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
Explicit tertia et quarta pars Speculi Guilhelmi Duranti
cum additionibus Ioannis Andree et Baldi suis in locis
ubique positis. Impressa Venetiis per Magistrum Paganinum de
Paganinis Brixiensis, ac Georgium de Arriuabene de Caneto qui
salua omnium pace est inter ceteros amandus ac uenerandus
propter ipsius in hac arte curam in corrigendis operibus ac
in imprimendo charactere. Anno domini M.cccc.lxxxviii. vi die
Septembris.
Here ends the third and fourth part of the Speculum of
Gulielmus Durandus, with the additions of Joannes Andreae and
Baldus inserted everywhere in their proper places. Printed
at Venice by Master Paganinus de Paganinis of Brescia, and
Georgius de Arrivabene de Caneto, who, with due respect to
every one, is, among all others, to be loved and revered for
his care in this art both in correcting works and in printing
them in type. In the year of our Lord 1488, on September 6th.
The slip of “Brixiensis” for “Brixiensem” is not reproducible in English,
but the reader who notes how the two partners are treated as singular
instead of plural will easily see that this colophon could not have
been written for them. It appears, indeed, to have been borrowed from
Bernardinus de Tridino.
Sometimes the inaccuracies introduced are not of a merely verbal kind.
Thus at the end of an edition of the “Fasciculus Temporum” printed by
Heinrich Wirzburg at the Cluniac monastery at Rougemont in 1481 we have
the following colophon:
Chronica que dicitur fasciculus temporum edita in alma
Universitate Colonie Agrippinae super Renum, a quodam deuoto
Cartusiensi finit feliciter. Sepius quidem iam impressa sed
negligentia Correctorum in diuersis locis a uero originali
minus iuste emendata. Nunc uero non sine magno labore ad
pristinum statum reducta cum quibusdam additionibus per humilem
uirum fratrem Heinricum Wirczburg de Vach, monachum in prioratu
Rubei Montis, ordinis cluniacensis, sub Lodouico Gruerie comite
magnifico anno domini M.cccc.lxxxi. Et anno precedenti fuerunt
aquarum inundationes maxime, ventusque [_sic_] horribiles multa
edificia subuertentes.
The Chronicle which is called Fasciculus Temporum, set forth
in the bountiful University of Cologne on the Rhine by a
certain devout Carthusian, ends happily. Often enough has it
been printed already, but by the carelessness of correctors
in various places it has not been amended as justly as it
ought from the true original. Now, however, not without great
labor, it has been restored to its pristine state, with certain
additions, by a humble brother, Heinrich Wirzburg of Vach, a
monk in the priory of Rougemont, of the Cluniac order, under
Count Lodovico Gruerie the Magnificent, in the year of the Lord
1481. And in the preceding year there were the greatest floods
and horrible winds, overthrowing many buildings.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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