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Excerpt from List of Early Printed and Other Books in the Possession of Dr. Corrie: Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
This book is large folio, fine, clean copy, with broad margin, and contains 391 leaves in two columns, with 58 lines in a full column, without signatures, catch-words, pagination, name of place, printer or date. Type remarkable and fine, on vellum-like paper, the paper-mark being a rose. In a manuscript note at the end of the Dresden copy of this edition of the Catholicon the date 1482 is assigned as the year in which it was printed, but it was probably at a somewhat earlier date (see Panzer iv. 93, Eber. Ii.
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