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
Livy, verses in Wendelin of Speier’s 1470 edition of, 37.
Lucca, first book printed at, 59.
Lucretius, rarity of medieval texts of, 153.
Mainz colophons, 8-29.
Malory, Sir Thomas, his illness and death, 124.
Manthen, Johann, partnership with John of Cologne, 78.
Mantua, first book printed at, 59.
Marnef, Geoffroi, colophon quoted, 106.
Masters and workmen, references to the relations between, 72 sq., 78.
Matthias Moravus, was he one of the ‘Germani fidelissimi’? 77.
Mentelin, Johann, his books before 1473 not dated, 11.
Milan, rival claims to the first introduction of printing at, 60.
Misinta, Bernard, his attribution of his 1499 Politian to Florence, 160.
Misprints, apologies for, 72 sqq.;
in dates in colophons, 43-48.
Missal printers, their special claims to accuracy, 145 sqq.
Müller, Johann, his advertisement of his books, 89.
Natta, Georgius, embassy to Milan, 127.
Nerli, Bernardo and Nerio, finance the Florentine Homer, 5 sq.
New Year, date of, in various countries, 175 sqq.
Nicolaus de Auximo, finishes in 1444 his Supplementum Summae Pisanellae,
133.
Nones, method of dating by, 182.
Oculi Sunday, 183.
Olympiades Dominicae, 79, 170.
Olympiads, Theodoric Rood’s misreckoning by, 61, 170.
Omnibonus Leonicenus, his verse colophons, 31, 42.
Orlandi, Sebastian and Raphael dei, patrons of Pescia printers, 99.
Ortus Sanitatis. See Hortus.
Oxford, book dated ‘1468’ printed at, 46 note;
the colophon of the 1485 ‘Phalaris,’ 62.
Paderborn, John of. See John of Westphalia.
Paganinus de Paganinis, adopts part of a John of Cologne and Jenson
colophon, 169.
Palares, Antonio, bell-ringer, finances a Lerida breviary, 102.
Pannartz, Arnold, his praise of Valla’s ‘De Elegantia Linguae Latinae,’
96;
see also Sweynheym and Pannartz.
Pavia, first book printed at, 58.
Pictures in early printed books, colophons alluding to, 120-122.
Pigouchet and Vostre, colophon quoted, 179.
Plague, allusions to, in colophons, 65, 67.
Pleydenwurff, W., illustrator of the ‘Nuremberg Chronicle,’ 121.
Politian, edition of, printed at Brescia with the false imprint
‘Florentiae,’ 159.
Popes, 1458-1534, list of, 171 sq.
Portrait devices, 84 sq.
Pratt, William, urges Caxton to print the ‘Book of Good Manners,’ 99.
Printers’ devices, use of, in colophons, 20;
their significance, 22.
Printing, invention of, secrecy observed by Gutenberg and his followers
as to, 11;
evidence obtainable from colophons as to, 25 sq.;
Johann Schoeffer’s account of, 27 sqq.
Privileges for exclusive printing, early history of, 110-120.
Proctor, Robert, his identifications of the printers of incunabula, 4
sqq.;
his arrangement of the earliest Venetian books, 34.
Punctuation, explanation of the system used in a Salzburg Missal, 145.
Pynson, Richard, colophon quoted, 118.
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