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.