Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . f^^t> Mentz; I48G.] BREYDENBACH. 225 To the right of this group, in the original, is a Greek monk ; being anhooded old man, counting his beads. On the recto of the next leaf butone, is the Greek Jlphabet cut in wood; and on the reverse of the sameleaf is a group of Syrians ; of the whole of which the reader has herea very interesting The Syriac Alphabet follows. Descri])tions of various other sects arenoticed; and the blank space above each, in the copy before us, is, Isubmit, i
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . f^^t> Mentz; I48G.] BREYDENBACH. 225 To the right of this group, in the original, is a Greek monk ; being anhooded old man, counting his beads. On the recto of the next leaf butone, is the Greek Jlphabet cut in wood; and on the reverse of the sameleaf is a group of Syrians ; of the whole of which the reader has herea very interesting The Syriac Alphabet follows. Descri])tions of various other sects arenoticed; and the blank space above each, in the copy before us, is, Isubmit, indicative of there having been original designs made for theirillustration, which had never been executed by the graver. On thereverse of the 4th following leaf, we see a wood-cut of a. Lay and aSpiritualAhyssynian, succeeded by an Alphabet of the language. This first partends on the recto of fol. 16, from the last cut, with a horrible Visionseen by the Emperor Charles IV.—as related by himself: exceedinglycurious. On the reverse of this leaf, begins the preface of the second part,with this prefix: %n jBfecuntia petcgrinatione ab 3[ctu^alemT^ti igfotitutiine in monteni d^piiai ati jfanctainl^atlierinam pfatio comentiaticia incijrit it^\mttt. VOL. III. G G 226 MISCELLANEOUS. lWentz;\4H6. The Second Part contains 31 leaves, inclusively, and has this imprint: ^cnmbc pcrcgrinationi^ ab biuam birgtnein et mattiremilatbcrinam in montem ^pnai pr
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