The following is a fac-simile of the Autograph of this celebrated
    graphical Critic and Artist.

    [Illustration]

[154] The MONASTERY of CLOSTERNEUBURG, or Nevenburg, or Nuenburg, or
    Newburg, or Neunburg—­is supposed to have been built by Leopold the
    Pious in the year 1114.  It was of the order of St. Augustin.  They
    possess (at the monastery, it should seem) a very valuable chronicle,
    of the XIIth century, upon vellum—­devoted to the history of the
    establishment; but unluckily defective at the beginning and end.  It is
    supposed to have been written by the head of the monastery, for the
    time being.  It is continued by a contemporaneous hand, down to the
    middle of the fourteenth century.  They preserve also, at
    Closterneuburg, a Necrology—­of five hundred years—­down to the year
    1721.  “Inter caeteros praestantes veteres codices manuscriptos, quos
    INSIGNIS BIBLIOTHECA CLAUSTRO-NEOBURGENSIS servat, est pervetus
    inclytae ejusdem canoniae Necrologium, ante annos quingentos in
    membranis elegantissime manu exaratum, et a posteriorum temporum
    auctoribus continuatum.” Script.  Rer.  Austriacar.  Cura Pez.
    1721. vol. 1. col. 435, 494.

[155] The librarian, MAXIMILIAN FISCHER, informed me the quarto copies
    were rare, for that only 400 were printed.  The octavo copies are not
    so, but they do not contain all the marginal references which are in
    the quarto impressions.

[156] In fact, I wrote a letter to the librarian, the day after my
    visit, proposing to give 2000 florins in specie for the volumes above
    described.  My request was answered by the following polite, and
    certainly most discreet and commendable reply:  “D....Domine!  Litteris
    a Te 15.  Sept. scriptis et 16 Sept. a me receptis, de Tuo desiderio
    nonnullos bibliothecae nostrae libros pro pecunia acquirendi, me
    certiorem reddidisti; ast mihi respondendum venit, quod tuis votis
    obtemperare non possim.  Copia horum librorum ad cimelium bibliothecae
    Claustroneoburgensis merito refertur, et maxima sunt in aestimatione
    apud omnes confratres meos; porro, lege civili cautum est, ne libri et
    res rariores Abbatiarum divenderentur.  Si unum aliumve horum, ceu
    duplicatum, invenissem, pro aequissimo pretio in signum venerationis
    transmisissem.

“Ad alia, si praestare possem, officia, me paratissimum invenies, simulque Te obsecro, me aestimatorem tui sincerrimum reputes, hinc me in ulteriorem recordationem commendo, ac dignum me aestimes quod nominare me possem,

... dominationis Tuae
E Canonia Claustroneoburgensi, addictissimum
17 Septbr 1818.  MAXIMILIANUM FISCHER. 
Can. reg.  Bibliothec. et
Archivar.”

Supplement.