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
Finis est huius secundi libri eximii ac celeberrimi utriusque
iuris doctoris domini Anthonii de Butrio super primo
decretalium in duobus voluminibus: quem quidem et nonnullos
diuersorum electorumque librorum a domino Vdalrico Gallo almano
feliciter impressos a prudenti equidem uiro Simone Nicholai
chardella de lucha merchatore fide dignissimo: sua facultate
cura diligentia amplexos: quia pauperum census diuitumque
auariciam miseratus, ab egregiis uero uiris emendatos, in lucem
reddidit anno salutis M.cccc.lxxiii. die xv nouembris III anno
pontificatus Sixti IV.
Here ends this second book of the distinguished and most
renowned doctor of both laws, Master Antonio de Butrio, on the
first of the Decretals, in two volumes. And this and some of
the divers selected books successfully printed by Master Ulrich
Han, a German, have been financed and diligently supervised,
in his compassion for the means of the poor and the avarice of
the rich, by the prudent Simone di Niccolo Chardella of Lucca,
a merchant of the highest credit; corrected by noble scholars
and published in the year of salvation 1473, on November 15th,
in the third year of the pontificate of Sixtus IV.
Single books, of course, were financed by people of many classes and
ranks, from kings, princesses, and archbishops down to the Spanish
bell-ringer who paid for a Lerida Breviary, as its colophon very
explicitly sets forth.
Breuiarii opus secundum Illerdensis ecclesie consuetudinem
ex noua regula editum clareque emendatum per dominum
Laurentium Fornes, virum doctum, eiusdem ecclesie presbiterum
succentoremque, prehabita tamen ab egregio Decano ceterisque
Canonicis eiusdem ecclesie licentia, Anthonius Palares
campanarum eiusdem ecclesie pulsator propriis expensis fieri
fecit. Impressitque venerabilis magister Henricus Botel de
Saxonia alamanus, vir eruditus, qui huic clarissimo operi in
urbe Illerde xvi Augusti anno incarnationis dominice millesimo
quadringentesimo lxxixº finem fecit. Amen.
A Breviary according to the use of the church of Lerida, edited
in accordance with the new rule and clearly corrected by Master
Lourenço Fornes, a man of learning, priest and sub-cantor of
the said church, with allowance previously obtained from the
illustrious Dean and the rest of the Canons, published at his
own cost by Antonio Palares the bell-ringer. Printed by the
venerable master Heinrich Botel, a German of Saxony, an erudite
man, who brought this glorious work to an end in the town of
Lerida on August 16th, in the year of the Lord’s incarnation
1479. Amen.
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