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Adæ et Assignatis Archiepiscopal MSS Bibliotheca Bodleiana adservan Bibliotheca Bodleiana adservantur Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ Cod Britanniæ British Museum C. C. College CAMBRIDGE Cantab Carshunic MSS Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum catalogue by Nasmith catalogue is constructed Catalogus sive notitia cathredralis Dunelmensis cata Codices Græci Codices MSS comparati in Bibliotheca compiled with equal descriptus a Thoma desford Dunelm E. D. Clarke comparati ecclesiæ cathredralis Dunelmensis Elements of Geometry Euclid's Elements ex dono Thomæ Gustavo Haenel Hispaniæ Hotot impertinence to place impressi cum notis James Nasmith Johannis Lambeth Palace Library yet remains Libri Orientales liothecis Galliæ logus classicus Lond low literary labour Lusitaniæ asservantur miscellanea varia notis manuscriptis old English poetry olim d'Orvilliani Orientalium Catalogus Oxon pducibile a Deo prædicto Adæ private press producibile A Deo Roda super Rodas Terræ Rogeri Grumbaud scribed Sir Henry Ellis Sir Thomas Phillipps sive notitia Manuscriptorum Syriac and Carshunic tained in Wood's transcribe their titles Woldweston Worcestershire
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Page 3 - this age has produced, who had been trained up in all the polite studies of Antiquity, assure me, upon his being obliged to search into several rolls and records, that, notwithstanding such an employment was at first very dry and irksome to him, he at last took an incredible pleasure in it, and preferred it even to the reading of Virgil or
Page 11 - ad simpliciter, A est producibile A Deo ; ergo A est ; et similiter hic ; A non est; ergo A non est producibile a Deo.
Page 10 - [This is an absurd attempt at a classed catalogue, and without exception is the very worst failure at a classification that has ever come within the notice of the learned world : the principal information that can be got from it is, that the author (who appears to have been a man more fitted for making an index to Mr. Dickens
Page 11 - any mortal had the maximum impertinence to place before the view of a civilized literary world, this is by far the very worst. Not a single MS. is properly described ; the majority are without dates, while miscellanea varia,
Page 10 - else, and I question whether a more low literary labour could be pointed out,) was not able to read a page of an old MS. correctly.
Page 11 - A Catalogue of the Archiépiscopal MSS. in the Library at Lambeth Palace, fol. Lond. 1812.
Page 11 - the age of a middle-age manuscript can in most cases be ascertained much more accurately than the best
Page 11 - will serve to give the reader some idea of the nature of
Page 9 - [The first portion of this Catalogue is very well compiled, but the third volume is full of imperfections.