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Rariora : Being Notes of Some of the Printed Books, Manuscripts .?*;v N IN MEMORIAM FILII PERDILECTI ELIOT QVL CASV INFELICI INTER VENANDVM OPPRESSVS ANIMAM DEO REDDIDIT PR. ID. JAN. M.CM. OYK E.H TOE nElPEESETESM TIIMH IHI ZOIHI AYTOT E^TEM EEC TOM YiniAPXOMTOM AYTOY- Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Wellcome Library 4' V https://archive.Org/details/b29002771_0001 <^RARIORA BEING NOTES OF SOME OF THE PRINTED BOORS. MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. MEDALS, ENGRAVINGS, POTTERY. ETC., etc.. COLLECTED (1858-1900) BY JOHN ELIOT HODGKIN. F. 5. A. VOL.I. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY. LT? ST DUNSTANS HOUSE. FETTER LANE.E.C. ]. R. H. im,\ et dcl{ PRINTED BY BEMROSE AND SONS LIMITED AT THEIR PRESS IN THE PARISH OF SAINT PETER IN THE TOWN OF DERBY. historic*"- 1 ( \ mECiC-'- 'N</er-i> CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PAGES SIBI ET AMICIS - xi-xii A WORD ON THE THRESHOLD xiii-xv CLASSIFICATION OF THE COLLECTION xvi-xix A NOTE OF THE COLLECTION - - i-iii INDEX TO NOTE OF THE COLLECTION 1 12-124 LIST OF TLATES OF FACSIMILES IN VOL. I. A NOTE OF THE COLLECTION. ' TO FACE PAGE I. MS. Horoscope of Magdalen., daughter of Philip Melancthon (a.d. 1531) - - - 6 II. Original letter from Lucretia Borgia to Hippolito, Cardinal UEste (a.d. 1502) - - 12 III. Holograph letter addressed by William III. to Lieut.-General Talmash (a.d. 1694) - 14 IV. Original rough draft of summons to Sir John Hotham by Charles I. (a.d. 1642) - - 14 V. S. Pepys's own copy of the Oath taken by him at the Trinity House (a.d. 1661) - - 16 VI. Original letter from John Prederic and N. Hernett \.o S. Pepys, and his reply (a.d. 1665) '16 VH. Original letter written at Scone by the Old Pretender to Lord Panmure (a.d. 1716) - 18 VIH. Original draft of the celebrated “ Transaction’' between Beaumarchais and D'Eon (a.d. 1775) 24 IX. Contemporary copy of Magna Charta (a.d. 1220-30) 26 X. Original notification of the Council and Company of Virginia 26 XI. Engraved portrait of John Felton - - - 42 XH. Portrait engraved by Hollar of Blaise de Manjre (water-spouter) 46 XHI. Satirical print, “ The Pattenty ”-----------48 XIV. Rare and unique Playing Cards ----------- ^6 - - XV. -XXI. English Shop-Bills (17th and i8th centuries) 7 plates 62 XXH. Mdlle. des Favours (Pantheon Head-dress) 64 XXHI. Proof of Ticket for Regatta-Ball at Ranelagh, engraved by Bartolozzi - - - - 66 XXIV. English Historical Medals (plate I.) ---------- 84 XXV. English Historical Medals {^\ai& \\.) ----- 88 XXVI. A Conclave of Bears (Early English Potter^) 98 XXVH. Objects in Pewter - - - - - - - - - - - - -100 XXVIH. Leaden Bale-Clips - - - - - - - - - - - - -102 XXIX. Objects in Horn - -- -- -- -- -- -- -104 XXX. Bronze Hand-Bells - - - - - - - - - - - - -106 XXXI. Viatoria (Portable Sun-Dials) - - - - - - - - - - -108 XXXH. Marquetry in coloured Straw - - - - - - - - - - - no ro THE %EADET^ T was originally intended to present this work in two volumes only. Circumstances I having arisen which made it expedient to postpone for a short time its publication, advantage was taken of the delay to offer it in a more handy form by dividing the first volume into two. As, however, the sheets had already passed through the press, the alteration entails some few corrections in the various allusions in the text to “ Volume II.” The reader will, therefore, kindly note that the references in Vol. I. on pages 7, 8, 42, 45, 83, no, and in Vol. II., page 187, to particulars in Ho/. II., are now to be taken as applying to Vol. III. As a separate pagination and Index had already been allotted to the Note of the Collectio7t and to Incunabula respectively, no other inconvenience has been entailed by the division. Corrigenda. Page 4, last line, for 1505 read 1506. Plate facing page 7, for Fencer read Fencer. Page 12, line 6 from bottom, for Janies XL read James VI. Feilding. ,, 14, line 25, for Fielding read for Heminge. ,, 82, line 3, Henninge read “ “ „ 106, line 28, for chantant Jot” read chantantJortl „ 107, line 16, for ud genus omne, read id genus omne. — / SIBI ET ^MICIS. HE joy of collecting ! The insidious, enthralling, indomitable joy trivial though it appears to those who are not of the Guild when contrasted with the bliss of the devout, with the delight of the poet, painter, sculptor or musician in the things by him created—with the exultation of the conqueror or statesman in his sway over the bodies or minds of his fellow-men, with the transports of requited love, with the thrill of paternal affection —this emotion has yet for the initiated an enchantment supreme, sufficing, enduring. The pursuit, shy and shame- faced at its birth, confident and masterful in its middle-age, tranquillizing in its evening and decline, has ever provided for its votaries a haven of rest from the world of passion and strife, an abiding contentment, and a sure antidote for the ennui begotten of the satiety of life. It can tinge for some of us with its rosy glow the hill-tops at least of existence, if it may not suffice to chase from its gloomy valleys the spectres of disappointment, sorrow, and regret. The anxieties and cares of forty years of a busy and somewhat chequered career have in my own case been soothed, and its pleasures greatly enhanced, by a seductive and almost irresistible habit of acquiring, with such discrimination as was at command, and to such an extent as a frequently too modest purse would countenance, the things which a fervid instinct counselled or impelled me to make my own. Though born of impulse, and not of deliberate resolve, the enterprise has from the first flowed in methodical channels, so that the objects collected have crystallised, as will be seen, round a number of well-defined nuclei, leaving but little in indeterminate solution. — xii SIBI ET AMICIS. The Collector who, avoiding from the first the indiscriminate heaping together of all manner of “ curiosities,” succeeds in tempering his first exultation in the possession of things wondrous, rare, and strange by a resolution that each new acquisition shall become the member of one of the little groups into which the collection will almost mechanically divide itself, cannot fail to find his enjoyment in the pursuit to increase in a geometrical rather than an arithmetical ratio. Some sub-divisions will exercise lordship over others, and by their rapid growth astonish even their owner, whose care it must ever be to see to it that no needless accumulations arise of undigested, that is to say unassorted, uninvestigated, undescribed material, but that whether the arrivals at any juncture be many or few, each shall, as soon as may be, take its appointed place in the little family to which its characteristics assign it. The labour— not a light one if conscientious investigation of idiosyncrasies and peculiarities be indulged in—will be repaid a thousand times by the enjoyment derived from a well-ordered distribution of the spoils of the chase. “ In tali nunquam lassat venatio sylvdl “And all to what purpose? apart from the delight experienced by the accumulator of these waifs and strays, which he really seems almost to worship,” will be said by many a reader to whom this particular pursuit may by no means appeal. The question is more easily asked than answered, and yet is one which may fairly be put, not to the collector alone, but to the enthusiast in many another walk in life, and moreover should inevitably occur to each successful toiler himself as urgently needing an answer from his own conscience. The inner self will sooner or later knock at the door of all men of eager temperament, whom the impulse of ambition, the desire for wealth, a passionate love of art or literature, or other powerful instinct may have driven to follow some particular pursuit with a too-engrossing ardour, and as the shadows fall eastward, will not be denied. And though the troublesome query cannot, in the case of the Collector, involve issues so momentous as in that of the politician or the millionaire, the painter or the poet, yet may he not escape the self-imposed interrogation. He has subtracted for the moment from the world’s store of covetable things, has immured his treasures in his own stronghold away from public gaze, and must sooner or later come face to face with the questions Cui proderat? Cui prodest ? Cui proderit? If he be not blessed with one of the most desirable of human possessions, an ever-youthful and optimistic temperament, he may have had , engraved on his soul before he attains his grand climacteric the inscription, Totit lasse— Tout casse— Tout passe ^ and have sat down, head on hand like the weird winged watcher in Durer’s Melencolia, to weigh and measure and ponder in sorrow the sum of all his imaginings, his gettings, and his contrivings, “ being weerye of all his laboure which he had taken under the sunne, because he should be fayne to leave them unto another man that commeth after him, for who knoweth whether he should be a wyse man or a foie ? ” The answer for the cheerful and reasonable soul to such searchings of heart is, however, not far to seek. If he be indeed of the Guild of Collectors, sans reproche, into whose thoughts enter no sordid views of ultimate commercial profit as a reward of their labours, his greatest concern will be with the proper present use of what he has won with his sword and his bow rather than with that which shall happen to them when his sun shall have set for ever. And the motto which stands at the head of this chapter should I think be his guide “ Sibi et AmicisT He will entreat his friends to share his pleasures.
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