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LITERARY MEN, GENERAL READERS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of.”—Captain CuttLE.

SIXTH SERIES.-VOLUME FIFTH.

JANUARY-JUNE, 1882.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED AT THE

OFFICE, 20, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.

BY JOHN FRANCIS.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1882.

CONTENTS.-N° 106. NOTES:-Giberti, Bishop of Verona, and the Giberti Press, 1-Lord Hussey and the Lincolnshire Rebellion, 3-Gerunde Family-Sir Thomas Lawrence's Father, 5-Death of Edward of Lancaster-Berengaria, Queen of Richard I.- Irish Popular Ballads-Danish Folk-lore, 6-Mumping Day-On the Works of Michel Angelo-"Fools' paradise"-A Misprint-"Pincushion Inn "-A Proverb-Christmas Day on a Sunday, 7.

QUERIES:-Courtesy Titles, 7- Darcy Family- "Ympe tree"-Differencing Arms-"Danothy Hall"-St. Edmund of East Anglia, 8-Early Dated Book-plate-"Wonder". Lord Chief Justice Hooper-Punishment for High Treason temp. Cromwell-Barnabas Oley-" Platepere "-Rouffignac Family-"Was crucified," &c.-King Canute-Numismatic -Birnie of Broomhill-Fonts of the Restoration Period, 9Oliver Cromwell's Mother-Charterhouse School-Christmas Cards-Authors Wanted, 10.

REPLIES:-A Protestant Indulgence of the Seventeenth Century, 10-The Battle of Trafalgar-"Tristram Shandy," H-"Mare" (the Sea), &c., 12-Modern Prophecies-Snuffboxes-St. Paul's Cathedral, A.D. 2199, 13-Mistletoe and Christmas-Morant, the Topographer-Glastonbury, "the town of oaks "-Whiskers-Moustaches-Sin to Point at the Moon, 14-Antiquary, &c.-English Translation of "Horm B. Virginis "The great Gale at St. Helena, 15-Cardinal Mezzofanti-Birch of Paradise-" Beyond the Church""Fourth Estate"-"Let me light," &c., 16-The Hare an Easter Emblem-Names for the Coinage-Numismatic-A Fencing Match, 17-" Adeste Fideles"-Sir G. Griffith-Sir R. Bingham-Morris Dancers-Earls of Chester-Church Floors, 18-"Single Speech Hamilton" and Junius's Letters

-Authors Wanted, 19.

NOTES ON BOOKS:-The Speaker's Commentary: New
Test. Vol. IV.-Russell's "Haigs of Bemersyde"-Cox and
Hope's "Chronicles of All Saints', Derby," &c.
Notices to Correspondents, &c.

Notes.

GIOVANNI MATTEO GIBERTI, BISHOP of
VERONA, AND THE GIBERTI PRESS.

MR. CLARKE, in his interesting account of the Library of Queen's College, Oxford (6th S. iv. 441, seqq.), has incidentally mentioned a specimen existing there of the private press of a very distinguished Italian prelate of the Reformation period, and of which probably but few specimens are in this country. As I happen to have spoken of the Giberti Press in a paper on "Veronese Typography, XVth-XIXth Century," read before the Royal Society of Literature in 1874, I may perhaps be permitted to place a few details before the readers of "N. & Q."

One word, in limine, as to the bishop's name. It was Giberti, as I have placed it at the head of the present_note, not Ghiberti, as written by MR. CLARKE, I have before me the elaborate and valuable monograph, Della Tipografia Veronese, Saggio Storico-Letterario (Verona, Tip. Merlo, 1871), by Mgr. G. B. Carlo Conte Giuliari, Canon, and Librarian of the Chapter Library, as an authority alike for the orthography of the bishop's name and for the publications of his press.

The works named by Mgr. Giuliari as having been published under the direction of Bishop

Giberti, besides the Chrysostom of 1529, are the following:

"Rossetti Blasii, Libellus de Rudimentis Musices, Veronæ, MDXXIX. mense Septemtrio [sic] per Stephanum et fratres de Nicolinis de Sabio," &c. 4to.

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The printers of this book, as of the Chrysostom and other works of the Giberti Press, were invited to Verona by the bishop, who established his press in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral, and furnished his printers with new type, both Roman and Greek. The Chrysostom bears date quarto Kalendas Julias," 1529, so it would seem that not much time was lost in bringing out Rossetti's book, the author of which was organist of the cathedral, and dedicated his work to the bishop. After music came the turn of grammar, the next issue of the Giberti Press being the following:

"Grammatica Latina in Volgare. In Verona MDXXIX per Maestro Stephano Nicholini et Fratelli. Adi 23 Decembrio [sic]." 4to.

This work is of unknown authorship. Maffei thought it the first Latin grammar published in Italian.

The year 1530 saw some important issues from the Giberti Press, both as regards typography and subject-matter. It opened with :

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Euthymii Monachi Zigabeni, Commentationes in omnes Psalmos de Græco in Latinum conversæ per R. D. Philippum Saulum Episc. Brugnatensem. Veronæ per Stephanum Nicolinum, &c., MDXXX. mense Januario.' Fol.

A splendid edition, says Giuliari, in beautiful type, and with ample margin. It is dedicated to Clement VII.

The next work published in 1530 belongs to the pastoral side of Bishop Giberti's character, and throws a light upon the ecclesiastical history of the times:

"Giberti Gio. Mattheo, Breve ricordo di quello che hanno da fare i Chierici, massimamente Curati, ecc. In Verona MDXXX. per Maestro Stephano ecc. habita presso il Domo, nel mese di Aprile." 4to. This is the first book in which the locality of the Giberti Press is stated. It is also the first published by the bishop on matters connected with the government of his beloved church of Verona, as Giuliari writes. It was brought out in view of the bishop's first diocesan visitation, held in 1530.

To this year belongs also another Veronese publication, Fracastori's very highly praised Morbus Gallicus (Veronæ MDXXX. mense Augusto), which, however, bears no printer's name, and cannot, therefore, be certainly accounted a work of the Giberti Press. But the negative argument advanced by Giuliari, that no other contemporary printers are known in Verona, is a strong one. Scaliger placed Fracastori at the head of the modern Latin poets, and his poem ran through six editions during the sixteenth century alone.

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