t bustling and civil. He frequently
devoted one of the best rooms in his house to large, roaring, singing,
parties--in which he took a decided lead, and kept it up till past
midnight.

[4] [The late Duchess of OLDENBURG.]

[5] See vol. ii. p. 356.

[6] [This Public Library is now pulled down, and another erected on the
site of it.]

[7] In one of these copies is an undoubtedly coeval memorandum in red ink,
thus: "_Explicit liber iste Anno domini Millesio quadringentissimo
sexagesimosexto_ (1466) _format^{9} arte impssoria p venerabilem
viru Johane mentell in argentina_," &c. I should add, that,
previously to the words "_sexagesimosexto_" were those of
"_quiquagesimosexto_"--which have been erased by the pen of the
Scribe; but not so entirely as to be illegible. I am indebted to M. Le
Bret for the information that this Bible by Mentelin is more ancient
than the one, without date or place, &c. (see _Bibl. Spencer_, vol. i.
p. 42, &c.) which has been usually considered to be anterior to it. M.
Le Bret draws this conclusion from the comparative antiquity of the
language of Mentelin's edition.

[8] This was the _second_ copy, with the same original piece, which I
had seen abroad; that in the Library of the Arsenal at Paris being the
first. I have omitted to notice this, in my account of that Library,
vol. ii. p. 156-7, &c.

[9] [Both volumes will be found particularly described in the _AEdes
Althorpianae_, vol. ii. p. 285-290.]

[10] Lord Spencer has recently obtained a PERFECT COPY of this most rare
edition--by the purchase of the library of the Duke di Cassano, at
Naples. See the _Cassano Catalogue_, p. 116.

[11] A very particular description of this rare edition will be found in
the _Bibl. Spencer_, vol. ii. p. 141.

[12] See the _Bibliographical Decameron_, vol. i. p. cxcviii.

[13] See vol. ii. p. 73.

[14] See _Ottley's History of Engraving_, vol. i. p. 86; where a
fac-simile of this cut is given--which, in the large paper copies, is
coloured.

[15] See vol. ii. p. 134-5.

[16] The SFORZIADA: See the Catalogue of his Library, no. 7559.

[17] The prologue of this metrical life begins thus:

_Ecce tuis parui uotis uenerande sacerdos
Cor quia de vro feruet amore mihi
Pontificis magna wilbroodi et psulis almus
Recurrens titulis inclyta gesta tuis
Sit lux inferior