Painters in the Reign of Henry VIII. 155 



rum veteris Teflamenti. The titles to every 

 print are in Latin, and beneath is an expla- 

 nation in four French verfes. Prefixed is 

 a copy of Latin verfes, in honour of Hol- 

 bein, by Nicholas Borbonius, a celebrated 

 French poet of that tiine, and of whom there 

 is a profile among the drawings at Kenfing- 



ton. * 



Lord Arundel lliowed Sandrart a little 

 book of twenty-two defigns of the PafTion 

 of Chrift, very fmall ] in which, fays the 

 fame author^, Chrift was every where repre- 

 fented in the habit of a black monk — but 

 that was a miflake, for Hollar engraved them, 

 and there is only Chrifl perfecuted by monks. 

 Sandrart adds tliat it is incredible what a 

 quantity of drawings of this mafter lord 

 Arundel had collefted, and furprizing, the 

 fruitfullnefs of Holbein*s invention, his 

 quicknefs of execution and induflry in per- 

 forming fo much. 



To the Catechifmus or Inflru6lion of 

 Chriflian Religion, by Thomas Cranmer, 



* In St. John's college Camb. is Henry the Sth's 

 bible printed on vellum, with Holbein's cuts finely illu- 

 minated, and the figures of Henry, Cromwell and 

 others, 



printed 



