poden audiuimus cepalmarin die
Come audiamus de canai facramento écailtie
Appropiquate tye dps volnit fubie pallioes
decreuit p menoziah ppemo mthtue fat incoces
Dea noll fnam diciffima dilcione &mold red
Placuit ipi ut fcipum nobis in cibi care
Ja olim in mana celi fuit prefiguratum
e filijs ifrahel in deferto erad conatum
Megna dilciowem ons indeis videt exhibuifle
Sifonics magis pinber noli contuliffe
Debit tubeis pane mana licz tyalez male
Dobis ete otulig penem fup (bele zemale
Mama dirbat pais ceh with fingitelovo
Sarai fungi aere tine icelo acceo
pe fahingoz me panis ber?z vni?
Quite celo vero defcétés fort?e nr abus

Ci delcederet mane ditebat hilz ws ch
Bonia ad dininamappen glolacionem
pimgdigms au cukaiftia filofert grati
Mana end albi zab'mod mine tädidum
Pqo immit coicie dz haec puzz müdum
Mana hebat in fe oë deloameni cibi ceteftis'

cukaiha Heile of defcamētu tibi alelbis
Helcamenta no fentiri facramenti mafticate
$31fcie mcviracionibz z celeftin grephacoe
guft?mane ivez laporan farti volebat gutebat
Souladi pi nall? fapor hirmudi affilát
Bedelcamétum h?cleo mchumi reputaci
Qme hac dulce dielemel guttered
Betr&hac dulceome imometaboz guftabat
Stati ibi talinadam face zip mant affectabat
peepit moyles plo utmadan folozi cewe

Juttis ergo de lohi mo figuris vel pais rbundet fingh pho die fibi vmigomos colligerent
Nobis aq figura la vitatem cei peme otulic
Polibi gp mita fuerit i mana fight molta
Queifera hentaiftia fr veacif ofumata
Mana celi balte miabil nature ce viceba
Quia radio fol'ficbagendine idunbat
Ita cukailia Tazdibs vas dyrenela

Quadpatoibat no pl?gomoz habuerunt
conigi minculole op viatorce qpl' collegerat
Silezilli qab plena met collige no potuert
Cuad ppzia rediered plenamente muenerunt
o pleheille ritm vnü accipit
Sic comultis qphires hofties recepit
dhe mis illi of icegra ul ples fupferunt
Silezilli' qui pridem hottie faplerunt
Grödi vi capl'o

Leaf 31 from a M.S. Speculum Humana Salvationis"

miniature." "The Missal," says Dibdin, "frequently displays the arms of these noble personages," (John, Duke of Bedford, and of his wife Jane, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy,) "and also affords a pleasing testimony of the affectionate gallantry of the pair: the motto of the former being 'A VOUS ENTIER;' that of the latter, 'J'EN SUIS CONTENTE.'” Among its ornaments are emblems or symbols of the twelve months, and a large variety of paintings derived from the Sacred Scriptures, many of which possess an emblematical meaning.

Not aiming at any exhaustive method in the information we gather and impart respecting Emblem works and editions previous to the year A.D. 1500, we pass by the very numerous other instances in support of our theme which a search into manuscripts would supply. The "Block-Books,"* which, in the main, are especially emblematical, we next consider. We select two instances as representative of the whole set ;-namely, the “BIBLIA PAUPERUM," Bibles of the Poor, and the "ARS MEMORANDI," The Art of Remembering.

In his "BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DECAMERON," vol. i. p. 160, Dibdin tells us, “The earliest printed book, containing text and engravings illustrative of scriptural subjects, is called the Historics of Foseph, Daniel, Judith, and Esther. This was executed in the German language, and was printed by Pfister at Bamberg in 1462. It is among the rarest of typographical curiosities in existence." Dibdin's dictum is considerably modified, if not set aside, by Noel Humphreys; who, though affirming, p. 41, that "a late German edition of the Biblia Pauperum has the date 1475, but that before that period editions had been printed at

One of the earliest and most curious of the Block-books, Biblia Pauperum, has been reproduced in fac-simile by Mr. J. Ph. Berjeau, from a copy in the British Museum.