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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



$700, being purchased by Dr. George H. Moore 

 for the Lenox Library. 



(12) Library of the late George Livermore, 

 Cambridge, Mass. "With the diamond shaped 

 figure on the Indian title. According to Mr. 

 Livermore's manuscript description of this 

 copy, it is "quite large, clean and perfect, — 

 as bright apparently as when printed. " It was 

 purchased in London, from Thomas Rodd, the 

 bookseller, in 1845. luformation furnished by 

 Mrs. Livermore, in letter of January 14th, 1890. 



(13) A copy advertised by Bernard Quaritch, 

 in April, 1884 (.352 Catalogue, no. 15996), as a 

 "beautiful copy in the original rebacked calf, 

 gilt edges," for 105?; again in April, 1887 (373 

 Catalogue, no. 37867), for 95 Z; and in December, 

 1887 (86 Bough List, no. 109), for 90 Z. The book 

 has since been sold. 



(14) Library of Trinity College, Dublin. 

 Press mark KK. o. 8. No description has been 

 obtained of this copy. See the Catalogus Li- 

 brorum Impressorum qui in Bibliotheca Collegii 

 Sacrosanctoe et Individuce Trinitatis . 

 adservantur (Dublin, 1861), vol. 1, p. 315, where 

 it is entered under the heading of version 

 Americana, as "The New Testament, transl. 

 into the Indian language. Cambridge (U. S.), 

 1661, 4°." See also no. 14 of the list of copies 

 of the bible of 1663. 



A copy was priced by Mr. Obadiah Rich, 

 in his chronological Catalogue of Books relat- 

 ing . . . to America (London, 1832), no. 326, 

 at 21. 2s. A copy is also entered in C. J. Stew- 

 art's Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss 

 Richardson Currer, at Eshton Hall, Craven, 

 Yorkshire (London, 1833), p. 8, but it does not 

 appear in the catalogue of the portion of her 

 library sold a.t auction in London, July, 1862. 

 According to a writer in the Historical Maga- 

 zine (October, 1858), vol. 2, p. 308, a good copy 

 of the testament was then in the library of 

 Pelham Priory, a seminary for young ladies 

 at Pelham, N. T. The priory was the resi- 

 dence of the late Eev. Robert Bolton, and 

 the supposed testament, which was merely a 

 copy of Mayhew's Massachuset Psalter, lack- 

 ing beginning and end, was sold under its prop- 

 er title by auction in New York, June, 1887 

 (Catalogue of the Pene Du Bois Collection, no. 

 1754), for $4. The copy described in the sale 

 catalogue of the library of Mr. Henry C. 

 Murphy (no. 887), was not of this issue, and 

 did not contain the English title and dedication. 



[ ] Wusku I wuttestaraentum | nul- 



lordumun | Jesus Christ | Nuppo- 

 quohwussuaeneumun. j [Diamond sha- 

 ped figure of 32 pieces between two 

 lines.] I 



Cambridge: | Printed by Samuel 

 Green and Marmaduke Johnson. | 

 MDCLXI [1661]. 



127 printed leaves without page numbers, and 

 1 blank leaf, as follows : the title of the new 



Eliot (J. ) — Continued. 



testament in Indian on one leaf verso blank, 

 Matthew to Revelation in 126 leaves, and 1 

 blank leaf at the end, 4°. Signatures A, B, C, 

 D, E, F,G. H, 1, K, L, Aa, Bb,Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, 

 Hh, li, Kk, LI, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, 

 TJu, and Xx, all in fours. In the Massachusetts 

 Indian language. 



The new testament as issued for the use of the 

 Indians probably did not contain the English 

 title and dedication, for when the Commission- 

 ers directed Mr. Usher to send the second lot 

 of twenty copies to England in 1662, they were 

 careful to add : "with the preface or Epistle." 

 The number of copies bound up in this form is 

 not known with certainty. It was the inten- 

 tion of the Commissioners to print 1, 000 copies, 

 but the Corporation advised them to print 1,500. 

 If the edition consisted of the latter number, 

 then 400 copies or more may have been bound 

 separately. On the 13th of September, 1661, 

 the Commissioners ordered 200 of them to be 

 bound " strongly and as speedily as may bee 

 with leather or as may bee most seruicable for 

 the Indians," as is related in the note to the 

 preceding title. 



Copies : Some of these perhaps contained the 

 other variety of the Indian title, without the 

 diamond shaped figure. (See no. 31 of the list 

 of bibles of 1663.) The English title and the 

 dedication are omitted in the copies described 

 below. 



(15) Bodleian Library, Oxford. AVith the 

 diamond shaped figure on the title. It was Sam- 

 uel Ponompam's book in 1662. This Avas proba- 

 bly the Ponampam whose confessions of faith 

 were printed in the Tears of Repentance (Lon- 

 don, 1653), in A farther Account (London, 

 1660), and whose name, spelled Ponanpam, ap- 

 pears in the records of the Commissioners for 

 September, 1661, as one of the four Indian 

 schoolmasters, assistants to Mr. Eliot, who 

 were allowed an annhal salary of lOZ. each. In 

 the same records for September, 1662, the name 

 is spelled Tanunpum. Samuel was his baptis- 

 mal name. In 1674, there was a teacher named 

 Samuel at the Indian town of Waraesit, on 

 Merrimack river, about twenty miles north- 

 northwest from Boston, who was perhaps the 

 same person. Gookin says : "Their teacher is 

 called Samuel ; sou to the ruler, a young man 

 of good parts, and can speak, read, and write, 

 English and Indian competently. He is one of 

 those that was bred up at school, at the charge 

 of the Corporation for the Indians." The tes- 

 tament also contains the inscription, "Dono 

 dedit Dn 8 Drake 1706." Seethe Catalogus Li' 

 brorum Impressorum Bibliothecce Bodleianos 

 (Oxonii, 1843), vol.3, p. 605, where it is entered 

 under the East Indian versions, as "Novum Tes- 

 tamentum, Indice. 4°. Camb. 1661." Infor- 

 mation furnished by the librarian, Dr. Edward 

 B. Nicholson, in letter of December 5th, 1889. 



(16) Mr. Frederick F. Thompson, New York. 

 Bound in red morocco, gilt edges, by Brad- 

 street. With the diamond shaped figure on 



