LETTER CCXLIX.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH TO D. CLAUDIUS SARRAVIUS.

Amplissimo clarissimoque viro D. Claudio Sarravio supernæ Parisiensis Curiæ Senatori dignissimo. Lutetiam Parisiorum.

VIR EXIMIE,

AD humanissimas tuas literas responsum hucusque distuli: ut Ignatianam appendicem atque Macedonici et Asiani anni explicationem, nunc primum a prælo prodeuntes, comites illi liceret adjungere. Earum utramque limatissimo tuo submitto judicio, sed ab illo animi affectu erga me libero, quem large effuseque in literis illis tuis ostendere tibi libuit. Vanissimum enim omnium mortalium me esse oporteret, si præconia illa, quibus me ornasti, ne dicam onerasti, ulla ex parte vellem agnoscere. Alexandrini vero- -exemplaris (quod post Basilii M. tempora descriptum fuisse, præfatio illius quæ tibi habetur in Psalmos satis indicat) editionem (quæ a te tantopere postulatur vel flagitatur potius) urgere non cesso. Id oneris in se suscepit vir doctissimus Patricius Junius, cujus primum specimen simul cum hisce mitto. Mihi enim præter ipyodiкTOV officium, aliud nihil hic incumbit; nisi ut de ipsa Septuaginta interpretibus adscripta versione quid sit sentiendum, quædam adnectam Prolegomena. Interim a vobis non minus EKTEvuç nostri expetunt Græcam ex codice cardinalis Rupefocaldii prophetarum editionem : cujus Esaias a Curterio, et Hoseæ pars a Phillippeio in apertum prolata, ut integro frueremur opere, salivam jamdudum nobis movit. Quousque etiam in Græca, quam promiserat, bibliorum iκdóσu adornanda, Fronto Ducæus

fuerit progressus, scire avemus: et si quid aliud sit, quod ad Junii nostri conatus aliquid afferre possit adjumenti. Quod tuæ curæ commendat, apud quem (tuo merito) summo in honore es et pretio

JACOBUS USSERIUS ARMACHANUS.

Londini Februarii die anno 1647.

VOL. XVI.

LETTER CCL.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH TO DR. DAVENANT.

REV. SIR,

I MUST crave pardon of you, for detaining your books thus long; and for some expiation of my fault therein, I send them accompanied with a little discourse of mine of the solar year of the Macedonians and Asians, toward the whereof is somewhat that maketh for the illustration of the ancient astronomy. I very much desire that your astronomical tables, wherein you have taken so exceeding great pains, should be published; after you have first compared them with the tables that are in Ismael Bulliardus his Astronomia Philolaica", wherein you shall find some more exact, and much easier than yours are. Towards the end, I fear me, you follow Calvisius too much; who unadvisedly taketh the parallaxes out of one man's tables, and the semidiameters of the moon out of another's. For the former he borroweth from the Prutenic tables; the latter from those which are in Tycho, and that too as he found them in him printed; (which error is committed by Maginus also, in Supplemento Ephemeridum and Petavius de doctrina temporum;) and not as they are restored according to Tycho's right mind by Longomontanus, in his Astronomia Danica. And for the trial of your tables, I would entreat you, at your best leisure, to calculate anno periodi Julianæ 710. (currente anno ante æram Christianam 4004.) when the autumnal equinoctial happened about Babylon; and whether there also,

a Edit. Paris, ann. 1645. fol.

anno periodi Julianæb 4176. (ante æram Christianam 538.) or the year before or after, there fell not out an eclipse of the sun in the morning.

Touching your uncle's (my lord of Salisbury's) book; things fell out with me very crossly. I delivered it unto Mr. Palmer, then governor of Queen's College in Cambridge, who undertook to see it there printed very correctly. But he dying afterwards, and I being at that time in the country, it was long before I could recover the copy again. And very shortly I will take order for the printing of it here in London; and send you afterwards what copies thereof you please. In the mean time I recommend you and all your good studies to the blessing of Almighty God, and ever rest

Your faithful friend and very loving brother,

JA. ARMACHANUS.

London, Feb. 14.

1647.

Annus hic erat captæ per Cyrum Babyloniæ; causam quæstionis puto ex Esaiæ cap. 13. ver. 10.

LETTER CCLI.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH TO D. VOSSIUS.

Viro amicissimo Isaaco Vossio. Amstelodamum.

MITTO ad te Ignatianam meam appendicem, ex penu tua (ut vides) insigni accessione locupletatam. Cui adjungere visum est de Macedonum et Asianorum anno solari, dissertationem alteram cum utriusque exemplari, meo nomine, clarissimo parenti tuo tradendo. Miseram ad eum septem abhinc mensibus literas, una cum mea De Fidei Symbolis Diatriba: quæ an ad manus ejus pervenerint, nescio. Si interpolatæ epistolæ Barnabæ apographum Romano illo codice (cujus sub finem notarum in eam epistolam meministi) descriptum, et rariorum quæ ex Gallia et Italia tecum detulisti monumentorum indiculum, mecum communicare non graveris, rem mihi pergratam feceris. Vale,

Londini, Februarii

die anno 1647.

Tui studiosissimus

J. U. A.