(Vol. iv., p. 440.)
I am happy in being able to give, I trust, a satisfactory answer to the
Query of your American correspondent U. U., respecting the original
edition of 1607.
There can be no doubt that the copy in the Bodleian Library is of the
genuine edition. It was in the Library certainly before the year 1620,
as it appears in the catalogue printed in that year, and still bears the
same reference on the shelf as is there given to it, namely, 8vo. I. 32.
Theol.; and it was doubtless the copy used by Dr. James, who
superintended the forming of that catalogue, and who died only a few
months before. The title runs thus:
INDICIS
(red ink) LIBRORVM
(red) EXPVRGANDORVM
in studiosorum gratiam confecti.
Tomus Primus
_IN QVO QVINQVAGINTA AVCTORVM_
_Libri prae ceteris desiderati emendantur._
(red ink)
PER FR. IO. MARIAM BRASICHELLEN.
(red ink)
SACRI PALATII APOSTOLICI MAGISTRVM
in vnum corpus redactus, & publicae
commoditati aeditus
(this first word red) (this date red)
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ROMAE, ex Typographia R. Cam. Apost. M.DC.VII.
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(the line above red)
SVPERIORVM PERMISSV.
There is a full stop at confecti, also at emendantur, and at
Brasichellen; but no stop whatever at auctorum. It extends (besides
eight leaves of title and preliminary matter) to pp. 742. On the recto
of the next and last leaf, "Series chartarum," &c., and at the bottom:
ROMAE, M.DC.VII.
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_Ex Typographia Reu. Camerae Apostolicae._
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SVPERIORVM PERMISSV.
There is also in the Bodleian Library a copy of the Bergomi edition, the
title of which is as follows:
(red ink) INDICIS
LIBRORVM
(red) EXPVRGANDORVM
In studiosorum gratiam confecti
(red) TOMVS PRIMVS
In quo quinquaginta Auctorum Libri prae
caeteris desiderati emendantur
(red) PER F. IO. MARIAM BRASICHELL.
Sacri Palatij Apost. Magistrum
_In vnum corpus redactus & pub. commoditati aeditus._
At the bottom:
(red) ROMAE Primo, Deinde
BERGOMI, _typis Comini Venturae_, 1608.
This edition extends to 608 pages, in double columns, besides the
preliminary matter, consisting of four articles, of which the first in
this edition is the last in the genuine copy of 1607,--a circumstance
mentioned by Clement as peculiar to the Altdorff edition; but here the
signatures run to pages in eights, whereas the Altdorff edition "qu'ne
remplit qu'un alphabet, et seize feuilles."