Library of Gloucester.

The spacious and airy Chapter-house, warmed by a stove, is the meet receptacle of the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester. The books are arranged upon open shelves, in dwarf cases of oak, which skirt the walls of the room, and form two lines down the centre. They are briefly enumerated in an old alphabetical Catalogue, but are placed on the shelves according to a new Catalogue which is now preparing by Mr. Hough, the bookseller of Gloucester. There are also a list of books borrowed, and “a List of Benefactors to the Library of the Cathedral Church of Gloucester.” Folio.

This Collection contains much obsolete Law and Divinity; but the latter department possesses also many valuable Works, which I will proceed to show, commencing with the impressions of the Sacred Volume.

Biblia Polyglotta. Waltoni. cum Castelli Lexicon.

Biblia Hebraica. Montani. 1619, folio.

Biblia Hebraica, Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776, 2 vols. folio.

Biblia Latina, S. Hieronymi. Norimbergæ, 1478, folio.

Biblia Latina, R. Stephani. Parisiis, 1532 and 1557.

Biblia Germanica, Lutheri. Magdeburg, 1560, fol.

Biblia Italica, Diodati. 1807, folio.

The Bible in Welsh. London, 1769, 4to.

The Bible in English, dedicated to Henry VIII. London, 1536, folio.

The Bible in English, Tyndale’s. London, Jo. Taverner, 1549, folio.

The Bible in English, Field’s. Cambridge, 1680, 2 vols. folio.

The Bible in English, dedicated to James II. Oxford, 1685, folio.

The Bible in English, Baskett. Oxford, 1717, 2 vols. folio.

The Bible in English, Geddes. London, 1792, 3 vols. 4to.

Fulke’s Rhemish Testament, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.

The Novum Testamentum Hutteri, 2 vols. folio.

To which I may add the Codex Bezæ, by Kipling, in old calf; the Novum Testamentum Græcum, Kusteri. Lipsiæ. 1723, folio.

I may here also mention the Book of Common Prayer, by R. Barker, London, 1634, 4to.; the Breviarium Romanum; and Missale Romanum. Antv. 1631, folio; and proceed to enumerate the Fathers of the Church, whose Works are found in this Collection.

Ambrosii Opera. Parisiis, 1603, 2 vols. folio.

Augustini Opera. Parisiis, 1637, 11 vols. folio.

Anselmi Opera. Parisiis, 1559, folio.

Basilii Opera. Parisiis, 1618, 3 vols. folio.

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

Clementis Alexandrini Opera. Oxonii, 1725, folio.

Cypriani Opera. Coloniæ, 1617, folio.

Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica. Coloniæ, 1688, 2 vols. folio.

Eusebii Thesaurus temporum. Amstelodami, 1658, folio.

Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica. Cantabrigiæ, 1720, 3 vols. folio.

Hieronymus in Evangelia. Antverpiæ, 1579.

Lactantius. Venetiis, 1472, folio.

Origenis Commentarii. Rothomagi, 1668.

Origenis Opera. Parisiis, 1733, 2 vols. folio.

Philonis Judæi, Opera. Londini, 1742, 2 vols. fol.

Tertulliani Opera. Parisiis, 1664, folio.

Tertulliani Opera. Basileæ, 1528, folio.

Theophylact. Comment. Parisiis, 1635, 2 vols. folio; with the Works of S. Cyril, Episcopius, Epiphanius, of S. Gregory Nysseni, et Nazianzen, and the Bibliotheca Patrum. Paris, 1644, in 15 vols. folio.

In a later æra of the Church we find the Works of Bede, Thomas Aquinas, Calvin, Cranmer, Barrow, and Beveridge.

Bernardi Opera. Antverpiæ, 1609, folio.

Bingham’s Works. London, 1729, 2 vols. folio.

Bulli Opera. Londini, 1703, folio.

Bellarmini Controversiæ. Coloniæ, 1628, folio.

Archbishop Bramhall’s Works. Dublin, 1677, folio.

Bishop Blackhall’s Works. London, 1723, 2 vols. folio.

Bochart, Hierozoicon. Londini, 1663, folio.

Buchanani Psalmorum Paraphrasis. 1624.

Bythneri Lyra Prophetica.

Clarke’s Works. London, 1738, 4 vols. folio.

Hodius de Textibus Bibliorum. Oxonii, 1705, fol.

Hospiniani Opera. Genevæ, 1678, 4 vols. folio, calf.

Joanes de Imola Opera. Venetiis, 1480, duplicate.

Leland on the Christian Revelation. 1764, 2 vols. 4to.

Lutheri Opera. Jenæ, 1612, 4 vols. 4to.

Leusden Comp. Bibl. Lugd. Bat. 1685, 12mo.

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

Mori Opera Theologica, 1675, et Opera Philosophica, 1679, 3 vols. folio.

Nicolai de Lyra Comment. Basileæ, 1507, 6 vols. folio.

Orton’s Exposition of the Old Testament. Salop. 1788, 6 vols. 8vo.

Raynaudi Opera. Lugd. Bat. 1665, 19 vols. folio.

Rosenmuller Scholia in Nov. Test. Norimbergæ, 1785, 5 vols. 8vo.

Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus. Antverpiæ, 1682, 2 vols. folio.

Spanheim Opera. Lugd. Bat. 1702, 3 vols. folio.

Synge’s Works. 1740, 4 vols. 12mo.

Taylor and Cave’s Antiquitates Christianæ. Londini, 1685, folio.

Venn’s Tracts. London, 1740, 8vo.

Zanchii Opera Theologica. 1613, 3 vols. folio.

To which may be added, the Preservative against Popery, in 3 vols. folio; Baxter’s Saints’ Rest; Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher, by Bishop Berkeley; Burnet on the Articles; Blayney’s Jeremiah; Butler’s Analogy; Balguy’s Tracts; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible, London, 1708, 3 vols. folio; Concordantiæ Bibliorum, Hanoviæ, 1618, 4 vols. folio; Cave’s Scriptor. Eccles. Historia literaria; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; the Works of Chillingworth and Conybeare; Campbell on the Gospels, and on Miracles; Dupin Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques, Paris. 1693, 10 vols. 8vo.; Derham’s Astro Theology, Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, Irenop. 1639, 6 vols. folio; Tracts on the Bangorian Controversy, London, 1739; Critici Sacri, Londini, 1660, 10 vols. folio; Poli Synopsis, Londini, 1669, 5 vols. folio; Cruttwell’s Concordance; Fleetwood’s Works, 1737; Bishop Fell on the Epistles; Faber on Pagan Idolatry and on the Prophecies; several Tracts by Grotius; Graves on the Pentateuch, 1807, 2 vols. 8vo.; the Works of Hammond, Hopkins, Hooker, Hurd, and Hoadley; Horsley on the Psalms, and other Works; Hey’s Lectures; Hutcheson’s Moral Philosophy, and Essay on the Passions; Hales on the Trinity; Jackson’s Works; Jones’s Canon of the New Testament, 1726; the Works of Lightfoot; Marsh’s Michaelis on the New Test. 1802, 6 vols. 8vo.; Newton’s Prophecies and Sermons; Newcome’s Sermons; Ostervald’s Arguments; Pearson on the Creed; Prideaux’s Connection; Patrick and Lowth’s Commentaries; Lowth’s Isaiah; Leighton’s Works; Mede’s Works, 1664, 2 vols. folio; Macknight’s Harmony; Pyle’s Paraphrase; the Works of Paley, Porteus, Secker, and Stillingfleet; Stackhouse’s History of the Bible, London, 1742, 2 vols. folio; Sanderson’s Sermons; Sale’s Koran; Saurin’s Sermons; the Works of Sherlock, Stanhope, Seed, and Tillotson; Jeremy Taylor’s Ductor Dubitantium; the Works of Warburton, Wake, Whiston, and Waterland; Watson’s Apology, and Theological Tracts; West on the Resurrection; several volumes of the Bampton Lectures; the Bibliotheca Maxima Versionum, &c. Parisiis, 1666, 19 vols. folio; and Bibliotheca Magna Comment. Parisiis, 1644, 5 vols. folio, in calf.

In Ecclesiastical History, I may mention Lyndewode’s Provinciale, Paris. 1502, folio, & Oxonii, 1699, folio; the Centuriatores Magdeburgenses, Basileæ, 1624, 3 vols. folio; Baronii Annales, Antverpiæ, 1610, 12 vols. folio, in vellum covers, with the Epitome of Spondanus, in calf; Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, Lond. 1737, 4 vols. folio; Gratiani Decretum, Codex Theodosianus, cum Comment. Gothofredi, in 6 vols. folio; Justiniani Pandectæ, Parisiis, 1504; Durandi Speculum Juris, folio, in old black letter, imperfect; Basnage’s History of the Jews, London, 1708, fol.; Burnet’s History of the Reformation; Bower’s History of the Popes, London, 1748, 8 vols. 4to.; Collier’s Ecclesiastical History, London, 1708, 2 vols. folio; Cressy’s Church History of Brittany; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Gibson’s Codex; Josephus, Havercamp, Amst. 1726, 2 vols. folio; Whiston’s Josephus, 1745, 8vo. 6 vols.; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Strype’s Annals and Memorials; Quick’s Synodicum in Galliâ Reformatâ, Londini, 1692, folio; Rycaut’s History of the Popes; Laval’s History of the Reformation in France, London, 1737, 7 vols. 8vo.; Sleidan Histoire de la Reformation à la Haye, 1767, 3 vols. 4to.; Usseri Annales, et Antiq. Eccl. Britt.; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy; and Fox’s Martyrs, London, 1632, 3 vols. folio.

Of English History, I remarked Brady’s Introduction thereto, London, 1685, folio, as well as his History of England, London, 1720, folio; Baker’s Chronicle, London, 1674, folio; Camden’s Britannia; Campbell’s Survey of Great Britain, London, 1774, 2 vols. 4to.; Colquhoun on the Resources of the British Empire; Dugdale’s Monasticon, and View of the Troubles; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Henry’s History of England; History of the Wars in Ireland, London, 1653, folio; Harris’s Life of Cromwell, London, 1772, 8vo.; Baker’s Hereditary Right, London, 1713, folio, for which he was imprisoned; Martin’s History of England, London, 1615, folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum Rer. Angl.; Norden’s Britanniæ Speculum; Scriptores post Bedam edente Savile; Sprigge’s Anglia Rediviva, folio; Stow’s Chronicle, London, 1631, folio; Drayton’s Polyolbion, folio; Webb’s Metrical History of Richard II. originally published in the Archæologia, 4to.; Rapin’s History of England; several Diurnalls of Passages in the Great Civil War, 4to.; Stafford’s Pacata Hibernia, 1633; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Sawyer’s Memorials of Affairs of State, London, 1725, 2 vols. folio; Wallace’s Peerage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1785, 8vo.; Yarranton’s England’s Improvement, London, 1677, 4to.; Twini Commentarii de rebus Albionicis, Londini, 1590, 12mo.; the Parliamentary History of England, London, 1751, &c. 23 vols. 8vo.; the Publications of the Record Commission, and the Statutes at large.

Of English Topography, I remarked Verstegan’s Restitution of decayed Intelligence, 4to.; an Act for the Incorporation of the Gloucester Workhouse in 1703; Bigland’s Gloucestershire, London, 1791, folio; Fosbroke’s Gloucestershire, 4to.; Britton’s Gloucester Cathedral; Rudder’s Gloucestershire; Bentham’s Ely; Drake’s York; Pennant’s Tour; Rastall’s Southwell, 1787; Plot’s Oxfordshire; Stow’s London, imperfect; and Speed’s Great Britain, also imperfect; Sammes’s Britannia; Lysons’ Magna Britannia, in 9 vols. 4to.; Wood’s Antiquitates Oxonienses; and Willis’ Cathedrals, London, 1727, 3 vols. 4to.; with the Welsh Cathedrals, viz. those of St. Asaph, Bangor, St. David’s, and Llandaff.

Of General History, the Works are mostly obsolete, being Bossuet Histoire Universelle; Churchill’s Voyages; Delices des Pays Bas; Eustace’s Italy; Fuller’s Palestine, 1650, folio; Gillies’ History of the World, 2 vols. 4to.; Davila’s Civil Wars of France, folio; Harris’s Voyages; Hughes’ Barbadoes; Hooke’s Roman History; Hakluyt’s Voyages, London, 1600, folio; Knolles’s History of the Turks; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Knox’s Campaigns in North America, 1769, 2 vols. 4to.; Norden’s Egypt, London, 1757, folio; Potter’s Greece; Moryson’s Itinerary, London, 1617, folio; together with Purchas’ Pilgrimes, London, 1625, 5 vols. folio; Ralegh’s History of the World; Heylin’s Cosmography, folio; Robertson’s Works; Symson’s Chronicon Catholicon, Oxonii, 1652, folio; Thuani Hist. sui temporis; Tournefort’s Voyages; Grimstone’s France; Shute’s Venice; Warcup’s History of Italy, London, 1660, folio; and the Universal History.

It is pleasant to be able to add to these, a very fine copy of the valuable Collections of Grævius and Gronovius upon large paper, in old calf binding, with a border of gold on the sides; the Inscriptions of Gruter; Pitisci Lexicon; Montfaucon, l’Antiquité Expliquée, Paris, 1719, in 15 vols. folio, a fine copy in old calf, gilt; with Humphrey’s Translation of Montfaucon, London, 1722, 7 vols. folio; to which I may add D’Anville’s Atlas, London, 1797, folio; and Buckingham’s Travels in Palestine, London, 1821, 4to.

Of Law Books, besides the Statutes at large, and Pickering’s Statutes, I noticed, among much obsolete matter, Ayliffe’s Roman, Civil and Canon Law, London, 1734, 2 vols. folio; Corpus Juris Civilis Justiniani; Seldeni Opera, Londini, 1726, 3 vols. folio; Selden’s Mare Clausum, edited by Needham; Spencer de legibus Hebræorum, Cantabr. 1727, 2 vols. folio.

Of Etymological Works the list is not much more copious, consisting of Johnson’s English Dictionary; Ainsworth’s Latin Dictionary; Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; Calepini Dictionarium Octolingue, Lugd. Bat. 1663, folio; Cooper’s Dictionary, London, 1573, folio; Cotgrave’s French and English Dictionary, London, 1611, folio; a Welch Grammar, printed at Caermarthen in 1727, 12mo.; Dictionarium Linguæ Japonicæ, Romæ, 1632, 4to.; Golii Lexicon Arabico Latinum, Lugd. Bat. 1653, folio; Hickesii Thesaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium, Oxonii, 1705, 2 vols. folio; Hoffmanni Lexicon; Stephani Thesaurus, 1527, 5 vols. folio; Spelman’s Glossary; Tooke’s Diversions of Purley, 1798, 2 vols. 4to.; and Vossii Opera, Amstelod. 1701, folio.

Of Classical authors, the editions contained in this Library are neither the first nor the best; the most correct idea, however, of their true character may be obtained by perusing the following brief enumeration of them:

Æginetæ, Pauli, Medici, Opera, Gr. Basileæ, 1538, 4to.

Aristotelis Opera. Parisiis, 1561, 2 vols. 4to.

Aratus et Sigonius. Parisiis, 1561, 4to.

Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. Bat. 1612, folio.

Arriani Expeditio Alexandri. Lugd. Bat. 1704, fol.

Æschyli Tragœdiæ. Londini, 1664, folio.

Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti. Parisiis, 1740, 9 vols. 4to. bound in old French calf.

Callimachus. Lugd. Bat. 1761, 2 vols. 8vo.

Cæsaris Commentaria. Lugd. Bat. 1713, 8vo.

Catullus, Tibullus, & Propertius. Francof. 1621, 8vo.

Diodorus Siculus. Hanoviæ, 1604, folio.

Demosthenis Orationes. Parisiis, 1570, folio.

Dionysius Halicarnass. Francof. 1586, folio.

Aulus Gellius. Lugd. Bat. 1706, 4to.

Herodotus. Francof. 1608, duplum.

Homeri Opera. Clarkii, 1729-40, 4 vols. 4to.

Homeri Ilias. Heynii, 1802, 8 vols. 8vo.; with Translations by Chapman and Ogilby, folio.

Hesiodus. Amstelodami, 1701 et 1757.

Justini Opera. Parisiis, 1615.

Iamblicus a Gale. Oxonii, 1778, folio, calf.

Juvenalis. Amstelodami, 1684, 8vo.

Isocratis Orationes. Rothomagi, 1662.

Lucianus Oudendorpii. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 4to.

Lucretius. Parisiis, 1625 et 1560.

Libanii Orationes. Genevæ, 1631-4, 2 vols. 4to.

Livius Variorum. Amstelod. 1679, 3 vols. 8vo.

Manilii Astronomicon, apud Plantin. 1610, 4to.

Oratores Græci Veteres. 1575, folio.

Ovidius, Burmanni. Amstelod. 1727, 4 vols. 4to.

Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii. Rothomagi, 1563, fol.

Pomponius Mela. Venetiis, 1482, 4to.

Plutarchi Opera. Francof. 1620, 2 vols. folio.

Plutarchi Vitæ. Londini, 1729, 5 vols. 4to.

Plinii Historia Naturalis. Lugd. Bat. 1563, folio.

Ptolomæi Geographia. Amstelod. 1618, folio.

Pausanias. Hanoviæ, 1613, folio, duplum.

Pausanias. Lipsiæ, 1696, folio.

Pindarus, West & Welsted. Oxonii, 1697, folio.

Phædrus, Burmanni. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 2 vols. 8vo.

Poetæ Minores Græci. Londini, 1728, 8vo.

Quintilianus. Parisiis, 1542, 4to. & 1725, folio.

Strabonis Geographia. Amstelod. 1707, 2 vols. fol.

Senecæ Tragœdiæ, Delphini. Paris. 1728, 4to.

Senecæ Opera. Amstelodami, 1672, 3 vols. 8vo.

Sallustius, Havercampi. Amstelod. 1742, 2 vols. 4to.

Suetonius, Grævii. Traject. ad Rhen. 1703.

Stobæus, Gr. et Lat. Genevæ, 1609, folio.

Tacitus, Gronovii. Traject. 1722, 2 vols. 4to.

Thucydides. Genevæ, 1609, folio.

Terentius. Amstelod. 1686, 8vo.

Theocritus. 1804, 4to.

Virgilius Variorum. Lugd. Bat. 1680, 3 vols. 8vo. with Ogilby’s Translation. London, 1660, folio.

Xenophontis Opera, Gr. et Lat. Parisiis, 1625, fol.

To which may be added, the Works of Dioscorides; Petrus de Crescentiis; Euclid, Plautus, and Plato; Melmoth’s Letters of Pliny; Vigerus de Idiotismis Græcis, Londini, 1678, 12mo.; Barthelemy’s Voyage d’Anacharsis, Paris, 1790-7, 8vo. atlas; Falconer’s Voyage of Hanno, London, 1797, 8vo.; and Vincent’s Voyage of Nearchus, London, 1797, 4to.

Of British Classics, this Library contains the Works of Bacon and Locke; Newton’s Works, edited by Horsley, London, 1779, in 5 vols. 4to.; Du Bartas’ Divine Works and Weeks; Brown’s Vulgar Errors; Burney’s History of Music; Chaucer’s Works, by Urry, London, 1602, folio; Charles the First’s Works; Dryden’s Works, London, 1693, 4 vols. 4to.; Harrington’s Works, London, 1747, folio; Heywood’s Fall of Lucifer, a Poem, London, 1635, 8vo.; Johnson’s Works; Phillips’ Poems, 1609, folio; Shakespeare’s Works, printed at London, 1685, folio, and at Oxford, 1744, in 6 vols. 4to.; Spenser’s Works, 1589, 4to.; Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks, and Temple’s Works; to which I may add Tomline’s Life of Pitt, and Monk’s Life of Bentley; Markham on War; Spence’s Polymetis; Webb on the Beauties of Painting, 1760; Bentham’s Fragment on Government; Nicholson’s Encyclopædia, 1809, 6 vols. 8vo.; a large paper copy of Whitcombe’s Letter to the Prince Regent; the Edinburgh Review; and Literary History.

Of Works relating to Bibliography, I observed only

Bruckeri Hist. Crit. Philos. 4to.

D’Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale. Paris. 1697, folio.

Bibliothèque Universelle. Amst. 1687, 7 vols. 12mo.

Bibliothèque Choisie. Amst. 1703, 14 vols. 12mo.

Bibliothèque Ancienne et Moderne. Amst. 1716, 6 vols. 12mo.

Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca. Hamburg. 1708, 14 vols. 4to.

Journal des Sçavans. Bruxelles, 1681, 18 vols. 12mo.

Montfaucon’s Palæographia Græca. Paris. 1708, fol.

Stanley’s History of Philosophers, folio.

Thuani Monumenta Literaria. 1640, 8vo.

In Natural History, I noticed only

Aldrovandi Opera, Romæ. 1638, 12 vols. folio.

Burnet’s Theory of the Earth.

Ruellius de Naturâ Stirpium.

With the following miscellaneous articles I will close my account of the Gloucester Cathedral Library.

Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum. Parisiis, 1480, folio.

Bayle’s Dictionary.

Chambers’ Dictionary.

Campbell on Rhetoric.

Corneilles’ Works.

Libavii Alchymia. Francof. 1611, 2 vols. folio.

Maseres Scriptores Logarithmici. Lond. 1791, 5 vols. 4to.

Puffendorf’s Law of Nations. London, 1729, folio.

Studio di Architectura, folio.

Tonstall de Arte Supputandi; and some portions of the Works of Rousseau;

only remarking that the greater portion of the Divinity is arranged in old calf, whose sombre appearance has been relieved by the addition of new lettering pieces; and that all the books appear remarkably free from damp, being all in open cases, except a few which are in the locked cases at the upper end of the Chapter-house, where stand the Busts of Edward the First, and of Handel.