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English books, the first EngHsh edition of G. P. Valeriano's treatise 

 Pro Sacerdotum barbis, London, 1533, of which only two other copies 

 are known ; and the only copies known of Hugh Latimer, The fyrste 

 sermon, 1549 ; Antony, Prior of Crato, The Explanation of the True 

 and LawfuU Right and Tytle of the most excellent Prince Anthonie, 

 Leyden, 1585 ; and Signor Padre, Newes from Millaine, London, 1630. 

 The Department also acquired a perfect copy of the Sarum Hymnal 

 printed at Antwerp by Christopher van Endhoven in 1528 ; and the 

 only known impression from the original plates of Christopher Saxton's 

 Map of England and Wales, 1583. Dr. Rosenbach presented two 

 very rare XVI cent, tracts on the entry of James VI into Leith and 

 Edinburgh, 1550, and on the " Taking of the Roy all Galley of Naunts," 

 1591. 



In the Department of MSS. may be noted the unique copy of 

 Burchardus, Apologia de Barbis ; a fourteenth-century Book of Hours 

 in Roll form ; a well-iUuminated copy of the Roman de la Rose, 

 bequeathed by Miss H. Clark Couper ; a Greek Evangelistarium from 

 the library of John Ruskin ; a fine illuminated Slavonic Gospels, 

 15th-16th cent. ; a collection of letters from Thomas Knyvett of 

 Ashwellthorpe, 1620-1644 ; a Goldsmith letter, presented by Miss 

 C. Meade ; some 500 letters of the Grenville family for 1767-77 ; forty- 

 nine letters of Lord Byron, presented by Col. John Murray ; and six 

 letters of Jane Austen, presented by Capt. Ernest Leigh Austen. 



The Department of Prints and Drawings purchased with the help 

 of a large contribution by Mr. Campbell Dodgson a very important 

 drawing by Diirer of a Slavonic peasant woman, dated 1505. A large 

 number of modern drawings and prints were presented by the Contem- 

 porary Art Society. The Department also acquired some exceptionally 

 rare woodcuts by Anshelm, Beham, Graf and Vogtherr ; and two 

 unusual landscape drawings by Gainsborough. In the Sub -Department 

 of Oriental Prints and Drawings the most important acquisition (made 

 with the help of the National Art-Collections Fund) was a painting of 

 " The Nymph of the River Lo," of the Sung period. A XVI cent. 

 Persian miniature of three horses galloping may also be mentioned. 



In the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, mention 

 must be made of gifts by Mr. and Mi-s. Chester Beatty (eight Egyptian 

 literary papyri) and Dr. Robert Mond (an important collection of 

 faience objects of the Old Kingdom period) and of a bequest by Lady 

 Maxwell of objects from the collection of General Sir John Maxwell. 

 From the excavations at Ur came, among other objects, a gold dagger, 

 a gold headband, four frontlets with gold, lapis and carnehan beads ; 

 and Mr. Guy Brunton gave a large series of objects of the " Tasian " 

 and " Badarian " periods from his excavations at Mostagedda and 

 elsewhere. 



The Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities acquired four 

 Etruscan funeral urns ; a Roman mihtary diploma of 122 A.D., and 

 some fine Greek vases, including a fine red-figured, loutrophoros of 

 about 430 B.C. with mourners over the body of a young man. 



Among the acquisitions of the Department of British and Mediaeval 

 Antiquities were a Celtic gold tore and armlets of the IV cent. B.C. ; 

 some Frankish jewellery (garnet cell- work), said to come from the 

 Marne, of the VI cent. A.D. ; a gold finger-ring, of about the VII cent. 

 A.D., from Syria or Egypt, set with a garnet intaglio, a lion and a 



