Crossword-Solution: ALDI 4 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The next class of rare books is composed of works from the famous presses of the Aldi and the Elzevirs.

There seems little doubt at all that Father Haigh's suggested completion of the sentence is correct, making it read: "IN TEMPORE REGN[ALDI REGIS SECUNDI]," which would have just filled a complete line.

The Aldi, the Stephani, and Froben toiled by night and day, employing scores of scholars, men of supreme devotion and of mighty brain, whose work it was to ascertain the right reading of sentences, to accentuate, to punctuate, to commit to the press, and to place beyond the reach of monkish hatred or of envious time that everlasting solace of humanity which exists in the classics.

The edition of 1533, with the imprint _in ædibus haeredum Aldi Manutii Romani & Andreae Asulani Soceri_ and a short preface by Paulus Manutius (it was his first book as director of the press) is also essentially unchanged, but his edition of 1546, in octavo, was thoroughly revised in text and accompanied by a folio volume of variorum commentaries.

The partnership having been dissolved the press was reopened in 1540 by the sons of Aldus (_apud Aldi filios_) under the direction of the youngest, Paulus Manutius (1512-74), who restored and added to its lustre.