uthor was lying on his death-bed, his
servant maid, at the suggestion and from the stinginess of
the same heir, burnt many copies of this eighth volume
[which had recently left the press] to light the fire in the
chamber. This intelligence I glean from Vogt, p. 495: it had
escaped Baillet and Morhof. But consult De Bure, vol. vi.,
Nos. 6004-5. Reimannus published a _Bibliotheca
Acroamatica_, Hanov., 1712, 8vo., which is both an
entertaining volume and a useful compendium of Lambecius's
immense work. But in the years 1766-82, KOLLARIUS published
a new and improved edition of the entire commentaries, in
six folio volumes; embodying in this gigantic undertaking
the remarks which were scattered in his "_Analecta
Monumentorum omnis aevi Vindobonensia_," in two folio
volumes, 1761. A posthumous work of Kollarius, as a
supplement to his new edition of Lambecius's Commentaries,
was published in one folio volume, 1790. A complete set of
these volumes of Kollarius's bibliographical labours,
relating to the Vienna library, was in Serna Santander's
catalogue, vol. iv., no. 6291, as well as in Krohn's: in
which latter [nos. 3554, 3562] there are some useful
notices. See my account of M. Denis: post. Critics have
accused these "Commentaries concerning the MSS. in the
imperial library at Vienna," as containing a great deal of
rambling and desultory matter; but the vast erudition,
minute research, and unabateable diligence of its author,
will for ever secure to him the voice of public praise, as
loud and as hearty as he has received it from his abridger
Reimannus. In these volumes appeared the first account of
the Psalter, printed at Mentz in 1457, which was mistaken by
Lambecius for a MS. The reader will forgive my referring him
to a little essay upon this and the subsequent Psalters,
printed at Mentz, in 1459, 1490, &c., which was published by
me in the 2nd volume of the _Athenaeum_, p. 360, 490.]

[Footnote 124: Morhof considers the labours of ANTONIO as
models of composition in their way. His grand work began to
be published in 1672, 2 vols., folio--being the _Bibliotheca
Hispana Nova_: this was succeeded, in 1696, by the
_Bibliotheca Hispana Antiqua_--in two folio volumes: the
prefaces and indexes contain every thing to satisfy the