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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.

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]

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.

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.