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No. 3345. Tewrdranckhs, Poema Ger

manica, Norimb. fol. 1517.

ON VELLUM*

No. 3376. Terentianus Maurus de Literis,

Syllabis, et Metris Horatii.
Mediol. fol. 1497

This is judged to be the
only copy of this edition in
England, if not in the whole
world. Dr. Askew could find
no copy in his travels over
Europe, though he made
earnest and particular search
in every library which he had
an opportunity of consulting.'
Note in the catalogue. It
was purchased by Dr. Hun-
ter, and is now in his Mu-
seum. Originally it belonged
to Dr. Taylor, the editor of
Lysias and Demosthenes,
who originally procured it
from the Harleian Library,
for four guineas only. We
are told that, during his
life, one hundred guineas

would not have obtained it!

£. s. d.

21 0 0

12 12 0

*This is a book of uncommon rarity. It is a poetical composition on the life and actions of the Emperor Maximilian I. and was frequently reprinted;

RARE and magnificent as the preceding articles may be considered, I can confidently assure the reader, that they form a very small part of the extraordinary books in Dr. Askew's library. Many a ten and twenty pounder has been omitted-many a Prince of an edition, passed by unregarded! The articles were 3570 in number; probably comprehending about 7000 volumes. They were sold for £.4000.

IT remains only to add, that Dr. AsKEW was a native of Kendal, in West

but not with the same care as were the earlier editions of 1517 and 1519-the latter at Augsburg, by John Schouspergus. Kollerus, who purchased a copy of this work on vellum, for 200 crowns, has given a particular description of it. See Schelhorn's Amanitates literariæ.' tom, ii. 450: iii. 144.

Dr. HUNTER purchased Dr. Askew's copy, which I have seen in the Museum of the former: the woodcuts, 118 in number, justify every thing said in commendation of them by Papillon and Heinekin. Probably Dr Askew purchased the above copy of Osborne, for I find one in the Bibl. Harleian. vol. iii. No. 3240. See too Bibl. Mead. p. 239, No. 43, where a VELLUM copy of an edition of 1527 was sold for £.9 9s.

moreland; that he practised as a physician there with considerable success, and, on his establishment in London, was visited by all who were distinguished for learning, and curious in the fine arts. Dr. MEAD supported him with a sort of paternal zeal; nor did he find in his protegé an ungrateful son*. Few minds were probably more congenial than were those of Mead and Askew: the former had, if I may so speak, a magnificence of sentiment which instilled into the latter just notions of a character aiming at intellectual fame. Dr. Askew, with less pecuniary means of gratifying it, evinced an equal ardour in the pursuit of books, MSS. and inscriptions. I have heard from a very worthy old gentleman, who used to revel 'midst the luxury of Dr. Askew's table, that few men exhibited their books and pictures, or, as it is called, shewed the Lions, better than did the Doctor. Of his attainments in Greek and Roman literature it becomes not me to speak,

* See The Director, vol. i. p. 309.

when such a scholar as Dr. PARR has been most eloquent in their praise.

I SHOULD add that the MSS. of Dr. Askew were separately sold in 1781, and produced a very considerable sum. The Appendix to Scapula, published in an 8vo. volume, in 1789, was compiled from one of these MSS.

Published by LONGMAN, HURST, REES, and ORME, Paternoster Row; J. HATCHARD, Bookseller to Her Majesty, 190, Piccadilly; and WILLIAM MILLER, Albemarle Street.

Printed by William Savage, Bedford Bury.

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