An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . e that I shall beforgiven for quoting it. Postremo omnium, it runs, artem illam mirificam litterarum formatricem moni-mentis stabilibus mandare decretum est (deus bone fa-ueas) qua re explicita si mox obdormierit opifex morsacerba non erit, quom tantum munus posteris in haeredi-tate reliquerit, quo ipsi se ab inopia librorum perpetuopoterunt — Lastly it has been determined 9o AN ESSAY ON COLOPHONS to commit to abiding monuments that wondrous art ofputting letters together (God of thy goodness be favor-able!), and when this is
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . e that I shall beforgiven for quoting it. Postremo omnium, it runs, artem illam mirificam litterarum formatricem moni-mentis stabilibus mandare decretum est (deus bone fa-ueas) qua re explicita si mox obdormierit opifex morsacerba non erit, quom tantum munus posteris in haeredi-tate reliquerit, quo ipsi se ab inopia librorum perpetuopoterunt — Lastly it has been determined 9o AN ESSAY ON COLOPHONS to commit to abiding monuments that wondrous art ofputting letters together (God of thy goodness be favor-able!), and when this is done if the craftsman presentlyfall asleep death will not be bitter, in the assurance thathe has left as a legacy to posterity this great gift by whichthey will forever be able to free themselves from lackof books. Shortly after writing these words Miiller wascalled to Rome by Sixtus IV to give his help in reform-ing the calendar, but his foreboding was not unfulfilled,for death came to him in 1476, only two years after thisannouncement was
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