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Rh his book (Brescia, 1491?). Thus it is clear that illustrations formed one of the attractions of the Hebrew version of the Fables of Bidpai, and, though we have them no longer, we have a list of them inserted in their proper places in the unique MS., and in M. Derenbourg’s excellent edition of it. Now, on comparing the list with those actually given in the editio princeps of the Latin version, which was made from the Hebrew, a remarkable result appears. I cannot display this better than by giving for a few of the chapters in parallel columns a translation of the list of illustrations referred to in the Hebrew text, and an account of the plates which are actually given in the first edition of the Directorium, as well as in the first German and Spanish versions, which have the same plates.