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Rh Skelton has given a very poetic description of a missal of Henry VIII.:

Not a satisfactory description in a bibliographical point of view; possibly the work of Edwards, but the “bibliophile Jacob” is of the opinion that it was similar to the bindings which King Mathias Corvinus of Hungary caused to be executed by Italian artists for the Buda library, composed principally of illuminated manuscripts bound in colored morocco, ornamented with silver bosses and clasps, treasures which were destroyed by the Turks under Soliman II., in 1526.

A book-a-bosom, valiant King, Mathias of Hungary, the prince of bibliophiles! but as there are few, if any,