Thomas Jefferson Papers

Thomas Jefferson: Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Books, Apr. 1824, April 1824

 Books to be procured for the Anglo-Saxon course in the school of Modern languages.
 £. sterl.
 1–16–0 Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicæ Hickesii, Oxon. 1689. 4to
×  0– 7–6 Grammatica A-Saxonica ex Hickesiano Thesauro excerpta. 8vo
Elstob’s Saxon Grammar: p. 4to
 3– 3–0 Junius’s Etymologicon
×  6–16–6. Lye’s Dictionarum Saxonico-et Gothico-Latinum ab Owen Manning. 2.to. in 1. fol.
×  1– 8–0 Benson’s Saxon Vocabulary. 8vo
 8. 0. 0 Somneri Dictionarium Saxonio-Latino-Anglicum. Oxon. 1659. fol.
 1. 10. 0 Orosius Saxon by Alfred and English by Barrington. 8vo
Chronologia A-Saxonica. à Wheeloc. fol.
 2– 2–0 Chronicon Saxonicum. Gibson. A-Saxon et Latine’. Oxon 1692. 4to
 0–15–0 Gurney’s transln of the Saxon Chronicle. Lond. 1819. I. et A. Arch.
 3–13–6 Ingram’s Saxon Chronicle, with an Eng. transln, notes Etc 4to
×  1– 7–0 Alfredi magni vita, à Spelmanno, appendicibus. Oxon. 1678. fol.
 0–18–0 Spelman’s life of Alfred. Eng. 8vo
 2– 2–0 Bedae Historia Ecclesiastica. Lat et A. Saxon et Chronologia Saxonica. Cant, 1643. 4to.
×  1– 1–0 Bede’s Ecclesiastical history. Eng. 8vo Lond. 1723.
×  4– 4–0 { Asser Menevensis de rebus gestis Alfredi. Lat. in A-Saxon characters. Chronica et Ypodigmata Neustriæ. Thomae Walsingham. } Lond. 1574 4to
 0. 10. 6 Annales reram gestarum. Aelfridi Asseri Menevensis à Wise, et Chronologia vitae Alfridi, Spelmanni. Oxon. 1722. 8vo
Lambardi Archaionomia. Saxon. et Lat. folio
 1. 1. 0 the same Lond. 1658. 4to
 0– 5–0 Lambardi’s antient laws by Day. 4to 1658. [see Clarke’s Bibliotheca legum. pa. 108. 1819]
 1. 1. 0 Spelmanni Concilia. fol. Lond. 1639.
 2– 4–0 Wilkins’s leges A-Saxonicae. fol. Lond. 1721.
Wheeloc leges A-Saxonicae. fol. Cantabr. 1644.
 1– 7–0 Heptateuchus, Job, et Evangelium Nicodemi. A-Saxonicé. à Thwaites. Oxon. 1698 8vo
+  0– 5–6 The Apocryphal New testament, with the gospel of Nicodemus. Lond. 1821. 8vo
Caedmonis Paraphrasis Genesios. Junii. 4to Amstel. 1655.
 1– 7–0 Psalterium Davidis Lat-Saxonicum vetus. Spelmanni. 4to Lond. 1640.
+  1–16–6 Evangeliorum versiones Gothica et A-Saxonica à Junio et Mareschallo, et Gothicum Glossarium Junii 2. v. in 1. 4to Dordrechti. 1665.
36–18–6
£. sterl.
36–18–6
Evangeliæ IV. Saxonicé et Angelicé per Johannem Foxum. 4to Lond. 1571.
+  0– 4–0 Henshall’s Goth. Eng. Saxon Gospel of St Matthew. 8vo
Homilia Paschalis, Epistolae Etc. per Johannem Daium. 1567. 12mo
+  1– 1–0. Elstob’s English-Saxon & Latin Homily on the birthday of St Gregory. 8vo Lond. 1709.
 1. 1. 0 { Aelfrici Homilia Paschalis, oratio Domenica, Symb. apost. Decalogus. Saxonicé. 4to 1638.
Aelfricus de Veteri et novo Testamento vernome Anglicanâ, per Gul. Lisle. 4to Lond. 1638
 1–10–0 Boethius Anglo-Saxonicé redditus Aelfredi, à Rawlinson 4to Oxon. 1698.
Wanley’s Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon books and Charters. fol.
Joh. Foxe Martyrologia.
{  5– 5–0. Vision concerning Piers Ploughman by Whitaker. 4to Lond. 1813.
 1– 7–0. Pierce Ploughman’s creed. 4to Lond. 1814.
 2. 2. 0 Douglas’s works.
 2–14–0 Hall’s Chronicle. 4to Lond. 1809.
 1– 4–0 Wotton’s view of Hickes’s Thesaurus. by Shelton. 4to
 0– 9–0 Fortescue de laudibus legum Angliae. black letter. 1573. 8vo
 1–10–0 Mallet’s Northern antiquities by Percy. 2. v. 8vo
 5. 10. 0 Warton’s history of English poetry.
+  0– 9–6. Grose’s Provincial Glossary. 8vo
 0. 7. 6 Collier’s Lancaster dialect by Tim Bobbin.
 9. 0. 0 Jamieson’s Scottish dictionary.
+  0– 6–0 Sinclair’s Observations on the Scottish dialect. 8vo
Horne Tooke’s Epea pteroenta, or Diversions of Purley. 2. v. 8vo
 2– 2–0 Etymologicon linguae Anglicanae Skinneri. fol.
 0. 5. 0 Ben Johnson’s English Grammar.
+  0– 3–3 Wallisii Grammatica linguæ Anglicanæ. 8vo
 D c
55– 3–0 = 245.11 the extended articles at actual prices
30– 0–0 = 133.33. the unextended articles at proportionate prices
85– 3–6 = 378.44

I offered this catalogue without the prices at Lackington’s and found all those marked + he had put higher, & all those – lower, but the excess was not considerably greater than the diminution.

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