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Royal Mufeum of Antiques at Stockholm 
is one of the richeft and moft confiderable 
collections in Europe, next to thofle of 
Italy and Paris. It is placed in the King’s 
chateau or palace, and is under the infpec- 
tion cf the Chevalier de FREDEN- 
HEIM, who madea diicovery in the Forum 
Romanum at Rome, in the month of Ja- 
nuary, 1789, and of which Citizen OBgR- 
LIN afterwards publifhed a notice in the 
French journals. This Mufeum, among 
other curious objects, contains two large 
marble chandeliers of exquifite workman- 
fhip, a number of urns and farcophagi, 
one of which is executed with remarkable 
beauty, feveral trivods, a great many fta- 
tues, in the number of which are the Nine 
Mates, purchafed in Italy at a great ex- 
pence, and an Endymion afleep, of the 
natural fize, which is confidered as one of 
the fineft remains of antiquity. The chin 
and one of the thighs are of modern re- 
ftoration. At the time of the King’s 
tour to Rome, it was difnterred in the 
environs; this Prince made a purchafe 
of it for 4000 rix-dollars of Sweden, and 
obtained of the Pope permiffion to remove 
it to Stockholm; but fcarcely had he made 
the acquifition of it, when an Englifh 
gentleman offered 20,000 rix-dollars for 
t. M. de Fredenheim has ordered fome 
of the principal pieces in the collection to 
be engraved, and particularly the Endy- 
mion, the Nine Mufes, and the marble 
chandeliers. Thele engravings are ac- 
companied with a commentary in the 
French language. 
GoTTHELF FiscHeR, Profeffor and 
Librarian at Mentz, has lately publithed 
the fecond number of a work entitled, 
A Deicription of Typographical Rarities 
and remarkable MSS.. &c. &c. with the 
portrait of Fuft, and an engraving con- 
taining proofs of charaéters of different 
periods. This work is divided into three 
parts or fections. The firft is entitled, 
Supplements to the Hittory of the Difco- 
very of Printing. Under this title Fi- 
{cher, after having revoked the portraits of 
Futt ‘which the public are in pofleffion of, 
none of which has been taken after a true 
original, gives fome details-on thac which 
appears at the head of this number, co- 
pied from a portrait engraved in wood, 
formerly preferved in the collection of M. 
Huder, and now in that of M. Reuter, 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
347 
and which carries with it allthe marks of 
authenticity. Fifcher is even inclined to 
think that this portrait is done by the let- 
ter-engraver who executed in wood, for 
the printing-office of Fuft, thofe beautiful 
initial letters, which alone would be fuf- 
ficient to acquire him a reputation, were 
his name known to us. Fifcher gives af- 
terwards an effay on the differences of the 
firft characters which Fuft and Schoeffer 
made ufe of at Mentz. According to his 
refearches, he eftablithes five claffes of 
types, different from one another, and a 
greater number of alphabets. The next 
article contains the bibliographical de- 
{cription of twenty-three rare books ; 
among others that of a German poem, of 
297 veries, on comfits and fpiceries, by 
Jean Folz, printed on eight pages in fix- 
teens, without the printer’s name, but 
the fize, paper, and type of which prove 
that it came from the prefles of Kachelof- 
fen. Fifcher has this work in his poffef- 
fion. He then gives the poem entire, 
which may be confidered as a medical 
treatife of that time: the Poet appears in 
this production as an original! thinker, and 
in fome degree as the firit inventor of the 
medical doétrine of Brown. Fifcher fol- 
lows up this poem with a number of ob- 
fervations, which have a reference either 
to the contents or to the expreffions,— 
When there are other editions extant of 
the works of which Citizen Fifcher fpeaks, 
he does not fail to indicate the differences, 
and often to notice the molt remarkable 
variations. The third fection contains 
the defcription of the MS. of the Four 
Evangelifts, difcovered among the effects 
that belonged to the Convent of St. Max- 
imin, of which Citizen Fifcher has for- 
merly given a notice in the Magazin Ency- 
clopedique (year 4, vol. 3, p-494). This 
is followed by fome obfervations on the 
charaéteriftical marks, to diftinguifh the 
age of the MSS. The engraving with 
which this volume is enriched, contains 
proofs of the different characters employed 
by Fuft and Schoeffer, and the form of the 
cyphers which are found in the works 
printed by Ather Hoernen, in the year 
1470; by Leonard Hollen, in 14803; and 
by Kacheloffea, in 1489. Thete cyphers 
differ moft materially in the form of the 
4, of the 5, and of the 7. 
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Erratum.-In our lait Supplement, p.687, col. 1. lin. 19, &c. for ** Fraftonal 
and Integral Arithmetic,” vead, “* The Differential and Integral Calculus, or the 
PoGrine of Fluxions and Flucnis.”” 
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