EARLY PRINTED BOOKS: VENICE Ergo cape & iuuenem Guerinum ad sydera tollas. | Lucanum ueneta Octavianus Scotus, 1479 151 LYRA (Nicolaus de). POSTILLA SUPER BIBLIAM VOL. I. (Fol. 1 blank. Fol. 2a, col. 1:) | Prologus primus. Venerabilis fratris Nicolai de Lyra or- dinis feraphyci Francifci in 4 vols., folio, Gothic letter of two sizes, the text of the Bible printed in £..8. d. 990 Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 1489 21 0 0 A rare edition, unmentioned by Hain and Proctor. Johannes de Gregoriis, 1480 152 HORATIUS. OPERA CUM COMMENTO LANDINI POLITIANI... VOCABVLORVM (Fol. 1b:) AD HORATIVM FLACCVM ODE | DICVLAS TETRASTROPHOS ANGELI Sm. folio, Roman letter, 206 leaves (sigs. Ao, a-z8, §8, 8), the text 4 * HORATIUS, OPERA, continued: £ s. d. with varying numbers of lines, the commentary, in small type, surrounding Antonio de Strata, 1481 153 THOMAS AQUINAS SUPER PRIMO LIBRO SENTENTIARUM (Fol. 1 blank. Foll. 2, 3 contain a table of Peter Lombard's chapters. Fol 4a) Prologus | (The same, col. 1 :) Incipit scriptu sancti Thome de Aquino or dinis predicato 2 sup primo libro sentētiaru;: cu | textu singulis distinctionibus anteposito... (Fol. 149a, col. 2:) . . Impressum Venetijs p magistru Antoniu de strata Cremonesem. Anno domini 1486. Die. 21. Iunij... (This is followed by a table of Aquinas's discussed questions, which ends on 150a) Sm. folio, 150 leaves, double columns, printed in Gothic type of two Venice, Antonio de Strata, 1486 Andrea d'Asola, 1481 154 SABELLICO. RES VENETAE (Fol. la blank; 1b:) M. Antonii Sabellici in tris & triginta suos M. ANTONII SABELLICI RERVM VENETARVM AB VRBE CONDITA AD MARCVM BARBADICVM (Fol. 238a).. Hoc opus Impressum Venetiis Arte Large folio, Roman letter, 240 leaves, 48 lines to the page, with 770 Venice, Andreas Torresanus, 1487 28 0 0 This is a grand typographical achievement, on large paper. The collation is as follows:-6 preliminary leaves; a 8 leaves; b-h 6 leaves each; i 8, k 8; 1-y 6 each; A-H 6 each; I-M 8 each; N 10, and O 4, and two leaves of errata printed in Gothic type. The initials of the books are painted in large size over the small printed guide-letters. Sabellico never gives dates. But in describing the prosperous condition of Venice at the accession of Pasqual Malipiero (elected Doge in 1457, died 1462) he proceeds to say "Ad hanc et alias illius principatus foelicitates accessit quod Librorum Imprimendorum ratio tum primum est in Italia reperta: Commentum ipsum Germani hominis creditur, sed quum totâ Italiâ, procedente tempore, divini operis officina constitutæ sint, sitque apertâ æmulatione inter opifices diligentiâ et ingenio certatum, Nicolaus lenson quem Veneta civitas sortita est omnes alios in eo genere laudis post se procul reliquit." The next sentence tells of the death of Malipiero ;-consequently it must have been Sabellico's belief that this invention of a German was introduced into Italy before 1462. Peter Löslein, 1483 155 IMITATIO CHRISTI ... (Fol. 1b, col. 1 :) Tabule capitulo 2 i libros fequêtes . . . (Fol. 3a, 33 EARLY PRINTED BOOKS: VENICE Bernardinus Rizus, 1484 156 CECCO D'ASCOLI. L'ACERBA (Fol. la:) CECHO ASCVLANO. (Fol. 2a :) Incomencia il primo libro . Sm. 4to., Roman letter, 77 leaves (sig. a-is, k3), 43 lines to the page; without catchwords and foliation; plain red morocco, inside gilt border, Venice, Bernardinus Rizus, 1487 gilt edges by Trautz-Bauzonnet Andreas Calabrensis, of Pavia, 1485 157 FERRARIIS (Joh. Petr. de). PRACTICA JUDICIALIS (Fol. 1 a blank, cut away. Fol. 2a, col. 1:) Incipit tabula seu (Fol. 76:) Ad comendatiõem operis. . . . (Fol. 8a, col. 1 :) ¶ Folio, Gothic letter, 131 leaves (sigs. A3, a3, b-s, t-x"), double columns, A rare edition of this work. It is not mentioned by Hain, Copinger, Brunet, and Bonetus Locatellus, 1486 158 OVIDIUS. EPISTOLE HEROIDES 1... (Fol. 1a) Epiftola heroides Ouidii cum commentariis Antonii Volici. Et Vbertini Clerici Crefcentinatis | (Fol. 96a :) Ipreffum fuit Venetiis per Bonetum Locatellum. Mandato nobilis ui ri Octauiani Scoti Modoetienfis. M. cccc lxxxxii. xiiii. Kalen. noue bris. . . | . . . Sm. folio, printed in Roman type, 96 leaves (sigs. a-q in sixes); bds. Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, 1492 fine copy Johannes Rubeus, 1486 159 STRABO. GEOGRAPHIA (Fol. la, title:) STRABO DE SITV ORBIS (Foll. 2a-16a :) TABVLA Sm. folio, 166 leaves, Roman letter, the text having 61 long lines to . 8. d. £ 880 44 0 1 10 0 2 2 Johann Hamman or Herzog, 1488 160 REGIOMONTANUS. EPITOME IN ALMAGESTUM (Fol. 1a) Epytoma Ioanis | De mōte regio In | almagestu ptolo | £ s. d. Sm. folio, 108 11., with xylographic title, numerous fine woodcut initials and diagrams, and a full-page woodcut consisting of the Signs of the Zodiac and figures of Ptolemy and Regiomontanus, the whole surrounded by a beautiful arabesque border; a large and fine copy in a remarkable modern Maioliesque binding with an elaborate red and blue interlacement on a gold dotted background, gilt edges with a leaf pattern gaufrure, and clasps Venice, Johann Hamman named Herzog, 1496 15 0 0 The artistic decoration of this volume is very fine, the arabesque border, the woodcut initials, and the printer's mark being engraved in white on black ground, evidently by the same hand which designed the illustrations in the Sarum Missal printed by Hertzog in 1494. Aldus Manutius, 1494 161 THEODORE GAZA, etc. (Fol. 1a, title:) | In hoc uolumine haec insunt. Theodori Introducturæ gramatices libri quatuor. | Eiusdem de Menfibus opusculum fanequapulchtu. Apollonii gramatici de confstructione libri quatuor. Herodianus de numeris. | (Fol 2b:) ALDVS MANVCIVS ROMANVS LECTORI. S. D. . . . (Fol. 2a:) | EŌANPOY гPAMMATIKE . . . . . (Fol. 198a)... | Impreffum Venetiis in ædibus Aldi Romani octauo Calendas Ianuarias | M.CCCCLXXXXV. Conceffum eft eidem Aldo ab illuftriffimo Senatu Veneto ne cui hunc librum liceat imprimere sub pœna ut in gratia | Sm. folio, EDITIO PRINCEPS, printed entirely in Greek, with the exception of the title, the preface, and the colophon; 198 leaves, 31 lines to the page, with woodcut initials and ornaments; a fine large copy in a well-preserved contemporary binding of Venetian black morocco, with blind stamped arabesques in compartments, Didot copy Venice, Aldus, 1495 162 THESAURUS CORNUCOPIAE ET HORTI ADONIDIS ... N (Fol. 1α:) ΘΗΣΑΥΡΟΣ. | Κερας αμαλθειας καὶ κηποι Αδώνιδος. [ Sold Sm. folio, entirely in Greek, with the exception of part of the title, the dedication, and the colophon; 280 leaves (sigs. * 10, a-≈§, &1, A-D3⁄4, Eo, F-G3, Ho, 18, Ko, Lo), 30 long lines to the page; a very fine copy in green morocco extra, gilt edges Venice, Aldus, 1496 16 16 "EDITIO PRINCEPS. This publication is a collection of Grammatical Tracts in the Greek language, selected with incredible labour from the remains of THIRTY-FOUR ANCIENT GRAMMARIANS, whose names are prefixed to the work. The editor is chiefly Varino, or Favorinus, or Phavorinus; who was, however, assisted by C. Antinori, a disciple, as well as himself, of Politianus. The printing was undertaken by Aldus, with the assistance of Urbano Valeriano; who both, however, from the testimony of the preface, exercised the office of editors; and the work is justly considered as one of the finest productions of the Aldine press. Such are the remarks of Mr. Roscoe-in his Leo X, vol. ii, pp. 262-3. 4to. edit.-which are abundantly warranted by the beauty and intrinsic curiosity of this noble production. It is a volume in every way interesting to 163 URBANUS. INSTITUTIONES GRAMMATICAE (Fol. 1, title :) INSTITVTIONES GRAECAE | GRAMMATICES. (Fol. 2a :) Aldus Manutius Romanus Ioanni Francisco | Pico Mirandulæ. S. D. Cogitanti.. (Fol. 3a :) Fratris Vrbani bellunensis ordinis minorum institutiones grammaticæ. . . (Fol. 212a :) . . Venetiis in ædibus Aldi Manutii Romani. M.III D. mense Ianuario. | Impetrauit ab. Ill. S. V. & in hoc qd in cæteris suis. (Fol. 213a:) Castigationes (This list of Errata ends on 2147) errorum Sm. 4to., 214 leaves, 27 or 28 lines to the page; with the second state of the Errata, which ends on the 23rd line of fol. 214b, and is followed by the Hail Mary in Greek in three lines; in a superb binding imitated from work done for Francis I, bearing on the sides a mosaic of blue, red, white, and gold, the back similarly treated, and the edges goffered and painted Venice, Aldus, January, 1497(-8) COLLATION; a ten leaves; b-z in eights, & in eight, A in eight, B in ten; and two additional leaves. 164 ARISTOPHANES. COMEDIE. Editio Princeps .. (Fol. 1α:) | 'ΑΡΙΣΤΟΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΚΩΜΩΔΙΑΙ ΕΝΝΕΑ | Sm. folio, FIRST EDITION, 348 leaves; a beautiful copy, large, clean, and sound; bound, with the fine blind-tooled sides of the original Venetian binding inlaid, in black morocco On the last (blank) leaf is a gender de Norinberga," stating that in March 1514. He tells us also binding. 165 LUCRETIUS DE RERUM NATURA Venice, Aldus, 1498 32 0 0 note written by one "Johannes he bought the volume in Bologna what he paid for it and for the (Fol. la, title:) T. LVCRETII CARI. LIBRI SEX NV | PER EMENDATI. | Sm. 4to., Roman letter, 108 leaves (sigs. a-m", n, besides 6 prel. U.), 990 "Edition fort rare."--Brunet. |