Friday, April 11, 2025
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Anthony Grafton, "Rhetoric and Divination in Erasmus's Edition of Jerome," in Renate Dürr, ed., Threatened Knowledge: Practices of Knowing and Ignoring from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 181-211 (at 182):
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Yet readers found plenty of bones to pick. Errors cropped up. The word "accuratissima", of all things, was misspelled on the title page of volume I, which suggested that Froben's proofreaders were anything but eagle-eyed.5
5 Jerome, Opera, I, title page: "apud inclytam Basileam ex acuratissima officina Frobeniana".
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