[64] The reader, if he have leisure and inclination, may consult a long note in the Bibliographical Decameron, vol. i. p. 201, respecting the best authorities to be consulted upon the above very splendid and distinguished performance. Camus is included in the list of authorities referred to.
[65] Seven years have elapsed since the above was written, but no CLASSED CATALOGUE of any portion of the Public Library of Munich has appeared in this country. Speaking of duplicates, not printed in the fifteenth century, it may be worth observing that they have at Munich not fewer than six copies (double the number of those at Strasbourg;) of the ACTA SANCTORUM; good handsome copies in vellum binding.
[Since the first edition of this Tour was published, several copies of this stupendous, but unfortunately imperfect work, have been imported into England: among which, however, none, to my recollection, have found their way from MUNICH. Indeed, the heavy expense of carriage is almost an interdiction: unless the copies were obtained at very moderate prices.]
[66] [See vol. ii. p. 147. Renouard, L'Imprim. des Alde, vol. i. 36- 7. There are however, NOW, I believe, in this country, FIVE copies of this very rare book; of which four are perfect.]
[67] The copy in question had, in 1595, been the property of F. Gregorius, prior of the monastery of Sts. Ulric and Afra at Augsbourg: as that possessor's autograph denotes.
[68] The principal of these "tempting articles" were a fine first Statius of 1502, Asconius Pedianus, 1522. Cicero de Officiis, 1517, and Leonicerus de Morbo Gallico--with the leaf of errata: wanting in the copy in St. James's Place. But perhaps rarer than either, the Laurentius Maoli and Averrois, each of 1497--intended for presents. But Mr. Stoeger had forgotten these intended presents--and charged them at a good round sum. I considered his word as his bond--and told him that honest Englishmen were always in the habit of so considering the words of honest Germans. I threatened him with the return of the whole cargo, including even the beloved Greek Hours. Mr. Stoeger seemed amazed: hesitated: relented: and adhered to his original position. Had he done otherwise, I should doubtless have erased the epithet "honestissimus," in all the copies of the sale catalogue above alluded to, which might come within my notice, and placed a marginal emendation of "avidissimus."
[69] It may be a novel, and perhaps gratifying, sight to the reader to throw his eye over a list (of a few out of the fifty articles) like the following:
| Flor. | Kreutz. | |
| Liber Moralizat. Biblic. Ulm. 1474. Folio. Fine copy | 11 | |
| Biblia Vulg. Hist. Ital. Venet. Giunta 1492. Fol | 8 | |
| Horatius. Venet. 1494. 4to. Fig. lig. incis. | 11 | |
| Cronica del rey don Iuan. Sevilla. 1563. 4to. | 11 | |
| Breviarium. Teutonicè. 4to. In MEMBRANIS. A most beautiful and spotless book. It contains only the Pars Hyemalis of the cathedral service. | 11 | |
| Dictionarium Pauperum. Colon. 1504. 8vo | 1 | |
| Pars quart. Ind. Orient. Francof. 1601. | 5 | 30 |
| Fabulæ Æsopicæ. Cura Brandt. 1501. Folio. Perhaps a matchless copy; in original binding of wood. Full of cuts | 55 | |
| Thirteen different opuscula, at one florin each; many very curious and uncommon | 13 | |
| The Lord's Prayer and Creed--in the German language--printed by "Fricz Crewsner," in 1472: folio: broadside. Perhaps UNIQUE | 22 |
The florin, at the time of my residence at Munich, was about 1s. 9d.
[70] [However severely I may have expressed myself in a preceding page (105) of the general condition of this huge Inn, yet I cannot but gaze upon the subjoined view of it with no ordinary sensation of delight when I remember that the three-windowed room, on the first floor, to the right--close to the corner--was the room destined to be graced by the BOOK TREASURES above mentioned. This view may also serve as a general specimen of the frontage of the larger Inns in Bavaria.]