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23. Ælfric, Abbot of Eynsham, A Testimonie of antiquitie, London: John Day, [1566?]. The second edition.
At least two printed states prior to the first edition reveal how the work was produced. As the sheets were printed, they were carefully compared to the manuscripts, which had been marked up to make proofreading as easy as possible. The states prior…

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The Spelman-Macro miscellany (MS E107) is a composite manuscript made up of a number of individual items, most from the 17th century. The first section consists of a fair copy in Anglo-Saxon of the Decrees of the Council of Eynsham (1009), probably…

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Found as binding reinforcement inside the upper cover of a copy of the 1636 edition of Barclay his Argenis (C34). This leaf is the only evidence for this early version of the Legend of the Cross apart from two narrow strips of vellum from the same…

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A school text, printed with its lines widely spaced for convenience in note taking. It has been heavily annotated, as intended. Bound with this are three manuscripts of works attributed to Aristotle, including the pseudo-Aristotelian work "De pomo",…

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Gift of the Helen F. Spencer fund; acquired in 1974 from Colin and Charlotte Franklin. Cardinal Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros (1436-1517), who edited the Complutensian Polyglot, was born in the small town of Torrelaguna, some thirty miles north of…

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Gift of the Helen F. Spencer fund; acquired in 1974 from Colin and Charlotte Franklin. Cardinal Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros (1436-1517), who edited the Complutensian Polyglot, was born in the small town of Torrelaguna, some thirty miles north of…

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This copy of the great Complutensian polyglot Bible (in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin), edited by Cardinal Ximenes, is shown closed to display the ownership brands on the fore- and top-edges of the text block. This particularly Mexican form of…

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Two issues of the first edition of Cardinal Bembo's dialogue on the nature of love, both in Aldus' "pocket edition" format bound in contemporary Venetian black morocco over wooden boards. The larger of the two is the first issue, complete with the…

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Two issues of the first edition of Cardinal Bembo's dialogue on the nature of love, both in Aldus' "pocket edition" format bound in contemporary Venetian black morocco over wooden boards. The larger of the two is the first issue, complete with the…

summerfield c292 inside.jpg
Two issues of the first edition of Cardinal Bembo's dialogue on the nature of love, both in Aldus' "pocket edition" format bound in contemporary Venetian black morocco over wooden boards. The larger of the two is the first issue, complete with the…
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