haps
designed for that use. An early owner of this copy has in fact added to
the printed title (_Orationum Pars I_) with a pen the word _Commentata_,
but proceeded no further with his plan than simply to underscore a
number of words on the first three pages, leaving the margins untouched.

The most important of the commentaries of Paulus was that on the
Orations, completed not long before his death and printed by his son
Aldus in 1578-9 in three folio volumes.

From the Syston Park library, with book-plate and the monogram of Sir
J.H. Thorold. Bound in red morocco, gilt edges, with Aldine anchor in
gold on sides. Leaf 8 x 5-1/4 in.

33. PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS. Planisphaerium. JORDANUS NEMORANUS. Planisphaerium.
Venetiis, [apud Paulum Manutium], 1558.

TITLE: PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM. IORDANI PLANISPHAERIVM. FEDERICI
COMMANDINI VRBINATIS IN PTOLEMAEI PLANISPHAERIVM COMMENTARIVS. In quo
uniuersa Scenographices ratio quam breuissime traditur, ac
demonstrationibus confirmatur. [Aldine anchor] VENETIIS, M.D.LVIII.

Quarto (not octavo, as described by Renouard). _Part 1._ 4
unnumbered preliminary leaves containing title and dedicatory
preface of Commandino to Cardinal Rainuccio Farnese, 37 numbered
leaves of text (1-25 Ptolemy, 26-37 Jordanus), final blank leaf
with anchor on verso. _Part 2._ 28 numbered leaves of commentary,
with separate title, anchor both on title and on verso of last
leaf. Text in roman, 25 lines to the page; commentary in italic, 34
lines to the page. Many woodcut diagrams. Both text and commentary
are introduced by a seven-line woodcut initial belonging to a
mythological series found in other books of Paulus of this period,
C picturing Calypso bidding adieu to Ulysses, I, Juno seated on a
car drawn by peacocks. The original italic font of Aldus, the
so-called _Aldino_ type, which appears to have passed into the
possession of the Torresani relatives at about this date, is here
replaced by a new font having a perceptibly larger face, though
only a slightly larger body (20 lines of the new equalling 21 of
the old) and consequently showing less white between the lines.
Renouard, p. 173.

In 1554 the subscription assumed the new form _apud Paulum Manutium Aldi
F._, showing that Paulus had acquired his brothers' rights in the press.
At the same time he returned to the earlier and simpler form of the
anchor wit