Junii Evangelia. Dordraci, 1665.
I will proceed to notice the Church Service Books contained within
this Library, and cannot commence more appropriately than with
a bibliographical description of the “Missale ad usum Ecclesie
Sarisburiensis. MD.XXXIIII.” folio. Printed in double columns of black
and red letter. This interesting volume commences with the title as
given above, which occupies the first leaf, followed by six leaves of
Calendar, and one of Benedictio. The Missal then commences, occupying
folio i.–clvi. inclusive, numbered in regular succession. Then follow
the Ordinarium, Præfationes, and Canon, occupying fifteen leaves not
numbered. Of these however the 7th, 8th, and 9th, containing the “Prefa
de scta cruce,” et “de b. Maria,” the “Prefatio quotidiana,” and the
first part of the Canon, are all three upon vellum.
It may be noticed, that facing the large wood cut of the Crucifixion,
which occupies the whole reverse of the leaf containing the Præfatio
quotidiana, one leaf of manuscript in Gothic character, upon vellum,
has been inserted, apparently in the olden time. At the end of these
fifteen leaves last mentioned, commence the Prayers for the Saints,
Vigils, &c. occupying sixty leaves regularly numbered from fo. i. to fo.
lx. Then follows the “Accentuarium cum Prologo,” consisting of twelve
leaves, undistinguished by any numerals; but upon the recto of the last
leaf occurs the Colophon, informing us that this like many other of the
earlier Service books of the English Church was the production of a
foreign press:
Ҧ Explicit Missale ad usum ecclesie Sarum tam in cantu quam in litera
diligentissime recognitum. Marginalibus annotatiunculis ac literis
alphabeticis evangeliorum, epistolarum gradalium offertorium originem
indicantibus abunde locupletatum. _Impressum Parisiis_ in vico scti
Iacobi in edibus _Francisci Regnault_ librari jurati alme universitatis
Parisiensis.”
I may add to this several editions of the Common Prayer Book, besides
that of 1629, which I have already mentioned; the Common Prayer, London,
1662, folio, bound in crimson velvet; and that printed at Oxford in 1681;
with that edited by Bishop Mant.
I may here mention Wheatley on the Common Prayer; and the Psalmorum
Davidis, per Ioannem Campensem, Basileæ, 1553, 12mo.; and proceed at once
to enumerate the component parts of the theological department of this
Library, beginning with the
Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum per M. de la Bigne. Colon. Agrip.
1618, in 16 volumes, folio, bound in calf.
Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, in 2 volumes, folio, in calf.
Bibliotheca, S.S. Patrum, edente Clerico. Amstelod. 1724, in 2
vols. folio.
Russell’s Patrum Apostolicorum Opera. 1746, 8vo.
Basilii Opera. Parisiis, 1737-8, folio.
Cypriani Opera, edente Fell. Oxonii, 1700, folio.
S. Cyrilli Opera. Oxonii, 1703, folio.
Chrysostomi Opera. Etonæ, 1612, in 8 vols. folio.
Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica. Paris, 1628.
Fulgentii Opera. Basileæ, 1621.
Irenæi Opera. Parisiis, 1710.
Lactantius. Cantabrigiæ, 1685, 8vo.
Origenis Opera. Parisiis, 1519, vols. 3 and 4 only.
Philonis Judæi Opera, à Mangey. Londini, 1742, in 2 volumes,
folio.