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Below the sketch is written, ‘“His coat it was yellow & his breeches were blue | & a hole was behind where his tail came through”’.

‘Omnia et in omnibus CHRISTUS.’ (Colossians, iii. 11.) Probably written at Tübingen. The writer’s title is ‘Cancellarius Academiæ, et Præpositus Ecclesiæ Tubingensis’.

The man is saying ‘Bedad! will nobody thread on the tails of me coat!!’

‘Nobis omnis terra et nulla terra Patria est.’ (Gregory of Nazianzus.) Dated at Arnstadt. Numbered 381.

‘Δός μοι τήν ἄυριον, καὶ λὰβε τήν σήμερον.’ (St John Chrysostom, Homilies on 2 Corinthians.) ‘Mihi FUTURA: non curo PRÆSENTIA.’ Probably written at Leipzig. The writer’s title is ‘P[rofessor] P[ublicus] Academiæ Lipsiensis tertium Jubilæum celebrantis Senior’. Numbered 109.

The sketch shows a man with a large nose supported by a stool. At the head of the page itself is written ‘The Alphabet made easy. (Nov. 63)’.

The sketch shows two men with large noses, facing away from each other, and joined together by their coat-tails. The monogram is repeated in one corner of the sketch, and on the page itself is written ‘H. E. Fox. his monogram’. The sketch was probably made about the same time as the alphabet on the next few pages.

(Etched by Wenceslaus Hollar.)

Three lines, beginning ‘Delicatus adhuc est, cui patria dulcis est’ (Hugh of St Victor). Dated at Strasbourg.

(This page describes itself as a frontispiece, but includes the names of the publishers.)

‘Mente colas Christum, prosis multis, noceasque | Nemini, amesque bonos, sustineasque malos.’ Dated at Wittenberg. Nyman’s title and position at Meissen has been added in a different hand.

‘AMORES | Sex fuge, quinque tene, fac bis duo, trina sequentur.’ ‘Symb: Vita sine virtutibus est agere vitam Plantæ.’ Dated at Frankfurt am Main.

‘Millibus ex multis vix unus fidus amicus | Hic corvis albis rarior esse solet.’ Dated at Leiden.

(This is probably a separate title-page for the Psalter from a Bible published at Geneva, though the stated place of printing is London. Cf. Bibles … and other Books … in the Collection of Lea Wilson (1845), No. 50.)

‘Ἡμῶν τὸ πολίτευμα ἐω οὐρανοῖς ὑπάρχει.’ (Philippians, iii. 20.) Dated at Jena.