[DCRM-L] Fill-in colophon?

[Noble, Richard]

This is a classic academic disputation, Fr. Gentili having been the
respondent. Though it is apparently not so represented on the title page,
the note is equivalent to the sort of footnote that appears in articles
first presented as conference papers or whatever. The blank spaces do seem
to indicate that this is the standard format for the context of this
publication, in this case never completed because printing couldn't be held
up, or because nobody cared enough to get it in.

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Nickeson, Walter <
wnickeson at library.rochester.edu> wrote:

> 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?****
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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:****
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> I have a book published in Genoa in 1589 whose colophon ends:
>
> Anno MDLXXXIX. Mense Maij. Die     & Hora
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> 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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