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us hunc librum anno Domini 1390, ut ex decimo tertio capite et principio vigesimi apparet." This account of Bayle (who is mistaken, however, about the _title_ of the work) is confirmed by Panzer; who, in his _Annales_, vol. ix. p. 87. enters the volume thus, "_Commentarius in Apolcalypsin ante Centum Annos aeditus, cum Praefatione Maritini Lutheri_. Wittembergae, 1528. 8vo." Can any of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in a public library, or in private hands? 2. In Lewis's _History of the Translations of the Bible_, edit. 1818. p. 25., he quotes a work of Bishop Bonner, "_Of the Seven Sacraments_, 1555," in which a manuscript English Bible is cited by the Bishop, as then in his possession, "translated out of Latyne in tyme of heresye almost eight-score years before that tyme, i.e. about 1395, fayre and truly written in parchment." Lewis proceeds to conjecture, that this MS. was the same which is preserved in the Bodleian Library under the mark Fairfax, 2. And in this erroneous supposition he has been followed by later writers. The copy in question, which belonged to Bonner, is actually in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, No. 25., and contains the Pentateuch in the _earlier_ Wycliffite version (made, no doubt, by Nicholas Hereford), whilst the rest of the Old and New Testament is in the _later_ or revised translation by Purvey and his coadjutors. What I now wish to inquire about, is, where can I meet with a copy of Bonner's work, _De Septem Sacramentis_, in which the passages occur referred to by Lewis? They are not in _A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, with certayne Homelies adjoyned_, printed in 1555 by John Carood, although one of these homilies is on the subject of the seven sacraments. F. MADDEN. * * * * * MINOR QUERIES. _Monastery, Arrangement of One._--Any information and particulars respecting the extent, arrangement, and uses of the various buildings for an establishment of fifty Cistercian or Benedictine Monks would be useful to and gratefully received by A.P.H. [Has our Querist consulted Professor Willis, "Description of the Ancient Plan of the Monastery of St. Gall in the Ninth Century," accompanying a copy of the plan, and which he will find in the _Archaeological Journal_, vol. v. p. 85.?] _Constantine the Artist._--Who was "M. Constantine, an Italian architect to our late Prince Henry," employed in the masque at
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