Ill An ikxfr^ of a Letter ta Dr Ed ward Tyionfrm the jRe^ 
^erend Mr Charles Ellis, givmg dn Accpufft'of a yoftft^ L^u 
dj, horn heaf^r<f?d Dimb,tiU!pJ:>t to fpcakr Voat Cofterus 
firfl Invot^ted ?rif$tmg. Anno 14^0. ^^f.th Fkjfc'kGar^ 
den dt ArnPc'erdam, and the Chdwber of Rarities ^it Boln. 
Of 4 MoiijiroHi Birth. Of the gJuarry at Macftrichtv fr^ 
LinusV Djidls dt Lejge. The Cachoc or Rooms cut in the 
Rock of the Cafde in Namur. Sir Jo. Mandevil / Tomb at 
Leige. The Friefland Boy with Letters in his Eye. 
Bruxellcs \\ July, \6^^. 
Mofl Honoured DoBer^ 
AT Haerlem ! vifited Van Dulen^tho Author de Oraculls ^ 
he is fetting forth another piece de SacerdotioVetcmm^ 
a moft Learned , Laborious , and very Inftruftive Work. 
He fhevved me befides his own, a Curiofity of a young La- • 
dy born Deaf and Dumb,yet taught by Dr Ammm to (peak 
very intelligibly , I heard her read Dutch and La,tin ^ {he is 
about 17 years old, theonly Child of a Wealthy Merchant. 
Here I was defiroas to fee the firft Book Printed by Lofle- 
Yus^ which Van Dulen hitnfelf had never feen, and v/ith 
much trouble obtained to do it 5 I find it not to be Dsnatus^ 
as the Infcriptiones Bollandic£ fay, nor Virgil or TttUys Of" 
~ficef^ as others -have acquainted the World 5 h\xt 2i.Dutch 
piece of Theology , Printed on one fide only of the Paper 5 
and after this is a fingle page of Latin entitul'd, Liber Vitde 
Alexandri Magni^ which made fome believe it to be ^ Cur- 
tim^ but it isaMonkifti Latin of that time. This and the 
Theology were Printed in the year 1430, whereas the Infcrip- 
iions and fome other Authors have told us from Cofierus's 
Pifture, that Printing was by him invented h\xtAnno 1440. 
But a Pidure of Cofierus before another Dutch [piece (bound 
up in the fame Volumn ^nd Printed 1432) bears the date 
of 1430, under which Pidure is the Infcription mention d by- 
Mr Ray^ fonly the date x years fooner) and the Tetrajlicy 
which is tranfcrib'd by the Author of the Infcriptions from 
an Effigies oiCoflerus^ which was then extant in a Garden 
this place, but is not now to be found. I 
