Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:
October 1896
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/50
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dat 8.7 Ue 28 BOCCACCIO, Joun Bocuas, tHe Farin or Princes [TRANSLATED INTO Enauisn verse By JOHN LYDGATE]. rol. 1: He pat whilom dide his diligence | The boke of Bochas in frensh to translate | Out of latyn he callid was Laurence | The tyme truly remembred and pe date | Yere when kyng John prou3 his mortal fate | Was prisoner brou3t to pis regioun | When he first gan on pis trans- lacioun . . Folio, Manuscrrpr on veLLuM, 209 leaves, written in double columns tn a beautiful small angular (charter) hand, with floreated initials ; in russia binding, from the libraries of Heber and Sir Thomas Phillips About 1430-40 125 0 0 This grand English Manuscript is of the author's own time. At the end of the first book there is a note in the handwriting of Richard Reeds recording his possession, and that the book had cost him fifty shillings. Aerie end of the third and beginning of the fourth book, a blank space of two pages is left unwritten on, so that between the last stanza of “‘ Artaxerxes’ and the first stanza of “ Pausanias,” there is a gap indicating either a defect in the original used by the scribe, or else shewing that the book had not been completed by Lydgate. 29 [BODLEY (Sir Thomas) ] Account of his Negotiations with the States General in 1594 (1595)-6, Small folio, beautifully written MS. on paper, 7) pp.; in the original limp vellum wrapper About 1610 3 3 O AN UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENT OF CONSIDERABLE IMPORTANCE, The nameot Bodley appears nowhere, but it is evident from his relation that he was the person who wrote this statesmanlike narrative of his mission, in 1595-96, from which he was recalled in the latter year by Lord Burleigh. It does not seem to have come to the knowledge of Motley, and Sir Thomas Phillipps, from whose library this MS. has come, was unaware of the author’s name. 30 CHARLOTTE BRONTE. A Letter beginning “My dear Ellen,” and signed “‘ 0. Bronte,” describing the dullness of home and the impend- ing departure of Bramwell. 2 pp. 4to. on Oey. 31 THE BRUT CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND. Fol.1: IN In nomine Jhu. Here may a man heren how Englonde was ffirst callyd Albyon. And thurghe whom hit hadde the name. In the noble lande off Syrrye. . an 149: .. Here the Kynge helde hys parlement at Westmestyr 1445) .. Small folio, rrvze MS. on vettuM AND PAPER, MIXED, with rubrics ; probably wanting one leaf at the end ; in the original oak boards covered with damayed whitish leather About 1450 50 0 0 One of the best and most interesting copies of the famous Chronicle. MSS. all vary at the end, most of them stopping with the close of the fourteenth century. This one not only includes the reigns of Richard II and the three Henries, but has also the poem on the siege of Rouen by Henry V, which is seldom found in copies of the Chronicle. The IN on the first page represents John Nuton Abbat of Battle, appointed to that dignity in 1463. His name appears in several places. On the fly-leaf is the chief inscription : “ Istius libelli possessio ex iure debetur venerabili in Xpo patri ac domino Domini Johanni Nuton dei providencia venerandi Monasterii de Bello Rectori ac patri, Angligene gentis Chronice yocati Cuius alienator vel alieni professor Anathema sit q’ Sennahoi Mastiw.” The writer has reversed the letters of his name. 32 THE BRUT CHRONICLE. Fol. 1: Here begynnyth a book eallyd the Cronyclys of Engelonde of the whiche book bysyde the prologe this ys the furste chapyter. In the noble londe of Sirrye.. Fol. 148: .. and at euery gate ii or iii ml. of good menes bodyes armed and manfully