Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 by Various
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from the impending calamity: and although this involves the notion of
legibility and clearness, that notion is the secondary, and not the primary one, as those persons make it who misquote in the manner stated above. MANLEIUS. _Tindal's New Testament._--The following Bibliographical Note, by the late Mr. Thomas Rodd, taken from a volume of curious early Latin and German Tracts, which will be sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson on Friday next, deserves a more permanent record than the Sale Catalogue. "I consider the second tract of particular interest and curiosity, as it elucidates an important point in English literature, viz., the place (Worms) where Tindal printed the edition of the New Testament commonly called the first, and generally ascribed to the Antwerp Press. "This book is printed in a Gothic letter, with woodcuts and Initial Letters (in the year 1518). "I have carefully examined every book printed at Antwerp, at the period, that has fallen in my way; but in no one of them have I found the same type or initial letters as are used therein. "In the present tract I find the same form of type and woodcuts, from the same school; and also, what is more remarkable, an initial (D) letter, one of the same alphabet as a P used in the Testament. These initial letters were always cut in alphabets, |
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