[51] Nine years ago I obtained a fac-simile of this memorandum; and
    published an Essay upon the antiquity of the date of the above Bible,
    in the Classical Journal, vol. iv. p. 471-484. of Mr. J.A.  Valpy. 
    But latterly a more complete fac-simile of it appeared in the
    Catalogue of Count M’Carthy’s books.

[52] “Iste liber illuminatus, ligatus & completus est per Henricum
    Cremer vicariu ecclesie sancti Stephani Maguntini sub anno dni
    Millesimo quatringentesimo quinquagesimo sexto, festo Assumptionis
    gloriose virginis Marie.  Deo gracias.  Alleluja.”

[53] [This copy having one leaf of MS.—­but executed with such
    extraordinary accuracy as almost to deceive the most experienced
    eye—­was sold in 1827, by public auction, for 504_l_. and is now
    in the collection of Henry Perkins, Esq.]

[54] Bibl.  Spenceriana; vol. i. p. 85-89.

[55] Bibl.  Spenceriana; vol. i. p. 103-4; where there is also an
    account of the book itself—­from the description of Camus.  The work is
    entitled by Camus, The ALLEGORY OF DEATH.

[56] This subject is briefly noticed in the Bibliographical Decameron,
    vol. i. 371; and the book itself is somewhat particularly described
    there.  I think I remember Lord Spencer to have once observed, that
    more than a slight hope was held out to him, by the late Duke of
    Brunswick, of obtaining this typographical treasure.  This was before
    the French over-ran Prussia.

[57] See Bibl.  Spenceriana; vol. iii. p. 129, vol. iv. p. 500.

[58] Vol. iii. p. 484.

[59] [I had said “De Rome”—­incorrectly—­in the previous edition.  “M. 
    Dibdin poursuit partout d’un trait vengeur le coupable Derome:  mais
    ici c’est au relieur CHAMOT qu’il doit l’addresser.”  CRAPELET; vol.
    iii. p. 268.]

[60] [The very sound copy of it, upon paper, belonging to the late Sir M.M. 
    Sykes, Bart. was sold at the sale of his library for 100 guineas.]

[61] That sigh has at length ceased to rend my breast.  It will be seen,
    from the sequel of this Tour, that a good, sound, perfect copy of it,
    now adorns the shelves of the Spencerion Library.  The VIRGILS
    indeed, in that library, are perfectly unequalled throughout Europe.

[62] [There is a fine copy of this very rare edition in the Public Library
    at Cambridge.]

[63] [Fine as is this book, it is yet inferior in altitude to the
    copy in the Public Library at Cambridge.]

[64] [There was another copy of this edition, free from the foregoing
    objections, which had escaped me.  This omission frets M. Crapelet
    exceedingly; but I can assure him that it was unintentional; and that
    I have a far greater pleasure in describing fine, than
    ordinary, copies—­be they WHOSE they may.]