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
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7. Of _Sermons_ there are about 200 volumes; many of which are by
Non-jurors, including three by Rawlinson himself. Ten volumes are by
Dan. Price, Dean of St. Asaph, 1696-1706; and one volume is said to
contain unpublished sermons by Leighton, apparently from notes taken by
some auditor at the time of delivery. These have been copied for
publication in a proposed new edition (under the care of Rev. W. West,
of Nairn, N.B.) of Leighton's whole works.
8. A selection of Biblical and Classical MSS., with a few others,
amounting to 199, are placed in the case marked '_Auctarium_,' G.
Amongst these are a few Greek volumes, with critical _Adversaria_ of
Maittaire, Josh. Lasher, and J. G. Grævius. Early copies of Statius,
Ovid, Virgil, &c. form part of the classics; while among the Biblical
MSS. is a grand eighth-century copy (written in rounded minuscules, in
the same style as the Rushworth book) of the Gospels of St. Luke and St.
John, and a beautiful eleventh-century Psalter with the commentary of
St. Bruno. One other fine book is a Psalter written for Ch. Ch.
Cathedral, Dublin, by the care of Stephen Derby, Prior, about A.D.
1360-80, with remarkable miniatures illustrating Psalms xxxix, liii,
lxix, lxxxi, and xcviii.
9. Of _Missals_, _Horæ_, and other Service-books, there are (besides
those which are scattered in Classes C and G Auct.) about 130. These
(most of which are of French origin, bought out of the library of Nic.
Jos. Foucault[245], of Flemish, or of Italian) are now incorporated with
a large collection of Liturgical books, which are called _Canon.
Liturg._, from their having formed part of the Canonici collection
purchased in 1818.
10. A small collection of _Statutes_, comprising sixty-five volumes, is
kept distinct. They consist of the Statutes of various Colleges at
Oxford and Cambridge, of the Cathedrals of Lichfield, Hereford,
Worcester, Chester, Manchester, Canterbury, Exeter, and the Abbey of
Westminster; of the Order of the Garter (various copies); of Hospitals
at Croydon, Chipping-Barnet, and Chichester; of the Gresham Charities,
together with the Charters of London and Bristol; Statutes made by the
Chapter of Paris for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre there in 1421, and
an eighteenth-century transcript of the Statutes of the College at
Bayeux. But the volume of most interest in this class is the rare
printed volume of the Statutes of Thame School, issued in 1575. Of this,
only five other copies are known, one kept at the School itself, a
second in the custody of the Warden of New College (the Visitor of the
School), a third in the Royal Library, Brit. Mus., and the fourth and
fifth, both on vellum, in the possession of the Earl of Abingdon and in
the Grenville Library, Brit. Mus. Rawlinson's copy, which wants the
title, has in it the book-plate of John, Duke of Newcastle.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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