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41 S NOTICES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS. musical notes and rubrics, by an English scribe towards the close of tho fifteenth century. Uf the Hours, the Library is rich in having five examples, of which two are of English, and two of French art, of unequal merit, and all of the fifteenth century. Of the Psalter, the collection contains six copies, all more or less illumi- nated, and one of them, — a superb illustration of French art, about 1320, — is nobly embellished with eleven large initial letters, each occupy- ing nearly half the page, and enclosing subjects of rare beauty both in design and execution. In addition to the MS.'^. of the Holy Scriptures and the Services of the Church, Lambeth Lil)rary al.so includes some miscellaneous ones of considendile value. Amongst them are the " Dictes and Sayings of the riiilosdphers " (a work printed by Caxton in 1477), a small folio of the fifteenth century, aflbrding the only portrait known to be extant of Edward V. ; " a grand folio " Chronicle of St. AIikiu's," of the same jieriod, stored with quaint paintings of historical events, evidently by a French pencil ; a volume of Miscellaneous Treatises in Latin, ranging from the tenth to the fifteenth century, and comprising an " Anglo-Saxini " illustrated transcript of the well-known treatiseof .Aldhelm, Bishop of Sher- borne, " De Virginitate "; Genealogical and Heraldic Collections relating to the English and French nobility, many of them in the hand- writing of Cecil, lord l>urleigh, and decorated with coloured coats of arms; an exceedingly valuable and interesting MS., consisting of cojiies of various Kec<jrds relating to the rights and ]'rivileges of the clergy, collected ami written on vellum at the expense of Arclibisliop Laud in l<i;{7; and a very important series of Uegistci-s of the Archl»ishops of Canterbury from ll'74 to 1714. The printed books in the Lamlieth Library, possessing illustrations, are about eighty in number,and, in Mr. Kershaw's estimation, " di.splay various degrees of excellence and interest, both as regards the style of the engravings, and the subjects illustrated." Our space only allows UH to allude to them. Liberty to examine the Lambeth MSS. has, up to a recent period, been " beset with unavoidable ditHculties." These, however, exist no longer; and visitoi-s to the Library will receive from its accomplished curator obliging attention. Literary men, art students, and art lovcre, anti- (juaries, and ecclesiologists will be well rewarded l)y an inspection of the " Treusine.s," which Mr. Kei.shaw has done so much to bring to light; and with him we feel hincerely gratefid to the present urbane and highly- gifted occupant of the Metropolitical throne, for allowing liis Liliiaiian Vj publish the able and useful Manual which has been the subject of this notice. .1. I'. I{. " Thi« MS. waM «xliibit«cl in tho temporary Mmmpiiih of tli.- InMtitiit<« at UDcliuHter in H'JS.— Arch. Jourii., vol. xx., |.. as.'J.