... reddens landes Domino.[188]

[157] The Emperor of Austria having stopped at this hotel, the landlord
    asked his permission to call it from henceforth by his Majesty’s
    name; which was readily granted.  There is an Album here,
    in which travellers are requested to inscribe their names, and in
    which I saw the imperial autograph.

[158] Especially in the striped broad shoes; which strongly resemble those
    in the series of wood-cuts descriptive of the triumphs of the Emperor
    Maximilian.

[159] There is a lithographic print of it recently published, from the
    drawing of Quaglio—­of the same folio size with the similar prints of
    Ulm and Nuremburg.  The date of the towers of the Cathedral of
    Ratisbon may be ascertained with the greatest satisfaction.  From the
    Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493 folio xcviii, recto, it appears
    that when the author (Hartmann Schedel) wrote the text of that book,
    “the edifice was yet incomplete.”  This incomplete state, alludes, as I
    suspect, to the towers; for in the wood-cut, attached to the
    description, there is a crane fixed upon the top of one of the
    towers, and a stone being drawn up by it—­this tower being one story
    shorter than the other.  Schedel is warm in commendation of the
    numerous religious establishments, which, in his time, distinguished
    the city of Ratisbon.  Of that of St. Emmeran, the following note
    supplies some account.

[160] Lord Spencer possesses some few early Classics from this monastic
    library, which was broken up about twenty years ago.  His Lordship’s
    copy of the Pliny of 1469, folio, from the same library, is, in
    all probability, the finest which exists.  The MONASTERY OF ST. EMMERAM
    was doubtless among the “most celebrated throughout Europe.”  In
    Hartmann Schedel’s time, it was “an ample monastery of the order of
    St. Benedict.”  In the Acta Sanctorum, mense Septembris, vol. vi. 
    Sep. 22, p. 469, the writer of the life of St. Emmeram
    supposes the monastery to have been built towards the end of the VIIth
    century.  It was at first situated without the walls,—­but was
    afterwards (A.D. 920) included within the walls.  Hansizius, a Jesuit,
    wrote a work in 1755, concerning the origin and constitution of the
    monastery—­in which he says it was founded by Theodo in 688.  The body
    of St. Emmeram was interred in the church of St. George, by Gaubaldus,
    in the VIIIth century, which church was reduced to ashes in 1642; but
    three years afterwards, they found the body of St. Emmeram, preserved
    in a double chest, or coffin, and afterwards exposed it, on
    Whitsunday, 1659, in a case of silver—­to all the people.