Wood’s Institutes of the Laws of England. London, 1724, folio.
How tedious soever may be this long series of Works upon British History
and Antiquities to the general reader, the Bibliographical Antiquary will
thank me for the enumeration of many rare and valuable Illustrations
of English history, as well as for keeping as distinct as possible the
Historical and Topographical departments.
I forbear to mention the Tracts and other obsolete Works chiefly
polemical, which remain on the shelves of this Library; neither are the
Works on Natural History or Science deserving of a separate enumeration;
unless we may except the Aldine Galen of 1525, in 5 vols. folio; the
Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions; Palladio’s Architecture;
the History of Plants, by Theophrastus, Gerard, and Ray; and Shaw’s
Zoology, in 17 volumes.
In English Literature and Poetry it will be sufficient to mention the
names of Addison, Burke, Bacon, Ben. Jonson, Boyle, Cowley, Chaucer,
Dryden, Locke, Milton, Newton, Sterne, Selden, Spenser, Shakespeare, and
Swift, to shew the general character of this department of the Library.
But, as usual in all Cathedral Libraries, the great mass of English works
are of a sacred character.
There is indeed a strong resemblance between the Collections which,
dating from the earliest dawn of literature in England, have been
augmented by successive additions, and now form the Libraries annexed to
the Ecclesiastical Establishments of our own time and country.
In addition to the voluminous and important works of the Fathers of the
Church, and of the earlier Divines of this country and of the Continent,
which have been already enumerated in their proper place, this Library
embraces other Theological Works of English writers, among whom it may
be sufficient to mention the names of Bramhall, Gisborne, Horne, Jortin,
Perkins and Wake. To these may be added Pierce on the Epistles; Prideaux
and Shuckford’s Connection; and Cudworth’s Intellectual System.
But the true character of these Collections will, in every case, be
most correctly understood by a particular enumeration of their several
contents.
In Classical Literature this Collection comprehends many of the principal
Authors, but few of the most important editions. In illustration of this
remark, I may adduce many works which have no other claim to a place in
this notice; such as
Æliani Variæ Historiæ. Lugd. Bat. 1701, in 2 vols. 8vo.
Æneæ Sylvii Opera. Basil. 1571, folio.
Æschylus Tragœdiæ, per Henr. Stephanum. 1557, 4to.
Sophocles Tragœdiæ, per Henr. Stephanum. 1568, 4to.
Euripides, Barnesii, Cantabr. 1694, et Canteri. 1602, 2 vols.
4to.
Euripides, Glasguæ, 1821, in 9 vols. 8vo. in green morocco.
Apollonii Argonautica, per H. Stephanum, 1574, 4to.
Arrianus de Expeditione Alexandri, per H. Stephanum. 1575,
folio.
Sidonii Apollinaris Opera. Paris. 1652 & 1609.
Ammianus Marcellinus, Du Vall. Paris. 1681, fol.
Aristotelis Opera. Paris. 1654, 4 vols. folio, & Venetiis,
1562, 10 vols. 8vo.
Archimedis Opera, Gr. et Lat. Basileæ, 1544, folio.
Aristophanes. Genevæ, 1607, folio, et Lugd. Bat. 1625, 12mo.
Aristophanes Kusteri. Amst. 1710, folio, in red morocco.
Athenæi Deipnosophistæ. Lugduni, 1612, folio.
Arrianus de Venatione, per Holstenium. Paris. 1644.
Aulus Gellius. Amstel. 1665, 12mo.
Cæsaris Commentarii per S. Clarke. Lond. 1712, folio.
Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius. Lutet. 1604, fol.
Celsus de Medicinâ. Lugd. Bat. 1665, 12mo.
Ciceronis Opera, Lambini. Paris. 1566, 4 vols. folio, &
Gronovii, Lugd. Bat. 1692, 11 vols. 8vo.
Demosthenis et Æschinis Opera. Francof. 1640, folio.
Dio Cassius. Leunclavii. Hanov. 1606, folio.
Diodorus Siculus. Rhodomani. Hanoviæ, 1604, folio.
Dionysius Halicarnasseus. Sylburgii. Francof. 1586, folio.
Diogenes Laertius. Londini, 1664, folio.
Dionis Chrysostomi Orationes. Lutet. 1604, folio.
Epictetus. Cantabr. 1655, & Amst. 1683, with Carter’s
translation.
Horatius, edited by Bond, Baxter, and Bentley.
Homeri Ilias. 1689, 4to. et Odyssea, 1567, 12mo. cum.
Eustathii Commentariis. Basileæ, 1559, 3 vols. folio.
Herodotus, Francofurti, 1608, folio.
Herodotus Wesselingii. Amst. 1763, folio, Ch. max., in vellum.
Justini Historia. Lond. 1609, 12mo. & 1701, 8vo.
Juvenalis Lubini. Hanoviæ. 1603, 4to.
Livius, Gronovii. Lugd. Bat. 1634, 32mo. Clerici. Amst. 1710,
10 vols. 8vo. Coloniæ, 1525, folio, & Francof. 1628, folio.
Luciani Opera. Lutet. Paris. 1615, folio.
Luciani Opera. Hemsterhusii. Amst. 1743, 4 vols. 4to.
Livius Drakenborchii. Ludg. Bat. 1738-46, in 7 vols. 4to.
Longinus, à Pearce. Lond. 1624, et à Langbaine. Oxford, 1636.
Lucanus Oudendorpii. Ludg. Bat. 1728, 4to.
Lucretius Wakefieldii. Lond. 1796, 3 vols. folio.
Lycophron, Potteri. Oxonii, 1697, folio.
Martialis. Amst. 1670, & Genev. 1623.
Oratores Attici, Bekkeri. Berol. 1823, 5 vols. 8vo.
Ovidius, Burmanni. Amst. 1727, in 4 vols. 4to.
Persius Casauboni. 1647, 8vo. & Hanov. 1603, 4to.
Pindar, edited by Potter and Stephens.
Platonis Opera, Serrani. 1578, 3 vols. folio.
Platonis Opera, Bekkeri. Berol. 1815, 8 vols. 8vo.
Plautus, Lambini. Aurel. Allobr. 1605, 4to.
Plinii Historia Naturalis. Venet. 1571, Francof. 1599, &c.
Plinii Junioris Epistolæ. Genevæ, 1625.
Poetæ Græci Principes, Stephani. Paris. 1566, folio.
Plutarchi Opera. Stephani. Paris. 1572, 6 vols. 8vo.
Plutarchi Opera. Rualdi. Paris. 1624, 2 vols. folio.
Pausanias, Xylandri. Hanoviæ. 1613, folio.
Polybius Casauboni. Paris. 1609, folio.
Polybius Schweighaeuseri. Lipsiæ, 1789-95, 8 vols. in 8vo.
Ptolemæi Geographia. Basileæ, 1545, folio.
Quintiliani Opera. Coloniæ, 1521, folio.
Sallustius, à Wasse. Cantabr. 1710, 4to. Havercamp’s excellent
edition.
Seneca. Paris. 1626, folio. Lugd. Bat. 1640, 4 vols. 12mo.
Strabonis Geographia, Casauboni. 1587, folio.
Suetonius, Pitisci. Leovardiæ. 1714, 4to. 2 tom.
Suetonius. Paris. 1610, folio, Lugd. Bat. 1647, 8vo.
Tacitus Variorum. Paris. 1608, folio.
Terentius Variorum. Lugd. Bat. 1675, 8vo. & Bentleii. Cant.
1726, 4to.
Theocritus, Heinsii. 1604, 4to. Hudsoni.
Thucydides. Francof. 1694, & Oxonii, 1696, folio, et Dukeri,
Amst. 1731, folio.
Valerius Maximus. Lutet. 1517, folio.
Vegetius de Re Militari. Lugd. Bat. 1592, 8vo.
Virgilius, Servii. Paris. 1600, folio. Variorum. L. Bat. 1680,
3 vols. 8vo. with Heyne’s excellent edition.
Vitruvius de Architecturâ. Amstel. 1649, folio, and Xenophon
Leunclavii. Francof. 1596, folio. Oxonii, 1703, 5 vols. 8vo.
This Library is also endowed with various Works upon Etymology, deserving
of some mention in this place. Among which, the valuable addition of the
Saxon Tongue in Somner’s own handwriting, induces me to mention firstly,
Minsheu’s Guide into Tongues. London, 1627, folio; and next,
Somneri Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum. Oxon. 1659,
folio.
Spelmanni Glossarium Archaiologicum. Lond. 1664, folio.
Skinner, Etymologicum Linguæ Anglicanæ. Lond. 1671, folio.
Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis. Oxon. 1705, 2 vols. folio.
Davies’ Dictionarium Britannico-Latinum. Lond. 1632, folio.