HEBREW LEXICON. 413 common to all. William Jones has the unenviable distinction of placing his name as publisher on all five issues, thereby gaining credit for what is pro- bably something of a record even in the history of the early seventeenth century book trade. By the kindness of the Librarians of the Cam- bridge University Library and of the Library of Jesus College, Oxford, I was able to have the two Thorndike issues in London for comparison at the British Museum with the Schindler and Alabaster there, and with the ' Spiraculum ' from Dr. Williams's Library. Mr. Esdaile and I thus had the opportunity of examining copies of all five issues at the same time. The five issues are as follows : a. SPIRACULUM | TUBARUM | siue Fons spmtualium expositionum ex <equiuocis Pentaglotti significationibus Authore Guilielmo Alabastro Anglo Londini | Ex officind Guil: Tones. Extant in ccemeterio D. Pauli. ad insigne Pap<e. fol. pp. [2]+ 18 + [292]. Contents: p. [i] title en- graved and surrounded by geometrical design by T. Linsted ; 1-18, sig. A-D in folios and E a single leaf, a mystical essay with running head-line c Ecce Sponsus venit, Procedite ei obviam' ; 18, catchword 'Litera N' ; [1-272], sig. A-Z, Aa-Ll in fours, a pentaglott lexicon, arranged in double columns, numbered i to 559, there being several errors in numeration ; [272] catchword
- Rasche ' ; [273-292], sig. Mm in sixes, Nn in fours,
4 Rasche Theboth, sive abbreviaturae Hebraeae. Ad Lectorem Gualth. Keuchenius,' etc. y arranged in double columns,not numbered; [291] ad fin. nW? nSplJV [sic] [i.e. Laus Deo meo]. Bodl. B. 5.17. Th". Seid. ;' U.L.C. Sayle 5057; D.W.L. 1079.0.8. V FF
