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io 4 REVIEWS. and four plates of facsimiles of capitals and wood- cuts are appended. Taken as a whole, the work of Drs. Langer, Dolch and Schwarz has been very well and thoroughly done. It constitutes the first comprehensive account of the Trent incunabula ever published, and for the early Viennese presses entirely supersedes both the older history of Denis and the more modern and somewhat unhandy volumes of Mayer, as the standard work on its sub- ject, so that a reviewer can do no more than offer a suggestion here and there. Nine books only are known to have been printed at Trent in the fifteenth century, and of these no less than six are concerned with the 'ritual murder' and subsequent beatification of the local child-saint Simon. The earliest tract, dated 6th September, 1 475, was printed by Albert Kunne, who reappears some years later as a printer at Memmingen. The second, the ' Historia completa' of Tuberinus, dated gth February, 1476, is printed with the same Gothic type, but concludes with the words: { Her- manno schindeleyp auclore/ on the strength of which statement it has hitherto been assumed to be the work of Schindeleyp. Dr. Dolch, however, denies that c au<5tor' can here mean anything except ' the seller' i.e., the publisher and retains the book under the press of Kunne. But examples of c auctor ' used as a synonym of c artifex ' may be found in Forcellini, so that there seems no reason why the word should not here stand for ' im- pressor ' ; or, if another meaning must be sought for it, Schindeleyp may perhaps have been a private patron who was described as the 'auctor' of the