haps indicates that all copies are not like the present. After the fortieth folio which ends the fifth sheet, a single leaf is inserted, printed in a larger type than the rest of the book, for the purpose of supplying an omission made by the compositor. This additional leaf cannot have been added in all the copies, many of which had no doubt been distributed before the error was discovered. Signatures are added to the sheets in red ink by a contemporary hand; the inserted leaf is thus marked f 1, and sheet f consequently consists of nine leaves. 35960 VALERII MAXIMI Romane urbis iurisp'tissimi. in libru factor' et dictorum memorabiliu ad Tiberiu cesarem Prefatio incipit, sm. folio, printed in a stout Gothic type in long lines, the initials painted in the first heading and the colophon printed in red; old French red morocco extra, gilt edges, from the Askew and Wodhull libraries successively, £32.

Presens Valerii Maximi opus p'clarissimu. in nobili urbe Mogutina Rheni terminatu. anno M.cccc.lxxi.xviii. kalēdis iuliis. per egregium Petrū schoyfer de Gernszhem artis impssorie mgrm. feliciter cōsumatū (1471) 35961 [CONSTITUTIONES CLEMENTINE] Presens clementis quinti opus cōstitucōnū clarissimū

large folio, printed on vellum, in strong parchment binding, £84.

per Petrum Schoiffer de Gernszhem M.cccc.lxxi. tredecima die mensis Augusti (1471)

The text occupies two columns in the middle of each page; and the gloss of Joannes Andreæ is in smallar type in an inner and an outer column. A Schoeffer on vellum is always a desirable acquisition.

35962 TURRECREMATA

(Johannis de) Expositio Psalmorum, sm. folio, printed in the same Gothic type as the Valerius Maximus, but having the first words of each Psalm in large missal-characters, the initials painted in, the colophon printed in red ink; old English blue morocco gilt, from the Sunderland library, £7. 10s

Reuerendissimi cardinalis tituli sancti Sixti domini Johannis de Turrecremata expositio breuis et vtilis super toto psalterio Mogūtie impssa Anno dni. M.cccclxxiii. tercio Idus septembris p. petrū Schoyffer de gernszhem feliciter est consumata (1474)

35963 GREGORIUS IX. INCIPIT NOUA OPILATIO DECRETALIUM

GREGORIJ. IX, large folio, Gothic letter in quadruple columns, the text occupying the two inner columns in a larger type, the gloss of Bernardo Bottoni filling the two marginal columns in a smaller type which has 81 lines to the full column; the colophon and printer's mark in red ink; old English red morocco extra, gilt edges, from the Sunderland library, £36.

Anno incarnationis dnice M.cccc.lxxiij. ix.kl. decembres.. in nobili vrbe Magūcia.. quā diuina etia clemetia dono gratuito p. ceteris terrar' nationib' arte impssoria dignata è illustrãe; hoc pns decretale glosa cu ordinaria dni Bernhardi, no atrametali penna cannaue sed arte quada ingeniosa imprimendi . . . Petrus schoiffer de gernszheim.. consummauit (1473) 35964 HERBARIUS, sive AGGREGATOR. (R)ogatu plurimor' inopū nūmor' egentiu appotecas refutatiū.. Ob id psens opusculu sua supsit denominacōnē Aggregator practicus de simplicib' . sm. 4to. Gothic letter, 150 woodcuts of herbs, the names given in Latin and German, and accompanied by a Latin text; uncut, in limp vellum cover, £5.

s. n. (Mogunt. Schöffer, circ. 1475-80)

Four preliminary leaves, the first a blank; 150 numbered leaves; 1 leaf unnumbered; a blank leaf; 18 unnumbered leaves,-34 lines per full page. Schöffer brought out a second edition in 1483, bearing his mark and the date.

35965 HORBORCH. Conclusiones siue decisiones antique dnor' auditor' de Rota (edidit Guilhelmus Horborch), 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, Gothic letter, 285 printed leaves, double columns, 49, 50, and 51 lines per column, with 2 blank leaves; bound, from the Pirckheimer-Arundel library, £5.

Anno dni. Mccclxxvii. . . In ciuitate Maguntina impssorie artis inuetrice elimatriceq3 pma Petrus Schoyffer de Gernszheym.. finiuit (1477) 35966 MISSALE (VRATISLAVÍENSE.) Presens misfolio, printed in large missal characters, in red and black, a leaf mi missing in the middle, old calf, £10. 10s.

sale Ad dei laude et honorem

per Petru schoffer de gernszheym In inclita ciuitate

Maguntina. huius artis Impressorie inuētrice : atq3 elimatrice prima. glorioso deo fauente. suis cosignando scutis. Impressum et finitu Anno domini M.cccc.xcix. sabbato post mathei apostoli (1499)

This is an interesting issue of a rare volume. Only two copies of Schöffer's Breslau Missal of 1499 are recorded by Mr. Weale, and they both vary from this in having the use specified. The date also would seem to be given in a different form, as Mr. Weale gives it "28 Sept.", the same day being indicated in a variant method in the above copy.

Johann Schoeffer (1503-35).

35968 LIVIUS. Romische historien Titi Liuii mit etlichen newe Translation [durch Bernhard Schöfferlin [und Ivo Wittig] stout small folio, numerous very fine woodcuts probably by H. Schaufelein, Hans Burgmair, and others; one leaf of the Register a little defective; in the original pigskin binding, £12. 10s

Mentz, Joannes Schoeffer, 1523

This volume is one of the documents upon which the history of Printing is based. The dedication to the Emperor Maximilian ends with the following statement relating to Mentz :

In which town, also, the wondrous art of Printing was originally invented, firstly by the ingenious Johann Guttenbergk, 1450 years as it is counted from the birth of our lord Christ; and thereafter improved and made permanent by the diligence, cost, and labour of John Faust and Peter Schöffer at Mentz, etc.

This statement, emanating perhaps from Ivo Wittig, but evidently sanctioned if not composed by the printer, has a distinct value, as showing that, in 1505, Johann Schöffer, the son of Peter Schöffer and the grandson of Fust, was not under the influence of any family tradition which could invalidate the priority of Guttenberg. It was first printed in that year, 1505, a fact which must not be forgotten in connexion with the appearance of quite dissimilar statements in other Schöfferbooks from 1515 onwards.

HUTTEN'S Works-see post. under Steckelberg (1519).

(1459) Strassburg.

Johann Mentelin (1460-76).

35969 JOANNES CHRYSOSTOMOS. Traductio libror' Sancti Iohannis crisostomi Super Matheum e greco i latinŭ edita a Georio (sic) trapezontio s. l. & a. sed typis J. Mentelin, about 1465AUGUSTINUS (S.) DE ARTE PRÆDICANDI, stated in Preface to have been committed "Johanni Mentelin," for publication (Argent. about 1465)-2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, very fine copies, in russia

extra, leather joints, gilt edges, by Roger Payne, both works
excessively rare, £36.
(? 1465)
These two works are partly in the peculiar backward-leaning semi-
Gothic in which the Latin Bible was printed by Mentelin, which bears in
one copy a rubrication dated 1460-61.

The two preliminary leaves of the Augustine are a notice by the editor concerning his labours to obtain a corrected text of a treatise so useful to the men of his own order-he was a Dominican or preaching monk. He had examined all the copies that were to be found in Heidelberg, Speyer, Worms, and Strassburg, so as to make his own a perfect model of correctness; and next came the duty of multiplying examples for his fellow monks. Wherefore, since I judged that by no other mode or means could this be effected, I persuaded in every way the discreet man John Mentelin, citizen of Strassburg, master of the printing art, that he should take upon himself the burden and labour of multiplying this little book by the method of Printing, with my copy held before his eyes. Such are his words turned into English, and this sentence has served to identify several noteless books as printed by Mentelin.

An identical statement, but with the name altered to Johann Fust, appears in the edition printed at Mentz by the latter in 1465, usually hitherto considered to be the first; but Mr. Madden has conclusively settled the question of priority in favour of Mentelin.

35970 AUGUSTINUS (S.) DE CIVITATE DEI, cum Commentariis T. Valois et N. Triveth. Gloriosissimam ciuitatem dei. . . . folio, very fine copy with painted Capitals in old gilt russia, by Roger Payne, £30. 8. l. &a. sed Argentorati J. Mentelin, circ. 1467

Excessively rare, and by many considered the first edition, as Lord Spencer's copy bears an inscription by the illuminator, J. Bämler, dating his work 1468.

The text is in the same type as the two-volume Latin Bible of 1460; the commentary is in the type which Mentelin used for his German Bible. 35971 HIERONYMUS. Fol. 1 reverse: (I)NCIPIUNT CAPITULA LIBRI EPISTOLARU SANCTI IHERONIMI. Folio 3: Amasus eps. fratri & copresbro iheroio . . . folio, semi-Gothic letter, 223 leaves, double columns, 50 lines per column; fine copy in blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by Mackenzie, £16.

Sine notá (typis Mentelianis, circa A.D. 1468)

This very rare book is in the same type as the Latin Bible printed by Mentelin before 1460, and is known for certain to have been produced before 1469. There is a copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale, which was bound in that year by Johann Rychenbach, of Geyslingen; and the volume must therefore have been produced by Mentelin some time between 1459 and 1469, but probably nearer to the latter date- say 1467 or 1468. A consideration of the text appears to show that it preceded the edition of Rome, 1468.

35972 ISIDORI (S.) ETYMOLOGICON. Fol. 1: INCIPIT EPISTOLA ISIDORI

IVNIORIS HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI AD BRAVLIONEM CESARAVGVSTANVM
EPISCOPVM
Folio 2 verso: INCIPIT LIBER PRIMVS ETHIMOLO-
GIARUM ISIDORI . . . In calce: EXPLICIT LIBER ETHIMOLOGIARUM
ISIDORI ISPALENSIS EPISCOPI. large folio, semi-Gothic letter, with
headings in Roman capitals; 141 leaves, double columns, 51
lines per column; fine copy in old russia gilt, £6.

s. n. (Mentelin, circ. 1469)

This is not in the same type as any of the before-mentioned volumes by Mentelin, but Panzer states that the Roman headings are in the same type as was used by the printer for his headings in the one volume of Vincentius Bellovacensis which bears his name.

R-books-see under Cologne.

Heinrich Eggestein (1466-78).

35973 CLEMENTIS QUINTI COSTITUTIONÜ LIBER unacu apparatu famosissimi juris doc. domini Io. an suis rubricationibus bellissime distinctus, large folio, the text in large Gothic characters in two inner columns and Jo. Andrew's gloss in smaller Gothic in two outer columns on each page, SOLD

Argent. H. Eggesteyn, 1471 Remarkable for the words of the colophon "Per venerabilem phie. magistru ac ctia inclite Argentinens3. ciuitatis ciue bene meritu dnm Heinricu Eggesteyn hui' artis peritissimu ut innumera antehac diuini humaniq3 iuris per ipsu testantur volumina. summa cũ maturitate ac diligentia impressus est. Anno dni. M.cccc.lxxi. xi. Kl. decembris." The Gratian which he printed in the same year, and probably about the same time, although it bears no month-date to resolve the question of anteriority, does not contain the noteworthy statement about the innumerable volumes that the typographer had already produced before 1471.

35974 [ADRIANI CARTHUSIENSIS] Liber de remedijs vtriusq3 fortune pspere scil; et aduerse per quenda. A. poetam prestantem necñ. sacre Theologie professorem eximium nouiter cōpilatus, small 4to. very fine copy in red morocco, gilt edges, relié par la

Ve Gueffier," with her ticket, £7. 10s

Sine notá (Argentorati, H. Eggesteyn, circa 1470)

This extremely rare volume is very curious for having the folios numbered in the centre of the front margins in Arabic numerals. Brunet is possibly wrong in asserting that the Sermo ad Populum printed by Therhoernen at Cologne, in 1470, is "le premier livre dont les pages soient chiffrées," but as there is no certain date to be assigned to our Adrianus Carthusiensis, we cannot assume its anteriority. The only item of information towards approximating the year of impression is that Ther Hoernen's edition, printed in February 1471, was reprinted from Eggesteyn's.

35975 LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA. Incipit prolog' in vită Ihesu xpi descripta jux serie quatuor euangelior' a quodã magno deuocõis ac religiositatis patre sacri ordis carthus. monacho professo dom' mõtis beate marie virginis ppe inclitam ciuitate Argentinensem, stout folio, Editio Princeps, Gothic letter, 394 leaves (including blank at end), double columns, 55 lines per column, in the original boards covered with pigskin, £7. 10s

[Strassburg, Eggesteyn] Impressu Anno dni. 1.4.74. Brunet speaks of a leaf of Register at the beginning which is not in this copy nor in any other which I know, and which would alter the number of leaves to 395 instead of 394 as he specifics them, since the blank leaf at end is part of the final sheet. This copy is in such fine original condition that it is easy to collate the book by its sheets, the MS. signatures appended by the printer being still visible for the purpose of verifying the completeness of the book.

35 976 LUDOLPHUS DE SUCHEN.

35976*

Folio 1: Registru de itinere

ad terra sancta. . Folio 2: De terra sancta et itinere iherosolomitano et de statu eius et alijs mirabilibus que in mari conspiciutur videlicet mediterraneo sm. folio, First edition, Gothic letter, 34 leaves, 41 lines per page; boards, covered with vellum which is partly written over with a Nürnberg document of 1519; very large uncut copy, £20.

S. n. (Argentorati, Henricus Eggesteyn, circ. 1473) another copy, sm. folio, old red morocco gilt, from Mr. Croft's library, £15 153

(circ. 1473)