[Illustration: An Illustration from the Pomerium Spirituale. Original is 4-7/8 by 5 inches. [From Holtrop.]] The rightful place of this work is among the manuscripts that are partly written and partly printed, for its pictures were engraved and its text was written. The book contains [p245] twenty-six leaves of small folio, made up in one section. At the beginning of each of its twelve written chapters is the impression of an engraving on wood. The date 1440 is found in two of the engravings. The only known copy of this book is held by the Royal Library of Brussels. It is a curious circumstance that this copy, possibly in its original binding, which contains a printed date earlier than that of any other block-book, should also contain two printed leaves of the _Bible of the Poor_. Holtrop says that the book was composed by Henry Bogaert, canon of a monastery near Brussels, who was born in 1382 and died in 1469. He was the author of many small religious books, of which the _Exercise on the Lord’s Prayer_ is one. The illustrations of this book and of the _Pomerium Spirituale_ were probably made at the same time and by the same engraver. THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL. [Illustration: A Fragment of the Temptations of the Devil. Original is 10 inches wide. [From Koning.]] This is not a book, but a print on a single sheet eleven inches wide and sixteen inches high. It differs from the image prints in the pettiness of its cuts and the abundance of its text, for which reason it may properly be described among the block-books with text. The nature of the work is clearly set forth in the preface, _The Temptations of the Devil, as he tempteth men to the Seven Mortal Sins_. The Devil, who, with a claw-hook in his hand, stands in the corner to the left, has beneath him the list of these seven sins. The tempted man is [p246] the monk near the centre of the print, who supplicates the aid of the angel, who hastens to his rescue. Below the angel are appropriate quotations from the Scriptures, which show that this print is but a medieval paraphrase of the story of Christ tempted by the Devil, as related by St. Matthew. It was engraved and printed in the form of a placard, that it might be fastened against a wall for the contemplation of the devout. The illustration shows only a portion of the upper part of this curious print, of which the British Museum has the only known copy. It is supposed to have been printed in the Netherlands. THE LIFE OF ST. MEINRAT. [Illustration: A Page from the Life of St. Meinrat. Original is 3-1/8 by 5-7/8 inches. [From Dibdin.]]