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
7. _Vulgaria quedam abs Terentio in Anglicam linguam traducta_.
Without place or date, but also identified by the type. The
following note, which corroborates the identification, is written in
red ink on a fly-leaf in the volume (which includes several other
tracts): '1483. Frater Johannes Grene emit hunc librum Oxon. de
elemosinis amicorum suorum[148].'
A list of sixty-six books, which Hunt, the Oxford printer and
bookseller, had in his hands for sale in 1483, is preserved in his own
writing on a fly-leaf in a copy of a French translation of Livy, Paris,
1486, which was bought for the Library from Mr. C. J. Stewart, in Dec.
1860, for £12. The list is headed thus: 'Inventorium librorum quos ego
Thomas Hunt, stacionarius universitatis Oxoniensis, recepi de Magistro
Petro Actore et Johannis (_sic_) de Aquisgrano ad vendendum, cum precio
cujuslibet libri, et promito (_sic_) fideliter restituere libros aut
pecunias secundum precium inferius scriptum, prout patebit in
sequentibus, Anno Domini M^o. CCCC^o. octuagesimo tercio.'
[147] In most of them is inscribed the motto, αιεν αριστευειν.
[148] This last book is described by Dr. Cotton in the second series of
his _Typographical Gazetteer_, published in 1866, from a copy in the
University Library at Cambridge. Besides the other Oxford books
enumerated by that learned bibliographer, several fragments of another,
a _Compendium totius Grammaticæ_ (conjectured to have been written by
John Anwykyll, Waynflete's first Grammar Master at Magdalene College)
have been discovered. They have been identified by Mr. H. Bradshaw, the
Librarian of the University of Cambridge, whose extensive acquaintance
with early typography is well known. That gentleman found, at Cambridge,
two leaves in the University Library in 1859, two more in Corpus Christi
in 1861, and two in St. John's in 1866. Four other leaves were
discovered by the present writer in 1867, bound up as fly-leaves in a
volume in the library of Viscount Dillon, at Ditchley, Oxfordshire. Mr.
Bradshaw supposes the book to have been printed about 1483-6.
A.D. 1692.
Thirty-eight Persian and Arabic MSS., with one printed book, were bought
from Hyde, the Librarian. They are entered in Bernard's Catalogue, pp.
286-7. Being bought out of the funds of the University, no mention of
the price paid for them is found in the Library accounts.
A.D. 1693.
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