8 BRITISH MUSEUM 



Printed Books and Maps. 



The chief acquisitions were : — 



Incunabula : 



Alain Chartier, La Belle dame sans mercy, printed at Lyons, c. 1490 ; 

 bound with La Belle dame qui eut mercy, Lyons, c. 1495 (fifth type of 

 Jean de Vingle) ; of the latter only one other copy is known. Cam- 

 phora, Deir immortalitadelV anima, Cosenza 1478 (one of only four known 

 productions of the press of Salamonius). Aegidius Romanus, Commen- 

 taria in libros Physicorum Aristotelis, Padua 1493, presented by Mr. 

 Falconer Madan, Jun. Indulgence printed by P3Tison, 1491. 



Sixteenth century and later : — Luigi da Porto, Romeo e Giulietta, 

 4th ed. (Giovanni Griffio, 1553). Oeuures de Virgille, translated by 

 Guillaume Michel and Octavien de St. Gelais, 1532 (illustrated 

 throughout) ; Tacitus, Annals I-V, translated by Etienne de la 

 Planche, Paris 1548 (the first French translation of Tacitus) ; 

 Robert Crowley's One and ihyrtye Epigrammes, London 1550 (one other 

 copy known), presented by Mr. W. A. Marsden ; a library of some 2,000 

 volumes, of Irish interest, and for the most part printed in Ireland, 

 collected by Mr. Matthew Dorey, and presented by Lord Moyne ; a 

 collection of 230 volumes of English books from 1594 to 1930, i)e- 

 queathed by Mr. A. V. Peters. 



Among fine bindings : Daudet's Tartarin sur les Alpes, Paris 1855, 

 by Zaehnsdorf ; Howleglas, London 1867, by T. Riviere ; the 1892 

 Kelmscott Press edition of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's Love Lyrics and 

 Songs of Proteus by Messrs. BirdsaU, in the style of Mr. Douglas Cockerell 

 (all three presented by Mr. Julian Moore) and the 1821 Chiswick Press 

 edition of Sir Thomas More's History of King RicJiard III, by F. Bedford, 

 presented by Mr. Moore and Lt. Col. W. E. Moss. 



Manuscripts. 



The Codex Sinaiticus, mentioned on last year's Return, was finally 

 incorporated in the collections in this year. Public subscriptions ac- 

 counted for £53,194 of the price ; £7,000 was contributed from the 

 Museum's reserve ; and the remainder was paid by the Government. 

 Subscriptions still continue to be received in small quantities and will 

 by so much reduce the amount of the Government contribution. 



Of great interest from the point of view of BibHcal criticism are two 

 fragmentary leaves from a pap3n'us codex of an unknown Gospel, dating 

 from about 150 a.d., and thus the earliest specifically Christian docu- 

 ment in existence. 



The medieval MSS. include two leaves of a treatise on the Vices with 

 illuminations attributed to Cybo, the ' Monk of Hyeres ' ; a volume of 

 lives of female saints in verse, of the XIII-XIV cent., from Roode 

 Closter in Belgium ; a XV cent. Confessionale of St. Antoninus, Arch- 

 bishop of Florence, and other Franciscan tracts (presented by Mr. A. G. 

 Hammond in memory of his wife). Of modern autograph works and 

 letters, special mention is due to the autograph MS. of Thackeray's 

 ' Second Funeral of Napoleon,' presented by the surviving children of 

 the late George and Elizabeth Smith (a supplement to the George Smith 

 Memorial) ; a volume of letters from Charles Dickens to his wife, pre- 



