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His work consists of nearly thirty volumes and single sheets, none of which has any date, but the dates of several of them can be determined by MS. notes, &c. เ Before referring to the dates I will first give the titles of each work, beginning with those in Roman type. They are: Durandus, 'Rationale'; Rabanus Maurus, 'De Uniuerso; Petrarca, 'Secretum,' 'De Contemptu Mundi,' 'De Uita Solitaria'; Biblia Latina; Servius, Commentarius super Vergilium'; Plutarchi 'Uitæ'; Eneas Silvius, Epistulæ'; Dionysius de Burgo, 'Commentarius super Valerium Maximum'; Donatus, 'Commentarius super Terentium'; Jacobus Magnus, 'Sophologium' (two editions); Bollanus, 'De Conceptione B.V. Mariæ; Seneca, 'Epistulæ ad Lucilium'; Caracciolus, Sermones per Aduentum'; and two single sheets, viz., Sixtus IV., 'Bulla de Fratribus Mendicantibus' (præcipue Esslinga), and Summarium Bullæ Indulgentiarum pro Ecclesia · Panzer, in the Annales Typographici,' ascribed all these books to the press of Johann Mentelin at Strassburg, and the reason he did so seems to be this: the letter R printer printed, as we have already seen, editions of three of the 'Specula' of Vincent of Beauvais; they have sixty-seven lines to a full page. Mentelin also printed an edition of these 'Specula' with sixty-two lines to the full page. The British Museum possesses an edition made up in this manner, viz., the Speculum Doctrinale' and Speculum Naturale in the R type, the 'Speculum Doctrinale' only containing the R; the 'Speculum Historiale,' which is one of the few books which bear Mentelin's name; and the 'Speculum Morale,' also in Mentelin's type, but without his name. Panzer had probably seen these volumes combined in this manner, and therefore concluded that they were all printed by Mentelin, and consequently put all the other R books as having been printed by Mentelin. It is a curious circumstance that he gives the number of lines to the 'Specula' undoubtedly printed by Mentelin, but omits to give those of the R printer. Hain, in the 'Repertorium Bibliographicum,' ascribes some to Strassburg and some to Cologne, in one instance stating that the work was printed at Cologne on account of the peculiar R, but he makes no attempt to explain his statement; Falkenstein also suggested Cologne, but gave no reason; Klemm, in his Beschreibender Catalog,' argues in favour of Strassburg; Placidus Braun, 'Notitia,' &c., declares that the books in the semi-Gothic character were printed by Mentelin-as to those in the Roman type he could not say, but thought they were, perhaps, printed at Venice; and lastly M. Madden, in the 'Lettres d'un Bibliographe,' endeavours to show that the Brothers of the Common Life, residing in the monastery of Weydenbach, near Cologne, had a press, and believes that they printed the books containing this form of the R. |