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Doctissimo et patriae sue dedicat Matth. Patteson, 1595. 

 Christof Schwytzer fee. 



Portulan de Charles Quint donne a Philippe II. Facsimile 

 of a Portolano by Baptista Agnese, unsigned, containing 

 eleven charts, circa 1536. The original is preserved in the 

 Spitzer Collection at Paris. 



" The plan of Quarnton, belonging to the Right Worship- 

 ful S^ Thomas Barton of Smithhills Knight. Taken by 

 William Senior, Professor of the Mathematiques, anno domini 

 1G20." A facsimile. 



A series of six maps by Maurille Antoine Moithey : — Le 

 Globe Terrestre, 1793 ; L'Afrique, 1789 ; Amerique Septen- 

 trionale, 1789 ; Amerique Meridionale, 1788 ; L'Asie, 1789 ; 

 L'Europe, 1789. 



Music. — The collection of music has been enriched by the 

 acquisition of 236 part-books of Motets and Madrigals, 

 printed in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 

 many of which are of great rarity. Among them may be 

 mentioned a set of five Tenor Part-Books of Masses and 

 Motets, probably printed at Venice by Andreas Antiquus 

 about 1520 ; nine sets of part-books by Grammatio Metallo ; 

 the "Magnificat" of Simon Boyleau (Milan, 1566), Motets by 

 P. Zallamella (Venice, 1582), Gemignano Capilupi (Venice, 

 1603), Francesco Colombini (Venice, 1626), and Guglielmo 

 Lipparini (Venice, 1629). A most important purchase has 

 been made of a unique copy of the " Recerchari, Motetti, 

 Canzoni, Composti per Marcantonio di Bologna," printed by 

 Bernardino of Vercelli at Venice in 1523, a work which is 

 not only the earliest published collection of compositions 

 for the Virginal, but is also the earliest instrumental music 

 printed in modern notation. Another valuable acquisition 

 is the beautifully engraved " Libro della Chitarra Spagnola," 

 by the Academico Caliginoso, a composer whose identity has 

 not been ascertained. 



R. Garnett. 



