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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.

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.