Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Oth.]: 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 (Band 1) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-1]

LATIN BIBLES.

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12. Biblia LatinaVulgata. Printed by Sweyn-
heym and Pannartz. Rome. 1471. Folio.
2 yols.

This is the first edition of the Bible printed at Rome; and the in-
terpretation of HebreAv words and names, affixed to the end of it,
renders it an useful as well as curious publication. On the recto
of the first leaf it begins thus:

Incipit epistola sancti Hieronjmi ad Paulinu
presbyteru : de onmibus diuine bistorie libris.

£Fj Rater Ambrosius tua mihi munuscula &c.

At the bottom of the recto of the fourth leaf begins the title to the
book of Genesis:

Incipit liber Bresith quem nos Genesin dicimus. I.

All the chapters throughout the edition are numbered in large roman
numerals like tlie preceding, towards the right hand, at the top of
each chapter.

The text of the first volume closes with tlie Psalter:

Finis Psalterii,

In the present copy two blank leaves, one thicker than the other,
follow. On the recto of the 3d, tlie Bishop of Aleria’s letter to Paul
II, dated * Rome xv. Martii natalis dnici anno. M.CCCC.LXXI. Pont.
tui fiorentis. anno. VII. Then follows a table :

Aristee uolumen de interpretatione ueteris testamenti.

Concluding tlius:

In summaerunt in duobus uoluminibus libri. LVI. Et
capitula in eis circiter. M. C. LXXXX VIIII.

Next follow, a short epistle of Mathias Palmerius to Paul II. and
Aristeas’s observations to his brother Philocrates, translated from the
Greek into Latin by M. Palmerius of Pisa. These occupy twelve
leaves, exclusively of the leaf upon which they begin. Gn the rev. of
the l^th: