Emendata manu sunt exemplaria docta Omniboni: quem dat utraque lingua patrem. Haec eadem Ienson Veneta Nicolaus in urbe Formauit: Mauro sub duce Christoforo. MARCI TVLLII CICERONIS ORATORIS CLARISSIMI RHETORICORVM LIBER VLTIMVS FELICITER EXPLICIT. .M.CCCC.LXX. Omnibonus with his learned hand hath these Copies revised, skilled in two languages; And Nicolas Jenson shaped them by his pains At Venice, while Cristoforo Moro reigns. The last book of the Rhetorics of Marcus Tullius Cicero, the most renowned orator, comes happily to an end. 1470. So again in an edition, of the same year, of the Letters to Atticus we have a similar colophon, the poetical portion of which might easily have led a reader to believe that he was invited to buy a work by Atticus himself instead of letters mainly addressed to him: Attice, nunc totus Veneta diffunderis urbe, Cum quondam fuerit copia rara tui. Gallicus hoc Ienson Nicolaus muneris orbi Attulit: ingenio daedalicaque manu. Christophorus Mauro plenus bonitate fideque Dux erat: auctorem, lector, opusque tenes. MARCI T. C. EPISTOLAE AD ATTICVM BRVTVM et Quintum fratrem, cum ipsius Attici vita feliciter expliciunt. M.CCCC.LXX. All Atticus is now in Venice sold, Though copies were right rare in days of old. French Nicolas Jenson this good gift has brought, And all with skill and crafty hand has wrought. Our doge, Cristoforo Moro, true and kind. Thus book and author, reader, here you find. The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Atticus, Brutus, and his brother Quintus, with the life of the said Atticus, come happily to an end. 1470. In the next year we have to deal with the little group of vernacular books printed by Jenson, to one of which the omission of an X from the date in the colophon has given such notoriety. The three which are correctly dated are: (i) “Una opera la quale se chiama Luctus Christianorum ex Passione Christi, zoe pianto de Christiani per la Passione de Christo in forma de Meditatione.” COLOPHON: A Christi Natiuitate Anno M.CCCCLXXI. Pridie nonas Apriles a preclarissimo librorum exculptore Nicolao gallico. Impressa est passio christi dulcissima. In the year 1471 from Christ’s Nativity, on April 4th, by the most famous engraver of books, Nicolas Jenson, there was printed The Most Sweet Passion of Christ. (ii) “Parole devote de lanima inamorata in Misser Iesu.” COLOPHON: MCCCCLXXI. Octauo Idus Aprilis: per Nicolaum Ienson gallicum opusculum hoc feliciter impressum est. 1471, April 6th, by Nicolas Jenson, a Frenchman, this booklet was happily printed. (iii) “Una operetta la quale si chiama Palma Virtutum zioe triumpho de uirtude: la quale da Riegola forma et modo a qualunque stato,” etc. COLOPHON: Deo Gratias. Amen. Opus Nicolai Ienson Gallici. M.CCCCLXXI.