Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth CenturyMacray, William Dunn
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Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century
Macray, William Dunn
Bodleian Library
under the title of _Memorials of the Civil War_; but the transcripts
were very carelessly made, and scarcely a single letter can be trusted
as faithfully and _verbatim_ representing the original. Another volume
of selections from Sancroft's papers was published, with much better
care, by Will. Nelson Clarke, D.C.L., 8^o, Edinb. 1848, entitled, _A
Collection of Letters addressed by Prelates and Individuals of high rank
in Scotland, and by two Bishops of Sodor and Man, to Archbishop
Sancroft, in the reigns of Charles II and James VII_[203]. A catalogue
of the MSS., compiled by the Rev. Alfred Hackman, M.A. (now
Sub-librarian) was published in 1860, in a thick quarto volume, forming
vol. iv. of the general Catalogue of MSS. The several volumes are
described in brief in the body of the work; but a very full Index is
subjoined, in which the contents of all the letters and papers are
entered in detail. The printed books (upwards of 900) contain many, by
the Reformers and their opponents, which are of the utmost rarity in
early English black-letter divinity. One of these is an unique copy (as
it is believed) of an edition, printed without place or date, of the
_Pore Helpe_, of which there is also an unique copy of another edition,
equally without place or date, among the Douce books. It has not
hitherto been remarked that two copies, or two editions, exist of this
metrical satire. Another volume, which contains several tracts printed
by W. de Worde and Gerard Leeu, has also two by Caxton, hitherto
unnoticed as exhibiting his type, and described in the Catalogue simply
as being books without place or date. The merit of their discovery as
Caxton's is due to the recent research of Mr. Bradshaw, the Librarian of
the Cambridge Library. The one is a clean and perfect copy of the
_Governayle of Helthe_, with the verses called _Medicina Stomachi_, of
which the only copy known to Mr. Blades is in the library of the Earl of
Dysart at Ham House; the other a wholly unknown quarto edition, in the
same type, of the _Ars Moriendi_.
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