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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 edition. Excerpt: ...Book of Canticles;" but which, notwith standing, may not have preceded the others by so long a period as we have supposed. The cuts of " the Book of Canticles" appear to have no pretensions to a higher antiquity than the greater part of those of the Speculum, and it is probable that the engravings of those two works were in hand at the same time. The engravings of " the Book of Canticles," however, being few in number, appear to have been completed in the workshop of the master-artist who had commenced the work, whereas the latter cuts of the Speculum, as has been said, were executed by a different hand; perhaps in consequence of the original artist having died before he had completed that more extensive undertaking.' This circumstance renders it probable that a small interval of time elapsed between the publication of "the Book of Canticles" and the first publication of the Speculum: I say but a small interval, because it is reasonable to suppose that the person for whom the engravings of the Speculum were made was employed in preparations for the text whilst the execution of the cuts was in process; and that he printed the text at the bottom of some of the cuts whilst the others were in hand. If the correctness of Mr. Horn, as to the date upon the original binding of a copy of the " Biblia Pauperum," formerly in his pos session, -f be admitted; and if we could be certain that the edition of that work, so bound, was the same as that of which we have been speaking, or as that in the Bodleian Library, we should then be justified in boldly placing the publication of that work at least a few years previous to 1430; and, consequently, according to the above premises, be entitled to...

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