MANUSCRIPTS, XYLOGRAPHY, FORMING A SUPPLEMENT TO THOSE ADVERTISED IN THE GENERAL CATALOGUE FOR 1874, offered for CASH at the affixed nett Prices by BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, W. ILONDON, NOVEMBER, 1874. Po insure prompt attention all Orders to be addresed direct Lately published or nearly ready. NOW ISSUING, Revised Series of Entire Works, in Bound Volumes, I. Sesame and Lilies, (Three Lectures, with new Preface). 1. Of Kings' Treasuries. 2. Of Queens' Gardens. 3. Of the Mys tery of Life Economy given before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas Term, 1870 IV. The Eagle's Nest, Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, given before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872 and the Future of England; with added Article on the Eco nomies of the Kings of Prussia VII. Ariadne Florentina, (as soon as the seven parts are complete) VIII. Val d'Arno, Ten Lectures on Art of the 13th Century in Pisa and Florence; with Twelve Plates IX. Queen of the Air, (in the press) vi Tithe crown Future lines of Pr Love's Meinie, Six Lectures on Greek and English Birds, given before the University of Oxford :- 0 1 6 II. The Swallow, Now Ready 0 1 6 III. The Chough, in preparation Ariadne Florentina, Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving, given before the University of Oxford :- 0 1 6 1II. The Technics of Wood Engraving, post free 0 4 0 Durer.) In preparation, post free Botticelli.) In preparation, post free 0 4 0 The Relation between Michael Angelo and Tintoret, Seventh of the Course of Lectures on Sculpture, delivered at Oxford, 1870-71, 016 Fors Clavigera, Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, Nos. 1 to 47 1 15 6 " The Series of which this volume forms a part will contain all that I think useful of my former writings, so joined to my present work as to form a consistent course of teaching. I do not mean by consistent that the progress or arrangement of it will be on any regular system, but that I will not, so far as I can help, say the same thing oftener than is necessary to gain attention for it; and that I will indicate the connection of each subject 2!1213:01 with the rest, as it, indeed, existed in my mind always, though I have been forced by mischance to write copiously sometimes on matters about which The volumes will each contain, on the average, two hundred pages of ** This Collection of recently purchased MSS. forms a SUPPLE MENT to those described in my GENERAL CATALOGUE. ALCHIN—see Kelham. 1 ARISTOTLE. Liber Moralium de Regimine Dominorum qui dicitur SECRETUM SECRETORUM, editus ab Aristotile phylosopho phylo- Hunc librum scribi fecit Š. Dns. Rodulphus prout in exemplari fuit repertum. (About A.D. 1460.) the Arabic original, found by him when with the Crusaders in the Holy Land. 1*ARMORIAL: An Ordinary of Arms, containing several hundred Coats of Arms, many in colours, in one thick volume, 4to. hf. morocco, £2. A good beginning of a valuable work: an industrious Herald would find plenty of occupation in completing it. 2 AUTOGRAPHS OF DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS. A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHS, by most distinguished Characters in all classes of life, including Sovereigns, Statesmen, Divines, Lawyers, Naval and Military Officers, Physicians and Surgeons, Authors, Men of Science, Artists and Actors, Musicians, Eminent Foreigners and Celebrated Women, illustrated with Portraits and Biographical Notices by William Upcott. The collection consists of Two Thousand and Seventy-eight Autographs, illustrated with One Thousand Portraits, many of which are proof impressions, and some are private plates, 13 volumes, folio, with printed titles, red morocco, with joints, richly gilt, £400. ' 1537-1836 Amongst the writers whose signatures or holographs are comprised in the above grand collection, are the names of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, Charles I, (an interesting letter) Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, Prince Rupert, James II, William and Mary, Queen Anne, the Georges, Queen Caroline, Princess Charlotte ; Francis I, Charles IX, Louis XIII, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Bonaparte before Marengo, Napoléon, 1806 ; Frederick the Great: Cowley, Davenant, Herrick, Waller, Addison, Pope, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Swift, Dr. Johnson, Colley Cibber, George Colman, Foote, Edmund Burke, R. B. Sheridan, Gibbon, Lord Clarendon, Hume, Gay, Goldsmith, Grey, Cowper, Sterne, the Wesleys, Southey, Coleridge, Burns, Byron, Campbell, Moore, Sydney Smith, Caroline Lamb ; Washington, Wellington, Gen. Woulfe; Sir Philip Francis, Algernon Sydney ; Nelson, Rodney, Ruyter, Shovel, Van Tromp ; Sir Jas. Mackintosh, Lord Bacon, Franklin, Blücher, Buffon, Lafayette, Goethe, Schiller, the elder Disraeli, the Walpoles, Voltaire (to the Duc de Richelieu on the loss of Quebec) Talleyrand, Vasari, Flaxman, Canova, Hogarth, Turner; Priestley, Faraday, Abernethy, Davy; Garrick, Kean, Kemble, Matthews, Macklin, Siddons, Miss O'Neill ; Miss Edgworth, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Duchess of Marlborough, Madame de Stael, &c. &c. 2*BARTOLOMEI de Sancto Concordio Summa de Casibus, sm. 810. ATS. on fine vellum, minutely written in an Italian hand, with illuminated initials, one page decorated with an arabesque border, and another having a small portrait of the author, ancient calf binding, €4, 10s circ. A.D. 1400 A famous Casuistic Dictionary conspleted in the year 1338 by its author who died soon afterwards. IIe was a Dominican friar, a native of Pisa. 3 BIBLIA SACRA LATINA, cum Interpretationibus Hebreorum Nominum, &c. FINE Manuscript on extremely delicate Vellum, ornamented with initial letters and borders, with painted figures in the Old English style, and illuminated in gold and colours, gilt edges, £15. 158 cir. A. D. 1300 4 CHRONICLES of ENGLONDE, small folio, English MS. on VELLUM, without the beginning, but commencing with the reign of Knoght (Canule) and Edmond Irensyde, and proceeding to the fifth year of the reign of Henry IV (1404), bound in half morocco, £25. written about 1420 This is the celebrated Chronicle of Brute, which Caxton printed in 1480, and corresponds with tolerable accuracy to the printed edition, except of course in the orthography and occasional turns of phrase which Caxton modernized in his book. There are few copies of the MS. now in existence, especially on vellum, and so far as they seem to be known, most of them are locked up in public libraries. 5 CICERONIS RUETORICORUM NOVORUM AD HERENNIUM LIBER, (libri quatuor) sm. 8vo. FINE Manuscript on Vellum, with border, initial letter containing miniature and numerous capitals, finely illuminated in gold and colours, velret, gilt edges, £15. 158 Sec. XV 6 COLLECTION of the ALTERATIONs in and Variance between the COMMON PRAYER Bookes of 2 Edw. VI, 5 Edward VI and 1 Elizabeth and the Scottish Liturgie of 1637. With some Observations or Notes uppon severall Passages in the same Bookes ; Ao Doni 1650, 12.no. neat Manuscript on paper, blue morocco, gilt edges, £8. 88 1650 A very interesting little volume forestalling by a couple of centuries the labours of modern scholars in the same direction. 7 COSMOGRAPHIA, a Latin Manuscript, in Two Books, with 34 Drawings and Diagrams, vellum, £5. about 1680 8 ENGLISH POETRY (Unpublished) of the Seventeenth Century, folio, a very curious volume in neat MS. including Epigrams, Riddles, Epitaphs, Love Songs, and other amatory Pieces, some very free and at least half of them UNPUBLISHED, £20. circa 1630 On the inside of the cover is written : “My cousin Chute gave me this book out of his father's study at the Vinc, Hainpshire." An alphabetical table will be found at the end, in the same handwriting as the rest of the volume. Some of the pieces possess high poetical merit, and deserve consideration from students of English literature in the early days of Charles I. Amongst the writers are Francis Beaumont, James Shirley, Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, William Stroud, (Sir) Henry Blount, Henry King, Jasper Mayne, John Grange, Humphrey Ilide, (Sir George) Chudlóigh, Alexander Gill, Barton Holiday, George Morley, Walter Poole, Nicholas Uldisworth, Will Davenant, (Bishop) Juxon, and Thomas Mey. It will be observed that many of these name are unknown in published literature ; and that the bibliophile who secures the above volume, will add a book of signal value to a collection of old English poetry. One of the pieces by William Stroud is upon the beauty of Fairford Windows. An unsigned one, begins as follows, with a phrase which brings Lord Byron to one's memory : "I lovd thee once, Ile love no more Thine be the griefe as is the blame;" and, if unpublished, deserves to be given to public notice as a very beautiful lyric. 9 EVANGELISTARIUM Græcum, small 4to. Byzantine MS. on vellum, slightly defective, bound in russia neat, £2. 168 about A. D. 1100 9*GETIJDENBOEK. Book of Hours (in Dutch), with Calendar, 12mo. Manu scripts beautifully written on 221 leaves of Vellum, with TEN MINIATURES and borders in gold and colours, initial letters, etc. a fine Manuscript in contemporary calf binding, with silver clasps, £12. Sec. XV The Miniatures in this volume demand attention, both for the beauty of execution and their uncommon style, most of them being in an elegant kind of grisaille rarely seen and differing from the French camaieu-gris, with slight reliefs in gold and the deeper shadows in black. 10 EVANGELIA IV, LATINE. Item Eusebii Canones, Hiero nymi Epistolæ ad Damasum, Argumenta et Prologi, &c. square folio, Manuscript on Vellum, finely written in French. Roman Minuscules, with Rubrics and plain Roman marginal initials in scarlet and green, having the Canons of Eusebius written between elegant columns supporting arches of painted Architecture, in which even the kinds of stone or marble are represented, several of the bases and capitals being ornamented with human and animal fiyures. At end in a different but almost contemporary hand-writing are added 6 Benedictio Vestimentorum ; Oracio quando Abbas ordinatur in Monasterio; Consecratio Manuum ;" and a list of Rents due from various places in Lorraine, calf, £120. Sæc. X One of the most ancient and interesting copies of the Latin Evangelists ever offered for sale. 11 HENRY VIIITH's ROYAL WARDROBE. In this Booke is conteigned al manor of the Kyng hys Majestes Guarderobe stuff remaynyng and being within his highnes CASTELL AT WYNDESOR in the saulf custody keping and charge of William Tildesley Perticulerly surveid, viewid and geven in charge in due order unto the said William by the Kyngs commandement by Nicholas Bristowe his highnes Clerke. 34 Hen. VIII; folio, the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, 1542, with additional notes of the state of the said Wardrobe on its being delivered unto the keeping of Rauf Rowlandson, 5 Eliz. 1562, interleaved with a fair transcript, £20. 1542 A very curious and interesting record, containing particular descriptions of the HANGYNGS OF ARRAS, illustrating the Siege of Jerusalem, Assuer and Hester, Charlemagne, Mountalbon, &c. &c.; HANGYNGS OF TAPESTRYE, illustrating the Siege of Troye, Hawking and Hunting, the History of David, the Story of Ladyes, &c. Clothes of Estate, Chairs richly embroidered, Cushions, Sparvers (four pieces of which were stolen at the burial of King Henry VIII), Testers, Carpets, Beds, Counterpoynts, and sundries. Inventory of “Stuff receyyid owte of the standyng Guarderobe at Westminster, by thands of John Rede 20 Nov." 34 Hen. VIII. Inventory of Furniture, etc. received from Sir Anthony Denny, Keeper of the King's Palace of Westminster, by Humfrey Orme, keeper of the Standing Wardrobe in the Tower of London, for the use of the King (Edward V!) by command of the Lord Proector, 9 July. 1 Edw. VI. This is a very interesting record, describing the various pieces embroidered with the King's Arms, the King and Queen Jane's arms together crowned within a garland of Roses, the History of Joseph, of the 12 Months, of David and Absalom, of our Lady and Angels playing upon Instruments, of the Acts of the Apostles, etc. The Cloths OF Estate, garnished with precious stones; the CARPETS and Cushions of gold, silver and silk needlework, with Queen Anne Bullen's Cyphers, the letters H. and A., roses of red and white, etc.; a carpet of arras “ with woodewithes and men of Inde with the Dukes Armes in thre places;" a cushion embroidered “ with Scallop Shells with Quene Katheryns Cognizance and this worde, I like as he loveth," etc. These Manuscripts are worthy of publication, the marginal notes made subsequently as to the state and disposal of the different articles are very interestingcertain cushions used by the King and Queen (Philip and Mary) at the Church door at Winchester, a bedstead altered for King Edward VI, various articles specified as having been given to Lord W. Howard, then Lord Admiral, Sir Edward Waldegrave, Sir Henry Jernegan, and others. 12 HORÆ BEATÆ MARIÆ VIRGINIS, in usum Romanum, cum Calen dario, sm. 4to. Manuscript on Vellum, by a North French Scribe, ornamented with numerous capital letters, elegant borders, and 24 MINIATURES, richly illuminated in gold and colours, some leaves cut out, old French red morocco, covered with gold tooling, £35. circ. 1400 The Calendar is unusually full of Saints' names, many of them English and little kpown. Some of the Miniatures display considerable artistic skill, and do not belong |