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And, in the words of a learned Warden of my own college, ‘if any shall suggest, that some of the inquiries here insisted upon do seem too minute and trivial for any prudent Man to bestow his serious thoughts and time about, such persons may know, that the discovery of the true nature and cause of any the most minute thing, doth promote real knowledge, and therefore cannot be unfit for any Man’s endeavours who is willing to contribute to the advancement of Learning.’

I must express my best thanks to two friends, Mr. F. J. H. Jenkinson, University Librarian, Cambridge; and Mr. J. P. Edmond, Librarian to the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, for very kindly reading through the proofs of the entire book and making many useful suggestions and corrections.

E. G. D.

March 1893.

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Page from the Canon of the Mass printed by Schoeffer about 1458 (much reduced), (From the unique copy in the Bodleian.) PLATE PAGE I. Page 3 of the ‘Mirabilia Romæ,’ (From the copy in the British Museum.) ssss1 II. The Catalogue issued by Schoeffer about 1469 (reduced), (Reproduced from a full-sized facsimile of the original in the Munich Library, published in the Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen.) ssss1 III. Page 3 of the ‘Liber Epistolarum’ of Gasparinus Barzizius, the first book printed at Paris, (From the copy in the British Museum.) 83 IV. Fragment of an edition of the ‘Doctrinale’ of Alexander Gallus, one of the so-called ‘Costeriana,’ (Reduced from the copy in the British Museum.) 98 V. Page of the first edition of the ‘Sarum Breviary,’ (Printed at Cologne about 1475.) 127 VI. Part of a page from the ‘Golden Legend,’ (Printed by Julian Notary in 1503. From the copy in the British Museum.) 144 VII. First page of the ‘Excitatio ad Elemosinam Faciendam,’ (Printed at Oxford about 1485. From the unique copy in the British Museum.) 152 VIII. Page of the ‘Horæ ad Usum Sarum,’ (Printed at London by Machlinia. From the fragment in the University Library, Cambridge.) 163 IX. Last page of the ‘Festum Nominis Jesu,’ (Printed at London by Pynson about 1493. From the unique copy in the British Museum.) 167 X. Stamped Binding with the Device of Pynson, (From the original in the British Museum.) 193