150. The Viper of St. Paul. Sonnius, Paris; de la Rouviere, Geneva. 151. Virtue. Durand, Paris. The Theological Virtues. Savroux, Paris. 152. A Watering-pot. Rigault, Lyons. 153. A Wolf. Poncet Le Preux, Paris. 1, 2, 3 and 4. These monograms were indifferently employed by John Fust, the first printer after Gutenberg, with whom he worked at Mayence in the middle of the fifteenth century. The subjoined cut represents the device affixed by Fust and Schoiffer to the celebrated Psalter of Mayence, printed in 1457, folio. 5, 8, 10. Are monograms of Andrea Turresano d'Asola, the father-inlaw of the illustrious Aldus Manutius. 6. Is the mark assigned by Orlandi to Angelo and James Brosc: who these printers were, or where they exercised their art, is not indicated by him, or by Santander. *These monograms of foreign printers are given from Orlandi's Origine e Progressi della Stampa, Bologna, 1722, 4to. but with corrections and additions. Those of English printers are from Herbert's edition of Ames's Typographical Antiquities. 7. This is the monogram of Antonio Bartolomeo Miscomini, who printed at Florence from 1481 to 1495, and also at Modena in 1487 and 1489, in partnership with Roccociola. 9. The monogram of Aldus Manutius the elder, who printed at Venice all the editions of this learned printer are in great request for their beauty and correctness. The improvements, introduced into the typographic art by Aldus, have already been mentioned (pp. 247-249, supra): and some account of the Aldine family as well as of the works executed by them, will be found in No. VII. of this Appendix. 11. Antoine Verard is designated by these two initial letters, and is justly considered as one of the most celebrated printers at Paris. Between the years 1480 and 1500, he printed a great number of works, a few copies of which he struck off on vellum. 12. The monogram of Ayolfo de Canthono, a citizen of Milan, who printed at Naples in 1492. 13. The monogram of Benedetto d'Effore. 14. The mark, employed by Bonino de Boninis, of Ragusa: he printed at Venice from 1478 to 1480; from 1481 to 1483, at Verona, whence he afterwards went to Brescia, where he was printing in 1491. 15. The monogram of Benedetto Fontana, who printed at Venice in the years 1496-1499. 16. Bernardino de Misintis made use of this mark: he printed first at Cremona in 1492, and afterwards at Brescia, from 1492 to 1500. 17. This monogram is assigned by Orlandi to Bernardino Ricci : but the place where he printed is unknown. No such printer is noticed by Santander. 18. The mark of Bernardino Stagnino, who printed at Venice, from 1483 to the close of the fifteenth century. 19. The mark of Baptista de Tortis, a Venetian printer, from 1481 to 1500. 20. Bernardinus de Vitalibus printed at Venice from 1494 to 1500. 21. Bartholomeus de Zanis printed a great number of works at Venice between the years 1486 and 1500: he also printed for Octavianus Scottus. He must not be confounded with Bartholomæus Zanni, who, in 1490, executed the Statuta communitatis Ripperia Salodii et Brixiensis, at Porto, a town in the Venetian territory. 22 and 23. The marks of Dionysius Bertochus, or De Bertochis, of Bologna, who first printed at Venice in 1480, whence he passed to Vicenza in 1481, and worked in partnership with J. de Rheno; in 1482 he was at Treviso, and printed with Paulus de Ferrara and Peregrinus de Pasqualibus. In 1483 he returned to Vicenza, and in the following year he went to Venice, which city he left in 1494 for Reggio, and in 1499 and 1500 he printed at Modena. 24. Dominicus Roccociola, or Richizolo, printed at Modena from 1481 to 1500. 25. The monogram of Johannes Rigarius, who printed at Venice in 1491. 26. The mark of Guy Marchand, a Parisian printer from 1484 to 1499. 27. William Schomberg of Frankfort printed at Messina in 1498 and 1499. |