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Title: More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Malan, Alfred Henry, comp
Subjects: Historic buildings Country homes Dwellings
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, London, The Pall Mall magazine
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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THE LIBRARY, BUCKLING HALL, SHOWING ORNATE CEILING. 9
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22 Blicklino Iball missals are very properly under lock and key ; amongst themone is allowed to inspect the following : The first printed Latin Bible, 1402, the concluding sentenceof which may be translated thus : This work was made by theartificial invention of printing, or characterising without the useof the pen, in the town of Moguntium (Mayence) to the piety ofGod, by the industry of John Fust, citizen, and Peter Schwiffher,clerk, and is finished in the vigil of . . . ; The Blickling MS.: a collection of original homilies inAnglo-Saxon, dated Q71, with some seventeenth-century scrib-lings, apparently by members of the Lincoln Chapter; Three books of Hours, fifteenth century, with bright illumin-ated headings and tailpieces, and quaint little coloured pictures,more or less borrowed from the Bestiaries ; A French MS. Bible, thirteenth century ; a Latin MS. Psalter,said to be a thousand years old, with synonyms above certainwords, in Anglo-Saxon characters ; Two works of Caxton ; th

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