Missale Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1657.
Breviarium Romanum. Lutet. 1688.
Durandi Rationale Divinorum Officiorum.
L’Alcorano di Machometto. 1547.
Passing by a cloud of obscure Commentators on the Psalms, and other
portions of the Sacred Volume, it may suffice to mention the Critici
Sacri, and Pole’s Synopsis, Leigh’s Critica Sacra, Kidder on the
Pentateuch, Bythneri Lyra Prophetica, Newcome’s Minor Prophets, Campbell
on the Gospels, Blayney on Jeremiah, and the Commentaries of Whitby,
Patrick, &c. of Calvin and Beza, of Pococke and Lowth.
Among the Fathers of the Church, I may particularise the Works of
St. Jerome, Ambrose, Cyprian, Athanasius, Cyril, and Chrysostom, the
Gregories, S. Hilary, Augustine, Basil, Origen, and Justin Martyr, of
Athenagoras, Theophylact, Lactantius, Tertullian, Epiphanius, Isidore,
and Theodoret. Irenæi Opera cura Grabe, folio; Eusebii Præparatio
et Demonstratio Evangelica, in 2 folio volumes; Suiceri Thesaurus
Ecclesiasticus; the Bibliotheca Patrum; Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, 2
copies; Grabe’s Spicilegium Patrum, and Wake’s Genuine Epistles of the
Apostolical Fathers, with Cave’s Primitive Christianity, and Lives of the
Fathers.
This last Work naturally leads us to the consideration of Ecclesiastical
History, in which branch of learning the following Works occur in this
Collection: Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, folio; Eutychii Annales;
Tornielli Annales Sacri; Usserii Annales; Spondani Epitome Baronii;
Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici, and Martyrologium Romanum; Cotelerii
Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta, folio; Bower, Rycaut and Platina’s Lives
of the Roman Pontiffs; Binii Concilia Generalia et Provincialia; The
Centuriatores Magdeburgenses; Natalis Historia Ecclesiastica, in 8 vols.
folio; Canones Concilii Tridentini. Duaci, 1618, folio; and Polani
Historia Concilii Tridentini; Geddes’s Church History of Æthiopia; and
Allix’s History of the Churches in Piedmont.
Of Books relating to the Ecclesiastical affairs of Great Britain, we find
the following:
Wilkins’s Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, in 4 vols. fol.
Bedæ Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Parisiis, 1681, and
Londini, 1714.
Whartoni Anglia Sacra, 2 vols. folio.
Parker de Antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ. Hanoviæ, 1605, and
edited by Drake, London, 1729, fol.
Usserii Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ. Londini, 1687.
Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica.
Godwin’s Præsules Anglicani, and Catalogue of Bishops.
Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ.
Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ.
Fuller’s Church History.
Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum. London, 1655-73, 3 vols. folio.
Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, by Nasmyth. London, 1744.
Spotswode’s History of the Church of Scotland.
Burnet’s, Heylin’s and Strype’s Histories of the Reformation,
with the Lives and Memorials of the latter.
Fox’s Martyrs. London, 1684, in 3 volumes, folio.
Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy.
Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England. 4to.
Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography. London, 1818, 6 vols.
8vo.
Newcourt’s Repertorium, or Survey of the Diocese of London.
Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus Provincialis; or Survey of the Diocese
of Exeter. Exeter, 1782, 4to.
Ecton’s Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus, 4to.
Gough, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Threnodia. Londini, 1661.
Symeon, Historia Dunelmensis Ecclesiæ. Londini, 1732, 8vo.
Calderwood’s Church of Scotland.
The earlier Theologians in this Library are represented by the Works of
Grotius and Erasmus, the Controversial Writings of Le Clerc, Leusden,
and Bellarmine, Chamieri Controversiarum Corpus, Limborch, Theologia
Christiana, the Works of Episcopius, Peter Martyr, Melancthon, Zanchius,
and Bochart, to which may be added, the once popular Treatise ascribed to
Thomas à Kempis, the present copy having been printed at Antwerp in 1607.
Of the earlier Divines of England, the Works of Lightfoot, Bramhall,
Barrow, Mede, Hoadley, Jewel, and Chillingworth; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical
Polity, Cudworth’s Intellectual System, and Lloyd on Church Government,
are familiar as household words to every educated Briton.
Among the Theological Writers of the seventeenth century, we find
the Works of Allix, Baxter, Barrow, Atterbury, Comber, Claggett,
Dodwell, Gastrell, Andrews, Sanderson, Hall, Hammond, Hopkins, Hody,
Bull, Leslie, Peirce, Edwards, Long, Pearson, Reynolds, Rutherford,
Stillingfleet, Sherlock, Tillotson, Jeremy Taylor, Wake, Wilkins,
Whiston, and Weston; Norris on the Beatitudes, Pearson on the Creed,
Burnet on the Articles, and Gale’s Court of the Gentiles, Oxford, 1672.
I should be wanting in attention to the English Theology of this
Collection were I to pass over the Works of Boyle, Hoadley, Lardner,
Jortin, Horsley, Beattie, and Farmer, or Burton’s Testimonies of the
Anti-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ.
Connected with the Theological department, I may here mention Calmet’s
Dictionary of the Bible; Hyde’s Religio Veterum Persarum, Oxonii, 1700;
Davy’s System of Divinity, Lustleigh, Devon, 1795, 1807, “printed by
himself, 14 copies only.” In these 26 volumes the corrections have all
been made by the insertion of slips of printed paper in the places
requiring emendation. Davy on Divinity, with Portrait, Exeter, 1825, in
3 vols. 8vo. “Presented by the Author to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter,
20th August, 1825.” And Isaac de la Peyreyre’s Men before Adam, which
was rigidly suppressed on its first publication; Harmer’s Observations
on Scripture; the Preservative against Popery, published by order of
Dr. Gibson, in 3 volumes, folio; and some French Works of Divinity,
including, however, no author of sufficient note to require distinct
enumeration.
The Works illustrative of History in general, contained in this Library,
are: Bayle’s Historical Dictionary; Chalmers’s Biographical Dictionary,
in 32 vols. 8vo.; Collier’s Historical Dictionary, in 2 vols. folio;
Simsoni Chronicon; Heylin’s Cosmography; Raleigh’s History of the World:
Isaacson’s Chronological Tables; Baudrand, Lexicon Geographicum; Speculum
Historiale Vincentii; Bossuet, Histoire Universelle, 8vo.; Thuani
Historia sui temporis; Carionis Chronicon, and Pitt’s English Atlas,
Oxford, 1680, in 4 gigantic folio tomes.
Of particular Histories of various countries, the list is rather more
copious, comprehending Freheri Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, folio;
Hottingeri Historia Orientalis; Basnage’s History of the Jews; Rycaut and
Knolles’s History of the Turks; Ogilby’s China and Japan; Bembi Historia
Veneta; China Illustrata; Verona Illustrata; Echard’s History of Rome;
Mezeray’s History of France; Serres, Histoire de la France; Davila’s
Civil Wars of France; Meterani Historia Belgica; Puffendorf de rebus
Suecicis; Bonfinius de rebus Hungaricis; Molesworth’s Denmark; Crantz’s
Greenland, Scheffer’s Lapland, and Fowler’s Poland.
As valuable helps to History, I may here mention, Montfaucon’s
Antiquities, translated by Humphreys; Montfaucon’s Palæographia Græca;
Mabillon, Iter Italicum; Ciampini Monumenta Vetusta; Fleetwood’s
Inscriptiones Antiquæ; Reinesii Inscriptiones; Liceti et Pierii
Hieroglyphica; Bianchini, Inscrizioni Sepulcrali; Noris’ Cenotaphia
Pisana; Bertoli’s Antichita d’Aquileia; Arlinghi’s Roma Subterranea;
Rosini’s Antiquitates Romanæ; Prideaux’s Marmora Arundeliana; Spanheim’s
and le Vaillant’s Numismata; Occonis Numismata; Patini Numismata
Familiarum Romanarum; Pitisci Lexicon; and Dodwell’s Tracts relating to
Antiquity.
To the above may be added, Churchill’s Voyages; the Travels of Pococke,
Thevenot, Sandys, and others; Freheri Theatrum Virorum Clarorum, & Jovii
Elogia Virorum Illustrium.
Of Works on Heraldry, which may most properly be termed “the Key of
History,” this Library contains Favine’s Theatre of Honour; Hopingius de
Jure Insignium; Milles’s Catalogue of Honor; Gwillim’s Heraldry; Selden’s
Titles of Honor; Dugdale’s Baronage; and Ashmole’s History of the Order
of the Garter.
Of Works relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain, this
Collection embraces many Tracts of great curiosity, and some Works of
great importance.
Among the latter may be mentioned Eadmeri Historia Novorum; Twinus
de rebus Albionicis; the valuable Collection of Francorum Scriptores
Coetanei, edited by Duchesne, in 5 volumes, folio, a copy in old vellum,
which has suffered severely from damp; Matthæi Paris, Historia Anglicana;
Gale and Fell’s important Collection of early English Historians; Camdeni
Anglica, Normanica, &c. à veteribus scripta; Polidori Vergilii Historia
Anglicana; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum; Florentii
Wigornensis Chronicon; Sheringham de Anglorum Gentis Origine; Triveti
Annales sex Regum Angliæ, 1 vol. 8vo.; Rossi Warvicensis Historia Regum
Angliæ, edente Hearnio, Oxonii, 1716, 8vo.; Gibson’s Saxon Chronicle;
Musgrave’s Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicæ, 4 vols. 8vo. very neat in calf;
Prynne’s Records of John, Henry III. and Edw. I. London, 1670, folio;
and the Records of the Kingdom, published under the authority of the
Parliamentary Commission.
The remaining Works of English History will be found to embrace many
Tracts, interesting as connected with the great Rebellion. This Library
contains the General Histories of England, by Daniel, Carte, Speed,
and Kennett; Baker’s Chronicle; Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion,
with his State Papers; Rushworth’s and Nalson’s Collections of State
Papers; Whitelocke’s Memorials; Welwood’s Memoirs; Godwin’s Annals;
Herbert’s Henry VIII.; Lloyd’s Memoirs; Fuller’s Worthies; Winstanley’s
English Worthies; Lyttelton’s Henry the Second; Heylin’s Life of Laud;
Walton’s Lives; Camden’s Elizabeth, with his Remains; Darcie’s Annals
of Queen Elizabeth; Chamberlayne’s Angliæ Notitiæ; Winston Churchill’s
Divi Britannici, Salmasii Defensio Regia; Bond’s Scutum Regale;
Mackenzie’s Jus Regium; Bates’ Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Angliâ,
a work which Warburton thought worth reading; Warwick’s Charles I.;
Vie de Cromwell, in 2 vols. 12mo.; Ludlow’s Memoirs, in 2 vols. 8vo.;
D’Orleans, Revolution d’Angleterre, Paris. 1695, 3 vols. 12mo.; Dugdale’s
View of the Troubles; Gregorio Leti Teatro Britannico, Amst. 1684, in
5 vols. 12mo.; Εικων Βασιλικη: Memoires du Marechal Berwick; Mercurius
Britannicus Josephi Hall; and Fuller’s Ephemeral Parliament.
In addition to 27 volumes of Political Tracts, and 20 volumes of
Puritanical Sermons, the overflowings of men’s minds under the high
excitement of the Rebellion, I observed an octavo volume, which never
before occurred to me, being “I. G. de rebus Caroli I. Commentarius
sub imperio; Jacobi Marchionis Montisrosarum, anno 1644, et duobus
sequentibus præclarè gestis.” Interprete A. S. Paris. (Johan. Bessin.)
1648. This volume is upon large paper, and is bound in red morocco, its
sides covered with fleurs de lis, whence it might be conjectured to have
belonged to the Queen Henrietta, then resident in France, at all events
as a contemporary record of the exploits of the Chivalric Montrose, its
historical interest is far from inconsiderable.
Among the other Works relating to English History may be noticed Annales
de la Grande Bretagne; Parkerus de rebus sui temporis; Dugdale’s Origines
Judiciales; Pepys on the Navy; Mainwaring’s Defence of Amicia; Wood’s
Athenæ Oxoniensis; Kippis’ Biographia Britannica; Heylin’s Help to
English History, a work still held in estimation; and a copy of Speed’s
Maps, 1627, in an oblong duodecimo form.
Among the books of Scottish History I remarked the History of Scotland
by Drummond and Buchanan, with the latter’s pretended “Detectioun of the
duinges of Mary Queen of Scots;” Major de Gestis Scotorum; and Hume’s
House of Douglas; Cox’s History of Ireland, and Ware’s Historical Works
concerning Ireland, Dublin, 1739, in 2 vols. folio, deserve brief mention
in this place before we proceed to enumerate the Works illustrative of
the Topographical Antiquities of England.
The Archæologia, or Collection of Miscellaneous Tracts relating to
Antiquity, in an annually increasing series of quarto volumes, published
by the Society of Antiquaries, forms a prominent feature in this
department of the Library, the present series being respectably clad in
modern calf.
To the Antiquarian Society we are also indebted for Plans, Elevations,
and Descriptions of the Cathedral Churches of Durham, Exeter, and
Gloucester, the Abbey Church at Bath, and St. Stephen’s, Westminster; the
present copy being handsomely bound, in one volume, folio, in russia, and
bearing the following autographic inscription:
“This book was presented to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter,
the 22nd of December, 1813, as a token of gratitude for their
kind patronage, and as a mark of affection for their Cathedral
Church, by their obliged and faithful Servant,
“RALPH BARNES, _Chapter Clerk_.”
To such a dedication as this, the student who turns the ample pages of
this noble folio tome, can only respond, ex imo corde,
“Grati Memorisque animi hocce volumen monumentum esto!”
No works of instruction are more calculated to please the eye than
Topographical researches, embellished like Britton’s Account of Exeter
Cathedral, of which a copy is very properly deposited in this Library.
The remaining Works of English Topography, which deserve particular
notice, are Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence respecting
English Antiquities; Anthony à Wood’s Historia Universitatis Oxoniensis,
Oxonii, 1674, in one volume, folio; Savage’s Balliofergus, or some
Account of Baliol College, at Oxford, Oxonii, 1668, 4to.; Caii de
Antiquitate Academiæ Cantabrigiensis; Howel’s History of London and
Westminster; Roll’s Account of the Rebuilding of London after the Great
Fire, of which some accounts are also contained in this Collection;
Stow’s Description of London; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent, 1656;
Dugdale’s History of Warwickshire; Borlase’s Natural History and
Antiquities of Cornwall; Milner’s Winchester; Polwhele’s Devonshire;
Prince’s Worthies of Devon, “the gift of the author;” Plot’s Natural
Histories of Oxfordshire and Staffordshire; Kennet’s Parochial
Antiquities; Webbe and Inigo Jones’s Descriptions of Stonehenge;
Carlisle’s Endowed Grammar Schools; Leycester’s Cheshire; Bentham’s Ely;
Oliver’s History of Exeter; Camden’s Britannia, edited by Gibson, London,
1772, 2 vols. folio; and some Account of St. Neot’s Church in Cornwall,
with plates of the stained glass Windows therein, by Messrs. Hedgeland
and Davies Gilbert, London, 1830, folio, presented by the former to the
Cathedral Library of Exeter.
To the above I may add the Geological Transactions of Cornwall, presented
by the Rev. John Rogers, one of the Canons of the adjacent Cathedral.
Though Geology has not yet attained the full stature of a science, yet
the mention of these interesting volumes recalls to my mind those older
treatises on the more exact Sciences which are contained in this Library.
Among these, Newton’s Principia holds the first place, to which I may
add Kepler’s Optics; Boyle’s and Bacon’s Works on Natural Philosophy;
Hobbes’ Opera Philosophica; Hevelii Selenographia; Hooke’s Micrographia;
Wallis’s Algebra; Maseres’ Scriptores Logarithmici; a few volumes of
the Encyclopædia Britannica and of the Philosophical Transactions, with
Sprat’s History of the Royal Society.
Of Botanical Works it may be sufficient to particularise Ruellius de
Naturâ Stirpium; Raii Historia Plantarum; Grew’s Anatomy of Plants;
and Gerarde’s Herbal, to which I may add the singular Collection of
Aldrovandus, and Gesner de Animalibus.
I may here also mention Vitruvii Architectura, and Kendall on
Architecture; together with Culpepper’s English Physician; Cardani
Medicinæ; and other sanatory treatises now obsolete, which form the
companions of the Museum Wormianum.
The Law Books contained in this room may be very soon enumerated, as
there is no interest whatever attached to the Codex Theodosianus; Corpus
Juris Civilis Gothofredi; Oughton’s Ordo Judiciarum, in 2 vols. 4to.;
Burns’ Ecclesiastical Law; Blount and Jacob’s Law Dictionaries; Lambard
de Priscis Anglorum Legibus; Durandi Speculum Juris; Spencer de Legibus
Hebræorum, Cantab. 1685; Gibson Codex Juris Civilis, &c. in 2 vols.
folio; and an old edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries.
It is refreshing to turn from so uninviting a topic to those great
authors of antiquity, the dread of our earliest, and the delight of our
latest years, especially when we can look upon some of the most valuable
editions of their Works.
In proof of this assertion, those shelves furnish me with the Oratores
Græci, and the Plutarch of Reiske, Isocrates, and Lysias of Auger;
the Pindar of Heyne; Plinius Harduini; Pausanias Kuhnii; Livius
Drakenborchii; the Horace of Bentley; Duker’s Thucydides; the Herodotus
and Diodorus Siculus of Wesseling; Reimar’s Dion Cassius; Josephus
Havercampi; Xenophon, by Wells; Brunck’s Sophocles; and Barnes’
Euripides; Longinus, Toupii, and Athenæus Casauboni.
Among the other editions of the Classics, I noticed Platonis Opera
Serrani; Quintus Curtius Pitisci; Lucretius Havercampi; Spanheim’s
Callimachus; Aristotelis Opera Du Valli; and several of the Delphin
editions, including those of Prudentius, Plautus, Eutropius, Cornelius
Nepos, Velleius Paterculus, Quintus Curtius, Manilius, Juvenal, and
Lucretius.
I also noticed some pieces of Cicero, and various editions of Æschines,
Boethius, Florus, Macrobius, Martial, Aristophanes, Quintilian, Petronius
Arbiter, Seneca, Sallust, Suetonius, Statius, Phædrus, Tacitus, Valerius
Maximus, Terence, Homer, Demosthenes, Cæsar, Xenophon, and the Historiæ
Augustæ Scriptores, whose importance would scarcely justify more
particular specification.
The earliest editions of the Classics comprised within these walls, are
indifferent copies of Cæsar, printed by Jenson, at Venice, in 1471,
folio, measuring twelve inches by eight and a quarter, and bound in calf;
and Virgilius Servii, 1475, folio, where the Commentary ends with the
Æneid, and the Minor Pieces, with vacant margins, follow.
Of Translations of the Classics, I observed Dryden’s Virgil and Juvenal;
Hobbes’s Thucydides; Ross’s Silius Italicus; Ogilby’s Æsop; and Dacier’s
Horace.
Of Lexicons and Dictionaries, and other Etymological Works, the essential
accompaniments of the Classic page, to every youthful student, I have the
pleasure of enumerating several, which will be found very useful in the
study either of Classic or of Gothic Literature.
For the first, it may suffice to mention Suidæ, Hesychii, et Scapulæ
Lexica, Hoffmanni, et Phavorini Lexica, Stephani Thesaurus, Calepini
Dictionarium, Julii Pollucis Onomasticon, Vossii Etymologicon, Cooper’s
Thesaurus, and Du Fresne’s Glossary.
For the latter, the Saxon Dictionary of Hickes; Skinner’s Lexicon;
Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum; Somneri Dictionarium Saxonicum; Lye’s
Saxon Dictionary; Cotgrave’s French Dictionary; and Menage Dictionnaire
Etymologique. To which may be added, the English Dictionaries of Cole,
Howel, and Johnson, with Buxtorf’s Chaldaic and Hebrew Lexicon.
In English Literature this Library is manifestly deficient. We do indeed
meet with the Works of Locke and Bacon; of Addison and Swift; Spenser’s
Faerie Queen; the Poems of Chaucer, Milton, and Cowley; Shakespeare’s
Works too, with the Portrait coloured, may be after the Stratford
Monument, London, 1632, folio, in a volume, which being quite perfect,
richly deserves rebinding, as it is now in a very insecure and tattered
condition. But I can only add to these, Sir Thomas More’s Works, 1559;
Warton’s English Poetry; Conybeare’s Anglo-Saxon Poetry; Burton’s Anatomy
of Melancholy; Smith’s Wealth of Nations; Wootton’s Remains; and other
Works of much less reputation.
Of Italian Works there are editions of Tasso, Petrarch, and Ariosto,
with a copy of Boccaccio, Genealogia di Gli Dei, Venet. 1588, which
the compiler of the unfinished Catalogue has classed under the head of
“Miscellaneous Theology.”
It only remains for me to notice Photii Bibliotheca et Epistolæ, and
Stuckii Antiquitates Conviviales, a work whence much curious information
may be obtained respecting the “noctes cœnæque” of the olden time.
As “Book openeth Book,” I cannot conclude this brief notice of the
Exeter Cathedral Library more appropriately than by adding to it, the
Bibliographical Works contained within its precincts.
Among these I particularly noticed, Maittaire, Annales Typographici;
Wolfii Monumenta Typographica; Watts’ Bibliotheca Britannica; Blount’s
Censura Literaria; Balei Scriptores Britanniæ; Nicolson’s English, Irish,
and Scotch Historical Libraries, in 4 volumes, 8vo.; Cooper on the Public
Records; Le Long’s Bibliotheca Sacra, Halæ, 1778; Dupin’s Bibliotheque
des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques; De Rossi’s Annales Hebræo-Topographici,
Parmæ, 1795; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca, and Bibliographia Antiquaria, in
4to.; Cave’s Scriptores Ecclesiastici; Baillet’s Jugemens des Scavans;
La Bibliothéque Choisie, 1703; and Le Clerc’s Bibliothéque Universelle,
in 12mo.; a Catalogue of English Writers on the Old and New Testaments;
Clarke’s Bibliographical Dictionary and Miscellany; Marchand’s
Dictionnaire Historique; Gesneri Bibliotheca, and several volumes of the
Acta Eruditorum, in quarto.
Upon the table in the Chapter-house is very properly kept a book “For
the entry of books taken out of, and returned to the Chapter Library;” a
regulation which ought to be religiously observed by all persons having
access to any corporate Library.
[Illustration]
Library of Gloucester.
The spacious and airy Chapter-house, warmed by a stove, is the meet
receptacle of the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester. The
books are arranged upon open shelves, in dwarf cases of oak, which
skirt the walls of the room, and form two lines down the centre. They
are briefly enumerated in an old alphabetical Catalogue, but are placed
on the shelves according to a new Catalogue which is now preparing by
Mr. Hough, the bookseller of Gloucester. There are also a list of books
borrowed, and “a List of Benefactors to the Library of the Cathedral
Church of Gloucester.” Folio.
This Collection contains much obsolete Law and Divinity; but the latter
department possesses also many valuable Works, which I will proceed to
show, commencing with the impressions of the Sacred Volume.
Biblia Polyglotta. Waltoni. cum Castelli Lexicon.
Biblia Hebraica. Montani. 1619, folio.
Biblia Hebraica, Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776, 2 vols. folio.
Biblia Latina, S. Hieronymi. Norimbergæ, 1478, folio.
Biblia Latina, R. Stephani. Parisiis, 1532 and 1557.
Biblia Germanica, Lutheri. Magdeburg, 1560, fol.
Biblia Italica, Diodati. 1807, folio.
The Bible in Welsh. London, 1769, 4to.
The Bible in English, dedicated to Henry VIII. London, 1536,
folio.
The Bible in English, Tyndale’s. London, Jo. Taverner, 1549,
folio.
The Bible in English, Field’s. Cambridge, 1680, 2 vols. folio.
The Bible in English, dedicated to James II. Oxford, 1685,
folio.
The Bible in English, Baskett. Oxford, 1717, 2 vols. folio.
The Bible in English, Geddes. London, 1792, 3 vols. 4to.
Fulke’s Rhemish Testament, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.
The Novum Testamentum Hutteri, 2 vols. folio.
To which I may add the Codex Bezæ, by Kipling, in old calf; the Novum
Testamentum Græcum, Kusteri. Lipsiæ. 1723, folio.
I may here also mention the Book of Common Prayer, by R. Barker, London,
1634, 4to.; the Breviarium Romanum; and Missale Romanum. Antv. 1631,
folio; and proceed to enumerate the Fathers of the Church, whose Works
are found in this Collection.
Ambrosii Opera. Parisiis, 1603, 2 vols. folio.
Augustini Opera. Parisiis, 1637, 11 vols. folio.
Anselmi Opera. Parisiis, 1559, folio.
Basilii Opera. Parisiis, 1618, 3 vols. folio.
Chrysostomi Opera. Etonæ, 1612, 8 vols. folio.
Clementis Alexandrini Opera. Oxonii, 1725, folio.
Cypriani Opera. Coloniæ, 1617, folio.
Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica. Coloniæ, 1688, 2
vols. folio.
Eusebii Thesaurus temporum. Amstelodami, 1658, folio.
Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica. Cantabrigiæ, 1720, 3 vols.
folio.
Hieronymus in Evangelia. Antverpiæ, 1579.
Lactantius. Venetiis, 1472, folio.
Origenis Commentarii. Rothomagi, 1668.
Origenis Opera. Parisiis, 1733, 2 vols. folio.
Philonis Judæi, Opera. Londini, 1742, 2 vols. fol.
Tertulliani Opera. Parisiis, 1664, folio.
Tertulliani Opera. Basileæ, 1528, folio.
Theophylact. Comment. Parisiis, 1635, 2 vols. folio; with
the Works of S. Cyril, Episcopius, Epiphanius, of S. Gregory
Nysseni, et Nazianzen, and the Bibliotheca Patrum. Paris, 1644,
in 15 vols. folio.
In a later æra of the Church we find the Works of Bede, Thomas Aquinas,
Calvin, Cranmer, Barrow, and Beveridge.
Bernardi Opera. Antverpiæ, 1609, folio.
Bingham’s Works. London, 1729, 2 vols. folio.
Bulli Opera. Londini, 1703, folio.
Bellarmini Controversiæ. Coloniæ, 1628, folio.
Archbishop Bramhall’s Works. Dublin, 1677, folio.
Bishop Blackhall’s Works. London, 1723, 2 vols. folio.
Bochart, Hierozoicon. Londini, 1663, folio.
Buchanani Psalmorum Paraphrasis. 1624.
Bythneri Lyra Prophetica.
Clarke’s Works. London, 1738, 4 vols. folio.
Hodius de Textibus Bibliorum. Oxonii, 1705, fol.
Hospiniani Opera. Genevæ, 1678, 4 vols. folio, calf.
Joanes de Imola Opera. Venetiis, 1480, duplicate.
Leland on the Christian Revelation. 1764, 2 vols. 4to.
Lutheri Opera. Jenæ, 1612, 4 vols. 4to.
Leusden Comp. Bibl. Lugd. Bat. 1685, 12mo.
Melancthonis Opera. Witebergæ, 1580, 4 vols. folio.
Mori Opera Theologica, 1675, et Opera Philosophica, 1679, 3
vols. folio.
Nicolai de Lyra Comment. Basileæ, 1507, 6 vols. folio.
Orton’s Exposition of the Old Testament. Salop. 1788, 6 vols.
8vo.
Raynaudi Opera. Lugd. Bat. 1665, 19 vols. folio.
Rosenmuller Scholia in Nov. Test. Norimbergæ, 1785, 5 vols. 8vo.
Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus. Antverpiæ, 1682, 2 vols.
folio.
Spanheim Opera. Lugd. Bat. 1702, 3 vols. folio.
Synge’s Works. 1740, 4 vols. 12mo.
Taylor and Cave’s Antiquitates Christianæ. Londini, 1685, folio.
Venn’s Tracts. London, 1740, 8vo.
Zanchii Opera Theologica. 1613, 3 vols. folio.
To which may be added, the Preservative against Popery, in 3 vols. folio;
Baxter’s Saints’ Rest; Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher, by Bishop
Berkeley; Burnet on the Articles; Blayney’s Jeremiah; Butler’s Analogy;
Balguy’s Tracts; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible, London, 1708, 3 vols.
folio; Concordantiæ Bibliorum, Hanoviæ, 1618, 4 vols. folio; Cave’s
Scriptor. Eccles. Historia literaria; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; the
Works of Chillingworth and Conybeare; Campbell on the Gospels, and on
Miracles; Dupin Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques, Paris. 1693,
10 vols. 8vo.; Derham’s Astro Theology, Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum,
Irenop. 1639, 6 vols. folio; Tracts on the Bangorian Controversy, London,
1739; Critici Sacri, Londini, 1660, 10 vols. folio; Poli Synopsis,
Londini, 1669, 5 vols. folio; Cruttwell’s Concordance; Fleetwood’s Works,
1737; Bishop Fell on the Epistles; Faber on Pagan Idolatry and on the
Prophecies; several Tracts by Grotius; Graves on the Pentateuch, 1807,
2 vols. 8vo.; the Works of Hammond, Hopkins, Hooker, Hurd, and Hoadley;
Horsley on the Psalms, and other Works; Hey’s Lectures; Hutcheson’s Moral
Philosophy, and Essay on the Passions; Hales on the Trinity; Jackson’s
Works; Jones’s Canon of the New Testament, 1726; the Works of Lightfoot;
Marsh’s Michaelis on the New Test. 1802, 6 vols. 8vo.; Newton’s
Prophecies and Sermons; Newcome’s Sermons; Ostervald’s Arguments; Pearson
on the Creed; Prideaux’s Connection; Patrick and Lowth’s Commentaries;
Lowth’s Isaiah; Leighton’s Works; Mede’s Works, 1664, 2 vols. folio;
Macknight’s Harmony; Pyle’s Paraphrase; the Works of Paley, Porteus,
Secker, and Stillingfleet; Stackhouse’s History of the Bible, London,
1742, 2 vols. folio; Sanderson’s Sermons; Sale’s Koran; Saurin’s Sermons;
the Works of Sherlock, Stanhope, Seed, and Tillotson; Jeremy Taylor’s
Ductor Dubitantium; the Works of Warburton, Wake, Whiston, and Waterland;
Watson’s Apology, and Theological Tracts; West on the Resurrection;
several volumes of the Bampton Lectures; the Bibliotheca Maxima
Versionum, &c. Parisiis, 1666, 19 vols. folio; and Bibliotheca Magna
Comment. Parisiis, 1644, 5 vols. folio, in calf.
In Ecclesiastical History, I may mention Lyndewode’s Provinciale, Paris.
1502, folio, & Oxonii, 1699, folio; the Centuriatores Magdeburgenses,
Basileæ, 1624, 3 vols. folio; Baronii Annales, Antverpiæ, 1610, 12
vols. folio, in vellum covers, with the Epitome of Spondanus, in calf;
Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, Lond. 1737, 4 vols. folio; Gratiani
Decretum, Codex Theodosianus, cum Comment. Gothofredi, in 6 vols. folio;
Justiniani Pandectæ, Parisiis, 1504; Durandi Speculum Juris, folio, in
old black letter, imperfect; Basnage’s History of the Jews, London,
1708, fol.; Burnet’s History of the Reformation; Bower’s History of the
Popes, London, 1748, 8 vols. 4to.; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History,
London, 1708, 2 vols. folio; Cressy’s Church History of Brittany; Ecton’s
Thesaurus; Gibson’s Codex; Josephus, Havercamp, Amst. 1726, 2 vols.
folio; Whiston’s Josephus, 1745, 8vo. 6 vols.; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical
History; Strype’s Annals and Memorials; Quick’s Synodicum in Galliâ
Reformatâ, Londini, 1692, folio; Rycaut’s History of the Popes; Laval’s
History of the Reformation in France, London, 1737, 7 vols. 8vo.; Sleidan
Histoire de la Reformation à la Haye, 1767, 3 vols. 4to.; Usseri Annales,
et Antiq. Eccl. Britt.; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Walker’s Sufferings of
the Clergy; and Fox’s Martyrs, London, 1632, 3 vols. folio.
Of English History, I remarked Brady’s Introduction thereto, London,
1685, folio, as well as his History of England, London, 1720, folio;
Baker’s Chronicle, London, 1674, folio; Camden’s Britannia; Campbell’s
Survey of Great Britain, London, 1774, 2 vols. 4to.; Colquhoun on the
Resources of the British Empire; Dugdale’s Monasticon, and View of the
Troubles; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Henry’s History of England;
History of the Wars in Ireland, London, 1653, folio; Harris’s Life
of Cromwell, London, 1772, 8vo.; Baker’s Hereditary Right, London,
1713, folio, for which he was imprisoned; Martin’s History of England,
London, 1615, folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum
Rer. Angl.; Norden’s Britanniæ Speculum; Scriptores post Bedam edente
Savile; Sprigge’s Anglia Rediviva, folio; Stow’s Chronicle, London,
1631, folio; Drayton’s Polyolbion, folio; Webb’s Metrical History of
Richard II. originally published in the Archæologia, 4to.; Rapin’s
History of England; several Diurnalls of Passages in the Great Civil
War, 4to.; Stafford’s Pacata Hibernia, 1633; Rushworth’s Historical
Collections; Sawyer’s Memorials of Affairs of State, London, 1725, 2
vols. folio; Wallace’s Peerage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1785, 8vo.;
Yarranton’s England’s Improvement, London, 1677, 4to.; Twini Commentarii
de rebus Albionicis, Londini, 1590, 12mo.; the Parliamentary History of
England, London, 1751, &c. 23 vols. 8vo.; the Publications of the Record
Commission, and the Statutes at large.
Of English Topography, I remarked Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed
Intelligence, 4to.; an Act for the Incorporation of the Gloucester
Workhouse in 1703; Bigland’s Gloucestershire, London, 1791, folio;
Fosbroke’s Gloucestershire, 4to.; Britton’s Gloucester Cathedral;
Rudder’s Gloucestershire; Bentham’s Ely; Drake’s York; Pennant’s Tour;
Rastall’s Southwell, 1787; Plot’s Oxfordshire; Stow’s London, imperfect;
and Speed’s Great Britain, also imperfect; Sammes’s Britannia; Lysons’
Magna Britannia, in 9 vols. 4to.; Wood’s Antiquitates Oxonienses;
and Willis’ Cathedrals, London, 1727, 3 vols. 4to.; with the Welsh
Cathedrals, viz. those of St. Asaph, Bangor, St. David’s, and Llandaff.
Of General History, the Works are mostly obsolete, being Bossuet Histoire
Universelle; Churchill’s Voyages; Delices des Pays Bas; Eustace’s Italy;
Fuller’s Palestine, 1650, folio; Gillies’ History of the World, 2 vols.
4to.; Davila’s Civil Wars of France, folio; Harris’s Voyages; Hughes’
Barbadoes; Hooke’s Roman History; Hakluyt’s Voyages, London, 1600,
folio; Knolles’s History of the Turks; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Knox’s
Campaigns in North America, 1769, 2 vols. 4to.; Norden’s Egypt, London,
1757, folio; Potter’s Greece; Moryson’s Itinerary, London, 1617, folio;
together with Purchas’ Pilgrimes, London, 1625, 5 vols. folio; Ralegh’s
History of the World; Heylin’s Cosmography, folio; Robertson’s Works;
Symson’s Chronicon Catholicon, Oxonii, 1652, folio; Thuani Hist. sui
temporis; Tournefort’s Voyages; Grimstone’s France; Shute’s Venice;
Warcup’s History of Italy, London, 1660, folio; and the Universal History.
It is pleasant to be able to add to these, a very fine copy of the
valuable Collections of Grævius and Gronovius upon large paper, in old
calf binding, with a border of gold on the sides; the Inscriptions of
Gruter; Pitisci Lexicon; Montfaucon, l’Antiquité Expliquée, Paris,
1719, in 15 vols. folio, a fine copy in old calf, gilt; with Humphrey’s
Translation of Montfaucon, London, 1722, 7 vols. folio; to which I may
add D’Anville’s Atlas, London, 1797, folio; and Buckingham’s Travels in
Palestine, London, 1821, 4to.
Of Law Books, besides the Statutes at large, and Pickering’s Statutes,
I noticed, among much obsolete matter, Ayliffe’s Roman, Civil and Canon
Law, London, 1734, 2 vols. folio; Corpus Juris Civilis Justiniani;
Seldeni Opera, Londini, 1726, 3 vols. folio; Selden’s Mare Clausum,
edited by Needham; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum, Cantabr. 1727, 2 vols.
folio.
Of Etymological Works the list is not much more copious, consisting of
Johnson’s English Dictionary; Ainsworth’s Latin Dictionary; Buxtorf’s
Hebrew Lexicon; Calepini Dictionarium Octolingue, Lugd. Bat. 1663, folio;
Cooper’s Dictionary, London, 1573, folio; Cotgrave’s French and English
Dictionary, London, 1611, folio; a Welch Grammar, printed at Caermarthen
in 1727, 12mo.; Dictionarium Linguæ Japonicæ, Romæ, 1632, 4to.; Golii
Lexicon Arabico Latinum, Lugd. Bat. 1653, folio; Hickesii Thesaurus
Linguarum Septentrionalium, Oxonii, 1705, 2 vols. folio; Hoffmanni
Lexicon; Stephani Thesaurus, 1527, 5 vols. folio; Spelman’s Glossary;
Tooke’s Diversions of Purley, 1798, 2 vols. 4to.; and Vossii Opera,
Amstelod. 1701, folio.
Of Classical authors, the editions contained in this Library are neither
the first nor the best; the most correct idea, however, of their true
character may be obtained by perusing the following brief enumeration of
them:
Æginetæ, Pauli, Medici, Opera, Gr. Basileæ, 1538, 4to.
Aristotelis Opera. Parisiis, 1561, 2 vols. 4to.
Aratus et Sigonius. Parisiis, 1561, 4to.
Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. Bat. 1612, folio.
Arriani Expeditio Alexandri. Lugd. Bat. 1704, fol.
Æschyli Tragœdiæ. Londini, 1664, folio.
Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti. Parisiis, 1740, 9 vols. 4to. bound in
old French calf.
Callimachus. Lugd. Bat. 1761, 2 vols. 8vo.
Cæsaris Commentaria. Lugd. Bat. 1713, 8vo.
Catullus, Tibullus, & Propertius. Francof. 1621, 8vo.
Diodorus Siculus. Hanoviæ, 1604, folio.
Demosthenis Orationes. Parisiis, 1570, folio.
Dionysius Halicarnass. Francof. 1586, folio.
Aulus Gellius. Lugd. Bat. 1706, 4to.
Herodotus. Francof. 1608, duplum.
Homeri Opera. Clarkii, 1729-40, 4 vols. 4to.
Homeri Ilias. Heynii, 1802, 8 vols. 8vo.; with Translations by
Chapman and Ogilby, folio.
Hesiodus. Amstelodami, 1701 et 1757.
Justini Opera. Parisiis, 1615.
Iamblicus a Gale. Oxonii, 1778, folio, calf.
Juvenalis. Amstelodami, 1684, 8vo.
Isocratis Orationes. Rothomagi, 1662.
Lucianus Oudendorpii. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 4to.
Lucretius. Parisiis, 1625 et 1560.
Libanii Orationes. Genevæ, 1631-4, 2 vols. 4to.
Livius Variorum. Amstelod. 1679, 3 vols. 8vo.
Manilii Astronomicon, apud Plantin. 1610, 4to.
Oratores Græci Veteres. 1575, folio.
Ovidius, Burmanni. Amstelod. 1727, 4 vols. 4to.
Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii. Rothomagi, 1563, fol.
Pomponius Mela. Venetiis, 1482, 4to.
Plutarchi Opera. Francof. 1620, 2 vols. folio.
Plutarchi Vitæ. Londini, 1729, 5 vols. 4to.
Plinii Historia Naturalis. Lugd. Bat. 1563, folio.
Ptolomæi Geographia. Amstelod. 1618, folio.
Pausanias. Hanoviæ, 1613, folio, duplum.
Pausanias. Lipsiæ, 1696, folio.
Pindarus, West & Welsted. Oxonii, 1697, folio.
Phædrus, Burmanni. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 2 vols. 8vo.
Poetæ Minores Græci. Londini, 1728, 8vo.
Quintilianus. Parisiis, 1542, 4to. & 1725, folio.
Strabonis Geographia. Amstelod. 1707, 2 vols. fol.
Senecæ Tragœdiæ, Delphini. Paris. 1728, 4to.
Senecæ Opera. Amstelodami, 1672, 3 vols. 8vo.
Sallustius, Havercampi. Amstelod. 1742, 2 vols. 4to.
Suetonius, Grævii. Traject. ad Rhen. 1703.
Stobæus, Gr. et Lat. Genevæ, 1609, folio.
Tacitus, Gronovii. Traject. 1722, 2 vols. 4to.
Thucydides. Genevæ, 1609, folio.
Terentius. Amstelod. 1686, 8vo.
Theocritus. 1804, 4to.
Virgilius Variorum. Lugd. Bat. 1680, 3 vols. 8vo. with Ogilby’s
Translation. London, 1660, folio.
Xenophontis Opera, Gr. et Lat. Parisiis, 1625, fol.
To which may be added, the Works of Dioscorides; Petrus de Crescentiis;
Euclid, Plautus, and Plato; Melmoth’s Letters of Pliny; Vigerus
de Idiotismis Græcis, Londini, 1678, 12mo.; Barthelemy’s Voyage
d’Anacharsis, Paris, 1790-7, 8vo. atlas; Falconer’s Voyage of Hanno,
London, 1797, 8vo.; and Vincent’s Voyage of Nearchus, London, 1797, 4to.
Of British Classics, this Library contains the Works of Bacon and Locke;
Newton’s Works, edited by Horsley, London, 1779, in 5 vols. 4to.; Du
Bartas’ Divine Works and Weeks; Brown’s Vulgar Errors; Burney’s History
of Music; Chaucer’s Works, by Urry, London, 1602, folio; Charles the
First’s Works; Dryden’s Works, London, 1693, 4 vols. 4to.; Harrington’s
Works, London, 1747, folio; Heywood’s Fall of Lucifer, a Poem, London,
1635, 8vo.; Johnson’s Works; Phillips’ Poems, 1609, folio; Shakespeare’s
Works, printed at London, 1685, folio, and at Oxford, 1744, in 6 vols.
4to.; Spenser’s Works, 1589, 4to.; Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks,
and Temple’s Works; to which I may add Tomline’s Life of Pitt, and
Monk’s Life of Bentley; Markham on War; Spence’s Polymetis; Webb on the
Beauties of Painting, 1760; Bentham’s Fragment on Government; Nicholson’s
Encyclopædia, 1809, 6 vols. 8vo.; a large paper copy of Whitcombe’s
Letter to the Prince Regent; the Edinburgh Review; and Literary History.