BRITISH MUSEUM 9 



Among other acquisitions by purchase the following may be 

 mentioned : — 



Epigrammata in obitum Alexandri pueri Senensis, Vitus Pucher, 

 Rome, circa 1477. 



Laurentius Valla, De vero bono, Hermann of Nassau & R. Loeffs, 

 Lovanii, 1483. 



John of Hoveden, Carmen rithmicum de passione domini, Matthias 

 van der Goes, Antwerp, circa 1490. 



L. Cappel, Summarius de interdicto excommunicationis. Printer of 

 Hundorn, Erfurt, circa 1495. 



Liber abbatis ysach de ordinacione anime, J. Gumiel, Barchinone, 

 1497. 



Miracoli della gloriosa Vergine Maria, Florence, circa 1500. 



Robert Whitcombe, Janua Divorum, or the Lives and Histories of 

 the Heathen Gods, Goddesses, & Demi-Gods, F. Kirkman, London, 1678. 



Durandus, Rationale diuinorum oflficiorum, J. Varela, Granada, 1504. 

 Historic van sent Vrsulen und den eelf dusent Junfferen, Cologne, 

 circa 1505. 



Die ghetijden van onser lieuer vrouwen, F. Regnault, Paris, circa 1518. 



L. Poncella de Francia y de sus grandes fechos en armas, J. Crom- 

 berger, Seville, 1533. 



J. de Monteux, Commentaire de la conservation de sante, et pro- 

 longation de vie, J. de Tournes, Lyon, 1559. 



Des weitberuhmten G. Fabricii Wund-Artzney gantzes Werck, 

 J. Aubry, Hanau, J. Beyer, Franckfurth, 1652. 



L. Gaivani, Memorie sulla elettricita animale, Bologna, 1797. 



A collection of eleven first editions of works by Beethoven, including 

 a perfect set of the instrumental parts of the Pastoral Symphony (op. 68), 



A collection of sixty-two first editions of works by Franz Schubert, 

 including Schwanengesang, Der Erlkonig, Gretchen am Spimirade, etc. 



Manuscripts. 



By donation : — 



From the Friends of the National Libraries : eleven leaves of a 

 magnificent copy of the Vulgate, executed in Northumbria about 

 A.D. 700-715. 



From the National Art-Collections Fund : nine leaves from an 

 illuminated MS. of Frontinus, Strategemata, executed in Italy, late 

 14th century. 



From thirty-nine friends of the late Dr. Montague Rhodes James : 

 the M. R. James Memorial MS., a Psalter executed in the diocese of 

 Durham, 14th century, of especial importance as proving the EngHsh 

 origin of Egerton MS. 1894. 



From Earl Baldwin of Bewdley on behalf of Miss E. G. Norton : a 

 holograph draft of Rudyard Kipling's ' Recessional.' 



