[DCRM-L] Fill-in colophon?

[Nickeson, Walter]

I guess my "colophon" isn't really that, although it's in the place of
one-it's the last piece of printing in the volume-but does this mean
it's a thesis? "Theoremata hec disputabuntur Rome in Aedibus S. Maria
super Mineruam pro solemni celebratione Generalis Capituli fratrum
Praedicatorum, Respondete eodem Fr. Deodato Gentili Genuensi Lectore."
Followed by the line I gave below. If it's not a thesis, is it more an
announcement of a public event? But why would the time be buried on the
last page?

 

The title is: Almae vrbis mystica descriptio, OCLC#10748339.

 

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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.

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Nickeson, Walter
<wnickeson at library.rochester.edu> wrote:

I have a book published in Genoa in 1589 whose colophon ends:

Anno MDLXXXIX. Mense Maij. Die     & Hora

There is a blank space following "Die" a little wider than that word.
"Hora" is the last word of the paragraph, so the whole bottom half of
the page following it is blank space.

Are the blanks for the date and time to be filled in by hand, or were
they intended to be filled in with type later but perhaps left unset by
accident? I've never (in very limited experience) seen anything like
this.

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