File: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 (1822) (14778376162).jpg

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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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copy of it, in the Imperial libraryat Vienna, under the superintendance of Mr. Kopitar, one of the prin-cipal librarians, and in every respect competent to judge of its perfectaccuracy. That transcript is now in the choice library of Mr. Grenville.This edition is so rare as to have escaped Panzer: and I understandthat Mr. Horn of Franckfort, expressed to Mr. John Payne (who wasfortunate enough to obtain this identical copy at Munich, upon theshelves of an antiquar) his extreme satisfaction on obtaining a sight ofwhat he had never before been fortunate enough to meet with. It wasunknown to De Bure, and will in vain be sought for in the accuratepages of Brunet. See Manuel clu Libraire, vol. ii. p. 311: edit. 1814 :where the earliest edition is of the date of 1496. We now come to the volume itself. On the reverse of the first leaf,we are favoured with a wood-cut portrait of the traveller, of which thereader will be doubtless gratified by the following fac-simile. • See page 178, post.
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VOL. II. A a 178 MISCELLANEOUS. Around this portrait we read the following inscription, in a largelower-case gothic character: * Das ist der edel Ritter. Marcho polovon Venedig der grost landtfarer. der vns bcschreibt die grossen iciuider deruclt die er selber gesehenn hat. Von dem auffgang pis zu dem nydergagder sunne. der glcyche vor nicht mcer gehort seijn. The text commenceson the recto of the opposite leaf, with the following jirefix : ^ic fjclJt eici) nn ba^ef piicfj hc^ cbclil Hitter^ tJii lanbt^farcr.fif a9arc()o polo, 3^n ticm cr -^cfjicitit tiie grofefcntDunlicrlicficii bing ttic^ct tudt ^itnticrlicljcn bon bmgrofCcn itJimigni tJiib Mci^^ttn bic ba l^cr.fifcfjcn in beniSfriBigcn lanbcn bnb bon ircm \yoith. bnb fcincr gctDongeitba Mh^ There are 28 lines below. A full page contains 34 lines. There areneither numerals, signatures, nor catchwords. On the reverse of the.iSth and last leaf, the text ends with the following words—succeededby the colophon—thus : <!Bot fcp gdl

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