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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There are 15 lines beneath this cut. Folio <2<2, recto, 31 lines, andone word ( Miscros) of tie 32nd line. Reverse; cut of the Resurrec- 276 MISCELLANEOUS. tion, essentially different from Numeisters copy; beneath, are 15 lines.Fol. 23, recto, 11 lines. Reverse 3 cut of Christ discoursing tcith St,Peter and the Apostles.
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MISCELLANEOUS. 277 There are 15 lines beneath. Fol. 24, recto, nearly 22 lines. Reverse jcut of the Ascension, copied (not strictly, but with spirit) by Numeister,15 lines beneath. Fol. 25, recto, 15 lines, and one word ( contende)of the 16th line. Reverse j cut of the Descent of the Holy Ghost,copied by Numeister, but not with the same spirit. The pavement, also,is wholly different. There are 15 lines beneath. Fol. 26, recto, nearly15 lines. Reverse; cut of Carrying of the Host, copied, in rather betterstyle, by Numeister; this cut is in the centre, without text. Fol. 27,recto, 17 lines, and two words ( cfTudit gentium) of the 18th hnebeing the subject matter belonging to the preceding cut, beneath whichit might have been placed; as, on the reverse of this 27th leaf, there are32 lines without a cut. A space therefore is left on the recto of tliis leaf,for the cut representing Abraham prostrating before three Angels, copiedby Numeister, but which is not here. Fol. 28, recto, 28 lines.

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