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]

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the Speculum Doctrinale of Vincent Beauvois of 1481, beingquoted iri
the preface, that it was printed subsequently to this last mentioned
year. He affixes 1494 as the latest period of its execution. It should
however be observed, in regard to the supposed printer, that Stephen
Arents, who printed a Bible and Psalter in the Low Saxon language,
A.D. 1474, and introduced the Lubec arms of the eagle, used types, in
his opinion, very similar to these ; and might have executed the present
work. It appears too, from the same authority, that I. H. Seelen, in
his Medit. Exeget.* pt. i. p. 29, 68, 91, has described the very copy
now under consideration. No account of this impression is found in
Vogt, Freytag, or Bauer. The type is a wide handsome secretary
Gothic, having the oblique stroke for the comma. The folios are num-
bered, and a full page eontains 23 lines. Spaces are left for the intro-
duction of capital initials. In blue moroceo.

* Qu. how it agrees with an edition of the Psalter printed in the year 1493, in the same
language, apparently at Lubec, and noticed by Seelen in his Selecta Literaria ; p. 654 ?