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 2) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-2]

Augshourg; 1471.]

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it; from a copy in the Royal, and another in the Valiiere Collection.
When he tells us—‘ elle est executee en caracteres gotliiques, singuliers,
d’une fabrique assez extraoi'dinaire’—he does not impi'ess his reader
with any notion of the fine, bold, and legible appeai'ance (as the en-
suing fac-simile evinces) which the volume possesses; and which
makes us regi'et that the press of the Zainers* did not put forth an im-
pression of the entire woi’ks of the poet. Bibliogr. Instruct. vol. iii.
p. 336. La Serna Santander, as usual, merely abridges the labours
of his predecessors. Dict. Bibliogr. Choisi, vol. iii. p. 228.

On the recto of the first leaf we read the opening of the Ars Amandi,
according to this fac-simile :

ombtj tiafotiis fttlmonaifis*&c
arte amah tdtber pttmtts inctpit MiciL

31 qutsibocatte {pfo no noutt ama&i
Q? e legat et lecto racmtne bodua am et
Cf tte rite wlocp tateo temocgmottentnt
Cfc ttc iemc oittus atte teff&us amor

A full page contains 29 lines ; and tlie poem comprehends 42 leaves,
concluding on the reverse of the 42d. On the recto of the 43d, we
read as follows :

$ufilij ouibii tta$om£ fulmonen-
b remetiio amoti£ libee incipit.

The Remedium Amoris has 15 leaves. On the reverse of the 15th,
are the three last lines of the poem, and the colophon: the latter
being thus:

Eifier pulilij na£oni£. <Dmtui
tie rcmetJio 3Umoti£ fclicit tx-
plicit. 5J;mpref0it0 in. 3Cu0U0ta

* See a fac-simile of the type of John Zainer’s edition of iEsop, at p. 241 of vol. i.

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