Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Miscellaneous Books. \ ALEXANDER CALLUS. [Doctrinale.] Begin. Preco mecum te se vecors et sechius echo. End. In clausa clausam si com- misces alienam. quarto. Four leaves, on vellum, of the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, containing lines 1772-1898, 2151-2215, and 2506-2538. Printed in the type of the Speculum humanae Salvationist known as the first type of the ‘ prototypographic ’ press of the Netherlands. In unusually fine condition. Bought in 1896. In 1890 three similar fragments were acquired: (i) Two leaves on vellum, also in the Speculum type, containing lines 1199-1261 and 1388 to 1451 ; (2) two leaves on vellum, in the fifth type of the same press, containing lines 55-113 and 348-404; (3) a single leaf on vellum, in the same type as the last, containing lines 1039-1092. All these fragments were found in bindings. DIALOGUS. Begin. Prefacio in librum qui dicitur Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus omni matere morali iocundo et edificatiuo modo applicabilis. Incipit feliciter.:. Colophon. Presens liber, dialogus creatu- rarum appellatus iocundis fabulis plenus Impressus per lohannem snell artis impressorie magistrum. in Stockholm inceptus et munere dei finitus est. Anno domini M.cccc.lxxxiij. Mensis decembris In vigilia thome. QUARTO. The first book printed in Sweden, and the only book printed at Stockholm by Johan Snell. It is illustrated with woodcuts copied in reverse from those of the Gouda edition of 1480, and numbered throughout. Of the three other copies known two are at Upsala and the third at Copenhagen. This copy wants nine leaves, one of which is blank, and is a good deal cropped. Purchased in 1891.