+Ein ittlich mensch von herzen gert . Das er wer weiss und wol gelert . An meister un’ schrift das nit mag sein . So kun’ wir all auch nit latein . Darauff han ich ein teil gedacht . Und vier historii zu samen pra- cht . Joseph daniel un’ auch judith . Und hester auch mit gutem sith. die vier het got in seiner hut . Als er noch ye de’ guten thut . Dar durch wir pessern unser lebe’ . De’ puchlein ist sein ende gebe’ . Tʒu bambergh in der selbe’ stat . Das albrecht pfister gedrucket hat Do ma’ zalt tausent un’ vierhu’dert iar . Im zwei und sechzigste’ das ist war . Nit lang nach sand walpur- gen tag . Die uns wol gnad erberben mag . Frid un’ das ewig lebe’ . Das wolle uns got alle’ gebe’ . Ame’.+ The following is a translation of the above, in English couplets of similar rhythm and measure as the original: With heart’s desire each man doth seek That he were wise and learned eke: But books and teacher he doth need, And all men cannot Latin read. As on this subject oft I thought, These hist’ries four I therefore wrote; Of Joseph, Daniel, Judith too, And Esther eke, with purpose true: These four did God with bliss requite, As he doth all who act upright. That men may learn their lives to mend This book at Bamberg here I end. In the same city, as I’ve hinted, It was by Albert Pfister printed, In th’ year of grace, I tell you true, A thousand four hundred and sixty-two; Soon after good St. Walburg’s day, Who well may aid us on our way, And help us to eternal bliss: God, of his mercy, grant us this. Amen. The third work contained in the volume described by Camus is an edition of the “Poor Preachers’ Bible,” with the text in German, and printed on both sides. The number of the leaves is eighteen, of which only seventeen are printed; and as there is a “history” on each page, the total number in the work is thirty-four, each of which is illustrated with five cuts. The subjects of those cuts and their arrangement on the page is not precisely the same as in the earlier Latin editions; and as in the latter there are forty “histories,” six are wanting in the Bamberg edition, namely: 1. Christ in the garden; 2. The soldiers alarmed at the sepulchre; 3. The Last Judgment; 4. Hell; 5. The eternal Father receiving the righteous into his bosom; and 6. The crowning of the Saints. As the cuts illustrative of these subjects are the last in the Latin editions, it is possible that the Bamberg copy described by Camus might be defective; he, however, observes that there is no appearance of any leaves being wanting.[IV-16] In each page of the Bamberg edition the text is in two columns below the cuts, which are arranged in the following manner in the upper part of the page: