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rare romance, which from its title has been frequently mis- 

 taken for a drama. Among numerous miscellaneous acquisi- 

 tions maybe especially enumerated, " Vocabulario de la lengua 

 general del Peru llamada Quichua," Lima, 1604, apparently a 

 second edition of the " Arte y vocabulario " printed in 1586, 

 and containing the preface to it, which is wanting in the only 

 known copy ; " Exemplario contra los enganos y peligros del 

 mundo," 1531, a translation of the Pancha Tantra, with most 

 singular woodcuts of animals ; " Historia de la donzella 

 Theodor," a didactic romance ; and " Veneris Tribunal," 

 Venice, 1537, a fanciful work in Spanish, somewhat in the 

 style of the Polifilo, of which only one other copy is known. 



Only one Bible of especial interest has been obtained during 

 the past year, the edition of Tyndale's New Testament printed 

 by Day and Seres in 1548, the only other known copy of which 

 is in the library of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor. Five 

 important Liturgies have been purchased : I. The Missal of 

 the diocese of Gran, probably printed at Aug.sburg about 

 1501. II. Horologium of the Greek Church, Venice, 1563, 

 the only copy known. III. A most elegant miniature book of 

 Hours, on vellum, Matthaeus Moravus, Naples, 1486, unique 

 in this edition, though three similar ones are among the 

 Cassano books in the Spencer collection. IV. The Common 

 Prayer, ^ 1603, an undescribed edition, unfortunately much 

 mutilate'd, but apparently the first issued in the reign of 

 James I. V. Kirchenordnung wie es in dem Olthainlicher 

 Furstenthumb gehalten wird, Nuremberg, 1543. Four early 

 editions of the Quignon Breviary have also been purchased, 

 doubling the number previously in the Museum. 



Purchases in miscellaneous literature include three in- 

 cunabula of great celebrity : — the second impression of 

 Sweynheym and Pannartz's edition of Cicero's Epistolae ad 

 Familiares, Rome, 1469 ; a superb vellum copy of Nicolas 

 Jenson's edition of Gratian on the Decretals, Venice, 1474 ; 

 Jerome's Commentaries, Gregorius de Gregoriis, Venice, 

 1497-98, famous for the splendid border surrounding the first 

 leaf. Other acquisitions are : A brief of Pope Sixtus IV., for 

 rebuilding a church at Erfurt, 1472, remarkable for being in 

 Low German ; Brief of Pope Paul IV., December 21st, 1558, 

 revoking all licences for the perusal of heretical books; a 

 German translation, with comments by a Protestant, of Bishop 

 Bonner's Articles of Inquiry, 1554 ; the German Legend of 

 St. Katherine, Augsburg, 1515 ; "Mirouer Historial de France," 

 Paris, 1516 ; " Britonio, Elegantissimo Dialogo Pastorale e 

 Maritimo," on the election of Pope Paul IIJ., Rome, 1534; 

 " Otrozhia Biblia," the Child's Bible, Ratisbon, 1566, a cate- 

 chism in Slovenian, Croatian, German, Latin, and Italian; 

 Bialobrzeski's Catechism, 1567; Irish Catechism, 1680; 

 " Chronica az Magyarotinac Dolgairol," Kolosvar, 1575, a his- 

 tory of Hungary to the battle of Mohacz, by Caspar Heltai, the 

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