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the Agnus Dei, as printed for them by a sub-
committe whose majority had
high-church tendencies.

The collection is not I regret to say
strong in Bibles. It includes a
vellum bound Hebrew of 1591 in
2 vols., a black letter Breeches,
an Oxford pocket with references &
rubricated, in these respects quite
a modern looking book although
its date is 1669,
the version is rhyming verse by the reverend father of John Wesley, & a Baskerville N.J. in Greek.
That which proves
most attractive to visitors is a
large Dutch Bible, with heavy brass
mountings and clasps, and
illustrated with many hundres of cuts set in
the text. The designing of the
pictures is not the work of
the engraver, they being after
Albert Durea and other early
masters, but their large number
(3 or 4 to some pages) makes an

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