598 ON THE PRICE OF PAPER, ETC. 



In 1603 Corpus Christi College buys the Bibliotheca Pa- 

 trum for 6 ioj., Hugo Cardinalis for 7 ios. } Salmeron in 

 Evangelia for 4, Maldonatus in Evangelia for 20^., Gregorii 

 de Valentia Controversia for 26s. 8d., Ejusdem de Summa 

 Aquinatis for 4, and Area Noae for 2. In the next year 

 a Prayer-book costs the Canterbury parish 9^., and Corpus 

 Christi College again buys: five parts of Zanchius for ijs. 

 4</., Calvin on Samuel 6s. 6d., Bezae opuscula 17^., Dr. Rai- 

 nolds de Idololatria Ecclesiae Romanae 35. 6d., Ejusdem 

 thesis is. 2d., and Zanchius de Operibus Redemptionis qs. 6d. 

 In 1605 the Antiquitates Britanniae, folio, costs 17^., and Cur- 

 tius in Novum Testamentum iSs. In 1611 it gives 53^. for 

 a great Bible, and 2os. for Photius. 



In 1621 Shuttle-worth buys Dodoneus' Herbal and Selden's 

 Titles of Honour for 6s. and 5^., Corpus Christi College gives 

 7.$-. for Viscount S. Alban's book on Henry VII, and in 1624 

 3 6s. %d. for a copy (four vols.) of Purchas' Pilgrims. In 

 1631 it buys for 2, 8y. 6d. a copy of the Statutes of the 

 Land at large, which is always to be in the President's 

 lodgings, and in 1633 a copy of the University Statutes for 

 3 IQS. In 1635 it pays $2s. for a great Chapel Bible. 



In 1654 Master gives 2s. 6d. for Hartlib's second book of 

 husbandry, 9^. for Dalton's Justice of the Peace, and JS. for 

 Baxter's Saint's Rest. In 1655 Corpus Christi College buys 

 the Amsterdam Talmud in 10 vols. for $ 6r., an d the Novus 

 Atlas Sinensis for 2 I2s. In 1662-3 Master gives in February 

 is. for a book called Hudibras, and in May is. for the second 

 part. In 1663 King's College, Cambridge, buys the Archi- 

 tectura Militaris of de Dogen for the Duke of York, and De 

 Laet's Descriptio Americae for the King, the first bound in 

 Turkey, the second in velvet, the two costing 3 and 2 I2s. 8d. 

 Both are probably in the British Museum. In the same 

 year Master buys the second part of Hudibras again for 2s. 6d., 

 and Virgil travestied for is. In 1674 All Souls College buys 

 Loggan's cuts for 5 Ss. 6d. In 1679, at Chiswick, Dr. Lit- 

 tleton's Dictionary costs us. 



