Impression  X.  In  the  foreground,  an  angel  is  holding  up  a  drapery,
before  which  are  two  small  figures  of  a  man  and  woman
walking,  with  elevated  hands,  full  of  expression.  A
crucifix  is  by  the  side  of  the  dying  man.  To  the  left,
are  an  old  man  and  three  females  ;  which  latter   have

111  our  own  country.    Tlie  reader  will  discard  every  thing  in  it  relating  to  the  supposition
of  Fust  having  any  share  in  these  '  tentamina.'

'  I  come  now  (says' Pahner)  to  give  the  reader  an  account  of  the  other  five  books,  \iz.
Ars  Moriendi,  the  History  of  the  Apocalypse,  the  History  of  the  Bible,  the  Speculum  Salutis,
and  the  Spiegel,  or  Speculum,  translated  into  Low  Dutch.  That  these,  however,  are  not  all
that  was  done  upon  wooden  planks,  is  plain,  because  Trithemius  tells  us  of  the  Catholicon,
first  printed  upon  wood,  Scaliger  speaks  of  a  Psalter  of  the  same  stamp,  wliich  his  gi-andmother
had,  and  other  antiquaries  mention  several  others  not  worth  inserting  here,  all  which  are
either  perished,  or  are  as  yet  undiscovered :  however,  I  cannot  omit  the  Speculum,  and  some
others  seen  by  Saubert  in  the  Nuremberg  library,  of  which  he  was  keeper,  and  mentioned
by  him  in  the  catalogue  of  that  library,  called  in  Latm  Bibliotheca  Norica ;  which  books
were  printed  in  High  Dutch,  and  may  justly  be  supposed  some  of  Faustus's  first  tentamirm  or
essays,  from  ann.  1440  to  1450:  but  as  that  author  has  only  given  us  the  names,  without
any  fmther  account  of  them  ;  I  shall  pass  them  by,  and  return  to  the  five  abovementioned ;
which  are  no  where  to  be  met  with  together,  but  in  that  noble  collection  of  the  Right  Hon.
