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. sWithout Date.

CLattons, &c.

*** Under this title are ineluded all those works, professedly of the
character of Ouations, and all Epistles written upon public afFairs,
which are in this Library; or, rather, which I have been hitherto
enabled to collect into one body. This plan is presumed to be prefer-
able to that of dividmg and scattering the Orations in the body of
the work, according to the names of the authors. In the present in-
stance, however, tlie authors are arranged in alphabetical order; and
tlie Orations are divided under the following heads; Miscellaneous,
Eunereal, and Against the Tukks.

I. MISCELLA NEOUS.

741. JEneas Sylvius. Oratio coram Calixto III.
De Obedientia. (Printed hy Planck.) TPithout
Place or Date. Quarto.

At pages xlviii-ix of the first volume of this work, the reader has had
something more than an intimation of the contents of this spirited
Oration. The copious extracts from it, there given, shew that it has
some intrinsic interest; and AudifFredi conjectures, on the authority
of the Letters of Indulgence os Pope Nicholas V. having been printed
at Mentz in ] 454, that this Oration might also have been there printed
in the year in which it was delivered ; namely, in 1455. Edit. Rom.
p. 49,9,. Tf so, it was unquestionably a very difFerent, and much earlier
impression than the present; but I incline to doubt the existence of
any such earlier publication. We shall here be brief in the de-
scription of it, since it is one of the numerous Opuscula which came
from the press of Planck towards the close of the XVth century. It. is
printed upon 5 leaves, the last leaf being blank. The prefix is as
follows :