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]

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GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS. sMilan; 1476.

A full page has 25 lines. The ensuing is a speeimen of declining a
substantive of the first declension :

6 xgv(rrig. rov yjpvcrov. lcu %pvarrj. lov yjpvvrp). ch
‘Xpvcrri y.oivcbg Kai u> jrpvcryg svTt'xoog To) yjpvcrct
Toiv ^qvcruiv. m yjpvcju.. 'O* yjpv<ja.i. lcbv yjpvcrwv
Toig xgvtrat;. 1ov$ xpvtrug. a> ^vcrui.

sol. 5, rect.

The conjugation of the celebrated verb ‘ tvtt\m ' is thus, for the first
time, brought to our acquaintance :

'PHMA O'PICTIKO'N ’ENEPTHTIKO'N
CTHTTI'AC nPH'THC TX2N BAPTTO' t
NHN. ’EVeS-COJ.

1 VTrloO Ivnleii 1v7rlsi, TV7t1sT0V TV7r1e-

TOV, 1v7r1o(JCSV IvTtIsIs TV7r1oV<ji.

TIapu1asix.bg.

^EtvttIov elvTrleg sIvttIs, s1v7t1stov slv
7r1sTr)V, s1vtt1osJ!.sv sIvttIsIs sIvtxIov.

&c. &c. &c. fol. xv. rev.

There are no signatures, but the volume contins 71 leaves in the
whole. The Grammar concludes ‘ nepi AjipOoyswv ’ — on the reverse
of fol. 7L with the following imprint:

TsXog <rvv $sco dyloo tov rrspi

7TVSVsJ.dcTWV.

Alediolani Impressum per Magistrum Dionjsium
Parauisinum. MCCCCLXXVI.

Die xxx Ianuarii.

There are neither numerals nor catchwords. The type is precisely
similar to that with which the first iPsop, the first Craston’s Lexicon,
and the Florentine Homer of 1488, are executed; and of which latter
a fac-simile is given in vol. ii. p. 60 of this work. The paper is of
unusual stoutness. Saxius inhis Hist. Lit. Typog. Mediol p. cccclxi and
dlxiii, is fulland interesting; and from the preface of the Aldine edition
of 14P4-5, welearn that, even at that time, ‘ no copies of this edition
could be procured, after the most diligent search.’ The present copy.