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The total number of books in this library is about 23,000. The chief interest centres round (1) the MSS.; (2) Bibles and theology; (3) Caxtons; (4) early printed and other editions of the classics; (5) early English and foreign publications; (6) rare books of history and travels. In the last four branches the Storer Collection is specially rich, and in some respects forms the most valuable portion of the library. I proceed to take the contents in the above order. 1. MSS. Of these there are upwards of one hundred, but many are of quite a late date, e.g., Cicero "De Officiis," Rome, 1497. The majority belong to the thirteenth century. Several of them are beautifully illuminated, and written in bold characters; most of them are in good preservation. To some an interest attaches owing to their having been given very soon after the foundation of the College; e. g., "Homilies on St. Matthew," given by Thomas Weston, elected a Fellow in 1447, having first belonged to W. Weye, both of them original Fellows, appointed by Henry VI.; and St. Augustine's Opuscula," the gift of Horman, Head Master 1484-95. To a Vulgate given by Matthias prophet and the first part of Baruch there is much in common. The Acts come last, with the exception of the general Epistles and the Revelation. This splendid volume, which was in Dr. Meyrick's library, judging from the illuminations, the costume, and the style in general, may be assigned to the last quarter of the fourteenth century. The cover retains some traces of the white polished leather in which it was originally bound. There are four complete folio Vulgates; one of them, in two volumes-a foreign MS.-is of the thirteenth century. Besides these there is a fifth in small 8vo., which contains the Second Book of Esdras, not found in Jerome's version. This book is certainly of rare occurrence, though perhaps rather less so than is generally supposed. It was contained in only thirteen out of 187 MSS. of the Latin Bible examined by Archbishop Lawrence, but out of a little more than one hundred examined by Mr. Bensly it has been found in twelve. The arrangement of the books of Esdras in the Eton MS. is as follows. There are six books: 1 Esdras means the canonical book of Ezra ; 2 Esdras means Nehemiah, as in the Vulgate ; 3 Esdras means the first two chapters of what we call 2 Esdras; 4 Esdras is our 1 Esdras; 5 Esdras is from the third chapter of our 2 Esdras to the end of chap. xiv.; and 6 Esdras is the remainder of our second book. In chap. vii. 28 (2 Esdras of our Apocrypha) the words "Filius meus Jesus" answer to "my Messiah" of the Ethiopic, and "my Son Messiah" of the Arabic version. The passage lately discovered by Mr. Bensly in the Latin MS. at Amiens is absent. This MS. was in Dr. Meyrick's collection. There is, further, an imperfect folio Vulgate, in which St. Paul's Epistles and the Epistle to the Hebrews come next after the Gospels; then follow the Acts as far as chap. iii. The initial letters and illuminations are remarkably fine. A MS. of the Gospels in Sclavonic was apparently brought from Italy, and also a "Compendium Vet. Test. et Historie," with coloured medallions. This is late twelfth or thirteenth century. I may here mention a very fine Psalter and 262 Offices, the gift of T. Horne, early thirteenth century; an illuminated Missal (this, too, belonged to Dr. Meyrick), assigned to the end of the reign of Henry VI.; and a Prayer Book of Queen Mary, on vellum, which afterwards belonged to Mary of Modena. There is also a small Greek MS. of collects for the greater festivals, probably of the fifteenth century, part of which is in a fragmentary state. This came from Mount Athos. book begins with Bowrŵv μèv, K.T.λ. This may explain the title of the whole of the second book Boría, the name of what was a separate division having been given to the book as it now stands. Herodotus, folio, with large margin, complete and beautifully clear, written in the Levant, probably in the fifteenth century: Xenophon, Anabasis and Cyropædia, also very clear: Aristotle, a Latin translation of the Ethics, To come to the Fathers, there are MSS. of all Politics, and Rhetoric, in Gothic characters: the principal works of St. Augustine. Among Strabo, probably of the fifteenth century, ten these the sermons may be assigned to the early books out of the seventeen; this is one of the twelfth century. Bound up with the "De Trini- few MSS. on paper, and not on vellum. There is tate" is "Tabula super Lyranum," an index or the usual break at the end of bk. vii. Aratus, a inventory (Nicholas de Lyra, born at Lyra, near fragment found in Sicily, with a translation of the Evreux, died 1340). This MS. (which is the Prognostica by Germanicus or Domitian, wrongly case with very few) is dated-1403. With the ascribed in the MS. to Cicero: Plautus, a very Opuscula," parts of Cassiodorus are bound up, clear MS. of eight plays in the following order :There is a and some opinions of Wycliffe with counter Amphitruo, Asinaria, Curculio, Captivi, Casina, opinions. Of Chrysostom there are no MSS. Cistellaria, Epidicus, Aulularia. The following may be all assigned to the memorandum in the beginning, in Latin, stating twelfth century: Ambrose, "Opuscula Varia," a that the book was bought at Padua in 1456. splendid MS. in Roman characters; Jerome on From the rustic characters and the style of illumiDaniel, and "Contra Jovinianum"; Gregory I. nation this MS. may be as old as the twelfth or "De Miraculis"; Anselm, "Cur Deus Homo," eleventh century. Cicero's Paradoxa, with curious with part of his "De Similitudinibus." There is illuminated figures on the zones and the signs of a curious set of MSS. presented in 1750 by H. the zodiac. Of Ovid there are two interesting Mauclerc, brought from Vitry by his grand- MSS.: (1) a beautiful French one of the end of was formerly at Winchester; father, including "Athanasii Synopsis," Anastasius the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth "De Fide," Nicephorus's letters to Leo III., "Syno- century: this dicon," &c. With a MS. of Orosius, given in 1722 | (2) a still older one, known as the "Codex Langoby Richardson, a former Fellow, there is bound up bardicus," pronounced to be of the eleventh a Latin version of the spurious letter of Alexander century, in Gothic characters, probably brought by to Aristotle. The following belong probably to the Sir Henry Wotton from Venice, as doubtless was thirteenth century: Gregory, "Magna Moralia" on the case with many of the Eton MSS. Both these Job, a commentary on the Psalms (early thirteenth), are fully described by Mr. Shuckburgh in his This is written in edition of the Heroides. With the latter is the The arrangement of the and Ambrose on Psalm cxix. a provincial character, and is, perhaps, Scotch or Achilleis of Statius. Irish. Of the medieval writers there are numerous poem in four books is peculiar. It most nearly MSS.; e.g., Paschasius Radbertus, "De Sacra- tallies with the division sometimes found into five mento"; Rabanus Maurus (Archbishop of May- books, the breaks being at i. 397, ii. 1, and ii. 286 ence, 847); Berengar; Archbishop Odo's sermons; of the ordinary division; but there is no break or Bernard; R. Grossteste; Peter Cantor, a Paris initial letter at i. 198. Pliny, Hist. Nat. excerpta, theologian (ob. 1197); Thomas Aquinas's " Summa late twelfth or early thirteenth century. There Theologiæ"; Holcot, a follower of William of Ock- remain to be noticed a Vitruvius; an Apuleius ham (ob. 1349); W. de Monte, Chancellor of Lincoln (Codex Bernardi Bembi: it is in a bad con(1330), Liber Numeralis," which does not seem dition, but has some figures beautifully drawn); to have ever been printed; Adelard, a Benedic- two Juvenals, with one of which is Persius (the tine monk of Bath in the reign of Henry I., who latter has in the first page the arms of the Bembo travelled in the East, and translated Euclid from family and some extremely fine initial letters); Arabic into Latin. This last MS. ("Quæstiones also a Latin commentary on Persius; Seneca's Naturales") is, in the opinion of Mr. Holmes, the tragedies, in Gothic character, and his philosophical Queen's Librarian, very probably Adelard's auto-works and epistles, not quite complete. This last graph MS. It is mentioned as being at Eton by Bp. Tanner in his Bibliotheca BritannicoHibernica. (b) MSS. of the Classics.-The following are noteworthy-Homer, the Iliad, as far as bk. v. 1. 84, fol., with the Scholia. There is a break at ii. 493, vás те прожάσαя, where a new is a fine MS., perhaps of the twelfth century. There is, further, an Italian translation of his 124 letters to Lucilius, prettily illustrated. This brings us to (c), the last class of MSS. to be described. Of these the chief is a very fine folio MS. of Dante (fifteenth century) with some peculiar readings, generally identical with those in the Venice edition, by Vindelin di Spira, 1477, of which the Library possesses an impression. There is also a MS. Italian commentary on Dante. I may mention, in conclusion, some Latin poems by Italians, e.g., the Parthenia of Battista Mantuano, in Gothic characters, and Marsi Pierii Bembica (both these are inscribed to Bernardo Bembo, father of the Cardinal); Boccaccio, De Claris Mulieribus, in Latin; the curious Anatomie of Spain, by Harye Bedwood, 1599, with pedigrees and coloured coats of arms; some decrees of the Popes, and the Legenda Aurea. The initials of the last are particularly beautiful. There is a short Life and Araignment and Death of Sir T. More, by William Hill, the gift of F. Goode in 1731. This is not among the eleven lives mentioned by Dibdin. One of the finest, perhaps, of these MSS. is the life of St. Francis, by Bartholomew of Pisa, dated 1385. In the initial letter St. Francis is represented receiving the stigmata. A very handsome set of folio volumes by Tirolli ought not to be passed over. The first volume is entitled Antiquitates, the last three De Nobilitate et Ortu Heroum. They contain a series of historical scenes and figures splendidly illuminated. They are German work of the time of Henry VIII., to whom the book is inscribed. It was presented to the library in 1750 by H. Temple, Viscount Palmerston. FRANCIS ST. JOHN THACKERAY. Eton College. (To be continued.) SHAKSPEARIANA. "THE TEMPEST," I. ii. 169.— "Pro. Now I arise, [-]" These words have strangely puzzled the commentators. Steevens made a ridiculous guess at their meaning, and Dyce (second edition), says, "I cannot dispel the obscurity which has always hung over these words." Staunton, as though it explained them more than the supposition, always indulged in, that they were addressed to Miranda, gives them as spoken to Ariel. I cannot see this, neither is there a word or incident which suggests that they are so spoken. Besides, I hold it impossible, according to Shakespeare's expressed conceptions on the matter and by his other words, that Prospero can see Ariel without donning his magic robe any more than Alonzo, &c., can. The true explanation, without the insertion of Staunton's stage direction, seems to me of the easiest. Before commencing his explanatory conversation with Miranda, her father has said to her :"Lend thy hand, And pluck my magic garment from me. So, That he sat down is shown by this action, for there was not the slightest reason for his taking off his magic robe unless he had intended to sit at ease as an ordinary mortal, and to set at ease, and behave as a loving father to, his dearest Miranda. There is in further proof this "Now I arise," and thirdly, there was the known preciseness of the age. Miranda was sitting, for when he says, "Now I arise," she, like a dutiful daughter of those days, wishes to rise too, a motion he combats by "Sit still." That she sat is also proved by his fore-formed intention of charming her to sleep, as he knew he should want to do, before he commenced his conversation. Fancy a daughter in Shakespeare's day sitting during a long converse with a father while that father stood! Again, no Shakespeare student ought to be unaware that at least in The Tempest, and after the words, "Lie there, my art"- -a magician could not be a magician without his magic robe and rod. Abjuring such rough magic, he says, "I'll break my staff and bury it fathoms in the earth." But as he only now made use of an interval of time that he had to spare, so after some talk he bethinks himself that time is passing and presseth, and partly to himself, partly to Miranda, says, "Now I arise [and re-don my robe-probably resuming his staff-and be about important business, for] My zenith doth depend upon 66 A most auspicious star, whose influence The whole difficulty has arisen from forgetting that Prospero had doffed his robe, and that to resume his role of magician he must resume that robe, and from not conceiving the stage action as it was intended to be represented by Shakespeare on the stage. BR. NICHOLSON. 66 "PATCH" AND "NAUGHTY-PACK,” “MER. OF VEN.," II. v. 46; "MACB.," V. iii. 15 (6th S. ii. 304).-J. D. surmises that pack is from patch, but does not prove it by quotations. There is no necessity at all why one should be derived from the other. Pack really appears to be the older word, according to the following passages :— "So many newes and knackes, Dyce's Skelton (about 1500), vol. i. p. 150. "Phryne a naughtie packe, or a woman of light conversation."-Apoph. of Erasmus, 1542; reprint, 1877, 152. See also p. 156. P. |