volume, bound in wood—­and sound and desirable copies. Eutropius, 1471; by Laver; a sound, desirable copy, in genuine condition.  Of Bibles, here is the Greek Aldine folio of 1518, in frightful half binding, cropt to the quick:  also an Hungarian impression of the two Books of Samuel and of Kings, of 1565, in folio—­beginning:  AZ KET SAMVEL:  colophon:  Debreczenbe, &c.  MDLXV:  in wretched half binding.  The small paper of the Latin Bibles of 1592, 1603.  And of Greek Testaments here are the first, second, fourth and fifth editions of Erasmus; the first, containing both parts, is in one volume, in original boards, or binding; a sound and clean copy:  written upon, but not in a very unpicturesque manner.  The second edition is but an indifferent copy.

The following may be considered Miscellaneous Articles. I will begin with the earliest. St. Austin de Singularitate Clericorum, printed in a small quarto volume by Ulric Zel, in 1467:  a good, sound, but cropt copy, along with some opuscula of Gerson and Chrysostom, also printed by Zel:  these, from the Schoenthal monastery.  At the end of this dull collection of old theology, are a few ms. opuscula, and among them one of the Gesta Romanorum: I should think of the fourteenth century.  The Wurtzburg Synod, supposed to be printed by Reyser, towards the end of the fifteenth century; and of which there is a copy in the Public Library, as well as another in that of Strasbourg.  To the antiquary, this may be a curious book.  I mention it again,[18] in order to notice the name and seal of “Iohannes Fabri,—­clericus Maguntin diocesz publicus imperiali auctoritate notarius, &c.  Scriba iuratus”—­which occur at about one fourth part of the work:  as I am desirous of knowing whether this man be the same, or related to the, printer so called, who published the Ethics of Cato in 1477?—­of which book I omitted to mention a copy in the Public Library here.[19] Bound up with this volume is Fyner’s edition of P.  Niger contra perfidos Iudaeos, 1475, folio.  Fyner lived at Eislingen, in the neighbourhood of this place, and it is natural to find specimens of his press here.  The Stella Meschiah of 1477, is here cruelly cropt, and bound in the usually barbarous manner, with a mustard-coloured sprinkling upon the edges of the leaves. Historie von der Melusina: a singular volume, in the German language, printed without date, in a thin folio.  It is a book perfectly a la Douce; full of whimsical and interesting wood cuts, which I do not remember to have seen in any other ancient volume.  From the conclusion of the text, it appears to have been composed or finished in 1446, but I suspect the date of its typographical execution to be that of 1480 at the earliest.