Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, Volume 4F. C. & J. Rivington, 1810 |
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Page 167 - Liber de salute sive de aspiratione animce ad Deum, 1471, which is also the first book printed at Treviso, we get, in capital letters, the following epigram in praise of the printer (Gerardus de Flandria):— '' Gloria debetur Gerardo maxima lisas Hie Tarvisina nam primus coepit in urbe Artifici raros aere notare libros. Quoque magis faveant excelsi numina regis Aurelii sacrum nunc manuale dedit.
Page 422 - On one occasion, a visitor to whom this was shown, observed, with affected solemnity, that the letter involved also a miracle, for the paper on which it was written, was not in existence till several hundred years after the mother of our Lord had ascended into heaven.
Page 251 - It must be brief, for they are so numerous, that an extended life would hardly suffice for a careful examination of their contents. Their great number may easily be accounted for : Aristotle was the first who collected and animadverted upon the philosophic opinions of those who preceded him. He forms an aera in the history of human wisdom, and for many succeeding centuries the most accomplished of mankind exercised their talents in investigating the dogmas of the Peripatetic school. The Stagirite,...
Page 233 - The whole paragraph seems worth insertion. " Accedebant justae preces magistri Nicolai Jenson Gallic!, alterius ut vcre dicam Daedali, qui librariae artis mirabilis inventor: non ut scribantur calamo libri, sed veluti gemma imprimantur, ac prope sigillo primus omnium ingeniose demonstravit.
Page 272 - Annotationes in librum de memoria, et reminiscentia. De somno, et vigilia. De somniis. De divinatione per somnium. De motu animalium. De longitudine, et brevitate vitae. De juventute, et senectute, et vita, ас morte.
Page 19 - Quo veré exemplo, vobis sperate futurum, Qui fama et quaestu fertis in astra gradum : Post túmidos nisus, post saeva pericula sortis, Ad Manes raptos vos brevis urna teget.
Page 344 - These books are the £enobius of 1497, and the Orpheus of 1500, There is also another objection, which to me seems insuperable. The Greek type used by these printers in the following Century, has no resemblance to the Lucian. The first Greek book, after the Orpheus, from this press, bears the date of 1515; and it certainly appears remark3 able, able, that possessing such a type the printers should have employed it only in one book. . Nevertheless it must be confessed that Bandinus, in his history...
Page 84 - Iste tibi codex : historie pater est. | Insigni quem laude feret gens postera : pressit | Spira premens : artis gloria prima sue.
Page 422 - The monks in one of the monasteries at Messina, exhibited with great triumph, a letter written by the Virgin Mary with her own hand. Unluckily for them, this was not, as it easily might have been, written on the ancient papyrus, but on paper made of rags. On...