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 'ITERATURE 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. 
 
 D
 
 orfes Mxiitm, ^ranslatetr, or ^Uitetr 
 fj2 M* ©elepterre. 
 
 " 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. 
 
 M. Delepierre's translation of Tondalus is preceded by an
 
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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 
 
 ^537. 
 
 "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 
 
 F
 
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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, 
 
 G
 
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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. 
 
 H
 
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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 d''Aumale. — 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 
 
 I
 
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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. 
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 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. 
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