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But these descriptions are in many +instances ancillary to the illustrations, and while the minutest details +are given of the Church itself, little or no mention occurs of the +literary treasures contained within its precincts. The reason of this is +obvious. The Antiquarian would naturally dwell with complacency on those +stately fabrics which, thanks to the piety of earlier years, still adorn +the cities of our land. The Historian will recount with satisfaction +those venerable foundations by which the light of knowledge and the +blessings of religion were diffused in a less enlightened age than that +in which we have the happiness to live. Moreover these Collections, +though belonging to public bodies, are, strictly speaking, of a private +character, being of limited accessibility and restricted use. + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter is chiefly available for the use of +the Clergy of the Cathedral Church, and under proper regulations becomes +a convenient place of study for the clerical student or the lettered +divine. The Libraries thus preserved have, as might be expected, great +similarity of character. They often combine in a peculiar manner the +learning of the middle ages, with the literature of a later date. Chiefly +embracing theological subjects, they contain no small amount of classical +lore, and a large proportion of historical research. Among much that is +obsolete there is more that is valuable, and amid much that is trifling +there is more that is important. + +The contents of these Libraries have hitherto been known only to those +who have had access to their shelves, but thanks to the courtesy of those +entrusted with their custody, I have in every instance carefully perused +the Catalogue, and minutely examined every volume which I have ventured +to describe. This I have done at various times and different intervals, +occasionally revisiting the same Collection whenever the opportunity of +doing so occurred, but often hurried in my examination from unwillingness +to encroach upon the time or avocations of those to whose kindness I +have been indebted for the prosecution of these enquiries. No one can be +more sensible than myself of the imperfections and omissions of a work +compiled under such circumstances, and I shall feel deeply indebted to +any one who will undertake to correct the one or to supply the other. +None but those who have been accustomed to exact the most scrupulous +accuracy from themselves can rightly estimate the difficulty of its +attainment by others. Just as those who are most sensible of their own +deficiencies most readily make allowance for the failings of others. + +“There is a philosophy in the aridity of Bibliography which few +bibliographers have discovered; there is a chronology of ideas as well as +facts, and the date of an opinion is far more interesting than any on the +Colophons.”[1] + +This may be safely admitted, provided the date can be ascertained with +sufficient accuracy to render permanent the interest it may inspire. +But this it must be conceded is a point of no small difficulty, since +“opinions and feelings are long silently propagated before they can +assume the lasting form of published works.” + +“Those revolutions in public opinion which are silently operating, +without yet manifesting any overt acts, can only be detected in those +histories of mankind which are furnished by themselves—Books! These are +the precursors or the recorders of whatever is passing in Europe.”[2] + +Those who laudably endeavour to resuscitate the defunct literature of a +past age may best defend their pursuit in the language of the ingenious +and lamented Leyden. “However injudicious our ancient authors may be +reckoned in the selection of their materials, and the arrangement of +their topics; however defective in the arts of composition or polish of +style, they can never divest themselves of the manners and habits of +thinking familiar to the age in which they lived. It is this circumstance +which stamps a real value on the rudest compositions of an early period; +a value which continually increases with their antiquity.” + +If the true test of the value of a book be, where can you learn what +it will teach you? and if the answer be nowhere, then we may safely +concede both merit and value. Such I am far from presuming to be the +characteristic of the present work; but assuredly no where else can be +found any collected account of the Ecclesiastical Libraries, attached to +the Cathedrals of England, and forming not the least interesting portion +of their several Capitular possessions. + +The Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in possession of the Dean and Chapter of +Rochester, Exeter, Wells, Lichfield, Durham, Worcester, Westminster, +are enumerated in the third volume of Hickes’ Thesaurus, entitled +Antiquæ Litteraturæ Septentrionalis liber alter, seu Humphredi Wanleii +Librorum Vett. Septentrionalium, qui in Angliæ Bibliothecis extant, +necnon multorum Vett. Codd. Septentrionalium alibi extantium Catalogus +Historico-Criticus, Oxonii, 1705, folio. + +In the same author’s Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ +in unum collecti, &c. Oxoniæ, 1698, folio, we find Catalogues of the +Manuscripts preserved in the Chapter Houses of York, Durham, Carlisle, +Worcester, Salisbury, Westminster, Winchester, Lichfield, Hereford, +Exeter, and Canterbury, affording abundant evidence of the diligence and +accuracy of Humphrey Wanley. + +In Clarke’s Repertorium Bibliographicum there is some account of the +most celebrated British Libraries, London, 1819, 8vo. including Notices +of the Archiepiscopal Library, Lambeth Palace, the Cathedral Library of +Canterbury, the Christ Church Library at Oxford, and the Manuscripts in +the Chapter House at Westminster. + +I have purposely omitted from this Work all mention of the Parochial +Libraries of England, such as those of Wimborne Minster in +Dorsetshire; Halifax in Yorkshire; Castleton in Derbyshire; Langley +in Buckinghamshire; Tong and Whitchurch in Shropshire. The latter in +particular is a beautiful Library, purchased by a former Countess of +Bridgewater from one of the Prestons, and left as an heirloom to the +living. The late Francis Henry, Earl of Bridgewater, left all his books +in augmentation of this Library, and also bequeathed several sums +of money for founding other Libraries of a similar kind at Middle, +Ellesmere, and other places. I have reluctantly excluded the Library +at Bamborough Castle, in Northumberland, so interesting as containing +a vellum copy of the Book of Troy, by Pynson; as well as the Libraries +of Sion College; Archbishop Tenison’s; the Dissenters, in Red Cross +Street; and the Baptist Museum, at Bristol. To go beyond these would be +to describe the Libraries of the British Museum; the London and Royal +Institutions, the London Library, and those of the different learned and +Scientific Societies, and of the Clubs of London. All these are foreign +to my purpose, which embraces only Libraries of a strictly ecclesiastical +character. I have introduced the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth as +belonging to the Primate, and the Library of the Dean and Chapter of +St. George’s, at Windsor, as appertaining to the Sovereign Head of the +English Church. + +I have chosen to designate these Collections as Cathedral Libraries, +because with the above exception, the only Capitular Library described +in this volume which is not at present in connection with a See, is the +venerable foundation of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. This from +its connection with the ancient Palace of Westminster must always be +regarded as classic ground in the History and Antiquities of England. + +I have added no index to this book, because the work itself is little +more than an index to the contents of the Collections which it professes +to describe, and a mere repetition of proper names would have added to +the bulk without increasing the utility of the volume. Hasty as these +notes may have been, and confessedly imperfect as they are, they may +yet serve to excite if not to satisfy the awakened interest in the +Curiosities of English Literature. + +“Without doubt,” says Richard de Bury in his Philobiblon, translated +by Inglis, quoting Seneca in his Epistles, “Leisure without letters is +death, and the Sepulture of the living man;” so we justly conclude from a +converse meaning, “that to be employed with Literature and Books is life.” + +_Norton Hall_, 5 March, 1849. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + + Page + + Library of Bristol 1 + + Library of Canterbury 5 + + Library of Carlisle 49 + + Library of Chester 55 + + Library of Chichester 74 + + Library of Durham 89 + + Library of Ely 124 + + Library of Exeter 132 + + Library of Gloucester 159 + + Library of Hereford 172 + + Library of Lambeth Palace 189 + + Library of Lichfield 259 + + Library of Lincoln 268 + + Library of London 297 + + Library of Manchester 328 + + Library of Norwich 330 + + Library of Christ Church, Oxford 348 + + Library of Peterborough 369 + + Library of Ripon Minster 384 + + Library of Rochester 390 + + Library of Salisbury 405 + + Library of Wells 417 + + Library of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster 430 + + Library of Winchester 465 + + Library of Windsor 484 + + Library of Worcester 491 + + Library of York Minster 502 + + + + +CORRIGENDA. + + +Transcriber’s Note: These corrections have been applied to the text. + + P. 3, l. 14, _for_ militare, _read_ militari. + 12, 6, _for_ obtineti, _read_ obtinet. + 43, 17, _for_ Attica, _read_ Attici. + 58, 28, _for_ coronis, _read_ corona. + 60, 21, _for_ Barrow; _read_ Barrow’s. + 62, 19, _for_ Mircæ, _read_ Mireæ. + 63, 10, _for_ Periphis, _read_ Periplus. + 19, _for_ Liveliæ’s, _read_ Livelie’s. + 64, 29, _for_ Aristidii, _read_ Aristidis. + 32, _for_ Commeline, _read_ Commelini. + 128, 23, _for_ Horologia, _read_ Heröologia. + 138, 1, _for_ polist, _read_ philist. + 263, 8, _after_ whereof, _insert_ the. + 286, 1, _omit_ and. + 286, 13, _after_ Church, _insert_ are. + 317, 27, _after_ man’s _insert_ Villare. + 319, 10, _for_ Anglia, _read_ Anglica. + 322, 8, _for_ rum, _read_ rus. + 324, 13, _for_ heorici, _read_ heroici. + 352, ult. _for_ Rhetoris, _read_ Rhetores. + 354, ult. _for_ Zonoras, _read_ Zonaras. + 356, 7, _for_ du, _read_ des. + 357, 11, _for_ Anglianæ, _read_ Anglicanæ. + 360, 15, _for_ Varillais’, _read_ Varillas’. + 361, 17, _for_ rum, _read_ rus. + 380, 25, _for_ there formed, _read_ the reformed. + 400, ult. _omit_ the. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +NOTES UPON THE CATHEDRAL LIBRARIES OF ENGLAND. + + + + +Bristol. + + +Had these unpretending memorials of the literary treasures of our +Cathedral Churches been written earlier, they might have given some idea +of the loss sustained by that of Bristol in the memorable riots of the +31st of October, 1831. + +The Chapter-house, so much admired for the beauty of its Saxon +architecture, was at that time the receptacle of about six or seven +thousand volumes, constituting the Library of the Dean and Chapter. + +The lawless ruffians, who fired the adjoining Palace, threw the greater +number of these volumes into the flames, and the Catalogue, of which, +unfortunately, no duplicate was kept, shared a similar fate. + +The mob appeared most anxious to destroy the larger volumes, under the +idea that they were Bibles, “but,” added my informant, who visited the +delinquents in prison, “I found many of them reading the sacred volume, +which, in their madness, they would fain have extirpated.” + +Other books of this Library were thrown into the river Avon, many into +ditches, and almost all were more or less dirtied and torn, having been +thrown about the streets, and otherwise defaced. Of these, however, +about eleven hundred were recovered from old clothes mops, and dealers +in “Marine stores,” that convenient designation, under which another +person’s property is so frequently misappropriated; and this wreck of the +Library, which is now deposited in the Vestry, must form the subject of +the present notice. + +As the Chapter-house was completely cleared of every book before the +populace quitted the place, the volumes which have been recovered all +present the most deplorable signs of the rude treatment they received. + +So complete was the work of destruction, that only a calf-bound copy of +Walton’s Polyglott, and a set of Doddridge’s Expositor were preserved +entire; together with a copy of Harris’s Voyages. + +So that of all the sets of books which once adorned the Library, single +volumes alone remain to testify that such works as Rapin’s History of +England; Camden’s Britannia; the Commentaries of Patrick, Whitby, and +Nicolas de Lyra; the Works of S. Cyril, Eusebius, Bellarmine, Thomas +Aquinas, Cave, Puffendorf, and Gerard; with Newton’s Prophecies; Calmet’s +Dictionary; Conybeare’s Sermons; Whiston’s Sacred History; Hudson’s +Josephus; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum; Leydekker de Statu Reipublicæ +Hebræorum; and some tracts against Popery, were once contained within its +walls. + +Alas! it is not for the Bibliographer to imitate the genius of Cuvier, +and from the disjointed members of any body to discover what in its +integrity it must have been, and bid those dry bones live. From the +relics of a Library it is not possible to collect what it must have been +in its perfect state; and here we must drop the metaphor, “ex ungue +leonem.” + +It may be interesting, however, to enumerate some of those single +volumes which have been recovered from the wreck, and we may begin with +the well-known Breeches Bible, bound in old calf, being that printed +at London by Christopher Barker, in 1599, in 4to. The Bible printed at +Oxford, in 1807, folio; Bacon’s Thesaurus, Butler’s Analogy, Pitt’s +Virgil, Ogilby’s Homer, Cary’s Account of Ancient Time, folio; Corpus +Juris Civilis Gothofredi, folio; Vegetius de Re Militari, Parisiis, 1535, +folio, in a vellum wrapper; Crellii Opera; Livii Opera Parisiis, 1552, +folio; Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, a Poem; and Camden’s Annals. + +In closing this necessarily imperfect account of what remains of the +Bristol Cathedral Library, I am happy to say, that the beautiful +Chapter-house was not involved in the ruin of the adjacent Palace, but, +having suffered only trifling injury, has been subsequently restored to +its pristine appearance. + +The books will henceforth be deposited in a small room adjoining the +Chapter-house, which is now building for their reception, in the hope +that their number may be increased by some future benefaction or bequest. + +It is well known that the Library of the present Dean of Bristol, +Dr. Beke, who has now nearly reached the span of human life, is most +valuable and extensive, and were such a collection to be appropriated +to the Cathedral, then would the Bristol Cathedral Library rise again, +Phœnix-like, from the flames; and the venerable donor of so munificent +a bequest, would, by all true Bibliopolists, be in their flowing cups +freshly “remembered.” + +I cannot shut the door of the Bristol Cathedral without noticing, +truncated though it be, the symmetry of its Gothic Architecture, and +feeling more than ordinary sensations of melancholy within its precincts. + +For the mailed Barons of Berkeley, who here lie in grim repose, one +has little sympathy; but for the beautiful, the young, cut off in the +springtide of early enjoyment by that insidious and fatal malady, +Consumption, it is for these, whose monuments, thick as leaves in +Val’ombrosa, are strewed around, that the heart of an Englishman must +ever heave the sigh of unavailing regret; nor can the current of his +thoughts find a purer channel than that afforded by Mason’s beautiful +memorial of his “dear departed saint.” + + “Take, holy Earth! all that my soul holds dear: + Take that blest gift which Heaven so lately gave: + To Bristol’s fount I bore with trembling care + Her faded form; she bowed to taste the wave, + And died. Does youth, does beauty read the line? + Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm? + Speak, dead Maria! breathe a strain divine: + E’en from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. + Bid them be chaste, be virtuous like thee; + Bid them in duty’s sphere as meekly move, + And if so fair, from vanity as free, + As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. + Tell them, though ’tis an awful thing to die, + ’Twas e’en to thee; yet the dread path once trod, + Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, + And bids the pure in heart behold their God.” + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Canterbury. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury is kept in a long and +lofty room adjoining the Cloisters, which in olden time was the Chapel +of the Prior. The books are arranged in classes upon open shelves, in +projecting cases, which are distinguished by letters of the alphabet, and +occupy the spaces between the windows; the end of the apartment nearest +the Baptistery, containing the manuscripts in closed cases; and the other +end of the room, having a light gallery, with open shelves above and +below for the reception of printed books. + +The Dean and Chapter have it in contemplation to alter this arrangement +entirely, by placing the folios and quartos upon open shelves all round +the room, with a light gallery for the octavos above, and to light the +apartment by a skylight in the roof, instead of the present windows; +and to remove the damp, which at present pervades the Library to a very +injurious extent, by the addition of suitable fire-places. + +This alteration, the expense of which is estimated at nearly £1000, +though tending to impair the venerable appearance of this “antique +oratory,” cannot fail to be beneficial to the books, many of which +have been recently rebound by Mr. Gough of London, and some of the +older volumes having been repaired and gilt. The whole collection has a +freshened aspect. + +The books are chiefly bound in calf, and are generally in very good +condition, though only warmed occasionally by a stove. From a small fund +possessed by the Dean and Chapter, they are enabled to employ from five +to six hundred a year in the purchase and reparation of books. Their +Library is also continually augmented by the customary donation of each +Prebend upon his installation; and by a gift of forty pounds from the +Archbishop of Canterbury, who once in every four years holds a visitation +in his Cathedral, being sumptuously entertained at the Deanery, and +leaves that sum, according to ancient usage, for the use of the Library. + +It is creditable to the Curators of this Library that two Catalogues +of its contents have already been printed, once in 1743, and again in +1802, and that another is in contemplation: so that I trust the Rev. +John Stratton, the present Librarian, upon whom the task devolves ex +officio, will render this new Catalogue more complete than either of its +precursors. + +The Catalogue at present in use in the Library is that printed in 1802, +inlaid and interleaved in two volumes quarto, and bound in rough calf. +There is also a register kept, of books borrowed from the Library. + +The Catalogue which was printed for the use of the members of the Church +in 1802, is an octavo volume of two hundred and thirty-nine pages, +entitled a “Catalogue of the Books, both Manuscript and Printed, which +are preserved in the Library of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1802.” It is +divided into two parts, of which the first is an alphabetical index of +the books both manuscript and printed, with reference to the shelves upon +which they were placed when the Catalogue was compiled. The second part +contains the Catalogue of the printed books only, being the contents +of the Cases from A I. to LL IV. specifying the titles, imprints, and +dates of each work. But as the present Librarian has entirely changed +the arrangement of the books in these cases, they having been formerly +arranged according to their size, but now according to their subjects, +the utility of this Catalogue, as affording facility of reference, +is entirely gone. The third portion of this Catalogue contains an +enumeration of the manuscripts in the order in which they occur in the +closed cases, A to E, in which they are kept. + +I shall be excused for transcribing the introductory remarks to this +Catalogue, since the book itself is solely circulated among the members +of the establishment, and the matter is most pertinent to the subject of +the present notice; so here it is:— + +“Of this Library, a Catalogue, as it was called, appeared in 1743; but +it is merely an alphabetical list of printed books only, without any +statements of the place or year in which the books are printed, and +without any guide to the shelves on which they had been placed. The +present Catalogue, by its two-fold arrangement, is intended to inform the +reader of most particulars relating to the books, to point out to him +their situation in the Library, and at the same time to preserve them in +their respective classes. + +“The Dean and Chapter, desirous to promote the utility of their Library, +lately caused it to be carefully examined, as well as considerably +enlarged; and in consequence of the examination, several manuscripts +were found concealed under a heap of rubbish in a private closet. These +Manuscripts, having been investigated by some of the members of the +Church, are now deposited, (as the subjects of them required,) partly in +the Chapter-room, and partly in the Library. To the presses in the latter +an addition is thus made of twelve volumes since the publication of a +Catalogue of the Manuscripts in this Library, by a member of the Church, +in 1793. Other Manuscripts also, since that period, have been presented +to the Dean and Chapter. This Library, it may be observed, is rich in +Manuscript materials relating to the Civil and Ecclesiastical History of +the country, and to Saxon literature in general; as the articles under +Records, Registers, and Somner, will evince.” + +I may add, that this Library suffered severely from fire in former ages, +and was despoiled of some of its fairest treasures during the Cromwellian +Usurpation. It cannot consequently boast of many tomes of the olden time, +but it contains many valuable and useful works, which will more plainly +appear when we come to analyze its contents. The books are marked by the +armorial bearings of the Dean and Chapter of “Christ Church Canterbury,” +engraved and pasted within the covers. This precaution, however, proved +ineffectual against the carelessness of so many persons to whom books had +been lent some years ago, that the Reverend Guardians of this collection +have of late years exercised draconic vigilance in the preservation of +their literary treasures. + +Many indeed of the clergy of Canterbury, who are unusually numerous, +would gladly avail themselves of access to this Library; an indulgence +which methinks might be granted under such regulations as should ensure +the integrity, while extending the usefulness of the collection. + +It is matter of great congratulation to the Dean and Chapter, that so +many valuable Manuscripts relating to Saxon literature in general, and +the County of Kent in particular, should be contained within the walls +of this Library. Whoever wishes rightly to estimate the labours of the +indefatigable Somner, should examine this collection, where will be +found two copies of his excellent Dictionarium Saxonico-Latinum, from +one of which, as appears by the signatures of the Compositors, his +valuable work was printed in 1659. The Title, Recommendatory Verses, +Dedication, Preface, List of Subscribers, and Errata, are here carefully +preserved. Here also are kept with equal care, his “Treatise of the +Roman Ports and Forts in Kent,” folio, a work which was published in +1693, his remarks upon the Goodwin Sands, and a life of the Author, by +White Kennet, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough. Somner’s “Discourse +of Portus Iccius, wherein the late conceipts of Chiffletius in his +topographicall discourse thereof are examined and refuted; the judgment +of Cluverius concerning the same port asserted and embraced; and the +true site thereof more clearly ascertained.” This work was translated +into Latin, and published at Oxford, in 1694, by Dr. Edmund Gibson, +afterwards Bishop of London. Somner argues for Boulogne, Chifflet for +Mardyke. His “Littus Saxonicum per Britanniam,” the design of which +treatise was, to overthrow the opinion of Selden in his Mare Clausum, +and to vindicate the opinions of Camden, Cluverius, Merula, and Ortelius, +concerning this shore. His emendation of the Concilium Berghamstedense, +A.D. 697, as given by Spelman, vol. 1, p. 194, exhibiting at one view the +textus Roffensis, ejusdem exemplaris correctio, D. H. Spelmanni versio +et versio nova. A specimen of the attentive correction which Somner was +accustomed to bestow; and of which his manuscript notes in several of the +printed books in this Library afford additional proof. His “observations +upon the Commissary of Canterbury’s Patent,” which Mr. Battely in his +Preface to “the Antiquities of Canterbury,” where a great part of this +discourse is printed, supposes to have been the first fruits of those +labours which Somner devoted to the study of Antiquity. To which I may +add, his “Scholia et Animadversiones in Leges Henrici Primi,” folio. “In +Dni Henrici Spelmanni Eq: Aurat. Glossarium Adversaria; Item, in Watsii +Glossarium; et in eximii viri Gerardi Johannis Vossii de vitiis sermonis +et Tractatum Adversaria.” and his Miscellanies; consisting chiefly of +Letters relating to the affairs of the Cathedral, and the Diocese of +Canterbury; and containing some curious remarks upon the characters, +residences, &c. of many Incumbents in the Diocese. + +To the unwearied pen of Somner we are indebted for the transcription of +the following Works. + + “Orosius, Saxonicè;” transcriptus è pervetusto Libro illo MS. + Bibl. Cottonianâ, in quo Chronologia Saxonica invenitur exarata. + + “Cædmonis Paraphrasis Saxonica.” Transcriptus è pervetusto + Libro MS. in Bibl. Deuvesianâ charactere Saxonico exarato. + + “Medicinalis Anglicus Saxonicè.” Transcriptus è pervetusto + Libro MS. in Bibliothecâ Regiâ apud S. Jacobum. + + “Pentateuchus et Liber Josuæ Saxonicè.” Folio. Transcriptus è + pervetusto Libro MS. in Bibliothecâ Cottonianâ. + + “Statuta Eccl. Christi Cantuar. ab Henrico octavo fundatore.” + + “Chartæ Odonis Prioris, Eccl. Chr. Cant. anno 1167.” + + “Chronica Gervasii de combustione et reparatione Eccl. Cantuar. + 1174.” This Chronicle was published in the Decem Scriptores, + the joint labour of Twysden and Somner, in 1652, and was + translated into English, and published in the Historical + Description of Canterbury Cathedral in 1783. + +But, besides the entire transcription of the above-mentioned Works, +which are carefully preserved in this Library, the diligence of Somner +has made copious extracts, which are also kept here:—“Ex Chronicis Will. +Thorne.”—Fol. “Ex Gotcelini libro de translatione S. Augustini Anglor: +Apost: et Sociorum ejus in Bibliothecâ Deuvesianâ.”[3] “Ex Registro +Manuscripto S. Augustini Monast: collect: à Thom: Thaneto.” “Ex veteri +Libro MS. olim Ecclesiæ Christi Cant: modo in Bibliothecâ Comitis +Arundell. cui titulus, ‘Registrum sive Martyrologium Ecclesiæ Christi +Cant:’”—“Ex veteri Libro MS. sc. Registro (ut inscribitur) temporalium +Ecclesiæ et Episcopatus Roffensis abbreviatio, et circa tempora (1319) +Haimonis de Slethe, 46. ejusdem Sedis Episc: (ut opinor) qui in +Episcoporum ibi memoratorum catalogo ultimum locum obtinet.” “Ex libro +Roffensi in 4to.”—& “E pervetusto libro MS. in Bibliothecâ Cottonianâ, +Orosii historiam continente, manu Saxonicâ, cui titulus, ‘Chronica +Saxonica Abingdoniæ ad annum 1066.’” Folio. + +If to the above we add some Papers concerning Christ Church Yard, +and an Account of what was laid out on the Church from 1660 to 1662, +together with several Transcripts from ancient records, chronicles, +and registers, relating to Canterbury, Kent, and Saxon literature, we +shall have gathered a very fair idea of the contributions of Somner to +the literature of his country, and be disposed to assign the Cantian +Antiquary a place in the same temple with Dugdale and with Hearne. + +I have already mentioned that Manuscripts in this Library relating to the +Cathedral and City of Canterbury are very numerous; so voluminous indeed +that I must request the reader to accept the following account rather as +exemplary than descriptive. + +First then, among the Manuscripts relating to the county of Kent, we +have a Table or playne Particular of the whole Shyre; the Customs of +Sandwich and Lydd; some Particulars respecting the Monastery and Town of +Faversham; the Rentals of Godmersham and Chertham; the Rents of Assize +at Marden, and Milton; an Index to the Ledger-book of the Priory of +Dover, &c. De Monasterio et Prioribus S. Martini de Dovor. An Account +of Lands in the Manor of Wingham paying rents, &c. to the Archbishop +of Canterbury; and of the Lands of the Bishoprick of Rochester. To +which I may add the Registrum Monasterii S. Augustini, a large quarto +volume, upon vellum. This curious Manuscript was purchased by the late +Dr. Farmer, formerly a Prebend of Canterbury, at a book-stall in London, +and by him presented to the Cathedral Library, which contains also the +“Registrum Domini Willim̅ Sellyng, Præcentoris, a decimosexto die Aprilis +Anno Dn̅i millesimo quingentesimo vicesimo primo, tempore Thomæ Hampton +abbatis hujus loci, necnon anno regni regis Henrici octavi duo decimo.” +4to. This Manuscript, which is partly on vellum and partly on paper, +was the Register of St. Austin’s Monastery, and is believed to be the +last; the establishment having been dissolved 30 Henr. VIII. Its ancient +Library of course shared the fate of the Monastery, and was dispersed. +Some few, however, of its manuscript volumes were transferred to the +adjacent Cathedral, where are now preserved, + + “S. Augustini Sermones de Verbis Domini, cum Indice præfixo,” + folio, inscripti super membranis. + + “Evangelium Sancti Matthæi, Latinè, cum largâ expositione + cujusdam Anonymi,” folio, optime conservatum. + + “Vetus Logica; Liber de Articulis Fidei; Priscianus de + Constructionibus; Liber de Accentibus; Donati Barbarismus,” + folio, in membranis; and a volume containing + + “Correctorium totius Bibliæ Roberti Grosthead Episc: Lincoln.” + “Tabula secundùm ordinem alphabeti, in lib. exemplorum Sacræ + Scripturæ.” “Liber Exemplorum S. Scripturæ Fratris Nicol de + Hanapis;” & “De orbis situ.” + +All of which originally formed a part of the library of the Monastery +of St. Augustine, the ruins of which still arrest the attention of the +passing stranger. + +Those who feel an interest in what once composed Monastic Libraries, will +rejoice to peruse, in the account-book of some officer of the Monastery, +the “Reparationes circa Libros in Librariâ super Capellam Domini Priori,” +and to be informed that a list of books formerly in this Library is given +by Dart in the Appendix to his History of the Church of Canterbury. + +To return from this digression to the Manuscripts relating to the Church, +See, and City of Canterbury; I may enumerate + + 1. Redditus Eccl: Christi Cantuar: in membranis. + + 2. Relevia recepta anno secundo et sequentibus post reversionem + Conventûs ab exilio, 1215, in membranis.[4] + + 3. Nomina Monachorum Eccl. Christi Cant: a tempore exilii eorum + 1207, ad annum 1533. + + 4. Obituarium Monachorum Eccl. Chr. Cant. ab 1286 ad 1507. + + 5. Gablum de diversis terris. + + 6. A Receiver’s Book of Church Rents in the time of the + Monastery. Liber Redituum Locabilium Prioris Ecclesiæ Cant. + Episcoporum in Provinciâ Cant. Decimæ. + + 7. Spiritualium et Temporalium secundùm Registrum Papæ et Regis. + +An account of certain Manors taken into Queen Elizabeth’s hands, from the +Archbishop of Canterbury, and what recompense she made out of Lands, of +Abbies, Rectories, impropriate Rents, Tithes, &c. + + 8. Part of a Register of the Archbishop’s Manors. + + 9. De Prærogativis Archiep. Cantuar. written upon vellum about + 1334. + + 10. A list of Authors, with references to their Works, who + have written concerning the Archbishops of Canterbury; first, + of those who have treated of the Archbishops generally, and + secondly, of those who have composed single or particular + lives; by the late learned and celebrated antiquary, Dr. Samuel + Pegge. 4to. + +These valuable papers were in the possession of John Nichols, Esq. F.A.S. +by whom they were given to the Rev. Mr. Todd, and by Mr. Todd have been +presented to this Library. To these may be added the + + “Statuta Curiæ Cantuar. editæ per Rob. Winchelsea, Archiep. + Cant.” and the “Fasti Cantuarienses; or the History of the + renowned Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ in + Canterbury; a Poem in five Books; by John Boys of Hode Court.” + Folio, 104 pages. + +This Poem appears by the Preface to have been intended for the press. +It is dedicated to Gilbert (Sheldon) Abp. of Canterbury. The Author, +it seems, was the intimate friend of Somner. At the end is a printed +“Panegyrick to his Sacred Majesty” Charles II. in verse, by the same +author, dated 1662. Other publications by Mr. Boys are there also +noticed. This volume was purchased at the sale of the late Dr. Osmund +Beauvoir, Master of the King’s School, Canterbury, by Thomas Park, +Esq. F.A.S.; by whom it was presented through the Rev. Mr. Todd to +this Library. Lastly, as relating to the City of Canterbury, I may add +to the Manuscripts already mentioned, the Charter of King Edward IV. +granted to the City of Canterbury in 1460. Nomina 161 Majorum Civitatis +Cantuariæ ab anno 1449. Fundatio et Statuta Hospitalis Sancti Laurentii +juxta Cantuariam, et Registrum Chartarum de terris ejusdem; folio, in +membranis; and the Answers to the Articles of Enquiry, made by the +Commissioners of Henry VIII. concerning the estates, goods, revenues, &c. +of certain Hospitals in and near Canterbury; the first and last of these +documents forming part of the valuable collections of Somner. + +Of Manuscripts relating to the History and Antiquities of England, I +noticed a Catalogue of the Religious Houses within the realms of England +and Wales, with their orders, founders, and values; both such as were +suppressed by King Henry VIII. and such as were left standing, or have +been since erected. Several grants of Henry IV. V. and VI. and Edward IV. +to several monasteries, abbies, &c. Constitutiones Othonis et Othoboni +cum Glossâ Johanni de Acton. folio, in membranis. A Volume of Letters +concerning State Affairs in the time of Queen Elizabeth, from 1569 to +1596. A curious volume in folio, containing:— + +1. “The Names and Armes (emblazoned) of the Principall Captains as well +of Noblemen as of Knights that were with the victorious Prince, King +Edward the Third, at the Siege of Callys. 1346.” + +2. “An Account of how many Ships and Mariners every Port sent throughout +England to that Siege. Also the supply of Ships and Mariners from Bayon, +Spayne, Ireland, Flaunders, and Gelderland.” + +3. “An Account of all the Princes and Noblemen, Foreigners, that served +at that Siege, with their pay, and of the whole charge of that Siege.” + +4. “The Titles and Armes (emblazoned) of all the Noblemen that flourished +in each King and Queen’s Reign from William the Conqueror to Queen +Elizabeth.” + +5. “An Account of the Precedency of the Nobility in several Processions +of Queen Elizabeth and King James.” + +6. “The Order of Precedency of the Nobles, both Men and Women, by Jasper, +Duke of Bedford, (Uncle to Henry VII. and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) at +the appointment of Henry VII.” “The Armes and Names of all the Nobilitie, +Privi-Councelers, and Chiefe Officers of England in 1588.” Certain +Disputations in point of Law concerning the Kings of England’s right to +their Succession in the Kingdom of France; from an ancient MS. copied by +Sir Peter Manwood in 1615, folio.[5] Fragmentum Historiæ Saxonicæ manu +recenti, 4to. which formerly belonged to Somner, who has written on the +first page “Florentius Wigorn. optimus hujus histor. interpres. W. S.” +Canuti Regis Leges Saxonicæ, 4to. Veterum Statutorum Regni Collectio, cum +Indice præfixo, 8vo. + +To the above may be added Erdeswick’s Antiquities of Staffordshire, +folio, 84 pages; and a Rentall of all the lands, rents, and pencions +in the Cytie of Worcestre, and suburbes of the same, belongyng to the +Cathedrall Churche of Worcestre, &c. folio. + +I come now to the mention of a very interesting Work, being no less than +“Isaaci Casauboni Ephemerides,” folio. This is the Diary of the Life +of that eminent scholar and critic, Isaac Casaubon, Prebendary of this +Church, written in Latin with his own hand, commencing in the 39th year +of his age and in the year of our Lord 1597. He died in 1614. + +The curious and learned reader will be highly gratified by several +circumstances recorded in this volume respecting classical authors, in +the illustration of whom Casaubon had been engaged. Bentley, it has been +said, was indulged with the use of this volume. It was probably the gift +of Meric Casaubon, son of Isaac, and also a Prebendary of this Church. +From a passage in this Diary we learn that Isaac Casaubon, being a +layman, received the royal dispensation to hold this Prebend. + +Of Classic Authors I may notice a beautifully written Manuscript of M. T. +Ciceronis Epistolæ, in folio, presented to the Library by Dr. Kingsley, +Archdeacon and Prebendary, in 1663. At the beginning of this MS. is the +following note:—“This Booke I Edmund Witherpoll found in the Lybrary off +owre Ladye’s Churche in Bulleyn the xxv day of Sept. Anno Domini 1544.” +Edmund Witherpoll probably accompanied Henry the Eighth in his expedition +against Boulogne, and brought away this literary treasure with him. + +Of Theological Manuscripts I must content myself with enumerating the + + Biblia Latina Thomæ de Banchester, cui præfigitur Tractatus + Moralium super Genesin, qui dicitur Solatium fidelis animæ, + folio, in membranis. + + Stephani (Langton) Archiep. Cant. Moralia in Isaiam, Jeremiam, + et Ezechielem Prophetas, folio, in membranis. + + Ejusdem Moralia in libros Josuæ, Judicum, Ruth, in quatuor + libros Regum, in Tobiam, Hester, Esdram, et duos libros + Maccabæorum, folio, in membranis. + + Ejusdem Moralia in XII Prophetas Minores, folio, in membranis. + + Joannis Duns Scoti Questiones Theologicæ, folio, in membranis. + + Ejusdem, in quartum lib. Sententiarum, folio, in membranis. + + Expositio sive Glossa Regulæ S. Beati Benedicti, 4to. + + Ephrem Syri Preces, Græcè, 12mo. most beautifully written. + + Testamenta duodecim Patriarcharum. + + Narratio e libro qui Græcè vocatur Suda.[6] + + Meditationes beati Bernardi, 8vo, in membranis. A Volume which + formerly belonged to the Monastery of St. Mary Overy, Southwark. + +I may conclude this notice of the Canterbury Manuscripts with the mention +of the Chronicon ab origine Mundi, cui præfigitur Tabula subsequentis +operis secundùm ordinem Alphabeti, folio, which ends in 1338; and a +Chronographye of the most notable things from the beginning of the +world to the year 1592, by John Nettleton, gent. my Master, and writ +by me Wm. Byrche; together with the Stimulus Conscientiæ, or Pricke of +Conscience, an English Poem, by Richard Hampole,[7] an eremite of the +order of St. Augustine, who flourished in 1349, 4to.; and another curious +Volume of English Poetry in 4to., entitled Epigramma Satiron; or “The +times whistle, or a newe daunce of seven Satires, whereunto are annexed +divers other poems comprising things naturall, morall, and theologicall, +compiled by ______ gent.” + + “Septem compacta cicutis + Fistula.” + +The name of the compiler is in this first title erased. He announces the +design of those Seven Satires in a long Introduction. + + “From the Rhamnusian goddesse am I sent, + On Sinne t’inflict deserved punishment: + All-seeing Sunne, lend me thy searching eye, + That I may finde, and scourge impietie;” + &c. &c. &c. + +To these Satires are added “Certaine Poems, comprising things naturall, +morall, and theologicall. Written by R. C. gent.”[8] + +In proceeding to give some account of the printed books contained in the +Library of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, I will first notice the +impressions of the Holy Scriptures which are contained therein, namely, +the + + Biblia Maxima, Joannis de la Haye. Lutet. Paris. 1660, in 19 + vols. folio. + + Biblia Polyglotta per Ariam Montanum. Antverpiæ, 1569, in 8 + vols. folio. + + Biblia Polyglotta per Brianum Waltonum. Londini, 1657, in 6 + vols. folio, cui Castelli Lexicon Heptaglotton, Londini, 1669, + accedit. + + Biblia Hebraica cum Commentariis Rabbinicis, per Danielem + Bombergum. Venetiis, 1515, in 4 vols. folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, per Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776, in 2 vols. folio. + + Biblia Sacra, cum Glossa ordinaria, Parisiis, 1590, in 6 vols. + folio. + + Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ Editionis. Romæ, 1592, folio. Basileæ, + 1591, 8vo. Lugduni, 1618, 8vo. and Antverpiæ, 1629, in 5 vols. + 16mo. + + Biblia Latina Tremellii et Junii. Hanoviæ, 1602, in 2 vols. + 4to.—Hanoviæ, 1603, folio, and Genevæ, 1617, in 4 vols. folio. + + Biblia Septuaginta, Romæ, 1587, folio; Londini, 1653, in 2 + vols. 12mo.; et edita per Grabe, Oxonii, 1707, dupl. edit. in 2 + vols. folio, and in 8 vols. 8vo. + + Biblia Belgica. Leydæ, 1596, 4to. + + Biblia Española. Amst. 1661, 8vo. + + La Biblia Traslatata in lingua Italiana da Giov. Diodati, 1607, + 4to. + + The Great English Bible, published by order of Henry VIII. + London, November, 1540, folio. + + English Bible. London, 1551, folio. + + The Holy Bible of 1585, the Bishops’ Version, in fol. + + The Bible printed at Doway in 1609, in 3 vols. 4to. + + The Bible printed by Barker at London, in 1640, folio; by + Baskett at Oxford, in 1717, folio; and by Baskerville at + Cambridge, in 1763, folio. + +To which I may add the Bible edited by D’Oyley and Mant, and the Welch +Bible printed at London in 1630, 8vo. + +I may here notice the Psalter edited by Baber, and the Liturgia Anglicana +Octoglotta, printed by Bagster. + +Of editions of the New Testament separately published, we find + + The Nov. Test. Polyglottum Eliæ Hutteri. Norimbergæ, 1599, in 2 + vols. folio. + + The Nov. Test. Græcum, Rob. Stephani. Lutet. Paris. 1550, folio. + + The Nov. Test. Græcum, Joannis Gregorii. Oxonii, 1703, folio. + + The Nov. Test. Græcum, Joannis Millii. Oxonii, 1707, folio. + + The Nov. Test. Græcum, Joannis Leusden. Amst. 1698, 12mo. + + The Nov. Test. Græcum, J. J. Wetstenii. Amstel. 1751, in 2 + vols. folio. + + The Nov. Test. Græcum, Griesbachii. Oxonii, 8vo. + + The Nov. Test. Arabicum. Londini, 1727, 4to. + + The Nov. Test. Copticum a Dav. Wilkins. Oxonii, 1716, 4to. + + The Nov. Test. Gallicum. Genevæ, 1618, 12mo. + + The Rhemish New Testament. Rheims, 1582, 4to. + + The Doway New Testament. Antwerp, 1600, 4to. + + Evangelia Gothica et Anglo-Saxonica. Franc. Junii. Dordrechti, + 1665, 4to. + + The Saxon Gospels, by John Foxe. London, 1571, 4to. To this I + may add the + + Psalterium Latino-Saxonicum Vetus Johannis Spelmanni. Londini, + 1640, 4to. and + + “The whole Psalter translated into English Metre, which + contayneth an hundredth and fifty Psalmes. Imprinted at London + by John Daye, dwelling over Aldersgate, beneath S. Martyns.” + + “Cum Gratia et Privilegio + Regiæ Majestatis per + Decennium.” + +4to. with the device of the Printers, whose Colophon I have transcribed +above, as it seems to militate against the supposition entertained by +Warton,[9] that the Work was never published, but that the Archbishop +permitted his wife to present the Book to some of the nobility. + +“This copy, very curiously bound, was probably given by her to the Church +of Canterbury,” says the compiler of the Catalogue of its Library; but I +know not on what grounds beyond mere conjecture; and I regret to add that +the ancient binding has been replaced by a modern suit of morocco, the +colour of which has been so much impaired by damp that I could scarcely +believe it had once been purple. + +These Psalms, translated into English Metre by Archbishop Parker, +were finished in 1557, and a few years afterwards printed. The Book +is extremely scarce, excepting in public libraries. Strype, the +ecclesiastical historian, relates that he could never obtain a sight of +it. At the sale of the Books belonging to the late Dr. Farmer in 1798, +a copy of this Work was sold for three pounds six shillings; and in Mr. +Bright’s sale, in 1845, for forty pounds ten shillings. + +Of Works of Divinity in this Library, the number is so considerable that +I must content myself with noticing the + + Magna Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum et antiq. Scriptorum + Ecclesiasticorum per Margarinum de la Bigné et alior. Colon. + Agrip. 1618-22, in 16 vols. folio. + + Bibliothecæ Græcorum Patrum Auctarium per Franc. Combesis. + Paris. 1672, in 3 vols. folio. + + SS. Patrum Barnabæ, Hermæ, Clementis, Ignatii, et Polycarpi + Opera, per Jo. Bapt. Cotelerium. Lutet. Paris. 1672, in 2 vols. + folio. + + SS. Patrum Opera, Gregorii Neocæsariensis, Macarii Ægyptii, et + Basilii Seleuciæ Epistolæ, folio. Parisiis, 1622. + + SS. Patrum Opera, Amphilochii Iconiensis, Methodii Patavensis, + et Andreæ Cretensis. Parisiis, 1644, folio. + + Ambrosii Opera. Paris. 1586, in 2 vols. folio. + + Athanasii Opera, Gr. et Lat., edita à Petro Nannio, 2 vols. + folio. + + Augustini Opera. Basileæ, 1569, in 7 vols. folio; and Paris. + 1679, in 8 vols. folio. + + Basilii Opera. Parisiis, 1618, in 3 vols. folio. + + Bernardi Opera. Basil. 1566, folio. + + Bellarmini Opera. Colon. Agrip. 1620, in 5 vols. folio: et + Disputationes, Lutet. Paris. 1620, in 4 vols. folio. + + Bonaventuræ Opera. Moguntiæ, 1609, in 4 vols. fol. + + Calvini Opera. Genevæ, 1583, in 11 vols. folio. + + Chamieri Panstratia Catholica. Genevæ, 1626, in 4 vols. folio. + + Chrysostomi Opera, Gr. et Lat. Ducæi. Parisiis, 1636, in 11 + vols. folio: and Græcè, per Henricum Savilium, Etonæ, 1613, in + 8 vols. folio. + + Clementis Alexandrini Opera; Sylburgii. Lutet. 1629, folio. + + Cypriani Opera, per Fell. Oxonii, 1682, folio. + + Cyrilli Alexandrini Opera. Paris. 1638, in 7 vols. fol. + + Cyrilli Hierosolymitani et Synesii Cyrenensis Opera. Lutet. + Paris. 1640, folio. + + Two 8vo. editions of the Rationale of Durandus of 1580 and 1592. + + Epiphanii Opera per Petavium. Parisiis, 1622, in 2 vols. folio. + + Episcopii Opera. Amstel. 1650, in 2 vols. folio. + + Erasmi Opera. Lugd. Bat. 1703, in 11 vols. folio. + + Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica. Paris. 1628, + folio. + + Gregorii Nazianzeni Opera. Lutet. Paris. 1609, in 2 vols. folio. + + Gregorii Nysseni Opera. Paris. 1638, in 3 vols. fol. + + Hieronymi Opera. Paris. 1609, in 3 vols., and Francos. 1684, in + 4 vols. folio. + + Hilarii Opera. Paris. 1652. + + Hospinianus de origine ac progressu Monachatûs. Tiguri, 1588, + folio, and his other works. + + Ignatii et Polycarpi Epistolæ, Jac. Usserii. Oxonii, 1644, 4to. + + Ignatii et Barnabæ Epistolæ. Isa. Vossii. Amstel. 1646, 4to. + + Ignatii Epistolæ, per Tho. Smith. Oxonii, 1709, 4to. + + Irenæi Opera. Parisiis, 1710, folio. + + Isidori Epistolæ. Lutet. 1638, folio. + + Isidori Hispalensis Opera. Colon. Agrip. 1617, fol. + + Justini Martyris Opera. Paris. 1551 and 1636, fol. + + Lactantii Opera. Basileæ, 1563, folio, and Oxonii, 1684, 8vo. + + Lanfranci, Archiep. Cantuar. Opera et Vita. Lutet. Paris. 1648, + folio. + + Lutheri Opera. Witebergæ, 1582, in 7 vols. folio. + + Melancthonis Opera. Basileæ, 1541, in 2 vols. fol. + + Many pieces of Du Moulin’s. + + Œcumenii Comment. Lut. Par. 1630, 2 vols. folio. + + Origenis Commentaria. Rothom, 1668, in 2 vols. folio. + + Petavii Dogmata Theologica. Lutet. Paris. 1644, in 5 vols. + folio; with his Doctrina Temporum, and other Works. + + Philonis Judæi Opera, Basileæ, 1526, Paris. 1640, and Londini, + 1742, à Mangey. + + Procopii et Riberæ Commentaria. + + Suarez Opuscula Theologica. Lugd. 1600, 4to. + + Tertulliani Opera. Paris. 1634, folio. + + Theodoreti Opera Sirmondi. Lutet. Paris. 1642, in 4 vols. folio. + + Theophylacti Opera Varia. + + Tostati Opera. Col. Agrip. 1613, in 12 vols. folio. + + Vincentii Sermones. Antv. 1572, 3 vols. 8vo. + + Whitakeri Opera Theologica. Genevæ, 1610, 2 vols. folio. + + Zanchii Opera. Hanoviæ, 1507, in 2 vols. 4to. + + To which I may add the Critici Sacri. Londini, 1660, in 9 vols. + folio. + + Poli Synopsis. Londini, 1669, in 5 vols. folio. + + Bibliotheca Polonorum Fratrum. 1656, in 8 vols. folio; and + + Walchii Bibliotheca Theologica and Suiceri Thesaurus + Ecclesiasticus. + +Those who have persevered in perusing this long Catalogue of early +Divinity, will have obtained a very good idea of the nucleus around which +most of our Cathedral Libraries have been formed, and may figure to +themselves a long array of ponderous folios, attired in the dusky calf of +the seventeenth century. Of the more recent theological writers, the list +being less copious, may also prove less fatiguing; including numerous +Sermons by Blair, Horne, Sherlock, Secker, South, and other writers; +the Hulsean Lectures, and the Works of Andrews, Barrow, Benson, Bull, +Beveridge, Bingham, Chillingworth, Samuel Clarke, Cosins, Hall, Hammond, +Hooper, Horsley, Jackson, Jones, Jewel, Lardner, Lightfoot, Leslie, +Lowth, Newcome, Paley, Pococke, Potter, Prideaux, Skelton, Shuckford, +Stanhope, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tillotson, Usher, Warburton, and +Waterland. + +This department also embraces Butler’s Analogy; Campbell on the Gospels; +Sale’s Koran; Chappelow on Job; Daubeny’s Guide to the Church; Dwight’s +Theology; Faber on Pagan Idolatry; Hey’s Theological Lectures; Kett +on Prophecy; Horne’s Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures; +Macknight on the Epistles; Marsh’s Michaelis; Pearson on the Creed; +Porteus’s Lectures; and Stackhouse’s History of the Bible. To which I +may add, Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; the Commentaries of Arnald, +Grotius, Hammond, Lowth, Patrick, Taylor, Wetstein, and Whitby; with the +Concordances of Buxtorf, Cruden, Kircher, Newman, Stephens, &c. + +In Ecclesiastical History this collection is particularly rich; +both as relates to the affairs of the Church in general, and to the +Ecclesiastical History of England in particular. In proof of this +assertion I may adduce + + Echard and Collier’s Ecclesiastical History. + + Conciliorum Collectio Maxima, per Labbeum et Cossartium. Lutet. + Paris. 1672, in 18 vols. folio. + + Concilia per Binium. Col. Agr. 1606, in 5 vols. and Lut. Par. + 1636, in 10 vols. folio. + + Concilia Galliæ Narbonensis. Paris. 1668, 8vo. and Spelmanni + Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ. Londini, 1639-64, 2 vols. folio. + + Wilkins’s Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ. Londini, 1737, in 4 vols. + folio. + + Le Cointe Annales Ecclesiastica Francorum. Paris. 1665, 8 vols. + folio; and his Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain. + + Broughton’s Dictionary of all Religions. London, 1737, in 2 + vols. folio. + + Picart’s Religious Ceremonies of all Nations. London, 1733, in + 6 vols. folio. + + The Acta Sanctorum, per Dacherium et Mabillonium. Lutet. Paris. + 1668-77, in 6 vols. folio. + + Anastasii Hist. Eccl. et Vitæ Paparum. 1602, 4to. and 1649, + folio. + + Balei Acta Romanor. Pontificum. Basileæ, 1558, 8vo. + + Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici. Antv. 1612-29, in 12 vols. folio. + + Bower’s History of the Popes. London, 1748, 5 vols. 4to.[10] + + I. Casauboni Exercitationes ad Baronii Annales. Genevæ, 1654, + 4to. + + Pagi Critica in Annales Baronii. Lut. Par. 1689, fol. + + Cave’s Scriptorum Eccles. Hist. Lit. London, 1688, in 2 vols. + folio. + + Cave’s Antiquitates Apostolicæ. Lond. 1677, in 2 vols. folio; + and Primitive Christianity. Lond. 1675, 8vo. + + Historia Ecclesiastica Centuriatorum Magdeburgensium. Basileæ, + 1624, in 3 vols. folio. + + Codex Theodosianus, 1665, 4 vols. folio. + + Gibson’s Codex, in 2 vols. folio. + + Corpus Juris Canonici. Taurini, 1620, 3 vols. folio. + + Durandi Speculum Juris. Francof. 1592, folio. + + Ecton’s Thesaurus. 1766, 4to. + + Howell’s Synopsis Canonum. + + Geddes’s Church History of Æthiopia and Malabar. + + Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity. + + The Legenda Aurea. Coloniæ, 1485, folio. + + Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History. + + Osiandri Epitome Hist. Eccles. Tubingæ, 1607, in 4 vols. 4to. + + Spondani Annales Sacri. Lut. Par. 1660, 5 vols. fol. + + Tornielli Annales Sacri. Antv. 1620, in 2 vols. folio. + + Usserii Annales. Lond. 1650-54, 2 vols. folio. + + Waddingi Annales Minorum. Lugd. 1625, in 4 vols. folio. + + Warner’s Ecclesiastical History. London, 1756, 2 vols. folio. + + The Annals of Scottish Episcopacy. + + Alfordi Annales Eccles. Britan. Leodii, 1663, in 4 vols. folio. + + Bedæ, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Lovanii, 1566, 12mo. + Cantabrigiæ, 1644, folio. + + Burnet’s History of the Reformation. London, 1679, in 3 vols. + folio. + + Concertatio Ecclesiæ Catholicæ in Angliâ. Aug. Trev. 1588, 4to. + + Cosins’ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Politeia. Oxonii, 1634, 4to. + + Churton’s Life of Dean Nowell. + + Fiddes’ Life of Wolsey. + + Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum. Lond. 1655, &c. 3 vols. folio. + + Fox’s Acts and Monuments of the Church. London, 1632, in 3 + vols. folio. + + Godwin, de Præsulibus Angliæ. Cantabrigiæ, 1743, folio. + + Gough, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Threnodia. Londini, 1661, 8vo. + + Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Duaci, 1622, folio. + + Heylin’s History of the Reformation. London, 1661, folio. + + Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ. + + Lyndewode, Provinciale. Antv. 1525, and Oxon. 1679, folio. + + Mac Crie’s Life of Knox. + + Parker De Antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ. Hanoviæ, 1605, folio. + + Parker De Archiep. Cantuar. Londini, 1729, folio. + + Reyner’s Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ. Duaci, 1626, + folio. + + Skinner’s Ecclesiastical History of Scotland. + + Spotiswode’s History of the Church of Scotland. London, 1668, + folio. + + Southey’s Life of Wesley, and Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. + + Stillingfleet’s Origines Britannicæ. Lond. 1685, fol. + + Strype’s Annals of the Reformation. London, 1709, 4 vols. folio. + + Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials. London, 1721, 3 vols. folio. + + Tanner’s Notitia Monastica. Londini, 1744, folio. + + Usserii Eccles. Britan. Antiquitates. Eblanæ, 1639, 4to. + + Walker’s History of Independency. London, 1661, 4to. + + Whartoni Anglia Sacra. Londini, 1691, in 2 vols. fol. + + Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography. + +Of Foreign History in general this Library possesses few works of any +importance; the principal works being Bayle’s Dictionary; Banduri +Imperium Orientale; Brabantiæ Monumenta Sepulchralia; Historiæ +Byzantinæ Scriptores per Phil. Labbeum, Parisiis, 1648-50, in 21 vols. +folio; Cluverii Italia, Sicilia, et Germania Antiqua; Freheri Rerum +Germanicarum Scriptores, Francos. 1600, folio; Grimstone’s History of +the Netherlands; Du Halde’s History of China; Guicciardini, Belgicæ +Descriptio; Gyllii Constantinopoleos Topographia; Herreræ, Descriptio +Indiæ Occidentalis; Heylin’s Cosmography; The Universal History, in +7 vols. folio; Laurenbergii Græcia Antiqua; Grævii Antiquitates; +Montfaucon’s Antiquities, and other Works; Marsden’s Sumatra; Maurice’s +Indian Antiquities; Mitford’s History of Greece; Pocockii Specimen +Historiæ Arabum; Pontani Bohemia pia; Purchas’ Pilgrimes, London, 1625, +in 5 vols. folio, a very fine clean copy, bound in calf; Robertson’s +History of America, and Charles V.; Watson’s Philip II.; Hallam’s Middle +Ages; Robinsoni Annales Mundi; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Sandys’ Travels, +and Europæ Speculum; Stuart’s Athens, incomplete; The Ionian Antiquities, +and Wood’s Ruins of Palmyra; Six volumes of De Bry’s Voyages; Simsoni +Chronicon Catholicum, & Wormii Monumenta Danica. + +To the above may be added, Churchill’s collection of Voyages and Travels +in 6 vols. folio. Bruce’s Travels. Pinkerton’s, and other works of +Geography, and the Chronological researches of Beverigius, Bucherius, +Carion, Cary, Calvisius, Fulcius, Helvicus, Isaacson, Marsham, Petavius, +Pezron, Newton, Perizonius, Paludinus, Robinson, Scaliger, Simson, +Strauchius and Ussher; with Hale’s Analysis of Ancient Chronology; all +of them very material “helps to history.” To which I may add Chalmers’ +Biographical Dictionary, and Brady’s Clavis Calendaria. + +Of Works relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain, I have +much pleasure in being enabled to afford the reader a pretty copious +selection; commencing with the Records of the Kingdom published under the +authority of the Parliamentary Commission; and the Histories of England +by Brady, Echard, Hume, Macauley, and Rapin. To these may be added, + + Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana. Basileæ, 1555, folio. + + Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam præcipui: edente Savile. + 1596, folio. + + Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum. Francof. 1601, + folio; & Londini, 1570, folio. + + Florentii Wigorniensis Chronicon. Francof. 1601, folio. + + Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, &c. à veteribus scripta, è + Bibliothecâ Gulielmi Camdeni. Francof. 1603, folio. + + Eadmeri Historia Novorum. Londini, 1623, folio. + + Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana per Wats. Lond. 1640, folio. + + Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Decem per Rogerum Twysden. + Londini, 1652, folio. + + Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores Vetustiores. Heidelb. 1587, + folio. + + Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Veteres, à Fell. Oxonii, 1684, + folio. + + Historiæ Britannicæ Scriptores XX, à Tho. Gale. Oxonii, 1698, + in two vols. folio. + + Buchanani Rerum Scoticarum Historia. Edinb. 1582, folio. + + Camdeni Annales. Londini, 1615, folio. + + Baker’s Chronicle of the Kings of England. London, 1674, folio. + + Bates, Elenchus Motuum in Angliâ. Londini, 1663, 8vo. + + Brand on Popular Antiquities. 2 vols. 4to. + + Burnet’s History of his own Times. London, 1724, in 2 vols. + folio. + + Burton’s Commentary on Antoninus’s Itinerary. London, 1658, + folio. + + Camdeni Britannia, 1586 and 1607, with his Remains. + + Campbell’s Survey of Great Britain. London, 1774, 2 vols. 4to. + + Carte’s Life of Ormond. London, 1736, in 3 vols. folio. + + Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion. Oxford, 1702, 4 + vols. folio. + + Coxe’s Life of Sir Robert Walpole. London, 1798, 3 vols. 4to. + + Coxe’s Memoir of Marlborough. + + De Lolme on the English Constitution. London, 1790, 8vo. + + Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica. Dublin, 1772, in 2 vols. 8vo. + + Drayton’s Polyolbion. London, 1622, folio. + + Du Chesne’s Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores. Paris. 1619, folio. + + Du Chesne’s Histoire d’Angleterre, &c. Paris. 1634, folio. + + Dugdale’s Origines Judiciales. London, 1666, fol. + + Dugdale’s History of the Troubles in England. Oxford, 1681, + folio. + + Dugdale’s History of Imbanking, &c. London, 1662, folio. + + Evelyn’s Memoirs. + + Enderbie’s Cambria triumphans. London, 1661, folio. + + Franklin’s Annals of James I. and Charles I. Lond. 1681, folio. + + Granger’s Biographical History of England. Lond. 1769, 5 vols. + 4to. + + Gifford’s Life of Pitt. + + Hardyng’s Chronicle. London, 1543, 4to. + + Heylin’s Life of Laud. London, 1668, folio. + + Holinshed’s Chronicles of England. London, no date, folio. + + Ingram’s Saxon Chronicle. Oxford, 4to. + + Kennett’s Register and Chronicle. London, 1728, folio. + + Biographia Britannica. Lond. 1747, in 7 vols. fol. + + Laud’s History of his Troubles. London, 1695, fol. + + Atkyns’ History of Gloucestershire. London, 1712, folio. + + Battely’s Antiquities of Canterbury. London, 1703, folio. + + Bentham’s History of the Church of Ely. Cambridge, 1771, 4to. + + Boys’ History of Sandwich. Canterbury, 1792, 4to. + + Burton’s Leicestershire. London, 1622, folio. + + Caius, de Antiquitate Acad. Cantabr. Lond. 1574, 4to. + + Chiffletius de Portu Iccio. Antverpiæ, 1627, 4to. + + Dart’s Church of Canterbury. London, 1726, fol. + + Description of York and Canterbury Cathedrals. London, 1755, + folio. + + Dugdale’s Warwickshire. London, 1656, folio. + + Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s. London, 1716, fol. + + Fowler’s Mosaic Pavements. + + Gostling’s Walks about Canterbury. Canterbury, 1777, 8vo. + + Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments. London, 1786, &c. 5 vols. folio. + + Gutch’s Collectanea Curiosa. + + Halfpenny’s Fragmenta Vetusta. + + Harris’s History of Kent. London, 1719, folio, with some + manuscript notes by M. Norris, formerly Auditor of this Church. + + Hasted’s History of Kent. Canterbury, 1778, &c. in 4 vols. + folio. + + Horsley’s Britannia Romana. London, 1732, folio. + + Jacob’s History of Feversham. London, 1774, 8vo. + + Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities. 4to. + + Kilburne’s Survey of Kent. London, 1659, 4to. + + Kilburne’s Brief Survey of Kent. London, 1657. + + King’s Vale Royal. London, 1656, folio. + + Lewis’s History of the Isle of Tenet. London, 1723, 4to. + + Lewis’s History of Faversham, &c. London, 1727, 4to. + + Loggan’s Oxonia et Cantabrigia illustrata, folio. + + Magna Britannia. Lond. 1720, in 6 vols. 4to. + + Maitland’s History of London. 1772, in 2 vols. fol. + + Leland’s History of Ireland. London, 1773, in 3 vols. 4to. + + Lloyd’s History of Wales, by Powell. London, 1584, 4to. + + Lhuyd, Britannicæ Descriptionis Fragmentum. Col. Agr. 1572, 8vo. + + Mc Crie’s Life of Knox. + + Madox’s Firma Burgi. Lond. 1726, folio. + + Madox’s History of the Exchequer. London, 1711, in 2 vols. + folio. + + Nalson’s Collections. London, 1682, in 2 vols. fol. + + Neubrigensis, Guil. Rerum Anglicarum Libri V. Antv. 1567, 8vo. + + Nicholl’s Original Letters addressed to Oliver Cromwell. + London, 1743, folio. + + North’s Life of the Lord Keeper North. London, 1742, 4to. + + North’s Life of Sir Dudley North. Lond. 1744, 4to. + + North’s Enquiry into Kennett’s History. London, 1740, 4to. + + Parker, De Rebus sui Temporis. London, 1726, 8vo. + + Pepys’ Memoirs, edited by Lord Braybrooke. 2 vols. 4to. + + Robertson’s History of Scotland. Lond. 1762, 2 vols. 4to. + + Ruding’s Annals of the Coinage. 3 vols. 4to. + + Rushworth’s Historical Collections. London, 1682, &c. 8 vols. + folio. + + Rymer’s Fœdera. Lond. 1727, in 20 vols. folio. + + Sidney State Papers. London, 1746, 2 vols. folio. + + Slayter’s Palæ-Albion. London, 1619, folio. + + Somner’s Treatise of Gavelkind. London, 1726, 4to. + + Speed’s History of Great Britain. London, 1623, folio. + + Spelman’s Vita Ælfredi. Oxon. 1678, folio. + + Spencer’s Life of Archbishop Chichele. London, 1783. + + Strype’s Lives, Annals of the Reformation and Memorials. + + Stuart’s History of Scotland. + + Thurloe’s State Papers. London, 1742, in 7 vols. folio. + + Twinus de Rebus Albionicis. Londini, 1590, 8vo. + + Manning and Bray’s History of Surrey. + + Miller’s Account of Ely Cathedral. 8vo. + + Morton’s Northamptonshire. London, 1712, folio. + + Newcourt’s Repertorium Londinense. Lond. 1728, in 2 vols. folio. + + Packe’s Dissertation on his Chart of East Kent. London, 1737. + The Chart itself being also in the possession of the Dean and + Chapter. It is both curious and important. + + Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa. Londini, 1732, in 2 vols. folio. + + Peck’s Annals of Stamford. London, 1727, folio. + + Philipot’s Villare Cantianum. Lond. 1659, folio. + + Plot’s Nat. Hist. of Oxfordshire. Oxford, 1667, fol. + + Somner’s Portus Iccius Cæsaris, per Edm. Gibson. Oxon. 1694, + 8vo. + + Somner’s Antiquities of Canterbury. London, 1640, 4to. This + copy contains the manuscript additions of Somner himself, + which Battely afterwards incorporated with his Antiquities of + Canterbury, published in 1703. + + Speed’s Prospect of the most famous places in Great Britain. + London, 1631, folio. + + Spelman’s Villare Anglicanum. London, 1656, 4to. + + Stow’s Survey of London. London, 1633, folio. + + Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum. Lond. 1724, fol. + + Tanner’s Notitia Monastica. London, 1744, folio. + + Thorpe’s Registrum Roffensis. Lond. 1769, folio. + + Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons. + + Twinus de Antiquitate Academiæ Oxoniensis. Oxon. 1608, 4to. + + Wright’s History of Rutland. London, 1684, fol. + + Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence. Antwerp, 1605, + 4to. + + Wallis’s History of Northumberland. + + Weever’s Funeral Monuments. London, 1631, fol. + + Wood’s Athenæ & Antiquitates Oxonienses. London. 1721, 2 vols. + folio. + + Wild’s Description of Canterbury Cathedral. + + Willement’s Heraldic Notices of Canterbury Cathedral. + + White’s Natural History of Selborne. + + Wilson’s History of Merchant Taylor’s School. + + Walker’s History of Independency. London, 1661, 4to. + + Viti Basinstochii Historia Britanniæ. 1602, 8vo. + + Wilkins’s Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ. London, 1721, folio, and + + Wood’s Institutes of the Laws of England. London, 1724, folio. + +How tedious soever may be this long series of Works upon British History +and Antiquities to the general reader, the Bibliographical Antiquary will +thank me for the enumeration of many rare and valuable Illustrations +of English history, as well as for keeping as distinct as possible the +Historical and Topographical departments. + +I forbear to mention the Tracts and other obsolete Works chiefly +polemical, which remain on the shelves of this Library; neither are the +Works on Natural History or Science deserving of a separate enumeration; +unless we may except the Aldine Galen of 1525, in 5 vols. folio; the +Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions; Palladio’s Architecture; +the History of Plants, by Theophrastus, Gerard, and Ray; and Shaw’s +Zoology, in 17 volumes. + +In English Literature and Poetry it will be sufficient to mention the +names of Addison, Burke, Bacon, Ben. Jonson, Boyle, Cowley, Chaucer, +Dryden, Locke, Milton, Newton, Sterne, Selden, Spenser, Shakespeare, and +Swift, to shew the general character of this department of the Library. +But, as usual in all Cathedral Libraries, the great mass of English works +are of a sacred character. + +There is indeed a strong resemblance between the Collections which, +dating from the earliest dawn of literature in England, have been +augmented by successive additions, and now form the Libraries annexed to +the Ecclesiastical Establishments of our own time and country. + +In addition to the voluminous and important works of the Fathers of the +Church, and of the earlier Divines of this country and of the Continent, +which have been already enumerated in their proper place, this Library +embraces other Theological Works of English writers, among whom it may +be sufficient to mention the names of Bramhall, Gisborne, Horne, Jortin, +Perkins and Wake. To these may be added Pierce on the Epistles; Prideaux +and Shuckford’s Connection; and Cudworth’s Intellectual System. + +But the true character of these Collections will, in every case, be +most correctly understood by a particular enumeration of their several +contents. + +In Classical Literature this Collection comprehends many of the principal +Authors, but few of the most important editions. In illustration of this +remark, I may adduce many works which have no other claim to a place in +this notice; such as + + Æliani Variæ Historiæ. Lugd. Bat. 1701, in 2 vols. 8vo. + + Æneæ Sylvii Opera. Basil. 1571, folio. + + Æschylus Tragœdiæ, per Henr. Stephanum. 1557, 4to. + + Sophocles Tragœdiæ, per Henr. Stephanum. 1568, 4to. + + Euripides, Barnesii, Cantabr. 1694, et Canteri. 1602, 2 vols. + 4to. + + Euripides, Glasguæ, 1821, in 9 vols. 8vo. in green morocco. + + Apollonii Argonautica, per H. Stephanum, 1574, 4to. + + Arrianus de Expeditione Alexandri, per H. Stephanum. 1575, + folio. + + Sidonii Apollinaris Opera. Paris. 1652 & 1609. + + Ammianus Marcellinus, Du Vall. Paris. 1681, fol. + + Aristotelis Opera. Paris. 1654, 4 vols. folio, & Venetiis, + 1562, 10 vols. 8vo. + + Archimedis Opera, Gr. et Lat. Basileæ, 1544, folio. + + Aristophanes. Genevæ, 1607, folio, et Lugd. Bat. 1625, 12mo. + + Aristophanes Kusteri. Amst. 1710, folio, in red morocco. + + Athenæi Deipnosophistæ. Lugduni, 1612, folio. + + Arrianus de Venatione, per Holstenium. Paris. 1644. + + Aulus Gellius. Amstel. 1665, 12mo. + + Cæsaris Commentarii per S. Clarke. Lond. 1712, folio. + + Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius. Lutet. 1604, fol. + + Celsus de Medicinâ. Lugd. Bat. 1665, 12mo. + + Ciceronis Opera, Lambini. Paris. 1566, 4 vols. folio, & + Gronovii, Lugd. Bat. 1692, 11 vols. 8vo. + + Demosthenis et Æschinis Opera. Francof. 1640, folio. + + Dio Cassius. Leunclavii. Hanov. 1606, folio. + + Diodorus Siculus. Rhodomani. Hanoviæ, 1604, folio. + + Dionysius Halicarnasseus. Sylburgii. Francof. 1586, folio. + + Diogenes Laertius. Londini, 1664, folio. + + Dionis Chrysostomi Orationes. Lutet. 1604, folio. + + Epictetus. Cantabr. 1655, & Amst. 1683, with Carter’s + translation. + + Horatius, edited by Bond, Baxter, and Bentley. + + Homeri Ilias. 1689, 4to. et Odyssea, 1567, 12mo. cum. + + Eustathii Commentariis. Basileæ, 1559, 3 vols. folio. + + Herodotus, Francofurti, 1608, folio. + + Herodotus Wesselingii. Amst. 1763, folio, Ch. max., in vellum. + + Justini Historia. Lond. 1609, 12mo. & 1701, 8vo. + + Juvenalis Lubini. Hanoviæ. 1603, 4to. + + Livius, Gronovii. Lugd. Bat. 1634, 32mo. Clerici. Amst. 1710, + 10 vols. 8vo. Coloniæ, 1525, folio, & Francof. 1628, folio. + + Luciani Opera. Lutet. Paris. 1615, folio. + + Luciani Opera. Hemsterhusii. Amst. 1743, 4 vols. 4to. + + Livius Drakenborchii. Ludg. Bat. 1738-46, in 7 vols. 4to. + + Longinus, à Pearce. Lond. 1624, et à Langbaine. Oxford, 1636. + + Lucanus Oudendorpii. Ludg. Bat. 1728, 4to. + + Lucretius Wakefieldii. Lond. 1796, 3 vols. folio. + + Lycophron, Potteri. Oxonii, 1697, folio. + + Martialis. Amst. 1670, & Genev. 1623. + + Oratores Attici, Bekkeri. Berol. 1823, 5 vols. 8vo. + + Ovidius, Burmanni. Amst. 1727, in 4 vols. 4to. + + Persius Casauboni. 1647, 8vo. & Hanov. 1603, 4to. + + Pindar, edited by Potter and Stephens. + + Platonis Opera, Serrani. 1578, 3 vols. folio. + + Platonis Opera, Bekkeri. Berol. 1815, 8 vols. 8vo. + + Plautus, Lambini. Aurel. Allobr. 1605, 4to. + + Plinii Historia Naturalis. Venet. 1571, Francof. 1599, &c. + + Plinii Junioris Epistolæ. Genevæ, 1625. + + Poetæ Græci Principes, Stephani. Paris. 1566, folio. + + Plutarchi Opera. Stephani. Paris. 1572, 6 vols. 8vo. + + Plutarchi Opera. Rualdi. Paris. 1624, 2 vols. folio. + + Pausanias, Xylandri. Hanoviæ. 1613, folio. + + Polybius Casauboni. Paris. 1609, folio. + + Polybius Schweighaeuseri. Lipsiæ, 1789-95, 8 vols. in 8vo. + + Ptolemæi Geographia. Basileæ, 1545, folio. + + Quintiliani Opera. Coloniæ, 1521, folio. + + Sallustius, à Wasse. Cantabr. 1710, 4to. Havercamp’s excellent + edition. + + Seneca. Paris. 1626, folio. Lugd. Bat. 1640, 4 vols. 12mo. + + Strabonis Geographia, Casauboni. 1587, folio. + + Suetonius, Pitisci. Leovardiæ. 1714, 4to. 2 tom. + + Suetonius. Paris. 1610, folio, Lugd. Bat. 1647, 8vo. + + Tacitus Variorum. Paris. 1608, folio. + + Terentius Variorum. Lugd. Bat. 1675, 8vo. & Bentleii. Cant. + 1726, 4to. + + Theocritus, Heinsii. 1604, 4to. Hudsoni. + + Thucydides. Francof. 1694, & Oxonii, 1696, folio, et Dukeri, + Amst. 1731, folio. + + Valerius Maximus. Lutet. 1517, folio. + + Vegetius de Re Militari. Lugd. Bat. 1592, 8vo. + + Virgilius, Servii. Paris. 1600, folio. Variorum. L. Bat. 1680, + 3 vols. 8vo. with Heyne’s excellent edition. + + Vitruvius de Architecturâ. Amstel. 1649, folio, and Xenophon + Leunclavii. Francof. 1596, folio. Oxonii, 1703, 5 vols. 8vo. + +This Library is also endowed with various Works upon Etymology, deserving +of some mention in this place. Among which, the valuable addition of the +Saxon Tongue in Somner’s own handwriting, induces me to mention firstly, + + Minsheu’s Guide into Tongues. London, 1627, folio; and next, + + Somneri Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum. Oxon. 1659, + folio. + + Spelmanni Glossarium Archaiologicum. Lond. 1664, folio. + + Skinner, Etymologicum Linguæ Anglicanæ. Lond. 1671, folio. + + Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis. Oxon. 1705, 2 vols. folio. + + Davies’ Dictionarium Britannico-Latinum. Lond. 1632, folio. + + Cotgrave’s French and English Dictionary. Lond. 1611, folio, and + + C. Kiliani Dufflæi Etymologicum Teutonicæ Linguæ. Antv. 1599, + 4to. + +To which may be added the Greek and Latin Glossaries of Du Fresne, +the Lexica of Scapula, and Suidas. Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ et +Latinæ, with Valpy’s recent edition of the former. Calepini Dictionarium +octolingue. Hoogeveen Doctrina Particularum. Vossii Etymologicum Linguæ +Latinæ. Sylburgii Etymologicum Magnum. Vigerus de Idiotismis Græcis; with +French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, and Æthiopic Dictionaries; +Hebrew, Greek, Samaritan, Æthiopic, Saxon, and Italian Grammars; from +which a very fair estimate may be formed of this important portion of the +Library. + +In conclusion, I have ventured to enumerate some of the Works on +Bibliography, chiefly of an early date, which are found in this Library, +giving precedence to the Bibliotheca Græca, Hamburgi, 1705, 14 vols. +4to. and Latina, Hamburgi, 1708-12; with the Bibliographia Antiquaria of +Fabricius, Hamb. 1713, 4to.; to which I may add the following: + + Balei Scriptorum Britanniæ Catalogus. Basil. 1559, folio. + + Beughem, Bibliographia Critico-Curiosa. Amstel. 1689, 2 vols. + 8vo. + + Beughem, Bibliographia Historica, Chronologica et Geographica. + Amst. 1685, 8vo. + + Beughem, Incunabula Typographiæ. Amst. 1688, 8vo. + + Le Long, Bibliotheca Sacra. Paris. 1723, 2 vols. folio. + + Joh. Lomeierus de Bibliothecis. Ultrajecti. 1680, 8vo. + + Gabr. Naudæi Bibliographia Militaris. Jenæ. 1683, 8vo. + + Nouvelle Bibliothèque choisie. Amst. 1714, 2 vols. 8vo. + + Bibliothèque Curieuse et Instructive. Trevoux, 1704, 12mo. + + List of the various Editions of the Bible. Lond. 1778, 8vo. + + Frisii Bibliotheca Philosophorum Chronologica. Tiguri, 1592, + 4to.? + + Gesneri Bibliotheca. Tiguri, 1574, folio. + + Marrier’s Bibliotheca Cluniacensis. Lutet. Paris. 1614, folio. + + Photii Bibliotheca, curâ Hœschelii. Rothomagi. 1653, folio. + + Pitseus, de Scriptoribus Angliæ. Paris. 1619, 4to. + + Reading’s Catalogue of Sion College Library. London, 1724, + folio. + + Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannico Hibernica. Lond. 1748, folio. + + Wormii Literatura Danica. Hasniæ, 1636, 4to. + + Histoire de l’Imprimerie, et de la Librairie. Paris. 1689, 4to. + + Bibliothèque des Auteurs de l’Histoire de France. Paris. 1618, + 12mo. + +The Catalogues of various Libraries come next in order. First, let us +take those of Manuscripts, among which we find + + James’s Catalogus Librorum MSS. Oxon. et Cantabr. Lond. 1600, + 4to. + + Catalogus MSS. Angliæ, et Hiberniæ. Oxon. 1697, folio. + + Catalogus Librorum MSS. à Matthæo Parker, Collegio C.C.C. + legatorum. Lond. 1722. + + Catalogue des MSS. de la Bibliotheque du Sequier. Paris. 1686, + 12mo. + +Among the several Catalogues of printed books we find + + James’s Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ. Oxon. 1620, 4to. + + Hyde’s Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ. Oxon. 1674, folio. + + Bibliothecæ Cordesianæ Catalogus. Paris. 1643, 4to. + + Bibliothecæ Scarburghianæ Catalogus. 8vo. sine loco aut anno. + + Bibliothecæ Colbertinæ Catalogus. Paris. 1708, 8vo. + + Bibliothecæ Thuanæ Catalogus. Paris. 1679, 2 vols. 8vo. + + Bibliothecæ Sequierianæ Catalogus. Paris, 1685, 8vo. + + Bibliothecæ Bultellianæ Catalogus. Paris. 1711, 2 vols. 8vo. + + Bibliothecæ Chethamensis Catalogus, à Radcliffe, 2 vols. 8vo. + + Bibliotheca Telleriana. Paris. 1693, folio. + + Bibliotheca Heinsiana. Lugd. Bat. 1682, 12mo. + + Catalogus Librorum Joannis Giraud. Paris. 1707, 8vo. + + Catalogus Librorum Joannis Galloys. Paris. 1710, 8vo. + + Catalogue of Charles Bernard’s Library. Lond. 1710, 12mo. + + Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecæ Joach. Faultrier. Paris. 1709. + 8vo. + + Roberti Scott Catalogus Librorum. Lond. 1674, 4to. + + Dibdin’s Typographical Antiquities, in 4 vols. 4to. + +Works of Bibliography are not abundant in the Cathedral Libraries of +England, and it is because in this collection they are unusually numerous +that I have mentioned many books now but seldom met with, and some +deservedly forgotten. + +If to any of my readers this account appear unnecessarily prolix, I must +remind them that my object is to give them such full information as to +the contents of each Cathedral Library, as may enable them to judge for +themselves of its character. + +If again this object can only be effected by a dry catalogue of books, +the enthusiasm of the genuine bibliographer will carry him through the +task, and in the present instance, it is hoped, may render him more +intimately acquainted with the literary treasures of the METROPOLITAN +Library contained within the walls of Christ Church, Canterbury. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Carlisle. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of this Cathedral is placed in a +small room immediately adjoining the Chapter-house, which stands in the +quiet close contiguous to the Cathedral. + +The books are all arranged upon open shelves, and labelled at the back in +accordance with the several Manuscript Catalogues which have from time to +time been made of this collection. + +Of these the first is a small folio, in the handwriting of one person, +entitled “Catalogus Librorum in Bibliothecâ Carliolensi repositorum +ordine alphabetico digestus. Georgius Fleming, _LL.D._ Decanus Carliol.” +The next consists of two larger folios, whereof the first is entitled, +“Catalogus Librorum in Bibliothecâ Carliol. ordine alphabetico digestus;” +and the second “Catalogus Librorum secundum Classes (Literis Capitalibus +signatas, numeris ordinalibus notatas) dispositorum.” The last Catalogue, +compiled in 1821, is also in folio, and arranged in alphabetical order, +the references to the books being copied from the preceding Catalogues; +but the imprints and dates of the books are not given in this last +enumeration of their titles. + +The principal feature of this Library is theological, ponderous folios +of obsolete divinity in dark, unlettered calf, and smaller controversial +treatises, now deservedly forgotten, occupying a large space upon these +dusty shelves. + +In all this mass of Divinity the works of St. Anselm, St. Chrysostom, +Tertullian, St. Athanasius, Justin, Origen, Lactantius, the Gregories, +and Theophylact, with Eusebii Præparatio and Demonstratio Evangelica, +printed at Paris in 1628, in 2 volumes folio, and other Fathers of the +Church, form prominent features. But perhaps the most correct idea of +this department may be formed by a cursory survey of its component +parts:—the Polyglott Bible of Walton, with a defective copy of Castell’s +Lexicon. Biblia Latina Castalionis, printed at Basle, in folio. +Coverdale’s English Bible of the date of 1553. (G. III. 1.) and the +Catalogue mentions another “old English Bible, temp. Henry VIII.” which +I could not find, though numbered A. VI. 18. a Spanish and an Italian, +and a small quarto Hebrew Bible. Bagster’s Latin Bible of 1824, in 12mo. +calf. Novum Testamentum Gr: Millii. Oxonii, 1707, in 2 vols. fol. Geddes’ +Translation of the Scriptures, printed at London, in 2 vols. 4to. in +1792. Poli Synopsis and the Critici Sacri. Canones et Decreta Concilia +Tridentini. Concilia Generalia et Provincialia. Parisiis, 1636, in folio. +Quick’s Synodicon in Gallia Reformatâ. Bishop Overall’s Convocation Book. +London, 1690, in 4to.; and Grabe’s Septuaginta Interpretum. Oxonii, 1707, +in 2 vols. folio. + +Turning from Chamieri Controversiæ, Genevæ, 1526, in four thick folios, +to Lutheri Opera, Jenæ, 1612, also in folio; and from the works of +Cardinal Bellarmine, and of Calvin, to the works of Grotius, Melancthon, +and Erasmus, it is refreshing to find the works of Jeremy Taylor, Barrow, +Hammond, and Tillotson, of Hooker, Mede, Hall, and Prideaux, preserved +on the same shelves with Lardner’s Testimonies, in 4 vols. 8vo. and his +Gospel History, the latter in 17 volumes 8vo.; Jewel’s Apology, Pearson +on the Creed, Campbell on the Gospels, Paley’s Moral Philosophy, and +Watson’s Theological Tracts, in 6 vols. 8vo. + +To the above may be added, the Homilies of the Venerable Bede, the Works +of Andrews and Baxter, with the Preservative against Popery, and other +treatises of like nature, too insignificant for detail. + +As connected with Ecclesiastical affairs, I may here notice, Usher’s +Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, Stillingfleet’s Origines Britannicæ, +and Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ, Spotswood’s History of the Church of +Scotland, and Bower’s History of the Popes, in 7 volumes 4to. + +In Ecclesiastical History, we also find Wilkins’s Concilia, Ecton’s +Thesaurus, Spelman’s Concilia, Dugdale’s Monasticon, and Burton’s +Monasticon Eboracense. + +In British History, we have the pleasure of recording:—Daniel’s History +of England; Kennett’s Register, or History of England; Buchanan’s History +of Scotland; Sanderson’s History of Mary Queen of Scots; a complete +set of Rymer’s Fœdera, 20 volumes, folio, in old calf, gilt; Matthæi +Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum; Gulielmi Neubrigensis Historia +Rerum Anglicanarum; Langhorne’s Chronica Regum Angliæ; Madox’s Formulare +Anglicanum, Firma Burgi, and Baronia Anglicana; Gwillim’s Heraldry, 1638; +Dugdale’s Baronage, and antient usage of bearing Arms; Mackenzie’s +Royal Line of Scotland; Rerum Anglicarum Annales; Jones’s History of +the Stuarts; Bates’ Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Angliâ; Rushworth’s +Historical Collections; Hacket’s Scrinia Referata, or Defence of +Archbishop Williams; Laud’s Troubles, the Mercurius Rusticus, and a large +collection of Tracts relating to the troublesome times of the great civil +war, when the adjacent Cathedral suffered so severely. + +As the best companion to the above Works, I may add a very nice Copy in +calf, in 4 vols. 8vo. of Bishop Nicolson’s English, Scotch, and Irish +Historical Libraries, printed at London, in 1696-7, &c. + +I may add too, that this Library, like all others attached to Cathedral +foundations, possesses a complete set of the records, and other documents +published by authority of the Parliamentary Commissioners. + +In British Topography, I remarked Camden’s Britannia, Annales, and +Remains; Somner’s History of Canterbury, of the Portus Iccius, and +of the Ports in Kent, with his Treatise on Gavelkind; Wood’s Athenæ +Oxonienses, in folio; Willis’s Cathedrals, in 2 vols. Ridpath’s Border +History; Burn’s Westmoreland; Leigh’s Lancashire and Cheshire; Dugdale’s +History of St. Paul’s, and of Warwickshire, and his Treatise on Imbanking +and Draining the Fens; Loggan’s Oxonia illustrata; Weever’s Funeral +Monuments; and Stowe’s London. To which may be added, Boate’s Natural +History of Ireland. + +As a corollary to the History of England, Wilkins’ Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ +Ecclesiasticæ et Civiles, the Statutes at large, and several Law Reports, +including those of Vaughan and Noy, claim to be considered equally with +Kippis’s Biographia Britannica. + +In Etymology, I am enabled to record, Cotgrave’s French Dictionary; +Spelman’s Glossary; Somner’s Dictionarium Saxonicum; Lluyd’s Archæologia; +Skinner’s Etymologicon Anglicanum; Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis; +Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon, and Scapulæ et Schrevelii Lexica Græca. + +As tending to elucidate the dark passages of antiquity, I may add Astle +on the Origin and Progress of Writing, and two important Works in very +fine condition, bound in old calf. Andersoni Diplomatum et Numismatum +Scotiæ Thesaurus, Edinburgi, 1739, folio, and I. L. Waltheri Lexicon +Diplomaticum. Ulmæ, 1756, also in folio. + +In Geography, I noticed Bochart’s Geographia Sacra, Nicolson’s English +Atlas, in 2 large folio volumes, printed at Oxford in 1681, and Pitt’s +Atlas, of equal bulk. + +In Foreign History, I only noticed, Davila’s Civil Wars of France, the +book which Hampden and Charles I. are both said to have studied. Thuani +Historia sui Temporis. Rycaut’s History of the Turks, &c. &c. Josephus +Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1720, 2 vols. folio. + +Of Classic Authors, the editions which this Library contains are of +little or no consequence, though it cannot be deemed entirely deficient +in this class, possessing various editions of the works of Livy, Martial, +Lucan, Lucian, Æsop, Velleius Paterculus, and Aulus Gellius; with the +Variæ Historiæ of Ælian, Aristotelis Opera, Du Valli, Parisiis, 1654, +in 4 vols. folio; Farnaby’s Ovid; Hudson’s Thucydides; and Hobbes’ +Translation of the latter author; and Dryden’s Virgil. + +To these I may add Photii Bibliotheca, Rothomagi, 1653, and Galeni Opera, +Basileæ, 1533, both in folio. + +In Natural History, I may mention Grews’ Anatomy of Plants, and the +Theatrum Insectorum of Wotton, Gesner, and Penn, printed at London in +1634, in folio. + +I may class at once under the same category, Ralegh’s History of the +World; Heylin’s Cosmography; Grews’ Cosmologia Sacra; and Burnet’s +Theory of the Earth: and as connected with Science, 37 vols. of the +Philosophical Transactions, recently bound in calf. + +In English Literature, we have the Works of the two Royal Authors, the +unhappy Charles, and the pedantic James, as originally published in a +collective form; and of the two great philosophers, Bacon and Boyle, as +originally published in detached pieces, or separate volumes. The Works +of Chaucer and of Hobbes, Brown’s Vulgar Errors, Stuart’s Political +Economy, and the Legend of St. Cuthbert, may also serve to afford some +idea of the miscellaneous contents of this ancient Library. + +It only remains to notice, in Bibliography, the Catalogue of the Harleian +Manuscripts, and Hyde’s Catalogue of the Bodleian Library. + +I may add, that in this Library, which is under the care of the +Treasurer of the Cathedral, a very salutary regulation exists, by which +all borrowers of books guarantee the safe return of all volumes lent +to themselves “in good plight and order;” and several declarations to +this effect, properly subscribed and attested, may be seen in the old +Register, commencing on November 23rd, 1703, which is still kept for that +purpose. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Chester. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Chester is kept in the +Chapter-house annexed to the Cathedral. This apartment is entered from +the cloisters, through an outer door and inner screen, over which, on +each side the doorway, hang the flags of the 22nd Regiment, raised in +Cheshire, presented to the Cathedral by General Finch. The sides of the +room are ornamented by elegant and slender pillars, rising between the +tall and narrow windows, up to the vaulted roof of stone. + +The books are contained in oak presses with solid doors, which occupy +three sides of the Chapter-house, with the exception of the space +occupied by the two fire-places. The screen fills the fourth side +entirely. + +In a thin folio volume of 53 leaves, entitled “A Catalogue of certain +Books belonging to Christ Church, at Chester. Folio. MDCCLXVIII.” we +find this satisfactory assurance:—“In the month of June, MDCCLXII. every +volume mentioned in this Catalogue, appeared to be in the Library, except +those volumes only which were duly entered in the note book as borrowed +books. + + “T. C.” + +The same authority proceeds to inform us that “There is a large folio +Bible (not mentioned in the Catalogue) printed by Baskerville, presented +to the Governors of the Cathedral, by the Rev. Mr. Henchman, Sacrist of +Chester Cathedral, and Vicar of St. Oswald’s, within the same. + +“In the Chapter Library,” it is added, “the folios are ranged on the +lowest shelves in the several presses, the quartos on the shelves just +above them, the smaller sized books extend from the quartos to the top of +the press. Every press which contains books hath the letter initial of +the title, together with the size of every volume therein, written on the +inner side of the folding doors; moreover every letter is singly pasted +on each shelf where it begins. The back of every single book, and of the +first volume in every set, is marked with the letter, and number of that +letter to which it belongs. Blue paper is used for marks, not through +affectation of singularity, but because when it grows dusty through time +it has a less sordid appearance than white.” Then follows an explanation +of these marks, very useful to all frequenters of the Library, so long +as the excellent order above described was preserved. That is however no +longer the case, the labels having been removed from the books, and the +lists taken off from the doors. + +The books nevertheless are readily to be found, as new lettering pieces +have been added to all which required such reparation. They still retain +the dark calf in which they were originally bound, and are described in +the Catalogue according to their sizes, from the folio downwards. + +Under these heads the order is alphabetical, and titles are given +with sufficient fulness, and the names, places, and dates of each work +satisfactorily recorded in this Catalogue. + +The books themselves are not numerous; in fact, I shall proceed to notice +all except a few of the most obscure. + +I will first dispose of the few manuscripts which, having been preserved +from the wreck of the Monastic Library, are thus recorded: + + “_Libri MSS._” + + 1. Cestria Sacra, etc. + + 2. De Cestriæ rebus antiquis. + + These two volumes are bound in parchment in small 4to. + + 3. Prisca et Catholica Fides de reali presentiâ + Christi in Sacramento Eucharistiæ, unà cum refutatione + Transubstantiationis, 1655, per Dr. J. C. Dm. P——, large 4to. + sewed. + + “Fr: Cholmondely ex dono Autoris.” + + 4. Four folio Books of writing paper, written in some parts, of + which two only now remain. + + 5. A short Account in the Latin language of a certain Roman + Altar, lately found by digging a cellar in the house of one + Tyrer, in Chester. + +This interesting piece of antiquity is preserved in the cases of the +Library which are not filled by books, where I also observed a Roman +stone of the 20th legion, a stone inscribed with + + +-------------+ + |COHI ◇ OCRAII| + |MAXIMI Ω IMP | + +-------------+ + +Here is also most appropriately deposited the headstone of the coffin of +Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester. + +I now turn to the printed books, which form this ancient collection, and +in so doing cannot but remark the absence of Walton’s Polyglott Bible. +The other editions of the sacred volume which I noticed were the + + Biblia Græca. Francofurti, 1598, folio. + + Montani Biblia Interlineari. Antverpiæ, 1584, folio. + + The Bible in French, printed at London, 1688, 4to. + + Biblia formâ minori, i. e. textus Hebraicus Veteris Testamenti + fine punctis Masoreticis, et Novum Testamentum Græcum versibus + in margine notatis, capitalibus autem literis Græcis notatis. + +This small Hebrew Bible is bound up with an imperfect Greek Testament in +8vo. and Septuagint, according to the Vatican copy, Cambridge, 1665, 8vo. + +Of the New Testament, printed separately, I noticed the Novum Testamentum +Bezæ, 1598, folio. Nov. Test. Græcum, Oxonii, 1700, 8vo.; and the Nov. +Test. Latinè et Italicè, printed at Lyons in 1558, 8vo. + +I may here notice a recent addition to the collection, in the shape of +Waltoni Prolegomena, in Biblia Polyglotta, edente Wrangham, Cantabrigiæ, +1828, in 2 8vo. volumes, with this inscription: + + “Bibliothecæ Eccles. Cathedr. Cestriens. hunc librum cui + quasi inter mœnia ejus corona est imposita, eâ quâ par est + observantiâ humillimè offert.” “Franciscus Wrangham, Ebor. + Orient. Archdiaconus.” + + “Kal. Jan. 1829.” + +Of Commentators I observed Ainsworth’s Annotations on the Pentateuch, +in folio; Erasmi Paraphrasis Novi Testamenti, 1541, folio; Hodius in +Bibl. S. S. Oxon. 1705, folio; Hammond on the New Testament, in folio; +Mayer’s Commentaries on the Bible, in folio; Whitby on the New Testament, +in folio; Le Clerc on the N. T. 4to.; Heinsius on Nov. Test. 4to.; Fell +on St. Paul, in 8vo.; Knatchbull on the New Testament; Patrick on the +Psalms, and Slade’s Annotations on the Epistles and Gospels, in 8vo. and +Usserii de LXX Gr. in 4to. + +Of the Fathers of the Church this Library contains, + + Augustini Opera. Parisiis, 1635, in 9 folio volumes. + + Chrysostomi Opera. Græcè, Etonæ, 1612, in 8 vols. folio. + + Cypriani Opera. Pamelii, 1593, folio. + + The Works of Clement of Alexandria and S. Cyril, both in folio. + + Epiphanii Opera, Petavii. Parisiis, 1622, folio. + + Hieronymi Opera, Erasmi. Basileæ, in 9 folio volumes, much + injured by damp. + + The Works of Irenæus, edited by Grabe, in folio. + + Justinii Martyris Opera. Parisiis, 1615, folio. + + Lactantii Opera, Sparke. Oxonii, 1684, 8vo. + + Synesii Opera Petavii. Paris. 1631, in folio. + + Theodoreti Opera, Sirmondi et Garnerii. Parisiis, 1642, in 5 + folio volumes. + + Tertulliani Opera, Rigaltii. Parisiis, 1675, folio. + + The Works of Origen, Gregory Nazianzen, and Theophylact, + some Tracts of S. Chrysostom, Philo Judæus, the Epistles of + Ignatius, edited by Vossius in 1680, and by Smith in 1709: both + in 4to. + + To these may be added Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, Amstelod. + 1724, folio, and Grabe, Spicilegium Veterum Patrum. Oxon. + 1700, in two 8vo. vols. + +Of Concordances there is one in Latin printed at Hanover in 1618, and +another in English printed at Cambridge in 1672: both in folio. + +I also noticed the Alcoran and a Life of Mahomet (not Sale’s) of the +date of 1688, in folio; Reeves’s Translations of the Apologies of the +Primitive Fathers, 1709, in 2 volumes 8vo.; Calmet’s Dictionary of the +Bible; Poli Synopsis; Limborch Theologia Christiana; Polani Syntagma +Theologiæ; and Willet’s Synopsis Papismi; all in folio, are found on +these shelves. + +Among the various writers on Theology I may mention a few pieces by +Erasmus and Grotius, the works of Thomas Aquinas, Col. Agr. 1604, in +folio, Dallæus de Cultibus, in 4to.; the Works of Pope Gregory, in 4to.; +Outram de Sacrificiis, in 4to.; Arnobius adversus Gentes, Antverpiæ, +1582, 8vo.; Dodwell in Irenæum, and Joannes Sarisburiensis Policraticus, +sive de nugis Curialium. Lugd. Bat. 1595, 8vo. + +The collection of English Divinity is very respectable, including +Barrow’s Works edited by Tillotson in 1683, in 2 folio volumes; +Chillingworth’s Religion of Protestants, and Hooker’s Ecclesiastical +Polity, both in folio; Bishop Hall’s Works, London, 1628, folio; Mede’s +Works; Nicholls on the Common Prayer, 1613, and Pearson on the Creed, +all in folio, with the Posthumous Works of the latter in 4to.; Perkins’s +Exposition, London, 1728, folio; Sherlock on the Trinity, on Death, and +other Works; Stillingfleet’s Origines, on the Protestant Religion, on the +Trinity, and the Antiquity of the British Churches; Tenison on Idolatry; +Thorndike on Religion; Waterland on the Creed; Wollaston’s Religion of +Nature delineated, and Wall on Infant Baptism: all in 4to. + +Bennet on Schism; Bastwick’s Controversial Tracts; Barrow on the Trinity; +Clarke on the Attributes; Cockburn on the Christian Faith; Derham’s +Physico-Theology; Ditton on the Resurrection; Edwards on Providence, +London, 1696, 8vo.; Ellis on the XXXIX. Articles; Hartcliffe on Virtue; +Howel on the Pontificate; Jenkin on the Christian Religion; Kenn on the +Catechism; Lloyd on Church Government; Maurice on Episcopacy; Nicholls +on Contempt of the World; Prideaux’s Connection; Turner on the Messiah; +Thorndike on Religious Assemblies; Wake on Swearing; Whitby on Election +and Reprobation, and on the New Testament; A Vindication of Miracles +against Woolston by the Bishop of Lichfield, London, 1731, in 2 vols. +8vo.; and a Defence of Christianity from the Prophecies, by Edward, +Bishop of Lichfield, London, 1725; an imperfect copy of Tillotson’s +Works; Kenn’s Crown of Glory; Kettlewell’s Discourses; Calamy’s Sermons; +Bishop Cleaver’s Sermons, Oxford, 1808, presented to the Library by +Dr. Trevor; and several Miscellaneous Sermons and Tracts, mostly in +4to. including the Funeral Sermon of Margaret, mother of Henry VII. +and Foundress of Christ’s and St. John’s Colleges at Cambridge, 1768; +Bingham’s Scholastical History; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical History; Brent’s +History of the Council of Trent, 1676, folio. + +The Works relating to Ecclesiastical affairs in this Collection are not +numerous. They include, Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, et Ecclesiasticæ +Historiæ Auctores à Froben. Basileæ, 1544, folio; Howel’s Synopsis +Canonum Rituale Græcar. Eccles. Orient. Paris. 1647, folio; Spencer de +Legibus Hebræorum, Cantab. 1685, folio; Usserii Annales, 1650, folio; +Platina’s Vitæ Pontificum, Col. Agr. 1610, 4to.; Reformatio Legum +Eccles. Regis Phil. Nat. Elzevir, 1661, 4to.; Cunæus de Republicâ +Hebræorum, Durandi Rationale divinorum officiorum, 1592, 8vo.; The Rights +of the English Convocation, 1700, 8vo.; Rycaut on the Greek and Armenian +Churches, 1679, 8vo.; Richerii Historia Concil. General. Col. 1683, in 3 +8vo. volumes; and Lewis’s Hebrew Antiquities, London, 1724, in 2 vols. +8vo. + +The Historical department of this Library embraces Bayle’s Historical +Dictionary, printed at Rotterdam in 1697, in 4 folio volumes; Cary’s +Palæologia Chronica; Collier’s Historical Dictionary, in folio; the +Chronicle of Eusebius, Europæ Speculum, Lond. 1637, 4to.; Josephus’s +History of the Jews, printed by Froben at Basle in 1540, folio, a copy +which is defective in the title; and the works of that author published +at Geneva in 1635, folio; Daniel and Larrey’s Histories of France; Mireæ +Chronica multorum Auctorum, Antv. 1608, folio; Montfaucon’s Antiquities, +translated by Humphreys, in 7 folio volumes; Thuani Historia sui +Temporis, curâ Buckleii, Lond. 1733, in 7 folio volumes; Seldeni Marmora +Arundeliana, Lond. 1728, 4to.; Bossuet Histoire Universelle; Fleetwood’s +Inscriptiones Antiquæ, Græcia Vetus illustrata à Frisio, Lugd. Bat. 1626, +8vo.; Manutii Antiquitates Romanæ, Col. Agr. 1570, 8vo.; Memoires du Duc +de Rohan et de Duc de Guise; Malalæ his. Chron. Chilmead, Oxon. 1691, +8vo.; Onuphrii Rep. Rom. Comm. Venet. 1558, 8vo.; Roma Sacra antica, e +moderna, figuratà, Romæ, 1687, 8vo.; Tursellini Epitome Hist. Col. Agr. +1629, 8vo.; and Zozimi Historia, Gr. and Lat. Oxon. 1679, 8vo. + +I also noticed Doleman’s celebrated Conference with respect to the +Succession to the Crown of England, 1681, 8vo.; Burton’s Commentary upon +the Itinerary of Antoninus, 1658, folio; Camdeni Annales Elizabethæ, &c. +Lond. 1615, in two folio volumes, and his Epistles, London, 1691, 8vo.; +and Temple’s Introduction to the History of England, 1695, 8vo. + +The Geographical Works in these Presses comprehend the Geographiæ Veterii +Scriptores Minores. Oxonii, 1698, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Ortelii Thesaurus +Geographicus et Sylacis Periplus Caryandensis, Vossii, 1639, 4to.; +Vareni Descriptio Japoniæ et Siam. Cant. 1673, and his Vet. Geographia +generalis, 8vo,; Well’s Geography, Oxford, 1701, 8vo.; and Wright’s +Travels, London, 1730, 4to.—“a present from the Author to the Library.” + +The Chronological series includes Browne’s Fasciculus Temporum, Lond. +1690, folio; Beveregii Institutiones Chronologicæ; Dodwell de Vet. +Cyclis, Oxon. 1701, 4to.; Livelie’s Chronology, London, 1597, 8vo.; +Shickardi Horologium Hebraicum, Lond. 1639, 8vo.; Strauchius Chronology +in English, 1699, 8vo.; Scaliger de Emendatione temporum, in folio; and +Whiston’s Chronology of the Bible, in 4to. + +I now approach the most copious and interesting department of this +Library, and proceed to enumerate the editions of the Greek and Roman +classics, commencing with + + A large paper copy of Æsopus, Alsopii. Oxon. 1698, 8vo. + + Andronicus Rhodius, Heinsii. Lugd. Bat. 1617, 8vo. + + Apollonius Rhodius, Elzevir. Lugd. Bat. 1641, 8vo. + + Æschylus, Tragœdiæ, Ed. Pr. Aldi. Venet. 1518, 8vo. a clean + and perfect copy, bound up with Oppiani Halieuticon, Phil. + Junta. Florentiæ, 1515, 8vo. Dionysii Orbis Descriptio, Arati + Astronomicon, and Procli Sphæra, cum Scholii Ceporini. Basileæ, + apud Joannem Bebelium, 1523, 8vo.; measuring six inches and + three-eights by four inches, in old calf binding. There is + another edition of Æschylus printed at Paris, in 1552, 8vo. + + Æschinis et Demosthenis Orationes à Foulkes. Oxon. 1696, 8vo. + + Ælianus Fabri. 1668, 8vo. + + Anacreon, à Barnes. Cantab. 1705; and Faher, 1660, 8vo. + + Aristophanis Comœdiæ. Aurel., 1607, in folio, and Lugd. Bat. + 1625, 8vo. + + Aristotelis Opera Sylburgis. Francof. Wechel, 1584-7, in 4 4to. + volumes. + + Aristotelis Ethica, Victorii, 1584; Rhetorica, Gr. & Lat. Lond. + 1619; Physica, Francof. 1596; De Historiâ Animalium, 1585; + Rhetorica & De Arte Poeticâ, 1584, all in 4to.; and another + edition of the latter Treatise, printed at Cambridge in 1696, + 8vo.; Athenæus Dalecampii, Lugd. Bat. 1612, in folio; and + Arrianus Stephani, 1575, folio. + + Appiani Historia, Gr. & Lat. Tollii. Amstel. 1670, 8vo. + + Aurelius Victor. Lugd. Bat. 1670, 8vo.; and + + Aulus Gellius, Gronovii. Lugd. Bat. 1687, 8vo. + + Aristidis Orationes. Canteri. 1604, 12mo. + + Aristæneti Epistolæ. Paris. 1639, 8vo. + + Ausonii Opera, 1608, 8vo. + + Apollodori Bibliotheca Commelini. 1599, 8vo. + + Athenagoras, edited by Humphreys. 1714, 8vo. + + Arati et Eratosthenis quædam, cum Dionysii Hymnis. Oxon. 1672, + 8vo. + + Antoninus, edited by Gataker, Dacier, and Stanhope, in 1697, + folio, and the Edition printed at Oxford, 1680, 12mo. + + Cæsar. Amst. 1650, 8vo. + + Ciceronis Opera, Lugd. Bat. 1642, in 8 volumes 8vo.; Ciceronis + Epistolæ, 1549, and Paris, 1557, both in folio; Cicero de + Oratore, Aldi, Venetiis, 1564, 8vo., a cropt copy, in the + original calf measuring five inches and three quarters by + three inches and five-eighths, with “10. R. A.” stamped on the + sides; Orationes, Delphini, Cant. 1692, 8vo.; Quintus Calaber, + Hanoviæ, 1604, 8vo., and Quintus Curtius, Wetstein. Amstel. + 1687, 8vo. + + Callimachus; Stephani, in folio. + + Catullus, Vossii. Brunsvig. 1658, 8vo. + + Diogenes Laertius. Stephani, 1570, 8vo., and Kuhnii. Amst. + 1692, in two 4to. volumes. + + Dionysius Halicarnasseus. Oxonii, 1704, in 2 vols. fol. + + Dion Cassius, Leunclavii. Hanoviæ, 1606, folio. + + Dionis Chrysostomi Orationes. Lutetiæ, 1604, fol. + + Dionysii Alexandrini et Pomponii Melæ, Orbis Descriptio, 1557, + folio. + + Demosthenis et Æschines Orationes, Wolfii. Francof. 1604, + folio, and by Foulkes. Oxonii, 1696, 8vo. + + Ennii Fragmenta, Hesselii. Amst. 1707, 4to. + + Euripidis Tragœdiæ à Barnes. Cantab. 1694, folio, & Canteri. + Amstel. 1571, 8vo. + + Euclidis Elementa à Barrow. Lond. 1659, 8vo. + + Epictetus & Cebes. Cantab. 1655, 8vo. + + Eustathius de Ismenie Amoribus. Paris. 1618, 8vo. + + Eutropius. Basileæ, 1546, 8vo. + + Eratosthenes. 1590, 8vo. + + Falisci Cynegeticon, Johnson. Lond. 1679, 8vo. + + Florus. Amstel. 1664, 8vo. + + Frontini Opera. Amstel. 1661, 8vo. + + Galeni Opera. Basileæ, 1538, in 3 folio volumes, and the fifth + part only of the Aldine edition of 1525, in folio. + + Herodotus, Aldi. Venet. 1502, folio. This copy of the first + edition of this History is much defaced by scribbling, and has + been cropt by the binder, measuring only eleven and a quarter + by seven and a half inches. There is another edition printed at + Frankfort in 1608, folio. + + Herodiani Historia, Stephani. 1581, folio. + + Hesiodus, Grævii. Amst. 1667, 8vo., and another edition of + 1537, in 4to. + + Hippocrates Opera. Basileæ, 1538, folio. + + Horatius, Schrevelii. Lugd. Bat. 1663. + + Homerus. Basileæ, 1535, Castalionis, 1567, and Lugd. Bat. 1656, + all in folio. + + Heliodorus. Francof. 1631, 8vo. + + Hierocles. Lond. 1654, in two 8vo. volumes. + + Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores, Casauboni. Paris. 1620, folio. + + Historiæ Poeticæ Scriptores Antiqui, Gr. & Lat. Paris. 1675, + 8vo. in old red morocco with gilt leaves. + + Iamblichus, Commelini, 1598, and Kusteri, 1707, both in 4to. + and by Gale 1678, in folio. + + Isocrates, Wolfii. Basileæ, 1570, in folio. + + Justinus Variorum. 1659, 8vo. + + Juvenal, Hennini. Ultraj. 1685, 4to. and Schrevelii, Lugd. Bat. + 1664, & Hanoviæ, 1619, both in 8vo. + + Livii Historia. Francofurti, 1552, 8vo. + + Longinus, Faber. Sal. 1663, 8vo. + + Lucian, Vossii. Amst. 1687, in two 8vo. volumes. + + Lycophron, Meursii. Lugd. Bat. 1599, 8vo. and Canteri, 1601, in + 4to. + + Manilius, Scaligeri. 1600, 4to. + + Ammianus Marcellinus, Valesii. Paris. 1636, 4to. + + Musæus, Moschus and Bion. Whitford. Lond. 1655, 4to. + + Menandri et Philemonis Reliquiæ. Cantab. 1713, 8vo. + + Macrobii Opera, in 8vo. + + Martial. Lond. 1615, 8vo. + + Nicander. Coloniæ, 1530, 4to. + + Cornelius Nepos. Amst. 1665, 8vo. + + Oppianus, Ritterhusii. Lugd. Bat. 1597, 8vo. + + Ovidii Opera. Lond. 1656, 8vo. + + Panegyrici Veteres. Antv. 1599, 8vo. + + Persius, Casauboni. Lond. 1647, 8vo. + + Pausanias, Xylandri. Hanoviæ, 1613, folio. + + Platonis Opera Ficini. Francof. 1602, in 3 folio vols. + + Plutarchi Opera. Francof. 1620, folio. + + Plotini Opera. Basileæ, 1580, folio. + + Phædrus, Forbes. Salmur. 1657, 4to. + + Pompeius Festus, Dacier. 1699, 4to. + + Petronius Arbiter. Lond. 1693, Paris. 1618, & Lipsiæ, 1666, all + in 8vo. + + Plautus, Gronovii. Lugd. Bat. 1664. + + Plinii Historia Naturalis, Gronovii. Lugd. Bat. 1669, in 3 8vo. + volumes. + + Plinii Junioris Epistolæ et Panegyricus. Oxon. 1703, 8vo. + + Porphyrius de Vitâ Pythagoræ. Romæ, 1630, 8vo. + + Phalaris Epistolæ. 1614, 8vo. + + Velleius Paterculus. Oxon. 1693, 8vo. + + A Copy of the first Edition of Pindarus, Aldi, Venet. + 1513, 8vo. with Callimachi Hymni, Dionysii Periegetes, and + Lycophronis Alexandra, in one volume, interleaved throughout, + measuring six inches by three inches and five-eighths, and + bound in old calf. There is also the Oxford edition of Pindar, + 1697, in folio. + + Quintilian. Francof. 1629, 8vo. and by Gibson, Oxon. 1693, 4to. + + Rhetores selecti Græci et Latini, à Gale. Oxon. 1676, 8vo. + + Senecarum Opera. Amst. 1659, 8vo. + + Senecæ Tragœdiæ. Lugd. Bat. 1611, 8vo. + + Sophoclis Tragœdiæ, Camerarii. Steph. 1603, 4to. & Lugd. Bat. + 1593, 8vo. + + Suetonius, Casauboni, Argent. 1497, 4to. and Erasmi. Paris. + 1527, 8vo. + + Stobæi Sententiæ. Aur. All. 1609, folio. + + Stephanus de Urbibus. Basil. 1568, folio. + + Strabonis Geographia, Casauboni. Paris. 1620, fol. + + Suidæ Lexicon. Froben. Basil. 1545, folio. + + Sallust, by Maittaire. Lond. 1713, 8vo. + + Symmachi Epistolæ. Neapoli, 1617, 8vo. + + Sidonii Apollinarii Opera, Plantin. Par. 1599, 8vo. + + Tacitus & Paterculus. Lipsii, Amst. 1668, folio. + + Tacitus. Amst. 1664, 8vo. + + Terentius. Lugd. Bat. 1669, & Amst. 1641, both in 8vo. and by + Hare, Lond. 1724, 4to. + + Thucydides. Francof. 1594, folio. + + Themistoclis Epistolæ. Romæ, 1628, 4to. + + Themistii Orationes, Petavii. Paris. 1618, 4to. + + Themistii Opera, Aldus. Venet. 1534, folio; a clean and perfect + copy, measuring twelve and a quarter by eight and a half + inches, in half binding; the title mended. + + Theocritus. Oxon. 1699, 8vo. + + Theophrasti Characteres, Casauboni, 1631, and by Needham, 1712, + both in 8vo. + + Theonis Mathematica. Paris. 1644, 4to. + + Valerius Maximus. Delphini, 1679, 4to. + + Virgilius, Servii. Paris. 1532, folio. + + Xenophon, Leunclavii. Paris. 1625, folio. + +I have been thus minute in detailing the editions of the Classics in this +Library, as of like nature are most of those works of antiquity which +I have in other collections omitted to notice. This tedious detail may +therefore have its use in shewing of what the great mass of classical +literature deposited in our Cathedrals consists, and saving needless +repetition of titles which have not sufficient interest to invite perusal. + +I may here take occasion to notice + + French Versions of Cæsar and Tacitus, by D’Ablancourt. + + A Translation of Tacitus into English, by Richard Greenway. + London, 1622, folio, in calf. + + Creech’s Translation of Lucretius, in 8vo. + + Salmasii Exercitationes Plinianæ, in folio. + + Artemidori et Achmetis Oneirocritica Rigaltii. Lutet. 1603, 4to. + + Duport’s Homeri Gnomologia. Cantab. 1660, 4to. + + Machiavelli’s Discorsi di sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio. + + Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes. Oxon. 1667, 8vo. + + Politiani Opera. Ant. 1565, 8vo. + + Vossius de Sybillinis Oraculis. + + Manuelis Moschopuli de ratione examinandæ Orationes libellus. + Lutetiæ, Stephanus, 1545, 4to. a fine clean copy, in old calf + binding. + +The Etymological Works in this Collection embrace + + Bellarmine’s Hebr. Gram. Antv. 1686, 8vo. + + Beveregii Linguar. Orient. Gram. 1658, 8vo. + + Bythneri Hebr. Gram. Lond. 1675, 8vo. + + Buxtorf’s Lexicon Hebr. and Chald. Bas. 1615, 8vo. + + Fauchon’s French Grammar. + + Harpocrationis Dict. Maussæi. Par. 1614, 4to. + + Hesychii Lexicon. Lugd. Bat. 1668, 4to. interleaved with + manuscript annotations. + + Julii Pollucis Onomasticon. Francof. 1608, fol. & Basil. 1536, + 8vo. + + Linacre, de Emendatâ Structurâ Latini Sermonis. Lips. 1573, 8vo. + + Miege’s French Dictionary, 1677, 4to. + + Porti Dict. Doricum. Francof. 1603, 8vo. + + Putschii Auctores Grammatici. Hanoviæ, 1695, 4to. + + Phavorini Dict. Gr. Basil. 1538, folio. + + Scapulæ Lexicon. Lond. 1652, folio. + + Sylburgii Etymologicon. Commelini, 1594, folio. + + Stephani Lexicon Ciceronianum, 1557, 8vo. + + Torriano’s Italian Grammar, 1673, 8vo. + + Vigerus de Idiotismis. Lond. 1678, 8vo. + +I must here notice a monument of literary diligence of very rare +occurrence, which exists in a copy of Hesychii Lexicon, Aldi, Venetiis, +1524, folio, which is quite perfect, but defaced by writing on the first +leaf, among which I found this curious memorandum by an unknown hand: + +“Hesychii integru̅ primo̅ perlegi. MDCLV. Oct. xv.” “Iterum MDCLXVII. +Mart. xxvi.” + +The present copy measures twelve inches by eight and one-eighth, and is +in old calf binding. + +The Works relating to Literary History and Bibliography in this Library +include + + Bellarmine de Scriptor. Eccles. Col. Agr. 1631, fol. + + Cave, Script. Eccles. Lond. 1688, folio. + + Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca. Hamburg, 1705, 4to. & Bibliotheca + Latina. Lond. 1703, 8vo. + + Jonson’s Script. Hist. Philos. Francof. 1659, 4to. + + Labbe de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis. Paris. 1660, 8vo. + + Photii Bibliotheca. Genev. 1611, folio. + + Raynaudus de bonis et malis libris. Lugd. 1653, 4to. + + Vossius de Historicis Græcis, Philosophis, &c. and other Works + in 4to. + +The Latin Miscellanies on the Shelves comprehend + + Aschami Epistolæ. Oxon. 1703, 8vo. + + Helvici Theatrum. Oxon. 1651, folio. + + Juliani Imperatoris Opera, folio. + + Dicta Septem Sapientium. 8vo. + + Hemelarii Romanorum Imperatorum Numismata Aurea. Ant. 1627, 4to. + + Dictionarium Medicum. 1564, 8vo. + + Heinsii Orationes. Lugd. Bat. 1615, 8vo. + + Meursii Elegantiæ. Lugd. Bat. 1628, 8vo. + + Petrarcha de remediis Fortunæ. Gen. 1628, 8vo. + + Miltoni Defensio pro Populo Anglicano. + + Salmasii Responsio ad Miltonum. + + Scioppii Gram. Philos. Amst. 1659, 8vo. + + Sennerti Epistolæ Scient. Nat. Oxon. 1664, 8vo. + + Sulpicii Severi Opera, Elzevir. Amst. 1665, 8vo. + + Some Tracts by Casaubon. + +Of Mathematical Works I only observed + + Oughtred, Clavis Mathematica, in 8vo. + + Galbruchii Mathematica. Cant. 1668, 8vo. + +Of Law Books I noticed + + Dalton’s Justice. Lond. 1677, folio. + + Keble’s Statutes at large. Lond. 1676, in 2 folio vols. + + Ridley on Civil Law, in 4to. + +In English Literature this Collection is poor indeed. I only remarked + + An incomplete Copy of Collier’s Essays, in 8vo. + + Hobbes’s Leviathan. London, 1651, folio. + + The Natural History of Animals. London, 1702, fol. + + Bacon’s Essays. + + The Poll for Yorkshire in 1807, 8vo. + + Pemberton’s View of the Newtonian Philosophy. London, 1728, 4to. + +The French and Italian Works include those of Boileau, Ariosto’s Orlando +Furioso, Venet. 1566, 8vo. Boccaccio’s Decameron, 1552, 8vo. Dante, 1551, +8vo. Tasso’s Gierusalem liberata, Ferrara, 1580, 8vo. + +The Publications of the Record Commissioners are presented to the Chapter +Library as they appear, and are therein deposited with the Reports of +the Commissioners; the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland; the Catalogue +of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum; and the Population +Returns. + +There is a Copy of the Common Prayer in the Castilian language, in this +Collection, and a small 4to. volume, containing, “A Register of Books +borrowed from the Chapter Library, 1826,” is constantly kept there for +the use of those who frequent it. + +These are not numerous, for the place wears the aspect of neglect, and +a beggarly account of empty cases disappoints the ardent enquirer for +intellectual food: he seeks for Books, and in some Presses finds only a +stone. + +Bishop Keene, it appears, pitying the forlorn condition of the Chapter +Library, and having some tomes too ponderous for removal, upon his own +translation from Chester to Ely gave the following volumes to the Dean +and Chapter of Chester. + +_Folio._ + + Brent’s Conc. Trent, 1676. + + Bayle’s Dictionary. 4 vols. + + Ciceronis Epistolæ. Par. 1557. + + Life of the Duc d’Espernon. Par. 1655. + + Homer, Castalionis. Bas. 1567. + + Montfaucon, by Humphrys. Lond. 1721. + + Poli Synopsis, 5 tom. Lond. 1673. + + Cæsar, in French, by D’Ablancourt. Par. 1658. + + Daniel, Hist. de la Milicie Française. Par. 1728. + + Felibien’s Principles of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, + in French. Par. 1697. + +_Quarto._ + + The History of France to the death of Louis XIVth, in French. + Par. 1749. + + Leger’s Country House, in French. Amst. 1701, 2 tom. in 1 vol. + + Miege’s French Dictionary. Lond. 1677. + + Tacitus, in French, by D’Ablancourt. Par. 1665. + + Wicquefort’s Ambassadour, in French. Col. 1715, 2 tom. + +_In Formâ Minori._ + + Boileau’s Works in French. Amst. 1735, 4 tom. + + Batteux, Les Beaux Arts. Par. 1747. + + Daniel’s History of France, Fr. Par. 1724, 9 tom. + + Fauchon’s French Grammar. Cam. 1751. + + Larrey’s History of Lewis XIV. Rotter. 1718, 9 tom. + + “Aprilis Mense, 1771, Libros hos + Reverendus admodùm Edmundus Keene, S.T.P. + Episcopus Cestriensis + Nunc Eliensis + D. D.” + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Chichester. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Chichester is preserved in the +Chapter House, which forms the Eastern termination of the Cathedral. + +This room, of very fair proportions, is lighted by several large windows, +and adorned with Portraits of George I. and the Dukes of Richmond and +Newcastle over the fire-place at the east end, and of William and Mary, +in one picture, over the doorway at the other. + +Upon the desk lie some Episcopal relics which have been of late years +found in the Cathedral, and which have been engraved in one large plate +for the benefit of the curious. + +The Books are placed upon open shelves in tall cases of stained wood, +with cornices, standing against the wall, three marked R. T. Y. being on +one side, and three marked S. W. Z. on the other side of the room. + +The contents of these cases are alphabetically enumerated in a thin +folio volume in an old hand, the sizes of the Books being omitted, but +reference being made to their position on the shelves, whereby the eye +may be made to supply this deficiency. To this Catalogue, which bears +the title of “Librorum in Bibliothecâ Ecclesiæ Cicestrensis Catalogus +Alphabeticus,” interfoliary additions have from time to time been made. + +In another Book are entered the Books which may be borrowed from the +Library. + +This Collection is very respectably attired, being chiefly bound in +old calf, occasionally gilt, and consists chiefly of Theological and +Historical Works, in tolerably good preservation. + +The impressions of the Sacred Volume comprehend + + The Biblia Polyglotta Waltoni, 1657, with Castell’s Lexicon. + + Biblia LXX, per Holmes & Parsons. Oxonii, v. a. 6 v. folio. + + Biblia Græca, Basil. 1545, Sacra Biblia, Junii, 1593. + + Biblia Latina Vulgata. Parisiis, 1691. + + Biblia Latina. Hanoviæ, 1605, & Basileæ, 1579, 2 vols. folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, per Kennicott. Oxon. 1776, 2 v. fol. + + Biblia Hebraica & Chaldaica, per Buxtorf. Basileæ, 1618, 2 + vols. folio. + + Biblia LXX, per Grabe. Oxonii, 1707, in 4 v. fol. + + Biblia LXX, per Bos. Francof. 1719, 2 vols. folio. + + The Bible in English by Field. Cambridge, 1669. + + The Bible in English, by Baskett. Oxford, 1715. + + The Novum Testamentum Syriace, et Græce, apud Stephanum. + + The Codex Bezæ. Cantab. 1793. + + Evangelium Matthæi, per Barrett. Dublin, 1801, 4to. in blue + morocco. + + The New Testament by Griesbach, Wetstein; and by Kuster, + Lipsiæ, 1723; Millii, Oxon. 1707, 2 vols. folio, Vratislaviæ, + 1782. + +In Divinity, the Works of S. Basil, Bernard, Bingham, Bochart, +Bramhall, Chrysostom, Clemens Alexandrinus, Le Clerc, S. Cyprian, S. +Cyril, Cudworth, Epiphanius, Episcopius, Gregory, Nyssen, and Nazianzen, +S. Hilary, Hospinianus, Horne, Jackson, Jewel, Justin Martyr, S. +Isidore, Justinian, Lightfoot, Limborch, More, Patrick, Pearse, Philo +Judæus, Paley, Pococke, Porteus, Stillingfleet, Sherlock, Tertullian, +Theophylact, Jeremy Taylor, Wake, Whitby, Wells, may be seen in +conjunction with + + Ambrosii Opera. Basileæ, 1567, 3 vols. folio. + + Anselmi Opera. Colon. Agrip. 1612. + + Athanasii Opera, Colon. 1686, 2 vols. folio. + + Augustini Opera. Parisiis, 1555, in 7 vols. folio. + + Beverigii Pandectæ Canonum. + + Boyle’s Theological Works. + + Bulli Opera Theologica. Londini, 1703, folio. + + Burkitt on the New Testament. + + Burnet on the XXXIX Articles. + + Calvini Opera. Genevæ, 1589, 10 vols. folio. + + Calvin’s Institutes. + + Cassiodori Opera. Venetiis, 1729. + + Chamieri Controversiæ. + + Chillingworth’s Works, 1684. + +Here I may remark that in the Cloisters of this Cathedral, according to a +plain mural tablet, + + “Hic reducem expectat animam + GULIELMUS CHILLINGWORTH, A.M. + Coll. Trin. Oxon. Socius, &c. + omni literarum genere celeberrimus, + Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ adversus Romanam + Propugnator invictissimus.” + +To return, however, to the department immediately under review, I may +proceed to notice + + Cave’s Primitive Christianity & Lives of the Fathers. + + Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible. + + Several Concordances, by various hands. + + The Works of Samuel Clarke, in 4 vols. folio. + + Collyer’s Sacred Interpreter. + + Cotelerii Patres Apostolici. 1724. + + Critici Sacri & Pole’s Synopsis. + + Du Pin’s History of the Canon of the Old and New Testament. + + Erasmus in Nov. Test. Basil. 1522, and other Works, with his + Life by Jortin. + + Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica. + + Fabricii Codex Pseudigraphus Veteris Testamenti. 2 vols. 8vo. + + Forbes on Religion. + + Faber on Pagan Idolatry. + + Irenæi Opera, per Grabe. Oxon. 1702, folio. + + Grabe’s Spicilegium. Oxon. 1698, 8vo. + + Gray’s Connection. + + Grotii Opera Theologica. Londini, 1679, 4 v. fol. + + Hammond’s Paraphrase and other Works. 1684, 4 vols. folio. + + Heylin’s Theological Tracts. + + Hieronymi Opera per Victorium. Parisiis, 1609, 3 vols. folio. + + Howel’s Synopsis Canonum. + + Hyde’s Religio Veterum Persarum. + + Lactantius cura Sparke. Oxon. 1684. + + Lardner’s Credibility. + + Lowth’s Isaiah. + + Maltby’s Works. 1803. + + Melancthonis Opera. Witebergæ, 1580, 4 vols. fol. + + Norris on the Beatitudes. + + Page’s Harmonia Sacra. + + Pearsoni Opera Posthuma. + + Petavii Dogmata Theologica. + + Prideaux’s Connection. + + Schleusner’s Lexicon Novi Test. + + Shuckford’s Connection. + + Stockii Clavis Nov. Test. + + Stradæ Prolusiones. + + Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus. + + Tillotson’s Sermons. 1700, 14 vols. 8vo. + + Wall’s Infant Baptism. + +Zanchii Opera Theologica, together with the Sermons of Andrews, Barrow, +Conybeare, Fysher, Hoadly, Horsley, Sanderson, and Saurin. + +As connected with the Church Service I may add to these Henry the VIII.’s +Primer, 1545; the Liturgia Anglicana Octoglotta, 1821; Baskett’s edition +of the Common Prayer, London, 1754; and a beautiful large paper copy +of the Common Prayer, printed by Bill and Barker at London in 1662, +folio, bound in green velvet and ruled with red lines; the gift of the +Rev. Thomas Baker to the Cathedral Library; also “the Sealed Copy” +of the Common Prayer of the same date, so called from its containing +the original Letter Patent of Charles II. upon vellum, “for lodging +a corrected and authentic copy of the Common Prayer Book in this +Cathedral.” “N.B. The great Seal attached to these Patents is preserved +in the Chapter House.” This interesting volume is unpretendingly attired +in dark calf. + +To these I may add the + + Breviarium Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1594, and the + + Missale Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1614. + +The principal Works relating to Ecclesiastical History in this +Collection are Allix’s Albigenses; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Baronii +Annales & Martyrologium Romanum; Brandt’s History of the Reformation +in the Low Countries; Bedæ Opera, Basileæ, 1583; Bedford’s Scripture +Chronology, 1730; Bower’s Lives of the Popes; Burnet’s Reformation; +Codex Theodosianus Gothofredi; Corpus Juris Civilis et Canonici, Lugd. +Bat. 1624-7; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta; Concilia Generalia, +Colon. Agr. 1567; Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ à Wilkins, Lond. folio; +Strype’s Annals, Lives, and Memorials; Du Pin’s Ecclesiastical History; +Cave’s Historia Literaria Scriptor. Eccles.; Echard’s Ecclesiastical +History; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica; Le Neve’s +Fasti Anglicani; Fleury’s Ecclesiastical History, by Adams, 1727, 5 +vols.; Fuller’s Holy War, and Church History of Britain; Gibson’s Codex +and Synodus Anglicana; Godwin de Præsulibus Angliæ, Cantabr. 1743, 2 +vols. folio; Gratiani Compendium Juris Canonici et Civilis, Venetiis, +1580, 3 vols. folio; Heylin’s History of the Reformation; Lyndewode’s +Provinciale, Oxon. 1679; Inett’s Origines Anglicani; Mosheim’s +Ecclesiastical History; Reyneri Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ, +Duaci, 1626; Ribadeneira, Vitæ Sanctorum; Rycaut’s Lives of the Popes; +Sanderus de Origine et progressu Schismatis Anglicani, Parisiis, 1610; +Spelman’s Concilia; Spotswode’s Church of Scotland; Polano’s History of +the Council of Trent; Quick’s Synodicon in Galliâ Reformatâ; Tornielli +Annales; Usseri Annales & Antiq. Eccl. Britt.; Walker’s Sufferings of the +Clergy; Warner’s Ecclesiastical History; and Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical +Biography. + +Of Works connected with English History and Antiquities, the shelves of +this Library may supply the curious enquirer with Adams’s Index Villaris, +and sixty volumes of the Acts of Parliament, the gift of Bishop Buckner +to the Chichester Cathedral Library; Ashmole’s Order of the Garter, 1672; +the English Baronetage, 1741, in 5 vols. 4to.; Barwick’s Life; Battely’s +Antiquities of Canterbury; Crawfurd’s Memoirs of Scotch Affairs, +Edinburgh, 1726; Dart’s Westminster Abbey; Echard’s History of England; +Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655, 3 vols. folio; Warwickshire, +Coventry, 1675; Baronage, and View of the Troubles; Kippis’s Biographia +Britannica; Borlase’s Cornwall and Scilly Islands; Buck’s History of +Richard III.; Buchanani Historia Scotorum, Edinburgi, 1583; Crawfurd’s +Peerage of Scotland; Burnet’s History of his own Times; Carte’s History +of England; Davies’s Celtic Researches; Dallaway’s Western Sussex, and +Cartwright’s Rape of Bramber; Winston Churchill’s Divi Britannici, 1675; +Clarendon’s Rebellion, Oxford, 1702, 3 vols. folio; Fabian’s Chronicle, +1542; Fiddes’ Life of Wolsey; Fuller’s Worthies; Holinshed’s Chronicle, +1586, with Giraldus Cambrensis’s History of Ireland, and Hector Boethius’ +Historia Scotorum; Grafton’s Chronicle, wanting the Title; Harding’s +Chronicle, 1543; Hacket’s Life of Archbishop Williams; Grew’s Rarities of +Gresham College; Hanway’s Travels; Lord Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII.; +Journals of the Lords and Commons; Johnston on the English Monarchy, +1636; Icon Basilike, 1649; Kennet’s Parochial Antiquities, with his +History of England and other Works, and North’s Examination of Kennet’s +History of England; Laud’s Life; Leland’s Itinerary, edited by Hearne, +Oxford, 1745, 8vo.; Lyttelton’s Henry II.; Lloyd’s State Worthies; +Mackenzie’s Scottish Writers, Edinburgh, 1708; Madox’s Formulare +Anglicanum, Baronia Anglica, and History of the Exchequer; Maitland’s +London; Maurice’s Richmond Hill; Monasticon Hibernicum, 1723; Nicolson’s +Historical Library; North’s Lives of the Norths; Peck’s Memoirs of Oliver +Cromwell; Higden’s Polychronicon, printed by Wynkyn de Worde at London +in 1495, a perfect copy in old calf; Nalson’s Collections; Price’s +Salisbury Cathedral; Parker’s History of his own Times; Rapin’s History +of England; Thorpe’s Registrum and Custumale Roffense, both half-bound; +Robertson’s History of Scotland; Rossi Warvicensis Historia Regum Angliæ, +edente Hearne, 1745; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Slayter’s +History of Great Britain, 1619; Speed’s Chronicle, History of Great +Britain, Theatre and Maps; Stow’s Chronicle, 1615; Stukeley’s Itinerarium +Curiosum; Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannica; Pitseus Catalogus Scriptorum +Angliæ, Parisiis, 1619; Triveti Annales, et Adami Murithmensis Chronicon, +curâ Hall, Oxonii, 1722, 8vo.; Ward’s Gresham College; Weever’s Funeral +Monuments; Whitelocke’s Memorials, 1709; Willis’s Cathedrals; Wood’s +Athenæ Oxonienses; A few Political Tracts; Several Laudatory Verses from +both the Universities to several of the Stuarts, and the Records of the +Kingdom. + +To the above I have pleasure in adding a few of the foundations upon +which the History of Britain is built. + +Balæi Centuria Scriptorum Britanniæ, Basileæ, 1557; Historiæ Anglicanæ +Scriptores Decem à Somner & Twysden; Du Chesne’s Historiæ Normannorum +Scriptores; Eadmeri Historia sui Temporis, edente Selden, Londini, +1623; Matthæi Paris. Historia Anglicana, edente Wats, Londini, 1740, +folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum; Rerum Anglicanum +Scriptores post Bedam, edente Savile; Florentiæ Wigornensis Chronicon; +Polydore Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Basileæ, 1534, folio; Camdeni +Anglica, Normannica, &c. à veteribus Scripta. + +Of Law, the only books which met my observation were: Ayliffe’s Canon +Law, London, 1734; Reports upon the Criminal Code, 1821, &c. in 7 +vols. 4to.; Barrington on Ancient Statutes; Blackstone’s Commentaries; +Jacob’s Law Dictionary; Lambard de Priscis Anglorum Legibus; Wottoni +Leges Wallicæ, 1730; Leges Antiquiæ Francorum, per Lindenbrogium, 1614; +Wilkins’s Leges Saxonicæ, 1721; Viner’s Abridgment of Law and Equity, in +23 folios, new in calf, gilt. + +Of Numismatic Works, I am happy to record a beautiful copy of the +Numismata Pembrochiana, 1746, upon large paper, bound in calf, richly +gilt, with the leaves gilt upon the marble, the donation of Dr. Jo. +Wickins, Rector of Petworth in 1763, to the Cathedral Library. The +appearance of this Work in the folio form is very far above the usual +dimensions of the ordinary 4to. To this I may add, Banduri Numismata, +Parisiis, 1718, in 2 vols. folio; Clarke’s Coins; Evelyn on Medals; +Folkes’s Coins; Harduini Nummi Antiqui, Parisiis, 1684; Landi Numismata +Selecta, Lugd. Bat. 1695; Wilde, Numismata Antiqua Selecta, 1682; Wise +Nummi Bodleiani, 1750; Nummophylacium Reginæ Christinæ, per Havercampium, +Hagæ, Com. 1742; Vaillant Numismata, Paris. 1695. + +Of Publications relating to the History and Description of different +countries, and the world in general this Library cannot boast any +Collection more copious than that constituted by, Æmilii Historia +Francorum; Pighii Annales Romanæ Historiæ, Antverpiæ, 1598; Stuart and +Revett’s Antiquities of Athens; Anson’s Voyage, 1756; Astley’s Collection +of Voyages, 1745, 4 vols.; Atlas Geographicus, London, 1711, in 5 vols. +folio; Churchill’s Voyages; Robert’s Atlas; Birch’s Heads; Bezonii +Historia Indiæ Repertæ, Francofurti, 1694; Maffei Historia Indica, +Brixiæ, 1660; Blair’s Chronology; Collier’s Historical Dictionary; Du +Halde’s China; Byzantinæ Historiæ Scriptores, Venetiis, 1729, in 23 vols. +folio; Hales’s Analysis of Ancient Chronology; Chardin’s Travels; Flud +Historia utriusque Cosmi, Oppenheim, 1617; Freheri Rerum Bohemicarum +Scriptores, Hanov. 1602; Gualteri Tabula Chronologica; Coloniæ, 1616; +Geographici Minores Græci, curâ Hudsoni, Oxonii, 1698, 4 vols.; Grævii +Thesaurus Antiquitatum, 12 tom. folio; Gruteri Inscriptiones, 2 vols. +folio; Heylin’s Cosmography; Hughes’s Natural History of Barbadoes, +London, 1750, folio; Mariana and Molina’s Histories of Spain; Maundrell’s +Journey; Montfaucon’s Antiquities, with his Palæographia Græca; Moreri +Dictionnaire, 10 vols. folio, in French calf; Norden’s Egypt; Potter’s +Greece; Newton’s Chronology; Puffendorf’s Law of Nations; Raleigh’s +History of the World; Rerum Belgicarum Annales, Francof. 1583; Jovii +Rerum Turcicarum Historia, Lugd. Bat. 1569; Keysteri Antiquitates +Septentrionales, Hanoviæ, 1720; Rhenani Rerum Germanicarum Commentarii, +1551; Rycaut’s History of the Turks; Robertson’s Charles V.; Paruta’s +History of Venice; Shaw’s Travels; Perrault’s Hommes Illustres; +Pococke’s Description of the East; Postlethwayt’s Dictionary of Commerce; +Sully’s Memoirs; Thuani Historia sui Temporis, 6 vols. folio, in calf; +Watson’s Philip II. and it may be added Vossius de Historicis Græcis ac +Latinis. + +Several Maps of North and South America, Egypt, Portugal, and the +Pyrenees are also placed within this Library. + +Of Etymological Works, there are few indeed, at least I only remarked, +Calderini Lexicon Latinum et Italicum, Venetiis, 1587; Calepini +Dictionarium Latinum, Lugd. Bat. 1559, in 2 vols.; Cooper’s Dictionary; +Du Cange’s Glossary; Facciolati Lexicon; Hederici Lexicon; Hickes’s +Thesaurus Septentrionalis; Johnson’s English Dictionary; Junii Glossarium +edente Lye; Spelman’s Glossary; Julii Pollucis Onomasticon, Amstelod. +1706; Suidæ Lexicon; Kusteri Cantabrigiæ, 1705, in 3 vols. folio. + +Of Works relating to Natural History or Science, the number is still +less. Aldrovandi Ornithologia; Franzii Historia Animalium, Wittebergæ, +1613; Gerard’s Herbal, by Johnson; Johnstoni Historia Quadrupedum, +&c.; Mantell’s Geology of Sussex; Newton’s Optics and Principia; and +some Tracts by Leibnitz, being the only works of this character which +attracted my observation. + +Of Classic Authors, I have made a copious selection, that the reader may +judge for himself of the value of this department of the Library by a +cursory review of its contents. It is, in fact, only by thus descending +into particulars that the true character of any Collection can be +obtained. Hence it is that whenever in these pages a dry catalogue of +books appears to be extended to an unusual length, the candid reader +should look complacently upon the attempt to enable him to form his own +judgment even at the risk of exhausting his patience. + +I may begin with the Anthologia Græca edited by Owen in 1612, and +continue in nearly alphabetical order, as the simplest and most +intelligible method of reference, the list of Classics in this Collection. + + Antoninus, Gatakeri. Londini, 1697, 4to. + + Appianus. Amstelodami, 1670. + + Apuleius, Pricæi. + + Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. Bat. 1657. + + Aulus Gellius: Ausonius: Historia Augustæ Scriptores. Lugd. + Bat. 1671. + + Corpus Poetarum Latinorum à Maittaire. + + Cornelius Nepos. Oxonii, 1697. + + Catullus Tibullus & Propertius, per Arthurum. Cantabrigiæ, 1702. + + Ciceronis Opera Variorum, in 17 vols. 8vo.—Basileæ, 1534; + Parisiis, 1539, in 2 vols. and 1654. + + Demosthenes. Cantabrigiæ, 1731. + + Diodorus Siculus, by Wesseling. Amsterdam, 1746, folio. + + Diogenes Laertius, by Menage. Amsterdam, 1692, 2 vols. folio. + + Dio Cassius, Reimari. Hamburg. 1750, 2 vols. fol. + + Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Hudsoni. Oxonii. 1704, in 2 vols. + folio. + + Euripides, by Markland. + + Eustathius in Homerum. Romæ. 1542, in 4 vols. fol. + + Fabulæ Æsopicæ, per Camerarium. Lugd. Bat. 1564. + + Pompeius Festus, Delphini. Amstelod. 1699, 4to. + + Jamblichus, Galei. Oxonii, 1678, folio. + + Galeni Opera, per Linacrum. Lugd. Bat. 1559. + + Herodianus. Oxonii, 1699. + + Herodotus, Wesselingii. Amstelod. 1763. + + Hesiodus, Græcè. 1540. + + The Horace of 1511, and that by Bentley, 1713, and among other + editions of lesser note, + + Horatius, Lambini. Francofurti, 1596. + + Homeri opera à Barnes. Cantabr. 1711, et ejusdem Ilias curâ + Clarke. Londini, 1729, 4 vols. 4to. + + Josephus, Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1702, 2 vols. folio. + + Justini Historia apud Stephanum. Parisiis, 1543, fol. + + Longinus, Hudsoni. Oxonii. 1710. + + Livius. Parisiis, 1735, & Gronovii, 1679. + + Lucanus, Oudendorpii. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 4to. + + Lucianus. Salm. 1619. + + Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes. Oxonii, 1677. + + Martialis, Schrevelii. Lugd. Bat. 1670. + + Ovidius, Antverpiæ, 1587; Burmanni, Amstelod. 1727, 4 vols. + 4to.; and Heinsii, Amstelod. 1661. + + Pausanias, Kuhnii. Lipsiæ, 1696, folio. + + Petronius, Burmanni. 1709, 4to. + + Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii. Rothomagi, 1563, fol. + + Platonis Opera, Serrani. 1578, in 3 vols. folio. + + Plautus, Lambini. 1576. + + Plinii Senioris Historia Naturalis, Dalecampii; Aureliæ + Allobrogum, 1606; and Harduini, Parisiis, 1723, in 3 vols. + folio. + + Plinii Junioris Epistolæ. Amstelodami, 1659. + + Plutarchi Vitæ, edente Bryant. Londini, 1729, in 5 vols. 4to. + + Plutarchi Opera, Xylandri. Francof. 1599. + + Polybius, Casauboni. 1609, folio. + + Quintus Curtius, Erasmi. Parisiis, 1543. + + Quintilianus, Burmanni. Lugd. Bat. 1720, 4to. + + Sallustius. Parisiis, 1504, and Cantabrigiæ, 1710. + + Seneca, Gothofredi. + + Seneca Lipsii. + + Silius Italicus, Drakenborchii. Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1717, 4to. + + Strabo, Almeloveeni. Amstelodami, 1707, 2 vols. folio. + + Suetonius, Grævii. + + Tacitus, Variorum. + + Terentius, Delphini. + + Terence, by Hare. 1724. + + Thucydides, Hudsoni. Oxonii. 1696, folio. + + Valerius Flaccus, Heinsii. Amstelodami, 1680. + + Velleius Paterculus; Vegetius. Parisiis, 1535. + + Virgilii opera, per Jacobum Zachon. Venetiis, 1499, folio; in + Roman Character, with a commentary. + + Virgilius Delphini. 4to. and by Baskerville. + + Xenophontis Opera, by Wells, with his Anabasis & Cyropædia, by + Hutchinson. + +It will be seen from this rapid survey of the classical department of +this collection that none of the first, though several of the best +editions are here to be found. I may here mention the + + Schola Salernitana. Parisiis, 1553. + + Erasmi Adagia. Hanoviæ, 1617. + + Gesneri Bibliotheca. Tiguri, 1545; and + + Joannis Sarisburiensis Polycraticus seu de Nugis Curialium. + Lugd. Bat. 1495. + +In English Literature, I have much pleasure in mentioning the Works of +Bacon, Locke, and Temple, in 4to., uniformly bound in old calf; Tonson’s +Shakespeare, London, 1725, in 6 vols. 4to. in old calf, gilt; Barclay’s +Argenis, London, 1622; Bryant’s Mythology, 1775; Spence’s Polymetis; +Cowley’s Works, 1684; Digges’ Compleat Ambassadour; Chamber’s Dictionary; +Blair’s Lectures; Buchanan’s Poems; Chaucer’s Works, in black letter, by +Robert Toye, London; Hayley’s Poems; Hutchinson’s Works, 1749, 12 vols.; +the Works of James I. and Samuel Johnson; Milton’s Works, by Baskerville +and by Newton; Prior’s Works; Selden’s Works, by Wilkins, London, 1726, +in 3 vols. folio; Shaftesbury’s Characteristics, in 3 vols. 8vo.; +Spenser’s Faery Queen; and I may add, Smith’s Catal. MSS. Cotton. et MSS. +Oxon. Oxonii, 1696-7, with 3 vols. of Osborne’s Catalogues. + +In conclusion, I may notice the Works of Petrarch; Voltaire’s Henriade, +and Chamber’s Architecture, in 2 vols. folio; Bayle’s Dictionary, London, +1735; Macpherson’s Fingal, 1762; Thomæ Mori Opera Latina; Watson’s +History of Halifax; and Nott’s Odes of Hafiz. + +The only two Manuscripts which occurred to me on inspecting this Library, +were the Statutes of Peterhouse College in Cambridge, and an Account of +the Foundation of Christ Church at Oxford. + +It is right to notice, what all chartered or collegiate bodies who +possess Libraries, would do well to imitate, that all the volumes in this +Collection are distinguished by a book plate, representing the sacred +figure, above whose head is written “Decan. et Cap. Cicestr.” and below +whose feet is inscribed “Liber Monumenti coram eo.” + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Durham. + + +The Library of this Chapter is preserved in a spacious and luminous +apartment more than one hundred feet in length, and of proportional +width, occupying one side of the space above the Cloisters. It was, in +former times, the Refectory of the Monastery, and the walls which once +resounded with the crash of monastic mastication, now echo the footsteps +of the casual visiter or cloistered student. A Portrait of Dean Sudbury, +the founder of the Library after the Restoration, is at the end of the +room; and on the floor are several Roman Altars, discovered in the +vicinity of Durham. + +The Books are well arranged upon shelves of easy access, and appear +remarkably free from damp; the cases projecting from the wall on either +side into the room; with due intervals for study. + +In the south alley of the Cloisters is a large hall, called the +Frater-house, finely wainscotted on the north and south side, by Thomas +Castell, Prior, A.D. 1518. Within the door on the left hand, at entering +is a strong Almery in the wall, wherein the Grace Cup, the Grace Major, +called the Judas’s Cup, and St. Bede’s Bowl, did stand. In that Almery +lay all the best plate that served the Convent in the Frater-house on +Festival Days; and there was a fine work of carved wainscot before, and a +strong lock on the door, so as none could perceive there was any Almery +at all, the key-hole being made under the carved work of the wainscot. + +In this Frater-house the Prior, and the whole Convent of the Monks held +their great feast of St. Cuthbert, in Lent, having their meat served out +of the dresser-window of the great kitchen, into the Frater-house; and +their drink out of the great cellar. + +At the east end of the Frater-house stood a fair table with a skreen of +wainscot over it, being kept all the rest of the year for the Master of +the Novices, the Elects, and the Novices, to dine and sup at, having +their meat served to them in the same manner. + +At these times one of the Novices, appointed by the Master, read some +part of the Old and New Testament in Latin, during dinner, having a +convenient place at the south end of the high table, within a fair glass +window, encompassed with iron, and certain stone steps with iron rails to +go up to an iron desk, whereon lay the Holy Bible, which reading being +ended, the Master tolled a silver bell, hanging over his head, thereby +giving notice to one of the Novices to come to the high table and say +grace, and that ended, they departed to their books. + +This fabric retained the name of the Petty Canons’ Hall, till Dr. +Sudbury, Dean of this Cathedral, generously erected a beautiful Library +in its place, which he, not living to finish completely, by the following +clause of his last will, binds his heir, Sir John Sudbury, to the due +execution thereof. + +“Item, whereas I have lately contracted with several workmen for the +building of a Library in the place commonly called the Petty Canons Hall +in the College of Durham, for the use of the Dean and Prebendaries of the +said Cathedral Church. And if it should please God that I do not live +to finish the same, my will and pleasure is that my executor, hereafter +named, shall pay out of my personal estate all such sum or sums of money +as shall be necessary for the finishing thereof, according to such form +or modell, or in such manner as I shall leave directions for under my +hand, attested by two or more good and sufficient witnesses. This will is +dated Jan. 11, 1683.”[11] + +The books were removed to their present situation by Dean Sudbury, in +the seventeenth century, up to whose time they had been kept in the room +adjoining the Chapter-house, and also over the Cloisters. + +This Library contains from seven to eight thousand volumes, of which five +hundred and twenty are in Manuscript. The printed books amounting to +seven thousand two hundred and fifty-nine volumes, at the time of this +present writing. + +Three Catalogues of the printed books remain in this collection; the +first compiled about the time of Charles II. in one folio volume, bears +the following title: + +“Catalogus Librorum Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Dunelmensis dispositus exaratus, +adornatus à doctissimo ornatissimoque viro Joanne Milner, A. M. ejusdem +Ecclesiæ Precentore et Bibliothecario dignissimo.” + +The second is a folio on vellum, compiled in the time of Bishop Cosin, +the title whereof runneth thus: + +“Bibliotheca Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Dunelmensis à Decano et Capitulo +ejusdem Ecclesiæ instaurata anno dni MDCXXVIII. et ab eisdem exinde per +annuales eorum expensas aliaque benefactorum donaria ornata adaucta et +bonis libris instructa.” + +The third is the Catalogue now in use, accurately arranged in +alphabetical order, by the Rev. James Raine, the present Librarian. It is +to be hoped that this gentleman may be enabled to steal a few hours from +his antiquarian researches, to prepare this Catalogue, with appropriate +notices of the rarer articles, for the press, to which I trust it will +ere long be committed by the liberality of the Dean and Chapter. + +There is also a Catalogue of Glosses and Commentators in this collection, +compiled by Elias Smith, during the period of the Great Rebellion. + +Thomas Rud has also left behind him a very curious Catalogue of the +Books bought in his time, with their prices, a work which has been very +properly continued by the succeeding Curator of this Library. + +A book is also kept upon the table for the entry of all volumes borrowed +or taken away from the Library, with the name of the person so taking +them and the date when taken. + +This precaution has happily been adopted in this as in other Cathedral +Libraries, but not until after much inconvenience, and in some instances +serious losses had been sustained from the want of this or a similar +regulation. + +The latitude which so long prevailed in this respect, has of late years +been exchanged for rigorous custody, and none but prebendal keys can now +unlock the chamber wherein the literary treasures of the Dean and Chapter +are deposited. + +Of the printed books in this collection I will proceed to give such an +account as the opportunities afforded me, enabled me to collect, during a +cursory survey of this ancient Library. + +A great part of this, as of most ancient Libraries, consists of Glosses, +Decretals, and Pandects, with other early and almost forgotten Works of +Divinity, and the obscurer authors of the middle ages. + +Passing by these, I first directed my attention to the earliest +impression of the Holy Scriptures in the English language, being that +printed by Christian Egenolff, at Franckfort, in 1535, folio, and known +as Coverdale’s Bible. The present copy wants the title, and two leaves +of the Prefatory matter, beginning with the last leaf of the Prologue. +It is also defective in all the leaves of the Revelations, which follow +signature T.T. iii. The three last leaves are much torn, but the book +is sound in the middle, and in very ordinary calf binding. By some +unaccountable error it has been lettered on the back “Grafton’s Bible. +1541.” + +I also noticed an imperfect copy of Matthew’s Bible of 1549, reprinted +from the edition of 1537, in folio; the second edition of the Bishop’s +Bible, printed at London, by Richard Jugge, in 1572, folio, with a double +version of the Psalms; a copy of the Bible of 1641, in folio, and the +Bible printed at Cambridge in 1663, 4to.; the Bible printed at Oxford, +by J. Baskett, in 1717, in 2 volumes, folio, in forrel binding, with +clasps; Baskerville’s elegant folio edition of the Scriptures; the Bible, +with Notes by Bishop Wilson, printed by Cruttwell at Bath, in 1785, in 3 +volumes, 4to.; the Manse Bible, printed at Whitehaven in 1775, 4to., in +calf binding; and the Bible, with Notes by D’Oyley and Mant, printed at +Oxford in 1817, in 3 vols. 4to.; and Reeves’ Bible, in nine 4to. volumes. + +I also remarked fine copies of the Hebrew Bible, by Van der Hooght, +Houbigant, Buxtorf, and Kennicott, in calf binding; the Biblia Græca, of +Grabe; the Vetus Testamentum juxta LXX, edited by Holmes and Parsons, +at Oxford, in 5 volumes, folio; the Biblia Polyglotta complectentia +textus originales Hebraicum, cum pentateucho, Samaritanum, Chaldaicum, +Græcum, &c. cum apparatu appendicibus tabulis, &c. ex editione Briani +Waltoni, Londini, Thomas Roycroft, 1655-57, in 6 folio volumes, with the +indispensable and customary adjunct of Castelli Lexicon Heptaglotton, +Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, &c. cui accessit brevis +grammaticæ delineatio, Londini, Th. Roycroft, 1669, in 2 folio volumes, +all uniformly bound in calf; the Biblia Polyglotta curâ Bened. Ariæ +Montani, Antverpiæ, Plantinus, 1569-72, wanting one volume, in folio. + +I may here mention the Heptateuchus:—Liber Job, et Evangelium Nicodemi, +Anglo-Saxonicè; Historia Judith, Dana-Saxonicè, edited by Edward +Thwaites, at Oxford, in 8vo.; Codex Theodori Bezæ, Cantabrigiensis, +Evangelia et Acta Apostolorum complectens, quadratis literis, +Græco-Latinis, adumbravit, expressit, edidit, &c. Thomas Kipling, S.T.P. +Cantabrigiæ, 1793, in 2 volumes, folio; Wetstein’s Edition of the Greek +Testament; the Evangelia Gothica, edited by Junius; and Psalterium +Davidis Latino-Saxonicum Vetus, à Johanne Spelmanno editum è vetustissimo +Exemplari manuscripto, et tribus aliis collatum, Londini, 1640, 4to. + +There are also Bibles in the Spanish and French languages; and many Latin +Bibles, the earliest of which appeared to be that printed at Venice in +1484, by Herbert de Selgenstat, a German, in double columns of small +Gothic letter, in a quarto form, bound in red morocco, with a cover, +originally appertaining unto John Cade, whose illustrative propensities +are displayed by a coloured representation of the Virgin, pasted on +the back of the first leaf of this book. The passion of this defunct +collector for illustrating books is said to have been so strong as to +have led to the expansion of his copy of Dugdale’s Works to no less than +one hundred volumes. + +On viewing the literary remains of polemical controversy, and the +dust-covered rows of obsolete divinity, one is tempted involuntarily to +exclaim— + + “Hi motus animorum atque hæc certamina tanta + Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescant.” + +Of these writers, over whose voluminous works the modern eye so coldly +glances, some occupied no small share of the public attention in their +time, and of a few might be said, + + “He knew what’s what, and that’s as high + As metaphysic wit can fly; + In school Divinity as able + As he that hight Irrefragable, + A second Thomas, or at once + To name them all, another Dunse; + Profound in all the Nominal + And Real ways above them all; + For he a rope of sand could twist + As tough as learned Sorbonist.” + + _Butler’s Hudibras_, Part I. Canto I. v. 149. + +It is remarkable that two-thirds of the eminent schoolmen were of +British birth, a circumstance which renders the preservation of +their labours in the Cathedral Libraries of England a matter of some +consequence to those who love to trace the scintillations of the English +mind through the Cimmerian gloom of the schools. + +In these repositories we also find the marvellous legends of those great +and good men whom the Church delighted to honour. + +The present collection offers several editions of the once popular +Legenda Aurea, the first bearing the date 1475, in 4to.; the second +having been printed at Cologne in 1483, in folio; and the third by Wynkyn +de Worde at London, in 1516, in folio, in double columns of Gothic +character. Both the last are in excellent preservation. + +Among the multitude of schoolmen and divines of the earlier ages, it +is difficult to select those which may convey an adequate impression +of the extent of this collection. Here the eye reposes on the Works of +Sermundus, in brilliant condition, on large paper. There it meets with +the Works of Pope Benedict the XIVth, and a long array of the Fathers and +other pillars of the Church. + +Coleridge conceived Origen, Jerome, and Augustine to be the three fathers +in respect of theology, and Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and Chrysostom in +respect of rhetoric.[12] Of the truth of this assertion the student may +here convince himself, for this Library contains these authors, forming +part of a good collection of the Fathers of the Church. + +In this Library are deposited the Works of the Fathers of the Church, +including those of SS. Ambrose, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Bernard, +Chrysostom, Clemens Alexandrinus, Cyprian, Cyril, Episcopius, Epiphanius, +Eusebius, Gregory, Jerome, Hilary, Ignatius, Irenæus, Isidore, Justin +Martyr, Lactantius, Peter Martyr, Origen, Polycarp, Tertullian, and +Theophylact; with the Bibliotheca Maxima Patrum, &c. + +Among the earlier Divines I noticed the Works of Anselm, Bellarmine, +Calvin, Erasmus, Grotius, Thomas à Kempis, Lanfranc, Socinus, and +Zanchius. + +The Divines of the English Church, whose labours are found within these +walls, are Abbot, Allix, Andrews, Barrow, Beveridge, Chillingworth, +Samuel Clarke, Comber, Doddridge, Hall, Hammond, Hoadley, Hopkins, +Jackson, Jewel, Jortin, Kennicott, Lardner, Leighton, Lightfoot, Mede, +Ogden, Paley, Patrick, Pearce, Porteus, Reynolds, Sherlock, South, +Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tenison, Tillotson, Usher, Warburton, +Waterland, and Whiston; with numerous publications of other theologians +of the olden time, the greater portion of which has been either presented +or bequeathed to the Library by the Prebendaries of Durham. + +In the Divinity class are also found the Discourses of Bossuet and +Saurin; the Bampton Lectures; Elsley’s Annotations; Faber on Idolatry, +Prophecy, and other Works; Hey’s Lectures; Macknight’s Harmony of the +Gospels; Pearsoni Opera Posthuma; Prideaux and Shuckford’s Connection; +Routh’s Reliquiæ Sacræ; Slade on the Epistles; Stackhouse’s Body of +Divinity; Wake’s Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers; Wall on +Infant Baptism; and Whitby’s Paraphrase. + +In this place I may enumerate the large assemblage of Canons, +Concordances, Councils, Synods, Glosses, and Commentators, collected +within these walls. Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church; +Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Hyde’s +Religio Veterum Persarum; Howell’s Synopsis Canonum; Limborch Theologia +Christiana; Nicolai de Lyra Commentaria in S. Biblia; the Bibliotheca +Maxima Patrum; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum; Suiceri Thesaurus +Ecclesiasticus; Suarez de Legibus; and many other Works of Divinity too +numerous for particular mention in this cursory survey of this valuable +and extensive collection. + +In Ecclesiastical History, this Library contains many valuable Works, +including Alfordi Annales Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, in 4 vols. folio; Baronii +Annales Ecclesiastici; Bedæ Venerabilis Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica, +cura Smithii, Cantabrigiæ, folio; a beautiful copy upon large paper in +blue morocco, a most appropriate ornament to this Collection. + + Brandt’s History of the Reformation in the Low Countries. + + Burnet’s History of the Reformation in England. + + Davies’ Ancient Rites of the Cathedral of Durham. + + Dod’s Church History. + + Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum. + + Ecton’s Thesaurus. + + Gibson’s Codex Juris Ecclesiastici et Civilis. + + Harpsfeld’s Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. + + Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ. + + Parker de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ. Hanoviæ, 1605, folio. + + Reyner de Apostolatu Ordinis Benedictinorum in Anglia, Duaci. + 1626, folio. + + Soame’s History of the Reformation. + + Spotiswood’s History of the Church of Scotland. + + Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials, and Annals of the + Reformation, both in folio. + + Wharton’s Anglia Sacra. + + Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography. + +The latter Work leads me to mention Fiddes’s Life of Wolsey; McCrie’s +Life of Knox; Laud’s Troubles; Southey’s Life of Wesley; Strype’s Lives +of Cranmer, Grindall, Parker, and Whitgift. + +I may here add the Histories of the Jews by Basnage and Josephus; and +the entire series of the valuable Acta Sanctorum, compiled by the +Bollandists, in 52 folio volumes. + +Connected with the above, I may here notice Foxe’s Acts and Monuments of +the Church, in 3 volumes, folio; the Concilia of Spelman, in folio; and +Collier’s Ecclesiastical History. + +The Historical department of this Library embraces the long series of the +Byzantine Historians; the valuable Collections of Grævius and Gronovius, +relating to the History and Antiquities of Greece and Italy, with the +supplementary Lexicon of Pitiscus, and the Inscriptions of Gruter; the +Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, edited by the indefatigable Muratori; +the antiquarian labours of Montfaucon relating to France; and Freheri +Theatrum Virorum Clarorum. + +It also contains Banduri Antiquitates Constantinopolitanæ; Burgess’ +Antiquities of Rome; Collier’s Historical Dictionary; Coxe’s Memoirs +of the Kings of Spain, of the House of Bourbon, London, 1813, in 3 +volumes 4to.; Kæmpfer’s History of Japan; Knolles’s General History of +the Turks; Marsden’s History of Sumatra; Maurice’s Indian Antiquities, +or Dissertations relative to the Geography, Theology, Laws, &c. of +Hindostan, London, 1793-1800, in 7 octavo volumes; Mitford’s History of +Greece; Niebuhr’s History of Rome; Ockley’s Conquest of Syria, Persia, +and Egypt, by the Saracens; Orme’s History of the Military Transactions +of the British Nation in Indostan; Pococke’s Description of the East; +Pontoppidan’s Natural History of Norway; Russell’s Modern Europe; Sandy’s +Europæ Speculum; De Thou’s History of his own Time; Southey’s History +of Brazil; Watson’s History of Philip II. of Spain; and Robertson’s +Historical Works; and some old Latin Chronicles. + +This Library is also adorned by the Antichita d’Ercolano; the Museum +Florentinum; Hamilton’s Vases; Gell’s Pompeiana; Stuart’s Antiquities of +Athens; and Young on the Hieroglyphics of Egypt. + +The Travels of Clarke, Chandler, Shaw, and others; Coxe’s Account of the +Russian Discoveries between Asia and America; the Conquest of Siberia, +and Russian Commerce with China; Maundrell’s Journey from Aleppo to +Jerusalem; the Voyages of Cook, Parry, Perouse, Taverner, and other +Navigators, with the Petits Voyages of De Bry, are found on these +well-stored shelves, accompanied by the requisite addition of Janson’s +Atlas. + +The History of the Peninsular War, by Southey and the Marquis of +Londonderry, are also found in this Collection. + +The books relating to the History of Great Britain in this Library, +include the collection of fifteen Historians, by Gale and Fell, and of +ten by Twysden, Camdeni Anglica Normannica à veteribus scripta; Asser +Menevensis, edited by Wise; Simeon of Worcester, edited by Nasmyth, 1778, +8vo.; Matthew Paris’ Historia Anglicana, edited by Wats, London, 1684, +folio, upon large paper, in calf binding; Matthew of Westminster’s Flores +Historiarum, folio; and William of Malmesbury, 1596, folio. + +The Histories of England, by Brady, Carte, Daniel, Echard, Hallam, +Lingard, Mac Pherson, Rapin, Tindal, and Sharon Turner. + +The Chronicles of Grafton, Holinshed, and Froissart; the latter +translated and printed by Mr. Johnes at Hafod; Duchesne’s Histoire +d’Angleterre; Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Basileæ, 1526, folio; +Forduni Scoti-Chronicon; Chaloner de Republicâ Anglorum restauranda; +Sheringham de Anglorum Gentis origine; Robert de Avesbury’s Historia +Edvardi III. edente Tho. Hearnio, Oxon. 1729, 8vo.; Gildas de excidio et +conquestu Britanniæ; Gibson’s Chronicon Saxonicum; & Eadmeri Historia +Novorum. + +The Historical Collections of Rushworth and Nalson; the State Papers +of Clarendon and Thurloe; the Sidney Papers; the State Trials, edited +by Hargrave and others; Somers’ Collection of Tracts; the Harleian +Miscellany; Lodge’s Illustrations of British History; the Journals of the +House of Commons; and all the publications issued under the authority of +the Record Commission. + +Burton’s Diary of the Cromwellian Parliaments; Clarendon’s Diary +and History of the Great Rebellion; Coxe’s Memoirs of John Duke of +Marlborough; Ellis’ Letters, illustrative of English History; Evelyn’s +Memoirs; Fenn’s Letters of the Paston Family; Lyttelton’s History of +Henry the Second; North’s Examen of Kennet’s History; Pepys’ Memoirs; +Ridpath’s Border History, and Nicolson’s Border Laws; with Temple’s +History of the Rebellion in Ireland, and Thoresby’s Diary. + +Illustrative of Scottish History, I remarked Abercrombie’s Martial +Achievements of the Scots’ Nation; the Histories of Scotland, by Keith, +Robertson, and Stuart; Sanderson’s Life of Queen Mary; Johnstone’s +Antiquitates Celto-Scandicæ. + +This Library is peculiarly rich in Works relating to the Topography and +Antiquities of Great Britain, embracing the entire Works of Pennant, +all the Antiquities of Grose; Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments; Britton’s +Architectural Antiquities, and Picturesque Illustrations of the English +Cathedrals; Horsley’s Britannia Romana; Lysons’ Magna Britannia; +Buck’s Views of Cities, Castles, &c. in Great Britain; Camden’s +Britannia, edited by Gough, in 3 vols. folio; Speed’s Theatre of Great +Britain; Strutt’s Horda, and his Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities; +and Leland’s Itinerary, edited by Hearne, Oxford, 1768; and Lewis’ +Topographical Dictionary of England. + +The County Histories which enrich this Collection are, a large paper copy +of Aubrey’s History of Surrey, in old calf binding; Ashmole’s Berkshire; +Atkyns’s Gloucestershire, London, 1712, folio; Bridge’s Northamptonshire; +Burton’s Leicestershire; Borlase’s Cornwall; Chauncey’s Hertfordshire; +Collinson’s Somersetshire; Dugdale’s Warwickshire, edited by Thomas; +Hasted’s Kent, in 4 volumes, folio; Hutchinson’s Northumberland and +Durham; Jones’ Brecknockshire; Leicester’s Cheshire; Leigh’s Natural +History of Lancashire; Morton’s Natural History of Northamptonshire; +Nash’s History of Worcestershire; Pole’s Collections for the History of +Devonshire; Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire and Staffordshire; +Raine’s North Durham; Surtees’ Durham; Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire; and +Wright’s Rutland. + +The Local Histories which I also noticed, were Bentham’s Ely; Battely’s +Antiquitates Rutupinæ, apparently on large paper; Charlton’s Whitby; +Dart’s History of Canterbury Cathedral, and of Westminster Abbey, +both in folio; Drake’s York; Halfpenny’s Gothic Ornaments in York +Cathedral; Izaacke’s Exeter; the original edition of Kennett’s Parochial +Antiquities; Loggan’s Oxonia and Cantabrigia Illustrata; Lyson’s Environs +of London; Newcourt’s Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Londinense, upon large +paper; Maitland’s Edinburgh; Milner’s History of Winchester; Peck’s +Annals of Stamford; Shaw’s Account of Hartlepool; Stow’s London; Somner’s +Canterbury; Thoresby’s Leeds; Whitaker’s Loidis and Elmete; White’s +Natural History of Selborne; Widmore’s Westminster Abbey; Wood’s History +of the University of Oxford; and Willis’s Cathedrals. + +Allan’s Collections relating to Sherburn Hospital, and other places in +the County of Durham; and Raine’s Account of the Remains of St. Cuthbert +are most appropriately placed upon these shelves. + +In this Collection I also remarked Carter’s Specimens of Gothic +Architecture; Ducarel’s Anglo-Norman Antiquities; Madox’s Formulare +Anglicanum, and History of the Exchequer; and Archdall’s Monasticon +Hibernicanum; the Archælogia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to +Antiquity, published by the Antiquarian Society of London, at various +times, in 4to.; Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, Origines Judiciales; +Summons of the Nobility to Parliament; and his Baronage of England, in +folio, are also deposited within these walls. + +The Heraldic Works which adorn these shelves are, Ashmole’s Order of the +Garter; Collins’s Peerage and Baronage; Gwillim’s Heraldry; Sandford’s +Genealogical History of the Kings of England, &c.; and others of less +note. + +The Chronological Works which met my eye, were, Bedford’s Scripture +Chronology; Blair’s Chronology and History of the World; Petavii +Rationale Temporum; and Hale’s valuable Analysis of Chronology; “in +which an attempt is made to explain the history and antiquities of the +primitive nations of the world, and the prophecies relating to them, +on principles tending to remove the imperfection and discordance of +preceding systems.” + +The Numismatic Works I noticed, were, Folkes’ Coins; Vaillant’s +Numismata; and Ruding’s valuable Annals of the Coinage. + +There are several Mythological Treatises, of which Spence’s Polymetis is +the chief. + +In Works of Natural History, this Collection is enriched by the Works of +Bacon and Evelyn, and the quarto series of Buffon’s Natural History, in +old French calf binding. + +In Geology, Buckland’s Reliquiæ Diluvianæ; Conybeare’s Geology; and the +Transactions of the Geological Society are found on these shelves. + +The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London; Watson’s +Chemical Essays; Albin’s Natural History of Birds and Insects; and Wood’s +Index Testacealogicus, also enrich this department of the Library. + +In Botany, I observed Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary and Figures of +Plants; Morison’s Historia Plantarum; Raii Historia Plantarum; and the +Transactions of the Linnæan Society. + +In Medicine, the Works of Hippocrates and Dioscorides may be mentioned. + +Of Works relating to the Arts and Sciences, I noticed Horsley’s valuable +edition of Newton’s Works; Wallis’s Mathematical Works; Burney’s History +of Music; Chamber’s Dictionary; the Marmora Oxoniensia; Vitruvius de +Architectura, Venetiis, 1497, folio; Walpole on Painting; and others of +less note. + +The Bibliographical department of this Library includes Astle on Writing; +Catalogues of the Bodleian Library, of the Harleian Collections of the +Manuscripts bequeathed by Archbishop Parker to Corpus Christi College at +Cambridge; and the general Catalogue of Manuscripts in England, Scotland, +and Ireland; Chevillier’s Origine de l’Imprimerie à Paris; Dibdin’s +Bibliographical Decameron, and Introduction to the Classics; Dupin’s +Ecclesiastical Authors; Fabricii Bibliotheca, &c.; Herbert’s edition of +Ames’ Typographical Antiquities of Great Britain; Todd’s Catalogue of +the Manuscripts at Lambeth Palace; Maittaire’s Annales Typographici, +Stephanorum Historia, and Historia Typographiæ Parisiensis; Memoirs of +Literature; Maderus de Bibliothecis, &c.; Nicolson’s English Historical +Library; Stanley’s History of Philosophy; Thuani Bibliotheca, and the +Bibliotheca MS. Stowensis, edited by Dr. O’Conor; Watt’s Bibliotheca +Britannica; and Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses. + +The Etymological Works which enrich this Library are, Cotgrave’s French +and English Dictionary; Davies Dictionary of the Welsh Language; the +Etymologicum Magnum, Calliergi, Venetiis, 1499, folio; Facciolati +Lexicon; Gebelin’s Monde Primitif, in 4to.; Hesychii Lexicon; Hickes’s +Thesaurus Septentrionalis; Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary; Johnson’s +English Dictionary, edited and enlarged by Todd; Lhuyd’s Archæologia +Britannica; Morel’s Dictionarium Prosodiacum; Moreri Dictionarium; +Nares’s Glossary; Scapulæ Lexicon; Skinner’s Etymologicum; Somner’s +Glossary and Saxon Dictionary; Spelman’s Glossary; Stephani Thesaurus +Linguæ Græcæ; Suidæ Lexicon apud Frobenium, 1544, folio; Wolfii Curæ +Philologicæ et Criticæ; and the Glossary of Du Fresne. + +In English Literature this Collection contains so much that is valuable +as to preclude minute enumeration of each separate Work. + +In it the labours of Addison, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Selden and Swift are +blended with the lays of Pope, and Dryden, the latter edited by Scott; +the Philosophical Works of Harris, the Historical Works of Raleigh, the +Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, and of William Shakespeare, form one +instructive and harmonious whole. + +The Memoirs of the ancient Earls of Surrey, Boswell’s ever-amusing +Life of Johnson, Evelyn’s Memoirs, Pepys’s Memoirs, Thoresby’s Diary, +Spelman’s Alfred, Kippis’s Biographia Britannica, Birch’s Heads of +Illustrious Personages, and Chalmers’s Biographical Dictionary, form one +of the most popular branches of this ancient Library. + +Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, and his delightful Lay of the +Last Minstrel, and Walpole’s Works, are also found on these shelves. + +This Library contains the Koran or Mahommedan rule of Faith, several +forms of Prayer and Liturgies of the Romish and Reformed Churches, +including the Pontificale Romanum of 1664, Durandi Rationale Divinorum +Officiorum, and Picart’s valuable Account of the Religious Ceremonies of +all Nations. + +The Statutes at large, and Viner’s Abridgment, Wilkins’s Leges +Anglo-Saxonicæ, Gibson’s Codex Juris Ecclesiastici et Civilis, Nicolson’s +Border Laws, and Coke’s Institutes of the Laws of England, were the only +legal works that arrested my attention. + +In General Literature I can only particularise Bayle’s Dictionary, and +Lowth de Sacrâ Poesi Hebræorum. + +The literary remains of Casaubon, Cave, Le Clerc, Dodwell, Fabricius, +Gataker, Gesner, Jahn, Meursius, Orosius, Parkhurst, Petrarch, Rollin, +Scaliger, and Vossius. + +Of learned Bodies, the Transactions contained in this Library, in +addition to the Philosophical, Linnæan, and Geological Transactions, +include the Memoirs of the Manchester Society and of the Irish Academy, +the Memoires de l’Academie Française, and the Academie des Inscriptions, +both in 4to. the latter retaining its original binding of red morocco, +mellowed by the hand of time. + +The Classical department of this Library is both valuable and extensive, +containing editions of the Works of Ælian, Æschylus, Anacreon, +Apollodorus, Appian, Apuleius, Aristotle, Arrian, Aristides, Athenæus, +Ausonius, Cæsar, Catullus, Demosthenes, Dioscorides, Diodorus Siculus, +Dion Cassius, Dion Chrysostomos, Ennius, Epictetus, Euripides, Eutropius, +Aulus Gellius, Herodian, and Herodotus. + +Of Horace, Iamblichus, Isocrates, Justin, Juvenal, Lucan, Lucian, +Lucretius, Lycophron, Manilius, Martial, Pomponius Mela, Orpheus, Ovid, +Vellius Paterculus, Petronius Arbiter, Phædrus, and Plato. + +Of the elder and the younger Pliny, Plutarch, Polybius, Procopius, +Propertius, Prudentius, Pythagoras, Quintilian, Sedulius, Seneca, +Sidonius Apollinaris, Solinus, Statius, Suetonius, Symmachus, Terence, +Theocritus, Tibullus, Virgil, and Xenophon. + +This brief enumeration may suffice to shew the extent of this class; +while in proof of its value I may adduce many of the best editions of the +Classics, including Alciphron, Bergleri, Ammianus Marcellinus, Gronovii, +1693, folio; Aristophanes Kusteri, Ciceronis Opera, Minutiani, Mediolani, +1498, folio, and Oliveti, Parisiis, 1748, 4to.; Claudianus, Barthii, +Butler’s Æschylus, Beck’s Euripides, Homer by Clarke and Heyne, Plato by +Serranus and Bekker, Dionysius Halicarnassensis by Hudson, Pausanias, +Kühnii, Silius Italicus, Drakenborchii, Sophocles, by Brunck, and many +others too numerous for particular notice. + +I may here, however, notice Flaxman’s elegant Illustrations of Homer and +of Æschylus, the sumptuous folio containing Maii Fragmenta Homeri, and +Middleton’s Life of Cicero. + +Of the earlier Impressions of the Classics it is now high time to speak, +lest the impatient reader should imagine so important a branch of every +collection had escaped attention in this instance. I hasten then to +present to his notice three valuable specimens of the Spira Press. + +First, then, in rarity as in worth, we have a perfect Copy of the First +Edition of Tacitus, with the well-known Colophon of Vindelin de Spira, +but without date. It is supposed, however, to have been printed in the +year 1470. The present copy is sound and fair, measuring eleven and +a half inches by seven and a half, and is bound in old Russia. Then +follows the First Edition of Livy, with a date, it having been printed by +Vindelin de Spira in 1470. This noble folio is apparently in its original +binding, and having several rough leaves, we may conclude it never to +have been shorn of its fair dimensions. It measures, in fact, sixteen +inches by ten and a quarter, but it has been mournfully stained in the +beginning, where is written “D. D. Joannes Tempest. Arm:” The interior +is, however, remarkably sound and fine. + +Next we have, from the same printer, a Latin version of Strabo, a very +sound copy with some illuminated capitals. It bears the date of 1472, +with an intimation at its close, in Latin verse, that its characters +were “Impressos digitis Vindelianis.” It measures fifteen inches by ten +and a half, and is bound in old calf. By the side of the foregoing is +appropriately placed a Latin Version of Herodotus, having the Preface at +the end: according to the Colophon it was printed Venetiis, per Jacobum +Rubeum, 1474, folio. It measures eleven inches and three fifths by eight, +and is bound in calf. We may next notice a very fine and sound copy of +the Etymologicum Magnum, from the Press of Calliergus at Venice, of the +date of 1499. This noble folio measures fifteen inches and a quarter +by ten and seven eighths, and is bound in dark calf. A beautiful copy +of the Aldine Plutarch of 1509, in two volumes folio, measuring eleven +inches and three fifths by seven and a half, bound in light calf; and a +copy of Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiæ, printed by John Koelhof of +Lubeck at Cologne in 1482, folio, as fresh as if it had just issued from +the press, next demand our attention. The latter Work is bound with an +old Manuscript of some portion of Thomas Aquinas, but there is another +edition of 1481, in 4to. from the same press, also in this Collection, +though not in such “crackling” condition as that I have just mentioned. I +proceed to notice a Latin translation of Aristotle’s Ethics, printed by +Conrad Braen in the University of Louvain, in 1476, folio. This volume is +in very fine condition, but is unfortunately imperfect at the end. Also a +thick folio volume, containing the following pieces:— + +1. Diodori Siculi Historiarum Libri VII. Latinè Poggio Florentino +Interprete, per Bartholomæum Merula Venetiis, per Joannem de Tridino, +1496. + +2. Ovidius de arte amandi, et de remedio amoris. Venetiis, per Barthol. +Merula, 1516. + +3. Horatius cum Commentariis Acronis, &c. Venetiis, 1494. Imperfect at +the end. + +4. Persius cum Commentariis, &c. Brixiæ, per Johannem Britannicum, 1486. + +5. Francisci Philelphi Epistolæ. XVII. Venetiis, per Joannem de Tridino, +1498. + +Having thus surveyed the earlier efforts of the Italian press, it remains +to notice the productions of the first English printers, preserved in +this Collection. + +These rude and curious pieces are all contained in one small thick 4to. +volume, bound in old calf, and lettered merely “CAXTON.” The bookbinder +seems in this instance to have misled the accurate Thomas Rud, who +from his manuscript notes contained in the volumes, evidently seems +to consider all its contents as the work of the Father of the English +Press; a mistake which the adoption of Caxton’s typographical insignia +by his immediate successor, Wynkyn de Worde, would naturally induce in +one unacquainted with all those mysteries of black letter which the +nineteenth century has developed. The Author of the Bibliographical +Decameron has not failed to remark, III. 422, the difference of the type, +and has correctly recorded its contents; his only inaccuracy consisting +in the assertion that the second piece from the press of Caxton is +perfect. + +The Volume itself contains five Treatises; three from the press of +Caxton, originally published together, and two from that of Wynkyn de +Worde, formerly printed separately. The Caxtonian morceaux occupy the +first portion, whereof: + +1. “The first treatyse is named Orologium Sapientiæ;” consisting of seven +chapters, and concluding thus: “Thus endeth the Treatyse of vii poyntes +of true love, and everlasting wisdom drawen of the boke that is wryten +in Laten named Orologium Sapiencie.” “Emprynted at Westmynster.” “Qui +legit emendet, i̅pressorem non reprehendat.” “Wyllelmum Caxton cui Deus +alta tradat.” This first Treatise wants three sheets out of twelve; viz. +K J (they are so misplaced, and J wants three leaves) and M. In the place +of L there is put A, the first sheet of the second Treatise. This first +Treatise begins upon sign. J iii, all the preceding pages having perished. + +2. The second Tract commences with these words: “Here beginneth a little +short treatise, &c.,” and concluding with, “Thus endeth the treatise +shewing the vii Proffites of tribulacyon.” On the reverse of the last +leaf is the large device of Caxton. This Treatise contains XII. Chapters, +but it wants two leaves in D, and sheet A is bound up with the preceding +Treatise of the Orologium Sapientiæ. + +3. “The thyrde treatise sheweth the holy rule of Saynt Benet which +is right necessary to be knowen to al men and wymen of religion that +understonde no laten which sheweth XXXIII poyntes to be observed.” +“Emprinted at Westmynstre by desiring of certeyn worshipfull persones.” +The first two leaves of this third Treatise are wanting. + +All these three Tracts of “divers fruitful and ghostly matters,” are in +the same rude Gothic type which was frequently used by Caxton. + +The two following Tracts are printed from a fount of black letter quite +dissimilar to the preceding, but corresponding with that which is seen in +the earliest productions of Wynkyn de Worde. + +The first Treatise, reprinted verbatim from Caxton’s edition, is: + +1. Of the four last things, Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven, translated +from the French by Antony, Earl Rivers, &c. + + “Registrum quaterno ℞ + a b c d e f g h i k l m.” + +Below the subscription just quoted is the small device of Caxton as used +by Wynkyn de Worde; and on the following leaf is the wood-cut subscribed +“Memorare Novissima,” by which name this Tract is commonly known. The +Work itself consists of eighty-eight leaves, numbered i to lxxxviii. +exclusive of the two containing the table and the Prologue, and of the +title and last leaf. It is printed in double columns of black letter, and +the present copy is defective only in the title. + +2. The second Treatise in the Gothic character of Wynkyn de Worde is “The +Rote or Myrrour of Consolation and Comforte,” commencing with a Wood-cut +of the elevation of the Host on sign. A i. + +This Book unfortunately lacks its latter half; “for whereas the author +proposes to speak of twenty fruits or Consolations of Tribulation, the +last ten, with part of the eleventh, are wanting,” remarks Thomas Rud in +his most neat and legible Manuscript Notes, and it is with a sigh that +succeeding librarians concur in the accuracy of his observations, seeing +that this Tract is one of the most uncommon productions of De Worde’s +Press. + +Of other early printed English Books I remarked a copy of Lydgate’s +Bocace, printed by Richard Tottel, without date, bound up with Gower’s +Confessio Amantis, printed by Berthelet in 1554, both in folio, and in +their pristine state, albeit a little scribbled on. + +Apropos of scribbling, this Library contains Tonstall’s own copy of +Budæus de Asse, printed at Paris in 1508, folio, with his autographic +mark of ownership, “Sum Tonstalli,” being the very book he used in +composing his Treatise, De arte Supputandi, and containing the manuscript +notes made by him on its perusal. This interesting copy is, however, +unfortunately, imperfect at the end. There is also another edition of the +Works of Budæus, with the Commentaries of Ascensius, bearing date 1529, +also in folio; and Tonstall’s own Work, De Arte Supputandi, 1522, 4to. + +In this Collection is a copy of the celebrated French Testament by the +Theologians of Louvain, in which “The Mass” is interpolated in Acts xiii. +and “Purgatory,” in 1 Cor. iii: printed at Bordeaux, 1686. + +I remarked a fine old folio, Lyndewode’s Provinciale, with the date of +M.CCCCXXXIII, instead of 1483, the numeral L having evidently lapsed +through the carelessness of the printer, as in the famous Decor Puellarum +of Nicolas Jenson. By the side of this stands another copy of the +Provinciale, with the date of 1501, also in folio. + +In General Literature, I can only particularise Bayle’s Dictionary, +Gruter’s Inscriptions, Picart’s Religious Ceremonies, Chandler’s Marmora +Oxoniensia, and Vaillant’s Numismata, recommending to those who wish for +further information, ocular inspection of the books themselves. + +The 520 Manuscripts in this Collection are all which remain of that +ancient Library, whose foundation is coeval with that of the Cathedral +itself, and whose treasures were augmented with the power and influence +of the Church of Durham. The monotonous existence of the monk was +enlivened by the diligence of the scribe, whose marginal drolleries and +quaint devices relieve the weary eye, and remind us of the recreations +of the Cloister. + +The volumes thus accumulated must have been of essential service in +diffusing over the wide district of Northumbria the light of knowledge +and the blessings of religion. The seven Cells of Durham, at Holy Island, +Wearmouth, Jarrow, and the Farn Islands, at Litham in Lancashire, and +Stamford in Northamptonshire, appear to have partaken largely of these +advantages. + +Upon the suppression of the Monasteries whose revenues were under 200_l._ +a-year, by the 27th of Henry the Eighth, many of the books which belonged +to the Church of Durham were removed by royal command, and are now to be +found in the British Museum. The most valuable of these spolia “opima” +appears to have been St. Cuthbert’s Copy of the Gospels, now in that vast +repository. + +Of the Manuscripts which remain at Durham, Thomas Rud, sometime Librarian +of that Cathedral, compiled a most accurate Catalogue, which has been +ably edited by the Rev. James Raine, the present Librarian. This +Impression was taken off for the use of the ecclesiastical body to whom +the Manuscripts belong, only fifty copies being exposed for public sale. +As the volume is not in everybody’s hands, although easily attainable, I +have given its title, as it runneth, thus: + +“Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Dunelmensis Catalogus +Classicus, descriptus à Thoma Rud, ejusdem ecclesiæ bibliothecario; cum +Appendice eos Codices continente qui post Catalogum confectum diversis +temporibus comparati sunt. Dunelmiæ, excudebat F. Humble, prostat venalis +apud G. Andrews, venit etiam Londini apud Payne and Foss, 1825.” + +The Appendix of Manuscripts purchased by the Dean and Chapter of Durham +at different periods since Mr. Rud compiled his Catalogue is entirely +from the pen of Mr. James Raine, and renders this workmanlike folio a +most useful companion to the Library. + +There are two ancient Catalogues of the Manuscripts preserved in this +Library; the one entitled, “Vetus Catalogus Librorum qui in Armariolo +Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Dunelmensis olim habebantur.”[13] The other was +compiled in 1391, continued in 1395, and concluded in 1416, with a note +at the end of a few books sent in 1422 to Stamford for the use of the +Cell there. This volume is written upon vellum, in folio, and is bound in +calf. Its title is as follows:— + + “Le Spendement.” + +“Isti libri infrascripti inventi fuerunt in com̅uni Armariolo Dunelm. +infra Spendimentum in recessu ffratris dn̅i Roberti de Langscheff’ ab +officio librarie ad offic’ fferetrarie. Et liberati ffatri Will’mo de +Appelby circa festum purific’ beate Virginis Marie Anno dn̅i Milessimo. +ccc. nonagesimo primo.”[14] + +Of this volume seventeen leaves appear to have been written in 1391, +sixteen in 1395, and the remaining eleven in 1416. Its contents are +extremely interesting, as shewing in what the literature of that +period consisted, and affording abundant evidence of the interchange +of information which then subsisted not only between Durham and its +dependant Cells, but also between that place and Oxford, and other seats +of learning. + +These considerations induced the author of the present work to +superintend the publication of this document by the Surtees Society, +whose object is to throw light upon the literary history of Northumbria, +and to facilitate the study of antiquity from the Humber to the Tweed. + +In this Catalogue the first word of the second leaf are specified +as certain indicia by which different transcripts of the same Codex +may be distinguished from each other; and it is pleasant to find at +this distance of time, a Membranaceous Evangelistarium, seu “Quatuor +Evangelia de manu Bede ii fo. Baptizatus,” answering with the first +word of its second leaf “Baptizatus” to the indication in this ancient +Catalogue. Partly in the same handwriting also appears, “Cassiodorus +super Psalterium de manu Bedæ,” whereof the best account I can give will +be in the ipsissima verba of the sagacious Thomas Rud: “Pulchrè scriptus +est hic Codex lineis divisis, literis mediocribus Saxonicis; et quidem +ipsius Venerabilis Bedæ manu, si fides habenda est huic notæ in fronte +libri positæ: ‘Cassiodorus sup. Psalterium de manu bede.’ Est quidem hæc +nota libro ipso multo recentior; neque scripta, ut videtur, ante annos +400: Sed indicat saltem quodnam fuerit Monachorum Dunelmensium eo tempore +de hoc Codice judicium: quidquid illis de eâ re traditum fuit. Neque +sanè temerè rejicienda est hujusmodi traditio. Dunelmenses enim Monachi, +qui Girvensium (e quorum numero Beda fuit) propago fuere, quique summâ +veneratione illius memoriam colebant, melius quam ulli alii Vitæ ejus +historiam rescire poterant. + +“Et quidem ipsa Codicis Scriptura ad eam ætatem assurgere videtur.” +And after giving his reasons for this opinion, adds, “Si autem a Beda +descriptus sit, fecit id ille proculdubio Juvenis adhuc; priusquam +accingeret se ad libros (quos plurimos scripsit) suo Marte componendos. +Itaque assurgere videtur hic Codex ad initium sæculi octavi; mortuus +est enim Beda, sexagenario major, A.D. 735. Habet itaque minimum mille +annos.”[15] + +It may be imagined that, under the impression that the handwriting of the +Venerable Bede was actually before my eyes, I turned over the leaves of +these ancient volumes with little less veneration than that with which I +handled the Codex Bezæ in the Public Library at Cambridge. + +Among the other ancient Manuscripts of this Monastic Library, are +found several Latin Bibles, particularly one by St. Jerome in four +large volumes, many portions of the Holy Scriptures, several Psalters, +Kalendars, and a Missal, together with numerous Glosses, Concordances, +Commentaries, and Homilies, by various authors. + +It may be here remarked that the oldest Manuscript in the Library is a +Latin Ritual, A. iv. 19,[16] written, according to Wanley,[17] by the +same hand which penned St. Cuthbert’s Copy of the Gospels, now in the +British Museum.[18] There is also a copy of John, Luke and Mark, A. II. +17,[19] of nearly equal antiquity, which doubtless formed a part of the +original Monastic Library of Lindisfarne. + +The mass of Theological Literature is necessarily great, but a few of the +leading names will suffice to indicate its importance, finding as we do +in this truly venerable Collection, the Works of St. Ambrose, St. Anselm, +Thomas Aquinas, St. Athanasius, St. Augustine, Bede, St. Chrysostom, St. +Cyprian, Eusebius, St. Jerome, Gregory, Isidore, Origen, Tertullian, and +of many other Heads and Fathers of the Church. + +A Copy of so much of Lyra’s Commentary as refers to the Pentateuch, +and other historical books of the Old Testament, from Genesis to the +beginning of Job, written by William de Stiphel in the year 1386,[20] +affords decidedly the best specimen of what could be done in Durham in +the way of Illumination at that period. The remaining part of Lyra’s +Commentary forms a separate volume, A. I. 4, and was written by a Monk of +the name of Borrowby. + +Of Classical Literature the list is not so copious. It can, however, +boast of the names of Aristotle and Plato, the former accompanied by the +Commentaries of Averrois, also of Boethius and Prudentius, of Galen and +Hippocrates, together with all the Epigrams of Martial, the Proverbs of +Seneca, Suetonius de Vita Cæsarum, C. III. 18, which has been collated +by Mr. Rud in the Classical Journal, Vol. ix. pp. 143 and 386; and a few +pieces of Cicero. + +There is of course much interesting matter relating to English History, +and especially to that of the Palatinate and Church of Durham, in those +Manuscripts, to say nothing of original Charters, and other valuable +documents. There are also some Ecclesiastical and Scholastic Histories. + +To a particular account of the Benedictine order may be added the +Lives of Gildas and St. Oswald, and among other illustrations of early +English History, may be mentioned Nennii Historia Britonum; Genealogiæ +Regum Saxonicorum in Britanniâ; Series Chronologica cum brevi Historiâ +Episcoporum Angliæ and the Cronica Britannie à Bruto ad annum 1347. + +The Works of Josephus are the last of these ancient Manuscripts I now +propose to notice, and proceed to consider the additions made by the +Dean and Chapter to this their most ancient Library, especially as these +happen to include a work of singular interest with relation to the +Church of Durham. The title of this Manuscript runneth thus, “Reginaldi +Monachi Dunelmensis Libellus Autograph. de admirandis Beati Cuthberti +Virtutibus quæ novellis patratæ sunt temporibus, scilicet post Bedam; +scriptus ad Ætheldredum Abbatum Rhievallensem.” circa annum 1170. +The entire Work contains 140 Chapters, a complete abstract of which +may be seen in Appendix to the Catalogue of the MSS. of the Dean and +Chapter, p. 399-411. “The publication of Reginald,” observes Mr. Raine, +“notwithstanding his absurdities, would throw much light upon the history +of the northern counties, connected with a period, relative to which the +sources of information are so few.” It has been with great propriety +selected as one of the earliest publications of the Surtees Society. + +The Manuscripts purchased by the Dean and Chapter consists chiefly of +Transcripts by Dr. Hunter, of Records relating to the See of Durham, and +of Collections relating to the Churches of Northumberland, by the same +hand. + +These, together with Dr. Basire’s Letters, and other original and +miscellaneous documents, chiefly relating to Durham, collected and +indexed by Dr. Hunter,[21] as well as the copy of Reginald already +mentioned; and some other papers of lesser note were purchased of the +Executors of Dr. Hunter, in 1756, for 40 guineas. To these were added in +1823, the Historical, Heraldic, and Topographical Collections relating to +Durham, formed by the late Mr. Allan, of Grange, which were sold by his +son to the Dean and Chapter for £150, together with the “Collectanea ad +Statum Civilem et Ecclesiasticum Comitatus Dunelmensis, &c. spectantia,” +formed by the Rev. Thomas Randall, and by him bequeathed to the late Mr. +Allan, of Grange.[22] + +If to the above be added a Collection of the Statutes of several Colleges +and Cathedrals, a tolerably correct idea may be formed of all the +additions made to the ancient Manuscripts belonging to the Church of +Durham. + +The curious reader will learn with pleasure, that in the private Library +attached to the Episcopal Palace will be found a valuable Manuscript of +the Poems of Chaucer. + +In conclusion, I may be forgiven for mentioning another book, though not +immediately connected with the Library. I mean, “Saint Cuthbert, with an +account of the state in which his remains were found upon the opening of +his Tomb in Durham Cathedral, in the year 1827, by the Rev. James Raine, +_M.A._ Rector of Meldon, Principal Surrogate of the Consistory Courts +of Durham, and Librarian of Durham Cathedral. Durham, printed by F. +Humble, 1828,” 4to. Of this Work fifty copies were taken off upon large +paper, some of which Mr. Thomson, an ingenious upholsterer of Durham, is +now engaged in illuminating after the original Lawson MS. Life of St. +Cuthbert, by Bede, and the relics of that Saint now preserved in the +Library. + +Much of the preliminary matter of this Work might have been spared, being +already incorporated in the History of North Durham, upon which Mr. Raine +has been for some time engaged, and of which the first portion is already +before the public. + +Undoubtedly Mr. Raine has given to the world the most rational account of +Saint Cuthbert which has hitherto appeared, and has completely exploded +the superstitious tale of the incorruptibility of his body. + +In an age remarkable for credulity, it was not surprising that a story, +however contrary to experience, should be generally believed; but the +present admirable illustration of the writings of Reginald and Bede has +traced the mortal remains of the Patron Saint of Durham through all their +several stages, and thrown the clearest light upon all the doubtful +points connected with the history of Saint Cuthbert. + +It is much to be regretted that the interesting investigation Mr. Raine +has so minutely detailed, was conducted with so much precipitancy, and +without previous information obtained from the Manuscript of Reginald. + +This most valuable document, of which Mr. Raine has subsequently made +such good use, is, I think, in his narrative rather too far separated +from the corroboration which the actual examination so happily affords +it; for the ordinary reader, bearing in his mind the interesting passages +in italics, looks forward so impatiently for the opening of the tomb as +to wish the accumulation of relics at St. Cuthbert’s shrine had been +somewhat less, and be tempted to skip at once from page 117 to 171. +Valuable to the local antiquary as are the details furnished by these +pages, I cannot help so far concurring with the ignorant impatience +manifested above, as to suggest that a very considerable portion of +the records relative to the shrine of St. Cuthbert might have been +transferred to the Appendix, without any chance of diminishing the +popularity of the Work itself. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Ely. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Ely is contained in a commodious +and well lighted apartment, formed by the enclosure of the east aisle of +the Cathedral for that purpose in 1814. + +The books are all placed upon open shelves, and are chiefly attired in +the dusky garb of former years, with paper labels on their backs, and are +protected from damp by the heat of a stove. + +This Collection is placed under the care of the Rev. George Millers, one +of the Minor Canons of the Cathedral, whose diligence is attested by a +printed Catalogue, under the following title: “Catalogus Librorum qui in +Bibliothecâ Cathedralis Eliensis adservantur. 1815.” + +In this volume the books are briefly, yet correctly enumerated under +the several departments of knowledge to which they relate. That of +Theology is, as might naturally be expected, the most copious, occupying +69 pages, out of the 138 of which the entire volume is composed. With +this important feature in the Library, I will commence my account of its +contents, giving precedence to the impressions of the Sacred Volume, the +most remarkable of which are + + Walton’s Polyglott, with Castell’s Lexicon. + + Kennicott’s Hebrew Bible. + + Vetus Testamentum Gr. è Codice Alexandrino, curâ Grabe. Oxonii, + 1707-19, 2 vols. folio. + + Vetus Testamentum Gr. LXX, ed. Holmes, &c. Oxon. 1804, &c. 6 + vols. folio. + + Novum Testamentum, è Th. Beza. Cantab. 1642, folio. + + Novum Testamentum, Millii. Oxonii, 1707, folio. + + Novum Testamentum, Westeinii. Amst. 1751, 2 vols. folio. + + Novum Testamentum, è Codice Alexandrino, curâ Woide. Lond. + 1786, folio. + + Biblia Latina, Castalionis. Basil. 1551, folio. + + Biblia Latina, Tremellii & Junii. Hanov. 1624, fol. + +with several English versions of the Bible, of little note, and none +earlier than 1607. + +I must not however omit to mention the Acta Apostolorum Gr. et Lat. +literis majusculis è Codice Laudiano, edente Thoma Hearne, Oxonii, 1715, +roy. 8vo. Of Biblical Commentators, the number is very great; but the +names of Le Clerc, Erasmus, Prideaux, Kidder, Patrick, Lowth, Whitby, +Pococke, Michaelis, Pearce, Stanhope, and Macknight, may be selected +as fit representations of the crowd from which they have been taken. +The Critici Sacri and Pole’s Synopsis are of course included in this +department. + +Of Concordances it may be sufficient to mention those of Buxtorf, +Stephens, and Taylor; and of Liturgies there are several examples, from +the Romish Ritual to the English Common Prayer. + +Of the Fathers of the Church, this Library may boast of a copious and +valuable selection, including the Works of SS. Ambrose, Athanasius, +Augustine, Basil, Benedict, Bernard, Chrysostom, Clement, Cyprian, Cyril, +Epiphanius, Eusebius, the Gregories, Jerome, Irenæus, Isidore, and +Justin Martyr, together with those of Lactantius, Origen, Philo Judæus, +Tertullian, and Theodoret. To which may be added, + + Cotelerii, SS. Patrum Apostolicorum Opera, edente Clerico. + Amst. 1724, 2 vols. folio. + + Grabii Spicilegium, SS. Patrum, &c. Oxon. 1699, 8vo. + + Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers. Lond. 1710, 8vo. + + Cave’s Lives of the Primitive Fathers, &c. Lond. 1683-4, in 3 + vols. folio. + +Of Theological Writers during the later ages, the Works contained in this +Library are so numerous, and many of the names of so little note, that I +will not fatigue the reader by attempting to recount them. + +Among the Latin Authors, I may mention Thomas Aquinas, Bellarmine, +Bochart, Bull, Calvin, Grotius, Limborch, and Pearson; and among the +Works of English Divines, may give precedence to those of Barrow, +Bingham, Bramhall, Chillingworth, Clarke, Fleetwood, Hall, Hammond, +Jackson, Jewell, Leslie, Lightfoot, Mede, Jeremy Taylor, and Tillotson. +Of the other Theological Works, I may adduce those of Addison, Allix, +Balguy, Bentley, Boyle, Burnet, Butler, Conybeare, Hervey, Hoadley, +Hooker, Hooper, Jewel, Kettlewell, Leland, Lowth, Patrick, Sherlock, +Stillingfleet, Usher, and Warburton, as a fair specimen of the whole. +In conclusion, a few French Works on Divinity, and a formidable phalanx +of Sermons by various authors, bring up the rear of this section of the +Library. + +In this place it may be right to mention the Synopsis Canonum of Howel, +and Beveregii Pandectæ Canonum, together with the Concilia Generalia of +Labbe, &c. the Concilia Britannica of Spelman, and the Concilia Magnæ +Britanniæ et Hiberniæ of Wilkins. These three last-mentioned Works +naturally lead us to the Works connected with Ecclesiastical History, +which are found in this Collection. Among these I may enumerate + + Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici. Paris. 1609-59, 12 vols. folio. + + Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica Anglicana. Cantab. 1722, folio. + + Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica. Paris. 1678, folio. + + Gibson’s Codex Juris Ecclesiastici. Lond. 1713, 2 vols. folio. + + Godwin de Præsulibus Angliæ. Cantab. 1743, fol. + + Josephi Opera Omnia. Genevæ, 1611, folio. + + Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. Lond. 1716, fol. + + Parker de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ. Lond. 1729, folio. + + Usserii Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates. Lond. 1687, + folio. + + Whartoni Anglia Sacra. Lond. 1691, 2 vols. folio. + + Stillingfleet, Origines Britannicæ. Lond. 1685, fol. + + Burnet’s History of the Reformation. Lond. 1679-1715, 3 vols. + folio. + + Strype’s Annals of the Reformation. Lond. 1709-25, 2 vols. + folio. And + + Fox’s Acts and Monuments of the Church. Lond. 1684, 3 vols. + folio. Which with + +The Church History of Britain by Cressy, Collier, Fuller, Inett, and +Lloyd; the Ecclesiastical Histories of Du Pin, Echard, Milner, and +Mosheim, together with Spotiswood’s History of the Church of Scotland, +form the principal features of this department. + +In Works of General History this Collection is not rich. It possesses, +however, Heylyn’s Cosmography, the History of the World by Howell, and +Raleigh, the Ancient and Modern Universal History, Mitford’s History of +Greece, the Roman Histories of Hooke and Ferguson, Maurice’s Hindostan, +and Indian Antiquities, Du Halde’s China, and the Turkish History by +Knolles and Rycaut. + +As helps to History, I may notice the Chronology of Newton, and Playfair, +and the Geography of Cellarius, Cluverius, Strabo, and Wells, together +with the travels of Chandler, Pennant, Ray, and Spon. + +As important adjuncts to History, I may also mention several works of +Antiquities, but none of sufficient importance to merit particular +enumeration, and a few Numismatic Works, including Arbuthnot’s Tables +of Coins, and Fleetwood’s Chronicon Preciosum; also the following +Biographical Works:—Strype’s Lives; Kippis’s Biographia Britannica; +Walton’s Lives; Fuller’s Worthies; Holland’s Heröologia Anglica; Wood’s +Athenæ Oxoniensis; Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography; Bowers’s Lives +of the Popes; and the General Biographical Dictionary. + +In Works relating to the History and Antiquities of England, this +Library is fortunate in possessing the Histories of England by Milton, +Kennett, Rapin, Hume, Smollett, and Adolphus, Rushworth’s Historical +Collections; Whitelocke’s Memorials; Clarendon’s Rebellion; Baker’s +Chronicle; Lyttelton’s Henry II.; Herbert’s Henry VIII.; Carleton’s +Letters; Davies’s Celtic Researches; Triveti Annales Sex, curâ Hall, +Oxon. 1719, 8vo.; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum, Francof. +1601, folio.; Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana, edente Wats, Lond. 1684; +Gale and Fell, Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores XV. Oxon. 1684-91, 3 vols. +folio; Sheringham de Anglorum gentis origine, Cantabr. 1670, 8vo.; +Bates, Elenchus Motuum, Lond. 1663, 8vo.; and the Fructus Temporum, with +the Chronycles of Englonde, Imprynted at London by Wynkyn de Worde, +1520, folio; together with the following valuable Pieces, edited by the +indefatigable Thomas Hearne:— + + Gulielmi Neubrigensis Chronica Rerum Anglicarum. Oxon. 1719, 3 + vols. 8vo. + + Hearne’s Textus Roffensis. Oxonii, 1720, 8vo. + + Roberti de Avesbury, Historia Edvardi III. Oxon. 1720, 8vo. + + Thomæ Sprotti Chronica. Oxonii, 1719, 8vo. + + Joannis de Fordun. Scoti Chronicon. Oxonii, 1722, in 5 vols. + 8vo. upon large paper. + + Titi Livii Foro-Judiensis Vita Henrici V. Oxon. 1726, 8vo. + +To which may be added all the works published under the authority of the +Record Commission, which are presented as they appear to every Cathedral +Library. + +Among the Works relating to British Antiquities, those most deserving +of notice are, Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence; +Hearne’s Discourses, Oxford, 1720, 8vo.; Willis’s Mitred Abbies and +Cathedral Churches; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica by Nasmith, 1744; +Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, Lond. 1755-61-73, in 3 vols. folio; +Camdeni Britannica by Gibson; Sammes’s Antiquities of Ancient Britain; +Stukeley’s Palæographia Britannica; Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ; +Stow’s London; Morton’s Northamptonshire; Gunton’s Peterborough +Cathedral; Dart’s Canterbury Cathedral; Bentham’s Ely, both editions: +Millers’ Ely Cathedral, both editions; Masters’s Corpus Christi College, +Cambridge; Lewis’s Isle of Tenet; and Borlase’s Cornwall. + +In English Literature this Collection does not present anything worthy +of notice. It contains, however, the Works of Pope, Swift, Addison, +and Goldsmith, the series of British Essayists in 12mo. the Plays of +Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Congreve and Dryden, the Poems of +Chaucer, Cowley, Milton, Prior, Spenser and Waller, and Butler’s Hudibras. + +Of Classical Literature, however, the Collection is much more copious, +embracing all the most esteemed authors, though it can boast none of +the first, and few of the best editions, unless Hierocles, Gr. & Lat. +Curterii, Plinii Historia Naturalis Harduini, Athenæus Casauboni, +Demosthenes Taylori, Stanley’s Æschylus, Barnes’s Euripides, & Potter’s +Lycophron, be considered as exceptions to the latter part of the above +remark. + +Of the principal Works in Classic Literature, the following seem to me +chiefly deserving of notice. + + Antoninus, Gatakeri. Cant. 1652, 4to. + + Aristotelis Opera, Du Valli. Paris. 1629, 2 vols. fol. + + Ciceronis Opera, Lambini. Lutet. 1572-8, 8 v. 8vo. + + Ammianus Marcellinus, Gronovii. Lugd. Bat. 1693, 4to. + + Homeri Opera, cum Comment. Eustathii. Basil. 1559, 3 vols. fol. + + Demosthenes, Æschines et Isocrates, Wolfii. Francof. 1604, & + 1593, folio. + + Longinus, Toupii & Ruhnkenii. Oxonii, 1778, 4to. + + Platonis Opera, Serrani. Paris. 1578, 3 vols. folio. + + Thucydides, Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1696, folio. + + Sallustius Historiæ à Waffe. Cantab. 1710, 4to. + + Poetæ Græci Principes à Stephano. Paris. 1566, fol. + + Corpus Poetarum Latinorum à Maittaire. Lond. 1713, 2 vols. + folio; and a considerable number of the Delphin Classics. + +Of Etymological Works, so closely connected with the preceding +department, this Collection contains Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon, the Greek +Lexica of Scapula, Hederic, Hesychius and Suidas, Stephani Thesaurus +utriusque Linguæ, Hickes’s Thesaurus Septentrionalis, the Glossary of Du +Fresne, Cotgrave’s French and English Dictionary, Lluyd’s Archæologia +Britannica. Oxon. 1707, folio; Spelmanni Glossarium Archæologium, Lond. +1664, folio; Skinneri, Etymologicum Anglicanum, Lond. 1671, folio; with +several Grammars of various languages. + +In conclusion, I may remark that a few Works on Mathematical Science, +and Moral Philosophy, several Works of Jurisprudence, including the +Statutes at large, with a few Works on Bibliography, including Fabricii +Bibliotheca Græca et Latina, and a fair proportion of miscellaneous +authors, make up the complement of the Library attached to the Cathedral +of Ely. + +It will be seen, therefore, from the foregoing remarks, that this +Collection is chiefly of a Theological character, and that it also +contains many valuable Historical Works, particularly such as relate to +English History, and a fair proportion of Classics; though the fastidious +Bibliomaniacs will here look in vain for any Editiones Principes, or for +any other of the earlier efforts of the Press. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Exeter. + + +This venerable Collection was formerly suffered to remain in the Lady +Chapel, exposed to the inroads of idle curiosity, and subject to the +chilling influence of damp and neglect. The Dean and Chapter however at +length became sensible of the duty of affording due protection to the +literary property committed to their care for the benefit of posterity, +and with commendable discretion consigned their Manuscripts to the +care of their Chapter Clerk, and deposited their printed books in the +Chapter-house. + +Of these Manuscripts it will be my province first to speak, both on +account of their curiosity and high antiquity; and for the gratification +of the curious reader have much satisfaction in presenting to him a +literal copy of “A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of the +Cathedral Church of Exeter. Taken from Dean Lyttelton’s and Mr. White’s +Memoranda, examined with the books. September, 1811. + + “RALPH BARNES.” + + 1. Miscellanea Leofrici, &c. Charactere Saxonico. + + 2. Rabanus Maurus de Computo, de variis rebus astronomicis. + Charactere Saxonico. Isidorus Hispalensis de rerum natura. + + 3. Legenda Joan. Grandison. Ep. Exon. in usum Eccl. Cath. Exon. + vol. i. + + 4. Legenda Joan. Grandison. 1328 to 1370, vol. ii. + + 5. Euclidis eleganter scriptus, continens Elementorum Libri xv. + Latinè cum figuris Gordani. 1235, Arith. Libri X. + + Boetii de Musica Lib. v. desinit Lib. v. Cap. 19. + + 6. Missale Vetus, literis illuminatis. + + 7. Historia Polychronica. + + 8. Sermones Dominicales, et Fest’ sup’ Evang’, p. circul’ an’ + per Jac.’ archiep’ Januensem. + + 9. Epistolæ Decret’ Roman’ Pontificum à Clemento Iᵐᵒ. ad + Gregorium Iᵐᵘᵐ. + + 10. Psalterium Vetus Romanum, cum Calendario, et rerum + memorabilium Cronicio. + + 11. Collectanea (Lib. Gallicus) anonyma, Boccaccio de Geneal’ + Deorum. Lib. XIII. + + 12. Pontificale Edmundi Lacy, Ep. Exon. 1420. + + 13. Ricardi Ullerstoni Defensorium. + + 14. Missale Vetus. 4to. + + 15. Miscellanea, Methodius Martyr de fine seculi Genealogia ab + Adamo ad Edw. fil. Hen. Reg. De Adventu Anglorum in Britanniam, + cum genealogia Regum. De Sancto Oswaldo. De Geneal’ Reg’ + Franc’. De Transitu Ven’ Bedæ Speculum Mundi Geneal’ ab Adamo + ad Brutum et ad Cadwalled. ultim’ Reg’ Britan’. Et Geneal’ + ascendens a Grifforio ad Adam, Et a Cyprio ad Brutum. Et Anglo’ + et Normannos. De Longitudine et Latitudine. De Reg’ à Bruto ad + Cadwalled. De Concordia Maris et Lunæ. + + 16. Anselmi Tractatus de Veritate et de libro Arbitrio. De + Casu Diaboli et Epist’ de Incarnatione. Cur Deus Homo? Lib. 2. + De Conceptu Virginali et originali Peccato. De Sacrificio Arymi + et Termentati. Quomodo Grammaticus sit substanter et qualiter. + Abbatis cujusdam Epist’ ad Sanctum sub cujus nomine regit + Ecclesiam. Oratio Monachorum ad S. Benedictum. S. Abrosias + de mysteriis Lanfranci. Dial’ cum Bercagario Lib. Guimundi + de corpore et sang’ Domini. Explicatio fidei Xtianæ. 4to. + imperfect. + + 17. Joannis Scogardi ludicra poemata, cum Epist. ac univers. + Oxon. De Eccles’ B. Mar’ Ottery facta Collegiata. Statuta Eccl. + S. Crucis Crediton, per Tho’ Button, Jo. Grandison, Ed. Lacy. + Exon. Expos. adjut quædam de re medicâ. + + 18. Anonymus de re medicâ. + + 19. Liber Obitualis Custodis et Collegii Vicariorum Eccles’ + Cath’ Exon. Temp. Hen. VI. + + 20. Quæstiones Theologicæ, cum Responsis. + + 21. Liber Obitualis Eccles’ Cath’ Exon. Martyrologium Romanum. + Imperfect. + + 22. Anonymus de Pharmacis, et re medicâ. Breve Compendium xip. + 8 Lib. Physicᵐ. Aristotelis. + + 23. Liber Chartarum et formarum Indent’ adjecta quædam de re + Heraldicâ. + + 24. Treatise of the Power of Godliness, &c. by Joseph Lee, of + Antigua. 1654. + + 25. Leicester’s Commonwealth. (This has been printed.) + + 26. Sermons in Italian, Latin, and Spanish. + + 27. A Brief Collection of Armory, especially of Cornwall and + Devon. + + 28. Calendarium Hispanicum. + + 29. Paraphrasa sopra lo’ Ecclesiastes de Salomoni par Giovan. + Antonio Thenice. + + 30. Statuta Collegii Baliolens’ Oxon. + + 31. A Moderate Examination of the Hugonots’ Doctrine. Caen. + 1590, Translation. + + 32. Miscellanea. Speech delivered to the King by Sheriffs + of London; the Poor Man’s Petition to the King, 1604; the + Catholics’ Supplication to the King; a Speech in French, by + Mons. Fontaine, in behalf of foreigners, with the King’s + answer; Certain Objections answered by Ho. of Com. in behalf + of Francis Godwin; Outlin’d Copy of the King’s Letter to the + Parliament; Objections against changing the style of England + to Great Britain; Sir W. Raleigh’s Letter to the King; Letter + to the King, by Burgess, Prisoner in yᵉ Fleet; Letter from + Inhabitants of yᵉ Citye; Petition of Northamptonshire Gentry; + Petition of Twenty-two Preachers in London, 1605; King’s + Letter to Archbishop of Canterbury; Lord Keeper Ellesmere to + Essex; Earl Marshall’s Answer; King’s Speech in Parliament, + 1605; Advertisements; Paper set up at Warwick, by Papists, on + Execution of Everard Digby; Articles of Peace between England + and Spain, 1605. + +So far numbered by Mr. White. + + 33. Constitutiones Synodales facto anno 1287, per Petrum de + Quivil Exon’ Episcopum, cum Instrumento confirmationis per + Archiepiscopum. + + N. B. This book in Dean Lyttelton’s time was missing, and was + _restored_ to the Church (not given as said in the first leaf + thereof) by Chanter Snow. There is a duplicate in the Exchequer + Chamber. + + 34. Pii Secundi Bulla, cum MSS. additions. } + 35. Quintilianus de Oratore. } MSS. + 36. Geographia. } of + 37. Quæstiones Theologicæ cum Responsis. } little + 38. Tyrocinium logico Aristotelium. } value. + 39. Geometrical Notes on Euclid, &c. } + + 40. Liber Tristram Risdon, being some account of the chief + families in Devon, Dorset, Somerset, and Cornwall, with their + Coats of Arms, &c. + +Books mentioned in Dean Lyttelton’s Catalogue taken from that printed at +Oxford, of the MSS. in the kingdom, p. 55, seq. and which Lyttelton says +were missing at the time he made the Catalogue, circa 1752, one only of +them, Quivil’s Constitutions, was restored in 176- by Chanter Snow. + + 3. Dictionar. seu Glossarium Latinum, mutilum. + + 5. Ciceronis Rhetorica Liber elegantissime scriptus. + + 7. Cicero de fato. somnium Scipionis; Macrobius in somnium + Scipionis; Timæus Platonis adjicitur; Tract.’ de mort. apostol’ + ceu de Pomo. + + 10. G. G. Biblioru’ Lat’ ex vers’ B. Hyeronimi. eheu! Volumina + mutilata. + + 16. Genealogia Reg’ Angl’ et de Gul’ Bastardo et cet’ Regibus + Angl’ succedentibus. + + 17. Dares Phrygius de Historia Trojanorum. + + 18. Historia Britonum translata è Britannicâ linguâ in Latinam. + + 19. Henrici Archidiaconi de Huntingdon Historia Anglorum. + + 20. Historia Ricardi dicti sine timore ducis Normannie, et cet + duc’ succ’. + + 44. Judge Hales’ Speech concerning the Succession of the Crown + in Parliament, on behalf of the Line of Suffolk. Temp. R. Eliz. + + 45. Willielmus Wydford contra conclusiones Joannis Wycklyff. + + 35. Concessio de Stoke Jf. Reg. Adelstano Charact.’ Saxon.’ et + Latino. Membrane. + +MSS. books removed from the Library into the Exchequer Chamber by +Lyttelton, not in the printed Catalogue above referred to. + + 14. Johannes Grandison. Ep. Exon. Ordinale, a Decano et Capillo + approbat.’ 1337, fol. + + 36. Ordinationes Walteri Exon. Episc. super statum Scholarium + de Stapeldon Hall in univers.’ Oxon. per eundem Epiu̅m facta, + et per eosdem Scholarios approbata, 1316. + +This is contained in the end of the book called Ordinations and Statutes, +fo. 178 to 182. + + 37. Statuta et Consuetudines Eccles’ Exon. cum Calendario + Veteri. fol. + + 39. A Transcript of Domesday for Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset. + 2 vols. 4to. + + 40. Inventarium Jocalium omnium Bonorum Librorum Eccles. Cath. + Exon. anno 1506. + +MSS. books removed from the Library to the Exchequer Chamber by R. +Barnes, 1811. + + 1. Miscellanea Leofrici, &c. Charactere Saxonico. + + 2. Saxon MSS. + + 3, 4. Legenda. Grandison. 2 volumes. + + 19. Liber Obitualis Vicariorum Eccl. Cath. Exon. + + 21. Liber Obitualis Eccl’ Cath’ Exon. + + 6. Missale Vetus Literis illuminatis. + +I need scarcely remind any reader at all conversant with matters of +high antiquity, that the principal portion of these Manuscripts are +written upon vellum; but I may add for the information of the curious +bibliophilist that many of them retain their pristine covertures, +whether of parchment or of wood, and that some are adorned with elegant +illuminations. + +Much as I regretted to notice how much these valuable documents have been +injured by previous neglect, and are still suffering from the dampness of +the chamber in which they are kept; it afforded me abundant consolation +to discover that of the Manuscripts mentioned by Lyttelton, as missing in +his time, the most interesting and most valuable were still extant. These +are in the order of the Catalogue. + + 16. Genealogia Reg’ Angl’ et de Gul’ Bastardo, et cet’ Regibus + Angl’ succedentibus. + + 17. Dares Phrygius de Historia Trojanorum. + + 18. Historia Britonum translata è Britannicâ linguâ in Latinam. + + 19. Henrici Archdiaconi de Huntingdon Historia Anglorum. + + 20. Historia Ricardi dicti sine timore ducis Normanniæ, et cet + duc’ succ’. + +All which are contained in a single volume, which Mr. Petrie esteemed +among the most important in the Collection. + +Exceeding these documents both in antiquity and importance, the +venerable, and undoubtedly original transcript of the Domesday Book +relating to the counties of Cornwall, Somerset, and Devon, demands +the peculiar attention of the literary antiquary and of the professed +historian. + +This General Survey was taken locally, and of the original inquisitions +so made, no copies are believed to exist. In the Exeter Domesday, +the lands of each person, wherever situate are entered, occasionally +in different hands, under his name, and where the possessions of +an individual were large he appears to have had a libellus wholly +allotted to himself. Three scribes appear to have been employed in the +transcription of this ancient record, in which it is very remarkable, +entries are invariably made of the stock of deer, sheep, oxen, &c. +upon the lands described. Now as these particulars are omitted in the +Exchequer Domesday, probably as much for the sake of brevity as on +account of the perishable nature of the animals themselves, and as this +minute enumeration could only have resulted from an actual survey, it +appears to me that this portion of the Domesday Book may boast of at +least as high antiquity as the entire record deposited in the archives of +the Exchequer at London. + +In arranging the fasciculi of the Exon Domesday in their proper order, +Mr. Barnes had the mortification of observing that at p. 233, a single +leaf had been abstracted, which he recorded in 1810. Subsequent to this +period Mr. Trevelyan called to see the Domesday, and upon the book +being opened, produced from his pocket a leaf, which exactly supplied +the previous hiatus in the record. This leaf it appeared came into +the possession of Mr. Trevelyan, by descent from his ancestor, Dean +Willoughby, who in the time of Henry the Eighth was the Dean of Exeter, +and doubtless he it was who abstracted this identical leaf, either from +curiosity, or a less venial motive. That must however be esteemed a most +fortunate accident, whereby a leaf lost in the time of the Reformation, +has thus been restored in our own, having the effect moreover of +rendering perfect one of the most interesting historical documents in +existence. + +To preserve this volume in its primitive integrity, it has been clad in +a rough coat of red russia, confined by a leather strap. The book thus +bound is excessively thick, but measuring ten inches and a half by six +and a half, it wears the aspect of a small folio tome. + +It only remains for me to add that the whole of this ancient volume was +faithfully transcribed by Mr. Ralph Barnes, and subsequently published +under the authority of the Commissioners of the Public Records. + +Of the Saxon Manuscripts which may claim the highest antiquity, I would +mention a volume of Saxon Poetry, distinctly written upon vellum, and in +excellent preservation, the gift of Leofric, the first Bishop of Exeter, +to his Church. Another Saxon Manuscript, equally well preserved in its +original coverture, contains the Etymological and other Works of Rabanus +Maurus. + +Among the other Manuscripts it may suffice to distinguish the Rosa +Medicinæ of John Gadsden, commended by Geoffery Chaucer; and referring to +the Catalogue for the remainder, to notice that all these Manuscripts are +kept in deal presses, under lock and key, in an upper chamber attached to +the Cathedral. + +The Library of printed books in the possession of the Dean and Chapter +of Exeter, is now deposited in their Chapter-house, a well proportioned +and well lighted room, with a fire-place at one end, and gallery at the +other, over the entrance door. The chimney-piece is handsomely carved in +stone, and the painted ceiling harmonises well with the antique aspect of +the room, which is also adorned with a view of the adjacent Cathedral. + +The books are all well arranged upon open shelves around the room in the +following order, viz. A and B. English Theology, 1600-1700, two cases; C +and D. Bibles and Commentators, two cases; E. Fathers, and Ecclesiastical +History, one case; F. Miscellaneous Theology; G and H. Classics; I and +J. History and Biography; K. Poetry and Oratory; and L. Miscellaneous +Theology. The gallery is also appropriated to books placed upon open +shelves, the entire Collection probably amounting to between five and +six thousand volumes. The books are chiefly bound in old calf, and the +volumes have been relettered, so as to inform the stranger of their +contents, and relieve the sombre uniformity of their attire. + +The most ancient Catalogue in this Library, is a tall folio, containing +a brief enumeration of the books in the Library, specifying their titles +and sizes, as well as the place and dates, with reference to the shelves +on which they were then placed. This volume is entitled “Catalogus +Librorum in Bibliothecâ Ecclesiæ Sti Petri Exon.” is lettered on the +binding, “Catalogus Librorum, 1683.” + +From a later hand we have also a Catalogue of several duplicates in the +Library of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter’s, Exon. + +Some indolent Librarian has subsequently interleaved Hyde’s Catalogue of +the Bodleian Library, in two volumes, folio, and has inserted therein +such books of the Chapter Library as are not already contained in its +printed pages, with references from the latter to the shelves. + +The only complete Catalogue extant of this Library is that written by +order of Dean Lyttelton, but compiled in the most careless manner, all +mention of the places, dates, or names of the printers, or sizes of each +Work, being uniformly omitted, and their titles given in the most summary +and unsatisfactory manner. This volume—a tall and narrow folio, in coarse +clothing, bears the title of “A Catalogue of the Books in the Library of +St. Peter’s, Exon, taken as they now stand on the shelves, under each +Alphabet, 1752.” + +To remedy the want of a more perfect Catalogue, seven Fasciculi, +embracing the Theological Department of the Collection, have been written +in enumeration of the titles, dates, and imprints of the several Works +therein contained, but without any specification of the sizes of the +books. But of the remaining portion of the Library, no other Catalogue +whatever, except a rough Index to the shelves, has been made. A complete +Catalogue, therefore, of this Library, is, even in manuscript, greatly +to be desired; but, for facility of reference, its arrangement should be +alphabetical, as a separate Index to the different cases might easily +be added. It would be also desirable that each Work should be described +with that attention to bibliographical minuteness which may ensure the +accuracy of the Catalogue, and render it worthy of being perpetuated by +the power of the press. + +The book plate whereby the volumes of the Dean and Chapter are marked as +their own, is an engraving of an Ecclesiastical Seal, representing the +Bishop on his throne, having a model of the Cathedral in his left hand, +and holding a key in his right hand, the motto being: “The Cathedral +Library at Exeter, Anno Domⁿⁱ, 1749.” This plate has been re-engraved +with the date “An. Dom. 1822.” + +The character of this Library is principally Theological, rather more +than one-half of its entire contents being composed of Works of Divinity. +It has also some respectable Classics, and some curious volumes relating +to the History of England. + +The Typographical antiquary will find little to interest him in this +Collection; for if religious, he may sigh in vain for “The Seuen +Penetencyall Psalmes,” or if only curious, will fruitlessly seek “The +Merry Geste of how the Plowman learned his Pater Noster.” + +Works of Divinity occupy so large a space upon these shelves, and so +many of them have long ago fallen into merited oblivion, that, without +attempting “to drag reluctant dulness into day,” I will proceed at once +to the succinct enumeration of the principal features of this department. + +Among the Impressions of the Sacred Text, I noticed a very fine copy +in calf of Plantin’s Polyglott, published at Antwerp by that excellent +printer between the years 1568 and 1572, and one of the usual copies of +Walton’s Polyglott, with Castell’s Lexicon. I also remarked copies of the + + Biblia Hebraica, Vander Hooght. Amst. 1705, fol. + + Biblia Hebraica, Houbigant. Lutet. Par. 1753, 4 vols. folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776, 2 v. fol. + + Biblia Græca. Francofurti, 1597, folio. + + Biblia Latina. Lutetiæ, 1545. + + Biblia Latina, Tremellii et Junii. Londini, 1685. + + Biblia Latina Castalionis. Basileæ, 1573. + + Biblia Sacra Pagnini. Londini, 1541. + + Biblia Vulgata. Antverpiæ, 1599. + + Biblia Sacra Diodati. Genevæ, 1641. + + Biblia Virginiana. Cantabr. Nov. Angl. 1661. + +The Bible in English, printed at Oxford in 1680, folio, uniformly bound +with the Common Prayer of the same date in coeval red morocco, and the +Bible with Notes by D’Oyly and Mant, in 3 vols. 4to. + +Of detached portions of the Scripture, I may mention the Oxford +Septuagint, superintended by Messrs. Holmes and Parsons, and that edited +by Breitenger at Zurich. + + Novum Testamentum Græcum. Amst. 1735. + + Novum Testamentum Græcum, Bezæ. Cantab. 1642. + + Novum Testamentum Græcum Millii. Oxonii, 1707, folio. And the + Impressions of Wetstein and Stephens. + + The New Testament of Bowyer. London, 1783, with his + “Conjectures,” in 3 volumes 4to. + + Fulke’s Rhemish Testament. London, 1633. + + The Psalms by Thomas Ravenscroft. London, 1633. + + The Psalms in Metre. Edinburgh, 1635. + + Psalterium Latino-Saxonicum. + + An imperfect Copy of the Pentateuchus Hebraicus. Ulyssip. 1491, + folio, from the collection of De Rossi at Parma, recently + attired in the plainest calf. + + The Heptateuchus Saxonicus, edente Thwaites. Oxonii. + +I may here also notice the Common Prayer Book of Edward the Sixth, 1552, +folio, and the authorised Version of Common Prayer, 14 Car. II. 1662, to +which the original Seal is still appended. These two Volumes are kept +with the Manuscripts in the upper chamber already described. + +I may also add + + Missale Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1657. + + Breviarium Romanum. Lutet. 1688. + + Durandi Rationale Divinorum Officiorum. + + L’Alcorano di Machometto. 1547. + +Passing by a cloud of obscure Commentators on the Psalms, and other +portions of the Sacred Volume, it may suffice to mention the Critici +Sacri, and Pole’s Synopsis, Leigh’s Critica Sacra, Kidder on the +Pentateuch, Bythneri Lyra Prophetica, Newcome’s Minor Prophets, Campbell +on the Gospels, Blayney on Jeremiah, and the Commentaries of Whitby, +Patrick, &c. of Calvin and Beza, of Pococke and Lowth. + +Among the Fathers of the Church, I may particularise the Works of +St. Jerome, Ambrose, Cyprian, Athanasius, Cyril, and Chrysostom, the +Gregories, S. Hilary, Augustine, Basil, Origen, and Justin Martyr, of +Athenagoras, Theophylact, Lactantius, Tertullian, Epiphanius, Isidore, +and Theodoret. Irenæi Opera cura Grabe, folio; Eusebii Præparatio +et Demonstratio Evangelica, in 2 folio volumes; Suiceri Thesaurus +Ecclesiasticus; the Bibliotheca Patrum; Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, 2 +copies; Grabe’s Spicilegium Patrum, and Wake’s Genuine Epistles of the +Apostolical Fathers, with Cave’s Primitive Christianity, and Lives of the +Fathers. + +This last Work naturally leads us to the consideration of Ecclesiastical +History, in which branch of learning the following Works occur in this +Collection: Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, folio; Eutychii Annales; +Tornielli Annales Sacri; Usserii Annales; Spondani Epitome Baronii; +Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici, and Martyrologium Romanum; Cotelerii +Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta, folio; Bower, Rycaut and Platina’s Lives +of the Roman Pontiffs; Binii Concilia Generalia et Provincialia; The +Centuriatores Magdeburgenses; Natalis Historia Ecclesiastica, in 8 vols. +folio; Canones Concilii Tridentini. Duaci, 1618, folio; and Polani +Historia Concilii Tridentini; Geddes’s Church History of Æthiopia; and +Allix’s History of the Churches in Piedmont. + +Of Books relating to the Ecclesiastical affairs of Great Britain, we find +the following: + + Wilkins’s Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, in 4 vols. fol. + + Bedæ Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Parisiis, 1681, and + Londini, 1714. + + Whartoni Anglia Sacra, 2 vols. folio. + + Parker de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ. Hanoviæ, 1605, and + edited by Drake, London, 1729, fol. + + Usserii Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ. Londini, 1687. + + Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. + + Godwin’s Præsules Anglicani, and Catalogue of Bishops. + + Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. + + Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ. + + Fuller’s Church History. + + Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum. London, 1655-73, 3 vols. folio. + + Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, by Nasmyth. London, 1744. + + Spotswode’s History of the Church of Scotland. + + Burnet’s, Heylin’s and Strype’s Histories of the Reformation, + with the Lives and Memorials of the latter. + + Fox’s Martyrs. London, 1684, in 3 volumes, folio. + + Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy. + + Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England. 4to. + + Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography. London, 1818, 6 vols. + 8vo. + + Newcourt’s Repertorium, or Survey of the Diocese of London. + + Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus Provincialis; or Survey of the Diocese + of Exeter. Exeter, 1782, 4to. + + Ecton’s Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus, 4to. + + Gough, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Threnodia. Londini, 1661. + + Symeon, Historia Dunelmensis Ecclesiæ. Londini, 1732, 8vo. + + Calderwood’s Church of Scotland. + +The earlier Theologians in this Library are represented by the Works of +Grotius and Erasmus, the Controversial Writings of Le Clerc, Leusden, +and Bellarmine, Chamieri Controversiarum Corpus, Limborch, Theologia +Christiana, the Works of Episcopius, Peter Martyr, Melancthon, Zanchius, +and Bochart, to which may be added, the once popular Treatise ascribed to +Thomas à Kempis, the present copy having been printed at Antwerp in 1607. + +Of the earlier Divines of England, the Works of Lightfoot, Bramhall, +Barrow, Mede, Hoadley, Jewel, and Chillingworth; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical +Polity, Cudworth’s Intellectual System, and Lloyd on Church Government, +are familiar as household words to every educated Briton. + +Among the Theological Writers of the seventeenth century, we find +the Works of Allix, Baxter, Barrow, Atterbury, Comber, Claggett, +Dodwell, Gastrell, Andrews, Sanderson, Hall, Hammond, Hopkins, Hody, +Bull, Leslie, Peirce, Edwards, Long, Pearson, Reynolds, Rutherford, +Stillingfleet, Sherlock, Tillotson, Jeremy Taylor, Wake, Wilkins, +Whiston, and Weston; Norris on the Beatitudes, Pearson on the Creed, +Burnet on the Articles, and Gale’s Court of the Gentiles, Oxford, 1672. + +I should be wanting in attention to the English Theology of this +Collection were I to pass over the Works of Boyle, Hoadley, Lardner, +Jortin, Horsley, Beattie, and Farmer, or Burton’s Testimonies of the +Anti-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ. + +Connected with the Theological department, I may here mention Calmet’s +Dictionary of the Bible; Hyde’s Religio Veterum Persarum, Oxonii, 1700; +Davy’s System of Divinity, Lustleigh, Devon, 1795, 1807, “printed by +himself, 14 copies only.” In these 26 volumes the corrections have all +been made by the insertion of slips of printed paper in the places +requiring emendation. Davy on Divinity, with Portrait, Exeter, 1825, in +3 vols. 8vo. “Presented by the Author to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, +20th August, 1825.” And Isaac de la Peyreyre’s Men before Adam, which +was rigidly suppressed on its first publication; Harmer’s Observations +on Scripture; the Preservative against Popery, published by order of +Dr. Gibson, in 3 volumes, folio; and some French Works of Divinity, +including, however, no author of sufficient note to require distinct +enumeration. + +The Works illustrative of History in general, contained in this Library, +are: Bayle’s Historical Dictionary; Chalmers’s Biographical Dictionary, +in 32 vols. 8vo.; Collier’s Historical Dictionary, in 2 vols. folio; +Simsoni Chronicon; Heylin’s Cosmography; Raleigh’s History of the World: +Isaacson’s Chronological Tables; Baudrand, Lexicon Geographicum; Speculum +Historiale Vincentii; Bossuet, Histoire Universelle, 8vo.; Thuani +Historia sui temporis; Carionis Chronicon, and Pitt’s English Atlas, +Oxford, 1680, in 4 gigantic folio tomes. + +Of particular Histories of various countries, the list is rather more +copious, comprehending Freheri Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, folio; +Hottingeri Historia Orientalis; Basnage’s History of the Jews; Rycaut and +Knolles’s History of the Turks; Ogilby’s China and Japan; Bembi Historia +Veneta; China Illustrata; Verona Illustrata; Echard’s History of Rome; +Mezeray’s History of France; Serres, Histoire de la France; Davila’s +Civil Wars of France; Meterani Historia Belgica; Puffendorf de rebus +Suecicis; Bonfinius de rebus Hungaricis; Molesworth’s Denmark; Crantz’s +Greenland, Scheffer’s Lapland, and Fowler’s Poland. + +As valuable helps to History, I may here mention, Montfaucon’s +Antiquities, translated by Humphreys; Montfaucon’s Palæographia Græca; +Mabillon, Iter Italicum; Ciampini Monumenta Vetusta; Fleetwood’s +Inscriptiones Antiquæ; Reinesii Inscriptiones; Liceti et Pierii +Hieroglyphica; Bianchini, Inscrizioni Sepulcrali; Noris’ Cenotaphia +Pisana; Bertoli’s Antichita d’Aquileia; Arlinghi’s Roma Subterranea; +Rosini’s Antiquitates Romanæ; Prideaux’s Marmora Arundeliana; Spanheim’s +and le Vaillant’s Numismata; Occonis Numismata; Patini Numismata +Familiarum Romanarum; Pitisci Lexicon; and Dodwell’s Tracts relating to +Antiquity. + +To the above may be added, Churchill’s Voyages; the Travels of Pococke, +Thevenot, Sandys, and others; Freheri Theatrum Virorum Clarorum, & Jovii +Elogia Virorum Illustrium. + +Of Works on Heraldry, which may most properly be termed “the Key of +History,” this Library contains Favine’s Theatre of Honour; Hopingius de +Jure Insignium; Milles’s Catalogue of Honor; Gwillim’s Heraldry; Selden’s +Titles of Honor; Dugdale’s Baronage; and Ashmole’s History of the Order +of the Garter. + +Of Works relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain, this +Collection embraces many Tracts of great curiosity, and some Works of +great importance. + +Among the latter may be mentioned Eadmeri Historia Novorum; Twinus +de rebus Albionicis; the valuable Collection of Francorum Scriptores +Coetanei, edited by Duchesne, in 5 volumes, folio, a copy in old vellum, +which has suffered severely from damp; Matthæi Paris, Historia Anglicana; +Gale and Fell’s important Collection of early English Historians; Camdeni +Anglica, Normanica, &c. à veteribus scripta; Polidori Vergilii Historia +Anglicana; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum; Florentii +Wigornensis Chronicon; Sheringham de Anglorum Gentis Origine; Triveti +Annales sex Regum Angliæ, 1 vol. 8vo.; Rossi Warvicensis Historia Regum +Angliæ, edente Hearnio, Oxonii, 1716, 8vo.; Gibson’s Saxon Chronicle; +Musgrave’s Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicæ, 4 vols. 8vo. very neat in calf; +Prynne’s Records of John, Henry III. and Edw. I. London, 1670, folio; +and the Records of the Kingdom, published under the authority of the +Parliamentary Commission. + +The remaining Works of English History will be found to embrace many +Tracts, interesting as connected with the great Rebellion. This Library +contains the General Histories of England, by Daniel, Carte, Speed, +and Kennett; Baker’s Chronicle; Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion, +with his State Papers; Rushworth’s and Nalson’s Collections of State +Papers; Whitelocke’s Memorials; Welwood’s Memoirs; Godwin’s Annals; +Herbert’s Henry VIII.; Lloyd’s Memoirs; Fuller’s Worthies; Winstanley’s +English Worthies; Lyttelton’s Henry the Second; Heylin’s Life of Laud; +Walton’s Lives; Camden’s Elizabeth, with his Remains; Darcie’s Annals +of Queen Elizabeth; Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitiæ; Winston Churchill’s +Divi Britannici, Salmasii Defensio Regia; Bond’s Scutum Regale; +Mackenzie’s Jus Regium; Bates’ Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Angliâ, +a work which Warburton thought worth reading; Warwick’s Charles I.; +Vie de Cromwell, in 2 vols. 12mo.; Ludlow’s Memoirs, in 2 vols. 8vo.; +D’Orleans, Revolution d’Angleterre, Paris. 1695, 3 vols. 12mo.; Dugdale’s +View of the Troubles; Gregorio Leti Teatro Britannico, Amst. 1684, in +5 vols. 12mo.; Εικων Βασιλικη: Memoires du Marechal Berwick; Mercurius +Britannicus Josephi Hall; and Fuller’s Ephemeral Parliament. + +In addition to 27 volumes of Political Tracts, and 20 volumes of +Puritanical Sermons, the overflowings of men’s minds under the high +excitement of the Rebellion, I observed an octavo volume, which never +before occurred to me, being “I. G. de rebus Caroli I. Commentarius +sub imperio; Jacobi Marchionis Montisrosarum, anno 1644, et duobus +sequentibus præclarè gestis.” Interprete A. S. Paris. (Johan. Bessin.) +1648. This volume is upon large paper, and is bound in red morocco, its +sides covered with fleurs de lis, whence it might be conjectured to have +belonged to the Queen Henrietta, then resident in France, at all events +as a contemporary record of the exploits of the Chivalric Montrose, its +historical interest is far from inconsiderable. + +Among the other Works relating to English History may be noticed Annales +de la Grande Bretagne; Parkerus de rebus sui temporis; Dugdale’s Origines +Judiciales; Pepys on the Navy; Mainwaring’s Defence of Amicia; Wood’s +Athenæ Oxoniensis; Kippis’ Biographia Britannica; Heylin’s Help to +English History, a work still held in estimation; and a copy of Speed’s +Maps, 1627, in an oblong duodecimo form. + +Among the books of Scottish History I remarked the History of Scotland +by Drummond and Buchanan, with the latter’s pretended “Detectioun of the +duinges of Mary Queen of Scots;” Major de Gestis Scotorum; and Hume’s +House of Douglas; Cox’s History of Ireland, and Ware’s Historical Works +concerning Ireland, Dublin, 1739, in 2 vols. folio, deserve brief mention +in this place before we proceed to enumerate the Works illustrative of +the Topographical Antiquities of England. + +The Archæologia, or Collection of Miscellaneous Tracts relating to +Antiquity, in an annually increasing series of quarto volumes, published +by the Society of Antiquaries, forms a prominent feature in this +department of the Library, the present series being respectably clad in +modern calf. + +To the Antiquarian Society we are also indebted for Plans, Elevations, +and Descriptions of the Cathedral Churches of Durham, Exeter, and +Gloucester, the Abbey Church at Bath, and St. Stephen’s, Westminster; the +present copy being handsomely bound, in one volume, folio, in russia, and +bearing the following autographic inscription: + + “This book was presented to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, + the 22nd of December, 1813, as a token of gratitude for their + kind patronage, and as a mark of affection for their Cathedral + Church, by their obliged and faithful Servant, + + “RALPH BARNES, _Chapter Clerk_.” + +To such a dedication as this, the student who turns the ample pages of +this noble folio tome, can only respond, ex imo corde, + + “Grati Memorisque animi hocce volumen monumentum esto!” + +No works of instruction are more calculated to please the eye than +Topographical researches, embellished like Britton’s Account of Exeter +Cathedral, of which a copy is very properly deposited in this Library. + +The remaining Works of English Topography, which deserve particular +notice, are Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence respecting +English Antiquities; Anthony à Wood’s Historia Universitatis Oxoniensis, +Oxonii, 1674, in one volume, folio; Savage’s Balliofergus, or some +Account of Baliol College, at Oxford, Oxonii, 1668, 4to.; Caii de +Antiquitate Academiæ Cantabrigiensis; Howel’s History of London and +Westminster; Roll’s Account of the Rebuilding of London after the Great +Fire, of which some accounts are also contained in this Collection; +Stow’s Description of London; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent, 1656; +Dugdale’s History of Warwickshire; Borlase’s Natural History and +Antiquities of Cornwall; Milner’s Winchester; Polwhele’s Devonshire; +Prince’s Worthies of Devon, “the gift of the author;” Plot’s Natural +Histories of Oxfordshire and Staffordshire; Kennet’s Parochial +Antiquities; Webbe and Inigo Jones’s Descriptions of Stonehenge; +Carlisle’s Endowed Grammar Schools; Leycester’s Cheshire; Bentham’s Ely; +Oliver’s History of Exeter; Camden’s Britannia, edited by Gibson, London, +1772, 2 vols. folio; and some Account of St. Neot’s Church in Cornwall, +with plates of the stained glass Windows therein, by Messrs. Hedgeland +and Davies Gilbert, London, 1830, folio, presented by the former to the +Cathedral Library of Exeter. + +To the above I may add the Geological Transactions of Cornwall, presented +by the Rev. John Rogers, one of the Canons of the adjacent Cathedral. + +Though Geology has not yet attained the full stature of a science, yet +the mention of these interesting volumes recalls to my mind those older +treatises on the more exact Sciences which are contained in this Library. + +Among these, Newton’s Principia holds the first place, to which I may +add Kepler’s Optics; Boyle’s and Bacon’s Works on Natural Philosophy; +Hobbes’ Opera Philosophica; Hevelii Selenographia; Hooke’s Micrographia; +Wallis’s Algebra; Maseres’ Scriptores Logarithmici; a few volumes of +the Encyclopædia Britannica and of the Philosophical Transactions, with +Sprat’s History of the Royal Society. + +Of Botanical Works it may be sufficient to particularise Ruellius de +Naturâ Stirpium; Raii Historia Plantarum; Grew’s Anatomy of Plants; +and Gerarde’s Herbal, to which I may add the singular Collection of +Aldrovandus, and Gesner de Animalibus. + +I may here also mention Vitruvii Architectura, and Kendall on +Architecture; together with Culpepper’s English Physician; Cardani +Medicinæ; and other sanatory treatises now obsolete, which form the +companions of the Museum Wormianum. + +The Law Books contained in this room may be very soon enumerated, as +there is no interest whatever attached to the Codex Theodosianus; Corpus +Juris Civilis Gothofredi; Oughton’s Ordo Judiciarum, in 2 vols. 4to.; +Burns’ Ecclesiastical Law; Blount and Jacob’s Law Dictionaries; Lambard +de Priscis Anglorum Legibus; Durandi Speculum Juris; Spencer de Legibus +Hebræorum, Cantab. 1685; Gibson Codex Juris Civilis, &c. in 2 vols. +folio; and an old edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries. + +It is refreshing to turn from so uninviting a topic to those great +authors of antiquity, the dread of our earliest, and the delight of our +latest years, especially when we can look upon some of the most valuable +editions of their Works. + +In proof of this assertion, those shelves furnish me with the Oratores +Græci, and the Plutarch of Reiske, Isocrates, and Lysias of Auger; +the Pindar of Heyne; Plinius Harduini; Pausanias Kuhnii; Livius +Drakenborchii; the Horace of Bentley; Duker’s Thucydides; the Herodotus +and Diodorus Siculus of Wesseling; Reimar’s Dion Cassius; Josephus +Havercampi; Xenophon, by Wells; Brunck’s Sophocles; and Barnes’ +Euripides; Longinus, Toupii, and Athenæus Casauboni. + +Among the other editions of the Classics, I noticed Platonis Opera +Serrani; Quintus Curtius Pitisci; Lucretius Havercampi; Spanheim’s +Callimachus; Aristotelis Opera Du Valli; and several of the Delphin +editions, including those of Prudentius, Plautus, Eutropius, Cornelius +Nepos, Velleius Paterculus, Quintus Curtius, Manilius, Juvenal, and +Lucretius. + +I also noticed some pieces of Cicero, and various editions of Æschines, +Boethius, Florus, Macrobius, Martial, Aristophanes, Quintilian, Petronius +Arbiter, Seneca, Sallust, Suetonius, Statius, Phædrus, Tacitus, Valerius +Maximus, Terence, Homer, Demosthenes, Cæsar, Xenophon, and the Historiæ +Augustæ Scriptores, whose importance would scarcely justify more +particular specification. + +The earliest editions of the Classics comprised within these walls, are +indifferent copies of Cæsar, printed by Jenson, at Venice, in 1471, +folio, measuring twelve inches by eight and a quarter, and bound in calf; +and Virgilius Servii, 1475, folio, where the Commentary ends with the +Æneid, and the Minor Pieces, with vacant margins, follow. + +Of Translations of the Classics, I observed Dryden’s Virgil and Juvenal; +Hobbes’s Thucydides; Ross’s Silius Italicus; Ogilby’s Æsop; and Dacier’s +Horace. + +Of Lexicons and Dictionaries, and other Etymological Works, the essential +accompaniments of the Classic page, to every youthful student, I have the +pleasure of enumerating several, which will be found very useful in the +study either of Classic or of Gothic Literature. + +For the first, it may suffice to mention Suidæ, Hesychii, et Scapulæ +Lexica, Hoffmanni, et Phavorini Lexica, Stephani Thesaurus, Calepini +Dictionarium, Julii Pollucis Onomasticon, Vossii Etymologicon, Cooper’s +Thesaurus, and Du Fresne’s Glossary. + +For the latter, the Saxon Dictionary of Hickes; Skinner’s Lexicon; +Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum; Somneri Dictionarium Saxonicum; Lye’s +Saxon Dictionary; Cotgrave’s French Dictionary; and Menage Dictionnaire +Etymologique. To which may be added, the English Dictionaries of Cole, +Howel, and Johnson, with Buxtorf’s Chaldaic and Hebrew Lexicon. + +In English Literature this Library is manifestly deficient. We do indeed +meet with the Works of Locke and Bacon; of Addison and Swift; Spenser’s +Faerie Queen; the Poems of Chaucer, Milton, and Cowley; Shakespeare’s +Works too, with the Portrait coloured, may be after the Stratford +Monument, London, 1632, folio, in a volume, which being quite perfect, +richly deserves rebinding, as it is now in a very insecure and tattered +condition. But I can only add to these, Sir Thomas More’s Works, 1559; +Warton’s English Poetry; Conybeare’s Anglo-Saxon Poetry; Burton’s Anatomy +of Melancholy; Smith’s Wealth of Nations; Wootton’s Remains; and other +Works of much less reputation. + +Of Italian Works there are editions of Tasso, Petrarch, and Ariosto, +with a copy of Boccaccio, Genealogia di Gli Dei, Venet. 1588, which +the compiler of the unfinished Catalogue has classed under the head of +“Miscellaneous Theology.” + +It only remains for me to notice Photii Bibliotheca et Epistolæ, and +Stuckii Antiquitates Conviviales, a work whence much curious information +may be obtained respecting the “noctes cœnæque” of the olden time. + +As “Book openeth Book,” I cannot conclude this brief notice of the +Exeter Cathedral Library more appropriately than by adding to it, the +Bibliographical Works contained within its precincts. + +Among these I particularly noticed, Maittaire, Annales Typographici; +Wolfii Monumenta Typographica; Watts’ Bibliotheca Britannica; Blount’s +Censura Literaria; Balei Scriptores Britanniæ; Nicolson’s English, Irish, +and Scotch Historical Libraries, in 4 volumes, 8vo.; Cooper on the Public +Records; Le Long’s Bibliotheca Sacra, Halæ, 1778; Dupin’s Bibliotheque +des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques; De Rossi’s Annales Hebræo-Topographici, +Parmæ, 1795; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca, and Bibliographia Antiquaria, in +4to.; Cave’s Scriptores Ecclesiastici; Baillet’s Jugemens des Scavans; +La Bibliothéque Choisie, 1703; and Le Clerc’s Bibliothéque Universelle, +in 12mo.; a Catalogue of English Writers on the Old and New Testaments; +Clarke’s Bibliographical Dictionary and Miscellany; Marchand’s +Dictionnaire Historique; Gesneri Bibliotheca, and several volumes of the +Acta Eruditorum, in quarto. + +Upon the table in the Chapter-house is very properly kept a book “For +the entry of books taken out of, and returned to the Chapter Library;” a +regulation which ought to be religiously observed by all persons having +access to any corporate Library. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Gloucester. + + +The spacious and airy Chapter-house, warmed by a stove, is the meet +receptacle of the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester. The +books are arranged upon open shelves, in dwarf cases of oak, which +skirt the walls of the room, and form two lines down the centre. They +are briefly enumerated in an old alphabetical Catalogue, but are placed +on the shelves according to a new Catalogue which is now preparing by +Mr. Hough, the bookseller of Gloucester. There are also a list of books +borrowed, and “a List of Benefactors to the Library of the Cathedral +Church of Gloucester.” Folio. + +This Collection contains much obsolete Law and Divinity; but the latter +department possesses also many valuable Works, which I will proceed to +show, commencing with the impressions of the Sacred Volume. + + Biblia Polyglotta. Waltoni. cum Castelli Lexicon. + + Biblia Hebraica. Montani. 1619, folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776, 2 vols. folio. + + Biblia Latina, S. Hieronymi. Norimbergæ, 1478, folio. + + Biblia Latina, R. Stephani. Parisiis, 1532 and 1557. + + Biblia Germanica, Lutheri. Magdeburg, 1560, fol. + + Biblia Italica, Diodati. 1807, folio. + + The Bible in Welsh. London, 1769, 4to. + + The Bible in English, dedicated to Henry VIII. London, 1536, + folio. + + The Bible in English, Tyndale’s. London, Jo. Taverner, 1549, + folio. + + The Bible in English, Field’s. Cambridge, 1680, 2 vols. folio. + + The Bible in English, dedicated to James II. Oxford, 1685, + folio. + + The Bible in English, Baskett. Oxford, 1717, 2 vols. folio. + + The Bible in English, Geddes. London, 1792, 3 vols. 4to. + + Fulke’s Rhemish Testament, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. + + The Novum Testamentum Hutteri, 2 vols. folio. + +To which I may add the Codex Bezæ, by Kipling, in old calf; the Novum +Testamentum Græcum, Kusteri. Lipsiæ. 1723, folio. + +I may here also mention the Book of Common Prayer, by R. Barker, London, +1634, 4to.; the Breviarium Romanum; and Missale Romanum. Antv. 1631, +folio; and proceed to enumerate the Fathers of the Church, whose Works +are found in this Collection. + + Ambrosii Opera. Parisiis, 1603, 2 vols. folio. + + Augustini Opera. Parisiis, 1637, 11 vols. folio. + + Anselmi Opera. Parisiis, 1559, folio. + + Basilii Opera. Parisiis, 1618, 3 vols. folio. + + Chrysostomi Opera. Etonæ, 1612, 8 vols. folio. + + Clementis Alexandrini Opera. Oxonii, 1725, folio. + + Cypriani Opera. Coloniæ, 1617, folio. + + Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica. Coloniæ, 1688, 2 + vols. folio. + + Eusebii Thesaurus temporum. Amstelodami, 1658, folio. + + Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica. Cantabrigiæ, 1720, 3 vols. + folio. + + Hieronymus in Evangelia. Antverpiæ, 1579. + + Lactantius. Venetiis, 1472, folio. + + Origenis Commentarii. Rothomagi, 1668. + + Origenis Opera. Parisiis, 1733, 2 vols. folio. + + Philonis Judæi, Opera. Londini, 1742, 2 vols. fol. + + Tertulliani Opera. Parisiis, 1664, folio. + + Tertulliani Opera. Basileæ, 1528, folio. + + Theophylact. Comment. Parisiis, 1635, 2 vols. folio; with + the Works of S. Cyril, Episcopius, Epiphanius, of S. Gregory + Nysseni, et Nazianzen, and the Bibliotheca Patrum. Paris, 1644, + in 15 vols. folio. + +In a later æra of the Church we find the Works of Bede, Thomas Aquinas, +Calvin, Cranmer, Barrow, and Beveridge. + + Bernardi Opera. Antverpiæ, 1609, folio. + + Bingham’s Works. London, 1729, 2 vols. folio. + + Bulli Opera. Londini, 1703, folio. + + Bellarmini Controversiæ. Coloniæ, 1628, folio. + + Archbishop Bramhall’s Works. Dublin, 1677, folio. + + Bishop Blackhall’s Works. London, 1723, 2 vols. folio. + + Bochart, Hierozoicon. Londini, 1663, folio. + + Buchanani Psalmorum Paraphrasis. 1624. + + Bythneri Lyra Prophetica. + + Clarke’s Works. London, 1738, 4 vols. folio. + + Hodius de Textibus Bibliorum. Oxonii, 1705, fol. + + Hospiniani Opera. Genevæ, 1678, 4 vols. folio, calf. + + Joanes de Imola Opera. Venetiis, 1480, duplicate. + + Leland on the Christian Revelation. 1764, 2 vols. 4to. + + Lutheri Opera. Jenæ, 1612, 4 vols. 4to. + + Leusden Comp. Bibl. Lugd. Bat. 1685, 12mo. + + Melancthonis Opera. Witebergæ, 1580, 4 vols. folio. + + Mori Opera Theologica, 1675, et Opera Philosophica, 1679, 3 + vols. folio. + + Nicolai de Lyra Comment. Basileæ, 1507, 6 vols. folio. + + Orton’s Exposition of the Old Testament. Salop. 1788, 6 vols. + 8vo. + + Raynaudi Opera. Lugd. Bat. 1665, 19 vols. folio. + + Rosenmuller Scholia in Nov. Test. Norimbergæ, 1785, 5 vols. 8vo. + + Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus. Antverpiæ, 1682, 2 vols. + folio. + + Spanheim Opera. Lugd. Bat. 1702, 3 vols. folio. + + Synge’s Works. 1740, 4 vols. 12mo. + + Taylor and Cave’s Antiquitates Christianæ. Londini, 1685, folio. + + Venn’s Tracts. London, 1740, 8vo. + + Zanchii Opera Theologica. 1613, 3 vols. folio. + +To which may be added, the Preservative against Popery, in 3 vols. folio; +Baxter’s Saints’ Rest; Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher, by Bishop +Berkeley; Burnet on the Articles; Blayney’s Jeremiah; Butler’s Analogy; +Balguy’s Tracts; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible, London, 1708, 3 vols. +folio; Concordantiæ Bibliorum, Hanoviæ, 1618, 4 vols. folio; Cave’s +Scriptor. Eccles. Historia literaria; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; the +Works of Chillingworth and Conybeare; Campbell on the Gospels, and on +Miracles; Dupin Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques, Paris. 1693, +10 vols. 8vo.; Derham’s Astro Theology, Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, +Irenop. 1639, 6 vols. folio; Tracts on the Bangorian Controversy, London, +1739; Critici Sacri, Londini, 1660, 10 vols. folio; Poli Synopsis, +Londini, 1669, 5 vols. folio; Cruttwell’s Concordance; Fleetwood’s Works, +1737; Bishop Fell on the Epistles; Faber on Pagan Idolatry and on the +Prophecies; several Tracts by Grotius; Graves on the Pentateuch, 1807, +2 vols. 8vo.; the Works of Hammond, Hopkins, Hooker, Hurd, and Hoadley; +Horsley on the Psalms, and other Works; Hey’s Lectures; Hutcheson’s Moral +Philosophy, and Essay on the Passions; Hales on the Trinity; Jackson’s +Works; Jones’s Canon of the New Testament, 1726; the Works of Lightfoot; +Marsh’s Michaelis on the New Test. 1802, 6 vols. 8vo.; Newton’s +Prophecies and Sermons; Newcome’s Sermons; Ostervald’s Arguments; Pearson +on the Creed; Prideaux’s Connection; Patrick and Lowth’s Commentaries; +Lowth’s Isaiah; Leighton’s Works; Mede’s Works, 1664, 2 vols. folio; +Macknight’s Harmony; Pyle’s Paraphrase; the Works of Paley, Porteus, +Secker, and Stillingfleet; Stackhouse’s History of the Bible, London, +1742, 2 vols. folio; Sanderson’s Sermons; Sale’s Koran; Saurin’s Sermons; +the Works of Sherlock, Stanhope, Seed, and Tillotson; Jeremy Taylor’s +Ductor Dubitantium; the Works of Warburton, Wake, Whiston, and Waterland; +Watson’s Apology, and Theological Tracts; West on the Resurrection; +several volumes of the Bampton Lectures; the Bibliotheca Maxima +Versionum, &c. Parisiis, 1666, 19 vols. folio; and Bibliotheca Magna +Comment. Parisiis, 1644, 5 vols. folio, in calf. + +In Ecclesiastical History, I may mention Lyndewode’s Provinciale, Paris. +1502, folio, & Oxonii, 1699, folio; the Centuriatores Magdeburgenses, +Basileæ, 1624, 3 vols. folio; Baronii Annales, Antverpiæ, 1610, 12 +vols. folio, in vellum covers, with the Epitome of Spondanus, in calf; +Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, Lond. 1737, 4 vols. folio; Gratiani +Decretum, Codex Theodosianus, cum Comment. Gothofredi, in 6 vols. folio; +Justiniani Pandectæ, Parisiis, 1504; Durandi Speculum Juris, folio, in +old black letter, imperfect; Basnage’s History of the Jews, London, +1708, fol.; Burnet’s History of the Reformation; Bower’s History of the +Popes, London, 1748, 8 vols. 4to.; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History, +London, 1708, 2 vols. folio; Cressy’s Church History of Brittany; Ecton’s +Thesaurus; Gibson’s Codex; Josephus, Havercamp, Amst. 1726, 2 vols. +folio; Whiston’s Josephus, 1745, 8vo. 6 vols.; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical +History; Strype’s Annals and Memorials; Quick’s Synodicum in Galliâ +Reformatâ, Londini, 1692, folio; Rycaut’s History of the Popes; Laval’s +History of the Reformation in France, London, 1737, 7 vols. 8vo.; Sleidan +Histoire de la Reformation à la Haye, 1767, 3 vols. 4to.; Usseri Annales, +et Antiq. Eccl. Britt.; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Walker’s Sufferings of +the Clergy; and Fox’s Martyrs, London, 1632, 3 vols. folio. + +Of English History, I remarked Brady’s Introduction thereto, London, +1685, folio, as well as his History of England, London, 1720, folio; +Baker’s Chronicle, London, 1674, folio; Camden’s Britannia; Campbell’s +Survey of Great Britain, London, 1774, 2 vols. 4to.; Colquhoun on the +Resources of the British Empire; Dugdale’s Monasticon, and View of the +Troubles; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Henry’s History of England; +History of the Wars in Ireland, London, 1653, folio; Harris’s Life +of Cromwell, London, 1772, 8vo.; Baker’s Hereditary Right, London, +1713, folio, for which he was imprisoned; Martin’s History of England, +London, 1615, folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum +Rer. Angl.; Norden’s Britanniæ Speculum; Scriptores post Bedam edente +Savile; Sprigge’s Anglia Rediviva, folio; Stow’s Chronicle, London, +1631, folio; Drayton’s Polyolbion, folio; Webb’s Metrical History of +Richard II. originally published in the Archæologia, 4to.; Rapin’s +History of England; several Diurnalls of Passages in the Great Civil +War, 4to.; Stafford’s Pacata Hibernia, 1633; Rushworth’s Historical +Collections; Sawyer’s Memorials of Affairs of State, London, 1725, 2 +vols. folio; Wallace’s Peerage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1785, 8vo.; +Yarranton’s England’s Improvement, London, 1677, 4to.; Twini Commentarii +de rebus Albionicis, Londini, 1590, 12mo.; the Parliamentary History of +England, London, 1751, &c. 23 vols. 8vo.; the Publications of the Record +Commission, and the Statutes at large. + +Of English Topography, I remarked Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed +Intelligence, 4to.; an Act for the Incorporation of the Gloucester +Workhouse in 1703; Bigland’s Gloucestershire, London, 1791, folio; +Fosbroke’s Gloucestershire, 4to.; Britton’s Gloucester Cathedral; +Rudder’s Gloucestershire; Bentham’s Ely; Drake’s York; Pennant’s Tour; +Rastall’s Southwell, 1787; Plot’s Oxfordshire; Stow’s London, imperfect; +and Speed’s Great Britain, also imperfect; Sammes’s Britannia; Lysons’ +Magna Britannia, in 9 vols. 4to.; Wood’s Antiquitates Oxonienses; +and Willis’ Cathedrals, London, 1727, 3 vols. 4to.; with the Welsh +Cathedrals, viz. those of St. Asaph, Bangor, St. David’s, and Llandaff. + +Of General History, the Works are mostly obsolete, being Bossuet Histoire +Universelle; Churchill’s Voyages; Delices des Pays Bas; Eustace’s Italy; +Fuller’s Palestine, 1650, folio; Gillies’ History of the World, 2 vols. +4to.; Davila’s Civil Wars of France, folio; Harris’s Voyages; Hughes’ +Barbadoes; Hooke’s Roman History; Hakluyt’s Voyages, London, 1600, +folio; Knolles’s History of the Turks; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Knox’s +Campaigns in North America, 1769, 2 vols. 4to.; Norden’s Egypt, London, +1757, folio; Potter’s Greece; Moryson’s Itinerary, London, 1617, folio; +together with Purchas’ Pilgrimes, London, 1625, 5 vols. folio; Ralegh’s +History of the World; Heylin’s Cosmography, folio; Robertson’s Works; +Symson’s Chronicon Catholicon, Oxonii, 1652, folio; Thuani Hist. sui +temporis; Tournefort’s Voyages; Grimstone’s France; Shute’s Venice; +Warcup’s History of Italy, London, 1660, folio; and the Universal History. + +It is pleasant to be able to add to these, a very fine copy of the +valuable Collections of Grævius and Gronovius upon large paper, in old +calf binding, with a border of gold on the sides; the Inscriptions of +Gruter; Pitisci Lexicon; Montfaucon, l’Antiquité Expliquée, Paris, +1719, in 15 vols. folio, a fine copy in old calf, gilt; with Humphrey’s +Translation of Montfaucon, London, 1722, 7 vols. folio; to which I may +add D’Anville’s Atlas, London, 1797, folio; and Buckingham’s Travels in +Palestine, London, 1821, 4to. + +Of Law Books, besides the Statutes at large, and Pickering’s Statutes, +I noticed, among much obsolete matter, Ayliffe’s Roman, Civil and Canon +Law, London, 1734, 2 vols. folio; Corpus Juris Civilis Justiniani; +Seldeni Opera, Londini, 1726, 3 vols. folio; Selden’s Mare Clausum, +edited by Needham; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum, Cantabr. 1727, 2 vols. +folio. + +Of Etymological Works the list is not much more copious, consisting of +Johnson’s English Dictionary; Ainsworth’s Latin Dictionary; Buxtorf’s +Hebrew Lexicon; Calepini Dictionarium Octolingue, Lugd. Bat. 1663, folio; +Cooper’s Dictionary, London, 1573, folio; Cotgrave’s French and English +Dictionary, London, 1611, folio; a Welch Grammar, printed at Caermarthen +in 1727, 12mo.; Dictionarium Linguæ Japonicæ, Romæ, 1632, 4to.; Golii +Lexicon Arabico Latinum, Lugd. Bat. 1653, folio; Hickesii Thesaurus +Linguarum Septentrionalium, Oxonii, 1705, 2 vols. folio; Hoffmanni +Lexicon; Stephani Thesaurus, 1527, 5 vols. folio; Spelman’s Glossary; +Tooke’s Diversions of Purley, 1798, 2 vols. 4to.; and Vossii Opera, +Amstelod. 1701, folio. + +Of Classical authors, the editions contained in this Library are neither +the first nor the best; the most correct idea, however, of their true +character may be obtained by perusing the following brief enumeration of +them: + + Æginetæ, Pauli, Medici, Opera, Gr. Basileæ, 1538, 4to. + + Aristotelis Opera. Parisiis, 1561, 2 vols. 4to. + + Aratus et Sigonius. Parisiis, 1561, 4to. + + Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. Bat. 1612, folio. + + Arriani Expeditio Alexandri. Lugd. Bat. 1704, fol. + + Æschyli Tragœdiæ. Londini, 1664, folio. + + Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti. Parisiis, 1740, 9 vols. 4to. bound in + old French calf. + + Callimachus. Lugd. Bat. 1761, 2 vols. 8vo. + + Cæsaris Commentaria. Lugd. Bat. 1713, 8vo. + + Catullus, Tibullus, & Propertius. Francof. 1621, 8vo. + + Diodorus Siculus. Hanoviæ, 1604, folio. + + Demosthenis Orationes. Parisiis, 1570, folio. + + Dionysius Halicarnass. Francof. 1586, folio. + + Aulus Gellius. Lugd. Bat. 1706, 4to. + + Herodotus. Francof. 1608, duplum. + + Homeri Opera. Clarkii, 1729-40, 4 vols. 4to. + + Homeri Ilias. Heynii, 1802, 8 vols. 8vo.; with Translations by + Chapman and Ogilby, folio. + + Hesiodus. Amstelodami, 1701 et 1757. + + Justini Opera. Parisiis, 1615. + + Iamblicus a Gale. Oxonii, 1778, folio, calf. + + Juvenalis. Amstelodami, 1684, 8vo. + + Isocratis Orationes. Rothomagi, 1662. + + Lucianus Oudendorpii. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 4to. + + Lucretius. Parisiis, 1625 et 1560. + + Libanii Orationes. Genevæ, 1631-4, 2 vols. 4to. + + Livius Variorum. Amstelod. 1679, 3 vols. 8vo. + + Manilii Astronomicon, apud Plantin. 1610, 4to. + + Oratores Græci Veteres. 1575, folio. + + Ovidius, Burmanni. Amstelod. 1727, 4 vols. 4to. + + Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii. Rothomagi, 1563, fol. + + Pomponius Mela. Venetiis, 1482, 4to. + + Plutarchi Opera. Francof. 1620, 2 vols. folio. + + Plutarchi Vitæ. Londini, 1729, 5 vols. 4to. + + Plinii Historia Naturalis. Lugd. Bat. 1563, folio. + + Ptolomæi Geographia. Amstelod. 1618, folio. + + Pausanias. Hanoviæ, 1613, folio, duplum. + + Pausanias. Lipsiæ, 1696, folio. + + Pindarus, West & Welsted. Oxonii, 1697, folio. + + Phædrus, Burmanni. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 2 vols. 8vo. + + Poetæ Minores Græci. Londini, 1728, 8vo. + + Quintilianus. Parisiis, 1542, 4to. & 1725, folio. + + Strabonis Geographia. Amstelod. 1707, 2 vols. fol. + + Senecæ Tragœdiæ, Delphini. Paris. 1728, 4to. + + Senecæ Opera. Amstelodami, 1672, 3 vols. 8vo. + + Sallustius, Havercampi. Amstelod. 1742, 2 vols. 4to. + + Suetonius, Grævii. Traject. ad Rhen. 1703. + + Stobæus, Gr. et Lat. Genevæ, 1609, folio. + + Tacitus, Gronovii. Traject. 1722, 2 vols. 4to. + + Thucydides. Genevæ, 1609, folio. + + Terentius. Amstelod. 1686, 8vo. + + Theocritus. 1804, 4to. + + Virgilius Variorum. Lugd. Bat. 1680, 3 vols. 8vo. with Ogilby’s + Translation. London, 1660, folio. + + Xenophontis Opera, Gr. et Lat. Parisiis, 1625, fol. + +To which may be added, the Works of Dioscorides; Petrus de Crescentiis; +Euclid, Plautus, and Plato; Melmoth’s Letters of Pliny; Vigerus +de Idiotismis Græcis, Londini, 1678, 12mo.; Barthelemy’s Voyage +d’Anacharsis, Paris, 1790-7, 8vo. atlas; Falconer’s Voyage of Hanno, +London, 1797, 8vo.; and Vincent’s Voyage of Nearchus, London, 1797, 4to. + +Of British Classics, this Library contains the Works of Bacon and Locke; +Newton’s Works, edited by Horsley, London, 1779, in 5 vols. 4to.; Du +Bartas’ Divine Works and Weeks; Brown’s Vulgar Errors; Burney’s History +of Music; Chaucer’s Works, by Urry, London, 1602, folio; Charles the +First’s Works; Dryden’s Works, London, 1693, 4 vols. 4to.; Harrington’s +Works, London, 1747, folio; Heywood’s Fall of Lucifer, a Poem, London, +1635, 8vo.; Johnson’s Works; Phillips’ Poems, 1609, folio; Shakespeare’s +Works, printed at London, 1685, folio, and at Oxford, 1744, in 6 vols. +4to.; Spenser’s Works, 1589, 4to.; Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks, +and Temple’s Works; to which I may add Tomline’s Life of Pitt, and +Monk’s Life of Bentley; Markham on War; Spence’s Polymetis; Webb on the +Beauties of Painting, 1760; Bentham’s Fragment on Government; Nicholson’s +Encyclopædia, 1809, 6 vols. 8vo.; a large paper copy of Whitcombe’s +Letter to the Prince Regent; the Edinburgh Review; and Literary History. + +Of Works relating to Bibliography, I observed only + + Bruckeri Hist. Crit. Philos. 4to. + + D’Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale. Paris. 1697, folio. + + Bibliothèque Universelle. Amst. 1687, 7 vols. 12mo. + + Bibliothèque Choisie. Amst. 1703, 14 vols. 12mo. + + Bibliothèque Ancienne et Moderne. Amst. 1716, 6 vols. 12mo. + + Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca. Hamburg. 1708, 14 vols. 4to. + + Journal des Sçavans. Bruxelles, 1681, 18 vols. 12mo. + + Montfaucon’s Palæographia Græca. Paris. 1708, fol. + + Stanley’s History of Philosophers, folio. + + Thuani Monumenta Literaria. 1640, 8vo. + +In Natural History, I noticed only + + Aldrovandi Opera, Romæ. 1638, 12 vols. folio. + + Burnet’s Theory of the Earth. + + Ruellius de Naturâ Stirpium. + +With the following miscellaneous articles I will close my account of the +Gloucester Cathedral Library. + + Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum. Parisiis, 1480, folio. + + Bayle’s Dictionary. + + Chambers’ Dictionary. + + Campbell on Rhetoric. + + Corneilles’ Works. + + Libavii Alchymia. Francof. 1611, 2 vols. folio. + + Maseres Scriptores Logarithmici. Lond. 1791, 5 vols. 4to. + + Puffendorf’s Law of Nations. London, 1729, folio. + + Studio di Architectura, folio. + + Tonstall de Arte Supputandi; and some portions of the Works of + Rousseau; + +only remarking that the greater portion of the Divinity is arranged in +old calf, whose sombre appearance has been relieved by the addition of +new lettering pieces; and that all the books appear remarkably free from +damp, being all in open cases, except a few which are in the locked cases +at the upper end of the Chapter-house, where stand the Busts of Edward +the First, and of Handel. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Hereford. + + +The Library of this ancient Cathedral has been happily preserved in its +original state, affording a most excellent specimen of a genuine Monastic +Library. + +The Chapel of our Lady too, in which this interesting Collection is +deposited, deserves in itself the tribute of a passing remark for its +fretted roof and tesselated floor, its beautiful windows, and its sacred +character. The adjacent oratory of Bishop Audley, translated from this +See to Salisbury, whose gilt and painted roof faintly indicates its +pristine splendour, as well as the tomb of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of +Hereford, 1330, must also attract the notice even of the most incurious +stranger. + +Such a one will not pass unheeded the shrine of Saint Ethelbert, and +the effigy of the Juvenile Martyr; or the Head of the Crosier, the +Papal Seal, or the Episcopal Rings, the relics of John Trillich, the +forty-eighth Bishop of Hereford, A.D. 1360, found in the Choir in 1813. + +The books are placed in projecting cases upon open shelves, to which they +are attached by chains, more monachorum, which chains are fastened to a +bar coextensive with each shelf, and confined by a lock at the end of +each case. Of these the Canons in residence possess the keys; even the +Catalogue of the Library is rivetted to the desk on which it stands, +and all additions made to the Collection are chained beside their elder +brethren. + +These fetters are very injurious to the binding of the books, when that +is of any consequence; and by causing all the volumes to have their fore +edges turned outwards, are by no means calculated to invite the beholder; +indeed it would appear that these manacles were in use long before +lettering pieces came into fashion, and of these helps to the enquirer +few indeed are to be found in this ancient Library. + +The books are chiefly attired in the original calf, though some retain +their wooden bindings, and are arranged in classes in the several cases, +which are numbered in the following manner: + + I. S. Biblia. Concord. Lex. S. Patres. + + II. S. Patres. Concil. Eccl. Hist. Comment. in S. Biblia. + + III. Hist. Eccl. Lexicogr. + + IV. Hist. Civil. & Lib. Classic. Lib. Reformator. & Theolog. + + V. Lib. Scholastic. & Artium. Lib. Jur. Canon. & Civil. & + Statut. + + VI. Lib. Antiquar. & Miscell. Liber Pontificior. + + VII. and VIII. Codd. MSS. + +These projecting cases are placed on each side of the Chapel, in a series +descending from what was once the altar to the wooden screen, which +divides the part appropriated to the Library from the lower portion of +the Chapel. + +On entering the Library, the Manuscripts consequently are the first to +attract attention, and, being both curious and valuable, shall be here +described in the first place. + +One of the most important is a manuscript copy of Wickliffe’s Bible, +folio, imperfect at the beginning of Genesis, and the end of the +Apocalypse, written upon vellum, and recently bound in calf. There are +also very beautiful Manuscripts, upon vellum, of the Biblia Latina, S. +Hieronymi, in folio, with illuminations, the gift of Stephen Boughton, +afterwards Canon of Worcester; and of the Decreta Gratiani, cum apparatu, +also illuminated, and in its pristine coverture of oak, bearing on the +side under horn, the following inscription in Gothic characters: + + “Decreta. Ex dono i̅n̅ Olkeym Lloid legum doctoris.” + +There is also a very ancient Manuscript upon vellum, in the Roman +character, of the “Eꝑlæ S. Pauli,” in quarto, bearing this Inscription, +indicative at once of its antiquity and its worth: + + “Liber sã Guthlaci de prioratu Herefordie.” + +I will next proceed to specify the most remarkable of these Manuscripts +without stopping to indicate the substance upon which each has been +written, it being unnecessary to premise that the more ancient, and in +this case the greater number, are upon vellum. + +Besides the S. Biblia Veteris et Novi Testamenti per Hieronymum, Latine, +folio, and, Evangelia Quatuor Latinè versa, quarto, there are manuscripts +of various portions of the Bible, and Homilies by several of the Fathers. + +I also noticed folios, containing the Works of Saints Augustine, +Chrysostom, Bernard, Eusebius, and Jerome, together with many Glosses and +Postillæ, Decretals and Pandects. + +I also observed the Historia Scholastica of Comestor, and Sermones Petri +Comestoris in folio. A curious volume in quarto, containing— + +“Vita Christi per Bonaventuram; Vita S. Francisci, et Vitæ Inclusarum +Anglicè per Ricardum de Hampul. Item, The Way of Perfection by Henry +Chambernon,” and Guilielmi de Sancto Amore Collectio, &c. quarto, more +interesting from the tradition connected with it, than from its contents, +as every one will readily admit, who reads within it:—“Hic liber +pertinuisse videtur ad Hugonem Latimerum. Episc. et Martyrem.” + +As connected with the early History and Ordinances of the Church, we +have the well known Constitutiones Clementinæ glossatæ à Joanne Andrea, +folio; the Institutiones et Codex Justiniani-Chronica Martini Papæ, &c. +folio; Sylloge Conciliorum Ecclesiarum Orientalium et Occidentalium, +à Martino Bracarensi Episcopo facta, folio; Acta et Statuta quædam +de Fratribus Mendicantibus, &c. folio; Eusebii Cæsariensis Historia +Ecclesiastica, Latinè per Rufinum, cum Supplemento ad obitum Theodosii +Magni, folio; Ludovici de Padua, Tabula in Jus Canon, et Civil. folio; +Joannes de Bromyard Tractatus Juris Civilis et Canonici, folio; and the +Constitutiones Provinciales et Legatinæ, cum Commentariis in easdem. + +Independently of Augustini de Civitate Dei, Sermones et Epistolæ, and +Hieronymi Epistolæ, et Tractatus varii, there are the Works of Saints +Anselm and Gregory; Joannis Damasceni Opera; Cassianus de Collationibus +Patrum; and Nicolai de Lyra super V. Libros Moysis, &c. folio; together +with Petri de Capua Dictionum Biblicarum Explanatio ordine Alphabetico, +folio. + +In the Theology of the middle ages we meet with the subtleties of Thomas +Aquinas, and Joannes Duns Scotus super IV Sentent. folio, as well as +with Adhelmus de Virginitate, &c. 4to.; Nicolai de Gorram Distinctiones +Rerum Theologicarum, A.D. 1400, folio; Roberti Crickladensis, Cognomine +Canuti, (Knight) de Connubio Jacobi Patriarchæ, 4to.; Josephi De +Burgo, Cancellarii Cantabrigiensis, Liber qui dicitur Pupilla Oculi, +folio; Alcwini Diaconi Speculum Morale, 4to.; Ægidii Romani, Eremitæ +Augustiniani, Liber de Regimine Principum, folio; and Hugonis de Sancto +Victore Liber de Claustro animæ, folio. + +As connected with British History, I may mention the following +interesting volume: + +Bedæ, Venerabilis, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica Libris V. cum +Epilogio de Obitu Bedæ; et Chronologia Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium ab +Augustino ad præsens tempus; i. e. Thomæ de Arundel. Archiep. Cantuar. +folio. + +Of Classical Authors, the Manuscripts are few, yet amid such a mass of +obsolete divinity, it is pleasant to recognise the following: + +Ciceronis liber de Inventione Rhetoricâ cum Glossâ, et Fulberti Episcopi +de Differentiâ Rhetoricæ & Dialecticæ. Item, Liber de Officio Oratoris +ad Herennium, 4to.; Boethii de Consolatione Philosophiæ cum Comm. 4to.; +and Petri de Crescentiis, Civis Bononiensis, de Ruralibus Commodis, +folio; to which I may add the celebrated Catholicon Januense, folio; +Isidori Hispalensis Etymologiarum Liber, folio; and Osberni Monachi +Gloucestrensis, Panormia; seu Linguæ Latinæ Dictionarium; scilicet, +Vocabula, Derivationes, &c. folio. + +With these and the mention of the once popular Bartholomæus de +Proprietatibus Rerum, 4to.; and Jacobi Januensis Aurea Legenda, folio; I +shall conclude my account of the Manuscripts, which form the most ancient +portion of the Hereford Cathedral Library, the contents of which are +briefly enumerated in the order in which the volumes themselves stand +upon the shelves, for being all chained, this order cannot be materially +disturbed. + +This list occupies nine leaves at the end of the folio volume, which +contains the Catalogue of the printed books, and bears the following +title: “Catalogus omnium Codicum Manuscriptorum in Bibliothecâ +Herefordensi.” + +I observed, lying upon the table 93 pages of a printed Catalogue of the +Manuscripts in the possession of Sir Thomas Phillipps, at Middle Hill in +Worcestershire, arranged according to the Collections, or under the names +of the booksellers from which they had been purchased, with this general +title: Catalogus Librorum MSS. in Bibliothecâ Philippicâ, folio; which +I regarded as a temporary expedient to assist the recollection of their +owner, for a Collection so valuable and extensive ought to receive such +a detailed description as that given by the accurate and indefatigable +O’Conor of the invaluable Manuscripts at Stowe. Let us therefore hope +that the “Bibliotheca Philippica” may one day be rightly set forth juxta +exemplar “Bibliothecæ MS. Stowensis.” + +We come now to the remaining and most extensive department of this +venerable Library, which includes the printed books, which are briefly +enumerated in a thin folio volume, entitled “Catalogus omnium impressorum +Librorum Bibliothecæ Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Herefordensis juxta ordinem +alphabeticum digestus.” + +The true bibliographer, (Spirit of envy, say not bibliomaniac), will +imagine with what pleasure I turned from the vague indication of ‘Legenda +Aurea’ in this Catalogue, to its corresponding number on the shelves, and +found it to be the veritable Golden Legende of William Caxton. + +To those who in Dibdinian phraseology are familiar with this “thumping +folio,” I need say no more than that it is very sound in the middle, +though much stained at the end; and that it is preserved in its original +binding of stamped calf, with the brass knobs and clasps. This copy is +however unfortunately defective at the end, wanting all the leaves after +“folio cccc.xxxix.” It also wants the Prologue and Table, five leaves, +beginning with folio i. and continuing entire to folio cccc.xxxix. +inclusive. + +As a meet companion to this noble specimen of the early English press, +I may cite a very fine early Terence, in a rude Roman type, without +any distinction of verses, or name of printer, place, or date. This +interesting volume consists of 246 leaves, and has 35 lines in a full +page. It commences with the life of Publius Terentius Afer, having the +first letter illuminated, and ends with these verses: + + “Qui cupit obtrusam frugem gustasse Terenti + Donatum querat noscere grammaticum.” + +It is bound up with a Manuscript of Terence, entitled, “Pars Comœd. +P. Terentii, partim MS. cum Expos. Florii,” &c. apparently in an old +English hand; and at the end of the volume, in Gothic character, is this +inscription: “Liber est sui Olkeym Lloid.” The book retains its original +wooden binding, covered with calf, and confined by clasps. On the centre +of its right side, under a plate of horn is the following inscription +upon paper, in the Gothic character: + + “Terenciᵘˢ cu̅ donato. Ex dono m̅. Olkeym Lloyd, qu̅dam Canonum + huj’ Ecclie.—” + +Whilst on the subject of early printed books, I may mention Higden’s +Polychronicon, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495; Lyndewode, +Provinciale, in double columns, of Gothic letter, with the date of +1433, doubtless by a lapse of the numeral and intended for 1483, folio; +Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum, Argentorati, 1485, folio; and +the Commentaries of Nicholas de Lyra, printed at Venice in 1485, in +5 volumes, folio; Breydenbach, Peregrinationes in terram sanctam, +Antverpiæ, 1490, fol.; Ptolomæi Geographia, Ulmæ, 1486, fol.; and +though last, not least, a very fine and found copy of Nonius Marcellus +de Proprietate Latini Sermonis, printed at Venice by the unrivalled +Nicolas Jenson in 1476, folio. This beautiful copy has the first letter +illuminated, and the arms of some former, probably its earliest, +possessor, printed at the foot of the first page. It is preserved in its +pristine coverture of wood, and is quite perfect, having the table at the +end. + +Of impressions of the Holy Bible, the student of the Scriptures will +peruse with satisfaction the following succinct enumeration thereof: + + Biblia Polyglotta, Montani. Antverpiæ, 1568, folio, 8 vols. + + Biblia Polyglotta, Waltoni. Londini, 1657, folio, 6 vols. cum + Castelli Lexicon. 2 vols. fol. + + Biblia Hebræa, cum Rabbinorum Comment. Basil. 4 vols. folio. + + Biblia Hebræa, per Munster. Basileæ. 1543, 2 vols. folio. + + Biblia Hebræa, per Kimchi. Parisiis, 1543, 5 vols. 4to. + + Biblia Græca, per Wechel. Francofurti, 1597. + + Biblia Græca, per Grabe. Oxonii, 1707, 2 vols. fol. + + Biblia Latina, per S. Hieronymum, Norimbergæ. 1501, folio. + + Biblia Latina, per Jo. Castalionem. Basileæ, 1556, folio. + + Biblia Latina, per Pagninum. Parisiis, Stephani, 1557, folio. + + Biblia Latina, per Lovanium. Antverpiæ, 1570, fol. + + Biblia Latina, per Junium et Tremellium. Hanoviæ, 1596 et 1624, + folio. + + { Barker. London, 1611, folio. + { Norton and Bill. London, 1629, folio. + The Bible in English, { John Cousturier, “permissu superiorum + printed by { at the College of Doway.” 1635, 4to. + { Field. Cambridge, 1660, folio. + + Novum Testamentum Gr. Millii. Oxonii, 1707, folio. + + Novum Testamentum Gr. Erasmi. Basileæ, 1527, 1555 & 1570, folio. + + Psalterium Hebr. Gr. Arab. et Chald. 1516, folio. + +As connected with the Church Service, I may mention— + + Breviarium ad usum Sarum. Londini, 1556, 4to. + + Manuale ad usum Sarum. Londini, 1554, 4to. + + Missale ad usum Sarum. 1531, folio. + + Missale Romanum a Concilio Tridentino institutum. Lugd. Bat. + 1685, folio. + + Durandi Rationale divinorum officiorum. Lugduni, 1592, 8vo. + +Of the Fathers of the Church, in addition to the Works of Saints Ambrose, +Cyprian, Cyril, and Epiphanius, and of Lactantius, Clemens Alexandrinus, +Origen, Philo Judæus, Peter and Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Theophylact, +Tostatus and Theodoret; I remarked the Works of + + Saint Anselm, printed at Cologne in 1573, folio. + + Athanasii Opera Gr. et Lat. Coloniæ, 1686, 2 vols. folio. + + Augustini Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1529, 10 vols. folio. + + Basilii Magni Opera. Parisiis, 1618, 3 vols. folio. + + Chrysostomi Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1530, 5 vols. folio. + + Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica. Moguntiæ, 1672, folio. + + Eusebii Præparatio Evangelica. Parisiis, 1628, folio. + + Hieronymi Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1524, 5 vols. folio. + + Irenæi Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1548, folio, and + + The Bibliotheca Sanctorum Patrum. + +Descending to a later period, besides the Works of Thomas Aquinas, Jewel, +Calvin, Lowth, Lightfoot, Hammond, Pearson, Prideaux, Stillingfleet, and +Jeremy Taylor, Chillingworth, Patrick, Knight, and Tillotson; I noticed + + The Syntagma Opinionum. Lugd. 1608, 3 vols. folio. + + Lutheri Opera Omnia. Witebergæ, 1582, 7 vols. folio. + + Grotii Comment. in Vet. & Nov. Test. Parisiis, 1644, 5 vols. + folio. + + Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticis. Amstelod. 1682, 2 vols. folio. + + Zanchii Opera Theologica. Genevæ, 1619, 3 vols. folio. + + Zuingeri Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ. Basileæ, 1571, 3 vols. folio. + +To which I may without impropriety, add + + Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible. London, 1732, 3 vols. folio. + + Broughton’s Dictionary of all Religions. London, 1742, folio. + + Bibliotheca Polonorum Fratrum. + + Bibliotheca Hebræa per Wolfium. + + Bochart, Geographia Sacra. Cadomi, 1651. + + Bochart, Hierozoicon. Londini, 1663. + + Suarez Theological Tracts, and several of the Controversial + Writings of Bellarmine. + +In Ecclesiastical History, I observed many valuable Works upon the +shelves, of which I may select the + + Conciliorum Collectio Maxima per Labbeum, &c. Paris, 1672, in + 18 vols. folio. + + Harduini Conciliorum Actorum Collectio. Parisiis, 1715, in 12 + vols. folio. + + Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ per Wilkins. London, 1726, 4 vols. + folio. + + Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church. + + Picart’s Religious Ceremonies. London, 1733. + + Godwyn’s Præsules Anglicani. Londini, 1616, 2 vols. folio. + + Godwyn’s English Prelates. London, 1601. + + Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History. + + Wharton’s Anglia Sacra. + + Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity. + + Burnet’s Reformation. + + Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy. + + Baronii Annales Eccles. + + Parker’s Antiq. Eccl. Brit. Hanoviæ, 1605, folio. + + Sanderi Vera Historia Schismatis Anglicanæ. Colon. 1628, 8vo. + + Brandt’s History of the Reformation in the Low Countries. + London, 1720, 4 vols. folio. + + Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica. Antverpiæ, 1550. + + Bedæ Historia per Smith. Cantabrigiæ, 1722, folio. + + Fox’s Book of Martyrs. London, 1610, 2 vols. fol. + + Strype’s Annals and Memorials. + + Justiniani Codex, and the Decreta Gratiani, are the most worthy + of commemoration. + +Before quitting entirely the subject of Divinity, I may add that this +Library contains several old concordances. + + Gesneri Bibliotheca per Simlerum. Tiguri, 1574, folio. + + Fleetwood’s Sermons and Tract. + + The Critici Sacri. + + Leigh’s Critica Sacra. Lond. 1646, 4to. + + Erasmi Opera Omnia. Lugd. Bat. 1703, 10 vols. folio. + + Gibson’s Codex Juris Canon. et Civil., in 2 vols. fol. + + Martin Bucer de scriptis Anglicanis, &c. + +Of which Cave’s Scriptor. Eccles. Hist. Liter. Londini, 1688, folio; and +Dupin’s History of Ecclesiastical Writers, London, 1697, 7 vols. folio, +may very properly conclude the notice. + +Of General History it may suffice to specify, the Dictionary of Bayle, +the valuable Collections of Grævius and Gronovius, with the Lexicon of +Pitiscus and the Inscriptions of Gruter. + + Guicciardini Historia sui temporis. Basileæ, 1556, folio. + + Krantzii Saxonicæ Gentis Origo. Francof. 1580, folio. + + Krantzii Regnorum Aquilon. Chronica. Francof. 1583, folio. + + Olai Magni, Historia Gentium Septentrion. Basileæ, 1567, folio. + + Marianæ Historia de rebus Hispanicis. Toleti, 1592, folio. + + Montfaucon’s Antiquities, translated by Humphreys. + + Blair’s Chronological Tables. London, 1756, folio. + + Collier’s Historical Dictionary and the Atlas de Lisle. + +Of English History, it is pleasant to record such valuable Illustrations +as Dugdale’s Monasticon, by Stevens, and Tanner’s Notitia by Nasmith; +Dugdale’s Baronage; the Publications of the Record Commissioners. + + Scriptores Rerum Anglicarum post Bedam, edente Savile. + + Britannicarum Rerum Scriptores vetustiores ac præcipui. + Heidelbergæ, 1587, folio. + + Camdeni Anglica, Normannica etc. a veteribus scripta. + Francofurti, 1603, folio. + + Camden’s Britannia, edited by Gibson. London, 1753, folio. + + Brooke’s Discovery of Camden’s Errors. London, 1660, 4to. + + Polydore Vergil, Historia Anglicana. + + Ricardi Viti Basinstochii Historia Britanniæ. 1611, 8vo. + + Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum. Francof. 1601, + folio. + + Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana. Londini, 1571, folio. + + The Chronicles of Harding. London, 1543. + + The Chronicles of Fabian. London, 1559. + + The Chronicles of Cooper. London, 1560. + + The Chronicles of Holinshed. London, 1574, 2 vols. folio. + + Rushworth’s Historical Collections. London, 1721, 6 vols. folio. + + Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. Oxford, 1707, 2 vols. + folio. + + Thurloe’s State Papers. + + Kippis’s Biographia Britannica. + + Gibson’s Home Lacy, &c. Oxon. 1674. + + Borlase’s Cornwall. + + Wood’s Antiquitates Oxonienses. 1674. + + Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon. 1691. + + Sandford’s Genealogical History of the Kings of England. + +To which I may add, as the most proper sequel, + + Balæi Scriptores Britannici. Wesaliæ, 1548, 4to. and + + Nicolson’s valuable Historical Library. + +Of Law, it will be enough to mention the Statutes at large; Blackstone’s +Commentaries; Cunningham’s Law Dictionary; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum, +Cantabrigiæ, 1685; Durandi Speculum Juris, Basileæ, 1574, folio. + +Of Classical Authors, in addition to the Works of Aristotle, I may +enumerate, + + Aristophanes, Stephani. Basileæ, 1547. + + Ciceronis Opera, Lambini. Genevæ, 1584. + + Demosthenes, Taylori. Cantabrigiæ, 1748, 4to. + + Euripides, Barnesii. Cantabrigiæ, 1694. + + Horatius. Basileæ, 1580, folio. + + Livii Historia. Parisiis, 1573, folio. + + Pausanias. Basileæ, 1550. + + Plato, Ficini. Francof. 1602, folio. + + Plinii Sen. Nat. Hist. Selestadii, 1531, folio. + + Plutarchus. Basileæ, 1535, folio. + + Polybius, Casauboni. Parisiis, 1609, folio. + + Strabonis Geographia. Basileæ, 1523, folio. + + Thucydides, Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1696, folio; with Nycoll’s + Translation of Thucydides. London, 1560, folio. + + Valerius Maximus. Parisiis, 1517, folio. + + Virgilius. Parisiis, 1532, folio; with Trapp’s Translation, and + + Xenophontis Opera, Stephani. Parisiis, 1581, folio. + +To which may be added, the + + Josephus of Hudson. + + Poetæ Græci Heroici. Aurel. Allob. 1606, folio, and + + Maittaire Corpus Poetarum Latinorum. Londini, 1713, 2 vols. + folio. + +I may here also most properly introduce the Acta Eruditorum cum Suppl. +Lipsiæ, 1683, et seq. 4to.; the Bibliographia Antiquaria; Bibliotheca +Græca, Latina, and Ecclesiastica of the learned Fabricius; Photii +Bibliotheca, curâ Hœschelii, Rothomagi, 1563; and Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ +Catalogus, Oxonii, 1574, folio; Bibliothecæ Thuani Catalogus, Hamburg, 2 +vols. 12mo.; Thuani Monumenta Literaria, Lut. Par. 1639, 4to. + +With Etymological Works this Library is well furnished, as the following +specimens may serve to show. + + Cooper’s Thesaurus. London, 1584, folio. + + Davies’ Dictionarium. Coloniæ, 1624, 4to. + + Hesychii Lexicon. + + Hoffmanni Lexicon. + + Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis. Oxonii, 1705, folio; cui + accedit Wanleii Antiq. Litt. Septentr. Oxon. 1705, folio. + + Johnson’s English Dictionary. + + Lexicon Arabicum per Erpenium. Leidæ, 1613. + + Lexicon Chaldaicum per Eliam Levitam. Colon. 1560. + + Lexicon Hebraicum per Mercerum, &c. Lugd. 1575. + + Lluyd’s Archælogia. + + Lye’s Saxon and Gothic Dictionary. + + Perotti Cornucopia. Basileæ, 1526, folio. + + Phavorini Lexicon Græcum. + + Suidæ Lexicon. Venetiis, 1514, folio. + +In English Literature this Collection is remarkably deficient, for the +Works of Bacon and Locke, of the Royal Authors, James and Charles; +Merlin’s Prophecies, printed at Frankfort in 1608; and Chambers’ +Cyclopædia, alone arrested my attention. + +I must not however omit Hawkins’s History of Music, and a complete +Collection of Handel’s Music, the munificent donation of his late Majesty +George IV. to the Cathedral of Hereford. + +Though not connected with the Library, I may be pardoned for introducing +to the reader’s notice an old Saxon Map of the World, preserved in +the Treasury. Jerusalem is its centre, and the names of the places +are indicated in black letter, which appears to have been inserted +subsequently to the original Saxon characters. At the corner of the Map +is this inscription: “Exiit edictu̅ ab Augusto Cæsare ut describeretur +hic universus orbis”—signed by “Richard de Haldingham,” and “e de +lafford.” + +The Antiquary will learn with pleasure that a copy of this Map has been +made by the direction of the Royal Society, and that consequently this +interesting relic of antiquity will become much better known than any +observations of mine could possibly make it. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Lambeth Palace. + + +In the princely habitation of the head of the English Church, no place +could have been found more suitable for the reception of the valuable +Library of printed books, attached to the See of Canterbury, than the +ancient Juxonian Hall, rife with historic recollections, and now replete +with comfort. + +This noble room has been so beautifully restored under the tasteful +superintendance of Blore, that all its furniture is in perfect accordance +with the ancient vaulted roof, which hangs above it. + +The modern oaken bookcases entirely surround the room, and projecting at +stated intervals from the walls, make as it were a little book-room in +each recess; so vast are the dimensions of this antique hall, which is +however completely warmed at pleasure by two grand fire-places, one at +each end of the room. + +The books, thus carefully protected from damp, amount in number to nearly +five and twenty thousand volumes, arranged in symmetrical order upon the +open shelves of the oaken cases. + +Some of the choicer articles however are kept in the adjacent muniment +room, of which the Librarian religiously keeps the key. + +The two Coverdale’s, and other early English Bibles, some of the +Caxton’s, and Cicero’s offices, with the Neapolitan Pentateuch, both +upon vellum, will be found reposing in this chamber, of whose principal +contents I have already spoken. + +Previous to the judicious adaptation of the Juxonian Hall to the +Archiepiscopal Library, that Collection was deposited in four galleries +over the cloisters, where it had probably remained ever since the +Restoration. + +Its previous history is however worthy of notice, as a remarkable +instance of the mutations to which literary property is subject in times +of popular commotion. + +This Library is believed to have been founded by Archbishop Bancroft, in +the reign of James the First, but during the civil wars, these printed +books were all seized by the Parliament, and by it subsequently bestowed +upon the puritanical establishment of Sion College. + +In times of great political excitement, men it would seem have no +leisure to attend to nice distinctions between meum and tuum: many of +those volumes consequently got into private hands; and the Library was +in danger of being dispersed, when the learned Selden suggested to the +University of Cambridge their right to the Collection under Archbishop +Bancroft’s will. + +This demand, it appears, was no sooner made than complied with; for in +February, 1647, we find, that pursuant to an order of Parliament, this +Collection was delivered into the possession of that University. + +The Archiepiscopal Library however was not long suffered to remain +separate from its parent See, for upon the Restoration it was demanded by +Archbishop Juxon, and was accordingly restored to his successor. + +Since the period of its foundation, though the Library may have sustained +some losses, yet these I suspect have been more than counterbalanced by +the numerous benefactions of successive Prelates. + +Archbishops Abbot, Laud, Sheldon, and Tennison were distinguished +benefactors. Archbishop Secker enriched it by the bequest of his entire +Collection; and the late Archbishop Manners Sutton considerably augmented +the theological class. + +The first Catalogue of the printed books was compiled by Bishop Gibson, +in two small folio volumes, each containing a full alphabet, and bearing +the following title:—“Catalogus librorum quos summâ curâ propriisque +sumptibus Richardus et Georgius nuper Cantuariæ Archi-Epi. Bibliothecæ +Lambethanæ, compârunt: eosq. successoribus suis Cantuarien Archi-Epis. +supremis Tabulis in Perpetuum relinquendos statuerunt.” The title of the +books, with their dates and references to their places on the shelves are +in this Catalogue correctly given. These two volumes are bound in what +Dr. Dibdin would call “a kiver of parchmente.” + +This Catalogue was afterwards transcribed in a fair hand by Dr. Wilkins, +and continued by his successors to the present time. The arrangement +of this Work is alphabetical, and the titles, dates, and places are +correctly given to each book, with references to their places upon the +shelves, or rather to a corresponding numeral and letter pasted on each +volume. + +This Catalogue is comprised in three folio volumes, each having a +separate title page, which is superscribed with “Catalogus Bibliothecæ +Lambethanæ.” + +The first volume bears the date of 1718, and contains 725 pages +regularly numbered from the beginning, comprising letters A to F. The +second volume, bearing the title and date, contains pages 729 to 1393, +and letters E to O. The third volume, bearing the same date and title, +contains pages 1397 to 2068, and letters P to Z. All these volumes are in +calf binding; but they do not contain all the treasures of this extensive +Collection; for in another folio volume, also bound in calf, we find “A +Catalogue of the Books bequeathed by the late Archbishop Secker to the +Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, A.D. 1768.” + +This Catalogue, compiled in alphabetical order, contains 244 pages, +exclusive of seven leaves at the end, containing “an Index of the +Names of the Authors, whose Works are scientifically placed in this +Catalogue.” In both these Catalogues, though the arrangement is strictly +alphabetical, yet Works relating to different subjects, countries, or +sects, &c. are enumerated under those heads as well as under the names of +their respective authors. + +There are yet three other calf-bound volumes in folio, descriptive of the +contents of this Library. Two of these contain “A Catalogue of the Tracts +and Pamphlets in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, drawn up by Dr. +Ducarel, F. R. and A. S. Lambeth Librarian.” + +The first volume, dated 1773, contains 285 leaves, and letters A to +N, preceded by the foregoing title, and a dedication to Frederick, +Archbishop of Canterbury, by the compiler. The second volume, bearing the +same date and title, contains letters O to Z, and has leaves, numbered +from 286 to 596, after which the pages are numbered, so that the final +number is 618, although the actual number of leaves in the Work be only +609. It also bears the date of 1773. The third volume comprehends an +“Index to the Catalogue of Pamphlets and Tracts in the Lambeth Library, +drawn up by Dr. Ducarel, 1773,” being an alphabetical index of the names +contained in the two preceding volumes. To all these three volumes a +portrait of Dr. Ducarel, the historian of Lambeth Palace, as well as the +keeper of its Library, is prefixed. + +In attempting to convey to the reader some notion of the multifarious +contents of this extensive Collection, I would first beg to direct his +attention to sacred subjects, for Biblical Literature forms one of the +most important features of this valuable Library. + +Here are two copies of the first English Bible, being that translated +by Coverdale, and printed in all probability by Christian Egenolph at +Francfort in 1535, folio. + +The first of these copies, with the dedication to Queen Anne Boleyn, +wants the title, but is perfect, though damaged at the end. It does not +possess the Map, which is so often wanting. This volume measures twelve +inches and a half by seven inches and seven-eighths, and is in old +calf-binding. + +The second of these copies, has the dedication to Queen Jane Seymour, +belonging to the edition 1536, wants not only the title, but the whole of +the New Testament. It possesses however a gratuitous addition at the end, +of thirteen leaves, being “a table of the principal Matters conteyned +in the whole Bible,” printed in the ordinary black letter of the early +part of the sixteenth century. This volume measures twelve inches and a +quarter by eight inches, and is also in calf-binding. + +In pursuing the other editions of the English Bible, I will observe as +closely as I can the order of time, beginning with the joint labour of +Coverdale and Tyndale; + + The Bible, by Thomas Matthew, at the expense of R. Grafton + and E. Whitchurch, without indication of place, but printed + at London in 1537, folio.[23] The present copy retains its + original binding of calf. + + Cranmer’s, or the Great Bible. London, by Richard Grafton and + Edward Whitchurch, finished in April, 1539, folio. + + Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Edward Whitchurch, Apryll, 1540, + folio. + + The Bible, oversene by Cuthbert, Bishop of Duresm, and Nicolas, + Bishop of Rochester. London, by Edward Whitchurche, 1541, folio. + + The Bible, by Thomas Matthew, reprinted from the edition of + 1537, with some alterations, and published by Edmund Becke. + London, by Thomas Raynaldes and William Hyll, 1549, folio. + + Taverner’s Bible. London, by J. Daye and W. Seres, 1549, folio. + + Coverdale’s Bible. London, for Andrew Hester, 1550, 4to.; the + body of this book is in Zurich type, but the preliminary pieces + were printed at London. + + The Bible, by Thomas Matthew, with some variation, and an + addition of the third book of the Maccabees by Edmond Becke. + London, by John Daye, 1551, folio. + + The Bible. Printed at London by Nicholas Hyll, for Robert Toye, + 1551, folio. + + The Genevan Bible. At Geneva, printed by Rouland Hall, 1560, + 4to.[24] + + Cranmer’s Bible. Lond. by John Cawood, 1561, 4to. + + Cranmer’s Bible. Rouen, by C. Hamillon, at the cost and charges + of Richard Carmarden, 1566, folio.[25] + + The Bible. Printed at London, with Cawood’s Mark, in 1569, 4to. + + The Bishop’s Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1572, folio. This + is the second edition of the well-known Bishop’s Bible, and the + last in which the three copper plates of Elizabeth, Leicester, + and Cecil are found. It has a double version of the Psalms. + + Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1573, 4to. The + present is the presentation copy of this book, painted and + richly bound in five volumes. + + The Genevan Bible. London, by Christopher Barker, 1578, 4to. + This edition has two versions of the Psalms; the Genevan, + printed in Roman letter, and that of the Great Bible, printed + in Gothic, similar to the rest of the volume. + + The Genevan Bible. London, by Christopher Barker, 1583, folio. + + The Bishop’s Bible. London, by Christopher Barker, 1585, folio. + + The Bible, the Bishop’s, except the Psalms, which are according + to Cranmer’s Bible. London, by the deputies of C. Barker, 1595, + folio. + + The Genevan Bible. London, by the deputies of C. Barker, 1595, + folio. + + The Genevan Bible. London, by the deputies of C. Barker, 1599, + 4to. Dr. Cotton remarks that probably this impression was a + very large one, as it appears to be the most common of all the + Genevan editions.[26] + + The Genevan Bible. London, by R. Barker, 1611, folio; also in + 4to. by R. Barker, 1611. + + The Bible, translated by Royal Authority. London, by R. Barker, + 1611, folio.[27] + + The Bible. Printed at London by R. Barker, 1612, 4to. + + The Bible. Printed at London in 1617, folio. + + The Bible. Printed at Cambridge, 1629, folio. + + The Bible. Printed by Buck and Daniel, at Cambridge, in 1638, + folio. + + The Holy Bible. Printed at Cambridge in 1657, fol. + + The Bible. Printed at London in 1660, 8vo. + + The Bible, printed by Field at Cambridge, in 1663, folio. + + The Bible, with Notes, and a Preface by John Canne. London, by + C. Bill, and the executrix of T. Newcomb, 1700, 4to. + + The Bible, commonly called Bishop Lloyd’s, containing + additional marginal references. London, by C. Bill, and the + executrix of T. Newcomb, 1701, folio. + + The Royal Bible, with Genevan Notes. London, without name of + printer, 1708, folio. + + The Bible, translated by Anthony Purver, with Notes. London, by + Richardson, 1764, in two folio volumes. + +Having thus briefly enumerated the English Bibles in this Collection, +I proceed to notice, in chronological order, those copies of detached +portions of the Scriptures which have been separately published, +commencing with the + + New Testament, by William Tyndale, 1536, 12mo. being his third + and last revision. + + The Pystles and Gospelles for every Sonday and holydaye in the + yere. Paris, no name, 1538, 8vo. + + The same. Printed at Rouen, without name of printer, 1538, 8vo. + + St. Matthew, chapters v. vi. vii. with an exposition by William + Tyndale, printed abroad, 1538, 16mo. + + The New Testament, in Latin and English, after the Vulgate, by + John Hollybushe [Myles Coverdale.] Southwark, by J. Nicolson, + 1538, 4to. This copy is of the second edition, which is less + rare than the first. + + The Epistles and Gospels of every Sunday and holiday. London, + by Robert Redman, 1539, 4to. + + The Epistles and Gospels, with Postills by divers learned men, + recognized and augmented by Richard Taverner, 1540, 12mo. very + narrow page. The present copy is imperfect. + + The New Testament, translated from the Latin of Erasmus. + London, by R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, 1540, 4to. + + The New Testament. London, by William Powell, 1548, 4to. + + Apocrypha. London, by J. Day and W. Seres, 1549, 12mo. + + The Canticles, or Balades of Solomon, in Englysh metre by + William Baldwin. London, 1549, 4to. + + The New Testament in Latin and English, the Latin by Erasmus. + London, by Thomas Gualtier, for J. C. 1550, 8vo.[28] + + The New Testament, by Myles Coverdale. London, by Reynold + Wolfe, 1549, 12mo.[29] + + The New Testament. London, by Richard Jugge, 1552, 4to. + + The first fourteen chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, + translated into English metre by Christopher Tye: with Musical + Notes. London, by William Seres, 1553, 12mo.[30] The present + copy was presented to the Lambeth Library, by Sir John + Hawkins, on June 21st, 1777. + + The New Testament. London, by Richard Jugge, 1553, 4to. + + The Epistles and Gospels, &c. Rouen, by John Prest, 1555, 16mo. + + The Genevan New Testament, translated by W. Whittingham. + Printed at Geneva, by Conrade Badius, 1557, 12mo.[31] + + The Genevan New Testament. Printed at Geneva, but without name + of printer, 1560, 16mo. + + The New Testament. London, by Richard Jugge, 1561, 12mo. + + The Epistle to the Ephesians, with an Exposition of St. + Chrysostom. London, by H. Bynneman, 1581, 4to. + + The New Testament, by William Allen and others. Rhemes, by John + Fogny, 1582, 4to. This is the first edition of the Rhemish or + Roman Catholic version. + + The Proverbs of Solomon, with an Exposition by T. W. + (Wilcocke.) London, by T. Orwin, 1589, 4to. + + The New Testament, London, by the deputies of Christopher + Barker, 1589, 12mo. + + The New Testament, Beza’s, translated by L. Tomson. London, by + the deputies of Christopher Barker, 1596, 4to. + + Jonah, with an Exposition by J. Abbott, S. T. P. London, by R. + Field, 1600, 4to. + + The New Testament, by the Rhemish-Douay College. Printed at + Antwerp by Daniel Veruliek, 1600, 4to. + + The Old Testament, by the Roman Catholic College of Douay. + Printed at Douay by L. Kellam, in 1609 and 1610, in two quarto + volumes. + + The Rhemish New Testament, with Annotations. Antwerp, by James + Seldenslach, 1621, 12mo. + + The Design of part of the Book of Ecclesiastes in verse, by + W. W. London, by J. Knapton, 1691, 8vo. This book is the + production of William Woollaston, author of “the Religion of + Nature delineated;” but not being altogether satisfied with his + Work, he used his endeavours to suppress it, with such effect, + that copies are now with difficulty to be found. + + The New Testament, translated from the Latin Vulgate by + Cornelius Nary, without name of place or printer, but supposed + by Dr. Geddes in his Prospectus, p. 110, to have been printed + at Dublin, 1718, 8vo. + + The Rhemish New Testament, without place or name of printer, + 1752, 8vo. + + Divers parts of the Holy Scriptures done into English, chiefly + from Dr. Mill’s Greek copy, with Notes. London, for T. Piety, + 1761, 8vo. + + The New Testament, by Dr. Doddridge’s translation revised. + London, for Rivington, 1765, in two volumes, 12mo. + + The New Testament, and a liberal translation by E. Harwood. + London, for T. Becket and others, 1768, in two octavo volumes. + +Among the different versions of the Psalms, this Library possesses + + The Psalter in Metre, with an Argument and Collect to each + Psalm, printed at London by John Daye, without date, but + referred to the year 1561, by Dr. Cotton, in 4to.[32] + + The Psalms in Metre, by T. Sterneholde, &c. London, by John + Daye, 1573, 4to. + + The Psalms in Metre, by Sterneholde, &c. London, by T. + Vautrollier, 1587, 12mo. + + An Exposition of the Psalmes, by Thomas Wilcocke. London, by + T. Orwin, 1591, 4to.; the title whereof is wanting. + + The Psalms in Metre, with prose in the margin, for the use of + the Church of Scotland. Middleburgh, by Richard Schilders, + 1602, 12mo. + + The Psalter, after the Great Bible. London, for the Company, + 1606, 32mo. + + The Psalms, by Sterneholde, with the Tunes. London, for the + Company, 1607, 4to. + + The Psalms, in Prose and Metre, by Henry Ainsworth. Amsterdam, + by Giles Thorp, 1612, 4to. + + The Psalms in verse and prose; with the Songs of Moses, + Deborah, &c. translated by H. Dod, without place or printer’s + name, 1620, 8vo.[33] + + Psalms and Hymns, with the music, in four parts, by Thomas + Ravenscroft. London, for the Company, 1621, 8vo. + + Certaine Psalmes in Verse by Francis, Lord Verulam. London, + for Hannah Barrett, and R. Whittaker, 1625, 4to. The Psalms + contained in this rare volume are the i. xii. xc. civ. cxxvi. + cxxxvii. and cxlix. + + The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. London, for the Company, 1626, + 8vo. + + The Psalms, translated by king James, with the prose. Oxford, + by William Turner, 1631, 12mo. + + The Psalms, in Prose and Metre, with the notes. Edinburgh, by + the heirs of Andro Hart, 1635, 8vo. + + The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. London, by G. M. for the + Company, 1638, folio. + + The Psalms in Metre and Prose, with Annotations by H. + Ainsworth. Amsterdam, by Thomas Stafford, 1644, 8vo. + + The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. London, by A. M. for the + Company, 1655, 8vo. + + The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. Cambridge, by John Field, 1657, + 8vo. + + An Essay towards a metrical version of the Psalms, by Samuel + Leigh. London, by Thomas Milbourne, 1661, 8vo. + + The Psalms paraphrased. London, by Thomas Garthwaite, 1664, 8vo. + + The Psalms in Metre by Bishop King. Second edition. London, for + S. and B. Griffin, 1671, 8vo. + + A Paraphrase on the Psalms, by G. Sandys, set to new tunes. + London, by W. Godbid for A. Roper, 1676, 8vo. + + The Psalms in Metre, by S. Woodford. Second edition. London, + for J. Martyn and others, 1678, 8vo. + + The Psalmes, by Sterneholde, &c. London, by J. Macock, for the + Company, 1682, 8vo. + + A Century of Select Psalms, by J. Patrick. Third edition. + London, for R. Royston, 1686, 8vo. + + Psalms, or Psalm-hymns in Metre, by William Barton. London, by + J. Heptinstall, 1688, 12mo. + + Psalms in Metre, by William Barton. London, by F. Collins, + 1691, 12mo. + + The Psalms by Sterneholde, &c. London, by John Leake, 1693, 4to. + + The first Twenty Psalms in Verse, by N. Brady and N. Tate. + London, for the Company, 1695, 8vo.[34] + + The Psalms by Brady and Tate, the first edition of this + authorized version. London, by M. Clark, 1696, 8vo. + + The Psalms in Metre, by Brady and Tate. The second edition of + this version. London, by T. Hodgkin, 1698, 8vo. + + The Psalms, newly translated, in Metre. London, by Thomas + Parkhurste, 1700, 12mo. + + The first Fifteen Psalms, in Lyric Verse, by Dr. J. Gibbs. + London, by J. Matthews, 1701, 4to. + + The Psalms, with the Argument of each Psalm, by Dr. Allix. + London, by John Taylor, 1701, 8vo. + + Holy David, and his English Translators cleared, being the + Psalms explained by J. Johnson. London, by R. Knaplock, 1707, + 8vo. The second edition: the first having been published + anonymously in the preceding year. + + The Psalms in Metre, by King James. Edinburgh, by J. Watson, + 1712, 8vo. + + The Psalms in Metre, by Sir R. Blackmore. London, by J. March, + 1721, 8vo. + + Ruddiman’s Vindication of Buchanan’s Psalms. Edinburgh, 1745, + 8vo. + + The Psalter in its original form, by G. Fenwick, containing + also a translation of “the last words of David.” London, by T. + Longman, 1759, 8vo. + + The first Book of David’s Psalms in heroic Verse, by Robson. + London, for W. Sanby, 1761, 8vo. + + The Psalms, translated from the Hebrew, in measured Prose, with + critical Notes by W. Green, _M.A._ Cambridge, by J. Bentham, + 1762, 8vo. + + Psalms and Hymns in Metre, by C. Bradbury. London, by M. Lewis, + 1763, 12mo. + + Psalms in Verse, by James Merrick, _M.A._ The first edition. + Reading, by J. Carnan, 1765, 4to.; and many other editions of + the English Psalter of more recent date. + +To this copious Collection of Psalmody I am enabled to add “A List of +Psalters, Psalms, &c. presented to the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth +by the Right Reverend Dr. Thomas Percy, Lord Bishop of Dromore, April +29th 1782,” wherein the Books are arranged according to their sizes. + +_Folio._ + + The Psalms in Prose, translated by Alexander Top. Amsterdam, by + Jan Fred. Stam. 1629. + + The Ascents of the Soul on David’s Mount towards God’s House; + being paraphrases in verse on the fifteen Psalms of Degrees, + from the Italian of Loredano, by Henry, Lord Coleraine. London, + printed by A. G. and J. P. for Robert Harford, at the Angel in + Cornhill, 1681. + +_Quarto._ + + Sacred Hymns, being Fifty Select Psalms, paraphrastically + turned into English Verse by Sir Edwin Sandys;[35] and by + Robert Tailour set to be sung in five parts. London, printed by + Thomas Snodham, 1615. + + Psalm cxix. paraphrased in Verse by George Atwood, B. D. + London, for W. Innys, 1730. + +_Octavo._ + + The Book of Psalms, in Prose and Metre, with annotations by + Henry Ainsworth. Amsterdam, by Thomas Stafford, 1644. + + The Psalms of David, paraphrased by Miles Smyth. London, for + Thomas Garthwaite, 1668. + + Davideos, or a Specimen of some of David’s Psalms in Metre, + with remarks on the Latin translators by Mr. John Phillips. + London, for W. Keblewhite, with the date of 1798 erroneously + put for 1698. + + An Essay towards a paraphrase on the Psalms, in English Verse; + with a paraphrase on Proverbs, chap. xxxi. and Revelations, + chap. iii. by Basil Kennet. London, for B. Aylmer, 1706. + + The Psalms in Metre, by the Hon. Sir John Denham. London, for + J. Bowyer and others, 1714. + + The whole Book of Psalms, with Hymns, and all the ancient and + proper tunes composed, &c. by John Playford. London, for the + Company, 1715. + + Select Psalms, paraphrased in Metre by Dr. Richard Daniel, Dean + of Armagh. London, for Bernard Lintot, 1722. + + Hymns for Christian Worship, by Robert Seagrave. London, 1742. + + A Poetical translation of the Psalms of David, from Buchanan’s + Latin into English Verse, by the Rev. Thomas Cradock, of + Maryland. London, for Mrs. A. Cradock, of Wells, 1754. + + The Psalms of David, translated into heroic Verse, by Stephen + Wheatland and Tipping Sylvester. London, for S. Bink, 1754. + +_Duodecimo._ + + The Psalms of David, by Sterneholde and Hopkins, with Notes. + London, in black letter by John Daye, 1570. + + The Psalms of David and other Holy Prophets, by R. B. (query + Brathwaite). London, for Francis Constable, 1638. This book has + two titles, one of which is engraved, and contains a portrait. + + The Psalms of David in four languages, namely Hebrew, Greek, + Latin and English; set to tunes by W. S. (William Slatyer). + London, by Thomas Harper, 1643. The whole book is engraved on + copper. + + Some of the Psalms of David in Metre, by I. Patrick, N. Brady + and N. Tate. Cambridge, for the use of the University, 1699. In + which is a table relating to Prince Arthur, and a Paraphrase of + Job. + + Samuelis Primitiæ, or an Essay towards a metrical version of + the Psalms, by Samuel Leigh. London, by Thomas Milbourne, 1661. + + A Century of Select Psalms, by J. Patrick. Third edition. + London, for R. Royston, 1686. + + A new Version of the Psalms, with Hymns, in Metre, by Simon + Ford, D.D. London, for Brab. Aylmer, 1688. + + The Psalmes of David in Prose, translated from the Vulgate by + Mr. Carryll, created Lord Dartford by the pretended Prince of + Wales, since James the Second’s death. Without place or name of + printer, but printed at Paris in 1700.[36] This copy formerly + belonged to Bishop Kennet. + + The Book of Psalms in Metre, by William Barton, as left + finished in his lifetime. London, for the Company, 1705. + + Psalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, by the late Rev. Daniel + Burgess. London, for John Clarke, 1714. + + The Psalms in Metre, by J. Patrick, D.D. London, for John + Churchill, 1715. This is the whole Psalter. + + Psalterium Americanum; the Psalms in blank verse yet printed + as prose, with illustrations, and an appendix. Boston, in New + England, by S. Kneeland, 1718. + + The Psalms of David, imitated in the language of the New + Testament, by J. Watts. London, for John Clarke and others, + 1719. + + A new Version of the Psalms of David, by Sir Richard + Blackmore, knt. _M.D._ London, by J. March, 1721. + + A new Version of the Psalms of David, by N. Brady and N. Tate. + London, for the Company, 1728. + + Psalms and Hymns, a Moravian Collection, by the Rev. John + Gambold. London, no name, 1738. + + The Book of Psalms in Metre, that is, in lyric measure without + rhyme, by Mr. Pike. London, by H. Kent, 1751. + + A Select Collection of the Psalms in Verse from the most + eminent Poets, published, with some originals by Henry Dell, + bookseller. London, for the editor, 1756. + + The Psalms in Metre, the common Scottish version, with + annotations by Mr. David Dickson. Glasgow, for John Tait and + James Brown, 1769. + +_24mo._ + + The Psalms of David, truly opened by paraphrases in prose + from the Latin of Beza, by Anthonie Gilbie. London, by Henrie + Denham, 1581. + + All the French Psalm tunes, with English Words, according to + the verses and tunes used in the reformed Churches, &c. London, + printed by Thomas Harper, 1632. + + The Psalms of David, in lyrick verse, with an argument to each + Psalm by George Withers. Imprinted in the Netherlands by C. + Gerrits Van Breughel, 1632. + + The Book of Psalms in English Metre. Anonymous. Printed for + Henry Tutill, bookseller at Rotterdam, 1638. + + A Book of Psalms, in English Metre, close and proper to the + Hebrew, with musical notes by William Barton. London, by + Matthew Simmons, 1644.[37] + + The Psalms in Metre, by William Barton, M.A. London, printed by + Roger Daniel and William du Gard, 1654. + + The Psalms in Metre, translated by Luke Milbourne. London, + printed for W. Rogers and others, 1698. + + The Psalms in Metre, allowed by authority of the Kirk of + Scotland. Edinburgh, by James Watson, 1712. + + The Psalms in Metre, allowed by the Kirk of Scotland. Glasgow, + by W. Duncan, 1734. + +The last article in the List of Books presented by that accomplished +Prelate Dr. Percy is a List of Bibles and Psalters from 1526 to 1776. +London, 1778, 8vo. + +Of portions of the Sacred Scriptures in the original tongue, this Library +contains two very interesting specimens, printed upon vellum, which +are kept in the record room with the manuscripts. The first of these +is the Pentateuchus, Hebraicè, Neapoli, 1491, folio; a perfect, though +stained, copy, measuring nine and a half by seven and a half inches, +and bound in blue Morocco, in the same volume with an Account of the +Naples Pentateuch, printed at Rome in 1780. This volume has also been +described by De Rossi, A. H. T. p. 52. The second is that portion of the +Bible, in Hebrew, denominated the Prophetæ Priores, scilicet, Josue, +Judices, libri Samuelis ac Regum, cum Commentario Kimchi, folio. Soncini, +anno ab orbe condito V̅. CCXLVI. Christi 1485. This volume is quite +perfect, though in half binding, and richly deserves a more appropriate +garment. Its dimensions are thirteen inches by nine inches and a +quarter. It is copiously described by De Rossi at p. 60 of his Annales +Hebræo-Typographicæ. + +To these rare and precious tomes may be added the Biblia Hebraica +Stephani. Parisiis, 1543, in 6 vols. 4to. and the Biblia Hebraica, +Hutteri. Hamburgi, 1587. + +The versions of the Scriptures in various languages, next invite +our attention to the truly magnificent volumes of the Biblia Sacra +Polyglotta complectentia textus originales Hebraicum Chaldaicum et +Græcum, Pentateuchum Samaritanum, cum apparatu appendicibus tabulis, &c., +studio et opera Briani Waltoni; Londini, Roycroft, 1657, folio; with the +dedication to King Charles the Second. The present copy is upon large +paper, measuring nineteen and a half by twelve inches and three eighths, +and is bound in 12 volumes in the original calf. + +In the estimation of the fastidious bibliomaniac, it may detract from +the value of these volumes to be told that they are not uniform either +in size or appearance with their indispensable adjunct, Castelli Lexicon +Heptaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, &c. Londini, +1669, folio. This work is also upon large paper, measuring twenty inches +by fourteen, and bound in three volumes, in calf. + +In this place may be recorded the Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, curâ Ariæ +Montani. Antverpiæ, apud Plantin, 1569-72, folio.; and the Biblia +Hebraica, Græca, et Latina, Vatabli, Heidelbergæ, 1599, folio. + +I will next proceed briefly to enumerate the different versions of the +Bible in this Collection, beginning with the + + Biblia Græca. Argentorati, 1526, folio, and another edition of + the same place and year, in 3 vols. 8vo. + + Biblia Græca, Romæ, 1587. + + Biblia Græca, Grabii. Oxonii, 1707, folio. + + Kennicott’s Hebrew Bible, in 2 folio vols. + +omitting other Greek versions too numerous for minute specification. + + The Latin Bible of 1550, in 6 quarto volumes. + + The Biblia Latina. Tiguri, 1563, folio, Francofurti, 1579, and + Londini, 1585. + + The Biblia Latina Tremellii et Junii. Londini, 1593, and + Hanoviæ, 1596. + +form only a few specimens of a numerous series, embracing also + + The Biblia Latina Castalionis. Francofurti, 1697, fol. + + The Biblia Vulgata. Parisiis, 1534; Londini, 1535; Francofurti, + 1585; Basileæ, 1591; Venetiis, 1583; Romæ, 1598; Antverpiæ, + 1631, 4to. + +and many other editions of the Vulgate. + +To these may be added two editions of + + The Biblia Gallicè, printed at Geneva in 1588, and at Amsterdam + in 1700. + + The Biblia Italicè. Diodati, 1607, 4to. + + The Biblia Hispanicè. Amstelodami, 1602, folio. + + The Biblia Moscoviticè. Ostrobiæ, 1581, folio. + + The Biblia Wallicè. Londini, 1620, folio. + +Of detailed portions of the Bible in various languages it may suffice to +mention + + The Pentateuchus Arabicus, Erpenii. Lugduno-Batavorum, 1622, + 8vo. + + The Pentateuchus, Latine, Stephani. Parisiis, 1541, 4to. + + Cædmon, Paraphrasis Poetica Genesios Anglo-Saxonicè. Amst. + 1655, 4to. + +Among different versions of the Psalter we find + + The Psalterium Hebraicum of Plantin. + + The Psalterium Quintuplex. Parisiis, 1513, fol. + + The Psalterium, Hebraicum, Græcum, Arabicum & Chaldaicum. + Genua, 1516, folio; also that of Tremellius et Junius, and the + Welsh Psalter of 1588 in 4to; and Buchanan’s Psalms. + +Of the New Testament, Editions in the Syriac, Arabic and Armenian +tongues, in the French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese languages, are +contained in this Library, where we also find + + Novum Testamentum XII. Linguis, Hutteri. Norimbergæ, 1599. + + Novum Testamentum Græcum, Stephani, Parisiis, 1550; Erasmi, + Basileæ, 1535; Millii, Oxonii, 1707, folio, and Edinburgi, + 1740, 12mo. + + Novum Testamentum Arabicè. Leydæ, 1616, 4to. and Gallicè, 1567; + at Lyons, 1682, 8vo. and at Rochelle, 1623, 12mo.[38] + +In this place it may not be irrelevant to mention + + Comestoris Historia Scholastica. Arg. 1500, folio. + + Bibliorum utriusque Testamenti Icones. Francofurti, 1751, 8vo. + + Elenchus Theologorum in S. Biblia. Coloniæ, 1558, 4to. + + Vigerii Decacordon Christianum. + + Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible. + + The Critici Sacri, and Pole’s Synopsis. + +The Rituals of the English Church in this Collection are very numerous, +including the Books of Common Prayer, published in London, of the dates +of 1549, 1552, 1603, 1613, 1636, 1637, 1662, 1664, 1680, 1683, 1686, +1692, 1704, 1705, 1706, 1707, and 1768, with many other of more recent +date. + + Also the Book of Common Prayer, printed at Edinburgh in 1637. + + The Irish Versions of 1608 and 1712. + + The Welsh Prayer Books of 1586, 4to. 1599, 1621, 1664 and 1709. + + The Greek Prayer Books, printed at Cambridge in 1675, 8vo. + + The Latin Versions of London in 1574 and 1669. + + The Prayer Book in English and Low Dutch, printed at Amsterdam + in 1711. + + The Prayer Book in Italian, London, 1685; in Dutch, London, + 1704; and in Portuguese, Oxford, 1693. + +To these may be added + + Christennlich ordnung und bruch der Kilchen. Zurich, 1535, 4to. + + The Christian Common Prayer Book, or Universal Liturgy. London, + 1761, 8vo. + +and various other Forms of Prayer, used in the Reformed Churches at +Geneva and elsewhere, as well as Manuals and Prayers suited to different +occasions. + +Rituals of the Church of Rome also occur plentifully in this Collection, +many Romish Breviaries of early date, and several Missals; but none so +early as the fifteenth century. Some editions of the Pontificale Romanum, +several books of Hours and Offices, and various Forms both of Private and +Public Prayer being contained therein. + +I may here also notice Durandi Rationale Divinorum officiorum; the Talmud +Babylonicum, Francofurti, 1721, in 12 folio vols., the bequest of Sir +Gilbert Dolben, in 1724; and two editions of the Koran, of 1543 and 1550. + +The Theological department of the Archiepiscopal Library is so extensive, +that were I to enter into minute detail I should weary the patience of +the reader; but were I to notice its general features superficially, I +should fail to convey a just idea of its contents. + +The best editions of the Works of the Fathers of the Church form a +prominent feature in this Collection, including those of S.S. Ambrose, +Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Bernard, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Cyril, +Epiphanius, Episcopius, Eusebius, Fulgentius, Gregorius, Nazianzenus, +Nyssenus and Neocæsariensis; S.S. Jerome, Hilary, Ignatius, Irenæus, +Isidore, Justin Martyr, Origen, Philo Judæus, Theophylact, Theodoret, +Polycarp, and Tertullian by de la Bigne, Paris, 1575, in 9 vols. folio. +To which I may add the Bibliotheca Patrum, Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, +Dodwell, Dissertationes Cyprianicæ, Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical +Fathers, &c. + +Among the multitudinous Works of the earlier Divines, the Authors +most deserving of mention appear to be, Anselm, S. Barnabas, Basilius +Magnus, Bellarmine, Theodore Beza, Thomas Aquinas, Petrus Blesensis, +Bonaventura, Martin Bucer, Bullinger, Calvin, Cassiodorus, Camerarius, +Clemens Romanus, Alexandrinus, Joannes Damascenus, Drexelius, Drusius, +Erasmus, Ficinus, Joannes Gerson, Grelserus, and the Popes Gregory I. +XIII. and XIV. Cornelius Jansen, Grotius, Hemingius, Hospinianus, Junius, +Thomas à Kempis, Lanfranc, Lactantius, Ludovicus Vives Maimonides, +Peter Martyr, Procopius, Prudentius, Savanarola, Duns Scotus, Socinus, +Spanheim, Stapleton, Suarez, Joannes de Turrecremata, Whitakerus contra +Bellarminum, Udalricus Zuinglius, and many other more or less obscure +writers on Controversial Divinity. + +It may suffice to mention Chamieri Controversiæ, Zanchii Opera +Theologica, Vitalis Speculum Morale, Venetiis, 1513, 4to. and to notice +separately the two great lights of the Reformation, Lutheri Opera, +Wittebergæ, 1550, &c. folio, 2 vols.; and Melancthonis Opera, Wittebergæ, +1601, in 5 vols. folio, with some other Tracts by that illustrious +Scholar and Divine. + +Of the Works of English Divines, I have much pleasure in enumerating +those of Abbot, Allix, Lancelot Andrews, Atterbury, Bancroft, Barlow, +Barrow, Beveridge, Bramhall, Bull, Calamy, Charnock, Chillingworth, +Claggett, Samuel Clarke, Comber, Cranmer, Drelincourt, Hall, Hammond, +Hoadly, Hody, Hooper, Henry More, Kettlewell, Leslie, Lightfoot, +Lowth, Joseph Mede, Perkins, Prideaux, Reynolds, Sanderson, Sherlock, +Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tenison, Tillotson, Whiston, Whitgift, and +Roger Widdrington. + +In this place I may most opportunely notice copies of Henrici VIII. +Assertio VII. adversus M. Lutherum, Romæ, 1543, 4to.; Fisheri Episcopi +Roffensis, Opera, Wittebergæ, 1597, folio; with some other tracts by +that eminent divine; and Juelli Opera, Genevæ, 1585, and his Works, +London, 1609, folio; to which may be added, Bedæ Venerabilis Opera Omnia, +Basileæ, 1563, in 8 folio volumes; Barclay’s celebrated Apology for the +Quakers; and Hyde’s Religio Veterum Persarum. + +I may also notice Bowyer’s Conjectures on the New Testament; Tyndall, +Frith, and Barnes’ Works, London, John Daye, 1573, folio; La Trobe’s +Unitas Fratrum, Lond. 1780, 8vo.; Bythneri Lyra Prophetica; Cosin’s Canon +of Scripture; Derham’s Physico- and Astro-Theology; Fell’s Paraphrase; +Field of the Church; Gastrell’s Christian Institutes; Soame Jenyns on the +Evidences of the Christian Religion; Kiddes on the Pentateuch; Limborch, +Theologia Christiana; Nelson’s Festivals; Norris on the Beatitudes; +Osterwald’s Arguments; Outram de Sacrificiis; Pearce and Patrick’s +Commentaries; Pearson on the Creed; Pococke on Joel; Scott’s Christian +Life; Watson’s Apology; Whitby’s Paraphrase; Wilkins on Natural Religion, +and other Tracts of his; the Muggletonian Controversy respecting +the Quakers, and various Tracts relating to the Jesuits and Popery, +Protestantism and Puritans. + +Of French Divines, this Collection embraces the Works of Bourdaloue, +Fenelon, Fontenelle, Malebranche, and Du Moulin, to which may be added, +Basnage, Histoire des Juifs. + +Of Sermons, these shelves bear an enormous load, among which are found +those of Donne, Latimer, Leighton, and Porteus, with his Lectures and +other Tracts; and of South and Wake, with many single sermons on various +occasions, and the collected discourses of other divines too numerous to +mention. + +The Liturgical Works in this Library may be represented by the Liturgia +Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, Latine, 1594 and 1703. + +The Homilies are also numerous, including Elstob’s Anglo-Saxon Homily, +London, 1709, 8vo.; and the theological treatises of obscure writers +which have rarely survived the events which called them forth, are here +found preserved, like insects in amber. + +I may close this brief and imperfect notice by the mention of De Rossi, +Variæ Lectiones Veteris Testamenti, 1784, in 4 volumes; some Tracts by +the celebrated Laud; Davenant’s Prælectiones Theologicæ; and Alexandri de +Ales Summa, &c. Norimbergæ, 1482, in 4 volumes, folio. + +I may here also notice the copious Collection of Catechisms, of Forms of +Confession, of divers Ceremonials of the Church, various Concordances, +numberless Tracts upon Church Discipline and Ecclesiastical Affairs, and +some curious publications of, and concerning Martin Mar-Prelate. + +In Works connected with Ecclesiastical History in general, this +Collection abounds; and of these I would select for especial notice, +Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici, and Martyrologium Romanum; Socratis +Historia Ecclesiastica, per Vorlesium, folio; the Lombardica Historia, +Basileæ, 1486, folio; Voragine Legenda Aurea, Lond. 1501, and 1507, +folio; the Codex Theodosianus; Raderi Bavaria Pia; Ribedeneira, Vita +Ign. Loyola; Platina, Vitæ Pontificum Romanorum; Bingham’s Antiquities +of the Christian Church; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Echard’s +Ecclesiastical History; Geddes’ Church History of Malabar and +Æthiopia; Rycaut’s Armenian and Greek Churches; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical +Polity; Orosius; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta; the Centuriatores +Magdeburgenses; and Cressy’s Church History of Brittany. + +Of Works relating more particularly to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of +Great Britain, we find in this Library, + + Alfordi, Annales Ecclesiastici, in 4 vols. folio. + + Bale’s English Votaries, Vita Thomæ à Becket. Parisiis, 1495, + 4to. + + Bedæ, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. + + Burnet’s History of the Reformation. + + Capgrave’s Nova Legenda Angliæ. Londini, Wynkyn de Worde, 1516, + folio. + + Ecton’s Thesaurus. + + Foxe’s Martyrologie. London, 1596-1632, folio; with an + Abridgment of the same, 1589, 8vo. + + Fuller’s Church History. + + Godwin’s Præsules Anglicani, and Catalogue of English Bishops. + + Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Duaci, 1622, folio. + + Inett’s History of the English Church. + + Lyndewode Provinciale. + + S.S. Martyrum in Angliâ Passiones. Romæ, 1584, folio. + + Martyrologium Protestantium. Hanoviæ, 8vo. + + Parsons’s Three Conversions. 1603-4, 3 vols. 12mo. + + Card. Poli, Reformatio Angliæ. Romæ, 1562, 4to. + + Reyneri Apostolatus Ordinis Benedictinorum in Anglia. + + Spotswode’s Church of Scotland. + + Sanderi, de Origine ac progressu Schismatis Anglicani. + + Spelman’s Concilia Britannica. + + Strype’s Annals of the Reformation. 1709, folio; and Life of + Archbishop Parker, &c. and the History of the Convocation of + Canterbury, 1702, 8vo. + + Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England. + + Usserii Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, with his Annals and + other Works. + + Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, in 2 folio volumes. + +A copious Collection of Councils relating to the affairs of the Church, +forms a valuable supplement to this class of books, embracing as it does +the + + Concilia Generalia, Surii. Col. Agrip. 1567, in 4 volumes, + folio. + + Concilia Generalia Nicolini. Venetiis, 1585, in 5 volumes, + folio. + + Concilia Generalia Binii. Coloniæ, 1606, in 4 volumes, folio. + + Canones et Decreta Concilii Tridentini. + + Gibson’s Synodus Anglicana, and Codex Juris Ecclesiastici et + Civilis. + + Gothofredi Codex Theodosianus, and + + Articuli Synodi Londinensis, &c. + +Of Works relating to History in general, I am enabled to notice the +series of Byzantine Historians; the Speculum Europæ of Sandys; Freheri, +Rerum Bohemicarum Scriptores; the Historia Belgica; Chronicon Regum +Francorum; Freculphi, Chronicon; Leunclavii, Annales Turcici; Rycaut’s +Turks, the series of Respublicæ Variæ; Reuberi, Pistorii, et Lindenbrogii +Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores; Emmius, Rerum Friscianorum Historia; +Herrera, Description des Indes; Ligon’s Barbadoes; Sloane’s Jamaica; +Smith’s Virginia; Rerum Hispanicarum Scriptores, Francofurti, 1579-81, +in 3 vols. folio; Ornhielms, Historia Sueonum, 1589; Krantzii, Chronica +Danica, Norvegica, &c. Aug. 1546; Loniceri, de rebus Turcicis, 1578, +folio; Knolles’ Turks; Olaus Magnus Historia Gentium Septentrionalium, +Romæ, 1555; Mezeray, Historie de France, abregé, Amstel. 1673-96, in 7 +vols. 8vo.; Molesworth’s Denmark, Rerum Moscoviticarum Auctores, &c. +Francof. 1600, folio; Poloniæ Historiæ Corpus edente Pistorio, Basileæ, +1582; and Vulcanii Scriptores Rerum Gothicorum. + +The books which relate to the History of Great Britain are deserving of +particular notice, as well for their number as for their value, since +we here find copies of the Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores, XV. edited +by Gale and Fell at Oxford, in 1684, and the X. Scriptores, edited by +Twysden, in 1652, both in folio; Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores post +Bedam edente Savile, Londini, 1596, and Francof. 1602, folio; Commelini, +Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores vetustiores, Heidelbergæ, 1587, folio; +Commentarioli Britannicæ Descriptionis Fragmentum à H. Lhuyd, Col. +Agr. 1572; Duchesne, Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores, and the Historiæ +Francorum Scriptores Coetanei, edente B. Pithæo; Camdeni, Anglica, +Normannica, &c. à veteribus scripta; Asserii Vita Ælfredi; Baker’s +Chronicle, 1670; Bale’s Chronicle of Sir John Oldcastle; Brady’s History +of England; Majoris Historia Britannica, 1521, 8vo.; the History of Great +Britain, 1606, 4to.; Birch’s Elizabeth; Camdeni Annales Elizabethæ; +Carleton’s Letters, 1757-75-80, 4to.; Chaloner de Rêpublicâ Anglorum; +Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitia; Churchill’s Divi Britannici; Oclandi +Anglorum Prælia, 1377-1558, Lond. 1580, 4to. and his Elizabetheïs, +London, 1589, 4to.; Duchesne Historie d’Angleterre, &c. Paris. 1604, +folio; Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion; Cooper’s Chronicle, +London, 1560, 4to.; Daniel’s History of England; Doleman’s Conference +respecting the Succession to the Crown of England, 1594, 8vo.; Danyel’s +Battle of Agincourt, 1631, 8vo.; Dugdale’s View of the Troubles, and of +the Office of Lord Chancellor; Eadmeri Historia Novorum edente Selden; +Echard’s History of England; Barnes’ Edward III.; Fabian’s Chronicle, +London, 1533, folio; Fleetwode, Elenchus Annalium Edvardi V. &c. 1597, +folio; Florentii, Wigornensis Chronicon, Francofurti, 1611, folio; +Froissart’s Chronicle, Paris, 1505; Galfredi, Monumetensis de Gestis +Regum Britanniæ, Parisiis, 1508, 4to.; Gildas, de excidio ac conquestu +Britanniæ, Lond. 1568, 8vo.; Godwini, Annales Henrici VIII. and Charta +Regia, 1616, &c. Gulielmi Neubrigensis, Historia Rerum Angl. Parisiis, +1610, 8vo.; Hall’s Chronicle, London, 1550, folio; Hayward’s Historie +of Edward the Sext; Hearne’s Textus Roffensis, Oxon. 1720, 8vo.; Lord +Herbert’s Henry VIII.; Sir Thomas Herbert’s Memoirs of Charles I.; Sir +Philip Warwick’s Memoirs; Holinshed’s Chronicle, London, 1587, in 2 vols. +folio; Denzil Hollis’ Memoirs; Howel’s Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ; Langhorne’s +Elenchus Antiquitatum Albionensium, 1673, 8vo.; Laud’s Troubles; the +Life of Sir Henry Vane; Lilii, Chronicon Regum Angliæ, Francof. 1565, +4to.; the Custumary of London; Ludlow’s Memoirs, in 3 octavo volumes; +Martin’s History of the Kings of England, 1615; Matthæi Paris, Historia +Anglicana, Londini, 1571 and 1686, folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis, +Flores Historiarum, Londini, 1570, folio; Sir Walter Raleigh’s History +of William the Conqueror; Sir E. Walker’s Historical Discourse, London, +1705, folio; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Rymer’s Fœdera; the +Records of the Kingdom; Sammes’ Britannia Antiqua; Prisei, Historiæ +Britannicæ Defensio, Londini, 1573, 4to.; State Tryals, 1776-9, in 5 +vols. folio; those by Hargrave, 1776-81, in 6 vols. folio; Smith, de +Republicâ Anglorum, 12mo.; Sancroft’s and Sacheverell’s Tryals; Speed’s +Theatre and History of Great Britain, in red morocco; Stow’s Annales, +1592, and his Annals edited by Howes, 1615; Toland’s Anglia Libera, Lond. +1701, 8vo.; Twyne, de rebus Albionicis; Tyrrell’s History of England; +Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Duaci, 1603, 8vo.; Pontici Virunnii +Historia Britannica, Lond. 1585, 8vo.; Whitelocke’s Memorials, 1682 and +1709, folio, and a Catalogue of the Reges, Reginæ ac Nobiles alii sepulti +in Ecclesiâ Westmonasteriensi, Londoni, 1603, 4to., and the Population +Returns; Wake’s Rex Platonicus; Walsingham, Historia Anglorum ab Edv. +I. ad Henr. V. Londini, folio; Warner’s Albion’s England, London, 1612, +4to.; Weldon’s Memoirs of James I. and Welwood’s Memoirs, 1700, 8vo. + +Among the books relating to Scottish History, I noticed Buchanan’s +History of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1593, folio; and the rare Tract, entitled +Maria Scotorum Regina Vindice, Oberto Barnestapolio, Ingoldstadii, 1588, +8vo.; Brand’s Description of Orkney and Zetland, Edinburgh, 1703, 8vo.; +Wallace’s Account of the Orkney Islands, London, 1700; Drummond’s History +of Scotland from 1423 to 1542, London, 1655, folio; Historia Orcadensis, +1780; Johnstone’s Antiquitates Celto-Scandicæ et Normannicæ; Patten’s +Expedition of the Duke of Somerset into Scotland, London, 1548, 12mo.; +Rochette, Histoire de Marie Stuart; Martin’s Western Islands of Scotland, +London, 1703, 8vo.; Sir James Melvil’s Memoirs; the Life of Wallace, +Edinburgh, 1620; Pezron’s Antiquities of the Celtic Nations; and Torfæi +Orcadum Historia, Havniæ, 1697, folio. + +Of Welsh Histories it may suffice to mention Caradoc’s History of Wales, +edited by Wynne, London, 1696, 8vo.; and Powell’s History of Wales, +London, 1584, 4to. + +I may here notice, Merlin’s Prophetia Anglicana Latine, a Galfredo +Monumetensi, Francof. 1608, 8vo. + +Of Works relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain, the +most remarkable are, Abingdon’s Worcester Cathedral; Burleigh’s State +Papers, by Murdin, London, 1759, folio; Battely, Antiquitates Rutupinæ; +Birch’s Lives of Bacon, Tillotson, and Raleigh; Memoirs of Queen +Elizabeth, and other Works; Bearcroft’s History of the Charter House; +Bertrami, Britannicarum Gentium Historiæ Scriptores tres, Hauniæ, 1757, +8vo.; Borlase’s Cornwall; Carleton’s Letters, 1757, 4to.; Carte’s History +of England, with his Life of Ormonde; Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitia; +Clarendon’s Life, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Works; Ducarel’s +Anglo-Norman Antiquities, Anglo-Gallic Coins, and Tour through Normandy; +Deering’s Nottingham; Green’s Worcester, 1764, 8vo.; Dugdale’s St. +Paul’s, 1716; Doddridge’s Life of Gardiner; Burnet’s Life of Rochester; +Harris’ Lives of Charles I. and II. and of Cromwell; Harris’ Kent; +Rossi Warvicensis Historia Regum Angliæ, edente Hearne. Oxon. 1745, +8vo.; Leland’s Itinerary, edited by Hearne, Oxford, 1745, in 9 octavo +volumes; the Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury; Philipot’s Villare +Cantianum, London, 1659, folio; Lewis’ History of Faversham, 1727, and +of the Isle of Tenet, 1736; Echard’s History of England, and of the +Revolution of 1688; Macaulay’s St. Kilda, and Macqueen’s Observations +thereon; Mallet’s Life of Bacon; Hume’s History of England, London, +1756, 8vo.; Morant’s History of Colchester, 1748, and of Essex, 1763, +folio; the Parliamentary History of England, 1762, in 24 octavo volumes; +and the Debates of Parliament, 1739, in 16 vols. 8vo.; Plot’s Natural +History of Oxfordshire; some of Prynne’s pieces; Rapin’s History of +England, by Tindall; Robertson’s History of Scotland; Stukeley’s Account +of Richard of Cirencester, London, 1757, 4to.; and Thorpe’s Registrum +Roffense; Walpole’s Life of Richard III.; Ward’s Gresham College; Willis’ +Cathedrals, 1737, in 3 vols.; his History of Buckingham, 1755, 4to.; and +his Notitia Parliamentaria, 1750, in 3 vols. 8vo.; and Wren’s Parentalia, +1750, folio; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, Lond. 1721, in 2 vols. folio; the +Stemmata Chicheleana, Oxford, 1765, 4to.; the Lettres Historiques, Edin. +1759, 12mo.; and Sir William Temple’s Introduction to the History of +England, London, 1695, 8vo. + +The Works relating to the Topography and Antiquities of England, embrace, +Adams’ Index Villaris; the complete series of the Archæologia; Atkyn’s +Gloucestershire, 1712, folio; Ayliffe’s Oxford; Battely’s Antiquitates +Rutupinæ; Bentham’s Ely; Blount’s Fragmenta Antiquitatis; Bray’s +Bibliotheca Parochialis; Britannia Illustrata, Lond. 1707, folio; +Camden’s Britannia, London, 1607, and edited by Gibson, London, 1695, +folio; Brooke’s Discovery of Errors in Camden’s Britannia; Camden’s +Remaines concerning Britaine; Charleton’s Stonehenge; Chauncey’s +Hertfordshire; Ducarel’s Account of St. Catherine’s Church, London, 1782, +4to., and of Lambeth Palace, London, 1785, 4to.; Dugdale’s Monasticon +Anglicanum, 1655, in 3 vols. folio; Hasted’s Kent; Howel’s History +of London; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Leigh’s Natural History +of Lincolnshire, 1700, folio; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities, 1695, +on large paper; Loggan’s Oxonia et Cantabrigia Illustrata, 2 vols. +folio; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum, and History of the Exchequer; +Morgan’s Roads, 1689, 8vo.; Newcourt’s Diocese of London, 2 vols. +folio; Paterson’s Pietas Londinensis, 1714; Somner’s Antiquities of +Canterbury, 1703, folio, and his Account of the Roman Ports and Forts +in Kent; Gibson’s Portus Iccius, Oxon. 1694, folio; Spelman’s Villare +Anglicanum; Stow’s London, 1603, 4to.; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, 1695; +Webbe’s Stonehenge restored, 1665; Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed +Intelligence; Wittie’s Scarborough Spaw, 1660; Whitworth’s Register of +the Trade of the Port of London, 1777, 8vo.; and Wood’s History and +Antiquities of the University of Oxford, 1674, folio, and the Statuta +Universitatis Oxoniensis, 1638, 8vo. + +Numerous are the Historical Tracts relating to some of the most eventful +periods of English History contained within these walls. Under this head +may be classed the famous Εικων Βασιλικη; the Defensio Regia; the Royal +Martyr, 1684, 8vo.; Carolus Redux, Oxon. 1629, 8vo.; Douglas’s Account +of the Coronation of Charles II. London, 1660, 4to.; and the complete +series of the London Gazettes from November 7, 1665, to December 31, +1768, in 50 folio volumes, which have been continued from September, +1769 to the year 1783, by Archbishop Cornwallis, whose successors will +doubtless continue to preserve the chain of these ephemeral productions +unbroken to the present day. + +The legal Works relating to the History of England which I noticed, are +the Magna Charta, edited by Blackstone, with some Legal Tracts by that +great lawyer; the Acts of Parliament, from the 8th to the 30th of George +II. in 23 vols. folio, and from the 31st of George II. to the 10th of +George III. in 12 vols. folio; the Acta Regia, London, 1726, in 3 vols. +8vo.; Dalrymple on Feudal Property, London, 1758, 12mo.; the Trial of +Lord George Sackville, 1760, 8vo.; the Trial of James Annesley, and +Richard, Earl of Anglesey, 1744, folio; and Wood’s Institutes of the Laws +of England. + +There are also several Tracts of a Miscellaneous Nature, chiefly relating +to Political Events from 1697 to 1721, contained in 22 octavo, 16 quarto, +5 12mo. and 2 folio volumes; the Gazetteer, from 1714 to 1760, in 28 +quarto volumes; Political Pamphlets, from 1702 to 1766, in 38 volumes +8vo.; the State of Great Britain, from 1711 to 1740, in 59 volumes, 8vo.; +and the Old Whig, London, 1739, in 2 vols. 8vo., all tending to elucidate +an anxious and eventful period in England’s History. + +Of Works relating to the History of Ireland, I noticed Cox’s Ireland; +Pauli Jovii Descriptio Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ, Venetiis, 1549, 4to.; +a Geographical Description of Ireland, 1642, 8vo.; Historical Memoirs of +the Irish Rebellion of 1641, London, 1767, 8vo.; Mac Geoghegan, Histoire +d’Irlande, Paris, 1758, 4to.; Sir William Petty’s Political Anatomy of +Ireland, London, 1691, 8vo.; Stanihurst, de Rebus Hibernicis, Antv. 1584, +4to.; Temple’s History of the Irish Rebellion of 1646; Waræi Disquisitio +de Hiberniâ, Lond. 1654, 8vo.; Ware’s History of Ireland, London, 1705, +folio; and Warner’s History of the Rebellion in Ireland. + +The Historical Works in this Collection comprehend several Pamphlets, and +Works relating to America, together with + + Anderson’s Greenland. Paris, 1750, in 2 vols. 12mo. + + Campbell’s Balearic Isles. + + Crantz’s Greenland. + + Hughes’ Barbadoes. + + Froelichii Annales Regum Syriæ. Viennæ, 1744. + + Hooke’s Roman History. + + Kennett’s Antiquities of Rome. + + Lewis’ Parthian Empire, 1728, 8vo. + + Ockley’s Saracens. + + Shaw’s Travels. + + Raymond’s History of Gustavus, 1761, 8vo. + + Townsend’s Conquest of Mexico, and + + The Universal History, Ancient, 1745-54, in 21 vols., and + Modern, 1759, in 13 vols. 8vo. + +I cannot quit the Historical department of this Library without a +brief and passing notice of those Works which, however remotely, bear +upon the subject. These are, the Illustrations of America, by De Bry, +printed at Franckfort in 1591, in 8 folio volumes, and the Icones Ducum, +published at the same place in the preceding year, in 4to. by the same +indefatigable compiler; the Effigies Theologorum, by Verheiden, Hagæ-Com. +1602, folio; Thuani Historia sui temporis, Aurel. 1620, in 5 folio +volumes; Annales Caroli Mag. per Anon. Helmst. 1594, 4to.; Dempster’s +Antiquities of Rome; Davila’s History of the Civil Wars of France; the +Works of Guicciardini; Josephi Opera Omnia, and Antiquitates Judæorum; +Pauli Jovii Opera Omnia; the Mercure François, from 1605 to 1644, in +25 octavo volumes; Overbeke, Reliquiæ; Urbis Romæ; Italia Illustrata, +Francofurti, 1600; Justiniani Institutiones, folio; Du Fresnoy’s Methode +d’etudier Histoire; the valuable Illustrations of Grecian and Roman +Antiquities, by Gravius and Gronovius, with the Inscriptions of Gruter, +and Supplementary Lexicon of Pitiscus; Potter’s Antiquities of Greece; +Heylin’s Cosmography; Puffendorf’s Law of Nations, &c.; Micylli Icones +Imperatorum, 1544, 8vo.; Montfaucon, Diarium Italicum and Palæographia +Græca; Munsteri Cosmographia; Palladio’s Antiquities of Rome, Oxford, +1709, 8vo.; Raleigh’s History of the World; Wheari Methodus legendi +Historiam; a Collection of Royal Wills, London, 1780, 4to.; and Vincentii +Speculum Majus, Venet. 1591, in 4 folio volumes. + +In Sacred Philology this Library is peculiarly rich, the collection +of Critical and Philological Writers on the New Testament alone, +occupying in alphabetical order, the space in the Catalogue of this +Collection included between pages 210 and 216. It also embraces Wolfii +Curæ Philologicæ et Criticæ in Quatuor Evangelia et Acta Apostolorum, +Hamburgi, 1739, in 5 quarto volumes; and Wall’s Critical Notes on the +New Testament, 1730, in 3 vols. 8vo.; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Leusden’s +Philologia Hebraica; Lowth, de Sacrâ Poesi Hebræorum; Schultens’ Origines +Linguæ Hebraicæ; Wetstein’s Canones Critici in Novum Testamentum, Amstel. +1711, 12mo.; and Wernsdorff de Fide historicâ Libror. Maccabæorum, +Uratislaviæ, 1737, 4to.; and Beausobre on the New Testament. + +Of Impressions of the Holy Bible in this Collection, the most remarkable +are + + The Hebrew Bibles of 1630 and 1705, printed at Amsterdam in 8vo. + + The Hebrew Bible, printed at Oxford in 1730, in 2 quarto vols. + + The Biblia Græca. Wechelii. Francof. 1597, folio. + + The LXX Millii. Amstelodami, 1735, in 3 vols. 12mo. + + The Biblia Latina. Rennis, 1743, and Sabatier, in 3 vols. folio. + + The English authorized Version of 1612, in quarto, wanting the + title. + + Another Old English folio, without date, and the folio + Impression of 1540. + + Dr. Samuel Clarke’s Family Bible. London, 1760, folio. + +I may here introduce the best edition of Sale’s Koran. London, 1734, 4to. + +The Versions of the Psalms, by Barton, in 1688; by Simon Ford, in 1688; +by J. Johnson, in 1707; by Bishop King, in 1707; by Will. Green, in 1762; +and by Bradbury, in 1763; together with Sandys Paraphrase of 1676; and +some French Versions, are found in this Collection. + +Of the New Testament, the editions most worthy of notice appear to be +those by Beausobre and L’Enfant, at Amsterdam, in 1741, in 2 vols. +4to.; by Doddridge, London, in 1765, in 2 vols. 8vo.; and by Harwood, in +1768; also the Manks Testament, of 1763, 8vo.; together with the Novum +Testamentum Græcum, Bengelii, Tubingæ, 1734, 4to.; Clerici, Francof. +1714, folio; and Stephani, Francof. 1601, folio; and Wetstenii, Amstelod. +1751, in 2 folio volumes; Evangeliarium Quadruplex Latinè a Josepho +Blanchino, Romæ, 1749, in 4 folio volumes; and Æthiopicè, Persicè, et +Latinè à Ch. Aug. Bode. Halæ Magdeb. 1749, 4to.; Junii Evangelia Gothica, +and Maittaire’s edition of the Greek Testament, London, 1728, 8vo.; and +the New Testament, by the College of Rhemes, Antwerp, 1621, 12mo. + +I may here properly introduce, Jones on the Canon of the New Testament; +Walchii Historia Ecclesiastica Novi Testamenti. Jenæ, 1744, 4to.; Wells +on the Old and New Testament; Taylor’s Hebrew Concordance; Cruden’s and +Pilkington’s Concordances; Doddridge’s Family Expositor; Calovii Biblia +Illustrata. Dresdæ, 1719, in 3 vols. folio; and Calmet’s Commentaries. +Paris, 1724, in 9 folio volumes. + +Of Common Prayer Books, I remarked those printed at Cambridge, in 1663, +4to.; at Edinburgh, in 1712; at Oxford, in 1739; and at London, in 1768, +8vo.; the Manx Prayer Book, London, 1765, 8vo.; and the Christian Common +Prayer Book, 1761, 8vo.; the Missale Ecclesiæ Sarisburiensis, Duaci, +1604, 4to.; together with Nichols on the Common Prayer; several Tracts +upon the Liturgy, and a Copious Preparation for the Sacrament; and of +Collections of Catechisms and Forms of Prayer for Fasts, &c. from 1740 to +1796, inclusive, in 4to. + +I may here take occasion to notice, Hume’s Natural History of Religion; +Adams’ Answer to Hume’s Essay on Miracles; Wollaston’s Religion of +Nature delineated, London, 1724, 4to.; Rutherforth’s System of Natural +Philosophy, and Institutes of Natural Laws; Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral +Sentiments; Bishop Taylor’s Antiquitates Christianæ, London, 1703, folio; +Price on Morals; Priestley on Education; Reid on the Human Mind; Edwards +on the Will; and Jones on Natural Philosophy. + +In Ecclesiastical History, the Works most worthy of notice appear to be, +Barwick’s Life of Dean Barwick; Bower’s Lives of the Popes; Bull’s Life; +Brandt’s History of the Reformation in the Low Countries. + + Dodd’s Catholick History of the Church. Brussels, 1737, in 3 + folio volumes. + + Echard’s Ecclesiastical History. + + Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica a Reading. Cantab. 1720, in 3 + vols. folio. + + Laval’s History of the Reformation in France, 1737, in 6 vols. + 8vo. + + Gibson’s Synodus Anglicana. + + Godwin’s Præsules Anglicani. + + Heylin’s Historical Tracts. + + The History of the Presbyterians. Oxford, 1670, fol. + + Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity. + + Jenning’s Jewish Antiquities, and + + Lyndewode’s Provinciale. + + Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History, and his valuable Life of + Erasmus. + + Knight’s Life of Colet. + + Laud’s Labyrinth. Paris, 1658, folio. + + Lowth’s Life of Wykeham. + + Miller’s History of the Church. Edinburgh, 1730, folio. + + Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History, by Maclaine. + + Neal’s History of the Puritans, London, 1732, in 4 vols. 8vo.; + with Grey’s Examination of that Work, London, 1736, in 3 octavo + volumes. + + Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. + + Oughton’s Ordo Judiciorum. + + Ecton’s Thesaurus. + + Parker, de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, edente Drake. Lond. + 1725, folio. + + The Life and Letters of Cardinal Pole. + + Sleidan, Histoire de la Reformation par le Courayer, a la Haye, + 1767, in 3 quarto volumes. + + Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus. + + Symeonis Dunelm. Historia Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis à Bedford. + + Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials. + + Tanner’s Notitia Monastica à Nasmith. London, 1744, folio. + + Warner’s Ecclesiastical History of England. + + Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ. Lond. 1737, in 4 folio + volumes. + + Willis’ Thesaurus Rerum Eccles. 1744, 4to. and + + Wodrow’s Church of Scotland. + +In this place I may conveniently record + + Calderwood’s Altare Damascenum, seu Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ + Politeia. Lugd. Bat. 1708, 4to. + + Oertilii Theologia Æthiopum. Wittebergæ, 1746, 12mo. + + Relandi Antiquitates Sacræ Hebræorum, 1741, 4to. + + Reynolds on English Church Government, 1743, 8vo. + + Richardson’s Prælectiones Ecclesiasticæ. Schoettgenii Horæ + Hebraicæ. Dresdæ, 1733, in 2 vols. 4to. + + Vitringa, Commentaria in Esaiam, and his Archisynagogus. + Francqueræ, 1685, in 3 quarto volumes, with some other of his + pieces, and + + Wyttenbach, Tentamen Theologiæ Dogmaticæ. Francof. 1747, in 3 + vols. 12mo. + +I may here also notice Saurin’s Discourses, Amst. 1720, in 11 octavo +volumes; and the Sermons delivered at the Boyle Lecture, London, 1739, +in 3 folio volumes; Bossuet’s Discourses, Jeremy Taylor’s Sermons, +and Cooper’s Sermons on Predestination, and those of South, Skeeler, +Smalridge, Smith, Stebbing, Stevens, Straight, Tebeck, Wake, Walker, +Warburton, Warren, Weston, Waterland, Whichcote, Wishart, Whitby, and +Zirlzendorff. + +Also Miscellaneous Sermons from 1690 to 1713, in 13 volumes, from 1709 to +1714, in 9 volumes, from 1708 to 1763, in 26 volumes, all in octavo, and +another Collection of Occasional, Funeral, and Miscellaneous Sermons, in +23 quarto volumes. + +To these may be added a copious Collection of Theological Tracts in 72 +octavo volumes, of which the 19th appears to be missing; and a Series +of Tracts on the Bangorian Controversy from 1717 to 1723, in 12 volumes +octavo. + +Before quitting the subject of Ecclesiastical History, it affords me +great satisfaction to notice three editions of Parker, de Antiquitate +Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, the first printed at Lambeth by John Daye, in 1572, +the second at Hanover, in 1605, and the third, augmented by Dr. Drake and +printed at London in 1729, all in folio. Of these, the first edition, +published under the Archbishop’s own eye, is on every account highly +valuable. The present copy is filled with notes in the hand writing of +John Parker, son of the Archbishop, and contains several ancient deeds, +described in a letter from Dr. Ducarel to Archbishop Secker, dated July +15, 1758. At the end of the Life of Archbishop Parker a fine portrait of +him by Hogenberg, is pasted at the end of the volume. According to Dr. +Ducarel this book was missing from the MS. Library at Lambeth, from 1720 +until 1757; when Trevor, Bishop of Durham, having had the good fortune to +recover it, restored it to its original and proper repository. + +To this I may add the translation from this edition of the Lives of LXX +Archbishops of Canterbury, 1572, 12mo., made, according to Hearne, by +John Josselin, with marginal notes by some Puritan. “It is a very great +rarity,” adds the indefatigable Antiquary of Oxford. + +Of Works relating to Civil and Canon Law, I may here notice merely +Montesquieu, Esprit des Lois; Gothofredi Corpus Juris Civilis; Gibson’s +Codex; Justitiani Institutiones; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum; +Puffendorf’s Laws of Nature and Nations; Cay’s Statutes at large, London, +1758, in 5 vols. folio, with Observations on the Statutes, by Daines +Barrington, 1766, 4to.; and the Corpus Juris Canonici, Boehmeri, 1747, in +3 vols. 4to.; and Watson’s Clergyman’s Law. + +Of Works relating to Antiquity in general, this Collection embraces +Sallengre, Novus Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum; the Marmora +Arundeliana, edited by Selden, London, 1628, 4to.; the Marmora +Oxoniensia, 1763, folio; Arbuthnot on Coins; Clarke’s Coins, 1767, 4to.; +Wise, Catalogus Nummorum in Bibliothecâ Bodleianâ, 1750, folio; Jameson’s +Spicilegium Antiquitatum Egyptiacarum, Glasguæ, 1720, octavo. + +The Works of Science and Natural History include, Celsius de Plant. S. S. +1748; Ray’s Synopsis; Stirpium Britanniæ; Emerson’s Mathematical Works; +Euclid’s Elements; Keill’s Astronomical Works; Maclaurin’s Account of his +Discoveries; the Philosophical Transactions abridged, London, 1749, in 9 +vols. 4to.; Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, London, 1742, +in 5 octavo volumes; Ronayne and Simpson’s Algebra; Sprat’s History of +the Royal Society; Well’s Elementa Arithmetica; Watts’ Logic, and other +works; Whiston’s Elements of Euclid, and Theory of the Earth, with his +Life, &c.; Lettres sur l’Histoire Naturelle de Buffon, &c. Hamburgh, +1751, in 5 volumes, 12mo.; and Woodward’s Theory of the Earth, 1723, 8vo. + +In Works of Natural History, this Collection, though not rich, possesses +the Works of Aldrovandus and Kepler; Evelyn’s Sylva; Gesneri Historia +Animalium; Grew’s Anatomy of Plants, and Museum of the Royal Society; +Hooke’s Micrographia; Martin Lister’s Historiæ Animalium Angliæ tres +Tractatus, Londini, 1678, 4to.; Eduardi Luidii Lithophylacii Britannici +Iconographia, Londini, 1699, 8vo.; Newton, Optics and Principia; Raii +Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ, and his Methodus Plantarum, &c.; Van Rheede, +Hortus Malabaricus; Scheuchzer, Itinera Alpina, and Herbarium Diluvianum; +the Museum Wormianum, 1655, folio; Warren, Geologia, Lond. 1690, 8vo.; +Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, and the Philosophical Transactions +from 1665 to 1774, completed by Archbishop Cornwallis, and continued to +the present day. + +The Medical Works which occurred to me were those of Boerhaave, and +Dr. R. Mead; Collins’ Anatomy, London, 1685, in 2 folio volumes; the +Pharmacopœias of Amsterdam and London; and Sydenham Opera Medica +Universa; Culpepper’s English Physician; Flud, Opera Medica varia; +Harvey, de Motu Sanguinis, Lond. 1628, 4to.; Pharmacopœia Londinensis, +and the Works of Galen. + +Among the Foreign Miscellanies I would merely mention the Works of +Bochart; some Philosophical Tracts by Buxtorf, and Kuster; the Works of +Le Clerc; Rousseau’s Letters; some Pieces by Voltaire; and Zimmermanni +Opuscula, Tiguri, 1751, in three quarto volumes. + +Among the Geographical Works, I found those of Ptolemy, Baudrand, and +Cluvier; Ortelii Thesaurus Geographicus, and Wells’ Geography. + +Of Voyages and Travels I observed Maundrell’s Journey, Dampier and +Frobisher’s Voyages; Hakluyt’s Voyages, 1598, in 3 volumes folio; +Lithgow’s Travels, London, 1632, 4to.; Breydenbach, Peregrinationes in +Terram Sanctam, Moguntiæ, 1486, folio; Marco Polo, Travels, 1579, 4to.; +Purchas’ Pilgrimes, 1625-6, in 5 volumes, folio; and Wheler’s Greece, +London, 1682, folio. + +The Heraldic Works in this Collection embrace Ashmole’s Order of the +Garter; Collins’s Peerage; Dugdale’s Baronage, folio; and his Usage of +Arms, in 8vo.; Favine’s Theatre of Honor, London, 1623, folio; Gwillim’s +Heraldry, London, 1632 and 1660, both in folio; Hemminges’ Theatrum +Genealogicum; Milles’s Catalogue of Honor, London, 1610, folio, a noble +copy upon large paper, in calf binding; Norden’s Mirrour of Honour, +London, 1597, 4to.; Philipot on Heraldry, London, 1672, 8vo.; Sandford’s +Genealogical History of the Kings of England, by Stebbing, London, 1707, +folio, upon large paper; and the Genealogy of the Kings of Scotland, +Edinburgh, 1603, 4to.; Douglas’ Peerage of Scotland, and the English +Baronetage, London, 1741, in 5 octavo volumes. + +In this place I may briefly mention Lelandi Genethliacon, Lond. 1543, +4to. and his Assertio Arturii, Lond. 1544, 4to. + +The Chronological Works in this Collection comprehend Blair’s Chronology; +Beveridge’s Institutiones Chronologicæ; Jackson’s Chronological +Antiquities; Kennedy’s Astronomical Chronology, London, 1762, 4to.; +Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, amended; Bishop Squire’s Essay +on Greek Chronology; Wise’s History and Chronology of the Fabulous +Ages; and a Collection of Almanacks from 1695 to 1714; the Chronicon +Alexandrinum, 1615, 4to.; the Persian Chronology, by Livelie, London, +1597, 8vo.; the English Chronology, Oxford, 1696, 12mo.; Chronologia +Sacra, Parisiis, 1652; the Fasciculus Temporum, Lovaniæ, 1476, folio, +and Norimbergæ, 1481, folio; Petavii Doctrina Temporum; and Jackson’s +Chronological Antiquities. + +The consideration of ancient time leads the mind naturally back to the +great authors of Greece and Rome, of whose immortal Works many grace the +shelves of this great Collection. + +The Archiepiscopal Library includes various editions of the Works of +Aristotle, Arrian, Aulus Gellius, Bion, and Moschus, Cicero, Columella, +Cornelius Nepos, Dion Cassius, Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Florus, +Horace, Plato, Plautus, Pindar, Quintilian, Seneca, and Thucydides. + +The scholar will here find editions of the Works of Ælian, Æsop, +Arrian, Athenagoras, Æmilius Probus, Ausonius, Boethius, Cæsar, Quintus +Calaber, Celsus, Catullus, Claudian, Quintus Curtius, Dictys Cretensis, +Diodorus Siculus, Diogenes Laertius, Dionysius Areopagita, Dionysius +Periegetes, Ennius, Eutropius, Pompeius Festus, Valerius Flaccus, +Florus, Herodotus, Hesiod, Hierocles, Hippocrates, Homer, Iamblichus, +Isocrates, Silius Italicus, Justin, Lucan, Lucretius, Macrobius, Martial, +Ammianus Marcellinus, Valerius Maximus, Menander, Moschus, Musæus, +Cornelius Nepos, Oppian, Orpheus, Ovid, Pausanias, Persius, Petronius +Arbiter, Phædrus, Philostratus, Pliny the Younger, Plautus, Propertius, +Quintilian, Sallust, Seneca, Solinus, Stobæus, Strabo, Suetonius, +Symmachus, Tacitus & Terence, Tibullus, Terentius Varro, Vegetius, and +Virgil. + +We also find on these shelves, Burton, Tragœdiarum Græcarum Delectus; +Carter’s Epictetus; Creech’s Lucretius; Fawkes’ Theocritus; Whiston’s +Josephus; Veteris Geographiæ Scriptores Minores, à Wells. Oxonii, +1698, in 4 octavo volumes; Cellarii, Geographia; Gally’s Characters of +Theophrastus; Gale’s Opuscula Mythologica; and Melmoth’s Cicero. + +Among the editions of the Classics, I observed Aristotle, by Du Val; +Anacreon, Stephani, Lutet. Par. 1556, 4to.; Antoninus, Gatakeri; Apicius, +1541, 4to.; Appian, Par. 1592, folio; Apuleius, 1610; Aristides, 1593; +Aristophanes, Kusteri, Amst. 1710, folio; Aristotelis et Theophrasti +Opera, Venetiis apud Aldum, 1495-8, in 5 volumes, folio, with numerous +editions of detached pieces by the Stagyrite; Athenæus Casauboni, +Aurelius Victor, 1596, 12mo.; Callimachus, Spanheim; Cæsar, by Clarke, +on large paper, in red morocco, folio; Ciceronis Opera Lambini, with +various editions of his Works separately published; Dares, Phrygius, +Xylandri; Demosthenes, Wolfii; Dio Cassius, Xylandri; Dionysius +Halicarnassensis, Hudsoni, Epictetus, Coloniæ, 1594; Euripides, +Barnesii; Frontini Stratagemata, Lugd. Bat. 1633, folio; Herodian, +Gr. Basileæ, 8vo.; Horatius Bentleii, et in usum Delphini; Libanii +Orationes; Livius, Gruteri, et Clerici; Lucianus, Basileæ, 1563, in +4 octavo volumes; Lycophron Potteri; Phalaris Epistolæ; Philemonis +Reliquiæ; Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii, et ejusdem Epistolæ; Panegyrici +Veteres, Duaci, 1585, 8vo.; Pindarus Westii, Oxonii, 1697, folio; Plato, +Ficini, et Serrani; Plinii Historia Naturalis, Dalecampii; Plotini Opera +Philosophica; Plutarchus, Xylandri & Rualdi; Sappho, 1568; Polybius, +Casauboni, including the Treatise De Tolerandâ Obsidione of Æneas +Tacticus; Statius, Calderini, 1600; Stephanus de Urbibus; Theophrasti +Characteres à Needham, Lond. 1712, 8vo.; Thucydides, Hudsoni; Tyrtæus, +Antv. 1568; and Xenophontis Opera, Leunclavii. + +The editions of the Classics which fell more particularly under my +observation, were Æliani, Historia Animalium; Gronovii, Anacreon, +Glasguæ, 1744, 12mo. Aristophanes, Bergleri; Aurelius Victor, Pitisci; +Callimachus, Ernesti; Cæsar, Delphini; Claudianus, Barthii; Diogenes +Laertius, Casauboni; Diodorus Siculus, Wesselingii; Epictetus, Uptoni; +Euripides, Marklandi, cum Exercitationibus, Musgravii; Herodotus, +Wesselingii; Herodiani Historia, Oxonii, 1678, 8vo.; Hesiodus, Robinsoni; +Homerus, Clarkei & Ernesti; Josephus, Havercampi; Isocrates, Battie; +Justini Historia, Delphini; Juvenalis, Delphini; Livius, Drakenborchii; +Libanii Epistolæ, Wolfii Longinus à Pearce, & Lucanus, Burmanni; +Demosthenes & Lysias, Taylori; Lucianus, Hemsterhusii; Lucretius, +Delphini & Havercampi; Manilius, Bentleii; Martialis, Delphini; Maximus +Tyrius, Marklandi; Orpheus, Gesneri; Ovidius, Burmanni; Plutarchi Opera, +Stephani; Plutarchi Vitæ, Bryani; Plinii Junioris Epistolæ, Longolii; +Sallustius, Gronovii; Sophocles, Johnsoni, Oxon, 1705, in 3 octavo +volumes; Stobæus, Aurel. Allob. 1609, folio; Tacitus, Ernesti; Terentius, +Gronovii & Delphini; Theocritus, Martini; Theocritus, Chr. Porzchbergeri, +Dresdæ, 1744, 12mo.; and Xenophontis Anabasis, &c. Hutchinsoni. + +I may here notice the critical labours of Bentley, Theodore Gaza, +Hensius, Meursius, Scaliger, and Gerard Vossius; the Anti-Lucretius +of Card. Melchior de Polignac; Dawes, Miscellanea Critica; Dodwell, +Prælectiones Academicæ; Gatakeri Opera Critica; Stradæ, Prolusiones +Academicæ; Toupii Emendationes in Suidam; and Sulpitii Severi Opera, +Elzeviri, 1643, 12mo. + +I have reserved for the close of this cursory review of the Classics, +some account of a little tome upon which I put my hand very unexpectedly +among the Manuscripts in the Record Chamber. + + “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies, + When a new planet swims into his ken, + Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes + He stared at the Pacific—and all his men + Look’d at each other with a wild surmise, + Silent, upon a peak in Darien.” + +These fine lines occurred to John Keats, “on first looking into Chapman’s +Homer,” and surely the enthusiastic Bibliophilist may be allowed to +participate in the feeling they so eloquently pourtray, when he first +beholds Cicero’s Offices, printed upon vellum by Fust and Schoeffer, +those famous typographers. The present volume bears the date of 1466, and +is consequently the second edition printed at Mayence. This small but +precious folio, measures eight inches and three quarters by six inches +and a quarter, and is in calf binding. It contains 87 leaves, of which +the 1st and 58th are much stained. + +This volume which appears to have been classed among the Manuscripts +from the resemblance of its type to the handwriting of the middle +ages, derives additional interest from a manuscript notice of Joannes +Temporarius in 1460, respecting the origin of the truly divine Art of +Printing. + + “Chronogr. lib. I. ad an. 1460.” + + “Typographia donu̅ Dei præstantissimu̅ Quo Deus extremis + temporibꝰ no̅ solum Antichristi potentia̅ evertit, sed et + universu̅ orbem inexcusabilem reddit. Quia jam non ex reru̅ + creataru̅ consideratione sed suo ipsius verbo in omnes terrarum + partes, in oe̅s familias, omniumq; populoru̅ linguis transfuso + se patefecit. + + “JOAN. TEMPORARIUS.” + +I have transcribed this curious entry at the end of the volume, with +literal accuracy, as it shews the high estimation in which the infant +press was held, and the direction sought to be given to its gigantic +power by the learned of that day. + +Animated by the same feeling to which I have already alluded, I pursued +my search for the tomes of early time in the archives above, and in the +hall below, with unabated ardour. Great was my satisfaction at finding +the following productions of the legitimate father of the English press. + + The Dictes and Sayinges of Philosophers, translated out of + Frenshe, by Antoine Erle of Ryvyers. Westmestre, 1477, folio. + +This edition bears Caxton’s large mark on the first page, and has 31 +lines in a full page, with signatures. On the recto of the last leaf we +are informed that + + “Caxton me fieri fecit.” + +The present copy of this rare volume is apparently perfect, and is +preceded by the Book of Good Manners, from the French of Le Grand, +printed the xi of Maye, 1487, in folio, which wants all the leaves +preceding the signature B 1. Three leaves of the book called Cathon have +also been inserted in this volume, which measures ten inches and a half +by seven inches, is bound in calf, and lettered, simply “Caxton.” + + The Cronycles of Englond. Westmynstre, 1480, folio. + +The present is a sound and perfect copy, measuring ten inches and three +quarters, by eight inches, and bound in calf. It unfortunately wants the +Descripcion of Britayne, which 29 leaves were printed, though now but +seldom found, with the Chronicle of Caxton.[39] + + Liber Festivalis, or Directions for keeping Feasts all the + Year. Westmynster, by Wyllyam Caxton, 1483, folio. + +The present copy is perfect, having the Quatuor Sermones of 30 leaves +at the end; but the first, and some other leaves are pieced, and much +scribbled over. The volume measures eleven inches and one-eighth by +seven inches and three quarters, and is in calf binding. It is the first +edition of the work. + + Gower, John, Confessio Amantis, the Confessyon of the Louer. + Westmestre, by Willyam Caxton, with the date of 1483, for 1493, + folio. + +This first edition of one of the most popular works of the middle ages, +is of extreme rarity in a state so perfect and so desirable as the +present. This copy is in fact quite perfect, sound, and clean, measuring +twelve inches by eight inches and a half, and bound in calf. + + Speculum Vitæ Christi, or the Myrroure of the blessed Lyf of + Jhesu Christ. Folio, no date. + +This singular volume, ornamented with grotesque wood-cuts, commences with +the words— + + “Incipit Speculum Vite Cristi.” + +concluding with the similar line of + + “Explycit Speculum Vite Cristi.” + +and having Caxton’s large mark on the reverse of the last leaf. + +The present copy is quite perfect and in sound condition. It is also very +large, measuring eleven inches by eight inches and a quarter. It retains +its original boards, covered with stamped calf, affording a beautiful and +unsophisticated example of the Caxtonian press. + +While on the subject of early English Literature, I may remark that here +are to be found the Works of Roger Ascham, Boyle, Cowley, Hobbes, Milton, +Locke, Addison, James the First, Dryden, Bacon, Selden; Swift’s Tale of +a Tub; Spenser’s Faery Queen, London, 1611; the Shepherd’s Kalendar, +London, 1556, B. L. 4to.; Barclay’s Argenis; Beaumont’s Psyche, or +Love’s Mystery; Butler’s Hudibras, and Chaucer’s Works of 1542 and 1598, +in folio, both printed in London; Dives et Pauper, London, by Richarde +Pynson, 1493, folio. This compendious exposition of the Commandments is +the first book known to have been printed by Pynson with a date. The +present copy is unfortunately imperfect at the beginning. + +In the department of English Literature I noticed some Pieces by +Bolingbroke; Burke’s celebrated Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful; +some Political Tracts, by Jonas Hanway; Hartley on the Millenium; +Home’s Elements of Criticism; Middleton’s Life of Cicero, and other +works; Locke on the Human Understanding, and other works; an Essay on +the Writings of Pope, 1756, 8vo.; Dodsley’s Preceptor; Richardson’s Sir +Charles Grandison; Savage’s Letters of the Ancients, London, 1703, 8vo.; +Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks; Shakespeare, edited by Hanmer, Oxford, +1744, in 6 quarto volumes; Sir Henry Spelman’s Posthumous Works; some +Pieces by Swift, with his Life by Lord Orrery; Thyer’s Remains of Samuel +Butler; Tucker’s Commercial Tracts; Milton’s Paradise Lost, edited by +Newton; Spenser’s Faery Queen, edited by Upton, London, 1758, 4to.; +Sir Henry Wootton’s Remains, 1685; and Sir John Davies’ Poem on the +Immortality of the Soul, 1714, 8vo. + +I may here also mention, + + Miltoni Opera Omnia Latinè. Amst. 1698, folio. + + Seldeni Opera, edente Wilkins. Londini, 1726, in 3 folio + volumes, upon large paper. + + Maittaire’s Senilia. Lond. 1742, 4to. + + Coryat’s Crudities, London, 1611, 4to. + + Digges’ Compleat Ambassador. + + Donne’s Poems, Letters, and Sermons. + + Glanvil, de Proprietatibus Rerum. London, by Thomas East, 1582, + folio. + + Gower, de Confessione Amantis. London, by Thomas Berthelette, + 1554, folio. + + Harrington’s Works. London, 1770, folio. + + Ben Jonson’s Works. London, 1692, folio. + + Thomæ Mori Opera Latina. Lovaniæ, 1566, folio. + + Sir Thomas More’s English Works. London, 1557, folio. + + Pierce Plowman’s Vision. London, 1505, 4to. + + Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks. + + Algernon Sidney’s Discourse on Government. + + Sir William Temple’s Memoirs. + + Waller’s Poems. London, 1668. + +and many pieces of fugitive poetry, both in Latin and English, of an +early date. + +Among the English Miscellanies it may suffice to notice some Gratulatory +and Funebrial Verses from Universities; Epicedia and Epithalamia, from +Cambridge; several Tracts relating to the University of Oxford; Spence’s +Polymetis; Dr. Thomas Blackwell’s Letters concerning Mythology, 1746; +Wesley’s Hymns; Observations on the New Testament, and on the Doctrine +of Original Sin; some Tracts relating to Witches in Devon, 1682, &c. to +Dissenters, and to Divinity. + +The Etymological Works in this Library, most deserving of notice, appear +to be various Grammars of the Hebrew, Arabic, and other Oriental tongues, +of Latin, French and English, with the Port Royal Greek Grammar; Baxter’s +Glossary; Buxtorf’s Hebrew and Chaldaic Lexicon; Du Fresne’s Glossary; +Hederici Lexicon Græcum; Hesychii Lexicon; Johnson’s Dictionary, 1755, +in 2 vols. folio; Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum; Littleton’s Latin and +English Dictionary; Lye, Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico Latinum; +Morelli Lexicon Græcum; Parkhurst’s Lexicon; Pike’s Hebrew Lexicon; +Schrevelii Lexicon Græcum; Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ; and Vigeris +de Idiotismis; Budæi Lexicon Græco-Latinum; Buxtorf, Hebrew Lexicon; +Calepini Dictionarium; Cotgrave, French Dictionary; Davies, Dictionarium +Linguæ Wallicæ et Latinæ, and his Linguæ Cambro-Britannicæ Institutiones; +Du Cange’s Glossary; Hesychii Lexicon; Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis, +with Wootton’s Conspectus of that invaluable work; Hoffmanni Lexicon; +Hoogeveen, Doctrina Particulorum, and the Catholicon Januense, Rothomagi, +1511, 8vo.; the Dictionarium Pauperum, Parisiis, 1498, 4to.; Samuel +Johnson’s English Dictionary, edited by Todd, London, 1818, in 4 +volumes, 4to.; Lhuyd’s Archæologia Britannica, Oxon. 1707, folio; +Lilii Lexicon Græco-Latinum, Londini, 1540, 4to.; Linacer, de emendatâ +Structurâ Latini Sermonis, Lutetiæ, 1550, 8vo.; Lye, Dictionarium +Saxonico et Gothico Latinum, à Manning, Lond. 1772, in 2 volumes, +folio; Menage, Dictionnaire Etymologique de la Langue Française, 1694, +folio; Minsheu, Ductor. in Linguas XI. Lond. 1617; and his Vocabularium +Hispanico-Latinum et Anglicum, 1617, folio; Pagnini Lexicon Hebraicum; +Julii Pollucis Onomasticon; Putschii Grammaticorum Corpus; Scapula +Lexicon; Skinner’s Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ; Somner, Dictionarium +Anglo-Saxonicum, with his Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum; Spelmanni +Glossarium Archæologicum; Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ; Suidæ Lexicon, +Kusteri, &c.; Woide, Lexicon Egyptiaco-Latinum, Oxonii, 1775, 4to.; +and his Grammatica Egyptiaca, Oxonii, 1778, 4to.; Elfrici, Grammatica +Latino-Saxonica; Elstob’s Saxon Grammar, and other Grammars of different +languages. + +The Bibliographical Works in this Collection, although not numerous, +embrace the Scriptorum Historiæ Britannicæ Catalogus à Pitseo; the +voluminous Acta Eruditorum of Leipsic; Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Vetus +et Nova; Beughem’s Incunabula Typographica; the Bibliotheca Thevenothana, +Lutet. Par. 1694, 8vo.; Mongitori Bibliotheca Sicula; the Catalogus +Universalis Librorum, Lond. 1699, in 2 octavo volumes; Catalogus MSS. +Angliæ et Hiberniæ, Oxonii, 1697, folio; Catalogus Librorum MSS. in +Bibliothecâ Cottonianâ, Oxon. 1696, folio; Catalogus Bibliothecæ +Trajectinæ, 1607, 4to.; Catalogus Librorum Francofurti, 1564-92; Cave, +Historia Literaria; Altamura, Bibliotheca Dominicana, 1677; Catalogus +Librorum MSS. in Bibliothecâ Tenisonianâ, et Dugdalianâ, Oxonii, +1692, 4to.; Dupin, Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques; Le Long, +Bibliotheca Sacra; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca, et Latina; Bibliographia +Antiquaria, and other smaller pieces; Gesneri Bibliotheca; Hallervordii +Bibliotheca Curiosa; D’Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale; Three Indices +Expurgatorii; Kuster, Bibliotheca Librorum Novorum, Traj. ad Rhen. 1691, +in 5 duodecimo volumes; Labbe, Bibliotheca Librorum MSS. Paris, 1657, in +2 volumes, folio; Llewellyn’s Welsh Version of the Bible, 1768, 8vo.; +Mabillon de Rê diplomaticâ; Maittaire, Stephanorum Historia; Memoirs of +Literature for 1712 and 1713, folio; Morhof’s Polyhistor Literarius, +Lubecæ, 4to.; Nesselii Catalogus MSS. Vindobonensium, folio; Nicholson’s +English, Irish, and Scotch Historical Libraries; Sixti Senensis +Bibliotheca Sancta; Stanley’s History of Philosophy; the Journals des +Scavans, &c.; and a List of Bibles and Psalters from 1526 to 1776, +London, 1778, 8vo. + +Of Works relating to Literary History and Bibliography, I observed the +Acta Eruditorum; Ames’ Typographical Antiquities; Bayle’s Dictionary; +Catalogus Codd. MSS. in Bibliothecâ Taurinensi, 1749, folio; Bibliotheca +Librorum novorum à Neocoro, Utrecht, 1697, in 5 vols. 8vo.; Catalogus +Bibliothecæ Coll. Reg. Medicorum, Londini, 1757, 8vo.; Bruckeri Historia +Critica Philosophiæ; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ; a Fysher, Oxonii, +1738, in 2 vols. folio; the Harleian Catalogue; Cave’s Historia +Literaria; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca and Latina, with his Bibliographia +Antiquaria; Le Clerc, Bibliotheque Ancienne et Moderne, Haye, 1730, in 29 +vols. 12mo.; De Bure, Bibliotheque Instructive; the Journal des Scavans, +from 1742 to Dec. 1768, in 149 vols. 12mo. and from January 1769 to March +1770, in 17 vols. 12mo.; Lewis’ Account of the English Translations +of the Bible, 1739, 8vo.; and the Memoirs of Literature, London, +1722, in 8 vols. 8vo.; Casimir-Oudin de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis; +Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, 1748; the Nouveau Traité +de Diplomatique, Paris, 1750, in 6 vols. 4to.; Reading’s Catalogus +Bibliothecæ Collegii Sionensis, London, 1724, folio; Prosper Marchand +Dictionnaire Historique; Schelhorn, Amœnitates Literariæ; Waltheri +Lexicon Diplomaticum, and the Description of the Ratcliffe Library at +Oxford, 1747, folio. + +The Law Books are few and unimportant, comprehending Durandi Speculum +Juris; Sir Edward Coke’s Institutes; Fitzherbert, Natura Brevium; +Littleton’s Tenures; Manwood’s Forest Laws; Nicholson’s Border Laws; +various Law Reports, and Statutes, with other works on Civil and Canon +Law. + +Of Works relating to the Arts, I observed only Evelyn on Medals; the +Medailles de Louis XIV. 1691; Vaillant, Nummi Antiqui. Rom. Amst. 1703, +in 2 vols. folio; Wallisii Opera Mathematica, Oxonii, 1699, in 3 vols. +folio; Wootton’s Elements of Architecture; and Barrow’s Euclid. + +In French and Italian Literature, the Works of Bayle, Boileau, Fontaine, +Machiavelli, Petrarch, and Tasso, are among the most important; to which +I may add copies of Don Quixote and Telemachus. + +Among the Miscellaneous Volumes may be noticed the Reliquiæ Bodleianæ, +Lond. 1703, 8vo.; the Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ; Camden Insignia, à Whear, +Oxon. 1624, 4to.; Camdeni Epistolæ, et Vita à Smith, Lond. 1691, 8vo.; +Bryant’s Mythology; many gratulatory as well as funebrial Verses from +Cambridge and Oxford; Joannis Sarisburiensis Polycraticus, 1513, 4to.; +two pieces by Cuthbert Tonstall; Jones’s Journey to Paris, 1777, 12mo.; +Phillips on the Navy, 1775; Sir Walter Raleigh’s Life of Mahomet, Lond. +1637, 12mo.; Juliani Imperatoris Opera; Spinosa Opera Posthuma; and Capt. +Siden’s History of the Levarites, Lond. 1675, 12mo. + +I will conclude my notice of this ancient Library, by the mention of +Macaber, Speculum Marticinium, 1613, 4to.; and a French Translation of +La Dance Macabre, printed upon vellum, in the Gothic types of A. Verard, +or Guyot Marchand, at Paris. The Illustrations, thirty-five in number, +descriptive of each dialogue between Death and the character he addresses +are highly finished, and very curious. This volume is kept in the +Manuscript Library. + +I may here also notice two volumes preserved in the same repository, +as of peculiar interest, being the Booke of Christian Prayers, printed +at London by John Daye, in 1569, 4to. containing a portrait of Queen +Elizabeth at the back of the Title, and ornamented with wood-cuts, from +designs of the best masters, having the Dance of Death, after Holbein, +coloured. The present was Queen Elizabeth’s own copy, and was afterwards +in the possession of Queen Anne. This interesting volume has been rebound +in blue morocco, gilt and tooled in the antique style. Also, + +The Works of King Charles the First, 1672, folio, containing, in a +curious manuscript note in the beginning, its own singular history, +attested by one who apparently was a competent witness. + + “This being seized on board an English ship was delivered by + order of the Inquisition of Lisbon to some of the English + priests to be perused and corrected according to the rules + of the Index Expurgatorius. Thus corrected, it was given to + Barnaby Crafford, English merchant there, and by him it was + given to me, the English preacher resident there in 1670; and + by me, as I then received it, to the Library at Lambeth to be + there preserved.” + + “Ita testor, ZACH. CRADOCK. + + “November 1, 1678.” + +The volume itself fully corroborates this interesting account, being +disfigured throughout by rapid strokes of the pen through the Monarch’s +prayers, and every expression relating to the advancement of the +Protestant religion, displaying Inquisitorial criticism in its full +vigour, to the enquiring eyes of the nineteenth century. + +I may also mention here, some Tracts collected by Bowyer on the Kalendar, +and a Collection of Political Tracts from 1682 to 1733, in 3 folio +volumes; the donation of Mr. J. Nichols, printer in Fleet Street, Dec. +7, 1776, which afford me an excellent opportunity of alluding to the +contents of that voluminous series of Tracts, thus described by Dr. +Ducarel in the Memorandum prefixed to his accurate and copious Catalogue +of their Contents:— + +“This is a Catalogue of a great number of very scarce and valuable +Tracts, and Pamphlets, from the time of Henry VIII. to that of Queen +Anne, which having for many years lain undigested in this Library were +by order of his Grace Archbishop Cornwallis, methodized and bound in the +year 1773.” + +These Tracts are both historical, and theological, political, and +miscellaneous, and in number so great that I only advert to the principal +subjects to which they refer. + +These are Church affairs in general. The Clergy, Penal Laws, and Tests, +&c., Tithes, &c. The 39 Articles, Baptism, Catechism, Christianity, +English Divinity, Jews, Liturgy, Marriage, Methodists, Miracles, +Prayers, French and English Protestants, including some against Popery, +Quakers, Sacheverell, Sacraments, Trinity, the Bangorian, Socinian, and +Anti-Socinian, Popish and Whistonian Controversies, Warburton, Waterland, +and both the Universities. Also numerous Sermons. + +There are also Politics in general, including American Transactions, +Irish Affairs, Laws, London, Oxfordshire, Parliamentary Affairs, the +Pretender, Scotland, Shakespeare, State Tryals, and others, Wales, +Pamphlets of 1611-44-49, 1696-1716, 1646-58, 1705-26, 1700-17, and +1637-1707. + +There are moreover of miscellaneous nature, embracing Almanacks, the +Kalendar, Biography, Botany, and Physic, Trade, English Poetry, and many +other subjects, in Latin, English, and French. + +This Catalogue also includes an account of the Pamphlets and Tracts +bequeathed to this Library by Archbishop Secker, which begin in 1715 and +end in 1768, and refer principally to the events of that period. + +This circumstance leads me to notice in detail the component parts of +that munificent bequest, his entire Library, which Archbishop Secker +bequeathed to the See, whose highest honours he had enjoyed. + +I have deemed it expedient to give a separate account of this portion +of the Lambeth Library, distinct from that of the original Collection, +being of opinion that the impress of the owner’s mind is in some degree +stamped upon his Library, and that, viewed by this reflected light, the +Prelate’s industry and judgment as a collector, enhance the sense of his +munificence as Archbishop. + +A Library of such extent and importance, bequeathed entire, amply +deserves separate and particular description. + +As might naturally be expected the Theological department of this +Collection is that which has received the most attention from its pious +founder. + +It contains among the earlier Divines, the Works of Anselm, Arnobius, +Basilius, Cyprian, Epiphanius, Gregory, Irenæus, Grotius, Polycarp, +Justin Martyr, Philo Judæus, and other pillars of the Church. + +It also embraces, + + Chrysostomi Opera, à Montfaucon. Parisiis, 1718, in 13 folio + volumes. + + Hieronymi Opera, Vallarsii. Veronæ, 1734, in 11 vols. folio. + + Origenis Opera, de la Rue. Paris, 1733, in 4 vols. folio. + + Tertulliani Opera, Rigaltii. Parisiis, 1675, folio. + + Lactantii Opera, Du Fresnoy, 2 vols. 4to. + + Reeves’ Apologies of Tertullian, &c. London, 1709, in 2 vols. + 8vo. + + Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers. + +Among the Works of the English Divines I particularly noticed those of +Andrews, Bingham, Blackhall, S. Clarke, Chillingworth, Cosin, Farmer, +Forbes, Fordyce, Hooper, Kennicott, Kettlewell, Joseph Mede, Pococke, +Prideaux, Secker, Seed, Thomas Sharp, Squire, Sherlock, Stebbing, Joseph +Stennett, Stillingfleet, Sykes, Synge, Taylor, Warburton, Waterland, and +Whitby. + +Here also are found, Addison’s Evidences of the Christian Religion; +Barclay’s Apology for the Quakers; Butler’s Analogy; Campbell on +Miracles; Chappelow on Job; Durrell’s Remarks on Job, Oxford, 1772; +Dodwell on Marriage, with some other Tracts relating to the same +subjects; Fiddes’ Body of Divinity; Hutcheson’s Moral Philosophy; +Jones on the Trinity; Lardner’s Testimonies; Lavington’s Enthusiasm of +Methodists and Papists, 1749; Lowman’s Paraphrase; Lowth’s Commentaries +on the Prophets; Macknight’s Harmony; Ostervald’s Arguments; Parker on +the Scriptures; Patrick’s Commentaries; Peters on Job; Phillips on Sacred +Literature; Poole’s Annotations on the Bible, and Tracts against Popery; +Pyle’s Paraphrase, &c.; Le Chevalier Ramsay’s Philosophical Principles +of Religion, Glasgow, 1749, in 2 quarto volumes; Universal Restitution, +a Scripture Doctrine, London, 1761, 8vo.; Stevenson on the Gospel +Miracles, with other Tracts on the same subject; Dr. Gregory Sharp on +the Prophecies; Shuckford’s Connection; Smalbroke and Sykes on Miracles; +Tennison’s Guide of a Christian; Trapp on the Gospels, and on the Church +of England; Turnbull’s Christian Philosophy; Venn’s Whole Duty of Man; +Wall’s Infant Baptism; Webster on Prayer; Welchman on the Thirty-nine +Articles; West on the Resurrection; Weston on Miracles; Whitby’s +Paraphrase; Witherspoon’s Essays; Whiston’s various Works; White, Bishop +of Ely, on the Sabbath Day, 1635, 4to.; Stackhouse’s Exposition of the +Apostles’ Creed, and his Body of Divinity, London, 1729, folio, a book +which was lost, but replaced by Archbishop Manners Sutton, in March 1798. + +Of Pulpit Eloquence, the Archbishop seems to have been a warm admirer, +since we here find the Sermons of Abernethy, Atterbury, Blair, Balguy, +Bull, Butler, Bedford, Bellamy, Bennet, Bentley, Berriman, Biscoe, +Brown, Brakenridge, Bundy, Burton, Calamy, Chandler, Carter, Conant, +Crowe, Dalton, Dawson, Delany, Dodd, Dorman, Duchal, Elliott, Emlyn, +Felton, Fleetwood, Forster, Franklin, and Free. Of Gough, Green, Harvest, +Herring, Hickes, Hoadly, Hopkins, Jeffrey, Jennings, Jephson, Jones, +Kennicott, Knowles, Lardner, Mangey, Morris, Moss, Mudge, Newcombe, +Newton, Reay, Ridley, Rogers, Romaine, Rotheram, Secker, Sacheverell, +Seed, Shepherd, and Sherlock. + +Since the foregoing pages were written, a List of some of the early +printed Books, in the Lambeth Library, by the Rev. S. R. Maitland, +London, 1843, pp. 464, has been privately printed, and been followed by +the publication of an Index of such English Books, printed before the +year MDC as are now in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, by the Rev. +S. R. Maitland, F.R.S. London, 1845, pp. 120. 8vo. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Lichfield. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield is preserved with great +care in an upper Chamber of the Chapter House adjoining the Cathedral. +The Manuscripts are kept under lock and key in brass-wired cases at the +one end of the room. The Printed Books are arranged in classes upon open +shelves, and have in many instances been rebound or rebacked, though the +greater portion of them retain their original binding of calf. + +This Library retaining but few of its monastic treasures, was +munificently endowed by Frances, Countess of Somerset, whose portrait +very well painted in the costume of that period adorns the upper end of +the room. In a case beneath was formerly deposited the famous Gospel +book of St. Chad; the doors of this receptacle bearing the following +Inscription:— + + “Sanctiss. Liber + qui intus reconditur + sicut in arca est collocatus + Thesaurus fuit olim et deliciæ + Illustrissimæ Dominæ + Domicæ Franciscæ Devereux + Ducissæ Somersetensis + Cujus pulcherrimam Imaginem + Auspice Lector + et Venerare. + + Hoc Immerito + Clarissimi enim heroici + “Gemmam hanc cui aurum est vile” + Unà cum prope mille aliis Volumen + Dilectæ suæ et semper memo: + Ecclesiæ Cathedral: de Lichfield + Majorem Dei Gloriam et + bonarum Literarum ubertatem + D. D. F.” + +This precious volume has, however, been transferred to the glazed case +in which the other Manuscripts are kept. Its scription is undoubtedly +of very high antiquity, and the uncial letters and other ornaments of +the volume alike attest this fact. This volume is written in Latin upon +vellum, and is bound in russia, lettered “Evangelia Sancti Ceaddæ. +DCCXX.”[40] It contains 236 pages, according to the numeration of some +modern hand. The date of the year 720, though conjectural, is probably +near the mark; and the following remarks of Mr. Nares in his Manuscript +Catalogue may serve to elucidate the literary history of this ancient +volume. + +“Tradition reports it to have been the hand writing of St. Gildas, but +when it is observed that it abounds with gross errors both in orthography +and grammar, it becomes impossible to believe it the work of any learned +scribe. The characters are round and fair, having a strong affinity to +the Saxon letters, and the Saxon words and names occurring in the margins +plainly show that the book had been in much use for administering oaths +under the Government of that people.” The size of the volume is large +quarto apparently, though truly I think it is in folio. + +A beautiful and valuable Manuscript of the Poems of Chaucer, written upon +vellum in a noble folio volume, contains 292 leaves, but unfortunately +wants that which ought to intervene between the 209th and the 210th of +Mr. Nares’ enumeration. It would be a curious task to compare the text +of this venerable Manuscript with the first printed editions of the +Canterbury Tales, &c. from the press of Caxton. This book has also been +protected by a russia surtout, and it contains some elegant illuminations. + +I also remarked the Manuscript Poems of William Kingsmyle, Knight; +Archdeacon Smalbrooke’s Common Place Book; the Codex Justiniani; Taxatio +Papæ Nicolai; Scire Mori; A Pricke of Conscience; A Tract of St. Anselm, +and several volumes of Adversaria Theologica, bound in calf. + +This Catalogue, given in vol. II. p. 32 of the Catalogus MSS. Angliæ et +Hiberniæ, Oxon, 1672, folio, attributed to Humphry Wanley, contains all +the books at present in the Library, with the exception of Nos. 1389, +1396, 1399, 1404, 1406. + +Many of the Manuscripts were in the old Monastic Library, but others were +part of the bequest of the Countess of Somerset in 1672. A Catalogue of +the entire Collection bequeathed to the Cathedral by that noble lady is +preserved among the Manuscripts. An old borrowing book too, used by +Samuel Johnson in 1774, is there also preserved. + +In this case is preserved the most brilliant Gem of this Collection, +being no less than Caxton’s History of King Arthur, folio, whose well +known colophon runneth thus: + + “Thus endeth this noble and joyous book entitled LA MORTE + DARTHUR; notwithstanding, it treateth of the birth, life, and + acts of the said King Arthur, of his noble Knights of the + Round Table, their marvellous conquests and adventures, the + atchieving of the Sangreal, and in the end the dolorous death + and departing out of this world of them all. Which book was + reduced in to English by Sir Thomas Malory, Knight, as afore + is said, and by me divided in to XXI books, chaptered and + imprinted, and finished in the Abbey Westminster the last day + of July, the year of our Lord M.CCCCLXXXV. + + “Caxton me fieri fecit.” + +This is one of the rarest of Caxton’s productions, a perfect Copy is +in the Library of Lord Jersey at Osterley, formerly in the Harleian +Collection, which I believe is the only other copy known. The present +copy is elegantly bound in olive coloured Venetian morocco with gilt +leaves. + +This volume which I had a subsequent opportunity of examining, I found +to be an imperfect copy of the Life and Actes of King Arthur, folio, +bound in Venetian Morocco with gilt leaves. It is printed in double +columns of black letter, entwined by some barbarous wood-cuts, with the +chapter-numbers on the head line in italic character. It is imperfect +both at the beginning and the end, commencing with the “Prologus” on +sign. Ψ. ii. and ending with a leaf of “The xxist booke,” having the +catchword “now.” on the recto, and “were” on the reverse. This volume +measures ten inches and a half by seven inches and three quarters. + +The oldest English Bible in this Library is the Bible by Cranmer, printed +at London by Edward Whytchurche in 1540, whereof the title, which is +encadred in wood cuts, runneth thus: + +¶ The Byble in Englyshe, that is to saye the conte̅t of al the holy +scrypture, both of yᵉ olde, and newe testam̅et, with a prologe therinto, +made by the reuerende father in God, Thomas archbysshop of Cantorbury. +¶ This is the Byble apoynted to the vse of the churches. + +The present Copy has the title inlaid, and is bound in the original calf +with plain brass clasps. + +Next to this stood the two stately folios of Ogilvie’s Bible of 1660 in +red morocco. + + Buck and Daniel’s Bible of 1638, divided into five thin folio + volumes, bound in old blue morocco. + + Field’s Bible, printed at Cambridge in 1660, in 2 volumes, + folio, attired in crimson velvet, with silver clasps. + + Buxtorf’s Hebrew Bible, printed at Basle in 1618, in folio. + + Novum Testamentum è Codice Alexandrino curâ Woide. Lond. 1786. + + Novum Testamentum Stephani. Lutet. Paris. 1500, folio, and + + The Oxford Septuagint, under the editorial care of Holmes and + Parsons, recently bound in 5 vols. folio, in calf. + +To which may be added + + Walton’s Polyglott of 1657, with Castell’s Lexicon. + + The Biblia Polyglotta Montani, printed by Plantin, at Antwerp, + in 1569, in 5 volumes folio. + +the three last named articles being bound in calf; and a pretty correct +estimate may be formed of the Biblical treasures of the Lichfield +Cathedral Library. + +In Divinity there are numerous Works, many of which are too +insignificant, and others of too common occurrence to mention; but to +give some idea of the value of the Library in this its most important +department, it may suffice to enumerate, + + The Bibliotheca Maxima and Bibliotheca Patrum, printed at Paris + in 1624, in 5 vols. folio, all in calf. + + Bingham’s Works, in 2 vols. folio. London, 1726, a fine copy in + old calf. + +To which may be added the Works of Eusebius, Newton, Usher, Erasmus, +Mosheim, Grotius, Warburton, and Calvin; Pole’s Synopsis, and the Critici +Sacri. + +In Ecclesiastical History we find the valuable Works of Echard and Dupin; +Basnage’s History of the Jews; Cressy’s Church History of Brittany; +Wilkins’ Concilia; Strype’s Annals; Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy; +the Ecclesiastical Annals of Baronius; Fuller’s Church History; the +Historia Martyrum of Fox, Basileæ, 1559, folio; and Fox’s History of +Martyrs, London, 1641, folio; and Bedæ Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica, +Antverpiæ, 1550, folio. + +In relation to the History of England, we find the following valuable +and interesting Works, Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum; History of +St. Paul’s, and of Warwickshire, and View of the Troubles; Camden’s +Britannia; Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion; Burnet’s History +of his own time; Daniel’s History of England; Rushworth’s Historical +Collections; Speed’s Chronicle; Baker’s Chronicle, London, 1679, +folio; Holinshed’s Chronicles, in folio; Gul. Neubrigensis Historia +Rerum Anglicarum curante Thoma Hearne, 3 vols. 8vo.; Virunnii Historia +Britonum; Bracton de Legibus Angliæ; Lyndewode’s Provinciale; Kennet’s +History of England, together with the Domesday Book, and the whole Series +of Records and other Documents published under the authority of the +Parliamentary Commission. Add to these Buchanan and Drummond’s Histories +of Scotland; Wynne’s History of Wales; and in British Topography, Stow’s +London; Willis’ Cathedrals; Plot’s Oxfordshire; Dart’s Canterbury +Cathedral; Grew’s Rarities; and Bentham’s Ely. + +In General History the valuable collections of Grævius and Gronovius, +with the indispensable Supplements of Poleno and Sallengre; Thuani +Historia sui Temporis; Puffendorff’s Works; the English version of +Montfaucon, by Humphries; the Chronicles of Froissart and Monstrelet, and +Bayle’s Dictionary, are the most conspicuous features of this Collection. + +Kæmpfer’s Japan, and Norden’s Egypt, also adorn this department of the +Library. + +In Heraldry, a few valuable Works may be here enumerated, Guillim’s +Heraldry, 1660; Milles’ Catalogue of Honor; and Ashmole’s History of the +Garter, London, 1672, all in folio. + +In Philology, it is a pleasure to recount such Works as Ducange’s +Glossarium; Photii Bibliotheca; Hickes’ Thesaurus; Spelman’s Works; +Stephani Thesaurus, and Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum. + +In Geography, Cluvierii Geographia Antiqua, in folio, and Cook’s Voyages, +in 4to. alone met my observation. + +In Poetry, I merely noticed the Works of Spenser, of 1679, and Du Bartas’ +Divine Works and Weeks, whence Milton is said to have borrowed sundry +ideas of his immortal Work. + +Of Classic Authors, the editions contained within these walls are +generally speaking neither the first nor the best, with the exception of +the Editio Princeps of Appian, printed by Stephens at Paris, in 1551, +folio; and Butler’s Æschylus, in 4to. + +In Miscellaneous Literature, I may notice the Works of Addison and Bacon, +of Swift and Fielding, with divers other modern authors of lesser note, +including the long series of the Gentleman’s Magazine, the veritable “Old +Parr of Periodicals.” + +I may also mention Selden’s famous Treatise of the Mare Clausum, written +in reply to the Mare Liberum of the justly celebrated Grotius; and +Drelincourt on Death, a book which, if I recollect rightly, was often +mentioned with respect by Samuel Johnson, the first edition of whole +Life, by Boswell, in 2 volumes, 4to. is appropriately placed in the +Capitular Library of his native town. + +I also noticed Digges’ Compleat Ambassador; Pluvinel’s Horsemanship, both +in folio; and Burney and Hawkins’ History of Music, both in 4to; together +with Reading’s Catalogue of Sion College Library, London, 1724, as books +not often to be found within the precincts of any Cathedral. + +The Catalogue of this Library is a manuscript volume, written apparently +some time ago, wherein the Books are enumerated in alphabetical order, +the subsequent additions to the Library being entered on the opposite +pages which have been left blank for this purpose. + +A Classed Catalogue appears to have been in contemplation, but never to +have been continued beyond a few pages. + +A Book of the names of the Books taken out of the Library by the Dean +and Chapter, who alone have the right to use it, the Canon in residence +always keeping the key, is very properly laid upon the same table with +the Catalogue itself. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Lincoln. + + +This ancient Library, which suffered much from conflagration about the +middle of the seventeenth century, was munificently restored to more than +its pristine splendour by Michael Honeywood, then Dean of Lincoln. + +The portrait of this eminent divine, by Cornelius Jansen, with that of +his grandmother, adorns the room which contains what remains of his once +extensive Collection, which the ruthless hand of the unlettered spoiler +has deprived of some of its brightest ornaments. + +The Manuscripts are now carefully lettered and admirably arranged, +though, as formerly a few shillings were sufficient to induce the verger +to allow the excision by any “curious stranger” of the illuminated +capitals, many of the volumes are lamentably mutilated and defective. + +Latin Bibles, Psalters, Glosses & Postillæ, upon vellum and on paper, +form the principal features of the Manuscript Library, which is deposited +in the ante-room over the Cloisters adjoining the Cathedral. + +On these shelves I also observed a Manuscript of Comestor’s Historia +Scholastica; and of Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum; together with +an interesting Diurnall of Proceedings in Parliament kept in 1640. + +But the most curious and valuable Manuscript in this Collection, is +a volume upon paper of Old English Romances, of the date of 1430-40, +collected by Robert de Thornton, who was Archdeacon of Bedford in 1450, +and lies buried in Lincoln Cathedral. This interesting volume has been +enriched by a table of contents, and some elucidatory notes by Sir F. +Madden, of the British Museum, and adorned with a coating of red russia, +which may bid defiance to decay. + +The Library of Printed Books, all of which are labelled on the back, is +contained in a spacious Gallery one hundred and four feet by seventeen, +being the whole length of one side of the Cathedral Cloisters, and having +the books on open shelves on the right hand, and a range of windows on +the left; but no convenience for producing artificial heat. + +The Manuscript Catalogue, which lies on the table, appears to have been +copied verbatim from another of older date, and to have been continued by +the entry of successive additions. + +On turning to the father of the English Press, I found a Poesy of most +pungent odour, the true ‘Lincolne Nosegay,’ which any Roxburgher might +be proud to wear in his button-hole at the yearly festival of those true +lovers of black letter. I give the entry exactly as I found it in the +Catalogue; but, grievous to relate, neither high nor low were these gems +seen to sparkle on the shelves of this sadly bereaved Repository. + + “Caxton, Chronicle & Description of Britaine, 1480, folio. + + “Scala Perfectionis, 1494, fol. + + “Chesse Play, 1474, fol. + + “Cato, 1483, fol. + + “Quære. Dictes & Sayinges of Philosophers, 1500. + + “Reynard the Fox, 4to. + + “Trans. of Hist. of Jason, 1481, 4to.” + +I own this last article puzzled me considerably; for could it be the +true Jason with this recent date? but the well known initials ‘T. F. D.’ +attached in pencil to the Cato, and the queried Dictes and Sayinges led +me to hope that they at least might yet be in existence; and imagining +that they might be preserved among the Curiosities which the Dean and +Chapter had taken, as I was informed, under their especial protection, +I addressed a note of enquiry to the Librarian, stating my reasons for +believing that, as some of the Caxtons appeared to have been inspected +by Dr. Dibdin so late as 1816, they must still exist, though I could not +find them. + +The obliging answer which I in consequence received from the present +Librarian of Lincoln I give exactly as I received it, that those who are +anxious for the integrity of those great Collections which the wise and +the good of former ages have handed down to us, may learn from hence +the necessity of devising means whereby such treasures may be preserved +unimpaired and intact for posterity, more effectual than those which the +venerable consort of Michael Honeywood, happily in no wise prescient of +the future fate of these literary treasures, devised. But let us have the +fact from the pen of Mr. Garvey. + + Lincoln, June 17, 1833. + + SIR, + + I am sorry it is not in my power to give you any information + that you will deem pleasing, on the subject of the early prints + which you seem to delight in. The fact is, since Dr. Dibdin’s + visit to this Library, the Dean and Chapter thought it + expedient to sell all the Caxtons and other early prints, and + to replace them with more modern works of which they stood in + need; and this is the reason that we had nothing of that sort + to offer to your notice more than what my son shewed you. + + If it were in my power I should be happy to gratify every + intelligent stranger; and I am sorry I have no better + information to give you on your favourite pursuit. + + I am, Sir, your obedient servant, + + R. GARVEY. + +This candid statement is fully confirmed by the following entry in the +Library Catalogue of the books sold, namely, + + “Amores Troili et Cresseidæ. Oxonii, 1635. + + “The Works of Heiwood. London, 1598. + + “Virgidemiarum. London, 1602. + + “Brome’s Songs. London, 1664. + + “Several pieces of Poetry bound together. + + “Sternhold’s Psalms. London, 1553. + + “Sir W. Raleigh’s Letters to his Son. London, 1632. + + “De Afflictione Captivorum sub Turcis. + + “Poetical Works of James VI. Edinburgh, 1591. + + “Six Treatises on Cookery. + + “Bishop Earl’s Characters. + + “Seven different Poetical Pieces bound together. + + “Psalms set to Music, in 4 books. London, 1563. + + “Poetica Stromata, by R. C. [Ric. Corbet, Bp. Norwich.] 1648, + 12mo. + + “Poems by Michael Drayton. London, 16—. + + “Martial’s Epigrams by Fletcher. London, 1656, 8vo. + + “Ten Different Pieces bound in one volume. + + “Vita et Obitus Henrici VIII. & Caroli Brandon, &c. + + “Visions of Peirce Plowman, by R. Crowley. Lond. 1550. + + “Besides the above, some books were purchased by the Rev. T. F. + Dibdin.” + +The books thus omitted to be more particularly mentioned were among +the choicest treasures of the Honeywoodian Collection. The practised +hand of Rosicrusius, extracted the ore from the dross, and converted it +into gold. The guardians of the temple slept, and Mammon prevailed. The +flowers thus culled were wreathed into a garland, quaintly denominated +the Lincoln Nosegay, which I have transferred entire to these pages, +as, although surreptitiously reprinted, its circulation was originally +limited to the author’s immediate circle. + + “_The Lincolne Nosegay._” + + “London. Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Cleveland + Row. St. James’s.” + + “Here begyneth a Littel Tome and hathe to name + The Lincolne Nosegay:” + + “beynge a brefe table of certaine Bokes in the posession + Maister Thomas Frognall Dibdin Clerk, which bookes be to + be sold to him who shal gyue the moste for yᵉ same.” + + “The Lincolne Nosegay.” + +I. The Dictes and Sayinges of Philosophres. Enprynted by me William +Caxton at Westmestre the yere of our lord. M CCCC LXXVjj. Folio. + +Ye shal peruse a full accounte of this boke in yᵉ new imprint of our +Typographical Antiquities, vol. i. p. 60, 72. This exemplar apereth to +be yᵉ Fyrste Edition: and hath at yᵉ end “Et sic est Finis.” + +II. The Cronicles of Englond; (wherunto is joined) The Discripcion of +Britayne. Fynysshed by me William Caxton, the xviii day of August the +yere of our god M.CCCC lxxx. &c. Folio. + +See yᵉ aforementioned werk: vol. i. pp. 85-100. + +These be perfait and meruelouslye clene copies of these moste rare bokes, +and are bounde in one tome. + +III. The Booke called Cathon. Translated oute of French into Englyssh +by William Caxton in thabbay of Westmystre the yere of our lorde +MCCCCLXXIII. &c. Folio. A parfaite and beauteous exemplar. + +IV. The Newe Cronycles of Englonde and of Fraunce. Emprynted by Richarde +Pynson, prynter unto the kyngȝ noble grace. The yere of our Lord God a. +M. cccccxvi. The vii daye of the moneth of February. Folio. + +Ye shal gader yᵉ aboue from ye imprynte of the boke, inasmuch as there +be no title to yᵉ same in the fyrst page or frontispiece: whyche page +containeth only the cote armor of the then kynge, and hath sign. H i +beneath it. In my werke, begunne by Maisters Ames and Herbert, at vol. +ii. p. 466, &c. ye shal finde a full and trust-worthye accounte of this +present boke; the exemplar of whiche, here offered, is of grete bulke and +beautie. It is, moreouer perfait—with some of the leauves stained—but the +cunning skil of Maister Lewis, our knowinge binder of bokes, shal quickly +clense the same. I maruel where another suche exemplar of this rare werke +shall be founde for yᵉ purchasinge? + +V. The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe +Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred +with the beste translations in divers languages, &c. + +Printed in Edinburgh. By Alexander Arbuthnet, Printer to the Kingis +Maiestie, dwelling at yᵉ kirk of feild. 1579. Folio. + +This moche-to-be-coueted boke is perfaite, sauinge two leaves in the +O. Testamente and three leaves in the N. Test.: whiche be wanting. The +begynninge and end therof are true and perfait. Ye shall perceiue, on +looking at Maister Herbert’s labors, vol. iii. p. 1501. that he had no +knowledge of the same: ne Maister Lewis, in his werke upon Translations +of the Bible. + +Hereafter folowethe sundry final werkes in metre moost rare and of +especiel note: whiche be bounde in a kiuer of parchmente. + +Sundrie Smal Werkes in Metre. + +VI. The title thus: + +Here begynneth a treatyse how yᵉ hye fader of heven sendeth dethe to +somon every creature to come and gyve a counte of theyr lyuves and this +worlde, and is in maner of a morall playe. + +The imprint thus: + +Thus endeth this moral playe of every man. + +Imprynted at London in Poules Churche yarde, by me John Skot. 4to. In +Rhymes. + +Sixteen leaves. Ye shal perceaue how Maister Herbert maketh mention of +this very exemplar: but which, it apeareth manifest, he had never sene. + +The colophon thus: + +Thus endeth the co̅munycacyon bytwene god and man. + +Emprynted at London in Flete-strete at yᵉ sygne of yᵉ Sonne by me Wynkyn +de Worde. 4to. + +This lytyle piece of rhymes lacketh the title: but the text therof +begynneth right truely on yᵉ signature A. ij. thus: “Deus.” + + “Our gracyous god moost in magnyfygyce̅ce + His mercyful eyen casteth fro̅ heun̅ on hi + Seynge his creatures in deedly vyolence + Hym selfe complayneth by pyte full ruefully,” + &c. &c. &c. + +Ye shal finde no account of this lytel tome in my editing of Maister +Herbert’s werke upon Ye Hystorye of oure Pryntinge. It hath 12 leaves if +you include the title. + +VIII. The title as foloweth: + +Here is a mery jest of the mylner of Abyn̅gdon, with his wyfe and his +doughter, and two poore scholers of Cambridge. 4to. In Rhymes. + +A fragment of 7 leaves whiche semeth to be imprynted by W. de Worde. Unto +this fragment is joined + +IX. A Romaunce, in verse, ycleped Ipomydon; Emprynted at London in the +Flete strete, at the sygne of the Sonne, by wynkyn de worde, 4to. + +This lacketh yᵉ 3 fyrste leaues of texte, and the title; but it +is parfaite from thence (sign. B. i.) to yᵉ ending therof, and is +meruelouslye scarce and curious; no mention beynge made of it in the +aforesaid werke. This exemplar hath 33 leaves: sign. 1 having 5, the rest +4 leaves. + +X. The title thus: + +A Dyalogue defensyue for women agaynst malycyous detractoures. 4to. +Colophon: Thus endeth the Faucon and the Pye. Anno dn̅i. 1542. Imprynted +by me Robert Wyer, for Richard Bancker. Cum privilegio regali ad +imprimendu solu̅ per septem annum. Beneath is the device of Robert Wyer, +the Prynter. 4to. + +Ye shal fynde a briefe notice of this curious Dyalogue, in metre, uttered +by a Falcon and a Pie, in Herbert’s Werke, vol. iii. p. 273. + +XI. [A Romaunce, in metre, entytled Syr Bevis of Hampton] Colophon: +Imprynted at london in the vinetre upon the thre Crane wharfe, by William +Coplande. 4to. + +Herbert hathe no knowlege of this moste precious boke. + +This copy lacketh only the title page; the text begynnynge on A ii. thus: + + “Lysten lordinges I holde you styl + Of doughty men tell you I wyl.” + &c. &c. &c. + +XII. The Title as foloweth: + +_Elynor Rummin_, The famous Ale-wife of England. Written by Mr. Skelton, +Poet Laureat to King Henry the egiht.[41] + +Beneath a portraiture of yᵉ said Eleanour: + + “When Skelton wone the laurel crowne + My Ale put all the Ale-wives downe.” + +4to. The same portraicture on the back-side of this Title. Nine leaves: +containing also the _Tunning of Eleanour of Rumming_. + +Grete will be thy joy, O Reader, when thou knowest that thou mayst here +beholde the _original_ and _only_ exemplar of this cunning and especial +werke; for a sight wherof, men do report, that Maisters Stevens and +Ritson, with painful travail, left their peacefull homes in London. +Greter still will be thy contentment, gentle reader, if thou possess this +cunning tresure. Ye shal see something appertaining hereunto in my werke +ycleped Bibliomania at p. 585. + +XIII. The Title commenceth thus: + +Here begynneth the Egloges of Alexander Barclay, Priest, &c. &c. Colophon +as foloweth: Thus endeth the thyrde and last Eglogue of the Misery of +Courte and Courtes, Composed by Alexander Barclay, Preest, in his youth. +Imprinted at London by Humfrey Powell. 4to. Fifty-eight leaves. + +Mention is made of this fyrste Imprint of the Eglogues of Alexander +Barclay in Maister Herbert’s werke on Pryntinge, in vol. ii. p. 751. + +It appereth from the same authority that the yere of the imprint could +not be later than yᵉ yere of our Lorde 1551. + +XIV. The Title is after this fashion: + +An Interlude, called Lusty Juventus. Lively describyng the frailtie of +youth: of nature prone to vyce: by grace and good councell traynable to +vertue. The imprint thus: + +Imprinted at London in Paules Churche yeard, by Abraham Vele, at the +sygne of the Lambe. 4to. Eighteen leaves. + +Ye shal perceive a slight damage in the 7th leaf of thys scarce and +curious tome, which seemeth to differ from the edition noticed in Maister +Beloe’s Anecdotes, &c. pp. 349, 350. + +XV. The title appereth thus: + +The Churle and the Byrde. The imprint is as folows: Imprented at London +in Lothburi over against Sainct Margarytes church by me Wyllam Copland. +4to. Eight leaves. + +The cunning reder shal easily mete out yᵉ mesure of yᵉ worth of this +precyouse lytel boke. Maister Ritson maketh no mention of it. A rude +image of the Churl and the Byrde is graved upon the title. + +XVI. The title runneth thus: + +A treatyse, shewing and declaring the pryde and abuse of women now a +dayes. It beginneth in this wise: + + “Bo pepe what have I spyed, + a bug I trow, devysing of proud knacks + For wanton lasses and galant women, + and other lewde noughty Jackes.” + &c. &c. &c. + +The imprint thus: + +Imprinted at London in Paules Church yearde, at thee[42] Sygne of the +Starre. By Thomas Raynalde. 4to. This curious and moost rare werke is +parfait in four leaves. + +XVII. Hereafter followeth the title: + +A Myrrour for man where in he shall see the myserable state of thys +worlde. + +It concludeth thus: + +Finis quod Thomas Churschard.[43] God save the Kyng. Imprynted at London +by Roberte Toye, dwellynge in Paules Church yarde at the sygne of the +Bell. Cum priv. &c. 4to. This brefe morall tractate of only three leaves, +adviseth thus towards the ende therof: + + “Here have set forth, after a playne sorte + The state of thys worlde, in sentens ryght shorte + For the thou blynde man, that goeth astraye + I lyghten thys lampe, to learne thee thy waye.” + +Ye may number this lytel piece of metre among the tomes of especial +rarity. + +XVIII. The title thus informeth us: + +The Flyting betwixt Montgomery and Polwart. Edinburgh, Printed by the +Heires of Andro Hart. 1629, 4to. There be here 13 leaves of mervelously +barbarous metre: the whiche Maister Allan Ramsay, of especiale fame, +caused to be reimprinted in his werke entitled The Euergreen. This tome +containeth the original text, and is gretely desyred by the lerned in +Scotish poesie. It concludeth thus: + + “Blind brock, loose dock, bord block, banished townes, + Alace, thiefes face, na grace, for that grunzie, + Beld bisset, marmissed, lansprezed to the lownes, + Deid dring, dry’d sting, thou wilt hing but a sunzie, + Lick butter, throat cutter, fish gutter, fill the fetter, + Come bleitand, and grietand, fast citand, thy laidley letter. + Finis.” + +XIX. The title: + +A briefe Description of the Toune of Tottenham Highcrosse in Middlesex: +&c. The Turnament of Tottenham, &c. 1631. + +The latter written long since in verse, by Mr. Gilbert Pilkington, at +that time as some have thought Parson of the Parish. 4to. + +These pieces ye shall finde to contain 21 leaves; of the whiche, 4 leaves +belong to the “Turnament.” + +A boke moche to be desired. + + London; printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland + Row, St. James’s. + +The loss thus sustained by the ancient Library of Lincoln Cathedral +by the sale of the volumes thus inconsiderately, and in my opinion +unjustifiably, detached, was compensated in some degree by the purchase +of other books with the proceeds, and the addition to the original +Collection of the books thus purchased. Many people will of course think +the exchange was advisable, and that useful volumes were judiciously +substituted for the antiquated lumber, to which the Roxburghe mania at +that time gave a fictitious value. Certainly if any proof were wanting of +the advantageous terms offered to effect the dismemberment of the Chapter +Library, it will be found in the nature and extent of that Collection +which was formed from the proceeds of that sale. + +Much as I am inclined to disallow the right of any corporate body +to alienate the property bequeathed to it by any such process of +commutation, I think it right to annex a full account of the books +purchased, that the reader may be enabled to form his own judgment upon +the literary discretion of the Dean and Chapter. + +The books thus permanently added to the Lincoln Library, are Chalmers’ +Biographical Dictionary, in 32 octavo volumes; Warton’s History of +English Poetry; the Biblia Hebraica by Boothroyd, in 2 volumes, 4to.; +Bacon’s Liber Regis; the reprints of the Chronicles of Monstrelet, +Grafton, Fabyan, Arnold, Harding, and Rastall, in 4to.; Sharpe’s William +of Malmesbury, on large paper; Tyrwhitt’s Chaucer; Baker’s Chronicles; +Sparke’s Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Camdeni Annales; Wilkins’ +Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ; Du Cange, Lexicon Græcum; Forcellini Lexicon +Latinum; Rymer’s Fœdera, in 20 folio volumes; the Art de verifier +les dates, in 3 folio volumes; the Antiquities, &c. of Montfaucon, in +15 folio volumes; Lyson’s Magna Britannia; Peck’s Stamford; Kennet on +Impropriations; Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa; Morelli Thesaurus; Fuller’s +Worthies; Gough’s British Topography; Madox’s Firma Burgi, Baronia +Anglicana, and History of the Exchequer; Cave’s Historia Literaria; +Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica, edited by Smith; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical +History; Strype’s Annals, and Lives of Cranmer, Parker, Grindall, and +Whitgift; and his Ecclesiastical Memorials; Rapin’s History of England, +by Tindal; Gale and Fell, Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Herbert’s +Henry VIII.; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; the Gentleman’s Magazine +from its commencement in 1731 to 1817, the time when this commutation +was effected; Hickes’s Thesaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium; Stow’s +Chronicle by Howes; Somner’s Canterbury; Forduni Scoti-Chronicon, in +2 volumes, folio; Collyer’s Historical Dictionary; Wren’s Parentalia; +May’s History of the Long Parliament; the Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores, +in 4to.; Walker’s History of Independency; Inquiry as to Charles the +First; Collins’s Peerage; Locke’s Works; Rennet’s Register; Whitelocke’s +Memorials; Burnet’s Reformation; Drake’s York; Echard’s England; Willis’ +Cathedrals; Harmer’s Errors of Burnet’s Reformation; Roper’s Life of +Sir Thomas More; Theriaque; Holinshed’s Chronicles; Hall’s Chronicle; +Froissart’s Chronicles; Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments; Dickinson’s +Southwell; Beausobre, Hist. du Manichéisme; Dugdale on Imbanking; +Fiddes’ Life of Wolsey; Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary; Historia Veterum +Persarum; Lingard’s England; Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy; +Spelman’s English Works; Cotton’s Abridgment of the Records in the Tower; +Heylin’s Life of Laud; Callis on the Laws of Sewers; Sir Philip Warwick’s +Memoirs; Du Cange’s Lexicon mediæ et infimæ Latinitatis, cum Supplemento +Carpentierii; La Bible par le Cene, folio; and the Beauties of England +and Wales. + +Such is the rough entry in the Catalogue of the additions, made by the +Dean and Chapter to this Library, but obtained only by the sacrifice of +books which it is nearly impossible to replace. + +Of the books above mentioned, many would do honour to any library, and if +a certain fund were appropriated to the augmentation of this Collection +from the ample revenues of the Dean and Chapter, many more such might be +yearly added. + +From the same source I have the satisfaction of adding a list of “Books +presented to this Library by Dr. Bayley, late Subdean. September 23, +1828.” + + “Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, Oxon. 1783, in 10 volumes, 4to.; + Parthenissa, a Romance, by Lord Orrery; Abernethy’s Discourses, + 2 vols.; Sermons, 2 vols. and Tracts, 1 volume; Biblia Sacra + Junii & Tremellii, in 1 volume; Treatises on the Sabbath + Day, in 1 volume; Chillingworth’s Religion of Protestants, + in 1 volume; Stillingfleet’s Sermons, in 1 volume; Pemble’s + Works, in 1 volume; Whiston’s Primitive Christianity, in 2 + volumes; Cunæus de Republica Hebræorum, 1 volume; Kennicott’s + Collections, 1 volume; and Reflections upon Learning, in 1 + volume. In all 28 volumes. + + “RD. GARVEY, _Librarian_.” + +This donation, however small, from one of the ecclesiastical body who +violated the literary remains of Michael Honeywood, may be looked upon as +an expiatory sacrifice to the manes of that worthy divine, and may I hope +serve as an example to others who may be desirous of seeing the Lincoln +Library restored to its pristine magnitude and worth. + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln consists of four thousand +four hundred and fifty-one volumes, relating to theological, classical, +and historical subjects, carefully enumerated in a folio volume, +containing the names, dates, and sizes of the books in alphabetical +order, with reference to the shelves on which they are placed. + +The English versions of the Bible in this Collection, include + + Coverdale’s Bible. Southwark, by James Nicolson, 1537, folio. + + The Bible, of Tyndale and Coverdale, by Thomas Matthew, at the + expense of R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, 1537, folio. + + Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Edward Whitchurch, 1540, folio. + + Cranmer’s Bible, reprinted from the edition of 1541. London, by + Edward Whitchurch, 1549, folio. + + Matthew’s Bible, reprinted by the order of Edward VI. from the + edition of 1537. London, by Thomas Raynaldes and William Hyll, + 1549, folio. + + Tyndale’s Bible. London, by J. Day and W. Seres, 1549, 12mo. + + The Bishop’s Bible, commonly called Queen Elizabeth’s. London, + by assignement of Chr. Barker, 1578, folio. + + The Genevan Bible. London, by the deputies of Christopher + Barker, 1597, folio. + + The Five Books of Moses, the Psalms, and Canticles, translated + by H. Ainsworth. London, by M. Parsons, 1639, folio. + + The Bible, with Chorographical cuts by John Ogilby. Cambridge, + by John Field, 1660, folio. + + The Bible, with vignettes by Vander Gucht, vulgarly styled the + Vinegar Bible. Oxford, by J. Barker, 1717, in 2 vols. folio. + +Of the Scriptures in various languages, I noticed the + + Biblia Polyglotta, Briani Waltoni. Londini, 1657, in 6 folio + volumes, with Castelli Lexicon Heptaglotton. + + The Biblia Polyglotta Eliæ Hutteri. + + The Biblia Hebraica, Græca, et Latina. 1587, in 2 vols. folio. + + The Biblia Hebraica Pagnini, and of Plantin. + + The Biblia Hebraica, by B. Boothroyd. Pontefract, 1810-16, in 2 + quarto volumes. + + The Vetus Testamentum, curâ B. Kennicottii. Oxonii, 1776-80, in + 2 vols. folio. + + The Biblia Sacra Tremellii et Junii. Londini, 1581, 8vo. + + The Biblia Latina Castalionis. Basileæ, 1554. + + The Biblia Sacra. Basileæ, 1514, and the Codex Theodori Bezæ. + + Luther’s German Bible, printed at Strasburgh in 1630. + + The Welsh Bible, printed at London in 1620, folio. + + The Dutch Bible, printed at Amsterdam in 1643, and + + The Indian Bible, by Elliott. Cambridge, 1663. + + Vetus Testamentum Græcum, ed. Holmes et Parsons. Oxonii, + 1798-1827, in 5 folio volumes. + + Versions of the New Testament by Beza, Fulke, Mill, and others, + too numerous to mention. + +I may here notice the + + Psalterium Sarisburiense. Londini, 1555. + + The Psalter by Whitchurch, 1535. + + The Seven Penytencyall Psalms of Bishop Fysher. London, by + Wynkyn de Worde, 4to. and + + The Psalterium Saxonico-Latinum Spelmanni. Londini, 1640, 4to. + +Connected with the service of the Church, are the Book of Common Prayer +of Edward VI. London, 1552, folio; and of Charles II. London, 1662, +folio; the latter having the broad seal of England appended to it. Copies +of this first edition of the Common Prayer now in use, thus certified +to be correct, appeared to have been distributed by authority to every +Cathedral in England, though few copies now retain the official seal +annexed. This “sealed book” is the last form of Prayer in which any +alteration was made by public authority. A similar copy of this book, +with corrections in manuscript, and the great seal of England appendant, +certified to be a correct copy, is preserved in the Tower of London. + +Several Works relating to the Liturgy are also deposited upon these +shelves. + +In the Ritual of the Romish Church I noticed the Missale Eboracense, +Rothomagi, 1517, folio, and the Missale Sarisburiense, Parisiis, 1533, +with Durandi Rationale Divinorum Officiorum. + +In early Divinity there are many scarce tracts, among which the most +captivating to my eye were a genuine crackling copy of Turrecremata, +Expositio in Psalmos, printed in the gothic letter, by Schoyffer, at +Mayence in 1476, folio. + +The Fathers of the Church, whose Works adorn this venerable Library, +are, S.S. Ambrose, Anselm, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Bernard, +Chrysostom, Cyprian, Eusebius, Gregory, Jerome, Hilary, Isidore, Irenæus, +Justin, Origen, Tertullian, Theodoret, and Theophylact, to which I may +add Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, the Bibliotheca Maxima Patrum, Pole’s +Synopsis; the Critici Sacri; and Wilkins’ Concilia. + +Among the Works of the earlier Divines of the Christian Church, are some +Tracts by Thomas Aquinas, Bellarmine, and Bonaventura; Petri Blesensis +Opera, Moguntiæ, 1680, folio; the Works of Martin Bucer, Calvin, Erasmus, +Grotius, Hospinianus, Luther, Melancthon, Salmasius, Duns Scotus, +Tostatus, and Thomas à Kempis. To these may be added Lactantii Opera by +Sparke, Limborch, Theologia Christiana; Lyra Commentaria in S. Biblia, +Basileæ, 1598, folios. + +I may here notice some well preserved copies of Vincentii Speculum +Historiale, Colon. Agrip. 1494; Morale, Colon. 1493; Doctrinale, Venet. +1494; and Naturale, Coloniæ, 1494, in folio; some Tracts by Gerson, +Scaliger, and Vossius, and Zanchii Opera Theologica, Basileæ, 1569, folio. + +The English Divines, whose Works are found in this Collection, are, +Andrews, Bancroft, Bramhall, Chillingworth, Hall, Hammond, Hooper, +Jackson, Jewel, Lardner, Macknight, Mede, Paley, Pemble, Perkins, +Prideaux, Reynolds, Ridley, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tonstall, +Whitgift, and Wickliffe. + +In the Theological department I also remarked Bale’s Ymage of both +Churches, the Mystery of Iniquitie, and Actes of English Votaries; +Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church; Calmet’s Dictionary of the +Bible; Campbell on the Gospels; and Coverdale’s Letters of the Martyrs, +London, 1564, 4to. + +Field of the Church; Kett on the Prophecies; Turner’s Huntynge of the +Romish Wolfe; Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England; Watson’s +Theological Tracts; and many other Pamphlets, Religious, Political, and +Miscellaneous. + +Of Sermons, this Library contains several preached at St. Paul’s Crosse, +and many others by different authors, and upon various occasions. Among +these it may suffice to notice the Thirty-six by Robert Sanderson, Bishop +of Lincoln, than whom Anthony à Wood remarks, “the Church of England +could not lose a greater pillar, a better man, and more accomplished +divine;” and the Sermons of Latimer, remarkable for the quaint expression +of forcible truths. + +The Theological department also embraces some pieces by Theodore Beza; +Outram de Sacrificiis, Londini, 1677, 4to.; and Whitby’s Paraphrase; with +other Works of the Divines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, +too numerous for minute enumeration in this place. + +A copy of the Koran of Mahomet, and of the Russian Prayer Book are also +found upon these shelves. + +The Collections relating to English History comprise those of Clarendon, +Rushworth, Nalson, Echard, Sparke, Rapin, and Tindal, with the valuable +labours of Strype, and an extensive collection of Tracts relating to the +eventful period of the great Rebellion. + +In this class are also found Winwood’s Memorials; Stow’s London; Sammes’ +Britannia; and Prynne’s Records, 1657, in one vol. folio. + +Connected with these occur Tanner’s Notitia Monastica; Camden’s +Britannia; Ogilby’s Topographical Works; and Dugdale’s Imbanking; all, it +may be remarked, upon small paper. + +In Heraldry I remarked Guillim’s Heraldry; Yorke’s Union of Honour; +Sandford’s Coronation of Charles II.; Ashmole’s Order of the Garter; and +Dugdale’s Baronage. + +Of County Histories, a fine copy of Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire; and +Surtees’ Durham, apparently on large paper, were the most remarkable. + +Among the Miscellaneous volumes, a fair copy of Hudson’s Josephus; +Lye’s Saxon Dictionary; Thuanus, Historia sui Temporis, in 6 vols. +folio; Bayle’s Dictionary; the Gentleman’s Magazine; the Philosophical +Transactions; and the Works of Spelman; most forcibly arrested my +attention. + +In hunting ‘Reynard the Fox’ I stumbled upon a dusty folio in the Gothic +letter, adorned with rude wood cuts, but sadly mutilated by excision in +the middle, containing the Dialogus Creaturarum, printed by Gerard de +Leeu at Gouda, in August 1480. The types of this little volume avowedly +published “in opido goudensi,” seems to my eye so much to resemble those +of the hitherto unknown Recueil des Histoires des Troyes deposited +in the Library at Norton Hall that I feel myself strengthened in the +original supposition that that Work also was the production of Gerard +de Leeu before he removed his press from Gouda to Antwerp, though the +resemblance of the wood cuts is not so striking as that of the type; but +here be it remembered I am speaking only from recollection. This edition +of Dialogus Creaturarum has been fully described in the Bibliotheca +Spenceriana in vol. VI. p. 120. + +The Classical department of this Library is enriched by the Works of +Æsop, Anacreon, Apuleius, Athenagoras, Aristænetus, Aristophanes, Aulus +Gellius, Cæsar, Epictetus, Ennius, Euclid, Euripides, Florus, Hierocles, +Hippocrates, Horace, Isocrates, Juvenal, Livy, Lucan, Lucian, Lucretius, +Macrobius, Martial, Ovid, Velleius Paterculus, Persius, Plautus, +Plutarch, Procopius, Quintilian, Sallust, Seneca, Suetonius, Sidonius +Apollinaris, Sophocles, Symmachus, Terence, Tacitus, Vegetius, and Virgil. + +It also contains Apicius de arte Coquinariâ, of 1542, Aristotle’s Works, +edited by Erasmus, and several editions of the Stagyrite’s detached +pieces; Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, Oxonii, 1783, in ten 4to. volumes; +Quintus Curtius, Pitisci; Longinus, by Pearce; Phædrus, Burmanni; +Platonis Opera, Serrani; Plinii Historia Naturalis; Plinii Junioris +Epistolæ; Silius Italicus, Drakenborchii; Theophrasti Characteres, by +Needham; Valerius Flaccus, Burmanni; Xenophontis Opera, Leunclavii; and +Cyropædia, by Hutchinson. + +Of Translations, I remarked Ogilby’s Æsop, Homer, and Virgil—heard +Chapman speak out loud and bold in deep-browed Homer’s Iliad—and rested +my eyes on Ross’s sumptuous folio version of Silius Italicus. + +The Etymological department includes various Dictionaries of different +languages, Buxtorf’s Lexicon Hebraicum; Calepini Lexicon Octolingue; +Davies’s Linguæ Britannicæ Rudimenta; Du Cange’s Glossarium; Catholicon +Januense, Lugd. 1520, folio; Junii Glossarium Archæologicum; Forcellini +Lexicon Latinum; Morelli Thesaurus; Linacre, de emendatâ Structurâ +Latini Sermonis; Littleton’s Latin and English Dictionary; Jamieson’s +Scottish Dictionary; Hickes’s Thesaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium; Lye’s +Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum, à Manning, Londini, 1722, in +two folio volumes; Pagnini Thesaurus Linguæ Sanctæ; Scapulæ Lexicon; +Skinner, Etymologicum Anglicanum; Somner’s Saxon Dictionary; Stephani +Thesaurus; and Suidæ Lexicon Græcum. + +The Bibliographical section of this Library includes Andreæ Bibliotheca +Belgica; the Bibliotheca Laurentiana; Gough’s British Topography; +Catalogue of the Library of Sion College in London; Cave’s Historia +Literaria; the Bodleian Library Catalogue; Holmes’s Catalogue of his +own Library, presented by himself; Gesneri Bibliotheca; the Index +Expurgatorius; and Maunsell’s Catalogue of English Books, London, 1595, +folio, which Thomas Hearne styles “a very scarce and yet a very useful +Book.” In it are certainly recorded the names of various authors, and the +titles of many books, long since defunct and forgotten. + +In the branch of English Literature, this tree of knowledge, though +lopped by rude hands, still bears delectable fruit. + + The Mons Pefectionis, or Hyll of Perfection by Gallicantus + Alcock. London, 1501. + + Barclay’s Shippe of Fooles. London, 1508. + + The Boke of Wysdome. London, 1532. + +The Mirrour of Good Manners, by Pynson, 4to. quite perfect, and Hylton’s +contented and active life, may content the lover of black letter. + +The Workes of our ancient and learned English Poet Geffrey Chaucer, newly +printed, London, 1602, folio; Gower de Confessione Amantis, London, by +Thomas Berthelet, 1554, folio; Hales’ Remains; Hawkins’s Origin of the +English Drama, Oxford, 1773, in three 8vo. volumes; the Philosophical +Writings of Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke; Butler’s Hudibras; Ben Jonson’s +Works; the Works of Milton; Sir Thomas More’s Works, London, 1517, folio; +Spenser’s Faery Queen, London, 1596-7, folio; Spelman’s English Works; +Suckling’s Poems; and Warton’s History of English Poetry, may give to the +general reader some foretaste of the intellectual banquet continually +presented in the cloistered retirement of Lincoln. + +The Historical department of this Collection embraces Bayle’s Dictionary; +Chalmers’s Biographical Dictionary, in 32 vols. 8vo.; the Memoirs of +Philip de Comines; Collier’s Historical Dictionary; Heylin’s Cosmography; +Maurice’s Indostan; Montfaucon’s Works on the Antiquities of France; +The Polychronicon of Ranulph Higden; Southwerke, by me, Peter Treveris, +1527, folio; Robinsoni Annales Mundi; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Simson’s +Chronicon Catholicum; Thuani Historia sui Temporis; and other Works of +less note. + +Of Works relating to Ecclesiastical affairs, this Library contains +various collections of Councils, Canons, and Decretals; Pandectæ Canonum, +SS. Apostolorum et Conciliorum ab Ecclesiâ Græcâ receptorum, &c. per Gul. +Beveregium, Oxonii, 1672, in two folio volumes; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ +Monumenta; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Cressy’s Church History of +Brittany; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical Writers; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; +the Ecclesiastical Annals of Baronius; Josephus’s History of the Jews; +Spelmanni Concilia; and Wilkins’s Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ. + +The Books relating more particularly to the Ecclesiastical History +of England are, Bacon’s Liber Regis; Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica, +curâ Smithii; Barwick’s Life of Dean Barwick; Burnet’s History of the +Reformation, with Harmer’s Remarks on the Errors therein; Capgrave’s Nova +Legenda Angliæ, Londini, in domo Winandi de Worde, 1516, 4to.; the Legend +of St. Cuthbert; Dempsteri Menologium Scotorum, Bononiæ, 1622, 4to.; +Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, folio; Fiddes’s Life of Wolsey; Fuller’s +Church History of Britain, 1655, folio; Godwini Præsules Anglicani, in +two folio volumes; Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica; Heylin’s +Life of Laud; Kennet on Impropriations; Knox’s History of the Church of +Scotland; Lyndewode, Provinciale; Reyneri Apostolatus Benedictinorum in +Angliâ, Duaci, 1626, folio; Parker de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ; +Spottiswode’s History of the Church of Scotland; Strype’s Ecclesiastical +Memorials, Annals of the Reformation, and Lives of Parker, Grindal, +Whitgift, and Cranmer; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, 1744, folio; Usserii +Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ; Walker’s History of Independency; and +Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, in two folio volumes. + +This Library is peculiarly fortunate in possessing many valuable Works +relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland. + +Of these I will proceed to enumerate the Scriptores post Bedam, edente +Savile; the Scriptores Decem, edited by Twysden; the Scriptores XVI. +edited by Gale and Fell; Camdeni Anglica Normannica à veteribus Scripta; +Du Chesne, Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores coetanei; Sparke’s Scriptores; +and the Rerum Anglicanarum Annales of 1635, and of 1616, folio; the Rerum +Hibernicarum Scriptores of O’Conor, in 4to.; Blount’s Jocular Tenures; +Bates’s Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Angliâ; Camden’s Britannia by +Holland, 1637, Gibson, 1772, and Gough, with his Annals of Elizabeth, and +Remains concerning Britain; Cooper’s Chronicle; Daniel’s History of the +Civil Wars; Daniel’s History of England; Dickenson’s Southwell; Doleman’s +Conference about the next Succession to the Crowne of England, the joint +production of Cardinal Allen, Robert Parsons, and Sir Francis Englefield, +in support of the title of the Infanta against that of James the Sixth, +after the death of Elizabeth, a Work which was so rigorously suppressed, +that to possess a copy was, in the merry days of good Queen Bess, high +treason. The Chronicles of Arnold, Fabyan, Froissart, Grafton, Hall, +Harding, Monstrelet, and Rastall, all in 4to. Dugdale’s History of St. +Paul’s, and of Warwickshire; Drake’s York; Echard’s History of England; +Eadmeri Historia Novorum, edente Selden; Fuller’s Worthies; Forduni +Scoti-chronicon, in folio; Fleetwood’s Elenchus Annalium Edvardi V. +Richardi III. and Henrici VII. and VIII.; Galfredi Monumetensis Chronicon +Rerum Angliæ; Godwin’s Annales of England; Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments; +Habington’s Historie of Edward IV. London, 1640, folio; Haywarde’s Lives +of the three Norman Kings, London, 1613, 4to.; Holland’s Heroologia +Anglica, folio; Lord Herbert’s Life and Reign of Henry VIII.; and +Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, London, 1577, +in two vols. and 1586-7, in three vols. folio, being the first and second +editions of that work; Illingworth’s Topographical Account of Scampton in +Lincolnshire; Jovii Descriptio Britanniæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ et Orcadum, +Venetiis, 1548, 4to.; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Lysons’ Magna +Britannia; Lingard’s History of England; Lhuyd’s Commentarioli Britannicæ +Descriptionis Fragmentum; May’s History of the Long Parliament; Madox’s +Firma Burgi, and History of the Exchequer; Gul. Neubrigensis Historia +Regum Anglorum, Parisiis, 1610; Ogilby’s Coronation of King Charles +II.; Oclandi Anglorum Prælia; Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana, edente +Wats, Londini, 1640, folio; the Historical Collections of Nalson and +Rushworth, and Patten’s Expedition into Scotlande of Edward, Duke of +Somerset, London, by Richarde Grafton, 1548, 8vo.; Rymer’s Fœdera, in 20 +vols. folio; Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa, and his Antiquities of Stamford; +Philipot’s Villare-Cantianum; Prynne’s Records, 1657; Sanderson’s History +of Mary Queen of Scots, London, 1656, folio; Sheringham de Origine Gentis +Anglorum; Sharpe’s William of Malmesbury; Rapin’s History of England, +with the Continuation by Tindal; Skenæi Regia Majestas Scotorum, Edin. +1609, folio; Smith de Republicâ Anglorum; Somner’s Antiquities of +Canterbury; Slater’s History of Great Britain; Spelman’s Life of Alfred; +Spelman’s Villare Anglicanum; Speed’s Chronicle; Stanihurst de rebus +Hibernicis; Stow’s Chronicle, by Howes; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; +Surtees’ History of Durham; Thomas’ History of Worcester; Thoroton’s +History of Nottinghamshire; Turnor’s History of Grantham; and Twinus de +Rebus Albionicis; Udall’s History of Mary Queen of Scots; Verstegan’s +Restitution of decayed Intelligence relating to English Antiquities; +Waræus Scriptores de rebus Hibernicis; Warwick’s Memoirs of Charles I.; +Wake’s Rex Platonicus; Winwood’s Historical Collections relating to +Scotland, London, 1637, folio; Weever’s Funeral Monuments, London, 1631, +folio; Whitelocke’s Memorials; Wren’s Parentalia; the Beauties of England +and Wales, London, 1802-16, in 25 octavo volumes; and Willis’s Cathedrals. + +This Library also contains several Acts of Parliament, and of Legal +Works; the most remarkable are Blackstone’s Commentaries; Burn’s +Ecclesiastical Law; Coke’s Institutes; Fortescue de Laudibus Legum +Angliæ; Gibson’s Codex Juris Ecclesiastici & Civilis; Callis on the Laws +of Sewers; and some State Trials. + +The Records of the Kingdom, published by the authority of Parliament, are +placed upon these shelves as soon as they appear. They are accompanied, +in the present instance, by Cooper’s Account of the Public Records, and +Cotton’s Abridgment of the Records in the Tower. + +The Heraldic Works in this Collection are unusually numerous, including +Leigh’s Accidence of Armoury, London, 1591, 4to.; Ashmole’s Order of +the Garter; Brooke’s Heraldry; Collins’s Peerage; Dugdale’s Baronage; +Fern’s Blazon of Gentry, London, 1586, 4to.; Guillim’s Heraldry; Carter’s +Analysis of Honour; Jones’ Heraldry, 1590, 4to.; Madox’s Baronia +Anglicana; Milles’ Catalogue of Honor, London, 1610, folio; Selden’s +Titles of Honour; and Yorke’s Union of Honour. + +The Geographical section of this Library embraces, Bruce’s Travels; +Hakluyt’s Voyages; and Purchas’ Pilgrimes, London, 1625-6, in 5 folio +volumes. + +I may here notice Petavii Doctrina temporum; the Art de verifier les +Dates; and Green’s Numismatic Atlas, 1829, as the sole representations +of what ought to be the Chronological and Numismatic portion of this +Library. A deficiency but poorly supplied by Agrippa de occultâ +Philosophiâ, and the lucubrations of Albertus Magnus. + +Among the Foreign Miscellanies, I noticed the works of Ariosto, Casaubon, +Petrarch, and Tasso; Bembo Lettere, 1502; Barthelemy’s Travels of +Anacharsis; the Decameron of Boccaccio; Photii Bibliotheca, 1611; and his +Epistolæ Montacutii. + +Among the English Miscellanies, I remarked the Works of Donne; James +the First; and Inigo Jones; Ascham’s Toxophilus; Roper’s Life of +Sir Thomas More; Lord Orrery’s Romance of Parthenissa; the Reliquiæ +Wottonianæ; and the long series of the Gentleman’s Magazine; Dugdale on +Imbanking and Draining the Fens and Marshes; and several gratulatory and +funebrial Verses from the classic fountains of Oxford and Cambridge; the +Philosophical Transactions from 1797 to 1807, from 1808 to 1826, and from +1828 to 1831; and Sprat’s History of the Royal Society. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of London. + + +When the Metropolitan Cathedral rose like the fabled Phœnix from its +ashes, and its beauteous dome, rising in unrivalled grandeur over the +smoky city, indicated the renovated altar of the living God, it contained +but a few isolated Works of human learning. + +Among those books which in all probability survived the great +conflagration, I may here notice a very curious manuscript volume, +containing the Rules and Ceremonies of the Monastery of Syon at +Isleworth, founded by Henry V. in 1414. The book commences with a +Table of four leaves, followed by a blank. Then follow the Rules and +Ceremonies of the Monastery of Syon, and the Additions to the Rule +in fifty chapters, occupying fifty leaves. A blank leaf precedes the +ceremonial Calendar, which ends on the recto of the thirteenth leaf from +its commencement. A Table of Signs used by Sisters during the hours of +enjoined silence commences on the reverse of the thirteenth leaf, and is +continued as far as the sixteenth. (Two blank leaves succeed.) The Rule +of our Saviour occupies the ten following leaves, ending on the recto of +the last, the reverse being blank. The Rule of St. Austyne contained in +four leaves closes the volume, which is a membranaceous folio, recently +rebound in olive morocco. It was originally presented to the Library by +Richard Hare. + +A curious relic of the old Monastic Library, is a small folio upon +vellum in the original stamped calf, with the chain, whereby it was +secured to the shelf, still attached to it. It is entitled “Liber vocatus +Remediarium,” and is written in double columns of gothic letters, very +fairly rubricated. A Missal in its original binding, an imperfect +manuscript; and a Medical Work of Avicenna, in folio, written in double +columns of gothic letter upon vellum which has been rebound in calf, may +also be noticed as having escaped the flames. + +The Library of printed books attached to the Cathedral Church of St. +Paul, was the munificent endowment of Henry Compton, Bishop of London, +whose portrait adorns the walls of the apartment in which they are +preserved. + +This noble room is placed on the south side of the stupendous fabric of +the Cathedral, and has a gallery all round it, the books being placed +on open shelves in oaken cases both above and below. The pilasters on +the walls are most exquisitely carved in stone, by Grinling Gibbons. The +floor is beautifully inlaid with polished oak, and the room is warmed by +a spacious fire place, over which hangs a small print of John Egerton, +Bishop of Durham. + +The books amounting in number to between five and six thousand, are all +attired in the vituline integuments of their founder’s time; but many +have had their joints as well as their leaves loosened through the united +influence of time and neglect. They are symmetrically arranged in open +cases, numbered consecutively from 1 to 54, and placed all around this +large and lofty apartment. + +The aspect of this Library, and a closer inspection of its contents both +impress upon the mind its cotemporaneous formation. The distinguishing +feature is the impressions of the Sacred Scriptures, and its general +character is theological, with a considerable admixture of classical and +historical lore. The additions to the collection of the founder are by +no means numerous, so that it appears as the faithful indication of his +literary habits, and bearing the stamp of individuality, possesses, in my +humble estimation, the greater interest. + +The chief ornament of this Collection is the noble monument of Biblical +learning and typographic skill, afforded by the large paper copy of +Walton’s Polyglott Bible, and Castell’s Lexicon Heptaglotton. Of these +gigantic volumes, measuring nearly twenty inches by fourteen, twelve +comprehend the Bible, with the Dedication to King Charles the Second, and +two the Lexicon. + +They are all uniformly bound in old red morocco; but the first volume +of the Bible having been formerly shewn as the largest book in the +Library has sustained considerable damage, from the idle curiosity of its +numerous visitors. Upon large paper this work is of the greatest rarity, +especially when comprising the valuable addition of Castell’s Lexicon.[44] + +Concerning this latter work I may be allowed to extract the following +manuscript note by Mr. Barham. “This Work is extremely rare being a L. +P. Copy. I know but of one other, which is in the Library at Salisbury, +it is said however that there is a third at Lambeth. Its very existence +has been doubted from its rarity, and Van Praet when in England would not +believe there was one till he saw it. Both Charles X. and George IV. were +anxious to obtain a copy, but never could succeed. + + “R. H. B. July 22. 1830.” + +To this I am enabled to add, that in addition to the large paper copy +of this Lexicon attached to Walton’s Polyglott, in the Archiepiscopal +Library at Lambeth, the Presentation Copy to King Charles the Second is +deposited in the British Museum at London, and another large paper copy +divided into three volumes, and bound in morocco, is contained in the +Library of St. John’s College, Cambridge, both being attached to similar +copies of the Bible. + +The affecting circumstances detailed in the previous note will +sufficiently account for the greater rarity of the Lexicon than of the +Bible, though it is reasonable to suppose that as twelve copies of the +Polyglott are said to have been taken off on large paper, the same number +of copies of the accompanying Lexicon were executed in a similar manner. + +This Library also contains a small paper copy of Walton’s Polyglott, and +Castell’s Lexicon. + +Rivalling the British Polyglott in size and splendour we find also in +this collection the “Biblia Hebraica, Samaritana, Chaldaica, Græca, +Syriaca, Latina, Arabica, quibus textus originales totius Sacræ Scripturæ +quorum pars in editione Complutensi, deinde in Antverpiensi regiis +sumptibus exstant, nunc integri ex Manuscriptis toto ferè orbe quæsitis +exemplaribus exhibentur. Lutetiæ Parisiorum, excudebat Antonius Vitré +Regis Reginæ Regis et Cleri Gallicani Typographus, 1645,” folio, in ten +magnificent volumes on large paper, bound in old calf, having the book +plate of “Thomas Mangey, Canon. Dunelm. S. T. P.” pasted within the +covers. These volumes are in equally fine preservation with the beautiful +Lexicon of Castell. + +To the above may be added the Polyglott Bible, mentioned in the title of +the preceding article, being that printed at the expense of Philip of +Spain by Plantin at Antwerp, in six volumes, folio, in the years 1569-72, +under the editorial care of Arius Montanus. + +I now approach the English versions of the sacred writings, and first +in point of time and of importance, have much pleasure in recording the +first edition of the New Testament, translated by William Tyndale, and +printed at Antwerp in 1526,[45] 12mo. The present copy of this little +volume is unhappily imperfect both at the beginning and at the end, +but its leaves have been placed in their proper order, and it has been +recently rebound in russia. It begins with folio iiii. on sign. A. v. +and continues perfect up to folio cccx. Then follows a hiatus of three +leaves, succeeded by folios cccxiiii. and cccxv. which latter has the +signature of pp. v. the last which is observable in this copy, the end +being unluckily deficient. But the Dean and Chapter have very properly +determined to adopt the judicious advice of the Rev. Henry Cotton, given +in the note below, and if this transcript be executed in facsimile by the +skilful hand of Harris, this little tome will be rendered as complete as +circumstances will allow. + +By the side of the preceding volume is rightly placed the second edition +of the New Testament, translated by William Tyndale, with a Preface +against George Joye,[46] dated November, 1534. Printed at Antwerp by +Martin Emperour in 12mo.[47] The present copy is imperfect, but it has +the autograph of Humphrey Wanley, librarian to the book-loving Earl of +Oxford. + +Next in order we find Tyndale’s third and last edition of the +New Testament in English, 12mo.[48] of which the present copy is +unfortunately imperfect both at the beginning and the end. + +To the three preceding editions may be added another edition of Tyndale’s +New Testament, printed at Antwerp by Matthew Crom, 1538, 12mo. + +I cannot dismiss this brief notice of the labours of one of the earliest +and most efficient of our Reformers, without recording the second edition +of the Pentateuch, translated by William Tyndale, revised and corrected +by himself, without name of place or printer, but in all probability +printed at the same place with the former edition, namely, Marlborow, +that is, Marpurg in Hessia, in 1534, 12mo. The title of this little +volume runneth thus: “The firste boke of Moses, called Genesis, newly +correctyd and amendyd by W.T. MD.XXXIIII.” and is placed between four +wood cuts. Next followeth, “Unto the Reader. W.T. xi pages.” The Book +of Genesis begins on the last leaf of the Preface, and the next leaf is +paged i. It ends on fol. lxxxi. b. At the end is, “The end of the first +boke off Moses, called Genesis.” The other four books are identical with +the edition of 1530. There are a few marginal notes. It is printed in the +Roman character. + +It is fitting that I should here mention the joint labour of Tyndale and +Coverdale, being the Bible, by Thomas Matthew, at the expense of Richard +Grafton and Edward Whitchurch, without name of place, but printed at +London in 1537, folio,[49] in calf. + +This Library also contains the second edition of the New Testament in +Latin and English, after the Vulgate, by Myles Coverdale. Southwark, +by J. Nicolson, 1538, 4to. Copies of this edition are also contained +in the Libraries of Christ Church and All Souls at Oxford, and in the +Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth. + +It appears that Coverdale was much dissatisfied with the former edition +of the same year, printed by Nicolson of Southwark, and set this forth +as being more correct; endeavouring at the same time to call in the +copies of the other; in this he seems to have amply succeeded, as one is +now scarcely to be found. Lewis had never seen it, and Herbert describes +it as being very scarce. A copy however is deposited in the Bodleian +Library, though it is unfortunately imperfect. + +In the same year also the New Testament, in Latin and English, was +printed in Paris by Fraunces Regnault for Grafton and Whitchurche, 1538, +12mo. of which a perfect copy in calf is contained in this Collection. In +this edition the Latin is after the Vulgate, and the English Coverdale’s. + +Next in order of time occurs a copy of Cranmer’s, or the Great Bible, +London, by Richard Grafton and Edward Whitchurch, finished in April, +1539, folio. + +The numerous editions of the Bible in English which enrich this +repository, I will enumerate as briefly as possible in chronological +order: + + Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Thomas Petyt and Robert Redman, for + Thomas Berthelet, 1540, folio. + + Bible, oversene by Cuthbert, Bishop of Duresm, and Nicholas, + Bishop of Rochester. London, by Richard Grafton, 1541, folio. + + The Bible, by Matthew, reprinted from the edition of 1537. + London, by Thomas Raynaldes and William Hyll, 1549, folio. + + Bible. London, by Edward Whitchurch, 1550, 4to. + + The Bible, Coverdale’s. London, for Andrew Hester, 1550, 4to. + The body of this work is unquestionably of foreign typography, + and was probably executed at Zurich. The preliminary pieces + in ordinary black letter, were probably printed in London. The + present copy however is very imperfect. + + The Bible, Matthew’s, with some variation, and an addition of + the third book of the Macabees, by Edmond Becke. London, by + John Daye, 1551, folio. + + The Bible. London, by Nicolas Hyll for Robert Toy, 1551, folio. + + The Bible in English, that is to say, the contente of the holy + Scriptures, &c. revised by Cranmer. Imprynted at London by + Edwarde Whitchurche. Cum Privilegio ad imprimendum solum. 1553, + folio. This edition Dr. Cotton conjectures to have been copied + from the first edition of 1539, since here as in that, the + Apocryphal Books are entitled Hagiographa. A full page has 58, + sometimes 59 lines. The date of 1553 occurs at the beginning of + the New Testament. The present is a sound and perfect copy in + old calf binding. + + Coverdale’s Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1553, 4to. This + is in fact the Zurich edition of 1550, with a new title page, + almanack, &c. The preliminary pieces, being in the usual black + letter of that period, were probably added after the arrival in + London, of the body of the work, whose typographical aspect is + of the house of Froschover. The present copy being defective at + the end, has been made up by 3 leaves from Barker’s Bible of + 1580. + + Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Richard Grafton and Edward + Whitchurch, 1553, 4to. + + The Bible, Cranmer’s. London, by John Cawood, 1561, 4to. + Imperfect. + + The Bible, Cranmer’s. London, by Richard Harrison, 1562, folio. + + Cranmer’s Bible, printed at Rouen by C. Hamillon, at the cost + and charges of Richard Carmarden, 1566, folio. + + The Bible. London, by W. Seres, 1567, 4to.[50] + + The Bible, Parker’s, or the Bishops’ Bible. London, by Richard + Jugge, 1568, folio.[51] + + The Bible, Bishops’. London, by Richard Jugge, 1573, 4to. + + The Bishops’ Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1577, 4to. + + Bible, Genevan. London, by the deputies of Christopher Barker, + 1589, 4to. + + The Bible. London, by the deputies of Chr. Barker, 1596, 4to. + + The Bible, by Buck and Daniel. London, 1637, folio. + + The Bible, by Field. Cambridge, 1660, folio. All mention of + this and the preceding edition is unaccountably omitted in Dr. + Cotton’s List. + + The Whole Bible, with Notes, published by John Canne. London, + by C. Bill, and the executrix of T. Newcomb, 1698, 12mo. closes + this copious Collection of early English Bibles, which cannot + fail to be duly appreciated by every true lover of the biblical + literature of this country. + +Next in order of time occurs a copy of + + The New Testament, by Taverner. London, by Thomas Petyt for + Thomas Berthelet, 1539, 4to. + + The New Testament, in Latin and English from Erasmus. London, + by William Powell, 1547, 4to. + + New Testament. London, by Richard Jugge, 1552, 4to. Imperfect. + + New Testament, by Jugge, in 12mo. Imperfect. + + The New Testament, Beza’s, translated by L. Tomson. London, by + the deputies of Christopher Barker, 1596, 4to. + + The New Testament, with notes. London, by the assigns of R. + Barker, 1605, 12mo. + +Of detached portions of the sacred writings in English, this Library +contains the following pieces, which may be interesting to the curious: + + The fruytful sayinges of Davide, in the seven penitential + Psalms, by Bishop Fysher. London, by Wynkyn de Worde, 1508, 4to. + + The five books of Solomon. Southwark, by J. Nicolson, 1537, + 12mo., and an imperfect copy of the same in 12mo. London, + printed by R. Redman, 1540. + + St. Jude, with an exposition. London, John Gowghe, 1538, 8vo. + + The Epistles of St. John, with an exposition. Printed at + Southwark by J. Nicolson, 1538, 16mo. + + The Psalter in Latin and English, the English translated from + the Vulgate. London, by Richard Grafton, 1540, 8vo. + + The Epistle to the Ephesians, with a Commentary by Lancelot + Ridley. London, by R. Redman, 1540, 16to. + + Psalms li. and xxx. with an exposition, &c. London, by W. + Bonham, 1542, 4to. + + St. Matthew, chap. v. vi. vii. with Tyndale’s exposition. + London, by W. Hyll, without date, but ascribed by Dr. Cotton to + the year 1546, 12mo. + + The Psalter, translated from the Latin Version of Feline, that + is Martin Bucer. Printed by Edward Whitchurch, without place + or date, but placed by the same authority under the year 1549, + 12mo. + + St. Jude, with an exposition. London, by William Copland for R. + Kele, without date, but referred to the same year by the same + author, 1549, 12mo. + + The Epistles and Gospels. London, by Thomas Raynalde, 1550, + 12mo. + + Jonas, with an exposition by Bishop Hooper. London, by John + Tisdale, no date (1550), 12mo. + + The Seven Penitential Psalms by Bishop Fisher. London, by + Thomas Marshe, 1555, 16to. + + Psalmes or Prayers taken out of holy Scripture. London, without + name of printer, 1556, 16to. The present copy is prefixed to + Cuthbert Tonstall’s Prayers in Latin and English. + + Psalmes, in Metre, with Notes. Geneva, by Zacharie Durand, + 1561, 16to. + + The whole book of Psalms, by Sterneholde, &c. conferred with + the Hebrew, with Notes. London, by John Daye, 1579, 4to. + + The same. London, by John Daye, 1580, 4to. + + The same. London, by John Daye, 1582, 4to. + + The Psalter, according to the Great Bible. London, the + assignees of W. Seres (1583), 4to. + + The third Part of the Bible. London, by Christopher Barker, + 1583. + + The Song of Solomon, in Metre, with a Comment by Dudley Fenner. + Middleburg, by R. Schilders, 1587, 8vo. + + The Epistle of St. James, with an exposition by R. Turnbull. + London, by John Windet, 1591, 8vo. + + The Psalms by Sterneholde, &c. London, for the Company of + Stationers, 1605, 12mo. + + The same, for the same. London, 1608, 12mo. + + The same, for the same. London, 1614, 4to. + + The same, for the same. London, 1622, 12mo. + + The same, for the same. London, 1629, 4to. + + The same. London, by E. G. for the Company, 1639, 4to. + + Psalms in Prose and Metre, with Notes. London, by R. C. for the + Company, 1643, 16to. + + Psalms and Hymns, by William Barton. London, by T. Parkhurst, + 1668, 12mo. and the + + Psalms in Metre, by Brady and Tate, the second edition. London, + by T. Hodgkin. + +In conclusion of this department, I may notice the Common Places of +Scripture, printed by Johan Byddell, 1538, 12mo., and Sparrow’s Rationale +of Common Prayer, 1657, 12mo. + +There also deserves to be recorded an interleaved copy, with copious +annotations throughout of the Novum Testamentum Græcum, cum Notis +Manuscriptis, et Lectionibus Variantibus collectis à A. T. Mangey, in 3 +volumes, folio, inscribed with the following MS. note: + + “These valuable Collections of the Reverend and learned Dr. + Mangey, in three volumes, folio, were presented to the Library + of St. Paul’s by his worthy son, the Rev. Mr. Mangey, one of + the Prebendaries of the Church. Nov. 10, 1780. + + “THOS. BRISTOL, D.” + +The mention of this valuable monument of clerical labour leads us +naturally to the consideration of the other impressions of the sacred +writings contained in these cases. + +Among these, the first in order of time, is + + The Biblia Hebraica. Parisiis, 1645, folio; Vatabli, 1599, + folio; Houbigant, 1753, folio; and Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776, in + 2 vols. folio. + + Biblia Latina Cratandri. Basileæ, 1526, 8vo. + + Biblia Belgica. 1616. + + Biblia Espanola. 1553, 4to. + + Biblia Germanica, Lutheri. 1586, 4to. + +Of editions of the New Testament, I may mention the + + Novum Testamentum Græcum: Erasmi, Stephani, Scaligeri, + Casauboni, Millii, Wetstein, Grabe, Tremellii, Theodori Bezæ. + + Novum Testamentum è Codice Alexandrino curâ Woide. Londini, + 1786, 4to. + + Evangelia Gothica, Junii, Dordraci, 1665, 4to. + +To which may be added various editions of the Psalter in Latin, Syriac, +and Saxon. + +From these, we pass by easy gradations, to the theological department of +the Library. + +Among the Fathers of the Church, we find S. Ambrose, S. Athanasius, S. +Augustine, S. Basilius, Chrysostom, S. Cyprian, Cyril, S. Ignatius, +Epiphanius, Episcopius, Eusebius, Fulgentius, Gregory Nazianzenus, +Neocæsariensis, and Nyssenus, S. Jerome, Hilary, Hospinianus, Irenæus, +S. Isidore, Peter and Justin Martyr, Lactantius, Nicephorus, S. Origen, +Philo Judæus, Polycarp, Tertullian, Theodoret, Theophylact, represented +by their Works in this Library. + +Of English Divines, this Collection embraces the Works of Allen, Allix, +Andrews, Atterbury, Bancroft, Barrow, Bennet, Baxter, Beveridge, +Bramhall, Bull, Calamy, Chillingworth, Claggett, Samuel Clarke, Comber, +Cosin, Cranmer, Davenant, Goodman, Hall, Hammond, Hoadley, Hody, Hooper, +Jackson, Lardner, Leslie, Lightfoot, Lowth, Mede, Bishop Morley, +Montague, Nelson, Nye, Norris, Pierce, Pococke, Prideaux, Archbishop +Sharpe, Sanderson, Sherlock, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tenison, +Tillotson, Toland, Waterland, Watson, Wake, Whitby, White, Whitgift, and +Wilkins. + +To these names may be added Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian +Church; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; Cave’s Primitive Christianity; +Cudworth’s Intellectual System; Derham’s Physico-Theology; Dodwell’s +Theological Dissertations; Fell on St. Paul’s Epistles; Henrici VIII. +Assertio Septem adversus M. Lutherum, 1562, 8vo.; Field of the Church; +Seven Sermons on the VII. Penitential Psalms, by Fisher, Bishop of +Rochester; Nicolas Fuller’s Theological Miscellanies; Gastrell’s +Christian Institutes; Hey’s Lectures on Divinity; Hackett’s Sermons; +Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Wake’s Genuine Epistles of the +Apostolical Fathers; Jones on the Trinity; Jewell’s Works, 1609, folio; +Kidder on the Pentateuch; Latimer’s Sermons; Muggleton’s Writings against +the Quakers; Ostervald’s Arguments in French; Pearson on the Creed, and +his Posthumous Works; Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England; +Wheatley on the Common Prayer; Wall on Infant Baptism; and Usser’s Annals. + +The Foreign Works on Divinity, which are found upon these shelves, are +far more numerous than important. It may suffice therefore to mention +the Works of Thomas Aquinas and Theodore Beza; Petri Blesensis Opera +Omnia; the Works of Bochart and Bossuet; Buxtorf and Calvin; Chamieri +Controversiæ; Dallæus’ Theological Works; Durandi Rationale Divinorum +Officiorum; the Works of John Gerson; and of Desiderius Erasmus; +Cotelerii Patres Apostolici; Grabe’s Spicilegium Veterum Patrum; the +Works of Popes Gregory I. II. and IX.; Howell’s Synopsis Canonum; +Limborch, Theologia Christiana; the Works of Lanfranc, Luther, and +Melancthon; Methodii Opera; Riveti Opera Theologica; Saurin’s Sermons; +Sirmondi Opus Patrum et Opera reliquaria; Socini Opera; Spencer de +legibus Hebræorum; Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus; Vitringa in Jesaiam; +Zanchii Opera Theologica; and the Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum, cum +Auctario. + +Of Commentators the number is considerable, including those of Patrick, +Whitby, &c.; Bythneri Lyra Prophetica, and Pyle’s Paraphrase. + +Of Confessions there are also divers forms. + +Of Concordances there are several in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and English, +of which it may be enough to mention that of Downame; and Schmidii +Concordantia Novi Testamenti Græcè, Wittebergæ, 1638, folio. + +Canons and Decretals, including those of Gratian’s Synods of the Catholic +Church; Tracts relating to the Liturgy, Church Discipline, and to the +Dissenters, and Jesuits, occupy a considerable space upon these shelves. + +Among the Works of Devotion I noticed several Offices of the Virgin, a +small volume of Hours, printed by Robert Wyer, in 12mo.; and the Horæ ad +usum Ecclesiæ Sarum, 1524, 4to.; a large folio, Graduale Romanum, with +Musical Notes, lying in a very tattered condition upon the table; several +Breviaries and Missals, with the Pontificale Romanum, but none of early +date; the Book of Prayer for Scotland, 1637; the Directory for the Public +Worship of God, London, 1644, 4to.; and English Prayer Books, of 1566, +1577, 1608, 1679, and other years. + +There are also books of Homilies and Sermons by Seed, Secker, and others +of minor reputation, including a very curious volume of “Sermones +discipuli de tempore et de Sanctis, Argentorati, 1495,” folio, in which +the following remarkable entry has been made by an ancient hand:—“Orate +charitativè pro ai̅ma Ths Tyndalle qui dedit hunc librum co̅ventui de +Grenewych fra̅ minoru̅ de Obsu̅anciæ die professionis sui filii fri̅s +Willm̅i. Anno dni. 1508.” + +In this Collection, the Critici Sacri; the Bibliotheca Polonorum fratrum; +the Bibliotheca Sacra of Le Long; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Pole’s Synopsis; +Du Pin’s Bibliotheque des Auteurs Ecclesiastique; Trithemii Catalogus +Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum and Nicolas de Lyra, Commentarii in Bibliâ, +Lugd. Bat. 1629, in six volumes folio, bring up the rear of the heavy +division of the theological array, we have just passed under review. + +Turning our attention to Ecclesiastical History we find a voluminous +mass of Councils; the Concilia Generalia compiled by Labbe, Cossartius, +Delaland, and Baluzius; the Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ by Wilkins +and Spelman; the famous Council of Trent; Lyndwode’s Provinciale; +Constitutiones Legatinæ Angliæ, Paris, 1504, folio; Baronii et Saliani +Annales Ecclesiastici; and Tornielli Annales Sacri. + +Independently of many tracts relating to Ecclesiastical affairs, this +Library contains within its walls the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists +in 53 volumes, folio; the Martyrologium Romanum of Baronius; Codex +Theodosianus; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ +Monumenta; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica; Echard’s Ecclesiastical +History; Geddes’ Church History of Malabar; Haymonis Historia +Ecclesiastica per Maderum, Helmstadii, 1671, 4to.; Centuriatores +Magdeburgenses; Neustria Pia Rothomagi, 1663, folio; Platina, Vitæ +Pontificum; Rycaut on the Greek Churches; Gallia Christiana Roberti +Claudii; and Sleidan’s History of the Reformation, translated by Bohun; +with Lloyd, Potter, and Reynolds on Church Government. + +Of Works more immediately relating to the Church History of England, I +may here notice the well-known Work of Thomas Fuller; Barwick’s Life of +Dean Barwick; Bacon’s Liber Regis; Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis +Anglorum; the Legend of St. Cuthbert, 1663, 12mo.; The Life of John +Egerton, Bishop of Durham, 1798; Davies on the Church of Durham, London, +1672; Godwyn’s Præsules Anglicani, and his Catalogue of Bishops; Gough’s +Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Threnodia, 1661, 8vo.; Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana +Ecclesiastica, Duaci, 1621, folio; Heylin’s History of the Reformation in +England; Knox’s Church of Scotland; Nichols, Defensio Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ; +Parker, de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, 1605, folio; Parr’s Life of +Usher; Sanderus de Schismate Anglicano; Spotswode’s Church History of +Scotland; Usserii Britannicæ Ecclesiæ Antiquitates; Wharton’s Anglia +Sacra; Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum; and Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, +London, 1744, folio. + +The familiar names of the two last-mentioned Works, lead us to the +consideration of English Topography and Antiquities, in which department +we meet with Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ, the Britannia Romana, of +the learned Horsley, printed at London in 1732, folio; Adam’s Index +Villaris; Camden’s Britannia; Charleton’s Stonehenge, London, 1663, +4to.; Isaacke’s Exeter, London, 1677, 8vo.; Kilburne’s Survey of Kent, +London, 1659, 8vo.; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent, London 1596, 4to.; +Lysons’ Environs of London; Peck’s Stamford; Pennant’s London; Plot’s +Natural Histories of Oxfordshire and Staffordshire; Somner’s Canterbury, +and his account of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent; Spelman’s Villare +Anglicanum; Stow’s London; Thoresby’s Leeds; Verstegan’s Restitution +of Decayed Intelligence relating to English Antiquities; and Weever’s +Funeral Monuments, London, 1631, folio. + +Of County Histories, I noticed only Burton’s Leicestershire; Dugdale’s +Warwickshire; Morant’s Essex; Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire; and Wright’s +Rutland. + +Of Works illustrative of the adjacent Cathedral, we find the original +edition of Dugdale’s Account of St. Paul’s Cathedral, together with “An +Historical, Descriptive, and Critical Account of the Cathedral Church of +St. Paul, London, by John Gwilt, Architect: Read at the Architects’ and +Artists’ Club, March 4, 1823, and ordered to be printed by the Committee. +Not Published. 8vo.” Of this volume, the gift of Richard Harris Barham, +5th of April, 1827, to the Chapter Library, only 25 copies were printed. +It has a few illustrative plates. + +Of Historical Works relating to Great Britain, this Collection embraces +the Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores XV. à Gale and Fell; Camdeni Anglica, +Normannica, &c. à veteribus scripta; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores +Historiarum, Francofurti, 1601, folio; Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores post +Bedam; Matthæi Paris, Historia Anglicana, edente Wats, Londini, 1640, +folio, bound in three volumes; Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana, +Duaci, 1603, folio; and Gibson’s Saxon Chronicle. + +It also contains Ponticus Virunnius Historia Britonum, 1587, and Brady’s +History of England; Burnet’s valuable labours; Bates’ Elenchus Motuum +nuperorum in Angliâ; Asser’s Life of Alfred the Great; Camden’s Annales +Rerum Anglicanarum, with his Remains concerning Britain, and his Memoirs +of Elizabeth; Chamberlayne’s Notitia Magnæ Britanniæ, 1729; Heath’s +Chronicle of the Civil Wars; Danyel’s History of England; Dugdale’s +Summons; Eadmeri Historia Novorum, edited by the learned Selden; Gulielmi +Neubrigensis Historia Anglicanà, Antverpià, 1567, 8vo. and Lugd. Bat. +1587, folio; Medulla Historiæ Anglicanæ, Londini, 1694, 8vo.; Fuller’s +Worthies of England; Galfredi Monumetensis De Gestis Regum Britanniæ, +Lugd. Bat. 1587, folio; Gildas de excidio et conquestu Britanniæ, Lugd. +1587, et Oxonii, 1691; Godwyn’s Annales Rerum Anglicanarum Henrico VIII. +Edvardo VI. et Mariâ regnantibus; Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII. folio; +History of the Rebellion, London, 1647, 8vo.; Historia Anglicana, 1653, +folio; Holland’s Heroologia Anglica, London, 1620, folio; Langhorne’s +Chronicon Regum Angliæ, Londini, 1679, 8vo. and his Elenchus Antiquitatum +Albionensium, 1675, 8vo. with his Introduction to the History of +England, 1676, 8vo.; Leland’s Genethliacon Edvardi VI. 1543; Leslæus de +Successionis Jure Regum Anglicanorum in causâ Mariæ Scotorum Reginæ, +Rheims, 1580, 4to.; Gulielmus Malmsburiensis de gestis Regum Anglorum, +Londini, 1596, folio; Sir Roger Manley’s History of the Rebellions from +1640 to 1685, London, 1691, 8vo.; Nalson’s Historical Collections; +Nevyllus de furoribus Norfolcensium, Ketto duce, 1575; Parker, de rebus +sui temporis, Londini, 1726, 8vo.; Skynner’s Elenchi Motuum in Angliâ +Pars tertia; Smith, de Republicâ Anglorum; Speed’s History of Great +Britain; Spelman’s Life of Alfred, and his Reliquiæ; Stow’s Annals +by Howes; Apologiâ pro Twyne Antiquitatæ Academiæ, Oxoniensis, 1608; +Whitelocke’s Memorials, and the Historia Numismatis Oxoniensis with +the Athenæ Oxonienses of Anthony à Wood, a name dear to every lover of +Britain’s Worthies. To the above may be added the Records of the kingdom +published by the Parliamentary Commission, and the Population Returns; +various Political and Polemical Tracts, too unimportant to deserve +minute specification, are found on these shelves, which also bear Waræi +Scriptores Hibernicani et Rerum Hibernicarum Annales; Cartè’s Life of +Ormonde; as well as Lloyd’s History of Wales, edited by Powel, London, +1584, 4to.; Boethius’s Historia Scotorum, Parisiis, 1575, folio; and +Falle’s Jersey, London, 1694, 12mo. + +Of Works relating to the Laws of England, so intimately interwoven with +its History, we find, Coke’s Institutes; Fortescue de laudibus legum +Angliæ; Glanville, de legibus Angliæ, 1673; and Sir George Mackenzie +on the Law of Scotland. To which may be added Gothofredi Corpus Juris +Civilis; Heineccii Jur. Civile, & Justiniani Institutiones. + +Of English Historical Writers, the Catalogues compiled by Bale, and Pits, +and Nicolson’s English Historical Library, are found in this collection. + +I may here also notice as introductory to the larger department of +Foreign History, the well-known Works of Puffendorf & Du Fresnoy; +Whear’s Method of reading History, and Rawlinson on the Study of +History; Beughem, Bibliotheca Historica; Bayle’s Dictionary; and Moreri, +Dictionnaire Historique. + +Of the Historical Works themselves, I noticed the body of Byzantine +Historians, collected by Labbe and Du Fresne; Freheri Rerum Bohemicarum +et Germanicarum Scriptores; and his Theatrum Virorum clarorum; +Froissart’s Chronicle, Lyons, 1559; Guicciardini, Historia Italiæ; +Heliodorus, Æthiopicorum Historia; the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1497, +folio; Hermoldus, Chronicon Sclavorum; Chronicon Freculphi, Heidelbergæ, +1597, 8vo.; the Chronicon Orientale Beccense, & Paschale, Helvici +Theatrum Historicum et Chronologicum; Eutychii Annales, edited by +Selden and Pococke; Meibomei et Reuberi Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum; +Godefredi Annales; Jovii Elogia Virorum illustrium; Olaus Magnus, +Historia Gentium Septentrionalium; Mariana de Rebus Hispanicis, Francof. +1603, folio; Ludolphi Historia Æthiopica; Mariani Scoti Chronicon; +Naucleri Chronicon Universale; Pistorii Historicorum Corpus Polonorum; +Robinsoni Annales Mundi; Sigismundi Rerum Muscovitarum Commentarii; Saxo +Grammaticus Historia Danica, Basileæ, 1534, & Soræ, 1644, folio; and his +Commentarii Regnorum Aquilonum, Lug. Bat. 1622, 12mo.; the Historical +Works of Reineccius and Sigonius; Thuani Historia sui temporis; Flavii +Vopisci Romanorum Imperatorum Historia; Rerum Sicularum Scriptores; +Zonaræ Annales & Zosimi Historia à Leunclavio edita; Historia Francorum, +Francof. 1596; the Effigies Regum Francorum, 1622, 4to.; Josephus, +Hudsoni & Basnage, History of the Jews. + +Among the helps to History may be mentioned, Cluvierii Geographia; +Ortelii Geographia; Hudsoni Geographiæ Veteris Scriptores Minores, +Oxonii, 1698-1703; Marsham’s Chronological Works; Petavii Opera +Chronologica; Heylin’s Cosmography; and Tournefort, Voyage de Levant. + +Of Heraldry, which has with the strictest propriety been styled the +key of History, this Library contains, Gore’s Catalogus Auctorum de re +Heraldicâ, Oxonii, 1674, 4to.; Milles’ Nobilitas Politica et Civilis, +Londini, 1608, folio; Philipot’s Heraldry, 1672; and Selden’s Titles of +Honour, London, 1631, folio. + +The study of Antiquities, whereby so many dark passages of History have +been elucidated for the benefit of posterity, follows naturally in this +place. Among the Works of this description we find Dempster and Kennet’s +Antiquities of Rome; Fleetwood’s Sylloge Antiquarum Inscriptionum; +Major’s Ruins of Pæstum, London, 1768, folio; Gorlæi Dactyliotheca; De +Wild’s Numismata Antiqua; Grævius, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanorum; +Gronovii Thesaurus Antiquitatum Græcarum; Gruteri Thesaurus Criticus; +Mabillon, Musæum Italicum, &c.; Montfaucon, Diarium Italicum, & +Palæographia Græca; Prideaux, Marmora Oxoniensia; & Selden, Marmora +Arundeliana. + +The mention of these enduring monuments of the bravest, the wisest, and +the politest nation of the ancient world, recalls the mind to Classical +Literature, the dread of our earliest, and the delight of our maturer +years. + +Within the walls of this Library repose the Works of Ælian, Æschines, +Appian, & Apuleius; Antoninus Gatakeri, with Dacier’s Translation; +and the Works of Apollonius Rhodius; Aristides, Aristophanes, Arrian, +Ausonius, Athenagoras, Athenæus & Aristenætus. Here too is the Æschylus +of Stanley and the Anacreon of Barnes. + +Here also are Spanheim’s editions of Callimachus; the Works of +Quintus Curtius; Demosthenes; Dictys Cretensis; & Diogenes Laertius; +Aristotelis Opera Sylburgi, with many of his separate Pieces; Diodorus +Siculus, 1604, folio; Dio Cassius, Reimari; Dionysius Halicarnassensis, +Francofurti, 1586, and Oxonii, 1704, folio; Dionysius Periegetes, by +Hill, Lond. 1658; & Ennii Fragmenta, Lugd. Bat. 1620, 4to.; Ciceronis +Opera, Lambini, et Davisii, with various detached pieces of his Works; +Claudianus Barthii; Epictetus Uptoni; Euripides, by Barnes; Euclid, by +Barrow; and the Noctes of Aulus Gellius; with the Works of Herodian, +Herodotus, Hesiod, Hippocrates, and Galen, form integral parts of this +collection. + +Here also are Homerus Didymi, Amstelodami, 1656; and by Barnes, +Cantabrigiæ, 1711; Homeri Ilias, Clarkei; Eustathius in Homerum, Basileæ, +1560, folio, 4 vols.; Hierocles, Casauboni; Horatius, Delphini, et +Bentleii, with the Translation of Francis; Isocrates, Wolfii; Justinus, +Oxonii, 1674, 8vo.; Libanii Orationes; Livius, Freinsheimii; Lucanus, +Oudendorpii; Lucanus, Hemsterhusii; Lycophron, Potteri; Lysias, Taylori; +Manilius, Scaligeri; Ammianus Marcellinus, Gronovii; Menander, Clerici, +1709, 8vo.; Pomponius Mela, Gronovii; Cornelius Nepos, Delphini; & +Orapollinis Hieroglyphica, Merceri; Persius, Casauboni; Phocylides, +Cantabrigiæ, 1652, 8vo.; Platonis Opera, Serrani, folio; Plauti Comœdiæ, +Lambini; Plotinus, Ficini; Plutarchus, Rualdi, with Bryant’s edition of +Plutarch’s Lives; Plinius, Harduini, in 3 volumes, folio; Julii Pollucis +Onomasticon, Hemsterhusii; Polybius, Casauboni; Pythagoræ Aurea Carmina; +Sallustius, Delphini; Seneca, Farnabii; Sidonius, Apollinaris, Sirmondi; +Solinus, Salmasii; Statius, Barthii; Stobæus, Grotii; Tacitus, Gronovii; +Terentius, Delphini; Thucydides, Dukeri; Virgilius, Burmanni; and +Xenophon, Hutchinsoni; form no inconsiderable features in this department +of the Library. + +If to these we add different editions of the Works of Iamblichus, +Juvenal, Rutilius Lupus, Macrobius, Martial, Musæus; Mythographi Latini +per Munckerum; the Works of Nicander, Orpheus, Ovid, Velleius Paterculus, +Pausanias, Petronius Arbiter, Pliny the Younger; Pindar, Priscian, +Procopius, and Prudentius; of Eutropius, and the Historiæ Augustæ +Scriptores; Ptolemy, Quintilian, Silius Italicus, Sophocles, Ælius +Spartianus, Suetonius, Strabo, Æneas Sylvius, Achilles Tatius, Symmachi +Epistolæ; Theocritus’ Idylls; the Characters of Theophrastus; Vegetius de +rê militari; Zenobius, Epitome Proverbiorum Tarrhæi, &c. Haganoæ, 1535, +8vo.; and the Poëtæ Græci Veteres heroici et minores, we must confess +that Classic lore occupies an important position within these walls, +albeit the earliest editions of these great authors of antiquity may be +there sought for in vain. + +Etymology, whereby the stores of ancient literature are opened, next +invites our attention to the Lexica of Hederic and Scapula in Greek; +Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ; Cooper’s Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ; and +Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; Suidæ Lexicon Kusteri, in 3 volumes folio; +Hesychii Lexicon Græcum; Du Fresne’s Glossary; Etymologicon Magnum, +Sylburgii; Martinii Lexicon; Parkhurst’s Lexicon to the New Testament; +Phavorini Lexicon Græcum; Skinner, Etymologicum Linguæ Anglicanæ; +Benson’s Lexicon Anglo-Saxonicum, Oxonii, 1701, 8vo.; and Littleton’s +Dictionary, 1678, 4to. make up the complement of this useful division. + +I may here also notice some Philological Tracts by Vossius, Robortellus, +Scaliger, Labbe, and Casaubon; Wolfii Curæ Philologicæ et Criticæ; +Putschii Auctores Grammatici, 4to.; Gatakeri Adversaria; Salmasii +Exercitationes Plinianæ; and Perotti Cornucopia. + +In English Literature, I noticed upon the shelves of this Library +Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy; the Works of the Royal Martyr, with +the Life of Charles I. and the ‘Εικων Βασιλικη;’ Sir Dudley Carleton’s +Letters; Chaucer’s Works, 1561, folio; Cowley’s Works; Cudworth’s +Intellectual System; Drayton’s Polyolbion; Doddridge’s Life of Colonel +Gardiner; Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, 1682, 4to.; Gower’s +Confessio Amantis, 1554, folio; Hales’ Remains; Hervey’s Meditations; +Langbaine’s English Dramatic Poets; Locke on the Human Understanding; +Milton’s Controversial Pieces; Matthew Parker’s Works and Life; Upton’s +Observations on Shakespeare; Waller’s Poems; Walton’s Lives; and Sir +Philip Warwick’s Discourse of Government. + +Of Scientific Works, this Collection cannot boast of more than Stanley’s +History of Philosophy; Sprat’s History of the Royal Society; Maseres’ +Scriptores Logarithmici; Whiston’s Prælectiones Astronomicæ; Gerarde’s +Herbal, 1636, folio; Raii Historia Plantarum; Grew’s Rarities of Gresham +College; a few volumes of the Philosophical Transactions; Watts’ Logick; +and Winman de Arte Natandi, Lugd. Bat. 1638, 12mo. may be noted here. + +Of Bibliographical Works, this Library embraces Antonio, Bibliotheca +Hispana, Vetus et Nova, folio; D’Herbelôt, Bibliothèque Orientale, +4to.; Clavel’s Catalogue of English Books from 1666 to 1674, London, +1775; Catalogus Manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, Oxonii, 1697, folio; +Catalogue of English Writers on the Old and New Testament, London, 1668; +Catalogus Librorum, R. Smith, Londini, 1682, 4to.; Spencer, Catalogus +universalis Librorum in Bibliothecâ Collegii Sionii apud Londinensis, +Londini, 1601, folio; Bibliothecæ Cleri Londinensis in Collegio Sionensi +Catalogus à Gulielmo Reading, Londini, 1724, folio; Catalogus Bibliothecæ +Publicæ Lugduni Batavorum; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Academiæ Lipsiensis; +Catalogus Bibliothecæ Ducis Norfolciæ, 1681, 4to.; Catalogus Bibliothecæ +Thuanæ; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Barberinæ; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Cottonianæ +à Smith; Catalogus Librorum venales apud Elzeveros; Cave’s Catalogus +Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum; Draudii Bibliotheca Classica; Du Pin, +Bibliotheca Historica; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca, Latina, & Mediæ et +Infimæ Ætatis, with his Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica, and Bibliographia +Antiquaria; Hallervordii Bibliotheca Curiosa; Index Librorum +Expurgatorum; Mabillon de Rê Diplomaticâ; Morhof, Polyhistor Literarius, +&c.; Naudæi Bibliographia Politica; Photii Bibliotheca curâ Hœschelii; +Scott, Catalogus Librorum ex variis Europæ partibus advectorum, London, +1674, 4to.; Toppi, Bibliotheca Napoletana, Neap. 1678, folio; and the +Bibliothecæ Regiæ, Georgii III. Catalogus, with the Supplementary volume +of Maps and Prints, 6 vols. folio, the gift of George IV. + +Of general literature, the Works contained in this Collection are not +important. I may here enumerate however a copy of Joannis Sarisburiensis +Polycraticus, Lugd. Bat. 1595; the Koran; the Work of Agapetus; Epistolæ +Variorum Auctorum; Hobbes’ Opera Philosophica; Fenelon, Télémaque; +Voltaire, Henriade; the Works of Grotius and Heinsius, of Julian the +Apostate, Thomas Magister, Thomas à Kempis, Meursius, Meibomius, and +Muretus; the Works of Petrarch and Machiavelli; Picus of Mirandula, +edited by Pierce; of Moliere, Porphyry, Rabelais, Ruinart, & Rufinus; +Photii Epistolæ Montacutii; Relandi Palestina illustrata; Annales +Rabbinorum, et de Religione Muhammetensi; Stapletoni Opera; Synesii +Opera; Maximus Tyrius, Dissertationes, Davisii; and Boethius, de +Consolatione Philosophiæ, 1656. + +But if the curiosity of the reader extend to the productions of such +names as Albertus Magnus, Alyaco, Lucas Holstenius, Hottingerus Launovis, +Maimonides, Jonas Shlichlingius, and Fridericus Schererzius, Duns Scotus, +Suarez, Stuchius, Paulus Vindingius, and Ludovicus Vives, Granville +Sharp, or Seth Ward, and Eustratius, Zialowski; together with numerous +other obscure writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; for all +these he may be safely referred to the Manuscript Catalogue preserved +in the Library, a thick folio volume, very carefully compiled, and +containing a very sufficient and correct enumeration of all the books +contained in the Library, in regular alphabetical order, with reference +to the shelves on which they stand. + +Each volume of this Collection has the book plate of the Chapter pasted +within its cover. This engraving, in the form of an ecclesiastical seal, +represents St. Paul seated, with a glory around his head, having in his +right hand a sword, and in his left the sacred volume. The following +motto encircles the whole—“Liber Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Sancti Pauli.” + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Manchester. + + +The See of Manchester having been created during the compilation of these +Notes would naturally occasion me to notice any Library which might +have existed in connection with that establishment. There is however +no Library attached to the Collegiate Church, now the Cathedral of +Manchester. There were a few books sold about twenty or five and twenty +years ago by the Churchwardens of that time, which consisted chiefly of +Divinity; Jewel’s Apology; Hooker’s Works; Fox’s Book of Martyrs, &c.; +many of them in a dilapidated state, and very few perfect among them. +They appear to have been books placed in the Church for the use of the +congregation at large, rather than a Capitular Library. + +It is probable that Humphrey Chetham, when he founded his Hospital, +in what was formerly the College or Capitular buildings belonging to +the Collegiate Church of Manchester, intended the Library which he +established there to supply the deficiency of a Chapter Library. This +Collection is remarkable as the most easily accessible in the United +Kingdom. Any person, however humble in station, or homely in appearance, +whencesoever he may come, has a right to demand a sight of any book +in the Library. This rare facility of access has not been without its +abuses, since some volumes have been mutilated, and in severe weather, as +in the National Gallery of London, many persons come and ask for a book +of light reading for the sake of a warm and comfortable apartment. + +A well arranged Catalogue of this Collection under the title of +Bibliotheca Chethamensis seu Bibliothecæ Publicæ Mancuniensis ab Humph. +Chetham Arm. fundatæ Catalogus, was edited by John Radcliffe in 1791, in +2 vols. 8vo. to which a third volume edited by William Parr Gresswell was +added in 1826, with a copious index to the whole Collection. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Norwich. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich is deposited in the small +yet commodious apartment which adjoins one of the Prebendal houses in the +close, and is placed under the care of the Rev. W. F. Drake, one of the +minor Canons of the Cathedral. + +The collection comprises three thousand volumes, labelled and arranged +upon open shelves, which are briefly enumerated in alphabetical order, in +a privately printed octavo volume, entitled “The Catalogue of the Norwich +Cathedral Library, 1819,” London, printed by G. Auld, Greville Street, +pp. 120, chiefly compiled by its present Curator. + +The books principally relate to Divinity, English History, and Classical +Literature, and are chiefly of recent donation, the greater portion of +the existing Collection having been presented to the Library by Frank +Sayers, _M. D._ It is pleasant also to notice the judicious additions of +standard Theological and Historical Works, by purchase from time to time +as the funds of the establishment permit. + +Among the desirable additions to the ancient foundation, I remarked +the Works of Strype and Bull, with other valuable productions of the +Collegiate Press at Oxford. + +The Publications issued under authority of the Record Commission are here +seen in long and increasing array, for by a liberal and comprehensive +policy, a copy of these public Records is deposited in every Cathedral +Library of Great Britain. + +Among the more ancient volumes, the typographical antiquary will seek +in vain for any vestige of a Caxton, or of early English printers; but +he may recognize with pleasure, Boetii viri celeberrimi de Consolatione +Philosophiæ liber cum optimo commento beati Thome, which hath the +following colophon:— + +“Libri quinque de consolatione phie̅ Boetii Rhomani consulis ac oratoris +splendidissimi una cum commentaria editione per me Jacobum de Breda +in Daventria diligenter elaborati finiunt anno gratiæ Millesimo, +quadragintesimo, nonagesimo primo, die sabbati ante Judica.” + +Then follows a new title page, at the top of which is, + +Boetii de disciplina scholarium cum notabili commento. + +Then the colophon thus:— + +¶ Finit Boetius de disciplina scholarium cum commento. optime bene necnon +diligenter Impressus Daventria per me Jacobum de Breda. Anno Domini +M.CCCC. nonagesimo sexto. XV. mensis Maii. + +This volume which is in old strong binding, with wooden boards, contains +“Aristotelis Ethica, Latinè reddita à Leonardo Arretino—printed 1479 +at Oxford,” which begins Incipit preffacio leonardi arretini in libros +ethicorum. Ending with the colophon, + +Explicit textus ethicorum Aristotelis per leonardum aretinum lucidissime +translatus correctissimeque. Impressus oxoniis anno dm̅. M.CCCC.lxxix. + +This book formerly belonged to Dr. Sayers. + + Also the second edition of Statius, printed at Paris, by Jehan + Petit, 1499, 4to. + +The general reader will find much both of interest and instruction in the +several departments to which I shall briefly direct his attention. + +I only pause to remark that the only manuscript in this Library is one of +the Psychomachia of Prudentius with delicate illuminations, probably of +no greater antiquity than the middle of the fifteenth century. + +The body of Divinity deposited in this place, is composed of the Works +of Thomas Aquinas, Arminius, Athanasius, Augustine, Bernard, Bellarmine, +Calvin, Chamier, Cyprian, Episcopus, Erasmus, Justin Martyr, S. Jerome, +Ignatius, Irenæus, Lactantius, Melancthon, Origen, Rivetus, Tertullian, +Theodoret, & Zanchii Opera Theologica, Genev. 1619, in 3 vols. folio; +Suarez, Disputationes Theologicæ, Moguntiæ, 1629, folio; and Surius de +Vitis Sanctorum, Venetiis, 1581, in 8 vols. folio. Of Barrow, Beveridge, +Bennet, Boys, Bramhall, Chillingworth, Clarke, Conybeare, Edwards, +Hammond, Hall, Hody, Hoadley, Horsley, Howe, Jackson, Jewel, Lightfoot, +Locke, Lowth, Lowman, Patrick, Paley, Prideaux, Reynolds, Rogers, +Sherlock, Stillingfleet, Tillotson, and Jeremy Taylor, various works are +here found. + +I also noticed Abbot’s Defence of the Reformed Churches, 1611, in 2 vols. +4to.; Ainsworth on the Pentateuch; Allix on the Old Testament; Barclay’s +Apology; Browne’s Religio Medici; Brightman on the Revelations; Butler’s +Analogy; Burnet on the Articles; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; +Campbell on the Gospels; Cave’s Primitive Christianity; Antiquitates +Apostolicæ, and Lives of the Fathers; Clarkson’s Primitive Episcopacy; +Cosin’s Canon of Scripture; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; Derham’s +Astro-Theology; Evans’ Sketch of all Religions; Faulkner on the Liturgy; +Fell and St. Paul’s Epistles; Field of the Church; Fleetwood on Miracles; +Forster on the Christian Revelation; Fulke on the New Testament; +Gastrell’s Christian Institutes; Gale’s Court of the Gentiles; Gregorii +de Valentia Opera Theologica, Ingoldst. 1592, in 4 volumes, folio; and +Gregory’s Observations on Scripture; Gray’s Key to the Old Testament; +Gurnall’s Christian in Armour; Grabe, Spicilegium Veterum Patrum; Harmer +on the Scriptures; Heylin’s Christian Theology; Hey’s Lectures; Hooker’s +Ecclesiastical Polity; Kennicott’s Dissertations; King’s Lectures on +Jonas; Kidder on the Pentateuch; Knatchbull’s Annotations; Lardner’s +Gospel History; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Lewis’ Origines Hebreæ; Le Clerc +on the Pentateuch; Marsh’s Michaelis, and his Lectures; and Magee on +the Atonement; Macknight on the Epistles and Gospels; Newton on the +Prophecies and Apocalypse; Newcome on Ezekiel, &c.; Newman’s Concordance; +Nisbet on the Epistles; Outram de Sacrificiis; Owen on the Trinity; +Pearson on the Creed; Pierce on the Epistles; Poli Synopsis; Ross’ View +of all Religions; Shuckford’s Connection; Trapp on the New Testament; +Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers; Waterland’s Vindication; +Warburton’s Divine Legation; Usher’s Body of Divinity; Watson’s +Apologies; Welchman on the Articles; Whitby on the New Testament; +Wilkins’ Natural Religion; Wollaston’s Religion of Nature; and the Works +of the author of the Whole Duty of Man, Oxford, 1704, folio. + +The impressions of the Sacred Volume found upon these shelves are, + + The Bishops’ Bible, in folio. + + The Biblia Hebraica, Montani, 1571, folio. + + Walton’s Polyglott, with Castelli Lexicon, 1657, in 8 vols. + folio. + +But the most sumptuous volumes of Holy Writ are those printed by Field, +at Cambridge, in 1666, folio, which, richly embellished with engravings +of that period, and bound in 2 volumes covered with purple velvet, and +protected by silver clasps, usually adorn the Sacramental table of the +Cathedral itself. + +The impressions of the New Testament are more numerous than those +of the Bible, including those edited by Beza, Castalio, Hammond, +Maittaire, Stephens, and Tremellius. To which I may add the Heptateuchus +Anglo-Saxonicè à Thwaites, 1798; and the Pentateuchus Copticus of +Wilkins, 1731, 4to. + +There are also imperfect copies of the Book of Common Prayer of 1634; and +of Kennicott’s Hebrew Bible; Wickliffe’s Testament, by Lewis, London, +1731, folio; Henry the Eighth’s Primer, 1546, 4to.; the Common Prayer +Book of 1619, in folio, with Prayers in Latin, Spanish, and Greek, and +the Liturgia in usum Eccl. Angl. 12mo. may here find appropriate mention. + +This Library also contains Pole’s Synopsis, and Howel’s Synopsis Canonum; +several Theological Tracts and Sermons, by Allestree, Berriman, Clarke, +Fleetwood, Goodman, Horton, Hickman, Houghton, Horsley, Jeffery, Knight, +Leightenhouse, Newcome, Needham, Parr, Rogers, Saurin, Sanderson, +Sherlock, South, Stoughton, Jeremy Taylor, Waterland, and Whaley; +Bourse’s Discourses; Secker’s Charges; and a small collection of Sermons +by different authors. + +The Historical department of this Library includes the Ancient and +Modern Universal History, Abdollatiphi Hist. Egypt, à Pococke, Oxon. +1800, 4to.; Butler’s Revolutions of the Germanic Empires; Chroniques de +Nicole Gilles, Paris, 1536, folio; Chronicon Chronicorum, 1493, folio; +Cumberland’s Phœnician History; Davila’s History of the Civil Wars of +France; Echard’s Roman History, 1699, in 4 vols. 4to.; Gast’s History of +Greece, 1782, 4to.; Gillies’ History of the World, 1807, in 2 vols. 4to.; +Gothicarum Rerum Scriptores, 1618, 12mo.; Heylin’s Cosmography; Helvici +Theatrum Historicum; the History of Modern Europe, 1731, in 4 vols. 8vo.; +Historia Gentium Septentrionalium Olai Magni, Romæ, 1555, 4to.; Howell’s +History of the World; Le Compte’s Memoirs of China, 1697, 8vo.; Matthiæ +Theatrum Historicum; Mariana’s History of Spain; Mitford’s History of +Greece; Ockley’s Saracens; Ouseley’s Epitome of Persian History; Potter’s +Antiquities of Greece; Pococke’s Description of the East; Pounall’s +Roman Antiquities; Raleigh’s History of the World, 1614, fol.; Rycaut’s +Ottoman Empire; Sketches of the Hindoos, 1792, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Thuani +Historia sui temporis, 1733, in 7 vols. folio; Vertot’s Revolutions in +Portugal and Sweden; Whitaker’s Course of Hannibal over the Alps; and the +abridgment of Rollin’s Ancient History, published at Berne in 1763, in 5 +duodecimo volumes. + +The books relating to Ecclesiastical affairs in this Collection are, +an imperfect copy of Alford’s Annals; Auctores Hist. Eccles. Basil. +1535, folio; Butler’s Lives of the Saints, Edinburgh, 1798, in 12 vols. +8vo.; Baronii Annales, Antv. 1589, in 12 vols. folio; Bedæ Historia +Ecclesiastica, curâ Smithii, 1665, folio; Binii Concilia, Colon. 1618, +in 5 vols. folio; Bower’s Lives of the Popes, 1748, in 7 vols. 4to.; +Brent’s Council of Trent; Burnet on the Reformation, with his Vindication +of the Church of Scotland; Ecton’s Liber Valorum; Eusebii Historia +Ecclesiastica, Moguntiæ, 1677, in 3 vols. folio; Fox’s Martyrology, 1684, +in 3 vols. folio; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Fuller’s Church History, +1565, folio; Hist. Eccles. Script. Gr. Colon. 1612, folio; Howell’s +Synopsis Canonum; Josephus, Hudsoni; Jennings’ Jewish Antiquities; +Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History; Lardner’s Gospel History; Labbei +Concilia, Par. 1672, in 18 folio volumes; Lewis’ Life of Pococke; Lewis’ +Origines Hebreæ; Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ; Lingard’s History +of the Anglo-Saxon Church; Lucius, Historia Eccles. Magdeb. Bas. 1624, +in 3 vols. folio; Masoni Vindiciæ Eccles. Angl. 1625, folio; Mosheim’s +Ecclesiastical History; Nicephori Historia Ecclesiastica; Oughton’s Ordo +Judiciorum; Platina de Vitis Pontificum; Reyneri, de Ant. Ord. Benedict. +Douay, 1626, folio; Saliani Annales Ecclesiastici, Par. 1641, in 3 vols. +folio; Stillingfleet’s Origines; Strype’s Lives of Cranmer, Grindal, +Parker, and Whitgift; Steele’s Account of the Roman Catholic Religion; +Sympson’s History of the Church; Usher’s Annals and Antiquities; Walker’s +History of Independency, and Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, 1737, in +4 vols. folio; the Neustria Pia of Du Monstier, Rothom. 1663, folio; +Lyndewode, Provinciale, Oxonii, 1679, folio; Gibson’s Codex, and the +Codex Theodosianus, 1665, in 4 folio volumes. + +The Works illustrative of British History in this Library, are the +Annales Ælfredi Magni, à Wise, Oxon. 1722, 8vo.; Anglorum Prœlia, +Nevyllus de furoribus Norfolcensium, 1582, 12mo.; Andrews’ History of +England; Bacon’s Henry VII.; Baker’s Chronicle, 1665, folio; Barnes’ +Edward III.; Blome’s Britannia, 1673, folio; Burnett’s History of his +own Time; Brady’s History of England, with his Introduction to English +History; Camden’s Britannia, by Gibson, with his Elizabeth, and Remains; +Clarendon’s Rebellion, and his Life; Daniel’s History of England, +1685, folio; Eadmeri Historia Novorum, 1623, folio; Fuller’s Worthies, +1662, folio; Gibson’s Chronicon Saxonicum, Oxon. 1692, 4to.; Granger’s +Biographical History of England; Habington’s Edward IV.; Hayward’s Regal +Biographies; Lord Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII.; Henry’s History of +Great Britain; Holinshed’s Chronicles, 1577, folio; Howell’s History of +England, 1712, 8vo.; Horsley’s Britannia Romana, 1732, folio; Jeffrey’s +British History, Edin. 1719, 2 vols. 8vo.; Kelham’s Doomsday Book, 1788, +8vo.; Leicester’s Commonwealth, 1641, 4to.; Ludlow’s Memoirs, Vevay, +1698, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum; History of the +Exchequer, and Firma Burga; Milton’s History of Britain, 1670, 4to.; +Noble’s Biographical History of England and House of Cromwell; Oldmixon’s +History of England; Parker, de rebus sui temporis, 1726, 8vo.; Matthæi +Paris Historia Anglicana, 1684, folio; Rapin’s History of England, in 28 +octavo volumes, two copies; Rushworth’s Historical Collections, 1721, +in 8 vols. folio; Sammes’s Antiquities of Ancient Britain, 1676, folio; +Speed’s History of Great Britain, 1632, folio; Stowe’s Annals, by Howes, +1631, folio; Temple’s Introduction to the History of England, 1699, 8vo. +with his Memoirs, 1705, 3 vols. in 2, octavo; Turner’s History of the +Anglo-Saxons, Lond. 1807, in 2 vols. 4to.; Sir Philip Warwick’s Memoirs +of Charles I. 1701, 8vo.; Walpole’s Historic Doubts, 1768, 4to.; and +Polydore Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Basileæ, 1570, folio. + +The Works relating to the Topography and Antiquities of England in +this Collection embrace Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ, and his +Antiquities of Canterbury; Beatniffe’s Norfolk Tour, 1808, 12mo.; +Bentham’s Ely, by Stevenson, Norwich, 1812, 4to.; Blomefield’s Norwich +illustrated, 1745, 2 vols. folio; Browne’s Norwich Cathedral, 1807, +8vo.; Brand’s Popular Antiquities; Richard of Cirencester’s Description +of Britain; Burton’s Leicestershire; Carew’s Survey of Cornwall; Dart’s +Canterbury; Darell’s Dover Castle; Degges’ Staffordshire, Lond. 1723, +8vo.; Dickinson’s Nottinghamshire, 1801, 4to.; Ducarel’s Anglo-Norman +Antiquities; Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s; Fitzstephen’s Survey of +London; Gardiner’s History of Dunwich; Herne’s Charter House; Kennett’s +Parochial Antiquities; King’s Munimenta Antiqua; Kirby’s Suffolk +Traveller; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Lewis’ Antiquities of +Faversham, and History of the Isle of Thanet; Masters’ History of Corpus +Christi College, Cambridge; Millers’ Ely Cathedral; Mallett’s Northern +Antiquities; Malden’s King’s College Chapel; Norden’s Middlesex and +Hertfordshire; Plot’s Staffordshire and Oxfordshire; Salmon’s Surrey; +Seymour’s Survey of London; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; Stowe’s +Survey of London; Strutt’s Antiquities; and Verstegan’s Restitution. + +The lover of British Antiquity will readily join to these, Britton’s +Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, and some of his beautiful +Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England; Ladbrooke’s +Lithographic Views of Churches in Norfolk, oblong quarto, in numbers; +Mr. Nassau’s carefully illustrated copy of Blomefield’s Norfolk, bound +in russia; Ives’s Garianonum, 1774; Taylor’s Harwich and Dovercourt; +Wood’s History and Antiquities of Oxford, 1674, folio; the Antiquitates +Oxonienses, 1726, folio; and Weever’s Funeral Monuments, 1631, folio. + +The principal works connected with Scottish and Irish affairs, are +Boswell’s Journey to the Hebrides; Chalmer’s Caledonia; Dalrymple’s +Scotland; Monipenny’s Abridgment of the Scottish Chronicles, 1612, 4to.; +Spotiswode’s History of Scotland; and Ware’s Antiquities of Ireland, +1705, folio. + +The Classical department of this Library includes, + + Æschylus. Glasguæ, 1794, in 2 vols. 8vo. + + Æsopus, 1684, 12mo. + + Anacreon à Barnes. Cantab. 1705, 12mo. and Fischeri, Lipsiæ, + 1776, 8vo. + + Antoninus, Gatakeri, 1697, 4to. + + Appianus, Stephani. Paris. 1572, folio. + + Aristophanes, Burmanni. Lugd. 1760, in 2 vols. 4to. + + Aristotelis Opera, Du Valli. Par. 1654, folio, in 4 vols. + + Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. 1597, in 2 vols. folio. + + Aulus Gellius, Elz. Amst. 1665, 12mo. + + Ausonius, Scaligeri. Heidel. 1588, 12mo. + + Boethius, Char. Goth. Oxon. 1479, 4to. + + Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius. Cantabr. 1702, 4to. + + Cæsar, Aldi. Venet. 1519, 8vo. + + Ciceronis Opera Omnia, Verburgii. Amst. 1724, in 16 octavo + volumes, and the Oxford edition of 1783, in 10 quarto volumes. + + Claudiani Opera, Gesneri. Lipsiæ, 1759, 8vo. + + Epicteti Enchiridion. 1554, and Oxon. 1702, 12mo. + + Euripides à Barnes. Lipsiæ, 1778, in 3 quarto volumes. + + Eutropius, Delphini. 1716. + + Florus, Grævii. 1680, 8vo. + + Horatius, Bentleii. Cantab. 1711, 4to. and 1713, 8vo. + + Homeri Opera, Barnesii. Cantab. 1711, 2 vols. 4to. + + Homeri Ilias, Didymi, Cant. 1689, 4to.; Heynii, Lips. 1812, 8 + vols. 8vo. + + Josephus, Hudsoni. Oxon. 1721, in 2 vols. folio. + + Isocrates à Battie. Cantab. 1729, 8vo. + + Juvenalis et Persius, Farnabii. 1631, 12mo. + + Juvenalis, Ruperti. Oxon. 1808, 8vo. + + Justinus, Variorum. Amst. 1669, 8vo. + + Livius, Aldi. Venetiis, 1521, folio. + + Longinus à Pearce. Lond. 1725, 8vo. + + Lucan. Elz. 1591, 12mo. + + Lucretius, Lambini. 1583, 8vo. + + Lucian. 1619, 2 vols. 8vo. + + Lycophronis Fragmenti, Hermanni. 1788, 8vo. + + Macrobius. 1694, 8vo. + + Orpheus. 1689, 12mo. + + Orphica, Hermanni. 1805. + + Ovidius, Delphini. Lond. 1778, 12mo. + + Pausanias, Facii. Lipsiæ, 1794, in 4 vols. 8vo. + + Plutarchii Moralia. Francof. 1620, 2 vols. folio. + + Plinii Historia Naturalis. Colon. 1615, folio. + + Plinii Epistola, Gesneri. 1770, 8vo. + + Plato, Ficini. 1602, folio. + + Pomponius Mela, Gronovii. 1685, 12mo. + + Polybius, Wechelii. 1609, folio, and Ernesti, 1764, in 3 vols. + 8vo. + + Propertius. 1702, 4to. + + Quintus Curtius, Gryphii. 1551, 12mo. + + Quintilian. Oxon. 1693, 4to. + + Sallust. Lugd. 1665, 8vo. and Cantab. 1679, 12mo. + + Senecæ Opera. Par. 1607, in 2 vols. folio. + + Sophocles, Brunckii. 1808. + + Statius. Par. 1618, in 2 vols. 4to. + + Tacitus, Ryckii. Dublin, 1730, in 3 vols. 4to. + + Terentius, Erasmi. Par. 1541, 4to. and Bentleii, Cantab. 1726, + 4to. + + Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. Lugd. 1781, 4to. + + Thucydides, Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1696, folio, and Glasguæ, 1759, 8 + vols. in 4, quarto. + + Tibullus. Amst. 1708, 4to. + + Valerius Maximus. Plantin, 1574, 12mo. + + Valerius Flaccus. Amst. 1680, 12mo. + + Velleius Paterculus. Oxon. 1693, 8vo. + + Vegetius de rê Militari. 1592, 4to. + + Virgilius. Delphini, 1695, and Heynii, 1767, in 4 octavo + volumes. + + Xenophontis Cyropædia, 1765, 8vo. and Anabasis Hutchinsoni. + Cantab. 1785, 8vo. + +The Etymological Works which met my observation were, the English and +Welsh Dictionary, printed at Shrewsbury in 1737, 12mo.; Bailey’s +Etymological Dictionary; Buxtorf’s Chaldaic Lexicon; Calvin’s Lexicon; +Elstob’s English and Saxon Grammar; Ernesti Lexicon; Fabri Thesaurus; +Grant’s Lexicon; Harris’ Hermes, and Philological Enquiries; Hesychii +Lexicon; Hederici Lexicon; Hickes’ Linguarum Septentrionalium +Thesaurus, with Wotton’s Conspectus; Hoogeveen de Particulis Græcis; +Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum, à Lye, 1743, folio; Chappelow’s Arabic +Grammar; Lamberti Bos Ellipses; Johnson’s English Dictionary; Dammii +Lexicon Homericum et Pindaricum; Minshew’s Dictionary; Parkhurst’s +Hebrew Lexicon; Robertson’s Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ, and Hebrew Grammar; +Ruddiman’s Latin Grammar; Schrevelii Lexicon, by Hill; Spelman’s +Glossarium Archæologicum; Suidæ Lexicon Græcum, Basileæ, 1544, folio; +and Græcè et Latinè, Kusteri, Cantab. 1705, in 3 volumes, folio; Somneri +Dictionarium Saxonico-Latinum, 1659, folio; Valpy’s and the Port Royal +Greek Grammar; Vigerus de Idiotismis and Laurentius Valla de Linguâ +Latina, Cantab. 1688, 12mo. + +The Heraldic Works in this Collection consist of + + The Baronetage of England, by Kimber. + + Betham’s Genealogies, 1795, folio. + + Blome’s Heraldry, 1684, 12mo. + + Clarke’s Heraldry, 1794, 12mo. + + Collins’ Peerage, 1768, in 7 vols. 8vo. + + Dugdale’s Usage of Arms, 1682, 12mo. + + Edmondson’s Heraldry, 1780, in 2 folio volumes. + + Guillim’s Heraldry, 1660, folio. + + Sandford’s Genealogical History, 1677, folio. + + Selden’s Titles of Honour, 1672, folio. + + Porney’s Heraldry, 1795, 8vo. + +The Bibliographical department includes fifty-three volumes of the Acta +Eruditorum; the Bibliographical Dictionary; the Bibliotheca Britannica of +Watts; the Bibliotheca Reediana; the History of Philosophy, by Stanley, +1656, folio; the Bibliothèque Ancienne et Moderne, Amst. 1714, in 28 +vols. 12mo.; the History of English Poetry, by Warton, 1775, 3 vols. +4to.; Blount’s Censura Literaria; Bruckeri Historia Critica Philosophiæ; +the Royal and Noble Authors of Walpole; Catalogus MSS. CC.C. Cant. +1722, folio; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, Oxon. 1674, folio; Cave’s +Historia Literaria; Dibdin’s Introduction to the Classics; Fabricii +Bibliotheca Græca et Latina; Hartshorne’s Book Rarities of Cambridge; +Lewis’ Translations of the Bible, 1739, 8vo., and Life of Caxton; Leland, +de Scriptoribus Britannicis, 1709, 2 vols. 8vo.; Memoirs of Literature, +1722, in 8 vols. 8vo.; Nicholson’s English Historical Library; Hearne’s +Ductor Historicus; Renouard’s Historie de l’Imprimerie des Aides; and +Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, 1721, in two volumes, folio. + +The Chronological Works in this Library include Baker’s Chronology, +1726, folio; Brady’s Clavis Calendaria; Marshall’s Chronological Tables, +Oxford, 1712, folio; Newton’s Chronology; Scaliger de emendatione +temporum, Genevæ, 1594 & 1620, in 2 vols. folio; Trusler’s Chronology; +and Usserii Chronologia Sacra, Oxon. 1660, 4to. + +The Geographical Works consist of the Atlas Geographicus, 1711, in 4 +vols. 4to.; The Thesaurus Geographicus, 1695, folio; Brookes’s Gazetteer; +Cellarii et Cluvierii Geographia Antiqua; D’Anville’s Ancient Geography; +Dionysius de situ Orbis; Guthrie’s Geographical Grammar; Hexham’s Atlas; +Michaelis Geograph. Hebr. Gotten. 1769, 4to.; Michel’s Geography of +France; Morse’s American Geography; Adams’ Geographical and Historical +Summary, 1797, 8vo.; Mercator’s Atlas, Amst. 1638, in 2 folio volumes; +Wells’ Geography; and Falconer’s Strabo, 1807, 2 vols. folio. + +I may here also mention the Voyages and Travels, consisting of Browne’s +Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, 1779, 4to.; Chandler’s Travels, +1779, 4to.; Chardin’s Travels, 1686, folio; Keysler’s Travels; Denon’s +Egypt, 1803, 4to.; Montfaucon’s Travels through Italy; Moritz’s Travels +in England; Niebuhr’s Travels in Arabia; Sparmann’s Cape of Good Hope, +Perth, 1789, in 2 octavo volumes; Maundrell’s Journey to Jerusalem, 1707, +8vo.; Sharpe’s Voyage to the South Sea, 1684, 8vo.; Shaw’s Travels, 1757, +4to.; Tavernier’s Travels in Turkey, 1684, folio; and Wheler’s Journey +into Greece, 1682, folio. + +The Scientific Works in this Collection embrace many subjects, but +few Works of importance. Those I noticed were Bacon’s Novum Organum; +Bartholini Anatomia; Philosophia Naturalis; Blumenbach Institutiones +Physiologicæ, &c.; Boerhaave’s Virtue of Medicine; Boyle’s Experiments +on Air; Burnet and Whiston’s Theories of the Earth; Clare’s Motion of +Fluids; Cullen’s Physic; Euclid, by Simpson; Ferguson’s, Gordon’s, and +Keil’s Treatises upon Astronomy; Fourcroy and Freind’s Chemical Works; +Gassendi Institutiones Astronomicæ, &c.; Harris’s Astronomical Dialogues; +Haller’s Physiology; Keil’s Anatomy; Kersey’s Algebra; Kirby and Spence’s +Introduction to Entomology; Haggitt, Milner, and Whittington on Gothic +Architecture; Ozanam’s Mathematics; Quincey and Salmon’s Pharmacopeia; +Reeve on the Torpidity of Animals; Riolani Anatomia; Rickman on +Architecture; Rion’s Grecian Architecture; Smith’s Introduction to +Botany; Tauvry’s Anatomy; Verlingii Anatomia; Wilkins’s Vitruvius; +Willis’s Anatomia Cerebri; and Withering on the Fox Glove. + +Among the Miscellaneous Volumes deposited upon these shelves, I observed +the Antiquarian Discourses; the Voyage of Anacharsis; Arbuthnot on +Ancient Coins; Nummi Britannici Historia, 1626, 8vo.; Fleetwood’s +Chronicon Preciosum; Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum, Milan, 1683, folio; +Pinkerton on Medals; Atkinson on Navigation; Blackwall’s Classics; +Bochart’s Hierozoicon; Boswell’s Life of Johnson; Sir Thomas Browne’s +Posthumous Works, 1712, 8vo.; Bryant’s Plagues of Egypt; Buchanani +Poemata; Calligraphia Græca, Lond. 1807, folio; Charles the First’s +Works, London, 1662, in two volumes, folio; Clarke’s Greek Marbles, +and Tomb of Alexander; Dawes, Miscellanea Critica; De Pauw, Recherches +Philosophiques; Desgarde’s Buildings of Rome; Diderot’s Theatre; Digges’ +Compleat Ambassador; Gildæ Epistolæ; Godfrey of Boulogne, by Fairfax, +1624, folio; Gunn’s Manner of Military Array; Holmes’s Art of Rhetoric; +Landmann on Fortification; Matthias, Canzone Toscane; Montaigne’s +Essays; Monboddo’s Ancient Metaphysics; Montesquieu’s Works; the +Musæ Cantabrigienses; Opie’s Lectures on Painting; Ossian’s Poems by +Macpherson; Parival’s Iron Age; Palmerin of England, 1807, in four vols. +12mo.; Pinkerton on the Goths; Porson’s Letter to Travis; Rawlinson +on History; the Republic of Letters, Glasgow, 1728, in 17 vols. 12mo.; +Rousseau’s Works; the Spectator; Suckling’s Works; Sydenhami Opera; +Temple’s Letters, &c.; Vossii Opera; Wilson’s Ornaments of Churches; +Windham’s Speeches; and Wright’s Help to History. + +The Law Books in this Library comprehend Blount’s, Cowell’s and Jacob’s +Law Dictionary; Burn’s Justice of the Peace, and Ecclesiastical Laws; +Burlamaqui’s Principles of Natural Laws; Coke’s Institutes, London, 1684, +in three folio volumes; Corpus Juris Civilis, 1663, folio; Corpus Juris +Canonici, 1618, in three folio volumes; Fitzherbert’s Natura Brevium; +Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliæ; Ryley’s Placita Parliamentaria; +Shaw’s Justice, and Parish Laws; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum, Cantab. +1727, in two folio volumes; and Wilkins’ Saxon Laws, 1721, folio. + +In English Literature this Library may boast of the portion relating to +the Arms and Blazon of the Reprint of the Book of St. Albans, published +by Wynkyn de Worde at London in 1496, 4to.; of the Workes of our ancient +and lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly-printed, Londini, +impensis Georgii Bishop, anno 1597-8, folio, in the rude black letter of +Adam Islip; and of the Pylgrimage of Perfection, London, 1526, 8vo. also +in the Gothic character. + +This Library contains the works of Armstrong, Beattie, Bloomfield, +Bowles, Dryden, Gay, Addison, Bacon, Berkeley, Bolingbroke, Boyle, +Browne, Butler, Burke, Collins, Cowley, Evelyn, Gray, Harris, Hobbes, +Johnson, Locke, Marvel, Mason, Milton, Newton, Pope, Priestley, Prior, +Scott, Sterne, Temple, Thomson, Young, and Warton. + +I also remarked Gifford’s Baviad and Maviad; Hales’ Golden Remains; +Herbert’s Temple; Johnson’s Lives of the Poets; Glover’s Leonidas; the +Rolliad; Harington’s Musæ Antiquæ; the Asiatic Researches; Hartley on +Man; Headley’s Beauties of Ancient English Poetry; Heron’s Letters of +Literature; Hearne’s Ductor Historicus; Ben Jonson’s Works, 1640, in +two folio volumes; Thomæ Mori Opera Omnia, Lond. 1675, in three vols. +folio; the Pursuits of Literature, with a translation of the Quotations, +1799, 8vo.; Relics of Ancient Poetry, 1794, in three volumes, 8vo.; +Richardson’s Analysis of Shakespeare, 1739, in three vols. 8vo.; +Thurlow’s Poems, 1811, 4to.; Tooke’s Diversions of Purley; Walton’s +Lives; and Spenser’s Faerie Queen, London, 1751, in three vols. 4to. + +In this unpretending yet useful Collection, which the mere bibliomaniac +may pass by with disdain, the general reader will find much both of +interest and instruction in the several departments to which I have +endeavoured to direct his attention. + +I ought not indeed to close this cursory review of the Norwich Cathedral +Library without bestowing the tribute so justly due to the instance it +affords of laudable attention to the preservation of conventual volumes, +neither distinguished by excessive rarity nor remarkable for uncommon +worth. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Christ Church, Oxford. + + +This Collection consists of an ancient Theological Library in the +Cloisters, under the peculiar care of the Regius Professor of Divinity, +and of a more extensive and miscellaneous Library deposited in a suitable +building in Peckwater, and accessible, under certain regulations, to the +members of the College. The chief features of this Library will be best +understood by the following detail of its contents. + +The department of Theology is of considerable value, containing the +Works of Athanasius, Augustine, Ambrose, Anselm, Basil, Clement of +Alexandria, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Cyril, Jerome, Irenæus, Thomas Aquinas, +and other Schoolmen: the Works of Allix, Andrewes, Atterbury, Baxter, +Benson, Bentley, Balguy, Ball, Barlow, Bellarmine, Bernard, Beveridge, +Beausobre, Bancroft, Barnes, Blondell, Bossuet, Bragge, Bramhall, +Brett, Bucer, Bull, Barrow, Bates, Bennet, Bisse, Calamy, Calasius, +Calixtus, Calvin, Camerarius, Campanella, Capellin, Carleton, Cartwright, +Casaubon, Cassander, Cassianus, Cassiodorus, Chillingworth, Clarke, +Claggett, Cockburn, Comber, Conybeare, Corbet, Cheney, Chandler, Cosin, +Cranmer, Cudworth, Cumberland, Chiffletius, Chytræus, Corderius, Claude, +Coverdale, Crosset, Dallæus, Damascenus, Damasus Papa, Damiavius, +D’artis, Delany, Dodwell, Doddridge, Donne, Dorington, Drelincourt, +Du Moulin, Davison, Dawson, Durell, Edwards, Epiphanius, Erasmus, +Eusebius, Eutychus, Faber, Fenelon, Ferguson, Fiddes, Field, Fisher, +Fleetwood, Fleury, Fletcher, Fontenelle, Ford, Gardiner, Gastrell, +Gataker, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Nyssen, Gregory the Great, Geddes, +Gerson, Fulgentius, Franck, Gualther, Hale, Hall, Hammond, Hare, +Harmer, Hay, Herbert, Heylin, Hickes, Hickman, Hill, Hoadley, Hody, +Hospinianus, Hoornbeek, Hopkins, Horne, Horsley, Hottinger, Houbigant, +Huet, Hulsius, Hunt, Hurd, Hutchinson, Hyperius, Ignatius, Innocent IV., +Jackson, Jansenius, Jenkins, Soame Jenyns, Jewel, Jortin, Jurien, Justin +Martyr, Thomas a Kempis, White Kennett, Ken, Kennicott, Kettlewell, +King, Knatchbull, Knight, Labbe, Lactantius, Lake, Lanfranc, Lardner, +Larroque, Latimer, Laud, Launoyier, Laurentius, Law, Lawson, Leighton, +Leigh, Leland, Leslie, L’Estrange, Leusden, Lewis, Lightfoot, Long, +Lorimer, Lowth, Lubinus, Lucas, Luther, Mabillon, Macarius, Macknight, +Mackenzie, Magee, Maimbourg, Maimonides, Malebranche, Marshall, Martin, +Mede, Melancthon, Merrick, Mesue, Methodius, Michaelis, Miller, More, +Morinus, Mornay, Nares, Nelson, Newcome, Nolan, Norris, Newell, Nye, +Œcolampadius, Optatus, Origen, Orosius, Osborn, Osorius, Ostervald, +Owen, Outram, Paley, Pallavicinus, Parker, Pascal, Patrick, Pearson, +Peirce, Penn, Peter Martyr, Philo Judæus, Pictet, Pierce, Pococke, +Cardinal Pole, Porteus, Potter, Powell, Prideaux, Procopius, Randolph, +Relandus, Reynolds, Ridley, Rivetus, Richelieu, Rogers, Rollocus, +Rufinus, Sacheverell, St. Evremond, St. Real, St. Victor, Salmasius, +Sanchez, Sancroft, Sanctius, Sanderus, Sanderson, Sandius, Sandys, +Saunders, Saurin, Shickard, Schultens, Scultetus, Scott, Secker, Sharp, +Sheringham, Sherlock, Shipley, Simon, Smalridge, Smith, South, Spanheim, +Stackhouse, Stafforde, Stanhope, Stapleton, Stebbing, Stillingfleet, +Sykes, Sulpicius, Synesius, Jeremy Taylor, Tertullian, Themistius, +Theodoret, Theophylact, Thomasius, Thorndike, Tillotson, Toland, Tomline, +Toplady, Tostatus, Toulmin, Townson, Trapp, Tucker, Turner, Turretinus, +Twisden, Tyndall, Ugo, Usher, Vandale, Vitringa, Vossius, Vorstius, +Wake, Wakefield, Walker, Wall, Warburton, Ward, Waterland, Watson, +Wells, Whiston, Whitaker, Whitby, White, Whitfield, Whitgift, Wilkins, +Willet, Williams, Wilson, Wise, Wollaston, Wolseley, Woodford, Woodhouse, +Woodward, Zanchius, Ziegler, Zimmerman, Zuinglius, and Zwinger. + +I also noticed Cave’s edition of the Fathers; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical +Polity; Limborch, Theologia Christiana; Isidori Hispalensis; and Leonis +Magni Opera; the Works of Bede, Julian, and Josephus. + +The English Versions of the Bible comprise those by Field, Whitchurch, +Jugge, Barker, and Wilson; Walton’s Polyglott; several Hebrew, Greek, +and Latin Bibles; Luther’s German Bible, printed at Wittenberg in +1557; Biblia Polonica of 1563; the Bohemian, Spanish, Italian, French, +Hungarian, and Arabic Translations; the Doway Bible; Pentateuchus +Hebraicus; Grave’s Pentateuch; Grabe’s Septuagint; Codex Bezæ; Wiclif’s +New Testament; and Evangelia Gothica. There are several Books of Common +Prayer, Rituals, and Offices of the Church, Greek and Latin Testaments of +Edward VI. 1552, &c., Psalms, Catechisms, Decretals, Breviaries, Missale +in usum Sarum, Liturgies, and Homilies, also Durandi Rationale Divinorum +Officiorum; Thesaurus Sacrorum Rituum; Sparrow’s Rationale of Common +Prayer; and Wheatley on Common Prayer. + +The Works relating to Ecclesiastical History include Bede’s Historia +Ecclesiastica; Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici; Bingham’s Origines & +Antiquitates; Brandt, Burnet, and Soames’ Reformation; Calderwood and +Cook’s Church of Scotland; Carwithen’s Church of England; Echard and +Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Rolandus and Benedict, Acta Sanctorum; +Concilia Generalia Trident.; Dupin’s History of the Church; Dod’s +Church History; Fox’s Acts and Martyrs; Godwin’s Bishops; Harpsfeld’s +Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica; Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ; L’Enfant +Concilia, Constance; Leti’s Lives of the Popes; Cressy’s Church History +of Brittany; Gallia Christiana; Monasticon Anglicanum & Hibernicanum; +Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Schotani Bibl. Hist. Sacræ; Sixti +Bibl. Sanctorum; Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica; Southey’s Book of the +Church; Spondani Annales Eccles.; Strype’s Memorials, Annals, and Lives; +Neustria Pia; Le Cointe, Annales Ecclesiastici Francorum; Symson’s Church +History; Sarpi, Council of Trent; Tillemont, Historia Ecclesiastica; +Parker and Usher’s Ecclesiæ Britannicæ Antiquitates, and other Works; +Capgrave’s Legenda Angliæ; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Knox, Wodrow, and +Spottiswoode’s Church of Scotland; Le Neve Fasti Anglicani; Sleidan’s +Reformation of Scotland; Short’s Church of England; Saliani Annales +Ecclesiastici; Saussay’s Martyrum Galliæ; Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical +Biography; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Liber Valorum; and Warner’s Ecclesiastical +History of England. + +In connection with Theology may be mentioned the Bampton Lectures; +Basnage’s History of the Jews; Bibliotheca Patrum and Fratrum Polonorum; +Ugolini Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum; Blair’s Sermons; Ciaconi, Vitæ +Pontificum Romanorum, 1677, 4 vols. folio; Cotelerii Patres Apostolici; +Crantz’ Moravians; Dupin Bibliothéque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques; +Pole’s Council of Trent; Anastasii Vitæ Romanorum Pontificum; Reyneri +Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ; Elstob’s Homilies; Hyde, Religio +Veterum Persarum; Kircher, Œdipus Egyptiacus; the Legenda Aurea; +Lyndewoode, Provinciale; Newman, Cruden, and Schmid’s Concordances; +Schœnmann Bibliotheca Patrum Latinorum; Pole’s Synopsis; Brooke and +Neal’s Puritans; Sewell’s Quakers; Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus; +Synge’s Gentleman’s Religion; Mason on Self-knowledge; Walchii +Bibliotheca Theologica; and the Whole Duty of Man. + +The Classical department of this Library embraces various editions of +Greek and Latin authors, more remarkable for usefulness than for rarity. + +Among the earlier editions may be noticed Plinii Historia Naturalis, +Parmæ, 1476, folio; and the Aldine editions of Aristophanes, 1498, +folio; Aristotle, 1498, folio; Cicero, 1512-54, in 10 volumes, 8vo.; +Demosthenes, 1504, folio; Euripides, 1503; Homer, 1521; Horace, +Isocrates, 1534; Rhetores Græci, 1513; Sophocles, 1502; Strabo +Geographia, 1516, folio; and Lascaris Grammatica Græca. + +To these may be added the Junta Cicero of 1537; the Xenophon of 1516, +folio; and the Aristides of 1517, folio; the Roman edition of Eustathius +of 1549; the Appian of 1551; the Basle editions of Diodorus Siculus, +and of Diogenes Laertius, 1533; Dioscorides, 1529; Hippocrates, 1538, +and Plutarch, 1533; the Poetæ Græci Principes of Stephens; Dionysius +Halicarnassensis of 1546; Dionysius Alexandrinus, 1547; Dion Cassius, +1548; Herodian, 1544; and Horace from the Parisian press. + +There are also various editions of the Works of Achilles Tatius, Ægidius +Romanus, Ælian, Æmilius Paulus, Æschenes, Demosthenes, Agapetus, +Æschylus, Æsop, Alciatus, Anacreon, M. Antoninus, Apicius, Apollodorus, +Apollonius Rhodius Alexandrinus, Apuleius, Aratus, Aristenetus, +Arrian, Athenæus, Aulus Gellius, Archimedes, Ausonius, Aurelius, Bion +and Moschus, Cæsar, Callimachus, Catullus, Cebes, Cellarius, Celsus, +Censorinus, Caussinus, Cicero Oliveti, and the separate Works of the +latter author. + +Add to these, editions of Claudian, Cornelius Nepos, Quintus Curtius, +Dictys Cretensis, Dares Phrygius, Epictetus, Florus, Galen, Harpocration, +Hierocles, Horace, Iamblichus, Justin, Lysias, Juvenal, Persius, Lysias, +Longinus, Lycophron, Lucan, Lucian, Lucretius, Macrobius, Martial, +Manilius, Nonius Marcellus, Maximus Tyrius, Pomponius Mela, Minucius +Felix, Cornelius Nepos, Ovid, Oppian, Velleius Paterculus, Pausanias, +Petronius Arbiter, Phædrus, Pindar, Plato, Plautus, Plotinus, Politian, +Polybius, Pomponius Mela, Priscian, Prudentius, Quintilian, Sallust, +Sidonius, Silius Italicus, Statius, Suetonius Æneas Sylvius, Tacitus, +Terence, Theocritus, Theophrastus, Thucydides, Tibullus, Valerius +Flaccus, Virgil, and Valerius Maximus. + +I may here notice the valuable editions of the Lexicon of Suidas; the +Enchiridion of Hephæstion; the Poetæ Minores Græci; and of Stobæus, +by Dr. Gaisford, the present Dean of Christ Church; the Rei Rusticæ +Scriptores, 1529; Oratores Attici; Seneca’s Tragedies of 1563, and +his Works by Lipsius, 1573; the Commentaries of Alexander, Ammonius, +Simplicius, and Porphyrius upon Aristotle; Cato de Re Rustica; Euclid, +Venet. 1508; Heliodorus, 1534; Wesseling’s Herodotus; Hesiod, Ven. 1537, +and by Robinson; Clarke’s Homer; Galeni Opera, Paris. 1679, in 9 folio +volumes; Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores; Julius Pollux; Drakenborch’s Livy; +Libanii Orationes; Panegyrici Veteres; Photii Bibliotheca & Epistolæ; +Ptolomæi Geographia; Sapphus Wolfii; Stephanus Byzantinus de Urbibus; +Stradæ Prolusiones; and Solini Polyhistor. + +The Grammatical Works include those of Aldus Manutius, Clenard, Vossius, +and Tursellinus; Laur. Valla de Linguâ Latinâ; Stephani Thesaurus; +Lumsden’s Persian Grammar; Lennep, Etymologicum Græcum; the Etymologicum +Magnum of 1549; Carpentier’s Glossary; Du Fresne’s Glossary; Skinner’s +Etymologicum Anglicanum. + +The Dictionaries include those of Calepinus, Castell, Johnson, +Littleton, and various Greek, Latin, German, French, Gaelic, Spanish, +Italian, Persian, and Russian Dictionaries; the Lexicons of Buxtorf, +Facciolatus, Hesychius, Pagninus, Scapula, and Zonaras; Boyer’s French +Dictionary; Dymot’s Tartar Dictionary; Bullet’s Celtic Dictionary; Casiri +Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana; Canes’ Dictionarium Espano-Arabicum; De +Castro Bibliotheca Espanola; D’Herbelot Bibliothéque Orientale; Hickes’ +Thesaurus and Saxon Grammar; Ihre Glossarium Saxonicum; Jamieson’s +Scottish Dictionary; Lye’s Saxon Dictionary; Meninski Lexicon Orientale; +O’Reilly’s Irish Dictionary; Richardson’s Persian Dictionary; Russian +Dictionary, in 6 vols. 4to. 1789; Schaaf Lexicon Syriacum; Schroeder +Bibliotheca Armenica; Schneider’s German Dictionary; Scholtz Lexicon +Egyptiacum; Somner’s Dictionarium Anglo-Saxonicum; Spelman’s Glossary; +Walter’s Welsh Dictionary; Wachter’s German Glossary; Schleusner’s +Lexicon of the Old and New Testaments. + +The Works illustrative of English History are both numerous and +important, comprising the Domesday Book; Gale and Fell’s Collection +of English Historians; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Gibson’s Saxon +Chronicle; a fine set of Hearne’s Works, on large paper; Ethelwerdi +Chronicon; Anderson’s Mary Queen of Scots; Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores +post Bedam; Adolphus’ History of England; Baker’s English Chronicle; +Bale, Scriptores Britannici, 1559; Bale’s Chronycle; Brady’s English +History; Buck’s Richard III.; Boetii Historia Scotorum; Burleigh’s State +Papers; Burnet’s Own Time; Carte’s History of England; Chamberlayne’s +Great Britain; Churchill’s Divi Britannici; Clanricarde’s Memoirs; +Clarendon’s Rebellion and State Papers; Cobbett’s Parliamentary History +and Debates; Cox’s Historical Works, Life of Marlborough, &c.; Cox’s +Ireland; Cooper’s Chronicle; Daniel’s Histories of England and France; +Delolme’s English Constitution; Dodridge’s Wales; Drayton’s Polyolbion; +Dalrymple’s Scotland; a set of Dugdale’s Works; Eadmer, Historia Novorum; +Echard’s History of England; Enderbie’s Cambria Triumphans; Oldmixon’s +England; Evelyn’s Memoirs; Fox’s James I.; Bouquet and Brial Recueil +des Historiens des Gaules; Godwin’s Commonwealth; Cavendish, Fiddes’, +and Grove’s Lives of Wolsey; Grafton’s Chronicle; Guthrey’s Charles I.; +Habington’s Edward IV.; Hacket’s Life of Archbishop Williams; Hall’s +Chronicle; Hallam’s Constitutional History; the Harleian Miscellany; +Hayward’s Lives; Heath’s Chronicle of the Civil Wars; Henry’s History of +Great Britain; Holland’s Heroologia; Higden’s Polychronicon; Holinshed’s +Chronicle; Horsley’s Britannia Romana; Hoveden’s Annales; Howell’s +State Trials; Hume’s History of England; Life of Colonel Hutchinson; +Innes’ Scotland; Jeffrey of Monmouth’s History; Keating’s Ireland; +King’s Munimenta Antiqua; Kippis’ Biographia Britannica; Jeffrey of +Monmouth, and Richard of Cirencester; Leslæus de Origine Scotorum; +Lhuyd, Archæologia Britannica; Lingard’s History of England; Ludlow’s +Memoirs; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum; History of the Exchequer and +Baronia Anglicana; Macpherson’s Original Papers; Chronicon de Mailros; +Major Historia Britonum, Jebb, de Vita et Gestis Mariæ Reginæ Scotorum; +Martin’s Chronicles; May’s History of the Long Parliament; Nalson’s +Collections; Nauntons’ Fragmenta Regalia; Nennius, Historia Britonum; +Nicolson’s English, Irish, and Scotch Historical Libraries; Oclandi, +Anglorum Prælia; O’Conor, Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores; Ogilby’s +Britannia; Orford’s Memoirs; Memoirs of the Duke of Ormonde; Pepys’ +Memoirs; Polydori Virgilii Historia Anglicana; Powel’s Wales; Prynne’s +Records, 3 vols.; Ralph, Rapin, and Tindal’s History of England; +Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Rymer’s Fœdera, 20 vols. folio; +State Trials and Papers; Sammes’ Britannia Illustrata; Sanderson’s +Lives; Sandford’s Genealogical History of England; Slezer, Theatrum +Scotiæ; Scott’s History of Scotland, 1727; Sheringham, de Origine Gentis +Anglorum; Sibbald, Scotia Illustrata; Smith, de Republica Anglicana; +Somers’ Tracts; Sparke’s Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Speed’s Chronicle +and History of Great Britain; Spelman’s Concilia and Life of Alfred; +Sprigge’s England’s Recovery; Stoddart’s Scotland; Stowe’s Chronicle; +Strafforde’s Letters and Hibernia Pacata; Stuart’s Scotland; Stukeley’s +Itinerarium Curiosum; Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannico Hibernica; +Thoresby’s Diary; Thurloe’s State Papers; Triveti Annales; Turner’s +History of England; Twysden’s Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Verstegan’s +Restitution of decayed Intelligence respecting English Antiquities; +White, of Basingstoke, History of Britain; Walpole and Waldegrave’s +Memoirs; Ware’s Ireland and Scriptores Hibernicanæ; Warwick’s Charles +I.; Wilson’s James I.; Wynne’s Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins; William of +Malmesbury’s History; and Winwood’s Memorials. + +The Topographical Works most deserving of enumeration are, Adams’ +Index Villaris; the Archæologia; Ayliffe’s Oxford; Baker’s and +Bridge’s Northamptonshire; Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ; Bentham’s +Ely; Borlase’s Cornwall; Bray and Manning’s Surrey; Britton’s Oxford +Cathedral; Burton’s Leicestershire; Camden’s Britannia; Campbell’s +Vitruvius Britannicus; Carew and Gilbert’s Cornwall; Carlisle’s +endowed Grammar Schools; Chalmers’ Caledonia; Charleton and Jones’s +Stonehenge; Chauncey’s Hertfordshire; Clarke’s Hundred of Wanting; +Coates’ Reading; Cokers’ Dorset; Collinson’s Somersetshire; Cordiners’ +Views in Scotland; Dalrymple’s Scotland; Dart’s Canterbury Cathedral +and Westminster Abbey; Drake’s York; Duncombe’s Hereford; Gunton’s +Peterborough; Halfpenny’s Fragmenta Vetusta; Harris and Hasted’s Kent; +Hoare’s Wiltshire; Howel’s Londinopolis; Izaackes and Oliver’s Exeter; +P. Jovii Descriptio Britanniæ; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities and +Roman Remains; King’s Vale Royal; Lewis’ Isle of Thanet; Leycester’s +Cheshire; Lodge’s Illustrations; Loggan, Oxonia et Cantabrigia +Illustrata; Lysons’ Magna Britannia, and Environs of London; Master’s +Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Milner’s Winchester; Morant’s +Essex; Morton’s Northamptonshire; Nash’s Worcestershire; Newcourt’s +Repertorium; Ormerod’s Cheshire; Pennant’s Works; Plot’s Oxfordshire +and Staffordshire; Rastall’s Southwell; Rocque’s Survey of London; +Salmon’s Hertfordshire; Seymour’s London; Shaw’s Staffordshire; Smeaton’s +Eddystone Lighthouse; Somner’s Canterbury and Roman Ports; Surtees’ +Durham; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica; Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire; Wallace’s +Orkney; Ædes Walpoliana; Warner’s Glastonbury; Whitaker’s Leeds; +Williams’ Oxonia Depicta; Willis’ Mitred Abbies and Cathedral Churches; +and Wood’s Antiquities of Oxford. + +Of the Works on General History it may suffice to mention Bayle and +Chaufepie’s Dictionary; the Ancient and Modern Universal History; Ellis +and Du Halde’s China; D’Ohsson’s Empire Othman; Byzantine Historians; +Cramer’s Greece, Italy, and Asia Minor; Biographie Universelle; Connor’s +Poland; Cox’s Austria; Craven’s Naples; Crevier’s Roman Empire; De Bry, +India Occident et Orient; De la Vega, Historia Espanola; Du Chesne, +Historia Francorum; Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; +Gillies’s Greece; Giannoni’s History of Naples; Gratian, Historia +Veneta; Grimstone’s Netherlands; Gualteri Chronicon; Guicciardini +Storia d’Italia; Guizot’s History of France; Hallam’s Middle Ages, and +Literature of Europe; Hooke’s Roman History; Hugo’s Siege of Breda; +Muratori Rerum Italicarum Scriptores; Hungaricarum Rerum Scriptores; +Ginguene, Historie Litteraire d’Italie; Hispanarum Rerum Scriptores; +Historical Register; P. Jovii Leonis X. Vita; Kæmpfer’s Japan; Koch’s +Revolutions of Europe; Kollarii Monumenta Vindobonensia; Lindenbrogii +Scriptores Germanici; Leake’s Athens, Asia Minor, and the Morea; +Inghirami Monumenta Etrusca; Hughes’ Barbadoes; Maffei’s Verona +Illustrata; Malcolm’s Persia; Malta Illustrated; Mariana’s Spain; Mayer’s +Ottoman Empire; Meibomii Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores; Mezeray’s History +of France; Memoirs of the History of France; Mitford’s Greece; Moreri, +Dictionnaire Historique; Muratori, Annales Rerum Italicarum; Niebuhr’s +Rome; Norden’s Egypt; Ockley’s Saracens; Orme’s Indostan; Pashley’s +Crete; Percival’s Ceylon; Planta’s Helvetic Confederacy; Poggio, Historia +Fiorentina; Poloni Chronicon; Putter’s Germanic Empire; Ralegh’s History +of the World; Rankes’ Lives of the Popes; Robertson’s Works; Rollin’s +Roman History; Rossini Antiquitates Romanæ; Roscoe’s Lorenzo di +Medici; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire, and Lives of the Popes; Salisburiensis +Monasterii Chronicon; Sallengre, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanorum; +Sandoval’s Wars of Spain; Sarpi, Historia Veneta; Savage’s Germany; +Savary’s Egypt; Saxonis Historia Danica; Scheffer’s Lapland; Schilter, +Thesaurus Antiquitatum Teutonicarum; Scriverii Antiquitates Germanicæ; +Shaw’s Barbary; Shirley’s Persia; Sigonii Historia Italica; Memoires +de St. Simon; Sismondi’s Italian Republics, and Literature of Europe; +Staunton’s China; Stevens’ Spain and Bavaria; Sully’s Memoirs; De Thou’s +Memoirs; Tornielli Annales; Trithemii Opera Historica; Triveti Annales, +the Ancient and Modern Universal History; Varillas’ Historical Works; +Vertot’s Revolutions of Europe; Wanley’s Wonders of the Little World; +Warcup’s Italy; Warren’s Surinam; Wentworth’s Australasia; Wilkinson’s +Egypt; Wilson’s Egypt; Wood’s Palmyra; and Wormii Monumenta Danica. + +While on this subject, I may notice the Voyage d’Anarcharse; Harris’ +Voyages; Churchill’s Voyages; the Voyages of Anson, Cooke, Dampier, +Drake, Hakluyt, Hacke, Pallas, Parry, Perouse, Ross, Spon and Wheler, +Tavernier, Thevenot, Tournefort, and Vancouver; the Travels of Bruce, +Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Sandys, Sonnini, Volney, Weld, Chardin, and +Maundrell; Belzoni’s Egypt; Bembo, Rerum Venetarum Historia; Crantz’ +Moravians; Burton’s Rome; Grævius and Gronovius, Thesaurus Antiquitatum +Græcarum et Romanarum; Flinders’ Australia; Foppens’ Bibliotheca Belgica; +Freher’s Historical Works; Gell’s Greece, Pompeiana and Rome; Gruteri +Inscriptiones; Hall’s Loo Choo; Hamilton’s Asia Minor; Houel et Saint +Non; Voyage Pittoresque en Sicile; Ludolf’s Æthiopia; Major’s Pæstum; +Norton’s Germany; the Countess of Sutherland’s Views in Orkney; Purchas’ +Pilgrims; Roy’s Roman Antiquities; Rous, Archæologia Attica; Salt’s +Abyssinia; Santos’ Escuriale; Stanhope’s Olympia; Stuart’s Athens; Symes’ +Ava; Vyse’s Pyramids; and La Borde’s Voyage Pittoresque en Suisse. + +The Works on Heraldry include the History of the Earldom of Sutherland; +Archdall’s Irish Peerage; Carter’s Analysis of Honor; the Stemmata +Chicheleana; Collins’ Peerage; Crawford’s Scottish Peerage; Edmondson’s +Heraldry; Guillims’ Heraldry; Holmes’ Academy of Armory; Leigh’s Armory; +Madox’s Baronia Anglica; Morgan’s Sphere of Gentry; Ashmole’s Order of +the Garter; and Selden’s Titles of Honor. + +The Geographical Works comprise Cluverii Geographia Antiqua; Ortelii +Thesaurus Geographicus; Peutingeri Tabula; Rennell’s Geography of +Herodotus; Sanson’s Geographical Works; Wells’s Geography; Wilde’s +General Atlas; and D’Anville and Pinkerton’s Geography. + +The Works on Astronomy include those of Blundeville, Delambre, Galileo, +Copernicus, Bonatus, Bonnycastle, Lalande, Laplace, Leibnitz, Maskelyne, +Newton, Tycho Brahe and Bailey; Herschel’s Catalogue of Stars; Hevelii +Machina Cœlestis; Vince’s Astronomy; and the Histoire de l’Astronomie +Ancienne et Moderne of Bailly. + +The Mathematical department includes the Works of Archimedes, Kepler, +Lacroix, Laplace, Lanoy, Leybourn, Maclaurin, Oughtred, Schooten, Schott, +Saunderson, Simson, Wells, Wallis, and Ward; Waring’s Algebra; and +Hutton’s Mathematical Dictionary. + +The Numismatic Publications comprise Hirsch, Bibliotheca Numismatica; +Numismata Pembrochiana, & Imperatorum & Pontificum Romanorum of Bonanni; +Arbuthnot’s Coins; Budæus de Asse; Palin, Eckhel, and Gesner, Numismata; +Harduini Numismata; Ducarel’s Anglo-Norman Coins; Ruding’s Coinage; Lord +Liverpool on Coins; Snelling’s Coinage; Vaillant, Numismata; Pinkerton’s +Medals; Stukeley’s Medallic History of Carausius; and the Medallic +History of England. + +This Library was greatly enriched by Dean Aldrich, especially in works +of Architecture, and Archæology, including the Fine Arts. Of these it +may suffice to mention Bartoli, Antiquitates Romanæ; Hamilton’s Vases; +Galeria Farnese, Museum Florentinum; the Marlborough Gems; Herculanensium +Voluminum, Neapoli, 1793-1809, folio; Chandler’s Ionian Antiquities; +Marmora Arundeliana; Montfaucon’s Antiquities; Gorii Museum Etruscum; +Visconti, Museo Pio-Clementino; Museo Fiorentino, & Pisano; Palladio’s +Architecture; Cesio, Palazzi di Roma, folio; Antiquities of Palmyra; +Rubens, Palazzi di Genova, folio; the Architectural Works of Scamozzi and +Vitruvius, and those of Winckelmann; Caylus’s Egyptian Antiquities, and +the Antiquitate d’Ercolano. + +The works on Natural History and Philosophy comprehend those of +Aldrovandus, Borellus, Gesner, Keill’s Natural History; Aiton’s Hortus +Kewensis; Clusii Plantæ Rariores; Bocconis Plantæ Siciliæ; Gerard’s +Herball; Grew’s Anatomy of Plants; Dillenii Historia Muscorum; Dodonæi +Historia Stirpium; Haller, Bibliotheca Britannica; Hortus’ Eystettensis, +1640, folio; Houston, Plantæ Americanæ; Hudson’s Flora Anglica; Loudon’s +Arboretum; Morisoni Historia Plantarum; Parkinson’s Herbal; Ray’s +Catalogus Plantarum, and other works; Rousseau’s Botany; Withering’s +Botanical Arrangement, 1796; Bewick’s Quadrupeds; Block’s Ichthyology; +Bochart’s Hierozoicon; Buffon’s Natural History; the Encyclopædie +des Sciences, 33 vols. folio, 1751; Gravesande’s Natural Philosophy; +Descartes, Du Hamel & Hobbes, Opera Philosophica; Donovan’s Birds, +Insects, Shells, Fishes, and Quadrupeds; Jonstoni Historia Naturalis; +Lacepede’s Natural History; Latham’s Birds; Markham’s Husbandry; Miller’s +Gardener’s Dictionary; Salvianus de Piscibus; Shaw’s Zoology; Thomson’s +Chemistry; Vesalii Opera Anatomica; Willoughby’s Ornithology; Shaw +and Nodder’s Naturalist’s Miscellany; Buckland’s Reliquiæ Diluvianæ; +Kidd’s and Kirwan’s Mineralogy; Rashleigh’s British Minerals; Waller’s +Mineralogy; Whiston and Woodward’s Theory of the Earth; and the +Transactions of the Linnæan Society. + +Of Medical Works we find those of Avicenna, Baccius, Boerhaave, Cardanus, +Harvey, Hoffmann, Lister, Mead, Quincy, Schenck, Sydenham, Willis, and +Zahn; also Medicæ Artis Principes, by the Stephens. + +The Law Books as might be expected are few in number, among which I +may notice Burn’s Ecclesiastical Law; Bracton de Legibus; the Corpus +Juris Civilis & Canonici; Corvinus de Jurisprudentâ Romanorum; Coke’s +Institutes; Comyn’s Digest; Blackstone’s Commentaries; Blount’s Law +Dictionary; Gesner’s Pandects; Sir Matthew Hale’s Works; Heineccius +de Legibus; Jacob’s Law Dictionary; Keble’s Statutes; Noy’s, Vesey’s, +and other Reports; Puffendorf’s Works; Reeves’ English Law; Spencer de +Legibus Hebræorum; the Statutes at large; Suarez de Legibus; Tomlin’s +Repertorium Juridicum; Vattel’s Law of Nations; Wottoni Leges Wallicæ, +and Zouch, de Jure Civili. + +The Miscellaneous Literature of England is well represented in this +Collection; in proof of which I may enumerate the works of Addison, +Bacon, Boyle, Beattie, Buchanan, Burke, Burnet, Chaucer, Cowley, Darwin, +Harrington, Sir William Jones, Locke, Lord Lyttleton, Milton, Otway, +Pope, Sir Charles Sedley, Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, Sir Philip +Sidney, Swift, Sir William Temple, Taylor the Water Poet, Walpole, +Sir Thomas Wyatt, Charles the First, Sir Simon D’Ewes, Du Bartas, Sir +Thomas More, and Lord Herbert of Cherbury; Gower’s Confessio Amantis, by +Berthelet, 1532, folio; Blount’s Censura; Berkeley’s Minute Philosopher; +Bochas’ Tragedies, by Lidgate; Boswell’s Johnson; Butler’s Analogy; +Butler’s Hudibras; Davies’ Celtic Researches; Doddington’s Diary; +Gladstone’s Church and State; Hales’ Remains; Heber’s Journals; Life of +Jeremy Taylor; Heywood’s Plays; Howard Earl of Surrey Works, by Nott; +Howel’s Letters; Ben Jonson and Massinger’s Plays, by Gifford; Lydgate’s +Poems; Mackenzie’s Scots Writers; Maurice’s Indian Antiquities; Malcolm’s +Life of Lord Clive; Napier and Southey’s Peninsular War; Nichols’ +Literary Anecdotes; Northumberland Household Book; Nicolas’ Testamenta +Vetusta; Otter’s Life of Clarke; Parival’s Iron Age; Pegge’s Curialia; +Percy’s English Poetry; Prior’s Poems; Rowley’s Poems; Sanderson’s Lives; +Shaftesbury’s Characteristics; Shakespeare’s Plays, the fourth edition of +1685, folio, and Malone’s edition; Moore’s Life of Sheridan; Spenser’s +Works, 1679, folio; Sprat’s History of the Royal Society; Stanley’s +History of Philosophy; Dugald Stewart’s Philosophical Essays; Tooke’s +Diversions of Purley; Todd’s Life of Walton; Tomline’s Life of Pitt; +Twiss’ Life of Eldon; Walton’s Angler; Warton’s English Poetry; Willis’ +Notitia Parliamentaria; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses; Wren’s Parentalia; +Yarranton’s England’s Improvement; Yorke’s Tribes of Wales; Young’s Night +Thoughts; Evelyn’s Sylva; and Harris’ Hermes. + +In Foreign Literature the list is much less extensive, comprising the +Works of Aretus, Ariosto, Boileau, La Bruyere, Corneille, Grotius, +Quevedo, Rabelais, Racine, and Machiavelli, Brumoy, Theatre du Grecs; +Guarini, Pastor Fido; Heinsii Poemata; D’Herbelot, Bibliotheque +Orientale; Rollin, Belles Lettres; Sevigne’s Letters; Tasso by Fairfax; +Fénélon’s Telemaque; Voltaire’s Henriade; and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. + +Of Bibliographical Works I noticed, Cotton’s Typographical Gazetteer; the +Blandford, Spencer, and Sion College, Cotton and Bodleian Catalogues, +and that of Heinsius; the Bibliothéque du Roi; Bibliothecæ Regiæ +Catalogus; Yalensis Collegii Catalogus; Renouard’s Annales des Aldes; +Barbier Dictionnaire des Anonymes; Bandinii Catalogus Codicum, &c.; +Baillet, Jugemens des Scavans; Assemanni Bibliothéque Orientale; Fabricii +Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica; Brucker, Historia Critica; Catalogue of +Manuscripts at Lambeth, and in the Vatican; and Ebert’s Bibliographical +Dictionary; De Rossi Annales Hebræo-Typographici; Orme’s Bibliotheca +Biblica; Audiffredi, Catalogus Romanarum Editionum; Brunet’s Manuel; +Debure, Bibliographie Instructive & Catalogue de la Valliere; Harles, +Notitia Litteraria; Maittaire and Panzer, Annales Typographici; Marsden’s +Catalogue of Dictionaries; Peignot’s Bibliographical Works; Bouterwek’s +Spanish Literature; Dunlop, Roman Literature; Dibdin’s Typographical +Antiquities, and Library Companion; and Vogt, Catalogus Librorum. + +The Chronological Works include Bedford’s Scripture; L’Art de verifier +les Dates; Blair’s, Hales’ and Cary’s Chronology; Corsini, Fasti Attici; +Petavii Doctrina Temporum Funcii; and Strauchii Chronologia. + +This Collection also contains Musicæ Antiquæ Auctores; the Asiatic +Researches; Burney’s History of Music; Hartley on Man; Hatsell’s +Precedents; Parliamentary History, 24 vols. 8vo.; Journals of the +Lords and Commons; Bartsch, Peintre Graveur; Bromley’s Catalogue +of Engraved Portraits; James’ Schools of Painting; Mabillon de Re +Diplomaticâ; Anderson’s Diplomata Scotiæ; Marten’s Traités de la +Paix; Morhof, Polyhistor; Ottley’s History of Engraving; Pilkington’s +Dictionary of Painters; Stosch, Peintre Graveur; Strutt’s Dictionary of +Engravers; Vasari Vite di Pittori; Musæ Etonenses; Carmina Oxoniensia +Quadragesimalia; Sannazarii Poemata; Anthologia Græca; and the Nugæ +Metricæ. + +The Translations from the Classics are chiefly those of Dacier, Pope, +Chapman and Ogilby’s Homer; Ogilby, Gawin Douglas’s Virgil; Middleton’s +Cicero; and Flaxman’s Homer. + +We also find on these Shelves Poliphili Hypnerotomyomachia, 1545, folio; +Schola Salernitana; Selden’s Works by Wilkins; Sirmondi, Concilia +Gallica; Spinosa Opera Posthuma; Sylloge Epistolarum; Vegetius de Re +Militari; Vincentii Speculum; Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiæ; +Critici Sacri; Bos Ellipses; Orphica, Orphei Argonautica; Justiniani +Institutiones; and Wolfii Bibliotheca Hebræa. + +It only remains to notice the works of Abulfeda, Agricola, Agrippa, +Albertus, Aldrich, Alcuin, Bartolious, Bernaldus, Beddoes, Black, +Blaeu, Boissardus, Bonaventura, Brevint, Bridge, T. Brown, Buchanan, +Burscough, Bullinger, Cantarenus, De la Valle, Emerson, Allatius, +Apianus, Archimedes, Cleomedes, Philoponus, Theognis, Arian, Barnabas, +Davenant, Ferguson, Canisius, Ursinus, Turnebus, Aurelius Victor, +Victorius, Vigorius, Muretus, Gyraldus, Hornius, Hugenius, Mercator, +Meursius, Semler, Johannes Sarisburiensis, Pontanus, Puteanus, Procopius, +Ruhnken, Scarron, and Scudery, Catalogues of the Hunterian and British +Museums; Bohun’s Dictionary; Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses; Bergier, +Grands Chemins Romains; Vitruvius Britannicus; Chandler’s Marmora +Oxoniensia; Chambers’ Cyclopædia; the Nuremberg Chronicle; Chronicon +Alexandrinum; Cresswell’s Geometry; the Letters of Junius; Lavater’s +Physiognomy; Zosimi Historia; Talmud Babylonicum; Sale’s Koran; +Scriptorum Veterum Collectio Vaticana, 4to.; Zabarella, Opera Logica; +Weever’s Funeral Monuments; the Annual Register; Barclay’s Argenis; +Barruel’s Memoirs of Jacobinism; Bryant’s Mythology; the Publications +of the Record Commission; Enchiridion Theologicum; Gale’s Court of the +Gentiles; Vavassoris Opera Critica; Mythographi Latini; the Historical +Works of Olaus Magnus; the Works of Ossian; Horapollonis Hieroglyphica; +Inman’s Navigation; Malleus Maleficarum; Struvii Bibliotheca Selecta; +Sanderi Bibliotheca Belgica; Saxii Onomasticon Litterarium; the Works of +Lipsius; Scaliger’s Critical Works; Porsoni Adversaria; Potter’s Grecian +Antiquities; Pezron, Antiquitates Celticæ; Pharmacopeia Londinensis; +the Quarterly Review; Reid on the Human Mind; the Historical Works of +Reineccius; Pole’s Synopsis; Scholtz, Lexicon Egyptiacum; and Helvici +Theatrum Historicum. + +The Gift Book kept in this Library is dated 1614. The principal donors +appear to have been Aldrich, Morris, Nicholson, Orrery, Stratford, and +Wake, with many others who, by donations of books, have testified their +grateful remembrance of the place of their common education. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Peterborough. + + +A church having been dedicated to St. Peter by the first Christian +kings of Mercia at Medeshamstede, that place was thenceforward called +Peterborough. The Monastery there begun in 655-6, and completed in 664, +was utterly destroyed by the Danes in 870, but re-edified in 870 by S. +Adelwold, Bishop of Winchester. From this time the Abbey continued in +great magnificence till the general dissolution of the religious houses, +when, happily escaping, it was converted into a Cathedral Church, and all +its buildings were preserved. It is said that Henry VIII. was induced +to spare this church for the sake of his Queen Catherine, whose mortal +remains lie within its walls. By this means it continued entire till the +second havoc of religious structures in the Great Rebellion, when the +Cloisters, Chapter House, Library, Bishop’s Hall and Chapel, formerly +belonging to the Abbot were utterly demolished; and the Chapel of our +Lady adjoining to the Abbey, being much out of repair, was taken down +by the townsmen, who prevailed to have the rest of the building made +parochial, which for that end, they had repaired with great expense.[52] + +John Chambers was the last Abbot of Peterborough. He surrendered the +Abbey to the king A.D. 1539, and had a pension of 266_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ +per annum assigned him. Soon after, king Henry VIII. made the Abbey an +Episcopal See, appointed by dotation dated 4 Sept. A.D. 1541: the said +John Chambers, the first Bishop, who was consecrated 23 Oct. A.D. 1541. +He died about the month of December A.D. 1556, and was buried in this +Cathedral.[53] + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough occupies a small +chapel, with a carved oaken ceiling, over which is a stone roof, and +around which are open shelves rising to the height of the room. This +little chapel is said to owe its erection to an endeavour on the part +of the architect of this elegant fabric, to conceal the defect of the +middle arch in the façade of the building being smaller than the lateral +ones. This expedient appears to satisfy the eye, while its situation in +the portico of the temple, makes it an appropriate repository for the +treasures of human learning. It appears, however, that the Library was +not always kept in this place, for in a Journal of a Tour through the +North of England and Scotland in 1704,[54] the author, speaking of this +Cathedral says, “In the east end beyond the altar is a good library.” + +That our traveller’s epithet was not altogether misapplied it will be the +object of the following pages to show, though of course the theological +works of the fathers, and early controversialists must form a prominent +feature in this hasty sketch. + +An interleaved copy of the Catalogue of the Bodleian Library of 1674, in +2 folio volumes, lettered on the sides “Catalogus Bibliothecæ Ecclesiæ, +Cathedralis Petroburgensis,” wherein the books of this Collection are +marked with reference to the shelves, and the additions thereto inserted +on the blank pages, is the only Catalogue at present extant of this +Library. At the end of the manuscript additions to this Catalogue is the +date of 1726. This clumsy expedient may probably be soon abandoned, as +several lists of the books compiled by the late Librarian indicate an +approach to a better method, though I regret to add this plan is still +pursued in the noble Library of Trinity College in Cambridge. + +Among the Works of Divinity in this Collection, those of the Fathers of +the Church lay first claim to our notice. These are the works of S.S. +Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius, Bernard, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Jerome, +Hilary, Isidore, Irenæus, Theodoret, and Theophylact. + +Among the earlier Theologians, we may mention the Works of Anselm, Thomas +Aquinas, Martin Bucer, Bullinger, Calvin, Bellarmine, Theodore Beza, Le +Clerc, Erasmus, Gregory Nazianzen, Thomas à Kempis, and Pope Gregory; of +Grotius, Luther, Melancthon, Peter Martyr, Origen, Socinus, Philo Judæus, +Lactantius, Wolfius, and Zanchius, to which may be added, Arminii Opera +Theologica, and Bulli Opera Omnia. + +Of English Divines this Library possesses the Works of Bishop Andrews, +Bilson, Boys, Bramhall, Barlow, Baxter, Samuel Clarke, Cranmer, Hall, +Hacket, Hammond, Hody, Hoadley, Hooper, Hopkins, Kettlewell, Jackson, +Pierce, Leslie, Reynolds, Stapleton, Sanderson, Jeremy Taylor, Tillotson, +Waterland, Whiston, Whitaker, White, and Whitgift. To which may be +added, Jewel’s Works of 1609 in folio; Burkitt’s Exposition of the New +Testament; Pearson on the Creed; Mede on Daniel, Scott’s Christian Life; +Nichols and Sparrow on the Common Prayer; Wake’s Catechism, and Epistles +of the Apostolical Fathers; Wilkins on Natural Religion; Warburton’s +Divine Legation; and the Whole Duty of Man. + +The editions of the Sacred Scriptures in this Library comprise the +well-known Polyglott Bible of Walton, with the important adjunct of +Castell’s Lexicon; the English Versions of 1540, 1551, and 1578, all in +folio, together with the English Bible of 1599, interleaved, in three +folio volumes; the Oxford Edition of 1685, in folio, and the Cambridge +Edition of 1679, in 4to. + +Of Latin Bibles I may here mention the + + Biblia Latina, Castalionis. Basileæ, 1573. + + Biblia Latina, Junii. 1596, 4to. and 1618, 4to. & + + Biblia Latina. Antverpiæ, 1569, & Parisiis, 1528. + +I also noticed the + + Biblia Hebraica, Græca, et Latina. Heidelbergæ, 1599, folio. + + The Biblia Hebraica. Venetiis, 1525. & + + The Biblia Græca, juxta LXX, edente Grabe. Oxonii, 1707, in 2 + volumes folio. + +To which I may add, among other Editions of the New Testament, that +edited by Mill at Oxford in 1707. + +In this place it is right to notice the various Concordances, Harmonies, +and Commentaries upon the Scriptures, as well as Confessions of Faith, +found in this Library; though to specify them minutely would fatigue the +reader. + +It may suffice to mention more particularly Leigh’s Critica Sacra; +Limborch’s Theologia Christiana; the Commentaries of Lyra; Cave’s +Primitive Christianity; Cotelerii Patres Apostolici; Du Pin’s Bibliotheca +Veterum Patrum; the Works of Ramus, Raynaudus, and Rivetus, and Calmet’s +Dictionary of the Bible. + +To Books of Homilies, and Catechisms, and various Rituals, may be added +the Graduale Romanum, Parisiis, 1640; Durandi Rationale Divinorum +Officiorum; Missale Romanum, Antverpiæ, 1686, cum figuris pulcherrimis, +in folio, being a noble volume from the Press of the illustrious Plantin; +and the Book of Common Prayer printed at Cambridge in 1669, in 4to.; to +which may be added various editions of the Psalter. + +In Ecclesiastical History, Reports of the various Councils, including the +Acta Synodi, Dordracensis, and Brent’s History of the Council of Trent, +are here found in juxta-position with Gibson’s Codex Juris Ecclesiastici +et Civilis; the Codex Canonum of Beveridge; the Ecclesiastical History +of Eusebius by Hanmer; Brandt’s History of the Reformation in the Low +Countries; the Codex and Institutiones of Justinian; the Legenda Aurea; +and Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity. + +Of Books relating to the Church affairs of Britain, this Library +embraces Parker’s Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, Hanoviæ, 1605, +folio; Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Fox’s Acts and +Monuments, London, 1583, 4to.; Godwin, de Præsulibus Angliæ, and the +Catalogue of Bishops; Burnett’s History of the Reformation; Durell, +Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Vindiciæ; Heylin’s History of the Reformation; Inett’s +Origines Anglicanæ; Stillingfleet’s Origines; Usser, Britannicæ Ecclesiæ +Antiquitates, Eblanæ, 1639, and Wharton’s Anglia Sacra. + +Of General History there are but few volumes in this Collection: of these +the first in point of time and curiosity is the well-known Nuremberg +Chronicle of 1493, in folio; to which Dibdin has devoted sixteen pages of +the Spencer Catalogue. Next in point of interest as to time is the St. +Albans’ Chronicle, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1520. To these may be +added, Carionis Chronicon, and Robinsoni Annales Mundi. + +Of Histories of different Countries we find on these shelves Asheton’s +Turkish Chronicle; Blount’s Portugal; Grimstone’s Netherlands; Howel’s +Germany; Mariana’s History of Spain; Scheffer’s Lapland; and Danett’s +History of the Low Countries. + +Of Voyages and Travels we find only those of Sandys, Thevenot, and Drake; +Hakluyt’s Voyages, 1599, folio; Sir Thomas Herbert’s Travels in the East, +1630, folio; and Chardin’s Travels in Persia, 1686, and several Atlasses. + +Chronological Works, which afford the most material aid to the historical +student, occur less sparingly in this Collection, since it is found +to contain only Cary’s Palæologia; Chronologia; Marshall and Lloyd’s +Chronological Tables; and Helvici Chronologia. + +I may here mention Bayle’s Dictionary; Cluvierius, Geography; and +Prideaux’s Marmora Oxoniensia, as all affording helps to History. + +Of Heraldry, whose language though limited is distinct, we find in this +Library, Leigh’s Accidence of Armoury, of 1597; Bolton’s Elements of +Armories, 1610, 4to.; and Boswell’s Accidence of Armory, 1672, 4to.; +works which were all written when the art of Blazon was extensively +cultivated as a science. + +A large paper copy of Sparke’s Historia S. Cœnobii Burgensis Scriptores, +Londini, 1723, folio, and a copy of Gunton’s Peterborough Cathedral, +enriched with the Manuscript Notes of Bishop Kennett, are taken under the +especial protection of the dean and chapter of that see. + +In the Library, however, is left a small paper copy of Sparke’s +Collection, which leads me to mention Twysden’s Historiæ Anglicanæ +Scriptores Decem, and other works relating to the History of England. + +Among these we find the Chronicles of Baker and Cooper; Echard’s History +of England, and three editions of Camden’s Britannia, by the author in +1590, 8vo., by Holland in 1610, folio, and by Gibson in 1695, in folio; +Blome’s Britannia, 1673; Ogilby’s Britannia; Whitelock’s Memorials, +1709, folio; Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion; Weldon’s Life +of Charles I.; May’s History of the Parliament of 1647; Bates’ Elenchus +Motuum Nuperorum in Angliâ, edited by Skinner, referring to the same +period in Dugdale’s View of the late Troubles, 1681, and Leycester’s rare +Commonwealth, also deposited in this chamber. + +To these may be added Daniell’s History of England, including his +graphic account of the Wars of the Roses; Wyat’s Rebellion, by Proctor; +Barnes’ History of Edward III.; Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII. 1649; +Cox’s History of Ireland; Lloyd’s History of Wales; Kennett’s History of +England, London, 1719, in 3 volumes folio, and his Historical Register of +1728, in folio;[55] Stafford’s Pacata Hibernica; Sheringham, de Origine +Gentis Anglorum; Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana; Tyrrell’s History +of England; and Sir William Temple’s Introduction to the History of +England. + +I may here also notice Warner’s Albion’s England; Camden’s Remains +concerning Britain; and Yarranton’s England’s Improvement by Sea and +Land, &c. + +Of Local Histories of England, this Collection comprehends, Bentham’s +Ely; Bridges’ Northamptonshire; Peck’s Stamford; Ayliffe’s Oxford; +Gunton’s Peterborough; Bentley’s Halifax; Hill’s Hereford Cathedral, +London, 1717, 8vo.; Lewis’ Isle of Thanet; Fitz Stephens’ Survey of +London; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Morton’s Natural History of +Northamptonshire; Somner’s Roman Ports and Forts in Kent; Some Account of +the Scarborough Spaw in 1667; Willis’ Cathedrals; and Wright’s Rutland. + +Connected with English History, and therefore deserving of a passing +remark are, Barwick’s Life of Barwick; Knight’s Life of Colet; the Life +of Wallace; and Le Neve’s Monumenta; Fasti Anglicani, and Lives of P— Q—; +Nevyllus de furoribus Norfolcensium Ketto duce; Bernard’s Life of Usher; +Sacheverell’s Tryal; Sir Philip Warwick’s Discourse of Governments; and +the Records of the Kingdom published by the authority of Parliament. + +Pursuing the path of English Literature we meet with the Philosophical +and Theological Works of Sir Thomas More, including the edition of his +English Works in 1557, and the folio tome of his Latin productions. + +To these I may add Baconi Opera Omnia, Francofurti, 1660, folio; Boyle’s +Works, abridged by Boulton; Barclay’s Apology; the Remains of Parsons, +Bishop of Peterborough; the Works of Charles the First, together with the +famous Εικων Βασιλικη; and Coverdale’s Letters of the Martyrs, 1614. + +Of English Poesy the chaplet to be woven is but small; the curious reader +may however cull such flowers as the Works of Chaucer and of Milton; +Heywood’s Spider and Flie, 1536; Churchyard’s Challenge; and the Vision +of Pierce Plowman, may yield. + +He may also derive instruction from Puttenham’s Art of English Poetry, +published in 1589 in 4to. a work of which the original is still the most +esteemed edition. + +Herbs, which savour of the Physic Garden next invite the hand of the +Collector, who may here behold Arnoldi Herbolarium, in 4to.; Ascham’s +Herbal of 1550, in 8vo.; Andrew Borde’s Breviary of Health, &c.; +Culpepper’s Physical Directory; Lite’s History of Plants; and Tusser’s +Husbandry, with that of Barnaby Googe. + +I may here notice a copy of Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum, +printed at London in 1635, in folio. + +The Classical authors contained in this Library are not remarkable either +for their rarity or value. + +I remarked however a very fine copy of Casaubon’s Polybius; the Works of +Aristotle, edited by Du Val and Erasmus; Aristophanis Comœdiæ, printed at +Basle in 1542, and at Franckfort in 1544; Antoninus, Gatakeri; Athenæus, +Dalecampii; Epictetus, Uptoni; Barnes’ Euripides; Florus, Grævii; Galeni +Opera, Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1525; Geoponica, by Needham; Hesiodus, +Robinsoni, Oxonii, 1737, 4to.; Herodotus, edited by Stephens and by +Gale; Quintus Curtius, Basileæ, 1545; Diogenes Laertius, Meibomii; and +Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Hudsoni. + +I also noticed Longinus, by Pearce; Homerus Spondani, Basileæ, 1583; +Horatius, Delphini; Iamblichus, edited by Gale; Isocratis Epistolæ, +Venetiis, 1499, folio; Juvenalis Satyræ, Venetiis, 1548, folio; and +Antverpiæ, 1552, 8vo.; Planti Comœdiæ, 1530; the Aldine Statius; +Thucydides Hudsoni; Xenophontis Opera Stephani; and the Corpus Poetarum +Latinorum, printed at London, in 1603. + +If to the Works already enumerated, be added various editions of Cæsar, +Cicero, Æsop, Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, of Demosthenes, +Hippocrates, Josephus, Ovid, Persius, Philostratus, Plutarch, Lucian, +Lucretius, Lucan, Livy, Quintilian, Sallust, and Silius Italicus, of +Seneca, Sophocles, Suetonius, Tacitus, Terence, Virgil, and Valerius +Maximus; the classical scholar may form a tolerably correct notion of +the value of this department of the Library of the Dean and Chapter of +Peterborough. + +In this place I may venture to insert the English versions of the +classics which also find a place on these shelves. Of these, Appian in +English, London, 1578, 4to.; Phaer’s Virgil; and Chapman’s Homer, are the +most remarkable. + +I may here briefly enumerate Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; Du Fresne’s +Glossary; Eliot’s Bibliotheca, 1545; Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis; +the Lexica of Hoffmanni and Scapula; Littleton’s, Rider’s, and Stephens’ +English Dictionary; with some other Works of like nature, as constituting +the Etymological riches of this Collection. + +Here also it may be proper to notice Bentley’s Dissertation on the +Epistles of Phalaris; Whittinton’s Grammatical Tracts; some Pieces of the +learned Vossius, and the Works of Picus of Mirandula. + +In Bibliography, the only works which fell under my observation were +the Acta Eruditorum; Balei Scriptores Rerum Britannicarum, Basileæ, +1559; Fabricii Bibliotheca Latina; Cave’s Historia Literaria; Catalogus +Librorum ab inventâ Typographiâ ad annum 1500, excusorum, Amstelodami, +1688, 4to.; Clavel’s Catalogue of English Books from 1660 to 1680; Sixti +Senensis Bibliotheca Sancta; and Stanley’s History of Philosophy. + +In English Literature, this collection is lamentably deficient, though +it possesses the Works of Locke, Isaac Barrow’s Mathematical Works; +Cumberland’s Origines Gentium, &c.; Hale’s Remains; the Works of +Cartwright, Ridley, Hobbes, and Rogers; Sprat’s History of the Royal +Society; Numerous Sermons, and many political as well as polemical Tracts. + +Of Law Books, I only remarked Bracton de Legibus Anglorum; Fortescue +de Laudibus Legum Angliæ; Suarez de Legibus; and a few of the Statutes +themselves. + +Of Miscellaneous Literature, there only remains for me to notice the +Works of Agricola, Ariosto, Petrarch, Machiavel, and Tasso, of Buchanan, +Bossuet, and Puffendorf, together with Boezio, della Consolazione +Filosofie, Florence, 1584; Hyde, Religio Veterum Persarum; Jovii Vitæ +Virorum Illustrium; and Platina, Vitæ Pontificum. + +In conclusion I would direct the attention of the bibliopolist to +a specimen of a printer but little known, being the Provinciale of +Lyndewode, printed at London by Andree Brocard, in 1597, folio, in double +columns of the gothic letter; though the fortuitous similarity of name +may serve only to remind the votary of fashion of the bright illusion of +the dance, while still before his mental eye + + “Soft sparkling like a star + Floats on her silver wing Brocard.”—_May Fair._ + +The important changes effected at the Reformation, were by no means so +disastrous to existing interests as is now commonly imagined, since, +in many instances the abbot of the ancient hierarchy became the bishop +of the reformed church. At Peterborough, the beneficial effects of the +sweeping measures of ecclesiastical reform under our Eighth Henry, were +felt in so especial a manner, that the town was at once elevated to the +rank and importance of a city in consequence of the conversion of the +ancient monastery into the cathedral see. + +The remains, however, of the Conventual Library probably suffered more +from the rude hands of Cromwell’s soldiery, than from the previous +transition from the desks of the monks to the shelves of the clergy. + +The books are chiefly theological, consisting of the fathers and early +controversialists, and adorned by a folio Missal from the press of +Plantin. + +On the shelves of the Library of this Cathedral, there still remain +some interesting memorials of the Monastic Collection. Among these I +particularly noticed the Bible in Manuscript, finely illuminated, and the +Four Gospels, by Clement of Lanthony in 4to. + +To these may be added, Manuscripts of the Works of Saints Augustine, and +Bernard; some Books of Homilies; the Liber Sententiarum Latinè, in 4to.; +and the Constitutiones Provinciales, in 8vo. + +The most valuable and interesting Record connected with the Church of +Peterborough is the Lieger Book of the Church, a Chronicle composed by +Hugo surnamed Candidus, a Monk of that Monastery, but usually ascribed to +Robert Swapham,[56] a Monk of the same Church. This book was rescued from +destruction by the soldiers of Cromwell’s army April 22, 1643, by Mr. +Humfrey Austin, then chaunter of the Church, who redeemed it by the help +of ten shillings “for that old Latine Bible,” as he called it, given to +the ruffian who was carrying it away.[57] + +The Books which had survived the dissolution of the Monastery, perished +in the Great Rebellion, and but few of them have been preserved to our +own times. The Catalogue printed in Gunton’s History of the Church of +Peterburgh, London, 1686, in folio, under the title of “Matricularium +Librariæ Monasterii Burgi Sancti Petri, paucis libris non examinatis,” +is therefore of much importance, as shewing the nature and extent of the +monastic Library of Peterborough in its original state. + +“I shall here present,” says our author, “an Ancient Catalogue of a +Library in this Monastery, which, having no date annexed to it, must be +left to conjecture when it might be taken. The marginal illustrations I +have taken out of Bellarmine Pitseus, and Trithemius, and affixed them +thereunto.” + +This Catalogue occupies 26 leaves, extending from pp. 173 to 224 of the +Appendix. Its contents are chiefly the moral and devotional writings of +the fathers, commentators, and early schoolmen, the canon-law, the Latin +Classics, with some pieces of Aristotle, a few chronicles, and legends. + +Leland’s Notice of the Library of this House, in his Collectanea, +is either very imperfect, or it must have lost many of its books +previous to his visitation. He enumerates only fifteen works, of which +the following only are historical; Passio Sanctorum Wolfadi et Rufini +filiorum Regis Wolpheri; Vita S. Eustachii carmine heroico; Liber +Epistolarum Gulielmi de Semperingham; Vita Gisleni Episcopi Græci; Vita +Felicis eleganti carmine scripta; and Freculphi Historia. + +The last article in the Catalogue printed by Gunton, after an enumeration +of some works in the romance language, is a “Computatio annorum ab initio +mundi usque ad tempore Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi;” probably Edward the +Second; in which case the compilation of this Catalogue could not have +been earlier than 1317. + +Dr. White Kennett, Dean and afterwards Bishop of Peterborough, +contributed fifteen hundred volumes to form an antiquarian and historical +Library for his Cathedral Church. The Catalogue of this Collection +is entitled “Index Librorum aliquot Vetustorum quos in commune bonum +congessit W. K. Decan. Petriburg. MDCCXII.”[58] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Ripon Minster. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Ripon affords a pleasing instance +of the proper appreciation of “the tomes of olden time;” for the Books, +which were long suffered to lie neglected in the Church, are now +preserved with commendable attention under the hospitable roof of the +Deanery. + +Many volumes, indeed, were so much decayed, from the dampness of their +former repository, that their mouldering fragments were not worth +removal; but other volumes, including probably some classic authors, may +still remain in the Library, and upon some future investigation may be +restored, but little injured, to their companions, wherefore it is not +possible to ascertain the exact amount of its contents. + +I may add, however, my best wishes that the laudable desire manifested +by the present Dean for the restoration of the ancient Library in the +Church, may be gratified at no distant period, seeing that this is all +that is wanted to render the restoration of that sacred edifice, under +his judicious direction, full and complete. + +I may here also remark how much the skill of Mr. Blore has contributed +to adorn the screen and the choir of this ancient Minster, and it +only remains for him to give the world one of his own beautiful +representations of the scene to convince any one that I am not +exaggerating its renovated appearance. + +But to return to the “dear bokes” now comfortably reposing in the Dean’s +own study. + +The Collection was formed by Anthony Higgins, Dean of Ripon in 1608, and +consists chiefly of Works which in his time were new publications, and +as it happens to have been preserved entire with but little admixture +of any subsequent donations, it affords an interesting specimen of the +literature of that period. + +That this Library was not large is no reproach to the worthy donor, +whose autograph, accompanied occasionally by the price of the volume, +frequently appears on the titles of his books, for he gave to his church +all the literary treasures he possessed, and, as Moore sings, “he could +no more.” + +I shall proceed to give those specimens of the early English Printers +which most forcibly arrested my attention, and am most happy to begin +with the Father of the English Press. The first is of almost unparalleled +rarity, the only other copy of which I am at present cognisant being +that in the noble library of Earl Spencer. This is the famous “Book +for Travellers,” whose Eureka may be heard in the gossiping pages of +the Bibliographical Decameron. This Book for Travellers in Frensshe +and English, is printed in double columns of the smaller Gothic type +employed by Caxton, but without any indication of date, place, or name of +printer. It is complete in 25 leaves, in folio, as fresh and sound as +if they had but just issued from the press. It measures exactly eleven +inches and a quarter by eight inches and a quarter, and is appropriately +bound in olive Venetian morocco, with joints, apparently by that cunning +Bibliopegist Charles Lewis. + +The second specimen from Caxton’s Press is the well-known and extremely +rare “Boecius de Consolatione Philosophie,” folio, in the same type as +the Dictes and Sayinges, and other Works of that Printer. It lacks, +however, all indication of place, date, or typographer, concluding +with the Latin verses written by Surigonus, the Poet Laureat of Milan, +entitled the “Epitaphium Galfridi Chaucer.” The Caxtonian peroration +is very interesting, and may be seen at large in the Typographical +Antiquities of Dibdin, vol. 1. p. 303. The present copy wants only the +75th leaf, which is at present clumsily supplied by manuscript. It +appears to contain about 90 leaves, and though not entirely free from +stain, is in very sound condition, measuring eleven inches and a quarter +by eight inches and a quarter. It is bound in dark blue morocco, with +gilt leaves. + +Having failed in discovering any Work of Wynkyn de Worde, I proceed to +notice a small Volume by Richard Pynson, which I never saw before. It +is the Magna Charta, in a small Gothic letter, with an Index prefixed, +at the end of which is the Colophon,—“Londini per Ricardus Pynson, &c., +1514.” It measures five inches and three-eighths by two inches and a +half, and is bound in smooth russia. + +Reginald Wolfe is the next early English Printer to be noticed, on +account of a fine and perfect copy of “The Castle of Knowledge, +Imprinted at London by Reginalde Wolfe, A.D. 1556,” 4to. bound in plain +calf. + +There are three specimens of the Press of Binnemann, the most beautiful +of which is the well-known Tract “Alexandri Nevylli Angli de furoribus +Norfolcensium, Ketto duce, &c.” “Londini, ex officinâ Henrici Binnemann, +1575,” bound in olive morocco. The next is “Crispini Lexicon. Londini +apud Binnemann, 1581,” 4to. whose title bears the autograph of its former +possessor, Anthony Higgins. The third is a “Defense of the Translations +of the Scriptures by W. Fulke, London, Henrie Bynnemann, 1583,” 4to. +bound in calf. + +Richard Tottel next claims attention to a small 18mo. volume, entitled +“An Exposicion of the termes of the Lawes, London, Richard Tottel, 1567.” + +I shall next mention the treatise of “Thomas Chaloner de Republicâ +Anglorum instaurandâ Londini, excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, +Typographus, 1579,” 8vo. bound in russia; and the English Secretorie, by +Angel Day, London, 1592, 8vo. bound in calf; concluding my notices of +these old English Books with the French and English Dictionary, compiled +by Claudius Hollyband, and printed by Thomas Woodcock at London in 1593, +4to. The present is a very fine and perfect copy, bound in smooth russia. + +Of the productions of Foreign Presses, the first which attracted my +observation was a very sound copy of “the Cronycles of the londe of +Englonde, printed by Gerard de Leeu at Antwerp, 1493,” folio, whereof a +full description will be found in the Bibliotheca Spenceriana, IV. p. 229. + +It is certainly strange, as Dibdin has remarked that the compiler of +the Magliabecchian Catalogue should have regarded this as the first +book printed in the English language. But it must be remembered that +he spoke only from his own observation, and that book certainly is the +earliest English book in that Collection. Palpable however as the mistake +is, it may well serve to show how limited is the knowledge even of the +most accurate bibliographer; for the Catalogue, whose index this lapsus +deforms, is one of the most valuable hitherto given to the world, and is +in fact quite a model in its way. The Chronicles under notice have the +title pasted on another piece of paper, and the volume itself, measuring +eleven inches by seven and three quarters, is well bound in smooth russia. + +The next book, whose bright coverture of red morocco caught my eye, was +a fine and perfect copy of Nicandri Theriaca, cum Scholiis, Coloniæ, +Joannes Soteris, 1530, 4to. To which I may add Tentacula Nov. Test. also +printed at Cologne in 1526. + +I may next mention Saunders’ Supper of our Lord, printed at Louvain in +1566. Speculum Sapientiæ Cirilli, and Opuscula Theologica, in a small +volume of Gothic character, by Jaumar, at Paris, in the early part of the +sixteenth century. + +In conclusion I may briefly advert to the Hebrew Grammar printed by +Froben at Basle in 1522, which is bound in the same volume with a +Compendium of the Greek Grammar, and the Opera et Dies of Hesiod, printed +by Christopher Froschover, at Zurich, in 1526. + +I may add among the recent donations to this Library, the new edition of +Stephens’ Thesaurus. + +This Library is also entitled, equally with the Cathedral Libraries, +to copies of all the Works published under the authority of the +Parliamentary Record Commission. + +To several of the rarer articles mentioned above, are appended +bibliographical notices transcribed from the Spencer Catalogue and other +sources in the time of the late Dean, whom the opportune visit of Dr. +Dibdin in 1816, had apprised of the value of the treasures which till +then lay dormant in his custody. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Rochester. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of this Cathedral is kept in the +Chapter House, a well proportioned, and well lighted room, adjoining the +Choir of the Cathedral, and the remains of the ancient Chapter-house; +being placed immediately over part of the ancient crypt, and approached +by a most beautiful doorway, having some finely preserved statues in its +niches. + +The books are arranged upon open shelves, in open cases placed against +the walls of the room, which is very dry, being warmed by a stove, which +“Buzaglo fecit. 1768.” + +The walls of this apartment are hung with portraits of King James I. +and of Sprat Bishop of Rochester, a view of the Nave of St. Patrick’s +Cathedral in Dublin, and an engraved Plan of Jerusalem. + +The Library is kept up by the donations of successive Prebends, who upon +their installation are expected to make the customary donation thereto. + +The Manuscript portion of this Library is kept in closed cases, which are +kept locked, in the Chapter-house, and contains the original Registrum +and Custumale Roffense, edited by Thorp, together with several old +charters and other documents relating to the Church, many of which have +the original seals, some of which are very curious, appended thereto. + +Among the Manuscripts I noticed, Bibliandri Lectiones, in 7 quarto +volumes, bound in old calf, and a folio volume, written upon vellum, +and lettered Quæstiones Theologicæ, upon a vellum cover, the first leaf +whereof exhibiteth these words: “Liber de Claustro Roffensi per Dominum +Johannem ejusdem loci Priorem,” so that this at least is a specimen of +the original Monastic Library. + +Among the printed books is a considerable quantity of obsolete Divinity, +and some English as well as foreign Works which have deservedly fallen +into oblivion. Upon these the worms seem tacitly permitted to feed, for +I found no less than three of those small white grubs, so well known as +book-worms, and yet so seldom seen, greedily devouring a black letter +folio. It is really astonishing how so minute an animal, with no apparent +power of perforation, can drill holes through paper, wood, and leather, +subsisting at the same time upon the havoc which it makes, and it is +at least satisfactory to have caught them actually engaged in the full +gratification of their bibliophagistic propensities. + +I cannot conceal the pleasure with which I discovered Coverdale’s Bible, +folio, “Prynted in the yeare of oure Lorde, MDXXXV. and fynished the +fourth day of October,” concealed between “the Booke of Common Prayer, +Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1629, folio, and the +Whole Booke of Psalmes. London, 1629,” folio, being also disguised by the +binder who has lettered the volume, “Holy Bible, 1629.” + +This mistake appears to have misled the compiler of the Catalogue, who +being unacquainted with the mysteries of black letter has simply entered +this precious volume as “Holy Bible, with the booke of Common Prayer +prefixed, fol. Lond. 1629.” + +The alphabetical enumeration of the books in this Collection was indeed +made before the study of bibliography was cultivated to any extent in +this country, being entitled the “Catalogue of the Library of the Dean +and Chapter of Rochester, 1776.” This thin folio volume is bound in calf, +lettered, “Libri Eccl. Roff.” + +To revert however to the first English Bible, I was pleased to observe +that the present copy thus protected and concealed by its ancient binding +of calf, upon which the brass fastenings of the clasps still remain, was +perfect, with the sole exception of the title, and the map. It measures +nearly twelve inches, by seven inches and seven-eighths, and is in very +tender condition at the beginning and the end, the natural consequence of +the repeated thumbing it doubtless received from our pious forefathers. +Some one however has so determinedly erased the name of the Queen, in the +Dedication, that it cannot now be deciphered. + +I have next the satisfaction of noticing a perfect copy, in double +columns, of black letter, bound in old calf, of “the Byble in Englyshe, +&c.” “Prynted by Rychard Grafton and Edward Whitchurch. Cum Privilegio ad +Imprimendum solum. 1539, Folio,” at the conclusion of which we read. “The +ende of the New Testament, and of the whole Byble fynished in Apryll, +Anno M CCCCCXXXIX.” + + “A dn̅o factum est istud.” + +This book was presented to the Library, “Eccl. Cath. Roffensis ex Dono E. +Barrell, 1745.” + +There are some curious documents in the State Paper Office relating to +this Bible, which was printed in Paris, wherein the copies upon vellum, +taken off for Henry VIII. and now in the British Museum, (April 1540) +and for the Lord Keeper Cromwell, now at St. John’s College in Cambridge +(April 1539) are mentioned. + +Next in order of time comes the Holie Bible, with Cranmer’s Preface, +“Imprinted at London in powles Church yarde, by Richarde Jugge,” (1568.) +Folio. In double columns of black letter. The present copy is perfect, +though torn at the end, and is bound in dark calf. + +Then comes the Holy Bible, Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, +1584, folio, which unfortunately lacks all the leaves subsequent to folio +572. It is bound in old calf, with brass knobs, &c. and red leaves. + +I may here mention + + The Bible in English, by John Cawood. Imperfect at the + beginning and the end. + + The Holy Bible, printed by Robert Barker, and the Assignees of + John Bill, London, 1639, folio, ruled with red lines, and bound + in crimson velvet. + + The Bible in English, printed at London in 1684. + + The Bible, printed by Baskett, at Oxford in 1715, folio, bound + in calf, and two other impressions of the sacred volume, + published at the same place in 1717 and 1739. + + The Bible, printed by Baskerville, at Cambridge, in 1763, + folio, bound in calf, gilt. + + The Bible, edited by Bishop Wilson, and printed at Bath in + 1785, in three volumes, 4to. + + The Holy Bible, edited by D’Oyly and Mant, in three volumes, + 4to. + +Merely observing that these English versions of the Holy Scriptures may +safely be left to speak for themselves. + +It was with feelings of no ordinary gratification that I found upon the +shelves of this Library the first Polyglott Bible, being that commonly +known as the Complutensian, published in Spain under the auspices of +Cardinal Ximenes in 1517. The present copy is very fine and sound, +measuring fourteen inches and a quarter by ten inches. It is bound in six +volumes folio, in old mottled calf, apparently of foreign extraction. +Few of our ecclesiastical foundations are endowed with a copy of this +most important work, though nearly all of them possess the Polyglott of +Walton, which in the present instance stands beside its elder brother. + +Here we have also the Biblia Hebraica, Hutteri, Hamburgi, 1588, folio; +the Biblia Hebraica Montani, 1609, folio; the Biblia Hebraica, Forsteri, +Oxonii, 1750, in two vols. 4to.; and the Biblia Hebraica, Kennicottii, +Oxonii, 1776, in two vols. folio; also the Biblia Latina cum pleno +apparatu, &c. “Impressum Lugduni per magistrum Jacobum Sacon X die +Novem. 1509,” folio, in double columns of Gothic character. It has a +large wood-cut on the first leaf, and the title in red; with the device +of the printer at the end, followed by the “Interpretationes Nominum +Hebræaorum.” This volume is bound in calf. + + The Vet. Test. LXX, curâ Grabe. Oxonii, 1707, folio. + + The Biblia LXX, apud Holmes et Parsons. Oxonii, 1798, et seq. + in six vols. folio. And + + The Codex Bezæ, edited by Kipling, in two vols. folio, bound in + calf. + +Of separate editions of the New Testament, I observed + + The Novum Testamentum Syriacum, Hebræum, Græcum, et Latinum, + per Eliam Hutterum. Norimbergæ, 1599, in three vols. folio. + + Novum Testamentum Græcum, Millii. Oxonii, 1707, in 2 volumes, + folio. + + Nov. Test. Gr. Wetstenii. Amstelodami, 1751, in 2 vols. folio. + + Nov. Test. Græcum et Anglicum. Londini, 1729, in 2 vols. 8vo. + + The New Testament in English, by Wiclif, printed at London in + 1732, folio. + + Benzelii Evangelia Gothica. Oxonii, 1750, 4to. & + + Junii Evangelia. Dordraci, 1665. + +I will proceed to notice the Church Service Books contained within +this Library, and cannot commence more appropriately than with +a bibliographical description of the “Missale ad usum Ecclesie +Sarisburiensis. MD.XXXIIII.” folio. Printed in double columns of black +and red letter. This interesting volume commences with the title as +given above, which occupies the first leaf, followed by six leaves of +Calendar, and one of Benedictio. The Missal then commences, occupying +folio i.–clvi. inclusive, numbered in regular succession. Then follow +the Ordinarium, Præfationes, and Canon, occupying fifteen leaves not +numbered. Of these however the 7th, 8th, and 9th, containing the “Prefa +de scta cruce,” et “de b. Maria,” the “Prefatio quotidiana,” and the +first part of the Canon, are all three upon vellum. + +It may be noticed, that facing the large wood cut of the Crucifixion, +which occupies the whole reverse of the leaf containing the Præfatio +quotidiana, one leaf of manuscript in Gothic character, upon vellum, +has been inserted, apparently in the olden time. At the end of these +fifteen leaves last mentioned, commence the Prayers for the Saints, +Vigils, &c. occupying sixty leaves regularly numbered from fo. i. to fo. +lx. Then follows the “Accentuarium cum Prologo,” consisting of twelve +leaves, undistinguished by any numerals; but upon the recto of the last +leaf occurs the Colophon, informing us that this like many other of the +earlier Service books of the English Church was the production of a +foreign press: + +“¶ Explicit Missale ad usum ecclesie Sarum tam in cantu quam in litera +diligentissime recognitum. Marginalibus annotatiunculis ac literis +alphabeticis evangeliorum, epistolarum gradalium offertorium originem +indicantibus abunde locupletatum. _Impressum Parisiis_ in vico scti +Iacobi in edibus _Francisci Regnault_ librari jurati alme universitatis +Parisiensis.” + +I may add to this several editions of the Common Prayer Book, besides +that of 1629, which I have already mentioned; the Common Prayer, London, +1662, folio, bound in crimson velvet; and that printed at Oxford in 1681; +with that edited by Bishop Mant. + +I may here mention Wheatley on the Common Prayer; and the Psalmorum +Davidis, per Ioannem Campensem, Basileæ, 1553, 12mo.; and proceed at once +to enumerate the component parts of the theological department of this +Library, beginning with the + + Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum per M. de la Bigne. Colon. Agrip. + 1618, in 16 volumes, folio, bound in calf. + + Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, in 2 volumes, folio, in calf. + + Bibliotheca, S.S. Patrum, edente Clerico. Amstelod. 1724, in 2 + vols. folio. + + Russell’s Patrum Apostolicorum Opera. 1746, 8vo. + + Basilii Opera. Parisiis, 1737-8, folio. + + Cypriani Opera, edente Fell. Oxonii, 1700, folio. + + S. Cyrilli Opera. Oxonii, 1703, folio. + + Chrysostomi Opera. Etonæ, 1612, in 8 vols. folio. + + Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica. Paris, 1628. + + Fulgentii Opera. Basileæ, 1621. + + Irenæi Opera. Parisiis, 1710. + + Lactantius. Cantabrigiæ, 1685, 8vo. + + Origenis Opera. Parisiis, 1519, vols. 3 and 4 only. + + Philonis Judæi Opera, à Mangey. Londini, 1742, in 2 volumes, + folio. + + Tertulliani Opera, Colon. Agrip. 1617, folio. and + + Episcopii Opera Theologica, with the Works of S.S. Augustine, + Ambrose, and Ignatius. + +Of Concordances and Commentators I may mention, + + Calasio Concordantiæ Hebraicæ in 4 vols. folio, and + + Cruden’s Concordance. + + Roberts’ Clavis Bibliorum. London, 1648, 8vo. + + Hodius de Bibliorum textibus. Oxonii, 1705. + + Leigh’s Critica Sacra. Londini, 1650, folio. + + Pole’s Synopsis, in 5 vols. folio. + + Pearce’s Commentary. + + Caryl’s Exposition of Job, in 2 vols. folio. + + Chappelow on Job. + + Grey’s Version of Job. London, 1742, 8vo. + + Horsley on Hosea. + + Lyra, Commentarii in Biblia. + + Lowth on Isaiah. + + Vitringa in Iesaiam. Leovardiæ, 1724, folio. + + Patrick’s Commentary. + + Whitby’s Paraphrase. + + Macknight’s Translation of the Apostolical Epistles with notes. + Edinburgh, 1795, in 4 vols. 4to. + + Macknight’s Harmony of the Gospels. London, 1763, 4to. + + Elsley’s Annotations on the Epistles. + + Bishop Cosin’s History of the Canon of Scripture. + + Dupin’s Canon of the Old and New Testament. + + Hawkins on the Historical Scriptures of the Old Testament, and + + Schleusneri Lexicon Novi Testamenti. + +Among the works of Divinity I may mention those of Barrow and Beveridge; +Allix’s Reflections; Burton’s Testimonies of the Anti Nicene Fathers to +the Divinity of Christ; Butler’s Analogy; Baxter’s Christian Directory; +Bonaventuræ Opera Theologica; Bingham’s Works, in 2 vols. folio; Bulli +Opera, Londini, 1703, folio; Bochart, Opera Omnia; Bedæ Opera, Parisiis, +1520, folio; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible, London, 1732, in 3 vols. +folio; Gill’s Philosophy of Scripture, London, 1635, folio; Coplestone on +Predestination; Chandler’s Life of David; Grotii Opera, Londini, 1679; +Erasmi Opera, Lugd. Bat. 1703; Horne’s Introduction to the Study of the +Holy Scriptures; Hickes’s History of Montanism, London, 1709, 8vo.; +Jewel’s Apology, 1570; Lightfoot’s Works, London, 1684, in 2 vols. folio; +Lardner’s Testimonies, 1764, in 2 vols. 4to.; and his Credibility, 1741, +in 17 volumes, 8vo.; Magee on the Atonement; Masoni Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ +Anglicanæ, Londini, 1625, folio; Prideaux’s Connection, 1720, folio; +Paley’s Works; Pearson on the Creed; Stackhouse on the Creed; Stebbing’s +Polemical Tracts; Rogers on the Thirty Nine Articles; Jeremy Taylor’s +Ductor dubitantium, 1696, folio; Wollaston’s Religion of Nature, 1722, +4to.; Wilkins on Natural Religion; and Wake’s Catechism; and lastly, +the Sylloge Confessionum, Oxonii, 1804, 8vo.; with Preservative against +Popery, London, 1738, in 3 volumes, folio. + +Of Sermons I noticed those by Sherlock, Rogers and Conybeare; the +Discourses of Charnock; and the Sermons preached at Boyle’s Lecture, and +published in 1739, in 3 volumes, folio. This copy is in old calf. + +I may here notice Cave’s Scriptorum Eccles. Historia literaria; Boëthii +Opera; and Beattie on Truth, with some pieces by Luther. + +Of Ecclesiastical History the shelves of this Library are well filled +with Burnet’s History of the Reformation; Bacon’s Liber Regis; Ecton’s +Thesaurus; Bray’s Bibliotheca Parochialis, London, 1707; Burn’s +Ecclesiastical Law; Cave’s Lives of the Apostles; and his Primitive +Christianity; Fox’s Martyrs, London, 1684, in 3 vols. folio; Gibson’s +Codex; Godwyn, de Præsulibus Angliæ, Cantabrigiæ, 1743, folio; Hooker’s +Ecclesiastical Polity; Histoire de Concile de Trent, Londres, 1736, +in 2 vols. folio; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, 1668; Du Pin’s +Ecclesiastical History of the Sixteenth Century; Josephus, Hudsoni; +Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History; Kaye’s Ecclesiastical History; +Lansbergii Chronologia Sacra; Middleburg, 1625, 4to; Knight’s Lives +of Erasmus and Colet; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Nelson’s +Life of Bishop Bull; Spotswode’s Church of Scotland, 1677, folio; +Stillingfleet’s Origines; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum, Cantabrigiæ, +1727, in 2 vols. folio; Spondani Epitome Annalium Eccles. Baronii, Lugd. +Bat. 1660, folio; Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus, Amstelodami, 1728, +in 2 volumes, folio; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, 1691, in 2 vols. folio; +Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, &c. in 4 vols. folio, in calf gilt; to +which I may add Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, 1682, folio; and 1718, +folio; with Stevens’s Continuation, 1722-3; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, +edited by Nasmith, 1787, folio; and Gwillim’s Tithe Cases. + +Of Works tending to elucidate History in general I may enumerate, +Blair’s Chronology; Hales’ Analysis of Chronology; Helvici Theatrum +historicum et chronologicum, Oxonii, 1662, folio; Marshami Chron. Canon. +Egypt. Londini, 1672, folio; Marshall’s Chronological Tables; Newton’s +Chronology; and Bryant’s Enquiries into Ancient History, 4to. in calf. + +Of Historical Works I noticed the Universal History, whereof the ancient +portion published in 1747-54, occupies 21 volumes, and the modern of +the date of 1759-66, 44 vols. in 8vo. uniformly bound in calf; the +General Dictionary, London, 1734-41, in 10 vols. folio; Puffendorf’s Law +of Nations, 1729, folio; Grævii Antiquitates & Gruteri Inscriptiones; +Ralegh’s History of the World, 1677, folio; Robertson’s History of +Charles V.; Harris’ Voyages; the History of the Saracens, by Prideaux and +Ockley; Norden’s Egypt, London, 1757, folio; Sandys’ Europæ Speculum; +Petri Kærii Germania inferior à Petro Montano, Amst. 1622, folio; and the +Biographical Dictionary, London, 1798, in 15 vols. 8vo. + +Of Works relating to History and Antiquities, I may mention, in addition +to Dugdale’s Monasticon, and Tanner’s Notitia; Blackstone’s Commentaries; +Burn’s Justice of the Peace; Birch’s Life of Queen Elizabeth, 1754, in +2 vols. 4to.; Burnet’s History of his own time; Clarendon’s Rebellion, +Oxon, 1702, in 4 vols. folio; Cooper on the Public Records; Dalrymple’s +Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland; Davies’ Celtic Researches; Hume’s +History of England; Holinshed’s Chronicles, the reprint; Kippis’ +Biographia Britannica; Kennett’s Complete History of England, London, +1719, in 3 vols. folio, in calf; Lloyd’s State Worthies; Speed’s Theatre +of Great Britain, London, 1676, folio; Spelman’s Life of Alfred, 1678, +folio; Nalson’s Collections, 1682, folio; Rushworth’s Historical +Collections, 1659, folio, in 6 vols.; Robertson’s History of Scotland; +Population Returns; and the Records of the Kingdom, published under the +authority of the Parliamentary Commission. + +Of Topographical Works I noticed, Hasted’s History of Kent, in calf gilt; +Harris’ History of Kent; Thorpe’s Custumale and Registrum Roffense; +Master’s History of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, 1753, 4to.; some +Poll Books for the City of Rochester; Wood’s Antiquitates Oxonienses; +Twyne de Antiquitate Academiæ Oxoniensis, 1608, 4to.; and Young’s History +of Whitby. + +I may add to these, + + The Statutes at Large, by Keble, 1681, folio. + + Balæi Scriptorum Britannicorum Catalogus, Basileæ, folio; and + + Tanner, Bibliotheca Britannico Hibernica, 1748, folio. + +The other Bibliographical Works which met my observation were, + + The Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, 1738, in 2 vols. folio. + + A Catalogue of the Books belonging to the King’s School at + Rochester. + + Casley’s Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library, + London, 1734, 4to. + + Bibliographia Mathematica à Cornelis Beughem, Amstelodami, 1688. + + Le Long, Bibliothèque Sacré; and + + Warton’s History of English Poetry. + +Of Scientific Works I noticed only, + + Chambers’ Dictionary, in 4 vols. folio, with a separate volume + of plates. + + Hill’s British Herbal, 1756, folio, in calf. + + Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary. + + Newton’s Principia, Cantab. 1713, 4to. + + Newton’s Optics, by Clarke, London, 1719, 8vo. + + Oughtred, Clavis Mathematica, Oxonii, 1652, 8vo. + + Wallis’s Mechanica, 1670, 4to. and + + Several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions. + +Of Etymological Works I observed merely Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; Hickes’ +Thesaurus Septentrionalis, Oxonii, 1705, in 2 vols. folio; Du Cange’s +Glossary, Francof. 1710, in 3 vols. folio; Scapulæ Lexicon; Junii +Etymologicum Anglicanum, Oxonii, 1743, fol.; Calepini Dictionarium, Lugd. +Bat. 1681, folio; Hoffmanni Lexicon Universale; Samuel Johnson’s English +Dictionary; Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ; and Nizolii Thesaurus Linguæ +Latinæ. + +The editions of the Classics contained in this Collection are not +numerous; but of these I mention two volumes only of + + Ciceronis Opera, Stephani. Parisiis, 1539, folio. + + Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti. Oxonii, 1783, in 10 vols. 4to. + + Euclidis Opera. Venetiis, 1505, folio. + + Epictetus Uptoni. Londini, 1741, in 2 vols. 4to. + + Homeri Opera. Basileæ, 1535, 4to. + + Hesiodus, Robinsoni. Oxonii, 1737, 4to. + + Livius, Drakenborchii, in 4 vols. 8vo. + + Plutarchi Apophthegmata. Londini, 1741. + + Pindarus. Romæ, 4to. + + Quintilianus. Londini, 1641, 4to. + + Tacitus, Brotierii, in 5 vols. 8vo. + + Terentius, Bentleii. Cantabrigiæ, 1726, 4to. + + Virgilii Opera, cum X. Comment. 1528, folio. + +I may here mention, Bryant’s Mythology; Spence’s Polymetis; Coplestone’s +Prælectiones Academicæ; and Arbuthnot’s Tables of Ancient Coins, 1754, +4to. + +Of English Literature this Library cannot boast a copious selection, the +principal Works which occurred to me, being only + + Bacon’s Works, London, 1753, in 3 volumes, folio. + + The Works of Locke and Mede. + + Seldeni Opera per Wilkins, 1726, in 3 vols. folio. + + Shakespeare, edited by Johnson, Stevens and Reid, London, 1803, + in 21 volumes, 8vo. + + Butler’s Hudibras, edited by Grey. + +Lastly, as a specimen of the lamentable prejudice which our forefathers +entertained against Witches, I may mention Glanvil’s Saducismus +triumphatus, 1681, 8vo. + +From this cursory survey of the contents of the Rochester Cathedral +Library, it will appear that its character is chiefly theological, and +its interest centred in those impressions of the Sacred Scriptures, and +Church Service Books which I have already so carefully described. + +It is also refreshing to think that from the prebendal donations, a +constant supply of fresh literature is provided for the support and +ornament of the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Salisbury. + + +This Library affords a pleasing instance of the proper appreciation of +the tomes of olden time, having been restored by the exertions, and +preserved by the care of its present Librarian. + +The books it is true have suffered severely from past neglect, and some +valuable manuscripts have been mutilated or lost, but those which remain +are now treasured as they deserve, and to many of the printed books, +substantial coats of calf skin have been given, the manufacture of a +Salisbury Bibliopegist. The volumes themselves thus judiciously preserved +are kept upon open shelves, in cases which are placed against the walls +of a very dry and well lighted room, over the cloisters adjoining the +Cathedral. The volumes are from four to five thousand in number, and in +winter have the advantage of stove heat. + +The Library itself was built by Bishop Jewel, whose portrait is +appropriately placed over the fire place, but the books which it contains +were principally given to the Dean and Chapter by Bishop Gheast. + +The old Catalogue of this Collection had been mislaid at the time of +my visit, but the Librarian very properly keeps a duplicate, which he +compiled himself in alphabetical order. + +The oldest portion of this Library of course consists of the Manuscripts, +which have suffered much from time, but more from neglect. They embrace +a great quantity of controversial divinity, with the usual proportion +of Decretals and Glosses, Homilies and Psalters, including some curious +illuminated Missals, among which the “Missale ad usum insignis et +præclaræ ecclesiæ Sarum,” is also found. + +The most rare manuscripts in this Collection are, Justiniani +Institutiones Juris Civilis, cum Glossâ Accursianâ, which has been +recently collated by the German editors of that work. Galfridi +Monumetensis Historia, a very valuable inedited manuscript of the +eleventh century; and the Gregorian Liturgy in the Saxon tongue. + +Among the other manuscripts I noticed the Works of Saints Ambrose, +Athanasius, Augustine, Jerome, Isidore, and Eusebius; Cassiodorus super +Psalterium; Rabbani Lyra Commentarii; Epistolæ Patrum et aliorum; +Gulielmi Monachi Meldunensis de Miraculis Beatæ Virginis Mariæ; Adhelm de +laude Virginitatis; Beda de ratione temporis, torn at the corners; and +some pieces by Thomas Aquinas. + +To these I may add the Biblia Sacra; the Works of Boethius; Aristotle de +Animalibus; the Chronicon Freculfi; and the Legenda Sanctorum. + +The mention of this last work calls to my mind the once popular +translation thereof, whose first appearance in the English language took +place under the auspices of William Caxton. + +The copy of Caxton’s Golden Legend, in this Library, is unfortunately +imperfect both at the beginning and at the end, containing only the +text from folio ii to folio ccccxiiii, inclusive. It has been very much +cropt, measuring only ten inches and three quarters by seven and one +eighth. It has been recently bound in calf so as to resemble as nearly as +possible coeval binding. + +This Collection also contains the “Lombardica historia quæ a plerisque +Aurea Legenda Sanctorum appellatur; impressa Argentine, 1496, folio,” in +double columns of Gothic letter, half bound. + +I will proceed to notice the other early printed books in this Library, +beginning with the well known, but seldom seen Apollonius Rhodius, +printed in capital letters by Francis de Alopa, at Florence, about the +close of the fifteenth century, in 4to. This copy unfortunately wants the +greater portion of the last leaf, but is sound throughout, measuring very +nearly nine inches and a quarter by six and three quarters, and is bound +in old calf with red leaves. + +Let us next take a specimen of the Milan Press: “Synonyma Simonis +Genuensis Opus Impressum Mediolani per Antonium Zarotum parmensem anno +dn̅i. M CCCC lxxiii. Die Martis III Augusti,” folio. This volume printed +in double columns of Roman character is bound in russia. + +Continuing our researches into obsolete divinity, we meet with + + Duns Scotus, Impressum per Ioannem de Colonia, et Nicolaum + Jenson, 1481, 4to. in double columns of gothic letter, half + bound. + + Duns Scotus, Liber Reportatorum, folio, in double columns of + gothic letter, half bound. + + “Summa que Destructorium viciorum appellat,” Norimbergæ, per + Koburger, 1496, folio, half bound, in double columns of gothic + letter. + + “Thomas Aquinas super IV Sententiarum, impendio Ioannis de + Colonia, Nicolai Jenson, sociorumque, 1481,” folio, in double + columns of gothic letter, bound in calf. + + Augustus de Ancona, de Ecclesiæ Potestate, folio, in double + columns of gothic character, in russia. + + Catho Moralizatus, Lugduni per Ioannem de Vingle, 1497, folio, + in the Roman character. + + Aureum Opus de Veritate contritionis, 8vo. Parisiis, per + Franciscum Regnault, in the gothic character, bound in calf. + + Inventarium Generale, &c. Basileæ per Jacobum Pfortzen, folio, + in double columns of gothic character, half bound. + + Speculum Moralis Vincentii, Norimbergæ per Koburger, 1485, + folio, in double columns of gothic letter, imperfect at the + end, and bound in calf. + +In addition to the above I may mention, the Duytsche Psalter, printed +at Delfte in 1478, although the date by the lapse of the numeral L is +printed 1428, a manifest error. This 18mo volume is bound in vellum with +brass clasps. And two Church Service Books of Salisbury use, but of +uncommon occurrence; the first being + + “Missale ad usum ac consuetudinem Sarum + Parisiis + Ex officinâ libraria spectabilis viri Nicolai + Prevost. Impensis vero fidelissimi + mercatoris Francisci Byrckman, + MDXXVII.” + +folio. In the beginning is the Kalendar occupying vii leaves, followed +by the Missal containing folia cliiii, so numbered regularly, up to +this place, where two unnumbered leaves of vellum intervene, the first +of these is entitled Præfatio quotidiana, having the large wood cut of +the Crucifixion on the reverse; and the second which is distinguished +by the signature v. iiii, comprises the first portion of the “Canon.” +The following leaf is numbered fo. clvii, being upon paper, and at folio +clxx the Missal ends. The Sanctorale of 69 leaves then follows, and is +succeeded by the Commune Apostolorum, whose leaves are regularly numbered +fo. i-lxiii, with the following subscription at the conclusion: + + “MDXXVII. tertio Calendas Martias.” + +This noble folio is printed in double columns of bold gothic character, +in very black ink occasionally enlivened with red. The present copy +measures very nearly thirteen and a half by nine inches, and is bound in +calf. + +The second Service Book is the “Graduale ad veram et integram preclare +ecclesie Sarum consuetudinem nuper Parisiis excusum. Venundatur Londonii +à Francisco Byrckman apud cimiterium divi Pauli, M.DXXVIII,” folio. This +volume is printed in double columns of the same bold black and red letter +as the preceding, and is half bound in calf. + +To these I may with much propriety add a noble specimen of the famous +Junta Press, “Pontificale noviter impressum perpulchrisque characteribus +diligentissimè annotatum.” Florentiæ, Lucantonii de Giunta, 1510, folio. +This volume is printed in double columns of Roman character, in black +varied with red, and is bound in old calf; to which may be appended the +Breviarium Romanum & the Missale Romanum, 1670. + +Let us now turn our attention to those impressions of the Sacred volume +which are found within these walls, including, + + Walton’s Polyglott Bible, with two copies of Castell’s Lexicon, + one of which is very fine. + + The Holy Bible in English, of the date of 1539, in folio, in + double columns of black letter, but wanting the title, and + bound in primitive calf. + + Biblia Hebraica, Aureliæ Allobrogum, 1509, folio, bound up with + the New Testament of the same date, in calf. + + Biblia Hebraica Munsteri, Basileæ, 1534. + + Biblia Latina Castalionis, Basileæ per Oporinum, printed in + double columns of Roman character. + + Biblia Latina, 1528, 4to. in double columns of Roman character, + bound in russia; and the + + Biblia Latina, Hanoviæ, 1624, folio. + +to which I may add + + The New Testament, by Erasmus, and the + + Novum Testamentum Bezæ, 1588, in 4to. + +In the Theological department, this Library contains among much that is +valuable a great deal that is obsolete, a remark that may be extended to +the other ancient collections attached to our Cathedral Establishments. + +In the Divinity of the earlier ages we find the Works of several Fathers +of the Church, namely, Athanasii Opera, Basileæ, 1514, folio, and +Parisiis, 1627, in 2 vols. folio; Augustini Opera, Basileæ, 1586, in 5 +vols. folio; Basilii Magni Opera omnia, Parisiis, 1638, 3 vols. folio; +Chrysostomi Opera omnia, 1624, in 6 vols. folio, and edited by Savile, +Etonæ, 1612, 8 vols. folio; Eusebii Opera, Basileæ, 1559; the Works of +S.S. Ambrose, Cyprian, Cyril, Epiphanius, Jerome, and Origen, with his +Homilies; Tertulliani Opera, Basileæ apud Joannem Frobenium, 1521, +folio; and the Works of Philo Judæus, Gregory Nazianzen, and Justin +Martyr; Theodoret and Theophylact. + +Descending to a later period we have the Works of Calvin and Melancthon, +of Grotius and Erasmus; Usserii Quæstiones de Ecclesiæ Christianæ, +Hanoviæ, 1658; Lutheri Opera omnia Jenæ, 1612, in 4 vols. folio; +Vossii Opera Sacra, Hagæ, Com. 1661; many early Commentators, and some +Controversial pieces by Chamier and Bellarmine. + +To these may be added the Critici Sacri, and Pole’s Synopsis; the +Bibliotheca Polonorum Fratrum; Vitringa, Commentarius in Iesaiam; Leigh’s +Critica Sacra, London, 1650; the Commentaries of Nicolas de Lyra; Zanchii +Miscellanea Theologica, 1682; and Thomas Aquinas, Commentarii in Biblia, +Parisiis, 1657, in 3 vols. folio. + +I may here also mention the Works of Bishop Andrews, Allix, and Alison; +Chillingworth’s Religion of Protestants; and a very fine copy of the +Works of Bishop Jewel, London, 1565, here most appropriately placed. Also +the Works of Barrow, Bishop Bramhall, Cudworth, Hall, Hammond, Jackson, +Lowth, Lightfoot, Mede, Paley, Stillingfleet, Sherlock, and Waterland. + +To which may be added, Jortin’s Discourses; Watson’s Apology; Routh’s +Reliquiæ Sacræ; Archdeacon Daubeny’s Works; Twysden’s Vindication of the +Church of England; Bishop Douglas’s Works; Pearson on the Creed; Hey’s +Theological Lectures; Faber on Pagan Idolatry; and a “System of Divinity +by the Rev. W. Davy in a course of Sermons;” Lustleigh, Devon, printed +by himself, fourteen copies only, 1803, in 25 volumes 8vo. bound in calf. +The corrections of the press being made by pasting in slips of printed +paper between the leaves which require them. This singular and uncommon +performance was presented to the Library by Bishop Burgess. + +I may here mention Stackhouse’s History of the Bible; Bochart’s +Geographia Sacra; Hales’ Chronology, in 4 vols. 4to.; and many Tracts +relating to the Popish Controversy. + +In Ecclesiastical History this Collection is so fortunate as to contain +the Annals of Baronius, with the Supplement of Tornielli; the Concilia +omnia, Coloniæ, 1538, in 2 vols. folio; and the Concilia Maxima in +15 vols. folio; Spelman’s Concilia; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Suiceri +Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus; Bedæ, Historia Ecclesiastica, Colon. Agrip.; +Brandt’s History of the Reformation in the Low Countries; Burnet’s +History of the Reformation; Conibere’s Church History; Cressy’s Church +History of Brittany; Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum; Fuller’s Church +History; Field’s Book of the Church; Fox’s Martyrs; the Martyrologium +Romanum, Antverpiæ, 1613; Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica, +Duaci, 1622; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Josephi Opera omnia, Genevæ, +1634, folio; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, 1659; Gilpin’s Lives of the +Reformers; Parker, de Antiquitate Britanniæ Ecclesiæ, Hanoviæ, 1605, +folio; Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticorum, 1640, 4to. in which no mention +is made of Queen Elizabeth’s reforms; Reyner, de Apostolatum Ordinis +Benedictinorum in Angliâ; Strype’s Memorials; Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical +Biography; Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ Centuriatores Magdeburgenses; and the +Codex Theodosianus Gothofredi. + +Of General History the list is exceedingly meagre, including Orosii +Historia, Martini Chronicon, 1638; Mezeray’s History of France; De la +Valle’s Voyage to Persia, 4to; Pococke’s Historia Arabum; Dousæ, Annales +Metricæ Hollandiæ; Lendener, Tabula Historica, Chronologica, &c.; Grotii +Annales de rebus Belgicis; Wheler’s Greece, 1682; Fuller’s Palestine; and +Pitt’s Atlas. + +Of Works relating to the History and Antiquities of England the Catalogue +is much more copious, comprising, Viti de Antiquitate Britanniæ, 1597, +two parts only in calf; Brady’s English History; Baker’s Chronicle, +London, 1643, folio; Daniel’s History of England; Eadmeri Historia +Novorum, edente Selden, London, 1623, folio, in calf; Camden’s Britannia; +Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana, edente Wats, Londini, 1740, folio; +Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum; Bates’ Elenchus Motuum; +Clarendon’s Rebellion; Melvil’s Memoirs, 1683; Milles’ Catalogue of +Honour; Wake’s Rex Platonicus, 1663; Waræus de rebus Hibernicis; Wilson’s +Great Britain, 1653; Polydore Vergilii Historia Anglicana; Several Tracts +relating to the time of Charles the First; and the Parliamentary Records +of the Kingdom. + +The Topographical Works include, Adam’s Index Villaris; Calthorpe’s +Usages of the City of London; Clarke’s Parochial Topography of the +Hundred of Wanting in the County of Berks, Oxford, 1824, 4to.; Marmora +Oxoniensia, Oxonii, folio; Dodsworth’s Salisbury Cathedral, 1814, 4to.; +and Somner’s Canterbury. + +Of Law Books I found only the Corpus Juris Civilis, Lugd. Bat. 1652, +folio; Dalton’s Justice of the Peace; Coke upon Littleton; Coke’s +Institutes; Seldeni Fleta, seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani, 1647; +Blount’s Law Dictionary, 1670; and Selden’s Mare Clausum. + +In Etymology this Collection embraces Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; +Cotgrave’s French Dictionary; Du Cange’s Glossary, 1678, in 3 vols. +folio; Golii Lexicon Arabicum; Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis; +Stephani Thesaurus, Scapulæ Lexicon; Vossii Etymologicum, Amstelodami, +1662; Wallis’ Grammatica, Oxonii, 1653; and Merceri Thesaurus Linguæ +Sanctæ. + +I will now proceed to enumerate the editions of the Classic Authors +contained in this room, that the reader may be enabled to judge for +himself of the value of this portion of the Salisbury Cathedral Library. + + Ammianus Marcellinus. Parisiis, 1687. + + Apollonius Rhodius, Stephani. Parisiis, 1754. + + Apthonii Progymnasmata. Lugd. Bat. 1526. + + Aristotelis Opera Basileæ, per Joannem Bebelium, 1531, in 2 + vols. folio, half bound. + + Archimedes. Basileæ, 1544, folio. + + Athenæus. Basileæ, 1535, folio. + + Ciceronis Opera omnia, 1654. + + Demosthenes. Basileæ, 1532. + + Diodorus Siculus. Parisiis, 1644, folio. + + Euclid, 1678. + + Euripides. Basileæ, 1544. + + Herodotus, 1524, folio, in the original binding. + + Horatius cum Commentariis. Venetiis, 1495, in the Roman + character, folio. + + Hippocratis Opera. Basileæ, 1501. + + Lucretius. Francofurti, 1631. + + Manilii Astronomicon, 1590. + + Plinii Historia Naturalis. Genevæ, 1631. + + Plutarchi Opera. Lutet. Paris. 1624, 2 vols. folio. + + Photii Bibliotheca, Hœschelii. Rothomagi, 1563. + + Photii Epistolæ. Londini, 1651. + + Polybius Casauboni, 1610. + + Prudentius. Hanoviæ, 1613. + + Pindarus Stephani, 1599. + + Plautus. Neapoli, 1519. + + Quintilianus, 1548. + + Quintus Curtius. Parisiis, 1668. + + Seneca. Basileæ, 1595. + + Suetonius. Basileæ, 1673. + + Themistii Opera. Venetiis, 1533. + + Theophrastus. Lugd. Bat. 1613. + + Vitruvii Architectura. Antverpiæ, 1624. + +To the above I may add, Scaligeri Opera, Parisiis, 1610; Draudii +Bibliotheca Classica, 1625, 4to.; Lipsii Opera; Avicennæ Canones Medici, +Venetiis, 1595, in 2 vols. folio; Pauli Æginetæ Medici Opera, Basileæ, +1551, 8vo.; and the Works of Galen and Epictetus. + +Of English Literature, the shelves of this Library present us with +Bacon’s Novum Organum; King James’s Works; Isaac Barrow’s Optics and +other Works; Spenser’s Faery Queen, 1611; Cowley’s Works; Brown’s +Pastorals in two parts, with the third in Manuscript, as yet, I believe, +unpublished. The printed portion of this interesting folio tome is dated +at London in 1613. It is bound in calf. Donne’s Letters; Walton’s Lives; +Digges’ Complete Ambassador; Evelyn’s Sylva; Harris’s Works; Moryson’s +Works, 1617, folio; Nott’s edition of Howard and Wyatt’s Poems; and +Symmons’ edition of Milton’s Works. + +Of Scientific Works I observed merely Tycho Brahe; and Kepler’s +Astronomy; Raii Historia Plantarum; and Napier on Logarithms. + +And lastly of Bibliographical Works I noticed only Clavel’s General +Catalogue of English Books; the old Catalogue of the Bodleian Library; +and the Catalogus Librorum in Bibliothecâ Sionensi, 1650, folio. + +Here are also many volumes which belonged to Izaak Walton, the father of +Anglers, and were probably presented to this Library by his son Canon +Walton. Twenty of the volumes bear his autograph, a list of which may be +seen in Nicolas’s Life of Walton, App. p. clv. + +The reader will not have failed to perceive the absence of works printed +during the eighteenth century from this Library, and he may attribute the +circumstance to the long interval during which this ancient Cathedral was +suffered to remain in the most neglected state. + +From this it has been rescued by the proper feeling of the existing +Dean and Chapter, aided by the unremitting exertions of their present +Librarian. + +Many volumes, however, still remain buried in dust, and when the cobwebs +of the last century have been brushed away, some works may probably be +found not undeserving of notice. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Wells. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Wells is kept in a very dry and +sufficiently commodious apartment over that side of the cloisters which +immediately adjoins the Cathedral. For many years it was very much +neglected; and the office of Librarian remained in abeyance for the last +fifty years, when it was recently revived in the person of Mr. Aldrit, +the Master of the Collegiate Chapter Grammar School. + +The books consisting of about 5000 volumes are arranged upon open shelves +in projecting cases, with ample desks below each for the convenience of +students. The chains they once wore are now thrown aside, though the +rings whereby they were attached still remain upon many of the volumes. +It cannot be denied that where the preservation of the binding is of any +consequence, these manacles must do mischief; and when a Collection is +kept under proper regulation, this injurious mode of protection may very +well be dispensed with. + +There is only one Catalogue in manuscript of this Library, written +apparently about a century ago, in which the books are enumerated in +alphabetical order, with a tolerably particular description of each book, +and though the dates, imprints, and sizes of books are most unpardonably +omitted, occasionally the contents of such Collections as Wharton’s +Anglia Sacra are specified separately. This Catalogue is contained in +two folio volumes, in vellum covers, with this common title: Catalogus +Librorum in Bibliothecâ Wellensi. + +The additions made to the Library since this Catalogue was written are +neither numerous nor important, consisting chiefly of the ponderous +volumes issued under the authority of the Record Commission. But a new +Catalogue is now preparing by Mr. Aldrit, who has recently cleansed all +the books from the accumulated dust of the last half century. + +The first volumes which attracted my attention were a very fine set of +Walton’s Polyglott Bible, with the Republican Preface, ruled with red +lines, and bound in blue morocco, full charged with gilt tooling on +the back, and bearing this superscription, “E dono Thomæ Hole, Eccl. +Wellensis Cancellarii et Canonici.” The rings, by which the chains were +formerly fastened, remain attached to these portly volumes. + +Beside these stood Castell’s Lexicon in calf, and the Biblia Polyglotta +Philippica per Ariam Montanum, in 8 volumes, folio, bound in calf; and +of the other impressions of the sacred volume I noticed the Biblia +Hebraica Wolfii, and per Joannem Leusden; Buxtorf’s Hebrew Bible, in a +vellum cover; the Septuagint Version issued under the authority of Pope +Sixtus V. and that printed at London, juxta exemplar Vaticanum, in 1543, +4to., together with that edited by Grabe in 4 volumes, folio, printed +at Oxford in 1720. Biblia Latina Vulgata, Parisiis, 1545 and 1552, both +in 4to.; the English Bible, London, by J. Bill, 1633, folio, with the +Common Prayer of 1569, uniform in red morocco; Evangelia Gothica et +Anglo-Saxonica; Novum Testamentum Græcum et Latinum Erasmi, Basil. 1539, +and Græcum Millii, Oxon. 2 vols. folio, and Græcum Cantabrigiæ, 1632; +Nov. Test. Hebr. Arab. et Syriac.; the Holie Bible, printed at Doway in +1609, in 2 vols. 4to; the New Testament, Antwerp, 1600, 4to.; to which +I may add the impressions of the Common Prayer, in English, of 1552 and +1669; and in Welch and in Scotch, with the Processionale ad usum Ecclesiæ +Sarum. + +Works of Divinity form a large portion of this Library; the most +important of which are the Works of S. Ambrose, S. Anselm, S. Athanasius, +Thomas Aquinas, Atterbury, Allix, Allen, Andrewes, Abbot, S. Basil, +Barrow, Beveridge, Bingham, Bossuet, Boyle, Bramhall, Burnet, Martin +Bucer, Edmund Campion, Samuel Clarke, S. Cyril, 6 vols. folio; S. +Cyprian, edited by Fell; Erasmus, Duns Scotus, Grotius, Fleetwood, +Geddes, Gregory Nazianzen, Hooper, 1757; S. Hilary, Horne, Hammond, in +4 vols. folio; Irenæus, Lightfoot, Lactantius, Lowth, Patrick, Mede, +Melancthon, Newton, Origen, Paley, Philo Judæus, Prideaux, Sancroft, +Sherlock, Spanheim, South, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tillotson, +with his Life by Birch; Tertullian, and Tennison. I also remarked the +Commentaries of Abarbanal, Alexandri Alensis Universæ Theologiæ Summa, +in 4 tom. folio; Augustini Opera, per Erasmum, in 10 vols. folio; +Bellarmini Disputationum de Controversiis fidei Christianæ, tom. iv. +folio; Bochart’s Geographia Sacra, and Hierozoicon; Bulli Opera, per +Grabe; Bythneri Lyra Prophetica; Butler’s Analogy; Calvin’s Institutions; +Casaubon’s Annotations and Commentaries; Chillingworth’s Religion of +Protestants; Chrysostomi Opera, per Savile, 8 vols. folio; and in 13 +vols. folio, in old calf; Clementis Alexandrini Opera, Gr. & Lat. per +Heinsium et Sylburgium; Comber on the Liturgy; Newman’s and various other +Concordances; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible, in dark old calf; Critici +Sacri per Cornelium Bezam, in 9 vols. folio; Pole’s Synopsis; Jewel’s +Apology; Davenant, Prælectiones Theologicæ; Doleman’s Conversions, +Book the Third; Epiphanii Opera, per Petavium, 2 vols. folio; Farmer +on the Demoniacs of the New Testament; Southey’s Book of the Church; +Eusebii Hist. Ecclesiastica; Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica; +Jortin’s Sermons; Boyle’s Lecture Sermons, 3 vols. folio, in calf; Hey’s +Theological Lectures, 4 vols. 8vo. Justini Martyris Opera, Gr. & Lat. +Sylburgii; Justiniani Institutiones, curâ Harris; Kett on the Prophecies; +Bishop Ken’s Sermons and Tracts, with his Life; Lardner’s Testimonies +and other Works; Leslie’s Theological Works, in 2 vols. folio; Leland +on Deism and the Christian Revelation; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Lloyd’s +Church Government; Sanderson’s Sermons, and other Works; Bartholomæi de +Saxoferrato Commentarii; Scott’s Christian Life and Sermons; Simon, Hist. +Crit. Vet. Test.; Sleidan, Commentarii de statu Religionis et Reipublicæ; +Bibliotheca Patrum, a fine set in calf; Calasio Concordantiæ Hebreæ, 4 +vols. folio, in calf; Newcome’s Harmony and Minor Prophets; Tostati Opera +Theologica, Venetiis, 1596, 13 vols. folio; Petavii Opera Theologica, +Parisiis, 1550, 5 vols. folio, in old calf; Chamieri Controversiæ; +Petri Martyris Loci Communes; Pearson on the Creed; Hooper’s Works, in +old calf, gilt; Joannis Damasceni Opera, 2 vols. folio, in old calf; +Clerici Comm. in Hagiographa, et Prophetas, &c.; Vitringæ Comm. in +Iesaiam; Gale’s Court of the Gentiles; Bishop Kidder on the Pentateuch; +Pococke on Malachi, Micah, Joel, and Hosea, 4 vols. folio, old calf; +Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, curâ Joannis Clerici, Amstelod, 1724, 2 +vols. folio, in calf; Petavii de doctrinâ temporum, Antverpiæ, 1703, in +3 vols. folio, in calf; Usher’s Annales Vet. Test. and other Tracts; +Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England from Schism, &c.; Wall +on Infant Baptism; Warner’s Illustrations of Common Prayer; Warburton’s +Divine Legation, 1765, 5 vols.; Zanchii Miscellanea Theologica; Suiceri +Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus; and Hodius de Bibliorum Textibus, 4 vols. folio. + +Of Ecclesiastical History, the principal Works which I noticed were the +Constitutiones Legatinæ; Regionis Anglicanæ; Scripture Atlas, 1812; +Othonis et Othoboni, cum annotationibus Joannis de Athona; Cave’s Lives +of the Primitive Fathers; Baronii Annalium tomus primus, et Martyrologium +Romanum, cum ejusdem Annalibus in Epitomen redactis, per Spondanum, +1639; Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica; Bower’s History of the Popes; Usser +de Antiq. Eccl. Britt. with his Life by Parr and Smith; Burnet’s +Reformation; Concilia Generalia Ecclesiæ Catholicæ; Quick’s Synodicon in +Galliâ Reformatâ; Sacrosancta Concilia per Labbe et Cossard, in 17 vols. +folio, in old calf; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Fox’s Martyrs, in 3 vols. folio; +Godwin’s English Bishops; Gothofredi Comment. in Codicem Theodosianum, +in 4 vols. folio; Historia Ecclesiastica, per Magdeburgenses; Hooker’s +Ecclesiastical Polity; Howell’s Synopsis Canonum, in 2 vols. folio; +Jenning’s Jewish Antiquities; Josephus’ History of the Jews, translated +by Lodge; Josephus Havercampi, 2 vols. folio, and Hudsoni, 1720, in 2 +vols. folio; Basnage, History of the Jews; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum; +Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History; Corpus Juris Canonici, Paris, 1618; +Codex Justiniani; Lyndewode’s Provinciale seu Constitutiones Angliæ; +Annales Ordinis Benedictin. per Mabillon, Parisiis, 1703, 5 vols. folio, +in French calf; Strype’s Memorials, Lives, and Annals; Tornielli Annales; +Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britannicæ, in 4 vols. +folio; and Saliani Annal. Eccles. V. T. Paris. 1641, folio. + +It will be seen from the foregoing enumeration, however brief, that a +very large portion of this Library is theological; indeed no less than +thirteen pages of the Catalogue are occupied by Tracts on the Popish +Controversy, four by the subject of Toleration, and three by that of +Transubstantiation. There are also many other Tracts relating to the +Reformation and the Revolution, and also to the Quakers. + +This Collection also contains the Alcoranus Muhammedis, Arabicè, 1694, +and Sale’s Koran. + +Of General History I noticed but few works, the chief of which were +Alstedii Thesaurus Chronologiæ; Baudrand, Lexicon Geographicum; Davila’s +Civil Wars of France; Dodwell’s Dissertations; D’Anville’s Geography, +1812; the Collections of Grævius, in old calf; Corpus Juris Civilis +Gothofredi; Lipsii Politicorum Libri VI.; Mezeray’s History of France; +Heylin’s Cosmography; Howell’s History of the World, in old calf; +Pococke’s Description of the East, 2 vols. folio; Potter’s Greece; +Puffendorf’s Law of Nations; Robertson’s America, and Charles V.; +Roscoe’s Lorenzo di Medici; Rycaut’s History of the Turks and of the +Ottoman Empire; Scaliger de Emendatione Temporum; & Chronicon, Amstel. +1758, fol. calf; Simpson’s Chronicon Catholicon; Thuani Historia sui +temporis, folio; the Universal History, in 21 vols. 8vo.; Wheler’s +Greece; Shaw and Pococke’s Travels; Foster’s, Cook’s, and Hawkesworth’s +Voyages; Browne’s Travels in Hungary and Germany; Park’s Travels; +Wilson’s Pelew Islands; Webb’s Historical Essay upon China; Ximenes, +Archiep. Tolet. Historia Arabum. Lugd. Bat. 1625; Zosimus, Historia +Novorum, libri duo; and Gillies’ Greece. + +Of English History and Antiquities, the list is rather more copious, +as the following selection will testify: Adam’s Index Villaris; Rerum +Anglicarum Scriptores Decem à Twysden; and the first volume only of +Gale and Fell’s Collection; Bates’ Elenchus Motuum; Commentarii de +Rebellione Anglica, 1640-85, per R. Manilium, Eq. Aurat.; Sir Robert +Atkyns’s Historical Tracts; Baker’s Chronicle, folio; Chandler’s Life +of Bishop Beckington; Bentham’s Ely; Boswell’s Johnson; Brady’s English +History, and Introduction to the same; Britannia Rediviva; Epicedia +Acad. Oxon. in obitum Henrici ducis Gloucestrensis; Notitia Academiæ +Oxoniensis; Buchanan, Historia Scotorum; Camden’s Britannia, the first +edition as well as that by Gibson; Somner’s Canterbury; Charlton’s +Chorea Gigantum, 1663; Webb’s Vindication of Stonehenge restored; Inigo +Jones’s Stonehenge; Clarendon’s Rebellion, 3 vols. folio; Daniel’s +History of England; Drayton’s Polyolbion; Davies’ Celtic Researches; +Dugdale’s Baronage; Origines Judiciales, Summons; Catalogue of the +Lord Chancellors, and Troubles, Warwickshire, edited by Thomas, with +an Epitome of his Monasticon Anglicanum, edited by Stevens; Aikin’s +Elizabeth and James I.; Rymer’s Fœdera, a fine set of the original +edition in old calf; Gibson’s Codex, and Chronicon Saxonicum; Guillim’s +Heraldry; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities; Langhorne, Elenchus +Antiquitatum Albionensium; Heylin’s Life of Laud; Lyttelton’s Henry II.; +Loggan, Oxonia et Cantabrigia Illustrata; Mackenzie’s Royal Line of +Scotland; Cox’s Memoirs of Marlborough, in 6 vols. 8vo. with the Atlas +in 4to.; Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis +Flores Historiarum; Milton’s Defensio pro Populo Anglicano; Musgrave, +Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicæ præcipuè Romanæ, 4 vols. 8vo.; the Harleian +Miscellany, 8vo. in calf; Lord Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII.; Holinshed’s +Chronicle, with Vowell’s Continuation; Hume’s History of England; +Hutchin’s Dorset, the first edition; Journals of the Lords and Commons; +Records, and Population Returns; Maitland’s London; Nalson’s Collections; +Guil. Neubrigensis de Rebus Anglicanis; Plott’s Oxfordshire; Prynne’s +Concordia Discors; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Rerum nuper in +Scotiâ Gestarum Historia, 1641; Viscount Tarbet’s Acts of Scotland, from +1685 to 1702, 4 vols. with many other Tracts relating to the History +of the Scottish Nation and Church; Spotswode’s Church of Scotland; +Sheringham, Disceptatio de Gentis Anglorum origine; Spelman’s Concilia, +and Life of Alfred, with the Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ by Gibson; State +Trials, by Cobbett, 11 vols. 8vo.; the Statutes at large; Cromwell’s +Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell, 2 vols. 8vo.; Madox, Baronia Anglica, Firma +Burgi, Formulare Anglicanum, and History of the Exchequer; Scriptores +post Bedam, edente Savile; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica; Sir Wm. Temple’s +Memoirs; Speed’s History of Great Britain; Polydore Vergil; Urbinas, +Archidiaconus Wellensis, Historia Anglicana, Libris XXVII. with his +other Works; Verstegan’s Restitution of Decayed Intelligence relative to +English Antiquities; Cox’s Memoirs of Walpole; Walton’s Lives of Hooker +and Sanderson; Whitelocke’s Memorials; Vita Guil. de Wickham Episc. +Winton; Wood’s Athenæ, et Antiquitates Oxonienses; Maittaire, Marmora +Oxoniensia, Londini, 1732, folio, in calf; and Francisci Wise, Nummorum +Antiq. Bodl. Catalogus; to which may be added a Genealogical Chart of the +House of Stuart, 1779, which hangs upon the wall of this Library. + +Of Law Books, the chief appeared to be Blackstone’s Commentaries; Coke’s +Reports in Law French; Dalton’s Country Justice; Durandi Speculum Juris; +Coke upon Littleton; Fitzherbert, Natura Brevium; Blackstone’s Magna +Charta, Oxford, 1759; Bracton de Legibus Angliæ, Londini, per Ricardum +Tottel, 1569, folio; and Robinson’s Admiralty Cases, 1806, &c. 6 vols. +8vo. with the Statutes at large. + +Of Etymology, this Collection comprehends Baxter’s Account of Llhuyd’s +Archæologia; Du Cange, Glossary; Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; Cole’s +English Dictionary; Cooper’s Thesaurus; Cotgrave’s French and English +Dictionary; Harris’ Hermes; Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis, cum +Wanleii Hist. Lit. Septentr. Oxon. 1705, 2 vols. folio; Giggeus, +Thesaurus Arabicus; Golii Lexicon Arabicum; Hoffmanni Lexicon Universale; +Junii Glossarium Gothicum, Dordraci, 1665, and his Etymologicum +Anglicanum, 1743, folio; Llhuyd’s Archæologia; Scapulæ et Schrevelii +Lexica; Skinner’s Etymologicum Linguæ Anglicanæ; Somneri Dictionarium +Saxonico-Latino-Anglicanum, and his Glossary; Spelman’s Glossary; +Stephani Thesaurus, in 4 vols. folio; Suidæ Lexicon, Kusteri, Cantabr. in +3 vols. folio; Vossius, Etymol. Ling. Lat. to which may be added several +Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English Dictionaries not requiring +particular specification. + +I now come to the great Authors of Antiquity, and shall be as concise as +possible in my account of them, begging “the thorough-bred Bibliomaniac” +to imagine the pleasure I felt in discovering a beautiful copy of +the Aldine Aristotle, the first edition of the Works of that great +philosopher in his own tongue, as sound and immaculate as when it first +issued from the press at Venice. The five volumes have been rebound in +the dark calf of the preceding century, with red lettering pieces; and +within four of them is pasted the well known autograph of the celebrated +Erasmus, “Sum Erasmi Roterodami,” from which we may reasonably conclude +that this very set of books once appertained to that eminent scholar: a +supposition which is strengthened by the circumstance of the donor of +this Work having written in the third volume, immediately beneath the +autograph just quoted, the following commemorative distich: + + “Hæc ego dona dedi Wellensi Bibliothecæ + Turnerus nomen cui gulielmus erat.” + +the altitude of these volumes is rather more than twelve inches, by eight +inches and a quarter. “The ruler-carrying Bibliomaniacs” will thank me +for being thus particular. + +The other editions of the Classics being of lesser note, the names +of the authors shall be succinctly given in alphabetical order: Æneas +Tacticus Gr. Casauboni; Alciati Paradox. Lib. VI.; Athenagoras, Historia +Augustæ Scriptores VI.; Aristophanes; Cæsar, Delphini, Catullus, +Cicero, Lambini, Geneva, 1624, 4 vols. folio; Dares, Phrygius et Dictys +Cretensis; Demosthenes, Dionysius Halicarnass. Ælius Lampridius Rom. Imp. +Hist.; Hierocles Facetiæ & Versus Aurei; Herodiani lib. VIII. per Angelum +Politianum; Homer, by Barnes; Horace, by Bond; Isocrates Stephani, 1604; +Juvenalis Farnabii; Livius Gelenii et Thomæ Hearne; Longinus, Manilii +Astronomicon; Macrobius Pontani; Martialis Raderi; Photius, Bibliotheca +Hœschelii, Rothomagi, 1563, et ejusdem Epistolæ per Ricardum Montacutium, +1651, folio, in a vellum wrapper; Plinii Hist. Nat. Dalecampii; Plautus +Lambini; Philostrati Opera Omnia, Lipsiæ, 1709, folio, in calf; Poetæ +Minores Græci; Julii Pollucis Onomasticon; Polybius Casauboni; Procopius +Hœschelii; Propertius; Quintilianus Gibsoni; Seneca Lipsii; Ælias, +Spartianus; Strabo Casauboni; Suetonius Casauboni; Tacitus Lipsii; +Tibullus, &c. Opera Cantabr., Theophrastus, Virgil, Minellii & Cantabr. +1701; & Baskerville’s edition; Flavii Vopisci Rom. Imp. & H. Boxhornii, +to which I may add the Cambridge editions of Horace, Catullus, Tibullus, +Propertius, Terence, & Virgil, 1701, 4to.; and Didymus in Homerum, +accurante Schrevelio, Amstelod. ap. Elzevir, 4to. + +Here I may also mention Lloyd, Dictionarium Histor. Geograph. et Poeticum +à Stephano, Oxonii, 1671, folio; Allwood’s Literary Antiquities of +Greece, London, 1779, 4to.; Middleton’s Cicero, Melmoth’s Pliny; Gesneri +Bibliothecæ Epitome per Simlerum, Plutarch’s Lives, by North; Spence’s +Polymetis; Salmasii Exercitationes Plinianæ; Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by +Banier, illustrated by Picart, Amsterdam, 1732, folio, in old russia; +Vossius de Historicis Græcis et Latinis. + +Of Bibliography indeed, the Works I found here are so few, that I am +almost ashamed to record merely the Acta Eruditorum, Lipsiæ, 1682; +Blount’s Censura Literaria; Cave’s Scriptor. Eccles. Hist. Literar.; Du +Pin’s Ecclesiastical Writers; Hyde’s Catalogue of the Bodleian Library; +Nicolson’s Historical Library; Catalogus Libror. MSS. Angl. et Hibern. +Oxonii, 1697; and “a Catalogue of such unlawful books as were found in +the study of John Stowe of London, 1568.” + +It only remains for me to notice such miscellaneous works as met my eye, +in roving about the antique gallery in which they are deposited. To begin +with the most obsolete, I may mention Petrus de Albano Heptameron, seu +Elementa Magica; Agrippa de occultâ Philosophiâ; Blome’s Gentleman’s +Recreation; Thomæ Mori Opera Latina; Johnstoni Historia Naturalis de +Quadrupedibus, &c. 2 vols. folio; Jovii Illustrium Virorum Vitæ, in 2 +vols. folio; Joannis Sarisburiensis Polycraticus et Metalogicus, and the +Theory of the Earth, by Woodward and Burnet; Thomæ Willis, M. D. Opera +Omnia, 2 vols. folio; and Wiseman’s Chirurgical Treatises. + +In English Literature I remarked Chaucer’s Works, by Urry; Bacon’s Works, +1730, &c. in 4 vols. 4to.; Blacklock’s Poems; Beattie on Truth; Sir +Thomas Browne’s Works; Sir Robert Cotton’s Works; Chambers’ Dictionary; +Cowley’s Works; Evelyn on Medals; Grew’s Anatomy of Plants; Butler’s +Hudibras, edited by Grey; Locke’s Works; Maundrell’s Journey; Milton’s +Poems, edited by Newton; Harrington’s Oceana; Herbert’s Steps to the +Temple; Humboldt’s Works, 8vo. calf; Orrery’s Letters; the Philosophical +Transactions, in 4 volumes; Prior’s Poems; Pope’s Works, by Warburton, +in 9 vols. 8vo.; some Tracts by Selden; Algernon Sydney’s Discourse +concerning Government; Smollett’s Travels; Spenser’s Faery Queen; +Stewart’s Political Economy; the Asiatic Researches, 12 vols. 8vo. very +neatly bound in calf; Pennant’s British Zoology; Sullivan’s View of +Nature, 6 vols. 8vo.; and Hartley on Man. + +I may add what is very deserving of imitation in other places, that a +tabular index of the contents of each case is hung at the end thereof, +the books being specified exactly in the order in which they are placed +on the shelves: a method which affords great facilities both to the +casual visitor and the professed students. + +The books are generally in excellent preservation, and chiefly in the +sombre calf of the two last centuries, with some in vellum covers. And +there is very properly a small book for the names of books borrowed from +the Library, to be entered by those who have occasion for them. + +Of the manuscripts formerly attached to this foundation I have made no +mention, because they have chiefly perished through the united agency of +time and neglect. + +I may however cite, as an exception, an ancient Vulgate Bible, presented +to the Cathedral by one of its Bishops, and add that a Chinese Manuscript +is also extant, though the curiosity of strangers has greatly impaired +both its integrity and appearance. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. + + +This ancient and extensive Collection of Books is preserved in a room +over the cloisters adjoining the time-honoured fabric of Westminster +Abbey. + +The true lover of the typographic art must here feel the full influence +of the “Religio Loci,” recollecting that within these sacred precincts, +William Caxton erected his Press, and bestowed on benighted England +the benefits of the Art of Printing. It may be remarked that the only +specimen of our earliest printer here preserved is a single leaf inserted +at the end of Pynson’s Dives and Pauper, 1493, whose authenticity has +been thus attested, “This appears to be a leaf from Caxton’s Chronicle, +1480. T. F. Dibdin.” + +But to give the general reader some idea of the locale of this Library, +I must borrow the descriptive pages of a transatlantic pen. “There +are certain half-dreaming moods of mind, in which we naturally steal +away from noise, and glare, and seek some quiet haunt, where we may +indulge our reveries, and build our air-castles undisturbed. ‘In such a +mood,’ says Washington Irving,[59] ‘I was loitering about the old gray +cloisters of Westminster Abbey, enjoying that luxury of wandering thought +which we are apt to dignify by the name of reflection; when suddenly an +irruption of madcap boys from Westminster School, playing at foot-ball, +broke in upon the monastic stillness of the place, making the vaulted +passages, and mouldering tombs echo with their merriments. I sought +to take refuge from their noise by penetrating still deeper into the +solitudes of the pile, and applied to one of the vergers for admission +to the Library. He conducted me through a portal rich with the crumbling +sculpture of former ages, which opened upon a gloomy passage leading to +the Chapter House, and the chamber in which Doomsday Book is deposited. +Just within the passage is a small door on the left. To this the verger +applied a key; it was double locked, and opened with some difficulty as +if seldom used. We now ascended a dark narrow staircase, and passing +through a second door, entered the library. + +“‘I found myself in a lofty antique hall, the roof supported by massive +joists of old English oak. It was soberly lighted by a row of gothic +windows at a considerable height from the floor, and which apparently +opened upon the roofs of the cloisters. An ancient picture of some +reverend dignitary of the Church in his robes hung over the fire place. +Around the hall, and in a small gallery were the books, arranged in +carved oaken cases. They consisted principally of old polemical writers, +and were much more worn by time than use. In the centre of the library +was a solitary table, with two or three books on it, an inkstand without +ink, and a few pens parched by long disuse. The place seemed fitted for +quiet study and profound meditation. It was buried deep among the massive +walls of the abbey, and shut up from the tumult of the world. I could +only hear now and then the shouts of the school boys faintly swelling +from the cloisters, and the sound of a bell tolling for prayers, that +echoed soberly along the roofs of the abbey. By degrees the shouts of +merriment grew fainter and fainter, and at length died away. The bell +ceased to toll, and a profound silence reigned through the dusky hall.’” + +I will not follow the lively American in his day dream among the dusty +tomes, inasmuch as it is somewhat “lengthy,” and not sufficiently +entertaining to warrant its transcription. + +I must here, too, venture a protest against the ungrateful sentiment of +our author, who “could not but consider the library a kind of literary +catacomb, where authors, like mummies, are piously entombed, and left to +blacken and moulder in dusty oblivion.” + +Dropping the pencil of Geoffrey Crayon, I proceed with great satisfaction +to examine the venerable remains enshrined within the “literary catacomb” +of Westminster Abbey. + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster at present consists of +eleven thousand volumes, but was formerly much more extensive, as many +works, which appear in the old Catalogue, and are not found in the new, +lamentably attests. + +The old Catalogue of this Collection, arranged in alphabetical order, +with titles, places, and dates, and with references to the shelves, +bears the following title: “Catalogus Librorum in hac Bibliothecâ +Westmonasteriensi. Octob. 22mo. 1726,” folio. It is bound in vellum, and +has the armorial bearings of the Deanery stamped upon the cover. The new +Catalogue was compiled by Dr. Dakin, the precentor, and contains the +titles, places, dates, and sizes of the books, with reference to the +shelves on which they are placed, very carefully arranged in alphabetical +order, and clearly written by Mr. Marquet, in a large folio volume, +secured by clasps. For this labour, completed in the year 1798, the Dean +and Chapter, with a most commendable zeal for the preservation of their +treasures of ancient learning, paid the sum of one hundred pounds. + +The Library was originally deposited in one of the chapels, within +the Abbey, but was removed to its present situation by the celebrated +Williams, Archbishop of York, in the time of James the First. + +Within the deep recesses of this venerable pile, “where all the air a +solemn stillness holds,” the mind is naturally inclined to religious +contemplation, and turns instinctively to the Book of Life. + +Here too the Bibliographer may point with satisfaction to a very fine +sound copy of the famous Complutensian Polyglott, 1515, in 6 volumes, +folio, which though slightly stained, retains its original binding of +stamped calf, and nearly its pristine dimensions, measuring fifteen and a +quarter by ten and a half inches. + +Meet companions of the first Polyglott Bible are, + + The Biblia Polyglotta, Montani. Antverpiæ, apud Plantin, 1572, + in 8 vols. folio, & + + The Biblia Polyglotta, Waltoni. Londini, 1657, in 6 vols. + folio, accompanied by the indispensable adjunct of Castell’s + Lexicon, in 2 similar volumes. + +To these may be added, + + The Biblia Sacra Quadrilingue, Wolderi. Hamburgi, 1596, folio. + + Biblia Hebraica et Latina, Munsteri. Basileæ, 1546, in 2 + volumes, folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, Leusdenii. Amstelod. 1667, folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, Houbigantii. Paris. 1753, 4 vols. folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, Stephani. Paris. 1565, 7 vols. 24to. + + Biblia Hebraica, Kennicottii. Oxonii, 1776, 2 vols. folio. + + The Bomberg Hebrew Bible, printed at Venice, but without date, + in 3 volumes, folio; and another Impression of the Scriptures + in the Hebrew tongue, in 10 volumes, folio. + +This Library also contains, + + The first edition of the Scripture, in the Greek language, + being the Biblia Græca, Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi, 1518, folio. + + The Biblia Græca, Hervagii. Basileæ, 1545, folio, & + + The Biblia Græca. Francofurti, 1597, folio. + +Among the Latin Bibles, may be noticed the + + Biblia Latina, Castalionis. Basileæ, 1556, folio. + + Biblia Latina, Stephani. Parisiis, 1557, folio. + + Biblia Latina, Vulgata. Parisiis, 1558, folio. + + Biblia Latina, Vatabli. Parisiis, 1584, folio. + + Biblia Latina, Vatabli. Romæ, 1592, folio. + + Biblia Latina, Vatabli. Antverpiæ, 1605, folio. + + Biblia Latina, Tremellii et Junii. Genevæ, 1630. + + Biblia Latina. Antverpiæ, 1645, 8vo. + + Biblia Latina. Londini, 1653, 12mo. + + Biblia Latina, Theod. Bezæ. Amstelod. 1669, 12mo. + +To which may be added, + + Grabe’s Septuagint, printed at Oxford, 1707, fol. and the + Septuagint, edited by Holmes and Parsons at Oxford, 1798, &c. + in 10 vols. folio. + + The Biblia Sacra, Diodati. Genevæ, 1641. + + The Biblia Arabica. Romæ, 1593, 4to. & + + The Biblia Francois. Amsterdam, 1516, folio. + +Of English Bibles, I noticed more particularly + + Cranmer’s Bible of 1540, in folio. + + The first and second editions of Parker’s, or the Bishop’s + Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1568, and 1572, folio. + + The Bible of 1551, folio. + + The Bible of 1617, folio. + + The Bible of 1706, 4to.; together with + + King James’s Bible of 1640, folio. + +The Welch Bible, printed at London in 1588, folio; and in 1600; at Oxford +in 1723; and at London in 1746, 8vo. here claim a passing notice. + +Of editions of the New Testaments in English it may suffice to allude +to those printed at London in 1706, 1708, 1711, 8vo.; and at Oxford in +1770, 8vo.; The Novum Testamentum Arabicum, 4to; the Novum Testamentum +Syriacum, per Leusden. Lugd. Bat. 1717; the Novum Testamentum Græcum, +per Fell, Oxonii, 1675, 8vo.; et Millii, Oxonii, 1707, folio; together +with Kipling’s facsimile of the Codex Bezæ, Cambridge, 1793, folio; and +the editions of Beza, Erasmus, Wetstein, and Stephens, 1549; the Coptic +Version of Wilkins; and several French translations by Beausobre and +others; Fulke’s New Testament, London, by the deputies of Chr. Barker, +1589; and the same, printed at London, by Augustine Matthews, 1633, both +in folio. + +I may add to the above the Evangelia IV. Græcè Theophylacti, Romæ, 1542; +Evangelia Gothica Junii, 4to.; Wilkins’ Pentateuchus Copticus, Lond. +1731, 4to.; Psalterium Monasticum, Samueli, 1616, folio; Psalterium +Quintuplex; Psalterium Antverpiæ, Plantin, 1608; Psalterium Hebraicum +Græcum et è Codice Alexandrina, Oxonii, 1678, 12mo.; and many other +editions of the Psalms of David. + +Of Rituals and Forms of Prayers, I noticed the Welch Prayer Book of 1664, +in folio; the Scotch Prayer Books of 1637 and 1661; and the English +Prayer Books of 1549, 1552, 1616, 1661, 1683, and 1702; with Wheatley on +the Common Prayer; and the Offices of the Church of England, Cambridge, +1751, 8vo.; Liturgia Latina Anglicana, Londini, 1574, 1688, and 1727, +12mo.; Liturgia Græca per Pinellum, Venetiis, 1603-1628, in 14 volumes, +4to.; Missale Romanum, Lugd. Bat. 1625; and Antverpiæ, 1625, 8vo.; +several Roman Breviaries; a Parisian edition of the Horæ B. M. V. without +date; and the Pontificale Romanum, 1611, folio. + +Among the earlier Theological writers may be enumerated the Works of S.S. +Ambrose, Anselm, Athanasius, Augustine, Basilius, Bernard, Chrysostom, +Cyprian, Cyril, Epiphanius, Episcopius, Gregorius Eusebius, Byzantinus +Nazianzenus, et Nyssenus, &c. Jerome, Hilary, Ignatius, Irenæus, Isidore, +Lactantius, Tertullian, Theodoret, Theophylact, and others too numerous +to mention. + +It may be permitted me, however, to specify the Works of Alexander de +Ales, Arnobius, Bede, Bellarmine, Bessarion, Beausobre, Bonaventura, +Bossuet, Bourdaloue, Theodore Beza, Bochart, Bullinger, Calvin, Clemens +Alexandrinus, Chytræus, Dallæus, Drusius, Le Clerc, and Duns Scotus; of +Erasmus, Fulgentius, John Gerson, Grotius, Hospinianus, Justin Martyr, +Lanfranc, Luther, Melancthon, Peter Martyr, Origen, Socinus, Suarez, +Turretinus, Turrianus, and Zanchius. + +To which may be properly added, Cassiodorus in Psalmos, Basileæ, 1491, +folio; Nicolai de Lyra Commentarii, editio antiqua, sine loco aut anno. +liber mancus, and another edition printed at Venice in 1603, folio; +Bythneri Lyra Prophetica; Damasceni Opera Theologica; Lactantii Opera, +Cantabrigiæ, 1686, 12mo.; Lutheri Opera, Wittebergæ, 1557-83, in 7 vols. +folio; and those of Melancthon. + +Among the Works of English Divines, I think it right to record those of +Bishop Andrews, Atterbury, Barrow, Baxter, Bennet, Beveridge, Bingham, +Bickerstaff, Bramhall, Bull, Calamy, Chillingworth, Claggett, Clarke, +Conybeare, Bishop Cosin, Dodwell, Edwards, Fisher, Hall, Hammond, Hoadly, +Hooper, Hopkins, Jeremy Taylor, Jackson, Jebb, Jenkins, Jewel, Jortin, +Kennicott, Kennett, Lardner, Leslie, Lightfoot, Lowth, Bp. Ostervald, +Outram, Pearce, Pierce, Perkins, Pococke, Prideaux, Archbp. Potter, +Reynolds, J. Rogers, Secker, Sherlock, South, Stanhope, Stillingfleet, +Sykes, Venn, Waterland, Whiston, Whitaker, White, Wilson, and others of +minor note. + +Here too may be noticed, Cave’s Primitive Christianity; and Lives of the +Apostolic Fathers; Bowyer on the New Testament; Butler’s Analogy; Burnet +on the thirty-nine Articles; Collier’s Sacred Interpreter; Conybeare on +Revealed Religion; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; Cruden’s Concordance; +Derham’s Astro- and Physico-Theology; Davenant on the Psalms; Drelincourt +on Death; Fiddes’ Body of Divinity; Field of the Church; Duncan Forbes on +Incredulity; Fulke on the New Testament; Gale’s Court of the Gentiles; +Edwards on the Old and New Testament; Gastrell’s Institutes; Hall’s +Meditations; Horne’s Introduction to the Scriptures; Jebb’s Theological +Lectures, Cambridge, 1772; Ireland’s Popery and Paganism compared, +London, 1809, and 1825; also his Nuptiæ Sacræ, 1821, 8vo.; Ken’s Manual; +Leland on Deism; Lloyd on Church Government; Macknight’s Harmony of the +Gospels; Mede on the Altar; Newman’s Concordance; Patrick’s, Pococke’s +and Whitby’s Commentaries; Pearson on the Creed; Prideaux and Shuckford’s +Connection; Scott’s Christian Life, and other Works; Secker’s Lectures, +Sermons, and Charges; Tenison on Idolatry; Tillotson’s Works, London, +1707-20, and 35, in folio; Woolston on Miracles; Trapp’s Theological +Works; Tyndale, Frith, and Barnes’ Works, London, 1573, fol.; Usher’s +Annals, 1658, folio; Wake’s Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers; +and his Work on the State of the Church; Wall on Infant Baptism; +Warburton’s Works by Hurd, 1788, 4to.; West and Littleton on the +Resurrection; Whiston’s Primitive Christianity, and other Works; Venn’s +Whole Duty of Man; Wilkins on Natural Religion. + +This Collection also embraces a variety of Sermons by different authors; +among the most noticeable of whom are Bishops Gibson, Fleetwood, Hoadly, +Atterbury, and Sharpe; Waterland, Wilkins, Gataker, Vincents, Conybeare, +Stanhope, and Sanderson. + +To the above I may add, Blackwall’s Sacred Classics; various Concordances +by Schmidius, Kircher, & Buxtorf; Barwick’s Life of Dean Barwick; Birch’s +Life of Tillotson; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; Stackhouse’s History +of the Bible, and his other Works; Barclay’s Apology; Osterwald’s +Arguments, in French; and Pyle on the Epistles; Ioannis de Turrecremata, +Summa Theologiæ, Lugduni, 1496, 8vo.; Limborch, Theologia Christiana; +Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Junii Opera Theologica; Vincentii Speculum +Doctrinale, Venetiis, 1494, folio; Sixti Senensis Bibliotheca Sancta; +Hulderici Zuinglii Opera; Zonaræ Canones et Annales; Petri Blesensis +Opera Omnia; Thomæ Aquinatis Opera, Antverpiæ, 1612, folio; Stapletoni +Opera, & Whitakeri Opera, Genevæ, 1610, folio; the Bibliotheca Veterum +Patrum, Colon. Agrip. 1618, in 14 volumes, folio; the Bibliotheca, +S.S. Patrum, Col. Agr. 1622, in 15 folio volumes; Cotelerii Patres +Apostolici; Dacherii Spicelegium; the Critici Sacri; Pole’s Synopsis; +Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica; Boethii Opera, Basileæ, +1570, folio; Martin Bucer, Scriptores Anglicani; the Works of Buchanan; +Lyndewoode’s Provinciale of 1557, & Oxonii, 1679; Outram de Sacrificiis; +and other Works of the earlier ecclesiastics, of which the selection I +have made may serve as very fair specimens of the whole. + +I may here notice Day’s Service Book, 1565, with music; the Tenor, +Morning and Evening Prayer, imperfect, but of which only three or four +copies are known; Barnard’s Cathedral Music, only found elsewhere at +Berlin; and several English Music Books of great rarity; Boyce and +Arnold’s Cathedral Music; also that of Arne, Bassani, Corelli, Fiocco, +Gasparini, Handel, Pergolesi, and Scarletti; Madrigals by Colonna, +Foggia, Gratiano, and Marenzio, forming a very valuable Collection of +Church Music; here also is preserved the Missal of Nicolas Litlington, +Abbot of Westminster in 1362; together with the Pupilla Oculi of John de +Burgh, a work of which every priest possessed a copy. + +There are also in this Library a Collection of Tracts, formed about +the year 1760, so numerous that the brief enumeration of them occupies +ninety-one pages and a half of the great folio Catalogue, compiled in +1798. Of these fugitive pieces very many relate to the Controversial +Divinity of the early part of the last century; others treat of Popery, +the Muggletonians, the Test Acts, and the Miracles of the Gospel; +Warburton on the Alliance between Church and State; with his Remarks on +Pope’s Essay on Man; Whitfield’s Journals, 1740; Westley’s Appeal, 1745; +Bentley on the State of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1710; Addison’s Cato, +and the Publisher, Nos. 1, 2, and 3, 1745, 8vo. also form part of this +Series of Tracts. + +Here also are many Political Pieces, especially some relating to the last +Rebellion, such as German Politicks, 1744; the Highlander delineated, +1745; the complicated Guilt of Rebellion, 1745; and the History of two +imposters, Lambert Linne and Perkin Warbeck, 1745; to which I may add +the Iter Surriense et Sussexiense, 1752, 8vo.; and other Tracts much too +insignificant for notice. + +The mention of the preceding articles leads us at once into the +interesting region of History, and directs our observation to those works +which in this Collection are found to illustrate the History of England. + +Among these the most remarkable are, Bacon’s History of King Henry VII, +London, 1622, folio; the Lives of William the Third, London, 1703, +8vo.; and of Queen Anne, London, 1707, 8vo.; Baker’s Chronicle; Bates’ +Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia, which Warburton thought deserving +of perusal; Bucks’ Richard the Third, London, 1647; Burnet’s History of +his own Time; Eadmeri Historia Novorum, 1623; Camden’s Britannia, Annals, +and Remains; Chamberlayne, Angliæ Notitiæ, 1716; Clarendon’s History +of the Great Rebellion; Daniel’s History of England; Davies’ Athenæ +Britannicæ; Echard’s History of England; Jovii Descriptio Britanniæ; +Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum; Gibson’s Saxon Chronicle; Grafton’s +Chronicle, 1569, folio; Gutch’s Collectanea Curiosa; Heylyn’s Help to +English History, and his Life of Laud; Histoire d’Angleterre, 1706, +12mo.; Holinshed’s Chronicles of 1587 and 1523, in folio; Hobbes on +the Civil Wars, 1679, 12mo.; Fabian’s Chronicle, London, 1559, folio; +a fine and perfect copy of Higden’s Polycronycon by Peter Treveris, +1527, folio; Martin’s History of England, from William the Conqueror to +Henry the Eighth, 1638, folio; May’s Historiæ Parliamentaris Breviarium, +1651, 12mo.; the Mercurius Politicus, published during the Civil Wars; +Oclandi Anglorum Prælia; Rushworth’s Historical Collections, London, +1659, in 6 volumes, folio; Rapin’s History of England, 1731, 8vo.; and +Tindal’s valuable edition of that Work, London, 1733, in 3 vols. folio; +the original edition of Rymer’s Fœdera, printed at London in 1704, &c. +in 20 folio volumes; Lediard’s Life of the Great Duke of Marlborough; +an Account of Sacheverell’s Tryal; Smith, de Rêpublicâ Anglorum, Lugd. +Bat. 1625, 12mo.; Speed’s History of Great Britain, London, 1623, folio; +Spelman’s Life of Alfred the Great, Oxford, 1678, folio; Stow’s Annals, +London, 1614, folio; Strutt’s Antiquities, 1773, &c. 4to.; Stukeley’s +Medallic History of Carausius, 1759, 4to.; Whitelocke’s Memorials of +English Affairs, London, 1682, 8vo.; State Trials, 1730, folio; The +Trial of the Earl of Strafford, 1680, folio; Thurloe’s State Papers, and +Welwood’s Memoirs, 1718, 12mo.; the Biographia Britannica, by Kippis, +London, 1747, folio; Holland’s Heroologia Anglica; and Wood’s Athenæ +Oxoniensis; together with Boethius Historia Scotorum, Paris, 1575, folio; +Stanihurst de Rebus Hibernicis; Stafforde’s Wars in Ireland; Sir James +Ware’s Works concerning Ireland, Dublin, 1739, in 2 volumes, folio; +Carte’s Life of Ormonde; Lhuyd’s Description of Cambria, London, 1584; +and Davies’ Celtic Researches; augment the stores of this department. + +The Records of the Kingdom, published under the authority and +Superintendence of the Parliamentary Commissioners; and the Population +Returns; the Scriptores post Bedam, edited by Savile; the valuable +collection of the Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores, edited by Gale and +Fell at Oxford, in 3 volumes, folio; the Anglica Normannica, &c. à VI +Veteribus scripta, edita, à Camdeno, Francof. 1603, folio; Historiæ +Anglicanæ Scriptores Decem, edente Twysden, Londini, 1652, folio; +Rerum Britannicarum Scriptores VI Vetustiores, Heidelb. 1587, folio; +Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana, edente Wats, Londini, 1640, folio; +Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum, Francofurti, 1601, folio; +Nennii Historia Britonum, edente Bertramo, Hafniæ, 1757, 8vo.; Viti +Basinstochii Historia Britonum; Pontici Virunnii Historia Britonum, +Lond. 1585; Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Basileæ, 1555, folio, +and 1570, also in folio; and the Normannorum et Francorum Scriptores +Coetanei, edited by Duchesne, 1619; tend greatly to increase the value +of this Library. Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, 1748; Balei +Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Britanniæ Catalogus, Basileæ, 1559, folio; +Pitseus, Scriptores de Rebus Anglicis, 4to.; and Nicholson’s Historical +Libraries, in one volume, folio, here deserve to be recorded. + +Of Works relating more particularly to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of +Britain, this Collection embraces the Legenda Nova Angliæ, Londini, +per Winandum de Worde, 1516, folio; Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis +Anglorum; Bray’s Bibliotheca Parochialis; Brent’s Council of Trent; +Parker de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, Londini, 1562, folio, being +the original edition of this scarce and valuable Work. The present copy +is happily complete, though it wants the Portrait of the Archbishop; +containing the Title, Preface, and Plate of Arms, with the index +preceded by three blank leaves. It is however in very tender condition, +and its leaves measure eleven inches and a quarter by seven inches and +five-eighths. It still retains its original binding of wood, covered with +stamped calf, to which clasps were originally attached. + +This Library also contains two other editions of this Work, that printed +at Hanover in 1608, folio, and that edited by Drake, London, 1725, +folio; together with Burnet’s History of the Reformation; Ecton’s +Thesaurus; Fox’s Martyrs of 1596, 1641, and 1684, in folio; Godwyn, +Præsules Anglicani in 2 volumes, folio; Harpsfeld’s Historia Anglicana +Ecclesiastica, Duaci, 1622, folio; Inett’s Origines Anglicani; Le +Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ; Newcourt’s Repertorium Ecclesiasticum +Londinense; Oughton, Ordo Judiciorum, 2 vols. 4to.; Reyneri Apostolatus +Ordinis Benedictinorum in Angliâ, Duaci, 1626, folio; Spelmanni Concilia, +Londini, 1639, folio; Spotswode’s Church of Scotland, 1677, folio; +Statuta Ecclesiæ Christi, Cantuariensis, Londini, 1703; Walker’s History +of Independency; the original editions of Strype’s valuable Lives, +Annals, and Ecclesiastical Memorials; Synodi Anglicani; Tovey’s Anglia +Judaica, Oxonii, 1738, 4to.; Usserii Britannicæ Ecclesiæ Antiquitates, +Dublin, 1639, 4to. and London, 1687, folio; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; and +Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, Londini, 1733, in 4 volumes, folio. + +Here also are deposited the editions of Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum +of 1655, and of 1693; and of Tanner’s Notitia Monastica of 1744, and that +edited by Nasmith, both in folio; works which form a connecting link +between the Ecclesiastical History and Antiquities of our country. + +Of Works relating to, or illustrative of English Topography, this Library +contains several here deserving of notice. + +These are, the Histories of Westminster Abbey, of the Colleges of +Oxford and Cambridge, and of the Public Schools of England, published +with abundant illustrations by the late Rudolph Ackermann, in 7 vols. +4to.; Battely, Antiquitates Rutupinæ; Blore’s Monumental Remains; +Carew’s Survey of Cornwall; Carter’s Cambridgeshire; Bray’s Bibliotheca +Parochialis; Britton’s Architectural Antiquities, one of the most +valuable and interesting Works of that enterprising archæologist; +Burton’s Leicestershire; Dodsworth’s Salisbury Cathedral, 1814, 4to.; +Hoare’s Giraldus Cambrensis’ Itinerary of Bishop Baldwin through Wales, +London, 1806, 4to.; Dugdale’s Warwickshire, and St. Paul’s; Dart’s +Antiquities of Canterbury Cathedral, 1703, folio; Gostling’s Walks +through Canterbury, 1777, 8vo.; Hasted’s History of Kent, 1788, folio, in +4 volumes; Heath’s Account of the Scilly Islands, 1750, 8vo.; the History +of Rochester, 1782, 12mo.; Hoare’s Ancient Wiltshire, folio; Howel’s +Perlustration of London, 1657, folio; Hutchins’s History of Dorset, +London, 1784, folio; Isaacke’s Exeter, 1724, 8vo.; A Journey through +England, 1724, 8vo.; Lambeth Palace Illustrated, London, 1806, 4to.; the +London Guide, 1752, 12mo.; Nash’s Worcestershire, in 2 volumes, folio; +Newcourt’s Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Londinense; Nicholson and Burn’s +Histories of Cumberland and Westmoreland, in 4to.; Ogilby’s Britannia, +1675, folio, with Maps of the roads; Parker de Antiquitate Universitatis +Cantabrigiensis, 1721; Paterson’s Pietas Londinensis, 1714, 12mo.; +Peck’s Annals of Stanford; Plott’s Natural Histories of Oxfordshire and +Staffordshire; Rawlinson’s English Topographer; the Roads of England +delineated, 1756, 12mo.; Salmon’s Natural History of Hertfordshire, 8vo.; +Stow’s London, 1633, folio; Thorpe’s Registrum Roffense; Thoroton’s +Nottinghamshire; Twyne de Antiquitate Academiæ Oxoniensis; Villare +Anglicanum, by Adams, London, 1736, folio; Willis’ Cathedrals, 1721-30, +with his Parochiale Anglicanum, 1733, 4to.; some Account of Winchester +Cathedral, in 12mo.; Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence +relating to English Antiquities; and Wright’s History of Rutland, in +folio. + +Of Works illustrative of the venerable fabric under whose roof these +books are sheltered, we here find Harding’s Westminster Abbey, London, +1825, folio; Dart’s Antiquities of the Abbey of Westminster, London, +1711, folio; Keepe’s Monuments of Westminster Abbey, London, 1683, 8vo.; +Widmore’s Westminster Abbey, London, 1751; and Smith’s Antiquities +of Westminster, London, 1807, 4to.; besides the Work of Ackermann +already mentioned. To which may be added the Portraits of the Deans +of Westminster, London, 1823, folio, and the various Ceremonials of +Coronation. + +The Coronation Books of George III. in 1761, of George IV. in 1821, +and of William IV. in 1831, quarto, form a peculiar feature in this +Collection, which also contains Ogilby’s Coronation of Charles II. 1662, +with an Account of his Entertainment and Progress through the City of +London, to the place of that Ceremony; and Sandford’s Coronation of James +II. 1687, 8vo. + +Maps of England, by Speed, folio, by Philip Lea, 1695, 4to. by Morden, +4to. with a Chart of St. George’s Channel, by Morris, 1748, may be here +noticed as natural accessories to the Topography of England. + +Of Works upon the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws of England, and of +other Nations, it may suffice to notice in this place, Bracton de +Legibus; Puffendorf’s Law of Nations; Burn’s Ecclesiastical Laws; Coke’s +Institutes; and Hammond’s Criminal Code, 1825-29; the Acta Generalia; +the Statutes at large; the Concilia Generalia et Hispanica; Bracton de +Legibus Angliæ; Gothofredi Corpus Juris Civilis; Gibson’s Codex Juris +Ecclesiastici et Civilis; Howel’s Synopsis Canonum; various editions of +the Codex and Institutiones Justiniani; the Codex Theodosianus, Parisiis, +1586; Law Cases, from 17th Edward III. to Henry VII. London, 1576; +Beverigii Pandectæ Canonum et Juris Civilis; Reformatio Legum ab Henrico +VIII. inchoata, Londini, 1641, 4to.; Woottoni Leges Wallicæ, 1730, folio; +Wilkins, Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ, 1721, folio; together with the Synodus +Dordracensis, Ephesina, Græca, Anglica, & Florentina. + +The nature of the Historical department of this Collection will be best +understood by the following selection from its contents. + +We may here notice Banduri Imperium Orientale; Bodini Historia +Universalis; Carionis Chronicon; Collier’s Historical Dictionary; +Cumberland de Origine Gentium; Dousæ Annales Hollandiæ; Froissardi +Historia, Hanoviæ, 1606; Historiæ Francorum Scriptores, Francof. 1596; +Eusebii Chronicon; Guicciardini’s History of Italy; Hearne’s Ductor +Historicus; Antonio de Herrera, Descriptio Indiæ Occidentalis, Amstelod. +1622, folio; Hooke’s Roman History; Josephus, Havercampi, and Basnage’s +History of the Jews; Davila’s Civil Wars of France, folio; Knolles’ +History of the Turks; Krantzii Chronica Danica et Suecica; Annales +Belgici; Leunclavii Annales Sultanorum; Ligon’s Barbadoes; Maffei +Historia Indica; Mariana de Rebus Hispanicis; Memoires de Comines, de +Cardinal Rohan, de Retz, de Philip du Plessis, Mornay, et de Montmorency; +Mezeray Abrégé Chronologique de l’histoire de France; Moreri, +Dictionnaire Historique; and the second and third volumes of Monstrelet’s +Chronicles, printed at Paris in 1572. + +We also find on these shelves several of Byzantine Historians, such +as Nicephorus, &c.; Nicetæ Annales, &c.; Naucleri Chronicon; Ockley’s +History of the Saracens; Olaus Magnus Historia Gentium Septentrionalium; +Orme’s Indostan; Pontoppidan’s Norway; Raleigh’s History of the World; +Reineccii Chronicon Sclavorum; and his Origines Brandenburgicæ; Reuberi +Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores; Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to Turkey, +1740; Sandys’ Europæ Speculum, with his Travels; Salmon’s Chronological +Historian; Scheffer’s Lapland; Shaw’s Travels in Barbary and the Levant; +Spon’s History of Geneva, 1687, folio; the Memoirs of Sully; Symson’s +Chronicon Catholicum; Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica, Francofurti, +1576; Thuani Historia sui Temporis, Paris, 1606 and 1620; Tillet, Recueil +des Rois de France, leurs Couronnes, &c. Paris, 1586, folio; Vertot’s +Histoire de l’Ordre de Malte; Tursellini Epitome Historiæ Romanæ; and the +Universal History of 1736, in folio. + +Of Works relating to Ecclesiastical affairs in general, independently +of the Councils, Synods, and Decretals of various periods, this Library +comprehends Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici; Tornielli Annales Sacri; +Baronii Martyrologium Romanum; Cedreni Annales; the Concilia Generalia, +compiled by Labbe and Kuster; Brent’s History of the Council of Trent; +Bower’s Lives of the Popes, in 4to.; Platina de Vitis Pontificum, in +folio; Brandt’s History of the Reformation; Collier’s Ecclesiastical +History; Cressy’s Church History of Brittany; Du Pin’s and Fleury’s +Ecclesiastical History; the Centuriatores Magdeburgenses; Historiæ +Ecclesiasticæ Scriptores Generales, Valerii, Parisiis, 1668-78, in 3 +vols. folio, and Basileæ apud Oporinum, 1564-70, in 8 vols. folio; +Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus; Echard’s Ecclesiastical History; +Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Hyde’s Religio Veterum Persarum; Jortin’s +Ecclesiastical History; Gratiani Decretalia; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical +History; Nicephori Historia Ecclesiastica; Quick’s Synodicon in Galliâ +Reformatâ; Relandi Antiquitates Hebræorum; Sigonius de Republicâ +Hebræorum; two copies of Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum, Cantabrigiæ, 1685, +folio; Schlusselburgii Hæreticorum Catalogus, Francofurti, 1597, 8vo.; +Sleidan’s Reformation, à la Haye, 1767, 4to.; Tillemont, Ecclesiastical +Memorials; and Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church. + +Among the helps to History are Chronology and Geography, of which the +former presents us with Blair, Behm, Newton, Isaacson, and Jackson’s +Chronological labours; Helvici Chronologia; Marsham, Chronicon +Canon Egyptiacus; Petavii Rationale temporum; Straucii Breviarium +Chronologicum; Relandi Fasti Consulares; and Clinton’s Fasti Hellenici; +and the latter with Baudrand’s Lexicon Geographicum; the Geographical +Works of Cellarius and Cluvier; Spanheim’s Geographia Sacra; Heylyn’s +Cosmography; Ortelii Geographia; and Relandi Palestina Illustrata, which +is esteemed by Mr. Orme, as one of the most elaborate Works on Biblical +Geography ever published, together with the General Atlas, by Senex, +London, 1721, folio. + +In this place I may appropriately introduce, Archbishop Williams’s own +copy of Purchas’ Pilgrimes, London, 1613-24, in 5 vols. folio; in the +original calf with his arms on the sides; Hakluyt’s Voyages, 1599, folio; +Harris’ Collection of Voyages and Travels; Pococke’s Description of the +East; Vincent’s Voyage of Nearchus, London, 1807, 4to.; with another +copy corrected by the author, with additions by that learned Dean of +Westminster. + +Of Works relating to Antiquities, this Library can boast the valuable +Collections of Grævius and Gronovius, relating to those of Greece and +Rome; Gruteri Corpus Inscriptionum & Thesaurus Criticus; Montfaucon, +Palæographia Græca; Mabillon, Diarium Italicum; Prideaux’s Marmora +Oxoniensia; and Taylor’s Marmor Sandvicense, Cantabrigiæ, 1743, 4to. + +Of the Antiquities of Rome, we here find Boissardi Urbis Romæ +Topographia, 1597-1602, with figures by De Bry; Rosini Antiquitates +Romanæ, Amstelodami, 1685, 4to.; and Rossi Teatro delle Fabriche di Roma, +1665, 4to.; to which I may add the History of Palmyra, 1696, 8vo. + +The Heraldic Works in this Collection occupy very little space, being +only Brooke’s Heraldry; Gwillim’s Heraldry of 1632, and 1724, folio; +Edmondson’s Heraldry; Ashmole’s Order of the Garter, 1726, folio; +Selden’s Titles of Honor, London, 1672, folio. + +The Numismatic Works occupy a space equally inconsiderable, being, +Arbuthnot’s Coins; Clarke’s Connection of Coins; Fleetwood’s Chronicon +Preciosum; Steuart’s Bengal Coins, 1772, 4to.; Bræi Numismata +Imperatorum Romanorum; and Stukeley’s Medallic History of Carausius. + +From these minute monuments of ancient time, we pass to those equally +enduring Records of Antiquity, which are familiar to every one under the +common appellation of the Classic Authors. + +In Classical Literature we meet in this Collection with different +editions of the Works of either Ælian, Anacreon, Antoninus, Appianus, +Apuleius, Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, Quintus Curtius, Sidonius +Apollinaris, Petronius Arbiter, Dictys Cretensis, Diodorus Siculus, +Diogenes Laertius, Dionysius Periegetes, Epictetus, Eutropius, Herodian, +Hierocles; Iamblichus, Juvenal and Persius, Macrobius, Nicander, Oppian, +Ovid, Sallust, Statius, Maximus Tyrius, Æneas Sylvius, Synesius, Valerius +Maximus, and Aurelius Victor, together with the Anthologia, and the +Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores. + +This Library also comprehends various editions of the separate pieces +of Aristotle and Cicero, as well as of their collected works, but +none of the fifteenth century; Stanley’s Æschylus; Æsopus, Venetiis, +apud Aldum, 1505; Alciati Emblemata, Agathias, Paris, 1660; Aphthonii +Commentarii, Venetiis apud Aldum, 1509, folio; Archimedes, Basileæ, +1544, folio; Arrianus, Gronovii; Aristophanes, 1500; Athenæus, Basileæ, +1535; Ausonius, Burdiglæ, 1580, folio; Apicius, 1705; Cæsar, Delphini +& Clarkei; Callimachus, Grævii; Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, and various +editions of 1639-59, 12mo.; Claudianus, Heinsii; Demosthenes Wolfii et +Taylori; Dion Chrysostomus, Lutetiæ, 1604, folio; Dioscorides, 1598; +Dionysius Halicarnassensis, 1546; Epictetus, Wolfii; Euclidis Elementa, +Basileæ, 1533; Arabicè, Romæ, 1594; Græcè, Parisiis, 1598; and his Opera +Omnia, Oxonii, 1703, folio. + +Upon these shelves we also find Euripides Marklandi, Oxonii, 1756, 4to.; +and Barnesii, Cantabrigiæ, 1694, folio; Florus, Grævii; Aulus Gellius, +Gronovii, and apud Elzeviros; Grammatici Græci, Venetiis, 1495, folio, +and 1527, folio; Herodotus, Gronovii: Hesiodus, Robinsoni; Hippocratis +Opera Omnia, Venetiis, 1525, folio; Homerus, Clarkei; Eustathius, +Commentarii in Homerum, Romæ, 1542, in 4 volumes, folio; Maittaire’s +Reprint of the Batrachomyomachia of 1486, London, 1721, 8vo., in red and +black letters. + +Here also are several editions of Horace, by Bentley, Bond, and the +Delphin editors; Iamblichus by Gale; Isocrates, Venetiis, 1513; and the +editions of Battie and Wolf; Silius Italicus, Venetiis, 1523; Justinus, +Grævii; Libanii Orationes, Paris, 1616; Livius, Aldi, 1555, folio; with +Crevier’s and other editions; Longinus by Pearce and Smith; Lucanus, +Oudendorpii, Lucian, 1517; Lucretius by Tonson, 1712; Lycophron, +Potteri; Manilius, Bentleii; Martialis, Venetiis, 1510; Moguntiæ, +1527; and Farnabii, &c.; Menander, Clerici & Orosius, Havercampi; the +Panegyrici Veteres de la Baume; Velleius Paterculus, Delphini; Pausanias, +Kuhnii; Phædrus, Burmanni, and Delphini; Pindarus, Stephani, 1586, and +Oxonii, 1697, folio; Plato, Ficini, 1602, folio; Plautus, Lambini, +Plinii, Hist. Nat. Dalecampii; Plinii Epistolæ; Plotinus, Basileæ, +1580, folio; Plutarchi Opera, Basileæ, 1573-4; Plutarchi Vitæ, Bryani, +Londini, 1729, 4to.; Poëtæ Græci Veteres heroici Carminis, Parisiis, +apud Stephanum, 1566, folio; Corpus Poetarum Latinorum à Maittaire, +Londini, 1725, folio; Polybius, Latinè, Basileæ, 1529; et Græcè, +Parisiis, 1609; Pomponius Mela, Venetiis, 1518; Proclus de Sphærâ, +Basileæ, 1585; Procopius, Græcè Hœschelii, 1607; Prudentius, Parisiis, +1562, et Amstelodami, 1625; Ptolemæi Geographia, Argentorati, 1622; +Quintilianus Burmanni, Sabellici Opera, Basileæ, 1538; Sapphus, Wolfii; +Seneca, Farnabii, and various editions besides, but none earlier than +1555; Solini Polyhistor; Sophocles, Stephani, 1603, folio; Cantabrigiæ, +1669; and Londini, 1722, 12mo.; Stephanus de Urbibus, Basileæ, 1568, +folio; Stobæus, Gesneri, Tiguri, 1543, folio, with other editions; +Strabonis Geographia, Xylandri, Basileæ, 1571, folio, and Casauboni, +Amstelod. 1707, folio; Suetonius, Casauboni, & Pitisci, 1714, 4to.; +Suidæ Lexicon Græcum, Aldi. 1514, folio; & Kusteri, 1705, in 3 vols. +folio; Symmachi Epistolæ, Lugd. Bat. 1653, 8vo.; Achilles Tatius, 1601, +8vo.; Tacitus, Gronovii; Terentius, Bentleii, with many other modern +editions; Themistii Opera, Aldi, Venetiis, 1534, folio; Theocritus, Romæ, +1518, and Oxonii, 1699, 8vo.; Theognis, Sylburgii, Heidelbergæ, 1597; +Theophrasti Characteres, Camerarii et Heinsii; Thucydides by Hudson and +Duker; Virgilii Opera, Venetiis, 1510, folio; Delphini, Parisiis, 1600, +4to.; and several other editions of little note, including the Elzevirian +Impression; and the Eclogues printed at Florence in 1504, 12mo.; to which +may be added Xenophon, Leunclavii, and Xenophon’s Anabasis by Hutchinson. +Such and so numerous are the classical volumes of this venerable +Collection, many of which it may be seen are of the best editions, and +several of which are from the press of Aldus. + +To that eminent printer we are also indebted for the first edition +of the Works of Plato, printed at Venice in 1513, folio, of which the +present copy is upon vellum. This noble volume has been most cruelly +treated, all the leaves following the table and as far as the blank leaf +preceding “Platonis Dialogi” have been cut out, and though the concluding +part of the book is entire, its leaves have been most foully stained in +that part. Its dimensions are eleven and a quarter inches by seven and +three eighths; and its original binding of calf, upon whose sides Greek +characters were impressed, has been replaced by a covering of dark olive +morocco by that eminent bibliopegist Charles Lewis. A perfect copy of +this interesting book upon vellum forms one of the highest ornaments of +the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow. + +I have here also the pleasure of recording the first editions of +Aristides, Florentiæ, 1517, folio; and of Lucian, printed at the same +place in the same year, and in the same form, by the same printer, Philip +Junta, of typographical renown. + +Two Classic tomes of olden time next invite our notice; first, a +well-preserved copy of Suetonius cum Commento, folio. The Commentary here +occupies the margin. The preface of M. Ant. Sabellicus, with his Life of +Suetonius follow the title. At the end of the volume is the Register, and +this colophon: + + “Venetiis per Baptistam de tortis + M. cccc lxxxx die + xv Februarii.” + +beneath which are the initials “B. T.” + +This volume measures eleven and three quarter inches by eight, and +retains its old vellum covering. + +Secondly, the Lexicon of Suidas, in folio, preceded by the editorial +preface, and concluding with the verses of Joannes Salandus addressed to +D. Demetrius Chalcondylas. At the end of the volume appears the following +colophon: + + “Anno ab incarnatione M.CCCC lxxxxviiii. die xv Novembris, + Impressum Mediolani impensa & dexteritate D. Demetrii + Chalcondyli Ioannis Bissoli Benedicti Mangii Carpensium.” + +Succeeded by the printer’s mark, with the initials “I. B. B. M.” and the +motto, “Sudavit et Alsit.” The present is a very fine, sound and perfect +copy, measuring twelve and a quarter inches by eight and three quarters, +and bound in old calf. + +Among the books printed in the fifteenth century, I also noticed the +Medical Works of Avicenna, Lugduni, 1498, folio; Campani Opera, Venetiis, +1495, folio; and Theapoli Academicæ Contemplationes, Venetiis, 1490, 12mo. + +In concluding this extended notice of this interesting department of the +Library, I may allude to the Anthologia Græca, and Pontani Poemata, and +point out the Works of Paulus Egineta, Venetiis apud Aldum, 1528, folio; +and of Vitruvius de Architecturâ, printed at Venice in 1567; together +with the elegant edition in folio, which issued from the Elzevirian Press +at Amsterdam in 1649. + +Of Etymological Works elucidating the structure of various languages, +this Collection affords, in addition to those already noticed, both +the old and the new editions of the inestimable Thesaurus of Stephens; +Gaisford’s Edition of Suidas’ Lexicon; Buxtorf, Lexicon Chaldaicum; +Castell’s Lexicon Heptaglotton; Pagnini Thesaurus Linguæ Sanctæ; +Kircheri Œdipus Egyptiacus; Baxter’s Glossarium Archaiologicum +Britannicum; Skinner’s Etymologicon Anglicanum, Londini, 1661, folio; +Somneri Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum, Oxonii, 1659, folio; +Spelman’s Glossary, London, 1626 and 1787, both in folio; Hickes’ +Thesaurus Septentrionalis; Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum; Budæi Lexicon +Græco-Latinum; Calepini Dictionarium Octolingue; Cooper’s Thesaurus +Linguæ Latinæ; Curionis Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ; Du Cange’s Glossary; +Julii Pollucis Onomasticon; Dufresne’s Hesychii Lexicon; Hoffmanni +Lexicon; Pagnini Thesaurus Linguæ Sanctæ; Porti Lexicon Ionicum; Scapulæ +Lexicon; Stephani Thesaurus; Sylburgii Etymologicum Magnum, Heidelbergæ, +1594; and Laurentius Valla de Linguâ Latinâ. + +Of Grammatical Works we find one peculiar to this vicinity, the +Grammatica Busbeiana, Londini, 1754, and 1762, 8vo. an appropriate +memorial of the renowned pedagogue whose name it bears; Lascarii +Grammatica Græca, Venetiis, Aldus, 1557, 4to.; Hoogeveen de doctrinâ +Particularum; Ruddiman, Institutiones Gr. Lat. Edin. 1740, 8vo.; with +some critical pieces by Scaliger, Vossius and Casaubon. + +As connected with Classical Literature I may here notice, Bentley’s +Phalaris, 1718, 8vo.; Photii Bibliothecâ; Toup, Emendationes in Suidam; +Salmasii Exercitationes Plinianæ; Gatakeri Adversaria; and Wolfii Curæ +Philologicæ et Criticæ. + +Among the translations of the Classics, I may notice Carter’s Epictetus; +Creech’s Lucretius; Fawkes’ Anacreon, 1760; Melmoth’s Pliny; Ogilby’s +Homer; Rowe’s Lucan; and Trapp’s Virgil. + +The Bibliographical Works contained in this Repository, are the Acta +Eruditorum of Leipsic; Apollodori Bibliotheca; Gesneri Bibliotheca; +Photii Bibliotheca, 1601, folio; Haym’s Notize di libri rari, 1726; +Brunet’s Manual; Baillet, Jugemens des Sçavans; Cave’s Historia +Literaria; Le Long, Bibliotheca Sacra; Lewis’ Editions of the Bible, and +Bibliotheque Historique; Du Pin, Catalogue des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques; +Draudii Bibliotheca Classica; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græcæ et Latina; +D’Herbélot, Bibliotheque Orientale; Sanderus Bibliotheca Belgica, +Insulis, 1641, 4to.; and Teisserii Catalogus Auctorum, qui Librorum +Catalogos, Indices, Bibliothecas, &c. scriptis consignarunt, Genevæ, +1705, folio; Morhof. Polyhistor Literarius, Lubecæ, 1689, 4to.; and +Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica. + +Of Catalogues of various Libraries these shelves bear several of much +interest, such as the Bibliothecæ Regiæ Georgii III. Catalogus, in +folio; the Catalogus Bibliothecæ Thuanæ; the Bibliotheca Heinsiana; the +Harleian Catalogue; the Catalogue of Dr. Mead’s Library; the Bibliotheca +Coisliniana, 1715; Hyde’s Catalogus Librorum Joannis Bridges; Catalogus +Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Medii Templi, à Shower, +Londini, 1700, 8vo.; Reading’s Catalogue of the Sion College Library, +London, 1724, folio; Catalogus Librorum MSS. quos Collegio Christi +Cantabrigiæ legavit Matthæus Parker, 1722, 4to.; Bibliothecæ Cottonianæ +Librorum MSS. Catalogus à Smithio, Londini, 1696; Lambecii Commentarii de +Bibliothecâ Cæsareâ Vindobonensi, 1670, folio; Nesselii Catalogus Codicum +MSS. Bibliothecæ Vindobonensis, 1690, folio; Tanner, Catalogus MSS. +Angliæ et Hiberniæ; and Wolfii Bibliotheca Aprosiana, Hamburg. 1734, 8vo. + +To these works may be added, Mabillon de Rê Diplomaticâ; the Memoirs +of Literature, 1722-25, folio; the Bibliotheca Cluniacensis, 1614; and +a Catalogue of Books printed in England subsequently to 1666, London, +1700, 12mo.; and Lewis’ History of the English Translations of the Bible, +London, 1732, 8vo. + +Of Mathematical Works it may suffice to enumerate the Mathematici +Veteres, Parisiis, 1693, folio; Maseres’ Scriptores Logarithmici, London, +1796-1807, 4to.; Newton’s Principia; Wallis’ Opera Mathematica, Oxonii, +1699, folio. + +Of Medical Works, in addition to the Works of Hippocrates and Dioscorides +already mentioned, I may add those of Celsus, 1657; and Galen, Basileæ, +1538; Sennerti Medica Practica; and Mead’s Medical Works. + +Of Scientific Works, the number is so small that by mentioning Newton’s +Principia; Firmici, Astronomicon, Basileæ, 1551; Keill’s Astronomy; Ray’s +Ornithology; Raii Historia Plantarum; Willoughbeius de Piscibus edente +Raio, Oxon. 1686, folio; Willoughby’s Ornithology; Lee’s Botany; Dodonæi, +Historia Stirpium; Gesneri Historia Animalium; Grew’s Museum of the Royal +Society, 1681, folio; and several volumes of the Journaux des Scavans; +with the 10th, 13th, 14th, 30th, and 38th volumes of the Philosophical +Transactions, I shall convey to the reader the most correct idea of their +insignificant and miscellaneous character. + +Under the head of Miscellaneous Literature, I may proceed to enumerate +the Works of Albertus Magnus, the Epistles of Abelard to Héloise; the +Poems of Tasso, Camoens; the Works of Dante and Petrarch, Fontaine and +Boileau; the Decameron of Boccaccio, Venice, 1552; Bayle’s Dictionary; +Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum, Argentorati, 1505; Gesneri +Bibliotheca Universalis; Gruteri Thesaurus Criticus; Fairfax, Godefroy of +Bulloigne, 1687; Fenelon’s Telemaque, and Hawkesworth’s Telemachus; the +Works of Fontenelle, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Racine, Rabelais, Moliere, +Montaigne, and of Montesquieu by Nugent; Juliani Imperatoris Opera; the +Poems of Grotius; the Musæ Anglicanæ; Carmina Gratulatoria et Funebria +on various occasions; Prioris R. Lusus Westmonasterienses, Westm. 1730, +4to.; Rochefaucault’s Maxims; Sibyllinæ Oracula, Parisiis, 1607, 8vo.; +Cuthbert Tonstall de Arte Supputandi; and Vauban on Fortification. + +In the department of English Literature, this Library comprehends the +Works of Addison, Ascham, Bacon, Boyle, Locke, Thomas Brown, Thomas +Fuller, Davenant, Cowley, Pope, Spenser, Swift, and Sir William Temple. + +Here also we find Barclay’s Argenis; Beaumont’s Psyche; Baxter’s Works, +with his Reliquiæ; Cartwright’s Comedies; Bolingbroke’s Letters; +Chambers’ Dictionary; Chaucer’s Works by Thynne, 1521-47, folio; the +London editions of 1602, folio, and 1687; with that edited by Urry, 1721, +in folio; Cooper on the Public Records; Cumberland’s Origines Gentium; +Donne’s Poems; Hales’ Remains; Grey’s Memoria Technica; Harrington’s +Oceana; Helvetius’ History of Man; Hobbes’ Leviathan; Ireland on the +Plague of Athens, 1832, 8vo.; the Works of Samuel Johnson; Ben Jonson’s +Works, London, 1640, folio; with his Plays, 1611, 12mo.; the Works of +King James the First, 1616, folio; and of King Charles the First, 1662, +folio; with the Εικων Βασιλικη, 1649; Melmoth’s Life of Cicero, and +other Pieces; Milton’s Paradise Lost, 1669, 1674, 12mo.; 1688, folio; +and 1732, 4to.; Milton’s Works, edited by Newton, 1749, 4to.; and his +Treatise de Doctrinâ Christianâ, edited by Sumner, Cambridge, 1825, 4to.; +Sir Thomas More’s Works, London, 1557, folio; & Thomæ Mori Opera Latina, +Lovaniæ, 1566, folio; Mrs. Anne Killigrew’s Poems, 1686, 4to.; Prior’s +Poems; Randolph’s Poems; Selden’s Works, London, 1726, in 6 volumes, +folio; Shakespeare’s Works, edited by Rowe, and by Johnson; Shaftesbury’s +Characteristics; Somerville’s Chace; Sprat’s History of the Royal +Society, 1702, 4to.; to which may be added the Diplomata et Statuta Regiæ +Societatis, 1752, 8vo.; Stanley’s Lives of the Philosophers; Steele’s +Christian Hero; Tickell’s Miscellaneous Works, 1726; Toland’s Life of +Milton; Ridley’s Life of Ridley; Fitzherbert’s Book of Husbandry; and +Tusser’s Husbandry, 1744, 8vo.; together with the original editions of +the Tatler, 1710; and numbers 1 to 289 of the Spectator of 1711; and +the 8vo. edition of that Work, 1712; to which I may add Ray’s English +Proverbs; Richardson’s Pictures in Italy; and a Collection of Poetical +Tracts, printed at London, in 1722, folio. + +Of the early Monastic Library I can only commemorate a single volume, +being a copy of the Works of St. Ambrose, written in a fair gothic hand, +in double columns, upon vellum. This venerable manuscript is quite +perfect, and retains its original binding of calf, folio. + +Though this Library has suffered much from neglect, and many of its +choicest treasures have been carried away in troublesome times, it yet +retains a volume, which would do honour to any collection, however +curious or however vast. This precious book is one of those few printed +at Oxford during the fifteenth century, and to the typographical +antiquary, possesses the additional recommendation of being printed upon +vellum. It is the only copy which has been discovered of this nature, and +for a knowledge of its existence in its present situation I am indebted +to the excellent Typographical Gazetteer of the Rev. Henry Cotton; a +work which will be duly appreciated by every sincere enquirer into the +statistics of bibliography. + +The Work under description is that of Johannes Latteburius In threnos +Jeremie, Capitulis cxv. folio, Oxonii, Anno dn̅i, 1482, ultimâ die mensis +Julii. + +This book consists of 290 leaves, whereof two are blank. Each page +contains two columns, and each column 40 lines. The character is of a +rude semi-gothic form, and there are no catch-words or paginary numerals. +The signatures run in regular order from a. ii. to O. v. throughout +the volume. The numbers of the several chapters are placed on the head +line of each page. The commencement of each chapter is distinguished +by types larger than those of the body of the work, but spaces of the +initial letters are left blank, in order that they might be filled in by +the Rubricator, at the pleasure of the owner. In the present instance, +however, they remain blank. Some former possessor of this volume, which +in its time must have seen as well as suffered some strange mutations, +will find no favour in the eyes of the bibliomaniac, when he observes +that the margins have in several places been wantonly cut and disfigured. +But on the first leaf of the book, which has been left blank by the +printer, are some curious memoranda, illustrative of its early history. +From these we learn that this volume was formerly + + “Liber dn̅s Thomæ Sackomb. 1563.” + + “Ex emptione dn̅i Joannis Avyngton Monachi nec no̅ scholaris + et baccalaurei Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Sancti St. Wythum Wyntonie, + et nunc sacræ theologiæ professor.” + +On the first column of the first page of the second leaf, the Work of +Lattebury commences thus: + + “In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti Amen. Mathei + ultimo.” + + “Juxta moꝝ modernoꝝ necno̅ pat- + ru̅ antiquoꝝ ad emendationeꝫ + p̅m pn̅cipii et sacre scripture ac li- + bri legendi pe̅lega̅tur & p̅figant + ꝓ themate nostri exordii hec ver- + ba stupenda ip̅uis pm̅i pn̅cipii su- + ple dn̅i nostri ihu xpi: que sunt hec + In noie patris r filii r spu̅s san- + cti.” + +At the foot of the second column of the second page of the 270th leaf, is +the following Colophon:— + + “Explicit exposicio ac moralisacio + tercii capituli trenoru̅ Iheremie pro + phete. Anno dn̅i M.cccc.lxxxij. ulti- + ma die mensis Julii.” + +A blank leaf follows the conclusion of the Work, which is succeeded by +an alphabetical index to the same, consisting of eighteen leaves. At the +foot of the second column of the second page of the 290th or last leaf +of the book, this table concludes with the following words: + + “Explicit tabula sup opus trenoru̅ + compilatu̅ per Johannem Lattebu- + riu̅ ordinis minorum.” + +Another blank leaf, not necessarily belonging to it, closes the volume, +which measures twelve inches by eight inches and three quarters, and is +bound in the calf, which in all probability formed its original monastic +attire. + +If this particular description of this hitherto imperfectly described and +rare volume be esteemed by the reader, as compensating for the dulness of +the preceding detail, I can assure him that its actual inspection amply +rewarded me for the labour of analysing the contents of this extensive +Collection. + +In conclusion, I may add that the strict regulations under which access +is afforded to this venerable and interesting Library are such as to +ensure it from injury either of accident or design; while to ensure +the punctuality of return to all volumes taken out by the rightful +frequenters of the place, a book for the entry of all works borrowed, is +kept upon the Library table, a precaution which should always be taken +in every corporate library, since many persons, however unskilled in +accounts, may nevertheless become but too good bookkeepers. + +St. Peter’s at Westminster was a Benedictine Abbey, founded by Sebert, +King of the East Saxons, about A.D. 610, and dedicated by Mellitus the +Bishop to St. Peter. It was re-edified by King Edward, A.D. 1066, and +endowed at the dissolution with 3471_l_ 2_s._ per an. Dugd. 3977_l._ +6_s._ 4_d._ Speed. King Henry VIII. made it a Bishop’s See; but it +continued so only nine years, and then became a Collegiate Church for a +Dean and Secular Canons, who have continued ever since, except for three +years in Queen Mary’s reign, during which time there was an Abbot and +Benedictine Monks re-established. + +The beautiful fabric of the Abbey Church was preserved from destruction +under Edward VI; and the Protector Somerset, by the sacrifice of some of +its revenues, which “pleaded its cause and purchased its ransome.” + +William Benson, Abbot of Westminster at the dissolution, surrendered this +Abbey, with seventeen Monks, into Henry VIII’s hands, and was made the +first Dean of Westminster. He died in third year of Edward the Sixth.[60] + +Independently of these historical claims upon our attention the value +and importance of the literary treasures of the Dean and Chapter of +Westminster richly deserve to be recorded among the Ecclesiastical +Libraries of England. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Winchester. + + +The Library of this Cathedral is placed in a long room, over the only +remaining portion of the Cloisters, attached to that noble building. + +The Collection is one of those which interest us most forcibly, from +exhibiting those marks of undisturbed antiquity, which by any one who +has ever entered the Pepysian Library at Cambridge, will be readily +understood. + +This Library was the munificent bequest of Bishop Morley, who caused the +books to be removed from his palace of Wolvesey, in the cases they then +occupied, to their present situation, where they now remain. + +I do not mean to assert as a fact that of which no direct evidence +remains, but this supposition receives confirmation from the nature of +the bookcases themselves, which are of old oak, with cornices curiously +though rudely carved in the style of that æra, with slender pinnacles at +each end. + +These open cases are arranged on both sides of the room, and at both +ends, leaving spaces only for the door and windows; and have been +numbered consecutively from No. I. to XXXV. whereby reference is made to +the situation of the books from the Catalogue now in use, which is in +fact the old Bodleian Catalogue, printed at Oxford in 1738, in 2 vols. +folio, with reference to the shelves annexed to those articles which +happen to be contained within these walls. + +The books themselves are in perfect keeping with their cases, being +chiefly attired in sombre calf, or antique vellum. They are also +distinguished by a book plate, exhibiting a small view of Winchester +Cathedral, with this inscription: “Lib. Eccl. Cath. Winton.” + +In order to insure the integrity of his Library under its new possessors, +Bishop Morley caused a Catalogue to be written upon vellum, in a folio +volume, classed according to the languages of the several authors. “Libri +Latini Gallici, &c.” and presented to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, +as appears from the following entry upon the last leaf of the Catalogue +itself. + + “Memorandum. That this Catalogue of Bookes was presented to the + Dean and Chapter of Winchester, from the Right Reverend Father + in God, George Lord Bishop of Winchester, upon the 28th day of + November, 1682, as being a Catalogue of all the Bookes in his + _Lordship’s_ Library, bequeathed by his _Lordship’s_ Will to + the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity of Winchester; and which the + longer his _Lordship_ lived, he declared by his letter should + be the more, and not the fewer: which Catalogue his _Lordship_ + appointed to be kept by the Treasurer for the time being, and + the delivery of which is attested by us. + + “WM. DOUTHWAITE. + “THO. CRANLEY, _Notary public_.” + +By means of this interesting Catalogue which is bound in old calf, +with gilt leaves, the exact extent of the foundation of the Library may +be readily discovered, even if the eye did not assist the judgment in +pronouncing this to be a contemporaneous Collection. + +A portrait of the founder is very properly placed over the door of this +Library. + +There is another Catalogue of this Collection, wherein the books are +enumerated in the order in which they stand on the shelves from case I. +with its shelves A, B, C, D, E, in a descending series to case XXXV. with +its similar number of open shelves. + +This quarto volume, bound in vellum, bears the following title: +“Catalogus Librorum in Bibliothecâ Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Wintonensis,” +with this note: “N.B. Singuli Libri in hoc Catalogo conscripti, et +Classico ordine dispositi in duobus Voluminibus Catalogi Bodleiani, et +Appendice ad finem utriusque, sub propriis Autorum Nominibus investigandi +sunt.” + +I have already mentioned that the Bodleian Catalogue corresponds to +these particulars, though it is but a slovenly substitute for a regular +alphabetical Catalogue of any Collection. The great objection to a +Catalogue classed as this is belonging to this Library, is that its +usefulness must entirely depend upon the books being constantly kept in +their proper place upon the shelves; an object, which in a Library at all +frequented, it is rather difficult to attain. + +At the end of this classed Catalogue is the following very satisfactory +note in the handwriting of the venerable Dean of Winchester, the writer +of Sesquipedalian Epitaphs, and the possessor of an extensive Library. +The note is this: “This Catalogue examined and compared with the actual +state of the Library, and a report in consequence delivered to the +Gentlemen at the Chapter this ninth day of February, by Thomas Rennell, +_A. M._ Prebendary of the Cathedral, and Rector of St. Magnus in the City +of London, in the year 1793.” + +There is also a folio volume which appears to have been kept from the +year 1728 to the present time for the purpose of receiving the names of +books borrowed from this Library. It contains this suitable admonition:— + +“Rev. Sir,—You are desired, when you have occasion to borrow any book out +of this place, to set down the name of the book, together with your own +name, and the day of the month in this book.” + +I am happy to notice the timely rescue of the noble manuscript of the +Latin Vulgate Bible, in three imperial folio volumes, from the neglect by +which it was for a long time suffered to lie unprotected in the church. +It is written in the Roman character, apparently by an English hand, with +large and beautiful illuminations upon very pure vellum; and the three +volumes are now appropriately bound in olive morocco, with gilt leaves, +by the liberality of the late Dean? + +Of the other ancient Manuscripts contained in this Library, I am enabled +to mention the Liber vocatus unum ex quatuor co̅positus per Zach. +Chrysopolitanum, folio, in calf. The foundation charters of several +Monasteries collected by Sir Nicolas Stuart, Bart. of Hartley Maldoit, +Co. Southampton, and an old rental of manors belonging to the Bishop +of Winton, &c.; Cassiodorus in Psalmos; Hyeronymi Expositio in Isaiam; +Augustini Sermones; Revelatio Wilfridi Episcopi Eboracensis; Bedæ +Historia Ecclesiastica; Catonis Disticha; and “Annales Sex Regum Angliæ +cum annotationibus per fratrem Nicolaum Triveth, Ord. Præd.” + +Of the printed books from three to four thousand in number, I may +pronounce the character to be chiefly Theological, including an unusual +number of impressions of the Holy Scripture. + +I will begin with the English versions, from a desire to give precedence +to the first English Bible, translated by Myles Coverdale, and printed +in the office of Christian Egenolph at Frankfort, in 1535, folio. The +copy in this Library is defective in the beginning, wanting the title, +and all the preliminary leaves, together with the first leaf of the text; +commencing with folio ii. it is very sound in the middle, and quite +perfect, though rather stained at the end. This volume measures twelve +inches and three-eighths by eight inches and a quarter, and is bound in +the original calf, with brass knobs, &c. + +I may next notice a copy of + + Cranmer’s Bible, folio, in double columns of black letter, + imperfect at the beginning and end, in a vellum wrapper. + + The Holy Bible, with the Annotations of the College of Doway, + printed at Rouen in 1635, in 3 volumes, 4to. + + The Bible, by Buck and Daniel, Cambridge, 1638, folio, bound in + blue morocco, with clasps, upon one of which is engraved the + puzzling question, “Τις εστιν αξιος ανοιξαι.” This volume was + presented by Nicolas Stanley, _M. D._ to the Cathedral Library + in 1661. + + The Holy Bible, in double columns of Gothic character, by + Robert Barker and John Bill, London, 1640, folio. A perfect + copy in the original stamped calf, with brass plates on the + sides and corners. + + The Holy Bible, translated by Geddes, London, 1797, in 2 vols. + 4to. with his Critical Remarks on the Holy Scriptures, and his + Prospectus of the foregoing Translation. Glasgow, 1786, also in + 4to. + +I proceed to specify the remaining impressions in other tongues as +succinctly as possible, commencing with the + + Biblia Polyglotta Waltoni. Londini, 1657, in 6 vols. folio. + with the Lexicon Heptaglotton Castelli, 1669, in 2 vols. folio. + + Biblia Polyglotta, Hutteri. Norimbergæ, 1599, in 2 vols. folio. + + Biblia, Hebraica et Chaldaica Buxtorfii. Basileæ, 1620, in 2 + vols. folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, Hutteri. Hamburgi, 1603, folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, Kennicott. Oxonii, 1780, in 2 vols. folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, Forsteri. Oxonii, 1750, in 2 vols. folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, Plantin. Antverpiæ, folio. + + Biblia Hebraica, Stephani. Parisiis, 1542, in 2 vols. 4to. + + Biblia Septuaginta, per Holmes & Parsons. Oxonii, 1798, &c. 6 + vols. folio. + + Biblia Hispanica, per Cyprianum de Valera. Amstelod. 1602. + + Biblia Latina, Vulgatâ Sixti V. Antverpiæ, 1624, folio. + + Biblia Latina, Vulgatâ Castalionis. Basileæ, 1551. + + Biblia Italica, Diodati. Genevæ, 1641. + + Biblia Gallica, Diodati. Genevæ, 1644. + + The Indian Bible, printed at Cambridge in 1663. + + The Codex Bezæ, edited by Kipling. Cambridge, 2 vols. folio, + bound in russia. + + Novum Testamentum Græcum, Millii. Oxonii, in 2 vols. folio. + + Novum Testamentum è Codice Alexandrino curâ Woide. Londini, + 1786, 4to. + + Novum Testamentum. Oxonii, 1675. + + Novum Testamentum, Stephani. Francof. 1590. + + Novum Testamentum, Bezæ. Genevæ, 1598. + + Novum Testamentum, Syriacum & Latinum, Tremellii. Parisiis, + 1569. + + Psalmorum Liber, curâ Hare. Londini, 1736, 2 vols. + +To which, as connected with the Church Service, I may add two impressions +of the Common Prayer, printed in the year 1549 and 1661. + + Breviarium Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1616, folio. + + Missale Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1574, folio. + + Missale ad usum Sarum. Parisiis, 1510. + + Pontificale Romanum. Parisiis, 1664. + + Processionale Romanæ Ecclesiæ. Parisiis, 1666, and + + The Liturgia Anglicana, linguâ Lusitanicâ. + +Of the Fathers of the Church I am enabled to record, + + Athanasii Opera Gr. et Lat. Parisiis, 1627, in 2 vols. folio. + + Ambrosii Opera. Basileæ, 1567. + + Augustini Opera. Basileæ, 1569, 8 vols. folio. + + Aurelii Opera. Parisiis, 1646. + + Basilii Magni Opera. Parisiis, 1638. + + Chrysostomi Opera, edente Savile. Etonæ, 1612, in 8 vols. folio. + + Clementis Alexandrini Opera. Oxonii, 1715. + + Cyrilli Opera. Parisiis, 1638 & 1640. + + Cypriani Opera. Oxonii, 1682. + + Damasceni Opera. Basileæ, 1575. + + Epiphanii Opera. Parisiis, 1622, 2 vols. folio. + + Episcopii Opera Theologica. + + Gregorii Magni Opera. 1615. + + Hieronymi Opera. Basileæ, 1565, in 4 vols. folio. + + Irenæi Opera, per Grabe. Oxonii, 1702, folio. + + Justini Martyris Opera. Parisiis, 1636. + + Lactantii Opera. Romæ, 1650; and Oxonii, 1684. + + Origenis Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1571, in 2 vols. folio. + + Philonis Judæi Opera. Parisiis, 1640. + + Procopii Opera. Parisiis, 1662-3, in 2 vols. folio. + + Theodoreti Opera Omnia. Parisiis, 1642, 4 vols. folio. + + Theophili Opera, per Fell. Oxonii, 1684. + +together with the Works of, Eusebius, Gregory Nyssen, S. Hilary, +Theophylact, Tertullian, and the Bibliotheca Magna Veterum Patrum. +Parisiis, 1654, in 13 vols. folio; Cave’s Lives of the Primitive Fathers; +The Critici Sacri; Pole’s Synopsis; and the Bibliotheca Polonorum Fratrum. + +In Divinity, besides a great mass of what is now justly considered +obsolete, and many controversial pieces, including the celebrated +Bangorian Controversy, I may enumerate the component parts of this +leading class of the library, commencing with, Bedæ Opera Omnia, VIII +tomis. Colon. Agrip. 1612, in 3 vols. folio; the Works of Bishops +Bramhall and Jewel; Tillotson’s Sermons; Tyndal’s Works, 1573; +Justiniani Opera. Parisiis, 1628; Jeremy Taylor’s Ductor dubitantium; +Usher’s Body of Divinity; the Sermons of Bishops Andrews and Hacket; +Concordantiæ Latinæ per Robertum Stephanum; Hammond’s Paraphrase; +Cotton’s Concordance, 1635; the Commentaries of Pococke; Hugonis Postillæ +in Biblia, Basileæ, 1504-6, folio; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible, +Paris, 1722, in 4 vols. folio; some Tracts by Bernard, Stapleton, and +Bellarmine; the Sermons of Richard Gardiner, 1659; Sanderson, Leslie, and +Donne’s Sermons, 1640; Hall’s Works; Field of the Church, Oxford, 1628; +Cave’s Primitive Christianity; Lightfoot’s Horæ Hebraicæ Cantabrigiæ, +1658; Drexelii Opera Omnia, Parisiis, 1647, in 2 vols. folio; Usserii +Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, Londini, 1650-4; Parson’s Three +Conversions, 1603, complete; the Preservative against Popery, in 3 vols. +folio, in old calf; some Tracts by Calvin; the Quæstiones subtilissimæ +of Duns Scotus; Erasmi Opera Omnia, Lovanii, 1640; Andrews’ Opuscula +Posthuma, Londini, 1629; Bulli Opera per Grabe, Londini, 1703; Pearsoni +Opera Posthuma, Londini, 1688; Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of +England; Brown’s Religio Medici, London, 1678; Barrow’s Works; Reginaldi +Poli pro defensione Ecclesiæ Unitatis ad Henricum VIII. Romæ apud Bladum, +in a vellum wrapper; Milner’s Letters to a Prebendary; Hey’s Theological +Lectures; Newcome’s Minor Prophets; Routh’s Reliquiæ Sacræ; Balguy’s +Discourses; the Works of Horsley, Beveridge, Stillingfleet, Middleton, +Heber, and James; Macknight on the Epistles; Cudworth’s Intellectual +System, 1678; Campbell on the Gospels; Blayney’s Jeremiah; Wollaston’s +Religion of Nature; Sherlock’s Discourses; Prideaux’s Connection; Samuel +Clarke’s Works, London, 1738, in 4 vols. folio; Hoadly’s Works, London, +1773, 3 vols. folio, a fine copy in old calf gilt; Joannis Gerson, Opera; +Petavii Dogmata Theologica, Antverpiæ, 1700, in 3 vols. folio. Bullingeri +Opera, Tiguri, 1577, in 8 vols. folio; Summa Cardinalis Hostiensis, +Lugduni, per Jacobum Sacon, 1512, folio, printed in double columns of +Gothic Character, and bound in old calf; Cranmer de Sacramento, Embdæ, +1557; Melancthonis Opera, Wittebergæ, 1601, 4 vols. folio; Grotii Opera, +Londini, 1679, in 4 vols. folio; Lutheri Opera Omnia Jenæ, 1556-8. In +conclusion of this long list let me add, Prudentii Opera, Hanoviæ, 1613; +and Sidonii Apollinaris Opera Sismondi, Parisiis, 1652. + +In Ecclesiastical History the Collection is also rich, as may appear +from the books specified below, Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici, +Antverpiæ, 1610; Martyrologium Romanum, Colon. Agrip. 1603; Bollandi +Acta Sanctorum, in 8 vols. folio; Allix’s Ecclesiastical History, +and History of the Albigenses; the Concilia Generalia by Labbe and +others; Borromæi Acta Ecclesiæ Mediolanensis, Lugd. Bat. 1683, folio; +Usserii Ecclesiæ Britannicæ Antiquitates, Eblanæ, 1639; Stillingfleet’s +Origines; Bingham’s Origines Ecclesiasticæ; Cedreni Annales; Centuriæ +Magdeburgenses, Basileæ, 1624, in 3 vols. folio; Anastasii Historia +Ecclesiastica, Parisiis, 1649; Usser, Chronologia Sacra, edente Barlow, +Oxonii, 1660; Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, Londini, 1737, in 4 +vols. folio; Spelmanni Concilia, 1639; Brent’s History of the Council +of Trent, London, 1676; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Lyndewoode, +Provinciale per Badium Ascensium, Parisiis, 1506; Waræi de Præsulibus +Angliæ Commentarius, Eblanæ, 1665; Godwin de Præsulibus Angliæ, 2 vols. +folio, in calf; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Gough’s Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Threnodia, +Londini, 1661; Reformatio Legum Eccles. ab Henr. VIII. ad Edw. VI. +Londini, 1661, in which no mention is made of the proceedings of Queen +Elizabeth; Burnet’s History of the Reformation, with the Supplement +thereto; Strype’s Memorials; Heylin’s History of the Reformation; Wiccami +Episcopi Winton. Vita, Oxonii, 1690; Laud’s Troubles and Tryal, 1695; +Spotswode’s History of the Church of Scotland; Dugdale’s Monasticon +Anglicanum; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, Londini, 1744; Walker’s History +of Independency; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical History by Fenton, 1724, in 4 +vols.; Messingham, Acta Sanctorum Hiberniæ, Parisiis, 1624; Rycaut’s +present state of the Greek and Armenian Churches, 1679; Gratiani Decreta, +printed at Nuremberg in 1494; Gibson’s Codex, in 2 vols. folio, calf; +Corpus Juris Canonici, Lugd. Bat. 1672, in 3 vols. folio; Cassan’s +Lives of the Bishops of Winchester; Upham’s History of Buddhism; Bedæ +Historia Ecclesiastica per Smith, Cantabrigiæ, folio; Eusebii Historia +Ecclesiastica, 1659; Josephus, Hudsoni; Nova legenda Angliæ per Winandum +de Worde, Londini, 1516, folio, a perfect copy, with the large wood +cut at the beginning and the end, but very much wormed throughout, and +bound in the original stamped calf, to which I may add, Cave’s Historia +Literaria Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, Londini, 1688-98; and Dupin, +Nouvelle Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques. + +Of General History this Library contains the large body of the +Byzantine Historians; Manassii Annales, Parisiis, 1655; Nicetæ Historia, +Parisiis, 1647; Chalcondylas de rebus Turcicis, Parisiis, 1650; Eutychii +Annales Arabicè et Latinè per Pocockium, Oxonii, 1664; Raderi Chronicon +Alexandrinum, Monachii, 1615; Marshami Chronicon Canon. Egyptiacum, +Londini, 1672; Montfaucon Palæographia Græca; Rosini Antiquitates +Romanæ, cum commentariis Dempsteri, Lugduni, 1613; Meyeri Annales Rerum +Flandricarum, Antverpiæ, 1561; Junii, Bataviæ Historia, Dordraci, 1652; +Naucleri Chronicon Universale Tubingæ, 1516; Modern Universal History, +1759, in 16 vols. folio in calf; Gillies’ Greece, in 4to.; Cox’s Memoirs +of the Kings of Spain, and his Russian Discoveries, London, 1780; +Montfaucon, Antiquité avec le Supplement, 15 vols. folio, a fine set in +old calf; Pitisci Lexicon; Thuani, Historia sui temporis, Genevæ, 1626, +in 3 vols. folio; Moreri, Dictionnaire Historique, in 4 vols. folio; +Bayle, Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, Rotterdam, 1702, in 4 vols. +folio; the History of the World by Raleigh and Howell; Ligon’s Barbadoes, +1673; Wheler’s Greece, 1682; Mezeray’s History of France, Amsterdam, +1668-74; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Blome’s Jamaica, 1678; Ogilby’s +Africa and America, with the Atlas Japanensis et Chinensis; Cary’s +Chronological account of Ancient Time; to which may be added, Baudrand, +Lexicon Geographicum; Bochart, Geographia Sacra, Cadomi, 1651; Clarke on +Coins, London, 1767; and a very fine copy in calf of Waltheri Lexicon +Diplomaticum Gottingæ, 1745, folio. + +Of Works relating to the History of Great Britain this ancient +Collection embraces a very fair proportion, for I observed upon its +shelves, Heylin’s Help to English History, London, 1670; and Brady’s +Introduction to old English History; Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana, +edente Wats, Londini, 1740, calf; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores +Historiarum, Londini, 1570; Du Chesne, Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores, +1619; Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, et Cambrica, à veteribus scripta, +ex Bibliothecâ Camdeni, Francofurti, 1603; Camdeni Annales, Londini, +1615-27; Camdeni Britannia, Londini, 1607; Annales Rerum Anglicarum, +1508-58, Hagæ-Com. 1653; Smith de Rêpublicâ Anglorum, per Buddenum, +Londini; Langhornii Chronicon Regum Angliæ, Londini, 1679; Rerum +Anglicanarum Scriptores post Bedam, edente Savile, Francofurti, 1601, +folio; Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Decem, curâ Twysdeni, Londini, +1652, folio; Sammes’ Antiquities of Ancient Britain, London, 1676, +folio; Burton’s Itinerary of Antoninus, London, 1658; Baker’s Chronicle, +1679; Brady’s History of England; Danyel’s History of England, 1621; +the History of England by Rapin and Tindal; Sandford’s Genealogical +History of the Kings of England, London, 1677, folio; Ashmole’s +Order of the Garter, London, 1672, folio; Wilson’s History of Great +Britain, London, 1653; Dugdale’s Baronage and Origines Judiciales; +Barnes’ History of Edward III. Cambridge, 1688; Herbert’s Henry VIII. +1672; Burnet’s History of his own Time; Lloyd’s State Worthies, 1670; +Rushworth’s Historical Collections, and Report of Strafford’s Trial; the +State Tryals, 1669, folio; Whitelock’s Memorials of English Affairs; +Stafford’s Pacata Hibernia, 1633; Clanricarde’s Memoirs, 1757; Sir James +Melvil’s Memoirs, by George Scott, London, 1683; Burnet’s Memoirs of +the Dukes of Hamilton; Buchanani Historia Scotorum; Bates’ Elenchus +Motuum Nuperorum in Angliâ; Charles the First’s Declaration of Tumults +in Scotland, 1639, and the Icon Basilike, Hagæ Com. 1649; Symmons’ +Vindication of King Charles I. 1648; Dugdale’s View of the late Troubles; +Prynne’s Life of Laud; Fuller’s Worthies; Kippis’ Biographia Britannica; +Camden’s Britannica, edited by Gough, London, 1789, 3 vols. folio, +in russia; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, edited by Bliss; Loggan, Oxonia +Illustrata; Plot’s Oxfordshire, 1677, folio; Worsley’s Isle of Wight; +White’s Natural History of Selborne; Dugdale’s St. Paul’s; Hobbes de +Mirabilibus Pecci; Granger’s Biographical History of England; Monk’s Life +of Bentley; Nicholl’s Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; the +Records published by the Parliamentary Commissioners, and the Population +Returns; to which I may add, Balæi Scriptorum Britannicorum Centuriæ V. +Gippeswici, 1548; Martin Bucer, Scriptores Anglicani ab Huberto collecti, +Basileæ, 1577; and the English Atlas, published at Oxford in 1680-1681, +in four large folio volumes. + +Of Law Books, the number in this Library is but few, since we find only +of the Statutes at large, volumes 21 to 37; Croke’s Reports, 1669, +in 3 vols. folio; Suarez de Legibus; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum, +Cantabrigiæ, 1727; Justiniani Institutiones; Durandi Speculum Juris, +Lugduni, 1556; Gothofredi Codex Theodosianus, 1665, in 4 vols. folio; and +some Tracts by Selden. + +From this barren theme it is refreshing to turn to the Classic authors, +who are very well represented in this Library. The first thing which +arrested my attention in this department were the following Delphin +Classics. + + Apuleius, 1688. + + Boethius, 1680. + + Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, 1685. + + Cæsar, 1678. + + Cicero. + + Claudian, 1677. + + Quintus Curtius. + + Eutropius, 1683. + + Florus, 1674. + + Aulus Gellius, 1681. + + Horatius, 1691. + + Justinus, 1677. + + Juvenalis, 1684. + + Livius, 1679. + + Lucretius, 1680. + + Manilius, 1679. + + Martialis, 1680. + + Cornelius Nepos, 1675. + + Ovidius, per Helvetium, 1689. + + Phædrus, 1675. + + Plautus, 1679. + + Prudentius, 1687. + + Sextus Pompeius, 1681. + + Sallustius, per Crispinum, 1674. + + Suetonius, 1684. + + Tacitus, 1682. + + Terentius, 1675. + + Valerius Maximus, 1679. + + Velleius Paterculus, 1675. + + Aurelius Victor, 1681. & + + The Panegyrici Veteres, per La Baume, 1676. + +all bound in old dark calf, with red lettering pieces, except the Horace, +but not quite uniform. + +Of the other editions of the Classics, the best idea will be formed by a +brief enumeration of such as occurred to me in examining this Collection. + + Ælianus, Hist. Animal. Genevæ, 1616. + + Arrianus. Parisiis, 1575. + + Aristotelis Opera Du Valli. Parisiis, 1629, 2 tomis, folio. + + Athenæus. Lugd. Bat. 1657. + + Boethii Opera. Basileæ, 1546. + + Catullus, Tibullus, & Propertius. Brageraci, 1640. + + Ciceronis Opera collecta, per Frobenium. Hamburgi, 1618-19. + + Demosthenes & Æschines, per Wolfium. Aurel. Allob. 1607. + + Diodorus Siculus. Basileæ, 1578. + + Diogenes Laertius. Romæ, Albrobrandini, 1594. + + Dionysius Halicarnassensis. Francofurti, 1586. + + Dioscorides. Coloniæ, 1529. + + Euclidis Elementa, 1620. + + Epicteti Enchiridion. Coloniæ, 1696. + + Frontonis Epistolæ variæ. Parisiis, 1660. + + Marsilii Ficini Opera. Parisiis, 1641. + + Herodianis. Parisiis, 1681. + + Herodotus. Parisiis, 1608. + + Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores. Sylburgii, Francofurti, 1590. + + Isocrates, Sylvani. Oxonii, 1677, & per Wolfium, Basileæ, 1567. + + Iamblichus, per Galeum. Oxonii, 1678. + + Juvenalis. Lugd. Bat. 1648. + + Libanii Sophistæ Orationes. Parisiis, 1606-27. + + Livius, Sigonii. Venetiis, 1555, and + + Livius. Lugd. Bat. 1553. + + Longinus, edente Pearce, 1743. + + Martialis, Farnabii. Genevæ, 1623. + + Pausanias, Xylandri. Francofurti, 1583. + + Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii. Parisiis, 1612. + + Photii Epistolæ, per Montacutium. Londini, 1651. + + Plinii Epistolæ. Basileæ, 1552. + + Plinii Nat. Hist. Basileæ apud Frobenium, 1525. + + Plutarchi Opera. Francofurti, 1599. + + Polybius, Casauboni. 1619. + + Plotini Opera, per Ficinum. Basileæ, 1615. + + Plautus. Coloniæ, 1538. + + Platonis Opera, Latinè. Francofurti, 1602. + + Poetæ Græcæ Veteres. Genevæ, 1614. + + Senecæ Opera. Antverpiæ. 1652. + + Sibyllina Oracula, Obsopæi. Parisiis, 1599. + + Æneæ Sylvii Opera Omnia. Basileæ, 1571. + + Silius Italicus, translated by Ross. London, 1661, folio; a + large paper copy with rough leaves, in calf. + + Strabonis Geographia Xylandri. Parisiis, 1620, and Casauboni. + + Tacitus. Lipsii, Antverpiæ, 1627. + + Thucydides, Stephani. Parisiis, 1588, and Hobbes’ Translation. + + Theophrasti Characteres. Lugd. Bat. 1638. + + Varro de re rusticâ, curâ Scaligeri, 1573. + + Xenophontis Opera Stephani, 1581. + +To which I may add the + + Clavis Homerica, printed at Gouda. + + Vossius de Historicis Græcis et Latinis. + + Erasmi Adagia. + + Bryant’s Ancient Mythology. + + Draudii Bibliotheca Classica. Francofurti, 1625. + + Pauli Manutii Epistolæ et Præfationes. Venetiis, 1556. + +From this cursory survey it appears that the impressions of the Classics +in this Library are neither remarkable for their rarity, nor estimable +for their worth. + +Connected with this subject are the Works of Etymology; of which the +following Catalogue will enable any one to form a tolerable notion of the +value of this portion of the Winchester Cathedral Library. + +Buxtorf’s Chaldee and Syriac Lexicon; with his Hebrew Lexicon, printed +at Basle in 1651; Scapulæ Lexicon Græcum; Porti Lexicon Ionicum, +Heidelbergæ, 1602; Varro de Linguâ Latinâ; Suidæ Lexicon Kusteri, +Cantabrigiæ, 1705, folio; Ludolphi Lexicon Æthiopicum; Meursii Glossarium +Græco-barbarum; La Crose, Lexicon Ægyptiaco-Latinum; Du Cange, Glossary; +Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis; Spelman’s Glossary; Cotgrave’s +French and English Dictionary, London, 1632; Lye’s Saxon Dictionary; +Littleton’s Dictionary, 1678; Stephani Thesaurus, Parisiis, 1572; +Calepini Dictionarium Octolingue, 1647; Budæi Commentarius Linguæ Græcæ; +and Hesychii Dictionarium, Basileæ, 1530. + +Of Bibliographical Works I found, as I have already mentioned, the old +Bodleian Library Catalogue, to which I may now add the Bibliothèque +Universelle et Choisie, Amsterdam, 1687-1703; the Index Librorum +Prohibitorum, Romæ, 1667; and the Index Expurgatorius, Matriti, 1612; +with Berington’s Literary History of the Middle Ages. + +In Works of Science and Natural History this Collection is equally +deficient, for I noticed only Horsley’s valuable edition of Newton’s +Works, in 5 volumes, 4to. London, 1779; Barrow’s Lectiones Geometricæ et +Opticæ, Londini, 1669-70; Maseres Scriptores Logarithmici; Salusbury’s +Mathematical Collections; Chambers’ Dictionary, by Rees, 1786, in 4 vols. +folio; Cartesii Opera Philosophica, Amstelodami, 1650, 2 vols. folio; +Lord Bacon on Natural History; the Novum Organum; Boyle on Experimental +Philosophy, Oxford, 1663; Whitehurst’s Theory of the Earth; Willis’ +Anatomical Works; Conradi Gesneri, Historia Animalium; Ruellius de naturâ +Stirpium; Fuchsii de Historiâ Stirpium Commentarii; Morison, Plantarum +Umbelliferarum Distributio; Latham’s Birds, with coloured plates, 10 +vols. 4to. Winchester, 1824, in boards; and Bochart, Hierozoicon. + +Of learned bodies and their transactions, the only works in this Library +are Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, London, 1667; the Philosophical +Transactions; Histoire de l’Academie, 1699-1754, in 105 volumes, 4to.; +the Acta Eruditorum, Lipsiæ, 1682-1701, 1702-1720, and 1721-1738; and the +Journal des Savans, 1689, in 12 vols. 8vo. + +Of miscellaneous Works in Foreign Literature, I noticed Boccaccio, +Decameron, Venetiis, 1638; Gatakeri Adversaria Miscellanea, Londini, +1659; Pici Mirandulæ Opera, Basileæ, 1572; Juliani Imperatoris Opera, +Parisiis, 1630; Rogeri Aschami Epistolæ, Genevæ, 1611; and Gualtheri +Opera, Tiguri, 1595. + +In English Literature it remains for me to notice the Works of King James +the First of England, and of his son Charles the First, the latter of the +date of 1662; Walpole’s Royal and Noble Authors; Chaucer’s Works, London, +1787; Spenser’s Works, London, 1679; Milton’s Paradise Lost, 1669; the +Works of the Earl of Surrey, and Sir Thomas Wyatt, edited by Nott, in 2 +vols. 4to.; Sir Thomas More’s Works, 1557, folio; Donne’s Poems, 1633; +Herbert’s Country Parson, 1671; Butler’s Hudibras, 1663-4; and the +Memoirs of Bishop James of Calcutta. + +But perhaps the most valuable and interesting treasure preserved in this +Library is the original Charter granted by Henry VIII. to the Cathedral +Church of Winchester, written upon vellum, and beautifully illuminated. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Windsor. + + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor is deposited in a +commodious apartment, within the precincts of the Castle, overlooking the +silver Thames, and the graceful Chapel of Eton. + +The Books are arranged in open cases, distinguished by letters of the +Alphabet round the room, which is divided into three compartments, and +is adorned with an old view of Windsor, and an early representation in +profile of our Saviour. + +The Catalogue is arranged alphabetically, with an index to the shelves +on which the books are placed, and is entitled “Catalogus Librorum in +Bibliothecâ, S. Georgii Windsoriensi,” in folio, bearing date, 1786. + +The book plate inserted in every book, bears round the armorial bearings +of the Dean and Chapter this legend: “Libera Capella Regia Sti̅ Georgii +infra Castrum de Windsor.” + +There is a Manuscript Roll of Arms of the time of Bishop Sanderson, +and the Common Prayer Book and Psalms, in the handwriting of the same +prelate, 1578, 8vo. + +Among the Typographical Antiquities of this Collection, I noticed the +Image or Mirrour of the World, printed by William Caxton, at Westminster, +in 1480, folio, a copy unfortunately wanting all after the 97th leaf, +which is torn. It measures eleven inches in height by eight inches in +width, and is in old calf binding. I also remarked a fine copy of Boetius +de Consolatione Philosophiæ, printed by Joannes de Westphalia in alma +civitate Lovaniensi, in 1487, folio, measuring eleven inches by eight +inches and a half, in calf binding; and another copy of Boetius, printed +by Iodocus Badius Ascensius in civitate Lugdunensi, 1498, folio, also in +calf. To this I may add a noble copy of the Aldine Plato of 1513, folio, +in calf, which measures eleven inches and three quarters by seven inches +and a half. There is an imperfect copy of Chaucer, in double columns +of black letter; a fine copy of Gower’s Confessio Amantis, printed by +Berthelet at London in 1554, folio; and the Legenda Aurea of 1496, folio. + +The Versions of the Sacred Scriptures in this Library, include Walton’s +Polyglott; the Antwerp Polyglott of Plantin; the Bible of 1611; the Doway +Bible of 1609, with the sumptuous edition printed by Nicol, at London, +in 1802, in 9 volumes, 4to.; Biblia Hebraica Vatabli, & Kennicott; and +Grabe’s Septuagint. + +There are also several editions of the New Testament, including the Vetus +Testamentum è Codice Alexandrino, and several Books of Common Prayer. + +The patristic Works in this Collection, include those of SS. Ambrose, +Athanasius, Augustin, Basil, Chrysostom, Clemens Alexandrinus, Cyprian, +Cyril, Epiphanius, Gregory Nazianzen, Hilary, Jerome, skilled in the +treasures of the three languages of Scripture; Ignatius, Irenæus, +Isidore, Justin Martyr, Origen, and Tertullian. + +Among the early Theologians may be found the Works of Anselm, Bellarmine, +Calvin, Cassiodorus, Damascenus, Erasmus, Eusebius, Grotius, Lactantius, +Lanfranc, Libanius, Limborch, Luther, Melancthon, Peter Martyr, Philo +Judæus, Prudentius, Theodoret, Theophilus, Thomas Aquinas, Zanchius, and +Zuinglius. + +Among the Works of English Divines, I noticed those of Allix, Atterbury, +Bede, Beveridge, Bingham, Bramhall, Bull, Chillingworth, Clarke, Comber, +Dodwell, Donne, Hammond, Hooker, Heylin, Hoadley, Hooper, Jackson, Jewel, +Laud, Leland, Lightfoot, Lowth, Bishop Newton, Patrick, Pearson, Pococke, +Prideaux, Sherlock, Stapleton, Stillingfleet, Tillotson, Tomline, Usher, +Warburton, and Waterland. + +I may here conveniently notice the Commentaries of Nicolas de Lyra; +Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; Cotelerii Patres Apostolici; the +Concilia Magna; and the Critici Sacri, with Pole’s Synopsis. Also +Cruden’s Concordance; Derham’s Physico-Theology; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Field +of the Church; Gratiani Decreta; Lyndewode Provinciale, and Wall on +Infant Baptism. + +Of Works illustrative of Ecclesiastical History it may suffice to +enumerate the Ecclesiastical Annals of Baronius; Bower’s Lives of the +Popes; Burnet’s History of the Reformation; Cave’s Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ +Scriptores; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ +Monumenta; Dugdale’s Monasticon; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical Monuments; +Fox’s Acts and Monuments of the Church; Godwin, Præsules Anglicani; +Echard and Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Platina, Vitæ Pontificum; +Raderi Bavaria Sancta; Reyner, de Apostolatu Benedictinorum in Angliâ; +Spotiswode’s Church of Scotland; Strype’s Annals of the Reformation; +Memorials and Lives; Tornielli Annales Sacri; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica; +and Warton’s Anglia Sacra. + +I may here also notice the Bibliotheca Patrum; Bray’s Bibliotheca +Parochialis; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; Derham’s Physico-Theology; +Josephus’ History of the Jews; and Le Long’s Bibliotheca Sacra. + +The Historical department of this Library embraces the Universal History, +Ancient and Modern; Alison’s History of Europe; Bayle’s Dictionary; +Carionis Chronicon; Cary’s Chronicle; Coxe’s Historical Works; De Thou, +Historia sui temporis; Eadmer’s Historia Novorum; Hallam’s Middle Ages; +Gibbon’s Decline and Fall; the Collections of Grævius and Gronovius; the +Institutes of Justinian; Ockley’s History of the Saracens; Raleigh’s +History of the World; Ricaut’s History of the Turks; Robertson’s +Historical Works; and Watson’s Philip II. + +The Works relating to the History and Antiquities of England, include +Adam’s Index Villaris; Baker’s Chronicle; Barnes’ Edward III.; Battely, +Antiquitates Rutupinæ; Bentham’s Ely; Kippis’ Biographia Britannica; +Borlase’s Cornwall; Burton’s Leicestershire; Camden’s Britannia; +Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion and State Papers; Dodsworth’s +Salisbury Cathedral; Dugdale’s Works; Gibson’s Chronicon Saxonicum; +Gunton’s Peterborough; Guthrie’s and Lingard’s History of England; +Henry’s History of Great Britain; Lhuyd, Archæologia Britannica; Kennet’s +Historical Register; Lyttelton’s Henry II.; Ogilby’s Britannia; +Pitseus de Rebus Anglicis; Plot’s Oxfordshire and Staffordshire; Pote’s +Windsor; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Speed’s History of Great +Britain; Rymer’s Fœdera; Somner’s Roman Ports and Forts in Kent; Stow’s +London; Tod’s Ashridge; Verstegan’s Restitution of Decayed Intelligence +respecting English Antiquities; Warwick’s Charles I.; Matthæi +Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum; Weever’s Funeral Monuments; +Whitelock’s Memorials; and Wood’s Historia Oxoniensis. + +I may also record Buchanan’s History of Scotland; the Wellington +Dispatches; Fuller’s Worthies; Southey’s Peninsular War; Tomline’s Life +of Pitt; Wake’s Rex Platonicus; Cox and Ware’s Ireland; and Warrington’s +Wales. + +The Voyages and Travels include those of Anson, Barrow, Cook, Dampier, +and Vancouver, Harris’ Collection, Park’s Travels, and those of Bruce; to +which I may add Blome’s Jamaica; Kæmpfer’s Japan; Maurice’s Indostan; and +Sir Robert Wilson’s Campaign in Egypt. + +The Classical department of this Collection comprehends various +editions of the Works of Achilles Tatius, Ælian, Ammianus Marcellinus, +Aristophanes, Aristotle, Arrian, Æschylus, Athenæus, Aulus Gellius, +Ausonius, Cæsar, Cicero, Quintus Curtius, Demosthenes, Diodorus Siculus, +Diogenes Laertius, Dio Cassius, Ennius, Epictetus, Euripides, Frontinus, +Herodotus, Herodian, Hesiod, Hippocrates, Homer, Horatius, Juvenal, +Livy, Lucretius, Lucan, Lucian, Macrobius, Pausanias, Petronius Arbiter, +Phalaris, Plautus, Pliny, Polybius, Quintilian, Seneca, Sophocles, +Strabo, Suidas, Tacitus, Terence, Thucydides, Virgil, and Xenophon. + +To the above may be added, Stephanus de Urbibus, Photii Bibliotheca; +Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca; and Vegetius de Re Militari. + +The Etymological Works include the Etymologicum Magnum; Buxtorf’s +Lexicon; Johnson’s Dictionary; Tooke’s Diversions of Purley; Du +Fresne’s Glossary; Hickes’ Thesaurus; Julii Pollucis Onomasticon; Lye’s +Dictionarium Saxonicum; Parkhurst’s Lexicon; and the Works of Vossius. + +The Heraldic Works include Ashmole’s Order of the Garter; Guillim’s +Heraldry; Milles’ Catalogue of Honour; Willement’s Regal Heraldry, and +St. George’s Chapel. + +In English Literature these shelves contain the Works of Bacon, Bale, +Bayle, Charles I., Brerewood, Ben Jonson, Samuel Johnson, Sir William +Jones, Spelman, Temple, and Locke; together with Burney’s History of +Music; Blount’s Censura Literaria; Bryant’s Mythology; Boswell’s Johnson; +Clarke’s Life of Nelson; Hartley on Man; Reid on the Intellectual Powers; +Roscoe’s Lorenzo; Smith’s Wealth of Nations; Warton’s History of English +Poetry; Du Bartas, Divine Works and Weeks; and Stanley’s Lives of the +Philosophers. + +The miscellaneous Works in this Collection embrace Les Entretiens du +Sage, par Sebastian de Senlis, Paris, 4to.; the Encyclopædia Britannica; +the Archæologia, the Works of Casaubon, Euclid, Hobbes, Petrarch, +Selden, and Tiraboschi; the Bibliothecæ Regiæ Catalogus, and Catalogus +MSS. Angliæ & Hiberniæ, 1697, folio; Fleetwood’s Chronicon Preciosum; +D’Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale; Wolfii Bibliotheca Hebræa; Mabillon +de Re Diplomaticâ; Brucker, Historia Critica Philosophiæ; and Petavii +Doctrina Temporum. + +The Legal Works include Blackstone’s Commentaries; Spencer de Legibus +Hebræorum; Gibson’s Codex Juris Ecclesiastici & Civilis; and Wilkins’ +Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ. + +The Works on Natural History, embrace Buffon, Histoire Naturelle; Raii +Historia Plantarum; and Tournefort’s Botany. + +In the Musical Library I observed a large Collection of the Works of +Handel, whose solemn strains may frequently be heard pealing through the +lofty aisles of St. George’s Chapel, by the studious occupants of this +convenient chamber. + +I may add with great satisfaction that every Dean and Canon of Windsor, +on his presentation, makes a donation of twenty pounds to the fund for +the augmentation of the Capitular Library. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of Worcester. + + +In the Chapter House of this ancient Cathedral is deposited the Library +belonging to the Dean and Chapter; the books, amounting to nearly six +thousand volumes, being arranged upon open shelves around its ample area +against the walls, while the slender column which supports the roof rises +gracefully in the centre of the whole. + +The books are extremely well arranged according to their sizes, with +proper attention to their subject matter, the work of the present +Librarian, Mr. Clarke, with references on their backs to a Catalogue +compiled by Mr. Griffin, and continued by his successors to the present +time. + +This Manuscript Catalogue is divided into classes and sections, and bears +the following title; “Catalogus Librorum Impressorum in Bibliothecâ +Collegii Cathedralis Vigorniæ, Cal. Nov. 1780. Curâ J. Griffin +Bibliothecarius,” which is succeeded by a dedication to the then Dean. +At the conclusion of this Catalogue in the second folio volume, is a +supplementary Catalogue, the title whereof runneth thus: “Catalogus +Librorum Musicorum in Ecclesiâ Cathedrali Vigorniæ, 1781. Hunc fecit +vir Reverendus Edvardus Taylor Præcentor ejusdem Ecclesiæ et Musices +peritissimus.” + +There is also a copy of the old Bodleian Catalogue interleaved, in 4 +volumes, folio, which appears to have been formerly intended to supply +the place of a Catalogue of this Library, from the references and +insertions here and there apparent, but the plan having been found not +only slovenly but inconvenient, it was doubtless abandoned when the +labours of Mr. Griffin were completed. The general aspect of the books +is of that sombre character which old calf, whether English or foreign, +usually gives to the shelves upon which it reposes; but the judicious +addition of lettering pieces to almost every volume has greatly relieved +their sombre tint, and rendered their contents much more accessible to +the stranger. Some volumes however still retain their original vellum +wrappers, and a few are coated in morocco. + +The only Manuscript which met my eye was a tattered folio Missal, whose +knobs had been judiciously replaced upon a binding imitating, as nearly +as possible, the original coverture, and on whose fly leaf some modern +hand had written, “Missale Vetus ad usum Sarum eleganter et admodum +descriptum et exornatum.” Probably however there may be in the archives +of so ancient a foundation other manuscripts more worthy of notice than +this. + +The oldest printed books I could find were the Biblia Latina Vulgata, +Illuminata, Venetiis, 1478; and the Nuremberg Chronicle, without a title, +in modern calf binding. Let any one who wishes for a particular account +of this remarkable specimen of Koberger’s press, read the sixteen pages +relating to this book in the Spencer Catalogue, and I will only add +that the volume under description retains but little of its pristine +beauty. The earliest Classic Author I noticed was the Juvenal, with the +Commentaries of Calderinus, printed at Rome in 1474. With these three +exceptions the bibliographer will seek in vain for any productions of the +fifteenth century within these walls, without the consolation of finding +any books printed upon vellum. + +Of Bibliographical Works however this Library contains a greater number +than usually falls to the lot of similar repositories. I may instance +the Bodleian, Cottonian, and Harleian Catalogues; Fabricii Bibliographia +Antiquaria, and Bibliotheca Græca; Antonii Bibliotheca Hispana, Barberini +Bibliotheca, Romæ, 1681; Lipenii Bibliotheca Philosophica; Juridica & +Medica; Nicolai Toppi, Bibliotheca Neapolitana, 1778; Mich. Hertzii +Bibliotheca Germanica, 1679; “Bibliothecæ Cleri Londinensis in Collegio +Sionensi Catalogus duplici formâ concinnatus, &c. a Guilielmo, Reading, +Bibliothecario, Londini, typis J. Watts, 1724,” folio; Watt’s Bibliotheca +Britannica; Dibdin’s Bibliotheca Spenceriana; Saxii Onomasticon +Literarium; and the Acta Eruditorum Lipsiæ; Berington’s Literary History +of the Middle Ages; Pitseus de Rebus Anglicis; and Maseres Scriptores +Logarithmici; in proof of the accuracy of this assertion. + +In Biblical Literature the paucity of the Impressions of the Sacred +text is equally remarkable with the host of obscure commentators, and +multitude of forgotten theologians whose works encumber the shelves of +this ancient Library. + +I remarked with satisfaction a copy of Walton’s Polyglott, with +Castell’s Lexicon, respectably clad in old calf, most properly placed on +the same shelves with the Biblia Polyglotta, Montani, Antverpiæ, Plantin, +1572, also in folio. There are also the Biblia Græca LXX. per Grabe, +Oxon. 1707, in 2 vols. folio; and the Biblia Latina Castalionis, Basileæ, +1554. + +I also remarked Kennicott’s Hebrew Bible; and the Biblia Germanica; +Martini Lutheri, Francof. 1580; also an English Bible, by Blayney, +printed at Oxford in 1769; and Baskerville’s Bible, printed at Cambridge +in 1763, together with Purver’s Bible; but no early English Impressions +of the Sacred Text. + +There was the Novum Testamentum Erasmi, Basileæ, apud Froben, 1538; Nov. +Test. Millii, Oxon. 1707, in 2 vols, folio; and Nov. Test. Wetstenii, +Amst. 1751, in 2 vols, folio, in calf; also Junii Evangelia Gothica et +Anglo-Saxonica, Amst. 1684; Heptateuchus Anglo-Saxonicus per Thwaites, +Oxonii, 1698; the Psalterium Arabicè et Latinè, Romæ, 1619; and Kipling’s +facsimile of the Codex Bezæ, printed at Cambridge in 1793, 2 vols, folio. + +I also noticed two early editions of the Common Prayer, the one printed +by Barker at London in 1636, the other published at the same place in +1662; also the Pontificale Romanum, printed at Rome in 1645, folio; +Breviarium ad usum Sarum, Parisiis, 1519-25; Missale ad usum Sarum, +Parisiis, 1555; & Missale Romanum, apud Plantin, Antverpiæ, 1577, folio, +in old red morocco. + +Of Commentators I have already intimated that the number is too +large for minute specification. It will suffice therefore to mention +the Critici Sacri; Poli Synopsis; Comestoris Scholastica Historia, +Argentorati, 1503; Canisii Lectiones Antiquæ, in 4 vols. folio; De Rossi +Variæ Lectiones Veteris Testamenti, in 4 vols. 4to.; the well-known +Commentaries of Patrick, Lowth, Arnald, and Whitby; Pearce on the +Evangelists; Pococke on Hosea; and Blayney on Jeremiah. + +Proceed we therefore to the Fathers of the Church, who in common with +other early divines, were usually Commentators upon the Scriptures as +well as the teachers of its truth. Here we have the Works of Saints +Athanasius, Eusebius, Isidore, Cyprian, Augustine, Epiphanius, and +St. Jerome, with the writings of Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Clemens +Alexandrinus, Origen, & Lactantius; Philo Judæus, Parisiis, 1552; +Vincentii Speculum Majus; with the Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum, in 15 +vols. folio, and 2 volumes of the Supplement; and Dacherii Spicilegium, +in 13 vols. 4to. + +Among the earlier Divines of our own country, we may mention the Works +of Bede; Lanfranc Cantuar. Opera, Paris, 1648; and Anselm Cantuar. +Opera Theologica, Colon. 1573; and turning to those abroad may notice +the Works of Luther and Melancthon; Erasmus, Grotius, Vossius, Calvin, +and Bellarmine; and the Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, Irenop. 1656; +with Limborch, Theologia Christiana, Amst. 1695; and returning to the +Divines of our own country, we find the Works of Cuthbert Tonstall, and +of Tyndale, Hooker; of Bishop Jewel, Jackson, Hall, Hammond, Horne, +Stillingfleet, Barrow, Chillingworth, Horsley, Cudworth, Prideaux, +Hoadley, and Conybeare; Waterland, edited by Van Mildert; Bishop +Berkeley’s Works, in 2 vols. 4to.; and those of Warburton, Macknight, +Paley, Wake, Lardner, and Bingham. To which may be added the Hulsean and +Bampton Lectures; and numerous Sermons by various authors. + +In Ecclesiastical History, the valuable Annals of Baronius and Tornielli; +the invaluable Acta Sanctorum; Alfordi Annales Ecclesiastici Britanniæ, +in 4 vols. folio; Cressy’s Church History of Brittany; the Ecclesiastical +Histories of Cave, Collier, and Warner; Warton’s Anglia Sacra; Fuller’s +Church History; Du Monstier, Neustria Pia; Inett’s Church History; +Usher’s Annals; and Burnet’s History of the Reformation, occupy a +prominent place. + +To these may be added, Neal’s History of the Puritans; Josephus’ History +of the Jews, edited by Hudson, in 2 vols. folio; Magdeburgensis Historia +Ecclesiastica, Basileæ, 1559, in 8 vols. 4to.; Gualteri Chronicon +Chronicorum Eccl. Politicum, in 4 vols. 4to.; the Concilia Generalia, +in 4 vols. folio; Wilkins’ Concilia, in 4 vols. folio; and the Concilia +Maxima, in 15 stout folios, with the Apparatus in 2. + +Of General History, the most remarkable features are the Universal +History; Carionis Chronicon; Krantzii Chronicon Suecicum, &c.; Pighii +Annales Romanorum, in 2 vols. folio; Saken, Van Staet Netherlanden, in 4 +vols. folio, in old red morocco; Freheri Bohemicarum Rerum Scriptores; +the Asiatic Researches; Kæmpfer’s Japan; Maurice’s Hindostan; Rudbeck’s +Atlantica; Thuani Historia sui temporis; Ralegh’s History of the World; +Heylin’s Cosmography; Roscoe’s Leo X. and History of the Medici; +Robertson’s Foreign Histories; Knolles’ History of the Turks; Shaw’s +Travels; with Chappe d’Auteroche, Voyage en Siberie; and as relates more +particularly to Antiquities, the valuable Collections of Grævius and +Gronovius; with the Supplement of Gruter; and the Works of Montfaucon, +including his Diarium Italicum; together with Aringhi Roma Subterranea; +and Wood’s Antiquities of Balbec and Palmyra. + +With reference to those minute yet faithful monuments of former ages, +Coins, I noticed the Numismata of Spanheim; Folkes’s Coins; Ruding’s +Annals of the Coinage; and a most beautiful Copy of the Numismata +Pembrochiana upon large paper, bound in stout old russia, with an elegant +border of gold, the gift of Bishop Johnson to the Library of his own +Cathedral, about the middle of the last century. + +As connected with Foreign lands, I may here notice the Voyages of Cook, +Forster, Hawkesworth, and Vancouver; the Collections of Voyages by Harris +and Churchill; to which may be annexed Pinkerton’s Geography; and the +Atlas of Sansom. + +The earlier and more obscure portions of English History are admirably +elucidated by the Scriptores Francorum Coetanei collected by Du Chesne; +the Scriptores XV. edited by Gale and Fell; the Scriptores X. collected +by Twysden; the Scriptores post Bedam, edited by Savile; the Histories +of Mathew Paris, of Mathew of Westminster, and of Florence of Worcester; +the Fœdera of Rymer; Eadmeri Historia Novorum; Polydore Vergilii Hist. +Anglicana, &c.; Hemingii Chronicon Wigornense curâ Thomæ Hearne, 2 vols. +8vo.; and Guilielmi Neubrigensis Hist. Angl. Antverpiæ, 1567. + +I also noticed Fosbroke’s British Monachism; the Histories of England, +by Rapin and Tindal, Echard and Carte, Henry and Lingard, Brady, Hume, +and Macauley; the Chronycles of Englonde, with the fruyte of tymes, +printed at London in 1528; Baker’s Chronicle; the valuable Works of Stow +and Speed; Birch’s Memoirs of Elizabeth; Asseri Alfredi Annales; Bates’s +Elenchus Motuum; Strype’s Memorials; Dugdale’s Troubles, Baronage, and +Origines Juridiciales; Spelman’s Alfred, Oxford, 1678; May’s History of +the Long Parliament; Brooke’s Heraldry; Thurloe’s State Papers; Kennett’s +Register; Clarendon’s Works; Clanricarde’s Memoirs; Lyttelton’s Henry +II.; Ashmole’s Order of the Garter; Nalson’s Collections; Sandford’s +Genealogical History of the Kings of England; and Coronation of James +II.; to which I may add Boethii Historia Scotorum; Macpherson’s Original +Papers; and Dalrymple’s Memoirs. + +The Topography of England is here also illustrated by Camden’s Britannia, +edited by Gough; Twyne, Antiq. Oxon. Apologia; the Histories of +Oxford and Cambridge, published by Ackermann; Ducarel’s Anglo-Norman +Antiquities; Weever’s Funeral Monuments; Wood’s Athenæ et Antiquitates +Oxonienses; Loggan’s Oxonia Illustrata; the Marmora Oxoniensia; Dugdale’s +Monasticon Anglicanum, and History of Warwickshire; King’s Vale Royal +of Cheshire; Borlase’s Cornwall; Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire; Wright’s +Rutland; Nash’s Worcestershire; Atkyns’s Gloucestershire; Leycester’s +Cheshire; Bentham’s Ely; Gunton’s Peterborough; Green’s Worcester; +Thomas’ Worcester Cathedral; Antiquitates Prioratùs de Malvern, Londini, +1725, 8vo.; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities; Willis’s Cathedrals; Ecton’s +Thesaurus; and Tanner’s Notitia Monastica. + +As connected with English History; the Biographia Britannica of Kippis, +new, in calf; the General Biographical Dictionary of Chalmers; the +Memoirs of Evelyn and Pepys, of Walpole and Bishop Hough, who still lives +in marble in the adjacent Cathedral; Tomline’s Life of Pitt; and the +publications of the Record Commission deserve to be here recorded. + +And lastly, as illustrative of History, the English Atlas and Pinkerton’s +Geography; Collier’s Historical Dictionary, and Postlewaite’s Dictionary +of Commerce; Mabillon de Rê Diplomaticâ; Anderson’s Diplomata Scotiæ; and +the Itinerary of Antoninus, may be mentioned. + +Of works relating to the Laws of England, we find a Year Book of Edward +IV.; Coke’s Institutes; Blackstone’s Commentaries; Gibson’s Codex; Burn’s +Ecclesiastical Law; Lyndewode’s Provinciale; the Statutes at large; and +Selden’s Works. + +In Etymology there are in this Collection the following valuable Works, +calculated to render more intelligible the earlier historians of England; +Somner’s Glossary; Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis; Lye’s Saxon +Dictionary; Skinner’s Etymologicum Anglicanum; Davies’ Celtic Dictionary; +Menage’s Gothic Lexicon; Cotgrave’s French and English Dictionary; +Spelman’s Glossary; as well as others more general in their nature, +such as Stephani Thesaurus; Hoffmanni Lexicon; Suidæ Lexicon, Cantabr. +1705, 3 vols. folio; Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; D’Herbelot, Bibliotheque +Orientale; Johnson’s English Dictionary; Du Cange, Glossary; and the +labours of the learned Vossius. + +Of Classic Authors, though the list of names be copious, yet the editions +contained in this Library are neither remarkable for antiquity nor +covetable for their value. Of Homer, the Prince of Song, there is the +elegant impression of Foulis at Glasgow, the Iliad being on large, and +the Odyssey on small paper. To make amends for this however we have the +four volumes of the Commentaries of Eustathius, printed at Rome in 1550, +and Cowper’s Translation, in 2 vols. 4to. bound in red morocco. + +Of Cicero’s Works there are the editions of Basle in 1576, and of London +in 1680, and the Lugduno-Batavian impressions of Cæsar, Tacitus, and +Suetonius, of Virgil, Lucan, and Plautus, as well as Pliny. + +I also remarked Du Val’s editions of Aristotle’s Works; Athenæus, +Casauboni, 1657; Xenophontis Opera, Leunclavii; Plutarchi Opera, Francof. +1620; Horatius, Lambini, Francof. 1596; Seneca, Parisiis, 1627; Valerius +Maximus, Mediolani, 1505; Plinius Junior, Venetiis, 1519; Pindar, edited +by West and Welsted; Euripides, by Barnes; Isocrates, by Stephens; and +Arrian, by Gronovius; together with editions of Herodotus, Diodorus +Siculus, Livy, Dio Cassius, Thucydides, Polybius, and Strabo; of +Aristophanes, Ovid, Sophocles, and Terence; of Macrobius, Demosthenes, +Euclid, Plato, and Epictetus; Photii Bibliotheca et Epistolæ, and the +Corpus Poetarum Latinorum of Mattaire. + +Of English Literature, the principal features are the Works of Boyle, +Newton, Mede, Bacon, Addison, and Hobbes; Monk’s Life of Bentley; +Robertson’s Works; Antiquitates Middletonianæ, Londini, 1795, 4to.; +Watson’s Philip II.; the Athenian Letters; the Encyclopædia Britannica +and the Quarterly Review; Bedford’s Scripture Chronology; Bryant’s +Heathen Mythology; and Spence’s Polymetis. + +Of English Poetry, besides Warton’s admirable History thereof, I found +only Spenser’s Faerie Queen; Gower’s Confessio Amantis, 1509; Urry’s +edition of Chaucer’s Works; and Todd’s Milton. + +In Natural History, the only Works which met my eye were Raii Historia +Plantarum; Bocharti Hierozoicon; and the various Works of Aldrovandus. + +In Science I can only mention the Scriptores Logarithmici of Maseres, +with a hope that some portion of the fabric fund, hitherto so judiciously +applied to the restoration of the Cathedral of Worcester, may, when +this laudable object has been effected, be so applied as to augment the +literary treasures of the Dean and Chapter, now under the guardianship of +Mr. Clarke. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Library of York Minster. + + +The spacious and luminous apartment wherein the valuable Library of +the Dean and Chapter of York is deposited, was formerly the private +Chapel annexed to the Archbishop’s Palace, long since destroyed, and was +restored to its pristine splendour, and appropriated to its present use +by Dean Markham in 1806. The beauty of the west window is only equalled +by the comfort of the interior, warmed by a fire-place, and surrounded by +a light gallery affording access to the upper ranges of books. + +“Near the church is a very pretty Gothic Library, the arrangements of +which appeared to me very well contrived. Every book has three numbers on +the back. At the top, that of the shelf, then that of the compartment, +and below, its own number; so that it can be found in a moment. The +numbers are on pretty little labels, and do not at all deform the books. +In one corner is a very light and convenient staircase leading to the +gallery, which runs midway round the room. The alphabetical Catalogue is +arranged as follows: + +Page 20 + + -------+------------+---------------+--------+--------------+----------- + Form. | Letter C. | Edition. | Shelf. | Compartment. | Number. + -------+------------+---------------+--------+--------------+----------- + 8vo. | Cosmo, &c. | Verona, 1591. | II. | 7 | 189-192. + 4to. | Cavendish. | London, 1802. | I. | 5 | 52-55. + Folio. | Colley. | London, 1760. | XI. | 3 | 1080-1082. + 12mo. | Corneille. | Paris, 1820. | X. | 6 | 920-930. + -------+------------+---------------+--------+--------------+----------- + +“This will suffice to make it clear to you; and as I know by experience +what a difficult matter the managing of a Library is, and how many are +the ways of doing it, I send you this scheme, as very well suited to a +small collection of books. + +“I could not get a sight of any of the rare books or manuscripts kept +here, as the Librarian was absent. In a corner I found a very curious +drawing of the procession at the great Marlborough’s funeral. It is +almost incredible how totally the dresses and customs have altered +ever since that time. The aged clerk who conducted me about, said he +remembered, when a boy, to have seen soldiers with long bag wigs, like +those in the picture.” + +This locality has been so minutely described by the lively pen of a +continental writer, that I have made the foregoing extract from a “Tour +in Germany, Holland, and France in the years 1826, 1827, and 1828, with +Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of +distinguished Public Characters, in a series of letters, by a German +Prince” (Puckler Muskau). “In four volumes, London, Effingham Wilson, +Royal Exchange, 1832,” vol. iv. 169-170. + +The Catalogue, though carelessly written, is alphabetically arranged, and +the books are not disfigured by printed labels on their backs, indeed +this Library has very much the aspect of a private collection, and may +vie with many in the value of its contents. + +The valuable body of Manuscripts including those of Mr. Torre on +Ecclesiastical affairs; Bracton de legibus Angliæ; and two Manuscripts +of Cicero, collated by Hearne for the Oxford edition; the three latter, +attired in crimson velvet, are preserved with all the care which their +intrinsic worth demands. + +The printed books are also adorned in many instances with russia and +morocco, indicating a becoming sense of the true value of these literary +treasures. + +But the gem of this Collection is most assuredly the vellum copy of the +second edition of the New Testament, edited by Erasmus, and printed +by Froben, in 2 volumes, folio, at Bâsle in 1519. The beauty of the +press work, the lustre of the ink, and the purity of the vellum must +excite the admiration of every true lover of ancient typography. These +resplendent volumes retain their original coverture, and are protected +by loose cases, but have been rebacked; and as they are rather choked in +the binding should be attired in blue morocco with white silk insides, +whereon should be stamped in letters of gold, “YORK MINSTER LIBRARY,” +and enclosed in locked cases of russia, lined with velvet. Let us be +particular in describing the contents of these precious tomes. + +The recto of the first leaf of the first volume presents us with the +Title of the New Testament, surrounded by a wood-cut border, and on the +reverse is the Pope’s license similarly encadred. Then immediately follow +the Preface, Paraclesis and Prolegomena occupying, together with the +title, 120 pages regularly numbered. The New Testament, printed in two +columns, the right of Latin, and the left of Greek text, in Greek and +Roman letter, follows this preliminary matter, having a separate title +prefixed, and occupies 566 pages exclusive of the last leaf, containing +the Errata, Index, Terminorum, and the following Colophon: + + “BASILEAE IN AEDIBUS IOANNIS FROBENII” + ANNO SALVTIS HVMANAE M.D.XIX. + MENSE MARTIO. + +On the reverse is the usual device of Froben. + +The second volume contains the Annotations of Erasmus on the New +Testament, and are preceded by a title encadred as in the preceding +volume, and concluded by the “Index Terminorum” on the recto, the last +leaf numbered p. 579. The paginary figures are consecutive, and include +the title. On the reverse of the last leaf appears the well-known device +of Froben, and immediately beneath it the following Colophon: + + “BASILEAE APVD IOHANNEM” + FROBENIVM MENSE + MARTIO. M.D.XIX. + +The clear Roman character of both volumes is precisely similar, and the +Greek remarkably distinct. Marginal references occur throughout both +volumes, which are alike distinguished by signatures, catch-words, and +paging figures, and have many of the initial letters cut in wood. + +Of equal interest with reference to English typography are the smaller +pieces of Caxtonian literature, which here exist in the shape of +two small works in metre, most rare and of especial note which were +discovered by Master Thomas Frognall Dibdin Clerk, in the year of our +Lord 1816, of which same marvellous discovery he pleasantly discourseth +in the Bibliographical Decameron, v. III. p. 416-19. The first of these +curious Metrical pieces consists of 9 leaves in 4to. concluding on the +reverse of sign. f. g. with these words: + + “Explicit the Chorle and the birde.” + +It has been reprinted by the Roxburghe Club, and a manuscript note by +Dr. Dibdin informs us that another copy exists in the Public Library +at Cambridge. The second of these Metrical pieces owns Lydgate for its +author, beginning with these words: + + “The hors the shepe and the ghoos” + +It is also in 4to. consisting of 15 leaves, and concluding with the word: +“Explicit.” + +Both these little tomes are executed in the rude Gothic type usually +ascribed to Caxton, and are bound in blue morocco. + +I next opened three translations from the Works of Cicero, all from the +press of Caxton. The first has a gratuitous MS. title of “Cicero on +Honour,” and consists of 7 leaves. It begins thus on the recto of the +first leaf: + + “Here maketh the Argument of the declamacyon which laboureth to + shewe wherin honoure sholde reste.” + +On the reverse of the seventh and last leaf, we read the conclusion thus: + + “Thus endeth this lytil book.” + +Beneath some one has added in red ink MS. capitals: + + “EXPLICIT PER CAXTON + MCCCC LXXXI.” + +This thin folio is very shabbily half bound. + +The two next tractates of Cicero are bound in one volume in folio; the +first being entitled, + + “Tullyus de Senectute.” + +preceded by two leaves of table, and ending with the word “Explicit,” +immediately beneath which is this Colophon: + +“Thus endeth the Book of Tully of Old Age, translated out of Latin +into French, by Laurence de Primo-Facto, at the commandment of the +noble prince Louis, Duke of Bourbon; and enprinted by me simple person +William Caxton, into English, at the pleasure, solace, and reverence of +men growing into old age, the xii day of August, the year of our Lord +M.CCCC.lxxxj.” + +The second tractate commences with these words: + + “Here followeth the said Tullius de Amicitia.” + +and endeth thus, + + “Explicit per Caxton.” + +The signatures run from a 1. to f 4. and both pieces appear to be +perfect, though Dibdin who mentions only the first, affirms the contrary +in his Decameron, but probably opening the volume in his lucernal +examination, and turning to the end thereof, without remarking that it +contained two separate pieces, and missing the well-known colophon quoted +above, might have concluded the volume from thence imperfect. + +The next and last Caxtonian production which occurred to me in this +Library was, + +“The Booke of the Fayttes of Armes and of Chyvalrye, which Christine of +Pyse drew out of Vegetius de re militari.” This work written in French +under the title of “Le Livre des faits d’Armes et de Chevalrie par +Christine de Pisan,” was delivered to Caxton by king Henry the Seventh +“in his palais of Westmestre the xxiii day of Januyere the iiii year of +his regne, who desyred and wylled him to translate this said booke, and +reduce it into our english and natural tongue and to put it in prynte, +which Translacion was finished the viiith day of Juyll the sayd year and +emprynted the xiiith day of Juyll next following and full fynyshed” in +1489. + +The present copy bound in sorry calf, and lettered “Christian of Pisa,” +is unfortunately imperfect at the end, wanting all from sign. S. i. to +the end. It has however the Table of two leaves which precedes the text. + +Among the other early printed Books I noticed, “The Ordynary of Chrysten +men” printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1506, 4to. which a manuscript note by +Dibdin says is “not quite perfect.” It is bound in blue morocco with gilt +leaves. + +The Polychronicon of Ranulph Higden, translated out of Latin into English +by John Trevisa, and reprinted from Caxton’s edition by Peter Treveris at +London in 1527, folio. It is bound in pale russia, and is perfect. And +the Dives and Pauper, printed by Pynson at London in 1537, 4to. + +Hitherto I have only skimmed over the surface of this valuable +Collection, selecting such relics of the olden time as fastidious +bibliomaniacs especially delight in. + +The best editions of the Classics, and of the Fathers form a considerable +portion of this Collection, though I sought in vain for any first +editions of the Classic Authors. + +The value of this Collection demands a particular account of its +component parts, and I commence accordingly with the Sacred Writings. + +Of Impressions in the original Hebrew I remarked the Bomberg Hebrew +Bible, printed at Venice in 1618, in two folio volumes; and the Hebrew +Bibles edited by Kennicott and Vander Hooght; Walton’s Polyglott Bible +is also found here. In Greek the Aldine Psalter, the Alexandrine Codex, +edited by Woide; and the Codex Beza, edited by Kipling chiefly merit +notice. The Latin Versions are numerous, including that printed at Venice +in 1498; and the Biblia Latina Junii, Francofurti, 1589. The English +Versions are also numerous. Of these the Doway Bible of 1609; the Oxford +Bible of 1680; an imperfect copy of Matthews’ Bible of 1549; and another +London edition in 1602; the Cambridge Bible of 1682; Wilson’s Bible of +1783; a Bible printed at York in 1789; and D’Oyly and Mant’s Bible with +Notes, &c. are the most remarkable. I also noticed the German Bible +printed at Nuremberg in 1541; French and Indian Bibles; and the Rhemish +Testament by Fulke. + +The Commentaries, Concordances, and other illustrations of Holy Writ in +this Library form a valuable part of this Collection. + +This Library can also boast a very excellent collection of the best +editions of the Fathers of the Church. The labours of S.S. Ambrose, +Anselm, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Chrysostom, Clemens Alexandrinus, +Cyprian, Cyril, Epiphanius, Eusebius, Fulgentius, Gregory Nazianzen, +Hilary, Jerome, Irenæus, Isidore, Lactantius, Origen, Philo Judæus, +Tertullian, Theodoret, Theophylact, and other pillars of the Faith here +exist for the edification of the theological student. + +The mass of Catholic Divinity is considerable, including the Works of the +Venerable Bede, Cardinal Bellarmine, Bernard, Theodore Beza, Bonaventura, +Cassiodorus, Gregory, Lanfranc, Duns Scotus, Hugo Victor, and Zanchius; +Zuinglii Opera Omnia; with many others of lesser note. + +This Collection of Theology also embraces, Montfaucon, Collectio Nova +Patrum; the Bibliotheca Patrum; Cotelerii Patres Apostolici; the Critici +Sacri; and Pole’s Synopsis; Cruden’s Concordance; De Rossi Variæ +Lectiones in Vetus et Novum Testamentum; Limborch, Theologia Christiana; +Michaelis’ Introduction to the New Testament; Outram de Sacrificiis; the +Commentaries of Patrick, Pearce, &c.; Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus; +Vincentii Speculum Majus; and Walchii Bibliotheca Theologica et +Patristica. + +In this Library are found Casaubon’s Erasmus of 1514; the Works of +Calvin, Grotius, Luther, Melancthon, and other Divines of that age. + +In English Divinity this Collection includes the Works of Lancelot +Andrews, Alison, Barrow, Bishop Berkeley, Archbishop Bramhall, +Chillingworth, Samuel Clarke, Hacket, Hammond, Hoadly, Jackson, Jewel, +Lardner, Lowth, Macknight, Mede, Ogden, Paley, Perkins, Porteus, +Prideaux, Sherlock, Stackhouse, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tillotson, +Warburton, Waterland, Watson, Whitaker, and Whitgift. + +I also observed the series of Bampton Lectures; the Bridgewater +Treatises; Sermons by Blair, Saurin, Secker, and many others; Bingham’s +Antiquities of the Christian Church; Burnet on the Thirty-nine Articles; +Butler’s Analogy; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; Gale’s Court of the +Gentiles; Hey’s Lectures; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Kett on +Prophecy; Pearson on the Creed; and the Works of Archbishop Usher. + +I may here notice the Histories of the Jews by Basnage, and Josephus; and +Spencer de legibus Hebræorum. + +In Ecclesiastical History this Library possesses the Ecclesiastical +Annals of Baronius; Tornielli Annales Sacri; Bacon’s Liber Regis; +Brandt’s History of the Reformation in the Low Countries; Burnet’s +History of the Reformation in England; Concertatio Ecclesiæ Catholicæ, +&c. 1588; the Acts of the Ecclesiastical Councils and Conferences, &c.; +Dupin’s Ecclesiastical History; Fuller’s Church History; Harpsfeld, +Historia Ecclesiastica; Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History; Lyndewode’s +Provinciale; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Parker de Antiquitate +Ecclesiæ Britannicæ; Sanderus, de Schismate Anglicano; Spotswode’s +History of the Church of Scotland; Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials; and +Symeon Dunelmensis de exordio et procursu istius Ecclesiæ, edente Thomâ +Bedford, 1732, 8vo. + +The Historical department of this Collection embraces the great body of +Byzantine Historians, edited by Labbe; Bouquet, Recueil des Historiens +des Gaules, of which the first 13 volumes are in red morocco, the +remaining 5 in boards. Muratori Thesaurus Antiquitatum, &c. Mediolani, +1723, in 22 folio volumes, with the Corpus Inscriptionum, by Gruter, in 5 +volumes in folio; Pitisci Lexicon; and the ponderous folios of Bayle. + +I also noticed Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Hooke’s +Roman History; Maurice’s Indostan; Mezeray, Histoire de France, Paris, +1643, in 3 folio volumes; Mitford’s History of Greece; Robertson’s +Historical Works; Thuani Historia sui Temporis; Wilkins’ Magna Græca; and +Zonaræ Annales. + +This Library is embellished by Whitaker’s Illustrations of the Topography +of Yorkshire; Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments; and the Bibliothecæ Regiæ +Catalogus, all in folio. + +Of books relating to British History, these shelves contain many, both +curious and important. I may mention the Scriptores post Bedam; Camdeni +Anglica, Normannica, &c. à veteribus Scripta; Annales Henrici VIII.; +Boetius and Buchanan Historia Scotorum; Brady’s History of England; +Burnet’s History of his own Time; Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion, +and his State Papers; Daniel’s History of England; Dalrymple’s Memoirs; +Eadmeri Historia Novorum; Fabian’s Chronicle; Fiddes’ Life of Wolsey; +Florentii Wigornensis Chronicon; Holinshed’s Chronicle of 1581; Grafton’s +Chronicle; Galfridi Monumetensis Historia Britonum; Matthæi Paris +Historia Anglicana; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum; the +Polychronicon of Ranulph Higden; Rapin and Tindal’s History of England; +Rymer’s Fœdera, 20 folio volumes; Smith de Rêpublicâ Anglorum; Speed’s +History of Britain; Strafford’s State Papers; Todd’s Lives of Walton and +Cranmer; Twine de Rebus Albionicis; Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed +Intelligence; Polydore Vergil, Historia Anglicana; Welwood’s Memoirs; +Whitelock’s Memorials; Winwood’s Memorials; the Parliamentary History +of England, in 24 octavo volumes; and the Records published by the +Parliamentary Commission. + +The Topography and Antiquities of England are illustrated by the +valuable series of the Archæologia; Atkyns’ Gloucestershire; Britton’s +York Cathedral; Burton’s Monasticon Eboracense; Burton’s History of +Leicestershire; Camden’s Britannia, edited by Gough; the Descriptions of +the English Cathedrals, published by the Antiquarian Society; Davies’ +Celtic Researches; Drake’s York; Gent’s Histories of York, Ripon, and +Hull, with some Account of the East Window of York Minster; Gough’s +Sepulchral Monuments, in 5 folio volumes; Grose’s Antiquities of England, +Wales, Ireland, and Scotland; Halfpenny’s Fragmenta Vetusta; Horsley’s +Britannia Romana; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities; Leland’s Collectanea +de rebus Britannicis; Loggan’s Oxonia et Cantabrigia Illustrata; +Nash’s Views of St. George’s Chapel at Windsor; Nicolson’s Histories +of Cumberland and Westmoreland; Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa; Raine’s +North Durham; Sanderson’s Durham Abbey; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica; the +History and Antiquities of York, 1785, in 4 volumes, 8vo.; Torr’s York; +Whitaker’s History of Craven, and his Ducatus Lancastriæ; and Willis’ +History of the Cathedrals. + +I may here mention the long series of the Philosophical Transactions of +the Royal Society of London; the Memoirs of the Manchester Philosophical +Society; the Harleian Miscellany; Harris’ Life of Charles the First; +Nichols’ Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, and Collection of Royal Wills; +the Somers Tracts; and Kippis’ Biographia Britannica. + +The Bibliographical Works I noticed, were Bale, de Scriptoribus +Britannicis; the Bibliotheca Matritensis; Bibliotheca Chethamensis; +Bibliothecæ Regiæ Catalogus; Catalogus MSS. Angliæ et Hiberniæ, &c.; De +Bure, Bibliographie Instructive; Dibdin’s Bibliographical Decameron, +Typographical Antiquities, and Introduction to the Classics; Fabricii, +Bibliotheca Græca Ecclesiastica et Latina; Gesner’s Bibliotheca; Gough’s +Account of Works on British Topography; Le Long, Bibliotheca Sacra; +Photii Bibliotheca; and the Roxburghe Library Catalogue. + +To these may be added, Mabillon de re diplomaticâ; Waltheri, Lexicon +Diplomaticum; and Montfaucon’s Palæographia Græca. + +The Classical department of this Library embraces the productions of +Ælian, Æschylus, Apuleius, Archimedes, Appian, Aristotle, Athenagoras, +Athenæus, Aristophanes, Ausonius, Catullus, Demosthenes, Dionysius +Halicarnassensis, Dioscorides, Epictetus, Euclid, Euripides, Aulus +Gellius, Hippocrates, Homer, Horace, Justin, Juvenal, Livy, Macrobius, +Ammianus Marcellinus, Ovid, Pausanias, Philostratus, Propertius, +Quintilian, Sallustius, Seneca, Silius Italicus, Sophocles, Suetonius, +Tacitus, Terence, Thucydides, Tibullus, Valerius Maximus, Vegetius, +Virgil, and Xenophon. + +Of none of these authors did I observe the first editions, but many good +and some indifferent impressions occur throughout. + +I noticed particularly Anacreon, Fischeri; Aristides, Jebbii; Aurelius +Victor, Delphini; Bion and Moschus, by Wakefield; Ciceronis Opera, +Aldi, Venetiis, 1592-3, and Lambini, and by Victorius, the Sospitator +Ciceronis, and others; Quintus Curtius, Snakenburgii; Diodorus Siculus, +Wetstenii; Herodotus, Gronovii; Hesiodus, Robinsoni; the Glasgow Homer, +printed by Foulis; Lucianus, Hemsterhusii; Lucanus, Oudendorpii; +Lucretius, Havercampi; Lycophron, Potteri; Martialis, Aldi, Venetiis, +1501, 8vo.; Mythographi Veteres, by Van Staveren; Orphica, edita ab +Hermanno; Velleius Paterculus, Ruhnkenii; Platonis Opera, Serrani; +Pindarus, Heynii; Plautus, Lambini; Plutarchus, Xylandri; Plotinus, +Ficini; Poetæ Græci, Stephani; Ptolomæi Geographia, Venetiis, 1562, +4to.; Prudentius, Arevali, Romæ, 1788-9, in 2 quarto volumes; Oratores +Græci, Aldi, Venetiis, 1513, 2 vols. folio; Rhetores Latini Antiqui, +Paris. 1599, 4to.; Rei Rusticæ Scriptores Gesneri; and the Characters of +Theophrastus. + +The Etymological Works in this Collection are Cooper’s Thesaurus; +Facciolati Lexicon; Gesneri Thesaurus; Hederici Lexicon; Hickes’ +Thesaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium; Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary; +Johnson’s English Dictionary; Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum à Lye; +Linacre de emendatâ Structurâ Latini Sermonis, Londini, 1524, 4to.; +Pagnini, Thesaurus Linguæ Sanctæ; Schleusner’s Lexicon in Novum +Testamentum; Skinner’s Etymologicon Anglicanum; and Suidæ Lexicon. + +In English Literature this Library contains the Works of Boyle, Evelyn, +Locke, Milton, Purchas’ Pilgrims; Shakespeare, 1685; Spelman, and others. +Also Hakluyt’s Voyages; James the First’s Book of Sports, London, 1618; +Lyndsay’s Poems in Scotch; Horsley’s edition of Newton’s Works; Quarles’ +Emblems; Scott’s Life of Napoleon; and Tyrwhitt’s edition of Chaucer’s +Works. + +In Italian Literature this Collection embraces the Works of Ariosto, +Aretino, Dante, Guicciardini, Machiavelli, and Ubaldino. Also Sannazaro’s +Arcadia, and Tasso, &c. Vinegia, 1581, &c. + +In French Literature will be found the productions of Basnage, Bossuet, +Corneille, Dacier, Drelincourt, and others. As well as Dacier’s Horace; +the Romant de la Rose, Paris, 1531; Scudery, Les Femmes Illustres; and a +French Bible of 1535. + +The Geographical Works which occurred to me were D’Anville’s Ancient +Geography; Heylin’s Cosmography; Pitt’s English Atlas; and Vincent’s +Periplus of the Erythræan Sea. + +I also noticed Blair’s Chronology; Bryant’s Mythology; and Spence’s +Polymetis. + +The Heraldic Works in this Collection include Boswell on Armorie; +Collins’ Peerage; and Dugdale’s Baronage. + +The Works on Natural History which I noticed were Buffon’s Histoire +Naturelle in 45 vols. 4to.; Ellis’ Zoophytes; Gesneri Historia Animalium; +and Pennant’s British Zoology. + +The Miscellaneous Books include many too obscure for notice; and others +such as Oughtred, Clavis Mathematica; Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus +Rerum; the Aurea Legenda of 1493 and 1516; Hawkins’ History of Music; a +copy of the Koran; the Marmora Arundeliana; Murphy’s Church of Batalha; +Rosini, Antiquitates Romanæ; Puffendorf and Saxo-Danicus; deserve +succinct enumeration. + +Rituals of the Romish and Reformed Churches are here found in various +forms. Of the former I observed the Missale Romanum, printed at Antwerp +in 1577 and 1590, and at Paris in 1616. Of the latter the Common Prayer +published in 1605, 1625, and 1640, the last a plague year. + +The Library of the Dean and Chapter of York derived its chief treasures +from the munificence of Bishop Matthews, whose Collection was formed in +the seventeenth century. It was still further enriched by the Library of +Dr. Fothergill, bequeathed by him to the Cathedral in the commencement +of the eighteenth century. Subsequent additions have been made to the +Collection, chiefly from the widow of the Rev. William Burge, D.D. + +The number of printed books in this Library, when augmented by those of +Bishop Matthews, amounted to four thousand one hundred and sixty-two +volumes. Dr. Fothergill’s books, in number one thousand five hundred and +twenty, increased the sum to five thousand six hundred and eighty-two, +which subsequent donations and additions have augmented to nearly eight +thousand at the present time. + +The Catalogues of this Library are both copious and accurate. The first +is a large folio volume, containing the Alphabetical Catalogue of Books, +and having at the end the following “Memorandum. The Books were new +classed, lettered and numbered by the Rev. Mr. William Richardson, one +of the Vicar’s Choral, and Minister of St. Michael Le Belfry, and this +Catalogue was transcribed by the Rev. Mr. John Coulthred Minister of +Hickleton in the West Riding of the County of York.” + +“York, January 12th, 1775.” + +“The Catalogue when transcribed contained about four thousand one hundred +and sixty-two volumes.” It is also added: “This Catalogue which is as +accurate as the nature of the thing will admit of, was begun in the year +of our Lord 1774, and finished in the year 1775.” + +This volume is bound in calf, lettered on the sides, “Cat. Libr. in Bibl. +Eccles. Cath. Ebor. &c. 1774.” + +The second Catalogue was compiled in alphabetical order by the Rev. James +Dallin, the present Librarian, with reference to the shelves on which the +books are placed. This work is comprised in 4 folio volumes with ample +interpaginary spaces for additions. + + Vol. I. containing shelf I to XVII. A to H. + II. I to VIII. I to O. + III. IX to XV. P to Z. + IV. Dr. Burge’s Books on Divinity. + +The third Catalogue is a small 4to. volume, containing the list of +Dr. Fothergill’s Books, whereby I have been enabled to preserve the +individuality of that Collection, although its component parts are now +merged in the greater Collection which they have contributed to enrich. +But as I wish the labours of each Collector, where possible, to speak for +themselves, I have reserved this portion of the York Minster Library for +a separate notice. + +I will commence with the Theological department of the worthy Doctor’s +Collection. Here are the Works of Bishop Andrews, Beveridge, Bramhall, +Goodman, Hall, Hammond, Jackson, Kettlewell, Leslie, Lightfoot, Louth, +Ostervald, Pierce, Prideaux, Sanderson, Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor, +Tillotson, Usher, Wake, Waterland, Whitaker, and Whitgift. + +Of the Fathers, we have S.S. Augustine, Cyprian, Cyril, Eusebius, +Isidore, Justin Martyr, Origen, Tertullian, Theodoret, and Clementis +Alexandrini Opera Græcè, Florentiæ, 1550, folio. + +I also noticed Atterbury’s Sermons; Bingham’s Origines Ecclesiasticæ, +Londini, 1708, in 11 vols.; Burnet on the Thirty-nine Articles; Bythner +in Psalmos; Cave’s Primitive Christianity, and Lives of the Fathers; +Fiddes’ Body of Divinity; Field on the Church, Oxford, 1635; Hooker’s +Ecclesiastical Polity; Howel’s Synopsis Canonum; Jewel’s Apology; Leigh’s +Critica Sacra; Pearson on the Creed, and his Opera Posthuma; Pole’s +Synopsis Criticorum, &c.; Sparrow on the Common Prayer; Stanhope on the +Epistles and Gospels; Stillingfleet’s Origines and other Works; Tenison +on Idolatry; Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England; and Wilkins +on Natural Religion. + +To these may be added the Works of Bellarmine, Bernard, Erasmus, Heylin, +Thomas à Kempis, Laud, Melancthon, and Thomas Aquinas. + +Of Bibles, the Polyglott of Walton, like some other duplicates in the +Fothergill Library has been since exchanged for other books which the +Minster Library did not previously contain. I noticed a copy of Cranmer’s +Bible; and the Bible printed at Cambridge in 1663; also a Latin Bible of +1527; I also noticed Hearne’s Acta Apostolorum, Oxonii, 1715, 8vo. + +Of Rituals this Collection presents some of great interest with relation +to the Church to which they are now annexed. These are the Breviarium +Eboracense Hyemale, Paris. 1525; Horæ B. M. V. in usum Eboraci, and +Sarum, Paris. 1527; and the Pica Eboracensis in 4to. commencing with the +Prologue of “Thome Hanibal legis doctoris ac canonici Ebor. i̅ Pica Ebor. +nup a discreto viro dn̅o Thoma Hothyrsal Ecclesiæ Ebor Vicario Chorali +revisa et emendata pludium.” Then follows the “Tabula incipiens Anno M +DCCCC lxxxxvii.” succeeded by the “Pica seu directorium Sacerdotum ad +usum Eboracense,” a work which is unfortunately imperfect at the end. +This volume is bound in calf. + +I also observed the Common Prayer Book of 1662; the Breviarium in usum +Sarum, Londini, 1555; the Manipulus Curatorum of 1495; the Martyrologium +Romanum; and the Pontificale Romanum, Antverpiæ, 1627; also Alcoran, +London, 1649; and Genevæ Catechesis, Genevæ, 1609. + +As connected with Ecclesiastical affairs, I may here introduce Bedæ +Historia Ecclesiastica Anglicana, Lovanii, 1566; and Cantabrigiæ, 1722; +Burnet’s Reformation; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; the History of +the Reformation in Scotland, London, 1646; Synodus Anglicana & Parochial +Visitations; Godwin’s Lives of the Bishops; Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ +Anglicanæ; Lyndewode’s Provinciale; Parker, de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ +Britannicæ, 1729, folio; Platina de Vitis Pontificum; Spencer de Legibus +Hebræorum; Strype’s Annals of the Reformation; Walker’s Sufferings of the +Clergy; and Warton’s Anglia Sacra, &c. + +The Historical department of this Collection includes Carionis Chronicon; +Cluverius, Germania Antiqua; Josephus, Hudsoni, Oxonii, 1720, in 2 folio +volumes; Simpson’s Chronicon Catholicon; Thuani Historia sui temporis; +and Whear’s Methodus legendi Historiam; but is more particularly rich +in works relating to the History of England. Of these I feel pleasure +in recording Barnes’ Life of Edward the Third; Barwick’s Life of Dean +Barwick; Bates’ Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Angliâ; Bedford’s Hereditary +Right to the Crown of England; Clarendon’s Rebellion; Daniel’s History of +England; Gale and Fell’s Scriptores XV Historiæ Britannicæ, in 3 vols. +folio; Gibson’s Chronicon Saxonicum; Godwin’s Annals; Madox’s Formulare +Anglicanum and History of the Exchequer; Polydore Vergil’s Historia +Anglicana; Prisei Defensio Historiæ Britanniæ; Oclandi Anglorum Prælia, +Londini, 1582; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Sacheverell’s Tryal; +Sheringham de Origine Gentis Anglorum; Spelman’s Life of Alfred, and +his Reliquiæ; Rossi Warvicensis Historia Regum Angliæ, Oxonii, 1716, +8vo.; Hearne’s editions of T. Livii Vita Henrici V. printed at Oxford in +1716, 8vo.; Warner’s Albion’s England, London, 1612; and Wood’s Athenæ +Oxonienses. + +The Works on English Topography and Antiquities which fell under +my notice were, Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ; the Itinerary of +Antoninus, edited by Burton and by Gale; Camden’s Britannia and Remains +concerning Britain; Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, Lond. 1655, in 3 +vols. folio; the History and Antiquities of Hereford, London, 1717; +Kennet’s Parochial Antiquities; Risdon’s Devon; Ogilby’s Roads in +England; Gunton’s Peterborough Cathedral; Somner’s Canterbury; Thoresby’s +Leeds; Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence relating to +English Antiquities; Willis’ Account of the Cathedrals of St. Asaph, +Bangor, Llandaff, and St. David’s, with his Notitia Parliamentaria; the +Antiquities of Westminster, London, 1711, and London, 1722; and the +Antiquities of Winchester Cathedral, London, 1715. + +The Heraldic Works in this Library include Guillim’s Heraldry of 1660, +folio; Leigh’s Accidence of Armorie; Philipot’s Origin of Heraldry, +London, 1672; Segar’s Catalogue of Honour, Military and Civil, London, +1602; and Yorke’s Union of Honour. + +In Etymology I was chiefly interested by Benson’s Vocabularium +Anglo-Saxonicum; Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; Calepini Dictionarium, +Basileæ, 1542; Castell’s Lexicon; Munster’s Dictionarium Trilingue; +Morel’s Latin Dictionary; Dufresne’s Glossary, Latin and Greek; Hickes’ +Thesaurus and Anglo-Saxon Grammar; Lhuyd, Archæologia Britannica; +Montfaucon’s Palæographia Græca; Pagnini Thesaurus Linguæ Sanctæ; Scapulæ +Lexicon; Spelman’s Glossary; Stephani Lexicon; and Suidæ Lexicon, +Cantabrigiæ, 1705, in 3 folio volumes. + +The Classical department includes the Works of Ælian, Æsop, Agapetus, +Appian, Aristotle, Aulus Gellius, Ausonius, Cæsar, Callimachus, Claudian, +Demosthenes, Eutropius, Herodian, Hesiod, Isocrates, Juvenal, Lucian, +Lucretius, Lycophron, Macrobius, Martial, Nicander, Ovid, Pausanias, +Persius, Plautus, Plutarch, Quintilian, Sallust, Sophocles, Suetonius, +Tacitus, Terence, Theocritus, Vegetius, Velleius Paterculus, Virgil, and +Vitruvius. + +I also noticed Apollodori Bibliotheca, Romæ, 1555; Athenæus Casauboni; +Barnes’ Euripides; Ciceronis Opera Omnia, 1646; Diodorus Siculus, Ed. +Pr. Græcè, Basileæ, 1539, 4to.; Dionysius Halicarnasseus, Lond. 1658, +and Lipsiæ, 1691; Epicteti Enchiridion, Lugd. Bat. 1640; Herodotus, +Francofurti, 1608, folio; Homeri Opera, Venetiis, 1527; the Delphin +Horace, with the editions of Bond and Bentley; Ogilby’s Æsop; Plinii +Historia Naturalis, 1593, in 3 folio volumes; the Epistles of Pliny +the Younger; the Basil Editions of Pomponius Mela, and of Seneca; +the Geography of Ptolemy, Thucydides, Francofurti, 1594, folio; and +Xenophontis Opera, edente Wells, Oxonii, 1703, 8vo. + +The Bibliographical books comprehend Blount’s Censura Literaria; +Catalogus MSS. Coll. CCC. Cantab. à Nasmith, in 4to.; Leland’s +Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis, Oxonii, 1709; and Nicolson’s +Historical Libraries. + +The Works on Natural History include Culpepper’s English Physician; +Evelyn’s Sylva of 1664; Grew’s Rarities; Morison’s Catalogue of Plants +in the Botanic Garden of Oxford, &c.; the Phytologia Britannica, London, +1650; Raii Historia Plantarum, Compendium Plantarum Angliæ; & Methodus +observandi Plantas. + +Of Legal Works I noticed only the Corpus Juris Civilis; Gibson’s Codex +Juris Ecclesiastici, &c.; Fulwood’s Leges Angliæ; Fitzherbert’s Natura +Brevium; Wilkins’ Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ; and Wottoni Leges Wallicæ. + +In Chronology and Geography I observed Isaacson’s Chronology & Petavii +Rationale Temporum; Ortelii Thesaurus Geographicus; and Wells’ Geography. + +In Mathematics these shelves are equally deficient, having only the +London Euclid of 1666; and the Opera Mathematica of Wallis. + +In English Literature this Collection contains the Works of Bacon, Boyle, +King Charles the First, Cowley, Locke, Milton, Mede, Speed, and other +authors of less reputation; Chaucer’s Tales, in black letter, by Pynson, +a copy which had formerly belonged to Thomas Pope Blount, the author of +the Censura Literaria; the Life of Dugdale, 1713; Butler’s Hudibras, +London, 1678; and Ben Jonson’s Works, London, 1640. + +The Miscellaneous volumes afford some pieces of Dodwell and Selden; the +Works of Dante and Guicciardini & Machiavelli; Politian, Scaliger, and +Kennett’s Antiquities of Rome; Leland’s Collectanea de rebus Britannicis, +Oxonii, 1715, in 6 volumes 8vo. edited by Hearne; Lyrani Rep. Lugd. Bat. +1528, in 5 folio volumes; Polydore Vergil de Rerum Inventoribus; and some +pieces of the learned Vossius. + +The Catalogue of this Collection, formed by Dr. Fothergill, was compiled +by the Rev. John Coulthred, of Hickleton, in a 4to. volume, which has +this memorandum at its close. “This Catalogue when transcribed (by the +Rev. John Coulthred) contained about one thousand five hundred and twenty +volumes.” + +It will be perceived, in looking over the preceding pages, that the +addition of Dr. Fothergill’s books to the York Minster Library, caused +several duplicates in that Collection; but I have preferred incurring +tediousness by repetition, to impairing the integrity of the Library by +the omission of these volumes. + +It only remains for me to notice the Manuscripts in the possession of +the Dean and Chapter of York. These interesting remains of the Monastic +Library of York include many copies of the Sacred Scriptures in the +Latin Vulgate then in use, one bearing date A.D. 692, and various +portions of the Sacred Writings. Of these I particularly noticed, + + S.S. Bibliorum Pars. viz. Regum libri IV. Isaiah, Jeremiah, + Esekiel, Daniel, Osea, Joel, Amos, Abdia, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, + Abacoc, Zephaniah, Haggæ, Zacchariah, Malachi, Job, Psalmi, + folio. + + Pars altera Bibliorum, viz. Proverb, Ecclesiastes, Cantica, + Sapientia, Ecclus. Paralipomena, Esdras, Esther, Tobias, + Maccabees. + + S. Jerome’s Version of the Old and New Testament, Ezechiel, and + Paralipomena. + + A Fragment of the Book of Ruth, and other portions of Holy Writ. + +Of the Fathers I noticed Augustine and Origen. + +Of Theological Writings I observed those of Bellarmine; Boetius de +Trinitate; Grosteste, Manuel de Pecheur; Fothergill on Liturgies, in 8 +volumes; Jewel’s Tracts against Dissenters and Papists; and Grosthead’s +Sermons. + +I also noticed the Legenda Sanctorum, and the Speculum Spiritualium, +formerly a Reliquary to the Priory of Mount Grace. + +The Historical Manuscripts here preserved are a Collection of Passages +of State under Queen Elizabeth and King James; Sir John Harington on the +King of Scots’ Right of Succession; the Life of Cardinal Wolsey; Thomæ de +Eccleton de Adventu Minorum in Angliâ; and Fabian’s Chronicle. + +Of the Manuscripts relating to the Antiquities of York, I observed a +Register of the Lands of St. Mary’s Abbey, York; Hutton’s Antiquities +of York; Drake’s History of York; and Torr’s Manuscripts on the same +subject, in 8 volumes, now deposited in the Record Room of the Dean and +Chapter of York. + +The only Classical Manuscript which occurred to me was Cicero, +Rhetoricorum ad Herennium. + +Of Rituals I noticed the Breviarium Eboracense; the Missale Eboracense; +the Rituale Eboracense; the Psalterium Eboracense; and the Manuale +Sacerdotum de Kirkstal. + +Among the miscellaneous volumes I noticed the Methodus Nova Plantarum; +Bracton de Legibus; Nalson’s Heraldry; and some Manuscripts which +formerly belonged to Rievaulx Abbey, brought hither at its dissolution. + +Four old Catalogues of the York Minster Library are preserved among the +manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of York. + +These Manuscripts are all preserved with great care in cases under lock +and key. + +In this room I also found a case of Sir Edward Thomason’s Series of +Medals illustrative of the Scriptures, of which the author has presented +a set to every crowned head in the world, and received suitable presents +in return from each of them. + +The care and attention bestowed upon the Library is highly creditable to +the taste and liberality of the Dean and Chapter. I believe the credit +of converting the ancient Episcopal Chapel, which had for many years +been used as a stable below, and a hay-loft above, into the present +Gothic Library, is due, as I have already said, to Dean Markham, and +greatly must every tasteful antiquary rejoice in the restoration of this +elegant building. The large Gothic room is arranged with every attention +to comfort, and is adorned by portraits of Toby Matthews, and of Dr. +Fothergill. The ante-room is appropriated to the reception of Dr. Burge’s +Books of Divinity, and numerous political and polemical Tracts, chiefly +the scum thrown up by the troubled waters of the English mind during the +Great Rebellion. + + +THE END. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK. 1849. + + + + +FOOTNOTES + + +[1] D’Israeli’s Commentaries, II. 317, 318. + +[2] D’Israeli’s Commentaries, II. 328. + +[3] Vide Præf. ad partem secundam Whartoni Angliæ Sacræ, concerning this +tract. + +[4] The Prior of Christ Church Canterbury, and his Monks, sixty-four in +number, were banished by King John, in 1207, on account of the opposition +which they made to his nomination of an Archbishop. Their places were +filled with Monks from the Monastery of St. Austin. After seven years’ +banishment they were restored; £1000 was given them as a recompense for +all detriment, and they received a charter of Restitution. + +[5] “Of the original,” says Sir Peter, “the fearmer weare partly +consumed, and the letters dimmed, and allmost worne out by time, the +devourer of all things. In which Booke I found contayned the principall +passages of affaires betweene the two kingdomes of England and +Fraunce under the reignes of King Edward the Third and King Henry the +ffifth.”... “Out of this I intreated a special friend to extract Certain +Disputations, &c.”... “It may be remarked that in the arguments employed +by the ambassadors of both countries, the circumstance of King of +England’s using the title and arms of France is particularly and minutely +discussed.” + +[6] Suidas. + +[7] See Warton’s History of English Poetry, vol. i. p. 256. + +[8] From an address prefixed to the Satires, and from another prefixed +to the Certaine Poems, it is evident that they were intended for, if not +committed to, the Press. The former appear, from various allusions to +Marston’s Scourge of Villanie, published in 1598, to have been written +near that period. Probably they might be suppressed, in consequence +of the order towards the close of Elizabeth’s reign, signed by the +Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, that Marston’s +Pigmalion’s Image and Certaine Satyres, Hall’s Satires, Snarlinge +Satires, &c., should be burnt, and “that no Satyres or Epigrams be +printed hereafter.” + +[9] In his History of English Poetry, vol. iii. p. 182, &c. + +[10] As connected with this subject, a foot note may not unappropriately +be devoted to “Alexandri VII. Papæ, et Cardinalium Effigies per Joan. +Jacob. de Rubeis. Romæ, 1658,” folio. This volume being one of the many +curious and valuable presents made to their Library by Dr. John Bargrave, +of the Cathedral. He had been a great traveller, and lived chiefly in +Italy during Cromwell’s usurpation. On the margins and backs of the +engravings he has written many curious remarks from printed books and +manuscripts, and has added several pleasant and interesting anecdotes, +the fruits of his own observation. On the margin of the Pope’s picture +he has remarked that “this picture, and all the rest following are +extraordinarily like the persons, drawn and cut by excellent hands; I +knowing them all by sight (and some by discourse) as well as I knowe any +of my brethren the Canons of Chr. Church, Canterbury.” Dr. Bargrave’s +Cabinet of Antiquities and other Curiosities, together with an Account +of his Benefactions to the Library, in manuscript, is preserved in the +Library with due care. + +[11] “Durham Cathedral as it was before the dissolution of the +Monastery,” edited by Dr. Chr. Hunter, Durham, 1733, pp. 92-96. + +[12] Table Talk, i. 84-5. + +[13] Cat. Codd. MSS. Dunelm. p. 204, and 210-14. + +[14] Appendix in Cat. p. 430-5. + +[15] Cat. Codd. MSS. Dunelm. p. 128-9. + +[16] Ibid. p. 71. + +[17] Antiq. Litt. Septentrion. p. 295. + +[18] Among the Cottonian MSS. marked “Nero, D. IV.” Consult Raine’s St. +Cuthbert, pp. 34, 35, 46, 47, 78, and 229. + +[19] Cat. Codd. MSS. Dunelm. pp. 18, 19. + +[20] Ibid, pp. 3, 4, A. I. 3, and Raine’s St. Cuthbert, p. 131, where a +facsimile of one of the Initial letters is given. + +[21] For some account of this Dr. Hunter, see _Nichols’ Literary +Anecdotes_, and _Surtees’ History of Durham_, iii. + +[22] Some amusing literary chit-chat concerning this gentleman, the +productions of whose private press are familiar to most topographical +collectors, will be found in Nichols’ Literary Anecdotes. + +[23] The copy of this Bible, which successively belonged to Tutet and +Bindley, is remarkable as being the identical copy which one Thornton, +by an artful counterfeit, sold to the Duke of Lauderdale, for seventeen +guineas, pretending that the Epistle to the Romans began with “Paul an +Kneawe,” &c. which, as Mr. Wanley has informed us, was effected by the +erasure of the true words, “the servaunt”—and the insertion of the false +reading, effacing also Matthew’s Preface, and all the dates except one, +of which he erased the numerals xvii. at the end of M.DXXXVII. whereby +the date stood thus, M.DXX. which is earlier than that of any English +Bible. As it does not appear the above false reading was ever printed, it +is not of much consequence, though noticed by _Lewis_, p. 47; _Cotton_, +p. 4; and by _Clarke_, p. 30. See also the _Bibliotheca Harleiana_, 1. +No. 154. + +[24] The first edition of this version, was for many years the most +popular one in England, as its numerous editions may testify. After the +appearance of King James’s translation, the use of it seems to have +declined: yet a fondness for its notes still lingered; and we have +several instances of their being attached to editions of the royal +translation, one of which kind was printed so lately as 1715, but without +place or name of printer.[25] + +From the peculiar rendering of the text in Genesis iii. 7, the editions +of this translation have been commonly known by the name of Breeches +Bibles. + +The copy at Balliol College is an exceedingly fine one, printed upon +large paper. See _Cotton’s List_, p. 14, and Appendix. + +[25] A copy of this edition is in the All Souls’ Library at Oxford. + +[26] This may be accounted for, as there are at least seven different +editions bearing this date; one in black letter, one in Roman type, with +black lines round each page, and five others printed in the usual Roman +type, without the lines. + +[27] This is the first edition of the new translation by Royal Authority, +made in the reign of James the First, and commonly called King James’s +Bible. Its rarity in a perfect state is very great, the engraved title +prefixed to the Work, being frequently wanting. To settle the controversy +respecting the genuineness of the text of the authorised version now in +use, this edition of the Bible has been literally reprinted with the +greatest care at the Oxford University Press. + +[28] “This edition has been commonly reported to be by Sir John Cheke, +but upon what authority I know not: certain it is that he did translate +the Gospel of St. Matthew into English, a few verses of which were +printed by Strype in his Life of Sir John: but that translation varies +considerably from the present. Strype, after mentioning this proceeds +to say, ‘Cheke also translated the New Testament into English, with +Annotations; which was printed both in octavo and decimosexto, but this +last without the Notes; which copy Christopher Barker, Queen Elizabeth’s +printer, gave to the Company of Stationers, anno 1583, with some others, +for the relief of the poor of the said Company, &c. &c.’ p. 172, of the +Oxford edition, 1821. + +“N.B. This account is not contained in the former edition of +1705.”—_Cotton List._ p. 10. + +[29] A portion of this edition, beginning with the Epistle to the +Galatians, in the Christ Church Library, Oxford. + +[30] This little volume is so rare and so curious as to merit more +particular description. The title which is supplied by manuscript runneth +thus: + +“The Actes of the Apostles, translated into English meter, and dedicated +to the Kynge’s most excellent Majestye by Christofer Tye, Doctor in +Musyke, and one of the Gentlemen of hys Graces moste honourable Chappell, +with notes to eche Chapter, to synge, and also to play upon the Lute, +very necessarye for studentes after theyr studye to fyle theyr wyttes, +and also for all Christians that cannot synge to read the good and godlye +storyes of the lyves of Christ hys Appostles. 1553.” Then followeth the +Dedication. “To the vertuous and godlye learned Prynce Edwarde the VI. +by the Grace of God, King of Englande, France and Irelande, the Supreme +head, your grace’s humble lovynge, and obedient servaunte Christofer Tye +wysheth the continuance of God hys feare to dwell in your grace’s heart, +longe to reygne in muche honoure, healthe, wealthe, and victorye.” + +Then followeth a metrical Preface, consisting of 25 stanzas, and +beginning thus:— + + “Consydrynge well, most godly kyng, + The zeale and perfect love + Your Grace doth beare to eche good thyng + That geven is from above. + &c. &c.” + +The text, with music for four voices, meane, tenour, counter-tenour, +bassus: beginneth in this wise. + + “In the former Treatyse to thee + Dere frend The o phi lus + I have written the verite + Of the Lord Christ Jesus. + + “Whiche he to do and eke to teache + Began until the daye + In whiche the Sprite vp hym did feache + To dwell above for aye.” + +The concluding stanza of chapter the fourteenth and last runneth thus: + + “Howe he the doore of fayth untyde, + The Gentyls in to call, + And there longe tyme they dyd abyde + With the disciples all.” + +Hereafter followeth the Colophon: + +“Imprinted at London by Nycolas Hyll for Wyllyam Seres.” “Cum privilegio +ad imprimendum solum.” This rare volume is a small duodecimo, printed +in black letter; but the present copy has unfortunately several leaves +supplied by Manuscript. It is in old calf-binding. + +[31] This rare and beautiful volume is the first edition of the Genevan +version of the New Testament. It is also the first in which the verses +are distinguished. It is to be observed, that the translation differs +from that which three years afterwards was printed at the same place, +together with the Old Testament. This book is in a small and beautiful +Roman character, with the marginal Notes in a smaller Roman letter; +but the heads of the chapters and scripture references are in italics. +The verses are divided by figures as at present; and this is the first +edition in which such a division occurs. A full page contains 37 lines. +The title, ornamented by a neat wood-cut representing Time drawing Truth +from a cave, runneth thus: “The newe Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, +conferred diligently with the Greke, and best approved translations. With +the arguments, aswel before the chapters as for every Boke & Epistle, +also diversities of readings, and moste proffitable annotations of all +harde places: wherunto is added a copious table.” “AT GENEVA, Printed by +Conrad Badius, M.DLVII.” On the reverse of the title appears “The order +of the bookes of the New Testament.” Then follows “An Epistle declaring +that Christ is the end of the Lawe by John Calvin,” occupying eight +leaves. The address “To the reader,” which follows upon two leaves, +is succeeded by “The argument of the Gospel,” one leaf. St. Matthew +and the other Evangelists, &c. occupy the leaves numbered from i. to +ccccxxx. The table and supputation of the years from Adam to Christ, fol. +ccccxxxi.–ccccli. On the last leaf is the Colophon. “PRINTED BY CONRAD +BADIUS,” “M.D.LVII. THIS X OF JUNE.” On the reverse are the Errata. + +[32] This volume is usually attributed to Archbishop Parker, and its +rarity is so great that it has been generally maintained that the book +was not printed for sale, but that the few copies of it which are now +found were presents from the Archbishop to his friends. Copies are in the +Bodleian and other College Libraries. + +[33] This volume has much the appearance of having been printed in +Holland. At the end of this edition of the Psalms is found “An Act for +a publique Thanksgiving to Almighty God every yeare on the fift daye of +November, enacted 5 Nov. 1605, composed into easie meeter, a songe meete +for yong and old.” This metrical Act of Parliament is inserted at full +length in the Appendix to Cotton’s List of Editions of the Bible, pp. +151-156. + +[34] Printed as a specimen of this new Translation. There was also +another specimen, containing only the first eight Psalms, probably +printed a little before the present. Of this several passages differ, +both from the second specimen and the adopted version. Copies of each +are in the Bodleian; the earlier, a sheet and a half, has no title. The +whole version was licensed to be sung in churches, and the first edition +of it printed in the next year. It is to be observed that the version of +the specimen above recorded differs in many places from that which was +afterwards adopted, as may be seen in the Appendix to Cotton’s List of +Editions of the Bible, pp. 150, 151. + +[35] See Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses. Edit. 1815, 4to. vol. II. p. 474. + +[36] Dr. Cotton remarks that “The book was probably printed either at +Paris or St. Germains. By the approbations prefixed, it appears that this +version was intended to supersede that in the Douay Bible, which was now +considered to be too antiquated for general use. It should be observed +that there are two kinds of title pages to the volume; some copies have +a vignette, for which in others a blank space is left. Some also are +without the errata at the end.” List of Editions, &c. p. 74. + +[37] This first edition was afterwards much altered by its author. See a +specimen of it in Cotton’s List of Editions of the Bible. Appendix, pp. +148-9. + +[38] The Evangelia Gothica Junii. Dordraci, 1615, 4to. Evangelia IV. +Armenicè. Amstelodami, 1698, 4to.: and the Gospels in Saxon and English, +by John Fox. London, 1571, 4to. may here claim appropriate notice. + +[39] The archives of Lambeth Palace contain a curious Manuscript of +Caxton’s Chronicle, from Brute to the beginning of the reign of Henry +VI. in folio, preceded by a portrait of that monarch, and bearing at the +end the date of 1460, followed by these words: “An after that ther bred +a raven at Charyng Crosse at Londen. And never was seen noon brede there +before. And after that came a gret dethe of pestilence that lasted iij +yer. And peple dyed myhtely in every place, man woman and chylde. On +whose soulys God have mercy. Amen.” + +The text of this Manuscript differs greatly from the Chronicle of +England, printed by Caxton in 1480, and is much more diffuse, but it +appears never to have been completed. + +[40] Vide Hickesii Thesaurus Septentrionalis. II. 289. + +[41] Thus. + +[42] Thus. + +[43] Thus. + +[44] “This grand work was attended with most injurious consequences to +the learned author; it cost him the assiduous labour of seventeen years, +and ruined both his health and fortune. + +“Some passages in his dedication to Charles II. most affectingly +represent the calamities he had endured; and which he appears to have +borne with most exemplary resignation. His library, household furniture, +and three hundred copies of the Lexicon perished in the fire of London. +‘Magna pars Bibliothecæ meæ, cum multâ supellectile et trecenis +Lexici Heptaglotti exemplaribus, in flammis periit Londinensibus.’ +To this misfortune were added several private accidents, ‘membrorum +confractiones, luxationes, contusiones;’ and from incessant study an +almost total blindness, ‘oculorum lumen, perpetuis atque indefessis +vigiliis tantum non ademptum.’ The publication of his work procured him +no compensation for his large expenses, and his indefatigable diligence. +At the time of his death, in 1685, about five hundred copies were unsold; +these were placed by Mrs. Crisp, his niece and executrix, in a room of +one of her tenants’ houses in Surrey; where for many years they lay at +the mercy of the rats, who made such havoc among them, that when they +came into the possession of this lady’s executors, scarcely one complete +volume could be found out of the remainder, and the whole load of learned +rags only fetched seven pounds.”—_Clarke_, _Rep. Bibl._ pp. 33, 34. + +[45] Of this valuable and highly interesting volume, the first-fruits +of an attempt to print the Scriptures in the English tongue, and the +chief cause of the persecution and subsequent death of the translator, +a single copy only was supposed to exist. Of the manner in which this +found its way into the Harleian Library, and of the value set upon it by +Lord Oxford and Mr. Ames, a short but interesting account is given in the +following extract from a letter preserved in the Bodleian Library. It is +in the handwriting of Ames, is addressed to Mr. George Ballard, and dated +Wapping, June 30, 1743. “I cannot forbear telling you of my good success +in buying at Lord Oxford’s sale the Phœnix of the whole library; I mean +the first English Testament that ever was printed in the year 1526. It +has been thought no perfect one was left from the flames. My lord was +so well pleased in being the possessor of it, that he gave the person +(Mr. John Murrey) he had it of, ten guineas, and settled an annuity of +twenty pounds a year during the person’s life, which is yet paid him. The +particulars are too many to commit to a letter; the old historians, and +Fox, give a good account of it.” + +Herbert’s account, given in a note at p. 1535, may form a sequel to this: +“This first edition was in the possession of Mr. Ames, who bought it +for fifteen shillings out of the Harleian Library, No. 420, sold by T. +Osborne, 1743. Mr. John White purchased it for 15_l._ 4_s._ 6_d._ at the +auction of Mr. Ames’s books, No. 1252, sold by Langford, 1760, and sold +it for 21_l._ to Dr. Gifford, who at his decease bequeathed it, with many +others, to the Baptist Museum, Bristol.” Unfortunately this otherwise +perfect copy wants the title page. + +“But it has been my fortune, in examining the Library of St. Paul’s +Cathedral, to discover a second copy. Unluckily it is imperfect, both at +the beginning and end; and its former owner, as if afraid of a second +Bishop Tonstall, has contrived most ingeniously to disguise and disfigure +it, by intermixing the leaves of the Gospels and Epistles with each other +in the strangest manner. The volume is in half-binding, lettered (for +what reason I know not) ‘Lant’s Testament.’ Surely it well deserves to +be carefully taken to pieces and examined: the deficient parts should be +supplied by a transcript from the Bristol copy, and inserted in their +proper places, lest an unhappy accident should deprive us of either of +them; the volume should then be rebound, and placed under lock and key, +and under the special superintendence of the librarian.”—_Cotton’s List +of Editions of the Bible, &c._ Oxford, 1821, pp. 1, 2. + +The present state of this precious little tome will show that some of +these recommendations have already been adopted, and the following +collation may be acceptable to the inquiring bibliographer:—Title +wanting. Text fol. i.-cccliii. Address to the Reader, 3 pages. Errata, +3 pages. St. Matthew begins on folio i. St. Mark on folio xliii. b. +St. Luke on fol. lxxi. b. St. John on fol. __. Acts on fol. cliii. b. +Romans, on fol. cxcix. Ephesians on fol. ccliii. b. St. James, on cccxv. +and the Revelations on cccxxi. b. A full page contains 33 lines. The +signatures run in eights, and the folios are consecutively numbered. +There are no marginal notes, and no wood-cuts, except the initial +letters. The following words are thus spelt: “Corrinthyans, Romayns, +Galathyans, Collossyans, Tessalonyans, Hebrues.” + +[46] In this address Tyndale complains heavily of George Joye, for +having in his previous impression of the same year, altered Tyndale’s +translation in many important instances, particularly in rejecting the +word resurrection, and, concealing his own name, still uttering it as +Tyndale’s genuine translation. He also gives at length the Colophon of +Joye’s edition, in order that it might be distinguished from his own. + +[47] A copy of this book was bequeathed by Dr. Gifford to the Baptist +Museum at Bristol, and another was in the possession of the late Mr. +Herbert. “The copy in Exeter College, at Oxford, a very fine one, is +printed on yellow-stained paper. The British Museum has three copies, one +on white paper, one on yellow, and a third most splendidly printed on +vellum with illuminations. This last, formerly belonging to Anna Boleyn, +was bequeathed to the Museum by Mr. Cracherode.”—_Cotton’s List_, p. 3. + +[48] Copies of this last edition are in the Archiepiscopal Library at +Lambeth, and in the Baptist Museum at Bristol. + +[49] The Bridgewater copy of this Bible is printed upon yellow-stained +paper, an occurrence which Dr. Cotton has shewn to be by no means so +uncommon, as it has usually been considered. There are copies of this +Bible in the Bodleian, and in the Libraries of Christ Church, All Souls, +and Baliol, at Oxford. Mr. Bindley’s copy, formerly in the Harleian +Library, contains a remarkable but self evident forgery mentioned by +Lewis in his list of Editions of the Bible, p. 47. + +[50] The present copy is wrongly lettered, 1553, and no mention whatever +is made of this edition in Dr. Cotton’s List of Editions of the Bible. + +[51] The first edition of this translation, rarely found in a perfect +state. Of the six copies at Oxford, the Bodleian only is perfect. +It contains portraits, engraved on copper, of Queen Elizabeth, Lord +Leicester, and Secretary Cecil. For the difference between this edition +and the reprint of 1572, see the _Appendix to Cotton’s List of the +Editions of the Bible in English_, pp. 123-126. + +[52] Willis’ Mitred Abbies in Leland’s Collectanea, 1774. VI. 145, &c. + +[53] Willis’ Mitred Abbies in Leland’s Collectanea, VI. 154, ed. 1774. + +[54] This interesting though brief Journal, was written by an Englishman +unknown, and was first published from the original manuscript in the +Hafod Library, by Mr. Blackwood at Edinburgh in 1818. + +[55] The remaining Works of this learned Prelate contained in this +Library are, History of Impropriations, 1704, 8vo.; and of Ecclesiastical +Synods, 1701, 8vo.; and the Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia, London, +1718, 8vo.; to which may be added the Synodus Anglicana, edited by Bishop +Gibson, in 1701, 8vo. + +[56] See Selden’s Preface to the Decem Scriptores, p. 46. + +[57] In the beginning of the Book Mr. Austin has entered the +acknowledgment given upon that occasion in these words: + +“I pray let this Scripture Book alone for he hath paid me for it, and +therefore I would desire you to let it alone. By me Henry Topclyffe +Souldier under Captain Cromwell, Colonel Cromwell’s son, therefore I pray +let it alone.” + +“Unto which godly Warrant for its Security,” adds Dean Patrick, “the +fellow signed his name.” + +The soldiers also destroyed the Records in the Chapter House, mistaking +them for Papal Bulls. “A short and true narrative of the Rifling and +defacing of the Cathedral Church of Peterburgh in the year 1643,” which +occupies pp. 333 to 340 in the Appendix to Gunton’s History of that +Church will amply repay perusal. Dean Patrick, the editor of that Work, +has devoted his Preface to a particular Account of “the Book called +Swapham,” and its reputed Author. + +[58] See Britton’s Cathedrals, v. 5. + +[59] In his Essay on the Mutability of Literature, in the first volume of +the Sketch Book. London, 1823, pp. 227-9. + +[60] See Willis’s Mitred Abbeys in Leland’s Collectanea, VI. 118, 127. + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78788 *** |