Library of Winchester.

The Library of this Cathedral is placed in a long room, over the only remaining portion of the Cloisters, attached to that noble building.

The Collection is one of those which interest us most forcibly, from exhibiting those marks of undisturbed antiquity, which by any one who has ever entered the Pepysian Library at Cambridge, will be readily understood.

This Library was the munificent bequest of Bishop Morley, who caused the books to be removed from his palace of Wolvesey, in the cases they then occupied, to their present situation, where they now remain.

I do not mean to assert as a fact that of which no direct evidence remains, but this supposition receives confirmation from the nature of the bookcases themselves, which are of old oak, with cornices curiously though rudely carved in the style of that æra, with slender pinnacles at each end.

These open cases are arranged on both sides of the room, and at both ends, leaving spaces only for the door and windows; and have been numbered consecutively from No. I. to XXXV. whereby reference is made to the situation of the books from the Catalogue now in use, which is in fact the old Bodleian Catalogue, printed at Oxford in 1738, in 2 vols. folio, with reference to the shelves annexed to those articles which happen to be contained within these walls.

The books themselves are in perfect keeping with their cases, being chiefly attired in sombre calf, or antique vellum. They are also distinguished by a book plate, exhibiting a small view of Winchester Cathedral, with this inscription: “Lib. Eccl. Cath. Winton.”

In order to insure the integrity of his Library under its new possessors, Bishop Morley caused a Catalogue to be written upon vellum, in a folio volume, classed according to the languages of the several authors. “Libri Latini Gallici, &c.” and presented to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, as appears from the following entry upon the last leaf of the Catalogue itself.

“Memorandum. That this Catalogue of Bookes was presented to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, from the Right Reverend Father in God, George Lord Bishop of Winchester, upon the 28th day of November, 1682, as being a Catalogue of all the Bookes in his Lordship’s Library, bequeathed by his Lordship’s Will to the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity of Winchester; and which the longer his Lordship lived, he declared by his letter should be the more, and not the fewer: which Catalogue his Lordship appointed to be kept by the Treasurer for the time being, and the delivery of which is attested by us.

“WM. DOUTHWAITE. “THO. CRANLEY, Notary public.”

By means of this interesting Catalogue which is bound in old calf, with gilt leaves, the exact extent of the foundation of the Library may be readily discovered, even if the eye did not assist the judgment in pronouncing this to be a contemporaneous Collection.

A portrait of the founder is very properly placed over the door of this Library.

There is another Catalogue of this Collection, wherein the books are enumerated in the order in which they stand on the shelves from case I. with its shelves A, B, C, D, E, in a descending series to case XXXV. with its similar number of open shelves.

This quarto volume, bound in vellum, bears the following title: “Catalogus Librorum in Bibliothecâ Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Wintonensis,” with this note: “N.B. Singuli Libri in hoc Catalogo conscripti, et Classico ordine dispositi in duobus Voluminibus Catalogi Bodleiani, et Appendice ad finem utriusque, sub propriis Autorum Nominibus investigandi sunt.”

I have already mentioned that the Bodleian Catalogue corresponds to these particulars, though it is but a slovenly substitute for a regular alphabetical Catalogue of any Collection. The great objection to a Catalogue classed as this is belonging to this Library, is that its usefulness must entirely depend upon the books being constantly kept in their proper place upon the shelves; an object, which in a Library at all frequented, it is rather difficult to attain.

At the end of this classed Catalogue is the following very satisfactory note in the handwriting of the venerable Dean of Winchester, the writer of Sesquipedalian Epitaphs, and the possessor of an extensive Library. The note is this: “This Catalogue examined and compared with the actual state of the Library, and a report in consequence delivered to the Gentlemen at the Chapter this ninth day of February, by Thomas Rennell, A. M. Prebendary of the Cathedral, and Rector of St. Magnus in the City of London, in the year 1793.”

There is also a folio volume which appears to have been kept from the year 1728 to the present time for the purpose of receiving the names of books borrowed from this Library. It contains this suitable admonition:—

“Rev. Sir,—You are desired, when you have occasion to borrow any book out of this place, to set down the name of the book, together with your own name, and the day of the month in this book.”

I am happy to notice the timely rescue of the noble manuscript of the Latin Vulgate Bible, in three imperial folio volumes, from the neglect by which it was for a long time suffered to lie unprotected in the church. It is written in the Roman character, apparently by an English hand, with large and beautiful illuminations upon very pure vellum; and the three volumes are now appropriately bound in olive morocco, with gilt leaves, by the liberality of the late Dean?

Of the other ancient Manuscripts contained in this Library, I am enabled to mention the Liber vocatus unum ex quatuor co̅positus per Zach. Chrysopolitanum, folio, in calf. The foundation charters of several Monasteries collected by Sir Nicolas Stuart, Bart. of Hartley Maldoit, Co. Southampton, and an old rental of manors belonging to the Bishop of Winton, &c.; Cassiodorus in Psalmos; Hyeronymi Expositio in Isaiam; Augustini Sermones; Revelatio Wilfridi Episcopi Eboracensis; Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica; Catonis Disticha; and “Annales Sex Regum Angliæ cum annotationibus per fratrem Nicolaum Triveth, Ord. Præd.”

Of the printed books from three to four thousand in number, I may pronounce the character to be chiefly Theological, including an unusual number of impressions of the Holy Scripture.

I will begin with the English versions, from a desire to give precedence to the first English Bible, translated by Myles Coverdale, and printed in the office of Christian Egenolph at Frankfort, in 1535, folio. The copy in this Library is defective in the beginning, wanting the title, and all the preliminary leaves, together with the first leaf of the text; commencing with folio ii. it is very sound in the middle, and quite perfect, though rather stained at the end. This volume measures twelve inches and three-eighths by eight inches and a quarter, and is bound in the original calf, with brass knobs, &c.

I may next notice a copy of

Cranmer’s Bible, folio, in double columns of black letter, imperfect at the beginning and end, in a vellum wrapper.

The Holy Bible, with the Annotations of the College of Doway, printed at Rouen in 1635, in 3 volumes, 4to.

The Bible, by Buck and Daniel, Cambridge, 1638, folio, bound in blue morocco, with clasps, upon one of which is engraved the puzzling question, “Τις εστιν αξιος ανοιξαι.” This volume was presented by Nicolas Stanley, M. D. to the Cathedral Library in 1661.

The Holy Bible, in double columns of Gothic character, by Robert Barker and John Bill, London, 1640, folio. A perfect copy in the original stamped calf, with brass plates on the sides and corners.

The Holy Bible, translated by Geddes, London, 1797, in 2 vols. 4to. with his Critical Remarks on the Holy Scriptures, and his Prospectus of the foregoing Translation. Glasgow, 1786, also in 4to.

I proceed to specify the remaining impressions in other tongues as succinctly as possible, commencing with the

Biblia Polyglotta Waltoni. Londini, 1657, in 6 vols. folio. with the Lexicon Heptaglotton Castelli, 1669, in 2 vols. folio.

Biblia Polyglotta, Hutteri. Norimbergæ, 1599, in 2 vols. folio.

Biblia, Hebraica et Chaldaica Buxtorfii. Basileæ, 1620, in 2 vols. folio.

Biblia Hebraica, Hutteri. Hamburgi, 1603, folio.

Biblia Hebraica, Kennicott. Oxonii, 1780, in 2 vols. folio.

Biblia Hebraica, Forsteri. Oxonii, 1750, in 2 vols. folio.

Biblia Hebraica, Plantin. Antverpiæ, folio.

Biblia Hebraica, Stephani. Parisiis, 1542, in 2 vols. 4to.

Biblia Septuaginta, per Holmes & Parsons. Oxonii, 1798, &c. 6 vols. folio.

Biblia Hispanica, per Cyprianum de Valera. Amstelod. 1602.

Biblia Latina, Vulgatâ Sixti V. Antverpiæ, 1624, folio.

Biblia Latina, Vulgatâ Castalionis. Basileæ, 1551.

Biblia Italica, Diodati. Genevæ, 1641.

Biblia Gallica, Diodati. Genevæ, 1644.

The Indian Bible, printed at Cambridge in 1663.

The Codex Bezæ, edited by Kipling. Cambridge, 2 vols. folio, bound in russia.

Novum Testamentum Græcum, Millii. Oxonii, in 2 vols. folio.

Novum Testamentum è Codice Alexandrino curâ Woide. Londini, 1786, 4to.

Novum Testamentum. Oxonii, 1675.

Novum Testamentum, Stephani. Francof. 1590.

Novum Testamentum, Bezæ. Genevæ, 1598.

Novum Testamentum, Syriacum & Latinum, Tremellii. Parisiis, 1569.

Psalmorum Liber, curâ Hare. Londini, 1736, 2 vols.

To which, as connected with the Church Service, I may add two impressions of the Common Prayer, printed in the year 1549 and 1661.

Breviarium Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1616, folio.

Missale Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1574, folio.

Missale ad usum Sarum. Parisiis, 1510.

Pontificale Romanum. Parisiis, 1664.

Processionale Romanæ Ecclesiæ. Parisiis, 1666, and

The Liturgia Anglicana, linguâ Lusitanicâ.

Of the Fathers of the Church I am enabled to record,

Athanasii Opera Gr. et Lat. Parisiis, 1627, in 2 vols. folio.

Ambrosii Opera. Basileæ, 1567.

Augustini Opera. Basileæ, 1569, 8 vols. folio.

Aurelii Opera. Parisiis, 1646.

Basilii Magni Opera. Parisiis, 1638.

Chrysostomi Opera, edente Savile. Etonæ, 1612, in 8 vols. folio.

Clementis Alexandrini Opera. Oxonii, 1715.

Cyrilli Opera. Parisiis, 1638 & 1640.

Cypriani Opera. Oxonii, 1682.

Damasceni Opera. Basileæ, 1575.

Epiphanii Opera. Parisiis, 1622, 2 vols. folio.

Episcopii Opera Theologica.

Gregorii Magni Opera. 1615.

Hieronymi Opera. Basileæ, 1565, in 4 vols. folio.

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

Justini Martyris Opera. Parisiis, 1636.

Lactantii Opera. Romæ, 1650; and Oxonii, 1684.

Origenis Opera per Erasmum. Basileæ, 1571, in 2 vols. folio.

Philonis Judæi Opera. Parisiis, 1640.

Procopii Opera. Parisiis, 1662-3, in 2 vols. folio.

Theodoreti Opera Omnia. Parisiis, 1642, 4 vols. folio.

Theophili Opera, per Fell. Oxonii, 1684.

together with the Works of, Eusebius, Gregory Nyssen, S. Hilary, Theophylact, Tertullian, and the Bibliotheca Magna Veterum Patrum. Parisiis, 1654, in 13 vols. folio; Cave’s Lives of the Primitive Fathers; The Critici Sacri; Pole’s Synopsis; and the Bibliotheca Polonorum Fratrum.

In Divinity, besides a great mass of what is now justly considered obsolete, and many controversial pieces, including the celebrated Bangorian Controversy, I may enumerate the component parts of this leading class of the library, commencing with, Bedæ Opera Omnia, VIII tomis. Colon. Agrip. 1612, in 3 vols. folio; the Works of Bishops Bramhall and Jewel; Tillotson’s Sermons; Tyndal’s Works, 1573; Justiniani Opera. Parisiis, 1628; Jeremy Taylor’s Ductor dubitantium; Usher’s Body of Divinity; the Sermons of Bishops Andrews and Hacket; Concordantiæ Latinæ per Robertum Stephanum; Hammond’s Paraphrase; Cotton’s Concordance, 1635; the Commentaries of Pococke; Hugonis Postillæ in Biblia, Basileæ, 1504-6, folio; Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible, Paris, 1722, in 4 vols. folio; some Tracts by Bernard, Stapleton, and Bellarmine; the Sermons of Richard Gardiner, 1659; Sanderson, Leslie, and Donne’s Sermons, 1640; Hall’s Works; Field of the Church, Oxford, 1628; Cave’s Primitive Christianity; Lightfoot’s Horæ Hebraicæ Cantabrigiæ, 1658; Drexelii Opera Omnia, Parisiis, 1647, in 2 vols. folio; Usserii Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, Londini, 1650-4; Parson’s Three Conversions, 1603, complete; the Preservative against Popery, in 3 vols. folio, in old calf; some Tracts by Calvin; the Quæstiones subtilissimæ of Duns Scotus; Erasmi Opera Omnia, Lovanii, 1640; Andrews’ Opuscula Posthuma, Londini, 1629; Bulli Opera per Grabe, Londini, 1703; Pearsoni Opera Posthuma, Londini, 1688; Twysden’s Vindication of the Church of England; Brown’s Religio Medici, London, 1678; Barrow’s Works; Reginaldi Poli pro defensione Ecclesiæ Unitatis ad Henricum VIII. Romæ apud Bladum, in a vellum wrapper; Milner’s Letters to a Prebendary; Hey’s Theological Lectures; Newcome’s Minor Prophets; Routh’s Reliquiæ Sacræ; Balguy’s Discourses; the Works of Horsley, Beveridge, Stillingfleet, Middleton, Heber, and James; Macknight on the Epistles; Cudworth’s Intellectual System, 1678; Campbell on the Gospels; Blayney’s Jeremiah; Wollaston’s Religion of Nature; Sherlock’s Discourses; Prideaux’s Connection; Samuel Clarke’s Works, London, 1738, in 4 vols. folio; Hoadly’s Works, London, 1773, 3 vols. folio, a fine copy in old calf gilt; Joannis Gerson, Opera; Petavii Dogmata Theologica, Antverpiæ, 1700, in 3 vols. folio. Bullingeri Opera, Tiguri, 1577, in 8 vols. folio; Summa Cardinalis Hostiensis, Lugduni, per Jacobum Sacon, 1512, folio, printed in double columns of Gothic Character, and bound in old calf; Cranmer de Sacramento, Embdæ, 1557; Melancthonis Opera, Wittebergæ, 1601, 4 vols. folio; Grotii Opera, Londini, 1679, in 4 vols. folio; Lutheri Opera Omnia Jenæ, 1556-8. In conclusion of this long list let me add, Prudentii Opera, Hanoviæ, 1613; and Sidonii Apollinaris Opera Sismondi, Parisiis, 1652.

In Ecclesiastical History the Collection is also rich, as may appear from the books specified below, Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici, Antverpiæ, 1610; Martyrologium Romanum, Colon. Agrip. 1603; Bollandi Acta Sanctorum, in 8 vols. folio; Allix’s Ecclesiastical History, and History of the Albigenses; the Concilia Generalia by Labbe and others; Borromæi Acta Ecclesiæ Mediolanensis, Lugd. Bat. 1683, folio; Usserii Ecclesiæ Britannicæ Antiquitates, Eblanæ, 1639; Stillingfleet’s Origines; Bingham’s Origines Ecclesiasticæ; Cedreni Annales; Centuriæ Magdeburgenses, Basileæ, 1624, in 3 vols. folio; Anastasii Historia Ecclesiastica, Parisiis, 1649; Usser, Chronologia Sacra, edente Barlow, Oxonii, 1660; Wilkins’ Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, Londini, 1737, in 4 vols. folio; Spelmanni Concilia, 1639; Brent’s History of the Council of Trent, London, 1676; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Lyndewoode, Provinciale per Badium Ascensium, Parisiis, 1506; Waræi de Præsulibus Angliæ Commentarius, Eblanæ, 1665; Godwin de Præsulibus Angliæ, 2 vols. folio, in calf; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Gough’s Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Threnodia, Londini, 1661; Reformatio Legum Eccles. ab Henr. VIII. ad Edw. VI. Londini, 1661, in which no mention is made of the proceedings of Queen Elizabeth; Burnet’s History of the Reformation, with the Supplement thereto; Strype’s Memorials; Heylin’s History of the Reformation; Wiccami Episcopi Winton. Vita, Oxonii, 1690; Laud’s Troubles and Tryal, 1695; Spotswode’s History of the Church of Scotland; Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum; Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, Londini, 1744; Walker’s History of Independency; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical History by Fenton, 1724, in 4 vols.; Messingham, Acta Sanctorum Hiberniæ, Parisiis, 1624; Rycaut’s present state of the Greek and Armenian Churches, 1679; Gratiani Decreta, printed at Nuremberg in 1494; Gibson’s Codex, in 2 vols. folio, calf; Corpus Juris Canonici, Lugd. Bat. 1672, in 3 vols. folio; Cassan’s Lives of the Bishops of Winchester; Upham’s History of Buddhism; Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica per Smith, Cantabrigiæ, folio; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, 1659; Josephus, Hudsoni; Nova legenda Angliæ per Winandum de Worde, Londini, 1516, folio, a perfect copy, with the large wood cut at the beginning and the end, but very much wormed throughout, and bound in the original stamped calf, to which I may add, Cave’s Historia Literaria Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, Londini, 1688-98; and Dupin, Nouvelle Bibliothèque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques.

Of General History this Library contains the large body of the Byzantine Historians; Manassii Annales, Parisiis, 1655; Nicetæ Historia, Parisiis, 1647; Chalcondylas de rebus Turcicis, Parisiis, 1650; Eutychii Annales Arabicè et Latinè per Pocockium, Oxonii, 1664; Raderi Chronicon Alexandrinum, Monachii, 1615; Marshami Chronicon Canon. Egyptiacum, Londini, 1672; Montfaucon Palæographia Græca; Rosini Antiquitates Romanæ, cum commentariis Dempsteri, Lugduni, 1613; Meyeri Annales Rerum Flandricarum, Antverpiæ, 1561; Junii, Bataviæ Historia, Dordraci, 1652; Naucleri Chronicon Universale Tubingæ, 1516; Modern Universal History, 1759, in 16 vols. folio in calf; Gillies’ Greece, in 4to.; Cox’s Memoirs of the Kings of Spain, and his Russian Discoveries, London, 1780; Montfaucon, Antiquité avec le Supplement, 15 vols. folio, a fine set in old calf; Pitisci Lexicon; Thuani, Historia sui temporis, Genevæ, 1626, in 3 vols. folio; Moreri, Dictionnaire Historique, in 4 vols. folio; Bayle, Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, Rotterdam, 1702, in 4 vols. folio; the History of the World by Raleigh and Howell; Ligon’s Barbadoes, 1673; Wheler’s Greece, 1682; Mezeray’s History of France, Amsterdam, 1668-74; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Blome’s Jamaica, 1678; Ogilby’s Africa and America, with the Atlas Japanensis et Chinensis; Cary’s Chronological account of Ancient Time; to which may be added, Baudrand, Lexicon Geographicum; Bochart, Geographia Sacra, Cadomi, 1651; Clarke on Coins, London, 1767; and a very fine copy in calf of Waltheri Lexicon Diplomaticum Gottingæ, 1745, folio.

Of Works relating to the History of Great Britain this ancient Collection embraces a very fair proportion, for I observed upon its shelves, Heylin’s Help to English History, London, 1670; and Brady’s Introduction to old English History; Matthæi Paris Historia Anglicana, edente Wats, Londini, 1740, calf; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum, Londini, 1570; Du Chesne, Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores, 1619; Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, et Cambrica, à veteribus scripta, ex Bibliothecâ Camdeni, Francofurti, 1603; Camdeni Annales, Londini, 1615-27; Camdeni Britannia, Londini, 1607; Annales Rerum Anglicarum, 1508-58, Hagæ-Com. 1653; Smith de Rêpublicâ Anglorum, per Buddenum, Londini; Langhornii Chronicon Regum Angliæ, Londini, 1679; Rerum Anglicanarum Scriptores post Bedam, edente Savile, Francofurti, 1601, folio; Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Decem, curâ Twysdeni, Londini, 1652, folio; Sammes’ Antiquities of Ancient Britain, London, 1676, folio; Burton’s Itinerary of Antoninus, London, 1658; Baker’s Chronicle, 1679; Brady’s History of England; Danyel’s History of England, 1621; the History of England by Rapin and Tindal; Sandford’s Genealogical History of the Kings of England, London, 1677, folio; Ashmole’s Order of the Garter, London, 1672, folio; Wilson’s History of Great Britain, London, 1653; Dugdale’s Baronage and Origines Judiciales; Barnes’ History of Edward III. Cambridge, 1688; Herbert’s Henry VIII. 1672; Burnet’s History of his own Time; Lloyd’s State Worthies, 1670; Rushworth’s Historical Collections, and Report of Strafford’s Trial; the State Tryals, 1669, folio; Whitelock’s Memorials of English Affairs; Stafford’s Pacata Hibernia, 1633; Clanricarde’s Memoirs, 1757; Sir James Melvil’s Memoirs, by George Scott, London, 1683; Burnet’s Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton; Buchanani Historia Scotorum; Bates’ Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Angliâ; Charles the First’s Declaration of Tumults in Scotland, 1639, and the Icon Basilike, Hagæ Com. 1649; Symmons’ Vindication of King Charles I. 1648; Dugdale’s View of the late Troubles; Prynne’s Life of Laud; Fuller’s Worthies; Kippis’ Biographia Britannica; Camden’s Britannica, edited by Gough, London, 1789, 3 vols. folio, in russia; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses, edited by Bliss; Loggan, Oxonia Illustrata; Plot’s Oxfordshire, 1677, folio; Worsley’s Isle of Wight; White’s Natural History of Selborne; Dugdale’s St. Paul’s; Hobbes de Mirabilibus Pecci; Granger’s Biographical History of England; Monk’s Life of Bentley; Nicholl’s Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; the Records published by the Parliamentary Commissioners, and the Population Returns; to which I may add, Balæi Scriptorum Britannicorum Centuriæ V. Gippeswici, 1548; Martin Bucer, Scriptores Anglicani ab Huberto collecti, Basileæ, 1577; and the English Atlas, published at Oxford in 1680-1681, in four large folio volumes.

Of Law Books, the number in this Library is but few, since we find only of the Statutes at large, volumes 21 to 37; Croke’s Reports, 1669, in 3 vols. folio; Suarez de Legibus; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum, Cantabrigiæ, 1727; Justiniani Institutiones; Durandi Speculum Juris, Lugduni, 1556; Gothofredi Codex Theodosianus, 1665, in 4 vols. folio; and some Tracts by Selden.

From this barren theme it is refreshing to turn to the Classic authors, who are very well represented in this Library. The first thing which arrested my attention in this department were the following Delphin Classics.

Apuleius, 1688.

Boethius, 1680.

Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, 1685.

Cæsar, 1678.

Cicero.

Claudian, 1677.

Quintus Curtius.

Eutropius, 1683.

Florus, 1674.

Aulus Gellius, 1681.

Horatius, 1691.

Justinus, 1677.

Juvenalis, 1684.

Livius, 1679.

Lucretius, 1680.

Manilius, 1679.

Martialis, 1680.

Cornelius Nepos, 1675.

Ovidius, per Helvetium, 1689.

Phædrus, 1675.

Plautus, 1679.

Prudentius, 1687.

Sextus Pompeius, 1681.

Sallustius, per Crispinum, 1674.

Suetonius, 1684.

Tacitus, 1682.

Terentius, 1675.

Valerius Maximus, 1679.

Velleius Paterculus, 1675.

Aurelius Victor, 1681. &

The Panegyrici Veteres, per La Baume, 1676.

all bound in old dark calf, with red lettering pieces, except the Horace, but not quite uniform.

Of the other editions of the Classics, the best idea will be formed by a brief enumeration of such as occurred to me in examining this Collection.

Ælianus, Hist. Animal. Genevæ, 1616.

Arrianus. Parisiis, 1575.

Aristotelis Opera Du Valli. Parisiis, 1629, 2 tomis, folio.

Athenæus. Lugd. Bat. 1657.

Boethii Opera. Basileæ, 1546.

Catullus, Tibullus, & Propertius. Brageraci, 1640.

Ciceronis Opera collecta, per Frobenium. Hamburgi, 1618-19.

Demosthenes & Æschines, per Wolfium. Aurel. Allob. 1607.

Diodorus Siculus. Basileæ, 1578.

Diogenes Laertius. Romæ, Albrobrandini, 1594.

Dionysius Halicarnassensis. Francofurti, 1586.

Dioscorides. Coloniæ, 1529.

Euclidis Elementa, 1620.

Epicteti Enchiridion. Coloniæ, 1696.

Frontonis Epistolæ variæ. Parisiis, 1660.

Marsilii Ficini Opera. Parisiis, 1641.

Herodianis. Parisiis, 1681.

Herodotus. Parisiis, 1608.

Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores. Sylburgii, Francofurti, 1590.

Isocrates, Sylvani. Oxonii, 1677, & per Wolfium, Basileæ, 1567.

Iamblichus, per Galeum. Oxonii, 1678.

Juvenalis. Lugd. Bat. 1648.

Libanii Sophistæ Orationes. Parisiis, 1606-27.

Livius, Sigonii. Venetiis, 1555, and

Livius. Lugd. Bat. 1553.

Longinus, edente Pearce, 1743.

Martialis, Farnabii. Genevæ, 1623.

Pausanias, Xylandri. Francofurti, 1583.

Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii. Parisiis, 1612.

Photii Epistolæ, per Montacutium. Londini, 1651.

Plinii Epistolæ. Basileæ, 1552.

Plinii Nat. Hist. Basileæ apud Frobenium, 1525.

Plutarchi Opera. Francofurti, 1599.

Polybius, Casauboni. 1619.

Plotini Opera, per Ficinum. Basileæ, 1615.

Plautus. Coloniæ, 1538.

Platonis Opera, Latinè. Francofurti, 1602.

Poetæ Græcæ Veteres. Genevæ, 1614.

Senecæ Opera. Antverpiæ. 1652.

Sibyllina Oracula, Obsopæi. Parisiis, 1599.

Æneæ Sylvii Opera Omnia. Basileæ, 1571.

Silius Italicus, translated by Ross. London, 1661, folio; a large paper copy with rough leaves, in calf.

Strabonis Geographia Xylandri. Parisiis, 1620, and Casauboni.

Tacitus. Lipsii, Antverpiæ, 1627.

Thucydides, Stephani. Parisiis, 1588, and Hobbes’ Translation.

Theophrasti Characteres. Lugd. Bat. 1638.

Varro de re rusticâ, curâ Scaligeri, 1573.

Xenophontis Opera Stephani, 1581.

To which I may add the

Clavis Homerica, printed at Gouda.

Vossius de Historicis Græcis et Latinis.

Erasmi Adagia.

Bryant’s Ancient Mythology.

Draudii Bibliotheca Classica. Francofurti, 1625.

Pauli Manutii Epistolæ et Præfationes. Venetiis, 1556.

From this cursory survey it appears that the impressions of the Classics in this Library are neither remarkable for their rarity, nor estimable for their worth.

Connected with this subject are the Works of Etymology; of which the following Catalogue will enable any one to form a tolerable notion of the value of this portion of the Winchester Cathedral Library.

Buxtorf’s Chaldee and Syriac Lexicon; with his Hebrew Lexicon, printed at Basle in 1651; Scapulæ Lexicon Græcum; Porti Lexicon Ionicum, Heidelbergæ, 1602; Varro de Linguâ Latinâ; Suidæ Lexicon Kusteri, Cantabrigiæ, 1705, folio; Ludolphi Lexicon Æthiopicum; Meursii Glossarium Græco-barbarum; La Crose, Lexicon Ægyptiaco-Latinum; Du Cange, Glossary; Hickes’ Thesaurus Septentrionalis; Spelman’s Glossary; Cotgrave’s French and English Dictionary, London, 1632; Lye’s Saxon Dictionary; Littleton’s Dictionary, 1678; Stephani Thesaurus, Parisiis, 1572; Calepini Dictionarium Octolingue, 1647; Budæi Commentarius Linguæ Græcæ; and Hesychii Dictionarium, Basileæ, 1530.

Of Bibliographical Works I found, as I have already mentioned, the old Bodleian Library Catalogue, to which I may now add the Bibliothèque Universelle et Choisie, Amsterdam, 1687-1703; the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Romæ, 1667; and the Index Expurgatorius, Matriti, 1612; with Berington’s Literary History of the Middle Ages.

In Works of Science and Natural History this Collection is equally deficient, for I noticed only Horsley’s valuable edition of Newton’s Works, in 5 volumes, 4to. London, 1779; Barrow’s Lectiones Geometricæ et Opticæ, Londini, 1669-70; Maseres Scriptores Logarithmici; Salusbury’s Mathematical Collections; Chambers’ Dictionary, by Rees, 1786, in 4 vols. folio; Cartesii Opera Philosophica, Amstelodami, 1650, 2 vols. folio; Lord Bacon on Natural History; the Novum Organum; Boyle on Experimental Philosophy, Oxford, 1663; Whitehurst’s Theory of the Earth; Willis’ Anatomical Works; Conradi Gesneri, Historia Animalium; Ruellius de naturâ Stirpium; Fuchsii de Historiâ Stirpium Commentarii; Morison, Plantarum Umbelliferarum Distributio; Latham’s Birds, with coloured plates, 10 vols. 4to. Winchester, 1824, in boards; and Bochart, Hierozoicon.

Of learned bodies and their transactions, the only works in this Library are Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, London, 1667; the Philosophical Transactions; Histoire de l’Academie, 1699-1754, in 105 volumes, 4to.; the Acta Eruditorum, Lipsiæ, 1682-1701, 1702-1720, and 1721-1738; and the Journal des Savans, 1689, in 12 vols. 8vo.

Of miscellaneous Works in Foreign Literature, I noticed Boccaccio, Decameron, Venetiis, 1638; Gatakeri Adversaria Miscellanea, Londini, 1659; Pici Mirandulæ Opera, Basileæ, 1572; Juliani Imperatoris Opera, Parisiis, 1630; Rogeri Aschami Epistolæ, Genevæ, 1611; and Gualtheri Opera, Tiguri, 1595.

In English Literature it remains for me to notice the Works of King James the First of England, and of his son Charles the First, the latter of the date of 1662; Walpole’s Royal and Noble Authors; Chaucer’s Works, London, 1787; Spenser’s Works, London, 1679; Milton’s Paradise Lost, 1669; the Works of the Earl of Surrey, and Sir Thomas Wyatt, edited by Nott, in 2 vols. 4to.; Sir Thomas More’s Works, 1557, folio; Donne’s Poems, 1633; Herbert’s Country Parson, 1671; Butler’s Hudibras, 1663-4; and the Memoirs of Bishop James of Calcutta.

But perhaps the most valuable and interesting treasure preserved in this Library is the original Charter granted by Henry VIII. to the Cathedral Church of Winchester, written upon vellum, and beautifully illuminated.