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]

104

GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS. sIVithout Date.

catchwords. The type is sharp and elongated; and on the recto of
fol. 49 and last, we read the colophon thus :

Cjepiiciunt cossectanea prnscotum iterBorum ^ompeii
3segti ssuB 3Hnno a natiuitate tmt ^ilie^imo quabrin^
genteoimo oeptuagesimo geptio bie uero uitima men£i£
Deccfirm $ontxsscatu£ ^anctis^imi in rpo patrm et
tini nootri tjni J>irti tiiuina prouitientia ©ape <auarti
3snno eiug septimo ♦

A register is on the reverse. It. remains only to refer the reader to
Laire’s Spect. Hisl. Typog. Rom. p. 237-8; Audiffredi’s Edit. Rom. p.
222; and Denis’s Suppl. Maitt. p. 83, n°. 560. The present is a clean
copy, in calf binding, but not free from the ravages of the worm.

579. Pompeius Festus. TVithout Name of Prin-
ter, Place, or Pate. Folio,

This impression forms the third part of a volume which contains
those of Nonius Marcellus and Terentius Varro, printed at Parma in
1480. The reader may be pleased to consult what is said at p. 97
ante. There is no colophon to the present edition ; which is printed
in double columns, with 37 lines in a full page. There are liiii num-
bered folios, with signatures a and b in eights—c, d, e, f andg in sixes
—and h with 8 leaves. On the reverse of fol. li, after the termination
of the text as in the preceding impressions, there seems to be an
appendix to the letters I and M. The former begins thus :

i Ncomiciare significat tale
comitiu facer jp qud* neces
se sit I comitiu: hoc e I couentu
uelre. Plau. Quasso ne me inco
micies. Incita incitata.

The latter concludes thus, on the recto of fol. liiii :

* Sic.