Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . s ohv x«» syyap^j-jaavaSjSoV&s, A preface in the Sclavonian language follows; from which itappears that the translation was made by Methodius, Bishop ofMoravia, and by Cyrill his brother; and that the version is from theGreek Septuagint, and not from the Latin Vulgate. A prologuefollows this preface. Other preliminary pieces, terminated by a tableof the books of the O. and N. Testaments, foUow. Among those of theformer, will be seen the Third Book of Maccabees; tlie subscription towhich teUs us
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . s ohv x«» syyap^j-jaavaSjSoV&s, A preface in the Sclavonian language follows; from which itappears that the translation was made by Methodius, Bishop ofMoravia, and by Cyrill his brother; and that the version is from theGreek Septuagint, and not from the Latin Vulgate. A prologuefollows this preface. Other preliminary pieces, terminated by a tableof the books of the O. and N. Testaments, foUow. Among those of theformer, will be seen the Third Book of Maccabees; tlie subscription towhich teUs us, that, This third book of Maccabees is not foundeither in the preceding Sclavonian, Latin, or Letici versions, but onlyin the Greek and Bohemian; for which reason we have judged itproper to insert it. The leaves are regularly numbered, in Sclavonian numerals, on therectos of each. At the end of the New Testament there are seven leaves,apparently a table of names or words in both the sacred books:—thatto the New Testament having the following ornament prefixed: 92 THEOLOGY. [/. Theodoref. An A d AAJh I evA IA Ai^ M ^5 ^tm K9 rf 4Mtl The volume concludes with a prayer in the Greek and Sclavonianlanguages; the former beginning thus : * X2 7ravTo5yva/As xu) avix(pga5-e Gee Iv rpjVi WTros-acetrj -jrupoi Tratnjf t)jj xrla-soog 7rpo(7-xuvov[jLsvos xcti h^o[xo\ el. The printers device and colophon are as follow:
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