ON COSIN'S "HISTORY OF POPISH TRANSUBSTANTIATION," EDITED BY THE REV. J. S. BREWER.
As every work of value, and likely to live, should be made as correct as possible, I beg insertion in "N. & Q." of some remarks on a note in Mr. Brewer's very satisfactory edition of so important a volume as that of Cosin on the papal doctrine of transubstantiation. The note occurs in p. 130., and is as follows:—
"‡ Index Expurg. Hispan. D. Gasp. Quirogæ Card. et Inquisit. generalis in fine.
"There is a copy of one edition of this Index in the British Museum, but I cannot find the passage to which Bp. Cosin refers. The other Index to which he refers is not to be found in the British Museum, Bishop Tenison's library, or Sion College."
The disappointment of Mr. Brewer may not improbably be ascribed to the unfortunate fact, that in the English translation of Cosin's book, which is given by Mr. Brewer in the forecited extract, after the word fine are omitted the words Lit. O., which are found in the Latin original. This additional direction would have led to the passage which the editor was desirous of verifying. For, in the first edition of the Index referred to, that of 1584, the particular index at the end, under O, gives the fol. 182, 183 (falso 171), where the passage is found exactly as extant in the Latin of Cosin. The particular Expurgatory Index under view was printed in 1601 and 1611. In the first of the two, that printed at Saumur, the passage is found fol. 149. verso. I dare say it is so in the other entitled Duo Testes, &c., but that is of no moment. Bp. Cosin does not, as the note expresses, refer to any "other index." The British Museum is comparatively scanty in this class of books, but they are all to be found in the Bodleian Library.
At p. 163. the Discurs [us] Modest [us] de Jesuit. referred to, and occupying several pages of discussion in the "N. & Q." in the early volumes, is certainly the Latin version of A Sparing Discoverie of our English Jesuits, 4to., Franc. 1601, pp. 70, and to be found in the Catalogue of the British Museum, under "Jesu Societas."
Eupator.