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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Impressi fuerant reges: impressaq; bella:

Qup gessere patres auspice digna Ioue .

Sed qui bella regit: pacis qui foedera iungit
Iuppiter: 8c mundus iure legendus erat.

Bene Yale.

The present is rather a large copy, but, unluckily, of a tawny colour
throughout. A very neat and fair one, elegantly bound in calf, is
described in the catalogue of Mr. Bell, of Oundle, for 41. 14s. 6d.

172. Sarisburiensis (Iohannes). De Nugis

CuRIAEIUM ET VeSTIGIIS PhILOSOPHORUM.

(Apparently printed by Ther Hoernen). TVithout

Place or Date. Folio.

Editio Pkinceps. The possession of the earliest impression of a
work—pronounced by Dr. Henry to be * indeed the most curious and
valuable monument of the English literature of the twelfth century :
which it is impossible to peruse without admiring the virtue and good
sense, as well as the genius and erudition, of its author ’*—must be
no small gratification to the Noble Owner of the present beautiful
copy of it. Although I do not observe the name of John os
Salisbury in the copious list of Panzer’s fifth volume, yet I have no
scruple in assigning the present edition to the press of Ther Hoernen;
and in conjecturing the date of it to be somewhere about the year
1472. lt is therefore, in all probability, the Editio Princeps ; and will
be treasured aecordingly. The text is almost uniformly executed in
double columns, and on the reverse of the first leaf, at top of the first
column, we read this title :

%t libcr Ititulatur bcnugis?
tutiaUsi T bc£tigi!£
cui 9 5Jofjanncg «&aicgbcri
cngig €amotcgig cpu£ fuit actor.

* History of Creat Britain; vol, vi. p. 144-6. 8vo. edit.