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Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



1171), Mr. Bernard Quaritcli advertised for sale 

 at 801, a copy of the whole bible with the In- 

 dian titles, lacking signature Pp (2d Satuuel iv, 

 9 to xiii, 22) and Ooo (Esther iv. 14 to Job vi. 

 19) in the old testament, and signature E in 

 the njetrical psalma, but otherwise perfect, in 

 the original calf bindinjr, and without doubt a 

 duplicate from Trinity College. It was pur- 

 chased by Mr. Henry C. Murphy, of Brooklyn, 

 who took out the new testament portion, which 

 he sent to the binder to be bound separately as 

 a companion volume to his other (better) copy 

 of the old testament and metrical psalms. See 

 no. 16 of the list of testaments, and no. 19 of the 

 list of bibles. At the sale of Mr. Murphy's 

 library in New York, March, 1884 (no. 885), the 

 remainder of the volume, containing the old 

 testament and metrical psalms, described as 

 "without binding, quite imperfect; leaves 

 wanting in many places," was bought by Mr. 

 David G. Francis, the bookseller, for $5. He 

 supplied the imperfections of the old testament 

 out of another imperfect copy in his possession, 

 probably the one which he had purchased for 

 $5 at the sale of the third portion of the library 

 of Joseph J. Cooke, of Providence, in New York, 

 December, 1883 (Americana, no. 790). The vol- 

 ume was then put into its present binding, and 

 offered for sale by Mr. Francis, first at $125, 

 again in July, 1885, at $150, and in February, 

 1886 (79 Catalogue, p. 1), at $250, when it was 

 purchased by Mr Gunther. For the descrip- 

 tion of another duplicate of the edition of 1663 

 from Trinity College, but with the English 

 title and dedication, which came into the mar- 

 ket with this copy in 1870, see no. 5 of this list. 

 (39) Library of the Zealand Academy of 

 Sciences (Zeeuwsch Genootschap der "Weten- 

 schappen), Middleburg, Holland. The old tes- 

 tament and metrical psalms only, bound to- 

 gether in one volume, "in red morocco, with 

 green silk on the inner covers, and tooled with 

 gilt edges." The title is lacking, but in its 

 place in a manuscript account in Dutch, of 

 which the following is a translation: "All the 

 Bibles of the Christian Indians were burned or 

 destroyed by the heathen savages. This one 

 alone was saved; and from it a new edition, 

 with improvement, and an entirely new trans- 

 lation of the New Testament, was undertaken. 

 I saw at Eoesberri (Roccsbury ?), about an 

 hour's ride from Boston, this Old Testament 

 printed, and some sheets of the New. The 

 printing-oflBce was at Cambridge, three hours' 

 ride from Boston, where also there was, close 

 to the borders of the savages, a college of stu- 

 dents of another nation. The Psalms of David 

 are added in the same metre. At Eoesberri 

 dwelt Mr. Hailot [N. B.— The Zealand sound of 

 Eliot], a very godly preacher there. He was 

 ak this time about seventy years old, and his 

 son was a preacher at Boston. This good old 

 man was one of the first Independent preachers 

 to settle in these parts, seeking freedom to 

 worship. He was the principal translator and 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



director of the printing of both the first and 

 second editions of this Indian Bible. Out 

 of special zeal and love he gave me this copy 

 of the first edition, lor which I am, and shall 

 continue, grateful. This was in June, 1680. 

 Jasper Dauckaerts." An account of the visit 

 of Jasper Dankers or Dauckaerts and Peter 

 Sluyter to Mr. Eliot in the summer of 1680, 

 when this copy was presented to them, is given 

 in the note to the second edition of the bible. 

 Some time after, the book came into the pos- 

 session of Mr. H. J. Bosschaert of Middleburg, 

 and at the sale of his library in April, 1757, in 

 the catalogue of which it was marked as extra 

 rare, was bought by the bookseller Gillissen 

 foryZ. 23.40, according to one account. It next 

 appearedin the library of Professor Willemsen, 

 whose books were sold by auction in Middle- 

 burg, in April, 1781. In the sale catalogue of 

 his library it was described as containing the 

 whole old testament and the psalms in metre, 

 lacking the title and some few leaves in the 

 psalm book. The book was not offered at the 

 sale, however, but was withdrawn, and camo 

 into the hands of Professor de Fremery, who, 

 in February, 1807, presented it to the Zealand 

 Academy of Sciences. It was then remarked as 

 something curious that the letter r does not once 

 occur in the whole book. In the CoMlogus der 

 Bibliotheek van het Zeeuwsch Genootschap (Mid- 

 dleburg, 1845), p. 2, it is entered as "Het Oude 

 Testament in de Americaansch-Indiaansche 

 of Wiltsche taal; " and in the enlarged cata- 

 logue of the same library, p. 269, no. 1986, it is 

 described as containing the old testament and 

 psalms in the American Indian Language, 4to, 

 full morocco gilt. A report on the two copies 

 of the Indian bible in the library of this acad- 

 emy was presented at its meeting in December, 

 1873, by the librarian F. Nagtglas, and printed 

 as a separate pamphlet in January, 1874. An 

 English translation of it is in the Proceedings 

 of the Massachusetts Historical Society for 1873- 

 75, pp. 307-309, from which the above particu- 

 lars have been taken. The other copy is de- 

 scribed under no. 4 of this list. 



Another copy of the old testament and metri- 

 cal psalms, but with the addition of the En- 

 glish general title, is described under no. 19 of 

 this list. A copy was advertised for sale by 

 Eivington and Cochran of London, in their 

 Catalogue for 1824 (no. 2219), as "The Old Tes- 

 tament, with a metrical version of the psalms," 

 translated by John Eliot, Cambridge (New 

 England), 1663, 4to, calf neat, 18s. In Mr. 0. 

 Rich's chronological Catalogue of Books re- 

 lating to . . . America (London, 1832), no. 331, 

 a copy of "the Indian translation of the Old 

 Testament, and of the Psalms in verse," with 

 the Indian general title, was offered for sale for 

 21. 2s. 



There is no copy of the edition of 1663 in the 

 library of the American Philosophical Society 

 at Philadelphia, as mentioned in the lists of Mr. 

 Bartlett, Mr. O'Callaghan, Mr. Field, and Mr. 



