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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 + With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded + in the Fourteenth Century + +Author: William Dunn Macray + +Release Date: December 16, 2011 [EBook #38317] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANNALS OF THE BODLEIAN *** + + + + +Produced by Simon Gardner, Adrian Mastronardi and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +(This file was produced from images generously made +available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="trans-note"> +<h4>Transcriber's Notes</h4> + +<p>Variant spellings (and some apparent typographical errors) have +generally been retained, +especially in quoted documents. Where changes to the text have been +made these are listed <a href="#Transcribers_Notes">at the end of the book</a>. +See also the <a href="#ADDENDA_ET_CORRIGENDA">Addenda et Corrigenda</a>. +Minor punctuation and format changes have been made without special +comment.</p> + +<p>Uncommon characters are listed below. If these do not appear here, +you may need to adjust your browser settings. The following are used in Old English text:</p> + +<ul> +<li>Ā, ē, m̄, r̅s, ū (macron over A, e, m, rs and u)</li> +<li>ƀ, b̶b, þ̵ (bar through the upright of b, bb and "thorn")</li> +<li>Tironian ampersand is represented with "[&]"</li> +<li>Old English r symbol is represented with {r}</li> +</ul> + +<p>Additional symbols and diacritics in the text are rendered as follows:</p> + +<ul> +<li>ā, c̄, ē, m̄, ō (macron over a, c, e, m and o)</li> +<li>Ɔ (used for apostrophic C used in in Roman dates)</li> +<li>ḿ (acute accent over m)</li> +<li>ũ (tilde over u)</li> +<li>ŭ (breve over u)</li> +</ul> + +<p>For Greek (<a title="Grk: zôophyton" class="note">ζωοφυτον</a>) and Hebrew (<span class="note" title="Heb: spr tgn">ספר תגן</span>), a transliteration is available by hovering the cursor +over the text, as indicated by the thin red underline.</p> +</div> + +<p><!-- Page i --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</a></span></p> + +<h1> ANNALS<br /> + <span class="title-medium">OF THE</span><br /> + BODLEIAN LIBRARY,<br /> + <span class="title-smaller">OXFORD,</span><br /> + <span class="title-smaller">A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867;</span></h1> + +<h3> With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded<br /> + in the Fourteenth Century.</h3> + +<h2 class="center"> BY THE REV. WILLIAM DUNN MACRAY, M.A.<br /> + <span class="title-small">CHAPLAIN OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE AND ST. MARY WINTON COLLEGES;<br /> + EDITOR OF "<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">CHRONICON ABBATIÆ EVESHAMENSIS</span>," &c.</span></h2> + +<p class="center"> RIVINGTONS<br /> + London, Oxford, and Cambridge<br /> + 1868 +</p> +<hr /> +<p><!-- Page iii --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[Pg iii]</a></span></p> + + + +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> + + +<p>This volume is an attempt to tell a tale which has not +been told with any particularity and fulness since the days +of Anthony à Wood, and yet a tale which, since those days, +has been continually growing in interest, and engaging in +fresh scenes the attention and admiration of successive +generations. Fragments of the tale, it is true, have been +told at times; latest of all, an abstract, brief but accurate, +has been given in Mr. Edwards' valuable <i>Memoirs of Libraries</i>. +But the present narrative, while it embraces a wider range, +is, at the same time, independent throughout of all that have +preceded it, being largely compiled from sources available +only to those who are familiar with the stores of the Library +and habituated to their use, as well as from private accounts +and papers, for access to which, as for other kind assistance, +the writer is indebted to the Librarian. Yet it is only +as an <i>attempt</i> that the volume asks to be received and +judged; for a work of this kind cannot at once attain completeness. +Its very size will show to those who are acquainted +with its subject, that minuteness in detail cannot +be expected. The difficulty has been, out of the abundance +<!-- Page iv --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[Pg iv]</a></span>of materials, to compile an epitome which should at once +be concise and yet not, through conciseness, be deprived +of interest. To point out all the special treasures in each +branch in which the Library is rich, as it would occupy the +extent of several volumes, so it would require the combined +knowledge of several students, each in his several sphere. +While, therefore, no portion of the Library has been unnoticed, +it will, the writer trusts, be readily pardoned, should +those portions with which he is specially acquainted, and +in the direction of which his own line of work specially +leads, seem to any to occupy more prominence than others +of equal importance. It is worthy of notice that, in tracing +the growth and history of the Library, the fact of its older +divisions having undergone comparatively little change in +arrangement, greatly facilitates examination, and, at the +same time, often imparts an interest of its own to well-nigh +each successive shelf of books; for each tier has thus its +own record of successive benefactions and successive purchases +to display, and leads us on step by step from one +year to another.</p> + +<p>'<i>Bowers of Paradise!</i>' Thus it was that an enthusiastic +Hebrew student, writing of the Bodleian but a few years +ago, apostrophized the little cells and curtained cages wherein +readers sit, while hedged in and canopied with all the wisdom +and learning of bygone generations, which here bloom their +blossoms and yield up their fruits. And, as if answering in +actual living type to the parable which the Eastern metaphor +suggests, these cells from year to year have been and (though +of late more infrequently) still are, the resort of grand +and grave old bees, majestic in size and deportment, of<!-- Page v --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg v]</a></span> +sonorous sound, and covered with the dust, as it were, of +ages. Just as a solemn rookery befits an ancestral mansion, +so these Bees of the Bodleian form a fitting accompaniment +to the place of their choice. And while the Metaphor well +describes the character of that place whither men resort +for refreshment amidst the work of the world and for the +recruiting of mental strength for the doing of such work, so +the Type well describes those who from the bowers gather +sweetness and wealth, first for their own enriching and next +for the enriching of others. Long then in these bowers +may there be found busy hives of men; above all, those +that gather thence, abundantly, such Wisdom as is <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">præ +melle ori</i>.</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in1"><span class="smcap">Bodleian Library</span>,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in2"><i>May 30, 1868</i>.</span></p> + + + + +<hr class="long" /> +<p><!-- Page vii --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS.</h2> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Table of Contents"> +<tr><td align="right" colspan="4"><span class="smcap">PAGE.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="3"><span class="smcap">Annals</span></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Appendix</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">A.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Account of a 'Tartar Lambskin' Cloak</span></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_307">307</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">B.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vellum-printed Books, added since 1830</span></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_310">310</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">C.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">List of MSS. from Monastic and other Libraries</span></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_313">313</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">D.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">MSS. and Miscellaneous Curiosities exhibited in the Library and Picture Gallery</span></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_319">319</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">E.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Numismatic Collection</span></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_339">339</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">F.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Past and Present Officers of the Library</span></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_341">341</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">"</td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">G.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Rules of the Library</span></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_344">344</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="3"><span class="smcap">Lithograph of Shakespeare-autograph</span>, <i>to face page</i></td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_301">301</a></td></tr> +</table></div> +<p><!-- Page 1 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + + + +<h2> ANNALS<br /> + OF THE<br /> + BODLEIAN LIBRARY.</h2> +<p><!-- Page 3 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> + +<p>In the north-east corner of St. Mary's Church, a church full of +nooks little known to ordinary visitors, is a dark vaulted chamber +(dark, because its windows have been built up), whose doors, +when opened, only now reveal the abiding-place of the University +fire-engines. Here of old sat the Chancellor of the University, +surrounded by the Doctors and Masters of the Great Congregation, +in a fashion which was formerly depicted in the great west +window of St. Mary's Church, and is still represented on the +<span class="note" title="[The University Seal is engraved in Ingram's Memorials of Oxf., iii. 17, where it is said to be 'c. A.D. 1200.']"> +University seal</span>, and which, in the early part of the last century, +was adopted by Dr. Richard Rawlinson as his book-plate, +being engraved from the impression attached to his own diploma +in Civil Law. Above this chamber there is another, lighted by four +windows, containing forty-five feet in length and twenty in breadth, +and now assigned as the lecture-room of the Professor of Law. +Here was begun about 1367, and finally established and furnished +in 1409, the first actual University Library, called after +Bishop Thomas Cobham, of Worcester, who about 1320 (seven +years before his death) had commenced preparations for the +building of the room and the making provision for its contents<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>.<!-- Page 4 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> +Wood tells us that before this time there were indeed some +books kept in chests in St. Mary's Church, which were to be +lent out under pledges, as well as some chained to desks, +which were only to be read <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">in situ</i>; but <i>this</i> University chest soon +gave way to the formal Library, as, at a later period, another +University chest was lost in funded investments and a banker's +balance<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>. Another precursor of the general Library was found in +the collection bequeathed to Durham College (on the site of which +now stands Trinity College) in 1345 by one of its founders, the +earnest lover and preserver of books, Philip of Bury; he of that +charming book, that '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">tractatus vere pulcherrimus</span>,' the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Philobiblion</i>. +He,—who apostrophizes books as the masters who teach +without flogging or fleecing, without punishment or payment; as +ears of corn, full of grain, to be rubbed only by apostolic hands; +as golden pots of manna; as Noah's ark and Jacob's ladder, and +Joshua's stones of testimony and Gideon's lamps and David's +scrip, and who says that in the noblest monasteries of England +he found precious volumes defiled and injured by mice and worms, +and abandoned to moths,—gave strict injunctions for the care of +the large collection, gathered from all quarters, with which he +enriched his College<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>. It was to be free for purposes of study to +all scholars, who might have the loan of any work of which there<!-- Page 5 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +was a duplicate, provided they left a pledge exceeding it in value, +but for purposes of transcription no volume was to go beyond the +walls of the house. A register was to be kept, and a yearly visitation +was to be held<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>. Some of these books, on the dissolution of +the College by Henry VIII, are said to have been transferred to +Duke Humphrey's Library, and some to Balliol College.</p> + +<p>The Librarian of Cobham's Library was also entitled Chaplain +to the University, and as such was ordered, in 1412, to offer +masses yearly for those who were benefactors of the University +and Library, and was endowed with half a mark yearly, as well as +with £5 issuing from the assize of bread and ale, which had been +granted to the University by King Henry IV, who was also a +principal contributor to the completion of the Library, and is +therefore to this day duly remembered in the Bidding-Prayer at +all the academic 'Commemorationes Solenniores.' But no trace +remains of the devotional and sacred duties once attaching to the +office, and laymen have been eligible to it from the time of +Bodley's re-foundation. The old regal stipend, however, amounting +at last to £6 13<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i>, continued to be paid to the Librarian, +until in 1856, by the revised code of statutes, various small +payments were consolidated; it is found entered in the annual +printed accounts up to that year.</p> + +<p>But not a score of years had passed after Cobham's Library +had been actually completed and opened before the building of a +room more worthy of the University was commenced. In 1426 +the University began to erect the present noble Divinity School +for the exercises in that faculty; but as their own means soon<!-- Page 6 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +failed they betook themselves to all likely quarters to procure +help. And Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, the patron of all +learning<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a>, and the fosterer of the New School of theological +thought, the protector of Pecock, responded so liberally to the +petition of the University for aid to the fabric of their Material +School, that he is styled (says Wood) in the Bedell's Book its +Founder, while the roof to this day perpetuates his memory among +the shields of arms of benefactors with which its graceful pendants +terminate. His gifts of money for the School were quickly +followed by still larger gifts of books for the Library. Between +the years 1439 and 1446 he appears to have forwarded about +600 MSS, which were for the time deposited in chests in Cobham's +Library. The first donation, consisting of 129 volumes, +was forwarded in November, 1439. The letter of thanks from +Convocation is dated the 25th of that month, and on the same day +a letter was sent to the House of Commons, to the 'ryght worshypfull +syres, the Speker, knyghtes, and burges (<i>sic</i>) of the +worshepfull parlament,' informing them that the Duke had magnified +the University 'with a thousand pounds worth and more +of preciose bokes,' and therefore beseeching their 'sage discrecions +to considere the gloriose gifts of the graciose prince ... +for the comyn profyte and worshyp of the Reme, to thanke hym +hertyly, and also prey Godde to thanke hym in tyme comyng wher +goode dedys ben rewarded.' Statutes for the regulation of the +gift were made on the same day, prayers appointed, and provision<!-- Page 7 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> +made for the observance of the Duke's obit<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a>. A catalogue of 364 +of the MSS. is printed, from the lists preserved in the University +Register, p. 758, vol. ii. of Rev. H. Anstey's <i>Documents Illustrative +of Social and Academic Life at Oxford</i>, published in the series +of Chronicles issued by the Master of the Rolls. The extent of +these gifts rendered the room at St. Mary's quite insufficient for +the purpose to which it was assigned, and the University therefore, +in a letter to the Duke, dated July 14, 1444, informed him of +their intention to erect a more suitable building, of which (as a +delicate way, probably, of bespeaking his aid towards the cost, +as well as of testifying their gratitude for past benefactions) they +formally offered him the title of Founder. In the subjoined note +is given an extract from this letter (copied from the Register of +Convocation), which is interesting from its description of the inconveniences +of the old room, and the advantages of the new +site<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a>. And this new building, first contemplated in <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 1444<!-- Page 8 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +and finished about 1480, forms now the central portion of the +great Reading-Room, still retaining its old advantages of convenience +and of seclusion 'a strepitu sæculari.'</p> + +<p>The Duke's MSS. were, as became the object of his gift, very +varied in character. With works in Divinity are mingled in the +catalogue a large number in Medicine and Science, together with +some in lighter literature, amongst which latter are found no less +than seven MSS. of Petrarch and three of Boccaccio. Some +additional MSS, being 'all the Latyn bokes that he had,' together +with £100 towards the completion of the 'Divyne Scoles,' which +the Duke had intended to bequeath, but the formal bequest of +which was prevented by his dying intestate in 1447, were subsequently +procured, although with considerable difficulty<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a>. But +only three out of the whole number of his MSS. are now +known to exist in the present Library. One of these is a fine +copy of books iv.-ix. of Valerius Maximus, with the commentary +by D. de Burgo, and with an index by John de Whethamstede, +Abbot of St. Alban's (now marked, Auctarium, F. infra, i. 1<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a>); +the second is a translation by L. Aretine of the Politics of +Aristotle (marked, Auct. F. v. 27); and the third, the Epistles +of Pliny (Auct. F. ii. 23). The first bears the Duke's arms;<!-- Page 9 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +the second has an original dedication to him by the translator; +the last (which was restored to the University by Dr. Robert +Master, Oct. 30, 1620) contains his own autograph. Six MSS. +now in the British Museum, which formerly belonged to the +Duke, are described in Sir H. Ellis' <i>Letters of Eminent Literary +Men</i>, (printed by the Camden Society,) pp. 357-8. Two of +these appear in the List of Humphrey's benefaction to Oxford; +for Harl. 1705, which is a translation of Plato's Politics by Peter +Candidus, or White, who gave it to the Duke, is doubtless the +book entered at the end of the List as 'Item, novam traductionem +totius Politeiæ Platonicæ;' while Cotton, Nero. D. v., the +Acts of the Council of Constance, appears at fol. 67. Another +of these six MSS, Harl. 988, is an anonymous commentary on +the Canticles<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a>, which formerly belonged to Sir Robert Cotton, and +which contains an inscription by him intended to commemorate +his returning it to the University Library in 1602. It came into +Harley's possession amongst Bishop Stillingfleet's MSS, all of +which were bought by him. A letter from Wanley to Hearne, +in which the book is mentioned, is preserved in the Bodleian in +a Rawlinson MS. (Letters xvii.) under date of Oct. 13, 1714, +Hearne's reply to which is printed by Sir H. Ellis, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">ubi supra</i>; +while Wanley's rejoinder is also found in the above MS, dated +Oct. 27, in which he says, 'As for my Lord's MS. of the Canticles, +designed for the Bodleyan Library by Sir Robert Cotton, I know +not how you find it to have once belonged to Humphrey, duke of +Gloucester. My Lord has indeed two of his books, which we +know to have been his, for certain; because one of them (which +was given to his Lordship) hath a note therein of his hand-writing, +and the other hath his armes and stile on the outside, as also +<!-- Page 10 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>his library-mark. This last (which was bought of Sir Simonds +D'Ewes), together with the Cotton MS. of the Canticles, I besought +his Lordship to give to the University for your Library, +and I hope his Lordship will do so in a little time.' Another +of the Duke's books, being Capgrave's Commentary on +Genesis, which occurs in the second list of those given to the +University, is now in the library of Oriel College. One volume, +containing, among other philosophical treatises, Plato's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Phædo</i>, +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Timæus</i>, &c., with the Duke's autograph, 'Cest livre a moy Homfrey +duc de Gloucestre' (given to him by an Abbot of St. Alban's) is +in Corpus Christi College, 243. And a copy of Wickliffe's Bible, +in two volumes, which bears Humphrey's arms, is amongst the +Egerton MSS. (617-8), Brit. Mus.</p> + +<p>The large increase of treasures which these benefactions brought +to the University probably caused the first institution of a formal +Visitation. On Nov. 29, 1449, we find that Visitors were appointed +by Congregation for the purpose of receiving from the +Chaplain an account of the books contained in the Library<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a>.</p> + +<p>Duke Humphrey was followed in the good work of the Divinity +School and Library by another whose name still retains its place +in the formal list of benefactors, Bishop Thomas Kempe, of London, +who, besides contributing very largely in money towards the +completion of the former, sent some books to the latter in 1487, +some seven years after the new room had been finally completed +and opened for use. But Antony Wood (in whose pages records of +other benefactors may be found) tells us that very few years +passed before the Library began to lose some of its newly-acquired +treasures; for Scholars borrowed books upon petty and insufficient +pledges, and so chose to forfeit the latter rather than return +the former<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a>, while tradition reported that Polydore Virgil, the<!-- Page 11 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +historian, being at length refused any further opportunities of abstraction, +obtained a special licence from Henry VIII for the +taking out any MS. for his use! From this traditionary report +Sir H. Ellis, in his introduction to a translation of Virgil's history, +printed for the Camden Society in 1844, endeavours to vindicate +his author's reputation, but more by conjecture than evidence. +In 1513 a Chaplain and Librarian was elected, named Adam +Kirkebote<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a>. The new Librarian, soon after, supplicated Congregation +that on Festival Days he should not be bound to open +the Library before twelve o'clock; a practice which, commencing +at that day, does still unto this (the Library on Holy Days during +Term being now not opened until the conclusion of the University +sermon, at eleven o'clock) witness to the religious spirit which +pervades all the old institutions of Oxford. In 1527, when one +Flecher was Chaplain, it is recorded<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> that 'Magister' Claymond +(doubtless the President of Corpus Christi College, of that name) +was permitted by vote of Congregation to take Pliny's Natural +History out of the Library. In 1543 Humphrey Burnford was +elected Chaplain on Oct. 31, in the room of — Whytt, deceased<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a>. +It was probably during his tenure of office that the +Library was destroyed. For in 1550 the Commissioners deputed +by Edward VI for reformation of the University visited the Libraries +in the spirit of John Knox, destroying, without examination, +all MSS. ornamented by illuminations or rubricated initials +as being eminently Popish, and leaving the rest exposed to any +chance of injury and robbery. The traditions which Wood has<!-- Page 12 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +recorded as having been learned at the mouths of aged men who +had in their turn received them from those who were contemporaneous +with the Visitation, are abundantly confirmed by the well-known +descriptions of Leland and Bale of what went on in other +places, and therefore, although no direct documentary evidence of +the proceedings of the spoilers is known to exist, we may believe +that Wood's account of pillage and waste, of MSS. burned, and +sold to tailors for their measures, to bookbinders for covers, and +the like, until not one remained <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">in situ</i>, is not a whit exaggerated. +One solitary entry there is, however, in the University Register +(I. fol. 157<sup>a</sup>), which, while it records the completion of the +catastrophe, sufficiently thereby corroborates the story of all +that preceded, viz. the entry which tells that in Convocation on +Jan. 25, 1555-6, 'electi sunt hii venerabiles viri, Vice-cancellarius +et Procuratores, Magister Morwent, præses Corporis Christi, +et Magister Wright, ad vendenda subsellia librorum in publica +Academiæ bibliotheca, ipsius Universitatis nomine.' The books +of the 'public' library had all disappeared; what need then +to retain the shelves and stalls, when no one thought of replacing +their contents, and when the University could turn an +honest penny by their sale? and so the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">venerabiles viri</i> made a +timber-yard of Duke Humphrey's treasure-house.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>But four years after the final despoiling of the Library +there was an undergraduate entered at Magdalen College, +who, by the good Providence which always out of evil brings +somewhat to counterpoise and correct, was to be moved by +the sight of the ruin and desolation to restore what his seniors +had destroyed, and to reconstruct the old Plantagenet's Li<!-- Page 13 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>brary +on such a basis, and with such means for carrying +on its re-edification, that the glory of the latter house should +soon eclipse that of the former. All around him he doubtless +found traces of the recent destruction; his stationer may have +sold him books bound in fragments of those MSS. for which +the University but a century before had consecrated the +memory of the donors in her solemn prayers; the tailor who +measured him for his sad-coloured doublet, may have done it +with a strip of parchment brilliant with gold, that had consequently +been condemned as Popish, or covered with strange +symbols of an old heathen Greek's devising, that probably passed +for magical and unlawful incantations. And the soul of the +young student must have burned with shame and indignation +at the apathy which had not merely tolerated this destruction by +strangers, but had contentedly assisted in carrying it out to its +thorough completion. Himself a successful student, he became +eager to help others to whom thus the advantages of a library +were denied; and, for a while without fee or reward, undertook +a public Greek lecture in the Hall of Merton College, to which +college he had been elected in 1563<a name="FNanchor_16_16" id="FNanchor_16_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a>. And when, after years thus +spent in academic pursuits, <span class="smcap">Thomas Bodley</span> betook himself to +diplomatic service abroad, he still, amidst all the distractions of +foreign and domestic politics, preserved his affection for the scenes +and the studies of his early familiarity. So, when the days came<!-- Page 14 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +wherein statecraft began to weary him and Courts ceased to charm, +his thoughts reverted to the place where, free from these, he might +still, although in a more private capacity, labour for the good +of the commonwealth; he remembered the room once precious +to students, 'scientiarum sedes,' as the University had called it +of old, but now destitute alike both of science and of seats. +'And thus,' says he himself, 'I concluded at the last to set up my +staff at the Library-door in Oxon; being thoroughly persuaded +that, in my solitude and surcease from the commonwealth-affairs, +I could not busy myself to better purpose than by reducing that +place (which then in every part lay ruined and waste) to the +publick use of students<a name="FNanchor_17_17" id="FNanchor_17_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a>.' So therefore, on Feb. 23, 1597-8, +he wrote a letter to the Vice-Chancellor, offering that whereas +'there hath bin heretofore a publike library in Oxford, which, +you know, is apparant by the roome itself remayning, and by +your statute records, I will take the charge and cost upon me, +to reduce it again to his former use,' first by fitting it up with +shelves and seats, next by procuring benefactions of books, and +lastly by endowing it with an annual rent<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a>. This offer being +accepted with great gratitude, other letters followed from him +in March, in which he desired that delegates should be chosen to +consider the best mode of fitting up the room, and mentioned an +offer on the part of his own College, Merton, to provide timber +for the purpose. Two years were spent in the carrying out of +this work and in the preliminary arrangements. Amongst these +preparations was the putting up the beautiful roof which to this +day is such an object of deserved admiration. It is divided into +square compartments, on each of which are painted the arms of<!-- Page 15 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +the University, being the open Bible, with seven seals<a name="FNanchor_19_19" id="FNanchor_19_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a>, between +three ducal crowns, on the open pages of which are the words +(so truly fitting for a Christian School) '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la"><span class="smcap">Dominus</span> Illuminatio +mea</span><a name="FNanchor_20_20" id="FNanchor_20_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a>;' while on bosses that intervene between each compartment +are painted the arms of Bodley himself, being five martlets with +a crescent for difference, quartered with the arms of Hone (his +mother's family), two bars wavy between three billets; on a chief +the three ducal crowns of the University shield, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">quarum merito +gloriam ab Academia derivavit</span>.' (Wake, <i>Rex Platon</i>. p. 12.) The +striking motto '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Quarta perennis erit</span>' was assigned to Bodley +at the same time with this academic augmentation<a name="FNanchor_21_21" id="FNanchor_21_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a>. When, in +1610, the eastern wing of the Library was erected, a similar +roof was added, as was also done to the Picture Gallery (built +between 1613-1619); in the latter room the roof, having become +decayed and out of repair, was unhappily altogether removed in the +year 1831, and a plaster ceiling, divided into compartments, substituted. +A few of the panels of this roof have been preserved, +one bearing the figures of two cats, which used to be an object of +interest to juvenile visitors, and a series bearing the letters which +compose Sir Thomas Bodley's name, together with a portrait of +him upon a centre panel. A high-backed arm-chair, the Librarian's +seat of office in the Library, was formed out of oak from<!-- Page 16 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +the roof, and an engraving hangs in the Gallery which represents +the room before its change for the worse.</p> + +<p>On June 25, 1600, Bodley wrote to the Vice-Chancellor, +mentioning that, as the mechanical work was now brought to +a good pass, he had begun to busy himself in the gathering +of books, and had provided a Register for the enrolment of +the names of all benefactors, with particulars of their gifts. This +Register (formerly, like all the books in folio, chained to its desk), +consisting of two large folio volumes, on vellum, now lies on a +table in the great room, and is an object of notice by most +visitors. The volumes are ornamented exteriorly with silver-gilt +bosses on their massy covers, on which are engraved the arms +of Bodley and those of the University, and interiorly in many +places with the donors' coats of arms painted in their proper +colours, and with various devices. Vol. i. extends from 1600 +to 1688, containing 428 pages in double columns; and commences +with a printed record of the gifts for the first four years, +on pp. 1-90. The following printed title is prefixed: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Munificentissimis +atque optimis cujusvis ordinis, dignitatis, sexus, qui Bibliothecam +hanc libris, aut pecuniis numeratis ad libros coemendos, +aliove quovis genere ampliarunt, Thomas Bodleius, eques auratus, +honorarium hoc volumen, in quod hujuscemodi donationes, +simulque nomina donantium singillatim referuntur, pietatis, memoriæ, +virtutisque causa, dedit, dedicavit.</span>' A paragraph follows, +which mentions Bodley's own work of refitting and endowing, and +notes that his own large gifts are not entered because he hopes +throughout his life to make continually large additions. The +whole of this title is printed in the preface to James' first Catalogue, +issued in 1605, who was probably part-writer of it<a name="FNanchor_22_22" id="FNanchor_22_22"></a><a href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a>. Wake +(<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Rex Platonicus</i>, p. 120) speaks of the Register, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">aureis umbilicis<!-- Page 17 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> +fibulisque fulgidum</span>,' as always lying '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">eminentissimo loco</span>,' a prominent +object of notice to all who entered the Library. Vol. ii. +extends from 1692 to 1795, ending in the middle of the volume, +on p. 216; but there is reason to fear that there are many omissions +in the later portion of its period. Each volume has an +index of names. The gifts of the principal donors, as recorded +in this Register up to its close, are printed in Gutch's edition of +<i>Wood's History</i>, vol. ii. part ii. pp. 920-950. It will not be necessary, +therefore, to mention here the names of many, but of such +only as are '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">e principibus principes</span>.' From the year 1796 inclusive, +when the gifts of donors began to be entered in the annual printed +catalogues of purchases and statements of accounts, this MS. +Register ceased to be used.</p> + +<p>Among the first and largest benefactors in the year 1600 occur +Lord Buckhurst (afterwards Earl of Dorset), the Earl of Essex, +Lords Hunsdon, Montacute, [editions of the Fathers], Lisle (afterwards +Leicester), Lumley<a name="FNanchor_23_23" id="FNanchor_23_23"></a><a href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a>, and William Gent, who gave a large +collection of books, chiefly medical.</p> + +<p>Many volumes were given about this time by Bodley, which had +been collected in Italy by Bill, the London bookseller, who was +employed by Sir Thomas to travel on the Continent as his agent +for this purpose.</p> + +<p>The famous copy of the French <i>Romance of Alexander</i> (now +numbered Bodl. 264) must have been one of the MSS. given by +Bodley himself at the commencement of his work, as it is found +entered in the printed Catalogue of 1605, but does not occur in +the Benefactors' Register. It is decorated with a large number +of beautiful paintings on a chequered background of gold and +colour; but its special interest lies in the illustrations at the foot of<!-- Page 18 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +about half the pages, which exhibit the most quaint and grotesque +representations of customs, trades, amusements, dress, &c., of the +time. Some of these were engraved by Strutt; and four specimens, +together with one of the larger miniatures illustrating the text, are +given by Dibdin in his <i>Bibl. Decam.</i> vol. i., where, at pp. 198-201, +he discourses, in his own peculiar fashion, on the merits of the +volume. A notice of the book may also be found in Warton's +<i>Hist. of Engl. Poetry</i>, edit. 1840, vol. i. p. 142. At f. 208 is the +following colophon, which is of much interest, as affording evidence +that the work of the painter occupied upwards of five years:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr"> +<span class="i0">'Che define li romans du boin roi Alixandre,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Et les veus du pavon, les accomplissemens,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Le Restor du pavon et le pris, qui fu perescript<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Le xviii<sup>e</sup> ior de Decembre, lan M.ccc.xxxviii.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Explicit iste liber, scriptor sit crimine liber,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Xpristus scriptorem custodiat ac det honorem.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>(<i>In gold letters.</i>) '<span xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Che liure fu perfais de le enluminure au xviii<sup>e</sup> jour dauryl. Per +Jehan de grise, Lan de grace, M.ccc.xliij</span>.'</p></div> + +<p>This is followed by a continuation (of later date) of the +romance, in Northern-English verse, on seven leaves<a name="FNanchor_24_24" id="FNanchor_24_24"></a><a href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a>; and lastly, +by a French Romance of the 'grant kaan à la graunt cite de +Tambaluc.' A scribe's name is given in the following lines on +f. 208, but in a hand apparently not that of any part of the book:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza" xml:lang="la" lang="la"> +<span class="i0">'Laus tibi sit Christe, quoniam liber explicit iste.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nomen scriptoris est Thomas Plenus Amoris<a name="FNanchor_25_25" id="FNanchor_25_25"></a><a href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a>.'<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The earliest owner's name occurring in the volume is that of<!-- Page 19 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> +'<span xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Richart de Widevelle, seigneur de Rivières</span>,' recorded in an +inscription on the cover at the end, which proceeds to say that '<span xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">le +dist Seigneur acetast le dist liure lan de grace mille cccclxvi. +le premier jour de lan a Londres.</span>' Rivers' own autograph follows +('Ryverys'), with some words in French, written in a perfectly +frantic scrawl. Subsequent owners were 'Gyles Strangwayes' and +'Jaspere Ffylolle' (whose signatures are engraved by Dibdin, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">ubi +supra</i>), and 'Thomas Smythe<a name="FNanchor_26_26" id="FNanchor_26_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> When Duke Humphrey's Library was completed, and the books were removed +thither, this upper room took the place of that beneath it as the Convocation +House, 'in which upper room,' says Hearne, 'was brave painted glass containing +the arms of the benefactors, which painted glass continued till the times of the +late rebellion.' (Bliss, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Hearnianæ</i>, ii. 693.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> The original treasure-chest, from which all academic money-grants are still said +to be made, is preserved in the Bursary of Corpus Christi College, in which college +it was kept in accordance with the statutes of the University, tit. xx. § 1.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> The Bishop's Bibliomania is thus noticed by a contemporary, W. de Chambre, +in his <i>Continuatio Hist. Dunelm.</i> (<i>Hist. Dunelm. Scriptt. tres</i>; Surtees Society, +1839, p. 130):—'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Iste summe delectabatur in multitudine librorum. Plures enim +libros habuit, sicut passim dicebatur, quam omnes Pontifices Angliæ. Et præter eos +quos habuit in diversis maneriis suis, repositos separatim, ubicunque cum sua +familia residebat, tot libri jacebant sparsim in camera qua dormivit, quod ingredientes +vix stare poterant vel incedere nisi librum aliquem pedibus conculcarent.</span>' The +bedroom of the late centenarian President of Magdalene College, Dr. Routh, was +in this respect just like Bishop Bury's; and as the latter sent his library from +Durham to be in some sort a nucleus for an University Library at Oxford, so +the former bequeathed his to Durham that it might assist the development of +the University Library there.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> <i>Philobiblion</i>, cap. xix.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> His love of literature was evinced by the motto which, according to Leland, +was frequently written by him in his books: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Moun bien mondain.</span>' (Hearne's +<i>MS. Diary</i>, xxxvi. 199.) Hearne, in his esteem for the memory of this 'religious, +good, and learned Prince,' quaintly says that he used, whenever he saw his handwriting +in the Bodleian Library (where it occurs several times), 'to show a sort of +particular respect' to it. (<i>Preface to Langtoft</i>, p. xx.) Was this 'sort of respect' +a reverential kiss, such as that with which (as Warton in his <i>Companion to the +Guide</i> tells us) he saluted the pavement of sheeps' trotters, supposed by him to be a +Roman tesselated floor?</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Register of Convoc. F., ff. 53<sup>b</sup>, 54<sup>b</sup>. The subsequent gifts are entered in the +same Register as follows:— +</p> +<div class="blockquot"><p>1. Last day of Feb., 1440. A letter to thank the Duke for 126 volumes +brought by John Kyrkeby. (f. 57<sup>b</sup>.) +</p><p> +2. Nov. 10, 1441. Letter acknowledging ten books (Treatises of Augustine, +Rabanus, &c.,) received through Will. Say, proctor, and John Kyrkeby. +(ff. 59<sup>b</sup>-60.) +</p><p> +3. Jan. 25, 1443. Letter of thanks for 139 volumes. (f. 63.) +</p><p> +4. Oct. 1443. Letter for another gift, number of volumes not specified. +(f. 66.) +</p><p> +5. Feb. 25, 1443 (-4?). Catalogue of 135 volumes. (ff. 67-68<sup>b</sup>.) +</p><p> +6. Feb. 1446. Letter of thanks for another gift, not specified. (f. 75<sup>b</sup>.) +</p></div> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Nemo illos [libros] sine admiratione conspicit, cunctis una voce testantibus, +se nunquam libros tanta claritate conspicuos, tanta gravitate refertos vidisse.... +Et ut per hoc, si quid maximo addi possit, tantæ munificentiæ gloria fiat illustrior, +optamus sacram et celebrem scientiarum sedem reparari, ubi honorificentius et +ad utilitatem studentium multo commodius libri vestri, ab aliis segregati, collocentur. +Jam enim si quis, ut fit, uni libro inhæreat, aliis studere volentibus ad +tres vel quatuor pro vicinitate colligationis præcludit accessum. Itaque locus huic +rei nobis maxime videtur idoneus ubi venerabilis vir, modo Cancellarius noster, +semper reverendus pater amantissimus Magister Thomas Chace, spectabilem +novarum Scolarum fabricam ad cætera suæ virtutis testimonia insigni mensura ab +humo erexit, quam nos cito, quoad exigua suppetebat facultas, promovimus. Hic +locus, propterea quod a strepitu sæculari removetur, Bibliotecæ admodum videtur +conveniens, cujus fundationis titulum, si Magnanimitati vestræ acceptabilis fuerit, +cum omni devotione offerrimus.</span>' Register F. ff. 71<sup>b</sup>, 72. We find from an entry +on the latter page that on January 13, 1444 (-5), '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">liber Platonis in Phedro</span>' +(<i>sic</i>) was lent by Convocation to the Duke.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> They were not received by August, 1450, on the 28th of which month a letter +was written from Convocation to Thomas Bokelonde, Esq., and John Summerset, +M.D., on the subject. (Register F. ff. 88<sup>b</sup>-9.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> It contains inscriptions recording its gift by Whethamstede '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">ad usum scolarium +studencium Oxoniæ</span>,' with anathemas upon those who should alienate it, or +destroy, were it but its title: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Si quis rapiat, raptim titulumve retractet, vel Judæ +laqueum vel furcas sensiat.</span>'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> Two treatises on the Canticles, by Gilbert Porret and Musca, were contained in +the Duke's first gift to Oxford. (Anstey, vol. ii. p. 759.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> Wood MS. F. 27. (Bodl. Libr.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> A sale of a collection of (apparently) these forfeited pledges, or else of books +deposited as securities for loans of money, took place in the year 1546. On Jan. 18, +1545-6, the following decree passed Convocation: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Decretum est authoritate +Convocationis Magnæ ut cistæ in domo inferiori sub domo Congregationis, et +omnes libri pro pignoribus jacentes, aut etiam alii in eadem domo inventi, venderentur, +secundum arbitrium quinque in eadem Convocatione eligendorum. Electi +itaque sunt et a Vice-Cancellario admissi ibidem</span>, Doctor Standishe, Mr. Parret, +procurator, Mr. Slythers, Mr. Symonds, <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">et</span> Mr. Wattsone.' Reg. I. 107<sup>b</sup>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label">[13]</span></a> Wood MS. F. 27.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> Ibid.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15"><span class="label">[15]</span></a> Ibid. fol. 94<sup>a</sup>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_16_16" id="Footnote_16_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_16"><span class="label">[16]</span></a> Bodley appears to have been altogether an accomplished linguist. James, in the +preface to the first Catalogue of 1605, after speaking of his proficiency in the classical +languages, adds, <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">'Linguas vero exoticas, veluti Italicam, Gallicam, Hispanicam, +Hebræam præcipue, cæterarum omnium parentem, tam perfecte callet, ut illo +neminem fere scientiorem invenies</span>.' And in one of four letters addressed to him on +the interpretation of passages in the Old Testament, which are printed among the +Epistles of J. Drusius, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Quæsitis</i> (1595, p. 40), Drusius says, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Vere dicam, +Bodlæe, et intelligis optime litteras Hebræas, et amas unice earum peritos</span>.' The +same volume contains also one letter to his brothers, Laurence, Miles, and Josias, +on the <i>Pastor</i> of Hermas.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_17_17" id="Footnote_17_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17_17"><span class="label">[17]</span></a> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodleianæ</i>, p. 14.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_18_18" id="Footnote_18_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_18_18"><span class="label">[18]</span></a> This letter (with the subsequent correspondence) is printed by Hearne, at the +end of the Chronicle of John of Glastonbury, vol. ii. p. 612, from the Reg. +of Convoc. M<sup>a</sup>. f. 31<sup>a</sup>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_19_19" id="Footnote_19_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_19_19"><span class="label">[19]</span></a> Most probably intended to refer to the Apocalyptic book (Rev. v. 1.), and to +signify the unsealing of Divine Revelation, the fountain of all wisdom, by our +Blessed Lord. Sir J. Wake prefers to take the seven seals as representing the +seven liberal arts.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_20_20" id="Footnote_20_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_20_20"><span class="label">[20]</span></a> + <span class="note" title="see Addenda et Corrigenda">The motto</span> appears to have varied. It is sometimes given in titles of books +printed at Oxford about the time of James I, as '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Sapientiæ et Felicitatis</span>;' and in +an heraldic MS. of the seventeenth century as '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">XX. Exod. Decem ... Omnipotens +mandata. Verbum Dei manet in eternum. Amen.</span>' (Rawl. B. xl. f. 81.) Others +[have] this, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Veritas liberabit, Bonitas regnabit</span>;' and others this, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">In principio erat +Verbum</span>,' &c. (Hearne, in Rawl. MS. C. 876, f. 51.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21"><span class="label">[21]</span></a> Wake notices it as a singular coincidence that the Library was first opened +on the day of the '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Quatuor coronati Martyres</span>,' Nov. 8, whom, by mistake, he calls +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Tres</span>.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_22_22" id="Footnote_22_22"></a><a href="#FNanchor_22_22"><span class="label">[22]</span></a> See <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodleianæ</i>, p. 158.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_23_23" id="Footnote_23_23"></a><a href="#FNanchor_23_23"><span class="label">[23]</span></a> One of the books given by Lord Lumley has the autograph of Cranmer, +'Thomas Cantuarien.,' on the title-page. The book, appositely enough, bears the +title of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Sicbardi Antidotum contra diversas omnium fere sæculorum bæreses</i>, fol. +Bas. 1528.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_24_24" id="Footnote_24_24"></a><a href="#FNanchor_24_24"><span class="label">[24]</span></a> Printed by Rev. J. Stevenson at the end of the <i>Romance of Alexander</i>, edited by +him for the Roxburghe Club in 1849, from Ashmole MS. 44.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_25_25" id="Footnote_25_25"></a><a href="#FNanchor_25_25"><span class="label">[25]</span></a> <i>Plenus-Amoris</i>, or <i>Fullalove</i>, seems to have been the name of a family of +scribes. But the expression seems often also to have been used for the mere sake +of rhyme. In the colophon of a translation of Alan Chartier in Rawl. A. 338, are +these lines:— +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza" xml:lang="la" lang="la"> +<p> +<span class="i2">'Nomen scriptoris,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Dei gracia, Plenus Amoris:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Careat meroris<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Deus det sibi omnibus horis.'<br /></span> +</p></div></div> +<p> +Peter Plenus-Amoris was the scribe of Fairfax 6; Thomas, of Univ. Coll. MS. +142; William, of All Souls' 51; Geoffrey, of Sloane 513 (Brit. Mus.) In the following +instances the name appears to be used only rhythmically:— +</p> +<div class="blockquot"><p> +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Nomen scriptoris est Jhon Wilde plenus amoris.</span>'—(<i>Rawlinson B.</i> 214.)<br /> +</p><p> +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Nomen scriptoris Jon. semper plenus amoris,<br /> +Esteby cognomen, cui semper det Deus homen</span>' (<i>sic</i>).—(<i>Bodl.</i> 643.) +</p></div></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_26_26" id="Footnote_26_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_26_26"><span class="label">[26]</span></a> Probably this book is the '<span xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">large liure en fraunceis tresbien esluminez de le +Rymance de Alexandre</span>,' once in the library of Tho. of Woodstock, Duke of Glouc. +See Mr. Coxe's pref. to Gower's <i>Vox Clam.</i> (Roxb. Club, 1850,) p. 50.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1601" id="AD_1601"></a>A.D. 1601.</h3> + +<p>It is from this date that our notes on the history of the Library +can begin to assume an annalistic form. A gift of £20 from Herbert +Westphaling, Bishop of Hereford, was expended in the purchase +of books with great success; no fewer than thirty were obtained, +and amongst them were, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Evangelia quatuor Saxonica, lingua et +charactere vetustiss.</span>,' being the MS. from which John Foxe had +taken the text of the Saxon Gospels in the edition published at +the expense of Archbishop Parker in 1571, and which was subsequently +re-edited by Junius. It is now numbered, Bodl. MS. 441. +An early edition (qu. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">editio princeps?</i>) of the Gospels in the Russian +language (now placed among the Bodley MSS. 213) appears among +some books given by Sir Henry Savile<a name="FNanchor_27_27" id="FNanchor_27_27"></a><a href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a>, whose brother-historian +and antiquary, William Camden, is also registered as the donor +of a few MSS. and printed books. Thomas Allen, M.A., of<!-- Page 20 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +Gloucester Hall, the astrologer, gave twenty MSS<a name="FNanchor_28_28" id="FNanchor_28_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a>; the rest of +his collection came subsequently to the Library, included in that +of Sir Kenelm Digby, to whom Allen had bequeathed it. One of +the twenty now given was an extremely curious volume, chiefly +written in the ninth century (marked Auctarium F. iv. 32), including +in its contents an original drawing (engraved in Hickes' <i>Thesaurus</i>, +p. 144) by St. Dunstan of himself as prostrate at the feet of the +throned Christ<a name="FNanchor_29_29" id="FNanchor_29_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a>, a grammatical tract by Eutychius (or Eutex, as +the scribe calls him, while professing doubt as to the right form), +with Welsh glosses (noticed by Lhuyd in his <i>Archæol. Brit.</i> p. 226); +the first book of Ovid <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Arte amandi</i>, with similar glosses<a name="FNanchor_30_30" id="FNanchor_30_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_30_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a>; and +lections in Greek and Latin from the Prophets and Pentateuch, +amongst which is one from Hosea containing, in the Latin version, +a line or two unlike any known early version, (although faithful to +the Hebrew), but found also in a quotation in Gildas<a name="FNanchor_31_31" id="FNanchor_31_31"></a><a href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a>. Capt. Josias<!-- Page 21 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +Bodley<a name="FNanchor_32_32" id="FNanchor_32_32"></a><a href="#Footnote_32_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a> gave an astronomical sphere and other instruments in +brass, which now stand in the south window adjoining the entrance +to the Library. But the great benefactor of the year was the +newly-appointed Librarian, Thomas James, who gave various +MSS., chiefly patristic (which, however, Wood says, 'he had taken +out of several College libraries'), and sixty printed volumes. +From the first preparation of the new foundation Bodley had +fixed upon James, then a Fellow of New College, as his Library-Keeper. +The volume of letters published by Hearne (from Bodl. +MS. 699) in 1703, under the title of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodleianæ</i>, consists +chiefly of those which the Founder addressed to James while his +collection of books was in process of formation, but unfortunately +they have no dates of years, and Hearne printed them simply as +they came into his hands, without any attempt to determine their +order of sequence. We learn from these that James' salary at the +outset was £5 13<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i> quarterly; but almost at once he threatened +to 'strike' unless it were raised to an annual stipend of £30 or +£40, while at the same time he demanded permission to marry. +This latter requisition appeared particularly grievous to Bodley, +who had made celibacy a stringent condition in his Statutes, and +he forthwith expostulated strongly with his Librarian on these his +'unseasonable and unreasonable motions' (p. 52). The upshot, +however, was that Bodley, very unwillingly, consented to become +the 'first breaker' of his own institution, (which 'hereafter,' he says, +'I purpose to become inviolable,') and, for the love he bore to +James, allowed him to marry<a name="FNanchor_33_33" id="FNanchor_33_33"></a><a href="#Footnote_33_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a>. But it was not until the year 1813 +that the Statute was altered and the Librarian released from his +obligation of perpetual celibacy, and even then, by a singular<!-- Page 22 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> +and unmeaning compromise, it was ordered that he, as well as +the Under-Librarians, should be unmarried <i>at the time of election</i>. +The whole restriction was, however, finally removed on the revision +of the Statutes in 1856. But its infringement appears to have +been again tolerated, in one instance, at least, during the +last century, viz. in the case of Dr. Hudson. Hearne<a name="FNanchor_34_34" id="FNanchor_34_34"></a><a href="#Footnote_34_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a> enters +the following 'memorandum' of uncharitable hearsay gossip respecting +his quondam chief and friend: 'Dr. Hudson was married +when he was elected Librarian. His first wife was one Biesley. +That he hath now is his second. It is said that he was married to +this Biesley when he was Taberder of Queen's. The Dr. hath been +of a loose, profligate, and irreligious life, as I have often heard. +The family of the Harrisons he is married into now is good for +just nothing, being as stingy (if it can be) as himself.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_27_27" id="Footnote_27_27"></a><a href="#FNanchor_27_27"><span class="label">[27]</span></a> Savile's benefactions were continued in the years 1609 and 1614, and in 1620 +he sent a large number of Greek and Latin MSS.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28"><span class="label">[28]</span></a> In the year 1604 he appears again as the donor of some printed books. A notice +of one of his MSS. (now Bodl. 198), which once belonged to Bishop Grosteste, was by +him given to the Friars Minor at Oxford, and by them, about 1433, to Gascoigne, +who presented it to Durham College, is to be found in Warton's <i>Life of Sir T. Pope</i>, +1772, pp. 392-3. The volume contains MS. notes by both Grosteste and +Gascoigne.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29"><span class="label">[29]</span></a> Another relic of Dunstan is preserved among the Hatton MSS. No. 30 of that +collection. '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Expositio Augustini in Apocalypsin</span>,' written in Anglo-Saxon characters, +has the following inscription in large letters on the last leaf: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Dunstan abbas hunc +libellum scribere jussit.</span>'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_30_30" id="Footnote_30_30"></a><a href="#FNanchor_30_30"><span class="label">[30]</span></a> These glosses, together with an '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Alphabetum Nemnivi</span>' in Runic characters, (of +which a facsimile is given in Hickes' <i>Thesaurus</i>, p. 168), and some Welsh and Latin +notes on weights and measures, are printed, with copious notes, by Zeuss in his +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Grammatica Celtica</i>, 8vo. Leipz. 1853, vol. ii. pp. 1076-96. The MS. is described +also in Wanley's Catalogue, p. 63, and the latest account of it, together with a facsimile +from the tract by Eutychius, is to be found in Villemarqué's <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Notice des principaux +MSS. des anciens Bretons</i>, 8vo. Par. 1856. And the Alphabet of Nemnivus, +together with another, and somewhat later, Runic Alphabet (of the 'winged' form), +found in Bodl. MS. 572, is printed at pp. 10-12 of the <i>Ancient Welsh Grammar +of Edeyrn</i>, edited for the Welsh MSS. Soc. in 1856 by Rev. John Williams, ab +Ithel.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_31_31" id="Footnote_31_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_31_31"><span class="label">[31]</span></a> This reading was pointed out to the author by Rev. A. W. Haddan, B.D.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_32_32" id="Footnote_32_32"></a><a href="#FNanchor_32_32"><span class="label">[32]</span></a> Afterwards Sir Josias, a younger brother of Sir Thomas, and Governor of Duncannon +in Ireland, author of a humorous Latin tour in Lecale (a barony in the +county of Down), which, although not unfrequently met with in MS, has never yet +been printed.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_33_33" id="Footnote_33_33"></a><a href="#FNanchor_33_33"><span class="label">[33]</span></a> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodl.</i> p. 162. See also p. 183.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_34_34" id="Footnote_34_34"></a><a href="#FNanchor_34_34"><span class="label">[34]</span></a> <i>Diary</i>, vol. lviii. p. 157.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1602" id="AD_1602"></a>A.D. 1602.</h3> + +<p>The largest pecuniary donor of this year was Blount, Lord +Mountjoy (afterwards Earl of Devon), who forwarded £100 to Sir +T. Bodley from Waterford; which were expended upon books in +most classes of literature, including music. Among various gifts +of MSS. were some Russian volumes from Lancelot Browne, M.D., +and (together with Persian, Finnish, &c.) from Sir Rich. Lee, +ambassador in Muscovy. Lord Cobham gave £50 in money, with +the promise of 'divers MSS. out of St. Augustin's library in +Canterbury<a name="FNanchor_35_35" id="FNanchor_35_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_35_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a>.' 'Biblia Latina pulcherrima,' 2 vols. fol. was given by +George Rives, Warden of New College. This is probably a huge +and magnificent specimen of twelfth-century work, now numbered +Auctarium, E. infra, 1, 2<a name="FNanchor_36_36" id="FNanchor_36_36"></a><a href="#Footnote_36_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a>. But the year was specially marked by +the donation of 47 MSS. (including some early English volumes) +from Walter (afterwards Sir Walter) Cope; and above all, by the<!-- Page 23 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> +gift, from the Dean and Chapter of Exeter to their fellow-countryman +Bodley, of 81 Latin MSS. from their Chapter Library. By +what right they thus alienated their corporate property no one +probably cared to enquire; but, from the tokens of neglect still +visible upon the books, we may conclude that only by this alienation +were they in all likelihood saved from ultimate destruction: for +they nearly all bear more or less sign of having been exposed to +great damp, which in several instances has well-nigh destroyed the +initial and final leaves. Most of them are beautiful specimens of +early penmanship, ranging chiefly from the eleventh century to the +thirteenth; and amongst them is that precious relic of English +Church offices, the Service-book given to Exeter Cathedral by +Bishop Leofric in the reign of Edward Conf., described in the '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Registrum +Benefactorum</span>' simply as '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Missale antiquissimum</span>.' This +is happily perfect; in size a small and thick quarto volume, written +on very stout vellum, and containing 377 leaves. Four other +volumes (possibly more) were also gifts of Leofric to his Church; +they are now numbered Auct. D. II. 16 (the four Gospels), +Auct. F. I. 15 (Boethius and Persius), Auct. F. III. 6 (Prudentius), +and Bodley MS. 708 (Gregory's <i>Pastorale</i>.) They +each contain an inscription in Latin and Anglo-Saxon, varying +in expression, but all to the following effect (as in the last-mentioned +volume): '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hunc librum dat Leofricus episcopus +ecclesiæ Sancti Petri Apostoli in Exonia ad sedem suam episcopalem, +pro remedio animæ suæ, ad utilitatem successorum suorum. +Siquis autem illum inde abstulerit, perpetuæ maledictioni subjaceat. +Fiat.</span> <span xml:lang="ang" lang="ang"> Ðas boc gef leofric ƀ. into Scē petres minstre on exancestre +þær his biscopstol is. his æfterfiligendū to nittweorðnisse. [&] gif +hig hwa ut ætbrede hæbbe he ece geniðerunge mid eallū deoflum. +Ām̄.</span>' To the MS. of the Gospels are prefixed very curious lists in +Anglo-Saxon of the lands, vestments, books, &c., given by Leofric +to his Church, and of relics given by King Athelstan (of which<!-- Page 24 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +another copy is preserved in the Missal); these lists are printed in +the Monasticon, and the titles of the books are given in Wanley's +Catalogue (p. 80).</p> + +<p>The Library being now supplied with upwards of 2000 volumes, +it was solemnly opened on Nov. 8 (the day appointed for the +annual visitation,) by the Vice-Chancellor, with a procession of +doctors and delegates. Meeting them at the door of the room, +the Librarian hastily extemporized a short speech in honour of the +occasion, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">in qua</span>,' as the University Register records, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">tribus ferme +versibus amplexus est omnia</span>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_35_35" id="Footnote_35_35"></a><a href="#FNanchor_35_35"><span class="label">[35]</span></a> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodl.</i> p. 92.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_36_36" id="Footnote_36_36"></a><a href="#FNanchor_36_36"><span class="label">[36]</span></a> See <i>ibid.</i> pp. 137 and 219.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1603" id="AD_1603"></a>A.D. 1603.</h3> + +<p>Sir Walter Raleigh appears in this year as a donor of £50. He +is sometimes said to have procured for Oxford the library of +Hieron. Osorius, which was carried off from Faro in Portugal (of +which place Osorius had been bishop), when that town was +captured by the English fleet under the Earl of Essex in 1598. +Raleigh was a captain in the squadron, and probably influenced +the disposal of the books; but no direct mention has been found of +his name in relation to them. Sir William Monson, in the account +of the expedition given in his <i>Naval Tracts</i>, only says that the +library 'was brought into England by us, and many of the books +bestowed upon the new erected library of Oxford.' Eleven MSS. +were given by Sir Rob. Cotton, of which the list in the Register is +printed in Sir H. Ellis' <i>Letters of Eminent Literary Men</i>, issued by +the Camden Society in 1843 (p. 103). One of these (Auct. D. II. +14) is the MS. of the Gospels, traditionally believed to be one of +those two copies of the old Italic version sent by St. Gregory to +St. Augustine in Britain, which were preserved in St. Augustine's +Abbey, Canterbury<a name="FNanchor_37_37" id="FNanchor_37_37"></a><a href="#Footnote_37_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a>; of which the other now exists among Archbp. +Parker's MSS. in Corp. Chr. Coll. Cambr., No. 286. They are<!-- Page 25 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> +both written in quarto, in uncial letters and double columns. Their +date may possibly be somewhat later than that which is traditionally +assigned; but at any rate they are certainly among what the historian +Elmham calls '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">primitiæ librorum totius ecclesiæ Anglicanæ</span>.' +On the last fly-leaf of the Bodley MS. is the following list of +English Priests' libraries. '<span xml:lang="ang" lang="ang">Þas bocas haueð Salomon pr̅st. þ̵is +þecodspel t{r}aht. [&] þemarty{r}luia [&] þe</span> (<i>erased</i>) <span xml:lang="ang" lang="ang">[&] þe æglisce salte{r}e +[&] þe c{r}ranc [&] ðe tropere [&] wulf mer cild þeatteleuaui ('Ad Te +levavi.') [&] pistelari [&] þe</span> (<i>erased</i>) <span xml:lang="ang" lang="ang">[&] ðe imnere. [&] ðe capitelari.</span> +(<i>word erased</i>) <span xml:lang="ang" lang="ang">[&] þe spel boc. [&] Siga{r} pr̅st. þelece boc [&] Blakehad +boc. [&] Æilmer ðe grete Sater. [&] ðe litle t{r}opere fo{r}beande. [&] +ðe Donatum. xv bocas Ealfric Æilwine. Godric. [&] Bealdewuine +ab̶b [&] Freoden [&] hu—</span> (<i>torn</i>) <span xml:lang="ang" lang="ang">[&] ðuregise.</span>' Several leaves are wanting +at the beginning and one at the end; the book commences at +S. Matt. iv. 14, and ends in S. John xxi. 16. It now numbers 172 +leaves, besides the fly-leaf, and contains 29 lines in a column; the +Cambridge MS. has 25 lines.</p> + +<p>Two Russian MSS. were given in this year by John Mericke, +English Consul in Russia, and a collection of Italian books by Sir +Michael Dormer.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_37_37" id="Footnote_37_37"></a><a href="#FNanchor_37_37"><span class="label">[37]</span></a> Wanley, p. 172. Elmham's <i>Hist. Mon. S. Aug.</i> 1858, pp. 97, 8.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1604" id="AD_1604"></a>A.D. 1604.</h3> + +<p>On June 20, letters patent were granted by James I, styling +the library by the founder's name, and licensing the University +to hold lands, &c., in mortmain for its maintenance, to an amount +not exceeding 200 marks <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">per annum</i><a name="FNanchor_38_38" id="FNanchor_38_38"></a><a href="#Footnote_38_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a>.</p> + +<p>In the list of donors occur Sir Christopher Heydon, Sir Jerome +Horsey (whose gift includes a MS. of the Gospels in Russian, and +rolls containing forms of letters, &c., in the autograph of the Czar +Ivan Basilides), Sir Ralph Winwood (17 Greek MSS.), Robert +Barker the printer, and Sir Henry Wotton (a MS. of the Koran).</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_38_38" id="Footnote_38_38"></a><a href="#FNanchor_38_38"><span class="label">[38]</span></a> Wood MS. F. 27.</p></div> + +<p><!-- Page 26 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> +<h3><a name="AD_1605" id="AD_1605"></a>A.D. 1605.</h3> + +<p>The bust of Bodley, which is seen in the large room, was sent +by Sackville, Earl of Dorset, the Chancellor of the University. It +attracted the notice of King James upon his entering the Library +on the fourth day of his visit to Oxford in August of this year, +who, upon reading its inscription, indulged in the very mild pun +that the Founder should rather be called Sir Thomas Godly than +Bodly<a name="FNanchor_39_39" id="FNanchor_39_39"></a><a href="#Footnote_39_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a>. And, looking on the well-filled cases, he said he had +often had proof from the University of the fruits of talent and +ability, but had never before seen the garden where those fruits +grew and whence they were gathered. He examined various MSS. +of the Holy Scriptures, and especially of the old English version, +as well as of the Ethiopic, on the authority of which, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">more suo, +summo cum judicio disceptavit</span>.' Then, taking up Gaguinus' treatise +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Puritate Conceptionis Virg. Mar.</i>, printed at Paris in 1498, +he remarked that the author had so written about purity as if he +wished that it should only be found on the title of his book; and +said it had often been his desire that such objectionable writings +(especially on religious subjects) could be altogether suppressed +rather than be tolerated to the corruption of minds and manners. +He admitted, however, that probably there was no disadvantage +from their being stored up in collections of this kind. Moved to +a wonderful temper of liberality, the king then offered to present +from all the libraries of the royal palaces whatsoever precious and +rare books Sir T. Bodley, on examination, might choose to carry +away; and promised that the grant should be made under seal, +lest any hindrance should arise. It appears<a name="FNanchor_40_40" id="FNanchor_40_40"></a><a href="#Footnote_40_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a> that this (somewhat +hasty) grant was actually passed under the Privy Seal +about the beginning of November in the same year, and that<!-- Page 27 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +Bodley expected to carry off a great many MSS. from Whitehall. +Probably the full execution of his intentions was hindered, as +he himself appears to have suspected might happen; at any +rate, there is very little in the Library that tells of having come +from the royal collections, except a few folio editions of the +Fathers which once were in the possession of Hen. VIII, as his +arms stamped upon the covers testify<a name="FNanchor_41_41" id="FNanchor_41_41"></a><a href="#Footnote_41_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a>, and three or four MSS. +which bear like evidence of having belonged to James I. Upon +leaving the room, after spending considerable time in its examination, +the king exclaimed that were he not King James he would be +an University man; and that, were it his fate at any time to be a +captive, he would wish to be shut up, could he but have the choice, +in this place as his prison, to be bound with its chains, and to consume +his days amongst its books as his fellows in captivity<a name="FNanchor_42_42" id="FNanchor_42_42"></a><a href="#Footnote_42_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a>.</p> + +<p>In this year appeared the first Catalogue of the Library, compiled +by Thomas James. It is a quarto volume, published by +Joseph Barnes at Oxford, consisting of 425 pages, with an Appendix +of 230 more; the Preface is dated June 27. The book is +dedicated to Henry, Prince of Wales<a name="FNanchor_43_43" id="FNanchor_43_43"></a><a href="#Footnote_43_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a>. It includes both printed<!-- Page 28 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> +books and MSS. arranged alphabetically under the four classes of +Theology, Medicine, Law, and Arts, with lists of expositors of +Holy Scripture, commentators on Aristotle, Hippocrates, and +Galen, and in Civil and Canon Law. The legal and medical lists +were added at Bodley's special desire<a name="FNanchor_44_44" id="FNanchor_44_44"></a><a href="#Footnote_44_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a>. A continuation of this +classified index, embracing writers on Arts and Sciences, Geography +and History, is to be found in Rawlinson MS. <i>Miscell.</i> 730. +It was drawn up by James, after his quitting the Library, for the +use of young students in the faculty of Arts, in order to show his +continued interest in them and in the place of his old occupation. +In the preface he thus describes the arrangement of his book: +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Exhibeo, primo, libros distributos secundum facultates suas; +secundo, dissectos in minutissimas portiones vel sectiones, idque +alphabetice; tertio, habetis cognitos et exploratos auctores singulos +qui de singulis subjectis vel generatim vel speciatim scripserunt +libros, tractatus, epistolas; postremo, ne quid desit, habetis +editiones certas, et maxime ex parte ex pluribus selectas et +meliores, cito parabiles, digitos ad pluteos et pluteorum sectiones +intendendo</span>.' This volume came into Rawlinson's possession +from Hearne, who notes in it: 'This MS. came out of the study +of Dr. Anthony Hall, of Queen's College, Oxford, who married the +widow of Dr. John Hudson, to whom this book once belong'd.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_39_39" id="Footnote_39_39"></a><a href="#FNanchor_39_39"><span class="label">[39]</span></a> This would-be witticism is made the subject of a quatrain in the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Justa Funebria +Bodlei</i>, p. 108.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_40_40" id="Footnote_40_40"></a><a href="#FNanchor_40_40"><span class="label">[40]</span></a> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodl.</i> pp. 205, 339.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_41_41" id="Footnote_41_41"></a><a href="#FNanchor_41_41"><span class="label">[41]</span></a> His arms also occur in several places in a Greek MS. now numbered Auct. E. +I. 15. And there is one volume among Selden's books (8<sup>o</sup>. A. 24, Art. Seld.) +which appears to possess considerable interest as having come from the library of the +many-wived king. It is a fine copy of Æsop, with the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Batrachomyomachia</i>, &c., +printed by Froben in 1518, which may be conjectured, from the binding, to have +been a gift from Henry to Anne Boleyn. The cover is of embossed calf; on one +side is the Tudor rose supported by angels, with the sun, moon, and four stars above, +encircled by the lines:— +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza" xml:lang="la" lang="la"> +<p> +<span class="i0">'Hec rosa virtutis de celo missa sereno,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Eternum florens regia sceptra feret.'<br /></span> +</p></div></div> +<p> +Below are the initials A. H., conjoined with a knot. On the other side is a representation +of the Annunciation, with the same initials repeated.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_42_42" id="Footnote_42_42"></a><a href="#FNanchor_42_42"><span class="label">[42]</span></a> The account of the king's visit is given in Sir J. Wake's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Rex Platonicus</i>, +pp. 116-123.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_43_43" id="Footnote_43_43"></a><a href="#FNanchor_43_43"><span class="label">[43]</span></a> At the suggestion of Bodley, who thought that more reward was to be gained +from the prince than from the king. (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodl.</i> 206.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_44_44" id="Footnote_44_44"></a><a href="#FNanchor_44_44"><span class="label">[44]</span></a> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodl.</i> pp. 195, 256.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1606" id="AD_1606"></a>A.D. 1606.</h3> + +<p>Chinese literature began to make its appearance even at this +early date. Among the books bought with £20 given by Lady +Kath. Sandys were, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Octo volumina lingua Chinensi</span>,' while two +others, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la"><i>Excusa</i> in regno et lingua Chinensi</span>,' were bought, together +with the donor's own 'Historie of Great Britaine,' with a gift of £5 +from John Clapham.<!-- Page 29 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1610" id="AD_1610"></a>A.D. 1610.</h3> + +<p>The books having some time since begun to crowd the room +provided for them, so that James, in his Preface to the Catalogue +of 1605, said there already seemed to be more need of a Library +for the books than books for the Library, the Founder commenced +in this year an extension of his building. On July 16 +the first stone was laid of the eastern wing, and of the Proscholium, +or vestibule of the Divinity School, beneath; which were completed +by 1612, as in that year several donations were placed in the new +room<a name="FNanchor_45_45" id="FNanchor_45_45"></a><a href="#Footnote_45_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a>. An inscription in gold letters, in the front of this building, +commemorates Bodley's work; having become barely legible, it +has recently been restored to its pristine lustre by the care of +the present Librarian. The noble east window contains some +very curious and interesting relics in stained glass which were +presented to the Library (with numerous other fragments, which +adorn some of the other windows in the Library and partly fill +two of those in the Picture Gallery<a name="FNanchor_46_46" id="FNanchor_46_46"></a><a href="#Footnote_46_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a>), in 1797, by Alderman +William Fletcher of Oxford, a zealous local antiquary and Churchman +of the good old school. The three principal fragments represent: +1. Henry II, stripped naked, and suffering flagellation with +birch rods, at the hands of two monks, before the shrine of +Thomas à Becket. 2. The marriage (as supposed) of Henry VI +with Margaret of Anjou, representing, says Dr. Rock<a name="FNanchor_47_47" id="FNanchor_47_47"></a><a href="#Footnote_47_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a>, that portion<!-- Page 30 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +of the ceremony which took place at the Church door; formerly +in a window of Rollright Church, Oxfordshire. There is no +evidence, however, to connect this representation with Henry VI, +and it has been conjectured to describe his marriage chiefly from +its corresponding in some very small degree to a representation +of that event, formerly at Strawberry Hill, and described and +engraved in Walpole's <i>Anecdotes of Painting</i>, i. 36. It is probably +of an earlier date. 3. The doing homage by William, King of +Scotland, with his abbots and barons, to Henry II in York +Minster in 1171. Of the first of these, two coloured engravings, +and of the second, one, are found in a copy of Gutch's Wood, +which came to the Library from the same donor, Alderman +Fletcher, in 1818, illustrated with very numerous and curious +engravings and drawings, as well as enriched with some MS. +notes, and bound in seven large quarto volumes<a name="FNanchor_48_48" id="FNanchor_48_48"></a><a href="#Footnote_48_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a>.</p> + +<p>The large coats of arms appear to have been inserted in 1716, +as in the accounts for that year we find, 'For paynted armes in +the Library window, £5.' But one coat of arms was put up in +the year 1771, (<i>q. v.</i>)</p> + +<p>It was in this year that the Library began to be enlarged with +the gift of copies of all works published by the members of +the Stationers' Company, in pursuance of an agreement made +with them by Bodley, which became the precursor of the obligations +of the Copyright Acts. On Dec. 12 the Company made +a grant of one perfect copy of every book printed by them, on +condition that they should have liberty to borrow the books<!-- Page 31 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> +thus given, if needed for reprinting, and also to examine, collate, +and copy the books which were given by others. An order of +the Star-Chamber was made July 11, 1637, in confirmation of +this grant<a name="FNanchor_49_49" id="FNanchor_49_49"></a><a href="#Footnote_49_49" class="fnanchor">[49]</a>. The proposal of such an agreement emanated from +the Librarian James; but in the effecting it Bodley says that +he met with 'many rubs and delays<a name="FNanchor_50_50" id="FNanchor_50_50"></a><a href="#Footnote_50_50" class="fnanchor">[50]</a>.' Ayliffe say<a name="FNanchor_51_51" id="FNanchor_51_51"></a><a href="#Footnote_51_51" class="fnanchor">[51]</a> that the +agreement was very well observed until about 1640. He should +rather have said 'about 1630,' for in that year, in a paper of notes +made by the Librarian for the use of Archbishop Laud, as +Chancellor of the University (in which the mention of a gift of +books by Fetherston, a London bookseller, fixes the date), complaint +is made that the Company were very negligent in sending +their books, and it is suggested that a message from the Chancellor +might quickly remedy that neglect<a name="FNanchor_52_52" id="FNanchor_52_52"></a><a href="#Footnote_52_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a>. In 1642, Verneuil, the Sub-Libraria<a name="FNanchor_53_53" id="FNanchor_53_53"></a><a href="#Footnote_53_53" class="fnanchor">[53]</a>, +complained in the Preface to his <i>Nomenclator, &c.</i>, +of the neglect which had then begun; mentioning the names +of several benefactors, he adds: 'These have beene more +courteous than the Stationers of London, who by indenture are +bound to give the Library a copy of every booke they print.' +In the Visitation Order-Book, under the year 1695, is the +following 'memorandum' by Hyde, then Head Librarian: 'That +in November, 1695, a copy of the indenture between Sir Thomas +Bodley and the Company of Stationers, as also a copy of their +By-Law to inforce their particular members to complyance, was +sent up to the Master of the Company to be communicated +and publicly read to the Company once every year, as is in +the indenture expressed. The originall was also some years +agon carryed up and shewed to the Master and Wardens, because +some of them used to raile at the unjustness of the Act of Parliament +in forcing them to give a copy of each book to the Bodleian<!-- Page 32 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +Library; and therefore we shewed them that we had also another +antecedent right to a copy of each book printed by any member +in their Company. The Indenture mentions only the giving +of books new printed, but the By-law mentions books both +new-printed and also reprinted with additions<a name="FNanchor_54_54" id="FNanchor_54_54"></a><a href="#Footnote_54_54" class="fnanchor">[54]</a>. We have been +told that Sir Thomas Bodley gave to the Company 50 pounds +worth of plate when they entred into this Indenture. But its +not mentioned in our counter-part. Every book is to be delivered +to the junior Warden within 10 dayes after its off from +the press, and we are to appoint somebody to demand them of +him. The obligation is upon every printer to give books; it +were to be wished it had been upon every proprietor; for the +proprietor must give them to us.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_45_45" id="Footnote_45_45"></a><a href="#FNanchor_45_45"><span class="label">[45]</span></a> It is probably to aid given for the erection of this structure that the following +passage refers: 'To the building Bodley's Library at Oxford a considerable sum +was contributed by the Bishop of London, being his share of the moneys paid into +court for commutation of penance.' Archd. Hale's Notes to the <i>Register of Worcester</i> +(Camden Soc. 1855), p. cxxviii. Aid was also given by the Crown, for on +May 3, 1611, an order was issued by the Lord Treasurer to the officers of the woods +at Stow, Shotover, &c., near Oxford, to deliver to Sir T. Bodley, for enlarging the +Library, the timber which was to have been employed for making the Thames +navigable to Oxford, a work which did not proceed. (<i>Calendar of State Papers</i>, +Dom. Series, 1611-18, p. 28.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_46_46" id="Footnote_46_46"></a><a href="#FNanchor_46_46"><span class="label">[46]</span></a> See also under <a href="#AD_1818">1818</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_47_47" id="Footnote_47_47"></a><a href="#FNanchor_47_47"><span class="label">[47]</span></a> <i>Church of our Fathers</i>, i. 421.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_48_48" id="Footnote_48_48"></a><a href="#FNanchor_48_48"><span class="label">[48]</span></a> Mr. Fletcher died in 1826, at the age of eighty-seven, and was buried (in a +stone coffin traditionally said to be that of Fair Rosamond) in the church +of the village where he was born, Yarnton, near Oxford. His tomb is remarkable +as exhibiting, before Architectural and Ecclesiological societies had been +thought of, an anticipation of better days in monumental design than had yet +appeared; a brass, upon a high altar-tomb, represents him clad in his aldermanic +gown, with his hands clasped in prayer. A bust of him is in the Picture Gallery.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_49_49" id="Footnote_49_49"></a><a href="#FNanchor_49_49"><span class="label">[49]</span></a> Rushworth, iii. 315.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_50_50" id="Footnote_50_50"></a><a href="#FNanchor_50_50"><span class="label">[50]</span></a> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodl.</i> p. 350.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_51_51" id="Footnote_51_51"></a><a href="#FNanchor_51_51"><span class="label">[51]</span></a> <i>Univ. of Oxford</i>, i. 460.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_52_52" id="Footnote_52_52"></a><a href="#FNanchor_52_52"><span class="label">[52]</span></a> <i>Calendar of State Papers</i>, 1635-6, p. 65.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_53_53" id="Footnote_53_53"></a><a href="#FNanchor_53_53"><span class="label">[53]</span></a> See <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">sub anno</i> <a href="#AD_1647">1647</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_54_54" id="Footnote_54_54"></a><a href="#FNanchor_54_54"><span class="label">[54]</span></a> See <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">sub anno</i> <a href="#AD_1612">1612</a>.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1611" id="AD_1611"></a>A.D. 1611.</h3> + +<p>The permanent endowment of the Library was commenced by +the Founder in this year, by the purchase, from Lord Norreys, of +the manor of Hendons by Maidenhead, worth annually £91 10<i>s.</i>; +to which he added 'certain tenements in London,' producing an +annual rent of £40. From the former, now called Hindhay farm, +in the parishes of Bray and Cookham, Berks, the Library receives +an annual rent, at the present time, of about £220; the latter, which +consisted of houses situated in Distaff Lane, were sold in 1853, +and the produce invested in £3455 10<i>s.</i> 3 per cent. Consols.</p> + +<p>The first book which came from the Stationers' Company, in +pursuance of the Indenture made in Dec. 1610, was an anonymous +catechetical work printed in this year by Felix Kingston for +Thomas Man, entitled, 'Christian Religion substantially, methodicallie, +plainlie, and profitablie treatised.' It is now numbered +4<sup>o</sup> R. 34 Th., and a note in Bodley's own handwriting records its +presentation.<!-- Page 33 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> + +<p>Twenty Arabic, Persian, and other MSS, were presented by +— Pindar, Consul at Aleppo of the Company of English Merchants, +whom Bodley three years previously had requested to +procure such books<a name="FNanchor_55_55" id="FNanchor_55_55"></a><a href="#Footnote_55_55" class="fnanchor">[55]</a>.</p> + +<p>Among other minor matters which called forth the care of +Bodley, was the providing a bell for the purpose of giving notice +when the Library was about to be closed. After it had been +placed in the Library some accident appears to have happened +to it, since we read in one of his letters to James<a name="FNanchor_56_56" id="FNanchor_56_56"></a><a href="#Footnote_56_56" class="fnanchor">[56]</a>, 'As touching +the bell, I would have it cast again, and if my friends think it +good, made somewhat better.' In 1655 a bell-rope was bought +at the price of 1<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i> Of late years, however, the Founder's +bell had altogether disappeared, and the fact of its very existence +was unknown, while a small hand-bell, suggestive of a muffin-man, +and, more recently, a hand-bell taken from a Chinese temple at +Tien-tsin, and presented by Col. Rigaud, supplied its place. But +in July, 1866, in the course of moving some boxes and rubbish +buried under some stairs, a mouldy bell of considerable size was +dragged to light, which proved to be the missing bell of the +Founder. It was immediately put by the Librarian into the hands +of Messrs. White, of Appleton, Berks, who fitted it with a frame +and wheel; and now, restored to a conspicuous place in the great +room, it daily thunders forth an unmistakeable signal for departure. +Around it, in gold letters, runs the inscription:—'Sir Thomas +Bodley gave this bell, 1611.' The bell-founder's initials, W. S., are +accompanied by the device of a crown between three bells.</p> + +<p>Another relic of Bodley's furniture is a massy iron chest, fastened +with three locks, two of which are enormous padlocks, for the +preservation of the moneys of the Library, of which the keys used +to be in the custody of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors. This is +now exhibited in the Picture Gallery, on account of the extreme<!-- Page 34 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> +beauty of the ironwork of the locks, which covers in its intricate +ramifications the whole of the inside of the lid. On the outside +are painted the arms of the University (with the older motto 'Sapientiæ +et Fælicitatis') and of Bodley.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_55_55" id="Footnote_55_55"></a><a href="#FNanchor_55_55"><span class="label">[55]</span></a> Hearne's <i>Job. Glaston.</i> ii. 637.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_56_56" id="Footnote_56_56"></a><a href="#FNanchor_56_56"><span class="label">[56]</span></a> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodl.</i> p. 314.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1612" id="AD_1612"></a>A.D. 1612.</h3> + +<p>Two large donations of MSS. were received during this year; +the one from the Dean and Chapter of Windsor (in imitation of +their brethren of Exeter), of 159 volumes, chiefly theological; and +the other of a large collection of scientific treatises, chiefly astronomical +and medical, about 120 in number, from Thomas Twine, +M.D., of Lewes.</p> + +<p>The agreement that was entered into by the Stationers' Company +in 1610 having probably been found in some degree inoperative +from the absence of any penalty upon non-fulfilment, the +Company at the commencement of this year passed the following +ordinance, which made it obligatory on every one of their members +to forward their books to the Library. It is here printed (for the +first time) from the original, preserved in the University Archives, +marked A. 27<a name="FNanchor_57_57" id="FNanchor_57_57"></a><a href="#Footnote_57_57" class="fnanchor">[57]</a>.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'<i><span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Vicesimo octavo Januarii</span> 1611 <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">nono regni regis Jacobi</span>, at Stacõners +Hall, in Ave Mary Lane in London. Present, the Masters, +Wardens, and Assistants of the Company of Stacõners.</i></p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Forasmuch as this Companye out of their zeale to the advancement +of learninge, and at the request of the right worshipfull Sir +Thomas Bodley, Knight, founder of the presente publique library +of the University of Oxford, beinge readye to manifeste their +willinge desires to a worck of so great pietye and benifitt to the +generall state of the Realme, did by their Indenture under their +common seale dated the twelveth daye of December in the eight<!-- Page 35 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> +yeare of his Maj.<sup>ts</sup> raigne of England, Fraunce and Ireland, and +the foure and fortith yere of his raigne of Scotland, for them and +their successors, graunte and confirme vnto the Chauncellor, +Maisters, and Schollers of the Universitie of Oxford, and to their +successors for ever, That of all bookes after that from tyme to +tyme to be printed in the said Company of Stacõners, beinge newe +books and coppies never printed before, or thoughe formerly +printed yet newly augmented or enlarged, there should be freelie +given one perfect Booke of every such booke (in quyers) of the +first ympression thereof, towardes the furnishinge and increase of +the said Library; Nowe therefore, to the intent the said graunte +maie take due effect in the orderlie performance and execucõn +thereof, and that so good and godlie a worck and purpose maie +not bee disappointed or defeated by any meanes, It is ordayned by +this Company, that all and every printer and printers that from +tyme to tyme hereafter shall either for hym- or themselves, or for +any other, printe or cause to be printed any newe booke or coppie +never printed before, or although formerly printed yet newly +augmented or enlarged, shall within ten daies next after the +finishinge of the first ympression thereof and the puttinge of the +same to sale, bringe and deliver to the yonger warden of the said +Company of Stacõners for the tyme beinge one perfect booke +thereof to be delivered over by the same Warden to the recited use +to the handes of such person or persons as shalbe appoincted by +the said Chauncellour, Maisters and Schollers for the tyme beinge +to receive the same; And it is alsoe ordayned that every printer +that at any tyme or tymes hereafter shall make default in performance +hereof, shall for every such default forfeite and paie to the +use of this Company treble the value of every booke that he shall +leave undelivered contrarie to this ordenance; Out of the which +forfeiture, upon the levyinge and payment thereof, there shalbe +provided for the use of the said Librarye that booke for the not +delivery whereof the said forfeiture shalbe had and paid. And to +the intent all printers and others of this Company whome it shall +concerne maie take notice of this ordenance, and that any of them +shall not pretend ignorance thereof, It is ordeyned that once in +every yere at some generall assemblie and meetinge of the said<!-- Page 36 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> +Company upon some of their usuall quarter daies, or some other +tyme in the yere at their discretion, this presente ordinance shalbe +publiquely read in their Hall, as other their ordenances are accustomed +to be read there</p></div> + + +<div class="left"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="signatories to the Stationer's Company ordinance"> +<tr><td align="left">'John Haryson</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'John Norton, Mr.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Richard Field</td><td align="left" rowspan="2"><span class="tallbrace">}</span> Wardens</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Humphrey Lownes</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Edward White</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Humfry Hooper</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Simon Waterson</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'William Leake</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Robert Barker</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Thomas Mane</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Thomas Dawson</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'John Standishe</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'Thomas Adames</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">'John Haryson<a name="FNanchor_58_58" id="FNanchor_58_58"></a><a href="#Footnote_58_58" class="fnanchor">[58]</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="2">'Ri. Collins, Clerk of the Companie.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Havinge lately byn entreated, as well by the said Sir Thomas +Bodley, Knight, as by the Maister, Wardens, and Assistants of the +foresaid Company of Stacõners, to take some spetiall notice of this +their publique acte and graunte, and (in regard of our beinge of +his Maiestyes highe Comission in ecclesiasticall causes) to testifie +under our handes with what allowance and good likinge we have +thought it meete to be received, Wee doe not onlie as of merrit +comend it to posteritie for a singuler token of the fervent zeale +of that Company to the furtherance of good learninge and for an +exemplarie guift and graunt to the Schollers and Studients of the +Universitye of Oxford, But withall we doe promise by subscribinge +unto it, that if at any tyme hereafter occasion shall require that we +should help to maynteyne the due and perpetuall execucõn of the +same, Wee will be readie to performe it, as farre as either of our +selves thoroughe our present authoritie or by any whatsoeuer our +further endeavours it maie be fitlye procured.</p></div> + +<div class="text-in25pc"> +<ul> +<li>'G. Cant.</li> +<li>'Jo. London</li> +<li>'Jo. Benet</li> +<li>'Tho. Ridley</li> +<li>'Tho. Edwardes</li> +<li>'G. Newmane</li> +<li>'John Spenser</li> +<li>'Richard Moket</li> +<li>'R. Cov. & Lich.</li> +<li>'Jhon Boys</li> +<li>'Char. Fotherbye</li> +<li>'Martin Fotherby</li> +<li>'John Layfeilds</li> +<li>'Jo. Roffens</li> +<li>'George Montaigne (<i>sic</i>)</li> +<li>'Rob<sup>t</sup>. Abbott</li> +<li>'Henr. Hickman</li> +<li>'John Dix</li> +<li>'Willm. FFerrand.'</li> +</ul> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_57_57" id="Footnote_57_57"></a><a href="#FNanchor_57_57"><span class="label">[57]</span></a> For the use of this document the author is indebted to the Keeper of the +Archives, Rev. J. Griffiths, M.A.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_58_58" id="Footnote_58_58"></a><a href="#FNanchor_58_58"><span class="label">[58]</span></a> Probably the son of the John Haryson who signs above.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1613" id="AD_1613"></a>A.D. 1613.</h3> +<p><!-- Page 37 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + +<p>The death of the Founder occurred on Jan. 28, after long +suffering from stone, dropsy, and scurvy, for which he is said to +have been mis-treated by a Dr. Hen. Atkins<a name="FNanchor_59_59" id="FNanchor_59_59"></a><a href="#Footnote_59_59" class="fnanchor">[59]</a>. Two volumes of +elegiac verses were thereupon issued by the University, of which +one (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Bodleiomnema</i>) was written entirely by members of Merton College; +the other (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Justa Funebria Ptolemæi Oxoniensis</i>) by members +of the University in general. In the latter collection are Latin +verses by Laud, then President of St. John's, and Greek verses by +Isaac Casaubon. Bodley was buried (according to his desire in +his will) in the chapel of his old College, Merton, on March 29, +with all the state of a public funeral. He bequeathed the greater +part of his property for the building of the east wing of the +Library and the completion of the Schools, appointing Sir John +Bennett and Mr. William Hakewill his executors. The former, +however, proved in some measure an unfaithful steward. When +prosecuted in Parliament in 1621, for gross bribery in his office +as Judge of the Prerogative Court, some of Bodley's money was +still remaining in his hands, and was mentioned in the charges +brought against him. For the due payment of a portion of this, +by annual instalments of £150, the University, on June 28, 1624, +accepted four bonds from him, witnessed by Thomas Coventreye, +Matthew Bennet, and Henry Wigmore; only one of these appears +to have been paid off, leaving an unpaid deficit of £450<a name="FNanchor_60_60" id="FNanchor_60_60"></a><a href="#Footnote_60_60" class="fnanchor">[60]</a>. The +entry of this debt is carried on, together with the loan made to +King Charles I in 1642, in the Library accounts<a name="FNanchor_61_61" id="FNanchor_61_61"></a><a href="#Footnote_61_61" class="fnanchor">[61]</a>, from year to year<!-- Page 38 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> +up to 1782, when by order of the Curators the entries were discontinued. +In the notice of the Library contributed (as it is said) +by Dr. Hudson to Ayliffe's <i>Ancient and Present State of Oxford</i> +(vol. i. p. 460), it is stated that the Library estate falls miserably +short by reason of 'the fraud of his [Bodley's] executor, the loan +of a great sum of money to Charles I in his distress, and by the +fire of London,' that event, doubtless, necessitating the rebuilding +of the houses in Distaff Lane.</p> + +<p>Bodley was charged by some of his contemporaries, and +apparently with some justice, with sacrificing in his will the claims +of relatives and friends too much to the interests of the Library. +One Mr. John Chamberlain, a friend of Bodley, whose gossiping +letters to Sir Dudley Carleton, Alice Carleton, and others, are preserved +in the State Paper Office, does not spare his accusations on +this head. In a letter dated Feb. 4, 1613, he says that Bodley has +left legacies to great people, £7000 to the Library, and £200 to +Merton College, but little to his brothers, his old servants, his +friends, or the children of his wife, by whom he had all his wealth<a name="FNanchor_62_62" id="FNanchor_62_62"></a><a href="#Footnote_62_62" class="fnanchor">[62]</a>. +In another, dated June 23, 1613, he remarks that the executors +cannot excuse Bodley of unthankfulness to many of his relatives +and friends, he being 'so drunk with the applause and vanitie of +his librarie that he made no conscience to rob Peter to pay Paul<a name="FNanchor_63_63" id="FNanchor_63_63"></a><a href="#Footnote_63_63" class="fnanchor">[63]</a>.' +Some inferential corroboration of this is afforded by the following +curious paper preserved among Rawlinson's gatherings (now in +a vol. numbered Rawl. MS. Miscell., 1203), being no other than a +petition for relief addressed by the grand-nephew and grand-niece +of Bodley in the year 1712 (as appears from the Library accounts) +to the Heads of Houses and Curators of the Library, who appear +both officially and individually to have been very parsimonious in +their response:—</p> +<p><!-- Page 39 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> +<div class="blockquot"><p>'To the Worshipful Mr. Vice-Chancellor and to all heads and +governors of Colleges and Halls within the famous University +of Oxon.</p> + +<p>'The humble petition of William Snoshill of East Lockinge in the +county of Berks, labourer, and of Jane the wife of Thomas +Hatton of Childrey in the county aforesaid, labourer, sister of +the said William Snoshill,</p></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in2">'Humbly sheweth,</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'That your Petitioners being the grand-children of the sister of +Sir Thomas Bodley, the munificent founder of the Bodleian +Library in your University, being now reduc'd to a poor and low +estate, do with all humility make bold to represent their distrest +condition to your consideration, hoping that out of your tender +pity and commiseration, and that regard you have for the pious +memory of so great a benefactor to your University, to whom your +poor Petitioners are so nearly allied, you will be pleas'd to consider +them as real objects of your charity and compassion, and thereby +you will lay an eternal obligation on them of praying for your +present and future happiness.</p></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in20">'William Snoshill</span><br /> +<span class="text-in20">'Jane Hatton.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'We, whose names are subscribed to this Petition, are well +satisfied of the truth thereof.</p></div> + +<ul> +<li>'Thomas Paris, rector of Childrey</li> +<li>'John Holmes</li> +<li>'John Bell, vic. of Sparsholt</li> +<li>'John Aldworth, rector of East Lockinge</li> +<li>'Ralph Kedden, M.A., vicar of Denchworth, Berks.</li> +</ul> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'(<i>Mem.</i>) The Curators gave the Petitioners the sum of four +pounds out of Sir Thomas Bodley's chest. Dr. Altham, Hebrew +professor, and Dr. Hudson, Library-keeper, gave, each of them, +ten shillings.'</p></div> + +<p>An alphabetical catalogue was prepared in this year by James, +but was not printed. The MS, in two small hand-books, remains +in the Library. It was ordered by the Curators, at the Visitation<!-- Page 40 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> +on Nov. 13, that 6<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i> be paid quarterly to the Bedel of the +Stationers' Company as a gratuity for his trouble. MSS. were +received from Edw. James, B.D., who had been a contributor +already in the year 1601.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_59_59" id="Footnote_59_59"></a><a href="#FNanchor_59_59"><span class="label">[59]</span></a> <i>Calendar of State Papers</i>, 1611-18, p. 137.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_60_60" id="Footnote_60_60"></a><a href="#FNanchor_60_60"><span class="label">[60]</span></a> A full account of Bennet's defalcations is given by B. Twyne, from the University +Registers, in vol. vi. (pp. 120-4) of his <i>Collectanea</i>, now in the Univ. Archives. +See also <i>Parliam. Hist.</i> vol. v. p. 462.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_61_61" id="Footnote_61_61"></a><a href="#FNanchor_61_61"><span class="label">[61]</span></a> These accounts, as now preserved, unfortunately only commence at the year +1653, and there is a hiatus from 1661 to 1676, both inclusive.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_62_62" id="Footnote_62_62"></a><a href="#FNanchor_62_62"><span class="label">[62]</span></a> <i>Calendar of State Papers</i>, 1611-18, p. 169.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_63_63" id="Footnote_63_63"></a><a href="#FNanchor_63_63"><span class="label">[63]</span></a> <i>Ibid.</i> p. 187.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1614" id="AD_1614"></a>A.D. 1614.</h3> + +<p>Various orders were made by the Curators at the Visitation on +Nov. 10, which are prefixed to the small MS. 'hand-catalogues' +made at that time for the use of those authorities. They resolve +that the catalogues of newly-published works issued at Frankfort +in each spring and summer shall be examined by them within one +week after their arrival. They make an attempt to obtain possession +of a gift of the Founder's giving, which had never yet reached +the place of its intended deposit. In 1609 it had been reported to +Convocation that there was about to be sent to the Library by Sir +T. Bodley '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">toga ex lana agni Tartarici</span> <a title="Grk: zôophyton" class="note" xml:lang="grc" lang="grc">ζωοφυτον</a>, <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">magni quidam +valoris, ei data (ut in publica Bibliotheca conservetur) ab Richardo +Lee, milite, qui eandem dono recepit ab augustissimo Imperatore +Muscoviæ</span><a name="FNanchor_64_64" id="FNanchor_64_64"></a><a href="#Footnote_64_64" class="fnanchor">[64]</a>.' But the precious cloak had never yet arrived; the +Curators therefore resolve '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">quod literæ scribantur ad exequutores +domini Fundatoris pro illo pretioso pallio ex zoophyto confecto, et +legato ad nos per Ric. Leigh, militem, olim legatum apud Imperatorem +Russiæ, et quod in cista ex ligno bene olenti, ad eam +finem comparanda, reponatur in archivis, munita sera affabre +facta; clavis permaneat semper apud Vice-Cancellarium vel ejus +deputatum, nec cuiquam illud inspiciendi vel contrectandi potestas +esto, nisi in præsentia eorundem</span>.' At this Visitation Joseph<!-- Page 41 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> +Barnes, the Oxford printer, appeared and promised to give a copy +of every book which he might print. Complaint was made that +the London Stationers had already begun to fail in the fulfilment +of their agreement.</p> + +<p>On Aug. 29 the King visited the Library on his way to Woodstock, +and, asking for Fulke's <i>Annotations on the Rhemish New +Test.</i>, pointed out the remarks at Rom. x. 15, on the calling of +ministers; '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">deprehendit calumnias et imposturas quorundam pontificiorum +de ordine et vocatione ministrorum</span><a name="FNanchor_65_65" id="FNanchor_65_65"></a><a href="#Footnote_65_65" class="fnanchor">[65]</a>.' In 1620 the +editions of 1601 and 1617 of these <i>Annotations</i> were both in the +Library, as appears from the Catalogue of that year, but in Hyde's +Catalogue, published in 1674, only the edition of 1633 is found. +This is one out of various instances which prove that, by a great +miscalculation of literary value, later editions of a writer's works +were thought to supersede so entirely the earlier, that the latter +could be advantageously parted with. The Library has, however, +since become re-possessed of the earlier editions, that of 1601 +having been presented in 1824, and that of 1617 having been +bought more recently. But the most remarkable example of this +mistaken alienation of books occurs with reference to the first folio +edition of Shakespeare. In the Supplemental Catalogue of 1635, +the folio of 1623 duly appears; but in the Catalogue of 1674 we +find only the third edition, that of 1664, which doubtless had been +thought to be sufficient as well as best; upon its arrival, therefore, +from Stationers' Hall, the precious volume of 1623 was +probably regarded as little more than waste-paper. Nor was it +until the year 1821, when Malone's collection was received, that a +copy was again possessed by the Library<a name="FNanchor_66_66" id="FNanchor_66_66"></a><a href="#Footnote_66_66" class="fnanchor">[66]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_64_64" id="Footnote_64_64"></a><a href="#FNanchor_64_64"><span class="label">[64]</span></a> 'Reg. Conv. K. f. 43,' MS. note by Dr. P. Bliss. Bodley mentions in a letter to +James his expectation of exhibiting the 'lamb's-wool-gown' to the King. <i>Reliqq. +Bodl.</i> 173. An account of this marvellous garment will be found in the <a href="#APPENDIX_A">Appendix</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_65_65" id="Footnote_65_65"></a><a href="#FNanchor_65_65"><span class="label">[65]</span></a> Wood's <i>Hist.</i> vol. ii. p. 319.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_66_66" id="Footnote_66_66"></a><a href="#FNanchor_66_66"><span class="label">[66]</span></a> The extraordinary <i>fancy</i> prices sometimes given for books, and their variations, +are particularly exemplified in the case of the first folio Shakespeare. In 1778 +Stevens said it was 'usually valued at seven or eight' guineas. (<i>Shakespeare</i>, second +edit. vol. i. p. 239.) At the Roxburghe sale (a sufficiently bibliomaniacal one) in +1812 a copy was sold for £100; in 1864 Miss Burdett Coutts gave for Mr. G. +Daniel's specially fine copy, £716 2<i>s.</i>; while in July, 1867, a copy belonging +to a Mr. — Smith was sold for £410. In Dec. 1867 another copy was on sale at +Mr. Beet's, the bookseller, to which the owner very discreetly attached in his catalogue +no specific sum.<!-- Page 42 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1615" id="AD_1615"></a>A.D. 1615.</h3> + +<p>Richard Connock, auditor and solicitor to Prince Henry of +Wales, gave a MS. book of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Horæ</i><a name="FNanchor_67_67" id="FNanchor_67_67"></a><a href="#Footnote_67_67" class="fnanchor">[67]</a>, which had formerly belonged +to Mary I, and afterwards to Prince Henry. The donor, in a note +prefixed, records that he gives the volume, 'not for the religion it +contains, but for the pictures and former royall owners' sake.' It +is a volume of the early part of the fifteenth century, in small +quarto, containing 224 leaves, and ornamented with very beautiful +illuminated borders and exquisite drawings in <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">camaieu gris</i>. Among +these is one of the martyrdom of Becket, which, doubtless in consequence +of the book being in the possession of the Princess +Mary, has entirely escaped the defacement and obliteration ordered +by her father to be made in all Service-books where the office for +S. Thomas of Canterbury occurred. The following inscription +(nearly effaced at its close by over-much handling in former years), +addressed by Mary to one of her ladies, whose name does not +appear, to whom probably she presented the book, occurs in the +blank portion of one of the leaves:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Geate you such riches as when the shype is broken, may +swyme away wythe the Master. For dyverse chances take away +the goods of fortune; but the goods of the soule whyche bee only +the trewe goods, nother fyer nor water can take away. Yf you +take labour and payne to doo a vertuous thyng, the labour goeth +away, and the vertue remaynethe. Yf through pleasure you do<!-- Page 43 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> +any vicious thyng, the pleasure goeth away and the vice remaynethe. +Good Madame, for my sake remembre thys.</p></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in20">'Your lovyng mystres,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in22">'Marye Princesse.'</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>This inscription (which does so much credit to its writer) was +first printed by Hearne at the end of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Titi Livii Forojulien. Vita +Hen. V.</i> (p. 228) and last, in Bliss' <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Hearn.</i> i. 105. +Mr. Coxe has noted (from <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Alstedii Systema Mnemonicum</i>, 1610, +i. 705) that the latter part is taken directly and literally from +Musonius, while indirectly it comes from an oration by Cato<a name="FNanchor_68_68" id="FNanchor_68_68"></a><a href="#Footnote_68_68" class="fnanchor">[68]</a>. +Probably the first part may be traced to some similar source.</p> + +<p>Another autograph inscription by Mary while Princess is found +in a small book (Laud MS. Miscell. i.) of private prayers in Latin +and English, which belonged to Jane Wriothesley, wife of Thomas +Earl of Southampton, and which she seems to have employed as +a kind of album. At f. 45<sup>a</sup> are these lines, which appear to form +a triplet, although not written in metrical form by the Princess:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">'Good Madame, I do desyer you most hartly to pray,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That in prosperyte and adversyte I may<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Have grace to keep the trewe way.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in20">'Your lovyng frend,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in22">to my ... [power?]'</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Unfortunately the conclusion, with the signature, has been cut +off. A couplet, signed by Queen Katherine Parr, has an equal, +and most regal, disregard of the restraints of metrical rhythm +(f. 8<sup>b</sup>.):—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">'Madam, althowe I have differred writtyng in your booke,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I am no lesse your frend than you do looke.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in20">'Kateryn the Quene KP.'</span><br /> +</p> +<p><!-- Page 44 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p> +<p>Other inscriptions are inserted by Margaret Queen of Scotland, +Mary Countess of Lennox and mother of Lord Darnley, and by the +Countess of Southampton's daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Anne.</p> + +<p>James Button, Esq., of the county of Worcester, gave, on March +28, a curious relic of the ancient language of Cornwall, being +three Miracle-Plays of the Creation, the Passion, and the Resurrection, +in Cornish, contained in a MS. on vellum, small folio, +eighty-three leaves, written in the fifteenth century; now numbered +Bodl. 791. A copy on paper of the Play of the Creation, written +by John Jordan in 1611, is also in the Library, numbered Bodl. +219, which appears to have come from the library of King +James I, having the royal crown stamped on the parchment +cover, with the initials I.K. A second modern copy has also +been recently presented (in 1849) by Edwin Ley, Esq., of Bosahan, +Cornwall, which is accompanied by a translation by John Keigwyn, +made in 1695. The dramas were printed in two volumes at +the University Press, with a translation, notes, and glossary, by +Mr. Edwin Norris, in 1859.</p> + +<p>Some MSS. were given about this time by the three sons +of Rich. Colf, D.D., and in 1618 twenty Greek volumes by Cecil, +Earl of Exeter.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_67_67" id="Footnote_67_67"></a><a href="#FNanchor_67_67"><span class="label">[67]</span></a> The gift is omitted in the Benefaction-Register, apparently because it was a rule +not to record donations of single volumes [<i>Reliquiæ Bodl.</i> pp. 91, 283]; consequently +several books of the greatest value are omitted.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_68_68" id="Footnote_68_68"></a><a href="#FNanchor_68_68"><span class="label">[68]</span></a> George Herbert expresses the same idea at the end of his <i>Church Porch</i>:— +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p> +<span class="i0">'If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.'<br /></span> +</p> +</div></div> +<p> +</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1620" id="AD_1620"></a>A.D. 1620.</h3> + +<p>At the beginning of May, James resigned the office of Librarian, +but not as Wood says, on account of his promotion to the Subdeanery +of Wells, since that took place in the year 1614. His +appointment to the rectory of Mongeham, Kent (also mentioned +by Wood), was in 1617. He continued, however, to reside in +Oxford, and dying there in August, 1629, was buried in New +College Chapel.</p> + +<p>On the 9th of the same month of May, John Rouse, M.A., +Fellow of Oriel, was elected James' successor. No account of<!-- Page 45 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> +him is given by Wood, possibly from dislike of his Puritanical +principles, and of his continuing to hold office during the usurpation. +He appears to have discharged his trust in the Library +with faithfulness, and, at least, to have deserved some mention +at the historiographer's hands for the Appendix to the Catalogue +which he issued in the year 1635 (<i>q.v.</i>)<a name="FNanchor_69_69" id="FNanchor_69_69"></a><a href="#Footnote_69_69" class="fnanchor">[69]</a> He is best known as +the friend of Milton, who, on Rouse's application to him for a +copy of his <i>Poems both English and Latin</i>, published in 1645, +in the place of one previously given by Milton which had been +lost, sent the volume, together with a long autograph Latin Ode, +dated Jan. 23, 1646 (-7), and bearing the following title: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Ad +Joannem Rousium, Oxoniensis Academiæ Bibliothecarium, de +libro poematum amisso quem ille sibi denuo mitti postulabat, +ut cum aliis nostris in Bibliotheca publica reponeret</span>, Ode Joannis +Miltonj<a name="FNanchor_70_70" id="FNanchor_70_70"></a><a href="#Footnote_70_70" class="fnanchor">[70]</a>.' The volume is now numbered 8<sup>o</sup>. M. 168 Art. A +facsimile of a considerable portion of the Ode (which Cowper +translated into English, and which is said to have been the +last of Milton's Latin poetical effusions) is given in plate xvii. +of Sam. Leigh Sotheby's sumptuous volume, entitled <i>Ramblings +in the Elucidation of the Autograph of Milton</i>, 4<sup>o</sup>. Lond. 1861; +and at p. 120 there is a facsimile in full of Milton's inscription +in another volume (4<sup>o</sup>. F. 56 Th.) which contains a collection of +the political and polemical treatises published by him in the years +1641-5. This latter inscription, which gives a list of the contents<!-- Page 46 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> +of the volume, is addressed as follows: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Doctissimo viro proboque +librorum æstimatori Joanni Rousio, Oxoniensis academiæ Bibliothecario, +gratum hoc sibi fore testanti, Joannes Miltonius opuscula hæc +sua in Bibliothecam antiquissimam atque celeberrimam adsciscenda +libens tradit, tanquam in memoriæ perpetuæ Fanum, emeritamque, +uti sperat, invidiæ calumniæque vacationem; si Veritati, +Bonoque simul Eventui satis litatum sit</span>.' Warton tells the +almost incredible story, in his edition of Milton's <i>Poems</i>, that +about the year 1720 these two volumes were thrown out into a +heap of duplicates, from which Nathaniel Crynes, who afterwards +bequeathed his own collection to the Library<a name="FNanchor_71_71" id="FNanchor_71_71"></a><a href="#Footnote_71_71" class="fnanchor">[71]</a>, was permitted to +pick out what he pleased for himself; fortunately, however, he +was too good a royalist and churchman to choose anything that +bore the name of Milton, and so the books, despised and rejected +on both sides, by mere chance remained in the place of their +original deposit! Such an incident, if true, goes far to justify +the charges of ignorance and neglect of the Library which Hearne +in his Diary constantly brings against Hudson, the Librarian +at that time, and those whom he employed.</p> + +<p>The second edition of the Catalogue was issued by James, +shortly after his resignation of his office, with a Dedication to +Prince Charles, and a Preface dated June 30. It consists of +539 quarto pages, in double columns. It abandons the classified +arrangement of the former Catalogue, and adopts that (followed +ever since) of one alphabet of names. James, in his Preface, +gives as his reason for this course, the frequent difficulty (already +experienced even in so small a collection) of deciding to what +class a book should be assigned, and the inconvenience resulting +from division of the works of the same author. He points out +the value of the Library to foreigners, who can there consult +16,000 volumes for six hours a day, excepting Sundays and<!-- Page 47 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> +holidays<a name="FNanchor_72_72" id="FNanchor_72_72"></a><a href="#Footnote_72_72" class="fnanchor">[72]</a>. As instances of the copiousness of its stores, he mentions +that there are to be found above 100 folio and quarto volumes +on Military Art, in Greek, Latin, and other languages; and that +there are 3000 or 4000 books in French, Italian, and Spanish. +He notes that heretical and schismatical books are not to be +read without leave of the Vice-Chancellor and Regius Professor +of Divinity; and makes some remarks on the method of keeping +a Common-place-book. He gives as the reason for his quitting +his post, his severe sufferings from stone and paralysis<a name="FNanchor_73_73" id="FNanchor_73_73"></a><a href="#Footnote_73_73" class="fnanchor">[73]</a>.</p> + +<p>On June 4, King James presented the folio edition of his <i>Works</i> +as edited by Bishop Montague. The book (now marked B. 14. +17. Theol.) contains the following presentation inscription, written +and signed by Sir R. Naunton:—</p> + +<p xml:lang="la" lang="la">'Jacobus Dei gratia Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ +Rex, fidei defensor, &c. Postquam decrevisset publici juris +facere quæ sibi erat commentatus, ne videretur vel palam pudere +literarum quas privatim amaverat, vel eorum seu opinioni seu +invidiæ cedere qui Regis Majestatem literis dictitabant imminui, +vel Christiani Orbis et in eo Principum judicia expavescere, +quorum maxime intererat vera esse omnia quæ scripsit; circumspicere +etiam cœpit certum aliquod libro suo domicilium, locum, +si fieri possit, semotum a fato, æternitati et paci sacrum. +Ecce commodum sua se obtulit Academia, illa pæne orbi +notior quam Cantabrigiæ, ubi exulibus Musis jam olim melius +est quam in patria, ubi a codicibus famæ nuncupatis tineæ absterrentur +legentium manibus, sycophantæ scribentium ingeniis. +In hoc immortali literarum sacrario, inter monumenta clarorum<!-- Page 48 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> +virorum, quos quantum dilexit studiorum participatione satis +indicavit, in bibliotheca publica, lucubrationes has suas Deo Opt. +Max., Cui ab initio devotæ erant, æternum consecrat, in venerando +Almæ Matris sinu, unde contra seculorum rubiginem fidam illi +custodiam promittit, et contra veritatis hostes stabile patrocinium.'</p> + +<p>The book, which was carried to Oxford by a special deputation, +consisting of Patrick Young, the Librarian at St. James's (to +whom £20 was given by the University for his pains), and others, +was received by the University with great ceremony. A Convocation +was held in St. Mary's Church, on May 29, at which +an oration was delivered by Rich. Gardiner, the Deputy-Orator, +and at which a letter of thanks was approved (which is printed +in Wood's <i>Annals</i>, ii. 336); from thence the Vice-Chancellor, +attended by 24 doctors in their scarlet robes, and a mixed +multitude of others, carried it in solemn procession to the Library, +where the keeper, Rouse, 'made a verie prettie speech,' says +Patrick Young, 'and placed it <i>in archivis</i> ... with a great deale +of respect<a name="FNanchor_74_74" id="FNanchor_74_74"></a><a href="#Footnote_74_74" class="fnanchor">[74]</a>.' The King was greatly pleased with the formality +and flattery with which his works were received, and the more +so 'because Cambridge received them without extraordinary +respect<a name="FNanchor_75_75" id="FNanchor_75_75"></a><a href="#Footnote_75_75" class="fnanchor">[75]</a>.'</p> + +<p>Another gift in this year, presented by Thomas Nevile, K.B., +eldest son of Sir H. Nevile, Knt., is thus described in the Register: +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Elegantissimum libellum diversa scripturæ genera continentem, +manu Esteris Anglicæ, characteribus exquisitis conscriptum</span>.' +This is, doubtless, the MS. of the Book of Proverbs, +dated 1599, in which every chapter, as well as the dedication +to the Earl of Essex, is written in a different style of caligraphy,<!-- Page 49 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> +which is now exhibited in the glass case nearest the entrance to +the Library. It is an extremely beautiful specimen of the handiwork +of Mrs. Esther Inglis, of whose skill the Library possesses +another and smaller specimen (Bodl. 987), consisting of some +French verses by Guy de Faur, Sieur de Pybrac, written for +Dr. Joseph Hall (afterwards the Bishop of Norwich), in 1617. +These are described in the account of Mrs. Inglis, in Ballard's +<i>Memoirs of British Ladies</i>. A third specimen of her work is +in the Library of Ch. Ch.: it is a Psalter in French, presented +to Queen Elizabeth in 1599, bound in embroidered crimson velvet, +set with pearls<a name="FNanchor_76_76" id="FNanchor_76_76"></a><a href="#Footnote_76_76" class="fnanchor">[76]</a>.</p> + +<p>The Douay Bible of 1609 was presented by Sir Rich. Anderson, +and a Persian MS. of the Liturgy of the Greek Church by Sir +Thos. Roe. The first architectural model also was given in this +year; but unfortunately it is not now extant. Its description is as +follows: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Clemens Edmonds, eques auratus, consilio Regis ab +epistolis, donavit egregium</span> <a title="Grk: paradeigma" class="note" xml:lang="grc" lang="grc">παραδειγμα</a> <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">quinque columnarum, nunc +primum inventum, secundum formam rusticam, ex alabastrite +singulari artificio confectum</span>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_69_69" id="Footnote_69_69"></a><a href="#FNanchor_69_69"><span class="label">[69]</span></a> One fact to his credit is indeed mentioned by Wood in the <i>Fasti</i>, under the +year 1648, viz. that he prevented the then Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Reynolds, and the +Proctors from breaking open Bodley's chest in search of money, by assuring them +that there was nothing in it. Hearne (<i>MS. Diary</i>, vol. xii. p. 13) says that Rouse +inserted a portrait of Sir Thos. Bodley, done at his own charge, in the window +of the room which he occupied on the west side of Oriel College.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_70_70" id="Footnote_70_70"></a><a href="#FNanchor_70_70"><span class="label">[70]</span></a> Cowley followed Milton's example by inserting an Ode, in this case in English, +in a folio copy of his <i>Poems</i> (numbered C. 2. 21. Art.), which he gave June 26, +1656. It is printed exactly from the original in <i>Reliquiæ Hearn.</i> ii. 921-3.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_71_71" id="Footnote_71_71"></a><a href="#FNanchor_71_71"><span class="label">[71]</span></a> See <i>sub anno</i> <a href="#AD_1745">1745</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_72_72" id="Footnote_72_72"></a><a href="#FNanchor_72_72"><span class="label">[72]</span></a> At this time there were only two other public libraries in Europe, both later in +date than the Bodleian, viz. that of Angelo Rocca at Rome, opened in 1604, and +the Ambrosian at Milan, opened in 1609. The fourth public library was that of +Card. Mazarin at Paris, opened in 1643. Evidence of the consequent appreciation +by foreigners of the advantages of the Bodleian Library is given under the year +1641.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_73_73" id="Footnote_73_73"></a><a href="#FNanchor_73_73"><span class="label">[73]</span></a> An Appendix to James' Catalogue was printed in 1635, <i>q. v.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_74_74" id="Footnote_74_74"></a><a href="#FNanchor_74_74"><span class="label">[74]</span></a> Nichols' <i>Progresses of James I</i>, vol. iii. p. 1105. Rouse's speech (with the +letter) is printed in Hearne's <i>Titus Liv. Forojul.</i> p. 198.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_75_75" id="Footnote_75_75"></a><a href="#FNanchor_75_75"><span class="label">[75]</span></a> Letter from J. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton, June 28, 1620: <i>Calendar of State +Papers</i>, 1619-23, p. 157.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_76_76" id="Footnote_76_76"></a><a href="#FNanchor_76_76"><span class="label">[76]</span></a> An account of Mrs. Esther Inglis, and of all her known existing MSS., is +preparing for publication by David Laing, Esq., LL.D., of Edinburgh.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1621" id="AD_1621"></a>A.D. 1621.</h3> + +<p>A gift of £5 is noticeable as coming from the Girdlers' Company, +'Societas Zonariorum.' Sir Francis Bacon occurs as a +donor of books.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1623" id="AD_1623"></a>A.D. 1623.</h3> + +<p>Delegates were appointed by Convocation to consider 'de +modulo frontispicii Bibliothecæ publicæ in parte occidentali versus +collegium Exon<a name="FNanchor_77_77" id="FNanchor_77_77"></a><a href="#Footnote_77_77" class="fnanchor">[77]</a>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_77_77" id="Footnote_77_77"></a><a href="#FNanchor_77_77"><span class="label">[77]</span></a> Reg. Conv. N. ff. 167, 169.<!-- Page 50 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1624" id="AD_1624"></a>A.D. 1624.</h3> + +<p>'<span title="Corrected from William - see Addenda et Corrigenda" class="note">Williams</span>, Bishop of Lincoln, and then Lord Chancellor of +England, would have borrowed Paulus Benius Eugubinus <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De +dirimend. Controvers. de Grat. et Lib. Arb.</i>, but was deny'd<a name="FNanchor_78_78" id="FNanchor_78_78"></a><a href="#Footnote_78_78" class="fnanchor">[78]</a>.'</p> + +<p>The first theft of a book from the Library occurred in this year. +An account of it, with several others, will be found in a note to the +year <a href="#AD_1654">1654</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_78_78" id="Footnote_78_78"></a><a href="#FNanchor_78_78"><span class="label">[78]</span></a> Barlow's MS. Arg. against lending books out of the Library; see <i>post, sub +anno</i> <a href="#AD_1659">1659</a>.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1627" id="AD_1627"></a>A.D. 1627.</h3> + +<p>Andrew James, of Newport, Isle of Wight, is recorded to have +given '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">duas capsulas in quibus asservantur scripta vetustissima, +exotici et ignoti characteris, alia stylo, calamo alia, in corticibus +exarata, ex orientalis Indiæ partibus allata</span><a name="FNanchor_79_79" id="FNanchor_79_79"></a><a href="#Footnote_79_79" class="fnanchor">[79]</a>.' An East India +merchant, John Jourdain, gave four Arabic MSS., and Bacon's +<i>Works</i> were presented by Peter Ince, a bookseller at Chester. It +appears from the Register that Joseph Barnes, the Oxford printer +and publisher, died in this year, as he bequeathed a legacy of £5.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_79_79" id="Footnote_79_79"></a><a href="#FNanchor_79_79"><span class="label">[79]</span></a> At the end of the Barocci collection (numbered 245, 246, in the Catalogue of +1697) are two Javanese MSS., written on palm-leaves: the one written with a reed in +the sacred or Pali character, preserved in a box; the other written with a style in the +common character, and having the leaves tied together in the usual manner between +two boards. As there does not seem to be any evidence for supposing that Barocci's +collection included any Oriental MSS., it is possible that these were the writings '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la"><span class="note" title="changed from ignoit to ignotis - see Addenda et Corrigenda">ignotis</span> +characteris</span>' given two years previously by Andr. James.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1628" id="AD_1628"></a>A.D. 1628.</h3> + +<p>Twenty-nine MSS., all of which, except three, are Greek, were +given by Sir Thomas Roe, who had previously been ambassador +in Turkey, and who afterwards sat, at the commencement of the +Long Parliament, as Burgess for the University, in company with +Selden. One of the three exceptions is an original copy of the<!-- Page 51 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> +Synodal Epistles of the Council of Basle, with the leaden seal +attached; and another, a valuable Arabic MS. of the Apostolic +Canons, &c., which is noticed at length by Selden in the second +book of his treatise, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Synedriis Hebræorum</i>. Roe proposed +that his books should be permitted to be lent out for purposes of +printing, on proper security being given; a proposition which was +accepted by Convocation<a name="FNanchor_80_80" id="FNanchor_80_80"></a><a href="#Footnote_80_80" class="fnanchor">[80]</a>. Special licence of borrowing Lord +Pembroke's (the Barocci) and Roe's MSS. was granted by the +donors themselves to Dr. Lindsell (afterwards Bishop of Peterborough +and Hereford) and Patrick Young, the keeper of the +King's Library at St. James's. The latter is found, from the +Register of Readers, to have used his privilege as late as Feb. and +March, 1647-8, various volumes of Pembroke's MSS. being then +lent to him, together with some marked 'Archbp.', which were +doubtless Laud's<a name="FNanchor_81_81" id="FNanchor_81_81"></a><a href="#Footnote_81_81" class="fnanchor">[81]</a>.</p> + +<p>The copy of Bacon's <i>Essays</i> (1625) which was presented by the +author to the Duke of Buckingham, was given to the Library by +Lewis Roberts, a merchant of London. It is now exhibited +among the curiosities in the first glass case, as a specimen of +binding, being clad in green velvet, embroidered with gold and +silver thread, with the head of the duke worked in silk. The same +donor also presented the copy of Bishop Williams' Funeral +Sermon on James I, which had been given to the same duke by +the author. Several other specimens of embroidered bindings are +preserved in the Library, which are all, it is believed, comprehended +in the following list<a name="FNanchor_82_82" id="FNanchor_82_82"></a><a href="#Footnote_82_82" class="fnanchor">[82]</a>:—</p> +<p><!-- Page 52 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span></p> +<p>1. A part of L. Tomson's version of the New Test., printed by +Barker, in 16<sup>o</sup> (in 1578?), now marked MS. <i>e Musæo</i>, 242. This +belonged to Queen Elizabeth, and is bound in a covering worked +by herself, with various mottos, <i>e.g.</i> 'Celum patria,' 'Scopus vitæ +Xpũs,' &c. And on a fly-leaf occurs this note in her handwriting: +'August[ine?]. I walke manie times into the pleasant fieldes of +the Holye Scriptures, where I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes +of sentences by pruning, eate them by reading, chawe them by +musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by +gathering them together; that so hauing tasted thy sweetenes I +may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life<a name="FNanchor_83_83" id="FNanchor_83_83"></a><a href="#Footnote_83_83" class="fnanchor">[83]</a>.'</p> + +<p>2. Another of Elizabeth's bibliopegic achievements is the cover +of her own translation from the French of <i>The Miroir or Glasse of +the synnefull Soule</i>, executed when only eleven years old. She says +that she translated it 'out of frenche ryme into englishe prose, +joyning the sentences together as well as the capacitie of my +symple witte and small lerning coulde extende themselves;' and +prefixes a dedication, dated 'from Assherige, the laste daye of the +yeare of our Lord God, 1544,' in which, 'to our moste noble and +vertuous quene Katherin, Elizabeth her humble daughter wisheth +perpetuall felicitie and everlasting ioye.' The volume consists of +63 small quarto leaves, and has the queen's initials K. P. embroidered +within an ornamental border of gold and silver thread, +on a ground of blue corded silk. It is numbered Cherry MS. 38.</p> + +<p>3. <i>Dialogue de la Vie et de la Mort</i>, trans. from the Italian by +J. Louveau, and printed in imitation of MS., second edit., 12<sup>o</sup>. +Lyon, 1558. Red velvet, embroidered with gold and silver thread. +A French inscription on a fly-leaf is in a handwriting resembling +that of Queen Elizabeth. Bodl. MS., 660.<!-- Page 53 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p> + +<p>4. A Testament in 16<sup>o</sup>, printed by Norton and Bill in 1625. +Very thick and clumsy embroidery: on one side, David, in a +flowing wig, playing on the harp, with a dog, dragon-fly, &c.; on +the other, Abraham, in a similar wig and with a falling collar, +stopped in the sacrifice of his son. There is a tradition that this +formed part of a waistcoat of Charles I; but it is not known on +what evidence it rests, nor does the material seem likely to have +been so employed. In the Douce collection. Exhibited in the +glass case at the entrance of the Library.</p> + +<p>5. Bible, 8<sup>o</sup> Lond. 1639. Landscape, &c., worked in silk, with +embroidery in gold and silver thread. Arch Bodl. D subt. 75.</p> + +<p>6. Prayer-book, New Test., and Metrical Psalms, 1630-1, bound +by the nuns of Little Gidding. Exhibited in the glass case. +Bought in 1866 for £10<a name="FNanchor_84_84" id="FNanchor_84_84"></a><a href="#Footnote_84_84" class="fnanchor">[84]</a>.</p> + +<p>7. New Testament, printed at Cambridge in 1628, in 16<sup>mo</sup>. This +was the first edition printed there of any portion of the Authorized +Version, and only the second of any English translation<a name="FNanchor_85_85" id="FNanchor_85_85"></a><a href="#Footnote_85_85" class="fnanchor">[85]</a>. The +binding of the Library copy (which was bought, in 1859, for five +guineas) is covered with silver filigree work.</p> + +<p>Among Dr. Rawlinson's multifarious collections is a volume of +curious early specimens of worked samplers, humorously lettered +on the back, 'Works of Learned Ladies.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_80_80" id="Footnote_80_80"></a><a href="#FNanchor_80_80"><span class="label">[80]</span></a> 'Reg. Conv. R. 1628. f. 6.' MS. note by Dr. P. Bliss.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_81_81" id="Footnote_81_81"></a><a href="#FNanchor_81_81"><span class="label">[81]</span></a> See <i>sub anno</i> <a href="#AD_1635">1635</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_82_82" id="Footnote_82_82"></a><a href="#FNanchor_82_82"><span class="label">[82]</span></a> A lady, whose name is not mentioned, but who is graced with the appellation of +'heroina,' is recorded to have given to the University the Life of our Blessed Lord +depicted in needle-work, 'byssina et aurata textura,' which was duly presented in +Convocation on July 9, 1636. [Reg. Conv. R. 24.] It is not now preserved in +the Library.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_83_83" id="Footnote_83_83"></a><a href="#FNanchor_83_83"><span class="label">[83]</span></a> This note is printed and the book described in Hearne's Appendix to <i>Titi Livii +Forojul. Vit. Hen. V</i>, and, from thence, in Ballard's <i>Lives</i>; but not very correctly +in either case. Also in Bliss' <i>Reliqq. Hearn.</i> i. 104.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_84_84" id="Footnote_84_84"></a><a href="#FNanchor_84_84"><span class="label">[84]</span></a> In the life of Rich. Ferrar, junior, in Wordsworth's <i>Eccl. Biogr.</i> (third edit. +vol. iv. p. 232) a note is quoted from a MS. stating that a copy of Ferrar's <i>Whole +Law of God</i>, bound by the nuns of Gidding in green velvet, was given to the University +Library by Archbp. Laud. This is a mistake; the book in question was +given by the Archbishop to the library of his own college, St. John's, where it still +remains.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_85_85" id="Footnote_85_85"></a><a href="#FNanchor_85_85"><span class="label">[85]</span></a> The first was the Genevan Version, printed in 1591.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1629" id="AD_1629"></a>A.D. 1629.</h3> + +<p>The extremely valuable series of Greek MSS., called from its +collector the Barocci Collection, comprising 242 volumes, was<!-- Page 54 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> +presented by Will. Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, and Chancellor +of the University. The manner of its acquisition is recorded in +Archbp. Usher's correspondence. In a letter from Dublin of Jan. +22, 1628-9, Usher says: 'That famous library of Giacomo Barocci, +a gentleman of Venice, consisting of 242 manuscript volumes, is +now brought into England by Mr. Featherstone the stationer<a name="FNanchor_86_86" id="FNanchor_86_86"></a><a href="#Footnote_86_86" class="fnanchor">[86]</a>.' +He recommended that the King should buy it, and add to it +the collection of Arabic MSS. which the Duke of Buckingham +had bought of the heirs of Erpenius<a name="FNanchor_87_87" id="FNanchor_87_87"></a><a href="#Footnote_87_87" class="fnanchor">[87]</a>. On April 13, 1629, +Sir H. Bourgchier writing to Usher, tells him that the Earl of +Pembroke has bought the collection, for the University of Oxford, +at the price of £700, and that it consists of 250 volumes<a name="FNanchor_88_88" id="FNanchor_88_88"></a><a href="#Footnote_88_88" class="fnanchor">[88]</a>. It +was forwarded to the University with the following letter, which +is here copied from the Convocation Register, R. 24 (f. 9<sup>b</sup>.):—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Good Mr. Vice-Chancelor,</p> + +<p>'Understanding of an excellent collection of Greke +manuscripts brought from Venice, and thincking that they would +bee of more use to the Church in being kept united in some +publick Librarye then scattered in particular hands; remembring +the obligation I had to my mother the Universitie, first for +breeding mee, after for the honor they did mee in making mee +their Chancelor, I was glad of this occasion to repay some part +of that great debt I owe her. And therefore I sent you downe +the collection entire, which I pray present with my beste love to +the Convocation house. And I shall unfaynedly remaine,</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in10">'Your most assured freind,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in20">'PEMBROKE.</span><br /> +'Greenewich, the 25th of May, 1629.'<br /> +</p></div> + +<p>The Earl was willing that the MSS. should, if necessary, be<!-- Page 55 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> +allowed to be borrowed. And, in pursuance of this expressed +wish, Patrick Young had, in 1648, the use of various MSS. from +this collection, as we find from a memorandum at the end of +the Register of Readers in 1648-9. But one MS. suffered in +consequence considerable injury<a name="FNanchor_89_89" id="FNanchor_89_89"></a><a href="#Footnote_89_89" class="fnanchor">[89]</a>. A further portion of the collection +(consisting of 22 Greek MSS. and 2 Russian), which had +been retained by the Earl, was subsequently purchased by Oliver +Cromwell, and given by him to the Library in 1654. There +they still bear the Protector's name; but, strange to say, no +entry of the gift appears in the Benefaction Book<a name="FNanchor_90_90" id="FNanchor_90_90"></a><a href="#Footnote_90_90" class="fnanchor">[90]</a>. These are +all fully described in the first volume of the general Catalogue +of MSS., published by Rev. H. O. Coxe in 1853. A Catalogue +of the Barocci and Roe MSS., by Dr. Peter Turner, of Merton +College, beautifully written, filling 38 folio leaves, is bound up +among Selden's printed books, marked AA. 1. Med. Seld.</p> + +<p>On Aug. 27, the Library was visited for the first time by +King Charles and his Queen, little anticipating under what circumstances +that visit would be repeated. He was received with an +oration by the Public Orator, Strode, a copy of which is preserved +in Smith MS. xxvi. 26, and which, in the exaggerated style of +the Court-adulation of the time, began with words that sound +blasphemously in our ears, '<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Excellentissime Vice-Deus</i>.' From the +Library the King ascended to the leads of the Schools; and +there discussed the proposed removal of some mean houses in Cat +Street, which then intervened between the Schools and St. Mary's +Church. A plan of the ground and buildings was made at his +desire, which was sent up to him at London.<!-- Page 56 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_86_86" id="Footnote_86_86"></a><a href="#FNanchor_86_86"><span class="label">[86]</span></a> In the following year Mr. Henry Featherstone, bookseller in London, gave to +the Library a number of Hebrew books.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_87_87" id="Footnote_87_87"></a><a href="#FNanchor_87_87"><span class="label">[87]</span></a> Parr's <i>Life of Usher</i>, Letters, p. 400.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_88_88" id="Footnote_88_88"></a><a href="#FNanchor_88_88"><span class="label">[88]</span></a> <i>Ibid.</i> Quoted in Sir H. Ellis' <i>Letters of Eminent Literary Men</i>, Camden Soc., +1843. p. 130.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_89_89" id="Footnote_89_89"></a><a href="#FNanchor_89_89"><span class="label">[89]</span></a> See <i>sub anno</i> <a href="#AD_1654">1654</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_90_90" id="Footnote_90_90"></a><a href="#FNanchor_90_90"><span class="label">[90]</span></a> Richard Cromwell proposed at one time to perpetuate his own name in the +Library, together with his father's, by sending a collection of the addresses which +had been made to him, in order to show the temper of the nation, and the readiness +of the greatest persons 'to compliment people on purpose for secular interest.' +<i>Reliquiæ Hearn.</i> i. 263.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1631" id="AD_1631"></a>A.D. 1631.</h3> + +<p>Charles Robson, B.D., of Queen's College, who had been +Chaplain to the Merchants at Aleppo, gave a fine Syriac MS. +of the Four Gospels, which he had brought from the East; it +is now numbered Bodl. Orient. 361. Another MS. of his gift +has been by some mistake placed amongst the Thurston MSS., +No. 13.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1632" id="AD_1632"></a>A.D. 1632.</h3> + +<p>William Burton, the historian of Leicestershire, gave the original +MSS. of Leland's <i>Itinerary</i> (together with a transcript of some +parts) and of his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Collectanea</i>; the former filling seven volumes +in quarto<a name="FNanchor_91_91" id="FNanchor_91_91"></a><a href="#Footnote_91_91" class="fnanchor">[91]</a>, and the latter (including the book <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Scriptoribus +Britannicis</i>) four in folio. The <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Collectanea</i>, after the death of +Leland, had been in the possession of Sir John Cheke, to whom +Edward VI entrusted the custody of Leland's papers; on his going +into exile in the reign of Queen Mary, he gave them to Humphrey +Purefoy, Esq., whose son, Thomas Purefoy, presented them to +Burton in the year 1612. The <i>Itinerary</i> was first published by +Hearne in 1710, in 9 vols.; the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Collectanea</i> in 1715, in 6 vols.; +the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Scriptoribus</i>, by Ant. Hall, in 1709. The MS. of the +<i>Itinerary</i> is much stained and injured by damp; but it is no longer +in the perishable condition described by Hearne. There are, +besides, three transcripts of it in the Library; one, of part of +the book (Bodl. 470) is a copy (mentioned above) which was +made for Burton, and sent by him to Rouse, with a letter dated +'Lindley, Leic. 17 July, 1632,' in which he describes it as being +'written, though not with so fine a letter, yet with a judicious<!-- Page 57 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> +hand.' He says that another part is 'now (as I heere) in the +hands of Doctor Burton, Archdeacon of Gloucester, which he +received by loane from a freind of mine, but never yet restored; +the which, I thinke, upon request he will impart unto you;' and +adds, 'Some more partes there were of this <i>Itinerary</i>, but through +the negligence of him to whom they were first lent, are embesiled +and gone.' He undertakes to send the three parts of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Collectanea</i> +and the book <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Scriptt. Angliæ</i>, according to promise, +as soon as he has done using them. Another copy, made by +Burton himself in 1628, was given to Dr. W. Stukeley by Thomas +Allen, Esq., lord of Finchley, in June, 1758, and finally came +to the Library with Gough's collection. It is now numbered +Gough, General Topog. 2. It is injured by damp at the beginning, +but has been repaired by Stukeley. The third copy is a later +transcript, also in Gough's collection, and numbered General +Topog. 1.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_91_91" id="Footnote_91_91"></a><a href="#FNanchor_91_91"><span class="label">[91]</span></a> An eighth volume of the <i>Itinerary</i> was given by Charles King, M.A. of +Ch. Ch. some time subsequently, having been lent by Burton and not recovered at +the time of his own gift.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1633" id="AD_1633"></a>A.D. 1633.</h3> + +<p>A singular motto stamped upon the binding of two books, and +it may be of more, within a border of cornucopiæ, &c., attracts the +attention of the reader. The books are, vols. i. ii. of Du Chesne's +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Historiæ Francorum Scriptores</i>, 1636 (A. 2. 9. 10. Jur.), and Halloix's +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Ecclesiæ Orientalis Scriptores</i>, 1633 (G. 2. 3. Th.); the motto +is, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Coronasti annum bonitatis Tuæ, Ps. 65. Annuo reditu quinque +librarum Margaretæ Brooke</span>.' An explanation is found in an +entry in the Benefaction-Register under the year 1632 or 1633, +where we read as follows: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">D. Margareta Brooke, vidua, quondam +uxor Ducis Brooke, de Temple-Combe in comitatu Somerset, +armigeri defuncti, donavit centum libras, quibus perquisitus est +annuus reditus quinque librarum ad coemendos libros in usum +bibliothecæ in perpetuum</span>.' Probably the books thus stamped +were the first that were bought after the final settlement of the<!-- Page 58 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> +gift. The rent arises from land at Wick-Risington, in Gloucestershire, +and the sum duly appears to this day in the annual accounts +of the Library. In 1655, the then Librarian, Barlow, makes a memorandum +in his accounts that the University had not paid over +this rent for several years; in consequence of his calling attention +to this neglect, the arrears were paid up in 1658. At the same +time the rents of the houses in Distaff Lane were heavily in arrear.</p> + +<p>A (second) gift from Sir Henry Wotton consisted of the copy of +Tycho Brahe's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Astronomiæ instaurandæ mechanica</i>, 1598, which +the author gave to Grimani, Doge of Venice, containing several +additional pages in MS. with two autograph epigrams; and also of +a MS. of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Acta Concilii Constantiensis</i>, which had formerly belonged +to Card. Bembi, now numbered <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">e Musæo</i>, 25.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1634" id="AD_1634"></a>A.D. 1634.</h3> + +<p>In this year Sir Kenelm Digby gave a collection of 238 MSS. +(including five rolls) all on vellum, uniformly bound, and stamped +with his arms, which still form a distinct series. They are, for the +most part, of the highest interest and importance, especially with +reference to the early history of science in England. Amongst +them are works by Roger Bacon, Grosteste, Will. Reade, John +Eschyndon or Ashton, Roger of Hereford, Richard Wallingford, +Simon Bredon, Thomas of New-market, and many others. They +also comprise much relating to the general history of England, and +are almost entirely the work of English scribes. Many of them +had previously belonged to Thomas Allen, of Gloucester Hall, who +himself was a liberal donor to the Library. [<i>See</i> p. <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.] Two +additional MSS., which formerly belonged to Digby, and which +each contain his inscription, 'Hic est liber publicæ Bibliothecæ +academiæ Oxoniensis, K.D.,' were purchased in 1825. One of +these, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">R. Baconis opuscula</i>, was bought for £51; the other, a Latin<!-- Page 59 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> +translation, by W. de Morbeck, of Proclus' Commentary on Plato, +for £31 10<i>s.</i> They are uniformly bound with the rest of the +series, and are numbered 235 and 236 respectively.</p> + +<p>The donor stipulated that his MSS. should not be strictly confined +to use within the walls of the Library. Archbishop Laud +says, in the letter in which, as Chancellor, he announced the gift +to the University, 'hee will not subiect these manuscripts to the +strictnes of Sir Thomas Bodley's statutes<a name="FNanchor_92_92" id="FNanchor_92_92"></a><a href="#Footnote_92_92" class="fnanchor">[92]</a>, but will haue libertie +given for any man of woorth, that wilbee at the paines and charge to +print any of these bookes, to haue them oute of the Librarye vpon +good caution giuen; but to that purpose and noe other<a name="FNanchor_93_93" id="FNanchor_93_93"></a><a href="#Footnote_93_93" class="fnanchor">[93]</a>.' But he +afterwards left the University at liberty to deal as it pleased with +his MSS. in this particular, as well as in all other questions that +might arise concerning his books. In a letter to Dr. Langbaine, +dated Nov. 7, 1654, he says: 'The absolute disposition of them in +all occurrences dependeth wholly and singly of the University; for +she knoweth best what will be most for her service and advantage, +and she is absolute mistress to dispose of them as she pleaseth<a name="FNanchor_94_94" id="FNanchor_94_94"></a><a href="#Footnote_94_94" class="fnanchor">[94]</a>.' +He mentions in the same letter two trunks of Arabic MSS. which +he gave to Archbp. Laud to send to the University or to St. John's +College, but he never heard whether they reached their destination +or no. He promises also to send over some more MSS. from +France when he has returned thither; since, when the troubles of +the Rebellion drove him into exile, he had carried his library with +him. Upon the Restoration, however, and his own return to +England, he unfortunately left his books behind; and after his +death they were confiscated by the French King as belonging to +an alien, and subsequently sold. Doubtless the two MSS. acquired +in 1825 were among those to which his letter refers.</p> +<p><!-- Page 60 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p> +<p>The first stone of the western end of the Library, with the Convocation +House beneath, was laid on May 13, 1634; it was fitted +up with shelves and ready for use by 1640. Selden's books were +placed here in 1659. The hideous great west window is a monument +of the bad taste of the time; it is much to be hoped that it +may some day be replaced by a window more worthy of its conspicuous +position, and affording a less marked contrast with its +opposite neighbour, the noble east window erected by Bodley +himself.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_92_92" id="Footnote_92_92"></a><a href="#FNanchor_92_92"><span class="label">[92]</span></a> See under <a href="#AD_1654-1659">1654-9</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_93_93" id="Footnote_93_93"></a><a href="#FNanchor_93_93"><span class="label">[93]</span></a> Reg. Conv. R. 24, 102. From MS. note by Dr. Bliss.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_94_94" id="Footnote_94_94"></a><a href="#FNanchor_94_94"><span class="label">[94]</span></a> [Walker's] <i>Letters by Eminent Persons, from the Bodl. and Ashm.</i>, 1813, vol. i. +pp. 2, 3.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1635" id="AD_1635"></a>A.D. 1635.</h3> + +<p>In this year Rouse issued an Appendix to the Catalogue published +in 1620, consisting of 208 pages in quarto, in double +columns, and containing, as he says, about 1500 authors. James, +on the title-page of his Catalogue in 1620, speaks of an Appendix +accompanying that issue; hence, probably, it is that the words +'Editio secunda' are placed on the title of the Appendix of 1635. +But, strange to say, no copy of the earlier Appendix can now be +found existing in the Library. At the end of the later one is +added [by John Verneuil, then Sub-Librarian,] an anonymous +enlarged edition (which was also sold separately) of James' <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Catalogus +interpretum S. Script, in Bibl. Bodl.</i>, with an Appendix of +authors who had written on the <i>Sentences</i> and the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Summa</i>, on the +Sunday-Gospels, on Cases of Conscience, on the Lord's Prayer, +the Apostles' Creed, and the Decalogue. A book giving an account +of all the copies of the Catalogue sold between 1620-47, +with the names of the purchasers, still exists, the latter part being in +the handwriting of Verneuil; but some leaves have been torn out +at the year 1635. It appears from this book that the price of +James' Catalogue was 2<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i>, that of the Catalogue of Interpreters +6<i>d.</i>, of the Appendix 2<i>s.</i>, and of the whole series complete 5<i>s.</i><!-- Page 61 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1635-1640" id="AD_1635-1640"></a>A.D. 1635-1640.</h3> + +<p>The Register for these years presents a connected series of +benefactions on the part of Archbishop Laud.</p> + +<p>On May 22, 1635, he sent to the Library the first instalment +of his magnificent gifts of MSS. which consisted of 462 +volumes and five rolls. Among these were 46 Latin MSS., +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">e Collegio Herbipolensi [Würtzburg] in Germania sumpti A.D. +1631, cum Suecorum Regis exercitus per universam fere Germaniam +grassarentur</span>.' Laud directs, in his letter of gift, that +none of the books shall on any account be taken out of +the Library, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">nisi solum ut typis mandentur, et sic publici et +juris et utilitatis fiant</span>,' upon sufficient security, to be approved +by the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors; the MS., in such cases, +being immediately after printing restored to its place in the +Library<a name="FNanchor_95_95" id="FNanchor_95_95"></a><a href="#Footnote_95_95" class="fnanchor">[95]</a>. This permission was acted upon in the year 1647-8, +when Patrick Young, the Librarian of the Royal Library at +St. James's, was allowed to have the use of several volumes<a name="FNanchor_96_96" id="FNanchor_96_96"></a><a href="#Footnote_96_96" class="fnanchor">[96]</a>.</p> + +<p>In 1636, 181 MSS. formed the Archbishop's second gift, which +were accompanied by five cabinets of coins in gold, silver, and +brass, with a list arranged chronologically; an Arabic astrolabe, +of brass<a name="FNanchor_97_97" id="FNanchor_97_97"></a><a href="#Footnote_97_97" class="fnanchor">[97]</a>; two idols, one Egyptian, the other from the West +Indies; and the fine bust of King Charles I, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">singulari artificio +ex purissimo ære conflatam</span>,' which is now placed under the arch +opening into the central portion of the Library. This beautiful work +of art is believed by Mr. John Bruce, the learned Vice-President +of the Society of Antiquaries, who is engaged in researches into +the life and productions of Hubert Le Sœur, the artist of the +statue at Charing Cross, to be, (as well as the bust given by Laud<!-- Page 62 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> +to St. John's College,) a specimen of the skill of that famous +craftsman. The existing arrangements of the Library being found +insufficient for such large accessions, the lower end was fitted up +in 1638-9 for the reception of Laud's books, for the cost of which +£300 was voted by Convocation<a name="FNanchor_98_98" id="FNanchor_98_98"></a><a href="#Footnote_98_98" class="fnanchor">[98]</a>. In the following year, 555 +more MSS. were received, together with a magical wand or staff, +and some additional coins. The wand is of dark polished wood, +2 feet 9 inches long, with a grotesquely-carved figure at the +head, apparently of Mexican workmanship: it is now kept in +one of the Sub-Librarians' studies. The last gift from the munificent +Chancellor of the University came in the next year, 1640, +and consisted of no more than 81 MSS.; for troubles were beginning +to gather now around the head of the Archbishop, and +the Library at Oxford felt the blows which were levelled at +Lambeth. This was accompanied with the following touching +letter:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot" xml:lang="la" lang="la"><p>'Viris mihi amicissimis Doctori Potter, Vice-Cancellario, reliquisque +Doctoribus, Procuratoribus, necnon singulis in domo Convocationis +intra almam Universitatem Oxon. congregatis.</p> + +<p>'Non datur scribendi otium. Hoc tamen quale quale est +arripio lubens, ut pauca ad vos transmittam, adhuc florentes +Academici. Tempora adsunt plusquam difficillima, nec negotia +quæ undique urgent faciliora sunt. Quin et quo loco res Ecclesiæ +sint nemo non videt. Horum malorum fons non unus est; unus +tamen, inter alios, furor est eorum qui sanam doctrinam non +sustinentes (quod olim observavit S. Hilarius) corruptam desiderant. +Inter eos qui hoc œstro perciti sunt quam difficile sit +vivere, mihi plus satis innotescit, cui (Deo gratias!) idem est vivere +et officium facere.</p> + +<p>'Sed mittenda hæc sunt, nec enim quo fata ducunt datur scire. +Nec mitiora redduntur tempora aut tutiora querimoniis. Interim<!-- Page 63 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> +velim sciatis me omnia vobis fausta et felicia precari, quo tuti +sitis felicesque, dum hic inter sphæras superiores stellæ cujuslibet +magnitudinis vix motum suum tenent, aut præ nubium crassitie +debile lumen emittunt.</p> + +<p>'Dum sic fluctuant omnia, statui apud me in tuto (id est, +apud vos spero) MS. quædam, temporum priorum monumenta, +deponere. Pauca sunt, sed prioribus similia, si non æqualia, et +talia quæ, non obstantibus temporum difficultatibus, in usum +vestrum parare non destiti. Sunt vero inter hæc Hebraica sex, +Græca undecim, Arabica tringinta quatuor, Latina viginti et unum, +Italica duo, Anglicana totidem, Persica quinque, quorum unum, +folio digestum ampliori, historiam continet ab orbe condito ad +finem imperii Saracenici, et est proculdubio magni valoris. Hæc +per vos in Bibliothecam Bodleianam (nomen veneror, nec superstitiose) +reponenda, et cæteris olim meis apponenda, cupio, et sub +eisdem legibus quibus priora dedi. Non opus est multis donum +hoc nostrum nimis exile ornare, nec id in votis meis unquam +fuit. Hoc obnixe et quotidie a DEO Opt. Max. summis votis peto, +ut Academia semper floreat, in ea Religio et Pietas et quicquid +doctrinam decorare potest in altum crescat, ut tempestatibus +quæ nunc omnia perflant sedatis, tuto possitis et vobis et studiis +et, præ omnibus, <span class="smcap">Deo</span> frui. Quæ vota semper erunt</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in6" xml:lang="la" lang="la">'fidelissimi et amantissimi Cancellarii vestri,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in20">'W. CANT.<a name="FNanchor_99_99" id="FNanchor_99_99"></a><a href="#Footnote_99_99" class="fnanchor">[99]</a></span><br /> +<span class="text-in2" xml:lang="la" lang="la">'Dat. ex ædibus meis</span><br /> +<span class="text-in1">'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Lambethanis</span>, 6<sup>to</sup> Nov. 1640.'</span><br /> +</p> +</div> + +<p>The collection, which contains in the whole nearly 1300 MSS., +comprises works in very many languages: Hebrew, Chaldee, +Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Ethiopic, Chinese, +Russian, Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, Irish, Anglo-Saxon, +and English are all represented. It is impossible, in the +limits of this survey, to point out many of the treasures with<!-- Page 64 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> +which the collection abounds; but that which is pre-eminently +styled 'Codex Laudianus' (numbered Laud, Gr. 35) must not, of +course, be omitted. It is a MS. of the Acts of the Apostles, in +quarto, consisting of 227 leaves, and containing the text in both +Greek and Latin, in parallel columns. Its date has been variously +fixed by critics, from the sixth to the eighth century; Mr. Coxe +places it towards the end of the seventh century, with whom +Dr. Tischendorf, who examined it in 1865, and for whom some +photographs of portions were executed, is believed to coincide. +Some leaves are wanting at the end, commencing at chap. xxvi. +29. It is the only MS. known to be extant which contains the +peculiar readings (in number 74) cited by Bede in his Commentary +as existing in the copy which he used; it has consequently been +conjectured, with much reason, that this was the very MS. which +he possessed. It was published by Thomas Hearne in 1715, +printed in capitals corresponding line for line with the MS., but +not with entire correctness; only 120 copies were printed, and +it is therefore one of the rarest in the series of his works. A +very fairly engraved facsimile of one verse (vii. 2) is to be found +in Horne's <i>Introduction</i>.</p> + +<p>Another famous MS. (No. 636) is a copy of the Anglo-Saxon +Chronicle, which ends at the year 1154, and appears to have been +written in, and to have belonged to, the abbey of Peterborough, +from its containing many additions relating thereto. And a +third treasure calling for special mention is an Irish vellum MS. +(No. 610), which contains the Psalter of Cashel, Cormac's Glossary, +Poems attributed to SS. Columb-kill and Patrick, &c.<a name="FNanchor_100_100" id="FNanchor_100_100"></a><a href="#Footnote_100_100" class="fnanchor">[100]</a> The +Greek MSS. of the collection are fully described in vol. i. of the<!-- Page 65 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> +<i>Catal. Codd. Bibl. Bodl.</i>, by Mr. H. O. Coxe, published in 1853; +the Latin, Biblical, and Classical, with the Miscellaneous, in Part I +of the second volume, published by the same gentleman in 1858; +the Oriental, in the various Catalogues of Uri, Nicoll, Pusey, +Dillmann, and Payne Smith.</p> + +<p>One of the Würtzburg books rescued from the Swedish soldiery +is a magnificent Missal printed on vellum by Jeorius Ryser in +1481, with illuminated initials. On a fly-leaf is the following note: +'1481, Johannes Kewsch,<span xml:lang="la" lang="la"> vicarius in ecclesia Herb[ipolensi] hunc +librum comparavit propriis expensis, et pro omnibus, scil. pergameno, +impressura, rubricatione, illinatura, et ligatione, xviii. flor.</span>' +Then follows a bequest, in his own hand, in 1486, of the book to +the successive vicars of St. Bartholomew, which is repeated at the +end of the 'Canon Missæ.' In the latter place four subsequent +possessors, from 1565 to 1580, have written their names, the last +of them adding, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Omnis arbor qui non facit fructum bonum excidetur +et in ignem mittetur</span>.' The Library reference is now +Auct. i. Q. i. 7.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_95_95" id="Footnote_95_95"></a><a href="#FNanchor_95_95"><span class="label">[95]</span></a> Reg. Conv. R. 24. f. 109<sup>b</sup>. MS. note by Dr. P. Bliss.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_96_96" id="Footnote_96_96"></a><a href="#FNanchor_96_96"><span class="label">[96]</span></a> Entry at the end of the Register of Readers, 1638-9.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_97_97" id="Footnote_97_97"></a><a href="#FNanchor_97_97"><span class="label">[97]</span></a> This was given to Laud by Selden, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">vir omni eruditionis genere instructissimus</span>,' +as Laud styles him in his letter of gift on June 16. Reg. Conv. R. 24. f. 128.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_98_98" id="Footnote_98_98"></a><a href="#FNanchor_98_98"><span class="label">[98]</span></a> Reg. Conv. R. 24. 156<sup>b</sup>. 169<sup>b</sup>. The agreements with one Thomas Richardson +for the work are found there.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_99_99" id="Footnote_99_99"></a><a href="#FNanchor_99_99"><span class="label">[99]</span></a> Reg. Conv. R. 24<sup>b</sup>, 182<sup>b</sup>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_100_100" id="Footnote_100_100"></a><a href="#FNanchor_100_100"><span class="label">[100]</span></a> Four volumes of the miscellaneous collection on Irish affairs made by Sir +G. Carew, afterwards Earl of Totness, are also to be found here. A list of their +contents, as of those of the other volumes preserved at Lambeth and in University +College, is printed in Mr. T. Duffus Hardy's <i>Report to the Master of the Rolls on +the Carte and Carew Papers</i>, 8<sup>o</sup>, Lond. 1864.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1637" id="AD_1637"></a>A.D. 1637.</h3> + +<p>A Bachelor of Arts and Fellow of St. John's College, one +Abraham Wright, published the results of his lighter reading in the +Bodleian in a little volume printed by Leonard Lichfield, which he +entitled, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Delitiæ Delitiarum, sive Epigrammatum ex optimis quibusque +hujus et novissimi seculi Poetis in amplissima illa Bibliotheca +Bodleiana, et pene omnino alibi extantibus</i>, <a title="anthologia">ανθολογια</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1640" id="AD_1640"></a>A.D. 1640.</h3> + +<p>On Jan. 25, 1639-40, died Robert Burton, of Ch. Ch., 'Democritus +junior,' and bequeathed out of his large library whatever +<!-- Page 66 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span>he possessed which was wanting in the Bodleian. A list of +the Latin books thus acquired is given in the Benefaction Book, +followed by this sentence: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Porro [d. d.] comœdiarum, tragediarum, +et schediasmatum ludicrorum (præsertim idiomate vernaculo) +aliquot centurias, quas propter multitudinem non adjecimus</span>.' +These latter were just the classes of books the admission of which +the Founder had almost prohibited, viz., 'almanacks, plays, and an +infinite number that are daily printed.' Even if 'some little profit +might be reaped (which God knows is very little) out of some of +our play-books, the benefit thereof,' said he, 'will nothing near +countervail the harm that the scandal will bring upon the Library, +when it shall be given out that we stuffed it full of baggage +books<a name="FNanchor_101_101" id="FNanchor_101_101"></a><a href="#Footnote_101_101" class="fnanchor">[101]</a>.' In consequence of this well-meant but mistaken resolution, +the Library was bare of just those books which Burton's +collection could afford, and which now form some of its rarest and +most curious divisions. In his own address 'To the Reader' of +his <i>Anatomy of Melancholy</i> he very fully describes the nature of his +own gatherings. 'I hear new news every day; and those ordinary +rumours of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, +meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, apparitions, of +towns taken, cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, +Poland, &c. * * * * are daily brought to our ears; new +books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories (&c.). Now come +tidings of weddings, maskings, mummeries, entertainments, jubilees, +embassies, tilts and tournaments, trophies, triumphs, revels, sports, +plays; then again, as in a new shifted scene, treasons, cheating +tricks, robberies, enormous villainies, in all kinds, funerals, burials, +death of princes, new discoveries, expeditions; now comical, then +tragical matters.' His books are chiefly to be found in the classes +marked 4<sup>o</sup> Art. (particularly under letter L), Theol., and Art. BS. +Amongst his smaller books is one of the only two known copies of<!-- Page 67 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span> +the edition of <i>Venus and Adonis</i> in 1602. He is specially mentioned +also in the preface to Verneuil's <i>Nomenclator</i>, 1642, as +being (together with Mr. Kilby of Linc. Coll., Mr. Prestwich, of +All Souls', and Mr. Francis Wright, of Merton) a donor of Commentaries +and Sermons. Besides his books, he bequeathed £100, +with which an annual payment of £5 was obtained. For some +time, however, this payment was subsequently lost; for in Barlow's +Accounts for 1655, after mentioning the receipt of £40 paid by +one Mr. Thomas Smith, occurs this '<i>Memorandum</i>:—that the £40 +above mentioned amongst the <i>Recepta</i> is a part of an £100 given +to the Library by Mr. Rob. Burton of Ch. Ch. It was first lent to +Mr. Thomas Smith, and he (by bond) was to pay to the Library +£5 per annum. He breaking, or very much decay'd in his estate, +and deade, this £40 was payd in by his executors, £50 more is to +be payd us by University Coll. (it was owinge to Mr. Smith, and +his executors assigned it over to us), and Dr. Langbaine hath in +his keepinge a bond of one Spencer for £10 more.' The latter +was paid in 1658, as appears from an entry, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Recept. a Dno. +Spicer (<i>sic</i>) et Hopkins, ex syngrapha;</span>' but the former was still +unpaid in 1660.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_101_101" id="Footnote_101_101"></a><a href="#FNanchor_101_101"><span class="label">[101]</span></a> <i>Reliquiæ Bodl.</i> p. 278.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1641" id="AD_1641"></a>A.D. 1641.</h3> + +<p>The famous 'Guy Fawkes' Lantern,' which is to this day such an +object of interest in the Picture Gallery to most sight-seers, was +presented to the University by Robert Heywood, M.A., Brasenose +College, who had been Proctor in 1639. It came into his possession +from his being the son of a Justice of the Peace who assisted +in searching the cellars of the Parliament House, and arrested +Fawkes with the lantern in his hand. In 1640 this Justice Heywood +was wounded by a Roman Catholic when, while still holding +office as a Justice for Westminster, he was engaged in proposing<!-- Page 68 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> +the oaths to the recusants of that city<a name="FNanchor_102_102" id="FNanchor_102_102"></a><a href="#Footnote_102_102" class="fnanchor">[102]</a>. The following inscription +is attached to it, engraved upon a brass plate: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Lāterna illa +ipsa, qua usus est et cum qua deprehensus Guido Faux in +crypta subterranea, ubi domo Parlamenti difflandæ operam dabat. +Ex dono Rob. Heywood, nuper Academiæ Procuratoris</span>, Apr. 4, +1641.' From being for many years exposed to the handling of +every visitor, it became much broken; but it has now for a long +time been secured from further injury by being enclosed in a +glass case.</p> + +<p>In May an order was made by the Curators that no strangers +should have the use of any MSS. without finding sureties for the +safety of the same, in consequence of a suspicion that whole +pages had been in some cases abstracted. Hereupon a very +earnest, and, in sooth, indignant, remonstrance was presented to +the 'Curatores vigilantissimi' by the strangers then residing in +Oxford 'studiorum causa.' The original document is preserved +in Wood MS. F. 27, and is signed by eleven persons from Prussia +and other parts of Germany, six Danes, and one Englishman +(John Wyberd), a medical student. Some of these visitors are +found, by reference to the Register of Readers, to have been +students for a considerable time; the Baron ab Eulenberg, for +instance, having been admitted on Jan. 18, 1638-9, and one Ven, +a Dane, in 1633. The memorialists say that there is not even +the very slightest ground for attributing such an offence to any +of them, and that the Librarian himself candidly confesses that +it has never been proved to him that strangers have ever done +anything of the kind; they urge the difficulty of their finding +sponsors for their honesty when they themselves are strangers +and foreigners; they appeal to Bodley's own statutes as providing +sufficiently for the contingency by ordering the Librarian +to number the pages of a MS. before giving it out, and to<!-- Page 69 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> +examine it when returned; they fortify their arguments by abundant +references to the civil law; they upbraid those who,—'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">internecino +exterorum atque advenarum odio æstuantes (O celebratam +Britanniæ hospitalitatem!</span>),'—have originated the calumny; +and, finally, warn the Curators against giving occasion for suspicion +to the learned men of the whole world that '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">doctos Angliæ +viros, priscæ hospitalitatis immemores, majori exterorum quam +Athenienses Megarensium odio flagrare</span>.' The memorial is endorsed: +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">De hac re amplius deliberandum censebant Præfecti +ult. Maii</span>, 1641;' and no doubt the obnoxious order was soon +repealed. Half a century later, on Nov. 8, 1693, the order was +in a certain degree renewed: it was then enjoined 'that no one +be permitted to <i>transcribe</i> any manuscript, but such as have a +right to study in the Library.' The revival, however, was not due +to any revived fear of foreigners; the following reason is given +in a letter of information on Library matters from Dr. Hyde to +Hudson, his successor, written on the latter's appointment in +1701:—'Some in the University have been very troublesome in +pressing that their Servitors may transcribe manuscripts for them, +though not sworn to the Library, nor yet capable of being sworn; +wherefore the Curators made an order (as you will find in the +Book of Orders in the Archives) "that none were capable of +transcribing, except those who had the right of studying in the +Library," viz. Batchelors<a name="FNanchor_103_103" id="FNanchor_103_103"></a><a href="#Footnote_103_103" class="fnanchor">[103]</a>.' But no doubt this order also soon +became dormant, even if it were not definitely repealed.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_102_102" id="Footnote_102_102"></a><a href="#FNanchor_102_102"><span class="label">[102]</span></a> Neal's <i>History of the Puritans</i>, i. 688.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_103_103" id="Footnote_103_103"></a><a href="#FNanchor_103_103"><span class="label">[103]</span></a> Walker's <i>Letters of Eminent Men</i>, 1813, vol. i. p. 175.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1642" id="AD_1642"></a>A.D. 1642.</h3> + +<p>'The Kinge, Jul. 11, 1642, had £500 out of Sir Th. Bodlyes +Chest, as appeares by Dr. Chaworthes acquittance in the same +box.' (Barlow's Library Accounts for 1657. <i>MS.</i>) This loan was,<!-- Page 70 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> +of course, never repaid. It is regularly carried on in the Annual +Accounts up to the year 1782.</p> + +<p>Nov. 30. 'At night the Library doore was allmost broken open. +Suspitio de incendio, &c.' (Brian Twyne's <i>Musterings of the Univ.</i>, +in Hearne's <i>Chron. Dunst.</i> p. 757.)</p> + +<p>It must have been about the close of this year or beginning +of the next, while the king was in winter quarters at Oxford, +that the visit was paid to the Library, which is the subject of +the following well-known anecdote. It is here quoted from the +earliest authority in which it is found, viz. Welwood's <i>Memoirs</i>, +Lond. 1700. pp. 105-107:—</p> + +<p>'The King being at Oxford during the Civil Wars, went one +day to see the Publick Library, where he was show'd among other +Books, a Virgil nobly printed and exquisitely bound. The Lord +Falkland, to divert the King, would have his Majesty make a trial +of his fortune by the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Sortes Virgilianæ</i>, which everybody knows +was an usual kind of augury some ages past. Whereupon the +King opening the book, the period which happen'd to come up +was that part of Dido's imprecation against Æneas, which Mr. +Dryden translates thus:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Yet let a race untam'd, and haughty foes,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">His peaceful entrance with dire arts oppose,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">His men discourag'd, and himself expell'd,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Let him for succour sue from place to place,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">First let him see his friends in battel slain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And their untimely fate lament in vain:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And when at length the cruel war shall cease,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On hard conditions may he buy his peace.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nor let him then enjoy supreme command,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But fall untimely by some hostile hand,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And lye unburi'd in the common sand."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in12">(Æneid, iv. 88.)</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>It is said K. Charles seem'd concerned at this accident, and +that the Lord Falkland observing it, would likewise try his own<!-- Page 71 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> +fortune in the same manner; hoping he might fall upon some +passage that could have no relation to his case, and thereby +divert the King's thoughts from any impression the other might +have upon him. But the place that Falkland stumbled upon was +yet more suited to his destiny than the other had been to the +King's, being the following expressions of Evander upon the untimely +death of his son Pallas, as they are translated by the same +hand:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"O Pallas, thou hast fail'd thy plighted word,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To fight with reason, not to tempt the sword.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I warned thee, but in vain, for well I knew<br /></span> +<span class="i0">What perils youthful ardor would pursue;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That boiling blood would carry thee too far,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh! curst essay of arms, disastrous doom,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in12">(Æneid, xi. 220.)'</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>There is no copy of Virgil now in the Library amongst those +which it possessed previously to 1642, which is 'exquisitely +bound' as well as 'nobly printed;' it is not therefore possible +to fix on the particular volume which the King consulted.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1645" id="AD_1645"></a>A.D. 1645.</h3> + +<p>A small slip of paper, carefully preserved, is the memorial of an +interesting incident connected with the last days in Oxford of the +Martyr-King whose history is so indissolubly united with that of +the place. Amidst all the darkening anxieties which filled the +three or four months preceding the surrender of himself to the +Scots, King Charles appears to have snatched some leisure moments +for refreshment in quiet reading. His own library was no +longer his; but there was one close at hand which could more +than supply it. So, to the Librarian Rous, (the friend of Milton, +but whose anti-monarchical tendencies, we may be sure, had<!-- Page 72 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> +always hitherto been carefully concealed) there came, on Dec. 30, +an order, 'To the Keeper of the University Library, or to his +deputy,' couched in the following terms: 'Deliver unto the bearer +hereof, for the present use of his Majesty, a book intituled, <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Histoire +universelle du Sieur D'Aubigné</i>, and this shall be your warrant;' and +the order was one which the Vice-Chancellor had subscribed with +his special authorization, 'His Majestyes use is in commaund to +us. S. Fell, Vice Can.' But the Librarian had sworn to observe +the Statutes which, with no respect of persons, forbad such a removal +of a book; and so, on the reception of Fell's order, Rous +'goes to the King; and shews him the Statutes, which being read, +the King would not have the booke, nor permit it to be taken out +of the Library, saying it was fit that the will and statutes of the +pious founder should be religiously observed<a name="FNanchor_104_104" id="FNanchor_104_104"></a><a href="#Footnote_104_104" class="fnanchor">[104]</a>.'</p> + +<p>Perhaps a little of the hitherto undeveloped Puritan spirit may +have helped to enliven the conscience of the Librarian, who, had +he been a Cavalier, might have possibly found something in the +exceptional circumstances of the case, to excuse a violation of the +rule; but, as the matter stood, it reflects, on the one hand, the +highest credit both on Rous's honesty and courage, and shows +him to have been fit for the place he held, while, on the other +hand, the King's acquiescence in the refusal does equal credit to +his good-sense and good-temper. We shall see that this occurrence +formed a precedent for a like refusal to the Protector in +1654 by Rous's successor, when Cromwell showed equal good +feeling and equal respect for law.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_104_104" id="Footnote_104_104"></a><a href="#FNanchor_104_104"><span class="label">[104]</span></a> Bp. Barlow's Argument against Lending Books. <i>MS.</i></p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1646" id="AD_1646"></a>A.D. 1646.</h3> + +<p>'When Oxford was surrendered (24<sup>o</sup> Junii, 1646) the first thing +Generall Fairfax did was to set a good guard of soldiers to pre<!-- Page 73 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span>serve +the Bodleian Library. 'Tis said there was more hurt donne +by the Cavaliers (during their garrison) by way of embezzilling and +cutting off chaines of bookes then there was since. He was a +lover of learning, and had he not taken this special care, that noble +library had been utterly destroyed, for there were ignorant senators +enough who would have been contented to have had it so. This +I doe assure you from an ocular witnesse, E. W. esq<a name="FNanchor_105_105" id="FNanchor_105_105"></a><a href="#Footnote_105_105" class="fnanchor">[105]</a>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_105_105" id="Footnote_105_105"></a><a href="#FNanchor_105_105"><span class="label">[105]</span></a> Aubrey's <i>Lives</i>; in <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, ii. 346.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1647" id="AD_1647"></a>A.D. 1647.</h3> + +<p>John Verneuil, M.A., Sub-librarian, died about the end of September. +He was a native of Bordeaux, and came into England as +a Protestant refugee shortly before 1608. In that year he entered +at Magdalene College, and was incorporated M.A. from his own +University of Montauban in 1625. Besides his share in the Appendix +to the Catalogue noticed under the year <a href="#AD_1635">1635</a>, the following +small book of a similar kind in English was issued by him: +<i>A Nomenclator of such Tracts and Sermons as have beene printed, or +translated into English upon any place or booke of Holy Scripture; +now to be had in the most famous and publique Library of Sir Thomas +Bodley in Oxford</i>. This is the title of the second and enlarged +edition, which appeared in 1642 in a small duodecimo volume, +printed at Oxford, by Henry Hall. The first edition (which was +not entirely confined to books in the Library) was printed under +the author's initials by William Turner in 1637. Some books +communicated by friends are here cited, which would, says Verneuil, +have been accessible in the Bodleian, 'had the Company of +Stationers beene as mindfull of their covenant as my selfe have +beene zealous for the good of this our Library.' In an interesting +undated letter from Sir Richard Napier, Knt. (while apparently an +undergraduate of Wadham College, before 1630) to his uncle the<!-- Page 74 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> +Rev. Richard Napier, which is preserved in Ashmole MS. 1730, +fol. 168, is the following curious passage relating to the facilities for +studying in the Library, which were afforded to him by Verneuil:—</p> + +<p>'I have made a faire way to goe into the Library privately when +I please, and there to sitt from 6 of the clocke in the morneing to +5 at night. I have a private place in the Library to lay those +bookes and to write out what I list, without being seene by any, +or any comeing to me. I have made the second Keeper of the +Library [<i>i.e.</i> Verneuil] my friend and servant, who promised me +his key at all tymes to goe in privately, when as otherwise it is not +opened above 4 houres a day, and some days not att all, as on +Hollidays, and their eves in the afternoone, yett then by his +meanes I shall [have] free accesse and recesse at all tymes. He +hath pleasured me so farr as to lett me write in his counting house, +or his little private study in the great publick library, where I may +very privately write, and locke up all safely when I depart thence; +he will write for me when I have not the leisure, or will transcribe +any thinge I shall desire him, and if it be French translate it, for +that is his mother tonge.'</p> + +<p>Probably the practice here mentioned of admitting readers by +favour into the Library at unstatutable times grew in the course of +years to a considerable height, or was found (as might naturally +be expected) productive of mischievous consequences, for on +Nov. 8, 1722, it was 'ordered by the Curators that no person +under any pretence whatsoever be permitted to study in the said +Library at any other time than what is prescribed and limited by +the Bodleian Statutes.'</p> + +<p>Verneuil was succeeded in his office in the Library by Francis +Yonge, M.A., of Oriel College.</p> + +<p>Milton's gift of his <i>Poems</i>. See under <a href="#AD_1620">1620</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1648" id="AD_1648"></a>A.D. 1648.</h3> + +<p>At the end of the Readers' Register for 1647-8, 1648-9, is a list +of nine volumes 'olim surrepti,' of which five had been replaced by<!-- Page 75 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> +other copies. Entries are made in the same place of some coins +which were given in 1648-50. At this period the Library appears +to have been well attended by readers; about twelve or fifteen +quarto and octavo volumes being daily entered, those of folio size +being accessible (as, in regard to a portion of the Library, is still +the case) by the readers themselves, and not registered because at +that time chained to their shelves. The register for the next years +(as well as those which followed, up to the year 1708) appears to +be lost, so that it cannot be ascertained whether this daily average +continued during the Usurpation; but thus far it seems that Dr. John +Allibond's description of the state of the Library as consequent on +the Puritan visitation of the University in 1648, is not borne out by +facts. For that loyal humourist, in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Rustica Academiæ Oxoniensis +nuper reformatæ Descriptio</i>, which is supposed to commemorate the +condition of Oxford in Oct. 1648, writes thus of our Library:—</p> + +<div class="poem" xml:lang="la" lang="la"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">'Conscendo orbis illud decus<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Bodleio fundatore:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sed intus erat nullum pecus,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Excepto janitore.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Neglectos vidi libros multos,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Quod mimime mirandum:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nam inter bardos tot et stultos<br /></span> +<span class="i0">There's few could understand 'em.'<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1649" id="AD_1649"></a>A.D. 1649.</h3> + +<p>'The Jews proffer £600,000 for Paul's, and Oxford Library, +and may have them for £200,000 more<a name="FNanchor_106_106" id="FNanchor_106_106"></a><a href="#Footnote_106_106" class="fnanchor">[106]</a>.' They wished to obtain +the first for a synagogue, and to do a little commercial business +with the second. It is said in Monteith's <i>History of the Troubles</i> +(translated by Ogilvie, 1735, p. 473) that the sum they offered was<!-- Page 76 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> +£500,000, but that the Council of War refused to take less than +£800,000: probably they afterwards increased this their original +bid to £600,000.</p> + +<p>Philip, Earl of Pembroke, the Puritan Chancellor of the University, +gave a splendidly bound copy of the Paris Polyglott, +printed in 1645 in 10 vols.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_106_106" id="Footnote_106_106"></a><a href="#FNanchor_106_106"><span class="label">[106]</span></a> London News-letter of April 2; printed in Carte's <i>Collection of Letters</i>, vol. i. +p. 275.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1652" id="AD_1652"></a>A.D. 1652.</h3> + +<p>John Rous, the Librarian, died in the beginning of April, +probably on April 3, as, the Statutes requiring the election of +Librarian to take place within three days of a vacancy, it +was on the 6th of that month that Thomas Barlow, M.A., +Fellow of Queen's College, was unanimously elected to be Rous's +successor. At the same time certain orders were read in Convocation +which the Curators had made, for the formation by the +Librarian of a Catalogue of the coins and other rarities, providing +also that they should be regularly visited and verified by the +Curators every November<a name="FNanchor_107_107" id="FNanchor_107_107"></a><a href="#Footnote_107_107" class="fnanchor">[107]</a>.</p> + +<p>A legacy of £20 from Rous to the Library is entered in the +Benefaction Register, under the year 1661, probably because it may +not have been actually received until that year.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_107_107" id="Footnote_107_107"></a><a href="#FNanchor_107_107"><span class="label">[107]</span></a> Reg. 'T. 158-9.' MS. Note by Dr. P. Bliss.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1653" id="AD_1653"></a>A.D. 1653.</h3> + +<p>Fifteen MSS., by Spanish authors, were given by Peter Pett, +LL.B., Fellow of All Souls' College; and a sacred Turkish vestment +of linen (e Mus. 45) on which the whole of the Koran is +written in Arabic, by Richard Davydge, an East Indian merchant.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1654" id="AD_1654"></a>A.D. 1654.</h3> + +<p>'April last, 1654, my Lord Protector sent his letter to Mr. Vice-Chancellor +to borrow a MS. (Joh. de Muris) for the Portugal<!-- Page 77 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> +Ambassador. A copy of the Statute was sent (but not the book), +which when his Highness had read, he was satisfy'd, and commended +the prudence of the Founder, who had made the place +so sacred<a name="FNanchor_108_108" id="FNanchor_108_108"></a><a href="#Footnote_108_108" class="fnanchor">[108]</a>.'</p> + +<p>Cromwell's gift of MSS. See under <a href="#AD_1629">1629</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_108_108" id="Footnote_108_108"></a><a href="#FNanchor_108_108"><span class="label">[108]</span></a> Barlow's Argument against Lending Books out.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1654-1659" id="AD_1654-1659"></a>A.D. 1654-1659.</h3> + +<p>The death of John Selden occurred on Nov. 30<a name="FNanchor_109_109" id="FNanchor_109_109"></a><a href="#Footnote_109_109" class="fnanchor">[109]</a>. By his will +the Library became possessed at once of his collection of Oriental +and Greek MSS., together with a few Latin MSS. specially designated, +as well as of such of his Talmudical and Rabbinical books +as were not already to be found there. It has generally been +supposed that no part of his library was received before the year +1659, and that none at all was actually bequeathed by Selden. +The account usually given (taken from Burnet's Life of Sir M. +Hales, p. 156<a name="FNanchor_110_110" id="FNanchor_110_110"></a><a href="#Footnote_110_110" class="fnanchor">[110]</a>) is that Selden was so offended with the University +for refusing the loan of a MS., except upon a bond for £1000, +that he revoked that part of his will which left his library to the +Bodleian, and put it entirely at the free disposal of his executors, +and that they, when five years had passed, during which the +Society of the Inner Temple (to whom it was first offered) had<!-- Page 78 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> +taken no steps to provide a building for its reception, conceiving +themselves to be executors not of Selden's passion but of his +will, sent it in 1659 to its original destination<a name="FNanchor_111_111" id="FNanchor_111_111"></a><a href="#Footnote_111_111" class="fnanchor">[111]</a>. But it is clear +from Selden's will (as printed by Wilkins in his <i>Works</i>, vol. i. +p. lv.) that the books mentioned above were really bequeathed by +him to Oxford; a line or two appears to be somehow omitted, +by which the sense of the passage is lost, and in consequence of +which the name of the Library does not appear, but there is a +general reference to it both in the specification of such Hebrew +books as are 'not already in the Library,' and in the mention +of the '<i>said</i> Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars' of the University +(although no previous mention of them occurs); while all other +books not thus conveyed are left to the disposal of his executors. +But a letter from Langbaine to Pococke, written from London +only three days after Selden's death, furnishes proof positive; for +there the former writes, as executor, that all the Oriental MSS., +with such Rabbinical and Talmudical printed books as were not +already in the Library, and the Greek MSS. not otherwise disposed +of, are left to Oxford<a name="FNanchor_112_112" id="FNanchor_112_112"></a><a href="#Footnote_112_112" class="fnanchor">[112]</a>. And in the Annual Accounts, under the +year 1655, we find the following entries:—</p> + +<table summary="An extract from Annual Accounts for 1655."> +<tr><td align="left"><span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Pro vectura codicum MSS. a Londino Oxoniam</span></td> <td align="right">£0</td> <td align="left">9<i>s.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span xml:lang="la" lang="la">D. Langbaine pro expensis cum Londinum petiit, libros a Seldeno legatos repetiturus</span></td> <td align="right">5</td> <td align="left">0</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><span xml:lang="la" lang="la">D. Ed. Pococke eodem tempore in rem eandem Londinum misso.</span></td> <td align="right">7</td> <td align="left">0</td></tr> +</table> + +<p>It is clear, therefore, that a portion of Selden's collection +came to the Library by his bequest immediately after his +death. And the reason why the whole was not bequeathed is<!-- Page 79 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span> +certainly not correctly stated by Burnet, nor even by Wood, +who says that he had been informed that it was because the +borrowing of certain MSS. had been refused. For the Convocation +Register shows that a grace was <i>passed</i> in Convocation, +on Aug. 29, 1654, which sanctioned the giving leave to Selden +to have MSS. from the collections of Barocci, Roe, and Digby +(these donors having either expressed an opinion, or distinctly +stipulated, that the rigour of the Library Statutes should sometimes +be relaxed), provided he did not have more than three at +a time, and that he gave bond in £100 (not £1000) for the +return of each of them within a year<a name="FNanchor_113_113" id="FNanchor_113_113"></a><a href="#Footnote_113_113" class="fnanchor">[113]</a>. Had these conditions +been really the cause of Selden's taking offence, his executors +would hardly have stipulated, as they actually did, in their +own conditions of gift, that no book from his collection should +hereafter be lent to any person upon any condition whatsoever. +But there is certainly some obscurity hanging over +the matter, which probably may be dispersed by further investigation. +The writer of the sketch of the history of the Bodleian +prefixed to Bernard's <i>Cat. MSS.</i>, after quoting Wood's +account, only says, when barely more than forty years had +elapsed, that he will not venture to speak rashly about the case +of the lending of books; as if it were already forgotten how the +facts stood. On the proposal to lend being first mooted, Barlow, +the Librarian, drew up a paper on the general question, in which +he opposed it both on the grounds of Statute and expediency; +the original MS. of which still exists in the Library. Selden was +at first mentioned in this paper by name, with distinct reference +to his application; but the name was subsequently crossed out +wherever it thus occurred, and the subject treated without any<!-- Page 80 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span> +personal reference<a name="FNanchor_114_114" id="FNanchor_114_114"></a><a href="#Footnote_114_114" class="fnanchor">[114]</a>. In this paper the Librarian objects to the +proposal, firstly, on the ground of precedent, since, though the +University had power, with the joint consent of the Chancellor, +Heads of Houses, and Convocation, to lend books, yet it had<!-- Page 81 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span> +never thought fit to do so, except with regard to Lord Pembroke's +MSS.; secondly, on the ground that if the rule were once +broken, it would be impossible to refuse any person, without +incurring great odium, while the gratifying all applicants would<!-- Page 82 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span> +disperse into private hands the books intended for the public. He +then proceeds as follows:—</p> +<p><!-- Page 83 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> +<p>'3. Suppose 3 bookes at a time be sent to any private man, 'tis +true he is furnish'd, but 'tis manifestly to the prejudice of the +Publick, the University wanting those books while he has them; +so that if any forreigner coming hither from abroad desire to see +them, or any at home desire to use them, both are disappointed, +to the diminution of the honour of the University, in the one, +and the benefit it might have by those books, in the other. And +therefore it seems more agreeable to reason and the public good +(and the declared will and precept of our prudent and pious +Founder<a name="FNanchor_115_115" id="FNanchor_115_115"></a><a href="#Footnote_115_115" class="fnanchor">[115]</a>) not to lend any books out of the Library; for by not +lending, private persons only want the use of those books which +are another's, whereas by lending, the University wants the use +of those books which are her own. Sure no prudent man can +think it fit to gratify particular persons with the publick detriment.</p> + +<p>'4. The Library is a magazine which the pious Founder hath +fix'd in a publick place for a publick use; and though his charity +to private persons is such that he will hinder none (who is justly +qualify'd and worthy) to come to it, yet his charity to the publick +is such that he would not have it ambulatory, to goe to any private +person. And sure 'tis more rational that Mahomet should go to +the mountaine, than that the mountaine should come to Mahomet.</p> + +<p>'5. Lending of books makes them lyable to many casualties, +as, I. absolute losse, either 1. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">in via</i>, by the carrier's negligence, +or violence offer'd him, or, 2. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">in termino</i>, they may be lost by the +person that borrows them; for (presuming the person noble, and +carefull for their preservation, yet) his house may be burn'd, or +(by robbers) broken open (as Mr. Selden's unhappily was not long +since): or, (in case they scape these casualties) they may be +spoyl'd in the carriage, as by sad experience we find, for above +60 or 100 leaves of a Greek MS.<a name="FNanchor_116_116" id="FNanchor_116_116"></a><a href="#Footnote_116_116" class="fnanchor">[116]</a> lent out of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Archiva Pembrochiana</i> +to Mr. Pat. Younge were irrecoverably defaced. Now +what has happen'd heretofore may happen hereafter; and therefore +to keep them sacredly (and without any lending) in the +Library (according to our good Founder's will and statute) will +be the best way for their preservation.'</p> + +<p>Barlow adds finally, in the sixth and seventh places, that if all +lending were declared unlawful, it would greatly encourage others +to give more to the Library when they saw how religiously their +gifts would be preserved, and that if no exceptions were made<!-- Page 84 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> +(except, as allowed by Archbp. Laud, for the purpose of printing), +no applications would be made, and no one would take it ill if he +were denied.</p> + +<p>Another reason for Selden's withholding his library in its entirety +has, however, been assigned, besides those mentioned above, and +this, too, by closely contemporary writers. In July, 1649, the new +intruded officers and fellows of Magdalene College found in the +Muniment-room in the cloister-tower of the College, a large sum of +money in the old coinage called <i>Spur-royals</i><a name="FNanchor_117_117" id="FNanchor_117_117"></a><a href="#Footnote_117_117" class="fnanchor">[117]</a>, or <i>Ryals</i>, amounting +to £1400, the equivalent of which had been left by the Founder as +a reserve fund for law expenses, for re-erecting or repairing buildings +destroyed by fire, &c., or for other extraordinary charges. +This gold had been laid up and counted in Q. Elizabeth's time +and had remained untouched since then; consequently, although +some of the old members of the College were aware of its existence, +to the new-comers it seemed a welcome and unexpected +discovery, especially as the College was at the time heavily in debt. +They immediately proceeded to divide it among all the members +on the Foundation proportionately, not excluding the choristers, +(who were at that time undergraduates), the Puritan President, +Wilkinson, being alone opposed to such an illegal proceeding, and +being with difficulty prevailed upon to accept £100 as his share, +which, however, upon his death-bed he charged his executors to +repay. The spur-royals were exchanged at the rate of 18<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> to +20<i>s.</i> each, and each fellow had 33 of them. But when the fact of +this embezzlement of corporate funds became known, the College +was called to account by Parliament, and, although they attempted +to defend themselves, they individually deemed it wise to refund +the greater, or a considerable, part of what had been abstracted.<!-- Page 85 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span><a name="FNanchor_118_118" id="FNanchor_118_118"></a><a href="#Footnote_118_118" class="fnanchor">[118]</a> +Fuller, whose <i>Church History</i> was published in the year following +Selden's death, after telling this scandalous story, proceeds thus +(book ix. p. 234):—'Sure I am, a great antiquarie lately deceased +(rich as well in his state as learning) at the hearing hereof +quitted all his intention of benefaction to Oxford or any place else, +on suspition it would be diverted to other uses, on the same token +that he merrily said, I think the best way for a man to perpetuate +his memory is to procure the Pope to canonize him for a saint, +for then he shall be sure to be remembred in their Calender; +whereas otherwise I see all Protestant charity subject to the +covetousness of posterity to devour it, and bury the donor thereof +in oblivion.' And the name of this 'great antiquarie' was supplied +in 1659 by the Puritan writer Henry Hickman, who, as a Demy +of Magdalene College, had shared in the spoils. He, in the +Appendix to his <i>Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen</i>, gives +(in answer to a passage in Heylin's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Examen Historicum</i>) a full +account of the dividing of the gold, adding, 'which, as is said, did +hinder Mr. John Selden from bestowing his library on the University.' +And Wood (<i>Hist. and Antiq.</i> by Gutch, ii. 942) says that +he had been told that this misappropriation was one reason +of Selden's distaste at Oxford. From all this it is clear that +Burnet's narrative gives a very inaccurate account of the +matter.</p> + +<p>It was in the year 1659 that the great mass of Selden's collection +was forwarded by his executors. In the accounts for 1660 +appear payments to Barlow of £20 'for his paines in procuring +Mr. Selden's books,' and of £51 for his expenses thereon. The<!-- Page 86 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> +bringing the books from London cost about £34, and the providing +chains for them £25 10<i>s.</i><a name="FNanchor_119_119" id="FNanchor_119_119"></a><a href="#Footnote_119_119" class="fnanchor">[119]</a> Unfortunately, during the +interval, many books had been lost which had been borrowed in +London, and were never returned. (Life, in <i>Works</i>, I. lii.) And +a part, which somehow was not sent to Oxford, afterwards altogether +perished, 'for the fire of the Temple destroyed in one of +their chambers eight chests full of the registers of abbeys, and +other manuscripts relating to the history of England; tho' most +of his law-books are still safe in Lincoln's Inn<a name="FNanchor_120_120" id="FNanchor_120_120"></a><a href="#Footnote_120_120" class="fnanchor">[120]</a>.' Some medical +books were bequeathed to the College of Physicians. Some of +the original deeds relating to the gift were bought for the Library +in 1837 for £1 1<i>s.</i></p> + +<p>About 8000 volumes were, in all, added to the Library by +this gift, most of which bear Selden's well-known motto: '<a title="peri pantos tên eleutherian">περι παντος την ελευθεριαν</a>.' Amongst them are some which belonged +to Ben Jonson, Dr. Donne, and Sir Robert Cotton. The number +of miscellaneous foreign works, in several European languages, +is noticeable, many of which had been published but a short time +before Selden's death. In curious contrast to the character of +the greater part of his collection (rich in classics and science, +theology and history, law and Hebrew literature) there occurs one<!-- Page 87 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> +volume (marked 4<sup>o</sup> C. 32. Art. Seld.) which is priceless in the eyes +of the lovers of old English black-letter tracts. It contains twenty-six +tracts (most bearing the name of a previous possessor, one +Thomas Newton) which are among the rarest of early popular +tales and romances. As mere specimens of the collection may +be mentioned, <i>Richard Cuer de Lyon</i>, <i>Syr Bevis of Hampton</i> +(unique edit.?), <i>Syr Degore</i>, <i>Syr Tryamoure</i> (only two copies +known), <i>Syr Eglamoure</i> (unique?), <i>Dan Hew of Leicestre</i> (unique?), +<i>Battayle of Egyngecourt</i> (unique?), <i>Mylner of Abyngton</i> (unique?), +<i>Wyl Bucke</i>, <i>&c.</i> Among the MSS. is one of Harding's <i>Chronicle</i> +(Arch. Seld. B. 10) which appears to have belonged to Henry +Percy, Earl of Northumberland, from his arms being painted at +the end, and which some have supposed was also a presentation +copy to Edward IV. A curious map accompanies the description +of Scotland (here given in prose, not, as in the printed editions, +in verse), in which, next to Sutherland and Caithness, the author, +who would have won Dr. Johnson's respect as being 'a good +hater,' places 'Styx, the infernal flode,' and 'The palais of Pluto, +King of hel, <i>neighbore to Scottz</i>.' This map was engraved for +the first time in Gough's <i>British Topography</i>, vol. ii. pl. viii.; the +description of it occupies pp. 579-583 in that volume. Another +interesting volume is a copy of the Latin <i>Articles</i> of 1562, printed +by Reginald Wolfe in 1563, with the autograph signatures of +the members of the Lower House of Convocation (Arch. Seld. +A. 76). Fifty-four Greek MSS. are described in Mr. Coxe's Catalogue, +vol. i. cols. 583-648.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_109_109" id="Footnote_109_109"></a><a href="#FNanchor_109_109"><span class="label">[109]</span></a> As Aubrey (<i>Lives</i>, with <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, ii. 532) has preserved a story +that Selden on his death-bed refused, through Hobbes' persuasion, to see a clergyman +(Mr Johnson) who was coming 'to assoile him,' it is worth while to print the +following notice of his death from Rawlinson MS. B. clviii. fol. 75, a volume +containing a collection of biographical anecdotes, &c., written in a rather clumsy +copyist's hand, about the beginning of the last century: 'Mr. Selden upon his death-bed +disclaimed all Hobbisme and the like wicked and Atheisticall opinions, commanded +that neither Mr. Hobbs nor Capt. Rossingham should be admitted to him, +confessed his sins, and desired absolution, which was given him by Archbp. Usher; +but amongst other things he much deplored the loss of his time in studying of things +more curious than usefull, and wished that he [had] rather executed the office of +a justice of peace than spent his time in that which the world calls learning.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_110_110" id="Footnote_110_110"></a><a href="#FNanchor_110_110"><span class="label">[110]</span></a> See also Aubrey's <i>Lives</i>, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">ut supra</i>, ii. 536.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_111_111" id="Footnote_111_111"></a><a href="#FNanchor_111_111"><span class="label">[111]</span></a> Nichols (<i>Lit. Anecd.</i> i. 333) gives another and very different story, for which he +produces no authority. He says that Selden had actually sent his library to Oxford +during his lifetime, but hearing that they had lent out a book <i>without sufficient +caution</i>, he sent for it back again.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_112_112" id="Footnote_112_112"></a><a href="#FNanchor_112_112"><span class="label">[112]</span></a> Twells' Life of Pococke, in Pococke's <i>Theol. Works</i>, 1740, vol. i. p. 43.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_113_113" id="Footnote_113_113"></a><a href="#FNanchor_113_113"><span class="label">[113]</span></a> Reg. Conv. T. p. 251. It is added, as an additional reason for the concession, +'porro spes sit virum in rem nostram academicam optime affectum, hanc ei extra +ordinem gratiam factam abunde olim compensaturum.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_114_114" id="Footnote_114_114"></a><a href="#FNanchor_114_114"><span class="label">[114]</span></a> A copy also exists of this paper made by Hearne with a view to publication, +and, as appears from a short preface by him, from a double motive; firstly, to prevent +persons taking offence in his own day at refusals; secondly, to afford warning to +persons with 'fanatical consciences,' who seem to have thought there was no harm +done in carrying books away secretly, provided they returned them again. Unfortunately +'consciences' such as these still exist, and there is reason for quoting, with +a present application, the words with which the warm-hearted Hearne concludes: +'Let these men consider seriously how they will answer this before God, and withall +assure themselves that if they be found out, they will, besides the punishment like to +come upon them hereafter (without an earnest, hearty repentance) be expos'd to all +that infamy and disgrace which the Statute enjoyns to be inflicted upon such +notorious offenders.' (Misc. MSS. papers relating to the Library.) +</p><p> +The first actual theft of a book occurred in 1624. At the Visitation on Nov. 9, +the Curators drew up a formal document, publishing and denouncing the deed, and +exhorting the unknown doer to a timely repentance. A copy of it is preserved +in volume 23 of Bryan Twyne's Collections, in the University Archives (p. 683), +and runs as follows:— +</p><p xml:lang="la" lang="la"> +'Cum in hac visitatione nostra anniversaria Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, post diligentem +et religiosam status ejus pro officii nostri ratione examinationem factam, compertum +sit volumen unum (Jod. Nahumus. Conc. in Evangelia Dominicalia. Han. 1604. +N. 1. 3<a name="FNanchor_121_121" id="FNanchor_121_121"></a><a href="#Footnote_121_121" class="fnanchor">[121]</a>) in classe Theologica, catenâ abscissum et sacrilegâ nebulonis alicujus manu +surreptum esse; Cumque ex fideli Bibliothecarii relatione (pensatis loci atque temporis +circumstantis) constet, non nisi a jurato aliquo facinus hoc detestabile perpetratum +esse;— +</p><p xml:lang="la" lang="la"> +'Nos Curatores, quorum fidei et inspectioni Bibliothecæ cura speciali nomine a +Nobilissimo Fundatore concredita est, insolentis facti indignitate moti et perculsi, +quamvis liber parabilis, exigui et pretii et usus sit, ne tamen lenti plus quam par est, +et frigidi in causa tanti momenti videamur, post maturam deliberationem, programmate +affixo, facinus publicandum duximus;— +</p><p xml:lang="la" lang="la"> +'Impense rogantes omnes et singulos cujuscunque ordinis et loci genuinos +Academia alumnos, ut sicubi librum offendant, sive in privatis musæis, sive in bibliopolarum +officinis, restituendum curent, unaque operam nobiscum conferant, ut, si fieri +possit, hoc propudium hominis, Bibliothecarum pestis et tenebrio sacrilegus, e latibulis +suis in lucem extrahatur; denique, odium et indignationem suam contribuant, saltem +ut publicæ infamiæ tuba miser experrectus, misericordiam divinam tempestive imploret, +conspecta vel Bibliothecæ porta posthæc attonitus resiliat, nec tanti putet libri +contemptibilis acquisitionem ut animam pro qua mortuus est Christus ineptissime +periclitari sinat. +</p> +<ul> +<li>JO. PRIDEAUX, Vice-Canc. et S. Theol. Professor Regius.</li> +<li>THO. CLAYTON, Medic. Professor Regius.</li> +<li>DANIEL EASTCOT, Procurator Sen.</li> +<li>RICARDUS HILL, Procurator Jun.</li> +<li>EDOARDUS MEETKERKIUS, Ling. Hebr. Professor Regius.</li> +<li>JOHANNES SOUTH, Græcæ Linguæ Prælector Regius.'</li> +</ul> +<p> +More serious abstractions, however, than such as these, have lately (<i>i.e.</i> +within the last twenty or thirty years) been practised. It has recently been discovered +that two extremely rare tracts by Thomas Churchyard, his <i>Epitaph of Sir +P. Sidney</i>, and <i>Feast full of sad Cheere</i>, have been cut out of the volume of +tracts in which they were bound up. May it be hoped that Book-lovers, as well as +lovers of honesty, will remember this, should unknown copies suddenly come to light? +Another book, mentioned by <span class="note" title="changed from Wharton to Warton - see Addenda et Corrigenda">Warton</span> as being in Tanner's collection, <i>The Children +of the Chapel Stript and Whipt</i>, is also not forthcoming; but no trace of its actual +existence at any time within the walls of the Library has, as yet, been found. As +in the course of making a new General Catalogue of the whole library, every separate +volume and tract is now conspicuously stamped with the name of its <i>locale</i>, it is hoped +that depredations of this character will be entirely checked. +</p><p> +Two instances, however, in which 'consciences' have been sufficiently awakened +to make restitution of stolen goods, have occurred within the last twenty years. +In 185- (exact year forgotten), on a day on which a Convocation had been held on +some exciting subject, which had consequently brought up country voters from all +parts, the present writer happened to notice that a small book had been laid in a shelf +of folios near the Library door. Taking it up, he found it to be a rare volume of tracts +by J. Preston and T. Goodwin, printed at Amsterdam, and bearing a Library reference. +On proceeding to restore it to its place, that place was found to be occupied by +another book; this, of course, led to further examination, and it was then discovered +that the former volume had been missing for so many years, that at last, all hope of +its recovery being abandoned, its place had been filled up. The old register-books of +readers were then ransacked, and at length an entry was found of the delivery of this +book to a reader, who was still living at the time of this Convocation, on Feb. 14, +1807. A quarto volume was also found about the same time thrust in amongst other +quartos in a shelf near the door, but the particulars of this case have been forgotten. +</p><p> +A third case of recovery, but of a different kind, occurred in 1851. In the year +1789 the Library was visited by Hen. E. G. Paulus, of Jena, afterwards the too-well-known +author of the <i>Leben Jesu</i>, who copied from Pococke MS. 32 (a small octavo +volume) an Arabic translation of Isaiah made, in Hebrew characters, by R. Saadiah, +which he published in the following year, transposed into Arabic characters. Thenceforward +the MS. was lost from the Library, although no direct evidence of the +manner of its disappearance appears to have been obtained. But after the death of +Paulus in the year 1850, a bookseller at Breslau, to whom the volume had in some +way been offered, entered into communication with the Librarian, Dr. Bandinel, and +the result was that the missing MS. was at length restored, <i>clothed in an entirely +different German binding</i>, and with all trace of its original ownership removed, to its +right place. The abstraction of this MS. 'by an Oriental professor,' and its recovery, +are mentioned, without further particulars, by Dr. Pusey, in his Evidence printed in +the <i>University Report upon the Recommendations of the University Commissioners</i>, +1853. p. 171.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_115_115" id="Footnote_115_115"></a><a href="#FNanchor_115_115"><span class="label">[115]</span></a> Bodley frequently in his letters expresses his positive determination not to allow +books to be removed from the Library by any means. He mentions the having +connived at first at Sir H. Savile's having a book for a very short space of time, because +he was like to become a very great benefactor; but declares that after the +making the Statutes neither he nor any one else shall be allowed the same liberty +upon any occasion whatsoever. (<i>Reliquiæ Bodl.</i> pp. 176, 264.) And in another +letter he says, in reference to a particular application, 'The sending of any book out +of the Library may be assented to by no means, neither is it a matter that the University +or Vice-Chancellor are to deal in. It cannot stand with my publick resolution +with the University, and my denial made to the Bishop of Glocester and the rest of +the Interpreters [<i>i.e.</i> the Translators of the Authorized Version of the Bible] in their +assembly in Christ Church, who requested the like at my hands for one or two books.' +(<i>Ibid.</i> p. 207.) In 1636 the University refused leave to Archbishop Laud to borrow +Rob. Hare's MS. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Liber Privilegiorum Universitatis</i> (compiled in 1592), when the +Archbishop was prosecuting his claim to visit the two Universities as Metropolitan. +But the refusal was doubtless rather from jealousy respecting their immunities (as +Wood says) than from regard to the rules of the Library (Huber's <i>English Universities</i>, +by F. Newman, vol. ii. p. 45.) However, the book was at last produced +before the Council. (Wood's <i>Hist. and Antiq.</i>, by Gutch, vol. ii. p. 403.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_116_116" id="Footnote_116_116"></a><a href="#FNanchor_116_116"><span class="label">[116]</span></a> '<span title="Grk: Myriobiblos"><span xml:lang="grc" lang="grc" class="note">Μυριοβιβλος</span></span>, num. 131' [Barocci].</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_117_117" id="Footnote_117_117"></a><a href="#FNanchor_117_117"><span class="label">[117]</span></a> These were gold coins, of the value of fifteen shillings, which derived their name +from bearing a star on the reverse which resembled the rowel of a spur.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_118_118" id="Footnote_118_118"></a><a href="#FNanchor_118_118"><span class="label">[118]</span></a> A few of these coins are still preserved in an ancient chest in the same room +where they were of old deposited. Here is also carefully preserved a very large and +valuable collection of early charters, including all which belonged to the Hospital of +St. John Bapt. upon the site of which the College was built, and to several suppressed +priories which were annexed to the College, reaching back to the twelfth century. +Of these the author of this volume is engaged in preparing a MS. catalogue, for the +use of the College.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_119_119" id="Footnote_119_119"></a><a href="#FNanchor_119_119"><span class="label">[119]</span></a> The conditions imposed by the executors (which are printed in Gutch's +<i>Wood</i>, ii. 943, and elsewhere) expressly stipulated that the books should be chained. +As late as the year 1751 notices occur in the Librarian's account-books of the procuring +additional chains for the Library. But the removal of them appears to have +commenced as shortly afterwards as 1757, and in 1761 there was a payment for +unchaining 1448 books at one halfpenny each. Several of the chains are still +preserved loose, as relics.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_120_120" id="Footnote_120_120"></a><a href="#FNanchor_120_120"><span class="label">[120]</span></a> Ayliffe's <i>Ancient and Present State of the Univ. of Oxford</i>, 1714, vol. i. p. 462. +Pointer, in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Oxoniensis Academia</i>, 1749, p. 136, quotes the account of the Bodleian +given by Ayliffe as having been written by Dr. Hudson, under whose name it is +also found in Macky's <i>Journey through England</i> vol. ii. The fire here mentioned +was probably that which occurred about 1679 or 1680, in which the chambers called +the Paper-Buildings were destroyed, where Selden's rooms were situated. At Lincoln's +Inn some MSS. are now amongst Sir M. Hale's.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_121_121" id="Footnote_121_121"></a><a href="#FNanchor_121_121"><span class="label">[121]</span></a> This was never recovered, but a later edition, in 1609, was procured instead.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1655" id="AD_1655"></a>A.D. 1655.</h3> + +<p>The stipends of the Librarian and Assistants at this time +amounted jointly to £51 6<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i> Of this it appears from the +account for 1657 that the Librarian received £33 6<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i>, the<!-- Page 88 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span> +Second Keeper, then H. Stubbe, £10, and [the janitor] S. +Rugleye (?), £8. A volume of curious tracts, published during +the early part of the reign of Charles I, now marked 4<sup>o</sup> <i>F. 2 +Art. B. S.</i>, furnishes the name of a preceding janitor, by bearing +the inscription, <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">'Liber Thomæ Roch, defuncti, quondam janitoris +bibliothecæ</span>.' The janitor originally appointed by Bodley appears +to be mentioned in the following passage in a letter from him +to James: 'There is one Thomas Scott, Under-butler of Magdalen +College, that hath made means unto me for the Porter's +place, whom I propose to elect<a name="FNanchor_122_122" id="FNanchor_122_122"></a><a href="#Footnote_122_122" class="fnanchor">[122]</a>.'</p> + +<p>John Evelyn appears in this year, as well as subsequently, as +a donor of books. Nineteen MSS. were given by Peter Whalley, +of Northamptonshire.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_122_122" id="Footnote_122_122"></a><a href="#FNanchor_122_122"><span class="label">[122]</span></a> <i>Reliquæ Bodl.</i> p. 263.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1656" id="AD_1656"></a>A.D. 1656.</h3> + +<p>Cowley's <i>Poems</i>. See <a href="#AD_1620">1620</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1657" id="AD_1657"></a>A.D. 1657.</h3> + +<p>In this year the gifts to the Library, which since 1640 had +been but few, begin once more to increase in number. Five +hundred gold and silver coins were given by Ralph Freke, of +Hannington, Wilts, and a cabinet for their reception, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">auro +gemmisque coruscum</span>,' by his brother William. Amongst various +other donations occur a copy of Caxton's Description of Britain, +1480, from Ralph Bathurst, M.D., Trinity College, and four +Oriental MSS. from William Juxon, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Londinensis olim Episc.</span>' +One entry in the Benefaction Register has been at one time +carefully pasted over, and at another brought again to light; it +is the record of a gift from <i>Hugh Peters</i>. '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hugo Peters, +serenissimo Britanniarum Protectori Olivero a sacris, pro sua in<!-- Page 89 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span> +academiam et rempubl. literariam benevolentia, codices insequentes +Bibl. Bodleianæ dono dedit Maii iiii<sup>o</sup>, Anno CIƆ. IƆC. +LVII;</span>' viz. the great Dutch Bible with annotations, 'edit. ult. +[scil. Hague, 1637] <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">auro sericoque compacta</span>,' and the Æthiopic +Psalter of 1513. A leaf which followed this entry has been +removed from the Register, probably because it contained some +further particulars of Peters' gift, or possibly the record of the +MSS. presented by the Protector himself in 1654<a name="FNanchor_123_123" id="FNanchor_123_123"></a><a href="#Footnote_123_123" class="fnanchor">[123]</a>. The binding +of silk and gold has now altogether disappeared, and the Bible +is clad in a plain calf coat, with no note of its former condition +or of its donor.</p> + +<p>Francis Yonge, M.A. of Oriel College, the Sub-librarian, died +in this year. In his place succeeded, through the influence of +Dr. Owen, Dean of Ch. Ch., Henry Stubbe, M.A., the well-known +violent and varying political writer, then a Student of that +House. From the posts, however, of both Librarian and Student +Stubbe was ejected in March, 1659, on account of the publication +of his book entitled, <i>A Light Shining out of Darkness</i>, which +was supposed to attack the Universities and clergy.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_123_123" id="Footnote_123_123"></a><a href="#FNanchor_123_123"><span class="label">[123]</span></a> See p. <a href="#Page_55">55</a>.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1658" id="AD_1658"></a>A.D. 1658.</h3> + +<p>Gerard Langbaine, D.D., the learned Provost of Queen's College, +died on Feb. 10 in this year. Twenty-one vols. of his +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Adversaria</i>, consisting chiefly of extracts from Bodleian MSS. +and of notes concerning the arrangement of the books in the +Library, were bought for £11. Nine other volumes were bequeathed +by Ant. à Wood in 1695. They are all fully described +by Mr. Coxe in vol. i. [cols. 877-888] of the General Catalogue +of the MSS. of the Library, which appeared in 1853, as well as +more briefly in Bernard's Catalogue. Besides obtaining his own<!-- Page 90 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> +autograph collections by purchase, the Library became possessed +by bequest from him of the very valuable MS. (<i>e Mus. 86</i>) on +the history of Wickliffe and his followers, entitled <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Fasciculi +Zizaniorum</i>, written by Thomas Walden. This was edited by +the late Dr. Shirley in 1858, as part of the Master of the Rolls' +Series of Chronicles. Dr. Shirley traced the volume to the hands +of Bale and Usher, but was not aware of the way in which it came +to the Library.</p> + +<p>The effect which civil war and confusion had had upon literature +may be commercially estimated by the fact that a gift of £5 from +Joseph Maynard, B.D., of Exeter College, proved sufficient for +the purchase of 28 printed volumes and 11 MSS., many of +which were curious.</p> + +<p>A crocodile, from Jamaica, was given by John Desborow, the +republican Major-General, and brother-in-law to the Protector.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1659" id="AD_1659"></a>A.D. 1659.</h3> + +<p>Thomas Hyde, M.A., of Queen's College, was appointed Under-keeper +on the expulsion of Henry Stubbe.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1660" id="AD_1660"></a>A.D. 1660.</h3> + +<p>Thomas Barlow, D.D. (who had been elected Provost of Queen's +College in 1658), resigned the Librarianship on Sept. 25, in consequence +of his appointment to the Margaret Professorship of +Divinity. Thomas Lockey, B.D., Student of Ch. Ch., was elected +in his place, on Sept. 28, by 102 votes to 80, over Mr. [John] +Good, M.A., Balliol College<a name="FNanchor_124_124" id="FNanchor_124_124"></a><a href="#Footnote_124_124" class="fnanchor">[124]</a>.</p> + +<p>A curious story is preserved by Wanley and Dr. Wallis, in +memoranda, dated 1698-1701, on the fly-leaves of a copy of the +rare <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Index Librorum prohibitorum</i> printed at Madrid in 1612-14<!-- Page 91 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> +(4<sup>o</sup> U. 46. Th.), respecting the visit of a Roman Catholic priest to +the Library during the period of Barlow's headship. In the course +of conversation with Barlow, the priest denied that such a book as +this Index had ever been printed at Madrid (there being various +discrepancies between it and the Roman Index), whereupon this +copy was produced, bearing the names of several inquisitors who +had from time to time possessed it. The visitor was extremely +surprised, and, being very desirous of purchasing it, offered any +sum for it that might be demanded, with the intent (as the somewhat +suspicious tellers of the tale suggest) to destroy it; but the +Doctor was above corruption. The vigilance of the Librarians +being aroused, the book was removed from an exposed place +where it had formerly been kept, to a less accessible situation in +the gallery, and securely chained. Wallis adds that one fly-leaf, +containing some of the previous owners' names, had since then +been torn out<a name="FNanchor_125_125" id="FNanchor_125_125"></a><a href="#Footnote_125_125" class="fnanchor">[125]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_124_124" id="Footnote_124_124"></a><a href="#FNanchor_124_124"><span class="label">[124]</span></a> Reg. Convoc. T<sup>a</sup>. 27, p. 57.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_125_125" id="Footnote_125_125"></a><a href="#FNanchor_125_125"><span class="label">[125]</span></a> The memoranda are printed in Mendham's <i>Lit. Policy of the Church of Rome</i>, +second edit., pp. 152-4, and in Bliss' <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Hearnianæ</i>, i. 12-14.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1662" id="AD_1662"></a>A.D. 1662.</h3> + +<p>A legacy of £50 was paid which had been bequeathed some +time previously by Alex. Ross, now-a-days best known as the +Ross of Hudibrastic memory. It is singular that a copy of the +old printed quarto catalogue of the Library was amongst the +books purchased with this gift; which shows that, within forty +years after publication, it had become scarce even in the Library +itself.</p> + +<p>Five Arabic and eight Chinese MSS. were given by William +Thurston, a London merchant. By a mistaken arrangement of +various other small gifts, Thurston now passes as the donor of +forty Arabic, Persian, and Syriac MSS., instead of five. Several +of these, at present all numbered alike as Thurston MSS., were<!-- Page 92 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> +given in 1684 by Jos. Taylor, LL.D., of St. John's College, one +by Crewe, Bishop of Durham, in 1680, one by Benj. Polsted, +a London African merchant, in 1678, one by Charles Robson, +B.D., Queen's College, about 1630, and one is an Armenian +poem of thanks for benefits received from the University, presented +by the author, Jac. de Gregoriis, an Armenian priest, in +1674. One other volume (a mathematical MS. bought at Constantinople, +by Const. Ravius, in 1641) was at one time, as it appears, +abstracted from the Library, and was restored by means of +Dr. Marshall, who, after the words '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Liber Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ +Oxon.</span>' has added the following note: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">quem ex Ratelbandi +cujusdam bibliopolæ officina libraria, prope novum templum +Amstelodami, redimendum pretio persoluto curavit Tho. Mareschallus, +e Collegio Lincolniensi apud Oxonienses.</span>'</p> + +<p>The first statutory obligation upon the Stationers' Company +to deliver a copy of each book printed by them to this Library, +together with that of Cambridge and the Royal Library, was +imposed by the act of 14 Chas. II. c. 33, for two years, which +was renewed from time to time until the passing of the Copyright +Act of 8 Q. Anne.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1663" id="AD_1663"></a>A.D. 1663.</h3> + +<p>The University was visited in September by Charles II and +his Queen. And 'on Munday, September 28, about four in the +afternoon, the University, being in their Formalities placed from +Christ Church east-gate to the south gate of the publique Schooles, +the King and Queen, the Duke and Dutches of Yorke, with the +nobility and gentry attending, went to the Schooles, where the +Chanceller, Vice-Chanceller and Heads of Houses received them, +and invited them up to the Library; and Mr. Crew, the Senior +Proctor, placed neer the globes, addrest himselfe to their Majesties +in an oration upon his knees; which being ended, the King and<!-- Page 93 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span> +Queen, with the Royal Family and nobility, were by our Chanceller, +Vice-Chanceller, and the Heads of Houses, conducted to +Selden's Library, and there entertained with a very sumptuous +banquett<a name="FNanchor_126_126" id="FNanchor_126_126"></a><a href="#Footnote_126_126" class="fnanchor">[126]</a>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_126_126" id="Footnote_126_126"></a><a href="#FNanchor_126_126"><span class="label">[126]</span></a> Reg. Convoc. T<sup>a</sup>. 27, p. 173.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1664" id="AD_1664"></a>A.D. 1664.</h3> + +<p>James Lamb, of St. Mary Hall, D.D. and Canon of Westminster, +died in this year. Nine MSS. volumes, written by him, +consisting of collections for an Arabic Lexicon and Grammar, +together with the book of Daniel, in Syriac, are preserved in the +Library, and form a small separate collection under his name.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1665" id="AD_1665"></a>A.D. 1665.</h3> + +<p>Thomas Lockey, D.D., resigned the Librarianship, on Nov. 29, +1665, in consequence of his appointment to a canonry of Ch. Ch. +In the following year he gave some coins and the sum of £6 16<i>s.</i> +In his place was elected, on Dec. 2, Thomas Hyde, M.A., of Queen's +College, then Under-keeper. Upon Lockey's death, in 1680, books +to the value of £16 15<i>s.</i> were bought out of his study.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1666" id="AD_1666"></a>A.D. 1666.</h3> + +<p>Twenty MSS. were given by Sir Thos. Herbert, Bart. of +York.</p> + +<p>An East India merchant of London, one John <span class="note" title="changed from Kerr to Ken - see Addenda et Corrigenda">Ken</span>, gave (with +other MSS.) the first Gentoo <span class="note" title="added - see Addenda et Corrigenda">[i.e. Sanscrit.]</span> book which the Library possessed. +It is noticeable what a real, although somewhat indiscriminating, +interest the London merchants appear to have taken in the +Library. Continual mention occurs not merely of books but of +curiosities of all kinds, natural and artificial, which persons en<!-- Page 94 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span>gaged +in commerce, chiefly with the East Indies, sent as for a +general repository. Most of these curiosities are now to be found, +it is believed, in the Ashmolean Museum.</p> + +<p>At some period between 1660 and 1667, <i>i.e.</i> during Clarendon's +Chancellorship of the University, two volumes of MSS. notes and +observations upon Josephus, by Sam. Petit, the Professor of +Greek at Nismes (who died in 1643), are said by Moreri to +have been purchased by Clarendon, for 150 louis d'or, and given +to the University. But in Bernard's Catalogue the volumes are +said to have been bought by the University '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">ære suo</span>.' Dr. T. +Smith remarks, in his life of Bernard, that when the latter was +preparing to edit Josephus, he used '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Sam. Petiti largis commentariis, +longe antea in bibliothecæ Bodleianæ gazophylacium ex +Gallia transvectis</span>,' but found that they were filled only with notes +from Rabbinical writers. They are now numbered Auct. F. infra, +I. 1, 2. One other MS. was certainly given by Clarendon, during +his Chancellorship. It is a Greek <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Evangelistarium</i> of the fourteenth +century, formerly the property of a monastery described as +'<span title="Grk: tês panagias tês acheiropoiêtou" xml:lang="grc" lang="grc" class="note">της παναγιας της αχειροποιητου</span>,' which was given by Parthenius, +Patriarch of Constantinople, to Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchelsea, +when in Turkey, in 1661, as Ambassador from England, +and subsequently given by Clarendon to the University. On the +cover is a silver crucifix, of Byzantine work. It is now numbered +Auct. D. infra II. 12.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1668" id="AD_1668"></a>A.D. 1668.</h3> + +<p>John Davies, of Camberwell, the storekeeper at Deptford dockyard, +caused a chair to be made out of the remains of the ship, +'The Golden Hind,' in which Sir F. Drake accomplished his +voyage round the world, which had been kept at Deptford until the +timber decayed, and presented it to the Library. It stands now +in the Picture Gallery, beside a chair which is said (but on what<!-- Page 95 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span> +authority is not known) to have belonged to Henry VIII<a name="FNanchor_127_127" id="FNanchor_127_127"></a><a href="#Footnote_127_127" class="fnanchor">[127]</a>, and +bears a plate on which are inscribed some verses, in Latin and +English, by Abraham Cowley. A good engraving of it is to be +found in Lascelles' and Storer's <i>Oxford</i>, published in 1821<a name="FNanchor_128_128" id="FNanchor_128_128"></a><a href="#Footnote_128_128" class="fnanchor">[128]</a>, and +in the <i>Life of Drake</i>, published in 1828.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_127_127" id="Footnote_127_127"></a><a href="#FNanchor_127_127"><span class="label">[127]</span></a> The style of moulding on the back seems to point to a somewhat later date.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_128_128" id="Footnote_128_128"></a><a href="#FNanchor_128_128"><span class="label">[128]</span></a> A description, including a copy of the verses, and illustrated by a woodcut, is +also to be found in vol. xxix. (1837) of the <i>Mirror</i>, p. 8, copied from the <i>Nautical +Magazine</i>.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1670" id="AD_1670"></a>A.D. 1670.</h3> + +<p>Thirteen Oriental MSS. (chiefly in their possessor's own writing) +were bought from the heirs of Samuel Clarke, M.A., of Merton +College, printer to the University and Esquire Bedel of Law, who +died Dec. 17, 1669. He was greatly distinguished as an Orientalist, +and assisted in the production of Walton's Polyglott. A +list of his MSS. is given in Bernard's Catalogue, and another, by +Prof. Nicoll, <i>Ath. Oxon.</i> iii. 885. He himself gave four printed +Arabic books in 1663.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1671" id="AD_1671"></a>A.D. 1671.</h3> + +<p>Upon the death of Meric Casaubon, on July 14, the Library +became possessed, by his bequest, of sixty-one volumes of the +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Adversaria</i> (chiefly consisting of notes on Greek criticism) of his +father, Isaac Casaubon, who died in 1614. From these Jo. Christ. +Wolf made some extracts when visiting the Library in 1709, which +he published in the following year at Hamburgh, under the title +of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Casauboniana</i>, with a preface giving some account of all +previous collections of <i>Ana</i>, and with copious notes. The MSS. +are catalogued in Mr. Coxe's first volume, cols. 825-850.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1673" id="AD_1673"></a>A.D. 1673.</h3> + +<p>Thomas, Lord Fairfax, to whose care the Library had been +indebted for preservation in 1646, bequeathed to it on his decease,<!-- Page 96 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span> +in November, 1671, twenty-eight very valuable MSS., including +several early English books (Chaucer, Gower, Wickliffe's Bible, &c.) +and works relating to the history of England, Scotland (Elphinston<a name="FNanchor_129_129" id="FNanchor_129_129"></a><a href="#Footnote_129_129" class="fnanchor">[129]</a>), +and Ireland (Keating). But besides these, he gave that +invaluable collection of genealogical MSS. known to all pedigree-hunters +by the name of their indefatigable compiler, Roger Dodsworth, +to whom he had allowed an annuity of £40 during his +life, in order to enable him the better to prosecute his researches. +This collection numbers 161 volumes (bound in 86) in folio and +quarto<a name="FNanchor_130_130" id="FNanchor_130_130"></a><a href="#Footnote_130_130" class="fnanchor">[130]</a>, and consists of extracts bearing chiefly on the family and +ecclesiastical history of Yorkshire and the North of England, +with an innumerable mass of pedigrees, from all the authentic +records within Dodsworth's reach, including many which were +destroyed when the Tower of St. Mary, at York, was blown up +during the siege of that city in June, 1644. He appears to have +commenced this wonderful series of notes about the year 1618, +and not to have ceased before 1652, dying, in the seventieth +year of his age, in August, 1654. Besides the very full catalogue +of his MSS. which is given by Bernard (pp. 187-233), an extremely +useful and original synopsis of their contents, prefaced +with an account of Dodsworth's life and labours, and drawn up +by Mr. Joseph Hunter, is to be found in the Report of the +Record Commission for 1837; which was reprinted by Mr. +Hunter, in an octavo volume, in 1838, together with a list of +the contents of the Red Book of the Exchequer, and a Catalogue +of the MSS. in Lincoln's Inn. After the MSS. were brought to +the Library, they became in some way exposed to the damp, 'and<!-- Page 97 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span> +were in danger of being spoiled by a wet season.' Fortunately +the danger was perceived by Ant. à Wood, who obtained leave +of the Vice-Chancellor to dry them, which he accomplished by +spreading them out in the sun upon the leads of the Schools' +quadrangle. This cost him a month's labour, which, he says, +he underwent with pleasure out of respect to the memory of +Dodsworth, and care to preserve whatever might advantage the +commonwealth of learning. The MSS. to this day give abundant +proof, by their stains and tender condition, that, had it not been for +Wood's unselfish labour, they would probably soon have perished. +Some part of the collection appears to have been sent to the +Library as late as 1684, for in the accounts of that year there +is an entry of 4<i>s.</i> 10<i>d.</i> as having been paid for the 'carriage of +Dodsworth's MSS.'</p> + +<p>An interesting volume, written by the donor of these MSS., Fairfax, +and entitled by him 'The Employment of my Solitude,' being +metrical versions of the Psalms, with other poems, was bought, +in 1858, for £36 10<i>s.</i>, at the sale of the library of Dr. Bliss, +who had purchased it at the Duke of Sussex's sale. It is described +in Archdeacon Cotton's List of Bibles.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_129_129" id="Footnote_129_129"></a><a href="#FNanchor_129_129"><span class="label">[129]</span></a> A transcript of Elphinston's Chronicle is to be found among the Jones MSS.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_130_130" id="Footnote_130_130"></a><a href="#FNanchor_130_130"><span class="label">[130]</span></a> No. 20 is a volume of Camden's Collections, formerly in the Cotton Library, +Julius B. x., from whence Dodsworth must have borrowed it, and whither, with an +obliviousness too common in book-borrowers, he must have forgotten to return it. +And No. 161 was given to the Library by Mr. Fras. Drake, the historian of York, +in 1736.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1674" id="AD_1674"></a>A.D. 1674.</h3> + +<p>In this year appeared the third <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Catalogus impressorum Librorum +Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ</i>, in one folio volume, divided into two parts +of 478 and 272 pages respectively. It is dedicated to Archbishop +Sheldon, by Hyde the Librarian, not without reason, as +being printed in that Theatre which the Archbishop had so lately +built. The Keeper, in this dedication, speaks very feelingly +of the daily weariness of mind and body which the compilation +of the Catalogue had cost him, and tells how his very hours for refreshment +had been spent among books alone, and how <!-- Page 98 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span>(<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">mirabile +dictu!</i>) he actually had not shrunk even from the inclemency of +winter<a name="FNanchor_131_131" id="FNanchor_131_131"></a><a href="#Footnote_131_131" class="fnanchor">[131]</a>. In his preface he says that, on his entrance into office, he +reckoned that the work of a new catalogue would occupy him +for two, or at most three, years; six, however, had been spent +in compilation and transcription, one in revision and enlargement, +and, lastly, two in the actual printing. Yet, says he, he +never withdrew his neck from the yoke, and postponed all considerations +of bodily health. People little know, he proceeds, +what it is to accomplish a work of this kind. What is easier, +say they, than to look at the beginning of a book and to +copy out its title? They judge only from one or two weeks' +work in some little library of their own. But, what with careful +examining of volumes of pamphlets (which of itself was labour +perfectly exhausting), what with distinguishing synonymous authors +and works, and identifying metonymous ones, unravelling anagrammatical +names and those derived from places, and the like, +the poor man declares he endured the greatest torment of mind +('maximo animi cruciatu') as well as waste of precious time. It +is clear, from these pathetic lamentations, that Hyde had no great +love for Bibliography for its own sake. But, after all his complaints, +it is actually asserted by Hearne that he 'did not do +much in the work besides writing the dedication and preface<a name="FNanchor_132_132" id="FNanchor_132_132"></a><a href="#Footnote_132_132" class="fnanchor">[132]</a>!' +Hearne attributes the real compilation of the Catalogue to Emmanuel +Prichard, or Pritchard, of Hart Hall, the janitor, who +examined every book in the whole library, and wrote out the Catalogue, +in two volumes, with his own hand. Hearne repeats this +assertion frequently; it is found, <i>e.g.</i>, in his preface to the <i>Chronicon<!-- Page 99 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span> +Dunstap.</i> p. xii., and in his <i>Autobiography</i> (1772, p. 11), where he +adds that he was well informed of this by Dr. Mill and others. +If this be true, the inditing such a preface, while totally suppressing +Prichard's name, does little credit to Hyde.</p> + +<p>Frequent mention of this Emmanuel Prichard is found between +1686 and 1699 as being employed upon the MSS., and as engaged +in taking an account of duplicates and arranging Bishop Barlow's +books. In 1687, £20 were paid him for 'writing a Catalogue +of MSS.' Probably this was the list upon which Hearne asserts +that the index to the Bodleian MSS., in Bernard's Catalogue, was +founded<a name="FNanchor_133_133" id="FNanchor_133_133"></a><a href="#Footnote_133_133" class="fnanchor">[133]</a>. Hearne describes him<a name="FNanchor_134_134" id="FNanchor_134_134"></a><a href="#Footnote_134_134" class="fnanchor">[134]</a> as being 'a very industrious, +usefull man.' Although a member of Hart Hall, he never took +any degree; but wore a civilian's gown. He died in the Hall +about 1704, aged upwards of 70, and was buried in St. Peter's-in-the-East. +He left £200 to the Vice-Principal of Hart Hall, which +was partly spent in building a library-room<a name="FNanchor_135_135" id="FNanchor_135_135"></a><a href="#Footnote_135_135" class="fnanchor">[135]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_131_131" id="Footnote_131_131"></a><a href="#FNanchor_131_131"><span class="label">[131]</span></a> Of the 'hyemis inclementia' before the present system of warming the Library +was introduced, several of the present staff of officers can speak as feelingly as Hyde. +The writer remembers, in particular, one winter when, in consequence of the roof +being under repair, the thermometer fell some eleven degrees below freezing point!</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_132_132" id="Footnote_132_132"></a><a href="#FNanchor_132_132"><span class="label">[132]</span></a> <i>MS. Diary</i>, 1714, vol. ii. p. 193.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_133_133" id="Footnote_133_133"></a><a href="#FNanchor_133_133"><span class="label">[133]</span></a> <i>Reliquiæ Hearn.</i> ii. 591. But see p. <a href="#Page_116">116</a>, <i>infra</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_134_134" id="Footnote_134_134"></a><a href="#FNanchor_134_134"><span class="label">[134]</span></a> <i>MS. Diary</i>, li. 193.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_135_135" id="Footnote_135_135"></a><a href="#FNanchor_135_135"><span class="label">[135]</span></a> Hearne's <i>MS. Diary</i>, ciii. 38.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1675" id="AD_1675"></a>A.D. 1675.</h3> + +<p>In the Register of Benefactions, on a page faintly headed in pencil +with this date, is entered a gift from Christopher, Lord Hatton, +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Homiliarum Saxonicarum 4 volumina antiqua</span>.' The donor was +consequently the second baron, and first viscount, Hatton, who +succeeded his father Christopher (a firm royalist, and close friend +of Clarendon, as well as antiquarian, and friend of Dodsworth) +in 1670, and died in 1706. Possibly this gift may have been +made through the influence of his uncle, Capt. Charles Hatton, +who appears to have been much interested in Anglo-Saxon +studies, who himself gave three MSS. to the Library, and several +of whose letters to Dr. Charlett in 1694-1707 are preserved +in vol. xxxiii. of Ballard's MSS. Strange to say, these volumes<!-- Page 100 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span> +of Homilies (written shortly after the Norman Conquest) are +now among the Junian MSS., Nos. 22, 23, 24, 99, and +their appearance in that collection is accounted for by Wanley +(<i>Cat.</i> p. 45, where they are fully described) by a story which, he +says, was often told him by Hyde, viz. that, immediately upon the +arrival of the MSS. at the Library, they were lent to Dr. Marshall, +who most probably in turn lent them to Junius; that, Marshall +dying soon after, Junius kept them until his own death, when +they returned to the Library with his own books, by his bequest. +Junius himself frequently refers to them under the description of +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Codices Hattoniani</i>.</p> + +<p>The Library also contains a collection of 112 miscellaneous +and valuable MSS., 'ex Codicibus Hattonianis,' of the presentation +of which no record has been found<a name="FNanchor_136_136" id="FNanchor_136_136"></a><a href="#Footnote_136_136" class="fnanchor">[136]</a>, but which doubtless +came about the same time from the same donor. Some precious +Anglo-Saxon volumes form the special feature of this collection. +Amongst them are, King Alfred's translation of Gregory's <i>Pastoral +Care</i>, of which the king designed to send a copy to each +Cathedral Church in the kingdom, this being the copy sent to +Worcester (No. 20); the translation by Werfrith, Bishop of Worcester, +of Gregory's <i>Dialogues</i>, with King Alfred's preface (No. +76); and a version of the Four Gospels, written about the time +of Henry II (No. 65).</p> + +<p>Henry Justell, afterwards Librarian at St. James's, sent to the +University from France, through Dr. Hickes, three very precious +MSS. of the seventh century, written in uncial characters, containing +the Acts of the Council of Ephesus, the Canons of Carthage, +Nicæa, Chalcedon, &c., which had been used by his father Christopher +Justell in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Bibliotheca Juris Canonici veteris</i>, 1661. They +are now numbered, <i>e Mus.</i> 100-102. Several other MSS. given<!-- Page 101 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span> +at the same time are preserved in the same series. In return for +this valuable gift Justell was created D.C.L. by diploma.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_136_136" id="Footnote_136_136"></a><a href="#FNanchor_136_136"><span class="label">[136]</span></a> The Register has evidently been kept very irregularly and imperfectly during +the time that Barlow and Hyde held the headship.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1677" id="AD_1677"></a>A.D. 1677.</h3> + +<p>The wonderful collection of Early English poetry known as 'the +Vernon MS.,' was presented 'soon after the Civil Wars' by Col. +Edward Vernon, of Trinity College, who had been an officer in +the royal army. One who bore the same name, doubtless the same +person, of North Aston, Oxon, was created D.C.L. Aug. 6, 1677; +it was probably therefore about that time that the MS. was presented. +The volume is described in Bernard's Catalogue, 1697, +p. 181, as being a 'vast massy manuscript;' and very correctly. +Its measurements are these: length of page, 22-1/2 inches; length of +written text, 17-1/2 inches; breadth of page, 15 inches; breadth of +written text, 12-1/2 inches. It is written in triple columns, on 412 +leaves of stout vellum; and having been clad of late years in a +proportionate russia binding, is altogether a Goliath among books. +In date it is of the early part of the fourteenth century. Its first +article bears the titles of 'Salus Animæ' and 'Sowle-Hele,' and +its chief contents are Lives of the Saints, Hampole's <i>Prick of +Conscience</i>, Grosteste's <i>Castle of Love</i>, Hampole's <i>Perfect Living</i>, +the treatise on <i>Contemplative Life</i>, the <i>Mirror of S. Edmund</i>, the +<i>Abbey of the Holy Ghost</i>, and <i>Piers Plowman</i>; besides a multitude +of smaller pieces, several of which have been recently copied with +a view to publication by the Early English Text Society<a name="FNanchor_137_137" id="FNanchor_137_137"></a><a href="#Footnote_137_137" class="fnanchor">[137]</a>. Fifty +copies of a brief list of the contents (numbering altogether 161 +articles) were printed by J. O. Halliwell, Esq., in 1848. A MS., +similar in size and contents, was presented to the British Museum +a few years ago by Sir John Simeon; it is, apparently, the work +of the same scribe as the Bodleian book.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_137_137" id="Footnote_137_137"></a><a href="#FNanchor_137_137"><span class="label">[137]</span></a> This Society has also just issued Part 1. of Piers Plowman from this MS., edited +by W. W. Skeat, M.A. (Oct. 1867).<!-- Page 102 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span></p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1678" id="AD_1678"></a>A.D. 1678.</h3> + +<p>Francis Junius, born at Heidelberg in 1589, who had passed a +large part of his life in England as librarian to that Howard Earl +of Arundel who collected the marbles which go under his name at +Oxford, as well as the MSS. similarly entitled, which are preserved +in the British Museum and at Heralds' College, bequeathed to the +Library, on his decease at Windsor in this year, all his Anglo-Saxon +MSS. and his own life-long collections bearing on the +philology of the Northern nations. Amongst these are some +English relics of the greatest value and importance. The book of +metrical Homilies on the Dominical Gospels, compiled by an +Augustinian monk named Ormin, who thence called his book +<i>Ormulum</i> ('þiss boc iss nemmnedd Orrmulum, Forrþi þatt Orrm itt +wrohte') is one of the chief of these. Its date is conjectured to be +the 13th century. It is written on parchment, on folio leaves, +very long and very narrow (averaging 20 inches by 8) in a very +broad and rude hand, with many additions inserted on extra +parchment scraps. Twenty-seven leaves appear to be wanting. +The whole work was first published in 2 vols., at the University +Press in 1852, under the editorship of R. M. White, D.D., formerly +Professor of Anglo-Saxon. Cædmon's metrical paraphrase of +Genesis and other parts of Holy Scripture, illustrated with numerous +curious drawings, is another of the gems of this collection. +The MS. is of the end of the tenth century, but the work itself is +now generally believed to be, in the main, the production of the +earliest English poet, the Cædmon noticed by Bede (iii. 24), who +died towards the close of the seventh century, and not, as Hickes +conjectured, of some later writer of the same name. The MS. first +came to light in the hands of Archbp. Usher, by whom it was +given to Junius. The latter published it at Amsterdam in 1655, +and it was re-edited by Mr. Benj. Thorpe in 1832; several English<!-- Page 103 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span> +and German translations have also appeared. Many of the drawings +were engraved and published in 1754, as illustrations of +the manners and buildings of the Anglo-Saxons; and the whole +of them have been engraved in vol. xxiv. of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Archæologia</i>, with +some remarks by Sir H. Ellis. MS. 121 is an extremely valuable +collection of the Canons of the Anglo-Saxon Church, written in +the tenth century, which belonged to Worcester Cathedral; and +there are four valuable volumes of Homilies, which appear, however, +to have been part of Lord Hatton's gift to the Library. (See +under <a href="#AD_1675">1675</a><a name="FNanchor_138_138" id="FNanchor_138_138"></a><a href="#Footnote_138_138" class="fnanchor">[138]</a>.) Besides books, Junius left to the University six +founts of Gothic, Saxon, and other types, together with the moulds +and matrices.</p> + +<p>Fifty-five MSS. and printed books, chiefly Oriental, were purchased +in this year from the library of Dr. Thomas Greaves, +Deputy-professor of Arabic, who died May 22, 1676. It appears +from the list in Bernard's Catalogue that sixty-five volumes were +purchased, but that ten of these were never sent. With Greaves' +own books were obtained also the MSS. of Richard James, of +Corpus Christi College, nephew of Thomas James, the first Librarian, +which had come into the possession of his friend Greaves +upon his death in Dec. 1638. These amount to forty-three +volumes, entirely written by James himself, in a large bold hand; +they consist chiefly of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Collectanea</i> bearing on the history of England +from various MSS. Chronicles, Registers, and early writers, +particularly with reference to the corruption of the Church and<!-- Page 104 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span> +clergy before the Reformation, and in opposition to Becket. A +full list of their contents, drawn up by Tanner, is given at +pp. 248-253 of Bernard's Catalogue. The price paid for the +books bought out of Greaves' library was £55.</p> + +<p>Fifteen shillings were paid, as appears from the accounts for the +year, for the carriage of a whale from Lechlade, which, strange to +say, had been caught in the Severn, and was presented by William +Jordan, an apothecary at Gloucester<a name="FNanchor_139_139" id="FNanchor_139_139"></a><a href="#Footnote_139_139" class="fnanchor">[139]</a>. Ten shillings were also +paid for a 'sea elephant.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_138_138" id="Footnote_138_138"></a><a href="#FNanchor_138_138"><span class="label">[138]</span></a> Parts of MSS. 4 and 5, which had been stolen from the Library, were recovered, +in 1720, in the manner recorded in the following entry in the Benefaction Book: +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Vir doctissimus Joannes Georgius Eckardus, bibliothecæ Brunsvicensis præfectus, +pro singulari sua humanitate, folia quammulta MSS. Dictionarii Fr. Junii, continentia +sc. litteras F. et S., a nequissimo quodam Dano jam olim surrepta, propriis +sumptibus redemit et Bibl. Bodl. ultro restituit</span>.' Some further portions of Junius' +papers (including some which had formerly been in the Library) are recorded to +have been given in 1753 by the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_139_139" id="Footnote_139_139"></a><a href="#FNanchor_139_139"><span class="label">[139]</span></a> In the Benefaction Book this gift is assigned to the year 1672.</p></div> + + +<h3>A.D. 1680. [See <a href="#AD_1665">A.D. 1665</a>.]</h3> + +<p>Sir W. Dugdale gave copies of his own works. Two hundred +coins were given by Dr. George Hickes.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1681" id="AD_1681"></a>A.D. 1681.</h3> + +<p>In this year John Rushworth, of Lincoln's Inn, the historian of +the Long Parliament, was a member of the Parliament held at +Oxford. Probably it may have been at this time that he presented +to the Library one of its most precious <span title="Grk: keimêlia" class="note" xml:lang="grc" lang="grc">κειμηλια</span>, called, from its +donor, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Codex Rushworthianus</span>.' (Auct. D. 2. 19.) In 1665, Junius +mentions it in the Preface to his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Glossarium Gothicum</i>, as being +then still in Rushworth's own hands<a name="FNanchor_140_140" id="FNanchor_140_140"></a><a href="#Footnote_140_140" class="fnanchor">[140]</a>. It is a MS. of the Latin +Gospels, written by an Irish scribe, Mac-Regol, (who records his +name on the last leaf, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Macregol dipincxit hoc evangelium</span>,' &c.,) +and glossed with an interlinear Anglo-Saxon version by Owun and +by Færmen, a priest at Harewood. The volume is traditionally +reported to have been in Bede's possession, but since the Irish +annals record the death of Mac Riagoil, a scribe and abbot of Birr +in 820, the volume must be about a century too late. It has been<!-- Page 105 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span> +published in full, together with the Lindisfarne Gospels, by the +Surtees Society in 3 vols., under the editorship of Rev. J. Stevenson +and George Waring, Esq., M.A. A description is given in Prof. +Westwood's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Palæographia Sacra Pictoria</i>.</p> + +<p>Nine shillings were paid for the carriage of a mummy from +London, probably one of those which are now in the Ashmolean +Museum. It was given by Aaron Goodyear, a Turkey merchant, +who gave also a model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at +Jerusalem, and various little images, and in 1684 more than +forty coins.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_140_140" id="Footnote_140_140"></a><a href="#FNanchor_140_140"><span class="label">[140]</span></a> It is strange that no entry of the gift of this priceless volume is found in the +Register of Benefactions, any more than of that of the Vernon MS.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1682" id="AD_1682"></a>A.D. 1682.</h3> + +<p>Richard Davis, M.A., of Sandford, Oxon, gave the portrait of +Margaret, Countess of Richmond, a book of Russian laws, and the +Runic Calendar or Clog Almanack, now exhibited in the glass case +at the entrance of the Library. The latter is thus described in the +Register: 'Calendarium ligneum, tam materia quam usu perpetuum, +unius ligni quadrati angulis incisum, more antiquo.'</p> + +<p>Dr. John Morris, Regius Professor of Hebrew, who died in +1648, bequeathed five pounds annually to the University, to be +paid to some Master of Arts of Ch. Ch., chosen by the Dean, for +a speech '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">in Schola Linguarum</span>,' in honour of Sir Thomas Bodley, +'and as a panegyric and encouragement of the Hebrew studies,' on +Nov. 8, in the presence of the Visitors of the Library after the +conclusion of the annual visitation. The bequest was to take +effect after the death of his wife, which happened on Nov. 11, +1681; and on Oct. 6, 1682, Convocation fixed 3 p.m. as the hour +for delivery of the Speech on the Visitation-day.</p> + +<p>The Speeches are continued annually, although, probably for +want of public notice, only scantily attended, none but those +actually interested in the Visitation of the Library, together with +the speaker's friends, being generally aware of it. If provision<!-- Page 106 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span> +were made for the deposit of the Speeches in the Library +after delivery, they would no doubt form an interesting and +accurate record of its growth, and of many passing events which, +for want of such a record, are soon forgotten. Only one speech +appears to be preserved in the Library: it is that delivered on +Nov. 8, 1701, by Edmund Smith, M.A., of Ch. Ch., and is very +beautifully written in imitation of typography. But in this case +nothing is recorded of the history of the preceding year, the +speech being simply a panegyric of the Founder. It has been +printed among Smith's <i>Works</i>, a pamphlet of 103 pages dignified +with that name, of which the third edition appeared at London in +1719<a name="FNanchor_141_141" id="FNanchor_141_141"></a><a href="#Footnote_141_141" class="fnanchor">[141]</a>. Dr. Rawlinson appears to have endeavoured to compile a +list of the Speakers; for Bishop Tanner, in a letter to him dated +Oct. 11, 1735, from Ch. Ch., says he will enquire them out, +if he can, but that they are not entered upon the Chapter books, +since they are not appointed by the Chapter, but privately by the +Dean or Hebrew Professor, and paid by the Vice-Chancellor, in +whose accounts alone their names are probably entered<a name="FNanchor_142_142" id="FNanchor_142_142"></a><a href="#Footnote_142_142" class="fnanchor">[142]</a>.</p> + +<p>The names of the Speakers up to the year 1690 are given in +Wood's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Athenæ</i> (ii. 127) as follows. They were all M.A., and +Students of Ch. Ch.:—</p> + +<ul> +<li>1682 Thomas Sparke</li> +<li>1683 Zach. Isham</li> +<li>1684 Chas. Hickman</li> +<li>1685 Thos. Newey</li> +<li>1686 Thos. Burton</li> +<li>1687 Will. Bedford</li> +<li>1688 Rich. Blakeway</li> +<li>1689 Roger Altham, jun.</li> +<li>1690 Edward Wake</li> +<li>* * * *</li> +<li>1701 Edm. Smith</li> +</ul> + +<p>The following list from 1706 to 1734 has been gathered out of +Hearne's MS. Diary:—</p> + + + +<ul> +<li>1706 Rich. Newton</li> +<li>1707 Thos. Terry<!-- Page 107 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span></li> +<li>1708 Will. Periam</li> +<li>1709 Rich. Sadlington</li> +<li>1710 Richard Frewin</li> +<li>1711 — Aldred<a name="FNanchor_143_143" id="FNanchor_143_143"></a><a href="#Footnote_143_143" class="fnanchor">[143]</a></li> +<li>1712 Gilb. Lake</li> +<li>1713 Hen. Cremer</li> +<li>1714 Chas. Brent</li> +<li>1715 John White</li> +<li>1716 Edw. Ivie</li> +<li>1717 Hen. Gregory</li> +<li>1718 Thos. Fenton</li> +<li>1719 George Wiggan</li> +<li>1720 Thos. Foulkes</li> +<li>1721 Will. Le Hunt</li> +<li>1722 Hen. Shirman</li> +<li>1723 Matthew Lee</li> +<li>1724 Christopher Haslam</li> +<li>1725 Will. Davis</li> +<li>1726 Edw. Blakeway</li> +<li>1727 David Gregory</li> +<li>1728 [Rob.?] Manaton</li> +<li>1729 [Hen.?] Jones</li> +<li>1730 John Fanshaw</li> +<li>1731 Oliver Battely</li> +<li>1732 Dan. Burton</li> +<li>1733 Fifield Allen</li> +<li>1734 Pierce Manaton, M.D.</li> +</ul> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_141_141" id="Footnote_141_141"></a><a href="#FNanchor_141_141"><span class="label">[141]</span></a> A long account of Smith is given in Johnson's <i>Lives of the Poets</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_142_142" id="Footnote_142_142"></a><a href="#FNanchor_142_142"><span class="label">[142]</span></a> <i>Letters of Eminent Persons, &c.</i>, ii. 111.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_143_143" id="Footnote_143_143"></a><a href="#FNanchor_143_143"><span class="label">[143]</span></a> Doubtless an error for Chas. Aldrich</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1683" id="AD_1683"></a>A.D. 1683.</h3> + +<p>Three MSS., containing the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac +Pentateuch, and the Syriac Old Testament, were purchased at the +cost of the University.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1684" id="AD_1684"></a>A.D. 1684.</h3> + +<p>Nine Oriental and Russian MSS. were given by Joseph +Taylor, LL.D., of St. John's College. And Sir Rob. Viner, Bart., +the loyal alderman of London, favoured the Library with a human +skeleton, a tanned human skin, and the dried body of a negro +boy!</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1685" id="AD_1685"></a>A.D. 1685.</h3> + +<p>Thomas Marshall, or Mareschall, D.D., Rector of Lincoln +College, and Dean of Gloucester, who died April 18, bequeathed +his MSS., and all such among his printed books as were not +already in the Library. The MSS. amounted to 159, chiefly +Oriental, including some valuable Coptic copies of the Gospels,<!-- Page 108 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> +&c., which were procured for him by Huntington, with a few in +Dutch, and others miscellaneous in language and subject. They +are entered in Bernard's Catalogue, pp. 272-3, and 373-4. The +printed books are still kept together under his name.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1686" id="AD_1686"></a>A.D. 1686.</h3> + +<p>Fell, Bishop of Oxford, who died July 10, bequeathed a few +MSS. They consist of an early and curious collection of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Vitæ +Sanctorum</i> in four folio volumes, of a transcript (in nine folio +volumes) of a <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Glossarium Septentrionale</i> by Francis Junius, Dionysius +Syrus in Latin by Dudley Loftus, and two Greek MSS., +Damascius and Euthymius Zigabenus, described at the end (col. 907) +of Mr. Coxe's Catalogue of the Greek MSS. One other MS. has +somehow been incorporated in this collection (now numbered +21-23) which does not belong to it. It is a <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Clavis Linguæ Sanctæ</i>, +or explanation of all the Hebrew, and some Chaldee, roots, found +in the Old Testament, by Nicholas Trott, in three folio volumes, +written with great care and neatness. This, of which the first part +had been printed at Oxford in 1719, was sent to the Library in +1746, as appears from the following letter, preserved (without +address) in a parcel of papers relating to the Library, now in the +Librarian's study:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'<span class="smcap">My Lord</span>,</p> + +<p>'My wife's grandfather Judge Trott, cheif justice of +South Carolina, desired on his death bed that his forty years' labour +relating to the Hebrew root might be sent as a present to the +Publick Library at Oxford. I proposed to have carried it, but my +time has allways been taken up at a disagreable series of Court +Martials, and now I am again going to the West Indies. That I +must beg your Lordship will order or give it a conveyance to the +University, and I am, with great respect, my Lord,</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in6">'Your Lordship's most humble servant,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in20">'THOS. FRANKLAND.</span><br /> +'<i>23 Nov., 1746.</i> +</p></div> +<p><!-- Page 109 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span></p> + +<p>It appears, however, from the accounts, &c., that the MS. was +not actually delivered until 1748 or 1749, when it was received +through Dr. Hunt.</p> + +<p>A few of Bishop Fell's MSS. came subsequently to the Library +among those of Rev. Henry Jones<a name="FNanchor_144_144" id="FNanchor_144_144"></a><a href="#Footnote_144_144" class="fnanchor">[144]</a>, who succeeded Fell in his +rectory of Sunningwell, Berks, in the church of which parish the +Bishop's wife was buried.</p> + +<p>At the Visitation on Nov. 8, it was ordered that notice be given +that '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Nullus in posterum quemlibet librum aut volumen extra +Bibliothecam asportet</span>,' and that monition be sent to every College +and Hall for the return of any books taken out within three days. +Several books appear to have been reported in previous years as +missing; hence, doubtless, the issue of this order.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_144_144" id="Footnote_144_144"></a><a href="#FNanchor_144_144"><span class="label">[144]</span></a> Hearne's pref. to John Ross, p. 1.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1687" id="AD_1687"></a>A.D. 1687.</h3> + +<p>On the occasion of the visit of King James II to Oxford, +chiefly, but unsuccessfully, made for the purpose of overawing +the fellows of Magdalen College, who had refused to elect as +president his nominee, Anth. Farmer, he was invited by the University +to partake of a breakfast or collation in the Library. For +this purpose he came hither on the morning of Sept. 5, between +nine and ten, where, at the south part of the Selden end, a banquet +was prepared which cost the University £160, consisting of 111 +dishes of meat, sweetmeats, and fruit. The King sat here for +about three quarters of an hour, and held some conversation +with Hyde about a Chinese, 'a little blinking fellow,' who had +recently visited the place, and about the religion of China; but +asked no one to join him at the table. Upon rising to depart, a +scene of strange indecorum, as it would now appear, ensued; the +'rabble' (as they are described) of courtiers and academics rushed +upon the mass of untouched dainties, and began a disorderly<!-- Page 110 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span> +scramble, in which they 'flung the wet sweetmeats on the ladies +linnen and petticoats, and stained them.' The King watched +the scramble for two or three minutes, and then departed, commending +to the Vice-Chancellor and doctors his chaplain, W. +Hall, who had preached before him the day previous, and delivering +a most fatherly homily on the sin of pride, the virtue of +charity, and the duty of doing as they would be done to. Good, +gossipping, Ant. à Wood gives in his <i>Autobiography</i> a full account +of all that passed, from which are taken the quotations made +above<a name="FNanchor_145_145" id="FNanchor_145_145"></a><a href="#Footnote_145_145" class="fnanchor">[145]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_145_145" id="Footnote_145_145"></a><a href="#FNanchor_145_145"><span class="label">[145]</span></a> See also Miss Seward's <i>Anecdotes</i>, Supplement, 1797, p. 72.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1688" id="AD_1688"></a>A.D. 1688.</h3> + +<p>Dr. Hyde went up to London in this year to demand personally +of the Company of Stationers the books which were due to the +Library by Act of Parliament (1 James II, cap. 17, for seven +years, continuing previous acts), but which they had neglected to +send. His expenses were £6 5<i>s.</i></p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1690" id="AD_1690"></a>A.D. 1690.</h3> + +<p>Thirty pounds were paid in this year to Antony à Wood for +twenty-five MSS. out of his library<a name="FNanchor_146_146" id="FNanchor_146_146"></a><a href="#Footnote_146_146" class="fnanchor">[146]</a>. These are volumes of great +value, including Chartularies of the Abbeys of Glastonbury and +Malmesbury, and of the Preceptory of Sandford, Oxon, copies of +Papal bulls relating to England, a register of lands in Leicestershire +<i>temp.</i> Hen. VI, &c.</p> + +<p>The rest of Wood's MSS., and printed books, came to the +Library, together with the other collections preserved in the Ashmolean +Museum, in 1860.</p> + +<p>It is said that Wood in this year estimated the number of MSS.<!-- Page 111 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span> +in the Library at 10,141. This must have been the number of +separate books, not volumes, as in 1697 the latter appear from +Bernard's Catalogue to have been about 6700.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_146_146" id="Footnote_146_146"></a><a href="#FNanchor_146_146"><span class="label">[146]</span></a> In Bernard's Catalogue the purchase is said to have been made in 1692, but +this is an error, as it is entered in the accounts of 1690.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1691" id="AD_1691"></a>A.D. 1691.</h3> + +<p>On Oct. 8, died Dr. Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, who, +retaining his attachment for the place over which he had presided +from 1652 to 1660, bequeathed to it seventy-eight MSS. (now +bound in fifty-four volumes), and all the printed books in his +collection which the Library did not possess, the remainder going +to Queen's College. They appear to have been received in the +years 1693-4, as large payments for the carriage are found in the +accounts then. His MSS. are described in the old Catalogue of +1697. The printed books, which are particularly rich in tracts of +the time of Charles I and the Usurpation, are still kept distinct, +being called <i>Linc.</i>; ending, in the 8<sup>o</sup> series, at about the middle of +the shelves marked with the letter C in that division. They are +placed in the gallery on the left hand of the great central room<a name="FNanchor_147_147" id="FNanchor_147_147"></a><a href="#Footnote_147_147" class="fnanchor">[147]</a>. +His legacy included a copy of the famous <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Exposicio Sancti Jeronimi +in Simbolo Apostolorum</i>, which was printed at Oxford in 1468, and +completed, as the colophon states, on Dec. 17. This volume was +given to Barlow, as he notes at the beginning, by Bishop Juxon, +July 31, 1657. It is exhibited in the glass case near the entrance. +The Library possesses also seven other productions of the early +Oxford press. They are as follow:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>1. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Ægidius Romanus de Peccato Originali</i>, dated March 14, 1479. +This was one of Rob. Burton's books. Qu. unique?</p> + +<p>2. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Textus Ethicorum Aristotelis, per Leonardum Arretinum translatus</i>, +1479. One of Selden's books.</p> + +<p>3. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Expositio Alexandri [de Ales] super tertium librum [Arist.] De<!-- Page 112 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> +Anima</i>. 'Impressum per me Theodericum rood de Colonia in +alma universitate Oxon.' Oct. 11, 1481.</p> + +<p>4. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Joh. Latteburii Exposicio Trenorum Jheremie</i>, July 31, 1482. +No place, but printed with the same type as the last.</p> + +<p>5. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Liber Festivalis</i>, in English, printed by Rood and Hunt, +1486. Two copies, but both very imperfect. The more imperfect +one of the two formerly belonged to Herbert, and was +bought for £6 6<i>s.</i> in 1832; two additional leaves have been inserted +by Mr. Coxe, which were found among Hearne's scraps, +having been given to him as fragments of a Caxton by Bagford. +The other copy was bought in 1852, at Utterson's sale, for £6 10<i>s.</i></p> + +<p>6. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Opus Wilhelmi Lyndewoode super Constitutiones Provinciales</i>. +No place or date, but identified by the type.</p> + +<p>7. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Vulgaria quedam abs Terentio in Anglicam linguam traducta</i>. +Without place or date, but also identified by the type. The following +note, which corroborates the identification, is written in +red ink on a fly-leaf in the volume (which includes several other +tracts): '1483. <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Frater Johannes Grene emit hunc librum Oxon. +de elemosinis amicorum suorum</span><a name="FNanchor_148_148" id="FNanchor_148_148"></a><a href="#Footnote_148_148" class="fnanchor">[148]</a>.'</p></div> + +<p>A list of sixty-six books, which Hunt, the Oxford printer and +bookseller, had in his hands for sale in 1483, is preserved in his +own writing on a fly-leaf in a copy of a French translation of +Livy, Paris, 1486, which was bought for the Library from Mr. +C. J. Stewart, in Dec. 1860, for £12. The list is headed thus: +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Inventorium librorum quos ego Thomas Hunt, stacionarius<!-- Page 113 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span> +universitatis Oxoniensis, recepi de Magistro Petro Actore et +Johannis (<i>sic</i>) de Aquisgrano ad vendendum, cum precio cujuslibet +libri, et promito (<i>sic</i>) fideliter restituere libros aut pecunias secundum +precium inferius scriptum, prout patebit in sequentibus, +Anno Domini M<sup>o</sup>. CCCC<sup>o</sup>. octuagesimo tercio.</span>'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_147_147" id="Footnote_147_147"></a><a href="#FNanchor_147_147"><span class="label">[147]</span></a> In most of them is inscribed the motto, <span title="aien aristeuein">αιεν αριστευειν</span>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_148_148" id="Footnote_148_148"></a><a href="#FNanchor_148_148"><span class="label">[148]</span></a> This last book is described by Dr. Cotton in the second series of his <i>Typographical +Gazetteer</i>, published in 1866, from a copy in the University Library at Cambridge. +Besides the other Oxford books enumerated by that learned bibliographer, several +fragments of another, a <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Compendium totius Grammaticæ</i> (conjectured to have been +written by John Anwykyll, Waynflete's first Grammar Master at Magdalene College) +have been discovered. They have been identified by Mr. H. Bradshaw, the Librarian +of the University of Cambridge, whose extensive acquaintance with early typography +is well known. That gentleman found, at Cambridge, two leaves in the +University Library in 1859, two more in Corpus Christi in 1861, and two in St. +John's in 1866. Four other leaves were discovered by the present writer in 1867, +bound up as fly-leaves in a volume in the library of Viscount Dillon, at Ditchley, +Oxfordshire. Mr. Bradshaw supposes the book to have been printed about 1483-6.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1692" id="AD_1692"></a>A.D. 1692.</h3> + +<p>Thirty-eight Persian and Arabic MSS., with one printed book, +were bought from Hyde, the Librarian. They are entered in +Bernard's Catalogue, pp. 286-7. Being bought out of the funds +of the University, no mention of the price paid for them is found +in the Library accounts.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1693" id="AD_1693"></a>A.D. 1693.</h3> + +<p>The Oriental MSS., in number 420, of the famous Edward +Pococke, Regius Professor of Hebrew (who had deceased Sept. +10, 1691), were purchased by the University for £600. They +are chiefly in Armenian, Hebrew, and Arabic, with three volumes +in Æthiopic, a Samaritan Pentateuch, and a Persian Evangeliary. +A list is given at pp. 274-278 of Bernard's Catalogue. In 1822 +the Library became possessed of a portion of Pococke's Collection +of printed miscellaneous books, by the bequest of Rev. C. Francis, +M.A., of Brasenose College. They are chiefly small volumes in +Latin, on historical subjects; and are, for the most part, placed in +the shelves marked 8<sup>o</sup> Z. Jur. [Arabic version of Isaiah, see p. <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.]</p> + +<p>Another large Oriental collection was added in this year by the +purchase, from Dr. Robert Huntington, for the sum of £700, of +about 600 MSS. These he had procured while holding the +post of chaplain to the English merchants at Aleppo<a name="FNanchor_149_149" id="FNanchor_149_149"></a><a href="#Footnote_149_149" class="fnanchor">[149]</a>. The<!-- Page 114 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span> +collection is one of very great value and rarity. No. 1 is a fine +and ponderous Syriac volume, containing the works of Gregory +Abulpharage. No. 2 is a very fine folio Arabic MS., written in +the year of the Hegira 777 (= A.D. 1375), and dedicated to the +Sultan Almalek Alashraf Shalian ben Hosain; in it, as Uri says +in his Catalogue, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">variæ Ægypti regiones recensentur, agrorum +cujusque regionis mensura definitur, et annui redditus exponuntur</span>.' +Dibdin<a name="FNanchor_150_150" id="FNanchor_150_150"></a><a href="#Footnote_150_150" class="fnanchor">[150]</a> describes it in his own exaggerated style, as follows:—'One +of the grandest books— ... a sort of Domesday compilation—which +can possibly be seen.... The scription is in double +columns, with the margins emblazoned only in stars. The title, +on the reverse of the first leaf, is highly illuminated, in a fine +style; not crowded with ornaments, but grand from its simplicity. +At the end, we observe that it is (rightly) called <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Munus Pretiosum</i>, +and that the author was Sherfiddin Iahia ben Almocar ben +Algiaian. The inspection of such a volume, on the coldest possible +morning, even when the thermometer stands at <i>zero</i>, is +sufficient to warm the most torpid system.' No. 80 is a copy +of Maimonides' <i>Yad Hachazaka</i>, revised by the author, with his +autograph signature at the bottom of fol. 165, and a MS. note +by him on fol. 1. Of these an engraved facsimile is given in +<i>Treasures of Oxford, containing Poetical Compositions by the ancient +Jewish Authors in Spain, and compiled from MSS. in the Bodl. +Libr. by H. Edelman and Leop. Dukes; edited and rendered into +English by M. H. Bresslau</i>: part i. 8<sup>o</sup>. Lond. 1851. A second +part of this work was to have contained prose selections from +MSS. in the Huntington, Pococke, Michael, and Oppenheim collections, +but no more was published. Among Huntington's +books there are also three, of no great antiquity, in the Mendean +character, of which Dr. T. Smith narrates in his life of Bernard<!-- Page 115 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span> +(1704, p. 21) that two were said to have been given by God +to Adam, and the third to the angels, 330,000 years before Adam. +And one volume (No. 598) is in the Ouigour language, a Tartar +dialect, of which very few specimens are known to exist. A gentleman +<span class="note" title="changed from '(M. Vainbéry) employed by the Russian Government to form' - see Addenda et Corrigenda">M. Vaḿbery, the traveller in Tartary, who is engaged in forming</span> +a Chrestomathy of this dialect, came in the last year to England +for the purpose of examining this volume, as one of the few +on which his work could be based. Three MSS. exist at Paris; +but that in the Bodleian is said to be the most beautiful of all +as a specimen of writing, as well as the most ancient. It is +a version of the <i>Bakhtiar Nameh</i>. A description of it, with an +engraved facsimile, is given in Davids' <i>Turkish Grammar</i>, 4<sup>o</sup>. +Lond. 1832, pref. p. xxxi.</p> + +<p>An exchange of some duplicates was made with the Library +of Queen's College, and in 1695 the duplicates of Bishop Barlow's +Collection were transferred, in accordance with his will, to the +same Library.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_149_149" id="Footnote_149_149"></a><a href="#FNanchor_149_149"><span class="label">[149]</span></a> He had previously given thirty-five MSS. in the years 1678, 1680, and 1683. +He died on Sept. 2, 1701, only twelve days after his consecration as Bishop of +Raphoe.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_150_150" id="Footnote_150_150"></a><a href="#FNanchor_150_150"><span class="label">[150]</span></a> <i>Bibliogr. Decam.</i> iii. 472.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1694" id="AD_1694"></a>A.D. 1694.</h3> + +<p>A Mr. Clarke was employed in this year in making a catalogue +of Pococke's and Huntington's MSS., for which he altogether +received between £13 and £14.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1695" id="AD_1695"></a>A.D. 1695.</h3> + +<p>Books were bought from Mr. Bobart, and at the auction of +the library of Sir Charles Scarborough, M.D.</p> + +<p><i>Stationers' Company.</i> See <a href="#AD_1610">1610</a>.</p> + +<p><i>MSS. from Wood.</i> See <a href="#AD_1658">1658</a>.<!-- Page 116 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span></p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1696" id="AD_1696"></a>A.D. 1696.</h3> + +<p>From this year until 1700, Humphrey Wanley was an assistant +in the Library, at an annual salary of £12. He had also £10 +at the end of this year 'extraordinary, for his paines already +past,' and £15, at the beginning of 1700, 'for his pains about +Dr. Bernard's books.' Possibly this grant may have been in +consequence of the interposition of Bishop Lloyd of Worcester, +who, in a letter to Wanley of Jan. 6, in that year, promises to +speak to the Bishop of Oxford to see whether he can get his +place in the Library made better for him<a name="FNanchor_151_151" id="FNanchor_151_151"></a><a href="#Footnote_151_151" class="fnanchor">[151]</a>. Wanley was no +favourite with Hearne. The following passage from the <i>MS. Diary</i> +of the latter<a name="FNanchor_152_152" id="FNanchor_152_152"></a><a href="#Footnote_152_152" class="fnanchor">[152]</a> is a specimen of the censure which he on several +occasions passes on him: 'Humphrey Wanley appears from +several passages to be a very illiterate silly fellow. He committed +strange and almost incredible blunders when he was employed +by Dr. Charlett and some others in printing the catalogue of +the MSS. of England and Ireland, which work was committed +first to the care of Dr. Bernard; but he being then very weak +and otherwise employed, he could not take so much pains about it +as he would, had he not been thus hindered.' The very accurate +index, however, to this Catalogue was Bernard's own work, +made from the proof-sheets, and written with his own hand, +'uti ab illo accepi,' says Dr. T. Smith in his Life (1704, p. 48). +He prepared also another index, which included besides the +contents of eight of the great foreign libraries, but not the +Royal Library at Paris, the catalogue of which he was unable +to obtain.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_151_151" id="Footnote_151_151"></a><a href="#FNanchor_151_151"><span class="label">[151]</span></a> Walker's <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, i. 102. It is pleasant to find that Wanley in +more prosperous days evinced his gratitude for the help he had received in the +Library, by giving, in the year 1721, £7 7<i>s.</i>, together with a MS. Latin Bible.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_152_152" id="Footnote_152_152"></a><a href="#FNanchor_152_152"><span class="label">[152]</span></a> 1714, vol. li. p. 193.<!-- Page 117 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span></p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1697" id="AD_1697"></a>A.D. 1697.</h3> + +<p>On the death of Edward Bernard, D.D., the Savilian Professor +of Astronomy (which occurred on Jan. 12), the University became +the purchaser from his widow of the greater part of his library. +A selection from his printed books, made on behalf of the +Library by H. Wanley, comprising many rare Aldines and +specimens of the 15th century, were bought for £140, and his +MSS., many of which were valuable copies of classical authors, +together with collated printed texts and his own <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Adversaria</i>, for +£200. Of 218 of the latter, Bernard has given a very brief list +in his own invaluable <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Catalogus Manuscriptorum Angliæ</i>, which +appeared posthumously, in the year of his death. (Vol. ii. +pp. 226-8.) The bulk of his books are dispersed through +various divisions of the Library; but about thirty volumes of his +own <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Adversaria</i> are kept together under his name. A very +full account, by H. Wanley, of the purchase of the collection +is printed by Dr. Bliss in his notes to the <i>Ath. Oxon.</i> (iv. 709), +who adds that this addition 'contained many of the most valuable +books, both printed and MSS., now in the Library.'</p> + +<p>In the discharge of his duty of selection, Wanley came into +sharp collision with his chief, Dr. Hyde, as is shown by a curious +paper, in Wanley's handwriting, which was transcribed by Dr. +Rawlinson from the original in Dr. Charlett's possession<a name="FNanchor_153_153" id="FNanchor_153_153"></a><a href="#Footnote_153_153" class="fnanchor">[153]</a>. The +paper gives a list of books for the not securing which, together +with others, out of Dr. Bernard's collection, blame had been thrown +upon Wanley, and which Hyde had said must by all means be +bought at the auction which was to be held in October, 1697. +To the title of each book so specified, Wanley appends some +caustic remarks, exposing Dr. Hyde's little acquaintance with<!-- Page 118 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span> +the Library or with the books themselves; and sums up thus at +the close:—'This is what I have to say to these 13 books, one +whereof I look upon as imperfect, two more I was charged not +to meddle with, and the other ten are in the Library already. I +shall wave all unmannerly reflections, as whether this be not in +you <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">insignis insufficientia</i>, for which you are liable to be turned +out of your place; or [whether,] if you had been employed to +bring in a list of Dr. Bernard's books wanting in the Library, +and took the same method as now, the University would not +have bought a fair parcel of duplicates, and such like; but I +pass them by. Tho' it must be owned that the University being +willing to lay out but 140 pounds, some different editions of the +Bible, Fathers, Classicks, &c., were preferr'd to some books not at +all in the Library, but they were at the same time judged to be of +less moment, and likely to be given to it by future benefactors.'</p> + +<p>The quarrel, however, soon ceased; for, in the following year, +Hyde was anxious to see Wanley appointed as his successor. +The latter, in a letter to Dr. Charlett, dated Oct. 10, 1698<a name="FNanchor_154_154" id="FNanchor_154_154"></a><a href="#Footnote_154_154" class="fnanchor">[154]</a>, +repeats a conversation held with Hyde on the previous evening, +in which the Librarian said 'that he is heartily weary of the +place of Library-keeper; that he must use more exercise in +riding out, &c., if he intends to preserve his health; which will +of necessity hinder his attendance there. He had rather I succeeded +him than anybody else, which I cannot do untill I am +a graduate; that, if I have any friends amongst the heads of +houses, they cann't do better for me than in procuring for me +the degree of Batchellor of Law, that I may be in a condition +to stand for his place with others, which he will resign as soon +as I have obtain'd the said degree, and (for my sake) will communicate +his intentions to nobody else in the mean time. He +presses me to get this degree as soon as possible, urging that<!-- Page 119 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span> +he does not care how soon he is rid of his place.' Wanley asks +for Charlett's advice; what that was does not appear, but, at +any rate, he did not obtain the degree which he desired, and +consequently did not become eligible as Hyde's successor.</p> + +<p>Sixteen MS. treatises on Mathematics, Astronomy, and Ancient +History, by Thomas Lydiat, were given by Will. Coward, M.D. +They are placed amongst the Bodl. MSS., chiefly between Nos. +658-671.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_153_153" id="Footnote_153_153"></a><a href="#FNanchor_153_153"><span class="label">[153]</span></a> Rawlinson's copy is now in MS. Rawl. Misc. 937. For the knowledge of this +paper the writer is indebted to Rev. W. H. Bliss.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_154_154" id="Footnote_154_154"></a><a href="#FNanchor_154_154"><span class="label">[154]</span></a> Ballard MSS. xiii. 45.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1700" id="AD_1700"></a>A.D. 1700.</h3> + +<p>Considerable fears were entertained for the safety of the +Divinity School and that portion of the Library which is built +over it. About thirty-two years before, some failure had been +observed in the roof of the former, which was rectified under +the superintendence of Sir Christopher Wren. When Bishop +Barlow's books were brought to the Library, in 1692 or 1693, +the galleries on either side of the middle room were erected; +and, as the beams of the roof of the School were then observed +to give from the wall, they were anchored on both sides, under +the direction of Dr. Aldrich. But the tight bracing had now +caused the south wall, that which adjoins Exeter College garden, +to bulge outwards, so that the book-stalls were found to have +started from the wall by three and a-half inches at the top and +two and a-half at the bottom; the wall itself was seven and a-half +inches out of the perpendicular, and the four great arches of the +vault of the School were all cracked. Hereupon Dr. Gregory, the +Savilian Professor, was despatched to London to consult Sir C. +Wren again, and, by his advice, additional buttresses of great depth +and strength were erected on the south side, the weight of the +bookstalls was removed from the roof of the School by their being +trussed up to the walls with iron cramps; and the cracks in the +vault were filled with lead or oyster-shells, and in some places<!-- Page 120 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> +with the insertion of new stones, and were then 'wedged up +with well-seasoned oaken wedges.' This work went on through +the summers of 1701 and 1702; and in 1703 some similar repairs +were executed in some of the other Schools. The letters +and papers of Wren on the subject, with the draughts, and reports +of the workmen employed, are preserved in Bodley MS. 907. +They are printed in [Walker's] <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Oxoniana</i>, iii. 16-27.</p> + +<p>In this year died Henry Jones, M.A., Vicar of Sunningwell, +Berks<a name="FNanchor_155_155" id="FNanchor_155_155"></a><a href="#Footnote_155_155" class="fnanchor">[155]</a>. He bequeathed to the Library sixty volumes in MS., +very miscellaneous in character, and chiefly of the 16th and 17th +centuries. Some of them had belonged to Bishop Fell. The +bequest probably came to Oxford some few years after Mr. Jones' +death, as the books are entered (in a full and accurate list) by +Hearne, in the Benefaction Book, among the gifts of about the +years 1706-12. It was from a modern transcript among these +that Hearne edited the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Historia Regum Angliæ</i> of John Ross +or Rouse; and seventy-one documents from No. 23, which is +an Hereford Chartulary, were printed by Rawlinson at the end +of his <i>History of Hereford</i>, 8<sup>o</sup>, Lond. 1717. One volume has for +many years been missing from the collection, viz., a funeral +oration, by John Sonibanck, on the death of Queen Elizabeth of +York, in 1503. A list of the MSS. is printed from the Benefaction +Register, in Uffenbach's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Commercium Epistolicum</i>, pp. 200-208.</p> + +<p>Between 1700 and 1738 Sir Hans Sloane is recorded to have +given considerably more than 1400 volumes, together with his +picture in 1731; but the majority of them do not appear to +have been considered of much value, and only 415 are specified +by name in the Benefaction Register. Dr. Hyde, in a letter to +Hudson, which accompanied a list of the books for which the +latter had asked with a view to registration, says he scarce +thinks the entry to be 'for the credit of the business, <!-- Page 121 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">nos inter +nos</i><a name="FNanchor_156_156" id="FNanchor_156_156"></a><a href="#Footnote_156_156" class="fnanchor">[156]</a>.' But Hudson appears to have thought that the omission +proceeded rather from carelessness, for, in a letter to Wanley, +he says that he thinks Hyde assigned '<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">non causa pro causa</i><a name="FNanchor_157_157" id="FNanchor_157_157"></a><a href="#Footnote_157_157" class="fnanchor">[157]</a>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_155_155" id="Footnote_155_155"></a><a href="#FNanchor_155_155"><span class="label">[155]</span></a> Steele's <i>MSS. Collections for Berks</i>; Gough MS. 27.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_156_156" id="Footnote_156_156"></a><a href="#FNanchor_156_156"><span class="label">[156]</span></a> Walker's <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, i. 173.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_157_157" id="Footnote_157_157"></a><a href="#FNanchor_157_157"><span class="label">[157]</span></a> Ellis's <i>Letters of Eminent Literary Men</i>, Camd. Soc. pp. 302-3.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1701" id="AD_1701"></a>A.D. 1701.</h3> + +<p>The long-entertained idea of resigning the Librarianship was +at length carried out by Dr. Thomas Hyde in this year, for the +reasons given in the following letter, which was addressed by +him to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, probably Dr. Charlett. It is +here printed from a copy sent by Hyde to Wake, then Rector of +St. James, Westminster, and preserved amongst the Wake Correspondence +in the library of Ch. Ch.:—</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in20">'March 10, 1700/01,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in20">'<span class="smcap">Christ Church, Oxon.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'<span class="smcap">Sir</span>,—I being a little indisposed by the gout, acquaint you +thus by letter, that what I long agoe designed (as you partly +knew) I am now about to put in execution. That is to say, I +shall shortly lay down my office of Library-keeper, about a month +hence, which resolution I do now declare, and I do hereby give +you timely and statuteable notice of the same as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, +entreating that, as the Statute requires, you will in two +days order Mr. Cowper to draw a Programma to be set up at +the Schools to the sence of the enclosed paper, he best knowing +forms and lawyers' Latin.</p> + +<p>'Among the Bodleian Statutes in the Appendix, in the Statute +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">de causis amovendi aut libere recedendi</i>, you will find that upon +the Library-keeper's notice thus given, you are in two days' +time to fix up the programma preparatory to make it known +that about a month hence (which is about the end of this term) +that office will be actually resigned and void.</p> + +<p>'My reasons for leaving the place are two, viz. one is because<!-- Page 122 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span> +(my feet being left weak by the gout) I am weary of the toil +and drudgery of daily attendance all times and weathers; and +secondly, that I may have my time free to myself to digest and +finish my papers and collections upon hard places of Scripture, +and to fit them for the press<a name="FNanchor_158_158" id="FNanchor_158_158"></a><a href="#Footnote_158_158" class="fnanchor">[158]</a>; seing that Lectures (though +we must attend upon them) will do but little good, hearers being +scarce and practicers more scarce.</p> + +<p>'I should have left the Library more compleat and better furnish'd +but that the building of the Elaboratory<a name="FNanchor_159_159" id="FNanchor_159_159"></a><a href="#Footnote_159_159" class="fnanchor">[159]</a> did so exhaust +the University mony, that no books were bought in severall +years after it. And at other times when books were sometimes +bought, it was (as you well know) never left to me to buy them, +the Vice-Chancellor not allowing me to lay out any University +mony. And therefore some have blamed me without cause for +not getting all sorts of books.</p> + +<p>'Before the Visitations I did usually spend a month's time in +preparing a list of good books to offer to the Curators; but I +could seldom get them bought, being commongly (<i>sic</i>) answered +in short, that they had no mony. Nay, I have been chid and +reproved by the Vice-Chancellor for offering to put them to so +much charge in buying books. These things at last discouraged +me from medling in it. But, however, I leave the Library three +times bigger than I found it<a name="FNanchor_160_160" id="FNanchor_160_160"></a><a href="#Footnote_160_160" class="fnanchor">[160]</a>, and furnished with a Catalogue +of which I found it destitute. I wish the University a man who +may take as much pains and drudgery as I have done whilst I was +able to do it.</p> + +<p>'I entreat you with all speed to cause the Register to put up +the programma signed with your name, that so things may be +regularly and statutably dispatched in order, until the time of +actuall resignation shall come.</p></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in10">'In the mean time I remain,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in12">'Your humble servant,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in20">'THOMAS HYDE.'</span><br /> +</p> +<p><!-- Page 123 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span></p> +<p>John Hudson, M.A., of Queen's, afterwards D.D. and Princ. +of St. Mary Hall, was elected in Hyde's room; he was opposed +by J. Wallis, M.A., of Magd., the Laudian Professor of Arabic, but +was chosen by 194 votes to 173<a name="FNanchor_161_161" id="FNanchor_161_161"></a><a href="#Footnote_161_161" class="fnanchor">[161]</a>. A letter to him from Hyde +on his election, with advice about the entering of Sir H. Sloane's +books in the Register, the augmentation of Mr. Crabbe's salary, +the Catalogues and the Statutes, is printed in [Walker's] <i>Letters +by Eminent Persons</i>, i. 173. He had previously, in 1696-98, given +seventy books to the Library, and in 1705-10 he added nearly +600. Hyde did not long survive his resignation, dying before +one year had elapsed, on Feb. 18, 1702. He was buried at +Handborough, near Oxford.</p> + +<p>In this year Thomas Hearne, the famous antiquary, was appointed +Janitor, or Assistant, in the Library. He tells us in his +<i>Autobiography</i> (p. 10) that, from the time of his taking the degree +of B.A. in Act term, 1699, 'he constantly went to the Bodleian +Library every day, and studied there as long as the time allowed by +the Statutes would admit,' and that the fact of this his 'diligence +being taken notice of by all persons that came thither, and his +skill in books being likewise well known to those with whom he +had at any time conversed,' occasioned Hudson's appointing him +to be an Assistant immediately upon his own election as Librarian. +It appears, from the Visitors' Book, that a payment of £10 was +made to him in this year, and that, in the next year, £30 were +voted to him for his assistance in making an Appendix to the +Catalogue of printed books<a name="FNanchor_162_162" id="FNanchor_162_162"></a><a href="#Footnote_162_162" class="fnanchor">[162]</a>, and for enlarging and correcting +the Catalogues of MSS. and Coins. Extra payments of 50<i>s.</i> +were also made to him in 1704 and 1706, and of 20<i>s.</i> in 1709.</p> + +<p><i>The Bodley Speech.</i> See <a href="#AD_1682">1682</a>.<!-- Page 124 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span></p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_158_158" id="Footnote_158_158"></a><a href="#FNanchor_158_158"><span class="label">[158]</span></a> These were left in MS. at Hyde's death, and have never been published.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_159_159" id="Footnote_159_159"></a><a href="#FNanchor_159_159"><span class="label">[159]</span></a> <i>i.e.</i> the Ashmolean Museum.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_160_160" id="Footnote_160_160"></a><a href="#FNanchor_160_160"><span class="label">[160]</span></a> Hyde was greatly mistaken here, as a calculation made by Hearne in 1714 +(<i>q.v.</i>) showed that the Library had then little more than doubled since 1620.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_161_161" id="Footnote_161_161"></a><a href="#FNanchor_161_161"><span class="label">[161]</span></a> <i>Reliqq. Hearn.</i> ii. 616.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_162_162" id="Footnote_162_162"></a><a href="#FNanchor_162_162"><span class="label">[162]</span></a> For an account of Hearne's Appendix, see <a href="#AD_1738">1738</a>.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1702" id="AD_1702"></a>A.D. 1702.</h3> + +<p>A considerable number of printed books were given by Steph. +Penton, B.D., and a collection of 500 coins was bequeathed about +this time by Tim. Nourse, of Univ. Coll.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1704" id="AD_1704"></a>A.D. 1704.</h3> + +<p>The name of John Locke appears in the Register, as the donor +of his own works (which he gave at Hudson's request), together +with some others, including, with an honourable fairness, those +of Bishop Stillingfleet written in controversy with himself. As +Locke's expulsion from Ch. Ch., in 1684, by royal mandate, for +political reasons, is sometimes, with an injustice which he himself +would doubtless have warmly repudiated, represented as if it had +been the act of Oxford itself, it is worth while to quote the +language in which this gift from him, twenty years afterwards, +is recorded, and recorded, too, by the pen of the earnest and +conscientious Jacobite, Thomas Hearne: 'Joannes Lock, generosus, +et hujus Academiæ olim alumnus, præter Opera ab ipso +edita, ob ingenii elegantiam, doctrinæ varietatem, et philosophicam +subtilitatem, omnibus suspicienda (<i>here follow the titles +of his own works</i>), insuper ex suo in optimas artes amore, animoque +ad supellectilem literariam augendam propenso, Bibliothecæ +huic dono dedit libros sequentes;' <i>scil.</i> Churchill's <i>Voyages and +Travels</i>, 4 vols., 1704, Stillingfleet's <i>Vindication of the Doctrine +of the Trinity</i>, Stillingfleet's <i>Answer to Locke</i>, and Rob. Boyle's +<i>History of the Air</i>. Locke desired, in a codicil to his will, that +in compliance with a second request from Hudson, all his +anonymous works should also be sent to the Library<a name="FNanchor_163_163" id="FNanchor_163_163"></a><a href="#Footnote_163_163" class="fnanchor">[163]</a>.</p> + +<p>William Ray, formerly consul at Smyrna, presented about<!-- Page 125 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span> +600 coins, chiefly Greek, which E. Lhwyd (who reported their +number to be about 2000) said he had been told had been collected +at Smyrna by his cook<a name="FNanchor_164_164" id="FNanchor_164_164"></a><a href="#Footnote_164_164" class="fnanchor">[164]</a>. But the Benefaction Register records that +they were obtained by Ray from the widow of one 'domini Dan. +Patridge,' who had himself intended to present them to the University. +They were put in order, and a Catalogue made of them, +some years afterwards, by Hearne, who intended to have given +the Catalogue to the Library, 'had not,' he says, 'the ill usage +he afterwards met with there obliged him to alter his mind<a name="FNanchor_165_165" id="FNanchor_165_165"></a><a href="#Footnote_165_165" class="fnanchor">[165]</a>.' Ray +also gave a Turkish almanac.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_163_163" id="Footnote_163_163"></a><a href="#FNanchor_163_163"><span class="label">[163]</span></a> Lord King's <i>Life of Locke</i>, edit. 1830, vol. ii. p. 51.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_164_164" id="Footnote_164_164"></a><a href="#FNanchor_164_164"><span class="label">[164]</span></a> Walker's <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, i. 137.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_165_165" id="Footnote_165_165"></a><a href="#FNanchor_165_165"><span class="label">[165]</span></a> <i>Life</i>, p. 13, in <i>Lives of Leland, Hearne, and Wood</i>, 1772.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1706" id="AD_1706"></a>A.D. 1706.</h3> + +<p>The supposed original MS. of <i>The Causes of the Decay of +Christian Piety</i>, by the author of <i>The Whole Duty of Man</i>, was +given by Mr. Keble, the London bookseller. It is now numbered +Bodl. MS. 21. Dr. Aldrich was of opinion that it is not in +the author's own hand, but copied in a disguised hand by Bishop +Fell. Hearne thought it to be in a disguised hand of Sancroft's; +but the resemblance is very slight indeed<a name="FNanchor_166_166" id="FNanchor_166_166"></a><a href="#Footnote_166_166" class="fnanchor">[166]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_166_166" id="Footnote_166_166"></a><a href="#FNanchor_166_166"><span class="label">[166]</span></a> See <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, vol. ii. pp. 133-4.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1707" id="AD_1707"></a>A.D. 1707.</h3> + +<p>Six volumes of Archbishop Usher's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Collectanea</i>, with two or +three other MSS. which had belonged to him, were given to +the Library by James Tyrrell, the historian, who was the archbishop's +grandson. He had placed them previously in the hands +of Dr. Mill, for use by him in his edition of the Greek Test., +and it was about a week before Mill's death, June 21, 1707, +that they were transferred, together with a gift from Mill of<!-- Page 126 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span> +various printed books, to the Library<a name="FNanchor_167_167" id="FNanchor_167_167"></a><a href="#Footnote_167_167" class="fnanchor">[167]</a>. They are now placed +among the Rawlinson Miscellaneous MSS., 1065-1074, and one +volume containing various readings in the Gr. Test., is numbered +Auct. T. v. 30. Other volumes of his MSS. Collections in the +Library are Barlow, 10 and 13; <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">e Musæo</i>, 46 and 47; Rawl. Misc. +225, 280; Rawl. Letters, 89, and Rawlinson C. 849, 850, which +last were given to Hearne by Tyrrell. Hearne has printed some +extracts at the end of <i>Gul. Neubrig.</i> iii. 804. Six Samaritan +and other MSS. which belonged to Usher are now in the class +called <i>Bodl. Orient.</i></p> + +<p>By the bequest of Dr. Humphrey Hody the Library acquired +some 400 or 500 volumes, being all those in his own collection +which were wanting here, together with his MSS. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Collectanea</i>. +These last, amounting to twenty-three volumes, are now numbered +Bodl. Addit. 1. D. 1-4, 2. B. 1-16, 2. C. 1-3.</p> + +<p>Thomas, Archbishop of Gocthan, in Armenia, visited England +on an errand which seems to have justly excited great sympathy +and attention. Sensible of the low condition of his fellow-countrymen, +through their want of means of instruction, and +being earnestly anxious to do something towards their elevation, +he had spent some forty years in travels through Europe and Asia +for the purpose of procuring books, establishing printing-presses, +educating young men, and obtaining help for the furtherance +of his Christian and patriotic projects. His first printing establishment, +at Marseilles, was ruined by the mismanagement and +fraud of those to whom it was entrusted. He then, for ten years, +carried on a press at Amsterdam, where he printed, in Armenian, +the New Testament, the Prayers and Hymns of the Church, a +translation of Thomas à Kempis, and several other theological +works, together with some in geography, history, and science.<!-- Page 127 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span> +But troubles and trials again overtook him; disputes and law-suits +involved him in debt; one hundred books, which he shipped for +Armenia in 1698, were taken at sea, and so never reached their +destination. And so, poor and sorrowful, in extreme old age, +the Archbishop came to England to seek for help, recommended +by Dr. John Cockburn, the English Minister at Amsterdam. +He was well received by the Archbishops, and Sharp, of York, +procured him an interview with the Queen, who gave him some +assistance. Then, recommended by Bishop Compton<a name="FNanchor_168_168" id="FNanchor_168_168"></a><a href="#Footnote_168_168" class="fnanchor">[168]</a>, of London, +he came to Oxford. What he received in the way of the help +which he most of all needed, deponent sayeth not; let us hope +it was not small. What he received in the way of honour, and +what he did to cause the introduction of his name in these <i>Annals</i>, +Hearne tells, in his own interesting way, in his <i>Diary</i><a name="FNanchor_169_169" id="FNanchor_169_169"></a><a href="#Footnote_169_169" class="fnanchor">[169]</a>:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'May 24. Last night came to Oxon one of the Armenian +Patriarchs. He is Patriarch of the Holy Cross in Gogthan (near +Mount Ararat) in Greater Armenia. He subscribes himself in +his speech to the Queen in the last month, by translation, +Thomas. The next day he was attended to the publick Library +by Dr. Charlett, Pro-Vice-Chancellor. At the entrance, Dr. +Hudson, the Keeper, made him a handsome complement in +Latin; but the Patriarch, being about 90 years of age, and understanding +no Latin, nor Greek, nor any European language but +Italian, took but little notice of any thing. He afterwards was +carried to Dr. Charlett's lodgings, where he was treated.</p> + +<p>'May 29. This day was a Convocation in the Theatre, when +the Archbishop of the Holy Cross in Gocthan was created Doctor +of Divinity, and his nephew, Luke Nurigian, and Mr. Cockburn, +son of Dr. Cockburn, were created Masters of Arts. The day +before, the Archbishop presented to the publick Library several +<!-- Page 128 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span>books in Armenian which he has caused to be printed. Mr. +Wyatt, the orator, spoke a speech in his commendation, and +presented him, the Queen having been pleased to let us be +without a Professor. During the Convocation, several papers +printed at the Theatre were given to the Doctors, Noblemen, +and some others, entitled, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Thomæ, +Archiepiscopi Sanctæ Crucis in Gocthan Perso-Armeniæ, peregrinationis +suæ in Europam, pietatis et literarum promovendarum caussa +susceptæ, brevis narratio; una cum dicti Archiepiscopi ad serenissimam +Magnæ Britanniæ Reginam oratiuncula ejusque responso. Accedunt +de eodem Archiepiscopo testimonia ampla et præclara.</i> Printed upon +two sheets, folio<a name="FNanchor_170_170" id="FNanchor_170_170"></a><a href="#Footnote_170_170" class="fnanchor">[170]</a>.'</p></div> + +<p>In another volume of memoranda<a name="FNanchor_171_171" id="FNanchor_171_171"></a><a href="#Footnote_171_171" class="fnanchor">[171]</a>, Hearne adds the following +notice of one of the books given by the Archbishop: 'Amongst +other books which he gave to the Bodleian Library is a History, +at the beginning of which the Archbishop's nephew put the following +memorandums:<span xml:lang="la" lang="la"> "<i>Historia Nationis Armeniæ, a Moise +Chorenensi grammatico, doctore Armeno</i>. Amst. 1695. Maii 28, +1707, Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ dono dedit reverendiss. Thomas +Archiep. S. Crucis in Majori Armenia. Per manum ejusd. reverendiss. +nepotis, Lucæ Nurigianidis."</span> Underneath which is +written, at the motion of Dr. Charlett, and by the direction of +the said Archbishop's nephew: <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">"Auctorem istius libri floruisse +traditur seculo quarto post Christum."</span>' The book is now numbered, +8<sup>o</sup> V. 134 Th.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_167_167" id="Footnote_167_167"></a><a href="#FNanchor_167_167"><span class="label">[167]</span></a> Hearne's <i>MS. Diary</i>, xv. 24.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_168_168" id="Footnote_168_168"></a><a href="#FNanchor_168_168"><span class="label">[168]</span></a> And by the good Robert Nelson (<i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, i. 167, 9), who had +also obtained ten guineas for him from the Christian Knowledge Society (Secretan's +<i>Life of Nelson</i>, pp. 113-4).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_169_169" id="Footnote_169_169"></a><a href="#FNanchor_169_169"><span class="label">[169]</span></a> Vol xiv. pp. 64, 68.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_170_170" id="Footnote_170_170"></a><a href="#FNanchor_170_170"><span class="label">[170]</span></a> A copy of this tract is in V. 1. 1. Jur.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_171_171" id="Footnote_171_171"></a><a href="#FNanchor_171_171"><span class="label">[171]</span></a> Rawlinson MS. C. 876. p. 44.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1709" id="AD_1709"></a>A.D. 1709.</h3> + +<p>In this year the first Copyright Act was passed, which required +the depositing of copies of all works entered at Stationers' Hall +at nine libraries in England and Scotland. This number was +increased upon the Union with Ireland to eleven, but finally<!-- Page 129 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span> +reduced to five (British Museum; Oxford; Cambridge; Advocates' +Library, Edinburgh; and Trinity College, Dublin) by 5 & 6 Will. +IV. c. 110.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1710" id="AD_1710"></a>A.D. 1710.</h3> + +<p>Dr. Richard Middleton Massey, formerly of Brasenose College, +gave (with a few other books) a very curious and valuable series +of Registers of the Parliamentary Committee for augmentation of +poor vicarages, from 1645 to 1652, in eight folio volumes, with +<span class="note" title="changed from 'one volume of Index' - see Addenda et Corrigenda">one earlier volume containing a list of +livings in the diocese of Norwich, with their values and incumbents</span>. To local antiquaries these proceedings are +full of interest, while their historical and biographical value is +equally great. They are now numbered Bodl. MSS. 322-330. Of +the printed books given by Dr. Massey, most of those in octavo +were placed at the end of Bishop Barlow's books, in the shelves +marked <i>D. Linc.</i></p> + +<p>Three thousand pounds were offered by the University for the +library of Isaac Vossius, but refused. But the books were shortly +afterwards sold to the University of Leyden for the same sum<a name="FNanchor_172_172" id="FNanchor_172_172"></a><a href="#Footnote_172_172" class="fnanchor">[172]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_172_172" id="Footnote_172_172"></a><a href="#FNanchor_172_172"><span class="label">[172]</span></a> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Hearn.</i> i. 205, 6.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1711" id="AD_1711"></a>A.D. 1711.</h3> + +<p>A watch which had belonged to Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is +said to have been presented by Mr. Ralph Howland, of Maidenhead.</p> + +<p>Grabe's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Adversaria</i>. See <a href="#AD_1724">1724</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1712" id="AD_1712"></a>A.D. 1712.</h3> + +<p>'July 19, Died Mr. Joseph Crabb, Under-keeper of the Bodleian +Library, having kept in ever since this day sennight. He died of +a rheumatism, occasion'd by a careless sort of life. He was, +however, an honest harmless man. He was buried on Monday +night following (between 7 and 8 o'cl.) in Haly-well Church<!-- Page 130 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span>yard, +very privately. Upon his coffin was put, <i>I. C. ag. 38. +1712</i>; but I heard him say some time since he was 39 years old<a name="FNanchor_173_173" id="FNanchor_173_173"></a><a href="#Footnote_173_173" class="fnanchor">[173]</a>.' +He is described in the following caustic terms by Zach. Conr. +Uffenbach, in a letter written in 1713, and printed in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Commercium +Epistolicum</i><a name="FNanchor_174_174" id="FNanchor_174_174"></a><a href="#Footnote_174_174" class="fnanchor">[174]</a>:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot" xml:lang="la" lang="la"><p>'Alteri [præfecto Bibliothecæ], nomine Crab, caput vacuum +cerebro est, lepidum alias, dignusque homo quem ridiculo illo encomio, +quo tamen multi serio egregios viros onerarunt, ornetur, +vociteturque Helluo, non librorum tamen sed præmiorum, quæ +ab exteris Bibliothecam hanc invisentibus avide excipit, statimque +cauponibus reddit pro liquore, ad guttur colluendum purgandumque +a pulvisculo, qui librorum tractationem velut umbra aut +nebula comitari solet. Quamvis non ejus, sed tertii infimique +Bibliothecarii, hoc sit muneris, ut libros in loculos reponat, quævis +in ordinem redigat atque emundet.'</p></div> + +<p>The date of Crabb's appointment has not been ascertained, +but it must have been previous to 1699, as on Nov. 8 of that year +an order appears in the Visitors' Book for an extra payment to +him of £10<a name="FNanchor_175_175" id="FNanchor_175_175"></a><a href="#Footnote_175_175" class="fnanchor">[175]</a>; other additional payments of £5 and 50<i>s.</i> are made +to him annually until 1710. Two vols. of an index to texts of +printed sermons, ending about the year 1708, (now Bodl. MSS. +47 and 657,) which were, doubtless, intended to form a continuation +of Verneuil's little book, are said in an old entry in the +Catalogue to be by 'Mr. Crabb.' The following brief account of +him is given in Rawlinson's MSS. collections for a continuation of +Wood's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Athenæ</i>:—</p> +<p><!-- Page 131 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span></p> +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Joseph Crabb, son of Will. Crabb, clerk, born at Child-Ockford +in Dorsetshire on —— 1674; educated in grammar +learning at ——; matriculated as a member of Exeter +College, 18 July 1691; took the degree of B.A. 17 Oct. +1695; became Sub-librarian at the public library; removed to +Gloucester Hall, where he became M.A., 4 July 1705, and +died ——.'</p></div> + +<p>Rawlinson goes on to attribute to him (as his solitary claim +to a place in the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Athenæ</i>) a <i>Poem on the late Storm</i>, Lond. 1704, +fol., but this was written (as well as a Latin poem <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">In Georgium +reducem</i>, Lond. 1719, fol.) by John Crabb, Fellow of Exeter College +(B.A., Oct. 15, 1685; M.A., June 19, 1688), who was also a +Sub-librarian at an earlier period, but the date of whose entrance +into office as well as of quittance is not known. The latter +became Rector of Breamore, Hants, in 1709, where he died in +1748 at the age of eighty-five. He is remarkable for having +married four wives, all of whom lie buried with him in his church. +The third of these, Grace Shuckbridge, became his wife when he +was aged seventy-six and she was forty-nine; the last (who survived +until March 13, 1777) was thirty-six when she took him, +at the age of eighty-one, for better or worse. There is a handsome +marble tablet to his memory on the north wall of the Chancel +of Breamore Church, bearing the following inscription, and surmounted +by his arms (<i>scil.</i>, on a field gules a chevron between +two fleur-de-lis above and a crab displayed below or; crest, a +demi-lion rampant or) painted in their proper colours:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot" xml:lang="la" lang="la"><p>'H. S. E. Reverend. Johan. Crabb, A. M. è Coll. Exon quondam +Socius Oxon., Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ Sub-Librarius, et a +sacris olim Episc. Fowler, hujus Parochiæ Minister residens amplius +<span class="smcap">XXXVIII</span> ann. Vir doctus, pius, generosus, in Ecclesiâ Orthodoxus, +in Republicâ fidelis, et omnibus liberalis. Author +Georgianæ et aliorum Carminum celebrium latine et anglice,<!-- Page 132 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span> +Obiit tandem <span class="smcap">XIII</span> Id. Martii, Anno ætat. suæ <span class="smcap">LXXXV.</span>, Æræ +Christianæ <span class="smcap">MDCCXLVIII</span><a name="FNanchor_176_176" id="FNanchor_176_176"></a><a href="#Footnote_176_176" class="fnanchor">[176]</a>.'</p></div> + +<p>On July 22, Thomas Hearne was appointed Second-keeper by +Dr. Hudson, in the room of Crabb, while still retaining his post as +Janitor, 'with liberty allow'd him of being keeper of the Anatomy +schoole, or Bodleian repository, on purpose to advance the perquisites +of the place, which are very inconsiderable<a name="FNanchor_177_177" id="FNanchor_177_177"></a><a href="#Footnote_177_177" class="fnanchor">[177]</a>,' but with the +proviso that the salary of the janitor's place should go to an +assistant officer. By this arrangement Hearne retained the keys, +so that he could go in and out when he pleased<a name="FNanchor_178_178" id="FNanchor_178_178"></a><a href="#Footnote_178_178" class="fnanchor">[178]</a>.</p> + +<p>'Sept. 16, Dr. Hudson told me to-day that some have complain'd +that books in the Publick Library are not so easily come at as +usual. I am glad there is such a complaint. I am afraid the +complainers are such as us'd to steal books from the Library, and, +upon that account, are concern'd that they are more strictly look'd +after than formerly<a name="FNanchor_179_179" id="FNanchor_179_179"></a><a href="#Footnote_179_179" class="fnanchor">[179]</a>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_173_173" id="Footnote_173_173"></a><a href="#FNanchor_173_173"><span class="label">[173]</span></a> Hearne's <i>MS. Diary</i>, xxxvii. 180.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_174_174" id="Footnote_174_174"></a><a href="#FNanchor_174_174"><span class="label">[174]</span></a> 1753, p. 182. For the reference to this passage the author is indebted to +Dibdin's <i>Bibliogr. Decam.</i> iii. 281. The same volume of Uffenbach's contains some +criticisms on Bernard's Catalogue of the MSS., chiefly with relation to the Barocci +collection, with extracts from the additional entries in the Reg. Benef.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_175_175" id="Footnote_175_175"></a><a href="#FNanchor_175_175"><span class="label">[175]</span></a> This was granted at Hyde's urgent request, 'in regard of his great pains in +entering books in the Catalogue, and of the smallness of his place.' <i>Letter from +Hyde to Hudson</i>, in Walker's <i>Letters</i>, i. 174.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_176_176" id="Footnote_176_176"></a><a href="#FNanchor_176_176"><span class="label">[176]</span></a> For the above particulars of John Crabb's history subsequent to his leaving +Oxford the author is indebted to his friend the Rev. J. H. Blunt, lately the Curate in +charge of the parish of Breamore, who mentions, with reference to Crabb's connubial +experiences, the parallel case of Bishop John Thomas, Bishop of the adjoining +diocese of Salisbury, 1757-61, and afterwards of Winchester. At his fourth wedding +that prelate had the good taste and feeling to present his friends with memorial +rings inscribed with the couplet:— +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p> +<span class="i0">'If I survive<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I'll make them five.'<br /></span> +</p></div></div> +<p> +But the lady did not afford him the wished-for opportunity.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_177_177" id="Footnote_177_177"></a><a href="#FNanchor_177_177"><span class="label">[177]</span></a> Hearne's <i>MS. Diary</i>, xxxvii. 191.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_178_178" id="Footnote_178_178"></a><a href="#FNanchor_178_178"><span class="label">[178]</span></a> <i>Life</i>, 1772, p. 14.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_179_179" id="Footnote_179_179"></a><a href="#FNanchor_179_179"><span class="label">[179]</span></a> <i>MS. Diary</i>, xxxix. 120.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1713" id="AD_1713"></a>A.D. 1713.</h3> + +<p>The learned and munificent Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop successively +of Cashel, Dublin, and Armagh, on his death, Nov. 2, in +this year, bequeathed to the Library a very large and valuable<!-- Page 133 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> +gathering of Oriental MSS., which had been chiefly procured for +him in the East by Huntington, and at the sale of Golius' library, +at Leyden, in October, 1696, by Bernard. The collection numbers +at present 714 volumes, but probably some of these may have been +books added for convenience' sake from other sources. Many of +them bear the motto of some former owner (<i>qu.</i> Golius?), somewhat +like in form to Selden's, but better in spirit, <span title="Grk: pantachê tên alêtheian" xml:lang="grc" lang="grc" class="note">πανταχη +την αληθειαν</span>.' It is strange that no notice of this liberal gift is found +in any of the Library Registers, and it is only from a passing +mention in Hearne's preface to Camden's <i>Elizabeth</i> (p. lxvi.) that +we find it was a death-bed legacy, and consequently learn the date +of its acquisition. Hearne there says that the books were placed +in the Library '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">in tenebris</span>;' and this expression was made one of +the subjects of complaint against him when prosecuted in 1718 in +the Vice-Chancellor's court on account of that preface. He then +replied that the expression was correct, for that they were placed +in a dark corner to which access was only had through a trap-door, +but that he himself had put them there for want of a better +place. He had wished to deposit them in one of the rooms in the +Picture Gallery, but Dr. Hudson kept that for his own purposes<a name="FNanchor_180_180" id="FNanchor_180_180"></a><a href="#Footnote_180_180" class="fnanchor">[180]</a>.</p> + +<p>At this period every stranger admitted to read in the Library +had to pay nine shillings in fees, of which 1<i>s.</i> went to the Head +Librarian, 3<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> to the Second Librarian, 1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> to the Janitor, +2<i>s.</i> to the Registrar (for an order for admission, but in the Long +Vacation this fee went to the Second Librarian), and 1<i>s.</i> to the +Proctor's man<a name="FNanchor_181_181" id="FNanchor_181_181"></a><a href="#Footnote_181_181" class="fnanchor">[181]</a>. In 1720 the fee to be received from every visitor +not qualified to read was fixed at one penny, to be paid to a +porter who was then first appointed to the charge of the Picture +Gallery. It subsequently rose by a silent custom to the large +sum of a shilling; but some few years ago the Curators fixed<!-- Page 134 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span> +the charge to visitors at threepence each, unless accompanied, and +in consequence <i>franked</i>, by some member of the University in +his academic dress. Since this moderate sum has been fixed, +the number of ordinary sight-seeing visitors has, naturally, much +increased<a name="FNanchor_182_182" id="FNanchor_182_182"></a><a href="#Footnote_182_182" class="fnanchor">[182]</a>.</p> + +<p>The suppression, by an order of the Heads of Houses, dated +March 23, 1712/3, of Hearne's edition of Dodwell's tract <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Parma +Equestri Woodwardiana</i>, was attributed by Hearne himself to (as the +remote occasion) an incident connected with his office in the +Library, which is related very fully by himself in vol. xliv. of his <i>MS. +Diary</i>. On Feb. 20, Mr. Keil, the Savilian Professor of Geometry, +brought to the Library an Irish gentleman named Mollineux, recommended +by Sir Andrew Fountaine, to whom he requested Hearne +to show the curiosities of the place. As Keil was 'a very honest gentleman,' +Hearne little suspected that his friend was possessed with +the 'republican ill principles' and 'malignant temper' of Whiggism, +and consequently was not very guarded in his talk. After showing +him various MSS. and coins, he took the visitor into the Anatomy +School<a name="FNanchor_183_183" id="FNanchor_183_183"></a><a href="#Footnote_183_183" class="fnanchor">[183]</a>, where all kinds of odds and ends were preserved; amongst +which was (as Hearne gravely notes in another place) a calf which, +being born in the year of the Union, 1707, had (it is to be presumed +in consequence thereof) two bodies and one head. What<!-- Page 135 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span> +followed during the exhibition of this museum is worth relating in +the diarist's own words:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'I mentioned a picture engraved and hanging there with horns +and wings, and underneath, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">uxor ejus ad vivum pinxil</i>. This picture +many had said was Benjamin Hoadley, the seditious divine of +London; but, for my part, I gave no other description of it than +this, that 'twas the picture of one of the greatest Presbyterian, +republican, antimonarchical, Whiggish, fanatical preachers living in +England. And this description was enough to exasperate him. +And yet, for all that, he did not discover any passion, nor give the +least hint that he was a Whig himself. Neither did he give any +hint of it afterwards till I came to mention a tobacco stopper +tipped with silver, and given to me by a reverend divine, who had +informed me that it was made out of an oak that lately grew in +St. James's Park, but was destroyed by the D. of M. for the great +house he was building near St. James's, and that the said oak came +from an acorn that was planted there by King Charles II, being +one of those acorns that he had gathered in the Royal Oak, where +he was forced to shelter himself from the fury of the rebells after +the fight at Worcester. Mr. Mollineux was at the other end of the +room when this was shew'd, and the said story told; but hearing +it he comes immediately to the tables, and expresses himself in +words of this kind, viz. <i>that 'twas a bawble, and that an hundred +such things were not worth the seeing</i>. Mr. Keil however thought +otherwise, and said that he thought my collection was better than +that in the Laboratory. Some mirth passing after this, I went on +with my description, and had not yet formed an opinion that +Mr. Mollineux was a Whig; but finding that he was still inquisitive +after other curiosities, and that he pretended to much skill in good +ingraving and drawing, I produced the picture of a beautifull +young man, over the head of which was <span title="Grk: EIKÔN BASILIKÊ" xml:lang="la" lang="la" class="note">ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ</span>, and +underneath, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Quid quæritis ultra?</i> I did not tell them whose +picture it was, but said that I shew'd it them as a thing excellently +well done, which they all allow'd and view'd it over and over, and +seemed to be mightily taken with it, and Mr. Mollineux in particular +was pleased to say that 'twas admirably well done, and +deserved a place amongst the most exquisite performances of this<!-- Page 136 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span> +kind, at the same time asking how long I had had it, and whose +picture I took it to be. To the former of which questions I +reply'd, about a quarter of a year, to the latter that I did not +pretend to tell who it was designed for. Yet Mr. Keil was +pleased to laugh, and to tell Mr. Mollineux, <i>They are all rebells, +Mr. Mollineux, they are all rebells in this place</i>, speaking these +words in a merry joking way, and not with any intent to do me an +injury. Mr. Mollineux took the words upon the picture down, +which I did not deny him, not thinking that 'twas with a design to +inform against me, as it afterwards proved. Yet from this time I +began a little to suspect his integrity, and that he was not one of +those good men I expected from Mr. Keil, whom I had always +found to be a man of honesty.'</p></div> + +<p><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hinc illæ lachrymæ!</i> Poor Hearne was reported to Dr. Charlett +the same afternoon for showing the Pretender's Picture; a meeting +of the Curators of the Library was threatened; but eventually the +matter seemed to pass over by his being desired by the Vice-Chancellor +to give up the key of the Anatomy School, in order that the +determining Bachelors might meet there, by which change Hearne +was mulcted of the fees which he obtained for showing the room, +and was sometimes detained one hour, or two, later than usual in +order to see to the locking up of the staircase on which it is situated. +On March 23, however, he was summoned before the Heads of +Houses for remarks made in his preface to Dodwell's above-mentioned +tract, and, after a sharp discussion, in which reference +was made to his exhibition of the portraits, he was ordered to +suppress his preface, and re-issue the book without it; to which he +consented. He was pressed to make a formal retractation of the +passages to which objection was made, but this he stiffly refused to +do. He says in a letter to Sir Philip Sydenham that the only +form of retractation or expression of sorrow he could have been +prevailed on to sign (strongly resembling the famous apology of +a middy to an insulted naval surgeon) would have been some such<!-- Page 137 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span> +form as this:—'I, Thomas Hearne, A.M., of the University of +Oxford, having ever since my matriculation followed my studies +with as much application as I have been capable of, and having +published several books for the honour and credit of learning, and +particularly for the reputation of the foresaid University, am very +sorry that by my declining to say anything but what I knew to be +true in any of my writings, and especially in the last book I published, +intituled, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Henrici Dodwelli de Parma Equestri Woodwardiana +Dissertatio, &c.</i>, I should incurr the displeasure of any of the +Heads of Houses, and as a token of my sorrow for their being +offended at truth, I subscribe my name to this paper, and permitt +them to make what use of it they please<a name="FNanchor_184_184" id="FNanchor_184_184"></a><a href="#Footnote_184_184" class="fnanchor">[184]</a>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_180_180" id="Footnote_180_180"></a><a href="#FNanchor_180_180"><span class="label">[180]</span></a> Hearne's <i>MS. Diary</i>, vol. lxxi. May 20.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_181_181" id="Footnote_181_181"></a><a href="#FNanchor_181_181"><span class="label">[181]</span></a> <i>Ibid.</i> vol. xlvii. p. 89.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_182_182" id="Footnote_182_182"></a><a href="#FNanchor_182_182"><span class="label">[182]</span></a> In an account of a visit to Oxford by an American tourist, which appeared very +recently in the <i>New York Times</i>, and was copied into English journals, written with +the warm-hearted tone of one who could rightly appreciate the interest of the place, +although (like most Transatlantic visitors) he spent but twenty-four hours in it, +the following comment is made upon the smallness of this Bodleian fee:—'The +gentleman [i. e. the present Janitor, Mr. John Norris] who showed me through +this noble collection, and gave me the most interesting explanations, politely informed +me that the charge was 3<i>d.</i> It went against my conscience to give a gentleman +of his civility and erudition the price of a pot of beer, and I added a small +testimonial, for which he seemed more than sufficiently grateful.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_183_183" id="Footnote_183_183"></a><a href="#FNanchor_183_183"><span class="label">[183]</span></a> This was the room which is now attached to the Library under the name of +the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Auctarium</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_184_184" id="Footnote_184_184"></a><a href="#FNanchor_184_184"><span class="label">[184]</span></a> Hearne's <i>MS. Diary</i>, xlviii. 22. The retractation and apology which Hearne +afterwards actually submitted to the Vice-Chancellor in court in 1718, when in trouble +again for his preface to Camden's Elizabeth, was very similar in style to this. But +he was not allowed to read it. <i>Ibid.</i> lxxi. 3 May.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1714" id="AD_1714"></a>A.D. 1714.</h3> + +<p>An evidence of the increased intercourse which sprang up +between Denmark and England, in consequence of the marriage +of Queen Anne, is probably to be found in the number of Danish +readers who frequented the Library in the interval between her +marriage and her death. Between the years 1683 and 1714, forty-nine +Danes are entered in the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Liber Admissorum</i>, besides many from +Sweden, Norway, and the North of Germany. The total number +of foreigners admitted within the same period was no less than 244.</p> + +<p>'In the year 1714 were in the Bodleian Library:—</p> + + + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Number of volumes in the library in 1714."> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">30169</td><td align="left">pr. vols.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left" class="bb">05916</td><td align="left">MSS. vols.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">In all</td><td align="left">36085.'</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p class="center">(Hearne's <i>MS. Diary</i>, vol. xci. p. 256.)</p> +<p><!-- Page 138 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></p> + +<p>It is strange that, notwithstanding Selden's and Laud's large +additions, the Library had therefore very little more than doubled +since 1620.</p> + +<p>It is recorded in vol. li. of the same Diary (p. 187) that the old +series of portraits which were painted on the wall of the Picture +Gallery was renewed in November of this year. These portraits, +amounting in number to about 222, ran round the gallery, immediately +under the roof; many of them were fancy-heads of ancient +philosophers and writers, but besides these there were some real +portraits of English writers and divines, up to the time of James I. +A list of the whole series, as well as of the oil paintings in the +Gallery, was printed by Hearne together with his <i>Letter containing +an Account of some Antiquities between Windsor and Oxford</i>. Of the +renovation of the wall-paintings he thus speaks in his preface to +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Rossi Historia Regum Angliæ</i> (1716): '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Non possim quin bibliothecæ +Bodleianæ Curatores laudem, qui pictori Academico</span> [<i>i.e.</i> Wildgoose] +<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">in mandatis dederunt, ut veteres effigies renovet nitorique +pristino restituat: quippe quas eo pluris æstimendas esse censeo, +quod eas in galeria depingendas jusserit ipse Bodleius, Loci +Genius</span>.' When the Gallery was re-roofed in 1831, all these paintings +were, however, removed [<i>see</i> p. <a href="#Page_15">15</a>].</p> + +<p>About the end of this year the Arundel Marbles, which, strange +to say, had been exposed to the open air within the quadrangle of +the Schools ever since they were given to the University, were +removed into one of the rooms on the ground-floor, where they +still remain. It was said that they had suffered more 'since they +were exposed to our air, than they did in many hundred years +before they came into it<a name="FNanchor_185_185" id="FNanchor_185_185"></a><a href="#Footnote_185_185" class="fnanchor">[185]</a>.' But the influence of the air was not all +they had to contend against, for Hearne tells us that the defacing +of the Marble Chronicle (of which there are portions that were read<!-- Page 139 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span> +by Selden, which now can no longer be read at all) and some +others, was owing not merely to exposure to the weather, but +'to the abuses of children who are continually playing in the area, +and of other ignorant persons<a name="FNanchor_186_186" id="FNanchor_186_186"></a><a href="#Footnote_186_186" class="fnanchor">[186]</a>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_185_185" id="Footnote_185_185"></a><a href="#FNanchor_185_185"><span class="label">[185]</span></a> <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, 1813, vol. i. p. 297.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_186_186" id="Footnote_186_186"></a><a href="#FNanchor_186_186"><span class="label">[186]</span></a> <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, 1813, vol. i. p. 204.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1715" id="AD_1715"></a>A.D. 1715.</h3> + +<p>We learn from Hearne's MS. Diary [vol. liii.] that differences +between him and Dr. Hudson (of which he makes frequent mention) +increased during this year. He was reported to the Vice-Chancellor +in April for absence from the Library through his duties as +Bedel, by reason of which readers had difficulty in obtaining books +lodged above stairs. To this complaint his reply was that he +was not bound, as Second Librarian, exclusively to do such +'drudgery,' but that Dr. Hudson was himself obliged by statute to +deliver out such books as were under lock-and-key, and books +in quarto and octavo, either personally or by his own special deputy. +At the same time a complaint was made against him by three +Bachelors of Arts of Queen's College, for refusing books to them +which were out of the faculty of Arts prescribed to them by the +statutes of the Library. Hearne's only reply to the Vice-Chancellor +in this case was the asking whether they had, also in accordance +with the Statutes, come to the Library in their hoods, +if under two years' standing; at which 'he smiled.' It appears, +therefore, that this requirement had already become obsolete. +Dr. Hudson, however, regarded the matter more seriously, and +threatened that Hearne should be turned out of both his places.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>April 15. (Good Friday!) 'This morning Dr. Hudson went out +of town, and that pert jackanapes Bowles (who is Dr. Hudson's +servitor) came to tell me that he is gone, and that the sweeper of +the Library being dead, I must not admitt any one to sweep the<!-- Page 140 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span> +Library as formerly. I returned answer I had nothing to do in +that case. In the afternoon I was at study in the Library, and +Bowles brings up a woman and girl, and set them to sweeping, and +left them there, tho' this should not have been, they being not +sworn nor admitted as sweepers. Indeed all things are now done +very irregularly in the Library by the permission of Dr. Hudson, +and by the impudence of this pert, silly servitour, and I am afraid +much mischief is done withall. The whole Library and galleries +and studies and the Anatomy School used to be swept this day; +they began about eight, and had not done till four or five in the +afternoon. But now the Library only below stairs was swept over, +and that very slightly, and all things were left in a bad condition, +to my very great concern<a name="FNanchor_187_187" id="FNanchor_187_187"></a><a href="#Footnote_187_187" class="fnanchor">[187]</a>.'</p></div> + +<p>At the visitation on Nov. 8, the Curators passed a resolution +that the places of Under-librarian and Bedel were inconsistent, +and that on S. Thomas' day Hudson should be at liberty +to appoint some other person to Hearne's office. Hereupon +Hearne immediately, without a moment's delay, resigned both the +offices of Architypographus and Superior Bedel of Civil Law, and +claimed to remain in the Library; but Hudson had fresh locks +put on the doors, of which Bowles kept the keys, so that Hearne +was unable to go in and out as before. However, he continued +to execute his office whenever the Library was open until Jan. 23, +1716, when the Act which imposed a fine of £500, with other +penalties, upon any one who held any public office without having +taken the Oaths, came into operation. Then at once, all worldly +interests, all affection for the old place of his studies and his care, +gave way to the honest and unwavering dictates of his conscience; +the Non-juror withdrew, and, with singularly hard measure, in +spite of his representations, his place was ordered by the Curators +to be filled up at Lady-Day, not on the ground of his own retirement, +but on that of <i>neglect of duty</i>! His successor was Rev.<!-- Page 141 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span> +John Fletcher, M.A., Chaplain, and afterwards Fellow, of Queen's +College. Hearne states that his salary was, with great unfairness, +withheld from him for the whole half-year preceding Lady-Day, +together with some fees which were due<a name="FNanchor_188_188" id="FNanchor_188_188"></a><a href="#Footnote_188_188" class="fnanchor">[188]</a>. But to the end of his +life he maintained that he was still, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">de jure</i>, Sub-librarian, and, +with a quaint pertinacity, regularly at the end of each term and +half-year, up to March 30, 1735<a name="FNanchor_189_189" id="FNanchor_189_189"></a><a href="#Footnote_189_189" class="fnanchor">[189]</a>, continued to set down, in one of +the volumes of his Diary, that no fees had been paid him, and that +his half-year's salary was due.</p> + +<p>On Hearne's announcing John Ross's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Historia Angliæ</i> for publication +in this year, W. Whiston forwarded to him a MS. of a +Latin historical poem entitled <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Britannica</i>, written in 1606 by an +author of the same names as the forth-coming historian, with the +following note inserted:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'This book was written, as I think, by my great uncle, Mr. John +Rosse, rector of Norton-juxta-Twycross in Leicestershire, where +I was myself born. If it may be of any use to Mr. Hern at +Oxford in his intended edition of this or some other work of the +same author now advertis'd, or may be thought worthy of a place +in the publick library of that University, it is hereby freely given +thereto by</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in20">'WILLIAM WHISTON.</span><br /> +<span class="text-in1">'<i>London, December 12, 1715.</i>'</span><br /> +</p></div> + +<p>Hearne adds that (of course) the author was altogether different +from the Ross of his editing, and that the poem had been printed +at Frankfort in 1607, as he learned from a MS. Catalogue of +Mr. Richard Smith's books lent him by Bp. Fleetwood of Ely<a name="FNanchor_190_190" id="FNanchor_190_190"></a><a href="#Footnote_190_190" class="fnanchor">[190]</a>. +The MS. is now numbered, Bodley 573.</p> + +<p>A learned tailor of Norwich was in this year recommended by<!-- Page 142 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span> +Dr. Tanner, then Chancellor of Norwich Cathedral, for the Janitor's +place in the Library should it be vacant. Although but a +journeyman tailor of thirty years of age, who had been taught +nothing but English in his childhood, Henry Wild had contrived +within seven years to master seven languages, Latin, Greek, +Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic and Persian, to which Tanner +adds, in another letter to Dr. Rawlinson, Samaritan and Ethiopic. +The application appears to have been unsuccessful so far as the +holding office in the Library was concerned; but Wild found some +employment in the Library for a time in the translating and copying +Oriental MSS<a name="FNanchor_191_191" id="FNanchor_191_191"></a><a href="#Footnote_191_191" class="fnanchor">[191]</a>. He removed to London about 1720, and died +in the following year, as we learn from an entry in Hearne's <i>MS. +Diary</i>, (xcii. 128-9,) under date of Oct. 29, 1721, where we read:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'About a fortnight since died in London Mr. Henry Wild, commonly +called, the <i>Arabick Taylour</i>. I have more than once mentioned +him formerly. He was by profession a taylour of Norwich, +and was a married man. But having a strange inclination to +languages, by a prodigious industry he obtain'd a very considerable +knowledge in many, without any help or assistance from others. +He understood Arabick perfectly well, and transcrib'd, very fairly, +much from Bodley, being patroniz'd by that most eminent physician, +Dr. Rich. Mead. He died of a feaver, aged about 39. He +was about a considerable work, viz. a history of the old Arabian +physicians, from an Arabick MS. in Bodley. The MS. was wholly +transcrib'd by him a year agoe, but what progress he had made +for the press I know not.'</p></div> + +<p>Five MSS., including the Leiger Book of Malmesbury Abbey, +together with a large number of printed books, were given on +May 7, by William Brewster, M.D. of Hereford, a well-known +antiquary<a name="FNanchor_192_192" id="FNanchor_192_192"></a><a href="#Footnote_192_192" class="fnanchor">[192]</a>.</p> + +<p>A thick quarto volume (1052 pages) containing a Latin treatise<!-- Page 143 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span> +by Adam Zernichaus on the controversy between the Eastern and +Western Churches, concerning the Procession of the Holy Ghost, +was forwarded to the Library through Sir Robert Sutton, ambassador +at Constantinople, by Chrysanthus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, +nephew and successor of Dositheus, an autograph Greek epistle +from whom, occupying seven pages, is prefixed. At the end is +a list of eleven German scribes who were employed upon the +transcription of the volume, with the payments they severally received. +It appears from the Benefaction Register that the volume +was not actually received at the Library until 1722; and in 1731, +an entry in the catalogue records that the MS. 'was restored to +Sir Robert Sutton, by order of the Vice-Chancellor;' but no +reason or explanation is given. For more than a century the +Patriarch's gift was consequently lost from the place of its destination; +but in Dec. 1864, having turned up for sale among the +well-known stores of Mr. C. J. Stewart, it was secured by the +Librarian at the cost of £5 15<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>, and is once more to be found +in its legitimate quarters, numbered MS. Addit. Bodl. ii. c. 9. +Chrysanthus also gave, in 1725, a copy of Dositheus' History of the +Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which was printed, in Greek, in 1715.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_187_187" id="Footnote_187_187"></a><a href="#FNanchor_187_187"><span class="label">[187]</span></a> Hearne's <i>MS. Diary</i>, liii. 124, 5.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_188_188" id="Footnote_188_188"></a><a href="#FNanchor_188_188"><span class="label">[188]</span></a> <i>Life</i>, 1772, pp. 18-20.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_189_189" id="Footnote_189_189"></a><a href="#FNanchor_189_189"><span class="label">[189]</span></a> He died on June 10, in that year.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_190_190" id="Footnote_190_190"></a><a href="#FNanchor_190_190"><span class="label">[190]</span></a> This catalogue was sold at the auction in 1855 of the MSS. of Dr. Routh, +who had bought it at Heber's sale.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_191_191" id="Footnote_191_191"></a><a href="#FNanchor_191_191"><span class="label">[191]</span></a> <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, i. 271, 300. [On p. 270 for <i>Turner</i>, read <i>Tanner</i>.]</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_192_192" id="Footnote_192_192"></a><a href="#FNanchor_192_192"><span class="label">[192]</span></a> Hearne's <i>MS. Diary</i>, liii. 148.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1716" id="AD_1716"></a>A.D. 1716.</h3> + +<p>On Aug. 23, a legacy of £100 from Dr. South (who died +July 8), for the purchase of modern books, was paid to the Vice-Chancellor<a name="FNanchor_193_193" id="FNanchor_193_193"></a><a href="#Footnote_193_193" class="fnanchor">[193]</a>.</p> + +<p><i>Arms in the window.</i> See <a href="#AD_1610">1610</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_193_193" id="Footnote_193_193"></a><a href="#FNanchor_193_193"><span class="label">[193]</span></a> Hearne's <i>Diary</i>, lix. 141; <i>Reliqq. Hearn.</i> i. 366.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1718" id="AD_1718"></a>A.D. 1718.</h3> + +<p>One Mr. Hutton appears to have been employed in the +Library during this year. It seems, from a passage in a letter of<!-- Page 144 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span> +C. Wheatly's, printed in <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, ii. 116, that the +learned commentator Samuel Parker, son of the Bishop of Oxford, +was also at some time employed in the Library; for Wheatly +expresses a wish that S. Parker's son, then (1739) an apprentice +to Mr. Clements the bookseller, might, if the accounts of his extraordinary +proficiency be true, be placed 'in his father's seat, the +Bodleian Library.' As Parker was a non-juror, his employment +must doubtless have been at some earlier period than this, but his +name is not met with in any of the old Account-books or Registers. +One Thomas Parker occurs in the Library accounts in 1766 +and in 1772.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1719" id="AD_1719"></a>A.D. 1719.</h3> + +<p>Dr. Hudson died, on Nov. 27, of dropsy. And at one o'clock on +the afternoon of the very next day, Joseph Bowles, M.A., of Oriel +College, was elected in his room.</p> + +<p>The bitter terms in which Hearne frequently, in the course of +his <i>Diary</i>, condemns Hudson's management, or rather mismanagement, +of the Library, may be supposed to be owing in a considerable +degree to personal pique and quarrel<a name="FNanchor_194_194" id="FNanchor_194_194"></a><a href="#Footnote_194_194" class="fnanchor">[194]</a>. But they meet +with very singular and abundant confirmation in the letter of Z. C. +Uffenbach, quoted above (p. 130), when the writer expresses, in +the following strong language, his opinion of Hudson's neglect +and incapacity, and of the general condition of the Library under +his management:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot" xml:lang="la" lang="la"><p>'Perpende, quæso, mecum, vir eruditissime, quantus thesaurus +ex solius Bodleianæ Bibliothecæ codicibus elici possit, nisi Proto-Bibliothecarii +Hudson negligentia ac pertinacia obstaret. Is enim +muneri abunde satisfecisse, imo eximie ornasse Spartam videri +vult, dum tot annis unico scriptori, Thucydidem ejus puto, omni<!-- Page 145 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> +Bibliothecæ cura plane abjecta, insudavit, cum hoc, quod supra +dixi, potius agendum fuisset. Nefandam hujus insignis Bibliothecæ +sortem (ignosce justæ indignationi) satis deplorare nequeo. Inculta +plane jacet, nemo ferme tanto thesauro uti, frui, gestit. +Singulis sane diebus per trium mensium spatium illam frequentavi, +sed, ita me dii ament, nunquam tot una vice homines in illa vidi +quot numero sunt Musæ, vel saltem artes liberales. De librorum +studiosis loquor; nam puerorum, muliercularum, rusticorum, hinc +inde cursitantium, voluminumque multitudinem per transennas +spectantium mirantiumque, cœtum excipio.... De Proto-bibliothecarii +incuria jam dixi, ejusque stupendam in historia literaria +librariaque, inprimis extra Insulam ultraque maria, ignorantiam +taceo.'</p></div> + +<p>Of Hearne, however, Uffenbach writes in the following different +strain:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot" xml:lang="la" lang="la"><p>'Hîc scholaris, ut hîc loqui amant, esse solet, atque etiamnum +est, nomine Hearne, qui, præ reliquis, diligentiam suam non modo +scriptis, sed in novo etiam Bibliothecæ catalogo confitiendo, +typis proxime exscribendo, probavit; ast, quod dolendum, ad +exemplum prioris, qui satis jejunus, inconcinnus, erroribusque +innumeris scatens est.'</p></div> + +<p>Hudson's successor, Bowles, had previously been his Assistant +for some years, and as, while Hearne was Under-keeper, he +had come into sharp collision with that irascible antiquary (see +under <a href="#AD_1715">1715</a>), his election now was a matter of sore annoyance to +the latter. Hearne dwells upon it in his <i>Diary</i> with great bitterness +and at great length: 'Competitors were Mr. Hall, of Queen's, +and that pert conceited coxcomb Mr. Bowles (who is not yet +Regent Master) of Oriel College. Bowles carried it by a great +majority, having about 160 votes, and Mr. Hall about 77. I +think it the most scandalous election that I have yet heard of in +Oxford.' Of his supporters he speaks thus:—'Charlett and such +rogues, who contrived to bring in that most compleat coxcomb<!-- Page 146 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span> +Bowles to be Head-Librarian, to the immortal scandal of all +that were concern'd in it<a name="FNanchor_195_195" id="FNanchor_195_195"></a><a href="#Footnote_195_195" class="fnanchor">[195]</a>.' And even, when ten years later he +records Bowles' death, he indulges, in forgetfulness of charity to +the departed, in the following strain: 'Of this gentleman (a most +vile, wicked wretch) frequent mention hath been made in these +Memoirs. He took the degree of M.A. Oct. 12, 1719. 'Tis incredible +what damage he did to the Bodl. Library, by putting it into +disorder and confusion, which before, by the great pains I had +taken in it (&c.), was the best regulated library in the world<a name="FNanchor_196_196" id="FNanchor_196_196"></a><a href="#Footnote_196_196" class="fnanchor">[196]</a>.' +Bowles' name never occurs in the <i>Diary</i> without some opprobrious +epithet being attached to it, which may be accounted for +partly from his having taken the oaths of allegiance after declaring +he would never do it (a defection which Hearne never forgave +in any one), but chiefly also from his having personally excluded +Hearne from the Library, when the latter refused to resign his +keys in 1715, by procuring new locks and keys, which he kept +in his own custody.</p> + +<p>Three or four days after Bowles' election, Mr. Fletcher, the +Sub-librarian (disliking, no doubt, the appointment of his junior +over his head), resigned his office, to which Bowles appointed +the well-known antiquary, Francis Wise. Upon this appointment +Hearne comments thus: 'Bowles put in Mr. Wise, A.M., of +Trin. Coll. (a pretender to antiquities), tho' he had promised it +to one of Oriel Coll., that came in fellow of Oriel when he did, +and was very serviceable to him in getting the Head Librarian's +place; for which Bowles is strangely scouted and despis'd at Oriel, +as a breaker of his word, and a whiffling, silly, unfaithfull, coxcomb.' +It must be allowed that the portrait of Bowles in the +Library bears out in some degree Hearne's last epithet, by giving +him the appearance rather of a fine clerical gentleman than of a +student.<!-- Page 147 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span></p> + +<p>Baskett, the printer, presented to the Library a magnificent +copy on vellum of the 'Vinegar' Bible, printed by him in 1717. +Only three copies were so struck off; the second was placed in +the King's Library, and the third was sold to the Duke of +Chandos, for five hundred guineas, at whose sale, in 1747, Lord +Foley purchased it for £72 9<i>s.</i></p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_194_194" id="Footnote_194_194"></a><a href="#FNanchor_194_194"><span class="label">[194]</span></a> In one passage, Hearne says that such was Hudson's self-esteem that he +reckoned himself equal to Erasmus or Sir Thomas More, while all that was curious in +his books was gained from Hearne himself or others. (<i>MS. Diary</i>, vol. lviii. p. 158.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_195_195" id="Footnote_195_195"></a><a href="#FNanchor_195_195"><span class="label">[195]</span></a> Vol. lxxxiv. pp. 59, 60.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_196_196" id="Footnote_196_196"></a><a href="#FNanchor_196_196"><span class="label">[196]</span></a> Vol. cxxii. p. 158.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1720" id="AD_1720"></a>A.D. 1720.</h3> + +<p>About this time, one John Hawkins, a highwayman (who was +executed in May, 1722), is said by an accomplice, Ralph Wilson, +who published an account of his robberies, to have defaced some +pictures in the Library. The University is said to have offered +£100 for discovery, and a poor Whig tailor was taken up on +suspicion, and narrowly escaped a whipping. No particulars, +however, of Hawkins' act are given in the pamphlet, and no further +notice of it has been found elsewhere.</p> + +<p>Joseph Swallow, B.A., who died in this year, is found from +the Accounts to have been employed, for some short time, in the +Library.</p> + +<p>In this year the titles of all books which were bought out of +the Library funds begin to be recorded, together with their prices; +they are entered in a Register marked with the letter C.</p> + +<p><i>Visitors' Fees.</i> See <a href="#AD_1713">1713</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1721" id="AD_1721"></a>A.D. 1721.</h3> + +<p>The inscription on the Schools' Tower, beneath the statue of +James I, was renewed in this year<a name="FNanchor_197_197" id="FNanchor_197_197"></a><a href="#Footnote_197_197" class="fnanchor">[197]</a>.</p> + +<p>Sir Godfrey Kneller presented his own portrait to the Gallery.<!-- Page 148 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span></p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_197_197" id="Footnote_197_197"></a><a href="#FNanchor_197_197"><span class="label">[197]</span></a> Hearne's <i>Diary</i>, xci. 196.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1722" id="AD_1722"></a>A.D. 1722.</h3> + +<p>Mrs. Mary Prince is recorded to have presented heads of our +Blessed <span class="smcap">Lord</span> and of King Charles I, painted by herself. They +appear to be the two paintings on copper, now hanging in the +Sub-librarian's study, called <i>Mus. Bibl. II.</i> Beneath that of our +<span class="smcap">Lord</span> is the following inscription: 'This present figure is the +symylytude of our Lorde Jesus our Saviour, imprinted in amyrald +by the Predecessors of the Great Turke, & sent to Pope Innocent +y<sup>e</sup> Eight at the cost of the Great Turke for a token, for this +caus, to redeme his brother that was taken prisner.' The inscription +is, of course, if the painting be Mrs. Prince's work, reproduced +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">literatim</i> from some older copy.</p> + +<p>The attachment to the old Stuart family, which was so warmly +cherished in Oxford, appears to have lingered in the Bodleian, +notwithstanding Hearne's departure, who himself would scarcely +have thought that a vestige of it had been left behind. For in the +Benefaction Register for this year, the gift of a portrait of Sheffield, +Duke of Buckingham, from his widow Catherine, a natural daughter +of James II, is entered as coming from 'filia Regis Jacobi II, +<span title="tou makaritou">του μακαριτου</span>.'</p> + +<p><i>Chrysanthus, Patriarch of Jerusalem.</i> See <a href="#AD_1715">1715</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1723" id="AD_1723"></a>A.D. 1723.</h3> + +<p>The noble brass statue of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, +(who was Chancellor of the University from 1617 to his death +in 1630, and was the donor of the Barocci MSS.,) which forms +such a conspicuous feature in the Picture Gallery, was presented +this year by the earl's great nephew, Thomas, the seventh Earl of +Pembroke. It was cast by the famous artist Hubert le Sœur, from +a picture by Rubens, and is said to weigh about 1600 lbs. The<!-- Page 149 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span> +letter of thanks from the University was read in Convocation on +April 19; it is criticized by Hearne in his <i>Diary</i><a name="FNanchor_198_198" id="FNanchor_198_198"></a><a href="#Footnote_198_198" class="fnanchor">[198]</a> in the following +terms: 'I am told that this letter is very silly and poor, and that, +among other things, his Lordship is told in it that the statue is +placed <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">in æde immortalitatis</i>. Now what this <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">ædes immortalitatis</i>, +church, temple or chappel of immortality is, I cannot conceive, +but am sure that the statue is at present fix'd in the Picture Gallery, +adjoyning to the Bodl. Library.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_198_198" id="Footnote_198_198"></a><a href="#FNanchor_198_198"><span class="label">[198]</span></a> Vol. xcvi. p. 101.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1724" id="AD_1724"></a>A.D. 1724.</h3> + +<p>The MSS. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Adversaria</i> of Dr. J. E. Grabe came to the Library +in this year after the death of Bishop Smalridge (Sept. 27, 1719), +in accordance with the will of their writer, who at his death +(Nov. 12, 1712) bequeathed them first to Hickes and next to +Smalridge, with the final reversion to the Bodleian. They form +forty-three volumes. Some account of them is given in Hickes' +<i>Discourse</i> prefixed to Grabe's <i>Defects and Omissions in Whiston's +Collection of Testimonies, &c.</i> (8<sup>o</sup>. Lond. 1712), and they are fully +catalogued by Mr. Coxe in vol. i. of the general Catalogue of +MSS., cols. 851-876. In a written list of them, preserved in the +Library, Dr. Bandinel has noted that several volumes of the series +were purloined before they came to Oxford, while remaining in +the possession of a friend after Grabe's death.</p> + +<p>A Zend MS. very well and clearly written (dated in the year +1005 of the era of Yezdegird, <i>i.e.</i> <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 1635), of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Leges Sacræ, +Ritus, &c. Zoroastris</i>, was received from G. Bowcher, a merchant +in the East Indies. It was given in 1718, but not forwarded until +1723, when it was brought from India by Rev. Rich. Cobbe, M.A. +It is now numbered Bodl. Or. 321. And a Coptic Lexicon, compiled +and prepared for the press by Rev. Thos. Edward, M.A.,<!-- Page 150 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span> +a former Chaplain of Ch. Ch., was bought for the sum of ten +guineas, which was specially granted from the University Chest. +It is now numbered Bodl. Orient. 344. The author was originally +of St. John's College, Cambridge, and tells us in his preface that +Bishop Fell, who was also Dean of Ch. Ch., meeting him +there in the house of Dr. Edmund Castell, with whom he was +living, brought him to Oxford by appointing him a Chaplain of +the Cathedral, with the view of carrying on the study of the Coptic +language, which had fallen to the ground upon the death of +Dr. Marshal of Lincoln College. But just when Edward was +prepared to begin printing the results of his labours, his patron, +the Bishop, died; and, as he found no one else cared for the +subject, he took the College living of Badby in Northamptonshire, +and quitted Oxford. He finally became Rector of Aldwinkle in the +same county, and died there in the year 1721. His book is +dated 1711. It is cited by Archdeacon Tattam in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Lexicon +Ægyptiaco-Latinum</i>. Another MS. Coptic Lexicon, in two volumes, +was purchased in 1857.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1726" id="AD_1726"></a>A.D. 1726.</h3> + +<p>A large collection (in twenty-five volumes) of the tracts on the +Roman Catholic Controversy which appeared between 1680-1690, +was given by Will. Smith, M.A., of Univ. Coll., and Rector of +Melsonby, Yorkshire.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1727" id="AD_1727"></a>A.D. 1727.</h3> + +<p>Thomas Perrott, D.C.L., of St. John's College, gave nine +volumes of MSS., the most important of which is a copy-book of +the letters written by Sir John Perrott, Lord Deputy of Ireland, in +1584-6. Another is a book of orders from the Privy Council to<!-- Page 151 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span> +the officers of the Customs at London, 1604-18: a third, notes of +a sermon preached by Usher at the Temple, July 2, 1620. A few +political and miscellaneous tracts, <i>tempp. Eliz.—Jac. I</i>, and two +heraldic MSS., complete the number. The MSS. are noticed in +the return printed in the Record Commission Report for 1800, +p. 348.</p> + +<p>Some Greek MSS. were bought which had been brought from +Mount Athos; three of them are now placed amongst the Cromwell +MSS., Nos. 15, 16, and 27, and three others are numbered +Miscell. Gr. 137-9.</p> + +<p><i>Sale of Duplicates.</i> See <a href="#AD_1745">1745</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1729" id="AD_1729"></a>A.D. 1729.</h3> + +<p>Mr. Bowles, the Librarian, died at Shaftesbury, the place of his +birth, and was buried there on Nov. 25. On Dec. 2, Mr. Robert +Fysher, B.M., Fellow of Oriel College, was elected his successor +by 100 votes to 85 over Francis Wise, the Under-librarian. +Mr. John Bilstone, M.A., Chaplain of All Souls' and Janitor of the +Library, was also a candidate, but retired before the election, in +the hope of securing Wise's return. As Wise held Hearne's old +place, and was regarded by him as an usurper, and as Bilstone +held in his possession the new keys which Bowles originally procured +to render Hearne's old ones useless, the latter consequently +regarded them both with great disfavour, and rejoiced greatly at +the result of the election. His account of it is printed in the +<i>Reliqq. Hearn.</i> vol. ii. p. 712.</p> + +<p>Forty-two MS. volumes came to the Library by the bequest of +the widow of Mr. Francis Cherry, of Shottesbrooke, Berks, the +early patron and constant friend of Hearne<a name="FNanchor_199_199" id="FNanchor_199_199"></a><a href="#Footnote_199_199" class="fnanchor">[199]</a>. Cherry himself<!-- Page 152 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span> +died Sept. 23, 1713, and Hearne says that he had intended to +give his MSS. to his old <i>protégée</i>. They are not, for the most part, +of very great value, but among them are various volumes by +Dodwell; and a book written and bound by Q. Eliz. is described +above, under the year 1628. Hearne was greatly annoyed at a +paper of his own, containing reasons for taking the oath of allegiance, +which he had written in 1700, coming into the Library +amongst these books; he endeavoured in vain (although now in +these days his legal right would be at once recognized) to recover +it, and it was published, to his still greater annoyance, by the Whigs, +under the editorship of Mr. Bilstone, the janitor. An account of +Hearne's endeavours to regain it, together with a notice of +Mrs. Cherry's bequest and of the MSS., is to be found in Dr. Bliss' +Appendix to his <i>Reliqq. Hearn.</i> ii. 899-906.</p> + +<p>In the Register of Readers admitted by favour occurs, under +date of April 19, the name of 'C. Wesley, Ædis Xti alumn.,' +written in a neat and clear hand. The name of his great brother +is not found in any register extending over the period of his stay in +Oxford. At this time the Library appears to have been almost +entirely forsaken. Between 1730-1740 it rarely happens that above +one or two books are registered to readers in a day, while often +for whole days together not a single entry occurs; and since, in the +register for this period, the books are noted down by three hands, +it can hardly be possible that the blanks are due to the negligence +of librarians (as might have been supposed were the same handwriting +found throughout) rather than to the lack of students.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_199_199" id="Footnote_199_199"></a><a href="#FNanchor_199_199"><span class="label">[199]</span></a> In the Benefaction Register they are erroneously entered as coming by the +bequest of Mr. Cherry himself.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1735" id="AD_1735"></a>A.D. 1735.</h3> + +<p>On the death of Hearne (June 10, 1735) fifteen of the MSS. +of Thomas Smith, D.D., of Magdalen College, the well-known and +learned non-juror, came to the Library, Smith having bequeathed<!-- Page 153 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span> +them to Hearne on this condition. With them came also copies +of Camden's <i>Britannia</i> and <i>Annales Eliz.</i>, with MSS. notes by their +author. The rest of Smith's MSS. appear to have come to the +Library together with the mass of Hearne's collections, included +in Rawlinson's bequest in 1755. They amount altogether to 138 +thin volumes, containing notes, extracts and letters on all kinds +of subjects. There is a very full <i>written</i> catalogue of their contents, +in two volumes. Three Greek MSS. were given by Smith +himself on his return from his travels in the East about 1681.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1736" id="AD_1736"></a>A.D. 1736.</h3> + +<p>The Library was enriched with the collections of the well-known +antiquary, Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St. Asaph, who +died on Dec. 14, in the preceding year. By his will, dated Nov. 22, +1733, he bequeathed his MSS. to the Library together with +such printed books, not already there, as the Curators and +Library-keeper should think fit to accept. But he directed his +executor to burn all his sermon-notes, 'and other little pieces and +attempts in divinity,' as well as all his own private papers and letters. +The largest portion of his MSS. (nearly 300 volumes out of 467) +consists of the papers which he himself says he 'bought of Archbishop +Sancroft's executors,' but which it is said in the <i>Gent. Mag.</i> +for 1782 (cited by Gough in his <i>British Topography</i>, i. 126) he bought +for eighty guineas of the bookseller Bateman, to whom Sancroft's +executors had sold them<a name="FNanchor_200_200" id="FNanchor_200_200"></a><a href="#Footnote_200_200" class="fnanchor">[200]</a>. Together with these, and perhaps not +now to be distinguished, are some of the collections of Dr. Nalson +between 1640 and 1660. To the latter a claim was made through +Archdeacon Knight, in 1737, by Dr. Williams of St. John's College, +as grandson of Nalson; but the Bishop's brother replied (as we +learn from a copy of his answer and of another letter written by<!-- Page 154 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span> +him in 1753) that the Bishop had bought them at Ely, where they +had lain neglected for many years, and he thought possibly from +some one living in the house which Nalson inhabited when Prebendary +of Ely. The matter ended by Dr. Williams waiving any +claim which he had, in consideration of the place of deposit being +the Bodleian<a name="FNanchor_201_201" id="FNanchor_201_201"></a><a href="#Footnote_201_201" class="fnanchor">[201]</a>. Sancroft's and Nalson's papers together comprise +a large series of letters of the time of the Civil War, of the highest +interest and value, from most of the leading personages on both +sides, including Charles I, Rupert, the Protector Oliver, and +Hampden. There are also collections relating to various dioceses, +with very much that illustrates both the ecclesiastical and literary +history of the seventeenth century<a name="FNanchor_202_202" id="FNanchor_202_202"></a><a href="#Footnote_202_202" class="fnanchor">[202]</a>. A selection from the Civil +War letters was published, in 2 vols. in 1842, by Rev. Henry Cary, +M.A. (a son of the translator of Dante, and at that time an assistant +in the Library), under the title of <i>Memorials of the Civil War</i>; but +the transcripts were very carelessly made, and scarcely a single +letter can be trusted as faithfully and <i>verbatim</i> representing the +original. Another volume of selections from Sancroft's papers was +published, with much better care, by Will. Nelson Clarke, D.C.L., +8<sup>o</sup>, Edinb. 1848, entitled, <i>A Collection of Letters addressed by Prelates +and Individuals of high rank in Scotland, and by two Bishops of Sodor +and Man, to Archbishop Sancroft, in the reigns of Charles II and +James VII</i><a name="FNanchor_203_203" id="FNanchor_203_203"></a><a href="#Footnote_203_203" class="fnanchor">[203]</a>. A catalogue of the MSS., compiled by the Rev. +Alfred Hackman, M.A. (now Sub-librarian) was published in 1860, +in a thick quarto volume, forming vol. iv. of the general Catalogue<!-- Page 155 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span> +of MSS. The several volumes are described in brief in the body +of the work; but a very full Index is subjoined, in which the +contents of all the letters and papers are entered in detail. The +printed books (upwards of 900) contain many, by the Reformers +and their opponents, which are of the utmost rarity in early English +black-letter divinity. One of these is an unique copy (as it is believed) +of an edition, printed without place or date, of the <i>Pore +Helpe</i>, of which there is also an unique copy of another edition, +equally without place or date, among the Douce books. It has +not hitherto been remarked that two copies, or two editions, exist +of this metrical satire. Another volume, which contains several +tracts printed by W. de Worde and Gerard Leeu, has also two by +Caxton, hitherto unnoticed as exhibiting his type, and described +in the Catalogue simply as being books without place or date. +The merit of their discovery as Caxton's is due to the recent +research of Mr. Bradshaw, the Librarian of the Cambridge Library. +The one is a clean and perfect copy of the <i>Governayle of Helthe</i>, +with the verses called <i>Medicina Stomachi</i>, of which the only copy +known to Mr. Blades is in the library of the Earl of Dysart at Ham +House; the other a wholly unknown quarto edition, in the same +type, of the <i>Ars Moriendi</i>.</p> + +<p>Unfortunately, when Tanner was removing his books from +Norwich to Oxford, in Dec. 1731, by some accident in their transit +(which was made by river) they fell into the water, and were submerged +for twenty hours<a name="FNanchor_204_204" id="FNanchor_204_204"></a><a href="#Footnote_204_204" class="fnanchor">[204]</a>. The effects of this soaking are only +too evident upon very many of them<a name="FNanchor_205_205" id="FNanchor_205_205"></a><a href="#Footnote_205_205" class="fnanchor">[205]</a>. The whole of the printed<!-- Page 156 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span> +books were uniformly bound in dark green calf, apparently about +fifty years ago; the binder's work was well done, but unhappily all +the fly-leaves, many of which would doubtless have afforded something +of interest, with regard to the books and their former possessors, +were removed. Many of Tanner's own letters are to be +found amongst the Ballard and Hearne MSS., as well as scattered +here and there in other collections; and one volume of them was +purchased in 1859. Some coins were given by him in 1733. We +learn from the Accounts that Thomas Toynbee, an undergraduate +of Balliol College (B.A. 1743, M.A. 1745), received £12 12<i>s.</i>, in +1741, for making a list of Tanner's MSS., and that E. Rowe +Mores, the subsequently well-known antiquary, arranged some of +his deeds in 1753-4.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_200_200" id="Footnote_200_200"></a><a href="#FNanchor_200_200"><span class="label">[200]</span></a> Eighteen other volumes of Sancroft's MSS. are to be found in the Harleian +Collection, Brit. Mus., and a few among Wharton's books at Lambeth.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_201_201" id="Footnote_201_201"></a><a href="#FNanchor_201_201"><span class="label">[201]</span></a> Thirty-one other volumes of Nalson's papers were offered for sale to Dr. Rawlinson +in 1751 (Letter to H. Owen, Rawl. MS. C. 989. fol. 121). Four volumes +which belonged to Bp. Moore's library were restored to Cambridge out of Tanner's +collection in 1741; two of them were registers of the Abbeys of St. Edmund's-bury +and Langley.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_202_202" id="Footnote_202_202"></a><a href="#FNanchor_202_202"><span class="label">[202]</span></a> Some collections for Wiltshire made by Tanner did not come to Oxford with +his library, but were forwarded by his son in 1751.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_203_203" id="Footnote_203_203"></a><a href="#FNanchor_203_203"><span class="label">[203]</span></a> Dr. Clarke appears not to have been aware of the existence of an interesting +volume of letters from Scottish Bishops to Bishop Compton of London, among +Rawlinson's MSS. (C. 985), which was rescued by Rawlinson, with the rest of +Compton's papers, from being destroyed as waste paper. Other letters, including a +large number from Archbishop Burnett of Glasgow, addressed to Archbishop Sheldon, +are in a volume of the Sheldon papers.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_204_204" id="Footnote_204_204"></a><a href="#FNanchor_204_204"><span class="label">[204]</span></a> <i>Gent. Magaz.</i> 1732, p. 583.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_205_205" id="Footnote_205_205"></a><a href="#FNanchor_205_205"><span class="label">[205]</span></a> None of them, however, are now in the state described in a note in <i>Letters by +Eminent Persons</i>, ii. 89, where it is said that many 'have received so much injury as +to be altogether useless, crumbling into pieces on the slightest touch.' Perhaps the +unique copy of <i>The Children of the Chapel Stript and Whipt</i> which Warton says was +amongst Tanner's books, but which has never appeared in any Bodleian Catalogue, +may have perished from this cause. For a notice of the disappearance of two of +Churchyard's tracts, see under the year <a href="#AD_1659">1659</a>, p. 81.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1738" id="AD_1738"></a>A.D. 1738.</h3> + +<p>The <span class="note" title="changed from 'third' to fourth - see Addenda et Corrigenda">fourth</span> Catalogue of the printed books appeared this year +in two volumes, folio, of 611 and 714 pp. respectively. It is +still a Catalogue of great use and value, from its remarkable accuracy, +and from the abundance and minuteness of its cross-references. +The secret history of this Catalogue, however, as of +the preceding one, is related by Hearne. By him, as he himself +frequently tells us<a name="FNanchor_206_206" id="FNanchor_206_206"></a><a href="#Footnote_206_206" class="fnanchor">[206]</a>, the greater portion of it was virtually prepared +soon after his appointment as Sub-librarian, in 1712 (although +no mention of his name is made in Fysher's preface), and to +him, therefore, its accuracy is most probably in a great measure +due<a name="FNanchor_207_207" id="FNanchor_207_207"></a><a href="#Footnote_207_207" class="fnanchor">[207]</a>. He compared every book in the Library with Hyde's<!-- Page 157 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span> +Catalogue, and corrected many mistakes, adding notes here and +there about anonymous and synonymous authors, and, as the +Vice-Chancellor (Dr. Maunder, of Balliol) was anxious to have an +Appendix issued, he transcribed for this purpose all his corrections +and additions into two folio volumes, 'which' (to take up now +Hearne's own account in his <i>Diary</i>, vol. lxii. p. 58, under date +1717) 'now lye and are to be seen in the Library.... But at +last Dr. Hudson thought it more convenient with respect to +himself that both Dr. Hyde's Catalogue and my Appendix should +come out together as one intire work, so that he might have +the honour of all. Upon which he employed one Moses Williams, +his servitour<a name="FNanchor_208_208" id="FNanchor_208_208"></a><a href="#Footnote_208_208" class="fnanchor">[208]</a> (the Dr. being then Fellow of University College), +to transcribe it, the said Williams being in the Dr.'s debt. When +Williams had done, he demanded the remaining part of his money, +which was about ten or twelve pounds, the rest having been +stopped by the Dr. for the debt just now mentioned. The whole +was fifty lbs. which he bargained for with the Dr. But when +Williams desired the said ten or twelve pounds, of which he +had immediate occasion to discharge the fees and charges for +the degree of Bachelor of Arts, the Dr. was in a very great +passion, and refused to pay it. Upon which Williams moved +the matter so far that the Catalogue was laid before the Delegates<!-- Page 158 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span> +of the Press, and the Dr. was called before them to his very +great mortification, and they told him that 'twas highly unreasonable +to stop the poor lad's money. Upon which the Dr. in a +great rage and fury paid him; otherwise Williams had most +certainly put him into the Court. This Catalogue was last summer +ordered to be printed, and the Dr. was refunded his money; +but 'tis not yet put to the press, the Dr. being unwilling it +should be printed till such time as he hath done Josephus.' But +Hudson died before his Josephus was finished, and the proposed +new Catalogue was consequently begun, and only begun, by +his successor, Bowles. The latter printed as far as p. 244 of vol. i. +and p. 292 of vol. ii. His successor, Fysher, upon his appointment, +engaged the assistance of his friend, Emmanuel Langford, M.A., +Vice-Principal of Hart Hall, who completed the second volume, +while Fysher himself finished the first. At the end of the second +volume appeared an announcement of a supplemental Catalogue, +as being ready for the press, containing the books existing in +College Libraries but wanting in the Bodleian. This, however, +never appeared, and nothing is known of the MS. from which +it was to have been printed. Fysher's Catalogue appears, from +the University Accounts, to have occupied from 1735 in preparation, +for which, and for transcribing it for the press, £194 5<i>s.</i> +were paid to him.</p> + +<p>Alexander Pope gave, together with copies of his <i>Iliad</i> and +<i>Odyssey</i>, a curious volume, containing a series of 178 Portraits of +East Indian Rajahs and Great Moguls, down to Aurung-Zebe. +It is now numbered Bodl. MS. Sansk. 14.</p> + +<p>The names of various persons (all, probably, undergraduates) +employed in the Library about this time are learned from the +Accounts:—1738, Mr. Hall; 1740-1, Mr. Allen; 1740, Mr. +Toynbee (Ball. Coll., B.A., 1743); 1743, Mr. Jessett (All Souls', +B.A., 1745); 1747, Mr. Thomas Winbolt (All Souls', B.A. 1748).<!-- Page 159 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span></p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_206_206" id="Footnote_206_206"></a><a href="#FNanchor_206_206"><span class="label">[206]</span></a> Pref. to <i>Chron. de Dunstaple</i>, p. xii. <i>Autobiogr.</i> p. 11, &c.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_207_207" id="Footnote_207_207"></a><a href="#FNanchor_207_207"><span class="label">[207]</span></a> It is fair to say that Fysher remarks in his preface that experience proved how +entirely vain and foolish were the reports which had been spread abroad of the +little or the nothing which, after the labours of their predecessors, would remain for +the then editors to do.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_208_208" id="Footnote_208_208"></a><a href="#FNanchor_208_208"><span class="label">[208]</span></a> Moses Williams took his degree as B.A. in 1708. One John Williams (probably +the one of that name who is entered in the Register of Graduates as having +taken the degree of B.A. at Oriel in 1704) appears to have been a colleague of +Hearne's in employment in the Library, about 1704. For in a letter written to +Hearne, March 20, 1705/6, one year and a-half after he had quitted Oxford, in +which he mentions his having been appointed to the Head-mastership of Ruthin +School in November, 1705, he refers to 'our dear friends that are in irons at +the Bodleian Library, there being several, I suppose, that have been manacled in that +pleasing prison since my being there.' (<i>Rawlinson Letters</i>, vol. xii. f. 1.)</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1739" id="AD_1739"></a>A.D. 1739.</h3> + +<p>Notification was given to the Vice-Chancellor, on June 9, +that thirteen pictures (of no great value) were bequeathed to the +Gallery by Dr. King, Master of the Charter House, by his will +dated July 28, 1736, together with £200 for the cleansing and +repairing the frames of the pictures already in the Gallery. A list of +these thirteen is given in Gutch's transl. of <i>Wood's Annals</i>, vol. ii. +pp. 969, 970. The pictures themselves are now in the Randolph +Gallery. Dr. King also left a legacy of £400 to the University +to prepare a complete and handsome edition of Zoroaster's Works, +in Persian, with a Latin translation and notes; but this portion +of his bequest was not accepted.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1740" id="AD_1740"></a>A.D. 1740.</h3> + +<p>A copy of the Byzantine historian, Pachymeres, was restored +in this year, by order of the Curators, to Emmanuel College, +Cambridge, from which it had by some means been removed; +but the College paid £4 4<i>s.</i> for its restoration.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1745" id="AD_1745"></a>A.D. 1745.</h3> + +<p>In this year died Nathaniel Crynes, M.A., Fellow of St. John's +College and Superior Bedel of Arts, to which latter office he +had been elected Jan. 26, 1715/16<a name="FNanchor_209_209" id="FNanchor_209_209"></a><a href="#Footnote_209_209" class="fnanchor">[209]</a>. He bequeathed to the +Library all such books out of his own valuable collection as it +did not already possess, the rest going to his own College. +His books in octavo and smaller sizes, with a few quartos, are +still kept distinct, under his own name, and number 968 volumes,<!-- Page 160 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span> +many of which are of great rarity. Seven MSS. were presented +by him in 1736. In 1727 he purchased some duplicates from +the Library, for £3 16<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i>, and a story, told by Warton in +connection with this purchase, of his fortunately rejecting books +which bore the name of Milton, will be found under the year +<a href="#AD_1620">1620</a>. There is a biographical notice of him in J. Haslewood's +Introduction to Juliana Barnes' <i>Boke of St. Alban's</i>, Lond. 1810, +pp. 86-7. In the Accounts for 1746 occur special payments to +Fr. Wise, and to one Mr. Gerard Bodley, for cataloguing and +arranging Crynes' books.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_209_209" id="Footnote_209_209"></a><a href="#FNanchor_209_209"><span class="label">[209]</span></a> He left a benefaction to his successor in this office, which now produces +£13 6<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i> yearly.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1746" id="AD_1746"></a>A.D. 1746.</h3> + +<p>Trott's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Clavis Linguæ Sanctæ</i>. See <a href="#AD_1686">1686</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1747" id="AD_1747"></a>A.D. 1747.</h3> + +<p>Dr. Fysher, the Librarian, died on Nov. 4, at Mr. Warneford's, +of Sevenhampton, Wilts, and was buried, on Nov. 7, in Adam de +Brome's chapel in St. Mary's Church, Oxford. And on Nov. 10, +Rev. Humphrey Owen, B.D., Fellow of Jesus College (afterwards +D.D., and chosen Principal of his College in 1763), was unanimously +elected his successor<a name="FNanchor_210_210" id="FNanchor_210_210"></a><a href="#Footnote_210_210" class="fnanchor">[210]</a>. Rawlinson mentions, in a letter<!-- Page 161 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span> +to Owen of April 15, 1751, that he had heard a complaint that +in Fysher's time 'there was a great neglect in the entry of books +into the Benefactors' Catalogue, and into the interleaved one of +the Library; as to these objections, my answers were as ready +as true, at least I hope so, that Dr. Fysher's indisposition disabled +him much from the duty of his office, and that I did not think +every small benefaction ought to load the velom register<a name="FNanchor_211_211" id="FNanchor_211_211"></a><a href="#Footnote_211_211" class="fnanchor">[211]</a>.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_210_210" id="Footnote_210_210"></a><a href="#FNanchor_210_210"><span class="label">[210]</span></a> Memorandum by Owen himself, in reply to a question from Rawlinson, Rawl. +MS. C. 989, f. 142. This volume contains a collection of letters to Owen, chiefly +from Browne Willis and Rawlinson, between the years 1748-1756. It affords proof +that Owen was what his correspondents would call an 'honest' man, <i>i.e.</i> a Jacobite. +In one letter, Willis sends him a Latin inscription in praise of Flora Macdonald, +which he says is 'on a fair lady's picture, in an honest gentl. seat in the province of +St. David's;' in another, Rawlinson sends him, as a contribution to the Oxford +collection of verses on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, this Jacobite +epitaph:— +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p><span class="i0">'Here lies Fred., Down among the dead;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Had it been his Father, Most had much rather;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Had it been his Brother, Better than any other;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Had it been a Sister, More would have mist her;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Wer't the whole generation, Happy for the nation;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But since it is only Fred., There is no more to be said.'<br /></span> +</p></div></div> +<p> +</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_211_211" id="Footnote_211_211"></a><a href="#FNanchor_211_211"><span class="label">[211]</span></a> Rawl. MS. C. 989.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1749" id="AD_1749"></a>A.D. 1749.</h3> + +<p>A Runic Primstaff, or Clog Almanack, was given by Mr. Guy +Dickens, a gentleman-commoner of Ch. Ch. It is now exhibited, +together with another (<i>see</i> p. <a href="#Page_105">105</a>), in the glass case near the +entrance of the Library. Pointer, in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Oxoniensis Academia</i> +(p. 143), mentions that an explanation of the Primstaff was given +by himself; the Accounts show that it was also in this year.</p> + +<p>A number of coins were added to the Numismatic Museum, +which had been collected by the late Librarian, Fysher.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1750" id="AD_1750"></a>A.D. 1750.</h3> + +<p>A copy <i>on vellum</i>, with illuminated initials, &c., of vol. i. (reaching +to the Psalms) of the Vulgate Bible, printed by Fust and +Schoeffer in 1462, was bought for £2 10<i>s.</i>! The volume was +imperfect at the end, ceasing at Job xxxii. 5, and seven leaves +followed in contemporary and beautiful MS., which also ended +imperfectly at Ps. xxxvi. 9, with one leaf wanting at the end of Job. +But when the Canonici Collection of MSS. was received from +Venice, in 1818, among some fragments which were found in +one of the boxes were fourteen leaves of a MS. Bible, which +were at once recognised as being part of those wanted to complete +this book, and which left only four still deficient. The volume +came to the Library from the collection of Nic. Jos. Foucault<!-- Page 162 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span>, +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Comes Consistorianus</span>,' many other of whose MSS. and printed +books came by Rawlinson's bequest; but through how many +hands the missing leaves had passed in the seventy subsequent +years ere they were thus marvellously restored to their place, +it is impossible to tell<a name="FNanchor_212_212" id="FNanchor_212_212"></a><a href="#Footnote_212_212" class="fnanchor">[212]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_212_212" id="Footnote_212_212"></a><a href="#FNanchor_212_212"><span class="label">[212]</span></a> The story of this recovery has been already related by Archd. Cotton in his +<i>Typographical Gazetteer</i>, p. 339, where by mistake he refers the original purchase to +the year 1752.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1751" id="AD_1751"></a>A.D. 1751.</h3> + +<p>A benefaction from Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, of £60 to +the Librarian and of £10 for the purchase of books, appears for +the first time in the Accounts for this year. These sums (which +are still annually paid into the General Fund) proceed from a +bequest of £200 <i>per ann.</i> from Crewe (who died Sept. 24, 1721) +to the University. A proposal to give these same sums to the +Library, with other assignments for the remainder, was brought +forward in Convocation on June 5, 1723, but the scheme was +then rejected<a name="FNanchor_213_213" id="FNanchor_213_213"></a><a href="#Footnote_213_213" class="fnanchor">[213]</a>. And thus nearly thirty years seem to have elapsed +from the time of the bequest before the share for the Library was +definitely fixed and paid.</p> + +<p>Charles Gray, M.P. for Colchester, presented a MS. Roll, containing +a Survey of the estates of the Abbey of Glastonbury at the +Dissolution, which is printed by Hearne in his Appendix to Langtoft's +<i>Chronicle</i>, vol. ii. pp. 343-388, from a copy made from this +original; and an inscription, in the Phœnician language, upon a +white marble stone, which was brought, with many others, from +Citium, in the island of Cyprus, by Dr. Porter, a physician of Thaxted +in Essex. The stone measures twelve inches in length, by three +in breadth, and three in depth. It has been frequently engraved: +first by Pocock (<i>Travels in the East</i>, vol. ii. pl. xxxiii. 2); next by +Swinton (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Inscriptiones Citieæ</i>, 1750, and <i>Philos. Trans.</i> 1764); +afterwards by Chandler, Barthélemy, &c.; and, lastly, by Gesenius<!-- Page 163 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span> +(for whom former copies were collated with the original, and +corrected, by Mr. Reay) in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Scripturæ Linguæque Phœniciæ +Monumenta</i>, published in 1837, where the inscription is described +at pp. 126-133, part i., and engraved at pl. xi. part iii. It appears +to be an epitaph by a husband in memory of his wife. The stone +is now kept in one of the Sub-librarians' studies.</p> + +<p>Thomas Shaw, the well-known Eastern traveller, bequeathed his +collection of natural curiosities, which was sent to the Ashmolean +Museum, and the MS. of his own travels, with corrections, and +other papers. Copies of Caxton's <i>Game of the Chesse</i> and <i>Recuyell +of Troye</i> were given by Mr. James Bowen, of Shrewsbury, painter<a name="FNanchor_214_214" id="FNanchor_214_214"></a><a href="#Footnote_214_214" class="fnanchor">[214]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_213_213" id="Footnote_213_213"></a><a href="#FNanchor_213_213"><span class="label">[213]</span></a> Hearne's <i>Diary</i>, xcvii. 12.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_214_214" id="Footnote_214_214"></a><a href="#FNanchor_214_214"><span class="label">[214]</span></a> A MS. vol. of collections by him relating to the history of Shropshire, dated +1768, is among Gough's books, Salop MS. 20.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1753" id="AD_1753"></a>A.D. 1753.</h3> + +<p>In May of this year died Henry Hyde, Lord Cornbury, son of +Henry Hyde, Earl of Rochester, and great-grandson of the great +Earl of Clarendon. He had made a will bequeathing all the Chancellor's +MSS. to the University of Oxford, to be printed at their +press, and the profits to be devoted to a school for riding and +other athletic exercises in the University, should such an institution +be accepted, or else to other approved uses. Dying before his father, +through the effects of an accident, his bequest was void, as he +was never actually in possession of the papers to which it referred; +but after the death of his father in Dec. following, his sisters, who +were the co-heiresses, carried out his will, by sending all the +Clarendon MSS. in their possession to the University on the +same conditions<a name="FNanchor_215_215" id="FNanchor_215_215"></a><a href="#Footnote_215_215" class="fnanchor">[215]</a>. From these was published in 1759 (in which +year the papers appear to have been deposited in the Library) the<!-- Page 164 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> +<i>Life</i> of the first Earl, reprinted in several editions up to the year +1827. This was followed, in 1767-73, by the publication, under +the editorship of Dr. Rich. Scrope, of Magd. Coll., of vols. i., ii. +of a selection from the <i>State Papers</i>; of which vol. iii. appeared +under the editorship of Mr. Thos. Monkhouse, of Queen's Coll., +in 1786. During the progress of this publication, however, the +original collection of MSS. papers was very largely increased by +the acquisition of various portions which had long before been detached. +Some were obtained, before the publication of vol. i., from +the executors of Rich. Powney, LL.D.; and many were presented +to the University, before the publication of vol. ii., by the Radcliffe +Trustees, who had bought them for £170 when sold by auction in +1764 by the executors of Joseph Radcliffe, Esq., one of the +executors to Edward, third Earl of Clarendon, who died in 1723. +Dr. Douglas (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury), who was employed +in the latter purchase, himself bought and gave some MSS. +which had belonged to Mr. Guthrie, and was instrumental also +in procuring some letters from Viscountess Middleton, &c. +Again, before the publication of vol. iii. many further papers +were purchased by the Radcliffe Trustees from a Mr. Richards, +near Salisbury (from whose father Mr. Powney had obtained his +portion), and from Mr. W. M. Godschall, of Albury, Surrey. And +lastly, about eight or ten years ago, several boxes (including +Clarendon's own iron-bound <i>escritoire</i>), containing miscellaneous +papers, were forwarded by the Clarendon Trustees in final discharge +of their trust.</p> + +<p>A MS. of the <i>History of the Rebellion</i>, in seven volumes, together +with one of the <i>Contemplations</i>, in three volumes, was forwarded in +1785 or 1786 by the Duke of Queensbury. The former MS. +appears to be that from which the first edition was printed by +the Earl of Rochester<a name="FNanchor_216_216" id="FNanchor_216_216"></a><a href="#Footnote_216_216" class="fnanchor">[216]</a>.</p> +<p><!-- Page 165 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span></p> +<p>A complete Calendar of the <i>Clarendon State Papers</i> is now +in progress under the care of several editors. As far as it has +advanced, it has proved the good judgment and the extreme correctness +with which the printed selection was made; but as that +selection ended with the Restoration, while the papers themselves +reach on to 1667, the year of the Earl's banishment, the later portion +may be expected to contain much of fresh interest and value.</p> + +<p>It was in this year also that the first portion of the MSS. of +Thomas Carte, the 'Englishman' and historian, came to the +Library. It has been universally supposed that his voluminous +and invaluable collections came <i>en masse</i> subsequently to his death, +but the Library Register shows that Oxford was indebted to him +for a considerable and important portion during his life. In this +year we find that he sent the papers which relate to the life of the +great Duke of Ormonde, with a large number of others bearing on +the history of Ireland from the time of Queen Elizabeth, comprised +in thirty volumes folio and quarto. In the following year, shortly +before his death (which occurred on April 2, 1754) he forwarded +twenty-six more of his Irish volumes, in folio, marked A, B, C, D, +&c. And in 1757 nine more of the same series were forwarded by +his widow from Caldecot, near Abingdon, according to an entry in +the old Catalogue, which appears to correspond to one in the +annual Register to the effect that four more boxes were forwarded +by the executors, 'by order of Rev. Mr. Hill.' The remainder of his +collections were left in the hands of his widow, who, re-marrying +to Mr. Nicholas Jernegan, or Jerningham (of the family seated at +Cossey, Norfolk), bequeathed them, upon her death, to him, with +the reversion to the University of Oxford. While they were in +Mr. Jernegan's possession they were largely used by Macpherson<!-- Page 166 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span> +for his publication of <i>State Papers</i>, for which use of them £300 +were paid; and the agreement entered into by the publisher Cadell, +when borrowing some of them for this purpose, is preserved in the +MS. Catalogue of the collection. In 1778, however, Mr. Jernegan +disposed of his life-interest to the University, for (as Nichols<a name="FNanchor_217_217" id="FNanchor_217_217"></a><a href="#Footnote_217_217" class="fnanchor">[217]</a> was +informed by Price) the sum of £50, and the remainder were consequently +at once transferred to the Library. The collection numbers +altogether 180 volumes in folio, fifty-four in quarto, and seven +in octavo, besides several bundles of Carte's own papers; and is +accompanied by a very full list of contents, compiled by Carte +himself, in one folio volume. The mass of papers relating to +Ireland which these volumes contain is enormous, drawn chiefly +from the stores accumulated by Ormonde at Kilkenny Castle; to +which are added miscellaneous historical collections derived from +Lords Huntingdon, Sandwich, and Wharton. There are, also, +several volumes of extracts and papers, collected with immediate +reference to Carte's <i>History of England</i>. And a third, and +especially interesting, portion consists of the papers of Mr. David +Nairne, under-secretary to James II during his exile, which reach +from 1692 to 1718, and fill two volumes in folio and eight or nine +in quarto. It was from these that Macpherson chiefly compiled +his <i>Original Papers</i>, published in 1775, in 2 vols., 4<sup>o</sup>. A Report +upon the contents of the collection, with special reference to +Ireland (omitting the Nairne papers) was made to the Master of +the Rolls by T. Duffus Hardy, Esq., and Rev. J. S. Brewer in 1863, +and was printed in the following year, together with an extremely +useful summary of the contents of the various volumes, and a +reference-table of the letters, &c., printed by Carte in his Ormonde +volumes. In consequence of this Report, two Commissioners (the +Rev. Dr. Russell, President of Maynooth, and J. P. Prendergast, +Esq.) were appointed to examine the whole series, and select for +transcription all historical and official papers of interest relating to<!-- Page 167 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span> +Ireland, with a view to the preservation of copies in the Record +Office at Dublin. Several transcribers are therefore now continuously +employed in transcribing for this purpose the papers +selected by the Commissioners. Some notice of the MSS. is to be +found in the Record Commission Report for 1800, p. 354.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_215_215" id="Footnote_215_215"></a><a href="#FNanchor_215_215"><span class="label">[215]</span></a> On Feb. 4, 1868, a scheme for the appropriation of the accumulated fund +(now amounting to about £12,000), which had been approved by the Clarendon +Trustees, was accepted by Convocation. The money is to be applied to the +erection of laboratories, &c., at the University Museum, for the Professor of Experimental +Philosophy.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_216_216" id="Footnote_216_216"></a><a href="#FNanchor_216_216"><span class="label">[216]</span></a> In the Benefaction Book this gift is entered under 1793, but it is mentioned in +the Preface to vol. iii. of the <i>State Papers</i>, dated May 29, 1786, as having been +'<i>lately</i>' given. Another copy of part of the <i>History</i>, partly written by William +Edgeman, who was Hyde's secretary at Scilly and during his first exile, came to the +Library among Rawlinson's MSS., by whom it was bought at the sale of the Chandos +Library in 1747 for £1 10<i>s.</i>!</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_217_217" id="Footnote_217_217"></a><a href="#FNanchor_217_217"><span class="label">[217]</span></a> <i>Lit. Anecd.</i> ii. 514.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1754" id="AD_1754"></a>A.D. 1754.</h3> + +<p>In this year the MS. collections of Rev. John Walker, D.D., of +Exeter (son of Endymion Walker, of Exeter; born 1674, dec. +1747<a name="FNanchor_218_218" id="FNanchor_218_218"></a><a href="#Footnote_218_218" class="fnanchor">[218]</a>), from which he compiled his valuable and laborious work, +<i>The Sufferings of the Clergy</i>, were forwarded to the Library by his +son, William Walker, a druggist in Exeter, as appears from a +letter from the latter preserved among papers relating to the +Library in the Librarian's study. The annual accounts, however, +mention the gift under the year 1756. Dr. Walker had expressed +in his book (<i>pref.</i> p. xliii.) his intention to deposit his papers in +some public repository, and his purpose was fortunately thus +carried out. The papers have recently been bound, and now form +twelve volumes in folio and eleven in quarto, with a few papers +still in bundles<a name="FNanchor_219_219" id="FNanchor_219_219"></a><a href="#Footnote_219_219" class="fnanchor">[219]</a>. A large number of letters from many among the +sufferers and their representatives are here preserved; but, unfortunately, +Walker's own handwriting is often hard to decipher. +Many pamphlets which belonged to him (identified by the peculiar +handwriting in MS. notes) are amongst a vast series recently +bound and placed in continuation of the Godwyn Tracts; and +several volumes of pamphlets written by Dissenters were given by +himself in the years 1719-21.</p> +<p><!-- Page 168 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span></p> +<p>The name of Hogarth occurs in the list of donors, as presenting +his two engravings of the <i>Analysis of Beauty</i>, which he had published +in the preceding year.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_218_218" id="Footnote_218_218"></a><a href="#FNanchor_218_218"><span class="label">[218]</span></a> His successor in his Exeter prebend was appointed in that year.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_219_219" id="Footnote_219_219"></a><a href="#FNanchor_219_219"><span class="label">[219]</span></a> The present writer, in answer to an enquiry in <i>Notes and Queries</i> in 1862 (3rd +series, i. 218), said that these papers were amongst the <i>Rawlinson</i> MSS. This mistake +arose from the fact that the least important portion had recently been found in a +mass of papers belonging to that collection, but they did not at any time themselves +form part of it.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1755" id="AD_1755"></a>A.D. 1755.</h3> + +<p>This year is remarkable for the number and variety of the +collections with which, during its course, the Library was enriched, +comprehending those of Rawlinson, Furney, St. Amand, and Ballard.</p> + +<p>On April 6 died Richard Rawlinson, D.C.L., a Bishop among +the Non-jurors, notwithstanding that he passed in the world as a +layman. From the time of Bodley, Laud, and Selden, he was the +greatest benefactor the Library had known; and his only rivals +since his own day have been Gough and Douce. In point of +numbers, his donation of MSS. far exceeded all. From the short +autobiographical notice of himself, given in his own collections for +a continuation of the <i>Athenæ Oxon.</i> (where he has inserted a small +portrait of himself, engraved, without his name, by Van der Gucht), +we learn the following particulars. He was born Jan. 3, 1689/90, in +the Old Bailey, his father being Sir Thos. Rawlinson, who was +Lord Mayor of London in 1706. On March 9, 1707/8 (having +been previously at St. Paul's School and Eton), he was matriculated +as a commoner of St. John's College; but in consequence +of the death of his father in the same year, he became a gentleman-commoner +in 1709; B.A., Oct. 10, 1711<a name="FNanchor_220_220" id="FNanchor_220_220"></a><a href="#Footnote_220_220" class="fnanchor">[220]</a>; M.A., July 5, 1713; +Governor of Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals, 1713; F.R.S., +1714; ordained (among the Non-jurors) Deacon, Sept. 21, and +Priest, Sept. 23, 1716<a name="FNanchor_221_221" id="FNanchor_221_221"></a><a href="#Footnote_221_221" class="fnanchor">[221]</a>. He then travelled through the whole of +England, except some of the northern parts, and in 1719 went<!-- Page 169 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span> +into Normandy, where, while staying at Rouen, he received +from Oxford the degree of D.C.L. by diploma of June 30. +Thence he went to the Low Countries, where, in Sept., he was +admitted into the Universities of both Utrecht and Leyden, and +returned into England in Nov. On June 12 in the following year, +he started on a longer journey, which he extended through +Holland, France, Germany, the whole of Italy, and Sicily, to +Malta; and returned on the death of his elder brother Thomas, +also a well-known book-collector, in 1726. During his six years' +travels, he had seen, he remarks, four Popes<a name="FNanchor_222_222" id="FNanchor_222_222"></a><a href="#Footnote_222_222" class="fnanchor">[222]</a>. Admitted F.S.A. +May 10, 1727. On March 25, 1728, he was consecrated Bishop, by +Bishops Gandy, Doughty, and Blackbourne, in Gandy's Chapel<a name="FNanchor_223_223" id="FNanchor_223_223"></a><a href="#Footnote_223_223" class="fnanchor">[223]</a>. +Appointed a Governor of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in March, +1733. He resided at London House, Aldersgate, so called from +having been in early days a mansion of the Bishops of London. +During his lifetime he was a constant benefactor to the Library; +in the years 1733-4-5-7-8-9 and 1750, he is entered in the great +Register for special gifts of coins, books, and pictures. Some +hundreds of printed books, now in the gallery called '<i>Jur.</i>,' and +elsewhere, were given by him at these times; while many of the +Holbeins and other valuable portraits in the Picture Gallery came +from him<a name="FNanchor_224_224" id="FNanchor_224_224"></a><a href="#Footnote_224_224" class="fnanchor">[224]</a>. A few MSS. also came from him during his lifetime +which are now placed in the general Bodley collection. But at his<!-- Page 170 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span> +death all his collections came <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">en masse</i><a name="FNanchor_225_225" id="FNanchor_225_225"></a><a href="#Footnote_225_225" class="fnanchor">[225]</a>; collections formed abroad +and at home, the choice of book-auctions, the pickings of chandlers' +and grocers' waste-paper, everything, especially, in the shape of a +MS., from early copies of Classics and Fathers to the well-nigh +most recent log-books of sailors' voyages<a name="FNanchor_226_226" id="FNanchor_226_226"></a><a href="#Footnote_226_226" class="fnanchor">[226]</a>. Not a sale of MSS. +occurred, apparently, in London, during his time, at which he was +not an omnigenous purchaser; so that students of every subject +now bury themselves in his stores with great content and profit. +But history in all its branches, heraldry and genealogy, biography +and topography, are his specially strong points. The printed +books bequeathed by him in selection from his whole library (of +which those in quarto and smaller sizes are still called by his +name) amounted to between 1800 and 1900<a name="FNanchor_227_227" id="FNanchor_227_227"></a><a href="#Footnote_227_227" class="fnanchor">[227]</a>, but the MSS. to<!-- Page 171 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span> +upwards of 4800, besides a large number of old charters and +miscellaneous unsorted deeds.</p> + +<p>The staff of the Library being very small at the time, as well as +ill-paid<a name="FNanchor_228_228" id="FNanchor_228_228"></a><a href="#Footnote_228_228" class="fnanchor">[228]</a>, and such an accession being completely overwhelming, +the officers appear to have contented themselves with duly entering<!-- Page 172 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span> +the printed books, while leaving the MSS. entirely neglected. +About the beginning of the present century some steps were +taken towards a Catalogue, and a portion were arranged and +numbered; still later, considerably more was done. But it was +only on the accession of the present Librarian to the Headship, +that the full extent of Rawlinson's collections was ascertained. +Every corner of the Library was then thoroughly examined, and +cupboard after cupboard was found filled with MSS. and papers +huddled together in confusion, while, last not least, a dark hole +under a staircase, explored by the present writer on hands and +knees, afforded a rich 'take,' including many writings of Rawlinson's +Non-juring friends. The whole number of volumes thus +brought to light amounted to about 1300.</p> + +<p>The classes into which the whole collection of MSS. is now +divided are the following:—</p> + +<p>1. <i>Class A</i>: 500 volumes, chiefly of English history, with a few +theological books. Amongst these are the <i>Thurloe State Papers</i>, +in sixty-seven volumes, of which all of importance were published +by Birch, in seven vols. folio, in 1742. These papers were found +after the Revolution concealed in the ceiling of garrets in Lincoln's +Inn, which belonged to the rooms formerly occupied by Thurloe; +and they still bear too evident marks of the damp to which they +were there exposed. They passed through Lord Somers' and +Sir Jos. Jekyll's hands into those of a bookseller, Fletcher Gyles, +from whom Rawlinson obtained them in 1751, and who, as +Rawlinson says, asked at first an 'immoderate price' for them. +Another series is that of <i>Miscellaneous Papers of Sam. Pepys</i>, in +twenty-five volumes, containing his correspondence, collections on +<!-- Page 173 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span>Admiralty business, &c.<a name="FNanchor_229_229" id="FNanchor_229_229"></a><a href="#Footnote_229_229" class="fnanchor">[229]</a> These, together with many other +volumes which belonged to Pepys (including many curious dockyard +account-books of the times of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth) +were 'redeemed from <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">thus et odores vendentibus</i><a name="FNanchor_230_230" id="FNanchor_230_230"></a><a href="#Footnote_230_230" class="fnanchor">[230]</a>.' Of another +acquisition Rawlinson writes thus:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'There was lately an auction here of Mr. Bridgeman's books, +curiosities, and MSS., who was formerly clerk of the Council to +K. James II, and register to the Ecclesiastical Commission. +Here I laid out some pence, and picked up some curiosities; the +original minute-book of the High Commission, the proceedings +every session with the names of those present, by which it appears +that Bp. Sprat was not so innocent as he would persuade us in +his letter to the Earl of Dorset to think, and that notwithstanding +all his shiftings he sat to the penultim. Session of that Court;' +[Letters canvassing the nobility, gentry, justices of the peace, &c., +in favour of the repeal of the Test;] '3 letters from the D. of +Monmouth, two to the King and one to the Queen, desiring an +audience in which he would give them such satisfaction, ... +very pathetic, and deserved at least some attention<a name="FNanchor_231_231" id="FNanchor_231_231"></a><a href="#Footnote_231_231" class="fnanchor">[231]</a>; ... +several volumes of treaties, ... instructions to ambassadors. +Very remarkable are those to Lord Castlemain on his going to +Rome, the King's two letters to the Pope, a third of revocation, +all personal and complement, but no embassy of obedience. +Copy-books of letters, private and public, wrote by K. Charles and +K. James II, from which might be collected such a fund of true<!-- Page 174 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span> +tho' secret history, that the prize is not to be valued<a name="FNanchor_232_232" id="FNanchor_232_232"></a><a href="#Footnote_232_232" class="fnanchor">[232]</a>, and will, I +hope, be a standing monument of great events, and preserved in +Bodley's repository, with the papers of Bp. Turner and other great +men at and since the year 1688<a name="FNanchor_233_233" id="FNanchor_233_233"></a><a href="#Footnote_233_233" class="fnanchor">[233]</a>.'</p></div> + +<p>There are also some papers in this class and in Class C which +belonged to Archbp. Wake, about which Rawlinson writes, on June +24, 1741<a name="FNanchor_234_234" id="FNanchor_234_234"></a><a href="#Footnote_234_234" class="fnanchor">[234]</a>:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'My agent last week met with some papers of Archbp. Wake at +a chandler's shop; this is unpardonable in his executors, as all his +MSS. were left to Christ Church. But quære whether these did +not fall into some servant's hands who was ordered to burn them, +and Mr. Martin Folkes ought to have seen that done. They fell +into the curate's hands of St. George, Bloomsbury.'</p></div> + +<p>2. <i>Class B</i> numbers 520 volumes nominally, but really, including +double numbers, 534. They comprise heraldry and genealogy +(including MSS. of Sir Richard and Sir Thos. St. George, +W. Wyrley, Guillim, Ryley, Glover, Le Neve, and other heralds) +English and Irish history, and topography, including several monastic +chartularies. Among the genealogical MSS. is a remarkable +collection of pedigrees, in twelve volumes, which the present writer +ascertained to have been compiled by Thomas Wilkinson, Vicar of +Laurence Waltham, Berks, between about 1647 and 1681. They are +arranged alphabetically, as far as the letter P in tolerable order +and regularity, but thenceforward only in a rough and incomplete +state. Unfortunately the handwriting is far from clear, and the +ink has often made it worse. Among the volumes relating to +<i>Essex</i>, <i>Norfolk</i>, <i>Suffolk</i>, &c., are twelve or thirteen which belonged +to William Holman, a voluminous collector for the first-mentioned +county, who incorporated the gatherings of Rev. John Ousley +and Thos. Jekyll. Morant, the historian of Essex, obtained the<!-- Page 175 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span> +larger portion of Holman's books; some are in the British +Museum; and the remainder ('the refuse,' says Morant) were +bought by Rawlinson in 1752 for £10<a name="FNanchor_235_235" id="FNanchor_235_235"></a><a href="#Footnote_235_235" class="fnanchor">[235]</a>. Besides the above-mentioned +volumes, there are a large number of Holman's MSS. +which are kept distinct, and which have been recently bound +in fourteen folio volumes, eleven quarto, and five octavo. Under +<i>London</i> are some nineteen or twenty volumes of Diocesan papers +which belonged to Bp. John Robinson. They formed (with one +volume in Class A and several in Class C) a mass which are described +by Rawlinson, as follows<a name="FNanchor_236_236" id="FNanchor_236_236"></a><a href="#Footnote_236_236" class="fnanchor">[236]</a>:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'I lately rescued from the grocers, chandlers, &c. a parcel of +papers once the property of Compton and Robinson, successively +Bps. of London. Amongst those of the first were original subscription +and visitation books, letters and conferences during the +apprehensions of Popery amongst the clergy of this diocese, remarkable +intelligences relating to Burnet and the Orange Court in +Holland in those extraordinary times before 1688<a name="FNanchor_237_237" id="FNanchor_237_237"></a><a href="#Footnote_237_237" class="fnanchor">[237]</a>, minutes of the +proceedings of the Commissioners for the Propagation of the +Gospel, and a great variety of other papers. Amongst those of +Bp. Robinson, numbers of originals relating to the transactions at +the treaty of Utrecht, copies of his own letters to Lord Bolingbroke, +and originals from Lord Bolingbroke, Lord Oxford, Electress +and Elector of Hanover, Ormonde, Strafford, Prior, &c.; +letters from the Scots deprived Bishops to Compton, and variety of +State papers. They belonged to one Mr. [Anth.] Gibbon, lately dead, +who was private secretary to both the afore-mentioned prelates.'</p></div> + +<p>Under <i>Bucks</i> are Rawlinson's own collections for a history of +Eton College, and under <i>Middlesex</i> and <i>Oxon.</i> his parochial collections +for those counties. The <i>Irish</i> MSS. include many of +great antiquity and value which formerly belonged to Sir James +Ware, <i>e.g.</i> Tigernach's Annals, Annals of Ulster, Lives of Saints,<!-- Page 176 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span> +Dublin Chartularies, Arms of Irish families, Irish poems, &c. +Among them is the often noticed Life of St. Columba by Magnus +O'Donnell, written in 1532, which was bought by Rawlinson at +the Chandos sale for twenty-three shillings.</p> + +<p>Of these two classes a Catalogue, in one volume quarto, was +printed in 1862, which was compiled by the writer of this volume<a name="FNanchor_238_238" id="FNanchor_238_238"></a><a href="#Footnote_238_238" class="fnanchor">[238]</a>. +A full index to the contents of all the MSS. has been made, which +remains at present unprinted, but may possibly at some time appear +in conjunction with a volume describing the contents of the succeeding +class.</p> + +<p>3. <i>Class C</i> comprehends 989 MSS. of very miscellaneous character, +but chiefly consisting of law, history and theology, with +a few medical works. Among the theological portion are papers +of John Dury, the zealous labourer for union amongst Protestants +in the time of Charles I, papers of Bedell and Usher, some +volumes of John Lewis of Margate<a name="FNanchor_239_239" id="FNanchor_239_239"></a><a href="#Footnote_239_239" class="fnanchor">[239]</a>, and some interesting Service-books +of English use, including a Pontifical given to Salisbury +Cathedral by Bp. Roger de Martivale between 1315-1329, and +an early Oseney book. Several volumes consist of papers of +Dr. Chamberlaine (author of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Notitia Angliæ</i>) and Mr. Henry +Newman, secretaries of the Societies for the Propagation of the +Gospel, and Promoting Christian Knowledge, which, Rawlinson +mentions in a letter, dated April 28, 1744, (Ballard MS. ii.) that +he had then recently purchased. Some seventeen or eighteen +volumes came from the library of Bp. Turner of Ely (together +with others in the classes called <i>Miscellaneous</i> and <i>Letters</i>), containing +papers of himself and his brother, Dr. Thomas Turner, +Dean of Canterbury. These were obtained by Rawlinson in 1742, +who in them became master, as he says, of a considerable treasure<!-- Page 177 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</a></span> +for ten guineas<a name="FNanchor_240_240" id="FNanchor_240_240"></a><a href="#Footnote_240_240" class="fnanchor">[240]</a>.' Early English poets are represented by Lydgate, +Rolle of Hampole, William of Nassyngton, and others<a name="FNanchor_241_241" id="FNanchor_241_241"></a><a href="#Footnote_241_241" class="fnanchor">[241]</a>; and one +volume contains a few Welsh verses. A catalogue exists in MS. +The volumes relating to English history in classes A and C are +noticed in the return printed in the Record Commission Report +for 1800, pp. 348-353.</p> + +<p>4. The class entitled <i>Miscellaneous</i> numbers about 1400 volumes, +and includes the greater part of those which were discovered in +1861. They are so entirely miscellaneous that it is impossible +to give in a few lines a real idea of their nature. History, travels, +biography, and religious controversy largely prevail. There are +papers of Sir Thos. Browne, Dr. Dee, Maittaire, Peter Le Neve, +Ashmole<a name="FNanchor_242_242" id="FNanchor_242_242"></a><a href="#Footnote_242_242" class="fnanchor">[242]</a>, John Dunton, and Bagford, with a very large mass of +<i>Hearniana</i>. Of the Non-jurors, there are papers of Grascome, +Gandy, Spinckes, Hickes, Fitzwilliams, Howell, and Dean Granville. +Some nine or ten volumes are occupied with the accounts +of the Royal Surveyor of Works from 1532 to 1545. The Church-wardens' +accounts of Sutterton, Lincolnshire, from 1493 to 1536, +and of St. Peter's, Cornhill, from 1664 to 1689, are also found here<a name="FNanchor_243_243" id="FNanchor_243_243"></a><a href="#Footnote_243_243" class="fnanchor">[243]</a>. +There is a large series of Italian MSS. (amongst other foreign +books, chiefly French) which bear on English history, as containing +copies of reports made to Rome by Papal agents and to +Venice by ambassadors, together with the proceedings at many +conclaves. These were bought by Rawlinson at Sir Jos. Jekyll's +sale of the Somers' MSS. in 1739, for £3 15<i>s.</i><a name="FNanchor_244_244" id="FNanchor_244_244"></a><a href="#Footnote_244_244" class="fnanchor">[244]</a> There is also a<!-- Page 178 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</a></span> +mass of papers of J. J. Zamboni, Venetian Resident in England, +and a friend of Maittaire. A considerable number of autograph +signatures, barbarously cut out from various books, by Thomas +Rawlinson, were found in loose papers; these have now been +mounted and bound in two volumes. There are not, however, +many of interest among them, except several of Ben Jonson.</p> + +<p>5. In <i>Letters</i> there are upwards of 100 volumes, comprising all +the multifarious correspondence of Hearne with Anstis, Bagford, +Baker, Barnes, Dodwell, Smith, &c., the correspondence of Rawlinson, +Dr. Thomas Turner, and Bishop Francis Turner, Philip Lord +Wharton, and Sir Edm. Warcupp. One volume contains a few +letters by Dryden, Pope, Edw. Young, &c. There is also a series +of letters in three vols. relating to Dr. John Polyander, of Kerckhoven, +Professor of Divinity at Leyden, and eight or nine volumes +of Vossius' correspondence, being the originals from which the +folio volume published at London in 1691 was printed.</p> + +<p>6. The class of <i>Poetry</i> contains 221 volumes, including Chaucer, +Hoccleve, Lydgate, Capgrave (Life of St. Catherine), and Rolle of +Hampole, with Piers Plowman and the Romance of Parthenope +of Blois (both imperfect). The majority are miscellaneous poems +and plays of the seventeenth century. One volume, containing +the words of anthems with the composers' names, is supposed +to be the Chapel-book used by Charles I.</p> + +<p>Of the three last-mentioned classes, a brief MS. list was drawn +up with great neatness and accuracy by Dr. Bliss, in 1812 (reaching +in the case of the <i>Miscell.</i> only as far as No. 407); an index, in +continuation, to all the later additions is now in process of +formation.</p> + +<p>7. Of <i>Sermons</i> there are about 200 volumes; many of which +are by Non-jurors, including three by Rawlinson himself. Ten +volumes are by Dan. Price, Dean of St. Asaph, 1696-1706; +and one volume is said to contain unpublished sermons by<!-- Page 179 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</a></span> +Leighton, apparently from notes taken by some auditor at the +time of delivery. These have been copied for publication in a +proposed new edition (under the care of Rev. W. West, of Nairn, +N.B.) of Leighton's whole works.</p> + +<p>8. A selection of Biblical and Classical MSS., with a few others, +amounting to 199, are placed in the case marked '<i>Auctarium</i>,' G. +Amongst these are a few Greek volumes, with critical <i>Adversaria</i> +of Maittaire, Josh. Lasher, and J. G. Grævius. Early copies of +Statius, Ovid, Virgil, &c. form part of the classics; while among +the Biblical MSS. is a grand eighth-century copy (written in +rounded minuscules, in the same style as the Rushworth book) of +the Gospels of St. Luke and St. John, and a beautiful eleventh-century +Psalter with the commentary of St. Bruno. One other +fine book is a Psalter written for Ch. Ch. Cathedral, Dublin, by +the care of Stephen Derby, Prior, about A.D. 1360-80, with +remarkable miniatures illustrating Psalms xxxix, liii, lxix, lxxxi, +and xcviii.</p> + +<p>9. Of <i>Missals</i>, <i>Horæ</i>, and other Service-books, there are (besides +those which are scattered in Classes C and G Auct.) about 130. +These (most of which are of French origin, bought out of the +library of Nic. Jos. Foucault<a name="FNanchor_245_245" id="FNanchor_245_245"></a><a href="#Footnote_245_245" class="fnanchor">[245]</a>, of Flemish, or of Italian) are now +incorporated with a large collection of Liturgical books, which +are called <i>Canon. Liturg.</i>, from their having formed part of the +Canonici collection purchased in 1818.</p> + +<p>10. A small collection of <i>Statutes</i>, comprising sixty-five volumes, +is kept distinct. They consist of the Statutes of various Colleges +at Oxford and Cambridge, of the Cathedrals of Lichfield, Hereford, +Worcester, Chester, Manchester, Canterbury, Exeter, and +the Abbey of Westminster; of the Order of the Garter (various<!-- Page 180 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</a></span> +copies); of Hospitals at Croydon, Chipping-Barnet, and Chichester; +of the Gresham Charities, together with the Charters of +London and Bristol; Statutes made by the Chapter of Paris for +the Church of the Holy Sepulchre there in 1421, and an eighteenth-century +transcript of the Statutes of the College at Bayeux. But +the volume of most interest in this class is the rare printed volume +of the Statutes of Thame School, issued in 1575. Of this, only +five other copies are known, one kept at the School itself, a second +in the custody of the Warden of New College (the Visitor of the +School), a third in the Royal Library, Brit. Mus., and the fourth +and fifth, both on vellum, in the possession of the Earl of Abingdon +and in the Grenville Library, Brit. Mus. Rawlinson's copy, +which wants the title, has in it the book-plate of John, Duke of +Newcastle.</p> + +<p>11. Of the MSS. of Dr. Thomas Smith, the Non-juror, of Magd. +Coll., Oxford, there are 139 volumes, which (with the exception +of a few bequeathed by Smith himself) came into Rawlinson's +hands together with the rest of Hearne's collections. They are +noticed above, under the year 1735.</p> + +<p>12. Besides the multitude of books, scattered throughout every +class of Rawlinson's library, which belonged to Hearne or were +written by him, there are about 150 small duodecimo volumes of +Hearne's daily diary and note-books, commencing in July, 1705, +and ending on June 4, 1735, the last actual entry being on June 1, +and his decease occurring on June 10. The character of this diary +is well known from the two volumes of Extracts published by +Dr. Bliss in 1857, with the title, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Hearnianæ</i>. But it must +not be supposed that these volumes comprehend all that deserves +publication; the diary throughout is full of like curious personal +history and anecdote, antiquarian gleanings and amusing gossip, +mixed, of course, with a good deal of occasional acrimony against +those with whom Hearne came in collision either from differences<!-- Page 181 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span> +in academic or literary matters, or from their being friends of +the 'Elector of Hanover.' There is scarcely a subject falling +within its writer's scope of observation on which this Diary may +not be consulted; and as it is written in his usual plain and neat +hand, with an index to each volume, it is fortunately easy for +reference. Hearne bequeathed all his MSS., and books with +MSS. notes, to Mr. William Bedford, son of the well-known +bishop among the Non-jurors, Hilkiah Bedford; the legatee died +on July 11, 1747, and Rawlinson bought them of his widow +for £105. Hence it was that they came finally to the place +where Hearne would himself have rejoiced to see them deposited. +The autobiographical sketch of Hearne's own life, which Huddesford +published in 1772, in conjunction with the lives of +Leland and Wood, is preserved among the <i>Miscellaneous</i> MSS. +Of this Rawlinson says, in a letter dated June 19, 1740<a name="FNanchor_246_246" id="FNanchor_246_246"></a><a href="#Footnote_246_246" class="fnanchor">[246]</a>: 'Tom's +own life was so low and poor a performance that I recommended +it to Bedford to burn.' On account, probably, of the +numerous reflections which the Diary contained on living persons, +Rawlinson ordered in his bequest that it should not be open to +inspection until after the lapse of seven years. He laid also the +same restraint upon the use of his own papers noticed in the +next paragraph.</p> + +<p>13. Large collections were made by Rawlinson for a continuation +of Wood's <i>Athenæ Oxon.</i> These contain much valuable +biographical information, derived in very many cases from the +actual information of the persons noticed, letters from many of +whom are inserted. There are, in all, twenty-five volumes, folio +and quarto; among the folios there are two series of notices +arranged alphabetically, and one volume (also alphabetical) of +notices of Cambridge men admitted <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">ad eundem</i>; the quartos +contain 1331 notices, numbered but not arranged in any other<!-- Page 182 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</a></span> +order, with one general alphabetical index. These collections, +together with Hearne's Diaries, and Rawlinson's Non-jurors' +Papers, and notes of his own Travels, were included in a fourth +and last codicil, dated Feb. 14, 1755, which directed that all these +papers should be kept locked up during a period of seven years. +By the same codicil also were conveyed numerous engravings +by Vertue, portraits of Englishmen, some paintings, and a collection +of Roman, Persian, Italian, and English medals<a name="FNanchor_247_247" id="FNanchor_247_247"></a><a href="#Footnote_247_247" class="fnanchor">[247]</a>. Some of +the Italian medals, particularly a fine set in copper of the members +of the House of Medici, are now exhibited in a case in the Picture +Gallery<a name="FNanchor_248_248" id="FNanchor_248_248"></a><a href="#Footnote_248_248" class="fnanchor">[248]</a>. By a codicil of June 17, 1752, Rawlinson had previously +bequeathed a series of medals of Popes, of which he remarks, 'as +they are, I take them to be one of the most complete collections +now in Europe;' together with twenty shillings <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">per annum</i> for +enlarging and continuing the set<a name="FNanchor_249_249" id="FNanchor_249_249"></a><a href="#Footnote_249_249" class="fnanchor">[249]</a>.</p> + +<p>14. Finally (as regards MSS.), Rawlinson left a mass of ancient +charters, five hundred of which were catalogued by Mr. Coxe +some years ago, and of vellum deeds and documents of all kinds, +chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He left, also, +all the copper-plates containing engravings of some of his ancient +documents and other curiosities, as well as a large number of impressions +from these plates. Many of these impressions were sold +at the sale of Bodleian duplicates in 1862. The copper-plates +were added to his bequest by a second codicil, dated July 25, 1754, +in which he desired that impressions should be taken from them, +to be sold in one volume for the use and benefit of the University.<!-- Page 183 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span> +A last item in Rawlinson's miscellaneous gifts (besides various +bas-reliefs, figures, a Jewish vessel, Muscovite cup, &c.) was a +large collection of matrices of ancient conventual and personal +seals, chiefly foreign; together with impressions of seals, ancient +and modern, in metal and wax, 'most of which,' it is said in the +Will (p. 4), 'were of the collection of Mr. Charles Christian, the +celebrated seal engraver.' The wax impressions are now exhibited +in the Picture Gallery.</p> + +<p>Distinct from Rawlinson's other printed books is a curious +series of Almanacs, in 175 volumes, extending from 1607 to +1747, which were sent to the Library in 1752. Some volumes in +continuation, from 1747 to 1768, were given by Sir Rob. H. Inglis, +Bart., in 1846<a name="FNanchor_250_250" id="FNanchor_250_250"></a><a href="#Footnote_250_250" class="fnanchor">[250]</a>. Another series, between 1571 and 1663, is in the +Ashmole collection.</p> + +<p>By his second codicil, of July 25, 1754, Rawlinson bequeathed +a fee-farm rent of £4 <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">per annum</i> to the Under-librarian, in consideration +of his taking charge of the MSS., but clogged with +the strange conditions that he should not be a doctor in any +faculty, married, or in Holy Orders<a name="FNanchor_251_251" id="FNanchor_251_251"></a><a href="#Footnote_251_251" class="fnanchor">[251]</a>. The receipt of this sum is +entered in the Accounts for 1756, but in no subsequent year.</p> + +<p>The following is an alphabetical list of the principal libraries<!-- Page 184 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span> +from which Rawlinson's MSS. were collected, with the dates (so +far as ascertained) at which these libraries were dispersed:—</p> + +<ul> +<li>Acton (Oliver), of Bridewell Hosp.</li> +<li>Bacon (Thos. Sclater), 1737.</li> +<li>Bridgeman (Will. & Rich.), 1742.</li> +<li>Chandos (Duke of), 1747.</li> +<li>Clarendon (Henry, Earl of). Through <i>Chandos</i>.</li> +<li>Clavell (Walter), 1742.</li> +<li>Compton (Bishop). See p. <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> +<li>Foucault (Nic. Jos.), 'Comes Consistorianus<a name="FNanchor_252_252" id="FNanchor_252_252"></a><a href="#Footnote_252_252" class="fnanchor">[252]</a>,' 1721.</li> +<li>Gale (Samuel), 1755.</li> +<li>Graves (Rich.), of Mickleton. Through <i>Hearne</i>.</li> +<li>Halifax (Montagu, Earl of), 1715.</li> +<li>Hearne (Thomas), 1747.</li> +<li>Holman (William). See p. <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> +<li>Jekyll (Sir Joseph), 1739.</li> +<li>Le Neve (Peter), 1731.</li> +<li>Maittaire (Mich.), 1748.</li> +<li>Mead (Richard, M.D.), 1754-5.</li> +<li>Murray (John), 1749.</li> +<li>Oxford (Harley, Earl of), 1743-5.</li> +<li>Pepys (Samuel). See p. <a href="#Page_172">172</a>.</li> +<li>Pole (Francis), 175-.</li> +<li>Powle (Henry), in 1689 Speaker of House of Commons.</li> +<li>Rawlinson (Thomas), 1734.</li> +<li>Robinson (Bishop). See p. <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> +<li>St. George (Sir Thomas).</li> +<li>Somers (Lord). Through <i>Jekyll</i>.</li> +<li>Spelman (Sir Henry).</li> +<li>Spinckes (Rev. Nathan), 1727.</li> +<li>Turner (Bishop). See p. <a href="#Page_176">176</a>.</li> +<li>Usher (Archbishop). Through <i>Hearne</i>.</li> +<li>Wake (Archbp.). See p. <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> +<li>Ware (Sir James). Through <i>Clarendon</i> and <i>Chandos</i>.</li> +<li>Whiston (William).</li> +</ul> + +<p>On July 15, a bequest of printed books and MSS. was received +from Rev. Richard Furney, M.A., Archdeacon of Surrey (who had +been schoolmaster at Gloucester, 1719-1724, and who died in +1753,) by the hands of the Rev. John Noel, of Oriel College. The +printed books (nineteen in all) consisted almost entirely of early<!-- Page 185 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span> +editions of classics. The MSS. (six folio volumes) are thus +described in a list made by the Librarian, Humphrey Owen, at +the time of their receipt:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'1, 2, 3 and 4 contain collections relating to the history and +antiquities of the city, church and county of Gloucester. 5, 6, a +fair copy, seemingly prepared for the press, of the history and +antiquities of the said city, church and county, by the Arch-deacon +himself, or some friend of his from whom these papers came into +his hands.'</p></div> + +<p>The gift comprised also two ancient brass seals, and eighteen +original deeds, amongst which is the original confirmation charter +granted to Gloucester Abbey, by Burgred King of Mercia, in 862. +This remarkable deed (which is not printed in Kemble's <i>Codex</i>) +is in admirable preservation, is written in seventeen lines, with +five lines containing seventeen signatures, and measures sixteen +inches in width and ten and one-third in length. There are also +original grants to the abbey from Hen. II and Stephen, and a +confirmation, 29 Edw. I, of Magna Charta, which has a magnificent +impression of the beautiful great seal. The deeds are noticed +in the Report on the Public Records for 1800, p. 354.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>By the death on Sept. 5, 1754, of James St. Amand, Esq.<a name="FNanchor_253_253" id="FNanchor_253_253"></a><a href="#Footnote_253_253" class="fnanchor">[253]</a> +(formerly of Lincoln College), a bequest of books, MSS., coins, &c. +which had been made by a will dated Nov. 9, 1749, accrued to +the Library, being received in the year 1755. The books consist +chiefly of the then modern editions of the classics, and of the +writings of modern Latin scholars; such of them as the Library<!-- Page 186 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</a></span> +did not need, were to go to Lincoln College. The MSS., sixty-eight +in number, comprise various papers relating to the history +chiefly of the Low Countries<a name="FNanchor_254_254" id="FNanchor_254_254"></a><a href="#Footnote_254_254" class="fnanchor">[254]</a>, together with notes and indices +by St. Amand himself to Theocritus and other Greek poets, +Horace, &c. They are described by Mr. Coxe, in vol. i. of the +Catalogue of MSS., cols. 889-908. The main part of the residue +of his property was bequeathed to Christ's Hospital, together with +a picture of his grandfather James St. Amand, done in miniature +and set in gold, with the singular proviso that the picture should +be exhibited, and the part of the will relating to these bequests +be read, at the first annual court of the Hospital, and also that the +picture be shown annually to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, if required. +Should a refusal to show the picture be persistently made, +or any of the conditions of the will be avoided, then all the residue +was to be given to the University, first to increase the stipend +of the chief Librarian to £120 and of the second Librarian to £70, +but only so long as both of them were unmarried, and then to +be devoted to the purchasing of books and MSS., specially of +classic authors.</p> + +<p>Many of his books have a book-plate, which the author has +ascertained to be that of Dr. Arthur Charlett; being the initials +A. C., interlaced with the same repeated in an inverse way, surrounded +by piles of books, and with the motto, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Animus si æquus, +quod petis hîc est</span>.'</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>By the bequest of George Ballard (the author of the <i>Memoirs of +Learned Ladies</i>), who died on June 24, the Library became +enriched with forty-four volumes of Letters, chiefly addressed, by +ecclesiastical and literary personages of all ranks, to Dr. Arthur<!-- Page 187 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span> +Charlett, Master of University College, between the reigns of +James II and George I. For the biographical and bibliographical +history of the time these letters possess great interest and value; it +was from them that the <i>Letters by Eminent Persons</i>, published in +1813, by Rev. John Walker, M.A., Fellow of New College, were +chiefly drawn. No printed catalogue of them has yet appeared, +but the Library possesses a MS. index to the contents of each +volume, and a more complete and minute index has been recently +commenced<a name="FNanchor_255_255" id="FNanchor_255_255"></a><a href="#Footnote_255_255" class="fnanchor">[255]</a>. Besides the Letters, Ballard bequeathed some +other MSS., in number twenty-three, among which is a volume +of various voyages and expeditions, 1589-1634; Sir Edm. Warcupp's +autograph account of the treaty in the Isle of Wight;<a name="FNanchor_256_256" id="FNanchor_256_256"></a><a href="#Footnote_256_256" class="fnanchor">[256]</a> +a dialogue between a tutor and his pupil, by Lord Herbert, of +Cherbury; the second book of the <i>Supplication of Soules</i>, by Sir +Thos. More, a precious little volume of 103 closely-written duodecimo +pages, entirely in the handwriting of the great Chancellor; +the <i>Universitie's Musterings</i>, by Brian Twyne; collections by Ant. +à Wood; a small volume of Gloucestershire notes, supposed by +Guillim; and several volumes written by Mr. Elstob and his sister. +An extract from Ballard's will, with a list of his MSS., is in the +Register marked 'C.'</p> + +<p>Ballard was originally a stay-maker or mantua-maker at Campden, +Gloucestershire; but, following the study of antiquities with great<!-- Page 188 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span> +ardour, became well known and highly esteemed amongst all of +like pursuits. At the age of forty-four he was appointed one of +the eight clerks of Magdalen College, being matriculated Dec. 15, +1750, but never took any degree. He bequeathed to the College +Library some of his books which were there wanting. The fullest +account of him will be found in vol. ii. of <i>A Register of St. Mary +Magd. College</i>, by J. R. Bloxam, D.D., pp. 95-102, 1857. Some +letters from him are printed in Nichols' <i>Lit. Hist.</i> iv. 206-226.</p> + +<p>The very valuable MS. of the letters of Gilbert Foliot, Bishop +of London (which are of great importance for the illustration of +the history of Thomas à Becket), now numbered <i>E. Musæo</i> 247, +was given by Sir Thomas Cave, Bart. It is described in the +Benefaction Book as 'liber rarissimus; per totam Angliam unum +hoc tantum modo exstat exemplar.' The letters were first printed +by Dr. Giles, together with the Lives of Becket, in his series of +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Patres Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ</i>, in 1845.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_220_220" id="Footnote_220_220"></a><a href="#FNanchor_220_220"><span class="label">[220]</span></a> This date is from the <i>Register of Graduates</i>; Rawlinson says, Mich. Term, 1710.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_221_221" id="Footnote_221_221"></a><a href="#FNanchor_221_221"><span class="label">[221]</span></a> By Bishop Jeremy Collier, in Mr. Laurence's Chapel on College Hill, London. (See +a communication from the present writer in <i>Notes and Queries</i>, 3rd series, iii. 244.) +He appears to have endeavoured to conceal from the world his clerical character. +In a letter to T. Rawlins, of Pophills, Warw. in 1736, he requests him not to +address him as <i>Rev.</i> (Ballard's MSS. ii. 6.) Some volumes of Sermons in his handwriting +are among his MSS. His writing is of a very broad, rude, and clumsy +character; and it is singular that his brother Thomas wrote a hand very similar. +Richard usually signs only with his initials, separated by a cross, 'R + R.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_222_222" id="Footnote_222_222"></a><a href="#FNanchor_222_222"><span class="label">[222]</span></a> The small note-books kept on his journeys, containing epitaphs, inscriptions, +accounts of places visited, &c., are preserved (but, unfortunately, in an imperfect +series) among his Miscellaneous MSS.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_223_223" id="Footnote_223_223"></a><a href="#FNanchor_223_223"><span class="label">[223]</span></a> See <i>Notes and Queries</i>, 3rd series, i. 225.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_224_224" id="Footnote_224_224"></a><a href="#FNanchor_224_224"><span class="label">[224]</span></a> Two beautiful miniature portraits of James Edward, son of James II, and his +wife Clementina Sobieski, which could not, probably, at the time be safely exhibited, +have recently been exhumed by the Librarian from the obscurity to which they had +been consigned, and are now hung in the Picture Gallery. In Feb. 1749/50, Rawlinson +sent Kelly's 'Holy Table,' a marble slab, covered with astrological figures (engraved +in Dr. Dee's <i>Actions with Spirits</i>), which, he says, had been subsequently in the +possession of Lilly. It is now in the Ashmolean Museum.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_225_225" id="Footnote_225_225"></a><a href="#FNanchor_225_225"><span class="label">[225]</span></a> By the terms of his will, dated June 2, 1752, and printed in 1755, he bequeathed +all his MSS. of every kind (excepting private papers and letters) to the +Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University, to be placed in the Bodleian +Library, or in such other place as they should deem most proper, for the use and benefit +of the University, and of all other persons, properly and with leave resorting thereto +with a view to the public good; and to be kept separate and apart from every other +collection. With these he gave also all his books printed on vellum or silk (of +which latter kind there are two or three small specimens), all his deeds and charters, +and all his printed books containing any MSS. notes, together with various antiquities +and miscellaneous curiosities. His MS. and printed music he bequeathed to +the Music School. Of the Musical library preserved in this room, a MS. Catalogue +was made a few years ago by Rev. Robert Hake, M.A., then Chaplain of New +College, now Precentor of Canterbury.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_226_226" id="Footnote_226_226"></a><a href="#FNanchor_226_226"><span class="label">[226]</span></a> <i>Apropos</i> of log-books, it may be mentioned that whereas it appears from the +eighth Report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Records, p. 26, 1847, that the earliest +log among the Admiralty Records is of the year 1673, there are several of about the +same date and a little earlier to be found in Rawlinson's collection.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_227_227" id="Footnote_227_227"></a><a href="#FNanchor_227_227"><span class="label">[227]</span></a> Among the printed books are two copies of Archbp. Parker's rare <i>De Antiq. +Eccl. Brit.</i>, 1572. One of these is the identical copy described by Strype in +his <i>Life of Parker</i>, and which was then in the possession of Bp. Fleetwood of +Ely; the other (which was given to the Library by Jos. Sanford, B.D., Balliol +Coll., in 1753) was presented to Rich. Cosin by John Parker, the Archbishop's +eldest son, Jan. 5, 1593. Owen, the Librarian, notes on the cover that Dr. Rawlinson +tells him this copy was bought at the sale of the library of his brother, +Thos. Rawlinson, by the Earl of Oxford, for £40. A collection of the original broadsides +proclamations issued during the whole of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in +beautiful condition, forms a remarkable and splendid volume; the collection is +complete, except that a few proclamations, of which printed copies are wanting, are +supplied in MS. As far as the year 1577 they are printed by Richard Jugge, sometimes +alone and sometimes in conjunction with John Cawood; thenceforward they +are printed by the two Barkers, first by Christopher, and afterwards by Robert. +They appear to have been collected in the reign of James I. A printed chronological +table of contents is prefixed, together with a portrait of the Queen, engraved by Fr. +Delaram, with six lines of verse by 'Jo. Davies, Heref.' At the year 1559 a leaf is +inserted containing the arms of Q. Mary of Scotland quartering those of England +(the assumption of which by Mary gave irreconcileable offence to Q. Eliz.), beautifully +painted, with the note, 'Sent out of Fraunce, in July, 1559,' and these lines below:— +</p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p><span class="i0">'The armes of Marie Queene Dolphines of ffraunce,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The nobillest Lady in earth for till aduaunce:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Off Scotland queene, and of Ingland also,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Off Ireland als, God haith providit so.'<br /></span> +</p></div></div> +<p> +This leaf is one of two copies executed for Cecil and Q. Eliz. Two, probably +unique, 'red-letter' books are also among the rarities of Rawlinson's printed +collection. The one is a Sermon on Ps. iv. 7, preached before Charles I at Oxford +by Josias Howe, B.D., of Trinity College. It is printed entirely in red, and has +no title. It was bought, included in a volume of miscellaneous sermons, out of +Dr. Charlett's library, by Hearne, who says in a MS. note that only thirty copies +were printed. A description of it is given by Dr. Bliss in his <i>Reliquiæ Hearn.</i> +vol. ii. pp. 960-1, where Hearne's note is printed in full. The other is a volume +entitled, <i>The Bloody Court; or, the Fatal Tribunal</i>, being an account of the trial and +execution of Charles I. The lengthy title is printed by Dr. Bliss, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">ubi supra</i>. Some +few of Rawlinson's printed books came to the Library among Gough's, in 1809.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_228_228" id="Footnote_228_228"></a><a href="#FNanchor_228_228"><span class="label">[228]</span></a> The salaries being miserably insufficient, the recognised duties of the officers +appear to have been simply the cataloguing the few books that were received in +ordinary course, and attending upon the readers. Consequently for any other work, +for arranging or cataloguing any new collections, &c., special payments were always +made. A somewhat amusing instance of this occurs under the year 1722, when the +Librarian craved payment for making with his own hand certain new hand-lists, &c., +but was refused. However, he carried on his claim from year to year until it was +admitted to the amount of £5 15<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> in 1725. And as the funds were insufficient +to defray in this way the extra cost of cataloguing such a collection as Rawlinson's, +hence, doubtless, came the neglect which it experienced. Such work was so clearly +understood to form no part of the Librarians' regular duties, that Rawlinson says, in +a letter to Owen, Apr. 15, 1751 (MS. C. 989), 'I think large benefactors should pay +the expense of entries into the Bodleian, as their books are useless till so entered.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_229_229" id="Footnote_229_229"></a><a href="#FNanchor_229_229"><span class="label">[229]</span></a> It was chiefly from these that the two volumes published in 1841 under the title +of <i>Life, Journals, and Correspondence of S. Pepys</i> were compiled. Unfortunately +the editor, or his copyist, appears to have been sometimes unable to read the MSS., +and at other times very careless; his book therefore abounds with errors. The +following is one of the worst, as it libels the memory of a statesman who deserved +better treatment: Sir R. Southwell is represented as saying in a letter to Pepys +(vol. i. p. 282) that he has lost his health 'by sitting many years at the <i>sack</i>-bottle,' +whereas the poor man had lost it by sitting many years 'at the <i>inck</i>-bottle.' A line +or two farther on, Southwell's occupation with 'some care and much sorrow,' is +changed into 'love, care and much sorrow.' Certain '<i>Novelles</i>,' or newspapers, which +Mr. Hill sends to Pepys are explained (vol. ii. p. 135) to have been the <i>Novellæ</i> of +Justinian! Throughout the book proper names are frequently made to become anything +but proper to their owners.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_230_230" id="Footnote_230_230"></a><a href="#FNanchor_230_230"><span class="label">[230]</span></a> Letter from Rawlinson to T. Rawlins, Jan. 25, 1749/50; Ballard MS. ii. 115.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_231_231" id="Footnote_231_231"></a><a href="#FNanchor_231_231"><span class="label">[231]</span></a> The same volume (now A. 139<sup>b</sup>) also contains Monmouth's acknowledgment, +written and signed by himself on the day of his execution, that Charles II had +declared that he was never married to his mother; witnessed by Bishops Turner and +Ken, together with Tenison and Hooper. This is now exhibited in the glass case at +the entrance to the Library.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_232_232" id="Footnote_232_232"></a><a href="#FNanchor_232_232"><span class="label">[232]</span></a> In his delight at his new purchase, Rawlinson seems to have exaggerated the +interest of these volumes.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_233_233" id="Footnote_233_233"></a><a href="#FNanchor_233_233"><span class="label">[233]</span></a> Letter to T. Rawlins, Feb. 24, 1742/3; Ballard MS. ii. 78.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_234_234" id="Footnote_234_234"></a><a href="#FNanchor_234_234"><span class="label">[234]</span></a> To the same; <i>Ibid.</i> 59.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_235_235" id="Footnote_235_235"></a><a href="#FNanchor_235_235"><span class="label">[235]</span></a> Gough, <i>Brit. Topogr.</i> i. 370, 345.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_236_236" id="Footnote_236_236"></a><a href="#FNanchor_236_236"><span class="label">[236]</span></a> Letter, June 24, 1741; Ballard MS. ii. 59.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_237_237" id="Footnote_237_237"></a><a href="#FNanchor_237_237"><span class="label">[237]</span></a> Including some letters from Ken while Chaplain to Princess Mary. These papers +of Compton are in class C.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_238_238" id="Footnote_238_238"></a><a href="#FNanchor_238_238"><span class="label">[238]</span></a> For the description of the contents of three of the Irish volumes, the author was +indebted to an experienced Irish scholar, Standish Hayes O'Grady, Esq.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_239_239" id="Footnote_239_239"></a><a href="#FNanchor_239_239"><span class="label">[239]</span></a> A volume of collections by him relating to the early versions of the Bible was +bought in 1858 for five guineas.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_240_240" id="Footnote_240_240"></a><a href="#FNanchor_240_240"><span class="label">[240]</span></a> Ballard MS. ii. 87.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_241_241" id="Footnote_241_241"></a><a href="#FNanchor_241_241"><span class="label">[241]</span></a> One curious volume is described by Sir F. Madden in his preface to <i>Syr +Gawayne</i>, printed by the Roxburghe Club in 1839.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_242_242" id="Footnote_242_242"></a><a href="#FNanchor_242_242"><span class="label">[242]</span></a> With relation to these Rawlinson says, in a letter dated Feb. 25, 1736-7, that he +had bought, about two years since, some of Ashmole's papers from his heirs, including +some of Dugdale's (Ballard MS. ii. 11).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_243_243" id="Footnote_243_243"></a><a href="#FNanchor_243_243"><span class="label">[243]</span></a> For Parish Registers, see under <a href="#AD_1821">1821</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_244_244" id="Footnote_244_244"></a><a href="#FNanchor_244_244"><span class="label">[244]</span></a> Two MS. volumes of the Relations of Venetian Residents in various countries +were given to the Library by Will. Gent, in 1600, and Sir Rich. Spencer, in 1603.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_245_245" id="Footnote_245_245"></a><a href="#FNanchor_245_245"><span class="label">[245]</span></a> From this library Rawlinson also obtained some French editions of the <i>Horæ</i>, +printed on vellum.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_246_246" id="Footnote_246_246"></a><a href="#FNanchor_246_246"><span class="label">[246]</span></a> Ballard MS. ii. 41.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_247_247" id="Footnote_247_247"></a><a href="#FNanchor_247_247"><span class="label">[247]</span></a> The clock, still in use in the Library, made by Robinson in Gracechurch +Street, was one of the items comprised in this codicil, where it is described as a +'table clock,' then in the custody of Mr. John King, a bookseller, in Moorfields.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_248_248" id="Footnote_248_248"></a><a href="#FNanchor_248_248"><span class="label">[248]</span></a> These were bought, 'very cheap,' at Mrs. Kennon's sale, Feb. 24, 1755, by a +dealer named Angel Carmey, who sold them to Rawlinson for £10 10<i>s.</i> Carmey's +letter conveying his offer of sale is preserved in Rawlinson's copy of the sale catalogue.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_249_249" id="Footnote_249_249"></a><a href="#FNanchor_249_249"><span class="label">[249]</span></a> It does not appear, however, that this sum was ever paid.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_250_250" id="Footnote_250_250"></a><a href="#FNanchor_250_250"><span class="label">[250]</span></a> A curious, and probably unique, little 'Almanacke for XII yere, after the latytude +of Oxenforde,' printed in 48<sup>o</sup> (measuring two and a-half inches by one and three-quarters), +by Wynkyn de Worde, 'in the fletestrete,' in 1508, was presented by +David Laing, LL.D., the eminent Librarian to the Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh, +in 1842. The Library also possesses two copies of a sheet Almanack, by Simon +Heuringius, for 1551, printed by John Turck, at London; and other almanacs for +1564, 1567, and 1569. A volume containing five almanacs for the year 1589 +was bought in 1857.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_251_251" id="Footnote_251_251"></a><a href="#FNanchor_251_251"><span class="label">[251]</span></a> With the same perverse eccentricity he ordered that the recipients of his +endowments for the Keepership of the Ashmolean Museum and the Professorship of +Anglo-Saxon, should be unmarried (in the former case only M.A. or B.C.L.), not a +native of Scotland, Ireland, or the Plantations, nor a son of such native, nor, in +the case of the Museum, even educated in Scotland, and not a member of either the +Royal Society or the Society of Antiquaries.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_252_252" id="Footnote_252_252"></a><a href="#FNanchor_252_252"><span class="label">[252]</span></a> Autobiographical memoirs by Foucault, extending to 1719, were published +under the editorship of F. Baudry, 4<sup>o</sup>. Paris, 1862, in the French Government series +of <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Documents inédits sur l'Histoire de France</i>. The editor remarks in the preface +(p. xli.), 'On ignore en quelles mains la bibliothèque de Foucault passa après +sa mort [1721]. Le P. Le Long nous apprend seulement qu'elle fut vendue, et +probablement dispersée.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_253_253" id="Footnote_253_253"></a><a href="#FNanchor_253_253"><span class="label">[253]</span></a> A record of his birth and baptism is entered in a family register kept by his +father on the fly-leaves of a splendid copy of the folio Prayer-Book of 1662. He +was the second son; born in Covent Garden, Apr. 7, 1687; bapt. Apr. 21, by +Dr. Patrick, the sponsors being Major-Gen. Werden, Sir Peter Apsley and the +Countess of Bath. Prince George of Denmark was one of the sponsors to his +elder brother, George. He had also a sister, Martha.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_254_254" id="Footnote_254_254"></a><a href="#FNanchor_254_254"><span class="label">[254]</span></a> Amongst these is a large collection of MS. news-letters written from various +places abroad about the years 1637-1642; one of these, containing particulars of +movements of the Swedish and Imperialist armies, is printed, as a specimen, in <i>Letters +by Eminent Persons</i>, 1813, vol. i. pp. 15-17.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_255_255" id="Footnote_255_255"></a><a href="#FNanchor_255_255"><span class="label">[255]</span></a> References to many particulars relative to Thoresby, Bishop Gibson, <span class="note" title="comma after White deleted - see Addenda et Corrigenda">White</span> +Kennett and Hickes (with a few others) are given in J. Nichols' notes to the <i>Letters +of Archbp. Nicolson</i> (2 vols. 1809), an interesting and varied biographical miscellany, +but which is guilty of the capital crime of omitting an index.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_256_256" id="Footnote_256_256"></a><a href="#FNanchor_256_256"><span class="label">[256]</span></a> This ought, apparently, to have reached the Library much sooner, through the +hands of Dr. Charlett; since it has the following inscription on the fly-leaf: 'Given +by the Hon<sup>ble.</sup> S<sup>r</sup>. Edmund Warcup (being all writ w<sup>th</sup> his own hand at y<sup>e</sup> Isle of +Wight at y<sup>e</sup> Treaty) to the Public Library in Oxford, to be placed there when I +thought fitting. +</p><p> +<span class="text-in20">'<span class="smcap">Ar. Charlett.</span></span><br /> +<span class="text-in2">'Univ. Coll.</span><br /> +<span class="text-in2">Nov. 25, 97.'</span><br /> +</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1756" id="AD_1756"></a>A.D. 1756.</h3> + +<p>Dr. Samuel Johnson presented the account of Zachariah +Williams' attempt to ascertain the longitude at sea, which he had +published under Williams' name in the preceding year; and, as +Warton noted<a name="FNanchor_257_257" id="FNanchor_257_257"></a><a href="#Footnote_257_257" class="fnanchor">[257]</a>, he entered it with his own hand in the Library +Catalogue. The entry is still to be seen, with a memorandum of +its being in Johnson's hand, in an interleaved, and now disused, +copy of the Catalogue of 1738.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_257_257" id="Footnote_257_257"></a><a href="#FNanchor_257_257"><span class="label">[257]</span></a> Boswell's <i>Life of Johnson</i>, edit. 1835, vol. ii. p. 54.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1759" id="AD_1759"></a>A.D. 1759.</h3> + +<p>Above forty Syriac, Greek and Arabic MSS. are recorded in +the Registers to have been presented by Henry Dawkins, Esq.,<!-- Page 189 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span> +of Standlynch, Wilts, who had collected them while travelling in +the East with Robert Wood, whose works on Baalbec and Palmyra +he presented at the same time. There are now <i>sixty</i> MSS. in +Syriac alone which pass under the name of Dawkins, some of +which are of great age and value. They are described in Dr. R. +Payne Smith's Catalogue of the Syriac MSS. Mr. Dawkins died +in London, June 19, 1814, aged eighty-six.</p> + +<p>Swedenborg's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Arcana Cœlestia</i>, published anonymously, in 8 vols. +were sent 'by the author, unknown.' The same donor, still unknown, +sent in 1766 <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Selecti Dionys. Halicarn. tractatus</i>.</p> + +<p>In this year and in 1761 published music began to be received +from Stationers' Hall, and to be entered in the Register. It remained +piled up in cupboards until about twenty-three years ago, +when it was all disinterred and carefully arranged by Rev. H. E. +Havergal, M.A., then Chaplain of New Coll. and Ch. Ch., and an +assistant in the Library (now Vicar of Cople, Beds.), and bound +in some 300 or 400 volumes. Since that time two further series +of musical volumes have been arranged and bound.</p> + +<p>A meagre list of the pictures, &c., in the Picture Gallery and +Library was printed by the Janitor (or Under-janitor), N. Bull, and +'sold by him at the Picture Gallery.' It fills twelve duodecimo +pages. A new edition, 'with additions and amendments,' including +the pictures in the Ashmolean Museum, was issued by him in +1762, in sixteen octavo pages. This was, as it seems, the first list +that had been issued since Hearne printed his original Catalogue +in his <i>Letter containing an Account of some Antiquities between +Windsor and Oxford</i>. A list, equally meagre with Bull's, was +published by W. Cowderoy, Janitor, in 1806. He was succeeded +in office (before 1825) by —— Lenthall; on whom followed the +present Janitor, J. Norris, appointed in 1835. By him a new +Catalogue, enlarged with biographical notices, was issued, filling +sixty pages; which was reissued, with a few alterations, in 1847,<!-- Page 190 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span> +when such of the pictures as were not portraits had been removed +to the new Randolph Gallery. As all the portraits were a few +years ago distinctly labelled, but few copies of the Catalogue +have, consequently, been since sold, and no new edition has +appeared.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1760" id="AD_1760"></a>A.D. 1760.</h3> + +<p>The MSS. of the eminent antiquary, Browne Willis, who died +on Feb. 5, in this year, came to the Library by his bequest. +They were received from his executor, Dr. Eyre, on April 24. +There are altogether fifty-nine volumes in folio, forty-eight in +quarto, and five in octavo, consisting chiefly of Willis' own collections +for his various works, with much correspondence intermingled +and a few older historical papers. There is much of +value for general ecclesiastical topography and biography, besides +his large collections for the county of Bucks, and special volumes +relating to the four Welsh Cathedrals. He desired in his will +that the books should be placed in the Picture Gallery, 'next to +those of my friend Bishop Tanner;' both collections have since +been removed to a room on the floor below, but the presses +which contain them still adjoin each other. Many of his letters +are to be found among Ballard's and Rawlinson's papers, and show +throughout both the warm interest which he took in ecclesiastical +renovation and religious work generally, but particularly in +the state of the Church in Wales, and the continual efforts which +he made to rouse slothful and negligent dignitaries to a sense of +their duties and responsibilities. The restoration of the ruined +and desolate Cathedral at Llandaff was an object especially dear +to him. By his will, which was dated Dec. 20, 1741, he bequeathed +to the University, besides his MSS., all his numerous +silver, brass, copper and pewter coins, and also his gold coins, +if purchased at the rate of £4 per oz., as the best return he could<!-- Page 191 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span> +make for the many favours he acknowledged to have been conferred +on him and on his grandfather, Dr. Thomas Willis, Professor +of Natural Philosophy. This latter provision of his will +was at once carried into execution; in the following year the +University purchased one hundred and sixty-seven gold coins for +£150 at £4 4<i>s.</i> per oz., and two more in 1743 for £8 5<i>s.</i> His +other coins were given by him in the years 1739, 1740, 1741, +1747 and 1750; and by a codicil to his will dated Feb. 5, 1742, +he desired that the whole collection should be annually visited on +the Feast of St. Frideswide (Oct. 19), which day he had himself +been wont annually to celebrate in Oxford. His first gift to the +Library was in the year 1720, when he gave ten valuable MSS., +chiefly historical (now placed among the general <i>Bodley</i> Series), +together with his grandfather's portrait.</p> + +<p>A bequest of £70, towards the purchase of an orrery, was +received from Rev. Jos. Parsons, M.A., of Merton College.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1761" id="AD_1761"></a>A.D. 1761.</h3> + +<p>Kennicott's collations of Hebrew Biblical MSS., made during +the years 1759-60, were received from him on Dec. 17, in this year, +according to an entry in the Register. But all his MSS., collations, +correspondence, and miscellaneous books (including one +in Zend, upon cloth), were subsequently deposited in the Radcliffe +Library, whence they were removed, in 1862, together with the +other contents of that collection, to the place of their present +deposit, the New Museum.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1762" id="AD_1762"></a>A.D. 1762.</h3> + +<p>The west, or Selden, end of the Library was re-floored at a +cost of £66. Unchaining of those books which hitherto, on<!-- Page 192 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span> +account of their accessibility to all comers, were fastened to their +shelves, appears to have been commenced in this year.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1763" id="AD_1763"></a>A.D. 1763.</h3> + +<p>The Janitor, Rev. John Bilstone, M.A., was deprived of his +office by Dr. Owen, the Librarian, on account of his neglecting +to perform his duties in person. An action for arrears of salary +was subsequently brought by Bilstone against Owen<a name="FNanchor_258_258" id="FNanchor_258_258"></a><a href="#Footnote_258_258" class="fnanchor">[258]</a>. He died +Feb. 13, 1767, at which time he held three livings, besides his +Chaplaincy of All Souls' College.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_258_258" id="Footnote_258_258"></a><a href="#FNanchor_258_258"><span class="label">[258]</span></a> 'See papers in <i>Files</i>, 1763; Archiv.' (MS. note in Dr. P. Bliss' <i>Collectanea</i>.)</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1764" id="AD_1764"></a>A.D. 1764.</h3> + +<p>The <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Editio princeps</i> of Homer, Florence, 1488, was bought +for £6 6<i>s.</i></p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1768" id="AD_1768"></a>A.D. 1768.</h3> + +<p>H. Owen, the Librarian, and Principal of Jesus College, died +in March of this year, and was buried in his College Chapel. +In his room was elected the Rev. John Price, B.D., of Jesus +College, 'after a severe contest with Mr. Cleaver, of Brasenose, +afterwards head of that College and Bishop of St. Asaph, who +used to say that he was indebted to Mr. Price for his mitre, +for had he obtained the Bodleian he should have there continued, +instead of becoming tutor in a noble family, and so placed in +the road to advancement. In this election the votes were equal, +and Mr. Price, being senior, was nominated by the Vice-Chancellor<a name="FNanchor_259_259" id="FNanchor_259_259"></a><a href="#Footnote_259_259" class="fnanchor">[259]</a>.' +Price appears to have been employed in the Library +as early as the year 1760, when a payment of £8 8<i>s.</i> was made +to him; in 1766 he signs, together with Owen and Thomas Parker, +an account of books received from Stationers' Hall.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_259_259" id="Footnote_259_259"></a><a href="#FNanchor_259_259"><span class="label">[259]</span></a> Note by Dr. Bliss in the edition of Wood's <i>Life</i> published, in 1848, by the +Eccl. Hist. Soc. p. 88.<!-- Page 193 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span></p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1770" id="AD_1770"></a>A.D. 1770.</h3> + +<p>The Library was largely enriched with books which were then +modern, in which it appears to have been very deficient, by the +legacy of the library of Rev. Charles Godwyn, M.A., Fellow +of Balliol College. The collection, which is still in the main +kept undivided (although a few folio and quarto volumes are +placed in the general class marked <i>Art.</i>), consists chiefly of works +in English and general history, civil and ecclesiastical, published +in the eighteenth century, and includes besides the later Benedictine +editions of the Fathers. There is also a series of theological +and literary pamphlets; to which have been added of late years +upwards of 2400 volumes, of all dates and on all subjects, which +are now all alike numbered, for convenience sake, in connection +with Godwyn's own. The residue of his property, after payment +of all claims and bequests, formed a further portion of his legacy; +and the interest upon £1050 which accrued from this source, still +forms part of the annual income of the Library.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1771" id="AD_1771"></a>A.D. 1771.</h3> + +<p>A payment of £2 12<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> was made in this year (or rather, +at the close of 1770) to a glass-painter, named Brooks, for one of +the coats of arms in the great east window.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1775" id="AD_1775"></a>A.D. 1775.</h3> + +<p>Twenty-four Oriental MSS. and bundles of papers which had been +found in the study of Rev. Dr. Thos. Hunt, Reg. Prof. of Hebrew, +who died in the preceding year, were given by various persons.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1776" id="AD_1776"></a>A.D. 1776.</h3> + +<p>Lord North, the Chancellor of the University, presented to the +Library the observations made by Dr. James Bradley, while Astro<!-- Page 194 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span>nomer +Royal, at Greenwich, 1750-62. These had been given +to him by Mr. John Peach, son-in-law to Dr. Bradley, while +a suit was pending between the Board of Longitude on behalf +of the Crown and Mr. Peach respecting his right to their possession. +The claim of the Crown had been first made in 1765, on +the ground that they were the papers drawn up by Bradley in +discharge of his public and official duties, but the executor, Mr. +Sam. Peach, refused to resign them except for some valuable +consideration. But after his death, his son, Mr. John Peach, who +married Dr. Bradley's daughter, presented them to Lord North, +with the understanding that the latter should give them to the +University, on condition that they should be forthwith printed. +They were, consequently, immediately put into the hands of Dr. +Hornsby, the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, for publication; +but the work progressed very slowly, in consequence of his ill-health, +and a remonstrant correspondence ensued between the +Board of Longitude, the Royal Society, and the University, which +was printed by the Board, together with a statement of the whole +case and of the steps taken by them for the recovery of the papers, +in 1795. Several letters from Sir Joseph Banks, as President of +the Royal Society, to Price the Librarian, in 1785, on the slow +progress of the work, are preserved in a volume of MS. Letters +to Librarians, recently bound up by Mr. Coxe. The first volume +at length appeared in 1798, in folio, and the second, edited by +Prof. A. Robertson, in 1805, with an appendix of observations +made by Bradley's successor, Rev. Nath. Bliss, and his assistant, +Mr. Charles Green, to March, 1765, which had been purchased +by the Board of Longitude, and were presented by them to the +University, in March, 1804. Some further remains of Dr. Bradley +were, after Dr. Hornsby's death, found among the papers of the +latter, and these (having been restored to the University by his +family, on application, about 1829) were published in 1831, under<!-- Page 195 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span> +the editorship of Prof. S. P. Rigaud, in one vol. quarto, entitled +<i>Miscellaneous Works and Correspondence of Rev. J. Bradley</i>. In +1861, a fresh application for the return of the Observations was +made to the University, by Mr. Airy, the Astronomer Royal, on +the ground that they were the only volumes wanting in the series +preserved at Greenwich, and that they were frequently needed +there for reference. By a vote of Convocation, on May 2, this +application was acceded to, and thirteen volumes of Observations +were returned to what was certainly their legitimate +place of deposit. Some miscellaneous papers, making about thirty +parcels, still remain in the Library.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1778" id="AD_1778"></a>A.D. 1778.</h3> + +<p><i>Carte's MSS.</i> See <a href="#AD_1753">1753</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1780" id="AD_1780"></a>A.D. 1780.</h3> + +<p>On Jan. 22, a Statute was passed which imposed an annual +fee of four shillings<a name="FNanchor_260_260" id="FNanchor_260_260"></a><a href="#Footnote_260_260" class="fnanchor">[260]</a> on all persons entitled to read in the Library +and all who had exceeded four years from matriculation, as well +as assigned to the Library a share of the matriculation fees. The +preamble of the Statute alleges that the funds of the Library were +so insufficient for their purpose that of works of importance +daily published throughout the world '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">vix unus et alter publicis +sumptibus adscribi possit</span>.' The Statute also provided for the +holding of regular meetings by the Curators, and the issuing of +an annual Catalogue of the books purchased during the year, +with their prices, together with a statement of accounts. The<!-- Page 196 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span> +commencement of the annual printed purchase-catalogues dates +in consequence from this year.</p> + +<p>In a letter from Thos. Burgess, afterwards the Bishop of +St. David's and Salisbury, to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the editor of Chaucer, +dated Corp. Chr. Coll., Nov. 16, 1779, the plan for increasing the +funds of the Library, established by this Statute, is mentioned as +a scheme 'much talked of,' the defects of the Library being such +as 'we are now astonished should have been of so long continuance<a name="FNanchor_261_261" id="FNanchor_261_261"></a><a href="#Footnote_261_261" class="fnanchor">[261]</a>.' +A paper in behalf of the proposal was circulated among +Members of Convocation, upon a copy of which, preserved by +Dr. Bliss with his set of the annual Catalogues, the latter has +noted that it was written by Sir William Scott, afterwards Lord +Stowell.</p> + +<p>The exquisite portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby, supposed to be +by Vandyke, was given by Edw. Stanley, Esq. It is now in the +Picture Gallery; and, having recently been cleaned and covered +with plate-glass, appears once more in all the freshness of its +original perfection<a name="FNanchor_262_262" id="FNanchor_262_262"></a><a href="#Footnote_262_262" class="fnanchor">[262]</a>.</p> + +<p>The Sub-librarian at this time was John Walters, an undergraduate +Scholar of Jesus College. He published in this year +a small volume of <i>Poems</i> ('written before the age of nineteen'), +the chief portion of which consists of a description of the Library, +written with a warm admiration of his subject, and by no means +destitute of poetic feeling. It numbers 1188 lines, and is illustrated +with some well-selected notes. In 1782, when B.A. and +still Scholar of his College, he published <i>Specimens of Welsh Poetry +in English verse, with some Original Pieces and Notes</i>. He took<!-- Page 197 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span> +the degree of M.A. in 1784, and died in 1791<a name="FNanchor_263_263" id="FNanchor_263_263"></a><a href="#Footnote_263_263" class="fnanchor">[263]</a>. We learn from +a MS. note in a copy of his <i>Poems</i>, presented to the Library by +the present Principal of Jesus College, that he was the son of +John Walters, Rector of Llandough (author of a Welsh Dictionary, +1794), by Hannah his wife, and that he was baptized there, +July 9, 1760.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_260_260" id="Footnote_260_260"></a><a href="#FNanchor_260_260"><span class="label">[260]</span></a> By the Statute passed in 1813, and by that on Fees passed in 1855, an annual +payment of <i>eight</i> shillings was ordered to be made to the Library out of the total +sum (now £1 6<i>s.</i>) paid by each graduate whose name is on the University Books. +But these individual fees, varying with the numbers on the Books, were consolidated, +in 1861 in one fixed annual sum, from the University Chest, of £2800.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_261_261" id="Footnote_261_261"></a><a href="#FNanchor_261_261"><span class="label">[261]</span></a> Note by Dr. Bliss, in his MS. <i>Collectanea</i>, bequeathed by him to Rev. H. O. +Coxe.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_262_262" id="Footnote_262_262"></a><a href="#FNanchor_262_262"><span class="label">[262]</span></a> Another portrait of Sir Kenelm, which hangs in the Library, was given, in 1692, +by Mr. William Pate, a woollen-draper of London. To this Mr. Pate, Thos. Brown +dedicated, in 1710, as 'his honest friend,' his translation from the French of <i>Memoirs +of the Present State of the Court and Councils of Spain</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_263_263" id="Footnote_263_263"></a><a href="#FNanchor_263_263"><span class="label">[263]</span></a> Nichols' <i>Lit. Anecd.</i> viii. 122.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1785" id="AD_1785"></a>A.D. 1785.</h3> + +<p>George III and Queen Charlotte visited the Library, from +Nuneham, on Oct. 13. Price, the Librarian, was in attendance, +and kissed hands.</p> + +<p>Several Assistants, whose names are not perpetuated in the +Library records, are found perpetuated by the inscriptions written +by successive generations on the old oak staircases which run +from their studies to the galleries above. In June of this year, +Thomas Whiting, of Jesus College (B.A. also in this year), does +in this way transmit the memory of his service to posterity. +E. Thomas (<i>qu.</i> Evan Thomas, of All Souls' College, B.A., 1793?) +does the same in 1790.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1787" id="AD_1787"></a>A.D. 1787.</h3> + +<p>On May 31, the Reader in Chemistry, Thomas Beddoes, M.D., +of Pembroke College, issued a printed Memorial to the Curators +'concerning the state of the Bodleian Library, and the conduct +of the Principal Librarian.' The utmost laxity appears from this +statement to have prevailed with regard to attendance, and to the +hours of opening the Library; the Librarian was always absent on +Saturdays and Mondays, as on those days he was occupied in +journeys to and from a curacy eleven miles distant, which he held +together with a living more remote; and the Library which should<!-- Page 198 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span> +then in summer have been opened at eight was found unopened +between nine and ten, and unopened also after University sermons. +The Librarian is charged besides with having discouraged +readers by neglect and incivility, with being very careless in regard +to the value and condition of books purchased by the Library<a name="FNanchor_264_264" id="FNanchor_264_264"></a><a href="#Footnote_264_264" class="fnanchor">[264]</a>, +and with having but little knowledge of foreign publications. An +anecdote is related (amongst others) of his lending <i>Cook's Voyages</i>, +which had been presented by King Geo. III, to the Rector of Lincoln +College, and telling him that the longer he kept it the better, +'for if it was known to be in the Library, he (Mr. Price) should +be perpetually plagued with enquiries after it<a name="FNanchor_265_265" id="FNanchor_265_265"></a><a href="#Footnote_265_265" class="fnanchor">[265]</a>.' In consequence +of these complaints, the Curators, in 1788, prepared on their part +a new form of Statute, while the Heads of Houses prepared +another. This separate action led to a paper war between the two +bodies, in which the Regius Professors of Divinity, Law, Medicine, +Hebrew and Greek, (Randolph, Vansittart, Vivian, Blayney and +Jackson) appeared on the Curators' side of the question, and, as the +Hebdomadal Board persisted in pressing their own scheme, they +at length (with the exception of Blayney) adopted the strong step, +on the day when the rival plan was proposed in Convocation +(June 23, 1788), of formally protesting before a notary public +against this violation of their privileges. The consequence was that +the Statute was withdrawn, and the proposal for a new code abandoned +by both parties. The chief points of difference were, that +the Curators objected to the proposal being put forward as '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">cum +consensu Curatorum</span>' instead of '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">ex relatione Curatorum</span>,' to the +increase of the Librarian's stipend to £150, to the appointment of +two Sub-librarians instead of one, and to the leaving the appoint<!-- Page 199 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span>ment +of these in the hands of the Librarian (in accordance with +Bodley's own Statute) instead of assigning it to the Curators.</p> + +<p>Eleven Arabic and Persian MSS. were given by Turner Camac, +Esq., co. Down.</p> + +<p>A first part of a Catalogue of the Oriental MSS., comprehending +those in Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Æthiopic, Arabic, Persian, +Turkish and Coptic, was issued in this year, in folio. It was +compiled by John Uri, a Hungarian, who had studied Oriental +literature under Schultens, at Leyden, and who was recommended +for this purpose to Archbp. Secker, by Sir Joseph Yorke, then +Ambassador in the Netherlands. Many years were occupied in +the preparation of this volume, as Uri appears to have commenced +his work in 1766, his signature occurring in the 'Registrum admissorum' +under Feb. 17, in that year<a name="FNanchor_266_266" id="FNanchor_266_266"></a><a href="#Footnote_266_266" class="fnanchor">[266]</a>. Sixty closely-printed folio +pages of corrections and additions are, however, supplied by Dr. +Pusey, in the second part of the Catalogue, which he completed +after Dr. Nicoll's death and published in 1835. In his preface to +this part, Dr. Pusey remarks that Uri frequently copied with carelessness; +and that the whole series of Arabic MSS. was found to +need re-examination from the discovery that all kinds of cheats +and impositions had been played upon all the purchasers of +Eastern MSS., Pococke alone excepted, by the cunning sellers +with whom they dealt, particularly in the passing off of supposititious +works for genuine<a name="FNanchor_267_267" id="FNanchor_267_267"></a><a href="#Footnote_267_267" class="fnanchor">[267]</a>. And upon carrying out this re-examination, +the following was found to be the result:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot" xml:lang="la" lang="la"><p>'Varias errorum formas deprehendi, titulis nunc charta coopertis, +nunc atramento oblitis, nunc cultro pæne abrasis; auctorum porro +nominibus paullulum immutatis quo notiora quædam referrent;<!-- Page 200 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span> +numeris etiam, quibus singula volumina signata sunt, permutatis, +quo quis opus imperfectum pro integro habeat, paginis denique +pauculis operi alieno a fronte assutis.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_264_264" id="Footnote_264_264"></a><a href="#FNanchor_264_264"><span class="label">[264]</span></a> Among other instances the purchase (in 1784) of Sir John Hill's <i>Vegetable +System</i>, at the cost of £140, is mentioned.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_265_265" id="Footnote_265_265"></a><a href="#FNanchor_265_265"><span class="label">[265]</span></a> It appears incidentally, from this pamphlet, that three o'clock was the dinner-hour +at almost every College at that time.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_266_266" id="Footnote_266_266"></a><a href="#FNanchor_266_266"><span class="label">[266]</span></a> He died suddenly at his lodgings in Oxford, Oct. 18, 1796, aged upwards of +seventy (<i>Gent. Magaz.</i>, vol. lxvi. p. 884.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_267_267" id="Footnote_267_267"></a><a href="#FNanchor_267_267"><span class="label">[267]</span></a> The late Dr. Simonides was evidently by no means the first in his art, although +probably <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">facile princeps</i>.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1789" id="AD_1789"></a>A.D. 1789.</h3> + +<p>The Anatomy School, on the Library staircase, was fitted up +in this year as a room for receiving the Greek and Biblical MSS., +and fifteenth-century editions of classics. In 1794 it was ordered +that it should be distinguished by the name of the <i>Auctarium</i>, +a name which it still retains. Mr. John Thomas, of Wadham +College, (B.A. 1790, M.A. 1793) was employed in 1790 in arranging +the room and making a list of its contents.</p> + +<p>Many early editions of the classics were purchased at the sale +of the library of Mapheo Pinelli, at Venice. To enable these +purchases to be made, the Curators made a public application for +loans, to which a liberal response was returned, as noted under +the following year.</p> + +<p>The increased attention which began to be paid to the Library +about this time is thus mentioned in a letter from Mr. Dan. Prince, +the Oxford bookseller:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Our Bodleian Library is putting into good order. It has been +already one year in hand. Some one, two or three of the Curators +work at it daily, and several assistants. The revenue from the +tax on the Members of the University is about £460 per annum, +which has existed 12 years. This has increased the Library so +much that it must be attended to, and a new Catalogue put in +hand. They have lately bought all the expensive foreign publications. +A young man of this place is about making a Catalogue +of all the singular books in this place, in the College libraries as +well as the Bodleian.... We have a young man in this place, +his name is Curtis, who was an apprentice to me, who has hitherto +only dealt in books of curiosities, in which he is greatly skilled, +superior in many respects to De Bure, Ames, or his continuator.<!-- Page 201 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span> +He has been employed five or six years in the Bodleian Library, +and since at Wadham, Queen's and Balliol. He purposes to +publish a Catalogue of little or not known books in Oxford, +particularly in Merton, Balliol and Oriel<a name="FNanchor_268_268" id="FNanchor_268_268"></a><a href="#Footnote_268_268" class="fnanchor">[268]</a>.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_268_268" id="Footnote_268_268"></a><a href="#FNanchor_268_268"><span class="label">[268]</span></a> Nichols, <i>Lit. Anecd.</i> iii. 699, 701.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1790" id="AD_1790"></a>A.D. 1790.</h3> + +<p>A very large number of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Editiones principes</i> and other early-printed +books were purchased at the sale at Amsterdam of the +library of P. A. Crevenna. The first entire Hebrew Bible, printed +at Soncino in 1488, was purchased for £43 15<i>s.</i>; and Fust and +Schoeffer's first <i>dated</i> Latin Bible (Mentz, 1462) for £127 15<i>s.</i> +To enable the Library to make the purchases of this and the +preceding year, benefactions were received to the amount of +nearly £200, and upwards of £1550 were lent by various bodies +and individuals. The repayment of the loans was completed +in 1795.</p> + +<p>£120 were received for duplicates sold to Messrs. Chapman +and King. Other small receipts from similar sales are found +under the years 1793, 1794 and 1804.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1791" id="AD_1791"></a>A.D. 1791.</h3> + +<p>From this year onwards until 1803, inclusive, the name of Mr. +Edward Lewton, of Wadham College (B.A. 1792, M.A. 1794), is +found as that of an Assistant employed upon the Catalogues. +Further benefactions to the amount of £232, for the purpose of +aiding the purchase of early-printed books, were received in this +year. The list of all the donors is printed in Gutch's edition of +Wood's <i>History and Antiquities</i>, vol. ii. part ii. p. 949.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1792" id="AD_1792"></a>A.D. 1792.</h3> + +<p>The collections of notes and various readings made by Joseph +Torelli, of Verona, in preparation for his edition of Archimedes,<!-- Page 202 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span> +were deposited in the Library, (F. <i>infra</i>, 2. <i>Auct.</i>). They were +given to the University after his death (in 1781) by his executor, +Albert Albertini, partly through the instrumentality of Mr. John +Strange, envoy to Venice, upon condition that the University +undertook the publication. The work was consequently printed +at the University Press, and issued in a handsome folio volume +in this year.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1793" id="AD_1793"></a>A.D. 1793.</h3> + +<p>A magnificent copy of Gutenberg's Bible, not dated, but supposed +to have been printed about 1455, fresh and clean as if +it had just come from the hands of the men of the New Craft, +carefully set at their work, was bought for the very small sum +of £100. It is exhibited in the first glass case in the Library. +This is the edition often called the <i>Mazarine Bible</i>, from the +circumstance that the first copy which obtained notice was found +in the Mazarine Library at Paris.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1794" id="AD_1794"></a>A.D. 1794.</h3> + +<p>The <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Editio princeps</i> of the Bible in German, printed by Eggesteyn +about 1466, was bought for £50.</p> + +<p>A chronological Catalogue, in two folio volumes, of a very large +and valuable collection of pamphlets (which had hitherto been +kept in the Radcliffe Library), extending from 1603 to 1740, was +made in 1793-4, by Mr. Abel Lendon, of Ch. Ch. (B.A. 1795, +M.A. 1798.)</p> + +<p>Mr. Rich. S. Skillerne, of All Souls' (B.A. 1796, M.A. 1800), +was employed in the Library.</p> + +<p>With a view to the formation of a new Catalogue, the Curators +at the end of the annual list made a first application for returns +of such books existing in the several College libraries as were not<!-- Page 203 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span> +in the Bodleian, in order thereby to accomplish what would be a +most useful work, and is still a great <i>desideratum</i>, a General Catalogue +of all the books in Oxford.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1795" id="AD_1795"></a>A.D. 1795.</h3> + +<p>A brief list (filling sixty small octavo pages) was printed at the +Clarendon Press, of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Editiones principes</i>, the fifteenth-century +books, and the Aldines, then in the Library. The name of the +compiler does not appear. It is entitled, 'Notitia editionum quoad +libros Hebr., Gr. et Lat. quæ vel primariæ, vel sæc. xv. impressæ, +vel Aldinæ, in Bibliotheca Bodleiana adservantur.'</p> + +<p>Four cabinets of English coins were presented by Thomas +Knight, Esq., of Godmersham, Kent. Among them was an +ornament (now exhibited in the glass case near the Library +door) said to have been worn by John Hampden when he fell +at Chalgrove Field<a name="FNanchor_269_269" id="FNanchor_269_269"></a><a href="#Footnote_269_269" class="fnanchor">[269]</a>. It consists of a plain cornelian set in silver, +with the following couplet engraved on the rim:—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p> +<span class="i0">'Against my King I do not fight,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But for my King and kingdom's right.'<br /></span> +</p></div></div> + +<p>The Curators renewed a request, made ineffectually some time +before, that the several Colleges would make out returns for the +Library of all such books in their own collections as did not +appear in the Bodl. Catalogue. In the year 1801 they acknowledged +the receipt of such lists from Magdalen<a name="FNanchor_270_270" id="FNanchor_270_270"></a><a href="#Footnote_270_270" class="fnanchor">[270]</a>, Balliol, Exeter, +and Jesus; Oriel sent a list subsequently (in 1808?); but these +were all that were ever forwarded.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_269_269" id="Footnote_269_269"></a><a href="#FNanchor_269_269"><span class="label">[269]</span></a> Lord Nugent, in his <i>Memorials of Hampden</i>, erroneously mentions this as being +preserved in the Ashmolean Museum. He also repeats two mistaken readings first +given in Miss Seward's <i>Anecdotes</i>, iv. 358 (a volume dedicated to Price, the +Librarian), where a small woodcut of the ornament is given.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_270_270" id="Footnote_270_270"></a><a href="#FNanchor_270_270"><span class="label">[270]</span></a> A complete Catalogue of the Library of this College, compiled by Rev. E. +M. Macfarlane, M.A., of Linc. Coll., was issued by the College, in three handsomely-printed +quarto volumes, in 1860-62. The books of all writers belonging to the +College, are entered separately in an Appendix in vol. iii.<!-- Page 204 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span></p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1796" id="AD_1796"></a>A.D. 1796.</h3> + +<p>A few <i>incunabula</i> and Aldines were purchased at Göttingen.</p> + +<p>The annual list of donations was, for the first time, printed in +this year. It does not include, however, a large gift which was +partly received now, the presentation having been made in the +year preceding. It was the gift by Rev. Dr. Nath. Bridges of +the MSS. collections made by Mr. John Bridges for his <i>History +of Northamptonshire</i>. They number thirty-seven volumes in folio, +eight in quarto, and one in octavo; and consist chiefly of extracts +from Public Records and from the Episcopal Registers of Lincoln, +the volumes in quarto containing Church notes for the several +parishes. Some account of them is given in Mr. Whalley's +preface to vol. i. of Bridges' <i>History</i>, published in 1791.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1798" id="AD_1798"></a>A.D. 1798.</h3> + +<p>The distinguished historical antiquary, Sir Henry Ellis, D.C.L., +was appointed in this year, by his friend the Librarian, to be one +of the Assistant-librarians; commencing thus, while still an undergraduate +Fellow of St. John's (which College he had entered in +1796) the studies and pursuits which eventually led to the post, so +long and honourably held by him, of Principal Librarian and Head +of the British Museum. In a letter with which the author of +this volume was recently favoured by him ('<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">jam senior, sed mente +virens</i>,') Sir Henry mentions that the Rev. Henry Hervey Baber, +of All Souls' College (B.A. 1799, M.A. 1805), who was afterwards +one of his colleagues in the Museum, and who now (<i>ætat.</i> +92) is Vicar of Stretham, in the Isle of Ely, was his senior in +the Bodleian, as Coadjutor-under-librarian, by a year or two. In +consequence of the insufficiency of the statutable staff, the place +of the one Under-librarian was at this time, and subsequently,<!-- Page 205 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span> +shared by two occupants. In 1800 Sir H. Ellis signed, in conjunction +with Mr. Price, the return printed in the first Record +Commission Report relative to the Historical MSS. possessed by +the Library.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1799" id="AD_1799"></a>A.D. 1799.</h3> + +<p>Some MSS. papers of the eminent French divine, Pet. Franc. le +Courayer, were bequeathed by Rev. Bertrand Russel. Courayer's +portrait, representing him in his alb, was given by Courayer himself +in 1769.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1800" id="AD_1800"></a>A.D. 1800.</h3> + +<p>The chief purchases in this year were of English and foreign +maps, purchases which were continued in 1802 and 1804. For +Maraldi's and Cassini's <i>Atlas of France</i>, in 2 vols., no less than +£104 was paid! The interest now taken in French politics was +also shown by the purchase of a set of the <i>Moniteur</i> from 1789, +which was bought for £66.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1801" id="AD_1801"></a>A.D. 1801.</h3> + +<p>A large and valuable collection of MS. and printed music was +received, at the beginning of this year or the close of the preceding, +by the bequest of Rev. Osborne Wight, M.A., formerly +a Fellow of New College, who died Feb. 6, 1800<a name="FNanchor_271_271" id="FNanchor_271_271"></a><a href="#Footnote_271_271" class="fnanchor">[271]</a>. The MSS. +number about 190 volumes. They contain anthems, &c., by +Arnold, Bishop, Blow, Boyce, Croft, Greene, Purcell, &c.; a large +number of the works of Drs. Philip and William Hayes; with very +many madrigals and motetts by early Italian and English composers, +and some of Handel's compositions. The printed volumes<!-- Page 206 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span> +consist chiefly of the original folio editions of Handel, Arnold's +and Boyce's collections, and the works of Playford, Purcell, Croft, +Greene, and other English composers. A MS. Catalogue of the +whole was made by Rev. H. E. Havergal, M.A., about 1846, +when the collection was put in order. The Library also possesses +full band and voice parts of several of the odes and other compositions +by both Philip and William Hayes. Besides his books +Mr. Wight also bequeathed £100 in the 3 per cents. 'to defray +expenses.' Few additions have been made in the class of old +music since his gift. Some rare sets of madrigals have been +purchased, specially, in 1856, those of Morley, Watson, Weelkes, +Wilbye, and Yonge, for £24 14<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; Mr. Vincent Novello gave, +in 1849, MSS. of Handel's <i>Te Deum in D</i>, and Greene's anthem, +'Ponder my words,' and in the following year a MS. of part +of the ancient Gregorian Mass, 'De Angelis,' harmonized by Sam. +Wesley, in 1812; the Professor of Music, Sir F. Ouseley, Bart., +gave some French <i>Cantates</i> in 1856; and two or three volumes +have been added by the present writer.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_271_271" id="Footnote_271_271"></a><a href="#FNanchor_271_271"><span class="label">[271]</span></a> A short memoir of this gentleman is given in <i>Gent. Magaz.</i> for 1800, p. 1212, +where it is said that 'he was eminently skilled in the practice and composition of +music, and was probably excelled by no one, whether <i>dilettante</i> or professor, as a +sightsman in vocal execution.'</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1803" id="AD_1803"></a>A.D. 1803.</h3> + +<p>An Arabic MS., in seven volumes, written in 1764-5, and containing +what is rarely met with, a complete collection of the Thousand +and One Tales of the <i>Arabian Nights' Entertainments</i>, was bought +from Capt. Jonathan Scott for £50. Mr. Scott published, in +1811, an edition of the Tales, in six volumes, in which this MS. +is described. He obtained it from Dr. White, the Professor of +Hebrew and Arabic at Oxford, who had bought it at the sale +of the library of Edward Wortley Montague, by whom it had +been brought from the East. It is noticed in Ouseley's <i>Oriental +Collections</i>, vol. ii. p. 25.<!-- Page 207 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span></p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1805" id="AD_1805"></a>A.D. 1805.</h3> + +<p>In this year the last volume (numbered 142) of Dr. Holmes' +Collations of MSS. of the Septuagint-Version, was deposited in +the Library. This great and important work had been commenced +in the year 1789; it was intended to embrace collations +of all the known MSS. of the Greek text, as well as of Oriental +versions; and for seventeen years, by the help of liberal subscriptions, +in spite of the difficulties interposed by the continental +wars, the collection of the various readings from MSS. in libraries +throughout Europe was carried on. And each year's work was, +on its completion, deposited in the Bodleian. During this period, +annual accounts were published of the progress of the work, which +possess both critical and bibliographical interest; and the results +of the whole are seen in the fine edition printed at the Clarendon +Press, in five vols., folio, 1808-1827.</p> + +<p>The MSS. of the distinguished classical scholar, James +Philip D'Orville, who died at Amsterdam, Sept. 14, 1751, were +bought for £1025. After the purchase was completed, a question +arose whether the University of Leyden were not, by the terms +of his will, entitled to them after the death of his son, but it +was ascertained that this provision was only made in case his +son did not reach manhood. The collection numbers about 570 +volumes, containing many valuable Greek and Latin Classics, +together with numerous collations of texts, and annotated printed +copies. Thirty-four volumes contain correspondence (autograph +and in copy) of Is. Vossius, Heinsius, Cuper, Paolo Sarpi, Beverland, +and the letters addressed to D'Orville by all the great scholars +of his time. And thirty-eight volumes, in folio and quarto, contain +<i>Adversaria</i> of Scipio and Alberic Gentilis. There are also +six Turkish and Arabic MSS. The gem of the collection is a +quarto MS. of <i>Euclid</i>, containing 387 leaves, which was written,<!-- Page 208 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span> +'<span title="cheiri Stephanou klêrikou">χειρι Στεφανου κληρικου</span>,' A.M. 6397 = A.D. 889. It contains a +memorandum by one Arethas of Patras, that he bought the +book for four (or, most probably, fourteen,) <i>nummi</i>. A Catalogue +of the MSS., compiled anonymously by Dr. (then Mr.) +Gaisford, was printed in quarto, in 1806. D'Orville's signature +occurs in the Admission-book as having been admitted to read +on Aug. 18, 1718.</p> + +<p>A form of new Statute was put out on March 28, to be proposed +to Convocation in May; but it appears to have been withdrawn, +as no fresh Statutes were actually enacted until 1813. +The staff was proposed to be increased to the number which +was adopted in the latter year, but with smaller salaries; and +the Library was to be open from nine to three, throughout the +year.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1806" id="AD_1806"></a>A.D. 1806.</h3> + +<p>Fifty pounds were paid for some 'Tibetan MSS.' of Capt. +Samuel Turner, E.I.C.S., who had been sent by Warren Hastings, +on a mission to the Grand Llama, in 1785. Of this mission he +published an account, in a quarto volume, in 1800. His MSS. +consist chiefly of nine bundles of papers and letters in the Persian +and Tartar languages, written in the last century, together with +a few Chinese printed books. Capt. Turner died Jan. 2, 1802; +but as one of his sisters was married to Prof. White, it was +probably through him that the papers were now purchased.</p> + +<p>A beautiful copy of the <i>Koran</i> which had been in the library +of Tippoo Sahib (now exhibited in the glass case near the door) +was presented, together with another MS. from the same collection, +by the East India Company. Dibdin speaks of it as a +work 'upon which caligraphy seems to have exhausted all its +powers of intricacy and splendour,' and adds the following description:<!-- Page 209 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span>—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'The preservation of it is perfect, and the beauty of the binding, +especially of the interior ornaments, is quite surprising. The first +few leaves of the text are highly ornamented, without figures, +chiefly in red and blue. The latter leaves are more ornamental; +they are even gorgeous, curious and minute. The generality of +the leaves have two star-like ornaments in the margin, out of +the border. Upon the whole this is an exquisite treasure, in its +way<a name="FNanchor_272_272" id="FNanchor_272_272"></a><a href="#Footnote_272_272" class="fnanchor">[272]</a>.'</p></div> + +<p>The <i>Catholicon</i> of J. de Janua, printed at Mentz, in 1460, was +bought for £63.</p> + +<p>The following singular memorandum, relating to this year, is +preserved on a small paper:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Oxford, Aug. 29, 1806. Borrowed this day, of the Rev. the +Bodleian Librarian, the picture given to the Library by Mr. Peters, +which I promise to return upon demand.</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in20">'JOSEPH WHITE.</span><br /> +<br /> +'<i>Mem.</i> Not returned, June 24, 1807.<br /> +<span class="text-in6">'Nor as yet, Oct., 1808. J. P. (<i>i.e.</i> J. Price).</span><br /> +<span class="text-in6">'And never to be ret<sup>d</sup>.' (added at some later period.)</span><br /> +</p></div> + +<p>This picture must have been the portrait of Professor White +himself, which was painted and presented by Rev. Will. Peters, R.A., +in 1785<a name="FNanchor_273_273" id="FNanchor_273_273"></a><a href="#Footnote_273_273" class="fnanchor">[273]</a>. It has never been restored.</p> + +<p>On the morning of Saturday, April 19, probably but little after +nine o'clock, the statutable time for the opening of the Library, +some zealous student stood at the door, but could get no further. +No one appeared to give him entrance; the Librarian himself +never came on a Saturday, and probably his Assistants were not +scrupulous in punctuality; at any rate, the expectant student +stood and expected in vain. But ere he departed, he denounced +a 'Woe' which perpetuates to this day the memory of his vain expectancy; +he affixed to the door the following text, which doubtless<!-- Page 210 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span> +seemed to him naturally suggested: '<span xml:lang="grc" lang="grc" title="Grk: Ouai hymin, hoti êrate tên kleida +tês gnôseôs; autoi ouk eisêlthete, +kai tous eiserchomenous ekôlysate." class="note">Ουαι ὑμιν, ὁτι ηρατε την κλειδα +της γνωσεως; αυτοι ουκ εισηλθετε, και τους εισερχομενους εκωλυσατε</span>' +The paper is now preserved over the door of one of the Sub-librarians' +studies, with this note added: 'Affixed to the outer +door of the Library by some <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">scavant inconnu</i>, April 19, 1806.'</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_272_272" id="Footnote_272_272"></a><a href="#FNanchor_272_272"><span class="label">[272]</span></a> <i>Bibliogr. Decam.</i> iii. 472.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_273_273" id="Footnote_273_273"></a><a href="#FNanchor_273_273"><span class="label">[273]</span></a> Gutch's <i>Wood</i>, II. ii. 979.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1807" id="AD_1807"></a>A.D. 1807.</h3> + +<p>A list of the books printed during the year at the University +Press is added to the annual account. This was not repeated.</p> + +<p>A copy of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Speculum Christiani</i>, printed by Will. de Machlinia, +was given by Rev. A. H. Matthews, of Jesus College.</p> + +<p>Amongst the names of Assistants, written by them, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">more Anglico</i>, +on the wood-work of their studies, occurs the name of +'Rob. Fr. Walker, New Coll., Dec. 1807.' Mr. Walker (B.A. 1811, +M.A. 1813) was subsequently Curate of Purleigh, Essex, where +he died in 1854. He was known as the translator of a <i>Life of +Bengel</i>, and other works, from the German. A memoir of him +was published by Rev. T. Pyne, from which the account given +by Dr. Bloxam in his <i>Register of Magd. Coll.</i> ii. 115-117, was +taken. In 1810, John Woodcock (B.A. 1817, M.A. 1818, Chaplain +of New College) appears, from the same evidence as +Mr. Walker, to have been an Assistant, one Will. John Lennox +in 1808, and John Jones, (Ch. Ch.? B.A. 1808, M.A. 1815), +in 1809.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1808" id="AD_1808"></a>A.D. 1808.</h3> + +<p>The Latin Bible printed by Ulric Zell, at Cologne, in two +volumes, about 1470, was bought for £47 5<i>s.</i> The Bible printed +at Rome, by Sweynheym and Pannartz, in 1471, had been +bought, in 1804, for £35; and in 1826 a Strasburgh edition, +printed with Mentelin's types, without date, was obtained for +£94 10<i>s.</i><!-- Page 211 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span></p> + +<p>A set of the Oxford Almanacks, from the commencement in +1674 to this year, was given by a frequent donor, Alderman +Fletcher<a name="FNanchor_274_274" id="FNanchor_274_274"></a><a href="#Footnote_274_274" class="fnanchor">[274]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_274_274" id="Footnote_274_274"></a><a href="#FNanchor_274_274"><span class="label">[274]</span></a> A limited number of copies of the engravings of these Almanacks, from the +original plates which remain in the University Press, were re-issued in 1867, under +the superintendence of Rev. John Griffiths, M.A.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1809" id="AD_1809"></a>A.D. 1809.</h3> + +<p>The death of the eminent topographer and antiquary, Richard +Gough, on Feb. 20, 1809<a name="FNanchor_275_275" id="FNanchor_275_275"></a><a href="#Footnote_275_275" class="fnanchor">[275]</a>, brought into operation the bequest +made to the Library in his will, dated ten years previously. This +consisted of all his topographical collections, together with all his +books relating to Saxon and Northern literature, 'for the use of +the Saxon Professor,' his maps and engravings, and all the copper-plates +used in the illustration of the various works published by +himself. The transmission of this vast collection was accomplished +by Mr. J. Nichols, the executor, in the course of the year; +and some of his correspondence on the subject is printed in +his <i>Illustrations of Literary History</i>, vol. v. pp. 556-561. The +collection (which numbers upwards of 3700 volumes) was placed +in the room formerly the Civil Law School, that room having been +assigned to the Library a few years previously, and fitted up (at a +cost of about £675) for the reception of various historical collections. +In the same room are now the Carte, Dodsworth, +Tanner, Willis, Junius, and portion of the Rawlinson, manuscripts, +with other smaller collections; the name proposed to be given to +it, and by which it was designated in Gough's will, was 'The +Antiquaries' Closet.' Gough's library consists, firstly, of a large +series of maps<a name="FNanchor_276_276" id="FNanchor_276_276"></a><a href="#Footnote_276_276" class="fnanchor">[276]</a> and topographical prints and drawings, in ele<!-- Page 212 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span>phant-folio +volumes; of this a very brief outline-list is given in the +printed catalogue, but a full list in detail exists in MS<a name="FNanchor_277_277" id="FNanchor_277_277"></a><a href="#Footnote_277_277" class="fnanchor">[277]</a>. Secondly, +of printed books and MSS., arranged under the heads of General +Topography, Ecclesiastical Topography<a name="FNanchor_278_278" id="FNanchor_278_278"></a><a href="#Footnote_278_278" class="fnanchor">[278]</a>, Natural History, the +several Counties (with London, Westminster, and Southwark) in +order<a name="FNanchor_279_279" id="FNanchor_279_279"></a><a href="#Footnote_279_279" class="fnanchor">[279]</a>, Wales, Islands, Scotland, and Ireland. Thirdly, of 227 +works connected with Anglo-Saxon literature and that of the +Scandinavian races generally. Fourthly, of an extremely large and +valuable series of printed Service-books of the English Church<!-- Page 213 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span> +before the Reformation, together with a few MSS., chiefly <i>Horæ</i>. +The value of this series may be gathered from the following +statement of the Missals, Breviaries, Manuals, Processionals, and +Hours, which it comprises, besides which there are Graduals, +Psalters, Hymns, Primers, &c.</p> + + + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="table of printed Service-books of the English Church before the Reformation"> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Missals</i>,</td><td align="left">Salisbury use,</td><td align="right">30</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Missals</i>,</td><td align="left">York use,</td><td align="right">4</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Missals</i>,</td><td align="left">Rouen use,</td><td align="right">1</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Missals</i>,</td><td align="left">Roman use,</td><td align="right">3</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Missals</i>,</td><td align="left">'pro sacerdotibus in Anglia, &c. itinerantibus.'</td><td align="right">1</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Breviaries</i> and <i>Portiforia</i>,</td><td align="left">Salisbury use,</td><td align="right">18</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Breviaries</i> and <i>Portiforia</i>,</td><td align="left">York use,</td><td align="right">2</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Breviaries</i> and <i>Portiforia</i>,</td><td align="left">Hereford use,</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="left"><a name="FNanchor_280_280" id="FNanchor_280_280"></a><a href="#Footnote_280_280" class="fnanchor">[280]</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Manuals</i>,</td><td align="left">Salisbury use,</td><td align="right">10</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Manuals</i>,</td><td align="left">York (MS.) use,</td><td align="right">1</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Processionals</i>,</td><td align="left">Salisbury use,</td><td align="right">10</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Processionals</i>,</td><td align="left">York use,</td><td align="right">1</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Hours</i>,</td><td align="left">Salisbury use,</td><td align="right">24</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><i>Hours</i>,</td><td align="left">Roman use, (besides several MSS.)</td><td align="right">1</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p>Of several of these books there are more than single copies.</p> + +<p>A fifth division of Gough's library consists of sixteen large folio +volumes of coloured drawings of monuments in churches of +France, chiefly at Paris, in Normandy, Valois, Champagne, Burgundy +and Brie, and at Beauvais, Chartres, Vendosme and Noyon. +They form part of a large collection extending through the whole +of France, which was made by M. Gagnières, tutor to the sons of<!-- Page 214 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span> +the Grand Dauphin, and given by him to Louis XIV in 1711. Of +this collection, now preserved in the Imperial Library, twenty-five +volumes were lost amid the troubles of the French Revolution, between +1785 and 1801; but in what way, out of the twenty-five, these +sixteen came into Gough's hands, has not been clearly ascertained. +The collection is of great value, as most of the monuments were +defaced or destroyed by the revolutionary mobs. Gough's volumes +contain about 2000 drawings, of the whole of which facsimiles +were made in 1860 by M. Jules Frappaz, by direction of the +French Minister of Public Instruction, (who made application for +the purpose, through Mr. J. H. Parker, in 1859) for the purpose of +so far supplying the deficiency in the series at Paris<a name="FNanchor_281_281" id="FNanchor_281_281"></a><a href="#Footnote_281_281" class="fnanchor">[281]</a>.</p> + +<p>The copy of the <i>British Topography</i>, which Gough had prepared +for a third edition (of which a considerable part of vol. i. had been +printed, but was burned in the disastrous fire at Mr. Nichols' +printing-office in Feb., 1808,) was bought by the Curators of +Mr. Nichols in 1812 for £150<a name="FNanchor_282_282" id="FNanchor_282_282"></a><a href="#Footnote_282_282" class="fnanchor">[282]</a>. It has been recently bound in +four very thick volumes. A fifth volume contains the proof-sheets of +that portion of vol. i. which had been printed, extending to <i>Cheshire</i>, +p. 446. The collections for the first edition make three volumes.</p> + +<p>By Gough's bequest the Library became also possessed (as +mentioned above) of the very valuable copper-plates which illustrated +his <i>Sepulchral Monuments</i>, and other works. In 1811, one +hundred guineas were paid to Basire, the engraver, for cleaning +and arranging 380 of these plates. Amongst these was the actual +brass effigy of one of the Wingfield family in the fifteenth century, +from Letheringham Church, Suffolk, of which an engraving is +found in the <i>Monuments</i>. The brass is now exhibited in the glass +case of miscellaneous objects of curiosity in the Picture Gallery.<!-- Page 215 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span></p> + +<p>The Catalogue of the collection was issued from the University +Press, in a quarto volume, in 1814. It was chiefly compiled by +Dr. Bandinel, to whom fifty guineas were paid for it, in 1813; but +Dr. Bliss has noted<a name="FNanchor_283_283" id="FNanchor_283_283"></a><a href="#Footnote_283_283" class="fnanchor">[283]</a> that the first 136 pages were prepared by +himself. In the <i>Bibliographical Decameron</i> (vol. i. p. xcv.) Dibdin +has made honourable mention of the 'perseverance, energy, and +exactness' with which he found Dr. Bandinel working on a very +hot day in the year 1812, in the arrangement of the collection, 'in +an oaken-floored room, light, spacious, and dry.'</p> + +<p>Some account and survey-books, belonging to University and +Magdalen Colleges, which came to the Library among Gough's +MSS., were restored by vote of Convocation on March 9, 1814.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>The MSS. which the well-known traveller, Rev. Edw. Dan. Clarke, +LL.D., had collected during his journeys through a large part of +Europe and Asia, were purchased from him in this year for £1000. A +first portion of a Catalogue, comprising descriptions of fifty volumes, +of which fifteen are in Latin, two in French (Alain Chartier, one +being the printed edit. of 1526), and the rest in Greek, was published +in 1812, in quarto, by Dr. Gaisford, who printed in full some +inedited Scholia on Plato and on the Poems of Gregory Nazianzen. +A second part of the Catalogue, containing a description of forty-five +volumes in Arabic, Persian, and Æthiopic, was issued by Dr. Nicoll, +in 1814. The special feature in the collection is a MS. of Plato's +Dialogues, from which the Scholia are printed in the Catalogue, +written (on 418 vellum quarto leaves) by a scribe named John +(who styles himself <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Calligraphus</i>) in the year 896, for Arethas, a +deacon of Patras, for the sum of thirteen Byzantine <i>nummi</i>. The +D'Orville MS. of Euclid was also written for this Arethas (see +p. <a href="#Page_208">208</a>).<!-- Page 216 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span></p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_275_275" id="Footnote_275_275"></a><a href="#FNanchor_275_275"><span class="label">[275]</span></a> A very full memoir of him is to be found in the <i>Lit. Anecd.</i> vol. vi. pp. 262-343, +and 613-626. His miscellaneous library was sold by auction in 1810. Two +drawings in sepia, by F. Lewis, of his house at Enfield, were bought in 1861.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_276_276" id="Footnote_276_276"></a><a href="#FNanchor_276_276"><span class="label">[276]</span></a> One of these is a very curious manuscript map of England and Scotland, executed +in the fourteenth century, which now hangs, framed and glazed, in the eastern wing +of the Library. It was bought by Gough at the sale of the MSS. of Mr. Thomas +Martin, of Palgrave, Suffolk, in 1774. A facsimile (engraved by Basire) and a +description are given in the <i>British Topography</i>, 1780, vol. i. pp. 76-85. Another +object of interest among the maps is a piece of tapestry, in three fragments, containing +portions of the counties of Hereford, Salop, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, +Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Middlesex, &c. They are said by Gough, in a MS. +note in his collections for a third edition of his <i>Topography</i>, to be parts of the three +great maps of the Midland Counties, formerly at Mr. Sheldon's house at Weston, +Long Compton, Warwickshire, which are the earliest specimens of tapestry weaving +in England, the art having been introduced by William Sheldon, who died in 1570. +They are described in vol. ii. of the <i>Topography</i>, pp. 309-310. They were bought +by Lord Orford at a sale at Weston for £30, and presented by him to Earl Harcourt, +whose successor, Archbishop Harcourt, gave them to the Museum at York (where +they now are) in 1827. In Murray's <i>Handbook for Yorkshire</i>, they are said to have +been made in 1579. One guinea was given by Gough for his fragments.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_277_277" id="Footnote_277_277"></a><a href="#FNanchor_277_277"><span class="label">[277]</span></a> This list was drawn up about 1844-6 by Mr. Fred. Oct. Garlick, then an assistant +in the Library (afterwards of Ch. Ch., B.A., deceased 1851).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_278_278" id="Footnote_278_278"></a><a href="#FNanchor_278_278"><span class="label">[278]</span></a> Mr. A. Chalmers gave, in 1813, the second volume of a copy of Wharton's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Anglia +Sacra</i>, with MSS. notes by White Kennett, of which the first volume was in this +division of Gough's library. But both volumes had been bought by Gough for +£1 1<i>s.</i> at the sale of J. West's library in 1773, at which sale he procured, besides, +several other books with Kennett's notes. There are also volumes with MSS. notes +by Baker (the '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">socius ejectus</span>') Cole, Rowe Mores, and other well-known antiquaries.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_279_279" id="Footnote_279_279"></a><a href="#FNanchor_279_279"><span class="label">[279]</span></a> The County Histories are in many instances enriched with various notes and +papers in print and MS. The Berkshire MSS. have been increased in the present year +(1868) by the addition of the collections of the late Will. Nelson Clarke, D.C.L., +of Ch. Ch., author of the <i>History of the Hundred of Wanting</i> (4<sup>o</sup>. 1824), which +have been presented to the Library by Mr. Coxe, to whom they were given by +his cousin, the collector, when the latter relinquished the idea of writing a history of +Berks. They consist of a Parochial History of the county, transcripts of Heralds' +Visitations and of early records, and miscellaneous note-books and papers.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_280_280" id="Footnote_280_280"></a><a href="#FNanchor_280_280"><span class="label">[280]</span></a> The splendid and, as it is believed, unique vellum copy of the <i>Hereford Missal</i> +('ad usum eccl. Helfordensis,' fol. Rouen, 1502) which the Library possesses, came +to it from Rawlinson among the books of T. Hearne, to whom it had been given by +Charles Eyston, Esq., of East Hendred, Berks. (Hearne's pref. to Camden's <i>Annales +Eliz.</i> 1. xxvii.) This Hereford volume is described, together with many of Gough's +books, in a book by Ed. Frère, entitled <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Des Livres de Liturgie des Eglises d'Angleterre +imprimés à Rouen dans les</i> xv. <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">et</i> xvi. <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Siècles</i>, 8<sup>o</sup> Rouen, 1867.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_281_281" id="Footnote_281_281"></a><a href="#FNanchor_281_281"><span class="label">[281]</span></a> See <i>Gent. Magaz.</i> for 1860, p. 406.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_282_282" id="Footnote_282_282"></a><a href="#FNanchor_282_282"><span class="label">[282]</span></a> So in the Library Register of accounts. Nichols (<i>Lit. Hist.</i> vol. v. p. 559) +says £100.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_283_283" id="Footnote_283_283"></a><a href="#FNanchor_283_283"><span class="label">[283]</span></a> In his MS. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Collectanea</i>, in the possession of Rev. H. O. Coxe.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1810" id="AD_1810"></a>A.D. 1810.</h3> + +<p>In March, the Prince Regent forwarded to the University +four rolls of papyrus, brought from Herculaneum, burned to a +state resembling charcoal, together with engravings of rolls hitherto +deciphered, and many facsimile copies, in pencil, of inedited rolls. +A committee was appointed from the Curators of the Library and +the Delegates of the Press, at the beginning of the year 1811, to +have the charge of this gift, and £500 were granted towards publication. +Two volumes of lithographed facsimiles were in consequence +published at the Clarendon Press, in 1824-5. Some +further selections from these papers have recently been published +by a German scholar, Dr. Th. Gompertz.</p> + +<p>On Nov. 15, it was resolved in Convocation to restore to the +Chancery at Durham, on the application of the Bishop of Durham, +the MS. Register of Richard Kellow, Bishop of Durham, 1310-16, +containing also a portion of the Register of Rich. Bury, 1338-42, +which had come to the Library among Rawlinson's collections, +and was the only volume wanting at Durham in an unbroken +series of Episcopal Registers, of which this was the first. It was +borrowed in 1639/40, as it appeared, by an agent of the Marquis of +Newcastle, for the purpose of production in some law-suit affecting +his property; remained through the Civil War in his hands; fell +subsequently into those of the Earl of Oxford, and was bought by +Rawlinson from Osborne the bookseller, in whose sale-catalogue +of the Harleian Library in 1743 it was numbered 20734.</p> + +<p>In this year Dr. Philip Bliss, the editor of Wood's <i>Athenæ</i>, +appears to have entered the Library as an assistant, the entries in +the register of books received from Stationers' Hall being partly +made by him, in his very clear and neat hand. In 1812 he drew +up short catalogues of the St. Amand MSS. and of a portion of the +Rawlinson collection (the <i>Poetry</i>, the <i>Letters</i>, and the commence<!-- Page 217 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span>ment +of the <i>Miscell.</i>) for which a payment was made to him of +£21. He afterwards quitted the Library for the British Museum, +but returned in 1822, as Sub-librarian, for a short time.</p> + +<p>His life-long friend, Dr. Bandinel, entered the Library also in +this year. To him, for a list of a further portion of the Rawlinson +MSS., £26 5<i>s.</i> were paid in 1812.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1811" id="AD_1811"></a>A.D. 1811.</h3> + +<p>Only eighteen books were purchased in this year! The list, +scantly filling one page, is consequently the <i>minimum</i> in the series +of annual catalogues.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1813" id="AD_1813"></a>A.D. 1813.</h3> + +<p>The Rev. John Price, B.D., the Librarian, died on Aug. 11, +aged seventy-nine, after forty-five years of office. A short biographical +notice is given in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for Oct., +1813, p. 400, and a fuller account, together with many letters, and +an engraved portrait, with facsimile signature, (from a sketch taken +in 1798, by Rev. H. H. Baber), in vols. v. and vi. of Nichols' <i>Illustrations +of the Lit. Hist. of the 18th Century</i>. The following +character of him with regard to his discharge of his official duties +is there given (vi. 471), which in some respects forms a strong +contrast to the representation of Prof. Beddoes in the year 1787 +(<i>see</i> p. <a href="#Page_197">197</a>). 'In the faithful discharge of his public duties in the +University, he acquitted himself with the highest credit, and deservedly +conciliated the esteem of others by his readiness to communicate +information from the rich literary stores over which he +presided, and of which he was a most jealous and watchful +guardian. He was, from long habit, so completely attached to the +Library, that he considered every acquisition made to its contents +as a personal favour conferred upon himself.' It was chiefly owing<!-- Page 218 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span> +to his assiduous attention to Mr. Gough and his frequent correspondence +with him, that the Library was enriched with the bequest +of the latter's splendid topographical collections. But there is not +much existing to tell of personal work in the Library during his +long tenure of office, and the fact that nothing was done till near +the close of that period towards arranging and cataloguing the +Rawlinson MSS., seems to prove that there was no great activity +in the Library under his management. This is corroborated also +by the wonderful difference which is immediately seen in the +annual catalogue of purchases; the Catalogue for 1813 grows at +once from the two folio pages of the preceding year to seventeen, +while the sum expended becomes £725 in the place of £261<a name="FNanchor_284_284" id="FNanchor_284_284"></a><a href="#Footnote_284_284" class="fnanchor">[284]</a>. +And the list of books forwarded from Stationers' Hall, and hitherto +received only twice yearly, at Lady-day and Michaelmas, becomes +in 1815 largely increased, while in the year 1822 the number of +yearly parcels is increased to eight. At the present time, as for a +long time past, books are received monthly.</p> + +<p>The Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, M.A. (D.D. in 1823), of New +College, was elected Librarian by Convocation on Aug. 25. He +had been appointed Sub-librarian in 1810, by Mr. Price, who was +his godfather; and for a short time previously had been a Chaplain +in the Royal Navy, having served with Adm. Sir James Saumarez +on board the 'Victory,' in the Baltic, in 1808.</p> + +<p>The appointment of a new Librarian was followed by the +enacting of a new Statute, passed by Convocation on Dec. 2, +which provided for the increase of the Librarian's stipend to £400, +exclusive of his share of fees from degrees; for the appointment +of two Sub-librarians, instead of one, and these not under the +degree of M.A., with salaries of £150; of two assistants, Bachelors +of Arts or undergraduates, with salaries of £50; and of the Janitor,<!-- Page 219 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span> +with a salary of £20. An additional annual grant, calculated at +£680, equal to that which resulted from the provision made by the +Statute of 1780, and to be paid, like that, out of the yearly fees +of graduates whose names are on the books, was sanctioned, with +the triple object of providing for this enlarged staff, for the commencement +of a new Catalogue, and for repairs hitherto defrayed +out of the general University funds. The state of the roof and +ceiling were said to be such as to justify an apprehension that they +must at no distant period be entirely constructed anew; happily +this reconstruction was only carried out with respect to the Picture +Gallery, and the roof of the Library remains as a precious relic +still.</p> + +<p>The hours at which the Library should be open, were fixed to +be from 9 to 4 in the summer half-year, and 10 to 3 in the +winter; the only change since made has been the enacting, in +1867, that nine o'clock shall be the invariable hour of opening on +all ordinary days<a name="FNanchor_285_285" id="FNanchor_285_285"></a><a href="#Footnote_285_285" class="fnanchor">[285]</a>.</p> + +<p>The junior assistants in the Library in this year were Mr. Francis +Thurland, of New College (B.A. 1812, M.A. 1814), and Mr. Sam. +Slack, of Ch. Ch. (B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816).<!-- Page 220 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span></p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_284_284" id="Footnote_284_284"></a><a href="#FNanchor_284_284"><span class="label">[284]</span></a> Among the purchases is a set of the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> to the year 1810 for +£52 10<i>s.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_285_285" id="Footnote_285_285"></a><a href="#FNanchor_285_285"><span class="label">[285]</span></a> This alteration of hours had been previously proposed in a Statute which was to +have been submitted to Convocation on Dec. 11, 1812, but which appears to have +been withdrawn ere the day came, probably because this larger measure of revision +of the old Statutes was already in contemplation. A blank is left in the Convocation +Book under that date, by the then Registrar, Mr. Gutch; and his successor, +Dr. Bliss, has added a pencil-note to the effect that he supposes from the blank not +being filled up, that the proposal was previously abandoned. The Statute of 1769 +had required that the Library should be open in summer from 8 to 2 and from +3 to 5, but it was stated in some remarks which accompanied the proposed enactment +that these injunctions had 'long been disregarded in practice,' and that the +Library had been open throughout the year from nine to three o'clock. But it was +added that 'experience' had 'shewn that there is no occasion for requiring the +attendance of the Librarians before ten in the winter season.'</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1814" id="AD_1814"></a>A.D. 1814.</h3> + +<p>The nomination of the Rev. Henry Cotton, M.A., then Student +of Ch. Ch., now the venerable Archdeacon of Cashel, as Sub-librarian, +was approved in Convocation on March 9. Of the +interest which he took in his work, of his qualifications for it, and +of the advantages which the bibliographical world has derived from +it, his <i>Typographical Gazetteer</i> and <i>List of Editions of the English +Bible</i>, afford abundant testimony<a name="FNanchor_286_286" id="FNanchor_286_286"></a><a href="#Footnote_286_286" class="fnanchor">[286]</a>. He remained in the Library +eight years, quitting it when his friend Dr. Laurence, on his +appointment to the Archbishopric of Cashel, carried him with +himself to Ireland.</p> + +<p>During his continuance in the Library, a descriptive Catalogue +of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Editiones principes</i> and <i>Incunabula</i> was projected by him +and Dr. Bandinel; but only one specimen page in octavo was +printed, of which a copy has been preserved by Dr. Bliss, with his +set of the annual catalogues.</p> + +<p>Alex. Nicoll, M.A., of Balliol College (a native of Aberdeen), was +appointed Sub-librarian at the early age of twenty-one; the nomination +was approved in Convocation on April 27. He at once devoted +himself to the study of Oriental languages, and became a proficient +in Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Æthiopic, and Sanscrit. His +facility in acquiring languages must have been truly marvellous,<!-- Page 221 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span> +for, in addition to these Eastern tongues, and although his death +occurred at the early age of thirty-six, it is said that 'he spoke and +wrote with ease and accuracy, French, Italian, German, Danish, +Swedish, and Romaic.' In 1822 he was, much to his own +surprise, appointed, at the age of twenty-nine, to the Regius Professorship +of Hebrew, by Lord Liverpool, on the recommendation +of Dr. Laurence, who vacated that post in consequence of his +appointment to the see of Cashel. Nicoll held the Professorship +for only seven years, dying on Sept. 24, 1828. The records of +his labours in the Bodleian are found in the Catalogue of Clarke's +Oriental MSS. noticed under the year 1809, and in his second part +of the General Catalogue of Oriental MSS., published in 1821, <i>q. v.</i></p> + +<p>The total receipts and expenditure of the Library were for the +first time fully stated in the annual accounts. Hitherto the practice +had been to omit the Bodley endowment and the Crewe +benefaction, &c., which were devoted to salaries, repairs and other +ordinary expenses (including also the occasional purchase of +MSS.), and only to report the amount received from University +fees and expended on printed books and incidental charges.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_286_286" id="Footnote_286_286"></a><a href="#FNanchor_286_286"><span class="label">[286]</span></a> In a clever and amusing little squib of four pages, which he printed anonymously +in 1819, and which is preserved in the Library-collection of University papers, professing +to be a 'Syllabus' of treatises on academic matters, to be printed at the +University Press in not more than thirty vols., elephant quarto, Mr. Cotton satirized +himself and his colleagues, doubtless with the more readiness because with no reason. +'21. De Bibliothecario et ejus adjutoribus. <i>Captain.</i> What are you about, Dick? +<i>Dick.</i> Nothing, sir. <i>Captain.</i> Tom, what are you doing? <i>Tom.</i> Helping Dick, +sir.' Treatise 24 has for its title the few but emphatic words, '<i>De Dodd</i>.' Lest +some future delver in Oxford antiquities should be lost in a maze of conjectures as +to the personality and history of this worthy, so evidently then well known, let it +here be told that Dodd was the <i>Clerk of the Schools</i>.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1815" id="AD_1815"></a>A.D. 1815.</h3> + +<p><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Cedunt arma togæ!</i> The effect which the cessation of the +war produced, in diverting to quiet academic channels the stream +of youth which hitherto had flowed in the turbid currents of continental +strife, is shown by the large increase of the Library +receipts derived from matriculation fees. These, which previously +fell below (and often far below) £250, rose in 1814, on the +first sign of peace, to £424, and in this year, on its final establishment, +to £633.</p> + +<p>In January, Mr. John Calcott, of Lincoln College (B.A. 1814, +M.A. 1816, B.D. 1825; Fellow of Linc.; deceased 1864) was +appointed <i>Minister</i> in the room of Mr. Francis Thurland, of New<!-- Page 222 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span> +College, resigned. Mr. Calcott, however, only held the office for +one year, being succeeded, in Feb. 1816, by Mr. Sam. Fenton, of +Jesus College (B.A. 1818, M.A., Ch. Ch. 1821).</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1816" id="AD_1816"></a>A.D. 1816.</h3> + +<p>A very important MS., with relation to Scottish history, was +placed in the Library on Dec. 5, in this year. It is a transcript +(from the originals,) by Col. J. Hooke, agent in Scotland for James +II<a name="FNanchor_287_287" id="FNanchor_287_287"></a><a href="#Footnote_287_287" class="fnanchor">[287]</a>, of all his political correspondence between the beginning of +the year 1704 and the end of 1707. It forms two folio volumes, +but is unfinished, as the second volume ends with the commencement +of a letter from James Ogilvie, of Boyn, to M. de Torcy, +Dec. 26, 1707. A brief narrative of Hooke's negotiations, which contains +copies of a few of the letters here given, was published in +France, in the French language, and a translation was printed in +a small volume at Dublin in 1760; but the great mass of the +correspondence is as yet inedited. The volumes came to the +Library in pursuance of a bequest from the Rev. J. Tickell, Rector +of Gawsworth, Cheshire and East Mersea, Essex, who died at +Wargrave, Berks, July 3, 1802. The bequest was to take effect +upon the death of his wife, which occurred towards the close +of 1816<a name="FNanchor_288_288" id="FNanchor_288_288"></a><a href="#Footnote_288_288" class="fnanchor">[288]</a>.</p> + +<p>The Curators reported, at the end of the annual list, that considerable +progress had been made towards the formation of a new +general Catalogue. Further progress was reported in the following +year; in which year also Dibdin<a name="FNanchor_289_289" id="FNanchor_289_289"></a><a href="#Footnote_289_289" class="fnanchor">[289]</a> announced that the Catalogue +would be finished, in four folio volumes, by Messrs. Bandinel<!-- Page 223 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span> +and Cotton under the superintendence of Professor Gaisford<a name="FNanchor_290_290" id="FNanchor_290_290"></a><a href="#Footnote_290_290" class="fnanchor">[290]</a>. +He adds, 'The Prince Regent hath munificently given a considerable +sum towards the completion of these glorious labours.' +There is no record in the annual accounts of any such donation; +but in 1823 and 1824 payments amounting to £420 were made +to the Librarian, Sub-librarians, and Assistant, for their work on +the new Catalogue<a name="FNanchor_291_291" id="FNanchor_291_291"></a><a href="#Footnote_291_291" class="fnanchor">[291]</a>, out of 'the Prince Regent's benefaction.' +On the proposition of the Chancellor, Lord Grenville, in 1814, +Mr. Vansittart, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had expressed +his willingness to apply to Parliament for a grant of £5000 for +the purpose; probably this idea was abandoned for the more +easily practicable one of a grant from the Privy Purse.</p> + +<p>Four Greek MSS. were presented in this year by Rev. —— +Hall, Chaplain at Leghorn<a name="FNanchor_292_292" id="FNanchor_292_292"></a><a href="#Footnote_292_292" class="fnanchor">[292]</a>; a copy of Lucan's <i>Pharsalia</i>, with +MSS. collations by Joseph Addison, by the Warden of Merton +College; and a large collection of books in Oriental literature, +printed in Bengal, by the East India Company.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_287_287" id="Footnote_287_287"></a><a href="#FNanchor_287_287"><span class="label">[287]</span></a> Hooke in 1685 was one of the Chaplains attending Monmouth in his rebellion! +<i>Lockhart Papers</i>, 1817, vol. i. p. 148.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_288_288" id="Footnote_288_288"></a><a href="#FNanchor_288_288"><span class="label">[288]</span></a> <i>Gent. Magaz.</i> vol. lxxv. ii. 569.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_289_289" id="Footnote_289_289"></a><a href="#FNanchor_289_289"><span class="label">[289]</span></a> <i>Bibliogr. Decam.</i> iii. 429.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_290_290" id="Footnote_290_290"></a><a href="#FNanchor_290_290"><span class="label">[290]</span></a> Portions of the Letters A F and P which had been thus prepared were subsequently +printed, but the whole work was then for some years suspended, and +afterwards commenced <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">de novo</i>. And nearly thirty years elapsed before it was +finally completed.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_291_291" id="Footnote_291_291"></a><a href="#FNanchor_291_291"><span class="label">[291]</span></a> Previous grants amounting to £260, had been made in 1820.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_292_292" id="Footnote_292_292"></a><a href="#FNanchor_292_292"><span class="label">[292]</span></a> Three of these are described in Mr. Coxe's Catalogue, cols. 812-14.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1817" id="AD_1817"></a>A.D. 1817.</h3> + +<p>The large Canonici collection of MSS. was obtained from +Venice in this year, for the sum of £5444, a purchase unprecedented +in greatness in the history of the Library<a name="FNanchor_293_293" id="FNanchor_293_293"></a><a href="#Footnote_293_293" class="fnanchor">[293]</a>. The collection +was formed by Matheo Luigi Canonici, a Venetian Jesuit, +who was born in 1727 and died in Sept. 1805 or 1806. Indefatigable +in his passion for antiquities, he first formed a Museum<!-- Page 224 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span> +of statues and of medals at Parma, but, in consequence of the +Jesuits being expelled from the State, this was sold to the government. +He then at Bologna set himself to collect religious objects +of interest, and had succeeded to some extent, when the rector +of his society observed to him that such a collection was little +suitable to a poor monk, and he consequently disposed of it to a +Roman prince. Finally, at Venice, he commenced the gathering +of a library, in which it is said, as one evidence of its extent, +there were more than four thousand Bibles written in fifty-two +languages<a name="FNanchor_294_294" id="FNanchor_294_294"></a><a href="#Footnote_294_294" class="fnanchor">[294]</a>.</p> + +<p>The MSS. purchased by the Bodleian amount in number to +about 2045. Dibdin, almost immediately upon the acquisition, +noticed it thus<a name="FNanchor_295_295" id="FNanchor_295_295"></a><a href="#Footnote_295_295" class="fnanchor">[295]</a>:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'They have recently acquired a very curious and valuable collection +of MSS., which formerly belonged to an ex-Jesuit Abbé, +who intended (had he lived to have seen the restoration of the +order of the Jesuits) to have presented them to the Jesuits' College +at Venice. Neither pains nor expense were spared among his +brethren, in all parts of the world, to make the collection, on that +account, as perfect as possible.'</p></div> + +<p>In Greek there are 128 volumes, chiefly of the fifteenth and sixteenth +centuries, with a few of earlier date, including two <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Evangelistaria</i> +assigned by Montfaucon to the ninth century. Of Latin classical +authors and Mediæval poets there are 311 volumes; some of +those of the former class are of great age and value, notably a Virgil +of the tenth century (No. 50). Ninety-three MSS. form the class of +Latin Bibles; the finest of these are, one written in 1178 for the +church of SS. Mary and Pancras in Ranshoven, and another, in five +very large folio volumes, written and illuminated in France, in the<!-- Page 225 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span> +years 1507-1511. Of Latin ecclesiastical writers and Fathers +there are 232 volumes; and of Latin miscellanies (chiefly in +medicine, philosophy and science, theology, and <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">belles lettres</i>, with +scarcely anything of an historical character), 576 volumes. Of all +these classes a catalogue was published by Mr. Coxe in 1854, +forming part iii. of the new general Catalogue of MSS.</p> + +<p>Another division consists of Liturgical books. In this class there +are now 400 volumes, but about 130 of these were added from +the Rawlinson collection. They consist chiefly of <i>Horæ</i>, Breviaries, +Missals, and Psalters, with a few other service-books; most +of those which belonged to Canonici being 'secundum usum +Romanum.' No catalogue of this series has, as yet, been made.</p> + +<p>A sixth division comprehends 300 Italian MSS. (including five +in Spanish) of which a very elaborate catalogue was compiled, as +a labour of love, by the Count Alessandro Mortara, during the +years of his stay in Oxford<a name="FNanchor_296_296" id="FNanchor_296_296"></a><a href="#Footnote_296_296" class="fnanchor">[296]</a>. His MS. was bought after his death +from his executor the Abate Giuseppe Manuzzi, of Florence, for +£201, in the year 1858; it was afterwards put to press under +the care of the accomplished Italian scholar, and intimate friend +of Count Mortara, Dr. H. Wellesley, the late Principal of New Inn +Hall, and appeared, with an Italian preface by him giving some +account of the whole collection, in one volume quarto (158 pages,) +in 1864.</p> + +<p>The last portion of the collection consists of 135 Oriental +MSS., chiefly valuable Hebrew books on vellum. One of these +(No. 78) is a copy of Maimonides' Commentary on the Law, in +fourteen books, which is dated 1366. Seven of the Biblical +volumes are noticed in De Rossi's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Variæ Lectiones Veteris Testamenti</i>. +The few Arabic MSS. are described in Dr. Pusey's Continuation +of Nicol's Catalogue.<!-- Page 226 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span></p> + +<p>A curious story of the recovery, amidst these books, of some +leaves belonging to a printed vellum Bible already in the Library, +will be found related under the year 1750. A few other MSS. +from Canonici's library were sold by auction, with some from +Saibante's, in London, in 1821. And many relating to Italian +and Venetian history, which were at first retained by one of the +heirs, passed afterwards into the hands of the Rev. Walter Sneyd, +of Baginton, Warwickshire, their present possessor. A MS. +volume of notices of the Canonici library, drawn up by Signor +Lorenzi, of Venice, was bought by the Bodleian, in 1859, for ten +guineas<a name="FNanchor_297_297" id="FNanchor_297_297"></a><a href="#Footnote_297_297" class="fnanchor">[297]</a>.</p> + +<p>A MS. of Suidas, of the fifteenth century, was purchased for +£220 10<i>s.</i> Another acquisition was a French translation, made +in 1417, by Laurens de Preme, of the <i>Ethics</i>, <i>Politics</i>, &c., of +Aristotle<a name="FNanchor_298_298" id="FNanchor_298_298"></a><a href="#Footnote_298_298" class="fnanchor">[298]</a>. Some specimens of the Javanese language were given +by Capt. L. H. Davy.</p> + +<p>Among printed books, the most noticeable purchase (besides +the <i>Edd. Pr.</i> of Livy, 1469, Lactantius, 1465, &c.) was that of a +vellum copy of the first edition of the Hebrew Pentateuch, printed +at Bologna in 1482, for £17 10<i>s.</i> Some sets of controversial and +political tracts, with other books, which had belonged to Thomas<!-- Page 227 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span> +Brande Hollis and Dr. John Disney, were bought at the sale of +the library of the latter.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_293_293" id="Footnote_293_293"></a><a href="#FNanchor_293_293"><span class="label">[293]</span></a> The money was raised by loans of £2000 from the Radcliffe Trustees and +£3644 from the University Bankers. They were both repaid by the year 1820.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_294_294" id="Footnote_294_294"></a><a href="#FNanchor_294_294"><span class="label">[294]</span></a> De Backer's <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Bibliothèque des écrivains de la comp. de Jésus</i>; quatr. série, p. 93. +8vo. Liège, 1858.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_295_295" id="Footnote_295_295"></a><a href="#FNanchor_295_295"><span class="label">[295]</span></a> <i>Bibliogr. Decam.</i> iii. 429.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_296_296" id="Footnote_296_296"></a><a href="#FNanchor_296_296"><span class="label">[296]</span></a> See under the year <a href="#AD_1852">1852</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_297_297" id="Footnote_297_297"></a><a href="#FNanchor_297_297"><span class="label">[297]</span></a> The first MSS. of Dante which the Library possessed, came in the Canonici +collection; they are in number fifteen. This fact is worth mentioning, on account +of an extraordinary story told by Girolamo Gigli, in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Vocabolario Cateriniano</i>, p. +cciii. (a book the printing of which was commenced at Rome in 1717, but which was +suppressed, by bull, before completion), that in the Bodleian Library at 'Osfolk,' +there was a MS. of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Divina Commedia</i>, which, from being employed in enveloping a +consignment of cheese (and so imported into England by a mode of conveyance said +to have been usually adopted by Florentine merchants, with a view of spreading at +once a knowledge of their luxuries and their literature), had become so saturated +with a caseous savour as to require the constant guardianship of two traps to protect +it from the voracity of mice. Hence, according to this marvellous travellers' +story, the MS. went by the name of <i>The Book of the Mousetrap</i>! (See <i>Notes and +Queries</i>, i. 154.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_298_298" id="Footnote_298_298"></a><a href="#FNanchor_298_298"><span class="label">[298]</span></a> Bodl. MS. 965.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1818" id="AD_1818"></a>A.D. 1818.</h3> + +<p>A return was made to the House of Commons of such books +received since 1814, in pursuance of the Copyright Act, from +Stationers' Hall, as it had not been deemed necessary to place +in the Library. The list is but a trifling one, consisting chiefly +of school-books and anonymous novels, with music; but, nevertheless, +it is sufficient to show the great need of caution in +rejecting any books excepting such as are of the simplest +elementary character, and the advantage of erring rather on the +side of inclusiveness than exclusiveness. Miss Edgeworth's +<i>Parents' Assistant</i>, Mrs. H. More's <i>Sacred Dramas</i>, Mrs. Opie's +<i>Simple Tales</i>, and an edition of <i>Ossian</i>, were all consigned to +the limbo of 'rubbish.' But the Cambridge Return (which is +much more detailed than that from Oxford<a name="FNanchor_299_299" id="FNanchor_299_299"></a><a href="#Footnote_299_299" class="fnanchor">[299]</a>) shows a recklessness +of rejection which speaks little for the judgment of the Librarians +for the time being. Besides school-books and music, a large +number of pamphlets figure in the list, including some by Chalmers +and Cobbett; the <i>Theology</i> includes Owen's <i>History of the Bible +Society</i>; the <i>History</i> includes <i>Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his +Children</i>; the <i>Poetry</i>, Byron's <i>Siege of Corinth</i>, L. Hunt's <i>Story +of Rimini</i>, and Wordsworth's <i>Thanksgiving Ode</i>; and the <i>Novels</i>, +[Peacock's] <i>Headlong Hall</i>, one by Mrs. Opie, and—<i>The Antiquary</i>! +The far wiser plan is now carried out in the Bodleian of rejecting +nothing; even the elementary works that do not need entering +in the Catalogue, are so kept that access can be had to them at +all times and examination made; and the music is from time to +time sorted and bound. And this plan was commenced in the<!-- Page 228 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span> +year of which we are writing; for, (in consequence, of course, of +this return being called for by the House of Commons,) the +Curators ordered, on May 27, that <i>all</i> publications sent from +Stationers' Hall should in future be entered and preserved.</p> + +<p>A very valuable and curious series of original editions of Latin +and German tracts, issued by the German Reformers between +1518 and 1550, in eighty-four volumes, was bought for £95 15<i>s.</i> +Additions have been made to this collection at various times +subsequently, so that now it probably comprises as complete a +gathering of these controversial publications, so easily lost or +destroyed from their small extent and often ephemeral character, +as can anywhere be found. A kindred collection (although not +of like value or interest) was obtained through the gift by Mr. A. +Müller, a well-known bookseller at Amsterdam, of a series of +tracts, in sixty-two volumes, and chiefly in the Dutch language, on +the controversy with the Remonstrants in 1618-19. A MS. Catalogue, +by Mr. Müller, dated March 3, is kept in the Librarian's +study. Besides the books, Mr. Müller gave a few coins, including +one struck on leather during the siege of Leyden in 1574, and +some natural curiosities, which latter are now preserved in the +New Museum. A <i>black negro baby</i>, preserved in spirits (!) has, +however, unaccountably disappeared; let us hope it was decently +buried. Seventeen panes of painted glass, probably by disciples +of Crabeth, who painted the windows in the Church of Gouda, +also formed part of this very miscellaneous donation; these, most +probably, are included among the curious fragments which +decorate some of the Library windows.</p> + +<p>Six Persian MSS. were given by the late venerable Principal +of Magdalen Hall, and Lord Almoner's Reader in Arabic, Dr. +Macbride. The signature of this gentleman, who has only been +removed by death while these sheets have been passing through +the press, occurs in the Admission-book of the last century,<!-- Page 229 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span> +as having been admitted to read in the Library, while still an +undergraduate of Exeter College, on May 10, 1797.</p> + +<p><i>Alderman Fletcher's illustrated copy of Gulch's Wood.</i> See under +<a href="#AD_1610">1610</a>.</p> + +<p>Mr. John Walker, Queen's College (B.A. 1820; Chaplain of New +College, M.A., 1823), succeeded Mr. Fenton as <i>minister</i> in July.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_299_299" id="Footnote_299_299"></a><a href="#FNanchor_299_299"><span class="label">[299]</span></a> The minuteness of specification is such that '<i>Turner's Real Japan Blacking, a +Label</i>' is duly entered.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1819" id="AD_1819"></a>A.D. 1819.</h3> + +<p>A copy of the extremely rare Polish version of the Bible, made +by the Socinians at the expense of Prince Nicholas Radzivil, and +printed in 1563, was bought for £45<a name="FNanchor_300_300" id="FNanchor_300_300"></a><a href="#Footnote_300_300" class="fnanchor">[300]</a>; and a folio Psalter, printed +by Fust and Schoeffer in 1459, (finished Aug. 29), on vellum, for +£70. The second vellum printed book in the Library is a copy +of Durandus' <i>Rationale</i>, printed by the same printers in the same +year, but completed on Oct. 6. This was bought in 1790 for +£80 10<i>s.</i> Large additions were made to the collection of Aldines.</p> + +<p>The name of Lady Hester Stanhope occurs among the benefactors +as presenting an Arabic MS. of the Romance of Antar, +in thirty volumes.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_300_300" id="Footnote_300_300"></a><a href="#FNanchor_300_300"><span class="label">[300]</span></a> The rarity of this edition was caused by its being bought up and destroyed by +the sons of Prince Radzivil.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1820" id="AD_1820"></a>A.D. 1820.</h3> + +<p>From Messrs. Payne and Foss was bought, for £150, the +famous MS. of the Greek New Testament called, from its former +possessor, the '<span class="note" title="[A facsimile, from the commencement of St. Luke, with a notice of the MS., is given in Shaw's 'Illuminated Ornaments'.] - see Addenda et Corrigenda"><span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Codex Ebnerianus</span></span>.' It is a small quarto, containing +425 leaves of fine vellum, in excellent condition and well +written, and ornamented with eleven rich paintings, besides occasional +arabesque borders, &c. It comprehends all the books of +the New Testament except the Apocalypse, and is assigned in +date to the twelfth or thirteenth century. The former owner, +whose name it perpetuates, Jerome William Ebner von Eschenbach, +of Nuremberg, obtained it, it is said, when first brought<!-- Page 230 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span> +from the East '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">ex singulari Numinis providentia</span>.' While in his +possession, a small descriptive volume, comprising forty-four +pages and an engraved facsimile, was published by Conrad +Schoenleben, under the title of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Notitia egregii codicis Græci +Novi Testamenti manuscripti</i>, &c. 4<sup>o</sup>. Norib. 1738. This was +incorporated by De Murr in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Memorabilia Bibliothecarum +publicarum Norimbergensium</i>, published in 1788, part ii. p. 100, +who added thirteen well-engraved plates of the illuminations, +binding and text. It was formerly bound in leather-covered +boards, ornamented with gold, with five silver-gilt stars on the +sides, and fastened with four silver clasps. This cover being +much decayed, Ebner cased the volume in a most costly binding +of pure silver, preserving the silver stars, and affixing on the +outside a beautiful ivory figure (coæval with the MS.) of our +Saviour, throned, and in the attitude of benediction. Above the +figure, Ebner engraved an inscription in Greek characters, corresponding +to the style of the MS., praying for a blessing upon +himself and his family.</p> + +<p>A MS. of Terence, of the eleventh or twelfth century, which +also belonged to Ebner, was bought from Payne and Foss, at +the same time, for ten guineas. It is described in De Murr, +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">ubi supra</i>, pp. 135-7.</p> + +<p>Fifty Greek manuscripts were bought for £500, which had +formerly been in the possession of Giovanni Saibante, of Verona. +The library of this collector is noticed in Scipio Maffei's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Verona +Illustrata</i> (fol. 1731), part ii. col. 48<a name="FNanchor_301_301" id="FNanchor_301_301"></a><a href="#Footnote_301_301" class="fnanchor">[301]</a>. The MSS. purchased +by the Library are described in Mr. Coxe's Catalogue, cols. +774-808.</p> +<p><!-- Page 231 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span></p> +<p>A collection of Arabic tracts and papers, which had formerly +belonged to Dr. Kennicott, was given by Shute Barrington, Bishop +of Durham.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_301_301" id="Footnote_301_301"></a><a href="#FNanchor_301_301"><span class="label">[301]</span></a> Some MSS. which had belonged to Saibante, together with some of the Abate +Canonici's collection, which had been brought to England by the Abate Celotti, +were sold by auction, in London, in 1821. The sale of a further portion, which had +passed into the hands of P. de' Gianfilippi (also of Verona), took place at Paris +in January, 1843.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1821" id="AD_1821"></a>A.D. 1821.</h3> + +<p>The great event of this year was the reception of the famous +and extensive collection of English dramatic literature and early +poetry, formed by Edmund Malone<a name="FNanchor_302_302" id="FNanchor_302_302"></a><a href="#Footnote_302_302" class="fnanchor">[302]</a>. It was bequeathed by him +on his decease (May 25, 1812) to his brother, Lord Sunderlin, +with the expression of a wish that, if not retained as an heirloom +in the family, it should be deposited in some public library. In +fulfilment of this wish, Lord Sunderlin communicated to the +University, in 1815, his intention to transfer the collection to the +Bodleian so soon as Mr. James Boswell, to whom it was entrusted +in order to assist him in the preparation of a new edition +of Malone's <i>Shakespeare</i>, should have finished his use of it. +That edition being at length issued in 1821, the library was sent +to Oxford in the same year. The character of the collection is +too well known to need description; suffice it to say that it contains +upwards of 800 volumes, of which by far the greater number are +distinguished by their rarity. There are first quartos of many of +Shakespeare's plays, and second editions of others<a name="FNanchor_303_303" id="FNanchor_303_303"></a><a href="#Footnote_303_303" class="fnanchor">[303]</a>; of his collected +works there are both the first and second folios. Barnfield, +Beaumont and Fletcher, Chapman, Decker, Greene, Heywood, +Ben Jonson, Lodge, Massinger, Rich. Taylor the water-poet, and +Whetstone are amongst those who are most fully represented. +There are also a few MSS. A Catalogue of the collection, in +folio (52 pp.), with a life of Malone by Boswell (previously printed +in <i>Gent. Magaz.</i> and Nichol's <i>Lit. Hist.</i>), was published in 1836;<!-- Page 232 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span> +and, in 1861, Mr. J. O. Halliwell printed fifty-one copies of a small +<i>Hand-list</i> of the early English literature preserved in it. Various +volumes of Malone's own MSS. collections have been subsequently +added by purchase; viz. in 1836 some papers relating to the life +and writings of Pope; in 1838, his collections for the last edition +of his <i>Shakespeare</i> and for the illustration of ancient manners, +together with a portion of his literary correspondence; in 1851 a +volume of letters written to him by Bishop Percy, between 1783 +and 1807; in 1858 three octavo volumes of collections made by +him at Oxford; and in 1864 a volume of letters to him from +Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Siddons, and others. A large series of pamphlets, +chiefly relating to Irish history and to literary matters, +comprised in seventy-five volumes, was also purchased in 1838<a name="FNanchor_304_304" id="FNanchor_304_304"></a><a href="#Footnote_304_304" class="fnanchor">[304]</a>. +Almost all his books are uniformly bound in half-calf, with +'E. M.' in an interlaced monogram on the back; a very few have a +book-plate consisting of his coat-of-arms within a square of books, +with the inscription (in imitation of Grolier's) 'Edm. Malone et +amicorum,' and a motto from the <i>Menagiana</i>.</p> + +<p>A curious instance of the variableness and uncertainty of the +prices of books is afforded by the purchase-list of this year, when +contrasted with prices paid at the present time. A copy (wanting +the preliminary leaves and a few others) of one of the Antwerp +editions of Tyndale's New Test. in 1534, (which had belonged to +Mr. Benj. Ibott, and is mentioned in Herbert's <i>Ames</i>, vol. iii. +p. 1543) was bought for nineteen shillings; Mr. Stevens in 1855 +priced another imperfect copy at fifteen guineas. But, on the +other hand, £63 were given in this year for the rare <i>Ed. Pr.</i> of +Virgil, printed by Sweynheim and Pannartz in 1469<a name="FNanchor_305_305" id="FNanchor_305_305"></a><a href="#Footnote_305_305" class="fnanchor">[305]</a>. A somewhat<!-- Page 233 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span> +similar instance occurred also in 1826, when Daye's edition of +the Apocrypha, printed in 1549 (being vol. iv. of his edition of +the Bible in that year), was obtained for fifteen shillings, while +£73 10<i>s.</i> were paid for an edition of Virgil printed at Venice +about 1473.</p> + +<p>The very rare German Bible, printed at Strasburgh about 1466, +was bought for £42, and a perfect copy of the first edition of the +Bishops' Bible, in 1568, for seven guineas<a name="FNanchor_306_306" id="FNanchor_306_306"></a><a href="#Footnote_306_306" class="fnanchor">[306]</a>. A volume of interest +in typographical history was presented, in the first book printed +in New South Wales. It is entitled <i>Michael Howe, the last and +worst of the Bush Rangers of Van Dieman's Land; narrative of +the chief atrocities committed by this great murderer and his associates +during a period of six years in Van Dieman's Land</i>: it extends to +thirty-six small octavo pages, and was printed at Hobart Town, +by Andrew Bent, in Dec, 1818<a name="FNanchor_307_307" id="FNanchor_307_307"></a><a href="#Footnote_307_307" class="fnanchor">[307]</a>.</p> + +<p>The Catalogue of the Oriental MSS., commenced in the year +1787 by Uri, was continued in this year by the publication by +Mr. Nicoll of the first part of a second volume, containing notices +of 234 additional Arabic MSS. His premature death occurred +before the publication of the second part, which he had printed as +far as p. 388; this was completed and edited (with nine lithographic +plates of specimens of Arabic MSS.) by his successor in +the Hebrew Professorship, Dr. Pusey, in 1835. It contains altogether +descriptions of 296 Arabic volumes, together with copious +additions by Dr. Pusey to Uri's first portion, which are noticed +above, p. 199.<!-- Page 234 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span></p> + +<p>The Parish Registers of Newington, Kent, and of Bures, in +Suffolk, which had come into the Library among Dr. Rawlinson's +books, were restored to their respective parishes by a decree submitted +to Convocation on Nov. 9. In the Register of Convocation +itself, by a singular omission, no mention of the former of these +parish books is made (although included in the proposal), and the +restoration of that of Bures is alone recorded. But by enquiry +addressed to the Vicar of Newington, it has been ascertained that +one of the Registers contains a memorandum of its having been +returned by vote of Convocation on the day in question.</p> + +<p>By a vote of Convocation on July 7, the rooms on the first floor +of the Schools' quadrangle, which were formerly used as the +Hebrew and Greek Schools, were assigned to the Library; the +former (on the south side) now contains, in two rooms, the Bodley, +Laud, and other collections of MSS.; the latter (on the north +side), also in two rooms, the foreign and English periodicals<a name="FNanchor_308_308" id="FNanchor_308_308"></a><a href="#Footnote_308_308" class="fnanchor">[308]</a>.</p> + +<p>On May 25, a plan for warming the Library was, for the first +time, adopted. It consisted in introducing hot air simply at two +small gratings at one end of the Library, from pipes communicating +with a stove placed (with the consent of Exeter College) +where the furnace of the present apparatus is situated, in the wall +between the north-west corner of the Library and the Ashmolean +Museum. As a means of warming the Library generally the +system was wholly ineffectual, no benefit being experienced except +by those who remained in the immediate vicinity of the gratings. +It remained, however, in use until 1845, when pipes were laid +down through a considerable part of the Library for the purpose +of warming it by steam. This plan, however, did not give satisfaction, +either on the ground of safety or of effectiveness. In 1855 +Mr. Braidwood, the late distinguished head of the London Fire<!-- Page 235 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span> +Brigade, was brought down to survey the apparatus and to +examine generally how the Library could best be secured against +fire; and, by his advice and that of Mr. G. G. Scott, the pipes were +enclosed in slate casings, so as effectually to hinder contact with +any inflammable materials, and two fire-proof iron doors were +inserted at the entrances to the great Reading-room, in order to +cut it off from the rest of the building<a name="FNanchor_309_309" id="FNanchor_309_309"></a><a href="#Footnote_309_309" class="fnanchor">[309]</a>. But in 1861 steam +was discarded for the safer and more effectual system, now +in use, of warming by hot water; new pipes (cased in slate) were +laid down by Messrs. Haden and Son, and were carried through +the Examination Schools on the ground-floor of the quadrangle, +as well as through the Library.</p> + +<p>In Feb. Mr. J. P. Roberts, New College (B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826, +now Minor Canon of Chichester) was appointed <i>minister</i>, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">vice</i> Mr. +P. Barrett, Wadham College (B.A. 1828); and Mr. Robert Eden, +of St. John's College (Corp. Chr. Coll. B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, +now Vicar of Wymondham, Norfolk), was appointed <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">vice</i> Walker. +From this time there appear to have been two assistants, although +it was not until 1837 that that number was formally allowed by +Statute.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_302_302" id="Footnote_302_302"></a><a href="#FNanchor_302_302"><span class="label">[302]</span></a> Malone was the son of an Irish Judge. He was born in Dublin, Oct. 4, 1741, +was educated at Trin. Coll. Dublin, where he took the degree of M.A., and became +a barrister, but soon retired from legal practice.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_303_303" id="Footnote_303_303"></a><a href="#FNanchor_303_303"><span class="label">[303]</span></a> For notices of the purchase of several early quartos, wanting in this series, see +<a href="#AD_1834">1834</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_304_304" id="Footnote_304_304"></a><a href="#FNanchor_304_304"><span class="label">[304]</span></a> These are now incorporated with the large collection called <i>Godwyn Pamphlets</i>. +A copy of Wood's <i>Ath. Oxon.</i> with MSS. notes by Malone, was given by Mr. B. +H. Bright in 1835.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_305_305" id="Footnote_305_305"></a><a href="#FNanchor_305_305"><span class="label">[305]</span></a> Various other <i>editt. princ.</i> were bought in this year, with some Aldines. Also a +collection of modern Greek works printed at Venice.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_306_306" id="Footnote_306_306"></a><a href="#FNanchor_306_306"><span class="label">[306]</span></a> Offor's copy sold for £41; Lea Wilson's for £61 10<i>s.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_307_307" id="Footnote_307_307"></a><a href="#FNanchor_307_307"><span class="label">[307]</span></a> The present writer has in his possession an early newspaper printed in New +Zealand, the <i>Auckland Times</i>, No. 41, for Apr. 6, 1843, not merely curious in +relation to the history of the colony, but also as a typographical relic. Its +crowning interest is to be found in its colophon (if such a classical word may be +applied to the imprint of a newspaper), which states that it was '<i>Printed in a +mangle</i>.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_308_308" id="Footnote_308_308"></a><a href="#FNanchor_308_308"><span class="label">[308]</span></a> In Lascelles' Account of Oxford, published in this year, it is said that the printed +books in the Library were computed at 160,000, and the MSS. at 30,000.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_309_309" id="Footnote_309_309"></a><a href="#FNanchor_309_309"><span class="label">[309]</span></a> Mr. Braidwood's report was printed in 1856, together with one from Mr. Scott, +on the extension of the Library, and the means of rendering it fire-proof.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1822" id="AD_1822"></a>A.D. 1822.</h3> + +<p>In July, the Rev. Dr. Bliss returned to the Library as Sub-librarian, +in the room of Mr. Nicoll, appointed Regius Professor of +Hebrew. And in October the Rev. Rich. French Laurence, M.A., +of Pembroke College, succeeded Dr. Cotton, who quitted Oxford +for Ireland.</p> + +<p>'Tuesday, August 6, 1822, I was at the Library the whole day, +and not a single member of the University came into the room, +excepting Mr. Eden, the assistant. Oxford race-day.' This note<!-- Page 236 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span> +occurs in vol. x. of Dr. Bliss's MS. antiquarian and miscellaneous +memoranda. Considering that the time of the year was well-nigh +the middle of the Long Vacation, it does not seem surprising that +on one day there should have been no academic readers in the +Library, even if there may have been academic riders on the +race-course. The two occurrences have so little correspondence +with each other that one would hope that the zealous Sub-librarian +(who has deemed the same want of readers worth commemorating +also in another note) assigned <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">non causa pro causa</i>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1823" id="AD_1823"></a>A.D. 1823.</h3> + +<p>By the exertions of the brothers J. S. and P. B. Duncan, Esqs., +Fellows of New College, distinguished for their efforts to promote +the study of the Arts and Sciences in the University, a subscription-fund +was raised for the purpose of adorning the Picture Gallery +with plaster models of some of the finest buildings of Greek and +Roman antiquity. The result was that in the present year the +following series, by Fouquet, of Paris, was placed in the Gallery, +at a total cost of about £400:—The Arch of Constantine, the +Parthenon, the Temple of the Sybil at Tivoli, the Maison Carrée +at Nismes, the Erechtheum and Lantern of Demosthenes at +Athens, the Theatre of Herculaneum, and the Temple of Fortuna +Virilis at Rome.</p> + +<p>A large number of works by foreign authors, chiefly theological, +was bought (for £375) at the sale at Leyden of the library of +Jonas Wilh. Te Water, professor of Eccl. Hist. in that University. +A separate catalogue, occupying twenty-three folio pages, was +issued of these books.</p> + +<p>Mr. E. P. New, of St. John's College (B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, +B.D. 1831), was appointed in December to assist in the compilation +of the new Catalogue; but how long he remained in +the Library does not appear.<!-- Page 237 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span></p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1824" id="AD_1824"></a>A.D. 1824.</h3> + +<p>A collection of valuable original papers relating to affairs in +Church and State, which had belonged to Archbishop Sheldon, +were sold by his great-nephew, Sir John English Dolben, of +Finedon, Northamptonshire, to the Library for £40 5<i>s.</i> They are +now bound in six volumes, of which three are lettered <i>Sheldon</i>, +and three <i>Dolben</i>. Of the first three, two contain letters from +English, Welsh, Scotch and Irish Bishops, and the contents of +the other are miscellaneous; of the second three, one contains +miscellaneous letters and papers commencing at 1585, another +has similar papers from 1626 to 1721, and the third contains +miscellaneous ecclesiastical letters and documents. Some of the +letters are addressed to the Archbishop's secretary, Miles Smyth, +Esq. A short letter from Sir John Dolben to Dr. Bandinel, relating +to his disposal of these papers, dated Oct. 12, 1824, is preserved in +Bodl. MS. Addit. ii. A. 32. He had previously given, in 1822, a +fine copy of a quarto Bible which had belonged to Sheldon, containing +(1) the Prayer-Book and Metrical Psalms, printed at Cambridge +in 1638, (2) the Old Test., printed by Field at London in +1648, and (3) the New Test., Cambr. 1637. At the end are some +memoranda by the Archbishop of the births, baptisms, and deaths +of members of the Sheldon and Okeover families, and of the +legitimate children of Charles II and the Duke of York. The +Library more than a century before had received benefactions from +a member of the same family of Dolben; Gilbert Dolben, of +Finedon, having given some printed books in 1697, together with +a manuscript of Gower. And twenty vols. of Chamberlaine's <i>State +of Great Britain</i> were given by Mr. J. E. Dolben in 1796. An +additional volume of the Sheldon correspondence was given to +the Library in 1840, by Dr. Routh, the President of Magdalen<!-- Page 238 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span> +College. It is a copy-book of business-letters written by the +Archbishop. In a note to Dr. Bandinel which accompanied the +gift, and which is now fixed in vol. i. of Burnet's autograph copy +of his <i>Own Times</i>, Dr. Routh says:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'The President takes the opportunity of sending a volume +containing the first draught of letters sent by Archbp. Sheldon +to different persons, together with a few other contemporary +papers. They were put into the President's hands by the late +Sir John English Dolben, and as the University purchased of that +gentleman what were commonly called the Sheldon Papers, he +thinks they cannot be deposited anywhere more suitably than in +the Bodleian Library.'</p></div> + +<p>To the annual catalogue for this year was attached a special +list, filling thirty-two folio pages, of the books (upwards of 1500 +in number) which were bought at the Hague, at the sale of the +library collected by the distinguished Dutch scholars and lawyers, +Gerard and John Meerman. The sale-catalogue is a volume of +more than 1200 pages. The books bought for the Library were +chiefly such as supplied deficiencies in foreign history and law, +together with some Greek<a name="FNanchor_310_310" id="FNanchor_310_310"></a><a href="#Footnote_310_310" class="fnanchor">[310]</a> and Latin MSS., for the most part +patristic and classical. The sum expended was £925. Some +rare Spanish historical books (in which class of literature, thanks +to Dr. Bandinel's care in keeping it steadily in view, the Library +is now very rich) were bought at the sale of Don J. Ant. Conde.</p> + +<p>But the chief distinction of this year lies in the acquisition, by +bequest of Mrs. Elizabeth Dennis Denyer (widow of Mr. John +Denyer, of Chelsea, who died in 1806) of a most valuable +collection of early editions of the English Bible, numbering +<!-- Page 239 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span>altogether about twenty-five. To show the rarity and worth +of this collection, it will be sufficient to mention but a few of +the volumes which it contains. <i>Imprimis</i>, Coverdale's first edition, +1535<a name="FNanchor_311_311" id="FNanchor_311_311"></a><a href="#Footnote_311_311" class="fnanchor">[311]</a>, and his second edition, 1537; Cranmer's, in April, +1540 and in 1541, and by Grafton in 1553; Matthew's, +by Becke, in 1551; Tyndale's New Testament, in 1536, and +another of his earliest editions; Hollybush's English and Latin +Testament, 1538, and Erasmus' Testament, 1540. Besides the +Biblical collection, Mrs. Denyer also bequeathed twenty-one +English theological works, nearly all printed before 1600; including +a beautiful copy of Fisher on the Penitential Psalms (by +Wynkyn de Worde) and books by (amongst others) Bale, Bonner, +Brightwell, Erasmus, Hooper, Joye, and Tonstall.</p> + +<p>Mr. L. E. Judge, New College (B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; Chaplain; +deceased 1853), succeeded Mr. Roberts, in March, as assistant; +but in July of the next year retired, and was succeeded +by Mr. W. Bailey, also of New College (B.A. 1829).</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_310_310" id="Footnote_310_310"></a><a href="#FNanchor_310_310"><span class="label">[310]</span></a> These, in number thirty-eight, are described in Mr. Coxe's Catalogue, cols. +724-773. An eighth-century copy of Eusebius' <i>Chronicon</i> is among the Latin MSS.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_311_311" id="Footnote_311_311"></a><a href="#FNanchor_311_311"><span class="label">[311]</span></a> Wanting title and map. A title had been supplied by Mrs. Denyer, who in +several instances had supplied deficiencies very successfully in pen and ink; a perfect +facsimile, however, by Mr. J. Harris, which might pass for the original, were not +the minute mark '<i>Fs. T. H.</i>' seen on the back of the page, has since been substituted. +It is a marvel of caligraphic skill. Another imperfect copy came to the +Library among Selden's books.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1825" id="AD_1825"></a>A.D. 1825.</h3> + +<p>The sale at Paris of the library of L. M. Langlès, the keeper +of the Oriental MSS. in the Bibl. Royale, afforded a large accession +of books in that branch of literature which was his specialty.</p> + +<p>Mr. Sim. J. Etty, New College (B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, now +Vicar of Wanborough, Wilts), was appointed assistant in the room +of Mr. Eden. Mr. Etty remained in the Library until the year +1834. The Catalogue of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Dissertationes Academicæ</i>, which appeared +in 1832, was in a great measure his work.<!-- Page 240 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span></p> + +<p>Two MSS. intended of old for the Library by Sir K. Digby, +were bought in this year. To the account of them given at +p. 58 <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">supra</i>, it should be added that the library left in France by +Digby on his death (from which, no doubt, these volumes came) +was bought back by George, Earl of Bristol, and finally sold by +auction at London, in April and May, 1680. Sixty-nine MSS. +were included in this dispersion. It should further be added to +the previous notice that it was at Laud's instance, and through +him as Chancellor of the University, that Digby presented his +collection to the Library. A letter from the Archbishop, which +accompanied the gift, is printed in Wharton's collection of his +<i>Remains</i>, vol. ii. p. 73.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1826" id="AD_1826"></a>A.D. 1826.</h3> + +<p>There is not much to notice in the acquisitions of this year. +A few Persian and other Oriental MSS. were purchased, and more +in the two following years; and some Burmese MSS. were given +by Sir C. Grey, Chief Justice of Calcutta. A curious volume +of manuscript and printed papers relative to the siege of Oxford, +1643-46, was presented by Mr. W. Hamper, of Birmingham. +In January, the Rev. Chas. Hen. Cox, M.A., Student of Ch. Ch., +was appointed Sub-librarian in the room of Mr. Laurence.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1827" id="AD_1827"></a>A.D. 1827.</h3> + +<p>A very large collection of Academic Dissertations published in +Germany, amounting to about 43,400, was bought at Altona for +£332 16<i>s.</i> Of these a folio catalogue was published in 1834, +which, by a singular error, bears on its title the date 1832, as +the year in which this accession came to the Library. In 1828, +160 volumes of the same character were added, and other large<!-- Page 241 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span> +additions were made in 1836 and 1837, but particularly in 1846, +when no fewer than 7000 were purchased<a name="FNanchor_312_312" id="FNanchor_312_312"></a><a href="#Footnote_312_312" class="fnanchor">[312]</a>.</p> + +<p>Mr. Henry Forster, New College (B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834; +Esquire Bedel of Divinity; deceased 1857), succeeded Mr. Bailey, +in March, as Assistant.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_312_312" id="Footnote_312_312"></a><a href="#FNanchor_312_312"><span class="label">[312]</span></a> There is scarcely an imaginable subject in law, theology, or history, on which +something may not be found in this vast collection. The <i>something</i> may often be +meagre and superficial, but it is still oftener curious, and even in the former case it +may be useful as pointing to sources of further information. In days of Ritual +controversy, one party or another may be glad to know that in 1725, George Henry +Goetz, D.D., wrote on the interesting question whether a clergyman might do duty +in his dressing-gown,—<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Num Verbi ministro toga cubicularia</i> (Schlaffpeltze) <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">induto +officio sacro defungi liceat?</i> Those who know what curses were invoked of old +upon the heads of stealers of books, may be interested in hearing what one Pipping +had to say on the subject in 1721, in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Diss. de Imprecationibus libris ascriptis</i>; +while the title of Sam. Schelging's discourse in 1729, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Apparitionibus mortuorum +vivis ex pacto factis</i>, will have attraction for not a few. Sometimes the dryest subjects +were lightened up at the close with ponderous jokes, or unexpected turns were +given to the matter in hand; <i>e.g.</i> those worthy Germans who had gone to sleep at +Jena, in 1660, during the reading of a dissertation <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Jure et Potestate Parlamenti +Britannici</i>, by one J. A. Gerhard, (who must have taken unusual interest in the +history of the English Rebellion,) were wakened up at the end by the discussion of +the following novel questions in law:—'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Casus ex jure privato</span>. +</p><p xml:lang="la" lang="la"> +'I. Titius ducit uxorem Caiam. Caia, elapso uno vel altero anno, transmutatur +in virum. Q. an Caia hæc, soluto per hanc metamorphosin matrimonio, possit +repetere dotem? Dist. +</p><p xml:lang="la" lang="la"> +'II. Sempronia, defuncto marito Mævio, nubit Titio. Mævius divinâ potentiâ +in vitam resuscitatur mortalem. Q. an Mævius hic, secundum vivus, uxorem +Semproniam et bona sua repetere possit? Aff.' +</p><p> +It was usual for the friends of the candidate who defended the thesis of the Dissertation +(generally written for him by the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Præses</i>) to attach some complimentary letters +or verses. In the case of those published at Upsal, the zeal of the encomiasts frequently +breaks out into wild compositions in Hebrew, Greek, French, German and +English, affording in the latter instance (and it may be in others) very curious specimens +of the language. A laborious trifler, named P. Wettersten, compliments a friend, who +had read at Upsal, in 1742, a dissertation by Prof. Peter Ekerman on the antiquities +of a small town called Norkoping, with a kind of acrostic in twenty-five lines on +the verse, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Nunc erit et seclis Norcopia clara futuris</span>,' which, starting from the centre +of the page, may be read upwards, downwards, and in every form of mazy irregularity; +every way, in short, except the right.</p></div> +<p><!-- Page 242 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span></p> + +<h3><a name="AD_1828" id="AD_1828"></a>A.D. 1828.</h3> + +<p>A collection of 153 Northern MSS., chiefly in the Icelandic +and Danish languages, formed by Finn Magnusen, was purchased +from him for £350<a name="FNanchor_313_313" id="FNanchor_313_313"></a><a href="#Footnote_313_313" class="fnanchor">[313]</a>. A catalogue (56 pp. quarto) was published +in the year 1832. Amongst them are many early and curious +volumes in poetry and history. Other collections of MSS. were +sold by the same collector to the British Museum and to the +Advocates' Library at Edinburgh.</p> + +<p>A large number of Aldines were obtained at the sale of the +collection of M. Renouard, the Aldine bibliographer, which took +place in London, June 26-30. And the rare first edition of John +Knox's <i>Historie of the Church of Scotland</i> was purchased for +sixteen guineas.</p> + +<p>Some additional rooms on the second story of the Schools' +quadrangle, on the north and east sides, which went by the names of +the Schools of Geometry and Medicine, were permanently attached +to the Library, by vote of Convocation, on June 5.</p> + +<p>On June 26, the nomination of the Rev. Stephen Reay, M.A., of +St. Alban's Hall (afterwards B.D., and Laudian Professor of Arabic +in 1840), as Sub-librarian in the room of Mr. C. H. Cox, was +approved in Convocation. Mr. Reay was appointed to the charge +of the Oriental department, his knowledge of Hebrew specially +qualifying him for the care of the yearly increasing mass of +Rabbinical lore. To this branch he added, and retained to the +close of his life, the care of the 'Progress' Room, or room containing +the publications, foreign and English, which appeared in +parts. And on Dec. 20, the Rev. John Besly, M.A., Fellow of +Balliol (afterwards D.C.L., and Vicar of Long Benton, Northumberland, +deceased April 17, 1868, aged sixty-eight), was confirmed +as Mr. Reay's colleague, in the place of Dr. Bliss.<!-- Page 243 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span></p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_313_313" id="Footnote_313_313"></a><a href="#FNanchor_313_313"><span class="label">[313]</span></a> Some notes by G. J. Thorkelin on Northern Antiquities were bought in 1846.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1829" id="AD_1829"></a>A.D. 1829.</h3> + +<p>The great Hebrew collection, which at present forms so +distinguished a feature in the contents of the Library, was virtually +commenced in this year by the purchase, at Hamburgh (for +£2080), of the famous Oppenheimer library, consisting of upwards +of 5000 volumes, of which 780 are MSS<a name="FNanchor_314_314" id="FNanchor_314_314"></a><a href="#Footnote_314_314" class="fnanchor">[314]</a>. Many Hebrew +works had, it is true, come with Selden's library, in 1659; but +little or nothing had been done since that period to advance upon +that beginning. The additions made in this department from +1844 up to about the year 1857, are said, in Dr. Steinschneider's +introduction to his catalogue (<i>col.</i> 50), to have numbered no fewer +than about 2100 volumes<a name="FNanchor_315_315" id="FNanchor_315_315"></a><a href="#Footnote_315_315" class="fnanchor">[315]</a>.</p> + +<p>David Oppenheimer, Chief Rabbi at Prague, devoted more +than half a century to the formation of his library. On his death, +Sept. 23, 1735, it came into the possession of his son, a Rabbi +at Hildesheim, and thence into the hands of Isaac Seligmann at +Hamburgh. Several catalogues were issued during this period, +the last being one in octavo, at Hamburgh, in 1826, an index +to which, compiled by Dr. J. Goldenthal, was printed at the +expense of the Library in 1845. The collection would have +been dispersed by auction, had it not been bought <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">en masse</i> for +Oxford. It possesses extreme interest and value in the eyes of +Jewish students, insomuch that for a series of years the Library +was never without several foreign visitors engaged in its examination. +A very elaborate catalogue of all the printed Hebrew books<!-- Page 244 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span> +contained in it, and throughout the whole of the Library, was compiled +by Dr. M. Steinschneider during the years 1850-1860, and +printed at Berlin, where it was published in the latter year in +a very thick quarto volume. The book is divided into two +parts: the first containing a description of the Biblical, Talmudical, +liturgical and anonymous volumes; the second containing the +works of miscellaneous authors, in the alphabetical order of their +names. Prefixed is a brief list of the Hebrew MSS. in the +Library, with the numbers at present attached to them, and references +to the catalogues in which they are described. Of several +rare books in the Oppenheimer library there are duplicate copies, +varying in condition and ornamentation; of some there are copies +on red, yellow, and blue paper. Distinguished amongst all is +a copy of the Talmud, printed in 1713-28, in twenty-four folio +volumes, entirely on vellum. 'Perhaps,' says Archdeacon Cotton, +'this work is the grandest and most extensive vellum publication +extant<a name="FNanchor_316_316" id="FNanchor_316_316"></a><a href="#Footnote_316_316" class="fnanchor">[316]</a>.'</p> + +<p>Mr. Robert Bowyer, miniature painter to Queen Charlotte, who +had devoted a considerable part of his life to the collection of +drawings and engravings illustrating the Holy Scriptures, put +forward a proposal for their purchase by subscription with a view +to their being deposited in the Bodleian. Their number amounted +to nearly seven thousand (including 113 drawings by Loutherbourg), +described as being in fine condition and of great value; +and they were inserted as additional illustrations in a copy +of Macklin's folio Bible, which was enlarged thereby from its +original extent of seven volumes to forty-five. Hence the collection +passed, and passes, under the name of Bowyer's Bible. Mr. +Bowyer, who had spent upon it upwards of three thousand pounds, +proposed to dispose of it for £2500, and a committee was formed<!-- Page 245 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span> +in London, upon which appeared the names of many distinguished +persons, to raise a subscription for the purpose. But upon Mr. +Bowyer's despatching an agent to Oxford, the matter met with +so little encouragement here, the Librarian, in particular, being +(as Dr. Bliss has noted upon his copy of the original proposal) +unfavourable to it, that the project fell to the ground. The +reasons why Oxford made so little response do not appear; probably +the value set upon the collection was deemed to be greatly +exaggerated. After the death of Mr. Bowyer (June 4, 1834, aged +seventy-six) the Bible came into the hands of one Mrs. Parkes, +of Golden Square, by whom it was disposed of, in 1848, in a +lottery (together with a few other prizes) for which four thousand +tickets were issued at one guinea each. The successful speculator +was Mr. Saxon, a gentleman-farmer, near Shepton Mallet. In +1852 it was in the hands of Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, the +well-known book-auctioneers, for sale. By them it was announced +for an auction on Feb. 26, 1853, and was disposed of, about +that time, to Messrs. Willis and Sotheran, the booksellers, for about +£500. Since then it has been announced for sale at Manchester.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_314_314" id="Footnote_314_314"></a><a href="#FNanchor_314_314"><span class="label">[314]</span></a> One MS. which had strayed from Oppenheimer's library previously to its transfer +to the Bodleian, was purchased and restored to its place in 1847.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_315_315" id="Footnote_315_315"></a><a href="#FNanchor_315_315"><span class="label">[315]</span></a> A notice of the Oppenheimer collection, and of the other Hebrew portions of +the Library is given in the preface to vol. iii. of Fürst's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Bibliotheca Judaica</i>, 8<sup>o</sup>. +Leipz. 1863, pp. 42-51. The <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Catalogus Interpretum S. Script.</i>, by Thomas James, +in 1635, is here metamorphosed into one by Thomas <i>Jones</i>, in 1735.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_316_316" id="Footnote_316_316"></a><a href="#FNanchor_316_316"><span class="label">[316]</span></a> <i>Typographical Gazetteer</i>, p. 349.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1830" id="AD_1830"></a>A.D. 1830.</h3> + +<p>A copy of the rare edition of Luther's translation of the Bible, +printed at Wittemberg in 1541, was bought, through Messrs. Payne +and Foss, for fifty guineas, at the sale, in London, of the library +of the Archdeacon de la Tour, of Hildesheim, which was said to +have been formerly the property of the English Benedictine +Monastery of Landspring, and which was then, it appears, in the +possession of Mr. — Solly. It contains some texts on the fly-leaves +in the autograph, and with the signatures, of both Luther +and Melanchthon, which seem to have been unnoticed at the time +of the sale. A facsimile of a part of Luther's inscription is given<!-- Page 246 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span> +in plate xxxi. in Mr. Leigh Sotheby's <i>Illustrations of the Handwriting +of Melanchthon</i><a name="FNanchor_317_317" id="FNanchor_317_317"></a><a href="#Footnote_317_317" class="fnanchor">[317]</a>. The book is now exhibited in a glass +case, in one of the windows of the Library.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_317_317" id="Footnote_317_317"></a><a href="#FNanchor_317_317"><span class="label">[317]</span></a> A copy of this edition, with MS. notes by Luther, Melanchthon, Bugenhagen +and Major, was sold to the British Museum, at Hibbert's sale in 1829, for +£267 15<i>s.</i>!</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1831" id="AD_1831"></a>A.D. 1831.</h3> + +<p>In December of this year, Viscount Kingsborough<a name="FNanchor_318_318" id="FNanchor_318_318"></a><a href="#Footnote_318_318" class="fnanchor">[318]</a> presented +a magnificent copy (being one of four which were printed on +vellum) of his <i>Antiquities of Mexico</i>, or coloured facsimiles, +executed at his expense, in seven folio volumes, of Mexican paintings +and hieroglyphics preserved in the libraries of Paris, Berlin, +Dresden, Vienna, Rome, Bologna, and Oxford (in Laud's and +Selden's collections), together with preliminary dissertations. This +sumptuous book is exhibited near the entrance of the library, in +a case made expressly for its reception.</p> + +<p>On June 30, the nomination, as Sub-librarian, of Rev. Ernest +Hawkins, M.A., of Balliol, afterwards Fellow of Exeter, (of late +well-known for his labours in the cause of Missions, as Secretary +to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel), was approved +by Convocation. He succeeded Dr. Besly, who had taken the +Balliol College living of Long Benton, in Northumberland.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_318_318" id="Footnote_318_318"></a><a href="#FNanchor_318_318"><span class="label">[318]</span></a> This learned and spirited nobleman died, in 1837, in a debtors' prison in Dublin, +where he was confined for liabilities incurred on behalf of his father, the Earl of +Kingston.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1832" id="AD_1832"></a>A.D. 1832.</h3> + +<p>A twelfth-century MS. of Scholia on the <i>Odyssey</i> was purchased +for £100. The collection of Bibles, which had during some time +past made some slow progress, was increased by copies of various<!-- Page 247 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span> +early printed versions in European languages, and its further +enlargement was steadily kept in view in succeeding years.</p> + +<p>Six guineas were given for copies of Servetus' treatise <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Trinitatis +erroribus</i> and his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Dialogi de Trinitate</i>, printed in 1531 and 1532, +which are of very great rarity, in consequence of their having very +generally shared the fate of their author.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1833" id="AD_1833"></a>A.D. 1833.</h3> + +<p>Some precious Shakespearian volumes, consisting of the <i>Venus +and Adonis</i> of 1594 and 1617, the <i>Lucrece</i> of 1594 and 1616, with a +subsequent edition of 1655, and the <i>Sonnets</i> of 1609, were presented +by the well-known collector, Mr. Thomas Caldecott, who +had been formerly a Fellow of New College. They are now +incorporated with the Malone collection. Several MSS. of +Sir William Jones were presented by the brothers Augustus and +Julius C. Hare. An interesting and large collection of tracts on +the Roman Catholic disabilities, affairs in Ireland, &c., in forty-five +volumes, was purchased at the sale of the library of Charles Butler, +of Lincoln's Inn.</p> + +<p>An anonymous pamphlet, entitled, <i>A Few Words on the Bodleian +Library</i>, appeared in this year; its author was Sir Edmund Head, +M.A., Merton College. The object was to urge the desirableness +of allowing books to be borrowed from the Library, after the +example of Cambridge. One of the arguments by which the author +supported the proposal, viz. that College tutors were unable to +visit the Library in term time during the hours at which it is +open, has since been entirely removed by the attachment of the +Radcliffe Library as a Reading-room, which remains open until +ten o'clock at night. The pamphlet was reprinted in the Report +of the University Commission in 1852.<!-- Page 248 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span></p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1834" id="AD_1834"></a>A.D. 1834.</h3> + +<p>Numerous purchases were made during the sale of Mr. Heber's +library. Amongst these were some rare English tracts of the +Reformers, Bale, Becon, Tyndal, Knox, &c.; a large and valuable +collection of booksellers' catalogues and sale catalogues of books +and coins between 1726 and 1814<a name="FNanchor_319_319" id="FNanchor_319_319"></a><a href="#Footnote_319_319" class="fnanchor">[319]</a>; and a mass of some 1100 +or 1200 plays, published in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries<a name="FNanchor_320_320" id="FNanchor_320_320"></a><a href="#Footnote_320_320" class="fnanchor">[320]</a>. +Numerous early Shakespeare editions were also obtained; +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">inter alias</i>, the first edition (1594) of the first part of the <i>Contention +betwixt the Houses of Yorke and Lancaster</i>, for £64; <i>Richard III</i>, +1598, £17; fourth edit. of <i>Henry IV</i>, 1608, £12 12<i>s.</i><a name="FNanchor_321_321" id="FNanchor_321_321"></a><a href="#Footnote_321_321" class="fnanchor">[321]</a>, &c. The +greater part of the collection of editions of Horace up to the year +1738, formed by Dr. Douglas, a collection which was used in the +preparation of the edition published at London, by James Watson, +in 1760, was bought for £20. It consists of twenty-seven vols. in +folio, thirty-nine in quarto, and 248 in octavo and smaller sizes. +Dibdin (<i>Introd. to the Classics</i>) says that the whole collection consisted +of 450 editions. A Prayer-Book of 1707, with MSS. collations +by Rev. John Lewis, of Margate, of alterations in editions between +1549 and 1637, was bought for £8 8<i>s.</i> One of the chief gems +in the Picture Gallery was bequeathed by James Paine, Esq., being +the portrait of his father, James Paine, the architect<a name="FNanchor_322_322" id="FNanchor_322_322"></a><a href="#Footnote_322_322" class="fnanchor">[322]</a>, while instructing +his son in drawing, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. This beautiful +picture has retained its freshness of colour far more perfectly than<!-- Page 249 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg 249]</a></span> +most others of Sir Joshua's paintings; and it has recently, under +the direction of the present Librarian, been carefully cleaned, and +protected with glass and a curtain, that its brilliancy may incur no +risk of deterioration. But this year is chiefly distinguished in the +Annals of the Library by the bequest of the</p> + + +<h4><span class="smcap">Douce Collection.</span></h4> + +<p>Francis Douce, the donor of this magnificent library (who died +on March 30, in this year), is said to have been induced to make +this disposition of his treasures through the courteous reception +afforded to him by Dr. Bandinel, upon the occasion of a visit to +Oxford, in 1830. The gatherings of a lifetime with which the +Bodleian was thus enriched, consist of 393 manuscripts, ninety-eight +charters, about 16,480 printed volumes, a very large collection +of early and valuable prints and drawings, and some coins<a name="FNanchor_323_323" id="FNanchor_323_323"></a><a href="#Footnote_323_323" class="fnanchor">[323]</a>. For +the most part, the books which thus came were of classes in which +the Library was then deficient. Nearly all the finest specimens +of Missal-painting which it now possesses are found among the +Douce MSS., several of which are exhibited in a glass case +at the further end of the Library. Chief among these are +three volumes of <i>Horæ</i>, one executed, perhaps by G. da Libri, +at the beginning of the sixteenth century for Leonora Gonzaga, +Duchess of Urbino, a second belonged to Mary de Medici, and +the other was completed in 1527 for B. Sforza, second wife of +Sigism. I of Poland. These are priceless gems, rivalled only by +such as the Bedford Missal. In the same case is a Psalter on +purple vellum, probably of the ninth century, which came from +the old Royal Library of France, and which, from this circumstance<!-- Page 250 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span> +and its age, has sometimes been called Charlemagne's Psalter. The +printed books are rich in history, biography, antiquities, manners +and customs, and the fine arts<a name="FNanchor_324_324" id="FNanchor_324_324"></a><a href="#Footnote_324_324" class="fnanchor">[324]</a>. In Bibles (English and French), +Horæ, Primers, Books of Common Prayer and Psalters, the collection +is very strong. Among the Psalters is a copy of Archbishop +Parker's rare metrical version. Early French literature is also a +conspicuous feature, in which the Library had previously been +very deficient. Of fifteenth-century typography there are no fewer +than 311 specimens. The finest of these is a magnificent copy +of Christoforo Landino's Italian translation of Pliny's Natural +History, printed on vellum by Nic. Janson, at Venice, in 1476. +It is enriched with exquisite illuminated borders at the commencement +of each book, a specimen of which, together with a description +of the volume, is given in Shaw's <i>Illuminated Ornaments</i>, +pl. xxxviii<a name="FNanchor_325_325" id="FNanchor_325_325"></a><a href="#Footnote_325_325" class="fnanchor">[325]</a>. There are also a large number of fragments of works +by early English printers, including two by Caxton, which are +unique. One of these is a portion (two quarters of an octavo or +duodecimo sheet) of an edition of the <i>Horæ</i>, conjecturally assigned +by Mr. Blades to 1478, and the other is of an edition of the +<i>Booke of Curtesye</i>, probably printed in 1491, consisting of two quarto +pages. There is also one of the two known copies of a curious +placard, issued by Caxton, inviting those who were disposed to +buy 'ony pyes of two and thre comemoracions of Salisburi vse' +to come to him at Westminster, and they should have them 'good<!-- Page 251 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span> +chepe<a name="FNanchor_326_326" id="FNanchor_326_326"></a><a href="#Footnote_326_326" class="fnanchor">[326]</a>.' The other copy is in the possession of Earl Spencer. +A very different, but still very curious, item is a large collection +of chap-books and children's penny books of the last century and +commencement of the present; and two folio volumes are filled +with black-letter ballads. A catalogue of the library was published +in one volume, in folio, in 1840; the part containing the printed +books was the work of Mr. H. Symonds, of Magdalen Hall (B.A. +1840, M.A. 1842, now Precentor of Norwich), and that which +describes the Fragments, the Charters and the Manuscripts was +drawn up by Rev. H. O. Coxe. From the year 1839 until the +commencement of 1842, Mr. Thomas Dodd, formerly a well-known +London dealer in prints, and author of the <i>Connoisseur's +Repertory</i>, was employed in making a catalogue of the Douce +prints and drawings. This catalogue still remains in MS. Four +very grand studies of heads, drawn either by Raffaelle or Giulio +Romano, have recently been framed and hung at the western end +of the Library.</p> + +<p>On June 25, Convocation sanctioned the transfer to the Library +of the room immediately over the entrance in the gateway-tower +of the Schools, (now called the <i>Mason Room</i>) which had been +hitherto assigned as the 'Savile Study,' on condition that a small +room in the adjoining south-east angle of the quadrangle should +be prepared at the expense of the Bodleian for the reception of +the MSS. and printed books, instruments, &c., which were given +to the University by Sir Henry Savile for the use of his Professors. +This is the room in which the Savile library (which includes also +some books given by Dr. Wallis and Sir Christopher Wren) is +still preserved, under the charge of the Savilian Professors of +Geometry and Astronomy.</p> + +<p>On July 5, Convocation confirmed the nomination of Rev. +William Cureton, M.A., of Ch. Ch. (afterwards so well known for<!-- Page 252 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span> +his Syriac studies, which gained him the patronage of the Prince +Consort and a Canonry at Westminster), to the Sub-librarianship +vacated by Rev. E. Hawkins.</p> + +<p>Mr. Edmund Grove, of Magdalen College (who never graduated), +was appointed Assistant in April, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">vice</i> Mr. Stephen Exup. +Wentworth, of Balliol (B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835). Mr. Wentworth +appears to have succeeded Mr. Forster in 1832.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_319_319" id="Footnote_319_319"></a><a href="#FNanchor_319_319"><span class="label">[319]</span></a> Another collection of sale catalogues in forty-five vols. was purchased in 1836.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_320_320" id="Footnote_320_320"></a><a href="#FNanchor_320_320"><span class="label">[320]</span></a> Another collection, in twenty-eight vols., of plays chiefly dating from 1630 +to 1707, was bought, in 1842, for £6 17<i>s.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_321_321" id="Footnote_321_321"></a><a href="#FNanchor_321_321"><span class="label">[321]</span></a> In 1837 <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>, printed by Smethwicke, n. d., was bought for +£9 10<i>s.</i>; in 1840, <i>Richard III</i>, 1605, for £21, and <i>Hamlet</i>, 1611, for £10 10<i>s.</i>; +and in 1841 the first edit. 1595, of part iii. of <i>Henry VI.</i> was bought at Chalmers' +sale for £131!</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_322_322" id="Footnote_322_322"></a><a href="#FNanchor_322_322"><span class="label">[322]</span></a> Mr. Paine died in France in 1789, aged 73 years. The picture was painted +by Reynolds in June, 1764. Among the buildings erected by Paine were Brocket +Hall, Herts; Wardour Castle, Wilts; and Richmond Bridge.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_323_323" id="Footnote_323_323"></a><a href="#FNanchor_323_323"><span class="label">[323]</span></a> To the British Museum Mr. Douce bequeathed his own Diaries and Notebooks, +to remain sealed up until Jan. 1, 1900, in order that all of his own and the +succeeding generation may have passed away before the personal histories which +they undoubtedly contain are brought to light.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_324_324" id="Footnote_324_324"></a><a href="#FNanchor_324_324"><span class="label">[324]</span></a> In the majority of instances the books bear MS. notes by Douce, which often +are valuable for the references they afford to other works and sources of further +information. A few specimens of some of the fuller notes of this kind were contributed +by the present writer to the early volumes of the second series of <i>Notes +and Queries</i>. One book, viz. John Weever's <i>Epigrammes</i>, 1599, containing notes by +Douce, which had somehow escaped from his library before it came to Oxford, was +purchased in 1838, for £24 10<i>s.</i> A letter written by Douce in 1804, dated from +the British Museum, where he was for a short time Keeper of the MSS., was bought +in 1864, and a few other papers in 1866.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_325_325" id="Footnote_325_325"></a><a href="#FNanchor_325_325"><span class="label">[325]</span></a> In the same beautiful volume are facsimiles from three of Douce's MS. <i>Horæ</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_326_326" id="Footnote_326_326"></a><a href="#FNanchor_326_326"><span class="label">[326]</span></a> A facsimile of this advertisement is given in the catalogue of the Douce library.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1835" id="AD_1835"></a>A.D. 1835.</h3> + +<p>The original MS. of Burnet's <i>History of his Own Times</i>, with +a copy prepared for the press, a portion of his <i>History of the +Reformation</i>, and some other papers by him, was purchased, from +a family descended from the Bishop, for £210. An account of +these MSS. may be found at p. 474 of the Appendix to Burnet's +<i>History of James II</i>, being an extract from the <i>Own Times</i> which +Dr. Routh edited, with additional notes, when ninety-six years +old, in 1852. The copy prepared for the press is expressly mentioned +in the catalogue for 1835 as forming part of the purchase; +and yet that copy appears from a passage in a letter from Rawlinson, +dated Aug. 18, 1743, to have been then in the hands of +that collector, whence it would have been supposed that it +must have passed at once into the possession of the Library. +After mentioning the book, Rawlinson says, 'I purchased the +MSS. of a gentleman who corrected the press where that book +was printed, and amongst his papers I have all the castrations<a name="FNanchor_327_327" id="FNanchor_327_327"></a><a href="#Footnote_327_327" class="fnanchor">[327]</a>.'</p> + +<p>The MS. of Lewis' <i>Life of Wyclif</i>, with some additions by the +author, was bought for £4 14<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> Various other MSS. by +Lewis were already in the Library among Dr. Rawlinson's collections. +The purchases of printed books were chiefly amongst +early editions of Classics (Juvenal, Ovid, Virgil, &c.), Fathers<!-- Page 253 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg 253]</a></span> +(Augustine, Jerome), Schoolmen, and a very large series of fifteenth-century +editions of the Decretals, Digest, Institutes, and other +works in Canon and Civil Law. These were obtained at the +sale of the famous library of Dr. Kloss, of Frankfort, whose collection +was so remarkably rich in books bearing MS. notes by +Melanchthon.</p> + +<p>A curious collection of papers and pamphlets, printed and +MS., relating to Spanish affairs, and of much interest to students +of Spanish history, contained in thirty-two volumes in folio and +eighty in quarto, was purchased for £40. It was lot 4583 in +Heber's sale, by whom it had been bought at the Yriarte sale +for more than £100.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_327_327" id="Footnote_327_327"></a><a href="#FNanchor_327_327"><span class="label">[327]</span></a> Ballard MS. ii. 88.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1836" id="AD_1836"></a>A.D. 1836.</h3> + +<p>Aubrey's collection of notes and drawings concerning Druidical +and Roman antiquities in Britain, together with some miscellaneous +historical notes, entitled by him <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Monumenta Britannica</i>, in +four parts (now bound in two folio volumes), was purchased, for +£50, of Col. Charles Greville. Accounts of Avebury and Stonehenge, +which are important from their early date (the former being the +earliest known), are to be found in these curious and interesting +volumes<a name="FNanchor_328_328" id="FNanchor_328_328"></a><a href="#Footnote_328_328" class="fnanchor">[328]</a>. The remainder of Aubrey's MSS. came to the Library +in 1860, upon the transfer of the books from the Ashmolean +Museum. See <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">sub anno</i> <a href="#AD_1858">1858</a>.</p> + +<p>A collection of about 300 tracts, relating to American affairs +and the War of Independence, in forty-one vols., formed by Rev.<!-- Page 254 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg 254]</a></span> +Jonathan Boucher<a name="FNanchor_329_329" id="FNanchor_329_329"></a><a href="#Footnote_329_329" class="fnanchor">[329]</a>, was bought for £8 18<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> These are +now included in the series of tracts called <i>Godwyn Pamphlets</i>, in +continuation of those which came, in 1770, from the donor so +named. Another large gathering of American tracts, collected +by Mr. George Chalmers, when engaged in writing his <i>History +of the Revolt</i>, was bought in 1841 for £24 13<i>s.</i>; at the same +time, the first and only volume of his <i>History</i>, which itself was +never actually published, was bought for £2 7<i>s.</i></p> + +<p><i>Sale Catalogues.</i> See <a href="#AD_1834">1834</a>.</p> + +<p>When the new Copyright Act was introduced into Parliament +in this year, it was proposed to allow £500 <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">per annum</i> to the +Bodleian, in the manner adopted with regard to six other libraries, +in lieu of the old privilege of receiving a copy of every book +entered at Stationers' Hall. The Curators, however, on May +27, resolved that it would be highly desirable to retain the privilege, +but that, should an alteration be made, it would be inexpedient +to receive an annual grant by way of compensation; and +in consequence of this opinion, the proposed abolition of the +privilege was abandoned.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_328_328" id="Footnote_328_328"></a><a href="#FNanchor_328_328"><span class="label">[328]</span></a> A short description of them will be found in Gough's <i>Brit. Topogr.</i> vol. ii. +pp. 369-70, and a fuller account in Britton's <i>Memoir of Aubrey</i>, 1845, pp. 87-91. +Mr. Britton, however, strange to say, was not aware that the volumes had been +for nine years in safe custody in the Bodleian, and consequently deplores their +unfortunate disappearance! He describes their contents from an abstract in the +Gough collection.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_329_329" id="Footnote_329_329"></a><a href="#FNanchor_329_329"><span class="label">[329]</span></a> An account of Mr. Boucher, who quitted America on account of his royalist +principles, and afterwards was Head-Master of a well-known school at Cheam, will +be found in <i>Notes and Queries</i> for 1866, vol. ix. pp. 75, 282.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1837" id="AD_1837"></a>A.D. 1837.</h3> + +<p>The magnificent series of historical prints and drawings which +is called, from the name of its collectors and its donor, the Sutherland +collection, was presented to the University on May 4 in this +year, although it was not actually deposited in the Library until +March, 1839<a name="FNanchor_330_330" id="FNanchor_330_330"></a><a href="#Footnote_330_330" class="fnanchor">[330]</a>. The six volumes of the folio editions of Clarendon's +<i>History of the Rebellion</i> and <i>Life</i>, and of Burnet's <i>Own +Times</i>, are inlaid and bound in sixty-one elephant folio volumes,<!-- Page 255 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg 255]</a></span> +and illustrated with the enormous number of 19,224 portraits of +every person and views of every place in any way mentioned in +the text, or connected with its subject-matter<a name="FNanchor_331_331" id="FNanchor_331_331"></a><a href="#Footnote_331_331" class="fnanchor">[331]</a>. The gathering +was commenced in 1795 by Alexander Hendras Sutherland, +Esq., F.S.A.; on his death (May 21, 1820) it was taken up by +his widow<a name="FNanchor_332_332" id="FNanchor_332_332"></a><a href="#Footnote_332_332" class="fnanchor">[332]</a>, who spared neither labour nor money to render it +as complete as possible, and by whom its contents were, consequently, +nearly doubled. At length, desiring, in accordance with +her husband's will, that the results of her own and his labour +should be always preserved intact, Mrs. Sutherland presented the +whole collection to the Bodleian. Its extent may be in some +degree appreciated when it is mentioned that there are (according +to Mrs. Sutherland's statement in the preface to the Supplementary +Catalogue) 184 portraits of James I, of which 135 are distinct +plates; 743 of Charles I, of which 573 are distinct plates, besides +sixteen drawings; 373 of Cromwell (253 plates); 552 of Charles +II (428 plates); 276 of James II; 175 of Mary II (143 plates); +and 431 of William III, of which 363 are separate plates<a name="FNanchor_333_333" id="FNanchor_333_333"></a><a href="#Footnote_333_333" class="fnanchor">[333]</a>. There +are also 309 views of London and 166 of Westminster. +Amongst those of London is a drawing on many sheets, by a +Dutch artist, Antonio van den Wyngaerde, executed between +1558-1563. It affords a view which extends from the Palace at +Westminster to that at Greenwich, both included; and comprehends +also Lambeth Palace and part of Southwark, with the palace<!-- Page 256 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg 256]</a></span> +there of the Protector Somerset, in which the Mint was situated. +The whole amount expended on the formation of the series is +estimated at £20,000.</p> + +<p>The collection is accompanied by a handsomely printed Catalogue, +compiled by Mrs. Sutherland, and published in 1837 in +three volumes quarto, two containing the portraits, and one the +topography<a name="FNanchor_334_334" id="FNanchor_334_334"></a><a href="#Footnote_334_334" class="fnanchor">[334]</a>. A Supplement to this was printed in the following +year, in the preface to which Mrs. Sutherland records her transfer +of the collection. She adds that 'the University of Oxford, by +the manner in which it has received the collection, has afforded +her the high gratification of witnessing the fulfilment, in their +utmost extent, of the wishes of its founder; and in the liberal +step which its future conservators have taken, to insure a direct +and easy means of reference to the prints, she finds proof of their +intention to comply with her own earnest desire, that the books +should be as freely open to those really interested in them as +may be consistent with their safe preservation. Under the superintendence +of the compiler, but at the expense of the University, +a copy of the Catalogue has been prepared, in which every print +is marked with the page which it respectively fills in the volumes; +by means of this, every difficulty of reference, and every doubt +as to the print intended to be described, is obviated, and the +manuscript indices will be preserved from the injury of constant +use. In order to prevent the possibility of disappointment in +referring from this marked catalogue, every print (with four exceptions +only) of which the page has not been ascertained, has been +struck out, although probably several of the portraits not at present<!-- Page 257 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg 257]</a></span> +found are still in the volumes.' The following letter of thanks +was addressed by Convocation to the donor<a name="FNanchor_335_335" id="FNanchor_335_335"></a><a href="#Footnote_335_335" class="fnanchor">[335]</a>:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'To Mrs. Sutherland, of Merrow, in the County of Surrey.</p> + +<p>'<span class="smcap">Madam</span>,—We, the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the +University of Oxford, feel ourselves called upon to acknowledge, +in a public and formal manner, the splendid donation recently +made by you to our Bodleian Library.</p> + +<p>'It is doubtless a source of much gratification to us that our +University should have been selected by you as the fittest depository +of so valuable a collection; but we are not, on that +account, less disposed to appreciate and admire the feeling which +has led you to make so considerable a sacrifice, and to relinquish +the possession of what has been to you, for many years, an object +of constant interest and occupation.</p> + +<p>'We shall prize the matchless volumes about to be committed +to our care, not merely as being embellished with the richest +specimens of the graphic art, but as possessing a real historical +character; as enhancing, in no slight degree, the value of works +which we have long been accustomed to regard as most important +contributions to the annals and literature of our Country.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Given at our House of Convocation, under our Common +Seal, this first day of June, in the year of our Lord one +thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven<a name="FNanchor_336_336" id="FNanchor_336_336"></a><a href="#Footnote_336_336" class="fnanchor">[336]</a>.'</p></div> +<p><!-- Page 258 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[Pg 258]</a></span></p> +<p>A few other books were sent by Mrs. Sutherland at the same +time, including Boydell's <i>Shakespeare</i>, Heath's <i>Chronicle</i>, Scott's +edition of Dalrymple's <i>Preservation of Charles II</i>, Faber's <i>Kit-Cat +Club</i>, Wilson's <i>Catalogue of an Amateur</i>, &c. And in 1843 she +increased her former gift by the presentation of copies of a large +number of illustrated, biographical, and historical works, many of +which are in a like manner enriched with additional engravings. +Chief amongst these is a copy of Park's edition of Walpole's <i>Royal +and Noble Authors</i>, enlarged from five vols. 8<sup>o</sup>. to 20 vols. 4<sup>o</sup>. by +the insertion of prints, portraits, and some of the original drawings. +Similarly enlarged copies of Dr. Dibdin's works are also included; +together with framed oil-portraits of Frederic, King of Bohemia, +and of Mr. Sutherland.</p> + +<p>A curious collection of rare Dutch tracts, in two vols., printed +at Amsterdam between 1637 and 1664, and relating to English, +Irish, and Scottish affairs, chiefly during the Civil Wars, was +bought for £2 13<i>s.</i> And an enormous gathering of English +pamphlets, on every kind of subject, in prose and verse, between +about 1600 and 1820, said to number 19,380 articles, and which +had accumulated in the stores of the well-known bookseller, +Mr. Thomas Rodd, was bought of him for £101 14<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> These +exceeding, from their number, the powers of the then very slender +staff of the Library for arrangement and cataloguing, remained +piled up in cupboards for about twenty-five years. But a general +clearance out of all neglected corners taking place on the appointment +of the present Librarian to the Headship, they were then +sorted (to a certain extent), bound, numbered, and incorporated +in the general Catalogue; when they proved to be a valuable +addition to the pamphlet-literature, comparatively few of them +being found to be duplicates.</p> + +<p><i>Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet.</i> See <a href="#AD_1834">1834</a>.</p> + +<p><i>Sanscrit MSS.</i> See <a href="#AD_1842">1842</a>.<!-- Page 259 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[Pg 259]</a></span></p> + +<p>A grant was made by Convocation of £400 annually, for five +years, towards the expense of the new Catalogue, the printing +of which was commenced in the summer. A statute also was +passed providing that there should be two 'ministri,' or assistants, +with salaries regulated by the Curators.</p> + +<p>The Rev. Herbert Hill, M.A., Fellow of New College, was +approved by Convocation, on Oct. 26, as Sub-librarian, in the +room of Mr. Cureton, who removed in this year to the British +Museum. Mr. Hill, however, only held the office for one year. And +Mr. Richard Firth, New College (B.A. 1839, M.A. 1849, now, and +from 1850, a Chaplain in the diocese of Madras), became <i>minister</i> +in the room of Mr. F. J. Marshall, New College (B.A. 1834, M.A. +1837, Chaplain of New College, deceased 1843), who had probably +entered the Library in 1834 in the place of Mr. Etty.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_330_330" id="Footnote_330_330"></a><a href="#FNanchor_330_330"><span class="label">[330]</span></a> MS. note by Mrs. Sutherland in the Library copy of her catalogue.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_331_331" id="Footnote_331_331"></a><a href="#FNanchor_331_331"><span class="label">[331]</span></a> As early as 1819 the collection numbered 10,000 prints, bound in 57 volumes. +Clarke's <i>Repert. Bibliogr.</i> pp. 574-577.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_332_332" id="Footnote_332_332"></a><a href="#FNanchor_332_332"><span class="label">[332]</span></a> Mrs. Sutherland died March 18, 1852.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_333_333" id="Footnote_333_333"></a><a href="#FNanchor_333_333"><span class="label">[333]</span></a> In Mrs. Sutherland's own copy of the catalogue (now in the possession of E. L. +Hussey, Esq., Oxford), some of these numbers are enlarged in MS. as follows: Charles +II, 557, being 432 plates; Cromwell, 379, 255 plates; William III, 436, 367 plates. +Amongst the portraits, there are frequently numerous copies of the same plate, +being impressions in all its different states. In a few instances (particularly with +regard to Charles I) some of the prints entered in the catalogue have not been +found in the volumes.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_334_334" id="Footnote_334_334"></a><a href="#FNanchor_334_334"><span class="label">[334]</span></a> Ten copies were printed of a larger and finer edition, for presentation to +various Libraries, but as only four of these (Bodleian, Cambridge University, British +Museum, and Bibl. Royale, Paris) acknowledged the gift (the letters from which are +preserved in one copy of the catalogue), no more than five copies were printed of +the Supplement. Consequently those Libraries which did not return thanks for the +gift have now an imperfect book.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_335_335" id="Footnote_335_335"></a><a href="#FNanchor_335_335"><span class="label">[335]</span></a> It is here printed from the original (written in the beautifully neat hand of the +late Registrar, Dr. Bliss,) which is now in the possession of a nephew of Mrs. Sutherland, +Edw. Law Hussey, Esq., of Oxford, M.R.C.S. It is sealed with the old University +seal, described on p. 1 of these <i>Annals</i>, enclosed in a gold box. The late Rev. R. +Hussey, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, was one of the brothers of +Mrs. Sutherland.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_336_336" id="Footnote_336_336"></a><a href="#FNanchor_336_336"><span class="label">[336]</span></a> A very erroneous notice of the collection, written in a singularly depreciatory +tone, was inserted in an article in the <i>Quarterly Review</i>, in 1852, vol. xci. p. 217. +The writer appears to have confounded the facts connected with Gough's preference +of the Bodleian to the British Museum (as told in Nichols' <i>Lit. Hist.</i>), or possibly +Douce's, with the totally different circumstances of Mrs. Sutherland's gift, whose +husband had left the collection entirely at her disposal, provided only that it were +not dispersed.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1838" id="AD_1838"></a>A.D. 1838.</h3> + +<p>One of the 'curiosities of literature' was obtained by the purchase +(for £10 10<i>s.</i>) of the <i>System of Divinity, in a Course of +Sermons on the first Institutions of Religion</i>, by Rev. Will. Davy, +A.B., Vicar of Lustleigh, Devon. It is a work in twenty-six +volumes, of which only fourteen copies were printed, entirely by +the hands of the indefatigable author himself, between the years +1795 and 1807. It is very roughly executed, the author having +purchased only just so much old and worn-out type, as sufficed +for the printing of two pages at once; accomplishing in this way +the work upon which he had set his heart, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">arte meâ, diurno +nocturnoque labore</span>' (as he says in a Latin preface), in consequence +of having failed to procure in any other way the publication +of his book. The copy in our Library is distinguished by +having many additions inserted, printed (in many cases with later +and better type) upon small slips<a name="FNanchor_337_337" id="FNanchor_337_337"></a><a href="#Footnote_337_337" class="fnanchor">[337]</a>.</p> +<p><!-- Page 260 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[Pg 260]</a></span></p> +<p>A set of the <i>Monthly Review</i>, from the commencement to +1828, in 200 volumes, in which the names of the contributors +are appended in MS. to their several articles, together with a +volume of Correspondence with the Editor, Ralph Griffiths, LL.D., +between 1758 and 1802 (now numbered Bodl. MS. Addit. <span class="smcap">VII.</span> +D. 11), was bought for £42.</p> + +<p>Among the donations were: 1. A collection of twenty-one +Oriental works, printed between 1808-1835 by the East India +Company, presented by the Directors, and, 2. A valuable series, +MS. and printed, of the Statutes of various Italian cities, presented +by George Bowyer, Esq. (the present baronet, who succeeded +to the title in 1860), who also in the years 1839, 1842, +and 1843, forwarded large additions to the printed series. These +volumes are now kept distinct as a separate collection. Altogether +there are seventy-eight printed volumes, besides four MSS.</p> + +<p>On Nov. 15, a Statute was approved by Convocation which +raised the stipend of the Sub-librarians from £150 to £250.</p> + +<p>From the year 1825 an annual folio Catalogue had been printed, +containing, in one list, all the accessions accruing in each year<!-- Page 261 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 261]</a></span> +from purchases, gifts, and the supply of new publications from +Stationers' Hall. The issue of these lists was discontinued after +the appearance of that for the years 1837 and 1838 jointly; +except that in 1843 one for that year was printed in octavo.</p> + +<p>A form of declaration and promise for due use of the privilege +of admission to the Library, to be made by all graduates upon +taking their first degree, in lieu of the oath formerly required, +was approved by Convocation, on June 9<a name="FNanchor_338_338" id="FNanchor_338_338"></a><a href="#Footnote_338_338" class="fnanchor">[338]</a>. In accordance with this +form, which is still used, each graduate now promises: 'Me libros +cæterumque cultum sic tractaturum ut superesse quam diutissime +possint, et, quantum in me est, curaturum ne quid Bibliotheca +detrimenti aut incommodi capiat.' The same declaration is subscribed +in the Library by all non-graduates who are admitted +to read there, with the addition of a promise that they will devote +their attention 'ad studia et silentium.' The statutable penalty +for any wilful mutilation or abstraction of any book, or portion +of a book, is immediate expulsion from the Library and University, +'sine ulla spe regressûs.'</p> + +<p>On the resignation of Rev. H. Hill, Sub-librarian, in this year, +he was succeeded by Rev. H. O. Coxe, M.A., of Worcester +College, who had previously worked for five years and a-half +in the Department of MSS. in the British Museum<a name="FNanchor_339_339" id="FNanchor_339_339"></a><a href="#Footnote_339_339" class="fnanchor">[339]</a>. Mr. Coxe's +nomination was approved by Convocation on Nov. 16.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_337_337" id="Footnote_337_337"></a><a href="#FNanchor_337_337"><span class="label">[337]</span></a> Mr. Davy has had a rival, with much more success, within late years in the +Rev. Thos. R. Brown, M.A., Vicar of Southwick, Northamptonshire. The Library +possesses three works written and printed by this gentleman in his own house. The +first is entitled, <i>A Grammar of the Hebrew Hieroglyphs applied to the S. Scriptures, +containing the History of the Creation of the Universe and the Fall of Man</i>, 8<sup>o</sup>. 1840. +This appears to have been partly <i>composed</i> in type, literally as well as technically, +for the author says that 'a considerable part of the mental composition is coeval +with' the manual labour, which last was entirely performed by himself. A second +book appeared in 1841, <i>Elements of Sanscrit Grammar</i>. A third, <i>A Dictionary, +containing English Words of difficult Etymology</i>, tracing them chiefly to Sanscrit +roots, appeared in two vols. 8<sup>o</sup>. 1843. Of this the author certifies that only nine +copies were printed, and the one now in the Library was bought of Mr. Lilly (who +had it from the author) for £5 5<i>s.</i> in 1855. The execution of all these volumes +does the reverend printer great credit. The Rev. Dr. J. A. Giles had also a private +press for some time in his house at Bampton, Oxon., which he taught some of the +village children to work, and from which issued some of the publications of the +Caxton Society, but the results were anything but satisfactory, although probably +quite as good as could be expected from such juvenile compositors.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_338_338" id="Footnote_338_338"></a><a href="#FNanchor_338_338"><span class="label">[338]</span></a> A previous proposal of this alteration had been rejected by Convocation on +March 17, 1836.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_339_339" id="Footnote_339_339"></a><a href="#FNanchor_339_339"><span class="label">[339]</span></a> Mr. Coxe had a considerable share in the compilation of the folio catalogue of +the Arundel MSS. preserved in the Museum.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1839" id="AD_1839"></a>A.D. 1839.</h3> + +<p>An application was made by Magdalen College for the return +of a copy of the Statutes of the College, found among the Raw<!-- Page 262 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg 262]</a></span>linson +MSS., but it was refused by the Curators, on the ground +that sufficient evidence was not produced of its having ever been +the property of the College.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1840" id="AD_1840"></a>A.D. 1840.</h3> + +<p>Ninety specimens of the Aldine press, together with other +volumes chiefly printed at Venice by A. de Asula, were purchased +at the sale of the library of Dr. Samuel Butler, Bishop +of Lichfield. From the same library was purchased, in the following +year, a collection of portions of more than twenty of the +very earliest editions of Donatus' <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Octo Partibus Orationis</i>, many +of which were unknown; these had previously come from the +library of Dr. Kloss. A ninth-century MS. of St. Gregory's +<i>Sacramentary</i> was purchased for £63; and early MSS. of Juvenal, +Lucan, &c. A fine and perfect copy of Caxton's <i>Dictes and +Sayinges of the Philosophres</i>, printed in 1477, was purchased for +£50. It had previously been sold, at Dr. Vincent's sale in 1816, +for £99 15<i>s.</i>; this sum, which is marked in pencil on a fly-leaf, +having been altered by some practical joker, by the insertion of a +figure, to £199 15<i>s.</i>, Mr. Blades has in consequence recorded +that as being the price at which the Library secured the volume<a name="FNanchor_340_340" id="FNanchor_340_340"></a><a href="#Footnote_340_340" class="fnanchor">[340]</a>.</p> + +<p>The Rev. Rob. J. M'Ghee, Rector of Holywell, Hunts, deposited +in the Bodleian (as also in the University Library, Cambridge, +and in that of Trinity College, Dublin,) a collection of +thirty-one volumes relating to the controversy with the Church<!-- Page 263 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg 263]</a></span> +of Rome, and to the Moral Theology taught at Maynooth. +The volumes consist of editions of the Douay and Rheims +versions, of some Irish diocesan Statutes, of Bailly's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Theologia +Moralis</i>, and Delahogue's Dogmatic Treatises, and of various +Irish polemical pamphlets; and they are enclosed in a mahogany +case, with glass door. In consequence of reference having been +made to this collection by the donor, at a County Meeting held +at Huntingdon, Dec. 28, 1850, upon the occasion of the 'Papal +Aggression,' some slight degree of public attention was called to +it; and a controversial volume was in consequence published +by Mr. M'Ghee, in 1852, entitled, <i>The Church of Rome; a Report +on the Books and Documents on the Papacy, deposited in the University +Library, Cambridge</i>, &c.</p> + +<p><i>Shakespeare</i>; <i>Richard III</i> and <i>Hamlet</i>. See <a href="#AD_1834">1834</a>.</p> + +<p>The first non-academic <i>minister</i> was appointed in Mr. H. S. +Harper (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">vice</i> Mr. Firth), of whose valuable services and acquaintance +with details the Library still enjoys the benefit. Mr. Harper +had acted for three years previously as an under-assistant.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_340_340" id="Footnote_340_340"></a><a href="#FNanchor_340_340"><span class="label">[340]</span></a> As Mr. Blades' valuable work on <i>The Life and Typography of Caxton</i>, 1863, +gives most accurate descriptions of all the copies and fragments of our great printer's +works which are preserved in the Library, it is only necessary to refer the reader to +it for detailed information. A notice of two, however, which were unknown to be +Caxtons at the time of Mr. Blades' investigations, will be found in the account of +Bishop Tanner's books, p. <a href="#Page_155">155</a>; and two fragments, among Douce's books, are mentioned +at p. <a href="#Page_250">250</a>.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1841" id="AD_1841"></a>A.D. 1841.</h3> + +<p>The very large and valuable MS. collections of the Rev. John +Brickdale Blakeway, relating to the history of Shropshire, were +presented by his widow. Mr. Blakeway was minister of St. Mary's +Church, Shrewsbury, for thirty-two years, and died March 10, +1826. He was long engaged in gathering materials for a county +history, and his collections now form fifteen closely-written volumes +in folio, nine in quarto, and two in octavo, arranged, and lettered +on their backs, according to their several subjects, viz. Pedigrees, +County History, Parochial History, &c. A list of them is given +at the end of the Annual Catalogue. They were supplemented +in 1850 by the purchase (for £42) of a copy of Mr. T. F.<!-- Page 264 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[Pg 264]</a></span> +Dukes' <i>Antiquities of Shropshire</i> (4<sup>o</sup>. Shrewsbury, 1844), divided +into two large volumes, and enriched by the author with many +MS. additions and copies of ancient deeds, and with upwards of +700 portraits and original drawings of churches, fonts, &c. relating +to almost every parish in the county. As Mr. Blakeway's collections +are not accompanied with engravings or drawings, these +volumes largely assist to make the materials for the history of this +county complete.</p> + +<p>A parcel of 136 early French and Anglo-Saxon coins was presented +by Her Majesty the Queen, out of a mass of upwards of +6700 which were found in digging at the bank of the river Ribble, +at Cuerdale, in Lancashire, and were adjudged to belong to Her +Majesty in right of the Duchy of Lancaster. The largest part +of the Saxon coins were of the reigns of S. Edmund of East +Anglia (in number 1770) and of Alfred (793); of the Continental, +of Charles le Chauve (712) and, apparently, of Charles +le Simple (2942).</p> + +<p>Some rare and interesting books issued by English printers +about the middle of the sixteenth century were acquired in this +year; among them, the <i>Boke of Common Prayer</i>, printed by Oswen, +at Worcester, in 1552, bought for the very moderate sum of +£3 16<i>s.</i> Two rare American Psalters were purchased, the one +called <i>The Massachuset Psalter</i>, printed at Boston in 1709, for £2, +and the other, the Psalms in blank verse with tunes, printed at +Boston in 1718, for £1 19<i>s.</i></p> + +<p><i>Shakespeare</i>, <i>Henry VI.</i> See <a href="#AD_1834">1834</a>.</p> + +<p><i>American Tracts.</i> See <a href="#AD_1836">1836</a>.</p> + +<p><i>Donatus.</i> See <a href="#AD_1840">1840</a>.</p> + +<p>The hitherto somewhat narrow funds of the Library received in +this year a welcome increase by the bequest of the large sum of +£36,000 in the Three per Cents. from Rev. Robert Mason, D.D., +of Queen's College, deceased Jan. 5. He bequeathed also a<!-- Page 265 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg 265]</a></span> +further sum of £30,000 for a new library to his own College. In +commemoration of this munificent legacy, one room, devoted to +the reception of costly illustrated works, and works of some degree +of value or rarity in various languages, has been styled the <i>Mason +Room</i> (see p. <a href="#Page_251">251</a>). The elegant model of the Church of the +Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, now exhibited in the Library, came +by his bequest, together with a painting of the Zodiac of +Tentyra, in Egypt, which is hung in the Picture Gallery.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1842" id="AD_1842"></a>A.D. 1842.</h3> + +<p>Seven Sanscrit MSS. had been given to the Library in 1837 by +B. H. Hodgson, Esq., the British Resident in Nepaul, before which +time there were but a very few works in that language scattered +through some of the various Oriental collections, and most of them +recently acquired<a name="FNanchor_341_341" id="FNanchor_341_341"></a><a href="#Footnote_341_341" class="fnanchor">[341]</a>. But in this year the real foundation of the +present very large and valuable collection was laid, by the purchase +for £500 of the MSS. obtained by Professor H. H. Wilson (<i>dec.</i> +May 8, 1860) during his residence in India, numbering 616 works +and 540 volumes, of which 147 are MSS. of the Vedas. A brief +list of them is attached to the Annual Catalogue for 1842, and the +whole are fully described in the catalogue of the Sanscrit MSS., +compiled by Theod. Aufrecht, M.A., now Professor of Sanscrit in +the Univ. of Edinburgh, the second and last part of which was +published in 1864. The greater part of Mr. Wilson's collection +consists of MSS. written in the last and present centuries.</p> + +<p>Some small collections towards the history of Cheshire, +made by Rev. F. Gower, were purchased in this year and +in 1846.<!-- Page 266 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[Pg 266]</a></span></p> + +<p>In printed books the chief purchase was a copy (at the price of +fifty guineas) of the original and hitherto unknown edition of the +poems of Drummond, of Hawthornden. It is in quarto, with a +portrait, having the letter-press only on one side of the page, +and was printed at Edinburgh by Andro Hart in 1614. There +are three or four small corrections in Drummond's own handwriting<a name="FNanchor_342_342" id="FNanchor_342_342"></a><a href="#Footnote_342_342" class="fnanchor">[342]</a>.</p> + +<p><i>Bowyer.</i> <i>Italian Municipal Statutes.</i> See <a href="#AD_1838">1838</a>.</p> + +<p><i>Laing.</i> <i>Almanac by W. de Worde.</i> See <a href="#AD_1755">1755</a>.</p> + +<p><i>Old Plays.</i> See <a href="#AD_1834">1834</a>.</p> + +<p>In March, Mr. J. B. Taunton, All Souls' College (B.A. 1843, +M.A. 1848), was appointed Assistant <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">vice</i> Mr. F. E. Thurland, +New College (B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846, now Rector of Thurstaston, +Cheshire), who was made an <i>extra</i>, in the place of Mr. Symonds, +resigned. Mr. Thurland had, probably, succeeded Mr. Grove in +1838 or 1839.</p> + +<p>The stipend of the Librarian was increased by £150, by a +statute which passed on May 6. By the same statute an annual +payment was ordered of £20 to the Janitor, in lieu of fees hitherto +taken for showing the Library or Picture Gallery to Members of +the University. These, undergraduates as well as graduates, have +now, if wearing their academical dress, the right of free entrance +for themselves and friends; other visitors are admitted, by a regulation +made five or six years ago, at the very moderate fee of +threepence each person. (See p. <a href="#Page_134">134</a>.)</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_341_341" id="Footnote_341_341"></a><a href="#FNanchor_341_341"><span class="label">[341]</span></a> The gift of the first Sanscrit book (described in the Benefaction-Register +as being '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Gentuanâ linguâ</span>') by one John <i>Ken</i>, in 1666, is noticed at p. <a href="#Page_113">113</a>. +The book is now numbered, Walker 214.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_342_342" id="Footnote_342_342"></a><a href="#FNanchor_342_342"><span class="label">[342]</span></a> A copy of Blackwood's <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Martyre de la Royne d'Escosse</i> (Edinb. 1587), among +Rawlinson's books, has an autograph of Drummond: 'Gŭi. Drŭm̄ond, a Paris, 1607.'</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1843" id="AD_1843"></a>A.D. 1843.</h3> + +<p>The valuable collection of Oriental MSS. formed by the celebrated +traveller, James Bruce, of Kinnaird, was purchased for<!-- Page 267 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg 267]</a></span> +£1000. It consists of ninety-six volumes, of which twenty-six are +in Ethiopic, and seventy in Arabic; there is also one Coptic MS. +on papyrus. Included in vol. iv. of an Ethiopic copy of the Old +Testament is one of the three copies of the Book of Enoch, which +were brought by Bruce from Abyssinia, and which were then (if +they be not even still) the only manuscripts of the book to be +found in Europe. One of the three had been given by Bruce +himself to the University, in 1788, through the hands of Dr. Douglas, +Bishop of Salisbury; it is written on forty leaves of vellum, in +triple columns, and is now exhibited in the glass case near the +entrance of the Library. It was from this MS. that Dr. Laurence, +afterwards Archbishop of Cashel, first made the translation which +he published in 1821, and then subsequently, in 1838, published +the original text. The second copy ('<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">elegantissimum et celeberrimum</span>') +was given by Bruce to Louis XVI, and is now in the +Imperial Library at Paris. By the purchase of the third, the +Bodleian is, therefore, the possessor of two out of the three.</p> + +<p>Two unsuccessful attempts had previously been made to dispose +of the collection by auction. It was first announced for sale by +Mr. Christie, for May 17, 1827, to be disposed of in one lot; and +a list was issued, abridged from the catalogue made by Dr. Alex. +Murray, the editor of Bruce's <i>Travels</i>. The issue of this proposed +sale is recorded by Douce in the following MS. note on his copy +of the auction catalogue: 'These MSS. were put in by the owner +at £5500, and after an elaborate eulogium on them by Mr. Christie, +no bidding or advance took place, and they were of course withdrawn. +Had the owner offered them for £500, I should think the +same result would have happened.' The second attempt was made +in 1842, when the MSS. were offered for sale by Mr. George +Robins, on May 30, but it appears that even all the eloquence of +that most moving of auctioneers failed to elicit a bid corresponding +to the expectation of the seller; and so the collection fortunately<!-- Page 268 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[Pg 268]</a></span> +remained intact, to be disposed of to our Library in the year +following.</p> + +<p>A catalogue of the Ethiopic MSS. of the collection was issued +in a small quarto volume (eighty-seven pages), in 1848, as part vii. +of the General Catalogue of MSS. It was compiled by a German +scholar, well acquainted with this branch of Oriental literature, +Dr. A. Dillmann, and contains, besides Bruce's books, three of +Pococke's MSS., one of Laud's, one of Clarke's, and three others; +in all thirty-five.</p> + +<p>Valuable materials for the history of Devon were secured by the +purchase (for £90) of the collections made for that purpose by +Jeremiah Milles, D.D., Dean of Exeter, and Pres. of the Soc. of +Antiquaries. The library of Dean Milles (who died Feb. 13, +1784) was sold by auction by Mr. Leigh Sotheby, in April; +and these collections, comprised in eighteen volumes in folio, +one in quarto, and one in octavo, formed a principal feature in +the sale.</p> + +<p>In this year the new Catalogue of the general Library of printed +books, exclusive of the Gough and Douce libraries, and the collections +of Hebrew books and Dissertations, of which already special +catalogues were in print, was completed and published in three +folio volumes. It had been commenced in the year 1837, and was +prepared by the Rev. Arthur Browne, M.A., Chaplain of Ch. Ch. +(now a retired Chaplain of the Royal Navy), whose share comprises +the letters P-R, and the commencement of S; the +Rev. Henry Cary, M.A. (son of the Translator of <i>Dante</i>, then +Incumbent of St. Paul's, Oxford, but now, by returning to his +previous profession of the Law, a barrister in Australia), who is +responsible for the letters F-K, and part of L; and Rev. Alfred +Hackman, M.A., Chaplain and Precentor of Ch. Ch., and now +Sub-librarian, who completed the greater part of it, viz. the letters +A-E, L (from <i>London</i>)-O, S (from <i>Shakespeare</i>)-Z. The whole<!-- Page 269 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[Pg 269]</a></span> +charges of the printing of the Catalogue amounted to £2990 12<i>s.</i><a name="FNanchor_343_343" id="FNanchor_343_343"></a><a href="#Footnote_343_343" class="fnanchor">[343]</a>; +the previous cost of compilation was about £2000.</p> + +<p><i>Bowyer.</i> <i>Italian Municipal Statutes.</i> See <a href="#AD_1838">1838</a>.</p> + +<p><i>Sutherland.</i> <i>Illustrated Books.</i> See <a href="#AD_1839">1839</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_343_343" id="Footnote_343_343"></a><a href="#FNanchor_343_343"><span class="label">[343]</span></a> MS. note by Dr. Bliss.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1844" id="AD_1844"></a>A.D. 1844.</h3> + +<p>Sir William Ouseley, the editor of the three volumes entitled +<i>Oriental Collections</i> (brother to Sir Gore Ouseley, whom he accompanied +when he went as ambassador to Persia in 1810), gathered, +during some forty years spent in accumulation, about 750 Oriental +MSS., chiefly in Persian, but including also a few in Arabic, +Sanscrit, Zend, &c. Of these, in 1831 a catalogue (in 24 pp. +quarto) was issued by the owner, who wished to dispose of them +collectively, but no purchaser was then found, and they consequently +remained in Sir William's possession. After his death, +however (in Sept. 1842), they were again proposed for sale +<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">en masse</i>, and the Library became a purchaser in this year for the +sum of £2000. Many of the volumes are specimens of the best +styles of Persian writing and illumination, while others are of great +antiquity and rarity. The printed Oriental collection was also +increased by various works printed in the East Indies in 1830-1839, +which were presented by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and +by some Sanscrit and Mahratta books given by Rev. G. Pigott, +Chaplain at Bombay.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1845" id="AD_1845"></a>A.D. 1845.</h3> + +<p>This year is rendered noticeable in the later annals of the +Library by the fact that not a single MS. was purchased during +its course. But a very valuable collection of Arabic, Persian and +Sanscrit MSS. formed by Brigadier Gen. Alex. Walker, during his<!-- Page 270 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[Pg 270]</a></span> +service in India, was presented by his son, Sir Will. Walker, of +Edinburgh<a name="FNanchor_344_344" id="FNanchor_344_344"></a><a href="#Footnote_344_344" class="fnanchor">[344]</a>. These are kept as a distinct collection, like other +donations or purchases of similar extent; the Sanscrit portion is +described in the catalogue compiled by Prof. Aufrecht. The collection +of printed Hebrew books was increased by the purchase +(for £176 14<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>) of 483 volumes from the library of the celebrated +lexicographer, Gesenius, of Halle, who died Oct. 23, 1842, +and whose library was sold by auction at Halle, in Jan. 1844. +Two curious collections of tracts were also bought; the one in +English consisting of 300 volumes, ranging from 1688 to 1766, +and chiefly treating of the case of the Non-jurors, the Bangorian +controversy, and the affairs of the city of London (for £22 10<i>s.</i>); +and the other in French, consisting only of four small volumes, +but containing a very large number of '<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Merveilles</i>,' strange histories +of strange wonders, between 1557 and 1637, of great rarity and +singularity. These were obtained at the sale of the library of +Mr. Benj. Heywood Bright, No. 3796, for £13.</p> + +<p>On Dec. 23, the present writer (then a Clerk of Magdalen College) +was appointed Assistant, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">vice</i> Mr. Taunton, after upwards of +five years' previous service as a supernumerary, having first entered +the Library in June, 1840.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_344_344" id="Footnote_344_344"></a><a href="#FNanchor_344_344"><span class="label">[344]</span></a> Gen. Walker, who in the beginning of the century was Governor of Baroda, in +Guzerat, died at Edinburgh in 1832. His MSS., in the words of Prof. Aufrecht, +'<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">integritate et antiquitate eminent</span>.'</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1846" id="AD_1846"></a>A.D. 1846.</h3> + +<p>The original MS., or first copy, of Wood's <i>History and Antiquities +of Oxford</i>, in English, was purchased for the moderate +sum of £8 8<i>s.</i> Already the Library possessed the corrected copy, +in the author's autograph, in two large folio volumes, which had +formed part of his collection in the Ashmolean Museum, but were<!-- Page 271 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[Pg 271]</a></span> +transferred to the Bodleian as early as the year 1769. The +volume now obtained had been in the possession of Edw. Roberts, +Esq., of Ealing, a letter to whom from Mr. Joseph Parker, of +Oxford, is inserted, dated July 4, 1827, in which he mentions the +sale of the book to Mr. B. Roberts, and says that it was purchased +at a sale at Burford, in 1797 or 1798.</p> + +<p>A curious and valuable account-roll of Sir John Williams, Knt., +Master of the Jewels to Henry VIII, which specifies all the treasures +which were in his custody, was bought for £25<a name="FNanchor_345_345" id="FNanchor_345_345"></a><a href="#Footnote_345_345" class="fnanchor">[345]</a>.</p> + +<p>The department of Italian topography, antiquities and art was +largely enriched by the purchase from Rev. R. A. Scott (for +£234 6<i>s.</i>) of a collection of 1426 volumes made by his brother +the late George C. Scott, Esq., during ten years' residence in +Italy.</p> + +<p><i>Dissertations.</i> See <a href="#AD_1828">1828</a>.</p> + +<p><i>Gower's Cheshire.</i> See <a href="#AD_1842">1842</a>.</p> + +<p><i>Thorkelin.</i> See <a href="#AD_1828">1828</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_345_345" id="Footnote_345_345"></a><a href="#FNanchor_345_345"><span class="label">[345]</span></a> An original account, by the same Master of the Jewels, of the plate and +jewels received for the King's use from dissolved monasteries in the years 1540-1542, +is preserved in MS. <i>e Musæo</i>, 57.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1847" id="AD_1847"></a>A.D. 1847.</h3> + +<p>A valuable MS. of Star-Chamber Reports, from June 17, 1635, +to June 4, 1638, was purchased for £11. Several similar volumes +of Reports are among the Rawlinson MSS. Two curious collections +of pamphlets were bought; the one consisting of tracts, +broadsides and proclamations relating to the Gunpowder Plot, +made by H. Glynn, Under-secretary of State (£12 10<i>s.</i>); the +other, a series of State special Forms of Prayer, from 1665 to +1840 (£10 10<i>s.</i>)</p> + +<p>Works relating to the history of America, in which the<!-- Page 272 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[Pg 272]</a></span> +Library is now very rich, begin in this year to form a specially +noticeable feature in the catalogue of purchases. Many rare +tracts had been of old in the Library, but much of the completeness +of the present collection is due to the energy of the well-known +American bibliophilist, Henry Stevens, Esq.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1848" id="AD_1848"></a>A.D. 1848.</h3> + +<p>A collection of Hebrew MSS., numbering 862 volumes and +nearly 1300 separate works, was purchased at Hamburgh for +£1030. It had been amassed by Heimann Joseph Michael (born +Apr. 12, 1792, deceased June 10, 1846), who had devoted thirty +years to the formation of his library. One hundred and ten +vellum MSS. are included in it, written for the most part between +1240 and 1450. Michael's printed books amounted to 5471; +these were purchased by the British Museum. A short catalogue +of the collection, drawn up from the owner's papers, was issued +at Hamburgh in 1848, with a preface by Dr. L. Zunz, and an +index to the MSS. by Dr. M. Steinschneider. They will ere long +be re-catalogued, together with all the other Hebrew MSS. in +the Library, by Dr. Neubauer, who has now, in the present year, +commenced his important task.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1849" id="AD_1849"></a>A.D. 1849.</h3> + +<p>The valuable collection of Oriental MSS. formed by Rev. W. +H. Mill, D.D., Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge, during +his residence in India as Principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta, +was purchased from him for £350. A small remaining portion +of his collection, comprising thirty-six volumes, was bought in +1858, after his death, for £35. In all there are 160 volumes, of +which 145 are in Sanscrit. These latter are fully described in +Prof. Aufrecht's Sanscrit Catalogue.<!-- Page 273 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[Pg 273]</a></span></p> + +<p>The chief purchases of printed books were made at the sale at +Berlin, in May, of the library of Professor C. F. G. Jacobs, the editor +of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Anthologia Græca</i> (who died March 30, 1847), whence a large +number of classical dissertations, many of them authors' presentation +copies, were obtained<a name="FNanchor_346_346" id="FNanchor_346_346"></a><a href="#Footnote_346_346" class="fnanchor">[346]</a>, and at the sale of the library of Rev. +Hen. Francis Lyte (deceased 1847) which took place in July. A +collection of 360 sermons, published by Non-juring divines between +1688 and 1750, is an interesting item in the year's list; another is +a copy of Pliny's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Historia Naturalis</i>, printed at Rome by Sweynheym +and Pannartz in 1473, with a MS. collation of three very +early codices made by Ang. Politian in 1490, which was bought +for £21, at an extremely curious sale at Messrs. Leigh Sotheby's, +in Feb., of books 'selected from the library of an eminent literary +character' (M. Libri?).</p> + +<p>The two statutable Assistants at this time and for one or two +years previously were Mr. J. M. Price, All Souls' College (B.A. +1849, M.A. 1852, now Vicar of Cuddington, Bucks,) and Mr. W. +W. Garrett, New College (B.A. 1849). The former of these was +succeeded about 1850, by the last undergraduate Assistant, Mr. J. +C. Hyatt, Magd. Hall (B.A. 1852, now Perp. Curate of Queenshead, +Yorkshire). Since then, in consequence of the difficulty of +reconciling attendance on College lectures, &c. with attention to the +continually increasing work of the Library, the junior Assistants +have been taken from the City instead of from the undergraduate +members of the University, as had been generally the case hitherto.</p> + +<p>In pursuance of an address from the House of Commons, +Sept. 4, 1848, on the motion of Mr. Ewart, various returns +relative to public libraries were obtained, which were printed by +Parliament in 1849, State Paper, No. 18. The following is the +reply from Dr. Bandinel there printed:<!-- Page 274 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[Pg 274]</a></span>—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p> +<span class="text-in20"><span class="smcap">'Bodleian Library</span>,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in22">'<i>January</i> 9, 1849.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>'<span class="smcap">Sir</span>,—In compliance with your letter, dated Oct. 27, 1848, +desiring certain Returns respecting the Bodleian Library, I have +to state—</p> + +<p>'1. As to the number of books received under the various Copyright +Acts, no distinct register of the books so received has been +kept, but they have, at the end of each year, been incorporated +into the general collection, so that I am unable to give the number +of the books so received.</p> + +<p>'2. The number of printed volumes in the Bodleian Library +amounts to about 220,000; but this statement will very inadequately +express the real extent of the collection, as so many works +have been bound together in one volume.</p> + +<p>'3. The number of manuscripts is about 21,000.</p> + +<p>'4. All graduates of the University have the right of admission +to the Library; other persons must apply for admission to the +regular authorities.</p> + +<p>'5. No register is kept of persons consulting the Library; +accordingly, the number of students who have frequented it during +the last ten years cannot be ascertained.</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in12">'I have, &c.</span><br /> +<span class="text-in20">'BULKELEY BANDINEL,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in22">'<i>Bodleian Librarian</i>.</span><br /> +<br /> +'George Cornewall Lewis, Esq.,<br /> +<span class="text-in1">'Under-Secretary of State, Whitehall.'</span><br /> +</p></div> + +<p>The estimate of printed volumes here given is believed to be +as nearly accurate as it was possible to make it, as considerable +pains were taken in forming the calculation. The number of +separate printed books and tracts may be reckoned as at least +treble the number of volumes. With regard to the reply to the +fifth enquiry some explanation is requisite. A register is kept +of all the octavo and most of the quarto volumes taken out for<!-- Page 275 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[Pg 275]</a></span> +readers, of all the volumes from special and separate collections, +and of all the MSS.; but no account is kept of the folios and +other books on the ground-floor of the great room, which are +accessible to readers themselves, and frequently used by them +without the help of the assistants. Consequently, any return of +the number of readers entered on the register would not adequately +represent the whole number of students who use the +Library, although, of course, it would, with a margin for allowance, +afford a very fair approximation. No record, however, of separate +<i>visits</i> of readers is kept, as distinct from the books required; so +that although a reader may be at work for days or weeks together, +yet, if he continue to use only the same books, one entry alone +will be made of his name.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_346_346" id="Footnote_346_346"></a><a href="#FNanchor_346_346"><span class="label">[346]</span></a> A separate list of the books purchased at Jacobs' sale is appended to the annual +Catalogue.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1850" id="AD_1850"></a>A.D. 1850.</h3> + +<p>The Hebrew collection was still further increased in this year +by the purchase of sixty-two MSS., of which fifty-seven had been +brought from Italy; and in 1851, by the purchase of some printed +books collected by Dr. Isaac L. Auerbach, of Berlin, who had +recently deceased. Every year about this time<a name="FNanchor_347_347" id="FNanchor_347_347"></a><a href="#Footnote_347_347" class="fnanchor">[347]</a> saw additions to +this branch of the Library, made chiefly through the agency of +the late Mr. Asher, the well-known Jewish bookseller of Berlin, +and also through the late Hirsch Edelmann, a learned Rabbi, +who was for years a frequent reader in the Bodleian, from +whence he commenced the publication of a series of extracts (see +under the year <a href="#AD_1693">1693</a>). Mr. Edelmann died a few years since in +Germany. A series of works illustrating the history, civil and +ecclesiastical, the geography, &c. of Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, +and other neighbouring provinces of the Austrian Empire,<!-- Page 276 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[Pg 276]</a></span> +amounting to 400 volumes, was purchased for £78; and a similar +but much larger collection, relating to the history of Poland, +numbering no fewer than 1200 volumes, was purchased for £366. +Three hundred and twenty volumes of early printed works, some of +which were fine specimens of <i>incunabula</i>, were obtained at the sale +of the duplicates from the Royal Library at Munich. It was announced +at the end of the Annual Catalogue that a special list of +these, together with a catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. noticed +above, and of the Hungarian and Polish collections, would be +printed and circulated in the following year; this, however, was +not done.</p> + +<p>A series of 600 English sermons, printed between 1600 and +1720, bound separately, was purchased for £59.</p> + +<p>Various specimens of the first beginning of printing in one of +the Friendly Islands, Vavau, consisting of the Bible in the Tonga +language, and of several elementary books, were presented by +Capt. Sir Jas. Everard Home, R.N. as also some elementary +books printed at Apea by the natives, under the direction of +the Missionaries, for the use of the natives of the Navigators' +Islands.</p> + +<p><i>Dukes' Shropshire Collections.</i> See <a href="#AD_1841">1841</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_347_347" id="Footnote_347_347"></a><a href="#FNanchor_347_347"><span class="label">[347]</span></a> In 1845, about 320 printed volumes were purchased from a catalogue issued +at Berlin by A. Rebenstein, or Bernstein, and D. Cassel.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1851" id="AD_1851"></a>A.D. 1851.</h3> + +<p>At the sale of the books of the poet Gray, by Messrs. Sotheby +and Wilkinson, on Aug. 28, his copies of Clarendon and of +Burnet's <i>Own Times</i> (vol. i.), with many MSS. notes written by him +in the margins, were bought for £49 10<i>s.</i> and £2 18<i>s.</i> respectively<a name="FNanchor_348_348" id="FNanchor_348_348"></a><a href="#Footnote_348_348" class="fnanchor">[348]</a>. +Perfect specimens of facsimiles, which would defy detection, +were obtained for the completion of the Library copy of<!-- Page 277 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[Pg 277]</a></span> +Coverdale's Bible; being pen-and-ink copies of the title, from +Lord Leicester's copy, and of the map of Palestine, from Lord +Jersey's copy, executed with admirable skill by the late well-known +facsimilist, Mr. J. Harris.</p> + +<p>A Supplemental Catalogue of the printed books, comprehending +all the accessions which had been made during the years +1835-1847, was published in this year, in one folio volume, under +the editorship of the Rev. Alfred Hackman, M.A., by whom the +greater part of the earlier Catalogue had been compiled, as mentioned +at p. 268.</p> + +<p>On March 27, Convocation voted an addition of £50 <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">per annum</i> +to the stipends of the Sub-librarians.</p> + +<p><i>Recovery of Pococke MS. 32.</i> See p. <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</p> + +<p><i>Malone's Correspondence.</i> See p. <a href="#Page_232">232</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_348_348" id="Footnote_348_348"></a><a href="#FNanchor_348_348"><span class="label">[348]</span></a> The Clarendon had been previously sold at an auction on Nov. 29, 1845, +by Messrs. Evans, with various other books which had belonged to Gray.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1852" id="AD_1852"></a>A.D. 1852.</h3> + +<p>In the Report of the University Commission, which was issued +in this year, various suggestions were embodied which had been +made by several witnesses. Sir Edmund Head renewed his plan +of allowing books to be taken out of the Library by readers, +and was supported by the opinions of Professors Wall and +Jowett; but the proposal was met with the strong counter-testimony +of Mr. H. E. Strickland<a name="FNanchor_349_349" id="FNanchor_349_349"></a><a href="#Footnote_349_349" class="fnanchor">[349]</a>, Prof. Vaughan, Dr. W. A. Greenhill +(at that time a constant reader in the Library), Prof. Donkin, +Mr. E. S. Foulkes, and others. And the Commissioners were<!-- Page 278 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[Pg 278]</a></span> +not prepared to report in favour of a plan which would at once +lessen what was described as being one of the great advantages +of the place, namely, the certainty of finding within its walls +every book which it possessed. At the same time, they were +disposed to recommend a relaxation in some instances of the +strictness of the rule, and concurred in a suggestion made by +Dr. Macbride and Mr. Storey Maskelyne, that duplicates should +be allowed to circulate. Most, however, of the suggestions for +extension of facilities to readers, as well as of the reasons alleged +for alteration of system, have now been answered by the opening +(through the liberality of the Radcliffe Trustees) of the Radcliffe +Library as a noble reading-room for both day and evening. +As the hours during which the Library may be used extend +now, in consequence of this addition, from nine a.m. to ten p.m., +it is at once apparent that the Bodleian presents greater advantages +to students than can anywhere else be enjoyed; to which +is to be added the readiness and quickness (specially testified to, +in 1852, by Dr. Greenhill) with which, under all ordinary circumstances, +readers are supplied with the books which they +require. The Commissioners in their Report called attention +to a suggestion of Sir Henry Bishop, then Professor of Music, +for the establishment of a classified musical library, which +should comprehend, not merely the music received by the Bodleian +from Stationers' Hall, but all superior foreign music as well, +of every school and every age. Such collections the Professor +said were only to be found at Munich and Vienna.</p> + +<p>The Report and Evidence upon the recommendations of the +Commissioners, which were issued by the Hebdomadal Board +in the following year, did not differ widely in testimony or suggestions +from those of the Commission. Dr. Pusey and Mr. Marriott +agreed in deprecating the allowing removal of books, speaking +(as did several of the witnesses before the Commission) from<!-- Page 279 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[Pg 279]</a></span> +actual experience as constant readers in the place; and Dr. +Bandinel mentioned, in a paper of observations which he contributed, +the fact that he had been told by the Librarian of the +Advocates' Library at Edinburgh that between 6,000 and 7,000 +volumes appeared to have been lost there from the facilities +afforded to borrowers. A comparative tabular statement respecting +the arrangements and rules of the libraries at Berlin, Dresden, +Florence, Munich, Paris and Vienna, drawn up by Mr. Coxe +from the Parliamentary Report on Libraries, which showed very +favourably in behalf of the Bodleian, was subjoined by Dr. +Bandinel to his evidence.</p> + +<p>The great feature of this year was the acquisition of the Italian +Library of the Count Alessandro Mortara, consisting of about +1400 volumes, choice in character and condition, for £1000. +The Count, who was distinguished for his literary taste and +knowledge of the literature of his own country, had, although +holding the nominal office of Grand Chamberlain to the Duke of +Lucca, taken up his abode in Oxford some ten years previously, +on account of his desire to examine the Canonici MSS. and of +his friendship with Dr. Wellesley, the late Principal of New Inn +Hall. He became a daily reader in the Bodleian, where the +interest which he took in the place, together with his polished, +yet genuine, courtesy, made him a welcome and popular visitor. +It was upon returning to Italy (where he died, June 14, 1855, at +Florence), that he disposed of his valuable collection. A catalogue, +compiled by himself, with occasional short notes, was +issued with the purchase-catalogue for the year. He also drew +up a catalogue of the Italian MSS. in the Canonici collection, +which was published, in a quarto volume, in 1864. (See under +<a href="#AD_1817">1817</a>.)</p> + +<p>Among miscellaneous purchases were a few volumes which +were wanted to make the Library set of De Bry's <i>Voyages</i><!-- Page 280 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[Pg 280]</a></span> +complete, an imperfect copy of the Oxford <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Liber Festivalis</i> (see +<a href="#AD_1691">1691</a>), and a large collection of Dr. Priestley's writings (believed +to have been made by himself), in thirty-nine vols.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_349_349" id="Footnote_349_349"></a><a href="#FNanchor_349_349"><span class="label">[349]</span></a> Several important suggestions were made by this gentleman. One, that the +Library Books should all be stamped with a distinguishing mark, is now in process +of being carried out. Another, respecting the great importance of collecting +the most ephemeral local literature, especially for the county of Oxford, and of +procuring books printed at provincial presses, relates to a subject which has received +much more attention of late years than formerly. A third, on the desirability, +acknowledged (as we have seen) in the last century, of having a general Catalogue +compiled of the books found in College Libraries which are wanting in the Bodleian, +has unfortunately as yet seen no accomplishment.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1853" id="AD_1853"></a>A.D. 1853.</h3> + +<p>A portion of the collection of Hebrew MSS. formed by Prof. +Isaac Sam. Reggio, at Goritz, amounting to about seventy-two +volumes, was purchased for £108. Many other MSS. in this +class of literature occur yearly in the accounts at this time. But +the great acquisition of 1853 was the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Breviarium secundum regulam +beati Ysidori, dictum Mozarabes</i>, printed <i>on vellum</i> at Toledo, +by command of Cardinal Ximenes, in 1502. £200 were +given for this book, which is the only vellum copy known, and +which is in most immaculate condition. It is of extreme rarity +even on paper, as it is believed that only thirty-five copies were +printed.</p> + +<p>An imperfect copy of Caxton's <i>Chronicle</i>, 1480, was bought +for £21; and a large gathering of Norfolk tracts was obtained at +the sale of Mr. Dawson Turner's library.</p> + +<p>It was in this year that Dr. Constantine Simonides visited the +Library in the hope of disposing of some of the products of his +Eastern ingenuity, but failed here, as also at the British Museum, +although successful in most other quarters. It is much to be +lamented that the talent and ability which he undoubtedly possessed +in no small degree were devoted to such unworthy purpose +as his history discloses. The story of his interview with +Mr. Coxe, then Sub-librarian, is well known, and was reproduced +in an article in the <i>Cornhill Magazine</i> for Oct. 1867 (p. 499); and +as the version there given appears to be substantially correct, it will +be sufficient to borrow it from its pages:—</p> + +<p><!-- Page 281 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[Pg 281]</a></span></p><div class="blockquot"><p>'On visiting the [Bodleian Library, Mr. Simonides] showed some +fragments of MSS. to Mr. Coxe, who assented to their belonging +to the twelfth century. "And these, Mr. Coxe, belong to the +tenth or eleventh century?" "Yes, probably." "And now, +Mr. Coxe, let me show you a very ancient and valuable MS. +I have for sale, and which ought to be in your Library. To what +century do you consider this belongs?" "This, Mr. Simonides, +I have no doubt," said Mr. Coxe, "belongs to the [latter half of +the] nineteenth century." The Greek and his MS. disappeared.'</p></div> + +<p>An account of this visit was given in the <i>Athenæum</i> for March +1, 1856, and a full narrative, including a letter from Sir F. Madden +respecting the dealings with Simonides on the part of the British +Museum, is to be found in S. L. Sotheby's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Principia Typographica</i>, +vol. ii. pp. 133-136f<a name="FNanchor_350_350" id="FNanchor_350_350"></a><a href="#Footnote_350_350" class="fnanchor">[350]</a>.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_350_350" id="Footnote_350_350"></a><a href="#FNanchor_350_350"><span class="label">[350]</span></a> The death of Simonides, from the terrible disease of leprosy, was announced as +having occurred at Cairo in last year.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1854" id="AD_1854"></a>A.D. 1854.</h3> + +<p>A very interesting series of eighteen autograph letters from +Henry Hyde, the second Earl of Clarendon, was presented to +the University by 'our honoured Lord and Chancellor,' the Earl +of Derby<a name="FNanchor_351_351" id="FNanchor_351_351"></a><a href="#Footnote_351_351" class="fnanchor">[351]</a>. They are best described in the following letter to +the Vice-Chancellor, which accompanied the gift, and which is +now bound in the same volume:—</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in20">'<span class="smcap">Knowsley</span>, <i>Oct. 17, 1854.</i></span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'<span class="smcap">My Dear Sir</span>,—In looking over some old papers here the +other day, I found (how they came here I know not) some +original and apparently autograph letters, which appeared to +me to be curious. They are private letters, addressed by +Lord Clarendon, to the Earl of Abingdon, as Lord Lieutenant +of Oxfordshire, during, and on the suppression of, the Duke<!-- Page 282 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[Pg 282]</a></span> +of Monmouth's Rebellion. I have no doubt of their genuineness; +and if from the connexion of the University with the +writer<a name="FNanchor_352_352" id="FNanchor_352_352"></a><a href="#Footnote_352_352" class="fnanchor">[352]</a>, as well as the locality, you think they would be worth +depositing in the Bodleian Library, I shall have great pleasure +in offering them to the acceptance of the University for that +purpose; and in that case would send with them a miniature +pencil drawing of the Duke of Monmouth, which is not too large +to be let into the cover of the portfolio which should contain the +letters, and for the authenticity of which I can so far vouch +that it has been in this house since 1729, at least; since it appears +in a catalogue of the pictures and engravings here which formed +the collection at that time.</p></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in12">'I am, my dear sir,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in20">'Yours sincerely,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in22">'<span class="smcap">DERBY</span>.'</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>The portrait in question, which is a beautifully executed drawing, +in an oak frame, marked on the back, 'Duke of Monmouth, by +Foster,' is now fixed, as desired, in the present morocco binding +of the volume.</p> + +<p>A collection of early editions of the Prayer-Book (including +Whitchurch's May and June editions of 1549 and that of 1552), +of the Metrical Psalter, and of Visitation Articles (amongst others, +Edward the Sixth's Articles of 1547, and Injunctions of the same +year), with a few miscellaneous books, was bought of the Rev. +T. Lathbury, M.A., the well-known writer on English Church +history, for £300. Various rare English books were purchased +at Mr. Pickering's sale, and foreign dissertations, &c. at that of +the library of Professor Godfrey Hermann, the Greek editor +and commentator (who died Dec. 31, 1848), at Leipsic, in April.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_351_351" id="Footnote_351_351"></a><a href="#FNanchor_351_351"><span class="label">[351]</span></a> A portrait of Lord Derby, in his Chancellor's robes, painted by Sir F. A. Grant, +was given by him to the University about 1858, and now hangs in the Picture +Gallery.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_352_352" id="Footnote_352_352"></a><a href="#FNanchor_352_352"><span class="label">[352]</span></a> The Earl was High Steward of the University.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1855" id="AD_1855"></a>A.D. 1855.</h3> + +<p>Three Greek Biblical MSS. of great antiquity were obtained +from the collection of Prof. Tischendorf, being Nos. 3-5 of the<!-- Page 283 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[Pg 283]</a></span> +volumes described in a small quarto catalogue issued (anonymously) +by him of <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Codices Græci</i>, &c. One of these three is of the ninth +century, containing the Gospel of St. Luke, with portions of the +other Gospels, which was bought for £125; another of the eighth +century, containing the whole of St. Luke and St. John, bought for +£140; the third, also of the eighth century, containing the greatest +part of Genesis, for £108.</p> + +<p><i>Rev. T. R. Brown's Dictionary, &c. printed by himself.</i> See +<a href="#AD_1838">1838</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1856" id="AD_1856"></a>A.D. 1856.</h3> + +<p>A volume containing two autograph letters of Luther was +bought for £20, together with a large collection of printed books +(formed by — Schneider, of Berlin,) relating to him and the German +Reformation, with various editions of his works, for £300. +Another volume, with some small additional papers in the +Reformer's hand, was subsequently obtained.</p> + +<p>The ever-increasing Bible collection received the addition of the +very rare <i>ed. princ.</i> of the Bohemian Bible, printed at Prague in +1488, which was obtained for £17 10<i>s.</i>, and a still more rare +edition of the Pentateuch, with New Test., &c. printed at Wittemberg +in 1529, obtained for eighteen guineas. A Roman Missal, +printed 'ad longum, absque ulla requisitione,' (<i>i. e.</i> in a kind of +'Prayer-book-as-read' form,) Lyons, 1550, was obtained for £20. +It was arranged by Nicholas Roillet, Chanter of the Church of +S. Nicetius at Lyons, with the view of avoiding difficulties and +delays, 'sacerdotesque expectantibus molestos reddentes, ipsosque +erga dictos circumstantes scandalum generantes, qui existimant illos +non solum ignaros sed nescientes quid agendum vel faciendam +habeant;' and was issued with the papal <i>imprimatur</i> of Paul III. +But as Pius V and Clem. VIII subsequently forbade any variation +whatsoever from the authorized Roman form, this Missal, like the<!-- Page 284 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[Pg 284]</a></span> +Breviary of Card. Quignones, was, with others, suppressed. And +hence its rarity.</p> + +<p>Fifty guineas were given for a very large collection of Chinese +works, numbering altogether about 1100, which had been gathered +by Rev. F. Evans, for some time a missionary in China. Some +of the Chinese books in the Library have been subsequently +examined and catalogued by Professor Summers, of King's College, +London.</p> + +<p>On May 22, a new body of Library Statutes was confirmed by +Convocation, after a complete revision of the previous regulations. +The principal changes, besides the omission of various obsolete +requirements, were the adding five elected Curators, holding office +for ten years, to the old <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">ex officio</i> body of eight; the providing for +the removal of books to the extra-mural 'Camera,' or reading-room, +about to be added; the fixing the stipend of the Librarian +(including all the former fees and small separate payments) at +£700, and that of the Sub-librarians at £300, and the assigning to +the former a retiring pension after twenty years' service of £200, +and after thirty years', of £300, and to the latter, after thirty years', +of £150; and the making a few alterations with regard to the +times at which the Library should be closed, these times being +lessened by about one week in the course of the year.</p> + +<p>A report from the eminent architect, Mr. G. G. Scott, on the +means which might be adopted for the enlargement of the Library, +and for rendering it fire-proof, dated in Dec. 1855, was printed in +this year, together with one from Mr. Braidwood on the warming +apparatus (see under <a href="#AD_1821">1821</a>). Mr. Scott's report contained suggestions +for the extension of the Library throughout the whole of +the quadrangle and adjoining buildings, including the Ashmolean +Museum, and proposed that the Divinity School should be assigned +as a reading room, for which the great degree of light afforded +by its large windows appeared peculiarly to fit it. The subsequent<!-- Page 285 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[Pg 285]</a></span> +assignment, however, of the Radcliffe Library as a reading-room +for the Library, removed the immediate necessity for any other +extension. In 1858 a paper on the subject, illustrated with a plan +of the Library, was printed by the late Dr. Wellesley, who, after +considering the various modes then suggested for the enlargement +of the Library, recommended the adoption (from the British +Museum) of presses running up direct from the ground through +all the floors, by which the dangers attendant upon the increase of +weight of the wall-pressure would be obviated.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1857" id="AD_1857"></a>A.D. 1857.</h3> + +<p>A collection of manuscripts, more interesting as to their history +than as to their actual contents<a name="FNanchor_353_353" id="FNanchor_353_353"></a><a href="#Footnote_353_353" class="fnanchor">[353]</a>, was presented by William and +Hubert Hamilton, in memory, and in accordance with the wish, +of their celebrated father, Sir William Hamilton. It comprises fifty-eight +volumes (thirty-nine in folio, sixteen in quarto, and three in +octavo) from the library of the Carthusian Monastery of Erfurt, +famous as the place of Luther's early abode. A short catalogue +of them, by Joh. Broad, was printed at Berlin in 1841, with a +prefatory notice, from which we learn that they were preserved at +Erfurt until 1805, when the library was broken up and dispersed +on the occupation of the city by the French army, who stabled +their horses in the place where the books were deposited, and +burned many of them for fuel, while others were carried away and +secreted with a view to their safety. Some of the latter were bought +by the Count de Buelow, on whose death they were purchased +from the subsequent possessors by Broad, and finally sold by him +to Sir W. Hamilton. '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Nunc in eam terram demigrant</span>,' says the +bibliopolist, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">quæ, quodcunque alicujus pretii est aut materialium<!-- Page 286 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[Pg 286]</a></span> +aut spiritualium rerum, in suo gremio accumulare a Providentia +Divina destinata videtur</span>.' Another collection of MSS., from the +same library at Erfurt, was on sale by Mr. J. M. Stark, the well-known +bookseller (now of London), at Hull, in 1855, who issued +a small catalogue of them in duodecimo.</p> + +<p>A valuable collection of Italian and Spanish MSS., amounting +to about forty-six volumes, came to the Library by the bequest of +Rev. Joseph Mendham, M.A., of Sutton Coldfield, who died +Nov. 1, 1856. The most important part of these is a series of +twenty-eight volumes relating to the Council of Trent, which were +purchased at the sale of the Earl of Guildford's library in 1830 by +Thorpe, the bookseller, for £35, and re-sold by him to Mr. Mendham +in 1832 for fifty guineas. It was chiefly from the materials +afforded by these that Mr. Mendham drew up his <i>Memoirs of the +Council of Trent</i>, published in 1834. They are described in +Thorpe's Catalogue of MSS. on sale in 1831, and in the preface +to Mr. Mendham's book.</p> + +<p>On June 18, the Rev. Robert Payne Smith, M.A., of Pembroke +College, was appointed an Assistant Sub-librarian for the Oriental +department, in consequence of the increasing infirmities of the +aged senior Sub-librarian, Mr. Reay.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_353_353" id="Footnote_353_353"></a><a href="#FNanchor_353_353"><span class="label">[353]</span></a> For the most part, they consist of mediæval sermons and theological treatises by +writers of no great fame, together with some of the works of Aquinas.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1858" id="AD_1858"></a>A.D. 1858.</h3> + +<p>On Oct. 30, an offer made by the Trustees of the Ashmolean +Museum for the transfer of the printed books, coins, and MSS. there +contained to the Bodleian, in order to facilitate the devotion of a +part of the building to the purposes of an Examination School, was +accepted by the Curators; but a similar offer with regard to the +antiquities was declined. The latter consequently remain in their +old repository, but the collections in Natural History were transferred +to the New Museum. It was not, however, until 1860, that +the books were actually received into the Library, where they now<!-- Page 287 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[Pg 287]</a></span> +fill one small room. Altogether they amount to upwards of 3700 +volumes, forming five different series. First are those of Elias +Ashmole himself, numbering originally 2175, but reduced by +losses before the transfer to 2136, of which about 850 are MSS<a name="FNanchor_354_354" id="FNanchor_354_354"></a><a href="#Footnote_354_354" class="fnanchor">[354]</a>. +This collection is extremely rich in heraldic and genealogical +matter, together with an abundance of astrology. The printed +books are chiefly scientific and historical; these, with the books +in the following collections, are now in process of incorporation +into the new General Catalogue of the Library. A list of the +MSS. is given in Bernard's catalogue, <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 1697; but a very +elaborate and minute account, forming a thick quarto volume, was +drawn up by Mr. W. H. Black, the well-known antiquary, and +published in 1845. As this, however, was destitute of an index, it +remained comparatively useless until 1866, when a full Index, +edited by the writer of this volume, was published under the +direction of the Delegates of the University Press.</p> + +<p>The next collection is that of Anthony à Wood, containing +about 130 MSS. and 970 printed volumes<a name="FNanchor_355_355" id="FNanchor_355_355"></a><a href="#Footnote_355_355" class="fnanchor">[355]</a>, which were bequeathed +to the Museum by the owner on his death in Nov. 1695. +The former are of extreme value for the history of Oxford and the +neighbourhood; among the latter are most curious sets of the +pamphlets of the time, with the ballads, fly-sheets, chap-books, +almanacks, &c. just such 'unconsidered trifles' as most men suffer +to perish in the using, but a few, like Wood, lay by for the amusement +and information of future generations. There are also seven +volumes of his own correspondence, including letters from +Dugdale, Evelyn, &c. Of the MSS. a list is to be found in the +old Catalogue of 1697; a fuller and better one, compiled by<!-- Page 288 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[Pg 288]</a></span> +William Huddesford, M.A., the Keeper of the Museum, was +printed in a thin octavo volume, in 1761, which was reprinted +by Sir Thomas Phillips, at Middlehill, Worcestershire, in 1824. +There are also bundles of charters and deeds, chiefly monastic, +but nearly all more or less mutilated or injured by damp and dirt, +so as to be partially useless.</p> + +<p>The third collection is that of Dr. Martin Lister, physician to +Queen Anne, who died Feb. 2, 1711/2. Besides his books, he was +the donor of various other gifts to the Museum, in return for +which he was created M.D. of Oxford, in 1683. The books +are chiefly medical and scientific, and number in a written catalogue +1451 volumes (including thirty-two MSS.), but thirty-five +of these were missing when the transfer from the Museum was +made.</p> + +<p>The collections of Sir William Dugdale, which form a fourth +series, number forty-eight volumes. A list of these is in the old +Catalogue of 1697.</p> + +<p>In the fifth place there are the MSS. of the well-known antiquary, +John Aubrey. These are about twenty in number, of which fifteen +are in his own hand, and are described in Britton's Life of him, +printed for the Wilts Topographical Society, pp. 88-123. Collections +for the history of Wiltshire, entitled <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hypomnemata Antiquaria</i>, +form one of Aubrey's own works<a name="FNanchor_356_356" id="FNanchor_356_356"></a><a href="#Footnote_356_356" class="fnanchor">[356]</a>, but unfortunately the +second volume (marked with the letter B) is missing. It was +borrowed from the Museum, in 1703, by William Aubrey, the +author's brother, and was never returned. A paper on the subject +was inserted by Rev. J. E. Jackson, in 1860, in vol. vii. of the +Wiltshire Archæological Magazine, and a reward for information +as to the present <i>locale</i> of the missing volume was subsequently +publicly offered, but to no purpose, by the same gentleman. A<!-- Page 289 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[Pg 289]</a></span> +small MS. of <i>Horæ</i>, which had belonged to Sir Thomas Pope, the +founder of Trinity College, is among Aubrey's books. A MS. of +Matthew of Westminster, (now <i>e Mus.</i> 149) had been given to +the Library by Aubrey, in 1675, through Ant. à Wood.</p> + +<p>There are also five or six MSS. which were given to the +Museum by William Kingsley before 1700. Some few others, +which were given by E. Lhuyd and Dr. W. Borlase, together +with a volume of W. Huddesford's correspondence, are now +incorporated with the Ashmole MSS., and are described in +Mr. Black's catalogue, as well as the latest gift of this kind which +was made to the Museum, <i>viz.</i> a little volume of <i>Private Thoughts</i>, +by Bishop Wilson, of Sodor and Man, which was presented in +1824 by Lieut. Brett, R.N.</p> + +<p>Thirty-nine choice Persian and Arabic MSS., which had formed +part of Sir Gore Ouseley's collection, were bought from his son, +Sir Fred. Gore Ouseley, Bart., the present Professor of Music, for +£500. The rest of the collection came by gift, as will be seen +under the following year.</p> + +<p>At the sale (in June-Aug.) of the library of Dr. Bliss, a large +number of volumes (still kept separate) were purchased, including +a volume of original letters of Charles I, Clarendon, &c., and +poems by Lord Fairfax (see p. <a href="#Page_97">97</a>); together with many from +the series of books of <i>Characters</i> collected by Dr. Bliss, and from +his like series, both of books printed in London shortly before +the fire of 1666, and of books printed at Oxford. The Library +obtained by his bequest his own interleaved copy of the <i>Athenæ</i>, +with many MS. additions<a name="FNanchor_357_357" id="FNanchor_357_357"></a><a href="#Footnote_357_357" class="fnanchor">[357]</a>.</p> +<p><!-- Page 290 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[Pg 290]</a></span></p> +<p>A copy of the octavo Bible printed by Barker in 1631 (not +1632, as generally said), in which the word 'not' was omitted in +the seventh commandment, was bought for £40. For this error +(which looks very much like a wicked jest) the printer was fined +1000 marks by the High Commission Court<a name="FNanchor_358_358" id="FNanchor_358_358"></a><a href="#Footnote_358_358" class="fnanchor">[358]</a>, and the edition was +rigidly suppressed, all the copies which could be found being +condemned to the flames.</p> + +<p>Another purchase was a large collection of political tracts in +seventy volumes, chiefly relating to foreign affairs, which had +been formed by Mr. — Hamilton, of the Diplomatic Service.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_354_354" id="Footnote_354_354"></a><a href="#FNanchor_354_354"><span class="label">[354]</span></a> This number includes some fifteen or sixteen volumes given by subsequent +donors, but incorporated with Ashmole's own books.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_355_355" id="Footnote_355_355"></a><a href="#FNanchor_355_355"><span class="label">[355]</span></a> About fifty volumes out of Wood's whole number were missing when the Library +became possessed of them.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_356_356" id="Footnote_356_356"></a><a href="#FNanchor_356_356"><span class="label">[356]</span></a> These were printed by the Wiltshire Archæological Society in 1862, in one +volume quarto, under the editorship of Rev. J. E. Jackson.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_357_357" id="Footnote_357_357"></a><a href="#FNanchor_357_357"><span class="label">[357]</span></a> A very valuable Index of notes and references on all kinds of biographical, +historical, and antiquarian matters, contained in forty small covers, which had been +the growth of the many years of Dr. Bliss's literary researches, was bequeathed by +him to Rev. H. O. Coxe, by whom it is kept in the Library for the use of readers. +Several references are made to this Index in the earlier part of the volume.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_358_358" id="Footnote_358_358"></a><a href="#FNanchor_358_358"><span class="label">[358]</span></a> In Burn's <i>High Commission Court</i>, 1865, it is said (from the Reports of proceedings +in the Court) that the fine inflicted on Barker was £200 and on Lucas +£100. 'With some part of this fine Laud causeth a fair Greek character to be +provided, for publishing such manuscripts as time and industry should make ready +for the publick view; of which sort were the <i>Catena</i> and <i>Theophylact</i> set out by +Lyndsell.' Heylin's <i>Cyprianus Anglicus</i>, p. 228.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1859" id="AD_1859"></a>A.D. 1859.</h3> + +<p>Numerous MSS., chiefly classical, patristic, or Italian, were +purchased at the sale of M. Libri's collection in London, in March. +Amongst them was a Sacramentary, of the commencement of the +ninth century, which was obtained for £43; and a copy of +S. Cyprian's Epistles, also of the ninth century, for £84. Four +volumes of the correspondence of Scholars at home and abroad +with E. H. Barker, of Thetford, were also added to the Library +from the sale of Mr. Dawson Turner's library. They are now +numbered Bodl. MSS. 1003-1006. And the munificent gift of a +very valuable collection of 422 volumes of Arabic and Persian +MSS. was received from J. B. Elliott, Esq., of Calcutta. These +chiefly consist of the MSS. which Sir Gore Ouseley (who died +Nov. 18, 1844,) obtained during his diplomatic service in the +East, commencing his collection when stationed at Lucknow, and<!-- Page 291 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[Pg 291]</a></span> +completing it while ambassador in Persia; of which Mr. Elliott +had been the purchaser. A small remaining part had previously +been bought by the Library, as noted under 1858. In 1860, +Mr. Elliott added to his former gift a series of Eastern coins, +and various handsome specimens of Eastern weapons; the +latter are now exhibited in a case in the Picture Gallery. Five +Sanscrit MSS. were received from Fitz-Edward Hall, Esq., of +Saugur, who, at the same time, expressed his munificent intention +of presenting hereafter the whole of his large collection.</p> + +<p>In this year, after considerable enquiry had been made respecting +different modes of cataloguing, and Mr. Coxe had +reported on the arrangements adopted in the great libraries at +home and some of those abroad, it was resolved by the Curators, +upon that gentleman's recommendation, that the plan in use in +the British Museum should be immediately introduced, for the +purpose of commencing a new General Catalogue of all the printed +books (excepting the Hebrew, of which a separate catalogue had +been made) in the whole Library. By this plan, three or five +copies, according as the case may be that of a single or double +entry, are written simultaneously on prepared paper, as with a +manifold-copier, the transcribers writing out in this way the +entries of titles previously examined and corrected by the cataloguers. +The separate titles are then mounted, arranged in alphabetical +order, and bound in volumes. By this plan two copies +of the Catalogue are at once written with the labour of one, +while surplus slips are also provided for the formation hereafter +of a classified catalogue as well. The use of the Catalogue, +however, is thus confined to the Library itself; and the literary +world in general must still refer to the printed Catalogues of 1843 +and 1851. A commencement of the new undertaking was made +in this year; but it was not until 1862 that the present staff (as +to numbers) of assistants was employed, and the work completely<!-- Page 292 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[Pg 292]</a></span> +organized. At present the letters A-E, G-H are catalogued; +and the extent to which the whole Catalogue will run may be +estimated from the fact that the letters B, C, and G fill sixty, +sixty-five, and thirty-four volumes respectively. All the books +are seen and examined separately; anonymous authors are, if +possible, traced out; many errors in previous catalogues are corrected, +and the number of entries is very largely increased.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1860" id="AD_1860"></a>A.D. 1860.</h3> + +<p>The resignation of the Librarianship by Dr. Bandinel, after +forty-seven years of office in the capacity of Head, and a total +of fifty of work in the Library, forms a leading feature in the +Bodley Annals of this year. At the age of seventy-nine the +natural infirmities of age were felt by himself to be incapacitating +him for the duties which he had so long and so regularly discharged, +while at the same time the continually increasing pressure +of work and enlargement of the Library, made those duties +much more onerous than they had been even a quarter of a +century before. And so he resolved to withdraw at Michaelmas +from the place to which he had been so heartily and entirely +devoted, and which under his headship had been doubled in contents. +The parting was not without a great struggle; it was the +abandoning what had been the cherished occupation of his life, +and with the ceasing of that occupation he felt a too-certain +foreboding (which he expressed to the writer of these pages) +that the life would soon cease as well. A well-merited tribute was +paid to him by Convocation in June, in both increasing the +amount of his statutable pension, so that he retired on a full +stipend, and in specially enrolling him among the Curators of the +Library. But he was seldom seen in the old place after his +resignation; on two or three occasions only did he again mount +the long flight of stairs which had of late tried both his strength<!-- Page 293 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[Pg 293]</a></span> +and breath severely; and then, when only seven months had +elapsed, on Feb. 6, 1861, he passed away. And little more than +a fortnight previously, on January 20, his old colleague, Professor +Reay, departed this life, at the age of seventy-eight. He also had +retired on his pension at Michaelmas, 1860, and had been succeeded +as Oriental Sub-librarian by Rev. R. Payne Smith (Assistant-librarian +in the same department since 1857), whose appointment +was confirmed by Convocation on Nov. 22. Memoirs of +Dr. Bandinel and Mr. Reay are given in the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, +(1861, pp. 463-6), which do justice, in the case of the former, +to his watchful solicitude for the Library and his thorough acquaintance +with it; and in the case of the latter (evidently from +intimate personal acquaintance), to his great kindliness of heart, +and simplicity and gentleness of character.</p> + +<p>The Convocation for the election of Dr. Bandinel's successor +was held on November 6, when, with unanimous consent, the +Rev. H. O. Coxe, M.A., Sub-librarian since 1837, was appointed +to the office.</p> + +<p>A most seasonable and valuable enlargement of the Library +was effected, by an addition which henceforth marks an æra in +our Annals. On June 12, Convocation thankfully accepted an +offer from the Radcliffe Trustees (which had been first mooted +by Dr. Acland in 1856), of the use, as a Bodleian reading-room, +of the noble building hitherto under their control, the existing +contents of which had (for the most part) been removed to the +New Museum. Dr. Radcliffe's own original intention had been +the building an additional wing to the Bodleian rather than the +erecting a library of his own; and subsequently the idea had +been entertained of devoting his structure to the exclusive reception +of manuscripts<a name="FNanchor_359_359" id="FNanchor_359_359"></a><a href="#Footnote_359_359" class="fnanchor">[359]</a>. Its appropriation, therefore, to the Bodleian<!-- Page 294 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[Pg 294]</a></span> +upon the removal of the library of medicine and natural history, +was, in some sort, a return to the founder's first design. And +the return came most seasonably, when the old walls of the +Schools' quadrangle were well-nigh bursting from a plethora of +books, and still the cry 'They come' daily caused fresh bewilderment +as to whither those that came should go. It was resolved +that the new reading-room thus opportunely gained should be +appropriated to new books (arranged under a system of classification) +and magazines; that it should be called the '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Camera +Radcliviana</span>;' and that it should be open from ten <span class="smcap">A.M.</span> to ten <span class="smcap">P.M.</span>, +thus affording the facilities for evening use of the Bodleian which +had often been desired for those who were occupied in college +work during the day. It was at the close of the year 1861 that +the building began to be filled by its new occupants, and on +Jan. 27, 1862, (the necessary alterations and preparations having +been completed in the short space of the Christmas vacation) it +was announced by the Vice-Chancellor to be open as a Reading +Room in connection with the Bodleian. A grant of £200 <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">per +annum</i> towards the expense of management was made by<!-- Page 295 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[Pg 295]</a></span> +Convocation on Nov. 28, 1861, which was increased to £300 +in 1865, the remainder of the charge, consisting of the incidental +expenses, being defrayed from the general funds of the +Library.</p> + +<p>A large additional space for the reception of books was gained +by the closing up the open ground-floor (through which was the +former entrance to the reading-room), converting the spaces between +the outer arches into windows, and lining the walls within +with book-shelves, thus affording accommodation, according to the +present reckoning, for about 50,000 volumes. The whole building +may probably be reckoned as capable of containing altogether +about 75,000 volumes<a name="FNanchor_360_360" id="FNanchor_360_360"></a><a href="#Footnote_360_360" class="fnanchor">[360]</a>.</p> + +<p>The terms on which the Radcliffe Trustees made their offer, +and which were accepted by the University, were these:—1. That +the Radcliffe Building should be a reading-room to the Bodleian, +or be used for any other purpose of the Bodleian Library. +2. That it should remain the property of the Trustees, being +esteemed a loan to the University. 3. That no alteration should +be made in the building without consent of the Trustees or a +Representative approved by them. 4. That the expense of maintaining +the building should be borne by the Trustees.</p> + +<p>The transfer of this magnificent room afforded a rare opportunity +for developing the usefulness of the Library to which it is +now attached, and all who frequent it will acknowledge that that +opportunity has been well and worthily improved under the +direction of the present Librarian.</p> + +<p>On Oct. 25, leave was granted by Convocation for the lending +two Laud Manuscripts, 561 and 563, being copies of the<!-- Page 296 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[Pg 296]</a></span> +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Historia Hierosoylmitana</i>, by Albert of Aix, to the French +Government.</p> + +<p>At the sale of the library of Dr. Wellesley, Principal of New +Inn Hall, a copy of Boccaccio's <i>Corbaccio</i>, 1569, was purchased, +on account of its possessing the autograph of Sir Thomas Bodley, +to whom it had been given by the editor, J. Corbinelli.</p> + +<p>A rare Salisbury <i>Primer</i>, printed at Rouen by Rob. Valentin +in 1556, was purchased for £22. Its title affords an amusing +specimen of a foreigner's mode of printing English; it runs +thus—<i>This prymer of Salisbury vse is se tout along with houtonyser +chyng, with many prayers & goodly pyctures.</i> It is intended +hereby to be conveyed to the English reader that, without any +searching, he will find his prayers and psalms set out in their +proper order.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_359_359" id="Footnote_359_359"></a><a href="#FNanchor_359_359"><span class="label">[359]</span></a> In prosecution of this idea several valuable collections of Oriental MSS. were +obtained, which still form part of the stores of the old Radcliffe Library. They +consist of the Arabic, Persian, and Sanscrit MSS. collected by — Frazer and by Sale, +the translator of the Koran, which were obtained (as we learn from Sharpe's +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Prolegomena</i> to Hyde's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Dissertationes</i>, 1767, vol. i. p. xvii.) through Professor +Thomas Hunt, at the suggestion of Dr. Gregory Sharpe; and of the collations of +the MSS. of the Hebrew Old Test. by Dr. Kennicott (Librarian 1767-1783), together +with his correspondence and miscellaneous <i>codices</i>. The Sanscrit MSS. of Frazer +and Sale are described in Prof. Aufrecht's catalogue. Other collections in the Radcliffe +Library are the classical and historical (as well as medical) books of Dr. Frewin, +a physician and Camden Professor of Anc. History; and the law books of Mr. Viner, +founder of the Vinerian Professorship and Scholarships; together with the works of +J. Gibbs, the justly famous architect of the building in which they were kept, and +some coins bequeathed by Wise, the first Librarian. Two volumes of Clarendon +MSS. were bought for the Library in 1780, but were united some years since +to the mass of those papers preserved in the Bodleian. It was not until the +year 1811 that the Library was specially assigned to Medicine and Natural History. +(See <i>Report on the transfer of the Radcliffe Library to the Univ. Museum</i>, by +Dr. Acland, 1861.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_360_360" id="Footnote_360_360"></a><a href="#FNanchor_360_360"><span class="label">[360]</span></a> An account of this assignment and arrangement of the Radcliffe Library, as +also of the transfer of the Ashmolean books to the Bodleian, appeared in the +<i>Athenæum</i> for Jan. 1865, p. 20.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1861" id="AD_1861"></a>A.D. 1861.</h3> + +<p>One hundred and four volumes of Tamil MSS. were purchased; +as well as four Samaritan MSS. of the Pentateuch, of the twelfth +century, which had been brought to England by a native of +Samaria.</p> + +<p>The Syriac MSS. of the well-known Orientalist, Dr. Bernstein, +were purchased by the Delegates of the Press, with a view to +assisting in the great work of a Syriac Lexicon, upon which Mr. +(now Dr.) Payne Smith was (and still is) engaged.</p> + +<p>The printing of the Annual Catalogues of purchases was +discontinued, after the issue of the Catalogue for this year. +Written registers are now kept in the Library of all the books +bought in the course of each year; and only a list of benefactors, +with the statement of accounts, is annually printed for circulation +in the University and amongst donors.<!-- Page 297 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[Pg 297]</a></span></p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1862" id="AD_1862"></a>A.D. 1862.</h3> + +<p>A large collection of British Essayists and Periodicals was +presented by the late Rev. F. W. Hope, D.C.L., the munificent +benefactor to the University Museum, the founder of the Professorship +of Zoology, and the donor also of a large collection +of engraved portraits and other prints<a name="FNanchor_361_361" id="FNanchor_361_361"></a><a href="#Footnote_361_361" class="fnanchor">[361]</a>. The collection was one +which had been formed by John Thomas Hope, Esq., the donor's +father. It contains some 760 specimens of its class of literature, +belonging chiefly to the eighteenth century. Special thanks for +the gift were returned by Convocation, on Feb. 20. A catalogue, +which had been drawn up for Mr. Hope by Mr. Jacob Henry +Burn, containing notices in detail of the various publications, +was printed at the University Press, in 1865, in an octavo +volume.</p> + +<p>A Hebrew MS. of the Pentateuch, probably of the thirteenth +century, was bought for £32 10<i>s.</i> Some tracts relating to the period +of the Great Rebellion were bought at the sale of Dr. Bandinel's +extensive Caroline collection.</p> + +<p>On March 4, the Curators accepted the gift of a bust of Rev. +F. W. Robertson, late incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, +which had been purchased by subscription. It is now placed +in the Picture Gallery.</p> + +<p>A large number of purchase-duplicates, which had accumulated +during the course of many years, were removed from the Library +and sold by auction, in London, by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, +in May. Among them were some of great rarity. The +sale, which lasted five days, produced £766 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; of which +£110 5<i>s.</i> were given for a specimen of the St. Alban's press, the<!-- Page 298 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[Pg 298]</a></span> +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Rhetorica Nova</i> of Gul. de Saona, printed in 1489. A second +and smaller sale, containing many English works of the sixteenth +and seventeenth centuries, took place on April 12, 1865, at +which a copy of Chettle's <i>Kind-Harts Dreame</i> (1593), produced +£101, and Decker's <i>Guls Horne-Booke</i>, 1609, £81. The proceeds +of the whole sale amounted to £750 18<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> + +<p>The Rev. Alfred Hackman, M.A., Chaplain and Precentor of +Ch. Ch., and P. C. of St. Paul's, Oxford, and an Assistant in the +Library of twenty-five years' standing, was approved by Convocation, +on April 12, as Mr. Coxe's successor in the Sub-librarianship; +after a discussion, which led to the abrogation by Convocation, +in February, of a provision in the Statutes forbidding +the holding cure of souls in connection with that office or that +of Head-librarian without special licence from the Curators.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_361_361" id="Footnote_361_361"></a><a href="#FNanchor_361_361"><span class="label">[361]</span></a> These engravings are deposited in the gallery of the Radcliffe, under the charge +of a separate Keeper, the Rev. J. Treacher, M.A. They do not belong to the +Bodleian.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1863" id="AD_1863"></a>A.D. 1863.</h3> + +<p>Among the purchases made in this year were the following: +Card. Ximenes' rare treatise entitled <i>Crestia</i>, printed at Valentia +in 1483 (£25); Court-Rolls of Tamworth, Solihull, and other +neighbouring places, obtained from Mr. Halliwell; and a collection, +in three thick folio volumes, of placards, hand-bills, &c., +relating to the town of Coventry, formed by Mr. W. Reader, +a printer in that place.</p> + +<p>Capt. Montagu Montagu, R.N., who died at Bath, on July 3 +in this year, bequeathed a collection of about 700 volumes, in +various branches of literature, which was received at the Library +about the beginning of 1864. There are about ninety editions +and versions of the Psalter, with works on Psalmody, including +a metrical version by Capt. Montagu himself; a large number +of editions of Anacreon, Horace, Juvenal, Phædrus, Petrarch, +Boileau, and Fontaine's <i>Fables</i>; a few MSS. of Juvenal, Petrarch,<!-- Page 299 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[Pg 299]</a></span> +&c. with a large series of autograph letters, chiefly obtained at +Upcott's sale. There are, besides, a number of topographical and +biographical works illustrated, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">more Sutherlandico</i>, with additional +engravings, together with many parcels of separate prints arranged +for the same purpose. One item of particular interest which accompanied +the collection is a small sketch of Napoleon I, in profile, +admirably executed by the well-known Italian artist, Giuseppe +Longhi. It now hangs, framed and glazed, in the Library, together +with a letter from Longhi himself, in French, dated at Milan, +June 4, 1828, in which he narrates the occasion on which it +was taken. He attended, in 1801, at Lyons, as a member of +the '<span xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Consulte Cisàlpine</span>,' for the settling the affairs of the Republic +of Italy, under the presidency of the First Consul. It happened +that during the delivery of a long harangue, full of tedious flattery, +Napoleon sat <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">vis-à-vis</i> with the orator; and Longhi saw that +an opportunity for exercising the cunning of his pencil had come. +The light, which streamed in through the great window of the +Church (!) where they were assembled, brought out the profile very +clearly; there was little fear of being cut short by the speaker's +suddenly ceasing his declamation, or of being interrupted by movement +on the part of the unconscious subject of the operation, for +the latter sat immersed in thought upon matters far away, while +regarding the speaker with a pensive air; and so, while Napoleon +sat pondering, Longhi sat sketching. And everybody, he declares +with a pardonable pride, at Lyons and Paris, pronounced the +likeness to be excellent. A small bust of Napoleon, now placed +in the great window, came to the Library at the same time. A +catalogue of Capt. Montagu's books, comprising forty octavo +pages, was printed and circulated with the Annual Statement +for 1864.<!-- Page 300 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[Pg 300]</a></span></p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1864" id="AD_1864"></a>A.D. 1864.</h3> + +<p>The chief acquisitions in manuscript books were various Hebrew +volumes (for £159), and a series of letters to Malone from +Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Siddons, and others; and in printed books, +a perfect copy of Cromwell's Great Bible, printed by Grafton in +1539, which was bought of Mr. Fry, the well-known collector, +for £100.</p> + +<p>A sixth part of the general catalogue of MSS. was issued, +containing the Syriac, Carshunic and Mendean MSS., in number +205, which had been drawn up by Rev. R. Payne Smith, M.A., +and to which several facsimiles were appended. And the eighth +part, containing the Sanscrit MSS., in number 854, appeared +under the editorship of Theodore Aufrecht, M.A., now Professor of +Sanscrit in the University of Edinburgh. A first <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">fasciculus</i> of +this had been issued in 1859.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1865" id="AD_1865"></a>A.D. 1865.</h3> + +<p>At the beginning of January, a sale was held in London by +Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, of the stock of the late Mr. +William Henry Elkins, a bookseller, of 41, Lombard Street. At +this sale, the Library was the fortunate purchaser of what appears +to be a genuine <i>Shakespeare Autograph</i>. The book is Ovid's +<i>Metamorphoses</i>, printed by Aldus, at Venice, in October, 1502, +in octavo; and on the title is the signature 'W<sup>m</sup>. Sh<sup>r</sup>.' in a +hand bearing no resemblance whatever to that of the Ireland +forgeries, but not unlike that of the signature attached to Shakespeare's +will. Opposite to the title, on a leaf pasted down on +the original binding of the book, is the note, most certainly a +genuine memorandum of the date to which it professedly belongs, +of which a faithful facsimile is given with that of the autograph<!-- Page 301 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[Pg 301]</a></span> +itself, in the accompanying <a href="#LITHOGRAPH">lithograph</a><a name="FNanchor_362_362" id="FNanchor_362_362"></a><a href="#Footnote_362_362" class="fnanchor">[362]</a>. That the note itself +is no forgery is admitted by all who have examined it; the +volume, therefore, is certainly, by tradition, one which belonged +to the poet. The only question is, whether the name may not +have been forged in consequence of the existence of this note. +To this, which is the opinion of some, it may fairly be replied, +that, seeing no contracted form of Shakespeare's signature is +known to exist, a forger would hardly have invented one for the +occasion, but would have given the name in full; while, on the +other hand, if the signature be real, what more natural than that +a subsequent owner should record the tradition that the indefinite +'Sh<sup>r</sup>.' of this unimportant title-page was no other than the very +definite 'Shakspere' himself? The names mentioned in the note +are names, as every one knows, connected with the poet's history. +<i>Hall</i> was the marriage name of his daughter Susannah, to whom +he left his house in Henley Street; and one William Hall, a +glover, appears from the Stratford Records printed by Mr. Halliwell, +to have had a house in that street in 1660. He, doubtless, +was the donor of the volume. Susannah Hall's daughter, Elizabeth, +was married to a Thomas Nash, who died in 1647; but +though he died without issue, the initials 'T. N.' may well stand +for some member of the family who bore the same names. +That, therefore, a Hall should possess the book, and subsequently +give it to (most probably) a Nash, goes far to establish +its genuineness as a Shakespeare relic. In a full account of +the volume, supporting its pretensions, which appeared in the +<i>Athenæum</i> for Jan. 28, 1865 (p. 126), it was pointed out that +the two references to the story of Baucis and Philemon, which +are found in Shakespeare's Plays, show that he was not +unacquainted with the <i>Metamorphoses</i>. To this may be added +a better proof of his knowledge of Ovid's writings in the fact<!-- Page 302 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[Pg 302]</a></span> +that two lines from the <i>Amores</i> (I. xv. 35, 36) form the motto +to the <i>Venus and Adonis</i>. As the volume is somewhat dirty, and +has a well-worn air, it may possibly have been used by Shakespeare +during those school-keeping experiences of which Aubrey tells +us; possibly, however, the wear and tear may be due to an +older owner, who has plentifully interspersed his MS. notes in, +apparently, a foreign hand, on many of the pages. Owing to +a generally-entertained suspicion throughout the auction-room on +the occasion of the sale of the volume, that the autograph must +be a forgery, the Library became its possessor for the small sum +of £9<a name="FNanchor_363_363" id="FNanchor_363_363"></a><a href="#Footnote_363_363" class="fnanchor">[363]</a>!</p> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<a name="LITHOGRAPH" id="LITHOGRAPH"></a> +<a href="images/illus-310.jpg"><img src="images/illus-310_tn.jpg" width="328" height="400" alt="Shakespeare Autograph" title="Shakespeare Autograph - click for larger image" /></a> +<p class="center">[<a href="#text_alternative">see text alternative</a>]</p> +</div> + +<p>A small volume, containing several papers in the handwriting +of Luther, was bought for £45. The first edition of Coverdale's +New Testament, printed at Antwerp, by Matthew Crom, in 1538, +was added to the Biblical collection. Two interesting and important +series of newspapers were obtained; the one, a set (not +quite perfect) of the <i>London Gazette</i>, from 1669 to 1859, bought +for £200<a name="FNanchor_364_364" id="FNanchor_364_364"></a><a href="#Footnote_364_364" class="fnanchor">[364]</a>; and the other, a collection of London newspapers, +from 1672 to 1737, arranged in chronological order in ninety-six +volumes, obtained also for £200. This very curious collection +had been formed by Mr. John Nichols; its escape from destruction +by the disastrous fire at his printing-office in 1808, is mentioned +at p. 99 of the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for that year. It is accompanied +by a MS. index, drawn up by Mr. Nichols himself. Many +unknown contributions by Defoe to the journals of his time, have +recently been traced in this series by a gentleman who has made a +special study of the Defoe literature, Mr. W. Lee.</p> +<p><!-- Page 303 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[Pg 303]</a></span></p> +<p>Considerable assistance in completing the Library sets of the +Public and Private Acts of Parliament was afforded, in this year, +by the late Mr. W. Salt.</p> + +<p>Specimens of the first books printed in the Dyak language, +which were issued at Singapore in 1862, were given by Rev. J. +Rigaud, B.D., of Magdalene College.</p> + +<p>On the appointment of Dr. Jacobson to the See of Chester, +Mr. R. Payne Smith became his successor in the office of Regius +Professor of Divinity. Professor Max Müller, M.A., was thereupon +nominated to take Mr. Smith's place as the Sub-librarian in +special charge of the Oriental department, and the nomination +was confirmed in Convocation on Nov. 7.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_362_362" id="Footnote_362_362"></a><a href="#FNanchor_362_362"><span class="label">[362]</span></a> The lithograph represents the lower half of the title-page.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_363_363" id="Footnote_363_363"></a><a href="#FNanchor_363_363"><span class="label">[363]</span></a> The purchase of it, as of a relic 'which there is little doubt is genuine,' is +noticed in an article on Books and Book-collecting in the <i>Cornhill Magazine</i> +for Oct. 1867, p. 496.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_364_364" id="Footnote_364_364"></a><a href="#FNanchor_364_364"><span class="label">[364]</span></a> The only portions of the <i>London Gazette</i> previously to be found in the Library, +were of the reign of Charles II; and these only came by the transfer of the +Ashmolean Library.</p></div> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1866" id="AD_1866"></a>A.D. 1866.</h3> + +<p>There is not much to notice under this year, save that the +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Vulgaria quedam abs Terencio in Anglicam linguam traducta</i>, +printed at Oxford before 1483, was obtained, in a volume containing +also two tracts printed by J. de Westphalia, at the sale +of the library of Mr. Thomas Thomson, of Edinburgh, for £36. +Although complete in itself, it appears to have formed a part +of a larger work, as the signatures run from n. to q., in eights.</p> + + +<h3><a name="AD_1867" id="AD_1867"></a>A.D. 1867.</h3> + +<p>The closing year of these memorials is distinguished by the +acquisition of a volume described by Archdeacon Cotton, in his +<i>Typographical Gazetteer</i>, as being 'of the very highest rarity.' +It is a fine copy of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Breviarium Illerdense</i>, printed at Lerida, +in Spain, in 1479, by Henry Botel. Besides being remarkable +from its rarity, there is special interest attaching to the volume +from the fact that it was printed at the sole expense of the +bell-ringer of the cathedral! The colophon states that '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Antonius +Palares, campanarum ejusdem ecclesiæ pulsator, propriis<!-- Page 304 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[Pg 304]</a></span> +expensis fieri fecit</span>.' The volume was bought from Mr. Boone +for £36.</p> + +<p>A somewhat imperfect copy of the rare Bible printed at Edinburgh +by Arbuthnot and Bassandyne in 1579, being the first +edition printed in Scotland, was another purchase of the year; +as were also two thick volumes of recent transcripts of the +Stuart correspondence, preserved in the Imperial Library at +Paris.</p> + +<p>Within the last few years considerable attention has been paid +by the Librarian to the formation of a series of editions of the +English Bible. The number now collected is very large, and +approaches very nearly to a complete gathering of every edition +before 1800, which has any claim to regard either from date, +imprint, variety of size, correctness, or incorrectness. Early +Quaker tracts have also been largely collected, together with +editions of Cotton Mather's works and those of John Bunyan.</p> + +<p>A portrait of the Prince of Wales, in academic dress, painted +by Sir J. Watson Gordon, was presented towards the close of +the year to the University by the Prince, in memory of his +academic days, and now hangs conspicuously at the entrance +of the Picture Gallery, to which it forms the latest addition.</p> + +<p>Prof. Max Müller having resigned his Sub-librarianship on +account of health, the Rev. J. W. Nutt, M.A., Fellow of All +Souls' College, was approved by Convocation, on June 25, as +his successor in the charge of the Oriental department.</p> + +<p>The number of printed <i>volumes</i> at present in the Library may be +estimated at nearly 350,000. It was returned to Parliament, in 1848, +as about 220,000; and with a view to this return a calculation as +nearly accurate as possible was then made. An estimate has now +been made of the additions received since that date; and from this +it appears that some 79,500 volumes have been placed in the old +Library and 45,000 in the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Camera Radcliviana</i>, making a total for<!-- Page 305 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[Pg 305]</a></span> +the whole collection of about 345,000 volumes. Within the same +period about 5000 additional manuscripts have been obtained, +making a total of nearly 25,000. The number was returned in +1848 as being about 21,000, but this appears to have been somewhat +in excess of the fact. The proportion was singularly overestimated +in 1819, for Clarke, in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Repertorium Bibliographicum</i> +published in that year (p. 68), states that the Library contains +upwards of 160,000 volumes, of which 30,000 are manuscripts! +The annual rate of ordinary increase of printed books at present, +apart, of course, from the accession of any entire collection or +special purchase, may be reckoned at about 3000 volumes, exclusive +of magazines, of which two-thirds come from Stationers' +Hall under the provisions of the Copyright Act.</p> + +<p class="center" xml:lang="la" lang="la">Floreat Bibliotheca.</p> + + + +<hr class="long" /> +<p><!-- Page 307 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[Pg 307]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="APPENDIX_A" id="APPENDIX_A"></a>APPENDIX A.</h2> + + +<p><i>Account of the Muscovite Cloak mentioned at p. 40. Extracted from +vol. vi. of B. Twyne's Collections (among the University Archives), +f. 97.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p class="center">'<i>Mr. Smyth's Relation of the Tartar Lambskinne garment +in Bodleiana, Oxon.</i></p> + +<p>'Sir Rich. Lee, knight, about the later ende of the raigne of the +late Qu. Elizabeth, being by her Maiestie sent ambassador into +Russia, amongest other novelties of the cuntry found by the information +of the inhabitants, that in Tartaria, a cuntrie neere adioyning to +Muscovia and Russia, and vnder the gouernement of the Emperour of +Russia, there did some yeres growe out of the ground certaine livinge +creatures in the shape of lambes, bearinge wooll vppon them, very like +to the lambes of England, in this manner; viz., a stalke like the stalke +of an hartichocke did growe vp out of the ground, and vppon the toppe +thereof a budd, which by degrees did growe into the shape of a lambe, +and became a liuinge creature, resting vppon the stalke by the navell; +and as soone as it did come to life, it would eate of the grasse growinge +round about it, and when it had eaten vp the grasse within its reach +it would die. And then the people of the cuntry as they finde these +lambes doe flea of their skins, which they preserue and keepe, esteeminge +them to bee of excellent vse and vertue, especially against the +plague and other noysome diseases of those cuntries.</p> + +<p>'Vppon this information, Sir Rich. Lee was very desirous to haue +some of the skyns of these Tartar lambes for his money, which at that +time was not to be gotten for money; for that whensoeuer any of those +lambes were at any time found, it was very rarely; and then also when +they were found, they were presented to the Emperor, or to some +other great man of the cuntrie, as a present of great worthe.</p> + +<p>'At this time the Emperour had a gowne or longe cloake, made after +the fashion of that cuntrie with the skins of those Tartar lambes; which +garment the then Duke, and since Kinge, of Swethland was very +desirous to haue and offered great summes of money for, but could +by no meanes obtayne his desire.</p> + +<p><!-- Page 308 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[Pg 308]</a></span>'At this time also Sir Rich. Lee had an agatt of so great biggenesse +that he made thereof a pestle and a morter, whiche the Emperour +hauinge notice of, was desirous to haue for his money. Sir Rich. Lee, +vnderstandinge thereof, sent it to the Emperour as a present from him, +which the Emperour would not accept as a gift, neither would he haue +it but for his money. Sir Richard, beinge willinge the Emperour +should haue the pestle and the morter, yet lothe to playe the marchant +at that time, did therefore deliuer this pestle and morter, into the +hands and custodie of the Emperour's physitian to beate his physicke +in it for the Emperour; which manner of giuinge this pestle and +morter did so please the Emperour, as that he caused secret enquirie +to be made whether there were any thinge in those cuntries which +Sir Richard was desirous to haue, and by that means had notice that +Sir Richard had endeuoured to haue gotten some of their lambeskyns. +Wherevppon the Emperour, after Sir Richard had taken his leaue of +him, and had receaued a great gift of him as an Ambassador, and was +departed one dayes iourney toward England, the Emperour sent after +him the before mentioned garment so made with their Tartar lambeskyns +as aforesaide, and with it some fewe skynnes loose, and gaue +them all vnto him freelie.</p> + +<p>'Sir Richard Lee, travaylinge homewards, came to the Kinge of +Swethlandes court, who demaunded of him of diverse thinges of the +cuntrie of Muscovia; and, amongest other thinges, asked him whether +he had seene the aforesaid garment, and he answered, that he had +not only seene it, but had it in his possession; whereat the Kinge of +Swethland admired, sayinge he had longe laboured to get it for loue +or money, but could neuer obtayne it.</p> + +<p>'Sir Rich. Lee in this iourney had not onely gotten this garment and +Tartar lambeskyns, but diverse other rich furres and other rarities of +great price; the greatest part whereof the Queene tooke of him, and +promised him recompence for them, which she neuer performed; which +was partly the cause that he concealed this garment from her duringe +her life. And when Sir Rich. Lee died himselfe, he by his will gaue +it to the Library in Oxford, to be kept as a monument there, beinge, +as he conceiued, the fittest place for a jewell of so great worth and +æstimation as that is or ought to be.</p> + +<p>'Sir Rich. Lee was the neere kinseman of my wife; by reason whereof, +I was very familiarly acquaynted with him; and vppon conference +had with him about his trauayles at sundry times, I had the true +relation of all the premisses from his owne mouthe. And I comminge +to Oxford to the Act, and findinge this garment in Sir Tho. Bodley's +studdie or closet, without any expression made of the raritie or worth<!-- Page 309 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[Pg 309]</a></span> +of this garment, did discouer so much as I haue herein written to +Mr. Russe, the Keeper of the Library; at whose request I haue sett +it downe, in writinge. And in testimonie of the truthe thereof, I haue +herevnto subscribed my name, the 13th of July, 1624.</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in20">'EDWARD SMYTHE.</span><br /> +<br /> +'Transcribed out of the originall with Mr. Russe.<br /> +'This Mr. Smyth was a Counsellor of the Temple.'<br /> +</p> +</div> + +<p>It appears from this account that the box of scented wood ordered +by the Curators in 1614 had never been provided, and that the cloak +was already beginning to be neglected. Doubtless suspicion had been +early excited as to the truth of the traveller's story which had accompanied +the gift, and which could scarcely have obtained real credence +later than the days of Marco Polo or Sir John Mandeville. In the +Ashmolean Museum a painting is preserved which represents the +<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Agnus Scythicus</i> in its fabled state; a full-grown lamb poised on the +top of a vegetable stalk, with its legs dependent in the air<a name="FNanchor_365_365" id="FNanchor_365_365"></a><a href="#Footnote_365_365" class="fnanchor">[365]</a>. But the +key to the mystery is attached in the label on the frame: '<i>Polypodium +Barometz</i>. Linn.' It is, in truth, only a large fern found in Tartary, +of which the rhizoma is covered with the woolly fungus-like growth, +found in greater or less degree on many species of ferns. If the plant +be dug up and inverted, the roots being uppermost and the fronds +pendent, a strong imagination might find some resemblance in the +former to a wool-clad body, and in the latter to limbs, while some of +the young fronds with their spiral convolutions might be compared +to the horns of a ram, such as are duly represented in the painting +mentioned above. A specimen of the plant may be seen in the greenhouses +of the Botanic Garden, Oxford, where it is still known by the +name which the fable imposed, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Agnus Scythicus</i>. So great is the woolly +growth found upon one species of tree-fern in New Zealand, that (as +the writer was informed by Mr. Baxter, the Keeper of the Botanic +Garden) tons of it are yearly imported into this country for the purpose +of stuffing cushions. A finer and silkier substance is found on +a fern indigenous in Mexico.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_365_365" id="Footnote_365_365"></a><a href="#FNanchor_365_365"><span class="label">[365]</span></a> For acquaintance with this picture the author is indebted to Mr. Rowell, whose +scientific knowledge so well fits him for the post he worthily holds as Under-keeper +of the Ashmolean Museum. In Tradescant's Catalogue of the first contents of this +Museum as formed by himself, published in 1656, occurs 'a coat lyned with <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Agnus +Scythicus</i>,' but it does not now exist in the collection.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="long" /> +<p><!-- Page 310 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[Pg 310]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="APPENDIX_B" id="APPENDIX_B"></a>APPENDIX B.</h2> + + +<p class="center"><i>List of Books printed on Vellum, which have been added to the +Library since the year 1830<a name="FNanchor_366_366" id="FNanchor_366_366"></a><a href="#Footnote_366_366" class="fnanchor">[366]</a>.</i></p> + +<p>1460. <i>Clementis VIII Constitutiones, cum glossa Jo. Andreæ.</i> Ed. Pr. +fol. Mogunt., Petr. Schoiffer de gernssheim. Bought in 1838 for 45<i>l.</i></p> + +<p>1468. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Justiniani Institutiones.</i> Ed. Pr. fol. Mogunt. per Petr. Schoyffer +de Gernssheym. Bought in 1834 for 52<i>l.</i> 10<i>s.</i></p> + +<p>1476. <i>Historia Naturale da Plinio, trad, per Chr. Landino.</i> fol. Ven. +Nic. Janson. The borders at the commencement of each book, with +the principal initial letters, are exquisitely painted and illustrated with +the portrait and arms of Ferdinand II of Sicily, to whom the work +was dedicated, as well as those of — Strozzi, for whom this copy was +probably executed. Bequeathed by Mr. Douce. Exhibited in the +glass case at the end of the Library.</p> + +<p>1480. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Breviarium Eduense</i>, 4to. by order of Card. John Rolin, +Bishop of Autun, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Symon de Vetericastro eius Secretarius, parisius +hoc breviarium cum pluribus similibus imprimi fecit</span>.' Bought in 1838 +for 2<i>l.</i> 4<i>s.</i></p> + +<p>1481. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Missale Parisiense.</i> Ed. Pr. fol. Par., Jo. de Prato et Desid. +huym. Bought in 1842 for 10<i>l.</i> 10<i>s.</i></p> + +<p>1482. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Ordo Psalterii cum hymnis et canticis suis.</i> Small 4to. Ven. per +Nicolaum Girardenguz. From the Canonici collection.</p> + +<p>1484. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Officium diurnum secundum morem monachorum congregationis +Sancte Justine, ord. S. Benedicti.</i> 8vo. Ven. per Bern. de Benaliis (&c.). +Bought in 1843 for 1<i>l.</i> 14<i>s.</i></p> + +<p>1493. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Pars hyemalis breviarii fratrum Observantialium, ord. S. Benedicti, +per Germaniam.</i> 8vo. <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">impensis Georii Stōchs ex Sulczbach, civis +Nurembergensis</span>. Bought in 1841 for 14<i>s.</i></p> + +<p><i>S. A.</i> A small duodecimo book of prayers, in German, without any +title; with woodcuts. Printed with the types of Hans Schönsperger, +of Augsburg. Bequeathed by Mr. Douce.</p> + +<p>1500, Aug. 14. <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Heures a lusage de</i> [<i>Tours</i>; the name left blank]. 8vo. +Paris, pour Anthoine Verard. With illuminations. Bought in 1844 +for 6<i>l.</i><!-- Page 311 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[Pg 311]</a></span></p> + +<p>1502. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Breviarium secundum regulam beati Hysidori.</i> Fol. Toleti, jussu +Card. Fr. Ximenes, per Petr. Hagembach. Bought in 1853 for 200<i>l.</i> +See p. <a href="#Page_280">280</a>.</p> + +<p>1505. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Breviarium secundum usum Herford.</i> 8vo. Rothom., per Inghilbertum +Haghe. Bequeathed by Gough.</p> + +<p>1514. <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Le Chevalier de la tour et le guidon des guerres; par Geoffroy +de la Tour-Landry.</i> Fol. Par., pour Guill. Eustace. Bequeathed by +Mr. Douce.</p> + +<p>1522. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Libri quattuor magnorum Prophetarum; his adduntur Threni</i>, +&c. 12mo. Par., Petrus Vidoveus. Given by Rawlinson.</p> + +<p>1529. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">S. Joannes Chrysostomus in omnes Epistolas S. Pauli</i>; Gr. 3 vols. +fol. Ven. Bought in 1843 for 45<i>l.</i></p> + +<p>1629. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Rituale monasticum secundum consuetudinem congregationis Vallisumbrosæ.</i> +Fol. Florent. Bought in 1843 for 7<i>l.</i> 17<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i></p> + +<p>1642. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Bibliotheca Eliotæ.</i> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Eliotis Librarie.</i> Londini, anno Verbi incarnati +M.D.XLII. A fragment, consisting of title, Proheme to Henry +VIII in English, address to the reader in Latin, and table of errata; in +all, five leaves.</p> + +<p>1859. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Rotulus Clonensis, ex orig. in Registro Eccl. Cath. Clonensis, editus +cura Ric. Caulfield.</i> The first book printed at Cork on vellum, and the +only one so printed. Given by Dr. Caulfield in 1865.</p> + +<p>1861. <i>The Souldier's Pocket Bible</i>; an exact reprint of the original +edition of 1643, with a prefatory note by George Livermore. 12mo. +Cambridge [U.S.], printed for private distribution. This copy was +given by Mr. Livermore to Archd. Cotton, and by him to the Library. +It was reprinted from a copy in the possession of the editor; only one +other is known to exist.</p> + +<p>1866. <span class="note" title="Heb: spr tgn">ספר תגן</span> <i>Sepher Taghin</i>: <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Liber Coronularum, ex unico +bibl. Paris. cod. MS. a B. Goldberg descriptum, nunc primum +edidit, adjectis ad calcem libri aliquot exceptis ex alio codice ejusdem +bibl. inedito</span>, J. J. L. Barges, S. Theol. facult. Paris. doctor. 8vo. +Lut. Par.</p> + +<p>1867. <span class="note" title="Heb: m'sh nmym">מעשה נמים</span> Edited by Dr. B. Goldberg, from Pococke +MS. 238. 8vo. Paris. The only vellum copy printed. Bought for 3<i>l.</i></p> + +<p><i>N. D. Geological Map of the Environs of Oxford</i>; by C. P. Stacpoole. +Bought in 1850 for 1<i>l.</i> 3<i>s.</i></p> + +<hr /> + +<p>The following vellum-printed <i>Horæ</i> were all bequeathed by Mr. +Douce:—</p> + +<p>1498. <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Les heures a lusaige de Rome.</i> 4to. Par., pour Simon Vostre.</p> + +<p><!-- Page 312 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[Pg 312]</a></span></p><p>—— —— 4to. Par., per Gillet Hardouyn.</p> + +<p>1498. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hore secundum usum Sarum.</i> 8vo. Par., per Phil. Pigouchet.</p> + +<p>1499. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Officium B. M. V. in usum Romane ecclesie.</i> 8vo. Lugd. Bon. de boninis.</p> + +<p>1501. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hore Virg. Mar. secundum usum Romanum.</i> 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver.</p> + +<p>[1501.] <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Les heures a lusaige de Rome.</i> 8vo. Par., Simon Vostre.</p> + +<p>1502. —— By the same printer.</p> + +<p>1504. —— 8vo. Par., Anth. Chappiel.</p> + +<p>1505. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Officium B. M. V. in usum Rom. eccl.</i> 8vo. Ven., Lucantonius de Giunta.</p> + +<p>1508. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hore secundum usum Romanum.</i> 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver.</p> + +<p>—— —— 8vo. Par., Guill. Anabat.</p> + +<p>1511. —— 8vo. Par., Theilman Kerver.</p> + +<p>[1512.] <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Les heures a lusaige de Rome.</i> 8vo. Par., per Joh. de Brie.</p> + +<p>[1512.] <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Heures a lusaige de Sens.</i> 4to. Par., Jehan de brye.</p> + +<p>1514. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Orationes et hore in usum Romanum.</i> 4to. (Aug. Vind.) per Jo. Schönsperger.</p> + +<p>—— Another edition by the same printer in the same year, but without name or date.</p> + +<p>1517. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Horæ ad usum Romanum.</i> 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver.</p> + +<p>1522. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Horæ secundum usum Romanum.</i> 4to. Par., Thielman Kerver.</p> + +<p>[1522.] <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Les heures a lusaige de Rome.</i> 8vo. Par., par Germ. Hardouyn.</p> + +<p>1526. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Horæ secundum usum Romanum.</i> 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver.</p> + +<p>1527. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hore in laudem B. V. Marie, secundum consuetudinem ecclesie Parisiensis.</i> 8vo. Par., <span xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">per Sim. du bois</span>.</p> + +<p>[1528.] <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Horæ, secundum usum Romanum, cum multis suffragiis et orationibus de novo additis.</i> 8vo. Par., Germ. Hardouyn.</p> + +<p>1529. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Horæ in laudem, B. Mar., secundum usum Romanum.</i> 8vo. Par., apud Gotofr. Torinum.</p> + +<p><i>S. A.</i> <i>Hore B. Marie.</i> 8vo. M. E. Jehannot.</p> + +<p><i>S. A.</i> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hore secundum usum Romanum.</i> 8vo. Par., G. Hardouyn.</p> + +<p>—— Another edition by the same printer.</p> + +<p><i>S. A.</i> <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Les heures a lusaige de Rome.</i> 4to. Par., per Guill. Godar.</p> + +<p><i>S. A.</i> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hore secundum usum Sarum.</i> 4to. Rich. Pynson.</p> + +<p><i>S. A.</i> <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Les heures a lusaige Dangiers.</i> 8vo. [Par.] Simon Vostre.</p> + +<p><i>S. A.</i> <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Heures a l'usaige de Soissons.</i> 8vo. [Par.] Simon Vostre.</p> + +<p><i>S. A.</i> <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Heures de nostre dame en Francoys et en Latin.</i> 4to. Par., Anth. Verard.</p> + +<p><i>S. A.</i> <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Heures.</i> 8vo. Par., Anth. Verard.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_366_366" id="Footnote_366_366"></a><a href="#FNanchor_366_366"><span class="label">[366]</span></a> Supplemental to the list appended to Archdeacon Cotton's <i>Typographical +Gazetteer</i> in 1831. That numbered 180 separate books; the present additions +amount to fifty-four, of which all but nineteen are in the Douce collection.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="long" /> +<p><!-- Page 313 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[Pg 313]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="APPENDIX_C" id="APPENDIX_C"></a>APPENDIX C.</h2> + +<p class="center"><i>List of MSS. formerly in the possession of Cathedrals, Monasteries, +Colleges, and Churches in England, Scotland, and Ireland</i><a name="FNanchor_367_367" id="FNanchor_367_367"></a><a href="#Footnote_367_367" class="fnanchor">[367]</a>.</p> + +<ul> +<li>Aberdeen Cathedral. Ashmole, 1474.</li> +<li>Abingdon. Digby, 39, 146, 227 (fine Missal, with Calendar).</li> +<li>—— John Crystall, Monk of. Rawlinson, C. 940.</li> +<li>Alban's, St. Auct. F. II. 13;</li> +<li class="indent1">Bodl. 569;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Lat. 67;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 279, 358, 363, 370, 409;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, C. 31;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, Auct. 99 (obtained through Brother Hugh Legat, and given by Abbot John Stoke).</li> +<li>—— Sub-prior. Bodl. 467.</li> +<li>—— Sub-sacrist. Ashmole, 1796.</li> +<li>Alvingham, Linc. Laud Misc. 642.</li> +<li>Athdare, Kildare. Rawlinson, C. 320.</li> +<li>Barking. Laud Lat. 19.</li> +<li>Beauvale, or Bellavalle, Notts. Douce, 114.</li> +<li>Bedford. The Minorites. Laud, 176 (given by John Grene, D.D. in 1471).</li> +<li>Belvoir, Linc. E Mus. 249.</li> +<li>Bilsington, Kent. Bodl. 127 (given by John, Vicar of Newchurch).</li> +<li>Bordesley, Warwickshire. Bodl. 168.</li> +<li>Boxgrave, Sussex. Rawlinson, A. 411.</li> +<li>Bradsole, near Dover, Priory of St. Radegund. Rawlinson, B. 336.</li> +<li>Bridlington. Auct. D. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">infra</i>, II. 7;</li> +<li class="indent1">Bodl. 357.</li> +<li>Byland, or Bellaland, Yorkshire. Bodl. 842 (bought from a carpenter);</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 149.</li> +<li>Canterbury, Ch. Ch. Bodl. 214, 379;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 165;</li> +<li class="indent1">Tanner, 18, 223;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, C. 168 (Missal, given by Archbp. Warham).</li> +<li>—— W. Bonyngton, a monk, 1483. Rawlinson, B. 188.</li> +<li>—— Another monk. Bodl. 648.</li> +<li>—— St. Augustine's. Bodl. 299, 381, 391, 464, 600;</li> +<li class="indent1">E Mus. 223;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Lat. 65;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 225, 296;</li> +<li class="indent1">Wood Donat. 13;</li> +<li class="indent1">Ashmole, 1431;</li> +<li class="indent1">Barlow, 32;</li> +<li class="indent1">Hatton, 94;</li> +<li class="indent1">Maresch. 33;</li> +<li class="indent1"><!-- Page 314 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[Pg 314]</a></span>Rawlinson, C. 7, 117, 159.</li> +<li>Carlisle Cathedral. Bodl. 728.</li> +<li>—— (a House at). Laud Misc. 582.</li> +<li>Chichester Cathedral(?). Bodl. 142. ('de dono Seffri. Episc.')</li> +<li>Cirencester, St. Mary's Abbey. Barlow, 48.</li> +<li>Cokersand, Lanc. Rawlinson, C. 317.</li> +<li>Coventry Cathedral. Digby, 33 (given by Rich. Luff, monk).</li> +<li>—— St. Mary's Priory. Auct. F. III. 9.</li> +<li>Cropthorn, Worc. Rector in 1279. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 169.</li> +<li>Croyland. Rawlinson, C. 531.</li> +<li>Dore, Hereford. Laud, 138;</li> +<li class="indent1">E Mus. 82.</li> +<li>Dover Priory. Bodl. 920 (Catalogue of the Library).</li> +<li>—— Hosp. of St. Bartholomew. Rawlinson, B. 335.</li> +<li>Dublin, Cathedral of Ch. Ch. or Holy Trinity. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 185 (a magnificent Psalter, written by direction of Prior Stephen de Derby; see p. <a href="#Page_179">179</a>).</li> +<li>—— Abbey of St. Thomas. Rawlinson, B. 500.</li> +<li>—— Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Rawlinson, B. 498.</li> +<li>—— St. Mary's Abbey, near Dublin. Rawlinson, B. 495, C. 60;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, Misc. 1137.</li> +<li>—— Church of St. John Evang. Misc. Liturg. 337.</li> +<li>Dulci Corde, or Sweet-Heart, Galloway. Fairfax, 5, (belonged to 'Dervorgoyl de Bayll'[iol], the foundress of this house, and of Balliol College. Bought by Fairfax at Edinburgh in 1652).</li> +<li>Dumfermline (?). Fairfax, 8.</li> +<li>Dunbrothy, Wexford. Rawlinson, B. 494.</li> +<li>Durham Cathedral (St. Cuthbert). Laud Lat. 12;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 368, 489;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, C. 4.</li> +<li>—— Thomas Dune, a monk. Douce, 129.</li> + +<li>Edmund's, Bury St. Bodl. 216, 240, 297, 715, 737, 860;</li> +<li class="indent1">E Mus. 6, 7, 8, 9, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 36, 112;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 742;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, C. 697 (all between the 11th and 13th century);</li> +<li class="indent1">Misc. Liturg. 310 (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Martyrologium</i>; given by Rich. Fuller, Chaplain, and Rich. Aleyne, Kerver, in 1472. Bequeathed by Rawlinson).</li> +<li>Ely. Laud, 112.</li> +<li>Evesham. Auct. D. I. 15;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Lat. 31;</li> +<li class="indent1">Barlow 7 (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Officia Eccles.</i>);</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 16.</li> +<li>Exeter Cathedral. Auct. D. II. 16, F. III. 6;</li> +<li class="indent1">Bodl. 579, 708 (these given by Leofric);</li> +<li class="indent1">Auct. D. I. 7 and 12 (given by Hugh, Archd. of Taunton), 9 (given by Adam de St. Bridget, Chanter), 13, 18;</li> +<li class="indent1">D. II. 8;</li> +<li class="indent1">D. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">infra</i>, II. 9(?);</li> +<li class="indent1">D. III. 10, 11 (?);</li> +<li class="indent1">Auct. F. I. 15;</li> +<li class="indent1"><!-- Page 315 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[Pg 315]</a></span>Bodl. 92, 137, 147, 148, 149, 150, 162 (given by Richard Brounst, Vicar Choral), 206, 272, 273, 279, 286, 287, 289, 311, 314, 315, 333, 335, 377, 380, 393,</li> +<li><span class="text-in2">463 (given by the Executors of Bp. Lacy), 482, 691, 707, 708, 717, 718, 720, 725, 732, 738, 744 (given by the Executors of Dr. John Snetesham), 748, 749, 786, 810, 829 (given by the Executors of Bp. Lacy), 830, 865.</span></li> +<li class="indent1">Wood Donat. 15 (given by Executors of John Snetesham, D.D., Canon and Chancellor, 1448).</li> +<li>Exeter. Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Laud, 156.</li> +<li>Finchale, Durham. Laud Misc. 546.</li> +<li>Ford, Devon. Laud Misc. 606.</li> +<li>Fountains' Abbey. Ashmole, 1398, 1437;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 310, 619.</li> +<li>Gainford, Durham. Thomas Heddon, Vicar. Rawlinson, A. 363.</li> +<li>Garendon, Leic. Ashmole, 1516.</li> +<li>Gisburne, Yorkshire. Laud Lat. 5.</li> +<li>Glastonbury. Laud Lat. 4;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 128 (belonged to Thomas Wason, Abbot).</li> +<li>Hanworth (Middlesex?); Richard, Rector. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 165.</li> +<li>Hatfield Peverel, Essex. Rawlinson, B. 189 (given by John Bebseth), Prior.</li> +<li>Hereford Cathedral. Rawlinson, C. 67.</li> +<li>—— Vicars Choral. Rawlinson, C. 427.</li> +<li>—— The Minorites. Hatton, 102.</li> +<li>Hexham ('Hextildesham'). Bodl. 236.</li> +<li>Hickling, Norfolk. Tanner, 194, 425.</li> +<li>Holme Cultram, Cumb. (S. Mar. de Holmo);</li> +<li class="indent1">Hatton, 101.</li> +<li>Jorevall, Yorkshire. Bodl. 514.</li> +<li>Kenilworth, or Kelyngworth, Warw. Auct. F. III. 13 (bequeathed by John Alward, Rector of Stoke Bruerne).</li> +<li>Kilmainham, Dublin. Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Rawlinson, B. 501.</li> +<li>Kingswood, Wilts. E Mus. 62.</li> +<li>Kirkstall. Laud Lat. 69;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 216;</li> +<li class="indent1">E Mus. 195.</li> +<li>Langley, Norfolk. Bodl. 242 (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Registrum</i>).</li> +<li>Leedes, Kent. Bodl. 406.</li> +<li>Leicester, St. Mary of the Meadows. Laud Misc. 623, 625.</li> +<li>Lesnes, or Lyesnes, or Westwood, Kent. Bodl. 656;</li> +<li class="indent1">Douce, 287.</li> +<li>Lichfield Cathedral. Ashmole, 1518.</li> +<li>London, St. Paul's Cathedral. Digby 89 ('<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Liber Magistri Thomæ Lysiaux, decani Sancti Pauli</span>').</li> +<li>—— The Carmelites. Laud Lat. 87.</li> +<li>—— '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Domus Salutationis Matris Dei, ord. Carthus.</span>;' <i>i.e.</i> The Charter-House. Douce, 262.</li> +<li><!-- Page 316 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[Pg 316]</a></span>—— Hosp. of St. Mary of Elsyng, now Sion College. E Mus. 113.</li> +<li>Louth Park, Linc. Fairfax, 17.</li> +<li>(Ludlow Parish Church. <i>Printed Book</i>, D. 2. 13. Art. Seld.<a name="FNanchor_368_368" id="FNanchor_368_368"></a><a href="#Footnote_368_368" class="fnanchor">[368]</a>)</li> +<li>Maxstoke, Warwickshire. Bodl. 182.</li> +<li>Merton, Surrey. Digby, 147;</li> +<li class="indent1">Ashmole, 1522.</li> +<li>—— John Ramsey, Canon of. Seld. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">supra</i>, 39.</li> +<li>Missenden, Bucks. Auct. D. I. 10;</li> +<li class="indent1">Bodl. 729.</li> +<li>Mottenden, or Motynden, Kent. Bodl. 643 (bought by Brother Richard de Lansyng in 1467 for 26<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i>)</li> +<li>Muchelney, Somerset. Rich. Coscumbe, Prior. Ashmole, 189. ii.</li> + +<li>New Place, Sherwood. Laud Lat. 34;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 428.</li> +<li>Norwich Cathedral (Holy Trinity). Bodl. 151, 787;</li> +<li class="indent1">Fairfax, 20;</li> +<li class="indent1">Douce, 366, (see <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">infra</i>, p. <a href="#Page_329">329</a>.)</li> +<li>Nutley, or Notley Abbey, Bucks. Douce, 383, iii.</li> +<li>Oseney, Oxford. Bodl. 655;</li> +<li class="indent1">Digby, 23 (bequeathed by Henry de Langley);</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, C. 939 (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Officia Eccles.</i>).</li> +<li>Osyth, St., Essex. Laud Misc. 329.</li> +<li>Oxford, Balliol College. Bodl. 252.</li> +<li>—— Exeter College. Bodl. 42;</li> +<li class="indent1">Digby, 57<a name="FNanchor_369_369" id="FNanchor_369_369"></a><a href="#Footnote_369_369" class="fnanchor">[369]</a>.</li> +<li>—— (Hertford College. <i>Printed Tracts</i> on the Bangorian Controversies, 8vo. I. 237, BS.)</li> +<li>—— Lincoln College. Bodl. 198 ('<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">ex dono doctoris Thome Gascoigne</span>').</li> +<li>—— Merton College. E Mus. 19 (given by William, Bishop of Chichester);</li> +<li class="indent1">Bodl. 50 (bequeathed by Thomas English), 689 and 757 (given by Henry Sever, Warden, in 1468), 700 and 751 (given by Richard Fitz-James, Bishop of Chichester);</li> +<li class="indent1">Digby, 155 (given by John Burbache), 216;</li> +<li class="indent1">Ashm. 835. (<i>Printed Book</i> S. 9. 14. Th<a name="FNanchor_370_370" id="FNanchor_370_370"></a><a href="#Footnote_370_370" class="fnanchor">[370]</a>.).</li> +<li>—— St. Edmund Hall. Rawlinson, C. 900 (given by Hen. VIII).</li> +<li>—— St. Mary's College. Bodl. 637.</li> +<li>—— Staple Hall. Ashmole, 748.</li> +<li>—— The Minorites. Digby, 90 (given in 1388, by John de Teukesbury, with the assent of Thos. de Kyngusbury, 'Minister Angliæ').</li> +<li><!-- Page 317 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[Pg 317]</a></span>—— (name cut off), Bodl. 215.</li> +<li>Paignton Parish, Devon. Rawlinson, C. 314 (Canons of Bishop Quivil).</li> +<li>Pershore. Bodl. 209;</li> +<li class="indent1">Barlow, 3;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, C. 81.</li> +<li>Pesholme (? Will. Marschalle, Chaplain of). Bodl. 857.</li> +<li>Peterborough Cathedral. Barlow, 22; (see <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">infra</i>, p. <a href="#Page_328">328</a>.)</li> +<li>Pipewell, Northampt. Rawlinson, A. 388.</li> +<li>Pleshey, Essex, Trinity College. Bodl. 316.</li> +<li>Pontefract, Holy Trinity Hospital. Barlow, 49.</li> +<li>Ramsey. Bodl. 883.</li> +<li>—— Welles, a monk of. Bodl. 857.</li> +<li>Reading, St. Mary's Abbey. Auct. Digby, B. N. 11;</li> +<li class="indent1">Digby, 148, 200;</li> +<li class="indent1">Bodl. 125<a name="FNanchor_371_371" id="FNanchor_371_371"></a><a href="#Footnote_371_371" class="fnanchor">[371]</a>, 197, 200 (given by W. de Box), 241, 257, 550, 570, 713, 730 (?) 772, 781, 848;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 79, 91, 725;</li> +<li class="indent1">Auct. D. I. 19;</li> +<li class="indent1">D. II. 12;</li> +<li class="indent1">D. III. 12, 15;</li> +<li class="indent1">Auct. F. III. 8;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">infra</i>, I. 2;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, A. 375.</li> +<li>Robertsbridge, Yorkshire. Bodl. MS. 132 (written by Will. de Wodecherche, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">laicus quondam conversus Pontis Roberti</span><a name="FNanchor_372_372" id="FNanchor_372_372"></a><a href="#Footnote_372_372" class="fnanchor">[372]</a>').</li> +<li>Roche, or de Rupe, Yorkshire. Rawlinson, C. 329.</li> +<li>Rochester Cathedral. Laud Misc. 40.</li> +<li>Rossevalle, Kildare. Rawlinson, C. 32 (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Ordo servitii</i>).</li> +<li>Salisbury Cathedral. Digby, 173 (given by Peter Fadir, Vicar Choral<a name="FNanchor_373_373" id="FNanchor_373_373"></a><a href="#Footnote_373_373" class="fnanchor">[373]</a>);</li> +<li class="indent1">Bodl. 407, 516, 756, 765, 768, 835;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, C. 400 (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Pontificale</i>, given by Bishop Martivall).</li> +<li>Selby. Fairfax, 12.</li> +<li>Sempringham. Douce, 136(?)</li> +<li>Shene, Surrey, Carthusian Priory. Bodl. 797;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, C. 57 (8vo. H. 36 Th. BS., a book printed in 1608, belonged apparently to some foreign branch of this house: 'Domus Shene Anglorum').</li> +<li>Sherston, Wilts, The Church (in 1577). Bodl. 733.</li> +<li><!-- Page 318 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[Pg 318]</a></span>Shrewsbury, St. Chad. Rawlinson Misc. 1131. (<i>Martyrol.</i> and <i>Obit.</i>)</li> +<li>Sion, or Syon, Middlesex. Bodl. 630.</li> +<li>Southwark, St. Mary Overy. Ashmole, 1285.</li> +<li>—— John de Lecchelade, a Canon. Rawlinson, B. 177.</li> +<li>Stafford, St. Mary. Auct. F. V. 17;</li> +<li class="indent1">Hatton, 74.</li> +<li>—— The Minorites. Auct. F. V. 18.</li> +<li>Stafford, St. Thomas, near. Auct. F. III. 10.</li> +<li>Staindrop, Durham, The College. Rawlinson, A. 363 (given by Thos. Heddon, Vicar of Gainford, in 1515).</li> +<li>Tattershall, Linc. Bodl. 419.</li> +<li>Thorney, Cambr. Bodl. 680;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 364;</li> +<li class="indent1">Tanner, 10.</li> +<li>Titchfield, Hants. Digby, 154.</li> +<li>Towcester, Northampt., H. Malyng, Provost. Bodl. 731.</li> +<li>Trentham, Staff. Laud Misc. 453.</li> +<li>Tynemouth. Laud Misc. 657.</li> +<li>Valle Crucis, De, Denbigh. E Mus. 3.</li> +<li>Waltham. Laud Lat. 109;</li> +<li class="indent1">Laud Misc. 515;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 62 (given by Peter, Archdeacon of London);</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson, C. 330.</li> +<li>Wardon, Bedfordshire. Laud Misc. 447.</li> +<li>Warter, Yorkshire. Fairfax, 9.</li> +<li>Waverley, Surrey. Bodl. 527.</li> +<li>Westminster Abbey. Rawlinson, C. 425 (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Pontificale</i>).</li> +<li>Winchcombe, or Winchelcumbe, Glouc. Douce, 368.</li> +<li>Winchester Cathedral ('<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Domus S. Swythini</span>'). Bodl. 767.</li> +<li>Windsor. Bodl. 208, 822.</li> +<li>Witham, or Wytham, Somerset. Bodl. 801 ('<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Ex dono Joh. Blacman</span>').</li> +<li>Worcester Cathedral. Auct. F. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">infra</i>, I. 3;</li> +<li class="indent1">Digby, 150(?);</li> +<li class="indent1">Bodl. 861 (removed in 1590), 868;</li> +<li class="indent1">Junius, 121.</li> +<li>—— '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Fratres Prædicatores</span>.' Rawlinson, C. 780.</li> +<li>York Minster(?) Rawlinson, C. 775.</li> +<li>—— Succentor(?) Douce, 225.</li> +<li>—— St. Mary's Abbey. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 11;</li> +<li class="indent1">Arch. A. Rot. 21; (see p. <a href="#Page_329">329</a>.)</li> +<li>—— Hosp. of St. Leonard. Rawlinson, B. 455.</li> +</ul> + +<p>[Many of Laud's MSS. came from a Carthusian Monastery near +Mentz, and from the Monastery of Eberbach, in the Duchy of Baden. +It is worth mentioning that No. 233 amongst his Miscellaneous MSS. +belonged to John Lydgate, and No. 576 to John Foxe. Several others +had been previously in the possession of Archbp. Usher, and of Lindsell, +Bishop of Peterborough.</p> + +<p>No. 76 of Digby's MSS. was bought by Dr. John Dee, at London, +May 18, 1556, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">ex bibliotheca Joh. Lelandi</span>.']</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_367_367" id="Footnote_367_367"></a><a href="#FNanchor_367_367"><span class="label">[367]</span></a> This list does not profess to be complete. But it is believed to comprehend +most of the MSS. which afford distinct evidence of former ownership of this kind.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_368_368" id="Footnote_368_368"></a><a href="#FNanchor_368_368"><span class="label">[368]</span></a> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Picus Mirandula de Providentia Dei</i>, 1508. Given to the library of the +Church by Rich. Sparchiford, Archdeacon of Salop, Oct. 19, 1557. It had previously +belonged to Linacer.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p xml:lang="la" lang="la"><a name="Footnote_369_369" id="Footnote_369_369"></a><a href="#FNanchor_369_369"><span class="label">[369]</span></a> 'Hunc librum emit ... a magistro Philips, rectore collegii Exon, a<sup>o</sup>. Xi. +1468, una cum volvella solis et lunæ.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_370_370" id="Footnote_370_370"></a><a href="#FNanchor_370_370"><span class="label">[370]</span></a> <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Galani Conciliatio Eccl. Armenæ cum Romana</i>, 1650. It is satisfactory to be +able to add, that the Bodleian obtained this book, as Bishop Booth obtained the +Robertsbridge MS. (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">infra</i>) '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">modo legitimo</span>;' a memorandum records that it was +'bought of Fletcher the bookseller.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_371_371" id="Footnote_371_371"></a><a href="#FNanchor_371_371"><span class="label">[371]</span></a> On the last leaf of this MS. there is a list, faintly written with a style, of some +twenty MSS. (including '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">triplices cantus</span>' for the organ), written by one monk, to +which the memorandum is added: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Hec sunt opera fratris W. de Wic̄b. per quadriennium +apud Leom.</span> (<i>i.e.</i> Leominster, a cell to Reading) <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">commorantis</span>.' The list +commences, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Nota quod frater W. de Wic̄b</span>. (<i>probably Wicumbe</i>), <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">precibus domini +J. de Abbend. tunc precentoris, hortatu vero et precepto domino R. de Wygorn. +tunc supprioris, collectarium cotidianum secundum usum Rading correxit et de +duobus unum fecit</span>.' The book may have belonged to either Reading or Leominster.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_372_372" id="Footnote_372_372"></a><a href="#FNanchor_372_372"><span class="label">[372]</span></a> The usual anathema is subjoined on any one stealing the book from the house +of St. Mary '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">de Ponte Roberti</span>,' or in any part mutilating it; which is followed +by this self-exculpatory note on the part of a subsequent possessor: '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Ego Johannes, +Exon. episcopus, nescio ubi est domus prædicta, nec hunc librum abstuli, sed modo +legittimo adquisivi</span>.' This <i>John</i> would seem to be John Booth, who was Bishop of +Exeter from 1466 to 1479.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_373_373" id="Footnote_373_373"></a><a href="#FNanchor_373_373"><span class="label">[373]</span></a> The name of Peter Fader is found also in MS. Arch. Seld. B 26.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="long" /> +<p><!-- Page 319 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[Pg 319]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="APPENDIX_D" id="APPENDIX_D"></a>APPENDIX D.</h2> + +<p class="center"><i>List of MSS. and Miscellaneous Objects of interest exhibited in the +Library.</i></p> + + +<h3>GLASS CASE NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE LIBRARY.</h3> + +<p>1. A Telugu MS. on palm-leaves, brought from India by Sir Thos. +Strange, formerly Chief Justice of Madras, together with a style employed +for writings of this kind, and a pocket-knife. Given by Sir T. +Strange's daughter, Mrs. Edmund Foulkes, in 1864.</p> + +<p>2. Drawings and engravings of Buddhist idols; brought from a Joss-house +in a Llama monastery in Pekin, in 1862, and given to the Library +by Lieut.-Col. Gibbes Rigaud, of the 60th Rifles.</p> + +<p>3. Autograph book of distinguished visitors.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This book commences at the year 1820. Among the autographs which it contains +may be mentioned the following in particular:—</p></div> + + +<ul><li>Her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 8, 1832, with the Duchess of Kent; Dec. 12,</li> +<li>1860.</li> + +<li>The Prince Consort, June 15, 1841; June 4, 1856; Jan. 9, 1857 (in company</li> +<li>with his three eldest children); Dec. 12, 1860.</li> + +<li>Prince of Wales, Jan. 9, 1857; March 27, 1860; June 18, 1863.</li> + +<li>Princess of Wales, June 18, 1863.</li> + +<li>Duke of Wellington, Oct. 20, 1835 (in company with Q. Adelaide); Sept. 14,</li> +<li>1839; June 15, 1841; Aug. 20, 1844.</li> + +<li>Gul. Gesenius, Aug. 5, 1820.</li> + +<li>Sir John Franklin, 1829.</li> + +<li>Sir D. Wilkie, June 14, 1834.</li> + +<li>Bishop Selwyn, June 30, 1837.</li> + +<li>Chevalier Bunsen, Jan. 24, 1839; Aug. 20, 1844.</li> + +<li>Princes of Ashantee, June 10, 1840.</li> + +<li>Henry Hallam, Oct. 16, 1840.</li> + +<li>Bishop of Malabar, Mar Athanasius Abdelmesih, June 12, 1841.</li> + +<li>M. Berryer, Nov. 23, 1843.</li> + +<li>W. H. Prescott, June 24, 1850.</li> + +<li>Alfred Tennyson, June 21, 1855.</li> + +<li>A Siamese Prince, June 29, 1858.</li> + +<li>Lord Brougham, June 20, 1860.</li> +<li><!-- Page 320 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[Pg 320]</a></span>Lord Palmerston, July 2, 1862.</li> + +<li>Queen Emma of Honolulu, Aug. 14, 1865.</li> + +<li>Chinese Ambassadors, June 7, 1866.</li> +</ul> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Until the year 1861 it was also the custom for all graduates of Cambridge and +Dublin who were admitted <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">ad eundem</i> to enter their names in this book; it is to +this custom that we owe possession of the signature of the ex-Metropolitan of New +Zealand<a name="FNanchor_374_374" id="FNanchor_374_374"></a><a href="#Footnote_374_374" class="fnanchor">[374]</a>.</p></div> + +<p>4. <i>New Testament</i>, said to be bound in a piece of a waistcoat of King +Charles I. See p. <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.</p> + +<p>5. Another, bound by the Sisters of Little Gidding. See p. <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.</p> + +<p>6. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Xiphilini Epitome Dionis Nicæi</i>; Gr. 4to. Par. printed by Rob. Stephens, +1551. Bound in a handsomely tooled and gilt calf binding, in +the Grolier style, with the badge of Dudley, Earl of Leicester, viz. the +Bear and Ragged Staff, in the centre. Bequeathed by Selden.</p> +<p><!-- Page 321 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[Pg 321]</a></span></p> +<p>7. <i>Bacon's Essays</i>; in a worked binding. See p. <a href="#Page_51">51</a>.</p> + +<p>8. Specimen of the early <i>Block-books</i>, or books printed from engraved +blocks before the invention of moveable types; being the Apocalypse, +represented in a series of rudely-engraved scenes, with short explanatory +descriptions.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This is a copy of the edition called by Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Principia +Typographica</i>, the Second; it belonged to Mr. Douce, who bought it for thirty-one +guineas at Mr. Inglis' sale<a name="FNanchor_375_375" id="FNanchor_375_375"></a><a href="#Footnote_375_375" class="fnanchor">[375]</a>.</p></div> + +<p>9. The first book printed from moveable types; being a very fine +copy, of the grand Latin Bible, printed by Gutenberg at Mentz about +1455. See p. <a href="#Page_202">202</a>.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A copy was sold at the auction of the library of the Duke of Sussex, in 1844, +for the moderate sum of £190; when the same copy, however, was re-sold at the +auction of the library of Dr. Daly, Bishop of Cashel, in 1858, it produced no less +than £596.</p></div> + +<p>10. A copy of the first book printed in the English language, being <i>The +Recuyell of the Histories of Troy</i>, printed by Caxton, most probably at +Bruges, about 1472.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This copy wants three leaves; it was given to the Library in 1750, by James +Bowen, a painter of Shrewsbury, well known as a local antiquarian. A second copy, +which wants seven leaves, is also in the Library. A copy, wanting forty-four leaves, +was sold at Utterson's sale in 1852 to the Earl of Ashburnham for £155.</p></div> + +<p>11. The English Bible, translated by Myles Coverdale from the +Vulgate, and printed abroad in 1535.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This copy of the first complete Bible printed in our language, is one of the +largest and soundest known to be in existence, although, like almost all other copies, +it wants the title. It was formerly in the possession of Selden. A facsimile title, +engraved by Mr. Fry, of Bristol, from the Marq. of Northampton's copy, accompanies +it, together with another leaf in facsimile, from the Earl of Leicester's copy. +Another and more imperfect copy came to the Library among the books<!-- Page 322 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[Pg 322]</a></span> +bequeathed by Mrs. Denyer. In 1854 a copy nearly perfect, having only two +leaves in facsimile by Mr. Harris, was sold at Mr. Dunn Gardner's sale for the +large sum of £364; and a very imperfect copy was sold for £190 in 1857.</p></div> + +<p>12. Hieronymus (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">rectius</i>, Rufinus) <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">de Symbolo Apostolorum</i>; printed +at Oxford in 1468. See p. <a href="#Page_111">111</a>.</p> + +<p>13. Latin verses in the autograph of Milton. See p. <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</p> + +<p>14. The original MS. of Addison's <i>Letter</i> (in verse) <i>from Italy to Lord +Halifax</i>.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A Rawlinson MS.</p></div> + +<p>15. Letter from Alex. Pope to H. Cromwell, Esq.; dated July 15, 1711.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The same volume contains various other letters from the same to the same, which +were printed by Curll in 1727; one by Dryden, three by J. Norris of Bemerton, +three short notes from Young, and several letters by Ladies Hester Pakington and Mary +Chudleigh. It belongs to the Rawlinson collection of MSS.</p></div> + +<p>16. Letter from Archbp. Laud to Sir W. Boswell, the English +Resident at the Hague; dated from Lambeth, Nov. 26, 1638.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>It refers to libels printed in Holland, and particularly to one against Laud, supposed +to be then printing at Amsterdam, entitled, <i>The Beast is Wounded</i>. 'I thanke +God I trouble not myselfe much with these things; but am very sorry for the +Publicke, which suffers much by them.' Bought in 1863 at a sale at the Hague +for £7 17<i>s.</i>, together with a letter on diplomatic business signed by Sir Thomas +Bodley, and dated at the Hague, April 11, 1589, which is now bound in the same +volume.</p></div> + +<p>17. Archbp. Laud's formal Letter of resignation of his office as +Chancellor of the University, signed by himself, and dated from the +Tower, June 22, 1641. In Latin; on parchment.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Endorsed by Ant. à Wood with this memorandum: 'Given to me by Rob. Whorwood, +of Oxon, Gent., 29 Feb., 1679<a name="FNanchor_376_376" id="FNanchor_376_376"></a><a href="#Footnote_376_376" class="fnanchor">[376]</a>.'</p></div> +<p><!-- Page 323 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[Pg 323]</a></span></p> +<p>18. Lord Clarendon's Letter, resigning the same office upon his +going into exile; written in a secretary's hand, but signed by himself. +Very touching and beautiful. It runs as follows:—</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in12">'For Mr. Vicechancellor of Oxford.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="text-in2">'Good Mr. Vicechancellor,</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Having found it necessary to transport myselfe out of England, and not knowing +when it will please God that I shall returne againe; it becomes me to take care +that the University may not be without the service of a person better able to be +of use to them, then I am like to be; and I doe therefore hereby surrender the +office of Chancellor into the hands of the said University, to the end that they +make choyce of some other person better qualifyed to assist and protect them +then I am, I am sure he can never be more affectionate to it. I desire you, as +the last suite I am like to make to you, to believe that I doe not fly my Country +for guilt, and how passionately soever I am pursued, that I have not done any +thing to make the University ashamed of me, or to repent the good opinion they +had once of me, and though I must have noe farther mention in your publique +devotions (which I have alwayes exceedingly valued) I hope I shall be alwayes remembred +in your private prayers as</p></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in12">'Good Mr. Vicechancellor,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in20">'Your affectionate servant,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in22">'CLARENDON.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="text-in2">'Calice, this 7/17 Dec. 1667.'</span><br /> +</p> + + +<p>19. A volume of the Papers of W. Bridgeman, Under-secretary of +State to James II (bequeathed to the Library by Dr. R. Rawlinson; +<i>see p. <a href="#Page_173">173</a></i>), open at a leaf containing the original declaration written +and signed by the Duke of Monmouth, on the day of his execution, +of the nullity of his claim to the Crown.</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in2">The following is a copy:—</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'I declare y<sup>t</sup> y<sup>e</sup> title of King was forct upon mee, & y<sup>t</sup> it was very much contrary +to my opinion when I was proclam'd. For y<sup>e</sup> satisfaction of the world I doe +declare that y<sup>e</sup> late King told mee that Hee was never married to my Mother.</p> + +<p>'Haveing declar'd this I hope y<sup>t</sup> the King who is now will not let my Children +suffer on this Account. And to this I put my hand this fifteenth day of July, 1685.</p> + +<p> +<span class="text-in22">'MONMOUTH.</span><br /> +<br /> +'Declar'd by Himselfe, & sign'd in the presence of us.<br /> +<br /> +<span class="text-in12">'Fran. Elien. [<i>Turner</i>].</span><br /> +<span class="text-in12">'Tho. Bath & Wells [<i>Ken</i>].</span><br /> +<span class="text-in12">'Tho. Tenison.</span><br /> +<span class="text-in12">'George Hooper.'</span><br /> +</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Beside it is placed the Proclamation of James II, ordering the apprehension of all +persons dispersing the Declaration issued by Monmouth upon his landing in England; +dated but one short month previously, June 15, 1685.</p> + +<p>The same volume contains two letters from Monmouth to the King, begging for +his life, and one to the Queen. These have been frequently printed.</p></div> + +<p>20. A Sanscrit roll, written at the end of the last century, containing<!-- Page 324 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[Pg 324]</a></span> +extracts from the <i>Bhagavadgita</i>; with paintings representing the incarnations +of Vishnu, &c.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>In a wooden case. One of the Frazer MSS.</p></div> + +<p>21. A magnificent folio volume, containing a series of illustrations +of Scripture History from Genesis to Job; written about the beginning +of the fourteenth century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Each page contains, in double columns, four pairs of miniatures painted, in +medallion-form, upon a gorgeous ground of gold; the first of each pair represents +some historical scene, which the second treats allegorically, and applies to the +condition of the Church or of individual Christians. Two other volumes are to be +found in the British Museum, and in the Imperial Library at Paris.</p></div> + +<p>22. A small oaken platter, bearing the following inscription: 'This +Salver is part of that Oak in which his Majesty K. Charles the 2d, Concealed +himself from the Rebells, and was given to this University by +Mrs. Lætitia Lane.'</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The donor was the daughter of Col. John Lane, the chief agent in the King's +escape from Worcester; she died in 1709<a name="FNanchor_377_377" id="FNanchor_377_377"></a><a href="#Footnote_377_377" class="fnanchor">[377]</a>.</p></div> + +<p>23. Specimen of Javanese writing, being a letter from a Javanese +Chief to the Resident of Soorabaya. The seal bears the date of 1780.</p> + +<p>24. Small specimen of an Arabic MS.</p> + +<p>25. A fragment in large Persian characters.</p> + +<p>26. A specimen of Malabaric writing, upon a palm-leaf, three feet +in length. 'Aug. 9, 1630. <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Ex dono Jo. Trefusis, generosi Cornubiensis, +e Coll. Exon.</span>'</p> + +<p>27. A Russian painting upon a shell, representing a female saint +called S. Parasceve, <span title="Grk: hê hagia Paraskeuê" class="note" xml:lang="grc" lang="grc">ἡ ἁγια Παρασκευη</span>, who is found in the Greek +Menology, but whose history is believed by the Bollandists to be a +pious fiction.</p> + +<p>28. A Hebrew <i>Bible</i>, beautifully written in the fourteenth century; +in triple columns, with the Masoretic commentary written in very +minute characters, and frequently in fantastic figures, round each page.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>One of the Oppenheimer MSS.</p></div> + +<p>29. <i>Horæ.</i> An illuminated MS. of the middle of the fifteenth +century, in 4to., probably by a French scribe and artist.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>From the Canonici collection.</p></div> + +<p>30. Another MS. of the <i>Hours</i>, in folio, of the fifteenth century, +beautifully illuminated, with many miniatures varying in the treatment +of some of the scenes which they represent from the common type.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Traditionally said, but on what evidence does not appear, to have belonged to +Henry VIII.</p></div><p><!-- Page 325 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[Pg 325]</a></span></p> + +<p>31. A third fifteenth-century MS. of the <i>Hours</i>, in 8vo.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>From the Rawlinson collection.</p></div> + +<p>32. A fourth MS. of the <i>Hours</i>, very early in the fifteenth century, +or about the close of the fourteenth.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Also from the Rawlinson collection. All these copies of the <i>Horæ</i> appear to be +of French execution.</p></div> + +<p>33. A pair of long white leather gloves, worked with gold thread, +which were worn by Queen Elizabeth when she visited the University +in 1566<a name="FNanchor_378_378" id="FNanchor_378_378"></a><a href="#Footnote_378_378" class="fnanchor">[378]</a>.</p> + +<p>34. A Latin exercise book, in 4to., which appears to have been +filled up by Edward VI and his sister Elizabeth, jointly.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Sentences written by the former are dated from Jan. 1548-9 to Aug. 1549. +The boy-monarch has written his own name in several parts of the book. It came +to the Bodleian '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">ex dono doctissimi viri P. Junii, Bibliothecarii Regii, A.D. 1639.</span>' +Patrick Young also gave another book in Edward's handwriting in folio, containing +Greek and Latin phrases, written very neatly in 1551-1552<a name="FNanchor_379_379" id="FNanchor_379_379"></a><a href="#Footnote_379_379" class="fnanchor">[379]</a>.</p></div> + +<p>35. Mexican Hieroglyphics; painted on a long skin of leather.</p> + +<p>36. The Book of <i>Proverbs</i>, written by Mrs. Esther Inglis. See p. <a href="#Page_48">48</a>.</p> + +<p>37. Two Runic Primstaves, or wooden Clog-Almanacks: one in the +form of a walking stick; the other, an oblong block, with a handle. +See pp. <a href="#Page_105">105</a>, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>An engraving of the second may be found in the <i>Anglican Church Calendar +illustrated</i>, published by Messrs. Parker. And a description of these primitive +Calendars is given by Plot in his <i>Natural History of Staffordshire</i>, 1686, pp. 418-432, +where there is an engraving of a Clog which was still in use in Staffordshire at +that time.</p></div> + +<p>38. Eight small wooden tablets, apparently a pocket-edition of a +Clog-Almanack, with very quaint figures.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Given by Archbp. Laud.</p></div> + +<p>39. The Book of <i>Enoch</i>, in Æthiopic. See p. <a href="#Page_267">267</a>.</p> + +<p>40. A Persian poem, by Jami, on the history of Joseph and +Potiphar's wife. Written A.D. 1569, and decorated with some very +good paintings and arabesque borders<a name="FNanchor_380_380" id="FNanchor_380_380"></a><a href="#Footnote_380_380" class="fnanchor">[380]</a>.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>One of Greaves' MSS.</p></div><p><!-- Page 326 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[Pg 326]</a></span></p> + +<p>41. A specimen of Telugu writing on palm-leaves; being an almanack +for the year 1630.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Given by Archbp. Laud.</p></div> + +<p>42. A French panegyrical poem, presented to Queen Elizabeth, +in 1586, by Georges de la Motthe, a French refugee; with a prefatory +address in prose.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Enriched with an exquisite portrait of the Queen, in all the grandeur of her wide +circumference, and with golden hair of very <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">prononcée</i> hue; and with a great variety +of beautifully-executed monograms, symbols, &c. around each page. The binding is +richly tooled and covered with designs; while in the centre on either side, protected +by glass, are brilliant bosses, said to be composed of humming-birds' feathers.</p> + +<p xml:lang="la" lang="la">'Ex dono ornatissimi, simul ac optimæ spei, juvenis D. Johannis Cope, armigeri, +equitis aurati, baronetti f. natu maximi, olim Reginensis Oxon, Almæ Matris ergô. +4 Cal. Jan. 1626.'</p> + +<p>On a fly-leaf at the end is attached a fragment from some English theological +treatise, in wonderfully minute, although clear, handwriting.</p></div> + +<p>43. The <i>Koran</i>, on a long and narrow roll, very elegantly written +in minute characters.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Given by Archbp. Laud.</p></div> + +<p>44. A Syriac fragment, on three leaves of paper.</p> + +<p>45. A specimen of Chinese printing, on rice-paper.</p> + +<p>46. A specimen of the Papyrus-plant, in its natural state.</p> + +<p>47. A fine MS. of the <i>Koran</i>, from the library of Tippoo Sahib at +Seringapatam.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Given by the East India Company in 1806; see p. <a href="#Page_208">208</a>.</p></div> + +<p>48. A small Egyptian mummy-figure, of baked clay.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Given by Archbp. Laud.</p></div> + +<p>49. A Burmese MS., written in large black characters on thirty-nine +gilded palm-leaves.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Taken from a priest's chest in an idol-house of the deserted village of Myanoung, +on the Irawaddy, thirty-five miles below Prome, April 17, 1825.' Given by Rev. +Joseph Dornford, Oriel College, Nov. 8, 1830.</p></div> + + +<h3>IN THE OPPOSITE, OR NORTH, WING.</h3> + +<p>A large glass case containing a series of MSS. executed by English +scribes, arranged chronologically, so as to exhibit the progress and +development of the arts of caligraphy and illuminating in England.<!-- Page 327 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[Pg 327]</a></span> +This case was added by the present Librarian three or four years ago. +The following are its contents:—</p> + +<p>1. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of the treatise <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De cura pastorali</i> +of Pope Gregory the Great, being the copy sent by the King to +Werfrith, Bishop of Worcester.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Given by Lord Hatton; see p. <a href="#Page_100">100</a>.</p></div> + +<p>2. A beautiful Latin <i>Psalter</i> of the tenth century, written in Anglo-Saxon +characters, with an interlinear translation, and decorated with +grotesque initial letters.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Junius MS. 37. The volume is frequently called <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Codex Vossianus</i>, from its +having been in the possession of Isaac Voss, who gave it to Junius. Facsimiles are +given by Professor Westwood, in his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Palæographia Sacra</i>, and in his new and +splendid book of <i>Fac-similes of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and +Irish MSS</i><a name="FNanchor_381_381" id="FNanchor_381_381"></a><a href="#Footnote_381_381" class="fnanchor">[381]</a>.</p></div> + +<p>3. The <i>Four Gospels</i>, in Latin, written in Anglo-Saxon characters, +about the beginning of the eleventh century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Noticed in Westwood's <i>Miniatures</i>, &c. (<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">ut supra</i>), p. 123.</p> + +<p>It appears to have belonged to the abbey at Barking, a gift of tithes at Laleseie, +by Adam, son of Leomar de Cochefeld, being entered on a leaf at the end by order +of the abbess Ælfgiva. Now numbered Bodl. 155.</p></div> + +<p>4. The famous <i>Anglo-Saxon metrical paraphrase</i> of parts of Genesis, +Exodus, Daniel, &c. by Cædmon<a name="FNanchor_382_382" id="FNanchor_382_382"></a><a href="#Footnote_382_382" class="fnanchor">[382]</a>; illustrated, as far as Abraham's +journey into Egypt, with a very curious series of drawings.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The MS. is considered to have been written about A.D. 1000. The latest description +of the volume is in Westwood's magnificent book of <i>Fac-similes</i>. See p. <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.</p></div> + +<p>5. The <i>Psalter</i>, <i>Canticles</i>, &c., in Latin, with a Calendar; written in +the first half of the eleventh century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Noticed in Westwood's <i>Miniatures and Ornaments</i>, &c., p. 122. Douce, 296.</p></div> + +<p>6. A twelfth-century volume containing, besides various historical +works, a <i>Bestiary</i>, or Natural History of Beasts, illustrated with very +curious drawings.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Given by Archbp. Laud.</p></div><p><!-- Page 328 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[Pg 328]</a></span></p> + +<p>7. A <i>Bestiary</i> of the beginning of the thirteenth century, enriched +with many very curious paintings upon a ground of brilliant gold.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Ashmole, 1511.</p></div> + +<p>8. Another <i>Bestiary</i>, of slightly later date, illuminated in the same +manner.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Bodl. 764.</p></div> + +<p>9. The <i>Apocalypse</i>, illustrated in a series of very curious drawings, +lightly coloured. Executed about 1250.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>These illuminations have been pronounced by Mr. Coxe, to be, with little or no +doubt, executed by the same hand as those of MS. Ee. III. 59. in the University +Library, Cambridge, a volume which contains a Life of Edward the Confessor, in +French verse, and which was printed in 1858, under the editorship of H. R. Luard, +M.A., in the series of Chronicles published under the authority of the Master of the +Rolls. In this Life is found a particular description of Westminster Abbey, which +is not elsewhere met with, and it is consequently inferred that the writer was a +monk of that church. And in the course of the restorations which are now being +carried on in the Chapter House (which was built about 1250), a series of mural +paintings, illustrating the history of St. John, has been brought to light, one of +which is a representation similar to that in the Bodley MS. of St. John 'ante portam +Latinam,' and in both cases the cauldron bears the same inscription of '<i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Dolium +ferventis olei</i>.'</p></div> + +<p>10. A <i>Primer</i>, written about the middle of the fourteenth century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The arms of Edw. III (England 1 and 4, France 2 and 3) are painted on the first +leaf. One of Rawlinson's MSS.</p></div> + +<p>11. A beautiful <i>Psalter</i>, which belonged to Peterborough Cathedral.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Psalterium fratris Walteri de Rouceby,' followed by the Canticles, Athanasian +Creed, Litany, &c. A Calendar is prefixed, with Peterborough obits, from which +it appears that Rouceby died May 4, 1341. A series of nineteen miniatures, +illustrating the life of our Blessed Lord and of the Virgin Mary, precedes the +Psalter. The arms of Edward III appear at the head of Ps. i. One of Bp. Barlow's +MSS.; in 1604 it belonged to one John Harborne.</p></div> + +<p>12. A <i>Psalter</i>, with Canticles, Hymns, &c., written in the latter half +of the fourteenth century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Apparently one of Rawlinson's MSS.</p></div> + +<p>13. '<i>Ye Dreme of Pilgrimage of ye Soule</i>, translated out of French +[of G. Guilevile] into Inglissh, with somwhat of addicions of ye translatour, +ye zeere of our Lord, 1400.' Illustrated with curious coloured +drawings.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A precursor of Bunyan's <i>Pilgrim's Progress</i>, with which it has been compared. +It was printed by Caxton in 1483, and his edition was reprinted in 1859.</p> + +<p>This MS. was given to the Library, apparently in Bodley's time, by Sir James +Lee, Knt.</p></div> + +<p>14. <i>Commentary on the Passion of our B. Lord</i> ('Scripta super totam<!-- Page 329 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[Pg 329]</a></span> +Passionem Christi a quatuor Evangelistis formatam'), by Michael de +Massa, of the order of Augustinian Hermits.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Written (as a final colophon records) by Ralph de Medyltone at Ingham (Suffolk?), +A.D. 1405, for Sir Miles de Stapiltone. A drawing of the Crucifixion at the +beginning. Bodl. MS. 758.</p></div> + +<p>15. '<i>The Mirroure of the Worlde</i>, that some calleth Vice and Vertu;' +translated from the Latin of Laurence the Frenchman (Laur. Gallus), +and illustrated with some drawings of remarkable grace and spirit, +supposed to be by some Flemish artist.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A MS. of the early part of the fifteenth century; on paper. Bodl. 283.</p></div> + +<p>16. <i>Horæ</i>, formerly in the possession of Queen Mary I. See p. <a href="#Page_42">42</a>.</p> + +<p>17. <i>Treatise of Roger Bacon</i>, 'de retardacione accidentium senectutis;' +with two drawings. Middle of the fifteenth century. Bodl. MS. 211.</p> + +<p>18. An English astrological Calendar, in six divisions, folded for the +pocket; written in the latter half of the fourteenth century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Extremely curious; contains prognostications of the weather, fatality of the +seasons, &c., accompanied with innumerable figures of saints, illustrations of prognostics, +the symbols found on the Runic Clog-Almanacks, the occupations of the +several months, the signs of the Zodiac, and two quaint figures respectively +labelled 'Harry ye Haywarde' with his dog 'Talbat,' and 'Peris ye Pyndare.' +Formerly kept in a tin box. It contains the following note by T. Hearne: +'Oct. 17, 1719. This strange odd book (upon which I set a very great value, +having never seen the like) was given me by the Rt. Reverend Father in God +William [Fleetwood] Lord Bishop of Ely, to whom I am oblig'd upon many other +accounts.'</p></div> + +<p>19. An <i>Historical Roll</i>, upwards of thirteen feet long, showing the +descent of the English Kings, from the expedition of Jason in search +of the Golden Fleece to the accession of Edward I (1272). Formerly +belonging to the Abbey of St. Mary at York.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Illustrated with representations of various scenes up to the landing of Brute in +the Isle of Wight, and thenceforward with portraits of the monarchs.</p></div> + +<p>20. <i>Map of the Holy Land</i>, on a paper roll, nearly seven feet long; +written, apparently, in the first half of the fifteenth century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>In the Douce collection. Engraved in facsimile during the past year, 1867, for +the Roxburghe Club, to illustrate the Itineraries of William Wey, which were +edited by Rev. G. Williams, B.D., for the same Club, from Bodl. MS. 565, in 1857. +The Map in many points agrees very closely with the latter, but contains also some +discrepancies, and is somewhat earlier in date.</p></div> + +<p>21. A <i>Psalter</i>, with the usual Canticles, Litany, &c.; written about +the middle of the fourteenth century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This magnificent volume was given by Robert de Ormesby, a monk of Norwich, +to the choir of the Cathedral Church, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">ad jacendum coram Suppriore qui pro tempore +fuerit inperpetuum</span>.' It is illustrated with illuminations most beautifully executed,<!-- Page 330 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[Pg 330]</a></span> +but, at the same time, containing the most grotesque and profanely inappropriate +figures, resembling those sometimes found on the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Misereres</i> of collegiate churches. +It is bound in a large covering of sheepskin, which by overlapping the volume has +no doubt greatly contributed to preserve its freshness and beauty of condition. A +facsimile from one page is to be found in Shaw's <i>Illuminated Ornaments</i>, 1833, +with a description by Sir F. Madden. It belongs to the Douce collection.</p></div> + +<hr /> + +<p>In a separate glass case adjoining the preceding (in which was formerly +exhibited a fine specimen of the typography of the Royal Press +at Berlin, in a German Bible given by the King of Prussia) is now +displayed a fine Bible printed at Glasgow in 1862, in two folio volumes, +and illustrated with very beautiful photographs by Frith, which was +called the Queen's Bible from its being dedicated by permission to +Her Majesty.</p> + +<p>In a glass case in the adjoining window is a German Bible, printed +in 1541, with texts on the fly-leaves in the handwriting of Luther +and Melanchthon, whose signatures, although much defaced by some +possessor, are still very legible. See p. <a href="#Page_245">245</a>.</p> + + +<h3>IN A GLASS CASE, WEST END OF THE LIBRARY.</h3> + +<p>1. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Plinii Historia Naturalis</i>; in folio. Printed 1476.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>From the Douce collection. See p. <a href="#Page_250">250</a>.</p></div> + +<p>2. <i>Breviary</i> and Psalter according to the use of the Carthusian Order; +written about 1480.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A specimen of Italian art, from the Canonici collection.</p></div> + +<p>3. <i>Horæ B. M. Virg.</i> 12mo. An exquisite MS., of the school of +Albert Durer, executed for Bona Sforza. See p. <a href="#Page_249">249</a>.</p> + +<p>4. <i>Psalter</i>, on purple vellum, written about the close of the ninth +century. From the old library of the kings of France. See p. <a href="#Page_249">249</a>.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A MS. of the <i>Horæ</i>, written on purple vellum, about 1500, is among the +Canonici MSS.</p></div> + +<p>5. <i xml:lang="it" lang="it">Boccaccio's Il Filocalo</i>; in folio, of the fifteenth century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A beautiful MS., with five exquisite miniatures, and interlaced arabesque borders +of the richest character. A facsimile, with a notice of the book, will be found +in Shaw's <i>Illuminated Ornaments</i>. From the Canonici collection.</p></div> + +<p>6. <i>Horæ</i>, quarto; fourteenth century. A beautiful book.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>From the Douce collection.</p></div> + +<p>7. <i>Horæ</i>, small quarto; end of the fifteenth century. The illuminations +possess exquisite softness and delicacy.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Also from the Douce collection.</p></div> + +<p>8. <i>The Miracles of the B. Virgin</i>, in French. A Douce MS., in folio,<!-- Page 331 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[Pg 331]</a></span> +executed about 1460, for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and +enriched with most beautiful paintings of the tint called '<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Camaieu gris</i>'.</p> + +<p>9. <i>Horæ</i>, in quarto. A beautiful Douce book, the work of a French +scribe in and about the year 1407.</p> + +<p>10. <i>Horæ</i>, in duodecimo. Another gem from the Douce collection, +executed about the year 1500, for the Emperor Maximilian and Mary +of Burgundy his wife.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The margins are adorned with charming figures of birds, and in one instance a +border is filled with representations of pottery and glass.</p></div> + +<p>11. <i>Horæ</i>, in quarto, of the commencement of the sixteenth century; +from the Douce collection. An exquisite specimen of Flemish art. +It belonged to Mary de Medici.</p> + +<p>12. <i>Horæ</i>, in small folio. A most sumptuous volume, executed about +1410. The illuminations are of the school of Van Eyck.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The borders of birds, butterflies, flowers, landscapes, &c., are marvels of nature +in art; and many of the initials are distinguished by the utmost delicacy in design +and finish in execution. Also from the Douce collection.</p></div> + +<p>13. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Quatuor Evangelia</i>; commencement of the seventh century. +See p. <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.</p> + +<p>14. <i>Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria</i> to Charles I before their marriage; +in French.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The volume forms part of the Clarendon State Papers, and contains fifteen of +the Queen's letters, besides some from the King, and other documents.</p></div> + +<p>15. <i>Latin Translation by Queen Elizabeth</i>, while Princess, of an Italian +sermon by Bern. Ochini, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">De Christo</i>; written entirely by herself, and +sent as a New-year's gift to her brother Edward VI<a name="FNanchor_383_383" id="FNanchor_383_383"></a><a href="#Footnote_383_383" class="fnanchor">[383]</a>.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>It forms a small 8vo. volume of thirty-six pages, on vellum, and was given to +the Library by J. Bowle, of Idmerston, Aug. 15, 1765. The following dedication +(hitherto unprinted) is prefixed by the Princess:—</p> + +<p xml:lang="la" lang="la">'Augustissimo et serenissimo Regi Edvardo Sexto. Si aliquid hoc tempore +haberem (Serenissime Rex) quod mihi ad dandum esset accommodatum, & Maiestati +tuæ congruens ad accipiendum, equidem de hac re vehementer lætarer. Tua +Maiestas res magnas & excellentes meretur, et mea facultas exigua tantum suppeditare +potest, sed quamvis facultate possim minima, tamen animo tibi maxima +prestare cupio, & quum ab aliis opibus superer, a nemine amore & benevolentia +vincor. Ita iubet natura, authoritas tua commouet, & bonitas me hortatur, ut cum +princeps meus sis te officio obseruem, & cum frater meus sis vnicus & amantissimus, +intimo amore afficiam. Ecce autem pro huius noui anni felici auspicio, & observantiæ +meæ testimonio, offero M. T. breuem istam Bernardi Ochini orationem, ab eo +Italicè primum scriptam, & a me in latinum sermonem conuersum. Argumentum<!-- Page 332 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_332" id="Page_332">[Pg 332]</a></span> +quum de Christo sit, bene conuenire tibi potest, qui quotidie Christum discis, & +post eum in terris proximum locum & dignitatem habes. Tractatio ita pia est +& docta, ut lectio non possit non esse vtilis et fructuosa. Et si nihil aliud commendaret +opus, authoritas scriptoris ornaret satis, qui propter religionem et Christum +patria expulsus, cogitur in locis peregrinis & inter ignotos homines vitam traducere. +Si quicquam in eo mediocre sit, mea translatio est, quæ profecto talis non est qualis +esse debet, sed qualis a me effici posset. At istarum rerum omnium M. tua inter +legendum iudex sit, cui ego hunc meum laborem commendo, & vna meipsam etiam +dedico, Deumque precor vt M. tua multos nouos & felices annos videat & lucris ac +pietate perpetuo crescat. Enfeldiæ, 30 Decembris.</p> + +<p xml:lang="la" lang="la"> +<span class="text-in12">'Maiestatis tuæ,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in12">'humill. soror,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in12">'& serua,</span><br /> +<span class="text-in12">'Elizabeta.'</span><br /> +</p></div> + +<p>16. A Persian treatise, in prose and verse, on ethics and education, +entitled, <i>Beharistan, or, The Season of Spring</i>; by Nurruddin Abdurrahman, +surnamed Djami.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The MS. was written at Lahore, for the Emperor of Hindustan, A.D. 1575, by +Muhammed Hussein, a famous scribe, who was called the <i>Pen of Gold</i>; and illustrated +by sixteen painters. Its modern velvet binding is adorned with gold corners +and bosses; and a bag in which it was kept lies beside it. From the collection +of Sir Gore Ouseley.</p></div> + +<p>17. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Evangeliarium</i>, MS. in folio; of the tenth century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A fine MS., which formerly belonged to the abbey of St. Faron, near Meaux; +bought at the sale of M. Abel-Remusat's library in 1833, by Mr. Payne, and sold +to Douce, apparently for the sum of £31 10<i>s.</i> On the cover is an ivory diptych; +in the centre, a figure of our Blessed Lord treading on 'the lion and adder, the +young lion and dragon;' around, twelve scenes from His life and miracles.</p></div> + +<p>18. Ivory triptych eleven inches high; North Italian work, of the +fifteenth century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>In the centre the Blessed Virgin and Child between St. Leonard and another +saint; on the wings, St. John the Evangelist and St. Lawrence<a name="FNanchor_384_384" id="FNanchor_384_384"></a><a href="#Footnote_384_384" class="fnanchor">[384]</a>.</p></div> + +<p>19. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Evangelia, secundum Matt. et Marc.</i> A fine Douce MS. of the +eleventh century, bound in thick boards, overlaid on one side with a +brass plate, whereon are engraved the four Evangelists, with angels; +in the centre, an ivory carving of our Lord, with the Evangelistic +symbols.</p> + +<p>20. Metal-Work.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>i. Crucifix; enamelled.</p> + +<p>ii. The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; small, on brass.</p> + +<p>iii. Four enamelled round tablets, bearing portraits of 'Le<!-- Page 333 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_333" id="Page_333">[Pg 333]</a></span> +Conte de Flandres, le Conte de Champagne, le Conte de +Tholoze, Duc de Normandie.'</p> + +<p>iv. Two small enamelled representations of March and May.</p> + +<p>v. Dolphin, with boy on his back (the Dauphin); motto, 'Qui +pense ma ... vy advient.'</p> + +<p>vi. Heads, enamelled, of the following Roman Emperors; +Julius Cæsar, Augustus, Claudius and Otho.</p> + +<p>vii. English pocket-almanac, in brass, 1554-1579, with tidal +tables for English ports, a compass, &c. On one side +of its case is the following inscription:—</p></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in6">'Aske me not, for ye Gett me not.—'R. P.'</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>viii. A small copper figure of our Blessed Lord, crowned and +robed, with eyes open, and arms extended.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The following account is given by Hearne in a volume of his MS. +collections<a name="FNanchor_385_385" id="FNanchor_385_385"></a><a href="#Footnote_385_385" class="fnanchor">[385]</a>:—</p> + +<p>'About five years since the workmen in digging the gardens that +formerly belong'd to St. Frideswyd's, Oxford, found a crucifix; +the figure in pontifical robes, enamelled and gilt, with stones in +the arms and breast. It came afterwards into the hands of Mr. Edw. +Thwaites of Queen's College, who gave it to the Bodleian Library, +where in the Physick schoole 'tis now reserved, and seems to be +very ancient.'</p> + +<p>A drawing of the figure made for Thwaites by J. T. [alman] lies +beside it, which was given to the Library by the late Dr. Wellesley. +The figure resembles a crucifix found at Lucca, of the seventh century.</p></div> + +<p>21. <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Psalterium</i>; close of thirteenth century.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Bound in solid silver, on which are engraved the Annunciation and the Coronation +of the Blessed Virgin, seen beneath a coloured transparency which gives an appearance +of great richness to the otherwise uncoloured silver.</p> + +<p>A beautifully decorated volume, given by Sir Rob. Cotton to William Butler, M.D. +of Cambridge, in 1614; and to the Bodleian, July 15, 1648, by Dame Anne Sadler, +wife of Ralph Sadler, of Stonden, Herts.</p></div> + +<hr /> + +<p><i>The following objects of interest are dispersed in various parts of the +Library:—</i></p> + + +<h3>AT THE EAST END.</h3> + +<p>1. A drawing by Holbein, framed and glazed, being a design for a cup.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>On the back is the following note:—'This is an original drawing by Hans +Holbein, was actually executed, and in the possession of Queen Anna Bulleyn,<!-- Page 334 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">[Pg 334]</a></span> +A.D. 1534. D. Logan.' It bears, however, the initials H. and J., and was therefore +executed, not for Anne Boleyn, but Jane Seymour. 'The cup was carried into +Spain by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, when he accompanied Charles, +Prince of Wales, on his romantic expedition to Madrid<a name="FNanchor_386_386" id="FNanchor_386_386"></a><a href="#Footnote_386_386" class="fnanchor">[386]</a>.'</p></div> + +<p>2. The original drawing, as is supposed, by Raffaele, for his picture +of Attila stopped on his approach to Rome by the apparition of +SS. Peter and Paul. Framed and glazed.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>This and the preceding form part of the Douce collection.</p></div> + +<p>3. Bust of Sir T. Bodley. See p. <a href="#Page_26">26</a>.</p> + +<p>4. Bust of Charles I. See p. <a href="#Page_61">61</a>.</p> + +<p>5. Small marble bust of Napoleon.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Bequeathed by Capt. Montagu in 1863. See p. <a href="#Page_299">299</a>.</p></div> + +<p>6. Engraved facsimile of the Rosetta Stone, published by the +Antiquarian Society in 1803.</p> + +<p>7. Egyptian scroll.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>[Five other Egyptian fragments hang at the other end of the Library.]</p></div> + +<p>8. Map of England and Scotland, on parchment. Written in the +fourteenth century. See p. <a href="#Page_212">212</a>, <i>note</i>.</p> + +<p>9. An armillary sphere, in bronze, supported by three lions.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Given by Capt. Josias Bodley. See p. <a href="#Page_21">21</a>.</p></div> + +<p>10. Two small bronzes; one representing Narcissus contemplating +his face in the stream; the other, Cupids disporting themselves on the +backs of Tritons.</p> + +<p>11. A plaster cast of young Bacchanals leading the goat.</p> + +<p>12. A wood carving, coarsely executed, representing Hercules +spinning, and exposed by Omphale to the ridicule of two female +visitors.</p> + +<p>13. Bronze, in fine alto-relievo, of Curtius leaping into the gulf in +the Forum at Rome.</p> + +<p>14. Carving, in soap-stone, of the Judgment of Solomon.</p> + +<p>15. A geometrical, eleven-sided figure, inclosing an open and hollow +iron ball with sixty sides, and surmounting a small pillar representing +the five orders of architecture. Around the base of the column are +eight other geometrical figures, with vacant spaces for two which have +been lost.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>[Probably all the preceding articles, 10-15, came from Rawlinson.]</p></div> + +<p>16. Model, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, of the Church of the Holy +Sepulchre at Jerusalem.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Bequeathed by Dr. Mason in 1841. See p. <a href="#Page_265">265</a>.</p></div><p><!-- Page 335 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_335" id="Page_335">[Pg 335]</a></span></p> + +<p>17. Four specimens of papyrus-rolls from Herculaneum, burnt to +a crust.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Presented to the Library by George IV. See p. <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</p></div> + +<p>18. Piece of wood from the south side of the curious timber Church +at Greensted in Essex, built A.D. 1013.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Presented by Mr. James Dix, of Bristol, Feb. 10, 1865.</p></div> + +<p>19. Specimen of ornamental writing by Mr. Hormuzd Rassam, +whose name is so well known in England, first, from his having accompanied +Mr. Layard during his Assyrian researches, and next from +his, now happily ended, captivity in Abyssinia; consisting of various +chapters from the Old and New Testaments, in Chaldee, Arabic, and +Turkish, beautifully written in the form of two angels supporting a +cross, within a border.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Presented by Mr. Rassam on leaving Oxford in January, 1849, after a stay of +some months, as a mark of thanks for the manner in which he had been received. +It occupied only forty-eight hours in execution, as he himself told the present +writer<a name="FNanchor_387_387" id="FNanchor_387_387"></a><a href="#Footnote_387_387" class="fnanchor">[387]</a>.</p></div> + + +<h3>AT THE WEST END.</h3> + +<p>20. Sir Thomas Bodley's bell. See p. <a href="#Page_33">33</a>.</p> + +<p>21. Maps of Oxford and Cambridge, by Ralph Aggas; the former +dated 1578, the latter 1592; about three feet by four in size.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>These extremely curious and valuable maps were bequeathed by Dr. Rawlinson. +Having become decayed and dilapidated by exposure, they were some few years ago +carefully mounted on canvas, on a wooden frame, and covered with glass; by +which means they are effectually secured from further injury of the same kind.</p></div> + +<p>22. Four drawings of heads by Raffaele, or Giulio Romano. See +p. <a href="#Page_251">251</a>.</p> + + +<h3>IN THE LIBRARIAN'S STUDY.</h3> + +<p>23. A Roman inscription on a brazen plate:—</p> + +<p class="center"> + FLORAE<br /> + TI. PLAVTIVS DROSVS<br /> + MAG. II.<br /> + V. S. L. M. +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Given by Dr. Rawlinson. An engraving is extant, among the many which were +executed for Rawlinson of various relics in his miscellaneous collection. It is +described on the engraving as being '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Ex regiis Christinæ thesauris</span>.'</p></div><p><!-- Page 336 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_336" id="Page_336">[Pg 336]</a></span></p> + +<p>24. A small plaster cast of the head of Torquato Tasso, from a wax +model made by Mr. N. Marchant from a cast taken after Tasso's +death, and preserved in the Convent of St. Onofrio at Rome, where his +death occurred.</p> + + +<h3>IN THE OPPOSITE SUB-LIBRARIAN'S STUDY.</h3> + +<p>25. A warrior on horseback, enamelled on copper, and marked +'Ezechias.'</p> + +<p>26. A Greek painting on wood of St. George and the Dragon.</p> + +<p>27. Another Greek painting on wood, on a gold ground, apparently +representing two angels bowing before the Blessed Virgin, &c.</p> + +<p>28. Heads of our Blessed Lord, and of King Charles I, painted +on copper. See p. <a href="#Page_148">148</a>.</p> + +<p>29. A Phœnician inscription, on stone. See p. <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</p> + + +<p><i>The following Portraits hang in the Library:—</i></p> + +<p>1. Sir T. Bodley. By Corn. Jansen.</p> + +<p>2. All the Librarians from James to Bowles; with a small engraved +sketch of Price, and a photograph of Dr. Bandinel, taken in the year of +his resignation of office.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>There are no portraits of Fysher or Owen.</p></div> + +<p>3. Archbishops Usher and Laud; Bishops Crewe and Atterbury; +Deans Nowell, Aldrich, and Hickes; Erasmus, Wanley, Lye, Gassendi, +Sir Thos. Wyat, two of Chaucer, Gower, Junius (sketch by Vandyke), +two of Selden (with his arms painted on panel), Sir K. Digby, Queen +Elizabeth of Bohemia; Frederick, Elector Palatine; Mr. Sutherland.</p> + +<p>4. Drawing of Thos. Alcock. By Cooper.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Bequeathed by Rawlinson.</p> + +<p>The following note is written on the back:—</p> + +<p>'This picture was drawne for mee at the Earle of Westmoreland's house at +Apethorpe, in Northamptonshire, by the greate (tho' little) Limner, the then famous +Mr. Cooper of Covent-Garden, when I was eighteen years of age.</p></div> + +<p> +<span class="text-in20">'THOMAS ALCOCK, Preceptor.'</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>5. Pen-and-ink sketch of Ant. à Wood, dated 1677.</p> + +<p>6. Pencil drawing of Pope.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Bequeathed by Rawlinson.</p></div> + +<p>7. Drawing of F. Douce.</p> + +<p>8. Engraved portrait of Camden.</p> + +<p>Eighteen Oxford Almanacs, between the years 1812 and 1833, +decorate the middle of the room.<!-- Page 337 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_337" id="Page_337">[Pg 337]</a></span></p> + + +<h3>PICTURE GALLERY.</h3> + +<p>A Catalogue of the Pictures (which are now exclusively Portraits) +was printed some years ago by the Janitor. Since then, the following +additions have been made<a name="FNanchor_388_388" id="FNanchor_388_388"></a><a href="#Footnote_388_388" class="fnanchor">[388]</a>:—</p> + +<p>Froben, the printer. By Holbein.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Bequeathed by Rawlinson.</p></div> + +<p>Oliver Plunket, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh; executed +in 1681. On panel.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Bequeathed by Rawlinson.</p></div> + +<p>James Edward, the 'old Chevalier,' and his wife Clementina Sobieski. +See p. <a href="#Page_169">169</a>.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Bequeathed by Rawlinson.</p></div> + +<p>Sir R. Chambers, Chief Justice of Bengal.</p> + +<p>Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart. By Richmond.</p> + +<p>Dr. Routh, President of Magdalen College. By Thomson.</p> + +<p>Dr. Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta.</p> + +<p>The Earl of Derby. By Grant. See p. <a href="#Page_281">281</a>.</p> + +<p>The Prince of Wales. By Gordon. See p. <a href="#Page_304">304</a>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>The following Curiosities and Models are exhibited in the Gallery:—</p> + +<p>1. Chair made from the wood of Sir F. Drake's ship. See p. <a href="#Page_94">94</a>.</p> + +<p>2. Chair of Henry VIII. See <i>ib.</i></p> + +<p>3. Guy Fawkes' Lantern. See p. <a href="#Page_97">97</a>.</p> + +<p>4. A series of casts of various ancient Temples and other buildings. +See p. <a href="#Page_236">236</a>.</p> + +<p>5. Model, in teak wood, of a subterranean palace and reservoir, +in Guzerat; beautifully carved, and exhibiting the whole of the interior +construction and arrangement.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Presented in 1842 by Sir J. W. Awdry, Chief Justice of Bombay.</p></div> + +<p>6. Cases of Italian medals, medals by Dassier of English sovereigns, +&c. See p. <a href="#Page_182">182</a>.</p> + +<p>7. Two plaster casts of monuments from Nineveh, now in the British +Museum, with cuneiform inscriptions.</p> + +<p>8. Model, in papier-maché, of the Martyrs' Memorial, beautifully +executed.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Presented in 1844 by the late Rev. Vaughan Thomas, B.D.</p></div> + +<p>9. Plaster model of the Waltham Cross.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Presented by the same donor.</p></div> + +<p>10. Casts of the Elgin marbles.<!-- Page 338 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_338" id="Page_338">[Pg 338]</a></span></p> + +<p>11. Alabaster model of the Cathedral at Calcutta.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Given by the late Bishop Wilson in 1846. This beautiful model was executed +at Pisa; it was exhibited in the Italian department of the Great Exhibition in 1861.</p></div> + +<p>12. A large and fine model in cork, of the Amphitheatre at Verona; +by Dubourg.</p> + +<p>13. Model of the Royal Yacht in 1697.</p> + +<p>14. Glass case, containing:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>i. Two Chinese rolls, one silk, the other paper, containing +coloured drawings of the banks of the river Tsing-Ming, +with scenes illustrating the manners and amusements of +the country.</p> + +<p>ii. Collection of Indian weapons presented by Mr. Elliott. +See p. <a href="#Page_291">291</a>.</p> + +<p>iii. Series of clay figures, coloured, representing all degrees of +rank, &c. among the Chinese.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Brought by Col. Gibbes Rigaud, of the 60th Rifles, the donor, from +Tien-tsin, and given in 1862.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>iv. Handbell from a temple at Tien-tsin. See p. <a href="#Page_33">33</a>.</p> + +<p>v. Small Chinese figure of a deity, in brass; from Pekin.</p> + +<p>vi. Half-burned copy of a Russian translation of the <i>Pickwick +Papers</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Found in the Redan at Sebastopol, when that battery was stormed +on Sept. 9, 1855. Given by Rev. F. J. Holt Beever in 1856.</p></div> + +<p>15. Portrait, on a large roll, of the late Emperor of China, seated, +with a bow and arrow in his hands.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Above is an autograph inscription by the Emperor, in verse, in praise of +archery. Brought by Col. Rigaud from the 'Summer Palace.'</p></div> + +<p>16. Another glass case, containing:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>i. A series of carved and coloured ivory tablets, representing +Chinese life and manners, partly broken; with some grotesque +figures, probably of deities, carved in wood.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Believed to have been bequeathed by Rawlinson.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>ii. A series of small Chinese paintings on ivory.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>From the Douce collection.</p></div> + +<p><!-- Page 339 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_339" id="Page_339">[Pg 339]</a></span></p><div class="blockquot"><p>iii. Three sets of wooden roundels<a name="FNanchor_389_389" id="FNanchor_389_389"></a><a href="#Footnote_389_389" class="fnanchor">[389]</a>, or trenchers, of which two +are round (numbering thirty plates), the other square +(numbering twelve); with mottos, in the former case in +verse, in the latter consisting of precepts from the Bible. +One of the round sets belonged, in 1599, to Queen Elizabeth. +The verses are sometimes humorous, sometimes moral, and +strongly dehortatory from marriage; not, however, out of any +flattering deference to the condition or supposed inclination +of the 'Virgin Queen,' but chiefly in accordance with the +opposite view taken by some hard-hearted misogynist. Of +the two classes of motto, let these stand as specimens:—</p></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">'If that a bachelor thou bee<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Keepe thou so, still be ruled by mee,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Leaste that repentance all to late<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Reward thee with a broken pate.'<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">'Content thyselfe with thyn estate,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And send noo poor wight from thi gate:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For why this councell I thee give<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To learne to die and die to lyve.'<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>iv. A large set of wax impressions of seals. See p. <a href="#Page_183">183</a>.</p></div> + +<p>17. Model, in wood, of the Temple at Pæstum.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Carved by Mr. Thomas Wyatt, of Oxford, about 1830.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_374_374" id="Footnote_374_374"></a><a href="#FNanchor_374_374"><span class="label">[374]</span></a> Many autographs of distinguished literary men are found in the old Registers +of all the persons admitted to read in the Library, since in these the readers themselves +generally entered their own names. The first 'Liber admissorum' contains the +names of both graduates and non-academics, the names in the first case being only +in part autograph; it commences about the year 1610, and ends, in the case of +graduates, arranged under their several colleges, about 1676; in the case of strangers, +at 1692. The second Register, which is 'peregrinorum et aliorum admissorum' alone, +begins at 1682 and ends at 1833. The first existing register of books used by +readers begins Jan. 3, 1647-8, and ends Dec. 30, 1649. The following are some of +the names, of some special mark, which are found in the Admission-books:—</p> + +<ul> +<li>Joh. Jonstonus, M.D., 1633.</li> +<li>Joh. Fred. Gronovius, June 25, 1639.</li> +<li>George Bull, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">SS. Theol. Studiosus, per dispensat</span>,' July 5, 1656.</li> +<li>Andrew Marvell, Sept. 30, 1665.</li> +<li>Sir Winston Churchill, Oct. 4, 1665.</li> +<li>Henry Dodwell, Oct. 20, 1666.</li> +<li>Thomas Rymer, June 20, 1683.</li> +<li>Edmund Calamy, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Londinensis</span>,' Aug. 18, 1691, and in 1722.</li> +<li>Sir George Mackenzie, Dec. 14, 1694, and several times subsequently.</li> +<li>Joh. Ern. Grabe, Nov. 10, 1697.</li> +<li>Thomas Madox, Sept. 21, 1705.</li> +<li>Joshua Barnes, July 22, 1706.</li> +<li>William Whiston, Sept. 28, 1710.</li> +<li>C. Wesley, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Æidis Xti alumnus</span>,' April 19, 1729.</li> +<li>Joh. Dav. Michaelis, Oct. 9, 1741.</li> +<li>W. Blackstone, 'S.C.L.' Feb. 11, 1742-3.</li> +<li>Benj. Kennicott, 'Coll. Wadh. Schol.' July 15, 1746.</li> +<li>George Ballard, Dec. 9, 1747.</li> +<li>Edw. Rowe Mores, Commoner of Queen's College, Aug. 29, 1748.</li> +<li>John Uri, 'Korosini, Hungarus,' Feb. 17, 1766.</li> +<li>Edw. Gibbon, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Coll. Magd. olim Soc. Com.</span>' Oct. 17, 1766.</li> +<li>Joh. Schweighäuser, June 13, 1769.</li> +<li>J. J. Griesbach, March 22, 1770.</li> +<li>Hen. Alb. Schultens, Oct. 16, 1772.</li> +<li>John Macbride, '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">ex Coll. Exon.</span>' (the late venerable Principal of Magd. Hall, who was only removed by death at the beginning of the present year), May 10, 1797.</li> +<li>Philip Bliss, Feb. 9, 1809.</li> +</ul> +</div> + + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_375_375" id="Footnote_375_375"></a><a href="#FNanchor_375_375"><span class="label">[375]</span></a> Of this xylographic <i>Apocalypse</i> the Library possesses two other editions; one +being that called by Mr. Sotheby the Fourth, which was given by Archbp. Laud, and +the other being that called the Fifth by Sotheby, but '<span xml:lang="la" lang="la">Editio princeps</span>' by Heinecken, +which was bought in 1853 for £120 5<i>s.</i> Other Block-books in the Library are, +(1) two editions of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Biblia Pauperum</i>, or Scenes from Bible History; one +coloured, the other (which belonged to Douce) uncoloured; (2) the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Historia B. +M. V. ex Cantico Canticorum</i>, being the edition called the Second by Sotheby; +(3) <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Propugnacula, seu Turris Sapientiæ</i>, a broadside, bought in 1853 for six guineas. +A facsimile of this is given in vol. ii. of Sotheby's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Principia</i>; (4) <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Speculum Humanæ +Salvationis.</i> In this book, which is the second Latin edition of the work (formerly +described as the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Editio princeps</i>), twenty pages are taken off from wood-blocks, and +the rest from moveable type. The copy belonged to Douce. It came previously +'ex Musæo Pauli Girardot de Prefond,' but is not mentioned in De Bure's catalogue +of that library, published in 1757. It is said that a copy of this book has been +sold for the large sum of 300 guineas.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_376_376" id="Footnote_376_376"></a><a href="#FNanchor_376_376"><span class="label">[376]</span></a> A touching letter, in English, dated June 28, which Laud forwarded, together +with this formal document, is printed in vol. ii. of Wharton's edition of his <i>Remains</i>, +p. 217. In the same volume are included copies of all the letters which accompanied +the Archbishop's gifts to the Library. The following reply (<i>ibid.</i> p. 177) to a +notification from the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Frewen, of the visitation of his collection, +and of the giving special charge to the Librarian respecting their safe custody, +seeing that they stood unchained, and in a place frequented by strangers who came +to see them, should have been noticed in its due place in the <i>Annals</i>. +</p><p><br /> +<span class="text-in2">'<span class="smcap">Sir</span>,</span><br /> +</p> +<div class="blockquot"><p>'I thank you heartily for your care of my books. And I beseech you that the +Library-keeper may be very watchful to look to them since they stand unchain'd. +And I would to God the place in the Library for them were once ready, that they +might be set up safe, and chained as the other books are; and yet then, if there be +not care taken, you may have some of the best and choisest tractats cut out of +the covers and purloin'd, as hath been done in some other libraries.'</p></div> +<p><br /> +<span class="text-in20">'W. CANT.</span><br /> +<span class="text-in2">'Lambeth, Nov, 15, 1639.'</span><br /> +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_377_377" id="Footnote_377_377"></a><a href="#FNanchor_377_377"><span class="label">[377]</span></a> Pedigree of the family of Lane, p. 392 of the <i>Boscobel Tracts</i>, edited by J. Hughes, +A.M., second edition, 1857.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_378_378" id="Footnote_378_378"></a><a href="#FNanchor_378_378"><span class="label">[378]</span></a> No. 7762 in the catalogue of the South Kensington Museum, in 1862.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_379_379" id="Footnote_379_379"></a><a href="#FNanchor_379_379"><span class="label">[379]</span></a> Mr. John Gough Nichols, in his collection of the <i>Literary Remains of Edw. VI</i>, +printed by the Roxburghe Club in 1857 (vol. i. pp. cccxxiii-cccxxv), describes +these volumes at length, and assigns the whole of both of them to the pen of the +King, but some part of the first volume corresponds much more closely with the +usual style of Elizabeth's early writing, and a memorandum by Hearne testifies that +it was regarded in his day as having been written by her.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_380_380" id="Footnote_380_380"></a><a href="#FNanchor_380_380"><span class="label">[380]</span></a> 'The poem of Joseph and Zuleikha, in the Public Library at Oxford, is perhaps +the most beautiful MS. in the world; the margins of every page are gilt and +adorned with garlands of flowers, and the handwriting is elegant to the highest +degree.' (I. Disraeli's <i>Romances</i>, 1799, p. 52.)</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_381_381" id="Footnote_381_381"></a><a href="#FNanchor_381_381"><span class="label">[381]</span></a> This book, which has appeared since the earlier sheets of this volume were +printed, contains descriptions, with facsimiles, of the Leofric, Dunstan, and Mac-Regol +MSS. and of the Rawlinsonian Life of St. Columba, besides those noticed +above.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_382_382" id="Footnote_382_382"></a><a href="#FNanchor_382_382"><span class="label">[382]</span></a> Cædmon was a monk of St. Hilda's Abbey, and died in 680. Bede (<i>Eccl. Hist.</i> +iv. 24) tells the well-known story of his being miraculously enabled by a vision to +compose vernacular verses, when previously he had been entirely unable to compose +or sing a line, so that when present as a layman at feasts where, on the principle of +'no song, no supper,' every one was expected to raise a lay in his turn, he was wont, +when he saw the harp coming round, to rise from his place and go home supperless.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_383_383" id="Footnote_383_383"></a><a href="#FNanchor_383_383"><span class="label">[383]</span></a> This MS. is noticed by Warton in his <i>Life of Sir T. Pope</i>, p. 73, where he +also quotes Hearne's account of Elizabeth's New Testament, which is described at +p. 52 <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">supra</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_384_384" id="Footnote_384_384"></a><a href="#FNanchor_384_384"><span class="label">[384]</span></a> Lent to the South Kensington Museum in 1862, from the catalogue of which +exhibition (under No. 202) the above description is taken.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_385_385" id="Footnote_385_385"></a><a href="#FNanchor_385_385"><span class="label">[385]</span></a> Rawlinson, C. 876, f. 52.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_386_386" id="Footnote_386_386"></a><a href="#FNanchor_386_386"><span class="label">[386]</span></a> <i>Catalogue of the South Kensington Exhibition</i>, 1862, p. 672.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_387_387" id="Footnote_387_387"></a><a href="#FNanchor_387_387"><span class="label">[387]</span></a> Another specimen of Mr. Rassam's caligraphic skill is to be seen in the Common +Room of Magdalene College (in which College he was entertained for some time), +where the College arms are represented in the same manner.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_388_388" id="Footnote_388_388"></a><a href="#FNanchor_388_388"><span class="label">[388]</span></a> Besides some restorations from the Randolph Gallery of portraits formerly +removed thither.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_389_389" id="Footnote_389_389"></a><a href="#FNanchor_389_389"><span class="label">[389]</span></a> An engraving of a roundel (then, with others, in the possession of John Fenton +of Fishguard) of which the exact counterpart is found in one of these sets, is given +in the <i>Gent. Magaz.</i> for 1799, p. 465. As it is not known how long the Library +has been in possession of its present collection, it is possible that Mr. Fenton's series +may now be included in it. A description of a set of the time of James I may be +found in vol. xxxiv of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Archæologia</i>, pp. 225-230; and a notice of the Bodleian +trenchers in <i>Notes and Queries</i>, 1866, p. 472, and other communications on the +subject in the first volume for 1867.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="long" /> +<h2><a name="APPENDIX_E" id="APPENDIX_E"></a>APPENDIX E.</h2> + + +<h3><i>Numismatic Collection.</i></h3> + +<p>The collection of Coins and Medals was commenced by the gift +from Archbishop Laud of five cabinets of coins, in 1636<a name="FNanchor_390_390" id="FNanchor_390_390"></a><a href="#Footnote_390_390" class="fnanchor">[390]</a>, to which +he subsequently made some additions. These were accompanied by a +very full MS. catalogue, which is now preserved among Laud's MSS., +No. 554. In 1657 a large addition was made by Mr. Ralph Freke +(see p. <a href="#Page_88">88</a>), and numerous small gifts came from many donors in<!-- Page 340 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_340" id="Page_340">[Pg 340]</a></span> +following years. A catalogue, upon which Francis Wise had been +engaged for a long period, was published by him in a folio volume, +in 1750, entitled, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Nummorum antiquorum scriniis Bodleianis reconditorum +catalogus, cum commentario, tabulis æneis et appendice</i>. Wise remarks +in his Preface, that no donation, however trifling, was rejected, and +that, consequently, there was (as there is still) a very large quantity of +Middle and Third brass coins of little or no value. From Rawlinson +there came, in 1755, besides coins, a collection of Italian medals (Popes, +Medici family, &c.), and numerous matrices of seals, chiefly foreign. +Browne Willis contributed the most valuable portion of the whole +collection, in his series of gold and silver English coins<a name="FNanchor_391_391" id="FNanchor_391_391"></a><a href="#Footnote_391_391" class="fnanchor">[391]</a>.</p> + +<p>Subsequent benefactors have been C. Godwyn, in 1770; Douce, +whose collection included those of Calder, Moore, and Keate, and +from whom came a series of Tradesmen's Tokens; Dr. Ingram, in 1850, +whose bequest included some British specimens; the Queen, who gave, +in 1841, a portion of the treasure found at Cuerdale (see p. <a href="#Page_264">264</a>); Mackie, +Roberts, Elliott, whose valuable series of Indo-Bactrian coins was +presented in 1860 (see p. <a href="#Page_291">291</a>), and Dr. Caulfield of Cork, who presented +in 1866 a large collection of the Gun-money struck by James II +in Ireland. The Ashmole coins were transferred from the Museum, +together with Ashmole's library, in 1861. There is also a cabinet of +Napoleon medals.</p> + +<p>No catalogue of any portion of the contents of this room (excepting +a brief description of the Cuerdale coins) has been issued since the +publication of Wise's volume. For some short time past, however, +W. S. Vaux, Esq., of the British Museum, has occasionally afforded +his valuable services in arrangement and description; and it is hoped +that before long the whole of the collection may be reduced to order +and properly indexed.</p> + +<p>By the statutes of the Library, the Librarian, or one of the Sub-librarians, +must always be present when any coins are exhibited; nor +may they be shown to more than two persons at a time, unless two +officers of the Library, or a Curator, are present. No examination +of coins for the purpose of comparison with other specimens is +permitted.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_390_390" id="Footnote_390_390"></a><a href="#FNanchor_390_390"><span class="label">[390]</span></a> Amongst these are several rare Hebrew specimens. Laud's letter of gift, dated +June 16, is printed at p. 94, vol. ii., of his <i>Remains</i>, edited by H. Wharton. A +curious collection of Roman weights came among early benefactions; they are +entered in Wise's catalogue.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_391_391" id="Footnote_391_391"></a><a href="#FNanchor_391_391"><span class="label">[391]</span></a> The special gems are a gold Allectus, and the famous <i>Reddite</i> and <i>Petition</i> +crowns of Thomas Simon, the latter of which was struck in 1663. The Petition +crown is probably the one which was sold in Dr. Mead's sale in February, 1755 +(<i>Cat.</i> p. 186), and which is noted by Rawlinson in his copy of the sale catalogue +as having been purchased by — Hodsall for £12. A gold Allectus was sold at the +same sale to the Duke of Devonshire for £21 5<i>s.</i></p></div> + + +<p><!-- Page 341 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_341" id="Page_341">[Pg 341]</a></span></p> +<h2>APPENDIX F.</h2> + + +<h3><i>Past Librarians.</i></h3> + + + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="list of past librarians"> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1598.</td><td align="left">Thomas James, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1620.</td><td align="left">John Rouse, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1653.</td><td align="left">Thomas Barlow, M.A., afterwards Bishop of Lincoln.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1660.</td><td align="left">Thomas Lockey, B.D.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1665.</td><td align="left">Thomas Hyde, D.D.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1701.</td><td align="left">John Hudson, D.D.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1719.</td><td align="left">Joseph Bowles, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1726.</td><td align="left">Robert Fysher, M.B.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1747.</td><td align="left">Humphrey Owen, D.D.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1768.</td><td align="left">John Price, B.D.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1813.</td><td align="left">Bulkeley Bandinel, B.D.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<h3><i>Past Sub-librarians.</i></h3> + + + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="list of past sub-librarians"> +<tr><td align="right">Before</td><td align="left">1619. <a name="FNanchor_392_392" id="FNanchor_392_392"></a><a href="#Footnote_392_392" class="fnanchor">[392]</a></td><td align="left">John Verneuil, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1647.</td><td align="left">Francis Yonge, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1657.</td><td align="left">Henry Stubbe, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1659.</td><td align="left">Thomas Barlow, M.A., afterwards Librarian.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">About</td><td align="left">1680-90.</td><td align="left">Rev. John Crabb, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1695-1700.</td><td align="left">Rev. Joseph Crabb, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1712.</td><td align="left">Thomas Hearne, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1715.</td><td align="left">Rev. John Fletcher, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1719.</td><td align="left">Rev. Francis Wise, B.D., appointed first Librarian of the Radcliffe in 1748, when he, no doubt, resigned his post in the Bodleian.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1748?</td><td align="left">N. Foster<a name="FNanchor_393_393" id="FNanchor_393_393"></a><a href="#Footnote_393_393" class="fnanchor">[393]</a>? (qu. Nath. Foster, of Magd. Coll., M.A. in 1748?)</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">[1770.</td><td align="left">'Jones and White, Price's representatives<a name="FNanchor_394_394" id="FNanchor_394_394"></a><a href="#Footnote_394_394" class="fnanchor">[394]</a>.']<!-- Page 342 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_342" id="Page_342">[Pg 342]</a></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1780-81.</td><td align="left">John Walters, Scholar of Jesus College.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">Before</td><td align="left">1787.</td><td align="left">Edward Morgan, Jesus College<a name="FNanchor_395_395" id="FNanchor_395_395"></a><a href="#Footnote_395_395" class="fnanchor">[395]</a>, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1788.</td><td align="left">John Bown, Lincoln College<a name="FNanchor_396_396" id="FNanchor_396_396"></a><a href="#Footnote_396_396" class="fnanchor">[396]</a>, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1797.</td><td align="left">Henry H. Baber, St. John's.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1798.</td><td align="left">Henry Ellis, St. John's.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">[Before</td><td align="left">1804?</td><td align="left">Rev. Sam. Rogers, M.A., Wadham College?]</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">Before</td><td align="left">1810.</td><td align="left">—— Matthews.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1810.</td><td align="left">Philip Bliss, St. John's College.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1811.</td><td align="left">Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1814.</td><td align="left">Rev. Henry Cotton, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">——</td><td align="left">Rev. Alex. Nicoll, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1822.</td><td align="left">Rev. Philip Bliss, D.C.L.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">——</td><td align="left">Rev. Rich. F. Laurence, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1826.</td><td align="left">Rev. Charles Henry Cox, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1828.</td><td align="left">Rev. Stephen Reay, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">——</td><td align="left">Rev. John Besly, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1831.</td><td align="left">Rev. Ernest Hawkins, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1834.</td><td align="left">Rev. William Cureton, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1837.</td><td align="left">Rev. Herbert Hill, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1838.</td><td align="left">Rev. H. O. Coxe, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1861.</td><td align="left">Rev. Rob. Payne Smith, M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="left">1865.</td><td align="left">Max Müller, M.A.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><!-- Page 343 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_343" id="Page_343">[Pg 343]</a></span></p> + +<h3><i>Present Officers of the Library.</i></h3> + +<h4>LIBRARIAN:</h4> + +<p class="center">Rev. H. O. Coxe, M.A., Corp. Chr. Coll., appointed Sub-librarian, +Nov. 16, 1838; Head Librarian, Nov. 6, 1860.</p> + +<h4>SUB-LIBRARIANS:</h4> + +<p>Rev. Alfred Hackman, M.A., Ch. Ch., Assistant for the General Catalogue, +April 27, 1837; Sub-librarian, April 20 1862.</p> + +<p>Rev. John William Nutt, M.A., All Souls' Coll., June 25, 1867.</p> + +<h4>ASSISTANTS:</h4> + +<h5><i>First Class.</i></h5> + +<p>Mr. H. S. Harper, [entered the Library June, 1837.]</p> + +<p>Mr. H. J. Sides, [Dec., 1853.]</p> + +<p>Mr. H. Haines, [Dec., 1861.]</p> + +<h5><i>Second Class.</i></h5> + +<p>Rev. W. H. Bliss, M.A., Magd. Coll., [March, 1866.]</p> + +<p>Mr. Henry J. Shuffrey, [Jan., 1863.]</p> + +<h5><i>Third Class.</i></h5> + +<p>Percy W. Collcutt, [June, 1866.]</p> + +<p>W. F. Green, [March, 1868.]</p> + +<hr /> + +<h4>NEW CATALOGUE.</h4> + +<h5><i>General Superintendent.</i></h5> + +<p>Rev. W. D. Macray, M.A., Magd. Coll., [June, 1840.]</p> + +<h4>TRANSCRIBERS:</h4> + +<p>Mr. George Parker, [Sept., 1855.]</p> + +<p>Mr. Will. H. Timberlake, [June, 1857.]</p> + +<p>Mr. Fred. Prickett, [Jan., 1863.]</p> + +<p>Mr. Will. Burden, [Jan., 1863.]</p> + +<p>Mr. Will. Plowman, [Nov., 1863.]</p> + +<h4>ATTENDANTS:</h4> + +<p>Will. H. Allnutt, [Oct., 1864.]</p> + +<p>W. R. Sims, [May, 1867.]</p> + +<p>W. S. Plowman, [Sept., 1867.]</p> + +<h4>BINDER:</h4> + +<p>Edwin Hickman, [March, 1864.]</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="center">JANITOR: John Norris, [Oct., 1835.]</p> + +<p class="center">DEPUTY-JANITOR: Robert Roby, [Dec., 1860.]</p> + +<p class="center">JANITOR AT THE <span xml:lang="la" lang="la">CAMERA RADCLIVIANA</span>: W. Bayzand, [June, 1863.]</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_392_392" id="Footnote_392_392"></a><a href="#FNanchor_392_392"><span class="label">[392]</span></a> The date of his appointment is not known, but that it was before, or at least +not later than, 1619 is shown by an inscription in a copy of T. Holland's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Oratio +Sarisb. babita</i>, which records that it came to the Library in that year: 'Ex dono +Johannis Vernulii, hypobibliothecarii.'</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_393_393" id="Footnote_393_393"></a><a href="#FNanchor_393_393"><span class="label">[393]</span></a> His name first appears in 1746 as making out the accounts and receiving money.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_394_394" id="Footnote_394_394"></a><a href="#FNanchor_394_394"><span class="label">[394]</span></a> The reference to the source whence this quotation was taken has been lost.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_395_395" id="Footnote_395_395"></a><a href="#FNanchor_395_395"><span class="label">[395]</span></a> See Nichols' <i>Lit. Hist.</i> vol. v. p. 539.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_396_396" id="Footnote_396_396"></a><a href="#FNanchor_396_396"><span class="label">[396]</span></a> <i>Ibid.</i> p. 541.</p></div> + + +<p><!-- Page 344 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_344" id="Page_344">[Pg 344]</a></span></p> +<h2>APPENDIX G.</h2> + +<h3><i>Rules of the Library.</i></h3> + + +<p>The Library is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Lady-Day to +Michaelmas, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. from Michaelmas to Lady-Day. +It is closed from Christmas Eve to the Feast of the Circumcision, +both inclusive; on the Epiphany; on Good Friday, Easter Eve, +and through the whole of Easter week; on Ascension Day; on Whit-Monday +and Whit-Tuesday; on the day of the University Commemoration; +for the first week in October (Oct. 1-7), for purposes +of dusting and cleaning; and on Nov. 7th and 8th (or Nov. 6-7th, +should the 8th fall on a Sunday) for the Visitation.</p> + +<p>On other festival days, being days for which services are appointed +in the Prayer-Book, and on which Sermons are, consequently, preached +before the University, as well as on the days of Latin Litany and +Sermon (viz. the first day of each Term), the Library is opened when +the Sermon is over, <i>i.e.</i> ordinarily at 11 o'clock.</p> + +<p>All graduate members of the University have the right to use the +Library. Undergraduates are admitted upon bringing letters of recommendation +from their Tutors. Strangers are admitted upon being +introduced by a Master of Arts or higher graduate, or upon producing +sufficient letters of introduction; but every facility is afforded to +strangers who make personal application to the Librarian for permission +to make researches for any definite and special purpose.</p> + +<p>The Library is under the control of a Board of Curators, consisting +of the Vice-Chancellor, the two Proctors, the five Regius Professors +of Divinity, Civil Law, Medicine, Hebrew, and Greek, and five +Members of Congregation, elected by that House for ten years.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>The <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Camera Radcliviana</i>, formerly the Radcliffe Library, is open +all the year round from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; excepting that it is closed +during the same periods at which the old Library is closed. In it +are to be found most of the publications of the last sixteen years, with +the most recent magazines; and books from the general collection +may be carried over for use there, upon proper application.</p> + +<p>The Statutes of the Library are printed in the general <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Corpus +Statutorum Universitatis</i>.<!-- Page 345 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_345" id="Page_345">[Pg 345]</a></span></p> + + + +<h2>INDEX.</h2> + + +<ul><li>ABBOT, Archbp., <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Abbott, Robert, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Abel-Remusat, J. P., sale, <a href="#Page_332">332</a>.</li> + +<li>Abingdon, Earls of, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>, <a href="#Page_281">281</a>.</li> + +<li>Abulpharage, Gregory, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>.</li> + +<li>Acland (H. W.), M.D., <a href="#Page_293">293</a>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Acton, Oliver, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Actor, Petrus, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>.</li> + +<li>Adams, Thomas, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Addison, Joseph, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>, <a href="#Page_322">322</a>.</li> + +<li>Adelaide, Q. Consort of Will. IV, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Ægidius Romanus, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>.</li> + +<li>Ælfgiva, Abbess of Barking, <a href="#Page_327">327</a>.</li> + +<li>Æsop, <a href="#Page_27">27</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Æthiopic MSS., <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>, <a href="#Page_267">267</a>.</li> + +<li>Aggas, Ralph, <a href="#Page_335">335</a>.</li> + +<li>Airy, G. B., <a href="#Page_195">195</a>.</li> + +<li>Albert, Prince, <a href="#Page_252">252</a>, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Albert of Aix, <a href="#Page_296">296</a>.</li> + +<li>Albertini, Albert, <a href="#Page_202">202</a>.</li> + +<li>Alcock, Thomas, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Aldines purchased, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>, <a href="#Page_229">229</a>, <a href="#Page_232">232</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_242">242</a>, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>, <a href="#Page_300">300</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">catalogued, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>.</li> + +<li>Aldred, —, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Aldrich, Henry, D.D., Dean of Ch. Ch., <a href="#Page_119">119</a>, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Aldworth, Rev. John, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> + +<li>Ales, Alexander de, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>.</li> + +<li>Alexander, Romance of, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.</li> + +<li>Aleyne, Richard, <a href="#Page_314">314</a>.</li> + +<li>Alfred the Great, transl. of Gregory's <i>Pastoral Care</i>, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Preface to Gregory's <i>Dialogues</i>, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">coins, <a href="#Page_264">264</a>.</li> + +<li>Allen, —, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>.</li> + +<li>Allen, Fifield, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Allen, Thomas, M.A., donor, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Allen, Thomas, Finchley, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.</li> + +<li>Allibond, Dr. John, <i>Rustica Acad. Oxon. Desc.</i>, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>.</li> + +<li>Al-malek, Alashraf Shalian, Sultan, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>.</li> + +<li>Almanacks, deemed unworthy of admission by Bodley, <a href="#Page_66">66</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Clog almanacks, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>, <a href="#Page_325">325</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">various almanacks, <a href="#Page_183">183</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MS. astrological calendar, <a href="#Page_329">329</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">brass calendar, <a href="#Page_333">333</a>.</li> + +<li>Alstedius, J. H., <i>Systema Mnemon.</i>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>.</li> + +<li>Altham, Roger, D.D., <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> + +<li>Altham, Roger, jun., M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Alward, John, <a href="#Page_315">315</a>.</li> + +<li>American Tracts, <a href="#Page_253">253</a>, <a href="#Page_254">254</a>, <a href="#Page_271">271</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Psalters, <a href="#Page_264">264</a>.</li> + +<li>Ames, Joseph, <a href="#Page_200">200</a>, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>.</li> + +<li>Anabat, Guil., <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Anacreon, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Anderson, Sir Richard, donor, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>.</li> + +<li>Anglo-Saxon MSS., <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_99">99</a>, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>, <a href="#Page_103">103</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">the <i>Chronicle</i>, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">list of some, in some priests' libraries, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.</li> + +<li>Anne, Queen, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>, <a href="#Page_137">137</a>.</li> + +<li>Anstey, Rev. Henry, M.A., <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.</li> + +<li>Anstis, John, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Anwykyll, John, <i>Compend. Grammat.</i>, <a href="#Page_112">112</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Apsley, Sir Peter, <a href="#Page_185">185</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Aquinas, St. Thomas, <a href="#Page_285">285</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Arabic MSS., <a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>, <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_91">91</a>, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>, <a href="#Page_113">113</a> <i>bis</i>, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>, <a href="#Page_229">229</a>, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>, <a href="#Page_267">267</a>, <a href="#Page_269">269</a>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>, <a href="#Page_290">290</a>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Arbuthnot, Alex., <a href="#Page_304">304</a>.</li> + +<li><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Archæologia</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_338">338</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Archimedes, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>.</li> + +<li>Arethas of Patras, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>.</li> + +<li>Aretine, L., <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.</li> + +<li>Aristotle, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>.</li> + +<li>Armenian MSS., <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>.</li> + +<li>Arnold, Samuel, Mus. D., <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Articles</i> of 1562, with signatures of Convocation, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>. +<!-- Page 346 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_346" id="Page_346">[Pg 346]</a></span></li> +<li>Arundel, Howard, Earl of, collector of Marbles and MSS., <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.</li> + +<li>Arundel Marbles, <a href="#Page_138">138</a>.</li> + +<li>Ashantee, Princes of, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Ashburnham, Earl of, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>.</li> + +<li>Asher, A., <a href="#Page_275">275</a>.</li> + +<li>Ashmole, Elias, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his library, <a href="#Page_287">287</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">a MS. <a href="#Page_327">327</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">coins, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Ashton, John, or Eschyndone, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Asula, A. de, <a href="#Page_261">261</a>.</li> + +<li>Athelstan, King, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Athenæum</i>, <a href="#Page_281">281</a>, <a href="#Page_295">295</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_301">301</a>.</li> + +<li>Atkins, Henry, M.D., <a href="#Page_37">37</a>.</li> + +<li>Atterbury, Francis, Bp. of Rochester, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Attila, <a href="#Page_334">334</a>.</li> + +<li>Aubigné, Sieur d', <i>Hist. Univ.</i>, <a href="#Page_72">72</a>.</li> + +<li>Aubrey, John, MSS., <a href="#Page_253">253</a>, <a href="#Page_288">288</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Lives</i> cited, <a href="#Page_73">73</a>, <a href="#Page_77">77</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Auerbach, Dr. I., <a href="#Page_275">275</a>.</li> + +<li>Aufrecht, Theod., M.A., <a href="#Page_265">265</a>, <a href="#Page_270">270</a>, <a href="#Page_272">272</a>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_300">300</a>.</li> + +<li>Augustine, St., of Hippo, <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_253">253</a>.</li> + +<li>Augustine, St., of Canterbury, his MS. of the Gospels, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.</li> + +<li>Aurung-zebe, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>.</li> + +<li>Awdry, Sir J. W., donor, <a href="#Page_337">337</a>.</li> + +<li>Ayliffe, Dr. John, <i>Univ. of Oxford</i> cited, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>, <a href="#Page_86">86</a> <i>n.</i></li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>BABER, Rev. H. H., M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>, <a href="#Page_217">217</a>.</li> + +<li>Backer, A. De, <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Bibl., des Écr. de la Comp de Jes.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_224">224</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Bacon, Sir Francis, donor, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Works</i>, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Essays</i>, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>.</li> + +<li>Bacon, Roger, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>, <a href="#Page_329">329</a>.</li> + +<li>Bacon, Thomas Sclater, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Bagford, John, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Bailey, W., B.A., <a href="#Page_239">239</a>, <a href="#Page_241">241</a>.</li> + +<li>Bailly, Lud., <a href="#Page_263">263</a>.</li> + +<li>Baker, Thomas, B.D., <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Bale, John, Bp. of Ossory, <a href="#Page_90">90</a>, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>.</li> + +<li>Ballard, George, his bequest, <a href="#Page_186">186-8</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cited, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">references to his MSS., <a href="#Page_99">99</a>, <a href="#Page_156">156</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_320">320</a>.</li> + +<li>Balliol, Devorguilla de, <a href="#Page_314">314</a>.</li> + +<li>Bandinel, Bulkeley, D.D., mentioned, <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_149">149</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>, <a href="#Page_220">220</a>, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>, <a href="#Page_238">238</a>, <a href="#Page_249">249</a>, <a href="#Page_273">273</a>, <a href="#Page_279">279</a>, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_217">217</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Librarian, <a href="#Page_218">218</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">resignation, <a href="#Page_292">292</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">death, <a href="#Page_293">293</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">sale of his library, <a href="#Page_297">297</a>.</li> + +<li>Banks, Sir Joseph, <a href="#Page_194">194</a>.</li> + +<li>Barges, J. J., <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Barker, Christopher, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Barker, E. H., <a href="#Page_290">290</a>.</li> + +<li>Barker, Robert, donor, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Barker, Robert, in 1631, <a href="#Page_290">290</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Barlow, Thomas, D.D., elected Librarian, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">draws up a paper against lending books, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">quotations from it, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>, <a href="#Page_72">72</a>, <a href="#Page_77">77</a>, <a href="#Page_81">81-84</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Library accounts, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>, <a href="#Page_69">69</a>, <a href="#Page_85">85</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>, <a href="#Page_100">100</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">resigns, <a href="#Page_90">90</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">interview with a R. C. priest, <a href="#Page_91">91</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his books, <a href="#Page_99">99</a>, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>, <a href="#Page_119">119</a>, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>, <a href="#Page_129">129</a>, <a href="#Page_328">328</a>.</li> + +<li>Barnes, J., mentioned, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.</li> + +<li>Barnes, Joshua, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_320">320</a>.</li> + +<li>Barnes, Juliana, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>.</li> + +<li>Barocci, Giacomo, his MSS., <a href="#Page_53">53-55</a>, <a href="#Page_130">130</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">references to MSS., <a href="#Page_83">83</a>.</li> + +<li>Barrett, P., B.A., <a href="#Page_235">235</a>.</li> + +<li>Barrington, Shute, Bp. of Durham, donor, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Barthélemy, J. J., <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> + +<li>Basire, James, <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_213">213</a>.</li> + +<li>Baskett, John, donor, <a href="#Page_147">147</a>.</li> + +<li>Basle, Council of, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>.</li> + +<li>Bassandyne, Thomas, <a href="#Page_304">304</a>.</li> + +<li>Bateman, —, <a href="#Page_153">153</a>.</li> + +<li>Bath, Countess of, <a href="#Page_185">185</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Battely, Oliver, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Bathurst, Ralph, M.D., donor, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.</li> + +<li>Baudry, F., <a href="#Page_184">184</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Baxter, W. H., <a href="#Page_309">309</a>.</li> + +<li>Bayeux, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> + +<li>Beaumont, F., and Fletcher, J., <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Bebseth, John, <a href="#Page_315">315</a>.</li> + +<li>Becket, Archbp. T. à, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>, <a href="#Page_188">188</a>.</li> + +<li>Becon, Thomas, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>.</li> + +<li>Beddoes, Thomas, M.D., makes complaint against Price, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>.</li> + +<li>Bede, cited, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>, <a href="#Page_327">327</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>.</li> + +<li>Bedell, William, Bp. of Kilmore, MS. papers, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>.</li> + +<li>Bedford, Bp. Hilkiah, <a href="#Page_181">181</a>.</li> + +<li>Bedford, William, M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a>, <a href="#Page_181">181</a>.</li> + +<li>Beet, T., bookseller, <a href="#Page_42">42</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Beever, Rev. F. J., donor, <a href="#Page_338">338</a>.</li> + +<li>Bell, Rev. John, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> + +<li>Bembi, Cardinal, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Benaliis, B. de, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Bengal, Asiatic Society of, donor, <a href="#Page_269">269</a>.</li> + +<li>Benius, Paulus, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.</li> + +<li>Bennet, Sir John, mentioned, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">one of Bodley's executors, and a defalcator, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>.</li> + +<li>Bennet, Matthew, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>.</li> + +<li>Bent, Andrew, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>.</li> + +<li>Berkshire MSS., <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Bernard, Edward, D.D., his books, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_133">133</a>; +<!-- Page 347 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_347" id="Page_347">[Pg 347]</a></span></li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Catal. MSS.</i>, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>, <a href="#Page_101">101</a>, <a href="#Page_103">103</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>, <a href="#Page_113">113</a> <i>bis</i>, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>, <a href="#Page_130">130</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_287">287</a>.</li> + +<li>Bernstein, Dr., <a href="#Page_296">296</a>.</li> + +<li>Berryer, M., <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Besly, John, D.C.L., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_242">242</a>, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Bestiaries</i>, <a href="#Page_327">327-8</a>.</li> + +<li>Beverland, Hadrian, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>.</li> + +<li>Bible, <i>Paris Polyglott</i>, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Hebr.</i> MS. <a href="#Page_324">324</a>, <i>pr.</i> 1488, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Latin</i>, MSS., <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_224">224</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>c.</i> 1455 (Mazarine), <a href="#Page_202">202</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">1462, on vellum, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>, on paper, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>c.</i> 1470, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">1471, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">(Strasb.) <i>n. d.</i>, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Wickliffe's Version</i>, <a href="#Page_96">96</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Coverdale's</i> 1535, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">— 1537, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Cromwell's</i> 1539, <a href="#Page_300">300</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Cranmer's</i> 1540, 1541, 1553, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Matthew's</i> 1551, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Bishops'</i> 1568, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>First Scottish edit.</i> 1579, <a href="#Page_304">304</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Auth. Vers.</i> 1631, <a href="#Page_290">290</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">1639, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Vinegar</i> 1717, <a href="#Page_147">147</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Glasgow</i> 1862, <a href="#Page_330">330</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Bowyer</i>, <a href="#Page_244">244-5</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Douay</i>, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Bohemian</i>, Ed. Pr., <a href="#Page_283">283</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Dutch</i> 1637, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>German</i>, Ed. Pr., <a href="#Page_202">202</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">1466, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">Luther's 1541, <a href="#Page_245">245</a>, <a href="#Page_330">330</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">Royal Press, Berlin, <a href="#Page_330">330</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Polish 1563, <a href="#Page_229">229</a>.</li> +<li class="indent1">Old Test., <i>Syriac</i>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">Pentateuch, <i>Hebr.</i> 1482, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Samaritan</i>, <a href="#Page_296">296</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Syriac</i>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>German</i>, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">Genesis, <i>Greek</i>, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">Psalters, <i>Lat.</i>, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>, <a href="#Page_249">249</a>, <a href="#Page_327">327</a>;</li> +<li class="indent3">1459, <a href="#Page_229">229</a>;</li> +<li class="indent3"><i>Archbp. Parker's</i>, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>;</li> +<li class="indent3"><i>American</i>, <a href="#Page_264">264</a>;</li> +<li class="indent3"><i>Æthiopic</i>, 1513, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>.</li> +<li class="indent1">Apocrypha 1549, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>.</li> +<li class="indent1">New Test., <i>Codex Ebner.</i> <a href="#Page_229">229-30</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Tyndale's</i> 1534, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">— 1536, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Coverdale's</i> 1538, <a href="#Page_302">302</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Hollybush</i> 1538, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Erasmus</i> 1540, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>C. Barker</i>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">1625, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">1628, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">1630, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.</li> +<li class="indent1">Evangeliaries, <i>Greek</i>, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>, <a href="#Page_224">224</a>.</li> +<li class="indent1">Gospels, <i>Lat.</i>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>, <a href="#Page_327">327</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Lat.</i>, (given by S. Gregory to S. Augustine), <a href="#Page_24">24</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Early English</i>, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Coptic</i>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Russian</i>, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Syriac</i>, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">St. Luke, <i>Greek</i>, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">St. Luke and St. John, <i>Greek</i>, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2"><i>Lat.</i>, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Acts, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Codex Laudianus</i>, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Biblia Pauperum</i>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Apocalypse</i> illustrated, MS., <a href="#Page_321">321</a>, <a href="#Page_328">328</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MS. illustrations of the Bible, <a href="#Page_324">324</a>.</li> + +<li>Bill, John, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.</li> + +<li>Bilstone, John, M.A.,</li> +<li class="indent1">Janitor, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>, <a href="#Page_152">152</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">deprivation and death, <a href="#Page_192">192</a>.</li> + +<li>Bindings, <a href="#Page_27">27</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>, <a href="#Page_51">51-3</a>, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>, <a href="#Page_230">230</a>, <a href="#Page_332">332</a>. <a href="#Page_333">333</a>.</li> + +<li>Birch, Thomas, D.D., <a href="#Page_172">172</a>.</li> + +<li>Bishop, —, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li>Bishop, Sir Henry, <a href="#Page_278">278</a>.</li> + +<li>Black, W. H., <a href="#Page_287">287</a>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>.</li> + +<li>Blackbourne, Bp. John, <a href="#Page_169">169</a>.</li> + +<li>Blacman, John, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>Blackstone, Sir W., <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Blackwood, Adam, <a href="#Page_266">266</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Blades, William, <a href="#Page_155">155</a>, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>.</li> + +<li>Blakeway, Edward, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Blakeway, Rev. J. B., Shropshire MSS., <a href="#Page_263">263</a>.</li> + +<li>Blakeway, Richard, M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Blayney, Benjamin, D.D., <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> + +<li>Bliss, Rev. Nathaniel, <a href="#Page_194">194</a>.</li> + +<li>Bliss, Philip, D.C.L., his sale, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cited, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>, <a href="#Page_152">152</a>, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>, <a href="#Page_192">192</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>, <a href="#Page_219">219</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_220">220</a>, <a href="#Page_235">235</a>, <a href="#Page_236">236</a>, <a href="#Page_242">242</a>, <a href="#Page_245">245</a>, <a href="#Page_257">257</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Bliss, W. H., M.A., <a href="#Page_117">117</a>.</li> + +<li>Block-books, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>.</li> + +<li>Blow, Dr. John, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li>Bloxam, J. R., D.D., <i>Regist. of Magd. Coll.</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_188">188</a>, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> + +<li>Blunt, J. H., M.A., <a href="#Page_132">132</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Bobart, J., <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.</li> + +<li>Boccaccio, Giovanni, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_296">296</a>, <a href="#Page_330">330</a>.</li> + +<li>Bodleian Library, see 'Stationers' Company;'</li> +<li class="indent1">central room built to receive Duke Humphrey's books, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">destruction of his library, <a href="#Page_11">11-12</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">re-foundation by Bodley, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">roof, <a href="#Page_14">14-15</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">register of benefactors, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">opened, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">styled the Bodleian by letters patent, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">eastern wing built, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">great window, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">endowments, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">western wing built, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">statute 1813, <a href="#Page_218">218</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">new statutes 1856, <a href="#Page_284">284</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">first catalogue 1605, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">second 1620, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>, <a href="#Page_91">91</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">appendix 1635, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">prices of these catalogues, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">third 1674, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>, <a href="#Page_156">156-7</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Hearne's Appendix, <a href="#Page_123">123</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">fourth 1738, <a href="#Page_156">156</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">fifth 1843, <a href="#Page_268">268</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">new catalogue now in progress, <a href="#Page_291">291</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Uri's catalogue of Oriental MSS., <a href="#Page_199">199</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">catalogues</li> +<li class="indent2">of pictures, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">of early printed books 1795, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">number</li> +<li class="indent2">of books 1620, <a href="#Page_46">46-7</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">of MSS. 1690, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">of printed books and MSS.</li> +<li class="indent3">1714, <a href="#Page_137">137</a>;</li> +<li class="indent3">1849, <a href="#Page_274">274</a>;</li> +<li class="indent3">1867, <a href="#Page_305">305</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">remonstrance from foreign readers against an order of the Curators, <a href="#Page_68">68</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">loan to Charles I, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>, <a href="#Page_69">69</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">supposed attempt to burn the library, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">attendance of readers</li> +<li class="indent2">in 1648-9, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">in 1730-40, <a href="#Page_152">152</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">duplicates exchanged with Queen's College, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>; +<!-- Page 348 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_348" id="Page_348">[Pg 348]</a></span></li> +<li class="indent1">sales of duplicates, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>, <a href="#Page_297">297</a>, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">western end re-floored, <a href="#Page_191">191</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">annual payment from graduates, <a href="#Page_195">195</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books not allowed to be borrowed, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>, <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">borrowing allowed</li> +<li class="indent2">by Lord Pembroke and Sir T. Roe, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">by Sir K. Digby, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">loan of books refused</li> +<li class="indent2">to Bp. Williams, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">to Charles I, <a href="#Page_72">72</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">to Cromwell, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">to the translators of the Bible, <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent2">to Archbp. Laud, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent2">granted by special grace, from some collections, to Selden, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS. lent</li> +<li class="indent2">to Marshall, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">to the French government by Convocation, <a href="#Page_295">295</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">removal of books forbidden 1686, <a href="#Page_109">109</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books returned—</li> +<li class="indent2">to Univ. Libr., Cambr., <a href="#Page_154">154</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">to Emman. Coll., Cambr., <a href="#Page_159">159</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">to Magd. and Univ. Coll., Oxf., <a href="#Page_215">215</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">to Durham, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">to two parishes, <a href="#Page_234">234</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books stolen, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>, <a href="#Page_80">80</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>, <a href="#Page_103">103</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">denunciation of a thief by the Curators, <a href="#Page_80">80</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books restored, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>, <a href="#Page_82">82</a>, <a href="#Page_103">103</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">chains for books, <a href="#Page_86">86</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">pamphlets, <a href="#Page_66">66</a>, <a href="#Page_194">194</a>, <a href="#Page_202">202</a>, <a href="#Page_290">290</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">dispute between the Hebdomadal Board and the Curators, <a href="#Page_198">198</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">poem on the Library, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">returns to House of Commons, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>, <a href="#Page_273">273</a>, <a href="#Page_274">274</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Greek text affixed to the door, <a href="#Page_209">209</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">coldness in winter formerly, <a href="#Page_98">98</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">warming apparatus, <a href="#Page_234">234-5</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">the Radcliffe building assigned as a reading-room, <a href="#Page_293">293</a>, <a href="#Page_295">295</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">visited</li> +<li class="indent2">by James I, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>,</li> +<li class="indent2">by Charles I, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>,</li> +<li class="indent2">by Charles II, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>,</li> +<li class="indent2">by James II, <a href="#Page_109">109</a>,</li> +<li class="indent2">by George III, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>,</li> +<li class="indent2">by her present Majesty, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">American visitor's account cited, <a href="#Page_134">134</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">order in 1722 against admission of readers at unstatutable times, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Anatomy Sch., <a href="#Page_132">132</a>, <a href="#Page_134">134</a>, <a href="#Page_136">136</a>, <a href="#Page_140">140</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">assigned to the Library, <a href="#Page_200">200</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">heads formerly on the wall of Picture Gallery, <a href="#Page_138">138</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">the clock, <a href="#Page_182">182</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">librarians' celibacy, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">stipends of officers in 1655-7, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">stipends of Sub-librarians, <a href="#Page_260">260</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">in 1856, <a href="#Page_284">284</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">list of officers, <a href="#Page_341">341-3</a><a href="#Page_43">43</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">rules, <a href="#Page_344">344</a>.</li> + +<li>Bodley, Gerard, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>.</li> + +<li><span class="smcap">Bodley</span>, Sir Thomas;</li> +<li class="indent1">early career, <a href="#Page_12">12-13</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">begins to restore the Library, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his motto, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">bust, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">desires the Catalogue to be dedicated to the Prince of Wales, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">builds eastern wing, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">said to have given plate to the Stationers' Company on their agreement with him, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">endows the Library, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">forbad the borrowing of books, <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his bell, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his chest, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">death, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">charged with neglect of his relatives, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">petition from his grand-nephew and niece, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait on glass at Oriel Coll., <a href="#Page_45">45</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">annual Bodley speech, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Reliquiæ Bodleianæ</i> cited, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">mentioned, <a href="#Page_138">138</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books with his autograph, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="#Page_296">296</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Justa Funebria Bodlei</i> cited, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Bodleiomnema</i>, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>.</li> + +<li>Bodley, Capt. Sir Josias, <a href="#Page_13">13</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>.</li> + +<li>Bodley, Laurence, <a href="#Page_13">13</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Bodley, Miles, <a href="#Page_13">13</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Boethius, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>.</li> + +<li>Boileau, Nic., <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Bois, Sim. du, <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Bokelonde, Thomas, <a href="#Page_8">8</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Boleyn, Queen Anne, <a href="#Page_333">333</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">book which belonged to her, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>.</li> + +<li>Bolingbroke, Lord, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Boninis, B. de, <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Bonner, Edm., Bishop of London, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>.</li> + +<li>Bonyngton, W., <a href="#Page_313">313</a>.</li> + +<li>Boone, T., <a href="#Page_304">304</a>.</li> + +<li>Booth, John, Bp. of Exeter, <a href="#Page_317">317</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Borlase, Dr. W., <a href="#Page_289">289</a>.</li> + +<li>Boswell, James, <i>Life of Johnson</i>, <a href="#Page_188">188</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Boswell, James, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Boswell, Sir W., <a href="#Page_322">322</a>.</li> + +<li>Botel, Henry, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>.</li> + +<li>Boucher, Rev. Jonathan, <a href="#Page_254">254</a>.</li> + +<li>Bourgchier, Sir H., <a href="#Page_54">54</a>.</li> + +<li>Bowcher, G., donor, <a href="#Page_149">149</a>.</li> + +<li>Bowen, James, donor, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>.</li> + +<li>Bowles, Joseph, M.A.;</li> +<li class="indent1">Dr. Hudson's servitor, <a href="#Page_139">139</a>, <a href="#Page_140">140</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">elected Librarian, <a href="#Page_144">144</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Hearne's character of him, <a href="#Page_145">145</a>, <a href="#Page_146">146</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">began to print a new Catalogue, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">demanded payment for making lists, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">death, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>.</li> + +<li>Bown, John, M.A., <a href="#Page_342">342</a>.</li> + +<li>Bowyer, Sir George, donor, <a href="#Page_260">260</a>.</li> + +<li>Bowyer, Rob.; his illustrated Bible, <a href="#Page_244">244</a>.</li> + +<li>Boyce, William, Mus. D., <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li>Boydell, J., <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Boyle, Robert; <i>History of the Air</i>, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.</li> + +<li>Boys, John, D.D., <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Bradley, Dr. James; MSS. of his <i>Astron. Observations</i>, <a href="#Page_193">193</a>, <a href="#Page_195">195</a>.</li> + +<li>Bradshaw, Henry, M.A., Cambr., <a href="#Page_112">112</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_155">155</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 349 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_349" id="Page_349">[Pg 349]</a></span>Brahe, Tycho; <i>Astron. Mechan.</i>, with original MSS. additions, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Braidwood, —, <a href="#Page_234">234</a>, <a href="#Page_284">284</a>.</li> + +<li>Breamore, Hants, <a href="#Page_131">131</a>.</li> + +<li>Bredon, Simon, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Brent, Charles, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Bresslau, M. H., <a href="#Page_114">114</a>.</li> + +<li>Brett, Lieut., <a href="#Page_289">289</a>.</li> + +<li>Breviaries, <a href="#Page_213">213</a>, <a href="#Page_280">280</a>, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>, <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Brewer, J. S., M.A., <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Brewster, William, M.D., <a href="#Page_142">142</a>.</li> + +<li>Bridgeman, William; his sale, <a href="#Page_173">173</a>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Bridges, John; Northamptonshire collections, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>.</li> + +<li>Bridges, Nath., D.D., <a href="#Page_204">204</a>.</li> + +<li>Brie, Joh. de, <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Bright, B. H., donor, <a href="#Page_232">232</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">sale, <a href="#Page_270">270</a>.</li> + +<li>Brightwell, Rich., <i>i.e.</i> J. Frith, <i>q.v.</i></li> + +<li>Bristol, Charter, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> + +<li>Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, <a href="#Page_240">240</a>.</li> + +<li>British Museum; various MSS., <a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_19">19</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_101">101</a>, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>, <a href="#Page_153">153</a>, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">printed books, <a href="#Page_246">246</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_272">272</a>.</li> + +<li>Britton, John, <a href="#Page_253">253</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_288">288</a>.</li> + +<li>Broad, J., <a href="#Page_285">285</a>.</li> + +<li>Brooke, Margaret, donor, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.</li> + +<li>Brooks, —, glass-painter, <a href="#Page_193">193</a>.</li> + +<li>Brougham, Lord, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Brounst, Richard, <a href="#Page_314">314</a>.</li> + +<li>Brown, Thomas R., M.A., <a href="#Page_260">260</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Brown, Thomas, <a href="#Page_196">196</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Browne, Arthur, M.A., <a href="#Page_268">268</a>.</li> + +<li>Browne, Lancelot, M.D., donor, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>.</li> + +<li>Browne, Sir Thomas, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> + +<li>Bruce, James; his MSS., <a href="#Page_266">266-8</a>.</li> + +<li>Bruce, John, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>.</li> + +<li>Bruno, S., <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Bry, J. T. de, <a href="#Page_279">279</a>.</li> + +<li>Buckeridge, John, Bp. of Rochester, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Buckhurst, Lord. See <i>Dorset</i>.</li> + +<li>Buckingham, George, first Duke, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>, <a href="#Page_334">334</a>.</li> + +<li>Buckingham, Sheffield, Duke of; portrait, <a href="#Page_148">148</a>.</li> + +<li>Buckinghamshire MSS., <a href="#Page_190">190</a>.</li> + +<li>Bugenhagen, J., <a href="#Page_246">246</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Bull, George, Bp. of St. David's, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Bull, N., Janitor, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>.</li> + +<li>Bulls relating to England, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>.</li> + +<li>Bunsen, Chevalier, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Bunyan, John, <a href="#Page_304">304</a>.</li> + +<li>Burbache, John, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>.</li> + +<li>Burdett-Coutts, Miss, <a href="#Page_42">42</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Bure, G. F. de, <a href="#Page_200">200</a>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Bures, Suffolk, parish register, <a href="#Page_234">234</a>.</li> + +<li>Burgess, Thos., Bp. of St. David's, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>.</li> + +<li>Burgo, D. de, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.</li> + +<li>Burgred, King of Mercia, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>.</li> + +<li>Burmese MSS., <a href="#Page_240">240</a>, <a href="#Page_326">326</a>.</li> + +<li>Burn, J. H., <a href="#Page_297">297</a>.</li> + +<li>Burn, J. S., cited, <a href="#Page_290">290</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Burnet, Gilbert, Bp. of Salisbury, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>, <a href="#Page_238">238</a>, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>, <a href="#Page_254">254</a>, <a href="#Page_276">276</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Life of Hale</i> cited, <a href="#Page_77">77</a>, <a href="#Page_85">85</a>.</li> + +<li>Burnett, Alex., Archbp. of St. Andrew's, <a href="#Page_155">155</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Burnford, Humphrey, Librarian, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> + +<li>Burton, Daniel, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Burton, Robert; his gift of printed books, <a href="#Page_65">65-7</a>, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>.</li> + +<li>Burton, Archd. Samuel, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.</li> + +<li>Burton, Thomas, M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Burton, William, donor, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.</li> + +<li>Bury, Philip of, Bp. of Durham; his library at Durham College, <a href="#Page_4">4</a>.</li> + +<li>Bury St. Edmund's, abbey register, <a href="#Page_154">154</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Butler, Charles, <a href="#Page_247">247</a>.</li> + +<li>Butler, Samuel, Bp. of Lichfield, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>.</li> + +<li>Butler, William, M.D., <a href="#Page_333">333</a>.</li> + +<li>Button, James, donor, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Byron, Lord, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>CADELL, T., <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Cædmon, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>, <a href="#Page_327">327</a>.</li> + +<li>Calamy, Edmund, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Calcott, John, B.D., <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> + +<li>Calcutta, <a href="#Page_338">338</a>.</li> + +<li>Caldecott, Thomas, donor, <a href="#Page_247">247</a>.</li> + +<li>Calder, —, coins, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Camac, Turner, donor, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>.</li> + +<li>Cambridge, Statutes of various Colleges, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Corp. Chr. Coll., MS. there, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">fragment there, <a href="#Page_112">112</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Emmanuel Coll., book restored to the College, <a href="#Page_159">159</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">St. John's Coll., fragment there, <a href="#Page_112">112</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Univ. Library, <a href="#Page_112">112</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS. restored to Moore's Library, <a href="#Page_154">154</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">return to House of Commons of books rejected, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">map, <a href="#Page_335">335</a>.</li> + +<li>Camden, William, donor, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MS. collections, <a href="#Page_196">196</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">engraved portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Britannia</i> and <i>Annales Eliz.</i>, <a href="#Page_153">153</a>.</li> + +<li>Canonici, M. L., his MSS., <a href="#Page_223">223-6</a>, <a href="#Page_230">230</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">fragments of vellum Bible, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>.</li> + +<li>Canons, early MSS., <a href="#Page_100">100</a>, <a href="#Page_103">103</a>.</li> + +<li>Canterbury, MSS. from St. Augustine's, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Statutes of the Cathl., <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Capgrave, John, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Carew, Sir G., MSS., <a href="#Page_64">64</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Carleton, Sir Dudley, and Alice, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>, <a href="#Page_48">48</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li><!-- Page 350 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_350" id="Page_350">[Pg 350]</a></span> +Carmey, Angel, <a href="#Page_182">182</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Carte, Thomas, his MSS., <a href="#Page_165">165-7</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Letters</i> cited, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>.</li> + +<li>Cary, Henry, M.A., <a href="#Page_268">268</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Mem. of the Civ. War</i>, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>.</li> + +<li>Casaubon, Isaac, writes verses on Bodley's death, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Adversaria</i>, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.</li> + +<li>Casaubon, Meric, bequeathed his father's <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Adversaria</i>, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.</li> + +<li>Cassel, D., <a href="#Page_275">275</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Cassini, —, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li>Castell, Edmund, D.D., <a href="#Page_150">150</a>.</li> + +<li>Castlemain, Lord, <a href="#Page_173">173</a>.</li> + +<li>Catalogues, Sale, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>.</li> + +<li>Catherine, S., <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Cato, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>.</li> + +<li>Caulfield, Richard, LL.D., donor, <a href="#Page_311">311</a>, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Cave, Sir Thomas, donor, <a href="#Page_188">188</a>.</li> + +<li>Cawood, John, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Caxton, William, <i>Descr. of Brit.</i>, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Governayle of Health</i>, <a href="#Page_155">155</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Ars Moriendi</i>, <a href="#Page_155">155</a></li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Game of Chesse</i>, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Recuyell of Troye</i>, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Horæ</i>, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Booke of Curtesye</i>, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Dictes</i>, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Chronicle</i>, <a href="#Page_280">280</a>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Pilgrimage</i>, <a href="#Page_328">328</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">placard, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>.</li> + +<li>Cecil, R., Lord Burleigh, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Celotti, Abate, <a href="#Page_230">230</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Chace, Thomas, Chanc. of Oxford, <a href="#Page_7">7</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Chains for books, <a href="#Page_86">86</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books unchained, <a href="#Page_191">191</a>.</li> + +<li>Chalmers, Alexander, donor, <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Chalmers, George, sale, <a href="#Page_248">248</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_254">254</a>.</li> + +<li>Chamberlain, John, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>, <a href="#Page_48">48</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Chamberlayne, Edward, LL.D., papers, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>State of Great Brit.</i>, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>.</li> + +<li>Chambers, Sir R., <a href="#Page_337">337</a>.</li> + +<li>Chambre, W. de, <i>Hist. Dunelm.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_4">4</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Chandler, Richard, D.D., <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> + +<li>Chandos, James Brydges, Duke of, his sale, <a href="#Page_147">147</a>, <a href="#Page_165">165</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Chapman, —, bookseller, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>.</li> + +<li>Chapman, George, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Chappiel, Anth., <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Charlemagne, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>.</li> + +<li>Charles I, visits the Library, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his application to borrow a book refused, <a href="#Page_71">71-2</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">loan of money to him, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>, <a href="#Page_69">69</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">book said to be bound in a piece of his waistcoat, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">book that belonged to him, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Catalogue</i> ded. to him in 1620, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letters, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Treaty in Isle of Wight, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">bust, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portraits, <a href="#Page_148">148</a>, <a href="#Page_255">255</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_331">331</a>, <a href="#Page_334">334</a>.</li> + +<li>Charles II, visits the Library, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">platter from the Royal Oak, <a href="#Page_324">324</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">oak planted by him in St. James' Park, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letters, <a href="#Page_173">173</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portraits, <a href="#Page_255">255</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Charlett, Arthur, D.D., <a href="#Page_99">99</a>, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>, <a href="#Page_118">118</a>, <a href="#Page_119">119</a>, <a href="#Page_121">121</a>, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>, <a href="#Page_136">136</a>, <a href="#Page_145">145</a>, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">book-plate, <a href="#Page_186">186</a>.</li> + +<li>Charlotte, Q. Consort of George III, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>.</li> + +<li>Chartier, Alan, <a href="#Page_18">18</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>.</li> + +<li>Chaucer, Geoffrey, <a href="#Page_96">96</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Chaworth, Dr., <a href="#Page_69">69</a>.</li> + +<li>Cheke, Sir John, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.</li> + +<li>Cherry, Francis, his MSS., <a href="#Page_52">52</a>, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>.</li> + +<li>Chester Cathedral, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Chettle, H., <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Cheshire MSS., <a href="#Page_265">265</a>.</li> + +<li>Chichester, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Children of the Chapel</i>, <a href="#Page_156">156</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Chinese books, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_91">91</a>, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>, <a href="#Page_284">284</a>, <a href="#Page_338">338</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Chinese visitors, <a href="#Page_109">109</a>, <a href="#Page_320">320</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Chinese figures, &c., <a href="#Page_338">338</a>.</li> + +<li>Chipping-Barnet, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> + +<li>Christian, Charles, <a href="#Page_183">183</a>.</li> + +<li>Christie, —, auctioneer, <a href="#Page_267">267</a>.</li> + +<li>Chrysanthus, Patr. of Jerusalem, donor, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>.</li> + +<li>Churchill, A., <i>Voyages</i>, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.</li> + +<li>Churchill, Sir Winston, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Churchyard, Thomas, two of his tracts stolen, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>Citium, in Cyprus, <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> + +<li>Clapham, John, donor, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>.</li> + +<li>Clarendon, Edward, first Earl of, donor, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his MSS., <a href="#Page_163">163</a>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">resignation of Chanc. of Univ., <a href="#Page_323">323</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Gray's copy of his <i>History</i>, <a href="#Page_276">276</a>.</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>v.</i> Sutherland.</li> + +<li>Clarendon, Edward, third Earl, <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li>Clarendon, H., Earl of, MSS., <a href="#Page_184">184</a>, <a href="#Page_281">281</a>.</li> + +<li>Clarke, —, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.</li> + +<li>Clarke, Edw. D., LL.D., his MSS., <a href="#Page_215">215</a>.</li> + +<li>Clarke, Sam., M.A., his MSS., <a href="#Page_95">95</a>, <a href="#Page_268">268</a>.</li> + +<li>Clarke, William, <i>Repert. Bibl.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_255">255</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_305">305</a>.</li> + +<li>Clarke, W. N., D.C.L., <i>Collection of Letters</i>, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Berkshire MSS., <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Clavell, Walter, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Claymond, John, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> + +<li>Clayton, Dr. John, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>Cleaver, E., Bp. of St. Asaph, <a href="#Page_192">192</a>.</li> + +<li>Clement VIII, Pope, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Clements, —, bookseller, <a href="#Page_144">144</a>.</li> + +<li>Cloyne, <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Cobbe, Richard, M.A., <a href="#Page_149">149</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 351 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_351" id="Page_351">[Pg 351]</a></span>Cobham, Thomas, Bp. of Worcester, first founder of the Univ. Library, <a href="#Page_3">3</a>.</li> + +<li>Cobham, Lord, donor, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>.</li> + +<li>Cockburn, John, D.D., and his son, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>.</li> + +<li>Coins and Medals, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>, <a href="#Page_93">93</a>, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="#Page_182">182</a>, <a href="#Page_190">190</a>, <a href="#Page_191">191</a>, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>, <a href="#Page_264">264</a>, <a href="#Page_291">291</a>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Catalogue ordered to be made, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">enlarged by Hearne, <a href="#Page_123">123</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">coin-room, <a href="#Page_339">339</a>, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Cole, T., <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Colf, R., D.D., his sons, donors, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Collier, Bp. Jeremy, M.A., <a href="#Page_168">168</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Collins, Richard, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Columba, S., <a href="#Page_64">64</a>, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>.</li> + +<li>Compton, Henry, Bp. of London;</li> +<li class="indent1">MS. papers, <a href="#Page_154">154</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>.</li> + +<li>Conde, J. Ant., <a href="#Page_238">238</a>.</li> + +<li>Connock, Richard, donor, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>.</li> + +<li>Constance, Council of, <i>Acta</i>, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Cook, Captain, <i>Voyages</i>, <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> + +<li>Cooper, or Cowper, George, M.A., <a href="#Page_121">121</a>.</li> + +<li>Cooper, Samuel, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Cope, Sir Walter, donor, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>.</li> + +<li>Coptic, MSS. <a href="#Page_107">107</a>, <a href="#Page_149">149</a>, <a href="#Page_150">150</a>, <a href="#Page_267">267</a>.</li> + +<li>Corbinelli, J., <a href="#Page_296">296</a>.</li> + +<li>Cornbury, Henry Hyde, Lord, donor of the Clarendon MSS., <a href="#Page_163">163</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Cornhill Magazine</i>, <a href="#Page_280">280</a>, <a href="#Page_302">302</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Cornish MSS., <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Cosin, Richard, LL.D., <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Cotton, Archd. Henry, Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_220">220</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>, <a href="#Page_235">235</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>List of Bibles</i> cited, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Typogr. Gaz.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_112">112</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_162">162</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_244">244</a>, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>, <a href="#Page_310">310</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Cotton, Sir R., donor, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MS. from his library, <a href="#Page_96">96</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_86">86</a>.</li> + +<li>Courayer, F. le, papers and portrait, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li>Coventrey, Thomas, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>.</li> + +<li>Coventry, placards, &c., <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Coverdale, Miles, Bp. of Exeter, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>, <a href="#Page_277">277</a>, <a href="#Page_302">302</a>.</li> + +<li>Coward, William, M.D., donor, <a href="#Page_119">119</a>.</li> + +<li>Cowderoy, W., Janitor, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>.</li> + +<li>Cowley, Abraham, his <i>Poems</i>, given by him, <a href="#Page_45">45</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">verses on Drake's chair, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.</li> + +<li>Cowper, William, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>.</li> + +<li>Cox, C. H., M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_240">240</a>, <a href="#Page_242">242</a>.</li> + +<li>Coxe, H. O., M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_261">261</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Librarian, <a href="#Page_293">293</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_19">19</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>, <a href="#Page_169">169</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_172">172</a>, <a href="#Page_182">182</a>, <a href="#Page_194">194</a>, <a href="#Page_196">196</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_279">279</a>, <a href="#Page_280">280</a>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_291">291</a>, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>, <a href="#Page_328">328</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Catalogues</i>, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>, <a href="#Page_149">149</a>, <a href="#Page_186">186</a>, <a href="#Page_223">223</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>, <a href="#Page_230">230</a>, <a href="#Page_238">238</a>, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Crabb, John, M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_131">131-2</a>.</li> + +<li>Crabb, Jos., M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_129">129-1</a><a href="#Page_31">31</a>.</li> + +<li>Crabb, William, <a href="#Page_131">131</a>.</li> + +<li>Crabeth, —, <a href="#Page_228">228</a>.</li> + +<li>Cranmer, Thomas, Archbp. of Cant., Autograph, <a href="#Page_17">17</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Cremer, Henry, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Crevenna, P. A., sale, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>.</li> + +<li>Crew, —, M.A., <a href="#Page_92">92</a>.</li> + +<li>Crewe, Nathaniel, Bp. of Durham, donor, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>, <a href="#Page_162">162</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Croft, William, Mus. D., <a href="#Page_205">205</a>, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Cromwell, Henry, <a href="#Page_322">322</a>.</li> + +<li>Cromwell, Oliver, gift of Greek MSS., <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">applies for the loan of a MS., but is refused, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letters, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Memoirs</i>, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portraits, <a href="#Page_255">255</a>.</li> + +<li>Cromwell, Richard, <a href="#Page_55">55</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Croydon, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> + +<li>Crynes, Nathaniel, M.A., his bequest, <a href="#Page_159">159</a>, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">had some duplicates from the Bodleian, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>.</li> + +<li>Crystall, John, <a href="#Page_313">313</a>.</li> + +<li>Cuerdale coins, <a href="#Page_264">264</a>.</li> + +<li>Cuper, Gisb., <a href="#Page_207">207</a>.</li> + +<li>Cureton, William, D.D., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>, <a href="#Page_259">259</a>.</li> + +<li>Curll, Edmund, <a href="#Page_322">322</a>.</li> + +<li>Curtis, —, <a href="#Page_200">200</a>.</li> + +<li>Cyprian, S., <a href="#Page_290">290</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>DALRYMPLE, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Daly, Robert, Bp. of Cashel, sale, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>.</li> + +<li>Damascius, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>.</li> + +<li>Daniel, G., <a href="#Page_42">42</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Danish visitors to the Library, <a href="#Page_137">137</a>.</li> + +<li>Dante, <a href="#Page_226">226</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Davids, A. L., <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.</li> + +<li>Davies, John, Deptford, donor, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>.</li> + +<li>Davies, John, Hereford, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Davis, Richard, donor, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>.</li> + +<li>Davis, William, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Davy, Capt. L. H., donor, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>.</li> + +<li>Davy, William, A.B., <a href="#Page_259">259</a>.</li> + +<li>Davydge, Richard, donor, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>.</li> + +<li>Dawkins, Henry, gift of MSS., <a href="#Page_188">188-9</a>.</li> + +<li>Dawson, Thomas, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Daye, John, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>.</li> + +<li>Decker, Thomas, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Dee, Dr. John, papers, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_169">169</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>Defoe, Daniel, <a href="#Page_302">302</a>.</li> + +<li>Delahogue, L. Æ., <a href="#Page_263">263</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 352 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_352" id="Page_352">[Pg 352]</a></span> +Delaram, Francis, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Denyer, John, <a href="#Page_238">238</a>.</li> + +<li>Denyer, Mrs. Eliz. D., bequest, <a href="#Page_238">238-9</a>.</li> + +<li>Deptford, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>.</li> + +<li>Derby, Geoffrey, Earl of, donor, <a href="#Page_281">281</a>.</li> + +<li>Derby, Prior Stephen, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>De Rossi, J. B., <a href="#Page_225">225</a>.</li> + +<li>Desborough, Major-Gen., donor, <a href="#Page_90">90</a>.</li> + +<li>Devonshire, Duke of, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Devonshire MSS., <a href="#Page_268">268</a>.</li> + +<li>D'Ewes, Sir Symonds, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>.</li> + +<li>Dibdin, Dr. T. F., cited, <a href="#Page_18">18</a>, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>, <a href="#Page_130">130</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>, <a href="#Page_209">209</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>, <a href="#Page_222">222</a>, <a href="#Page_224">224</a>, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Dickens, Guy, donor, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>.</li> + +<li>Digby, Sir Kenelm, his MSS., <a href="#Page_58">58</a>, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Allen's MSS. included, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">willing that they should be lent, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>, <a href="#Page_240">240</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his portraits, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Dillmann, Dr. A., <a href="#Page_65">65</a>, <a href="#Page_268">268</a>.</li> + +<li>Dillon, Viscount, <a href="#Page_112">112</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Dionysius Halicarnassus, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>.</li> + +<li>Dionysius Syrus, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>.</li> + +<li>Disney, Dr. John, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> + +<li>D'Israeli, Is., cited, <a href="#Page_326">326</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Ditchley, Oxon., <a href="#Page_112">112</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Dissertations, Academic, <a href="#Page_240">240-1</a>.</li> + +<li>Dix, James, <a href="#Page_335">335</a>.</li> + +<li>Dix, John, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Djami, <a href="#Page_325">325</a>, <a href="#Page_332">332</a>.</li> + +<li>Dodd, —, <a href="#Page_220">220</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Dodd, Thomas, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>.</li> + +<li>Dodsworth, Roger, his MSS., <a href="#Page_96">96</a>, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_99">99</a>.</li> + +<li>Dodwell, Henry, M.A., <a href="#Page_152">152</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Dolben, Gilbert, and J. E., donors, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>.</li> + +<li>Dolben, Sir J. E., Sheldon and Dolben papers, <a href="#Page_237">237-8</a>.</li> + +<li>Donatus, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>.</li> + +<li>Donkin, W. F., M.A., <a href="#Page_277">277</a>.</li> + +<li>Donne, John, D.D., <a href="#Page_86">86</a>.</li> + +<li>Dormer, Sir Michael, donor, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.</li> + +<li>Dornford, Rev. Jos., donor, <a href="#Page_326">326</a>.</li> + +<li>Dorset, Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of, donor of books, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">of Bodley's bust, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>.</li> + +<li>Dorset, C. Sackville, Earl of, <a href="#Page_173">173</a>.</li> + +<li>D'Orville, J. P., his MSS., <a href="#Page_207">207-8</a>.</li> + +<li>Dositheus, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>.</li> + +<li>Douce, Francis, his library, <a href="#Page_249">249-251</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_257">257</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_267">267</a>, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">references to books, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>, <a href="#Page_311">311</a>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_327">327</a>, <a href="#Page_329">329-332</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">coins, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Doughty, Bp. Henry, <a href="#Page_169">169</a>.</li> + +<li>Douglas, James, M.D., <a href="#Page_248">248</a>.</li> + +<li>Douglas, John, Bp. of Salisbury, donor, <a href="#Page_164">164</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_267">267</a>.</li> + +<li>Drake, Sir F., his chair, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>.</li> + +<li>Drake, Francis, donor, <a href="#Page_96">96</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Drummond, W., of Hawthornden, <a href="#Page_266">266</a>.</li> + +<li>Drusius, J., cited, <a href="#Page_13">13</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Dryden, John, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Dublin, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Dubourg, —, <a href="#Page_338">338</a>.</li> + +<li>Du Chesne, Andr., <i>Hist. Fr. Scriptt.</i>, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.</li> + +<li>Dugdale, Sir W., donor, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS. <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_287">287</a>, <a href="#Page_288">288</a>.</li> + +<li>Dukes, Leopold, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>.</li> + +<li>Dukes, T. F., <a href="#Page_264">264</a>.</li> + +<li>Duncan, J. S. and P. B., donors, <a href="#Page_236">236</a>.</li> + +<li>Dune, Thomas, <a href="#Page_314">314</a>.</li> + +<li>Dunstan, St., MSS., <a href="#Page_20">20</a>.</li> + +<li>Dunton, John, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> + +<li>Durandus, Gul., <a href="#Page_229">229</a>.</li> + +<li>Durham, Register of Bp. Kellow, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> + +<li>Dury, John, MS. papers, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>.</li> + +<li>Dutch tracts, <a href="#Page_228">228</a>, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Dyak language, first books printed in the, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>.</li> + +<li>Dysart, Earl of, <a href="#Page_155">155</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>EASTCOT, Daniel, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>East India, portraits of Rajahs, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>.</li> + +<li>East India Company, donors, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>, <a href="#Page_260">260</a>.</li> + +<li>Eberbach, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>Ebner, J. W., <a href="#Page_229">229</a>.</li> + +<li>Eccard, J. G., restored some papers stolen from Bodleian, <a href="#Page_103">103</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Edelmann, H., <a href="#Page_114">114</a>, <a href="#Page_275">275</a>.</li> + +<li>Eden, Robert, M.A., <a href="#Page_235">235</a>.</li> + +<li>Edgeman, William, <a href="#Page_165">165</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Edgeworth, Miss, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> + +<li>Edmonds, Sir Clement, donor, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>.</li> + +<li>Edmund of Pounteney, S., Archbp. of Canterbury, <a href="#Page_101">101</a>.</li> + +<li>Edward the Confessor, <a href="#Page_328">328</a>.</li> + +<li>Edward I, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>, <a href="#Page_329">329</a>.</li> + +<li>Edward III, <a href="#Page_328">328</a>.</li> + +<li>Edward IV, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>.</li> + +<li>Edward VI, mentioned, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>, <a href="#Page_282">282</a>, <a href="#Page_331">331</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">exercise-book, <a href="#Page_325">325</a>.</li> + +<li>Edward, Thomas, M.A., account of him, <a href="#Page_149">149</a>, <a href="#Page_150">150</a>.</li> + +<li>Edwardes, Thomas, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Ekerman, Peter, <a href="#Page_241">241</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>.</li> + +<li>Elizabeth, Queen, exercise-book, <a href="#Page_325">325</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">gloves, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS. presented to her, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>, <a href="#Page_326">326</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books bound by her, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>, <a href="#Page_152">152</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books translated and written by her, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>, <a href="#Page_331">331</a>; +<!-- Page 353 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_353" id="Page_353">[Pg 353]</a></span></li> +<li class="indent1">proclamations in her reign, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">roundels, <a href="#Page_339">339</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_307">307</a>, <a href="#Page_308">308</a>.</li> + +<li>Elizabeth, Q. of Bohemia, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Elkins, W. H., <a href="#Page_300">300</a>.</li> + +<li>Elliott, J. B., his gift of MSS., &c., <a href="#Page_290">290-1</a>, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Ellis, Sir Henry, D.C.L., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_204">204-5</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Letters of Literary Men</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>, <a href="#Page_121">121</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Polydore Virgil</i>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Remarks on Cædmon</i>, <a href="#Page_103">103</a>.</li> + +<li>Elmham, Thomas, cited, <a href="#Page_24">24</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.</li> + +<li>Elphinstone, Bp., <i>Chron. of Scotl.</i>, <a href="#Page_96">96</a>.</li> + +<li>Elstob, William and Mary, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>.</li> + +<li>English, Thomas, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Enoch, Book of</i>, <a href="#Page_267">267</a>.</li> + +<li>Erasmus, Des., <a href="#Page_144">144</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Erfurt, MSS. from, <a href="#Page_285">285</a>.</li> + +<li>Erpenius, Thomas, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>.</li> + +<li>Essex, Robert, second Earl of, donor, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>.</li> + +<li>Eton College, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Etty, Simeon J., M.A., <a href="#Page_239">239</a>, <a href="#Page_259">259</a>.</li> + +<li>Euclid, the D'Orville MS., <a href="#Page_207">207</a>.</li> + +<li>Eulenberg, Baron ab, <a href="#Page_68">68</a>.</li> + +<li>Eusebius, <a href="#Page_238">238</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Eustace, G., <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Euthymius Zigabenus, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>.</li> + +<li>Eutychius, or Eutex, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>.</li> + +<li>Evans, Rev. F., <a href="#Page_284">284</a>.</li> + +<li>Evans, Messrs., <a href="#Page_276">276</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Evelyn, John, donor, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letters, <a href="#Page_287">287</a>.</li> + +<li>Ewart, William, M.P., <a href="#Page_273">273</a>.</li> + +<li>Exeter, MSS. given by Dean and Chapter, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Statutes of the Cathedral, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Exeter, Cecil, Earl of, donor, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Eyre, Dr., <a href="#Page_190">190</a>.</li> + +<li>Eyston, Charles, <a href="#Page_213">213</a> <i>n.</i></li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>FABER, John, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Fadir, Peter, <a href="#Page_317">317</a>.</li> + +<li>Færmen, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>.</li> + +<li>Fairfax, Sir Thomas, his bequest of MSS., <a href="#Page_95">95-7</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">versions of Psalms, &c., <a href="#Page_97">97</a>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">reference to MSS., <a href="#Page_18">18</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_314">314</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">preserved the Library when Oxford surrendered, <a href="#Page_72">72</a>.</li> + +<li>Falkland, Lucius, Lord, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>, <a href="#Page_71">71</a>.</li> + +<li>Fanshaw, John, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Farmer, Anthony, <a href="#Page_109">109</a>.</li> + +<li>Fawkes, Guy, lantern, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.</li> + +<li>Fees of Visitors, <a href="#Page_133">133</a>, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>, <a href="#Page_266">266</a>.</li> + +<li>Fell, John, Bp. of Oxford, his MSS., <a href="#Page_108">108-9</a>, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="#Page_150">150</a>.</li> + +<li>Fell, Samuel, Dean of Ch. Ch., <a href="#Page_72">72</a>.</li> + +<li>Fenton, John, <a href="#Page_338">338</a>.</li> + +<li>Fenton, Samuel, M.A., <a href="#Page_222">222</a>, <a href="#Page_229">229</a>.</li> + +<li>Fenton, Thomas, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Ferrand, William, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Ferrar, Richard, <a href="#Page_53">53</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li><i>Festivale</i>, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.</li> + +<li>Fetherstone, Henry, donor, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_54">54</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Field, Richard, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Finnish MSS., <a href="#Page_22">22</a>.</li> + +<li>Firth, Richard, M.A., <a href="#Page_259">259</a>, <a href="#Page_263">263</a>.</li> + +<li>Fisher, John, Bp. of Rochester, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>.</li> + +<li>Fitz-James, R., Bp. of Chichester, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>.</li> + +<li>Fitz-William, John, D.D., <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> + +<li>Flecher, —, Librarian, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> + +<li>Fleetwood, William, Bp. of Ely, <a href="#Page_141">141</a>, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_329">329</a>.</li> + +<li>Fletcher, John, M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_141">141</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">resigns, <a href="#Page_146">146</a>.</li> + +<li>Fletcher, Ald. William, donor, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>, <a href="#Page_211">211</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">buried at Yarnton, <a href="#Page_30">30</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">bust, <i>ib.</i></li> + +<li>Florence, MSS. sent thence with merchandise, <a href="#Page_226">226</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Foley, Lord, <a href="#Page_147">147</a>.</li> + +<li>Foliot, Gilbert, Bp. of London, <a href="#Page_188">188</a>.</li> + +<li>Folkes, Martin, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> + +<li>Foreigners in the Library, <a href="#Page_68">68</a>, <a href="#Page_137">137</a>.</li> + +<li>Forster, Henry, M.A., <a href="#Page_241">241</a>, <a href="#Page_252">252</a>.</li> + +<li>Foster, —, <a href="#Page_282">282</a>.</li> + +<li>Foster, N., <a href="#Page_341">341</a>.</li> + +<li>Fotherby, Charles and Martin, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Foucault, Nicholas Jos., <a href="#Page_161">161</a>, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Foulkes, E. S., B.D., <a href="#Page_277">277</a>.</li> + +<li>Foulkes, Mrs. Edmund, donor, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Foulkes, Thomas, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Fountaine, Sir Andrew, <a href="#Page_134">134</a>.</li> + +<li>Fouquet, —, <a href="#Page_236">236</a>.</li> + +<li>Fowler, Edward, Bp. of Gloucester, <a href="#Page_131">131</a>.</li> + +<li>Foxe, John, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>France, drawings of monuments, <a href="#Page_213">213-214</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">atlas of, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">French tracts, <a href="#Page_270">270</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">French MSS., <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>.</li> + +<li>Francis, C., M.A., donor, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>.</li> + +<li>Frankland, Thomas, letter, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>.</li> + +<li>Franklin, Sir John, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Frappaz, Jules, <a href="#Page_214">214</a>.</li> + +<li>Frazer, —, MSS., <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Frederick, King of Bohemia, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Frederick, Elector Palatine, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Frederick, Prince of Wales, epitaph, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>.</li> + +<li>Freke, Ralph and William, donors, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.</li> + +<li>Frère, E., <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Livres de Liturgie</i>, &c., <a href="#Page_213">213</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Frewin, Richard, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Frewin, Richard, M.D., <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Frith, John, <i>pseudon.</i> Brightwell, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>.</li> + +<li>Froben, Joh., <a href="#Page_337">337</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 354 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_354" id="Page_354">[Pg 354]</a></span> +Fry, Francis, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>.</li> + +<li>Fulke, Will., editions of his <i>Annotations</i> in the Library, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>.</li> + +<li>Fuller, Richard, <a href="#Page_314">314</a>.</li> + +<li>Fuller, Thomas, <i>Ch. Hist.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_85">85</a>.</li> + +<li>Furney, Archdeacon Richard, his bequest, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Fürst, Jul., <i>Bibl. Jud.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_243">243</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Fust and Schoiffer, books printed by, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>, <a href="#Page_229">229</a>.</li> + +<li>Fyloll, Jasper, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.</li> + +<li>Fysher, Robert, M.B., elected Librarian, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">publishes a catalogue of the printed books, <a href="#Page_156">156</a>, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his death, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">charged with neglect, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">coins, <i>ib.</i></li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>GAGUINUS, Rob., <a href="#Page_26">26</a>.</li> + +<li>Galanus, C., <a href="#Page_316">316</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Gagnières, —, <a href="#Page_213">213</a>.</li> + +<li>Gaisford, Thomas, D.D., Dean of Ch. Ch., <a href="#Page_208">208</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>.</li> + +<li>Gale, Samuel, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Gandy, Bp. Henry, M.A., <a href="#Page_169">169</a>, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> + +<li>Gardiner, Richard, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>.</li> + +<li>Gardner, Dunn, sale, <a href="#Page_322">322</a>.</li> + +<li>Garlick, F. O., B.A., <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Garrett, W. W., B.A., <a href="#Page_273">273</a>.</li> + +<li>Garter, Order of the, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Gascoigne, Thomas, D.D., <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>.</li> + +<li>Gassendi, P., <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Gent, William, donor, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>, <a href="#Page_177">177</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Gentilis, Alb. and Scipio, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>.</li> + +<li>George, Prince of Denmark, <a href="#Page_185">185</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>George I, <a href="#Page_131">131</a>, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>George III, visits the Library, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> + +<li>George IV, donor, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>.</li> + +<li>Gentleman's Magazine, cited, <a href="#Page_155">155</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_199">199</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_205">205</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_214">214</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_217">217</a>, <a href="#Page_222">222</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>, <a href="#Page_293">293</a>, <a href="#Page_302">302</a>, <a href="#Page_338">338</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">bought, <a href="#Page_218">218</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>German MSS., <a href="#Page_63">63</a>.</li> + +<li>Gerhard, J. A., <a href="#Page_241">241</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Gesenius, Guil., <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Phœn. Monumenta</i> cited, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">autograph, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">sale, <a href="#Page_270">270</a>.</li> + +<li>Gianfilippi, P. de', <a href="#Page_230">230</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Gibbon, Anthony, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Gibbon, Edward, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Gibbs, James, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Gibson, Edmund, Bp. of London, <a href="#Page_187">187</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Gidding, Little, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.</li> + +<li>Gigli, Gir., <i>Vocab. Caterin.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_226">226</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Gildas, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>.</li> + +<li>Giles, J. A., D.C.L., <a href="#Page_188">188</a>, <a href="#Page_260">260</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Girardenguz, Nic., <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Girardot, Paul, <a href="#Page_321">321</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Girdlers' Company, donors, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>.</li> + +<li>Giulio Romano, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>.</li> + +<li>Glastonbury, Chartulary, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">survey of lands, <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> + +<li>Gloucester Cathedral, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>.</li> + +<li>Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of, <a href="#Page_19">19</a> <i>n.</i>—<i>v.</i> Humphrey.</li> + +<li>Gloucestershire, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>.</li> + +<li>Glover, Robert, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> + +<li>Glynn, H., <a href="#Page_271">271</a>.</li> + +<li>Gocthan, Thomas, Archbp. of, his labours, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">visits the Library, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_127">127-8</a>.</li> + +<li>Godar, Guil., <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Godschall, W. M., <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li>Godwyn, Charles, M.A., his bequest, <a href="#Page_193">193</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">coins, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Goetz, G. H., <a href="#Page_241">241</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Goldberg, Dr. B., <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Goldenthal, Dr. J., <a href="#Page_243">243</a>.</li> + +<li>Golius, Jac., <a href="#Page_133">133</a>.</li> + +<li>Gompertz, Dr. T., <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> + +<li>Gonzaga, Leonora, <a href="#Page_249">249</a>.</li> + +<li>Good, John, M.A., <a href="#Page_90">90</a>.</li> + +<li>Goodwin, T., <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>Goodyear, Aaron, donor, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>.</li> + +<li>Gordon, Sir J. W., <a href="#Page_304">304</a>.</li> + +<li>Gouda, <a href="#Page_228">228</a>.</li> + +<li>Gough, Richard, his library, <a href="#Page_211">211-215</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Brit. Topogr.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>, <a href="#Page_153">153</a>, <a href="#Page_175">175</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_253">253</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_257">257</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">references to books, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>, <a href="#Page_120">120</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Gower, Rev. F., <a href="#Page_265">265</a>.</li> + +<li>Gower, John, <a href="#Page_19">19</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_96">96</a>, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Grabe, J. E., D.D., his MSS., <a href="#Page_149">149</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">autograph, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Grævius, J. G., <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Grafton, Richard, <a href="#Page_300">300</a>.</li> + +<li>Grant, Sir F. A., <a href="#Page_281">281</a>.</li> + +<li>Granville, Denis, D.D., Dean of Durham, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> + +<li>Grascome, Bp. Samuel, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> + +<li>Graves, Richard, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Gray, Charles, M.P., donor, <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> + +<li>Gray, Thomas, <a href="#Page_276">276</a>.</li> + +<li>Greaves, T., D.D., his MSS., <a href="#Page_103">103</a>, <a href="#Page_325">325</a>.</li> + +<li>Greek MSS., <a href="#Page_50">50</a>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>, <a href="#Page_153">153</a>, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>, <a href="#Page_224">224</a>, <a href="#Page_229">229</a>, <a href="#Page_230">230</a>, <a href="#Page_238">238</a>, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>, <a href="#Page_282">282</a>.</li> + +<li>Green, Charles, <a href="#Page_194">194</a>.</li> + +<li>Greene, Maurice, Mus. D., <a href="#Page_205">205</a>, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Greene, Robert, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Greenhill, W. A., M.D., <a href="#Page_277">277</a>, <a href="#Page_278">278</a>.</li> + +<li>Greensted, Essex, <a href="#Page_335">335</a>.</li> + +<li>Gregoriis, Jac. de, donor, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 355 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_355" id="Page_355">[Pg 355]</a></span> +Gregory, St., MSS. of his <i>Pastorale</i>, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Dialogues</i>, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Sacram.</i>, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>.</li> + +<li>Gregory Nazianzen, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.</li> + +<li>Gregory, David, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Gregory, David, M.D., <a href="#Page_119">119</a>.</li> + +<li>Gregory, Henry, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Grene, John, D.D., <a href="#Page_112">112</a>, <a href="#Page_313">313</a>.</li> + +<li>Grenville, Lord, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>.</li> + +<li>Gresham Statutes, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> + +<li>Greville, Col. Charles, <a href="#Page_253">253</a>.</li> + +<li>Grey, Sir C., donor, <a href="#Page_240">240</a>.</li> + +<li>Griffiths, John, M.A., <a href="#Page_34">34</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_211">211</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Griffiths, Ralph, LL.D., <a href="#Page_260">260</a>.</li> + +<li>Grimani, Doge of Venice, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Grise, Jehan de, <a href="#Page_18">18</a>.</li> + +<li>Gronovius, J. F., <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Grosteste, Roger, Bp. of Lincoln, <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>, <a href="#Page_101">101</a>.</li> + +<li>Grove, Edmund, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>, <a href="#Page_266">266</a>.</li> + +<li>Gucht, —, Van der, <a href="#Page_168">168</a>.</li> + +<li>Guildford, Earl of, <a href="#Page_286">286</a>.</li> + +<li>Guilevile, G., <a href="#Page_328">328</a>.</li> + +<li>Guillim, John, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>.</li> + +<li>Gutch, John, B.D., editor of <i>Anth. Wood</i>, <i>q.v.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_219">219</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Gutenberg, J., <a href="#Page_202">202</a>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>.</li> + +<li>Guthrie, —, <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li>Gyles, Fletcher, <a href="#Page_172">172</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>HACKMAN, Alfred, M.A., mentioned, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>, <a href="#Page_268">268</a>, <a href="#Page_277">277</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Haddan, A. W., B.D., <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Haden, Messrs., <a href="#Page_235">235</a>.</li> + +<li>Hagembach, Petr., <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Haghe, Inghilb., <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Hake, Robert, M.A., <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hakewill, William, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>.</li> + +<li>Hale, Sir Matthew, <a href="#Page_77">77</a>, <a href="#Page_86">86</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hale, Archdeacon W. H., <a href="#Page_29">29</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Halifax, Montagu, Earl of, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Hall, —, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>.</li> + +<li>Hall, Rev. —, donor, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>.</li> + +<li>Hall, Anthony, D.D., <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>, <a href="#Page_145">145</a>.</li> + +<li>Hall, Fitz-Edward, donor, <a href="#Page_291">291</a>.</li> + +<li>Hall, Henry, <a href="#Page_73">73</a>.</li> + +<li>Hall, Bp. Joseph, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>.</li> + +<li>Hall, Susannah and William, <a href="#Page_301">301</a>.</li> + +<li>Hall, W., <a href="#Page_110">110</a>.</li> + +<li>Hallam, Henry, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Halliwell, J. O., <a href="#Page_101">101</a>, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>, <a href="#Page_301">301</a>.</li> + +<li>Halloix, P., <i>Eccl. Or. Scriptt.</i>, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.</li> + +<li>Ham House, <a href="#Page_155">155</a>.</li> + +<li>Hamilton, —, <a href="#Page_290">290</a>.</li> + +<li>Hamilton, William and Hubert, sons of Sir William H., donors, <a href="#Page_285">285</a>.</li> + +<li>Hampden, John, Letters, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">jewel, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>.</li> + +<li>Hamper, W., donor, <a href="#Page_240">240</a>.</li> + +<li>Handel, G. F., <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li>Harborne, John, <a href="#Page_328">328</a>.</li> + +<li>Harcourt, Earl and Archbp., <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Harding, John, <i>Chronicle</i>, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>.</li> + +<li>Hardouyn, Germ., <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Hardy, Thomas Duffus, <a href="#Page_64">64</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Hare, Aug. and J. C., donors, <a href="#Page_247">247</a>.</li> + +<li>Hare, Robert, <a href="#Page_82">82</a>.</li> + +<li>Harewood, Yorkshire, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>.</li> + +<li>Harper, H. S., <a href="#Page_263">263</a>.</li> + +<li>Harris, J., <a href="#Page_239">239</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_277">277</a>, <a href="#Page_322">322</a>.</li> + +<li>Hart, Andr., <a href="#Page_266">266</a>.</li> + +<li>Haryson, John, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Haslam, Christopher, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Haslewood, J., <a href="#Page_160">160</a>.</li> + +<li>Hastings, Warren, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>.</li> + +<li>Hatton, Capt. Charles, donor, <a href="#Page_99">99</a>.</li> + +<li>Hatton, Christopher, first Lord, <a href="#Page_99">99</a>.</li> + +<li>Hatton, Christopher, second Lord, his MSS., <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_99">99-100</a>.</li> + +<li>Hatton, Jane, grand-niece to Bodley, petition to the University, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> + +<li>Havergal, H. E., M.A., <a href="#Page_189">189</a>, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Hawkins, Ernest, B.D., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>, <a href="#Page_252">252</a>.</li> + +<li>Hawkins, John, <a href="#Page_147">147</a>.</li> + +<li>Hayes, Drs. Phil. and Will., <a href="#Page_205">205</a>, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Head, Sir Edmund, <i>Few Words on Bodl. Libr.</i>, <a href="#Page_247">247</a>, <a href="#Page_277">277</a>.</li> + +<li>Heath, James, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Hearne, Thomas, M.A., appointed Janitor, <a href="#Page_123">123</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">makes an appendix to the <i>Cat.</i>, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">catalogues Ray's coins, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">appointed Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_132">132</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his respect for Duke Humphrey, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">paper against borrowing books, <a href="#Page_80">80</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">complaints against him, <a href="#Page_132">132</a>, <a href="#Page_136">136</a>, <a href="#Page_139">139</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">account of his exhibiting a portrait of the Chevalier, <a href="#Page_134">134-6</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">quits the Library upon refusing the oaths, <a href="#Page_140">140</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">commended by Uffenbach, <a href="#Page_145">145</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his death, <a href="#Page_152">152</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">diary, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cited, <a href="#Page_4">4</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_14">14</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_15">15</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>, <a href="#Page_45">45</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_48">48</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_55">55</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>, <a href="#Page_91">91</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_98">98</a>, <a href="#Page_99">99</a>, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>, <a href="#Page_109">109</a>, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>, <a href="#Page_122">122</a>, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>, <a href="#Page_130">130</a>, <a href="#Page_132">132</a>, <a href="#Page_137">137</a>, <a href="#Page_138">138</a> <i>bis</i>, <a href="#Page_139">139</a>, <a href="#Page_140">140</a>, <a href="#Page_142">142</a>, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>, <a href="#Page_144">144</a>, <a href="#Page_145">145</a>, <a href="#Page_146">146</a>, <a href="#Page_149">149</a>, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>, <a href="#Page_156">156</a>, <a href="#Page_157">157</a>, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_333">333</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">references to his MSS., <a href="#Page_156">156</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_329">329</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Reasons for taking the Oath of Allegiance</i>, <a href="#Page_152">152</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Dodwell de Parma Woodw.</i>, <a href="#Page_134">134</a>, <a href="#Page_136">136</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">proposed apology for the preface, <a href="#Page_137">137</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Camden's Eliz.</i>, <a href="#Page_133">133</a>, <a href="#Page_137">137</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_213">213</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Letter on Antiquities, &c.</i>, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><!-- Page 356 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_356" id="Page_356">[Pg 356]</a></span> +<i>Rossi Hist. Angl.</i>, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>, <a href="#Page_138">138</a>, <a href="#Page_141">141</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Guli Neubrig. Hist. Angl.</i>, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Langtoft's Chron.</i>, <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> + +<li>Heber, Richard, sale, <a href="#Page_141">141</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>, <a href="#Page_253">253</a>.</li> + +<li>Hebrew printed books and MSS, <a href="#Page_54">54</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>, <a href="#Page_243">243</a>, <a href="#Page_270">270</a>, <a href="#Page_272">272</a>, <a href="#Page_275">275</a>, <a href="#Page_280">280</a>, <a href="#Page_300">300</a>.</li> + +<li>Heddon, Thomas, <a href="#Page_315">315</a>, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>Heinecken, C. H. de, <a href="#Page_321">321</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Heinsius, Daniel, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>.</li> + +<li>Hendons, or Hindhay, Berks, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>.</li> + +<li>Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I, <a href="#Page_331">331</a>.</li> + +<li>Henry II, penance at Canterbury, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">homage of King of Scotland, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">grant to Gloucester, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>.</li> + +<li>Henry IV, granted a payment to the Librarian, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>.</li> + +<li>Henry VI, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>.</li> + +<li>Henry VIII, mentioned, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <a href="#Page_271">271</a>, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books which belonged to him, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">accounts of surveyor of works, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">chair, said to be his, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.</li> + +<li>Henry, Prince of Wales, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>.</li> + +<li>Heralds' College, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.</li> + +<li>Herbert, George, cited, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>.</li> + +<li>Herbert, Sir Thomas, donor, <a href="#Page_93">93</a>.</li> + +<li>Herbert, William, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.</li> + +<li>Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>.</li> + +<li>Herculaneum, Rolls from, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> + +<li>Hereford Cathedral, chartulary, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">statutes, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Missale</i> 1502, <a href="#Page_213">213</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hermann, Godfrey, <a href="#Page_282">282</a>.</li> + +<li>Hermas, <a href="#Page_13">13</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Heuringius, Simon, <a href="#Page_183">183</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Heydon, Sir Christopher, donor, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.</li> + +<li>Heylin, Peter, D.D., <i>Examen Hist.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_85">85</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Cypr. Angl.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_290">290</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Heywood, Robert, M.A., donor of Guy Fawkes' lantern, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>;</li> +<li> his father searched the Parliament cellars, <i>ib.</i></li> + +<li>Heywood, Thomas, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Hibbert, George, sale, <a href="#Page_246">246</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hickes, Bp. George, cited, <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>bis</i>, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>, <a href="#Page_149">149</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>, <a href="#Page_187">187</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">papers, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Hickman, Charles, M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Hickman, Henry, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Hickman, Henry, <i>Justif. of Fathers</i> cited, <a href="#Page_85">85</a>.</li> + +<li>High Commission Court, confirms the ordinance of the Stationers' Company, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Hill, Rev. —, <a href="#Page_165">165</a>.</li> + +<li>Hill, Herbert, M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_259">259</a>, <a href="#Page_261">261</a>.</li> + +<li>Hill, Sir John, M.D., <i>Vegetable System</i>, <a href="#Page_198">198</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hill, Rev. Joseph, <a href="#Page_173">173</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hill, Richard, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>Hindhay farm, see Hendons.</li> + +<li>Hoadley, Bp. Benjamin, portrait exhibited by Hearne, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> + +<li>Hobart Town, first printed book, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>.</li> + +<li>Hobbes, Thomas, <a href="#Page_77">77</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hoccleve, Thomas, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Hodgson, B. H., donor, <a href="#Page_265">265</a>.</li> + +<li>Hodsall, —, <a href="#Page_340">340</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hody, Humphrey, D.D., bequest, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> + +<li>Hogarth, William, donor, <a href="#Page_168">168</a>.</li> + +<li>Holbein, Hans, <a href="#Page_333">333</a>, <a href="#Page_337">337</a>.</li> + +<li>Holland, T., <a href="#Page_341">341</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hollis, John Brande, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> + +<li>Holman, W., MSS. for Essex, &c., <a href="#Page_174">174</a>, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Holmes, John, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> + +<li>Holmes, Rob., D.D., Collations of Sept., <a href="#Page_207">207</a>.</li> + +<li>Home, Sir J. E., donor, <a href="#Page_276">276</a>.</li> + +<li>Homer, <i>Edit. Princ.</i>, <a href="#Page_192">192</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Scholia on Odyssey, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>.</li> + +<li>Honolulu, Queen Emma of, <a href="#Page_320">320</a>.</li> + +<li>Hooke, Col. John, letters, <a href="#Page_222">222</a>.</li> + +<li>Hooper, George, Bp. of Bath and Wells, <a href="#Page_173">173</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hooper, Humphrey, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Hooper, John, Bp. of Gloucester, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>.</li> + +<li>Hope, F. W., D.C.L., donor, <a href="#Page_297">297</a>.</li> + +<li>Hope, J. T., <a href="#Page_297">297</a>.</li> + +<li>Hopkins, —, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.</li> + +<li>Horace, <a href="#Page_186">186</a>, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Horæ</i>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_213">213</a>, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>, <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Horne, Rev. T. H., <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> + +<li>Hornsby, Thomas, D.D., <a href="#Page_194">194</a>.</li> + +<li>Horsey, Sir Jerome, donor, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.</li> + +<li>Hosea, peculiar reading in, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>.</li> + +<li>Howe, Josias, B.D., <i>Sermon</i>, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Howe, Michael, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>.</li> + +<li>Howell, Lawrence, M.A., <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> + +<li>Howland, Ralph, donor, <a href="#Page_129">129</a>.</li> + +<li>Huber, —, cited, <a href="#Page_83">83</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Huddesford, William, M.A., <a href="#Page_181">181</a>, <a href="#Page_288">288</a>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>.</li> + +<li>Hudson, John, D.D., elected Librarian, <a href="#Page_123">123</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">said to have thrown out Milton's books from the Library, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letter cited, <a href="#Page_121">121</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_69">69</a>, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>, <a href="#Page_132">132</a>, <a href="#Page_133">133</a>, <a href="#Page_140">140</a>, <a href="#Page_157">157</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">twice married, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his widow married to Dr. Hall, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">account of the Library, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">subscribes for relief of Bodley's relations, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><!-- Page 357 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_357" id="Page_357">[Pg 357]</a></span> +threatens to remove Hearne, <a href="#Page_139">139</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his death, <a href="#Page_144">144</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">neglect and incapacity, <a href="#Page_140">140</a>, <a href="#Page_144">144</a>, <a href="#Page_145">145</a>.</li> + +<li>Hughes, J., M.A., <i>Boscobel Tracts</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_324">324</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, gifts to the Library, <a href="#Page_6">6-10</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">motto, <a href="#Page_6">6</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">aided in building the Divinity School, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">destruction of his library, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>.</li> + +<li>Hungarian books, <a href="#Page_275">275</a>.</li> + +<li>Hunsdon, Henry, first lord, donor, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.</li> + +<li>Hunt, Leigh, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> + +<li>Hunt, Thomas, printer and bookseller in Oxford in 1483, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.</li> + +<li>Hunt, Thomas, D.D., mentioned, <a href="#Page_109">109</a>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS., <a href="#Page_193">193</a>.</li> + +<li>Hunter, Joseph, Cat. of Dodsworth MSS., <a href="#Page_96">96</a>.</li> + +<li>Huntingdon, Earl of, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Huntington, Robert, Bp. of Raphoe, mentioned, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>, <a href="#Page_133">133</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his MSS., <a href="#Page_113">113</a>, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.</li> + +<li>Hussey, Edw. L., <a href="#Page_255">255</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">257 <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hussey, Robert, B.D., <a href="#Page_257">257</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Hutton, —, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>.</li> + +<li>Hyatt, J. C, B.A., <a href="#Page_273">273</a>.</li> + +<li>Hyde, Thomas, D.D., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_90">90</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">elected Head-librarian, <a href="#Page_93">93</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">dedication of catalogue, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">note on the agreement with the Stationers' Co., <a href="#Page_31">31</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">goes to London to claim books from the Co., <a href="#Page_110">110</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letters cited, <a href="#Page_69">69</a>, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS. bought from him, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_100">100</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_109">109</a>, <a href="#Page_130">130</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">charged with ignorance by Wanley, <a href="#Page_118">118</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">wishes to have Wanley for his successor, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">resigns the Librarianship, <a href="#Page_121">121</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his death, <a href="#Page_123">123</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>IBOTT, Benj., <a href="#Page_232">232</a>.</li> + +<li>Icelandic MSS., <a href="#Page_242">242</a>.</li> + +<li>Ince, Peter, donor, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Index Libb. Prohib.</i>, Madr. 1612-14, <a href="#Page_90">90</a>.</li> + +<li>Inglis, Esther, MSS. by her, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>.</li> + +<li>Inglis, —, sale, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>.</li> + +<li>Inglis, Sir R. H., donor, <a href="#Page_183">183</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_337">337</a>.</li> + +<li>Ingram, James, D.D., bequest of coins, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Innocent VIII., Pope, <a href="#Page_148">148</a>.</li> + +<li>Irish MSS., <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_64">64</a>, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">pamphlets, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>, <a href="#Page_247">247</a>.</li> + +<li>Isaiah, <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>.</li> + +<li>Isham, Zach., M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Italian printed books and MSS., <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>, <a href="#Page_260">260</a>, <a href="#Page_271">271</a>.</li> + +<li>Ivan Basilides, Czar of Russia, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.</li> + +<li>Ivie, Edw., M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>JACKSON, Cyril, D.D., Dean of Ch. Ch., <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> + +<li>Jackson, Rev. J. E., <a href="#Page_288">288</a>.</li> + +<li>Jacobs, C. F. G., <a href="#Page_273">273</a>.</li> + +<li>James I, grants letters patent for the Library, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">visits it, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">grants books from the royal libraries, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">a book formerly in his possession, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">presents his own <i>Works</i>, <a href="#Page_47">47</a>.</li> + +<li>James II, visits the Library while Duke of York, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Duchess of Buckingham his daughter, <a href="#Page_148">148</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>, <a href="#Page_173">173</a>, <a href="#Page_222">222</a>, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>, <a href="#Page_252">252</a>, <a href="#Page_255">255</a>, <a href="#Page_323">323</a>, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>James Edward, 'the Chevalier,' son of James II, portrait exhibited by Hearne, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portraits of him and his wife, <a href="#Page_169">169</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>James, Andrew, donor, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.</li> + +<li>James, Edward, B.D., donor, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>.</li> + +<li>James, Richard, his MSS., <a href="#Page_103">103</a>, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>.</li> + +<li>James, Thomas, donor, <a href="#Page_21">21</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Appointment as Librarian, salary, &c., <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">publishes the catalogue in 1605, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">a continuation of the classified index in MS., <a href="#Page_28">28</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">another Catalogue in MS. in 1613, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">proposes the agreement with the Stationers' Company, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">publishes the second edition of the <i>Catalogue</i>, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">resigns his office, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">death, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cited, <a href="#Page_13">13</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_103">103</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Catal. Interpp.</i>, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, <a href="#Page_243">243</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Janitors, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>, <a href="#Page_123">123</a>, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>, <a href="#Page_192">192</a>.</li> + +<li>Jansen, Cornelius, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Janson, Nicolas, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Janua, J. de, <a href="#Page_209">209</a>.</li> + +<li>Javanese MSS., <a href="#Page_50">50</a>, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>, <a href="#Page_324">324</a>.</li> + +<li>Jehannot, E., <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Jekyll, Sir Joseph, <a href="#Page_172">172</a>, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Jekyll, Thomas, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> + +<li>Jernegan, Nicholas, <a href="#Page_165">165</a>, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Jerome, St., <a href="#Page_111">111</a>, <a href="#Page_253">253</a>.</li> + +<li>Jersey, Lord, <a href="#Page_277">277</a>.</li> + +<li>Jerusalem, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>, <a href="#Page_265">265</a>.</li> + +<li>Jessett, —, B.A., <a href="#Page_158">158</a>.</li> + +<li>Jews offer to buy St. Paul's Cathedral and the Bodleian Library, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>.</li> + +<li>John, a Greek scribe, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>.</li> + +<li>John of Aix, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>.</li> + +<li>Johnson, —, <a href="#Page_77">77</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li><!-- Page 358 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_358" id="Page_358">[Pg 358]</a></span> +Johnson, Dr. Samuel, donor, <a href="#Page_188">188</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Lives of Poets</i> referred to, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Jones, —, <a href="#Page_341">341</a>.</li> + +<li>Jones, H., M.A. [<i>dec.</i> 1700], his MSS., <a href="#Page_109">109</a>, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">reference to a MS., <a href="#Page_96">96</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Jones, H., M.A. 1729, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Jones, John, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> + +<li>Jones, Sir William, <a href="#Page_247">247</a>.</li> + +<li>Jonson, Ben, <a href="#Page_86">86</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Jonstonus, Joh., M.D., <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Jordan, John, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Jordan, William, donor, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>.</li> + +<li>Josephus, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>.</li> + +<li>Jourdain, John, donor, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>.</li> + +<li>Jowett, Benjamin, M.A., <a href="#Page_277">277</a>.</li> + +<li>Joye, George, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>.</li> + +<li>Judge, L. E., M.A., <a href="#Page_239">239</a>.</li> + +<li>Jugge, Richard, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Junius, Francis, mentioned, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his MSS. <a href="#Page_102">102</a>, <a href="#Page_327">327</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Glossarium Septentr.</i>, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">three Hatton MSS. amongst his own, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cited, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Justell, Christopher, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>.</li> + +<li>Justell, Henry, donor, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>.</li> + +<li>Justinian, <a href="#Page_173">173</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Juvenal, <a href="#Page_252">252</a>, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Juxon, Bishop William, donor, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor of book to Barlow, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>KEATE, —, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Keating, Geoffrey, <i>Hist. of Ireland</i>, <a href="#Page_96">96</a>.</li> + +<li>Keble, —, bookseller, donor, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>.</li> + +<li>Kedden, Rev. Ralph, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> + +<li>Keigwyn, John, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Keil, Prof. John, M.D., <a href="#Page_134">134</a>, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>, <a href="#Page_136">136</a>.</li> + +<li>Kellow, Richard, Bp. of Durham, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> + +<li>Kelly, Edward, his <i>Holy Table</i>, <a href="#Page_162">162</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Kemble, J. M., <i>Codex Dipl.</i>, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>.</li> + +<li>Kempe, Thomas, Bishop of London, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>.</li> + +<li>Kempis, Thomas à, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>.</li> + +<li>Ken, John (erroneously printed <i>Kerr</i>), donor, <a href="#Page_93">93</a>.</li> + +<li>Ken, Thomas, Bishop of Bath and Wells, <a href="#Page_173">173</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letters, <a href="#Page_175">175</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Kennett, White, Bishop of Peterborough, <a href="#Page_187">187</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Kennicott, Benjamin, D.D., <i>Hebr. Collations</i>, &c., <a href="#Page_191">191</a>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Arabic tracts, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">autograph, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Kennon, Mrs., <a href="#Page_182">182</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Kerver, Thielman, <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Kewsch, John, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>.</li> + +<li>Kilby, —, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.</li> + +<li>King, —, bookseller, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>.</li> + +<li>King, Charles, M.A., donor, <a href="#Page_56">56</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>King, John, Bishop of London, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>King, John, D.D., donor, <a href="#Page_159">159</a>.</li> + +<li>King, J., bookseller, Moorfields, <a href="#Page_182">182</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>King, P., Lord, <i>Life of Locke</i>, cited <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.</li> + +<li>Kingsborough, Viscount, <i>Mexican Antiq.</i> <a href="#Page_246">246</a>.</li> + +<li>Kingsley, William, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>.</li> + +<li>Kingston, Felix, a London printer, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>.</li> + +<li>Kirkebote, Adam, Librarian, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> + +<li>Kloss, Dr., sale, <a href="#Page_253">253</a>, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>.</li> + +<li>Kneller, Sir Godfrey, donor, <a href="#Page_147">147</a>.</li> + +<li>Knight, Archdeacon, <a href="#Page_153">153</a>.</li> + +<li>Knight, Thomas, donor, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>.</li> + +<li>Knox, John, <a href="#Page_242">242</a>, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>.</li> + +<li>Koran, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>, <a href="#Page_326">326</a>.</li> + +<li>Kyngusbury, Thomas de, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>.</li> + +<li>Kyrkeby, John, <a href="#Page_7">7</a> <i>n.</i></li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>LACTANTIUS, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>.</li> + +<li>Lacy, Edmund, Bishop of Exeter, <a href="#Page_315">315</a>.</li> + +<li>La Fontaine, J. de, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Laing, David, LL.D., mentioned, <a href="#Page_49">49</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_183">183</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Lake, Gilbert, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Lamb, James, D.D., his MSS., <a href="#Page_93">93</a>.</li> + +<li>Landino, Christopher, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Landspring, English monastery at, <a href="#Page_245">245</a>.</li> + +<li>Lane, Col. John, and Mrs. Letitia, <a href="#Page_324">324</a>.</li> + +<li>Langbaine, Gerard, D.D., his <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Adversaria</i>, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letter cited, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>.</li> + +<li>Langlès, L. M., <a href="#Page_239">239</a>.</li> + +<li>Langley, abbey register, <a href="#Page_154">154</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Langley, Henry de, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>.</li> + +<li>Langford, Emmanuel, M.A., <a href="#Page_158">158</a>.</li> + +<li>Lansyng, Richard de, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>.</li> + +<li>Lascelles, R., <i>Oxford</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>, <a href="#Page_234">234</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Lasher, Josh., M.D., <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Lathbury, T., M.A., <a href="#Page_282">282</a>.</li> + +<li>Lattebury, John, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Expositio in Thren. Jerem.</i>, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.</li> + +<li>Laud, Archbp., his gifts, <a href="#Page_61">61-65</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">placed at the west end, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">coins, <a href="#Page_339">339</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letters, <a href="#Page_62">62</a>, <a href="#Page_322">322</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">references to his MSS., <a href="#Page_43">43</a>, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>, <a href="#Page_268">268</a>, <a href="#Page_295">295</a>, <a href="#Page_325">325-327</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_240">240</a>, <a href="#Page_290">290</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">writes verses on Bodley's death, <a href="#Page_37">37</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">book given to St. John's College, <a href="#Page_53">53</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Laurence, Roger, M.A., <a href="#Page_168">168</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Laurence, R. F., M.A., <a href="#Page_235">235</a>.</li> + +<li>Laurence, Richard, Archbp. of Cashel, <a href="#Page_220">220</a>, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>, <a href="#Page_267">267</a>.</li> + +<li>Laurentius Gallus, <a href="#Page_329">329</a>.</li> + +<li>Layfields, John, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Leake, William, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 359 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_359" id="Page_359">[Pg 359]</a></span> +Lecchelade, John de, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>Lee, Sir James, donor, <a href="#Page_328">328</a>.</li> + +<li>Lee, Matthew, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Lee, Sir Richard, donor of books, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">of a Muscovite cloak, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>, <a href="#Page_307">307</a>.</li> + +<li>Lee, William, <a href="#Page_302">302</a>.</li> + +<li>Leeu, Gerard, <a href="#Page_155">155</a>.</li> + +<li>Legat, Hugh, <a href="#Page_313">313</a>.</li> + +<li>Le Hunt, William, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Leicester, Robert Dudley, first Earl of, donor, while Lord Lisle, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his watch, <a href="#Page_129">129</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">book that belonged to him, <a href="#Page_320">320</a>.</li> + +<li>Leicester, Cope, Earl of, <a href="#Page_277">277</a>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>.</li> + +<li>Leicestershire, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>.</li> + +<li>Leighton, Archbishop, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Leland, John, his MSS., <a href="#Page_56">56</a>, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>Le Long, le Père, <a href="#Page_184">184</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Lendon, Abel, M.A., <a href="#Page_202">202</a>.</li> + +<li>Le Neve, Peter, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Lennox, Mary, Countess of, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Lennox, W. J., <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> + +<li>Lenthall, —, Janitor, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>.</li> + +<li>Leofric, Bp. of Exeter, MSS. given to Exeter, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>.</li> + +<li>Lerida, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Brev. Illerdense</i>, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>.</li> + +<li>Le Sœur, Hubert, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>, <a href="#Page_148">148</a>.</li> + +<li>Letheringham, Suffolk, <a href="#Page_214">214</a>.</li> + +<li>Lewis, F., <a href="#Page_211">211</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Lewis, Sir G. C., <a href="#Page_274">274</a>.</li> + +<li>Lewis, John, M.A., MSS., <a href="#Page_176">176</a>, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>, <a href="#Page_252">252</a>.</li> + +<li>Lewton, Edward, M.A., <a href="#Page_201">201</a>.</li> + +<li>Ley, Edwin, donor, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Leyden, <a href="#Page_129">129</a>, <a href="#Page_133">133</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>, <a href="#Page_228">228</a>.</li> + +<li>Lhuyd, Edw., cited, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS., <a href="#Page_289">289</a>.</li> + +<li>Libri, Girol. da, <a href="#Page_249">249</a>.</li> + +<li>Libri, Gugl., <a href="#Page_273">273</a>, <a href="#Page_290">290</a>.</li> + +<li>Lichfield Cathedral, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Lichfield, Leonard, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>.</li> + +<li>Lilly, William, <a href="#Page_169">169</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Lilly, W., bookseller, <a href="#Page_260">260</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Linacer, Thomas, <a href="#Page_316">316</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Lindsell, Augustine, Bp. of Peterb., <a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_290">290</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>Lister, Martin, M.D., his library, <a href="#Page_288">288</a>.</li> + +<li>Livermore, George, <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Liverpool, Earl of, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> + +<li>Livy, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>.</li> + +<li>Llandaff, <a href="#Page_190">190</a>.</li> + +<li>Lloyd, William, Bp. of Worc., <a href="#Page_116">116</a>.</li> + +<li>Locke, John, donor, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.</li> + +<li>Lockey, Thomas, B.D., elected Librarian, <a href="#Page_90">90</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">resigns, <a href="#Page_93">93</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">death, <i>ib.</i></li> + +<li>Lockhart, James, <i>Papers</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_222">222</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Lodge, Thomas, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Loftus, Dudley, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>.</li> + +<li>Logan, D., <a href="#Page_334">334</a>.</li> + +<li>London, Charter, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">houses in Distaff Lane, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">burned in the Fire, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">their rent in arrear, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">fire at the Temple, <a href="#Page_86">86</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">map of Lond. and Westm., <a href="#Page_255">255</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cat. of MSS. at Lincoln's Inn, <a href="#Page_96">96</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">St. Peter's, Cornhill, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Christ's Hospital, <a href="#Page_186">186</a>.</li> + +<li><i>London Gazette</i>, <a href="#Page_302">302</a>.</li> + +<li>Longhi, G., <a href="#Page_299">299</a>.</li> + +<li>Lorenzi, —, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>.</li> + +<li>Louis XIV of France, <a href="#Page_214">214</a>.</li> + +<li>Louis XVI of France, <a href="#Page_267">267</a>.</li> + +<li>Loutherbourg, P. J. de, <a href="#Page_244">244</a>.</li> + +<li>Louveau, J., <a href="#Page_52">52</a>.</li> + +<li>Low Countries, <a href="#Page_186">186</a>.</li> + +<li>Lownes, Humphrey, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Lucan, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>.</li> + +<li>Luard, H. R., M.A., <a href="#Page_328">328</a>.</li> + +<li>Lucas, —, bookseller, <a href="#Page_290">290</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Luff, Richard, monk of Coventry, <a href="#Page_314">314</a>.</li> + +<li>Lumley, John, sixth Lord, donor, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.</li> + +<li>Luther, Martin, <a href="#Page_245">245</a>, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>, <a href="#Page_285">285</a>, <a href="#Page_302">302</a>.</li> + +<li>Lutheran Tracts, German, <a href="#Page_228">228</a>, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>.</li> + +<li>Lydgate, John, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>Lydiat, Thomas, M.A., <a href="#Page_119">119</a>.</li> + +<li>Lye, Edward, M.A., <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Lyndewoode, William, <i>Provinciale</i>, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.</li> + +<li>Lysiaux, Thos., Dean of St. Paul's, <a href="#Page_315">315</a>.</li> + +<li>Lyte, Rev. H. F., <a href="#Page_273">273</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>MACBRIDE, J. D., D.C.L., donor, <a href="#Page_228">228</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_278">278</a>, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Macdonald, Flora, <a href="#Page_160">160</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Macfarlane, E. M., M.A., <a href="#Page_203">203</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>M'Ghee, Rev. R. J., donor, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>.</li> + +<li>Machlinia, William de, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> + +<li>Mackenzie, Sir George, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Mackie, —, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Macky, John, <i>Journey through Eng.</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_86">86</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Macpherson, D., <a href="#Page_165">165</a>, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Macray, W. D., <a href="#Page_85">85</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>, <a href="#Page_233">233</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_250">250</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_270">270</a>, <a href="#Page_287">287</a>.</li> + +<li>Mac-Regol, Abbot of Birr, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>.</li> + +<li>Madden, Sir Fred., <a href="#Page_177">177</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_281">281</a>, <a href="#Page_330">330</a>.</li> + +<li>Madox, Thomas, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Maffei, Scipio, <i>Verona illust.</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_230">230</a>.</li> + +<li>Magnusen, Finn, his MSS., <a href="#Page_242">242</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Magna Charta</i>, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>.</li> + +<li>Maittaire, Michael, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Major, G., <a href="#Page_246">246</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Malabar, Bp. of, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Malabaric MS., <a href="#Page_324">324</a>.</li> + +<li>Malmesbury, Chartulary, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>, <a href="#Page_142">142</a>.</li> + +<li>Malone, Edmund, his library, <a href="#Page_231">231-2</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 360 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[Pg 360]</a></span> +Malyng, H., <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>Man, Thomas, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Manaton, Pierce, M.D., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Manaton, Robert, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Manchester Cathedral, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Manuzzi, Giuseppe, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>.</li> + +<li>Maraldi, —, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li>Marchant, N., <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Margaret of Anjou, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>.</li> + +<li>Margaret, Queen of Scotland, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Marlborough, John, first Duke of, <a href="#Page_135">135</a>.</li> + +<li>Marriott, Charles, B.D., <a href="#Page_278">278</a>.</li> + +<li>Marsh, Archbp. Narcissus, his bequest of MSS., <a href="#Page_132">132-3</a>.</li> + +<li>Marschalle, William, <a href="#Page_317">317</a>.</li> + +<li>Marshall, F. J., M.A., <a href="#Page_259">259</a>.</li> + +<li>Marshall or Mareschal, Thomas, D.D., his printed books and MSS., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">recovers a lost MS., <a href="#Page_92">92</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">said to have borrowed MSS., <a href="#Page_100">100</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_150">150</a>.</li> + +<li>Martivall, R. de, Bp. of Sarum, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>, <a href="#Page_317">317</a>.</li> + +<li>Marvell, Andrew, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Mary I, her MS. <i>Horæ</i> and inscription, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">another inscription, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>.</li> + +<li>Mary II, <a href="#Page_175">175</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_255">255</a>.</li> + +<li>Mary, Queen of Scotland, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_266">266</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Maskelyne, N. S., M.A., <a href="#Page_278">278</a>.</li> + +<li>Mason, Robert, D.D., bequest, <a href="#Page_264">264</a>.</li> + +<li>Massa, Michael de, <a href="#Page_329">329</a>.</li> + +<li>Massey, Dr. Richard M., donor, <a href="#Page_129">129</a>.</li> + +<li>Massinger, Philip, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Master, Dr. Robert, donor, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>.</li> + +<li>Mather, Cotton, <a href="#Page_304">304</a>.</li> + +<li>Matthew of Westminster, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>.</li> + +<li>Matthews, Rev. A. H., donor, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Sub-librarian (?), <a href="#Page_342">342</a>.</li> + +<li>Maunder, —, D.D., <a href="#Page_157">157</a>.</li> + +<li>Maximilian, Emp. of Germany, <a href="#Page_331">331</a>.</li> + +<li>Maximus, Valerius, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.</li> + +<li>Maynard, Joseph, B.D., donor, <a href="#Page_90">90</a>.</li> + +<li>Mead, Dr. Richard, <a href="#Page_142">142</a>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Medici, House of, <a href="#Page_182">182</a>.</li> + +<li>Medici, Mary de, <a href="#Page_249">249</a>, <a href="#Page_351">351</a>.</li> + +<li>Medyltone, Ralph de, <a href="#Page_329">329</a>.</li> + +<li>Meerman, Ger. and John, <a href="#Page_238">238</a>.</li> + +<li>Meetkirk, Prof. Edward, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>Melanchthon, Philip, <a href="#Page_245">245</a>, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>, <a href="#Page_253">253</a>.</li> + +<li>Mendean MSS., <a href="#Page_114">114</a>, <a href="#Page_300">300</a>.</li> + +<li>Mendham, Rev. Joseph, his bequest, <a href="#Page_286">286</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Lit. Policy</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_91">91</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Mentelin, —, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> + +<li>Mentz, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>.</li> + +<li>Mericke, John, donor, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.</li> + +<li>Mexican Antiquities, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>, <a href="#Page_325">325</a>.</li> + +<li>Michael, J., Hebrew books, <a href="#Page_272">272</a>.</li> + +<li>Michaelis, J. D., <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Middlesex MSS., <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Middleton, Viscountess, <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li>Milan, Ambrosian Library, <a href="#Page_47">47</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Mill, John, D.D., donor, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_99">99</a>.</li> + +<li>Mill, W. H., D.D., his MSS., <a href="#Page_272">272</a>.</li> + +<li>Milles, Jeremiah, D.D., his MSS., <a href="#Page_268">268</a>.</li> + +<li>Milton, John, books given by him, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">these, at one time, said to have been thrown out, <a href="#Page_46">46</a>, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Missals</i>, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>, <a href="#Page_213">213</a>, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>.</li> + +<li>Mocket, or Moket, Richard, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Models, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>, <a href="#Page_236">236</a>, <a href="#Page_334">334</a>, <a href="#Page_337">337</a>, <a href="#Page_338">338</a>.</li> + +<li>Mollineux, —, <a href="#Page_134">134</a>.</li> + +<li>Monasteries, dissolved, <a href="#Page_271">271</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li><i>Moniteur</i>, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li>Monkhouse, Thomas, M.A., <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li>Monmouth, Duke of, letters and dying acknowledgment, <a href="#Page_173">173</a>, <a href="#Page_323">323</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_222">222</a>, <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_282">282</a>.</li> + +<li>Monson, Sir W., cited, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.</li> + +<li>Montacute, Lord, donor, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>.</li> + +<li>Montagu, Capt. M., bequest, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Montagu, Richard, Bp. of Norwich, <a href="#Page_47">47</a>.</li> + +<li>Montague, Edward Wortley, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Montague, George, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Monteith, Robert, <i>Hist. of the Troubles</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>.</li> + +<li>Montfaucon, Bernard, <a href="#Page_224">224</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Monthly Review</i>, <a href="#Page_260">260</a>.</li> + +<li>Moore, —, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Morant, Philip, M.A., <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> + +<li>Morbeck, W. de, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>.</li> + +<li>More, Hannah, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> + +<li>More, Sir Thomas, <a href="#Page_144">144</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>.</li> + +<li>Moreri, L., <a href="#Page_94">94</a>.</li> + +<li>Mores, E. Rowe, <a href="#Page_156">156</a>, <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Morgan, Edward, M.A., <a href="#Page_342">342</a>.</li> + +<li>Morley, Thomas, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Morris, John, D.D., founder of the annual Bodley oration, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>.</li> + +<li>Mortara, Count Aless., his library, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>, <a href="#Page_279">279</a>.</li> + +<li>Morwent, Robert, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>.</li> + +<li>Moses Chorenensis, <i>Hist. Armen.</i>, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>.</li> + +<li>Moses Maimonides, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>.</li> + +<li>Motthe, Georges de la, <a href="#Page_326">326</a>.</li> + +<li>Mountjoy, Blount, Lord, donor, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>.</li> + +<li>Mozarabic Breviary, <a href="#Page_280">280</a>.</li> + +<li>Müller, A., donor, <a href="#Page_228">228</a>.</li> + +<li>Müller, Max., M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">resigned, <a href="#Page_304">304</a>.</li> + +<li>Mummy, an Egyptian, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>.</li> + +<li>Munich, duplicates from, <a href="#Page_276">276</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 361 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_361" id="Page_361">[Pg 361]</a></span> +Muris, Joh. de, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>.</li> + +<li>Murr, — de, <i>Memorab. Bibl. Norimb.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_230">230</a>.</li> + +<li>Murray, Dr. Alex., <a href="#Page_267">267</a>.</li> + +<li>Murray, John, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Musca, —, <a href="#Page_9">9</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Music, printed books bought, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">from Stat. Hall, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS., <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li>Musonius, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>NAHUMUS, Jod., <i>Conc. in Evang.</i>, <a href="#Page_80">80</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Nairne, David, his papers, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Nalson, John, LL.D., papers, <a href="#Page_153">153-4</a>.</li> + +<li>Napier, Sir Richard, letter cited, <a href="#Page_73">73</a>.</li> + +<li>Napier, Rev. Richard, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>.</li> + +<li>Napoleon I, portrait, <a href="#Page_299">299</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">medals, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Nash, Thomas, <a href="#Page_301">301</a>.</li> + +<li>Nassyngton, William of, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> + +<li>Naunton, Sir R., <a href="#Page_47">47</a>.</li> + +<li>Neal, D., cited, <a href="#Page_68">68</a>.</li> + +<li>Needlework, Life of our Blessed Lord, <a href="#Page_51">51</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">bindings, <a href="#Page_51">51-53</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">samplers, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.</li> + +<li>Neile, Rich., Bp. of Cov. and Lichfield, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Nelson, Robert, <a href="#Page_127">127</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Nemnivus, <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Neubauer, Dr. A., <a href="#Page_272">272</a>.</li> + +<li>Nevile, Sir H., <a href="#Page_48">48</a>.</li> + +<li>Nevile, Thomas, donor, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>.</li> + +<li>New, E. P., B.D., <a href="#Page_236">236</a>.</li> + +<li>Newcastle, William Cavendish, Marq. of, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> + +<li>Newcastle, John Holles, Duke of, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> + +<li>Newey, Thomas, M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Newington, Kent, parish register, <a href="#Page_234">234</a>.</li> + +<li>Newman, F., <a href="#Page_83">83</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Newman, G., <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Newman, Henry, papers, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>.</li> + +<li>New South Wales, first printed book, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>.</li> + +<li>Newspapers, 1672-1737, <a href="#Page_302">302</a>.</li> + +<li>Newton, Richard, M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Newton, Thomas, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>.</li> + +<li>New-Zealand Newspaper, <a href="#Page_233">233</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Nichols, John, <i>Progr. of James I</i> cited, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Lit. Anecd.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_78">78</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_166">166</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_200">200-1</a>, <a href="#Page_211">211</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Lit. Hist.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_188">188</a>, <a href="#Page_211">211</a>, <a href="#Page_214">214</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_217">217</a>, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>, <a href="#Page_257">257</a>, <a href="#Page_342">342</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Letters of Nicolson</i>, <a href="#Page_187">187</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_214">214</a>, <a href="#Page_302">302</a>.</li> + +<li>Nichols, John Gough, <a href="#Page_325">325</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Nicoll, Alex., D.D., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_220">220</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>.</li> + +<li>Nicolson, Wm., Archbp. of Cashel, <a href="#Page_187">187</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Noel, Rev. John, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Norris, Edwin, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Norris, John, Janitor, <a href="#Page_134">134</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>.</li> + +<li>Norfolk Tracts, <a href="#Page_280">280</a>.</li> + +<li>Norkoping, Norway, <a href="#Page_241">241</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>North, Lord, donor, <a href="#Page_193">193-4</a>.</li> + +<li>Northamptonshire MSS., <a href="#Page_204">204</a>.</li> + +<li>Northumberland, Hen. Percy, Earl of, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>.</li> + +<li>Norton, John, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Notes and Queries</i>, <a href="#Page_226">226</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_250">250</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_254">254</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_338">338</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Nourse, Tim., donor, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.</li> + +<li>Novello, Vincent, donor, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Nowell, Alex., Dean of St. Paul's, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Nugent, Lord, <i>Mem. of Hampden</i>, <a href="#Page_203">203</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Nurigian, Luke, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>.</li> + +<li>Nutt, J. W., M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_304">304</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>OCCLEVE, Thomas, or <i>Hoccleve</i>, <i>q. v.</i></li> + +<li>Ochini, Bern., <a href="#Page_331">331</a>.</li> + +<li>O'Donnell, Magnus, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>.</li> + +<li>Offor, G., <a href="#Page_233">233</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Ogilvie, James, of Boyn, <a href="#Page_222">222</a>.</li> + +<li>Ogilvie, J., <a href="#Page_75">75</a>.</li> + +<li>O'Grady, Standish H., <a href="#Page_176">176</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Okeover family, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>.</li> + +<li>Opie, Mrs., <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> + +<li>Oppenheimer, D., Hebrew library, <a href="#Page_243">243</a>.</li> + +<li>Orford, Lord, <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Ormesby, Robert de, <a href="#Page_329">329</a>.</li> + +<li>Ormonde, James, first Duke of, <a href="#Page_165">165</a>, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Ormonde, James, second Duke of, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Ormulum</i>, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.</li> + +<li>Osborne, T., bookseller, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> + +<li>Oseney Abbey, book which belonged to, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>.</li> + +<li>Osorius, Hier., Bishop of Faro, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.</li> + +<li>Oswen, H., <a href="#Page_264">264</a>.</li> + +<li>Ouigour MS., <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.</li> + +<li>Ouseley, Sir Fred. A. G., Bart., donor, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS. bought from him, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>.</li> + +<li>Ouseley, Sir Gore, his MSS., <a href="#Page_289">289</a>, <a href="#Page_290">290</a>, <a href="#Page_332">332</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_269">269</a>.</li> + +<li>Ouseley, Sir William, his MSS., <a href="#Page_269">269</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Orient. Collect.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Ousley, Rev. John, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> + +<li>Ovid, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>, <a href="#Page_252">252</a>, <a href="#Page_300">300</a>.</li> + +<li>Owen, Humphrey, B.D., elected Librarian, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">death, <a href="#Page_192">192</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>, <a href="#Page_192">192</a>.</li> + +<li>Owen, John, D.D., <a href="#Page_89">89</a>.</li> + +<li>Owen, John, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> + +<li>Owun, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>.</li> + +<li>Oxford, statutes of various colleges, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">the librarians of Cobham's and Duke Humphrey's libraries were Chaplains to the Univ., <a href="#Page_5">5</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">almanacks, <a href="#Page_211">211</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books in the Library printed at Oxford before 1500, <a href="#Page_111">111-2</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">map, <a href="#Page_335">335</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><!-- Page 362 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_362" id="Page_362">[Pg 362]</a></span> +siege, <a href="#Page_240">240</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">All Souls' Coll. MS. there, <a href="#Page_19">19</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Anatomy School, <a href="#Page_132">132</a>, <a href="#Page_134">134</a>, <a href="#Page_136">136</a>, <a href="#Page_140">140</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Ashmolean Museum, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>, <a href="#Page_122">122</a>, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>, <a href="#Page_169">169</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>, <a href="#Page_203">203</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent2">the Library transferred to the Bodleian, <a href="#Page_286">286-9</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Balliol Coll. MSS. there, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">proposed catalogue of rare books, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">list of books not in the Bodleian, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Ch. Ch. MSS. there, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>, <a href="#Page_121">121</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Corp. Chr. Coll. MS. there, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">the old Univ. money chest there, <a href="#Page_4">4</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Divinity School, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Durham Coll., <a href="#Page_4">4</a>, <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Exeter Coll., list of books not in Bodleian, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Hart Hall, <a href="#Page_99">99</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Jesus Coll., list of books not in Bodleian, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Magd. Coll. (see <i>J. R. Bloxam</i>), spur-royals, <a href="#Page_84">84</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">muniments, <a href="#Page_85">85</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent2">first Grammar-master, <a href="#Page_112">112</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent2">list of books not in Bodleian, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">catalogue of the library, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">account-books returned to the College, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">statutes refused to be returned, <a href="#Page_261">261</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Merton Coll., proposed catalogue of rare books, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Music School, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Oriel Coll. MS. there, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">portrait of Bodley, on glass, <a href="#Page_45">45</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent2">proposed catalogue of rare books, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">list of books not in Bodleian, <a href="#Page_203">203</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Queen's Coll. gave some of Junius' papers to the Bodleian, <a href="#Page_103">103</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent2">books bequeathed by Barlow, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">duplicates exchanged with Bodleian, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">a person employed in the Library, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">Dr. Mason's bequest, <a href="#Page_265">265</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Radcliffe Library, <a href="#Page_202">202</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">the room assigned to the Bodleian, <a href="#Page_293">293</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">St. John's Coll., book given by Laud, <a href="#Page_53">53</a> <i>n.</i>, and bust of Charles I, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">St. Mary's Church, the first Library there, <a href="#Page_3">3</a>, <a href="#Page_4">4</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">west window, <a href="#Page_3">3</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">window of old Convocation House, <a href="#Page_4">4</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent2">Fysher, the Librarian, buried in Adam de Brome's chapel, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Schools' tower, inscription renewed, <a href="#Page_147">147</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Univ. Coll. MSS. there, <a href="#Page_18">18</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_64">64</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent2">£50 due to the Bodleian from the College, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">account-books returned to the College, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Wadham Coll., a person employed in the Library, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>;</li> +<li class="indent2">Friars Minor, <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Oxford, Rob. Harley, first Earl of, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Oxford, Edw. Harley, second Earl of, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> + +<li>Oxfordshire MSS., <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>PACHYMERES, <a href="#Page_159">159</a>.</li> + +<li>Paine, James, donor, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>.</li> + +<li>Palares, Anthony, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>.</li> + +<li>Palmerston, Lord, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Palmyra, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>.</li> + +<li>Parasceve, S., <a href="#Page_324">324</a>.</li> + +<li>Paris, Mazarine Library, <a href="#Page_47">47</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_202">202</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MS. in Bibl. Imp., <a href="#Page_115">115</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Church of Holy Sepulchre, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> + +<li>Paris, Rev. Thomas, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> + +<li>Park, Thomas, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Parker, John, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Parker, John Henry, M.A., <a href="#Page_214">214</a>.</li> + +<li>Parker, Joseph, <a href="#Page_271">271</a>.</li> + +<li>Parker, Matthew, Archbp. of Canterbury, <i>De Antiq. Eccl. Brit.</i>, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Psalter</i>, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.</li> + +<li>Parker, Samuel, son of the Bishop, <a href="#Page_144">144</a>.</li> + +<li>Parker, Thomas, <a href="#Page_144">144</a>, <a href="#Page_192">192</a>.</li> + +<li>Parkes, Mrs., <a href="#Page_245">245</a>.</li> + +<li>Parliamentary Committee for Augmentation of Livings, <a href="#Page_129">129</a>.</li> + +<li>Parr, Q. Katherine, inscription, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MS. dedicated to her, <a href="#Page_52">52</a>.</li> + +<li>Parret, —, <a href="#Page_11">11</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Parsons, Joseph, M.A., donor, <a href="#Page_191">191</a>.</li> + +<li>Parthenius, Patriar. of Constant., <a href="#Page_94">94</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Parthenope of Blois</i>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Pate, William, donor, <a href="#Page_196">196</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Patrick, St., <a href="#Page_64">64</a>.</li> + +<li>Patrick, Symon, Bp. of Ely, <a href="#Page_185">185</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Patridge, Daniel, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>.</li> + +<li>Paul III., Pope, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>.</li> + +<li>Paulus, H. E. G., <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>Payne and Foss, Messrs., <a href="#Page_229">229</a>, <a href="#Page_230">230</a>, <a href="#Page_245">245</a>, <a href="#Page_332">332</a>.</li> + +<li>Peach, John and Samuel, <a href="#Page_194">194</a>.</li> + +<li>Peacock, —, <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> + +<li>Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, donor, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>.</li> + +<li>Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl of, donor of the Barocci MSS., <a href="#Page_54">54</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letter to the Vice-Chanc., <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">gave licence for borrowing the MSS., <a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">statue of him, given by Thomas, seventh Earl, <a href="#Page_148">148</a>.</li> + +<li>Penton, Stephen, B.D., donor, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.</li> + +<li>Pepys, Samuel, his MS. papers, <a href="#Page_172">172</a>.</li> + +<li>Percy, Thomas, Bp. of Dromore, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>.</li> + +<li>Periam, William, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Perrott, Sir John, letters, <a href="#Page_150">150</a>.</li> + +<li>Perrott, Thomas, D.C.L., donor, <a href="#Page_150">150</a>.</li> + +<li>Persian MSS., <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_91">91</a>, <a href="#Page_113">113</a> <i>bis</i>, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>, <a href="#Page_215">215</a>, <a href="#Page_228">228</a>, <a href="#Page_240">240</a>, <a href="#Page_269">269</a>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>, <a href="#Page_290">290</a>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Persius, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>.</li> + +<li>Peters, Hugh, donor, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 363 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_363" id="Page_363">[Pg 363]</a></span> +Peters, Rev. William, <a href="#Page_209">209</a>.</li> + +<li>Petit, Sam, MS. Notes on Josephus, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>.</li> + +<li>Petrarch, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Pett, Peter, LL.B., donor, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>.</li> + +<li>Phædrus, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, <a href="#Page_331">331</a>.</li> + +<li>Phillips, Sir Thomas, <a href="#Page_288">288</a>.</li> + +<li>Phœnician Inscription, <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> + +<li>Picus, Joh., <a href="#Page_316">316</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Pickering, William, sale, <a href="#Page_282">282</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Piers Plowman</i>, <a href="#Page_101">101</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Pigott, Rev. G., donor, <a href="#Page_269">269</a>.</li> + +<li>Pigouchet, P., <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Pindar, —, Consul at Aleppo, donor, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>.</li> + +<li>Pinelli, Mapheo, <a href="#Page_200">200</a>.</li> + +<li>Pipping, —, <a href="#Page_241">241</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Pius V, Pope, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>.</li> + +<li>Plato, <a href="#Page_8">8</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.</li> + +<li>Playford, John, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Plays, their admission discouraged by Bodley as a scandal to the Library, <a href="#Page_66">66</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">collections purchased, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>.</li> + +<li>Plenus-Amoris, various scribes of this name, <a href="#Page_18">18</a>, <a href="#Page_19">19</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Pliny, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>, <a href="#Page_273">273</a>, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Plot, R., <i>Nat. Hist. of Staff.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_325">325</a>.</li> + +<li>Plunket, O., R. C. Archbp. of Armagh, <a href="#Page_337">337</a>.</li> + +<li>Pococke, Edward, D.D., his MSS. and printed books, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>, <a href="#Page_268">268</a>, <a href="#Page_311">311</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_78">78</a>, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">references to MSS., <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>Pococke, Rich., Bp. of Meath, <i>Travels</i> cited, <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> + +<li>Pointer, Rev. John, <i>Oxon. Acad.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_86">86</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>.</li> + +<li>Pole, Francis, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Polish Books, <a href="#Page_276">276</a>.</li> + +<li>Politian, Ang., <a href="#Page_273">273</a>.</li> + +<li>Polsted, Benj., donor, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>.</li> + +<li>Polyander, Dr. John, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Pontifical, Salisbury</i>, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>.</li> + +<li>Pope, Alexander, donor, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">letters, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_322">322</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Pope, Sir Thomas, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Pore Helpe</i>, <a href="#Page_155">155</a>.</li> + +<li>Porret, Gilbert, <a href="#Page_9">9</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Porter, —, M.D., <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> + +<li>Powle, Henry, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Powney, Richard, LL.D., <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Prayer, Book of Common</i>, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>, <a href="#Page_264">264</a>, <a href="#Page_282">282</a>.</li> + +<li>Preme, L. de, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>.</li> + +<li>Prendergast, J. P., <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Prescott, W. H., <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Preston, J., <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>Prestwich, —, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.</li> + +<li>Price, Daniel, Dean of St. Asaph, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Price, John, B.D., elected Librarian, <a href="#Page_192">192</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">complaint against him, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">death, <a href="#Page_217">217</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>, <a href="#Page_194">194</a>, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>, <a href="#Page_204">204</a>, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>, <a href="#Page_209">209</a>, <a href="#Page_218">218</a>.</li> + +<li>Price, J. M., M.A., <a href="#Page_273">273</a>.</li> + +<li>Prices of books, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>.</li> + +<li>Prichard, Constantine, Janitor, account of him, <a href="#Page_98">98-9</a>.</li> + +<li>Prideaux, Dr. John, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>Priestley, Dr., <a href="#Page_280">280</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Primer, Salisbury</i>, <a href="#Page_296">296</a>.</li> + +<li>Prince, Daniel, bookseller, <a href="#Page_200">200</a>.</li> + +<li>Prince, Mrs. Mary, donor, <a href="#Page_148">148</a>.</li> + +<li>Printers, clerical, <a href="#Page_259">259-60</a>.</li> + +<li>Prior, Matthew, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Proclus, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>.</li> + +<li>Prudentius, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>.</li> + +<li>Purcell, Henry, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Purefoy, Humphrey and Thomas, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.</li> + +<li>Pusey, Edward B., D.D., <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_278">278</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Catal.</i>, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>.</li> + +<li>Puttick and Simpson, Messrs., <a href="#Page_245">245</a>.</li> + +<li>Pybrac, Sieur de, <a href="#Page_49">49</a>.</li> + +<li>Pyne, Rev. T., <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> + +<li>Pynson, Richard, <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li><i>QUARTERLY REVIEW</i> cited, <a href="#Page_257">257</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Queensberry, Duke of, <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li>Quignones, Cardinal, <a href="#Page_284">284</a>.</li> + +<li>Quivil, Peter, Bp. of Exeter, <a href="#Page_317">317</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>RADCLIFFE, Joseph, <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li>Radzivil, Prince N., <a href="#Page_229">229</a>.</li> + +<li>Raffaelle, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>, <a href="#Page_334">334</a>.</li> + +<li>Raleigh, Sir Walter, donor, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.</li> + +<li>Ramsey, John, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>.</li> + +<li>Randolph, John, D.D., <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> + +<li>Ranshoven, Bible which belonged to the church, <a href="#Page_224">224</a>.</li> + +<li>Rassam, Hormuzd, donor, <a href="#Page_335">335</a>.</li> + +<li>Ratelband, —, bookseller at Amsterdam, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>.</li> + +<li>Ravius, Constantine, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>.</li> + +<li>Rawlins, T., Pophills, <a href="#Page_168">168</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_173">173</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_174">174</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Rawlinson, Richard, D.C.L., account of him, <a href="#Page_168">168-9</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his printed books, <a href="#Page_170">170</a>, <a href="#Page_171">171</a>, <a href="#Page_183">183</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS., <a href="#Page_172">172-182</a>, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>, <a href="#Page_217">217</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">coins, seals, &c., <a href="#Page_182">182</a>, <a href="#Page_183">183</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">some of his portraits, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>, <a href="#Page_337">337</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">references to MSS., <a href="#Page_19">19</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_38">38</a>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a>, <a href="#Page_77">77</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_117">117</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>, <a href="#Page_128">128</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_154">154</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_155">155</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_157">157</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_160">160</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_165">165</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>, <a href="#Page_234">234</a>, <a href="#Page_252">252</a>, <a href="#Page_261">261</a>, <a href="#Page_271">271</a>, <a href="#Page_322">322</a>, <a href="#Page_323">323</a>, <a href="#Page_325">325</a>, <a href="#Page_328">328</a>, <a href="#Page_335">335</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><!-- Page 364 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_364" id="Page_364">[Pg 364]</a></span> +book-plate, <a href="#Page_3">3</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Continuation of Wood's Athenæ</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_130">130</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>History of Hereford</i>, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">endeavoured to compile a list of the annual Bodley Orators, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Rawlinson, Sir Thomas, <a href="#Page_168">168</a>.</li> + +<li>Rawlinson, Thomas, his son, <a href="#Page_169">169</a>, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Ray, William, donor, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>.</li> + +<li>Reade, William, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Reader, W., <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Reay, Stephen, B.D., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_242">242</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">resignation and death, <a href="#Page_293">293</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>, <a href="#Page_286">286</a>.</li> + +<li>Rebenstein, A., <a href="#Page_275">275</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Record Commission, <i>Report</i> for 1800 cited, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>, <a href="#Page_167">167</a>, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">for 1837, <a href="#Page_96">96</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Eighth Report of Dep.-Keeper of Records</i>, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Red-letter books, <a href="#Page_171">171</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Reggio, J. S., <a href="#Page_280">280</a>.</li> + +<li>Renouard, —, <a href="#Page_242">242</a>.</li> + +<li>Reynolds, Edward, D.D., <a href="#Page_45">45</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Reynolds, Sir Joshua, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>.</li> + +<li>Richards, —, <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li>Richmond, Margaret, Countess of, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>.</li> + +<li>Richmond, George, <a href="#Page_337">337</a>.</li> + +<li>Ridley, Thomas, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Rigaud, Lt.-col. Gibbes, donor, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>, <a href="#Page_338">338</a>.</li> + +<li>Rigaud, John, B.D., donor, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>.</li> + +<li>Rigaud, Prof. S. P., M.A., <a href="#Page_195">195</a>.</li> + +<li>Rivers, Richard, Lord, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.</li> + +<li>Rives, George, Warden of New College, donor, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>.</li> + +<li>Roberts, —, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Roberts, B. and E., <a href="#Page_271">271</a>.</li> + +<li>Roberts, J. P., M.A., <a href="#Page_235">235</a>, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>.</li> + +<li>Roberts, Lewis, donor, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>.</li> + +<li>Robertson, Prof. A., <a href="#Page_194">194</a>.</li> + +<li>Robertson, Rev. F. W., <a href="#Page_297">297</a>.</li> + +<li>Robins, George, <a href="#Page_267">267</a>.</li> + +<li>Robinson, —, clock-maker, Gracechurch-street, <a href="#Page_182">182</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Robinson, John, Bp. of London, MS. papers, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Robson, Charles, B.D., donor, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>.</li> + +<li>Roch, Thomas, Janitor, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.</li> + +<li>Rochester, Henry Hyde, Earl of, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>, <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li>Rock, Dr., <i>Church of our Fathers</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>.</li> + +<li>Rodd, Thomas, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Roe, Sir Thomas, his gift of MSS., <a href="#Page_49">49</a>, <a href="#Page_50">50-51</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">sanctioned the lending of his books, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>.</li> + +<li>Roger of Hereford, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Rogers, Samuel, M.A., <a href="#Page_342">342</a>.</li> + +<li>Roillet, Nicholas, <a href="#Page_283">283</a></li> + +<li>Rolin, Cardinal John, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Rolle, R., of Hampole, <a href="#Page_101">101</a>, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Rollright, Oxon, glass from the church, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>.</li> + +<li>Rome, reports from agents, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rocca Library, <a href="#Page_47">47</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Rood, Theodore, printer in Oxford, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>.</li> + +<li>Rosamond, Fair, her coffin, <a href="#Page_30">30</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Ross, Alexander, donor, <a href="#Page_91">91</a>.</li> + +<li>Ross, John, <i>Hist. Angl.</i>, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>, <a href="#Page_138">138</a>, <a href="#Page_141">141</a>.</li> + +<li>Rosse, John, <a href="#Page_141">141</a>.</li> + +<li>Rossingham, Captain, <a href="#Page_77">77</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Rouceby, Walter de, <a href="#Page_328">328</a>.</li> + +<li>Rous, John, M.A., elected Librarian, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">applies to Milton for his <i>Poems</i>, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">reception of King James' <i>Works</i>, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">hinders the breaking open of Bodley's chest, <a href="#Page_45">45</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">appendix to catalogue, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">complains of the neglect of the Stationers' Company, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">refuses to lend a book to the king, <a href="#Page_72">72</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">death, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">legacy, <i>ibid.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_56">56</a>, <a href="#Page_309">309</a>.</li> + +<li>Routh, M. J., D.D., his printed library bequeathed to Durham, <a href="#Page_4">4</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">sale of his MSS., <a href="#Page_141">141</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_252">252</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_337">337</a>.</li> + +<li>Rowell, G. A., <a href="#Page_309">309</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Roxburghe sale, <a href="#Page_42">42</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Rubens, Sir P. P., <a href="#Page_148">148</a>.</li> + +<li>Runic alphabets, <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">almanacks, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>, <a href="#Page_161">161</a>.</li> + +<li>Rupert, Prince, letters, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>.</li> + +<li>Rushworth, John, donor, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cited, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>.</li> + +<li>Russel, Rev. Bertrand, donor, <a href="#Page_205">205</a>.</li> + +<li>Russell, Charles, D.D., President of Maynooth, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Russian books, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <a href="#Page_22">22</a>, <a href="#Page_25">25</a> <i>bis</i>, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cloak, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>, <a href="#Page_307">307</a>.</li> + +<li>Ruthin School, <a href="#Page_157">157</a>.</li> + +<li>Ryley, William, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> + +<li>Rymer, Thomas, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Ryser, Jeorius, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>S. W., bell-founder, <a href="#Page_33">33</a>.</li> + +<li>Saadiah, Rabbi, <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Sacramentaria</i>, <a href="#Page_262">262</a>, <a href="#Page_290">290</a>.</li> + +<li>Sadler, Anne, wife of Ralph, donor, <a href="#Page_333">333</a>.</li> + +<li>Sadlington, Michael, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Saibante, Giovanni, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>, <a href="#Page_230">230</a>.</li> + +<li>St. Amand, James, his bequest, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Catalogue</i>, <a href="#Page_216">216</a>.</li> + +<li>St. Amand, George and Martha, <a href="#Page_185">185</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>St. Bridget, Adam, <a href="#Page_314">314</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 365 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_365" id="Page_365">[Pg 365]</a></span> +St. George, Sir Richard, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> + +<li>St. George, Sir Thomas, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Sale, George, MSS., <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Salisbury, books which belonged to the Cathedral, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>.</li> + +<li>Salt, W., <a href="#Page_303">303</a>.</li> + +<li>Samaritan MSS., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>, <a href="#Page_113">113</a>, <a href="#Page_126">126</a>, <a href="#Page_296">296</a>.</li> + +<li>Sancroft, Archbp., mentioned, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his papers, <a href="#Page_153">153-4</a>.</li> + +<li>Sandford, Oxon, Chartulary, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>.</li> + +<li>Sandwich, Earl of, <a href="#Page_166">166</a>.</li> + +<li>Sandys, Lady K., donor, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>.</li> + +<li>Sanford, Jos., B.D., donor, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Sanscrit MSS., <a href="#Page_93">93</a> (the first);</li> +<li class="indent1"> <a href="#Page_265">265</a>, <a href="#Page_269">269</a>, <a href="#Page_272">272</a>, <a href="#Page_291">291</a>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_323">323</a>.</li> + +<li>Saona, Gul. de, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Sarpi, Paolo, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>.</li> + +<li>Saumarez, Sir James, <a href="#Page_218">218</a>.</li> + +<li>Savile, Sir H., donor, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>.</li> + +<li>Saxon, —, <a href="#Page_245">245</a>.</li> + +<li>Say, William, <a href="#Page_7">7</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Scarborough, Sir Charles, his auction, <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.</li> + +<li>Schelging, Samuel, <a href="#Page_241">241</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Schneider, —, <a href="#Page_283">283</a>.</li> + +<li>Schoenleben, Conrad, <a href="#Page_230">230</a>.</li> + +<li>Schoiffer, Peter, see <i>Fust</i>, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Schönsperger, Hans, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>, <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Schultens, H. A., <a href="#Page_199">199</a>, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Schweighäuser, Joh., <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Scotland, letters of Scottish bishops, <a href="#Page_154">154</a>, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Hooke's correspondence, <a href="#Page_222">222</a>.</li> + +<li>Scott, G. C. and R. A., Italian books, <a href="#Page_271">271</a>.</li> + +<li>Scott, G. G., <a href="#Page_235">235</a>, <a href="#Page_284">284</a>.</li> + +<li>Scott, Capt. Jon., <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Scott, Thomas, first janitor? <a href="#Page_88">88</a>.</li> + +<li>Scott, Sir W., <a href="#Page_227">227</a>, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Scott, Will., Lord Stowell, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>.</li> + +<li>Scrope, Rich., D.D., <a href="#Page_164">164</a>.</li> + +<li>Seal, or 'sea-elephant,' a, bought, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>.</li> + +<li>Sebastian, St., <a href="#Page_332">332</a>.</li> + +<li>Secker, Thomas, Archbp. of Cant., <a href="#Page_199">199</a>.</li> + +<li>Secretan, C. F., M.A., <i>Life of Nelson</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_127">127</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Seffrid, Bp. of Chichester, <a href="#Page_314">314</a>.</li> + +<li>Selden, John, his library, <a href="#Page_77">77-87</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">death-bed, <a href="#Page_77">77</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">book in his collection which belonged to Anne Boleyn, <a href="#Page_27">27</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">some MSS. burnt at the Temple, <a href="#Page_86">86</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">some of his books at Lincoln's Inn and Coll. of Physicians, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books placed at west end of Library, <a href="#Page_60">60</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">references to books and MSS., <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_111">111</a>, <a href="#Page_239">239</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_243">243</a>, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>, <a href="#Page_320">320</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">gave an Arabic astrolabe to Laud, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his house broken into by robbers, <a href="#Page_83">83</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_50">50</a>, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_139">139</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portraits, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Seligmann, Isaac, <a href="#Page_243">243</a>.</li> + +<li>Selwyn, G. A., Bp. of Lichfield, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Sermons, collections of, <a href="#Page_273">273</a>, <a href="#Page_276">276</a>.</li> + +<li>Servetus, Michael, <a href="#Page_247">247</a>.</li> + +<li>Sever, Henry, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>.</li> + +<li>Seward, Miss, <i>Anecdotes</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_110">110</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_203">203</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Seymour, Jane, Q. consort of Henry VIII, <a href="#Page_334">334</a>.</li> + +<li>Sforza, Bona, <a href="#Page_249">249</a>.</li> + +<li>Shakespeare, W., the first Folio, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Venus and Adonis</i>, and other poems, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>, <a href="#Page_247">247</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">editions of single plays, &c., <a href="#Page_231">231</a>, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his autograph, <a href="#Page_300">300-302</a>.</li> + +<li>Sharp, John, Archbp. of York, <a href="#Page_127">127</a>.</li> + +<li>Sharpe, Dr. Gregory, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Shaw, Henry, <i>Illuminated Ornaments</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_250">250</a>, <a href="#Page_330">330</a> <i>bis</i>.</li> + +<li>Shaw, Thomas, D.D., donor, <a href="#Page_163">163</a>.</li> + +<li>Sheldon, Archbp. Gilbert, mentioned, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Papers, <a href="#Page_155">155</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his family Bible, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>.</li> + +<li>Sheldon, William, <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Sherfiddin Iahia ben Almocar, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>.</li> + +<li>Shirley, W. W., D.D., <a href="#Page_90">90</a>.</li> + +<li>Shirman, Henry, M.A., <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Shotover, near Oxford, <a href="#Page_29">29</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Shropshire MSS., &c., <a href="#Page_163">163</a>, <a href="#Page_263">263-4</a>.</li> + +<li>Shuckbridge, Grace, <a href="#Page_131">131</a>.</li> + +<li>Siamese Prince, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Sichardus, Joh., <a href="#Page_17">17</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Siddons, Mrs. <a href="#Page_232">232</a>.</li> + +<li>Sigismund I of Poland, <a href="#Page_249">249</a>.</li> + +<li>Silk, books printed on, <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Simeon, Sir John, <a href="#Page_101">101</a>.</li> + +<li>Simon, Thomas, <a href="#Page_340">340</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Skeat, W. W., M.A., <a href="#Page_101">101</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Simonides, Dr. Const., <a href="#Page_199">199</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_280">280-1</a>.</li> + +<li>Skillerne, Richard S., M.A., <a href="#Page_202">202</a>.</li> + +<li>Slack, Samuel, M.A., <a href="#Page_219">219</a>.</li> + +<li>Sloane, Sir Hans, donor, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>.</li> + +<li>Slythers, —, <a href="#Page_11">11</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Smalridge, George, Bp. of Bristol, <a href="#Page_149">149</a>.</li> + +<li>Smith, —, <a href="#Page_42">42</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Smith, Edmund, M.A., MS. of his Bodley Speech, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Smith, Miles, Bp. of Gloucester, <a href="#Page_82">82</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Smith, Richard, <a href="#Page_141">141</a>.</li> + +<li>Smith, R. Payne, D.D., mentioned, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>, <a href="#Page_296">296</a>, <a href="#Page_300">300</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_286">286</a>, <a href="#Page_293">293</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Regius Professor of Divinity, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 366 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_366" id="Page_366">[Pg 366]</a></span> +Smith, Thomas, D.D., his MSS., <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_152">152-3</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Vita Bernardi</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>.</li> + +<li>Smith, Thomas, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.</li> + +<li>Smith, William, M.A., donor, <a href="#Page_150">150</a>.</li> + +<li>Smyth, Edward, account of a Russian cloak, <a href="#Page_307">307</a>.</li> + +<li>Smyth, Miles, <a href="#Page_237">237</a>.</li> + +<li>Smythe, Thomas, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.</li> + +<li>Snetesham, John, D.D., <a href="#Page_315">315</a>.</li> + +<li>Sneyd, Rev. Walter, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>.</li> + +<li>Snoshill, William, grand-nephew to Bodley, petition to University, <a href="#Page_39">39</a>.</li> + +<li>Solly, —, <a href="#Page_245">245</a>.</li> + +<li>Somers, John, Lord, <a href="#Page_172">172</a>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Somerset, Duke of, <a href="#Page_256">256</a>.</li> + +<li>Sonibanck, John, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>.</li> + +<li>Sophia, Electress of Hanover, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Sotheby and Wilkinson, Messrs., <a href="#Page_297">297</a>, <a href="#Page_300">300</a>.</li> + +<li>Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, cited, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>, <a href="#Page_246">246</a>, <a href="#Page_281">281</a>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_268">268</a>, <a href="#Page_273">273</a>, <a href="#Page_276">276</a>.</li> + +<li>South, Professor John, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>South, Robert, D.D., bequest, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>.</li> + +<li>Southampton, Jane Wriothesley, Countess of, book which belonged to her, <a href="#Page_43">43</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">her daughters, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>.</li> + +<li>Southwell, Sir Robert, <a href="#Page_173">173</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Spanish books, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>, <a href="#Page_225">225</a>, <a href="#Page_238">238</a>, <a href="#Page_253">253</a>.</li> + +<li>Sparchiford, Archdeacon Richard, <a href="#Page_316">316</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Sparke, Thomas, M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Spelman, Sir Henry, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Spencer, Earl, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>.</li> + +<li>Spencer, or Spicer, —, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.</li> + +<li>Spencer, Sir Richard, donor, <a href="#Page_177">177</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Spenser, John, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Spinckes, Bp. Nath., <a href="#Page_177">177</a>, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Sprat, Thomas, Bp. of Rochester, <a href="#Page_173">173</a>.</li> + +<li>Stacpoole, C. P., <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li>Standish, Dr., <a href="#Page_11">11</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Standish, John, <a href="#Page_36">36</a>.</li> + +<li>Stanhope, Lady Hester, donor, <a href="#Page_229">229</a>.</li> + +<li>Stanley, Edward, donor, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>.</li> + +<li>Stapiltone, Sir Miles de, <a href="#Page_329">329</a>.</li> + +<li>Stark, J. M., <a href="#Page_286">286</a>.</li> + +<li>Stationers' Company, grant to the Library of all books printed by them, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">negligent in performance, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>, <a href="#Page_73">73</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">plate given them by Bodley, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">first book given by them, <a href="#Page_32">32</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">ordinance for supply of books to the Library, <a href="#Page_34">34</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">payment from the Library to the Bedel of the Company, <a href="#Page_40">40</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Statutes for delivery of books, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">books claimed personally by Hyde, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">first Copy-right Act, <a href="#Page_128">128</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">last Copy-right Act, <a href="#Page_254">254</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">increased receipt of books, <a href="#Page_218">218</a>.</li> + +<li>Statius, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>.</li> + +<li>Steinschneider, Dr. M., <a href="#Page_243">243</a>, <a href="#Page_244">244</a>, <a href="#Page_272">272</a>.</li> + +<li>Steele, —, <a href="#Page_120">120</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Stephanus, Robert, <a href="#Page_320">320</a>.</li> + +<li>Stephen, King of England, <a href="#Page_185">185</a>.</li> + +<li>Stephen, a Greek scribe, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>.</li> + +<li>Stevens, Henry, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>, <a href="#Page_272">272</a>.</li> + +<li>Stevenson, Rev. Joseph, <a href="#Page_18">18</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_105">105</a>.</li> + +<li>Stewart, C. J., <a href="#Page_112">112</a>, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>.</li> + +<li>Stillingfleet, E., Bp. of Worc., <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_124">124</a>.</li> + +<li>Stōchs, George, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Stoke, Abbot John, <a href="#Page_313">313</a>.</li> + +<li>Stow Wood, near Oxford, <a href="#Page_29">29</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Strafford, Thomas, third Earl of, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Strange, John, <a href="#Page_202">202</a>.</li> + +<li>Strange, Sir Thomas, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Strangwayes, Giles, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>.</li> + +<li>Strickland, H. E., M.A., <a href="#Page_277">277</a>.</li> + +<li>Strode, William, M.A., <a href="#Page_55">55</a>.</li> + +<li>Strype, John, M.A., <a href="#Page_170">170</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Stubbe, H., M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_88">88</a>, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>.</li> + +<li>Stukeley, William, M.D., <a href="#Page_57">57</a>.</li> + +<li>Suidas, <a href="#Page_226">226</a>.</li> + +<li>Summers, Prof., <a href="#Page_284">284</a>.</li> + +<li>Summerset, John, M.D., <a href="#Page_8">8</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Sunderlin, Lord, donor of Malone collection, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Sunningwell, Berks, <a href="#Page_109">109</a>.</li> + +<li>Sussex, Duke of, his sale, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>.</li> + +<li>Sutherland, Alexander H., <a href="#Page_255">255</a>, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Sutherland, Mrs., illustrated Clarendon and Burnet, <a href="#Page_254">254-258</a>.</li> + +<li>Sutterton, Lincolnshire, churchwarden's accounts, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> + +<li>Sutton, Sir Robert, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>.</li> + +<li>Swallow, Joseph, B.A., <a href="#Page_147">147</a>.</li> + +<li>Swedenborg, Emmanuel, donor, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>.</li> + +<li>Sweynheym and Pannartz, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>, <a href="#Page_273">273</a>.</li> + +<li>Swinton, John, D.D., <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Inscr. Citieæ</i> cited, <a href="#Page_162">162</a>.</li> + +<li>Sydenham, Sir Philip, <a href="#Page_136">136</a>.</li> + +<li>Symonds, —, <a href="#Page_11">11</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Symonds, Henry, M.A., <a href="#Page_251">251</a>, <a href="#Page_266">266</a>.</li> + +<li>Syriac MSS., <a href="#Page_56">56</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_91">91</a>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>, <a href="#Page_296">296</a>, <a href="#Page_300">300</a>, <a href="#Page_326">326</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>TALBOT, William, Bp. of Oxford, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>.</li> + +<li>Talman, J., <a href="#Page_333">333</a>.</li> + +<li>Talmud, <a href="#Page_244">244</a>.</li> + +<li>Tamil MSS., <a href="#Page_296">296</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 367 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_367" id="Page_367">[Pg 367]</a></span> +Tanner, Thomas. Bp. of St. Asaph, his printed books and MSS., <a href="#Page_153">153-156</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_104">104</a>, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>, <a href="#Page_142">142</a>, <a href="#Page_190">190</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">references to his books, <a href="#Page_81">81</a>.</li> + +<li>Tartar MSS., <a href="#Page_115">115</a>, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>.</li> + +<li>Tasso, Torquato, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Tattam, Archdeacon, <a href="#Page_150">150</a>.</li> + +<li>Taunton, J. B., M.A., <a href="#Page_266">266</a>, <a href="#Page_270">270</a>.</li> + +<li>Taylor, Joseph, LL.D., donor, <a href="#Page_92">92</a>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Taylor, Richard, <a href="#Page_231">231</a>.</li> + +<li>Telugu MSS., <a href="#Page_319">319</a>, <a href="#Page_326">326</a>.</li> + +<li>Tenison, Thomas, Archbp. of Canterbury, <a href="#Page_173">173</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Tennyson, Alfred, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Terence, <a href="#Page_230">230</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Vulgaria abs Terentio</i>, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>.</li> + +<li>Terry, Thomas, M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a>.</li> + +<li>Teukesbury, John de, <a href="#Page_316">316</a>.</li> + +<li>Te Water, J. W., <a href="#Page_236">236</a>.</li> + +<li>Thame School, <a href="#Page_180">180</a>.</li> + +<li>Theocritus, <a href="#Page_186">186</a>.</li> + +<li>Thomas of Newmarket, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Thomas, E., <a href="#Page_197">197</a>.</li> + +<li>Thomas, John, Bp. of Winch., <a href="#Page_132">132</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Thomas, John, M.A., <a href="#Page_200">200</a>.</li> + +<li>Thomas, Vaughan, B.D., <a href="#Page_337">337</a>.</li> + +<li>Thomson, —, <a href="#Page_337">337</a>.</li> + +<li>Thomson, Thomas, <a href="#Page_303">303</a>.</li> + +<li>Thoresby, Ralph, <a href="#Page_187">187</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Thorkelin, G. T., <a href="#Page_242">242</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Thorpe, Benjamin, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.</li> + +<li>Thorpe, Thomas, <a href="#Page_286">286</a>.</li> + +<li>Thurland, Francis, M.A., <a href="#Page_219">219</a>, <a href="#Page_221">221</a>.</li> + +<li>Thurland. F. E., M.A., <a href="#Page_266">266</a>.</li> + +<li>Thurloe, John, his State papers, <a href="#Page_172">172</a>.</li> + +<li>Thurston, William, donor of Oriental MSS., <a href="#Page_91">91</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">reference to a MS., <a href="#Page_56">56</a>.</li> + +<li>Thwaites, Edward, donor, <a href="#Page_333">333</a>.</li> + +<li>Tibetan MSS., <a href="#Page_208">208</a>.</li> + +<li>Tickell, Rev. J., donor, <a href="#Page_222">222</a>.</li> + +<li>Tigernach, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Tippoo Sahib, <a href="#Page_208">208</a>.</li> + +<li>Tischendorf, Dr., <a href="#Page_64">64</a>, <a href="#Page_282">282</a>.</li> + +<li>Tomson, L., <a href="#Page_52">52</a>.</li> + +<li>Tonga dialect, books in the, <a href="#Page_276">276</a>.</li> + +<li>Tonstall, C., Bishop of Durham, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>.</li> + +<li>Torcy, M. de, <a href="#Page_222">222</a>.</li> + +<li>Torelli, Joseph, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>.</li> + +<li>Torinus, God., <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Tour, Archd. de la, <a href="#Page_245">245</a>.</li> + +<li>Toynbee, Thomas, M.A., <a href="#Page_156">156</a>, <a href="#Page_158">158</a>.</li> + +<li>Tradescant, John, <a href="#Page_309">309</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Treacher, J., M.A., <a href="#Page_297">297</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Trefusis, John, donor, <a href="#Page_324">324</a>.</li> + +<li>Trent, Council of, <a href="#Page_286">286</a>.</li> + +<li>Trott, Nicholas, <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Clavis Ling. Sanctæ</i>, <a href="#Page_108">108</a>.</li> + +<li>Turck, John, <a href="#Page_183">183</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Turkish MSS., <a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>.</li> + +<li>Turner, Dawson, sale, <a href="#Page_280">280</a>, <a href="#Page_290">290</a>.</li> + +<li>Turner, Francis, Bishop of Ely, <a href="#Page_173">173</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">papers, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Turner, Dr. Peter, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>.</li> + +<li>Turner, Capt. Samuel, MSS., <a href="#Page_208">208</a>.</li> + +<li>Turner, Thomas, Dean of Canterbury, papers, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Turner, William, <a href="#Page_73">73</a>.</li> + +<li>Twells, Rev. L., <a href="#Page_78">78</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Twine, Thomas, M.D., donor, <a href="#Page_34">34</a>.</li> + +<li>Twyne, Brian, MS. of <i>Univ. Musterings</i>, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cited, <a href="#Page_37">37</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>, <a href="#Page_80">80</a>, <a href="#Page_307">307</a>.</li> + +<li>Tyndale, W., <a href="#Page_239">239</a>, <a href="#Page_248">248</a>.</li> + +<li>Tyrrell, James, donor, <a href="#Page_125">125</a>.</li> + +<li>Tyrwhitt, Thomas, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>UFFENBACH, Z. C., <i>Commerc. Epistol.</i> cited, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>, <a href="#Page_130">130</a>, <a href="#Page_144">144</a>, <a href="#Page_145">145</a>.</li> + +<li><i>Ulster, Annals of</i>, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Upcott, W., <a href="#Page_299">299</a>.</li> + +<li>Uri, John, account of him, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Catal.</i> mentioned, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cited, <a href="#Page_114">114</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">autograph, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Usher, Archbp., MSS., <a href="#Page_125">125</a>, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>, <a href="#Page_176">176</a>, <a href="#Page_318">318</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cited, <a href="#Page_54">54</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">absolved Selden on his death-bed, <a href="#Page_77">77</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_90">90</a>, <a href="#Page_102">102</a>.</li> + +<li>Utrecht, Treaty of, papers, <a href="#Page_175">175</a>.</li> + +<li>Utterson, E. V., sale, <a href="#Page_112">112</a>, <a href="#Page_321">321</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>VALENTIN, Robert, <a href="#Page_296">296</a>.</li> + +<li>Vambéry, A., <a href="#Page_115">115</a>.</li> + +<li>Vandyck, Sir Anthony, <a href="#Page_196">196</a>, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Vansittart, N., M.P., <a href="#Page_223">223</a>.</li> + +<li>Vansittart, Robert, D.C.L., <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> + +<li>Vaughan, H. H., M.A., <a href="#Page_277">277</a>.</li> + +<li>Vaughan, P., Warden of Merton, donor, <a href="#Page_223">223</a>.</li> + +<li>Vaux, W. S., <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Ven, —, a Dane, <a href="#Page_68">68</a>.</li> + +<li>Venice, reports of ambassadors, <a href="#Page_177">177</a>.</li> + +<li>Verard, Anthony, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>, <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> + +<li>Verneuil, John, M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_73">73-4</a>, <a href="#Page_341">341</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_341">341</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Nomenclator</i>, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>, <a href="#Page_73">73</a>, <a href="#Page_130">130</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Cat. of Commentators on Holy Script., <a href="#Page_60">60</a>.</li> + +<li>Vernon, Col. Edw., donor of the Vernon MS., <a href="#Page_101">101</a>.</li> + +<li>Vertue, George, <a href="#Page_182">182</a>.</li> + +<li>Vetericastro, S. de, <a href="#Page_310">310</a>.</li> + +<li>Victoria, Her Majesty Queen, donor, <a href="#Page_264">264</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">her visits to the Library, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Vidoveus, Petr., <a href="#Page_311">311</a>.</li> + +<li><!-- Page 368 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_368" id="Page_368">[Pg 368]</a></span> +Villemarqué, T. de la, cited, <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Vincent, William, D.D., <a href="#Page_262">262</a>.</li> + +<li>Viner, Charles, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Viner, Sir Robert, donor, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>.</li> + +<li>Virgil, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>, <a href="#Page_233">233</a>, <a href="#Page_252">252</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Sortes Virgilianæ</i> tried by Charles I, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>.</li> + +<li>Virgil, Polydore, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>.</li> + +<li>Vivian, William, M.D., <a href="#Page_198">198</a>.</li> + +<li>Vossius, Isaac, <a href="#Page_129">129</a>, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_207">207</a>, <a href="#Page_327">327</a>.</li> + +<li>Vostre, Simon, <a href="#Page_311">311</a>, <a href="#Page_312">312</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>WAKE, Edward, M.A., <a href="#Page_106">106</a></li> + +<li>Wake, Sir Isaac, cited, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>.</li> + +<li>Wake, William, Archbp. of Canterbury, papers, <a href="#Page_121">121</a>, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> + +<li>Walden, Thomas, <i>Fascic. 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Persons</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_59">59</a>, <a href="#Page_69">69</a>, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>, <a href="#Page_121">121</a>, <a href="#Page_123">123</a>, <a href="#Page_125">125</a> bis, <a href="#Page_127">127</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_130">130</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_138">138</a>, <a href="#Page_139">139</a>, <a href="#Page_142">142</a>, <a href="#Page_144">144</a>, <a href="#Page_155">155</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_186">186</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Oxoniana</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_120">120</a>.</li> + +<li>Walker, John, M.A., <i>another</i>, <a href="#Page_229">229</a>, <a href="#Page_235">235</a>.</li> + +<li>Walker, Robert Fr., M.A., <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> + +<li>Walker, Sir William, <a href="#Page_270">270</a>.</li> + +<li>Wall, H., M.A., <a href="#Page_277">277</a>.</li> + +<li>Wallingford, Richard, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Wallis, John, D.D., <a href="#Page_90">90</a>, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>.</li> + +<li>Wallis, J., M.A., <a href="#Page_123">123</a>.</li> + +<li>Walpole, Horace, <i>Anecdotes of Painting</i>, cited, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>R. and N. 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John, <a href="#Page_197">197</a>.</li> + +<li>Walters, J., B.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_196">196-7</a>.</li> + +<li>Walton, Brian, Bp. of Chester, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.</li> + +<li>Wanley, Humphrey, cited, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>, <a href="#Page_90">90</a>, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">employed in the Library, <a href="#Page_116">116</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_116">116</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">selected books from Bernard's library, <a href="#Page_117">117</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">dispute with Hyde thereon, <i>ib.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Hyde desires Wanley to succeed him as Librarian, <a href="#Page_118">118</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">portrait, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Warcupp, Sir Edmund, <a href="#Page_178">178</a>, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>.</li> + +<li>Ware, Sir James, <a href="#Page_184">184</a>.</li> + +<li>Warham, Archbp., <a href="#Page_313">313</a>.</li> + +<li>Waring, George, M.A., <a href="#Page_105">105</a>.</li> + +<li>Warneford, —, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>.</li> + +<li>Warton, Thomas, B.D., <i>Hist. of Eng. 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William, <a href="#Page_112">112</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Weelkes, Thomas, <a href="#Page_206">206</a>.</li> + +<li>Weever, John, <a href="#Page_250">250</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Welles, —, <a href="#Page_317">317</a>.</li> + +<li>Wellesley, Henry, D.D., <a href="#Page_225">225</a>, <a href="#Page_279">279</a>, <a href="#Page_285">285</a>, <a href="#Page_296">296</a>, <a href="#Page_333">333</a>.</li> + +<li>Wellington, Duke of, <a href="#Page_319">319</a>.</li> + +<li>Welwood, J., M.D., <i>Memoirs</i> cited, <a href="#Page_70">70</a>.</li> + +<li>Wentworth, St. Ex., M.A., <a href="#Page_251">251</a>.</li> + +<li>Werden, Major-General, <a href="#Page_185">185</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Werfrith, Bp. of Worcester, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>.</li> + +<li>Wesley, Charles, admitted as a reader, <a href="#Page_152">152</a>, <a href="#Page_320">320</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Wesley, Samuel, Mus. 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H., M.A., his MSS., <a href="#Page_265">265</a>.</li> + +<li>Wilson, Lea, <a href="#Page_233">233</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Wilson, Ralph, <a href="#Page_147">147</a>.</li> + +<li>Wilson, Thomas, Bp. of Sodor and Man, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>.</li> + +<li>Wilson, Thomas, <a href="#Page_258">258</a>.</li> + +<li>Wiltshire, MS. collections, <a href="#Page_154">154</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Winbolt, Thomas, B.A., <a href="#Page_158">158</a>.</li> + +<li>Winchelsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, <a href="#Page_94">94</a>.</li> + +<li>Windsor, Dean and Chapter of, donors, <a href="#Page_34">34</a>.</li> + +<li>Wingfield family, <a href="#Page_214">214</a>.</li> + +<li>Winwood, Sir Ralph, donor, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>.</li> + +<li>Wise, Francis, M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_146">146</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">defeated in election for Librarian, <a href="#Page_151">151</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_160">160</a>, <a href="#Page_294">294</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">catalogue of Coins, <a href="#Page_340">340</a>.</li> + +<li>Wodecherche, Will. de, <a href="#Page_317">317</a>.</li> + +<li>Wolf, Jo. Christopher, <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.</li> + +<li>Wolfe, Reginald, <a href="#Page_87">87</a>.</li> + +<li>Wood, Antony à, bequest, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS. bought from him, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">a MS. given by Ballard, <a href="#Page_187">187</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">his Library, <a href="#Page_287">287-8</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MS. of his <i>History</i>, <a href="#Page_270">270</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">illustrated copy of Gutch's translation of his <i>History</i>, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Rawlinson's Contin. of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Athenæ</i>, <a href="#Page_181">181</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Malone's copy of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Athenæ</i>, <a href="#Page_232">232</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Dr. Bliss's copy of the <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Athenæ</i>, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">cited, <a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_17">17</a>, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>, <a href="#Page_44">44</a>, <a href="#Page_45">45</a>, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>, <a href="#Page_79">79</a>, <a href="#Page_83">83</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_85">85</a>, <a href="#Page_86">86</a> <i>n.</i>, <a href="#Page_106">106</a>, <a href="#Page_110">110</a>, <a href="#Page_159">159</a>, <a href="#Page_201">201</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1"><i>Life</i>, <a href="#Page_192">192</a> <i>n.</i>;</li> +<li class="indent1">mentioned, <a href="#Page_289">289</a>, <a href="#Page_322">322</a>.</li> + +<li>Wood, Robert, <a href="#Page_189">189</a>.</li> + +<li>Woodcock, John, M.A., <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> + +<li>Worcester Cathedral, <a href="#Page_179">179</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">MSS. from thence, <a href="#Page_100">100</a>, <a href="#Page_103">103</a>.</li> + +<li>Worde, Wynkyn de, <a href="#Page_155">155</a>, <a href="#Page_183">183</a>, <a href="#Page_239">239</a>.</li> + +<li>Wordsworth, Dr. Christopher, cited, <a href="#Page_53">53</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Wordsworth, Will., <a href="#Page_227">227</a>.</li> + +<li>Wotton, Sir Henry, donor, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_58">58</a>.</li> + +<li>Wren, Sir Christopher, <a href="#Page_119">119</a>, <a href="#Page_251">251</a>.</li> + +<li>Wright, —, <a href="#Page_12">12</a>.</li> + +<li>Wright, Abraham, B.A., <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Delitiæ Delitiarum</i>, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>.</li> + +<li>Wright, Francis, <a href="#Page_67">67</a>.</li> + +<li>Würtzburg, books 'e Coll. Herbip.' <a href="#Page_61">61</a>, <a href="#Page_65">65</a>.</li> + +<li>Wyat, Sir Thomas, <a href="#Page_336">336</a>.</li> + +<li>Wyatt, Thomas, <a href="#Page_330">330</a>.</li> + +<li>Wyatt, William, M.A., <a href="#Page_128">128</a>.</li> + +<li>Wyberd, John, <a href="#Page_68">68</a>.</li> + +<li>Wyngaerde, Ant. van den, <a href="#Page_255">255</a>.</li> + +<li>Wyrley, William, <a href="#Page_174">174</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>XIMENES, Cardinal, <a href="#Page_280">280</a>, <a href="#Page_298">298</a>.</li> + +<li>Xiphilinus, <a href="#Page_320">320</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>YARNTON, Oxon, <a href="#Page_30">30</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Yonge, Francis, M.A., Sub-librarian, <a href="#Page_74">74</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">death, <a href="#Page_89">89</a>.</li> + +<li>Yonge, Nicholas, <a href="#Page_206">206</a></li> + +<li>York Minster, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Tower of St. Mary, <a href="#Page_96">96</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">Museum, <a href="#Page_212">212</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Yorke, Sir Joseph, <a href="#Page_199">199</a>.</li> + +<li>Young, Edward, D.D., <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Young, Patrick, <a href="#Page_48">48</a>, <a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_61">61</a>, <a href="#Page_83">83</a>;</li> +<li class="indent1">donor, <a href="#Page_325">325</a>.</li> + +<li>Yriarte, —, <a href="#Page_253">253</a>.</li> +</ul> + + +<ul><li>ZAMBONI, J. J., <a href="#Page_178">178</a>.</li> + +<li>Zell, Ulric, <a href="#Page_210">210</a>.</li> + +<li>Zend MSS., <a href="#Page_149">149</a>, <a href="#Page_191">191</a>, <a href="#Page_269">269</a>.</li> + +<li>Zernichaus, Adam, <a href="#Page_143">143</a>.</li> + +<li>Zeuss, J. C., <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Grammat. Celtica</i> cited, <a href="#Page_20">20</a> <i>n.</i></li> + +<li>Zoroaster, <a href="#Page_149">149</a>, <a href="#Page_159">159</a>.</li> + +<li>Zunz, Dr. L., <a href="#Page_272">272</a>.</li> +</ul> + + + +<hr class="long" /> +<h2><a name="ADDENDA_ET_CORRIGENDA" id="ADDENDA_ET_CORRIGENDA"></a>ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.</h2> + + +<p><span class="note" title="page reference changed from 1 to 3">P. <a href="#Page_3">3</a>, l. 9.</span> [The University Seal is engraved in Ingram's <i>Memorials of Oxf.</i>, iii. 17, +where it is said to be '<i>c.</i> A.D. 1200.']</p> + +<p><a href="#Footnote_20_20">P. 15, <i>note</i> 2</a>. [The University Arms are engraved in Ingram's <i>Memorials</i>, iii. 1, +from the painted glass in the great east window of the Library. In this representation +three mottos are given: <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Dominus</i>, &c., on a scroll above, <i>Sapientia et +Fælicitate</i> on the Book, and <i xml:lang="la" lang="la">Bonitas regnabit, Veritas liberabit</i>, on a scroll below.]</p> + +<p>P. <a href="#Page_50">50</a>, l. 1. <i>for</i> William <i>read</i> Williams.</p> + +<p><a href="#Footnote_79_79">P. 50, l. 2 from bottom</a>. <i>for</i> ignoit <i>read</i> ignotis.</p> + +<p><a href="#Footnote_114_114">P. 81, l. 19</a>. <i>for</i> Wharton <i>read</i> Warton.</p> + +<p>P. <a href="#Page_93">93</a>, l. 6 from bottom. <i>for</i> Kerr <i>read</i> Ken. Gentoo, <i>add</i> [<i>i.e.</i> Sanscrit.] [See +<a href="#Footnote_341_341">p. 265, <i>note</i></a>.]</p> + +<p>P. <a href="#Page_115">115</a>, l. 5. <i>for</i> M. Vainbéry ... to form <i>read</i> M. Vaḿbery, the traveller in +Tartary, who is engaged in forming.</p> + +<p>P. <a href="#Page_129">129</a>, l. 6. <i>for</i> one volume of Index <i>read</i> one earlier volume containing a list of +livings in the diocese of Norwich, with their values and incumbents.</p> + +<p>P. <a href="#Page_156">156</a>, l. 14. <i>for</i> third Catalogue <i>read</i> fourth Catalogue.</p> + +<p><a href="#Footnote_255_255">P. 187, <i>note</i></a>. <i>Dele</i> comma after <i>White</i>.</p> + +<p>P. <a href="#Page_230">230</a>, <span class="note" title="First reference is on p. 229"><i>Codex Ebn.</i></span> [A facsimile, from the commencement of St. Luke, with a +notice of the MS., is given in Shaw's <i>Illuminated Ornaments</i>.]</p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"> +OXFORD:<br /> +<br /> +BY T. COMBE, M.A., E. B. GARDNER, E. P. HALL, AND H. LATHAM, M.A.<br /> +<br /> +PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.<br /> +</p> +<div class="trans-note"> +<h4><a name="Transcribers_Notes" id="Transcribers_Notes"></a>Transcriber's Notes</h4> + +<p>Minor punctuation and format changes have been made without special comment here.</p> + +<p>Variant spellings (and some apparent typographical errors) have generally been retained +(e.g. "caligraphy" for "calligraphy") and +especially in quoted documents. Where changes to the text have been made these are listed as follows:</p> + +<p>Page <a href="#Page_23">23</a>: added left single quote (described in the 'Registrum Benefactorum')</p> + +<p>Page <a href="#Page_131">131</a>: changed comma to right parenthesis "(as his solitary claim +to a place in the <i>Athenæ</i>)"</p> + +<p>Page <a href="#Page_136">136</a>: changed "exspected" to "expected" (he was not one of +those good men I expected)</p> + +<p>Page <a href="#Page_141">141</a>: text appearing as "2/3" (two-thirds) interpreted as footnote anchor "[2]" now renumbered as [189] (up to March 30, 1735[189])</p> + +<p>Page <a href="#Page_253">253</a>: changed "Abury" to "Avebury" (Accounts of Avebury and Stonehenge, ...)</p> + +<p>Pge <a href="#Page_314">314</a>: changed semi-colon to comma in "(given by Hugh, Archd. of +Taunton), ..."</p> + +<p>Footnote <a href="#Footnote_374_374">[374]</a>: added missing close single quote mark (John Macbride, +'ex Coll. Exon.')</p> + +<p><a href="#ADDENDA_ET_CORRIGENDA">Addenda et Corrigenda</a>: changed "P. 1" to "P. 3" (P. 1, l. 9. [The University Seal ...)</p> + +<hr /> + +<h5>[<a name="text_alternative" id="text_alternative"></a>text alternative to facsimile presented at page <a href="#Page_302">302</a>]</h5> +<p class="center"> +OVIDII METAMORPHOSEΩN<br /> +LIBRI QVINDECIM.<br /> +<br /> +W<sup>m</sup> Sh<sup>r.</sup><br /> +<br /> +ALDVS<br /> +<br /> +This little Book of Ovid was given to me<br /> +by W Hall who sayd it was once Will<br /> +Shakspares<br /> +<br /> +T N<br /> +<br /> +1682<br /> +</p> +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Annals of the Bodleian Library, +Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867, by William Dunn Macray + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANNALS OF THE BODLEIAN *** + +***** This file should be named 38317-h.htm or 38317-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/8/3/1/38317/ + +Produced by Simon Gardner, Adrian Mastronardi and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +(This file was produced from images generously made +available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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