24 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Broadsides, Parliamentary Papers and otlier miscellaneous 

 items. The addition of this number to those already given 

 produces a total of 116,G40 articles, exclusive of newspapers, 

 received in the Department in the course of the year. 



Acquisitions of Special Interest. — One hundred and thirty 

 Incunabula have been added to the Library during the year 

 1900. 



The most valuable and interesting of these is an edition 

 of Boccaccio, " Ruine des nobles Hommes et Femmes," 

 printed by Jean Du Pre, Paris, 1483, one of the earliest 

 illustrated books printed in France. 



The woodcut blocks used in this work were sold to Richard 

 Pynson and were used by him to illustrate Lydgate's trans- 

 lation into English of Boccaccio's work printed in 141)4 under 

 the title of ''The Fall of Princes." The British Museum 

 possesses two imperfect copies of this translation, one of 

 which wants all the leaves containing the woodcuts, while 

 the other wants three of the nine which should exist in a 

 perfect copy. 



Other interesting Incunabula are : — 



Blondus, Flavius, " Roma instaurata," Editio princeps, 

 printed at Rome by an unknown printer about 1470. 



Elysius, " Libellus de Mirabilibus civitatis Putheolorum et 

 locorum vicinorum." Naples, 1475. 



This guide to Pozzuoli and a book entitled " Mirabilia 

 Romfe " first issued in the same year, are the earliest topo- 

 graphical guide books printed. 



Franciscus de Platea, " Opus restitutionum," printed at 

 Cracow, 1475. 



This is the first book printed at Cracow. No book printed 

 in Poland during the fifteenth century has been hitherto in 

 the Library. 



" Admonitio de profectu animse," printed at Albi, 1477, 

 by an unknown printer. 



" Epistolte Magni Turci," printed in Southern France, 

 about 1477, by an unknown printer. 



Gregory I. " Liber pastoralis," printed at Albi, about 1477, 

 by an unknown printer. 



" Libro da Compagnie," the Ofiice Book of the Com- 

 pagnia dei Battuti at Florence, printed in the Dominican 

 Convent of S. Giacomo di Ripoli in 1477. 



" Vita della Vergine Maria," printed by Giovanni Leon 

 Longo at Vicenza, 1477. 



The printer, who was Parish Priest of Torre del Bel Vesin 

 near Vicenza, printed only four known works ; one at Vicenza 

 in 1477, one at Bergamo in 1478 and two at Trent in 1481- 

 1482. 



