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he tirst book printed in the Swedish Umguage appeared in Stockhohn, 

 from the press of Johan Smed in 149'). It is in small 4*", 26 leaves, 

 29 lines to the page, in black letter. The only copy known to us (in 

 the University Library, Upsala) has lost its first leaf; but we can give, 

 from the Colophon, the title: 



MESTER JOHANS GERSON BOK 

 AFF DYÅFWLSENS FRÅSTILSE. 



Fol. a ij recto begins the Dedication to Jacob Ulfsson (Jacobus 

 Ulfonis) Örnefot, Archbishop of Upsala, by the Translator Erik Nilsson 

 (Ericus Nicolai) Canon of Upsala, who tells us that he had undertaken 

 this work at the express desire of that distinguisht prelate. 



The work thus given in a Swedish dress is one of the many trea- 

 tises written in Latin by the famous Johannes Gerson, the pious and 

 learned Chancelor of the University of Paris, who died in 1429. 



But yet another pamphlet from the same pen and by the same 

 Swedish hand followed. At the rechnest of the Archbishop was printed 

 by Pawel Grijs in Upsala: 



ARS MORIEN Dl 



JOHANXIS GERSON LÄRDOM HWRl^ 



MAN SKAL LÄRA DÖ TIL SIÂ- 



LENNA SALICTHET. 



This is also in small 4'", 18 leaves, 22 lines to the page. Only 

 3 copies are known, in the libraries of Upsala, Skokloster and Skara. 

 The last is the most complete, only a small bit being torn away on 

 one leaf. Being by the same translator and in the same local land- 

 speech as the Dyäfwlsens Frästilse, 1 was anxious to study and use this 

 also. Happily I have been able so to do, my learned friend Adjunkt 

 Karl Torin of Skara having favored me with a careful transcript by his 

 own hand, page for page and line for line with the original. 



Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sc. Ups. Her. Ill 1 



