We {153} have seen that it was sent to Calvin. It
was never returned, but produced in evidence, and burnt with him at the
stake. Nevertheless, he either possessed another copy or took the pains
of writing it afresh, and thus the work was secretly printed at Vienna,
at the press of Balshazar Arnoullet in 1553. Of this edition, those at
Frankfort were burnt at the instance of Calvin; at Geneva, Robert
Stephens sacrificed all the copies which had come into his hands; so
that of an edition of one thousand, it is said only six copies were
preserved. These facts I owe to the excellent Life of Calvin by Mr. T.H.
Dyer, recently published by Mr. Murray. Now does the following MS. bear
relation to that described as recopied by Servetus, from which Arnoullet
printed? or is it the first rough sketch? Can any of your readers say
into what collection it passed?
The extract is from the Catalogue of the Library of Cisternay Dufay, by
Gabriel Martin, Paris, 8vo. 1725, being lot 764., p. 98., and was sold
for 176 livres.
"Librorum Serveti de Trinitate Codex MS.
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