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1822.) 
choice of a burial-place might be at- 
tributed to two motives,—an opposi- 
tion to the usual belief that places of 
customary burial were more sanctified 
than others ; and a strong attachment 
to a spot where he was born, and had 
always lived. Having (she said,) 
mentioned to the owner of the soil 
his wish to be buried on the top of the 
hill, he gave him the land for that 
purpose ; and, after erecting a tomb, 
he paid it a daily visit: but, two years 
before his death, becoming blind, he 
used to grope the way alone on his 
singular pilgrimage. His coffin, as 
well as his tomb, were prepared long 
before it was wanted. On the lid of 
the former was inscribed, memento 
mori; it was placed on castors, and 
after being drawn from under his bed 
every morning, was again wheeled 
under it on his retiring to repose. 
In making his will, he evinced an 
avidity for posthumous fame. He left 
the rental of a meadow and a cottage 
to keep his tomb in repair for ever ; 
but bis tomb has already began to 
moulder ; for what is derived as rent 
of the cottage, other purposes are 
found, and the meadow has passed 
away, by legal transfer, into the hands 
of a new claimant. J.J. 
Grace-hill, Kent. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
BIBLIOTHECAL CURIOSITIES Of LYONS. 
. NO. Ill. 
~The Roman Pontifical. In folio. 
VRNHIS beautiful manuscript, written 
upon vellum of snowy whiteness, 
is ornamented by majuscules and large 
vignettes, the grounds of which are in 
burnished gold, the miniatures and 
letters exquisitely enluminated, and in 
the most perfect preservation. In 
these are represented the Bishop pre- 
paring to officiate at the mass, in the 
act of confirmation, conferring the 
Stations of porter, reader, exorcist, 
acolyte, sub-deacon, deacon, and 
arch-deacon, transferring the priest 
to the functions of a Bishop or regular 
Abbot, investing with the religious 
garb, laying the first stone of a monas- 
tery, dedicating a church, consecrating 
an altar, the holy table, the salver, the 
chalice, the holy vessels, the sacer- 
dotal habiliments, and the baptismal 
font. In other designs he is repre- 
sented converting a profane spot of 
ground into a burying-place, conse- 
erating images of the Virgin and 
the Saints, bestowing his benediction 
Bibliothecal Curiosities of Lyons. 
119 
upon the water of the temple, upon 
bells, reliques, the censer, the travel- 
ler’s stall, the pilgrim’s gourde, the 
house newly erected, the ship on the 
point of being launched, wells from 
which water has not been drawn, the 
ashes intended to remind man of his 
origin, and the oils used at his last 
moments, when he is on the point of 
being separated from all earthly ties. 
The Bishop is therein further repre- 
sented applying the crucifix to the 
warrior’s vestments upon the eve of 
setting out for a crusade to the Holy 
Land, degrading a culpable priest 
from his office, washing the feet of the 
poor, celebrating the Last Supper, 
presiding at a Synod, performing the 
visit to his diocese, exhorting the 
winds and the tempest, solemnly re- 
ceiving an archbishop, a legate, a 
pope, a king, together with his conse- 
eration of the latter, and crowning a 
queen, conducting the funeral cere- 
mony of a religieus votary, receiving 
from another his renunciatien of the 
world and his vow of perpetual re- 
tirement, and, lastly, carrying the ex- 
treme unction and the final religious 
consolations to the bed of death. This 
work terminates with the Office of: the 
Virgin, wherein a series of miniatures 
display the most remarkable events 
of the life of the mother of Christ. The 
character, in various colours, is large, 
very correct, and perfectly legible, 
though the work appears to be of the 
thirteenth century. It formerly be- 
longed to Camille de Neuville-Vil- 
leroy, archbishop of Lyons, and is 
assuredly the most beautiful manu- 
script specimen that issued from the 
famous library of that ecclesiastical 
dignitary. 
NO. IV. 
Picture of the Three Rhetorics. Yn 4to. 
The text of this singular production 
is very legible, and encircled by lines ; 
and the author divides his work into 
natural and artificial rhetoric, the one 
appertaining to orators and to the dumb, 
owing its origin to pantomime; each 
of these three parts is divided into se- 
veral chapters,. wherein are found 
examples in prose and in verse, toge- 
ther with devices, epigrams, epitaphs, 
and instructive morals. The .author 
has dedicated several of these chap- 
ters to define the effect of the passions 
upon our discourse, wherein he has 
dwelt much upon pity, indignation, 
rage, shame, audacity, fear, and love ; 
the perusal of the latter, in particular, 
being 
