Chapter 74 Golden painted letters of the missal

Golden painted letters of the missal Fifty capital letters of various kinds, painted on parchment; all multicoloured and resplendent.some Species up to three inches in size: beautifully decorated, dated from the 12th to the 15th centuries.lining Paste on thick long cardboard.intact.It costs six pounds six shillings. (Such beautiful letters are cut from precious manuscripts, as models of ancient art, Great value.of which there are several varieties each worth fifteen shillings individually) Mr. Proimi is well known in the London antiquarian business.He is very rich, in order to satisfy

Satisfying his hobby of editions, he never cares about money. His hobby is collecting the title pages of ancient books.he Tear off these things without hesitation, and often leave the remains of books that have been decapitated, Don't ask any more.Unlike the other saboteur, Bergford, who has no useful goals, Purely according to a meaningless classification.For example: there is a series of album pages that are all engraved on copper plates The title pages of the seventeenth-century Dutch old books, which are solemn in large editions, can be regarded as collapsed in his hands. mold.The other had a title page full of queer vulgar titles, which indeed might be used to indicate some

How stupid and ridiculous the writer is.Here you can see Dr. Sibb's "Various The Disembowelment of Preaching," and the treatise of the hypocritical Calvinist Huntington "To Die and Suffer" Juxtaposed together, and many titles that are too vulgar to mention.The title of the poem adopted by the water poet Tello The various weird titles of the book occupy several pages, which really makes people salivate not only for the books themselves. The third time all was pasted the title page with the printer's trademark attached.Leaving aside the damage done by these collectors

Harm aside, you may have some fun with these collections, for many of the title pages are indeed Very beautiful, but such a collection is useless and should not be encouraged. Slowly, the inevitable end came, followed by the loss of the collection, and those who lived in him They may spend two hundred pounds each time they collect, and then they are bought by merchants for ten pounds, and finally flow into the South Kansas. Hinton Library, or other public museums, are displayed as a kind of typological curiosities.the following is being sold by Shasby, Wilkenson, Hotkey & Associates (July, 1880).

It is one of Deng Gardiner's collections, numbered 1592: