Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Bearb.]: 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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ANCIENT CLASSICS. \De Finibus ; Zel.

Nuremberg, wliich he had frerjuently and carefully collated—‘ quod
iteratis vicibus accuratissime contuli ’—are his words.’ Introd. to the
Classics; vol. i. p. 286-7.

The following- description, subjoined to the foregoing authorities,
will render t.he account of this volume more complete ; although there
are further particulars relating to it in De Bure, and in the Valliere
Catalogue. The text begins thus, on the recto of the first leaf:

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t £^a!oru> %. pritn 9 SJncipit feliciter.

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niis ingeitijo: ejecjoitacft Ooctrtna plji
fo£o$)i greco oennonc tractaui^ent:
ea iatini^ iitteri^ mantiaemu^: fore
ut ijic ttooter iaftor in fearia^ rprefjen^ioneo in
curreret. |5am quifiusfoa et quitic no atnno
tmm intioctio totum ijoc Oiopiicet pjjjari. <Duitia

8cc. 8cc. 8cc.

This first page has only 26 lines: a full one contains 27 lines. The
first book ends on the reverse of fol. 18 ; followed immediately by the
second book: the seeond book ends on the reverse of fol. 50, succeeded
by the third book, on the recto of the ensuing leaf. The third book
ends on the recto of fol. 70, having the reverse blank. The fourth
book begins on the recto of fol. 71. The fifth book, on the recto of fol.
92; without any specification, that I can observe, of the termination
of the fourth. On the recto of fol. 117, the fifth book concludes thus:

.0£. Cuiij €iccrcmi£ tie ffttifiug fiottoru t
maforum fifier quitttug fte^itiit.

The present copy is bound in red morocco ; and is not free from stain.
The Duke of Devonshire possesses a copy, which was formerly in the
library of the late Bishop of Ely.