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larum," and " Dialecticaresolutio, cum textu Aristotells ;" they were both printed in Mexico 

 by Juan de Pablos, in 1584, and are both of excessive rarity; bound up with them are 

 two leaves of the Agave paper, such as was used by the Indians before the conquest of 

 the country by the Spaniards. But the chief interest to the English student consists in the 

 fact, that the title of the second of these works is enclosed in the identical woodcut border 

 used by the English Printer, Edward Whitchurch, for his edition of the first prayer- 

 book of Edward VI. in 1549, and which seems afterwards to have been exported to 

 Mexico, It bears the initials of Whitchurch, E. W., but the emblem of the bleeding 

 heart has been substituted for the arms of Queen Katharine Parr, which previously 

 appeared in a shield at the foot of the title. 



The purchases made at this sale, added to those from the Andrade and Fischer Collec- 

 tions, render the Museum Library extremely rich in Spanish American books. 



2. At the sale of the late Professor Green, an intimate friend of Samuel Taylor Cole- 

 ridge, numerous books were purchased containing MS- annotations by the Poet. Amongst 

 them was a copy of Theobald's Shakspere, in eight volumes, with numerous notes ; and 

 works by Fichte, Hegel, Herder, Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Blanco White, and 

 Malthus, similarly enriched. One of the works purchased, Nehemiah Grew's " Cos- 

 mologia Sacra," 1701, fob, is of peculiar interest, as it contains not merely MS. notes 

 by Coleridge, but a draft in pencil, written by the author himself, of the well-known 

 epitaph : — 



" Stop ! Christian passer-by ; stop ! Child of God, 



" And read with gentle heart. Beneath this sod 



"There lies a poet, or what once was he. 



« O, lift thy soul in prayer for S. T. C 



" That he who many a year with toil of breath 



" Found death in life may here find life in death, 



" Mercy for praise, to be forgiven for fame, 



" He ask'd and hop'd through Christ — Do thou the same." 



These lines are written on the recto of the last fly-leaf in the volume, and on the verso 

 of the same some of the lines occur, also in the handwriting of the poet, with variations, 

 showing the epitaph in process of composition, but not completed. The complete epitaph, 

 as here given, differs in some respects from the form in which it. appears in the last edition 

 of Coleridge's works, published by Pickering in 1877. This epitaph is stated by 

 AUibone to have been composed by Coleridge only a month or two before his death. 



3. Several rare liturgical works have been purchased ; amongst them may be noted : — A 

 Missal for the use of the Diocese of Brixen in the Tyrol; printed at Basle in the year 1511, 

 folio. A Missal for the use of the Dominicans ; printed at Naples, by Matthias Moravus, 

 in the year 1483. 4°. A Psalter for the use of the Monks of the Congregation of St. Justina, 

 Virgin, of Padua. 4*^. A Breviary for the Diocese of Halberstadt ; printed on vellum, at 

 Magdeburg, 1500. A Missal for the use of Frisingen, 1502, of which there was previously 

 no edition in the Library. A Breviary for the use of Basle, printed before the year 1488, 

 of which there was previously no edition in the Library. A Breviary for the use of 

 Chiemsee in Bavaria, a diocese not previously represented in the Library. One for the 

 use of the Hermit Friars of St. Paul, Venice, 1540, which is almost unique. A Breviary 

 for the Diocese of Constance, printed circa 1475 ; and a Processional of the Preaching 

 Friars or Dominicans, printed at Seville in 1494. These constitute a very valuable addi- 

 tion to the collection of Liturgies in the Museum, the deficiencies in which are being 

 gradually filled up by purchases made from year to year. 



4. A large number of books from the collection of rare German literature of the 16th, 

 17th, and 18th centuries, formed by the Baron von Maltzahn, and described in his work, 

 Deutscher Biicherschatz. 



5. A curious collection of German Broadsides of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, 

 chiefly published at Nuremberg, Augsburg, and. Ratisbon : they comprise calendars, 

 astronomical tables, accounts of comets and strange wonders in the heavens, prophecies, 

 descriptions of wonderful animals, the Story of Pope Joan — how Giliberta, a burgher's 

 daughter of Mentz, became Pope under the title of Johannes VIII., and many genealo- 

 gical and political tracts. 



6. The Music Collection has received many important additions, chiefly from the cele- 

 brated library of Dr. F. Gehring, of Vienna, which was sold by public auction at Berlin, 

 in November last, the sale lasting five days, when the Museum secured above 300 works 

 in every branch of music, most of them being of high interest, many of great rarity, and 

 some quite unknown to all bibliographers. The following selection will convey some 

 idea of their character:—" B, Rossetti. Libellus de rudimentis musices. Vienna, 1529." 

 " H. Finck. Schoene auserlesene Lieder. Niirnberg, 1536." "J. M. Gletle. Musica 

 genialis. Augspurg, 1675." " G. Montuoli. Lettioni per nottigiare. Lucca, 1702," 

 (Unknown). " F. Soto. Laudi spirituals Ferrara, 1598." " G. C. Barbetta. Intavo- 

 latura de Liuto. Venetia, 1585." " G. A. Colonna. Intavolatura di Chitarra. Milano, 

 1620." "J. van Eyk. Der Fluyten Lust-Hof. Amsterdam, 1654." (Unknown.) 



0.65. B2 "J. B. Rameau. 



