Crossword-Solution: INCUNABLES 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Veal; And, lord of landing net and line, Old Izaak with his fishing creel,— The Books that never can be mine! Incunables! for you I sigh, Black letter, at thy founts I kneel, Old tales of Perrault’s nursery, For you I’d go without a meal! For Books wherein did Aldus deal And rare Galliot du Pré I pine.

The library contains a valuable collection of manuscripts, explained in a printed 4to volume, several rare incunables, and above 4000 vols., for which there is not sufficient accommodation.

This was certainly putting the case for his beloved incunables a peg too high, for there were plenty of bad printers before 1500, and even such a master as Jenson was by no means uniformly careful as to the quality of his presswork.

COLLEGYI ORATOR LUGD ] A work of the greatest utility to those interested in the study of ecclesiastical book-plates is the “Catalogue des Incunables de la Bibliothèque Publique de Besançon,” par Auguste Castan.

The library is very rich in Oriental MSS., incunables and early printed Bibles; among these is the priceless Utraquist Bohemian Bible, printed at Venice, the first edition of the celebrated Bible of Kralice, and a rare copy of the _Biblia Pollyglotta Briani Waltoni_ in Latin, Hebrew, Samaritan, Greek, Chaldæan, Syrian, Arabic, Æthiopian and Persian.