Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . ar as s, appear to run in eights : but s, t,and V, have each only sLx leaves. On the recto of v vj is the colophon,thus: €^plitit Boeciu^ tie confolaconc jj8ie This is a very uncommon edition. That it was printed by TherHoernen seems quite certain, from the similarity of the type to that ofhis avowed productions. Probably the same printer executed both thepreceding and the present edition. The paper, and
Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . ar as s, appear to run in eights : but s, t,and V, have each only sLx leaves. On the recto of v vj is the colophon,thus: €^plitit Boeciu^ tie confolaconc jj8ie This is a very uncommon edition. That it was printed by TherHoernen seems quite certain, from the similarity of the type to that ofhis avowed productions. Probably the same printer executed both thepreceding and the present edition. The paper, and method of settingup the page, are similar. This copy is disfigured by one of the mostovercharged annotations in ms. ever beheld. 1060. BoETius. Germanice. Printed hy J. Schottat Strashourg. 1500. Quarto. The title— Boecius der hoch berumpt meister vnd Poet dem trostder weiszheit—is over a wood cut of philosophy, personated as afemale, approaching Boetius, sitting upon a bank. The same ornament(precisely in the Strasbourg style of art) is repeated on the recto ofa iiij. The initial letters of this impression are somewhat singular; asa fac-simile of that on i ij may serve to shew:. 80 MISCELLANEOUS. The signatures, to o, run in eights: o has only sL\. On the reverseof the 6th is the colophon, thus : 45ctrucftt \M\\\\\ tJoHcntict tjurcf)Sjol^iinncni M>t)^<M $ii ^trafsIiurg W Si^ontag nacfj ^ cnti^autJtims ? ^imo^ . fitnfftjunticrt ? Tlie device of the printer—his initials, with an ornament between,more like a cauliflower than a tree, is beneath. This sound copy,obtained at Augsbourg, is bound in brown calf with gilt leaves. 1061. BOECIUS DE DiSCIPLINA SCOLARIUM. TVlth- out Name of Printer, Place, or Date. Quarto. This is a singular and rare volume. The lines are much spaced,there being only 14 in a page. The impression begins thus : oEftra nouit intentio t»c fcola ritt bifciplina Jpcntiiofii pof^ tularc tractattt ? btina cojrcntii ofu afpintuisf \mi p
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