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
Fust, Johann, colophons from books printed by, 10 sqq.;
failure of his health, 18.
Geese of the Capitol, Ulrich Han’s allusion to, 88.
‘Germani fidelissimi,’ who they were, 77.
Germany, day on which the year began in, 177;
method of indicating days of the month and week by saints’ days,
introits, etc., used in, 182 sq.;
privileges for exclusive printing granted in, 119.
Grammars vaunted as royal roads to learning, 95 sqq.
Grammatical slips in borrowed colophons, 165 sq.
Greek, allusion in a Florentine colophon to the practice of leaving
blank spaces for Greek quotations, 64;
a Greek colophon, 5.
Gregorii, J. and G., colophons quoted, 112 sqq.
Gutenberg, Johann, never put his name to any printed book, 11;
his tradition of secrecy imitated, _ib._;
sale of his types, 17.
Hamann, Johann, adopts part of a colophon, 169.
Han, Ulrich, colophons quoted, 88, 101, 108, 120;
financed by Simon Chardella, 101;
copies Schoeffer’s colophons and makes blunders in them, 165-168.
Henry VII, Caxton’s relations with, 137.
Herbort, Johann, colophons quoted, 78 sq.
Hoemberch, Conrad de. See Winters.
Horae, references in, to their pictures, 120.
Hortus Sanitatis, reference in the colophon of Meidenbach’s edition to
its pictures, 121.
Ides, method of dating by, 182.
Indictions, method of reckoning by, used in colophons, 170.
Introit at high mass, first word used to denote the Sunday to which it
belonged, 183.
Invocavit Sunday, 184.
Jacobus Bergomensis, his age when he finished different editions of the
Supplementum Chronicarum, 131 sq.
Jakob of Amsfort, Ulrich Zell’s acknowledgment of his help, 157.
Januensis (of Genoa), 81.
Jenson, Nicolas, colophons quoted, 41-49;
partnership with John of Cologne, 78;
one of his colophons reprinted at Naples, 162.
John of Cologne, finances Wendelin of Speier, 36;
colophons quoted, 55, 77 sq., 169.
John of Speier, colophons in his books, 32 sq.
John of Verona, colophons quoted, 120.
John of Westphalia, his portrait device mentioned in his colophons, 84,
86.
Justinian, verses of Magister Franciscus in Mainz editions of the
Institutes and Decretals, 26.
Kachelofen, Conrad, colophon to Meissen Missal, 67.
Kessler, N., colophon quoted, 155.
Koberger, Anton, colophons quoted, 121, 148;
borrows a Cologne colophon, 168.
Koelhoff, Johann, book dated ‘1458’ printed by, 47 note.
Lady day, March 25, in England and Florence year used to begin on, 176,
181.
Laetare Sunday, 183.
Latis, Bonetus de, asks indulgence for his bad Latin, 131.
Lavagna, F. da, colophons quoted, 60, 149.
Leeu, Gerard, allusion to his death, 72.
Levet, Pierre, uses a Cologne colophon, 168.
Libri, Bartolommeo di, Proctor’s discovery of his importance as a
Florentine printer, 4-6.
Lisa, Gerard de, colophon quoted, 59.
Liturgical books, colophons in, 145-148.
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