THEOLOGY.

AUGUSTINUS (Sts.) DE CIV.  DEI. Printed in the Soubiaco Monastery, 1467.  Folio.  A fine large copy; but not equal to that in the Royal Library at Paris or in Lord Spencer’s collection.  I should think, however, that this may rank as the third copy for size and condition.

——­ Printed by Jenson.

1475.  Folio.  A very beautiful book, printed upon white and delicate VELLUM.  Many of the leaves have, however, a bad colour.  I suspect this copy has been a good deal cropt in the binding.

AUGUSTINI S. EPISTOLAE.  LIBRI XIII.  CONFESSIONUM. 1475.  Quarto.  This volume is printed in long lines, in a very slender roman type, which I do not just now happen to remember to have seen before; and which almost resembles the delicacy of the types of the first Horace, and the Florus and Lucan—­so often noticed:  except that the letters are a little too round in form.  The present is a clean, sound copy; unbound.

BIBLIA LATINA.  This is the Mazarine Edition; supposed to be the first Bible ever printed.  The present is far from being a fine copy; but valuable, from possessing the four leaves of a Rubric which I was taught to believe were peculiar to the copy at Munich.[117]

BIBLIA LATINA; Printed by Pfister, folio, 3 volumes.  I was told that the copy here was upon vellum; but inaccurately.  The present was supplied by the late Mr. Edwards; but is not free from stain and writing.  Yet, although nothing comparable with the copy in the Royal Library at Paris, or with that in St. James’s Place, it is nevertheless a very desirable acquisition—­and is quite perfect.

——­ Printed by Fust and Schoeffher. 1462.

Folio. 2 vols.  UPON VELLUM.  This was Colbert’s copy, and is large, sound, and desirable.

——­ Printed by Mentelin. Without Date.  Perhaps the rarest of all Latin Bibles; of which, however, there is a copy in the royal library at Paris, and in the public libraries of Strasbourg and Munich.  I should conjecture its date to be somewhere about 1466.[118] The present is a clean and sound, but much cropt copy.

——­ Printed by Sweynhyem and Pannartz. Folio. 1471-2, 2 vols.  A remarkably fine large copy, almost uncut:  in modern russia binding.  This must form a portion of the impression by the same printers, with the Commentary of De Lyra, in five folio volumes.

BIBLIA LATINA; Printed by Hailbrun. 1476.  Folio.  Here are two copies; of which one is UPON VELLUM, and the other upon paper:  both beautiful—­but the vellum copy is, I think, in every respect, as lovely a book as Lord Spencer’s similar copy.  It measures eleven inches one sixteenth by seven one eighth.  It has, however, been bound in wretched taste, some fifty years ago, and is a good deal cropt in the binding.  The paper copy, in 2 vols. is considerably larger.