Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . 5 ; where this cut is erroneously said to be onfol. ccxix. There is a very gross representation of this supposed Pope either inSebastian Munsters Cosmographia, edit. 1554, folio, or in Foxs Booh if Martyrs, hut, atthis moment, I cannot speak with decision. * Some of my friends imagine this cut is often missing, but it is in all the copies that Ihave seen. Nuremberg; 1493.] CHRONICLE. 2fi7 On the reverse of fol. clxxxvii is a curious cut of two men; oneplaying the fife and the other the drum : w
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . 5 ; where this cut is erroneously said to be onfol. ccxix. There is a very gross representation of this supposed Pope either inSebastian Munsters Cosmographia, edit. 1554, folio, or in Foxs Booh if Martyrs, hut, atthis moment, I cannot speak with decision. * Some of my friends imagine this cut is often missing, but it is in all the copies that Ihave seen. Nuremberg; 1493.] CHRONICLE. 2fi7 On the reverse of fol. clxxxvii is a curious cut of two men; oneplaying the fife and the other the drum : with several couples ofladies and gentlemen parading before them. The story attached to itis whimsical enough. We now reach the place where we may introduce two fac-similes ofa very diflPerent nature. The first is, however, taken from fol. xxix—and represents the Fiend which tempted Job. It is brought forward withthe succeeding cut, for the sake of harmony; that the reader may see,without much trouble, the characters of some of the Demons and EoilSpirits which haunt the pages of this The superscription to the second cut merits particular attention; CJ/^y jg^ V ^., as it acquaints us with some unfortunate English Lady/concerning whom, I fear, our own chronicles have observed an unac-countable and unpardonable silence.* The superscription, just alluded to, is as follows : * It has not however escaped the notice of Mr, Southey, who has founded a Tale, in verse,upon it, called the Old Woman of Berkley, which the reader will find in Lewiss Tales ofWonder. 268 MISCELLANEOUS. [Koberger, * a^alefica quttsa auguriatrir. in anglia fiiit quamortua tienioneiSi jjorciMitct ejctcajcemt. tm tktitip^cdlttent €t imponete^ ^up cquu temMe jp acrarapiut CJamorcjgf quoque temMe^ (t>t femtj 5igtucr ferme miliaria autietJai
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