Bibliotheca Spenceriana: Or, A Descriptive Catalogue of the ... Library of George John, Earl Spencer, Band 1

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London : Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, 1814
 

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Seite 72 - 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.
Seite 16 - 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.
Seite 16 - Aspicis illustris lector quicunq; libellos | Si cupis artificum nomina nosse : lege. | Aspera ridebis cognomina teutona : forsan | Mitiget ars musis inscia uerba uirum.
Seite 2 - ... 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.
Seite 334 - 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. | Cernis quam recto : quam emendato ordine struxit | Nulla figura oculis gratior esse potest : | Hoc autem illustri Venetum perfecit in urbe Prsstanti Mauro...
Seite 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
Seite 74 - 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
Seite 149 - Jerom. 2. Two little treatises of orthography and of accents. 3. A short declaration of the months, festivals, &c. and 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. The...
Seite 240 - L'édition de Nicolas Jenson ne comprend que la 2e partie d'Appianus. Mr. Dibdin, en résumant les éloges de tous les bibliophiles du monde, a écrit sur ce chef-d'oeuvre de Ratdolt: « Few ancient volumes of the Classics display greater beauty of typographical execution, than does the present one ». Les deux superbes bordures sont des modèles de décoration typographique.
Seite 200 - Hoc Conradus opus Sweynheym ordine miro Arnoldusque simul Pannarts una ede colendi gente theotonica ; Rome expediere sodales. In domo Petri de Maximo m.cccc.lxviii.

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