ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



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Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



of a peerless collection of Books and Manuscripts 

 (London, 1890), no. 442, to be exliibitecl or sale 

 in the United States in the spring of 1890. 



(49) Library of the University of Soutb Car- 

 olina, Columbia, S. C. An imperfect copy, 

 lacking the general title, the first eleven leaves 

 of Genesis, or all before chap. sxv. 16 (C4), 62 

 leaves in the new te>tament or from Acts xix, 

 12 to the end of Revelation (S — Kk2), and the 

 whole of the metrical psalms. On one of the 

 blank leaves is written : " Eec' of Amos Haha- 

 ton May 19'-'' 1731." The book was after- 

 wards owned by a Mrs. Goodwin, and was pur- 

 chased from her through the Rev. Dr. Palfrey, 

 luformatioa furnished by the librarian, Mr. 

 Isaac H. Means, in letter of December 18th, 

 1889. 



50) Library of J. Poyntz Spencer, fifth earl 

 Spencer, Althorp, England. "In old calf bind- 

 ing." No exact description has been obtained 

 of this c>py. See Dibdiu's Aedes Althorpiance 

 (London, 1822), p. 92. See also no. 34 of the list 

 of bibles of 1663. 

 (51) Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 



England. This copy also contains the original 

 dedication to the Hon. Robert Boyle, printed on 

 a single leaf, verso blank. Information fur- 

 nished by Dr. "William Everett, in letter of De- 

 cember 7, 1889. The book was examined by 

 Dr. Everett in the year 1869. 

 tVfi'ptjoO *- (52) J. Hammond Trumbull, LL. D., Hart- 

 '^ ford. Conn. No description has been obtained 



of this copy, which is mentioned in a letter 

 written by Dr. Trumbull in 1879. If it is the 

 one which was purchased in Dr. Trumbull's 

 name at the sale of Mr. GriswokVs books in 

 1876, its history belongs in this place, as follows: 

 It is boviud in red morocco, extra, by F. Bed- 

 ford. On the back of the first title is pasted 

 the, book-plate, dated 1702, of William Talbot, 

 successively bishop of Oxford, Salisbury and 

 Durham (born 1659, died 1730). It afterwards 

 came into the possession of Miss Frances Mary 

 Richardsou Currer, the well-known book col- 

 Itctor (born 178.5, diedl861). It does not appear, 

 however, in the privately-printed catalogue of 

 her library issued in 1833. At the sale of the 

 principal portion of Miss Currer's library in 

 London, July and August, 1862 (no. 425), where 

 it was described as bound in "calf, m. e. water 

 stained, " it brought 23Z., being purchased in 

 the name of " Willis." Mr. Alraon TV. Gris- 

 wold, of New York, was the next owner. He 

 had it cleaned and rebound, and at the sale of 

 a portion of his library in New York, announced 

 for February, butpostponed to March, 1876 (no. 

 206), it was bought for $325 by Dr. Trumbull, 

 probably for himself or for Mr. Brinley. 

 ^ (53) Library of Utrecht University, Utrecht, 



Holland. No exact description has been ob- 

 tained of this copy. It was sent to John Leus- 

 den for the University by Rev. Increase Mather, 

 at the time of its publication, and is referred 

 to by Leusden in his dedication of The Book of 

 Psalms, published in 1688, and by Hadrian Re- 



Eliot (J.) — Continned. 



land in his Dissertationes. published in 1708 

 vol. 3, p. 211, According to the Bibliothecae 

 Sheno-Trajectinae Catalogus (Trajecti ad Rhe^ 

 nura, 1833), vol. 1, p. 123, it contains the follow 

 ing manuscript inscription: " Biblioth. cele 

 berr. ap. Ultrajectinos Acad. Hac S. Bibliorum 

 versione indica donat Crescent. Matherus col 

 leg. harv. ap. Cantabrigienses in Nova Anglia, 

 Praeses pro tempore. Maij 28. A. D. 1686." 



(54) Mr. Cornelius Yanderbilt, New York, 

 A copy bound in levant red morocco, extra gilt, 

 with vellum linings and guard-leaves, by F, 

 Bedford. Size of the leaf, 7i by 5| inches. By 

 a mistake of the binder the leaf of rules and 

 the final blank leaf were inserted at the end of 

 the old testament. According to Dr. Trum- 

 bull, "the v>)lume has been skillfully cleaned 

 throughout, the margins of some short and worn 

 leaves extended, and the deficiencies, if any 



were found, are supplied in facsimile so perfect 

 as to escape detection." On one of the blank 

 leaves is a pencil memorandum, "From the 

 library of Jonathan Edwards." This refers, 

 perhaps, to the elder Jonathan Edwards (born 

 1703, died 1758), who was missionary to the 

 Stockbridge Indians from 1751 to 1757, and 

 president of the College of New Jersey in 1757- 

 58. His son, Jonathan Edwards (born 1745, 

 died 1801), pastor of the church in "White Ha- 

 ven, Conn., from 1769 to 1795, and president of 

 Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., from 1799 

 to his death, was well acquainted with the In- 

 dian language. The bible afterwards came into 

 the possession of Mr. George Brinley, of Hart- 

 ford, and at the sale of the third portion of his 

 library in New York, April, 1881, (no. 5681), was 

 bought for the present owner for $550. Infor- 

 mation furnished by Mr. Yanderbilt, in letter 

 of December 30th, 1889. 



(55) Library of Yale College, New Haven, 

 Conn. In the original calf binding, well pre- 

 served, lettered on the back, ss. biblia | 

 INDICA I N. ANGL. On the outside of each 

 cover are stamped the letters, "J. [ornament] 

 "W." On the first blank leaf is written, "John 

 ["Winthrop?] | mepossidet | 1697," the surname 

 being torn off. The name "Wintiirop" is 

 written on the second blank leaf. This was 

 probably the third John TVinthrop (born 1639, 

 died 1707), a grandson of the governor of Mas- 

 sachusetts. He was the agent of Connecticut 

 in London in 1693, and governor of the same 

 colony from 1698 until his death. This copy of 

 the bible was acquired by Yale College some 

 time before the year 1858. It is one of the two 

 copies mentioned in Mr. Paine's list, printed in 

 1873. It was then slightly imperfect, lacking a 

 signature or about four leaves, which were af- 

 terwards supplied out of another copy (no. 29). 

 Information furnished by Dr. Ellsworth Eliot; 

 and by the librarian, Mr. Addison Van Name, 

 in letters of December 30th, 1889, and January 

 29th, 1890. 



For a description of two other copies of this 

 edition formerly in the library of Yale College, 



