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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 84., Aug. 8. '67. 



It is presumed the volume was printed about 1557-8 ; 

 the present copy has the dates of 1549 and 1577 

 marked on the end page ; to the latter year it cannot 

 be assigned, as Mrs. Parker died in 1570. 

 935. Rituale Ecclesiasticum. Printed on vellum and 

 paper, mixed, in a very rude missal type, very similar to 

 that employed by Gutenberg and Fust for the Mazarine 

 Bible, supposed to have been printed between 1450-55 

 with the exception of folios d i, it, vii, and viii (without 

 signatures, with 19 lines to the page), which are in a 

 character much resembling that used by Albert Pfister of 

 Bamberg in 1461. From signature a to d inclusive, the 

 Rubrics are printed in red, and from e to the end in 

 black. Extremely rare and probably unique, sine ulla 

 nota, circa 1460. 30^. 

 This excessively rare and curious volume consists of 66 

 leaves (42 on vellum and 24 on paper) with 18 lines 

 to a full page, and is evidently one of the earliest at- 

 tempts in typography. The signatures run from a to 

 h iiii, those from a to 6 ii being printed in red and the 

 rest in Black. Of these / has 12, (j 10, and h 4 leaves ; 

 all the others have 8 leaves to the gathering. The 

 work commences at the top of signature a in red and 

 black, with " Bndictio snlis et aque. Adiutoriunrm," 

 and ends on the recto of h iiii with the words, " Laus 

 deo" which form the 12th line. The watermarks on 

 the paper are the letter P and a Crown with a Tre- 

 foil. The entire Rituale contains the Benedictio 

 Sails et Aqua, the Ordo haptizandi, Ordo visitandi 

 infirmos, concluding with the Service for the Dead, 

 Ordo 3Iatrimonii, Exorcisms and various Benedic- 

 tions. No copy appears to have been sold by auction, 

 and the work has hitherto not been described by any 

 bibliographer. 

 945. Scott (Sir Walter), Peveril of the Peak. The 

 original Manuscript in the autograph of the author. 

 -1 vol. in 2, green morocco, gilt edges. In case. 60/. 

 These most interesting volumes were purchased at the 

 memorable auction of various of the author's produc- 

 tions in his autograph, some years since, by the late 

 Mr. Utterson, at the sale of whose library they 



passed into the hands of the late proprietor at the 

 sum of 44A One of the most extraordinary circum- 

 stances connected with the autograph copies is the 

 very few corrections made in them, thus establishing 

 (as observed in a note from Lord Spencer, accom- 

 panying the volume) " a proof of the facility with 

 which Sir Walter sketched out the production of his 

 most entertaining and lively imagination." 



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