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

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Nuremberg; 1493.] CHRONICLE.

As a contrast, let us view the physiognomies and costumes of the
four following fair ladies, which are taken from folios xiv and xv.
The branches, before them, are parts of a genealogical tree.

We now begin to enter a wilderness, as it were, of embellishments
of almost every description. Patriarchs (with ‘ spectacles on nose,')
Martyrs, Learned Men, Cities, and fenced Towers, surround us on all
sides. From such a ‘ motley group ’ I can select only what appears to
he the most curious and extraordinary. Leaving the reader to stop,
for one minute, at the simplicity marked in the delineations of the
Exposure ofNoah, Lot's Wise turned into a Pillar of Salt, and the intended
Sacrisce os Isaac, and Joseph interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, &c. &c.,
I must lead him directly to folio xlt, recto; where, in the Third
Age of the World, and beneath a large whole length of Saul, ‘ the first