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Nova totius Gallise descriptio. Hoc opus Joannes Andreas 

 Vavassor [sic] dictus Vadagninus fecit, 1536, Venetiis. A rare 

 map of France, engraved, from wood blocks, in four sheets. 



La nobilissima et grande Citta di Pariggi. G. Bata Maza fee. 

 Donato Rascicotti forma. [1570 ?] Not mentioned in Bon- 

 nardot's " Anciens Plans de Paris." 



Two finely coloured engraved planispheres of the Northern 

 and Southern Celestial Hemispheres, executed by Augustine 

 Ryther, one of the first English engravers, to accompany 

 Thomas Hood's work, entitled " The Use of the Celestial Globe 

 in Piano." London. 1590. Unique, and containing the 

 earliest known representations of three of the new Southern 

 Constellations. 



Music— The accessions to the collection of Music, though 

 not very numerous, have comprised some works of great 

 rarity, among which may be mentioned copies of the " Nuove 

 Musiche" of Caccini, published at Florence in 1614 (a 

 different work from the " Nuove Musiche " of 1601) ; " Arie a. 

 una voce," by Stefano Landi, Rome, 1620, bound in vellum 

 stamped with the arms of Pope Paul V. ; " Varii Capricci 

 e Canzonette," 1641, and " Canzoni Spirituali," 1640, by 

 Pietro Paolo Sabbatini ; " Intavolatura de li Madrigali di 

 Verdelotto," an arrangement by Adrian Willaert for a single 

 voice, with lute accompaniment, of a selection of Verdelot's. 

 Madrigals, published at Venice in 1540 ; the only complete 

 copy known of the 2nd Book of Madrigals of Paolo Isnardi,. 

 Venice, 1577 ; the 4th Book of Madrigals of M. A. Ingegneri, 

 Venice, 1580; the 4th Book of Madrigals of Tiburtio 

 Massaino, Venice, 1594 ; Contratenor and Bass parts of the 

 8th, 9th, 11th, and 15th Books of Chansons, printed by 

 Pierre Attaignant, at Paris, betwen 1540 and 1544, and a fine 

 copy of the original folio edition of Heinrich Schiitz's Psalms, 

 Dresden, 1661. 



R. Gavnett. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



1. Catalogue of Additions.— The Additional MSS. 34,711- 

 34,818, and Egerton MSS. 2795-2803, acquired in the year 

 1895, have been described and indexed. The index to the 

 MSS. acquired in 1894 is in progress. 



2. Catalogue of the Stoive MSS. — -The first volume, con- 

 taining descriptions of all the MSS. and Charters, has been 

 published. The second volume, containing the Index, has been 

 sent to press. 



3. Catalogue 



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