Principia typographica. The block-books, or xylographic delineations of scripture history; issued in Holland, Flanders and Germany, during the fifteenth century, exemplified and considered in connexion with the origin of printing. To which is added an attempt to elucidate the character of the paper-marks of the period (1858)
Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805-1861 · London, Printed for the author by W. McDowall · leaf 75
ed an Arret, rigidly forbidding thecirculation of the work; and it was severely censured by the University of Paris. Owing to this cause, manu-scripts of the Justification are excessively rare, and, even when they occur, are generally but transcripts of acopy made in the xvith century, in which the… … In the above tracings No. 1 is from the Hague (Wyck Accounts), 1366-7. Ofthe same form, but smaller, examples are found in two autograph letters in theTower of London, one from Henry V to the Bishop of Durham, dated 1418, and theother from St. Denis, 1421. Among the Shields of Arms of the Princes,…
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