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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES

By R. G.

(18.) What could have induced the accurate and learned Saxius (*Catal. Lib. Mediol., edit.* p. DXC.) to give the name *Elucidarium* to the first part of the *Mariale* of Bernardinus de Bustis? This writer, who has sometimes erroneously been reputed a Dominican, and who is commemorated in the Franciscan Martyrology on the 8th of May (p. 178.), derived his denomination from his family, and not "from a place in the country of Milan," as Mr. Tyler has supposed. (*Worship of the Virgin*, p. 41. Lond. 1846.) Elsewhere Saxius had said (*Hist. Typog.-Liter. Mediol.*, col. ccclii.) that the *Mariale* w…

Topics: Bibliography, Canonisation, Gothic Letter Printing, Ecclesiastical Liberty, Early Printed Books

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