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ccrpyriglit, 169 by colonial copyright ; 380 by international 

 «xeliange ; and 11,988 by purchase. 



'{g) 8,148 articles have been received in the Department 

 Tiot incliidied in the foregoing paragraphs, comprising 

 l)roadside«. Parliamentary Papers, and other miscellaneous 

 items. The addition of this number to those already given 

 produces a total of 121,948 articles received in the l)epart- 

 isment in the course of the year. 



Acquisitions of Special Interest. — The most remarkable 

 acquisition made during the past year has been the highly 

 important one of no less than 1,014 editions and translations 

 •<of the " Imitation of Christ " ascribed to Thomas a Kempis, 

 including all those in the celebrated collection of the late Edmund 

 Waterton, Esq., of Walton Hall, Yorkshire, which were not 

 already in the Museum. By this acquisition the existing 

 collection has been more than trebled. Another purchase of 

 similar character and great interest was effected at the sale 

 of the library of the late Rev, W. J. Blew, exceedingly rich 

 in service books and liturgical works, many of which were 

 acquired for the Museum. The most important of these was 

 the Trondhjem Missal, Copenhagen, 1-519, an almost unique 

 book. The following also are worthy of special mention : the 

 Bamberg Missal, Bamberg, 1490 ; the Narbonne Missal, 

 Lyons, 1528 ; the Palencia Missal, Palencia, 1568 ; the Sarum 

 Manual, Bouen, 1516; and the Geneva and Jaen Breviaries, 

 Lyons, 1513, and Seville, 1528. More remarkable than any of 

 these is one of the most celebrated of ancient missals, that 

 ■of the Church of Uzes in the south of France, printed at 

 Lyons by Johann Neumeistei' and Michel Topic, in 1495. It 

 is peculiarly interesting as containing the " Prosa edita a 

 venerabili fratre G. de Madagoto, episcopo, cardinali de 

 palastrino," one -of the first examples of music printed froiri 

 .€ast types. The only other copy known, that in the Diocesan 

 Museum of Nimes, is exceedingly imperfect. Another 

 valuable acquisition in this department is the Breslau Missal, 

 printed at Cracow for Johann Haller and Sebastian Hyber, 

 1505, a very fine and very rare book, remarkable for the 

 :subsequent insertion of a leaf containing an episcopal monition 

 to the clergy, assuring them of the correctness of the text. 

 The Pars J^^stivalis of the Breviary of the Church of 

 JRatisbon, Erhard Ratdolt, Augsburg, 1488, on vellum, is also 

 to be named among important liturgies added to the 

 Library. 



Five separate books have been acquired which possess 

 extraordinary literary as* well as bibliographical interest : — 



1. The first edition of Amadis of Gaul, printed by Georg 



<Coci at Saragossa, 1508. The existence of any edition of thi^* 



0.97. B 3 fountain 



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