20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Jhesu Christi, with curious woodcuts, both executed at 

 Amsterdam about 1494 ; and probably the first books 

 printed in that city ; Christi Passion usz den vier Evange- 

 listen, Urse Graf, Strasburg, 1506, with 26 fine plates ; 

 Glan villa, De proprietatibus rerum, printed at Lyons by Petrus 

 Urigarus, in 1482, the only known production of this printer ; 

 Dialogus Creaturarum, an undescribed edition, with wood- 

 cuts, printed in the Netherlands about 1485 ; Bartholus de 

 Saxo Ferrato super Infortiato, Vindelinus de Spira, Venice, 

 1471, fine copy in the original stamped binding, with portion 

 of a chain attached ; an early French translation of Seneca, 

 " Les Euvres," Paris, about 1501 ; the second edition of 

 Euclid's Elements, Vicenza, 1491 ; Pragmaticas of Ferdinand 

 and Isabella, Seville, 1522 ; Don Belianis de Grecia, Parts 

 1 and 2, the second edition, printed at Estella, and published 

 at Medina del Campo, 1564 ; Olaus Magnus, Opera Breve, 

 Venice, 1532, an Italian version of Olaus's description of the 

 northern regions of Europe, with map, the only known copy ; 

 Ludus Diane in modum Comoedise coram Maximiliano Rho- 

 manorum rege, Nuremberg, 1500, with curious music ; 

 Alciatus, Emblemata, 1531, the first edition ; Luther's Latin 

 version of Deuteronomy, 1525; Calvin, Confession et simple 

 exposition de la vraye foi, Geneva, 1566 ; four anonymous 

 Unitarian tracts published in Hungary and Transylvania, 

 between 1560 and 1570, by the Reformer Francis Blandrata, 

 none of whose twenty-seven works have hitherto been pos- 

 sessed by the Museum in the original editions ; Decada de la 

 Passion, by Juan Coloma, Cagliari, 1576, one of the earliest 

 books printed in Sardinia. 



No considerable addition has been made to the collection 

 of Bibles, but the following interesting liturgies have been 

 obtained, in addition to those already enumerated among the 

 principal acquisitions of the year : the Salamanca Manual, 

 1532 ; the Zaragoza Missal, 1552 ; Hours in the Spanish 

 vernacular, 1550 and 1552 ; Ofiicium Hebdomadse Sanctse, 

 Venice, 1522, printed on coloured paper ; Cerimonial y 

 Rubricas Generales, translated by Juan Ozcariz, Mexico, 

 1579, exceedingly rare ; Agenda Moguntinse Ecclesise, undated, 

 but posterior to the death of Archbishop Diether von Isen- 

 burg in 1482 ; and an Armenian Lectionary, Venice, 1582. 

 Remarkable acquisitions have also been made of the original 

 editions of memorable Papal Bulls, as follows : that of 

 Julius II., of 7th October 1506, deposing Giovanni Bentivoglio, 

 tyrant of Bologna, not in the Bullarium ; that of Leo X., of 

 12th June 1517, known as the Bulla Concordise, for composing 

 disputes in the Order of St. Francis, printed on vellum, and 

 probably unique in this state, not in the Bullarium ; that of 

 Paul III., of 10th July 1537, providing for the religious 

 instruction of the Indians in Spanish America, not in the 

 Bullarium ; and that of Pius IV., 23rd August 1565, conceding, 

 among other immunities, special indulgences to courtesans 



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