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NOTES:-The Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 201- Letter of Hood's-Ravenshaw's and Rockstro's "Ferial " Lincoln Stuff Ball - Doll-"Chapter and verse "Coupon" Advertisements-Buckinghamshire Words-To My Pipe-The First Iron Vessel, 206-Italian Wedding Books-Nick-nackatory-"Begot"-" Boycotting," 207. QUERIES:- Portraits of Sir Cloudesley Shovell -"The Indian Queen," 207-The British Oak-Tomlins's New Town, Paddington-Ravenscourt Park, Hammersmith"Behold the Man"-Bp. Seabury-Fawsley and the Knightly Family-"SS." affixed to a Rotulus-Somerville Family" Bedwardine"-J. Walters, Painter, 208-Furness Abbey-" Bo-man" LL.B. and B.C.L. at Cambridge The Ancient "Bowrake"-"The Five-foot-highians" Authors Wanted, 209. The counterfeit is a folio of 236 leaves. I will further note a Latin version of sundry Greek opuscula, the Tabula of Cebes, the Dial. de Virtute of Lucian, &c., printed by Bened. Hectoris in 1497, and Angelo Politian's Latin version of Herodian, printed by Plato de Benedictis in 1493. The last two books are described in the Bibliotheca Spenceriana (ii. 38; iii. 250). Finally, there may be mentioned a curious little comedy, the Scornetta of Herm. Knuyt de Slyterhoven, printed by Hier. de Benedictis in 1497. This is often wrongly cited as Scorretta, through a mistake of Molini (p. 112). Of early Ferrara books there are but few. It will suffice to mention the Astronomicon of Hyginus, printed by Aug. Carnerius in 1475, and the life and epistles of St. Jerome, in the Italian version of Matheo da Ferrara. This was printed by Lor. de Rossi in 1497. It is perhaps worth noting that there must have been several slightly REPLIES:-"Harpings of Lena," 209-Parochial Registers, 211-" Auld Robin Gray," 212-St. Margaret's Churchyard, Westminster-"Bred and born," 213-"Deck" of Cards-Varying impressions of this edition, for some copies "Hilaris gens," &c.-Fiedler's German Version of the "Canterbury Tales"-Ancient Mottoes, 214-" Sydney," &c."Teagle": "Sectacle," 215-Lister of Arnolds-Gentles: Mudwall" Alkermes" Dedication of Church BellsAssize of Bread, &c., 216-"Gombeen "-Funeral Armour xxiil 15-"Bussock," 217-J. Dickinson-The "Catholicon Anglicum"-"Kerr-The Colour of Mary Queen of Scots' Hair-Numismatic, 218-Eboracum-Authors Wanted, 219. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Foster's "Peerage, Baronetage, and in Churches-Bessels-The Two H. Hally wells-St. Luke Knightage of the British Empire." Notices to Correspondents, &c. Notes. THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, (Continued from p. 182.) are said to be dedicated to the Doge of Venice, Ag. Barbadico, and others to Eleonora d'Este, Duchess of Ferrara. In the copy now before me, however, there is, on the page cited as containing the dedication (the verso of fol. 5), a full-page woodcut of St. Jerome. In a large woodcut border on the recto of fol. 6, and again near the end of the book, is the date 1493, presumably that of the engraving, but I can find no trace of the date 1494, spoken of by Graesse (iii. 275). Of early Florentine printing there is here much of interest. Of the proto-typographer, Bern. Cennini, I can produce nothing; and of the next in order, John of Maintz (Joh. Petri de Magonza), but one book of late date, an edition of the Imitatio Christi (1497), here attributed to The year 1471 was an eventful one in the John Gerson. From the press, however, of history of Italian printing. It saw presses intro- Nicolas of Breslau (Nic. Laurentii, Nicolo duced into Bologna, Ferrara, Florence, Milan, Tedescho) several of interest may be cited: (1) Naples, Pavia, and Treviso. Of Bolognese books Celsus, edited by Barth. Fontius (1478); (2) Berour chief treasures are Ovid's Fasti (1471), and linghieri's Geographia in Terza Rima, with its the Libro de la Divina Providentia of St. thirty-one maps engraved on copper, a large folio, Catherine of Siena (1472?), printed by Balth. undated, but printed about 1480; (3) the Dante Azoguidi, the proto-typographer of Bologna; the of 1481. This edition, a large folio, is the earliest Astronomicon of Manilius, printed by Ugo Ru- published with Landino's commentary, and congerius and his partner. I may also refer to two tains copper-plate engravings by Baccio Baldini, editions of works of that "admirable Crichton" of from the designs of Sandro Botticelli. Of these his day-Joh. Picus Mirandola-the Disputa- the number varies in different copies, the two in tiones adversus Astrologiam Divinatricem, and his the college library containing only the two that Commentationes. Of these, editions were printed are generally found at the beginning of the first by Bened. Hectoris in 1495 and 1496 respectively. and second cantos of the Inferno. In the copy in Besides these, there is also before me an edition the Grylls collection there are also twenty-one of the above, bearing the same printer's name small coloured illustrations, cut from a MS. and and the same date as regards the latter work-pasted on to the margin. Our two copies, though March 26, 1496-the other work being undated. This latter edition is generally assumed to be a counterfeit or pirated edition, printed from the foregoing, from which it differs in many points of detail, though presenting a general resemblance. bearing the same date (August 30, 1481), do not agree absolutely. Of the beautiful editio princeps of Homer, printed in 1488 at the expense of the brothers Nerli, two copies are in the library, one in the Raine and the other in the Grylls collection: |