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 RIESSINGER'S PRESS AT ROME. 323 books is that of the c Bulk anni iubilei,' which was promulgated by the Pope on igth April, 1470, and it is clear that Riessinger must have removed from Rome not very long after this date, since he had printed one large and several smaller books with his second and third types at Naples before the year 1471 was out. That this latter was his first year at Naples is certain, not only from the typographical evidence, but also from the state- ment to that effedt by Wimpheling in ch. 65 of the ' Epitome/ which he must have had from Riessinger himself. It is more difficult to deter- mine the precise date of his first start at Rome, but in view of the great bulk of the 'Jerome/ and the considerable size of the 'Zabarella' and the ' Geminiano,' it cannot possibly be put later than 1468. There is thus considerable likelihood of Riessinger's 'Jerome' being the editio princeps, rather than that of Sweynheym and Pannartz completed on I3th December, 1468. II. IN the Museum copy of the c Aurelius Vi6lor and Sextus Rufus ' is pasted a letter from one Matthias de Fannellis to Simeon Lucensis, who is no doubt to be identified with Simeon Nicolai Chardella, for some years the partner of Ulrich Han, accom- panying the present of the book. As the letter is of some interest for the history of early printing, it is here given in full, with the contractions resolved. The concluding sentences might be taken to imply that de Fannellis was the editor