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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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MISCELLANEOUS. sSpire ; no date.

It is a little difficult to state the result of Clement’s researches ;
who, it is evident, never saw the edition under notice, and who relies upon
the authority of Sincerus for its existence. Simler first mentions the
existence of the Strasbourg edition; and Frisius, after him, in the
Bibl. Gesner. edit. 1583, p. 3*22. Biinneman also saw the Strasbourg
edition, and described itin his Program. deBibl. Mindens. 1719, 4to. fol.
C. 2. The Strasbourg' Edition of the supposed date of 1472, noticed in
the Bibl. P. Leyser, 1729, 8vo. pt. ii. p. 153, n°. 992, could be no other than
the one mentioned by Clement, and here next described. Bibl. Curieuse,
&c. vol. ii. p. 59-60. Jt is evident, therefore, that neither Simler, Frisius,
nor Biinneman ever saw the present impression. Schelhorn has not
only well described this edition, and corrected tlie error of Schwarz—
who confounded the compiler of the index with the author of the
work—but has given a tolerably good fac-simile of the colophon : see
Quirini De Scriptor. Optimor. Edit. p. 28-9. In the Catalog. de la
Valliere, vol. ii. n°. 1280, there is a brief description of it, and the
name of Peter Drach (apparently on the authority of Marchand) is
subjoinedas that of the printer ; but Braun and Laire, whose descrip-
tions are well worth consulting,* are decisive against the admission of
such an inference :—for Drach is not known to have printed any thing
at Spire before the year 1477j and his characters are moreover different
from those seen in the present volume. Consult the Notit. Hist. Lit.
de Libr. rarior. pt. i. p. 151, and Index Libror.vol. i. p. 260-263. This
latter point, as well as that of the exact year wlien the book was
printed, may long remain ‘ sub judice/ It is now time to introduce the
volume itself.

The recto of the first leaf is a full page, and contains, like every
other full page, 32 lines. The first two lines of it are as follow :

jBD £ume ct intiiuifcmc Crinitati# patri^ ct stlp
ct £ancti intcmcrati fccrfci incarnati

This address concludes on the recto of the 2nd leaf; when an alpha-
betical table or index, of 9 leaves inclusively, follows. This index con-
cludes with an admonition, or notice (seen in Braun), that it was
* completed by Thomas Dorniberg in the year 1472 : £ Ipsa die
sancti Martini pape.’ On the recto of the ensuing, or 11th leaf, we
read the general title or prefix :

* Braun has given a very deceptive representation (or what he calls a fac-simile) of the
alphabets of tliis old Spira Gothic type: Tab. VI.

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