An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . expense of the worthy John Haselperg ofReichenau of the diocese of Constance. It would be too much to call this colophon untruthful,inasmuch as the term primarius auctor, like pro-tocaragmaticus,,, does not necessarily claim primacy inpoint of time; nevertheless, it certainly suggests thisprimacy and generally assigns to Fust a more decisivepart than we can easily believe that he played. We neednot censure too hardly John Schoeffers family feeling,even though it led him to ignore Gutenberg in a waywhich earlier testimony forbids us to be
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . expense of the worthy John Haselperg ofReichenau of the diocese of Constance. It would be too much to call this colophon untruthful,inasmuch as the term primarius auctor, like pro-tocaragmaticus,,, does not necessarily claim primacy inpoint of time; nevertheless, it certainly suggests thisprimacy and generally assigns to Fust a more decisivepart than we can easily believe that he played. We neednot censure too hardly John Schoeffers family feeling,even though it led him to ignore Gutenberg in a waywhich earlier testimony forbids us to believe to be just;but it seems evident that family feeling was so much tothe fore as to place this long historical colophon on quitea different footing from that of the earlier ones written bySchoeffer himself. 1 Adinuentionibus. The preposi- But as it may have been suggested by tion was probably here intended to be the adinuentione of the Psalter of pressed, giving the meaning of addi- H57, I keep the same translation,tional inventions or Ill COLOPHONS AT VENICE
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