Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . aire {Annal. Typog. vol. i. ), a more extensive acquaintance with this printer: whose works,it must be confessed, are uncommonly rare, and executed in a boldand desirable style of typography. NoTK. A description of the impression of this work in the Englishlanguage by Caxton, will be found in the accovmtof the works printedby this latter piinter; which form the last department in the presentpublication. 141. BoETius. De Consolatione et Belgice. Printed by Arend De
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . aire {Annal. Typog. vol. i. ), a more extensive acquaintance with this printer: whose works,it must be confessed, are uncommonly rare, and executed in a boldand desirable style of typography. NoTK. A description of the impression of this work in the Englishlanguage by Caxton, will be found in the accovmtof the works printedby this latter piinter; which form the last department in the presentpublication. 141. BoETius. De Consolatione et Belgice. Printed by Arend De 1485. Folio. It is well observed by Clement, vol. iv. p. 443, that Fabricius inhis Bihl. Lat. vol. iii. p, 209-10 (edit. 1722) gives a tolerably fair ac-count of the present impression; a copy of which he bought at thesale ofKielmans books, and which he properly describes cum Belgica There is a miniature in it, relating to the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise: in acomer of which, Mansion has contrived thus to introduce himself, presenting his book auSeigneur Monsieur de la This representation was suppressed in the miniatuie of the copj of which Gaignat waiin possession. Ttie Fruiter is dressed in a black robe, with his head bald: his father-in-lawhas a scarlet robe of the same form ; having on a small flat hat, with short tmned up flaps ;the order of La Toison d or en sautoir; between them is a third person, with a smallplume in his hat, habited in a blue flannel waistcoat, and yellow pantaloon*. Ghent; 1485.] BOETIUS. 285 versione Anonymi carminum metrica & prosarum prosaria, atqueamplo commentario Belgico, &c. Clement himself does not appearto have seen it; and the notices of Maittaire and Laire are confined tothe colophon. Panzer inaccurately refers to the Bihl. Med. et of Fabricius, instead of to the preceding work. ^Ve may nowbriefly, yet minutely, describe it. On the recto of the first leaf is the editors preface or prologue, in 2 column
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