Signatures: [paragraph sign]8, [double paragraph sign]8, a-x8, A-V8, X2. Aa-EE8, FF2.

Includes epitome of Festus by Paulus Diaconus.

The works of Verrius Flaccus are lost, save for quotations and references to his thought preserved in the writings of others such as Festus and Paulus Diaconus. Such remnants are used here (at preliminary p. [19-31]) to reconstitute his works "quae extant." The main text, however, is an edition of the extant portion of the De verborum significatione of Festus, amplified and explained by Paulus and others.

Adams' printer index shows Petrus Santandreanus as active simultaneously in Lyon and Geneva, also showing an Officina Santandreana in Heidelberg. However, Baudrier's Bibliographie lyonnaise is silent about the name, as is Benzing, who exhaustively covers German and Swiss printers. BLC assigns this book to Heidelberg as does Adams (though the index, v. 2, p. 672, assigns it to the Lyon shop). The t.p. device is the same as Jerome Commelin's device illustrated in Bigmore & Wyman's A bibliography of printing, v. 1, p. 142 (though not the identical block). Commelin was in Heidelberg at this time, having worked until 1587 in the Geneva shop of his relative Petrus Santandreanus, from which apparently arose his custom of imprinting some of his Heidelberg books "Ex Officina Santandreana."

Adams V592.

Fisher copy: Presentation copy to Abraham Fierentius, 1628. With the autograph of Jacobus Maggrodius and of J.F. Visscher. With the booklabel of the Arbury Library.