4(8 FORTIA’s TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.

complete. A manufcript of 1227, on a fheet of parchment; this is a letter of PopeGregory lX.,-addreffed generally to the Jacobin monks, and permitting them to have'a cemetery for the burial of their dead ; dated Peroufe, the 10th of the Kalends of Fe-bruary, the Second year of his pontificate ; the feal is on lead, and very well preferved ;it reprefents the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, without the double keys. —Hiftory ofCount d’Ulfcld, Grand-mafter of the kingdom of Denmark , an unique, which has neverbeen printed.—Original code of Swedifh laws made by King Chrifiopher of Bavaria ,on vellum, almoft complete.—An abridgment of the ecclefiaftical hifiory of Sweden ,from the origin of chriftianity in the kingdom to the prefent day, compofed on accountof the celebrated jubilee this year of 1693, by order of the moll; pious and magnani-mous King Charles XI. , by P. de Beaumont; in form of a dialogue between Alitophileand Romain. Such is the head of a French manufcript, the fame as was prefented toCharles XII., then Prince Royal; it contains a dedication to Charles , the hereditaryPrince of Sweden , in large quarto, thirty-fix pages, at Upfal, the 20th May 1693.—L’Hiftoire de France , by the fame Beaumont, continued to 1697 "• the fame volumecomprizes a fuccinCt abridgment of the hifiory of Germany , which fills nearly half thevolume; it is in quarto. —A copy of the journal of Charles XI. from 1676 to 1697;the original is in pofieflion of Count de Cronftedt, governor of Gefle.—Hifiorical anec-dotes : Saga, in the Swedifh language, an Iceland manufcript; the name is Eigil, fonof Skaldagri'm. A marine chart in manufcript, made for Charles V. in 1540 ; moilparticularly defigned for the Mediterranean fea. The plan of the city of Mexico , on vel-lum, the fame as was prefented to Charles V. by Alfonfo de Santa Cruz. Urbs Tenux -lit ana is its title, which was the ancient name of that city : the plan is coloured ; the de-dication to the Emperor is upon it. 'Mr. Nordin prefented a map of the world to theKing made at that time, that is to fay in the reign of Charles V. Thefe maps are fup-pofed to have been taken at Prague by Count Koningfmark in 1648

Mr. Giceurwell , librarian to the King, pofleffes a fragment on the* difcovery of Norway ,which is the moft ancient manufcript that relates to the hiftory of the North: it wasfound in Iceland, tranfported to Denmark, and thence carried to Sweden ; the authoris unknown, but from the fucceffion it gives of the ancient Princes of the northerncountries up to the tenth century, it is conjectured to be of that age. This fragmenthas been printed in a collection of the moft ancient monuments of the early hiftory ofthe North, publifhed by Bjoeurners, antiquary to the King of Sweden, Stockholm ,1737, in folio. In compofing this edition, the piece was copied, which was depofitedin the archives of the kingdom. The lame fragment was printed before in 1689, atSkalholt in Iceland.—A new Swedifh Teftament, Stockholm , 1526, Jmall folio, with afigure of Chrift for the frontifpiec-e, and the arms of Guftavus Vafa at the end.—ASwedifh Bible, 2 vols. in folio, Upfal, 1541. John III., fon of Guftavus Vafa, beingdefirous of introducing anew the Catholic religion into Sweden , made ufe of two litur-gies, one printed in Latin and one in Swedifh, the firft at Stockholm , in folio, 1576, theether alfoin Stockholm, in 4 to. in 1589 ; both were profcribed by Charles IX. , and areextremely rare; both, however, are in the collection of Mr. Giceurwell. Mr. CharlesGuftavus Warmholtz, aulic counfellor of His Swedifh Majefty, has occupied himfelf morefully on the hiftory and hiftorians of Sweden than any other perfon ; his work is afterthe plan of Lelong on the hiftorians of France ; it is in the Swedifh language, with hif-torical and critical remarks by Mr. Dewarm. The fifth volume appeared at Stockholm in 1790, in 8*112. The manufcript in 15 vols .folio, written by the author, is in the handsof the editor, Mr. Giceurwell. The five volumes already printed, reach as far as thefifth of the manufcript. This author was born at Stockholm in 1713, and died on his13 own