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Credit: Sales catalogue 317: Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Ellis, 29, New Bond Street, W. | 4 B[ARLOW] (['Thomas]), Queen’s College, Oxford. [Directions for Study addressed to a young Lawyer enumerating the historical works necessary for understanding the origin and progress of English Laws]. MaANuscripT oF THE XVII CENTURY, very well written in a large roman hand on 71 pages, ruled with red lines throughout. 4to contemporary blue morocco, gilt panelled sides, gilt edges, £5 At the time Dr. Barlow wrote this he was Librarian of the Bodleian Library, afterwards he became Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and eventually Bishop of Lincoln. The MS. is written in the form of a letter subscribed in. a cursive hand Your affectionate Freind & Servant T.B. Queen’s Colledg. Oxon. October ye 30th, 1656. Then follows the request in the same hand— ** Pray lett noe Eye, see these rude papers, but your owne selfe, unlesse you will communicate them to Mr. Compton, qui nostras solebat esse aliquid putare nugas, I dare trust you with all my weaknesses. When you have done, I shali desire them againe For they will bee of some use to mee, though little to any body else Vale. The Mr. Compton referred to was probably Henry Compton, afterwards Bishop of London who had been a Student at Queen’s College. It was printed in 1742 by Archdeacon Taylor among some additional pieces appended to his Commentarius ad L. Decemviralem. As there are verbal differences between this MS, and the printed version it is possible that Archdeacon Taylor used another MS. 5 BIBLIOGRAPHICA: Papers on Books, their History and Art. 1895-97. 38 vols. imp. 8vo, with upwards of 60 beautiful plates, consisting of reproductions from manuscripts, woodcut books, early printing, ancient book-bindings, etc., many printed in colours, half morocco, top edges gilt, uncut, £6 18s. Among the subjects treated may be mentioned the Books of Hours of Geoffrey Tory ; English [luminated MSS.; Chronology of the Early Aldines ; Early Repre- sentations of the Printing Press ; Books with Woodcuts ; Mainz Psalter ; Little Gidding Bindings ; Venetian Ducali ; Decoration of Book Edges ; Early Music, etc., ete.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3315921x_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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