Duns Scotus, Impressum per Ioannem de Colonia, et Nicolaum
Jenson, 1481, 4to. in double columns of gothic letter, half
bound.
Duns Scotus, Liber Reportatorum, folio, in double columns of
gothic letter, half bound.
“Summa que Destructorium viciorum appellat,” Norimbergæ, per
Koburger, 1496, folio, half bound, in double columns of gothic
letter.
“Thomas Aquinas super IV Sententiarum, impendio Ioannis de
Colonia, Nicolai Jenson, sociorumque, 1481,” folio, in double
columns of gothic letter, bound in calf.
Augustus de Ancona, de Ecclesiæ Potestate, folio, in double
columns of gothic character, in russia.
Catho Moralizatus, Lugduni per Ioannem de Vingle, 1497, folio,
in the Roman character.
Aureum Opus de Veritate contritionis, 8vo. Parisiis, per
Franciscum Regnault, in the gothic character, bound in calf.
Inventarium Generale, &c. Basileæ per Jacobum Pfortzen, folio,
in double columns of gothic character, half bound.
Speculum Moralis Vincentii, Norimbergæ per Koburger, 1485,
folio, in double columns of gothic letter, imperfect at the
end, and bound in calf.
In addition to the above I may mention, the Duytsche Psalter, printed
at Delfte in 1478, although the date by the lapse of the numeral L is
printed 1428, a manifest error. This 18mo volume is bound in vellum with
brass clasps. And two Church Service Books of Salisbury use, but of
uncommon occurrence; the first being
“Missale ad usum ac consuetudinem Sarum
Parisiis
Ex officinâ libraria spectabilis viri Nicolai
Prevost. Impensis vero fidelissimi
mercatoris Francisci Byrckman,
MDXXVII.”
folio. In the beginning is the Kalendar occupying vii leaves, followed
by the Missal containing folia cliiii, so numbered regularly, up to
this place, where two unnumbered leaves of vellum intervene, the first
of these is entitled Præfatio quotidiana, having the large wood cut of
the Crucifixion on the reverse; and the second which is distinguished
by the signature v. iiii, comprises the first portion of the “Canon.”
The following leaf is numbered fo. clvii, being upon paper, and at folio
clxx the Missal ends. The Sanctorale of 69 leaves then follows, and is
succeeded by the Commune Apostolorum, whose leaves are regularly numbered
fo. i-lxiii, with the following subscription at the conclusion:
“MDXXVII. tertio Calendas Martias.”
This noble folio is printed in double columns of bold gothic character,
in very black ink occasionally enlivened with red. The present copy
measures very nearly thirteen and a half by nine inches, and is bound in
calf.
The second Service Book is the “Graduale ad veram et integram preclare
ecclesie Sarum consuetudinem nuper Parisiis excusum. Venundatur Londonii
à Francisco Byrckman apud cimiterium divi Pauli, M.DXXVIII,” folio. This
volume is printed in double columns of the same bold black and red letter
as the preceding, and is half bound in calf.
To these I may with much propriety add a noble specimen of the famous
Junta Press, “Pontificale noviter impressum perpulchrisque characteribus
diligentissimè annotatum.” Florentiæ, Lucantonii de Giunta, 1510, folio.
This volume is printed in double columns of Roman character, in black
varied with red, and is bound in old calf; to which may be appended the
Breviarium Romanum & the Missale Romanum, 1670.
Let us now turn our attention to those impressions of the Sacred volume
which are found within these walls, including,
Walton’s Polyglott Bible, with two copies of Castell’s Lexicon,
one of which is very fine.
The Holy Bible in English, of the date of 1539, in folio, in
double columns of black letter, but wanting the title, and
bound in primitive calf.
Biblia Hebraica, Aureliæ Allobrogum, 1509, folio, bound up with
the New Testament of the same date, in calf.
Biblia Hebraica Munsteri, Basileæ, 1534.
Biblia Latina Castalionis, Basileæ per Oporinum, printed in
double columns of Roman character.
Biblia Latina, 1528, 4to. in double columns of Roman character,
bound in russia; and the
Biblia Latina, Hanoviæ, 1624, folio.
to which I may add