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
Another famous MS. (No. 636) is a copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,
which ends at the year 1154, and appears to have been written in, and to
have belonged to, the abbey of Peterborough, from its containing many
additions relating thereto. And a third treasure calling for special
mention is an Irish vellum MS. (No. 610), which contains the Psalter of
Cashel, Cormac's Glossary, Poems attributed to SS. Columb-kill and
Patrick, &c.[100] The Greek MSS. of the collection are fully described
in vol. i. of the _Catal. Codd. Bibl. Bodl._, by Mr. H. O. Coxe,
published in 1853; the Latin, Biblical, and Classical, with the
Miscellaneous, in Part I of the second volume, published by the same
gentleman in 1858; the Oriental, in the various Catalogues of Uri,
Nicoll, Pusey, Dillmann, and Payne Smith.
One of the Würtzburg books rescued from the Swedish soldiery is a
magnificent Missal printed on vellum by Jeorius Ryser in 1481, with
illuminated initials. On a fly-leaf is the following note: '1481,
Johannes Kewsch, vicarius in ecclesia Herb[ipolensi] hunc librum
comparavit propriis expensis, et pro omnibus, scil. pergameno,
impressura, rubricatione, illinatura, et ligatione, xviii. flor.' Then
follows a bequest, in his own hand, in 1486, of the book to the
successive vicars of St. Bartholomew, which is repeated at the end of
the 'Canon Missæ.' In the latter place four subsequent possessors, from
1565 to 1580, have written their names, the last of them adding, 'Omnis
arbor qui non facit fructum bonum excidetur et in ignem mittetur.' The
Library reference is now Auct. i. Q. i. 7.
[95] Reg. Conv. R. 24. f. 109^b. MS. note by Dr. P. Bliss.
[96] Entry at the end of the Register of Readers, 1638-9.
[97] This was given to Laud by Selden, 'vir omni eruditionis genere
instructissimus,' as Laud styles him in his letter of gift on June 16.
Reg. Conv. R. 24. f. 128.
[98] Reg. Conv. R. 24. 156^b. 169^b. The agreements with one Thomas
Richardson for the work are found there.
[99] Reg. Conv. R. 24^b, 182^b.
[100] Four volumes of the miscellaneous collection on Irish affairs made
by Sir G. Carew, afterwards Earl of Totness, are also to be found here.
A list of their contents, as of those of the other volumes preserved at
Lambeth and in University College, is printed in Mr. T. Duffus Hardy's
_Report to the Master of the Rolls on the Carte and Carew Papers_, 8^o,
Lond. 1864.
A.D. 1637.
A Bachelor of Arts and Fellow of St. John's College, one Abraham Wright,
published the results of his lighter reading in the Bodleian in a little
volume printed by Leonard Lichfield, which he entitled, _Delitiæ
Delitiarum, sive Epigrammatum ex optimis quibusque hujus et novissimi
seculi Poetis in amplissima illa Bibliotheca Bodleiana, et pene omnino
alibi extantibus, ανθολογια_.
A.D. 1640.
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