Part 2

_Fol. 1^a._ [Text (red)]: In no_m_i_n_e d_omi_ni n_ost_ri ih_es_u chr_ist_i. de heredib_us_ et falcidia _con_st_ituti_o prima si heres legata soluere noluerit Incipit co_n_stitutio Imp_er_atoris Iustiniani. a. Ioha_n_ni p_a_pe secu_n_do. [Commentary]: [I]N nomine d_omi_ni. Iustinianus opus suu_m_ laudabile deo attribuit. _Fol. 169^b._ Explicit liber aute_n_ticor_um_. _Fol. 170^a._ [Text (red)]: Incipiu_n_t _con_suetudines feudor_um_. _Fol. 206^a._ [Text (red)]: Codicis d_omi_ni iustiniani sacratissimi principis perpetui augusti repetite p_re_lectionis incipit liber decimus. _Fol. 300^b_, COLOPHON (red): Anno incarnac_i_o_n_is d_omi_nice .M.cccc.lxxvii. xii. kale_n_dis septembrijs! Sanctissimo in chr_ist_o patre ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Sixto p_a_pa .iiii. po_n_tifice maximo. Illustrissimo noblissime domus austrie d_omi_no, d_omi_no Friderico Romanorum Imp_er_atore inuictissimo, monarchie chr_is_tiane d_omi_nis! Reuerendissimo deoq_ue_ amabili in Chr_ist_o p_at_re ac d_omi_no, d_omi_no Diethero archip_re_sule Maguntino; in ciuitate Maguncia impressorie artis inue_n_trice atq_ue_ elimatrice p_ri_ma .x. collac_i_onu_m_ triu_m_q_ue_ libroru_m_ Codicu_m_ opus egregiu_m_, Petrus Schoiffer de Gernsheim, glorioso faue_n_te deo suis consignando scutis, feliciter finiuit. [PRINTER'S DEVICE in red.]

Folio. 1. Novellae: quires [1^{10}, 2^8, 3-6^{10}, 7-8^6, 9^{10}, 10^8, 11-12^{10}, 13^8, 14^{10}, 15^8, 16^6, 17-18^{10}, 19^{10-1} (the blank second leaf cut away)], 169 leaves. 2. Consuetudines feudorum: quires [1-3^{10}, 4^6], 36 leaves. 3. Codicis libri X-XII: quires [1^8, 2^{10}, 3-5^8, 6^{10}, 7^8, 8^4, 9-10^{10}, 11^{10+1} (the additional leaf prefixed)], 95 leaves. In all 300 leaves, two columns of text and two of commentary, 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 separate 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 position because the colophon is attached to the Codex, and the language because it describes the volume as consisting of "the ten Collations and the three books of the Codes." The Novellae were usually divided by the commentators into nine Collations, perhaps, as Savigny suggests, to parallel the first nine books of the Codex. Sometimes, 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 Consuetudines, 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 15-3/4 × 11-1/4 in.), 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^a_: INCIPIT EPISTOLA ISIDORI IVNIORIS HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI AD BRAVLIONEM CESARAVGVSTANVM EPISCOPVM. [Three other letters to the same and two replies; tabula generalis.] _Fol. 3^b, col. 2_: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA PRIMI LIBRI. INCIPIT LIBER PRIMVS ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI. DE DISCIPLINA ET ARTE. _Fol. 27^b, col. 1_: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. _Fol. 27^b, col. 2_: PREFACIO. [D]Omino et filio syseputo ysidor_us_..... INCIPIT LIBER YSIDORI DE RERVM NATVRA AD SISEPVTVM REGEM. _Fol. 37^a, col. 2_: INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI QVARTI. INCIPIT LIBER QVARTVS DE MEDICINA. _Fol. 142^a_, COLOPHON: EXPLICIT LIBER ETHIMOLOGIARVM ISIDORI HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI.

Folio. Quires [1-13^{10}, 14^{12}], 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 occasional 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 pl. 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 Etymologiae by way of supplement, though not named in the table of contents, is an earlier treatise of Isidore's entitled _De 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 corresponding section of the Etymologiae, it is placed immediately after the third book (devoted to the _quadrivium_, the last division of which is astronomy) and given irregularly 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 wanting here, but by the subdivision of other chapters the number is raised to 58. Zainer of Augsburg, the printer of the first edition of the Etymologiae, dated 19 November, 1472, followed it the next month with an edition of _De responsione mundi et astrorum ordinatione ad Sesibutum regem_, which is the work in question under another 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 Beauvais 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 15-3/4 × 11 in.

4. GESTA ROMANORUM. [Cologne, Ulrich Zell, c. 1473.]

_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Ex gestis romanor_um_ hystorie no_ta_biles: de vitijs v_ir_tutibusq_ue_ tracta_n_tes: cu_m_ applicac_i_onib_us_ moralizatis et misticis: Incipiunt feliciter. _Fol. 160^b, col. 1_, COLOPHON: Ex gestis ro_ma_no_rum_ cu_m_ plurib_u_s applicatis historijs: de v_ir_tutib_us_ et vitijs mistice ad intellectum tra_n_ssum_p_tis Recollectorij finis est feliciter. LAVS. DEO. _Fol. 160^b, col. 2_: Incipiu_n_t tituli numerorum om_n_i_u_m capitulo_rum_ et exemplo_rum_. _Fol. 163^a_: Tabula o_mn_i_u_m exe_m_plo_rum_ _et_ capitulo_rum_ op_er_is præcedentis. sec_un_d_u_m ordine_m_ alphabeti. _Fol. 170^a_: Explicit tabula. _Fol. 170^b, blank._

Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2 columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, 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).

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 10-3/4 × 7-1/2 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. Homiliæ XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer.] 28 August, 1473.

_Fol. 1^a_: Ordo .xl. omeliaru_m_ beati gregorij pape ad secundinu_m_ episcopum Thauronitaru_m_. _Fol. 1^b_: SEQVITVR EPISTOLA [R]Euerendissimo et sa_n_ctissimo frati secundino coepiscopo. Gregori_us_ seruus seruoru_m_ dei. _Fol. 2^a_: EXPLICIT EPISTOLA INCIPIT EWANGELIVM. S. LVCAM.... Omelia prima beati Gregorij pape. _Fol. 141^b_, COLOPHON: Adeptus est finis amba_rum_ parciu_m_ omelia_rum_ beatissimi gregorii pape vrbis rome jn die s_an_cti hermetis sub Anno d_omi_ni M cccc lxxiij. _Fol. 142^a_: _Table of the homilies in the order of the liturgical year._

Folio. Quires [1-13^{10}, 14^{12}], 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. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red. Hain *7948, Pellechet 5366. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 319 (IB. 5457).

Gregory's Homilies, of which this is the first edition, and the three next following works bound with it, are from the press of Günther 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 "Calendarium 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 × 8-1/4 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, Günther Zainer, c. 1473.]

_Fol. 1^a_: Prologus beati jeronimi p_re_sbiteri in psalteriu_m_ q_uo_d ipse de hebraico transtulit in latinu_m_ [E]Vsebius jeronim_us_ soffronio suo salutem. _Fol. 1^b_: Explicit p_ro_logus beati jeronimi. Incipit psalterium Psalmos dauid primus. _Fol. 51^a_: Canticu_m_ Ysaie capitulo lxxij (_sic_), _followed by cantica of Hezekiah, Hannah, Moses (2), Habakkuk_. _Fol. 54^a_, COLOPHON: Explicit tra_ns_lacio soli_lo_q_ui_oru_m_ siue psalterij beatissimi Ieronimi eusebii p_resbiteri_ q_uo_d ad peti_ci_one_m_ soffronij tra_n_stulit ut in ep_isto_la_m_ ante psalteriu_m_ imp_re_ssa p_rae_mittit_ur_ _etc._

Folio. Quires [1-5^{10}, 6^4], 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. Paragraph-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. 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 Homiliæ.

7. MODUS PERVENIENDI AD SUMMAM SAPIENTIAM. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer, c. 1473.]

_Fol. 1^a_: [S]Entite de do_m_ino in bo_n_itate e_t_ in simplicitate cordis q_uae_rite illu_m_. _Fol. 2^a_: Explicit prologus Incipit modus ad summam p_er_veniendi sapienciam. _Fol. 24^a, l. 33_, END: sibi sparso diuinit_us_ in ip_sum_ ardentissime se extendit _etc._ _Fol. 24^b, blank._

Folio. Quires [1-2^{10}, 3^4], 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, Günther Zainer.] 12 October, 1473.

_Fol. 1^a_: Incipit soliloquium beatissimi Augustini episcopi yponensi (_sic_) de arra anime. _Fol. 7^b_, END: Rapt_us_ est finis hui_us_ tractat_us_ August_in_i de arra ani_m_e. feria t_er_cia post festu_m_ s_an_cti Dyonisy Anno d_omi_ni 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 Augustine and likeness to his spirit, he 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 quadragesimale quod de poenitentia dictum est. Venetiis, Wendelinus de Spira, 20 July, 1472.

_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Hec est tabula omniu_m_ sermonu_m_ contentorum hoc in uolumine. _Fol. 3^a_: Sacre theologie magistri necnon sacri eloquij preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis Minor_um_ professoris op_us_ quadragesimale p_er_utilissimum quod de penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit. _Fol. 267^a_, COLOPHON:

Vendelinus ego gentis _co_gnomine spiere! Roberti haec caste purgata uolumi_n_a pressi! Sedis apostolice Romano praeside Sixto Magnanimo _et_ uenetum Nicolao pr_in_cipe Truno M.cccclxxij.xx.quintilis.

_Fol. 267^b, 268, blank._ _Fol. 269^a_: Sermo i_n_ festo a_n_nu_n_tiat_i_o_n_is u_ir_ginis marie _et_ eiusdem Roberti cum tribus (_sic_) aliis sermonib_us_ seque_n_tib_us_. s. de p_re_destinato nume_ro_ damnator_um_ _et_ de cathenis. _Fol. 289^b_: Finis triu_m_ sermonu_m_ Fratris Roberti... _Fol. 290, blank._

Quarto. Quires [1-7^{10}, 8^{12}, 9-11^{10}, 12^8, 13-15^{10}, 16^8, 17-27^{10}, 28-30^6, 31^4], 290 leaves, 1, 268, 290 blank, 40 lines to the page, gothic letter, without 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.

Roberto Caraccioli, born at Lecce in 1425, was bishop of his native city from 1484 to 1495. The great reputation 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 £1.1s., bound in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, at a further cost of 19 shillings. Leaf 10-1/8 × 7-1/2 in.

10. VALLA, LAURENTIUS. Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Venetiis, Nicolaus Jenson, 1471.

_Fol. 1^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS ELega_n_tia_rum_ co_m_pendiosæ collectio_n_is in ordinem alphabeti directæ principium. _Fol. 9^a, blank._ _Fol. 9^b_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS VIRI CLARISSIMI ET DE LINGVA LATINA BENE MERENTIS AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM: CVI OPUS ELEGANTIARVM LINGVAE LATINAE DEDICAT EPISTOLA. _Fol. 11^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS PATRICII ROMANI COMMENTARIORVM GRAMMATICORVM SECVNDVM ELEGANTIAM LINGVAE LATINAE LIBER PRIMVS DE NOMINE VERBOQVE. ET EX HIS DVOBVS COMPOSITO PARTICIPIO INCTPIT PROOEMIVM. _Fol. 159^b_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LANGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA TERTIVS LIBER FINIT: INCIPIT IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS. [_For_ TERTIVS _read_ QVINTUS; _for_ IIII. DE NOMINVM SIGNIFICATIONIBVS _read_ VI. DE NOTIS SCRIPTORVM.] _Fol. 190^a_: LAVRENTII VALLENSIS DE LINGVAE LATINAE ELEGANTIA: ET DE EGO MEI TVI ET SVI AD IOANNEM TORTELLIVM ARETINVM LIBER INCIPIT. _Fol. 200^b_, 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 [1^8, 2^{12}, 3-4^{10}, 5^{12}, 6-7^{10}, 8^{12}, 9^{14}, 10-11^{10}, 12^{12}, 13^8, 14^6, 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 manuscript. 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 supplement _De 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 provided 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, designated in the margins of the text by manuscript roman numerals, but in the index by printed numerals. The references are not, as in later editions, to book and chapter, 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 beginning 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 notwithstanding the size of the leaf (13 × 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 _Elegantiae_ 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 initiative, 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^a_: CAIVS PLYNIVS MARCO SVO SALVTEM. _Fol. 4^a_: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .I. CAIVS PLYNIVS SECVNDVS NOVOCOMENSIS DOMITIANO SVO SALVTEM. PRAEFATIO. _Fol. 21^a_: CAII PLINII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBER .II. _Fol. 355^a_, COLOPHON: CAII PLYNII SECVNDI NATVRALIS HISTORIAE LIBRI TRICESIMI SEPTIMI ET VLTIMI FINIS IMPRESSI VENETIIS PER NICOLAVM IENSON GALLICVM .M.CCCC.LXXII. NICOLAO TRONO INCLYTO VENETIARVM DVCE. _Followed by_: Iohannis andreæ episcopi aleriensis ad pontificem summum Paulum secundum uenetum epistola. _Fol. 356^a_: Hereneus lugdunensis episcopus: item Iustinus ex philosopho martyr: item cum diuo Hieronymo Eusebius cæsariensis: serio posteritatem adiurarunt: ut eorum descripturi opera conferrent diligenter exemplaria: et sollerti studio emendarent. Idem ego tum in cæteris libris omnibus tum maxime i_n_ Plynio ut fiat; uehementer obsecro: obtestor: atq_ue_ adiuro: ne ad priora menda: _et_ tenebras i_n_extricabiles tanti sudoris opus relabat_ur_. Instauratu_m_ aliqua_n_tulu_m_ sub romano po_n_tifice maximo Paulo secu_n_do ueneto. _Fol. 356^b, blank._