Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The Publication Committee of the Caxton Club certifies that this copy of “An Essay on Colophons” is one of an edition consisting of two hundred and fifty-two copies on French hand-made paper and three copies on imperial Japanese paper, printed from type, and completed in the m...
The Publication Committee of the Caxton Club certifies that this copy of “An Essay on Colophons” is one of an edition consisting of two hundred and fifty-two copies on French ha...
2. Part 2The interest of individual colophons in early printed books has often been noted. The task which, under the kind auspices of the Caxton Club, is here to be assayed is the more a...
3. Part 3Thus of Sophronius Eusebius Hieronimus [_i.e._, S. Jerome], the Orthodox, the most renowned champion of the Church of Christ, there comes to an end the book called after him Hie...
4. Part 4John, who taught Venice there might written be A hundred Plinys in months barely three, And of great Cicero as many a book, Began Augustine, but then death him took, Nor suffere...
5. Part 5Sacrarum occiderant immensa uolumina legum, Proh scelus! et uanos damnabat menda labores, Tantus in ora hominum calamosque influxerat error. Nullus erat tantam auderet qui uince...
6. Part 6The other allusion takes the form of sympathy with the sufferers from Turkish oppression and invasion, and comes at the end of an edition of the story of Attila, in a colophon w...
7. Part 7Hec ego Ioannes de Paderborne in Westfalia, florentissima in uniuersitate Louaniensi residens, ut in manus uenerunt imprimere curaui: nonnullorum egregiorum uirorum desideriis o...
8. Part 8The noble youths Sebastian and Raphael dei Orlandi have not suffered the illustrious Vegetius (a man most worthy of every praise), in his speech On Military Discipline, any long...
9. Part 9Here ends the Quadragesimal which is called the File of Vices. To this divine work by the favor of God the Most High, and of his Mother Mary, the desired end has been put by Ang...
10. Part 10An earlier author, Bonetus de Latis, when he came to the end of his “Annulus astronomicus siue de utilitate astrologiae” (Rome, Andreas Freitag, c. 1496; Hain 9926), dedicated t...
11. Part 11The little less than divine work of the most famous interpreter of both codes, Dom. Petrus de Ancharano, in the matter of the statutes, on the chapter “Canonum statuta de consti...
12. Part 12An excellent book of Homilies of many saints and other most famous teachers on the Gospels of the Seasons and the Saints, with certain of their sermons added, polished with verb...
13. Part 13As an additional method of dating we occasionally find a reference to the year of the indiction, a method of dating by cycles of fifteen years, instituted by the Emperor Constan...
14. Part 14We may bring this chapter to an end by noting one or two fruitful causes of error in dating books which arise from misunderstanding the reference or meaning of the dates in thei...
15. Part 15Capitales litterae, capitalia, initial letters, not simply majuscules, 12, 81 (N. B. The explanation in the text at p. 81 is wrong, the reference being to the initial letters of...