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      Nq . II . —Bookbinding good and bad . Ethiopics of Heliodorus Striking account of raising a dead Body .

      We opened our Retrospective Review with a book-loving vnoltpo from a king , deserving of perpetual repetition , and therefore in these our pages

      perpetually to be repeated . It is our singular and royal good fortune to begin our second article with a most congenial anecdote of another , a rare

      circumstance in the republic ofletters . Glory be to the memory of Mathias Corvinus , King of Huiigary and Bohemia , son of the great , Huniades , and binde * of books in vellum and gold .

      He hla 66 d fifty thousand volum ^ s , says Warton , " in a tbw 0 r w ^ iich he had Erected iti the metropolis 6 f Btidai ayid in tins' I libriary he established thirty amapuenses , skilled m painting , illuminating and w « itiiik : # io undei : thfe : bbri-Jfe ' # ' "jfcfliT ¦ , Mga ^ to , a Dalmatia . 1 , consummately learned in the Greek , Chaldaic , and Afabid languages , and an elegant designer and

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      painter of ornaments on vellum , attended incessantly to the business of transcription and decoration . The librarian was Bartholomew Fontius , a learned Florentine , the writer of

      many philological books , and a professor of Greek and oratory at Florence . When Buda was taken by the Turks in the year 1526 ; Cardinal Bozmanni offered for the redemption of this inestimable collection , two hundred

      thousand pieces of the imperial money : yet without effect ; for the barbarous besiegers de ^ - faced or destroyed most of the books , in the violence of isfiez * ing the splendid covers fcind the frilyer bosses and fcla& ' ps

      with tyjtiich they were fehnchedi The learned () bsbprieu 8 ! r ^ Me * , th ^ it d book Was' b ^ ii ^ tit hifh by kri HijUgariati Btffltitet ; i ^ hi dh H ^ had | ridlced ii ^ Witii niritijr otMti ; M tti 6 ' pilUgti 6 ( King Corvino ' s library , and had ^ fefierved as a prize , merely because the covering re-

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      " Old wood to bum , old wine to drink , old friends toconrerse with , and old books to read . " — Alfonso . King of Arragon .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/59/