ACCOUNTS, &C.J OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I3 



in French, printed at Paris for Verard, about 1491, with a Avoodcut representing the 

 translator offering his book to the King, Charles VIII. A very fine copy, also printed 

 by Verard, of the first French translation of Terence, with numerous woodcut illustrations. 

 At the different sales of portions of the Sunderland Librarj-^, which took place during 

 1882, 536 books were acquired for the Museum, including a considerable number of scarce 

 editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, as well as a number of works in the older 

 literature of France, Sp.ain, and Italy. Amongst the rarities may be mentioned four 

 books on vellum, viz. : " Cicero : Rhetoi icorum ad Herennium libri IV.," Aldus, Venice, 

 1554. Cicero: " De Oratore," Venice, Aldus, 1554. Cicero: " Oratorum Volumen 

 primum," Venice, Aldus, 1519; and Ferrerius : " Lugdunense Somnium de Divi Leonis 

 decimi ad Summum Pontificatum promotione." Cicero: Epistolse ad Familiares," A. 

 Zarotus, Milan, 1471. The original edition of Grotius: " De Jure Belli et Pacis, ' 

 Paris, 1625. The first edition of Amyot's French translation of the '* iEthiopica " of 

 Heliodorus, Paris, 1547 ; and a very curious Book of Church Oi-der, drawn up for the 

 use of the Foreign Protestant Churches in London, by Joannes a Lasco, a distinguished 

 foreign Reformer, whom King Edward VI. had appointed their Superintendent. It is 

 entitled : " Forma ac Ratio tota ecclesiastici ministerii in peregrinorum, potissimura vero 

 Germanorum, ecclesia instituta Londini in Anglia per pientisslmum principem Regem 

 Edwardum VI. anno 1550." At the suggestion of Archbishop Cranmer, the King had 

 granted to the Foreign refugees the Church of the Augustine Friars, and had incorporated 

 Joannes a Lasco, with four other ministers, as the governing body. The Museum has 

 long possessed a curious collection of French, Gei'man, Dutch, and Italian versions of this 

 Book of Church Order, but the original Latin work has hitherto been wanting. 



At the sales of the Beckford Collection, 123 lots were secured for the Museuiu Library, 

 some of them distinguished by the fine bindings for which that collection ia remarkable. 

 Amongst them may be mentioned : Taylor the Platonist's Translation of Apuleius, with 

 the suppressed passages. Aretino : " Opera nova," 1535. " The Art of Poetry " 

 (attributed to Goldsmith), published by Newbery, 1762. Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress," 

 translated into French, Amsterdam, 1 685 ; this is the first edition in French. " Feste 

 celebrate in Napoli," 1657. Gerson : *' Opus tripartitum," Paris, 1504. Goodcole(H.), 

 "Wonderful discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer, a witch, late of Edmonton," 1621. This 

 very curious book is an account, written by the Chaplain of Newgate, of the examination 

 and confession of Elizabeth Sawyer, who was executed for witchcraft in 1621, and upon 

 it was founded the well-known play by Rowley, Decker, and Ford, entitled : " The 

 Witch of Edmonton." Le Roy (A.), " La Vertu enseignee par les oiseaux," Liege, 1653. 

 An interesting work, illustrated with curious copper-plates and bound by Roger Payne. 

 A fine copy of a " Sluzhebnik," or Service Book, of the Russian Greek Church, printed 

 by order of tlie Emperor Peter the Great, 1684. Luther (M.), "Passional Jhesu Christi," 

 Niirnberg, 1552 ; with fine woodcuts by Virgil Solis. Meynier (H.), " Naissance et 

 triomphes esmerveillables du Dieu Bacchus"; a little book illustrated with charming 

 engravings by an apparently unknown artist. 



A large collection of Japanese books on Pictorial Art, brought together by Dr. 

 Anderson to illustrate the collection of Japanese drawings which he had formed, and 

 which has been recently purchased by the Trustees. These works will form a valuable 

 addition to the Japanese Library, and, with those on the same subject in the Siebold 

 Collection, which is already in the Museum, will form a complete record of Japanese art. 



The Music Collection has been enriched by numerous and important additions, many 

 being of great rai-Ity, and some quite unknown to all bibliographers. Among the latter 

 are : A book of Lute Music in tablature, by W. L. von Radolt. Books 1-6 of " Le 

 varie musiche di R. Rontani." " Partiti Muslcali " (prima contlnuatione) by G. G. 

 Froberger. Eight pieces of Church Music by M. Slebenhaar. 



The following are also very rare: The 1532 edition of M. Ae;rIcola's " Musica instru- 

 mentalis Deudsch." A " Tablaturbuch," by E. N. Ammorbach. Two sets of Motetts, 

 by N. Gombertus. A " Tablaturbuch," by S. Ochsenhun. " Hexachordum Apollinis," 

 by J. Paehelbel. " Instrucclon de musica," by C. Sanz. " Musikalische Lob Gottes," bv 

 G. P. Telemann. " Hortulus chelicus," by J. J. Walther. Stabat Mater, by the 

 Marquis de Ligniville. " Laurette," an opera in score, by Haydn. " L'luganno 

 Fedele," an opera by R. Keiser. 



A large number of works, including operas, oratorios. Church music, etc, was purchased 

 at the second sale of the Library of the late Dr. Miiller, of Berlin. 



George Bullen. 



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