An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and TranslationsPollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)
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An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)
Books -- History -- 1450-1600; Colophons; Incunabula -- Bibliography
Commentarii in quatuor libros noue logice processum burse
Laurentiane famosissimi Agrippinensis Colonie gymnasii
continentes per honorabilem virum artium magistrum necnon
sacre theologie licentiatum Gerardum Herdarwiccensem
actu in eodem regentem, ex diuersis et potissimum Magni
Alberti comentarius collecti, et per Udalricum Zell prope
Lyskirchen impressoria artis in sancta Coloniensi ciuitate
protomagistrum fabre characterizati. Anno virginalis partu
Millesimo quadragintesimo super nonagesimum quarto in profesto
Conuersionis euangelice tube Pauli Apostoli ad finem optatum
sunt perducti, de quo sit deo uni et trino laus honor et gloria
per infinita seculorum secula. Amen. Ex quo in hoc tomorum
stromateo opere non paruo adiumento mihi fuit honorabilis
dominus diue memorie Iacobus Amsfordensis, artium liberalium
et sacrarum litterarum professor dum vitam in humanis ageret
profundissimus, Ecclesie sancti Iohannis Baptiste pastor,
mihi ut frater amicissimus, decreui in calce horum titulum
sepulcralem, trito sermone epitaphium appellatum, quem
prestantissimus et generosus dominus Rodolphus Langius, vir
omnium litterarum laude cumulatissimus, ecclesie Monasteriensis
Canonicus, in eundem defunctum, precibus amicorum impulsus,
exornauit subjungere, ut dum hunc quos ab errore salutari
exhortatione reuocauerit legerint apud altissimum pro anima
eius vitificum sacrificium offerant.
The notes on the four books of the new logic containing the
process of the Laurentian bursary of the most famous school of
Cologne, by an honorable man, master of arts and licentiate
of sacred theology, Gerard of Harderwyck, president at that
function, brought together from divers notes and specially
from those of Albertus Magnus, and by Ulrich Zell, near
the Lyskirche, chief practiser of the printer’s art in the
holy city of Cologne, skilfully set in type, in the year of
the Virgin Birth 1494, on the eve of the Conversion of the
Gospel-trumpet, the Apostle Paul, have been brought to their
wished-for end, for which to God the One and Three let there
be praise, honor, and glory through infinite ages of ages.
Amen. And because in this laying down of volumes I received no
small help from an honorable master of sacred memory, Jakob of
Amsfort, while he lived among men a most profound professor
of liberal arts and sacred literature, minister of the church
of Saint John Baptist, and to me as a most friendly brother,
I determined to subjoin at the end of all this a sepulchral
inscription, commonly called an epitaph, which the most
excellent and well-born Dom. Rudolph Lange, a man of great
distinction in every kind of literature, canon of the monastic
church, urged by the prayers of friends, furnished in honor of
the dead, that while those whom by his wholesome exhortation he
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