A catalogue of the Harsnett Library at Colchester : in which are included a few books presented to the town by various donors since 1631 / compiled, with an introd. by Gordon Goodwin.

Date:
1888
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Credit: A catalogue of the Harsnett Library at Colchester : in which are included a few books presented to the town by various donors since 1631 / compiled, with an introd. by Gordon Goodwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by himself in The Bibliographer, vol. i. pp. 3—11, that the “ G. H.” of the famous trade-mark in the text-title of Tindale’s New Testament of 1534-35 represents the initials of its publisher Godfried van der Hag-hen. This little book is described on its title-page as published “ in inclito oppido Antverpise apud Godfridum Dumseum ” (Dumceus being the Latinized form of van der Haghen), while the “G. H.” mark is placed at the foot of the page. It will be noticed that these two works had also the same printer, M[artin] [de] K[eyser]. The Evangelistarinm of Marco Marulo, printed at Cologne in 1529, is interesting as containing the autograph of Nicholas Grimald, or Grimoald, the poet and scholar. Here, too, bound up together in a stout quarto, is a price- less, probably unique collection of twenty-three Forms 0/ Prayer and Thanksgiving, with duplicate copies, set forth in the reign of Elizabeth, of which the earliest is a fine i8mo copy of The Letanye of 1559. A few, notably those relating to the Armada, are embellished with elaborately engraved borders. This collection proved of inestimable service to the Rev. William Keatinge Clay when collecting and edit- ing for the Parker Society a volume of Elizabethan Litur- gies in 18471; it had been previously used by the Rev. William Nicholson, who edited the Reniains of Archbishop Grindal tor the same society in 1843.2 Originally folded up in this same volume, and much mutilated thereby, was the first edition (1587) of the Welshman Maurice Kyffin’s loyal Poem on The Blessednes of Brytaine, only one other copy, that in the Lambeth Palace library, being known. This fine piece of versification is not without historical interest. It is, in fact, a high eulogy on the government of Queen 1 Cf. his Preface, p. xxxv, also pp. 10, 459, 609. 2 Cf. p. 478, note.