An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . VII REPETITIONS, THEFTS, AND ADAPTATIONS. ;N our opening chapter it was sug-gested that if all early books wereprovided with colophons the workof bibliographers would be muchsimplified. Some qualifying epi-thet ought, however, to have beeninserted; for there are some colo-phons which, instead of simplifyingthe task of assigning to every book its place, printer, anddate, greatly aggravate the bibliographers troubles. Ofdeliberately untruthful colophons I can, indeed, onlythink of a single fifteenth-century example—that in the Incunabulum
An essay on colophons : with specimens and translation . VII REPETITIONS, THEFTS, AND ADAPTATIONS. ;N our opening chapter it was sug-gested that if all early books wereprovided with colophons the workof bibliographers would be muchsimplified. Some qualifying epi-thet ought, however, to have beeninserted; for there are some colo-phons which, instead of simplifyingthe task of assigning to every book its place, printer, anddate, greatly aggravate the bibliographers troubles. Ofdeliberately untruthful colophons I can, indeed, onlythink of a single fifteenth-century example—that in the Incunabulum of Brescia hitherto ascribed to Florence,which the late Mr. R. C. Christie tracked down soneatly in the fourth volume of the Bibliographical So-cietys Transactions. This occurs in a copy of some ofthe works of Politian, and reads: Impressum Florentiae: et accuratissime castigatum opera etimpensa Leonardi de Arigis de Gesoriaco Die decimo Au-gusti J59 160 AN ESSAY ON COLOPHONS Printed at Florence and most accurately corrected by the workand at the cost of Leonardo dei Arigi of Gesoriac
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