Chapter II: Front Matter (2)

Coxe’s Memoir of Marlborough.

De Lolme on the English Constitution. London, 1790, 8vo.

Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica. Dublin, 1772, in 2 vols. 8vo.

Drayton’s Polyolbion. London, 1622, folio.

Du Chesne’s Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores. Paris. 1619, folio.

Du Chesne’s Histoire d’Angleterre, &c. Paris. 1634, folio.

Dugdale’s Origines Judiciales. London, 1666, fol.

Dugdale’s History of the Troubles in England. Oxford, 1681,
folio.

Dugdale’s History of Imbanking, &c. London, 1662, folio.

Evelyn’s Memoirs.

Enderbie’s Cambria triumphans. London, 1661, folio.

Franklin’s Annals of James I. and Charles I. Lond. 1681, folio.

Granger’s Biographical History of England. Lond. 1769, 5 vols.
4to.

Gifford’s Life of Pitt.

Hardyng’s Chronicle. London, 1543, 4to.

Heylin’s Life of Laud. London, 1668, folio.

Holinshed’s Chronicles of England. London, no date, folio.

Ingram’s Saxon Chronicle. Oxford, 4to.

Kennett’s Register and Chronicle. London, 1728, folio.

Biographia Britannica. Lond. 1747, in 7 vols. fol.

Laud’s History of his Troubles. London, 1695, fol.

Atkyns’ History of Gloucestershire. London, 1712, folio.

Battely’s Antiquities of Canterbury. London, 1703, folio.

Bentham’s History of the Church of Ely. Cambridge, 1771, 4to.

Boys’ History of Sandwich. Canterbury, 1792, 4to.

Burton’s Leicestershire. London, 1622, folio.

Caius, de Antiquitate Acad. Cantabr. Lond. 1574, 4to.

Chiffletius de Portu Iccio. Antverpiæ, 1627, 4to.

Dart’s Church of Canterbury. London, 1726, fol.

Description of York and Canterbury Cathedrals. London, 1755,
folio.

Dugdale’s Warwickshire. London, 1656, folio.

Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s. London, 1716, fol.

Fowler’s Mosaic Pavements.

Gostling’s Walks about Canterbury. Canterbury, 1777, 8vo.

Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments. London, 1786, &c. 5 vols. folio.

Gutch’s Collectanea Curiosa.

Halfpenny’s Fragmenta Vetusta.

Harris’s History of Kent. London, 1719, folio, with some
manuscript notes by M. Norris, formerly Auditor of this Church.

Hasted’s History of Kent. Canterbury, 1778, &c. in 4 vols.
folio.

Horsley’s Britannia Romana. London, 1732, folio.

Jacob’s History of Feversham. London, 1774, 8vo.

Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities. 4to.

Kilburne’s Survey of Kent. London, 1659, 4to.

Kilburne’s Brief Survey of Kent. London, 1657.

King’s Vale Royal. London, 1656, folio.

Lewis’s History of the Isle of Tenet. London, 1723, 4to.

Lewis’s History of Faversham, &c. London, 1727, 4to.

Loggan’s Oxonia et Cantabrigia illustrata, folio.

Magna Britannia. Lond. 1720, in 6 vols. 4to.

Maitland’s History of London. 1772, in 2 vols. fol.

Leland’s History of Ireland. London, 1773, in 3 vols. 4to.

Lloyd’s History of Wales, by Powell. London, 1584, 4to.

Lhuyd, Britannicæ Descriptionis Fragmentum. Col. Agr. 1572, 8vo.

Mc Crie’s Life of Knox.

Madox’s Firma Burgi. Lond. 1726, folio.

Madox’s History of the Exchequer. London, 1711, in 2 vols.
folio.

Nalson’s Collections. London, 1682, in 2 vols. fol.

Neubrigensis, Guil. Rerum Anglicarum Libri V. Antv. 1567, 8vo.

Nicholl’s Original Letters addressed to Oliver Cromwell.
London, 1743, folio.

North’s Life of the Lord Keeper North. London, 1742, 4to.

North’s Life of Sir Dudley North. Lond. 1744, 4to.

North’s Enquiry into Kennett’s History. London, 1740, 4to.

Parker, De Rebus sui Temporis. London, 1726, 8vo.

Pepys’ Memoirs, edited by Lord Braybrooke. 2 vols. 4to.

Robertson’s History of Scotland. Lond. 1762, 2 vols. 4to.

Ruding’s Annals of the Coinage. 3 vols. 4to.

Rushworth’s Historical Collections. London, 1682, &c. 8 vols.
folio.

Rymer’s Fœdera. Lond. 1727, in 20 vols. folio.

Sidney State Papers. London, 1746, 2 vols. folio.

Slayter’s Palæ-Albion. London, 1619, folio.

Somner’s Treatise of Gavelkind. London, 1726, 4to.

Speed’s History of Great Britain. London, 1623, folio.

Spelman’s Vita Ælfredi. Oxon. 1678, folio.

Spencer’s Life of Archbishop Chichele. London, 1783.

Strype’s Lives, Annals of the Reformation and Memorials.

Stuart’s History of Scotland.

Thurloe’s State Papers. London, 1742, in 7 vols. folio.

Twinus de Rebus Albionicis. Londini, 1590, 8vo.

Manning and Bray’s History of Surrey.

Miller’s Account of Ely Cathedral. 8vo.

Morton’s Northamptonshire. London, 1712, folio.

Newcourt’s Repertorium Londinense. Lond. 1728, in 2 vols. folio.

Packe’s Dissertation on his Chart of East Kent. London, 1737.
The Chart itself being also in the possession of the Dean and
Chapter. It is both curious and important.

Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa. Londini, 1732, in 2 vols. folio.

Peck’s Annals of Stamford. London, 1727, folio.

Philipot’s Villare Cantianum. Lond. 1659, folio.

Plot’s Nat. Hist. of Oxfordshire. Oxford, 1667, fol.

Somner’s Portus Iccius Cæsaris, per Edm. Gibson. Oxon. 1694,
8vo.

Somner’s Antiquities of Canterbury. London, 1640, 4to. This
copy contains the manuscript additions of Somner himself,
which Battely afterwards incorporated with his Antiquities of
Canterbury, published in 1703.

Speed’s Prospect of the most famous places in Great Britain.
London, 1631, folio.

Spelman’s Villare Anglicanum. London, 1656, 4to.

Stow’s Survey of London. London, 1633, folio.

Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum. Lond. 1724, fol.

Tanner’s Notitia Monastica. London, 1744, folio.

Thorpe’s Registrum Roffensis. Lond. 1769, folio.

Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons.

Twinus de Antiquitate Academiæ Oxoniensis. Oxon. 1608, 4to.

Wright’s History of Rutland. London, 1684, fol.

Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence. Antwerp, 1605,
4to.

Wallis’s History of Northumberland.

Weever’s Funeral Monuments. London, 1631, fol.

Wood’s Athenæ & Antiquitates Oxonienses. London. 1721, 2 vols.
folio.

Wild’s Description of Canterbury Cathedral.

Willement’s Heraldic Notices of Canterbury Cathedral.

White’s Natural History of Selborne.

Wilson’s History of Merchant Taylor’s School.

Walker’s History of Independency. London, 1661, 4to.

Viti Basinstochii Historia Britanniæ. 1602, 8vo.

Wilkins’s Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ. London, 1721, folio, and

Wood’s Institutes of the Laws of England. London, 1724, folio.

How tedious soever may be this long series of Works upon British History and Antiquities to the general reader, the Bibliographical Antiquary will thank me for the enumeration of many rare and valuable Illustrations of English history, as well as for keeping as distinct as possible the Historical and Topographical departments.

I forbear to mention the Tracts and other obsolete Works chiefly polemical, which remain on the shelves of this Library; neither are the Works on Natural History or Science deserving of a separate enumeration; unless we may except the Aldine Galen of 1525, in 5 vols. folio; the Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions; Palladio’s Architecture; the History of Plants, by Theophrastus, Gerard, and Ray; and Shaw’s Zoology, in 17 volumes.

In English Literature and Poetry it will be sufficient to mention the names of Addison, Burke, Bacon, Ben. Jonson, Boyle, Cowley, Chaucer, Dryden, Locke, Milton, Newton, Sterne, Selden, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Swift, to shew the general character of this department of the Library. But, as usual in all Cathedral Libraries, the great mass of English works are of a sacred character.

There is indeed a strong resemblance between the Collections which, dating from the earliest dawn of literature in England, have been augmented by successive additions, and now form the Libraries annexed to the Ecclesiastical Establishments of our own time and country.

In addition to the voluminous and important works of the Fathers of the Church, and of the earlier Divines of this country and of the Continent, which have been already enumerated in their proper place, this Library embraces other Theological Works of English writers, among whom it may be sufficient to mention the names of Bramhall, Gisborne, Horne, Jortin, Perkins and Wake. To these may be added Pierce on the Epistles; Prideaux and Shuckford’s Connection; and Cudworth’s Intellectual System.

But the true character of these Collections will, in every case, be most correctly understood by a particular enumeration of their several contents.

In Classical Literature this Collection comprehends many of the principal Authors, but few of the most important editions. In illustration of this remark, I may adduce many works which have no other claim to a place in this notice; such as

Æliani Variæ Historiæ. Lugd. Bat. 1701, in 2 vols. 8vo.

Æneæ Sylvii Opera. Basil. 1571, folio.

Æschylus Tragœdiæ, per Henr. Stephanum. 1557, 4to.

Sophocles Tragœdiæ, per Henr. Stephanum. 1568, 4to.

Euripides, Barnesii, Cantabr. 1694, et Canteri. 1602, 2 vols.
4to.

Euripides, Glasguæ, 1821, in 9 vols. 8vo. in green morocco.

Apollonii Argonautica, per H. Stephanum, 1574, 4to.

Arrianus de Expeditione Alexandri, per H. Stephanum. 1575,
folio.

Sidonii Apollinaris Opera. Paris. 1652 & 1609.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Du Vall. Paris. 1681, fol.

Aristotelis Opera. Paris. 1654, 4 vols. folio, & Venetiis,
1562, 10 vols. 8vo.

Archimedis Opera, Gr. et Lat. Basileæ, 1544, folio.

Aristophanes. Genevæ, 1607, folio, et Lugd. Bat. 1625, 12mo.

Aristophanes Kusteri. Amst. 1710, folio, in red morocco.

Athenæi Deipnosophistæ. Lugduni, 1612, folio.

Arrianus de Venatione, per Holstenium. Paris. 1644.

Aulus Gellius. Amstel. 1665, 12mo.

Cæsaris Commentarii per S. Clarke. Lond. 1712, folio.

Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius. Lutet. 1604, fol.

Celsus de Medicinâ. Lugd. Bat. 1665, 12mo.

Ciceronis Opera, Lambini. Paris. 1566, 4 vols. folio, &
Gronovii, Lugd. Bat. 1692, 11 vols. 8vo.

Demosthenis et Æschinis Opera. Francof. 1640, folio.

Dio Cassius. Leunclavii. Hanov. 1606, folio.

Diodorus Siculus. Rhodomani. Hanoviæ, 1604, folio.

Dionysius Halicarnasseus. Sylburgii. Francof. 1586, folio.

Diogenes Laertius. Londini, 1664, folio.

Dionis Chrysostomi Orationes. Lutet. 1604, folio.

Epictetus. Cantabr. 1655, & Amst. 1683, with Carter’s
translation.

Horatius, edited by Bond, Baxter, and Bentley.

Homeri Ilias. 1689, 4to. et Odyssea, 1567, 12mo. cum.

Eustathii Commentariis. Basileæ, 1559, 3 vols. folio.

Herodotus, Francofurti, 1608, folio.

Herodotus Wesselingii. Amst. 1763, folio, Ch. max., in vellum.

Justini Historia. Lond. 1609, 12mo. & 1701, 8vo.

Juvenalis Lubini. Hanoviæ. 1603, 4to.

Livius, Gronovii. Lugd. Bat. 1634, 32mo. Clerici. Amst. 1710,
10 vols. 8vo. Coloniæ, 1525, folio, & Francof. 1628, folio.

Luciani Opera. Lutet. Paris. 1615, folio.

Luciani Opera. Hemsterhusii. Amst. 1743, 4 vols. 4to.

Livius Drakenborchii. Ludg. Bat. 1738-46, in 7 vols. 4to.

Longinus, à Pearce. Lond. 1624, et à Langbaine. Oxford, 1636.

Lucanus Oudendorpii. Ludg. Bat. 1728, 4to.

Lucretius Wakefieldii. Lond. 1796, 3 vols. folio.

Lycophron, Potteri. Oxonii, 1697, folio.

Martialis. Amst. 1670, & Genev. 1623.

Oratores Attici, Bekkeri. Berol. 1823, 5 vols. 8vo.

Ovidius, Burmanni. Amst. 1727, in 4 vols. 4to.

Persius Casauboni. 1647, 8vo. & Hanov. 1603, 4to.

Pindar, edited by Potter and Stephens.

Platonis Opera, Serrani. 1578, 3 vols. folio.

Platonis Opera, Bekkeri. Berol. 1815, 8 vols. 8vo.

Plautus, Lambini. Aurel. Allobr. 1605, 4to.

Plinii Historia Naturalis. Venet. 1571, Francof. 1599, &c.

Plinii Junioris Epistolæ. Genevæ, 1625.

Poetæ Græci Principes, Stephani. Paris. 1566, folio.

Plutarchi Opera. Stephani. Paris. 1572, 6 vols. 8vo.

Plutarchi Opera. Rualdi. Paris. 1624, 2 vols. folio.

Pausanias, Xylandri. Hanoviæ. 1613, folio.

Polybius Casauboni. Paris. 1609, folio.

Polybius Schweighaeuseri. Lipsiæ, 1789-95, 8 vols. in 8vo.

Ptolemæi Geographia. Basileæ, 1545, folio.

Quintiliani Opera. Coloniæ, 1521, folio.

Sallustius, à Wasse. Cantabr. 1710, 4to. Havercamp’s excellent
edition.

Seneca. Paris. 1626, folio. Lugd. Bat. 1640, 4 vols. 12mo.

Strabonis Geographia, Casauboni. 1587, folio.

Suetonius, Pitisci. Leovardiæ. 1714, 4to. 2 tom.

Suetonius. Paris. 1610, folio, Lugd. Bat. 1647, 8vo.

Tacitus Variorum. Paris. 1608, folio.

Terentius Variorum. Lugd. Bat. 1675, 8vo. & Bentleii. Cant.
1726, 4to.

Theocritus, Heinsii. 1604, 4to. Hudsoni.

Thucydides. Francof. 1694, & Oxonii, 1696, folio, et Dukeri,
Amst. 1731, folio.

Valerius Maximus. Lutet. 1517, folio.

Vegetius de Re Militari. Lugd. Bat. 1592, 8vo.

Virgilius, Servii. Paris. 1600, folio. Variorum. L. Bat. 1680,
3 vols. 8vo. with Heyne’s excellent edition.

Vitruvius de Architecturâ. Amstel. 1649, folio, and Xenophon
Leunclavii. Francof. 1596, folio. Oxonii, 1703, 5 vols. 8vo.

This Library is also endowed with various Works upon Etymology, deserving of some mention in this place. Among which, the valuable addition of the Saxon Tongue in Somner’s own handwriting, induces me to mention firstly,

Minsheu’s Guide into Tongues. London, 1627, folio; and next,

Somneri Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum. Oxon. 1659,
folio.

Spelmanni Glossarium Archaiologicum. Lond. 1664, folio.

Skinner, Etymologicum Linguæ Anglicanæ. Lond. 1671, folio.

Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis. Oxon. 1705, 2 vols. folio.

Davies’ Dictionarium Britannico-Latinum. Lond. 1632, folio.

Cotgrave’s French and English Dictionary. Lond. 1611, folio, and

C. Kiliani Dufflæi Etymologicum Teutonicæ Linguæ. Antv. 1599,
4to.

To which may be added the Greek and Latin Glossaries of Du Fresne, the Lexica of Scapula, and Suidas. Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ et Latinæ, with Valpy’s recent edition of the former. Calepini Dictionarium octolingue. Hoogeveen Doctrina Particularum. Vossii Etymologicum Linguæ Latinæ. Sylburgii Etymologicum Magnum. Vigerus de Idiotismis Græcis; with French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, and Æthiopic Dictionaries; Hebrew, Greek, Samaritan, Æthiopic, Saxon, and Italian Grammars; from which a very fair estimate may be formed of this important portion of the Library.

In conclusion, I have ventured to enumerate some of the Works on Bibliography, chiefly of an early date, which are found in this Library, giving precedence to the Bibliotheca Græca, Hamburgi, 1705, 14 vols. 4to. and Latina, Hamburgi, 1708-12; with the Bibliographia Antiquaria of Fabricius, Hamb. 1713, 4to.; to which I may add the following:

Balei Scriptorum Britanniæ Catalogus. Basil. 1559, folio.

Beughem, Bibliographia Critico-Curiosa. Amstel. 1689, 2 vols.
8vo.

Beughem, Bibliographia Historica, Chronologica et Geographica.
Amst. 1685, 8vo.

Beughem, Incunabula Typographiæ. Amst. 1688, 8vo.

Le Long, Bibliotheca Sacra. Paris. 1723, 2 vols. folio.

Joh. Lomeierus de Bibliothecis. Ultrajecti. 1680, 8vo.

Gabr. Naudæi Bibliographia Militaris. Jenæ. 1683, 8vo.

Nouvelle Bibliothèque choisie. Amst. 1714, 2 vols. 8vo.

Bibliothèque Curieuse et Instructive. Trevoux, 1704, 12mo.

List of the various Editions of the Bible. Lond. 1778, 8vo.

Frisii Bibliotheca Philosophorum Chronologica. Tiguri, 1592,
4to.?

Gesneri Bibliotheca. Tiguri, 1574, folio.

Marrier’s Bibliotheca Cluniacensis. Lutet. Paris. 1614, folio.

Photii Bibliotheca, curâ Hœschelii. Rothomagi. 1653, folio.

Pitseus, de Scriptoribus Angliæ. Paris. 1619, 4to.

Reading’s Catalogue of Sion College Library. London, 1724,
folio.

Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannico Hibernica. Lond. 1748, folio.

Wormii Literatura Danica. Hasniæ, 1636, 4to.

Histoire de l’Imprimerie, et de la Librairie. Paris. 1689, 4to.

Bibliothèque des Auteurs de l’Histoire de France. Paris. 1618,
12mo.

The Catalogues of various Libraries come next in order. First, let us take those of Manuscripts, among which we find

James’s Catalogus Librorum MSS. Oxon. et Cantabr. Lond. 1600,
4to.

Catalogus MSS. Angliæ, et Hiberniæ. Oxon. 1697, folio.

Catalogus Librorum MSS. à Matthæo Parker, Collegio C.C.C.
legatorum. Lond. 1722.

Catalogue des MSS. de la Bibliotheque du Sequier. Paris. 1686,
12mo.

Among the several Catalogues of printed books we find

James’s Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ. Oxon. 1620, 4to.

Hyde’s Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ. Oxon. 1674, folio.

Bibliothecæ Cordesianæ Catalogus. Paris. 1643, 4to.

Bibliothecæ Scarburghianæ Catalogus. 8vo. sine loco aut anno.

Bibliothecæ Colbertinæ Catalogus. Paris. 1708, 8vo.

Bibliothecæ Thuanæ Catalogus. Paris. 1679, 2 vols. 8vo.

Bibliothecæ Sequierianæ Catalogus. Paris, 1685, 8vo.

Bibliothecæ Bultellianæ Catalogus. Paris. 1711, 2 vols. 8vo.

Bibliothecæ Chethamensis Catalogus, à Radcliffe, 2 vols. 8vo.

Bibliotheca Telleriana. Paris. 1693, folio.

Bibliotheca Heinsiana. Lugd. Bat. 1682, 12mo.

Catalogus Librorum Joannis Giraud. Paris. 1707, 8vo.

Catalogus Librorum Joannis Galloys. Paris. 1710, 8vo.

Catalogue of Charles Bernard’s Library. Lond. 1710, 12mo.

Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecæ Joach. Faultrier. Paris. 1709.
8vo.

Roberti Scott Catalogus Librorum. Lond. 1674, 4to.

Dibdin’s Typographical Antiquities, in 4 vols. 4to.

Works of Bibliography are not abundant in the Cathedral Libraries of England, and it is because in this collection they are unusually numerous that I have mentioned many books now but seldom met with, and some deservedly forgotten.

If to any of my readers this account appear unnecessarily prolix, I must remind them that my object is to give them such full information as to the contents of each Cathedral Library, as may enable them to judge for themselves of its character.

If again this object can only be effected by a dry catalogue of books, the enthusiasm of the genuine bibliographer will carry him through the task, and in the present instance, it is hoped, may render him more intimately acquainted with the literary treasures of the METROPOLITAN Library contained within the walls of Christ Church, Canterbury.

Library of Carlisle.

The Library of the Dean and Chapter of this Cathedral is placed in a small room immediately adjoining the Chapter-house, which stands in the quiet close contiguous to the Cathedral.

The books are all arranged upon open shelves, and labelled at the back in accordance with the several Manuscript Catalogues which have from time to time been made of this collection.

Of these the first is a small folio, in the handwriting of one person, entitled “Catalogus Librorum in Bibliothecâ Carliolensi repositorum ordine alphabetico digestus. Georgius Fleming, _LL.D._ Decanus Carliol.” The next consists of two larger folios, whereof the first is entitled, “Catalogus Librorum in Bibliothecâ Carliol. ordine alphabetico digestus;” and the second “Catalogus Librorum secundum Classes (Literis Capitalibus signatas, numeris ordinalibus notatas) dispositorum.” The last Catalogue, compiled in 1821, is also in folio, and arranged in alphabetical order, the references to the books being copied from the preceding Catalogues; but the imprints and dates of the books are not given in this last enumeration of their titles.

The principal feature of this Library is theological, ponderous folios of obsolete divinity in dark, unlettered calf, and smaller controversial treatises, now deservedly forgotten, occupying a large space upon these dusty shelves.

In all this mass of Divinity the works of St. Anselm, St. Chrysostom, Tertullian, St. Athanasius, Justin, Origen, Lactantius, the Gregories, and Theophylact, with Eusebii Præparatio and Demonstratio Evangelica, printed at Paris in 1628, in 2 volumes folio, and other Fathers of the Church, form prominent features. But perhaps the most correct idea of this department may be formed by a cursory survey of its component parts:—the Polyglott Bible of Walton, with a defective copy of Castell’s Lexicon. Biblia Latina Castalionis, printed at Basle, in folio. Coverdale’s English Bible of the date of 1553. (G. III. 1.) and the Catalogue mentions another “old English Bible, temp. Henry VIII.” which I could not find, though numbered A. VI. 18. a Spanish and an Italian, and a small quarto Hebrew Bible. Bagster’s Latin Bible of 1824, in 12mo. calf. Novum Testamentum Gr: Millii. Oxonii, 1707, in 2 vols. fol. Geddes’ Translation of the Scriptures, printed at London, in 2 vols. 4to. in 1792. Poli Synopsis and the Critici Sacri. Canones et Decreta Concilia Tridentini. Concilia Generalia et Provincialia. Parisiis, 1636, in folio. Quick’s Synodicon in Gallia Reformatâ. Bishop Overall’s Convocation Book. London, 1690, in 4to.; and Grabe’s Septuaginta Interpretum. Oxonii, 1707, in 2 vols. folio.

Turning from Chamieri Controversiæ, Genevæ, 1526, in four thick folios, to Lutheri Opera, Jenæ, 1612, also in folio; and from the works of Cardinal Bellarmine, and of Calvin, to the works of Grotius, Melancthon, and Erasmus, it is refreshing to find the works of Jeremy Taylor, Barrow, Hammond, and Tillotson, of Hooker, Mede, Hall, and Prideaux, preserved on the same shelves with Lardner’s Testimonies, in 4 vols. 8vo. and his Gospel History, the latter in 17 volumes 8vo.; Jewel’s Apology, Pearson on the Creed, Campbell on the Gospels, Paley’s Moral Philosophy, and Watson’s Theological Tracts, in 6 vols. 8vo.

To the above may be added, the Homilies of the Venerable Bede, the Works of Andrews and Baxter, with the Preservative against Popery, and other treatises of like nature, too insignificant for detail.

As connected with Ecclesiastical affairs, I may here notice, Usher’s Antiquitates Ecclesiæ Britannicæ, Stillingfleet’s Origines Britannicæ, and Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ, Spotswood’s History of the Church of Scotland, and Bower’s History of the Popes, in 7 volumes 4to.

In Ecclesiastical History, we also find Wilkins’s Concilia, Ecton’s Thesaurus, Spelman’s Concilia, Dugdale’s Monasticon, and Burton’s Monasticon Eboracense.

In British History, we have the pleasure of recording:—Daniel’s History of England; Kennett’s Register, or History of England; Buchanan’s History of Scotland; Sanderson’s History of Mary Queen of Scots; a complete set of Rymer’s Fœdera, 20 volumes, folio, in old calf, gilt; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum; Gulielmi Neubrigensis Historia Rerum Anglicanarum; Langhorne’s Chronica Regum Angliæ; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum, Firma Burgi, and Baronia Anglicana; Gwillim’s Heraldry, 1638; Dugdale’s Baronage, and antient usage of bearing Arms; Mackenzie’s Royal Line of Scotland; Rerum Anglicarum Annales; Jones’s History of the Stuarts; Bates’ Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Angliâ; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Hacket’s Scrinia Referata, or Defence of Archbishop Williams; Laud’s Troubles, the Mercurius Rusticus, and a large collection of Tracts relating to the troublesome times of the great civil war, when the adjacent Cathedral suffered so severely.

As the best companion to the above Works, I may add a very nice Copy in calf, in 4 vols. 8vo. of Bishop Nicolson’s English, Scotch, and Irish Historical Libraries, printed at London, in 1696-7, &c.

I may add too, that this Library, like all others attached to Cathedral foundations, possesses a complete set of the records, and other documents published by authority of the Parliamentary Commissioners.

In British Topography, I remarked Camden’s Britannia, Annales, and Remains; Somner’s History of Canterbury, of the Portus Iccius, and of the Ports in Kent, with his Treatise on Gavelkind; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, in folio; Willis’s Cathedrals, in 2 vols. Ridpath’s Border History; Burn’s Westmoreland; Leigh’s Lancashire and Cheshire; Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s, and of Warwickshire, and his Treatise on Imbanking and Draining the Fens; Loggan’s Oxonia illustrata; Weever’s Funeral Monuments; and Stowe’s London. To which may be added, Boate’s Natural History of Ireland.

As a corollary to the History of England, Wilkins’ Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ Ecclesiasticæ et Civiles, the Statutes at large, and several Law Reports, including those of Vaughan and Noy, claim to be considered equally with Kippis’s Biographia Britannica.

In Etymology, I am enabled to record, Cotgrave’s French Dictionary; Spelman’s Glossary; Somner’s Dictionarium Saxonicum; Lluyd’s Archæologia; Skinner’s Etymologicon Anglicanum; Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis; Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon, and Scapulæ et Schrevelii Lexica Græca.

As tending to elucidate the dark passages of antiquity, I may add Astle on the Origin and Progress of Writing, and two important Works in very fine condition, bound in old calf. Andersoni Diplomatum et Numismatum Scotiæ Thesaurus, Edinburgi, 1739, folio, and I. L. Waltheri Lexicon Diplomaticum. Ulmæ, 1756, also in folio.

In Geography, I noticed Bochart’s Geographia Sacra, Nicolson’s English Atlas, in 2 large folio volumes, printed at Oxford in 1681, and Pitt’s Atlas, of equal bulk.

In Foreign History, I only noticed, Davila’s Civil Wars of France, the book which Hampden and Charles I. are both said to have studied. Thuani Historia sui Temporis. Rycaut’s History of the Turks, &c. &c. Josephus Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1720, 2 vols. folio.

Of Classic Authors, the editions which this Library contains are of little or no consequence, though it cannot be deemed entirely deficient in this class, possessing various editions of the works of Livy, Martial, Lucan, Lucian, Æsop, Velleius Paterculus, and Aulus Gellius; with the Variæ Historiæ of Ælian, Aristotelis Opera, Du Valli, Parisiis, 1654, in 4 vols. folio; Farnaby’s Ovid; Hudson’s Thucydides; and Hobbes’ Translation of the latter author; and Dryden’s Virgil.

To these I may add Photii Bibliotheca, Rothomagi, 1653, and Galeni Opera, Basileæ, 1533, both in folio.

In Natural History, I may mention Grews’ Anatomy of Plants, and the Theatrum Insectorum of Wotton, Gesner, and Penn, printed at London in 1634, in folio.

I may class at once under the same category, Ralegh’s History of the World; Heylin’s Cosmography; Grews’ Cosmologia Sacra; and Burnet’s Theory of the Earth: and as connected with Science, 37 vols. of the Philosophical Transactions, recently bound in calf.

In English Literature, we have the Works of the two Royal Authors, the unhappy Charles, and the pedantic James, as originally published in a collective form; and of the two great philosophers, Bacon and Boyle, as originally published in detached pieces, or separate volumes. The Works of Chaucer and of Hobbes, Brown’s Vulgar Errors, Stuart’s Political Economy, and the Legend of St. Cuthbert, may also serve to afford some idea of the miscellaneous contents of this ancient Library.

It only remains to notice, in Bibliography, the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, and Hyde’s Catalogue of the Bodleian Library.

I may add, that in this Library, which is under the care of the Treasurer of the Cathedral, a very salutary regulation exists, by which all borrowers of books guarantee the safe return of all volumes lent to themselves “in good plight and order;” and several declarations to this effect, properly subscribed and attested, may be seen in the old Register, commencing on November 23rd, 1703, which is still kept for that purpose.

Library of Chester.

The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Chester is kept in the Chapter-house annexed to the Cathedral. This apartment is entered from the cloisters, through an outer door and inner screen, over which, on each side the doorway, hang the flags of the 22nd Regiment, raised in Cheshire, presented to the Cathedral by General Finch. The sides of the room are ornamented by elegant and slender pillars, rising between the tall and narrow windows, up to the vaulted roof of stone.

The books are contained in oak presses with solid doors, which occupy three sides of the Chapter-house, with the exception of the space occupied by the two fire-places. The screen fills the fourth side entirely.

In a thin folio volume of 53 leaves, entitled “A Catalogue of certain Books belonging to Christ Church, at Chester. Folio. MDCCLXVIII.” we find this satisfactory assurance:—“In the month of June, MDCCLXII. every volume mentioned in this Catalogue, appeared to be in the Library, except those volumes only which were duly entered in the note book as borrowed books.

“T. C.”

The same authority proceeds to inform us that “There is a large folio Bible (not mentioned in the Catalogue) printed by Baskerville, presented to the Governors of the Cathedral, by the Rev. Mr. Henchman, Sacrist of Chester Cathedral, and Vicar of St. Oswald’s, within the same.

“In the Chapter Library,” it is added, “the folios are ranged on the lowest shelves in the several presses, the quartos on the shelves just above them, the smaller sized books extend from the quartos to the top of the press. Every press which contains books hath the letter initial of the title, together with the size of every volume therein, written on the inner side of the folding doors; moreover every letter is singly pasted on each shelf where it begins. The back of every single book, and of the first volume in every set, is marked with the letter, and number of that letter to which it belongs. Blue paper is used for marks, not through affectation of singularity, but because when it grows dusty through time it has a less sordid appearance than white.” Then follows an explanation of these marks, very useful to all frequenters of the Library, so long as the excellent order above described was preserved. That is however no longer the case, the labels having been removed from the books, and the lists taken off from the doors.

The books nevertheless are readily to be found, as new lettering pieces have been added to all which required such reparation. They still retain the dark calf in which they were originally bound, and are described in the Catalogue according to their sizes, from the folio downwards.

Under these heads the order is alphabetical, and titles are given with sufficient fulness, and the names, places, and dates of each work satisfactorily recorded in this Catalogue.

The books themselves are not numerous; in fact, I shall proceed to notice all except a few of the most obscure.

I will first dispose of the few manuscripts which, having been preserved from the wreck of the Monastic Library, are thus recorded:

“_Libri MSS._”

1. Cestria Sacra, etc.

2. De Cestriæ rebus antiquis.

These two volumes are bound in parchment in small 4to.

3. Prisca et Catholica Fides de reali presentiâ
Christi in Sacramento Eucharistiæ, unà cum refutatione
Transubstantiationis, 1655, per Dr. J. C. Dm. P——, large 4to.
sewed.

“Fr: Cholmondely ex dono Autoris.”

4. Four folio Books of writing paper, written in some parts, of
which two only now remain.

5. A short Account in the Latin language of a certain Roman
Altar, lately found by digging a cellar in the house of one
Tyrer, in Chester.

This interesting piece of antiquity is preserved in the cases of the Library which are not filled by books, where I also observed a Roman stone of the 20th legion, a stone inscribed with

+-------------+
|COHI ◇ OCRAII|
|MAXIMI Ω IMP |
+-------------+

Here is also most appropriately deposited the headstone of the coffin of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester.

I now turn to the printed books, which form this ancient collection, and in so doing cannot but remark the absence of Walton’s Polyglott Bible. The other editions of the sacred volume which I noticed were the

Biblia Græca. Francofurti, 1598, folio.

Montani Biblia Interlineari. Antverpiæ, 1584, folio.

The Bible in French, printed at London, 1688, 4to.

Biblia formâ minori, i. e. textus Hebraicus Veteris Testamenti
fine punctis Masoreticis, et Novum Testamentum Græcum versibus
in margine notatis, capitalibus autem literis Græcis notatis.

This small Hebrew Bible is bound up with an imperfect Greek Testament in 8vo. and Septuagint, according to the Vatican copy, Cambridge, 1665, 8vo.

Of the New Testament, printed separately, I noticed the Novum Testamentum Bezæ, 1598, folio. Nov. Test. Græcum, Oxonii, 1700, 8vo.; and the Nov. Test. Latinè et Italicè, printed at Lyons in 1558, 8vo.

I may here notice a recent addition to the collection, in the shape of Waltoni Prolegomena, in Biblia Polyglotta, edente Wrangham, Cantabrigiæ, 1828, in 2 8vo. volumes, with this inscription:

“Bibliothecæ Eccles. Cathedr. Cestriens. hunc librum cui
quasi inter mœnia ejus corona est imposita, eâ quâ par est
observantiâ humillimè offert.” “Franciscus Wrangham, Ebor.
Orient. Archdiaconus.”

“Kal. Jan. 1829.”

Of Commentators I observed Ainsworth’s Annotations on the Pentateuch, in folio; Erasmi Paraphrasis Novi Testamenti, 1541, folio; Hodius in Bibl. S. S. Oxon. 1705, folio; Hammond on the New Testament, in folio; Mayer’s Commentaries on the Bible, in folio; Whitby on the New Testament, in folio; Le Clerc on the N. T. 4to.; Heinsius on Nov. Test. 4to.; Fell on St. Paul, in 8vo.; Knatchbull on the New Testament; Patrick on the Psalms, and Slade’s Annotations on the Epistles and Gospels, in 8vo. and Usserii de LXX Gr. in 4to.

Of the Fathers of the Church this Library contains,

Augustini Opera. Parisiis, 1635, in 9 folio volumes.

Chrysostomi Opera. Græcè, Etonæ, 1612, in 8 vols. folio.

Cypriani Opera. Pamelii, 1593, folio.

The Works of Clement of Alexandria and S. Cyril, both in folio.

Epiphanii Opera, Petavii. Parisiis, 1622, folio.

Hieronymi Opera, Erasmi. Basileæ, in 9 folio volumes, much
injured by damp.

The Works of Irenæus, edited by Grabe, in folio.

Justinii Martyris Opera. Parisiis, 1615, folio.

Lactantii Opera, Sparke. Oxonii, 1684, 8vo.

Synesii Opera Petavii. Paris. 1631, in folio.

Theodoreti Opera, Sirmondi et Garnerii. Parisiis, 1642, in 5
folio volumes.

Tertulliani Opera, Rigaltii. Parisiis, 1675, folio.

The Works of Origen, Gregory Nazianzen, and Theophylact,
some Tracts of S. Chrysostom, Philo Judæus, the Epistles of
Ignatius, edited by Vossius in 1680, and by Smith in 1709: both
in 4to.

To these may be added Cotelerii Patres Apostolici, Amstelod.
1724, folio, and Grabe, Spicilegium Veterum Patrum. Oxon.
1700, in two 8vo. vols.

Of Concordances there is one in Latin printed at Hanover in 1618, and another in English printed at Cambridge in 1672: both in folio.

I also noticed the Alcoran and a Life of Mahomet (not Sale’s) of the date of 1688, in folio; Reeves’s Translations of the Apologies of the Primitive Fathers, 1709, in 2 volumes 8vo.; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; Poli Synopsis; Limborch Theologia Christiana; Polani Syntagma Theologiæ; and Willet’s Synopsis Papismi; all in folio, are found on these shelves.

Among the various writers on Theology I may mention a few pieces by Erasmus and Grotius, the works of Thomas Aquinas, Col. Agr. 1604, in folio, Dallæus de Cultibus, in 4to.; the Works of Pope Gregory, in 4to.; Outram de Sacrificiis, in 4to.; Arnobius adversus Gentes, Antverpiæ, 1582, 8vo.; Dodwell in Irenæum, and Joannes Sarisburiensis Policraticus, sive de nugis Curialium. Lugd. Bat. 1595, 8vo.

The collection of English Divinity is very respectable, including Barrow’s Works edited by Tillotson in 1683, in 2 folio volumes; Chillingworth’s Religion of Protestants, and Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity, both in folio; Bishop Hall’s Works, London, 1628, folio; Mede’s Works; Nicholls on the Common Prayer, 1613, and Pearson on the Creed, all in folio, with the Posthumous Works of the latter in 4to.; Perkins’s Exposition, London, 1728, folio; Sherlock on the Trinity, on Death, and other Works; Stillingfleet’s Origines, on the Protestant Religion, on the Trinity, and the Antiquity of the British Churches; Tenison on Idolatry; Thorndike on Religion; Waterland on the Creed; Wollaston’s Religion of Nature delineated, and Wall on Infant Baptism: all in 4to.

Bennet on Schism; Bastwick’s Controversial Tracts; Barrow on the Trinity; Clarke on the Attributes; Cockburn on the Christian Faith; Derham’s Physico-Theology; Ditton on the Resurrection; Edwards on Providence, London, 1696, 8vo.; Ellis on the XXXIX. Articles; Hartcliffe on Virtue; Howel on the Pontificate; Jenkin on the Christian Religion; Kenn on the Catechism; Lloyd on Church Government; Maurice on Episcopacy; Nicholls on Contempt of the World; Prideaux’s Connection; Turner on the Messiah; Thorndike on Religious Assemblies; Wake on Swearing; Whitby on Election and Reprobation, and on the New Testament; A Vindication of Miracles against Woolston by the Bishop of Lichfield, London, 1731, in 2 vols. 8vo.; and a Defence of Christianity from the Prophecies, by Edward, Bishop of Lichfield, London, 1725; an imperfect copy of Tillotson’s Works; Kenn’s Crown of Glory; Kettlewell’s Discourses; Calamy’s Sermons; Bishop Cleaver’s Sermons, Oxford, 1808, presented to the Library by Dr. Trevor; and several Miscellaneous Sermons and Tracts, mostly in 4to. including the Funeral Sermon of Margaret, mother of Henry VII. and Foundress of Christ’s and St. John’s Colleges at Cambridge, 1768; Bingham’s Scholastical History; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical History; Brent’s History of the Council of Trent, 1676, folio.

The Works relating to Ecclesiastical affairs in this Collection are not numerous. They include, Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, et Ecclesiasticæ Historiæ Auctores à Froben. Basileæ, 1544, folio; Howel’s Synopsis Canonum Rituale Græcar. Eccles. Orient. Paris. 1647, folio; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum, Cantab. 1685, folio; Usserii Annales, 1650, folio; Platina’s Vitæ Pontificum, Col. Agr. 1610, 4to.; Reformatio Legum Eccles. Regis Phil. Nat. Elzevir, 1661, 4to.; Cunæus de Republicâ Hebræorum, Durandi Rationale divinorum officiorum, 1592, 8vo.; The Rights of the English Convocation, 1700, 8vo.; Rycaut on the Greek and Armenian Churches, 1679, 8vo.; Richerii Historia Concil. General. Col. 1683, in 3 8vo. volumes; and Lewis’s Hebrew Antiquities, London, 1724, in 2 vols. 8vo.

The Historical department of this Library embraces Bayle’s Historical Dictionary, printed at Rotterdam in 1697, in 4 folio volumes; Cary’s Palæologia Chronica; Collier’s Historical Dictionary, in folio; the Chronicle of Eusebius, Europæ Speculum, Lond. 1637, 4to.; Josephus’s History of the Jews, printed by Froben at Basle in 1540, folio, a copy which is defective in the title; and the works of that author published at Geneva in 1635, folio; Daniel and Larrey’s Histories of France; Mireæ Chronica multorum Auctorum, Antv. 1608, folio; Montfaucon’s Antiquities, translated by Humphreys, in 7 folio volumes; Thuani Historia sui Temporis, curâ Buckleii, Lond. 1733, in 7 folio volumes; Seldeni Marmora Arundeliana, Lond. 1728, 4to.; Bossuet Histoire Universelle; Fleetwood’s Inscriptiones Antiquæ, Græcia Vetus illustrata à Frisio, Lugd. Bat. 1626, 8vo.; Manutii Antiquitates Romanæ, Col. Agr. 1570, 8vo.; Memoires du Duc de Rohan et de Duc de Guise; Malalæ his. Chron. Chilmead, Oxon. 1691, 8vo.; Onuphrii Rep. Rom. Comm. Venet. 1558, 8vo.; Roma Sacra antica, e moderna, figuratà, Romæ, 1687, 8vo.; Tursellini Epitome Hist. Col. Agr. 1629, 8vo.; and Zozimi Historia, Gr. and Lat. Oxon. 1679, 8vo.

I also noticed Doleman’s celebrated Conference with respect to the Succession to the Crown of England, 1681, 8vo.; Burton’s Commentary upon the Itinerary of Antoninus, 1658, folio; Camdeni Annales Elizabethæ, &c. Lond. 1615, in two folio volumes, and his Epistles, London, 1691, 8vo.; and Temple’s Introduction to the History of England, 1695, 8vo.

The Geographical Works in these Presses comprehend the Geographiæ Veterii Scriptores Minores. Oxonii, 1698, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Ortelii Thesaurus Geographicus et Sylacis Periplus Caryandensis, Vossii, 1639, 4to.; Vareni Descriptio Japoniæ et Siam. Cant. 1673, and his Vet. Geographia generalis, 8vo,; Well’s Geography, Oxford, 1701, 8vo.; and Wright’s Travels, London, 1730, 4to.—“a present from the Author to the Library.”

The Chronological series includes Browne’s Fasciculus Temporum, Lond. 1690, folio; Beveregii Institutiones Chronologicæ; Dodwell de Vet. Cyclis, Oxon. 1701, 4to.; Livelie’s Chronology, London, 1597, 8vo.; Shickardi Horologium Hebraicum, Lond. 1639, 8vo.; Strauchius Chronology in English, 1699, 8vo.; Scaliger de Emendatione temporum, in folio; and Whiston’s Chronology of the Bible, in 4to.

I now approach the most copious and interesting department of this Library, and proceed to enumerate the editions of the Greek and Roman classics, commencing with

A large paper copy of Æsopus, Alsopii. Oxon. 1698, 8vo.

Andronicus Rhodius, Heinsii. Lugd. Bat. 1617, 8vo.

Apollonius Rhodius, Elzevir. Lugd. Bat. 1641, 8vo.

Æschylus, Tragœdiæ, Ed. Pr. Aldi. Venet. 1518, 8vo. a clean
and perfect copy, bound up with Oppiani Halieuticon, Phil.
Junta. Florentiæ, 1515, 8vo. Dionysii Orbis Descriptio, Arati
Astronomicon, and Procli Sphæra, cum Scholii Ceporini. Basileæ,
apud Joannem Bebelium, 1523, 8vo.; measuring six inches and
three-eights by four inches, in old calf binding. There is
another edition of Æschylus printed at Paris, in 1552, 8vo.

Æschinis et Demosthenis Orationes à Foulkes. Oxon. 1696, 8vo.

Ælianus Fabri. 1668, 8vo.

Anacreon, à Barnes. Cantab. 1705; and Faher, 1660, 8vo.

Aristophanis Comœdiæ. Aurel., 1607, in folio, and Lugd. Bat.
1625, 8vo.

Aristotelis Opera Sylburgis. Francof. Wechel, 1584-7, in 4 4to.
volumes.

Aristotelis Ethica, Victorii, 1584; Rhetorica, Gr. & Lat. Lond.
1619; Physica, Francof. 1596; De Historiâ Animalium, 1585;
Rhetorica & De Arte Poeticâ, 1584, all in 4to.; and another
edition of the latter Treatise, printed at Cambridge in 1696,
8vo.; Athenæus Dalecampii, Lugd. Bat. 1612, in folio; and
Arrianus Stephani, 1575, folio.

Appiani Historia, Gr. & Lat. Tollii. Amstel. 1670, 8vo.

Aurelius Victor. Lugd. Bat. 1670, 8vo.; and

Aulus Gellius, Gronovii. Lugd. Bat. 1687, 8vo.

Aristidis Orationes. Canteri. 1604, 12mo.

Aristæneti Epistolæ. Paris. 1639, 8vo.

Ausonii Opera, 1608, 8vo.

Apollodori Bibliotheca Commelini. 1599, 8vo.

Athenagoras, edited by Humphreys. 1714, 8vo.

Arati et Eratosthenis quædam, cum Dionysii Hymnis. Oxon. 1672,
8vo.

Antoninus, edited by Gataker, Dacier, and Stanhope, in 1697,
folio, and the Edition printed at Oxford, 1680, 12mo.

Cæsar. Amst. 1650, 8vo.

Ciceronis Opera, Lugd. Bat. 1642, in 8 volumes 8vo.; Ciceronis
Epistolæ, 1549, and Paris, 1557, both in folio; Cicero de
Oratore, Aldi, Venetiis, 1564, 8vo., a cropt copy, in the
original calf measuring five inches and three quarters by
three inches and five-eighths, with “10. R. A.” stamped on the
sides; Orationes, Delphini, Cant. 1692, 8vo.; Quintus Calaber,
Hanoviæ, 1604, 8vo., and Quintus Curtius, Wetstein. Amstel.
1687, 8vo.

Callimachus; Stephani, in folio.

Catullus, Vossii. Brunsvig. 1658, 8vo.

Diogenes Laertius. Stephani, 1570, 8vo., and Kuhnii. Amst.
1692, in two 4to. volumes.

Dionysius Halicarnasseus. Oxonii, 1704, in 2 vols. fol.

Dion Cassius, Leunclavii. Hanoviæ, 1606, folio.

Dionis Chrysostomi Orationes. Lutetiæ, 1604, fol.

Dionysii Alexandrini et Pomponii Melæ, Orbis Descriptio, 1557,
folio.

Demosthenis et Æschines Orationes, Wolfii. Francof. 1604,
folio, and by Foulkes. Oxonii, 1696, 8vo.

Ennii Fragmenta, Hesselii. Amst. 1707, 4to.

Euripidis Tragœdiæ à Barnes. Cantab. 1694, folio, & Canteri.
Amstel. 1571, 8vo.

Euclidis Elementa à Barrow. Lond. 1659, 8vo.

Epictetus & Cebes. Cantab. 1655, 8vo.

Eustathius de Ismenie Amoribus. Paris. 1618, 8vo.

Eutropius. Basileæ, 1546, 8vo.

Eratosthenes. 1590, 8vo.

Falisci Cynegeticon, Johnson. Lond. 1679, 8vo.

Florus. Amstel. 1664, 8vo.

Frontini Opera. Amstel. 1661, 8vo.

Galeni Opera. Basileæ, 1538, in 3 folio volumes, and the fifth
part only of the Aldine edition of 1525, in folio.

Herodotus, Aldi. Venet. 1502, folio. This copy of the first
edition of this History is much defaced by scribbling, and has
been cropt by the binder, measuring only eleven and a quarter
by seven and a half inches. There is another edition printed at
Frankfort in 1608, folio.

Herodiani Historia, Stephani. 1581, folio.

Hesiodus, Grævii. Amst. 1667, 8vo., and another edition of
1537, in 4to.

Hippocrates Opera. Basileæ, 1538, folio.

Horatius, Schrevelii. Lugd. Bat. 1663.

Homerus. Basileæ, 1535, Castalionis, 1567, and Lugd. Bat. 1656,
all in folio.

Heliodorus. Francof. 1631, 8vo.

Hierocles. Lond. 1654, in two 8vo. volumes.

Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores, Casauboni. Paris. 1620, folio.

Historiæ Poeticæ Scriptores Antiqui, Gr. & Lat. Paris. 1675,
8vo. in old red morocco with gilt leaves.

Iamblichus, Commelini, 1598, and Kusteri, 1707, both in 4to.
and by Gale 1678, in folio.

Isocrates, Wolfii. Basileæ, 1570, in folio.

Justinus Variorum. 1659, 8vo.

Juvenal, Hennini. Ultraj. 1685, 4to. and Schrevelii, Lugd. Bat.
1664, & Hanoviæ, 1619, both in 8vo.

Livii Historia. Francofurti, 1552, 8vo.

Longinus, Faber. Sal. 1663, 8vo.

Lucian, Vossii. Amst. 1687, in two 8vo. volumes.

Lycophron, Meursii. Lugd. Bat. 1599, 8vo. and Canteri, 1601, in
4to.

Manilius, Scaligeri. 1600, 4to.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Valesii. Paris. 1636, 4to.

Musæus, Moschus and Bion. Whitford. Lond. 1655, 4to.

Menandri et Philemonis Reliquiæ. Cantab. 1713, 8vo.

Macrobii Opera, in 8vo.

Martial. Lond. 1615, 8vo.

Nicander. Coloniæ, 1530, 4to.

Cornelius Nepos. Amst. 1665, 8vo.

Oppianus, Ritterhusii. Lugd. Bat. 1597, 8vo.

Ovidii Opera. Lond. 1656, 8vo.

Panegyrici Veteres. Antv. 1599, 8vo.

Persius, Casauboni. Lond. 1647, 8vo.

Pausanias, Xylandri. Hanoviæ, 1613, folio.

Platonis Opera Ficini. Francof. 1602, in 3 folio vols.

Plutarchi Opera. Francof. 1620, folio.

Plotini Opera. Basileæ, 1580, folio.

Phædrus, Forbes. Salmur. 1657, 4to.

Pompeius Festus, Dacier. 1699, 4to.

Petronius Arbiter. Lond. 1693, Paris. 1618, & Lipsiæ, 1666, all
in 8vo.

Plautus, Gronovii. Lugd. Bat. 1664.

Plinii Historia Naturalis, Gronovii. Lugd. Bat. 1669, in 3 8vo.
volumes.

Plinii Junioris Epistolæ et Panegyricus. Oxon. 1703, 8vo.

Porphyrius de Vitâ Pythagoræ. Romæ, 1630, 8vo.

Phalaris Epistolæ. 1614, 8vo.

Velleius Paterculus. Oxon. 1693, 8vo.

A Copy of the first Edition of Pindarus, Aldi, Venet.
1513, 8vo. with Callimachi Hymni, Dionysii Periegetes, and
Lycophronis Alexandra, in one volume, interleaved throughout,
measuring six inches by three inches and five-eighths, and
bound in old calf. There is also the Oxford edition of Pindar,
1697, in folio.

Quintilian. Francof. 1629, 8vo. and by Gibson, Oxon. 1693, 4to.

Rhetores selecti Græci et Latini, à Gale. Oxon. 1676, 8vo.

Senecarum Opera. Amst. 1659, 8vo.

Senecæ Tragœdiæ. Lugd. Bat. 1611, 8vo.

Sophoclis Tragœdiæ, Camerarii. Steph. 1603, 4to. & Lugd. Bat.
1593, 8vo.

Suetonius, Casauboni, Argent. 1497, 4to. and Erasmi. Paris.
1527, 8vo.

Stobæi Sententiæ. Aur. All. 1609, folio.

Stephanus de Urbibus. Basil. 1568, folio.

Strabonis Geographia, Casauboni. Paris. 1620, fol.

Suidæ Lexicon. Froben. Basil. 1545, folio.

Sallust, by Maittaire. Lond. 1713, 8vo.

Symmachi Epistolæ. Neapoli, 1617, 8vo.

Sidonii Apollinarii Opera, Plantin. Par. 1599, 8vo.

Tacitus & Paterculus. Lipsii, Amst. 1668, folio.

Tacitus. Amst. 1664, 8vo.

Terentius. Lugd. Bat. 1669, & Amst. 1641, both in 8vo. and by
Hare, Lond. 1724, 4to.

Thucydides. Francof. 1594, folio.

Themistoclis Epistolæ. Romæ, 1628, 4to.

Themistii Orationes, Petavii. Paris. 1618, 4to.

Themistii Opera, Aldus. Venet. 1534, folio; a clean and perfect
copy, measuring twelve and a quarter by eight and a half
inches, in half binding; the title mended.

Theocritus. Oxon. 1699, 8vo.

Theophrasti Characteres, Casauboni, 1631, and by Needham, 1712,
both in 8vo.

Theonis Mathematica. Paris. 1644, 4to.

Valerius Maximus. Delphini, 1679, 4to.

Virgilius, Servii. Paris. 1532, folio.

Xenophon, Leunclavii. Paris. 1625, folio.

I have been thus minute in detailing the editions of the Classics in this Library, as of like nature are most of those works of antiquity which I have in other collections omitted to notice. This tedious detail may therefore have its use in shewing of what the great mass of classical literature deposited in our Cathedrals consists, and saving needless repetition of titles which have not sufficient interest to invite perusal.

I may here take occasion to notice

French Versions of Cæsar and Tacitus, by D’Ablancourt.

A Translation of Tacitus into English, by Richard Greenway.
London, 1622, folio, in calf.

Creech’s Translation of Lucretius, in 8vo.

Salmasii Exercitationes Plinianæ, in folio.

Artemidori et Achmetis Oneirocritica Rigaltii. Lutet. 1603, 4to.

Duport’s Homeri Gnomologia. Cantab. 1660, 4to.

Machiavelli’s Discorsi di sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio.

Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes. Oxon. 1667, 8vo.

Politiani Opera. Ant. 1565, 8vo.

Vossius de Sybillinis Oraculis.

Manuelis Moschopuli de ratione examinandæ Orationes libellus.
Lutetiæ, Stephanus, 1545, 4to. a fine clean copy, in old calf
binding.

The Etymological Works in this Collection embrace

Bellarmine’s Hebr. Gram. Antv. 1686, 8vo.

Beveregii Linguar. Orient. Gram. 1658, 8vo.

Bythneri Hebr. Gram. Lond. 1675, 8vo.

Buxtorf’s Lexicon Hebr. and Chald. Bas. 1615, 8vo.

Fauchon’s French Grammar.

Harpocrationis Dict. Maussæi. Par. 1614, 4to.

Hesychii Lexicon. Lugd. Bat. 1668, 4to. interleaved with
manuscript annotations.

Julii Pollucis Onomasticon. Francof. 1608, fol. & Basil. 1536,
8vo.

Linacre, de Emendatâ Structurâ Latini Sermonis. Lips. 1573, 8vo.

Miege’s French Dictionary, 1677, 4to.

Porti Dict. Doricum. Francof. 1603, 8vo.

Putschii Auctores Grammatici. Hanoviæ, 1695, 4to.

Phavorini Dict. Gr. Basil. 1538, folio.

Scapulæ Lexicon. Lond. 1652, folio.

Sylburgii Etymologicon. Commelini, 1594, folio.

Stephani Lexicon Ciceronianum, 1557, 8vo.

Torriano’s Italian Grammar, 1673, 8vo.

Vigerus de Idiotismis. Lond. 1678, 8vo.

I must here notice a monument of literary diligence of very rare occurrence, which exists in a copy of Hesychii Lexicon, Aldi, Venetiis, 1524, folio, which is quite perfect, but defaced by writing on the first leaf, among which I found this curious memorandum by an unknown hand:

“Hesychii integru̅ primo̅ perlegi. MDCLV. Oct. xv.” “Iterum MDCLXVII. Mart. xxvi.”

The present copy measures twelve inches by eight and one-eighth, and is in old calf binding.

The Works relating to Literary History and Bibliography in this Library include

Bellarmine de Scriptor. Eccles. Col. Agr. 1631, fol.

Cave, Script. Eccles. Lond. 1688, folio.

Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca. Hamburg, 1705, 4to. & Bibliotheca
Latina. Lond. 1703, 8vo.

Jonson’s Script. Hist. Philos. Francof. 1659, 4to.

Labbe de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis. Paris. 1660, 8vo.

Photii Bibliotheca. Genev. 1611, folio.

Raynaudus de bonis et malis libris. Lugd. 1653, 4to.

Vossius de Historicis Græcis, Philosophis, &c. and other Works
in 4to.

The Latin Miscellanies on the Shelves comprehend

Aschami Epistolæ. Oxon. 1703, 8vo.

Helvici Theatrum. Oxon. 1651, folio.

Juliani Imperatoris Opera, folio.

Dicta Septem Sapientium. 8vo.

Hemelarii Romanorum Imperatorum Numismata Aurea. Ant. 1627, 4to.

Dictionarium Medicum. 1564, 8vo.

Heinsii Orationes. Lugd. Bat. 1615, 8vo.

Meursii Elegantiæ. Lugd. Bat. 1628, 8vo.

Petrarcha de remediis Fortunæ. Gen. 1628, 8vo.

Miltoni Defensio pro Populo Anglicano.

Salmasii Responsio ad Miltonum.

Scioppii Gram. Philos. Amst. 1659, 8vo.

Sennerti Epistolæ Scient. Nat. Oxon. 1664, 8vo.

Sulpicii Severi Opera, Elzevir. Amst. 1665, 8vo.

Some Tracts by Casaubon.

Of Mathematical Works I only observed

Oughtred, Clavis Mathematica, in 8vo.

Galbruchii Mathematica. Cant. 1668, 8vo.

Of Law Books I noticed

Dalton’s Justice. Lond. 1677, folio.

Keble’s Statutes at large. Lond. 1676, in 2 folio vols.

Ridley on Civil Law, in 4to.

In English Literature this Collection is poor indeed. I only remarked

An incomplete Copy of Collier’s Essays, in 8vo.

Hobbes’s Leviathan. London, 1651, folio.

The Natural History of Animals. London, 1702, fol.

Bacon’s Essays.

The Poll for Yorkshire in 1807, 8vo.

Pemberton’s View of the Newtonian Philosophy. London, 1728, 4to.

The French and Italian Works include those of Boileau, Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Venet. 1566, 8vo. Boccaccio’s Decameron, 1552, 8vo. Dante, 1551, 8vo. Tasso’s Gierusalem liberata, Ferrara, 1580, 8vo.

The Publications of the Record Commissioners are presented to the Chapter Library as they appear, and are therein deposited with the Reports of the Commissioners; the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland; the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum; and the Population Returns.

There is a Copy of the Common Prayer in the Castilian language, in this Collection, and a small 4to. volume, containing, “A Register of Books borrowed from the Chapter Library, 1826,” is constantly kept there for the use of those who frequent it.

These are not numerous, for the place wears the aspect of neglect, and a beggarly account of empty cases disappoints the ardent enquirer for intellectual food: he seeks for Books, and in some Presses finds only a stone.

Bishop Keene, it appears, pitying the forlorn condition of the Chapter Library, and having some tomes too ponderous for removal, upon his own translation from Chester to Ely gave the following volumes to the Dean and Chapter of Chester.

_Folio._

Brent’s Conc. Trent, 1676.

Bayle’s Dictionary. 4 vols.

Ciceronis Epistolæ. Par. 1557.

Life of the Duc d’Espernon. Par. 1655.

Homer, Castalionis. Bas. 1567.

Montfaucon, by Humphrys. Lond. 1721.

Poli Synopsis, 5 tom. Lond. 1673.

Cæsar, in French, by D’Ablancourt. Par. 1658.

Daniel, Hist. de la Milicie Française. Par. 1728.

Felibien’s Principles of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting,
in French. Par. 1697.

_Quarto._

The History of France to the death of Louis XIVth, in French.
Par. 1749.

Leger’s Country House, in French. Amst. 1701, 2 tom. in 1 vol.

Miege’s French Dictionary. Lond. 1677.

Tacitus, in French, by D’Ablancourt. Par. 1665.

Wicquefort’s Ambassadour, in French. Col. 1715, 2 tom.

_In Formâ Minori._

Boileau’s Works in French. Amst. 1735, 4 tom.

Batteux, Les Beaux Arts. Par. 1747.

Daniel’s History of France, Fr. Par. 1724, 9 tom.

Fauchon’s French Grammar. Cam. 1751.

Larrey’s History of Lewis XIV. Rotter. 1718, 9 tom.

“Aprilis Mense, 1771, Libros hos
Reverendus admodùm Edmundus Keene, S.T.P.
Episcopus Cestriensis
Nunc Eliensis
D. D.”

Library of Chichester.

The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Chichester is preserved in the Chapter House, which forms the Eastern termination of the Cathedral.

This room, of very fair proportions, is lighted by several large windows, and adorned with Portraits of George I. and the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle over the fire-place at the east end, and of William and Mary, in one picture, over the doorway at the other.

Upon the desk lie some Episcopal relics which have been of late years found in the Cathedral, and which have been engraved in one large plate for the benefit of the curious.

The Books are placed upon open shelves in tall cases of stained wood, with cornices, standing against the wall, three marked R. T. Y. being on one side, and three marked S. W. Z. on the other side of the room.

The contents of these cases are alphabetically enumerated in a thin folio volume in an old hand, the sizes of the Books being omitted, but reference being made to their position on the shelves, whereby the eye may be made to supply this deficiency. To this Catalogue, which bears the title of “Librorum in Bibliothecâ Ecclesiæ Cicestrensis Catalogus Alphabeticus,” interfoliary additions have from time to time been made.

In another Book are entered the Books which may be borrowed from the Library.

This Collection is very respectably attired, being chiefly bound in old calf, occasionally gilt, and consists chiefly of Theological and Historical Works, in tolerably good preservation.

The impressions of the Sacred Volume comprehend

The Biblia Polyglotta Waltoni, 1657, with Castell’s Lexicon.

Biblia LXX, per Holmes & Parsons. Oxonii, v. a. 6 v. folio.

Biblia Græca, Basil. 1545, Sacra Biblia, Junii, 1593.

Biblia Latina Vulgata. Parisiis, 1691.

Biblia Latina. Hanoviæ, 1605, & Basileæ, 1579, 2 vols. folio.

Biblia Hebraica, per Kennicott. Oxon. 1776, 2 v. fol.

Biblia Hebraica & Chaldaica, per Buxtorf. Basileæ, 1618, 2
vols. folio.

Biblia LXX, per Grabe. Oxonii, 1707, in 4 v. fol.

Biblia LXX, per Bos. Francof. 1719, 2 vols. folio.

The Bible in English by Field. Cambridge, 1669.

The Bible in English, by Baskett. Oxford, 1715.

The Novum Testamentum Syriace, et Græce, apud Stephanum.

The Codex Bezæ. Cantab. 1793.

Evangelium Matthæi, per Barrett. Dublin, 1801, 4to. in blue
morocco.

The New Testament by Griesbach, Wetstein; and by Kuster,
Lipsiæ, 1723; Millii, Oxon. 1707, 2 vols. folio, Vratislaviæ,
1782.

In Divinity, the Works of S. Basil, Bernard, Bingham, Bochart, Bramhall, Chrysostom, Clemens Alexandrinus, Le Clerc, S. Cyprian, S. Cyril, Cudworth, Epiphanius, Episcopius, Gregory, Nyssen, and Nazianzen, S. Hilary, Hospinianus, Horne, Jackson, Jewel, Justin Martyr, S. Isidore, Justinian, Lightfoot, Limborch, More, Patrick, Pearse, Philo Judæus, Paley, Pococke, Porteus, Stillingfleet, Sherlock, Tertullian, Theophylact, Jeremy Taylor, Wake, Whitby, Wells, may be seen in conjunction with

Ambrosii Opera. Basileæ, 1567, 3 vols. folio.

Anselmi Opera. Colon. Agrip. 1612.

Athanasii Opera, Colon. 1686, 2 vols. folio.

Augustini Opera. Parisiis, 1555, in 7 vols. folio.

Beverigii Pandectæ Canonum.

Boyle’s Theological Works.

Bulli Opera Theologica. Londini, 1703, folio.

Burkitt on the New Testament.

Burnet on the XXXIX Articles.

Calvini Opera. Genevæ, 1589, 10 vols. folio.

Calvin’s Institutes.

Cassiodori Opera. Venetiis, 1729.

Chamieri Controversiæ.

Chillingworth’s Works, 1684.

Here I may remark that in the Cloisters of this Cathedral, according to a plain mural tablet,

“Hic reducem expectat animam
GULIELMUS CHILLINGWORTH, A.M.
Coll. Trin. Oxon. Socius, &c.
omni literarum genere celeberrimus,
Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ adversus Romanam
Propugnator invictissimus.”

To return, however, to the department immediately under review, I may proceed to notice

Cave’s Primitive Christianity & Lives of the Fathers.

Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible.

Several Concordances, by various hands.

The Works of Samuel Clarke, in 4 vols. folio.

Collyer’s Sacred Interpreter.

Cotelerii Patres Apostolici. 1724.

Critici Sacri & Pole’s Synopsis.

Du Pin’s History of the Canon of the Old and New Testament.

Erasmus in Nov. Test. Basil. 1522, and other Works, with his
Life by Jortin.

Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica.

Fabricii Codex Pseudigraphus Veteris Testamenti. 2 vols. 8vo.

Forbes on Religion.

Faber on Pagan Idolatry.

Irenæi Opera, per Grabe. Oxon. 1702, folio.

Grabe’s Spicilegium. Oxon. 1698, 8vo.

Gray’s Connection.

Grotii Opera Theologica. Londini, 1679, 4 v. fol.

Hammond’s Paraphrase and other Works. 1684, 4 vols. folio.

Heylin’s Theological Tracts.

Hieronymi Opera per Victorium. Parisiis, 1609, 3 vols. folio.

Howel’s Synopsis Canonum.

Hyde’s Religio Veterum Persarum.

Lactantius cura Sparke. Oxon. 1684.

Lardner’s Credibility.

Lowth’s Isaiah.

Maltby’s Works. 1803.

Melancthonis Opera. Witebergæ, 1580, 4 vols. fol.

Norris on the Beatitudes.

Page’s Harmonia Sacra.

Pearsoni Opera Posthuma.

Petavii Dogmata Theologica.

Prideaux’s Connection.

Schleusner’s Lexicon Novi Test.

Shuckford’s Connection.

Stockii Clavis Nov. Test.

Stradæ Prolusiones.

Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus.

Tillotson’s Sermons. 1700, 14 vols. 8vo.

Wall’s Infant Baptism.

Zanchii Opera Theologica, together with the Sermons of Andrews, Barrow, Conybeare, Fysher, Hoadly, Horsley, Sanderson, and Saurin.

As connected with the Church Service I may add to these Henry the VIII.’s Primer, 1545; the Liturgia Anglicana Octoglotta, 1821; Baskett’s edition of the Common Prayer, London, 1754; and a beautiful large paper copy of the Common Prayer, printed by Bill and Barker at London in 1662, folio, bound in green velvet and ruled with red lines; the gift of the Rev. Thomas Baker to the Cathedral Library; also “the Sealed Copy” of the Common Prayer of the same date, so called from its containing the original Letter Patent of Charles II. upon vellum, “for lodging a corrected and authentic copy of the Common Prayer Book in this Cathedral.” “N.B. The great Seal attached to these Patents is preserved in the Chapter House.” This interesting volume is unpretendingly attired in dark calf.

To these I may add the

Breviarium Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1594, and the

Missale Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1614.