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