[67] The copy in question had, in 1595, been the property of F. Gregorius,
    prior of the monastery of Sts.  Ulric and Afra at Augsbourg:  as that
    possessor’s autograph denotes.

[68] The principal of these “tempting articles” were a fine first
    Statius of 1502, Asconius Pedianus, 1522. Cicero de
    Officiis, 1517, and Leonicerus de Morbo Gallico—­with the
    leaf of errata:  wanting in the copy in St. James’s Place.  But perhaps
    rarer than either, the Laurentius Maoli and Averrois,
    each of 1497—­intended for presents.  But Mr. Stoeger had
    forgotten these intended presents—­and charged them at a good
    round sum.  I considered his word as his bond—­and told him that honest
    Englishmen were always in the habit of so considering the words of
    honest Germans.  I threatened him with the return of the whole cargo,
    including even the beloved Greek Hours.  Mr. Stoeger seemed
    amazed:  hesitated:  relented:  and adhered to his original position.  Had
    he done otherwise, I should doubtless have erased the epithet
    “honestissimus,” in all the copies of the sale catalogue above alluded
    to, which might come within my notice, and placed a marginal
    emendation of “avidissimus.”

[69] It may be a novel, and perhaps gratifying, sight to the reader to
    throw his eye over a list (of a few out of the fifty articles) like
    the following: 
          
                                                 Flor.  Kreutz. 
    Liber Moralizat.  Biblic.  Ulm. 1474.  Folio.  Fine copy 11
    Biblia Vulg.  Hist.  Ital.  Venet. Giunta 1492.  Fol. 8
    Horatius.  Venet. 1494. 4to.  Fig. lig. incis. 11
    Cronica del rey don Iuan. Sevilla. 1563. 4to. 11
    Breviarium.  Teutonice. 4to.  In MEMBRANIS.  A
      most beautiful and spotless book.  It contains
      only the Pars Hyemalis of the cathedral service. 11
    Dictionarium Pauperum. Colon. 1504. 8vo. 1
    Pars quart.  Ind.  Orient.  Francof. 1601. 5 30
    Fabulae AEsopicae. Cura Brandt. 1501.  Folio. 
      Perhaps a matchless copy; in original binding
      of wood.  Full of cuts 55
    Thirteen different opuscula, at one florin each;
      many very curious and uncommon 13
    The Lord’s Prayer and Creed—­in the German
      language—­printed by “Fricz Crewsner,” in
      1472:  folio:  broadside.  Perhaps UNIQUE 22

    The florin, at the time of my residence at Munich, was about 1s. 9d.