ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



149 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



of Harvard University (Cambridge, 1830), vol. 

 1, p. 250. Information futnished by Mr. "Wm. 

 H. Tillinghast, in letter of November 21, 1889. 

 (29) David Hunt, M. D., Boston, Mass. 

 Bound m "sound old calf, with a chamois- 

 lined, smooth morocco outside cover, the whole 

 In a neat case." With the diamond shaped fig- 

 ure on the Indian new testament title. On a 

 blank leaf at the beginning is written, "Samuel 

 Sanders, Brought by John Beighton from New 

 England. Cost 5 or 6s in Boston, 1681." At 

 the sale of the library of the late Caleb Fiske 

 Harris, of Providence, in New York, April 30th 

 and following days, 1883 (part 1, no. 827), it 

 brought $80, being purchased by Mr. Eider the 

 bookseller. It was then described as lacking 

 four leaves in the gospel of Mark, from chap. 

 V, verse 22, to chap, xi, verse 10 (sig. F) ; the 

 whole of the gospel of John, and of Acts all 

 before chap, xxi, verse 10, making twenty-four 

 leaves (sig. Aa to Ff ) ; with two leaves in Prov- 

 erbs and four leaves in Psalms that were dam- 

 aged. After all but one (Cc in John) of the 

 missing leaves had been supplied by Mr. Rider 

 from another copy (no. 36), the bible was again 

 sold by auction, in the library of Gen. Horatio 

 Eogers and the remaining portion of the C. 

 riske Harris collection, in Boston, January 24 

 and 25, 1888 (no. 356), for $210, being purchased 

 by the present owner. Information furnished 

 by Dr. Hunt, in letter of December 27, 1889. 

 ^ (30) Lenox Library, New York. In modern 



blue morocco binding, gilt edges, by F. Bed- 

 ford. Size of the leaf, 7 f\ by 5i% inches. With 

 the diamond shaped figure on the Indian new 

 testament title. The page headings of Luke 

 21 and 24, on the recto of leaves L2 and L4, 

 are wrongly printed 10 and 15. A description 

 of this copy by Mr. Lenox was printed in the 

 Historical Magazine (October, 1858), vol. 2, p. 307. 

 See also nos. 13 and 16 of this list. 

 fitij (31) Library of the late George Livermore, 

 ^ Cambridge, Mass. According to Mr. Liver- 

 more's manuscript description of this copy, it 

 is bound in two volumes. The first volume 

 contains : the Indian general title, the dedica- 

 tion of the whole bible to King Charles II. in 

 two leaves, the leaf of contents recto blank, 

 and Genesis to Malachi. The second volume 

 contains: the ludian new testament title {with- 

 out the diamond shaped figure, according to 

 Mrs. Livermore), Matthew to Revelation, the 

 metrical psalms, and the final leaf of rules. 

 These two volumes were presented to Mr. 

 Livermore by his friend, Mr. Edward A. 

 Crowninshield, of Boston. This copy of the 

 bible is mentioned in Mr. Bartlett's list, printed 

 in the Historical Magazine (September, 1858), 

 vol. 2, p. 277. Information furnished by Mrs, 

 Livermore, in letter of January 14th, 1890. 

 y (32) Library of the Massachusetts Bistorical 



Society, Boston, Mass. In the original leather 

 binding. With the diamond shaped figure on 

 the Indian new testament title. On one of the 

 blank leaves is written, "Enoch Greenlefe 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



His booke 1672." This may be the signature 

 of Enoch Greenleaf, the son of Edmund Green- 

 leaf, who came to New England with his father 

 abou.t the year 1035, was of Maiden, Mass., in 

 1663, and soon after removed to Boston ; or of 

 his eldest son, Enoch Greenleaf, who died in 

 1705. This copy is mentioned in Mr. Bartlett's 

 list, printed in the Historical Magazine (Sep- 

 tember, 1858), vol. 2, p. 277. See the Catalogue 

 of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical 

 Society (Boston, 1859), vol. 1, pp. 127, 128. 



In the Collections of this Society for 1801 

 (Boston, 1802), vol. 8, p. 33, is the following state- 

 ment: "In the files of the Historical Society 

 there is a leaf of the Indian Bible which be- 

 longed to his [Eliot's] colleague, the Rev. 

 Samuel Danforth, in which there are several 

 corrections from the hand of this worthy gentle- 

 man. He was settled at Roxbury about the 

 year 1662 [or rather 1650] and died 1674, aged 40. 

 He was the brother of the Deputy-Governor of 

 the same name." 



(33) Library Company of Philadelphia, Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa. Belonging to the Loganian Li- 

 brary. With the diamond shaped figure on the 

 Indian new testament title. On the first title 

 is written the name "J. Logan." James Logan 

 was born in 1674, came to Pennsylvania as the 

 secretary of William Penn in 1699, was a mem- 

 ber of the provincial council from 1702 to 1747, 

 mayor of Philadelphia in 1723, chief justice of 

 the supreme court from 1731 to 1739, and acting 

 governor of Pennsylvania from 1736 to 1738. 

 On his death in 1751 he bequeathed hisvalnable 

 library of 2,000 volumes to the city of Phila- 

 delphia. They were kept in a separate build- 

 ing erected for the puipose until 1792, when 

 the entire collection wa."* annexed to the Library 

 Company of Philadelphia, of which it forms a 

 separate division. Catalogues of the Loganian 

 Library were printed in 1760, 1795, 1828, and 

 1837. Fac-similes of the general title of this 

 copy and of the first page of Psalms are given 

 in Smith and Watson's Ammcan Historical 

 and Literary Cariosities (New York, 1850), 

 plate 48. This copy is also mentioned in Mr. 

 Bartlett's list, printed in the Historical Maga- 

 zine (September, 1858), vol. 2, p. 277. Informa- 

 tion furnished by Mr. Charles R. Hildeburn, 

 in letter of December 10th, 1889. 



(34) Library of J. Poyntz Spencer, fifth earl 

 Spencer, Althorp, England. According to 

 Dibdiu's Aedes Althorpianae (London, 1822), p. 

 92, where the Indian title is given in full, 

 " This copy was in the library of Colbert," — 

 refeT-ring probably to Jean Baptiste Colbert, 

 the eminent French state-sman and financier 

 (born 1619, died 1683). The famous collection 

 of books known as the Bibliotheca Spenceriana 

 was formed mainly by George John Spencer, 

 the second earl (born 1758, died 1834). No 

 exact ^description has been obtained of this 

 copy. 



(35) J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D., Hait-v 

 ford, Conn. No description has been obtained 



