| Annotation | Imprint: Seb. Gryphius excudebat Lugduni, ann. 1530. Colophon: Sebastianus Gryphius Germanus excudebat Lugduni anno M. D. XXX. Printer's device on title page and on final page. On title page with slogan: Virtute duce, comite fortuna. On final leaf as well: Dux virtus, fortuna comes, quocumque feraris, si fuerint: felix astra ferere super. The commentary on ancient interpretations of De verborum significatione (Digesta Justiniana, Book 50, title 16), begins on p. 96. It is printed as scholia in double columns, with the passage under discussion indented between the columns towards the top of the text area, and with printed marginal notes. Metalcut title page border in 4 sections by Jacob Faber after Hans Holbein; see Hollstein. Upper and lower sections contain Faber's initials I.F. Historiated metal-cut initials, from various alphabets. Three initials are from Hollstein 147, an alphabet with children in various attitudes perhaps after Holbein (c4r, e4r, g3v). The large initial C on p. 5 is from Hans Weiditz's Kinderalphabet of 1521; see Friedländer. Includes indexes. Signatures: a-y⁶ z⁴ A⁶; A6r is blank. Gültlingen, S. von. Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon au seizième siècle, Index Aureliensis, Hollstein, F.W.H. German engravings (1996), Friedländer, M.J. Holzschnitte von Hans Weiditz, 5, 25 (92) 102.875 XIVa 54a-c; XIVb 147. p. 26. | Translate
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