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]

420

MISCELLANEOUS.

sPadua ; 1473.

732. Maurocenus (Paulus). De Eterna
Temporalique Christi Generatione. Printed
hy Partholomoeus Martinus De Septem Arhorihus.
Padua. 1473. Quarto.

Descriptions of this uncommon volume will be found in the Bibliogr.
Instruct. vol. i. p. 352, in the Cat. de la Valliere, vol. i. p. 270, and in
the Bibl. Pinell. vol. i. p. 141-2 ; but in neither of these authorities is
there any mention made of a singular variation in the colophon—
which we shall presently notice. Denis, however, lias not failed to
point it out. Suppl. p. 28, n°. 159. On the recto of the first leaf is the
following prefix :

PAVLI MAVROCENI OPVS DE
AETERNA TEMPORALIQVE
CHRISTI GENERATIONE IN
IVDAICAE IMPROBATIONEm
PERFIDIAE CHRISTIANAE

QVE RELIGIONIS GLORIAM
DIVINIS EN VNTIATIONIB V S

COMPROBATA AD PAVLVM
PONTIFICEM MAXIMVM IN
CIPIT.

V O asfectus sim gaudio
. B . P. cum caelitus datum
te pontificem maximum
tarsensisque Isignitum no/
mle. Quo Sc Ego sacri lauacri dono uo
catus sumaurea famapcrebuit explicare
profecto lingua calamusque non ualet.

8cc. 8cc. 8cc.

A full page contains 24 lines. Leading words are printed in the
margin, but the impression is entirely destitute of signatures, catch-