CHOICE EXAMPLES OF EARLY PRINTING AND ENGRAVING. Fac-similes from Rare and Curious Books. A PAGE FROM THE CHRONICUM ABBATIS USPERGENSIS. The volume from which this page has been reproduced was printed at Strasburg in 1537, and is considered to be one of the best specimens extant of the books produced by the Strasburg printers. The medallions of the Roman Emperors are treated with great knowledge of effect, and the drawing is correct and firm in imitation of antique models. The effect of the black back-ground is particularly strikng, and the wreaths of oak-leaves, olive, and other foliage, which frame the nedallions, are conceived in the true spirit of similar features in classical art. Philippus pri mus Impera tor Chriftian nus. Eufebius ub.6.cap.25. Decius. Martyres fub Decio. ANNI PHILIPPI. Nno Dominiceincarnationis cc. xlvij. urbis conditæ nongentefis mo xcviij. Marcus Iulius PHI LIPPVS xxiiij. ab Augufto ins uafit imperium, occifo Gordias no,& unà cum filio fuo Gaio Julio Saturnie no Philippo, regnauit annis vij. Iftiomniú imperatorum primi Romæ Chriftianèeffecti funt: & in ipfis Pafchæ uigilijs cumiungiuel lent facrificijs,& comunicare,à Fabiano pon rifice Romano nó permiffi funt,nifi prius co fiterentur peccata fua, & inter poenitentes fta rent. Quod illi fufcipientes libentiffime,digi num fibi metum, & Chriftianitatis pleniffi mani fidem rebus & operibus comprobabis ineffe. His anno iam tertio imperantibus, millefimus annus conditæ urbis Romæ im pletus eft: quo folenniter ab oibus celebras to,innumerabiles beftia in circo magno ine terfe&te funt, Ludig theatrales in campo Mar tio celebrati, tribus diebus ac no&tibus popus lo peruigilance. Ambo deinde, fcilicet, pater & filius ab exercitu interfecti funt: pater Vero næ,capite medio fupra ordines dentium prę cifo, filius uero Romæ,cum effet annoruxij. Hic adeo feueri fuit animi,ut iam à quinquen nij ætate nullo cuiufquam commento ad tis dendum folui potuerit: patrem ludis fecus laribus petulantius cachinnantem, licet adhuc puer, uulta auerfato norauerit. Philippus primo regni fui anno, Philippum filium fuum confortem regni facic. Anno domini ccxlviij.Anno domini ccxlix. Alexandria Dionyfius ordinatur epis fcopus xiij. Annus ab urbe condita millefimus feftiue celebratus eft Roma. Anno domini ccl. Anno domini ccli. Anno domini cclij.Philippus urbé naminis fui con ftruxit in Thracia. Anno dñi cclin.Philippus fenior Verone,Tunior occiditur Rome: HISTORI A. Nno Dnicæ incarnationis ccliiij. ab urbe códita millefimo quinto, DECIVS in Pannonia inferiori Bubaliæ natus,xxv. ab Augufta in safit imperium,interfe&tis eius fraude Philip pis,hoceft, patre & filio, & xxx. menfibus, id eft,duobus annis & dimidio. Quidam au tem fcribunt eum uno tantuanno regnaffe: fed hoc multú difcordat paffionibus fando rum,qui leguntur fub eo paffi fuiffe. Nam cu legatur Fabianus papa,xiiij. fui epifcopatus anno martyriú fub illo accepiffe,& huic Cor neliú triennio in fede fucceffiffe, item fub codem paffum fuiffe, Sixtú quoq & Laureh Laurentius. tium,& Hyppolicu,alios plures, ftare no poteft,ut tot fibi in Romana fede fucce Hyppolus. dentes,uno anno trucidauerit,maxime cu Cornelius, ut Ecclefiaftica docet hiftoria, trienio fedé tenuerit. Vñ& de ipforú quoq pontificú fucceffione queftio animu pul far,quo Decio regnú uel uno,uel duob. et dimidio anno tenete, Cornelius epifcopa Six us. tum Roa ILLUSTRATIONS DELILAH'S TREACHERY TO SAMSON Fac-simile Illumination of the Fourteenth Century FACING PAGE Frontispiece A PAGE FROM THE CHRONICUM ABBATIS USPERGENSIS LORD SAVE AND SELE BROUGHT BEFORE JACK CADE CHARLES I AND VAN DYCK AT HAMPTON COURT Photogravure from a painting THE BRITISH EMPIRE . ii 54 . 182 Map of the World, showing British Territory. . |