Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum,
1888-1893. (For the Trustees.)—This volume has six divisions,—" Additional Manuscripts," "Additional Charters and Rolls," "Detached Seals and Rolls," "Papyri," "Egerton MSS.," and "Egerton Charters and Rolls." The Papyri, among which the famous "Account-Book of Didymus, Son of Aspasius," which gave us "Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens," the Mimiambi of Herondas, and other classical salvage may be found, are peculiarly interesting. Most of them are simple commercial documents, but these are often curious, as when, e.g., we find a certificate to Panephremnis that he has worked five days on the embankments, or a list of village officials with the caution-money required from each.—The Trustees of the British Museum also publish, under the care of Mr. George F. Warner, Miniatures and Borders of the Book of Hours of Bona Sforza, Duchess of Milan. —The plates, sixty-five in number, have been reproduced by the collotype process. Mr. Warner has furnished an Introduction in which he relates the history of the volume and of the Duchess, its first possessor. The Duchess Bona was the widow of Galiazzo Maria, assassinated in 1476. The volume was brought to England in 1871 by Sir J. C. Robinson, bought by Mr. Malcolm, of Poltal- loch (the Treasury having refused the purchase by the State), and generously given by him to the Museum.
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