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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Lot 750—continued. [Colophon] Imprimees a Dijon par Pierre Grangier .. - Lan de grace Mil cing cens Trente z ung. Le sixiesme cour de Dapuril (sic), FINE COPIES, red morocco gilt, g. e., from the Evans collection Dijon, P. Grangier, 1531 *.* EXCEEDINGLY RARE. Of this compilation Brunet records only an edition of 1539. 751 HALuL (JOSEPH) CHARACTERS OF VERTVES AND Vices: In two Bookes, original vellum gult 1608 *.* Miss Murphy in her Bibliography of Character Books calls this the second edition, but without giving reasons. The distinctive marks are: in this edition (or issue) the three blank pages at the end are numbered, the spellings “ Jailers ’ and “‘ bible ”’ occur on D5 and Fd for “ Gaolers ”’ and “‘ Bible,’ and the full- stop between “ defects ’’ and “* Hee’ on c7 (which has fallen out in the other issue) is here in its place. The Short-Title Catalogue records one copy only (Bodleian) of this issue. 752 JOHN (SAINT) LIBER APOCALIPSIS [SALAMONIS PARABOLAE ], MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 24 + 33 leaves (1385 mm. by 97 mm.), two columns, written in red and black in a neat book hand, the first initial of each book printed in gold and colours, enclosing a half-length figure of St. John and Solomon respectively, with marginal decoration carried round three sides of the page, other vnitials in gold on coloured grounds, stamped russia by R. Riviere of Bath, back defective [Colophon] Complete per me dive Sabb’ti xii misis Julij MCCCC/39. [12 July, 1439] 753 May (Thomas) The Reigne of King Henry the Second, Written in Seaven Bookes, FIRST EDITION, portrait (umprint touched at foot), diced russia gilt, g. e., from the collection of Sir M. M. Sykes 1633 754 Pauw (Saint) EpistLes, WYCLIFFE’S TRANSLATION [REVISED VERSION |, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 150 leaves (146 mm. by 104 mm.), written in a neat round book hand by an English scribe, first initial in red and blue with pen-work ornament carried into the margin, other initials in blue with pen-work grounds and marginal decoration in red, a few chapter and book headings in red, ruled in red throughout, small stain on folio 2, otherwise in good condition, panelled red morocco gilt, joints broken, q. e. EARLY XV CENT.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3164711x_0143.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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