Bibliotheca Spenceriana: Or, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century and of Many Valuable First Editions in the Library of George John, Earl Spencer

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Pagina 76 - Biblia — the Bible, that is, the Holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe.
Pagina 18 - Whoeer you be who on these pages look, Read if you'd know what artists wrought the book, Rough German names perhaps may cause your smiles, But these will grow familiar by their toils ; Arnold Pannartz and Conrade Sweynheym, By printing it at Rome first gained esteem, While Peter with his brother Francis joyned To furnish house-room for the work designed.
Pagina 18 - Aspicis illustris lector quicunq; libellos | Si cupis artificum nomina nosse : lege. | Aspera ridebis cognomina teutona : forsan | Mitiget ars musis inscia uerba uirum.
Pagina 4 - ... produced, there might have been less occasion to have noticed it; but there was something. in the whole character of the affair, which, if not unprecedented, rendered it singular in the usual current of human events. This Bible was in two folio volumes, which have been justly praised for the strength and beauty of the paper, the exactness of the register, and the lustre of the ink.
Pagina ix - having broken up the volume and parted " with the contents, was enabled to supply " me with the foregoing information upon " the strength of his memory alone : but he " is quite confident of the three following " particulars : — 1. That the works, contained " in this volume, were as have been just men
Pagina 354 - Germani ingenii quis non miretur acumen ? | Quod uult germanus protinus efficiet : | Aspice quam mira libros impresserit arte : | Quam subito ueterum tot monumenta dedit | Nomine Cristophorus : Valdarfer gentis alumnus : | Ratisponensis gloria magna soli : | Nunc ingens Ciceronis opus : causasq ; forenses | Quas inter patres dixit & in populo.
Pagina 113 - Beaucoup d'autres livres portent des dates antérieures à 1457; mais toutes ces dates sont depuis long-temps reconnues ou pour fausses, ou pour celles de la composition, ou de la traduction , ou de la transcription de ces ouvrages.
Pagina 78 - Apocripha The bokes and treatises which " amonge the fathers of olde are not rekened to be of like authorite with " the other bokes of the byble, nether are they foude in the Canon of
Pagina 106 - The most perfect copy known, is that in the Imperial Library of Vienna. It was discovered in the year 1665, near Inspruck, in the castle of Ambras, where the Archduke Francis Sigismund had collected a prodigious quantity of MSS. and printed books ; taken, for the most part, from the famous library of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, from whence it was transported to Vienna. The book is printed in folio, on vellum, and of such extreme...
Pagina 155 - A short declaration of the months, festivals, &c. of the Jewish priests: 4. An explanation of ancient words and terms, in responses, hymns, homilies, &c.: 5. A declaration of the rules of the Minor Friars.

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