in 1470 by Johann Heynlin, Prior, and Guillaume Fichet, Librarian, of
the University, and maintained by them until April, 1473. During these
three years twenty-two books were printed, all in the same roman type,
copied from the _Cæsar_ of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469. In only
two of them are the actual printers, Friburger and his associates,
named.

To the twenty-eight 15th-century editions--not to speak of the
translations--of this novel described by Hain, Copinger's Supplement
adds half as many more. The present edition is perhaps the third.
Claudin, who makes it the nineteenth in the list of the Sorbonne books,
could trace but four copies. This makes a fifth.

The three books from the Sorbonne press are bound in one volume, red
morocco, gilt edges, with book-plate of Sir William Burrell. It passed
from his possession some years before his death and was bought by
Michael Wodhull at Payne's sale April 7, 1789, for £4.4s. The binder,
possibly mistaking the date of the author's subscription (Vienna, 1444)
for that of the printing, has placed it on the back of the volume. Leaf
7-3/4 × 5-1/4 in.


20. PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI). De curialium miseria. [Paris,
Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]

_Fol. 1^a_: Aeneæ Siluii poætæ laureati (cui _et_ pro pontificali
dignitate Pio nomen est) in disputatione_m_ de curialiu_m_ miseria ad
perspicacissimu_m_ iurisconsultu_m_ Iohanne_m_ Ech, serenissimi
diuiq_ue_ principis, Alberti, cæsaris inuictissimi! Alberti quoque
austriæ ducies inclyti consiliariu_m_ atq_ue_ oratore_m_ præfacio