tion, is said (p. 633) to have been about 50,000 livres. It was certainly much more than double that sum. It is called 100,000 livres in the Almanac Royal for 1767; and it is well known, that the valuations of the Bishopricks, which are given in the Almanac Royal, were inuch below the real value. The present Archbishop retains, as may be supposed, a very small share of the wealth and greatness of his predecessors. I think that the regular stipend of an Archbishop is 15,000 francs, or about 6007. As 6001. a year will not support, even at Rouen, a coach-and-four, and a number of footmen in scarlet liveries, I suspect that Cardinal Cambacéres must have a larger income than the legal allowance. He retains possession of the Archiepiscopal Palace, a stately building, which is joined to the Eastern end of the Cathedral. His Country-house at Gaillon, formerly the admiration of Travellers between Rouen and Paris, has been destroyed. Yours, &c. EYLES TEMPLER. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Works nearly ready for Publication : The Fourth Volume of the new Edition of HUTCHINS'S "History of Dorsetshire," with additions by Mr. GOUGH. This Volume will contain the Hundreds of Sherbourne, Stourminster Newton, Whiteway, and Yetminster; with the Liberties in Sherbourne Division. A Life of the Author; an Account of British Antiquities in Dorset, by Sir R. C. HOARE, Bart.; the Domesday for the County, with a Translation by Rev. W. BAWDWEN; &c. &c. will be prefixed. An Historical Treatise of the Unction and Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England. BY ARTHUR TAYLOR. (See our Cover for the present Month.) A second Edition of the Memoirs of WILLIAM STEVENS, Esq. Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty; the whole pro. duce arising from the Sale of which (not the profits merely) is intended by the Author to be given to the Fund for the benefit of the Scotch Episcopalian Church. The MESSIAH; a Poem, in Twentyeight Books. By Mr. COTTLE. An Account of a Foetus recently removed from the Abdomen of a young Man, 16 years of age. By Mr. N. HIGHMORE, Surgeon, Sherborne; under the patronage of the Royal College of Surgeons, in whose Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the Preparation is deposited. Facts and Observations (deduced from long and extensive Practice) on Liver Complaints, and Bilious Disorders in general, and on such derangements of these Organs, as influence the Biliary. Secretion, &c. By JOHN FAITHHORN, late Surgeon in the E. I. Company's service. Preparing for Publication: A short Account of the Commission for inquiring into the Losses of the American Loyalists, by JOHN WILMOT, Esq. We have great satisfaction in announcing, that the Rev. A. MACAULAY, Vicar of Rothley in Leicestershire, has resumed his design of publishing a History of the Life of Melancthon; and that the first Volume of the Work, terminating at the close of the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, will appear in the ensuing year. Lyrical Gleanings; comprising Madri-, gals, Odes, Songs, and Sonnets, chiefly by Anonymous Writers of the XVIth and part of the XVIIth Centuries; with Biographical Notices. The whole selected from the unexplored Collections of Vocal Poetry, made and composed by LAWES, and other Musicians of eminence BIRD, MORLEY, Yonge, Ward, Gibbons, temp. ELIZABETH, JAMES, and CHARLES. The Mirror for Magistrates, in Two very thick Volumes small 4to. The impression limited to 160 copies. The authorities upon which the Editor, has formed the text of the present edition are as follow: - Part I. By JOHN HIGGINS; reprinted from the edition of 1587, collated with those of 1575 and 1610. Part II. By THOMAS BLENERHASSET; from the original edition of 1578, collated with that of 1610. —Part III. By BALDWIN, SACKVILLE, FERRERS, CHURCHYARD, and others; from the edition of 1587, collated with those of 1559, 1563, 1571, 1575, 1578, and 1610. -Part IV. By RICHARD NICCOLS; published as "A Winter's Night Vision;" from the only edition of 1616. Art of English Poësy. The Editor of the late edition of Puttenham is now reprinting the several Essays of GASCOIGNE, WEBBE, K. JAMES, Sir JOHN HARINGTON, MEARS, CAMPION, DANIEL, and BOLTON, in one quarto volume, uniform with that Work: 220 only printed. Bibliographia Poetica. A new edition of this useful Work by the late JOSEPH RITSON, has been long in preparation, and with very considerable Bibliographi cal Additions, and a few occasional specimens, will be put to press next year. Select Poems of SYNESIUS, and GREGORY NAZIANZEN; translated from the Greek, by HUGH STUART BOYD, Esq. with original Poems by the Translator. Sermons on Practical Subjects for the Use of Families. By CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, D. D. Dean of Bocking, in 2 volumes 8vo. SELECT REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 31. A Sermon on the Restoration of AGAIN the good Archdeacon sings "This Psalm was composed by David towards the close of his own reign; and it is imagined that he looked forward in it to the prosperous reign of Solomon his Son. The glory of that peaceful reign had been set forth in the word of Prophecy by the lips of Nathan; but the views of David evidently reached beyond the reign of Solomon; and his words in the Psalm from which the text is tai.en, point most manifestly to the coming of a promised Saviour who is called so significantly in the page of Prophecy the Prince of Peace.' "At a time when we are met together in the Lord's house to render thanks to God for the blessings and advantages of Peace so happily restored to us after a long and arduous conflict; after years of difficulty in the camp and in the field, accompanied with the customary griefs and burdens which attend upon the state of war, but marked with signal instances of favour from the Great Disposer of Events, and crowned with many a triumph; we may well direct our thoughts and fix our whole attention on the double view of Peace which thus claims our notice in the words of David." After a learned and satisfactory comment on the text, the Preacher thus appropriately proceeds: "The Peace for which we have to lift the voice of gratitude to Almighty God this day, may be said to have celebrated its first solemnities in the hour of Victory; in those moments when the plumes of the victor are wont to be advanced most proudly, and are rarely found unstained with some crimson spots which cannot plead the warrant of a necessary struggle, or borrow their GENT. MAG. October, 1814. excuses from the fury of a doubtful field. In that day which opened the last hold of a baffled Enemy to prevailing arms, the calm voice of Treaty and the words of Peace were heard above the cry of Victory. No proud triumphal arch was lifted in the vanquished Capital. No car of victory was set forth for the gaze of trembling multitudes. The last march and the happy entry of the con quering host was ushered in by the voice of heralds, rather than by the trumpets of the field. And once more we may be allowed to say that the scale does parison is made, and when the cause is not turn against us, when a just comset for judgement. Once more we may be permitted to indulge the delightful expectation that these happy earnests of returning Peace may be followed by fresh conquests over hostile dispositions in men's minds and spirits, and over unjust projects and designs. Such victories have the fairest promise of continuance; they furnish the consolatory pledge of those seasons of enduring Peace, which the text takes for its chosen aim, and proposes for its final object. That aim and object are no other than the Peace of Christian Fellowship among men, undisturbed, and spreading far and wide, until the restless and ungoverned course of pride and discord, of cruel, monstrous policies, the fruit of which is enmity and open War, shall cease for ever, and be no more witnessed in the Christian World." 32. Dibdin's BIBLIOTHECA SPENCERIANA. (Continued from our last, p. 247.) THE Third Volume of this valuable Catalogue opens with the IVth Department; which is designated COLLECTIONS OF CLASSICS, or Corpora Auctorum. These collections refer to Poetical, Oratorical, Agricultural, and Military Writers-and they commence with a copious description of the celebrated Greek Anthology of 1494, printed in capital letters, and of which his Lord ship possesses a copy UPON VELLUM, originally in the collection of the celebrated Lorenzo de Medici. GRAMMAR and LEXICOGRAPHY form the Vth Department; and in this will be found some very elaborate discussions, involving a few of the most curious points of Typographical and Bibliographical research: witness, the de scription 1 scription of the Catholicon of 1460, of the Greek Grammars of Lascaris of the dates of 1476, 1480, 1489, and 1495; of the Terentianus Maurus of 1497; of the Tortellius of 1471, and of the Latin and Teutonic Vocabulary printed by Bechtermuntze of the date of 1469. Of embellishments, those in the articles Etymologicon Magnum, and Suidas, are deserving of particular commendation; while the account of the Breton - French and Latin Dictionary, printed at Lantréguier in 1499, may be deemed worthy of a partial extract. "This Dictionary is among the scarcest and most curious extant. It presents us, in the first place, with the only known work executed at Lantréguier (or Tréguier,) in the XVth century; and appears never to have been examined by Maittaire, Marchand, De Bure, La Serna Santander, or Brunet*. It seems also to have been unknown to the greater number of eminent writers upon the ancient French and Celtic Lanthe works of Pelloutier, Bullet, or Roguages, as we have no mention of it in quefort+. Even Du Cange himself describes it in a manner which makes it rather doubtful whether he had seen it. Edw. Lhuyd, who travelled into Brittany, has no account of it in his Archeologia Britannica; and neither Warton nor Ritson were in the least "I suspect that the above Bibliographers had never seen the volume; for the first two are indebted to the Bibl. Hohendorf, p. 237, no. 1582;-where a copy is described as being en veau fauve, doré et marbré sur tranché.' This copy is probably now in the Imperial Library at Vienna; since the Hohendorf Collection was purchased for that Library. Maittaire and Marchand notice an edition of the same work, with a Latin title, on the authority of the preface of Du Cange, p. xl. xlj. to his Gloss. Med. et Inf. Latin. Marchand adds, Auroit-on imprimé alors deux ouvrages de même genre, dans la même ville, et dans la même année? Ou seroit-ce le même ouvrage attribué à deux différens Auteurs?' This reference to Du Cange, as the Reader will presently see, is incorrect. See the Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 708. notes 9, 10. Hist. de L'Imprim. p. 92. De Bure bas only the following brief and unsatisfactory notice of it: Ouvrage simplement recherché par rapport à sa singularité.' Such a description is little more than an apology for ignorance. Bibliogr. Instruct. vol. iii. p. 74. no. 2296. La Serna Santander thus remarks: c'est la seule impression connue, faite à Tréguier, dans l'ancienne Bretagne. Dict. Bibliogr. Choisi, vol. i. p. 443. This account implies no knowJedge of the volume itself. Brunet attributes the work to PIERRE Auffret Quoatquèveran, and calls it 'Ouvrage rare:' from which we may infer that he had never seen it. Manuel du Libraire, vol.i. p. 76.” +"PELLOUTIER, Histoire des Celtes, 1740. 12mo. See the Table des Auteurs citez dans cet Ouvrage, et des Editions dont on s'est servi,'-following the preface. BULLET: Mémoires sur la Langue Celtique, &c. 1754, folio. Consult the section Quelles sont les sources où l'on trouvera la Langue Celtique.' vol. i. p. 27. ROQUEFORT: Glossaire de la Langue Romane, 1808, 8vo. see vol. i. p. xxix.-xxxj. Whether any notice of the above work may be found in the 'Dict. François-Breton, ou François-Celtique, enrichi de thêmes, par l'A***, Paris, 1756,' 8vo-or in Pelletier's Dict, de la Langue Bretonne, 1752, fol.-or in the Dict. Roman, WaJon, Celtique et Tudesque, &c. par un Religieux, de St. Vannes, Bouillon, 1777,' 4to-I cannot venture to affirm. For these latter works consult the Manuel du Libraire, vol. i. p. 346-7, ii. p. 255; and the Dict. des Ouvrages Anon. et Pseudon. of Barbier edit. 1806, vol. i. p. 160." ◄ ‡ “Ejusmodi etiam est Catholicon Armorico-Franco-Latinum a Joanne Lagadec Diocesis Trecorensis, compositum ad utilitatem Clericorum novellorum Britannia: Ita enim libri titulus concipitur, editi Lantriguieri à Joanne Casnez, v. No vemb. anno MCCCCXCIX.-To which Du Cange subjoins the following note: Extat MS. in Bibliotheca Cl. V. D. Lancelot, qui illud nobiscum pre solita humanitate communicavit, in cujus præfatione hæc leguntur, "Quia complures Britones multùm indigent Gallico, idcirco Joannes Lagadeuc parrochie de Plagonnen Diocesis Trecorensis in artibus et decretis Bachalarius, quamvis indignus ad utilitatem pauperum Clericulorum Britannie, vel rudium in pericia Latinitatis, hoc opusculum composui, &c. Datum die 16 mensis Augusti, anno 1464." Ejusdem videtur ætatis MS. ille codex." Gloss. Med. et Inf. Etat. vol. i. p. xlvii; and not. xl.-xli-as Maittaire and Marchand refer to it. From the whole of this passage, it seems that Du Cange conceives the printer to be the editor; and misnames him Casnez,' for Calvez. He also assigns to the author a name, for whieb, upon the face of the book itself, there is no authority.” acquainted acquainted with it.-In the second place, this publication may be considered as a key to the better understanding of such works (if any now exist) as have been written in the Armorican or Bréton language: a subject, in which every English Antiquary, and lover of old Romances, must ever take an interest. Of the Author of this Dictionary, whether he be Auffret Quoatqueueran, or Lagadeuc, neither Baillet, Fresnoy, Goujet, Niceron, nor the editors of the Bib liothèque Françoise of La Croix du Maine, give the least information: his name never occurring in the indexes to their respective works." The VIth Department, entitled MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS, Occupies the following two-thirds of the volume, and is not yet completed; it being the intention of the Author to open his 4th and last volume with the remaining part of this VIth department; and to subjoin, in the same voJume, the following heads; VII. Books PRINTED IN THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE: VIII. BOOKS PRINTED by WILLIAM CAXTON: IX. Books printed in the ABBEY OF ST. ALBAN'S. X.Books printed by WYNKYN DE WORDE: XI. BOOKS PRINTED by RICHARD PYNSON. To these will be added a SUPPLEMENT, EMENDATIONS, INDEX of AuTHORS and of EDITIONS DESCRIBED; INDEX OF PRINTERS; TABLE OF COL LECTIONS Containing copies of the editions described in the work. We return to the VIth Department, which terminates the third volume. This has probably been the most arduous part of the whole work. To give interest, whether by means of curious research or curious embellishment, to an account of editions of Authors known to few, is an object somewhat difficult of attainment; but when the pains-taking reader examines the articles-Eneas Sylvius, Aquinas, P. de Barberiis, Belial, Brant, Breydenbach, Chronicles (Rome, 1474, Nuremberg, 1493, Cologne, 1499), Eyb, Fasciculus Temporum, Florius, History of the Cross, Hyginus, Orations, aud Publicius, he may judge for himself whether the author has, or has not, succeeded in his object. The article "Joannes de Breydenbach. Peregrinatio in Montem Syon ad Sepulchrum Christi, &c. &c." Printed by Erhard Reüwich. Mentz, 1486, fclo, (pp. 216-228) is thus concluded: "It remains to say a few words respecting the embellishments of this im pression, and the authority of the text. The tasteful Reader cannot have failed to notice, from the foregoing specimens, that some of the wood-cuts are of no ordinary merit. There is a freedom of penciling and of execution—as well as a skilfulness of grouping-about the human figures, that are very rarely to be met with in publications of the same period. The almost uniform prevalence of outline in the Landscapes, renders them frequently harsh and abrupt; and distant objects have too often the force of those in the foreground: but there is frequently a picturesqueness in some of the detached parts (as the first two fac-similes shew) which prove that the artist looked at Nature with a cultivated eye. Even his Shipping, although destitute of light and shade, is full of spirit and effect; and we see in many of his Venetian gallies, and in the figures life and spirit which are the peculiar which direct them, something like that charm of Canaletti's pencil. It is to be given of the Animals; as there is an regretted that not more specimens are appearance of truth about them, which, renders them very interesting. as the last fac-simile but one proves, Rewich distorted or exaggerated what That he saw, in individual objects, or in detached groupes, there is no well-founded reason to conclude, His powers, however, do not improve with the size of his pictures.-Nor have we any strong reason to disbelieve that part of the Narrative which is here disclosed, on the When the Author diverges into history, personal experience of the travellers. or expatiates on causes and effects, or mentions what the accounts of other travellers have furnished him with, there in his Portraits (if I may so speak), may be just ground of scepticism: but whether of things animate or inanimate, there is so much naïveté, so little apparent temptation to falsify, such a wellfounded zeal in the cause of piety, and such a wish to be both instructive and entertaining, that, however we may acquiesce in the want of importance in some of the circumstances detailed, we ought not, without due consideration, to deny them the merit of probability. Boucher de la Richarderie, who has been sufficiently superficial in his account of ult in the superiority of subsequent dethe editions of this work, seems to exting that all adventures must have a ecriptions of the Holy Land; forgetbeginning, and that, in the infancy of printing, and in the absence of public patronage, there is nowhere to be found a more curious and amusing work than the Peregrination of Breydenbach. It is no small criterion of the pecu niary worth of this editio princeps, that the first edition of the French Version of it, printed in 1488, was purchased at the Roxburgh sale by the Duke of Devonshire for 841. See Bibl. Roxburgh, No. 7259. The present fair copy is bound in red-morroco." As further specimens of description, we annex the following: as Audiffredi justly observes, this printer assigns no author whatever to any part: not even dividing his work into sections and epochs: just following his copycompendiosus quidam catalogus'-as he found it: except that (as Audiffredi remarks in a note) he may himself have been the author of the whole of the intelligence which relates to Pope Sixtus able that Audiffredi should not have disIV. Edit. Rom. p. 163. It is remark covered the passages concerning the passages, must imply either his negli. early printers. His omission of such gence or want of good fortune; since Laire, although he gives a tolerably good he says he had examined' the volume. account of this Chronicle, was also ignorant of such passages. Spect. Hist. Typog; Rom. p. 212, note ee. Why Laire is to be censured by Audiffredi, for the exclusive mention of Cardinals BesRiari, and Estoutevilla-because they sarion, Borgia, Roverella, Marco Barbo, are noticed in this Chronicle-does not very clearly appear." "Chronicon Nurembergense. The "Chronicon Pontificum Imperatorumque. Reader is, therefore, probably anxious from any chronicled accounts of Popes and Emperors; but from the text presenting us with the earliest printed memorandum, or statement extant, of the proceedings of some of the ANCIENT PRINTERS on the Continent. If Mentelin, Maittaire *, Schoepflin, or Meerman, had been acquainted with such statements, they might each have taken up very strong positions in favour of the respective artists whose claims they supported. But our account must proceed methodically. "This small volume contains an abridged Chronicle, or Record of Events, from the beginning of the world to the 4th year of the pontificate of Sixtus IV. It was divided into two parts (the first part ending at the year 1312,) and reprinted by Eccard among the Scriptores Medi Evi, tom. i. col. 1150; but the first part was much improved by the assistance of a MS. from the Berlin library, of which the reputed author is Riccobaldi of Ferraria. The second part, from the year 1312, was reprinted from the text of this impression. Muratori, who has also reprinted both parts, (vol. ix. Scriptor. Rer. Italicar.) thinks it safer to ascribe the first part to an anonymous author; but the second (after Eccard) to De Lignamine himself. Yet, "Maittaire relies exclusively upon Labbé, Nov. Bibl. p. 354. po. мIV." Printed by Koberger. Nuremberg, 1493. Folio, (p. 255.) "Editio Princeps. The course of our researches has at length brought us to this very extraordinary volume; which, notwithstanding it is by no interesting to the lovers of ancient printmeans rare, cannot fail to be always ing and ancient engraving. If Koberger had printed only this Chronicle, he would have done enough to place his name among the most distinguished of his typographical brethren; but he has other, and nearly equal, claims to a very marked celebrity. Our object, however, is confined to the book before us. The engravings are upon wood, and are executed by WOLGEMUT and PLEYDENWURFF; the former of whom was the master of Albert Durer. [A specimen of them, in six Portraits, may be seen in our Vol. LXII. p. 501.] When the Reader is informed that there are upwards of Two Thousand Two Hundred * and Fifty impressions (many of them however repeated) of these wooden cuts, he has learnt enough to conceive (if such a Chronicle must at least be a not in possession of the volume) that very amusing production. The ensuing specimens of a few of the more curious desire of obtaining the originals. embellishments must also increase his As *"My friend Mr. G. V. Neunburg but as each leaf is accompanied with possesses a MS list of all these cuts; letter-press, and as the leaves are all numbered, the insertion of it is not necessary." |