PETRO-PROMONTORIENSIS.
[Our correspondent has, he will perceive, misapprehended MR. CORNEY'S suggestion; which is a far more practical one, than a reprint of all the works which issued from the press of Caxton. In the first of the modes which MR. CORNEY now suggests for carrying out his views he appears to us to have hit upon a very happy expedient; which we think may easily be accomplished in a way to do credit to all parties concerned in it, and really to do honour to the memory of William Caxton.]
EPIGRAM ASCRIBED TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
(Vol. iv., pp. 316. 356.)
As your correspondent C. has noticed the copy of Sallust containing the autograph of Mary Queen of Scots, which was presented to the library of this University by our illustrious alumnus JOHN WILSON CROKER, I think it right to send you the following account of it.
The full title is as follows:—
Opera Sallustiana.
Caij Crispi Sallustij inter historicos
nominatissimi, ac veri cum Iodoci Badij
Ascensij expositione perq[ue] familiari opera post nouā
limam et nonnulla nuperrime addita recēter: et subjecta continēt
¶ Pomponij leti Sallustiana recognitio et ejusdem vita et explanatis.
Historicq[ue] descriptio: species et utilitas ac viginti
styli historici precepta.
The words here printed in Italics are in rubric in the original. Then follows on the title-page a table of contents of the volume, with reference to the folio in which each piece is to be found.
Then follows a small square woodcut, representing SS. Peter and Paul holding the sacred handkerchief with the face of Christ impressed upon it; and on each side of this is the date in rubric, thus,
M. CCCCC. □ XXIII.