An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . |it:Iii s> a•«3 so 1-3 62 8, £ H. COLOPHONS IN OTHER TOWNS 85 Student, you oft must see a printed bookAnd think how well upon your shelves t would look:The print of shining black, the page pulled clean,A worthy text, and misprints nowhere seen!Where Wensslers skilful hand the work has printedI 11 die for it if of these charms you re stinted;For throughout all this book no single letterHas scaped his readers care to make it better. The notable and most celebrated work of Boniface VIII,which is called the Sixth of the Decretals, printed
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . |it:Iii s> a•«3 so 1-3 62 8, £ H. COLOPHONS IN OTHER TOWNS 85 Student, you oft must see a printed bookAnd think how well upon your shelves t would look:The print of shining black, the page pulled clean,A worthy text, and misprints nowhere seen!Where Wensslers skilful hand the work has printedI 11 die for it if of these charms you re stinted;For throughout all this book no single letterHas scaped his readers care to make it better. The notable and most celebrated work of Boniface VIII,which is called the Sixth of the Decretals, printed in the re-nowned city of Basel by the skill and art of Michael Wenssler,by the favor of the glorious God, marked with the printersshields, has come happily to an end, in the year of the Lord1477, on December 12. So,in 1475, Sensenschmidt and Frisner at Nuremberg is-sued their Latin Bible suis signis annotatis; and at Co-logne, in 1476, Conrad Winters ends an edition of theFasciculus Temporum: Impressum per me Conra-dum de Hoemberch meoque signeto signatum (printedby me, Conrad de Hoember
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