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Title: Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ... library of George John, earl Spencer
Year: 1814 (1810s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847 John Rylands Library
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Incunabula Rare books Printing
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s, there is a page of text, enumeratingthe contents of each chapter, which is referred to, niunerically, in thecut. An examination of the fac-simile will best explain this. It begins with the Gospel of St. JoH^f, which is illustrated by threecuts, and three corresponding pages. As the Eagle is the symbol ofthis Apostle, so all the events are inscribed upon this eagle, which ismade to stand upright. In like manner St. Matthew is illustratedby five cuts of an Angel; and the accompanying fac-simile, with theensuing text, will give a pretty correct idea of the method observedthroughout the whole work. It probably might have furnished a hint, however crude, to some of those scripturalillustrations of wliich Wolfius, in liis Biblioth. Hebraica, part ii. p. 247, gives a catalogue,under the title of Introductiones in Scripturam Sacram Mnemonicfe, ubi sunima librorumcapitumve Biblicorum nunc per Carmina, nunc per Tabulas, nunc per Quaestiones etResponsiones, nunc alia compendii via proponitur.
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•simile of one of the Cuts in the Ars Memorabilis per Figuras: supposed to have beenexecuted between the years 1420 and 1430. (To face p. vi.

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