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Paleontology.- Mendes da Costa (Emanuel) A Natural History of Fossils, Vol. 1. Part 1 [all published], first edition, first issue with " Vol. 1. Part 1" to title, single engraved plate as frontispiece, list of subscribers, title with manuscript ink presentation inscription to head and ink library stamp "Geological Society. Burlington House" to foot, label laid down to front pastedown, title and frontispiece with tiny marginal chip and silked repair, spotting to title and initial leaves, occasional thereafter, p.55 closed tear and paper repair, nineteenth century half calf, rebacked preserving original spine, 4to, for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757.

NO RESERVE Wales.- Mary I (Queen of England and Ireland, 1516-58).- Grand Sessions of Wales held in Radnor. Exemplification of Recovery between John James and John ?Smilie of a messuage and cattle in Presteigne, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in chancery hand, wax Privy Seal appended, folds, slightly marked, 450 xmm., 23rd July 1554.

RAF.- Hamilton (Alan King-, judge, censor with the Ministry of Information and by 1945 had achieved the rank of squadron leader in Royal Air Force Intelligence, 1904-2010) Log Books, 5 vol., autograph manuscript, numerous pp., numerous typescript insertions, a few ff. loose, 1f. torn with loss, browned throughout, 3 vol. original wrappers, worn and repaired, 2 vol. disbound, 1 vol. with defective upper wrapper only, folio, 1941-45.⁂ Reports of offensive action over occupied Europe and enemy action over Britain.

India to England.- Campbell (Lt. Col., of the Bombay Establishment) Journal, autograph manuscript, 43pp. only, incomplete, initial p. on different paper, torn with loss, browned, loose in later floral boards, folio, 22nd April - 4th September 1830.⁂ An incomplete but interesting account of the first overland journey by steam vessel from Bombay to Suez . On 22 April Campbell arrives at Suez, "It is worth coming overland for the sake of seeing the Sea of Suez... should be of use to the Government in promoting the trip by steam". In Alexandria he is introduced to "Mahomed Ally Pacha" and tours his magnificent palaces, noting that many of his officers are French. He meets Wolff, the missionary and author of Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, and his wife, Lady Georgina Walpole, "neither of them are particularly handsome." While awaiting a ship to Malta he dines with the British Consul, a Mr Barker, who "is in favour of the route for the Steam Navigation from India by the Persian Gulf & up the Euphrates to near Aleppo." He arrives in Malta but has to quarantine for 22 days and then moves to Syracuse where he is thrown from a mule, and is surprised "I was not killed on the spot." - Campbell.

Surgery.- Vigo (Giovanni da) The most excelent worckes of Chirurgery...traunslated into Englishe. Whereunto is added an exposition of straunge termes and unknowen symples, belongyng unto the arte, second edition in English, black letter, text in two columns, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials, [par.]3-6, 2F4 and final 16 leaves (including final blank) supplied from another, shorter copy, skilful restoration to title, including small loss to border at upper corner restored in manuscript, a few marginal repairs, just touching text to G3, a few tears into text neatly repaired (repair obscuring some text to U5), Y3-4 & 2C5 repaired with loss to a few letters, the odd small stain, obscuring a couple of letters to I1, occasional contemporary ink marginalia, water-staining, some light browning, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, neatly rebacked and recornered, preserving original spine, brass catches (lacking clasps), rubbing to spine ends and joints, endpapers renewed but with most of original pastedown with contemporary ink inscription preserved, [STC 24721; cf. G&M 5559.1], Edwarde Whytchurch, 1550.⁂ Vigo's surgical compilation, first published in 1514. "The first complete system of surgery after that of Guy de Chauliac. It contains an account of gunshot wounds and a section on syphilis" (G&M).The English translation by Bartholomew Traheron first appeared in 1543.

Irish Rebellion of 1798.- Letter distributed as propaganda giving an account of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, beginning "Having now a little peace and quietness, I sit down to inform you of the dreadful bustle and confusion we are in from these bloodthirsty rebels, most of whom are, thank God, killed and dispersed". manuscript, 2½pp., laid down in an album with other ephemera, including: a rare broadside printing of William Cowper's "Johnny Gilpin of Cheapside going farther than he intended"; a Ripon printed "Weather Table" (untraced): a printed form for Royal Hospital for Seamen, loosely inserted; a small manuscript broadside concerning the "sun's rising and setting to every inclination"; a defective copy of the very rare Halifax printed "Geography in Miniature"; a broadside Heroic Epistle from Major B-r-n to Captain S-th wtc.,, newspaper cuttings etc., some ff. loose, folds, browned, original half calf, worn, printed label "Varieties" on upper cover, upper cover detached, spine worn and creased, ephemera v.s., album 4to, v.d., 1798- [early 1800s].

[Wilcox (Thomas)] A very godly and learned exposition, upon the whole Booke of Psalmes, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut head-pieces and initials throughout, ink numeration to rectos in early manuscript hand, and ink notes and markings to endpapers in various hands, title with small tears and chips at edges affecting border with small losses, lacking Z2 and Z7, B8 small tear blank inner margin, minor creasing and or very small chips or worming to corners and edges, browning, some gatherings working loose, gutter splitting, hinges broken, contemporary limp vellum, heavily toned, [STC 25626], 4to, by Thomas Orwin for Thomas Man, 1591.⁂ This edition rare at auction. An enlarged edition of, A right godly and learned exposition, upon the whole Booke of Psalmes (1586; STC 25625)

Bentham (Jeremy, philosopher, jurist, and reformer, 1748-1832) [Juvenilia item], including: Bentham's name, doodles, some ink cartoons, pencil sketches, "Arbor Porphriana". "Coll. Reg." for Queen's College, Oxford (where Bentham was enrolled from the age of 12), autograph manuscript, in ink and pencil, 6pp. (2pp. full page (manuscript and pencil drawing), the rest with few entries, pencil drawing laid down, 1f. half torn away, browned, new endpapers, modern calf-backed boards, calf label on upper cover, Coll. Reg., 16th February 1761; and another, described in a TLs from The Library of University College, London 1962, as "the interesting Jeremy Bentham fly-leaf", 8vo (2 pieces).⁂ Bentham went to Queen's College, Oxford, in 1760 at the age of twelve (he was thirteen when he wrote the above). "He was unhappy... . Not only was he much younger than the other pupils, he was also small in stature, and physically weak." - Oxford DNB.

Political (A) and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757. In a Series of Seventy-five Humorous and Entertaining Prints, 75 engraved plates, bookplate, first few plates with figures numbered in ink manuscript, light browning, the odd spot or light stain, hinges repaired, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco label to spine, covers rubbed, small 4to, for E. Morris, [c.1758].

Netherlands.- [Volume of essays on the history, religion and life in the Netherlands], manuscript in Latin, Dutch and French, c. 464pp., pen and ink drawings and watercolours, slightly browned, original mottled calf, slightly rubbed, corners bumped, joints split, gilt panelled spine, red morocco label, gilt, torn with small loss, sm. 8vo, [Netherlands], [18th century].

Greece.- Gironci (G.) L'Isola di Corfu Con il Littorale della Terraferma, manuscript map of Corfu, watercolours and inks, decorative cartouche in the upper right, dated and signed 'G. Gironci', on two sheets conjoined, 420 x 770 mm (16 1/2 x 30 1/4 in), under glass, old folds, some tears and small restored losses, minor browning and surface dirt, framed, 1817⁂ Detailed manuscript map, presumably by a cartographer from the family of mapmakers including the 18th century Venetian, Pietro Gironci. Highly decorative map produced four years prior to the Greek Revolution of 1821.

Parliament.- [Journal of the House of Commons, May - Nov 1685]. Parliamentum inchoat et tent apud Civtatem Westmonaster die Martis 19 Maij anno regni Domini nostri Jacobi Secundi Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae et Hiberniae Regis Fidei defensoris & primo annoq, Dominii 1685, manuscript, 447pp., ruled in red, margins very slightly browned, 20th century ink inscription: "Clive Coates of Helperby" on front free endpaper, small modern bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, corners repaired, gilt panelled spine with red morocco label, folio, 1685.

Scottish scholar.- Bonar (James, solicitor of excise, Greek scholar and writer, eighth son of the ten children of John Bonar (1721-61), minister of Cockpen and Perth, 1757-1821) Memoirs of James Bonar, manuscript, 574pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red throughout, inner hinges strengthened, later brown buckram, lower cover slightly rubbed, gilt spine, 4to, watermarked J Annandale & Sons 1828.⁂ Compiled by his son from his letters and journals, this memoir of James Bonar includes a voyage on the Royal George Yacht to Hamburg, and to Berlin (meets Lord Elgin), an account of Deacon Brodie's failed burglary of the excise office, and literary interests: "The Edinburgh Review... I hear that three thousand copies are sold... it still shews the same ability, but also its usual petulance"; academic interests: "My studies have been confined the composing of an Essay on the Greek prepositions... [it] has amused me very agreeably." His son comments on this work: "... he composed the Essay on the origin and radical sense of the Greek prepositions... . In it he endeavours to trace those particles to their radical meanings and thereby simplify their application... . In it he sometimes adopts the opinion of his predecessors, but more frequently he offers a new Theory of his own." "Bonar contributed the article 'Posts' in Encyclopaedia Britannica (1794) and the entries, among others, 'Alphabet characters', 'Etymology', 'Excise', and 'Hieroglyphics', for the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1808-18). He wrote Disquisition on the Origin and Radical Sense of the Greek Prepositions (1804), edited a new edition of Ewing's Greek Grammar, and published an English edition of Hans Holbein's The Dance of Death in 1788. A regular contributor to the Edinburgh Magazine, Missionary Magazine, and Scottish Register in the period 1790-95, Bonar also wrote the memoir of his brother Archibald Bonar (1753-1816), which is prefixed to the second volume of the latter's Sermons, Chiefly on Devotional Subjects (1815-17)." - Oxford DNB.

England & Wales.- Greenough (George Bellas) [A Physical and Geological Map of England and Wales By G.B. Greenough Esq. F.R.S.], an unfinished working proof, outline base map of England and Wales, an early unpublished state, with numerous manuscript ink annotations and inscriptions, presumably by Greenough himself, with his name and address inscribed to the lower centre of the south east sheet, 'G.B. Greenough/ 2 Parliament Street/ Westminster/ An Unfinished Proof', engraving, in four sections, each sheet approx. 950 x 800 mm (37 1/2 x 31 1/2 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some worm holes, surface dirt and signs of use, folding into marbled slip-case, 8vo, worn, [circa 1816-1819]⁂ Unique early working proof of Greenough's geological masterpiece, the personal copy of Greenough himself, and likely annotated in his hand. Notable differences in the engraved lines and topographical information from the published copy in 1819 are apparent, as well as manuscript annotations, additions, and corrections. Samuel Neele agreed to engrave the map starting in June 1815, however he would not finish until April 1819, with Greenough obsessing over the details.The Geological Society of London have variant impressions of the second/third state, and with the present map having slightly more topographical information it is likely to be the third if not an additional later state prior to the published version.

Scottish Publisher.- Oliver and Boyd (Scottish publishing and printing firm, described as a "stalwart in Scottish publishing", of Edinburgh, 1807/8-1990) Archive of letters addressed to Oliver and Boyd and with related ephemera, including: two letters concerning a volume on discoveries of Magellen to Cook in the Pacific; estimate by James Bruce for engraving maps of American townships; three letters from Scottish engineer philosopher and inventor, James Nasmyth; two letters from Scottish author William Spalding; letter from science writer Thomas Dick, from antiquarian Thomas Wright and from the publisher W.R. McPhun; and c. 95 other letters and some related manuscript and printed ephemera, folds, some creasing, v.s., v.d., mostly 1830s (c. 95).

Staffordshire, Willenhall.- Power of attorney by William Harpur of Rushall, John Harpur and William Fourkes to Richard Kempson of Bilston and John Underhill of Northycot for possession of lands in Willenhall, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 11 lines, small hole not affecting text, folds, slightly creased, small remains of red wax seal, 115 x 242mm., June 1497 § Fox (Nicholas, Under Sheriff of Staffordshire) Receipt to Henry Gough for ten shillings "for a licence of concord wth Sr John Leveson... of a plea of covenant of two messuages... xx acres... in Wolverhampton...", D.s. "Nicho: ffoxe", manuscript in English, on paper, 9 lines, 20th September 1615; and 3 other documents, v.s. ,v.d. (5).

Kelmscott Press.- Cavendish (George) The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York, one of 250 copies on Flower paper, printed in Golden type, wood-engraved border and initials designed by William Morris, some light spotting, faint pencil inscription "Given to S.Shrubsole by Sir Whittaker Ellis 18 " to front free endpaper and bookplate of S.A.G.Shrubsole of Surbiton Hall, ex-library copy with ink manuscript accession number to title and perforated stamp to foot of title and colophon, original limp vellum with silk ties, yapp edges, spine titled in gilt, uncut, a little rubbed, spine slightly yellowed, lacking ties, [Peterson A14], 8vo, Kelmscott Press, 1893.⁂ Sir John Whittaker Ellis, Bart. (1829-1912), banking executive, auctioneer, estate agent, Lord Mayor of London, and MP, who established a fire-station at Byfleet, Surrey.

Ireland.- Anderson (Sir Samuel Lee, lawyer and secret-service administrator, 1837-86) Diary, autograph manuscript, c. 180pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, slightly browned, original half calf, rubbed, upper joint splitting, folio, 1850-73.⁂ Brief entries relating to Anderson's personal and public life in Ireland, England and Scotland. "Between 1865 and 1884... [Anderson's] chief role was in obtaining and organising information on Fenian activities, and coordinating action at Dublin Castle against Fenianism and political crime, in partnership with his brother Robert, whose career lay from 1867 in London. Their well known position in this field led to Anderson's becoming in 1882 one of the intended targets for assassination by the Irish National Invincibles." - Dictionary of Irish Biography.

Smith (Percy John Delf, British artist-soldier, printmaker, calligrapher and book designer, 1882-1948) Collection of 19 original preliminary drawings for "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", including five pen and ink with wash, 13 black chalk and pencil, and one etching re-worked with black chalk and pencil, on various papers, some inscriptions and dates, two presented in card slips with 'Return to/ Percy Smith/ 27 Rudell Crescent/ NW3' inscribed to upper covers, various sizes between approx. 100 x 145 mm (4 x 5 3/4 in) and 190 x 250 mm (7 1/2 x 9 7/8 in), occasional minor handling creases and old folds, some surface dirt, slightly rough edges to some, a few laid onto support, all unframed, circa 1914-1918; together with Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918, including 11 drypoint etchings only (of 12), lacking no. "V", 'The Long and Winding Way', all inscribed and signed in pencil, each platemark approx. 150 x 200 mm (5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in), or the reverse, each taped into contemporary mount, some staining to margins, presented in original portfolio case with artist's manuscript label to upper cover and two copies of William Rothenstein's "Note", inscribed in pencil 'Set No. 6', folio, Colnaghi & Co., 1925Provenance: Private collection (bought in the late 1990s)⁂ An important archival collection of working drawings and studies for Smith's "Twelve Drypoints of the War". Including an almost complete set of the drypoints in original portfolio, one of only 12 sets that were printed, of which only 10 were for sale."Percy Delf Smith arrived on the Western Front in late 1916 where he was posted to the Somme with the Royal Marines as a gunner. Shortly after his arrival he began sketching without authorisation. This activity was quickly noticed. Nevertheless, Captain High Boffey, who was Smith's superior, allowed him to continue. Smith however, seemingly unsatisfied with only producing rough sketches, changed his tactics in early 1917. [His parents sent him a] parcel [...] made up of the usual, letters and magazines from home. But within the magazine pages, [they] had managed to smuggle copper etching plates to their son. And so Smith began what he referred to as his 'Thiepval etchings'." Incredibly, it is believed that Smith used steel gramophone needles, a common feature in the trenches, to mark his plates. [Imperial War Museum, "Percy Delf Smith: Making Art as a Soldier on the Western Front"]"Few men living handle the needle to such purpose, and with so sincere an object, as the author of the plates here published" [William Rothenstein, "Note" to Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918, 1925]

Hot Gospeller.- Underhill (Edward, courtier and religious radical, b. 1512, d. in or after 1576) & Throckmorton (Sir John, lawyer and member of parliament during the reign of Queen Mary I; a witness to Queen Mary's will, 1524-80) Grant by Edward Underhill & John Throckmorton of land and property in Wolverhampton to William Underhill for the sum of twenty pounds, D.s. "by me Edward Underhyll", manuscript in Tudor English, on vellum, 17 lines, wax seal with initials "EU", damaged with some loss but initials preserved, three signatures on verso, folds, slightly creased, 147 x 296mm., 4th February 1561.⁂ Edwarde Underhill of Badgeynton [Baginton] yn the Countye of Warr... Whereas one John Throckmorton... Esquyre... by ther... awarde indenture beryng date the fourtenth daye of January laste paste have awardyd that in Consyderaton of c[er]teyn assurancez to be made by me the foreseyde Edwarde... lande ten[emen]te & heredytament sett lyeng & beyng yn Wardende Wolvuhampton Hethe Pothole& Wyllenhalle in the countye of Staff unto one William Underhill of the Inner Temple of London... by me Edward Underhyll."(1). Edward Underhill, the grantor, his uncle William Underhill was a former clerk of the House of Commons; appointed a gentleman pensioner to Henry VIII; in 1543 served as a gentleman-at-arms at the siege of Landrecy in Hainault under Sir Richard Cromwell; acquired a reputation for profligate spending habits; displayed an evangelical fervency that earned him a reputation as a 'hot gospeller'; 1549-50 participated in the defence of Boulogne; earned the praise of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland; Lady Jane Grey, as queen of England, stood as godmother to one of his daughters; in Queen Mary's reign published an anti-Catholic ballad, an underwent arrest and interrogation before the privy council; he was punished only by a month in Newgate and released through the efforts of his kinsman John Throckmorton; recovered his place as a gentleman-at-arms, lost in the previous autumn, by defending Queen Mary during Wyatt's rebellion; little evidence supports the conjecture that William Shakespeare composed a verse epitaph for his son Anthony in 1587.(2). William Underhill (1524-70), the grantee, admitted to the Inner Temple in 1551 and qualifed as a lawyer; in 1568 he purchased the manor of Idlicote inWarwickshire near Ettington; his second wife was the sister of Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor of England; William's son, William (1555-97), who sold the house in Stratford-on-Avon called 'New Place to William Shakespeare on 4 May 1597.

Scottish Peerage.- The Annandale Peerage.- Archive covering the claims of various members of the Johnstone family to the earldom of Annandale, including: manuscript "Historical Tree of the Ancient and Most Noble Family of Johnstone", 1851; letters, notebooks, documents, genealogical notes, printed House of Lords Proceedings, also numerous letters and documents from various members of the Soutar family attempting, unsuccessfully to establish their right to the title, v.s., v.d., [19th century] (1 box).⁂ The Annandale Peerage involved the revived earldom of Annandale and Hartfell, a title which had lain dormant since 1792. It began with the death of the 3rd Marquess of Annandale, who also held the title of 4th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell (both created in the peerage of Scotland). The dispute over who was the legal successor of his earldom spanned 193 years, until it was finally resolved by the House of Lords in 1985 in favour of Patrick Hope-Johnstone.

Hebraica.- Temurah, ["gift" or "offering,"] from Exodus 25, 9 fragments, manuscript in Hebrew, on paper, in black ink, larger fragments with 8 or 10 lines, extensively worn with some loss of legibility, a few tears, browned, some staining, smallest fragment c. 40 x 110 mm, largest fragments c. 105 x 160 mm, [Middle East], [10th century].⁂ An interesting collection of early fragments from the Pentateuch.

Malta [Melite].- Archive of legal papers, including contracts, property, inheritance etc., with many references to many notable Maltese families (Caxaro and Saliba etc.) and relating to notable places in Malta, including Valletta and Senglea, 8 manuscript documents, in Latin, on paper, together 39pp., in different hands, folds, some with wormholes, unbound, folio, 1560-1746.

Calendar, probably from a monumental Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, 6 leaves (a single gathering), single column, 33 lines in an angular Italian late gothic bookhand, some letters touched in red, important entries in red, 'KL' initials in alternate blue or red with contrasting penwork, some seventeenth- or eighteenth-century additions, tear to base of last leaf with loss of small area of lower border, some slight cockling and light soiling, else good condition, printed Calendar leaves used as pastedowns, 19th century vellum-backed marbled boards, small folio (335 x 225 mm.), [Italy (probably Perugia), second half of the fourteenth century].⁂ Most probably written and illuminated for a church or monastic community in Perugia (with St. Herculanus, bishop of Perugia, 1 March in Calendar).

A 19th C. MALAYSIAN MANUSCRIPT FLANKED BY PAINTINGS OF WORSHIPPING FIGURES KNEELING ON PLINTHS AMONGST FLOWERS. 19.5 x 49.5cms.

[Silhon, Jean de.] [The State Minister], Manuscript Copy, c. 1690, [9], 220 pages, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of Joan of Arc and 6 other engraved portrait plates, written in a neat italic hand, without a title-page, light spotting and dust-soiling, the last 5 leaves with small neat marginal repairs, only with small loss to a few words of final leaf recto, uncut, pencil notes including binding details and a gift inscription to front endpaper, armorial bookplate of Charles Walmesley of Westwood to first endpaper and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, 20th-century brown half morocco gilt over marbled boards by Elizabeth Greenhill, small 4to (195 x 150 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Charles Walmesley, Westwood (bookplate); ‘Captain Samuel Lucas, York & Lanc. Regiment to A. J. Ellison of the same, 1925’ (pencil inscription); Sotheby’s, 20 June 1932, lot 213 (disbound); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). Jean de Silhon (1596-1667) was secretary to Richelieu and to Mazarin, and was a member of the French Academy. Entirely devoted to Richelieu, The Minister of State argues (on behalf of Richelieu) in favour of raison d’etat. First published in French in 1631 this English translation is not the same as that of Henry Head’s translation published by Thomas Dring in London in 1658. This manuscript has no title-page or dedication; the unpaginated prelminary leaves comprise the author’s advertisement to the reader and a table.

Speed (John). The Historie of Great Britaine under the conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, habits, warres, coines, and seales: with the successions, lives, acts, and issues of the English monarchs, from Julius Caesar, to our most gracious soueraigne King James. The second edition revised, and enlarged with sundry descents of the Saxons kings, their marriages and armes, London: Printed by John Beale for George Humble, 1623, additional engraved portrait frontispiece (lined to verso), lacking initial blank, title with old creases pressed out and small repair to margin of upper and lower outer corners, numerous woodcuts including head and tailpieces, erratic pagination, small rust holes to a few leaves, final leaf repaired at head of foremargin, a few leaves with short worm trail to inner column of letterpress notes, some light toning, late 19th-century manuscript notes tipped onto front free endpapers, burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, late 19th-century red morocco gilt, gilt-decorated spine and border decoration, spine faded and extremities slightly rubbed, folio (33.3 x 21 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).STC 23046.3.

Snelgrave (William). A New Account of Guinea, and the Slave-Trade, containing I. The History of the late Conquest of the Kingdom of Whidaw by the King of Dahome. The Author's Journey to the Conqueror's Camp; where he saw several captives sacrificed, etc. II. The Manner how the Negroes became Slaves. The Numbers of them yearly exported from Guinea to America. The Lawfulness of that Trade. The Mutinies among them on board the Ships where the Author has been, etc. III. A Relation of the Author's being taken by Pirates, and the many Dangers he underwent, London: printed for J. Wren, 1754, folding engraved map of the coast of Guinea (some offsetting to title), some toning to endpapers, Mission House Library label and manuscript shelf number to map verso, contemporary calf, modern calf reback with morocco label, corners repaired, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC T136168. A re-issue of the 1734 first edition with a cancel title. Snelgrave was an active slave-trader from 1704 to 1734; his book justifies and defends the trade and contains an account of his capture by pirates in 1719.

[Wilcocke, Samuel Hull]. A Narrative of Occurences in the Indian Countries of North America, since the connexion of the Right Hon. The Earl of Selkirk with the Hudson's Bay Company, and his attempt to establish a colony on the Red River: With a detailed account of His Lordship's military expedition to, and subsequent proceedings at Fort William, in Upper Canada, 1st edition, London: printed by B. McMillan, 1817, title with small, tear and repair, marginal tear and loss to first leaf of Preface, previous owner signature of John Elder to title, manuscript shelf number to title verso, bookplate of Andrew Carnegie, later tan half morocco gilt, 8vo, together with [Gleig, George Robert]. A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans, under Generals Ross, Pakenham, and Lambert, in the Years 1814 and 1815; with some account of the countries visited, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1821, errata leaf at end, small ownership ink stamp of Hubert Yound, bookplate of Arthur's Club, St. James's, contemporary half calf, upper joint splitting, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance for first work: Andrew Carnegie (1835-1907, Scottish-American philanthropist and industrialist), bookplate; John Elder (possibly John Elder 1824-1869, Scottish marine engineer), his signature to title; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Sabin 20699 (with Douglas ascribed as the author).Sometimes attributed to Simon McGillivary and Edward Ellice the elder, though this work was probably prepared by Samuel Hull Wilcocke, a writer employed by the North-West Company. The culmination of a long trade and land dispute between the Hudson Bay Company and the North West Company, following on from Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk's attempt to establish a colony in the Red River Valley. The result was the Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816, and following Selkirk's seizure of the North West Company's trading post at Fort William and his subsequent legal failure to defend the occupation, the two companies were eventually merged in 1821.

Morant (Philip). The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, 2 volumes, (incorporating the second edition of The History and Antiquities of the most ancient Town and Borough of Colchester), London: T. Osborne et al., 1768, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED AND EXTENDED TO 5 VOLUMES, plus a Manuscript Index, 1908, the contents mounted on large paper, the whole being lavishly extended with hundreds of extra illustrations of varying sizes, containing approximately 36 maps, some coloured, including examples by or after Christopher Saxton, Johannes Blaeu, Jan Jannson, John Chapman and Peter Andre, Philip Lea, Thomas Dix, Ordnance Survey, Richard Blome and Robert Morden, plus approximately 20 watercolours and drawings and 750 prints including portraits and views, coloured aquatints by Havell and Merigot, other coloured plates by Alken and Daniell, mezzotints by J. Smith, C. Turner, J. Faber and McArdell, lithographs, stipple etchings, line engravings, india proofs, woodcuts, facsimiles, etc., the five text volumes with additional printed title-pages for this unique copy dated 1908, the manuscript Index volume comprising 24 leaves (plus 18 blank), completed alphabetically in a very neat hand on rectos only, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to all front pastedowns, early 20th-century red crushed levant full morocco gilt by Morrell, inner dentelles gilt, wide and richly roll-tooled panels in gold and blind, gilt-decorated spines with raised bands, Index volume bound in red crushed levant half morocco gilt to match, all with some slight rubbing and a few scuff marks, some darkening from old scorch marks to lowest raised bands and foot of spines and board edges, a little wear and some strengthening to tailcaps, folio (560 x 385 mm)QTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).A truly sumptuous and very handsome imperial folio set of this major county history. The contents are largely in very clean and good condition and the whole has been assembled with fastidious care. Sadly, there is no evidence as to who it was done by or who owned it before William Foyle.The maps include those by Christopher Saxton, Johannes Blaeu, Jan Jannson, Emanuel Bowen (7), John Norden and W. Kip, C & J Greenwood, Philip Lea, John Rocque, Henry Overton, Robert Morden, Richard Blome, Thomas Kitchin, John Cary, James Pigot, J. Roper and Thomas Dix, plus a large-scale 25-sheet map by John Chapman & Peter Andre (220 x 285 cm), and a 4-sheet county map by Colonel Mudge (OS maps), and a large-scale county map by C. & J. Greenwood.There are watercolour views of Woodford by W. H. Bartlett, 1832, (330 x 495 mm); St Botolph's Priory by G. F. Phillips, 1807; Mr Trott's Farm near Romford by J. C. Nattes; Great Canfield by A. Barfield, 1844; large sepia wash drawing of Nether Hall [by Laporte]; large plan of Colchester Barracks by J. Parkyns, 1806; unsigned views of Waltham Abbey, Tilty Abbey, Thaxted (pencil), Southend (2), South Bemfleet (sepia), House of Mrs Masson at Hornchurch; plus portraits of Lady Anne Lucas by T. Athow, Thomas Littleton and Sir Thomas Hervey (fine copy).Among the numerous portraits are approximately 14 mezzotints of Oliver Cromwell (trimmed to oval), George Capel, Earl of Essex, James I, Duke of Albemarle, Admiral Sir George Pocock, Samuel Bosanquet (relined; not in Index), Bishop Compton, Lady Fairfax (small), John Knight and family, Thomas Wood, Edward Bright, Henry Vane, John Morley and Thomas Lane.

Bible, Dominican Use, in Latin. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France: probably Paris, c. 1240], iii + III (original vellum) + 496 + II (original vellum) + iii leaves, ruled for two columns of 50 lines (c. 110 × 70 mm), written below top line in minute gothic script (with nearly 5 lines per centimetre); ILLUMINATED WITH A FOLIATE INITIAL TO EACH BOOK, and to the seven usual divisions of the Psalms, OFTEN INCORPORATING A DRAGON, BIRD, LION, OR OTHER ANIMAL, with similar smaller initials to each prologue, about 150 in all, chapter initials with extensive pen-work, marginal chapter numbers in alternate blue and red characters often similarly adorned, running titles also in red and blue; the corrosive green pigment used for the bounding lines of the Genesis initial caused natural corrosion, repaired on the reverse of the leaf; sporadic minor blemishes, very rarely affecting text or decoration, a few areas of blank margin excised, marbled endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, 19th-century burgundy velvet, the front cover with gilt metal ornaments with an inset rectangular modern colour illustration of an ivory Madonna and Child plaque, upper joint cracked, lacking clasps, 8vo (160 × 119 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance:1: Probably made for a Dominican Friar in Paris: the table of readings includes Dominic’s feast (f. 2r, last line of 2nd column), and the calendar includes both his main feast (5 August) and the translation of his relics, which took place in 1233 (24 May), highly graded; his main feast also has an octave (12 August)2: ? Enrico Mylius (1769–1854): from the ‘Museo Mylius’, according to an inserted note dated at Genoa, 16 May 1880, and signed by:3: Tereza Serafino, Antiquario4. Sotheby’s, 3 June 1946, lot 187, with a clipping from the catalogue loosely inserted; doubtless bought by:5. W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Apparently complete, the collation is difficult to ascertain due to tightness of the binding, but based on visible sewing threads, vestiges of leaf signatures, and some quires marked ‘cor’ on their final verso to record that the text has been corrected, it appears that the first quire is of four leaves, the next two of 24 each, and most of the others of 26 leaves.Added note in 15th-century Humanistic script beginning ‘Maior est scripture huius auctoritas quam omni humani generis capacitas …’ (f. I verso); added 15th-century extracts from Gregory’s Moralia in Job (f. III verso); table of Epistle and Gospel readings for the year (f. 1r); Calendar, with Dominican feasts (f. 3v); General prologue (f. 5r), prologue to the Pentateuch (f. 7v), and Genesis (f. 8r), followed by all the usual books and prologues of the Old and New Testaments; the Apocalypse followed without break by the Interpretations of Hebrew Names, in the usual version from ‘Aaz’ to ‘Zuzim’; added notes (final medieval flyleaves) include a quotation from Hilary De trinitate, and a list of the Books of the Bible with their Hebrew names and the number of chapters in each (first back flyleaf).This is a fine example of a typical ‘Paris’ Bible, arguably the greatest revolution in both biblical scholarship and book production of the 13th century. Through the development of extremely thin vellum and extremely small script, it became possible for the first time, in the early decades of the 13th century, to produce a complete Bible in a single easily portable volume. This development came soon after the standardisation of the ‘Paris’ edition of the text, which combined the recently-introduced chapter numbers with a canonical selection of biblical books and prologues; the incorporation, as standard, of such ancillary textual features as the Interpretations of Hebrew Names; and the abandonment of others, such as capitula lists and canon tables, which are frequently found in 12th-century Bibles. The production of large numbers of these Bibles was probably in response both to the needs of students at the burgeoning university of Paris, and also of the mendicant (itinerant) friars, for whom portability was essential; when such Bibles include calendars (or other liturgical material) it is usually Franciscan or Dominican.The present Bible must date from after the 1233 feast of St Dominic, which is included in the calendar, but probably not much later: one of the developments in page layout that took place in the 1240s was that the chapter numbers were relocated within the main columns of text, rather than placed in the margins (as in the present example).

[De Lolme, Jean-Louis]. The History of the Flagellants, or the Advantages of Discipline; Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbe Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Canon of the Holy Chapel, &c. By somebody who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne, 1st edition in English, London: printed for Fielding and Walker, 1777, half-title, title with engraved vignette, 4 engraved plates, 3 engraved head-and- tail pieces, repair at gutter of p. 331, some offsetting and light spotting, contemporary ownership inscription at head of title, manuscript shelf number to front pastedown, later speckled calf, green morocco label to spine, decorated in gilt, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Brunet I 22386; ESTC T143818; Lowndes II p. 625.Originally first published in 1700 in Paris by Jacques Boileau, a Doctor of Theology at the Sorbonne, and his controversial treatise was condemned by the Jesuits as heretical. De Lolme's translation includes his own commentary and attempts to allow readers to regard the work in a moral and philosophical light.

Baskerville Press. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches, 1st edition, 2nd impression, Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, 1760, title within border and at foot with letterpress stating 'price six shillings and six pence, unbound', border to majority of pages throughout, front free blank with the signature and inscribed 'William Wilberforce, Kensington Gore', marbled endpapers with bookplate of political reformer William Wilberforce (1759-1833) to upper pastedown and manuscript shelf number label, all edges gilt, 19th-century brown morocco, gilt decorated spine and border to boards, spine faded and extremities rubbed, large 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Gaskell 12.

Saint Placidus (c. 515- c. 550). I tre libri della vita di S. Placido monaco, et martire, et de' compagni suoi, composta da Gordiano Discepolo di S. Benedetto, et per D. Gio. Battista da Crema monaco Camaldolese di Latino tradotta nella comune lingua volgare, a contemplatione delle Riverende Monache di S. Parigio in Treviso osservantissime, [?Venice], 15 August 1562, 119 leaves manuscript on thick paper, plus approximately 40 blank leaves, written in a neat hand with foliation throughout, occasional spotting, Palazzo Pitti exhibition note in pencil and paper ticket with manuscript inscription, ‘Principe Diego Pignatelli Angio’ to front pastedown, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey beneath, gilt-gauffered edges (some gathers starting), contemporary Venetian red morocco gilt over wooden boards with bevelled edges, roll-tooled borders, the central panel decorated in gilt with leafy tools to centre-and-corner design, the ground of the centre and corners filled with gold dots, one tooled leather clasp (three others missing), some worm holes and edge wear, spine tooled in blind with leather label and gilt hatching to raised bands, slight wear at head and foot of spine, 4to (225 x 160 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Diego Pignatelli Aragona (paper ticket); Palazzo Pitti exhibition, Florence, 1922, no. 262 (pencil note); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).An old auction catalogue description loosely inserted in the book notes: ‘For similar bindings with the decoration partly dotted, cf. Tessier sale at Munich, 21 May 1900, lot 560, a binding dated 1575 with the name of one of the Donato family, and lot 187 in a sale at Hoepli's, Milan, 3 May 1928. Pitti Exhibition, 1922, no. 262.’Along with Saint Maur, Saint Placid is one of the earliest and closest followers of Saint Benedict. This biography recounts Placid’s life in three books, from birth to his martyrdom and includes lamentations and praises for him. Originally written in Latin by Gordianus this Italian translation was printed at least twice, the earliest edition noted being published in Venice by Fratelli Guerri in 1583.The Passio S. Placidi, written by 'Gordianus', is really the work of Peter the Deacon, a monk of Monte Cassino in the twelfth century. The writer confused Saint Placidus with the earlier Placitus, who was martyred in Sicily under Diocletian. Having thus made St. Placidus a martyr, he proceeds to account for this by attributing his martyrdom (anachronistically) to Saracen invaders from Spain, understandable if Peter the Deacon was writing in the aftermath of the Moslem invasions of Sicily. The translator, Giovanni Battista da Crema , born Giovanni Battista Gentili (flourished 1521-1560), was a Camaldolese monk. The earliest printed translation Vita di S. Placido monaco, et martire, diuisa in tre libri ... Tradotta di Latino in lingua volgare, dal R. P. D. Gio. Battista da Crema ... Nuouamente posta in luce dal R. Padre D. Sebastiano da Fabriano, was published in Venice in 1583.

[Devereux, Robert, second Earl of Essex, 1566-1601]. A bound collection of heraldic tracts including pedigrees showing the relationship between the Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth and other Knights of the Garter, late 16th Century, 250 leaves manuscript on paper, with 17th-century additions, some pages blank, early pagination with pages numbered 109-616, some other foliation and partial renumbering in modern pencil, some dust-soiling, late 18th-century armorial bookplate of (?)’T.S.M.’ by J[ames] Kirk to front pastedown, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, beneath and William H. Robinson’s Bibliotheca Phillippica bookseller’s ticket below that, old pencil inscription at head of pastedown indicating the volume was ex Bibliotheca Heberiana and Phillippica, uncut, 18th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, gilt-titled leather spine label, ‘MS. Heraldic Pedigrees of Earl of Essex & C.’, inscribed beneath in old ink, ‘olim Ld Somers nup Sir Jos. Jekyll’, small paper shelf-mark numbers at foot, [Phillipps MS] ‘8196’ and ‘228’, slightly soiled, some edge wear to boards, folio (305 x 210 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex (1566-1601); Edward Dyer (1543-1607) and family; John Somers (1651-1716); Joseph Jekyll (1663-1738); (?)T.S.M. (bookplate); Richard Heber (1773-1833); Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), (Phillipps MS 8196 spine label); William H. Robinson, booksellers; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).An old brief 4-page manuscript index is loosely inserted, evidently written before pp. 1-108 were separated and ‘lost’. These missing leaves are identified as ‘Calendar of the Dorse of the Close Rolls 1 H. A.; Fines 1 H. A.; Table to these after many blank leaves’.There can be little doubt that this set of pedigrees was executed for the Earl of Essex for some special purpose. Folio 244r (p. 603 of original pagination) bears the signature of ‘Edward Dyer’ in a 17th-century hand. Sir Edward Dyer (1543-1607), the poet, had as a patron Walter Devereux, first Earl of Essex, father of Robert, the second Earl. Thus Robert and Dyer must have been on intimate terms, which would account for the manuscript being in the possession of the Dyer family in the seventeenth century.

* The Essex Rebellion. 'Speeches Delivered in the Starrchamber, the xxixth of November, 1599: the Lord Keeper: the Lord Treasurer: The Earle of Nottingham, the Lord Chamberleyne, the Lord North: Mr. Comptroller, and Mr. Secretarye Cecill' [and] 'A Collection off Speeches in the Starrchamber touchinge the Trayterous Conspiracyes, of the Earle of Essex, and other his Complices, delyvered on ffridaye the xiith of ffebruary Anno 1600: in open Corte: By the Lord Keeper, The Lord Admyrall Sr Willm Knowles and Sr Robte Civill' [and] ‘A Speech Deliered by Sir Robte Civill, Secretarye, in the Starrchamber the [blank] ffebruary Anno 1600’, manuscript copy, c. 1620, [32] pages including cover title (‘A Collection of Divers Speeches in the Starrchamber’) and final blank leaf, written in a very neat secretarial hand without page breaks or pagination, some light soiling throughout, extracted from a larger work with evidence of original spine stitching, disbound, folio (265 x 190 mm), preserved in an early 20th-century gilt-titled red quarter morocco over cloth chemise, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedownQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Nearly all the speeches reported in this manuscript relate to the Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601). Those of 1599 were made to counteract the popular manifestations of sympathy for the Earl, then a prisoner: a detailed account of his offences was set forth. The speeches of 1600-1601 are of the same propagandist nature. They relate to the Essex rebellion which occurred a week before.

Belchamp St Paul, Essex. A volume of manuscript copies of Latin (and some English) deeds running from 1297 to 1586, titled ‘A booke wherin is entred and Written divers Dedes of feoffment, Releases, Indentures of sale of lande, and other evidences, wylles, wrightine and notes concernyng chiefly the messuages landes tenements and hereditaments situate lying and being in Paules Belchamp in the countie of Essex. Trulye copied out and agreing verbatim with the originalls. Collected in maner of a Register by the procurement of William Golding Esquier the third day of Januari Anno d[o]m[in]i 1584’, title and 58 leaves manuscript on paper, final folio [59] largely torn away and missing along with following two blanks, 21 blank leaves including 9 with foliation only, title on folio 13r, written in a neat secretary hand and the entries from folio 49v in the same hand at a slightly later date, a few scattered spots and some old dampstaining to lower margins of final few leaves, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, contemporary limp vellum with remains of tie and ‘Essex’ written in manuscript to upper cover, some soiling, wear and partial loss of vellum along upper margin of lower cover and spine, folio (300 x 200 mm), contained in a modern black morocco gilt folder with additional Foyle bookplate to inside coverQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).Belchamp St Paul is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex. It is 5 miles west of Sudbury, Suffolk, and 23 miles north-east of the county town, Chelmsford.William Golding would appear to be the son of John Golding and Elizabeth (Towe), of Belchamp St Paul, Essex. His father John married twice, having eleven children in total. One of the sons from the second marriage to Ursula (Merston) was Arthur Golding (1536-1606), the Elizabethan author and translator. Arthur (William’s younger half brother) is most well-known for his witty and beautiful translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, first published in 1567, which went through eight editions and had an enormous influence on English literature and poetry. This is the translation that William Shakespeare read and borrowed from, and which Ezra Pound called ‘the most beautiful book in the English language’. Arthur is buried in the village churchyard of St Andrew’s and a memorial to him is within the church. William was born before 1528 and died in London in 1588.

Hartshorne (Charles Henry, editor). Ancient Metrical Tales: Printed Chiefly from Original Sources, London: William Pickering, 1829, large paper copy with wide margins, contemporary ink manuscript note by the publisher to front flyleaf, 'Only twelve printed on Large Paper, No. 10, W. Pickering', burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, 20th-century brown morocco by C. Lewis, gilt-decorated spine with harp motifs, minor rubbing and lower edge wear, square 8vo (195 x 148 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). Number 10 of 12 large paper copies, signed by the publisher. Keynes, William Pickering, p. 69 (asterisked as a publication of 'special merits').

Breviary, Use of the Premonstratensians, in Latin. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands, mid(?)-15th century], i + [1–280], i–c, [c]i–[c]lviii, [clix –clxv] + i leaves; the leaf following f. clviii cut in half vertically, without loss of text; the first 280 leaves foliated in modern pencil on every 10th leaf, the next 158 leaves with original foliation in red ink roman numerals (omitting the ‘c’ for numbers higher than ‘c’); ruled in ink for two columns of 26 lines, written in gothic textura script, ILLUMINATED WITH FOUR LARGE ILLUMINATED FOLIATE INITIALS WITH TWO-SIDED FOLIATE BORDERS at the beginning of main texts (ff. 9r, 272v, 281r, lx recto); TWELVE LARGE PUZZLE INITIALS IN GOLD AND BLUE with red and purple flourishing at the divisions of the Psalter (ff. 22r, 30v, 38r, 38v, 46v, 56v, 65v, 67r, 75v) and a few others (ff. 110r, 114v, 117r), one- and two-line initials alternately red or blue throughout. burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, edges speckled red, 18th-century Parc Abbey binding of polished brown calf, each cover with the oval gilt stamp of the ‘Bibliothecae Parchensis’, morocco reback with gilt spine title ‘Psalter’, upper joint splitting and weak, thick 8vo (164 × 112 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance:Written for a Premonstratensian Abbey in the southern Netherlands: the Premonstratenians followed the Rule of St Augustine, so among the most highly graded feasts in the calendar are St Augustine (28 August, with octave, 4 September) and his translation (11 October, with octave, 17 October).Medieval inscriptions include one that appears to begin ‘Ce livre apartiens …’ (heavily obliterated), one that includes ‘… sancti Michaelis … hunc librum …’ (erased), and the name ‘Johanna Otten’ (first vellum flyleaf).Parc Abbey, the Premonstratensian house at Heverlee, near Louvain: with their characteristic binding and shelfmark ‘J. theca XI.’ (front pastedown; the same shelfmark was used for at least 10 other liturgical manuscripts including a Psalter sold at Sotheby’s, 26 November 1985, lot 119, and a Breviary at the University of London, Senate House Library, MS 815). The canons sold part of their library through Henri Baumans, Louvain, 22 October 1829, including about 170 manuscripts on vellum, among which lots 98-102 were each described as a ‘Psalterium’. Émile Van Balberghe published several studies of the Parc library, collected together in Les manuscrits médiévaux de l’abbaye de Parc (Brussels, 1992), including ‘Les critères de provenance des manuscrits de Parc’, first published in Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, 11 (1974), pp. 525-42. The most recent study is his ‘Les avatars des manuscrits médiévaux de l’abbaye de Parc’, De Gulden Passer, 88 (2010), pp. 7-22. The present manuscript appears to be unrecorded.Unidentified English bookseller, with a clipping from his catalogue stuck to the first flyleaf.W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Text:Added 15th-century prayers to Sts Peter Martyr, Dympna, and Bernard (f. 1v); Calendar, with gradings of iii or ix lessons (f. 2v); Psalter (f. 9r), followed by collects (f. 98r); Litany of saints (f. 106v), in which Augustine is marked ‘ij’ in red, indicating a double invocation; Office of the Dead, Premonstratensian Use (f. 110r); Commendation of Souls (f. 114v); Temporale, from the octave of Easter to the 25th Sunday (f. 117r), with Augustine as ‘Magne pater Augustine …’ (f. 125r); the Dedication of a church (f. 272v); Blessings (f. 280r); Sanctorale from the Annunciation to St Saturninus (25 March – 29 November) (f. i recto); Common of Saints (f. cxxviii verso), followed (f. lii recto) by additional sermons, including for the Octave of the Dedication; near-contemporary added feasts of the Visitation (f. clviii verso) and St Lambert (f. clxiii verso).Breviaries are typically small enough to be easily portable, but very thick, and divided into Summer and Winter parts, as here: the present volume covers the period between Easter and Advent.

Walsingham (Francis, c. 1532-1590). Copy Letterbook from his Embassy to France, August 1570 to November 1572, late 16th-century manuscript, beginning with his instructions and comprising copies of letters received from the English court and letters sent by Walsingham, with principal correspondents including Queen Elizabeth, Lord Burghley and the Earl of Leicester, 155 leaves manuscript on paper, apparently in one late 16th-century scribal secretary hand, contemporary foliation (1-160 but wanting five folios, 148-152), some dust-soiling and old dampstaining, mostly towards rear, final 8 leaves on slightly larger partly uncut sheets, Ralph Thoresby ownership inscription at head of folios 1 and 153, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt (except fore-edges of final 8 uncut folios), 19th-century red morocco gilt with arms of the 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne to both covers, slightly rubbed and soiled, folio (295 x 187 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: This copy was formerly in the possession of the antiquarian Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), and described by him on page 519 of his Ducatus Leodiensis (1715). It was lot 23 in the Thoresby sale (London, 5 March 1764); Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lynes (gilt arms), and then sold as lot 1337 in the 7th Duke’s Clumber Library sale by Sotheby’s, 14-16 February 1938 (lot description and pencil note tipped in); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).An early copy of important ambassadorial correspondence. Sir Francis Walsingham's first embassy to Paris was dominated by the proposed marriage of the Queen to the Duc d'Anjou, and by increasing English entanglement in the revolt against the Spanish in the Low Countries. These policies depended upon fostering a close alliance with France, but the relationship was abruptly sundered by the St Bartholomew Day Massacre in August 1572, when thousands of Protestants were murdered on the streets of Paris and across France. Walsingham was recalled the following May having proved his worth to his Queen and was to remain a pillar of Elizabeth's government until his death in 1590.Walsingham was one of the most acute politicians of his generation and his correspondence provides a remarkable and full insight into the French court and Anglo-French relations at this dangerous moment. Walsingham's original correspondence during this embassy was somehow obtained by Sir Robert Cotton, who recognised its importance. This manuscript is one of a number of copies of the letters that were made, presumably after the letters reached Cotton's library. The bulk of the correspondence was published in 1655 (from another manuscript belonging to Sir Dudley Digges) under the title The Compleat Ambassador, the first printed collection of diplomatic papers in English.

Book of Hours, in French with Latin cues. Illuminated manuscript on vellum [France, Normandy (probably Fécamp or perhaps Rouen), early(?) 15th century], ii + 87 + ii leaves, 86 x 67 mm, ff. 27v, 86v blank; apparently COMPLETE with a cancelled blank at the end, mainly in quires of 6 leaves (f. 27 apparently a single leaf inserted to supply a missed passage of text, linked to the appropriate place on f. 28r with a red cross), the binding too tight for completely confident collation, but there are no obvious gaps in the text, and there is no evidence that anything ever followed the final leaf, which has a blank verso; ruled in ink for 13 lines per page (16 in the calendar), the ruled space 70 × 50 mm; written in gothic textura script (slightly larger and more formal for the Latin, slightly smaller and more rounded for the French), 2-line initials alternately blue with red flourishing or vice versa, each hour except Lauds with BLUE AND GOLD PUZZLE INITIALS with red and blue flourishing, the first text page with an illuminated border, 2-line initials alternately blue with red flourishing or vice versa; the margins rather closely cropped, occasionally affecting the border and extremities of the flourished decoration, some offsetting, general thumbing and wear but overall in sound condition and fully legible, marbled endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, gilt-gauffered edges, sewn on three bands and bound in 19th-century limp brown leather, blind-tooled with a lattice pattern, housed in a filigree openwork hinged book-box ornamented with 31 polished or cut coloured stonesQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance:Probably produced for use at Fécamp, on the coast of Normany about 40 miles / 60km north-west of Rouen: the calendar includes ‘la dedicace de fescamp’ (15 June), and the rare ‘laurens de eu’ (14 November; i.e. Lawrence, archbishop of Dublin, who died and was buried in 1180 at Eu, also on the Normandy coast, about 50 miles / 80km north-east of Fécamp), as well as several Rouen feasts, including the translation of the relics (3 December), ‘goudart’ (i.e. Gildard) (8 June), the translation of Romanus (17 June), Evodius (7 July, 8 October), Ouen (24 August), and Mellonius (22 October).The first flyleaf has an added 15th-century prayer in Latin, preceded by instructions in French (‘L’en doit avant que l’en die l’oroison ensuivant faire une croix devant sa poitrine …’), signed “Th. Th.” (f. 1v)W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate); perhaps acquired in the 1940s, as there is a newspaper clipping dated 1945 loosely inserted.Text:Calendar (f. 2r); Hours of the Virgin, in French, each text with a brief incipit in Latin, with Matins (f. 14r), Lauds (f. 31r), Prime (f. 49v), Terce (f. 57v), Sext (f. 62v), None (f. 66r), Vespers (f. 72v), and Compline (f. 80r). The liturgical Use is similar to, but not the same as, that of Paris. The antiphon and capitulum at Prime and None, (by which many Uses can be distinguished from one another), are: Benedicta tu; Felix namque; Post Partum; and Gaude Maria.Books of Hours in French are extremely rare. Virginia Reinburg (French Books of Hours, Cambridge, 2012, p. 96), knew of only six, all except one of them in an institutional collection: (i) Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 509; (ii) Huntington Library, HM 1129; (iii) Houghton Library, MS Richardson 7; (iv and v) Paris, BnF, MS fr. 1874 and fr. 13167; and (vi) offered by Les Enluminures in their Catalogue 2, 1993, no. 10. To these can be added British Library, Harley MS 2952. No others are recorded in the Schoenberg database.

* Sidney (Philip, 1554-1586). English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier. 'The Coppye of a Letter wrytten by Sr: Phillipp Sidnye to Queene Elizabeth, Touchinge hir Marryage wth Mounsieur’, [c. 1580], manuscript copy, c. 1620, [28] pages including final blank leaf, written in a very neat secretarial hand, some light soiling throughout, extracted from a larger work with evidence of original spine stitching, disbound, folio (265 x 190 mm), preserved in an early 20th-century gilt-titled red quarter morocco over cloth chemise, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedownQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). This letter was written by Sir Philip Sidney to Queen Elizabeth just before or just after the beginning of the year 1580. In it he states his reasons for opposing her proposed marriage with the Duke of Anjou. This manuscript, (written in the same hand as the following two lots), differs from the partial transcript given by H. R. Fox Bourne, A Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney, 1862, pp. 253-9. The following is a transcript of the first paragraph of this manuscript, indicating where it differs from Fox Bourne's text:- ‘Most ffeared and Beloved, most sweete and gratious Soveraigne; to seeke out excuses of this my bouldnesse, and to arme the acknoweledginge of a ffaulte, wth Reasons ffor it, might better shewe I knowe I did amysse then any whitt (F.B.'way') dminishe the attempte, especiallye in yor Judgmte whoe is (F.B. 'being') able lyvelie to discerne (F.B. 'to discern lively) into the nature of the thinge done, Itt were ffollye to hope with (F.B.'by') layenge on better Coullors to make it more acceptable Thereffore, carryenge none (F.B.‘no') other Olyve Braunche of Intercession, then the layenge my selfe att yor ffeete, nor, noe other insinu- acon, eyther ffor attencon, or Pardon, Butt the true vowed sacriffyce of unffaigned Love I will in simple and (F.B. omits 'and') dyrecte tearmes (as hopeinge they shall come (F.B.'they shall only come') to your mercyffull eyes) sett downe the over-ffloweinge of my mynde in this most (F.B. omits 'most') important matter, importinge (as I thinck) the Contynuance of your saffetye and as I knowe, the Joyes of my lyfe.' See Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State ('Sydney Papers'), 1746, volume I, pp. 287-92.

Normandy Cartulary. Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St. Georges de Boscherville, [transcribed by De Witt], mid 19th century, 239 leaves, manuscript on paper ruled in pencil, foliated throughout with original foliation marked in the margins, index at rear, some scattered minor spotting, 'Phillipps MS 17354' inscribed at foot of first page, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, 20th-century half vellum over buckram, minor soiling, folio (305 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 17354 inscription); W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).The Abbey of Saint-Georges, Boscherville is a former Benedictine abbey in the Normandy region of northern France. This cartulary contains charters of William the Conqueror, Henry I, Matilda, Henry II, King John, Richard I and numerous other benefactors.

Suckling (Sir John). Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of all the incomparable peeces written by Sir John Suckling and published by a Friend to perpetuate his memory. Printed by his owne Copies. London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1648, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by William Marshall, neat 19th century ownership signature to head of title of H. Downman, seven additional part-titles, a few marks, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, and bookplate of Christopher Rowe, 19th-century diced calf gilt, later reback, rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Library of Christopher Rowe (1949-2015), bookplate; sold Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Printed Books, 14 September 2016, lot 485; Christopher Foyle (W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey bookplate).Wing S6127; Pforzheimer 997.One of the best-known of the so-called 'Cavalier' poets, Sir John Suckling (1609 - 1642) made his mark as a poet, playwright, and belletrist, though he is equally famous for his wit, gambling and amorous adventures. His works circulated widely in manuscript during his lifetime and, published posthumously by Humphrey Moseley, were bought in large numbers and read with eagerness and admiration during the Interregnum and after. Editions of Fragmenta Aurea, the best and most important collection, were published in 1646, 1648, and 1658.

Scriptores Historiae Augustae. [Part Two only:] Aelii Spartiani. De Vita Hadriani imperatoris ad Dioclitianum Augustum, Venice: Giovanni Rosso da Vercelli, 15 July 1490, 106 leaves (A8, B-Q6, R8) in roman type with blank spaces for capitals, contemporary annotations to margins in brown ink to 22 leaves (noting historical figures, prodigies, filling in several capital letters, and adding several further comments), first leaf with blank margins replaced with later laid paper (minimal loss to extreme upper right corner of the first two lines of title, with loss of two letters), some minor marks elsewhere, single wormhole to lower centre of the text throughout, not affecting legibility (with old repair to the holes in signature A), gilt edges with old manuscript title in brown ink to fore-margin, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, gilt inner dentelles, late 19th or early 20th-century brown levant full morocco by David, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). Hain-Copinger 14563; Polain 3474. Proctor 5127. BMC V, 417. Goff S 342. Walsh 2214.The second part (of two) of one of the earliest printed editions of the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, the lives of the Roman emperors taken from various authors, including Suetonius, Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Flavius Vopiscus, Paulus Diaconus and others, compiled around the 4th century A.D. The first part, Suetonius' Vitae XII Caesarum, (66 leaves, a-c8, d-k6) not present here, was also published separately. The second part includes Aelius Spartianus, De vita Hadriani; Julius Capitolinus, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Aelius Lampridius, Trabellius Pollio and Flavius Vopiscus: De regum ac imperatorum Romanorum vita; and Eutropius and Paulus Diaconus, Historia Romana. Despite the uncertain authorship of the original text, it is the only continuous account in Latin for much of its period and remains a valuable primary source for historians.

Order of the Garter, in English. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [England: ?Windsor, between 1558 and 1562], iv + 30 + II (vellum) + iv leaves, COMPLETE, collation: 1–26, 3–62, 76, 8–102, the last two blank, ruled in ink for 23 lines per page, written in a very fine calligraphic script in black ink with contemporary marginal summaries in red ink, each paragraph introduced by a gold or silver initial on a coloured rectangular ground; slight thumbing throughout, but generally in fine condition, marbled endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, all edges gilt, contemporary polished calf, both covers gilt-stamped in the centre with the badge of the Order of the Garter surmounted by a crown (the arms of Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland (1558–1603), flanked by her initials “E R”, and encircled by a garter with the legend ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’), late 18th-century reback with a red title-label ‘Order of the Garter’, somewhat stained and some edge wear, 4to (230 × 155 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance:Apparently written no later than the 4th year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign (i.e. before November 1562).‘S. Denny’, 17th(?)-century (signed at the beginning and end of the text).Charles Joseph Harford, of Stapleton, Bristol: his gift on the first day of 1824 (as recorded on the last front flyleaf) to:Sir George Nayler (1764–1831), Garter King of Arms (large bookplate).Evelyn Philip Shirley (1812–1882), British politician, antiquary and genealogist (bookplate, rear pastedown).‘J. S. Hall & Amicorum’ (book label).W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).‘The statutes and ordinaunces of the most noble order of St George named the Gartier, reformed, explayned, declared & renewed by the most highe most excellent and most puissant Prince Henrie the eight … shall be from henceforth always accomted eligible and may be chosen to be one of the companions of this Order’ (ff. 1r–30r).The text is essentially that as established in Henry VIII’s reign (the main text assumes that the monarch is male, mentioning, for example, ‘the Souvereigne or his Deputie’, f. 22v), but with some minor revisions very early in Elizabeth’s reign. A marginal note reads, ‘This is altered Anno primo Elizabethae Reginae …’ (f. 19v), and the very last item in the volume begins ‘It was farther ordered also the same day by her Ma(jes)tie …’. The latter is datable from other copies to the first year of Elizabeth’s reign, and as the manuscript does not include the statutes added in the 4th (or any subsequent) year of her reign, it shows that the text was written before the end of 1562 (see The Statutes of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, London, 1814, pp. 49–50).It may eventually be possible to deduce for whom the manuscript was made, as a limited number of Knights of the Garter were invested during the relevant period; they include Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (condemned for high treason and beheaded); Sir Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; and George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (who had the custody of Mary Queen of Scots for 17 years and witnessed her execution).

* Kent Inn Licence. A Crown licence (letters patent) to keep an inn, 26 January 1619, manuscript vellum deed, The Crown to William Mills of Temple Ewell in Kent, innkeeper, his son John Mills and grandson John Mills and the survivor of them to keep an inn or common hostelry at his present dwelling house in Temple Ewell, at a rent of 10s 0d, ‘and to continue for a sign there the sign of the George’, by warrant of the commissioners, Yonge and Pye, endorsed: entered by Henry Cooke, deputy registrar, 25 April 1620, 19 x 39.5 cm, together with another Kent vellum deed:Exemplification of common recovery with double voucher, 21 May 1610, Robert Ladde v John Johnson, gentleman and Jeremy Gaye, 5 messuages, 1 dovehouse, 8 gardens, 220 acres of land and 20 acres of pasture in St Laurence and St Peter Thanet, Kent, first vouchee: Robert Spraclynge, esquire; second vouchee: Edward Howse, Court of common pleas, Easter term 1610 rotulet 26, witness: Edward Coke [chief justice of Common Pleas]; authorized by [Thomas] Waller [third protonotary of the court of common pleas], 31 x 61 cm, lacking sealQTY: (2)NOTE:‘In 1616 Sir Giles Mompesson (1583/4-1651x63), speculator and projector, promoted the creation of a special commission for the purpose of granting licences to keepers of inns, whereby the pockets of the special commissioners and the king’s impoverished exchequer might both benefit. The scheme began in March 1617, fees which the commissioners were allowed to charge for the grants being practically left to their discretion, although it was stipulated that four-fifths of the sums received were to be paid into the exchequer. To increase his dignity in his new office, Mompesson was knighted by James I at Newmarket on 18 November 1616. Mompesson performed his duties with reckless audacity...' (ODNB)For two volumes of Mompesson’s accounts for money derived from innkeepers’ licences, 1617-1620, see British Library Add Mss 74241-2; for a bundle of papers and accounts relating to wine licences, including a list of innkeepers licensed in the various counties of England and Wales, yearly rents paid for the licence, grants of farms of wine licences, compositions and fines for selling without licence, declared accounts of the receivers of rents, etc, chiefly 1614-1627, see TNA E 163/17/22.

Cartulary of Garendon Abbey in Leicestershire. Manuscript on vellum, circa 1450, 27 leaves, contemporary foliation 1-29, lacking folios 6 and 7, paginated 1-27 in modern red chalk, written in book-hand, the initial capitals left blank (for illumination) within a square box, the majority with a small lower-case guide letter at the centre, some marginal comments of circa 1540, somewhat soiled, damp-wrinkled and stained without loss of legibility, the final three folios damaged by damp without any significant loss of text, manuscript note to front flyleaf initialled by H.C.M. Phillipps, indicating that it was purchased at the Craven Orde sale in June 1829 by Evans of Pall Mall and acquired by him from them, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, old book auction description (lot 78a) loosely inserted, 18th-century half calf over marbled boards with gilt-titled contrasting spine label, gilt floral motifs and manuscript shelf sticker ('555') to spine, heavily rubbed, 4to (335 x 260 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Purchased at the Craven Ord sale, 25 June 1829, Lot 555, by Evans of Pall Mall; acquired by H.C.M. Phillipps, Torquay; W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).The text begins with the foundation charter by Robert de Beaumont (1104-1168), second earl of Leicester, and the first 13 folios in the modern foliation are occupied by the full texts of 34 donations and royal and episcopal confirmations, including final concords levied in the honor courts of Sayer de Quincy (d1219), earl of Winchester, and his son Roger de Quincy in 1252-53. Folios 13-17 in the modern foliation contain summaries of 89 gifts, four of which are English translations from what must have been Latin originals. Many charters are accompanied by marginal comments of circa 1540.Elements of two further cartularies are at British Library, MS Lansdowne 415; most of that cartulary and an abstract of the present one are printed in John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester 3 (2) (1804), pp. 805-30, 834-8. This volume is described in GRC Davis (ed., revised by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison and David M. Smith). Medieval cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland (London: British Library, 2010) Item 432.'Robert [Robert de Beaumont], second earl of Leicester (1104–1168), magnate and justiciar, was perhaps the most distinguished aristocrat of his day, educated to a high standard and a consummate politician and man of action. The curia regis seems to have been the place where he was happiest. He was a founder of two abbeys—Garendon (1133), a foundation which shows him to have been one of the earliest patrons of the Cistercian order in England, and Leicester (1138–9)—and of several hospitals and priories. His abbey foundations were, however, economical, employing the lands of other people, as at Garendon, or, in the case of Leicester, lands already given by his father to the church.' (ODNB)'Garendon Abbey, a Cistercian house, was founded in 1133 by Robert, Earl of Leicester. It was in all probability a daughter house of Waverley, the earliest Cistercian monastery to be established in England. The founder endowed the abbey with 5 carucates and 3 virgates of land at Garendon, a burgage tenement at Leicester, and other lands at Dishley, Shepshed, and Ringolthorp. During the 12th century various benefactors granted to the abbey lands at Eastwell, Ibstock, Welby, Burton on the Wolds, and Stanton under Bardon in Leicestershire, at Costock in Nottinghamshire and at Heathcote in Derbyshire. The wild country of Charnwood Forest, in which Garendon lay, gave the monks opportunities for agricultural development of the type accomplished by many other Cistercian houses. Before the end of the 12th century granges had been established in the vicinity of the abbey at Garendon itself, Stanton, Dishley, and Ibstock, and farther afield at Burton on the Wolds, Ringolthorp, Goadby, and Welby in eastern Leicestershire, the Peak and at Costock and Rempstone in Nottinghamshire. The abbey seems to have carried on sheep farming on a considerable scale; in 1225 the abbot obtained permission to export wool to Flanders or elsewhere, and there are references to sheep-folds at the granges. In 1341 the abbey was granted the royal chapel or hermitage of Cripplegate, at London, and in 1343 had licence to acquire four messuages in London. The advowson of Dishley was obtained in 1458, and the church was appropriated in the same year.Two daughter houses were founded from Garendon—Bordesley (1138) and Bittlesden (1147). There are indications, however, that in the late 12th century the Cistercians of Garendon failed to live up to the highest standards of their Order. One of the abbots, Geoffrey, seems to have been a married man, and one of the monks is said to have become a Jew. The resignation of Abbot William in 1195 was perhaps due to the displeasure of the general chapter of the Order at the Garendon lay brothers’ habit of drinking beer. A serious incident occurred in 1196, when the new abbot, Reynold, was attacked in the infirmary, and gravely wounded, by a lay brother. In consequence the general chapter of Citeaux ordered all the abbey's lay brothers to be dispersed. The command was not carried out at once, and in 1197 the abbots of two other Cistercian houses were instructed to proceed to Garendon and enforce the will of the general chapter. The abbey continued to contain lay brothers after this incident. In 1219 the conventual church was dedicated by the Bishop of St Asaph. At the end of the 13th century the finances of the house seem to have been in an unsound condition; in 1295 the king, at the request of the abbot and convent, appointed a special keeper to apply the revenues of the abbey to the relief of its debts, providing reasonable maintenance for the abbot and monks meanwhile, and two years later the abbot acknowledged that the house owed debts totalling £160. The depredations of a powerful neighbour, John Cornyn, Earl of Buchan, may have contributed to the abbey's difficulties at this period.' (Victoria County History of Leicestershire 2 (1954), pp. 5-7, written without the benefit of this volume.)

Augustine (Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430 A.D.). Soliloquia animae ad deum, Italian, 15th century, manuscript in brown and red ink on vellum, 67 leaves (plus 2 vellum end leaves at both front and rear), COMPLETE, collation, 1–610, 710-3 (last 3 cancelled); written in an Italian rotunda script of the 15th century, single column with 22 lines per page, 36 two-line (the first being four-line) floriated initials in alternate red and blue, and blue and red, a ten-line illuminated letter ‘O’ in gold and colours laid in (from a different manuscript) to first leaf of text, and with illuminated border decoration of foliate motifs, stars and a shield at foot, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to recto of first blank vellum leaf, and a folded page of typewritten description of the manuscript in German tipped in, late 19th or early 20th-century Italian full brown morocco with elaborate and rich impressed decoration in green, dark brown and light brown, the upper inside cover with large impressed stamp of Ernesto Pagnoni of Milan, and his initials in shields forming an outer frame, separated from binding along front inner hinge, short splits to head of upper and lower joints, 8vo (178 x 125 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: It may be possible to determine the original patron of the book: above the first rubric is an erasure that appears to begin ‘Iste liber’ and include the name ‘Raimundi’(?); in the lower margin a shield of arms has been overpainted with gesso and gold, but traces of a blue ground survive, and from the back of the leaf a diagonal (bend) can be discerned; Ernesto Pagnoni, Vaprio d’Adda, near Milan. Though his dates of birth and death are unknown, Pagnoni was active as a collector of manuscripts at the beginning of the twentieth century. Part of his collection was sold in Amsterdam by the famous dealer R. W. P. de Vries on the 2nd and 3rd of December 1908. His bookplate was designed by Sigmund Lipinsky in 1912. Other manuscripts once part of Pagnoni’s collection include Yale University, Beinecke Library, Marston MS 235, Lectura super libros sententiarum by Alfonso de Vargas y Toledo, and University of Pennsylvania, MS Codex 717, Ascetic miscellany, 1470-1499. Many manuscripts owned by Pagnoni are housed in modern bindings signed by C. Glingler, bookbinder in Rome; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). This text contains the Soliloquies of Saint Augustine of Hippo, an inner dialogue on the matter of the soul, thought in the Middle Ages and Renaissance to be by Saint Augustine, but now doubted. Folio 65 verso and folios 66 and 67 at the end of the volume have additional texts added in several different hands, beginning on folio 65 verso with the Hymn to Saint Michael 'Christiane vir fidelis, qui regnare vis in coelis', (Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum III (1904), 24515) and the Hymn to Saint Christopher 'martir Christoforo pro Salvatoris honore' (Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum III (1904), 29471), followed by other various prayers.

* James VI and the Union of the Crowns. 'Kinge James his Speeche in Parliamte concerninge the Unyon Betwixt England, and Scotland’, [31 March 1607], manuscript copy, c. 1620, [24] pages including cover title and final blank leaf, written in a very neat secretarial hand, cover title ‘King James, his Declaracon, concerninge the Unytinge, of England, and, Scotland’, contemporary inverted notes and name of Thomas Blagdon to final leaf blank verso, later manuscript arithmetic notes to final blank verso, some light soiling throughout, marginal tears without text loss to cover title and final text leaf, extracted from a larger work with evidence of original spine stitching, disbound, folio (265 x 190 mm), preserved in an early 20th-century gilt-titled red quarter morocco over cloth chemise, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedownQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). This speech was delivered (according to James I's Workes, 1616, p. 509) to both Houses of Parliament 'in the Great Chamber at White-Hall' on 'the last day of March, 1607'. The speech, as printed in the Workes differs materially from this reasonably contemporary manuscript version. Following the death of Queen Elizabeth I who had died unmarried and childless, the English crown passed to the next available heir, her cousin James VI, King of Scotland. England and Scotland now shared the same monarch under what was known as a union of the crowns. A commission of English and Scottish MPs was set up in October 1604 to consider how a perfect union might be created. Modest steps were taken over the next few years. The commissioners' recommendations were debated long and hard at Westminster between November 1606 and July 1607. Although there was agreement on the repeal of hostile laws against the Scots, there was none on union. In 1606 James gave orders for a British flag to be created which bore the combined crosses of St George and of St Andrew. The result was the Union Jack, Jack being a shortening of Jacobus, the Latin version of James.

Capell (Arthur, 1st Earl of Essex, 1631-1683). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1672-77, and 1st Lord of the Treasury, 1679. The severall depositions concerning the death of the late Earle of Essex, Manuscript, c. 1700, 87 pp., drop-head title, written in a neat hand within red-printed ruled borders on laid paper, engraved armorial bookplate dated 1701 of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex and Viscount Maldon to front pastedown, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to facing modern endpaper, contemporary speckled calf, some edge wear, old gilt-titled calf reback, rubbed with a little fraying at foot of spine, folio (290 x 185 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Algernon Capell (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Arthur Capell (or Capel), 1st Earl of Essex of the second creation, 1631-83. He died in the Tower of London on 13 July 1683, having been convicted of participation in the Rye House Plot against the King and his brother. He was found with his throat cut while awaiting execution for treason, though whether by suicide or assassination has never been established. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670-1710) was an English peer, military officer and courtier. He was the son of Arthur Capell and his wife Elizabeth, becoming the 2nd Earl of Essex after his father's death.

Johnes (Thomas). The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, a gentleman formerly resident at Cambray in Cambresis; containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France as well as in other countries. A history of fair example and of great profit to the French, beginning at the year MCCCC where that of Sir John Froissart finishes and ending at the year MCCCLXVII and continued by others to the year MDXVI, translated by Thomas Johnes, 5 volumes, Hafod: At the Hafod Press, by James Henderson, 1809, copper engraved vignette to each title by Britton and Angus 51 line engraved plates bound in the final volume, including one double-page engraving, together withGrafton (Richard). Grafton's Chronicle; or, History of England. Too which is added his table of the bailiffs, sheriffs, and mayors, of the City of London. From the year 1189 to 1558, inclusive, 2 volumes, London: printed for J. Johnson; F. C. and J. Rivington; T Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orm; Cadell and Davies; and J. Mawman, 1809, plusFroissart (Sir John). Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; translated from the original French, at the Command of King Henry Eighth, by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. Reprinted from Pynson's edition of 1523, and 1525; with the names of places and persons carefully corrected. To which are added, a memoir of the translator, and a copious index to the work, 2 volumes, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; T Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orm, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Murray: R H Evans; J. Mawman; and R. Baldwin, 1812, and five other similar reprints fo early chronicles: Hall's Chronicle; containing the history of England, during the reign of Henry Fourth, and the succeeding monarchs, to the end of the reign of Henry Eighth...carefully collated the editions of 1548 and 1550, London: printed for J. Johnson... 1809, The Customs of London, otherwise called Arnold's Chronicle; containing, among divers others matters, the original of the celebrated poem of The Nut-Brown maid, reprinted from the first edition, with the additions included in second, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811, The Pastime of People, or the chronicles of divers realms; and most especially of the realm of England. Briefly compiled, and imprinted in Cheapside, by John Rastell, [A. D. 1529], now first reprinted, and systematically arranged, with facsimile wood-cuts of the portraits of Popes, Emperors, & c., and the Kings of England, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1811, The New Chronicles of England and France, in two parts; by Robert Fabyan. Named by himself the Concordance of Histories. Reprinted from Pyson's edition of 1516, the first part collated with the editions of 1533, 1542, and 1559; and the second with a manuscript of the author's own time, as well as the subsequent editions: including the different continuations, to which are added biographical and literary preface, and an index, by Henry Ellis, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1811, and The Chronicle of John Hardyng containing an account for public transactions for the earliest period of English history to the beginning of the reign of King Edward Fourth. Together with the continuation by Richard Grafton, to the thirty-fourth year of King Henry Eighth, the former part collated with two manuscripts of the author's own time; the last with Grafton's duplicate edition, to which are added a biographical and literary preface, and an index by Henry Ellis, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1812, wide margins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, fine contemporary near-uniform full polished speckled calf gilt, inside dentels gilt, covers with floral and crown corner ornaments, spines elaborately gilt-decorated in compartments between five raised bands, light brown title labels, the first nine volumes with additional volume spine label in dark brown morocco, a few minor marks (generally in excellent condition), large 4to (binding measures 30.5 x 24 cm, 12 x 9 1/2 ins)QTY: (14)NOTE:Londes III, p. 1586; Cave, private press, pp 67-68 (monstrelet); Coxiii p. 380; Londes II, p. 924 (Grafton); Cox iii p. 375; Londes II, p. 843 (Froissart); Cox 3, p. 378; Londes II p.984 (Hall); Cox, 3 p. 374; Londes I, p. 72 (Arnold); Cox 3, p. 377; Londes IV, p. 2051 (Rastell); Cox3, p. 375; Londes II, pp. 773-774 (Fabyan); Cox 3, p. 378; Londes II, p. 994 (Hardyng).

Gibbon (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 volumes, 1st edition (except volume one, 2nd edition), London: printed for W Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1776, 1781 & 1788, half-title to each volume, engraved portrait frontispiece to second volume, folding engraved map to second volume (A Map of the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire), and single-page engraved map (Map of the Parts of Europe and Asia, adjacent to Constantinople), folding engraved map to third volume (A Map of the Western Part of the Roman Empire), each volume with contemporary ink signature of D. Gell to title or adjacent leaf, and late 18th century bookplate of Philip Gell Hopton to front pastedown and title verso of first volume, all volumes untrimmed (wide margins), a few leaves with minor marginal spotting or other marks (generally in clean condition), errata leaf at rear of second, third and sixth volumes, as called for, contemporary near-uniform plain boards (volumes one to three in grey boards, volume four to six in pale blue boards), spines titled in manuscript in brown ink, rubbed, first three volumes with repairs to head and foot of spines, large 4to QTY: (6)

Xenophon. The Historie of Xenophon containing The Ascent of Cyrus into the Higher Countries. Wherein is described the admiral journey of ten thousand Grecians from Asia the lesse into the territories of Babylon and their retrait from thence into Greece, not withstanding the opposition of all their enemies. Whereunto is added a comparison of the Roman manner of warres with this of our time, out of Justus Lipsius. Translated by Joh. Bingham, 1st edition, London: Printed by John Haviland for Raphe Mabb, 1623, verso of title with engraved bookplate of Rt. Hon. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon and Baron Capell of Hadham (1670-1710), with engraved date 1701, woodcut initials, head-and tail-pieces, without initial and final blank leaves ([A]1 and X4), burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, pastedown also bearing earlier manuscript shelf number 'C:5: 12', contemporary gilt panelled calf, gilt-decorated spine, morocco title label and crest label of George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839), folio (267 x 176 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670-1710); George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC S118779; STC 26064.Fine copy with early provenance. A translation by John Bingham of Xenophon's Anabasis, an account of the march of the mercenary army of 10,000 Greeks led by Cyrus, prince of Persia, to attack his brother Artaxerxes II and seize the Persian throne.

Stow (John). The Annales, or Generall Chronicle of England... and after him continued and augmented with matters forreyne and domestique, auncient and moderne unto the ende of this present yeere 1614, by Edmond Howes, London: for Thomas Adams, 1615, title within elaborate woodcut border, soiled and sometime reattached, few edge tears and small chips (some tears neatly repaired), small early ink annotation to imprint, and another to lower margin, woodcut initials and head-pieces, main text in black letter in double column, with colophon leaf, early ink manuscript annotations, underlining and marginalia throughout, some toning and spotting (mainly towards front and rear), occasional marks, stains and finger-soiling, few leaves with losses to blank margins sometime infilled (slightly cropping headline on one page), final leaf of preface with crude watercolour image to blank portion of verso, but striking through to recto, bound with [Godwin, Francis], Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII, Edwardo VI, et Maria regnantibus annales, 1st edition, London?: Ioan. Bill, 1616, title with woodcut vignette and early ink manuscript annotation, toned and spotted, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, final leaf edge frayed and sometime reattached with infills, crude early ink sketch to blank verso, endpapers renewed, front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Robert Masters (1713-1798), contemporary calf, lightly scuffed, rebacked and edges refurbished, spine with raised bands and red morocco gilt lettering piece, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance (Godwin): Robert Masters (1713-1798), clergyman and academic, author of The History of the College of Corpus Christi, Cambridge (1753-55).ESTC S117596 & S121233.

* Barkstead (John, died 1662). Major-General and regicide. Document Signed, 'Jo Barkstead', 25 May 1653, being a manuscript receipt, 'Recd. by mee Collonell John Barkstead Lieut. of the Tower of London of Thomas Fauconberg Esqre. Rec[eiv]er Generall of the publique Revenue' the sum of £410.2s.4d., for himself and the gentlemen porters, the yeoman warders, the gentleman gaoler, physician, etc., written in brown ink on laid paper, heavy spotting and some dust-soiling and light creasing, 1 page, folio, tipped along fore-edge on to a blank sheet of paper in a 20th-century calf gilt document folder with burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, rubbed, limp leather spine partly perished and upper cover detached, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Barkstead was appointed to be governor of the Tower of London in 1652, gaining praise by Cromwell for his vigilance. At the Restoration he was outlawed and fled to Germany. He was later arrested in Holland and brought to England for trial, and executed on 19 April 1662. Barkstead was one of the 59 commissioners who signed the death warrant for King Charles I, being the 36th to sign. Rare.

Powell (Thomas). Direction for Search of Records remaining in the Chancerie, Tower, Exchequer, with the Limnes thereof : viz. The Kings Remembrancer. Lord Treasurers Remembrancer. Clarke of the Extreats. Pipe. Auditors. The First Fruits. Augmentation of the Reuenue. Kings Bench. Common Pleas. Records of Courts Christian. For the clearing of all such titles, and questions, as the same may concerne. With the accustomed fees of search: and diuerse necessarie obseruations, London: B[ernard] A[lsop] for Paul Man, 1622, 78 pp., lacks first and last blanks, manuscript contents leaf inserted at rear (soiled), some spotting and slight staining at rear, minor worm tracing to upper outer corners of initial leaves away from text, old ownership name inscriptions of John Hughes (to title), Joseph Green, rector of Welford, Gloucestershire, and John Hughes to four additional note leaves tipped in at front, inscribed in pencil 'Hopkins 1847' [by Thomas Phillipps] above Green's name and inscription, contemporary gilt-panelled limp vellum, heavily rubbed and soiled, lacking ties, slim 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: John Hughes, Joseph Green [Thomas Phillipps] and John Hughes (inscriptions).STC 20166. Only edition. Thomas Powell was a notable poet, man of letters and legal antiquarian. In this work, the author offers guidance to lawyers concerning the location and use of records, an important aspect of early English legal education.

Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion. or A Chorographical Description of the Tracts, Rivers, Mountaines, Forests and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine, With intermixture of the most Remarquable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures and Commodities of the Same; Digested in a poem, London: Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, J. Browne, J. Hulme and J. Busbie, 1613, title-page with a near contemporary manuscript signature crossed through, woodcut printer's device, one short closed tear affecting the printed image, additional decorative allegorical half-title engraved by W. Hole, facing a page of descriptive text 'Upon the Frontispice', dedication to and portrait of Prince Henry, four leaves of 'The Table', fourth leaf repaired to upper margin, 18 double-page engraved allegorical maps (complete), occasional contemporary ink marginalia, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front blank, additional bookplate of Earl Manvers, Thoresby Park Notts to front pastedown, hinges cracked, contemporary full calf with 19th century reback, gilt morocco label to spine, bumped and slight wear to extremities, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Charles Philip Medows (1737-1816), created Earl Manvers in 1806, Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Chubb XXXIV; STC 7226; ESTC S121632. A reissue of the 1612 edition, with added letterpress, title page and index. In this issue, the plates have page numbers and the portrait of Henry Frederick has his name. Large Paper copy.

Jonson (Ben). Works, 1st collected edition, 3 volumes: The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, London: Imprinted at London by Will Stansby, 1616, The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, London: Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in St. Paules Church-yard, 1640, & The Workes of Benjamin Johnson, The second Volume. Containing these playes, viz. 1 Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The Staple of Newes. 3 The Divell is an Asse. London: Printed for Richard Meighen, 1631– 1640 [i.e., 1641], The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, London: Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in St. Paules Church-yard, 1640, volume 1: [12], 1015 pp. (¶6, A-Pppp6, Qqqq4), engraved allegorical title by William Hole (a good strong impression), with engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Newdigate of Arbery in the County of Warwick Baronet (dated 1709) pasted to verso, woodcut title for Every Man out of his Humour at page 73 in first state, woodcut initials, E6 (page 59-60) thinned with small vertical hairline tears without loss, Xx6 (page 527-528) with minor loss to lower outer blank corner, not affecting text, Yy2 (page 531-532) with loss to lower outer blank corner, not affecting text, contemporary marginal annotation in brown ink to Mmm4 (page 692) and numerous early marginal marks in brown ink (some in pencil) between pages 683 and 760 (the text of Catiline), front and rear pastedowns from an Latin incunable text, contemporary ink ownership signature of John Newdigate to front endpaper, with annotation adjacent 'Trin Coll' and numeral '359,6', engraved armorial bokplate of Sr Roger Newdigate Bart to front pastedown, and adjacent later printed bookplate of Lillian Barbour Bennett, all edges red with manuscript library shelfmark to fore-edge 'B : I : PL : 359', contemporary blind-panelled and blind-decorated full calf, with remains of original ties, rubbed and some wear to edges, volume 2: general printed title with woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 339), the individual plays each with separate printed title, except Christmas His Masque with drop-title, the printed titles to three plays listed on the main title (Bartholomew Fayre, The Staple of Newes, The Divell is an Asse) with woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 374), woodcut initials and headpieces, a few minor marks, front endpaper loose, early (late 17th or early 18th century) ownership signature to front pastedown 'J Perfect's Book', volume 3: engraved portrait of the author [A1], engraved titlepage bearing the imprint of Richard Bishop and Andrew Crooke, a few marks and minor dampstains, volumes 2 and 3 bound in matching late 17th or early 18th century blind-panelled full calf, rubbed and some wear to edges, outer corners renewed, all three volumes with later (20th century) antique-style uniform calf gilt reback, folio QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance (volume one): John Newdigate (1600 – 29 November 1642), English politician and poet, second child and eldest son of Sir John Newdigate of Arbury Hall, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire and his wife Anne. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 6 November 1618, aged 18 and was a student of Gray's Inn and of the Inner Temple in 1620 (ownership signature to first volume); Sir Richard Newdigate (1644-1710), of Arbery in the county of Warwick, 2nd Baronet (engraved bookplate dated 1709 to verso of title to first volume); Sir Roger Newdigate (1719-1806), 5th baronet of Harefield (in Middlesex) and Arbury (in Warwickshire), English antiquary, and founder of the Newdigate Prize at Oxford University (bookplate to front pastedown of first volume).STC 14751 & 14754; ESTC S126501 & S111824; Greg III, pp. 1070 & 1076; Grolier/English 35; Pforzheimer 559 & 560.The first collected edition of Jonson's plays, masques, entertainments and non-dramatic poetry, second in importance only to Shakespeare’s folios in 17th century English drama. The publication of a collected "Workes" in folio, its title-page adorned with classical motifs, was a typically audacious move by Jonson, especially because he included in it nine plays written for the commercial theatre. In his first folio Jonson presents his stage plays as serious works of literature, a crucial step in establishing the literary credentials of the public theatre, often dismissed as ephemeral at the time; one contemporary responded to the publication with a distich: "Pray tell me Ben, where does the mystery lurk/What others call a play, you call a work?" Jonson's 1616 folio stood as a precedent for other play collections that followed—notably the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, and the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio in 1647. When Heminges and Condell came to prepare the Shakespeare First Folio, Jonson himself provided commendatory verses. Shakespeare's name appears twice in Jonson's folio, listed among the principal players for Every Man in his Humour and Sejanus.Two further folio collections of Jonson's works were issued in 1640-41. The first, printed by Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke, was a 1640 reprint of the 1616 folio with corrections and emendations; it has thus sometimes been termed the second edition of the first folio. The second volume was edited by Jonson's literary executor Sir Kenelm Digby, and published by Richard Meighen, in co-operation with Chetwinde. That volume contained later works, most of them unpublished or uncollected previously—seven plays (including the three printed in 1631), two of them incomplete, and fifteen masques, plus miscellaneous pieces. In the Digby/Meighen volume—identified on its title page as the 'Second Volume' of Jonson's works—the varying dates (1631, 1640, 1641) in some of the texts, and what has been called "irregularity in contents and arrangement in different copies," have caused significant confusion.

Index of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). Catena aurea in quatuor Evangelia, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [France, 14th century], ii + 42 + xi leaves, with original foliation in ink Roman numerals from ‘viiij’ to ‘cc’, collation: 18-6 (the outer bifolium of a quire, ff. 9 and 16), 28 (ff. 25–32), 3–48 (ff. 97–112), 58 (ff. 137–144), 68 (ff. 193–200), ornamented catchwords; ruled in ink for two columns of 44 lines, the ruled space approximately 220 × 120 mm, written in gothic script, with frequent calligraphic flourishes on the top and bottom lines, cadels sometimes enclosing human faces, the first head-word of each letter of the alphabet decorated with a flourished three-line puzzle initial in red and blue (M, f. 104; U, 197), each subsequent head-word with a two-line initial alternately blue or red with flourishing in the other colour, the entries under each headword usually labelled in the margins with consecutive large and calligraphic letters of the alphabet, often ornamented with leaves; some mild water-staining in the upper margin, not affecting legibility, marbled endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey on the front pastedown and old (?Sotheby’s) auction catalogue description tipped onto first flyleaf, 19th-century English dark purple half calf over cloth, spine titled in gilt capitals ‘Index Evangelicus M.S. Saec. XIV’, minor rubbing, some edge wear, folio (305 × 205 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). The text opens mid-sentence at ‘aliquis commutare animam vero perdens …’ (Thomas Aquinas, Catena aurea in Marcum); the first full paragraph begins ‘Si de civitate in civitatem transeuntes …’ (Catena aurea in Lucam), and the first head-word is ‘Anima Christi’, which begins ‘Absit a fidelibus ista suspicio …’ (Catena aurea in Mattheum); the following text has many gaps, and ends mid-sentence with a catchword at ‘ … Quia enim falli volunt et fallere’ (Catena aurea in Ioannem). The surviving parts include head-words beginning A–B, C, I–M, P, and T–U. The Catena Aurea (Golden Chain) is a commentary on the four Gospels compiled from the writings of the Church Fathers and other patristic authors, including Origen, Cyril of Alexandria, and Bede. It treats each gospel in turn, in the order of their chapters and verses, so the value of an index combining key concepts and words of all four gospels is plain. We have not been able to identify another such index.