S. Cyprian. Epistulae. Rome: Sweynheym and Pannartz, 1471 (and in many other of their books) 87
Cicero. Orationes Philippicae. Rome: Ulrich Han [1470] (and in several other of Han’s books) 88
Latin Bible. Vicenza: Leonardus Achates, 1476 94
Laurentius Valla. Elegantiae. Rome: Arnold Pannartz, 1475 96
Gasparo Visconti. Rithmi. Milan: Ant. Zarotus, 1493 103
Journal Spirituel. Paris: Vérard, 1505 105
Statius. Achilleis. Parma: Steph. Corallus, 1473 109
Franciscus Curtius. Consilia. Milan: U. Scinzenzeler, 1496 116
Georgius Natta. Repetitiones. Pavia: C. de Canibus, 1492 126
Henricus Bruno. Super Institutionibus. Louvain: Aeg. van der Heerstraten [1488?] 128
Petrus de Ancharano. Repetitio. Bologna: Jo. Jac. de Benedictis for Benedictus Hectoris, 1493 141
Roman Missal. Venice: G. Arriuabenus and P. de Paganinis, 1484 147
Cicero. Epistolae Familiares. Milan: Lauagna, 1472 150
VII. REPETITIONS, THEFTS, AND ADAPTATIONS 159
Leaving the Colophon in its bibliographical aspects to the able hand by which these are about to be treated, it may not be amiss to preface Mr. Pollard’s researches by a brief inquiry into the origin and significance of the term itself, and the reason why the colophon for so long performed the office of the title-page.
_Colophon_ originally meant the head or summit of anything. It is clearly cognate with κορυφή, but is a word of far less importance, for while thirteen derivatives from κορυφή are given in Liddell and Scott’s Dictionary, κολοφών has not one. The former word is continually used by Homer; the latter is first met with in Plato, and then and afterwards only in a figurative sense. Yet it is clear that the word must from the first have borne the signification of “summit” or “crest,” for such is the position of the city of Colophon, which must have derived its name from its elevation, just as a modern house may be called “Hilltop.” Names of this kind, if not given at the first, are rarely given at all; we must suppose, then, that _colophon_ was a recognized Greek word for “summit” when the city was founded about the tenth century B.C., according to Strabo by a Pylian colony, though this seems difficult to reconcile with the fact of Colophon being an Ionian city. In any case, the word has long survived the place.