Latin language -- Readers; Natural history -- Juvenile literature; Picture books for children
Now _Paper_ is in use
which the _Paper-maker_
maketh in a _Paper-mill_, 4.
Nunc _Charta_ est in usu,
quam _Chattopœus_
in _mola Papyracea_, 4. conficit
of _Linen rags_, 5.
stamped to _Mash_, 6.
which being taken up
in _Frames_, 7.
è _Linteis vetustis_, 5.
in _Pulmentum_ contusis, 6.
quod haustum
_Normulis_, 7.
he spreadeth into _Sheets_, 8.
and setteth them in the Air
that they may be dryed.
diducit in _Plagulas_, 8.
exponitque aëri,
ut siccentur.
Twenty-five of these
make a _Quire_, 9.
twenty Quires a _Ream_, 10.
and ten of these
a _Bale of Paper_, 11.
Harum XXV.
faciunt _Scapum_, 9.
XX. Scapi _Volumen minus_, 10.
horum X.
_Volumen majus_, 11.
That which is to last long
is written on
_Parchment_, 12.
Duraturum diu
scribitur in
_Membrana_, 12.
XCIV.
Printing.
Typographia.
[Illustration]
The _Printer_ hath
_metal Letters_
in a large number
put into _Boxes_, 5.
_Typographus_ habet
_Typos Metallos_,
magno numero
distributos per _Loculamenta_, 5.
The _Compositor_, 1.
taketh them out one by one
and according to the _Copy_,
(which he hath fastened
before him in a _Visorum_, 2.)
_Typotheta_, 1.
eximit illos singulatim,
& secundum _exemplar_,
(quod habet præfixum
sibi _Retinaculo_, 2.)
composeth words
in a _Composing-stick_, 3.
till a _Line_ be made;
componit Verba
_Gnomone_, 3.
donec _versus_ fiat;
he putteth these in a _Gally_, 4.
till a _Page_, 6. be made,
and these again
in a _Form_, 7.
hos indit _Formæ_, 4.
donec _Pagina_, 6. fiat;
has iterum
_Tabulâ compositoriâ_, 7.
and he locketh them up
in _Iron Chases_, 8.
with _Coyns_, 9.
lest they should drop out,
coarctaque eos
_Marginibus ferreis_, 8.
ope _Cochlearum_, 9.
ne dilabantur,
and putteth them under
the _Press_, 10.
ac subjicit
_Prelo_, 10.
Then the _Press-man_
beateth it over
with _Printers Ink_,
by means of _Balls_, 11.
Tum _Impressor_
illinit
_Atramento impressorio_
ope _Pilarum_, 11.
spreadeth upon it the Papers
put in the _Frisket_, 12.
super imponit Chartas
inditas _Operculo_, 12.
which being put under
the _Spindle_, 14.
on the _Coffin_, 13.
and pressed down with
a _Bar_, 15. he maketh
to take impression.
quas subditas
_Trochleæ_, 14.
in _Tigello_, 13.
& impressas
_Suculâ_, 15. facit
imbibere typos.
XCV.
The Booksellers Shop.
Bibliopolium.
[Illustration]
The _Bookseller_, 1
selleth _Books_
in a _Booksellers Shop_, 2.
of which he writeth
a _Catalogue_, 3.
_Bibliopola_, 1.
vendit _Libros_
in _Bibliopolio_, 2.
quorum conscribit
_Catalogum_, 3.
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