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
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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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