Mitto cum hisce, quos tibi seligere placuit, libros, eosdemque hic
breviter describo, addito pretio, quo nobis conventum est; et quidem
ex catalogo desumptos: 

Florins. 
Missale Rom. pro Pataviensis Ecclae ritu. 1494 5 Missa defunctorum. 1499 3 Val.  Martialis Epigrammatum opus. 1475 25 Xenophontis Apologia Socratis 3 Epulario &c. 1 De Conceptu et triplici Mariae V. Candore 1 ac demum Trithemii Annales Hirsaug. et Aristotelis opera
Edit.  Sylburgii 35
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Quae cuncta Tibi optime convenire, Teque valere perpetim precor et opto.

P. JOAN.  SARCANDER MRA.
Ord.  Serv.  B.M.V.

This is the last bibliomaniacal transaction in which I am likely to be engaged at Vienna; for, within thirty-six hours from hence, the post horses will be in the archway of this hotel, with their heads turned towards Old England.  In that direction my face will be also turned ... for the next month or five weeks to come; being resolved upon spending the best part of a fortnight of those five weeks, at Ratisbon, Nuremberg, and Manheim.  You may therefore expect to hear from me again—­certainly for the last time—­at Manheim, just before crossing the Rhine for Chalons sur Marne, Metz, and Paris.  I shall necessarily have but little leisure on the road—­for a journey of full 500 miles is to be encountered before I reach the hither bank of the Rhine at Manheim.

Farewell then to VIENNA:—­a long, and perhaps final farewell!  If I have arrived at a moment when this capital is comparatively thinned of its population, and bereft of its courtly splendors—­and if this city may be said to be now dull, compared with what its winter gaieties will render it—­I shall nevertheless not have visited it IN VAIN.  Books, whether as MSS. or printed volumes, have been inspected by me with an earnestness and profitable result—­not exceeded by any previous similar application:  while the company of men of worth, of talents, and of kindred tastes, has rendered my social happiness complete.  The best of hearts, and the friendliest of dispositions, are surely to be found in the capital of Austria.  Farewell.  It is almost the hour of midnight—­and not a single note of the harp or violin is to be heard in the streets.  The moon shines softly and sweetly.  God bless you.

[134] In Hartman Schedel’s time, these suburbs seem to have been
    equally distinguished.  “Habet (says he, speaking of Vienna) SUBURBIA
    MAXIMA et AMBICIOSA.” Chron.  Norimb. 1493. fol. xcviii. rev.