58. ` The Siege of the noble and invyncyble Cytee of Rhodes,' fol.
59. 'Statuta spud Westmonasterium edits, anno primo Regis Ricardi Well,' fol. 60. 'Statutes' made in the let, 2nd, and 3rd Parliaments of Henry VII., folio. (The only fragment of this work known consists of two leaves.) 61. The Accidence,' (mentioned in one of the sale catalogues of the library of T. Martin of Palgrave.) 62. The Prouffytable Boke of manes souls, called The Chastysing of Goddcs Chyldern; fol. 63. 'Home,' &c., 12mo, a fragment of eight pages now at Oxford, in the library bequeathed to the Bodleian by the late F. Douce, Esq.
To these we may now add a volume by Caxton, recently added to the fine collection in the British Museum, and hitherto undeacribed by any bibliographer. It is a collection of prayers, commencing with those called ' The Fifteen O's,' from each prayer commencing with the exclamation "0." The colophon bears that they are "enprinted bi the comaundementes of the most bye & vertuoue pryncesse Elizabeth by the grace of God Quer) of England & of Fraunce, and also of the right bye and most noble p Margaret moder unto our souersyn Ionia the Kyag (Ileary their most humble aultget it esruaunt William (/,.s.ton." There is no date in the book, but it ta seated in U. Museum catalogue that the typo resemblea that of Carton's' Virgil' of 1490. This unique volume was purchased by the Museum in 1851 of Mr. Pickering the bookseller.
la the elterloanlogio,' Yoh 31 for 1846, is • paper by J. Winter
Joao.. DI., the prevent Keeper of the Printed Books at the British Mumum. on two volume* in the Museum collection, one called ' Meditations sur lee Sept Pseaulinem PenitenciauIx,' the other, a French version of the 'Cordials sive de quatuor Noviseimie,' which Mr. Jones shows to be in Caxton's types, and to have issued in all probability from the press of Caxton. Neither of these volumes appear to have heels known to any previous bibliographer.
Dr. laibdin has included, among the printed works of Caxton, ' OuTd. his Books of Mets.morphoee, translated sod fynyeehed by me Irritant Caxton at Weatmestre the xxij. day of Apryll, the yere of our lord And the xx yero of the scene of hyng Edward the fourth,' but it remains in manuscript only, as far as is known. in the Peel-den collection now deposited in Magdalen College, Cambridge, and consist. of the last five books of the 'Metamorphoses' only.
The two largest assemblage* of the productions from Caxton's prises now known are those In the British Museum, and in Earl Spencer. library at Althorp. The title* given in the present article have been collated with the books in the former of these collections.
(Lewis, Ltfe of atsion, 8vo, London, 1737 ; Oldys'a account of him lo the Biogropaie /iritormica ; 1Varton, Hist. Engl. Poetry ; the first volume of Dibdin's edit. of Amea's Typogr. A otiguitia ; Chalmers, Biog. Pict. ; Knight, IFillions Caxton ; a Biography.)