An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . re careless of connecting themselves, becausevernacular books were as yet despised. Hence, though REASON FOR THE COLOPHON 7 we shall have to quote some in the chief languages ofWestern Europe, the comparative rarity of vernacularcolophons. Hence, on the other hand, the compara-tive frequency of the Latin ones, which can be culledfrom all kinds of learned books, more especially fromthe laborious legal commentaries which now possess sofew attractions beyond their beautiful, though crabbedlycontracted, typography. It is a pity, because the
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . re careless of connecting themselves, becausevernacular books were as yet despised. Hence, though REASON FOR THE COLOPHON 7 we shall have to quote some in the chief languages ofWestern Europe, the comparative rarity of vernacularcolophons. Hence, on the other hand, the compara-tive frequency of the Latin ones, which can be culledfrom all kinds of learned books, more especially fromthe laborious legal commentaries which now possess sofew attractions beyond their beautiful, though crabbedlycontracted, typography. It is a pity, because the Latinfound in colophons is often far from classical, andoccasionally so difficult that our renderings will beoffered in fear and trembling. But it was in Latinthat literary distinction was mainly to be won in thefifteenth century, and it was therefore with Latin booksthat the printers desired their names to be , in fact, are the sign and evidence of theprinters pride in his work, and this is the main cluewe have in seeking for g>reftn0iniflate/atitrrilaiiiif gtrnfflfErm 3n hulto ruiita*tejraa^natyiiimaru^Sm*prefl02teimttnmmat^ Elimatriceprimagl02t0f0 tto fauntte-fiiis tofignantct ftifojm*ptcfliim n flmtum 5Sima tifti *i3far0biat0ft0lt»
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