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^cry likely tliat there is another Copy of this Book in the 
B^perws Library at Viema 5 for LAnnheciuf^ Comment, di Bib- 
iJakOf. Uk IL Pag. 772. reckons amongft thofe which 
fee brought away from the j4ri:Aiv/wr^/ Library at I»fpruc^^ 
Brok^of wMch fee gives this Account, Apocalypfis S. Joannk 
£^p!&i?U €^ Emw'getifi'<^ Laiino Germanic chart acea in folio^ 
mm^ mm $ i^fui^ i^^wutlis fignris ligna incifts^ qua propter 
-m^M^^m fkiim !f}e3atu funt digmjfim£^ and ia this Book at 
bdiAes the Printed Cuts, alfo a Commentary u^oxi 
tfcc dpm:d0i m -H^gh-DMcL Befides theie two nioft 
■m€^mt Prifited Books» Mr Bagford told me that in ihe 
Mmmfif^^ Ubr-^ry of Corpm Chrifii or Benmt College in Cam- 
mpfdgekc iaw atWrd, containing th^'Hrftoryof our Saviour^ 
Wmmc^ on one Side only of the Paper, "vvith fuch like 
W^M&B Guts^ but yet more neatly thaii.either of the 
fermer, which I had before ihewn him at Oxford. And thefc 
three ©Goksjbeing as is before faid,Stamp'd but on one fide of 
th« Leaf 5- the whole wroi^ght ox cut upon Wood 5 not Set or 
'Cm^^ciftd with Printing Letter y and Printed with Writing 
^kjh -3© ftiSSciently demonftrate that the Art was as yet 
« itfi fefancy;; and may,thothey bear no Workmons Name, 
■be ^ery reafon^bly afcribed to Kofter^ not only becaufe 
?no%Gdy elfe lays claim to "^em, but becaufe in divers Cir- 
cumftances they agree with the Hiftory of the Man,and with 
mhm, ^remains of his Workmanlhip. If it be asked why 
did not fet his Narae,and the Year to thefc Books, as 
well as^tGthat ati?<2rte/^,m^ by Mr Ellis} It may be 
anfwer -d^ that S^-z^ret/e/i^ 
mentioned 5 by Oath to fecrecy, and not to betray 
the Art to any perfon whatfoever. Wherein 'tis like- 
%,^th^t his defign was not fo much to let the World think^ 
'that ihe ihad a^new way of multiplying the Copy of a Book 
OTudh^quicker than the quickeft Penman ; but that he de- 
%ned to Impdfe upon the World, by felling his Printed 
'&di[s,^ 'for New-Written Copies, whereby the BookrWriter 
and MumimVoT nrmft Cas he might well j>retend) be fo paid 
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