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]

1535.]

ENGLISH BIBLE.

79

Moses receiving the tables; Aaron reading the law to the people; our
Saviour giving his disciples power to preach and heal, and St. Paul
preaching: the whole evidently of foreign workmanship, and well
executed. An address to Henry VIII. of five pages, follows: then, a
prologue to the reader of six pages : next, a table of ‘ The bokes of
the whole Byble’ in one page. The sacred text, preceded by six small
cuts of the first six days work of the creation, follows immediately on
the recto of the ensuing leaf, thus:

N y e begyn
nynge God
created hea
uen earth:
and y' earth
was voyde
and emptie,
and darck-
nes was v-
pon the de^
pe^y* spre-
te of God
moued vpo
the water

And God sayde : let there be light, T there
was light. And God sawe the light that it
was good. Then God deuyded y e light from
the darcknes^ and called the light, Daye: and
the darcknesj Night. Then of the evenynge
and mornynge was made the first daye/

The folios are regularly numbered from the first chapter of Genesis
to the conclusion of the book of Deuteronomy, at fol. xc; rect. having
a map of the promised land inserted. On the recto of the ensuing leaf,
begins ‘ The seconde parte of the olde Testament,’ commencing with
Joshua, and ending with Esther : this title is encircled by curious wood-
cut borders. The leaves re-commencebeing numbered on this title-page.