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 3) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-3]

70

GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS. sMentz; 1468.

A full page of the text of the first part contains 44 lines. From the
following concluding lines of it, the colophon is gathered.

%t mogutina au fusu£ t brBe iifjdlu.0
a^ejji Oomu0 geuuit fcii caragma tictiit.
Cer^eno s$ in ano tertieni iuRiiei.

St^ufci po.at colume tjui e finbcug %mt.

A blank leaf ensues; which shews the extraordinary texture of the
paper. On the recto of the first leaf of the second part, the text com-
mences thus:

togeriorifiJ nug bicfo #eni
tiora quefca gramatice ru^
bimeta certo g orOine nu-
mero potrere et mensttra in
bnsi cofjerce ingeti safioe conattt0 0st
qm tiiocetio et certior mcn.s sieret afj
anrie que^tioni^ casoa fatiga conatst

8cc. 8cc. 8cc.

On the reverse of fol. 26, and last, at the bottom of the second.
eolumn, we read the following lines :

#mnipoteti tjueg; ocienti cucta faueti
$so ostmo pio gloria pncipio. amem

The Gaignat copy of this rare and curious volume, was sold for 400,
and the Lomenie copy for 1121, livres. The present is a beautiful
eopy, in blue morocco binding.