Library of Norwich.

The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich is deposited in the small yet commodious apartment which adjoins one of the Prebendal houses in the close, and is placed under the care of the Rev. W. F. Drake, one of the minor Canons of the Cathedral.

The collection comprises three thousand volumes, labelled and arranged upon open shelves, which are briefly enumerated in alphabetical order, in a privately printed octavo volume, entitled “The Catalogue of the Norwich Cathedral Library, 1819,” London, printed by G. Auld, Greville Street, pp. 120, chiefly compiled by its present Curator.

The books principally relate to Divinity, English History, and Classical Literature, and are chiefly of recent donation, the greater portion of the existing Collection having been presented to the Library by Frank Sayers, M. D. It is pleasant also to notice the judicious additions of standard Theological and Historical Works, by purchase from time to time as the funds of the establishment permit.

Among the desirable additions to the ancient foundation, I remarked the Works of Strype and Bull, with other valuable productions of the Collegiate Press at Oxford.

The Publications issued under authority of the Record Commission are here seen in long and increasing array, for by a liberal and comprehensive policy, a copy of these public Records is deposited in every Cathedral Library of Great Britain.

Among the more ancient volumes, the typographical antiquary will seek in vain for any vestige of a Caxton, or of early English printers; but he may recognize with pleasure, Boetii viri celeberrimi de Consolatione Philosophiæ liber cum optimo commento beati Thome, which hath the following colophon:—

“Libri quinque de consolatione phie̅ Boetii Rhomani consulis ac oratoris splendidissimi una cum commentaria editione per me Jacobum de Breda in Daventria diligenter elaborati finiunt anno gratiæ Millesimo, quadragintesimo, nonagesimo primo, die sabbati ante Judica.”

Then follows a new title page, at the top of which is,

Boetii de disciplina scholarium cum notabili commento.

Then the colophon thus:—

¶ Finit Boetius de disciplina scholarium cum commento. optime bene necnon diligenter Impressus Daventria per me Jacobum de Breda. Anno Domini M.CCCC. nonagesimo sexto. XV. mensis Maii.

This volume which is in old strong binding, with wooden boards, contains “Aristotelis Ethica, Latinè reddita à Leonardo Arretino—printed 1479 at Oxford,” which begins Incipit preffacio leonardi arretini in libros ethicorum. Ending with the colophon,

Explicit textus ethicorum Aristotelis per leonardum aretinum lucidissime translatus correctissimeque. Impressus oxoniis anno dm̅. M.CCCC.lxxix.

This book formerly belonged to Dr. Sayers.

Also the second edition of Statius, printed at Paris, by Jehan Petit, 1499, 4to.

The general reader will find much both of interest and instruction in the several departments to which I shall briefly direct his attention.

I only pause to remark that the only manuscript in this Library is one of the Psychomachia of Prudentius with delicate illuminations, probably of no greater antiquity than the middle of the fifteenth century.

The body of Divinity deposited in this place, is composed of the Works of Thomas Aquinas, Arminius, Athanasius, Augustine, Bernard, Bellarmine, Calvin, Chamier, Cyprian, Episcopus, Erasmus, Justin Martyr, S. Jerome, Ignatius, Irenæus, Lactantius, Melancthon, Origen, Rivetus, Tertullian, Theodoret, & Zanchii Opera Theologica, Genev. 1619, in 3 vols. folio; Suarez, Disputationes Theologicæ, Moguntiæ, 1629, folio; and Surius de Vitis Sanctorum, Venetiis, 1581, in 8 vols. folio. Of Barrow, Beveridge, Bennet, Boys, Bramhall, Chillingworth, Clarke, Conybeare, Edwards, Hammond, Hall, Hody, Hoadley, Horsley, Howe, Jackson, Jewel, Lightfoot, Locke, Lowth, Lowman, Patrick, Paley, Prideaux, Reynolds, Rogers, Sherlock, Stillingfleet, Tillotson, and Jeremy Taylor, various works are here found.

I also noticed Abbot’s Defence of the Reformed Churches, 1611, in 2 vols. 4to.; Ainsworth on the Pentateuch; Allix on the Old Testament; Barclay’s Apology; Browne’s Religio Medici; Brightman on the Revelations; Butler’s Analogy; Burnet on the Articles; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; Campbell on the Gospels; Cave’s Primitive Christianity; Antiquitates Apostolicæ, and Lives of the Fathers; Clarkson’s Primitive Episcopacy; Cosin’s Canon of Scripture; Cudworth’s Intellectual System; Derham’s Astro-Theology; Evans’ Sketch of all Religions; Faulkner on the Liturgy; Fell and St. Paul’s Epistles; Field of the Church; Fleetwood on Miracles; Forster on the Christian Revelation; Fulke on the New Testament; Gastrell’s Christian Institutes; Gale’s Court of the Gentiles; Gregorii de Valentia Opera Theologica, Ingoldst. 1592, in 4 volumes, folio; and Gregory’s Observations on Scripture; Gray’s Key to the Old Testament; Gurnall’s Christian in Armour; Grabe, Spicilegium Veterum Patrum; Harmer on the Scriptures; Heylin’s Christian Theology; Hey’s Lectures; Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity; Kennicott’s Dissertations; King’s Lectures on Jonas; Kidder on the Pentateuch; Knatchbull’s Annotations; Lardner’s Gospel History; Leigh’s Critica Sacra; Lewis’ Origines Hebreæ; Le Clerc on the Pentateuch; Marsh’s Michaelis, and his Lectures; and Magee on the Atonement; Macknight on the Epistles and Gospels; Newton on the Prophecies and Apocalypse; Newcome on Ezekiel, &c.; Newman’s Concordance; Nisbet on the Epistles; Outram de Sacrificiis; Owen on the Trinity; Pearson on the Creed; Pierce on the Epistles; Poli Synopsis; Ross’ View of all Religions; Shuckford’s Connection; Trapp on the New Testament; Wake’s Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers; Waterland’s Vindication; Warburton’s Divine Legation; Usher’s Body of Divinity; Watson’s Apologies; Welchman on the Articles; Whitby on the New Testament; Wilkins’ Natural Religion; Wollaston’s Religion of Nature; and the Works of the author of the Whole Duty of Man, Oxford, 1704, folio.

The impressions of the Sacred Volume found upon these shelves are,

The Bishops’ Bible, in folio.

The Biblia Hebraica, Montani, 1571, folio.

Walton’s Polyglott, with Castelli Lexicon, 1657, in 8 vols. folio.

But the most sumptuous volumes of Holy Writ are those printed by Field, at Cambridge, in 1666, folio, which, richly embellished with engravings of that period, and bound in 2 volumes covered with purple velvet, and protected by silver clasps, usually adorn the Sacramental table of the Cathedral itself.

The impressions of the New Testament are more numerous than those of the Bible, including those edited by Beza, Castalio, Hammond, Maittaire, Stephens, and Tremellius. To which I may add the Heptateuchus Anglo-Saxonicè à Thwaites, 1798; and the Pentateuchus Copticus of Wilkins, 1731, 4to.

There are also imperfect copies of the Book of Common Prayer of 1634; and of Kennicott’s Hebrew Bible; Wickliffe’s Testament, by Lewis, London, 1731, folio; Henry the Eighth’s Primer, 1546, 4to.; the Common Prayer Book of 1619, in folio, with Prayers in Latin, Spanish, and Greek, and the Liturgia in usum Eccl. Angl. 12mo. may here find appropriate mention.

This Library also contains Pole’s Synopsis, and Howel’s Synopsis Canonum; several Theological Tracts and Sermons, by Allestree, Berriman, Clarke, Fleetwood, Goodman, Horton, Hickman, Houghton, Horsley, Jeffery, Knight, Leightenhouse, Newcome, Needham, Parr, Rogers, Saurin, Sanderson, Sherlock, South, Stoughton, Jeremy Taylor, Waterland, and Whaley; Bourse’s Discourses; Secker’s Charges; and a small collection of Sermons by different authors.

The Historical department of this Library includes the Ancient and Modern Universal History, Abdollatiphi Hist. Egypt, à Pococke, Oxon. 1800, 4to.; Butler’s Revolutions of the Germanic Empires; Chroniques de Nicole Gilles, Paris, 1536, folio; Chronicon Chronicorum, 1493, folio; Cumberland’s Phœnician History; Davila’s History of the Civil Wars of France; Echard’s Roman History, 1699, in 4 vols. 4to.; Gast’s History of Greece, 1782, 4to.; Gillies’ History of the World, 1807, in 2 vols. 4to.; Gothicarum Rerum Scriptores, 1618, 12mo.; Heylin’s Cosmography; Helvici Theatrum Historicum; the History of Modern Europe, 1731, in 4 vols. 8vo.; Historia Gentium Septentrionalium Olai Magni, Romæ, 1555, 4to.; Howell’s History of the World; Le Compte’s Memoirs of China, 1697, 8vo.; Matthiæ Theatrum Historicum; Mariana’s History of Spain; Mitford’s History of Greece; Ockley’s Saracens; Ouseley’s Epitome of Persian History; Potter’s Antiquities of Greece; Pococke’s Description of the East; Pounall’s Roman Antiquities; Raleigh’s History of the World, 1614, fol.; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Sketches of the Hindoos, 1792, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Thuani Historia sui temporis, 1733, in 7 vols. folio; Vertot’s Revolutions in Portugal and Sweden; Whitaker’s Course of Hannibal over the Alps; and the abridgment of Rollin’s Ancient History, published at Berne in 1763, in 5 duodecimo volumes.

The books relating to Ecclesiastical affairs in this Collection are, an imperfect copy of Alford’s Annals; Auctores Hist. Eccles. Basil. 1535, folio; Butler’s Lives of the Saints, Edinburgh, 1798, in 12 vols. 8vo.; Baronii Annales, Antv. 1589, in 12 vols. folio; Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica, curâ Smithii, 1665, folio; Binii Concilia, Colon. 1618, in 5 vols. folio; Bower’s Lives of the Popes, 1748, in 7 vols. 4to.; Brent’s Council of Trent; Burnet on the Reformation, with his Vindication of the Church of Scotland; Ecton’s Liber Valorum; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, Moguntiæ, 1677, in 3 vols. folio; Fox’s Martyrology, 1684, in 3 vols. folio; Fosbroke’s British Monachism; Fuller’s Church History, 1565, folio; Hist. Eccles. Script. Gr. Colon. 1612, folio; Howell’s Synopsis Canonum; Josephus, Hudsoni; Jennings’ Jewish Antiquities; Jortin’s Ecclesiastical History; Lardner’s Gospel History; Labbei Concilia, Par. 1672, in 18 folio volumes; Lewis’ Life of Pococke; Lewis’ Origines Hebreæ; Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ; Lingard’s History of the Anglo-Saxon Church; Lucius, Historia Eccles. Magdeb. Bas. 1624, in 3 vols. folio; Masoni Vindiciæ Eccles. Angl. 1625, folio; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Nicephori Historia Ecclesiastica; Oughton’s Ordo Judiciorum; Platina de Vitis Pontificum; Reyneri, de Ant. Ord. Benedict. Douay, 1626, folio; Saliani Annales Ecclesiastici, Par. 1641, in 3 vols. folio; Stillingfleet’s Origines; Strype’s Lives of Cranmer, Grindal, Parker, and Whitgift; Steele’s Account of the Roman Catholic Religion; Sympson’s History of the Church; Usher’s Annals and Antiquities; Walker’s History of Independency, and Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, 1737, in 4 vols. folio; the Neustria Pia of Du Monstier, Rothom. 1663, folio; Lyndewode, Provinciale, Oxonii, 1679, folio; Gibson’s Codex, and the Codex Theodosianus, 1665, in 4 folio volumes.

The Works illustrative of British History in this Library, are the Annales Ælfredi Magni, à Wise, Oxon. 1722, 8vo.; Anglorum Prœlia, Nevyllus de furoribus Norfolcensium, 1582, 12mo.; Andrews’ History of England; Bacon’s Henry VII.; Baker’s Chronicle, 1665, folio; Barnes’ Edward III.; Blome’s Britannia, 1673, folio; Burnett’s History of his own Time; Brady’s History of England, with his Introduction to English History; Camden’s Britannia, by Gibson, with his Elizabeth, and Remains; Clarendon’s Rebellion, and his Life; Daniel’s History of England, 1685, folio; Eadmeri Historia Novorum, 1623, folio; Fuller’s Worthies, 1662, folio; Gibson’s Chronicon Saxonicum, Oxon. 1692, 4to.; Granger’s Biographical History of England; Habington’s Edward IV.; Hayward’s Regal Biographies; Lord Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII.; Henry’s History of Great Britain; Holinshed’s Chronicles, 1577, folio; Howell’s History of England, 1712, 8vo.; Horsley’s Britannia Romana, 1732, folio; Jeffrey’s British History, Edin. 1719, 2 vols. 8vo.; Kelham’s Doomsday Book, 1788, 8vo.; Leicester’s Commonwealth, 1641, 4to.; Ludlow’s Memoirs, Vevay, 1698, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum; History of the Exchequer, and Firma Burga; Milton’s History of Britain, 1670, 4to.; Noble’s Biographical History of England and House of Cromwell; Oldmixon’s History of England; Parker, de rebus sui temporis, 1726, 8vo.; Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana, 1684, folio; Rapin’s History of England, in 28 octavo volumes, two copies; Rushworth’s Historical Collections, 1721, in 8 vols. folio; Sammes’s Antiquities of Ancient Britain, 1676, folio; Speed’s History of Great Britain, 1632, folio; Stowe’s Annals, by Howes, 1631, folio; Temple’s Introduction to the History of England, 1699, 8vo. with his Memoirs, 1705, 3 vols. in 2, octavo; Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons, Lond. 1807, in 2 vols. 4to.; Sir Philip Warwick’s Memoirs of Charles I. 1701, 8vo.; Walpole’s Historic Doubts, 1768, 4to.; and Polydore Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Basileæ, 1570, folio.

The Works relating to the Topography and Antiquities of England in this Collection embrace Battely’s Antiquitates Rutupinæ, and his Antiquities of Canterbury; Beatniffe’s Norfolk Tour, 1808, 12mo.; Bentham’s Ely, by Stevenson, Norwich, 1812, 4to.; Blomefield’s Norwich illustrated, 1745, 2 vols. folio; Browne’s Norwich Cathedral, 1807, 8vo.; Brand’s Popular Antiquities; Richard of Cirencester’s Description of Britain; Burton’s Leicestershire; Carew’s Survey of Cornwall; Dart’s Canterbury; Darell’s Dover Castle; Degges’ Staffordshire, Lond. 1723, 8vo.; Dickinson’s Nottinghamshire, 1801, 4to.; Ducarel’s Anglo-Norman Antiquities; Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s; Fitzstephen’s Survey of London; Gardiner’s History of Dunwich; Herne’s Charter House; Kennett’s Parochial Antiquities; King’s Munimenta Antiqua; Kirby’s Suffolk Traveller; Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent; Lewis’ Antiquities of Faversham, and History of the Isle of Thanet; Masters’ History of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Millers’ Ely Cathedral; Mallett’s Northern Antiquities; Malden’s King’s College Chapel; Norden’s Middlesex and Hertfordshire; Plot’s Staffordshire and Oxfordshire; Salmon’s Surrey; Seymour’s Survey of London; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; Stowe’s Survey of London; Strutt’s Antiquities; and Verstegan’s Restitution.

The lover of British Antiquity will readily join to these, Britton’s Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, and some of his beautiful Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England; Ladbrooke’s Lithographic Views of Churches in Norfolk, oblong quarto, in numbers; Mr. Nassau’s carefully illustrated copy of Blomefield’s Norfolk, bound in russia; Ives’s Garianonum, 1774; Taylor’s Harwich and Dovercourt; Wood’s History and Antiquities of Oxford, 1674, folio; the Antiquitates Oxonienses, 1726, folio; and Weever’s Funeral Monuments, 1631, folio.

The principal works connected with Scottish and Irish affairs, are Boswell’s Journey to the Hebrides; Chalmer’s Caledonia; Dalrymple’s Scotland; Monipenny’s Abridgment of the Scottish Chronicles, 1612, 4to.; Spotiswode’s History of Scotland; and Ware’s Antiquities of Ireland, 1705, folio.

The Classical department of this Library includes,

Æschylus. Glasguæ, 1794, in 2 vols. 8vo.

Æsopus, 1684, 12mo.

Anacreon à Barnes. Cantab. 1705, 12mo. and Fischeri, Lipsiæ, 1776, 8vo.

Antoninus, Gatakeri, 1697, 4to.

Appianus, Stephani. Paris. 1572, folio.

Aristophanes, Burmanni. Lugd. 1760, in 2 vols. 4to.

Aristotelis Opera, Du Valli. Par. 1654, folio, in 4 vols.

Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. 1597, in 2 vols. folio.

Aulus Gellius, Elz. Amst. 1665, 12mo.

Ausonius, Scaligeri. Heidel. 1588, 12mo.

Boethius, Char. Goth. Oxon. 1479, 4to.

Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius. Cantabr. 1702, 4to.

Cæsar, Aldi. Venet. 1519, 8vo.

Ciceronis Opera Omnia, Verburgii. Amst. 1724, in 16 octavo volumes, and the Oxford edition of 1783, in 10 quarto volumes.

Claudiani Opera, Gesneri. Lipsiæ, 1759, 8vo.

Epicteti Enchiridion. 1554, and Oxon. 1702, 12mo.

Euripides à Barnes. Lipsiæ, 1778, in 3 quarto volumes.

Eutropius, Delphini. 1716.

Florus, Grævii. 1680, 8vo.

Horatius, Bentleii. Cantab. 1711, 4to. and 1713, 8vo.

Homeri Opera, Barnesii. Cantab. 1711, 2 vols. 4to.

Homeri Ilias, Didymi, Cant. 1689, 4to.; Heynii, Lips. 1812, 8 vols. 8vo.

Josephus, Hudsoni. Oxon. 1721, in 2 vols. folio.

Isocrates à Battie. Cantab. 1729, 8vo.

Juvenalis et Persius, Farnabii. 1631, 12mo.

Juvenalis, Ruperti. Oxon. 1808, 8vo.

Justinus, Variorum. Amst. 1669, 8vo.

Livius, Aldi. Venetiis, 1521, folio.

Longinus à Pearce. Lond. 1725, 8vo.

Lucan. Elz. 1591, 12mo.

Lucretius, Lambini. 1583, 8vo.

Lucian. 1619, 2 vols. 8vo.

Lycophronis Fragmenti, Hermanni. 1788, 8vo.

Macrobius. 1694, 8vo.

Orpheus. 1689, 12mo.

Orphica, Hermanni. 1805.

Ovidius, Delphini. Lond. 1778, 12mo.

Pausanias, Facii. Lipsiæ, 1794, in 4 vols. 8vo.

Plutarchii Moralia. Francof. 1620, 2 vols. folio.

Plinii Historia Naturalis. Colon. 1615, folio.

Plinii Epistola, Gesneri. 1770, 8vo.

Plato, Ficini. 1602, folio.

Pomponius Mela, Gronovii. 1685, 12mo.

Polybius, Wechelii. 1609, folio, and Ernesti, 1764, in 3 vols. 8vo.

Propertius. 1702, 4to.

Quintus Curtius, Gryphii. 1551, 12mo.

Quintilian. Oxon. 1693, 4to.

Sallust. Lugd. 1665, 8vo. and Cantab. 1679, 12mo.

Senecæ Opera. Par. 1607, in 2 vols. folio.

Sophocles, Brunckii. 1808.

Statius. Par. 1618, in 2 vols. 4to.

Tacitus, Ryckii. Dublin, 1730, in 3 vols. 4to.

Terentius, Erasmi. Par. 1541, 4to. and Bentleii, Cantab. 1726, 4to.

Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. Lugd. 1781, 4to.

Thucydides, Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1696, folio, and Glasguæ, 1759, 8 vols. in 4, quarto.

Tibullus. Amst. 1708, 4to.

Valerius Maximus. Plantin, 1574, 12mo.

Valerius Flaccus. Amst. 1680, 12mo.

Velleius Paterculus. Oxon. 1693, 8vo.

Vegetius de rê Militari. 1592, 4to.

Virgilius. Delphini, 1695, and Heynii, 1767, in 4 octavo volumes.

Xenophontis Cyropædia, 1765, 8vo. and Anabasis Hutchinsoni. Cantab. 1785, 8vo.

The Etymological Works which met my observation were, the English and Welsh Dictionary, printed at Shrewsbury in 1737, 12mo.; Bailey’s Etymological Dictionary; Buxtorf’s Chaldaic Lexicon; Calvin’s Lexicon; Elstob’s English and Saxon Grammar; Ernesti Lexicon; Fabri Thesaurus; Grant’s Lexicon; Harris’ Hermes, and Philological Enquiries; Hesychii Lexicon; Hederici Lexicon; Hickes’ Linguarum Septentrionalium Thesaurus, with Wotton’s Conspectus; Hoogeveen de Particulis Græcis; Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum, à Lye, 1743, folio; Chappelow’s Arabic Grammar; Lamberti Bos Ellipses; Johnson’s English Dictionary; Dammii Lexicon Homericum et Pindaricum; Minshew’s Dictionary; Parkhurst’s Hebrew Lexicon; Robertson’s Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ, and Hebrew Grammar; Ruddiman’s Latin Grammar; Schrevelii Lexicon, by Hill; Spelman’s Glossarium Archæologicum; Suidæ Lexicon Græcum, Basileæ, 1544, folio; and Græcè et Latinè, Kusteri, Cantab. 1705, in 3 volumes, folio; Somneri Dictionarium Saxonico-Latinum, 1659, folio; Valpy’s and the Port Royal Greek Grammar; Vigerus de Idiotismis and Laurentius Valla de Linguâ Latina, Cantab. 1688, 12mo.

The Heraldic Works in this Collection consist of

The Baronetage of England, by Kimber.

Betham’s Genealogies, 1795, folio.

Blome’s Heraldry, 1684, 12mo.

Clarke’s Heraldry, 1794, 12mo.

Collins’ Peerage, 1768, in 7 vols. 8vo.

Dugdale’s Usage of Arms, 1682, 12mo.

Edmondson’s Heraldry, 1780, in 2 folio volumes.

Guillim’s Heraldry, 1660, folio.

Sandford’s Genealogical History, 1677, folio.

Selden’s Titles of Honour, 1672, folio.

Porney’s Heraldry, 1795, 8vo.

The Bibliographical department includes fifty-three volumes of the Acta Eruditorum; the Bibliographical Dictionary; the Bibliotheca Britannica of Watts; the Bibliotheca Reediana; the History of Philosophy, by Stanley, 1656, folio; the Bibliothèque Ancienne et Moderne, Amst. 1714, in 28 vols. 12mo.; the History of English Poetry, by Warton, 1775, 3 vols. 4to.; Blount’s Censura Literaria; Bruckeri Historia Critica Philosophiæ; the Royal and Noble Authors of Walpole; Catalogus MSS. CC.C. Cant. 1722, folio; Catalogus Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, Oxon. 1674, folio; Cave’s Historia Literaria; Dibdin’s Introduction to the Classics; Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca et Latina; Hartshorne’s Book Rarities of Cambridge; Lewis’ Translations of the Bible, 1739, 8vo., and Life of Caxton; Leland, de Scriptoribus Britannicis, 1709, 2 vols. 8vo.; Memoirs of Literature, 1722, in 8 vols. 8vo.; Nicholson’s English Historical Library; Hearne’s Ductor Historicus; Renouard’s Historie de l’Imprimerie des Aides; and Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, 1721, in two volumes, folio.

The Chronological Works in this Library include Baker’s Chronology, 1726, folio; Brady’s Clavis Calendaria; Marshall’s Chronological Tables, Oxford, 1712, folio; Newton’s Chronology; Scaliger de emendatione temporum, Genevæ, 1594 & 1620, in 2 vols. folio; Trusler’s Chronology; and Usserii Chronologia Sacra, Oxon. 1660, 4to.

The Geographical Works consist of the Atlas Geographicus, 1711, in 4 vols. 4to.; The Thesaurus Geographicus, 1695, folio; Brookes’s Gazetteer; Cellarii et Cluvierii Geographia Antiqua; D’Anville’s Ancient Geography; Dionysius de situ Orbis; Guthrie’s Geographical Grammar; Hexham’s Atlas; Michaelis Geograph. Hebr. Gotten. 1769, 4to.; Michel’s Geography of France; Morse’s American Geography; Adams’ Geographical and Historical Summary, 1797, 8vo.; Mercator’s Atlas, Amst. 1638, in 2 folio volumes; Wells’ Geography; and Falconer’s Strabo, 1807, 2 vols. folio.

I may here also mention the Voyages and Travels, consisting of Browne’s Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, 1779, 4to.; Chandler’s Travels, 1779, 4to.; Chardin’s Travels, 1686, folio; Keysler’s Travels; Denon’s Egypt, 1803, 4to.; Montfaucon’s Travels through Italy; Moritz’s Travels in England; Niebuhr’s Travels in Arabia; Sparmann’s Cape of Good Hope, Perth, 1789, in 2 octavo volumes; Maundrell’s Journey to Jerusalem, 1707, 8vo.; Sharpe’s Voyage to the South Sea, 1684, 8vo.; Shaw’s Travels, 1757, 4to.; Tavernier’s Travels in Turkey, 1684, folio; and Wheler’s Journey into Greece, 1682, folio.

The Scientific Works in this Collection embrace many subjects, but few Works of importance. Those I noticed were Bacon’s Novum Organum; Bartholini Anatomia; Philosophia Naturalis; Blumenbach Institutiones Physiologicæ, &c.; Boerhaave’s Virtue of Medicine; Boyle’s Experiments on Air; Burnet and Whiston’s Theories of the Earth; Clare’s Motion of Fluids; Cullen’s Physic; Euclid, by Simpson; Ferguson’s, Gordon’s, and Keil’s Treatises upon Astronomy; Fourcroy and Freind’s Chemical Works; Gassendi Institutiones Astronomicæ, &c.; Harris’s Astronomical Dialogues; Haller’s Physiology; Keil’s Anatomy; Kersey’s Algebra; Kirby and Spence’s Introduction to Entomology; Haggitt, Milner, and Whittington on Gothic Architecture; Ozanam’s Mathematics; Quincey and Salmon’s Pharmacopeia; Reeve on the Torpidity of Animals; Riolani Anatomia; Rickman on Architecture; Rion’s Grecian Architecture; Smith’s Introduction to Botany; Tauvry’s Anatomy; Verlingii Anatomia; Wilkins’s Vitruvius; Willis’s Anatomia Cerebri; and Withering on the Fox Glove.

Among the Miscellaneous Volumes deposited upon these shelves, I observed the Antiquarian Discourses; the Voyage of Anacharsis; Arbuthnot on Ancient Coins; Nummi Britannici Historia, 1626, 8vo.; Fleetwood’s Chronicon Preciosum; Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum, Milan, 1683, folio; Pinkerton on Medals; Atkinson on Navigation; Blackwall’s Classics; Bochart’s Hierozoicon; Boswell’s Life of Johnson; Sir Thomas Browne’s Posthumous Works, 1712, 8vo.; Bryant’s Plagues of Egypt; Buchanani Poemata; Calligraphia Græca, Lond. 1807, folio; Charles the First’s Works, London, 1662, in two volumes, folio; Clarke’s Greek Marbles, and Tomb of Alexander; Dawes, Miscellanea Critica; De Pauw, Recherches Philosophiques; Desgarde’s Buildings of Rome; Diderot’s Theatre; Digges’ Compleat Ambassador; Gildæ Epistolæ; Godfrey of Boulogne, by Fairfax, 1624, folio; Gunn’s Manner of Military Array; Holmes’s Art of Rhetoric; Landmann on Fortification; Matthias, Canzone Toscane; Montaigne’s Essays; Monboddo’s Ancient Metaphysics; Montesquieu’s Works; the Musæ Cantabrigienses; Opie’s Lectures on Painting; Ossian’s Poems by Macpherson; Parival’s Iron Age; Palmerin of England, 1807, in four vols. 12mo.; Pinkerton on the Goths; Porson’s Letter to Travis; Rawlinson on History; the Republic of Letters, Glasgow, 1728, in 17 vols. 12mo.; Rousseau’s Works; the Spectator; Suckling’s Works; Sydenhami Opera; Temple’s Letters, &c.; Vossii Opera; Wilson’s Ornaments of Churches; Windham’s Speeches; and Wright’s Help to History.

The Law Books in this Library comprehend Blount’s, Cowell’s and Jacob’s Law Dictionary; Burn’s Justice of the Peace, and Ecclesiastical Laws; Burlamaqui’s Principles of Natural Laws; Coke’s Institutes, London, 1684, in three folio volumes; Corpus Juris Civilis, 1663, folio; Corpus Juris Canonici, 1618, in three folio volumes; Fitzherbert’s Natura Brevium; Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliæ; Ryley’s Placita Parliamentaria; Shaw’s Justice, and Parish Laws; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum, Cantab. 1727, in two folio volumes; and Wilkins’ Saxon Laws, 1721, folio.

In English Literature this Library may boast of the portion relating to the Arms and Blazon of the Reprint of the Book of St. Albans, published by Wynkyn de Worde at London in 1496, 4to.; of the Workes of our ancient and lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly-printed, Londini, impensis Georgii Bishop, anno 1597-8, folio, in the rude black letter of Adam Islip; and of the Pylgrimage of Perfection, London, 1526, 8vo. also in the Gothic character.

This Library contains the works of Armstrong, Beattie, Bloomfield, Bowles, Dryden, Gay, Addison, Bacon, Berkeley, Bolingbroke, Boyle, Browne, Butler, Burke, Collins, Cowley, Evelyn, Gray, Harris, Hobbes, Johnson, Locke, Marvel, Mason, Milton, Newton, Pope, Priestley, Prior, Scott, Sterne, Temple, Thomson, Young, and Warton.

I also remarked Gifford’s Baviad and Maviad; Hales’ Golden Remains; Herbert’s Temple; Johnson’s Lives of the Poets; Glover’s Leonidas; the Rolliad; Harington’s Musæ Antiquæ; the Asiatic Researches; Hartley on Man; Headley’s Beauties of Ancient English Poetry; Heron’s Letters of Literature; Hearne’s Ductor Historicus; Ben Jonson’s Works, 1640, in two folio volumes; Thomæ Mori Opera Omnia, Lond. 1675, in three vols. folio; the Pursuits of Literature, with a translation of the Quotations, 1799, 8vo.; Relics of Ancient Poetry, 1794, in three volumes, 8vo.; Richardson’s Analysis of Shakespeare, 1739, in three vols. 8vo.; Thurlow’s Poems, 1811, 4to.; Tooke’s Diversions of Purley; Walton’s Lives; and Spenser’s Faerie Queen, London, 1751, in three vols. 4to.

In this unpretending yet useful Collection, which the mere bibliomaniac may pass by with disdain, the general reader will find much both of interest and instruction in the several departments to which I have endeavoured to direct his attention.

I ought not indeed to close this cursory review of the Norwich Cathedral Library without bestowing the tribute so justly due to the instance it affords of laudable attention to the preservation of conventual volumes, neither distinguished by excessive rarity nor remarkable for uncommon worth.