Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . ,Sicut adorantum. f ij recto, A little further, Hessus celebrates the Officince Ferrarut in the city of Nuremberg; and hascontrived to describe, in very animated verse, the bustle, noise, and activity of ArmourForges—but his volume would have had additional interest, if he had thought fit to give usan account of other trades and occupations — and therein of the different Printing name of Koburger, in particular, could not have been forgotten; as some of his rela-tives or descendants
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . ,Sicut adorantum. f ij recto, A little further, Hessus celebrates the Officince Ferrarut in the city of Nuremberg; and hascontrived to describe, in very animated verse, the bustle, noise, and activity of ArmourForges—but his volume would have had additional interest, if he had thought fit to give usan account of other trades and occupations — and therein of the different Printing name of Koburger, in particular, could not have been forgotten; as some of his rela-tives or descendants might have then occupied the very office ia which the above Chroniclewas executed. 264 MISCELLANEOUS. [Koberger^ On the recto of fol. cviii, is an attempt at composition in fourAngels supporting Mary Magdalen in the air: — one at each handand foot. She is divested of clothing, with flowing hair reaching toher feet; and her attitude and expression are rather the most frequent portraits, which crowd the borders of thepages, is the ensuing—by no means destitute of The reader has specimens of portraits of a different cast, in thoseof the two following martyrs. The first portrait represents Dionysiusthe Areopagite; the second, the Roman Matron who perished with herSeven Children: see folios cix. reverse; and cxiiii. recto :
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