30 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Amono^ other acquisitions of interest are: — 



Fragment of an Alexandrian prose-poem, in Greek, on 

 papyrus ; 2nd century B.C. 



Forty-five miscellaneous documents, in Greek, on papyrus ; 

 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. 



A land-register, in Greek, on papyrus, dated A.D. 48; on 

 the back of which is an Egyptian romance in Demotic 

 characters. 



Miscellaneous fragments, in Greek, on papyrus ; lst-4th 

 centuries. Presented by Travers Smith, Esq., and Colonel 

 T. L. Fraser. 



Lease, in Greek, on papyrus ; A.D. 616. 



Lives and passions of Saints, in Latin ; 10th century. 

 Vellum. 



St. Matthew's Gospel, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and 

 Ecclesiastes, in Latin, with glosses ; 12th and 13th centuries. 

 Yellum. 



Beda " De natura rerum," Walter Map's Dissuasion against 

 Marriage, Ovid's " Ars Amandi," &c. ; 12th and 13th centuries. 

 Vellum. , 



Chartulary of the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Quimperle, 

 in Brittany, in Latin, containing, in addition, the life of 

 St. Gurthiern, lists of Archbishops of Tours, Bishops of Nantes, 

 Vannes, and Quimper, and counts of Brittany, annals to 

 A.D« 1128 continued to 1323, and the life of St. Ninnoca ; 

 12th century, with later additions. Vellum. 



Martyrology of the Church of St. Bavo at Ghent, in Latin ; 

 early 12th century. Vellum. 



Hymnal, in Latin, with musical notes, written in North-east 

 France or Germany ; 13th century. Vellum. 



The " Topographia Hibernica," " Expugnatio Hibernica," 

 and " Itinerarium Cambrise " of Giraldus Cambrensis ; 13th 

 century. Vellum. 



Lives of Saints, with the Commentary of Dionysius the 

 Areopagite on Mystical Theology, &c., in Latin; 14th-15th 

 centuries. Vellum. 



Bartholi de Saxoferrato lectura super infortiato : a treatise 

 on the Civil Lawj written in 1378. 



Theological Tracts, together with copies of documents 

 relating to English Church History, in Latin ; 15th and 16th 

 centuries. Vellum. Included is an apparently unique copy 

 of a letter from Henry II. to Christ Church, Canterbury, 

 revoking all his encroachments on the liberties of the English 

 Church, dat. 1164 [for 1172]. 



William Langland's Vision of Piers the Plowman ; early 

 loth century. Vellum. 



Treatise by Richard RoUe of Hampole on the Rule of 



Livinor, 



