Classical texts, the Italian market in 1472 overstocked with, 108 sq.; their editors’ colophons, 149-153. Cleve, Johann von, musician, his troubles with his printers, 129. Cluniac monastery at Rougemont. See Rougemont. Codex, meaning of the word, 12. Cologne, book dated ‘1458’ printed at, 47 note. Colophon, the city, xi. Colophons, original meaning and derivation of the word colophon, ix; history of its use in England, x; its connection with the city of Colophon, xi; GENERAL REMARKS ON, 1-7; colophons not found in all early printed books, 4, 9 sqq., 15; their information often defective, 4; more often found in Latin than in vernacular books, 6 sq., 44, 47; their use a sign of the printer’s pride in his work, 6, 9, 22, 82, 85; EXAMPLES OF COLOPHONS USED AT MAINZ, 8-29; difficulty of exactly translating words used in, 12 sq., 24, 53; phrases taken over from one colophon to another, 15 sq.; possible significance of this, 17 sq., 52; attachment of printers’ devices to, 20, 23, 82; their evidence as to the invention of printing, 25 sqq.; EXAMPLES OF VENETIAN COLOPHONS, 30-56; their information as to the size of early Venice editions, 32, 34, 37; use of verse in, 31, 52, 54; misprinted dates in, 43 sqq., 60; PRINTERS’ COLOPHONS IN GENERAL, 57-90; frequent expression of religious feeling in, 57 sq., 92 sq.; boastfulness in, 58; often used to claim credit for introducing printing into a particular town, 58-60; allusion in an Oxford colophon to Venice printers, 62; Florentine allusion to spaces left for Greek words, 64; their allusions to the plague, 65 sqq.; tell us of books begun in one place and ended at another, 67 sqq.; their allusions to war, 69 sq.; to deaths of printers, 36, 71 sq.; to relations between masters and workmen, 72 sq., 78; their apologies for misprints, 72-74; allusions in a Naples colophon to the printers’ enemies, 75; boasts of loyalty, 76 sq.; references in colophons to types, 80; an Augsburg colophon with an acrostic of the printer’s name (see under Capitales litterae), 81; references to their printers’ marks, 82-86; express their printers’ desire to make their names known, 87 sq.; PUBLISHERS’ COLOPHONS, 91-122; their professions of unselfish zeal, 91 sqq.; praise of the books to which they are appended, 94 sqq.; their demand for gratitude, 92; allusions to the help given by patrons, 99 sqq.; or by a philanthropic partner, 101, 108; the publisher in one case a bell-ringer, 102; in another a poet, 103; colophons often precise in their note of their publishers’ address, 104; their vaunts of cheapness, 106; or of a correctness beyond price, 108; allusions to quick printing, 109; their references to privileges for exclusive printing, 110-120; their scanty allusions to pictures in books, 121 sq.;