©Ff more than earth can earth make none par- 
taker, 
But knowledge makes the KING moft like 
his Maker. 
SLVIUL—LORD BACON'S WORKS. 
In the public library are alfo fome of 
the works of a much ereater man than 
James, prefented too by himfelf to his 
alia maier: thefe are two volumes, bound 
in velvet and filver, of the great reir 
of philofophy, Lord Bacon ; the frt 
containing his-nine books, De Dignitate 
et Augmentis Scientiarum ; thie fecond, his 
Novum Organum. Oppofite to the title. 
page are thefe worcs, in Lord Bacon’s 
hand, Francifcus de Verulamio Vicecomes 
St. Albani, alme matri Incl. Academia 
Cantabrigienfi. 8. 
| Debita filii, quam pofum, perfolvo. 
Quod vero facio, idem et vos hortor, ut 
augmentis fcientiarum firenue imcumbatis, 
et in animi modeftia libertatem ingenti rett- 
neatis, neque talentum a veteribus coucre- 
ditum in fudario reponaiis. Affuerit procul- 
dubio et affulferit divini luminis gratia, fi 
bumilicté et fubmifja religionis philsfopbia, 
clavibus fenfus legitime et dextre wtamint, 
et ameto omnt contraditionis fiudio quifque 
cum alio, ac fi ipfe fecum, difputetis. 
X¥Lix.—The EDITIO PRINCEPS of LIVY. 
Ina former number was given an account 
of a few curious books, and fome of the 
oldeft printed, in the Public Library ; un- 
der that head may alfo be placed a beau- 
tifui end valuable copy of Livy, an Ad- 
tio Princeps, or the edition that was fiift 
put forth after the invention of printing. It 
is in two volumes, folio; was edited by 
the Bifhop of Aleria, in Venice, and dedi- 
eated to Pope Pius II. At the beginning, 
Dr. Farmer, late librarian to the Public 
Library, has written the following notice: 
«© This edition “was not in the colle&tion 
of Dr. Mead or Dr. Afkew, nor is it in 
the King’s library, or any known li- 
brary in England. The two volumes are 
worth at leait sol. 
“© O47. 22,1784. “R. FARMER.” 
Thefe two volumes are certatnly fel- 
lows, but had been feparated for many 
years, at what time, or by what means, is 
unknown; but the hiftory cf their re- 
union is rather curious, apd will be ex- 
piained in the following extract of a letter 
to Dr. Farmer, frem Mr. G. Nicol. 
*¢ J have herewith, agreeably to my 
romife, fent the oe of Livy; and if 
it turns cut what I hope it is, the fit vo- 
lume of the bock in your public library, 
Cantabrigiana. 
| [ May 1, 
I fhall be happy, through your means, to 
have placed it there. I bought it, as f 
believe I told you, at Hoblyn’s fale, and 
fince that have put, as you fee,a new coat 
on its back. Printing types are fo very 
much alike, that it is not eafy to carry 
them in the eye, but you will eafily difco- 
ver by comparifon. If E judge right,’ 
both the volume in the public library, and 
this now fent, are printed by Vendelin of 
Spira (who was the firft, with bis brother 
John, who printed at Venice) notwith- 
itanding the volumes of nonfenfe that have 
been written about the Decor Puellarum of 
Nic. Jenfon, 146s. This will be feen by 
looking at the end of your volume, where 
you will find the bare date 1470, with a 
long copy'of verfis, the feventh line’ef 
which runs thus :— 
Et Vindelino tu quoque, &c. 
But, whether the volume now fent is by 
the fame printer, can be known, as T have 
already faid, by comparifon only, It is 
a book of fuch rarity, that I have never 
feen it, and indeed I know of no copy, 
but one in the public library at Leons. 
Tt is-affuredly the firft volume of Livy, 
without a date; for that of the Bifhop of 
Aleria, printed by Seveynham and Pan- 
nartz, and that of Campanus, printed by 
Adetricius Gallus, havetneither of them 
a date, and therefore the printing of them 
can only be afcertained by circumftances, 
which at this diftance are often fallacious. 
‘¢ Believe me your obedient fervant, 
‘¢ Gzorce Nicor,.—Strand.”” 
Thefe two volumes, therefore, are now, 
it is to be hoped, brought to their proper 
and laft home—Pace quiefcaut. ~ 
L.—KING JAMES'S ORDER. 
Having already fpoken concerning fub- 
fcription to the Thirty-nine Articles, and 
the part taken in it by James I. fF 
think a more fpecific ftatement will not 
be out of place. And, fhould the rea- 
der be able to refrain from fmiling at 
the following directiors, and more parti- 
cularly at the ridiculous folemnity of 
Bithop Montacute’s letter that follows 
them, I aflure him, it was more than I 
could, 
“ His Majefty fignified his pleafure, 
that he would have ail that take any de- 
gree in {chools to fubfcribe to the arti- 
cles,” viz. the three darling. articles al- 
ready referred to. 
After fome other direétions, the King 
ordered, that ** Mr. Vice Chancellor, and - 
the two Profeffors of Divinity, or two 
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