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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 4) — London, 1815 [Cicognara, 4650-4]

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satisfaction or I dye And that I may see et receyue thy holy body god
et man.' The second, on the following leaf, which is entitled * I haue
had to the,’ begins in the following manner: [O] The most swetest
spouse of mi sowle crist iesu destring hertly euermore for to be wyth
the in mynde et wylle et to lete no erthely thyng be soo nygh myn hert
as thou crist iesu et that I drede not for to deie for to hoo to the crist
iesu et that I may euermore saye to te* wyth a gladde chere: my
lord: my god: &c.’ ‘ These prayers (observes the next paragraph in
Latin) are only to be said in the agony of death/

On the recto of lc i, another English prayer begins, t.hus : * o Blessyd
trinyte Fader: sone: ad holy ghoost: thre persones: ad one god I
byleue wyth my hert: and confesse with my mouth al that holy chyrche
bileueth and holdeth of the et as moche as a good catholyke and cristen
ma ought to fele ad byleue of the ad I proteste here tofore thy maieste:
that I wyl lyue et deye I thys faith & otinue al my lyf,’ &c. The next
prayer has this commencement: ‘ o Lord god almyghty alle seelg al
thynges knowyng: wysedon and sapiece of al: I poure synner make
thys day in despite of the fende of helle protestation that yf of
aduenture bi ony teptation: deception: or variation coming by sorowe :
peyne or sekenesse or by ony feblenes of body : or bi ony other occasid
what someuer it be i falle or decline in peril of my soule or preiudyce
of my helthe or in errour of the holy fayth catholike,’ &c. On the
reverse of r iiij, is the ensuing colophon :

Jpoc ptegen^ officium fieate marie cu
multig tieuoti^ gufftagiig ati fofum £a-
ru$ finita £unt. 3fimto tiomini miiie^imo
quatinngente^imo nonage^imo ^eptimo
$to ioijanne ricartio mercatore iifirario
rotijomagi comnioranti iurta magna$
ecciegiam fieate marie.

The device of Ricai’do is beneath. The remaining 8 leaves, upon
signature % are devoted to prayers for persons in perilous situations;
beginning with an invocation to the Trinity. The prayers are short,
and in the Latin tongue ; but the titles of those towards the end are in

* Sic: the w’s are all represented by vv’s.
 
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