hristina de
Lindesay, Dame de Coucy, 1323.

_Rime di Petrarca et Canconi di Dante._ One of the most important
manuscripts of the two poets, written during the lifetime of Petrarch,
or immediately after his death, by Paul the Scribe for Lorenzo, the son
of Carlo degli Strozzi, a member of one of the noblest families of
Florence.

Lydgate's _Siege of Troy_, probably written for William Carent, of
Carent's Court, in the Isle of Purbeck, about 1420. The volume has
illuminated borders and seventy miniatures, and bears the arms of Carent
at the end.

_Missale Romanum_, six volumes folio, written on vellum in 1510-17 for
Cardinal Pompeo Colonna. The tradition handed down by the family was
that the large full-page illuminations with which the manuscript is
adorned were executed by Raphael about the year 1517, when the owner was
made a cardinal; and there is no doubt that, if not actually by his
hand, the work was done by his followers under his supervision. In all
probability, we may say that the large miniatures are painted by Timoteo
Viti, and the illuminations and arabesques by Litti di Filippo de'
Corbizi.[103]

Some of the more notable of the incunabula are two block-books--the
first Dutch edition of the _Speculum Humanae Salvationis_, and a copy of
the _Ars Memorativa_ printed before 1474-75. Cicero, _Officiorum libri
tres_, printed at Mentz by Fust and Schoeffer in 1465. Lactantius,
_Opera_, printed in the Monastery of Subiaco, near Rome, by Sweynheym
and Pannartz in 1465. Higden's _Polychronicon_ and the _Boke of
Eneydos_, printed by Caxton in 1482 and 1490. The _Chronicles of
England_ and the _Speculum Christiani_, printed by Machlinia. Lyndewode,
_Constitutiones provinciales ecclesiae anglicanae_, printed at Oxford by
Rood and Hunte in 1483-85. The _Croniclis of Engl[=o]de with the frute
of timis_, from the St. Albans press.

Among other books of later dates deserving of special notice may be
mentioned--Vespucci, _Paesi novamente retrovati_, Vicenza, 1507. The
first and very rare edition of the celebrated Thesis of Luther against
the system of indulgences, which he affixed to the gate of the
University of Wittemberg, 1517. _Huon of Bordeaux_, printed by Wynkyn
de Worde about 1534--believed to be unique. Archbishop Parker's _De
Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae_, London, 1572. A magnificent set of De
Bry's _Grands et Petits Voyages_, in one hundred and eighty-two volumes,
1590-1644. A Booke containing all such P