Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in 1897. In both editions the ‘treatyse of Fysshinge’ has a separate title with the well-known cut of the angler landing a fish near an extensive castle. HAY, George. The Confutation of the Abbote of Crosraguels Masse set furth by Maister George Hay. [Quota- tions from Matt. xv. and Cyprian, Epist. iii. 2.] Imprinted at Edinburgh by Robert Lekpreuik and are to be satUd at his hous at the nether Bow. Cum priuilegio. 1563. quarto. An answer to a book by Quintin Kennedy, Abbot of Cros- raguel, entitled: Ane familiar commune and reasoning anent the Misterie of the Sacrifice of the Mess, which, though never printed, seems to have had a wide circulation. In the epistle of ‘ The Prenter to the Reader,’ Lekprevik explains how Hay’s use of some Greek words, for which he had no type, has driven him to ‘borrow the labour of some scollers ’ to fill them by hand. Bought at the second Ashburnham sale in 1897. FORM OF PRAYERS. The Forme of Prayers and Ministration of the Sacraments &c. vsed in the English Church at Geneua, approued and receiued by the Churche of Scotland, whereunto besydes that was in the former bokes, are also added sondrie other prayers, with the whole Psalmes of Dauid in English meter. The contents of this boke are conteined in the page following. I Cor. iii. No man can lay any other fundation, than that which is laid, euen Christ lesus. Printed at Edinburgh by Robert Lekpreuik. M.D.LXV. OCTAVO. The Catechism of Calvin, which forms the third part, has an imprint with the date 1564. The first edition of the Scots Book of Common Order, or Knox’ Liturgy, of which only two other perfect copies are known. This copy, bought at the third Ashburnham sale% in 1898, has the arms of Francis Russell, second Earl of Bedford, on a curious binding of two leather boards with no back. '