AN

INTRODUCTION

TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF

RARE AND VALUABLE EDITIONS

OF THE

Greek and Latin Classics.

TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF

POLYGLOT BIBLES,

POLYGLOT PSALTERS, HEBREW BIBLES,
GREEK BIBLES AND GREEK TESTAMENTS;
THE GREEK FATHERS,

AND THE LATIN FATHERS.

BY THE

REV. THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, D. D.
F. R. S.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ROUEN, AND
OF THE ACADEMY OF UTRECHT.

Fourth Edition;

GREATLY ENLARGED AND CORRECTED.

Lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HARDING AND LEPARD, PALL-MALL EAST;
AND G. B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA-LANE.

1827.

EUTROPIUS. A. C. 306.

LAVER. Romæ. 1471. Folio.

EDITIO PRINCEPS. The author of the Harleian Catalogue, vol. iii. no. 1057, has erroneously observed that Maittaire was ignorant of this edition: but Audiffredi and Verheyk very confidently assert that he was well acquainted with it. The reader will find it specified in the Annal. Typog. t. i. 307, along with TERENTIUS VARRO de Ling. Lat. This editio princeps was superintended by Diaconus, who has taken care to represent with scrupulous fidelity all the errors and interpolations of his MS. Verheyk (edit. 1739, præf. xi.) observes that Fabricius (Bibl. Lat. edit. 1721, t. i. 578) has praised this editio princeps; on the contrary, if the reader will turn to the passage referred to, he will find that the "Breviarium Eutropii in antiq. Edit. Romæ, 1471," is declared to be remarkably interpolated, "mire interpolatum legitur." The words of Fabricius are repeated by his editor, Ernesti, t. iii. 133. See De Bure, no. 4840; Audiffredi, Edit. Rom. 87; Cat. de la Valliere, no. 4875, which copy was purchased by Count Revickzky for 901 livres, and is now in the library of Earl Spencer.

A particular description of this edition (of which Mr. Moss, as usual, has abundantly availed himself, and for which, as usual, the least possible acknowledgment is offered) will be

* This error is extended to the "Bibliographical Dictionary," which copies implicitly the Harleian Catalogue.