Identifier: aedesalthorpiana02spen (find matches)
Title: Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, K.G. To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana
Year: 1822 (1820s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Rare books Incunabula
Publisher: London : Printed by W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d. The printed text follows,numbered Cxvij. as if all the intervening part, from the last printednumerals, might be omitted, or not, at pleasure. The printed numeralsextend as far as folio CCCxxviij. which is succeeded by two leaves, ina smaller type, not numbered. The present fine copy is beautifully boundin russia by C. Lewis. 1189. MissALE AD UsuM Sarum. Printed hyPynson. London. 1500. Folio. This appears to be the first impression of the Missal for the use ofSalisbury Cathedral, which was printed by Richard Pynson. From thecolophon, it should seem to have been undertaken by the commandand at the expense of Cardinal Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, andpatron of the celebrated Sir Thomas More. Mortons arms, with hisrebus, or the pun upon his name, are seen at the reverse of the royal arms, VOL. II. c c 191 MISCELLANEOUS. at the conclusion of the calendar; as the following fac-simile demon-strates—with the omission of the tassels on each side, for want of spacein the present page.
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MISCELLANEOUS. 195 The table occupies 10 leaves, supposing the first leaf to be blank:which leaf is here gratuitously adorned with an elaborate;, allegoricalcoloured drawing, not very remarkable for its dexterity of execution.The leaf of the royal arms, following the table, must be considered asnumbered fol. i, the succeeding leaf having ii as its numerals. Thenumerals continue to the end of the volume; having CCxlij leaves.On the recto of folio CCxxx, being the Ordo sponsaliii/ there is theform of betrothing in matrimony; differing slightly from the specimengiven in vol. ii. p. 424, of the Tijpog. Antiquities. On the reverse offol. CCxlij, and last, is the colophon printed in red, as follows: €1 oEataminatia etat i caftigatu Joeflr^tfj^ale fcom tjfum J^arum nouu1 m oi tiiligcntia Eontion imjrrefeng iitbuisftrm iflicl)arti ^^w^m. 3(n^cepttt 1 gftctum mantiato t impen^lefi^. lUcuercnbif^efimi in ^go patri^ actmx Xmx 3Io;)!ief a^orton ^rcf fiptmCarliinaJijsf Cantuarieii. ^Urcljiegi.SD

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