Missale Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1614.
The principal Works relating to Ecclesiastical History in this
Collection are Allix’s Albigenses; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Baronii
Annales & Martyrologium Romanum; Brandt’s History of the Reformation
in the Low Countries; Bedæ Opera, Basileæ, 1583; Bedford’s Scripture
Chronology, 1730; Bower’s Lives of the Popes; Burnet’s Reformation;
Codex Theodosianus Gothofredi; Corpus Juris Civilis et Canonici, Lugd.
Bat. 1624-7; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta; Concilia Generalia,
Colon. Agr. 1567; Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ à Wilkins, Lond. folio;
Strype’s Annals, Lives, and Memorials; Du Pin’s Ecclesiastical History;
Cave’s Historia Literaria Scriptor. Eccles.; Echard’s Ecclesiastical
History; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica; Le Neve’s
Fasti Anglicani; Fleury’s Ecclesiastical History, by Adams, 1727, 5
vols.; Fuller’s Holy War, and Church History of Britain; Gibson’s Codex
and Synodus Anglicana; Godwin de Præsulibus Angliæ, Cantabr. 1743, 2
vols. folio; Gratiani Compendium Juris Canonici et Civilis, Venetiis,
1580, 3 vols. folio; Heylin’s History of the Reformation; Lyndewode’s
Provinciale, Oxon. 1679; Inett’s Origines Anglicani; Mosheim’s
Ecclesiastical History; Reyneri Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ,
Duaci, 1626; Ribadeneira, Vitæ Sanctorum; Rycaut’s Lives of the Popes;
Sanderus de Origine et progressu Schismatis Anglicani, Parisiis, 1610;
Spelman’s Concilia; Spotswode’s Church of Scotland; Polano’s History of
the Council of Trent; Quick’s Synodicon in Galliâ Reformatâ; Tornielli
Annales; Usseri Annales & Antiq. Eccl. Britt.; Walker’s Sufferings of the
Clergy; Warner’s Ecclesiastical History; and Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical
Biography.
Of Works connected with English History and Antiquities, the shelves of
this Library may supply the curious enquirer with Adams’s Index Villaris,
and sixty volumes of the Acts of Parliament, the gift of Bishop Buckner
to the Chichester Cathedral Library; Ashmole’s Order of the Garter, 1672;
the English Baronetage, 1741, in 5 vols. 4to.; Barwick’s Life; Battely’s
Antiquities of Canterbury; Crawfurd’s Memoirs of Scotch Affairs,
Edinburgh, 1726; Dart’s Westminster Abbey; Echard’s History of England;
Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655, 3 vols. folio; Warwickshire,
Coventry, 1675; Baronage, and View of the Troubles; Kippis’s Biographia
Britannica; Borlase’s Cornwall and Scilly Islands; Buck’s History of
Richard III.; Buchanani Historia Scotorum, Edinburgi, 1583; Crawfurd’s
Peerage of Scotland; Burnet’s History of his own Times; Carte’s History
of England; Davies’s Celtic Researches; Dallaway’s Western Sussex, and
Cartwright’s Rape of Bramber; Winston Churchill’s Divi Britannici, 1675;
Clarendon’s Rebellion, Oxford, 1702, 3 vols. folio; Fabian’s Chronicle,
1542; Fiddes’ Life of Wolsey; Fuller’s Worthies; Holinshed’s Chronicle,
1586, with Giraldus Cambrensis’s History of Ireland, and Hector Boethius’
Historia Scotorum; Grafton’s Chronicle, wanting the Title; Harding’s
Chronicle, 1543; Hacket’s Life of Archbishop Williams; Grew’s Rarities of
Gresham College; Hanway’s Travels; Lord Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII.;
Journals of the Lords and Commons; Johnston on the English Monarchy,
1636; Icon Basilike, 1649; Kennet’s Parochial Antiquities, with his
History of England and other Works, and North’s Examination of Kennet’s
History of England; Laud’s Life; Leland’s Itinerary, edited by Hearne,
Oxford, 1745, 8vo.; Lyttelton’s Henry II.; Lloyd’s State Worthies;
Mackenzie’s Scottish Writers, Edinburgh, 1708; Madox’s Formulare
Anglicanum, Baronia Anglica, and History of the Exchequer; Maitland’s
London; Maurice’s Richmond Hill; Monasticon Hibernicum, 1723; Nicolson’s
Historical Library; North’s Lives of the Norths; Peck’s Memoirs of Oliver
Cromwell; Higden’s Polychronicon, printed by Wynkyn de Worde at London
in 1495, a perfect copy in old calf; Nalson’s Collections; Price’s
Salisbury Cathedral; Parker’s History of his own Times; Rapin’s History
of England; Thorpe’s Registrum and Custumale Roffense, both half-bound;
Robertson’s History of Scotland; Rossi Warvicensis Historia Regum Angliæ,
edente Hearne, 1745; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Slayter’s
History of Great Britain, 1619; Speed’s Chronicle, History of Great
Britain, Theatre and Maps; Stow’s Chronicle, 1615; Stukeley’s Itinerarium
Curiosum; Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannica; Pitseus Catalogus Scriptorum
Angliæ, Parisiis, 1619; Triveti Annales, et Adami Murithmensis Chronicon,
curâ Hall, Oxonii, 1722, 8vo.; Ward’s Gresham College; Weever’s Funeral
Monuments; Whitelocke’s Memorials, 1709; Willis’s Cathedrals; Wood’s
Athenæ Oxonienses; A few Political Tracts; Several Laudatory Verses from
both the Universities to several of the Stuarts, and the Records of the
Kingdom.
To the above I have pleasure in adding a few of the foundations upon
which the History of Britain is built.
Balæi Centuria Scriptorum Britanniæ, Basileæ, 1557; Historiæ Anglicanæ
Scriptores Decem à Somner & Twysden; Du Chesne’s Historiæ Normannorum
Scriptores; Eadmeri Historia sui Temporis, edente Selden, Londini,
1623; Matthæi Paris. Historia Anglicana, edente Wats, Londini, 1740,
folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum; Rerum Anglicanum
Scriptores post Bedam, edente Savile; Florentiæ Wigornensis Chronicon;
Polydore Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Basileæ, 1534, folio; Camdeni
Anglica, Normannica, &c. à veteribus Scripta.
Of Law, the only books which met my observation were: Ayliffe’s Canon
Law, London, 1734; Reports upon the Criminal Code, 1821, &c. in 7
vols. 4to.; Barrington on Ancient Statutes; Blackstone’s Commentaries;
Jacob’s Law Dictionary; Lambard de Priscis Anglorum Legibus; Wottoni
Leges Wallicæ, 1730; Leges Antiquiæ Francorum, per Lindenbrogium, 1614;
Wilkins’s Leges Saxonicæ, 1721; Viner’s Abridgment of Law and Equity, in
23 folios, new in calf, gilt.
Of Numismatic Works, I am happy to record a beautiful copy of the
Numismata Pembrochiana, 1746, upon large paper, bound in calf, richly
gilt, with the leaves gilt upon the marble, the donation of Dr. Jo.
Wickins, Rector of Petworth in 1763, to the Cathedral Library. The
appearance of this Work in the folio form is very far above the usual
dimensions of the ordinary 4to. To this I may add, Banduri Numismata,
Parisiis, 1718, in 2 vols. folio; Clarke’s Coins; Evelyn on Medals;
Folkes’s Coins; Harduini Nummi Antiqui, Parisiis, 1684; Landi Numismata
Selecta, Lugd. Bat. 1695; Wilde, Numismata Antiqua Selecta, 1682; Wise
Nummi Bodleiani, 1750; Nummophylacium Reginæ Christinæ, per Havercampium,
Hagæ, Com. 1742; Vaillant Numismata, Paris. 1695.
Of Publications relating to the History and Description of different
countries, and the world in general this Library cannot boast any
Collection more copious than that constituted by, Æmilii Historia
Francorum; Pighii Annales Romanæ Historiæ, Antverpiæ, 1598; Stuart and
Revett’s Antiquities of Athens; Anson’s Voyage, 1756; Astley’s Collection
of Voyages, 1745, 4 vols.; Atlas Geographicus, London, 1711, in 5 vols.
folio; Churchill’s Voyages; Robert’s Atlas; Birch’s Heads; Bezonii
Historia Indiæ Repertæ, Francofurti, 1694; Maffei Historia Indica,
Brixiæ, 1660; Blair’s Chronology; Collier’s Historical Dictionary; Du
Halde’s China; Byzantinæ Historiæ Scriptores, Venetiis, 1729, in 23 vols.
folio; Hales’s Analysis of Ancient Chronology; Chardin’s Travels; Flud
Historia utriusque Cosmi, Oppenheim, 1617; Freheri Rerum Bohemicarum
Scriptores, Hanov. 1602; Gualteri Tabula Chronologica; Coloniæ, 1616;
Geographici Minores Græci, curâ Hudsoni, Oxonii, 1698, 4 vols.; Grævii
Thesaurus Antiquitatum, 12 tom. folio; Gruteri Inscriptiones, 2 vols.
folio; Heylin’s Cosmography; Hughes’s Natural History of Barbadoes,
London, 1750, folio; Mariana and Molina’s Histories of Spain; Maundrell’s
Journey; Montfaucon’s Antiquities, with his Palæographia Græca; Moreri
Dictionnaire, 10 vols. folio, in French calf; Norden’s Egypt; Potter’s
Greece; Newton’s Chronology; Puffendorf’s Law of Nations; Raleigh’s
History of the World; Rerum Belgicarum Annales, Francof. 1583; Jovii
Rerum Turcicarum Historia, Lugd. Bat. 1569; Keysteri Antiquitates
Septentrionales, Hanoviæ, 1720; Rhenani Rerum Germanicarum Commentarii,
1551; Rycaut’s History of the Turks; Robertson’s Charles V.; Paruta’s
History of Venice; Shaw’s Travels; Perrault’s Hommes Illustres;
Pococke’s Description of the East; Postlethwayt’s Dictionary of Commerce;
Sully’s Memoirs; Thuani Historia sui Temporis, 6 vols. folio, in calf;
Watson’s Philip II. and it may be added Vossius de Historicis Græcis ac
Latinis.
Several Maps of North and South America, Egypt, Portugal, and the
Pyrenees are also placed within this Library.
Of Etymological Works, there are few indeed, at least I only remarked,
Calderini Lexicon Latinum et Italicum, Venetiis, 1587; Calepini
Dictionarium Latinum, Lugd. Bat. 1559, in 2 vols.; Cooper’s Dictionary;
Du Cange’s Glossary; Facciolati Lexicon; Hederici Lexicon; Hickes’s
Thesaurus Septentrionalis; Johnson’s English Dictionary; Junii Glossarium
edente Lye; Spelman’s Glossary; Julii Pollucis Onomasticon, Amstelod.
1706; Suidæ Lexicon; Kusteri Cantabrigiæ, 1705, in 3 vols. folio.
Of Works relating to Natural History or Science, the number is still
less. Aldrovandi Ornithologia; Franzii Historia Animalium, Wittebergæ,
1613; Gerard’s Herbal, by Johnson; Johnstoni Historia Quadrupedum,
&c.; Mantell’s Geology of Sussex; Newton’s Optics and Principia; and
some Tracts by Leibnitz, being the only works of this character which
attracted my observation.
Of Classic Authors, I have made a copious selection, that the reader may
judge for himself of the value of this department of the Library by a
cursory review of its contents. It is, in fact, only by thus descending
into particulars that the true character of any Collection can be
obtained. Hence it is that whenever in these pages a dry catalogue of
books appears to be extended to an unusual length, the candid reader
should look complacently upon the attempt to enable him to form his own
judgment even at the risk of exhausting his patience.
I may begin with the Anthologia Græca edited by Owen in 1612, and
continue in nearly alphabetical order, as the simplest and most
intelligible method of reference, the list of Classics in this Collection.
Antoninus, Gatakeri. Londini, 1697, 4to.
Appianus. Amstelodami, 1670.
Apuleius, Pricæi.
Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. Bat. 1657.
Aulus Gellius: Ausonius: Historia Augustæ Scriptores. Lugd.
Bat. 1671.
Corpus Poetarum Latinorum à Maittaire.
Cornelius Nepos. Oxonii, 1697.
Catullus Tibullus & Propertius, per Arthurum. Cantabrigiæ, 1702.
Ciceronis Opera Variorum, in 17 vols. 8vo.—Basileæ, 1534;
Parisiis, 1539, in 2 vols. and 1654.
Demosthenes. Cantabrigiæ, 1731.
Diodorus Siculus, by Wesseling. Amsterdam, 1746, folio.
Diogenes Laertius, by Menage. Amsterdam, 1692, 2 vols. folio.
Dio Cassius, Reimari. Hamburg. 1750, 2 vols. fol.
Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Hudsoni. Oxonii. 1704, in 2 vols.
folio.
Euripides, by Markland.
Eustathius in Homerum. Romæ. 1542, in 4 vols. fol.
Fabulæ Æsopicæ, per Camerarium. Lugd. Bat. 1564.
Pompeius Festus, Delphini. Amstelod. 1699, 4to.
Jamblichus, Galei. Oxonii, 1678, folio.
Galeni Opera, per Linacrum. Lugd. Bat. 1559.
Herodianus. Oxonii, 1699.
Herodotus, Wesselingii. Amstelod. 1763.
Hesiodus, Græcè. 1540.
The Horace of 1511, and that by Bentley, 1713, and among other
editions of lesser note,
Horatius, Lambini. Francofurti, 1596.
Homeri opera à Barnes. Cantabr. 1711, et ejusdem Ilias curâ
Clarke. Londini, 1729, 4 vols. 4to.
Josephus, Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1702, 2 vols. folio.
Justini Historia apud Stephanum. Parisiis, 1543, fol.
Longinus, Hudsoni. Oxonii. 1710.
Livius. Parisiis, 1735, & Gronovii, 1679.
Lucanus, Oudendorpii. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 4to.
Lucianus. Salm. 1619.
Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes. Oxonii, 1677.
Martialis, Schrevelii. Lugd. Bat. 1670.
Ovidius, Antverpiæ, 1587; Burmanni, Amstelod. 1727, 4 vols.
4to.; and Heinsii, Amstelod. 1661.
Pausanias, Kuhnii. Lipsiæ, 1696, folio.
Petronius, Burmanni. 1709, 4to.
Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii. Rothomagi, 1563, fol.
Platonis Opera, Serrani. 1578, in 3 vols. folio.
Plautus, Lambini. 1576.
Plinii Senioris Historia Naturalis, Dalecampii; Aureliæ
Allobrogum, 1606; and Harduini, Parisiis, 1723, in 3 vols.
folio.
Plinii Junioris Epistolæ. Amstelodami, 1659.
Plutarchi Vitæ, edente Bryant. Londini, 1729, in 5 vols. 4to.
Plutarchi Opera, Xylandri. Francof. 1599.
Polybius, Casauboni. 1609, folio.
Quintus Curtius, Erasmi. Parisiis, 1543.
Quintilianus, Burmanni. Lugd. Bat. 1720, 4to.
Sallustius. Parisiis, 1504, and Cantabrigiæ, 1710.
Seneca, Gothofredi.
Seneca Lipsii.
Silius Italicus, Drakenborchii. Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1717, 4to.
Strabo, Almeloveeni. Amstelodami, 1707, 2 vols. folio.
Suetonius, Grævii.
Tacitus, Variorum.
Terentius, Delphini.
Terence, by Hare. 1724.
Thucydides, Hudsoni. Oxonii. 1696, folio.
Valerius Flaccus, Heinsii. Amstelodami, 1680.
Velleius Paterculus; Vegetius. Parisiis, 1535.
Virgilii opera, per Jacobum Zachon. Venetiis, 1499, folio; in
Roman Character, with a commentary.
Virgilius Delphini. 4to. and by Baskerville.
Xenophontis Opera, by Wells, with his Anabasis & Cyropædia, by
Hutchinson.
It will be seen from this rapid survey of the classical department of
this collection that none of the first, though several of the best
editions are here to be found. I may here mention the
Schola Salernitana. Parisiis, 1553.
Erasmi Adagia. Hanoviæ, 1617.