avec une tete en or sur la couverture.  Il a passe dans une Bibliotheque inconnue.”  The present copy answers completely to this description and is without doubt the dedication copy in question.  The binding (17th cent.) is yellow morocco, browned by age, gilt edges, with a medallion head in gold embossed on the back cover.  Within are written names of former owners; on the title page N.  Tetel, 1644 datum Remis and Claude Henry Corrard; on the cover linings ex Libris Claudii Tetel ad Mussey(?); Ce livre appartient a m^{lle} Jean Collot.

By an oversight Renouard omitted this volume from his list (p. 271) of “Editions Stephaniennes dont on connoit un on plusieurs exemplaires imprimes sur velin.”  It increases the number to twenty-three, seventeen of them printed by the first Henri and only six by his descendants.

Charles Estienne (1504?-1564), a member of a second remarkable family of scholar-printers of the sixteenth century, whose history forms so interesting a parallel to that of Aldus and his descendants, though he does not rank with his brother Robert, or Robert’s son the second Henry, certainly brought no discredit on the family name.  He was educated as a physician, but when Robert withdrew to Geneva to escape the persecutions of the Sorbonne, he took charge of the Paris press and conducted it with ability from 1551 to 1561, printing one hundred volumes and receiving the appointment of king’s printer.  Aside from this attractive volume no vellum copy of his books is known.

From the Wodhull sale, with the Wodhull arms stamped in gold on the front cover.  Mem. within:  “Payne’s sale.  L3 3s.  M. Wodhull, Apr. 14^{th} 1792.  Collat & complet.”  On the last blank leaf is entered the date “Oct. 17^{th} 1808,” a record possibly of a later “visitation.”  Similar dates, some years later than the date of purchase are found on the end leaves of other Wodhull books.  Leaf 7 x 4-1/2 in.

Transcriber’s Note: 

The following inconsistencies found in the text have been retained: 

head-line / headline
Homiliae / Homiliae (in referring to the same book)
De Vinne / DeVinne
Prohemye / Proheyme