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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MISCELLANEOUS.

sRome ; 1468.

Edidit hoc lingue clarissima norma latine.

Excelsi ingenii uir rodoricus opus.

Qui norme * angelica est custos bene fidus in arce.

Sub pauli ueneti nomine pontificis.

Claret in italici zamorensis episcopus ausis.

Eloquii. it superos gloria parta uiri,

Hoc Conradus opus suueynheym ordine miro
Arnoldusq; simul pannarts una ede colendi
Gente theotonica : romm expediere sodales.

In domo Petri de Maximo. M.CCCC.LXVIII.

The reverse is blank. A table of four leaves follows ; having this sub-
scription:

Explicit breuis tabula siue repertorium per
alphabetum in presenti libro speculum vite
humane.

In his account of this impression, which is brief, compared with the
above, Audiffredi has betrayed his usual quickness, if not malignity,
of animadversion upon Laire; whose description of this impression,
in the Spec. Rom. Typog. p. 128 — although not quite accurate — did
not surely merit such severity of sarcasm. Indeed Laire’s copy was
probably as complete as the one examined by Audiffredi: since the lat-
ter does not, from his own experience, mention the table at the end.
Edit. Rom. p. 11-12. The present is, upon the whole, rather an
indifferent copy in yellow-morocco binding.

* Sie.