Jacob Bryant, 1715-1804, English antiquary and bibliographer, famous for a collection of Caxtons which eventually went to his one time
pupil, the Marquis of Blandford.
The first 2 volumes of this work were originally published in 1774. The second edition was published in 1775 as above, and
not in 1780 as erroneously stated by Lowndes.
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Horatii Tursellini historiae universalis epitomen.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 5. no. 17, as above.
TURSELLINUS,
Horatius.
Horatii Tursellini, Romani, Historiarum, ab origine mundi, usque ad annum à Christo nato, MDXCVIII. Epitomæ Libri decem. Cum brevibus Notis,
duplici item accessione, usque ad annum MDCXLII. Ac duplici Indice. Editio ultima prioribus correctior.
Ultrajecti: apud
Gulielmum vande Water,
MDCCX. [1710.]
D18 .T65
8vo. 319 leaves, engraved frontispiece by P. Sluyter, printer’s woodcut device on the title, title printed in red and black.
Not in Brunet.
Quérard IX, page 587.
Rebound in half red morocco, original sprinkled edges. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Horatius Tursellinus [Orazio Torsellino], 1545-1599, Italian historian and man of letters. The first edition of this work was published in Paris in 1631; the first
Utrecht edition in 1703. By an arrêt of the Parliament of Paris on 3 September 1761, this book was ordered to be burned as
containing pernicious documents.
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Perizonii commentarii in epitomen Horat. Tursell.
3. v.
4
to.
M. S.
1815 Catalogue, page 6. no. 110, as above.
PERIZONIUS,
Jacobus.
Liber Primus [-Decimus] Commentariorum in Epitomen historiarum Horatii Tursellini ex privatis lectionibus celeberrimi Jacobi Perizonii. Anno
MDCCXIV.
Original holograph Manuscript bound in
3 vols.
4to., written in ink on thick paper, measuring 10½ by 8 in., in long lines, 28-32 to a page, the headlines cut into or cut close
by the binder, other margins wide. Vol. I, 298 leaves including 6 blanks: title, Liber I, paged 1-375 (some irregularities), Liber II, paged 1-210; vol. II, 312 leaves including 1 blank: Liber III, paged 1-255; Liber IV, pp. 1-127; Lib. V, pp. 1-64; Lib. VI, pp. 1-75; vol. III, 200 leaves, including 4 blanks: Lib. VII, pp. 1-92 (with irregularities); Lib. VIII, pp. 1-91 (with irregularities); Lib. IX, pp. 1-102;
Lib. X, pp. 1-105.
The volumes are bound in calf, gilt backs, m.e., with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates. On a fly-leaf of vol. I is written:
This Book containing three Volumes I give at my Death to the Rev
d. M
r. Tho
s. Dawson Rector of Bruton Parish.
July the 4
th. 1743.
H. Potter.
The Revd. Mr. Thos. Dawson had been appointed rector of Bruton Parish, Williamsburgh, in 1743, the year of the above deed
of gift. In 1755 he became Commissary and President of the College of William and Mary, and died in 1761.
Jacobus Perizonius, 1651-1715 (see no. 10) made special manuscript copies of most of his works for Leyden University where he occupied the chair of eloquence and history.
No printed edition of this manuscript is listed in the bibliographies.
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