Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-10
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THE IVES COLLECTION.

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 THE IVES COLLECTION.
 Pre-eminent among the many rare and valuable manuscripts of the Brayton Ives book, manuscript and art collection, to be sold at the American Art association gal lery in New York in March, is a superbly illuminated and written 'tBook of Hours."
 This prayer-book, ''The Hours of the Holy Virgin Mary" was prepared about the year 1440 for William Herbert, first Earl of Pembroke. It is large folio in perfect preservation, bound in boards GOV cred with red velvet, the silver bases and clasps being adorned with Italian niello work, style of ornamentation applied to metal before the invention of engraving. The design being cut upon the metal with 8 pointed tool, @ black composition prepar ed by melting together gold, silver and lead was made to flow by means of beat into the lines of the design, and the plate being then scraped and burnished appear ed to have upon it a drawing in black.
 There are two hundred and si1ty-seven water-color miniatures in the book, which are marvellous in detail, color and e1ecu- tion; the margins are rich with brilliant ornamentation, and the penmanship is without flaw.
 This manuscript, the authenticity of which is beyond dispute, and which has an added value as being of English workman ship-English manuscripts of that period being rarer than Italian, French or Elem ish-was bought by MI. Ives of F. S. Ellis of London for two thousand pounds ster- ling. As for it's position among old man uscripts it is said to rank with the famous Bedford Missal, which is preserved in the British museum.
 Other gems of this collection are copy of the Gutenberg Bible, in excellent con- condition; first edition of Shakespeare, and of printed classics; copies of the old En- glish printers-Caxton, Wynka nde Worde and Pynson-and manuscript classics and missals of great value.
 The collection of Americana would be ftly placed in a national museum were this country SO fortunate as to possess one. It consists of local histories, histories of Indian wars, of settlements and of e1pedi- tions to America, the still older narratives of American discoveries and of the voyages of Columbus, Vespucius and Cortes. A copy of letter of Columbus, written in Spanish, gives what some authorities be Heve to be the first printed account of his Latin, of the letters of Columbus to Ga briel Sanches, the royal treasurer of Spain. Each of these copies is claimed by different experts to be of the very first of all the editions in Latin of these letters. This collection, which is the result of course of historical study, represents the labor of twenty years; work carried on not only with enthusiasm, but with sys- tenn and a definite purpose. It is consid- cred one of the finest private collections in the world, and is estimated to be worth in money over five hundred thousand dol lars, while it's value to book and art low CTS is incalculable.
 HEADS UP!
 of you want to hold your head vel, '' says Ruth Ashmore, ''get into the habit of walking about with book, not too heavy a one, just on top of it, and you will be amazed to find how that slight incentive will cause you to hold yourself straight and to make you walk in @ less jerky man. ner. Down in New Orleans the colored l 'mammies' used to make their little charge,
 walk with lightweight bowl filled with water on their heads until they carried | themselves so easily that not a drop of wa | ter would spill, and that is one reason why so many of the New Orleans women wall | we'll" HILARY.