Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![( 38 3 An additional interest is given to the volume by the famous twelve lines of Latin verse at the foot of the last page, a hexameter and pentameter to each line, in which Schoffer declares his superiority over “ambos Johannes” (John Gutenberg and John Fust). This copy belonged to a member of the family of Glauburg, and the first page contains a miniature in gold and colours showing his coat-of-arms [See PLATE 25]. The arms are repeated again at the foot of the last page together with those of a lady of the family of Holzhausen. Over the Glauburg arms are the initials H.V.G. Z. L. (Henne v. Glauburg zum Lichtenstein), and over the arms of Holzhausen K.V.H.Z.L. (Kunigunde von Holzhausen zum Lichtenstein). A descendant has written on a preliminary leaf: “Est Hieronymi a Glauburgo ex haereditate paterna. An. Bevis Se](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31644910_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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