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Sanvitale, Luigi, Saggio di Novelle, small 8vo.

Salomone Fiorentino, Elegie in morte di Laura sua moglie, 16mo.
Sanraffaele, Donna Urania, large 8vo.

Savioli, Amori, col Ritratto, royal 4to. and 16mo.

Traduzione Italiana del primo libro degli Annali di Tacito, royal 4to.

Scarrone, Memorie intorno all'Abate Carlo Denina, Piemontese, small 8vo.

Serassi, Ragionamento sopra l'Ariosto ed il Tasso, royal folio, and medium folio, on vellum paper.

Tansillo, il Podere, small 4to.

Vassalli, Panegirico sopra la Sindone, royal 4to.

Viano, Giulio, Discorso villereccio, large 8vo.

Ragionamento sulle Meteore acquee, large 8vo. Voti della Torinese Accademia degli Unanimi, small 4to.

Latin Works.

Cyrilli, M. D. Cyperus Papyrus, foglio imperiale, con 2 Tavole in

rame.

Didymi Taurinensis, De pronunciatione Divini Nominis quattuor litterarum; cum auctario observationum ad hebraicam et cognatas linguas pertinentium, small 4to.

A most elegant edition, particularly on account of the diversity of characters introduced by the very learned editor, the Abate Tomaso Palperga di Caluso.

Epigrammi Latini-Italiani, small 8vo.

Fabroni, Vita F. Petrarchae cum notis, royal 4to.

Vita Pallantis Stroctii, large 4to.

Magnani, Orationes habitae Bononiae, medium folio, and royal 4to. Nelis, Belgicarum rerum Prodromus, large 8vo.

Paciaudi, Inscriptiones a I. B. Bodonio collectae, small 4to.

Some copies are on vellum paper.

French Works.

Bernard, l'Art d'aimer, small 8vo.

Epigrammi Francesi-Italiani, small 8vo.

François (de Neufchateau) Conseils d'un père à son fils, imités des vers que Muret a écrits en Latin pour l'usage de son neveu; en Latin, François, Italien, Allemand, large 8vo.

Lama, Eloge d'une Femme bienfaisante, large 8vo.

L'Aveugle de la Montagne, Entretiens Philosophiques, medium 8vo.

Moreau de Saint-Méry, Conseiller d'Etat, etc. De la Danse, 16mo.

and small 8vo.

Nelis, Chant du Cigne, imperial 4to.

L'Adoration, ou la Prière et le Désir; Francese-Ital. imperial

4to.

L'Adoration, etc. Francese, royal 8vo.

Temple de Guide.

Vert-Vert, Franc. Ital. Traduzione di P. A. Vincenzi, medium 8vo.

The preceding list will be found to contain an accurate notice of all those productions of the Bodoni Press; the elegance of which claim for them a place in every large library: it were easy to add numerous other works, executed by him; but, as these are not particularly interesting by their importance, rarity, or other circumstances, they are purposely omitted. We cannot, however, terminate the present notice of the editions from Bodoni's press, without recording the following particulars, related by the learned president of the Linnean Society, and which reflect the highest honour on the liberality of this eminent printer.

"A very great curiosity, in its way, is the Parma printing-office, carried on under the direction of Mr. Bodoni; who has brought that art to a degree of perfection scarcely known before him. Nothing could exceed his civility in shewing us numbers of the beautiful productions of his press, of which he gave us some specimens, as well as the operations of casting and finishing the letters. The materials of his types are antimony and lead, as in other places; but he shewed us some of steel. He has sets of all the known alphabets, with dipthongs, accents, and other peculiarities, in the greatest perfection. His Greek types are peculiarly beautiful, though of a different kind of beauty from those of old Stephens, and perhaps less free and flowing in their forms. His paper is all made at Parma. The manner in which Mr. Bodoni gives his works their beautiful smoothness, so that no impression of the letters is perceptible on either side, is the only part of his business that he keeps secret."-Dr. Smith's Tour on the Continent, vol. iii. pp. 38, 39, second edition.

XVII.-CLASSICS

EDITED BY M. RENOUARD, AT PARIS.

Lucani Pharsalia, 1796, folio.

This edition is executed in the most sumptuous manner, at the press of Didot, on the same kind of paper, and with the same types as his celebrated Virgil, and may fairly claim the character of being immaculate for not a single error has hitherto been discovered in it. The edition is in medium folio ; fifteen copies are on large paper, and five on vellum.

Cicero de Officiis, de Amicitia, de Senectute, &c. 1796, 4to, on vel`lum paper, from the press of Didot, and as correct as it is beautiful.

Tacitus de Moribus Germanorum et Vitæ Agricolæ, 1795.

Eutropius et Sextus Rufus, 1796.

Apuleius, 1796, 3 vols.

Apuleii Psyches et Cupidinis Amores, et Petronii Arbitri Ephesiaca

Matrona, 1796.

Plinii Panegyricus, 1796.

Sallustius, et Orationes in Catilinam, 1795-96, 3 vols.

Cicero de Senectute et de Amicitia, 1796, 2 vols.

Cornelius Nepos, 1796, 2 vols.

Petronius Arbiter, 1797, 2 vols.

These articles form a beautiful collection, in 16 volumes 18mo, on fine vellum paper: 270 copies of each were struck off; which are as correct as they are elegant. To this series should be added the following works, executed in the same style of elegance, under the editorship of M. Renouard.

J. Audoeni Epigrammata, 1794, 2 vols. 12mo.

15 copies are on large paper, 4 on paper of a still larger size, and 4 on vellum.

Carmina Ethica P. Syri, et aliorum auctorum, 1795, 12mo.

This elegant little volume is executed in the same style as Owen's Epigrams.

Beside the preceding editions, the lovers of elegant literature are indebted to M. Renouard for numerous impressions of the works of the most elegant French authors: the unavoidably protracted length of this number of the Appendix, necessarily limits our notice to a few of the most valuable articles.

Vertot, Révolutions Romaines, de Suède et de Portugal, 1795-6, 7 vols. 8vo.

A few copies are on large vellum paper.

Montesquieu, Grandeur et Décadence des Romains, 1795, 2 vols. 8vo. St. Evremond sur les Romains, 1795, 8vo.

These works are executed on vellum paper, in the same style as the preceding.

Œuvres d'Antoine Hamilton, 1812, 4 vols. 8vo. avec la suite des
Facardins et de Zeneyde, par M. Levis; also in 5 vols. 18mo.
Of the 8vo edition, there are only ONE copy on vellum, and six on
PINK paper.

Œuvres de Massillon, 1810, 13 vols. 8vo.

An elegant and correct edition; the fate of which has been rather singular. While its merits were obtaining for it that sale which it deserved, an invidious report was anonymously circulated, that it was a mutilated impression. In consequence, its circulation has been stopped for more than a year. I am assured, by the learned editor, M. Renouard, on his word of honour, that not a single word has been altered or suppressed; that the book is, in every respect, conform

able to the original editions; and that, if he had been required to make any alterations, he would not have undertaken the work.

Œuvres de Gessner, 1795, 4 vols. sm. 8vo. The same, 1799, in a larger type, 4 vols. 8vo.

Both editions are ornamented with 51 fine engravings by Moreau the younger: Two copies of each edition are on VELLUM.

Réal, Conjuration contre Venise ; Conjuration des Gracques, 1795, sm. folio.

Of this splendid work 63 copies only were struck off, and numbered; FIVE copies are on VELLUM.

Oraisons funebres de Bossuet, 2 vols.-de Flechier, 2 vols.-Choisies de Bourdalone, 2 vols.-Mascaron, La Rue, et Massillon, 1 vol. -Petit Carême de Massillon, 1 vol.-Morceaux Choisis de Massillon, 1 vol.

In all, 7 vols. 18mo. and 12mo.; forming a charming collection of the best French sacred orators. Of some of them there are one and two copies on vellum.

Aminta di Tasso, 18mo. and 12mo.

With a beautiful engraving: there are 2 copies on vellum.

Dafni e Cloe, trad. da Annibal Caro-Zenofonte Ephesio, trad. da Salvini, e riveduto da Visconti, 2 vols. 18mo. and 12mo.

Two copies of each on vellum: these editions are preferable to those of the same work printed by Bodoni.

Œuvres complettes de Florian, 1812, 16 vols. 18mo.

Œuvres de Berquin, la seule édition complette et rangée dans un meilleur ordre, par A. A. Renouard, 20 vols. 18mo.

Bossuet, sur l'Histoire Universelle, avec sa Continuation, 6 vols. 18mo.

All these editions are uniformly and correctly edited by M. Renouard, and are embellished with numerous splendid engravings: they are well calculated to form, with his editions of the Classics, an elegant cabinet, or travelling library.

Proverbii di Antonio Cornazano, 1812, 12mo.

A small edition only was printed of this elegant and correct little work, on fine vellum paper. There are some copies on BLUE vellum paper; and SEVEN were struck off on vellum.

No. VIII.

NOTICE OF THE CODEX EBNERIANUS.

(Referred to, p. 108.)

The Codex Ebnerianus is a very neat manuscript of the New Testament, in quarto, now deposited in the public library at Nuremberg: it was formerly in the possession of Hieronymus Ebner von Eschenbach, of that city, from whom its appellation is derived. It contains 425 leaves on parchment, and was written in the year 1391.

The whole of the New Testament is comprised in this volume, excepting the Book of Revelation: each page contains 27 lines, at equal distances, excepting those in which the different books commence, or which are decorated with illuminations. Beside the New Testament, the Eusebian Canons are introduced, together with lessons for particular festivals, and a menologium used in the Greek Church, &c.

The book is bound in massy silver covers, in the centre of which, the Redeemer of the World is represented sitting on a throne, and in the act of prououncing a blessing. Above his head is the following inscription, in square letters, exhibiting the style in which the capitals are written :Δέσποτα ευλόγησον τον δουλόν σου ελάχιστον Ιερονυμον Ιουλιέλμον nai tny oíxiav auTov. Lord, bless the least of thy servants, Hieronymus Gulielmus and his family. Of the style of writing adopted in the body of the work, the engraving which faces page 108 will afford a correct idea, and at the same time exemplify the abbreviations frequent in Greek MSS. of the 12th and 13th centuries. Our specimen comprises the ten first verses of the first chapter of St. John's gospel: the abbreviations, though very numerous, being uniformly the same, do not interpose any material difficulty to the easy perusal of the MS. Wetstein, though he has admitted it into his catalogue, has made use of it only in the eighth chapter of St. John's Gospel. Michaelis has classed it among the uncollated MSS. of the New Test. See Wetstein's N. T. Proleg. p. 58. Marsh's Michaelis, vol. ii. part i. p. 258. De Murr's Memorabilia Bib. Norimb. part ii. pp. 100-131, where the Codex Ebnerianus is minutely described and illustrated with 13 plates of illuminations, &c. which are very curious in an antiquarian point of view.

No. IX.

COLLECTIONS OF LARGE WORKS.

(Referred to, p. 328.)

ACTA SANCTORUM, quotquot toto orbe coluntur, vel a Catholicis Scriptoribus celebrantur, collegit, digessit et notis illustravit Joannes Bollandus. Operam et Studium contulit Godefridus Henschenius, etc. etc. Antwerp and Tongerloo, 1643-1794. 53 vols. folio. This extensive and profoundly learned work is very little known

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