Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . o ^ a. 107 ^s^lttvs. 43. PsALTERiUM, &c. Latine. Printed hy Fustand Schoeffer. Mentz. 1457- Folio First Impression of the Psalter, and the first printed book towhich a date is subjoined. The extreme rarity and value of this mag-nificent work are well known. We will first give a bibliographicaldescription of it, and afterwards add some account of its discovery;incorporating the principal authorities which have treated of it. Suchan history will not be found altogether uninteresting. The work beg
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . o ^ a. 107 ^s^lttvs. 43. PsALTERiUM, &c. Latine. Printed hy Fustand Schoeffer. Mentz. 1457- Folio First Impression of the Psalter, and the first printed book towhich a date is subjoined. The extreme rarity and value of this mag-nificent work are well known. We will first give a bibliographicaldescription of it, and afterwards add some account of its discovery;incorporating the principal authorities which have treated of it. Suchan history will not be found altogether uninteresting. The work begins on the recto of the first leaf, with two musical-scored lines at top. The lines and notes are inserted in ms. as well asthe words Venite exulte, &c. The text, of which the opposite re-presentation is a fac-simile, begins about three inches below. A full page, which is 7 inches and -f- in breath, by about 111 inheight, contains 20 lines. It is not uniformly printed in a type of thesize of the fac-simile. The collects, responses, verses, and prayers aregenerally in a smaller type,* and the la
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