24 . ACCOUNTS ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Naples in 1492. With a remarkably fine frontispiece and 

 border. 



Houppllande " De immortalitate animae," the earliest 

 known impression of the famous Paris printer, Philippe 

 Pigouchet, completed on the 28th May 1491. 



''Vite di sancti padri," printed about the year 1493, one of 

 the very few illustrated books printed in Venice in the 

 fifteenth century which was not already in the Library. 



An edition of the " Liber faceti " of Sebastian Brant, 

 sprinted by Johann Bergmann at Basel, with a woodcut 

 dated 1496. 



The Heredia copy of the " Regiment de la Cosa publica of 

 F. Ximenez in the Catalan language, printed at Valencia in 

 1499. 



Of later books the most interesting purchases have 

 been : — 



Eighty-three Italian " Prognostica " covering the years 

 1501-1540; a collection sucli as very rarely comes into the 

 book market. 



An octavo edition of Luther's version of the Pentateuch, 

 issued simultaneously with the folio edition which was 

 printed by Melchior Lotter in 1523. This octavo edition is 

 the first book printed by Hans Luft, to whom Luther after- 

 wards entrusted the printing of all his biblical translations. 



" Historia del muy vitorioso cauallero Reymundo de 

 •Grecia," printed in 1524, probably at Toledo or Salamanca. 

 A very rare Spanish romance of which only two other copies 

 are known to exist. 



A contemporary account of the marriage of Philip 11. and 

 <5ueen Mary, entitled " Een nieuu tiidinghe, hoe dat die 

 Prince van Spaengien triumphelick aengecomen is in 

 Enghelandt, mistgeders die bruyloft te Winchestre gehouden," 

 1554. The book is without imprint, but was probably printed 

 by Stephen Mierdman, a Low Country printer who settled in 

 London. 



" Index Auctorum et Librorum qui tanquam haeretici aut 

 suspecti aut perniciosi ab Officiis S. Ro. Inquisitionis 

 reprobantur," printed by A. Bladus, Rome, 1557. Although 

 earlier lists of condemned books were issued by the University 

 of Louvain and other bodies, this is the first Index Librorum 

 prohibitorum officially issued by the Roman Inquisition. 



An Italian account of the capture of Calais, entitled 

 " Discorso sopra la presa della inespugnabile Citta di Cales," 

 Venice, 1558, with a plan of the fortress. 



" The Forme and Maner of Examination before the 

 admission to the Table of the Lord usit be the Ministers of 

 Edinburgh," printed by Henry Charteris, Edinburgh, 1581. 



" Statuti della venerabile Archicompagnia della Pieta de' 

 Carcerati," Rom.e, 1583. A unique copy on vellum in the 

 oriffinai binding. 



