Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . Buchdruckergeschichte, 1786, 4to. pt. i. 142, refers particularly to Panzer,Nasts, J, M. Goke, and Magnus ; the latter of whom Avrote a disqui-sition upon the Bibles printed in Lower Saxony. But the evidence ad-duced by De Murr, and hereafter specified, seems conclusive in behalfof Gunther Zainers being the printer of these volumes. This im-pression has escaped the researches of Vogt, Clement, Bauer, Seemiller,and most of the later bibliographers. It begins, on the reverse of the first leaf, wi
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . Buchdruckergeschichte, 1786, 4to. pt. i. 142, refers particularly to Panzer,Nasts, J, M. Goke, and Magnus ; the latter of whom Avrote a disqui-sition upon the Bibles printed in Lower Saxony. But the evidence ad-duced by De Murr, and hereafter specified, seems conclusive in behalfof Gunther Zainers being the printer of these volumes. This im-pression has escaped the researches of Vogt, Clement, Bauer, Seemiller,and most of the later bibliographers. It begins, on the reverse of the first leaf, with a register of thebooks in the Old and New Testaments; which fills the first columnand a little more than half of the second. On the recto of theensuing leaf begins St. Jeroms epistle to Paulinus, wilh alarge printedcapital initial B, extending from the 1st to the 15th line, the recto of fol. IIIL begins St. Jeroms preface to the the recto of fol. V. begins the first chapter of Genesis, with avery singular capital initial, of which the following is a fac-simile :. The first volume terminates on the reverse of fol. cclxx, at bottomof the second column; the last sentence being printed in red. In,this volume is a singular circumstance of, apparently, a leaf sub- JFithmit date.] GERMAN BIBLES. 49 sequently printed, and inserted, just before the book of Esdras, betweenfol*. clxxxv. and cLxxxvi. It is composed of thinner paper, and is ofless dimension than the usual leaves: having the following, at thebottom of the only column in the leaf, printed in red. oEm cntie Ijatt ba^ getictt manafjefc^hc^ hunig^ iuna. tannti batjct an tiietjorreti ?ant 3^cronimi hc^ -gtit^tct^ intia^ fiucj) <C^t}tt. The second volume begins on fol. ccLxxj. rect. with Ecclesiastes:having a wood-cut capital initial of Solomon seated upon his throne. On the reverse of fol. ccccxxi. the Old Testament ends : Cpn tntic !|at tias? antierBuclj tier ^trciterta^ man ncnnct 511 iatcin n
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