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For the latter, the Saxon Dictionary of Hickes; Skinner’s Lexicon; Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum; Somneri Dictionarium Saxonicum; Lye’s Saxon Dictionary; Cotgrave’s French Dictionary; and Menage Dictionnaire Etymologique. To which may be added, the English Dictionaries of Cole, Howel, and Johnson, with Buxtorf’s Chaldaic and Hebrew Lexicon.

In English Literature this Library is manifestly deficient. We do indeed meet with the Works of Locke and Bacon; of Addison and Swift; Spenser’s Faerie Queen; the Poems of Chaucer, Milton, and Cowley; Shakespeare’s Works too, with the Portrait coloured, may be after the Stratford Monument, London, 1632, folio, in a volume, which being quite perfect, richly deserves rebinding, as it is now in a very insecure and tattered condition. But I can only add to these, Sir Thomas More’s Works, 1559; Warton’s English Poetry; Conybeare’s Anglo-Saxon Poetry; Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy; Smith’s Wealth of Nations; Wootton’s Remains; and other Works of much less reputation.

Of Italian Works there are editions of Tasso, Petrarch, and Ariosto, with a copy of Boccaccio, Genealogia di Gli Dei, Venet. 1588, which the compiler of the unfinished Catalogue has classed under the head of “Miscellaneous Theology.”

It only remains for me to notice Photii Bibliotheca et Epistolæ, and Stuckii Antiquitates Conviviales, a work whence much curious information may be obtained respecting the “noctes cœnæque” of the olden time.

As “Book openeth Book,” I cannot conclude this brief notice of the Exeter Cathedral Library more appropriately than by adding to it, the Bibliographical Works contained within its precincts.

Among these I particularly noticed, Maittaire, Annales Typographici; Wolfii Monumenta Typographica; Watts’ Bibliotheca Britannica; Blount’s Censura Literaria; Balei Scriptores Britanniæ; Nicolson’s English, Irish, and Scotch Historical Libraries, in 4 volumes, 8vo.; Cooper on the Public Records; Le Long’s Bibliotheca Sacra, Halæ, 1778; Dupin’s Bibliotheque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques; De Rossi’s Annales Hebræo-Topographici, Parmæ, 1795; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca, and Bibliographia Antiquaria, in 4to.; Cave’s Scriptores Ecclesiastici; Baillet’s Jugemens des Scavans; La Bibliothéque Choisie, 1703; and Le Clerc’s Bibliothéque Universelle, in 12mo.; a Catalogue of English Writers on the Old and New Testaments; Clarke’s Bibliographical Dictionary and Miscellany; Marchand’s Dictionnaire Historique; Gesneri Bibliotheca, and several volumes of the Acta Eruditorum, in quarto.

Upon the table in the Chapter-house is very properly kept a book “For the entry of books taken out of, and returned to the Chapter Library;” a regulation which ought to be religiously observed by all persons having access to any corporate Library.

Library of Gloucester.

The spacious and airy Chapter-house, warmed by a stove, is the meet receptacle of the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester. The books are arranged upon open shelves, in dwarf cases of oak, which skirt the walls of the room, and form two lines down the centre. They are briefly enumerated in an old alphabetical Catalogue, but are placed on the shelves according to a new Catalogue which is now preparing by Mr. Hough, the bookseller of Gloucester. There are also a list of books borrowed, and “a List of Benefactors to the Library of the Cathedral Church of Gloucester.” Folio.

This Collection contains much obsolete Law and Divinity; but the latter department possesses also many valuable Works, which I will proceed to show, commencing with the impressions of the Sacred Volume.

Biblia Polyglotta. Waltoni. cum Castelli Lexicon.

Biblia Hebraica. Montani. 1619, folio.

Biblia Hebraica, Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776, 2 vols. folio.

Biblia Latina, S. Hieronymi. Norimbergæ, 1478, folio.

Biblia Latina, R. Stephani. Parisiis, 1532 and 1557.

Biblia Germanica, Lutheri. Magdeburg, 1560, fol.

Biblia Italica, Diodati. 1807, folio.

The Bible in Welsh. London, 1769, 4to.

The Bible in English, dedicated to Henry VIII. London, 1536,
folio.

The Bible in English, Tyndale’s. London, Jo. Taverner, 1549,
folio.

The Bible in English, Field’s. Cambridge, 1680, 2 vols. folio.

The Bible in English, dedicated to James II. Oxford, 1685,
folio.

The Bible in English, Baskett. Oxford, 1717, 2 vols. folio.

The Bible in English, Geddes. London, 1792, 3 vols. 4to.

Fulke’s Rhemish Testament, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.

The Novum Testamentum Hutteri, 2 vols. folio.

To which I may add the Codex Bezæ, by Kipling, in old calf; the Novum Testamentum Græcum, Kusteri. Lipsiæ. 1723, folio.

I may here also mention the Book of Common Prayer, by R. Barker, London, 1634, 4to.; the Breviarium Romanum; and Missale Romanum. Antv. 1631, folio; and proceed to enumerate the Fathers of the Church, whose Works are found in this Collection.

Ambrosii Opera. Parisiis, 1603, 2 vols. folio.

Augustini Opera. Parisiis, 1637, 11 vols. folio.

Anselmi Opera. Parisiis, 1559, folio.

Basilii Opera. Parisiis, 1618, 3 vols. folio.

Chrysostomi Opera. Etonæ, 1612, 8 vols. folio.

Clementis Alexandrini Opera. Oxonii, 1725, folio.

Cypriani Opera. Coloniæ, 1617, folio.

Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica. Coloniæ, 1688, 2
vols. folio.

Eusebii Thesaurus temporum. Amstelodami, 1658, folio.

Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica. Cantabrigiæ, 1720, 3 vols.
folio.

Hieronymus in Evangelia. Antverpiæ, 1579.

Lactantius. Venetiis, 1472, folio.

Origenis Commentarii. Rothomagi, 1668.

Origenis Opera. Parisiis, 1733, 2 vols. folio.

Philonis Judæi, Opera. Londini, 1742, 2 vols. fol.

Tertulliani Opera. Parisiis, 1664, folio.

Tertulliani Opera. Basileæ, 1528, folio.

Theophylact. Comment. Parisiis, 1635, 2 vols. folio; with
the Works of S. Cyril, Episcopius, Epiphanius, of S. Gregory
Nysseni, et Nazianzen, and the Bibliotheca Patrum. Paris, 1644,
in 15 vols. folio.

In a later æra of the Church we find the Works of Bede, Thomas Aquinas, Calvin, Cranmer, Barrow, and Beveridge.

Bernardi Opera. Antverpiæ, 1609, folio.

Bingham’s Works. London, 1729, 2 vols. folio.

Bulli Opera. Londini, 1703, folio.

Bellarmini Controversiæ. Coloniæ, 1628, folio.

Archbishop Bramhall’s Works. Dublin, 1677, folio.

Bishop Blackhall’s Works. London, 1723, 2 vols. folio.

Bochart, Hierozoicon. Londini, 1663, folio.

Buchanani Psalmorum Paraphrasis. 1624.

Bythneri Lyra Prophetica.

Clarke’s Works. London, 1738, 4 vols. folio.

Hodius de Textibus Bibliorum. Oxonii, 1705, fol.

Hospiniani Opera. Genevæ, 1678, 4 vols. folio, calf.

Joanes de Imola Opera. Venetiis, 1480, duplicate.

Leland on the Christian Revelation. 1764, 2 vols. 4to.

Lutheri Opera. Jenæ, 1612, 4 vols. 4to.

Leusden Comp. Bibl. Lugd. Bat. 1685, 12mo.

Melancthonis Opera. Witebergæ, 1580, 4 vols. folio.

Mori Opera Theologica, 1675, et Opera Philosophica, 1679, 3
vols. folio.

Nicolai de Lyra Comment. Basileæ, 1507, 6 vols. folio.

Orton’s Exposition of the Old Testament. Salop. 1788, 6 vols.
8vo.

Raynaudi Opera. Lugd. Bat. 1665, 19 vols. folio.

Rosenmuller Scholia in Nov. Test. Norimbergæ, 1785, 5 vols. 8vo.

Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus. Antverpiæ, 1682, 2 vols.
folio.

Spanheim Opera. Lugd. Bat. 1702, 3 vols. folio.

Synge’s Works. 1740, 4 vols. 12mo.

Taylor and Cave’s Antiquitates Christianæ. Londini, 1685, folio.

Venn’s Tracts. London, 1740, 8vo.

Zanchii Opera Theologica. 1613, 3 vols. folio.

To which may be added, the Preservative against Popery, in 3 vols. folio; Baxter’s Saints’ Rest; Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher, by Bishop Berkeley; Burnet on the Articles; Blayney’s Jeremiah; Butler’s Analogy; Balguy’s Tracts; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible, London, 1708, 3 vols. folio; Concordantiæ Bibliorum, Hanoviæ, 1618, 4 vols. folio; Cave’s Scriptor. Eccles. Historia literaria; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; the Works of Chillingworth and Conybeare; Campbell on the Gospels, and on Miracles; Dupin Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques, Paris. 1693, 10 vols. 8vo.; Derham’s Astro Theology, Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, Irenop. 1639, 6 vols. folio; Tracts on the Bangorian Controversy, London, 1739; Critici Sacri, Londini, 1660, 10 vols. folio; Poli Synopsis, Londini, 1669, 5 vols. folio; Cruttwell’s Concordance; Fleetwood’s Works, 1737; Bishop Fell on the Epistles; Faber on Pagan Idolatry and on the Prophecies; several Tracts by Grotius; Graves on the Pentateuch, 1807, 2 vols. 8vo.; the Works of Hammond, Hopkins, Hooker, Hurd, and Hoadley; Horsley on the Psalms, and other Works; Hey’s Lectures; Hutcheson’s Moral Philosophy, and Essay on the Passions; Hales on the Trinity; Jackson’s Works; Jones’s Canon of the New Testament, 1726; the Works of Lightfoot; Marsh’s Michaelis on the New Test. 1802, 6 vols. 8vo.; Newton’s Prophecies and Sermons; Newcome’s Sermons; Ostervald’s Arguments; Pearson on the Creed; Prideaux’s Connection; Patrick and Lowth’s Commentaries; Lowth’s Isaiah; Leighton’s Works; Mede’s Works, 1664, 2 vols. folio; Macknight’s Harmony; Pyle’s Paraphrase; the Works of Paley, Porteus, Secker, and Stillingfleet; Stackhouse’s History of the Bible, London, 1742, 2 vols. folio; Sanderson’s Sermons; Sale’s Koran; Saurin’s Sermons; the Works of Sherlock, Stanhope, Seed, and Tillotson; Jeremy Taylor’s Ductor Dubitantium; the Works of Warburton, Wake, Whiston, and Waterland; Watson’s Apology, and Theological Tracts; West on the Resurrection; several volumes of the Bampton Lectures; the Bibliotheca Maxima Versionum, &c. Parisiis, 1666, 19 vols. folio; and Bibliotheca Magna Comment. Parisiis, 1644, 5 vols. folio, in calf.

In Ecclesiastical History, I may mention Lyndewode’s Provinciale, Paris. 1502, folio, & Oxonii, 1699, folio; the Centuriatores Magdeburgenses, Basileæ, 1624, 3 vols. folio; Baronii Annales, Antverpiæ, 1610, 12 vols. folio, in vellum covers, with the Epitome of Spondanus, in calf; Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, Lond. 1737, 4 vols. folio; Gratiani Decretum, Codex Theodosianus, cum Comment. Gothofredi, in 6 vols. folio; Justiniani Pandectæ, Parisiis, 1504; Durandi Speculum Juris, folio, in old black letter, imperfect; Basnage’s History of the Jews, London, 1708, fol.; Burnet’s History of the Reformation; Bower’s History of the Popes, London, 1748, 8 vols. 4to.; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History, London, 1708, 2 vols. folio; Cressy’s Church History of Brittany; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Gibson’s Codex; Josephus, Havercamp, Amst. 1726, 2 vols. folio; Whiston’s Josephus, 1745, 8vo. 6 vols.; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Strype’s Annals and Memorials; Quick’s Synodicum in Galliâ Reformatâ, Londini, 1692, folio; Rycaut’s History of the Popes; Laval’s History of the Reformation in France, London, 1737, 7 vols. 8vo.; Sleidan Histoire de la Reformation à la Haye, 1767, 3 vols. 4to.; Usseri Annales, et Antiq. Eccl. Britt.; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy; and Fox’s Martyrs, London, 1632, 3 vols. folio.

Of English History, I remarked Brady’s Introduction thereto, London, 1685, folio, as well as his History of England, London, 1720, folio; Baker’s Chronicle, London, 1674, folio; Camden’s Britannia; Campbell’s Survey of Great Britain, London, 1774, 2 vols. 4to.; Colquhoun on the Resources of the British Empire; Dugdale’s Monasticon, and View of the Troubles; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Henry’s History of England; History of the Wars in Ireland, London, 1653, folio; Harris’s Life of Cromwell, London, 1772, 8vo.; Baker’s Hereditary Right, London, 1713, folio, for which he was imprisoned; Martin’s History of England, London, 1615, folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum Rer. Angl.; Norden’s Britanniæ Speculum; Scriptores post Bedam edente Savile; Sprigge’s Anglia Rediviva, folio; Stow’s Chronicle, London, 1631, folio; Drayton’s Polyolbion, folio; Webb’s Metrical History of Richard II. originally published in the Archæologia, 4to.; Rapin’s History of England; several Diurnalls of Passages in the Great Civil War, 4to.; Stafford’s Pacata Hibernia, 1633; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Sawyer’s Memorials of Affairs of State, London, 1725, 2 vols. folio; Wallace’s Peerage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1785, 8vo.; Yarranton’s England’s Improvement, London, 1677, 4to.; Twini Commentarii de rebus Albionicis, Londini, 1590, 12mo.; the Parliamentary History of England, London, 1751, &c. 23 vols. 8vo.; the Publications of the Record Commission, and the Statutes at large.

Of English Topography, I remarked Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence, 4to.; an Act for the Incorporation of the Gloucester Workhouse in 1703; Bigland’s Gloucestershire, London, 1791, folio; Fosbroke’s Gloucestershire, 4to.; Britton’s Gloucester Cathedral; Rudder’s Gloucestershire; Bentham’s Ely; Drake’s York; Pennant’s Tour; Rastall’s Southwell, 1787; Plot’s Oxfordshire; Stow’s London, imperfect; and Speed’s Great Britain, also imperfect; Sammes’s Britannia; Lysons’ Magna Britannia, in 9 vols. 4to.; Wood’s Antiquitates Oxonienses; and Willis’ Cathedrals, London, 1727, 3 vols. 4to.; with the Welsh Cathedrals, viz. those of St. Asaph, Bangor, St. David’s, and Llandaff.

Of General History, the Works are mostly obsolete, being Bossuet Histoire Universelle; Churchill’s Voyages; Delices des Pays Bas; Eustace’s Italy; Fuller’s Palestine, 1650, folio; Gillies’ History of the World, 2 vols. 4to.; Davila’s Civil Wars of France, folio; Harris’s Voyages; Hughes’ Barbadoes; Hooke’s Roman History; Hakluyt’s Voyages, London, 1600, folio; Knolles’s History of the Turks; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Knox’s Campaigns in North America, 1769, 2 vols. 4to.; Norden’s Egypt, London, 1757, folio; Potter’s Greece; Moryson’s Itinerary, London, 1617, folio; together with Purchas’ Pilgrimes, London, 1625, 5 vols. folio; Ralegh’s History of the World; Heylin’s Cosmography, folio; Robertson’s Works; Symson’s Chronicon Catholicon, Oxonii, 1652, folio; Thuani Hist. sui temporis; Tournefort’s Voyages; Grimstone’s France; Shute’s Venice; Warcup’s History of Italy, London, 1660, folio; and the Universal History.

It is pleasant to be able to add to these, a very fine copy of the valuable Collections of Grævius and Gronovius upon large paper, in old calf binding, with a border of gold on the sides; the Inscriptions of Gruter; Pitisci Lexicon; Montfaucon, l’Antiquité Expliquée, Paris, 1719, in 15 vols. folio, a fine copy in old calf, gilt; with Humphrey’s Translation of Montfaucon, London, 1722, 7 vols. folio; to which I may add D’Anville’s Atlas, London, 1797, folio; and Buckingham’s Travels in Palestine, London, 1821, 4to.

Of Law Books, besides the Statutes at large, and Pickering’s Statutes, I noticed, among much obsolete matter, Ayliffe’s Roman, Civil and Canon Law, London, 1734, 2 vols. folio; Corpus Juris Civilis Justiniani; Seldeni Opera, Londini, 1726, 3 vols. folio; Selden’s Mare Clausum, edited by Needham; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum, Cantabr. 1727, 2 vols. folio.

Of Etymological Works the list is not much more copious, consisting of Johnson’s English Dictionary; Ainsworth’s Latin Dictionary; Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; Calepini Dictionarium Octolingue, Lugd. Bat. 1663, folio; Cooper’s Dictionary, London, 1573, folio; Cotgrave’s French and English Dictionary, London, 1611, folio; a Welch Grammar, printed at Caermarthen in 1727, 12mo.; Dictionarium Linguæ Japonicæ, Romæ, 1632, 4to.; Golii Lexicon Arabico Latinum, Lugd. Bat. 1653, folio; Hickesii Thesaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium, Oxonii, 1705, 2 vols. folio; Hoffmanni Lexicon; Stephani Thesaurus, 1527, 5 vols. folio; Spelman’s Glossary; Tooke’s Diversions of Purley, 1798, 2 vols. 4to.; and Vossii Opera, Amstelod. 1701, folio.

Of Classical authors, the editions contained in this Library are neither the first nor the best; the most correct idea, however, of their true character may be obtained by perusing the following brief enumeration of them:

Æginetæ, Pauli, Medici, Opera, Gr. Basileæ, 1538, 4to.

Aristotelis Opera. Parisiis, 1561, 2 vols. 4to.

Aratus et Sigonius. Parisiis, 1561, 4to.

Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. Bat. 1612, folio.

Arriani Expeditio Alexandri. Lugd. Bat. 1704, fol.

Æschyli Tragœdiæ. Londini, 1664, folio.

Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti. Parisiis, 1740, 9 vols. 4to. bound in
old French calf.

Callimachus. Lugd. Bat. 1761, 2 vols. 8vo.

Cæsaris Commentaria. Lugd. Bat. 1713, 8vo.

Catullus, Tibullus, & Propertius. Francof. 1621, 8vo.

Diodorus Siculus. Hanoviæ, 1604, folio.

Demosthenis Orationes. Parisiis, 1570, folio.

Dionysius Halicarnass. Francof. 1586, folio.

Aulus Gellius. Lugd. Bat. 1706, 4to.

Herodotus. Francof. 1608, duplum.

Homeri Opera. Clarkii, 1729-40, 4 vols. 4to.

Homeri Ilias. Heynii, 1802, 8 vols. 8vo.; with Translations by
Chapman and Ogilby, folio.

Hesiodus. Amstelodami, 1701 et 1757.

Justini Opera. Parisiis, 1615.

Iamblicus a Gale. Oxonii, 1778, folio, calf.

Juvenalis. Amstelodami, 1684, 8vo.

Isocratis Orationes. Rothomagi, 1662.

Lucianus Oudendorpii. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 4to.

Lucretius. Parisiis, 1625 et 1560.

Libanii Orationes. Genevæ, 1631-4, 2 vols. 4to.

Livius Variorum. Amstelod. 1679, 3 vols. 8vo.

Manilii Astronomicon, apud Plantin. 1610, 4to.

Oratores Græci Veteres. 1575, folio.

Ovidius, Burmanni. Amstelod. 1727, 4 vols. 4to.

Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii. Rothomagi, 1563, fol.

Pomponius Mela. Venetiis, 1482, 4to.

Plutarchi Opera. Francof. 1620, 2 vols. folio.

Plutarchi Vitæ. Londini, 1729, 5 vols. 4to.

Plinii Historia Naturalis. Lugd. Bat. 1563, folio.

Ptolomæi Geographia. Amstelod. 1618, folio.

Pausanias. Hanoviæ, 1613, folio, duplum.

Pausanias. Lipsiæ, 1696, folio.

Pindarus, West & Welsted. Oxonii, 1697, folio.

Phædrus, Burmanni. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 2 vols. 8vo.

Poetæ Minores Græci. Londini, 1728, 8vo.

Quintilianus. Parisiis, 1542, 4to. & 1725, folio.

Strabonis Geographia. Amstelod. 1707, 2 vols. fol.

Senecæ Tragœdiæ, Delphini. Paris. 1728, 4to.

Senecæ Opera. Amstelodami, 1672, 3 vols. 8vo.

Sallustius, Havercampi. Amstelod. 1742, 2 vols. 4to.

Suetonius, Grævii. Traject. ad Rhen. 1703.

Stobæus, Gr. et Lat. Genevæ, 1609, folio.

Tacitus, Gronovii. Traject. 1722, 2 vols. 4to.

Thucydides. Genevæ, 1609, folio.

Terentius. Amstelod. 1686, 8vo.

Theocritus. 1804, 4to.

Virgilius Variorum. Lugd. Bat. 1680, 3 vols. 8vo. with Ogilby’s
Translation. London, 1660, folio.

Xenophontis Opera, Gr. et Lat. Parisiis, 1625, fol.

To which may be added, the Works of Dioscorides; Petrus de Crescentiis; Euclid, Plautus, and Plato; Melmoth’s Letters of Pliny; Vigerus de Idiotismis Græcis, Londini, 1678, 12mo.; Barthelemy’s Voyage d’Anacharsis, Paris, 1790-7, 8vo. atlas; Falconer’s Voyage of Hanno, London, 1797, 8vo.; and Vincent’s Voyage of Nearchus, London, 1797, 4to.

Of British Classics, this Library contains the Works of Bacon and Locke; Newton’s Works, edited by Horsley, London, 1779, in 5 vols. 4to.; Du Bartas’ Divine Works and Weeks; Brown’s Vulgar Errors; Burney’s History of Music; Chaucer’s Works, by Urry, London, 1602, folio; Charles the First’s Works; Dryden’s Works, London, 1693, 4 vols. 4to.; Harrington’s Works, London, 1747, folio; Heywood’s Fall of Lucifer, a Poem, London, 1635, 8vo.; Johnson’s Works; Phillips’ Poems, 1609, folio; Shakespeare’s Works, printed at London, 1685, folio, and at Oxford, 1744, in 6 vols. 4to.; Spenser’s Works, 1589, 4to.; Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks, and Temple’s Works; to which I may add Tomline’s Life of Pitt, and Monk’s Life of Bentley; Markham on War; Spence’s Polymetis; Webb on the Beauties of Painting, 1760; Bentham’s Fragment on Government; Nicholson’s Encyclopædia, 1809, 6 vols. 8vo.; a large paper copy of Whitcombe’s Letter to the Prince Regent; the Edinburgh Review; and Literary History.

Of Works relating to Bibliography, I observed only

Bruckeri Hist. Crit. Philos. 4to.

D’Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale. Paris. 1697, folio.

Bibliothèque Universelle. Amst. 1687, 7 vols. 12mo.

Bibliothèque Choisie. Amst. 1703, 14 vols. 12mo.

Bibliothèque Ancienne et Moderne. Amst. 1716, 6 vols. 12mo.

Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca. Hamburg. 1708, 14 vols. 4to.

Journal des Sçavans. Bruxelles, 1681, 18 vols. 12mo.

Montfaucon’s Palæographia Græca. Paris. 1708, fol.

Stanley’s History of Philosophers, folio.

Thuani Monumenta Literaria. 1640, 8vo.

In Natural History, I noticed only

Aldrovandi Opera, Romæ. 1638, 12 vols. folio.

Burnet’s Theory of the Earth.

Ruellius de Naturâ Stirpium.

With the following miscellaneous articles I will close my account of the Gloucester Cathedral Library.

Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum. Parisiis, 1480, folio.

Bayle’s Dictionary.

Chambers’ Dictionary.

Campbell on Rhetoric.

Corneilles’ Works.

Libavii Alchymia. Francof. 1611, 2 vols. folio.

Maseres Scriptores Logarithmici. Lond. 1791, 5 vols. 4to.

Puffendorf’s Law of Nations. London, 1729, folio.

Studio di Architectura, folio.

Tonstall de Arte Supputandi; and some portions of the Works of
Rousseau;

only remarking that the greater portion of the Divinity is arranged in old calf, whose sombre appearance has been relieved by the addition of new lettering pieces; and that all the books appear remarkably free from damp, being all in open cases, except a few which are in the locked cases at the upper end of the Chapter-house, where stand the Busts of Edward the First, and of Handel.

Library of Hereford.

The Library of this ancient Cathedral has been happily preserved in its original state, affording a most excellent specimen of a genuine Monastic Library.

The Chapel of our Lady too, in which this interesting Collection is deposited, deserves in itself the tribute of a passing remark for its fretted roof and tesselated floor, its beautiful windows, and its sacred character. The adjacent oratory of Bishop Audley, translated from this See to Salisbury, whose gilt and painted roof faintly indicates its pristine splendour, as well as the tomb of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, 1330, must also attract the notice even of the most incurious stranger.

Such a one will not pass unheeded the shrine of Saint Ethelbert, and the effigy of the Juvenile Martyr; or the Head of the Crosier, the Papal Seal, or the Episcopal Rings, the relics of John Trillich, the forty-eighth Bishop of Hereford, A.D. 1360, found in the Choir in 1813.

The books are placed in projecting cases upon open shelves, to which they are attached by chains, more monachorum, which chains are fastened to a bar coextensive with each shelf, and confined by a lock at the end of each case. Of these the Canons in residence possess the keys; even the Catalogue of the Library is rivetted to the desk on which it stands, and all additions made to the Collection are chained beside their elder brethren.

These fetters are very injurious to the binding of the books, when that is of any consequence; and by causing all the volumes to have their fore edges turned outwards, are by no means calculated to invite the beholder; indeed it would appear that these manacles were in use long before lettering pieces came into fashion, and of these helps to the enquirer few indeed are to be found in this ancient Library.

The books are chiefly attired in the original calf, though some retain their wooden bindings, and are arranged in classes in the several cases, which are numbered in the following manner: