med the Cardinal, 'that thou hast
protracted my life to the completion of these biblical
labours.' Afterwards, when conversing with his friends,
Ximenes would often observe that the surmounting of the
various difficulties of his political situation did not
afford him half the satisfaction which he experienced from
the finishing of his Polyglott. He died in the year 1517,
not many weeks after the last volume was published." Gomez,
or Gomecius's work "_de rebus gestis, a Francisco Ximenio
Cisnerio Archiepiscopo Complut_," 1569, fol., is a book of
very uncommon occurrence. It is much to be wished that Lord
Holland, or Mr. Southey, would give us a life of this
celebrated political character: as the biographies of
Flechier and Marsolier seem miserably defective, and the
sources of Gomez to have been but partially consulted. But I
must not let slip this opportunity of commemorating the
book-reputation of XIMENES, without making the reader
acquainted with two other singularly scarce and curious
productions of the press, which owe their birth to the
bibliomanical spirit of our Cardinal. I mean the "_Missale
mixtum secundun [Transcriber's Note: secundum] regulum B.
Isidori, dictum Mozarabes, cum praefat._" _A. Ortiz._ Toleti,
1500, fol. and the "_Breviarium, mixtum," &c._ _Mozarabes._
Toleti, 1502, fol.: of the former of which there was a copy
in the Harleian collection; as the ensuing interesting note,
in the catalogue of Lord Harley's books, specifies. I shall
give it without abridgment: "This is the scarcest book in
the whole Harleian collection. At the end of it are the
following words, which deserve to be inserted
here:--Adlaudem Omnipotentis Dei, nec non Virginis Mariae
Matris ejus, omnium sanctorum sanctarumq; expletum est
Missale mixtum secundum regulam beati Isidori dictum
Mozarabes: maxima cum diligentia perlectum et emendatum, per
Reverendum in utroq; Jure Doctorem Dominum Alfonsum Ortiz,
Canonicum Toletanum. Impressum in regal. civitate Toleti,
Jussu Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Domini D. Francisci
Ximenii, ejusdem civitatis Archiepiscopi. Impensis Nobilis
Melchioris Gorricii Novariensis, per Magistrum Petrum
Hagembach, Almanum, anno salutis nostrae 1500, Die 29o
mensis Januarii." "This is supposed to be the ancient Mis