Chapter II: S. Patres. Concil. Eccl. Hist. Comment. in S. Biblia (1)

III. Hist. Eccl. Lexicogr.

IV. Hist. Civil. & Lib. Classic. Lib. Reformator. & Theolog.

V. Lib. Scholastic. & Artium. Lib. Jur. Canon. & Civil. &
Statut.

VI. Lib. Antiquar. & Miscell. Liber Pontificior.

VII. and VIII. Codd. MSS.

These projecting cases are placed on each side of the Chapel, in a series descending from what was once the altar to the wooden screen, which divides the part appropriated to the Library from the lower portion of the Chapel.

On entering the Library, the Manuscripts consequently are the first to attract attention, and, being both curious and valuable, shall be here described in the first place.

One of the most important is a manuscript copy of Wickliffe’s Bible, folio, imperfect at the beginning of Genesis, and the end of the Apocalypse, written upon vellum, and recently bound in calf. There are also very beautiful Manuscripts, upon vellum, of the Biblia Latina, S. Hieronymi, in folio, with illuminations, the gift of Stephen Boughton, afterwards Canon of Worcester; and of the Decreta Gratiani, cum apparatu, also illuminated, and in its pristine coverture of oak, bearing on the side under horn, the following inscription in Gothic characters:

“Decreta. Ex dono i̅n̅ Olkeym Lloid legum doctoris.”

There is also a very ancient Manuscript upon vellum, in the Roman character, of the “Eꝑlæ S. Pauli,” in quarto, bearing this Inscription, indicative at once of its antiquity and its worth:

“Liber sã Guthlaci de prioratu Herefordie.”

I will next proceed to specify the most remarkable of these Manuscripts without stopping to indicate the substance upon which each has been written, it being unnecessary to premise that the more ancient, and in this case the greater number, are upon vellum.

Besides the S. Biblia Veteris et Novi Testamenti per Hieronymum, Latine, folio, and, Evangelia Quatuor Latinè versa, quarto, there are manuscripts of various portions of the Bible, and Homilies by several of the Fathers.

I also noticed folios, containing the Works of Saints Augustine, Chrysostom, Bernard, Eusebius, and Jerome, together with many Glosses and Postillæ, Decretals and Pandects.

I also observed the Historia Scholastica of Comestor, and Sermones Petri Comestoris in folio. A curious volume in quarto, containing—

“Vita Christi per Bonaventuram; Vita S. Francisci, et Vitæ Inclusarum Anglicè per Ricardum de Hampul. Item, The Way of Perfection by Henry Chambernon,” and Guilielmi de Sancto Amore Collectio, &c. quarto, more interesting from the tradition connected with it, than from its contents, as every one will readily admit, who reads within it:—“Hic liber pertinuisse videtur ad Hugonem Latimerum. Episc. et Martyrem.”

As connected with the early History and Ordinances of the Church, we have the well known Constitutiones Clementinæ glossatæ à Joanne Andrea, folio; the Institutiones et Codex Justiniani-Chronica Martini Papæ, &c. folio; Sylloge Conciliorum Ecclesiarum Orientalium et Occidentalium, à Martino Bracarensi Episcopo facta, folio; Acta et Statuta quædam de Fratribus Mendicantibus, &c. folio; Eusebii Cæsariensis Historia Ecclesiastica, Latinè per Rufinum, cum Supplemento ad obitum Theodosii Magni, folio; Ludovici de Padua, Tabula in Jus Canon, et Civil. folio; Joannes de Bromyard Tractatus Juris Civilis et Canonici, folio; and the Constitutiones Provinciales et Legatinæ, cum Commentariis in easdem.

Independently of Augustini de Civitate Dei, Sermones et Epistolæ, and Hieronymi Epistolæ, et Tractatus varii, there are the Works of Saints Anselm and Gregory; Joannis Damasceni Opera; Cassianus de Collationibus Patrum; and Nicolai de Lyra super V. Libros Moysis, &c. folio; together with Petri de Capua Dictionum Biblicarum Explanatio ordine Alphabetico, folio.

In the Theology of the middle ages we meet with the subtleties of Thomas Aquinas, and Joannes Duns Scotus super IV Sentent. folio, as well as with Adhelmus de Virginitate, &c. 4to.; Nicolai de Gorram Distinctiones Rerum Theologicarum, A.D. 1400, folio; Roberti Crickladensis, Cognomine Canuti, (Knight) de Connubio Jacobi Patriarchæ, 4to.; Josephi De Burgo, Cancellarii Cantabrigiensis, Liber qui dicitur Pupilla Oculi, folio; Alcwini Diaconi Speculum Morale, 4to.; Ægidii Romani, Eremitæ Augustiniani, Liber de Regimine Principum, folio; and Hugonis de Sancto Victore Liber de Claustro animæ, folio.

As connected with British History, I may mention the following interesting volume:

Bedæ, Venerabilis, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica Libris V. cum Epilogio de Obitu Bedæ; et Chronologia Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium ab Augustino ad præsens tempus; i. e. Thomæ de Arundel. Archiep. Cantuar. folio.

Of Classical Authors, the Manuscripts are few, yet amid such a mass of obsolete divinity, it is pleasant to recognise the following:

Ciceronis liber de Inventione Rhetoricâ cum Glossâ, et Fulberti Episcopi de Differentiâ Rhetoricæ & Dialecticæ. Item, Liber de Officio Oratoris ad Herennium, 4to.; Boethii de Consolatione Philosophiæ cum Comm. 4to.; and Petri de Crescentiis, Civis Bononiensis, de Ruralibus Commodis, folio; to which I may add the celebrated Catholicon Januense, folio; Isidori Hispalensis Etymologiarum Liber, folio; and Osberni Monachi Gloucestrensis, Panormia; seu Linguæ Latinæ Dictionarium; scilicet, Vocabula, Derivationes, &c. folio.

With these and the mention of the once popular Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum, 4to.; and Jacobi Januensis Aurea Legenda, folio; I shall conclude my account of the Manuscripts, which form the most ancient portion of the Hereford Cathedral Library, the contents of which are briefly enumerated in the order in which the volumes themselves stand upon the shelves, for being all chained, this order cannot be materially disturbed.

This list occupies nine leaves at the end of the folio volume, which contains the Catalogue of the printed books, and bears the following title: “Catalogus omnium Codicum Manuscriptorum in Bibliothecâ Herefordensi.”

I observed, lying upon the table 93 pages of a printed Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the possession of Sir Thomas Phillipps, at Middle Hill in Worcestershire, arranged according to the Collections, or under the names of the booksellers from which they had been purchased, with this general title: Catalogus Librorum MSS. in Bibliothecâ Philippicâ, folio; which I regarded as a temporary expedient to assist the recollection of their owner, for a Collection so valuable and extensive ought to receive such a detailed description as that given by the accurate and indefatigable O’Conor of the invaluable Manuscripts at Stowe. Let us therefore hope that the “Bibliotheca Philippica” may one day be rightly set forth juxta exemplar “Bibliothecæ MS. Stowensis.”

We come now to the remaining and most extensive department of this venerable Library, which includes the printed books, which are briefly enumerated in a thin folio volume, entitled “Catalogus omnium impressorum Librorum Bibliothecæ Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Herefordensis juxta ordinem alphabeticum digestus.”

The true bibliographer, (Spirit of envy, say not bibliomaniac), will imagine with what pleasure I turned from the vague indication of ‘Legenda Aurea’ in this Catalogue, to its corresponding number on the shelves, and found it to be the veritable Golden Legende of William Caxton.

To those who in Dibdinian phraseology are familiar with this “thumping folio,” I need say no more than that it is very sound in the middle, though much stained at the end; and that it is preserved in its original binding of stamped calf, with the brass knobs and clasps. This copy is however unfortunately defective at the end, wanting all the leaves after “folio cccc.xxxix.” It also wants the Prologue and Table, five leaves, beginning with folio i. and continuing entire to folio cccc.xxxix. inclusive.

As a meet companion to this noble specimen of the early English press, I may cite a very fine early Terence, in a rude Roman type, without any distinction of verses, or name of printer, place, or date. This interesting volume consists of 246 leaves, and has 35 lines in a full page. It commences with the life of Publius Terentius Afer, having the first letter illuminated, and ends with these verses:

“Qui cupit obtrusam frugem gustasse Terenti
Donatum querat noscere grammaticum.”

It is bound up with a Manuscript of Terence, entitled, “Pars Comœd. P. Terentii, partim MS. cum Expos. Florii,” &c. apparently in an old English hand; and at the end of the volume, in Gothic character, is this inscription: “Liber est sui Olkeym Lloid.” The book retains its original wooden binding, covered with calf, and confined by clasps. On the centre of its right side, under a plate of horn is the following inscription upon paper, in the Gothic character:

“Terenciᵘˢ cu̅ donato. Ex dono m̅. Olkeym Lloyd, qu̅dam Canonum
huj’ Ecclie.—”

Whilst on the subject of early printed books, I may mention Higden’s Polychronicon, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495; Lyndewode, Provinciale, in double columns, of Gothic letter, with the date of 1433, doubtless by a lapse of the numeral and intended for 1483, folio; Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum, Argentorati, 1485, folio; and the Commentaries of Nicholas de Lyra, printed at Venice in 1485, in 5 volumes, folio; Breydenbach, Peregrinationes in terram sanctam, Antverpiæ, 1490, fol.; Ptolomæi Geographia, Ulmæ, 1486, fol.; and though last, not least, a very fine and found copy of Nonius Marcellus de Proprietate Latini Sermonis, printed at Venice by the unrivalled Nicolas Jenson in 1476, folio. This beautiful copy has the first letter illuminated, and the arms of some former, probably its earliest, possessor, printed at the foot of the first page. It is preserved in its pristine coverture of wood, and is quite perfect, having the table at the end.

Of impressions of the Holy Bible, the student of the Scriptures will peruse with satisfaction the following succinct enumeration thereof:

Biblia Polyglotta, Montani. Antverpiæ, 1568, folio, 8 vols.

Biblia Polyglotta, Waltoni. Londini, 1657, folio, 6 vols. cum
Castelli Lexicon. 2 vols. fol.

Biblia Hebræa, cum Rabbinorum Comment. Basil. 4 vols. folio.

Biblia Hebræa, per Munster. Basileæ. 1543, 2 vols. folio.

Biblia Hebræa, per Kimchi. Parisiis, 1543, 5 vols. 4to.

Biblia Græca, per Wechel. Francofurti, 1597.

Biblia Græca, per Grabe. Oxonii, 1707, 2 vols. fol.

Biblia Latina, per S. Hieronymum, Norimbergæ. 1501, folio.

Biblia Latina, per Jo. Castalionem. Basileæ, 1556, folio.

Biblia Latina, per Pagninum. Parisiis, Stephani, 1557, folio.

Biblia Latina, per Lovanium. Antverpiæ, 1570, fol.

Biblia Latina, per Junium et Tremellium. Hanoviæ, 1596 et 1624,
folio.

{ Barker. London, 1611, folio.
{ Norton and Bill. London, 1629, folio.
The Bible in English, { John Cousturier, “permissu superiorum
printed by { at the College of Doway.” 1635, 4to.
{ Field. Cambridge, 1660, folio.

Novum Testamentum Gr. Millii. Oxonii, 1707, folio.

Novum Testamentum Gr. Erasmi. Basileæ, 1527, 1555 & 1570, folio.

Psalterium Hebr. Gr. Arab. et Chald. 1516, folio.

As connected with the Church Service, I may mention—

Breviarium ad usum Sarum. Londini, 1556, 4to.

Manuale ad usum Sarum. Londini, 1554, 4to.

Missale ad usum Sarum. 1531, folio.

Missale Romanum a Concilio Tridentino institutum. Lugd. Bat.
1685, folio.

Durandi Rationale divinorum officiorum. Lugduni, 1592, 8vo.

Of the Fathers of the Church, in addition to the Works of Saints Ambrose, Cyprian, Cyril, and Epiphanius, and of Lactantius, Clemens Alexandrinus, Origen, Philo Judæus, Peter and Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Theophylact, Tostatus and Theodoret; I remarked the Works of

Saint Anselm, printed at Cologne in 1573, folio.

Athanasii Opera Gr. et Lat. Coloniæ, 1686, 2 vols. folio.

Augustini Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1529, 10 vols. folio.

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

Chrysostomi Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1530, 5 vols. folio.

Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica. Moguntiæ, 1672, folio.

Eusebii Præparatio Evangelica. Parisiis, 1628, folio.

Hieronymi Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1524, 5 vols. folio.

Irenæi Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1548, folio, and

The Bibliotheca Sanctorum Patrum.

Descending to a later period, besides the Works of Thomas Aquinas, Jewel, Calvin, Lowth, Lightfoot, Hammond, Pearson, Prideaux, Stillingfleet, and Jeremy Taylor, Chillingworth, Patrick, Knight, and Tillotson; I noticed

The Syntagma Opinionum. Lugd. 1608, 3 vols. folio.

Lutheri Opera Omnia. Witebergæ, 1582, 7 vols. folio.

Grotii Comment. in Vet. & Nov. Test. Parisiis, 1644, 5 vols.
folio.

Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticis. Amstelod. 1682, 2 vols. folio.

Zanchii Opera Theologica. Genevæ, 1619, 3 vols. folio.

Zuingeri Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ. Basileæ, 1571, 3 vols. folio.

To which I may without impropriety, add

Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible. London, 1732, 3 vols. folio.

Broughton’s Dictionary of all Religions. London, 1742, folio.

Bibliotheca Polonorum Fratrum.

Bibliotheca Hebræa per Wolfium.

Bochart, Geographia Sacra. Cadomi, 1651.

Bochart, Hierozoicon. Londini, 1663.

Suarez Theological Tracts, and several of the Controversial
Writings of Bellarmine.

In Ecclesiastical History, I observed many valuable Works upon the shelves, of which I may select the

Conciliorum Collectio Maxima per Labbeum, &c. Paris, 1672, in
18 vols. folio.

Harduini Conciliorum Actorum Collectio. Parisiis, 1715, in 12
vols. folio.

Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ per Wilkins. London, 1726, 4 vols.
folio.

Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church.

Picart’s Religious Ceremonies. London, 1733.

Godwyn’s Præsules Anglicani. Londini, 1616, 2 vols. folio.

Godwyn’s English Prelates. London, 1601.

Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History.

Wharton’s Anglia Sacra.

Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity.

Burnet’s Reformation.

Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy.

Baronii Annales Eccles.

Parker’s Antiq. Eccl. Brit. Hanoviæ, 1605, folio.

Sanderi Vera Historia Schismatis Anglicanæ. Colon. 1628, 8vo.

Brandt’s History of the Reformation in the Low Countries.
London, 1720, 4 vols. folio.

Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica. Antverpiæ, 1550.

Bedæ Historia per Smith. Cantabrigiæ, 1722, folio.

Fox’s Book of Martyrs. London, 1610, 2 vols. fol.

Strype’s Annals and Memorials.

Justiniani Codex, and the Decreta Gratiani, are the most worthy
of commemoration.

Before quitting entirely the subject of Divinity, I may add that this Library contains several old concordances.

Gesneri Bibliotheca per Simlerum. Tiguri, 1574, folio.

Fleetwood’s Sermons and Tract.

The Critici Sacri.

Leigh’s Critica Sacra. Lond. 1646, 4to.

Erasmi Opera Omnia. Lugd. Bat. 1703, 10 vols. folio.

Gibson’s Codex Juris Canon. et Civil., in 2 vols. fol.

Martin Bucer de scriptis Anglicanis, &c.

Of which Cave’s Scriptor. Eccles. Hist. Liter. Londini, 1688, folio; and Dupin’s History of Ecclesiastical Writers, London, 1697, 7 vols. folio, may very properly conclude the notice.

Of General History it may suffice to specify, the Dictionary of Bayle, the valuable Collections of Grævius and Gronovius, with the Lexicon of Pitiscus and the Inscriptions of Gruter.

Guicciardini Historia sui temporis. Basileæ, 1556, folio.

Krantzii Saxonicæ Gentis Origo. Francof. 1580, folio.

Krantzii Regnorum Aquilon. Chronica. Francof. 1583, folio.

Olai Magni, Historia Gentium Septentrion. Basileæ, 1567, folio.

Marianæ Historia de rebus Hispanicis. Toleti, 1592, folio.

Montfaucon’s Antiquities, translated by Humphreys.

Blair’s Chronological Tables. London, 1756, folio.

Collier’s Historical Dictionary and the Atlas de Lisle.

Of English History, it is pleasant to record such valuable Illustrations as Dugdale’s Monasticon, by Stevens, and Tanner’s Notitia by Nasmith; Dugdale’s Baronage; the Publications of the Record Commissioners.

Scriptores Rerum Anglicarum post Bedam, edente Savile.

Britannicarum Rerum Scriptores vetustiores ac præcipui.
Heidelbergæ, 1587, folio.

Camdeni Anglica, Normannica etc. a veteribus scripta.
Francofurti, 1603, folio.

Camden’s Britannia, edited by Gibson. London, 1753, folio.

Brooke’s Discovery of Camden’s Errors. London, 1660, 4to.

Polydore Vergil, Historia Anglicana.

Ricardi Viti Basinstochii Historia Britanniæ. 1611, 8vo.

Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum. Francof. 1601,
folio.

Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana. Londini, 1571, folio.

The Chronicles of Harding. London, 1543.

The Chronicles of Fabian. London, 1559.

The Chronicles of Cooper. London, 1560.

The Chronicles of Holinshed. London, 1574, 2 vols. folio.

Rushworth’s Historical Collections. London, 1721, 6 vols. folio.

Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. Oxford, 1707, 2 vols.
folio.

Thurloe’s State Papers.

Kippis’s Biographia Britannica.

Gibson’s Home Lacy, &c. Oxon. 1674.

Borlase’s Cornwall.

Wood’s Antiquitates Oxonienses. 1674.

Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon. 1691.

Sandford’s Genealogical History of the Kings of England.

To which I may add, as the most proper sequel,

Balæi Scriptores Britannici. Wesaliæ, 1548, 4to. and

Nicolson’s valuable Historical Library.

Of Law, it will be enough to mention the Statutes at large; Blackstone’s Commentaries; Cunningham’s Law Dictionary; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum, Cantabrigiæ, 1685; Durandi Speculum Juris, Basileæ, 1574, folio.

Of Classical Authors, in addition to the Works of Aristotle, I may enumerate,

Aristophanes, Stephani. Basileæ, 1547.

Ciceronis Opera, Lambini. Genevæ, 1584.

Demosthenes, Taylori. Cantabrigiæ, 1748, 4to.

Euripides, Barnesii. Cantabrigiæ, 1694.

Horatius. Basileæ, 1580, folio.

Livii Historia. Parisiis, 1573, folio.

Pausanias. Basileæ, 1550.

Plato, Ficini. Francof. 1602, folio.

Plinii Sen. Nat. Hist. Selestadii, 1531, folio.

Plutarchus. Basileæ, 1535, folio.

Polybius, Casauboni. Parisiis, 1609, folio.

Strabonis Geographia. Basileæ, 1523, folio.

Thucydides, Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1696, folio; with Nycoll’s
Translation of Thucydides. London, 1560, folio.

Valerius Maximus. Parisiis, 1517, folio.

Virgilius. Parisiis, 1532, folio; with Trapp’s Translation, and

Xenophontis Opera, Stephani. Parisiis, 1581, folio.

To which may be added, the

Josephus of Hudson.

Poetæ Græci Heroici. Aurel. Allob. 1606, folio, and

Maittaire Corpus Poetarum Latinorum. Londini, 1713, 2 vols.
folio.

I may here also most properly introduce the Acta Eruditorum cum Suppl. Lipsiæ, 1683, et seq. 4to.; the Bibliographia Antiquaria; Bibliotheca Græca, Latina, and Ecclesiastica of the learned Fabricius; Photii Bibliotheca, curâ Hœschelii, Rothomagi, 1563; and Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ Catalogus, Oxonii, 1574, folio; Bibliothecæ Thuani Catalogus, Hamburg, 2 vols. 12mo.; Thuani Monumenta Literaria, Lut. Par. 1639, 4to.

With Etymological Works this Library is well furnished, as the following specimens may serve to show.

Cooper’s Thesaurus. London, 1584, folio.

Davies’ Dictionarium. Coloniæ, 1624, 4to.

Hesychii Lexicon.

Hoffmanni Lexicon.

Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis. Oxonii, 1705, folio; cui
accedit Wanleii Antiq. Litt. Septentr. Oxon. 1705, folio.

Johnson’s English Dictionary.

Lexicon Arabicum per Erpenium. Leidæ, 1613.

Lexicon Chaldaicum per Eliam Levitam. Colon. 1560.

Lexicon Hebraicum per Mercerum, &c. Lugd. 1575.

Lluyd’s Archælogia.

Lye’s Saxon and Gothic Dictionary.

Perotti Cornucopia. Basileæ, 1526, folio.

Phavorini Lexicon Græcum.

Suidæ Lexicon. Venetiis, 1514, folio.

In English Literature this Collection is remarkably deficient, for the Works of Bacon and Locke, of the Royal Authors, James and Charles; Merlin’s Prophecies, printed at Frankfort in 1608; and Chambers’ Cyclopædia, alone arrested my attention.

I must not however omit Hawkins’s History of Music, and a complete Collection of Handel’s Music, the munificent donation of his late Majesty George IV. to the Cathedral of Hereford.

Though not connected with the Library, I may be pardoned for introducing to the reader’s notice an old Saxon Map of the World, preserved in the Treasury. Jerusalem is its centre, and the names of the places are indicated in black letter, which appears to have been inserted subsequently to the original Saxon characters. At the corner of the Map is this inscription: “Exiit edictu̅ ab Augusto Cæsare ut describeretur hic universus orbis”—signed by “Richard de Haldingham,” and “e de lafford.”

The Antiquary will learn with pleasure that a copy of this Map has been made by the direction of the Royal Society, and that consequently this interesting relic of antiquity will become much better known than any observations of mine could possibly make it.

Library of Lambeth Palace.

In the princely habitation of the head of the English Church, no place could have been found more suitable for the reception of the valuable Library of printed books, attached to the See of Canterbury, than the ancient Juxonian Hall, rife with historic recollections, and now replete with comfort.

This noble room has been so beautifully restored under the tasteful superintendance of Blore, that all its furniture is in perfect accordance with the ancient vaulted roof, which hangs above it.

The modern oaken bookcases entirely surround the room, and projecting at stated intervals from the walls, make as it were a little book-room in each recess; so vast are the dimensions of this antique hall, which is however completely warmed at pleasure by two grand fire-places, one at each end of the room.

The books, thus carefully protected from damp, amount in number to nearly five and twenty thousand volumes, arranged in symmetrical order upon the open shelves of the oaken cases.

Some of the choicer articles however are kept in the adjacent muniment room, of which the Librarian religiously keeps the key.

The two Coverdale’s, and other early English Bibles, some of the Caxton’s, and Cicero’s offices, with the Neapolitan Pentateuch, both upon vellum, will be found reposing in this chamber, of whose principal contents I have already spoken.

Previous to the judicious adaptation of the Juxonian Hall to the Archiepiscopal Library, that Collection was deposited in four galleries over the cloisters, where it had probably remained ever since the Restoration.

Its previous history is however worthy of notice, as a remarkable instance of the mutations to which literary property is subject in times of popular commotion.

This Library is believed to have been founded by Archbishop Bancroft, in the reign of James the First, but during the civil wars, these printed books were all seized by the Parliament, and by it subsequently bestowed upon the puritanical establishment of Sion College.

In times of great political excitement, men it would seem have no leisure to attend to nice distinctions between meum and tuum: many of those volumes consequently got into private hands; and the Library was in danger of being dispersed, when the learned Selden suggested to the University of Cambridge their right to the Collection under Archbishop Bancroft’s will.

This demand, it appears, was no sooner made than complied with; for in February, 1647, we find, that pursuant to an order of Parliament, this Collection was delivered into the possession of that University.

The Archiepiscopal Library however was not long suffered to remain separate from its parent See, for upon the Restoration it was demanded by Archbishop Juxon, and was accordingly restored to his successor.

Since the period of its foundation, though the Library may have sustained some losses, yet these I suspect have been more than counterbalanced by the numerous benefactions of successive Prelates.

Archbishops Abbot, Laud, Sheldon, and Tennison were distinguished benefactors. Archbishop Secker enriched it by the bequest of his entire Collection; and the late Archbishop Manners Sutton considerably augmented the theological class.

The first Catalogue of the printed books was compiled by Bishop Gibson, in two small folio volumes, each containing a full alphabet, and bearing the following title:—“Catalogus librorum quos summâ curâ propriisque sumptibus Richardus et Georgius nuper Cantuariæ Archi-Epi. Bibliothecæ Lambethanæ, compârunt: eosq. successoribus suis Cantuarien Archi-Epis. supremis Tabulis in Perpetuum relinquendos statuerunt.” The title of the books, with their dates and references to their places on the shelves are in this Catalogue correctly given. These two volumes are bound in what Dr. Dibdin would call “a kiver of parchmente.”

This Catalogue was afterwards transcribed in a fair hand by Dr. Wilkins, and continued by his successors to the present time. The arrangement of this Work is alphabetical, and the titles, dates, and places are correctly given to each book, with references to their places upon the shelves, or rather to a corresponding numeral and letter pasted on each volume.

This Catalogue is comprised in three folio volumes, each having a separate title page, which is superscribed with “Catalogus Bibliothecæ Lambethanæ.”

The first volume bears the date of 1718, and contains 725 pages regularly numbered from the beginning, comprising letters A to F. The second volume, bearing the title and date, contains pages 729 to 1393, and letters E to O. The third volume, bearing the same date and title, contains pages 1397 to 2068, and letters P to Z. All these volumes are in calf binding; but they do not contain all the treasures of this extensive Collection; for in another folio volume, also bound in calf, we find “A Catalogue of the Books bequeathed by the late Archbishop Secker to the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, A.D. 1768.”

This Catalogue, compiled in alphabetical order, contains 244 pages, exclusive of seven leaves at the end, containing “an Index of the Names of the Authors, whose Works are scientifically placed in this Catalogue.” In both these Catalogues, though the arrangement is strictly alphabetical, yet Works relating to different subjects, countries, or sects, &c. are enumerated under those heads as well as under the names of their respective authors.

There are yet three other calf-bound volumes in folio, descriptive of the contents of this Library. Two of these contain “A Catalogue of the Tracts and Pamphlets in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, drawn up by Dr. Ducarel, F. R. and A. S. Lambeth Librarian.”

The first volume, dated 1773, contains 285 leaves, and letters A to N, preceded by the foregoing title, and a dedication to Frederick, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the compiler. The second volume, bearing the same date and title, contains letters O to Z, and has leaves, numbered from 286 to 596, after which the pages are numbered, so that the final number is 618, although the actual number of leaves in the Work be only 609. It also bears the date of 1773. The third volume comprehends an “Index to the Catalogue of Pamphlets and Tracts in the Lambeth Library, drawn up by Dr. Ducarel, 1773,” being an alphabetical index of the names contained in the two preceding volumes. To all these three volumes a portrait of Dr. Ducarel, the historian of Lambeth Palace, as well as the keeper of its Library, is prefixed.

In attempting to convey to the reader some notion of the multifarious contents of this extensive Collection, I would first beg to direct his attention to sacred subjects, for Biblical Literature forms one of the most important features of this valuable Library.

Here are two copies of the first English Bible, being that translated by Coverdale, and printed in all probability by Christian Egenolph at Francfort in 1535, folio.

The first of these copies, with the dedication to Queen Anne Boleyn, wants the title, but is perfect, though damaged at the end. It does not possess the Map, which is so often wanting. This volume measures twelve inches and a half by seven inches and seven-eighths, and is in old calf-binding.

The second of these copies, has the dedication to Queen Jane Seymour, belonging to the edition 1536, wants not only the title, but the whole of the New Testament. It possesses however a gratuitous addition at the end, of thirteen leaves, being “a table of the principal Matters conteyned in the whole Bible,” printed in the ordinary black letter of the early part of the sixteenth century. This volume measures twelve inches and a quarter by eight inches, and is also in calf-binding.

In pursuing the other editions of the English Bible, I will observe as closely as I can the order of time, beginning with the joint labour of Coverdale and Tyndale;

The Bible, by Thomas Matthew, at the expense of R. Grafton
and E. Whitchurch, without indication of place, but printed
at London in 1537, folio.[23] The present copy retains its
original binding of calf.

Cranmer’s, or the Great Bible. London, by Richard Grafton and
Edward Whitchurch, finished in April, 1539, folio.

Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Edward Whitchurch, Apryll, 1540,
folio.

The Bible, oversene by Cuthbert, Bishop of Duresm, and Nicolas,
Bishop of Rochester. London, by Edward Whitchurche, 1541, folio.

The Bible, by Thomas Matthew, reprinted from the edition of
1537, with some alterations, and published by Edmund Becke.
London, by Thomas Raynaldes and William Hyll, 1549, folio.

Taverner’s Bible. London, by J. Daye and W. Seres, 1549, folio.

Coverdale’s Bible. London, for Andrew Hester, 1550, 4to.; the
body of this book is in Zurich type, but the preliminary pieces
were printed at London.

The Bible, by Thomas Matthew, with some variation, and an
addition of the third book of the Maccabees by Edmond Becke.
London, by John Daye, 1551, folio.

The Bible. Printed at London by Nicholas Hyll, for Robert Toye,
1551, folio.

The Genevan Bible. At Geneva, printed by Rouland Hall, 1560,
4to.[24]

Cranmer’s Bible. Lond. by John Cawood, 1561, 4to.

Cranmer’s Bible. Rouen, by C. Hamillon, at the cost and charges
of Richard Carmarden, 1566, folio.[25]

The Bible. Printed at London, with Cawood’s Mark, in 1569, 4to.

The Bishop’s Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1572, folio. This
is the second edition of the well-known Bishop’s Bible, and the
last in which the three copper plates of Elizabeth, Leicester,
and Cecil are found. It has a double version of the Psalms.

Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1573, 4to. The
present is the presentation copy of this book, painted and
richly bound in five volumes.

The Genevan Bible. London, by Christopher Barker, 1578, 4to.
This edition has two versions of the Psalms; the Genevan,
printed in Roman letter, and that of the Great Bible, printed
in Gothic, similar to the rest of the volume.

The Genevan Bible. London, by Christopher Barker, 1583, folio.

The Bishop’s Bible. London, by Christopher Barker, 1585, folio.

The Bible, the Bishop’s, except the Psalms, which are according
to Cranmer’s Bible. London, by the deputies of C. Barker, 1595,
folio.

The Genevan Bible. London, by the deputies of C. Barker, 1595,
folio.

The Genevan Bible. London, by the deputies of C. Barker, 1599,
4to. Dr. Cotton remarks that probably this impression was a
very large one, as it appears to be the most common of all the
Genevan editions.[26]

The Genevan Bible. London, by R. Barker, 1611, folio; also in
4to. by R. Barker, 1611.

The Bible, translated by Royal Authority. London, by R. Barker,
1611, folio.[27]

The Bible. Printed at London by R. Barker, 1612, 4to.

The Bible. Printed at London in 1617, folio.

The Bible. Printed at Cambridge, 1629, folio.

The Bible. Printed by Buck and Daniel, at Cambridge, in 1638,
folio.

The Holy Bible. Printed at Cambridge in 1657, fol.

The Bible. Printed at London in 1660, 8vo.

The Bible, printed by Field at Cambridge, in 1663, folio.

The Bible, with Notes, and a Preface by John Canne. London, by
C. Bill, and the executrix of T. Newcomb, 1700, 4to.

The Bible, commonly called Bishop Lloyd’s, containing
additional marginal references. London, by C. Bill, and the
executrix of T. Newcomb, 1701, folio.

The Royal Bible, with Genevan Notes. London, without name of
printer, 1708, folio.

The Bible, translated by Anthony Purver, with Notes. London, by
Richardson, 1764, in two folio volumes.

Having thus briefly enumerated the English Bibles in this Collection, I proceed to notice, in chronological order, those copies of detached portions of the Scriptures which have been separately published, commencing with the

New Testament, by William Tyndale, 1536, 12mo. being his third
and last revision.

The Pystles and Gospelles for every Sonday and holydaye in the
yere. Paris, no name, 1538, 8vo.

The same. Printed at Rouen, without name of printer, 1538, 8vo.

St. Matthew, chapters v. vi. vii. with an exposition by William
Tyndale, printed abroad, 1538, 16mo.

The New Testament, in Latin and English, after the Vulgate, by
John Hollybushe [Myles Coverdale.] Southwark, by J. Nicolson,
1538, 4to. This copy is of the second edition, which is less
rare than the first.

The Epistles and Gospels of every Sunday and holiday. London,
by Robert Redman, 1539, 4to.

The Epistles and Gospels, with Postills by divers learned men,
recognized and augmented by Richard Taverner, 1540, 12mo. very
narrow page. The present copy is imperfect.

The New Testament, translated from the Latin of Erasmus.
London, by R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, 1540, 4to.

The New Testament. London, by William Powell, 1548, 4to.

Apocrypha. London, by J. Day and W. Seres, 1549, 12mo.

The Canticles, or Balades of Solomon, in Englysh metre by
William Baldwin. London, 1549, 4to.

The New Testament in Latin and English, the Latin by Erasmus.
London, by Thomas Gualtier, for J. C. 1550, 8vo.[28]

The New Testament, by Myles Coverdale. London, by Reynold
Wolfe, 1549, 12mo.[29]

The New Testament. London, by Richard Jugge, 1552, 4to.

The first fourteen chapters of the Acts of the Apostles,
translated into English metre by Christopher Tye: with Musical
Notes. London, by William Seres, 1553, 12mo.[30] The present
copy was presented to the Lambeth Library, by Sir John
Hawkins, on June 21st, 1777.

The New Testament. London, by Richard Jugge, 1553, 4to.

The Epistles and Gospels, &c. Rouen, by John Prest, 1555, 16mo.

The Genevan New Testament, translated by W. Whittingham.
Printed at Geneva, by Conrade Badius, 1557, 12mo.[31]

The Genevan New Testament. Printed at Geneva, but without name
of printer, 1560, 16mo.

The New Testament. London, by Richard Jugge, 1561, 12mo.

The Epistle to the Ephesians, with an Exposition of St.
Chrysostom. London, by H. Bynneman, 1581, 4to.

The New Testament, by William Allen and others. Rhemes, by John
Fogny, 1582, 4to. This is the first edition of the Rhemish or
Roman Catholic version.

The Proverbs of Solomon, with an Exposition by T. W.
(Wilcocke.) London, by T. Orwin, 1589, 4to.

The New Testament, London, by the deputies of Christopher
Barker, 1589, 12mo.

The New Testament, Beza’s, translated by L. Tomson. London, by
the deputies of Christopher Barker, 1596, 4to.

Jonah, with an Exposition by J. Abbott, S. T. P. London, by R.
Field, 1600, 4to.

The New Testament, by the Rhemish-Douay College. Printed at
Antwerp by Daniel Veruliek, 1600, 4to.

The Old Testament, by the Roman Catholic College of Douay.
Printed at Douay by L. Kellam, in 1609 and 1610, in two quarto
volumes.

The Rhemish New Testament, with Annotations. Antwerp, by James
Seldenslach, 1621, 12mo.

The Design of part of the Book of Ecclesiastes in verse, by
W. W. London, by J. Knapton, 1691, 8vo. This book is the
production of William Woollaston, author of “the Religion of
Nature delineated;” but not being altogether satisfied with his
Work, he used his endeavours to suppress it, with such effect,
that copies are now with difficulty to be found.

The New Testament, translated from the Latin Vulgate by
Cornelius Nary, without name of place or printer, but supposed
by Dr. Geddes in his Prospectus, p. 110, to have been printed
at Dublin, 1718, 8vo.

The Rhemish New Testament, without place or name of printer,
1752, 8vo.

Divers parts of the Holy Scriptures done into English, chiefly
from Dr. Mill’s Greek copy, with Notes. London, for T. Piety,
1761, 8vo.

The New Testament, by Dr. Doddridge’s translation revised.
London, for Rivington, 1765, in two volumes, 12mo.

The New Testament, and a liberal translation by E. Harwood.
London, for T. Becket and others, 1768, in two octavo volumes.

Among the different versions of the Psalms, this Library possesses

The Psalter in Metre, with an Argument and Collect to each
Psalm, printed at London by John Daye, without date, but
referred to the year 1561, by Dr. Cotton, in 4to.[32]

The Psalms in Metre, by T. Sterneholde, &c. London, by John
Daye, 1573, 4to.

The Psalms in Metre, by Sterneholde, &c. London, by T.
Vautrollier, 1587, 12mo.

An Exposition of the Psalmes, by Thomas Wilcocke. London, by
T. Orwin, 1591, 4to.; the title whereof is wanting.

The Psalms in Metre, with prose in the margin, for the use of
the Church of Scotland. Middleburgh, by Richard Schilders,
1602, 12mo.

The Psalter, after the Great Bible. London, for the Company,
1606, 32mo.

The Psalms, by Sterneholde, with the Tunes. London, for the
Company, 1607, 4to.

The Psalms, in Prose and Metre, by Henry Ainsworth. Amsterdam,
by Giles Thorp, 1612, 4to.

The Psalms in verse and prose; with the Songs of Moses,
Deborah, &c. translated by H. Dod, without place or printer’s
name, 1620, 8vo.[33]

Psalms and Hymns, with the music, in four parts, by Thomas
Ravenscroft. London, for the Company, 1621, 8vo.

Certaine Psalmes in Verse by Francis, Lord Verulam. London,
for Hannah Barrett, and R. Whittaker, 1625, 4to. The Psalms
contained in this rare volume are the i. xii. xc. civ. cxxvi.
cxxxvii. and cxlix.

The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. London, for the Company, 1626,
8vo.

The Psalms, translated by king James, with the prose. Oxford,
by William Turner, 1631, 12mo.

The Psalms, in Prose and Metre, with the notes. Edinburgh, by
the heirs of Andro Hart, 1635, 8vo.

The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. London, by G. M. for the
Company, 1638, folio.

The Psalms in Metre and Prose, with Annotations by H.
Ainsworth. Amsterdam, by Thomas Stafford, 1644, 8vo.

The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. London, by A. M. for the
Company, 1655, 8vo.

The Psalmes by Sterneholde, &c. Cambridge, by John Field, 1657,
8vo.

An Essay towards a metrical version of the Psalms, by Samuel
Leigh. London, by Thomas Milbourne, 1661, 8vo.

The Psalms paraphrased. London, by Thomas Garthwaite, 1664, 8vo.

The Psalms in Metre by Bishop King. Second edition. London, for
S. and B. Griffin, 1671, 8vo.

A Paraphrase on the Psalms, by G. Sandys, set to new tunes.
London, by W. Godbid for A. Roper, 1676, 8vo.

The Psalms in Metre, by S. Woodford. Second edition. London,
for J. Martyn and others, 1678, 8vo.

The Psalmes, by Sterneholde, &c. London, by J. Macock, for the
Company, 1682, 8vo.

A Century of Select Psalms, by J. Patrick. Third edition.
London, for R. Royston, 1686, 8vo.

Psalms, or Psalm-hymns in Metre, by William Barton. London, by
J. Heptinstall, 1688, 12mo.

Psalms in Metre, by William Barton. London, by F. Collins,
1691, 12mo.

The Psalms by Sterneholde, &c. London, by John Leake, 1693, 4to.

The first Twenty Psalms in Verse, by N. Brady and N. Tate.
London, for the Company, 1695, 8vo.[34]

The Psalms by Brady and Tate, the first edition of this
authorized version. London, by M. Clark, 1696, 8vo.

The Psalms in Metre, by Brady and Tate. The second edition of
this version. London, by T. Hodgkin, 1698, 8vo.

The Psalms, newly translated, in Metre. London, by Thomas
Parkhurste, 1700, 12mo.

The first Fifteen Psalms, in Lyric Verse, by Dr. J. Gibbs.
London, by J. Matthews, 1701, 4to.

The Psalms, with the Argument of each Psalm, by Dr. Allix.
London, by John Taylor, 1701, 8vo.

Holy David, and his English Translators cleared, being the
Psalms explained by J. Johnson. London, by R. Knaplock, 1707,
8vo. The second edition: the first having been published
anonymously in the preceding year.

The Psalms in Metre, by King James. Edinburgh, by J. Watson,
1712, 8vo.

The Psalms in Metre, by Sir R. Blackmore. London, by J. March,
1721, 8vo.

Ruddiman’s Vindication of Buchanan’s Psalms. Edinburgh, 1745,
8vo.

The Psalter in its original form, by G. Fenwick, containing
also a translation of “the last words of David.” London, by T.
Longman, 1759, 8vo.

The first Book of David’s Psalms in heroic Verse, by Robson.
London, for W. Sanby, 1761, 8vo.

The Psalms, translated from the Hebrew, in measured Prose, with
critical Notes by W. Green, _M.A._ Cambridge, by J. Bentham,
1762, 8vo.

Psalms and Hymns in Metre, by C. Bradbury. London, by M. Lewis,
1763, 12mo.

Psalms in Verse, by James Merrick, _M.A._ The first edition.
Reading, by J. Carnan, 1765, 4to.; and many other editions of
the English Psalter of more recent date.

To this copious Collection of Psalmody I am enabled to add “A List of Psalters, Psalms, &c. presented to the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth by the Right Reverend Dr. Thomas Percy, Lord Bishop of Dromore, April 29th 1782,” wherein the Books are arranged according to their sizes.

_Folio._

The Psalms in Prose, translated by Alexander Top. Amsterdam, by
Jan Fred. Stam. 1629.

The Ascents of the Soul on David’s Mount towards God’s House;
being paraphrases in verse on the fifteen Psalms of Degrees,
from the Italian of Loredano, by Henry, Lord Coleraine. London,
printed by A. G. and J. P. for Robert Harford, at the Angel in
Cornhill, 1681.

_Quarto._

Sacred Hymns, being Fifty Select Psalms, paraphrastically
turned into English Verse by Sir Edwin Sandys;[35] and by
Robert Tailour set to be sung in five parts. London, printed by
Thomas Snodham, 1615.

Psalm cxix. paraphrased in Verse by George Atwood, B. D.
London, for W. Innys, 1730.

_Octavo._

The Book of Psalms, in Prose and Metre, with annotations by
Henry Ainsworth. Amsterdam, by Thomas Stafford, 1644.

The Psalms of David, paraphrased by Miles Smyth. London, for
Thomas Garthwaite, 1668.

Davideos, or a Specimen of some of David’s Psalms in Metre,
with remarks on the Latin translators by Mr. John Phillips.
London, for W. Keblewhite, with the date of 1798 erroneously
put for 1698.

An Essay towards a paraphrase on the Psalms, in English Verse;
with a paraphrase on Proverbs, chap. xxxi. and Revelations,
chap. iii. by Basil Kennet. London, for B. Aylmer, 1706.

The Psalms in Metre, by the Hon. Sir John Denham. London, for
J. Bowyer and others, 1714.

The whole Book of Psalms, with Hymns, and all the ancient and
proper tunes composed, &c. by John Playford. London, for the
Company, 1715.

Select Psalms, paraphrased in Metre by Dr. Richard Daniel, Dean
of Armagh. London, for Bernard Lintot, 1722.

Hymns for Christian Worship, by Robert Seagrave. London, 1742.

A Poetical translation of the Psalms of David, from Buchanan’s
Latin into English Verse, by the Rev. Thomas Cradock, of
Maryland. London, for Mrs. A. Cradock, of Wells, 1754.

The Psalms of David, translated into heroic Verse, by Stephen
Wheatland and Tipping Sylvester. London, for S. Bink, 1754.

_Duodecimo._

The Psalms of David, by Sterneholde and Hopkins, with Notes.
London, in black letter by John Daye, 1570.

The Psalms of David and other Holy Prophets, by R. B. (query
Brathwaite). London, for Francis Constable, 1638. This book has
two titles, one of which is engraved, and contains a portrait.

The Psalms of David in four languages, namely Hebrew, Greek,
Latin and English; set to tunes by W. S. (William Slatyer).
London, by Thomas Harper, 1643. The whole book is engraved on
copper.

Some of the Psalms of David in Metre, by I. Patrick, N. Brady
and N. Tate. Cambridge, for the use of the University, 1699. In
which is a table relating to Prince Arthur, and a Paraphrase of
Job.

Samuelis Primitiæ, or an Essay towards a metrical version of
the Psalms, by Samuel Leigh. London, by Thomas Milbourne, 1661.

A Century of Select Psalms, by J. Patrick. Third edition.
London, for R. Royston, 1686.

A new Version of the Psalms, with Hymns, in Metre, by Simon
Ford, D.D. London, for Brab. Aylmer, 1688.

The Psalmes of David in Prose, translated from the Vulgate by
Mr. Carryll, created Lord Dartford by the pretended Prince of
Wales, since James the Second’s death. Without place or name of
printer, but printed at Paris in 1700.[36] This copy formerly
belonged to Bishop Kennet.

The Book of Psalms in Metre, by William Barton, as left
finished in his lifetime. London, for the Company, 1705.

Psalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, by the late Rev. Daniel
Burgess. London, for John Clarke, 1714.

The Psalms in Metre, by J. Patrick, D.D. London, for John
Churchill, 1715. This is the whole Psalter.

Psalterium Americanum; the Psalms in blank verse yet printed
as prose, with illustrations, and an appendix. Boston, in New
England, by S. Kneeland, 1718.

The Psalms of David, imitated in the language of the New
Testament, by J. Watts. London, for John Clarke and others,
1719.

A new Version of the Psalms of David, by Sir Richard
Blackmore, knt. _M.D._ London, by J. March, 1721.

A new Version of the Psalms of David, by N. Brady and N. Tate.
London, for the Company, 1728.

Psalms and Hymns, a Moravian Collection, by the Rev. John
Gambold. London, no name, 1738.

The Book of Psalms in Metre, that is, in lyric measure without
rhyme, by Mr. Pike. London, by H. Kent, 1751.

A Select Collection of the Psalms in Verse from the most
eminent Poets, published, with some originals by Henry Dell,
bookseller. London, for the editor, 1756.

The Psalms in Metre, the common Scottish version, with
annotations by Mr. David Dickson. Glasgow, for John Tait and
James Brown, 1769.

_24mo._

The Psalms of David, truly opened by paraphrases in prose
from the Latin of Beza, by Anthonie Gilbie. London, by Henrie
Denham, 1581.

All the French Psalm tunes, with English Words, according to
the verses and tunes used in the reformed Churches, &c. London,
printed by Thomas Harper, 1632.

The Psalms of David, in lyrick verse, with an argument to each
Psalm by George Withers. Imprinted in the Netherlands by C.
Gerrits Van Breughel, 1632.

The Book of Psalms in English Metre. Anonymous. Printed for
Henry Tutill, bookseller at Rotterdam, 1638.

A Book of Psalms, in English Metre, close and proper to the
Hebrew, with musical notes by William Barton. London, by
Matthew Simmons, 1644.[37]

The Psalms in Metre, by William Barton, M.A. London, printed by
Roger Daniel and William du Gard, 1654.

The Psalms in Metre, translated by Luke Milbourne. London,
printed for W. Rogers and others, 1698.

The Psalms in Metre, allowed by authority of the Kirk of
Scotland. Edinburgh, by James Watson, 1712.

The Psalms in Metre, allowed by the Kirk of Scotland. Glasgow,
by W. Duncan, 1734.

The last article in the List of Books presented by that accomplished Prelate Dr. Percy is a List of Bibles and Psalters from 1526 to 1776. London, 1778, 8vo.

Of portions of the Sacred Scriptures in the original tongue, this Library contains two very interesting specimens, printed upon vellum, which are kept in the record room with the manuscripts. The first of these is the Pentateuchus, Hebraicè, Neapoli, 1491, folio; a perfect, though stained, copy, measuring nine and a half by seven and a half inches, and bound in blue Morocco, in the same volume with an Account of the Naples Pentateuch, printed at Rome in 1780. This volume has also been described by De Rossi, A. H. T. p. 52. The second is that portion of the Bible, in Hebrew, denominated the Prophetæ Priores, scilicet, Josue, Judices, libri Samuelis ac Regum, cum Commentario Kimchi, folio. Soncini, anno ab orbe condito V̅. CCXLVI. Christi 1485. This volume is quite perfect, though in half binding, and richly deserves a more appropriate garment. Its dimensions are thirteen inches by nine inches and a quarter. It is copiously described by De Rossi at p. 60 of his Annales Hebræo-Typographicæ.

To these rare and precious tomes may be added the Biblia Hebraica Stephani. Parisiis, 1543, in 6 vols. 4to. and the Biblia Hebraica, Hutteri. Hamburgi, 1587.

The versions of the Scriptures in various languages, next invite our attention to the truly magnificent volumes of the Biblia Sacra Polyglotta complectentia textus originales Hebraicum Chaldaicum et Græcum, Pentateuchum Samaritanum, cum apparatu appendicibus tabulis, &c., studio et opera Briani Waltoni; Londini, Roycroft, 1657, folio; with the dedication to King Charles the Second. The present copy is upon large paper, measuring nineteen and a half by twelve inches and three eighths, and is bound in 12 volumes in the original calf.

In the estimation of the fastidious bibliomaniac, it may detract from the value of these volumes to be told that they are not uniform either in size or appearance with their indispensable adjunct, Castelli Lexicon Heptaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, &c. Londini, 1669, folio. This work is also upon large paper, measuring twenty inches by fourteen, and bound in three volumes, in calf.

In this place may be recorded the Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, curâ Ariæ Montani. Antverpiæ, apud Plantin, 1569-72, folio.; and the Biblia Hebraica, Græca, et Latina, Vatabli, Heidelbergæ, 1599, folio.

I will next proceed briefly to enumerate the different versions of the Bible in this Collection, beginning with the

Biblia Græca. Argentorati, 1526, folio, and another edition of
the same place and year, in 3 vols. 8vo.

Biblia Græca, Romæ, 1587.

Biblia Græca, Grabii. Oxonii, 1707, folio.

Kennicott’s Hebrew Bible, in 2 folio vols.

omitting other Greek versions too numerous for minute specification.

The Latin Bible of 1550, in 6 quarto volumes.

The Biblia Latina. Tiguri, 1563, folio, Francofurti, 1579, and
Londini, 1585.

The Biblia Latina Tremellii et Junii. Londini, 1593, and
Hanoviæ, 1596.

form only a few specimens of a numerous series, embracing also

The Biblia Latina Castalionis. Francofurti, 1697, fol.

The Biblia Vulgata. Parisiis, 1534; Londini, 1535; Francofurti,
1585; Basileæ, 1591; Venetiis, 1583; Romæ, 1598; Antverpiæ,
1631, 4to.

and many other editions of the Vulgate.

To these may be added two editions of

The Biblia Gallicè, printed at Geneva in 1588, and at Amsterdam
in 1700.

The Biblia Italicè. Diodati, 1607, 4to.

The Biblia Hispanicè. Amstelodami, 1602, folio.

The Biblia Moscoviticè. Ostrobiæ, 1581, folio.

The Biblia Wallicè. Londini, 1620, folio.

Of detailed portions of the Bible in various languages it may suffice to mention

The Pentateuchus Arabicus, Erpenii. Lugduno-Batavorum, 1622,
8vo.

The Pentateuchus, Latine, Stephani. Parisiis, 1541, 4to.

Cædmon, Paraphrasis Poetica Genesios Anglo-Saxonicè. Amst.
1655, 4to.

Among different versions of the Psalter we find

The Psalterium Hebraicum of Plantin.

The Psalterium Quintuplex. Parisiis, 1513, fol.

The Psalterium, Hebraicum, Græcum, Arabicum & Chaldaicum.
Genua, 1516, folio; also that of Tremellius et Junius, and the
Welsh Psalter of 1588 in 4to; and Buchanan’s Psalms.

Of the New Testament, Editions in the Syriac, Arabic and Armenian tongues, in the French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese languages, are contained in this Library, where we also find

Novum Testamentum XII. Linguis, Hutteri. Norimbergæ, 1599.

Novum Testamentum Græcum, Stephani, Parisiis, 1550; Erasmi,
Basileæ, 1535; Millii, Oxonii, 1707, folio, and Edinburgi,
1740, 12mo.

Novum Testamentum Arabicè. Leydæ, 1616, 4to. and Gallicè, 1567;
at Lyons, 1682, 8vo. and at Rochelle, 1623, 12mo.[38]

In this place it may not be irrelevant to mention

Comestoris Historia Scholastica. Arg. 1500, folio.

Bibliorum utriusque Testamenti Icones. Francofurti, 1751, 8vo.

Elenchus Theologorum in S. Biblia. Coloniæ, 1558, 4to.

Vigerii Decacordon Christianum.

Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible.

The Critici Sacri, and Pole’s Synopsis.

The Rituals of the English Church in this Collection are very numerous, including the Books of Common Prayer, published in London, of the dates of 1549, 1552, 1603, 1613, 1636, 1637, 1662, 1664, 1680, 1683, 1686, 1692, 1704, 1705, 1706, 1707, and 1768, with many other of more recent date.

Also the Book of Common Prayer, printed at Edinburgh in 1637.

The Irish Versions of 1608 and 1712.

The Welsh Prayer Books of 1586, 4to. 1599, 1621, 1664 and 1709.

The Greek Prayer Books, printed at Cambridge in 1675, 8vo.

The Latin Versions of London in 1574 and 1669.

The Prayer Book in English and Low Dutch, printed at Amsterdam
in 1711.

The Prayer Book in Italian, London, 1685; in Dutch, London,
1704; and in Portuguese, Oxford, 1693.

To these may be added

Christennlich ordnung und bruch der Kilchen. Zurich, 1535, 4to.

The Christian Common Prayer Book, or Universal Liturgy. London,
1761, 8vo.

and various other Forms of Prayer, used in the Reformed Churches at Geneva and elsewhere, as well as Manuals and Prayers suited to different occasions.

Rituals of the Church of Rome also occur plentifully in this Collection, many Romish Breviaries of early date, and several Missals; but none so early as the fifteenth century. Some editions of the Pontificale Romanum, several books of Hours and Offices, and various Forms both of Private and Public Prayer being contained therein.

I may here also notice Durandi Rationale Divinorum officiorum; the Talmud Babylonicum, Francofurti, 1721, in 12 folio vols., the bequest of Sir Gilbert Dolben, in 1724; and two editions of the Koran, of 1543 and 1550.

The Theological department of the Archiepiscopal Library is so extensive, that were I to enter into minute detail I should weary the patience of the reader; but were I to notice its general features superficially, I should fail to convey a just idea of its contents.

The best editions of the Works of the Fathers of the Church form a prominent feature in this Collection, including those of S.S. Ambrose, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Bernard, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Cyril, Epiphanius, Episcopius, Eusebius, Fulgentius, Gregorius, Nazianzenus, Nyssenus and Neocæsariensis; S.S. Jerome, Hilary, Ignatius, Irenæus, Isidore, Justin Martyr, Origen, Philo Judæus, Theophylact, Theodoret, Polycarp, and Tertullian by de la Bigne, Paris, 1575, in 9 vols. folio. To which I may add the Bibliotheca Patrum, Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, Dodwell, Dissertationes Cyprianicæ, Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers, &c.

Among the multitudinous Works of the earlier Divines, the Authors most deserving of mention appear to be, Anselm, S. Barnabas, Basilius Magnus, Bellarmine, Theodore Beza, Thomas Aquinas, Petrus Blesensis, Bonaventura, Martin Bucer, Bullinger, Calvin, Cassiodorus, Camerarius, Clemens Romanus, Alexandrinus, Joannes Damascenus, Drexelius, Drusius, Erasmus, Ficinus, Joannes Gerson, Grelserus, and the Popes Gregory I. XIII. and XIV. Cornelius Jansen, Grotius, Hemingius, Hospinianus, Junius, Thomas à Kempis, Lanfranc, Lactantius, Ludovicus Vives Maimonides, Peter Martyr, Procopius, Prudentius, Savanarola, Duns Scotus, Socinus, Spanheim, Stapleton, Suarez, Joannes de Turrecremata, Whitakerus contra Bellarminum, Udalricus Zuinglius, and many other more or less obscure writers on Controversial Divinity.

It may suffice to mention Chamieri Controversiæ, Zanchii Opera Theologica, Vitalis Speculum Morale, Venetiis, 1513, 4to. and to notice separately the two great lights of the Reformation, Lutheri Opera, Wittebergæ, 1550, &c. folio, 2 vols.; and Melancthonis Opera, Wittebergæ, 1601, in 5 vols. folio, with some other Tracts by that illustrious Scholar and Divine.

Of the Works of English Divines, I have much pleasure in enumerating those of Abbot, Allix, Lancelot Andrews, Atterbury, Bancroft, Barlow, Barrow, Beveridge, Bramhall, Bull, Calamy, Charnock, Chillingworth, Claggett, Samuel Clarke, Comber, Cranmer, Drelincourt, Hall, Hammond, Hoadly, Hody, Hooper, Henry More, Kettlewell, Leslie, Lightfoot, Lowth, Joseph Mede, Perkins, Prideaux, Reynolds, Sanderson, Sherlock, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tenison, Tillotson, Whiston, Whitgift, and Roger Widdrington.

In this place I may most opportunely notice copies of Henrici VIII. Assertio VII. adversus M. Lutherum, Romæ, 1543, 4to.; Fisheri Episcopi Roffensis, Opera, Wittebergæ, 1597, folio; with some other tracts by that eminent divine; and Juelli Opera, Genevæ, 1585, and his Works, London, 1609, folio; to which may be added, Bedæ Venerabilis Opera Omnia, Basileæ, 1563, in 8 folio volumes; Barclay’s celebrated Apology for the Quakers; and Hyde’s Religio Veterum Persarum.

I may also notice Bowyer’s Conjectures on the New Testament; Tyndall, Frith, and Barnes’ Works, London, John Daye, 1573, folio; La Trobe’s Unitas Fratrum, Lond. 1780, 8vo.; Bythneri Lyra Prophetica; Cosin’s Canon of Scripture; Derham’s Physico- and Astro-Theology; Fell’s Paraphrase; Field of the Church; Gastrell’s Christian Institutes; Soame Jenyns on the Evidences of the Christian Religion; Kiddes on the Pentateuch; Limborch, Theologia Christiana; Nelson’s Festivals; Norris on the Beatitudes; Osterwald’s Arguments; Outram de Sacrificiis; Pearce and Patrick’s Commentaries; Pearson on the Creed; Pococke on Joel; Scott’s Christian Life; Watson’s Apology; Whitby’s Paraphrase; Wilkins on Natural Religion, and other Tracts of his; the Muggletonian Controversy respecting the Quakers, and various Tracts relating to the Jesuits and Popery, Protestantism and Puritans.

Of French Divines, this Collection embraces the Works of Bourdaloue, Fenelon, Fontenelle, Malebranche, and Du Moulin, to which may be added, Basnage, Histoire des Juifs.

Of Sermons, these shelves bear an enormous load, among which are found those of Donne, Latimer, Leighton, and Porteus, with his Lectures and other Tracts; and of South and Wake, with many single sermons on various occasions, and the collected discourses of other divines too numerous to mention.

The Liturgical Works in this Library may be represented by the Liturgia Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, Latine, 1594 and 1703.