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 . The title is Le recueil des hystoires troyenes cotenant troys contents of the three books are briefly specified in seven lines MISCELLANEOUS. 247 beloAv. On the recto of the following, is one of the most splendidornamental pages with which I am acquainted. It is surrounded by aborder (of the missal kind) exhibiting the following initial letter, of avery diflFerent cast of character, within the
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 . The title is Le recueil des hystoires troyenes cotenant troys contents of the three books are briefly specified in seven lines MISCELLANEOUS. 247 beloAv. On the recto of the following, is one of the most splendidornamental pages with which I am acquainted. It is surrounded by aborder (of the missal kind) exhibiting the following initial letter, of avery diflFerent cast of character, within the same border—as attached tothe first word of the The reader shall now be gratified with a specimen or two of a diffe-rent description—from the cuts. Perhaps few are more remarkablethan that which exhibits Jupiter, like an itinerant pedlar, approachingthe castle where Danae is confined. The original runs thus: Com-ment Jupiter en guise de messagier a tout plusieurs ioyaux vint la secondefois veoir la belle et comment il parla et se demonstra a , f iii, rev. 248 MISCELLANEOUS.
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