Chapter IX: A Romaunce, in verse, ycleped Ipomydon; Emprynted at London in the (1)

Flete strete, at the sygne of the Sonne, by wynkyn de worde, 4to.

This lacketh yᵉ 3 fyrste leaues of texte, and the title; but it is parfaite from thence (sign. B. i.) to yᵉ ending therof, and is meruelouslye scarce and curious; no mention beynge made of it in the aforesaid werke. This exemplar hath 33 leaves: sign. 1 having 5, the rest 4 leaves.

X. The title thus:

A Dyalogue defensyue for women agaynst malycyous detractoures. 4to. Colophon: Thus endeth the Faucon and the Pye. Anno dn̅i. 1542. Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, for Richard Bancker. Cum privilegio regali ad imprimendu solu̅ per septem annum. Beneath is the device of Robert Wyer, the Prynter. 4to.

Ye shal fynde a briefe notice of this curious Dyalogue, in metre, uttered by a Falcon and a Pie, in Herbert’s Werke, vol. iii. p. 273.

XI. [A Romaunce, in metre, entytled Syr Bevis of Hampton] Colophon: Imprynted at london in the vinetre upon the thre Crane wharfe, by William Coplande. 4to.

Herbert hathe no knowlege of this moste precious boke.

This copy lacketh only the title page; the text begynnynge on A ii. thus:

“Lysten lordinges I holde you styl
Of doughty men tell you I wyl.”
&c. &c. &c.

XII. The Title as foloweth:

_Elynor Rummin_, The famous Ale-wife of England. Written by Mr. Skelton, Poet Laureat to King Henry the egiht.[41]

Beneath a portraiture of yᵉ said Eleanour:

“When Skelton wone the laurel crowne
My Ale put all the Ale-wives downe.”

4to. The same portraicture on the back-side of this Title. Nine leaves: containing also the _Tunning of Eleanour of Rumming_.

Grete will be thy joy, O Reader, when thou knowest that thou mayst here beholde the _original_ and _only_ exemplar of this cunning and especial werke; for a sight wherof, men do report, that Maisters Stevens and Ritson, with painful travail, left their peacefull homes in London. Greter still will be thy contentment, gentle reader, if thou possess this cunning tresure. Ye shal see something appertaining hereunto in my werke ycleped Bibliomania at p. 585.

XIII. The Title commenceth thus:

Here begynneth the Egloges of Alexander Barclay, Priest, &c. &c. Colophon as foloweth: Thus endeth the thyrde and last Eglogue of the Misery of Courte and Courtes, Composed by Alexander Barclay, Preest, in his youth. Imprinted at London by Humfrey Powell. 4to. Fifty-eight leaves.

Mention is made of this fyrste Imprint of the Eglogues of Alexander Barclay in Maister Herbert’s werke on Pryntinge, in vol. ii. p. 751.

It appereth from the same authority that the yere of the imprint could not be later than yᵉ yere of our Lorde 1551.

XIV. The Title is after this fashion:

An Interlude, called Lusty Juventus. Lively describyng the frailtie of youth: of nature prone to vyce: by grace and good councell traynable to vertue. The imprint thus:

Imprinted at London in Paules Churche yeard, by Abraham Vele, at the sygne of the Lambe. 4to. Eighteen leaves.

Ye shal perceive a slight damage in the 7th leaf of thys scarce and curious tome, which seemeth to differ from the edition noticed in Maister Beloe’s Anecdotes, &c. pp. 349, 350.

XV. The title appereth thus:

The Churle and the Byrde. The imprint is as folows: Imprented at London in Lothburi over against Sainct Margarytes church by me Wyllam Copland. 4to. Eight leaves.

The cunning reder shal easily mete out yᵉ mesure of yᵉ worth of this precyouse lytel boke. Maister Ritson maketh no mention of it. A rude image of the Churl and the Byrde is graved upon the title.

XVI. The title runneth thus:

A treatyse, shewing and declaring the pryde and abuse of women now a dayes. It beginneth in this wise:

“Bo pepe what have I spyed,
a bug I trow, devysing of proud knacks
For wanton lasses and galant women,
and other lewde noughty Jackes.”
&c. &c. &c.

The imprint thus:

Imprinted at London in Paules Church yearde, at thee[42] Sygne of the Starre. By Thomas Raynalde. 4to. This curious and moost rare werke is parfait in four leaves.

XVII. Hereafter followeth the title:

A Myrrour for man where in he shall see the myserable state of thys worlde.

It concludeth thus:

Finis quod Thomas Churschard.[43] God save the Kyng. Imprynted at London by Roberte Toye, dwellynge in Paules Church yarde at the sygne of the Bell. Cum priv. &c. 4to. This brefe morall tractate of only three leaves, adviseth thus towards the ende therof:

“Here have set forth, after a playne sorte
The state of thys worlde, in sentens ryght shorte
For the thou blynde man, that goeth astraye
I lyghten thys lampe, to learne thee thy waye.”

Ye may number this lytel piece of metre among the tomes of especial rarity.

XVIII. The title thus informeth us:

The Flyting betwixt Montgomery and Polwart. Edinburgh, Printed by the Heires of Andro Hart. 1629, 4to. There be here 13 leaves of mervelously barbarous metre: the whiche Maister Allan Ramsay, of especiale fame, caused to be reimprinted in his werke entitled The Euergreen. This tome containeth the original text, and is gretely desyred by the lerned in Scotish poesie. It concludeth thus:

“Blind brock, loose dock, bord block, banished townes,
Alace, thiefes face, na grace, for that grunzie,
Beld bisset, marmissed, lansprezed to the lownes,
Deid dring, dry’d sting, thou wilt hing but a sunzie,
Lick butter, throat cutter, fish gutter, fill the fetter,
Come bleitand, and grietand, fast citand, thy laidley letter.
Finis.”

XIX. The title:

A briefe Description of the Toune of Tottenham Highcrosse in Middlesex: &c. The Turnament of Tottenham, &c. 1631.

The latter written long since in verse, by Mr. Gilbert Pilkington, at that time as some have thought Parson of the Parish. 4to.

These pieces ye shall finde to contain 21 leaves; of the whiche, 4 leaves belong to the “Turnament.”

A boke moche to be desired.

London; printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland
Row, St. James’s.

The loss thus sustained by the ancient Library of Lincoln Cathedral by the sale of the volumes thus inconsiderately, and in my opinion unjustifiably, detached, was compensated in some degree by the purchase of other books with the proceeds, and the addition to the original Collection of the books thus purchased. Many people will of course think the exchange was advisable, and that useful volumes were judiciously substituted for the antiquated lumber, to which the Roxburghe mania at that time gave a fictitious value. Certainly if any proof were wanting of the advantageous terms offered to effect the dismemberment of the Chapter Library, it will be found in the nature and extent of that Collection which was formed from the proceeds of that sale.

Much as I am inclined to disallow the right of any corporate body to alienate the property bequeathed to it by any such process of commutation, I think it right to annex a full account of the books purchased, that the reader may be enabled to form his own judgment upon the literary discretion of the Dean and Chapter.

The books thus permanently added to the Lincoln Library, are Chalmers’ Biographical Dictionary, in 32 octavo volumes; Warton’s History of English Poetry; the Biblia Hebraica by Boothroyd, in 2 volumes, 4to.; Bacon’s Liber Regis; the reprints of the Chronicles of Monstrelet, Grafton, Fabyan, Arnold, Harding, and Rastall, in 4to.; Sharpe’s William of Malmesbury, on large paper; Tyrwhitt’s Chaucer; Baker’s Chronicles; Sparke’s Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Camdeni Annales; Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ; Du Cange, Lexicon Græcum; Forcellini Lexicon Latinum; Rymer’s Fœdera, in 20 folio volumes; the Art de verifier les dates, in 3 folio volumes; the Antiquities, &c. of Montfaucon, in 15 folio volumes; Lyson’s Magna Britannia; Peck’s Stamford; Kennet on Impropriations; Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa; Morelli Thesaurus; Fuller’s Worthies; Gough’s British Topography; Madox’s Firma Burgi, Baronia Anglicana, and History of the Exchequer; Cave’s Historia Literaria; Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica, edited by Smith; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical History; Strype’s Annals, and Lives of Cranmer, Parker, Grindall, and Whitgift; and his Ecclesiastical Memorials; Rapin’s History of England, by Tindal; Gale and Fell, Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Herbert’s Henry VIII.; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; the Gentleman’s Magazine from its commencement in 1731 to 1817, the time when this commutation was effected; Hickes’s Thesaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium; Stow’s Chronicle by Howes; Somner’s Canterbury; Forduni Scoti-Chronicon, in 2 volumes, folio; Collyer’s Historical Dictionary; Wren’s Parentalia; May’s History of the Long Parliament; the Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores, in 4to.; Walker’s History of Independency; Inquiry as to Charles the First; Collins’s Peerage; Locke’s Works; Rennet’s Register; Whitelocke’s Memorials; Burnet’s Reformation; Drake’s York; Echard’s England; Willis’ Cathedrals; Harmer’s Errors of Burnet’s Reformation; Roper’s Life of Sir Thomas More; Theriaque; Holinshed’s Chronicles; Hall’s Chronicle; Froissart’s Chronicles; Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments; Dickinson’s Southwell; Beausobre, Hist. du Manichéisme; Dugdale on Imbanking; Fiddes’ Life of Wolsey; Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary; Historia Veterum Persarum; Lingard’s England; Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy; Spelman’s English Works; Cotton’s Abridgment of the Records in the Tower; Heylin’s Life of Laud; Callis on the Laws of Sewers; Sir Philip Warwick’s Memoirs; Du Cange’s Lexicon mediæ et infimæ Latinitatis, cum Supplemento Carpentierii; La Bible par le Cene, folio; and the Beauties of England and Wales.

Such is the rough entry in the Catalogue of the additions, made by the Dean and Chapter to this Library, but obtained only by the sacrifice of books which it is nearly impossible to replace.

Of the books above mentioned, many would do honour to any library, and if a certain fund were appropriated to the augmentation of this Collection from the ample revenues of the Dean and Chapter, many more such might be yearly added.

From the same source I have the satisfaction of adding a list of “Books presented to this Library by Dr. Bayley, late Subdean. September 23, 1828.”

“Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, Oxon. 1783, in 10 volumes, 4to.;
Parthenissa, a Romance, by Lord Orrery; Abernethy’s Discourses,
2 vols.; Sermons, 2 vols. and Tracts, 1 volume; Biblia Sacra
Junii & Tremellii, in 1 volume; Treatises on the Sabbath
Day, in 1 volume; Chillingworth’s Religion of Protestants,
in 1 volume; Stillingfleet’s Sermons, in 1 volume; Pemble’s
Works, in 1 volume; Whiston’s Primitive Christianity, in 2
volumes; Cunæus de Republica Hebræorum, 1 volume; Kennicott’s
Collections, 1 volume; and Reflections upon Learning, in 1
volume. In all 28 volumes.

“RD. GARVEY, _Librarian_.”

This donation, however small, from one of the ecclesiastical body who violated the literary remains of Michael Honeywood, may be looked upon as an expiatory sacrifice to the manes of that worthy divine, and may I hope serve as an example to others who may be desirous of seeing the Lincoln Library restored to its pristine magnitude and worth.

The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln consists of four thousand four hundred and fifty-one volumes, relating to theological, classical, and historical subjects, carefully enumerated in a folio volume, containing the names, dates, and sizes of the books in alphabetical order, with reference to the shelves on which they are placed.

The English versions of the Bible in this Collection, include

Coverdale’s Bible. Southwark, by James Nicolson, 1537, folio.

The Bible, of Tyndale and Coverdale, by Thomas Matthew, at the
expense of R. Grafton and E. Whitchurch, 1537, folio.

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

Cranmer’s Bible, reprinted from the edition of 1541. London, by
Edward Whitchurch, 1549, folio.

Matthew’s Bible, reprinted by the order of Edward VI. from the
edition of 1537. London, by Thomas Raynaldes and William Hyll,
1549, folio.

Tyndale’s Bible. London, by J. Day and W. Seres, 1549, 12mo.

The Bishop’s Bible, commonly called Queen Elizabeth’s. London,
by assignement of Chr. Barker, 1578, folio.

The Genevan Bible. London, by the deputies of Christopher
Barker, 1597, folio.

The Five Books of Moses, the Psalms, and Canticles, translated
by H. Ainsworth. London, by M. Parsons, 1639, folio.

The Bible, with Chorographical cuts by John Ogilby. Cambridge,
by John Field, 1660, folio.

The Bible, with vignettes by Vander Gucht, vulgarly styled the
Vinegar Bible. Oxford, by J. Barker, 1717, in 2 vols. folio.

Of the Scriptures in various languages, I noticed the

Biblia Polyglotta, Briani Waltoni. Londini, 1657, in 6 folio
volumes, with Castelli Lexicon Heptaglotton.

The Biblia Polyglotta Eliæ Hutteri.

The Biblia Hebraica, Græca, et Latina. 1587, in 2 vols. folio.

The Biblia Hebraica Pagnini, and of Plantin.

The Biblia Hebraica, by B. Boothroyd. Pontefract, 1810-16, in 2
quarto volumes.

The Vetus Testamentum, curâ B. Kennicottii. Oxonii, 1776-80, in
2 vols. folio.

The Biblia Sacra Tremellii et Junii. Londini, 1581, 8vo.

The Biblia Latina Castalionis. Basileæ, 1554.

The Biblia Sacra. Basileæ, 1514, and the Codex Theodori Bezæ.

Luther’s German Bible, printed at Strasburgh in 1630.

The Welsh Bible, printed at London in 1620, folio.

The Dutch Bible, printed at Amsterdam in 1643, and

The Indian Bible, by Elliott. Cambridge, 1663.

Vetus Testamentum Græcum, ed. Holmes et Parsons. Oxonii,
1798-1827, in 5 folio volumes.

Versions of the New Testament by Beza, Fulke, Mill, and others,
too numerous to mention.

I may here notice the

Psalterium Sarisburiense. Londini, 1555.

The Psalter by Whitchurch, 1535.

The Seven Penytencyall Psalms of Bishop Fysher. London, by
Wynkyn de Worde, 4to. and

The Psalterium Saxonico-Latinum Spelmanni. Londini, 1640, 4to.

Connected with the service of the Church, are the Book of Common Prayer of Edward VI. London, 1552, folio; and of Charles II. London, 1662, folio; the latter having the broad seal of England appended to it. Copies of this first edition of the Common Prayer now in use, thus certified to be correct, appeared to have been distributed by authority to every Cathedral in England, though few copies now retain the official seal annexed. This “sealed book” is the last form of Prayer in which any alteration was made by public authority. A similar copy of this book, with corrections in manuscript, and the great seal of England appendant, certified to be a correct copy, is preserved in the Tower of London.

Several Works relating to the Liturgy are also deposited upon these shelves.

In the Ritual of the Romish Church I noticed the Missale Eboracense, Rothomagi, 1517, folio, and the Missale Sarisburiense, Parisiis, 1533, with Durandi Rationale Divinorum Officiorum.

In early Divinity there are many scarce tracts, among which the most captivating to my eye were a genuine crackling copy of Turrecremata, Expositio in Psalmos, printed in the gothic letter, by Schoyffer, at Mayence in 1476, folio.

The Fathers of the Church, whose Works adorn this venerable Library, are, S.S. Ambrose, Anselm, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Bernard, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Eusebius, Gregory, Jerome, Hilary, Isidore, Irenæus, Justin, Origen, Tertullian, Theodoret, and Theophylact, to which I may add Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, the Bibliotheca Maxima Patrum, Pole’s Synopsis; the Critici Sacri; and Wilkins’ Concilia.

Among the Works of the earlier Divines of the Christian Church, are some Tracts by Thomas Aquinas, Bellarmine, and Bonaventura; Petri Blesensis Opera, Moguntiæ, 1680, folio; the Works of Martin Bucer, Calvin, Erasmus, Grotius, Hospinianus, Luther, Melancthon, Salmasius, Duns Scotus, Tostatus, and Thomas à Kempis. To these may be added Lactantii Opera by Sparke, Limborch, Theologia Christiana; Lyra Commentaria in S. Biblia, Basileæ, 1598, folios.

I may here notice some well preserved copies of Vincentii Speculum Historiale, Colon. Agrip. 1494; Morale, Colon. 1493; Doctrinale, Venet. 1494; and Naturale, Coloniæ, 1494, in folio; some Tracts by Gerson, Scaliger, and Vossius, and Zanchii Opera Theologica, Basileæ, 1569, folio.

The English Divines, whose Works are found in this Collection, are, Andrews, Bancroft, Bramhall, Chillingworth, Hall, Hammond, Hooper, Jackson, Jewel, Lardner, Macknight, Mede, Paley, Pemble, Perkins, Prideaux, Reynolds, Ridley, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tonstall, Whitgift, and Wickliffe.

In the Theological department I also remarked Bale’s Ymage of both Churches, the Mystery of Iniquitie, and Actes of English Votaries; Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; Campbell on the Gospels; and Coverdale’s Letters of the Martyrs, London, 1564, 4to.

Field of the Church; Kett on the Prophecies; Turner’s Huntynge of the Romish Wolfe; Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England; Watson’s Theological Tracts; and many other Pamphlets, Religious, Political, and Miscellaneous.

Of Sermons, this Library contains several preached at St. Paul’s Crosse, and many others by different authors, and upon various occasions. Among these it may suffice to notice the Thirty-six by Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln, than whom Anthony à Wood remarks, “the Church of England could not lose a greater pillar, a better man, and more accomplished divine;” and the Sermons of Latimer, remarkable for the quaint expression of forcible truths.

The Theological department also embraces some pieces by Theodore Beza; Outram de Sacrificiis, Londini, 1677, 4to.; and Whitby’s Paraphrase; with other Works of the Divines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, too numerous for minute enumeration in this place.

A copy of the Koran of Mahomet, and of the Russian Prayer Book are also found upon these shelves.

The Collections relating to English History comprise those of Clarendon, Rushworth, Nalson, Echard, Sparke, Rapin, and Tindal, with the valuable labours of Strype, and an extensive collection of Tracts relating to the eventful period of the great Rebellion.

In this class are also found Winwood’s Memorials; Stow’s London; Sammes’ Britannia; and Prynne’s Records, 1657, in one vol. folio.

Connected with these occur Tanner’s Notitia Monastica; Camden’s Britannia; Ogilby’s Topographical Works; and Dugdale’s Imbanking; all, it may be remarked, upon small paper.

In Heraldry I remarked Guillim’s Heraldry; Yorke’s Union of Honour; Sandford’s Coronation of Charles II.; Ashmole’s Order of the Garter; and Dugdale’s Baronage.

Of County Histories, a fine copy of Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire; and Surtees’ Durham, apparently on large paper, were the most remarkable.

Among the Miscellaneous volumes, a fair copy of Hudson’s Josephus; Lye’s Saxon Dictionary; Thuanus, Historia sui Temporis, in 6 vols. folio; Bayle’s Dictionary; the Gentleman’s Magazine; the Philosophical Transactions; and the Works of Spelman; most forcibly arrested my attention.

In hunting ‘Reynard the Fox’ I stumbled upon a dusty folio in the Gothic letter, adorned with rude wood cuts, but sadly mutilated by excision in the middle, containing the Dialogus Creaturarum, printed by Gerard de Leeu at Gouda, in August 1480. The types of this little volume avowedly published “in opido goudensi,” seems to my eye so much to resemble those of the hitherto unknown Recueil des Histoires des Troyes deposited in the Library at Norton Hall that I feel myself strengthened in the original supposition that that Work also was the production of Gerard de Leeu before he removed his press from Gouda to Antwerp, though the resemblance of the wood cuts is not so striking as that of the type; but here be it remembered I am speaking only from recollection. This edition of Dialogus Creaturarum has been fully described in the Bibliotheca Spenceriana in vol. VI. p. 120.

The Classical department of this Library is enriched by the Works of Æsop, Anacreon, Apuleius, Athenagoras, Aristænetus, Aristophanes, Aulus Gellius, Cæsar, Epictetus, Ennius, Euclid, Euripides, Florus, Hierocles, Hippocrates, Horace, Isocrates, Juvenal, Livy, Lucan, Lucian, Lucretius, Macrobius, Martial, Ovid, Velleius Paterculus, Persius, Plautus, Plutarch, Procopius, Quintilian, Sallust, Seneca, Suetonius, Sidonius Apollinaris, Sophocles, Symmachus, Terence, Tacitus, Vegetius, and Virgil.

It also contains Apicius de arte Coquinariâ, of 1542, Aristotle’s Works, edited by Erasmus, and several editions of the Stagyrite’s detached pieces; Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, Oxonii, 1783, in ten 4to. volumes; Quintus Curtius, Pitisci; Longinus, by Pearce; Phædrus, Burmanni; Platonis Opera, Serrani; Plinii Historia Naturalis; Plinii Junioris Epistolæ; Silius Italicus, Drakenborchii; Theophrasti Characteres, by Needham; Valerius Flaccus, Burmanni; Xenophontis Opera, Leunclavii; and Cyropædia, by Hutchinson.

Of Translations, I remarked Ogilby’s Æsop, Homer, and Virgil—heard Chapman speak out loud and bold in deep-browed Homer’s Iliad—and rested my eyes on Ross’s sumptuous folio version of Silius Italicus.

The Etymological department includes various Dictionaries of different languages, Buxtorf’s Lexicon Hebraicum; Calepini Lexicon Octolingue; Davies’s Linguæ Britannicæ Rudimenta; Du Cange’s Glossarium; Catholicon Januense, Lugd. 1520, folio; Junii Glossarium Archæologicum; Forcellini Lexicon Latinum; Morelli Thesaurus; Linacre, de emendatâ Structurâ Latini Sermonis; Littleton’s Latin and English Dictionary; Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary; Hickes’s Thesaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium; Lye’s Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum, à Manning, Londini, 1722, in two folio volumes; Pagnini Thesaurus Linguæ Sanctæ; Scapulæ Lexicon; Skinner, Etymologicum Anglicanum; Somner’s Saxon Dictionary; Stephani Thesaurus; and Suidæ Lexicon Græcum.

The Bibliographical section of this Library includes Andreæ Bibliotheca Belgica; the Bibliotheca Laurentiana; Gough’s British Topography; Catalogue of the Library of Sion College in London; Cave’s Historia Literaria; the Bodleian Library Catalogue; Holmes’s Catalogue of his own Library, presented by himself; Gesneri Bibliotheca; the Index Expurgatorius; and Maunsell’s Catalogue of English Books, London, 1595, folio, which Thomas Hearne styles “a very scarce and yet a very useful Book.” In it are certainly recorded the names of various authors, and the titles of many books, long since defunct and forgotten.

In the branch of English Literature, this tree of knowledge, though lopped by rude hands, still bears delectable fruit.

The Mons Pefectionis, or Hyll of Perfection by Gallicantus
Alcock. London, 1501.

Barclay’s Shippe of Fooles. London, 1508.

The Boke of Wysdome. London, 1532.

The Mirrour of Good Manners, by Pynson, 4to. quite perfect, and Hylton’s contented and active life, may content the lover of black letter.

The Workes of our ancient and learned English Poet Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, London, 1602, folio; Gower de Confessione Amantis, London, by Thomas Berthelet, 1554, folio; Hales’ Remains; Hawkins’s Origin of the English Drama, Oxford, 1773, in three 8vo. volumes; the Philosophical Writings of Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke; Butler’s Hudibras; Ben Jonson’s Works; the Works of Milton; Sir Thomas More’s Works, London, 1517, folio; Spenser’s Faery Queen, London, 1596-7, folio; Spelman’s English Works; Suckling’s Poems; and Warton’s History of English Poetry, may give to the general reader some foretaste of the intellectual banquet continually presented in the cloistered retirement of Lincoln.

The Historical department of this Collection embraces Bayle’s Dictionary; Chalmers’s Biographical Dictionary, in 32 vols. 8vo.; the Memoirs of Philip de Comines; Collier’s Historical Dictionary; Heylin’s Cosmography; Maurice’s Indostan; Montfaucon’s Works on the Antiquities of France; The Polychronicon of Ranulph Higden; Southwerke, by me, Peter Treveris, 1527, folio; Robinsoni Annales Mundi; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Simson’s Chronicon Catholicum; Thuani Historia sui Temporis; and other Works of less note.

Of Works relating to Ecclesiastical affairs, this Library contains various collections of Councils, Canons, and Decretals; Pandectæ Canonum, SS. Apostolorum et Conciliorum ab Ecclesiâ Græcâ receptorum, &c. per Gul. Beveregium, Oxonii, 1672, in two folio volumes; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Cressy’s Church History of Brittany; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical Writers; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; the Ecclesiastical Annals of Baronius; Josephus’s History of the Jews; Spelmanni Concilia; and Wilkins’s Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ.

The Books relating more particularly to the Ecclesiastical History of England are, Bacon’s Liber Regis; Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica, curâ Smithii; Barwick’s Life of Dean Barwick; Burnet’s History of the Reformation, with Harmer’s Remarks on the Errors therein; Capgrave’s Nova Legenda Angliæ, Londini, in domo Winandi de Worde, 1516, 4to.; the Legend of St. Cuthbert; Dempsteri Menologium Scotorum, Bononiæ, 1622, 4to.; Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, folio; Fiddes’s Life of Wolsey; Fuller’s Church History of Britain, 1655, folio; Godwini Præsules Anglicani, in two folio volumes; Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica; Heylin’s Life of Laud; Kennet on Impropriations; Knox’s History of the Church of Scotland; Lyndewode, Provinciale; Reyneri Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ, Duaci, 1626, folio; Parker de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ; Spottiswode’s History of the Church of Scotland; Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials, Annals of the Reformation, and Lives of Parker, Grindal, Whitgift, and Cranmer; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, 1744, folio; Usserii Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ; Walker’s History of Independency; and Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, in two folio volumes.

This Library is peculiarly fortunate in possessing many valuable Works relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland.

Of these I will proceed to enumerate the Scriptores post Bedam, edente Savile; the Scriptores Decem, edited by Twysden; the Scriptores XVI. edited by Gale and Fell; Camdeni Anglica Normannica à veteribus Scripta; Du Chesne, Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores coetanei; Sparke’s Scriptores; and the Rerum Anglicanarum Annales of 1635, and of 1616, folio; the Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores of O’Conor, in 4to.; Blount’s Jocular Tenures; Bates’s Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Angliâ; Camden’s Britannia by Holland, 1637, Gibson, 1772, and Gough, with his Annals of Elizabeth, and Remains concerning Britain; Cooper’s Chronicle; Daniel’s History of the Civil Wars; Daniel’s History of England; Dickenson’s Southwell; Doleman’s Conference about the next Succession to the Crowne of England, the joint production of Cardinal Allen, Robert Parsons, and Sir Francis Englefield, in support of the title of the Infanta against that of James the Sixth, after the death of Elizabeth, a Work which was so rigorously suppressed, that to possess a copy was, in the merry days of good Queen Bess, high treason. The Chronicles of Arnold, Fabyan, Froissart, Grafton, Hall, Harding, Monstrelet, and Rastall, all in 4to. Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s, and of Warwickshire; Drake’s York; Echard’s History of England; Eadmeri Historia Novorum, edente Selden; Fuller’s Worthies; Forduni Scoti-chronicon, in folio; Fleetwood’s Elenchus Annalium Edvardi V. Richardi III. and Henrici VII. and VIII.; Galfredi Monumetensis Chronicon Rerum Angliæ; Godwin’s Annales of England; Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments; Habington’s Historie of Edward IV. London, 1640, folio; Haywarde’s Lives of the three Norman Kings, London, 1613, 4to.; Holland’s Heroologia Anglica, folio; Lord Herbert’s Life and Reign of Henry VIII.; and Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, London, 1577, in two vols. and 1586-7, in three vols. folio, being the first and second editions of that work; Illingworth’s Topographical Account of Scampton in Lincolnshire; Jovii Descriptio Britanniæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ et Orcadum, Venetiis, 1548, 4to.; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Lysons’ Magna Britannia; Lingard’s History of England; Lhuyd’s Commentarioli Britannicæ Descriptionis Fragmentum; May’s History of the Long Parliament; Madox’s Firma Burgi, and History of the Exchequer; Gul. Neubrigensis Historia Regum Anglorum, Parisiis, 1610; Ogilby’s Coronation of King Charles II.; Oclandi Anglorum Prælia; Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana, edente Wats, Londini, 1640, folio; the Historical Collections of Nalson and Rushworth, and Patten’s Expedition into Scotlande of Edward, Duke of Somerset, London, by Richarde Grafton, 1548, 8vo.; Rymer’s Fœdera, in 20 vols. folio; Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa, and his Antiquities of Stamford; Philipot’s Villare-Cantianum; Prynne’s Records, 1657; Sanderson’s History of Mary Queen of Scots, London, 1656, folio; Sheringham de Origine Gentis Anglorum; Sharpe’s William of Malmesbury; Rapin’s History of England, with the Continuation by Tindal; Skenæi Regia Majestas Scotorum, Edin. 1609, folio; Smith de Republicâ Anglorum; Somner’s Antiquities of Canterbury; Slater’s History of Great Britain; Spelman’s Life of Alfred; Spelman’s Villare Anglicanum; Speed’s Chronicle; Stanihurst de rebus Hibernicis; Stow’s Chronicle, by Howes; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; Surtees’ History of Durham; Thomas’ History of Worcester; Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire; Turnor’s History of Grantham; and Twinus de Rebus Albionicis; Udall’s History of Mary Queen of Scots; Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence relating to English Antiquities; Waræus Scriptores de rebus Hibernicis; Warwick’s Memoirs of Charles I.; Wake’s Rex Platonicus; Winwood’s Historical Collections relating to Scotland, London, 1637, folio; Weever’s Funeral Monuments, London, 1631, folio; Whitelocke’s Memorials; Wren’s Parentalia; the Beauties of England and Wales, London, 1802-16, in 25 octavo volumes; and Willis’s Cathedrals.

This Library also contains several Acts of Parliament, and of Legal Works; the most remarkable are Blackstone’s Commentaries; Burn’s Ecclesiastical Law; Coke’s Institutes; Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliæ; Gibson’s Codex Juris Ecclesiastici & Civilis; Callis on the Laws of Sewers; and some State Trials.

The Records of the Kingdom, published by the authority of Parliament, are placed upon these shelves as soon as they appear. They are accompanied, in the present instance, by Cooper’s Account of the Public Records, and Cotton’s Abridgment of the Records in the Tower.

The Heraldic Works in this Collection are unusually numerous, including Leigh’s Accidence of Armoury, London, 1591, 4to.; Ashmole’s Order of the Garter; Brooke’s Heraldry; Collins’s Peerage; Dugdale’s Baronage; Fern’s Blazon of Gentry, London, 1586, 4to.; Guillim’s Heraldry; Carter’s Analysis of Honour; Jones’ Heraldry, 1590, 4to.; Madox’s Baronia Anglicana; Milles’ Catalogue of Honor, London, 1610, folio; Selden’s Titles of Honour; and Yorke’s Union of Honour.

The Geographical section of this Library embraces, Bruce’s Travels; Hakluyt’s Voyages; and Purchas’ Pilgrimes, London, 1625-6, in 5 folio volumes.

I may here notice Petavii Doctrina temporum; the Art de verifier les Dates; and Green’s Numismatic Atlas, 1829, as the sole representations of what ought to be the Chronological and Numismatic portion of this Library. A deficiency but poorly supplied by Agrippa de occultâ Philosophiâ, and the lucubrations of Albertus Magnus.

Among the Foreign Miscellanies, I noticed the works of Ariosto, Casaubon, Petrarch, and Tasso; Bembo Lettere, 1502; Barthelemy’s Travels of Anacharsis; the Decameron of Boccaccio; Photii Bibliotheca, 1611; and his Epistolæ Montacutii.

Among the English Miscellanies, I remarked the Works of Donne; James the First; and Inigo Jones; Ascham’s Toxophilus; Roper’s Life of Sir Thomas More; Lord Orrery’s Romance of Parthenissa; the Reliquiæ Wottonianæ; and the long series of the Gentleman’s Magazine; Dugdale on Imbanking and Draining the Fens and Marshes; and several gratulatory and funebrial Verses from the classic fountains of Oxford and Cambridge; the Philosophical Transactions from 1797 to 1807, from 1808 to 1826, and from 1828 to 1831; and Sprat’s History of the Royal Society.

Library of London.

When the Metropolitan Cathedral rose like the fabled Phœnix from its ashes, and its beauteous dome, rising in unrivalled grandeur over the smoky city, indicated the renovated altar of the living God, it contained but a few isolated Works of human learning.

Among those books which in all probability survived the great conflagration, I may here notice a very curious manuscript volume, containing the Rules and Ceremonies of the Monastery of Syon at Isleworth, founded by Henry V. in 1414. The book commences with a Table of four leaves, followed by a blank. Then follow the Rules and Ceremonies of the Monastery of Syon, and the Additions to the Rule in fifty chapters, occupying fifty leaves. A blank leaf precedes the ceremonial Calendar, which ends on the recto of the thirteenth leaf from its commencement. A Table of Signs used by Sisters during the hours of enjoined silence commences on the reverse of the thirteenth leaf, and is continued as far as the sixteenth. (Two blank leaves succeed.) The Rule of our Saviour occupies the ten following leaves, ending on the recto of the last, the reverse being blank. The Rule of St. Austyne contained in four leaves closes the volume, which is a membranaceous folio, recently rebound in olive morocco. It was originally presented to the Library by Richard Hare.

A curious relic of the old Monastic Library, is a small folio upon vellum in the original stamped calf, with the chain, whereby it was secured to the shelf, still attached to it. It is entitled “Liber vocatus Remediarium,” and is written in double columns of gothic letters, very fairly rubricated. A Missal in its original binding, an imperfect manuscript; and a Medical Work of Avicenna, in folio, written in double columns of gothic letter upon vellum which has been rebound in calf, may also be noticed as having escaped the flames.

The Library of printed books attached to the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, was the munificent endowment of Henry Compton, Bishop of London, whose portrait adorns the walls of the apartment in which they are preserved.

This noble room is placed on the south side of the stupendous fabric of the Cathedral, and has a gallery all round it, the books being placed on open shelves in oaken cases both above and below. The pilasters on the walls are most exquisitely carved in stone, by Grinling Gibbons. The floor is beautifully inlaid with polished oak, and the room is warmed by a spacious fire place, over which hangs a small print of John Egerton, Bishop of Durham.

The books amounting in number to between five and six thousand, are all attired in the vituline integuments of their founder’s time; but many have had their joints as well as their leaves loosened through the united influence of time and neglect. They are symmetrically arranged in open cases, numbered consecutively from 1 to 54, and placed all around this large and lofty apartment.

The aspect of this Library, and a closer inspection of its contents both impress upon the mind its cotemporaneous formation. The distinguishing feature is the impressions of the Sacred Scriptures, and its general character is theological, with a considerable admixture of classical and historical lore. The additions to the collection of the founder are by no means numerous, so that it appears as the faithful indication of his literary habits, and bearing the stamp of individuality, possesses, in my humble estimation, the greater interest.

The chief ornament of this Collection is the noble monument of Biblical learning and typographic skill, afforded by the large paper copy of Walton’s Polyglott Bible, and Castell’s Lexicon Heptaglotton. Of these gigantic volumes, measuring nearly twenty inches by fourteen, twelve comprehend the Bible, with the Dedication to King Charles the Second, and two the Lexicon.

They are all uniformly bound in old red morocco; but the first volume of the Bible having been formerly shewn as the largest book in the Library has sustained considerable damage, from the idle curiosity of its numerous visitors. Upon large paper this work is of the greatest rarity, especially when comprising the valuable addition of Castell’s Lexicon.[44]

Concerning this latter work I may be allowed to extract the following manuscript note by Mr. Barham. “This Work is extremely rare being a L. P. Copy. I know but of one other, which is in the Library at Salisbury, it is said however that there is a third at Lambeth. Its very existence has been doubted from its rarity, and Van Praet when in England would not believe there was one till he saw it. Both Charles X. and George IV. were anxious to obtain a copy, but never could succeed.

“R. H. B. July 22. 1830.”

To this I am enabled to add, that in addition to the large paper copy of this Lexicon attached to Walton’s Polyglott, in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, the Presentation Copy to King Charles the Second is deposited in the British Museum at London, and another large paper copy divided into three volumes, and bound in morocco, is contained in the Library of St. John’s College, Cambridge, both being attached to similar copies of the Bible.

The affecting circumstances detailed in the previous note will sufficiently account for the greater rarity of the Lexicon than of the Bible, though it is reasonable to suppose that as twelve copies of the Polyglott are said to have been taken off on large paper, the same number of copies of the accompanying Lexicon were executed in a similar manner.

This Library also contains a small paper copy of Walton’s Polyglott, and Castell’s Lexicon.

Rivalling the British Polyglott in size and splendour we find also in this collection the “Biblia Hebraica, Samaritana, Chaldaica, Græca, Syriaca, Latina, Arabica, quibus textus originales totius Sacræ Scripturæ quorum pars in editione Complutensi, deinde in Antverpiensi regiis sumptibus exstant, nunc integri ex Manuscriptis toto ferè orbe quæsitis exemplaribus exhibentur. Lutetiæ Parisiorum, excudebat Antonius Vitré Regis Reginæ Regis et Cleri Gallicani Typographus, 1645,” folio, in ten magnificent volumes on large paper, bound in old calf, having the book plate of “Thomas Mangey, Canon. Dunelm. S. T. P.” pasted within the covers. These volumes are in equally fine preservation with the beautiful Lexicon of Castell.

To the above may be added the Polyglott Bible, mentioned in the title of the preceding article, being that printed at the expense of Philip of Spain by Plantin at Antwerp, in six volumes, folio, in the years 1569-72, under the editorial care of Arius Montanus.

I now approach the English versions of the sacred writings, and first in point of time and of importance, have much pleasure in recording the first edition of the New Testament, translated by William Tyndale, and printed at Antwerp in 1526,[45] 12mo. The present copy of this little volume is unhappily imperfect both at the beginning and at the end, but its leaves have been placed in their proper order, and it has been recently rebound in russia. It begins with folio iiii. on sign. A. v. and continues perfect up to folio cccx. Then follows a hiatus of three leaves, succeeded by folios cccxiiii. and cccxv. which latter has the signature of pp. v. the last which is observable in this copy, the end being unluckily deficient. But the Dean and Chapter have very properly determined to adopt the judicious advice of the Rev. Henry Cotton, given in the note below, and if this transcript be executed in facsimile by the skilful hand of Harris, this little tome will be rendered as complete as circumstances will allow.

By the side of the preceding volume is rightly placed the second edition of the New Testament, translated by William Tyndale, with a Preface against George Joye,[46] dated November, 1534. Printed at Antwerp by Martin Emperour in 12mo.[47] The present copy is imperfect, but it has the autograph of Humphrey Wanley, librarian to the book-loving Earl of Oxford.

Next in order we find Tyndale’s third and last edition of the New Testament in English, 12mo.[48] of which the present copy is unfortunately imperfect both at the beginning and the end.

To the three preceding editions may be added another edition of Tyndale’s New Testament, printed at Antwerp by Matthew Crom, 1538, 12mo.

I cannot dismiss this brief notice of the labours of one of the earliest and most efficient of our Reformers, without recording the second edition of the Pentateuch, translated by William Tyndale, revised and corrected by himself, without name of place or printer, but in all probability printed at the same place with the former edition, namely, Marlborow, that is, Marpurg in Hessia, in 1534, 12mo. The title of this little volume runneth thus: “The firste boke of Moses, called Genesis, newly correctyd and amendyd by W.T. MD.XXXIIII.” and is placed between four wood cuts. Next followeth, “Unto the Reader. W.T. xi pages.” The Book of Genesis begins on the last leaf of the Preface, and the next leaf is paged i. It ends on fol. lxxxi. b. At the end is, “The end of the first boke off Moses, called Genesis.” The other four books are identical with the edition of 1530. There are a few marginal notes. It is printed in the Roman character.

It is fitting that I should here mention the joint labour of Tyndale and Coverdale, being the Bible, by Thomas Matthew, at the expense of Richard Grafton and Edward Whitchurch, without name of place, but printed at London in 1537, folio,[49] in calf.

This Library also contains the second edition of the New Testament in Latin and English, after the Vulgate, by Myles Coverdale. Southwark, by J. Nicolson, 1538, 4to. Copies of this edition are also contained in the Libraries of Christ Church and All Souls at Oxford, and in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth.

It appears that Coverdale was much dissatisfied with the former edition of the same year, printed by Nicolson of Southwark, and set this forth as being more correct; endeavouring at the same time to call in the copies of the other; in this he seems to have amply succeeded, as one is now scarcely to be found. Lewis had never seen it, and Herbert describes it as being very scarce. A copy however is deposited in the Bodleian Library, though it is unfortunately imperfect.

In the same year also the New Testament, in Latin and English, was printed in Paris by Fraunces Regnault for Grafton and Whitchurche, 1538, 12mo. of which a perfect copy in calf is contained in this Collection. In this edition the Latin is after the Vulgate, and the English Coverdale’s.

Next in order of time occurs a copy of Cranmer’s, or the Great Bible, London, by Richard Grafton and Edward Whitchurch, finished in April, 1539, folio.

The numerous editions of the Bible in English which enrich this repository, I will enumerate as briefly as possible in chronological order:

Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Thomas Petyt and Robert Redman, for
Thomas Berthelet, 1540, folio.

Bible, oversene by Cuthbert, Bishop of Duresm, and Nicholas,
Bishop of Rochester. London, by Richard Grafton, 1541, folio.

The Bible, by Matthew, reprinted from the edition of 1537.
London, by Thomas Raynaldes and William Hyll, 1549, folio.

Bible. London, by Edward Whitchurch, 1550, 4to.

The Bible, Coverdale’s. London, for Andrew Hester, 1550, 4to.
The body of this work is unquestionably of foreign typography,
and was probably executed at Zurich. The preliminary pieces
in ordinary black letter, were probably printed in London. The
present copy however is very imperfect.

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

The Bible. London, by Nicolas Hyll for Robert Toy, 1551, folio.

The Bible in English, that is to say, the contente of the holy
Scriptures, &c. revised by Cranmer. Imprynted at London by
Edwarde Whitchurche. Cum Privilegio ad imprimendum solum. 1553,
folio. This edition Dr. Cotton conjectures to have been copied
from the first edition of 1539, since here as in that, the
Apocryphal Books are entitled Hagiographa. A full page has 58,
sometimes 59 lines. The date of 1553 occurs at the beginning of
the New Testament. The present is a sound and perfect copy in
old calf binding.

Coverdale’s Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1553, 4to. This
is in fact the Zurich edition of 1550, with a new title page,
almanack, &c. The preliminary pieces, being in the usual black
letter of that period, were probably added after the arrival in
London, of the body of the work, whose typographical aspect is
of the house of Froschover. The present copy being defective at
the end, has been made up by 3 leaves from Barker’s Bible of
1580.

Cranmer’s Bible. London, by Richard Grafton and Edward
Whitchurch, 1553, 4to.

The Bible, Cranmer’s. London, by John Cawood, 1561, 4to.
Imperfect.

The Bible, Cranmer’s. London, by Richard Harrison, 1562, folio.

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

The Bible. London, by W. Seres, 1567, 4to.[50]

The Bible, Parker’s, or the Bishops’ Bible. London, by Richard
Jugge, 1568, folio.[51]

The Bible, Bishops’. London, by Richard Jugge, 1573, 4to.

The Bishops’ Bible. London, by Richard Jugge, 1577, 4to.

Bible, Genevan. London, by the deputies of Christopher Barker,
1589, 4to.

The Bible. London, by the deputies of Chr. Barker, 1596, 4to.

The Bible, by Buck and Daniel. London, 1637, folio.

The Bible, by Field. Cambridge, 1660, folio. All mention of
this and the preceding edition is unaccountably omitted in Dr.
Cotton’s List.

The Whole Bible, with Notes, published by John Canne. London,
by C. Bill, and the executrix of T. Newcomb, 1698, 12mo. closes
this copious Collection of early English Bibles, which cannot
fail to be duly appreciated by every true lover of the biblical
literature of this country.

Next in order of time occurs a copy of

The New Testament, by Taverner. London, by Thomas Petyt for
Thomas Berthelet, 1539, 4to.

The New Testament, in Latin and English from Erasmus. London,
by William Powell, 1547, 4to.

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

New Testament, by Jugge, in 12mo. Imperfect.

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

The New Testament, with notes. London, by the assigns of R.
Barker, 1605, 12mo.

Of detached portions of the sacred writings in English, this Library contains the following pieces, which may be interesting to the curious:

The fruytful sayinges of Davide, in the seven penitential
Psalms, by Bishop Fysher. London, by Wynkyn de Worde, 1508, 4to.

The five books of Solomon. Southwark, by J. Nicolson, 1537,
12mo., and an imperfect copy of the same in 12mo. London,
printed by R. Redman, 1540.

St. Jude, with an exposition. London, John Gowghe, 1538, 8vo.

The Epistles of St. John, with an exposition. Printed at
Southwark by J. Nicolson, 1538, 16mo.

The Psalter in Latin and English, the English translated from
the Vulgate. London, by Richard Grafton, 1540, 8vo.

The Epistle to the Ephesians, with a Commentary by Lancelot
Ridley. London, by R. Redman, 1540, 16to.

Psalms li. and xxx. with an exposition, &c. London, by W.
Bonham, 1542, 4to.

St. Matthew, chap. v. vi. vii. with Tyndale’s exposition.
London, by W. Hyll, without date, but ascribed by Dr. Cotton to
the year 1546, 12mo.

The Psalter, translated from the Latin Version of Feline, that
is Martin Bucer. Printed by Edward Whitchurch, without place
or date, but placed by the same authority under the year 1549,
12mo.

St. Jude, with an exposition. London, by William Copland for R.
Kele, without date, but referred to the same year by the same
author, 1549, 12mo.

The Epistles and Gospels. London, by Thomas Raynalde, 1550,
12mo.

Jonas, with an exposition by Bishop Hooper. London, by John
Tisdale, no date (1550), 12mo.

The Seven Penitential Psalms by Bishop Fisher. London, by
Thomas Marshe, 1555, 16to.

Psalmes or Prayers taken out of holy Scripture. London, without
name of printer, 1556, 16to. The present copy is prefixed to
Cuthbert Tonstall’s Prayers in Latin and English.

Psalmes, in Metre, with Notes. Geneva, by Zacharie Durand,
1561, 16to.

The whole book of Psalms, by Sterneholde, &c. conferred with
the Hebrew, with Notes. London, by John Daye, 1579, 4to.

The same. London, by John Daye, 1580, 4to.

The same. London, by John Daye, 1582, 4to.

The Psalter, according to the Great Bible. London, the
assignees of W. Seres (1583), 4to.

The third Part of the Bible. London, by Christopher Barker,
1583.

The Song of Solomon, in Metre, with a Comment by Dudley Fenner.
Middleburg, by R. Schilders, 1587, 8vo.

The Epistle of St. James, with an exposition by R. Turnbull.
London, by John Windet, 1591, 8vo.

The Psalms by Sterneholde, &c. London, for the Company of
Stationers, 1605, 12mo.

The same, for the same. London, 1608, 12mo.

The same, for the same. London, 1614, 4to.

The same, for the same. London, 1622, 12mo.

The same, for the same. London, 1629, 4to.

The same. London, by E. G. for the Company, 1639, 4to.

Psalms in Prose and Metre, with Notes. London, by R. C. for the
Company, 1643, 16to.

Psalms and Hymns, by William Barton. London, by T. Parkhurst,
1668, 12mo. and the

Psalms in Metre, by Brady and Tate, the second edition. London,
by T. Hodgkin.

In conclusion of this department, I may notice the Common Places of Scripture, printed by Johan Byddell, 1538, 12mo., and Sparrow’s Rationale of Common Prayer, 1657, 12mo.

There also deserves to be recorded an interleaved copy, with copious annotations throughout of the Novum Testamentum Græcum, cum Notis Manuscriptis, et Lectionibus Variantibus collectis à A. T. Mangey, in 3 volumes, folio, inscribed with the following MS. note:

“These valuable Collections of the Reverend and learned Dr.
Mangey, in three volumes, folio, were presented to the Library
of St. Paul’s by his worthy son, the Rev. Mr. Mangey, one of
the Prebendaries of the Church. Nov. 10, 1780.

“THOS. BRISTOL, D.”

The mention of this valuable monument of clerical labour leads us naturally to the consideration of the other impressions of the sacred writings contained in these cases.

Among these, the first in order of time, is

The Biblia Hebraica. Parisiis, 1645, folio; Vatabli, 1599,
folio; Houbigant, 1753, folio; and Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776, in
2 vols. folio.

Biblia Latina Cratandri. Basileæ, 1526, 8vo.

Biblia Belgica. 1616.

Biblia Espanola. 1553, 4to.

Biblia Germanica, Lutheri. 1586, 4to.

Of editions of the New Testament, I may mention the

Novum Testamentum Græcum: Erasmi, Stephani, Scaligeri,
Casauboni, Millii, Wetstein, Grabe, Tremellii, Theodori Bezæ.

Novum Testamentum è Codice Alexandrino curâ Woide. Londini,
1786, 4to.

Evangelia Gothica, Junii, Dordraci, 1665, 4to.

To which may be added various editions of the Psalter in Latin, Syriac, and Saxon.

From these, we pass by easy gradations, to the theological department of the Library.

Among the Fathers of the Church, we find S. Ambrose, S. Athanasius, S. Augustine, S. Basilius, Chrysostom, S. Cyprian, Cyril, S. Ignatius, Epiphanius, Episcopius, Eusebius, Fulgentius, Gregory Nazianzenus, Neocæsariensis, and Nyssenus, S. Jerome, Hilary, Hospinianus, Irenæus, S. Isidore, Peter and Justin Martyr, Lactantius, Nicephorus, S. Origen, Philo Judæus, Polycarp, Tertullian, Theodoret, Theophylact, represented by their Works in this Library.

Of English Divines, this Collection embraces the Works of Allen, Allix, Andrews, Atterbury, Bancroft, Barrow, Bennet, Baxter, Beveridge, Bramhall, Bull, Calamy, Chillingworth, Claggett, Samuel Clarke, Comber, Cosin, Cranmer, Davenant, Goodman, Hall, Hammond, Hoadley, Hody, Hooper, Jackson, Lardner, Leslie, Lightfoot, Lowth, Mede, Bishop Morley, Montague, Nelson, Nye, Norris, Pierce, Pococke, Prideaux, Archbishop Sharpe, Sanderson, Sherlock, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tenison, Tillotson, Toland, Waterland, Watson, Wake, Whitby, White, Whitgift, and Wilkins.

To these names may be added Bingham’s Antiquities of the Christian Church; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; Cave’s Primitive Christianity; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; Derham’s Physico-Theology; Dodwell’s Theological Dissertations; Fell on St. Paul’s Epistles; Henrici VIII. Assertio Septem adversus M. Lutherum, 1562, 8vo.; Field of the Church; Seven Sermons on the VII. Penitential Psalms, by Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Nicolas Fuller’s Theological Miscellanies; Gastrell’s Christian Institutes; Hey’s Lectures on Divinity; Hackett’s Sermons; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Wake’s Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers; Jones on the Trinity; Jewell’s Works, 1609, folio; Kidder on the Pentateuch; Latimer’s Sermons; Muggleton’s Writings against the Quakers; Ostervald’s Arguments in French; Pearson on the Creed, and his Posthumous Works; Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England; Wheatley on the Common Prayer; Wall on Infant Baptism; and Usser’s Annals.

The Foreign Works on Divinity, which are found upon these shelves, are far more numerous than important. It may suffice therefore to mention the Works of Thomas Aquinas and Theodore Beza; Petri Blesensis Opera Omnia; the Works of Bochart and Bossuet; Buxtorf and Calvin; Chamieri Controversiæ; Dallæus’ Theological Works; Durandi Rationale Divinorum Officiorum; the Works of John Gerson; and of Desiderius Erasmus; Cotelerii Patres Apostolici; Grabe’s Spicilegium Veterum Patrum; the Works of Popes Gregory I. II. and IX.; Howell’s Synopsis Canonum; Limborch, Theologia Christiana; the Works of Lanfranc, Luther, and Melancthon; Methodii Opera; Riveti Opera Theologica; Saurin’s Sermons; Sirmondi Opus Patrum et Opera reliquaria; Socini Opera; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum; Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus; Vitringa in Jesaiam; Zanchii Opera Theologica; and the Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum, cum Auctario.

Of Commentators the number is considerable, including those of Patrick, Whitby, &c.; Bythneri Lyra Prophetica, and Pyle’s Paraphrase.

Of Confessions there are also divers forms.

Of Concordances there are several in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and English, of which it may be enough to mention that of Downame; and Schmidii Concordantia Novi Testamenti Græcè, Wittebergæ, 1638, folio.

Canons and Decretals, including those of Gratian’s Synods of the Catholic Church; Tracts relating to the Liturgy, Church Discipline, and to the Dissenters, and Jesuits, occupy a considerable space upon these shelves.

Among the Works of Devotion I noticed several Offices of the Virgin, a small volume of Hours, printed by Robert Wyer, in 12mo.; and the Horæ ad usum Ecclesiæ Sarum, 1524, 4to.; a large folio, Graduale Romanum, with Musical Notes, lying in a very tattered condition upon the table; several Breviaries and Missals, with the Pontificale Romanum, but none of early date; the Book of Prayer for Scotland, 1637; the Directory for the Public Worship of God, London, 1644, 4to.; and English Prayer Books, of 1566, 1577, 1608, 1679, and other years.

There are also books of Homilies and Sermons by Seed, Secker, and others of minor reputation, including a very curious volume of “Sermones discipuli de tempore et de Sanctis, Argentorati, 1495,” folio, in which the following remarkable entry has been made by an ancient hand:—“Orate charitativè pro ai̅ma Ths Tyndalle qui dedit hunc librum co̅ventui de Grenewych fra̅ minoru̅ de Obsu̅anciæ die professionis sui filii fri̅s Willm̅i. Anno dni. 1508.”

In this Collection, the Critici Sacri; the Bibliotheca Polonorum fratrum; the Bibliotheca Sacra of Le Long; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Pole’s Synopsis; Du Pin’s Bibliotheque des Auteurs Ecclesiastique; Trithemii Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum and Nicolas de Lyra, Commentarii in Bibliâ, Lugd. Bat. 1629, in six volumes folio, bring up the rear of the heavy division of the theological array, we have just passed under review.

Turning our attention to Ecclesiastical History we find a voluminous mass of Councils; the Concilia Generalia compiled by Labbe, Cossartius, Delaland, and Baluzius; the Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ by Wilkins and Spelman; the famous Council of Trent; Lyndwode’s Provinciale; Constitutiones Legatinæ Angliæ, Paris, 1504, folio; Baronii et Saliani Annales Ecclesiastici; and Tornielli Annales Sacri.

Independently of many tracts relating to Ecclesiastical affairs, this Library contains within its walls the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists in 53 volumes, folio; the Martyrologium Romanum of Baronius; Codex Theodosianus; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica; Echard’s Ecclesiastical History; Geddes’ Church History of Malabar; Haymonis Historia Ecclesiastica per Maderum, Helmstadii, 1671, 4to.; Centuriatores Magdeburgenses; Neustria Pia Rothomagi, 1663, folio; Platina, Vitæ Pontificum; Rycaut on the Greek Churches; Gallia Christiana Roberti Claudii; and Sleidan’s History of the Reformation, translated by Bohun; with Lloyd, Potter, and Reynolds on Church Government.

Of Works more immediately relating to the Church History of England, I may here notice the well-known Work of Thomas Fuller; Barwick’s Life of Dean Barwick; Bacon’s Liber Regis; Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; the Legend of St. Cuthbert, 1663, 12mo.; The Life of John Egerton, Bishop of Durham, 1798; Davies on the Church of Durham, London, 1672; Godwyn’s Præsules Anglicani, and his Catalogue of Bishops; Gough’s Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Threnodia, 1661, 8vo.; Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica, Duaci, 1621, folio; Heylin’s History of the Reformation in England; Knox’s Church of Scotland; Nichols, Defensio Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ; Parker, de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, 1605, folio; Parr’s Life of Usher; Sanderus de Schismate Anglicano; Spotswode’s Church History of Scotland; Usserii Britannicæ Ecclesiæ Antiquitates; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum; and Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, London, 1744, folio.