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adults. The first is bare-headed, the two others wear a Flemish head-
dress. Above them, r., is another cupboard, the door of which, arched at
the top, has a large lock and two ornamental hinges. Divided from this
by a pillar is a round-headed window with cliamond panes. The floor of
the chamber is paved. The borcler is a single black line.

[125 x 87.] Fair impression, cut to border-line. The Latin text on the verso.
contains six questions “De penitentia” and part of the replies.

This is another of the cuts, like the Accipies woodcut, which were used in a number
of didactic works, e.g., Niavis, Dialogus. The type of face and the head-dress of the
pupils suggest the style of the Netherlands or lower Ehine. The same cut occurs in
Synonoma et Equiuoca Magistri Joannis de Garlandia, 4to, Gologne, Heinrich Quentell,
24 Dec. 1500. Hain 7476. (In the Print-room).

From tde Bagford collection. (Harl. MS. 5925). Transferred from the Dept. of
MSS., 1814.

HAARLEM.

D 19.

1485. Medicine, Surgeby, and the Seven Ages of Man. Schr. 1882. W.—D 111.

The fourth of the eleven cuts in Bartholommus de Glanvilla, De proprieta-
tibus rerum. Flemish translation, Yanden proprieteyten der dingheu, fol.,
Haarlem, Jacob Bellaert, 24 Dec., 1485. Hain 2522; Campbell 258;
Conway, pp. 68, 242, ?>36; Proctor 9173.

In the foreground 1. is a chamber, open in front, in which a physician
is examining a urinal by the bedside of a sick man. In the open court-
yard before the house a surgeon is performing an operation on the r.
shoukler of a young man who is seated on the ground. These two
scenes appear to be typical representations of medicine and surgery, not
directly connected with the series of the seven ages of man, which
occupy the background. In a landscape beyond the wall of the court-
yard, consisting of two low hills divided by a road, we see seven persons
in the following order (from 1. to r.) : a naked child, a small boy with
a whirligig, a youth with a bow, a young man with a falcon, and three
men of more advanced years standing in a group. The eldest of these
has a staff, but is not in extreme old age. Last of all, a corpse lies on
the ground. The whole is surrounded by a single border-line.

[198 X 140.] A poor impressiou, badly coloured. Yermilion, dull blue, pale
yellow, yellowish green, darker green, lilac, pale brown. The print is cut down to
the border, except at the bottom, where John Bagford (d. 1716) has written on the
margin : “ Prented at Harlern by Jacobert Bellaert, 1485.” The book is in the British
Museum. This cut is reproduced in Sotheby, “ Principia Typographica,” vol i. pl. xlv.

From the Bagford collection (Harl. MS. 5934). Transferred from the Dept. of
MSS.. 1814.

MENTZ.

D 20.

1488. Erhart Rewich. Frontispiece to Breydenbach’s Sanctie Peregrinationes, fol.,
Mentz, 11 Feb. 1486 (Latin), Hain 3956, 21 June, 1486 (German), Hain 3959.
Muther 639, 640 (repr. as frontispiece Bd. i); Proctor 156-7.

A woman, richly dressed and loaded with jewels, stands on a low
Gothic pedestal under a wide arch, the stone-work of which is almost
concealed by a profusion of climbing plants, roses, holly, and acanthus