Each part separately entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without prices.
Jefferson’s copy of this work is no longer in the Library of Congress. The entries in his manuscript catalogue and in the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1815 make it clear that he divided the book into its component parts, and treated
them as separate books. The numbers in the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue show the position of the books on Jefferson’s
shelves, and they follow in sequence, no. 152, 153 and 154. Jefferson owned the separate issue of Lambarde’s
Αρχιονομια;
see no. 1767.
The Venerable Bede, 673-735, English historian and scholar, completed his
Historia Ecclesiastica in 731. It was first printed in Strassburg circa 1473. This edition of 1644 is Daniel’s edition of 1643 with a new title.
Jefferson’s copy of Stapleton’s translation into English of this work was placed by him in Chapter V, Ecclesiastical History;
see no. 623. The Anglo-Saxon version is placed in the present chapter on account of its language not the subject matter.
Abraham Whelock, 1593-1653, the translator of the
Chronologia Saxonica. For a note on him, see no. 1767.
William Lambarde, 1536-1601, the author of
’Αρχιονομια, was the first of the host of learned men, listed by Jefferson at the beginning of his essay on Anglo-Saxon, who deserve
to be ever remembered with gratitude. The list is comprised of Lambard, Parker, Spelman, Wheeloc, Wilkins, Gibson, Hickes,
Thwaites, Somner, Benson, Mareschal, Elstob.
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Boethius
Anglo-Saxonicé ab Alfredo rege.
8
vo.
Oxon.
1815 Catalogue, page 163, no. 87, as above.
BOETHIUS,
Anicius Manlius Severinus.
An. Manl. Sever. Bœthi Consolationis Philosophiæ Libri V.
Anglo-Saxonice Redditi ab Alfredo, Inclyto Anglo-Saxonum Rege. Ad apographum Junianum expressos edidit Christophorus Rawlinson, è Collegio Reginæ.
Oxoniæ: E
Theatro Sheldoniano
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. Sumtibus Editoris, Typis Junianis. [1698.]
PR1549 .A2 1698
8vo. 106 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of Junius by Burghers after Vandyke, engraved vignette with arms on the title-page, engraved head-piece, and initial with a portrait of King Alfred, all by Burghers. The text in prose in long lines, is followed by Versiones Poeticæ è Codice Cottoniano desumptæ in double columns, list of
errata on the last leaf.
Lowndes I, 229.
Hazlitt II, 54.
STC B3429.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. I, 87.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
5/-.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, c. 480-524, Roman philosopher and statesman, wrote
De Consolatione Philosophiae while undergoing imprisonment though innocent of crime.
Alfred the Great, 849-901, began his translation of Boethius, in which he was helped by Asser, in 887.
Christopher Rawlinson, 1677-1733, English antiquary and Anglo-Saxon scholar, published Alfred’s Saxon version of Boethius from a transcript at
Oxford made by Francis Junius, and had it printed with the Junian types. For a note on Francis Junius, see no. 4864.
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Orosius.
Saxon by K. Alfred &
Eng. by Barrington.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 167, no. 88, as above.
OROSIUS,
Paulus.
The
Anglo-Saxon Version, From the Historian Orosius. By Ælfred the Great. Together with an
English Translation from the
Anglo-Saxon.
London: Printed by
W. Bowyer and
J. Nichols: And sold by
S. Baker and
G. Leigh, York-street Covent-Garden;
T. Payne, at the Meuse-Gate, Castle-street; and
B. White, at Horace’s-Head, Fleet-street.
mdcclxxiii
. [1773.]
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