VOLUME THE SECOND CONSISTS at prefent of 428 leaves of vellum, the firft of which is blank; - then follow the contents of all the 389 chapters CM fix teen leaves and the firft column of the feventeenth : after two blank leaves, the text on 407 leaves. Finally, • a blank leaf. The portions of the text, each furnifhed with its catch-word, aie : 27 quaternions (216), 1 ternion (6), and 24 quaternions (192). Total, 414 leaves, in which, when the comparifon with Sauvage's edition was made by me, there was nothing wanting. However, a defcendant of Flacius (whofe family, not being extinft, every librarian muft be extremely wary of) has had this volume in his hands, and has ftolen from it feven whole leaves-: the firft five are fingle leaves, the fmall remains of *which are ftill to be feen,—and indeed the eighth leaf of :the eleventh quaternion, the fixth of the fourteenth, the fécond of the twenty-fixth, and the fécond of the twenty-feventh. There is nothing wanting to the ternion. Then the eighth leaf of the thirty-fourth is wanting, the fourth and fifth leaf of the forty-ninth quaternion ; .or :of the text .88, 110, 202, 210, A7S, «394, and 395th leaf. This theft was difcovered in 1562, -by .my late uncle and predeoeflbr, the re&or Arlet, .who has written the account of it upon a particular leaf In this volume, there are, upon the 407 leaves which the text now has, four large and forty-two fmall piélures, in all forty-fix, moftly of battles and petty war-adventures, which are all exceedingly handfome. Some amongft them, leaf 42, 285 and -355, are very remarkable on account of the unufual form of the heavy artillery, as delineated in the middle of the fifteenth century; for example, of three cannons on a fingle carriage, of a gun-breach with a huge iron quadrant to level it by, &c. The beginning, of the volume, including the contents of the chapter, is ras follows,: -m