Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . Vatican Greek Teftamenr, ninehundred years old, written in capitals, with the accents. The gofpel of S. Luke and S. John in Latin, eight hundred,years old, written moftly in capitals. A Virgil, one thoufand four hundred years old, (as they fay)with limnings of no extraordinary performance.—I confefs Ithought them fadly done, however valued there for their anti-quity. It is written in capitals on vellom. The four difputedlines which often ftand at the beginning of the JEneld [HieEgo, &c] a
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . Vatican Greek Teftamenr, ninehundred years old, written in capitals, with the accents. The gofpel of S. Luke and S. John in Latin, eight hundred,years old, written moftly in capitals. A Virgil, one thoufand four hundred years old, (as they fay)with limnings of no extraordinary performance.—I confefs Ithought them fadly done, however valued there for their anti-quity. It is written in capitals on vellom. The four difputedlines which often ftand at the beginning of the JEneld [HieEgo, &c] are not in this copy. There are arguments in verfebetore each book, a circumftance which feems to me to favourof a later age. They never fail of mewing an Englifhman KingHenrys bookof the feven Sacraments againft Luther, with a writing of thekings ovyn hand in the beginning, which I tranfcribd, An*lo-rum rex Henricns, Leo decime, mittit hoc opus, & fidei. te-Jlem, & awkitm. Henry, king of England, O Leo X. fends this work, a teflimony both of his faith and of hisI friendihip. c When, ZJO. ROME. VATICAN. When they have fhewd you how good a Catholick he oncewas, they prefently bring forth his letters to Anna Bullen, whothey fay made him an apoftate. There are fome in French,fome in Englifh; in feveral of them his majefty is very gay:. Hopes in a little time to kifs her pretty bubbies, & that which Mr. Addifon has given us, there are feme littlemiftakes: inftead of [your lifters mother] it is [your fifter ma-ter, or, matez] (there is a fort of r like a z), and there is nomention of a lord Manwring ; it is, [ write to my lord myne mind therein.] Mr. Addifon does not fay he tranferibd theletter himfelf. In an ancient officio, or miffal, are fome curious limnings,reprefenting the hiftory of the B. Virgin. Some other miffals, finely adornd in the fame manner, byGiulio Clovio. An hiftory of the lives of two dukes of Urbino, with fomeof the ftories painted in them, by the fame maft
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