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Lessing J. Rosen WALD
Kenneth M. Setton Robert E. Spiller

Matthias A. Shaaber Conway Zirkle

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GREEK MANUSCRIPT 1 (THE WORKS OF lONNES
DOKEIANOS) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA LIBRARY 1

Peter Topping

HISPANO-CLASSICAL TRANSLATIONS (1491-1693)

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 16

Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.

MACLURE COLLECTION SERIALS: A DESCRIPTIVE
CATALOGUE 30

James D. Hardy, Jr. & John H. Jensen

A CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARIES
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA TO 1800
SUPPLEMENT I 43

SUPPLEMENT II 124

DEDICATION OF THE CHARLES PATTERSON VAN
PELT LIBRARY 85

Gaylord P. Harnwell
Kenneth M. Setton
David L. Lawrence
Henry Allen Moe

SOME LETTERS FROM ACTORS AND ACTRESSES TO
DR. HORACE HOWARD FURNESS. PART I 105

Matthew W. Black and William E. Miller

A BANQUET OF JESTS AND ARCHIE ARMSTRONG 116

John T. Shawcross

NINETEENTH-CENTURY STAMPS OF LIBERIA 120

Cornelius W. Wickersham

REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE FRIENDS
OF THE LIBRARY 82

Jesse C. Mills
LIBRARY NOTES 76, 158

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Friends of the Library
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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1963

EDITORIAL BOARD

LeSSING J. ROSENWALD

Kenneth M. Setton Robert E. Spiller

Matthias A. Shaaber Conway Zirkle

Merrill G. Berthrong, Editor

CONTENTS

Page

GREEK MANUSCRIPT 1 (THE WORKS OF
lOANNES DOKEIANOS) OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
LIBRARY 1

Peter Topping

HISPANO-CLASSICAL TRANSLATIONS (1491-
1693) AT THE LIBRARY OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 16

Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.

MACLURE COLLECTION SERIALS: A

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 30

James D. Hardy^ Jr. & John H. Jensen

A CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE
LIBRARIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
PENNSYLVANIA TO 1800. SUPPLEMENT I 43

Norman P. ^acour

LIBRARY NOTES 76

REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY 82

Jesse C. Mills

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Pennsylvania Librziry, Philadelphia 4, Pennsylvania.

Greek manuscript 1

(the works of loannes Dokeianos) of the

University of Pennsylvania Library

Peter Topping *

OUR purpose is to provide a full description of this recently
acquired manuscript and to recall attention to the writings
of loannes Dokeianos, which are its principal contents.^ We shall
also have occasion to touch on the travels and methods of Andreas
Darmarios, trader in mss. and most prolific of the Greek copyists
of the Renaissance. Dokeianos was a rhetorician of the fifteenth
century, who was closely associated with the last Palaeologi in
Morea and Constantinople. He has an honorable place among
fifteenth-century copyists, and he is also known as the owner of
a notable library of ancient Greek and Byzantine authors.^

Greek 1 is a paper manuscript of the second half of the six-
teenth century. The leaves measure 20.5 x 15 cm. The text is in
single columns throughout. Ten blank leaves (whose watermark
is an unidentified quadruped) are followed by a quaternion
(ff. 1-8). Folio 1 is blank and is of diff'erent paper from ff". 2-8;
it is pasted to the inside edge of f. 8. In the lower right corner of
f. 8v, under the pasted strip, the first word of f. 9r can be read if
held against strong light; it is written perpendicularly to the
bottom edge of the leaf. There follow three quaternions; on
ff. 16v, 24v, and 32v, in the lower inner corner of each, the first
word or words of the following leaf are written, again perpendicu-
larly. Folios 33-36 make up a binion, of different paper from f. 1
and ff. 2-32. Folios 33 and 36 together bear the watermark of the
Jieur de lis epanouie with initials. Our mark is not recorded in C. M.
Briquet, Lesjiligranes . . . , but it is similar, e.g., to his No. 7307,
found in a document of 1575 in the state archives of Mantua. The
variety is in any case sixteenth-century Italian. The mark of
ff. 2-32 is the chapeau, of a type very similar if not identical to
No. 3482 in Briquet, recorded from the notarial archives of

* Associate professor of history and later Greek studies, University of Cincinnati.

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Bergamo, 1572. The mark was exclusively Venetian in the six-
teenth century {ibid., vol. I, re-impression of Leipzig, 1923).

Folios 37-44 constitute a quaternion with the watermark of the
anchor, of a type not very distant from Nos. 559 and 571 in
Briquet, found on documents of Klagenfurt, 1571, and Verona,
1583. The variety of which our anchor is an example — with the
anchor's arms drawn with single lines — was certainly Venetian,
of the period 1563 and after {ibid., pp. 40-41).

Folio 45 is pasted in so as to make the first leaf of a binion,
fF. 45-48. It is the last leaf of the part of the ms. containing three
compositions by Nicephorus Gregoras. It has a watermark con-
sisting of the initials BS. Folios 46-48, of different paper from f. 45,
are blank; a mark composed of a paper-maker's initials is on f. 47.

Folios 49-80 consist of four quaternions; 78-80 are blank. The
paper is fairly thick, in contrast to the preceding makes of paper ;
it has no watermarks. Only on ff". 64v and 72v did the scribe
write, in the lower right corner, horizontally, the first word or
syllables of the first leaves of the succeeding quaternions.

The ms. proper ends with ff". 81-88. The writing stops with one
line at the top off. 85r; the remainder is blank. Again the paper
is thick and without any marks, but it lacks the glossy finish of
ff. 49-80. However, the last leaf (f. 88) is of a different paper,
probably identical with that of ff. 37-44, being marked by the
same type of anchor in a circle; it is pasted to form a double leaf
withf. 81.

After f. 88, there is a gathering of 7 blank leaves of the same
paper as the very first leaves, with the same mark of a quadruped,
perhaps a dog.

The rather soft pasteboard covers of the volume are stained
and soiled. Near the top of the outside front cover is the title:
hatpbpoiv 67/caj/ita Kol cTTto-ToXai (Figure VI). Just below it to the
left is the number 51, in pencil. At the top of the spine a name is
largely worn away; beneath it is the number 35 (3S?) in ink.
Graux and Martin read this as Docianus 35.^

Folios 2r-36v contain eleven addresses and letters, including
a brief fragment, by Dokeianos. The titles and initial letters of
the eleven pieces are in red ink, except in the case of the fragment
(No. 6) and one of the addresses (No. 8). The number of lines

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varies, generally, from 22 to 24, but is as few as 20 and 1 8 in the
last work. Folios 2r-28v and 32r-36v are in the same hand
(Figure I). Folios 29r-31v are by another copyist (Figure II).
These hands do not recur in the volume.

The text on ff. 37r-45v varies from 18 to 20 lines. Titles and
initial letters are in black ink. Folios 37r-44v were written by
one scribe (Figure III), but a different hand appears on f. 45r-v
(Figure IV). It is the latter hand which we find also on the top
margin, in the same black ink, of f. 2r (Figure I) : 'luapvov 8oKi.avov
kyK(j:iJ.iov els top /SociXea Koivcnavrlvov top ToKaLoXoyop. The text of ff.
37r-45v consists of the monodies of Nicephorus Gregoras on
the deaths of Emperor Andronicus and the Great Logothete,
Theodore Metochites,^ and of a letter of the historian to John
Cantacuzene as Great Domestic.^

The text of ff. 49r-76v and 81r-85r was written by still another
copyist, and varies from 20 to 22 lines. It should also be noted
that the title in red ink on f. 49r (Figure V) appears to be in a
hand not found elsewhere in the ms. But we find once more, at
the top of f. 81r (Figure VI), the hand of f. 45r-v and of the top
of f. 2r, again in black ink: Teospylov TcaTpidpxov KwvaTapTLPovirokeojs
Tov Kvrplov. Folios 49r-85r contain two works of Patriarch
Gregorios II (1283-1289), also known as Gregorios or Georgios
of Cyprus. The first is the encomium on St. Dionysios the
Areopagite,® while the second is the encomium on the sea.^

On September 5-7, 1584 (O. S.), Martin Crusius (Kraus), the
learned philologist of the University of Tubingen, copied the
works of loannes Dokeianos from a ms. in the possession of
Andreas Darmarios. This copy is preserved in the University
Library at Tubingen. ^ Darmarios was in Tubingen from 30
August to 9 September, 1584, enjoying the hospitality of the
warmly philhellenic Crusius, as did all Greeks who visited
Tubingen in the second half of the sixteenth century. The ms.
with Dokeianos' writings was one of about fifty Greek mss. which
Darmarios had brought with him from Venice for sale.^ In 1827
G. L. F. Tafel published Crusius' copy in a Tubingen Programm:
Ex Dociano oratore byzantino excerpta Crusiana. Charles Hopf re-
printed this exceedingly scarce publication in his Chroniques

greco-romanes}^

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In 1892 a brief description of Pennsylvania's Greek ms. 1 ap-
peared in Graux and Martin's Notices sommaires des manuscrits
grecs (fEspagne et de Portugal, pp. 207-209. They identified the ms.
as No. 51 of the library of the Monastery of Our Lady of Pilar in
Saragossa. They noticed that the full name of the recipient of one
of Dokeianos' letters was loannes Moschos. They recognized the
work after this (ignoring an intervening fragment) as a letter to
an unnamed person, thus listing ten writings of Dokeianos instead
of nine as in Tafel and Hopf. Graux and Martin failed, however,
to distinguish two hands in the text of Dokeianos and again in
that of Gregoras. Thus their observation that the copyist of
Gregoras' works also added the marginalium at the top of f. 2r is
inaccurate; as we have seen, the scribe of f. 45 — and not of
ff. 37-44 — wrote this marginalium.

Dokeianos' works next received attention from the distin-
guished Greek historian, Spyridon Lampros. Lampros sought to
collect and edit all of Dokeianos for inclusion in his extensive
dossier on the despotate of Mistra, Palaiologeia kai peloponnesiaka}^
On the basis of photographs supplied him in 1904 from Saragossa
he re-edited the encomium on Constantine Palaeologus and pub-
lished for the first time the full texts of an address to the same
personage and another to Despot Theodore Palaeologus. ^^ For
some reason Lampros' Saragossa correspondent did not send him
photographs of the other works of Dokeianos contained in ms. 51.
He thus had to reproduce these works^^ from the Crusian ex-
cerpts as published by Tafel and Hopf. Nor did Lampros consult
with sufficient care the description of Graux and Martin, which
would have revealed to him the baptismal name of loannes
Moschos and the larger number of Dokeianos' writings in ms.
51.^^ However, from another Greek ms. in Spain, Escorial
Y-n-4, Lampros published for the first time two letters of
Dokeianos to Constantine XI, ^^ while from the Parisian ms. 1290
containing works of Gennadius Scholarios he published an epi-
gram of Dokeianos on the death of the patriarch.^®

The writings of Dokeianos in Greek 1 , which we enumerate as
eleven, may now be more fully described. Since this article is not
intended to be a complete study of Dokeianos as a writer and a
historical source, the commentary which follows is necessarily
only suggestive.

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1. ff. 2r-10r. Encomium on Constantine Palaeologus. Pub-
lished from Crusius' copy by Tafel and Hopf (C G.-R., pp. 246-
254); from Saragossa ms. 51 by Lampros {P. P., I, pp. 221-231).
Lampros suggests it was composed in Constantinople {ibid.,
p. nd'). Dokeianos mentions John VIII's absence in Italy and
Constantine's regency {ibid., p. 229, lines 25 et seq.). If he wrote
shortly after John's return from the Council of Florence, ca. 1441
would be the date of composition. Cf. D. A. Zakythinos, Le
despotat grec de Moree, II (Athens, 1953), p. 342. The encomium
has some value for the earlier life of Constantine — his education,
the capture of Patras, and his first Peloponnesian despotate,
although, as Lampros comments, Dokeianos is "more rhetorical
than factual." Krumbacher observed that Dokeianos exhibits to
an extreme degree some of the vices of Byzantine rhetoricians,
with excessive citations from classical authors, proverbs, and
antiquarian and mythological allusions {Geschichte, p. 497).

The text of Greek 1 and that of Lampros as edited from
Saragossa 51 coincide: there is no doubt they are one and the
same ms. But the enumeration of the Saragossa folios as given by
Lampros (17r-25r) is not the same as in Greek 1, even allowing
for the eleven blank leaves at the beginning. We can only guess
that Lampros' Saragossa correspondent supplied him with an
erroneous enumeration. Graux and Martin do not give the folio-
lation of the separate writings in the ms., and they record the
total number of leaves only as "de 100 a 150 feuillets."

2. ff. 10r-12v. Address {Trpoa<po3vr]naTtov) to the same. Tafel
and Hopf (C. G.-R., p. 254) publish only a brief excerpt, to justify
their date for it, 1428. This is surely too early. Lampros, who
published it in full {P. P., I, pp. 232-235), dates it 1449, con-
sidering it a speech celebrating Constantine's accession to the
imperial throne {P. P., I, p. v). The late I. K. Voyatzidis,
editor of the fourth volume of Lampros' Palaiologeia kai peloponnesi-
aka, accepted this date, both in the preface to this volume
(pp. d'-ia) and in his article, "To zetema tes stepseos Kon-
stantinou tou Palaiologou," Laographia, VII (1927), pp. 454-455.
Neither Lampros nor Voyatzidis is convincing in his argument. ^^
A more reasonable time for Dokeianos' address is that proposed
by Zakythinos, namely, the occasion of Constantine's second
despotate, at the end of 1443 {Despotat grec, II, p. 342).

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3. ff. 12v-14v. Upoa<po}vr]fiaTiov to Despot Theodore, porphyro-
gennetos. Tafel and Hopf publish the three brief excerpts of
Crusius (C. G.-R., pp. 254-255). Lampros pubHshes the full text
(P. P., I, pp. 236-238). His corrected readings are justified, and
he clearly saw in his photograph that the Theta in Theodore's
name in the title was written over a Delta. However, the date he
proposes for the work, 1430, appears to be too early. Nor did
Theodore become despot of Mistra in that year (P. P., I, p. v').
A more plausible date is 1436, proposed by Zakythinos, Despotat
grec, n, pp. 340-341. On the dates of Theodore's reign and the
problem of the succession to the imperial throne see the same
work, vol. I (Paris, 1932), pp. 119, 180, 204-205, 212-213.

4. ff. 15r-18v. Consolatory epistle (irapaiJLvdriTiKr}) to Demetrios
Asanes. Inciplt: ^ ''E^ovKbp.-qv h rw irapovTi KatpQ tjjs ctjs advfiias rfj
daviiacTTrj <xov avvTvyxo-veiv oiJ/H, Kai XoyoLS tols SvpaToXs irpos irapafivdiap
ae TapaKoXelv, Traai re rpoTois to xP^os atpoaLovadai. Exciplt: k^ovKbiiriv
Kol tTtpa avtveyKeiv rfj afj evSo^OTrjTL, to. TrXetoj 8e Trapetrat rfj afj jxeya-
Xo<pva Kai aavyKpiro} ^ovXfj Kai crvveaei, old re ovar] ipkpeiv Kaprepass Kai
yevvalus iraLdelav tov kolvov deairoTOv Kai irarepos, kip' rjiieTepo) KaXQ Kai
(Tvn<pepoi>TL Trap' avrov oiKovoiJ.ovnhT]. Dokeianos consoles Asanes on
the loss of three sons. Lampros republishes (P. P., I, p. 249)
the Crusian excerpts and suggests (p. va') that Demetrios Asanes
is very probably the person of this name who surrendered the
strategic Arcadian fortress town of Mouchli to Mohammed the
Conqueror in May of 1458. Zakythinos accepts this iden-
tification (Despotat grec, 11, p. 114, n. 8). Despot Demetrios,
brother of Emperor Constantine XI, was married to a sister of
Asanes.

5. ff". 19r-21r. The full title is: tco TrXrjpet '\6yuiv aweaecos Kai
aoifias Kvplw loiavvrf rw p.6(jxv- In the top margin of f. 19r, in the
same hand but in smaller letters, is the slightly different title:
T<3 TrXrjpei \6yoiv apeTrjs Kai avveaecjs Iwavvrj tQ /loaxV- Inciplt: '£70)
Kai irpoTtpov p.kv Si (piXwv apiare, irepnrXeiaTOv ttjv ai]v kTroLovjJ.t]v ayairrjp
Kai aperriv. Exciplt: eppcoiievcos Kai eurvx^s dLa^LCorjs, (piXoaoipla Kai
cwre/Seta fiera tov 6eiov ^rjXov Koap.oviJ.epos, avbpobv it podipiXecTTaTe. loannes
Moschos is known as the successor of Pletho at the school in
Mistra, an anti-Latin polemicist, one of Michael Apostolis'
correspondents, the teacher of Michael Trivolis (Maxim the

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Greek) on Corfu, and the author of a funeral oration on the
Grand Duke Loukas Notaras. This letter attests to the strongly
anti-Latin feelings of Dokeianos and Moschos. A. E. Bakalopoulos
(Vakalopoulos), in "Die Frage der Glaubwiirdigkeit der 'Leich-
enrede auf L. Notaras' von Johannes Moschos (15. JH.),"
Byzantinische ^eitschrijt, LII (1959), pp. 13-21, regards Moschos'
monody as an authentic and valuable source for the final years
of the Byzantine Empire; he believes it was composed not later
than 1470.

6. f. 21r. After the excerpt from the letter to Moschos Crusius
wrote: Post fragmenta quaedam 17 t^s eKxrjs incbdtcns. Hopf
changed this to Post fragmentum quoddam, whereas Tafel had
reproduced Crusius faitlifully (C. G.-R., p. 255). The "fragmenta"
turn out to be the following passage and the letter below, to
which we are giving the number 7.

Tov fxi] Kal TrdXat Trjp ai]v ayain^v ravrl fxov to. ypamjLaTa Se^acrdaL,
k^ ovirep yap kKop.Laap.riv to. aa, aaptvois, /cat eyeypcupHV, alTiov to
prj ravTrjv hkpw tlvI, rj rw Kvplo) Xa^dpco Tapaax^'^f ttjv cnroXoyiav
TrpoTpe\paL.

7. f. 21r-v. Letter ('Ettio-toX??) to an unknown correspondent.
Incipit: ri ph paxai-po. repva, 17 5^ dta^oXr] (piXovs x^^P'-^^'-- Exciplt: /cat
ovs TTore (plXovs hik^aXov, cfko-koo tlvl irapaXoyw xPl<^^t^^^OL, wpos T-qv
Tporepav avdis kiravaKaXeaaadaL (pCKlav oXol T'eyevovTO.

8. f. 22r-v. This is Crusius' c/cttj viroeeats, from which he made
two excerpts. There is no title or address. Incipit: "H/cco Kayo} KpaTiare
/SaaiXeO xo-pi-(TTi}pLov aveveyKetv, apa rfj a^ wapovaia /cat ttjv OipeiXopevqv
Trpo(TKVvr](nv, ovx' oo'« MOi irpo(yi]KeL /cat e^eaTLV avacpepovaa, aXX' oaa
yXcoTTa Trporpexei poi Kal dLavoia. Exciplt: 6tl top ^iov r]pa}v Sirivvaopev
evpapws eirl ttjs arjs o-PXV^ ^^ k^'' ^acriXelas, r) TrapaTadrjvaL rfj a^
KvjSepvrjaeL deos, es rjXiovs paKpovs TpvTavevaeiev. Tafel and Hopf (C.
G.-R., p. 255), and Lampros after Hopf (P. P., I, p. 250),
publish the brief excerpts from Crusius. Hopf wrongly proposed
the reading aTpaTevpa for UpaTevpa, which is clearly legible both
in Crusius' copy and in Greek 1. Lampros corrects evr]xov<rL of
Tafel and Hopf to kpt^xovai; Crusius and Greek 1 have kprjxovai.

Dokeianos must have composed this brief work as an address
of welcome to be presented by a niece of Constantine XI (perhaps
Helen, daughter of Demetrios) on the occasion of the emperor's

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arrival at the capital to assume the imperial authority. If this
view is correct we have here a touching expression of the hopes
placed by the inhabitants of Constantinople in the last Con-
stantine.

9. f. 23r-24r. Crusius copied this petition of a Palaeologan
princess in full; hence Tafel and Hopf (C. G.-R., pp. 255-257)
and Lampros in turn (P. P., I, pp. 239-240) publish the com-
plete text. Lampros, who did not see Tafel's Programm, wrongly
attributes the Latin notes to Nos. 8 and 9 (reproduced in Hopf,
C. G.-R., p. 255, notes 1 and 3) to Tafel (P. P., I, p. 239 n. and
p. 250 n. 2). They belong instead to Crusius. Tafel in fact did not
print the first of these notes; Hopf printed it from Crusius' copy.
(On the other hand, Hopf did not reproduce all the marginalia
of Crusius which Tafel published.) Lampros suggests that the
princess of this petition was one of the daughters of Despot
Thomas Palaeologus (P. P., I, pp. v'-va). Voyatzidis' belief,
however, that she was the daughter of Despot Demetrios, Helen,
is more acceptable {P. P., IV, pp. it? '-«')• Lampros and Voyatzidis
agree in relating certain passages in the petition to the strife be-
tween the brothers Thomas and Demetrios in 1451. In any case,
the petitioner addresses her father, be it Demetrios or Thomas,
and not the emperor, as Crusius believed (Hopf, C G.-R.,
p. 255, n. 3).

10. fF. 24v-27v. Crusius copied the title and the first two sen-
tences, and excerpted three passages. Reproduced by Hopf
(C. G.-R., p. 257) and Lampros (P. P., I, pp. 250-251). Excipit:
Kal us apurepos o}(pdris ^aaKavlas /cat (xwijlov iravTos, vrpolr' av /cat rovvona
KCLTL TO KptLTTOv \afj.TrpvvoLTO, /itxP^s CLP vScop Te pcLT] Kal dkpdpea fxaKpa
T€ drfKt], <pcoa<p6pos re apaTeWr], Kal aeXrjpr] Siavya^r] Kal SLa8ovxv tW
v<p' riKiov. Lampros thought that the princess who is addressing
her father is the same Helen, daughter of Despot Demetrios,
whom Dokeianos addresses in No. 11 {P. P., I, p. pa). This is
likely; in fact, Dokeianos' position as tutor of this princess (cf.
No. 11) makes it the more likely that Nos. 8-10 are all con-
cerned with his pupil.

11. ff. 27v-36v. Crusius copied the title and the opening line,
as well as a number of passages, which he connects by Latin
phrases summarizing part of the contents. Excipit: Kal irpds trepovs

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irSvovs rjSlovs Kal inf/rjXorepovs eKKoKo'i-qs Kal TTporpeTrois TedapprjKvla.
Tafel and Hopf (C. G.-R., pp. 257-258) reprint Crusius, and
Lampros in turn reproduces Hopf (P. P., I, pp. 251-252).
Lampros' two emendations (p. 252, lines 8, 15-16) are supported
by Crusius' copy and ms. 1. Crusius has the following mar-
ginalium, printed by Tafel but omitted by Hopf: Ad foeminam
illustrissimam irporpcTrrtKi?, scil. irpos Trjv rlhv koKwv nadrjaiv
6eoip-qTiKi]v Kal irpaKTiKriv. Crusius correctly identified the rvpavpos,
whose death is mentioned, as Mourad H. The sukan died in
1451. Helen's illness and miraculous recovery occurred at this
time, that is, shortly before she became ten years old— her stated
age when Dokeianos wrote this hortatory address to his pupil.
Therefore, as Lampros points out, this work confirms that Helen
was born in 1442, which Sphrantzes gives as the year of her birth
(P. P., I, pp. va'-v^'). She was fated to enter the harem of
Mohammed H in 1458. Dokeianos' protrepticon is an interesting
statement of the Byzantine ideal of a careful Christian and
classical education for princesses.

Lampros assumed that Crusius made his copy from a lost
original ms. of Dokeianos' works, which Darmarios had in his
possession on his visit to Tiibingen.^^ He did not suspect, for ex-
ample, from orthographical errors in Crusius' text as reprinted
by Hopf from Tafel's edition, — errors which Lampros corrected
and noted as found both in Hopf and Saragossa 51, — that it was
the latter ms. which Crusius saw.^" There can be no doubt, how-
ever, that the Crusian apograph was made from Pennsylvania's
Greek 1, formerly Saragossa 51. Certain indications of a circum-
stantial character in themselves point to this conclusion. The
order of the writings is the same both in Greek 1 and in Crusius'
copy. Crusius explicitly records that he made his copy from a ms.
brought to Tiibingen by Andreas Darmarios. Significantly, our
ms. was long in the possession of the monastery of Pilar in Sara-
gossa, whose library still contains many mss. known to have been
owned or copied by Darmarios. ^^ Moreover, we have the follow-
ing description of the ms. volume containing Dokeianos' works
in Darmarios' own catalogue of the fifty or so Greek mss. which
he brought to Tubingen in 1584 to try to sell to Duke Ludwig of
Wiirttemberg: No. 46. 'liiiawov Ao/cetawO einaToXai bicKpopoL Kal e7/cco/iia

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irpos iSaciXets. Tprjyoplov iraTpLapxov ew 'ApeoTaylTrjv Aiovvaiov. Tod avTov
kjKunLov ds Trjv daXaaaav.-^ This can hardly be other than the ms.
we are describing. It almost certainly included the three writings
of Nicephorus Gregoras, and Darmarios himself must have seen to
the binding of it. The title on the outside front cover, haipopoiv
kyKunia Kal kirLdToXal (Figure VI), may well be a specimen of his
writing. ^^ From the language of Darmarios' title to his catalogue
as recorded by Crusius it might even be argued that he personally
copied this ms.^'* However, comparison of the five distinct hands
in Greek 1 with photographs of signed apographs by Darmarios
reveals that this is not the case. But it is well known that Dar-
marios had many copyists working for him, and our ms. must
represent an instance of Darmarios supervising several assistants
in the execution of an apograph without himself copying any
portion thereof. The interpolation of several leaves (29r-31v) by
another hand in No. 1 1 of Dokeianos in ms. 1 is characteristic of
his methods. The cheap binding and the varieties of paper in the
gatherings of ms. 1 are, we suspect, characteristic of many prod-
ucts of his atelier. They probably indicate, too, that Darmarios
did not attach the same value to this volume as to copies of more
important Greek authors which he personally made in whole or
in part and for which he wrote the colophons. ^^

When we turn to the collation of Crusius' copy of Dokeianos'
works with Greek 1 we find telltale signs that the Tubingen
scholar could only have had this ms. before him. To be sure, in
the text of the first work, the encomium on Constantine, it is not
immediately evident that Crusius was copying ms. 1. He made
his copy in evident haste towards the end of Darmarios' visit to
Tubingen and for this reason made numerous errors of commis-
sion and omission. A striking lapse is his writing irpos aXrfdelas
instead of Tp6s 'K6i]va$}^ On the other hand, he reproduced
obvious errors in ms. 1 and slavishly imitated its scribe in writing
certain words together. ^^ And certain of his lapses are readily ex-
plained with reference to ms. 1.^* A decisive proof that Crusius
was copying our ms. is found on page 16 of his copy. Here the
scribe of ms. 1 writes raTs dperaTs on f. 5r, line 20, but in the right
margin corrects this with the phrase: 7p. rds dperds. Crusius,
too, after writing rats dperaTs in his haste, notes in the left margin
of page 16 of his copy: 7p. rds dperds. ^^

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Our investigation reveals that in addition to the hundreds of
mss. of which Darmarios was the sole copyist or one among sev-
eral, there is a certain number which are the products of his
scriptorium but in which his own hand does not appear. Greek 1
belongs to such a group. Comparison of the hands in it with
anonymous hands in other mss. known to have issued from
Darmarios' atelier will help to establish the number and perhaps
the identity of his assistants. In fact, the ms. R. II. 5 of the Es-
corial, according to the notice of its recent cataloguer, P. A.
Revilla, was copied in the atelier of Andreas Darmarios by four
distinct hands, none of them his own.^° Any new light shed on his
practices is relevant to the evaluation of a copyist on whom we
are dependent — sometimes exclusively— for the transmission of
important ancient and Byzantine authors.

Lampros placed Dokeianos' floruit in the generation of the last
Palaeologi, or about 1430-1460. However, several bits of evi-
dence enable us to extend it by about fifteen years. His epitaph on
Gennadius Scholarios shows that he was living in the 1470's. The
date of the patriarch's death has not been definitely determined
but it is known that he was still living in 1472.^^ Douglas Young
has identified a ms. in Venice {graecus 520 at San Marco) as an
apograph by Dokeianos, which was not part of Bessarion's gift of
1468 to this library but was perhaps given before the cardinal's
death in 1472.^^ If Dokeianos worked for Bessarion, as Young
states, the possibility arises that like so many other learned Greeks
of the years after 1453 he sought his livelihood as a copyist and
teacher in the Greek colonies of Venice or in Italy. We would not
exclude his visiting Corfii during the time his friend loannes
Moschos (who lived into the 1490's) was there. If an loannes
Dokeianos mentioned as a teacher in the school of the ecumenical
patriarchate in 1474^^ was our rhetorician, it is quite possible he
ended his days in Constantinople.

As rhetorician, copyist, collector of mss., and teacher,
Dokeianos attests to the high level of learning in Byzantium at
its fall, especially to the lively intellectual movement at Mistra.
If chance has not preserved the original ms. of his writings, or
a more accurate copy than the "Darmarian" apograph, Greek 1
of Pennsylvania must serve as the basis of a more complete edi-
tion than that of Spyridon Lampros. ^^"^

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C^4^<$

I

Fig. VI: title on front cover

Fig. I:f. 2r.

ti.

^C^yyrK • 4|<rt<^\^wAiT4fir •<*& a\*;^i^^

Fig. II: f. 29r.

Fig. III:f. 37r.

t ^p i ^ft,>A', ^V4^^ V^>l*^'. ^/^'^^ ^Ml'

Fig. IV: f. 45r.

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Fig. V: f. 49r.

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^ (p^(f/^^\ AoJ/t^^j^ntw 9Jv^ff^v/Pt^'%y (x^Cirjt • id
<n>/> v^-^^ VT^^i' f ^<*^ ^I'V^f/HM^ iwi'^'>A*y»\/* trrl'^

Fig. VI: f. Sin

NOTES

1. The ms. was purchased from an American dealer in 1959. It is evi-
dently identical with ms. 29-58 of the diocese of Saragossa micro-
filmed several years ago for the Servicio Nacional de Microfilm.
See No. 209, p. 36, in Direccion General de Archivos y Bibliotecas,
Servicio Nacional de Microfilm, Boletin Num. 4 (ano 1956), Madrid,
1957.

2. On Dokeianos as a copyist cf. the following: M. Vogel and V.
Gardthausen, Die griechischen Schreiber des Mittelalters und der Re-
naissance (Leipzig, 1909: XXXIII. beiheft zum ^entralblatt Jiir
Bibliothekswesen), p. 170; and D. C. C. Young, "A codicological
inventory of Theognis manuscripts . . . " Scriptorium, WW {1951)),
p. 8 and Plates 12 and 13 (four specimens of Dokeianos' writing).
Vogel and Gardthausen wrongly ascribe Escorial Y-II-4 and
Saragossa 51 (= now Pennsylvania Greek 1) to Dokeianos. On
Dokeianos' library see Sp. P. Lampros, "Hai bibliothekai loannou
Marmara kai loannou Dokeianou . . . ," Neos hellenomnemon, I
(1904), pp. 295-312; the autograph catalogue of it is published on
pp. 300-301.

3. In Charles Graux' posthumous work, completed by Albert Martin,
Notices sommaires des manuscrits grecs d'Espagne et de Portugal (Paris,
1892: extract from the Nouvelles archives des missions scientifiques et
litteraires, vol. II), p. 207.

4. In the Histories, X, 1 and 2 (Bonn ed., vol. I, pp. 465-472 and
475-481).

5. For date, summary of contents, and references to the published
text, see R. Guilland, Correspondance de Nicephore Gregoras (Paris,
1927), No. 81, p. 109.

6. Published by Makarios of Patmos in his Euangelike salpinx, 1754,
pp. 356-370. Cf. H.-G. Beck, Kirche und theologische Literatur im
byzantinischen Reich (Munich, 1959), p. 686. This encomium is not
found in Migne, P. G., CXLII, which is partly devoted to Gre-
gorios' works. The reference to this volume in Graux and Martin,
Notices sommaires, p. 208, is incorrect.

7. Cf. K. Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur, 2nd ed.
(Munich, 1897), p. 466. Our text is not complete, breaking off a
little more than half-way through. Migne reprints the entire text,
P. G. CXLII, cols. 433-444, from the edition by MoreUi.

8. It is part of the contents of ms. Mb 36. Cf. Wilhelm Schmid,
Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschrijten der koniglichen Universitdts-
bibliothek zu Tubingen (Tubingen, 1902), p. 69. At the end of his
copy (p. 47) Crusius wrote: Finis Dociani 7. Septemb. 1584, e

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manuscr. Kvplov 'AvSpea Aapfxaplou 'F,-jn8avp'Lov Acikcovos. Hie enim
hoc tempore Tybingae erat. M. Mart. Crusius. (I wish to thank
the authorities of the Tubingen University Library for having a
microfilm of Crusius' copy made for me.)

9. See the valuable article of B. A. Mystakidis, "Martinos ho Krousios
kai Andreas Darmarios ho Epidaurios en Tybinge, 1584," For-
schungen und Versuche jur Geschichte des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit.
Festschrift fiir Dietrich Schdfer (Jena, 1915), pp. 500-526. Mystakidis
drew his information in large part from the third volume of Crusius'
extensive ms. diaries. A full paleographical and biographical study
of the notorious Darmarios is needed. Charles Graux, in his Essai
sur les origines du fonds grec de VEscurial. Episode de Vhistoire de la
renaissance des lettres en Espagne (Paris, 1880), esp. pp. 287-297,
severely condemned his practices as a copyist, as did Lud wig Schmidt,
"Andreas Darmarius. Ein Beitrag zur Handschriftenkunde des 16.
Jahrhunderts," ^entralblattjiir Bibliothekswesen, III (1886), pp. 129-
136. R. Browning, in his article, "The so-called Tzetzes scholia on
Philostratos and Andreas Darmarios," Classical quarterly, N. S., V
(1955), pp. 195-200, suggests that Darmarios "does not seem to
have been guilty of the wholesale forgery with which he has so often
been charged" (p. 200). The list of Darmarios' mss. in Vogel and
Gardthausen, Griechische Schreiber, pp. 16-27, is now to be supple-
mented by Ch. G. Patrinelis, "Hellenes kodikographoi ton chronon
tes anagenneseos," Epeteris tou mesaionikou archeiou, VHI-IX (1958-
1959), Academy of Athens, pp. 75-79.

10. Berlin, 1873, pp. 246-258 (henceforth cited as C. G.-R.). On p. xxxi,
Mb 19 should be corrected to Mb 36. Hopf did not reprint Tafel's
informative Latin preface. He saw Crusius' apograph, but essen-
tially he reproduced Tafel's edition. (I wish again to thank the ad-
ministration of the Tubingen University Library, through whom
I procured a microfilm of Tafel's work from the copy in the
Wiirttembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart.)

11. Four vols., Athens, 1912-1930 (henceforth cited as P. P.).

12. P. P., I, pp. 221-238.

13. P. P., I, pp. 239-240, 249-252.

14. Lampros knew Graux and Martin, Notices sommaires, having cited
it in Neos hellenomnemon, I (1904), p. 304, n. 4, in connection with
Dokeianos and Saragossa 51.

15. P. P., I, pp. 241-248; the second letter is incomplete in ms. Lampros
did not believe Y-n-4 to be an autograph of Dokeianos: Neos
hellenomnemon, I (1904), p. 304. He dated it in the sixteenth century
{P. P., I, p. 241), as had E. Miller, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la
hibliotheque de I'Escurial (Paris, 1848), p. 195.

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16. P. P., I, p. 253. Already published by Lampros in Neos hellenomne-
mon, I (1904), p. 304.

17. The latter mistakenly attributes to Michael Apostolis an address to
Constantine as emperor, which he tries to bring into relation to
Dokeianos' address: P. P., IV, pp. d'-i.a'. Cf. Ch. G. Patrinelis,
"Notha, anyparkta kai syncheomena pros allela erga tou Michael
Apostole," Epeteris het air etas byzantinon spoudon, XXX (1960-1961),
pp. 204-205.

18. All passages cited in the descriptions of Nos. 4-8 and 10-11 are re-
produced faithfully from the original, without corrections or
emendations.

19. Cf. Mos hellenomnemon, I (1904), pp. 304-305.

20. In regard to the addresses to Constantine and Theodore (Nos. 2
and 3), Lampros did remark that the titles of these works were
identical in the ms. belonging to Darmarios and in Saragossa 51
{P. P., I, pp. 232, 236).

21. Nearly all of the thirty-one mss. at Pilar noticed by Graux and
Martin, Notices sommaires, pp. 207-226, were copied by Darmarios
and his amanuenses. On this collection cf. the work cited in note 1,
above, p. 8 and pp. 34-37 (Nos. 193-224).

22. The catalogue is published by Mystakidis, pp. 524-526 of his article
on Crusius and Darmarios (above, note 9). It was recorded by
Crusius and was seen in his papers at Tubingen by Tafel, who also
cites the title of No. 46 in full in the preface of his Programm (p. 4).
(The duke bought eight mss., through Crusius and Stephanus
Gerlach.) For another version of this catalogue, in which the ms.
with Dokeianos is No. 49 and Gregory's encomia are omitted from
the title, see Emile Legrand, Notice biographique sur Jean et Theodose
Zygomalas (Publications de I'Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes,
Ille serie, vol. VI, Paris, 1889), p. 251. Legrand based this study in
large part on materials which Mystakidis had copied from Crusius'
Diaries and other autographs in Tubingen.

23. The fact that the hand of f. 45r-v is found in the top margins of
ff. 2r and 81r is one indication that Gregoras' works were already
bound together with those of Dokeianos and Gregorios in 1584. For
facsimiles of Darmarios' hand, see P. Franchi de' Cavalieri and
J. Lietzmann, Specimina codicum graecorum vaticanorum (2nd ed.,
Berlin and Leipzig, 1929), No. 49; H. Omont, Facsimiles de manu-
scrits grecs des XVe et XVIe siecles (Paris, 1887), No. 1 ; and Graux and
Martin, Facsimiles de manuscrits grecs d'Espagne (Paris, 1891), No. 63.

24. See this tide in Mystakidis' article, p. 524 n. 3.

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25. On the methods of Darmarios' scriptorium of. the references in
Graux's Essai at the index entry, Atelier de copie de Darmarius. A study
of the formation of the Greek collection of Pilar on the model of
Graux's Essai might well reveal in what circumstances ms. 1 was
acquired for the monastery.

26. Crusian ms., p. 8; Penna. Greek 1, f. 3r, line 10. Tafel remarks on
Crusius' carelessness and haste in copying Dokeianos, and on his
difficult abbreviations (preface to Ex Dociano oratore, p. 4).

27. Cf., for two instances, StareXous and totpcotov, Crusian ms., p. 10,
Greek 1, f. 3v, line 17.

28. E.g., on p. 14 he omits cos before aX-qOoJs: but as abbreviated and
squeezed in between rpowois and aXrjdibs by the scribe of ms. 1
(f. 4v, line 17) it is easily overlooked.

29. The collation of Crusius' copy with the other writings of Dokeianos
in ms. 1 brings to light more evidence that he made his copy from
it. In No. 9 (No. 7 in the Crusius-Tafel-Hopf enumeration) both
Crusius (p. 40) and ms. 1 (f. 23r, line 19) have virepLovaiov, which
Lampros (P. P., I, p. 239, line 14) corrected to vrepovcFLov. It may
be pointed out that some of Lampros' corrections are unwarranted,
as when he silently corrects okerts in No. 10 (No. 8 in Crusius-
Tafel-Hopf) to kkTLs (P. P., I, p. 250, line 13); both ms. 1 (f. 24v,
line 3) and Crusius (p. 44) have oiKcrts.

30. Catdlogo de los codices griegos de la biblioteca de el Escorial, I (Madrid,
1936), no. 25. One of the four scribes signs himself Michael
Ekkidon[ios], and gives the year 1567. His name is not in Vogel and
Gardthausen, Griechische Schreiber. See all the notices in Revilla of
the many Escorial mss. with which Darmarios has a connection
("Darmario Andres" in the index of copyists).

31. M. Jugie, article "Scholarios, Georges," Dictionnaire de theologie
catholique, XIV, pt. 2, 1941, col. 1525. Lampros had placed
Scholarios' death in 1456 {P. P., I, p. f^r]', note 8).

32. Loc. cit. (above, note 2), p. 8.

33. Cf. A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, "Manouel ho Korinthios kai hen
hymnographikon autou ponemation," Philologikos Syllogos Par-
nassos, Epeteris, VI (Athens, 1902), p. 77.

34. I wdsh to thank M. Marcel Richard, head of the Section Grecque
of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, Paris, for his
great kindness in answering my bibliographical inquiries. (Professor
Young has informed me by letter that it is not certain that
Dokeianos worked for Bessarion and that from the watermarks of
Greek 520 of San Marco it appears that he did the various gather-
ings before the fall of Constantinople).

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Hispano-Classical Translations (1491-1693) at
The Library of the University of Pennsylvania

Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr. *

IN SPITE of contemporary interest in the European Renais-
sance, and therefore concurrently in that of Spain, the
precise role of Classical Literature in the period, admittedly an
important one, has yet to be defined. An elementary but nonethe-
less indispensable tool for a point of departure in this area of
studies should be a bibliography of editions, translations, and
imitations of Classical Literature; however, such a bibliography
does not exist in definitive form for any of the major European
Literatures.^ The most cherished project of Marcelino Menendez
y Pelayo (1856-1912) was the removal of this lacuna for Spain;
however, at the time of his death only one volume had appeared
in print. ^ In recent years his notations have been published but
in such desultory fashion that not only are the unwieldy volumes
difficult to consult, but they contain none of the findings of other
scholars published since 1912.^ Even more disastrous than lack of
information is the divulgation of mis-information, a calamity
that has plagued Hispano-Classical studies from the moment
Tamayo de Vargas published a brief catalog of translations in
1629.^ Thus, in a recent review of the Biblioteca hispano-latina,
Antonio Alatorre has declared that ". . . con todas sus fallas a
cuestas, resulta una obra de consulta indispensable"^ — indis-
pensable because there is none better.

It is evident that the entire catalog of Hispano-Classical trans-
lations must be verified and augmented with precision, for such
epithets as "Rubio dice" or even "Menendez y Pelayo dice"
cannot be considered definitive. The only incontrovertible evi-
dence for the existence of a work, or of a given reprint or subse-
quent edition, is obviously the work itself. In other words, the
future compiler of a Biblioteca hispano-cldsica will be constrained
either to affirm the existence of the work in a library or admit to
the possession of second-hand information, an act which will im-

* Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin.

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mediately render his data suspect. The primary purpose of the
catalog appearing below is to provide that future harassed com-
piler with a list of verified printings of translations.

In addition to the problem of authentication, the American
Hispanist is hampered in his efforts not by the lack of the exist-
ence of a major proportion of the translations within the confines
of the United States but rather by a consistent duplication of
purchase of particular translations and of particular editions
thereof by the major libraries. Because this duplication seems to
be fortuitous, it is hoped that by pointing out in our catalog
editions not now available in the United States, according to the
Union Catalog in Washington, D. C, future purchases of edi-
tions may be directed toward the removal of these lacunae.^

Our listing is alphabetical and consists of two parts : Classical
Authors and Collections of Translations. Numbers in parentheses
following an entry indicate a reprinting or subsequent edition; if
no number appears, the edition listed is the editio princeps. Be-
cause of the exigencies of space, the notes will call attention only
to those editions not to be found in the United States. The major
proportion of those which are located in the United States can be
consulted in the Hispanic Society of America, the Boston Public
Library, the Newberry Library, and the libraries of the following
universities: Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.

A Catalog of Printed Hispano-Classical Translations

(1491-1693) at The Library of the

University of Pennsylvania

A. Classical Authors

1. i^sop. Fdbulas, tr. anon. [Antwerp], Oficina Plantiniana, 1607.
(27)

Some controversy exists concerning the first edition of the
translation. Claude Dalbanne {Les Subtiles Fables (T Esope [Lyon,
1926], p. 10) lists Si princeps of Toulouse, 1488; Alfred Morel-
Fatio ("L'Esope Castillan," Romania, XXIII [1894], 561) and
George G. Keidel {A Manual of Aesopic Fable Literature [Balti-
more, 1896], p. 13) report the first edition as Toulouse, 1489.
Nonetheless, Emilio Cotarelo has edited (Madrid, 1929) the
printing of Zaragoza, 1489 as tht princeps. Of the 33 printings

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reported for the period 1482-1700, the following are not avail-
able in the United States: Toulouse 1488? and 1489?;
Zaragoza, 1489 and 1491; Burgos, 1496; Antwerp, 1541,
1546, 1551, 1553; Madrid, 1600?, 1622; Medina del Campo,
1571; Seville, 1526, 1562, 1571, 1682; Toledo, 1534, 1540,
1546, 1553, 1555, 1657; Valencia, 1520. It is perhaps super-
fluous to add that this is the Classical translation most often
reprinted in Spain during the Renaissance.

2. Appian. Los triumphos, tr. Juan de Molina. Valencia, Juan
Joffre, 1552.

The Triumphos contain Books 8, 11, and 12 (The Libyan,
Parthian, and Mithradatic Wars) of Appian's History of Rome.
The Spanish text is translated from the Latin version of
Publius Candidus; no reprints are known.

3. Historic de las guerras civiles de los romanos, tr. Jayme

Bartholome. Barcelona, Sebastian de Cormellas, 1592.
Without explanation, Rubio attributes this translation to
Carlos de Coloma, translator of Tacitus. The work was only
reprinted once.

4. Aristotle. La philosophia moral, tr. Carlos de Viana. Zaragoza,
Georg Coci, 1509.

This work includes the Ethica, Politico, and Economica [apocry-
phal] of Aristotle, of which only the Ethica is purported to
have been translated by Viana. We suspect that el Bachiller
de la Torre may be the translator of the Politica and Economica.
The translators did not use the Greek text, but rather the
Latin translation of Leonardo Aretino. There are no known
reprints of this translation.

5. Compendia de toda la philosophia natural, tr. Un colegial

en el Colegio de Nuestra Senora la Real de Hirach. Estella,
Adrian de Anverez, 1547.

The work is usually attributed to Fray de Canales, a Bene-
dictine monk. It purports to include the essence of Physicorum,
De coelo et mundo, De generatione et corruptione, Methaurorum, and
Parva Naturalia. The compendium is not in prose but rather
in octavas; no reprints are known.

6. Los ocho libros de la Republica, tr. Pedro Simon Abril.

Zaragoza, Lorengo y Diego de Robles, 1584.
The title-page declares the work to be translated "original-
mente de lengua Griega en Castellana." There is a rather
strange discrepancy in the preliminaries to this work, for the
tassa, the privilegio, and one aprohacion are dated 1586 in spite
of the fact that the title-page, the colophon, and the remain-

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ing preliminaries all clearly state \SS4. Some copies without
the former preliminaries may be extant. The PU copy is the
only one reported to be in the United States,

Compendio de los Metheoros, tr. El Licenciado Murcia de

la Liana. Madrid, Juan de la Cuesta, 1615.
As the title indicates, this is a compendium of Aristotle's
Meteorology rather than a translation per se; the work is divided
into four "tratados" ["De los cielos y de los planetas y
estrellas," "Del ayre," "De agua," and "De la tierra"] which
correspond to the four books of Meteorology, the last of which
may be apocryphal. Murcia de la Liana does not maintain
that his compilation derives from a Greek text. No reprints
are known.

8. Cicero and Xenophon. Libros . . . de los Officios, de la Amicicia,y
de la Senectud con la Economica . . . los Paradoxes y el Sueho de
Scipion, tr. Francisco Thamara y Juan de Jarava. Antwerp,
Ivan Steelsio, 1550? (3)

This is an augmented edition of an earlier printing wherein
the translator's name was withheld. The original printing
(Seville?, 1545?) contained only the Officios, Amicia, and
Senectud of Cicero and the Economica of Xenophon. The first
augmented edition (Antwerp, 1549) identifies Thamara as
the translator of the latter works and includes for the first time
Jarava's translation of the Paradoxos and Sueno de Scipion of
Cicero. The original edition, the augmented edition, and the
following reprints of the augmented edition are not available
in the United States: Alcala, 1549; Salamanca, 1582.

9. Los deziseis libros de las Epistolas, tr. Pedro Simon Abril.

Barcelona, Jayme Cendrat, 1600. (3)

Prior to this complete translation of all sixteen books of the
Epistolae ad Familiares, partial versions by Abril had been pub-
lished. The princeps of the complete version (Madrid, 1589)
and the following reprints are not available: Barcelona, 1592;
Barcelona, Margarit, 1615; Barcelona, Cormellas, 1615;
Valencia, 1678; Pamplona, 1678?; and Madrid, 1679. The
partial translation of Tudela, 1 572 is also unobtainable in the
United States.

10. Epictetus and Phocylides. Epictetoy Phocilides en espahol, tr. Fran-
cisco de Quevedo y Villegas. Barcelona, Sebastian y Jaume
Matevad, 1635. (2)

The translation includes the Enchiridion and the Pseudo-
Phocylidea, which Quevedo accepts as genuine, both rendered
in verso suelto in spite of the fact that the originals are in prose.

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Quevedo utilized the original Greek text as well as Latin,
Italian, and French translations. He also consulted the
Spanish versions of Sanchez de las Brozas (Salamanca, 1600)
and Gonzalo Correas (Salamanca, 1630). In addition to
separate reprintings, the translations appeared in the Obras of
Quevedo, of which the following would not seem to be extant
in the United States: Madrid, 1670, 1671, and 1687.

11. Euclid. La Perspectivay Especularia, tr. Pedro Ambrosio Onderiz.

Madrid, Alonso Gomez, 1585.

The book bears separate preliminaries for the Especularia
which are dated 158^^; however, the prologue indicates that
the Perspediva was printed before the Especularia. There are no
reports of separate publication or of reprints. The translator
implies that he worked with the Greek text.

12. Lucius Florus. Compendio de las catorze Decadas de Tito Livio [tr.

Francisco de Enzinas.] Strasbourg, Agustin Frisio, 1550.
Although the translator's name does not appear in the work,
the latter portion of the compendium is identical to that pub-
lished with the extant Decades of Livy attributed to Enzinas
(Strasbourg, 1552). Neither of the two reprintings of the com-
pendium are to be found in the United States: Antwerp,
1550? and Cologne, 1550.

13. Herodian. El Emperador Commodo in Juan de Zavaleta, Ohras.

Madrid, Joseph Fernandez de Buendia, 1672. (3)

Madrid, Antonio Gonzalez de Reyes, 1692. (4)
Appearing initially as a separate work (Madrid, 1666), the
translation was reprinted with the works of Zabaleta. The
first edition thereof (Madrid, 1667) is not available in the
United States. The title-page of the first edition bears the
protestation "segun el texto de Herodiano"; however, no ex-
plicit claims for translation from the Greek are made.

14. Heliodorus. Historia ethiopica, tr. Un secreto amigo de su patria.

Salamanca, Pedro Lasso, 1581. (3)

The title-page of the first edition indicates that the translator
utilized both the original Greek text and a French translation.
The PU copy of the third printing is the only one in the
United States.

15. Homer. De la Ulyxea . . . XIII libros, tr. Gonzalo Perez.

Salamanca, Andrea de Portonariis, 1 550.
This partial translation was twice reprinted and a complete
version of the Odyssey by Perez appeared in 1556. The trans-
lator worked with the original Greek text.

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16. Horace. Sus obras con declaracion magistral, tr. El Doctor Villen de
Biedma. Granada, Sebastian de Mena, 1599.
The translation includes all the extant works of Horace in
prose. No reprints are known.

17. Horacio espanol, esto es Obras, tr. Urbano Campo. Lyon,

Anisson y Posuel, 1682.

The title of this work is quite misleading, for in addition to
omitting Sermones, Epistulae, and the Ars poetica, all "versos
obsenos" have been deleted from Carmina and Epodes—a.
total of 21 poems. The second printing (Barcelona, 1699)
is not available in the United States.
See also no. 41.

18. Juvenal and Persius. Declaracion magistral sobre las Sdtiras, tr.

Diego Lopez. Madrid, Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1642.
The work contains the first printing of the Lopez translation
of the Satirae of Juvenal as well as the first reprint of his version
of the Satires of Persius originally published in Burgos, 1609.
The translations bear separate title-pages and preliminaries
and are independently paginated; thus, it is possible that they
were available separately. No reprints are known.
Livy. See no. 12.

19. Lucan. La Pharsalia, tr. Martin Lasso de Oropesa. Antwerp,

Juan Cordier, 1585. (5)

The second, third, and sixth printings of this prose translation
are unavailable in the United States: Lisbon, 1541; Valla-
dolid, 1544; and Antwerp, 1588.

20. La Farsalia, tr. Juan de Jauregui. Madrid, Lorenzo

Garcia, 1684.

This translation was published for the first time forty-three
years after the death of Jauregui. The translation, in octavas, is
divided into 20 Cantos as opposed to the 10 books of the
original. Jauregui had published a portion of Book HI of the
Pharsalia in 1618 with his Rimas; however, he did not use that
version for his translation of the complete work. The transla-
tion was not reprinted until the 18th century; modern edi-
tions have been made by Emiho Castelar (Madrid, 1916) and
by "F.S.R." [Federico Sainz de Robles?] (Madrid, 1947).

21. Ovid. Las metamorfoses, tr. Jorge de Bustamante. Seville, Se-
basdan Trujillo, 1550. (3)
. Antwerp, Pedro

Bellero, 1595. (10)
Madrid, Do-

mingo Morras, 1664. (14)

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In most of the editions of this prose translation the translator
is identified in an acrostic; in the others he remains anony-
mous. The edition of Antwerp, 1595, spuriously combines
Bustamante's translation with the "Alegorias" of Antonio
Perez Sigler which were originally published with his own
translation of the Metamorphoses in Salamanca, 1580 (cf. no.
22). Neither the princeps (Paris?, 1543?), nor any of the follow-
ing reprints are reported to exist in the United States: n.p.,
1546; Antwerp, 1550; Burgos, 1557; Evora, 1574; Huesca,
1577; Toledo, 1578; Antwerp, 1599; Pamplona, 1664; and
Madrid, 1695.

22. Los metamorphoseos, tr. Antonio Perez [Sigler]. Salamanca,

Juan Perier, 1580.

The translator is identified in the princeps simply as Antonio
Perez; the second printing gives his name as Doctor Antonio
Perez Sigler, sometimes conjectured to be the son of Alonso
Perez, author of a continuation of the Diana and translator of
Hippocrates and Galen. Each of the fifteen books of the
Metamorphoses, translated into verso suelto and octava rima, is
followed by a gloss giving Christian interpretations to Ovidian
mythology. These "Alegorias" were purloined by Pedro
Bellero for his publication of the prose translation of the
Metamorphoses by Bustamante (cf. no. 21). The translation
was reprinted only once (Burgos, 1609).

23. Las transjormaciones, tr. El Licenciado Viana. Valladolid,

Diego Fernandez de Cordova, 1589.

Although this translation has been consistently praised above
all others made before 1700, it was never reprinted. The trans-
lation, in tercetos and octava rima, is accompanied by a volumi-
nous tome of annotations (See Rom Ph, I, 254-256).

24. Ovid in La cronica troyana, ed. Pedro Nufiez Delgado. Medina
del Campo, Francisco del Canto, 1587. (15)
The Cronica contains Heroides 6, 7, 9, and 12, and numerous
episodes from the Metamorphoses, all of which are intercalated
sporadically throughout the work. The text is a plagiarized
version of the Siimas de leyenda troyana of "Leomarte," the
Ovidian portions of which derive from the Ovide moralise by
way of the General estoria (See Rom Ph, XII, 111-142 and
RFE, VIII, 285-288; also Leomarte, Sumas, ed. Agapito Rey,
[Madrid, 1932]). The princeps (Burgos, 1490) and the following
reprints are not available: Burgos, 1491; Pamplona, 1499?;
Seville, 1502, 1509, 1519, 1527, 1533, 1540, 1543, 1545, and
1552.

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25. Ovid. Piramo y Tisbe, Canto de Polifemo, y Fabula de Adeon in
Cristobal de Castillejo, Obras. Antwerp, Martin Nuncio,
1598. (5)

Madrid, Andres Sanchez, 1600. (6)

These three tales from the Metamorphoses (III, IV, and XIII)
are rendered in quintillas. With the exception of a separate
printing oi Piramo y Tisbe (Alcala, 1615), the translation ap-
peared with the collected works of Castillejo, the following
printings of which are not available: Madrid, 1577; Ant-
werp, 1582.

26. Heroyda Ovidiana con parafrdsis espanolay morales reparos, tr.

Sebastian de Alvarado y Alvear. Bordeaux, Guillermo
Millanges, 1628.

This voluminous tome contains only Heroides VII of Ovid, the
bulk of the text consisting of extensive "Morales Reparos"
added by the translator. Although lauded by name in Lope's
Laurel de Apolo, Sebastian de Alvarado y Alvear is generally
considered to be a pseudonym. The work was not reprinted.

27. Ovid and Seneca. El remedio del amor y El libra de la breuedad de la

vida in Luis Carillo y Sotomayor, Obras. Madrid, Luis
Sanchez, 1613. (2)

The posthumously published works of Carillo include transla-
tions of the first half of Remedio amoris in redondillas and of
De brevitate vitae in prose.

Persius. See no. 18.

Phocylides. See no. 10.

28. Plutarch. Apothegmas, tr. Diego Gracian de Alderete. Alcaic,

Miguel de Erguia, 1533.

This is one of the few published translations "de lengua
Griega en Castellana." The Apothegmas, "con algunas addi-
ciones y declaraciones mas que la primera vez," were re-
printed with Gracian's translations of the Morales of Plutarch
(Alcala, 1548).

29. El primer volumen de las vidas de illustres y excellentes

varones griegosy romanos, tr. Francisco de Enzinas. Strasbourg,
Augustin Frisio, 1551.

Although the title-page announces this work as the "Primer
volumen," no continuation appeared. The translation in-
cludes eight lives: those of Theseus, Romulus, Lycurgus, Numa
Pompilius, Solon, Valerius Publicola, Themistocles, and
Camillus. Authorship of the latter two has been ascribed to
Gracian de Alderete because of a discrepancy in pagination
which may corroborate other extenuating circumstances

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(cf. MMP, Trad., II, 26-27). The copies of the princeps be-
longing to PU and to the Hispanic Society are defective in
that they contain only the text and a portada which does not
identify the translator. The original title-page, which does
identify Enzinas, and a dedicatoria addressed to Carlos V are
preserved intact in the Yale copy — their removal having been
occasioned by Enzinas' sympathy for Lutheranism. None of
the reprintings are available: Cologne, 1561, 1562, and 1612.

30. Vida de Numa Pompilio, tr. Antonio Costa. Barcelona,

loseph Llopis, 1693. (2)

The title-page of the second printing implies that the trans-
lator worked with a Greek text. The princeps (Zaragoza, 1667)
is not available.

31. Salust. Obras, tr. Emanuel Sueyro. Antwerp, Juan Keergerghio,

1615.

The title of this work is slightly misleading, for the translation
only includes Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Jugurthinum. The
only reprint (Madrid, 1632) is not available.

32. Seneca. Proverbios, tr. Pero Diaz de Toledo. Seville, Juan Crom-

berger, 1535. (10)

Although authorship of these sententiae is questionable, they
were ascribed to Seneca throughout the Middle Ages and in
this edition were distributed to the Spanish public under
Seneca's name until the middle of the 16th century (cf. HR,
XII, 29-48). The princeps (Zamora, 1482) may be consulted
in the Huntington Library, but the following reprints are not
available: Seville, 1491; Zaragoza, 1496; Toledo, 1500;
Seville, 1528.

33. Los cinco libros, tr. Alfonso de Cartagena. Seville, Mein-

hardus Ungut, 1491-1510. (1-2)

Alcala, Miguel

Erguia, 1530. (3)

The Cinco Libros include De la vida bienaventurada, De las siete
artes liber ales, De amonestamientos y doctrinas, and two books of
De la providencia de Dios. Although Cartagena's name does not
appear in any of the printed editions of this translation,
authorship has been verified by manuscript versions. The PU
copy is composed of the first few leaves of the princeps (Seville,
1491) and the remaining pages of the first reprinting (Seville,
1510). Complete copies of both printings may be consulted in
the Hispanic Society. The fourth and fifth printings are un-
available: Antwerp, 1548 and 1551.

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34. Los libros de beneficiis, tr. El Licenciado Pedro Fernandez

de Navarrete. Madrid, Emprenta del Reyno, 1629.
This version of the seven books of De Beneficiis is sometimes
confused with the same translator's renditions of miscellane-
ous works of Seneca published two years earlier under the
title, Los siete libros. No reprints of this translation of De
Beneficiis are known.
See also no. 27.

35. Tacitus. Las obras, tr. Emanuel Sueyro. Madrid, Viuda de
Alonso Martin, 1614. (2)

In spite of the implications of the title, the translation "de
Latin en Castellano" only includes Annales I-VI and XI-
XVI, Historiae I-V, Germania, and Agricola. The only two
copies oi the princeps (Antwerp, 1613) in the United States are
at the University of Illinois and in the present author's per-
sonal library.

36, Tdcito espanol ilustrado con qforismos, tr. Baltasar Alamos

de Barrientos. Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1614.
Tdcito espanol includes translations of Annales I-VI and XI-
XVI, Historiae I-V, Germania, and Agricola. In addition to
the texts of Tacitus, Alamos has added "Aforismos," which
appear as marginalia, a brief biography of Tacitus, and a geo-
graphical appendix to Germania. The latter two derive from
the editions of Tacitus by Justus Lipsius. The translation was
not reprinted contemporaneously; however, the Aforismos
were extracted and edited by Antonio de Fuertes y Biota and
Juan Ollate and published in Antwerp, 1651. The latter pub-
lication is not available.

37. Terence. Las seis comedias, tr. Pedro Simon Abril. Alcala, Juan

Gracian, 1583. (2)

The translation is printed in double-face with the Latin
original. The second printing was revised according to the
Italian translation of Gabriel Faerno (Florence, 1565) and to
advice given to the translator personally by Francisco
Sanchez de las Brozas. The work includes all six of the plays
of Terence: Andria, Eiinuchus, Hauton, Timorumenos, Adelphi,
Hecyra, and Phormio. The third printing (Barcelona, 1599)
is unavailable.

38. Thucydides. Historia . . . de las guerras enlre los Peloponeses y

Athenienses, tr. Diego Gracian de Alderete. Salamanca, Juan

de Canova, 1564.

The title-page announces this translation of all eight books of

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the History of the Peloponnesiati War {o have been made "de
Griego en CastcUano." No early reprints are known; however,
the text is available in the Biblioteca clasica, CXX and
CXXIII (Madrid, 1924).

39. Virgil. Los doze libros de la Etirida [tr. Grcgorio Hernandez de
Velasco]. Anlwerp, Juan RcUero, n.d. (2)
The hrst edition and ii\o of its reprints do not reveal the name
of the translator; all of the printings prior to 1574 contain
only the 12 books of the Arneid, in "octava rima y verso
Castellano," and the Carta of Augustus Caesar in praise of the
At'tu'id. The third reprint (Alcalii, 1563), bears the translator's
name on the title-page. The 6th and 7th printings of the
original edition are not a\ailal)le: Antwerp, 1567 and 1572.
An augmented edition, including Eclogues I and IV of Virgil,
appeared in Toledo in 1574; this edition and its reprintings
also bear the translator's name. The following reprints of the
augmented edition are not available: Antwerp, 1575; Alcah'i,
1586; Zaragoza, I5S6.

40. Las obras, tr. Diego L6pez. Madrid, Juan de la Cuesta,

1614. (2)

Madrid, Gabriel de Le6n,

1668. (10)

The text includes the prose translations of the Aeneid, Eclogues,
and Georgics, together with extensive commentaries. Neither
the f'rincc/'s (\'a!ladolid, 1600) nor the following reprints are
available: Madrid, l6l6, 1641, 1657, and 1675.

41. Eglogas V Gcorgicas, tr. Crist6bal de Mesa. Madrid, Juan

de la Cuesta, 1618.

Willi the publication of this volume. Mesa completed his
translation of the major o/>rra of Virgil, his version of the
Aeneid having been published in Madrid, 1615. In addition to
the X'irgilian translations, the work contains Mesa's tragedy
El PornptYo and a collection of his Rimas, among which are
included two dillerent translations of Carmitia I, 14 of Horace
as well as one of Epodes 2. No reprints are known.

42. Xenophon. Las obras, tr. Diego GraciSn de Alderete. Salamanca,
Juan de Junta, 1552.

In spite of tlie title, the work only contains the following
works of Xenophon, divided into three major parts: 1. Cyro-
pedia; 2. Anabasis; 3. On the Cavalry Commander, On the Art of
Horsemanship, The Constitution of the Lacedaemonians, and On
Hunting. The work was translated "de Griego en Castellano."

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Akhouf^li n(; contemporary rcprinlin^s arc recorded, the text
is available in liihlioteca CUsica, XLVI (Madrid, 1914;.
See also no. 8.

B. Collections

1. Lupercio y Bartolornf'; Leonardo de Argensola, Rima?. Zaragoza,

Hospital Real, 1634.

Included in the works of Lupercio is a translation of Epodes 2
of Ii(;racc as well as the fcjllowing from Carmina: 1,5; 11,8;
111,5,6, and 7. The translations of Bartholome include
Epigrams 1,76 and IX, 16 of Martial as well as the Horatian
Sermones 1,9 and Carmina 1,35 and 111,7. Raymond Foulchf'-
DellKJSC ("Pour une edition des Argensolas," Rlli, XLVIII
[1920], 317-371; and Jose Manuel Blccua (ed., Rimas. 2 vols.
\Lc\r<\'^^y/.<\, 1950-1951]) distinguish two slightly different
tiradas of the 1634 edition of the Rimas; the present author
adds two more, designating all four as follows: A (Blecua edi-
tion); B (PU-J.P.W. Crawford copy); C (PU — H.A. Ren-
nert copy); D (Hispanic Society). Ihe differences between
the four do not affect the Argensola texts but rather consist of
variations of order of assembly and inclusion and deletion of
indices, minor preliminaries, and separate title-pages. No
other contemporary reprintings of the Rimas are known.

2. Alonso de Barros, tr. Proverbios morales. Madrid, Alonso Martin,

1608. (6)

This collecticjn of "consejos y sentencias de gravissimos
Filosofos, Griegos y Latinos" has been published under
several diflferent titles and has undergone one major revision
by Xim<?nez Pat6n (cf. no. 3). The text consists of a numbered
listing of 1062 sentenliae the authorship of which are not identi-
fied. I'hc following reprintings of the original edition are not
to be found in the United States: Madrid, 1587 and 1601;
Barcelona, 1609 and 1619.

3. , ed. Bartolom^Ximenez Paton.

Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1617. (2)

This edition of the Barros collection of sentenliae includes the
Latin proverbs with their respective authors (cf. no. 2) and is
augrnent(;d by 38 proverbs.

4. Antonic; de Solis y Rivadeneira, Varias poesias sagradasy projanas.
Madrid, Anttjnio Roman, 1692.

This posthumous edition of the works of Solis includes a sec-
tion entitled "Varios Fragmentos de Poetas Latinos Tra-
duzidos" which contains exceedingly brief .selections from the

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works of Ovid (Ars amandi, III; Epistulae ex Ponto I, 3 and III,
4; Tristia V, 1), Horace {Carmina I, 22; Epistulae I, 18; Ars
poetica),]\xwQml {Satirae I, 6), and Seneca {Thyestes).T\i& work
was not reproduced in the 17th century.

5. Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Las eroticas o amatorias. Najera,
Juan de Mongaston, 1617.

The Eroticas are divided into two parts which present a minor
bibUographical problem. Although both portions were
printed in Najera by Juan de Mongaston, they bear separate
portadas; Part I, dedicated to Philip III, is dated 1618, and
Part II, dedicated to the Conde de Lemos, is dated 1617.
A second copy in the Hispanic Society consists of Part II
only. Another complete edition was published by the same
printer in Najera, 1620; however, the copy thereof in the
Hispanic Society contains only Part I. Part I contains trans-
lations of 49 of the Odes of Anacreon, Carmina 5 and 72 of
Catullus, and 47 of the Carmina of Horace; Part II includes
Idylls VI of Theocritus and Epigrams V, 29 of Martial.

NOTES

1 . In the nineteenth century, three major bibliographies of European transla-
tions appeared. The earliest (F. L. A. Schweiger. Handbuch der Classichen
Bibliographie. 3 vols. [Leipzig, 1830-34]) does attempt to include Spain;
however, in addition to numerous omissions, there is a general tendency
to ignore reprints and to create confusion with respect to anonymous trans-
lations. In practically no case does the author include translations which
were published together with original works. The second bibliography
(S. F. W. Hoffmann. Bibliographisches Lexicon der gesammten Litteratur der
Griechen. 3 vols. [Leipzig, 1838-1843]) tends to be subject to the same short-
comings as that of Schweiger and is, of course, confined to translations from
the Greek. The third (Wilhelm Engelmann. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum.
2 vols. [Leipzig, 1880-1882]) lists consistently only translations into German
and French, with an occasional English version, but ignores Spanish. Perhaps
the most complete attempt at a bibliography of translations from the Classics
into a modern European language is that of Henry Burrows Lathrop
{Translations from the Classics into English from Caxton to Chapman [1477-1602].
Madison, Wisconsin, 1933). However, the author's treatment of reprintings
is incomplete and, again, it seems that little effort has been made to incor-
porate translations that appeared together with original works.

2. Bibliografia hispano-latina cldsica (Madrid, 1902).

3. Bibliografia hispano-latina cldsica, ed. Enrique Sanchez de los Reyes, 10 vols.
(Santander, 1950-1953); Biblioteca de traductores esparioles, ed. Enrique
Sdnchcz de los Reyes, 4 vols. (Santander, 1952-1953).

4. In addition to monographs concerning the fate of a single Classical author
in Spain, only two other modern works attempt to list a considerable number

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of translations. The first of these (David Rubio, Classical Scholarship in Spain
[Washington, D. C, 1934]) is a veritable fund of mis-information. The sec-
ond (Gilbert Highet, La tradicion cldsica, tr. Antonio Alatorre, 2 vols. [Mexico,
1954]) only includes a cursory, partial listing of translations because of the
exigencies of space and scope.

Antonio Alatorre in Nueva revisia de filologia hispdnica, XIII (1959), 122; see
also Arnold G. Reichenberger, "Menendez y Pelayo and the Classics,"
Hispanic Review, XXIII (1955), 55-60, and Irving Rothberg in Romanic
Review, XLVI (1955), 128-131.

In addition to those editions listed in our annotations, it should be noted
that the following translations cannot be consulted in the United States (we
list only the date of the princeps) : Aesop, Pedro Simon Abril (1546); Aesop,
Arfe y Villafane (1586); Aristotle, Juan de Jarava (1546); Cato, Garcia de
Santa Maria (1494); Cebes, "Doctor Poblacion" (1532); Cebes, Juan de
Jarava (1549); Cebes, Pedro Simon Abril (1586); Caesar, Garcia de Olivan
(1570); Caesar, Carlos Bonyeres (1647); Cicero, Pedro Simon Abril (1572
and 1574); Cicero, Gabriel Aulon (1574); Cicero, anon. (1609 and 1613);
Euclid, Luis Carduchi (1637); Euclid, Jacobo Kresa (1688); Euclid,
Larrando de Mauleon (1698); Galen, Jeronimo Menillo (1572); Herodian,
Fernan Flores (1532); Juvenal, Jeronimo de Villegas (1519); Lucian, Juan
de Jarava (1544); Lucian, anon. (1551, 1623, and 1626); Lucian, Bravo de
Lagunas (1634); Onosander, Tomas Rebolledo (1625); Plautus, anon.
(1554 and 1555); Plutarch, anon. (1538 and 1547); Seneca, Juan Melio de
Sande (1612); Seneca, Alfonso Revenga (1626); Tacitus, Carlos Coloma
(1629); Tacitus, Juan Rodriguez de Lancina (1687); Virgil, Juan Fernandez
de Idiaquez (1574); and Veleius Paterculus, Emanuel Sueyro (1630).

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Maclure Collection Serials:
A Descriptive Catalogue

James D. Hardy, Jr. *
John H. Jensen * *

THE serial publications in the Maclure Collection of the
University of Pennsylvania form one of the most important
parts of that large group of French Revolutionary publications.^
There are thirty-nine serials in all, numbering 677 volumes out
of the 1436 volumes which make up the Maclure Collection.
They range in date from 1768 to 1815, in type from royal
almanachs to reactionary anti-Jacobin journals of the most
ephemeral character, and in milieux from pre-revolutionary salon
and theater to the assemblies of Napoleon. Unlike the volumes of
private brochures and official pieces, which bring together items
of specialized interest (finance, public welfare, education, law,
military and naval administration, public lands, etc.) bound in
some semblance of topical order, these serial publications are
catholic in subject matter and chronological in organization.

The researcher is able to gain from the serials the continuity
and, on occasion, the guides (indices, chronologies, personal data,
etc.), which cast essential light upon the single items which
predominate in the remainder of the collection. Then, too, occa-
sional duplicates of materials in the serial groupings are found
elsewhere in the collection; these are readily identified if the
researcher has worked first with the serials. The officially pub-
lished serials, such as the proces-verbaux of the various assemblies,
and the privately printed journals, which include summaries of
the legislative proceedings, give brief indications of the subject
matter and viewpoints of the discourses, reports, and debates in
their chronological order; these can be found in complete and
often corrected form in other parts of the collection, arranged
topically. Thus, while the serials have an obvious intrinsic value

* Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bucknell University.

* * Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of South Jersey.

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to the historian, they are also essential supplements of the other
materials in the Maclure Collection.

This examination of the serials in the Maclure Collection is
divided as follows: a. privately printed serials with no official
character; b. serials of official or semi-official character, whether
printed privately or by the Imprimerie Nationale (IN).

Private Serials

The private and unofficial publications show an amazing
variety of type and viewpoint. There is a record of the daily
activities of eighteenth-century artists and writers, an inflamma-
tory Jacobin weekly, an anti-republican journal, and a serial of
liberal comment on the first Bourbon restoration. The smallest
of these private publications is also the first in chronological
order. It is Memoires secrets pour servir a Phistoire de la Republique des
Lettres en France, depuis MDCCLXII jusque'a nos jours (1421).* A
single item, with substantial "Additions," it includes entries in
journal form for the period 6 July 1768 to 30 June 1771. Ap-
pended are three letters, dated 10 and 24 September and 3 Oc-
tober 1781. This volume is a sort of eighteenth-century Arts
Spectacles. The emphasis is on the day-to-day activities of the
writers, musicians, artists, actors, and actresses of Paris, with
copious comments upon current plays, concerts, books, and ex-
hibitions, based on salon discussions. There is no obvious
political slant. ^

With the coming of the revolution, newsheets sprang up in
Paris like mushrooms. The desire of the people for news from
Versailles produced numerous feuilles which gave, or pretended
to give, accounts of the Estates-General proceedings; political
propaganda often accompanied the news.

Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac, the famous (or infamous) trimmer
who survived every shift in the revolution's course, used his facile
tongue and pen in the cause of moderate liberal reform during
the first months of the National Constituent Assembly. Among
his other activities he found time to edit a newspaper entitled
Le point du jour ou resultat de ce qui s^est passe la veille a PAssemblee
Nationale (219). Although 26 volumes of this sheet were published

* Numbers in parentheses following a title will indicate the volume numbers in
the collection.

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from June 1789 to January 1791, only part of volume I (bis) is
represented in our holdings. Volume I, according to Martin and
Walter,^ contained an introduction to the journal and a survey
of events prior to 19 June 1789. A daily chronology and critique
is begun with volume I (bis). Twenty-nine of the forty numbers
of this first volume, covering the period 19 June to 22 July 1789,
are included. Number three, for 23 June, is missing. The daily
issues vary in size, ranging from three to sixteen pages. Published
by Cussac in Paris, the journal was distributed by the bookseller
Lagrange. Our holdings of this serial are augmented by two very
interesting "Supplements" of late July 1789. These two pam-
phlets are strong defenses of the conduct of the good people of Paris
at the time of the Bastille's capture. In them the future of Barere
as terrorist is foreshadowed; they justify the violence of elemental
passions by emphasizing the alleged royalist plot which was in
train to destroy the assembly.*

A more ephemeral daily of the same political complexion was
the Suite des nouvelles de Versailles (1422). Our set covers the period
from 30 June to 14 August 1789, in thirty-eight numbers, bound
in a single volume. Other individual pamphlets of the period are
bound with this periodical. Claude-Francois Beaulieu, the editor
of this journal, favored a moderate reform on the model of the
English constitution and devoted his talent to the Feuillant group
as party lines began to harden in 1791-92.^

Of a different stamp was the anti-monarchical journal of
Antoine-Joseph Gorsas, Le Courrier des departemens (26-73). Gorsas
had been an unsuccessful writer and teacher in the decade and a
half before 1789, whose satires had earned him at least one brief
imprisonment. Although this journal went through five major
name changes, its daily 1 6 pages were consistent in their devotion
to speeding the pace of reform. The march of the women to
Versailles was stimulated directly by the Courrier's account of
banqueting and reactionary speeches among the officers stationed
at the palace (number of 4 October 1789). After taking an active
- part in destroying the monarchy, Gorsas broke with the Jacobins
in February 1793; his print shop was ruined by a sans-cullottes mob
in March, and he was forced into hiding in June after the exclu-
sion of the Girondists with whom he had associated himself. His

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discovery, trial, and execution in a single day (7 October 1793)
demonstrated the depth of the wounds inflicted by his journal.*'
Gorsas was his own editor and printer. The Maclure Collection
includes the complete set, 48 volumes in six series, covering the
period 5 July 1789 to 31 May 1793.

Still further toward the republican extreme left was the journal
Revolutions de Paris (9-25), directed by the writer-printer Louis
Prudhomme. Working under Prudhomme were some of the most
able professional publicists of the period, including Elysee
Loustalot (a collaborator of Camille Desmoulins), Pierre-
Gaspard Chaumette (associated with Hebert), Pierre-Sylvain
Marechal, and Philippe Fabre d' Eglantine. Although early num-
bers were printed by Baudouin and Laporte, Prudhomme's
enterprise was successful enough to provide him with his own
print shop and sales rooms by 1789. The crude prints which are
included with many of the 32 to 48 page weekly numbers are of
particular interest to the specialist in iconographic history. This
set is complete in seventeen volumes without the concluding
volume of departmental maps.^ Unlike his friends Chaumette
and Fabre d' Eglantine, Prudhomme escaped the guillotine to
write anti-revolutionary and pro-Bourbon pamphlets and books
in his old age.^

The well-known left-Republican journal of Camille Des-
moulins, Revolutions de France et de Brabant (5), is represented by
the first volume, numbers 1 to 1 3, which appeared weekly during
the period 28 November 1789 to 22 February 1790. L. Jorry of
the Rue de la Huchette printed these first numbers for the young
publicist.

In 1790-1792 reforming and republican orators drew ammuni-
tion for their discourses from the imposing monthly digest of
respected social and political thinkers, Bibliotheque de rhomme
publique, ou analyse raisonnee des principaux ouvrages frangois et
etr angers (1440-1452), edited by L. S. Balestrier de Canilhac and
distributed by Buisson. Condorcet, Peysonnel, and Le Chapellier
lent their names to this enterprise, but the Abbe Balestrier did the
work.^ Each 200-250 page monthly volume contains surveys of
the views of two or more writers, beginning with Aristotle's
Politics, and continuing through Hume, Bolingbroke, Dio Cassius,

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Bacon, Mably, Filangieri, Plato, and Mirabeau (among others),
to Voltaire's comments on Montesquieu in the last number. Our
collection is complete, with twenty-eight issues in fourteen
volumes for the years 1790, 1791, and 1792.

Of very different character was the Courier Republicain (375-
377), which in spite of its name, launched vigorous assaults upon
republican institutions under the guise of anti-Jacobinism after
the fall of Robespierre in 1794. Its monarchist editor, Martin
Durand-Molard, printed daily fascicles of eight pages. The
Maclure Collection includes numbers 274-404, in 3 volumes, for
the four and a half month period from 14 Thermidor, II to 23
Frimaire, III (August 1 to December 13, 1794). Although the
paper is cheap and dirty, the type worn and poorly set, and the
individual numbers sometimes confused, the continuity of the set
is good. Only numbers 307 and 350 are missing.

Two of these private serials were in direct competition with
each other. In May 1789 the printer Devaux started the Journal
des Etats-Generaux et Assemblee Nationale Permanente (74-100). This
attempt to provide a stenographic account of the deliberations of
the National Assembly appeared each month.

Beginning with volume three it was edited by Hodey de
Saultchevreuil. Between volumes six and seven Devaux fired his
editor, and finished the rest of the twenty-seven volumes himself.
The infuriated Hodey de Saultchevreuil began his own Journal
des Etats-Generaux et Assemblee Nationale Permanente (101-133),
edited and published by himself.^'' He aimed to make liis journal
more complete than his rival's, and ran it to thirty-five volumes,
including the first six, which he published after the event in 1790.
The two journals have almost the same format, the same title,
the same coverage, and competed directly for the same readers.
We have a complete set of Devaux's journal, and, in our set of
Hodey's, only volume five is missing.

Hodey did not stop publishing with the end of the Constituent
Assembly. He continued to issue the debates of the Legislative
Assembly under the title Journal de l^ Assemblee Nationale, ou Journal
Lithographique (213-218). The six volumes in our holdings are
numbered on the title pages, and cover the period 1 October 1791
to 30 December 1791.

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The political crises of the Directory period are represented in
our holdings by the monarchist journal La Memorial (1222). This
journal appeared during the late spring and summer of 1797,
until the events of Fructidor forced a temporary eclipse of
royalist activity; the exact dates are: 1 Prairial to 18 Fructidor,
an 5, or 20 May— 4 September 1797.

Our set of this four-page daily sheet is complete, except for the
numbers of 23 June and 4 September. The editors, Jean-
Frangois de la Harpe, Simon Jerome Vauxcelles (Abbe de
Bourlet), and the Marquis de Fontanes, produced a thoroughly
reactionary journal. ^^

The last of the private serials in the collection is Le Censeur
(640-643). Actually, this title represents three different types of
serials. Le Censeur proper was published irregularly (but on an
average of once a week) with varying numbers of pages from 1 2
June to 30 September 1814. Its editors, Francois Comte and
Barthelemy Dunoyer, produced an exciting and implacable foe
of royal absolutism. Supplementing their journal was a separately
paged "Bulletin du Censeur," which provided brief items of very
recent news during the period 1 July to 22 September 1814.
In our holdings these two series are bound together in roughly
chronological order in the volume marked "Le Censeur 1."
These two series were superseded in the autumn of 1814, when
Royer-Collard's press law exposed journals of less than thirty
pages to royal censorship. Now Le Censeur was printed at approxi-
mately bi-monthly intervals in book-length volumes to evade the
new law. Our collection includes the volumes for November
1814, January (?) and March (?) 1815 in this series. They are
marked "Le Censeur 2, 3, 4." This journal was published
through to September 1815 when it was suppressed by action of
the Royal government; there were seven volumes issued in all.

Government Serials

The second type of serial in the Maclure Collection is the
official or semi-official journal, printed by order or concession of
the legislatures or governments of the various regimes. There are
twenty-eight such serials in the Maclure Collection. For the most
part they show a distinct similarity and continuity, and vary only

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slightly in format from regime to regime. All were published in
Paris, generally by Baudouin or the Imprirnerie Nationale (IN). The
proces-verbaux of the National Constituent Assembly is followed by
that of the Legislative Assembly, then the Convention, the Direc-
tory, and finally the Consulate. The same is true of the Journal
des debats et decrets, and various decree collections. There are pub-
lications of this type which are peculiar to a single regime; the
Bulletin Decadaire exists only for the last year of the Directory.
Even these, however, though name and format change from
government to government, are of a type; they are designed to
enlighten the public about the successes of the government.
Finally, there are serials of a specific nature, each dealing with a
single topic: e.g. almanacs, lists of emigres, and minutes of the
sessions of the electors of Paris.

It is not always easy to distinguish between ofliicial and semi-
official serials. The proces-verbaux of the various assemblies are
undoubtedly official. With some of the decree collections one is
not so certain. Were these collections commissioned by the
government or issued on the initiative of an entrepreneur? It is
difficult to be sure. In any case, though, we can be sure the
decrees are official, even if the collection is not. Thus we have
lumped all serials dealing with official material into a single
category, whether it was possible to determine if an assembly
ordered a particular publication or not.

This confusion and indistinctness of function extends to the
printers of official serials. It is not always easy to distinguish
between private printers and government agencies in the revolu-
tionary period. While the majority of government publications
were run off" on the busy presses of the IN (located in the work-
shops of the old Imprirnerie Royal on the ground floor of the
Louvre), some projects were farmed out to private shops, espe-
cially to Baudouin. Baudouin was one of the few pre-revolution-
ary master printers who enjoyed the confidence of the various
assemblies, and maintained himself successfully into the Direc-
.tory period. He, and some other private operators who obtained
government contracts (for example, Agasse, Testu, Rondonneau)
did not scruple to exploit the IN imprint, though they often used
their own. The problem is complicated by the fact that the IN

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sometimes referred to itself as the Imprirnerie de la Republique, and
that ministries and even local government agencies, the electoral
assembly of Paris, for example, had their publications printed
separately from those of the assemblies. Often they used distin-
guishing imprints, even though their work was contracted to the
IN or to private firms. In this, as in so much else, the revolu-
tionaries were following in the pragmatic path of the old regime.

A very interesting and valuable example of a semi-official
publication is the almanac. Almanacs had been appearing
annually for a century before the revolution. Each one was
packed with information about the various officials of the French
government. The swollen revolutionary bureaucracy more than
replaced the vanished royal officials who had graced the pages
of earlier numbers. In the first years of the revolutionary period
the almanacs changed little, remaining the Almanacks Royaux
until 1792. We have almanacs for the years 1779, 1783, pub-
lished by Laurent d'Houry, for 1791 by the widow d'Houry, and
for 1792 by the new proprietor, Testu (1-4). Although there
were pirated editions of the Almanacks Royaux, the Maclure Col-
lection has the approved line. The Almanacks-Nationaux for the
years 1799-1803 (586-589), published by Testu are included, as
are Testu's productions for the years 1806-1811 (633-638),
titled Almanacks Imperiaux. In all, fifteen editions of the almanac,
packed with names and organizational information for a span of
over forty years, are included in our holdings.

After the delegates of Paris to the Estates General were
selected and provided with cahiers, the city's assembly of electors
remained in session. In July 1789 it literally took over the govern-
ment of Paris; it directed the formation of the middle class
national guard, elected Bailly mayor, and issued its proces-
verbaux in the summer of 1790. This serial, published in three
volumes by Baudouin, is entitled Proc'e s-verbal des seances et
deliberations de PAssemblee generale des electeurs de Paris, reunis a
V Hotel de Ville, le Idjuillet 1789, relige depuis le 26 avril jusqu'au 21
mai 1789 par M. Bailly . . . et, depuis le 22 mai jusqu'au 30 juillet
1789 par M. Duveyrier. The set also contains minutes of the meet-
ings of the electors from 30 December 1789 to 8 April 1790, the
Paris cahier on constitutional reform, messages of congratulations

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from municipal assemblies all over France, and a valuable list of
the electors of Paris who met on the 14th of July. These latter
items, which together make up the third volume, were probably
added by Baudouin to increase the attractiveness of his wares.

The emigration problem was the subject of another official
collection. Beginning in 1794, the Ministry of Finance, through
its Commission of National Revenue, issued a Liste generale des
individus comdamnes par Jugemens, ou mis hors de la Loi par Decrets, et
dont les Biens ont He declares confisques au profit de la Republicque . . .
(386, 386a-c, 387-400), published by the Imprimerie des domaines
nationaux. From time to time the list was re-issued and supple-
mented as new names were added or subtracted, and as returned
emigres obtained the restoration of their properties. Our holdings
include fifteen volumes.

The largest group of serials in the Maclure Collection is the
relatively homogeneous mass of legislative minutes, journals,
decrees, and bulletins. The proces-verbaux of the sessions of the
various assemblies is the basic type of this group of official publi-
cations. These are the minutes of the meetings of assemblies, and
include the texts of decrees adopted or amended. The Proces-
verbal de PAssemblee Nationale (134-157) covers the period from
June 12, 1789 to September 30, 1791, the last session of the
National Constituent Assembly. Each session is numbered in
sequence, from 1 to 782. The twenty-four volumes of the series
were printed by Baudouin, on a contract from the Constituent
Assembly. We have two complete sets of this serial. The Proces-
verbal de PAssemblee Nationale (195-210) is also the title of the
Legislative Assembly's publication in this class. Since he was not
a delegate to the Legislative Assembly, Baudouin did not receive
the contract to print this, and it was done by the IN. It covers
the period of the Legislative Assembly, from October 1, 1791 to
September 21, 1792 in sixteen volumes. There is no numbering
system for the individual sessions. The Proces-verbal de la Conven-
tion Nationale (275-337) continues the two publications just noted.
We have the complete set for the Convention in 72 volumes
(several of the volumes are bound together), from September 20,
1792 to October 25, 1795, again from the printshop of the IN.

The proces-verbal of the Convention shows the deterioration of
printing and paper that was the unhappy hallmark of the Con-

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vention period. This type of serial was continued by the Directory
in the dual form demanded by its bicameral legislative system.
The Corps Legislatif: Proces-verbal des seances du conseil des cinq cents
(401-451) was published by the IN in 51 volumes. It covers the
period from October 25, 1795 to December 23, 1799, when
Napoleon dissolved the council. Its companion publication, the
Corps Legislatif: Proces-verbal des seances du conseil des anciens (452-
499), also printed by the IN, covers the same period in 48
volumes. The last regime of the revolutionary period is the
Consulate. Like the constitution of the Directory period, Napo-
leon's constitution of 1 800 provided for two legislative assemblies.
The proces-verbaux of their sessions are also present among our
Maclure holdings. The Proces verbal des seances du Tribunat (590-
609), printed by the IN in twenty-one volumes, covers the years
December 28, 1799 to November 23, 1801. The Proces-verbal des
seances du Corps Legislatif (610-628), the minutes of the lower
house, covers the period from December 31, 1799 to April 3,
1804 in 19 volumes. This collection also came from the presses of
the IN. These last two collections, which give us coverage of the
early Consulate, are the only proces-verbaux in our holdings to be
provided with their own indices (629-632).

A second major type of official publication covering the entire
period from 1789 to 1800 for legislative activities was the Journal
des Debats et Decrets. Like the proces-verbal, the journal proceeded
from session to session, describing events, speeches, decrees,
passed and rejected, and the reports presented by individuals and
committees. Used together, the proces-verbal and the Journal des
debats complement each other with some necessary details present
in each. For the National Constituent Assembly, Baudouin held
the contract for the puh\ica.tion oi the Journal des debats (158-179).
He issued twenty-five volumes for the period August 1789 to
September 30, 1791; the issues were numbered from 1 to 862.
The Maclure Collection has two partial sets of this serial, which
can be combined to produce a complete set. The Journal (220-
232) continued in this same form during the period of the Legisla-
tive Assembly, and was carried on by the IN during the National
Convention (338-374). The Journal des debats et decrets: Corps
Legislatif was the continuation of the serial for the Directory.
Again printed by Baudouin, its fifty-one volumes included the

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entire Directory period, from October, 1795 to October, 1799 as
well as part of the Consulate, November 11, 1799 to January 21,
1800 (505-555). Thus the Library's Maclure holdings carry this
important pubUcation in an unbroken progression from August
1789 to 1801. Unfortunately, no indices or tables of contents are
present for these journals.

Decree collections form the third major category of official
serial publications. The decrees of the National Constituent
Assembly, printed by the ubiquitous Baudouin, were published
as the Collection generale des decrets rendus par PAssemblee Rationale
(180-193). Each of the thirteen individual volumes has an index;
volume fourteen is a general index for the years 1789-1790. The
collection covers the period from May 6, 1789 to July 31, 1791.
A further Collection generale des decrets (233-240) for the period
September 1791-August 1792 provided publicity for the work of
the Legislative Assembly under the first constitution. The Na-
tional Convention also published collections of decrees and
orders in council. The largest and most complete of these pub-
lications in the Maclure Collection is the Collection generale des
decrets rendus par la Convention Nationale (245-274) . Complete for
the period January 1, 1793 to October 25, 1795, this thirty
volume set was published monthly under government contract by
Baudouin, who had now acquired the title of "Imprimeur de la
Convention Nationale." In the Baudouin tradition, the paper
and printing was of good quality for this period of terror and war.
Each volume had an index and a chronological table of decrees.
Another, smaller collection of decrees printed by the IN, Arretes,
Declarations, et decrets de la Convention Nationale (241-244), is nearly
complete for the period from September 20, 1792 to May 31,
1793. This fills the gap at the beginning of Baudouin's Collection
generale for the year 1792. The decrees were numbered from 1
to 242; numbers 43, 74, 227, and 240 are missing. The deteriora-
tion of paper and print-casting in the government's workshop is
very apparent in these volumes. The Arretes de Comites de la
Convention Nationale (383-385) completes our holdings of Na-
tional Convention executive and legislative decrees. Designed to
guide responsible local ofl^icials, our set covers the post-terror
period, from August 7, 1794 to August 19, 1795. 101 numbers of

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this serial were issued in some 13 months. For the Directory in
this class, we hold the serial Corps LegislatiJ: Resolutions (556—
583). Containing the resolutions of both councils, it gives the
measures adopted and rejected by the legislature. These resolu-
tions led to laws and decrees in many cases, and for that reason
are valuable in the absence of a decree collection. The unsuccess-
ful resolutions help to complete the picture of legislative experi-
mentation. Published in four series by the IN, the twenty-eight
volumes of the serial cover the period from November 3, 1795 to
November 9, 1799. Only about two weeks of the Directory are
not included. The set is complete, but does not have an index or
table of contents.

The fourth major category of official serials in the Maclure
Collection is the government bulletin, published to inform the
people of the successes and activities of the regime. This ex-
tremely vital function under the Convention became progres-
sively more perfunctory. The Napoleonic bulletin had abandoned
propaganda for popular consumption in favor of straightfor-
ward information. Our first broadside of this type is the
Bulletin de la Convention Nationale (378-382). These five volumes
cover the period December 23, 1794 to October 25, 1795, slightly
less than a year. Badly printed by the IN, it is innocent of index
and table of contents. Our set lacks the numbers for the dates
5 January, 13 March, 8 April, and June 9, 1795. Toward the end
of its shaky existence, the Directory government issued the
Bulletin Decadaire (584-585). It was printed every ten days by
the Imprimerie de la Republique, from September 22, 1798 to
November 12, 1799. Again, it had no index or table of contents
and, like its predecessor, included propaganda as well as news.
Finally, for the Consulate, there are the Feuilletons of the Corps
Legislatif and Tribunat (639). We hold this series for the period
from January 1, 1800 to November 7, 1800. The individual
sheets were numbered from 1 to 70, and were printed by the IN.
The large early numbers had vanished by the middle of 1801;
the last twenty issues were only single sheets. The importance of
this type of public propaganda was diminishing, as the power
and confidence of Bonaparte increased.

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The volumes containing these serial publications have been
put into roughly chronological order and grouped together as the
first sections of the Maclure Collection. In general, with the
exceptions noted, the volumes are marked clearly with simplified
titles. The spines of the volumes are also marked with the num-
bers given in parentheses after each title in this article.

NOTES

1. For a general introduction to the Maclure Collection, see: J. H.
Jensen, "Seven volumes from the Maclure Collection: a catalogue,"
Library Chronicle, XXVI (1960), 83-102.

2. Monod assigns this series to Bachaumont and indicates that thirty-
six volumes were published between 1767 and 1789, in London
(G. Monod, Bibliographie de Vhistoire de France . . . depuis ses
origines jusqii'en 1789 (Paris, 1888), p. 363. See Hoefer, Nouvelle
biographic generate (Paris, 1859), IV, 55, article on Louis Bachau-
mont (d. 1771). The serial was continued after 1771 by Pidansat de
Mairebert.

3. A. Martin & G. Walter, Catalogue de Vhistoire de la Revolution franqaise
(Paris, 1943), V, 507.

4. See article "Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac" in M. Prevost and
R. D'Amat, Dictionaire de biographic franqaise (Paris, 1951), V,
columns 443-445.

5. See article "Claude-Frangois Beaulieu" in Prevost & D'Amat, V,
columns 1114-1115.

6. See article "Antoine-Joseph Gorsas" in A. Robert, E. Bourloton,
and G. Cougny, Dictionaire des Parlementaires franqais (Paris, 1891)
III, 208-209.

7. A summary of major topics in issues of this serial may be found in
Martin & Walter, V, 540-556.

8. His Histoire generate et impartiale des erreurs, des fautes et des crimes
commis pendant la Revolution Francaise . . . (Paris, 1797) is included
in our holdings (1230-1235).

9. See article "Balestrier de Canilhac" in Prevost & D'Amat, IV,
columns 1428-1429.

10. Hoefer, XV, 434.

11. Robert, Bourloton, and Cougny, III, 21-23; a summary of the con-
tents of this serial may be found in Martin & Walter, V, 368-371.

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A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries
of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800

Norman P. Zacour
Supplement I*

Dutch 1

PSALTERIUM cum canticis, beginning with a table of the seven peni-
tential psalms (ff.lv-2r), followed by the calendar, with two stanzas of
verses (4 lines each) at the end of each month (ff.3r-14v), inc. (verse at
end of January): Snijt vleys voer onsen coninck ian; expl. (December):
Leest wel wildy ewich vrolick wesen; table of psalms 21, 43, 45, 49, 53,
59, 62, 66, 69, 71, 78, 81, 82, 93, 108 (fr.l5r-16v), inc.: Cm te vinden die
XV psalmen die men leset voer alle gheloinghe sielen; text of psalms,
translated from the vulgate, with initial Latin words, and marginal
notes showing variations from Hebrew (fF.17r-127v), inc.: Davids
eersten psalm. Beatus vir. Alich is die man die niet gegaen en is in den
raet der ongodliker; canticles, litanies and collects (ff.l27v-139r), inc.:
Dat Canticum van Ezechias den coninc van iuda doen hy sieck lach
vander pestilentien, expl.: god ewelick sonder eynde. Amen (ff.l27v-
139r). Netherlands, 15th cent.

Vellum. 143 ff. (unnumb. f. between ff. 101 and 102). 11.5 x 16 cm. Red
and blue capitals and rubrics. Vellum.

Dutch 2

FRANEKER, Academy. Resolutions of the governing body, relating to
appointments of professors and other official matters, 1683-1709.
Franeker, 1683-1709.

Paper. 81 ff. 32 x 20.5 cm. Contemp. vellum.

Dutch 3

RIJNLAND, Heemraad. Privilegien der Heemraad van Rijnland,
1255-1658. Netherlands, early 18th cent.

Paper. 3 blank, 110, 4 blank ff. 26 x 20.5 cm. Contemp. calf with gilt arms
of Rijnland.

Dutch 4

LANTRECHT van Zallant, van Twenthe, van VuUenhoe, van
Drenthe, mit anderen privilegen des landes van Oberijssell. Netherlands,
ca. 1546 (date of the last item, "Reformatie van soven articulen in den
lantrechte," f.90r).

* Continued from v. XXVIII, no. 2, pp. 115-125

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Vellum. 93 ff. (preceded and followed by single blank f.) 22 x 15 cm. Con-
temp, vellum. — Detailed contents, with bibliogr. references, by the archivist of
Drenthe, dated 1895, laid in.

Eng. 18

MARY ISHERWOOD. A general atlas being a collection of maps of
the world and quarters with a geographical clock and mariners com-
pass. England, ca. 1770.

Paper. 34 ff. (last blank) and 30 ff. (maps). 34 x 27 cm. 24 colored maps.
Contemp. boards.

Eng. 19

[JAMES TURNER]. Report of the Privy Council respecting Sir James
Turner together with his petition to the King, his letters to the Duke of
Lauderdale and his narrative of the rebellion. Copied from the originals
in the library of Dawson Turner, Esq., 1664-1680. England or Scotland,
1830.

Paper, xx, 1 blank, 72 ff. 32 x 20 cm. H/vellum. — Letter, dated 1874, by
Curt Deedes indicates that this vol. is supposed to come from the library of
F. Madden; presented to William Stubbs; American Congregational Assoc.

Eng. 20

THE DIVINE POLITICKS, or a modell of Gods kingdome shewinge
out of the Holy Scripture how God doth order man into His eternall
estate. Autograph[?] ms., with corrections. England, 17th cent.

Paper. 338 ff. (first signature misbound). 19x15 cm. Contemp. calf. — Prov.:
William Humphri [Humphry?].

Eng. 21

ROBERT WILLIAMS. Notes concerning trade, collected by Robert
Williams. (Deals with money, measures, weights, various commodities,
beginning with London, 1632, and continuing with a variety of places,
incl. Tunis, Madrid, Genoa, Rome, Florence, Leghorn, Venice, Naples,
Smyrna, Constantinople, Alexandria, Moscow, Hamburg, Antwerp; at
the end more information on trade in Leghorn, and list of books to be
kept by a merchant.) Leghorn, 1632-54.

Paper. 1 f., 90 pp. 20.5 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum, with initials R. W. on
front cover. — According to entry on f.lr Robert Williams died in Turkey on
Feb. 21, 1660 (61); Colwell Library.

Eng. 22

H.M.S. SEA HORSE. Log book of the armed British vessel under the
command of Captain Charles Cathcart Grant (succeeding a Capt.
Smith, about Jan. 11-14, 1761) travelling from Plymouth to the Cape

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of Good Hope and back to the Scilly Islands. Various places (on board
ship), 8 January 1767-3 April 1762.

Paper. 86 fF. 19.5 x 16 cm. Contemp. vellum. — Prov.: Charles Mason
(blank f. following f.86). — A copy of the same log book is in the British Record
Office (ADM. 51/882). Ms.Eng.22 is presumably Captain Grant's personal
copy, ace. to information supplied by the Secretary of the Publ.Rec. Office.

Eng. 23

N. SANDERSON. A treatise of fluxions. Cambridge?, ca. 1725.

Paper. 2 ff., 128 pp. — 8 folded tables, announcement of his mathematics
lectures bound in at end. 18.5 x 12 cm. Cloth. — Prov.: E. Otis Kendall.

Eng. 24

PETRUS DE ABANO. Heptameron, or a work of seven days, being
the elements of practical magick. . . . With an appendix of twenty-
seven forms of fortifications, serving for all times, only with an alteration
of the horary angel and his seal, by Isaac Jevon, Philomath. 1724/5.
England, ca. 1725.

Paper. 74 pp. 32.5 x 21 cm. lUus. Cloth.

Eng. 25

LETTERS HISTORICAL AND GALLANT from two ladies of qual-
ity to each other, one of whom was in Paris and the other in the country.
By Madam de C***. Containing curious and diverting accounts of the
manners, customs and curiosities of several parts of France. . . . Done
from the French. . . . England, 1740-41.

Paper. 6 vols, in 1 (430 pp.) 32.5 x 20.5 cm. Cloth. — Prov.: James Kingston.

Eng. 26

RENE DE CERIZIERS. Jonathan, or, The true friend, written origi-
nally in French, done into English by . . . [Sir William Lower; this
reading is pencilled on title-page and verso of prel. f. The name blocked
out is practically unreadable, but seems not to be that of Lower]. Auto-
graph?, with numerous corrections in a contemp. hand. England, ca. 1660
[cf. date on title page].

Paper. 2 ff., 163 pp., 3 ff. 20.5 x 15.5 cm. H/cloth.

Flemish 2

[ANTWERP]. Memorie op de Costumen van Antwerpen . . . 1608.
Antwerp, early 17th cent.

Paper. 5 blank ff., 598 pp. (text), 1 blank f., 2 ff. (index in a 19th-cent.
hand), 5 blank ff. 31.5 x 21.5 cm. Contemp. blind-stamped calf. — Prov.: M. N.
Nanteuil; A. Renson.

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Flemish 3

[FRANQOIS VLAEMYNCK]. Detailed inventory of landed property-
situated in Eastern Flanders; the properties are numbered by sections,
"folio" i-xxxv (xxix in two parts, ii has been removed); inc.: Dit
naervolghende es den Landtsprocht [?]... van Fransoys Vlaemijnck.
. . . Flanders, 1559.

Paper. 231 ff. (ff. 1, 14-16, 18, 25-6, 28, 32-5, 38, 40-5, 49-51, 55-61, 67-8,
73-5, 82-3, 87, 91, 95, 97-9, 102, 108, 116-20, 123-6, 128-30, 132-3, 135-6,
138-40, 144-46, 150-1, 153-61, 164-5, 167-8, 170, 172-7, 179-81, 183-87,
190-231 blank; ff. 154-7, blank, removed). 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Few notarial
signets. Contemp. blind-stamped calf.— Prov.: Bibliotheque du Chateau de
Villetard; Bibl. d'H.de Backer (sales cat., no. 3112).

Fr. 55

[GRAF LUDWIG and PHILIPP COBENZL]. Dossier of 105 letters
and documents, 1786-1806, mostly addressed to Ludwig von Cobenzl
(for 20 years Austrian ambassador to Russia) and Philipp von Cobenzl
(one-time vice chancellor of Austria). Most items have bearing on
political and diplomatic matters, especially relations between Austria,
Russia, Prussia, and France. The letters were written by F. J. J. N. von
Dietrichtstein, Johann von Thugut, Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorf,
K. T. A. M. von Dalberg, Mme. Bernier de Villers, Baron GiusU,
K. R. von Buol-Schauenstein, Prince N. V. Repnin, Baron Limon-
Hallewin, Count Panin, Peter von Herbert, W, W. Grenville, Archduke
Ferdinand of Austria, Archduke Josef of Hungary, Prince Karl Auers-
perg, Prince Ferdinand of Wuerttemberg, J. P. K. J. von Stadion, Karl
von Finkenstein, Andreas Razumovski, Ludwig von Lebzeltern, and a
few others. Various places, 1786-7806.

Paper. 213 ff. (a few blank). Various sizes. Boxed.

Fr. 56

JOHN THAYER. Relation de la conversion de M'. Jean Thayer,
ministre protestant de Boston . . . , converti a la religion catholique
k Rome le 23 mai 1783. Ecrite par lui-meme avec une lettre a son frere,
en reponse a quelques objections sur le parti qu'il a pris . . . ,66 pp.—
With REFLEXIONS sur la souverainnette, le serment de libert^,
d'egalite et la constitution civile du clerge, 175 pp. England?, ca. 1800
(cf. note on prel. f.2r: "du Diocese de Coutances, Reading").

- Paper. 2 ff., 66 pp., 1 blank f., 96 pp., 4 ff. (last blank), pp. 97-175. 16 x
10 cm. Contemp. boards.— Prov.: G. V. Digard (f.2v).— For J. Thayer, see
J. Sabin, Bibl. Amer., (New York, 1934), XXV, 98, etc.— Bound with several
printed pamphlets: REGIT des traitements, (London, 1797); TABLEAU des

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horreurs de la Revolution frangaise, (n.p.d.); DE LA HARPE, Lettres ... en
faveur de la religion, (London, 1797).

Fr. 57

[OPERA COMIQUES]. 1. LA BEQUILLE du bon homme Barnabas,
pp.1-32.— 2. LE MAGAZIN des modernes, iDp.33-65.-3. VAUDE-
VILLE pantomime, pp.65-72.-4. L'INFIDELITE PUNIE, pp.73-
97.-5. VAUDEVILLE, pp.97-8. France, 18th cent.

Paper. 98 pp. 30 x 19 cm. Contemp. vellum.

Fr. 58

BALTHASARD FRANgOIS DE MERLES, Marquis de BEAU-
CHAMP. Des mathematiques. — Astronomie (Des cercles du premier
mobile ou seconds cercles; Des divers point[s] du ciel; Des cieux et du
nombre d'iceux; Du mouvement des cieux; De la figure du monde; De
la solidite des cieux; Des divers systemes du monde). Autograph ms.
with corrections. France, second half 17th cent.

Paper. 10 ff. 28 x 19.5 cm. Astronomical figures. In folder.

Fr. 59

[GENOA, 1684]. Lettre de r^sponge sur les hostilitez que les Frangois
ont fait contre Gennes, escritte de la dite ville par Mons. N. a Mons. N.
a Turin. Genoa, 2 June, 1684.

Paper. 26 ff., last blank. 24 x 17.5 cm. In folder.

Fr. 61

PHILLIPE EMMANUEL DE COULANGES. Relation de mon
voyage d'Allemagne et d' Italic es annees mille six cent cinquante sept et
cinquante huit, 409 pp.— With IDEM. Conclaves d' Alexandre VIII et
d'Innocent XII es annees 1689 et 1691, 218 pp.-BIOGRAPHIE de
P. E. de Coulanges, pp.21 9-229. France, ca. 1746.

Paper. 409 pp., 2 blank ff., title, 229 pp., 9 blank ff. 31 x 20 cm. Contemp.
calf with the arms of A. Le Fevre d'Ormesson on front and back cover and
initials DO on spine. — Copied for Andre Frangois d'Ormesson from the auto-
graph ms. (f.227). — The memoirs of Coulanges as published by Monmerque in
1820 contain a very incomplete text.

Fr. 62

NOAILLES FAMILY. Correspondance de Noailles (incl. les Gontaut,
Biron, Pibrac, etc.), 1539-1634. (Copied by and for Theodore de
Gontaut-Biron from originals, largely in the Bibliotheque nationale,
Paris.) Paris, third quarter 19th cent.

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Paper. 2 vols. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. H/morocco. Bookplate of Theodore de
Gontaut-Biron. — Genealogy of the family Noailles, 1386-1700, at beginning of
vol. 1.

Fr. 63

CHANSONS HISTORIQUES et gaillardes. (Political satirical songs
of the 17th and early 18th century, incl. songs by Blot, Benserade,
Boussy-Rabutin, Coulanges, etc. With musical notations on ff.lr, 9v,
llv, 13r, 15r, 27r, 31r, 38v, 61r.— Added at end: Inees de Castro,
tragedie du S. de La Motte Houdart, ff. 170-1 80.) France, ca. 1723-30,
with annotations and corrections in a contemp. hand.

Paper. 182 ff., (f.l81 loose, f.l82 blank). 36.5 x 23 cm. Drawing of whale on
f.l60. Contemp. calf, with arms of Bonnier de la Mosson on front cover and
name on back cover. — Ex libris VioUet Le Due.

Fr. 64

[PASCAL FAMILY]. 1. (Cover-title:) JOURNAL d'annotation,
(caption-title:) GENEALOGIE de la maison Pascal divisee en trois
branches, comme il sera detaille y apres [Pascal de la Rochette; Pascal
de Longpra; Pascal de I'Ertegne]. The genealogy of the Pascal de Long-
pra incl. an original document concerning Jean Pascal, dated 1555. The
genealogy of the branch of La Rochette extends to 1776. — 2. Various
documents, accounts, letters, etc., mainly of family members residing
at St. Geoire (near Grenoble), mostly of the second half 18th cent.
St. Geoire (etc.), 1555-1796.

Paper. 1: 12 ff. (ff.3-4 blank); 34.5 x 23 cm.— 2: 15 items, of various length
and size. 1: Contemp. boards. — The entire dossier in folder.

Fr. 65
(Provencal)

BORDEAUX, Confrerie de Sainte-Euladie et de Saint-Genes. Frag-
ment of the statutes and membership lists, as follows: Aqueste presente
confrairia fut institute et levade I'an de grace 1321, with renewal,
dated 1530 (f.lr).— List of members, with addition up to the year 1581,
but lacking end of letter A, all of B-F, beginning of G, end of I, L, end
of M, N-O and end of P (f.lv and 6 ff.)— Au nom deu pay et du filh et
deu saint esperit . . . asso son lous stablimens . . . per lous confraires
et confrairesses de las confrairies establidas en la gleise Sainct Euladie
de Bourdeu 1321 (4 ff., end missing). Bordeaux, ca. 1530.

Vellum. 11 ff. 34.5 x 26.5 cm. Historiated initial A (f.lv) and other decorated
initials. In folder.

Fr. 66

JEAN MAROT. La vray-disant, advocate des dames. (This ms. is in-
complete, lacking one or more ff. at the beginning. The text begins on

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f.2r with line 15 of the "Envoy," i.e. with "La concubine adultere
excusa." The work is dedicated to Anne de Bretagne, queen of France.)
France, ca. 7506.

Vellum. 10 ff. (first blank). It is likely that the missing part at the beginning
contained an ilium, dedication or a miniature, and possibly the prel. "ron-
deaux" printed in Clement Marot, Oeuvres, (The Hague, 1731), V, 283-96.
21 X 13.5 cm. Capitals and line endings ilium. Modern vellum. — Prov.: "Ce
Uvre est a moy/ Jane Gaillarde." — Prel. collation indicates variant readings of
some consequence from the text publ. in 1731. On the text tradition and the
few extant mss. see the preface by Lenglet Dufresnoy in the Oeuvres {op. cit.), V,
278-82; L. Theureau, . . . Jean Afaro<, (Caen, 1873), 92-103 and 185;
A. Ehrlich, Jean Marots Leben u. Werke, (Leipzig, 1902), 18-24 and 97. — The
ms. has suffered from damp, but is legible throughout with the help of an
ultraviolet lamp. It must have been, at one time, a ms. "de luxe," destined for
a person of distinction.

Fr. 67

[FRIEDRICH AUGUST I, Elector of Saxony (August II, King of
Poland), surnamed August der Starke]. Le portrait de la cour de
Pologne. (The text of this ms. of which supposedly "il n'y a que cet ex-
emplaire au monde," is identical with ms.fr. 37, Le portrait de la cour
de Saxe).-MM BREVE RAGGUAGLIO delle [24] famiglie piu
antiche e piii nobili romane. Saxony?, 18th cent.

Paper. 244, 138 pp., 1 f. 19 x 15 and 19 x 13.5 cm. Contemp. h/calf.

Fr. 68

DESCRIPTION HISTORIQUE de toutes les ceremonies qui se font
a Rome depuis la mort du pape jusqu'a la fin du repas que son suc-
cesseur donne a tous les cardinaux pour son heureux avenement au
pontifical. France, ca. 1730.

Paper. 84 ff. (last 2 blank). 23 x 17.5 cm. Contemp. boards.

Fr. 69

ABREGE CRONOLOGIQUE de I'histoire de la maison royale de
Savoie [de Berold, premier comte de Savoie, a Victor Amedee III, roi de
Sardaigne, Cypre, Jerusalem, due de Savoie]. With corrections and can-
cellations in a contemp. hand. Savoy, ca. 1773.

Paper. Title, 2 blank, 103 ff. 19 x 12 cm. Paper.

Fr. 70

CAHIER DE CHANSONS, romances, ariettes, et autres mis en ordre
par D. B. . . . pour Mademoiselle de la Barre (Brin de Jonc) I'an 1783.
France, 1783.

Paper. 212 pp. (pp.203-5 blank, pp.206-12 "Table"). 20 x 14.5 cm.
Contemp. calf. — Bookplate on title removed.

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Fr. 71

MEMOIRE sur la province de Bretagne. France, ca. 1697.

Paper. 126, 4 blank ff. 25 x 18.5 cm. H/morocco. — Ms. copy of a treatise
compiled by Pommereu, intendant of Brittany at the request of the Duke de
Beauvilliers, governor of the Duke of Burgundy, to be used in instructing his
royal pupil, ace. to information supplied by dealer, without bibliogr. ref.

Fr. 72

JEAN BAYARD. Disposition of extensive property to institutions, etc.,
recorded before Claude de Gaudet in "St. Geoyre" (i.e. St. Geoire, cf.
ms. Fr. 64), signed and witnessed at beginning, Feb. 27, 1586, and again
at end, 3 [?] May 1592, the main part dated 1586. St. Geoyre, 1586-92.

Paper. 30 ff. (ff.29-30 blank; old foliation 241-270). 29.5 x 19 cm. Boards.

Fr. 73

PARLAMENT DE PARIS. Arret du Parlament de Paris relatif aux
dettes [1,500,000 livres] de feue Marie Charlotte de Meusnier, femme de
Guillaume Bernard de Rezay, conseiller au Parlament de Paris, repre-
sented by Louis de Moret, seigneur de Bournonville. Paris, 1752.

Vellum. 68 ff. 26.5 x 19.5 cm. Cloth.— G. D. Paris/ Greff./ 20.sols.; I.A.B.
and one undeciphered symbol stamped on many pages.

Fr. 74

JEAN-BAPTISTE LINGAUD. Papers from, or related to, the
"secretaire-greffier de I'hotel-de-ville" of Limoges, May 1, 1777 — Jan.
1, 1813 (incl. family papers, correspondence of Ceresier, Leonard-
Honore Gay- Vernon, etc.), illustrating especially the period of the
French Revolution in the Department of Limousin. Limoges and various
other places, 1777—1813.

Paper. 471 pieces of mss. (1212 pp. of text). Various sizes. 4 boxes. Detailed
descr. of contents filed with collection (9 ff.mimeogr.)

Fr. 78

NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE (apocryphal). Traite de I'infini cree.

France, 18th cent.

Paper. 86 ff. (last blank). 21 x 16 cm. Contemp, h/leather.—Prov.: Jules [?]
Thierry.

Fr. 79

DE LA PHILOSOPHIE et des philosophes. France, 18th cent.

Paper. 245 ff. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Figures in text. Contemp. vellum. — Prov.:
Frederick North, Earl of Guilford.

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Fr. 80
(Provencal)

[ARLES]. Lo registre del peage d'Arle. (Register of tolls of the city of
Aries, incl. list of "li segnors de la partidate," among them the arch-
bishop, Rainant Portellet de Senas, Raymon de Villa Nova, Imbert
Dardier, etc.) Aries, first half 15th cent.

Vellum. 17 fF. 26 x 18.5 cm. Contemp. blind-stamped vellum. — Letters
"EE" on front cover.

Fr. 81

ORAISONS [et confessions] extraict[s] de plusieurs livres bien de-
vote[s], incl. prayers for all occasions, e.g. "pour les malades," "quand
on veult voyager," an "oraison pour la paix de I'eglise" (ff.56r-60v),
paraphrases of several psalms (e.g. fr.68v-75r) and 3 prayers in German
(ff.93-95). Belgium, middle 16th cent.

Paper. 128 ff. (text beginning on f.9; ff.92-128 blank). 15.5 x 10.5 cm.
Contemp. blind-stamped calf. — Prov. [entries]: Espoir comforte, Antoinne de
Harnin; N'espoir ne craincte, Max. de Borsele, 1571 (f.3r); Ac lede synd
croijs, contre fortune. . . . Ariere de Fosses, 1571 (f.5r); Soufrir pour parvenir,
Richard de Merode, 1573 (f.6r).

Fr. 82

VAL SECRET, Abbaye de Notre Dame (Aisne). Terrier, or survey of
property in the area of "Saussoy" (near Chateau-Thierry) by size, rent
and name of tenant, for its owner, abbot Jehan d' Anizy. Val Secret, 1324.

Vellum. Originally presumably in the form of a roll, measuring ca. 107 x
25 cm., now in two pieces, used on recto and verso. In folder.

Fr. 83

ORDRE DE LA NEF (also called ORDRE DU NAVIRE, or ORDRE
DES ARGONAUTES DE ST. NICOLAS). Statutes of the order,
created by Charles III, King of Jerusalem, Sicily and Naples, Duke of
Durazzo; prologue (f.lr) inc.: Cy com[m]ence le prologu [!] de I'ordre
de la nef. Le pere et le fils et le saint esperit . . . ; text (f.2r) inc.: Cy
com[m]encent les chapitres de I'ordre. . . . Naples, 1 December 1381.

Vellum. 21 ff. (of 24; 3 ff. at end, probably blank <since 21v is also blank>
removed). 32.5 x 23 cm. Ilium, initial "L" (ship held by angels, ca. 7 x 8 cm.)
and coat of arms of Charles III. 18th-cent. vellum. — Prov.: Copy prepared for
Charles III(?); Matteo Luigi Conanici (1726-1805); Walter Sneyd (purchased
in 1835).

Fr. 84

LOUIS XI, King of France. Letter to the king's cousin Antoine, Sire de
Craon, commander of the army in Germany, concerning the campaign

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against Charles le Temeraire, Duke of Burgundy. Signed "par le Roy,
Orsome," "donne a Herlande le XI® jour de juillet I'an de grace mil
CCCG soixante quinze." Herland, 1475.

Vellum. 1 f. Ca. 25.5 x 15.5 cm. Mounted on vellum strip, in folder. Signature
(of Louis XI?) removed.

Fr. 85

[DE LORNAY]. Account of payments "tant pour luy [le capitaine de
Lornay] que aux gens estans soubz sa charge," June-October, 1490.
De Lornay was in charge of "chevaucheurs de la . . . campaignie
d'Alemans et Picartz soubz le diet [de Lornay] et Jehannot des Pres,"
supposedly in the pay of Anne de Bretagne. France?, 1490.

Vellum. 1 f. (text on both sides, f.viii of an account book). 37.5 x 22.5 cm.
(inner margin trimmed with loss of text). In folder.

Fr. 86

ST. JEAN de Jerusalem (ordre). Anciens et nouveaux statuts . . .
traduits [de ITtalien] sur I'edition de Borgeforte [i.e. Borgo Novo] de
1676. De I'ordonnance du Chapitre du Grand Prieure de France,
(213 pp.) — With IDEM. Ordonnances du Chapitre general tenu I'an
1631, par . . . frere Antoine de Paule, (134 pp.) — Followed by "Table"
for the statutes (14 pp.) and the ordonnances, (2 pp.) France, ca. 1700.

Paper. Title, 213 pp., 1 blank f., 134, 14, 2 pp. 30 x 20 cm. Contemp. calf. —
One f., presumably naming former owner, and bookplate removed.

Fr. 87
(Provencal)

[JOHAM (JEAN) DE VERNOILS]. Ensegon se las recognoyssenssas
et fieux novels appertenens al noble Joham de Vernoils, seigneur de
Peyrat et coseigneur de Pompinhan an los Iocs de Pompinhan et de
Gresolas, preses e resobus p[er] me Peyre Racier capella e notary del loc
de Canals . . . MCCCCLXVII (1467-1472), followed by additions
concerning Pompignan, Grisoles, etc., to 1567, ff.44v-46r in a later
hand. Tarn et Garonne, 1467-1567.

Paper. 2, 89 ff. (ff.lO, 13, 17, 22, 35-43, 49, 52, 54, 59-66, 75, 79 blank), 2 ff.
30 X 22 cm. Notarial signets. Contemp. vellum. — Prov.: Comte Chappaz de
la Prat.

Fr. 88

[CARNATIC REGION, India]. Moeurs et coutumes des gentils a la
Cote Cozomandel. France?, 18th cent.

Paper. 54 ff. (last blank). 34 x 24 cm. Boards.

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Fr. 89

DOUTES et questions sue le traite de Versailles du premier may 1756
entre le roi [de France] et rimperatrice [de I'Allemagne], reine de
Hongrie. Ce manuscrit a ete presente dans les premiers jours do mois
d'aout 1756 et par consequence avant I'entree du roi de Prusse en Saxe
et en Boheme. (The anonymous author argues that the treaty is detri-
mental to the interests of France.) France, ca. 1756-1757.

Paper. 34 ff. (last blank). 33 x 22 cm. Boards.

Fr. 90

JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT CORRESPONDENCE. 34 autograph
letters and 42 letters with Colbert's signature, addressed to the president
of police of Paris De la Reynie, 1665, 1667, 1672, 1675, 1677, and 1678.
The letters deal with a variety of subjects, e.g. trade regulations (incl.
censorship), licensing, taxes, imprisonment. Paris, etc., 1655-1678.

Paper. Various sizes. In folder.

Fr. 91

MATTHIEU D'ESCOUCHY. Chroniques de Charles VII (fr.1-170),
followed by "Les epitaphes touchant le regne . . . du Roy Charles de
France, 7^ de ce nom," (ca. 700 lines of verse). France, second half 16th
cent.

Paper. 177 ff. 34 x 21.5 cm. Calf. Comparison with printed edition indicates
considerable variants; the "epitaphes" were not included in the printed edition
(ed.: DuFresne de Beaucourt, Soc. de Vhistoire de France, 1863-64).

Ger. 45

[COLOGNE, Archdiocese]. 1. REFORMATIO JURISDICTIONIS
ecclesiasticae archiepiscopalis curiae coloniensis jussu et authoritate
reverendissimi et serenissimi Principis ac Domini D. Ernesti . . .
archiepiscopi. . . . Monasterii Westphaliae excudebat Lambertus
Raesfelt anno M.D. XCIIII [in Latin, copied July 1695 by E. A. Call
<?>, cf.p.91], 4 prel. ff., 92 pp.-2. POLLICEY UNDT LANDTS-
ORDTNUNG . . . Getruckt zu Miinster in Westpfahlen bey Lamberten
Raessfeldt anno M.D. XCVI [ms. copy, undated], 52 pp. — 3. RECHTS
ORDNUNG dess MaximiHani Henrici, 31 ff.-4. ORDTNUNG des
Bruchtenverh6r[s] unser Ferdinand von Gottes Gnaden, 5 ff. Westphalia,
1695-ca. 1700.

Paper. 112 ff. 29.5 x 18.5 cm. Contemp. vellum. — The second item contains
"Constitution oder Mandat wieder [!] die Wiederteuffer," pp. 43-47.

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Ger. 46

[BAVARIA]. 1. BESCHREIBUNG des Lanndtags welcher von . . .
Wilhelmen Pfaltzgraven bei Rhein, Herzogen in Obern unnd Nidern
Bairn auf den 22. Tag Novembris geen Miinnchen ausgeschriben . . .
anno 1583, 142 ff.— 2. GRAVAMINA oder Beschvverung Articl wie
dieselben . . . Herzog Wilhelm . . . durch irer etc. gemein Lannd-
stend von Prelaten, Graven, Herrn Ritterschaft und Adl auch Stett und
Markt . . . iibergeben sein . . . 1583, 31 ff. — 3. DESS STANDS
DER RITTERSCHAFT und Adls Beschwer Articl, wie dieselben . . .
Herrn Wilhelmen . . . underthenig fiirgebracht . . . 1583, 98 ff.—
4. DESS STANDS DER STETT und Markt . . . Beschwerden,
154 ff. (last blank). Bavaria, ca. 1583.

Paper. 1 blank, 425 ff. 29.5 x 20.5 cm. Contemp. blind-stamped pigskin. —
Prov.: "Sum ex libris Eberhardi Adolphi baronis a Muggenthal in Pondorf."

Ger. 48

[PASSAU]. Transcripts of documents dealing primarily with laws,
treatises, etc., concerned with the relations between the clergy and the
civil authorities (and population) of Passau. 1. WILHELM and
LUDWIG, Counts Palatinate and Dukes of Bavaria. Die neuen Spriich
aufgericht 1535, ff.lr-56r. — 2. ERNST, bishop of Passau (here acting as
"administrator des Stiffts Passau"). Inhalt beeder Partheien Ver-
schreibung auf Volziehung des Vertrags [1535], ff.57r-62r. — 3. AL-
BRECHT, King of Germany and Duke of Austria. Spriich . . .
ergangen . . . 1290, ff.62v-66r.— 4. BERNHARD, bishop of Passau.
Brief so aufgericht . . . 1300, ff.66v-74r.-5. ERNST, bishop of
Passau. Erleutterung uber Bischof Bernharts Stattbrief . . . 1539,
ff.74v-92v.-6. ALBRECHT and LEOPOLD, Dukes of Austria.
Vidimus des Anlasbriefs und Hindergangs . . . 1367, ff.93r-96r.—
7. IDEM. Spruch . . . ergangen . . . 1367, ff.79r-101r.-8. IDEM.
Spriich . . . ergangen , . . 1368, ff.l01v-115v. Passau?, ca. 1600.

Paper. 115 ff. 30 x 20 cm. Boards.

Ger. 49

VIENNA, Criminal Court, 1572-1574. Malefitzsachen veindlicher
Bekhanntnusser ingefangen den 30 Mali anno 1572. (Interrogations,
testimonies, judgments and at times pardons or records of executions,
several signed by Michael Stilzl. Among the trials is that of Elias, or
Helias, Gregoritsch [or Gregoritz, Gregorwitz, also called Pribeck] and
his followers for organizing and leading a peasant revolt in Croatia,
1572-1573; the beginning of this section is entitled "Crabatischer
Paurnkrieg;" cf. ff.104-122; 151-157). Vienna, 1572-74.

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Paper. 234 ff. (ff.1-2 missing), 7 ff. (copy of petition of Johan Lust to the
emperor for promotion, undated, bound upside down, and index of trials on
last f.) 30 X 19.5 cm. Contemp. vellum (rebound). — Probably the original
minutes of proceedings.

Ger. 50

[COLOGNE]. 1. Von einem erschrocklichen und gewaltlichen UvlaufF
im Jahr 1513 im Januario, 2 ff.— 2. TRANSFIX BRIEFF anno dni.
1513 auffgericht (on the disturbances of Jan. 1513), 10 ff. — 3. CON-
CORTATEN welche zwischen Ertzbischoff Herman, Landtgraff zu
Hessen, etc. und dem Thum [i.e. Dom] Capittel an einem, und der Statt
Collen am anderen Theil auffgericht. Anno 1506, 9 ff.-4. STATUTA
huius inclitae civitatis coloniensis (in German), 7 ff. (index), 100 ff. —
5. ORDTNUNGH dere Rechts und Stat Richteren, Gerichtschreibern,
Procoratoren und gerichtlichen Procesen . . . , 1 f. (index), 1 f. (title
in German and Latin title "Reformatio judicialis," dated 1530), 51,
2 ff.-6. RECHT UNND BURGERFREIHEIT, 1, 7 ff.-7. Various
legal rulings, 5 ff.-8. VERBUNT BREIFF ( = Brief), 11 ff.-
9. EDICTUM senatus coloniensis de continuenda in haeredem pos-
sessione (in German), 6 ff. (followed on f.6v-7 by another edict).
Cologne, 16th~77th cent.

Paper. 2, 10, 5 blank, 7, 1 blank, 100, 1, 51 + 2, 1, 7 + 5, 6 blank, 11,
1 blank, 7, 22 blank ff. 28.5 x 19.5 cm. Contemp. vellum.— Various names
(earlier owners) in ms., e.g. H. Welckers, Hubertus Westhaus (1808). — Ms.
preceded by printed statute, Cologne, 1562, and shelved under fGC55C7143L-
562a. Volume used at one time as a "herbarium," with names of plants written
on many pages.

Ger. 51

HANNS SCHWARZ (or Schwartz). Miscellany. 1. List of marriages
attended, 1585-1598, ff.lr-4v.-2. EXEMPELL BUCHLEIN (or
Exempllum Biichlleinn) iiber die Species uff der Feder [ = introductory
arithmetic], anno domini 1565 . . . [date of writing:] 1593, ff.5r-24r. —
3. OF HERBS, TREES, etc. (with 10 lines of poetry interspersed,
f.26r), ff.25r-33r. — 4. Proverbs, religious poetry, moral sayings, etc., al-
together 551 lines of VERSE, ff.33v-46v. — 5. UEBER DEN BAUERN-
KRIEG zu Windsheim und Umgegend (icplt. at beginning), ff.47r-
55v. — 6. PRAYER "Herz mein Erloser Jesus Christus," f.56r-v.—

7. Die WASSERSNOT in Ntirnberg (1504?), 28 Hues of verse, f.57r.-

8. Der jiJNGSTE TAG, poem of 61 Hnes, by Hanns Geber (?), dated
1597, ff.57v-58v.-9. ROTTENBURGISCHE CRONICA (697-1582),
ff.59r-63r, with addition on the disputation between Luther and
Zwingli and the death of Zwingli, f.63v. — 10. ANFANG und Ende des
verderblichen Baurenkriegs wie er sich allhie zu Rottenburg . . .
zugetragen . . . 1525 [-1526], ff.64r-79v (with list of fugitives). —

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1 1 . Ein LIED wie es in dem frenkischen Baurnkrieg ergangen ist, ff.SOr-
82 v. — 12. URKUNDE des Diacons Albrecht Renger, Verehelichung
des Han[n]s Schwarz, 1582, f.83r.-13. VERZEICHNIS der bei
Hochzeit des Hans Schwarz anwesenden Gaste, durch Nicolaus
Schmidt . . . Wirt zu Windsheim, ff.83v-84r, followed by 4 entries of
business records (f.84r-v). Rothenbiirg o.d.T., 1582-1598.

Paper. 88 ff. (ff.86-87 blank). 21.5 x 16.5 cm. Cloth.— Prov.: August Merz,
1862.

Ger. 52

JOHANN JACOB BREITINGER. Collection of copies or extracts of
texts relating to political, social, religious and miscellaneous affairs
primarily of Zurich (beginning with a biography of J. J. Breitinger and
a list of his published and unpublished writings) and incl. "Fiirtrag
betreffend den Venedischen und Frantzosischen Ambassadoren" (e.g.
pp.155 ff., 194 ff.), "Delineation der Reformation . . . 1622" (pp.218 ff.),
"Wyderhollung dess . . . vaterlandischen Projects . . . authore Joh.
Jac.Brittingero" (pp.235 ff.), "Vom dryten Grad der Bluetsfriindt-
schafft" (p. 409 ff.), several sermons, etc. ^iirich, 1670.

Paper. 690 pp. 19 x 16 cm. Contemp. vellum. — Most of the tracts in this
volume are by J. J. Breitinger, ace. to the list of his writing in the early part
of the ms.

Ger. 53

PRAYER BOOK, with index. Germany, 1777.

Paper. 2 ff., 254 pp., 1 f. 16.5 x 10 cm. Crucifixion and picture of the evan-
gelist Matthew pasted in. Contemp. gilt morocco, with name of original owner
"Magdalena Erbsin" and date (1777) embossed on front cover.

Ger. 54

MELCHIOR ADAM PASTORIUS. Autograph volume, in German
and Latin, beginning on prel. f. with genealogical entries, followed by
Pastorius' "Itinerarium et vitae curriculus, das ist vollige Reis —
Beschreibunge und gantzer Lebenslauff," and incl. anagrams and other
poetry (cf. lat. poem on William Penn, f.89r): "Famihae Pastoriorum
descriptio" (lat., ff.lll ff.); chronology, 1559-1691 (lat., ff.205 ff.) and
other historical compilations, among these "Von dem Konigreich
Engelland"; extensive material on family matters (mostly in germ.,
e.g. poems at the occasion of Pastorius' fourth marriage, ff.l24 ff., death
of Dorothea Esther Pastorius, ff.l27v ff., etc.) and a detailed name index
at end (cf. St. Augustine, St. Brigid, Caesar, Charles V, Huss, Melanch-
thon, 19 members of the Pastorius family, Tacitus, etc.) Germany, end of
17th cent.

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Paper. 1 f., 240 numb. ff. (ff.6-7 missing; 2 ff. numb. 22; f. 59 missing; 1 f.
, inserted between ff.79-80 and another between ff.90-91, 2 ff. numb. 148), 2 ff.
15 X 10 cm. Contemp. [?] leather. — Prov.: J. G. Rosengarten. — The manu-
script has been briefly described in M. D. Learned, The Life of Francis Daniel
Pastorius (Philadelphia, 1908), p. 45, no. 1.

Ger. 55

MELCHIOR ADAM PASTORIUS. Autograph volume, in German
and Latin, incl. "Prognosticon sive calendarium perpetuum" (lat.,
ff.l ff.); "Colloquium regis Salomonis cum Marcolpho" (lat. ff.6v ff.);
calendar pictures with legends (ff.ll ff.); "Dicteria proverbialia
rhythmica ab antiquitate mutuata" (lat., ff.32 ff.); "Versus veteres
proverbiales" (ff.88 ff.); "Von Aesopi Klugheit" (ff.l42 ff.), "Beyhiilffe
zu denen Teiitschen Versen" (ff.l 87 ff.); "Schatz-Kammer" (ff.226 ff.);
"Herbarum appellationes in den Apotheken" (lat. and germ., ff.262
ff.); emblems with text (ff.287 ff.), and index (cf. bibliotheca, educatio,
liberum arbitrium, musica, nationum differentia). Germany, end of 17th
cent.

Paper. 401 numb. ff. (f.232 missing; 2 ff. inserted between ff.255-256;
1 blank f. between ff.276-277; ff.284-286, 292, 294-295, 297-324, 326, 331-333
and 337 missing). 16 x 10 cm. Engr. pasted in on a number of pages, few
drawings. Contemp. [?] leather. — Prov.: J. G. Rosengarten. — The manuscript
has been briefly described in M. D. Learned, op. cit., p. 46, no. 2.

Ger. 56

CICERO. Ciceros [8] Reden iibersetzt von Johann Christian Gottlieb
Ernesti. Autograph ms.?, with corrections. Germany, 1793-97.

Paper. 206 ff. (ff.23-24, 48, 82, 105-106, 113-114, 158, 160-162 and 204-206
blank). 21.5 x 17 cm. Cloth.

Ital. 137

STORIA dell'impero d'occidente [742-1273], preceded by Serie
degli'imperatori d'occidente [814-1792]. Italy, end of 18th cent.

Paper. Hi, 561 pp. 30 x 20 cm. Contemp. h/calf. Title on spine: Imperador.
Par. II. Tom. II. Fragment of a larger work. — Not identical with ms. Ital. 138.

Ital. 138

STORIA dell'impero d'occidente [1047-1272]. Italy, 18th cent.

Paper. 1 f., 437 pp. 30 x 20 cm. Contemp. h/vellum. Title on spine: Storia
dellTmp. d'Occide. Tom. III. — Preliminary comparison indicates that this
text is not identical with ms. Ital. 137.

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Ital. 139

RIFLESSI E DISCORSI politici. 1. RIFLESSIONI politiche sopra
Tacito, ff.1-43 (icplt.)-2. DE SUPREMO REGNO . . . dissertatio
(lat.; icplt.), inc.: Authoris animus et intentio. . . . Quaestionem ex-
aminationi inpraesens admoveo, ff.45-56. — 3. DISCORSO POLITICO
sopra la forca del denaro, ff.57-68.— 4. DEL GABINETO de prencipi
(Papa Alessandro e il Card. Pallavicino; L'imperatore e il Principe
Portia, and other "discorsi" or "concerti"), ff.69-177. — 5. IL MER-
CURIO, dialogista fra Polimede, cavalliere del campo turchese, e
Filomaco, cavalliere di Vienna, ff. 179-220. Italy, 17th cent., written in
several hands.

Paper. 220 ff. 30 x 21 cm. H/leather.

Ital. 140

J. DU FRESNE FRANCHEVILLE. Lo spion Turco a Francfort nel
tempo della dieta e dell'incoronamento dell'imperadore nell'anno 1741.
Tradotto dal francese dal Michele Giambattista Spreti I'anno 1744.
[Originally printed in French] a Londra appresso i librai associati.
MDCCXLI, K2-U2.-With GIOAN BATTISTA COMAZZI
[GIAMBATTISTA COMMAZZI in ms.]. Tradizioni diverse dalP-
italiano in francese della Morale di principi . . . dal Michele Giam-
battista Spreti I'anno 1742, ff.l43-178.-FREDERICK II, King of
Prussia. II Contro Machiavello ovvero saggio di critica sopra il Principe
di Machiavello publicato da Monsieur de Voltaire. Nuova edizione
dove sonosi aggiunte le variazioni di quella di Londra. Tradduzione di
Giovanni Battista Spreti, fatta in tempo dalla villegiatura I'anno 1741
[dated at end "25 giugno 1743"], 352 pp. Italy?, 1741-44.

Paper. 179 ff. (first and last blank), 352 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Contemp.
h/leather. — Ms. written by Michele Giovanni Battista Spreti? With contemp.
corrections throughout, especially in the second and third parts.

Ital. 141

[PAPACY]. Istruzioni, memoriali, lettere, ricordi, 1534-1596. Italy,
17th cent.

Paper. 6,298 ff. (last blank). 33.5 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum. Title on spine:
Tomus VI.— Prov.: L. Santacroce [Florence?].— Ff. 1-1 57 consist largely of
copies of instructions to legates in the Holy Roman Empire under Popes
Paul III, Julius III and Pius IV; this part ends with instructions by Carlo
Borromeo to Carlo Visconti for the Council of Trent, dated 1563. — Ff.l57v-
186v are mostly copies of letters concerned with Germany, 1537-1560. —
Ff.l87r-250 are instructions 1592-1596, returning on f.251 to 1556, followed by
miscellaneous copies and concluding with a "Discorso sopra I'unione et

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ubbidienza delle chiese Alessandrina e Constantina con la sede apostolica"
(f.285r et seq.) and "Regem Romanorum et archiducem Austriae . . . esse
regem Hungariae triplici titulo ..." (ff.290v to end).

Ital. 142

BROSINOPIANO (Brusiniplanum, Brusinpiano, district of Arcisate).
Vicecomitium in causa detentionis Oratii Molinarii nuncupatus il
Suizzeretto. (Interrogation in the trial of Oratio Molinari, accused of
having rendered pregnant Johanna Lombardina, daughter of Antonio
Lombardini.) District of Como, 1740-41.

Paper. 95 fF., 4 ff. (two individual documents laid in). 29.5 x 20.5 cm.
Contemp. boards. Each f. stamped FI.

Ital. 143

VINCENZO FIDELE, Relatione di Messer Vincenzo Fidele ritornato
ambasciatore per la serenissima signoria di Venetia dal Signor Duca di
Fiorenza, del Conte Filippo Maria Anguissola [1561], f[.\-\0\.— With
RELATIONE dell'institutione, privilegi, et oblighi della religione dei
cavalieri di Rodi, hoggi di Malta, in forma di dialogo (Mons. Giustini-
ano. Com. Cambiano, Mons. Girolamo Quirini), ff. 102-2 13.— RE-
LATIONE et sommario della forma et modo de negotiare con Swizzeri
et Grisoni, ff.21 4-240. Italy, late 16th cent.

Paper. 240 fF. 25.5 x 19 cm. Contemp. vellum.

Ital. 144

CARLO CARAFA. Instruttioni e lettere dell illust. et reverend, signore
D. Carlo Cardinale Carafa, nipote di Papa Paolo IV, concernenti le
controversie e li dispareri con la corona di Spagna cioe Filippo II e
Carlo V con il sudetto pontifice massimo. (71 instructions, dispatches
and letters, Aug.l555-March 1563). Italy, first half l7th cent.

Paper. 1 blank, 137, 1 blank fF. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. Contemp. vellum.— Prov.:
Card. Antonio Saverio Gentili.

Ital. 145

[PIACENZA]. Legal register, primarily from July 1582 to Feb. 1582
[i.e. 1583], but with entries up to 1587. (Cover title: "Quartus Inte.
N. T. 1582"). Piacenza, 1582-87.

Paper. 347 fF. 30 x 20.5 cm. Contemp. vellum. — Name of contemp. owner:
Trajano Dordoni (on front cover).

Ital. 146

FEDERIGO BADUARI. Relatione istorica de costumi, forze, e governo
civile della Germania, e dellTtalia . . . incominciatosuU'anno 1527. —

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With LORENZO CANTARINI. Relatione di N.N., ambasciatore
Veneto appresso Ferdinando, Re de Romani. Italy, 17th cent.

Paper. 155 ff. 27.5 x 20 cm. H/vellum. — Prov.: Sir Thomas Philipps (no.
5176). — These texts were printed in E. Alberi, Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti,
(Florence, 1839-63), ser.l, I, 371 et seq. and III, 175 et seq.

Ital. 147

ANTONIO SABINI. Giudizio pronunciato d'ordine publico dal signor
. . . Antonio Sabini da Capodista, jurisconsulto della republica di
Venezia sopra [J. B. Dubos'] I'lstoria della Lega di Cambrai [fr.: His-
toire de la ligiie faite a Cambray, Paris, 1709]. Venice?, 1709.

Paper. 22 ff. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Contemp. vellum. — Bound with J. B. Dubos
(cf. supra) and shelved as FC7.D8528.709h.— Prov.: Biblioteca Giuliari.

Ital. 148

[CURIA ROMAN A]. Sommaria relatione et breve awiso della gran
corte di Roma solo per istruttione di nuovo cardinale (ends f.85v). —
With RACCOLTA d'alcuni avvertimenti politici di Monsignore
[Marsilio?] Landriani [legate to France, 1591?]. Italy, early 17th cent.,
the two parts by different scribes.

Paper. 4 ff. (introd., index, and poem "In lode della SS. Trinita"), ff.1-70,
72-85 (f.71 omitted without loss of text, unnumb. f. between 85 and 86 missing),
ff.86-153 (ff.151-2 missing, but text of Raccolta complete). 26.5 x 19.5 cm.
Contemp. vellum. — Prov.: Antonio Ubaldini. — The "relatione" probably
deals with the court of Sixtus V.

Ital. 149

DEL REGNO DI FRANCIA. (Title on spine: La Francia). Autograph
of anonymous author or translator?, with corrections throughout.
Italy, late 17th cent.

Paper. 78, 2 blank ff. 21 x 13.5 cm. Contemp. vellum.

Ital. 150

CONCLAVE fatto per la sede vacante di Papa Alessandro VIII, nel
quale fu assunto al pontificato il Cardinal Antonio Pignatelli napolitano,
che prese il nome d'Innocento XII°. Rome, ca. 1691.

Paper. 34 ff. (ff.30-34 blank; old foliation 110-138). 25 x 19 cm. Boards.

Ital. 151

[BOOKLIST]. Enumeration of 26 books (among them Ariosto,
Grisone, Petrarca, Bembo, Sansovino), supposedly a bill, but possibly
a bookseller's inventory. No place or name. Italy, second half 16th cent,
(after 1567).

Paper. 1 f. 32.5 x 22 cm. In folder.

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Ital. 152

PACHOLO FALCONIERI. Newsletter addressed to "spectabili viro
Giovanni di Filippo Arrighini, hon. console di mare a Pisa," August 19,
1467, reporting on the campaign between the ligue of Milan, Florence
and Naples against Bartolomeo Colleoni and Venice, the armistice
talks in Florence, Francesco Sforza and Ferrante of Aragon. Florence,
1467.

Paper. 1 f. (14 lines). 22 x 15 cm. In folder.

Ital. 153

LUDOVICO MARIA SFORZA. Copy of sales contract of property
"vendita fatta dalli . . . signori Antonio de Landrini . . . e Gual-
terio di Basilcapietra . . . come procuratori di Ludovico Maria Sforza
. . . al . . . Sig. Antonio Zanardo [?] de Lando" of Piacenza, 21 Nov.
1496. Milan?, 17th cent.

Paper. 2 ff. (f.2 blank). 30 x 19 cm. In folder.— Pro v.: Duke of Parma;
Thomas H. Montgomery (ace. to pencilled note on f.2r). Once filed as "cassetta
H, vol. V, No. I."

Ital. 154

[POLAND]. Risposta quale I'eletto maresciallo de stati di Polonia nella
presente dieta in Varsavia diede alle regie propositioni versa la m[ajesta]
regia in nome di tutti li stati, li 26. decembre [?] del passato 1688.
Poland or Italy, 1689.

Paper. 8 flf. 27 x 20.5 cm. Boards. Autograph?, with corrections.

Ital. 155

ALESSANDRO TASSONI. Alia infante [?] Anna Caterina cantatrice
sonetto, inc.: Trasmigrato d'Orfeo d'alto tenore. — With untitled sonnet
to the same, inc.: O qual di saggio dar, Anna gentile. Autograph?
Modena?, ca. 1600.

Paper. 2 ff. (old foliation 653, 418). 27.5 x 20 cm. In folder.— Prov.: Casa
Altoviti.

Ital. 156

ALESSANDRO TASSONL Due sonetti. (1) inc. Vana belta piu non
m'aletti . . . , (2) Hor che' n piu vaga, e piu leggiadra. . . . Auto-
graph? Modena?, ca. 1600.

Paper. 2 ff. (old foliation 654, 655). 24.5 x 20 cm. In folder.— Prov.: Casa
Altoviti.

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Ital. 157

[TUSCANY]. Narratione [or Relazione] delle cose piu importanti del
Gran Duca di Toscana, nella quale si tratta del luochi, stati, fortezze,
et cittk e quello possiede. . . . Florence?, ca. 1598.

Paper. 6 flf. 25 x 19 cm. Boards.

Ital. 158

ANTONIO ANTONELLI. Spechio di direcione delli pesi, valute,
prezii, e pagamente deH'armate da mar, e terre del serenissimo dominio,
Veneto, et altre particularity, Venice, 1727.

Paper. 271 ff. (fr.2-3, 271 and a few others blank). 18 x 13.5 cm. Engraved
title border. H/vellum. Tide on spine: Prontuario per le paghe e I'armamento
delle milizie venete.

Ital. 159

TRAJANO BOCCALINI. Considerationi . . . sopra la vita di Giulio
Agricola, scritta da Caio Cornelio Tacito. Italy, June 1698.

Paper. 244 ff. (f.l with bibliogr. note in a later hand; ff.2-3, 241-244 blank).
21 X 15 cm. Contemp. boards.

Ital. 160

ANTONIO CASTALDI. Rumori di Napoli in tempo del governo del
vicere di Pietro di Toledo (ff.1-77). . . . Premessovi un RAGIONA-
MENTO di quanto successe a i baroni (20 prel.ff.). /fa/)', late 16th or early
17th cent.

Paper. 98 ff. (last blank). 19 x 13 cm. Contemp. vellum. — Text differs from
edition printed in 1769 in vol. 6 of G. Gravier's Raccolta.

Ital. 161

PASSIONE del nostro signore cio e del venerdi sancto, inc.: . . .
Facciam conseglio de quel mal factore/ propheta et qual conmone
multa gente/. . . . (Passion play in verse.) Italy, ca. 1500.

Paper. 58 ff. (last blank). 14 x 10.5 cm. Boards.

Ital. 162

SCELTA DI CANZONI siciliani (di Antonio Veneziano, Cesare
Gravina, "Liuni Russelli" [ = Leone Rosselli?], Michele Moraschino,
Giuseppe Durazzo, Gabriele Cicero, Giuseppe Moretto, Vincenzo
Giuffre [ = Gioffre?], Antonio Carvuni [or Carvoni, Carvini?], Giuseppe
Galeano, Andrea Rizzo, Gilormu La Ma'na [ = Girolamo Lamanna?],

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Franciso Gaita [Gaeta, Gaito?], "diversi autori" e "autori incerti").
Ca. 800 poems; alphabetical index of beginnings of verses on 21 fF. at
end of vol. Sicily, second half 17th cent.

Paper. 317 ff. (of which 34 ff. blank). 20.5 x 15 cm. Contemp. gilt morocco.

Ital. 163

TR ACT ATO breve della via della salute: Cum natus esset Jesus . . . ,
^Av-AQr. — With SERMONE sopra la beatitudine dell'nostro salvator,
vide Jesus turbas ascendit . . . , f.40r-68r. — TRACT ATO breve della
perfectione della vita spirituale, inc.: Ogni chosa areata secondo la sua
natura, fr.68r-98v. Italy, 16th cent.

Paper. 102 flf. (ff.99-102 blank). 21.5 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum.

Ital. 164

F.T.C. [initials of unidentified author]. LA MONARCHIA SPAG-
NOLA (with chapters on the relations with foreign countries, inch
Poland, Russia, Turkey, the Western Hemisphere, and a chapter on
navigation), Italy, 17th cent, (before 1690, a date added in a later hand).

Paper. 141 ff. 16.5 x 12.5 cm. Title border and initials decorated in pen-and-
ink. Contemp. vellum. — Prov.: J. C. Jacobi, parodii Papiae.

Ital. 165

BRUNETTO LATINI. Pataffio . . . cavato da un manoscritto del
signore D. Anton Maria Salvini con alcune annotazioni de medesimo.
Italy, first half 18th cent.

Paper. 3 prel. ff. (with notes by earlier owners), 105 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm.
19th-cent. leather.— Prov.: Rev. Thomas Crofts (1722-81); H. J. T. (Rev.
Henry J. Todd who acquired the book in 1802 and added a note on provenience
on f.3v); R. W. (Roger Wilbraham, with notes in his hand on ff.lv, 2r, and the
entry "a present from my respected friend the Rev. H. J. Todd" on p.l); book-
plates of George Wilbraham and Richard C.Jackson (ms.date 1898). — The ms.
contains apparently only those passages of the Pataffio which relate to A. M.
Salvini's commentary. On text and two other mss. see (besides the notes on
ff.lv-2r) Antonio Padula, Brunetto Latini e il Pataffio, (Milan, 1921).

Ital. 166

[MACCIOCHI FAMILY]. Wills, contracts and other entries, relating
to members of the family, in several hands. Italy, 1665-1834.

Paper. 182 pp. 16 x 11 cm. A few entries with notarial seals. 17th-cent.
vellum.

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Ital. 167

GIULIO GAULLI. Lettere d'awisi ed altro deH'agente [Giulio]
Gaullo de Roma (al Sig. Giovanni Vincenzo Ventura, segretario della
serenissima repubblica di Geneva, Jan.3-Dec.27, 1711). Rome, 1711.

Paper. 58 documents, of varying length (1-6 ff.) Ca. 26.5 x 19.5 cm., all
folded in archival fashion. Within contemp. boards, front cover with title
"Awisi da Roma, GauUi, 1711." — Incl. printed broadside, Editto. Gio. Battista
Spinola . . . , inc.: Conoscendosi per esperienza . . . [on devalued foreign
gold and silver coins], Rome, Camera apost., 1711.

Ital. 168

GIOVANNI TOMASI DI FIORE [author or scribe?]. Racconto della
sollevazione di Napoli accaduta nell 1647, distribuito per giornali sino
al tempo, che furono reintrodotti li Spagnoli. Cominciando dalli 7. di
luglio 1647, giorno di domenica, e finisce k 6. di aprile 1648, giorno di
lunedi [and continued to 1655]. Nel quale anco si tratta dell'incon-
veniente seguito tra il Cardinale Filomarino, e la citta con li motivi
ancora di detta sollevazione. Naples, ca. 1655.

Paper. 1, 311 ff. 25 x 18.5 cm. H/morocco. — Prov.: Property stamp, uniden-
tified, on title (which also bears designation: manoscritto 15); J. Auld, jr. (?);
William Stirling.

Ital. 169

GIUSEPPE CAMPANILE. Memorie appartenenti alle rivoluzioni
populari accadute in Napoli negli anni 1647, e 1648 . . . colle an-
notazioni di Innocenzio Fuidoro. Trascritte da D. G. R. L. in Napoli in
questo anno MDCCXXXI. Naples, 1731.

Paper, 107 ff. 18.5 x 14 cm. 19th-cent. leather.— Prov.: William Stirling.

Ital. 170

GAETANO STEFANI. Historia della revolutione di Napoli seguita
nel tempo di Masaniello . . . 1646. Naples, late 17th cent.

Paper. 75 ff. 20.5 x 15 cm. Engr. portrait of Masaniello used as frontispiece,
pen-and-ink portrait of the same on f.2. Contemp. vellum. — Prov.: John Auld,
jr. (?); William Stirling.

Ital. 171

GIUSEPPE DONZELLI. Partenope liberata. Rivoluzione di Napoli
con pienissimo raguaglio d'ogni successo, e trattati segreti, e palesi
nell'anno 1647. Naples, second half 17th cent., in three different hands.

Paper. 109, 204, 64 ff. (incl. a few blank). 21 x 15.5 cm. H/morocco.—
Prov.: William Stirling, with his brief notes at the beginning and end of each
part. According to W. Stirling parts 1-2 were printed in 1647, but most copies
destroyed; part 3 had not been printed (cf. f.[63] at end).

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Ital. 172

RACCONTO della soUevatione di Napoli, accaduta nell'anno 1647.
(Corrected title in a later hand: Raconto della origine et prencipii della
soUevatione . . .)» ^'^^•" Dovendo far racconti. . . . Naples, ca. 1647-48.

Paper. 125 pp. (p. 72 omitted in contemp. numbering). 33 x 23 cm. H/mo-
rocco.— Prov.: John Auld, jr. (?); William Stirling.— Day-by-day account of
the Masaniello revolt, incl. copies of official documents.

Ital. 173

ALESSANDRO FARNESE. Letter "al molto reverendo signor mon-
signor il governatore di Roma," reporting the capture of two priests, to
be brought to Rome for questioning; signed by Cardinal Farnese, and
dated Sept. 10, 1539. Nepi, 1539.

Paper. 2 ff. (text on f.lr). 29 x 21.5 cm. (folded to 21.5 x 14.5). In folder.

Ital. 174

ACCADEMIA DEI RAVVIVATI, Siena. Raccolta delle composi-
tioni recitate da gli accademici rawivati alia presenza delle serenissime
AA. Vittoria della Rovere, Anna Maria Luisa e Francesco Maria di
Toscana, governatore di Siena, protettore della medesima accademia il
di 13. giugno 1683. (Contains an introd. by Giulio Bandinelli, lecture
by Tomaso Maria Squarci, a dialogue between Silvio Gori and Lodovico
Sergardi <the founder of the academy>, and poems by Agusto Gori,
Ottavio Bandinelli, Muzio Urgurgieri, Scipione Savini, Adriano Ballati,
Lodovico Sergardi, Antonio Piccolomini, Pandolfo Spanocchi, Agostino
Chigi, Francesco Piccolomini and Filippo Segardi. Siena, 1683.

Paper. 34 ff. (last blank). 19.5 x 13 cm. Pen-and-ink drawing of emblem of
the academy with their motto: Un raggio di belt^ gli spirti awiva. — Cf. M.
Maylender, Storia delle accademie d'ltalia, (Bologna, 1929), V, 375-6.

Ital. 175

[DANTE]. Lettura di Dante. (Lecture notes on the Divine Comedy.)
Italy, ca. 1800.

Paper. 3 parts in 1 vol. Oblong, 15x11 cm. Cloth. — Prov.: Francis Campbell
Macauley.

Ital. 176

DIOPHANTUS. Le quistioni aritmetiche di Diofanto generalmente
risolute; with solutions and commentary from Jacques Billy's Diophantus
Geometra promotus, (Paris, 1606, cf. A. de Backer and C. Sommervogel,
op.cit.. Ill, col. 1478, no. 7). Italy, 18th cent.

Paper. 238 ff. (first and last blank). 29.5 x 20.5 cm. Contemp. vellum.

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Ital. 177

FRANCESCO BARBERINI. 8 messages in cipher, 2 letters (1 with
insert) and 1 "nota," from Card. Barberini to Mons. Verospi, Governor
of Umbria and Perugia, 1623-1626. Attached to these are the instruc-
tion sheets for deciphering the code (addressed from Barberini to
Verospi), one dated 1623, another "rinovata" 1626. Rome, etc., 1623-26.

Paper. 30 ff. (some blank). Various sizes, in folder (31.5 x 24 cm.)

Ital. 178

GIULIO SACCHETTI. Viaggio in Spagna (ff.2r-30v); Alcune note de
negotii per Spagna (fr.31r-37v); Ristretto di quanto a bocca mi e stato
accennare da Mons. Magalotti per conto di Spagna (fF.38r-46r);
Ristretto contenuto nella consulta in Spagna (ff.47r-54v) ; Note cavate
(ff.55r-63r); Ristretto della capitolatione [per la Valtellina] (fF.64r-
66r).— With Pope URBAN VIII. Brevi (in Latin), fr.67v-152r.—
PHILIP IV, King of Spain. Lettere del re e ministri (in Spanish) and
Altre materie diverse (also in Spanish), ff.l53r-275v. Italy, 17th cent.

Paper. 279 ff. (ff.276-279 blank). 26.5 x 19 cm. Contemp. vellum.— Prov.:
Francis Campbell Macauley.

Ital, 179

[CARAFA FAMILY]. Copia tradotta da latin in volgare d'una
scrittur'antiqua de Conte de Ruvo, hora Duca d'Andri[a] de la famiglia
Carrafa. History of the Carafa from the beginning to the late 16th cent.,
with extensive alphabetical index of members of the family (ff. 47-59).
Italy, ca. 1700.

Paper. 2, 59 ff. (first f. blank). 26 x 19 cm. H/leather.

Ital. 180

LA VIRTU TRIONFANTE; opera scenica dedicata al'altezza di
madama serenissima Margarita Medici Farnese, duchessa di Parma
(61 ff., f. 1 <blank?> wanting, ff. 60-61 blank) .- H^t/A GIORGIO
IPPOLITO GIORGI. Peripecie del merito (1, 69 ff., ff. 64-69 blank).
— [Opera scenica, without title, among main figures are Alcante, King
of Catalonia; Ferrante, Count of Sessa and Amelinda] (60 ff., last
blank). — [Idem, among the main figures are Ermangard, Queen of
Italy; Berengar, Anscar, etc.] (65 ff., ff. 62-65 blank). Italy, ca. 1700,
.written in four different hands.

Paper. 1 vol. Ca. 27.5 x 20 cm. Contemp. boards. With contemporary cor-
rections. The Virtu trionfante has the appearance of a prompt book.

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Ital. 181

RIME BURLESCHE. Anthology of satirical poems by Francesco
Berni, Andrea Lori, Francesco Maria Molza, and others unidentified,
some attributed to Mauro Mattel of Florence (cf. pencilled note on fly-
leaf), altogether 32 poems. Italy, 2nd half 16th cent.

Paper. 4, 185 ff. (ff. 183-86 blank; one f. between ff.62-3 and unnumbered
blank f. between ff.51-2 and 106-7) = 188 ff. 17.5 x 13 cm. H/vellum. Title on
spine: Poesie libere. Prov.: "AU'illustre signore" [rest undeciphered] in more or
less contemp. hand, and later notation "No. 405 La" on f.lr.; Giuseppe
Martini.

Ital. 182

LORENZO GIACOMINO DE TEBALDUCCI MALESPINI.

Ragionamento d'amore . . . fatto nel' Ac[c]ademia fiorentina. Auto-
graph ms.? Florence, last quarter 16th cent.

Paper. 44 ff., last blank. 33.5 x 22.5 cm. Contemp. vellum. — Prov.: Gozzini
sale, 1925, no. 1045. This speech seems to have remained unpublished.

Lat. 153

BERNARDINO STEFONIO. Flavia Tragedia. (Text in Latin, pro-
logue in Italian.) Italy, ca. 1620.

Paper. 2 ff., 10 pp., 1 blank f., pp. 11-147, 147-331. 10 x 7 cm. Title within
engraved figurated medallion. Contemp. calf, gold tooled with initials F.C. on
front and back. — Bookplate of Hans Hauser and "Ex libris Fairbridge." — Cf.
A. de Backer and C. Sommervogel, op. cit., vol. VII, col. 1529, no. 4.

Lat. 154

PSALTER, for use in the daily offices of the Franciscans of Avignon.
Avignon, 15th cent.

Vellum. 166 ff. 15 x 10 cm. ISth-cent. calf —Arms of Michel de Leon,
treasurer of France at Marseilles (1727-1800) on spine; monogram of Charles
Kothen (1814-1880), a Finnish nobleman who was a refugee in Marseilles.

Lat. 155

[ARISTOTLE]. Disputationes in duos libros Aristotelis De generatione
et corruptione, nee non De universa metaphysica et morali philosophia
eiusdem. Addito etiam Tractatus [reverend! patris Salvaterra, qui
dictabat] de horologiis solaribus. . . . Pesciettus Jacobus Maria
scribebat Genuae. Genoa, 1680.

Paper. 283 ff. 21 x 15 cm. Contemp. vellum. — Acquired after the publication
of L. W. Riley, comp., Aristotle Texts (op.cit.)

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Lat. 156

PROPHETIA ANONYMI. Versus reperti Hierosolimae in Capella
sepulcri domini nostri Jesu Christi in quodam muro antiquissimo cum
prophetia sequenti sub anno domini 1470 die prima mensis Thebet 1.
Januarii. . . . Sequitur prophetia. Audire verbum domini principes
sodomorum. . . , (Predicts conquest of Milan, conflagration in
Brescia, destruction of Bologna and Ferrara, pestilence, and the delivery
of Jerusalem from the Saracens between 1484 and 1509.) Germany, ca.
1484.

Paper. 2 ff. 20.5 x 14 cm. Boards. — Small bookplate "Homo Hominibus,
1874."

Lat. 157

ANGELUS (CARLETUS) DE CLAVASIO. Act concerning the
Franciscan monastery San Spirito near Reggio, notarized by "Jerony-
mus filius . . . Ludovici de Favallibus" [or Fanallibus?]. San Spirito?,
16 July 1491.

Vellum. 1 f. (39 lines). 50 x 40 cm. Large figurated initial I, in colors, repre-
senting an angel standing on a column. In folder. — Clavasio names Joannes de
Caligariis; Albertus, son of Nicolaus de Fontanella; Franciscus, son of Gabriele
de Pradonerio; and Christophorus, son of Antonius de Luca to be charged with
responsibilities for the secular affairs of the monastery.

Lat. 158

SERMONES VARII. 1. PEREGRINUS POLONUS. Sermones de
tempore, ff.1-82, inc.: Ecce rex tuus venit tibi. In hiis verbis . . . , fol-
lowed by 1 p. (f.82v) of text dealing with conciliar matters and mention-
ing the Hussites and the date 1433, the name Conradus Hillin [?] on
upper margin. — 2. Anonymous sermon, ff'.83r-122r, inc.: Dicite filie
Syon ecce rex tuus venit. — 3. DEMON JEIUNANDI, fr.l22v-128v,
inc.: Cum jeiunatus. . . .-4. AUGTORITATES SGRIPTORUM
de . . . viciis peccatorum, ff.l28v-130v. — 5. Anonymous sermons,
fr.l31r-142v, inc.: Erunt quasi angeh dei.-6. ASSUMPTIO BEATAE
VIRGINIS, etc., ff.l43r-167v, inc. (143r): Surge domine in requiem
tuam (by Bernard of Siena?, cf. Little, p. 244); (f.l55r): In omnibus re-
quiem; (f.l58r): Nativitas tua. ... -7. DE ASSUMPTIONE
MAIORE, ff.l68v-180r, inc.: Adest, fratres diletissimi dies. . . . (With
contemporary marginal notes and corrections, especially in the Pere-
grinus.) Southern Germany, 1432-35 (dated 1432 on fr.l20v and 122r; 1433
on f.82r; 1435 on fr.l42v, 157v and 160v).

Paper. 180 ff. (fr.178-179 [cut to half size] blank, f 180 pasted against back
cover [correction or emendation to the text], 1 f. in 8vo inserted between
fr.l34 and 135). 29.5 x 21 cm. Contemp. pigskin over wooden boards, with

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back and front-cover label, largely unreadable. Part of front-cover tide: Flores
Jacobi. — Prov.: Carthusian monastery, Buxheim; part of earlier owner's note
on f.l79v: ". . . Ich Herr Hans von VaUen. . . ."

Lat. 160

ANDREA GRITTI. Instructions to Nicolaus Theupulo on his appoint-
ment by the Doge of Venice to govern Brescia for one year. With table
of contents. Venice, 10th day {no month indicated), 1525; written by notary
Petrus Grafoldarius.

Vellum. 31 ff. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Initial page (f.2) with ilium, lion of St. Mark
and coat of arms. Modern h/czilf.

Lat. 161

JOHANNES TOSTIUS. Johannis Tostii Vratislaviensis Silesii poetae
coronatae clarissimorum Witebergensium professorum descriptio, qui
anno 1582 floruerunt, et publice in Academia magna cum fructu docu-
erunt. Witebergae, excudebat Matthaus Welack, anno M.D.LXXXII.
(Copy or autograph?) Wittenberg?, ca. 1582.

Paper. 8 ff. (ff.5-8 blank). 20 x 16 cm. Boards.— Matthaus Welack printed
in Wittenberg 1578-1593. It was not ascertained whether these poems were
actually printed.

Lat. 162

[HISTORIA NATURALIS]. Compilation (possibly lecture notes)
covering astronomy, cosmography, geography, geology, physics and
biology (inch psychology), with references to Copernicus, Tycho de
Brahe, Gassendi, Descartes, etc. Incl. chapters on fossils, magnets,
vacuum, anatomy. Inscription on f.49v: Hactenus P. Ricci (lecturer,
student or scribe?), the entire ms. in one hand. Italy, ca. 1700.

Paper. 205 ff. (ff. 197-205 blank). 18 x 14 cm. lUus. Contemp. boards.—
Prov.: Conte Antonio Ancini, condittore nel CoUegio de'Nobili di Modena,
1730.

Lat. 163

PSEUDO-ARISTOTLE. De regimine principum [excerpt from the
Secreta secretorum] with commentary, fF.2r-17r, inc.: (text) Cum sit
corpus corruptibile eique accidat . . . ; (commentary): Ordo vivendi
phisice secundum Aristotelem sequitur hie. . . . Iste liber principali
sua divisione • . . , expl.: Explicit modus vivendi phisice secundum
Aristotelem, editus per Johannem Hispaniensem, De observatione diete
et corporis extractus a quodam libro de arabico qui latine liber dicitur
Secreta secretorum.— M/A MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Liber de
vera amicitia, 215 lines of verse, ff.l7v-20v, inc.: Nil iucundius est viro

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dum vivit amico/Cum consorte dulcius sapit omne bonum/ ....

Germany, 15th cent.

Paper. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. 20 ff. Vellum. Concerning the Pseudo-Aristotle text
see Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, no. 2490; Lynn Thorndike, A History oj
Magic and Experimental Science, II, 268-270; Robert Steel, Opera hactenus inedita
Rogeri Baconi, V, xvi-xviii; John of Spain's transl. was published by H. Souchier,
Denkmdler provenzal. Lit. u. Sprache, (Halle, 1883), I, 473 ff. The commentary has
not been identified. Not in L. W. Riley, Aristotle Texts {op. cit.). — The incipit of
the versified De amicitia not in H. Walther, Initia Carminum {op. cit.).

Lat. 164

RAYMONDUS DE PENNAFORTE. Summula de summa, with ex-
tensive anonymous commentary, inc. : Omnem scientiam et disciplinam
sacra scriptura transcendit. Southern Germany or Austria, 1422 (by a scribe
Johannes Kemp [?, name crossed out, cf. f.l73v]).

Paper. 175 ff. 29 x 21 cm. Colored initials, some with faces in pen-and-ink.
Contemp. blind-stamped sheepskin over wooden boards (rebacked), new
guards. — Same scribe as ms. Lat. 165.

Lat. 165

DE POENITENTIA (cf. A. G. Little, op.cit., p. 168 under inc. Poeniteas
cito peccator, referring to Balliol 22, "Anonymous tractatus metricus de
poenitentia"). With extensive commentary {inc.: Hora est jam nos de
somno surgere), listed by Little as "Sermones de tempore" by W. Dissy
[same as Walter Diss or Dysse?]. Southern Germany or Austria, 1422 (by a
scribe Johannes, cf.40r).

Paper. 41 ff. (ff.38v, 39r, 40v and 41 blank). 29 x 21.5 cm. Colored initials
at beginning of text and commentary. H/calf. — Same scribe as ms. Lat. 164.
Both mss. give the place where the ms. was written, deciphered (correcdy?) as
Brunslock; no such place could be identified in the usual gazetteers.

Lat. 166

[ROVIGO]. Raccolta di leggi ad uso della Podesta di Rovigo. (Title
missing, text in Latin with a few sections in Italian), inc.: De modo ad-
ministrationis Policinii. Probe sis mentis. . . . (The main part of the
ms., dated 1546, signed by Hieronymus Murionius, secretarius, p. 167.)
Rovigo, 1546.

Vellum. 173 pp. (f.l missing). 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Paper. — Prov.: Johannes
Betrus Ravenoldus; Gabriel Michieli, Bassano, 1723 [?] (cf.p.l73). — List of
known mss. of statutes of Rovigo in L. Fontana, Bibliografia degli statuti, (Turin,
1907), vol.2, pp.500-502.

Lat. 167

CHARLES V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Collection of
laws, edicts, proclamations, etc., prepared for the use of the notary L.

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Panagathus, in Lombardy, incl. decree against the smuggling of arms
to the Turks, for the arrest of followers of Luther, privileges for the
"Collegium germanicum" at Bologna, estabUshment of a medical
faculty at Milan, "facultas creandi doctores, poetas," etc. Lombardy,
after 1530.

Paper. 4 blank, 133, 9 ff. 30.5 x 21 cm. Contemp. vellum.— Prov.: L.
Panagathus. — The fact that one document is in French and that the notarial
hand shows French characteristics, also the inclusion of some items relating to
Switzerland (incl. one to Lausanne) make it appear likely that this ms. was
executed in the northwest of Lombardy.— On last f. prayer against the plague.

Lat. 168

DOMENIGUS DE TAPARELLIS. Testament of Domenico Taparelli
of Savigliano concerning his burial, donations to various churches, dis-
posal of property to his wife and children, etc. Executed by the imperial
notary Vincentius de Alba. Savigliano, 19 March 1395.

Vellum. 1 f. Ca. 40 x 37 cm. In folder.

Lat. 169

CHRONICLE (incomplete), begins with the year 28 A.D. {inc.:
Pontius Pilatus procurator ludee mittitur a Tiberio) and ends 1448; a
few corrections and emendations, and additions in a different hand with
the last date 1476. Florence?, ca. 1464-1476.

Paper. 57 ff. (ff. 1-2 lacking). 21 x 14.5 cm. Boards.— Though a world
chronicle, Italian political history (especially Florence, Milan, Genoa and
Venice) is stressed. Important events in Italian literary history as well as
natural phenomena are mentioned.

Lat. 170

[ARISTOTLE]. 1. IN ARISTOTELIS LIBROS De generatione et
corruptione, inc.: Post octo libros physicorum, fF.lr-183r. — 2. DIS-
PUTATIO in libros Aristotelis De anima, inc.: Ordo disputationis
exigit . . . , fr.l83r-303r. — 3. QUAESTIONES de ente possibili,
inc.: Tribus questionibus absolvent, ff.305-315. Italy, late 16th or early
17th cent.

Paper. 317 ff. (ff.316-317 blank). 20.5 x 15.5 cm. Contemp. vellum.—
Acquired after publ. of L. W. Riley, comp., Aristotle Texts (op.cit.).

Lat. 171

[ARISTOTLE]. Metaphisica, De anima et Meteorologia [et De physi-
onomia]. (Anonymous commentary.) Italy, 17th cent.

Paper. 6 ff., 67 pp., 1 blank, 5 ff., 71 pp., 15 ff., 112 pp., 19 ff., 87 pp., 1 f.
11.5 x 7.5 cm. Full-page pen-and-ink drawing on f.2 and at beginning of each

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of the 3 following parts; figurated title border; vignette at end. Cloth. — "Ad
usum F. Bened. M. Stellati, in memoriam J. Casimiri Panza ipsi donatus in
conventu S. Mariae super Taburrum [?], die XVIII augusti 1730; Philippus
Rosanus (at beginning of Problemata meteorologica) ; Josephi . . . crossed out
on title page; stamp R. S. on inside back cover. — Acquired after publ. of L. W.
Riley, comp., Aristotle Texts (op.cit.).

Lat. 172

[ARISTOTLE]. 1. In universam Aristotelis Physicam, ff.lr-163v. —
2. Ad quatuor libros: De mundo et coelo; duo De generatione; quatuor
De meteoris; et Aristotelicos tractatus qui Mundus dicitur, disputatio,
ff.l63v-289v. — 3. Ad quatuor Libros meteorologicos Aristotelis,
ff.291r-309r. — 4. Ad libros tres De anima et ea quae vulgo dicuntur
Parva naturalia tractatus, fr.313r-422v. (With marginal additions in
different ink, but by the same scribe.) France, 16th cent.

Paper. 422 ff. (f.K12 removed, without loss of text; a few fF. blank). 22.5 x
17 cm. Contemp. leather, with name "CL. DECHAMP HEV." on front
cover. — Acquired after publ. of L. W. Riley, comp., Aristotle Texts {op.cit.).

Lat. 173

ANTONIUS BERALDUS. Document of Beraldus, canon of the
Cathedral of Cahors, etc., in which he makes known to the clergy of the
diocese a letter from Pope Clement VII, of March 15, 1531, ordering
the return of property, titles, belongings, and money of Guillaume and
Geraud of Figeac, heirs of Francois Grana, under penalty of excom-
munication for those who unrightfully retain such property, etc.
Cahors, 1532.

Vellum. 1 f. Ca. 35.5 x 26 cm. (folded to 13.5 x 12 cm.). In folder.

Lat. 174

RABANUS ANGLICUS. Liber Rabani [corrected from Babani]
Horoscopo [sic] intitulatus, translatus de Hebraico in Latinum a
Dandalo Ylardensi ad instantiam abbatis P. de Visula, ff.lr-26v, inc.:
Rerum omnipotens opifex. — I^zi/z COM[M]ENTUM super predi[c]-
tionum [sic] Rabani Anglici factum per . . . [name crossed out, un-
readable], ff.29r-99v, inc.: Rerum omnipotens &c. Quanta diligentia
voluerit.— JOACHIM DE FIORE. Liber summorum pontificum
incipit ab Innocentio 4° [ = Vaticinia], ff.l01r-123v. — COM[M]EN-
TARIUM florum pontificum, ff.l25v-168v, inc.: Domus est cooperi-
mentum.— ST. CYRILLUS (general of the Carmelites). Oraculum
[with the Expositio of Joachim de Fiore], ff.l70r-268r. — IDEM.
Revelatio, ff.268v-272v. Italy, ca. 1600, in several hands.

Paper. 272 ff. (ff. 27-28, 100, 124, 169, 234-242 blank, these last with omission
of text). 20 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum. — "Hunc librum invenit Gregorius de

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Gregoriis in bello Pontificis Urbani VIII anno 1644. . . ."—None of the
incipits in L. Thorndike, op.cit.

Lat. 175

SIMON FYRBAS. In libros Aristotelis De anima et Metaphysicos
commentarii, dictati a reverendo et doctissimo Patre Simone Fyrbas,
monacho schyrensi, conscript! a religoso Fr. Dominico Blatt, eiusdem
ordin. et monasterii professo. Scheyern, 1632.

Paper. 1 f., 501, 13 pp. 19.5 x 15 cm. lUus. title border. Contemp. calf, with
blind-pressed initials F.D.B. (Domenicus Blatt) S. and date 1632.— Letter from
Isaac Husek on this ms. tipped in at beginning. Not in L. W. Riley, corap.,

Aristotle Texts {op.cit.).

Lat. 176

[VENICE]. Copy of document contesting the rights to the property of
Francesco and Giovanni di Leone, "cives ferrarienses," in the district
of Rovigo, made in behalf of Venice by Antonius Ferro, 1485. Lombardy,
late 15th cent.{?).

Paper. 10 ff. (last blank). 31.5 x 21 cm. In folder.

Lat. 177

JACOBUS BALBI. Notarial document. Jacobus Balbi, acting on be-
half of the associates "Marco Zorzi, Jacomo and Piero Balbi" of Venice,
appoints Marco Giorgio to collect amounts due to them from Ventur-
inus de Pinzonibus. Notarized by Petrus Arivabenus. Venice, 22 September
1472.

Vellum. 1 f. Ca. 34.5 x 14.5 cm. Notarial signet. In folder.— With stamp of
the "Archives de I'Ordre de Malthe."

Lat. 178

CASTELNAU-DE-LEVIS (Tarn). Terrier of the "seigneurie de
Castelnau," or survey of property by exact location, rent, name of
tenant, mentioning many strips of land and vineyards. Tarn, 1309.

Paper. 1 unnumb., 59 ff. 31.5 x 23 cm. In folder (14th cent, document).—
Unsigned 18th cent, owners' descr. fastened to vellum wrapper: Livre en
papier . . . contenant un etat des tenanciers des fiefs de Castelnau, St® Croix,
St. Sernin et la Bastide, et de la vente qu'ils font, fait en I'an 1309.— Castelnau =
Castelnau-de-BonafouSj near Albi.

Lat. 179

DENIS FAUCHER (Dionysius Faucherius). Poetry (with prefatory
matter in prose) largely, if not entirely, by Denis Faucher, inc. (f.lr):
Monachus est afflictus et moerens animus . . . , followed (f.lv) by an
almost full-page miniature (a nun on the cross) with poem "Ad scholas-

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ticara" below (inc.: Coelesti ut valeas sponso . . .); inc. (prose on f.2r):
Vera sanctimonialis ilia est, quae amore . . . ; miniature representing
skull on f.3r; the main part begins on f.3v with De contemptu mortis . . .
carmen Dionysii, followed by his De contemptu mundi et amore dei
epistola ad scholasticam [in verse] ; Ad eandem epistola ... ad abne-
gationem propriae voluntatis; Ad Antonium Rorincum discipulum ut
Christi suave iugum accepiat; Hymnus in laudem divae Katherinae
[hymn ascribed to Faucher by Chevalier]; Ad scholasticam discipulam
de adventu Christi; Animae divino amore languentis deprecatio;
Carmen saphicum; Ode dicolos tetrastrophos, dialogus quo homo plus
. . . consolatur; Hortatur scholastica; ending with Italian "Himno de
I'amore divino." Italy, ca. 1530-50.

Paper. 16 ff. (in front of printed Henricus de Herpf) and 16 ff. (after printed
text) = 32 ff. 14.5 x 10 cm. Morocco (ca. 1700).— Prov.: Ballesden.— Bound
with printed HENRICUS DE HERPF, Speculum perfectionis, (Venice, de
Sabio, 1524) and shelved as NC. H3948.524.

Lat. 180

ALBERTUS MAGNUS (PSEUDO-). Secreta mulierum et virorum,
ff.2r-54r, inc. (text): Dilectissimo sibi in Christo . . . , (commentary):
Circa initium libri aliqua preambula sunt notanda . . . (the incipit of
the text differs slightly from Thorndike, op. cit., and early printed eds.;
that of the commentary does not appear in Thorndike) ; expl. (text) : . . .
qui in deo patre vivit et regnat per omnia secula seculorum, (com-
mentary): . . . vita eterna ad quam deus omnipotens gloriosus et
magnificus nos perducat qui cum deo patre et filio et spiritu sancto
vivit . . . The Secreta are preceded by 1 f. (fragment of a larger
work?) with three texts: 1. De coitu, inc.: Item ex quo multa vitia con-
tinguntur ex inordinatu coytu . . . (47 lines); 2. Artes mulierum
(17 lines); 3. De meretrice, inc.: Item meretrix sic diffinitur . , .
(11 lines). (None of these could be identified in Thorndike). Germany.'^,
15th cent.

Paper. 54 ff. 21 x 14 cm. H/vellum.

Lat. 181

LUCIUS AENNEUS SENECA. Liber epistolarum ad Lucilium
[Lucillum in inc. of ms.] (Fragment, letters 1-26 only). Northern Italy,
late 14th cent.

Paper. 12 fT. 21 x 14.5 cm. Boards.— Letter 26 icplt.

Lat. 182

AEGIDIUS DE FOSCARIIS. Ordo judiciarius, inc.: In nomine domini
nostri Jesu Christi ... ad instantiam quorundum meorum scolarium
. . . agredior praesens opus . . . Italy, first half 14th cent.

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Vellum. 20 ff. 46.5 x 29 cm. Vellum. The two signatures (A^^ B^) written by
two different hands; the second scribe ends: Qui scripsit scribat; semper cum
domino vivat. Amen,

Lat. 183

[CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ANDERS]. 1. Philopinacium (i.e. liber
amicorum with entries on ff.71, 81-2, 87, 91-2, 94, 96, 106-8, 110-1,
131, 161, 180-1, 183, 185, 188-9, 192, 195-8, in Latin, Greek, French,
German, English and Slavic), ff.3r-220r. — Latin quotations, ff.220v-
25 Iv. Zittau, 1731-1733.

Paper. 251 ff. (most ff. blank). 12 x 17 cm. Tide within illus. border, full-
page illus. tipped in between ff. 108-9, bookplate on verso of f.l80. Contem.
gilt red morocco. Prov.: Bechstein collection.

Lat. 184

JEAN PASSERAT. 1. Conjecturarum et opinionum libri IV (with
index of words explained, and index of Latin authors), fF.lr-96v. —
2. Conjecturarum liber I (second redaction), ff.97r-104v. — 3. Idem
(third redaction as printed after Passerat's death, Paris, C. Morel, 1612),
fr.l05r-114v. — 4. Veterum poematum qua divulsa ad lacera supersunt,
tomus alter. Auctorum nomina Lucilius et Naevius (fragments of
Lucilius and Naevius, with references to authors quoted), ff.ll7r-180v.
(Autograph manuscript, largely unpublished). Paris, ca. 1572-1600.

Paper. 181 ff. (ff.5-7 and blank f.45 wanting; ff.46-7, 115-6, 158 and 181
blank). 32.5 x 22.5 cm. 18th cent, morocco.

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Library Notes

Various Gifts

Edward W. Hazen Foundation— The JVew Testament Octapla; eight
English versions of the New Testament in the Tyndale-King James tradition.
Ed. by Luther A. Weigle (New York, 1962). Presents for the first time
the full text of the eight English translations of the N. T. Tyndale, Great
Bible, Geneva Bible, Bishop's Bible, Rheims, King James, and two
Revised Versions. The texts are printed on two facing pages for easy
comparison.

Ferris, Richard B. — Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard
the Third, by Horace Walpole (London, 1768). Indian biography, by B. B.
Thatcher (New York, 1849-1850), 2 volumes. The history of Philip's war,
by Thomas Church (Exeter, 1834).

Jackson, Mrs. Albert A.— A number of the collected works of Eng-
lish and American authors and two sets of the eleventh edition of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Kraus, H. p., firm, booksellers, New York — Thirty-five manuscripts,
including the St. Blasien Psalter . . . (New York, 1962).

Miller, Dr. William E. — Eighty miscellaneous volumes of classics
and general literature.

Morgan, Richard— His The plight of God, as told in Bible story
(Rindge, New Hampshire, 1955); The Christ of the Cross (New York,
1950); God's message and the messengers (Philadelphia, 1960).

Perkins, Dean G. Holmes — A collection of twenty-five volumes on
architecture and city planning — many of them rare.

ScHOLZ, Mrs. Karl — A collection of approximately 900 books and
4,000 pamphlets, largely in the field of economics.

We gratefully acknowledge donations from the following faculty and
staff members: Albert C. Baugh, Matthew W. Black, Andres Briner,
L C. Cornag, Elizabeth F. Flower, Otis H. Green, Rudolf Hirsch,
Adolf D. Klarmann, R. B. Mitchell, Heinz Moenkemeyer, Glenn R.
Morrow, Harold S. Powers, M. G. Sevag, M. Elizabeth Shinn,
Robert E. Spiller, and Otto Springer.

J. M. G.

Important Purchases

Aegidius de Foscarariis. Ordo judiciarius. A fine manuscript of the
fourteenth century, with marginal notes. Aegidius was the first lay pro-

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fessor admitted to teach canon law at the University of Bologna. This
work is a treatise of civil, canon, and criminal procedure as practiced
in Bologna.

Aroldi, Aldo Mario. Armi e armature italiane fino al XVIII secolo (Milan,
Bramante, 1961). Beautifully illustrated with many colored and black-
and-white photographs. One of an edition of 1600 copies.

[Braunschweig] Collection of fifteen pamphlets: two printed in 1540:
eleven in 1541, one in 1543, and another in 1544. Certain of these were
issued by the town council of Braunschweig; others by Dukes Heinrich
and Ernst of Braunschweig; one by the Landgrave Philip of Hesse; and
another by Duke John Friedrich of Saxony. All pertain to Braunschweig
and the House of Braunschweig. The pamphlets are bound together in
contemporary pigskin over wood; on the upper side is the portrait of
Luther; on the lower side, that of Melanchthon.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The workes of our ancient and learned English poet,
Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed (London, Adam Islip, 1602). This edition
was made by Thomas Speght, a well-known schoolmaster of his day; he
was headmaster of the grammar school attached to Ely Cathedral.

Chicago. Art Institute. Ryerson Library. Index to art periodicals.
(Boston, G. K. Hall, 1962).

Delaporte, Yves. Les vitraux de la Cathedrale de Chartes, histoire et
description (Chartes, Houvet, 1926). Four volumes. A description, with
many plates, of the renowned stained-glass windows of Notre Dame
Cathedral in Chartes.

Gabriel, Albert. Voyages archeologiques dans la Turquie orientale; avec un
recueil d'' inscriptions arabes par Jean Sauvaget (Paris, Boccard, 1940). Two
volumes: Texte, Planches. A detailed description of two visits during
the year 1932. The numerous and detailed diagrams and the beautiful
plates help to make these two folio volumes an important work on the
subject.

Guarnieri, Gino. / Cavalier i de Santo Stefano nella storia della Marina
Italiana (Pisa, Nistri-Lischi, 1960). This is the complete and definitive
history of the order of the Knights of Saint Stephen, which Cosimo I de
Medici founded in 1561. Throughout the three centuries of its life and
activity (it ended in 1809) it had great influence over Italy and the
Mediterranean area as a whole. One of the chief interests of this volume
to our library is that we have an important manuscript on the order of
the Knights of Saint Stephen (Ms. Ital. 132). The Library has also
three sixteenth-century editions of the statuti of the order.

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Imlay, Gilbert. The emigrants, &c, or the history oj the expatriated family,
being a delineation of English manners, drawn from real characters, written in
America (Dublin, Brown, 1794).

Malton, James. A picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin dis-
played in a series of the most interesting scenes taken in the year 1791 [London,
179?]. This work is notable for its very fine color plates, and its beauti-
fully executed engravings.

Pichon, Jerome Frederic, baron, ed. Le menagier de Paris, traite de
morale et d''economie domestique compose vers 1393 par un Bourgeois Parisien
(Paris, 1846). Two volumes. This work, published by the Societ6 des
Bibliophiles Frangais, brings together the Griselidis, translated from the
Latin of Petrarca, MelHbee et Prudence by Albertan de Brescia, 1246,
and Le chemin de povrete et de richesse, a poem composed in 1 342 by
Jean Bruyant. The editor, Baron Jerome Pichon, was well known for
his studies of old French literature.

Plutarchus, Opuscoli morali di Plutarco Cheronese . . . Tradotti in volgare
daL Sig. Aiarc^ Antonio Gandino & da altri letterati. Et in questa ultima im-
pressione da infinitissimi errori espiirgati, & diligentemente correti. (Venice,
Gio: Battista Combi, 1625).

Soares d'Azevedo Barbosa de Pinho Leal, Augusto. Portugal antigo e
moderno; diccionario geographico, estatistico, chorographico, heraldico, archeo-
logico, historico, biographico e etymologico de todas as cidades, villas efreguezias
de Portugal e de grande munero de aldeias . . . (Lisbon, Moreira, 1873).
Twelve volumes. This set was bought for the Fine Arts Library, and is a
valuable source of encyclopedic material on Portugal up to the time of
writing.

Tao tsang. Reprint of the 1923 reprint. This is the Taoist Canon, one
of the two major bodies of Chinese religious literature. The Taoist
Canon consists of 1476 titles, originally published in two installments in
1445 and 1607, and reprinted in 1923 in 1120 Chinese-style volumes,
totalling some 200,000 pages. Only one copy exists in China of the
original edition, and the 1923 reprint, which was made from this, is ex-
cessively rare and exists in only a few major American libraries. In
addition to religious and philosophical works, the Taoist Canon con-
tains many works which deal with medicine, alchemy, and other
sciences or pseudo-sciences.

United States President, 1789-97 (Washington). The Proceedings of the
Executive of the United States respecting the insurgents, 1794 (Philadelphia,
.Fenno, 1795).

Zedler, Johann Heinrich, ed. Grosses vollstdndiges Universal-Lexikon
(Graz, Akademische Druck-und Verlagsanstalt, 1961-62). Twenty-nine

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volumes. Photomechanical reproduction of the 1732-50 edition, pub-
lished in Halle.

The following two serial publications offer rich research material,
and are useful additions to our growing holdings on Czech historical
sources:

Matice moravska, Briinn (Gasopis, 1869-1960). Volumes 1-7, 10,

n-79.

Ceskj) casopis historichy (Prague, Universita Karlova, Historichy

seminar, 1895-1949). Volumes 1-50.

A notable purchase of recent months is the collection of Aragonese
Archives. These documents cover the period from the fifteenth to the nine-
teenth centuries. Only the briefest kind of checking of these manuscripts
has been done so far, but there seem to be over a thousand documents,
which will serve as primary historical sources in the political and eco-
nomic history of the Mediterranean.

Substantial additions in three different subject fields were attained by
book-purchasing projects carried on by three professors during their
travels in Europe this past summer. In England, Germany, and Holland
Dr. Otto Albrecht made a miscellaneous selection of music and musico-
logical books, certain of them quite rare; among these were a number
for which we had long been searching.

An excellent selection of the major authors of nineteenth and twen-
tieth century Serbo-Groatian literature was made in Jugoslavia by Dr.
Morton Benson. In addition, the latest works in Serbo-Groatian lin-
guistics were obtained. One of the basic reasons for the purchase of
these books is that the study of Serbo-Groatian at the University has
been expanded as a result of a Government grant under the National
Defense Education Act.

A collection of books in French and Latin, covering medieval French
history and source materials, and including many rare cartularies, was
made in France by Dr. John F. Benton. Among the most important
works in this collection are the following:

Plancher, Urbain. Histoire generale et particuliere de Bovrgogne, avec des
notes, des dissertations et des preuves justificatives . . . (Dijon, Antoine
de Fay, 1739-48). Three Volumes. These volumes contain exten-
sive publication of medieval sources. They also include plates show-
ing elevations of many buildings and monuments destroyed in the
French Revolution.

Five volumes reproducing unpublished charters of the abbey of
Giteaux, covering the period 1098-1267. These were collected and
written by Jacques Laurent.

A. F. G.

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Rare Book Collection Purchases

Books of the fifteenth century: Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples, Ars Moralis
[In Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea introductio] Paris, G. Marchant,
1499 (GW 9641); Pietro Andrea de Bassi, Le Fatiche d'Ercole, Ferrara,
A. Carnerius, 1475 (GW 3721); Rolandinus de Passageriis, Summa artis
notariae, Venice, B. Benalius, 1485 (HI 2086); Friedrich I, emperor,
Authentica, continens priuilegia et libertates scholarium, Leipzig, M Lands-
berg?, after 12 August 1487 (BMC III, 635); Johannes Auerbach,
Processus indiciarius, Strassburg, Johann Griininger, ca. 1490 (GW 2845);
a broadside, an imperial proclamation about the deposed Eberhard II,
duke of Wiirttemberg, dated 19 November 1499, Tubingen, J. Otmar,
1499-1500 {Einblattdrucke 990).

Carolus Magnus, Innamoramento di Carlo Magno e dei suoi Paladini,
Venice, G. Walch, 1481 (Reichling 1163). This is the copy described by
Reichling; it is probably the only one surviving. A small folio, it con-
tains over 5000 stanzas of this famous Italian chivalric romance and,
as a unique copy, has the same value as an important manuscript. The
binding is also of interest: reddish-brown morocco, gilt, with elaborate
borders and decorations, dating from the late sixteenth century.

Georg Sherer, Aller Schriften, Biicher vnnd Tractdtlein, printed at the
Praemonstratensian monastery at Bruck, in Moravia, in 1599; it is a
thick folio volume in the original blind-stamped pigskin binding.

A pamphlet, Gebett, consisting of prayers for the German mercenaries
who fought under the Prince of Conde in the religious wars in France,
published in 1562, probably in Heidelberg. On the final page is a full-
page woodcut of a soldier talking to an angel.

A Panegiricus to the Emperor Maximilian, by Georg Sibutus, Darip-
inus, Antwerp, 1505. It contains two fine woodcuts.

Guillaume Bude, De transitu Hellenismi ad Christianismum, libri tres,
Paris, Robert Stephanus, 1535, a beautifully printed book with initials
by Geoffroy Tory, and a contemporary blind-stamped calf binding.

An edition of Aesop's fables, Esbatement moral des animaux, Antwerp,
ca. 1579. The fables have been adapted as sonnets, in French; each one
is accompanied by an engraving (125 in all) and an appropriate verse
from Scripture.

Two Latin poems, Trenodiae, by Bonino Mombrizio (d. ca. 1482),
Milan, 1504; they are on the death of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of
Milan, who was assassinated in 1476.

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J. G. Hagelgans, Orbis literatus Academicus Germanico-Europaeus,
Frankfurt, [1737] containing 170 woodcuts of the seals of German uni-
versities, and other information about universities and learned societies.

Wilhelm Dilich, Hessische Chronica, Cassel, 1606; it contains many en-
gravings, most of which are city views.

Paul Eber, Calendarium historiciim conscriptum, Wittenberg, 1579, with
manuscript entries by one Matthias Eytner.

Abraham Buchholzer, Index chronologicus . . . ad finem anni 1598,
Gorlitz, 1599, with a full-page calligraphic dedication to the City
Council of Sprottau by Gottfried Buchholzer, Abraham's son, who had
continued this second edition of the chronicle from the date of the
first edition, 1584.

Among a number of productions of the Elzevier presses: Matthaeus
de Afflictis, Super tres feudorum libros, commentaria, dated in error 1559,
for 1659, (Copinger 33); B. Varenius, Descriptio Regni laponaie, 1649
(Copinger 4802); Proclus Diadochus (Copinger 3725); and two Leyden
University dissertations, De usucapione pro Herede, 1690 (Copinger 1028),
and De jure venationis, 1702 (Copinger 1526).

Several arithmetical works: a very rare volume containing tables for
the use of North Italian merchants, Giovanni Mariano, Rasonato de
mercantia, Venice, 1535, the first of many editions; the third edition of
Galileo's Le Operazioni del compasso geometrico et militare, Padua, 1649;
and four tracts on mathematical instruments and surveying, published
in Amsterdam around 1620.

Two Aristotle editions of the sixteenth century: the Ethica Nicomachea
in Latin, edited by Egidius Delphinus and Jodocus Badius Ascensius,
Paris, ca. 1509; and his Opera in Latin, including the commentaries by
Averroes, Venice, 1560, in twelve octavo volumes. Also, two editions of
the 17th century: his Opera in Greek and Latin, Geneva, 1606-1607,
edited by Julius Pacius, 2 volumes, and J. Blancano, Aristoteles loca
mathematica, ex vniuersis ipsius operibus collecta, et explicata, Bologne, 1615.

A group of volumes on books and allied subjects: Catalogue of the
Library of Dr. (Georg F. B.) Kloss, London, 1835, the sale catalogue of
a library that included many books with manuscript annotations by
Philipp Melanchthon; Bibliothecae Cordesianae Catalogus, Paris, 1643, the
library of Jean du Corday, of Limoges, of 2500 volumes; La Biblioteca
Aprosiana, Bologne, 1673; J. C. C. Oelrichs, Entwurf einer Geschichte der
Koniglicher Bibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin 1752; J. J. Fries, Bibliotheca
philosophorum classicorum authorum chronologica, Zurich, 1592; a dissertation
on papyrus and the early history of paper, De papyro frutice, von der
Papier-Staude ad Esaiae XIX, 7, Leipzig, 1731.

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Salamanca, Universidad. Estatutos hechos por la muy insigne Vniuersidad
de Salamanca, Salamanca, 1595.

Three rare collections of French laws and royal decrees pertaining to
Brittany, each one printed at Rennes about 1540.

A collection of arrets, extraits de registres, etc. from various parle-
ments in France, and other documents (some in manuscript), all from
the years 1787 and 1788. They are bound in eight large octavo volumes.

Bartolomeo Zucchi, Uldea del Segretario, Venice, 1614, a collection of
letters by famous Italian writers, arranged by subject.

Andreas Gartner, Dicteria prouerbialia, rhythmica, ab antiquitate mutuata,
et dodrinam ethicam compledentia, cum versione Germanica, Frankfurt, 1585.

Fabricio de Luna, Vocabulario di cinque mila Vocabuli Toschi . . . del
Furioso, Boccaccio, Petrarcha e Dante, Naples, 1536.

L. W. R.

Report from the Secretary
of the Friends of the Library

Financial Statement, 1961-62

Balance, 30 June 1961 $5,628.97

Contributions and Receipts 3,964.07

Expenditures 5,593.82

Balance, 30 June 1962 4,999.22

It is the Secretary's unpleasant duty to report that the finances
of the Friends are not what they should be. The statement above
shows that expenditures for the past year exceeded income by
$1,629.75. Of the $5,593.28 spent in 1961-62, $5,080.12 went to
the publication of the Library Chronicle, which has recently cost
more than usual because of the printing of the manuscript cata-
logue of the Library. The only volumes purchased for the Library
were Doughty's Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports,
-2 volumes, Philadelphia, 1830-32. The remaining expenditures
were for the lecture given by Dr. Louisa Laourdas and for an
earnest effort to bring new members into the Friends.

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Obviously this overspending cannot continue. Yet neither the
quality nor the quantity of the Library Chronicle, which is one of
the Library's great assets, should be diminished. Currently an-
other effort is being made to enlarge the membership of the
Friends. Members can help if they will encourage others to join.

One generous and faithful Friend last year, in addition to his
regular contribution, donated quite a sizable amount of stock.
It is hoped that others will follow his example. In this connection,
it should be remembered that all donations to the Friends of the
Library are tax deductible.

From the Library's point of view, it would be most helpful if
the Friends were able to accomplish these three goals: one, pro-
vide sufficient funds for the publication of the Library Chronicle;
two, provide for at least two gatherings a year of such variety that
all members of the Friends will find in them both entertainment
and knowledge; and three, provide the Library with a fund from
which it can draw, in large or small amounts, for the purchase of
rare and useful items which come upon the market unexpectedly
or for which the budgetary system of the University cannot
provide.

Jesse C. Mills

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Dedication of the
Charles Patterson Van Pelt Library

The Charles Patterson Van Pelt Library is the University of Pennsylvania's
new eight-story library building. With a capacity of 1,500,000 volumes, it
houses the Undergraduate Library, the hienry C. Lea Library of Medieval
History, the Horace Howard Furness Library of Shakespeareana, and other col-
lections of rare books as well as books for general circulation. It is the first unit
in the University s two-phase library development. The second unit, the Daniel W.
Dietrich Library, will provide facilities for some of the departmental library
collections.

Constructed by funds provided by the General State Authority of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania, Dr. and Airs. David Van Pelt, and other good friends
of the University, the Library is evidence that public and private support are the
great strength of this nation's system of higher education. The University grate-
fully dedicates this new building in the memory of Charles Patterson Van Pelt,
late son of Dr. and Mrs. Van Pelt and descendant of Joseph Turner, a Trustee
of this institution from 1749 to 1779.

The official opening, October 22, 1962, was marked by the ringing of the old
Academy Bell, which tolled across the original campus from 1752 to 1802 as the
Academy of Philadelphia grew into the University of Pennsylvania. The Bell,
which served also as a community fire alarm, was the key symbol of the dedication
ceremonies held on the front steps of the new building. President Harnwell presided
over the dedication ceremonies and his remarks as well as those of Kenneth M.
Setton, Director of Libraries, and the dedicatory address of Governor David L.
Lawrence appear in this issue of the Library Chronicle. Also included is the
address of Henry Allen Moe, President of tlie American Philosophical Society and
the Guggenheim Foundation, delivered at the dedication dinner which concluded
the dedicatory exercises.

Remarks of Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell

THERE are few events in the long history of this institution
which have more importance or greater significance, not
only to the University of Pennsylvania but to the state and nation
as well, as this ceremony of dedication.

That this dedication is taking place on this campus and at this
time is a tribute to the foresight, the intelligence, the educational
statesmanship, and the devotion of many people. I should like
first to bespeak the University's gratitude to those officers of the

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania whose intelligent and enlight-
ened approach to the problems of long-range capital planning
has made possible this and similar improvements on the campuses
of the Commonwealth's universities and colleges. The General
State Authority, the instrumentality through which these pro-
grams have been carried out, was reinstated in the administration
of Governor Duff as the vehicle for financing needed additions
and improvements to the Commonwealth's institutions and
facilities. In the administration of our distinguished alumnus,
Governor Leader, the State-aided universities were brought
within the scope of the Authority's operations, and the bulk of
the funds which were required for the construction of this build-
ing were allocated. During the administration of Governor
Lawrence the concept of capital programming has been advanced
and the procedures refined, enhancing our ability to develop an
orderly plan, in co-operation with the Commonwealth, for the
provision of many of those facilities our increasing responsibili-
ties will require. As President of the Trustees of the University,
Governor Lawrence is an important member of the University
family. We are honored by his presence here today. To him and
to his predecessors we express our unbounded gratitude. I want
also to express the University's thanks to the Board of the General
State Authority and its staff; and to the generous individual and
corporate donors to our new library, whose names are listed on a
plaque on the first floor and whose gifts exemplify a dedication
to the purposes of this institution which is heart warming to all
of us.

For fifty years the University has needed a new library. The
old library, built to serve the needs of a university of fewer than
two thousand students and geared to the needs of a gracious but
more leisurely Victorian age, was found within twenty years of
its construction to be unequal to the demands of 20th Century
university life. We learned to live with it, albeit during the past
few decades, rather unhappily.

A magnificent gift from Dr. David Van Pelt, an Associate
Trustee of the University, and Mrs. Van Pelt, whose generous
and intelligent philanthropy has in the past aided so many
organizations devoted to educational, cultural and humanitarian

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purposes, made it possible for us to go forward with the con-
struction of this hbrary. Today we dedicate this building to the
memory of their son, Charles Patterson Van Pelt, a young
Philadelphian of goodly heritage and decided promise, who ten
years ago died in a tragic accident. Several of his forebears had
been intimately associated with this institution. Joseph Turner,
a collateral ancestor of Charles Van Pelt, was an original Trustee
of the College. The Reverend Peter Van Pelt, Jr., College 1818,
and Charles Edward Van Pelt, College 1867, were his great-
grandfather and grandfather respectively. His father studied here
as did two of his uncles. That Dr. and Mrs. Van Pelt should
wish to have their son's name associated with one of this country's
truly great academic libraries gives further expression of their
recognition of the qualities which young Charles Van Pelt
prized in others and which others prized in him. A classmate at
Haverford School singled him out as one of the most helpful and
unselfish members of his class. The scope of his interests may be
judged by the school clubs and activities with which he was
associated. He was president of the Music Club, secretary of the
French Club, a member of the Physics and Current Events Club
and a member of the squash team. He demonstrated a lively
interest in current events and twice was a winner in the Time
Magazine Test of Current Events.

He is remembered by his roommate at Harvard College for his
fluency in French and German, his interest in classical music and
religious and political affairs. A close friend at Harvard was im-
pressed by his mature interest in philately, old manuscripts and
books, and his deep concern for students from other lands.

The parents of Charles Patterson Van Pelt could have selected
no more appropriate, no more valued or more enduring memorial
to bear their son's name than this library in which his portrait
now hangs.

The gift of Mr. Joseph K. T. Van Pelt, Wharton 1914 (an
uncle of Charles), of these flags of the United States and the
University, which fly today for the first time, constitute a per-
petual memorial to the memory of his son. Captain Peter Van
Pelt, who was killed in action in France during the Second
World War.

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Later this afternoon I shall call upon certain of our guests to
assist me in officially opening the Charles Patterson Van Pelt
Library by ringing the old Academy Bell which you see before
you. I should like to tell you something of its history.

It is called the Old Academy Bell because it hung in the belfry
of the Academy of Philadelphia; and the Academy of Philadel-
phia was the original foundation from which the University of
Pennsylvania derives.

In 1750, the LTnion Fire Company felt the need for a bell to
sound alarms and voted twenty-five pounds for the purchase of a
bell, which they soon found was not enough. But they weren't
willing to vote anymore.

Two members, Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Philip Syng, ap-
proached a rival fire company, the Hand In Hand, whose mem-
bers agreed to share the expenses of the bell.

When the bell arrived from England in 1752, it was soon
discovered that neither fire company had a belfry wherein to
hang the bell. There was more deliberation.

Franklin suggested that, since the Academy had a belfry
without a bell, and the two fire companies had a bell without a
belfry, and since each needed the bell for different reasons, they

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work out an agreement with the trustees of the Academy whereby
they could hang the bell in that belfry and use it for both school
purposes and for alarms for fires.

In 1802 the College moved into the "Presidential Palace" on
Ninth Street. The southern half of the Old Academy Building,
the half which had the belfry, was deeded to a group of Metho-
dists, but the bell was not included in the sale and had to remain
where it was until the College could get a building with a belfry.

About this time the two fire companies remembered that the
bell was theirs and sought to recover their property. The College
trustees refused to relinquish it — although they did not actually
have it — and the two fire companies ordered the bell seized and
removed to Christ Church for safe-keeping. The representatives
demanded the bell of the University; the University refused. The
representatives demanded again; the University again refused.
These demands and refusals continued for four years.

Once the Union and Hand In Hand Companies had their bell
back; they were again in their former situation: they had a bell
without a belfry.

Although the fire companies had not learned in fifty-five years
the lesson of a belfry, they had not forgotten the lesson of Dr.
Franklin: use somebody else's belfry. In 1807, the companies
offered the bell to the City on the condition that it erect a
centrally-located building to house the bell and ring it in case of
fire only. The City Fathers declined this generous offer.

In October, 1809, the wardens of St. James Episcopal Church
obtained the bell for their new church's steeple upon the condi-
tion that it be rung upon all occasions of fire.

In 1869, St. James was razed and a new church was erected
by the congregation at the corner of 22nd and Walnut Streets.
The bell was moved to the new location where it no longer
sounded any alarms.

In 1945 the church was demolished and at this time, without
minutes, petitions, court action, ceremony, or special delibera-
tion, the bell was quietly turned over to the University of Penn-
sylvania and placed in a niche in the old library.

For one hundred-ninety-three years, the name used had been
the "Academy Bell" — not the Union Fire Company Bell or the

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Hand In Hand Bell. Therefore, the bell came back to the
Academy.

The Academy at Fourth and Arch is gone; the "Presidential
Palace" is gone; the fire companies are gone. Two St. Jameses
are gone — but the bell and the University remain. Now for the
fourth time in its history the bell has no belfry. But the Charles
Patterson Van Pelt Library has a specially designed space for the
Old Academy Bell and here it will remain as long as the building
shall stand.

Our Director of Libraries and the members of his loyal,
efficient and imaginative staff have played a major role in pre-
paring us for this day. Without their careful planning, attention
to detail, and professional skill the library would not be the
smoothly functioning unit which it has been.

It now gives me great pleasure to introduce Dr. Kenneth
Setton, Director of Libraries.

Remarks of Dr. Kenneth M. Setton

THE dedication today of the Charles Patterson Van Pelt
Library will long remain a memorable event in the history
of this University. This day also appears to present one of those
rare occasions on which history repeats itself, and the historian is
bound to be interested in the repetition.

On 7 February, 1891, a distinguished gathering witnessed the
dedication of the University's first library building, the terra-
cotta fortress which you would see behind you if there were
fewer leaves on the trees. After four months' trial, that building
was said to possess neither the slightest flaw nor to admit of the
most trivial improvement. It was in fact declared to be perfect.

These claims were made in a spirited address, given on that
February afternoon in 1891, by the Shakespearian scholar
Horace Howard Furness, who was then chairman of the Univer-
sity's Library Committee. He meant what he said, and the fact
that his brother Frank Furness was the architect was quite
irrelevant to the assertion. The building had cost $200,000, and
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come. It was also to serve as a museum and to house the Univer-
sity's fast-growing archaeological collections. After a few years,
however, the perfect building was fulfilling neither of its intended
funcdons properly. If today Or. Fumess's claims for the library
building of yesteryear may lead to ironical reflections, it is
merely that time often renders our best efforts nugatory.

Now we have built a new building, at almost thirty times the
cost of its predecessor. We are delighted with it, but we do not
regard it as perfect. We know it will not meet our needs for a
hundred years, and we are already planning an addition which
should itself be finished in the summer of 1966. The sincerest
tribute is due to our architects, the firm of Harbeson, Hough,
Livingston, Larson, and especial recognition to the endless
months which Roy Larson and Charles Ward devoted to plan-
ning and replanning. W^e are glad to pay that tribute and to
give that recognition, and not to the architects alone, but also to
the builders, McCloskey and Company. The constant helpfulness
of William and James McCloskey have put us under deep
obligation to them.

In 1891 Dr. Furness expressed his thanks for the aid and
guidance furnished the architect by two eminent librarians,
Justin Winsor of Harvard and Melvil Dewey of Columbia. Our
local history again shows signs of repetition as we thank in our
turn the two eminent librarians who have advi.sed our architect,
Keyes Metcalf of Harvard and my predeces.sor Charles W.
David. The present staff of the library, especially Rudolf Hirsch
and Jesse Mills, has worked long and hard to see embodied this
day the dream of a full half century.

President Hamwell has spoken of our debt and our gratitude
to Dr. and Mrs. David Van Pelt.

University administrators are found everywhere to entertain
anxiety as to the mounting costs and ever expanding size of the
modem academic library. The Charles Patterson Van Pelt
Library will be expensive to maintain, but it Is quite within our
capacity to do so. In a single day almost 5,000 people enter this
building; in the years that lie ahead that numJ-jer will grow.

At the dedicatory exercises of 1891 Mr. Talcott Williams, one
of America's best known journalists, made the lugiibrious reflec-

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tion that "the mere mass of our Ubraries already overtaxes our
utmost ability to classify, to catalogue, and to administer." That
was seventy years ago. We are still in business. It is a basic fact of
institutional history that the status quo cannot be maintained in
a dynamic society. An institution must either progress or retro-
gress. On all sides the University of Pennsylvania shows progress;
the last ten years have witnessed a true renascence. If you come
in search of a new monument, look anywhere around you. I do
not refer only to advance in building or in scholarship. The
morale of students and faculty has been rebuilt as well as the
campus. To an extraordinary degree this renascence has been the
work of one man, Gaylord Harnwell. He has given more than
strength.

One of the founders of modern library science was the famous
Anthony Panizzi, who became principal librarian of the British
Museum in 1856. Twenty years before his elevation to this post,
however, Panizzi had made his mark by the brilliance of his
testimony (in June 1836) before a select committee of the House
of Commons inquiring into the affairs of the Museum Library.

In this testimony Panizzi enunciated the magna carta of enlight-
ened librarianship:

"I want a poor student," he informed the committee, "to have the
same means of indulging his learned curiosity, of following his rational
pursuits, of consulting the same authorities, of fathoming the most
intricate inquiry, as the richest man in the kingdom, as far as books go,
and I contend that government is bound to give him the most liberal
and unlimited assistance in this respect."

Certainly the government of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania has given all students who come to this campus "the most
liberal and unlimited assistance in this respect." Although the
inspiration of this moment may be foreshortening my historical
perspective a little, I am moved to affirm, Governor Lawrence,
that the legislation, which has enabled the General State
Authority to build this library and to undertake an immediate
addition to it, is one of the wisest and most beneficent provisions
made by any government on behalf of education since at least the
fall of the Roman empire.

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Remarks of Governor David L. Lawrence

JUST fifty-four years ago, Sir William Osier — who had re-
turned to England after serving as professor of clinical med-
icine here at the University of Pennsylvania — took pen in
hand to write these words to a correspondent: "Money invested
in a library gives much better returns than mining stock." I am
indebted to him for those words this afternoon, for they sum up
far better than I can the real meaning of this ceremony. For,
although we have gathered here to dedicate a building we are,
in truth, dedicating ourselves, our society, our education system
and our goals to the grandeur and invincibility of ideas. No
single place on this great University campus offers greater testi-
mony to that devotion than the library, for the books upon its
shelves are mankind's eternal window to truth and under-
standing.

It seems imperative to me that we take some notice, however
briefly, of the hours and years of painstaking work and planning
that have gone into making this library a reality. You are well
aware, I know, that this marks the first time in the proud history
of the University that the General State Authority has partici-
pated in the construction of a campus facility. Speaking for the
Authority, therefore, I want to say that I cannot conceive of a
more admirable beginning for a partnership that will prove
profitable to the University and to all of Pennsylvania. We must
not forget the enormous contributions — both financial and in-
spirational— that have been made to this project by Dr. and
Mrs. Van Pelt. It is altogether fitting that the library should
stand as a memorial to their son — and to a family that has been
so deeply involved in the progress of the University since its
earliest years.

There have been many other contributors who have shared in
financing this building through the Friends of the University
Library organization. And there have been the dozens of men
and women who poured their professional talents into the crea-
tion of the Van Pelt Library just as the workmen have shared
their skills in its actual construction. They are far too numerous
to mention, but I feel it is my duty to say that without the

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initiative of Dr. Charles David, who set down the first plan, and
the dynamic determination of Dr. Kenneth Setton, the present
director of the University library, this project could not have
been completed. With the leadership and counsel of Dr. Harnwell
and the University trustees, the individual contributions of many
people have been brought together in successful unity. We have
every reason to take pride in this achievement, for it is of lasting
value to the quality of education the University may offer in the
future and brilliant evidence of the high standards it has main-
tained in the past.

Still more important, it is an indication of the faith of private
citizens and public officials alike in the provident future of this
University, the Commonwealth it serves and the great City that
is its home. To those of you who have observed the eff'orts of
State Government in the field of higher education, the State's
role in this accomplishment comes as no surprise. For you know
that, by tradition, Pennsylvania State Government occupies a
unique position in its effort to strengthen advanced education
without governmental interference. We are alone among the
States in the payment of government funds to private colleges and
universities — and this unique partnership with some of our major
higher education institutions has paid enormous dividends in
recent years. Throughout the State we have made significant
progress in education at all levels in recent years. I assure you I
do not intend to review them in detail, but there are some high-
lights that are too important to be dismissed in this discussion.
In general we have raised the quality of education in every com-
munity in our State. We are providing more education and better
education for more children in better schools than ever before in
our history. We have increased the average salary of our teachers
and the minimum starting salary for which they are hired. We
are giving them far better, far broader training in our fourteen
State Colleges — and the enrollment in those colleges has more
than doubled in the past eight years. We have more than doubled
the State Government budget for public education — and we have
earmarked every penny of the selective sales tax, by law, for the
education of Pennsylvania's children. Today — for the first time
in history — our education system includes exceptional children

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of all kinds, those who are mentally brilliant as well as those who
are mentally or physically handicapped. Today — for the first
time in thirty years — Pennsylvania has a public library code
providing funds for the improvement of service to every com-
munity through its local library. That means the smallest cross-
road in the least populated region as well as the largest and most
effective, such as the Free Library of Philadelphia. The people
of Pennsylvania have, in short, brought about the greatest and
most progressive era in public education and higher education
since the days of Thaddeus Stevens.

Knowing this, we know, too, that we have only just begun.
For, if we are genuinely concerned about the economic future of
this State, we must be concerned, first, with the quality, the
quantity and the broad range of education we offer. This is no
time for narrow minds or half-hearted goals. It is no time for
complacency or cow-like contentment. The roots of industrial
security and economic stability lie in the intellectual climate we
have to offer. Those roots will be tended best by research scien-
tists, properly trained; by great teachers properly inspired; by
writers and mathematicians, artists and laboratory technicians,
skilled workers and dedicated philosophers. And these will come
only from the ranks of the young. This beautiful new library —
and the one million, seven hundred and fifty thousand volumes it
contains — are the perfect symbol for the kind of commitment we
must make in the years that lie ahead. It must be a total commit-
ment to good education — not a half-hearted one. Once we have
made this the central cause of our public effort — once we have
made it the core of our conscience and the star of our destiny,
there will be no limit to Pennsylvania's potential and no stopping
its progress. Firmly— and finally — there is no wiser, no more
provident or prudent investment than this.

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Remarks of Henry Allen Moe
Fortress and Greenhouse

THE President of the American Philosophical Society held at
Philadelphia for promoting useful Knowledge is happy to
help the University of Pennsylvania celebrate this occasion; for
the Society and the University are, as you all know, offspring of
the fertile mind of Benjamin Franklin. Besides that, we both are
co-beneficiaries of Dr. Franklin's teaching of his countrymen the
virtues of private giving for public purposes.

And the President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation is happy to be here, to thank the University of
Pennsylvania for the assistance the Foundation has received from
the members of the University's faculty who also are members of
the Foundation's Advisory Board. For years, the University of
Pennsylvania faculty provided more of the Foundation's scholarly
advisers than any other university and only recently have
Harvard and the vast state-wide complex that is the University
of California caught up with you.

It was a Philadelphian — I wish to note — a graduate of the
great Philadelphia Central High School, who, with his wife,
established the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Simon Guggenheim was his name, sometime United States
Senator from the State of Colorado. Senator Guggenheim gave
his great fortune for use "under the freest possible conditions to
men and women devoted to science and liberal studies, great
teachers, creators of beauty, and generally to those devoted to
pursuits that dignify, ennoble and delight mankind." So wrote
Senator Guggenheim, grandly and understandingly of the true
spirit of the university. Dr. Franklin, one knows, would be
pleased with his 20th century fellow-townsman. Senator Guggen-
heim. Both were great founding-philanthropists: both understood
their roles — each in his time and place — as trustees for freedom.

The neatest philosophical wisecrack I ever read was written by
the eminent American philosopher, C. I. Lewis, a member of the
American Philosophical Society: "If this be a truism," he said,
"it at least has the merit of being true."

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A few truisms seem to be inevitable on an occasion of this kind
and my first one is the whopper that this is an after-dinner
speech. And after-dinner speeches should have the merit of being
unsolemn and not too long — above all, not too long. For as
Poor Richard said, "Many words won't fill a bushel."

And, in respect to myself, I always try not to forget Poor Dick's
admonition: "Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright."
Content is required !

No city of North America had the benefits of city planning
earlier than had Philadelphia — beginning with William Penn's
plan of 1682 and continuing in Benjamin Franklin's 18th century
plans for civic betterment. Now after decades — nay, centuries! —
of civic lethargy and apathy, Philadelphia has remembered the
lessons of its early past. They have been remembered, re-learned
indeed, the hard way— as the saying is nowadays. For, as Poor
Richard said, "When the well's dry, they know the worth of

water."

Today, such progress has been made that every other American
city has its eyes fixed on Philadelphia's record of urban better-
ment. Your city has become the cynosure; you have — if I may
say it so — regained your pride of heritage and have regained it
at a speed that would have seemed impossible at the turn of the
century.

Prominent in the remaking of Philadelphia toward Penn's
"greene towne," while remaining a modern metropolis, have
been the bold conception of a vast University complex here on
the west shore of the Schuylkill, and its execution, undeterred by
all the many obstacles that had to be, and still have to be,
surmounted.

This afternoon, we had before us added testimony to the
courage and devotion of those leaders and workers who were
inspired by this vision, in the dedication of still another of the
monuments erected by their common efforts.

The new Library structure is peculiarly fitted to demonstrate
the majestic sweep of the great plan in which it is an important
component. Its elegant fabric replaces what was once a collection
of superannuated structures, and it has been made an integral
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open invitation to cross an uninterrupted greensward to enter it.
To achieve this, a broad city street, formerly a main artery,
congested by bustUng traffic, has been erased and has been
replaced by the quiet luxury of verdant lawns, in the very heart
of a crowded urban district.

It is eloquent of the scope with which such things can be done,
again in this day, when there is a remarriage of public and
private munificence, that the Library building alone represents
an investment of over five millions of dollars. And, as Governor
Lawrence told us this afternoon, the public authorities concerned
have already authorized an additional project at the same cost to
provide an extension of the same size immediately to the west of
the new Library.

When I admire the modern American functional architectural
style written into the new Library building by that gifted team
of University of Pennsylvania architects that signs itself with what
looks like a chemical formula H2L2,* I cannot resist a reference
to the old Library building which it will now replace.

It is one of the less publicized, but none the less authentic,
"traditions" of this University, that, for over half a century,
scoffing young collegians have described the old Library building
as looking like "a fort at one end and a greenhouse at the other."
Let me dwell for a bit on this merry characterization.

The old Library was designed in the office of Frank Furness,
whose career is an important chapter in the history of American
architecture. A gifted artist in his calling, he was also the brother
of another historic Philadelphian, the great Shakespearean
scholar Horace Howard Furness — he of Variorum fame. Frank
Furness was the teacher of Louis Henry Sullivan, the courageous
designer of the first American skyscraper and the founder of our
American style of functional architecture. Sullivan, in turn, was
the teacher of Frank Lloyd Wright: hence, the name of Frank
Furness leads straight to the boldest of present-day architectural
design.

However, the old Library was built in 1889-90, when Furness
was nearing the end of his career, and much of his work was
being done by disciples in his studios. Today, competent critics

* Harbeson, Hough, Livingston and Larson.

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tell me that the Old Library is regarded as "bad Furness," by
comparison with other designs from his own hand, such as the
old Broad Street Station and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, which were built about 1875.

In addition, Furness probably ought not be charged with the
"greenhouse" section at the south end of the structure. This was
actually an addition put up some years later, when it became
evident that more shelf space was needed for the fast growing
University book collection. The Duhring family provided funds
for this extension, which was more formally known as the
Duhring Stack.

Leaving behind these historical reflections, I must come back
to the irreverent young oppidans, who probably seldom used the
inside of the Library building for the purpose for which it was
provided, and their saying that it looks "like a fort at one end and
a greenhouse at the other."

To me, such a description of any library building — the new
one as well as your old one — is more perspicacious than its author
may have realized. A library is, indeed, both a fortress and a
greenhouse, certainly in a most appropriate figurative sense, if
not in an obviously literal one.

Surely, it is a fortress for the defense of that truth, which, as you
know, "shall make you free," and a greenhouse for the cultiva-
tion and nourishment of that very truth, which often requires
loving and tender care until it is recognized and, as the French
say, ""bien reque.'''' The Republic of Letters, for its entire Constitu-
tion, has only one Article, which consists entirely of that hal-
lowed oath upon which also our Anglo-American system of trial
jurisprudence is erected: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth.

The library is, above all else, the home of that study and
research by which the truth is disentangled from the weeds of
superstition, prejudice and error, and is helped to grow straight
and strong in the face of its enemies. So also is the laboratory.
Both are both forts and greenhouses !

The libraries' and the laboratories' truth must be protected
even from its own friends, who may seek to use it for a purpose-
Research, pure research, is always useful in the long view, but,

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if conducted with too sharp an eye on immediate advantage, it
may produce ingredients that pollute the stream of truth. I have
always enjoyed — even revered — the toast proposed by the famous
19th century Irish mathematician and astronomer, Sir Robert
Ball, at a dinner of scientists at Cambridge. When called upon,
he raised his glass and said succinctly and completely: "Here's
to Pure Mathematics. May she never be of any use to any one !"

No doubt, in this age of what I may perhaps call pragmatic
sanctions, when great learned institutions require large sums for
their survival and maintenance, administrators of their destinies
have anxious moments of decision when offered attractive com-
missions from private and public sources for the subsidizing of
research. There is anxiety though the sources profess to be com-
pletely disinterested and impartial; for they may in fact, be
affected with an interest — as we lawyers say — in the conclusion.
Actually, even when there is no question of undue influence
involved, we all know that the huge sums conferred in the rapid
growth of special grants by Government for special assignments
in scientific research, have posed serious problems for our uni-
versities, both because of the undue emphasis they place on some
departments over others, and because of the risk of sudden
termination entailed.

Outside the field of the exact sciences, doubts may also extend
to engagements for research in areas such as economics or busi-
ness practices, as was pointed up by criticism recently directed at
one of the great divisions of this very University for a study made
by it of investment practices for the guidance of one of the
Government departments.

On the other hand, when impartiality and adherence to truth
are unquestioned, association with a great university does im-
press the seal of authority on opinions rendered other than
ex cathedra. Another anecdote in the annals of the University of
Pennsylvania bears witness to this. Early in the nineteen hun-
dreds, a famous toxicologist who was then Dean of the Medical
School in this University was called to testify in certain historic
litigation in the court of a Southern State. The New York Times
report of his testimony opened with this description: "Dr. John
Marshall then took the stand, a small, dry man, with the mark of

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accuracy written across his brow." The defendant, for whom he
testified, won.

It is the pride and glory of the many great State universities
in this country that, though they must make some concessions to
local demand by offering useful "know-how" instruction in
down-to-earth subjects — even at some institutions, so help me!,
in cosmetics and plumbing— yet they, in complete fact, do retain
and defend their independence of thought and study in all the
basic elements of our civilization and science. And this observa-
tion is certainly equally true of the universities that receive State
aid, though privately endowed and otherwise maintained.

The tragedy of scholarship comes when a university is harnessed
to the wagon of a powerful Governmental regime or of any
master, except Truth. We know vividly what happened to the
universities under Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini; but, even before
them, the same kind of hypocritical servitude was entered into
voluntarily by many European professors: Prussian historians
wrote versions of European or world history that were nothing
but house-organs for the ruling family or political party to which
they owed appointments or preferments.

Here again, as a lawyer trained in the tradition of the English
Common Law, I shall point out that the Anglo-American
inheritance of stubborn assertion of individual rights and liberties
against the over-weening presumption of prerogative by the
Crown, is the inspiration for the same stubborn defense in this
country of independence in scholarship and academic freedom
that has preserved the liberty of the subject, and of the citizen —
including the scholar-teacher.

A great Library, like this, for which today we dedicate a
"more stately mansion," is, therefore, in the fullest sense, the
fortress and the greenhouse of scholarship and truth among us.
It is that because it is dedicated to freedom of thought and
integrity of purpose.

Indeed, even without the many other buildings and class-
rooms that comprise the University, the Library earns the praise
of Thomas Carlyle, who reminds us, in his essay on "The Hero
as Man, of Letters," that "the true University of these days is a
collection of books."

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Even when he was Duke of Milan, Prospero of Shakespeare's
Tempest found his library "dukedom large enough;" and, during
his exile, his consolation, after his daughter Miranda, was the
volumes "from mine own library . . . that I prize above my
dukedom," which his friend Gonzalo had arranged should
accompany him to his island.

But while we all agree on the dedication of our Library to the
cause of truth, it is a baffling quality of truth that often it is like a
coin with two sides, only one of which is visible at one time and
place, so that one's view of what is true may be affected by one's
place in time and space.

Mahomet Ali, the learned authority on Mohammedan law,
who sat in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the
occasions when it heard appeals from those lands under the
British Crown which recognize rights defined by Muslim custom,
said on the occasion of an address at the Middle Temple:

"It is interesting for a student of history to reflect on the differences
which may arise between men of the same good will who approach the
same set of facts from different points of view, just as, for instance, eye-
witnesses on opposite sides of a street may honestly testify quite difi'er-
ently to describe the same collision they both saw. This explains why
it is that an event in history can be regarded with complete contradic-
tion by conflicting schools of thought. Let us consider the Crusades of
what you in the West call the Middle Ages. I know you are taught that
these expeditions were the outpouring of the noble knighthood of
medieval chivalry enlisted in a holy enterprise in the defense of the true
religion. To us, on the contrary, they represent nothing but invasions
by roving bands of semi-literate brigands, egged on by shrewd com-
mercial promoters to protect their trade routes and to destroy the fine
flower of Saracen civilization with its high accomplishments in the
sciences and the arts."

In the same vein, our American poet-diplomat James Russell
Lowell was drawing a picture of truth when he wrote:

"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be
tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a
well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search
of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that
he has seen the Goddess, but that she is far better looking than he
imagined."

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With these side-lights on our discourse, we can better under-
stand, even if we do not sympathize with, a certain Roman
Procurator of Judaea, who, when sitting as a committing magis-
trate— which is exactly what he was on a tragic and historic
occasion — baffled by conflicts in the testimony, as many a lesser
magistrate has been ever since, cried out, in his impatience:
"What is truth?"

Granting ail that, nowhere in the West have we gone so far as
to rewrite our history with each change of political regime, as
seems to be a requirement of scholarship in much too large a part
of the world, nor do we consider it necessary, in defense of
official dogma, to imprison or execute those who differ from what
the Government approves. Yet our inherited reactions of toler-
ance, fair play, good sportsmanship and gradualism in political
change, cannot be shortly nor sharply defined in written formulae.
They are bred in us and we live by them — not by the words that
seek to define them. This is what makes what we call our democ-
racy so difficult to describe, to propagate and to export — by
contrast with the pat, smooth promises of those who preach the
official Communist line. Their Chinese Subsidiary may proclaim
"Let a hundred flowers bloom," but the Moscow Headquarters
send out the orders to shoot down helpless boys clambering to
freedom over a Berlin wall.

So, my friends, we are gathered here not so much to dedicate
a building or a book-shelf, as to pledge ourselves to defend the
right of selfless scholarship to search for truth as best it can,
humbly and patiently. The search must proceed in the light
thrown by our past, peering eagerly and earnestly into our future,
untrammelled by the hand of the dead, and unafraid of the
perils of a present that is confused by the rising fog of doctrine
false to what at least five millennia of our history have shown to
be the best of human instincts and aspirations.

Benjamin Franklin, in the Pennsylvania Gazette of October 15,
1730, warned against "talking overmuch, and robbing others of
their Share of the Discourse." There is no one — I being the only
speaker this evening — whom I might rob of his "natural right to
speak in turn." But the warning against "talking overmuch"
stands good.

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Nevertheless, I shall risk one final paragraph.

It was in the autumn of the year 1616, that Francis Ashley was
Reader — or as we would say, lecturer — at the Inns of Court, in
the beautiful Middle Temple Hall. His subject was Magna
Carta. In his introductory lecture, he told how he had come to
select that then dangerous theme, "whereby," he said, "it is
impossible I should gaine any opinion unless it be an opinion of
foolhardiness." Nevertheless, he persisted in his intentions, for
having studied in the libraries of the Inns of Court, he said that
"by that occasion [/] have therein found both liberty and safety,
Liberty to the persons and safety to the Lyves and Estates. And
in brief I found that it was bought to [o] dear to be sold to [o]
cheap." You have it all there, ladies and gentlemen: what your
new fortress and greenhouse contains and stands for, was bought
too dear to be sold too cheap.

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Some Letters from Actors and Actresses
to Dr. Horace Howard Furness

Part I

Matthew W. Black*
William E. Miller**

SOME months ago the 1894 Fund was drawn upon to supply
the University of Pennsylvania Libraries with a group of
letters of great interest to the University.^ Most of these letters
were written by actors or actresses to Horace Howard Furness, Sr.
It is, therefore, appropriate that these letters are now in the
custody of the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library. The
collection includes letters from Fanny Kemble, Ellen Terry,
Edwin Booth and his daughter Edwina Booth Grossmann, Ben
Greet, Julia Marlowe, Johnstone Forbes-Robertson, and others.

The first part of this paper catalogues only the Fanny Kemble^
and Ellen Terry^ letters. In general, only a brief statement of
the subject matter is given. Occasional quotations (in several
instances, complete letters) have been included to reveal the
affection Dr. Furness inspired among actors and actresses, and
their respect — reverence, almost — for his opinion as to how
Shakespeare should be read and acted. Has any Shakespearean
since Dr. Furness occupied a position even remotely resembling
this?

Except where noted, all of the letters catalogued in Part I
are autograph letters, signed.

KEMBLE-FURNESS

1. One folded sheet. Undated [note in Furness's hand, "Mrs.
Kemble, 23 April 1873"].

Mrs. Kemble thanks Furness for a newspaper and "the
Schiller." She asks, "Can you tell me through whom your

* Professor of English, and Curator of the Horace Howard Furness Memorial
Library, University of Pennsylvania.

* * Bibliographer, Furness Library.

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father* learnt that Mrs Moxon^ & her family were left in
poverty — "

One folded sheet. Undated [date in Furness's hand, "17
January 1874"]; the only letter here catalogued not pur-
chased with the rest of the group, having been devised to the
University with the basic collection by Horace Howard
Furness, Jr. Quoted in full.

My dear Horace — (in spite of your literary labours &
honours you must be such to me) the worship of Relics is
not the most exalted form of human devotion but the
"meanest garment that ever has but clipped" one whom
one loves & [reveres?] becomes in some measure dear &
venerable to us for his sake & so we may be permitted to
keep Shakespeare's gloves^ with affectionate regard — As
these were in Garrick's collection & given by Mrs Garrick
to my aunt^ they may be genuine — I offer them to you
as a token of the great pleasure it has given me to see your
name upon the American Variorum Edition of Shake-
speare. Among my books & papers I think I have a few
"remains" of John Kemble & Mrs Siddons which I shall
feel happy in placing in your hands You will value them
for their own sake & perhaps a little for that of your old

friend

F A Kemble

The gloves are in the box in which Mrs George Combe
(Cecilia Siddons) gave them to me.

Three folded sheets. Dated Friday \?>^^ [in Furness's hand,
"February 1874"].

Furness has lent her a copy of Cinthio's Hecatommithi, and she
sends thanks. She discusses the nature of the chief character
in the Othello story, as Cinthio tells it, and Romeo's conduct
at the time of Mercutio's death.

One folded sheet. Undated [in Furness's hand, "Mrs Kemble
March-74"].

Mrs. Kemble thanks Mr. Furness for the asparagus. She asks
him to recommend a shop for German books, and a book-
binder.

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5. One folded sheet. Undated [in Furness's hand, "Mrs.
Kemble 5 March 74 in re Bracelet"].

Mr. and Mrs. Furness have sent her a bracelet which she
cannot accept. Mrs. Kemble declares that she will accept
nothing but vegetables.

6. One folded sheet. Undated [in Furness's hand, "Mrs.
Kemble 5 March '74 N° 2 in re Bracelet"].

Mrs. Kemble lectures the Furnesses on the value of small
gifts in preserving friendship, and the danger that great gifts
may destroy it.

7. One folded sheet. Undated [in Furness's hand, "Mrs Kemble
March 1874"].

The bracelet has made her ill.

8. One folded sheet. Dated Thursday 14'*^, from 1812 Ritten-
house Square [in Furness's hand, "Mrs F. A Kemble 14
April '74"]. She is leaving Philadelphia and paying her
debts. Asks what Furness paid for her Schiller (to have it
bound?).

9. One folded sheet. Dated Saturday 23^ from York Farm,
Branchtown P.O.^ [in Furness's hand, "Mrs F. A Kemble 23
January 1875 and 26 Jany 75"].

First letter in this group referring to Furness's attempt to
interest Lippincott's, the publishers of the New Variorum
Shakespeare, in Edward Fitzgerald's Readings in Crabbe.

10. One folded sheet. Dated Monday 25^'' [in Furness's hand,
"January 1875"], from York Farm.

She has written to Edward Fitzgerald "discouraging the
attempt of putting his version of the Tales of a Hall in one
of your Periodicals."^

11. One folded sheet. Dated Tuesday 26'^, from York Farm.
More on the Fitzgerald matter.

12. One folded sheet. Dated Sunday 2^, from York Farm.
Suggests that, if Furness goes to England, he consider renting
the country place belonging to her friend Miss Ellis.

13. Two folded sheets. Dated Monday 14'^, from York Farm,
signed with initials "F A K."

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She thanks Furness for his offer of help in the matter of
Fitzgerald's Crabbe, and consults him about certain points in
Shakespeare's plays.

14. One folded sheet and one half-sheet. Dated Tuesday 22^^,
from York Farm.

Repeats thanks for Furness' s offer of help in the matter of
Fitzgerald's Crabbe. Discusses her daughter Sarah's^° interest
in Hamlet.

15. One folded sheet and one half-sheet. Undated, from York
Farm. More on Fitzgerald's Crabbe.

16. One folded sheet. Dated Sunday 17'^'', from York Farm.
More on the possibility of Fitzgerald's Crabbe appearing in a
periodical. Refers again with pride to her daughter Sarah's
Shakespearean interests.

17. One folded sheet. Dated Monday 10*^, from York Farm.
"I had a letter from E Fitzgerald t'other day about Tenny-
son's Queen Mary which some folk — (but not he) — think
as good as Shakespeare.''''^^

18. Two folded sheets. Undated, from York Farm.

"... a thousand thanks for my uncle's vile poetry. . . ."^^

19. Two folded sheets. Dated Friday 2*^, from York Farm.
"I knew the story of my 'martyred' kinsman^^ of good old
religious hanging & burning days — having received the tradi-
tion from my father who also added that the worthy old
Priest smoked a pipe on his way to execution & that in that
part of Herefordshire the last pipe smoked by friends together
before parting was frequently called a 'Kemble's Pipe'. I do
not know where he derived this additional detail."

20. One folded sheet. Dated Thursday 20^ from Lenox [in
Furness's hand, "Kemble"].

"Thank you my dear Horace Furness for your newspaper
extract about my brother his character was more remarkable
I think than his acquirements tho' he was a 'learned scholar'."

21. One folded sheet, one half-sheet. Dated Tuesday 23'*, from
York Farm [in Furness's hand, "Kemble"].

Returns letter in which Mary Cowden Clarke has praised her
(Mrs. Kemble) for her articles in the Atlantic.

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"I never talked much with Spedding^'* about Shakespeare —
Harness, Dyce & Milman were the people I used to hear
discuss his Plays and such critical notions as I have derived
from any body about them I owe to the conversation of those
three gentlemen — "

[Postscript] "I have never had any intercourse with Mr
Collier^^ since I was a girl — and when I was a girl — I did not
like him — his face was crooked which displeased me & tho'
he came often to our house I had not much to say to him —
in some notes I wrote some years ago on the Tempest'" I
spoke disrespectfully of his commentaries on Shakespeare
having I suppose adopted the tone of my Shakespeare com-
mentators about him."

22. One folded sheet. Dated Tuesday 4'^'', from York Farm [in
Furness's hand, "Kemble"].

"What a splendid handwriting your's is very dear Horace.

"17

"I know nothing about the republication of my brother's
History of the Saxons & do not understand how Quaritch
comes to have a right to re-publish it because I thought it
belonged to the Longmans who were the original pub-
lishers— "'^

23. One folded sheet. Dated Friday 1«* Decemb^^ [1876], from
York Farm.

Mentions her impending departure for England.

24. One folded sheet. Dated Friday, May 26^^, from 15 Con-
naught Square [London].

Acknowledges Furness's gift of his New Variorum Hamlet.
Tells of her difficulties in obtaining a staff of servants for the
house she has taken in London; "the very tradition of 'good
service' is passing away," she complains.

25. One folded sheet. Dated Sunday, October 5*^ [1890?], from
The Bower, Limpsfield, Surrey.

"My daughter Sarah & my dear old friend Miss Fox are the
only persons to whom I now write for it has become a con-
siderable effort for me to do so — " She acknowledges the gift
of the New Variorum As Tou Like It.

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TERRY-FURNESS

One folded sheet. Quoted in full.

[Letterhead: Parker House, Boston] 4-March [1901?]
Sweet Sir —

I never go abroad in the afternoons of the days, but I
must come & hear you in Shakespeare's poem "As You Like
It" & I write to tell you I am looking forward to Thursday
with delightful excitement — I shall bring an English girl
who is staying with me, & we shall have our treat together —
Don't you envy us? — Yours yours
Ellen Terry^^

2. One folded sheet. Quoted in full.

I

'J^v^ vO^JSjv t.^'Wv ^ z,

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[Letterhead: Parker House, Boston], 7. March— [1901?]

Didn't I pay for my pleasure of yesterday in a blinding

headache for the rest of the evening! — but I w* go through

with it again for the pleasure of hearing you recite the lines

"Blow blow thou winter wind" —

Affectionate thanks for a great delight — Yours
Ellen Terry

3. One folded sheet. Dated only "Saturday."

Evidently refers again to the Furness reading of As Ton Like It,
and seemingly to some regret expressed by Furness that he had
not introduced her to the audience. "Could you have forgiven
yourself or c^ I ever have forgiven you if you had called
public attention to E.T. in 'plain clothes' & spectacles, sitting
alone & undefended at your discourse?! — but the honour of
being mentioned by you as a possibly good Rosalind {when I
am over the seas & far away) is not to be undervalued ! ! — / have
never played the part, & have hoped for centuries to make the
attempt. However the time is past & gone — & if you suggest I
might have done well I am comforted — "

4. Four single sheets. Dated 20. Dec — 1901, from Chicago
[letterhead: "22, Barkston Gardens, Earls Court, S.W."; in
Furness's hand, "Olympia Theatre, St. Louis"].

Miss Terry writes: "I believe you will do what I am going to
ask you to do, although how I can ask you - - - - [four brief
strokes; below them an ink line drawn across three-quarters of
the width of the paper] ! It's just this — (out with it!) Will you
write y"" — dear name for me in this volume? It is not a habit
with me to ask for autographs believe me — but I can't help it,
for I want it so much, so much, that I am impelled by all
within me to write & ask you — I'm ashamed— but I do it! —
Forgive."

"Your vol. of 'Romeo & Juliet' was nearly the death of me,
when I was going to play 'Juliet' — I could not approach the
acting it — how I stuck at y book - - -! The play 'ran' for
nearly two hundred consecutive nights but I hated myself in
it — & this was mostly due toyoulW

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5. Torn section of single sheet. Undated. Signed, "E.T. — "
Refers to her bookplate, designed by her son,^'' "a map of the
quaint old place in which I live. . . ."

6. One folded sheet. Dated 3-March 1911 from The Amerika
[letterhead: "Hamburg- Amerika Linie"].

"In spite of myself I leave Wonderland (America) without
seeing you. . . . I'm returning to England without paying
my affectionate respects to you. , . ."

NOTES

1 . With one exception, noted later, the letters cited were purchased in
1 962 from Charles Sessler of Philadelphia, through the kindness of
Miss Mabel Zahn. For the most part, they are unpublished.

2. Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893) was the daughter of Charles
and Maria Theresa De Camp Kemble. She was an actress in an
acting family, but left the stage early, upon her marriage (in 1834)
to Pierce Butler of Germantown, Philadelphia. Shortly after her
marriage she spent a winter with her husband on his Georgia
plantation; her experiences there contributed to a breach between
her and her husband which resulted in divorce in 1849. Meanwhile,
she had returned to the stage for a time. She supported herself
successfully by giving Shakespearean readings which became very
popular; the last was given in 1869.

3. Dame Ellen Alicia Terry (1847-1928) formed a stage partnership
with Sir Henry Irving which was probably the most productive
enterprise of the kind in the history of the English-speaking theater.
Miss Terry was married three times. Edith and Edward Gordon
Craig (the latter mentioned in number 5 of the following letters)
were Miss Terry's children by Edward Godwin, the architect and
scene-designer, with whom she eloped after the failure of her first
marriage. Her long correspondence with Bernard Shaw has been
published. After her retirement from the stage Miss Terry fre-
quently lectured on Shakespeare's heroines.

4. William Henry Furness, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of
Philadelphia, lifelong friend of Emerson and famous abolitionist.
He died on January 30, 1896, in his ninety-fourth year.

5. Edward Moxon (1801-1858), the celebrated publisher of nine-
teenth-century poets, left a widow, one son, and five daughters. The
business did not prosper after his death. Mrs. Kemble had been
acquainted with him in connection with the publication of some of
her work.

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These gloves, with other memorabilia of Shakespeare once in Mrs.
Kemble's possession, are now on display in the Horace Howard
Furness Memorial Library. Shakespeare's will contained this pro-
vision: "Item I gyve & bequeath vnto my saied sister Jone xx'' &
all my wearing Apparrell to be paied & deliuered within one yeare
after my deceas. . . ." (E. K. Chambers, William Shakespeare: a
Study of Facts and Problems [Oxford, 1930], H, 171). A story can be
pieced together from documents accompanying the gloves, to the
effect that two pairs of gloves (a comedy pair and a tragedy pair,
the former preserved by The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at
Stratford-upon-Avon) were among the effects so devised, and that
they were owned by descendants of Joan Shakespeare, who married
one William Hart. It is further told that a descendant of this couple,
William Hart or Shakespeare Hart, presented the tragedy gloves in
1746 to John Ward, an actor who was visiting Stratford. John Ward
was grandfather of the three famous stage people who were children
of Roger Kemble and Ward's daughter Sarah: John Philip Kemble,
Charles Kemble, and Sarah Kemble Siddons. To this point, the
history of these gloves is at least vulnerable.

On the occasion of the Stratford Jubilee in 1769, John Ward
presented the gloves to David Garrick. In 1779 Garrick died, but
his widow lived until 1822, dying at the age of ninety-nine. From
Mrs. Garrick the gloves passed by testament to Mrs. Sarah Siddons,
granddaughter of the man who gave them to Mr. Garrick, then to
Mrs. Siddons's daughter, Cecilia Combe, and so to Mrs. Kemble.

A further footnote has been supplied by Mrs. Kemble in her
Further Records, 1848-1883 (New York, 1891), p. 23:

Young Mr. Furness, the son of my dear and venerated
spiritual pastor and master, the editor of Shakespeare, comes
occasionally with his wife and passes an evening with me. I was
so much pleased with the enthusiastic devotion to his laborious
task of his Variorum Shakespeare that I gave him the pair of
Shakespeare's gloves Cecilia Combe left me in her will, and
which had come to her mother, Mrs. Siddons, from Mrs.
Garrick. . . ,

That precious bequest of Shakespeare's gloves reached me one
evening while I was giving a reading in Boston, and occasioned
me such an emotion of delight and surprise that one of the few
times when I made blunders in my text was when I resumed my
reading after finding them in the room to which I retired for rest
in the middle of my performance. My Boston audience were my
friends; and I think if I had told them the cause of the mistakes I
made, when I resumed my seat and my book, they would have
sympathized with and pardoned me. Perhaps they would have

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liked me to show them the gloves, which I never showed to any
American that he did not directly put his hand into one of them.
The one exception to this was my dear and reverend Dr.
[William Henry] Furness, who hardly seemed to dare to touch
them. . . ,

7. I.e. Mrs. Sarah Siddons, sister of Fanny's father, Charles Kemble.

8. Mrs. Kemble describes this farm as being located "about six miles
from Philadelphia and three from the pretty suburban village
(town as it now is) of Germantown. . . ." Further Records, p. 1.

9. Readings in Crabbe was a condensed version of Tales of the Hall. This
and other matters of interest to Fitzgerald and Mrs. Kemble may
be followed in Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883,
ed. William Aldis Wright (New York and London, 1895).

10. Sarah Butler married Owen J. Wister. They were the parents of the
novelist Owen Wister.

1 1 . The letter referred to may be one written from Lowestoft on July
22, 1875. Fitzgerald's words in this letter were: "I suppose you will
see— if you have not yet seen— Tennyson's Q^. Mary. I don't know
what to say about it; but the Times says it is the finest Play since
Shakespeare; and the Spectator that it is superior to Henry VHL"
Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble, pp. 73-74.

12. No doubt John Philip Kemble's Fugitive Pieces (York, 1780).

13. John Kemble (1599P-1679), condemned to death for having said
Mass at Pembridge Castle, Herefordshire.

14. James Spedding (1808-1881) edited the works of Bacon and wrote
many articles on Shakespeare. The Rev. William Harness (1790-
1869) and Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) were editors of Shake-
speare. Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868), Dean of St. Paul's, was
a man of varied talents: poet, playwright, translator, historian, able
ecclesiastical administrator.

15. John Payne Collier (1789-1883), Shakespearean critic and scholar,
and forger of Elizabethan documents.

16. See Frances Anne Kemble, Notes Upon Some of Shakespeare's Plays
(London, 1882), "Notes on The Tempest." The reference in Mrs.
Cowden Clarke's letter to the articles in the Atlantic was certainly
to that long series from Mrs. Kemble's pen, between 1875 and 1877,
entitled "Old Woman's Gossip." That being the case, and if Mrs.
Cowden Clarke was commenting upon a contemporary event (as
it appears that she was), it seems that Mrs. Kemble's Shakespearean
Notes must have been written a number of years before their
publication in 1882,

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17. Mrs. Kemble's handwriting is at times virtually illegible. She
seems to have been having difficulties (perhaps arthritic) with at
least one hand. She is quite right about Dr. Furness's: it is singu-
larly bold, regular, and clear.

18. The Saxons in England, by John Mitchell Kemble (1807-1857), was
republished by the firm of Quaritch in 1876.

19. A footnote to this letter is to be found in Ellen Terry, The Story of
My Life: Recollections and Reflections (New York, 1908), p. 323 (the
period referred to is c. 1901):

Henry [Sir Henry Irving] and I were so fortunate as to gain
the friendship and approval of Dr. Horace Howard Furness, per-
haps the finest Shakespearean scholar in America, and editor of
the "Variorum Shakespeare," which Henry considered the best
of all editions— "the one which counts." It was in Boston, I
think, that I disgraced myself at one of Dr. Furness's lectures. He
was discussing "As You Like It" and RosaHnd, and proving with
much elaboration that English in Shakespeare's time was pro-
nounced like a broad country dialect, and that Rosalind spoke
Warwickshire ! A little girl who was sitting in the row in front of
me had lent me her copy of the play a moment before, and now,
absorbed in Dr. Furness's argument, I forgot the book wasn't
mine and began scrawling controversial notes in it with my very
thick and blotty fountain pen.

"Give me back my book! Give me my book!" screamed the
little girl. "How dare you write in my book!" She began to cry
with rage.

Her mother tried to hush her up: "Don't, darling. Be quiet!
It's Miss Ellen Terry."

"I don't care! She's spoilt my nice book!"

I am glad to say that when the little girl understood, she
forgave me; and the spoilt book is treasured very much by a tall
Boston young lady of eighteen who has replaced the child of
seven years ago! Still, it was dreadful of me, and I did feel
ashamed at the time.

20. Edward Gordon Craig.

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A Banquet of Jests and Archie Armstrong

John T. Shawcross*

ARCHIBALD ARMSTRONG, jester to the courts of James I
^ and Charles I, has been credited with the authorship of
A Banquet of Jests, first pubUshed in 1630, on the basis of a
portrait which is found in some copies and a few jests attributed
to him. The editions (or issues) of the work printed by Richard
Royston seem to be 1630 (Ed. 1), 1632 (Ed. 2), 1633 (Ed. 3), 1634
(Ed. 4), 1636, 1639 (Ed. 5), 1640 (Ed. 6), and 1657 ("Last,"
Ed. 7). The issue of 1636 exists only as a title page bound with the
1633 copy in the British Museum. Miss Margaret S. Jochem of
the Photographic Department of the Folger Shakespeare Li-
brary, who has been most helpful in supplying important infor-
mation and photostats concerning the portrait of Armstrong, has
told me of a copy in the Folger, formerly in the Warwick Castle
library, which is thought to be from 1632. As a second edition
occurred between 1630 and 1633, this date may be correct and
the Folger may have the only known copy — one lacking title page
and frontispiece. Royston's Arch/s Dream, published in 1641, has
no relation to A Banquet oj Jests. A Choice Banquet of Witty Jests of
1660 and 1665, not printed by Royston (with an engraving of
Armstrong by R. Gaywood), was published with a similar title
simply to capitalize on the popularity of the former collections.
The portrait of "Archee, the Kinges tester" by Thomas Cecil
was the frontispiece to the 1630 A Banquet of Jests according to the
Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits Preserved in the Department of
Prints, and Drawings in the British Museum by Freeman O'Donoghue
(London, 1908), Vol. I, p. 72.^ However, the only known copy
in the Bodleian has no portrait; neither do the British Museum
or Huntington copies of 1633, nor the unique Bodleian copy of
1634, nor the unique Cambridge University copy of 1640. The
Huntington copy of 1639 and known copies of 1657, including
one in the Huntington and one in the Arents collection in the
New York Public Library, neither of which is listed in the STC,
have the portraits pasted in.^ The Folger copy of William

* Newark College of Engineering.

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Winstanley's Poor Robin's Jests, 1667, has the Cecil portrait pasted
in opposite ''Archy in praise of this Book."

Armstrong, who died in 1672, had been disgraced in 1637 for
having insuked Archbishop Laud and after 1641 apparently-
retired to Arthuret in Cumberland. Cecil, best known for por-
traits, is thought to have worked in London c. 1627-c. 1635. The
portrait, showing Archie standing with his hat and glove in his
hands, is tided, "Archee, the kinges lester." and has a four-line
poem beneath it.^ The tide and poem in the 1639 copies are
different in typography from those in the 1657 copy, and the
Winstanley copy has been redrawn and relettered. Yet certain
likenesses show a common source (e.g., the omission of a comma
after "Taunts"), which was undoubtedly the 1657 version. The
portraits should be compared and the change of "kinges lester"
(1657) to "Kinges lester" (Winstanley) and to "Kinges Jester"
(1639) noted. The present position of the portrait in the 1657
edition seems to have been effected after the original press work of
sig. A. Aside from the portrait and its poem and the addition of
jests attributed to him in expanded later editions,"* the only con-
necdon with Archie Armstrong for the collection is the 1640
Banquet oj Jests preface to the reader (still signed, "Anonymos")
which is dtled now, "The Kings lester to the Reader." It should
be noted also that the poem beneath the portrait refers to his
former associadon with the royal group, and thus dates the poem
after 1637. Indeed what evidence there is points to no connection
of authorship between A Banquet of Jests and Armstrong. Nor is
there reason to believe that Cecil produced his portrait expressly
for publication of the collection, whether in 1 630 or later. Appar-
endy Royston was capitalizing on Archie's celebrity shortly after
1 637 and his renown as a jester.

The 1657 edition (I use the Arents copy compared with that
in the Huntington) has the following title page:

A/BANQUET/OF JESTS/New and old. /O/?/ Change of Cheare

Modern Jests

/BEING/A COLLECTION/OF

Witty Jeeres

Pleasant Taunts

Merrie Tales.

/[rule]/The last Edition, much enlarged. /[rule]/LONDON,/Printed
for R. Royston, at the Angell/in Ivy Lane. 1657./

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Its collation is: A-I12, K4. [i]-[viii] + 1-216. [i], blank: [ii],
portrait: [iii], title: [iv], table of contents: [v-vi], "Ad Populum":
[vii-viii], "To the Booke": 1-216, work. There are a number of
misprints of sigs., paging, catchwords, and running titles.

The catchword of p. [vi], sig. A3^, the second page of "Ad
Populum," is "Archee" although "To the Booke" follows; that
of p. [viii], sig. A4'^', the second page of "To the Booke," is
"COURT" although "A/BANQ,UET" follows on p. 1. In addi-
tion the font of A4'', the first page of "To the Booke," is different
from that of all other signatures. Something certainly occurred in
the course of printing, of this we may be sure. It would seem that
originally the portrait (headed "Archee, the kinges lester") fol-
lowed "Ad Populum" and that the Table of Contents (beginning
"COURT JESTS") followed "To the Booke." Perhaps the
original pressing was:

[i] AV title page [v] A3^ "Ad Populum"

[ii] AV "To the Booke" [vi] A3^ "Ad Populum" (cont.)

[iii] A2^ "To the Booke" (cont.) [vii] A4^ Portrait

[iv] A2^ Table of Contents [viii] A4^ [blank]

Changes in both the outer and inner formes were necessary to
revise the material, if the original was similar to the above. In
the outer forme Al'^ was blanked and the second page of "To the
Booke" was reset on A4^, Royston apparently following his first
printing too carefully and setting the incorrect catchword
"COURT." In the inner forme Al^ was blanked (later to have
the portrait pasted on it); A2' was replaced by a reset title page;
and A4'^ was replaced by a reset first page of "To the Booke," thus
allowing for the different font of the signature. Rather than reset
the portrait Royston must have cut out the original printings and
pasted them on the blank p. [ii] of the reset sheets. Why such
revision should have been made can only be guessed at. Perhaps
something in "To the Booke" was considered unwise in 1657; it
might easily have contained some reference to Charles I and
Archie's relationship to him on the first page of this preface. And
the earlier, more prominent position for the portrait was assuredly
considered advisable. Other jest collections were appearing and
Archie may have been thought a good drawing card.

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NOTES

1. D. F. Snelgrove and Michael Norton of the Department of Prints
and Drawings of the British Museum have assured me that no such
edition with the portrait is in the Museum. Mr. Norton, part author
of Engraving in Engla?id, concludes that O'Donoghue's reference
"must have been made from items elsewhere than in this Museum."
I thank Messrs. Snelgrove and Norton most sincerely for their
prompt answering of my queries.

2. Professor Arthur Axelrad, to whom I am indebted for checking
certain matters in the Huntington copies for me, reports that a
tracing of the 1657 portrait is also found in the 1639 copy with the
note, "Traced Nov.'' 1st 1791 by John Brand at Strawberry Hill from
the very rare Original in the collection of the Honble Horace
Walpole."

3. "Archee by king's, and princes grac't of late/Iested him-selfe into a
fayer estate/And in this Booke, doth to his friends Commend/His
leeres, Taunts Tales, which no man can offend." (italics removed;
from the 1657 edition).

4. #66 in "Court Jests," p. 35: ^'Archee over-reach'' d" which tells of "Our
Patron Arc he, the Kings Jester. ..."

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Nineteenth-Century Stamps of Liberia

Cornelius W. Wickersham

Editor'' s Note: This interesting collection was formed by General Cornelius
Wickersham who has generously given it to the University Library. General
Wickersham graciously agreed to supply this account of his collection and we
are doubly indebted to him for both the collection itself and for the accompanying
description. It is not often that we have the opportunity to have a major gift
described by the donor.

History

WHILE a good many years elapsed from the date of my
boyhood stamp collection, I began collecting more seri-
ously after return to civil life from World War I. Starting then
with a general collection I began to realize the interest to be
found in specialization and its philatelic importance. As a result I
gradually acquired a number of specialized country collections.

Interest in the study of stamps was interrupted for five years
because of World War II. Some time after that a dealer's offer
of a number of plate proofs of full sheets of Liberia stamps was
intriguing, and thus began the gradual building up of a collection
of stamps of that country.

The African continent south of the Sahara desert, with its
many different races, Bantu, Nilotic, Bushmen, Pygmies, and
many other types and conditions of men is only now beginning
to dawn on the consciousness of America. In addition there are
the European colonists, many of whom are descended from an-
cestors who have made their homes in Africa for generations.

Liberia is a small country in extent in West Africa with not
many towns, populated on the seacoast by descendants of Amer-
ican slaves, who were given their freedom there with the help of
Americans. Most of the towns are on the seacoast, including
Monrovia, the capital, Buchanan, Harper, and Robertsport.

In the hinterland, however, there were and are many native

• tribes, including the Kru, Mandingo, Gola, Kpwesi and Vai,

who have lived in Liberia for untold ages. Today American

industry is penetrating into the Liberian hinterland and the

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blessings of freedom, independence and education are being
extended with American help. It is that freedom which is referred
to on the early stamps of Liberia in the portrayal of Liberty in
the first type Liberian stamps of the issues of 1860 to and includ-
ing 1880, and in later issues.

The first stamps were issued in 1860, and their design was
used with minor color changes for 20 years. Known as the first
type stamps of the issues of 1860 to 1869 and 1880 (with two new
denominations added), they had always intrigued me and it was
not long before the opportunity came of acquiring a large collec-
tion of both 1 9th and 20th century Liberia, including a number
of full sheets and large blocks of the early issues.

From that time on search was continued for unusual items,
particularly covers, proofs and other additions of philatelic
interest. For a number of years the hobby was ridden when time
allowed in studying the history of Liberia, its postal arrange-
ments, the use of the various issues of its stamps, and the stamps
themselves, so that by 1 960 a representative and interesting col-
lection had been formed as well as literature on the subject to
which some contributions were made to the weekly newspaper
known as STAMPS and the COLLECTORS CLUB PHI-
LATELIST, a bimonthly journal of philately, both widely read
by collectors.

When the International Philatelic Exhibition was held in 1956
at the new Coliseum in New York, President Eisenhower, in the
course of a message to the Exhibition said "More than the prizes
of a hobby for the enjoyment of leisure hours, the stamps of the
world are powerful object lessons in the eternal hunger of men for
knowledge and news about their fellowmen. They are a pictorial
history of all the arts and sciences and human progress in them
since the earliest civilizations."

The President's message is well illustrated in the Liberia col-
lection. All the First Type stamps reflect Liberty and commerce,
as shown by the many large blocks and full sheets. In the 1892-96
issues we have portrayals of natural history (elephant and hip-
popotamus), natural resources (the oil palm), coats-of-arms,
natives (including President Johnson) and the Liberian star. In
the collection the 17 denominations of this issue are found, many

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in full sheets, including also errors of color, the various perfora-
tion varieties, and, dear to the heart of philatelists, the inverted
centers. The later 19th century issues are also well represented,
including many full sheets and some of the varieties.

Possibly outstanding are the so-called "ordinaries" of 1901-02.
Apparently Liberia had run out of stamps except for official
stamps of which there was still a supply. These were overprinted
with the word "ordinary" and made available for general use.
While the "ordinaries" were produced in 1901 and 1902, and
thus not strictly 19th century, the stamps themselves had been
issued in the last decade of the century. Their use as "ordinaries"
was small, and many of them are extremely rare, especially the
higher values. The collection includes all but three of those over-
printed in the "O.S." officials, and includes an extraordinary
combination cover used with 5 different "ordinaries."

The official stamps of the 1892, 1893 (including a full sheet
showing both errors), 1894 and 1898 issues, are extremely well
represented, as are the Postage Dues. The rare Registration
stamps of 1893 include Buchanan (used and unused), Monrovia
(a block of 4), Greenville (unused), Robertsport (used), and
Buchanan used on a combination cover.

To go back to the First Type stamps, the defaced reprint die
proofs are of great interest as showing the imprints of the different
London engravers and printers, some of whom were unknown
before being disclosed by a study of these proofs. (Most of the
19th century Liberia stamps were printed in London.)

Early covers of Liberia are hard to find, but the collection
includes over 40 covers with stamps and four stampless used
before the first stamps were issued in 1860.

Having been honored by the Collectors Club by election as its
President in 1956, my 20th Century Liberia stamps have been
given to the Collectors Club, but study and enjoyment of the 19th
Century collection and acquisition of additional items continued.

Recently I have become much interested in the stamps of the
Republic of Colombia and its sovereign states as they were when
that Republic was known as the United States of Colombia, an
interest which was to some extent stimulated by a study made of
the early stamps of Venezuela, which at one time was united with

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Colombia. (See The Early Stamps of Venezuela, a handbook
published by The Collectors Club.)

It has given me great pleasure to give the 19th Century
Liberia collection to the University of Pennsylvania where I hope
that it will be available to students and others who may be
interested especially in the classic stamps of this interesting coun-
try, a Republic which was started through the efforts of American
missionaries and others, nearly 1 50 years ago.

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A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries
of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800

Supplement II*
Ms. Lea 207 atal.)

PIETRO GIANNONE. Trattato de'rimedi contro le scomuniche
invalide, e proibizioni de libri, che si decretano in Roma . . . coll'oc-
casione della invalida censura contro di lui fulminata dal vicario di
Napoli per aver fatto quivi imprimere i libri della storia civile di quel
regno senza sua licenza, e della proibizione de medesimi decretata in
Roma nel di 1. luglio 1723. Naples, 1723.

Paper. 283 ff. 29 x 21 cm. Contemp. calf.— "Ex libris Orontii Mello."— Cf.
Lea mss. 168, 188-9.

Ms. Lea 208 atal.)

CHERUBINO CHIRARDAZZI. Istoria di Bologna, parte terza,
manuscritta, ed estratta della Libreria del Convento di S. Giacomo
Maggiore di Bologna, I'anno 1734. Continuation of two printed vol-
umes, beginning with some additional material left out of printed books
27, 28, and 29 and covering the years 1393 to 1425 (pp. 1-22), con-
tinuing with [unpublished?] books 30 (p. 23) — 38 (ending p. 1174); fol-
lowed by notes "Aggiunta a questo tomo manoscritto" (pp.1 175-1202)
and "Tavola generale" (pp. 1203-36). Italy, 1734.

Paper. Title, 1236 pp. 29 x 20 cm. Contemp. vellum.— Prov.: Biblioteca
Banzi.

Ms. Lea 210 (Ital.)

[SLAVERY]. Ruolo di tutti li schiavi che anno predato le sei galere di
S.A.S. [Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany] in quest'anno in Levante,
tanto masti quanto femine, il quale comincia alii 6 di maggio 1611
allTsola di Storonisse in Levante fino alii 22 detto a sigra di Mitelino.
(List of 202 slaves, giving in each case the name, origin, age and general
description of the captive and the name of the person to whoin he or
she has been assigned). Florence?, 1611.

Paper. 16 ff. 31.5 x 21.5 cm. Boards. — Cf. no. 353.

Ms. Lea 211 (Ital.)

VINCENZO MEDICI. Report to Cosimo II on his activities as
"depositario generale" of a "zecca" from 1595 to 1609, dealing with
economic questions, e.g. purchase and sale of grain, benefices, etc.
Tuscany, Oct. 19, 1609.

Paper. 2 ff. 30 x 21 cm. (folded). Boards.— Cf. mss. 243-50, 294-5.

* Continued from v. XXIX, no. 1, pp. 43-75.

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Gondi-Medici Business Records

Numbers 212-355 were acquired as a collection. They are arranged
more or less chronologically, within the following series: Medici
records in regular folio; narrow folio; smaller sizes.— Amadori records.
— Arrigucci and Gondi records.— Textile trade records. — Miscellaneous
records. All volumes were originally part of the Gondi archives, spe-
cifically of that part which was left to the Ritiro della Quiete in Florence
by Caterina and Elisabetta, descendants of Giuliano il Vecchio, cf.
Roberto Ridolfi, Gli archivi delle famiglie fiorentine (Florence, L. S.
Olschki, 1934).

Ms. Lea 212 (Ital.)

CASA MEDICI. Ricordanze di beni et immobili di casa Medici,
1456-95 (a variety of sections: ff.2r-4v, 1456-76; ff.l0r-12r, 1458-68;
ff.l3v-14r, 1473-4; f.24r-v, 1458-70; fr.25r-26v, 1463-73; f.27, 1464;
ff.30r-32v, 1464-95; fr.38v-39r, 1463-72[?]; f.48, 1465-70; f.50,
1471-8-[?]; f.52, 1473-92; f.53, 1479-80; f.54r without date; ff.64r-65v,
1474-93; ff.66r-68r, 1493-4). [Giornale] A. Italy, 1456-95.

Paper. 144 ff. (ff.l, 16-9 wanting, as are the following, probably blank AT.,
ff.56-7, 69-71, 74-6, 86-91, 94-102, 108-13, 135.— Ff.5-9, 20-3, 33-7, 40-7,
50, 55, 58-63, 72 are blank). 28 x 22 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 22[?] on spine,
no. 242 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 213 atal.)

[CARLO DE MEDICI?]. Quaderno di cassa, debitori e creditori,
1532-3. [Giornale] C. Italy, 1532-33.

Paper. 64 ff. (ff.36-64 blank). 28.5 x 21.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 130 on
spine, no. 225 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 214 (Ital.)

CARLO DE MEDICI. Giornale di chassa, 1°, debitori e creditori,

1533-4. Italy, 1533-34.

Paper, except first and last f., vellum. 2, 240 ff. (ff.l 2 1-70 blank), 1 f. 33.5 x
23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 27 on spine, no. 295 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 215 atal.)

-. Quaderno di chassa, 3°, debitori e creditori, 1534-5. Italy,

1534-35.

Paper. 1 f. vellum. 111 ff. (ff.l 07-11 blank). 33.5 x 23.5 cm. Contemp.
vellum, no. 30 on spine, no. 293 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 216 (Ital.)

BIVIGLIANO D'ALAMANNO DE MEDICI. Libro in sul quale fara

schrivere e sua beni . . . e altre cose importante. . . . Italy, 1534-44.

Paper. 64 ff. (ff.42-64 blank). 26.5 x 20.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 52 on
front cover. — Deals primarily with real estate.

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Ms. Lea 217 (Ital.)

[CARLO DE MEDICI?]. Quaderno di chassa, 7°, debitori e creditori,
1536-7. (Assigned to "Vincenzo de Medici?" by previous owner).
Italy, 1536-37.

Paper, except first and last f., vellum. 2, 175 ff. (ff.108-75 blank), 1 f. 33 x
23.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 131 on spine, no. 289 on cover.

Ms. Lea 218 Gtal.)

CARLO DE MEDICI. Quaderno di chassa, 6°, debitori e creditori,
1536-7. Italy, 1536-37.

Paper, except first and last f., vellum. 2, 239 ff. (ff.123-239 blank), 1 f. 33.5 x
23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 29 on spine, no. 290 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 219 (Ital.)

[CARLO DE MEDICI?]. Quaderno di cassa, 8°, debitori e creditori,
1537-8. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by previous owner; among the
accounts are those of Carlo and Francesco da Barberino; Ottaviano
and Lorenzo de Medici; Spedale di Santa Maria Nuova; Anastasio and
Giovanni Pitti; Francisco di Girolamo Rucellai; Mariotto de Medici).
Italy, 1537-38.

Paper, except first and last f. of text, vellum. 18 ff. (index, in vellum wrapper),
2, 237 ff. (ff.116-237 blank), 1 f. 33 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 133 on
spine, no. 288 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 220 (Ital.)

[ ']. Quaderno di cassa, debitori e creditori, 1538-9. (Assigned to

"Carlo de Medici?" by previous owner; among names appearing are
Antonio and Giovanni Pitti; Spedale di Santa Maria degli Innocenti;
Giuliano, Francesco, Mariotto and Gregorio de Medici; Anastasio de
Buonacorso; Alessandro di Nicolo Antinori). Italy, 1538-39.

Paper, except first and last f., vellum. 1, 18 ff. index, 1, 239 ff. (ff.99-239
blank), 1 f. Contemp. vellum, no. 286 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 221 (Ital.)

SALINA DI PISTOIA. Li signori quattro commisari sopra le cose di
Pistoia, 1539. Pistoia, 1539.

Paper. 1 f. 29 x 21 cm. In portfolio with ms. Lea 259.

Ms. Lea 222 (Ital.)

[CARLO DE MEDICI?]. Quaderno di chassa, 12°, [debitori e credi-
tori], 1539-40. (Assigned to Luigi de Medici by previous owner; among
the accounts are Anastasio de Buonacorso; Spedale di Santa Maria
Nuova; Santa Maria del Fiore; Carlo de Simone Benzoni; Giovanni di

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Baldo; Mariotto di Gregorio de Medici; Ottaviano de Medici). Italy,
1539-40.

Paper, except first and last f., vellum. 2, 223 ff. (ff. 107-223 blank), 1 f. 33 x
23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 135(?) on spine, no. 304 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 223 (Ital.)

[ ]. Quaderno di cassa, 13°, debitori e creditori, 1539-40. (As-
signed to "Luigi de Medici?" by previous owner; among accounts are
those of the Spedale di Santa Maria Nuova; Santa Maria del Fiore;
Anastasio di Buonacorso Pitti; Mariotto di Gregorio de Medici; Antonio
di Giovanni Pitti; Francesco Legnaiolo; Giovanni d' Ottaviano Doni;
Diegho de Chastro spagnolo; Francesco and Matteo Manucci). Italy,
1539-40.

Paper, except first f., vellum. 2, 95 ff. (and 144 blank ff.). 33.5 x 23 cm.
Contemp. vellum, no. 136 on spine, no. 303 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 224 atal.)

CARLO DI FERDINANDO DE MEDICI. Quaderno di debitori e
creditori. [Giornale] B, 1540-56. Italy, 1540-56.

Paper. 208 ff. 28.5 x 20.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 31 on spine, no. 122 on
front cover.

Ms. Lea 225 atal.)

[CARLO DE MEDICI?]. Quaderno di cassa, 18°, debitori e creditori,
1542-3. (Assigned to "Carlo de Medici?" by previous owner; among
the names appearing are Rafaello di Miniato; Santa Maria del Fiore;
Pagolo Giovanni Gondi; Buonacorso Pitti; Mariotto di Gregorio de
Medici; Spedale di Santa Maria Nuova). Italy, 1542-43.

Paper, except first and last f., vellum. 1, 140 ff. (misnumbered; ff. 8 5-1 40
blank), 1 f. 33.5 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 142 on spine, no. 285 on
front cover.

Ms. Lea 226 atal.)

[ ]• Quaderno di cassa, 21°, debitori e creditori, 1543-4. (As-
signed to Carlo de Medici by previous owner; among the accounts are
those of Alessandro di Nicolo Antinori; Anastasio di Buonacorso Pitti;
Spedale di Santa Maria Nuova; Jacopo d'Alamanno; Alamanno di
Bernardo de Medici). Italy, 1543-44.

Paper, except first f., vellum. 2, 143 ff. (ff. 82-1 43 blank). 33 x 23 cm.
Contemp. vellum, no. 143 on spine, no. 296 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 227 atal.)

[ ]• Quaderno di cassa, 20°, debitori e creditori, 1543-4. (As-
signed to "Carlo de Medici?" by previous owner; among the names

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appearing are Santa Maria del Fiore; Mariotto di Gregorio de Medici;
Alessandro Antinori; Spedale degli Innocenti; Santa Maria Nuova;
Bernardo di Piero Brandolini; Guerardo and Piero d'Alamanno
Salviati). Italy, 1543-44.

Paper. 1, 95 ff. (ff.91-5 blank). 33.5 x 23.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 144
on spine, no. 297 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 228 atal.)

CARLO DE MEDICI. Quaderno di cassa della suventione del anno

1543[-6]. [Giornale] B. Italy, 1543-46.

Paper. 1, 47 fF. (fF.36-47 blank). 33 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 33 on
spine.

Ms. Lea 229 atal.)

Quaderno di cassa, 22°, debitori e creditori, 1544-5 (and 1

entry each 1546 and 1559). Italy, 1544-59.

Paper. 1, 95 fF. (ff.87-95 blank). 34 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 34 on
spine, no. 306 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 230 (Ital.)

CARLO BERNARDO ALAMANNI DE MEDICI. Libro di con-
tracti, no. 9, 1552-69 (Beni di Volterra, etc.) Italy, 1552-69.

Paper. 1, 49 ff. (last blank). 28 x 21 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 126 on spine.

Ms. Lea 231 atal.)

[ARTE DELLA LANA]. 3 documents, 1552 to late 16th cent. 1. Ad-
dressed to the "illustrious and most excellent Duke" [of Tuscany] by
Lelio T., a "supplica" concerning Giovanbattista Bettini, Amerigo
Carnesecchi and Luigi Bettini, dated 1552. — 2. Addressed to the same,
unsigned, concerning Giovanbattista Bettini, n.d. — 3. '"Supplica" of
Nicolo and Fabrizio di Luigi de Medici to the Grand Duke [Cosimo II?]
concerning a Camilla lor'zia paterna, n.d. Italy, 1552-late 16th cent.

Paper. 3 ff. Ca. 29 x 21 cm. Portfolio.— Cf mss. 327 ff.

Ms. Lea 232 atal.)

CARLO DI BERNARDO DE MEDICI. Conto di tutti debitori
[e creditori] divisi delle ragioni di Giovanbattista Bettini . . . ,
Pandolfo de Medici . . . , 1553-60, 1570. [Giornale] A. Italy, 1553-70.

Paper. 1, 63 ff. (ff.33-49, 54-63 blank). 27.5 x 21 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 36 on spine, no. 126 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 233 (Ital.)

NICOLO and FABRIZIO (figlioli di Luigi) DE MEDICI. Libro di
debitori e creditori, ricordi e altro, 1566-8. [Giornale] A. (Contains also

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"copie di conti," "conti co[l] lavoratori delle ricolte e vantaggi,"
"entrata e uscita di grani e biade e altro"). Italy, 7566-68.

Paper. 1, 175 ff. (ff. 113-23, 131-43, 167-75, blank); 2 ff. doc. concerning
Rinaldo di Falente, lavoratore, 17 Feb. 1565, laid in. 33.5 x 23 cm. Contemp.
vellum, no. 14 on spine, no. 137 on front cover, 1 f. from incunable sewn in
front cover.

Ms. Lea 234 (Ital.)

LUISA (moglie di Luigi) DI BIVIGLIANO DE MEDICI. Libro di
debitori e creditori, ricordi, etc., 1566-73. [Giornale] A. (Debitori e
creditori, prel. f.lv-104r; ricordi e copie di conti, ff.l04v-22v; conti
CO lavoratori del podere di Castagnolo, ff.l24v-38r; entrata e uscita di
grani e biade e altre, ff.l44v-88r). Italy, 1566-73.

Paper. 1, 191 ff. (ff.l23, 139-43, 189-91 blank). 33 x 23 cm. Contemp.
vellum, no. 25 on spine, no. 112 on front cover (folio ms. leaf <15th cent.> on
vellum preceding and following account book, fragment of incunable leaf
stitched inside front cover).

Ms. Lea 235 (Ital.)

NICOLO and FABRIZIO (figlioli di Luigi) DE MEDICI. Libro di
debitori e creditori. [Giornale] B, 1568-75. Italy, 1568-75.

Paper. 1, 191 ff. (ff. 187-91 blank). 33.5 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 16
on spine, no. 138 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 236 (Ital.)

CARLO DI BERNARDO DE MEDICI and FRANCESCO DI

STEFANO DI RISALITI. Libro di entrata e uscita, 1573-6. [Giornale]

A [also -]. Italy, 1573-76.

Paper. 240 ff. (ff.48-50, 68-89, 117-39, 175-240 blank; numbering irregular).
32.5 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 69 on spine, no. 48 and signet "C F" on
front cover. — Cf. nos. 332-5.

Ms. Lea 237 (Ital.)

ANDREA DI CARLO DE MEDICI. Entrata [e uscita] prima delle
rede di Carlo de Medici tenuta per me Andrea di Carlo de Medici,
1573-80. [Giornale] A. (Name Vincenzo Medici, in later hand, on
front cover). Italy, 1573-80.

Paper. 144 ff. (ff.22-75, 132-44 blank). 33 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 49 on spine, no. 229 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 238 (Ital.)

CARLO DE MEDICI [Heirs?]. Libro di debitori e creditori, 1573-80.
[Giornale] A. Italy, 1573-80.

Paper. 1, 207 ff. 32.5 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 38 on spine, no. 9 on
front cover.

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Ms. Lea 239 (Ital.)

GIORNALE [di entrata e uscita?] A, 1573-80. (Among the names
appearing are Bartolomeo Ricci; Pietro Parrini; Carlo de Medici;
Giovanni Bertelli; Francesco di Matteo Bracchi). Italy, 1573-80.

Paper. 48 ff. (ff.40-8 blank). 33 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 148 on spine,
no. 230 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 240 atal.)

NICOLO and FABRIZIO (fratelli, figlioli di Luigi) DE MEDICI.
Libro di debitori e creditori. [Giornale] C, 1575-84. With alphabetical
index at beginning. Italy, 1575-84.

Paper. 18 ff. (index), 1, 237 ff. (ff.226-37 blank). 33.5 x 24 cm. Contemp.
vellum, no. 13 on spine, no. 136 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 241 atal.)

■ Ricordi e conti de contratti con lavoratori, e entrata e uscita
di grano, vino e altro, 1575-82, with added Ricordi, 1582, 1584.
[Giornale] C. Italy, 1575-84.

Paper. 1, 191 ff. (ff.171-4, 177-91 blank); 1 large f. of additions laid in
between ff.83-4. 33.5 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 17 on spine, no. 139 on
front cover.

Ms. Lea 242 atal.)

FABRIZIO DI LUIGI DE MEDICI. Libro di debitori e creditori,
1579-1612. [Giornale] C. Italy, 1579-1612.

Paper. 1, 191 ff. (ff.176-91 blank), 4 ff. (2 blank) laid in between ff. 31-2,
corrections and calculations inserted throughout, 6 letters or docs, of Fabrizio
and a printed form in envelope at end. 33 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 18
on spine, no. 87 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 243 (Ital.)

VINCENZO and ANDREA DE MEDICI (cf. f.l58v). Libro di
possessione, 1581-3. [Giornale] B. (Ff.1-111 deal with the territory and
possessions "fuora della possessione di Valdenievole e delle spese
attenante a bestiami et altre;" fT. 11 2-1 57 with the "possessione di
Valdenievole.") Italy, 1581-83.

Paper. 1, 191 ff. (ff. 159-91 blank). 33 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 96 on
spine, no. 10 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 244 atal.)

VINCENZO MEDICI. Giornale della possessione di Valdenievole,
1583-92. [Giornale] C. Italy, 1583-92.

Paper. 64 ff. (ff.45-64 blank). 33.5 x 24 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 98 on
spine.

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Ms. Lea 245 (Ital.)

VINCENZO and ANDREA DE MEDICI [f.25r]. Giornale C del
libro, debitor! e creditor!, e libro di possessione, 1583-92. (Assigned
erroneously to "Carlo de Medici" < father of Vincenzo and Andrea>
by previous owner). Italy, 1583-92.

Paper. 80 ff. (ff. 16-24, 77-80 blank). 33 x 23.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 150
on spine.

Ms. Lea 246 (Ital.)

. Entrata e uscita del' libro di debitori e creditor! e del libro di

possessione, 1583-92. [Giornale] C. Italy, 1583-92.

Paper. 112 ff. (ff.8-20, 49-56, 76-83 blank). 33.5 x 23.5 cm. Contemp.
vellum, no. 51 on spine, no. 251 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 247 atal.)

Entrata e uscita del libro . . . B, 1585-90 (and 1 entry each

for 1593 and 1594, and 2 for 1614); concerns transactions of textile
business). Italy, 1585-1614.

Paper. 94 ff. (ff.24-72, 83-94 blank). 34 x 24 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 53
on spine, no. 34 and signet VA on front cover. — Cf. nos. 327 ff.

Ms. Lea 248 (Ital.)

VINCENZO DE MEDICI. Quaderno di possessione dell'anno
1595 [-6]. Italy, 1595-96.

Paper. 1, 62 ff. (ff.3, 12-4, 26-9, 44, 62-3 blank). 30 x 21 cm. Contemp.
vellum, no. 101 on spine, no. 239(?) on front cover.

Ms. Lea 249 (Ital.)

VINCENZO and ANDREA DE MEDICI. Giornale e ricordi B,
1597-1605. Italy, 1597-1605.

Paper. 352 ff. (ff.304-11, 323-52 blank). 34 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 55(?) on spine.

Ms. Lea 250 atal.)

. -. Entrata e uscita, 1597-1605, with summaries 1603-7, 1617 and

1621. [Giornale] D. Italy, 1597-1621.

Paper. 256 ff. (ff.238-56 blank). 35.5 x 25 cm. Contemp. vellum (no. on
spine unreadable).

Ms. Lea 251 atal.)

COSIMO II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. 9 documents relating to the
grain trade: 1. Habbiamo rivisto il conto h. Marcello Strozzi . . .
1595-1600. . . . Dalla gabeila delle farine, dated Florence, 1601

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(2 ff., 2nd blank). — 2. Relazioni . . . per conti rivisti . . . 1594-
1605. . . . Supplica Strozzi, 1605 (6 ff.). — 3. Li figlioli di Marcello
Strozzi . . . sono molestati dal proveditore delle farine, Florence, 1605
(2 ff., 2nd blank). — 4. Document concerning the same "figlioli," 1605
(2 ff., 2nd blank). — 5. Haviamo rivisto il conto del consumo della
casa . . . 1604-5. . . . Supplica, 1605 (1 f.). — 6. Supplica of Fran-
cesco Giraldi, 1606 (1 f.). — 7. Supplica of Giulio Franceschi to the
Grand Duchess, 1609 (2 ff.). — 8. Supplica of Giovanbattista Squarci,
undated (1 f.). — 9. Supplica referring to a letter of Jacopo Riccardi di
Pisa, to the Grand Duchess, 1610 (1 f.). Italy, 1601-10.

Paper. 18 ff. Ca. 30 x 21 cm. In portfolio.

Ms. Lea 252 atal.)

[MEDICI MINT]. Six documents, dated 1602, 1603, 1609, 1612 and
1635(?) addressed to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, "suUa zecca medicea,
contratti, approv-azioni," etc. Italy, 1602-35{?).

Paper. 1+6+2+4 + 1 + 1 fT. ( = 15 ff.). Ca. 30 x 22 cm. In portfolio.— Cf.
ms. Lea 211.

Ms. Lea 253 atal.)

VINCENZO DE MEDICI. Giornale e ricordanze, 1603-6. [Giornale]
B. Italy, 1603-6.

Paper. 142 ff. (last blank). 42 x 28 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 59 on spine,
no. 221 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 254 atal.)

[MEDICI?]. Riscontro di banchi, 1603-6. [Giornale] B. (Assigned to
"Carlo de Medici?" by previous owner; main firms mentioned are
Giovanbattista Medici and Vincenzo de Ricci, and Francesco and
Lorenzo Medici). Italy, 1603-6.

Paper. 1, 95 ff. (fT.41-95 blank). 29 x 20.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 54(?)
on spine.

Ms. Lea 255 atal.)

VINCENZO and ANDREA DE MEDICI. Libro di cambi, 1605-16.
[Giornale] C. Italy, 1605-16.

Paper. 257 (vero 256) fT. (fT.251-7 blank). 33 x 23.5 cm. Contemp. vellum
(rubbed and slightly broken, title and number unreadable).

Ms. Lea 256 atal.)

Ricordanze e tintore, 1605-26. (The "ricordanze" occupy the

first 4 ff. only and end with the year 1620). [Giornale] C. Italy, 1605-26.

Paper. 158 (vero 160) ff. (ff. 150-8 blank). 34 x 22 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 64(?) on spine, no. 29 on front cover. — Cf. nos. 327 ff.

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Ms. Lea 257 (Ital.)

Libro sig. C corregie verde si chiama portate, 1605-33.

[Giornale] C. Italy, 1605-33.

Paper. 576 ff. (ff.565-76 blank). 29 x 20.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 66(?)
on spine.

Ms. Lea 258 (\ta\.)

Giornale e ricordi C (in several sections: ff.lr-lllv, 1605-10;

112r-46v, 1605-12; 147r, 1620 [for 1610?]; 147r-98v, 1610-3; 190r-2r,
1612-6; 193r, 1633; 202r-24r, 1613-6; 224r-5r, 1614-24; 225v-6v,
1631; 229r-59r, 1616-29; 259v, 1632.— Large parts deal with the
Capponi-Medici branch in Pisa). Italy, 1605-33.

Paper. 273 (vero 272, irregularly numbered) ff. (ff. 194-201, 227-8, 260-73
blank). 33 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 67(?) on spine.

Ms. Lea 259 atal.)

VOLTERRA. Two letters from the "rappresentanti della citta di
Volterra" to Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, May-June, 1606.
(Concern the "gabella di sale"). Volterra, 1606.

Paper. 2 (second blank) +2 ff. 28.5 x 21 cm. In portfolio with ms. Lea 221.

Ms. Lea 260 (Ital.)

VINCENZO DE MEDICI. Memoriale - . . . per la zecca; negozi

dello depositario Medici, 1608-9. Italy, 1608-9.

Paper. 1, 87 ff. (misnumbered <and misbound> 1-11, 13-48, 56-9, 54-9,
59-87). 31 X 20 cm. Contemp. vellum.

Ms, Lea 261 Gtal.)

[MEDICI]. Riscontro con li banchi, 1609-11. [Giornale] D. (Among
the banking houses and large accounts are those of Francesco Medici;
Capponi Medici < Rome> ; Vincenzo Medici < Pisa?> ; Adovardo
Acciauoli; Francesco Salvetti; Bernardo Riccardi; from a slip laid in as
a suppl. to 1610 it appears that the following branches are involved:
Genoa, Milan, Florence, Venice, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Messina,
Lyons, Bologna and Ancona). Italy, 1609-11.

Paper. 1, 47 ff. (ff.32-47 blank). 29.5 x 20.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 259
on front cover.

Ms. Lea 262 atal.)

[ ]. Quaderno di cambi, 1609-11. [Giornale] D. (Transfers of

large amounts to [Medici branches] Capponi-Medici, Pisa, Rome,
Naples, etc.). Italy, 1609-11.

Paper. 32 ff. (ff.28-32 blank), ff.65-80 (ff.79-80 blank). Two signatures
(ff.33-64) removed? 42 x 27.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 154 on spine, no. 220
on front cover.

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Ms. Lea 263 atal.)

VINCENZO DE MEDICI. Giornale e ricordanze, 1609-11. [Giomale]
D. Italy, 7609-77.

Paper. 146 ff. 41.5 x 27.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 98(?) on spine, no. 264
on front cover.

Ms. Lea 264 atal.)

COSIMO II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. 4 documents relating to the
"monte di pieta," 1609-11 (one undated). Italy, 7609-77.

Paper. 1 + 1 + 1+2 ff. ( = 5 ff.). Ca. 31 x 21.5 cm. In portfolio.

Ms. Lea 265 (Ital.)

ANDREA DE MEDICI. Libro . . . intitulato intrata, uscita e
giornale . . . tenuto per mano de Domenico di Giovanni Mongali,
fattore del' Andrea de Medici alia sua possessione di Valdenievole,
1623-9. [Giornale] A. Italy, 7623-29.

Paper. 96 ff. (numbered ff.1-8, pp.9-58, 58-155, 1 blank p., pp.156-84).
34 X 23.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 106 on spine, no. 82 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 266 (Ital.)

[VALDENIEVOLE]. Giornale della fattoria di Valdenievole, 1626-9.
[Quaderno] C. Italy, 7626-29.

Paper. 288 pp. (pp. 167-8 omitted, p. 169 used twice). 34 x 24 cm. Contemp.
vellum, no. 76 on front cover, no. 107 on spine.

N.B.: End of first Medici series

Ms. Lea 267 atal.)

ALAMANNO DE MEDICI. Libro e chiamasi giornale [e ricordi],
1466-94. Italy, 7466[7465 on f.7r]-94.

Paper. 144 ff. (ff. 107-1 2, 126-44 blank); various slips in volume and 9 docs,
(incl. letters) in envelope. 34 x 11.5 cm. Vellum, no. 11 on spine and front cover.

Ms. Lea 268 (Ital.)

LUIGI DE MEDICI. Giornale . . . , spese minute . . . , debitori e
creditori . . . , entrate minute. . . . (Ff.1-8, 1495-7; f.lO, 1484;
ff.12-7, 1519-44; fr.69-72, 1496-7; f.77, 1496; ff.85-6, 1496-7).
[Giornale] B. Italy, 7495-7544.

Paper. 100 ff. (ff.18-68, 73-6, 78-84, 87-100 blank). 28.5 x 10.5 cm. Vellum,
no. 165 on strip attached to spine.

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Ms. Lea 269 (Ital.)

[FERNANDO?] ALAMANNI DE MEDICI. Libro di debitori e

creditori, 1521-34. Giornale A. Italy, 1521-34.

Paper. 1, 142 ff. (numbering somewhat irregular; fr.49-64, 101-19, 124-7,
X'il-Al blank). 28.5 x 11 cm. Vellum, no. 164 on slip attached to spine.

Ms. Lea 270 (Ital.)

LUIGI DI BIVIGLIANO DE MEDICI. Entrata e uscita, 1533-8.
[Giornale] A. Italy, 1533-38.

Paper. 1, 132 ff. (ff.14-49, 95-132 blank). 22 x 15.5 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 22 on spine.

Ms. Lea 271 atal.)

FRANCESCO DI DOMENICO DI NANNI [for (brother of) ALA-
MANNO DE MEDICI]. Conti e spesi per le piu di genere agricolo,
1535-44. (Ff.3v and 4r: "da Alamanno mio fratello;" f.86v: "Questo
libro si e di Francesco di Domenico di Nanni . . ."). Italy, 1535-44.

Paper. Ff. 14-86 (ff. 14-41 also numbered 1-28), 1 final f., blank except for
ownership inscription of Francesco di Domenico (several times repeated) and
figures of additions. 28 x 1 1 cm. Vellum.

Ms. Lea 272 (Ital.)

RICEVUTE di raccolti di grano, 1537-56 (w^ithout name of firm
responsible for the transactions; assigned to Alamanno de Medici or
Carlo de Medici by previous owner). Italy, 1537-56.

Paper. 50 ff. 28 x 11 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 165 on spine.

Ms. Lea 273 (Ital.)

[CARLO DE MEDICI?]. Ricordi e conti, 1535-6. (Assigned to Carlo
de Medici by previous owner. Among the names appearing are
Ottaviano de Medici; Carlo Condi; Carlo de Medici; Francesco
Rucellai; Agnolo Doni; Filipo Capponi). Italy, 1535-36.

Paper. 47 (vero 48) numb. ff.+48 blank ff. ( = 96 ff.) 33.5 x 11 cm. Vellum.

Ms. Lea 274 atal.)

[__ ]. Ricordi e conti, 1535-6. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by

previous owner. Among the names appearing are Francesco Rucellai;
Carlo, Ottaviano and Niccolo de Medici; Ludovico Alamanni; Federigo
de Ricci; Francesco Ettolino). Italy, 1535-36.

Paper. 96 ff. (ff.50-96 blank). 33.5 x 11.5 cm. Vellum, no. 164 on contemp.
slip pasted on spine.

Ms. Lea 275 (Ital.)

[ ]. Ricordi e conti, 1536-7. (Assigned to "Carlo de Medici?" by

previous owner. Among the names appearing are Carlo Rucellai;

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Pietro Salmati; Ottaviano, Tommaso and Niccolo de Medici; Marco
Mannelli). Italy, 1536-37.

Paper. 96 ff. (ff.36-96 blank). 34 x 11 cm. Vellum, no. 164 on contemp.
slip pasted to spine.

Ms. Lea 276 (Ital.)

[ ]. Ricordi, no. 9, 1537-8. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by

previous owner. Among the names appearing are Francesco Bandini;
Francesco Guicciardini; Ottaviano de Medici; Francesco Rucellai;
Alamanno de Medici; Filippo Gondi). Italy, 1537-38.

Paper. 96 ff. (ff.43-96 blank). 33 x 11.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 164 on
spine.

Ms. Lea 277 (Ital.)

[ ]. Ricordi, 11°, e conti, 1539. (Assigned to "Carlo de Medici?"

by previous owner. Among the names appearing are Ottomano Ala-
manno and Carlo de Medici; Jacopo della Fonte; Giuletto Francesco
and Girolamo Rucellai; Giovanbattista Bettini; Spedale di Santa Maria
Novella). Italy, 1539.

Paper. 96 ff. (ff.44-96 blank). 33 x 11 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 164 on spine.

Ms. Lea 278 (Ital.)

[ ]. Ricordi e conti, 1538-40. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by

previous owner. Among the names appearing are Francesco Mirandola;
lacopo Guicciardini; Gianfranco Baroncelli; Rafaello di Miniato;
Francesco Bandini; Giuletto Rucellai; Carlo di Fernando de Medici).
Italy, 1539-40.

Paper. 96 ff. (ff.46-96 blank). 33 x 11 cm. Vellum, no. 164 on contemp. slip
pasted to spine.

Ms. Lea 279 atal.)

[ ]. Ricordi e conti, 1540-1. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by

previous owner. Among the names appearing are Carlo de Medici;
Tommaso Martelli; Alamanno de Medici; Giulelmo Ubaldini; Tom-
maso Cavalcanti; lacopo Guicciardini; Francesco and Pandolfo
Rucellai). Italy, 1540-41.

Paper. 1, 47 (recto 48) numb. ff.+47 blank ff. ( = 96 ff.). 33.5 x 11 cm.
Vellum, no. 164 on contemp. slip attached to spine.

Ms. Lea 280 (Ital.)

[ ]. Ricordi e conti, 1541-2. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by

previous owner. Among the names appearing are Carlo de Medici;
Tommaso Cavalcanti; Francesco Rucellai; Bartolomeo Ugholini; Gio-

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vanni Boni; lacopo Guicciardini; Ricasoli di Firenze; Alamanno de
Medici; "monachi di San Lorenzo")- Italy, 1541-42.

Paper. 1, 95 flf. (ff.55-95 blank). 33.5 x 11 cm. Vellum, no. 164 on contemp.
slip pasted to spine (damaged).

Ms. Lea 281 atal.)

[ ]. Ricordi, 1542-3. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by previous

owner. Among the names appearing are, besides Carlo de Medici,
Jacopo Guicciardini; Francesco Rucellai; Carlo Acciauoli; Jacopo della
Fonte; Leonardo de Fornari; Alessandro Antinori). Italy, 1542-43.

Paper. 48 ff. (ff.44-8 blank). 33 x 11.5 cm. Vellum, no. 164 on contemp.
slip pasted to spine.

Ms. Lea 282 (Ital.)

[ ]. Ricordi, 1542-3. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by previous

owner. Among the names appearing are, besides Carlo de Medici,
Francesco and Giuletto Rucellai; Alessandro Antinori; Filippo Salviato;
lacopo Guicciardini; Filippo Gondi). Italy, 1542-43.

Paper. 96 ff. (ff.44-96 blank). 33.5 x 11.5 cm. Vellum, no. 164 on contemp.
slip pasted to spine.

Ms. Lea 283 (Ital.)

[ ]. Ricordi, 20", e conti, 1543-4. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by

previous owner. Among the names appearing are, besides Carlo de
Medici, Alessandro and Lorenzo Antinori; Francesco, Giovanni,
Giuletto and Mariotto Rucellai; Elbrardo di Ricasoli; Mainardo
Cavalcanti). Italy, 1543-44.

Paper. 96 ff. (ff.55-96 blank). 33.5 x 11.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 164
on spine, no. 281 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 284 atal.)

[ ]. Ricordi e conti, 1543-6. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by

previous owner. Among the names appearing are Simone Lotti;
Antonio Cavalcanti; Antonio Baldovinetti; Andrea Mannucci; Vin-
cenzo Ferrini; Francesco Lapi; la communita di Volterra, Bibiena,
etc.) Italy, 1543[1544onf.1r]-46.

Paper. 80 ff. (f.80 blank). 33 x 11.5 cm. Vellum, no. 164 on contemp. slip
pasted to spine (torn).

Ms. Lea 285 (Ital.)

[ .]. Ricordi XXII, 1544-5. (Assigned to Carlo de Medici by

previous owner. Among the names appearing are Francesco, Carlo and

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Agostino Medici; Francesco Ruccellai; Bernardo Buonaccorsi; Ber-
nardo Ricasoli; Bartolomeo Gondi). Italy, (1543)7544-45.

Paper. 48 fT. (ff.40-8 blank); 2 ff. "debitori 1544" laid in. 34 x 11.5 cm.
Contemp. vellum, no. 164 on spine.

Ms. Lea 286 dial.)

CARLO DE MEDICI. El conto; quaderno di possession!, 1546-70.
Italy, 1546-70.

Paper. 116 ff. (ff.39-76, 108-16 blank). 20.5 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 90 on spine.

Ms. Lea 287 (Ital.)

[CARLO DE MEDICI?]. Ricordi e conti, 1547-59. (Assigned to
"Carlo de Medici?" by previous owner. Among the names appearing
are Alessandro Antinori; Mariotto Rucellai; Pietro Vettori; Giovan-
battista and Giovanantonio Deti; Battista Sabatini; Alamanno de
Medici). Italy, 1547-59.

Paper. 70 ff. 33 x 11.5 cm. Vellum, no. 165 on spine.

Ms. Lea 288 atal.)

CARLO DE MEDICI. Quadernuccio terzo . . . , debitori e creditori,
1549-66. [Giornale] C. Italy, 1549-66{72).

Paper. 70 ff., 4 ff. additions (f.lr: 1570-2; lv-4v: 1556-70) and 1 folded
sheet laid in. 33 x 11.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 165 on spine.

Ms. Lea 289 atal.)

[CARLO DE MEDICI?]. Ricordi e conti, 1557-77. (Assigned to Carlo
de Medici by previous owner. Among the names appearing are
Giovanni and Bastiano Castelli; Piero Parrini; Giovanni Bertelli;
Matteo Brocchi; Niccodemo di Giotto). Italy, 1557-77.

Paper. 60 ff. (ff.43-56, 59-60 blank); 2 ff. additions, Nov. 1568, laid in.
33 x 11.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 165 on spine.

Ms. Lea 290 Gtal.)

FABRIZIO DE LUIGI DE MEDICI. Giornale e ricordanze, 1559-79.
Italy, 1559-79.

Paper. 192 ff. (ff.180-92 blank). 35 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum (leaf of 14th
cent. ms.).

Ms. Lea 291 (Ital.)

NICCOLO DE LUIGI DE MEDICI. Quadernuccio di entrata e
uscita di possessione . . . per mano di Fabrizio de Medici, 1567-72.
Italy, 1567-72.

Paper. 68 ff. (ff.30-43, 52-68 blank). 20 x 13.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 92
on spine and back cover.

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Ms. Lea 292 (Ital.)

TRESPIANO, Spedale di San Bartolomeo. Libro di debitori e creditor!
e ricordi del . . . rettore . . . Nicolo di Luigi de Medici, 1567-78,
1585-8. [Giornale] A. Italy, 1567-88.

Paper. 1, 96 ff. (vero 95 ff.; ff.49-60, 66-96 blank; foliation irregular; several
leaves inserted). 23 x 16.5 cm. Con temp, vellum, no. 15 on spine, no. 191 on
front cover.

Ms. Lea 293 atal.)

FABRIZIO DI LUIGI DE MEDICI. Quadernuccio di ricordi,
debitori e creditori, 1579-1612. [Giornale] C. Italy, 1579-1612.

Paper. 208 ff. (ff.201-8 blank). 34.5 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 19 on
spine, no. 89 on front cover; guards (front and back) early printed leaves, one
on vellum.

Ms. Lea 294 atal.)

[VINCENZO DE MEDICI?]. Libro di possessione. [Giornale] A. (In
several sections: ff.lv-2r, 1594-5; 2v-5v, 1634-7; 19v-49r, 1594-1633;
49v-64r, 1594-1636; 74v-80r, 1596-9; 80r-2r, 1634-7; 99v-155r,
1594-1636). Italy, 1594-1637.

Paper. 192 ff. (numbered somewhat irregularly; ff.6-18, 66-74, 84-99, 156-
92 blank). 25 x 18 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 100 on spine.

Ms. Lea 295 (Ital.)

VINCENZO and ANDREA DE MEDICI [cf. f.83r]. Quadernuccio di
creditori e debitori, ricordanze, 1595-1603. Italy, 1595-1603.

Paper. 97 IT. (vero 96, f 29 omitted in numbering; ff.87-97 blank; various
account calculations, notes, and one letter laid in). 34.5 x 12 cm. Vellum.

Ms. Lea 296 atal.)

QUADERNO DI SPESE, 1721-5. (Medici household? -Day by day
account of expenditures by Francesco Patavini, "spenditore"). [Gior-
nale] A. Italy, 1721-25.

Paper. 257 (vero 258) ff. (fT.245-50 blank). 40 x 13.5 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 154 on spine.

Ms. Lea 297 atal.)

QUADERNO DI SPESE, 1695-7. Spese di camagiari, verse, gabelle
e vetture. (Medici household? — Day by day account of expenditures by
Luca Mecocci, "spenditore"). Italy, 1695-1697.

Paper. 272 ff. (some blank). 42 x 13.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 56 on spine.

N.B.: End of second Medici series
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Ms. Lea 298 atal.)

BIVIGILIANO DE MEDICI. Quadernuccio di debitor! [e creditori],
1513-4. ("Domino M. Francesco Ac[c]olti . . ." on f.lr). Italy, 1513-14
{date 1534 on cover, in later hand, in error) .

Paper. 96 ff. 14 x 10.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 9 on spine.

Ms. Lea 299 atal.)

[CARLO DE MEDICI?]. Quadernuccio di creditori e debitori, 1530-5
(date 1525 on f.lr, in error? Assigned to Carlo de Medici by previous
owner). Italy, 1530-35.

Paper. 96 ff. 10.5 x 7 cm. Contemp. vellum (fragment of ms.).

Ms. Lea 300 atal.)

FRANCESCA DI BIVIGLIANO DE MEDICI. Libro . . . di
debitori e creditori, 1534-44, with Ricordi, 1555-62. [Giornale] A.

Italy, 1534-62.

Paper. 95, 16 ff. (f 59 and last 10 ff. blank). 16.5 x 11 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 26 on spine.

Ms. Lea 301 atal.)

LUIGI DI BIVIGLIANO DE MEDICI. Quadernuccio titolato
giornaletto . . . seguitarsi per Bivigliano suo padre per essere piaciuto
a dio tirarlo a se addi 11 di novembre 1538, 1538-41 (with alphabetical
index bound in at beginning). [Giornale] B [D?]. Italy, 1538-41.

Paper. 20, 192 ff. 16.5 x 11 cm. Contemp. vellum, nos. 9 and 6 on spine.

Ms. Lea 302 atal.)

BIVIGLIANO DI ALAMANNO DE MEDICI. Quaderno septimo
sul quale scrivera le facende accadute giornalmente, 1542-7. [Giornale]
H. Italy, 1542-47.

Paper. 20 ff. index (first and last blank; within fragment of 15th cent, ms.);
18 ff. (second index, mostly blank; within 14th cent. ms. fragment), 222 ff.
16.5 X 11 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 9 on spine, no. 50(?) on front cover.

N.B.: End of Medici series

Ms. Lea 303 atal.)

ANDREA DI LORENZO AMADORI. Libro di debitori e creditori.
-[Giornale] A (ff. 1-81). -Ricordi (ff.88-95), 1506-14. Italy, 1506-14.

Paper. 1, 95 ff. (ff.82-7 blank). 22.5 x 16.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 172
on spine.

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Ms. Lea 304 atal.)

ANDREA and LORENZO DI FRANCESCO AMADORI. Libro di
debitori e creditor!, 1515-48. [Giornale] A [?]. Italy, 1515-48.

Paper. 84 ff. (ff.50-9 blank). 27 x 19.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 175 on
spine.

Ms. Lea 305 atal.)

ANDREA DI LORENZO AMADORL Quadernuccio di debitori e
creditori, 1522-8. [Giornale] C. Italy, 1522-28.

Paper. 1, 87 ff. 21 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 173 on spine.

Ms. Lea 306 atal.)

Ricordi 1522-37; quadernuccio seg. b [B on front cover].

Italy, 1522-37.

Paper. 1, 77 ff. (f.76 blank). 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 191 on
back cover.

Ms. Lea 307 atal.)

Quadernuccio di debitori e creditori, 1528-37, [Giornale] D.

Italy, 1528-37.

Paper. l,95ff. 21x14 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 174 on spine.

Ms. Lea 308 atal.)

Oiiadprnurrin . . . di debitori e creditori, 1537-44. [Giornale]
E. (Letter to Piero Amadori laid in). Italy, 1537-44.

Paper. 2, 94 ff. 21 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum (using earlier doc), no. 197
on spine.

Ms. Lea 309 atal.)

Quadernuccio. . . .— Giornale e ricordi C, 1537-52. Italy,

1537-52.

Paper. 1, 95 ff. 21 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum (using earlier doc), no. 177
on spine.

Ms. Lea 310 (Ital.)

ANDREA and LORENZO DI FRANCESCO AMADORI. Libro di
debitori, creditori e ricordi, 1537-56. [Giornale] C. Italy, 1537-56.

Paper. 2, 149 ff., fr.151-95 (wrongly numb. 193; ff.161-95 blank); 2 f.
("Inst. . . ." concerning property of Antonio di Taddeo Datti [ = Dati,
Deti?, cf. nos. 327-31] of Florence, 1548, and 1 f. "conto" of Lionardo[?]
Santini, laid in). 28.5 x 21 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 176 on spine.

Ms. Lea 311 atal.)

BARTOLOMEO AMADORI. Libro de debitori, creditori e ricord-
anze, 1543-6. [Giornale] A. Italy, 1543-46.

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Paper. 192 ff. (f.99 omitted, f.l24 repeated, f.l92 blank). 29 x 21.5 cm.
Contemp. vellum, nos. 178 and 17 on spine.

Ms. Lea 312 (Ital.)

ANDREA AMADORI. Libro . . . sul quale si scrivera tutti li conti
[e ricordi] di Santo Stefano e della capella ... in Castelfranco . . . ,
1547 [cf. f.70v etc.]-52. [Giornale] A. Italy, 1547-52.

Paper. 1, 95 ff". (ff'.83-95 blank). 22 x 17 cm. Contemp. vellum (document of
1377?), no. 192 on spine.

Ms. Lea 313 (Ital.)

ANDREA DI LORENZO AMADORI. Giornale e riccordi D,
1552-66. Italy, 1552-66.

Paper. 1, 143 fT. (ff. 132-9 blank). 21 x 13 cm. Contemp. vellum, nos. 193
and 32 on spine.

Ms. Lea 314 (Ital.)

Quadernuccio . . . di debitor! e creditor!, 1556-66. [Giornale]

6 [G?]. Italy, 1556-66.

Paper. 2, 158 ff". (last blank). 20.5 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 181 on
spine.

Ms. Lea 315 (Ital.)

FRANCESCO DI ANDREA AMADORI. Quadernuccio ... in sul
quale si ferra conto di tutte quelle e quanto si spendera in acconcimi
del podere e nelle case di dello podere . . . dal Sig. Don Antonio
Montalvo . . . , 1566-72. Italy, 1566-72.

Paper. 1, 95 ff". (ff".74-8, 90-5 blank). 20.5 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum (docu-
ment of 1503), no. 201 on spine.

Ms. Lea 316 atal.)

NICCOLO and FRANCESCO AMADORI. Quadernuccio di debitori
e creditor!, 1585-93. [Giornale] A. Italy, 1585-93.

Paper. 140 ff". 33 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 184 on spine.

Ms. Lea 317 (Ital.)

[NICCOLO AMADORI?]. Quaderno di cambi, 1600-9. [Giornale] B.
(Previous owner concludes from slip addressed to Niccolo Amadori
<Piacenza>, that this is his account book. Among names appearing
are Vincenzo de Medici; Lorenzo Riccardi; Lorenzo and Vincenzo
Ricasoli; the Carrara and Strozzi). Italy, 1600-9.

Paper. 1, 127 ff. (ff".122-4, 127 blank). 34 x 23.5 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 153(?) on spine.

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Ms. Lea 318 (Ital.)

NICCOLO AMADORI. Scartafaccio de fiera di Niccolo Amadori
fatta d'Agosto in Piacenza 1608. Piacenza, 1608.

Paper. 72 ff. (ff.l7, 40-4, 47, 61-3 blank). 34 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum.

Ms. Lea 319 (Ital.)

[NICCOLO AMADORI?]. Quaderno di cambi, 1609-12. [Giornale]
C. (The assigning to N. A. is based on letters and documents addressed
to Amadori, found in this volume). Italy, 1609-12.

Paper. 1, 143 ff. (ff.30-79, 104-43 blank; 15 docs, in fol. and 11 small slips
in envelope laid in). 34.5 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 155 on spine.

J\f.B.: End of Amadori series

Ms. Lea 320 (Ital.)

DONATO ARRIGUCCI. Giornale e ricordanze, 1521-4. [Giornale]

G. Italy, 1521-24.

Paper. 1, 181 ff. (ff.69-129, 145-69, 173-81 blank). 28.5 x 21 cm. Contemp.
vellum (damaged), no. 218.2 on spine.

Ms. Lea 321 (Ital.)

ANDREA DI FILIPPO ARRIGUCCI (Heirs). Libro del lavoreria
della eredita d'Andrea di Filippo Arrigucci, 1528-45. Italy, 1528-45.

Paper. 144 ff. (ff.62-99, 123-44 blank). 28.5 x 21 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 207 on spine.

N.B.: End of Arrigucci series

Ms. Lea 322 atal.)

SIMONE GONDI. Administrazione di Simone Gondi delle cose di
Federigo Gondi, 1533-5. Italy, 1533-35.

Paper. 50 ff. (ff.5-7 <:blank?> missing, ff.4, 11-5, 39-50 blank). 28.5 x 21 cm.
Contemp. vellum (f. from 14th cent, ms.); title on front cover in a later hand
(no Sep. title page); no. 283 in upper left-hand corner; no. 127 on back cover.

Ms. Lea 323 (Ital.)

LORENZO DI MARIOTTO GONDI (and successors). Conto della
pigione che riscossi e fara pagare a frati di Santa Maria Novella. . . .
Inventario et ricordi (cont. by Antonio, Lorenzo's brother. In several
sections: prel. f. and ff.lr-4r, 1542-53; 4r-16v, 1559-86; 20v-71r,
1542-1618; 80r-90v, 1556-1617). [Giornale] 1542 A. no. 1. Italy,
1542-1618.

Paper. 1, 95 ff. (ff.17-8, 72-9, 91-5 blank). 20 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum,
marked "N°4 Libro per conto della casetta . . . Filippe Gondi . . . Lorenzo
Gondi . . . ;" no. 77 on spine.

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Ms. Lea 324 (Ital.)

ANTONIO FRANCESCO DI LORENZO CONDI. Libro di posses-
sione, 1558.— Ricordi, 1558-60. [Giornale] A. Italy, 1558-60.

Paper. 1, 127 ff. (ff. 107-11, 123-7 blank). 23 x 17 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. I on spine; "1558, B. no. I" on lower left corner of front cover.

Ms. Lea 325 atal.)

GIULIANO CONDI. Libro di spese di casa ed altre, 1608-22.
[Ciornale] A. Italy, 1608-22.

Paper. 126 (vero 124) ff. 35 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 278 on spine.

Ms. Lea 326 atal.)

LODOVICO DI MARIOTTO CONDI. Spese giornali di vitto del
anno 1664[-8]. (A final section lists payments for services). Italy,
1664-68.

Paper. 96 ff. 32 x 11 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 31 on spine.

N.B.: End of Gondi series

Ms. Lea 327 atal.)

CIOVANBATTISTA and CIOVANMARIA DETI ( = Dati, Dedi,
Detti?). Quadernuccio, 1547-55. [Ciornale] A. (With long list of
Cristofano Cibioni's "panni," and their prices, fF. 183-21 6, 1548-53).
Italy, 1547-55.

Paper, first and last f., vellum. 1, 182 (vero 184) numb., 24 unnumb. ff.
(last 10 blank), 1 f. 33 x 22.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 228 on spine, no. 166
and signet D on front cover.

Ms. Lea 328 atal.)

Libro di entrata e uscita e quaderno di cassa, 1551-3. [Cior-
nale] A. Italy, 1551-53.

Paper. 48 ff. (ff.5-19, 40-8 blank). 33.5 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 221
on spine, 181 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 329 atal.)

[Dedi on cover in later hand]. Quadernuccio, 1553-61.

[Ciornale] B. Italy, 1553-61.

Paper, first and last f., vellum. 1, 240 fT. (fT.204-17, 232-40 blank), 1 f.
33.5 X 23.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 229 on spine, no. 163 and signet D on
front cover. With extensive listings of woolen goods, with prices, salaries, etc.
Cf. also no. 346.

Ms. Lea 330 (Ital.)

and CAMILLO DI CARLO DE MEDICI. Quadernuccio

signato, 1559-66. Italy, 1559-66.

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Paper. 351 (vero 352) ff. 28 x 21 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 114 on spine,
no. 186 and signet D on front cover; 13th cent. ms. fragment used as guards.
With lists of woolens, serge, etc., with prices.

Ms. Lea 331 (Ital.)

Libro di entrata e uscita, 1565-8. [Giornale] C. (The accounts

were entered by Girolamo di Domenico Vanni). Italy, 1565-68.

Paper. 96 ff. (fr.24-83, 90-6 blank). 33 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 227
on spine, no. 171 and signet D on front cover.

Ms. Lea 332 atal.)

FRANCESCO DI STEFANO RISALITI. Quaderno di manifattori,
1550-8. [Giornale] A. (This textile manufacturing enterprise may be
identical with the firm Deti, since it uses the same mark, D in a triangle.
Italy, 1550-58.

Paper, first f., vellum. 2, 158 (slightly misnumbered) ff. (ff.152-8 blank).
33 X 23.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 250 on spine, no. 67 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 333 atal.)

Libro di debitori e creditori, 1550-60. Italy, 1550-60.

Paper. 110 ff. (ff. 100-10 blank). 33.5 x 23 cm. Vellum.

Ms. Lea 334 (Ital.)

Quaderno di cassa de la tinta, 1554-65. [Giornale] C. Italy,

1554-65.

Paper. 84 (vero 83) ff. (followed by blank ff.) 33 x 11 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 254 on spine.

Ms. Lea 335 (Ital.)

Libro di debitori e creditori, 1559-66. [Giornale] C. Italy,

1559-66.

Paper. 1, 192 ff. (ff.116-92 blank), 1 f. (13th cent. ms. on vellum) used as end
guard. 33 x 23 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 257 on spine, no. 68 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 336 atal.)

LODOVICO CASSO [or Cassi, Casto?]. Quaderno di cassa, 1616-21.

[Giornale] A. Italy, 1616-21.

Paper. 1, 94 ff. (ff.58-94 blank; some errors in numbering). 37.5 x 25 cm.
Contemp. vellum, no. 233 on spine, no. 99 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 337 atal.)

Libro di ricordanze e tintori, 1616-21. [Giornale] A. Italy,

1616-21.

Paper. 95 (vero 96) ff. (ff.3-25, 69-95 blank), some corrections on separate
slips laid in. Contemp. vellum, no. 108 on front cover.

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Ms. Lea 338 (Ital.)

Compere (account of textile business transactions), 1621-5.

[Giornale] B. Italy, 1621-25.

Paper. 96 ff. (ff.43-96 blank). 33.5 x 22.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 244 on
spine, no. 3 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 339 Gtal.)

Entrata e uscita del taglio, 1621-37, with additions 1640-4,

1648, 1651-2. [Giornale] B. Italy, 1621-52.

Paper. 336 ff. (ff.202-88, 315-36 blank). 35 x 25 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 236(?) on spine.

N.B.: End of textile trade section

Ms. Lea 340 (Ital.)

BERNARDO [?] MUGNAIO. Libro di ricordi, 1461-6, 1498. Italy,
1461-98.

Paper. 87 ff. (ff.8-16, 18-30, 32-75, 77-9, 81-5 blank). 14 x 11 cm. Contemp.
vellum; no. 169, and names of Alessandra Pandolfini and Meglio Vedovadi in a
later hand, on front cover.

Ms. Lea 341 Gtal.)

BARTOLOMEO DI STEFANO gia Spedalingo. Ricordanze.-Spese
di Trespiano, 1514-22. [Giornale] A. Italy, 1514-22.

Paper. 1, 94 ff. (ff.55-73, 85-93 blank, f.87 torn out). 21 x 14 cm. Contemp.
vellum, no. 127 on spine.

Ms. Lea 342 (Ital.)

TOMMASO RIDOLFI. Giornale, x". A. (Ff.1-41, 1522-49; ff.65-72,
1528; ff.89-92, 1526-9). Italy, 1522-49.

Paper. 95 ff. (ff.42-64, 73-88, 93-5 blank). 29 x 21.5 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 129 on spine, "Giornale A, n°. 190" on front cover.

Ms. Lea 343 (Ital.)

GUGLIELMO PEGCORI. Libro di debitori e creditori, 1523-5, 1528,
1531, 1535, 1543, 1556-7. Italy, 1523-57.

Paper. 1, 95 ff. (ff.51-63, 67-95 blank). 28.5 x 21.5 cm. Contemp. vellum,
no. 264 on spine.

Ms. Lea 344 (Ital.)

PARRINO and MARCO SECRANI [or Seccrani]. [Libro de conti?],
1543-9 (with monthly summaries, 1545-56 on ff.42v-6r and recto of
back cover). Italy, 1543-56.

Paper. 46 ff. 29 x 10.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no. 165 on spine.

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Ms. Lea 345 atal.)

PIERANTONIO GUASCONI. Libro proprio di debitor! e creditor!
d'agosto 1544 [-maggio 1549; 1552-7]. Italy, 1544-57.

Paper. 133 numb. fF. (ff.96 and 129 missing?), followed by unnumb. f.l34
and 5 blank ff. 28 x 21.5 cm. Contemp. vellum.

Ms. Lea 346 (Ital.)

GIOVANBATTISTA and GIOVANMARIA DETI. Quadernuccio di
chassa, 1553-8. Italy, 1553-58.

Paper. 99 ff. (ff.75-7 omitted), 64 blank ff. (last ff. damaged). 28 x 11 cm.
Vellum, no. 165 on contemp. slip attached to spine. — Cf. nos. 327-31.

Ms. Lea 347 Gtal.)

FRANCESCO DAVANZATI [?, cf. inside front cover; "Francesco
di P. Casa di Medici" on f.lr]. Libro di entrata e uscita, 1555-9. (The
date 1563 on front cover, in a later hand, appears to be a misreading).
[Giornale] A. Italy, 1555-59.

Paper. 159 (vero 160) ff. (f.l21 = 2 ff.; ff.87-120 blank). 33 x 22.5 cm.
Contemp. vellum, no. 147 on spine, no. 223 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 348 atal.)

VINCENZO CRISTOFANO. Libro de debitori e creditori, 1555-60.
[Giornale] A. (Date 1501-1513, in later hand, in error). Italy, 1555-60.

Paper. 179 (wrongly numb. 181), 1, 16 blank ff. ( = 196 ff.). 33 x 23 cm.
Contemp. vellum, no. 128 on spine, no. 254 on front cover.

Ms. Lea 349 atal.)

ALAMANNO DI GIOVANBATTISTA GIRALDI. Quaderno di
ricordi e cambi, 1563-5. (Contents: "Da 1 a 15, rimesse che verranno
di fuora; 15 a 30, tratte che mi saran fatte; 30 a 70, ti'atte e rimesse che
si faranno; 70 a 90, copia di lettere di formenti; 90 a 130, debitori e
creditori . . . ; 130 alia fine, diversi ricordi . . ."). [Giornale] C.
Italy, 1563-65.

Paper. 1, 144 (partly misnumbered) ff. (ff.7-14, 28-9, 58-68, 85-9, 91-129,
135—44 blank). 35 x 24.5 cm. Contemp. vellum, no 15(?) on spine.

Ms. Lea 350 atal.)

COSIMO GIONI (Cosimo di . . . [undeciphered] Gioni e Cramasi).
Libro di debitori e creditori, 1568-81. Italy, 1568-81.

Paper. 96 ff. 21 x 14 cm. Contemp. vellum (front cover defective), no. 266
on spine.

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Ms. Lea 351 (Ital.)

GIORNALE A. (Among the many names are Nicolo Marmelli
<f.lr>; Nicolaio di Lorenzo Morelli <ff.9r, 15r, etc.> ; Boz[z]olini
<f.24v>; Federigo de Ricci <f.46r>); consists of several sections:
fr.lr-7v, 1569-70; 9r-llr, idem; 15r-32r, 1570-8; 32v-8r, 1584-95;
41v-51r, 1576-92; 53r-4r, 1569-74; 54v-7v, 1593-6; 59v-77r, 1655-8;
88v-91v, 1655; 92r-4v, 1577-8; 94v-6v, 1656). Italy, 1569-1658.

Paper. 96 ff. (ff.12-4, 23, 39-40, 52, 78-87 blank). 16.5 x 11.5 cm. Contemp.
vellum.

Ms. Lea 352 atal.)

NICOLO GALIOTTL Quaderno della ricolta di casse, 1583 [-4] di
M. Vincenzo de Medici e fratelli di tutti i loro lavatori al tempo di me
Nicolo Galiotti da Pescia, fattore di detti . . . Italy, 1583-84.

Paper. 67 ff. (+2 ff. inserted between ff.42-3). 28.5 x 22 cm. Contemp.
vellum (document relating to Matteo Galiotti <1545> on inside), no. 97 on
spine. — Cf. nos. 294, etc.

Ms. Lea 353 (Ital.)

[SLAVERY]. Five documents dealing with the slave trade: 1. Nota di
60 schiavi . . . dalla galera pisana . . . , viaggio di Spagna, 20
March 1602, 2ff. — 2. Nota di 151 [161?] schiavi, e schiave, ragalzi, e
ragalze, consignati al sereno Giuliano Sirigatti per condurre a vendere
in Spagna, et al Signore Arrigo Arrighi, 13 October 1610, 6ff. — 3. Nota
di 21 schiavetti di Bona che sono in Pisa, n.d., 2ff.— 4. Ruolo di schiavi
che si ritrovano nell'arsenale di Pisa . . . descritti dall'ill'"°. Sig.
Amiraglio Inghirami . . . , n.d., 6 ff. — 5. Nota di n°. 87 schiavi ... a
vendere ... a Napoli, Messina, e Palermo, fatti imbarcare . . . su
galere di S.A.S. dall'illmo. Sig^ Geronimo Serloni [?], n.d., 7 ff. Italy,
early 17th cent.

Paper. 23 ff. Ca. 30 x 22 cm. Each doc. in boards.— Cf. no. 210.

Ms. Lea 354 fltal.)

VINCENZO QUARATESI. Calculo e saldo della ragione d'arte de
lana cantante in Vincenzio Quaratesi ... in Firenze (and Jacopo
Quaratesi, Andrea de Medici and Lorenzo Bamberini; notarized by
Tullio Signorini). Florence, 1628.

Paper. 8 ff. (last blank). 28 x 20.5 cm. Boards.— Cf. nos. 327 ff.

Ms. Lea 355 atal.)

[EMBASSY TO THE CURIA]. Spese fatte li serenissimi Fabbio
Guinigi, Bartolomeo Frangioni, Raffaelo Mansi, ambasciatori a Roma
a Papa Clemente IX. Rome?, 1669.

Paper. 2 blank, 65 ff. 34.5 x 24 cm. Contemp. vellum.

N.B.: End of Medici-Gondi collection
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Ms. Lea 356 (Ital.)

[PAUL V, Pope]. Varie opere et compositioni fatte da diversi theologi,
legisti, et altri, in occasione, & per causa delP interdetto, & censure
publicato della Santita . . . contra la Republica, & signori di Venezia.
1. COMMINATORIAdeH'interdetto . . . tradotta dalla linga latina
nella volgare, fF.lr-9v. — 2. RUDOLF II, emperor. Lettera di S.
Maiesta Christianissima scritta al suo ambasciatore ... in Roma
. . . per causa delli decreti . . . contra la liberta ecclesiastica, ff.llr-
18r. — 3. DISCORSO delle cose concernenti le differenze tra H.S. Papa
Paulo V et li signori venetiani, ff.l9r-26r.— 4. SENTENZA d'un
clarissimo senator veneto . . . nel Consiglio de pregati, ff.27r-37r. —
5. GENOA. Lettura scritta dalla Republica di Geneva a quella di
Venetia, ff.39r-42\\ (All other tracts are printed.) Italy, ca. 1606-7.

Paper. 7ff. (title and contents of 5-vol. collection), 42 ff. (ms.) 20.5 x 14.5
cm. Contemp. vellum. — Prov.: Dr. Joseph Schweizer. — Shelved as 16.1.

Ms. Lea 358 (Fr.)

SIMON MORIN. Declaration de Morin depuis peu delivre de la
Bastille, sur la revocation de ses pensees, donnez au public par les
mauvais souffles, empoisonnemens et enchanteries que les demons lui
avoient donne pour tromper les hommes, sous pretexte de religion.
Nouvellement desabuse par Monsieur I'Abbe de Lorette de Mont-
morancy, sur le sujet de son livre intitule Les pensees de Morin . . .
Paris, Claude Morloz, 1649. Ms. copy of printed book.— With a second
"Declaration," 1649 [also originally published in 1649], Proces verbal
. . . 1663, and L' Errata des quatrains. Paris, 18th cent, {post 1725).

Paper. 24 ff. (ff. 13-24 blank). 16 x 10.5 cm. 18th-Cent. armorial morocco.—
Prov.: M. Woodhull, 1795 (purchased at "Christie's auction"); Henry C.
Lea. — Bound with Morin's Pensees, 1647, and Arret de la Com de Parlement, 1663.
Shelved asj.4.29.

Ms. Lea 359 atal.)

FRANCESCO MARIA II, Duke of Urbino. Vita di Francesco Maria
2° della Rovere, sesto . . . duca d' Urbino, divisa in due parti, la
prima da lui medesimo con titolo di Sommario della sua vita [also
titled Compendio], la 2"* da Antonio Donato . . . con titolo di Devolu-
tione alia santa chiesa degli stati d'Urbino [alia sede apostolica; with
"Breve del Papa al Duca" and "Patente del Duca"]. Urbino, ca. 1630.

Paper. 62 ff. (ff.l, 61-2 blank). 27 x 19 cm. Contemp. vellum with the arms
of Pope Urban VIII. Presentation copy to the Pope? Printed from a different
ms. in Nuova raccolta di opuscoli scientifici e letterari (Venice, 1774), v. XXIX.

Ms. Lea 360 atal.)

COLLECTANEA opusculorum eruditorum et historicorum, in Italian
and Latin. \. [ORATIO] AD CAROLUM V . . . post victoriam

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bello germanico partam . . . , ff.1-13.— 2. VINCENZO CORO-
NELLI. Rifflessioni . . . sopra il Danubio, flF. 14-32 (incl. engr. por-
trait of Charles VI, etched dedication, 2 folded ms. maps and double-
page illus. of embankment). — 3. SOMMARIO delle vere croniche di
Venetia, ff.35-49, (ms. dated 24 Aug. 1563). — 3A. [Section not listed in
contents at beginning of vol.] Poems, some apparently autograph, incl.
one dedicated to Pope Paul V, a "Canzon al ser. principe de Venetia"
(dated 1606), ff.49-56.-4. RELATIONE di stato de Milano del ano
1589, ff.57-71. — 5. CARMINA AMALTHEORUM, beginning with
"Maximiliano II, imperatori," and incl. "Serenissimi Principis Memmi
creatio" (in a different hand), "Carmen contra Hispanos," "In
vaccanza della sede apostoUca per la morte di Clemente VIII, sonetto
da Bastone," etc., ff.73-81. — 5A. Miscellaneous items, incl. "Modo
gentile per tinger di color rosso li vasi da Naranzeni," and various
poems, e.g. one dedicated to Card. Borromeo, to Pope Pius V, Cornelio
Frangipano, and several dealing with Venetian affairs, ff.83-103. — 6.
TORNEO di cento dame genovesi, ff. 104-8.— 7. MANIFESTO per la
Republica di Venezia in materia d'lscochi, ff.111-4. — 8. MANI-
FESTA, il re . . . le regione dell'armi sue incaminate nel Regno di
NapoU, fr.ll7-8.-9. OTTAVIO LAVELLI. Copy of letter to Card.
Valiero, 1623, fr.118-9.— 9A. MONITORIUM [jocular exhortation
for a person named Longerioni], f.l20. — 9B. LOUIS XIV, King of
France. Copy of letter, 1657, f.l21.-10. VIAGGIO di Edoardo, duca
di Parma, a Fiorenza, 11.123-4.-11. GIUSEPPE MORESINO. Copia
di lettera [al] serenissimo prencipe [no name of addressee, or place],
Galleazza dal MogUetto . . . 1656, f. 125. — 12. [Procuratore FOS-
COLO]. Officio del proc. Foscolo detto capitan general per la guerra
di Candia, ff. 126-8 (with poems on the victory of Venetians, 1655, by
Giovanni Antonio Ceruti; naval victory over the Turks, 1656, by
Lorenzo Marcello, etc.) — 13. UFFICIO fatto dal Marchese Villa . . .
1668, ff. 129-30. — 14. OFFICIO di Monsignor Aivoldi, nuncio apos-
tolico in Venetia, 1675, and Narrativa della morte del Doge Nicolo
Sagredo . . • , 1676, fr.131-2. — 14A. Sopra il chiainar li banditi per la
guerra di Candia contro '1 Turco, and other poems, flF. 133-5. — 15.
BERNARDUS SYLVESTER. . . . De cura et regimine rei familiaris,
ideo in hoc apposita volumine, quod nonnulli eam a Sancto Bernardo
esse compositam, ff. 137-8. — 16. INQUISITIO pro rebus magicalibus,
flr.140-3. — 17. RIME VARIE del secolo XVII, incl. Livius de Comiti-
bus, "Carmen exile" for Venetian anatomists Florio de Bernardis and
Antonio Molinetto (1649); "Sopra I'intrepidezza dell'avocato Am-
brosio Bellato" (1667); "Per il sacco di Mantova del 1630"; Leonardo
Querini, "Volge le spalle al mondo," etc., flr.144-52.-18. POCCO-
BELLI. Oratio funebris ... in collegio d.d. physicorum Venetiarum
. . . 1660, flf. 153-5. — 19. [ORATIO] Venetiis in aedibus . . . frat-

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rum praedicatorum, 1674, ff.157-9. — 20. DESCRITTIONE del rino-
ceronte da Bergamo, ff.l60-l.-21. ANTONIO STILLIO. Para-
phrases in septem sectiones Aphorismorum [et in libros Prognasticorum]
Hippocratis, ff.l62-5.-22. DISCORSO academico, ff.166-8.— 23.
GASPARO MARINO. Decreto di Zaccaria Valier[o], 1709, ff.l69-
70.— 23A. CORRISPONDENZA delle monete, 1736, fr.l71-4.-24.
ZACCARIA BONDUMIEVO. Revisione de conti [Venetian terri-
tories], 1626-9, ff.175-81.— 24A. Copy of contracts concerning "capi-
tulum sanctorum apostolorum," Venice, 1550-81, ff. 182-9. — 25.
BELLA CONGIURA di Bagiamonte Tiepolo ex libris . . . Petri
Pradenico, [1310], ff.190-215. Italy, 16th-18th cent.

Paper. 215 ff. (a few blank). Various sizes (in vol. measuring 33.5 x 22 cm.)
18th-cent. vellum. — Prov.: Walter Sneyd.

Ms. Lea 361 (Ital.)

LA TROMBA SACRA overo invito a signori prencipi christiani a
collegarsi contro el Turco. Italy, 77th cent.

Paper. Title page, 58 pp. (pp. 1-2, 55-8 blank). 27 x 20 cm. Contemp.
paper covers in 19th-cent. boards. Old shelf marks pasted on paper cover;
ex bibliotheca Colonna; Phillipps ms. 6389.

Ms. Lea 362 (Ital.)

HISTORICAL MISCELLANY. 1. IL DRITTO della S. Sede
apostolica sopra il Regno di Napoli, pp. 1-15. — 2. DICHIARAZIONE
deir investhura del Regno di Napoli . . . , pp. 15-1 22. — 3. PROFE-
ZIE del pazzo di Cristo, pp.l22-8.-4. BENEDICT XIII, Pope.
Lettera . . . all'imperatore [Charles VI], pp. 129-30. — 5. TITO-
LARIO posto nelle patenti date dal Duca di Monte Mileto . . . [and]
RENDITE del Duca, pp.l31-4.-6. MEMORIALE date dal S. Coll.
de'cardinali a Papa Benedetto XIII contro la promozione di Mon.
Bichi, nunzio in Portogallo, pp.1 34-8.-7. ELOGIO del Card. Anni-
bale Albani, pp. 138-40. — 8. ECO des montagnes des environs d'Em-
brun, pp. 141-2. — 9. VATICINIA data Sigismundo ... a quodam
Arabo, pp.l43-54.-10. MICHAEL NOSTRODAMUS. Vaticinia,
pp.154-63. — 11. VATICINIUM de religione patrum Soc. Jesu
(Sanctae [H]Ildegardis), pp.l64-7.-12. S. MALACHIA. Vaticinia,
pp.168-71.-13. S.JOANNES A CAPISTRANO. Vaticinia, pp.172-6.
— 14. CARD. FINI. Iscrizione sotto la statua di S. Domenico, pp. 177-
8.-15. Ven. BEDE. Vaticinium, p. 179. -16. DIALOGO fra il con-
fessore del imperatore et un gesuita, pp. 180-94. — 17. RISTRETTO
della vita del Card. Giuseppe Renato, pp.1 95-203. — 18. MANIFESTO
del re di Sardegna [1714?], pp.203-14.-19. DICHIARAZIONE agli
elettori, ed ai principi del S.R.I., pp.214-6.— 20. MOTIVI delle
risoluzioni del re christ. [Louis XIV], pp. 216-30 with COPIA della

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dichiarazione, 1733 (p.230); DICHIARAZIONE dell'imperatore
[Charles VI], (p. 231); COPIA declaradonis imperatoris (p. 233);
LETTERA del re al primate, 1733 (p.236); DICHIARAZIONE agli
elettori (p. 238). — 21. POTOSKI. Manifesto del primate di Polonia,
1733, pp. 24-52.— 22. NOTITIA delle ragioni che amio obligato la
maiesta cattolica a mover guerra all'imperatore data . . . al suo
ambasc. in Londra, pp.253-63.-23. OSSERVAZIONE dell' impera-
tore sopra i motivi delle risoluzioni del re di Francia, pp. 264-83. — 24.
TESTAMENTO di Mantova, pp.283-8.-25. RISTRETTO dell'atto
di confederazione fatto nella dieta di convocazione ... 12 maggio
1733, pp.289-91. -26-45. [WAR OF POLISH SUCCESSION, 1733-
5]. 21 further documents and "relazioni" dealing with the claims of
Stanislas Leszczynski and Frederick August of Saxony, pp. 291-457. —
46. INSINUAZIONE fatta al Conte Filippi dal maestro di ceremonie
del re di Sardegna, p. 458. — 47. RISPOSTA alia scrittura intitolata
Memoria per I'ambasciator del re cattolico alia corte della Gran
Bretagna, pp.459-509.— 48. PHILIP V. Lettera del re di Spagna
all'infante D. Carlo, pp.510-5.-49. PIETRO METASTASIO. Lettera
al marito della Romanina, pp. 515-9. — 50. IDEM. Lettera a suo
fratello, pp.519-21.-51. MASCHERATA de' principi dell'Europa,
pp.521-4.-52. PROFEZIA di S. Brigita, pp.524-5.-53. PROFETIA
ex loanne Luxembourg, pp.525-6. — 54. CHARLES VI. Lettere . . .
al Papa [Clement XII], 1736, pp.526-30.-55. SIXTUS V, Pope.
Bulla de non coronandis regibus haereticis, pp. 539-50.— 56. DE
LANGOBARDORUM ORIGINE . . . compendiosa narratio ed. ab
Angelo Breventano . . . et denuo in lucem edita a Petro Stephanonio,
pp. 5 5 5-7 9. Italy?, 18th cent.

Paper. 585 pp. (wrongly numb. 577). 19 x 13 cm. Contemp. vellum. —
Morbio Collection.

Ms. Lea 363 (Lat.)

ELECTIONE dell'notaro [Giovanni] Aldini. (Diploma issued by the
prior of the Collegium judicum et advocatorum, Dionysius Fontanesius,
9 Nov. 1685, and notarized by Ludovicus Jacobus Pubius). Reggio, 1685.

Vellum. 1 f. (folded). 40 x 50 cm. lUus. border on margins, notarial signet.
In folder.

Ms. Lea 364 (Ital.)

FRIGNANO. Legal documents and ms. additions to Statuta, constitu-
tiones ac deer eta ducalis provinciae Friniani, printed in Reggio, H. Bartholus,
-1587. Frignano, 1547-1602.

Paper. 7 ff., following printed text. 30 x 20 cm. H/morocco, shelved with
printed volume.

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Ms. Lea 365 (Lat.)

SETTE COMUNI [Asiago, Enego, Foza, Gallio, Lusiana, Roano and
Rotzo]. Liber privilegiorum septem comunium montanearum Agri
Vicentini ut patet. . . . (Includes statutes from 1339 to 1568, with
some additions to 1657). Exemplatus fuit per me presb. Bartholomeum
de Velo Luxiane, notario eccl. St. Jacobi. Italy, 1568-1657.

Paper. 94, 25 (blank) ff. 21 x 15 cm. Contemp. calf. — Cf. Fontana, op. cit.,
Ill, 112-113, who does not record any statuta earlier than the printed ed. of
1620.

Ms. Lea 366 (Lat.)

CLEMENT VII, Pope. Document addressed to Nicolas, cardinal
deacon of SS. Vitus and Modestus, appointing him administrator of the
church of Viterbo on the death of its bishop. Signed L. de Torres.
Rome, 16 Dec. 1532.

Vellum. 1 f. (folded). 53 x 68 cm. In folder.

Ms. Lea 367 (Fr.)

CHARLES VII, King of France. Letter to his councillors and treas-
urers respecting the territories of the late Amaury de Serrac, which
had been held illegally by Jean d'Armagnac, but which henceforth
were to be united with the royal domain. Given at Razilly, 26 Aug.
1446. — With Letter of the treasurers to the seneschal of Rovergue
instructing him to carry out the king's wishes, dated 18 Jun. 1446
(1447). France, 1446-1447.

Vellum. 2 ff. 20 X 39 and 9 x 36.5 cm. In folder. — Prov.: Archives de I'Ordre
de Malthe.

Ms. Lea 368 (Fr.)

LIVRE DES TROIS IMPOSTEURS avec son histoire ou la reponse
a la dissertation de Mr. de la Monnoye sur ce traite . . . imprimee a
la Haye . . . 1716 et dans J. G. Krause. . . . On y a ajoute Le
jugement de Mr. de la Croze . . . et aussi une collection de quelques
autheurs, qui ont ecrit sur ce traite. Germany.'^, 18th cent.

Paper. 40 ff. (last blank). 19.5 x 16.5 cm. Contemp. calf. — Prov.: F. F. Pappe;
Henry C. Lea. — "Auctores, qui de famoso hoc libello . . . conferendi sunt,"
f.2r-3r, lists 73 references.

Ms. Lea 369 (Ital.)

VINCENZO DE MEDICI. Supplica to the Grand Duke of Tuscany,
Cosimo II, relating to the recovery of credits from Philip III, King of
Spain, by Capt. Romena. Each section with notations by chancellor
Belisario Vinta. At end his remark "tutto sta bene . . ." and sign, of
the Grand Duke. Italy, 1611.

Paper. 2 ff. 30.5 x 21.5 cm. In folder.— Cf. nos. 243 et al.

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Ms. Lea 370 atal.)

ANTONIO BOCCANEGRA. Letter to Scipione del Carretto, promis-
ing support, and referring to a letter Boccanegra had written to
Giovanni Andrea Costa of the podesta of Alassio. Genoa, August, 1580.

Paper. 2 ff. 28 x 21 cm. In folder.

Ms. Lea 371 (Sp.)

ANDREW THORNDIKE COLLECTION of inquisition and other
documents, in eight boxes: 1. Inquisition trials, Barcelona, of Egidius
Taris (1532); Joaquin Ballel (1542-3); Johannes Requesenus (1598);
Anthonio Morell (1649); Miguel Salbany (1662); Margarita Altamira
(1681-2); and Relacion espontanea of Fr. Gabriel de Jesu Maria de
Cataluna, ord. Carm. (1646). — 2. Trials in various places of Antonio
Pina (1684); Esteban Ramoneda (1690-1700); Antonio Vives (1596-
7); Ignazio . . . (1698); Estebanillo F. (1698-1700); Josef Boxeda
(1704); Thomas Itagre (1715-6); Esteban . . . (1716); N. Serra
(1721-8). — 3. Trials in various places of Felix Duarde de Andrade
(1725); Fr. JuanT., ord. Aug. (1741); Maria Ombrera (1744); Matheo
Monfort (1745); Pablo Planas (1747); Jayme Sans (1749); Ramon
Closa (1749-51); Maria Angela T. (1751); undeciphered (1751);
Antonio Adorno (1756); Agostin Tamarit (1757); Juan Goveru (1761);
and 16 other legal documents, incl. one concerning the "guardias
Walonas" and another the "Universidad de Cervera." — 4. 50 miscel-
laneous items, incl. Sale of Jesuit property (1770); Repuesta del Ex°.
S"'. Conde de Florida Blanca, controversy over the sound "Noot"
(1790); Augustin de la Florida, capture of a brigantine, Charlestown
(1793); two fragments of account books (1556 and 1559-63); Extract
from "Venditionum primum regis Martinis de anno 1398 ad 1409"
(sale of property in 1401 to Guillermus de Rocabertino, copied in 1769),
etc. — 5. 65 miscellaneous documents, largely legal and commercial,
incl. account book (1571-3) and ledger of Josef and Raymundo Murtza
(1753); various privileges (1754, etc.); Resumen de Testos (1784, etc.);
Contra heredes et possessones Mansi Serra (1669); printed billets for
army (1797), etc. — 6. 15 "limpiezas" (genealogies) as follows: Joan
Aulet (1570); Antonio Gorch (1573); Margal Traneria [?] (1581)
Phederiche Comete (1583); Miguel Pelayre (1586); Jayme Rocabruna
(1591-2); . . . Pages (1597); Pablo Font (1604); GiU Seguer (1604)
Joan Mascaro (1615); Miguel Pusol (1618); Garau Artinbau (1645)
Joan Ventos (1647); Bernat Boris (1650-1); Llorens Godo (1651).— 7
"Limpiezas" of Hiacinto Mascaro (1670); Francesco Cotxet (1681)
Francesco Baptista de Arrise (1747; receipt for payment); Maria Pons
(relative of Hiacinto Mascaro, 1685); Pablo Castell y Ravella (1769)
suit over inheritance from Joan Baptista Aragones Don Pare (1762). — 8
23 miscellaneous documents incl. Conversion of Richard Payne (1633)

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Edict of denunciation (1758); Proceso contra Rafael Rocha (1664-7);
undated inventory of books in unnamed "estampa"; list of books
confiscated in the bookshop of Pedro FuUa [or Tulla?] by the inquisition
in Barcelona (1788). Spain, 1532-early 19th cent.

Paper. In excess of 195 documents of various lengths (from a few to 204 ff.),
several incl. printed forms, a few in Latin. Various sizes, mostly folio. Unbound,
in boxes. — Prov.: Preserved by Andrew Thorndike in 1820-1 when the inquisi-
torial palace was stormed, and given by his son, G. Herbert Thorndike, to the
American Philosophical Society in 1840, and presented to the Lea Library by
the American Philosophical Society in 1962.

Ms. Lea 372 (Ital.)

VENICE. Procedura civile (without formal title for the entire work,
but with subtitles, e.g. Cause si tractano al zudega de' proprio senza
comandamento, f.4), inc.: Sententiar ponti de testamenti. . . . Venice,
first half 16th cent.

Paper. 56 ff. (ff.48, 51-6 blank). 16 x 11 cm. H/calf — Prov.: Frederick
North, 5th Earl of Guilford; Giuseppe Martini.

Ms. Lea 373 (Ital.)

[ANCONA]. 1. BONCAMPAGNO (Buoncampagno; Potthast: Bon-
campagni). Liber de obsidione Anconae . . . 1172, transl. into Italian
by Oddo di Biagio, ff.lr-16v, inc.: De una aspera obsidione facta
contra Ancona . . . , incl. Un altra obsidione de Ancona facta da li
populi Convicini (fr.l5v-6v).-2. DE UNA CONTROVERSIA belli-
cosa tra li Anconitani et Venetiani ex chronicis Venetorum tractum est,
ff.l7r-21r, inc.: Quemadmodum latine proverbio . . . Et pero li
Venitiani . . . , incl. Ancona da li Saraceni oppugnata (f.21r). — 3.
ODDO DI BIAGGIO. Chronica de la edificatione et destructione del
Cassaro Anconitano . . . , ff.25r-130r, inc.: Se la diligentia de le
scripture. . . .—4. COLUCCIO SALUTATI. Lettera di li Fiorentini
in laude de li Anconitani [1383], ff.l30v-2 (icplt. at end), inc.: (f.l30v):
De la victoria havuta . . . , (f.l31r): Magnificis viris Antianis. . . .
Excussistis tandem amici. . . . Italy, 2nd half 15th cent.

Paper. 132 (wrongly numb. 129) ff. (ff.22-4 blank). 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Contemp.
vellum. — Prov.: Rosenheim Coll.; John C. William; Giuseppe Martini (with
his notes laid in).

Ms. Lea 374 (Sp.)

CASTILE. Copia de los reales decretos expedidos al real y suprema
Consejo de Castilla en 22 de septembre de 1746 noticiandole ... la
creacion del govierno politico y militar de Madrid. . . . Spain, 18th
cent.

Paper. 14 ff. (preceding printed official documents). 30 x 20.5 cm. Buckram
(shelved as S. 29. 6. 15). — Prov.: Henry Charles Lea.

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Ms. Lea 375 (Sp.)

JUAN DE AVELLANEDA. Fabula de Eneas y Dido (9 ff. in verse).—
With MAHOMA en Granada (18 ff.) Spain, 16th cent.

Paper. 27 ff. (following printed Diaz de Ribas, Piedra da Cordova, and other
pamphlets). 21.5 x 15 cm. Contemp. vellum (shelved as S.25.4.14).— Prov.:
Henry Charles Lea.

Ms. Lea 376 (Ger.)

CONCUBINATUM CLERICORUM, Bedenken der Concubinen
wegen. Legal opinion rendered for Count Fugger by an official H. F.,
15-25 April 1589, interpretation of canon and imperial law, in a case
involving, it appears, "des Kramers Kochin." N.p., 1589.
Paper. 2 ff. 32.5 x 21.5 cm. In folder.

Ms. Lea 377 (Sp.)

JOAN OF ARAGON, Queen of Sicily. Letter to the Count of Palamos,
respecting her planned visit with Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
which now had to be delayed for various reasons until the following
spring. Naples, 1 Nov., 1498.
Paper. 1 f. 28 x 21 cm. In folder.

Ms. Lea 378 (Ger.)

LORENTZ PSCHERER. Verzeichnis der Gesiecht unnd Erscheinung
do mir Evangelisch Schulmeister Lorentz Pscherer zur Alten Statt
[Altenstadt?, and Niirnberg] . . . 1627 . . . 1628 zur unterschied-
lichmahlen erschiennen unnd begegnet. Franconia, ca. 1628.

Paper. 10 ff. 22 x 17.5 cm. Boards.

Ms. Lea 379 (Sp.)

TOLEDO, Inquisition. Causa de Isabel de Medina, hija de Caspar de
los Reyes e Isabel de Medina, de nacion portuguesa, de estado doncella
residente en Madrid de 14 anos (accused of the "crimen de la heregia y
apostacia"). Original documents (1652-8) with 19th-cent. transcript.
Spain, 1652-1 9th cent.

Paper. 62 ff. (last blank), 82 ff. 32 x 22 cm. Leather.

Ms. Lea 380 (Sp.)

CORDOVA, Inquisition. Memoria del auto dela fe que se hizo en la
ciudad de Cordova . . . ano de 1595. (List of persons accused of a
variety of offenses, blasphemy, Judaism, etc.) Cordova, 1595.
Paper. 6 ff. (last blank). 31 x 21 cm. Paper cover.

Ms. Lea 381 (Sp.)

CORDOVA, Inquisition. Memoria de el auto que se hico en la noble
ciudad de Cordova . . . 1625. (Minutes, and list of persons, mostly

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Portuguese, accused of apostasy, etc., with penalties imposed). Cordova,
1625.

Paper. 4 ff. (numbered 7-10). 31 x 21 cm. H/cloth.

Ms. Lea 382 (Sp.)

[FROILAN DIAZ]. Causa [y prision] del Maestro Fr. Froilan Diaz,
confesor de Carlos segundo, ano de 1695. Y causa del yllustrissimo S. D.
Bartolomeo Carranza, arzobispo de Toledo, ano de 1558. Ambos del
Ordine de Predicadores. Madrid, por N. N.— With HISTORIA
del . . . P. F. Froilan Diaz. Spain, post 1704?

Paper. 190 ff. (ff.2, 187-90 blank). 20 x 15 cm. Con temp. calf.

Editor'' s Note: This concludes our presentation of the manuscript catalogue in the
Library Chronicle. We plan to re-issue this catalogue shortly with correc-
tions and additions. Its final form will be a book containing the five parts of the
catalogue and the two supplements that have appeared in the Library Chron-
icle together with additional descriptions of approximately 200 manuscripts.
Further details regarding this final catalogue will be supplied in a later issue.

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Library Notes

Correction of Financial Statement, 1961-62

Balance, 30 June 1961, should have read $6,554.04

Contributions and Receipts should have read 4,039.00

We announce with regret that since the last reporting the following
Friends of the Library have died:

Mr. Elmer Adler Dr. William E. Lingelbach

Dr. Edwin C. BoUes Robert T. McCracken, Esq.

Mr. Clarence C. Brinton Gilbert H. Montague, Esq.

Dr. Philip P. Calvert Mrs. O. Frederick Nolde

Mr. Francis J. Chesterman The Hon. George Wharton Pepper

Mrs. Walter I. Cooper Mr. Layton B. Register

Mrs. Walter S. Franklin Capt. W. P. Roop

Mr. J. Howell Healy Mr. T. Edward Ross

Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt Dr. Benjamin H. Shuster

Mr. Frederic R. Kirkland Mr. Alfred Whital Stern

Mr. Howard S. Levy Mr. Archie D. Swift

Mr. William Dodge Lewis Mrs. R. Marshall Truitt

Dr. Hiram S. Lukens Mr. David E. Williams, Jr.

Various Gifts

Bird, Robert M. — Manuscripts, correspondence, and printed mate-
rial relating to Frederick Mayer Bird.

BoLLES, Edwin C. (Mrs.)— From the library of the late Dr. Bolles,
Asst. Professor of English: 205 volumes of modern British poetry; 164
first editions, 13 later editions or impressions; 5 limited, numbered
editions as well as scattered issues of periodicals and 1 9 miscellaneous
volumes.

Brand, Robert— Fwrj-i Bismarck, 1890-7898, by Hermann Hofmann.
3 vols.

Cabeen, Dr. David C. — Lejardin d' epicure, by Anatole France (1921);
three volumes by Emile Male, UArt religieux de la fin du Moyen Age
(1925), UArt religieux du XII siecle en France (1924), UArt religieux du
XIII siecle en France (1925), and Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps
perdu.

Bossard Collection — About 80 boxes of material, formerly belong-
ing to Dr. James Bossard. Works on sociology, social work, economics,
and related subjects.

Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. — 189 books in memory of Charles
Patterson Van Pelt and Peter Van Pelt.

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Davis, Patricia Anne — In memory of Ella E. Hippie, Selected writ-
ings, by Roman Jakobson (1962).

Evans, Dr. Henry Brown— A bequest in the will of Dr. Evans,
formerly Chairman of the Mathematics Department. A collection of
volumes on mathematics as well as a good general collection of litera-
ture, history, travel, and miscellaneous reference works.

Farrell, W. E. (Mrs.) — 11 recordings of James Farrell reading
from his works.

Fisher, Dr. Waldo E. — Several publications and reprints by Dr.
Fisher which will be bound in a pamphlet volume.

Foster, Richard — Philostratus, Flavins, Philostrati Lemnii Opera
Quae Exstant (Paris, Morelli, 1608).

Franklin, Burt (Publisher and Bookseller)— 2 copies of Karl
Werner's Beda der Ehrwurdige und seine ^eit and 2 copies of the 2 volume
Geschichte der geographischen Namenkunde, by J. J. Egli.

FuHRMAN, J. M. — 3 volumes by Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland (with autographed note by author), Alice's Adventures Under
Ground, and Through the Looking Glass.

Haddaway, J. N. — Presentation copy to Sir Robert Wilson of
Malthus, T. R. An Essay on the Principle of Population and the presentation
copy from Mrs. Baden of The Artist's Love, by E.D.E.N. Southworth.

Hertzberger, Menno (Internationaal Antiquariaat) — [Marius]
Amstelredams EER . . . (Antwerp, 1639). Dedication to the painter
Rubens.

Heydrick, Louise— Two volumes of notes by Christopher Heydrick
on lectures of Drs. Rush and Shippen at the Medical College of the
University in the late 18th century. Also, two volumes of medical notes
by Christopher Heydrick on lectures by Drs. Ewing and Wistar.

McCoucH, Dr. G. P.— Books by Eliot, Defoe, and Swift in early
editions.

Maurer, Agnes R. (Mrs.)— A collection of German literature in
fine bindings.

Netherlands. Royal Netherlands Embassy, Washington— Van
Lennep, J., Romantische Werken (24 vols.), and Poetische Werken (12
vols.); De Groot, Hugo, Bewys van de ware Godsdienst.

Montevideo. Biblioteca Nacional de U rvgv ay. — Clasicos Uru-
guayos (28 vols.).

Pan American Union. Columbus Memorial Library— Lfiro^ de
Cabildos de Lima (v. 20).

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RiviNus, E. M. (Miss) — Collection of 107 volumes of general miscel-
laneous material.

RosENFELD, H. A. — In memory of Dr. Blake E. Nicholson. About 75
volumes on Whistler and others; catalogues of sales, etc., belonging to
Dr. Nicholson's library.

Rosenthal, Bernard— Ridolfi, Roberto, Gli Archivi delle Famiglie
Florentine (v. 1).

Trumbauer, Dr. Walter H. — In memory of John K. and Johanna
L. (Heinrich) Trumbauer. Middleton, Thomas, Peace-maker; or Great
Britain'' s blessing (Purfoot, 1619).

Williams, William Carlos (Mrs.)— Williams, William Carlos,
Poems (Rutherford, N. J., 1909). First copy with annotations by
author's father, and a revised printing of the same, autographed.

Wolfe, Luna (Mrs.)— A collection of 29 letters signed by James T.
Farrell and some of his corrected typescripts.

Faculty, Trustees, and Friends have continued their generous dona-
tions, notably; Otto E. Albrecht, Benjamin Barg, Albert Baugh, John
F. Benton, Andres Briner, Neville E. CoUinge, W. Rex Crawford,
Robert Dechert, Jeannette Nichols, Otakar Odlozilik, G. Holmes
Perkins, Harold S. Powers, I. S. Ravdin, William Roach, George
Rochberg, Morris RubinofT, Gilbert Seldes, Kenneth M. Setton,
Richard H. Shryock, R. E. Spiller, Chester E. Tucker, and Henry
Weinberg.

J. M. G.

Important Purchases

Analecta divionensia. Documents inedits pour servir a Vhistoire de France et
principalement a celle de Bourgogne, tires des archives et de la bibliotheque de
Dijon (Dijon, 1864-1878). Ten volumes. This is a complete set of a
valuable historical work, and complete sets have become very scarce.

(Barbier, Antoine- Alexandre). Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque du
Conseil d'Etat (Paris, Imprimerie de la Republique, An XI [1803]). The
only edition of this famous work, printed in two hundred copies by the
printing house of the French Government. Barbier (1765-1825), the
famous bibliographer, originally had formed this library for the Direc-
tory. When the Directory was replaced by the Consulate, the library
was given to the State Council, and Barbier was appointed its librarian.
There is a woodcut device on both titles, and the margins are excep-
tionally wide.

Boeder, Johann Heinrich. Historia belli Sueco-danici, opus posthumum
(Strassburg, 1679).

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A collection of eighteen manuscripts and documents and thirty-five
printed books and pamphlets referring to universities in Spain. Except
for two of the printed books, their dates range between the seventeenth
and early nineteenth centuries. The collection contains information
about the administration, finances, and organization of the lecture
courses, as well as historical material relating to the universities of
Saragossa, Alcala, Salamanca, Valladolid, Seville, Barcelona, Cervera,
Santiago, Malaga, Mallorca, and Huesca.

La contralesina, ouero ragionamenti, constituzioni, & lodi delta splendezza
. . . con una comedia . . . intitolata Le nozze d' Antilesina (Venice, Ciotti,
1604). The Prince Liechtenstein copy of a little book written by one
who calls himself "11 Pastor Monopolitano" and who in a harmless
kind of way pokes fun at the pompous Italian social clubs of the period.
The second half of the book is a farce in which Antilesina marries the
"lavishly spending" Spendingrosso. Her dowry consists — in part — of the
island of Samos with all its revenues, half of the gold and silver brought
from the New Indies in a century, and all gems and precious stones
found in the Philippines in 150 years!

Govea, Antonio de. Historia de la vida, muerte y milagros del Glorioso
Patriarca y Padre de los pobres S. Juan de Dios, fundator de la Orden de la
Hospitalidad (Lisbon, Henrique Valente de Oliveira, 1658). This con-
tains a six-page cancion on S. Juan de Dios by Lope de Vega. S. Juan de
Dios was of Portuguese nationality, but spent the greater part of his
life in Spain.

Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and plaquettes, by Seymour de Ricci.
Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Renaissance medals, by George F. Hill. These
volumes on the Gustave Dreyfus Collection, now known as the Kress
Collection, and owned by the National Gallery of Washington, D. C,
contain 453 items and 667 items respectively, all illustrated. This is a
very important reference collection and one of the best works on the
subject of Renaissance bronzes.

[Jefferson, Thomas]. Observations sur la Virginie (Paris, Barrois, 1786).

La Nuit des Temps: Twelve volumes on French Romanesque art and
architecture.

Perelle, Gabriel. Veiies de Rome et des environs (Paris, N. Langlois,
[16-]). Besides views of Rome, this work also contains sections showing
buildings in Versailles, Paris, and other parts of France.

Philadelphia. A folio map of the original plan of the Blockley Division
between Powel, Hare, and Burd Streets, 1833.

[Seabury, Samuel]. An alarm to the legislature of the Province of New-
Tork, occasioned by the present political disturbances in North America (New
York, James Rivington, 1775).

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Smith, Adam. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
(Dublin, 1776). Three volumes. Benjamin Rush's signed copy of the
first Irish edition, which was published in the same year as the English
edition.

Society of the Cincinnati. Institution . . . formed by the officers of the
army of the United States, for the laudable purposes therein mentioned (New
York, Samuel London, 1784). This Society was formed in 1783 by
officers of the Continental army just before they disbanded after the
Revolution. According to its constitution it was founded for fraternal,
patriotic, and non-political purposes. Certain leaders of the time, seeing
in this Society a kind of aristocratic military nobility, opposed it, and
formed the Tammany Societies of New York, Philadelphia, and other
cities.

Tennyson, Alfred. Poems, chiefly lyrical (London, Effingham Wilson,
1830).

Umehara. Shina kodo Seika. Selected relics of ancient Chinese bronzes
from collections in Japan.

Verci, Giovanni Battista. Storia della Marca Trivigiana e Versonese
(Venice, Storti, 1786-1791). Twenty volumes. This set contains impor-
tant source material for the student of medieval history. It covers the
period from 1260 to 1420, dealing with the Venetian provinces of
Treviso and Verona. It contains 2183 documents from the years 793
to 1464. Collaborating with the author, Verci, were a number of the
best historians of his time, among them Tiraboschi, Savioli, and Donada.

Zarlino, GiosefFo. De tutte Fopere . . . cli'ei scrisse in buona lingua
italiana (Venetia, Francesco de' Franceschi Senere, 1588-89). Four
volumes in three. Zarlino was an Italian composer and well known for
his work in theory. He became maestro di cappella at St. Marks in 1565,
and held the position until his death.

A. S. C.

Rare Book Collection Purchases

An autograph letter from Thomas Penn, Proprietor, to Dr. John
Morgan, 18 February, 1763. He replies to Dr. Morgan's proposal of a
charter for a "College of Physicians in Philadelphia" by refusing the
request on the advice of Dr. John Fothergill, because it was "too early
in a country so lately settled to establish such an institution." In just
two years, of course, Penn was to change his mind and recommend to
the Trustees of the College the establishment of the Medical School.
Bought with the aid of a Friend of the Library.

Abraham Ortelio. // Theatro del Mondo, Brescia, 1598, a small quarto
with many maps.

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Torquato Tasso. // Form, ouero delta Nobilta, one of four of the shorter
works of Tasso pubhshed by Aldus in 1583, designed to be sold either
as a unit or separately.

Recueil des Harangues^ a collection of the speeches made between 1 640
and 1697 by members of the French Academy upon the occasion of
their election, published at Paris in 1698. Included among many others
are speeches by Corneille, La Fontaine, Racine, and Scudery.

Georges de Scudery. Eudoxe, tragi-comedie, Paris, 1641, the first edition
of this play. Also his Poesies diver ses, Paris, 1649.

Hieronimo Bagnolino. Opereta molto dignissima, Venice, 1520, a
chivalric poem in Italian, illustrated with small woodcuts and an inter-
esting title border.

A rare edition of Ariosto's Le Satire, Venice, 1537.

Twenty eighteenth-century pamphlet editions of Spanish plays.

Vincentio Menni. Regale della Thoscana lingua, Perugia, 1568.

Tempio aW illustrissimo et reverendissimo Signor Cinthio Aldobrandini,
Cardinale S. Giorgio, Bologna, 1600, edited by Giulio Segni. A large
collection of poetical tributes to the Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini,
patron of Torquato Tasso. Tasso contributes the first poem in the
volume.

Luigi Bigi, called Pittori. In Christi vitam epigrammaton libellus, Milan,
J. A. Scinzenzeler, 1512, a series of short poems on the life of Christ.

Eustathius a Knobelsdorf. Lutetiae Parisiorum descriptio, Paris, 1543,
a poetical description of Paris and the Sorbonne, where the author had
been a student. This copy has a manuscript inscription by Joannes
Schymelpheng, whose poem addressed to Knobelsdorf appears at the
end of the volume.

Ottomar Luscinius. loci ac sales mire festiui, Augsburg, 1524, a collec-
tion of 233 jokes and anecdotes in Latin and Greek, preceded by an
essay on the nature of jokes.

A school edition of Plautus' Aulularia, Leipzig, 1517.

A history of the University of Leipzig delivered by Johann Friderich
as a Latin oration on the University's 200th anniversary, Leipzig, 1610.

De sumtibus studiorum, a thesis on the cost of education, presented at
the University of Frankfort on the Oder in 1686, but not printed until
1736.

Robertus Vanuccius. Sermocinales artes . . . ubi de dialectica atque
grammatica tradatur, Venice, 1545, a tract on the art of dialogue and
discussion.

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De modo docendi, atque studendi, ac de claris puerorum moribus libellus,
V^enice, 1538, a treatise on education by Lucio Vitruvio Roscio, of
Parma.

Stephanus Niger. Elegantissime e graeco authorum subditoriim translationes,
Milan, 1521. Included are Niger's translations from Philostratus,
Pythagoras, and Homer. There are also five impressions of a fine
ornamental woodcut title border.

Plutarch's lives in Italian translation by Battista Alessandro Jaconillo
di Riete, Venice, Zoppino, 1520, 2 volumes, and an Italian translation
of his Opuscula by M. A. Gandino, Venice, 1635.

Recherches pour servir a PHistoire de Lyon, a biographical dictionary of
famous residents of Lyons, subtitled: Les Lyonnois dignes de memoire.
Compiled by Jacques Pernetti, Lyons, 1757, two volumes.

A collection of eleven brief printed pieces — papal bulls and other
documents — relating to the Monte di Pieta of Bologna; they appeared
between 1580 and about 1630.

Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem, Rome, 1586-1588, a large folio with 27
engraved plates. Inserted in the volume are 67 contemporary engraved
portraits (mounted) of the Grand Masters of the order, and 26 engrav-
ings of the martyrdom of English Catholics.

Contra monachos proprietarios, Paris, 1503, and Secimda Apellatio qnorun-
dam religiosorum Sandi Germani de Pratis, Paris, 1502 (?), tracts produced
during a controversy about monastic rule.

A thick quarto volume containing fifteen pamphlets, 1540-1544,
arising from the quarrel between Heinrich, duke of Brunswick-Wolfen-
biittel, and the city of Brunswick.

Two German pamphlets, a "Pasquillus" on the dynastic struggles of
the time, 1 537, and a news sheet of the same year on the war in France.
Also some twenty pamphlets on the Turks, 1518-1684. Among the
latter are several "Newe Zeitungen," city views of Vienna and Buda-
pest, orations by Stanislaus Orzechowski addressed to the Polish
nobility, and an account of the Turkish invasion of Europe which
includes a history of the Turks to 1541 and fourteen large woodcuts by
Jorg Boen and Hans Weiditz.

A volume of 114 theses on legal subjects by students at the University
of Cologne, published at Cologne in 1595.

Disputatio juris, sistens dubia de Thomae Paijne doctrina, a thesis attacking
"Paine's theories on human society, Amsterdam, 1796. The disputant
is J. D. Meyer, later a well-known Dutch jurist.

L. W. R.

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