Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . The Geraff, Crocodile, Goats of India, and a Unicorn, are above—and aSalamander is beneath—this figuie and the Camel. A portion of theimpression yet remains to be described. A table of the islands fromVenice to Rhodes—Saracenic words translated into Latin—and anaccount of the Sieges of Constantinople and Rhodes, &c. terminate thevolume. On the 6th leaf of this portion, there is a very spirited wood-cut of a group of Turks playing martial music upon horseback. The Mentz; I486.] BREYDENBACH. 227
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . The Geraff, Crocodile, Goats of India, and a Unicorn, are above—and aSalamander is beneath—this figuie and the Camel. A portion of theimpression yet remains to be described. A table of the islands fromVenice to Rhodes—Saracenic words translated into Latin—and anaccount of the Sieges of Constantinople and Rhodes, &c. terminate thevolume. On the 6th leaf of this portion, there is a very spirited wood-cut of a group of Turks playing martial music upon horseback. The Mentz; I486.] BREYDENBACH. 227 colophon, on the reverse of the 9th ensuing, and last leaf, with thesubjoined device, is thus : J>anctaru percgcinationu in monteni ^^pon ati beneran-tin rpi isepulcrtt in ^enisfaiem. atqj in monte ^pnaiati biua yjirgine et matire ibatljcrina opuscuJuni Ijocf otentiuu 5 oBrljattiu rcuixiicl^ tic Craircto inferiori impref-jBfum^Kn ciuitate a^oguntina 3Cnno ^alutisf a^^*tiic. X\* f efiruarii ifinit felitcr*. Wiirdtwein has also given a fac-simile of this device, which is partof the arms of Bertold, Archbishop of Mentz ; to whom the work isdedicated. Wiirdtweins copy is upon copper: the above is uponwood. The reader wiU determine upon the relative degree of fidelitybetween them : although much praise is due to the representation ofthe former, in the Bihl. Mogunt. p. 123. This edition is without sig-natures, numerals, and catchwords ; and the type is rather a SecretaryGothic. The margin, as Biaun observes, is ample and says there are copies upon vellum ; but he does not informus of any library which contains one. Such a copy, however, wasin the Harleian Collection. See the note at p. 220. It remains to say a few words respecting the embellishments of thisimpression, and the authority of the text. The tasteful reader cannothave failed to notice, from the foregoing specimens, that some of thewood-cuts are of no ordinary merit. There is a freedom
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