ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 1.") 



The only known copy of the second edition of Juan Chen's " Laberinto Amoroso," 

 Zaragoza, 1638, a beautiful collection of early Spanish lyrics. The first edition also 

 exists only in a single copy, in the library of the Academy of Munich. 



The second edition of the " Segunda Parte de la Silva de varios Romances," Zara- 

 goza, 15.52, unfortunately wanting a sheet, but unique and hitherto undescribed. It 

 omits many romances given in the first edition, but supplies their places with others, 

 and with sixty-three additional pages of c/iintes or humorous poems not found else- 

 where. 



Nicolas Yapuguai's explanation of the catechism of the Council of Lima, in the 

 Guarani language, Santa Maria la Mayor (Paraguay, but now in Brazilian territory), 

 1734<. A great philological and typographical curiosity, said, though erroneously, to 

 have been printed with wooden types. 



A copy of an edition of the " Kidushin," one of the books of the Talmud, printed 

 in Spain or Portugal about 1485, unique, and hitherto unknown to bibliographers ; 

 acquired from the Rev. Dr. Ginsburg, in exchange for a copy of the fac-simile of 

 the Codex Alexandrinus. 



Eighty volumes of Corean books, consisting principally of Chino-Corean dic- 

 tionaries and grammars, historical works, novels, and Corean translations of Chinese 

 classics. Corean literature has hitherto been almost unrepresented in the Museum. 



With these may be mentioned Donatus, "Partes Orationis," in Psalter type, printed 

 about 1490; " Alle Propheten nach Hebr'aischer Sprach verteutschet," Worms, April 

 1527, the first edition of the first German Protestant translation of the Prophets, by 

 the Anabaptists H'atzer and Dengk; " Propositions et moyens pour parveniv alareunion 

 des deux Religions en France," by Alexandre d'Yse, 1GT7, rigidly suppressed and hardly to 

 be met with in the timeof Bayle ;"Relaciondel insigne mai-tyrioquepadecic'el P. Marcelo 

 Francisco Mastrilli," Manila, 1637 ; "Le Jeu d'Echecs, mascarade mise en aiusique pai- 

 Philidor," 1700, extremely rare ; Sciarra Fiorentino, "Rabbiadi Macone," Paris, 1809, 

 one of twelve copies printed on vellum ; " Kozlony," the otiicial journal of the Hun- 

 garian revolutionary government from June 1848 to June 1849, nearly all the copies 

 of which have been destroyed ; 101 single sheet proclamations, &c., of the Spanish 

 patriots on Napoleon's invasion, acquired by the Marquis Wellesley during his 

 mission to Spain in 1809. 



The most important acquisition in English literature during the year has been that 

 of three unique, or almost unique, copies of editions of works by John Bunyan, pur- 

 chased from Mr. H. N. Stevens. The chief of them is Bunyan's first work, " Some 

 Gospel Truths opened according to the Scriptures," London, 1656. Only one other 

 copy is known, and that is imperfect. It is a controversial treatise against the 

 Quakers, and, although Bunyan's earliest production, contains the first printed 

 notice of him, in the form of a prefatory address by John Burton, who says, " This 

 man is not chosen out of an earthly, but out of the heavenly university." At the 

 same time were purchased " Good news for the Vilest of Men," 1688, a unique copy 

 of a book afterwards popular under the title of " The Jerusalem Sinner Saved ; " 

 and the only known copy of the second edition of " Sighs from Hell," printed 

 between 1665 and 1669, of which the Museum has hitherto possessed no edition 

 preceding the eleventh. With these were acquired an exceedingly rare recension of 

 the fourth edition of " Pilgrim's Progress," 1680, containing a cui-ious protest against 

 piracies ; and " Meditations on the Several Ages of Man's Life," 1701, a supposititious 

 work. 



Among other valuable accessions in English literature may be enumerated : Three 

 very rare legal tracts, "The Justyces of the paes," "Carta feodi simplicis," and 

 " Modus tenendi cur Baronii," printed by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1510 ; " Abbrevia- 

 mentum Statutorum," Pynson, 1499 ; Patrick Gordon's " Famous History of Penardo 

 and Laissa," Dort, 1615, a poem of so much merit that it is surprising that it should 

 never have been reprinted, and that only two other copies should be known to exist ; 

 " An Exposytion in Englyshe upon the Epistell of Saynt Paule to the Philippians," 

 by Lancelot Ridley, John Mychell, Canterbury, about 1541, a remarkable ])ook, of 

 which only one other copy is known ; " Exposition on the Epistell of Jude," pro- 

 bably by the same author, Thomas Gybson [London], 1538; Tyn<lale, "The Practyse 

 of Prelates," Scoloker and Seres, 1548, an undescribed edition ; " The Dysclosing of 

 the Canon of the Popish Masse, with a sermon annexed of the famous clerke, 

 D. Martin Luther," printed about 1548, and " The Doctrine of the Masse-booke, by 

 Nicholas Doncaster, 1554, Protestant tracts, printed in Germany; Munday, "A 

 breefe aunswer made unto two seditious pamphlets," London, 1582, intei'csting for 

 its reference to the execution of Edmund Campion; "The overthrow of the 

 Protestant Pulpit Babels," a clandestinely printed Roman Catholic tract, remarkable 

 for its rarity, only one other copy being known, and for its allusions to the new 

 colony of Virginia ; Giffard, " A short treatise against the Donatists of England, 

 whome we call Brownists," 1590 ; Robinson, " A just and necessarie Apologie of 

 certain Christians, commonly called Brownists or Barrowists," 1625, probably printed 

 atLeyden; Hoole's "New Discovery of the old Art of Teaching Schoole," 1660, a 

 work of oreat merit, giving much insight into the educational methods of the daj-, 

 and containing a remarkable anecdote of the loss of Richard Hooker's sermons from 

 the badness of his handwriting ; The Psalms in Sternhold and Hopkins's version, 



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