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UCLA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LIBRARY Department of Special Collections OCCASIONAL PAPERS 8 W 5.-<«fyHtufntk't*tILt-f^t\fL mm^Jtitm. *t-nt«ji^/'/J<^-«<»«a*^ 'hhi^,^VJKliw*""*^ Ju-itt,«»i/e<rf/nj'^/^uy»^/5*>fC'lf'f^ fa^*t*.Zi.)«»V»rM<fKi4d-y MFi^fu>J7iUlfIA.1^^t^4A^^s'^^mj^antaiul^fl.''A«*S)j««^ '?HW-\ ^Um IZ4/''^ The Contract Facing the Responsibility of Paulus Manutius by MARTIN LOWRY Department ofSpecial Collections University Research Library University ofCalifornia LosAngeles 1995 Copyright© March 1995 by theRegents ofthe University ofCaUfomia ISSN 1041-1143 Thispublication isproducedwith supportfrom M The BemadineJ. L. ZelenkaEndowment CONTENTS The Problem 1 New Evidence. The Ahmanson-Murphy Document 6 The Forces behind the Contract 17 The Editorial Strategy ofthe Counter-Reformation 35 Failure ofFunds: Failure ofNerve? 52 Conclusion 71 Appendix; Transcription ofthe Contract 78 ABBREVIATIONS Aldo Aldo Manuzio di Paolo Junior Aldus Aldus Manutius Senior CEBR ContemporariesofErasmus: aBiographicalRegister, 3 vols.. University ofToronto Press 1985-87 Eubel K. Eubel & G. Van Gulik, Hierarchia Catholica Medii et RecentiorisAevi, vol. 3, Regensburg 1923 Nolhac P. de Nolhac, "Lettres inedites de Paul Manuce" in Ecole FrangaisedeRome,MelangesdArchaelogieetd'Histoire, vol. 3, 1883 Pastor L. von Pastor, History ofthe Popesfrom the Close ofthe Middle Ages, new English edition, 40 vols., Liechtenstein 1968-69 PMEL Pauli ManutiiEpistolarumLibridecern, duobusnuperodditis, Venice 1580 PMLV TreLibridiLettere VolgaridiM.PaoloManuzio,Venice 1556 PIEM E. Pastorello, LEpistolario Manuziano-inventario crono- logico-analitico 1483-1597, Florence 1957 PIM E. Pastorello, ed., IneditaManutiana, Florence 1960 RAIA A.-A. Renouard,Annales de I'Imprimerie desAides, 3rd edn., Paris 1834 RLMI A.-A. Renouard, ed., LettereManutiane inedite, copiate sugli autograft nella BibliotecaAmbrosiana, Paris 1834 UCLA A Catalogue ofthe Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection at UCLA, Los Angeles 1989-1994 NOTE The "scudo d'oro"wasagoldcrownfirstissuedby Pope Clement VII in 1532, and is described by A. Berman, Papal Coins, New York 1991, p. 27, as "ofvery consistent weight and purity". Its content of 3.36 gms ofgold made it equivalent to the Venetian ducat and the Florentine florin.
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