DEPAETMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 21 



■copyright, 980 by colonial copyright, 381 by international 

 exchange and 15,078 by purchas-e. 



(g). 4,075 articles have been received in the Department 

 not included in the foregoing paragraphs, comprising 

 broadsides, Parliamentary Papers, and other miscellaneous 

 items. The addition of this number to those already given 

 produces a total of 116,255 articles received in the Depart- 

 ment in the course of the year. 



Acquisitions of 8'pecial Interest. — No opportunity of 

 enriching the Library by purchases on an extensive scale has 

 occurred during the past year, and the additions of chief 

 importance have been early productions of the press. The 

 most remarkable of these is Macho's French Bible, or rather 

 .abridgment of the Scriptures, printed at Lyons for Bartho- 

 lomew Buyer about 1477; one of the rarest and most 

 important of old French books, the first containing woodcuts, 

 the first in which the place of imprint is specified, and 

 preceding the first actual translation of the Bible into French 

 by more than forty years. Only five other copies are known, 

 ^nd only one of these is perfect. The slight imperfection of 

 the present copy is owing to two duplicate leaves having been 

 l)Ound up by mistake, and the right leaves omitted. 



Another acquisition of unusual importance is the edition of 

 Cicero's Offices printed at Rome by Sweynhcym and Pannartz 

 in 1469, one of the few works of those printers hitherto 

 wanting to the Library. 



A fragment of the Doctrinale of Alexander Gallus, one 

 of the early productions of the Dutch press printed at 

 Utrecht before 1470, is remarkable for its extent, four leaves, 

 a.nd for its unusually fine condition. The edition of Aurelius 

 Victor and Sextus Rufus, printed at Naples by Sixtus 

 Riesinger, about 1470, is a book of great rarity, and the copy 

 now acquired is further remarkable as containing a lettej' of 

 presentation written at the time of publication. An edition 

 of the Epistle of Rabbi Samuel Marochitanus to Rabbi Isaac 

 has also been purchased, which, although considered by Salvi'i 

 to have been printed at Valencia in 1475, is in all probability 

 a production of the Neapolitan press of about the same 

 period. Other Italian incunabula of especial interest are : - 

 Trez, Letiologia, Milan, 1488, remarkable for its unique title- 

 page ; the first edition of the first Italian translation of Saint 

 Jerome's Lives of the Fathers, Venice, 1475 ; the Sermons of 

 Saint Augustine, Modena, 1477 ; the Psalter of Saint Bona- 

 ventura [Pavia, 1480] ; Luca Pulci, Pistole, first edition, 

 Florence, 1482 ; Merula, Bellum Scodrense, about 1473 ; 

 Ferettus, De elegantia lingure Latina?, Foi-li, 1495, one of 

 the only two books executed by the printer ; and Francesco 

 da Siena, Consiglio contra lo morbo pestilentiale, Cagli, 1475, 

 one of the only three books printed there during the fifteenth 

 century. 



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