THE

ECCLESIOLOGIST.

Surge igitur et fac: et erit Dominus tecum."

No. LXXVI.-FEBRUARY, 1850.

(NEW SERIES, no. xl.)

LIST OF PRINTED SERVICE BOOKS OF ENGLISH USES.

THE following list must not be taken as a complete catalogue either of the printed ritual books of the English uses, or of all that are extant of each class. It is nothing but a first attempt, compiled mainly from the different catalogues with the kind assistance of a few gentlemen to whom the design of forming it had been made known. It was considered that an incomplete and inaccurate list would be better than nothing, and if this attempt should induce any one to undertake the task of preparing a more perfect and complete one, the object of the compiler will be gained. In this many and great imperfections will be found; indeed, with the exception of the majority of the Missals, hardly any attempt has been made to correct the materials of which it is compiled. Where several names occur of the printers and publishers of the books in the title pages and colophons, it would seem that no uniform system has been adopted by those who have prepared the catalogues. Sometimes the name of the publisher is given, sometimes that of the printer; and occasionally there is additional confusion when the same person has two names: it is likely therefore, that many of the editions which in this list seem to be different, will turn out to be the same. It may be mentioned, however, that among the Marian editions of the Manual, at least four varieties appear of what would at first sight seem to be the same book; two copies in particular appear to have been reprinted page for page from some older edition, but the arrangement

of the contents of each page differs considerably. There are also at least four Processionals printed at London in 1555. It is probable that inaccuracies in the catalogues may also affect the Hymnals, some of those noted as Hymnals containing also the Sequentiæ. A similar cause of error may apply also to the Ordinal, and to the Horæ and Prymers.

In some cases the date of the colophon and that of the title page vary by a year, and when one or other of them is deficient in different copies, a new source of ambiguity occurs. The size of the books is also very differently described in the catalogues. The smaller Missal of 1494 has been described as 4to., small 8vo., and 12mo. These various causes of inaccuracy and uncertainty made it seem best to print simply the descriptions that came to hand, without attempting to improve the appearance of the list by ranking those that might probably turn out to be the same edition under one head :—this has been done only when there seemed no doubt on the subject. It must not be supposed that all the libraries mentioned in the last column have been exhausted. In many the search was unavoidably very hastily made, and at least in the more important of those which the compiler has gone through himself, he is satisfied that the search might with advantage be made over again. Any corrections and additions will be thankfully received by the Editor.

It may be well to add, that a complete catalogue raisonnée of all books of this nature, whether printed or MS., ought to be made, comprising, as to the MSS., a careful abstract of the contents of each, with a notice of the probable age, and of anything that might help to fix the place where it was written or was intended to be used; and as to the printed books, not merely a list such as this, but a book, containing an enlargement of the sketch given in Gough's Topography, vol. ii. pp. 319-361, and 425-427, supplying the title and colophon, foliation, number of lines in a page, and measure of the letterpress in each column, along with any peculiarities of the woodcuts or other ornaments, and the nature of the type of each book, and including, besides, an account of the origin and history of the Anglican

uses.

Any information on these heads with which the compiler may be favoured shall be carefully preserved, with a view of turning it to a good account at a future time.

Regnault

Regnault

S. John's Coll. Cambridge.
Exeter College.

British Mus.

Evans, Esq.

Maskell.

Thoresby, Ducatus Leodi

ensis. P. 546 Canterbury Cathedral.

De. and Chap. of Winds.*
Sir Hugh Hoare, Bart.*
Rev. J. Horner.*
Rev. Dr. Rock.

Brit. Museum. Maskell.†
Brit. Museum.

Maskell.

Bodleian, Gough 192, 193.
Rev. Joseph Mendham
Chapter Library, York.
The Marquis of Bath.
Rev. W. Maskell.
Brit. Mus. King's Lib.
New College.
Bodleian, Gough 38.
Queen's Coll. Cambridge.
Sion College.
New College.
Rev. J. Mendham.
W. Kerslake, Bristol. Imp.
Brit. Museum. Maskell.
Bodleian, Gough 58.
Queen's Coll. Oxon.
Univ. Lib. Cambridge.
Bodleian, Douce.

S. John's Coll. Cambridge.
S. Marie's Coll. Oscott.
A. J. B. Hope, Esq.
Brit. Museum. Maskell.

Bodleian, Douce.

Rev. Joseph Mendham.
Brit. Museum. Maskell.
Bamborough Castle.

These three books have in the title page, London, 1555, but in the colophon, 1535, Paris, Regnault.

+ Both volumes have title pages with the date 1555, place London; they have the same type, and appear to be similar. I have therefore marked them both according to the colophon of the P.E.