The Baronetage of England, by Kimber.
Betham’s Genealogies, 1795, folio.
Blome’s Heraldry, 1684, 12mo.
Clarke’s Heraldry, 1794, 12mo.
Collins’ Peerage, 1768, in 7 vols. 8vo.
Dugdale’s Usage of Arms, 1682, 12mo.
Edmondson’s Heraldry, 1780, in 2 folio volumes.
Guillim’s Heraldry, 1660, folio.
Sandford’s Genealogical History, 1677, folio.
Selden’s Titles of Honour, 1672, folio.
Porney’s Heraldry, 1795, 8vo.
The Bibliographical department includes fifty-three volumes of the Acta
Eruditorum; the Bibliographical Dictionary; the Bibliotheca Britannica of
Watts; the Bibliotheca Reediana; the History of Philosophy, by Stanley,
1656, folio; the Bibliothèque Ancienne et Moderne, Amst. 1714, in 28
vols. 12mo.; the History of English Poetry, by Warton, 1775, 3 vols.
4to.; Blount’s Censura Literaria; Bruckeri Historia Critica Philosophiæ;
the Royal and Noble Authors of Walpole; Catalogus MSS. CC.C. Cant.
1722, folio; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, Oxon. 1674, folio; Cave’s
Historia Literaria; Dibdin’s Introduction to the Classics; Fabricii
Bibliotheca Græca et Latina; Hartshorne’s Book Rarities of Cambridge;
Lewis’ Translations of the Bible, 1739, 8vo., and Life of Caxton; Leland,
de Scriptoribus Britannicis, 1709, 2 vols. 8vo.; Memoirs of Literature,
1722, in 8 vols. 8vo.; Nicholson’s English Historical Library; Hearne’s
Ductor Historicus; Renouard’s Historie de l’Imprimerie des Aides; and
Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, 1721, in two volumes, folio.
The Chronological Works in this Library include Baker’s Chronology,
1726, folio; Brady’s Clavis Calendaria; Marshall’s Chronological Tables,
Oxford, 1712, folio; Newton’s Chronology; Scaliger de emendatione
temporum, Genevæ, 1594 & 1620, in 2 vols. folio; Trusler’s Chronology;
and Usserii Chronologia Sacra, Oxon. 1660, 4to.
The Geographical Works consist of the Atlas Geographicus, 1711, in 4
vols. 4to.; The Thesaurus Geographicus, 1695, folio; Brookes’s Gazetteer;
Cellarii et Cluvierii Geographia Antiqua; D’Anville’s Ancient Geography;
Dionysius de situ Orbis; Guthrie’s Geographical Grammar; Hexham’s Atlas;
Michaelis Geograph. Hebr. Gotten. 1769, 4to.; Michel’s Geography of
France; Morse’s American Geography; Adams’ Geographical and Historical
Summary, 1797, 8vo.; Mercator’s Atlas, Amst. 1638, in 2 folio volumes;
Wells’ Geography; and Falconer’s Strabo, 1807, 2 vols. folio.
I may here also mention the Voyages and Travels, consisting of Browne’s
Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, 1779, 4to.; Chandler’s Travels,
1779, 4to.; Chardin’s Travels, 1686, folio; Keysler’s Travels; Denon’s
Egypt, 1803, 4to.; Montfaucon’s Travels through Italy; Moritz’s Travels
in England; Niebuhr’s Travels in Arabia; Sparmann’s Cape of Good Hope,
Perth, 1789, in 2 octavo volumes; Maundrell’s Journey to Jerusalem, 1707,
8vo.; Sharpe’s Voyage to the South Sea, 1684, 8vo.; Shaw’s Travels, 1757,
4to.; Tavernier’s Travels in Turkey, 1684, folio; and Wheler’s Journey
into Greece, 1682, folio.
The Scientific Works in this Collection embrace many subjects, but
few Works of importance. Those I noticed were Bacon’s Novum Organum;
Bartholini Anatomia; Philosophia Naturalis; Blumenbach Institutiones
Physiologicæ, &c.; Boerhaave’s Virtue of Medicine; Boyle’s Experiments
on Air; Burnet and Whiston’s Theories of the Earth; Clare’s Motion of
Fluids; Cullen’s Physic; Euclid, by Simpson; Ferguson’s, Gordon’s, and
Keil’s Treatises upon Astronomy; Fourcroy and Freind’s Chemical Works;
Gassendi Institutiones Astronomicæ, &c.; Harris’s Astronomical Dialogues;
Haller’s Physiology; Keil’s Anatomy; Kersey’s Algebra; Kirby and Spence’s
Introduction to Entomology; Haggitt, Milner, and Whittington on Gothic
Architecture; Ozanam’s Mathematics; Quincey and Salmon’s Pharmacopeia;
Reeve on the Torpidity of Animals; Riolani Anatomia; Rickman on
Architecture; Rion’s Grecian Architecture; Smith’s Introduction to
Botany; Tauvry’s Anatomy; Verlingii Anatomia; Wilkins’s Vitruvius;
Willis’s Anatomia Cerebri; and Withering on the Fox Glove.
Among the Miscellaneous Volumes deposited upon these shelves, I observed
the Antiquarian Discourses; the Voyage of Anacharsis; Arbuthnot on
Ancient Coins; Nummi Britannici Historia, 1626, 8vo.; Fleetwood’s
Chronicon Preciosum; Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum, Milan, 1683, folio;
Pinkerton on Medals; Atkinson on Navigation; Blackwall’s Classics;
Bochart’s Hierozoicon; Boswell’s Life of Johnson; Sir Thomas Browne’s
Posthumous Works, 1712, 8vo.; Bryant’s Plagues of Egypt; Buchanani
Poemata; Calligraphia Græca, Lond. 1807, folio; Charles the First’s
Works, London, 1662, in two volumes, folio; Clarke’s Greek Marbles,
and Tomb of Alexander; Dawes, Miscellanea Critica; De Pauw, Recherches
Philosophiques; Desgarde’s Buildings of Rome; Diderot’s Theatre; Digges’
Compleat Ambassador; Gildæ Epistolæ; Godfrey of Boulogne, by Fairfax,
1624, folio; Gunn’s Manner of Military Array; Holmes’s Art of Rhetoric;
Landmann on Fortification; Matthias, Canzone Toscane; Montaigne’s
Essays; Monboddo’s Ancient Metaphysics; Montesquieu’s Works; the
Musæ Cantabrigienses; Opie’s Lectures on Painting; Ossian’s Poems by
Macpherson; Parival’s Iron Age; Palmerin of England, 1807, in four vols.
12mo.; Pinkerton on the Goths; Porson’s Letter to Travis; Rawlinson
on History; the Republic of Letters, Glasgow, 1728, in 17 vols. 12mo.;
Rousseau’s Works; the Spectator; Suckling’s Works; Sydenhami Opera;
Temple’s Letters, &c.; Vossii Opera; Wilson’s Ornaments of Churches;
Windham’s Speeches; and Wright’s Help to History.
The Law Books in this Library comprehend Blount’s, Cowell’s and Jacob’s
Law Dictionary; Burn’s Justice of the Peace, and Ecclesiastical Laws;
Burlamaqui’s Principles of Natural Laws; Coke’s Institutes, London, 1684,
in three folio volumes; Corpus Juris Civilis, 1663, folio; Corpus Juris
Canonici, 1618, in three folio volumes; Fitzherbert’s Natura Brevium;
Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliæ; Ryley’s Placita Parliamentaria;
Shaw’s Justice, and Parish Laws; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum, Cantab.
1727, in two folio volumes; and Wilkins’ Saxon Laws, 1721, folio.
In English Literature this Library may boast of the portion relating to
the Arms and Blazon of the Reprint of the Book of St. Albans, published
by Wynkyn de Worde at London in 1496, 4to.; of the Workes of our ancient
and lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly-printed, Londini,
impensis Georgii Bishop, anno 1597-8, folio, in the rude black letter of
Adam Islip; and of the Pylgrimage of Perfection, London, 1526, 8vo. also
in the Gothic character.
This Library contains the works of Armstrong, Beattie, Bloomfield,
Bowles, Dryden, Gay, Addison, Bacon, Berkeley, Bolingbroke, Boyle,
Browne, Butler, Burke, Collins, Cowley, Evelyn, Gray, Harris, Hobbes,
Johnson, Locke, Marvel, Mason, Milton, Newton, Pope, Priestley, Prior,
Scott, Sterne, Temple, Thomson, Young, and Warton.
I also remarked Gifford’s Baviad and Maviad; Hales’ Golden Remains;
Herbert’s Temple; Johnson’s Lives of the Poets; Glover’s Leonidas; the
Rolliad; Harington’s Musæ Antiquæ; the Asiatic Researches; Hartley on
Man; Headley’s Beauties of Ancient English Poetry; Heron’s Letters of
Literature; Hearne’s Ductor Historicus; Ben Jonson’s Works, 1640, in
two folio volumes; Thomæ Mori Opera Omnia, Lond. 1675, in three vols.
folio; the Pursuits of Literature, with a translation of the Quotations,
1799, 8vo.; Relics of Ancient Poetry, 1794, in three volumes, 8vo.;
Richardson’s Analysis of Shakespeare, 1739, in three vols. 8vo.;
Thurlow’s Poems, 1811, 4to.; Tooke’s Diversions of Purley; Walton’s
Lives; and Spenser’s Faerie Queen, London, 1751, in three vols. 4to.
In this unpretending yet useful Collection, which the mere bibliomaniac
may pass by with disdain, the general reader will find much both of
interest and instruction in the several departments to which I have
endeavoured to direct his attention.
I ought not indeed to close this cursory review of the Norwich Cathedral
Library without bestowing the tribute so justly due to the instance it
affords of laudable attention to the preservation of conventual volumes,
neither distinguished by excessive rarity nor remarkable for uncommon
worth.
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Library of Christ Church, Oxford.
This Collection consists of an ancient Theological Library in the
Cloisters, under the peculiar care of the Regius Professor of Divinity,
and of a more extensive and miscellaneous Library deposited in a suitable
building in Peckwater, and accessible, under certain regulations, to the
members of the College. The chief features of this Library will be best
understood by the following detail of its contents.
The department of Theology is of considerable value, containing the
Works of Athanasius, Augustine, Ambrose, Anselm, Basil, Clement of
Alexandria, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Cyril, Jerome, Irenæus, Thomas Aquinas,
and other Schoolmen: the Works of Allix, Andrewes, Atterbury, Baxter,
Benson, Bentley, Balguy, Ball, Barlow, Bellarmine, Bernard, Beveridge,
Beausobre, Bancroft, Barnes, Blondell, Bossuet, Bragge, Bramhall,
Brett, Bucer, Bull, Barrow, Bates, Bennet, Bisse, Calamy, Calasius,
Calixtus, Calvin, Camerarius, Campanella, Capellin, Carleton, Cartwright,
Casaubon, Cassander, Cassianus, Cassiodorus, Chillingworth, Clarke,
Claggett, Cockburn, Comber, Conybeare, Corbet, Cheney, Chandler, Cosin,
Cranmer, Cudworth, Cumberland, Chiffletius, Chytræus, Corderius, Claude,
Coverdale, Crosset, Dallæus, Damascenus, Damasus Papa, Damiavius,
D’artis, Delany, Dodwell, Doddridge, Donne, Dorington, Drelincourt,
Du Moulin, Davison, Dawson, Durell, Edwards, Epiphanius, Erasmus,
Eusebius, Eutychus, Faber, Fenelon, Ferguson, Fiddes, Field, Fisher,
Fleetwood, Fleury, Fletcher, Fontenelle, Ford, Gardiner, Gastrell,
Gataker, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Nyssen, Gregory the Great, Geddes,
Gerson, Fulgentius, Franck, Gualther, Hale, Hall, Hammond, Hare,
Harmer, Hay, Herbert, Heylin, Hickes, Hickman, Hill, Hoadley, Hody,
Hospinianus, Hoornbeek, Hopkins, Horne, Horsley, Hottinger, Houbigant,
Huet, Hulsius, Hunt, Hurd, Hutchinson, Hyperius, Ignatius, Innocent IV.,
Jackson, Jansenius, Jenkins, Soame Jenyns, Jewel, Jortin, Jurien, Justin
Martyr, Thomas a Kempis, White Kennett, Ken, Kennicott, Kettlewell,
King, Knatchbull, Knight, Labbe, Lactantius, Lake, Lanfranc, Lardner,
Larroque, Latimer, Laud, Launoyier, Laurentius, Law, Lawson, Leighton,
Leigh, Leland, Leslie, L’Estrange, Leusden, Lewis, Lightfoot, Long,
Lorimer, Lowth, Lubinus, Lucas, Luther, Mabillon, Macarius, Macknight,
Mackenzie, Magee, Maimbourg, Maimonides, Malebranche, Marshall, Martin,
Mede, Melancthon, Merrick, Mesue, Methodius, Michaelis, Miller, More,
Morinus, Mornay, Nares, Nelson, Newcome, Nolan, Norris, Newell, Nye,
Œcolampadius, Optatus, Origen, Orosius, Osborn, Osorius, Ostervald,
Owen, Outram, Paley, Pallavicinus, Parker, Pascal, Patrick, Pearson,
Peirce, Penn, Peter Martyr, Philo Judæus, Pictet, Pierce, Pococke,
Cardinal Pole, Porteus, Potter, Powell, Prideaux, Procopius, Randolph,
Relandus, Reynolds, Ridley, Rivetus, Richelieu, Rogers, Rollocus,
Rufinus, Sacheverell, St. Evremond, St. Real, St. Victor, Salmasius,
Sanchez, Sancroft, Sanctius, Sanderus, Sanderson, Sandius, Sandys,
Saunders, Saurin, Shickard, Schultens, Scultetus, Scott, Secker, Sharp,
Sheringham, Sherlock, Shipley, Simon, Smalridge, Smith, South, Spanheim,
Stackhouse, Stafforde, Stanhope, Stapleton, Stebbing, Stillingfleet,
Sykes, Sulpicius, Synesius, Jeremy Taylor, Tertullian, Themistius,
Theodoret, Theophylact, Thomasius, Thorndike, Tillotson, Toland, Tomline,
Toplady, Tostatus, Toulmin, Townson, Trapp, Tucker, Turner, Turretinus,
Twisden, Tyndall, Ugo, Usher, Vandale, Vitringa, Vossius, Vorstius,
Wake, Wakefield, Walker, Wall, Warburton, Ward, Waterland, Watson,
Wells, Whiston, Whitaker, Whitby, White, Whitfield, Whitgift, Wilkins,
Willet, Williams, Wilson, Wise, Wollaston, Wolseley, Woodford, Woodhouse,
Woodward, Zanchius, Ziegler, Zimmerman, Zuinglius, and Zwinger.
I also noticed Cave’s edition of the Fathers; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical
Polity; Limborch, Theologia Christiana; Isidori Hispalensis; and Leonis
Magni Opera; the Works of Bede, Julian, and Josephus.
The English Versions of the Bible comprise those by Field, Whitchurch,
Jugge, Barker, and Wilson; Walton’s Polyglott; several Hebrew, Greek,
and Latin Bibles; Luther’s German Bible, printed at Wittenberg in
1557; Biblia Polonica of 1563; the Bohemian, Spanish, Italian, French,
Hungarian, and Arabic Translations; the Doway Bible; Pentateuchus
Hebraicus; Grave’s Pentateuch; Grabe’s Septuagint; Codex Bezæ; Wiclif’s
New Testament; and Evangelia Gothica. There are several Books of Common
Prayer, Rituals, and Offices of the Church, Greek and Latin Testaments of
Edward VI. 1552, &c., Psalms, Catechisms, Decretals, Breviaries, Missale
in usum Sarum, Liturgies, and Homilies, also Durandi Rationale Divinorum
Officiorum; Thesaurus Sacrorum Rituum; Sparrow’s Rationale of Common
Prayer; and Wheatley on Common Prayer.
The Works relating to Ecclesiastical History include Bede’s Historia
Ecclesiastica; Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici; Bingham’s Origines &
Antiquitates; Brandt, Burnet, and Soames’ Reformation; Calderwood and
Cook’s Church of Scotland; Carwithen’s Church of England; Echard and
Collier’s Ecclesiastical History; Rolandus and Benedict, Acta Sanctorum;
Concilia Generalia Trident.; Dupin’s History of the Church; Dod’s
Church History; Fox’s Acts and Martyrs; Godwin’s Bishops; Harpsfeld’s
Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica; Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ; L’Enfant
Concilia, Constance; Leti’s Lives of the Popes; Cressy’s Church History
of Brittany; Gallia Christiana; Monasticon Anglicanum & Hibernicanum;
Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Schotani Bibl. Hist. Sacræ; Sixti
Bibl. Sanctorum; Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica; Southey’s Book of the
Church; Spondani Annales Eccles.; Strype’s Memorials, Annals, and Lives;
Neustria Pia; Le Cointe, Annales Ecclesiastici Francorum; Symson’s Church
History; Sarpi, Council of Trent; Tillemont, Historia Ecclesiastica;
Parker and Usher’s Ecclesiæ Britannicæ Antiquitates, and other Works;
Capgrave’s Legenda Angliæ; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Knox, Wodrow, and
Spottiswoode’s Church of Scotland; Le Neve Fasti Anglicani; Sleidan’s
Reformation of Scotland; Short’s Church of England; Saliani Annales
Ecclesiastici; Saussay’s Martyrum Galliæ; Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical
Biography; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Liber Valorum; and Warner’s Ecclesiastical
History of England.
In connection with Theology may be mentioned the Bampton Lectures;
Basnage’s History of the Jews; Bibliotheca Patrum and Fratrum Polonorum;
Ugolini Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum; Blair’s Sermons; Ciaconi, Vitæ
Pontificum Romanorum, 1677, 4 vols. folio; Cotelerii Patres Apostolici;
Crantz’ Moravians; Dupin Bibliothéque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques;
Pole’s Council of Trent; Anastasii Vitæ Romanorum Pontificum; Reyneri
Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ; Elstob’s Homilies; Hyde, Religio
Veterum Persarum; Kircher, Œdipus Egyptiacus; the Legenda Aurea;
Lyndewoode, Provinciale; Newman, Cruden, and Schmid’s Concordances;
Schœnmann Bibliotheca Patrum Latinorum; Pole’s Synopsis; Brooke and
Neal’s Puritans; Sewell’s Quakers; Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus;
Synge’s Gentleman’s Religion; Mason on Self-knowledge; Walchii
Bibliotheca Theologica; and the Whole Duty of Man.
The Classical department of this Library embraces various editions of
Greek and Latin authors, more remarkable for usefulness than for rarity.
Among the earlier editions may be noticed Plinii Historia Naturalis,
Parmæ, 1476, folio; and the Aldine editions of Aristophanes, 1498,
folio; Aristotle, 1498, folio; Cicero, 1512-54, in 10 volumes, 8vo.;
Demosthenes, 1504, folio; Euripides, 1503; Homer, 1521; Horace,
Isocrates, 1534; Rhetores Græci, 1513; Sophocles, 1502; Strabo
Geographia, 1516, folio; and Lascaris Grammatica Græca.
To these may be added the Junta Cicero of 1537; the Xenophon of 1516,
folio; and the Aristides of 1517, folio; the Roman edition of Eustathius
of 1549; the Appian of 1551; the Basle editions of Diodorus Siculus,
and of Diogenes Laertius, 1533; Dioscorides, 1529; Hippocrates, 1538,
and Plutarch, 1533; the Poetæ Græci Principes of Stephens; Dionysius
Halicarnassensis of 1546; Dionysius Alexandrinus, 1547; Dion Cassius,
1548; Herodian, 1544; and Horace from the Parisian press.
There are also various editions of the Works of Achilles Tatius, Ægidius
Romanus, Ælian, Æmilius Paulus, Æschenes, Demosthenes, Agapetus,
Æschylus, Æsop, Alciatus, Anacreon, M. Antoninus, Apicius, Apollodorus,
Apollonius Rhodius Alexandrinus, Apuleius, Aratus, Aristenetus,
Arrian, Athenæus, Aulus Gellius, Archimedes, Ausonius, Aurelius, Bion
and Moschus, Cæsar, Callimachus, Catullus, Cebes, Cellarius, Celsus,
Censorinus, Caussinus, Cicero Oliveti, and the separate Works of the
latter author.
Add to these, editions of Claudian, Cornelius Nepos, Quintus Curtius,
Dictys Cretensis, Dares Phrygius, Epictetus, Florus, Galen, Harpocration,
Hierocles, Horace, Iamblichus, Justin, Lysias, Juvenal, Persius, Lysias,
Longinus, Lycophron, Lucan, Lucian, Lucretius, Macrobius, Martial,
Manilius, Nonius Marcellus, Maximus Tyrius, Pomponius Mela, Minucius
Felix, Cornelius Nepos, Ovid, Oppian, Velleius Paterculus, Pausanias,
Petronius Arbiter, Phædrus, Pindar, Plato, Plautus, Plotinus, Politian,
Polybius, Pomponius Mela, Priscian, Prudentius, Quintilian, Sallust,
Sidonius, Silius Italicus, Statius, Suetonius Æneas Sylvius, Tacitus,
Terence, Theocritus, Theophrastus, Thucydides, Tibullus, Valerius
Flaccus, Virgil, and Valerius Maximus.
I may here notice the valuable editions of the Lexicon of Suidas; the
Enchiridion of Hephæstion; the Poetæ Minores Græci; and of Stobæus,
by Dr. Gaisford, the present Dean of Christ Church; the Rei Rusticæ
Scriptores, 1529; Oratores Attici; Seneca’s Tragedies of 1563, and
his Works by Lipsius, 1573; the Commentaries of Alexander, Ammonius,
Simplicius, and Porphyrius upon Aristotle; Cato de Re Rustica; Euclid,
Venet. 1508; Heliodorus, 1534; Wesseling’s Herodotus; Hesiod, Ven. 1537,
and by Robinson; Clarke’s Homer; Galeni Opera, Paris. 1679, in 9 folio
volumes; Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores; Julius Pollux; Drakenborch’s Livy;
Libanii Orationes; Panegyrici Veteres; Photii Bibliotheca & Epistolæ;
Ptolomæi Geographia; Sapphus Wolfii; Stephanus Byzantinus de Urbibus;
Stradæ Prolusiones; and Solini Polyhistor.
The Grammatical Works include those of Aldus Manutius, Clenard, Vossius,
and Tursellinus; Laur. Valla de Linguâ Latinâ; Stephani Thesaurus;
Lumsden’s Persian Grammar; Lennep, Etymologicum Græcum; the Etymologicum
Magnum of 1549; Carpentier’s Glossary; Du Fresne’s Glossary; Skinner’s
Etymologicum Anglicanum.
The Dictionaries include those of Calepinus, Castell, Johnson,
Littleton, and various Greek, Latin, German, French, Gaelic, Spanish,
Italian, Persian, and Russian Dictionaries; the Lexicons of Buxtorf,
Facciolatus, Hesychius, Pagninus, Scapula, and Zonaras; Boyer’s French
Dictionary; Dymot’s Tartar Dictionary; Bullet’s Celtic Dictionary; Casiri
Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana; Canes’ Dictionarium Espano-Arabicum; De
Castro Bibliotheca Espanola; D’Herbelot Bibliothéque Orientale; Hickes’
Thesaurus and Saxon Grammar; Ihre Glossarium Saxonicum; Jamieson’s
Scottish Dictionary; Lye’s Saxon Dictionary; Meninski Lexicon Orientale;
O’Reilly’s Irish Dictionary; Richardson’s Persian Dictionary; Russian
Dictionary, in 6 vols. 4to. 1789; Schaaf Lexicon Syriacum; Schroeder
Bibliotheca Armenica; Schneider’s German Dictionary; Scholtz Lexicon
Egyptiacum; Somner’s Dictionarium Anglo-Saxonicum; Spelman’s Glossary;
Walter’s Welsh Dictionary; Wachter’s German Glossary; Schleusner’s
Lexicon of the Old and New Testaments.
The Works illustrative of English History are both numerous and
important, comprising the Domesday Book; Gale and Fell’s Collection
of English Historians; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Gibson’s Saxon
Chronicle; a fine set of Hearne’s Works, on large paper; Ethelwerdi
Chronicon; Anderson’s Mary Queen of Scots; Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores
post Bedam; Adolphus’ History of England; Baker’s English Chronicle;
Bale, Scriptores Britannici, 1559; Bale’s Chronycle; Brady’s English
History; Buck’s Richard III.; Boetii Historia Scotorum; Burleigh’s State
Papers; Burnet’s Own Time; Carte’s History of England; Chamberlayne’s
Great Britain; Churchill’s Divi Britannici; Clanricarde’s Memoirs;
Clarendon’s Rebellion and State Papers; Cobbett’s Parliamentary History
and Debates; Cox’s Historical Works, Life of Marlborough, &c.; Cox’s
Ireland; Cooper’s Chronicle; Daniel’s Histories of England and France;
Delolme’s English Constitution; Dodridge’s Wales; Drayton’s Polyolbion;
Dalrymple’s Scotland; a set of Dugdale’s Works; Eadmer, Historia Novorum;
Echard’s History of England; Enderbie’s Cambria Triumphans; Oldmixon’s
England; Evelyn’s Memoirs; Fox’s James I.; Bouquet and Brial Recueil
des Historiens des Gaules; Godwin’s Commonwealth; Cavendish, Fiddes’,
and Grove’s Lives of Wolsey; Grafton’s Chronicle; Guthrey’s Charles I.;
Habington’s Edward IV.; Hacket’s Life of Archbishop Williams; Hall’s
Chronicle; Hallam’s Constitutional History; the Harleian Miscellany;
Hayward’s Lives; Heath’s Chronicle of the Civil Wars; Henry’s History of
Great Britain; Holland’s Heroologia; Higden’s Polychronicon; Holinshed’s
Chronicle; Horsley’s Britannia Romana; Hoveden’s Annales; Howell’s
State Trials; Hume’s History of England; Life of Colonel Hutchinson;
Innes’ Scotland; Jeffrey of Monmouth’s History; Keating’s Ireland;
King’s Munimenta Antiqua; Kippis’ Biographia Britannica; Jeffrey of
Monmouth, and Richard of Cirencester; Leslæus de Origine Scotorum;
Lhuyd, Archæologia Britannica; Lingard’s History of England; Ludlow’s
Memoirs; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum; History of the Exchequer and
Baronia Anglicana; Macpherson’s Original Papers; Chronicon de Mailros;
Major Historia Britonum, Jebb, de Vita et Gestis Mariæ Reginæ Scotorum;
Martin’s Chronicles; May’s History of the Long Parliament; Nalson’s
Collections; Nauntons’ Fragmenta Regalia; Nennius, Historia Britonum;
Nicolson’s English, Irish, and Scotch Historical Libraries; Oclandi,
Anglorum Prælia; O’Conor, Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores; Ogilby’s
Britannia; Orford’s Memoirs; Memoirs of the Duke of Ormonde; Pepys’
Memoirs; Polydori Virgilii Historia Anglicana; Powel’s Wales; Prynne’s
Records, 3 vols.; Ralph, Rapin, and Tindal’s History of England;
Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Rymer’s Fœdera, 20 vols. folio;
State Trials and Papers; Sammes’ Britannia Illustrata; Sanderson’s
Lives; Sandford’s Genealogical History of England; Slezer, Theatrum
Scotiæ; Scott’s History of Scotland, 1727; Sheringham, de Origine Gentis
Anglorum; Sibbald, Scotia Illustrata; Smith, de Republica Anglicana;
Somers’ Tracts; Sparke’s Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Speed’s Chronicle
and History of Great Britain; Spelman’s Concilia and Life of Alfred;
Sprigge’s England’s Recovery; Stoddart’s Scotland; Stowe’s Chronicle;
Strafforde’s Letters and Hibernia Pacata; Stuart’s Scotland; Stukeley’s
Itinerarium Curiosum; Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannico Hibernica;
Thoresby’s Diary; Thurloe’s State Papers; Triveti Annales; Turner’s
History of England; Twysden’s Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Verstegan’s
Restitution of decayed Intelligence respecting English Antiquities;
White, of Basingstoke, History of Britain; Walpole and Waldegrave’s
Memoirs; Ware’s Ireland and Scriptores Hibernicanæ; Warwick’s Charles
I.; Wilson’s James I.; Wynne’s Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins; William of
Malmesbury’s History; and Winwood’s Memorials.
The Topographical Works most deserving of enumeration are, Adams’
Index Villaris; the Archæologia; Ayliffe’s Oxford; Baker’s and
Bridge’s Northamptonshire; Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ; Bentham’s
Ely; Borlase’s Cornwall; Bray and Manning’s Surrey; Britton’s Oxford
Cathedral; Burton’s Leicestershire; Camden’s Britannia; Campbell’s
Vitruvius Britannicus; Carew and Gilbert’s Cornwall; Carlisle’s
endowed Grammar Schools; Chalmers’ Caledonia; Charleton and Jones’s
Stonehenge; Chauncey’s Hertfordshire; Clarke’s Hundred of Wanting;
Coates’ Reading; Cokers’ Dorset; Collinson’s Somersetshire; Cordiners’
Views in Scotland; Dalrymple’s Scotland; Dart’s Canterbury Cathedral
and Westminster Abbey; Drake’s York; Duncombe’s Hereford; Gunton’s
Peterborough; Halfpenny’s Fragmenta Vetusta; Harris and Hasted’s Kent;
Hoare’s Wiltshire; Howel’s Londinopolis; Izaackes and Oliver’s Exeter;
P. Jovii Descriptio Britanniæ; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities and
Roman Remains; King’s Vale Royal; Lewis’ Isle of Thanet; Leycester’s
Cheshire; Lodge’s Illustrations; Loggan, Oxonia et Cantabrigia
Illustrata; Lysons’ Magna Britannia, and Environs of London; Master’s
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Milner’s Winchester; Morant’s
Essex; Morton’s Northamptonshire; Nash’s Worcestershire; Newcourt’s
Repertorium; Ormerod’s Cheshire; Pennant’s Works; Plot’s Oxfordshire
and Staffordshire; Rastall’s Southwell; Rocque’s Survey of London;
Salmon’s Hertfordshire; Seymour’s London; Shaw’s Staffordshire; Smeaton’s
Eddystone Lighthouse; Somner’s Canterbury and Roman Ports; Surtees’
Durham; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica; Thoroton’s Nottinghamshire; Wallace’s
Orkney; Ædes Walpoliana; Warner’s Glastonbury; Whitaker’s Leeds;
Williams’ Oxonia Depicta; Willis’ Mitred Abbies and Cathedral Churches;
and Wood’s Antiquities of Oxford.
Of the Works on General History it may suffice to mention Bayle and
Chaufepie’s Dictionary; the Ancient and Modern Universal History; Ellis
and Du Halde’s China; D’Ohsson’s Empire Othman; Byzantine Historians;
Cramer’s Greece, Italy, and Asia Minor; Biographie Universelle; Connor’s
Poland; Cox’s Austria; Craven’s Naples; Crevier’s Roman Empire; De Bry,
India Occident et Orient; De la Vega, Historia Espanola; Du Chesne,
Historia Francorum; Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire;
Gillies’s Greece; Giannoni’s History of Naples; Gratian, Historia
Veneta; Grimstone’s Netherlands; Gualteri Chronicon; Guicciardini
Storia d’Italia; Guizot’s History of France; Hallam’s Middle Ages, and
Literature of Europe; Hooke’s Roman History; Hugo’s Siege of Breda;
Muratori Rerum Italicarum Scriptores; Hungaricarum Rerum Scriptores;
Ginguene, Historie Litteraire d’Italie; Hispanarum Rerum Scriptores;
Historical Register; P. Jovii Leonis X. Vita; Kæmpfer’s Japan; Koch’s
Revolutions of Europe; Kollarii Monumenta Vindobonensia; Lindenbrogii
Scriptores Germanici; Leake’s Athens, Asia Minor, and the Morea;
Inghirami Monumenta Etrusca; Hughes’ Barbadoes; Maffei’s Verona
Illustrata; Malcolm’s Persia; Malta Illustrated; Mariana’s Spain; Mayer’s
Ottoman Empire; Meibomii Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores; Mezeray’s History
of France; Memoirs of the History of France; Mitford’s Greece; Moreri,
Dictionnaire Historique; Muratori, Annales Rerum Italicarum; Niebuhr’s
Rome; Norden’s Egypt; Ockley’s Saracens; Orme’s Indostan; Pashley’s
Crete; Percival’s Ceylon; Planta’s Helvetic Confederacy; Poggio, Historia
Fiorentina; Poloni Chronicon; Putter’s Germanic Empire; Ralegh’s History
of the World; Rankes’ Lives of the Popes; Robertson’s Works; Rollin’s
Roman History; Rossini Antiquitates Romanæ; Roscoe’s Lorenzo di
Medici; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire, and Lives of the Popes; Salisburiensis
Monasterii Chronicon; Sallengre, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanorum;
Sandoval’s Wars of Spain; Sarpi, Historia Veneta; Savage’s Germany;
Savary’s Egypt; Saxonis Historia Danica; Scheffer’s Lapland; Schilter,
Thesaurus Antiquitatum Teutonicarum; Scriverii Antiquitates Germanicæ;
Shaw’s Barbary; Shirley’s Persia; Sigonii Historia Italica; Memoires
de St. Simon; Sismondi’s Italian Republics, and Literature of Europe;
Staunton’s China; Stevens’ Spain and Bavaria; Sully’s Memoirs; De Thou’s
Memoirs; Tornielli Annales; Trithemii Opera Historica; Triveti Annales,
the Ancient and Modern Universal History; Varillas’ Historical Works;
Vertot’s Revolutions of Europe; Wanley’s Wonders of the Little World;
Warcup’s Italy; Warren’s Surinam; Wentworth’s Australasia; Wilkinson’s
Egypt; Wilson’s Egypt; Wood’s Palmyra; and Wormii Monumenta Danica.
While on this subject, I may notice the Voyage d’Anarcharse; Harris’
Voyages; Churchill’s Voyages; the Voyages of Anson, Cooke, Dampier,
Drake, Hakluyt, Hacke, Pallas, Parry, Perouse, Ross, Spon and Wheler,
Tavernier, Thevenot, Tournefort, and Vancouver; the Travels of Bruce,
Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Sandys, Sonnini, Volney, Weld, Chardin, and
Maundrell; Belzoni’s Egypt; Bembo, Rerum Venetarum Historia; Crantz’
Moravians; Burton’s Rome; Grævius and Gronovius, Thesaurus Antiquitatum
Græcarum et Romanarum; Flinders’ Australia; Foppens’ Bibliotheca Belgica;
Freher’s Historical Works; Gell’s Greece, Pompeiana and Rome; Gruteri
Inscriptiones; Hall’s Loo Choo; Hamilton’s Asia Minor; Houel et Saint
Non; Voyage Pittoresque en Sicile; Ludolf’s Æthiopia; Major’s Pæstum;
Norton’s Germany; the Countess of Sutherland’s Views in Orkney; Purchas’
Pilgrims; Roy’s Roman Antiquities; Rous, Archæologia Attica; Salt’s
Abyssinia; Santos’ Escuriale; Stanhope’s Olympia; Stuart’s Athens; Symes’
Ava; Vyse’s Pyramids; and La Borde’s Voyage Pittoresque en Suisse.
The Works on Heraldry include the History of the Earldom of Sutherland;
Archdall’s Irish Peerage; Carter’s Analysis of Honor; the Stemmata
Chicheleana; Collins’ Peerage; Crawford’s Scottish Peerage; Edmondson’s
Heraldry; Guillims’ Heraldry; Holmes’ Academy of Armory; Leigh’s Armory;
Madox’s Baronia Anglica; Morgan’s Sphere of Gentry; Ashmole’s Order of
the Garter; and Selden’s Titles of Honor.
The Geographical Works comprise Cluverii Geographia Antiqua; Ortelii
Thesaurus Geographicus; Peutingeri Tabula; Rennell’s Geography of
Herodotus; Sanson’s Geographical Works; Wells’s Geography; Wilde’s
General Atlas; and D’Anville and Pinkerton’s Geography.
The Works on Astronomy include those of Blundeville, Delambre, Galileo,
Copernicus, Bonatus, Bonnycastle, Lalande, Laplace, Leibnitz, Maskelyne,
Newton, Tycho Brahe and Bailey; Herschel’s Catalogue of Stars; Hevelii
Machina Cœlestis; Vince’s Astronomy; and the Histoire de l’Astronomie
Ancienne et Moderne of Bailly.
The Mathematical department includes the Works of Archimedes, Kepler,
Lacroix, Laplace, Lanoy, Leybourn, Maclaurin, Oughtred, Schooten, Schott,
Saunderson, Simson, Wells, Wallis, and Ward; Waring’s Algebra; and
Hutton’s Mathematical Dictionary.
The Numismatic Publications comprise Hirsch, Bibliotheca Numismatica;
Numismata Pembrochiana, & Imperatorum & Pontificum Romanorum of Bonanni;
Arbuthnot’s Coins; Budæus de Asse; Palin, Eckhel, and Gesner, Numismata;
Harduini Numismata; Ducarel’s Anglo-Norman Coins; Ruding’s Coinage; Lord
Liverpool on Coins; Snelling’s Coinage; Vaillant, Numismata; Pinkerton’s
Medals; Stukeley’s Medallic History of Carausius; and the Medallic
History of England.
This Library was greatly enriched by Dean Aldrich, especially in works
of Architecture, and Archæology, including the Fine Arts. Of these it
may suffice to mention Bartoli, Antiquitates Romanæ; Hamilton’s Vases;
Galeria Farnese, Museum Florentinum; the Marlborough Gems; Herculanensium
Voluminum, Neapoli, 1793-1809, folio; Chandler’s Ionian Antiquities;
Marmora Arundeliana; Montfaucon’s Antiquities; Gorii Museum Etruscum;
Visconti, Museo Pio-Clementino; Museo Fiorentino, & Pisano; Palladio’s
Architecture; Cesio, Palazzi di Roma, folio; Antiquities of Palmyra;
Rubens, Palazzi di Genova, folio; the Architectural Works of Scamozzi and
Vitruvius, and those of Winckelmann; Caylus’s Egyptian Antiquities, and
the Antiquitate d’Ercolano.
The works on Natural History and Philosophy comprehend those of
Aldrovandus, Borellus, Gesner, Keill’s Natural History; Aiton’s Hortus
Kewensis; Clusii Plantæ Rariores; Bocconis Plantæ Siciliæ; Gerard’s
Herball; Grew’s Anatomy of Plants; Dillenii Historia Muscorum; Dodonæi
Historia Stirpium; Haller, Bibliotheca Britannica; Hortus’ Eystettensis,
1640, folio; Houston, Plantæ Americanæ; Hudson’s Flora Anglica; Loudon’s
Arboretum; Morisoni Historia Plantarum; Parkinson’s Herbal; Ray’s
Catalogus Plantarum, and other works; Rousseau’s Botany; Withering’s
Botanical Arrangement, 1796; Bewick’s Quadrupeds; Block’s Ichthyology;
Bochart’s Hierozoicon; Buffon’s Natural History; the Encyclopædie
des Sciences, 33 vols. folio, 1751; Gravesande’s Natural Philosophy;
Descartes, Du Hamel & Hobbes, Opera Philosophica; Donovan’s Birds,
Insects, Shells, Fishes, and Quadrupeds; Jonstoni Historia Naturalis;
Lacepede’s Natural History; Latham’s Birds; Markham’s Husbandry; Miller’s
Gardener’s Dictionary; Salvianus de Piscibus; Shaw’s Zoology; Thomson’s
Chemistry; Vesalii Opera Anatomica; Willoughby’s Ornithology; Shaw
and Nodder’s Naturalist’s Miscellany; Buckland’s Reliquiæ Diluvianæ;
Kidd’s and Kirwan’s Mineralogy; Rashleigh’s British Minerals; Waller’s
Mineralogy; Whiston and Woodward’s Theory of the Earth; and the
Transactions of the Linnæan Society.
Of Medical Works we find those of Avicenna, Baccius, Boerhaave, Cardanus,
Harvey, Hoffmann, Lister, Mead, Quincy, Schenck, Sydenham, Willis, and
Zahn; also Medicæ Artis Principes, by the Stephens.
The Law Books as might be expected are few in number, among which I
may notice Burn’s Ecclesiastical Law; Bracton de Legibus; the Corpus
Juris Civilis & Canonici; Corvinus de Jurisprudentâ Romanorum; Coke’s
Institutes; Comyn’s Digest; Blackstone’s Commentaries; Blount’s Law
Dictionary; Gesner’s Pandects; Sir Matthew Hale’s Works; Heineccius
de Legibus; Jacob’s Law Dictionary; Keble’s Statutes; Noy’s, Vesey’s,
and other Reports; Puffendorf’s Works; Reeves’ English Law; Spencer de
Legibus Hebræorum; the Statutes at large; Suarez de Legibus; Tomlin’s
Repertorium Juridicum; Vattel’s Law of Nations; Wottoni Leges Wallicæ,
and Zouch, de Jure Civili.
The Miscellaneous Literature of England is well represented in this
Collection; in proof of which I may enumerate the works of Addison,
Bacon, Boyle, Beattie, Buchanan, Burke, Burnet, Chaucer, Cowley, Darwin,
Harrington, Sir William Jones, Locke, Lord Lyttleton, Milton, Otway,
Pope, Sir Charles Sedley, Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, Sir Philip
Sidney, Swift, Sir William Temple, Taylor the Water Poet, Walpole,
Sir Thomas Wyatt, Charles the First, Sir Simon D’Ewes, Du Bartas, Sir
Thomas More, and Lord Herbert of Cherbury; Gower’s Confessio Amantis, by
Berthelet, 1532, folio; Blount’s Censura; Berkeley’s Minute Philosopher;
Bochas’ Tragedies, by Lidgate; Boswell’s Johnson; Butler’s Analogy;
Butler’s Hudibras; Davies’ Celtic Researches; Doddington’s Diary;
Gladstone’s Church and State; Hales’ Remains; Heber’s Journals; Life of
Jeremy Taylor; Heywood’s Plays; Howard Earl of Surrey Works, by Nott;
Howel’s Letters; Ben Jonson and Massinger’s Plays, by Gifford; Lydgate’s
Poems; Mackenzie’s Scots Writers; Maurice’s Indian Antiquities; Malcolm’s
Life of Lord Clive; Napier and Southey’s Peninsular War; Nichols’
Literary Anecdotes; Northumberland Household Book; Nicolas’ Testamenta
Vetusta; Otter’s Life of Clarke; Parival’s Iron Age; Pegge’s Curialia;
Percy’s English Poetry; Prior’s Poems; Rowley’s Poems; Sanderson’s Lives;
Shaftesbury’s Characteristics; Shakespeare’s Plays, the fourth edition of
1685, folio, and Malone’s edition; Moore’s Life of Sheridan; Spenser’s
Works, 1679, folio; Sprat’s History of the Royal Society; Stanley’s
History of Philosophy; Dugald Stewart’s Philosophical Essays; Tooke’s
Diversions of Purley; Todd’s Life of Walton; Tomline’s Life of Pitt;
Twiss’ Life of Eldon; Walton’s Angler; Warton’s English Poetry; Willis’
Notitia Parliamentaria; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses; Wren’s Parentalia;
Yarranton’s England’s Improvement; Yorke’s Tribes of Wales; Young’s Night
Thoughts; Evelyn’s Sylva; and Harris’ Hermes.
In Foreign Literature the list is much less extensive, comprising the
Works of Aretus, Ariosto, Boileau, La Bruyere, Corneille, Grotius,
Quevedo, Rabelais, Racine, and Machiavelli, Brumoy, Theatre du Grecs;
Guarini, Pastor Fido; Heinsii Poemata; D’Herbelot, Bibliotheque
Orientale; Rollin, Belles Lettres; Sevigne’s Letters; Tasso by Fairfax;
Fénélon’s Telemaque; Voltaire’s Henriade; and Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
Of Bibliographical Works I noticed, Cotton’s Typographical Gazetteer; the
Blandford, Spencer, and Sion College, Cotton and Bodleian Catalogues,
and that of Heinsius; the Bibliothéque du Roi; Bibliothecæ Regiæ
Catalogus; Yalensis Collegii Catalogus; Renouard’s Annales des Aldes;
Barbier Dictionnaire des Anonymes; Bandinii Catalogus Codicum, &c.;
Baillet, Jugemens des Scavans; Assemanni Bibliothéque Orientale; Fabricii
Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica; Brucker, Historia Critica; Catalogue of
Manuscripts at Lambeth, and in the Vatican; and Ebert’s Bibliographical
Dictionary; De Rossi Annales Hebræo-Typographici; Orme’s Bibliotheca
Biblica; Audiffredi, Catalogus Romanarum Editionum; Brunet’s Manuel;
Debure, Bibliographie Instructive & Catalogue de la Valliere; Harles,
Notitia Litteraria; Maittaire and Panzer, Annales Typographici; Marsden’s
Catalogue of Dictionaries; Peignot’s Bibliographical Works; Bouterwek’s
Spanish Literature; Dunlop, Roman Literature; Dibdin’s Typographical
Antiquities, and Library Companion; and Vogt, Catalogus Librorum.
The Chronological Works include Bedford’s Scripture; L’Art de verifier
les Dates; Blair’s, Hales’ and Cary’s Chronology; Corsini, Fasti Attici;
Petavii Doctrina Temporum Funcii; and Strauchii Chronologia.
This Collection also contains Musicæ Antiquæ Auctores; the Asiatic
Researches; Burney’s History of Music; Hartley on Man; Hatsell’s
Precedents; Parliamentary History, 24 vols. 8vo.; Journals of the
Lords and Commons; Bartsch, Peintre Graveur; Bromley’s Catalogue
of Engraved Portraits; James’ Schools of Painting; Mabillon de Re
Diplomaticâ; Anderson’s Diplomata Scotiæ; Marten’s Traités de la
Paix; Morhof, Polyhistor; Ottley’s History of Engraving; Pilkington’s
Dictionary of Painters; Stosch, Peintre Graveur; Strutt’s Dictionary of
Engravers; Vasari Vite di Pittori; Musæ Etonenses; Carmina Oxoniensia
Quadragesimalia; Sannazarii Poemata; Anthologia Græca; and the Nugæ
Metricæ.
The Translations from the Classics are chiefly those of Dacier, Pope,
Chapman and Ogilby’s Homer; Ogilby, Gawin Douglas’s Virgil; Middleton’s
Cicero; and Flaxman’s Homer.
We also find on these Shelves Poliphili Hypnerotomyomachia, 1545, folio;
Schola Salernitana; Selden’s Works by Wilkins; Sirmondi, Concilia
Gallica; Spinosa Opera Posthuma; Sylloge Epistolarum; Vegetius de Re
Militari; Vincentii Speculum; Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiæ;
Critici Sacri; Bos Ellipses; Orphica, Orphei Argonautica; Justiniani
Institutiones; and Wolfii Bibliotheca Hebræa.
It only remains to notice the works of Abulfeda, Agricola, Agrippa,
Albertus, Aldrich, Alcuin, Bartolious, Bernaldus, Beddoes, Black,
Blaeu, Boissardus, Bonaventura, Brevint, Bridge, T. Brown, Buchanan,
Burscough, Bullinger, Cantarenus, De la Valle, Emerson, Allatius,
Apianus, Archimedes, Cleomedes, Philoponus, Theognis, Arian, Barnabas,
Davenant, Ferguson, Canisius, Ursinus, Turnebus, Aurelius Victor,
Victorius, Vigorius, Muretus, Gyraldus, Hornius, Hugenius, Mercator,
Meursius, Semler, Johannes Sarisburiensis, Pontanus, Puteanus, Procopius,
Ruhnken, Scarron, and Scudery, Catalogues of the Hunterian and British
Museums; Bohun’s Dictionary; Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses; Bergier,
Grands Chemins Romains; Vitruvius Britannicus; Chandler’s Marmora
Oxoniensia; Chambers’ Cyclopædia; the Nuremberg Chronicle; Chronicon
Alexandrinum; Cresswell’s Geometry; the Letters of Junius; Lavater’s
Physiognomy; Zosimi Historia; Talmud Babylonicum; Sale’s Koran;
Scriptorum Veterum Collectio Vaticana, 4to.; Zabarella, Opera Logica;
Weever’s Funeral Monuments; the Annual Register; Barclay’s Argenis;
Barruel’s Memoirs of Jacobinism; Bryant’s Mythology; the Publications
of the Record Commission; Enchiridion Theologicum; Gale’s Court of the
Gentiles; Vavassoris Opera Critica; Mythographi Latini; the Historical
Works of Olaus Magnus; the Works of Ossian; Horapollonis Hieroglyphica;
Inman’s Navigation; Malleus Maleficarum; Struvii Bibliotheca Selecta;
Sanderi Bibliotheca Belgica; Saxii Onomasticon Litterarium; the Works of
Lipsius; Scaliger’s Critical Works; Porsoni Adversaria; Potter’s Grecian
Antiquities; Pezron, Antiquitates Celticæ; Pharmacopeia Londinensis;
the Quarterly Review; Reid on the Human Mind; the Historical Works of
Reineccius; Pole’s Synopsis; Scholtz, Lexicon Egyptiacum; and Helvici
Theatrum Historicum.
The Gift Book kept in this Library is dated 1614. The principal donors
appear to have been Aldrich, Morris, Nicholson, Orrery, Stratford, and
Wake, with many others who, by donations of books, have testified their
grateful remembrance of the place of their common education.
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Library of Peterborough.
A church having been dedicated to St. Peter by the first Christian
kings of Mercia at Medeshamstede, that place was thenceforward called
Peterborough. The Monastery there begun in 655-6, and completed in 664,
was utterly destroyed by the Danes in 870, but re-edified in 870 by S.
Adelwold, Bishop of Winchester. From this time the Abbey continued in
great magnificence till the general dissolution of the religious houses,
when, happily escaping, it was converted into a Cathedral Church, and all
its buildings were preserved. It is said that Henry VIII. was induced
to spare this church for the sake of his Queen Catherine, whose mortal
remains lie within its walls. By this means it continued entire till the
second havoc of religious structures in the Great Rebellion, when the
Cloisters, Chapter House, Library, Bishop’s Hall and Chapel, formerly
belonging to the Abbot were utterly demolished; and the Chapel of our
Lady adjoining to the Abbey, being much out of repair, was taken down
by the townsmen, who prevailed to have the rest of the building made
parochial, which for that end, they had repaired with great expense.[52]
John Chambers was the last Abbot of Peterborough. He surrendered the
Abbey to the king A.D. 1539, and had a pension of 266_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._
per annum assigned him. Soon after, king Henry VIII. made the Abbey an
Episcopal See, appointed by dotation dated 4 Sept. A.D. 1541: the said
John Chambers, the first Bishop, who was consecrated 23 Oct. A.D. 1541.
He died about the month of December A.D. 1556, and was buried in this
Cathedral.[53]
The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough occupies a small
chapel, with a carved oaken ceiling, over which is a stone roof, and
around which are open shelves rising to the height of the room. This
little chapel is said to owe its erection to an endeavour on the part
of the architect of this elegant fabric, to conceal the defect of the
middle arch in the façade of the building being smaller than the lateral
ones. This expedient appears to satisfy the eye, while its situation in
the portico of the temple, makes it an appropriate repository for the
treasures of human learning. It appears, however, that the Library was
not always kept in this place, for in a Journal of a Tour through the
North of England and Scotland in 1704,[54] the author, speaking of this
Cathedral says, “In the east end beyond the altar is a good library.”
That our traveller’s epithet was not altogether misapplied it will be the
object of the following pages to show, though of course the theological
works of the fathers, and early controversialists must form a prominent
feature in this hasty sketch.
An interleaved copy of the Catalogue of the Bodleian Library of 1674, in
2 folio volumes, lettered on the sides “Catalogus Bibliothecæ Ecclesiæ,
Cathedralis Petroburgensis,” wherein the books of this Collection are
marked with reference to the shelves, and the additions thereto inserted
on the blank pages, is the only Catalogue at present extant of this
Library. At the end of the manuscript additions to this Catalogue is the
date of 1726. This clumsy expedient may probably be soon abandoned, as
several lists of the books compiled by the late Librarian indicate an
approach to a better method, though I regret to add this plan is still
pursued in the noble Library of Trinity College in Cambridge.
Among the Works of Divinity in this Collection, those of the Fathers of
the Church lay first claim to our notice. These are the works of S.S.
Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius, Bernard, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Jerome,
Hilary, Isidore, Irenæus, Theodoret, and Theophylact.
Among the earlier Theologians, we may mention the Works of Anselm, Thomas
Aquinas, Martin Bucer, Bullinger, Calvin, Bellarmine, Theodore Beza, Le
Clerc, Erasmus, Gregory Nazianzen, Thomas à Kempis, and Pope Gregory; of
Grotius, Luther, Melancthon, Peter Martyr, Origen, Socinus, Philo Judæus,
Lactantius, Wolfius, and Zanchius, to which may be added, Arminii Opera
Theologica, and Bulli Opera Omnia.
Of English Divines this Library possesses the Works of Bishop Andrews,
Bilson, Boys, Bramhall, Barlow, Baxter, Samuel Clarke, Cranmer, Hall,
Hacket, Hammond, Hody, Hoadley, Hooper, Hopkins, Kettlewell, Jackson,
Pierce, Leslie, Reynolds, Stapleton, Sanderson, Jeremy Taylor, Tillotson,
Waterland, Whiston, Whitaker, White, and Whitgift. To which may be
added, Jewel’s Works of 1609 in folio; Burkitt’s Exposition of the New
Testament; Pearson on the Creed; Mede on Daniel, Scott’s Christian Life;
Nichols and Sparrow on the Common Prayer; Wake’s Catechism, and Epistles
of the Apostolical Fathers; Wilkins on Natural Religion; Warburton’s
Divine Legation; and the Whole Duty of Man.
The editions of the Sacred Scriptures in this Library comprise the
well-known Polyglott Bible of Walton, with the important adjunct of
Castell’s Lexicon; the English Versions of 1540, 1551, and 1578, all in
folio, together with the English Bible of 1599, interleaved, in three
folio volumes; the Oxford Edition of 1685, in folio, and the Cambridge
Edition of 1679, in 4to.