A good many literary mistakes, and the investigations needed to correct them, would have been spared if this quite accurate statement of the supremacy of the French Mandeville as compared with the Latin (and also the English) had been generally accepted. What we are here concerned with is the attention called to the fact that it is printed in the Venetian letter. Of course, even before the invention of printing a school of handwriting would have grown up at Venice sufficiently distinct for experts to distinguish it; but this expectation that any buyer of the book would recognize at once where it was printed is interesting, and would be made much more so if a copy of the edition could be found and the press identified. In our next colophon the printer expects his capital letters to serve his readers instead of his name. This is from the first Augsburg edition of the “Catholicon” of Joannes Balbus, about the Mainz edition of which we have already had to speak. The Augsburg colophon runs: Grammatice partes et vocum proprietates Verius inuenies hoc codice: si quoque queres Nomen qui libro scripturam impressit in illo, Tunc cito comperies per litterulas capitales: Hinc poteris certe cognomen noscere aperte. Ex Reutling Zainer hic dicitur esse magister, Recte presentis artis doctissimus ipsus. Vt pateat nomen libri qui dicitur esse, Sumptus de varijs autoribus atque poetis Katholicon, fertur quem collegisse Iohannes, Cui nomen patrium dat ianua, iuncta sit ensis. Hoc compleuit opus lux vltima mensis aprilis, Dum currunt anni nati factoris in orbem, Mille quadringenti, quis sexaginta nouemque Adijce. Vindelica finitur in vrbe serena, Quam schowenberg tenuit qui libro preludia dedit Titulo cardineus praeses vbique coruscus. Terminat sed diuus presul ex Werdemberg altus. Cum paulo secundo papa, imperante fridrico. Deo Gratias.