Note 460 — Chapter XI · WILLIAM CASLON, 1720.

Dr. David Wilkins, F.S.A., was Keeper of the Lambeth Library under Archbishop Wake, and drew up a Catalogue of all the MSS. and books there in his time. Besides editing the Selden and the Coptic Testament and Pentateuch, he published some important works in Anglo-Saxon Literature, and edited the learned Prolegomena to Chamberlayne’s Oratio Dominica in 1715. He died in 1740. Rowe Mores considers that in his Coptic studies Dr. Wilkins was indebted to Kircher, the Jesuit, whose Prodromus Coptus, published in Rome in 1636, the Doctor had severely handled.