Chapter XII: Part 12

Among the purchases made in this year were the following: Card. Ximenes' rare treatise entitled _Crestia_, printed at Valentia in 1483 (£25); Court-Rolls of Tamworth, Solihull, and other neighbouring places, obtained from Mr. Halliwell; and a collection, in three thick folio volumes, of placards, hand-bills, &c., relating to the town of Coventry, formed by Mr. W. Reader, a printer in that place.

Capt. Montagu Montagu, R.N., who died at Bath, on July 3 in this year, bequeathed a collection of about 700 volumes, in various branches of literature, which was received at the Library about the beginning of 1864. There are about ninety editions and versions of the Psalter, with works on Psalmody, including a metrical version by Capt. Montagu himself; a large number of editions of Anacreon, Horace, Juvenal, Phædrus, Petrarch, Boileau, and Fontaine's _Fables_; a few MSS. of Juvenal, Petrarch, &c. with a large series of autograph letters, chiefly obtained at Upcott's sale. There are, besides, a number of topographical and biographical works illustrated, _more Sutherlandico_, with additional engravings, together with many parcels of separate prints arranged for the same purpose. One item of particular interest which accompanied the collection is a small sketch of Napoleon I, in profile, admirably executed by the well-known Italian artist, Giuseppe Longhi. It now hangs, framed and glazed, in the Library, together with a letter from Longhi himself, in French, dated at Milan, June 4, 1828, in which he narrates the occasion on which it was taken. He attended, in 1801, at Lyons, as a member of the 'Consulte Cisàlpine,' for the settling the affairs of the Republic of Italy, under the presidency of the First Consul. It happened that during the delivery of a long harangue, full of tedious flattery, Napoleon sat _vis-à-vis_ with the orator; and Longhi saw that an opportunity for exercising the cunning of his pencil had come. The light, which streamed in through the great window of the Church (!) where they were assembled, brought out the profile very clearly; there was little fear of being cut short by the speaker's suddenly ceasing his declamation, or of being interrupted by movement on the part of the unconscious subject of the operation, for the latter sat immersed in thought upon matters far away, while regarding the speaker with a pensive air; and so, while Napoleon sat pondering, Longhi sat sketching. And everybody, he declares with a pardonable pride, at Lyons and Paris, pronounced the likeness to be excellent. A small bust of Napoleon, now placed in the great window, came to the Library at the same time. A catalogue of Capt. Montagu's books, comprising forty octavo pages, was printed and circulated with the Annual Statement for 1864.

A.D. 1864.

The chief acquisitions in manuscript books were various Hebrew volumes (for £159), and a series of letters to Malone from Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Siddons, and others; and in printed books, a perfect copy of Cromwell's Great Bible, printed by Grafton in 1539, which was bought of Mr. Fry, the well-known collector, for £100.

A sixth part of the general catalogue of MSS. was issued, containing the Syriac, Carshunic and Mendean MSS., in number 205, which had been drawn up by Rev. R. Payne Smith, M.A., and to which several facsimiles were appended. And the eighth part, containing the Sanscrit MSS., in number 854, appeared under the editorship of Theodore Aufrecht, M.A., now Professor of Sanscrit in the University of Edinburgh. A first _fasciculus_ of this had been issued in 1859.

A.D. 1865.

At the beginning of January, a sale was held in London by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, of the stock of the late Mr. William Henry Elkins, a bookseller, of 41, Lombard Street. At this sale, the Library was the fortunate purchaser of what appears to be a genuine _Shakespeare Autograph_. The book is Ovid's _Metamorphoses_, printed by Aldus, at Venice, in October, 1502, in octavo; and on the title is the signature 'W^m. Sh^r.' in a hand bearing no resemblance whatever to that of the Ireland forgeries, but not unlike that of the signature attached to Shakespeare's will. Opposite to the title, on a leaf pasted down on the original binding of the book, is the note, most certainly a genuine memorandum of the date to which it professedly belongs, of which a faithful facsimile is given with that of the autograph itself, in the accompanying lithograph[362]. That the note itself is no forgery is admitted by all who have examined it; the volume, therefore, is certainly, by tradition, one which belonged to the poet. The only question is, whether the name may not have been forged in consequence of the existence of this note. To this, which is the opinion of some, it may fairly be replied, that, seeing no contracted form of Shakespeare's signature is known to exist, a forger would hardly have invented one for the occasion, but would have given the name in full; while, on the other hand, if the signature be real, what more natural than that a subsequent owner should record the tradition that the indefinite 'Sh^r.' of this unimportant title-page was no other than the very definite 'Shakspere' himself? The names mentioned in the note are names, as every one knows, connected with the poet's history. _Hall_ was the marriage name of his daughter Susannah, to whom he left his house in Henley Street; and one William Hall, a glover, appears from the Stratford Records printed by Mr. Halliwell, to have had a house in that street in 1660. He, doubtless, was the donor of the volume. Susannah Hall's daughter, Elizabeth, was married to a Thomas Nash, who died in 1647; but though he died without issue, the initials 'T. N.' may well stand for some member of the family who bore the same names. That, therefore, a Hall should possess the book, and subsequently give it to (most probably) a Nash, goes far to establish its genuineness as a Shakespeare relic. In a full account of the volume, supporting its pretensions, which appeared in the _Athenæum_ for Jan. 28, 1865 (p. 126), it was pointed out that the two references to the story of Baucis and Philemon, which are found in Shakespeare's Plays, show that he was not unacquainted with the _Metamorphoses_. To this may be added a better proof of his knowledge of Ovid's writings in the fact that two lines from the _Amores_ (I. xv. 35, 36) form the motto to the _Venus and Adonis_. As the volume is somewhat dirty, and has a well-worn air, it may possibly have been used by Shakespeare during those school-keeping experiences of which Aubrey tells us; possibly, however, the wear and tear may be due to an older owner, who has plentifully interspersed his MS. notes in, apparently, a foreign hand, on many of the pages. Owing to a generally-entertained suspicion throughout the auction-room on the occasion of the sale of the volume, that the autograph must be a forgery, the Library became its possessor for the small sum of £9[363]!

OVIDII METAMORPHOSEΩN
LIBRI QVINDECIM.

W^m Sh^r.

ALDVS

This little Book of Ovid was given to me
by W Hall who sayd it was once Will
Shakspares

T N

1682

]

A small volume, containing several papers in the handwriting of Luther, was bought for £45. The first edition of Coverdale's New Testament, printed at Antwerp, by Matthew Crom, in 1538, was added to the Biblical collection. Two interesting and important series of newspapers were obtained; the one, a set (not quite perfect) of the _London Gazette_, from 1669 to 1859, bought for £200[364]; and the other, a collection of London newspapers, from 1672 to 1737, arranged in chronological order in ninety-six volumes, obtained also for £200. This very curious collection had been formed by Mr. John Nichols; its escape from destruction by the disastrous fire at his printing-office in 1808, is mentioned at p. 99 of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for that year. It is accompanied by a MS. index, drawn up by Mr. Nichols himself. Many unknown contributions by Defoe to the journals of his time, have recently been traced in this series by a gentleman who has made a special study of the Defoe literature, Mr. W. Lee.

Considerable assistance in completing the Library sets of the Public and Private Acts of Parliament was afforded, in this year, by the late Mr. W. Salt.

Specimens of the first books printed in the Dyak language, which were issued at Singapore in 1862, were given by Rev. J. Rigaud, B.D., of Magdalene College.

On the appointment of Dr. Jacobson to the See of Chester, Mr. R. Payne Smith became his successor in the office of Regius Professor of Divinity. Professor Max Müller, M.A., was thereupon nominated to take Mr. Smith's place as the Sub-librarian in special charge of the Oriental department, and the nomination was confirmed in Convocation on Nov. 7.

[362] The lithograph represents the lower half of the title-page.

[363] The purchase of it, as of a relic 'which there is little doubt is genuine,' is noticed in an article on Books and Book-collecting in the _Cornhill Magazine_ for Oct. 1867, p. 496.

[364] The only portions of the _London Gazette_ previously to be found in the Library, were of the reign of Charles II; and these only came by the transfer of the Ashmolean Library.

A.D. 1866.

There is not much to notice under this year, save that the _Vulgaria quedam abs Terencio in Anglicam linguam traducta_, printed at Oxford before 1483, was obtained, in a volume containing also two tracts printed by J. de Westphalia, at the sale of the library of Mr. Thomas Thomson, of Edinburgh, for £36. Although complete in itself, it appears to have formed a part of a larger work, as the signatures run from n. to q., in eights.

A.D. 1867.

The closing year of these memorials is distinguished by the acquisition of a volume described by Archdeacon Cotton, in his _Typographical Gazetteer_, as being 'of the very highest rarity.' It is a fine copy of the _Breviarium Illerdense_, printed at Lerida, in Spain, in 1479, by Henry Botel. Besides being remarkable from its rarity, there is special interest attaching to the volume from the fact that it was printed at the sole expense of the bell-ringer of the cathedral! The colophon states that 'Antonius Palares, campanarum ejusdem ecclesiæ pulsator, propriis expensis fieri fecit.' The volume was bought from Mr. Boone for £36.

A somewhat imperfect copy of the rare Bible printed at Edinburgh by Arbuthnot and Bassandyne in 1579, being the first edition printed in Scotland, was another purchase of the year; as were also two thick volumes of recent transcripts of the Stuart correspondence, preserved in the Imperial Library at Paris.

Within the last few years considerable attention has been paid by the Librarian to the formation of a series of editions of the English Bible. The number now collected is very large, and approaches very nearly to a complete gathering of every edition before 1800, which has any claim to regard either from date, imprint, variety of size, correctness, or incorrectness. Early Quaker tracts have also been largely collected, together with editions of Cotton Mather's works and those of John Bunyan.

A portrait of the Prince of Wales, in academic dress, painted by Sir J. Watson Gordon, was presented towards the close of the year to the University by the Prince, in memory of his academic days, and now hangs conspicuously at the entrance of the Picture Gallery, to which it forms the latest addition.

Prof. Max Müller having resigned his Sub-librarianship on account of health, the Rev. J. W. Nutt, M.A., Fellow of All Souls' College, was approved by Convocation, on June 25, as his successor in the charge of the Oriental department.

The number of printed _volumes_ at present in the Library may be estimated at nearly 350,000. It was returned to Parliament, in 1848, as about 220,000; and with a view to this return a calculation as nearly accurate as possible was then made. An estimate has now been made of the additions received since that date; and from this it appears that some 79,500 volumes have been placed in the old Library and 45,000 in the _Camera Radcliviana_, making a total for the whole collection of about 345,000 volumes. Within the same period about 5000 additional manuscripts have been obtained, making a total of nearly 25,000. The number was returned in 1848 as being about 21,000, but this appears to have been somewhat in excess of the fact. The proportion was singularly overestimated in 1819, for Clarke, in his _Repertorium Bibliographicum_ published in that year (p. 68), states that the Library contains upwards of 160,000 volumes, of which 30,000 are manuscripts! The annual rate of ordinary increase of printed books at present, apart, of course, from the accession of any entire collection or special purchase, may be reckoned at about 3000 volumes, exclusive of magazines, of which two-thirds come from Stationers' Hall under the provisions of the Copyright Act.

Floreat Bibliotheca.

APPENDIX A.

_Account of the Muscovite Cloak mentioned at p. 40. Extracted from vol. vi. of B. Twyne's Collections (among the University Archives), f. 97._

'_Mr. Smyth's Relation of the Tartar Lambskinne garment in Bodleiana, Oxon._

'Sir Rich. Lee, knight, about the later ende of the raigne of the late Qu. Elizabeth, being by her Maiestie sent ambassador into Russia, amongest other novelties of the cuntry found by the information of the inhabitants, that in Tartaria, a cuntrie neere adioyning to Muscovia and Russia, and vnder the gouernement of the Emperour of Russia, there did some yeres growe out of the ground certaine livinge creatures in the shape of lambes, bearinge wooll vppon them, very like to the lambes of England, in this manner; viz., a stalke like the stalke of an hartichocke did growe vp out of the ground, and vppon the toppe thereof a budd, which by degrees did growe into the shape of a lambe, and became a liuinge creature, resting vppon the stalke by the navell; and as soone as it did come to life, it would eate of the grasse growinge round about it, and when it had eaten vp the grasse within its reach it would die. And then the people of the cuntry as they finde these lambes doe flea of their skins, which they preserue and keepe, esteeminge them to bee of excellent vse and vertue, especially against the plague and other noysome diseases of those cuntries.

'Vppon this information, Sir Rich. Lee was very desirous to haue some of the skyns of these Tartar lambes for his money, which at that time was not to be gotten for money; for that whensoeuer any of those lambes were at any time found, it was very rarely; and then also when they were found, they were presented to the Emperor, or to some other great man of the cuntrie, as a present of great worthe.

'At this time the Emperour had a gowne or longe cloake, made after the fashion of that cuntrie with the skins of those Tartar lambes; which garment the then Duke, and since Kinge, of Swethland was very desirous to haue and offered great summes of money for, but could by no meanes obtayne his desire.

'At this time also Sir Rich. Lee had an agatt of so great biggenesse that he made thereof a pestle and a morter, whiche the Emperour hauinge notice of, was desirous to haue for his money. Sir Rich. Lee, vnderstandinge thereof, sent it to the Emperour as a present from him, which the Emperour would not accept as a gift, neither would he haue it but for his money. Sir Richard, beinge willinge the Emperour should haue the pestle and the morter, yet lothe to playe the marchant at that time, did therefore deliuer this pestle and morter, into the hands and custodie of the Emperour's physitian to beate his physicke in it for the Emperour; which manner of giuinge this pestle and morter did so please the Emperour, as that he caused secret enquirie to be made whether there were any thinge in those cuntries which Sir Richard was desirous to haue, and by that means had notice that Sir Richard had endeuoured to haue gotten some of their lambeskyns. Wherevppon the Emperour, after Sir Richard had taken his leaue of him, and had receaued a great gift of him as an Ambassador, and was departed one dayes iourney toward England, the Emperour sent after him the before mentioned garment so made with their Tartar lambeskyns as aforesaide, and with it some fewe skynnes loose, and gaue them all vnto him freelie.

'Sir Richard Lee, travaylinge homewards, came to the Kinge of Swethlandes court, who demaunded of him of diverse thinges of the cuntrie of Muscovia; and, amongest other thinges, asked him whether he had seene the aforesaid garment, and he answered, that he had not only seene it, but had it in his possession; whereat the Kinge of Swethland admired, sayinge he had longe laboured to get it for loue or money, but could neuer obtayne it.

'Sir Rich. Lee in this iourney had not onely gotten this garment and Tartar lambeskyns, but diverse other rich furres and other rarities of great price; the greatest part whereof the Queene tooke of him, and promised him recompence for them, which she neuer performed; which was partly the cause that he concealed this garment from her duringe her life. And when Sir Rich. Lee died himselfe, he by his will gaue it to the Library in Oxford, to be kept as a monument there, beinge, as he conceiued, the fittest place for a jewell of so great worth and æstimation as that is or ought to be.

'Sir Rich. Lee was the neere kinseman of my wife; by reason whereof, I was very familiarly acquaynted with him; and vppon conference had with him about his trauayles at sundry times, I had the true relation of all the premisses from his owne mouthe. And I comminge to Oxford to the Act, and findinge this garment in Sir Tho. Bodley's studdie or closet, without any expression made of the raritie or worth of this garment, did discouer so much as I haue herein written to Mr. Russe, the Keeper of the Library; at whose request I haue sett it downe, in writinge. And in testimonie of the truthe thereof, I haue herevnto subscribed my name, the 13th of July, 1624.

'EDWARD SMYTHE.

'Transcribed out of the originall with Mr. Russe.
'This Mr. Smyth was a Counsellor of the Temple.'

It appears from this account that the box of scented wood ordered by the Curators in 1614 had never been provided, and that the cloak was already beginning to be neglected. Doubtless suspicion had been early excited as to the truth of the traveller's story which had accompanied the gift, and which could scarcely have obtained real credence later than the days of Marco Polo or Sir John Mandeville. In the Ashmolean Museum a painting is preserved which represents the _Agnus Scythicus_ in its fabled state; a full-grown lamb poised on the top of a vegetable stalk, with its legs dependent in the air[365]. But the key to the mystery is attached in the label on the frame: '_Polypodium Barometz_. Linn.' It is, in truth, only a large fern found in Tartary, of which the rhizoma is covered with the woolly fungus-like growth, found in greater or less degree on many species of ferns. If the plant be dug up and inverted, the roots being uppermost and the fronds pendent, a strong imagination might find some resemblance in the former to a wool-clad body, and in the latter to limbs, while some of the young fronds with their spiral convolutions might be compared to the horns of a ram, such as are duly represented in the painting mentioned above. A specimen of the plant may be seen in the greenhouses of the Botanic Garden, Oxford, where it is still known by the name which the fable imposed, _Agnus Scythicus_. So great is the woolly growth found upon one species of tree-fern in New Zealand, that (as the writer was informed by Mr. Baxter, the Keeper of the Botanic Garden) tons of it are yearly imported into this country for the purpose of stuffing cushions. A finer and silkier substance is found on a fern indigenous in Mexico.

[365] For acquaintance with this picture the author is indebted to Mr. Rowell, whose scientific knowledge so well fits him for the post he worthily holds as Under-keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. In Tradescant's Catalogue of the first contents of this Museum as formed by himself, published in 1656, occurs 'a coat lyned with _Agnus Scythicus_,' but it does not now exist in the collection.

APPENDIX B.

_List of Books printed on Vellum, which have been added to the Library since the year 1830[366]._

1460. _Clementis VIII Constitutiones, cum glossa Jo. Andreæ._ Ed. Pr. fol. Mogunt., Petr. Schoiffer de gernssheim. Bought in 1838 for 45_l._

1468. _Justiniani Institutiones._ Ed. Pr. fol. Mogunt. per Petr. Schoyffer de Gernssheym. Bought in 1834 for 52_l._ 10_s._

1476. _Historia Naturale da Plinio, trad, per Chr. Landino._ fol. Ven. Nic. Janson. The borders at the commencement of each book, with the principal initial letters, are exquisitely painted and illustrated with the portrait and arms of Ferdinand II of Sicily, to whom the work was dedicated, as well as those of -- Strozzi, for whom this copy was probably executed. Bequeathed by Mr. Douce. Exhibited in the glass case at the end of the Library.

1480. _Breviarium Eduense_, 4to. by order of Card. John Rolin, Bishop of Autun, 'Symon de Vetericastro eius Secretarius, parisius hoc breviarium cum pluribus similibus imprimi fecit.' Bought in 1838 for 2_l._ 4_s._

1481. _Missale Parisiense._ Ed. Pr. fol. Par., Jo. de Prato et Desid. huym. Bought in 1842 for 10_l._ 10_s._

1482. _Ordo Psalterii cum hymnis et canticis suis._ Small 4to. Ven. per Nicolaum Girardenguz. From the Canonici collection.

1484. _Officium diurnum secundum morem monachorum congregationis Sancte Justine, ord. S. Benedicti._ 8vo. Ven. per Bern. de Benaliis (&c.). Bought in 1843 for 1_l._ 14_s._

1493. _Pars hyemalis breviarii fratrum Observantialium, ord. S. Benedicti, per Germaniam._ 8vo. impensis Georii Stōchs ex Sulczbach, civis Nurembergensis. Bought in 1841 for 14_s._

_S. A._ A small duodecimo book of prayers, in German, without any title; with woodcuts. Printed with the types of Hans Schönsperger, of Augsburg. Bequeathed by Mr. Douce.

1500, Aug. 14. _Heures a lusage de_ [_Tours_; the name left blank]. 8vo. Paris, pour Anthoine Verard. With illuminations. Bought in 1844 for 6_l._

1502. _Breviarium secundum regulam beati Hysidori._ Fol. Toleti, jussu Card. Fr. Ximenes, per Petr. Hagembach. Bought in 1853 for 200_l._ See p. 280.

1505. _Breviarium secundum usum Herford._ 8vo. Rothom., per Inghilbertum Haghe. Bequeathed by Gough.

1514. _Le Chevalier de la tour et le guidon des guerres; par Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry._ Fol. Par., pour Guill. Eustace. Bequeathed by Mr. Douce.

1522. _Libri quattuor magnorum Prophetarum; his adduntur Threni_, &c. 12mo. Par., Petrus Vidoveus. Given by Rawlinson.

1529. _S. Joannes Chrysostomus in omnes Epistolas S. Pauli_; Gr. 3 vols. fol. Ven. Bought in 1843 for 45_l._

1629. _Rituale monasticum secundum consuetudinem congregationis Vallisumbrosæ._ Fol. Florent. Bought in 1843 for 7_l._ 17_s._ 6_d._

1642. _Bibliotheca Eliotæ._ _Eliotis Librarie._ Londini, anno Verbi incarnati M.D.XLII. A fragment, consisting of title, Proheme to Henry VIII in English, address to the reader in Latin, and table of errata; in all, five leaves.

1859. _Rotulus Clonensis, ex orig. in Registro Eccl. Cath. Clonensis, editus cura Ric. Caulfield._ The first book printed at Cork on vellum, and the only one so printed. Given by Dr. Caulfield in 1865.

1861. _The Souldier's Pocket Bible_; an exact reprint of the original edition of 1643, with a prefatory note by George Livermore. 12mo. Cambridge [U.S.], printed for private distribution. This copy was given by Mr. Livermore to Archd. Cotton, and by him to the Library. It was reprinted from a copy in the possession of the editor; only one other is known to exist.

1866. תגן ספר _Sepher Taghin_: Liber Coronularum, ex unico bibl. Paris. cod. MS. a B. Goldberg descriptum, nunc primum edidit, adjectis ad calcem libri aliquot exceptis ex alio codice ejusdem bibl. inedito, J. J. L. Barges, S. Theol. facult. Paris. doctor. 8vo. Lut. Par.

1867. נםים מעשה Edited by Dr. B. Goldberg, from Pococke MS. 238. 8vo. Paris. The only vellum copy printed. Bought for 3_l._

_N. D. Geological Map of the Environs of Oxford_; by C. P. Stacpoole. Bought in 1850 for 1_l._ 3_s._

* * * * *

The following vellum-printed _Horæ_ were all bequeathed by Mr. Douce:--

1498. _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 4to. Par., pour Simon Vostre.

---- ---- 4to. Par., per Gillet Hardouyn.

1498. _Hore secundum usum Sarum._ 8vo. Par., per Phil. Pigouchet.

1499. _Officium B. M. V. in usum Romane ecclesie._ 8vo. Lugd. Bon. de boninis.

1501. _Hore Virg. Mar. secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver.

[1501.] _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 8vo. Par., Simon Vostre.

1502. ---- By the same printer.

1504. ---- 8vo. Par., Anth. Chappiel.

1505. _Officium B. M. V. in usum Rom. eccl._ 8vo. Ven., Lucantonius de Giunta.

1508. _Hore secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver.

---- ---- 8vo. Par., Guill. Anabat.

1511. ---- 8vo. Par., Theilman Kerver.

[1512.] _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 8vo. Par., per Joh. de Brie.

[1512.] _Heures a lusaige de Sens._ 4to. Par., Jehan de brye.

1514. _Orationes et hore in usum Romanum._ 4to. (Aug. Vind.) per Jo. Schönsperger.

---- Another edition by the same printer in the same year, but without name or date.

1517. _Horæ ad usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver.

1522. _Horæ secundum usum Romanum._ 4to. Par., Thielman Kerver.

[1522.] _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 8vo. Par., par Germ. Hardouyn.

1526. _Horæ secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver.

1527. _Hore in laudem B. V. Marie, secundum consuetudinem ecclesie Parisiensis._ 8vo. Par., per Sim. du bois.

[1528.] _Horæ, secundum usum Romanum, cum multis suffragiis et orationibus de novo additis._ 8vo. Par., Germ. Hardouyn.

1529. _Horæ in laudem, B. Mar., secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., apud Gotofr. Torinum.

_S. A._ _Hore B. Marie._ 8vo. M. E. Jehannot.

_S. A._ _Hore secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., G. Hardouyn.

---- Another edition by the same printer.

_S. A._ _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 4to. Par., per Guill. Godar.

_S. A._ _Hore secundum usum Sarum._ 4to. Rich. Pynson.

_S. A._ _Les heures a lusaige Dangiers._ 8vo. [Par.] Simon Vostre.

_S. A._ _Heures a l'usaige de Soissons._ 8vo. [Par.] Simon Vostre.

_S. A._ _Heures de nostre dame en Francoys et en Latin._ 4to. Par., Anth. Verard.

_S. A._ _Heures._ 8vo. Par., Anth. Verard.

[366] Supplemental to the list appended to Archdeacon Cotton's _Typographical Gazetteer_ in 1831. That numbered 180 separate books; the present additions amount to fifty-four, of which all but nineteen are in the Douce collection.

APPENDIX C.

_List of MSS. formerly in the possession of Cathedrals, Monasteries, Colleges, and Churches in England, Scotland, and Ireland_[367].

Aberdeen Cathedral. Ashmole, 1474.

Abingdon. Digby, 39, 146, 227 (fine Missal, with Calendar).

---- John Crystall, Monk of. Rawlinson, C. 940.

Alban's, St. Auct. F. II. 13;
Bodl. 569;
Laud Lat. 67;
Laud Misc. 279, 358, 363, 370, 409;
Rawlinson, C. 31;
Rawlinson, Auct. 99 (obtained through Brother Hugh Legat, and given
by Abbot John Stoke).

---- Sub-prior. Bodl. 467.

---- Sub-sacrist. Ashmole, 1796.

Alvingham, Linc. Laud Misc. 642.

Athdare, Kildare. Rawlinson, C. 320.

Barking. Laud Lat. 19.

Beauvale, or Bellavalle, Notts. Douce, 114.

Bedford. The Minorites. Laud, 176 (given by John Grene, D.D. in 1471).

Belvoir, Linc. E Mus. 249.

Bilsington, Kent. Bodl. 127 (given by John, Vicar of Newchurch).

Bordesley, Warwickshire. Bodl. 168.

Boxgrave, Sussex. Rawlinson, A. 411.

Bradsole, near Dover, Priory of St. Radegund. Rawlinson, B. 336.

Bridlington. Auct. D. _infra_, II. 7;
Bodl. 357.

Byland, or Bellaland, Yorkshire. Bodl. 842 (bought from a carpenter);
Laud Misc. 149.

Canterbury, Ch. Ch. Bodl. 214, 379;
Laud Misc. 165;
Tanner, 18, 223;
Rawlinson, C. 168 (Missal, given by Archbp. Warham).

---- W. Bonyngton, a monk, 1483. Rawlinson, B. 188.

---- Another monk. Bodl. 648.

---- St. Augustine's. Bodl. 299, 381, 391, 464, 600;
E Mus. 223;
Laud Lat. 65;
Laud Misc. 225, 296;
Wood Donat. 13;
Ashmole, 1431;
Barlow, 32;
Hatton, 94;
Maresch. 33;
Rawlinson, C. 7, 117, 159.

Carlisle Cathedral. Bodl. 728.

---- (a House at). Laud Misc. 582.

Chichester Cathedral(?). Bodl. 142. ('de dono Seffri. Episc.')

Cirencester, St. Mary's Abbey. Barlow, 48.

Cokersand, Lanc. Rawlinson, C. 317.

Coventry Cathedral. Digby, 33 (given by Rich. Luff, monk).

---- St. Mary's Priory. Auct. F. III. 9.

Cropthorn, Worc. Rector in 1279. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 169.

Croyland. Rawlinson, C. 531.

Dore, Hereford. Laud, 138;
E Mus. 82.

Dover Priory. Bodl. 920 (Catalogue of the Library).

---- Hosp. of St. Bartholomew. Rawlinson, B. 335.

Dublin, Cathedral of Ch. Ch. or Holy Trinity. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct.
185 (a magnificent Psalter, written by direction of Prior Stephen
de Derby; see p. 179).

---- Abbey of St. Thomas. Rawlinson, B. 500.

---- Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Rawlinson, B. 498.

---- St. Mary's Abbey, near Dublin. Rawlinson, B. 495, C. 60;
Rawlinson, Misc. 1137.

---- Church of St. John Evang. Misc. Liturg. 337.

Dulci Corde, or Sweet-Heart, Galloway. Fairfax, 5, (belonged to
'Dervorgoyl de Bayll'[iol], the foundress of this house, and of
Balliol College. Bought by Fairfax at Edinburgh in 1652).

Dumfermline (?). Fairfax, 8.

Dunbrothy, Wexford. Rawlinson, B. 494.

Durham Cathedral (St. Cuthbert). Laud Lat. 12;
Laud Misc. 368, 489;
Rawlinson, C. 4.

---- Thomas Dune, a monk. Douce, 129.

Edmund's, Bury St. Bodl. 216, 240, 297, 715, 737, 860;
E Mus. 6, 7, 8, 9, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 36, 112;
Laud Misc. 742;
Rawlinson, C. 697 (all between the 11th and 13th century);
Misc. Liturg. 310 (_Martyrologium_; given by Rich. Fuller, Chaplain,
and Rich. Aleyne, Kerver, in 1472. Bequeathed by Rawlinson).

Ely. Laud, 112.

Evesham. Auct. D. I. 15;
Laud Lat. 31;
Barlow 7 (_Officia Eccles._);
Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 16.

Exeter Cathedral. Auct. D. II. 16, F. III. 6;
Bodl. 579, 708 (these given by Leofric);
Auct. D. I. 7 and 12 (given by Hugh, Archd. of Taunton), 9 (given
by Adam de St. Bridget, Chanter), 13, 18;
D. II. 8;
D. _infra_, II. 9(?);
D. III. 10, 11 (?);
Auct. F. I. 15;
Bodl. 92, 137, 147, 148, 149, 150, 162 (given by Richard Brounst,
Vicar Choral), 206, 272, 273, 279, 286, 287, 289, 311, 314, 315,
333, 335, 377, 380, 393,463 (given by the Executors of Bp. Lacy),
482, 691, 707, 708, 717, 718, 720, 725, 732, 738, 744 (given by
the Executors of Dr. John Snetesham), 748, 749, 786, 810, 829
(given by the Executors of Bp. Lacy), 830, 865.
Wood Donat. 15 (given by Executors of John Snetesham, D.D., Canon
and Chancellor, 1448).

Exeter. Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Laud, 156.

Finchale, Durham. Laud Misc. 546.

Ford, Devon. Laud Misc. 606.

Fountains' Abbey. Ashmole, 1398, 1437;
Laud Misc. 310, 619.

Gainford, Durham. Thomas Heddon, Vicar. Rawlinson, A. 363.

Garendon, Leic. Ashmole, 1516.

Gisburne, Yorkshire. Laud Lat. 5.

Glastonbury. Laud Lat. 4;
Laud Misc. 128 (belonged to Thomas Wason, Abbot).

Hanworth (Middlesex?);
Richard, Rector. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 165.

Hatfield Peverel, Essex. Rawlinson, B. 189 (given by John Bebseth),
Prior.

Hereford Cathedral. Rawlinson, C. 67.

---- Vicars Choral. Rawlinson, C. 427.

---- The Minorites. Hatton, 102.

Hexham ('Hextildesham'). Bodl. 236.

Hickling, Norfolk. Tanner, 194, 425.

Holme Cultram, Cumb. (S. Mar. de Holmo);
Hatton, 101.

Jorevall, Yorkshire. Bodl. 514.

Kenilworth, or Kelyngworth, Warw. Auct. F. III. 13 (bequeathed by John
Alward, Rector of Stoke Bruerne).

Kilmainham, Dublin. Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Rawlinson, B. 501.

Kingswood, Wilts. E Mus. 62.

Kirkstall. Laud Lat. 69;
Laud Misc. 216;
E Mus. 195.

Langley, Norfolk. Bodl. 242 (_Registrum_).

Leedes, Kent. Bodl. 406.

Leicester, St. Mary of the Meadows. Laud Misc. 623, 625.

Lesnes, or Lyesnes, or Westwood, Kent. Bodl. 656;
Douce, 287.

Lichfield Cathedral. Ashmole, 1518.

London, St. Paul's Cathedral. Digby 89 ('Liber Magistri Thomæ Lysiaux,
decani Sancti Pauli').

---- The Carmelites. Laud Lat. 87.

---- 'Domus Salutationis Matris Dei, ord. Carthus.;' _i.e._ The
Charter-House. Douce, 262.

---- Hosp. of St. Mary of Elsyng, now Sion College. E Mus. 113.

Louth Park, Linc. Fairfax, 17.

(Ludlow Parish Church. _Printed Book_, D. 2. 13. Art. Seld.[368])

Maxstoke, Warwickshire. Bodl. 182.

Merton, Surrey. Digby, 147;
Ashmole, 1522.

---- John Ramsey, Canon of. Seld. _supra_, 39.

Missenden, Bucks. Auct. D. I. 10;
Bodl. 729.

Mottenden, or Motynden, Kent. Bodl. 643 (bought by Brother Richard de
Lansyng in 1467 for 26_s._ 8_d._)

Muchelney, Somerset. Rich. Coscumbe, Prior. Ashmole, 189. ii.

New Place, Sherwood. Laud Lat. 34;
Laud Misc. 428.

Norwich Cathedral (Holy Trinity). Bodl. 151, 787;
Fairfax, 20;
Douce, 366, (see _infra_, p. 329.)

Nutley, or Notley Abbey, Bucks. Douce, 383, iii.

Oseney, Oxford. Bodl. 655;
Digby, 23 (bequeathed by Henry de Langley);
Rawlinson, C. 939 (_Officia Eccles._).

Osyth, St., Essex. Laud Misc. 329.

Oxford, Balliol College. Bodl. 252.

---- Exeter College. Bodl. 42;
Digby, 57[369].

---- (Hertford College. _Printed Tracts_ on the Bangorian
Controversies, 8vo. I. 237, BS.)

---- Lincoln College. Bodl. 198 ('ex dono doctoris Thome Gascoigne').

---- Merton College. E Mus. 19 (given by William, Bishop of Chichester);
Bodl. 50 (bequeathed by Thomas English), 689 and 757 (given by Henry
Sever, Warden, in 1468), 700 and 751 (given by Richard Fitz-James,
Bishop of Chichester);
Digby, 155 (given by John Burbache), 216;
Ashm. 835. (_Printed Book_ S. 9. 14. Th[370].).

---- St. Edmund Hall. Rawlinson, C. 900 (given by Hen. VIII).

---- St. Mary's College. Bodl. 637.

---- Staple Hall. Ashmole, 748.

---- The Minorites. Digby, 90 (given in 1388, by John de Teukesbury,
with the assent of Thos. de Kyngusbury, 'Minister Angliæ').

---- (name cut off), Bodl. 215.

Paignton Parish, Devon. Rawlinson, C. 314 (Canons of Bishop Quivil).

Pershore. Bodl. 209;
Barlow, 3;
Rawlinson, C. 81.

Pesholme (? Will. Marschalle, Chaplain of). Bodl. 857.

Peterborough Cathedral. Barlow, 22; (see _infra_, p. 328.)

Pipewell, Northampt. Rawlinson, A. 388.

Pleshey, Essex, Trinity College. Bodl. 316.

Pontefract, Holy Trinity Hospital. Barlow, 49.

Ramsey. Bodl. 883.

---- Welles, a monk of. Bodl. 857.

Reading, St. Mary's Abbey. Auct. Digby, B. N. 11;
Digby, 148, 200;
Bodl. 125[371], 197, 200 (given by W. de Box), 241, 257, 550, 570,
713, 730 (?) 772, 781, 848;
Laud Misc. 79, 91, 725;
Auct. D. I. 19;
D. II. 12;
D. III. 12, 15;
Auct. F. III. 8;
_infra_, I. 2;
Rawlinson, A. 375.

Robertsbridge, Yorkshire. Bodl. MS. 132 (written by Will. de
Wodecherche, 'laicus quondam conversus Pontis Roberti[372]').

Roche, or de Rupe, Yorkshire. Rawlinson, C. 329.

Rochester Cathedral. Laud Misc. 40.

Rossevalle, Kildare. Rawlinson, C. 32 (_Ordo servitii_).

Salisbury Cathedral. Digby, 173 (given by Peter Fadir, Vicar
Choral[373]);
Bodl. 407, 516, 756, 765, 768, 835;
Rawlinson, C. 400 (_Pontificale_, given by Bishop Martivall).

Selby. Fairfax, 12.

Sempringham. Douce, 136(?)

Shene, Surrey, Carthusian Priory. Bodl. 797;
Rawlinson, C. 57 (8vo. H. 36 Th. BS., a book printed in 1608, belonged
apparently to some foreign branch of this house: 'Domus Shene
Anglorum').

Sherston, Wilts, The Church (in 1577). Bodl. 733.

Shrewsbury, St. Chad. Rawlinson Misc. 1131. (_Martyrol._ and _Obit._)

Sion, or Syon, Middlesex. Bodl. 630.

Southwark, St. Mary Overy. Ashmole, 1285.

---- John de Lecchelade, a Canon. Rawlinson, B. 177.

Stafford, St. Mary. Auct. F. V. 17;
Hatton, 74.

---- The Minorites. Auct. F. V. 18.

Stafford, St. Thomas, near. Auct. F. III. 10.

Staindrop, Durham, The College. Rawlinson, A. 363 (given by Thos.
Heddon, Vicar of Gainford, in 1515).

Tattershall, Linc. Bodl. 419.

Thorney, Cambr. Bodl. 680;
Laud Misc. 364;
Tanner, 10.

Titchfield, Hants. Digby, 154.

Towcester, Northampt., H. Malyng, Provost. Bodl. 731.

Trentham, Staff. Laud Misc. 453.

Tynemouth. Laud Misc. 657.

Valle Crucis, De, Denbigh. E Mus. 3.

Waltham. Laud Lat. 109;
Laud Misc. 515;
Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 62 (given by Peter, Archdeacon of London);
Rawlinson, C. 330.

Wardon, Bedfordshire. Laud Misc. 447.

Warter, Yorkshire. Fairfax, 9.

Waverley, Surrey. Bodl. 527.

Westminster Abbey. Rawlinson, C. 425 (_Pontificale_).

Winchcombe, or Winchelcumbe, Glouc. Douce, 368.

Winchester Cathedral ('Domus S. Swythini'). Bodl. 767.

Windsor. Bodl. 208, 822.

Witham, or Wytham, Somerset. Bodl. 801 ('Ex dono Joh. Blacman').

Worcester Cathedral. Auct. F. _infra_, I. 3;
Digby, 150(?);
Bodl. 861 (removed in 1590), 868;
Junius, 121.

---- 'Fratres Prædicatores.' Rawlinson, C. 780.

York Minster(?) Rawlinson, C. 775.

---- Succentor(?) Douce, 225.

---- St. Mary's Abbey. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 11;
Arch. A. Rot. 21; (see p. 329.)

---- Hosp. of St. Leonard. Rawlinson, B. 455.

[Many of Laud's MSS. came from a Carthusian Monastery near Mentz, and from the Monastery of Eberbach, in the Duchy of Baden. It is worth mentioning that No. 233 amongst his Miscellaneous MSS. belonged to John Lydgate, and No. 576 to John Foxe. Several others had been previously in the possession of Archbp. Usher, and of Lindsell, Bishop of Peterborough.

No. 76 of Digby's MSS. was bought by Dr. John Dee, at London, May 18, 1556, 'ex bibliotheca Joh. Lelandi.']

[367] This list does not profess to be complete. But it is believed to comprehend most of the MSS. which afford distinct evidence of former ownership of this kind.

[368] _Picus Mirandula de Providentia Dei_, 1508. Given to the library of the Church by Rich. Sparchiford, Archdeacon of Salop, Oct. 19, 1557. It had previously belonged to Linacer.

[369] 'Hunc librum emit ... a magistro Philips, rectore collegii Exon, a^o. Xi. 1468, una cum volvella solis et lunæ.'

[370] _Galani Conciliatio Eccl. Armenæ cum Romana_, 1650. It is satisfactory to be able to add, that the Bodleian obtained this book, as Bishop Booth obtained the Robertsbridge MS. (_infra_) 'modo legitimo;' a memorandum records that it was 'bought of Fletcher the bookseller.'

[371] On the last leaf of this MS. there is a list, faintly written with a style, of some twenty MSS. (including 'triplices cantus' for the organ), written by one monk, to which the memorandum is added: 'Hec sunt opera fratris W. de Wi[=c]b. per quadriennium apud Leom. (_i.e._ Leominster, a cell to Reading) commorantis.' The list commences, 'Nota quod frater W. de Wi[=c]b. (_probably Wicumbe_), precibus domini J. de Abbend. tunc precentoris, hortatu vero et precepto domino R. de Wygorn. tunc supprioris, collectarium cotidianum secundum usum Rading correxit et de duobus unum fecit.' The book may have belonged to either Reading or Leominster.

[372] The usual anathema is subjoined on any one stealing the book from the house of St. Mary 'de Ponte Roberti,' or in any part mutilating it; which is followed by this self-exculpatory note on the part of a subsequent possessor: 'Ego Johannes, Exon. episcopus, nescio ubi est domus prædicta, nec hunc librum abstuli, sed modo legittimo adquisivi.' This _John_ would seem to be John Booth, who was Bishop of Exeter from 1466 to 1479.

[373] The name of Peter Fader is found also in MS. Arch. Seld. B 26.

APPENDIX D.

_List of MSS. and Miscellaneous Objects of interest exhibited in the Library._

GLASS CASE NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE LIBRARY.

1. A Telugu MS. on palm-leaves, brought from India by Sir Thos. Strange, formerly Chief Justice of Madras, together with a style employed for writings of this kind, and a pocket-knife. Given by Sir T. Strange's daughter, Mrs. Edmund Foulkes, in 1864.

2. Drawings and engravings of Buddhist idols; brought from a Joss-house in a Llama monastery in Pekin, in 1862, and given to the Library by Lieut.-Col. Gibbes Rigaud, of the 60th Rifles.

3. Autograph book of distinguished visitors.

This book commences at the year 1820. Among the autographs which
it contains may be mentioned the following in particular:--

Her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 8, 1832, with the Duchess of Kent;
Dec. 12, 1860.

The Prince Consort, June 15, 1841; June 4, 1856; Jan. 9, 1857 (in
company with his three eldest children); Dec. 12, 1860.

Prince of Wales, Jan. 9, 1857; March 27, 1860; June 18, 1863.

Princess of Wales, June 18, 1863.

Duke of Wellington, Oct. 20, 1835 (in company with Q. Adelaide);
Sept. 14, 1839; June 15, 1841; Aug. 20, 1844.

Gul. Gesenius, Aug. 5, 1820.

Sir John Franklin, 1829.

Sir D. Wilkie, June 14, 1834.

Bishop Selwyn, June 30, 1837.

Chevalier Bunsen, Jan. 24, 1839; Aug. 20, 1844.

Princes of Ashantee, June 10, 1840.

Henry Hallam, Oct. 16, 1840.

Bishop of Malabar, Mar Athanasius Abdelmesih, June 12, 1841.

M. Berryer, Nov. 23, 1843.

W. H. Prescott, June 24, 1850.

Alfred Tennyson, June 21, 1855.

A Siamese Prince, June 29, 1858.

Lord Brougham, June 20, 1860.

Lord Palmerston, July 2, 1862.

Queen Emma of Honolulu, Aug. 14, 1865.

Chinese Ambassadors, June 7, 1866.

Until the year 1861 it was also the custom for all graduates of
Cambridge and Dublin who were admitted ad _eundem_ to enter their
names in this book; it is to this custom that we owe possession of
the signature of the ex-Metropolitan of New Zealand[374].

4. _New Testament_, said to be bound in a piece of a waistcoat of King Charles I. See p. 53.

5. Another, bound by the Sisters of Little Gidding. See p. 53.

6. _Xiphilini Epitome Dionis Nicæi_; Gr. 4to. Par. printed by Rob. Stephens, 1551. Bound in a handsomely tooled and gilt calf binding, in the Grolier style, with the badge of Dudley, Earl of Leicester, viz. the Bear and Ragged Staff, in the centre. Bequeathed by Selden.

7. _Bacon's Essays_; in a worked binding. See p. 51.

8. Specimen of the early _Block-books_, or books printed from engraved blocks before the invention of moveable types; being the Apocalypse, represented in a series of rudely-engraved scenes, with short explanatory descriptions.

This is a copy of the edition called by Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, in his
_Principia Typographica_, the Second; it belonged to Mr. Douce, who
bought it for thirty-one guineas at Mr. Inglis' sale[375].

9. The first book printed from moveable types; being a very fine copy, of the grand Latin Bible, printed by Gutenberg at Mentz about 1455. See p. 202.

A copy was sold at the auction of the library of the Duke of Sussex,
in 1844, for the moderate sum of £190; when the same copy, however,
was re-sold at the auction of the library of Dr. Daly, Bishop of
Cashel, in 1858, it produced no less than £596.

10. A copy of the first book printed in the English language, being _The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy_, printed by Caxton, most probably at Bruges, about 1472.

This copy wants three leaves; it was given to the Library in 1750,
by James Bowen, a painter of Shrewsbury, well known as a local
antiquarian. A second copy, which wants seven leaves, is also in the
Library. A copy, wanting forty-four leaves, was sold at Utterson's
sale in 1852 to the Earl of Ashburnham for £155.

11. The English Bible, translated by Myles Coverdale from the Vulgate, and printed abroad in 1535.

This copy of the first complete Bible printed in our language, is
one of the largest and soundest known to be in existence, although,
like almost all other copies, it wants the title. It was formerly in
the possession of Selden. A facsimile title, engraved by Mr. Fry, of
Bristol, from the Marq. of Northampton's copy, accompanies it,
together with another leaf in facsimile, from the Earl of
Leicester's copy. Another and more imperfect copy came to the
Library among the books bequeathed by Mrs. Denyer. In 1854 a copy
nearly perfect, having only two leaves in facsimile by Mr. Harris,
was sold at Mr. Dunn Gardner's sale for the large sum of £364; and a
very imperfect copy was sold for £190 in 1857.

12. Hieronymus (_rectius_, Rufinus) _de Symbolo Apostolorum_; printed at Oxford in 1468. See p. 111.

13. Latin verses in the autograph of Milton. See p. 45.

14. The original MS. of Addison's _Letter_ (in verse) _from Italy to Lord Halifax_.

A Rawlinson MS.

15. Letter from Alex. Pope to H. Cromwell, Esq.; dated July 15, 1711.

The same volume contains various other letters from the same to the
same, which were printed by Curll in 1727; one by Dryden, three by
J. Norris of Bemerton, three short notes from Young, and several
letters by Ladies Hester Pakington and Mary Chudleigh. It belongs to
the Rawlinson collection of MSS.

16. Letter from Archbp. Laud to Sir W. Boswell, the English Resident at the Hague; dated from Lambeth, Nov. 26, 1638.

It refers to libels printed in Holland, and particularly to one
against Laud, supposed to be then printing at Amsterdam, entitled,
_The Beast is Wounded_. 'I thanke God I trouble not myselfe much
with these things; but am very sorry for the Publicke, which suffers
much by them.' Bought in 1863 at a sale at the Hague for £7 17_s._,
together with a letter on diplomatic business signed by Sir Thomas
Bodley, and dated at the Hague, April 11, 1589, which is now bound
in the same volume.

17. Archbp. Laud's formal Letter of resignation of his office as Chancellor of the University, signed by himself, and dated from the Tower, June 22, 1641. In Latin; on parchment.

Endorsed by Ant. à Wood with this memorandum: 'Given to me by Rob.
Whorwood, of Oxon, Gent., 29 Feb., 1679[376].'

18. Lord Clarendon's Letter, resigning the same office upon his going into exile; written in a secretary's hand, but signed by himself. Very touching and beautiful. It runs as follows:--

'For Mr. Vicechancellor of Oxford.

'Good Mr. Vicechancellor,

'Having found it necessary to transport myselfe out of England, and
not knowing when it will please God that I shall returne againe; it
becomes me to take care that the University may not be without the
service of a person better able to be of use to them, then I am like
to be; and I doe therefore hereby surrender the office of Chancellor
into the hands of the said University, to the end that they make
choyce of some other person better qualifyed to assist and protect
them then I am, I am sure he can never be more affectionate to it. I
desire you, as the last suite I am like to make to you, to believe
that I doe not fly my Country for guilt, and how passionately soever
I am pursued, that I have not done any thing to make the University
ashamed of me, or to repent the good opinion they had once of me,
and though I must have noe farther mention in your publique
devotions (which I have alwayes exceedingly valued) I hope I shall
be alwayes remembred in your private prayers as

'Good Mr. Vicechancellor,
'Your affectionate servant,
'CLARENDON.

'Calice, this 7/17 Dec. 1667.'

19. A volume of the Papers of W. Bridgeman, Under-secretary of State to James II (bequeathed to the Library by Dr. R. Rawlinson; _see p. 173_), open at a leaf containing the original declaration written and signed by the Duke of Monmouth, on the day of his execution, of the nullity of his claim to the Crown.

The following is a copy:--

'I declare y^t y^e title of King was forct upon mee, & y^t it was
very much contrary to my opinion when I was proclam'd. For y^e
satisfaction of the world I doe declare that y^e late King told mee
that Hee was never married to my Mother.

'Haveing declar'd this I hope y^t the King who is now will not let
my Children suffer on this Account. And to this I put my hand this
fifteenth day of July, 1685.

'MONMOUTH.

'Declar'd by Himselfe, & sign'd in the presence of us.

'Fran. Elien. [_Turner_].
'Tho. Bath & Wells [_Ken_].
'Tho. Tenison.
'George Hooper.'

Beside it is placed the Proclamation of James II, ordering the
apprehension of all persons dispersing the Declaration issued by
Monmouth upon his landing in England; dated but one short month
previously, June 15, 1685.

The same volume contains two letters from Monmouth to the King,
begging for his life, and one to the Queen. These have been
frequently printed.

20. A Sanscrit roll, written at the end of the last century, containing extracts from the _Bhagavadgita_; with paintings representing the incarnations of Vishnu, &c.

In a wooden case. One of the Frazer MSS.

21. A magnificent folio volume, containing a series of illustrations of Scripture History from Genesis to Job; written about the beginning of the fourteenth century.

Each page contains, in double columns, four pairs of miniatures
painted, in medallion-form, upon a gorgeous ground of gold; the
first of each pair represents some historical scene, which the
second treats allegorically, and applies to the condition of the
Church or of individual Christians. Two other volumes are to be
found in the British Museum, and in the Imperial Library at Paris.

22. A small oaken platter, bearing the following inscription: 'This Salver is part of that Oak in which his Majesty K. Charles the 2d, Concealed himself from the Rebells, and was given to this University by Mrs. Lætitia Lane.'

The donor was the daughter of Col. John Lane, the chief agent in the
King's escape from Worcester; she died in 1709[377].

23. Specimen of Javanese writing, being a letter from a Javanese Chief to the Resident of Soorabaya. The seal bears the date of 1780.

24. Small specimen of an Arabic MS.

25. A fragment in large Persian characters.

26. A specimen of Malabaric writing, upon a palm-leaf, three feet in length. 'Aug. 9, 1630. Ex dono Jo. Trefusis, generosi Cornubiensis, e Coll. Exon.'

27. A Russian painting upon a shell, representing a female saint called S. Parasceve, ἡ ἁγια Παρασκευη, who is found in the Greek Menology, but whose history is believed by the Bollandists to be a pious fiction.

28. A Hebrew _Bible_, beautifully written in the fourteenth century; in triple columns, with the Masoretic commentary written in very minute characters, and frequently in fantastic figures, round each page.

One of the Oppenheimer MSS.

29. _Horæ._ An illuminated MS. of the middle of the fifteenth century, in 4to., probably by a French scribe and artist.

From the Canonici collection.

30. Another MS. of the _Hours_, in folio, of the fifteenth century, beautifully illuminated, with many miniatures varying in the treatment of some of the scenes which they represent from the common type.

Traditionally said, but on what evidence does not appear, to have
belonged to Henry VIII.

31. A third fifteenth-century MS. of the _Hours_, in 8vo.

From the Rawlinson collection.

32. A fourth MS. of the _Hours_, very early in the fifteenth century, or about the close of the fourteenth.

Also from the Rawlinson collection. All these copies of the _Horæ_
appear to be of French execution.

33. A pair of long white leather gloves, worked with gold thread, which were worn by Queen Elizabeth when she visited the University in 1566[378].

34. A Latin exercise book, in 4to., which appears to have been filled up by Edward VI and his sister Elizabeth, jointly.

Sentences written by the former are dated from Jan. 1548-9 to Aug.
1549. The boy-monarch has written his own name in several parts of
the book. It came to the Bodleian 'ex dono doctissimi viri P. Junii,
Bibliothecarii Regii, A.D. 1639.' Patrick Young also gave another
book in Edward's handwriting in folio, containing Greek and Latin
phrases, written very neatly in 1551-1552[379].

35. Mexican Hieroglyphics; painted on a long skin of leather.

36. The Book of _Proverbs_, written by Mrs. Esther Inglis. See p. 48.

37. Two Runic Primstaves, or wooden Clog-Almanacks: one in the form of a walking stick; the other, an oblong block, with a handle. See pp. 105, 161.

An engraving of the second may be found in the _Anglican Church
Calendar illustrated_, published by Messrs. Parker. And a
description of these primitive Calendars is given by Plot in his
_Natural History of Staffordshire_, 1686, pp. 418-432, where there
is an engraving of a Clog which was still in use in Staffordshire at
that time.

38. Eight small wooden tablets, apparently a pocket-edition of a Clog-Almanack, with very quaint figures.

Given by Archbp. Laud.

39. The Book of _Enoch_, in Æthiopic. See p. 267.

40. A Persian poem, by Jami, on the history of Joseph and Potiphar's wife. Written A.D. 1569, and decorated with some very good paintings and arabesque borders[380].

One of Greaves' MSS.

41. A specimen of Telugu writing on palm-leaves; being an almanack for the year 1630.

Given by Archbp. Laud.

42. A French panegyrical poem, presented to Queen Elizabeth, in 1586, by Georges de la Motthe, a French refugee; with a prefatory address in prose.

Enriched with an exquisite portrait of the Queen, in all the
grandeur of her wide circumference, and with golden hair of very
_prononcée_ hue; and with a great variety of beautifully-executed
monograms, symbols, &c. around each page. The binding is richly
tooled and covered with designs; while in the centre on either side,
protected by glass, are brilliant bosses, said to be composed of
humming-birds' feathers.

'Ex dono ornatissimi, simul ac optimæ spei, juvenis D. Johannis
Cope, armigeri, equitis aurati, baronetti f. natu maximi, olim
Reginensis Oxon, Almæ Matris ergô. 4 Cal. Jan. 1626.'

On a fly-leaf at the end is attached a fragment from some English
theological treatise, in wonderfully minute, although clear,
handwriting.

43. The _Koran_, on a long and narrow roll, very elegantly written in minute characters.

Given by Archbp. Laud.

44. A Syriac fragment, on three leaves of paper.

45. A specimen of Chinese printing, on rice-paper.

46. A specimen of the Papyrus-plant, in its natural state.

47. A fine MS. of the _Koran_, from the library of Tippoo Sahib at Seringapatam.

Given by the East India Company in 1806; see p. 208.

48. A small Egyptian mummy-figure, of baked clay.

Given by Archbp. Laud.