¶ Finit Boetius de disciplina scholarium cum commento. optime bene necnon
diligenter Impressus Daventria per me Jacobum de Breda. Anno Domini
M.CCCC. nonagesimo sexto. XV. mensis Maii.
This volume which is in old strong binding, with wooden boards, contains
“Aristotelis Ethica, Latinè reddita à Leonardo Arretino—printed 1479
at Oxford,” which begins Incipit preffacio leonardi arretini in libros
ethicorum. Ending with the colophon,
Explicit textus ethicorum Aristotelis per leonardum aretinum lucidissime
translatus correctissimeque. Impressus oxoniis anno dm̅. M.CCCC.lxxix.
This book formerly belonged to Dr. Sayers.
Also the second edition of Statius, printed at Paris, by Jehan
Petit, 1499, 4to.
The general reader will find much both of interest and instruction in the
several departments to which I shall briefly direct his attention.
I only pause to remark that the only manuscript in this Library is one of
the Psychomachia of Prudentius with delicate illuminations, probably of
no greater antiquity than the middle of the fifteenth century.
The body of Divinity deposited in this place, is composed of the Works
of Thomas Aquinas, Arminius, Athanasius, Augustine, Bernard, Bellarmine,
Calvin, Chamier, Cyprian, Episcopus, Erasmus, Justin Martyr, S. Jerome,
Ignatius, Irenæus, Lactantius, Melancthon, Origen, Rivetus, Tertullian,
Theodoret, & Zanchii Opera Theologica, Genev. 1619, in 3 vols. folio;
Suarez, Disputationes Theologicæ, Moguntiæ, 1629, folio; and Surius de
Vitis Sanctorum, Venetiis, 1581, in 8 vols. folio. Of Barrow, Beveridge,
Bennet, Boys, Bramhall, Chillingworth, Clarke, Conybeare, Edwards,
Hammond, Hall, Hody, Hoadley, Horsley, Howe, Jackson, Jewel, Lightfoot,
Locke, Lowth, Lowman, Patrick, Paley, Prideaux, Reynolds, Rogers,
Sherlock, Stillingfleet, Tillotson, and Jeremy Taylor, various works are
here found.
I also noticed Abbot’s Defence of the Reformed Churches, 1611, in 2 vols.
4to.; Ainsworth on the Pentateuch; Allix on the Old Testament; Barclay’s
Apology; Browne’s Religio Medici; Brightman on the Revelations; Butler’s
Analogy; Burnet on the Articles; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible;
Campbell on the Gospels; Cave’s Primitive Christianity; Antiquitates
Apostolicæ, and Lives of the Fathers; Clarkson’s Primitive Episcopacy;
Cosin’s Canon of Scripture; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; Derham’s
Astro-Theology; Evans’ Sketch of all Religions; Faulkner on the Liturgy;
Fell and St. Paul’s Epistles; Field of the Church; Fleetwood on Miracles;
Forster on the Christian Revelation; Fulke on the New Testament;
Gastrell’s Christian Institutes; Gale’s Court of the Gentiles; Gregorii
de Valentia Opera Theologica, Ingoldst. 1592, in 4 volumes, folio; and
Gregory’s Observations on Scripture; Gray’s Key to the Old Testament;
Gurnall’s Christian in Armour; Grabe, Spicilegium Veterum Patrum; Harmer
on the Scriptures; Heylin’s Christian Theology; Hey’s Lectures; Hooker’s
Ecclesiastical Polity; Kennicott’s Dissertations; King’s Lectures on
Jonas; Kidder on the Pentateuch; Knatchbull’s Annotations; Lardner’s
Gospel History; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Lewis’ Origines Hebreæ; Le Clerc
on the Pentateuch; Marsh’s Michaelis, and his Lectures; and Magee on
the Atonement; Macknight on the Epistles and Gospels; Newton on the
Prophecies and Apocalypse; Newcome on Ezekiel, &c.; Newman’s Concordance;
Nisbet on the Epistles; Outram de Sacrificiis; Owen on the Trinity;
Pearson on the Creed; Pierce on the Epistles; Poli Synopsis; Ross’ View
of all Religions; Shuckford’s Connection; Trapp on the New Testament;
Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers; Waterland’s Vindication;
Warburton’s Divine Legation; Usher’s Body of Divinity; Watson’s
Apologies; Welchman on the Articles; Whitby on the New Testament;
Wilkins’ Natural Religion; Wollaston’s Religion of Nature; and the Works
of the author of the Whole Duty of Man, Oxford, 1704, folio.
The impressions of the Sacred Volume found upon these shelves are,
The Bishops’ Bible, in folio.
The Biblia Hebraica, Montani, 1571, folio.
Walton’s Polyglott, with Castelli Lexicon, 1657, in 8 vols.
folio.
But the most sumptuous volumes of Holy Writ are those printed by Field,
at Cambridge, in 1666, folio, which, richly embellished with engravings
of that period, and bound in 2 volumes covered with purple velvet, and
protected by silver clasps, usually adorn the Sacramental table of the
Cathedral itself.
The impressions of the New Testament are more numerous than those
of the Bible, including those edited by Beza, Castalio, Hammond,
Maittaire, Stephens, and Tremellius. To which I may add the Heptateuchus
Anglo-Saxonicè à Thwaites, 1798; and the Pentateuchus Copticus of
Wilkins, 1731, 4to.
There are also imperfect copies of the Book of Common Prayer of 1634; and
of Kennicott’s Hebrew Bible; Wickliffe’s Testament, by Lewis, London,
1731, folio; Henry the Eighth’s Primer, 1546, 4to.; the Common Prayer
Book of 1619, in folio, with Prayers in Latin, Spanish, and Greek, and
the Liturgia in usum Eccl. Angl. 12mo. may here find appropriate mention.
This Library also contains Pole’s Synopsis, and Howel’s Synopsis Canonum;
several Theological Tracts and Sermons, by Allestree, Berriman, Clarke,
Fleetwood, Goodman, Horton, Hickman, Houghton, Horsley, Jeffery, Knight,
Leightenhouse, Newcome, Needham, Parr, Rogers, Saurin, Sanderson,
Sherlock, South, Stoughton, Jeremy Taylor, Waterland, and Whaley;
Bourse’s Discourses; Secker’s Charges; and a small collection of Sermons
by different authors.
The Historical department of this Library includes the Ancient and
Modern Universal History, Abdollatiphi Hist. Egypt, à Pococke, Oxon.
1800, 4to.; Butler’s Revolutions of the Germanic Empires; Chroniques de
Nicole Gilles, Paris, 1536, folio; Chronicon Chronicorum, 1493, folio;
Cumberland’s Phœnician History; Davila’s History of the Civil Wars of
France; Echard’s Roman History, 1699, in 4 vols. 4to.; Gast’s History of
Greece, 1782, 4to.; Gillies’ History of the World, 1807, in 2 vols. 4to.;
Gothicarum Rerum Scriptores, 1618, 12mo.; Heylin’s Cosmography; Helvici
Theatrum Historicum; the History of Modern Europe, 1731, in 4 vols. 8vo.;
Historia Gentium Septentrionalium Olai Magni, Romæ, 1555, 4to.; Howell’s
History of the World; Le Compte’s Memoirs of China, 1697, 8vo.; Matthiæ
Theatrum Historicum; Mariana’s History of Spain; Mitford’s History of
Greece; Ockley’s Saracens; Ouseley’s Epitome of Persian History; Potter’s
Antiquities of Greece; Pococke’s Description of the East; Pounall’s
Roman Antiquities; Raleigh’s History of the World, 1614, fol.; Rycaut’s
Ottoman Empire; Sketches of the Hindoos, 1792, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Thuani
Historia sui temporis, 1733, in 7 vols. folio; Vertot’s Revolutions in
Portugal and Sweden; Whitaker’s Course of Hannibal over the Alps; and the
abridgment of Rollin’s Ancient History, published at Berne in 1763, in 5
duodecimo volumes.
The books relating to Ecclesiastical affairs in this Collection are,
an imperfect copy of Alford’s Annals; Auctores Hist. Eccles. Basil.
1535, folio; Butler’s Lives of the Saints, Edinburgh, 1798, in 12 vols.
8vo.; Baronii Annales, Antv. 1589, in 12 vols. folio; Bedæ Historia
Ecclesiastica, curâ Smithii, 1665, folio; Binii Concilia, Colon. 1618,
in 5 vols. folio; Bower’s Lives of the Popes, 1748, in 7 vols. 4to.;
Brent’s Council of Trent; Burnet on the Reformation, with his Vindication
of the Church of Scotland; Ecton’s Liber Valorum; Eusebii Historia
Ecclesiastica, Moguntiæ, 1677, in 3 vols. folio; Fox’s Martyrology, 1684,
in 3 vols. folio; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Fuller’s Church History,
1565, folio; Hist. Eccles. Script. Gr. Colon. 1612, folio; Howell’s
Synopsis Canonum; Josephus, Hudsoni; Jennings’ Jewish Antiquities;
Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History; Lardner’s Gospel History; Labbei
Concilia, Par. 1672, in 18 folio volumes; Lewis’ Life of Pococke; Lewis’
Origines Hebreæ; Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ; Lingard’s History
of the Anglo-Saxon Church; Lucius, Historia Eccles. Magdeb. Bas. 1624,
in 3 vols. folio; Masoni Vindiciæ Eccles. Angl. 1625, folio; Mosheim’s
Ecclesiastical History; Nicephori Historia Ecclesiastica; Oughton’s Ordo
Judiciorum; Platina de Vitis Pontificum; Reyneri, de Ant. Ord. Benedict.
Douay, 1626, folio; Saliani Annales Ecclesiastici, Par. 1641, in 3 vols.
folio; Stillingfleet’s Origines; Strype’s Lives of Cranmer, Grindal,
Parker, and Whitgift; Steele’s Account of the Roman Catholic Religion;
Sympson’s History of the Church; Usher’s Annals and Antiquities; Walker’s
History of Independency, and Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, 1737, in
4 vols. folio; the Neustria Pia of Du Monstier, Rothom. 1663, folio;
Lyndewode, Provinciale, Oxonii, 1679, folio; Gibson’s Codex, and the
Codex Theodosianus, 1665, in 4 folio volumes.
The Works illustrative of British History in this Library, are the
Annales Ælfredi Magni, à Wise, Oxon. 1722, 8vo.; Anglorum Prœlia,
Nevyllus de furoribus Norfolcensium, 1582, 12mo.; Andrews’ History of
England; Bacon’s Henry VII.; Baker’s Chronicle, 1665, folio; Barnes’
Edward III.; Blome’s Britannia, 1673, folio; Burnett’s History of his
own Time; Brady’s History of England, with his Introduction to English
History; Camden’s Britannia, by Gibson, with his Elizabeth, and Remains;
Clarendon’s Rebellion, and his Life; Daniel’s History of England,
1685, folio; Eadmeri Historia Novorum, 1623, folio; Fuller’s Worthies,
1662, folio; Gibson’s Chronicon Saxonicum, Oxon. 1692, 4to.; Granger’s
Biographical History of England; Habington’s Edward IV.; Hayward’s Regal
Biographies; Lord Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII.; Henry’s History of
Great Britain; Holinshed’s Chronicles, 1577, folio; Howell’s History of
England, 1712, 8vo.; Horsley’s Britannia Romana, 1732, folio; Jeffrey’s
British History, Edin. 1719, 2 vols. 8vo.; Kelham’s Doomsday Book, 1788,
8vo.; Leicester’s Commonwealth, 1641, 4to.; Ludlow’s Memoirs, Vevay,
1698, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum; History of the
Exchequer, and Firma Burga; Milton’s History of Britain, 1670, 4to.;
Noble’s Biographical History of England and House of Cromwell; Oldmixon’s
History of England; Parker, de rebus sui temporis, 1726, 8vo.; Matthæi
Paris Historia Anglicana, 1684, folio; Rapin’s History of England, in 28
octavo volumes, two copies; Rushworth’s Historical Collections, 1721,
in 8 vols. folio; Sammes’s Antiquities of Ancient Britain, 1676, folio;
Speed’s History of Great Britain, 1632, folio; Stowe’s Annals, by Howes,
1631, folio; Temple’s Introduction to the History of England, 1699, 8vo.
with his Memoirs, 1705, 3 vols. in 2, octavo; Turner’s History of the
Anglo-Saxons, Lond. 1807, in 2 vols. 4to.; Sir Philip Warwick’s Memoirs
of Charles I. 1701, 8vo.; Walpole’s Historic Doubts, 1768, 4to.; and
Polydore Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Basileæ, 1570, folio.
The Works relating to the Topography and Antiquities of England in
this Collection embrace Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ, and his
Antiquities of Canterbury; Beatniffe’s Norfolk Tour, 1808, 12mo.;
Bentham’s Ely, by Stevenson, Norwich, 1812, 4to.; Blomefield’s Norwich
illustrated, 1745, 2 vols. folio; Browne’s Norwich Cathedral, 1807,
8vo.; Brand’s Popular Antiquities; Richard of Cirencester’s Description
of Britain; Burton’s Leicestershire; Carew’s Survey of Cornwall; Dart’s
Canterbury; Darell’s Dover Castle; Degges’ Staffordshire, Lond. 1723,
8vo.; Dickinson’s Nottinghamshire, 1801, 4to.; Ducarel’s Anglo-Norman
Antiquities; Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s; Fitzstephen’s Survey of
London; Gardiner’s History of Dunwich; Herne’s Charter House; Kennett’s
Parochial Antiquities; King’s Munimenta Antiqua; Kirby’s Suffolk
Traveller; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Lewis’ Antiquities of
Faversham, and History of the Isle of Thanet; Masters’ History of Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge; Millers’ Ely Cathedral; Mallett’s Northern
Antiquities; Malden’s King’s College Chapel; Norden’s Middlesex and
Hertfordshire; Plot’s Staffordshire and Oxfordshire; Salmon’s Surrey;
Seymour’s Survey of London; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; Stowe’s
Survey of London; Strutt’s Antiquities; and Verstegan’s Restitution.
The lover of British Antiquity will readily join to these, Britton’s
Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, and some of his beautiful
Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England; Ladbrooke’s
Lithographic Views of Churches in Norfolk, oblong quarto, in numbers;
Mr. Nassau’s carefully illustrated copy of Blomefield’s Norfolk, bound
in russia; Ives’s Garianonum, 1774; Taylor’s Harwich and Dovercourt;
Wood’s History and Antiquities of Oxford, 1674, folio; the Antiquitates
Oxonienses, 1726, folio; and Weever’s Funeral Monuments, 1631, folio.
The principal works connected with Scottish and Irish affairs, are
Boswell’s Journey to the Hebrides; Chalmer’s Caledonia; Dalrymple’s
Scotland; Monipenny’s Abridgment of the Scottish Chronicles, 1612, 4to.;
Spotiswode’s History of Scotland; and Ware’s Antiquities of Ireland,
1705, folio.
The Classical department of this Library includes,
Æschylus. Glasguæ, 1794, in 2 vols. 8vo.
Æsopus, 1684, 12mo.
Anacreon à Barnes. Cantab. 1705, 12mo. and Fischeri, Lipsiæ,
1776, 8vo.
Antoninus, Gatakeri, 1697, 4to.
Appianus, Stephani. Paris. 1572, folio.
Aristophanes, Burmanni. Lugd. 1760, in 2 vols. 4to.
Aristotelis Opera, Du Valli. Par. 1654, folio, in 4 vols.
Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. 1597, in 2 vols. folio.
Aulus Gellius, Elz. Amst. 1665, 12mo.
Ausonius, Scaligeri. Heidel. 1588, 12mo.
Boethius, Char. Goth. Oxon. 1479, 4to.
Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius. Cantabr. 1702, 4to.
Cæsar, Aldi. Venet. 1519, 8vo.
Ciceronis Opera Omnia, Verburgii. Amst. 1724, in 16 octavo
volumes, and the Oxford edition of 1783, in 10 quarto volumes.
Claudiani Opera, Gesneri. Lipsiæ, 1759, 8vo.
Epicteti Enchiridion. 1554, and Oxon. 1702, 12mo.
Euripides à Barnes. Lipsiæ, 1778, in 3 quarto volumes.
Eutropius, Delphini. 1716.
Florus, Grævii. 1680, 8vo.
Horatius, Bentleii. Cantab. 1711, 4to. and 1713, 8vo.
Homeri Opera, Barnesii. Cantab. 1711, 2 vols. 4to.
Homeri Ilias, Didymi, Cant. 1689, 4to.; Heynii, Lips. 1812, 8
vols. 8vo.
Josephus, Hudsoni. Oxon. 1721, in 2 vols. folio.
Isocrates à Battie. Cantab. 1729, 8vo.
Juvenalis et Persius, Farnabii. 1631, 12mo.
Juvenalis, Ruperti. Oxon. 1808, 8vo.
Justinus, Variorum. Amst. 1669, 8vo.
Livius, Aldi. Venetiis, 1521, folio.
Longinus à Pearce. Lond. 1725, 8vo.
Lucan. Elz. 1591, 12mo.
Lucretius, Lambini. 1583, 8vo.
Lucian. 1619, 2 vols. 8vo.
Lycophronis Fragmenti, Hermanni. 1788, 8vo.
Macrobius. 1694, 8vo.
Orpheus. 1689, 12mo.
Orphica, Hermanni. 1805.
Ovidius, Delphini. Lond. 1778, 12mo.
Pausanias, Facii. Lipsiæ, 1794, in 4 vols. 8vo.
Plutarchii Moralia. Francof. 1620, 2 vols. folio.
Plinii Historia Naturalis. Colon. 1615, folio.
Plinii Epistola, Gesneri. 1770, 8vo.
Plato, Ficini. 1602, folio.
Pomponius Mela, Gronovii. 1685, 12mo.
Polybius, Wechelii. 1609, folio, and Ernesti, 1764, in 3 vols.
8vo.
Propertius. 1702, 4to.
Quintus Curtius, Gryphii. 1551, 12mo.
Quintilian. Oxon. 1693, 4to.
Sallust. Lugd. 1665, 8vo. and Cantab. 1679, 12mo.
Senecæ Opera. Par. 1607, in 2 vols. folio.
Sophocles, Brunckii. 1808.
Statius. Par. 1618, in 2 vols. 4to.
Tacitus, Ryckii. Dublin, 1730, in 3 vols. 4to.
Terentius, Erasmi. Par. 1541, 4to. and Bentleii, Cantab. 1726,
4to.
Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. Lugd. 1781, 4to.
Thucydides, Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1696, folio, and Glasguæ, 1759, 8
vols. in 4, quarto.
Tibullus. Amst. 1708, 4to.
Valerius Maximus. Plantin, 1574, 12mo.
Valerius Flaccus. Amst. 1680, 12mo.
Velleius Paterculus. Oxon. 1693, 8vo.
Vegetius de rê Militari. 1592, 4to.
Virgilius. Delphini, 1695, and Heynii, 1767, in 4 octavo
volumes.
Xenophontis Cyropædia, 1765, 8vo. and Anabasis Hutchinsoni.
Cantab. 1785, 8vo.
The Etymological Works which met my observation were, the English and
Welsh Dictionary, printed at Shrewsbury in 1737, 12mo.; Bailey’s
Etymological Dictionary; Buxtorf’s Chaldaic Lexicon; Calvin’s Lexicon;
Elstob’s English and Saxon Grammar; Ernesti Lexicon; Fabri Thesaurus;
Grant’s Lexicon; Harris’ Hermes, and Philological Enquiries; Hesychii
Lexicon; Hederici Lexicon; Hickes’ Linguarum Septentrionalium
Thesaurus, with Wotton’s Conspectus; Hoogeveen de Particulis Græcis;
Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum, à Lye, 1743, folio; Chappelow’s Arabic
Grammar; Lamberti Bos Ellipses; Johnson’s English Dictionary; Dammii
Lexicon Homericum et Pindaricum; Minshew’s Dictionary; Parkhurst’s
Hebrew Lexicon; Robertson’s Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ, and Hebrew Grammar;
Ruddiman’s Latin Grammar; Schrevelii Lexicon, by Hill; Spelman’s
Glossarium Archæologicum; Suidæ Lexicon Græcum, Basileæ, 1544, folio;
and Græcè et Latinè, Kusteri, Cantab. 1705, in 3 volumes, folio; Somneri
Dictionarium Saxonico-Latinum, 1659, folio; Valpy’s and the Port Royal
Greek Grammar; Vigerus de Idiotismis and Laurentius Valla de Linguâ
Latina, Cantab. 1688, 12mo.