Meditationes beati Bernardi, 8vo, in membranis. A Volume which
formerly belonged to the Monastery of St. Mary Overy, Southwark.
I may conclude this notice of the Canterbury Manuscripts with the mention
of the Chronicon ab origine Mundi, cui præfigitur Tabula subsequentis
operis secundùm ordinem Alphabeti, folio, which ends in 1338; and a
Chronographye of the most notable things from the beginning of the
world to the year 1592, by John Nettleton, gent. my Master, and writ
by me Wm. Byrche; together with the Stimulus Conscientiæ, or Pricke of
Conscience, an English Poem, by Richard Hampole,[7] an eremite of the
order of St. Augustine, who flourished in 1349, 4to.; and another curious
Volume of English Poetry in 4to., entitled Epigramma Satiron; or “The
times whistle, or a newe daunce of seven Satires, whereunto are annexed
divers other poems comprising things naturall, morall, and theologicall,
compiled by ______ gent.”
“Septem compacta cicutis
Fistula.”
The name of the compiler is in this first title erased. He announces the
design of those Seven Satires in a long Introduction.
“From the Rhamnusian goddesse am I sent,
On Sinne t’inflict deserved punishment:
All-seeing Sunne, lend me thy searching eye,
That I may finde, and scourge impietie;”
&c. &c. &c.
To these Satires are added “Certaine Poems, comprising things naturall,
morall, and theologicall. Written by R. C. gent.”[8]
In proceeding to give some account of the printed books contained in the
Library of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, I will first notice the
impressions of the Holy Scriptures which are contained therein, namely,
the
Biblia Maxima, Joannis de la Haye. Lutet. Paris. 1660, in 19
vols. folio.
Biblia Polyglotta per Ariam Montanum. Antverpiæ, 1569, in 8
vols. folio.
Biblia Polyglotta per Brianum Waltonum. Londini, 1657, in 6
vols. folio, cui Castelli Lexicon Heptaglotton, Londini, 1669,
accedit.
Biblia Hebraica cum Commentariis Rabbinicis, per Danielem
Bombergum. Venetiis, 1515, in 4 vols. folio.
Biblia Hebraica, per Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776, in 2 vols. folio.
Biblia Sacra, cum Glossa ordinaria, Parisiis, 1590, in 6 vols.
folio.
Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ Editionis. Romæ, 1592, folio. Basileæ,
1591, 8vo. Lugduni, 1618, 8vo. and Antverpiæ, 1629, in 5 vols.
16mo.
Biblia Latina Tremellii et Junii. Hanoviæ, 1602, in 2 vols.
4to.—Hanoviæ, 1603, folio, and Genevæ, 1617, in 4 vols. folio.
Biblia Septuaginta, Romæ, 1587, folio; Londini, 1653, in 2
vols. 12mo.; et edita per Grabe, Oxonii, 1707, dupl. edit. in 2
vols. folio, and in 8 vols. 8vo.
Biblia Belgica. Leydæ, 1596, 4to.
Biblia Española. Amst. 1661, 8vo.
La Biblia Traslatata in lingua Italiana da Giov. Diodati, 1607,
4to.
The Great English Bible, published by order of Henry VIII.
London, November, 1540, folio.
English Bible. London, 1551, folio.
The Holy Bible of 1585, the Bishops’ Version, in fol.
The Bible printed at Doway in 1609, in 3 vols. 4to.
The Bible printed by Barker at London, in 1640, folio; by
Baskett at Oxford, in 1717, folio; and by Baskerville at
Cambridge, in 1763, folio.
To which I may add the Bible edited by D’Oyley and Mant, and the Welch
Bible printed at London in 1630, 8vo.
I may here notice the Psalter edited by Baber, and the Liturgia Anglicana
Octoglotta, printed by Bagster.