Report to the Right honourable the master of the rolls upon the documents in the archives and public libraries of Venice / by Thomas Duffus Hardy.
- Thomas Duffus Hardy
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report to the Right honourable the master of the rolls upon the documents in the archives and public libraries of Venice / by Thomas Duffus Hardy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Sir Henry Savile's eight volumes bear the date of 1612, and on the 2nd January, 1613-14 we get news of tlie presentation copy now in St. Mark's Library from his son-in-law, Sir Dudley Carleton, as recorded in the Esposizloni Principi thus:— The ambassador (Sir Dudley Carleton, in the College Hall, 2nd January 1613) added'' (to the Doge Marc Antonio Memo)— ' Most serene Prince,—Perceiving the good greeting conceded to the office performed by me, and that your Serenity is always pleased to honour me more and more, I shall take the liberty, being here at this season, to follow the English custom, or as they say at Venice, give la niancia, by requesting your Serenity to re- ceive as a free gift a book printed by a leading gentleman, who is my futlier-in-law, a person of quality and of acknowledged endow- ments [honorate conditioni], no less beloved by his Majesty than by the Queen herself. His book is the complete collection of the writings of that famous and most eloquent Father of the Church, St. John Chrysostom. At the cost of some years labour, Sir Henry Suvile has put together the entire scries, diligently col- lating his texts with those in the Vatican and St. Mark's Library, in order to render it perfect, and I believe it will be really worthy of the public library ; and having been granted the favour of in- specting the Signory's manuscripts, it was his wish to acknowledge the obligation, nor does he know how to do so better than by presenting the result of his labours. On receiving your Serenity's commands, I will have my secretary, who is outside, introduced, and he will present it to your Serenity.' His Serenity replied that the laws did not allow the accept- ance of anything without permission : that the Signory would give their commands, and that in the meanwhile he thanked his Lordship much for such additional mark of courtesy, and for this fresh loving testimonial. Immediately after this the Signory gave orders for the intro- duction of the Ambassador's secretary, who presented eight volumes in folio, bound in crimson satin, containing all the works of the Father St. John Chrysostom, in Greek ; and one of the volumes being given into the Ambassador's hands by the secretary, who was then dismissed, he opened it, making some remarks upon the dedicatory inscription, of which he read the first words, thus: —Serenissimo Principi Marco Antonio Memino Venetiarum Duci, —adding that not without cause did the frontispiece bear his Serenity's name ; but above all, because Sir Henry Savile, who presented the work, studied in the city of Padua whilst his Se- renity worthily filled the post of Governor there.* Then con- cerning the paragraph, Nee non Excellentissimi Senatus Patribus prudentissiinis, he observed that this title was most apposite, re- lating as it did to the writings of one of the most ancient and * Marc Antonio Memo was Podesta of Padua in the year 1586, his colleague](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21021284_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
