Chapter 3

Folio. Quires [1^{12}, 2^8, 3-8^{10}, 9^{12}, 10-15^{10}, 16^8, 17-27^{10}, 28^6, 29-30^{10}, 31-35^8, 36^{12}, 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 elaborate 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 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, describing his uncle's manner of life, was addressed to his friend Macer, who here becomes Marcus by the easy transposition 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 Historia_ 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 Pannartz, Rome, 1470. With the first of these, Jenson's edition 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 generally 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 15-1/4 × 10-1/4 in.

12. NONIUS MARCELLUS. De compendiosa doctrina. Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson, 1476.

_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2-20, alphabetical index._ _Fol. 21, blank._ _Fol. 22^a_: NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM. _Fol. 194^a_, COLOPHON: NONII MARCELLI PERIPATETICI TIBVRTICENSIS COMPENDIOSA DOCTRINA AD FILIVM DE PROPRIETATE SERMONVM IMPRESSA VENETIIS INDVSTRIA ATQVE IMPENDIO NICOLAI IENSON GALLICI. .M.CCCC.LXXVI. _Fol. 194^b, blank._

Folio. Sign. a-c^{10}, d-y^8, z^{12}, 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 manuscript 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.

The Wodhull copy, "Payne's sale, £5.5s., January, 1792." Bound by Roger Payne in red morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 11 × 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^a, blank._ _1^b_: Tabula q_ue_stio_n_u_m_ d_omi_ni Joh_ann_is de Janduno sup_er_ tres libros de anima Aristotelis. _Fol. 2^a_: [I]Nest enim me_n_tib_us_ hominu_m_ Veri boni naturalis inserta cupiditas. _Fol. 92^b_, COLOPHON: Expliciunt questiones d_omi_ni Joh_ann_is de Janduno sup_er_ tres libros de a_n_i_m_a Ar_istotelis_ i_m_presse Venetijs p_er_ Franciscu_m_ de Hailbrun _et_ Nicolau_m_ de Franckfordia socios. M.CCCCLXXiii.

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 pl. 99.

On first page of text a twenty-four line initial illuminated 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 commentaries also on other works of Aristotle. Of the present 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.

The Wodhull copy, bought at the Maffei Pinelli sale, London, 1789, for £1.13s. Bound in hf. vellum. Leaf 16-3/4 × 11-1/2 in.

14. ARISTOTELES. Libri de animalibus interprete Theodoro Gaza. Venetiis, Johannes de Colonia sociusque Johannes Manthen, 1476.

_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: THEODORI: GEAECI: THESSALONICENSIS: PRAEFATIO: IN LIBROS: DE ANIMALIBVS: ARISTOTELIS: PHILOSOPHI: AD XYSTVM: QVARTVM: MAXIMVM. _Fol. 7^b_: ARISTOTELIS: DE HISTORIA: ANIMALIVM: LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 131^a_: ARISTOTELIS DE PARTIBVS ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 184^a_: ARISTOTELIS DE GENERATIONE ANIMALIVM LIBER PRIMVS INTERPRETE THEODORO. _Fol. 250^b_, COLOPHON: Finiunt libri de animalibus Aristotelis interprete Theodoro Gaze. V. clarissimo: quos Ludouicus podocatharus Cyprius ex Archetypo ipsius Theodori fideliter _et_ dilige_n_ter auscultauit: _et_ formulis imprimi curauit Venetiis per Iohannem de Colonia sociu_m_q_ue_ eius Iohanne_m_ ma_n_the_n_ de Gherretze_m_. Anno domini .M.CCCC.LXXVI. _Fol. 251^a_: Tabula cartarum secundum ordinem ponendarum. _Fol. 251^b, 252, blank._

Folio. Sign. a-b^{10}, c-d^8, e^{10}, f^8, g^{10}, h^8, i^{10}, k^8, l-t^{10}, u^8, x^{10}, aa-dd^{10}, ee^8, 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 pl. 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 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 animalium libri iv; 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 translation 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 flattering epistle of eleven pages to the reigning pope, Sixtus IV. The fifty scudi which the pope sent in acknowledgment 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 × 8-1/4 in.

15. UBERTINUS DE CASALI. Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu. Venetiis, Andreas de Bonetis de Papia, 12 March, 1485.

_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: INCIPIT PROLOGVS IN LIBRVM QVI INTITVLATVR ARBOR VITE CRVCIFIXE IESV. ET DICITVR OPVS VBERTINI DE CASALI. QVI FVIT FRATER PROFESSVS ORDINIS MINORVM BEATI FRANCISCI. _Fol. 4^a, col. 2_: Explicit p_ri_mus p_ro_logus. Incipit secu_n_dus. _Fol. 5^a, col. 2_: Explicit p_ro_logus secundus. Incipit liber primus. _Fol. 248^b, col. 2_, COLOPHON: Liber qui intitulatur Arbor uite crucifixe Iesu deuotissimi fratris Vbertini de Casali ordinis minoru_m_ felicit_er_ explicit. Impressus Venetiis p_er_ Andrea_m_ de Bonettis de Papia. Anno .M.CCCC.LXXXV. Die.xii.Martii. Ioa_n_ne Mocenico inclyto principe regnante. _Fol. 249^a_: Tabula capitulo_rum_. _Fol. 249^b, col. 2_: Registrum. _Fol. 250, blank._

Folio. Sign. a-z^8, A^8, B^{12}, C-G^8, H^6. 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 10-1/4 × 7-3/4 in.

Andreas de Bonetis, of Pavia, printed at Venice from 1483 to 1487.

16. ALBERTIS, LEO BAPTISTA DE. De amoris remedio. 1471.

_Fol. 1^a_: BATISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS PRAECLARVM IN AMORIS REMEDIO FELICITER INCIPIT. _Fol. 20^b_, COLOPHON: BAPTISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS IN AMORIS REMEDIO VTILISSIMVM FELICITER FINIT. .M.CCCC.LXXI.

Quarto. Quires [1^8, 2^{12}], 20 leaves, 25 lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place or printer's name. Two- to 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 mal 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 Bibliothèque Nationale (_Vélins_ 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 editions: Petrarch's Canzoniere, 1470; Il 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 9-1/4 × 6-3/4 in.

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 græce. Vita et fabulae latine. Fabulae selectae græce et latine. [Milan], Bonus Accursius, c. 1480.

_Part I._ _Fol. 1^a_: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo sapientissimo ducali quæstori Iohanni Francisco turriano salutem plurimam dicit. _Fol. 2^a_: ΑΙΣΩΠΟΥ ΒΙΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΜΥΘΟΠΟΙΟΥ ΜΑΞΙΜΩ ΤΩ ΠΛΑΝΟΥΔΗ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΙΣ. _Fol. 33^a_: ΑΙΣΩΠΟΥ ΜΥΘΟΙ. _Fol. 70^a_: Τελος των του Αισωπου Μυθων. _Part II._ _Fol. 1^a_: Vita Aesopi fabulatoris clarissimi e græco latina p_er_ Rynucium facta ad Reuere_n_dissimu_m_ Patre_m_ Dominu_m_ Antonium tituli Sancti Chrysogoni Presbyteru_m_ Cardinalem _et_ primo prohoemium. _Fol. 32^b_: FINIS. _Fol. 33^a_: Argumentum fabula_rum_ Aesopi e græco i_n_ latinu_m_. _Fol. 59^b_: Finis. Vita Aesopi per Rynucium thettalum traducta. Verum quoniam ab eo non nulla fueru_n_t praetetermissa (_sic_): fortassis q_ui_a græcus eius codex esset minus emendatus: Ego Bonus accursius Pisanus: eadem in ea omnia correxi; _et_ emendaui. _Fol. 60, blank._ _Part III._ _Fol. 1^a, blank._ _Fol. 1^b_: Bonus Accursius Pisanus doctissimo ac sapientissimo ducali Quæstori Iohanni francisco Turriano salutem plurimam dicit. _Fol. 2^a, col. 1_: ΜΥΘΟΙ ΑΙΣΩΠΟΥ, _col. 2_: Fabulae Aesopi. _Fol. 38^a, col. 1_: ΤΕΛΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΑΙΣΩΠΟΥ ΜΥΘΩΝ. _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, I^6] 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. III, sign. a-b^8, C-D^8, E^6, 38 leaves, the Greek text and the word-for-word Latin translation 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+272. Pellechet 185+192. Proctor, Printing of Greek in the 15th cent., p. 60.

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 translations. 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 græce number 147, the Fabulae latine 100, the Fabulae selectae 62. The translator, Rinuccio 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 alphabetical 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 græce. 3. Vita Aesopi græce. 4. Vita et fabulae latine. On the verso of the last blank leaf is written in an early hand "olim fuit _Reverendissimi_ m_agistri_ 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 × 6 in.

18. OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Metamorphoses. Parma, Andreas Portilia, 15 May, 1480.

_Fol. 1, blank_, _2^a_: TABVLAE F∀BVLARVM (_sic_) OVIDII METAMORPHOSEOS. _Fol. 6^a_: Domitius Calderinus Veronensis. [D]E Ouidii uita nihil a nobis i_n_ hoc loco scribe_n_du_m_ _est_. _Fol. 7^a_: P. OVIDII NASONIS SVLMONENSIS METAMORPHOSEOS LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 187^b_, COLOPHON: FINIS Impressum Parmæ Opera Et Impensis Andre_æ_ Portili_æ_ .M.CCCC.LXXX. Idibus Maiis Ioanne Galeazio Maria Mediolani Illustrissimo Duce Regna_n_te Fœliciter. _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 × 8 in.

19. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De duobus amantibus. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]

_Fol. 1_: Aeneæ siluii poætæ laureati, in hystoria_m_ de duobus ama_n_tibus p_r_æfatio prima ad perq_uam_ generosum milite_m_ Casparem Slik fœliciter incipit. _Fol. 2^b_: Aeneæ siluii in hystoria_m_ de duobus ama_n_tibus p_rae_fatio secunda ad Martinu_m_ Sozinu_m_, Senensem, iuris utriusque p_er_spicacissimum interpretem iocunde incipit. _Fol. 4^a_: Aeneæ siluii de duobus ama_n_tibus hystoria perq_uam_ iocunde incipit! _Fol. 44^b_: Vale. ex Vienna quinto nonas Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo quarto; COLOPHON: Aene_æ_ Siluii po_æ_te laureati de duobus ama_n_tibus eurialo _et_ lucresia, finit fœlicit_er_. _Fol. 45, 46, blank._

Quarto. Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^6], 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 University, 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 _Cæsar_ of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469. In only two of them are the actual printers, Friburger 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 subscription (Vienna, 1444) for that of the printing, has placed it on the back of the volume. Leaf 7-3/4 × 5-1/4 in.

20. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De curialium miseria. [Paris, Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]

_Fol. 1^a_: Aeneæ Siluii poætæ laureati (cui _et_ pro pontificali dignitate Pio nomen est) in disputatione_m_ de curialiu_m_ miseria ad perspicacissimu_m_ iurisconsultu_m_ Iohanne_m_ Ech, serenissimi diuiq_ue_ principis, Alberti, cæsaris inuictissimi! Alberti quoque austriæ ducies inclyti consiliariu_m_ atq_ue_ oratore_m_ præfacio fœliciter incipit; _Fol. 34^a_: Vale uir (nisi ex curialibus unus esses) meo iudicio prudens; COLOPHON: Aeneæ Siluii de curialiu_m_ miseria disputatio finem habet fœlicem; _Fol. 35, 36, blank._

Quarto. Quires [1-3^{10}, 4^6], 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.