84 
Originalia. [Under this head are included the 
works of the Fathers, and medieval writers, } 
Historie gencium. 
Summe doctorum. Scriptores super sententias. 
quodlibet. et questiones. 
Tabula. [This division contains Indexes to 
various authors, the Scriptures, canon law, 
&e. | 
Logiealia et philosophia cum scriptis et com- 
mentis. 
Prophecie et supersticiosa. 
Astronomia et Astrologia. 
Instrumenta astrologica magistri Johannis Erg- 
home [who appears to have been a great 
benefactor to the Library ]. J 
Libri divini officii magistri Johannis Erghome. 
Jura civilia. 
Jura canonica et leges humane: magistri Jo- 
hannis Erghome. 
Auctores et philosophi extranei. [Under this 
head occurs the following entry “ Liber he- 
braice scriptus.” ] 
Gramatica. 
Rethorica. [Two leaves of the MS. appear to 
have been cut out here. ] 
Medicina. 
Hysterie et Cronice. 
Sermones et materie sermonum. 
Summe morales doctorum et sermones. 
Arithmetiea, Musica, Geometria, Perspectiva, 
magistri Johannis Erghome. 
Each volume is identified, according to the 
usual practice, by the words with which its second 
folio begins: and letters of the alphabet are added, 
probably to indicate its place on the shelves of the 
Library. As a specimen, I shall give the division 
headed “ Biblie” : — 
Bisiie 
A. Biblia. incipit in 2°, fo. Samuel in * heli 
B. Biblia. incipit in 2°. fo. Zechieli qui populo. 
in duobus voluminibus. 
C. Biblia. inct. in 2°. fo. mea et in erne 
D. Biblia. inct. in 2°, fo. ego disperdam. 
q Libri magistri Johannis Erghome 
Biblia. 2°. fol. ravit siaccal A 
Interpretationes ne 
E. Biblia incomplet. diversarum scripturarum. 
quondam fratris R. Bossal. 2°. fo. me 
occidet me etc. 
Hysrorit ScoLasticEe 
A. Incipit in 2°. folio. secunda die 
B. incit. in 2°, fo. emperio sane formatis. ligatus. 
C. incit in 2° fo. et celumque celi. 
The words printed in Jéalics are added by a 
more recent hand. Under the head of “ Hystorie 
Scolastice” are doubtless intended the copies which 
the Library possessed of the celebrated Historia 
Scholastica, or abridgment of Scripture history by 
Peter Comestor. 
* Sic perhaps a mistake for et. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 6. 
From the foregoing specimen, I think your 
readers will agree with me that a Catalogue of 
such antiquity and interest is well worthy of pub- 
lication. 
But we have another ancient Catalogue of a 
monastic library equally curious, and even more 
important, from its magnitude, and the numerous 
works it contains on English history, early ro- 
mances, &e. I remain, &e. James H. Topp. 
Trin, Coll. Dublin, Nov. 27. 1849. 
DEFENCE OF A BALD HEAD—THE STATIONERS’ 
REGISTERS. 
I am about to supply a deficiency in my last 
volume of Eatracts from the Registers of the 
Stationers’ Company (printed for the Shakespeare 
Society, 1849), and thereby set an example that I 
hope will be followed, in order that various works, 
regarding which I could give no, or only incom- 
plete, information, may be duly illustrated. It is 
impossible to expect that any one individual could 
thoroughly accomplish such an undertaking; and, 
by means of your excellent periodical, it will be 
easy for literary men, who possess scarce or unique 
books, mentioned in the Registers and in my 
quotations from them, to furnish such brief de- 
scriptions as will be highly curious and very 
useful. 
A tract of this description has just fallen in my 
way, and it relates to the subsequent entry on 
p: 97 of vol. ii. of my Eatracts: the date is 22nd 
September, 1579. 
“ H. Denham. Lycensed unto him, &e A Para- 
dox, provinge by reason and example that baldnes is 
much better than bushie heare - - - vyjo” 
When I wrote the comment on this registration 
I was only acquainted with the clever MS. ballad 
in Defence of a Bald Head, which I quoted; but I 
hardly supposed it to be the production intended. 
It turns out that it was not, for I have that pro- 
duction now before me. My belief is that it is 
entirely unique; and the only reason for a con- 
trary opinion, that I am acquainted with, is that 
there is an incorrect mention of it in Warton, 
H. E. P. iv. 229.; but there is not a hint of its 
existence in Ritson, although it ought to have 
found a place in his Bibliographia Poetica ; neither 
do I find it noticed in later authorities; if it be, 
they have escaped my researches. You will not 
blame me, then, for indulging my usual wish to 
quote the title-page at length, which exactly agrees 
with the terms of the entry in the books of the 
Stationers’ Company. It runs literatum thus : — 
“ A Paradoxe, proving by reason and example, that 
baldnesse is much better than bushie haire, &e. Writ- 
ten by that excellent philosopher Synesius, Bishop of 
Thebes, or (as some say) Cyren. A prettie pamphlet 
to pervse, and replenished with recreation.—Englished 
