festo Epiphania, Gr. idem; Novum Testamentum, Gr. 16mo. Dupuis and Fezandat; Nov. Test. Gr. 16mo. Benedictus Prævotius; Dioscoridis libri VIII. Gr. Lat. folio, idem; Esopi & Gabria Fabula, Homeri Batrachomyomachia, Museus de Herone & Leandro, Agapetus, Hippocratis jusjurandum, Gr. Lat. Galeomyomachia, Gr. 12mo. idem; Nov. Testamentum, Gr. Lat. ap. Granjon. I find no other Greek impression of this period with the name of Granjon. The mark of his family was “un marais, dans lequel croissent de grands joncs,” in manifest allusion to their name. Aristophanis Plutus, Nubes, Ranæ, Gr. cum versione Latina & commentario copioso, 4to; the name of Mathurin Dupuis is sometimes found in the title, but the printer is supposed to have been Chr. Wechel. I consider Dupuis merely to have employed occasionally the Greek presses of others. I find the following without note of printer's name. Dioscoridis opera, Gr. Lat. 8vo. Paris. (Ask.) Theophylacti Commentaria in IV. Evangelistas, Græce, cum Latina Ecolampadii interpretatione, Paris. (Biblioth. Barberina & Fabr. tom. VII. p. 593, n.) Impressions of another eminent printer now first appearing; viz. Gulielmus Morelius, Tilianus, are: Plutarchi Εἰ καλῶς εἴρηται τὸ λάθε Boas, (with other Opuscula,) 4to; Epistolæ sapientum, Gr. Lat. 4to; Epistolæ Phalaridis, Gr. Lat. 4to; Lysia Apologia pro Eratosthenis cade, Gr. & Latine, Renato Gulonio interprete, cum scholiis Ant. Bellandi Grasseni, 4to; Theodori Prodromi exulans amicitia, Gr. Lat. 4to; De epistolis conscribendis, Gr. Lat. 8vo; Geo. Fabritius de syntaxi orationis apud Græcos, 8vo. BENEDICTUS PRÆVOTIUS (Prevost) has the character of an ingenious and able printer. La Caille attributes to him Chrysostomus in Psalmos, 8vo, 1545, which as a Greek impression, I have not elsewhere found recognised. His Nov. Test. Gr. 16mo, is a handsome and esteemed volume: and no less so in its kind his impression (Gallice) of L'Histoire de la nature des Oiseaux, par Belon, fol. 1555, adorned with fine engravings. Maittaire thus describes his Insigne: "STELLA “AUREA in medio locata super gladio & palmæ 66 ramo decussatim positis, et libro aperto, in cujus "folio altero litera a & in altero w exhibetur, hoc "lemmate: Kpátos Oavátov kaì (wñs: Imperium mor"tis & vitæ." GULIELMUS MORELIUS, (Morel,) a native of Tailleul in Normandy, after having matured his acquaintance with the Greek language, by performing for some time the office of corrector of the press of Joannes Lodoicus, established himself about this period: and exercised the art with the highest reputation upwards of fifteen years. Maittaire gives at length his " Index librorum," which (he says) were "multi & elegantes." Morel was himself a person of great erudition: which he evinced by several valuable works of his own. Amongst them are his Commentarii in Ciceronis libros de Finibus, published anno 1545; his Nota in Quintilianum, anni 1548, &c.; and more especially, his Commentarii verborum Latinorum, cum Græcis Gallicisque conjunctorum, 4to, (Lexici forma,) 1558; and Commentarii de Græcorum verbis anomalis, 8vo, 1558. Maittaire mentions as his early Mark, the Greek letter ", cum binis serpentibus circumtextis & Cupidine mediæ li"neæ insidente." Beneath this hieroglyphic he placed the line of Martial: "Victurus genium de"bet habere liber:" and sometimes the maxim, from Euripides: Δεύτεραι φροντίδες σοφώτεραι. 66 Guillaume Morel appears afterwards to have been associated with Adrianus Turnebus, whom at the special recommendation of Turnebus himself, he succeeded in the office of Typographus Regius. We shall have occasion to notice his impressions under that character ab anno 1555, from which period he used the device common to the royal printers. After all his meritorious labours, it appears that Gulielmus Morel left his family in very embarrassed circumstances at his decease: and that in consequence of the civil wars and public troubles of that period, his pension was not duly paid. His widow for some time continued the establishment; which was afterwards vested in Estienne Prævosteau. Henry Estienne seems to accuse Guillaume Morel of having abandoned the profession of the reformed religion: perhaps to enable himself to accept the office of Typographus Regius. This charge is clearly implied in his GULIELMI MORELII EPITAPHIUM. Doctus et hic quondam, magni patiensque laboris : La Croix du Maine says, that Guillaume Morel had a brother, Jean, who was burned at Paris, on account of his religion. Peignot relates that this Jean was indeed accused of heresy, and died in prison; but that his remains were disinterred and burned, anno 1559. Menage will have it, that this story applies to Frederic Morel, another brother. Finally, I shall cite the testimony of M. Falconet, in honour of this typographer's professional excellence: "Les éditions Grecques de Guillaume "Morel sont précieuses par la beauté & la cor"rection." 1550. Demosthenis Oratio de corona, Gr. 4to. Christianus Wechel; Luciani dialogus de sacrificiis, Gr. 4to. idem; Luciani Balneum, Bacchus, Hercules, Cycni, Musca encomium, Gr. 4to. idem; Aphthonii Progymnasmata, Gr. 4to, idem; Chrysolora Erotemata, Gr. 4to. idem; Aristotelis de nat. auscultatione libri VIII. Gr. Lat. fol., Michael Vascosan; Plutarchus de carnium esu, Gr. 4to. idem; Luciani encomium Musca, Gr. 4to. Thomas Richard; Lucianus de non facile credendo calumniæ, Gr. 4to. Gulielmus Morel; Luciani Judicium deorum, Gr. 4to. idem; Theocriti Idyllia, Gr. cum Eobani Hessi versione metrica, 4to. idem; Aristophanis Plutus, Nubes, Rana, Gr. 4to. idem; Isocratis Helena Encomium, Gr. 4to. idem; Galeni Prognostica, Gr. 8vo. idem; Gregorii Nysseni adversus eos qui castigationem ægre ferunt oratio, Gr. Lat. 4to. idem; Colloquia familiaria, Gr. Lat. 8vo. idem. We may add, Vergara de omnibus Græcæ linguæ partibus, 8vo. Par. the printer not specified. (Heath.) 1551. Heliodori Ethiopicorum Liber I. Gr. Lat. 4to. Christianus Wechel; Platonis Alcibiades, Gr. 4to. Michael Vascosan; Ejusdem Crito, Gr. 4to. idem; Demosthenis oratio Eρì Tŵv ev xeppovýow, 4to. idem; Aristoteles de mundo, Gr. 4to. idem; Ori Apollinis Hieroglyphica |