pages later. Two of the 48 chapters of which it is composed are wanting
here, but by the subdivision of other chapters the number is raised to
58. Zainer of Augsburg, the printer of the first edition of the
Etymologiae, dated 19 November, 1472, followed it the next month with an
edition of _De responsione mundi et astrorum ordinatione ad Sesibutum
regem_, which is the work in question under another title. Printed with
the same type and the same number of lines to the page, it was in effect
treated as a supplement to the Etymologiae.

According to the testimony of a fellow printer, de Lignamine, in the
"Chronica summorum Pontificum," Rome, 1474, Mentelin as early as 1458
was printing at Strassburg 300 sheets a day. The third Latin Bible
(1460-1461) and the first German Bible came from his press, but the
first work to which he affixed his name and a date was the _Speculum
historiale_ of Vincent of Beauvais in 1473. He died in 1478.

The Wodhull copy, bought at "Hayes's sale" in 1794 for £5.5s., and bound
in russia gilt, with Wodhull arms on side, by Mrs. Weir for £1.2s. Leaf
15-3/4 × 11 in.


4. GESTA ROMANORUM. [Cologne, Ulrich Zell, c. 1473.]

_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Ex gestis romanor_um_ hystorie no_ta_biles:
de vitijs v_ir_tutibusq_ue_ tracta_n_tes: cu_m_ applicac_i_onib_us_
moralizatis et misticis: Incipiunt feliciter. _Fol. 160^b, col. 1_,
COLOPHON: Ex gestis ro_ma_no_rum_ cu_m_ plurib_u_s applicatis historijs:
de v_ir_tutib_us_ et vitijs mistice ad intellectum tra_n_ssum_p_tis
Recollectorij finis est feliciter. LAVS. DEO. _Fol. 160^b, col. 2_:
Incipiu_n_t tituli numerorum om_n_i_u_m capitulo_rum_ et exemplo_rum_.