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![-_ 20 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS or ARTISTS, including Sir Thos. Lawrence, Fittler, Rolfe, Cousins, Chantrey, Westall, Phillips, Westmacott, Shee, Leslie, Wilkie, Haydon, Eastlake, Reinagle, Beechey, and about forty others, in 1 vol. sm. 8vo. bds. 1815-41 21 BAKER. Directions to Shew how to make use of the Exercises called Ideots Devotions, or the Desires of Love, by Father Augustine Baker, Preist and Monke of the Holy Order of St. Benett, etc., 12mo. neat MS. in the original calf 1630 Probably written and bound secretly in London. 22 BAKER. Life of the venerable Father Augustine Baker—A short and straight way to Christian Perfection . . 1666—Gascorng (Catherine) A Relation .. —Directions for Contemplation, etc.; in 1 vol. sm. 8yo. neat MS. in the original vellum binding About 1690-1700 A curious collection of Catholic pieces. Augustine, or rather David Baker, was a man of great learning, whose collections furnished: the best part of the material of Dod’s Church History. 23 BASILIUS (S.) ap-Neporns. Fol. 1: Multa filii sunt que. me hortantur ad ea vobis consulenda . . 14 pp.—t[ |] ad Ubertinum de liberis educandis. Fol. 1: Franciscus senior, avus tuus . . 33 pp.—PLUTARCHUS de educatione liberorum, cum prefatione Guarini . . 20 pp.—Tractatus anonymus ad Laurentium de liberis educandis. Init: Majores nostri Laurenti carissime . . 53 pp.—Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis, 6 pp. —PuHatarivis Epistole ab Aretino traducte . . 93 pp.—Another copy of the same, only the beginning, 11 pp.—Poema de Senectute et Amore, 209 lines on 8 pp. beginning: Tremula quid cessas finem properare, senectus . . —De fatali funere parni Astianatis . 318 hewameter verses on 8 pp.—in 1 vol. small folio, MS. by two Italian hands; calf, by Charles Lewis About 1460 The first halt of the book is in one hand ; the second half in another, but the age of both is about the same. It is an interesting collection of pieces. Formerly in the library of the Rey. H. Drury, of Harrow. 24 BEDE (The Venerable). [DE ARTE METRICA cum GLOssis]. Oolophon : EXPLICIT DE METRICA ARTE LIB. BEDE FAMULI XPI LEGE FELICITER Small folio, MS. on vetium, 6 leaves; in parchment boards About 880-900 Of extreme interest and value although imperfect. It is evidently the work of a French hand and has a number of curious contractions and abbreviations . . A letter like 2 = et, a curved line with a dot above and below it is est, a letter like ¢ stands for m, two short parallel down-strokes, crossed by a horizontal, bar = enim.; words run together sometimes, and a single word is occasionally broken. It is full of variants from the printed text, and is believed to be the oldest extant MS. of the work. 25 BEDE ON THE ACTS, REMIGIUS ON THE APOCALYPSE. Fol.1: INCIPIT PREFATIO IN EXPOSITIONE ACTUS APOSTOLOR’ BEDE PRESBITERT . : Hol. 24: Explicit tractatvs bede presbiteri in actus apostolor’ feliciter. —ffol. 25: incripry (sic) EXPOSITIONIS LIBRL ReEMIGIL EXIMIZ DOCTORIS SUPER APOCALIPSIN . . Hol. 139: Explicit exposicio in apocalipsin. 2 parts in 1 vol. folio, rive MS. on VELLUM, 140 leaves, written in double columns ; with a dozen large ornamental initials in brownish red mk ; bound in red calf About 1170-80 This was brobably part of the library of the Abbey of Pontigny. At the end of the second book, five columns represent the beginning of a third which was apparently not completed. The first words are: Legimus in ecclesiasticis historiis quod Sanctus Bonefacius qui quartus a beato Gregorio Romane urbis episcopatum tenebat, suis precibus a Foca Cesare imperatore impetraret donari ecclesie xpi, templum Rome quod ab antiguis Pantheon antea vocabatur . 26 Birxenneap (Sir John) Two Cenrurigs or Paut’s CHURCHYARD . . 8vo. MS. of 28 pp. said to be in the author’s own handwriting ; bds. (1649) “A cutting satire against the Republicans during Cromwell’s Protectorate.” It is in the form of a bookseller’s Catalogue giving a list of non-existent works with whimsical titles, these titles containin g the satire against the men of the time. A third part is the Bibliotheca Parliamenti which follows the other two and is more abusive. Birkenhead printed the Centuries in 1649, but here is his original MS. ee a a 8 0 Ly) on 210° 0 De et 50 0 O 30.0 0 3) 0 8](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30857958_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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