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mps, enclosing another panel formed by the same stamps. Illuminated page at beginning of each book. It belonged to Sir James Boleyn of Blickling Hall, who died in 1561, and was presented to the Library in 1692 by Richard Ireland. ASTROLOGICAL TRACTATES. XVth century. Paper, 5 3/4 x 4.5 inches, ff. 120, 32 lines to a page. In three hands; clearly written. Original binding, wrapper of skin lined with linen. Contains thirteen items: astrological treatises, tables, etc. PRECEDENTIA TEMPORE REGNI HEN. VIII. Circa 1500. Vellum, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, ff. 124 (imperfect, commences at f. 10), 37 lines to a page. Rough calf binding. Book of Precedents of Royal Writs. SEARCH BOKE FOR LYNN, SWAFFHAM, WALSYNGHAM, AND FAKENHAM. XVIIth century. Paper, 11 x 7.5 inches, ff. 81. Vellum binding. Alphabetical index of offenders at various sessions courts held at Fakenham, Walsingham, Lynn and Swaffham, from 1651 to 1669. The early printed books in the Library include no less than twenty-eight incunabula, four of these being from English presses, and two, the 1483 "Scriptum super logica," printed at St. Albans, and the 1497 "Expositio Hymnorum et Sequentiarum," printed by Pynson, are of great rarity. Several of the incunabula are imperfect, but Mr. Alfred W. Pollard, M.A., the Hon. Secretary of the Bibliographical Society and an eminent authority on early printed books, very kindly identified them, and he also undertook to edit the list of incunabula. To Mr. Pollard the writer's thanks are tendered for the following annotated list, arranged chronologically, and giving the place of printing and the name of the printer:-- WORKS REFERRED TO. B.M. = Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum. Parts 1-111. 1908-1913. Campbell. = Annales de la typographie neerlandaise au XVe siecle. Par M. F. A. G. Campbell. 1874. Copinger. = Supplement to Hain's Repertorium Bibliographicum. By W. A. Copinger. 1895-1902. Hain. = Repertorium bibliographicum in quo libri omnes ab arte typographica inventa usque ad annum MD typis expressi ordine alphabetico vel simpliciter enumerantur vel adcuratius recensentur. Opera Ludovici Hain. 1826-1838. Proctor. = An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum from the invention of printing to the year MD. By Robert Proctor. 1898. INCUNABULA. 1480 COLOGNE. Conrad Winters de Homborch.
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