Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the first [-third] ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 11, etc / [Sir Mark Masterman Sykes].

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[1824]
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Credit: Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the first [-third] ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 11, etc / [Sir Mark Masterman Sykes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 27] ee a J, /.—~- 473 Biblia Greca. Novum Testamentum Grecum e Codice Ms. Alexandrino in Museo Britannico asservato des- criptum, cum Varietatibus Codicis Alexandrini, a Woide, JZ PRINTED UPON VELLUM, in russia, = Lond. 1786 ¢ Mp eZee *,%* This with the preceding article completes the Fac-simile of .the Alexandrian Manuscript. Tren CoriES WERE PRINTED UPON VELLUM FOR SUB- SCRIBERS, AND OF THESE ONLY S1x COPIES CON« TAIN THE VaRious Reapines. The Perfect Copies may be therefore considered as limited to that number. This was Sir W. Burrell’s Copy. 4 2. _-— 474 Biblia Sacra Greca continens Vetus et Novum Testamen-_ ers LARGE PAPER, fine COpy, VERY RARE, with a portrait BD, of Aldus upon vellum, inserted, - Aldus, 1518 - a iy * Copies on Large Paper are so scarce, that Re- eS nouard was not aware of their existence when he published his Annales des Alde, but has mentioned j their existence in his Supplement. ra . 44 — 475 BIBLIA SACRA LATINA, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, AND THE FIRST BOOK EXECUTED BY THE INVENTORS OF PRINTING WITH METAL TYPES. <Amost splen- | _ did and Magnificent Copy, bound in black morocco, PRINTED at Mentz by Gutenberg and Fust between the years p 2 Ge 1450 and 1455. e-Dee ee *,* This Edition is generally known by the name of mn the MAZARINE BIBLE, from’ the discovery’ of a Copy in Cardinal Mazarine’s Library by that Eminent Bibliographer Debure. It is printed in double columns in imitation of the Large Letters employed by the Scribes in. the Church Missals and Choir Books. It must always form the most Pro- minent Feature in a Collection of Books of the XVth Century, for what Book can be more interest- ing to the Collector than the First Production of the Art of Printing ? In contemplating this Work, the mind is lost. in astonishment, that the Inventors of Printing should by a single effort have exhibited the Perfection of their Art. The firmness of the paper, the bright- ness of the Ink, the exact uniformity of the impres- sion, have never been surpassed. ‘Trithemius says in his Chronicle, that he was Totp By PrTER ScHOoIFFER, (the Partner and Son-in-law. of Fust) that this Edition was executed about the year 1450, and that the expenses incurred in the Printing were so enormous, that 4000 florins were expended before 12°sheets had been printed. — TI NEVER SAW A Copy FINER THAN THIS,