26. A specimen of Malabaric writing, upon a palm-leaf, three feet in
length. 'Aug. 9, 1630. Ex dono Jo. Trefusis, generosi Cornubiensis, e
Coll. Exon.'
27. A Russian painting upon a shell, representing a female saint called
S. Parasceve, ἡ ἁγια Παρασκευη, who is found in the Greek
Menology, but whose history is believed by the Bollandists to be a pious
fiction.
28. A Hebrew _Bible_, beautifully written in the fourteenth century; in
triple columns, with the Masoretic commentary written in very minute
characters, and frequently in fantastic figures, round each page.
One of the Oppenheimer MSS.
29. _Horæ._ An illuminated MS. of the middle of the fifteenth century,
in 4to., probably by a French scribe and artist.
From the Canonici collection.
30. Another MS. of the _Hours_, in folio, of the fifteenth century,
beautifully illuminated, with many miniatures varying in the treatment
of some of the scenes which they represent from the common type.
Traditionally said, but on what evidence does not appear, to have
belonged to Henry VIII.