A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Том 2author, 1821 |
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Сторінка 98 - tis faery art,' says the inspired imagination of every bibliographer of taste and feeling, on turning over the leaves of this enchanting Ritual. My friend, you are to know, in the first place, that of all the volumes in this most marvellous library, the present is deemed THE MOST PRECIOUS. Not even the wishes and regulations of Royalty itself allow of its migrations beyond the walls of the public library. There it is kept ; there it is opened, and shewn, and extolled beyond any limits fixed to the...
Сторінка 149 - A fine and desirable copy, printed UPON VELLUM. It is tolerably fair: measuring fifteen inches, by ten inches and three quarters. I have little hesitation in estimating these five copies of the earlier editions of the Psalter, to be worth, at least, one thousand pounds. BIBLIA LATINA. (Supposed to have been printed in 1455.) Folio. This is the famous edition called the MAZARINE BIBLE, from the first known copy of it having been discovered in the library of that Cardinal, in the college founded by...
Сторінка 104 - It is really impossible to describe many of them in terms of adequate praise. The downy plum is almost bursting with ripeness : the butterfly's wings seem to be in tremulous motion, while they dazzle you by their varied lustre : the hairy insect puts every muscle and fibre into action, as he insinuates himself within the curling of the crisped leaves ; while these leaves are sometimes glittering with dew, or coated with the finest down. The flowers and the vegetables are equally admirable, and equally...
Сторінка 104 - The Calendar follows, in which, in one of the winter months, we observe a very puerile imitation of flakes of snow falling over the figures and the landscape below. The Calendar occupies a space of about six inches by four, completely enclosed by a coloured margin. Then begins a series of the most beautiful ornaments Of FLOWERS, FRUITS, INSECTS, &C., for which the illuminators of this period were often eminently distinguished. These ornaments are almost uniformly introduced in the fore-edges, or...
Сторінка 243 - Italian, from the sixteenth century to his own period : these were professed to be accompanied with critical notes. In a third trunk was a bundle of papers relating to the History of the Troubadours ; in a fourth, was a collection of memoranda and literary sketches, connected with the invention of Arts and Sciences, with Antiquities, Dictionaries, and pieces exclusively bibliographical.
Сторінка 268 - ... looked at the gauntlet: admired and feared it: but no man durst pick it up ! Obstupuere animi: Ante omnes stupet ipse Dares* .... In other words, the Marquis de Chateaugiron avowed to me that it was considered to be the ne plus ultra of the art. What say you to this, Messrs.
Сторінка 182 - M'Carthy, offered again for sale at 750 fr.) 14352 MORALITE très singulière et tresbonne Des Blasphémateurs du nom de Dieu : Ou sont contenus plusieurs exemples et enseignemens Alencontre des maulx qui procèdent a cause des grans iuremens et blasphèmes qui se...
Сторінка 243 - ... naturally, as it were, conduct you towards BIBLIOPOLISM. In other words, allow me to give you a sketch of a few of the principal Booksellers in this gay metropolis; who. strive, by the sale of instructive and curious tomes, sometimes printed in the black letter of Gourmont and Marnef, to stem the torrent of those trivial or mischievous productions which swarm about the avenues of the Palais Royal. In ancient times, the neighbourhood of the SORBONNE was the great mart for books. When I dined in...
Сторінка 140 - These ladies, thus comfortably seated in the raised balcony, wear what we should now call the cauchoise cap. A group of grave judges is in another balcony, with sundry mottos spread below. In the rencontre which takes place, the mace seems to be the general instrument of attack and defence.
Сторінка 248 - « Open that door, Sir, you will find him in the next room. » The door is immediately opened — and there sits the son, surrounded by, and almost imprisoned in, papers and books. His pen is in his hand: his spectacles are upon his nose: and he is transcribing or re-casting some precious little bit of bibliographical intelligence; while, on looking up and receiving you, he seems to be