LATIN BIBLE:  printed by Jenson, 1479.  Folio.  A fine copy, upon paper.  The first page is illuminated.

To this list of impressions of the SACRED TEXT, may be added a fine copy of the SCLAVONIAN BIBLE of 1584, folio, with wood cuts, and another of the HUNGARIAN Bible of 1626, folio:  the latter in double columns, with a crowdedly-printed margin, and an engraved frontispiece.

As to books upon miscellaneous subjects, I shall lay before you, without any particular order, my notes of the following:  Of the Speculum Morale of P. Bellovacensis, here said to be printed by Mentelin in 1476, in double columns, roman type, folio—­there is a copy, in one volume, of tremendously large dimensions; as fine, clean, and crackling as possible.  Also a copy of the Speculum Judiciale of Durandus, printed at Strasbourg by Hussner and Rekenhub, in 1473, folio.  Hussner was a citizen of Strasbourg, and his associate a priest at Mentz.  Here is also a perfect copy of the Latin PTOLEMY, of the supposed date of 1462, with a fine set of the copper-plates.

But I must make distinct mention of a Latin Chronicle, printed by Gotz de Sletztat in 1474, in folio.  It is executed in a coarse, large gothic type, with many capital roman letters.  At the end of the alphabetical index of 35 leaves, we read as follows: 

DEO GRATIAS. A tpe ade vsqz ad annos cristi 1474 Acta et gesta hic suffitienter nuclient Sola spes mea.  In virginis gracia Nicholaus Gotz.  De Sletzstat.

The preceding is on the recto; on the reverse of the same leaf is an account of Inventors of arts:  no mention is made of that of printing.  Then the prologue to the Chronicle, below which is the device of Gotz;[220] having his name subjoined.  The text of the Chronicle concludes at page CCLXXX—­printed numerals—­with an account of an event which took place in the year 1470.  But the present copy contains another, and the concluding leaf—­which may be missing in some copies—­wherein there is a particular notice of a splendid event which took place in 1473, between Charles Duke of Burgundy, and Frederick the Roman Emperor, with Maximilian his Son; together with divers dukes, earls, and counts attending.  The text of this leaf ends thus;

    SAVE GAIRT VIVE BVRGVND.

Below, within a circle, “Sixtus quartus.”  This work is called, in a ms. prefix, the Chronicle of Foresius.  I never saw, or heard of, another copy.  The present is fine and sound; and bound in wood, covered with leather.

Here are two copies of St. Jerom’s Epistles, printed by Schoeffher in 1470; of which that below stairs is one of the most magnificent imaginable; in two folio volumes.  Hardly any book can exceed, and few equal it, in size and condition—­unless it be the theological works of ARCHBISHOP ANTONIUS, printed by Koeberger, in 1477, in one enormous folio volume.  As a specimen of Koeberger’s