[6] [This Public Library is now pulled down, and another erected on the
site of it.]

[7] In one of these copies is an undoubtedly coeval memorandum in red ink,
thus: "_Explicit liber iste Anno domini Millesio quadringentissimo
sexagesimosexto_ (1466) _format^{9} arte impssoria p venerabilem
viru Johane mentell in argentina_," &c. I should add, that,
previously to the words "_sexagesimosexto_" were those of
"_quiquagesimosexto_"--which have been erased by the pen of the
Scribe; but not so entirely as to be illegible. I am indebted to M. Le
Bret for the information that this Bible by Mentelin is more ancient
than the one, without date or place, &c. (see _Bibl. Spencer_, vol. i.
p. 42, &c.) which has been usually considered to be anterior to it. M.
Le Bret draws this conclusion from the comparative antiquity of the
language of Mentelin's edition.

[8] This was the _second_ copy, with the same original piece, which I
had seen abroad; that in the Library of the Arsenal at Paris being the
first. I have omitted to notice this, in my account of that Library,
vol. ii. p. 156-7, &c.

[9] [Both volumes will be found particularly described in the _Ædes
Althorpianæ_, vol. ii. p. 285-290.]

[10] Lord Spencer has recently obtained a PERFECT COPY of this most rare
edition--by the purchase of the library of the Duke di Cassano, at
Naples. See the _Cassano Catalogue_, p. 116.

[11] A very particular description of this rare edition will be found in
the _Bibl. Spencer_, vol. ii. p. 141.