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Buxtorf (4 vols., Basel, 1618-20), and J. Leuaden's (Amsterdam, 1667), besides many eighteenth and nineteenth century editions of the Hebrew, including that of J. H. Michaelis (Halle, 1720). NewTestament texts found are one of Erasmus (3d ed., 1522), the " O mirificam " of R. Stephens (Paris, 1546), the " editio regia " (1550), and an edition by the younger Stephens (24mo, 1569), several of Beza's texts, one by Joseph Scaliger (Geneva, 1620), an Elzevir of 1624, and two of Curcellxua (Amsterdam, 1658 and 1675). Of notable Bible versions are a Coburger Latin (1520), a Stephens (1546), Die Bibel in Niedersachsischen (doubtless the first of its kind), Dar neuw Testament reeht griintlich teutscht (Strasburg, 1524), and a Roman Catholic version from the Latin into Dutch (1548). There are also a large number of modern English versions, versions for use in modern mission fields, and those in Indian dialects.

Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y.: The Colgate Baptist Historical Collection is perhaps the most complete collection of Baptist historical material in the country. It is rich in historical articles, pamphlets, catalogues, reports, addresses, histories of local churches, anniversary sermons and addresses, biographical material, minutes of conventions, the transactions of missionary and benevolent societies, and the like. The Davis Collection on Baptism consists of about 500 volumes.

Crozer Theological Seminary, Upland, Pa.: This institution possesses a large number of unique and valuable books and pamphlets on Anabaptist and Baptist History.

Cumberland University, Theological Seminary of, Lebanon, Tenn.: The Murdock Library consists of over 1,000 volumes relating to church history, including Erasmus' first edition of Ambrose, the Magnum bullarium Romanum, and Breithaupt's Latin translation of Solomon Jarchi's commentary on the Old Testament.

Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J.: The Creamer Collection, of Hymnology contains about 1,000 volumes and is particularly strong in Wesleyan and Methodist hymnals; there are a Sternhold and Hopkins (1579), Buchanan's paraphrase (1648), a first edition of Toplady's Psalms (1759), and a copy of Perronet's poems, supposed to be the only copy outside the British Museum; there is a supplementary collection on the history of hymns, with books on liturgies. There is also a Collection of Bibles, of nearly 900 volumes, including a Latin Bible (Venice, 1478), the Antwerp and London polyglots, a Stephen Hebrew Bible (Paris, 1548), and copies of the editions by Nutter (1599 and 1603) ; in this collection are a number of early Greek New Testaments, e.g., an Elzevir (1633), Beza (1642), Mills (1707), Wetstein (1751), and, notably, an Erasmus (3 vols., Paris, 1540), one of Thomi3e Anshelmi Badensis (The Hague, 1521; not usually noted in lists); and one of Strasburg, 1526, which must be the fourth (not, as usually called, the third). Among English versions are the Bishop's Bible (1575), " Breeches " (Genevan) Bible (1589, 1601, 1602, 1610), King James's (1611), and the Macklin Bible (1800, a fine example of the printer's art). There are a number of American

imprints, and about 60 volumes of missionary Bibles. The Tyerman Collection of Pamphlets on Early Methodism approximates 10,000 pamphlets bound in about 300 volumes, collected by Luke Tyerman for his works on the Wesleys, Whitefieid, and Fletcher. The Osborn Collection of Pamphlets relates chiefly to John Wesley. The Osborn Collection Relating to British Methodism is rich in rare editions of John Wesley's works, and in Wesleyan biography, as well as in literature on the minor Methodist denominations. These three last-named collections are the nucleus of a literature on Methodism numbering about 10,000 volumes, including very complete files of minutes of conferences and works on discipline. The Sprague collection of pamphlets was gathered by William B. Sprague for his Annals of the American Pulpit, and of this about 30 bound volumes are found here (see below, PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY). The Collection of Books on Missions numbers about 6,400 volumes, while related is the Bishop Hartzell Collection on Africa, the Africans, and Slavery.

General Theological Seminary, New York, N. Y. Especially noteworthy are the collections of patristics, the history of the councils, the histories of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and a very complete collection of diocesan journals. The library of the Assyriologist Eberhard Schrader (q.v.) was acquired in 1909. The Collection of Liturgies contains about 3,000 volumes, including a complete set of the standard editions of the American Book of Common Prayer. The Collection of Bibles includes the Copinger Collection of Latin Bibles (the largest in the world), over 1,200 editions in about 2,400 volumes, 93 polyglots, 96 editions of the Hexapla, 302 editions of the New Testament, and missionary versions, including John Eliot's Indian Bible (Cambridge, Mass., 1685), a Mazarin Bible (1453; cost $15,000; and an ed. of 1483, believed to be unique so far as public libraries are concerned), and many other rare fifteenth-century editions; the copy of the Antwerp Polyglot is perfect, and there is a Nutter Polyglot. Of 124 known editions of Latin fifteenth-century Bibles 86 are in this collection, and of 562 from the next century, 438 are here. Of first editions of English Bibles worthy of note are the Coverdale (1535), Matthew's (1537), Great Bible (1539; also the rare ed. of 1541), Genevan (1560), Bishop's (1568), and the two issues of the King James's (1611). There are also numerous editions of the Greek Testament.

Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa.: The Collection on Symbolics is noteworthy for its comprehensiveness and for its rare volumes on Lutheran symbolics, dealing with the history of the Augsburg Confession, the Lutheran symbolical books and commentaries on them, Schlusselburg's Catalogi htereticorum (13 vols.), the Corpora lootrincE from 1560, Augsburg Confession and Apology (1st ed., 1531, the second ed. of the same year; also ed. of 1540), the Concordienformel (1st ed.,1580), and a first Latin edition of the Formula (1580).

Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich.: The Hull Collection of Bibles includes over 100 volumes -the Geneva (1599, 1613), Bishop's (1600), a Latin Bible of 1547, a $eza New Testament (1599); alto