gentleman’s library in the sixteenth century. There are the best chronicles of the time, as Fabyan, Harding, &c., translations of the classics, and some in their original languages, statutes, new books of justices and other legal works, books of physic, dictionaries, &c., and each of the books is marked with a price. The most expensive books:— Cronica Cronicarum , xxs; Minister’s Cosmografye , xvjs; un byble, xs; a calapyne, xs [Calepino’s Vocabulary of the Latin Tongue]; Fabyan’s Cronicle , vs; Statuts of Henry theight, xijs; all the Statuts of Kyng Edward the VI., ijs; all the Statuts of the Quene, ijs; Chausore, vs. There were four New Testaments, “one in ffrench,” xxd, two “in Italion,” respectively xxjd and ijs vjd, and one “in lattyn,” xijd. The Legenda Aurea was priced iijs iiijd; Tullye’s Officys translated, viijd; ij bokes conteyning Tully’s Philosophy , ijs vjd; Cezar’s Commentary , xvjd; ij bokes of Machevale’s works in Italion, iijs iiijd; Hardyng’s Cronycle , ijs vjd; Utopea , viijd. Of low-priced books we find—A lyttle cronicle, id; Lydgates’ Proverbs , id; Alexander Barkley’s Eclogs , id; Skelton’s Work, iiijd; and Triumph of Petrark , vjd.
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