"Itinerario di Terra Santa, e del Monte Sinai." (Without date or printer) 4to. It is a journal of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, made in the year 1458 by a Padua nobleman, accompanied by a relative, Antonio Capodilista, a canon of the same place, and several other noble personages. It is one of the earliest productions of the press at Perugia, and the date assigned to it by M. Brunet is 1472, but by Vermiglioli 1473 or 1474. The latter authority, in his _Principi della Stampa in Perugia_, calls it "Veramente un prezioso cimelio di tipografia e bibliografia." I am anxious to know where a copy of this very rare work is deposited, as I have been told that there is none at the British Museum. W. M. R. E. _Album_ (Vol. vii., p. 235.).--The origin and the earliest notice of this kind of friendly memorial book is to be traced to the registers of the deceased that were formerly kept in every church and monastery. Such a book was called the _album_, _i. e._ the blank book, in which the names of the friends and benefactors to the church or monastery were recorded, that they might be prayed for at their decease, and on their anniversaries. The earliest writer belonging to this country who uses the word is the Venerable Beda, who in his {342} preface to his prose life of St. Cuthbert, written previous to the year 721, reminds Bishop Eadfrith that his name was registered in the album at Lindisfarne, "in albo vestræ sanctæ congregationis." (_Bedæ Opera Minora_, p. 47., ed. Stevenson.) Elsewhere Beda calls this book "the annal" (_Hist. Eccles._, lib. iv. c. 14.). At a later period it was called, both in England and abroad, the _Liber Vitæ, or Book of Life_, a name borrowed from St. Paul (Philippians, iv. 3.). The earliest specimen of an English album, and perhaps the most elegant one that this or any other country ever produced, may be seen in the British Museum (_Cotton MSS._, Domitian VII.). It is the Album, or Book of Life, of the monastery of Durham. Nor need we add that this album affords a relief to the eye wearied with looking over the pages of a modern album, and to the mind sick of the endless but monotonous repetition of imaginary ruins, love sonnets, and moss roses. CEYREP. _Gesmas and Desmas_ (Vol. vii., p. 238.).--For the information of your correspondent A. B. R., I copy the passage referred to by you in the disputed Gospel of Nicodemus, formerly called the Acts of Pontius Pilate. The extract is from an English version, printed for William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1820: "But one of the two thieves who were crucified with Jesus, whose name was _Gestas_, said to Jesus, If thou art the Christ, deliver thyself and us."--vii. 10.