, which is in small 4to., is very remarkable and valuable on
account of the binding. This is red leather, stamped with double lines
forming lozenges, and powdered with additional stamps, Or, a lion, a
fleur-de-lys, an eagle, and a star. The whole is on the plain leather,
without any gilding.

But in addition hereto, a full inscription runs along each back, at top
and bottom and each side, stamped with _movable metal types_ applied by
hand, {406} without gold, as is done by the bookbinder to this day in
blind stamping.

The legend on the first back is as follows:

_At top._--"DIEZ . PUCHLE[=I]
_Continued to the right._--IST . S. . MARGRETEN .
_At the bottom._--SCHUEST . AB[=T] . ZU .
_Continued to the left._--S. . KATHERE[=I] . ZU . MUR."

That is,--

"Diez puchlein ist schwester Margreten, sehuest abtisse zu
Sankt Katherein zu Mur."

The legend on the last back is,--

_At top._--"NACH . CRIST .
_Continued to the right._--GEPURT . MCCCCXXXV .
_At bottom._--UVART . GEPUN
_Continued to the left._--D[=E] . DIEZ . PUCH ... K."

That is,--

"Nach Crist gepurt MCCCCXXXV uvart gepunden diez puch ... k."

The whole inscription will therefore be, in English,--

THIS BOOKLET
IS SISTER MARGARET'S,
SISTER-ABBESS AT
SAINT CATHERINE'S AT MUR.

AFTER CHRIST'S
BIRTH, 1435,
WAS BOUN-
DEN THIS BOOK ... K.

A letter or two is illegible, from the injury made by the clasp, before
the last K. Both the clasps are torn away, perhaps from their having
been of some precious metal. Has this K anything to do with Koester?

Can any particulars be given of the abbess, monastery, and town
mentioned?

Is any other specimen of movable _metal_ types known of so early a date?

GEORGE STEPHENS.

Copenhagen.

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PORTRAITS AT BRICKWALL HOUSE.

Among the pictures at Brickwall House, Northiam, Sussex, are the
following portraits by artists whose names are not mentioned either in
Bryan, or Pilkington, or Horace Walpole's notices of painters. I shall
be thankful for any information respecting them.

1. A full-length portrait in oils (small size) on canvas (29 inches
by 24) of a gentleman seated, dressed in a handsome loose gown, red
slippers, and on his head a handsome, but very peculiar velvet cap;
on the ground, near him, a squirrel; and on a table by his side, a
ground plan of some fo