the capital. These

events are authentic and famous.]

[Footnote 91: They were new bound in purple, deposited in a rich

casket, and shown to curious travellers by the monks and

magistrates bareheaded, and with lighted tapers, (Brenckman, l.

i. c. 10, 11, 12, p. 62 - 93.)]

[Footnote 92: led light

After the collations of Politian, Bologninus, and

Antoninus Augustinus, and the splendid edition of the…

e Florentine

Pandects. This fact, if it be true, is decisive. Yet the

Pandects are quoted by Ivo of Chartres, (who died in 1117,) by

Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, and by Vacarius, our first

professor, in the year 1140, (Selden ad Fletam, c. 7, tom. ii. p.

1080 - 1085.) Have our British Mss. of the Pandects been

collated?]

[Footnote 87: See the description of this original in Brenckman,

(Hist. Pandect.…

les as manuscripts, the price of a parchment copy was

reduced from four or five hundred to sixty, fifty, and forty

crowns. The public was at first pleased with the cheapness, and

at length provoked by the discovery of the fraud, (Mattaire,

Annal. Typograph. tom. i. p. 12; first edit.)]

[Footnote *: Among the works which have been recovered, by the

persevering and successful endeavors of M. Mai and his followers

to trace the imperfectly erased…

or Tacitus were obliged to resign the parchment to

missals, homilies, and the golden legend. ^84 If such was the

fate of the most beautiful compositions of genius, what stability

could be expected for the dull and barren works of an obsolete

science? The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and

entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use,

and they sunk forever as soon as that use was superseded by…