La Mer des Histoires

"MR. SANSOM" (No. 18. p. 286.) has inquired, What is known of Columna's book, entitled *Mare Historiarum*? Trithemius has made mention of the work (*De Script. Eccles*. DL.), and two manuscript copies of it are preserved in the Royal Library at Paris. (B. de Montfaucon, *Biblioth. Bibliothecar. MSS.* tom ii. p. 751. Par. 1739.) Douce very properly distinguished it from *La Mer des Histoires*; but, if he wrote "Mochartus," he was in error; for *Brochart* was the author of the Latin original, called *Rudimentum Novitiorum*, and published in 1475. As to the statement of Genebrard, that Joannes de…