DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 27. 



Several books in sumptuous or interesting bindings have 

 been added to the Library during the year. Among these 

 are the following : — 



" Onser lieben Vrouwen souter" and other devotional 

 tracts printed by Hugo Zanszoen at Leiden in 1499 ; in a 

 remarkably fine contemporary panelled binding. 



" Ordo perpetuus Divini Officii," printed by Antonius 

 Bladus at Rome, in 1520 ; in a fine contemporary binding 

 with the Arms of Pope Leo X. 



Hesychius of Alexandria, " Lexikon," Basel, 1522, bound 

 in French calf, with a medallion containing the Arms of 

 Francis I. when Dauphin of France. 



New Testament, London, 1C27, in a well-preserved English 

 embroidered binding. 



Newport, Maurice, " Carolo Regi Votum," London, 1669, 

 in a remarkably fine English binding of the seventeenth 

 century. 



Donations. — Among the many books which have been 

 presented to the Library during the year, the following are 

 of special interest : — 



A single sheet consisting of a list of books for sale by a 

 travelling agent of the Brothers of Common Life at the house 

 of Saint Michael of the Green Garden at Rostock, printed 

 about 1495. The heading of this interesting broadside which 

 is in Platt-Deutsch throughout may be translated thus : — " Be 

 it known to all men that here are for sale the under- 

 mentioned German books. If any man has a mind to buy 

 these or other books of the same sort, let him come to the 

 tavern hereunder written and he will find a fair dealer." 

 The place where the books were to be sold is left blank, to be 

 added in MS. Two copies of this document v/ere discovered 

 in the binding of a book in the University Library of Upsala. 

 Presented by the Royal University of Upsala. 



" Ode on the Opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibi- 

 tion by Lord Tennyson," 4th May 1886 : also — 



" Carmen Saeculare. A Jubilee Ode by Lord Tennyson " 

 1887. Presented by T. J. Wise, Esq. 



" Eight volumes of European and American Newspaper 

 Cuttings relating to Pope Pius IX. and two volumes of 

 Caricatures on Napoleon III. Presented by Frederick Justen 

 Esq. 



"Sommertage auf Ithaka." (By the Archduke Ludwig 

 Salvator.) Prague, 1903. Presented by H.I.R.E. the Archduke 

 Ludiuig Salvator. 



Kingdon, J. A., " Incidents in the Lives of Thomas Poyntz 

 and Richard Grafton, two Citizens and Grocers of London, 

 who sufiered loss and incurred danger in common with 

 Tyndal, Coverdale, and Rogers in bringing out the Bible 

 in the vulgar tongue. By J. A. Kingdon, a Past Master 

 of the Guild." Privately printed, 1895, and "Richard 



