the others to Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, by
whom they were sold on December 5th, 1898, and five following days.
There were twelve hundred and fifteen lots in the sale, and the sum
obtained for them was ten thousand nine hundred and ninety-two pounds,
eleven shillings. All the books realised good prices, but the
manuscripts were of greater interest and value than the printed volumes.
The following are a few of the principal manuscripts, and the prices
they fetched:--_Testamentum Novum Latinum_, Saec. xii., vellum,
handsomely illuminated, two hundred and twenty-five pounds; Hegesippus,
_De Excidio Judaeorum_, Saec. xii., vellum, in the original Winchester
binding, one hundred and eighty pounds; _Biblia Sacra Latina_, written
on vellum about 1280, with handsomely painted initials, one hundred and
thirty-nine pounds; _Biblia Sacra Latina_, vellum, written about 1300
by an Anglo-Norman scribe, with finely illuminated initials, three
hundred and two pounds; _Josephi Antiquitates Judaicae et de Bello
Judaico Libri_, written on vellum by a French scribe in the thirteenth
century, and beautifully illuminated, three hundred and five pounds;
_Missale Anglicanum_, called the Sherbrooke Missal on account of it
having belonged to the Sherbrooke family of Oxton, County Notts, a
member of the family having inscribed his name in it about 1600; it was
written in the fourteenth century on vellum, and has illuminated
capitals and fine marginal decorations, three hundred and fifty pounds;
Gratianus, _Decretales_, Saec. xiv., vellum, with finely painted and
illuminated initials, two hundred and fifty-five pounds; Virgilius Maro,
_Georgica et AEneis_, written on vellum at the end of the fourteenth or
beginning of the fifteenth century by an Italian scribe, with beautiful
illuminated decorations, one hundred and sixty-four pounds; and _Legenda
Sanctae Catherinae de Senis_, Saec. xv., vellum, handsomely illuminated,
one hundred and forty-nine pounds.

Some of the more notable printed books were:--_S. Hieronymi Epistolae_,
printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz at Rome in 1468, fifty-three pounds;
_Speculum Humanae Salvationis Latino-Germanicum_, printed by G. Zainer at
Augsburg about 1471, one hundred pounds; _Ptolomaei Cosmographia_, Ulmae,
1486, ninety-one pounds; _Dives and Pauper_, printed by Pynson in 1493,
fifty-five pounds; Higden's _Policronicon_, 1495, _Thordinary of Crysten
Men_, 1502, and _The Orcharde of Syon_, 1519, all from the press