Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the library of George John, earl Spencer (1814) (14595764469)

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Title: Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ... library of George John, earl Spencer
Year: 1814 (1810s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847 John Rylands Library
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Incunabula Rare books Printing
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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107 ^s^lttvs. 43. PsALTERiUM, &c. Latine. Printed hy Fustand Schoeffer. Mentz. 1457- Folio First Impression of the Psalter, and the first printed book towhich a date is subjoined. The extreme rarity and value of this mag-nificent work are well known. We will first give a bibliographicaldescription of it, and afterwards add some account of its discovery;incorporating the principal authorities which have treated of it. Suchan history will not be found altogether uninteresting. The work begins on the recto of the first leaf, with two musical-scored lines at top. The lines and notes are inserted in ms. as well asthe words Venite exulte, &c. The text, of which the opposite re-presentation is a fac-simile, begins about three inches below. A full page, which is 7 inches and -f- in breath, by about 111 inheight, contains 20 lines. It is not uniformly printed in a type of thesize of the fac-simile. The collects, responses, verses, and prayers aregenerally in a smaller type,* and the la