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3 20 SIXTUS RIESSINGER'S FIRST PRESS AT ROME. I. jMONG the most notable problems of early Italian typography there has long figured an edition in two large volumes of the Epistles of S. Jerome, printed with a somewhat irregular semi-Roman type and bearing no indication of its origin, save the letters C IA. RW at the conclusion of the book (Hain ^8550). Proctor in his Index (no. 6747) at first assigned it to an anonymous Press at Naples, on the strength of the close resemblance of the type to the earliest fount used by Sixtus Riessinger, the prototypographer of that city. Delisle, however, had a few years previously dis- covered in the Chantilly copy a manuscript note written by Johann Hynderbach, Bishop of Trent, to the effect that the book was produced ' ab im- pressoribus litterarum Romae,' and this discovery, of which Prodtor only learnt as the Index was going through the press, caused him to add a footnote transferring the book to Rome. There remained the further problem of finding a printer for it there, and Proctor suggested Ulrich Han,