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Three Centuries of a City Library: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 — John Shaqi

Three Centuries of a City Library: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857Stephen, Geo. A. (George Arthur)

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Three Centuries of a City Library: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857

Name: Three Centuries of a City Library: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857
Author: Stephen, Geo. A. (George Arthur)

Stephen, Geo. A. (George Arthur)

Norwich (England). Public Libraries

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.
                                    JACOBUS DE VORAGINE.  Legenda Aurea.
                                    Quarto.
                                    B.M. p. 248 (IB. 4043).
1481                                NUREMBERG.  Anton Koberger
                                    NICOLAUS DE LYRA.  Postillae super
                                    Biblia cum additionibus Pauli
                                    Burgensis.  Folio.
                                    Hain *10369.  B.M. p. 419 (IC 898).
[1482, after July end]              WESTMINTSER.  Wm. Caxton.
                                    HIGDEN, Ranulphus.  Polychronicon.
                                    Folio.
                                    Blades 46.  De Ricci no. 19, copy 38.
                                    Imperfect at beginning and end.
[1483]                              [ST. ALBANS.  Schoolmaster printer.]
                                    ANDREAE, Antonius.  Scriptum super
                                    logica.  Quarto.
                                    Imperfect copies at Jesus College,
                                    Cambridge, and Wadham College,
                                    Oxford.
[About 1483-85.]                    LONDON.  Wilhelmus de Machlinia.
                                    ALBERTUS MAGNUS.  Liber aggregationis
                                    seu De virtutibus herbarum.  Quarto.
                                    Proctor 9770.

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