The Liturgia Anglicana, linguâ Lusitanicâ.
Of the Fathers of the Church I am enabled to record,
Athanasii Opera Gr. et Lat. Parisiis, 1627, in 2 vols. folio.
Ambrosii Opera. Basileæ, 1567.
Augustini Opera. Basileæ, 1569, 8 vols. folio.
Aurelii Opera. Parisiis, 1646.
Basilii Magni Opera. Parisiis, 1638.
Chrysostomi Opera, edente Savile. Etonæ, 1612, in 8 vols. folio.
Clementis Alexandrini Opera. Oxonii, 1715.
Cyrilli Opera. Parisiis, 1638 & 1640.
Cypriani Opera. Oxonii, 1682.
Damasceni Opera. Basileæ, 1575.
Epiphanii Opera. Parisiis, 1622, 2 vols. folio.
Episcopii Opera Theologica.
Gregorii Magni Opera. 1615.
Hieronymi Opera. Basileæ, 1565, in 4 vols. folio.
Irenæi Opera, per Grabe. Oxonii, 1702, folio.
Justini Martyris Opera. Parisiis, 1636.
Lactantii Opera. Romæ, 1650; and Oxonii, 1684.
Origenis Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1571, in 2 vols. folio.
Philonis Judæi Opera. Parisiis, 1640.
Procopii Opera. Parisiis, 1662-3, in 2 vols. folio.
Theodoreti Opera Omnia. Parisiis, 1642, 4 vols. folio.
Theophili Opera, per Fell. Oxonii, 1684.
together with the Works of, Eusebius, Gregory Nyssen, S. Hilary,
Theophylact, Tertullian, and the Bibliotheca Magna Veterum Patrum.
Parisiis, 1654, in 13 vols. folio; Cave’s Lives of the Primitive Fathers;
The Critici Sacri; Pole’s Synopsis; and the Bibliotheca Polonorum Fratrum.
In Divinity, besides a great mass of what is now justly considered
obsolete, and many controversial pieces, including the celebrated
Bangorian Controversy, I may enumerate the component parts of this
leading class of the library, commencing with, Bedæ Opera Omnia, VIII
tomis. Colon. Agrip. 1612, in 3 vols. folio; the Works of Bishops
Bramhall and Jewel; Tillotson’s Sermons; Tyndal’s Works, 1573;
Justiniani Opera. Parisiis, 1628; Jeremy Taylor’s Ductor dubitantium;
Usher’s Body of Divinity; the Sermons of Bishops Andrews and Hacket;
Concordantiæ Latinæ per Robertum Stephanum; Hammond’s Paraphrase;
Cotton’s Concordance, 1635; the Commentaries of Pococke; Hugonis Postillæ
in Biblia, Basileæ, 1504-6, folio; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible,
Paris, 1722, in 4 vols. folio; some Tracts by Bernard, Stapleton, and
Bellarmine; the Sermons of Richard Gardiner, 1659; Sanderson, Leslie, and
Donne’s Sermons, 1640; Hall’s Works; Field of the Church, Oxford, 1628;
Cave’s Primitive Christianity; Lightfoot’s Horæ Hebraicæ Cantabrigiæ,
1658; Drexelii Opera Omnia, Parisiis, 1647, in 2 vols. folio; Usserii
Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, Londini, 1650-4; Parson’s Three
Conversions, 1603, complete; the Preservative against Popery, in 3 vols.
folio, in old calf; some Tracts by Calvin; the Quæstiones subtilissimæ
of Duns Scotus; Erasmi Opera Omnia, Lovanii, 1640; Andrews’ Opuscula
Posthuma, Londini, 1629; Bulli Opera per Grabe, Londini, 1703; Pearsoni
Opera Posthuma, Londini, 1688; Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of
England; Brown’s Religio Medici, London, 1678; Barrow’s Works; Reginaldi
Poli pro defensione Ecclesiæ Unitatis ad Henricum VIII. Romæ apud Bladum,
in a vellum wrapper; Milner’s Letters to a Prebendary; Hey’s Theological
Lectures; Newcome’s Minor Prophets; Routh’s Reliquiæ Sacræ; Balguy’s
Discourses; the Works of Horsley, Beveridge, Stillingfleet, Middleton,
Heber, and James; Macknight on the Epistles; Cudworth’s Intellectual
System, 1678; Campbell on the Gospels; Blayney’s Jeremiah; Wollaston’s
Religion of Nature; Sherlock’s Discourses; Prideaux’s Connection; Samuel
Clarke’s Works, London, 1738, in 4 vols. folio; Hoadly’s Works, London,
1773, 3 vols. folio, a fine copy in old calf gilt; Joannis Gerson, Opera;
Petavii Dogmata Theologica, Antverpiæ, 1700, in 3 vols. folio. Bullingeri
Opera, Tiguri, 1577, in 8 vols. folio; Summa Cardinalis Hostiensis,
Lugduni, per Jacobum Sacon, 1512, folio, printed in double columns of
Gothic Character, and bound in old calf; Cranmer de Sacramento, Embdæ,
1557; Melancthonis Opera, Wittebergæ, 1601, 4 vols. folio; Grotii Opera,
Londini, 1679, in 4 vols. folio; Lutheri Opera Omnia Jenæ, 1556-8. In
conclusion of this long list let me add, Prudentii Opera, Hanoviæ, 1613;
and Sidonii Apollinaris Opera Sismondi, Parisiis, 1652.
In Ecclesiastical History the Collection is also rich, as may appear
from the books specified below, Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici,
Antverpiæ, 1610; Martyrologium Romanum, Colon. Agrip. 1603; Bollandi
Acta Sanctorum, in 8 vols. folio; Allix’s Ecclesiastical History,
and History of the Albigenses; the Concilia Generalia by Labbe and
others; Borromæi Acta Ecclesiæ Mediolanensis, Lugd. Bat. 1683, folio;
Usserii Ecclesiæ Britannicæ Antiquitates, Eblanæ, 1639; Stillingfleet’s
Origines; Bingham’s Origines Ecclesiasticæ; Cedreni Annales; Centuriæ
Magdeburgenses, Basileæ, 1624, in 3 vols. folio; Anastasii Historia
Ecclesiastica, Parisiis, 1649; Usser, Chronologia Sacra, edente Barlow,
Oxonii, 1660; Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, Londini, 1737, in 4
vols. folio; Spelmanni Concilia, 1639; Brent’s History of the Council
of Trent, London, 1676; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Lyndewoode,
Provinciale per Badium Ascensium, Parisiis, 1506; Waræi de Præsulibus
Angliæ Commentarius, Eblanæ, 1665; Godwin de Præsulibus Angliæ, 2 vols.
folio, in calf; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Gough’s Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Threnodia,
Londini, 1661; Reformatio Legum Eccles. ab Henr. VIII. ad Edw. VI.
Londini, 1661, in which no mention is made of the proceedings of Queen
Elizabeth; Burnet’s History of the Reformation, with the Supplement
thereto; Strype’s Memorials; Heylin’s History of the Reformation; Wiccami
Episcopi Winton. Vita, Oxonii, 1690; Laud’s Troubles and Tryal, 1695;
Spotswode’s History of the Church of Scotland; Dugdale’s Monasticon
Anglicanum; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, Londini, 1744; Walker’s History
of Independency; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical History by Fenton, 1724, in 4
vols.; Messingham, Acta Sanctorum Hiberniæ, Parisiis, 1624; Rycaut’s
present state of the Greek and Armenian Churches, 1679; Gratiani Decreta,
printed at Nuremberg in 1494; Gibson’s Codex, in 2 vols. folio, calf;
Corpus Juris Canonici, Lugd. Bat. 1672, in 3 vols. folio; Cassan’s
Lives of the Bishops of Winchester; Upham’s History of Buddhism; Bedæ
Historia Ecclesiastica per Smith, Cantabrigiæ, folio; Eusebii Historia
Ecclesiastica, 1659; Josephus, Hudsoni; Nova legenda Angliæ per Winandum
de Worde, Londini, 1516, folio, a perfect copy, with the large wood
cut at the beginning and the end, but very much wormed throughout, and
bound in the original stamped calf, to which I may add, Cave’s Historia
Literaria Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, Londini, 1688-98; and Dupin,
Nouvelle Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques.
Of General History this Library contains the large body of the
Byzantine Historians; Manassii Annales, Parisiis, 1655; Nicetæ Historia,
Parisiis, 1647; Chalcondylas de rebus Turcicis, Parisiis, 1650; Eutychii
Annales Arabicè et Latinè per Pocockium, Oxonii, 1664; Raderi Chronicon
Alexandrinum, Monachii, 1615; Marshami Chronicon Canon. Egyptiacum,
Londini, 1672; Montfaucon Palæographia Græca; Rosini Antiquitates
Romanæ, cum commentariis Dempsteri, Lugduni, 1613; Meyeri Annales Rerum
Flandricarum, Antverpiæ, 1561; Junii, Bataviæ Historia, Dordraci, 1652;
Naucleri Chronicon Universale Tubingæ, 1516; Modern Universal History,
1759, in 16 vols. folio in calf; Gillies’ Greece, in 4to.; Cox’s Memoirs
of the Kings of Spain, and his Russian Discoveries, London, 1780;
Montfaucon, Antiquité avec le Supplement, 15 vols. folio, a fine set in
old calf; Pitisci Lexicon; Thuani, Historia sui temporis, Genevæ, 1626,
in 3 vols. folio; Moreri, Dictionnaire Historique, in 4 vols. folio;
Bayle, Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, Rotterdam, 1702, in 4 vols.
folio; the History of the World by Raleigh and Howell; Ligon’s Barbadoes,
1673; Wheler’s Greece, 1682; Mezeray’s History of France, Amsterdam,
1668-74; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Blome’s Jamaica, 1678; Ogilby’s
Africa and America, with the Atlas Japanensis et Chinensis; Cary’s
Chronological account of Ancient Time; to which may be added, Baudrand,
Lexicon Geographicum; Bochart, Geographia Sacra, Cadomi, 1651; Clarke on
Coins, London, 1767; and a very fine copy in calf of Waltheri Lexicon
Diplomaticum Gottingæ, 1745, folio.
Of Works relating to the History of Great Britain this ancient
Collection embraces a very fair proportion, for I observed upon its
shelves, Heylin’s Help to English History, London, 1670; and Brady’s
Introduction to old English History; Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana,
edente Wats, Londini, 1740, calf; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores
Historiarum, Londini, 1570; Du Chesne, Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores,
1619; Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, et Cambrica, à veteribus scripta,
ex Bibliothecâ Camdeni, Francofurti, 1603; Camdeni Annales, Londini,
1615-27; Camdeni Britannia, Londini, 1607; Annales Rerum Anglicarum,
1508-58, Hagæ-Com. 1653; Smith de Rêpublicâ Anglorum, per Buddenum,
Londini; Langhornii Chronicon Regum Angliæ, Londini, 1679; Rerum
Anglicanarum Scriptores post Bedam, edente Savile, Francofurti, 1601,
folio; Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Decem, curâ Twysdeni, Londini,
1652, folio; Sammes’ Antiquities of Ancient Britain, London, 1676,
folio; Burton’s Itinerary of Antoninus, London, 1658; Baker’s Chronicle,
1679; Brady’s History of England; Danyel’s History of England, 1621;
the History of England by Rapin and Tindal; Sandford’s Genealogical
History of the Kings of England, London, 1677, folio; Ashmole’s
Order of the Garter, London, 1672, folio; Wilson’s History of Great
Britain, London, 1653; Dugdale’s Baronage and Origines Judiciales;
Barnes’ History of Edward III. Cambridge, 1688; Herbert’s Henry VIII.
1672; Burnet’s History of his own Time; Lloyd’s State Worthies, 1670;
Rushworth’s Historical Collections, and Report of Strafford’s Trial; the
State Tryals, 1669, folio; Whitelock’s Memorials of English Affairs;
Stafford’s Pacata Hibernia, 1633; Clanricarde’s Memoirs, 1757; Sir James
Melvil’s Memoirs, by George Scott, London, 1683; Burnet’s Memoirs of
the Dukes of Hamilton; Buchanani Historia Scotorum; Bates’ Elenchus
Motuum Nuperorum in Angliâ; Charles the First’s Declaration of Tumults
in Scotland, 1639, and the Icon Basilike, Hagæ Com. 1649; Symmons’
Vindication of King Charles I. 1648; Dugdale’s View of the late Troubles;
Prynne’s Life of Laud; Fuller’s Worthies; Kippis’ Biographia Britannica;
Camden’s Britannica, edited by Gough, London, 1789, 3 vols. folio,
in russia; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, edited by Bliss; Loggan, Oxonia
Illustrata; Plot’s Oxfordshire, 1677, folio; Worsley’s Isle of Wight;
White’s Natural History of Selborne; Dugdale’s St. Paul’s; Hobbes de
Mirabilibus Pecci; Granger’s Biographical History of England; Monk’s Life
of Bentley; Nicholl’s Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; the
Records published by the Parliamentary Commissioners, and the Population
Returns; to which I may add, Balæi Scriptorum Britannicorum Centuriæ V.
Gippeswici, 1548; Martin Bucer, Scriptores Anglicani ab Huberto collecti,
Basileæ, 1577; and the English Atlas, published at Oxford in 1680-1681,
in four large folio volumes.
Of Law Books, the number in this Library is but few, since we find only
of the Statutes at large, volumes 21 to 37; Croke’s Reports, 1669,
in 3 vols. folio; Suarez de Legibus; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum,
Cantabrigiæ, 1727; Justiniani Institutiones; Durandi Speculum Juris,
Lugduni, 1556; Gothofredi Codex Theodosianus, 1665, in 4 vols. folio; and
some Tracts by Selden.
From this barren theme it is refreshing to turn to the Classic authors,
who are very well represented in this Library. The first thing which
arrested my attention in this department were the following Delphin
Classics.
Apuleius, 1688.
Boethius, 1680.
Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, 1685.
Cæsar, 1678.
Cicero.
Claudian, 1677.
Quintus Curtius.
Eutropius, 1683.
Florus, 1674.
Aulus Gellius, 1681.
Horatius, 1691.
Justinus, 1677.
Juvenalis, 1684.
Livius, 1679.
Lucretius, 1680.
Manilius, 1679.
Martialis, 1680.
Cornelius Nepos, 1675.
Ovidius, per Helvetium, 1689.
Phædrus, 1675.
Plautus, 1679.
Prudentius, 1687.
Sextus Pompeius, 1681.
Sallustius, per Crispinum, 1674.
Suetonius, 1684.
Tacitus, 1682.
Terentius, 1675.
Valerius Maximus, 1679.
Velleius Paterculus, 1675.