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DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS. 
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written in Italy, in Lombardic characters of the twelfth century, and 
having pictures drawn in the reversed direction to the text, so as to 
be seen by the congregation as the roll fell over the front of the 
reading-desk. (5.) "Sorame le Roy," a moral treatise compiled by 
Friar Laurent for Philip III. of France ; written and illuminated at ' 
the beginning of the fourteenth century, and having a series of beau- 
tifully finished miniatures. (6.) The Psalter, in Latin, written and 
illuminated in England at the end of the thirteenth century, with a 
series of miniatures of the Life of Christ. 
Third Compartment. — (7.) The Psalter, in Latin, written and 
illuminated for Alphonso the Fifth of Aragon, about the year 1442. 
(8.) Hours of the Virgin Mary, in Latin, written in France, and 
ornamented by French and Italian artists, in the fifteenth century. 
(9.) Hoars of the Virgin Mary, in Latin, written and illuminated in 
France, in the fifteenth century. (10.) The Breviary of Roman use, 
in Latiu, executed for a member of the house of Medici in the 
fifteenth century. (11.) A poem by Camillo Paleoti, of Bologna, 
dedicated to Henry VIII. of England, about the year 1513. (12.) 
" Office de la Vierge," cali graphically written by Nicholas Jarry in 
1650. " ' 
Fourth Compartment. — (13.) The volume of English Ballads and 
Romances from which Bishop Percy selected the poems published 
under the title of " Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; " written in 
the seventeenth century. (14.) A treatise, in French, on the Sacra- 
ment of the Lord's Supper, composed and written by King 
Edward VI. in 1549. (15.) Portion of the original manuscript of 
" The Analysis of Beauty," by William Hogarth. 
Fifth Compartment. — (16.) Hymnary, in Latin, richly illuminated 
and illustrated with miniatures, for the use of the Friars Hermits of 
St. Augustine, or Scopetini, of S. Salvadore, near Siena, in the vear 
1415. 
Sixth Compartment. — (17.) Breviary of the Roman use, in Latin, 
written in Italy in the fifteenth century, with miniatures, borders, 
and initials in the best style of Florentine art. It belonged to Pietro 
Riario, Patriarch of Constantinople, who became a Cardinal and 
Archbishop of Florence and died in 1474. 
On the east side of the Room are exhibited, in frames 
attached to the screen, a series of photographic prints from 
early illuminated manuscripts and from Anglo-Saxon charters, 
of periods from a.d. 692 to 838. 
On the west, south, and east sides of the Room are placed 
four upright glazed cases, in which are exhibited early Biblical 
manuscripts. 
Case A. — (1.) A volume of the Codex Ai.exandbinus, which con - 
tains the Greek text of the Holy Scriptures, written in uncial letters 
