[654] Domesday Book Illustrated. London. 1788. 8vo.

[655] Dr. Woide was appointed Assistant Librarian at the British Museum in 1782.

[656] See ante, p. [200]–5.

[657] A specimen of this letter may be seen in Dr. Fry’s specimens, also in his Pantagraphia, p. 126.

[658] Gough, writing in the Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. lvi, p. 497, says:—“It was reserved, therefore, for the industry and application of Dr. Woide . . . to rescue this valuable MS. from the fate which befel a MS. of the Septuagint in the Cottonian Library of equal antiquity, type, and, value, of which a very few fragments escaped the fire in 1733, by adopting the facsimile mode of reproduction, which, from the great expense attending it, has unfortunately been adopted in so few instances.” The facsimile of the Laudian Codex, comprising the Acts of the Apostles, published by Hearne at Oxford in 1715, had been the only previous successful attempt of this kind in England. Hearne’s facsimile, however, was engraved, and not from type. A list of the most important subsequent facsimile reproductions from Codices of the Holy Text is given in Horne’s Introduction (edit. 1872), iv, pp. 682–3.

[659] Novum Testamentum Græcum è Codice MS. Alexandrino qui Londini in Bibliothecâ Musei Britannici asservatur, descriptum a Carolo Godofredo Woide . . . Musei Britannici Bibliothecaria Londini. Ex prelo Jeannis Nichols. Typis Jacksonianis, 1786. Folio.

[660] Psalterium Græcum è Codice MS. Alexandrino qui Londini in Bibliothecâ Musei Britannici asservatur Typis ad similitudinem ipsius Codicis Scripturæ fideliter descriptum. Curâ et labore H. H. Baber. Londini, 1812. Folio.

[661] Vetus Testamentum Græcum è Codice MS. Alexandrino qui Londini in Bibliothecâ Musei Britannici asservatur, Typis ad similitudinem ipsius Codicis Scripturæ fideliter descriptum. Curâ et labore H. H. Baber, Londini, 1816–21. 4 vols., Folio. Mr. Baber, the better to preserve the identity of the original in his fac-similes, introduced a considerable number of fresh types as well as numerous woodcuts.

[662] Codex Theodori Bezæ Cantabrigiensis, Evangelia et Acta Apostolorum complectens, quadratis literis, Græco-Latinus. Academia auspicante summâ qua fide potuit, adumbravit, expressit, edidit, codicis historiam præfixit, notasque adjecit T. Kipling. Cantabrigiæ è prelo Academico, impensis Academiæ, 1793. 2 vols., Folio.

[663] Gent. Mag., 1793, p. 733.