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"In memoriam Octave Delepierre" is an in memoriam text by Nicholas Trübner on Joseph Octave Delepierre.

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IN SORROW, LOVE, AND HOPE UNITED

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LITERATURE has lost one of its most ardent votaries in the person of Octave Dele- PIERRE, who died ripe in years and rich in honours, on the 1 8th of August 1879, as gently and peacefully as he had lived. M. Delepierre, the son of Joseph Delepierre (who for many years held the responsible and important post of Receveur-General of the Province of West Flanders), was born at Bruges on the 13th of March 1802. The father, sharing the admira- tion of his contemporaries for Jean Jacques Rousseau, brought up his son in the system of the latter, in giving him, during his early age, only a physical and moral training, with- out the intervention of the pedagogue. The consequence was, that at the age of twelve

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the boy could neither read nor write, but in compensation, his physique had become finely developed, and his progress when once at school was such, that he was very soon qualified to resort to the University of Ghent for the study of the law. The circle of his more intimate college friends included Professor Moke, Jules de St.Genois (Archiviste, Ghent), M. de Decker, Jules van Praet, and others. After having completed his course, and obtained the degree of doctor of laws, he was appointed to the keepership of the archives of the province of West Flanders in his native city of Bruges. As may be surmised, the archives, owing to the civic troubles of centuries, and, later on, to the upheaval caused by the French Revolution, and consequent great European wars of the First Napoleon, and more recently to the revolution of Belgium in 1830 and its separation from Holland, had got into a state of chronic con- fusion. Here was a great task before him, and Octave Delcpierre soon found himself com- pletely in his element. His methodical mind, combined with an extraordinary power for work, quickly brought order into the chaos around him. But more than this, his excellent scholar- ship, proficiency in palaeography, and love for

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everything mediaeval, enabled him to handle the materials in his keeping — old deeds, charters, cartularies, muniments, and other documents — in a manner not dreamt of by his predecessors. He invested the dead bones with living flesh, reaped from them many curious points of Fle- mish history, biography, antiquities, folk-lore, literature, and dialects, vi'hich he gave to the world in the shape of periodical articles, pam- phlets, and books ; and their number is so great that their titles alone fill a considerable space.^ And, indeed, it may be said that no Belgian during this century has done more good work for his country as a writer than Octave Dele- pierre — not excepting even ReifFenberg, Gach- ard, and Juste. Amongst the best known of these labours is the " Precis Analytique des Documents que renferme le Depot des Archives de la Flandre Occidentale a Bruges," published in three volumes octavo, in 1840-42. He had already published in 1834, " Chroniques, Tradi- tions, et Legendes de I'Ancienne Histoire des Flamands," also translated by himself into English, and published at London in 1845, in two volumes octavo, " Old Flanders, or Popular

^ A complete list of these titles will be found at the end of this notice.

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Legends of Belgium ; " " Dc I'Origine des Flamands, avec une Esquissc de la Litterature Flamande ; " " Histoire de Charles Ic Bon ; " "La Belgique Illustr^c," in 1841, in which year also appeared his " Marie de Bourgogne." But it was chiefly his beloved native city oF Bruges which was benefited by his labours. He was among the first, by numerous publica- tions, to direct c:eneral attention to her ancient picturesque architecture, to her precious relics, art treasures, and legends. Under these cir- cumstances M. Delepierre could not fail to be looked upon as the leading authority on all matters connected with the city. In 1835 he issued " Pr(fcis des Annales de Bruges, jusqu'au commencement du XVIP Siecle, augment6 d'une Histoire de THotel de Ville," &c. ; and in 1840, "Album Pittoresque de Bruges," a folio volume of lithographic views of the prin- cipal buildings in the picturesque old city, with letterpress descriptions. In the following year he furnished the text to the large plates repre- sentinsT the " Chasse de Sainte Ursule," ^ from

^ " Chasse de Sainte Ursule ; peinte par Memling, litho- graphee par MM. Ghemar et Manche, de la grandeur des panneux; texte par M. Octave Delepierre." It is a royal folio volume. At the same time another copy of the paintings was issued : " La Chasse de Sainte Ursule, gravee autrait

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Memllng's celebrated pictures, having just pre- viously issued his " Galerie d'Artistes Brugeois," lives of the painters, sculptors, and engravers of Bruges. His own house u^as at once the gem and the literary centre of the city, and became a complete museum. Under his hospitable roof congregated many of the celebrities of all ranks and stations visiting Bruges at that epoch. Among these vi^as the distinguished historian of the University of Bonn, Professor J. W. Loebell, w^ho visited Bruges in 1835, and thus records the kindly attentions of his host, in his "Reisebriefe aus Belgien," published in Berlin in 1837 : "My first visit was to M. Delepierre, to whom I had a letter of introduction. This young and active author, who has already done so much for awakening an enthusiasm for the past of Flanders, received me in a very friendly manner, and has been of the greatest service

par Charles Onghena d'apres Jean Memling ; avec texte par Octave Delepierre et Auguste Voisin," in a royal quarto volume. Independently of these publications, M. Delepierre's name has been associated with that of Memling. In fact, the name of this great painter had long been a subject of dis- cussion. Van Mander calls him Memmelinck ; Descamps and others, Hemmclinck ; and the Spaniards, yi^aw Flamenco. M. Scourion and M. Delepierre showed by incontestable proof that the majuscule which Descamps had mistaken for H, was in reality M.

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to me." [Letter X/., Bruges, 30 Sept. 1835). Other foreigners of distinction who shared his hospitahty wiire the late Lord Lytton, then Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Dr. Dibdin, the emi- nent bibliographer, the celebrated Charles Nodier, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Michelet, Collin de Plancy, author of the " Dictionnaire Infernal," and others. By way of parenthesis, we may mention that when the late Prince Consort, as the affianced of Oueen Victoria, accompanied by his brother, Prince Ernest, passed through Bruges on his way to England, the authorities delegated M. Delepierre to act as his cicerone.

But M. Delepierre's sympathies went further still, embracing as they did the whole of the classical as well as of the old and modern Romanic literatures. His knowledge, judg- ment, and taste — especially in matters apper- taining to French literature — were unrivalled, and those who were in the habit of consulting him on those and similar topics (and they were not a few) will greatly miss his sure guidance. At this period he also edited in 1838, " Le Roman du Renard, d'apres un MS. Flamand du XII' Si^cle," as a companion to his edition of the "Aventures de Tiel Ulenspiegel," which

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appeared in 1835, and was "dedi^e aux biblio- philes Beiges : augmentde de rapprochements litt^raires," &c. Another edition of this singu- lar work was published by M. Delepierre at Brussels in 1840, with illustrations by Lauters. M. Delepierre advocated a Flemish origin for Tiel Ulenspiegel. It could not be otherwise than that, with such gifts and proclivities, Octave Delepierre should develop into a bib- liographer, and cultivate the art of collecting books; and, indeed, the collecting of books is an art, and a high one too, and Octave Dele- pierre came to understand it to perfection. His appetite for books was insatiable, and to gratify it he would put all European book markets into requisition. But he was no biblio- mane in the ordinary acceptance of the term, and least of all a bibliotaph — in other words, he did not care for books solely to put them on the shelves, and, so to speak, bury them. On the contrary, he had hardly a book in his library which he had not read himself, or which he did not with pleasure lend to a brother bibliographer. For these precious qualities his name will ever remain, in the annals of biblio- graphy, associated with those of Dibdin, Nodier, the two Brunets, and others of similar standing.

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Whilst still at Bruges, but smarting from a disregard of his claims to promotion on the part of the then Governor of West Flanders, Octave Delepierre made the acquaintance of the late M. Van de Weyer, which was destined to ripen into a life-long friendship, and to chancre the whole course of his after-life. M. Van de Weyer, with the penetration of the scholar, of the man of the world, and of the statesman, recognised qualities in Octave Dele- pierre fitting him for a wider stage than Belgium had to offer. He induced him, in 1843, to exchange Belgium for England, appointed him one of his secretaries of legation, and on the death of the then Belgian Consul, obtained for him the vacant post. The removal from the sleepy atmosphere of the Belgian provincial town to the mentally invigorating air of London, was considered by Octave Delepierre as one of the most happy events in his life, and he was not long in making himself thoroughly at home in the congenial new sphere. He soon became a great favourite in social and literary London circles, where his handsome person and dignified deportment never failed to impress those present. His own " salon," with its Sunday-evening receptions, was for years

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quite a feature of London life, and admission to it was eagerly sought by English and foreign men and women of literary, artistic, and social distinction. Of the intimates of M. Delcpierre, who were constantly seen at his house, it will suffice to name Douglas Jerrold, Tom Hood, Thomas Colley Grattan, Charles Knight, Dr. Percy, Mr. Dilke, the founder of the AthencBum, and the late Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Dr. Robert Blakey, Dr. Doran, Madame Louise Collet, Mrs. Loudon, Mrs. Maxwell (Miss Braddon), Mrs. Crowe, author of the " Night Side of Nature," and others. Louis Blanc, also, during the time of his English exile, formed a warm friendship for him. M. Van de Weyer never flagged in his attachment to M. Delc- pierre, and was often seen on public occasions with his " fidus achates." Beyond all doubt the attachment was reciprocal, and M. Delcpierre never recovered the shock given him by the death of his friend. In proof of this, it should be stated that he erected to M. Van de Weyer's memory a "monumentum acre per- ennius," by the publication of the works (Choix d'Opusculcs) of the latter, with introductions and annotations. The character given by Morley of M. Van de Weyer was equally

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applicable to his bosom-friend : " No man had a more sunny and genial nature, and more true benevolence of heart ; and no one, honoured with his familiar acquaintance, spoke of him but with warm affection." ^ The Due d'Aumale, himself an ardent student of Archaeology and History, an enthusiastic bibliographer and col- lector of excellent taste, had a high opinion of, and great personal regard for, M. Delepierre, a fellow-contributor with himself to the Trans- actions of the Philobiblon Society.

But in spite of all the numerous official and social claims on M. Delepierre's time, he never abandoned his studies, and constant visitors of the reading-room of the British Museum will always remember the regular appearance of his venerable and well-known form. As early as 1849 he printed one hundred copies, for private circulation only, of an octavo volume of 170 pages: "Description Bibliographique et Analyse d'un Livre Unique qui se trouve au Mus^e Britannique, parTridace-Nafe-Theobrome, Gen- tilhomme Breton (Pseudonyme), Londres, 1849." The book had recently been discovered in

1 Dr. Blakey gives an account of the pleasant reunions at M. Delepierre's house in 1853, in his Diary, recently pub- lished, and some letters of M. Delepierre arc printed in the Appendix to it.

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Germany and secured for the British Museum at a cost of 3000 francs. It contains sixty-four early French mysteries and plays, of which the " Description Bibliographique " gives the titles, plots, and extracts. M. Delepierre's " Descrip- tion " was the pioneer to the " Ancien Theatre Frangais," a collection of Mysteries and Farces, written prior to Corneille, published at Paris in 1854-57 in 10 vols. 8vo, under the editorial care of MM. Jannet, Montaiglon, and Viollet le Due, of which these sixty-four dramas form the first three volumes.

All his greatest and most mature works were produced whilst he resided in England ; but it need hardly be said that the majority of M. Delepierre's works are " caviare " to the multi- tude, though greatly appreciated by scholars, savants, and bibliophiles. The follies of man, his mental and moral aberrations, singularities of literature, enigmas of life and manners, and the like, had a strange fascination for his mind, and were treated by him in preference to sub- jects of more general interest, for which his natural taste, his vast reading, his versatility, and powers of analysis equally fitted him. This power of analysis is fully shown in the follow- ing list of titles of his best known works:

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" Macaroneana des DifFercnts Pcuples de I'Eu- ropc ; " " Macaroneana Andra ; " " Littcrature Macaronique ; " " Histoire Litteraire des Fous ; " " Essai sur les Rebus ; " " Revue des Ouvrafres dcrits en Centons ; " "Tableau de la Litterature du Centon ; " " La Parodic chez Ics Grecs, les Remains, ct les Modernes ; " " Supercheries Littdraires, Pastiches, Suppositions d'Auteur dans les Lettres et dans les Arts ; " and "L'Enfer, Essai Philosophique sur les Ldgcndes de la Vie Future." In 1852, jointly with M. Gustave Brunet, he issued at Brighton : " Biblioth6que Bibliophile- Fact^tieuse. Editee par les Fr^res Gebdodd. Premiere Publication. Tird ci 60 Exemplaires pour le Commerce/' consisting of a reprint of " Le Premier Acte du Synode Nocturne," by Guillaumc Reboul. In 1854 the "Seconde Publication " appeared, 129 pages of reviews and analyses of fourteen rare and curious French and Italian books, by these eminent bibliographers; and the *'Troisi^me Publication," " Chansons Historiques et Satiri- ques sur la Cour de France," with illustrative notes, was published in 1856. M. Delcpierre's excellent manual of Flemish literature appeared in i860 : "A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature and its celebrated Authors from the

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Twelfth Century down to the Present Time, compiled from Original Sources," and a curious and interesting volume, his " Historical Diffi- culties and Contested Events," in 1868. In the Necrologie of the Paris Philohihlion of September, in reference to the writings of M. Delepierre, his friend Gustave Brunet states, " La plupart de ses ouvrages, tires a petit nom- bre, sont devenus difficiles a se procurer ; ils ont trouve place dans les cabinets des bibliophiles instruits qui les apprecient comme ils le meri- tent." In the " Avant-propos " to his recent reprint of " Maranzakiniana " (1875), M. Gus- tave Brunet mentions M. Delepierre as " Un des philologues les plus laborieux de notre temps, chez qui un jugement exquis se joint a une instruction aussi solide qu'etendue." In addi- tion to the above article in the Philohihlion of September, M. G. Brunet has contributed a very long and laudatory article on M. Dele- pierre to the January (first) number of the new Paris bibliographical periodical, Le Livre. It may also be mentioned here, that M. Leon Techener, the editor of the Bulletin du Bib- liophile, has devoted to M. Delepierre an appreciative article in the November number (1879) of that journal.

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It was sometimes remarked that by his rapid production M. Delepierre damaged the quaHty of his work. To judge from the quantity of a man's works of their quaHty is an uncritical proceeding, to say the least. What, we would ask, would have become of the works of volumi- nous writers, such as Erasmus, the Stephenses, and others, if judged by such a standard ? So in the case of M . Delepierre. His reading was wide, his mind a storehouse of the most comprehensive knowledge. He knew himself to be in posses- sion of a vast number of rare, perhaps unknown facts, and by his very nature he felt compelled to throw them off, fearless of their resulting in an abortion, and indifferent alike to praise or censure. That he was wise in so doing we are sure, for it is not given to any man, save a poet, to arrive at the ideal. Faire et refaire is a good device for a Victor Hugo, but for the man of letters who has to deal with the results of a life of varied reading, in order to make the world of ordinary readers acquainted with treasures they would never find for themselves, life is too short to go on refining for ever, and some- thing must be left to posterity. But for all that, none of the principal of M. Delepierre's works on which his fame must rest bear the

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traces of hurrv. On the contrary, they all show the result of conscientious study, critical acumen, and of careful workmanship. Of his minor works, many profess to be no more than materials thrown into a permanent form to protect them from ultimate loss, and they were given to the world only for what they are worth. M. Delepierre was a member of various lite- rary societies in England, France, and Belgium. Several Englishmen, fervent bibliophiles, con- ceived in 1853 the idea to found a new literary club, in emulation of those which have always subsisted in Great Britain, such as the Rox- burghe Club, the Camden Society, the Banna- tyne Club, and others. The Due d'Aumale, at that time residing in England, M. Van de Weyer, Lord Houghton, Lord Duffer in, were the promoters of this association. The number of the members, originally fixed at thirty-six, was finally increased to forty. M. Delepierre was elected as one of the secretaries of the Philo- hihlon Society. It would have been impossible to have made a better choice. Here, it may with truth be said, was the right man in the right place. During the twenty-five years of its existence, this Society has published fourteen volumes, consisting of the communications of

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its members on the subject of divers questions of history and literature. The enumeration of these labours will be found in the Appendix to the Dclepierre bibliography at the end of this notice. In 1862 M. D. published " Analyse des Travaux de la Societe des Bibliophiles de Lon- dres," and in the same year he translated Crowe and Cavalcaselle's " Lives and Works of the Old Flemish Painters" into French, which was published at Brussels. Among his MS. papers are several in part prepared for press, a large literary correspondence, and miscellaneous papers.

M. Delepierre was twice married — first to Emily Napier, the sister of Lord Napier of Magdala, by whom he had two daughters. His second wife, who survives him, was the widow of a Captain in the Indian Army. M. Delepierre's manners were perfect, his courtesy and politeness those of the old French school, heightened by a certain grandezza, probably inherited by him from his mother, a Penaranda descended from a branch of the race of the Spanish Penarandas settled in the Netherlands since the time of Margaret of Parma. M. Dclepierre was honoured with several orders of knighthood and other marks of appreciation

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from the crowned heads of Europe, and from literary and scientific societies. Though both in taste and habits M. Delepierre showed his predilection for the home of his adoption by becoming a perfect English gentleman, like M. Van de Weyer, he never wavered in his love and attachment to his native land, and Belgium has had, beyond doubt, many more demonstrative patriots, but none more faithful and true. It by no means results from a long residence in England, and mixing in society as an Englishman, that a man of culture and position (in the words of M. Louis Hymans of the Office de Publicity, in his obituary notice of M. Delepierre) necessarily quits his native land " pour s'angliser a peu pres comme Van de Weyer dont il fut pendant pres d'un quart de siecle le collaborateur et I'ami," even though in dress and the perfection of his English speech he may pass among strangers for an English- man. The article is short, and may be thus rendered : —

" Octave Delepierre was certainly one of the most original characters of Belgium, which he quitted nearly forty years ago, that he might all but Anglicize himself, like M. Van de Weyer, of whom for a quarter of a century he

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was the fcl low-worker and friend. Born in Bruges, he published early some valued and esteemed works on his native place. In London he occupied himself with Art and Archaeology, and became an influential member of the Royal Literary Fund, of which the King of the Bel- gians is an Honorary President. England at once changed the shades of his character. He adopted, along with the national modulation of voice, the manners and dress of the country. Some years ago he came to Blankenberge with the view of settling there — it may be hinted, by the way, that he felt bored to death ; — every- body took him for a son of Albion, no one imagining that he had sprung from their soil. However, he could speak the Flemish of the country quite as glibly as on the day of his departure from it ; and there, as in London, he liked to converse in his mother-tono-ue. The fishermen alons; the coast wondered who this Englishman could be who was up to all their slang. I frequently met M. Dclepierre in London at the time of the International Exhi- bition of 1862. His house was the rendezvous of a great number of Belgians, and the most constant of his guests was Louis Blanc, then correspondent of the Etoile Beige, historian of

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the first Republic, exiled by the second, and waiting his time to become a Senator of the third. M. Delepierre took me to a reception at the Due d'Aumale's at Twickenham, where he was always welcomed as a friend ; indeed, between him and the Prince there existed the closest congeniality of taste in literature and art. The last time I saw him was at his residence near Hyde Park, some two years ago. He was unwell, and confined to his couch by an attack of gout ; but his spirits were sprightly and bright, and his conversation, full of anec- dote, as charming as ever."

As the brilliant centre of an intellectual circle, or as the friendly guest for a long winter evening by the fireside, M. Delepierre was equally delightful. His conversation was in- exhaustible, yet he was the most patient and amiable of listeners, and he would wait with a gentle smile while a man of inferior culture aired his favourite platitudes, and never by so much as a twinkle of his eye betrayed the least impatience. He had a mind so exquisitely sympathetic that all things and all men inter- ested him : and to the very end of his placid life the world was full of freshness and delight for him. If ever any man drank of the foun-

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tain of perpetual youth it was he. To the last he was younger than the youngest of his friends. He was a finished elocutionist, and to hear him read a comedy of Moliere — Tartiiffe or Les Femmes Savantes, for instance, — was as good as an evening at the Theatre Fran^ais : while in tragedy his mien and delivery had a grandeur which no modern tragedian can surpass. He was a fine chess-player, and with his friends used to spend many a long day of quiet happi- ness over the chess-board. He had, in fact, the accomplishments which make a man the attrac- tion of a drawing-room, combined with rare and profound scholarship. But even more delightful than elegant accomplishments or pro- found learning was that simplicity of character which made Octave Delepierre's laborious life seem a long holiday. To see him seated in his study, walled in from the outer world by books that lined the room from floor to ceiling, was to see the man at least on this earth whose life was thoroughly happy. He had all he desired, books, and leisure to enjoy them, and the un- chanffino; affection of his friends, to serve whom he was ever ready to sacrifice that learned leisure which he loved so well. Rarely has a student been as unselfish as he.

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M. Delepierre, who for more than thirty-five years had been the Belgian Secretary of Lega- tion at the Court of St. James's, and till with- in the last two years, when he resigned that office, Consul-General for Belgium in London, died at the age of seventy-eight, at the house of his son-in-law, Mr. Nicolas Triibner, 39 Upper Hamilton Terrace, on the i8th of August, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery on the 23nd.

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" Nulla dies sine linea."

1829.

HEURES DE LOISIR, essais poetiques, par M. J. O. Delepierre, Avocat. Petit-in-8vo, pp. 48. Gand et Mons. Le Roux, 1829.

1831.

HISTOIRE DU REGNE DE CHARLES-LE- BON, precedee d'un resumd de I'histoire des Flandres depuis les temps les plus reculds, et suivie d'un appendice de ce qui s'est passd depuis la mort de ce prince jusqu'k la paix de Melun. Par J. O. Delepierre et J. Perneel, Avocats. 8vo, pp. xc. 214 et cxxii. Brux- elks, 1 83 1.

The Latin original of the excellent Life of Charles the Good, written by his contemporary — who was also an eye- witness of the events — Gualbert, notary at Bruges, was buried in the huge collection of the Bollandists until M. Delepierre dug it up and made it accessible to the general public by his masterly French translation. But he did more than this. By an historical resume he not alone connected Gualbert's work with the previous centuries of the existence of Flanders, but carried on its history from the death of Charles the Good to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, thus presenting a documentary history of Flanders from the Roman time to the end of the fourteenth century.

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1834.

CHRONIQUES, TRADITIONS, ET LE- GENDES DE L'ANCIENNE HISTOIRE DES FLAMANDS. Recueillies par M. O. D. 8vo, pp. xvi. et 302. Lille. Bronner- Bauwens, 1834.

Table des L6gendes et Chroniques. Le Pecheur de Blankenberghe. Baudouin 4 la Hache. Le Premier Comte de Flandre. Baudouin de Constantinople. Jacques d'Artevelde. Atroce Vengeance d'une Grande Dame. Le Vol et I'Assassinat. Le Bourgmestre de Bruges. Le Tournoi de I'Arbre d'Or. Quatre Episodes d'un Grand Drame, Le Lac d'Amour. Le Forfait de Montereau. Ethelinde et Engelran. Philippe le Bon et les Brugeois. Chapitre de la Toison d'Or. Le Moine Guerrier et Renegat. La Bataille de Roosebeke. La Chatelaine de Ghistelles. Chroniques de li Muisis.

AVERTISSEMENT DE L'lfcoiTEUR.

Le jeune et modeste auteur des Chroniques Flamandes, a, par devers lui, assez de materiaux pour que nous puissions en promettre la continuation, si le public les accueille favorable- ment. Outre I'interet national qui doit recommander ce travail aux lecteurs flanaands, la virite de I'histoire, a laquelle se conforme toujours M. Delepierre, alors meme c|ue la nature de ses episodes pourrait leur donner un caractere romanesque, le soin judicieux qu'il apporte a en verifier les sources, le but qu'il se propose et qu'il avoue hautement en livrant i I'impression le fruit de ses veilles ; tout, ce nous semble, doit lui faire prcsager des encouragemens pour ce debut litteraire. Une autre consideration reclame encore I'interet et la bienveillance du public : I'auteur lui offre le commencement de sa traduction des Chroniques du Moine ^gidius Li Muisis. . . . M. Octave Delepierre, que ne pou-

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vaient rebuter les difficultes ou les lenteurs d'un travail aussi fastidieux que long, a pour I'edition fraD9aise des Chroniques d'/Egiditis, de nombreux feuillets dej^ traduits ; et le vceu du public decidera de la publication pour laquelle ses pages et nos presses sent mutuellement pretes. Lille, 20 Mai 1834. A. B.

1834. CHRONIQUES, TRADITIONS, ET LE- GENDES DE L'ANCIENNE HISTOIRE DES FLANDRES. Publides par M. J. O. D. 8vo, pp. 270. Bruges, 1834.

The contents of this volume are the same — with a different arrangement of the pieces, though with some slight variations in the titles — as those of the preceding work. It is, in fact, another edition of the Lille print, with an extract from the "Notice sur les Manuscrits de la Bibliotheque du Roi de France" preceding the "Prologue," not contained in the former. The table of contents is therefore not repeated.

1835. PRECIS DES ANNALES DE BRUGES, depuis les temps les plus recul^s jusqu'au commence- ment du xvii* siecle, augmente d'une notice sur I'Hotel de Ville, avec 44 figures, et d'une biographie des plus illustres Brugeois. 8vo, pp. xxvi. et 194. Bruges, 1835.

1835. AVENTURES DE TIEL ULENSPIEGEL, de ses bons mots, finesses et amusantes inventions. Nouvelle edition, d^dide aux Bibliophiles Beiges; augmentde de rapprochemenslitte'raires, d'observations sur ce personnage, d'apres les difF^rents auteurs qui en ont parle, et d'une notice des principales editions de son histoire. 8vo, pp. 90, Bruges. Imprimerie de Bogaert- Dumortier, 1835. [Only fifty copies printed.]

M. Delepierre inclinesto a Flemish origin of Tyll Owlglass ;

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but the fact of the authorship of the original Eulenspiegel is now established beyond dispute. The author was the notorious Franciscan Friar, Dr. Thomas Mumer, who pub- lished the work in Low German at Strassburg in 1519. Only one copy of the same is known to exist, in the Ducal Library at Gotha. It is now readily accessible to the student, being reprinted by Dr. Lappenberg (Dr. Mumer's Ulenspiegel, Leipzig, T. O. Weigel, 1854).

1836.

APERgU HISTORIQUE ET RAISONNE des decouvertes, inventions, innovations et perfec- tionnements, en Belgique, dans les sciences, les arts, I'industrie, &c., depuis les Romains. 8vo, pp. 186. Bruges, 1836.

1837. VISION DE TONDALUS; r(^cit mystique du douzi^me si^cle, mis en frangais pour la pre- miere fois par O. D. (No. 5 des Publica- tions de la Societe des Bibliophiles de Mons.) 8vo, pp. xxiv. et 58. Mons. Typographic de Hoyois-Uerely, libraire, 1837. [Printed in four colours, black, red, green, and blue (100 copies only, for the trade on ordinary paper, and 27 members' copies on papier de HoUande).]

Bibliography after Brunet.

Tondalus ou Tundalus. Incipit libellus de raptu anime Tundali et ejus visione, tractans de penis inferni et gaudiis paradisi (absque loci et anni indicatione) petit-in-4 (goth.) Edition peu commune, impr. avec les caracteres de Reyser, a Eistadt, vers 1475, et ornee de 20 fig. sur bois tres- singulieres. Le vol. a 28 ff. et 29 lignes par page entiere (15 fr. d'Ourches). II y a une autre Edition du meme ouvrage sans fig. et peut- etre plus anc. que celle-ci ; c'est un petit-in-4, de 20 ff. en tout. Une 3*, sans lieu ni date, in 4to de 18 ff. a 27 lignes par page, caract. de Ther Iloernen, est decrite dans la Biblioth. Spencer., tome iv., No. 790.

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Les "Visions de Tondal" sont un livre dans le genre du " Purgatoire de St. Patrice."

Reimprime sous le litre de : Tractatus de apparitionibus et receptaculis animarum exutarutn corporibus. (A la fin) : Guillermi Houppelande libellus de immortalitate animaj. Impressus per me Hermannum Bomgart de Ketwich, civem . . . civitatis Coloniae. Anno Mccccxcv., in 4 goth., sign, A — K, fig. sur bois.

M. le Marquis de Ganay s'est procure, en 1853, un beau MS. de I'ancienne version fran9aise des "Visions de Tundal." C'est un in fol. sur velin, orne de miniatures, et qui a ete execute, en 1474, pour Marguerite d'York, 3* femme de Charles le Temeraire, Due de Bourgogne. Un autre MS. plus ancien du meme ouvrage (xiv* siecle) est a la Biblioth, Imperiale.

Hier beghint een boeck ende es Van ton / dalus vysioen end hoe sijn zielevten licha / me ghenomen was. — Hier eyndet en gaet wteen boeck / van Tondalus vysioen ende hoe dat / sijn ziele wt sijn lichaem ghenomen / was ende is gheprint tantwerpen bi / mi Matthijs vander goes Anno M / ccccLXXij., petit-in-4. (goth.), de 33 ff., non chiffres, a 24 lignes par page, avec des signatures de a — e 3.

Cette edition de la version flamande de Tondalus est beau- coup plus rare que les editions latines ; toulefois le chiffre de la date ne saurait etre exact, puisque Mathieu Vander Goes n'a commence a imprimer qu'en 1482, et que d'ailleurs I'usage des signatures n'a ete adopte dans la Belgique que plusieurs annees apres 1472. Le pre- mier feuillet renferme la table des chapitres, et le second commence par le sommaire (en 3 lignes), dont nous avons forme le titre ci-dessus. La souscription est imprimee au recto du dernier feuillet. L'exempl. de Rich. Hebera ete vend. £,^, 5s., et Ton n'en connait qu'un second. Les bibliographes citent deux autres editions de cette version : t'Hertogenbosch, 1484, et Delft, 1494, in 410. Une 4* edition, Gheprent tantdwerpen by my Govaert back (sans date), in 4to, a etc vend. £\, 13s., Heber.

Les memes Visions, trad, en allemand, Augsbourg, Zeis- senmair, 1494, in 4to de 31 ff., sign. A— d, avec fig. sur bois.

Traduction dont Ebert et Hain citent plusieurs autres editions.

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interesting crilical and bibliographical introduction. Among the numerous books written on the visions during which living beings had the perception of the destinies of the soul after its separation from the body, the vision of the Irish Knight Tondal takes a prominent place, as is proved by the numerous MS. copies in existence, and of the editions printed in the very beginning of the art of printing. And it was greatly made use of by those writers who afterwards wanted to describe the torments of hell. Dante wrote his immortal poem more than one hundred years after the date assigned to Tondal's " Vision," and it would at first seem as if the latter contained the germ of the Italian poet's " In- ferno."

1837. DESCRIPTION DES TABLEAUX, STATUES, et autres objets d'arts de la ville de Bruges, et abr^g(5 de son histoire et de ses institutions. 8vo, pp. 8 et 190. Bruges, s.a.

1837- ALBUM PITTORESQUE DE BRUGES, ou collection des plus belles vues et des princi- paux monuments de cette ville, dessinds par A. Tessaro, lithographies par H. Borremans, et accompagnes d'un texte historique par O. Dele- pierre, Avocat, Membre de la Socie'te Royale des Beaux Arts et de Littdrature de Gand, de celle des Bibliophiles de Mons, &c., &c. Ouvrage dedie au roi. Folio, 22 plates and text, pp. 1-78. Bruges. F. Buffa, 1837,

ALBUM PITTORESQUE DE BRUGES, ou collection des plus belles vues et des princi- paux monuments de cette ville, dessinds et lithographies par Louis Gh^mar et Edouard Manche, et accompagnes d'un texte historique par Octave Delepierre, Archiviste de la Flandre Occidentale, I'un des membres fondateurs de la Societe d'Emulation de Bruges, Membre

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correspondant du Comite des Arts et Monu- ments de France, &c., &c. Ouvrage dedie au roi. Seconde partie. Folio, 25 plates and text, pp. 79-96. Bruges, chez Bogaert-Dumortier et F, Buffa, editeurs, Rue Philipstock, 1840.

1837. LE ROMAN DU RENARD, traduit pour la premiere fois d'apres un texte flamand du xiiieme siccle, cdite par J. F. Willems ; aug- mente d'une analyse de ce qu'ont ecrit, au sujet des romans frangais du Renard, Legrand d'Aussy, Robert, Raynouard, St. Marc Girardin, Prosper Marchand, &c. 8yo, pp. iv.-336. Paris, 1837.

Contents: — Preface, pp. L-iii. Introduction pp. 1-4. Pro- legomines, pp. 5-35. Notice bibliographique, pp. 35- 45. Observations sur les noms des animaux, pp. 46-52. Resume analytique et historique des livres romans ou poemes du " Renard," principalement en ce qui concerne les ouvrages fran9ais de ce nom, pp. 53-142. Traduc- tion du poeme du " Renard," pp. 145-335'

The editor claims the " Reynard " in its oldest form for Flanders, and holds that the old Saxon version is but a translation from the Flemish. St. Marc Girardin, in his " Lafontaine et les Fabulistes," refers in terms of praise to M. Delepierre's translation of the "Reynard."

1837.

L'HERITIERE DE BRUGES, histoire de I'annee 1600, roman historique beige, par Thomes Colley Grattan. Traduction de I'anglais par Octave Delepierre. 3 vols. i8rao. Bruxelles, 1837.

1839. CHRONIQUE DES FAITS ET GESTES AD- MIRABLES DE MAXIMILIEN I, durant

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son manage avec Marie de Bourgogne, trans- latee du flamand en frangais pour la premiere fois, et augmentee d'cclaircissements histori- ques et de documents in^dits. 8vo, pp. xii.- 480. Bruxeiks, 1839.

A readable French translation of a rare and curious Flemish original.

Dit syn die Wonderlyke Oorloghen van den doorluchti- gen hoochgheboren prince Keyser Maximiliaen. Hoe by hier eerst int landt quam. Ende hoe by vrouw Marien troude. Gheprint Thantwerpen op de Lorn- baerde-Veste, in den Witten Ilasewint, by Jan Van Ghelen. Anno Mccccc en Lxxvii den iili October.

The work is an interesting chronicle of Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy during a period of five years ; and the unknown author, if he was not a contemporary, must at least have lived at a period not very distant from the events which he narrates.

1839.

CHRONIQUE DE L'ABBAYE DE SAINT- ANDRE, traduite pour la premiere fois d'apres le manuscrit de la Bibliothbque de Bruges ; suivie de melanges historiques et litte'raires. Par Octave Delepierre, 8vo, pp. 340. Bruges. Imprimerie de Vandecasteele- Werbrouck, 1839.

Table des Mati^res.

Chronique de St. Andre.

Charles accordees i cette Abbaye.

Bruges, de son origine, de sa splendeur, et de ses

monuments. Le Bourg de Bruges, chef lieu du territoire du Franc. Joyeuse entree du Due Philippe et de sa soeur. Joyeuse entree de Maximilien. Aventures de Bouchard d'Avesnes. Notice historique sur les privileges du Franc. Tombeau d'une Princesse Anglaise decouvert k Bruges. Institution de I'ordre de la Toison d'Or.

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Emprisonnement de Maxiinilien et vision de ce Prince.

Eglise de St. Sauveur.

Chasse du St. Sang.

Le Beguinage.

Le Mont de Piete.

Academic de Peinture.

Vieille halle et tour du Beffroi,

Notice sur les depots de chartes de Bruges.

Bibliothfeque manuscrite de Bruges.

Eglise de Notre Dame.

Tombeau de Charles-le-Temeraire.

Tombeau de Marie de Bourgogne.j

Chapelle du Couvent Anglais.

Abbaye des Dunes, servant aujourd'hui de seminaire

episcopal. Chasse contenant les restes du Comte Charles-le-Bon. Derniere grande procession du St. Sang. Destinees de Bruges durant les deux cents demieres

annees.

1840. DE L'ORIGINE DU FLAMAND, avec une esquisse de la litterature flamande et hol- landaise d'apres I'anglais du Rev. T. Bos- worth, avec des additions et des annotations par O. D. Roy. 8vo, pp. vi.-46. Tournay. Hennebert Freres, 1840. (Only 100 copies printed.)

1840. GALERIE D' ARTISTES BRUGEOIS, ou bio- graphie concise des peintres, sculpteurs, et graveurs celebres de Bruges. Om€e de por- traits par R De Vlamynck. 8vo, pp. 163. Bruges. Imprimerie de Vandecasteele-Wer- brouck, 1840.

1840.

LA BELGIQUE ILLUSTREE, par les sciences, les arts, et les lettres. 8vo, pp. 208. Brux- dies, 1840.

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1840. AVENTURES DE TIEL ULENSPIEGEL. II-

lustrees par Lauters. Edition publi^e par Delepierre. Petit-in-8vo, pp. 222. BruxelleSy 1840.

This edition of M. Delepierre affirms with amusing mock gravity the entirely Flemish origin of Owlglass, and the names are ingeniously altered to suit Flemish localities.

1840. MARIE DE BOURGOGNE. In folio, pp. iv. et 114. Bruxelles, 1840,

This work, an authentic history of the life of Mary of Burgundy, was dedicated by permission to Her Majesty Queen Louise of Belgium.

At the time when M. Delepierre was engaged in writing a new history of the life of Princess Mary a very interesting discovery was made, whicli to a certain extent modified the first plan of the writer. In the archives of Bruges an alphabet "en grandes lettres tourneures" of the fifteenth century, traced with the quill and very artistically orna- mented, was found. Under each of the letters were written, in the handwriting of the epoch, four, six, or eight French verses. At the end of the alphabet, and in the same hand- writing as the verses, the following words were found : — " Per me Mariam." A comparison of this writing with the signature of Maximilian's young spouse proved the two to be identical.

M. Delepierre, struck with the interest and importance of the alphabet, decided to embody a facsimile of it in his work. He therefore limited the number of his chapters to twenty- four, commencing each with a letter of the alphabet in question in proper alphabetical sequence. The work is, typographically speaking, a chef cTauvre of the press of Adolphe Wahlen, and copies of it are extremely rare.

1841. CHASSE DE SAINTE URSULE; peinte par Memling, lithographi^e (en 15 pi.) par MM. Ghemar et Manche, de la grandeur des pan-

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neaux ; coloriee d'aprbs I'original par M. Malherbe, fils ; texte par M. Octave Delepierre. Gr. in folio. Bruges, 1841.

1841. PHILIPPIDE DE GUILLAUME - LE - BRE- TON. Extraits concernant les guerres de Flandres. Texte latin et frangais. Avec una introduction et des notes par O. D. 4to, pp. xxii. et 150. Bniges. Imprimerie de Vande- casteele-Werbrouck, 1841.

Guillaume-le-Breton's Latin historical poem is of impor- tance for the history of Belgium, in as far as the author was an eye-witness of the events narrated therein. Guillaume was probably bom in 1 165, in Brittany, and is said to have lived until the year 1226. He was a great favourite of Philippe-Augustus, who entrusted to him the education of his natural son. His " Philippide " is divided into twelve chapters and comprises 9200 hexameters. The poet apprises the reader that it took him three years to compose his poem and two more to correct it. There is another French trans- lation of the poem by Guizot, but as it was faulty in sub- stance as well as in form, M. Delepierre undertook this work for the Societe d'Emulation de Bruges. It forms part of —

Recueil de Chroniques, Charles, et autres Documents con- cernant I'histoire et les antiquites de la Flandre Occi- dentale, public par la Societe d'Emulation de Bruges. DeuxiSme serie. Chroniques Generales de la Province.

1841. LA CHASSE DE SAINTE URSULE, gravde au trait par Charles Onghena d'apres Jean Memling, avec texte par O. D. et Auguste Voisin, dediee k la Reine des Beiges. 4to, pp. 54 et 13 pi. Bruxelles, 1841.

1841. EDOUARD III, ROI D'ANGLETERRE, EN BELGIQUE. Chronique rimee dcrite vers

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Tan 1347 par Jean de Klerk d' An vers, traduite pour la premiere fois en frangais par Octave Delepierre. Roy. 8vo, pp. iv.-47. Gand, C. Annoot Braeckman. {T'n6 a cent exem- plaires numdrotds a la presse.) 1841.

1841. LE CHATEAU DE ZOMERGHEM. Legende imite'e du flamand de Ledeganck. 8vo, pp. 16, Bruges. Vandecasteele-Werbrouck, 1841.

Extrait de "La Renaissance. Chronique des Arts et de la Litterature," publiee par I'Association Nationale pour favoriser les Arts en Belgique. Tome iii. (pp. I-5). Bruxelles, Imprimerie de la Societe des Beaux Arts, Place du Grand- Sablon, II. 1841-42.

1842.

PRECIS ANALYTIQUE DES DOCUMENTS que renferme le depot des archives de la Flandre occidentale \ Bruges, i Sdrie. (Par O. Delepierre.) 3 vols. 8vo. Brtiges,\Za^o-\2. 2"' StJrie. (Comptes du Franc.) 9 vols. 8vo. Bruges, 1843-58. The first volume of the second series bears also the name

of M. Delepierre.

1842.

FETE DE LA TOISON D'OR, celebree \ Bruges en 1478. 8vo, pp. 16, with four litho- graphed costume plates. Bruges. Imprimerie de Vandecasteele-Werbrouck, 1842.

A reprint of an article in volume iv. of " Annales de la Societe d' Emulation pour I'Histoire et les Antiquites de la Flandre Occidentale." (Forms also the second part of "Analectes Brugeois.")

1842. COLLECTION DES KEUREN, ou statuts de tous les metiers de Bruges. (Par Octave Dele- pierre.) Publiee par le Comite-Directeur de la

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Soci^te d'Emulation de Bruges, avec des notes philologiques de M. J. F. Willems. 4to, pp. viii.-ii8, Gand. Imprimerie et lithographie de C. Annoot-Braeckman, 1842.

In " Recueil de Chroniques, Chartes, et autres Documents concernant I'histoire et les antiquites de la Flandre Occi- dentale. Public par la Societe d'Emulation de Bruges, Troisieme serie. Documents isoles, chartes, et keuren."

1842. NOTICE SUR LES TOMBES decouvertes en Aout 1 84 1, dans I'eglise cathedrale de St. Sauveur, \ Bruges. 8vo, pp. 10. Bruges, 1842.

1842. MONUMENTS ANCIENS recueillis en Belgique et en Alleraagne, par Louis Haghe, de Tournai, dessinateur de S. M. la Reine d'Angleterre. Lithographies d'apres lui, et accompagne's de notices historiques par Octave Delepierre. Grand-in-folio, pp. 8 of text and 27 plates. Bruxelles. Societe des Beaux Arts, 1842, This work was apparently re-issued in 1845 at Brussels, by Adolphe Wahlen, in two folio volumes, one containing the monuments of Belgium, the other those of Germany.

1842.

NOTICE HISTORIQUE, ARCHEOLOG-

IQUE, ET LEGENDAIRE sur la cheminee de bois sculptee du Franc de Bruges. 8vo, pp. 30. Bruges. Imprimerie de Noos, 1842. The "Legend of the Chimney," contained in this pamphlet,

is an enlargement of the same legend in the "Album de

Bruges " (pp. 5-8).

1843.

LE CHATEAU DE WINENDALE. 8vo, pp. 18. Bruges. Imprimerie de Vandecasteele- Werbrouck, 1843. (Reprinted from " Annales

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de la Society d'Emulation de Bruges." 2°* S^rie. Tome i. Bruges, 1843).

1843. BIOGRAPHIE DES HOMMES REMAR- QUABLES de la Flandre Occidentale. (Pub- lished by the Societe d'Emulation de Bruges.) Four volumes in 8vo, pp. xxvi.-352, 11.-313, iv.-2 7i, 369. Bruges, Vandecasteele - Wer- brouck. 1843-1844-1847-1849.

The dedication to M. le Comte de Muelenaere, Minister of State and Governor of the Province, is signed by the authors, C. Carton, F. Van de Putte, J. de Mersseman, and O. Delepierre.

s 1845.

TABLEAU FIDELE des Troubles et Revolu- tions arrives en Flandre et dans ses environs, depuis 1500 jusqu'h, 1585, par Beaucourt de Noortvelde ; avec une Introduction et des Notes par Octave Delepierre. (Deuxieme Partie.) 8vo, pp. x.-r42. Mons. Emm. Hoyois, imprimeur de la Society des Biblio- philes Beiges, 1845.

Patrice Antoine Beaucourt was born at Bruges in 1720. He studied at Lou vain and obtained there the degree of a Doctor of Law. He published the first volume of his " Tableau Fidele des Troubles et Revolutions arrive en Flandre depuis Charles-lc-Bon jusqu'en 1584," a greatly esteemed worl<. A MS. which was believed to be the second volume of this work existed, and was edited by ^L Delepierre for the Society of Bibliophiles at Mons, of whose publications it forms the fourteenth volume. But in 1S66 M. Jules Delecourt made a discovery showing that what in good faith M. Delepierre had edited for the Society as the second volume of the " Tableau," &c., was altogether a diffe- rent collection of historical materials made by Beaucourt de Noortvelde. AL Delecourt's letter relating to his discovery appeared in "Le Bibliophile Beige," premiere annee, Brussels, 1866, pp. 302-3. We allow M. Delecourt to speak for himself : —

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"Tous les amateurs de notre histoire nationale con- naissent le 'Tableau Fidele des Troubles et Revolu- tions arrives en Flandre et dans ses environs, etc.,' par Beaucourt de Noortvelde et de Ter Heyden. Le ler volume de ce recueil parut en 1792, puis la publication fut arretee et le deuxieme volume ne vit pas le jour.

" En 1845 la Societe des Bibliophiles Beiges scant a Mons resolut de combler cette lacune ; M. O. Delepierre publia pour elle (No. 14 des publications) un manuscrit qui etait, croyait-on, celui du deuxifeme volume de Beau- court. Ce dernier s'arretait k la fin de son ler volume k I'annee 1500; le manuscrit que la Societe voulait publier commen9ait a 1500 et s'arretait a 1584, limite du travail comme I'indiquait le titre du ler volume ; 11 y avait done des motifs serieux de croire que ce MS. etait reellement la suite du travail de Beau- court. Cependant M. Delepierre avait ete frappe de la difTerence du style entre le ler volume et celui qu'il editait ; il disait dans son introduction que ' ce second volume n'etait probablement qu'un premier jet, car I'auteur y a plutot suivi la forme des chroniques que celle de I'histoire.'

" Je viens, je crois,de decouvrir le secret de cette differ- ence. C'est que le MS. de M. Delepierre n'est pas le second volume des Troubles de Flandre, tel que I'auteur I'avait ecrit et prepare ; ce MS. est un autre recueil de Beaucourt, un autre travail destine probablement aussi a I'impression et qui renferme des faits et des anecdotes extremement interessants, entre autres I'episode en forme de digression de frere Corneille Adriaensen et de I'ordre du 'Devotaire.'

" J'ai achetS dernierement, sans I'avoir vu, un exemp- laire du ler volume du 'Tableau Fidele.' En exami- nent mon acquisition j'ai ete agreablement surpris de decouvrir i la suite de la table qui termine le ler volume, 64 pages, signees A-H, et ayant pour titre : Tableau Fidele, etc., tome II. Ce commencement du tome II est redige dans le meme ordre d'idees, et dans le meme style que le premier volume ; il s'etend jusqu'a I'annee

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"J'ai fait des nombreuses recherches pour decouvrir un second exemplaire des 64 pages du tome II, je n'en ai pas trouve. Je signale ce fait aux amateurs et je leur

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demande de verifier les exemplaires qu'ils pourront ren- contrer : ilserait interessant de savoir s'il existe d'autres exemplaires de ce second volume.

"Jules Delecourt."

1845.

OLD FLANDERS; or, Popular Traditions and Legends of Belgium. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. vi. et 327, 311. London^ 1845.

Contents of Vol. I.

Antigon ; or, The Giant of Antwerp. Baldwin of the Hatchet. The Blankenberg Fisherman. The Castle of Zomerghem. Baldwin of Constantinople. Ethelinde and Engletran. Festival of the Golden Fleece. The Tournament of the Golden Tree. The Abbey of Waul- sort. The Sacrilege.

Contents of Vol. II.

Jehan the Libeller. Herman the Tiler. The Carved Chimney. The Cobbler, The Street of the Cross. The Castle of Maldeghem. The Corsair's Daughter. The Iron Lady of Maestricht, Legend of the Fair Godelieve. Henry de Calloo. Four Episodes of a Grand Drama in 1223 a.d. The Dry Well.

1845.

LETTRES DE L'ABBE MANN sur les sci- ences et les lettres en Belgique, 1 773-1 788. Traduites de I'anglais par Octave Delepierre. pp.169. Bruxelles. A.W'ahlen, 1845. [Imprira^ h, 150 exemplaires.]

1846.

MEMOIRES HISTORIQUES relatifs \ une Mission k la Cour de Vienne en 1806, par Sir Robert Adair, G.C.B., avec un choix de ses d^peches, traduites par Octave Delepierre. 8vo, pp. xii.-552. Bruxelles. A. Wahlen, 1845.

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1846.

COUP D'CEIL RETROSPECTIF sur I'histoire de la Legislation des Cereales en Angleterre, extrait des publications anglaises sur la mati^re. i6mo, pp. 36. Bruxelles. Society Typographique Beige, Adolphe VVahlen et C'"., 1846.

1846.

EXAMEN de ce que renferme la Biblioth^que

du Musee Britannique, extrait de documents

authentiques soumis au Parlement en 1846.

In i2mo, pp. H2. Bruxelles. Vandale, 1846.

1849. DESCRIPTION BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE ET ANALYSE d'un livre unique qui se trouve au Musee Britannique, par Tridace-Nafe-Theo- brome, gentilhomme breton (pseudonyme). 1849. 8vo, pp. viii.-iyo. A Meschacdbd, chez El Eriarbil,! York Street.

Volume non destine au commerce, et dent il n'a ete tire que cent exemplaires, plus six sur pap. rose, et probablement aussi sur pap. bleu. II donne les litres et quelques extraits de la precieuse collection de farces, que, depuis, M. P. Jannet a publiee en entier (Brunei).

The unique book, described in the above by M. Delepierre, was discovered in Germany, and secured for the British Museum at the cost of 3000 francs. It contains sixty-four early French mysteries and plays, of which the *' Description Bibliographique " gives the titles, plots, and extracts. M. Delepierre's "Description" was the pioneer to the "Ancien Theatre Fran9ais," a collection of mysteries and farces written prior to Corneille, published at Paris in 1854-57, in 10 vols. l8mo, under the editorial care of MM. Jannet, Mon- taiglon, and Viollet le Due, of which these sixty-four dramas form the first three volumes.

[* Read these two words h rebours.]

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1851. GUIDE INDISPENSABLE dans la ville de Bruges, ou description des monuments curieux et objets d'art que renferme cette ville. Par O. D. 5""^ edition. 24mo, pp. viii.-200. Bruges, 185 1.

The following is the description of four previous editions of this work from the copies in the Royal Library at Brussels : —

1. Guide dans Bruges, ou description des objets d'art et

des monuments curieux que renferme ceite ville, par Octave Delepierre. In iSmo, x.-i66 pp. Bruges, Bogaert-Dumortier. 1837.

2. Idem. Deuxieme edition corrigee et augmentee. In

iSmo, X.-190 pp. Ibid., 1838.

3. Idem. Troisieme edition ; augmentee d'un plan de la

ville. In iSmo, X.-190 pp. et un plan. Ibid., 1840. C'est la meme edition que la prcccdente ; il n'y a de nouveau que le titre et le plan.

4. Guide indispensable dans la ville de Bruges, ou descrip-

tion des monuments curieux et objets d'art que ren- ferme cette ville, par Octave Delepierre. Quatrieme edition, augmentee d'un plan de la ville. In i2mo, viii.-iSg pp. 4 pi. lithographiees et un plan. Bruges, Alph, Bogaert. 1S47.

1852. MACARONEANA, ou Melanges de Littdrature Macaronique des differents peuples de TEurope. Publiee aux frais de G. Gancia, libraire k Brighton. Paris. Imprimerie de CrapeleL Svo, pp. vi.-388. 1852.

Macaronic poetry is a kind of burlesque poetry, consisting of Latin and of words of the vulgar tongue to which a Latin termination is given.

The Macaronic language and literature were very imper- fectly known before the appearance of Dr. F. \Y. Gentlie's " Geschichte der iMacaronischen Poesie " (Halle, 1829). M. Gustave Brunei says (Le Livrc, Janvier iSSo, p. 25), that when in 1S52 (not 1857) Delepierre published the above

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volume, it was for the bibliophiles and the friends of literary history quite a revelation. But it is only due to M. Brunet to state that he had himself a very considerable share in the production of this work, as is cheerfully admitted by M. Delepierre in the preface to the volume.

1852-56.

BIBLIOTHEQUE BIBLIOPHILO - FACE- TIEUSE. Editee par les Freres G^beodd 3 vols. sm. 8vo, London^ 1852-54-56.

The first publication, 1852, pp. xii.-li6, consists of a reprint of " Le Premier Acte du Synode Nocturne des Lemanes, Unelmanes, Propetides, a la Ruine des Biens, Vie, et Honneur de Calianthe, ' Spoliatis arma super- sunt,' MDCVIII." The second publication, 1854, pp. 129, comprises a review and analysis of fourteen rare and curious French and Italian books. The third publication, 1 856, pp. viii.-l25, contains a most iflteresting collection of "Chansons Historiques et Satiriquessur la Cour de France," with illustrative notes to each song. The whole issue did not probably exceed seventy copies.

The Brothers Gebeode are MM. Gustave Brunet and Octave Delepierre, the four initials of the names composing the pseudonym.

The work, on account of its limited issue, is scarce, and, from the interesting nature of its contents, is much sought after. It has a further attraction for the collector as being the only joint effort of the two talented and erudite authors.

" Le Premier Acte du Synode Nocturne " is by Guillaume Reboul, and is, according to J. Ch, Brunet, an " ouvrage d'un genre tres singulier, ou I'auteur a prodigue une erudition immense dont il aurait pu faire un meilleur emploi, livre fort rare et a peine connu." And Gay thus notices it : "Ouvrage hardi, spirituel, et tres-rare, du genre rabelaisien ; il a ete reimprime de nouveau et plus correctement, a lOO exem- plaires, a Paris en 1S62." His own publication.

Gay confounds the contents of the second and third vol- umes, putting the "Chansons" into the second, and the reviews into the third volume, which is incorrect.

Guillaume Reboul was born at Nimes towards the latter part of the i6th century, and was executed September 25,

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l6ii,at Rome. A zealous Protestant and secretary to the Marshal de Bouillon, he lost his employment from theft, and was afterwards excluded from his own Church ; he then went over to the Church of Rome, and wrote against his former persuasion. Later he went to Rome to solicit a reward for his conversion, and for the services he had rendered to the Romish Church, but being disappointed, he wrote a satire against the Pope, and was condemned to death. — P. F.

1856. THE ROSE : Its Cultivation, Use, and Symbolical Meaning in Antiquity. Translated from the German by Octave Delepierre. 8vo, pp. 40. London, 1856. [Only 100 copies printed.]

i860. A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF FLE- MISH LITERATURE and its celebrated Authors, from the 12th Century down to the present Time. Compiled from Flemish sources, 8vo, pp. vi.-2 24. London, i860.

i860.

HISTOIRE LITTERAIRE DES FOUS. 8vo, pp. 184. London, i860.

Contents.

Introduction. Premiere Section — Thcologie. Deuxieme Section — Belles Lettres. Troisieme Section — Philosophic et Science. Quatrieme Section — Politique.

Deuxieme Partie — Biographies. Bluet d'Arberes. Premiere Section — Biographic. Deuxieme Section — Bibliographic. Alexandre Cruden. Sir Thomas Ames Gevaeft. Table alphabetique.

The above is a considerably enlarged edition of the articles in volumes iii. and iv. of " Miscellanies of the Philo- biblon Society," viz., •' Etudes Bio-Bibliographiques sur les Fous Litteraires" and " Essai Biographique sur I'Histoire des Fous."

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i86i. UN POINT CURIEUX des mcEurs privees de la Grece. i2mo, pp. 30. Paris. Gay, 1861. [Only 245 copies printed.]

Reprinted by J. Blanche, " Bruxelles, 1870." An inte- resting essay upon a peculiar vice among the ancients.

1862. MACARONEANA ANDRA : overum Nouveaux Melanges de Litt^rature Macaronique. Sm. 4to, pp. 180. Printed by Whittingham. Lon- don, X862.

This is the reprint of a paper contributed by M. Dele- " pierre to the seventh volume of the "Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society." (Edition, 250 copies.)

Years before the above was written, M. D. had contri- buted (in 1843) to the second volume of " Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society" a paper entitled "De la Litterature Macaronique, et de quelques Raretes de ce genre." 73 pages. Only fifty extra impressions were made, and these are very rare.

M. Delepierre's first volume on Macaronics of 1852, con. jointly with the two above pieces, form, in the opinion of M. Brunet, a perfect encyclopaedia of Macaronic literature. His words are: "L'histoire de la litterature macaronique, depuis son origine jusqu'a nos jours, se trouve ainsi faite et parfaite ; il n'y a plus a y revenir."

1862. ANALYSE DES TRAVAUX de la Societe des Philobiblon de Londres. Sm. 4to, pp. vii,-i34. London, 1862.

A useful volume, as it gives a careful analysis of the con- tents of each article in the first six volumes of the Philobib- lon Society, and is, moreover, furnished with a "Table des Articles " and a ' ' Table des Matieres."

1862-63. LES ANCIENS PEINTRES FLAMANDS, leurs Vie et leurs CEuvres, par J, A. Crowe et

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G. B. Cavalcaselle, traduit de I'anglais par O. Delepierre, annote et augmente de docu- ments inddits par Alex Pinchart et Ch. Ruelens. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. xviii.-22g, pp. 154-cccxxxiv., and table pp. 17. Bruxdles^ 1862-65.

1868. HISTORICAL DOUBTS AND CONTESTED EVENTS.

Contents.

1. The Collossus of Rhodes.

2. Belisarius.

3. The Alexandrian Library.

4. Pope Joan.

5. Abelard and Eloisa.

6. William Tell.

7. Petrarch and Laura.

8. Jeanne d'Arc.

9. f^ancis I. and Countess of Chateaubriand.

10. Charles V. of Spain.

11. The Inventor of the Steam Engine.

12. Galileo Galilei.

APPENDIX to the Notice on William Tell. Bibliogra- phical Index. Cr. 8vo, pp. iSo. London, 1868.

1868.

REVUE ANALYTIQUE des Ouvrages ecrits en Centon, depuis les temps anciens jusqu'au xix"°' siecle. Par un Bibliophile Beige. Sm. 4to, pp. 508. London^ 1868.

A separate impression of " Centoniana, ou Encyclopedia du Centon " in volumes x. and xi. of " Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society."

Cento {Kivrpuv) sic^nifies in its proper sense a dress or cloak made of rags of various colours stitched together, and occurs repeatedly in this sense in some of the older Latin writers, such as Cato, Coesar, &c. But later on this expres- sion was applied by the grammarians as a terminus technicus to poetry, in order to describe a certain class of poems in which words and verses of other poems were chosen, and, so

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to say, sewn together with a view of expressing an altogether different conceit or telling a different story. The authors principally singled out for this kind of flaying were Homer and Virgil. M. Delepierre traces this artificial form of poetry back to a time before the Christian era, and shows its prevalence through the Middle Ages to quite modern times.

1870. LA PARODIE chez les Grecs, chez les Ro- mains, et chez les Modernes. Sm. 4to, pp. 184. London, 1870.

A separate impression of ICX3 copies only, from the I2th volume of " Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society."

1870. ESSAI HISTORIQUE ET BIBLIOGRAPH- IQUE sur les Rebus. 8vo, pp. 26, and 15 leaves of facsimile reproductions in woodcut of figured rebuses. London, iZ'jo.

In this pleasant little book M. Delepierre defines the scope and object of " Emblem," "Devise," and "Rebus," and discusses critically and bibliographically the use of the rebus from ancient to modern times. Of the very rare "Opera jocunda Johannis Georgii Alioni," Asti, 1521, he gives a description, with a facsimile reproduction of the two " Rondeaux d'amour, composes par signification," on nine leaves. There is also a four-leaf facsimile of a sonnet in figured rebus, taken from " Libro di M. Giovanibattista Palatino nelqual s'insegna a scriver ogni sorte de lettere," &c., Roma, 1545, and a two-leaf one of "Rebus de Picardie," extracted from " Rigollo et Leber, les Monnaies inconnues des Eveques, des Innocents, et des Fous," Paris, 1837.

1872.

SUPERCHERIES LITTERAIRES, Pastiches Suppositions d'Auteur dans les Lettres et dans les Arts. Par Octave Delepierre. Sm. 4to, pp. 328. London, 1872. (Edition, 250 copies.)

Querard's " Supercheries litteraires devoilees," a gallery of the apocryphal, supposed, disguised, and plagiarising authors,

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appeared at Paris in five volumes from 1845 to 1856, and in it the indefatigable author has already taken off many masks; but, adopting another plan, M. Delepierre in the above work has succeeded in adding a great deal to the vast labour of his predecessor.

1875. TABLEAU DE LA LITTERATURE DU CENTON, chez les Anciens et chez les Modernes. 2 vols. sm. 4to, pp. 324 and 318. London, 1875.

A new and amplified edition of the "Revue Analytique des Ouvrages Ecrits en Centons, par un Bibliophile Beige," published in 1S68.

The "Revue," &c., ends with Decampe, who in 1817 composed a very complicated cento of about 500 verses on the occasion of the anniversary of the return into France of King Louis XVIII. The "Tableau," &c., contains, in addition, an account of a very ingenious cento taken, in 1824, from Horace by G. F. Grotefend, the celebrated German classical scholar ; and also an account of some very remarkable centos by W. H. D. Suringar (1854) of Leyden. It appears that Suringar was for years engaged on a com- prehensive work on the ancient centos, which was not, how- ever, printed. In 1842 Suringar published a small work in l2mo, " Initia Lectionis Ciceronianoe," which contained a short biography of Cicero extracted from his works. He further developed this subject, and from it resulted the most extensive cento known — 51 2 pages in 8vo — presenting a very complete Life of Cicero, in which not a single phrase is in- serted which is not extracted from Cicero's works. The title of this very remarkable work, which ought to have a place of honour given it in every learned library, is : "M. Tullii Ciceronis commentarii rerum suarum, sive de vita sua. Accesserunt annales Ciceroniani in quibus ad suum quseque annum referuntur quoe in his commenlariis memorantur." DuK partes, pp. xvi., viii., 864, 8vo. Leidje, E. I. Brill, 1854.

1876.

L'ENFER: Essai Philosophique et Historique sur les L^gendes de la Vie future. Cr. 8vo, pp. 160. London, 1876.

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Issue 250 copies, of which twenty are furnished with four photographs having no special reference to the text. This volume is a new and enlarged edition of "L'Enfer decrit par ceux qui I'ont vu," two papers contributed to the "Mis- cellanies of the Philobiblon Society," volumes viii, and ix.

CHOIX D'OPUSCULES Philosophiques, His- toriques, Politiques, et Litteraires de Sylvain Van de Weyer. Pr^c^des d'avant-propos de I'dditeur (O. Delepierre). 4 vols. cr. 8vo, 1863-69-75-76.

Contents. Premiere Serie : —

1. Le Roi Cobden. 1 863, pp. 62.

2. Lettres sur les Anglais qui ont ecrit en Fran9ais.

1854, pp. 74.

3. Discours sur I'Histoire de la Philosophie. 1827, pp.

37- .

4. Moyen facile et economique d'etre bienfaisant, propose

aux jeunes gens, et suivi de Pensees Diverses. 1825, pp. 84.

5. Lettre a M. Ernst Miinch, Bibliothecaire a La Haye.

1829, pp. 102.

Deuxieme S^rie : —

1. Simon Stevin et M. Dumortier. 1845, PP- lOS-

2. Le Marquis de Sy et M. Poupar. — De la litterature

de I'exil. 1857, pp. 62.

3. Lettre k Lord Aberdeen. 1 832, pp. 1 39.

4. La HoUande et la Conference. 1833, pp. 140.

5. Dissertation sur le devoir. 1823, pp. 54.

Troisieme Serie : — Introduction, pp. xi.

Coup d'oeil sur la Philosophie d'Hemsterhuis. pp. 72. Lettre sur la Revolution Beige, pp. 49. Essai sur le livre de M. Jacotot intitule Ensdgnement Universe!, &c. pp. 54. Les Jacotins et leur antagoniste, satire, pp. 12. II faut savoir dire Non. Petit traiie de morale et de politique, pp. 16. Appendice. pp. 30. Articles de critique litteraire. pp. 129. Epigrammes en vers. pp. 8.

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Quatricme Serie : —

Lettre d'un vieux bibliophile beige h. M, P. Namur.

pp. 107. Complement de I'ouvrage de M. Namur sur les ana. Observations sur quelques ana par I'editeur {O. Dele- pierre). Maximes et reflexions morales, pp. 39. Les aveugles, le Ministere et rO|iposition. Lettre i

M , membre de la Chambre des Representants.

pp. II. L'autorite, la petite ville, &c. , &c., &c Lettre a un

Ministre Beige, pp. 23. The Queen and the Duchess of Nemours, pp. 8. Les pendules de M. Thiers et le cuisinier de M. Van de

Weyer. Lettre au Times, pp. 20. M. Van de Weyer, publicistc, par M. Alphonse Le Roy. Un fondateur de la monarchic beige, Sylvain Van de

Weyer, par M. Auguste Laugel. Sylvain Van de Weyer, par M. Eugene Van Bemmel. Self-Forgetfulness, a sermon by the Rev. W. B. Turner,

in remembrance of Sylvain Van de Weyer. In Memoriam.

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M* ©ekpterre's €antvMtwm to Eraits= actions of Societies, ^eriotiicals, ^c.

1839-43.

ANNALES DELASOCIETE D'EMULATION pour I'Histoire et les Antiquitds de la Flandre Occidentale, publiees par les soins du Comite directeur. i^'^^ s^rie, 4 vols. 8vo. Bruges, 1839-42. 2^ serie, 13 vols., 1843 ^/i-^^. This publication still goes on.

M. Delepierre contributed the following papers :

Tome I.

Extrait du Registre des Chartes, Cotte 5, coinmen9ant en 1475 et finissant en 1480, estant en la Chambre des Comptes du Roi a Lille (concernant Marie de Bour- gogne), avec le texte flamand de cette charte. Pages 41-70,

Archives de la Province de la Flandre Occidentale. Pages 184-188.

Des Souverains, Princes, Comtes, et autres grands person- nages morts ou enterres a Bruges. Pages 193-200.

Biographic de Simon Stevin. Pages 286-303.

Discours prononce par M. O. Delepierre. Pages 309-312.

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Tome II.

Compte de Jean Perez de Malvenda de la tumbe de bone mcmoire le Due Charles de Bourgoigne, en I'eglise de Nostre Dame en Bruges, anno 1566. Pages 47-72.

Compte inedit de ce que cofita i la Ville de Bruges I'era- prisonnement de ^Iaximilien, Roi des Remains. Pages 91-108.

Notice Historique sur quelques Convents, Hospices et Insti- tutions de la Ville de Bruges. Pages 171-200.

De quelques personnages celebres, qui ont re9u I'hospitalite a Bruges. Pages 202-212.

Notre Dame de Messines. Pages 273-280.

Notice sur la Ville de Thourout. Pages 368-372.

Tome III.

Mathilde, fille de Baudouin-Ie-Pieux. Pages 9-14. Renseignements sur la fabrication des draps k Bruges, deptiis

le XVP siecle jusqu'au XVIII®. Pages 237-244. Extraits curieux de pieces inedites. Pages 245-2561 Extraits des Cartulaires de la Ville de Bruges. Pages 309-

322. Frere Corneille Adriaensen. Pages 323-328. Stalles de I'Abbaye de Melrose, faites a Bruges. Pages

402-410. Notice sur deux cheminees decorees de I'llotel de Ville de

Courtrai. Pages 426-431.

Tome IV.

Notice sur les tombes decouvertes en 1841, dans I'eglise

cathedrale de St. Sauveur a Bruges. Pages 129-136. Herman, Chef Cherusque, Liberateur de la Germanic.

Pages 180-184. Analectes Brugeois.

Poids publics de la ville.

Le banquet des savants.

Marie de Bourgogne et Maximilien.

Points et articles qui font I'objet des plaintes des neuf membres de la ville qui ont ete la cause de I'empri- sonnement de Maximilien.

Reponse i ces points et articles,

Moeurs et usages du XVI* siecle. Pages 209-256. Archives de la Province et de la Ville de Bruges. Pages

303-314-

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Fete de la Toison d'Or, celebree a Bruges, en 1478. Pages

333-346. Reminiscences au sujet de la Musique en Flandre, Pages

347-354- Erection d'une Confrerie d' Archers k Couckelaere. Pages

355-359.

Deuxieme Scrie.

Tome I.

Le Chateau de Winendaele. Pages 1-18, Miscellanees. Bruges, pp. 386-392.

LES BELGES ILLUSTRES. Three volumes in

8vo, pp. 454,370, 250. Bruxelles, A. Jamar,

1845-

The second volume contains on pp. 312-318 the follow- ing contribution by O. D : — " Les Deux Van Oost."

MESSAGER des Sciences Historiques de Bel- gique. 8vo. Gafid. 1 833-1 879.

The following are M. Delepierre's contribu- tions : —

Notice sur une inscription trouvee dans le tombeau de la

reine Gunilde, k Bruges. 1833, p. 425, sgq. The Origin of the Dutch ; with a slcetch of their language

and literature, and short examples tracing the progress . of the language, by the Rev. J. Bosworth. 1837, p.

267, sqq. Notice historique sur les privileges accordes au Franc de

Bruges. 1838, p. 241 sqq. and p. 3S1 sqq. Bibliotheque manuscrite de la ville de Bruges. 1 839, p.

161, sqq. Chronique rimee des Troubles de la Flandre, a la fin du

XIV« siecle. D'apres un manuscrit de la Bibliotheque

de M. Ducas, a Lille, 1842, p. 282, sqq. Vente de quelques livres rares a Londres. 1843, p. 281, sqq. M. Baugniet en Angleterre. 1844, p. 181, sqq. Rapprochement entre les Processions flamandes et les Fetes

anglaises. 1844, p. 301, sqq.

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Notice sur le Roxburghe Club et sur ses publications. 1845,

p. 80, sqq. Voyages de Jacques, Comte de Perth, en Belgique en 1693.

1846, p. 28, sqq. .

GLOIRES NATIONALES. Album Biogra- phique de Beiges Celebres, texte par MM. Gachard, De Reiffenberg, A. Baron, Th. Juste, Moke, De Stassart, Deschamps, Lesbrous- sart, A. Wauquier. Illustrations par MM, Schubert, Devigne, Shaepkens, &c. Two volumes, 4to. J. Alb. Chabannes. Bruxelles^ 1845, 1848.

Tome I. 1845. Pp- 448 and 38 engravings, among them an

engraved title bearing date of 1850. Tome II. 1848. Pp. 427 and 27 engravings.

The following biographies inserted in this work are from the pen of M. Delepierre : —

1. Marie de Bourgogne (tome i., pp. 207-220).

2. Les Freres van Eyck (tome ii., pp. 1-29).

3. Simon Stevin (tome ii., pp. 403-415).

TRESOR NATIONAL. 8vo. BruxdUs. Wouters freres. 1842-44. 8 vols.

Volume ii., pp. 1 76-2 1 5.

De la Societe des Bibliophiles de Camden et de ses publica- tions. By O. D.

Mariage de la Princesse Marguerite, Soeur d'Edouard IV, roi d'Anglcterre, en 1468. By O. D. pp. 12.

LE BIBLIOPHILE BELGE. !"« Sdrie. Brux- dUs. 1845-52. 9 vols. 8vo. 2^ Serie. 1854- 65. 12 vols. Svo.

M. Delepierre contributed the following papers: —

Vol. I. , pp. 265-267. Biblioth^que de M. B. Heywood Bright.

Vol. II., pp. 106-I13. Bibliomaniana, ou essai sur I'amour des livres, &c. Pp. 114-118, Remarques diverses sur la Bibliomanie. Pp. 200-206, Bibliographiana — vente de

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livres rares k Londres. Pp. 295-299, Continuation du

compte rendu de la vente de M. Bright a Londres.

Pp- 332-337. Sydney Smith, Vol. III., pp. 325-345. Histoire des livres et des Bib-

liotheques. Du dessin et de la miniature dans leur

application aux manuscrits. VoL IV., pp. 43-44. De I'etat de la librairie en Irlande,

mis en rapport avec la misere qui afflige ce pays. Pp.

49-60, 323-332. Anglo-Saxoniana, ou Notice sur la

Litterature de I'Anglo-Saxon et son utilite pour les

Flamands. Vol. v., pp. 16-18. Lettre sur un manuscrit de Philippe le

Beau. (Londres, 5 Janvier 1848.) Pp. 350-363.

Histoire des auteurs, des bibliophiles, des calligraphes,

des imprimeurs, des libraires, et des relieurs. Typo-

graphiana. Vol. VI., pp. 294-306. De la litterature satirique en

Angleterre. D'apres Flogel. Vol. VII., pp. 445-447. Nouvelle appreciation du genie de

Simon Stevin k I'etranger.

REVUE de Belgique Litterature et Beaux Arts. 4"^ Annde, 2°' Serie. Tome iii. (pp. 1145^^., 150 s^^.). 4to. Bruxe/ks, 1849.

Les Metaphysiciens Beiges juges a I'Etranger, par Octave Delepierre. This article professes to be no more than an analysis of that part of Mr. Robert Blakey's " History of Philosophy and Metaphysics" (4 vols. Svo, London, 1848), which treats of the Belgian Philosophers.

COMMISSION ROYALE D'HISTOIRE. Compte-Rendu des Seances, tome xii. Brux- elles, 1847.

Court Aper9u des differents Cartulaires, publics par ordre de la Commission des Records, aux frais du Gouverne- ment Anglais, par O. D. 8vo, pp. 45-61.J

ACADEMIE ROYALE DE BELGIQUE. Ex- trait du tome xiv. No. 2 des Bulletins.

Notice sur I'Etablissement des Manufactures Beiges en An- gleterre au l6« et 17^ sifecles. Par O. D. Svo, lo pp.

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THE ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE. 8vo. Lon- don.

M. Delepierre contributed the following papers : — Historical Misrepresentations.

Volume xiii.

1. Joan of Arc. Pages 64-64.

2. Galileo. Pages 68-70.

3. The Saga of William Tell. Pages 332-336.

4. Charles V. of Spain. Pages 433-436.

Volume xiv.

5. The Inventor of the Steam-Engine. Pages 62-63.

6. Belisarius. Pages 64-65.

7. Abelard and Heloise. Pages 304-309.

8. The Colossus of Rhodes. Pages 310-312.

Volume XV.

9. Francis I., and the Countess of Chateaubriand.

Pages 99-101.

MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON SOCIETY.

M. Delepierre was one of the most copious contributors to the Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society.

The following is a list of his papers : —

Vol. I. Doute Historique (Jeanne d'Arc). 20 pages, 1854. Vol. II. De la Litterature Macaronique, et de quelques

Rarctes Bibliographiques de ce genre. 79 pages,

1855-56. Vol. III. Etudes Eio-Bibliographiques sur les Fous Litte-

raires (Bluet d'Arberes). 79 pages, 1856-57. Vol. IV. Essai Biographique sur I'Histoire Litteraire des

Fous. (38 Notices sur des fous litteraires, Anglais, Fran-

9ais, Allemands, Beiges et Espagnols.) 132 pages,

1857-5S. Vol, V. L'Abbaye de Melrose et les Ouvriers Flamands. (MS. aux Archives de Bruges.) 22 pages. Les Beiges Restaurateurs de I'Art Musical en Europe. 28 pages.

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John Gutenberg, first Master- Printer, his Acts and most remarkable Discourses, and his Death. From the German (of F. Dingelstedt). 144 pages, 1858-59. Vol. VI. The First Printers of Belgium and England (Colard Mansion and William Caxton ; Caxton at Bruges). 22 pages. Le Canard de la Bibliotheque d'Alexandrie. 14 pages,

1860-61. Nouvelles Plaisantes Recherches d'un Homme grave sur quelques Farceurs (sur Nassreddin Chosa, I'Ulenspiegel des Turcs, et sur les " Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham "). 40 pages. Vol. VII. Macaroneana. 179 pages, 1862-63. Vol. VIII. L'Enfer. Descrit par ceux qui I'ont vu. Essai Philosophique et Litteraire, 33 pages. Dementiana. 42 pages, 1863-64. Vol. IX. Demeniiana. Des Hallucinations dans la Repub- lique des Lettres. 29 pages. L'Enfer, &c. With illustrations and Appendix. 174 pages, 1865-66. (Of this paper, and the preceding one of 33 pages in vol. viii., 25 extra copies were printed and issued under the title of " Le Livre des Visions, ou i'Enfer et le Ciel descrits par ceux qui les ont vus," 1866). Centoniana, ou Encyclopedic du Centon. 190 pages. Vol. X. De la Bibliophagie. Communique par Onesyme Durocher. (O. D.) 15 pages. Des Livres condamnes au feu en Angleterre. 15 pages. Edouard III, Roi d' Angleterre, en Flandre. 30 pages,

1866-67. Lusus Macaronici Moderni. Communicated by M. Ros- tain. 35 pages. (The introduction to this paper, con- sisting of 12 pages, is by M. Delepierre.) Vol. XI. Centoniana, ou Encyclopedic du Centon, 2™* par- tie. 317 pages, 1867-68. Vol. XII. Essai sur la Parodie. 182 pages, 1868-69.

P.S. — The compiler has been unable to discover the publications in which the following four papers, written and signed by M. Delepierre, and of which copies are in his possession, have appeared : —

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Quelques Donnees, pour servir k I'Histoire du Commerce de la Flandre au Moyen-age. .Two articles of i8 pp. in 8vo.

The Chateau de Maldeghem. A Legend of Flanders. (A few pages in double columns, evidently from an English periodical. Reprinted in Volume II. of "Old Flanders.")

Saint Amand en Flandre. Legende du VII' siecle. Par O. D. 8vo, pp. 5.

Saint Eloi en Flandre, Legende du VII* siecle. Par O, D. Svo, pp. 4.

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APPENDIX.

M. Delepierre was one of the Secretaries of this Society from its institution in 1853 until his death. The first twelve volumes contain contributions by him.

PHILOBIBLON SOCIETY, Instituted in Lon- don, 1853, by R. Monckton Milnes, Esq. (Lord Houghton), and M. Sylvain Van de Weyer, Belgian Minister to the Court of St. James's.

The books are printed in small 4to, at the Chiswick Press. Each Member receives two copies of the volumes published at the expense of the Club, but usually only one of those printed at the private expense of the Members. The number of Members, at first thirty-five, was raised in 1857 to forty, including the Patron and Honorary Secretaries. One hundred copies of each volume were printed on laid paper.

I. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MISCELLANIES. Vol. i. London, 1854.

Contents : — Rules. List of Members, i. Original Letter of Thomas James, Editor of the Philobiblon Richardi Dunelmensis, to Lord Lumley, 1599, pp. 5. Communicated by William. Stirling, Esq., ALP. — 2. Notes sur deux petites Bibliotheques Fran9aises du XV* siecle, pp. 64. By his

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Royal Highness the Duke d'AumaU. — 3. Michael Scott almost an Irish Archbishop, pp. 8. By the Very Kev. II. 11. Milman, Dean of St. Pauls. — 4. Short Account of some of the most Celebrated Libraries of Italy, pp. 59. By the Hon. Robert Curzon. — 5. Lettres sur Ics Anglais qui ont ecrit en Fran^ais, pp. 99. By his Excellency Sylvain Van de Weycr. — 6. Private Letters from the Earl of Strafford to his third Wife, pp. 24. By R. Monckton Alilnes, Esq., M.P. — 7. Some Remarks on the Prefaces to the first editions of the Classics, pp. 24. By Bcriah Botfield, Esq. — 8. Memoir of Chief-Justice Heath, pp. 24. By Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq., M.P. — 9. Lettre de Guillaume III., pp. 5. By his Royal Highness the Duke dAumale. — 10. The Connock Papers, pp. 28. By H. Belward Ray, Esq. — 11. Construc- tion of the Speech addressed by Louis XVI. to the Etats Generaux, in the possession of II. Danby Seymour, Esq., pp. 33. Communicated by R. Monckton Milnes. — 12. Letter from King John of France to his son Charles, pp. 6. Com- municated by P. O' Callaghan. — 1 3. On the importance of Manuscripts with Miniatures in the History of Art, pp. Ii. By Dr. G. F. Waagen. {Communicated). — 14. Avisi di Londra, 1645-52, pp. 12. Communicated by Rawdott Bronvn, Esq. — 15. Doute Historique, pp. 20. By Octave Delepierre, Esq. — 16. Letter from Giacomo Soranzo to his two sons, 1 5 88, pp. 7. — Fro7n the original hi the possession of the Rev. Walter Sneyd. — 17. On the first edition of the " Adagia" of Erasmus, pp. 5. By William Stirling, Esq., M.P. — 18. — Letter of Dr. John Dee to William Cecyl, 1562-63, pp. 16. By R. W. Grey, Esq., M.P.—ig. A Short Dozen of Books relating to British History, in the possession of and described by the Earl of Gosford, President, pp. 7. — 20. The Private Printing Press at Stonor, 1 58 1, pp. 6. By the Hon. T. E. Stonor. — 21. Letter from Cardinal Bembo to Lorenzo Loredano, Doge of Venice, pp. 16. By the Rev. Walter Sneyd. — 22. Notes on Libraries, pp. 1 7. By Beriah Botfield, Esq.

2. MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON SOCIETY. Vol. ii. 1855-56.

Contents: — l. Some Account of a rare Greek Manuscript, with an illustration, pp. II. By the Rev. Walter Sneyd. — 2. Catalogue of the Books of Richard de Gravesend, Bishop of London, 1303, pp. 10. By the Very Rev. II. H. Milman, Dean of St. I'auts. — 3. Some Account of the first English

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Bible, pp. 44. By Beriah Botfield, Esq. — 4. Bibliotheca Membranacea Britannica ; or, Notices of Early Englisli Books printed upon Vellum, pp. 28. By Beriah Botjield, Esq. — 5. The Book of the Prophet Moses, and the History of the Prophet Moses, pp. 54. By the Hon. Robert Curzon. — 6. Notes et Documents relatifs a Jean, Roi de France, et a sa captivite en Angleterre, pp. 190. By his Royal Highness the Duke d^Aumale. — 7. Notices concerning John Cabot and his son Sebastian, pp. 26. By Rawdon Brown, Esq. Communicated by Edward Cheny. — 8. Notices of the Em- peror Charles V., in 1555 and 1556; selected from the Despatches of Federigo Badoer, Venetian Ambassador at the Court of Bruxelles, pp. 58. By IVilliam Stirling, Esq., M.P. — 9. Eyre Papers, pp. 75. In the possession of and edited by H. Belward Ray, Esq. — 10. Notices of I'Historia di Casa Orsini di Francesco Sansovino, Venetia, 1565, pp. 7. By Edward Cheney, Esq. — li. Unpublished Letters of Laurence Sterne, pp. 20. By John Murray, Esq. — 12. A Few Spanish Proverbs about Friars, pp. 7. By William Stirling, Esq., M.P. — 13. Inedited Poems of Daniel, pp. 12. By Sir John Simeon, Bart. — 14. De la Litterature Macaronique et de quelques raretes bibliographiques de ce genre, pp. 79. By Octave Delepierre, Esq. — 15. Boswel- liana, pp. 27. By R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., M.P.

3. MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON SOCIETY. Vol. iii. 1856-57.

Contents : — r. Catalogue of the Minister's Library in the Collegiate Church of Tong, in Shropshire, with some Notices of that Structure, pp. 42. By Beriah Botfield, Esq., M.P. — 2. Notice of Anquetil du Perron and the Fire-Wor- shippers of India, pp. 28. By Sir Erskine Perry, M.P. — 3. Unpublished Poems of Donne, pp. 31. By Sir John Simeon, Bart. — 4. On the Apologies for the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew, pp. 72. By R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., M.P. — 5. Another Version of Keats's " Hyperion," pp. 24. ByR. Monckton Milnes.— 6. A Funerall Oration spoken over the Grave of Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Essex, by her hus- band, Mr. Higgins, in the Cathedrall Church of Winchester, September l6th, 1656, pp. 23. Communicated by the Right Hon. Sir David Dundas. — 7. Two Letters of Charles L, pp. 6. By the Hon. T. E. Stonor.—S. Etudes Bio-Bibliograph- iques sur les Fous Litteraires, pp. 79. By Octave Delepierre.

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— 9- Le Marquis de Sy et M. Poupar, pp. 70. By his Excellency M. Sylvain Van de Weya:

4. MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON

SOCIETY. Vol. iv. 1857-58.

Contents : — i. James Thomson and David Mallet, pp. 44. By Pder Cunningham, Esq. — 2. The Origin and Pro- gress of Printing, pp. 108. By Henry G. Bohn, Esq. — 3. Contemporaneous Narrative of the Trial and Execution of the Cenci, pp. 72. By Sir John Simeon, Bart. — 4. Letters by Titian, respecting some Pictures completed by him at the age of Ninety-one, pp. 28. By Sir Charles Lock Eastlake. —

5. Essai Biographique sur I'Histoire Litteraire des Fous, pp. 136. By Octave Delepierre.

5. MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON

SOCIETY. Vol. V. 1858-59.

Contents : — I. Nouveaux Documents relatifs i Jean, Roi de France, pp. 24. By his Royal Highness the Duke cTAumale. — 2. L'Abbaye de Melrose et les Ouvriers Fla- mands, pp. 22. By Octave Delepierre. — 3. Discourse of "Witchcraft, as it was acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax of Fuystone, in the County of York, in the year 1621, pp. 304. From the original copy written with his own hand, communicated by R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., M.P. — 4. John Gutenberg, First Master-Printer, pp. 144. From the Ger- man, by C. O. W. Communicated by Octave Delepierre. — 5. Les Beiges, Restaurateurs de I'Art Musical en Europe, pp. 30. By Octave Delepierre,

6. MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON

SOCIETY. Vol. vi. 1860-61.

Contents: — l. History of Printing in China and Europe, pp. 34. By the Hon. Robert Curzon. — 2. The first Printers of Belgium and England, pp. 22. By Octave Delepierre. — 3. Le Canard de la Bibliotheque d'Alexandrie, pp. 14. By Octave Delepierre. — 4. Notices of Lil^raries, pp. 96. By Beriah Botfield, Esq., M.P.—S- The Execution of Cardinal Caraffa, pp. 24, By Edward Cheney, Esq. — 6. Letter of Beatrice Cenci, with Remarks on her Portrait by Guido, pp. 8. By Edward Cheney, Esq.—T- Three Prefatory Supple- ments to the Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King

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Richard III., pp. ii6. By the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey. — 8. Cor- respondence relating to William Penn, pp. 26. By the Earl of Ellesmere. — 9. Letters of the Duchess of Atholl and Lady Catherine Stewart, pp. 20. Communicated by Sir George Grey. — 10, Nouvelles Plaisantes Recherches d'un Homme grave sur quelques Farceurs, pp. 40. By Octave Delepierre. — II. Original Letters of Dr. Johnson, pp. 44. Communi- cated by Sir John Simeon, Bart.

7. MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON

SOCIETY. Vol. vii. 1862-63.

Contents : — i. Interpretation of an Important Historical Document in Cypher, pp. 32. By Professor Wheatsione. — 2. Letters of Napoleon Buonaparte, pp. 18. By Edward Cheney, Esq. — 3. Letter from Queen Marie Antoinette to the Princess de Lamballe, pp. 5. By the Rev. W. Sneyd. — 4. An Account of Materials furnished for the use of Queen Anne Boleyn and the Princess Elizabeth, by William Loke, "the King's Mercer," between 20th January 1535 (27th of Henry VIII.), and the 27th April 1536, pp. 22. By J. B. Heath, Esq.— I. Extracts from Mr. Burke's Table-Talk at Crewe Hall. Written down by Mrs. Crewe, pp. 62. By R. M. Alilnes, Esq., M.P. — 6. Information centre Isabellede Limeuil (Mai-Aout 1564), pp. 106. By his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale. — 7. Secret Letters from the Comte de Provence to the Marquis de Favras. Intercepted Letter from Queen Marie Antoinette to the Emperor of Austria, pp. 10. By R. M. Mibies, Esq., M.F.—Z. Relazione della Regina di Suetia, pp. 16. By the Rev. IV. Sneyd. Addendum, by R. M. Milnes, Esq., M.P.—g. Free and Impartial Reflec- tions on the Character, Life, and Death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, pp. 73. By R. M. Milnes, Esq., M.P.—io. Macaroneana, pp. 179. By Octave Delepierre.

8. MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON

SOCIETY. Vol. viii. 1863-64.

Contents : — i. From the Windham Papers, pp. 12. By Lord Taunton. — 2. Despatches of Venetian Ambas- sadors from the Court of Louis XIIL during the years 1618- 38, pp. 40. By Edward Cheney. — 3. Lettre de M. de Marat qui contient le recit de ses transactions dans les differentes Sciences oil il a porte la Lumiere et la Verite. Roume de St. Laurent, pp. 97. By Lord Houghton. — 4. Account of an

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iuterview which took place at Venice in 1622, between the Prince de Conde and Fra Paolo Sarpi. Derived from origi- nal sources, pp. 37. By Edward Cheney. — 5. L'Enfer decrit par ceux qui I'ont vu. Essai Philosophique ct Litteraire, pp.33. By Octave Dele pierre. — 6. Sketch of a Conversation with Napoleon at Elba. An account by G. V. Vernon, written for tlie Marquis of Lansdowne, dated Whitton Tower, March I, 181 5, pp. 44. Communicated by Sylvatn Van de Weyer. — 7. Dcmentiana, pp. 42. By Octave Delepierre. —

8. Lettresde Mesdames Marie, Adelaide, et Victoire a Louis XVI., 1791. From the papers found in the desk of the King after his execution, and now in the possession of Henry Danby Seymour, Esq., M. P., pp. 8. Communicated by Lord Houghton. — 9. The Examination and Confession of certain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex, pp. 49. Communicated and Prefaced by Hermann Beimel, M.D.

9. MISCELL.\NIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON

SOCIETY. Vol. ix. 1865-66.

Contents : — l. Description of a copy of " Rationes De- cern Campiani," printed at Stonor, 1581, pp. 6. By Hon. Thomas Edward Stonor. — 2. Notice of a Fragment of a Sarum Breviary in the possession of John Eliot Hodgkin, pp. 7. — 3. Bookhunting under Edward III., pp. ']%. By William Sidney' Gibson. — 4. Dementiana, pp. 29. By Octave Delepierre. — 5. The Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxford, July, 1826. The Minster and Steeple in Freyburg in Breisgaw described throughout the varied ornamental parts, in the Gothic style, by John Andrew Ritschel, Freyburg, 1836. 8vo. Avertimenti degli Ospitandi nella Casa suU' Etna, sm. 4to, Catania: 1833. The Indictment against that Tyrannical, Cruel, and Bloody Monarch, Satan. 8vo. Lon- don, printed for the Southcottian Friends, 1845, pp. 37. Communicated by the Hon. Robert Curzon. — 6. Original Letters of Sir Thomas Pope, Knt.,pp. 18. Communicated by Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq., M.A., Af.P. — 7. Correspon- dence between Madame de Lafayette and General Wash- ington, pp. 16. Communicated by Henry Peeve. — 8. The Crewe Papers. Section I. Windham Letters, pp. 72. Communicated by Lord Houghton. — 9. Memorandum on the Diaries of the late Mr. Charles Gieville, pp. 35. Communi- cated by Henry Reevt. — 10. L'Enfer decrit par ceux qui

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I'ont vu ; Essai philosophique et litteraire, pp. 1 74- ■f^ Octave Delepierre.

10. MISCELLANIES OF THEPHILOBIBLON

SOCIETY. Vol. X 1866-67.

Contents : — i. Centoniana, ou Encyclopedic du Centon, pp. 190. By Octave Delepierre. — 2. Letters of Eminent Men, pp. 39. Communicated by J. B. Heath. — 3. De la Bibliophagie, pp. 16. Com?nunique par Otiesyme Ditrocker {Octave Delepierre). — 4. Horace Walpole's Marginal Notes written in Dr. Maty's " Miscellaneous Works and Memoirs of the Earl of Chesterfield," 2 vols. 4to, 1777, pp. 59- Communicated by R. S. Turner, Esq., the possessor of the volumes. — 5. Edouard III, Roi d'Angleterre, en Flandre, pp. 30. By Octave Delepierre. — 6. Lusus Macaronici Mo- derni, pp. 35. Communicated by M. Kostain. (The twelve pages of introduction were written by M, Delepierre.) — 7- Des Livres condamnes au feu en Angleterre, pp. 15. By Octave Delepierre.

11. MISCELLANIES OF THEPHILOBIBLON

SOCIETY. Vol. xi. 1867-68.

Contents : — i. Remarks on the Illuminated Official Manuscripts of the Venetian Republic, pp. 95. By Ed-ward Cheney. — 2. Expenses of Dinners provided for Cardinal Wolsey and the Lords of the Privy Council, from July 13, 1 5 1 8, to February 13, 1 5 1 9, pp. 46. Cotrununicated by Baron Heath. — 3. Centoniana, ou Encyclopedie du Centon. Deux- i^me partie, pp. 317. By Octave Delepierre.

12. MISCELLANIES OF THEPHILOBIBLON

SOCIETY. Vol. xii. 1868-69.

Contents : — i. Essai sur la Parodie, pp. 182. By Octave Delepierre. — 2. The Van den Bempde Papers, pp. I ID. Communicated by Sir Erskine Peny.— 3. Morte dell' Uxoricida Guido Franceschini Decapitato, pp. 25. Com- municated by Robert Browning, through Sir John Simeon. — 4. Hermes and Lycaon, pp. 15. Comttiunicated by Clements R. Markham, Esq. — 5. Shelley's Declaration of Rights, pp. 19. Communicated by Mr. Fortescue to the Editor. — 6. Notice of Sir John Simeon, pp. 8.

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13- MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON SOCIETY. Vol. xiii. 1871-72.

Contents : — I. Narrative by Mr. Edward Grimston of his Captivity in the Bastille, and his Escape therefrom, pp. 47. Communicated by Jlinry Reeve. — 2. Lettres de ^Iadame de Maintenon a sa niece, Madame de Caylus, pp. 1 6. Communicated by Lady Knightley. — 3. Lettres de Madame de Maintenon a Monsieur de Marechal de Villeroy, pp. 84. Communicated by Lady Knightley. — 4. Notice of the late Princess Lieven, pp. 14. By Ralph Sneyd, Esq. — 5. Tlie Tomb of the Scalitjers at Verona, pp. 22. By Edward Cheney, Esq, — 6. Mrs. Harcourl's Diary of the Court of King George III., pp. 57.

14. MISCELLANIES OF THE PHILOBIBLON

SOCIETY. Vol. xiv. 1872-76.

Contents : — i. Notice of Lord Zouche, pp. 24. — 2. Original Documents relating to Venetian Painters in the Sixteenth Century, pp. 112. Communicated by Edward Cheney. — 3. Letters of the Bonaparte Family, pp. 46. Frorti the original in the autograph collection of Baron ILeath. — 4. Anecdote of King George IIL and the late Mrs. Arthur Stanhope, pp. 14. Communicated by Evelyn Shirley. — 5. Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, pp. 98. Comtjiuni- cated by General Sir IV. Knollys. — 6. Unpublished Diary of Madame Roland, pp. 16, Communicated by M. Henry A. Bright. — 7. Copie Fidele des Lettres que le S'. Roy d'Angleterre a ecrittes au Rd. Pere Dom Armand Jean, ancien Abbe de la Trappe, pp. xvi. of int., and 107. Com- municated by Lord Acton.

15. THE EXPEDITION TO THE ISLE OF RHE. By Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, K.B. : with an Introductory Notice. London. Printed by Whittingham & Wilkins, pp. liii. and 287. i860. Edited and presented by the Earl of Powis.

16. INVENTAIRE DE TOUS LES MEUBLES DU CARDINAL MAZARIN. Dresse en 1653, et public d'apres I'original conserve dans les

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archives de Cond^, pp. 404. Avec Introduc- tion, 1 86 1. Edited a?id presented by his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale.

17. MEMOIRES DE LA COUR D'ESPAGNE

SOUS LE REGNE DE CHARLES II., pp. xxxix. and 380. 1678-1682. Par le Marquis de Villars. Portrait. Edited and presented by Williavi Stirling, Esq., M.P.

i8. THE BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHAKESPEARE. By Henry G. Bohn. Pp. 366, followed by ii6 pages, in double columns, of a Bibliographical Account of the Works of Shakespeare, including every known edition, translation, and commentary. Sm. 4to, with portraits, facsimiles, &c. London, 1863. Compiled and presented by Henry G. Bohn, Esq.

19. ANCIENT BALLADS AND BROADSIDES

published in England in the sixteenth century, chiefly in the earlier years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Reprinted from the unique original copies, mostly in the black letter, pre- served in the library of Henry Huth, Esq. Sm. 4to, pp. Ivi. and 463. Lo7idon, printed by Whittingham & Wilkins, 1867. Edited and presented by Henry Huth, Esq.

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