<font><font face="georgia,serif">Is this by any chance an academic thesis? Is the wording of the colophon related to the day and hour of the presentation? On title pages these were occasionally left blank, though I don't know whether this was a matter of small blocks of standing type being used for boilerplate, or just setting of the boilerplate portion before the schedule was known to the printer, sometimes to be completed, sometimes not. I don't know that I've seen a real colophon dated to the hour, though others with more experience in this period and place may have done.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Nickeson, Walter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wnickeson@library.rochester.edu">wnickeson@library.rochester.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have a book published in Genoa in 1589 whose colophon ends:<br>
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Anno MDLXXXIX. Mense Maij. Die & Hora<br>
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There is a blank space following "Die" a little wider than that word.<br>
"Hora" is the last word of the paragraph, so the whole bottom half of<br>
the page following it is blank space.<br>
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Are the blanks for the date and time to be filled in by hand, or were<br>
they intended to be filled in with type later but perhaps left unset by<br>
accident? I've never (in very limited experience) seen anything like<br>
this.<br>
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