Roxburghe Club Publications: All are in 4to. half morocco. These are genuine Club publications; not printed for sale. Of most of the volumes only 30 copies were printed; of none more than 100 copies. 1. VIRGILES AENAEIS, Certain bokes of, turned into English meter by Henry, Earle of Surrey (1557), gothic letter, £2. 10s William Bolland, 1814 2. DOLARNY'S Primerose, or the First Part of the Passionate Hermit, £4. 1816 Presented to the Members by Sir F. Freeling, and only 33 copies printed. 3. HAGTHORPE Revived, or select specimens of a forgotten Poet, printed on india paper, woodcuts, £3. 10s Sir S. E. Brydges, Lee Priory, Kent, 1817 4. FUNERALLES (The) of King Edward the Sixt. (A poem), black letter; with portrait, £4.48 James William Dodd, 1817 5. Cock Lorell's Boat, black letter, £5. 58 Rev. H. Drury, 1817 6. BANCROFT (T.) Glutton's Feaver, £3. 10s J. D. Phelps, 1817 7. CONSTABLE (H.) Diana, £3. 10s E. Littledale, 1818 8. SOLEMNITIES and Triumphes at the 9. SCOLOKER (A.) Daiphantus, £3. 3s R. Wilbraham, 1818 10. CHESTER Mysteries. De Deluvio Noe. De Occisione Innocentium, front. and initial letters, the Arms in gold and colours, presentation copy from the editor, James Heywood Markland, to the Rev. Philip Bliss, with NUMEROUS MS. ADDITIONS of the editor, £10. J. H. Markland, 1818 Fifty copies printed. 11. BALADES and other Poems, by John Gower, black letter, £6. 108 Earl Gower, 1818 12. CEREMONIAL at the Marriage of Mary Queen of Scotts with the Dauphin of France, £3. 10s W. Bentham, 1818 13. CHORLE and the Birde. The Hors, the Shepe, and the Ghoos (with "Ordre of ye Tostes" added), 2 vols. £5. 5s Sir M. M. Sykes, 1818-1822 14. Vox POPULI, Vox Dei, a Complaynt of the Comons against Taxes (in Verse), black letter, presentation copy to R. Addams, with Dr. T. F. Dibdin's autograph inscription, £3. 10s 1821 Presented by Sir J. Littledale, who when raised to the Bench destroyed every copy he could procure. 15. NEW Notborune Mayd and Boke of Mayd Emlyn, £4. 48 G. Isted, 1820 20. LŒLII PEREGRINI Oratio in obitum Torquati Tassi, £4. 10s Sir Sam. Brydges, 1822 21. METRICAL LIFE of Saint Robert of Knaresborough, £4. 15s Henry J. T. Drury, 1824 22. CUCK QUEANES (the) and Cuckolds Errants, or the bearing down the Inne, a Comedye. The Faery Pastorall or Forrest of Elues by WP, Esq., very rare, £12. 12s John Arthur Lloyd, 1824 23. INFORMACON for Pylgrymes unto The Holy Londe, gothic letter, very rare, £10. 16s George Henry Freeling, 1824 24. LA ROTTA de Francciosi a Terroana novamento facta. La Rotta de Scocesi. Etc. in 1 vol. £1. 8s Earl Spencer, 1825 Two poems, the first on the battle of Terrousne from the original printed at Rome in 1513); the second on the battle of Flodden Field. The above copy has Earl Spencer's autograph presentation to B. H. Bright. 25. THE GARDEN PLOT, Inscribed to Q. Elizabeth, by H. Goldingham; and Reprint of his Masque, performed before the Queen at Norwich, August 21st, 1578, black letter, front. very rare, £10. 10s Francis Wrangham, 1825 26. HAVELOK THE DANE, the Ancient English Romance, accompanied by the French Text, with introduction, notes, and Glossary by Sir Frederick Madden, £5. Printed for the Club, 1828 27. CowPER. The Private Diary of William, first Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England, £1. 168 Edward Craven Hawtrey, 1833 28. THE LYVYS OF SEYNTYs, translated into Englys be a Doctour of Dyvynite clepyd Osbern Bokenham, black letter, £3. 158 Lord Clive, 1835 29. GESTA Romanorum, the Old English Versions of the, with introduction and 1838 notes by Sir F. Madden, £4. [Continued on page 53 A CATALOGUE OF RARE AND VALUABLE BOOKS OFFERED FOR SALE BY BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, W. ILLUMINATED AND HISTORICAL Some of extreme beauty and importance ALCUIN and HILDEBERT. Fol. 1: Epistole hyldeberti cenomanensis episcopi doctoris egregij. . Fol. 71b: Albinus ad Singulfum presbiterum [Quæstiones et Responsa in Genesim]. Fol. 92a the treatise by Alcuinus (Albinus) ends. Fol. 92b: Quis ascendet in montem dei? ascend' qd semel xps corporaliter sup altitudinem celorum. . Fol. 135: .. Vbi enim magnitudo gratiarum est ibi etiam magnitudo discriminis est. £ 8. d. 3 parts in 1 vol. sm. 4to. MS. ON VELLUM, beautifully written, 135 leaves, 26 lines to the page; hf. bd. About 1190-1200 12 0 0 There are sixty-one Epistles by Hildebert. of which one is to the Queen of the English, and another to a Canon of Exeter. Then begins without any sufficient distinction the work of Alcuin in questions and answers sent by him with a preliminary letter to Singulfus. On page 19 ends the course of Int and R (ie., the rubricated catchwords for Interrogatio and Responsum). The work which proceeds without any heading on the next page may also be Alcuin's. It is remarkable for the numerality of its observations: for example, Tres sunt quibus reconciliari debent homines. . Quatuor sunt que conferunt humilitatem.. Duas ad intelligendum. . Quatuor sunt que impediunt .. confessionem. . Duo sunt amores etc. BEDE. Fol. 5: Incipit prefatio uenabilis Bede psbiti sup eccliastica historia gentis angloy. Ad Ceolwlfu regē Fol. 6 Incipit eccliastice historie gentis anglo lib primus. BRITANNIA Occeani insula. . Fol. 91 ends the list of Bede's works, and begins De obitu venerabilis Bede which ends on the reverse of that leaf with Felix qui scripsit sit et qui talia fixit. Fol. 1 has on the obverse a letter, partly illegible, written about 1570 to accompany the book which was being lent to a friend. On the reverse is an inscription Liber Sce Trinitatis de Kirkaam written in the thirteenth century. Fol. 2 has on the obverse a coloured diagram of the Temple, accompanied by Bede's description of it in the margin. On the reverse begins Reuelatio S. Ragneri mris which was written about 1180-90, and ends on the obverse of fol. 5. On the reverse of fol. 5 in the original scribe's hand: Liber ecclie xpi de Kirkaam. In hoc volumine continentur mentioning six pieces which are no longer included in it. Small folio, MS. ON VELLUM in double columns, 38 lines to the column, in a beautiful English hand, with numerous ornamental letters, including two fine capitals of elaborate 3 BIBLIA LATINA, MS. Sec. EXPLICIT PFATIO INCIPIT PROLOGVS. . IUNGAT EPISTOLA . . EXPLICIT LIBER HIESV FILI SYRACH INCIPIT EIUSDE ORATIO CANONICARV. The Canonical Epistles end on fol. 139a, and on the same page follows Incipit Praefat. Sci. Hieronimi in libro Dabre iamin id est verba Diervm. This preface ends on 140a, and is followed immediately by the text of Chronicles. The second Book of Chronicles ends on fol. 172. Fol. 173a: Incip praefatio Sci Hieronomi in Apocalypsi. On 1746 the text of the Apocalypse begins and it ends on 189a, col. 1. Incipit Comemoratio Basilica Dedicationis Sci Michaelis Archangeli Qvod est. IIII. kl. Octvbris. This ends on 1916. Fol. 192a, col. 1, contains the last 23 lines of the Apocalypse in an older hand than the same lines which occur in duplicate on fol. 189. 192a, col. 2: Explicit Apocalypsis Incipit Sermo Sci Ambrosii Episcopi de Assumpcione beate et gloriose Virginis Mariae que celebrat. xviii kldas Semtembris. On the back begins the Sermon with a curious and elaborate combination of capital letters. Adest dilectissimi Fratres dies valde venerabilis . . It ends on the reverse of 199 and is followed on the same page by Sermo Sci Ieronimi in Assvmpcione Sce Mariae ad Paula et Eustochium. The original writing of this discourse ends on 214a; a later hand has continued the matter on 214b and still left the piece unfinished. Square folio, MS. ON VELLUM IN A FINE CAROLINGIAN HAND, written in double columns, 29 lines to the column; with numerous very large capitals ornamented with interlaced and grotesque work, and several intitulations in Uncials and Rustic Capitals, the great initials decorated in the Irish style; hf. bd. About A.D. 800 150 00 A Frankish MS. of extremely interesting character, which represents the text of St. Jerome as purified by Alcuin. The arrangement of the books is very curious, and must have been suggested by some liturgical reason. Some of the constituent parts of this volume are very rare in MS., including even the first preface of St. Jerome. The book came from the monastery of St. Illidius in Clermont (Auvergne). BIBLIA LATINA. Fol. 1: GENESIS. | Incipit epla sci ieronimi pbri ad pau | linum de omnib3 diuine hystorie li | bris epm. FRATER | AMBRO | SIVS | tua. . Fol. 4: IN PRIN cipio creauit deus . . Thick folio, A SPLENDIDLY ILLUMINATED MS. ON FINE VELLUM, 499 leaves, written in double columns, 52 lines to the column, in a beautiful Italian Gothic hand; with about 150 brilliant pieces of decorative design either in miniatures or figured borders; a grand volume in old red morocco gilt, bound for an Elector of Bavaria about 1770 with his arms on the sides About 1320 350 0 0 A remarkably fine and splendid volume. It is curious that the illustrations in the first half of the book are executed in the rather severe style of thirteenth-century French work, while all the rest are in the richer Italian style of the time at which the book was written. The work was, however, carried out entirely in the one place and at the one period, and must have been done for some magnate of This volume fetched £490 at the Stuart sale at Christie's in 5 THE BRUT 6 CHRONICLE. Here begynneth a book callyd the Cronycle of Engelonde of whiche book bysyde the prologe this ys the furste chapytre. In the noble londe of Surrie y' was a noble knyge and a myghty and a man of grete renoun y1 meñ callid Diaclician' yt well & worthly hym gouu'ed & rewlid. . Leaf 148: . . and at eu'y gate ii or iii ml. of good menes bodys armed and manfully countred wt oure Englishmen. Small folio, FINE MS. ON VELLUM, 33-40 lines per page, Here begynneth a booke which is called Brute the Small folio, FINE MS. ON VELLUM, 33 lines to the page, written in an upright cursive hand of great elegance and regularity, decorated with a beautiful illuminated border of pure English style on the first page, and with ornamental initials throughout the volume; in a handsome old gilt russia binding of Harleian style executed about 1740 for Maurice Johnson of Spalding, whose engraved bookplate, dated 1735, is pasted inside the cover About 1450 120 0 This fine MS. has 21 lines more at the end than the preceding one, and thus carries the narrative down to January, 1419. |
