The date of 1575 for our comedy is given in the colophonat the end of the book.
Carter-Brown and Lenox copies; but the colophon as he gives it does not correspond with the Carter-Brown Catalogue, nor with the Dresden copy as described by Ruge.
The colophon of this edition shows the date of 1614.
There are certain distinguishing features by which any of Caxton's works may be known, even if the colophon is lost or the book a mere fragment.
Both title and colophon assign the work to James I.
When Antimachus first sat down in his empty house at Colophon to write an elegy to his dead wife, consciously or unconsciously he was initiating the greatest artistic revolution that the world has ever seen.
If the word formen, which is found in the record of the trial of Strasburg, be construed as the same word must be construed in the colophon to the Catholicon of 1460, in the acknowledgment of Dr.
It is an abbreviation of the Catholicon, and for that reason is described in the colophonas an opusculum, or a little work; but it is a heavy quarto of 330 pages.
Illustration: Fac-simile, slightly reduced, of the Colophon of the Psalter of 1457.
He may have been qualified for this service, but the thin letters and angular ornaments of his colophon are not like the thick types and flowing lines of Gutenberg’s Bible.
The printer’s name is not given, but a colophon at the end of the book distinctly says that it was printed at “haerlem in hollant.
The colophon says that “this little book was made, not by reed, nor pen, nor stencil plate, but by a certain new and subtile invention .
Catholicon of 1460, with Fac-simile and Colophon .
The colophon tells us that it was “Enprynted by wynkyn de worde at London in Flete strete at the sygne of the sonne.
III, Parts I and III; its history liii, author and colophon lvii, (cf.
In his colophon to the Rampur Diwan, it is a parallel of ash'ar, poems.
Hesitation about accepting the colophon as unquestionably applying to the whole contents of the manuscript is due to its position of close association with one section only of the three in the manuscript (cf.
Close under the colophon stands Harara-hu Babur and the date Monday, Rabi' II.
Fragment d'un poeme inconnu de Babour, and have observed that Babur himself shews his title to be Mubin, in the lines of his colophon (p.
It was employed for the first time in the form of the coupled shield of Fust and Schoeffer, in the colophon of the famous Psalter printed by these two men at Mainz in 1457.
The appearance of the Mark in the colophon therefore was a natural corollary of the printer’s vanity.
Some bibliographers argue that the date refers to the introduction of printing in England, and quote the colophon of the first edition of the “Chess” book in support of this theory.
Maynyal, who in the colophon states distinctly that he printed it at the expense of William Caxton of London.
Yes, in this letter she would write thecolophon of so wondrous a romance, the epilogue of so amazing a tragedy.
The jury with a unanimous verdict of accidental death put the colophon to the sad history of Mr Sharnall, and ruled that the same failing which had blighted his life, had brought him at last to a drunkard's end.
Oracular responses were also given at Claros near Colophon in Ionia by means of the water of a spring which inspired those who drank of it; at Patara in Lycia; and at Didyma near Miletus through the priestly family of the Branchidae.
He seems at some time in his life to have assumed the name of Jacob, and is so entitled in the colophon to a MS.
The colophon is written at the end, a blank page being left between it and the last page of writing.
Of course, there is no need to word the colophon always in this manner.
Some have thought that this was written by the famous Columba of Iona, as the name “Columba” is mentioned in the colophon at the end of the MS.
According to thecolophon it was transcribed by the chief penman of Ašurbânipal from an old copy.
The colophonconceals or omits the name of the scribe, but records the dates of incept Kánún IId.
Steingass has lent me, as before, his valuable aid in concluding as he did in commencing this series, and on putting the colophon to The Sixteenth Volume of The Thousand Nights and a Night.
The colophon of his poem “To luve vnluvit” expressly states that the piece was written “quhen his wyfe left him.
A considerable number of poems bearing the colophon “quod Stewart” are preserved by Bannatyne, but nothing is known of their separate authorship.
The colophon in the Syriac Version shews that the same traditional belief prevailed in the Eastern Church.
The writer states in the colophon that he had diversely found it ascribed to Cyril and to Victor.
This secondcolophon (though not the first) is found in Cod.
Are we to suppose that the colophon in question was added after the one text had been assimilated to the other?
Scholz further states that in four, (he means three,) other Codices very nearly the samecolophon as the preceding recurs, with an important additional clause.
In the colophon of a translation of Alan Chartier in Rawl.
Its crowning interest is to be found in its colophon (if such a classical word may be applied to the imprint of a newspaper), which states that it was 'Printed in a mangle.
Written (as a final colophon records) by Ralph de Medyltone at Ingham (Suffolk?
His legacy included a copy of the famous Exposicio Sancti Jeronimi in Simbolo Apostolorum, which was printed at Oxford in 1468, and completed, as the colophon states, on Dec.
The name given in the colophon as above has caused the work to be entered in the old Printed Catalogue under a wrong title.
This book was the Exposicio sancti Jeromini us simbolum apostolorum, and the colophon ran, 'Impressa Oxonie et finita anno domini M.
His next dated book appeared in 1528, with the colophon 'in Paule's Churchyard,' and here he appears to have remained for some years.
That it was in Cologne rather than elsewhere, is confirmed by the oft-quoted stanza added by Wynkyn de Worde as a colophon to the English edition of Bartholomæus de proprietatibus rerum.
The printer of these first Oxford books is believed to have been Theodoric Rood of Cologne, whose name appeared in the colophon to the De Anima of Aristotle, printed at Oxford in 1481.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colophon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
