A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AntiquarianAND PICTURESQUE TOUR.
PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICOL, AT THE
Shakespeare Press.
FILLE DE CHAMBRE, NUREMBERG
A
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
Antiquarian
AND
PICTURESQUE TOUR
IN
FRANCE AND GERMANY.
BY THE REVEREND THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN,D.D.
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY AT ROUEN, AND OF THE ACADEMY OFUTRECHT.
SECOND EDITION.
VOLUME III.
DEI OMNIA PLENA.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY ROBERT JENNINGS, AND JOHN MAJOR.
1829.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.
CONTENTS
VOLUME III.
LETTER I.
Strasbourg to Stuttgart. Baden. The ElderSchweighæuser. STUTTGART. The Public Library. TheRoyal Library
LETTER II.
The Royal Palace. A BibliographicalNegotiation. Dannecker the Sculptor. Environs ofStuttgart
LETTER III.
Departure from Stuttgart. ULM. AUGSBOURG. ThePicture Gallery at Augsbourg
LETTER IV.
AUGSBOURG. Civil and Ecclesiastical Architecture.Population. Trade. The PublicLibrary
LETTER V.
MUNICH. Churches. Royal Palace. PictureGallery. The Public Library
LETTER VI.
Further Book-Acquisitions. Society. TheArts
LETTER VII.
Freysing. Landshut. Altöting.Salzburg. The Monastery of St. Peter
LETTER VIII.
Salzburg to Chremsminster. The Lake Gmunden.The Monastery of Chremsminster. Lintz
LETTER IX.
The Monasteries of St. Florian, Mölk, and Göttwic
LETTER X.
VIENNA. Imperial Library. Illuminated MSS. andearly printed Books
LETTER XI.
Population. Streets and Fountains.Churches. Convents. Palaces.Theatres. The Prater. The Emperor's PrivateLibrary. Collection of Duke Albert. Suburbs.Monastery of Closterneuburg. Departure fromVienna
SUPPLEMENT.
Ratisbon, Nuremberg, Manheim
LETTER I.
STRASBOURG TO STUTTGART. BADEN. THE ELDER SCHWEIGHÆUSER.STUTTGART. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. THE ROYAL LIBRARY.
Stuttgart, Poste Royale, August 4, 1818.
Within forty-eight hours of the conclusion of my last, I hadpassed the broad and rapidly-flowing Rhine. Having taken leave ofall my hospitable acquaintances at Strasbourg, I left the Hôtelde l'Esprit between five and six in the afternoon--when theheat of the day had a little subsided--with a pair of large, sleek,post horses; one of which was bestrode by the postilion, in the redand yellow livery of the duchy of Baden.
Our first halting place,