interprete Theodoro Gaze. V. clarissimo : quos Ludouicus podocatharus Cyprius ex Archetypo ipsius Theodori fideliter et diligewter auscultauit: et formulis imprimi curauit Venetiis per Iohannem de Colonia sociumqwe eius Iohannem manthen de Gherretzem. Anno domini .M.CCCC.LXXVI. Fol. 251*: Tabula cartarum secundum ordinem ponendarum. Fol. 251 h , 252, blank. Polio. Sign, a-b", c-ds, ei°, fs, gio, hs, iio, ks, 1-tio, u s ) x io j aa-dd™, ees, ff 6 . 252 leaves, the first and the last blank, roman letter, 35 lines to the page, without pagination. Two- to seven-line spaces left for initials, with guide-letters. Hain *1699. Proctor 4312. Morgan Cat., II, p. 48, n. 313. Burger pi. 199. The border surrounding the first page of text, and eighteen initials of the several books, are illuminated in gold and colors. Chapter initials supplied in red and blue alternately. Printed signatures, which appear to have been first introduced by Zarotto of Milan in 1470, and a register of sheets, first used by John of Cologne in 1475, are both found in this volume. The register, which may give only the number of sheets in each of the quires, or the EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 23 first word of each sheet of the quire, is here of the latter kind. Unfortunately two sheets escaped registration and the words are supplied in manuscript. Three separate treatises of Aristotle are contained in this volume : Historia de animalibus libri ix ; De partibus animahum libri ivj De generatione animalium libri v. Theodore Gaza, the translator, was a learned Greek from Thessalonica, who took up his residence in Italy on the capture of his native city by the Turks. The trans- lation was made at the instance of Nicolas V., who had invited him to Rome in 1450, but was first printed in the present edition (Venice, 1476) and dedicated in a flatter- ing epistle of eleven pages to the reigning pope, Sixtus IV. The fifty scudi which the pope sent in acknowledg- ment of the dedication copy Gaza is said to have thrown in disgust into the Tiber. It is interesting to note in this connection that while the Venice editions of 1492 and 1498 retain the name of Sixtus IV. in the dedication, Aldus after having omitted the epistle altogether in his 1504 edition, in that of 1513 quietly substituted the name of Nicolas V., the earlier and worthier patron, without a word of change in the language of the dedication itself. Later editions have followed the example of Aldus. John of Cologne, established as a printer at Venice as early as 1471, was associated 1472-1473 with Wendelin of Speier, whose business and types he took over in 1474. He had as partner, 1474-1480, John Manthen, and in 1480, Nicolas Jenson. The type of the Aristotle is a close imitation of the first font of John and Wendelin of Speier. \ The Wodhull copy, bought at the Pinelli sale for £2.12s.6d. Bound in hf. vellum. Leaf 12 X 8*4 in. 15. UBERTINUS DE CASALI. Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu. Venetiis, Andreas de Bonetis de Papia, 12 March, 1485. Fol. 1, blank. Fol. £ a : INCIPIT PROLOGVS IN LI- 24 CATALOGUE OF BRVM QVI 1XTITVLATVR AEBOR VITE CRVCI- FIXE IESV. ET DICITVR OPVS VBERTIXI DE CASALI. QVI FVIT FRATER PROFESSVS ORDI- XIS MIXORVM BE ATI FRAXCISCI. Fol. 4\ col. 2: Explicit pn'rtius prologus. Incipit secu^dus. Fol. 5*, col. 2: Explicit prologus secundus. Incipit liber primus. Fol. 24S b , col. 2, Colophox: Liber qui intitulatur Arbor uite crucifixe Iesu deuotissimi fratris Vbertini de Casali ordinis niinorum feliciter explicit. Lnpressus Venetiis per Andrea m de Bonettis de Papia. Anno .M.CCCC- LXXXV. Die.xii.Martii. Ioa>me Mocenico inclyto prin- cipe regnante. Fol. 249": Tabula csupitulorum. Fol. 249°, col. 2: Registrum. Fol. 250, blank. Folio. Sign. a-zs, As, B12, C-(Js, Ha. 250 leaves, 1, 204, 250 blank, 2 columns and head-line, 58 lines to the column, roman letter. The head-lines give the subject, book and chapter numbers. Eight-line spaces left for the initials of the five books and three-line spaces, some with guide-letters, for the chapter initials, both supplied in red. Blank first and last leaves wanting. Hain *4551. Pellechet 3331. Proctor 4816. Bound in olive green morocco with gold borders and gilt edges. Book-stamp of J. Richard, D. M., on first and last leaf of text, and book-plate of another owner, Jules Frayssenet, of Fleurance, printed on full leaf inserted between the fly-leaves, front and back, and the text. Leaf 10^4 X 1% in. Andreas de Bonetis, of Pavia, printed at Venice from 1483 to 1487. 16. ALBERTIS, Leo Baptista de. De anions remedio. 1471. Fol. l & : BATISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAV- REATI OPVS PRAECLARVM IX AMORIS REME- DIO FELICITER INCIPIT. Fol. 20\ Colophon: BAPTISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS IX AMORIS REMEDIO VTLLISSLMVM FE- LICITER FIXIT. .M.CCCC.LXXI. Quarto. Quires [18, 2*2], 20 leaves, 25 lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place or printer 's name. Two- to EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 25 six -line spaces left for initials, but the present copy is without rubrication. Hain *422. Panzer iii. 82, 69; iv. 5, 16. Pellechet 268. Proctor 7346. Notwithstanding the Latin title, the work itself is wholly in Italian and both in the MSS. and in later printed editions is found also under the title Deifira ossia del mat principiato amore. A companion volume by the same author, with the Latin title De amore liber, and the Italian, Ecatomfilea ossia del vero amore, was printed the same year, in the same type, the same number of leaves and lines to the page. Still another work in the same type and form and apparently of the same date, entitled Historieta amorosa fra Leonora de' Bardi e Hippolito Bondelmonti, is attributed on good evidence to De Albertis. Copies of all three works, printed alike on vellum and bound together in one volume, formerly in the Mac-Carthy Collection (Catalogue, Paris, 1815, no. 3595), are now in the Bibliotheque Nationale (Velins 1964). In the present copy of De amoris remedio the manuscript signatures b and c, partly cut away, point to an earlier binding, in which the Historieta consisting of only twelve leaves may possibly have formed the signature a. Panzer was disposed to identify the peculiar roman type of these volumes with that used by the fourth printer of Venice, Clemente of Padua, between whom and Zarotto of Milan, Hain was later in doubt. But Proctor was convinced that the small group of books to which these belong, nearly all of them connected in some way with Florence, were the productions of the first, so far unidentified, press of that city. The date they bear (1471) places them among the earliest books printed in the Italian language. Witness the following first edi- tions: Petrarch's Canzoniere, 1470; II Decamerone, 1471; La Divina Commedia, 1472. The present copy, bound in blue morocco, with the crest of the Marquis of Blandford on side, was sold in his (White Knights) sale in 1819 for £2. Leaf 914 X 63,4 in. 26 CATALOGUE OF From the Syston Park sale, December, 1884, with book- plate and the monogram (J. H. T.) of Sir John Hayford Thorold. 17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabulae grace. Vita et fabulae latine. Fabulae selectae grace et latine. [Milan], Bonus Accursius, c. 1480. Part I. Fol. l a ; Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo sapientissimo ducali quaestori Iohanni Francisco tur- riano salutem plurimam dicit. Fol. 2 a : 'AI20IIOY BI02 TOY MY0OnOIOY MAEIMO TO HAANOYAH 2YITPAEI2. Fol. 33*: 'AI2QIIOY MY0OI. Fol. 70 s ": Te\os toi/ tov 'Aiowou Mvflcov. Part II. Fol. _Z a : Vita Aesopi fabulatoris clarissimi e graco latina per Rynucium facta ad Reuerewdissimum Patrem Dominum Antonium tituli Sancti Chrysogoni Presbyterum Cardinalem et primo prohoemium. Fol. 32 h : FINIS. Fol. 33* : Argumentum fabularwm Aesopi e graco in latinum. Fol. 59 h : Finis. Vita Aesopi per Rynucium thettalum traducta. Verum quoniam ab eo non nulla fueruwt praetetermissa (sic) : fortassis quia gracus eius codex esset minus emendatus: Ego Bonus accursius Pisanus : eadem in ea omnia correxi ; et emen- daui. Fol. 60, blank. Part III. Fol. 1\ blank. Fol. l b : Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo ac sapientissimo ducali Quaestori Iohanni francisco Turriano salutem plu- rimam dicit. Fol. 2", col. :Z:MY®oi 'aisoiioy, col. 2: Fabulae Aesopi. Fol. 38*, col. 1: teaoS ton toy 'AiSonoY myoon. Col. 2: FINIS AESOPI FABVLARVM. Bonus Accursius pisanus impressit : qui non doctorum hominum sed rudium ac puerorum gratia hunc laborem suscepit. Quarto. Pt. I, sign. [A-H 8 , 16] not printed, but stamped irregularly on the extreme lower margin and partially cut away in the binding, 70 leaves. Pt. II, sign, a-g 8 , and four unsigned leaves at the end, 60 leaves. Pt. Ill, sign. a-b 8 , C-D 8 , E6, 38 leaves, the Greek text and the word-for-word Latin trans- lation in two parallel columns. Both the Greek and the Latin have 25 lines to the page or column. Two- to five-line spaces for capitals, with guide- letters, in both texts, but no rubrication. Two pinholes. Hain *265-j-272. Pellechet 185-f 192. Proctor, Printing of Greek in the 15th cent., p. 60. EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 27 This is the first printed edition of any of the Greek classics, and the third book printed entirely in Greek, or in Greek with a Latin translation; the first being the Grammar of Lascaris, Milan, 1476, and the second the Lexicon of Crastonus not later than 1478. All three were printed with the same font of Greek type made by, or under the supervision of, Demetrius Damilas, the son of Milanese parents settled in Crete. Bonus Accursius was rather the publisher than the actual printer, who in the case of the Lascaris was Dionysius Paravisinus, and in the case of the Crastonus and the Aesop, probably the brothers de Honate, who at that date were the possessors of the peculiar roman type used in the Latin transla- tions. After the Aesop this particular font of Greek type next appeared in the first edition of Homer, printed at Florence in 1488 by Bartolommeo di Libri, and in three of his subsequent books, once at Rome early in the 16th century, after which it disappears altogether. In the present edition the Fabulae graece number 147, the Fabulae latine 100, the Fabulae selectae 62. The translator, Einuccio d'Arezzo, who dedicates his work to Cardinal Antonio Cerdano, tells him in closing that he sends all that have come into his hands, though probably not all that Aesop wrote, since while they stand in alpha- betical order, some letters are wanting and others have not their full quota. Not all copies have all the three parts, nor are they always bound in the same order. The present copy, though in all respects complete, is bound irregularly, as follows : 1. Fabulae selectae. 2. Fabulae graece. 3. Vita Aesopi graece. 4. Vita et fabulae latine. On the verso of the last blank leaf is written in an early hand "olim fuit Heverendissimi magistri georgii de casali." Mr. Wodhull paid " Edwards" for this copy, in 1799, £14.14s. Bound by Mrs. Weir in green morocco extra, gilt edges. Leaf 9 X 6 in. 28 CATALOGUE OF 18. OVIDIUS NASO, Publius. Metamorphoses. Parma, Andreas Portilia, 15 May, 1480. Fol. 1, blank, 2\- TABVLAE FVBVLARVM (sic) OVIDII METAMORPHOSEOS. Fol. 6\- Domitius Cal- derinus Veronensis. [D]E Ouidii uita nihil a nobis in hoc loco scribewdum est. Fol. 7\- P. OVIDII NASONIS SVLMONENSIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRI- MVS. Fol. 187 h , Colophon: FINIS Impressum Parmae Opera Et Impensis Andrew Portilia .M.CCCC.LXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani Illus- trissimo Duce Regnawte Fceliciter. Fol. 188, blank. Folio. Sign, a 6 , b-q 8 , r 10 , s-y 8 , z 6 , & 6 . 188 unnumbered leaves, the first and last blank, 40 lines to the page, roman letter. Three- to eight-line spaces, with guide-letters, left for the initials of the fifteen books. Hain *12160. First initial of each book supplied in red; heading of each book and each fable underlined in red; initial- strokes in every verse and paragraph-marks in red. Without the last blank leaf. Andreas Portilia was the first printer at Parma, where his press was established in 1472 and continued, with two brief transfers to Bologna and Reggio, till 1486. Mr. Wodhull's copy, for which he paid, at the sale of Dr. Chauncy's library in 1790, £2. Bound in red morocco, with rich gold tooling on back and sides, and book-plate of Charles Chauncy, M. D. (1706-1777). Leaf 12 X 8 in. 19. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De duobus amantibus. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.] Fol. 1: Aeneae siluii poaetae laureati, in hystoriam de duobus amawtibus praefatio prima ad perqwam genero- sum militem Casparem Slik foeliciter incipit. Fol. 2 h : Aeneae siluii in hystoriam de duobus amawtibus praefatio secunda ad Martinum Sozinum, Senensem, iuris utri- usque perspicacissimum interpretem iocunde incipit. Fol. 4 a : Aeneae siluii de duobus amantibus hystoria per- quam iocunde incipit! Fol. 44 h : Vale, ex Vienna quinto nonas Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadrage- EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 29 simo quarto ; Colophon : Aenete Siluii po#te laureati de duobus amawtibus eurialo et lucresia, finit fceliciter. Fol. 45, 46, blank. Quarto. Quires [1-4* , 5 8 ], 46 leaves, the last two blank, 23 lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to six-line spaces left for capitals. Claudin XIX. Pellechet 147. Hain 216. Large initial on first page supplied in blue and gold, with pen ornamentation in red and blue. Other capitals and the paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. Last blank leaf wanting. This and the two next works of the present list bound with it were printed at the first Paris press, a private press set up in the Sorbonne in 1470 by Johann Heynlin, Prior, and Guillaume Fichet, Librarian, of the Univer- sity, and maintained by them until April, 1473. During these three years twenty-two books were printed, all in the same roman type, copied from the Caesar of Sweyn- heym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469. In only two of them are the actual printers, Priburger and his associates, named. To the twenty-eight 15th-century editions — not to speak of the translations — of this novel described by Hain, Copinger's Supplement adds half as many more. The present edition is perhaps the third. Claudin, who makes it the nineteenth in the list of the Sorbonne books, could trace but four copies. This makes a fifth. The three books from the Sorbonne press are bound in one volume, red morocco, gilt edges, with book-plate of Sir William Burrell. It passed from his possession some years before his death and was bought by Michael Wodhull at Payne's sale April 7, 1789, for £4.4s. The binder, possibly mistaking the date of the author's sub- scription (Vienna, 1444) for that of the printing, has placed it on the back of the volume. Leaf 7% X 5^ in. 20. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De curialium miseria. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.] 30 CATALOGUE OF Fol. 1 & : Aeneae Siluii poaetaa laureati (cui et pro ponti- ficali dignitate Pio nomen est) in disputationem de eu- rialium miseria ad perspicacissimum iurisconsultum Iohannem Ech, serenissimi diuiqwe principis, Alberti, caesaris inuictissimi ! Alberti quoque austriae ducis in- clyti consiliarium atque oratorem praefacio foeliciter in- cipit; Fol. 34*: Vale uir (nisi ex curialibus unus esses) meo iudicio prudens ; Colophon : Aeneae Siluii de curia- lium miseria disputatio finem habet fcelicem; Fol. 35, 36, blank. Quarto. Quires [1-3 10 , 46], 36 leaves, the last two blank, 23 lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- and six-line spaces left for capitals. Claudin XX. Pellechet 132. Hain 198. First initial rubricated in the same style and by the same hand as in the De duobus amantibus. Other capi- tals and paragraph-marks in red and blue alternately. Initial-strokes in yellow. At the bottom of fol. 29 a a line accidentally dropped by the compositor is supplied in manuscript by a contemporary hand, viz., "non te uolunt. Quidam uero potewtes sunt ! ac ex. ' ' Both the recto and the verso of the leaf have the full complement of 23 lines but there is a hiatus in the text. The copies in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and the Bibliotheque Mazarine, Paris, have the line supplied in manuscript in like man- ner, but instead of uero read non, which does not suit the context. According to Claudin this is the twentieth book printed at the Sorbonne press. To the five copies known to him this adds a sixth. Bound with No. 19. De duobus amantibus. 21. PLATO. Epistolae. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.] Fol. l a ; Ad prudentem et magnificum uirum Cosmam de medicis florentinura, Leonardi Aretini clarissimi ora- EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 31 toris, in epis^olas platcmis quas ex graecis latinas fecit! pmefatio ; Fol. 52% Colophon : FINIS. Discite rectores diuinitus, ore platonis ! Quid uos, quid ciues reddat in urbe bonos ; Quarto. Quires [1-4 10 , 5 8 , 6 2 , 7 2 ], 52 leaves, 23 lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Three- to five-line spaces left for capitals. The first initial supplied in blue and red, other capitals in blue and red alternately. Initial-strokes in yellow. Claudin XIV. Philippe VII. Crevenna 1523. Hain 13066. Leonardo Bruni, often called Leonardo Aretini from his birthplace Arezzo, translated five of the dialogues of Plato in addition to the letters. The first notice of this edition is found in the Cata- logue Bolongaro-Crevenna (Amst., 1789), where it is described as containing 52 printed leaves. It appears from the price-list printed after the sale in 1790 that it had not been sold, but was ' ' retenu, f aute de commissions ou de concurrence, ' ' and was still obtainable at the price of 15 florins. No trace of it has since been found and Panzer and Hain were able only to copy the catalogue description. Philippe (1885) described Heynlin's copy, which is preserved in the library of the University of Basel, as consisting of one first blank leaf, forty-nine printed leaves and two blank leaves at the end. Claudin (1898), with a second copy discovered meantime in the Bibliotheque d 'Angers at his command, finds one first blank and forty-nine printed leaves, and remarks that the two blank leaves placed by Philippe at the beginning [should be end] are only independent fly-leaves. Our copy has fifty-two printed leaves and no blanks and no occasion for them, since the printed leaves, of themselves, form complete quires. Claudin's collation, which gives both the quires and a register of the first words of each quire, shows that both his copies lack the sixth quire of our copy, composed like the seventh of only two leaves and beginning "sibus inter dixistis." There is more- over still unexplained and not easily explainable in the 32 CATALOGUE OF descriptions of both the Basel and Angers copies the presence of a troublesome first blank leaf and the absence of another leaf of text, in addition to the lacking sixth quire. It follows that, at least until the Crevenna copy, which appears to have been in agreement with ours, comes to light again, this must remain the only complete copy known. Bound with Nos. 19 and 20, from the same press. 22. MAGNI, Jacobus [Jacques Le Grand]. Sopholo- gium. Paris, Martin Crantz, Ulric Gering and Michael Friburger, 1 June, 1477. Fol. 1, blank. Fol. 2 & : Sequitur tabula capitulorum Sophologij. Fol. 5 a : Doctissimi atqwe excellentissimi patris : sacraruw litterarum doctoris deuotissimi : f ratris Iacobi magni: religionis fratrum heremitarum: sancti Augustini sophologium incipit. Cuius principalis inten- tio est inducere legentis animum ad sapientie amorem. Fol. 218*: Jacobi Magni sophologium finit feliciter. Fol. 218 h : Epigramma ad huius operis conspectorem [five distichs.] Colophon : Anno domim millesimo .cccc.lxxvij. die .i. mensis Iunij. Impressum fuit istud sophologium parisius per Martinum crantz. Vdalricum gering, et Michaelem friburger. Quarto. Sign, a-x 10 , y 8 , 218 leaves, the first blank, 32 lines to the page, gothic lower-case type, roman capitals. Two- to six-line spaces with guide- letters left for initials. Hain 10478. Border ornamentation in color on fol. 5 a . Initials at the head of the first four of the ten books in dull gold and color ; those of the remaining books in color only. Chap- ter initials and paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue. Blank first leaf wanting. The bottom line of fol. 116 b which had been accidentally moved across to the foot of fol. 115 a (the companion page on the imposing stone) is supplied in manuscript where it was lacking and the misplaced line of print is canceled. EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 33 On the discontinuance of the Sorbonne press in 1473, the printers, Crantz, Gering, and Friburger, moved into the neighboring Rue Saint-Jacques and set up a press, with new type, on their own account. An edition of the Sophologium had been one of the last books printed at the old press. A second edition was issued from the new press in 1475, of which the present edition is, in type, number of pages and lines, an exact reprint, but has printed signatures and is a quarto while that was a folio. Caxton's "Book of Good Manners," printed in 1487, was a translation of "Le livre des bonnes meurs," another work by the same author. The present copy, bound in green morocco with gold borders and gilt edges, is from the Syston Park library, sold in December, 1884. Leaf 103,4 X 7V4 in. 23. HIERONYMUS. Vaderboeck. [Zwolle], Peter van Os, 1 April, 1490. Fol. l a , Title : DIt boeck is ghenomet. dat vader boeck. dat in den latijne is ghehieten Vitas patrum. inhoudende dye historien ende legenden der heyligher vaderen die hare leuen in strewgher penitencie ouerghebracht hebbew Ouergheset in goeder verstawdelre duytscer sprake. [Rest of page occupied by two woodcuts.] Fol. l h : [H]Ier beghint die tafele van desen boecke dat ghehieten is dat va (sic) vader boeck. Fol. 4 h : Hier eyndet die tafef (sic) van den boecke Fol. 5\- [Woodcut of the Annunciation, which is repeated on the verso of the leaf.] Fol. 6*: Hier beghinnet dat eerste deel van desen boecke dat ghenoemet is Vitaspatrum in latijne. Fol. 165 h , Colo- phon : Hier eyndet dat derde deel van desen boecke van den wowderlijke wercken en^e goede exempelew ende goede lermghen der heigher (sic) vaderew so als die hey- lige leraer Jeronimws vut den grieckew in den latine ghetogew heeft Ouergheset in goeder verstandelre duyt- scer spraken om salicheit aire goeder kersten mewscen. Ghedruct bi mi Peter van Os In den iare ons heren Mcccc 34 CATALOGUE OF ende xc. den eersten dach van den April. [Peintek's Device, (shields of Zwolle and of the printer combined).] Fol. 166, blank. Folio. Sign. A*, sfl, b-z