The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-30
RARE OLD MANUSCRIPTS.
SOME TILTIBLE ADDITIONS Io
 THE YALE LIBRARY.

 | Andrews of New York. Prof. Hoppih of
 Yale and Edward Element of New York
 Other Valuable and Interesting Books
 and Pictures at the Library.
 | A department in which the Yale h- brary has been hitherto very poor. that of early printed books. has been great iy enriched by recent gifts.
 The chief of these, from Mir. William Loring Andrews, of New York. compris- es Qn addition to two fifteenth century manuscripts) thirty-two volumes which well illustrate the first century of the art of printing, containing specimens of the early German, Italian, French and English printers. Of the manuscripts one contains the first ten books of Livy the other n life of Carlo Zeno. admiral of Venice, written by his grandson In l45S and dedicated to Pope Plus H., having his family arms dhePiccolomi- nib, with other decorations, on the first page, and his name in gold letters at the head of each chapter. Both manu- scripts are on the purest vellum, beau- tifully written and in a perfct state of preservation.
 Of printed books. the Bible printed by Fust & Schoeffer in 1862 the third in order of date) Is represented by sin gle leaf only; but from 1470 on there is goodly series, e. g. one volume (con- taining three separate works) of 147O; two of 1471; three of 1472; two of 1477. etc.
 Among them and the most valuable of all is Higden's Polycronion, printed by Caxton in l4S2; Lorenzo Valla De linguae latinae elesantia," Venice l472, and Pliny, Naturalis historic, Venice, l472, both printed by Nicholas Jenson, and the latter considered his master piece; Justinian Novellae Constitu- tiones, printed by Schoeffer at Mainz in 1477; the first edition of Aesop's fables, 14S0; the Ordinary of Crysten men, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, at Lon don in 1906, and fine series of Aldine editions, nine in number.
 The books are without exception in fine condition, some of them in fine bindings, and some of them have fine initials in gold and colors.
 Except the Caxton, which has been in MT. Andrews possession for twenty five years, they are mostly bought at the sales of the Thorold library, of Sys- ton Park, in 1884, and the Woodruff H. brary in 1886. The cost of the books to MT. Andrews, as appears from prices noted in the books, was not far from three thousand dollars, and the present value, it may be safely assumed, would be considerably more than that sum.
 The following are other books given by MT. Andrews in the collection:
 IntrationumLiber, printed in London :n 1510 by Richard Pynson; Das Water Boeck, a Dutch version of S. Jerome's Vitae Patrum, printed by Zwolle in 149O, with xylographic illustration, by Peter Van Os; manuscript fac-simile of the first work printed by Aldus Manutius Cat Venice in 149D, being copy in Lat in and Greek of Musaeus De Herone ct Leandro, with illustrations; the earliest printed edition of the Greek text of Plu- tarch's Morals, printed at Venice in 1909 by Aldus Manutius and his father in-law, Andrea d. Aso1a ;Libri de re rustica by Cato, Varro, Columella, etc., printed in Venice in 1514 by Aldus Ma nutius and his father-in-law Andrea d. Asola, and bound in the Grolier style; Livy edited by Carlo Sigonio, printed at Venice in 1572 at the Aldine Press; Isidore of Seville, Liber Etymol- ogiarum, the earliest printed edition, printed at Strasburg by Johann Men telin about 1470-73.
 A valuable supplement to the above mentioned gift has been received from Prof. James M. Hoppin, of the Yale School of Fine Arts, consisting of thir- teen folio volumes, selected by him from a large collection of duplicates be- longing to the old Carmeite library at Bamberg. Bavaria, in 1S46. They were printed between 1474 and 15O6, and in- clude among others, Calderinus, Reper- torium juris, 1474, Vulgate translation of the Bible, printed at Nuremberg in 1477 by Anton Koburzer, Dionysius Cato, Ethica Augsburg, 1475; Chrysos- tom, Homoies on St. Matthew, printed at Strasburg about 1466 by Johann Men telion.
 The books are well preserved as to text and are in the original bindings, rough, but none the less interesting on
  that account.
 Mr. Edward Bement, of New York, in past years a benefactor of the library, has given a rare and interesting series of editions of Richard de Bury's Philo- | biblon, comprising the first edition, Co., logne, 1473; the second series, 14S3; the fourth, Oxford, 1599, and five later edi- tions. The first two editions are of great variety and are also in costly bindings
 l Among other interesting old books which have been at the library longer time are: St. Augustine's "Liber de singularitate clericorum," printed at Mainz in 1467 by Ulrich Bell; manu- script copy of the laws of Yale college, 1727, the first page of which reads as follows: "Orders and appointments to be observed in the Collegiate School of Connecticut. Chap: |: Such as are admitted students in ye college shall in their examinations in order thereunto
 be found expert in both Greek and Latin grammar, as also resolving both Greek and Latin authors and making good and true latin. Chap: 2: Every student shall exercise himself in read ing Holy Scripture by himself every day vt ye Word of Christ may dwell in him truly and vt he may be filled with
 the knowledge of the will of God in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
 This is also a notebook filled with notes made by Abram Pierson, first rector of Yale, while student at liar.