ACCOUNTS, kc, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I3 



Several rare English books, printed at the Roman Catholic presses abroad, during the 

 16th and 17th centuries, amongst them : Allen, VV. " A defence and declaration of the 

 Catholike Churches doctrine touching Purgatorie," printed at Antwerp, 1505. " An 

 Epistle of the Persecution of the Catholikes in England," Douay, in Artois [15«3]. 

 " Certain Articles, or forcible reasons discovering the palpable absurdities and most 

 notorious and intricate errours of the Protestant religion." Antwerp, 1600. Bellar- 

 mine's " Declaration of the Christian doctrine. Translated into English by E.. Hadock," 

 Douay, 1605. Bishop, W., " A Disproof of D. Abbot's Counterproof against D. Bishop's 

 Keproof of the defence of M. Perkins Reformed Catholike," Paris, 1614. " An Answer 

 to the demands of a Great Prelate touching the Hierarchy of the Church," printed at 

 Roan, 1626. Caussin, N., "The Holy Court, or Christian Institution of Men of 

 Quality. Translated by T. II ," Paris, 1626. This is the first English edition, and is 

 rare. " A Summary of Controversies, wherein the chief points of the Catholike Roman 

 Fayth are compendiously and methodically explicated against the Sectaries of this age." 

 By P. C. of the Society of Jesus. III. edition." Permissu Superiorum [Douay], 1639. 

 Wilson, (John), i.e., Peter Talbot : " A Treatise of Religion and Government, with reflec- 

 tions upon the cause and cure of England's late distempers and present dangers." Per- 

 missu Superiorum [Douay J 1670. 



A collection of Lutheran Tracts, comprising the rare first edition in Latin of the 

 Augsburg Confession, and about 120 other contemjwrary documents and controversial 

 pieces on both sides, many of them of great rarity. 



" Aristotelis Opera sumraa cum diligentia excusa per D. Erasmum " ; Melanchthon's 

 copy, with MS. notes by him. 



Taylor's " Life of Christ," with MS. notes by S. T. Coleridge. Poems by G. Dyer, 

 with MS. notes by C. Lamb and S. T. Coleridge. " The Tutor to Writing and Arith- 

 metick. Invented, written, and engraved by Edward Cocker," London, 1664. This 

 is the earliest edition of the well-known treatise on Arithmetic, which gave rise to the 

 phrase, " According to Cocker." It went through upwards of 60 editions, and, according 

 to Professor De Morgan, nine out of ten of the subsequent school treatises were modelled 

 upon it. " Cocker's Tutor to Arithmetic " forms the second part of the work, having a 

 separate title-page, and consists entirely of arithmetical rules and examples, the first part 

 comprising plates illustrative of calligraphy and penmanship. 



A Collection of Visitation Articles for various dioceses in England, extending from 

 1586 to 1706. 



Several rare books, many of them remarkable for their binding, were purchased at 

 the sale of a further portion of M. Didot's collection in June last. Among them may 

 be mentioned two early editions of the fine Roman Missal, printed by Giunta at Venice 

 in 1501 and 1506, with numerous fine woodcuts. A fine " Pontificale Romanum," printed 

 at Rome in 1663 ; a very handsome book, bound in a style resembling that of Le Gascon. 

 Du Hamel: " Philosophia Vetus et Nova," 1681 : a fine copy with the arms of Colbert, 

 Archbishop of Rouen. " P. Terentii Comedias,'' edited by Etienne Dolet, the celebrated 

 scholar and printer of Lyons, and jDublished by him in 1540. " L'Anti-Sans Souci " ; 

 2 vols., 1761 ; with the arms of Madame de Pompadour. Turpin : " Histoire du gouverne- 

 ment des anciennes republiques" ; with the arms of the Prince de Conde. Le Maire 

 de Beiges: "Les Illustratios de Gaule et Singularitez de Troye;" Lyons, 1528 ; an 

 early French historical romance. A rare edition of Juvenal and Persius printed at 

 Milan in 1474. Gengenbach : " Novella " ; an early German Reformation Tract, directed 

 I)rincii3ally against Murner, one of Luther's chief opponents. 



A considerable number of the rare works of Early German literature, which formed 

 part of the Maltzahn Collection, and which are described in the " Deutscher Bticlier- 

 schatz " of W. von Maltzahn, have been acquired during the year. 



Many books of interest and importance were bought at tlie sales of further portions 

 of the Sunderland and the Beckford libraries, which took place during the year. 



The Music Collection has been augmented by a small, but valuable collection of 

 early Italian Church Music, consisting chiefly of Psalms and Motetts by Agazzari, Belli, 

 Catalano, Cifra, Costantini, Quinzani and Porta. All these works are of considerable 

 rarity, and some are quite unknown to bibliographers. 



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