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A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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to dine at that renowned city ere "the set of to-morrow's sun." In the mean
while, adieu.


[31] His account of the PRINTED BOOKS in the XVth century, in the monastery
above mentioned, was published in 1786, in 2 vols. 4to. That of the
MANUSCRIPTS, in the same monastic library, was published in 1791, in 2
vols. or rather perhaps, six parts, 4to.

[32] Among the books in this monastery was an uncut copy of the famous
edition of the _Meditationes J. de Turrecremata_, of the date of
1467, which is now in the Library of Earl Spencer. In Hartmann
Schedel's _Chronicon Norimbergense_, 1493, fol. CLXII, are
portraits of the Founders of the Town and Monastery of Eichstadt, or
EISTETT; together with a large wood-cut view of the town. This
monastery appears to have been situated on a commanding eminence.

[33] [This Abbey was questionless one of the most celebrated and wealthy in
Europe. The antiquarian reader will be pleased with the OPPOSITE
PLATE--presenting a bird's eye view of it, in the year 1619--(when it
stood in its pristine splendour) from the _Monasteriologia_,
attached to the _Imagines Sanctorum_.]

[34] In the BAVARIA SANCTA of RADERUS, 1615-27, 3 vols. folio, will be
found a succession of martyrological details--adorned by a series of
beautiful engravings by _Ralph Sadeler_. The text is in Latin,
and the author has apparently availed himself of all the accessible
authorities, in manuscript and print, which were likely to give
interest and weight to his narrative. But it seems to have been
composed rather for the sake of the ENGRAVINGS--which are generally
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