'Caluins Sermons vpon Genesis taken by a swifte writer as he preached them. There wanteth in the 14. chapt. from the 13. verse to the ende. In the 15 chapt. vpon the 5. and 6. verses one onely sermon. The name of the Scribe that tooke these Sermons worde by worde from Caluins mouth as also those vpon Deuteron. & Job, with others, was Denis Ragueneau, of whome there is mention in the Preface to his sermons vpon Deut.' This note in sir Thomas Bodley's hand is perhaps the only description of a Bodleian MS. by the founder. He had attended Calvin's lectures at Geneva, and his father was still there when these sermons were delivered.

These French sermons on Gen. i. 1-xx. 6 are dated from Sept. 9, 1559 to May 15, 1560, and are here written out in full, in more than one hand, the commonest being presumably that of D. Ragueneau. of the whole set of 97 (numbered 1-76, 76, 77-96), nos. 1-5, 27, 63-5, 67-70 are wanting, leaving 84 in the volume. The sermons are in two series, dividing at the end of Gen. xiii (fol. 430).