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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: ISO-8859-1 + +*** 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) + + + + + +Transcriber's Notes + +Variant spellings (and some apparent typographical errors) have +generally been retained (e.g. "caligraphy" for "calligraphy"), +especially in quoted documents. Where changes to the text have been made +these are listed at the end of the book. + +Minor punctuation and format changes have been made without special +comment. + +This plain text version uses the ASCII and Latin-1 character sets only. +Italic typeface is represented by _underscores_. Small caps typeface is +represented by UPPER CASE. Superscripted characters are preceded by the +caret symbol (^). + +Greek script is transliterated and identified by "[Grk: ...]." Hebrew +script is transliterated and identified by "[Heb: ...]." Old English +text is identified by "[OE: ...]" with the following substitutions for +non-Latin symbols and diacritics: + + [=A], [=e], [=m], [=rs], [=u] macron over A, e, m, rs and u + [-b], [-bb], [-ž] bar through upright of b, bb and thorn + [&] Tironian sign et + +Additional symbols and diacritics in the text are rendered as follows: + + [=a], [=c], [=o] macron over a, c, e, m and o + [C] apostrophic C in Roman numeral dates + ['m] acute accent over m + [oe] oe-ligature + [~u] tilde over u + [)u] breve over u + +Footnotes have been grouped together at the end of each dated section or +after each Appendix. + + * * * * * + + 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. + + BY THE REV. WILLIAM DUNN MACRAY, M.A. + CHAPLAIN OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE AND ST. MARY WINTON COLLEGES; + EDITOR OF "CHRONICON ABBATIĘ EVESHAMENSIS," &c. + + RIVINGTONS + London, Oxford, and Cambridge + 1868 + + + + +PREFACE. + + +This volume is an attempt to tell a tale which has not been told with +any particularity and fulness since the days of Anthony ą 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 _Memoirs of Libraries_. 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 _attempt_ 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 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. + +'_Bowers of Paradise!_' 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 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 _prę melle ori_. + + BODLEIAN LIBRARY, + _May_ 30, 1868. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + + PAGE. + + ANNALS 1 + + APPENDIX A. ACCOUNT OF A 'TARTAR LAMBSKIN' CLOAK 307 + + " B. VELLUM-PRINTED BOOKS, ADDED SINCE 1830 310 + + " C. LIST OF MSS. FROM MONASTIC AND OTHER + LIBRARIES 313 + + " D. MSS. AND MISCELLANEOUS CURIOSITIES + EXHIBITED IN THE LIBRARY AND PICTURE + GALLERY 319 + + " E. NUMISMATIC COLLECTION 339 + + " F. PAST AND PRESENT OFFICERS OF THE LIBRARY 341 + + " G. RULES OF THE LIBRARY 344 + + * * * * * + + LITHOGRAPH OF SHAKESPEARE-AUTOGRAPH, _to face page_ 301 + + + + + ANNALS OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY. + + +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 University seal, 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[1]. 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 _in situ_; but _this_ 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[2]. 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 'tractatus vere pulcherrimus,' the +_Philobiblion_. 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[3]. It was to be free for +purposes of study to all scholars, who might have the loan of any work +of which there 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[4]. 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. + +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_s._ 4_d._, 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. + +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 failed they betook themselves to all likely +quarters to procure help. And Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, the patron of +all learning[5], 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 (_sic_) 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 made for +the observance of the Duke's obit[6]. 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 _Documents Illustrative of Social and +Academic Life at Oxford_, 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[7]. And this new building, first contemplated in A.D. 1444 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 sęculari.' + +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[8]. +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[9]); 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; 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' _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, (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 Politeię Platonicę;' 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[10], +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, _ubi supra_; +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 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 _Phędo_, _Timęus_, &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. + +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[11]. + +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[12], while tradition reported that Polydore Virgil, +the 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[13]. 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[14] 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[15]. 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 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 _in situ_, is not a whit exaggerated. One solitary entry +there is, however, in the University Register (I. fol. 157^a), 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, pręses +Corporis Christi, et Magister Wright, ad vendenda subsellia librorum in +publica Academię 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 +_venerabiles viri_ made a timber-yard of Duke Humphrey's treasure-house. + + * * * * * + +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 +Library 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[16]. And when, after years thus spent in academic +pursuits, THOMAS BODLEY 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 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[17].' 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[18]. 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 the +University, being the open Bible, with seven seals[19], between three +ducal crowns, on the open pages of which are the words (so truly fitting +for a Christian School) 'DOMINUS Illuminatio mea[20];' 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, +'quarum merito gloriam ab Academia derivavit.' (Wake, _Rex Platon_. p. +12.) The striking motto 'Quarta perennis erit' was assigned to Bodley at +the same time with this academic augmentation[21]. 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 the roof, and +an engraving hangs in the Gallery which represents the room before its +change for the worse. + +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: '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, memorię, virtutisque causa, dedit, dedicavit.' 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[22]. Wake (_Rex +Platonicus_, p. 120) speaks of the Register, 'aureis umbilicis +fibulisque fulgidum,' as always lying 'eminentissimo loco,' 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 _Wood's History_, 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 'e principibus principes.' 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. + +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[23], and William Gent, who gave a large collection of books, +chiefly medical. + +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. + +The famous copy of the French _Romance of Alexander_ (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 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 _Bibl. Decam._ 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 _Hist. of Engl. Poetry_, 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:-- + + 'Che define li romans du boin roi Alixandre, + Et les veus du pavon, les accomplissemens, + Le Restor du pavon et le pris, qui fu perescript + Le xviii^e ior de Decembre, lan M.ccc.xxxviii. + Explicit iste liber, scriptor sit crimine liber, + Xpristus scriptorem custodiat ac det honorem. + + (_In gold letters._) 'Che liure fu perfais de le enluminure au + xviii^e jour dauryl. Per Jehan de grise, Lan de grace, M.ccc.xliij.' + +This is followed by a continuation (of later date) of the romance, in +Northern-English verse, on seven leaves[24]; and lastly, by a French +Romance of the 'grant kaan ą 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:-- + + 'Laus tibi sit Christe, quoniam liber explicit iste. + Nomen scriptoris est Thomas Plenus Amoris[25].' + +The earliest owner's name occurring in the volume is that of 'Richart +de Widevelle, seigneur de Rivičres,' recorded in an inscription on the +cover at the end, which proceeds to say that 'le dist Seigneur acetast +le dist liure lan de grace mille cccclxvi. le premier jour de lan a +Londres.' 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, _ubi supra_), and 'Thomas Smythe[26].' + +[1] 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, _Reliquię +Hearnianę_, ii. 693.) + +[2] 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. + +[3] The Bishop's Bibliomania is thus noticed by a contemporary, W. de +Chambre, in his _Continuatio Hist. Dunelm._ (_Hist. Dunelm. Scriptt. +tres_; Surtees Society, 1839, p. 130):--'Iste summe delectabatur in +multitudine librorum. Plures enim libros habuit, sicut passim dicebatur, +quam omnes Pontifices Anglię. Et pręter 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.' +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. + +[4] _Philobiblion_, cap. xix. + +[5] His love of literature was evinced by the motto which, according to +Leland, was frequently written by him in his books: 'Moun bien mondain.' +(Hearne's _MS. Diary_, 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. +(_Preface to Langtoft_, p. xx.) Was this 'sort of respect' a reverential +kiss, such as that with which (as Warton in his _Companion to the Guide_ +tells us) he saluted the pavement of sheeps' trotters, supposed by him +to be a Roman tesselated floor? + +[6] Register of Convoc. F., ff. 53^b, 54^b. The subsequent gifts are +entered in the same Register as follows:-- + + 1. Last day of Feb., 1440. A letter to thank the Duke for 126 + volumes brought by John Kyrkeby. (f. 57^b.) + + 2. Nov. 10, 1441. Letter acknowledging ten books (Treatises of + Augustine, Rabanus, &c.,) received through Will. Say, proctor, and + John Kyrkeby. (ff. 59^b-60.) + + 3. Jan. 25, 1443. Letter of thanks for 139 volumes. (f. 63.) + + 4. Oct. 1443. Letter for another gift, number of volumes not + specified. (f. 66.) + + 5. Feb. 25, 1443 (-4?). Catalogue of 135 volumes. (ff. 67-68^b.) + + 6. Feb. 1446. Letter of thanks for another gift, not specified. (f. + 75^b.) + +[7] 'Nemo illos [libros] sine admiratione conspicit, cunctis una voce +testantibus, se nunquam libros tanta claritate conspicuos, tanta +gravitate refertos vidisse.... Et uc per hoc, si quid maximo addi +possit, tantę munificentię 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 inhęreat, aliis studere +volentibus ad tres vel quatuor pro vicinitate colligationis pręcludit +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 cętera suę virtutis testimonia insigni mensura ab humo +erexit, quam nos cito, quoad exigua suppetebat facultas, promovimus. Hic +locus, propterea quod a strepitu sęculari removetur, Bibliotecę admodum +videtur conveniens, cujus fundationis titulum, si Magnanimitati vestrę +acceptabilis fuerit, cum omni devotione offerrimus.' Register F. ff. +71^b, 72. We find from an entry on the latter page that on January 13, +1444 (-5), 'liber Platonis in Phedro' (_sic_) was lent by Convocation to +the Duke. + +[8] 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^b-9.) + +[9] It contains inscriptions recording its gift by Whethamstede 'ad usum +scolarium studencium Oxonię,' with anathemas upon those who should +alienate it, or destroy, were it but its title: 'Si quis rapiat, raptim +titulumve retractet, vel Judę laqueum vel furcas sensiat.' + +[10] 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.) + +[11] Wood MS. F. 27. (Bodl. Libr.) + +[12] 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: 'Decretum est authoritate Convocationis Magnę ut cistę 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, Doctor Standishe, Mr. Parret, +procurator, Mr. Slythers, Mr. Symonds, et Mr. Wattsone.' Reg. I. 107^b. + +[13] Wood MS. F. 27. + +[14] Ibid. + +[15] Ibid. fol. 94^a. + +[16] 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, 'Linguas vero +exoticas, veluti Italicam, Gallicam, Hispanicam, Hebręam pręcipue, +cęterarum omnium parentem, tam perfecte callet, ut illo neminem fere +scientiorem invenies.' 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, _De Quęsitis_ (1595, p. 40), Drusius +says, 'Vere dicam, Bodlęe, et intelligis optime litteras Hebręas, et +amas unice earum peritos.' The same volume contains also one letter to +his brothers, Laurence, Miles, and Josias, on the _Pastor_ of Hermas. + +[17] _Reliquię Bodleianę_, p. 14. + +[18] 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^a. f. 31^a. + +[19] 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. + +[20] The motto appears to have varied. It is sometimes given in titles +of books printed at Oxford about the time of James I, as 'Sapientię et +Felicitatis;' and in an heraldic MS. of the seventeenth century as 'XX. +Exod. Decem ... Omnipotens mandata. Verbum Dei manet in eternum. Amen.' +(Rawl. B. xl. f. 81.) Others [have] this, 'Veritas liberabit, Bonitas +regnabit;' and others this, 'In principio erat Verbum,' &c. (Hearne, in +Rawl. MS. C. 876, f. 51.) + +[21] Wake notices it as a singular coincidence that the Library was +first opened on the day of the 'Quatuor coronati Martyres,' Nov. 8, +whom, by mistake, he calls 'Tres.' + +[22] See _Reliquię Bodleianę_, p. 158. + +[23] 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 _Sicbardi Antidotum contra diversas omnium fere +sęculorum bęreses_, fol. Bas. 1528. + +[24] Printed by Rev. J. Stevenson at the end of the _Romance of +Alexander_, edited by him for the Roxburghe Club in 1849, from Ashmole +MS. 44. + +[25] _Plenus-Amoris_, or _Fullalove_, 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:-- + + 'Nomen scriptoris, + Dei gracia, Plenus Amoris: + Careat meroris + Deus det sibi omnibus horis.' + +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:-- + + 'Nomen scriptoris est Jhon Wilde plenus amoris.'--(_Rawlinson B._ 214.) + + 'Nomen scriptoris Jon. semper plenus amoris, + Esteby cognomen, cui semper det Deus homen' (_sic_).--(_Bodl._ 643.) + +[26] Probably this book is the 'large liure en fraunceis tresbien +esluminez de le Rymance de Alexandre,' once in the library of Tho. of +Woodstock, Duke of Glouc. See Mr. Coxe's pref. to Gower's _Vox Clam._ +(Roxb. Club, 1850,) p. 50. + + +A.D. 1601. + +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, 'Evangelia quatuor Saxonica, lingua et charactere vetustiss.,' +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. _editio princeps?_) of +the Gospels in the Russian language (now placed among the Bodley MSS. +213) appears among some books given by Sir Henry Savile[27], 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 +Gloucester Hall, the astrologer, gave twenty MSS[28]; 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' _Thesaurus_, p. 144) by St. +Dunstan of himself as prostrate at the feet of the throned Christ[29], 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 _Archęol. Brit._ p. 226); the first book of Ovid _De Arte +amandi_, with similar glosses[30]; 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[31]. Capt. Josias Bodley[32] 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 +_Reliquię Bodleianę_, 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_s._ 4_d._ 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[33]. 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 and unmeaning compromise, it was +ordered that he, as well as the Under-Librarians, should be unmarried +_at the time of election_. 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[34] 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.' + +[27] Savile's benefactions were continued in the years 1609 and 1614, +and in 1620 he sent a large number of Greek and Latin MSS. + +[28] 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 _Life of Sir T. Pope_, 1772, pp. 392-3. The +volume contains MS. notes by both Grosteste and Gascoigne. + +[29] Another relic of Dunstan is preserved among the Hatton MSS. No. 30 +of that collection. 'Expositio Augustini in Apocalypsin,' written in +Anglo-Saxon characters, has the following inscription in large letters +on the last leaf: 'Dunstan abbas hunc libellum scribere jussit.' + +[30] These glosses, together with an 'Alphabetum Nemnivi' in Runic +characters, (of which a facsimile is given in Hickes' _Thesaurus_, p. +168), and some Welsh and Latin notes on weights and measures, are +printed, with copious notes, by Zeuss in his _Grammatica Celtica_, 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 +_Notice des principaux MSS. des anciens Bretons_, 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 _Ancient Welsh Grammar of Edeyrn_, edited +for the Welsh MSS. Soc. in 1856 by Rev. John Williams, ab Ithel. + +[31] This reading was pointed out to the author by Rev. A. W. Haddan, +B.D. + +[32] 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. + +[33] _Reliquię Bodl._ p. 162. See also p. 183. + +[34] _Diary_, vol. lviii. p. 157. + + +A.D. 1602. + +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[35].' '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[36]. 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 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 'Registrum Benefactorum' simply as +'Missale antiquissimum.' 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 _Pastorale_.) 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): 'Hunc librum dat +Leofricus episcopus ecclesię Sancti Petri Apostoli in Exonia ad sedem +suam episcopalem, pro remedio animę suę, ad utilitatem successorum +suorum. Siquis autem illum inde abstulerit, perpetuę maledictioni +subjaceat. Fiat. [OE: Šas boc gef leofric [-b]. into Sc[=e] petres +minstre on exancestre žęr his biscopstol is. his ęfterfiligend[=u] to +nittweoršnisse. [&] gif hig hwa ut ętbrede hębbe he ece genišerunge mid +eall[=u] deoflum.] [=A][=m].' 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 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). + +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, 'in qua,' as the University +Register records, 'tribus ferme versibus amplexus est omnia.' + +[35] _Reliquię Bodl._ p. 92. + +[36] See _ibid._ pp. 137 and 219. + + +A.D. 1603. + +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 _Naval +Tracts_, 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' _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, +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[37]; of which the other now exists among Archbp. Parker's +MSS. in Corp. Chr. Coll. Cambr., No. 286. They are 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 'primitię +librorum totius ecclesię Anglicanę.' On the last fly-leaf of the Bodley +MS. is the following list of English Priests' libraries. [OE: 'Žas bocas +haueš Salomon p[=rs]t. [-ž]is žecodspel t{r}aht. [&] žemarty{r}luia +[&] že (_erased_) [&] že ęglisce salte{r}e [&] že c{r}ranc [&] še +tropere [&] wulf mer cild žeatteleuaui ('Ad Te levavi.') [&] pistelari +[&] že] (_erased_) [&] še imnere. [&] še capitelari. (_word erased_) +[&] že spel boc. [&] Siga{r} p[=rs]t. želece boc [&] Blakehad boc. +[&] Ęilmer še grete Sater. [&] še litle t{r}opere fo{r}beande. [&] še +Donatum. XV bocas Ealfric Ęilwine. Godric. [&] Bealdewuine a[-bb] [&] +Freoden [&] hu-- (_torn_) [&] šuregise.'] 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. + +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. + +[37] Wanley, p. 172. Elmham's _Hist. Mon. S. Aug._ 1858, pp. 97, 8. + + +A.D. 1604. + +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 +_per annum_[38]. + +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). + +[38] Wood MS. F. 27. + + +A.D. 1605. + +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[39]. 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, 'more suo, summo cum judicio disceptavit.' Then, taking up +Gaguinus' treatise _De Puritate Conceptionis Virg. Mar._, 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[40] that this (somewhat hasty) grant was actually passed under +the Privy Seal about the beginning of November in the same year, and +that 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[41], 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[42]. + +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[43]. It includes both printed 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[44]. A +continuation of this classified index, embracing writers on Arts and +Sciences, Geography and History, is to be found in Rawlinson MS. +_Miscell._ 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: '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.' 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.' + +[39] This would-be witticism is made the subject of a quatrain in the +_Justa Funebria Bodlei_, p. 108. + +[40] _Reliquię Bodl._ pp. 205, 339. + +[41] 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^o. 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 Ęsop, +with the _Batrachomyomachia_, &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:-- + + 'Hec rosa virtutis de celo missa sereno, + Eternum florens regia sceptra feret.' + +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. + +[42] The account of the king's visit is given in Sir J. Wake's _Rex +Platonicus_, pp. 116-123. + +[43] At the suggestion of Bodley, who thought that more reward was to be +gained from the prince than from the king. (_Reliquię Bodl._ 206.) + +[44] _Reliquię Bodl._ pp. 195, 256. + + +A.D. 1606. + +Chinese literature began to make its appearance even at this early date. +Among the books bought with £20 given by Lady Kath. Sandys were, 'Octo +volumina lingua Chinensi,' while two others, '_Excusa_ in regno et +lingua Chinensi,' were bought, together with the donor's own 'Historie +of Great Britaine,' with a gift of £5 from John Clapham. + + +A.D. 1610. + +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[45]. 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[46]), 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 ą +Becket. 2. The marriage (as supposed) of Henry VI with Margaret of +Anjou, representing, says Dr. Rock[47], that portion 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 _Anecdotes of Painting_, 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[48]. + +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, (_q. v._) + +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 +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[49]. 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[50].' +Ayliffe say[51] 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[52]. In 1642, Verneuil, the Sub-Libraria[53], complained in the +Preface to his _Nomenclator, &c_, 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 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[54]. 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.' + +[45] 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 _Register of Worcester_ (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. +(_Calendar of State Papers_, Dom. Series, 1611-18, p. 28.) + +[46] See also under 1818. + +[47] _Church of our Fathers_, i. 421. + +[48] 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. + +[49] Rushworth, iii. 315. + +[50] _Reliquię Bodl._ p. 350. + +[51] _Univ. of Oxford_, i. 460. + +[52] _Calendar of State Papers_, 1635-6, p. 65. + +[53] See _sub anno_ 1647. + +[54] See _sub anno_ 1612. + + +A.D. 1611. + +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 10s.; 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_s._ 3 per cent. Consols. + +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^o R. 34 Th., and a note in +Bodley's own handwriting records its presentation. + +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[55]. + +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[56], '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_s._ 4_d._ 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. + +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 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 'Sapientię et Fęlicitatis') and of Bodley. + +[55] Hearne's _Job. Glaston._ ii. 637. + +[56] _Reliquię Bodl._ p. 314. + + +A.D. 1612. + +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. + +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[57]. + + '_Vicesimo octavo Januarii 1611 nono regni regis Jacobi, at + Stacõners Hall, in Ave Mary Lane in London. Present, the Masters, + Wardens, and Assistants of the Company of Stacõners._ + + '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 yeare of his + Maj.^ts 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 + 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 + + 'John Haryson + 'John Norton, Mr. + 'Richard Field } Wardens + 'Humphrey Lownes } + 'Edward White + 'Humfry Hooper + 'Simon Waterson + 'William Leake + 'Robert Barker + 'Thomas Mane + 'Thomas Dawson + 'John Standishe + 'Thomas Adames + 'John Haryson[58] + 'Ri. Collins, Clerk of the Companie. + + '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. + + 'G. Cant. + 'Jo. London + 'Jo. Benet + 'Tho. Ridley + 'Tho. Edwardes + 'G. Newmane + 'John Spenser + 'Richard Moket + 'R. Cov. & Lich. + 'Jhon Boys + 'Char. Fotherbye + 'Martin Fotherby + 'John Layfeilds + 'Jo. Roffens + 'George Montaigne (_sic_) + 'Rob^t. Abbott + 'Henr. Hickman + 'John Dix + 'Willm. FFerrand.' + +[57] For the use of this document the author is indebted to the Keeper +of the Archives, Rev. J. Griffiths, M.A. + +[58] Probably the son of the John Haryson who signs above. + + +A.D. 1613. + +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[59]. Two volumes of elegiac verses were thereupon +issued by the University, of which one (_Bodleiomnema_) was written +entirely by members of Merton College; the other (_Justa Funebria +Ptolemęi Oxoniensis_) 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[60]. The entry of this +debt is carried on, together with the loan made to King Charles I in +1642, in the Library accounts[61], from year to year 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 +_Ancient and Present State of Oxford_ (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. + +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[62]. 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[63].' 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:-- + + 'To the Worshipful Mr. Vice-Chancellor and to all heads and + governors of Colleges and Halls within the famous University of + Oxon. + + '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, + + 'Humbly sheweth, + + '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. + + 'William Snoshill + 'Jane Hatton. + + 'We, whose names are subscribed to this Petition, are well satisfied + of the truth thereof. + + 'Thomas Paris, rector of Childrey + 'John Holmes + 'John Bell, vic. of Sparsholt + 'John Aldworth, rector of East Lockinge + 'Ralph Kedden, M.A., vicar of Denchworth, Berks. + + '(_Mem._) 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.' + +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 on Nov. 13, that 6_s._ +8_d._ 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. + +[59] _Calendar of State Papers_, 1611-18, p. 137. + +[60] A full account of Bennet's defalcations is given by B. Twyne, from +the University Registers, in vol. vi. (pp. 120-4) of his _Collectanea_, +now in the Univ. Archives. See also _Parliam. Hist._ vol. v. p. 462. + +[61] These accounts, as now preserved, unfortunately only commence at +the year 1653, and there is a hiatus from 1661 to 1676, both inclusive. + +[62] _Calendar of State Papers_, 1611-18, p. 169. + +[63] _Ibid._ p. 187. + + +A.D. 1614. + +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 'toga ex lana agni Tartarici [Grk: zōophyton], +magni quidam valoris, ei data (ut in publica Bibliotheca conservetur) ab +Richardo Lee, milite, qui eandem dono recepit ab augustissimo Imperatore +Muscovię[64].' But the precious cloak had never yet arrived; the +Curators therefore resolve 'quod literę scribantur ad exequutores domini +Fundatoris pro illo pretioso pallio ex zoophyto confecto, et legato ad +nos per Ric. Leigh, militem, olim legatum apud Imperatorem Russię, 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 pręsentia eorundem.' At this +Visitation Joseph 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. + +On Aug. 29 the King visited the Library on his way to Woodstock, and, +asking for Fulke's _Annotations on the Rhemish New Test._, pointed out +the remarks at Rom. x. 15, on the calling of ministers; 'deprehendit +calumnias et imposturas quorundam pontificiorum de ordine et vocatione +ministrorum[65].' In 1620 the editions of 1601 and 1617 of these +_Annotations_ 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[66]. + +[64] '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. _Reliqq. Bodl._ 173. An account of this marvellous garment +will be found in the Appendix. + +[65] Wood's _Hist._ vol. ii. p. 319. + +[66] The extraordinary _fancy_ 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. (_Shakespeare_, 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_s._; 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. + + +A.D. 1615. + +Richard Connock, auditor and solicitor to Prince Henry of Wales, gave a +MS. book of _Horę_[67], 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 _camaieu gris_. 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:-- + + '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 any vicious thyng, the + pleasure goeth away and the vice remaynethe. Good Madame, for my + sake remembre thys. + + 'Your lovyng mystres, + 'Marye Princesse.' + +This inscription (which does so much credit to its writer) was first +printed by Hearne at the end of _Titi Livii Forojulien. Vita Hen. V._ +(p. 228) and last, in Bliss' _Reliquię Hearn._ i. 105. Mr. Coxe has +noted (from _Alstedii Systema Mnemonicum_, 1610, i. 705) that the latter +part is taken directly and literally from Musonius, while indirectly it +comes from an oration by Cato[68]. Probably the first part may be traced +to some similar source. + +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^a are +these lines, which appear to form a triplet, although not written in +metrical form by the Princess:-- + + 'Good Madame, I do desyer you most hartly to pray, + That in prosperyte and adversyte I may + Have grace to keep the trewe way. + + 'Your lovyng frend, + to my ... [power?]' + +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^b.):-- + + 'Madam, althowe I have differred writtyng in your booke, + I am no lesse your frend than you do looke. + + 'Kateryn the Quene KP.' + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[67] The gift is omitted in the Benefaction-Register, apparently because +it was a rule not to record donations of single volumes [_Reliquię +Bodl._ pp. 91, 283]; consequently several books of the greatest value +are omitted. + +[68] George Herbert expresses the same idea at the end of his _Church +Porch_:-- + + 'If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; + If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.' + + +A.D. 1620. + +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. + +On the 9th of the same month of May, John Rouse, M.A., Fellow of Oriel, +was elected James' successor. No account of 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 (_q.v._)[69] +He is best known as the friend of Milton, who, on Rouse's application to +him for a copy of his _Poems both English and Latin_, 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: 'Ad Joannem Rousium, +Oxoniensis Academię Bibliothecarium, de libro poematum amisso quem ille +sibi denuo mitti postulabat, ut cum aliis nostris in Bibliotheca publica +reponeret, Ode Joannis Miltonj[70].' The volume is now numbered 8^o. 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 _Ramblings in the Elucidation of +the Autograph of Milton_, 4^o. Lond. 1861; and at p. 120 there is a +facsimile in full of Milton's inscription in another volume (4^o. 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 of the volume, is addressed as +follows: 'Doctissimo viro proboque librorum ęstimatori Joanni Rousio, +Oxoniensis academię Bibliothecario, gratum hoc sibi fore testanti, +Joannes Miltonius opuscula hęc sua in Bibliothecam antiquissimam atque +celeberrimam adsciscenda libens tradit, tanquam in memorię perpetuę +Fanum, emeritamque, uti sperat, invidię calumnięque vacationem; si +Veritati, Bonoque simul Eventui satis litatum sit.' Warton tells the +almost incredible story, in his edition of Milton's _Poems_, 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[71], 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. + +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 holidays[72]. 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[73]. + +On June 4, King James presented the folio edition of his _Works_ 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:-- + +'Jacobus Dei gratia Magnę Britannię, Francię et Hibernię Rex, fidei +defensor, &c. Postquam decrevisset publici juris facere quę sibi erat +commentatus, ne videretur vel palam pudere literarum quas privatim +amaverat, vel eorum seu opinioni seu invidię cedere qui Regis Majestatem +literis dictitabant imminui, vel Christiani Orbis et in eo Principum +judicia expavescere, quorum maxime intererat vera esse omnia quę +scripsit; circumspicere etiam c[oe]pit certum aliquod libro suo +domicilium, locum, si fieri possit, semotum a fato, ęternitati et paci +sacrum. Ecce commodum sua se obtulit Academia, illa pęne orbi notior +quam Cantabrigię, ubi exulibus Musis jam olim melius est quam in patria, +ubi a codicibus famę nuncupatis tineę absterrentur legentium manibus, +sycophantę scribentium ingeniis. In hoc immortali literarum sacrario, +inter monumenta clarorum virorum, quos quantum dilexit studiorum +participatione satis indicavit, in bibliotheca publica, lucubrationes +has suas Deo Opt. Max., Cui ab initio devotę erant, ęternum consecrat, +in venerando Almę Matris sinu, unde contra seculorum rubiginem fidam +illi custodiam promittit, et contra veritatis hostes stabile +patrocinium.' + +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 _Annals_, 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 _in archivis_ ... with a great deale of +respect[74].' 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[75].' + +Another gift in this year, presented by Thomas Nevile, K.B., eldest son +of Sir H. Nevile, Knt., is thus described in the Register: +'Elegantissimum libellum diversa scripturę genera continentem, manu +Esteris Anglicę, characteribus exquisitis conscriptum.' 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, 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 _Memoirs of +British Ladies_. 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[76]. + +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: 'Clemens Edmonds, +eques auratus, consilio Regis ab epistolis, donavit egregium [Grk: +paradeigma] quinque columnarum, nunc primum inventum, secundum formam +rusticam, ex alabastrite singulari artificio confectum.' + +[69] One fact to his credit is indeed mentioned by Wood in the _Fasti_, +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 +(_MS. Diary_, 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. + +[70] Cowley followed Milton's example by inserting an Ode, in this case +in English, in a folio copy of his _Poems_ (numbered C. 2. 21. Art.), +which he gave June 26, 1656. It is printed exactly from the original in +_Reliquię Hearn._ ii. 921-3. + +[71] See _sub anno_ 1745. + +[72] 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. + +[73] An Appendix to James' Catalogue was printed in 1635, _q. v._ + +[74] Nichols' _Progresses of James I_, vol. iii. p. 1105. Rouse's speech +(with the letter) is printed in Hearne's _Titus Liv. Forojul._ p. 198. + +[75] Letter from J. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton, June 28, 1620: +_Calendar of State Papers, 1619-23_, p. 157. + +[76] 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. + + +A.D. 1621. + +A gift of £5 is noticeable as coming from the Girdlers' Company, +'Societas Zonariorum.' Sir Francis Bacon occurs as a donor of books. + + +A.D. 1623. + +Delegates were appointed by Convocation to consider 'de modulo +frontispicii Bibliothecę publicę in parte occidentali versus collegium +Exon[77].' + +[77] Reg. Conv. N. ff. 167, 169. + + +A.D. 1624. + +'Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and then Lord Chancellor of England, would +have borrowed Paulus Benius Eugubinus _De dirimend. Controvers. de Grat. +et Lib. Arb._, but was deny'd[78].' + +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 +1654. + +[78] Barlow's MS. Arg. against lending books out of the Library; see +_post, sub anno_ 1659. + + +A.D. 1627. + +Andrew James, of Newport, Isle of Wight, is recorded to have given 'duas +capsulas in quibus asservantur scripta vetustissima, exotici et ignoti +characteris, alia stylo, calamo alia, in corticibus exarata, ex +orientalis Indię partibus allata[79].' An East India merchant, John +Jourdain, gave four Arabic MSS., and Bacon's _Works_ 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. + +[79] 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 'ignotis characteris' given two years previously by Andr. +James. + + +A.D. 1628. + +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 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, _De Synedriis Hebręorum_. 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[80]. 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[81]. + +The copy of Bacon's _Essays_ (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[82]:-- + +1. A part of L. Tomson's version of the New Test., printed by Barker, in +16^o (in 1578?), now marked MS. _e Musęo_, 242. This belonged to Queen +Elizabeth, and is bound in a covering worked by herself, with various +mottos, _e.g._ 'Celum patria,' 'Scopus vitę Xp[~u]s,' &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[83].' + +2. Another of Elizabeth's bibliopegic achievements is the cover of her +own translation from the French of _The Miroir or Glasse of the +synnefull Soule_, 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. + +3. _Dialogue de la Vie et de la Mort_, trans. from the Italian by J. +Louveau, and printed in imitation of MS., second edit., 12^o. 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. + +4. A Testament in 16^o, 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. + +5. Bible, 8^o Lond. 1639. Landscape, &c., worked in silk, with embroidery +in gold and silver thread. Arch Bodl. D subt. 75. + +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[84]. + +7. New Testament, printed at Cambridge in 1628, in 16^mo. This was the +first edition printed there of any portion of the Authorized Version, +and only the second of any English translation[85]. The binding of the +Library copy (which was bought, in 1859, for five guineas) is covered +with silver filigree work. + +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.' + +[80] 'Reg. Conv. R. 1628. f. 6.' MS. note by Dr. P. Bliss. + +[81] See _sub anno_ 1635. + +[82] 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. + +[83] This note is printed and the book described in Hearne's Appendix to +_Titi Livii Forojul. Vit. Hen. V_, and, from thence, in Ballard's +_Lives_; but not very correctly in either case. Also in Bliss' _Reliqq. +Hearn._ i. 104. + +[84] In the life of Rich. Ferrar, junior, in Wordsworth's _Eccl. Biogr._ +(third edit. vol. iv. p. 232) a note is quoted from a MS. stating that a +copy of Ferrar's _Whole Law of God_, 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. + +[85] The first was the Genevan Version, printed in 1591. + + +A.D. 1629. + +The extremely valuable series of Greek MSS., called from its collector +the Barocci Collection, comprising 242 volumes, was 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[86].' 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[87]. 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[88]. It was forwarded to the University with +the following letter, which is here copied from the Convocation +Register, R. 24 (f. 9^b.):-- + + 'Good Mr. Vice-Chancelor, + + '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, + + 'Your most assured freind, + 'PEMBROKE. + 'Greenewich, the 25th of May, 1629.' + +The Earl was willing that the MSS. should, if necessary, be 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[89]. 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[90]. 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. + +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, '_Excellentissime +Vice-Deus_.' 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. + +[86] In the following year Mr. Henry Featherstone, bookseller in London, +gave to the Library a number of Hebrew books. + +[87] Parr's _Life of Usher_, Letters, p. 400. + +[88] _Ibid._ Quoted in Sir H. Ellis' _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, +Camden Soc., 1843. p. 130. + +[89] See _sub anno_ 1654. + +[90] 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.' _Reliquię Hearn._ i. 263. + + +A.D. 1631. + +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. + + +A.D. 1632. + +William Burton, the historian of Leicestershire, gave the original MSS. +of Leland's _Itinerary_ (together with a transcript of some parts) and +of his _Collectanea_; the former filling seven volumes in quarto[91], +and the latter (including the book _De Scriptoribus Britannicis_) four +in folio. The _Collectanea_, 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 _Itinerary_ was first +published by Hearne in 1710, in 9 vols.; the _Collectanea_ in 1715, in 6 +vols.; the _De Scriptoribus_, by Ant. Hall, in 1709. The MS. of the +_Itinerary_ 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 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 _Itinerary_, 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 _Collectanea_ and the book _De +Scriptt. Anglię_, 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. + +[91] An eighth volume of the _Itinerary_ 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. + + +A.D. 1633. + +A singular motto stamped upon the binding of two books, and it may be of +more, within a border of cornucopię, &c., attracts the attention of the +reader. The books are, vols. i. ii. of Du Chesne's _Historię Francorum +Scriptores_, 1636 (A. 2. 9. 10. Jur.), and Halloix's _Ecclesię +Orientalis Scriptores_, 1633 (G. 2. 3. Th.); the motto is, 'Coronasti +annum bonitatis Tuę, Ps. 65. Annuo reditu quinque librarum Margaretę +Brooke.' An explanation is found in an entry in the Benefaction-Register +under the year 1632 or 1633, where we read as follows: '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 +bibliothecę in perpetuum.' Probably the books thus stamped were the +first that were bought after the final settlement of the 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. + +A (second) gift from Sir Henry Wotton consisted of the copy of Tycho +Brahe's _Astronomię instaurandę mechanica_, 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 _Acta Concilii +Constantiensis_, which had formerly belonged to Card. Bembi, now +numbered _e Musęo_, 25. + + +A.D. 1634. + +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. [_See_ p. 19.] Two +additional MSS., which formerly belonged to Digby, and which each +contain his inscription, 'Hic est liber publicę Bibliothecę academię +Oxoniensis, K.D.,' were purchased in 1825. One of these, _R. Baconis +opuscula_, was bought for £51; the other, a Latin translation, by W. de +Morbeck, of Proclus' Commentary on Plato, for £31 10_s._ They are +uniformly bound with the rest of the series, and are numbered 235 and +236 respectively. + +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[92], 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[93].' 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[94].' 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. + +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. + +[92] See under 1654-9. + +[93] Reg. Conv. R. 24, 102. From MS. note by Dr. Bliss. + +[94] [Walker's] _Letters by Eminent Persons, from the Bodl. and Ashm._, +1813, vol. i. pp. 2, 3. + + +A.D. 1635. + +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' +_Catalogus interpretum S. Script, in Bibl. Bodl._, with an Appendix of +authors who had written on the _Sentences_ and the _Summa_, 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_s._ +8_d._, that of the Catalogue of Interpreters 6_d._, of the Appendix +2_s._, and of the whole series complete 5_s._ + + +A.D. 1635-1640. + +The Register for these years presents a connected series of benefactions +on the part of Archbishop Laud. + +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., 'e Collegio Herbipolensi [Würtzburg] in +Germania sumpti A.D. 1631, cum Suecorum Regis exercitus per universam +fere Germaniam grassarentur.' Laud directs, in his letter of gift, that +none of the books shall on any account be taken out of the Library, +'nisi solum ut typis mandentur, et sic publici et juris et utilitatis +fiant,' 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[95]. 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[96]. + +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[97]; two +idols, one Egyptian, the other from the West Indies; and the fine bust +of King Charles I, 'singulari artificio ex purissimo ęre conflatam,' +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 S[oe]ur, the +artist of the statue at Charing Cross, to be, (as well as the bust given +by Laud 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[98]. 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:-- + + 'Viris mihi amicissimis Doctori Potter, Vice-Cancellario, + reliquisque Doctoribus, Procuratoribus, necnon singulis in domo + Convocationis intra almam Universitatem Oxon. congregatis. + + '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 quę undique urgent + faciliora sunt. Quin et quo loco res Ecclesię 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 [oe]stro perciti + sunt quam difficile sit vivere, mihi plus satis innotescit, cui (Deo + gratias!) idem est vivere et officium facere. + + 'Sed mittenda hęc sunt, nec enim quo fata ducunt datur scire. Nec + mitiora redduntur tempora aut tutiora querimoniis. Interim velim + sciatis me omnia vobis fausta et felicia precari, quo tuti sitis + felicesque, dum hic inter sphęras superiores stellę cujuslibet + magnitudinis vix motum suum tenent, aut prę nubium crassitie debile + lumen emittunt. + + 'Dum sic fluctuant omnia, statui apud me in tuto (id est, apud vos + spero) MS. quędam, temporum priorum monumenta, deponere. Pauca sunt, + sed prioribus similia, si non ęqualia, et talia quę, non obstantibus + temporum difficultatibus, in usum vestrum parare non destiti. Sunt + vero inter hęc Hebraica sex, Gręca 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. Hęc per vos in Bibliothecam Bodleianam + (nomen veneror, nec superstitiose) reponenda, et cęteris 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 quę nunc omnia perflant sedatis, tuto possitis et + vobis et studiis et, prę omnibus, DEO frui. Quę vota semper erunt + + 'fidelissimi et amantissimi Cancellarii vestri, + 'W. CANT.[99] + 'Dat. ex ędibus meis + 'Lambethanis, 6^to Nov. 1640.' + +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 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 _Introduction_. + +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.[100] The Greek MSS. of the collection are fully described +in vol. i. of the _Catal. Codd. Bibl. Bodl._, 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. + +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, vicarius in ecclesia Herb[ipolensi] hunc librum +comparavit propriis expensis, et pro omnibus, scil. pergameno, +impressura, rubricatione, illinatura, et ligatione, xviii. flor.' 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 Missę.' In the latter place four subsequent possessors, from +1565 to 1580, have written their names, the last of them adding, 'Omnis +arbor qui non facit fructum bonum excidetur et in ignem mittetur.' The +Library reference is now Auct. i. Q. i. 7. + +[95] Reg. Conv. R. 24. f. 109^b. MS. note by Dr. P. Bliss. + +[96] Entry at the end of the Register of Readers, 1638-9. + +[97] This was given to Laud by Selden, 'vir omni eruditionis genere +instructissimus,' as Laud styles him in his letter of gift on June 16. +Reg. Conv. R. 24. f. 128. + +[98] Reg. Conv. R. 24. 156^b. 169^b. The agreements with one Thomas +Richardson for the work are found there. + +[99] Reg. Conv. R. 24^b, 182^b. + +[100] 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 +_Report to the Master of the Rolls on the Carte and Carew Papers_, 8^o, +Lond. 1864. + + +A.D. 1637. + +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, _Delitię +Delitiarum, sive Epigrammatum ex optimis quibusque hujus et novissimi +seculi Poetis in amplissima illa Bibliotheca Bodleiana, et pene omnino +alibi extantibus, [Grk: anthologia]_. + + +A.D. 1640. + +On Jan. 25, 1639-40, died Robert Burton, of Ch. Ch., 'Democritus +junior,' and bequeathed out of his large library whatever 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: +'Porro [d. d.] com[oe]diarum, tragediarum, et schediasmatum ludicrorum +(pręsertim idiomate vernaculo) aliquot centurias, quas propter +multitudinem non adjecimus.' 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[101].' 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 _Anatomy of +Melancholy_ 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^o Art. (particularly under letter L), Theol., and Art. BS. +Amongst his smaller books is one of the only two known copies of the +edition of _Venus and Adonis_ in 1602. He is specially mentioned also in +the preface to Verneuil's _Nomenclator_, 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 '_Memorandum_:--that the £40 +above mentioned amongst the _Recepta_ 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, 'Recept. a +Dno. Spicer (_sic_) et Hopkins, ex syngrapha;' but the former was still +unpaid in 1660. + +[101] _Reliquię Bodl._ p. 278. + + +A.D. 1641. + +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 the oaths to the recusants of that city[102]. The following +inscription is attached to it, engraved upon a brass plate: 'L[=a]terna +illa ipsa, qua usus est et cum qua deprehensus Guido Faux in crypta +subterranea, ubi domo Parlamenti difflandę operam dabat. Ex dono Rob. +Heywood, nuper Academię Procuratoris, 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. + +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 examine it when +returned; they fortify their arguments by abundant references to the +civil law; they upbraid those who,--'internecino exterorum atque +advenarum odio ęstuantes (O celebratam Britannię +hospitalitatem!),'--have originated the calumny; and, finally, warn the +Curators against giving occasion for suspicion to the learned men of the +whole world that 'doctos Anglię viros, priscę hospitalitatis immemores, +majori exterorum quam Athenienses Megarensium odio flagrare.' The +memorial is endorsed: 'De hac re amplius deliberandum censebant Pręfecti +ult. Maii, 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 _transcribe_ +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[103].' But no doubt this order also soon became dormant, even +if it were not definitely repealed. + +[102] Neal's _History of the Puritans_, i. 688. + +[103] Walker's _Letters of Eminent Men_, 1813, vol. i. p. 175. + + +A.D. 1642. + +'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. _MS._) This loan was, of course, never +repaid. It is regularly carried on in the Annual Accounts up to the year +1782. + +Nov. 30. 'At night the Library doore was allmost broken open. Suspitio +de incendio, &c.' (Brian Twyne's _Musterings of the Univ._, in Hearne's +_Chron. Dunst._ p. 757.) + +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 _Memoirs_, Lond. 1700. pp. 105-107:-- + +'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 _Sortes +Virgilianę_, 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 Ęneas, which Mr. +Dryden translates thus:-- + + "Yet let a race untam'd, and haughty foes, + His peaceful entrance with dire arts oppose, + Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field, + His men discourag'd, and himself expell'd, + Let him for succour sue from place to place, + Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. + First let him see his friends in battel slain, + And their untimely fate lament in vain: + And when at length the cruel war shall cease, + On hard conditions may he buy his peace. + Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, + But fall untimely by some hostile hand, + And lye unburi'd in the common sand." + + (Ęneid, iv. 88.) + +It is said K. Charles seem'd concerned at this accident, and that the +Lord Falkland observing it, would likewise try his own 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:-- + + "O Pallas, thou hast fail'd thy plighted word, + To fight with reason, not to tempt the sword. + I warned thee, but in vain, for well I knew + What perils youthful ardor would pursue; + That boiling blood would carry thee too far, + Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war. + Oh! curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, + Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come." + + (Ęneid, xi. 220.)' + +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. + + +A.D. 1645. + +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 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, _Histoire universelle du +Sieur D'Aubigné_, 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[104].' + +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. + +[104] Bp. Barlow's Argument against Lending Books. _MS._ + + +A.D. 1646. + +'When Oxford was surrendered (24^o Junii, 1646) the first thing Generall +Fairfax did was to set a good guard of soldiers to preserve 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[105].' + +[105] Aubrey's _Lives_; in _Letters by Eminent Persons_, ii. 346. + + +A.D. 1647. + +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 1635, the following small book of a similar kind in English was +issued by him: _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_. 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 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:-- + +'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.e._ 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.' + +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.' + +Verneuil was succeeded in his office in the Library by Francis Yonge, +M.A., of Oriel College. + +Milton's gift of his _Poems_. See under 1620. + + +A.D. 1648. + +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 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 +_Rustica Academię Oxoniensis nuper reformatę Descriptio_, which is +supposed to commemorate the condition of Oxford in Oct. 1648, writes +thus of our Library:-- + + 'Conscendo orbis illud decus + Bodleio fundatore: + Sed intus erat nullum pecus, + Excepto janitore. + + Neglectos vidi libros multos, + Quod mimime mirandum: + Nam inter bardos tot et stultos + There's few could understand 'em.' + + +A.D. 1649. + +'The Jews proffer £600,000 for Paul's, and Oxford Library, and may have +them for £200,000 more[106].' 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 _History of the Troubles_ (translated by Ogilvie, +1735, p. 473) that the sum they offered was £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. + +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. + +[106] London News-letter of April 2; printed in Carte's _Collection of +Letters_, vol. i. p. 275. + + +A.D. 1652. + +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[107]. + +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. + +[107] Reg. 'T. 158-9.' MS. Note by Dr. P. Bliss. + + +A.D. 1653. + +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. + + +A.D. 1654. + +'April last, 1654, my Lord Protector sent his letter to Mr. +Vice-Chancellor to borrow a MS. (Joh. de Muris) for the Portugal +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[108].' + +Cromwell's gift of MSS. See under 1629. + +[108] Barlow's Argument against Lending Books out. + + +A.D. 1654-1659. + +The death of John Selden occurred on Nov. 30[109]. 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[110]) 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 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[111]. But it is clear from Selden's will (as +printed by Wilkins in his _Works_, 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 '_said_ 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[112]. And in the Annual Accounts, under the year 1655, we find +the following entries:-- + + Pro vectura codicum MSS. a Londino Oxoniam £0 9_s._ + D. Langbaine pro expensis cum Londinum petiit, libros a + Seldeno legatos repetiturus 5 0 + D. Ed. Pococke eodem tempore in rem eandem Londinum misso. 7 0 + +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 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 _passed_ 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[113]. 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 _Cat. MSS._, 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 personal reference[114]. 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 +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 disperse into private hands the +books intended for the public. He then proceeds as follows:-- + +'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[115]) 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. + +'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. + +'5. Lending of books makes them lyable to many casualties, as, I. +absolute losse, either 1. _in via_, by the carrier's negligence, or +violence offer'd him, or, 2. _in termino_, 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.[116] +lent out of _Archiva Pembrochiana_ 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.' + +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 (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. + +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 _Spur-royals_[117], or _Ryals_, 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_s._ 6_d._ to 20_s._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.[118] Fuller, whose _Church History_ 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 _Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen_, gives +(in answer to a passage in Heylin's _Examen Historicum_) 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 +(_Hist. and Antiq._ 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. + +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 bringing the books from London cost +about £34, and the providing chains for them £25 10_s._[119] +Unfortunately, during the interval, many books had been lost which had +been borrowed in London, and were never returned. (Life, in _Works_, 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[120].' 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_s._ + +About 8000 volumes were, in all, added to the Library by this gift, most +of which bear Selden's well-known motto: '[Grk: peri pantos tźn +eleutherian].' 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 volume (marked 4^o 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, _Richard +Cuer de Lyon_, _Syr Bevis of Hampton_ (unique edit.?), _Syr Degore_, +_Syr Tryamoure_ (only two copies known), _Syr Eglamoure_ (unique?), _Dan +Hew of Leicestre_ (unique?), _Battayle of Egyngecourt_ (unique?), _Mylner +of Abyngton_ (unique?), _Wyl Bucke_, _&c._ Among the MSS. is one of +Harding's _Chronicle_ (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, _neighbore to Scottz_.' +This map was engraved for the first time in Gough's _British +Topography_, vol. ii. pl. viii.; the description of it occupies pp. +579-583 in that volume. Another interesting volume is a copy of the +Latin _Articles_ 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. + +[109] As Aubrey (_Lives_, with _Letters by Eminent Persons_, 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.' + +[110] See also Aubrey's _Lives_, _ut supra_, ii. 536. + +[111] Nichols (_Lit. Anecd._ 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 _without sufficient caution_, he sent for +it back again. + +[112] Twells' Life of Pococke, in Pococke's _Theol. Works_, 1740, vol. +i. p. 43. + +[113] 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.' + +[114] 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.) + +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:-- + +'Cum in hac visitatione nostra anniversaria Bibliothecę Bodleianę, 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[121]) in classe Theologica, +catenā abscissum et sacrilegā 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;-- + +'Nos Curatores, quorum fidei et inspectioni Bibliothecę 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;-- + +'Impense rogantes omnes et singulos cujuscunque ordinis et loci genuinos +Academia alumnos, ut sicubi librum offendant, sive in privatis musęis, +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 +publicę infamię tuba miser experrectus, misericordiam divinam tempestive +imploret, conspecta vel Bibliothecę porta posthęc attonitus resiliat, +nec tanti putet libri contemptibilis acquisitionem ut animam pro qua +mortuus est Christus ineptissime periclitari sinat. + + JO. PRIDEAUX, Vice-Canc. et S. Theol. Professor Regius. + THO. CLAYTON, Medic. Professor Regius. + DANIEL EASTCOT, Procurator Sen. + RICARDUS HILL, Procurator Jun. + EDOARDUS MEETKERKIUS, Ling. Hebr. Professor Regius. + JOHANNES SOUTH, Gręcę Linguę Pręlector Regius.' + +More serious abstractions, however, than such as these, have lately +(_i.e._ within the last twenty or thirty years) been practised. It has +recently been discovered that two extremely rare tracts by Thomas +Churchyard, his _Epitaph of Sir P. Sidney_, and _Feast full of sad +Cheere_, 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 Warton as being in Tanner's +collection, _The Children of the Chapel Stript and Whipt_, 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 _locale_, it is +hoped that depredations of this character will be entirely checked. + +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. + +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 _Leben Jesu_, 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, _clothed in an entirely different German binding_, 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 _University Report upon the Recommendations +of the University Commissioners_, 1853. p. 171. + +[115] 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. (_Reliquię Bodl._ 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.e._ 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.' (_Ibid._ p. 207.) In 1636 the University +refused leave to Archbishop Laud to borrow Rob. Hare's MS. _Liber +Privilegiorum Universitatis_ (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 _English Universities_, by F. Newman, vol. ii. p. 45.) However, +the book was at last produced before the Council. (Wood's _Hist. and +Antiq._, by Gutch, vol. ii. p. 403.) + +[116] '[Grk: Myriobiblos], num. 131' [Barocci]. + +[117] 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. + +[118] 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. + +[119] The conditions imposed by the executors (which are printed in +Gutch's _Wood_, 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. + +[120] Ayliffe's _Ancient and Present State of the Univ. of Oxford_, +1714, vol. i. p. 462. Pointer, in his _Oxoniensis Academia_, 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 +_Journey through England_ 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. + +[121] This was never recovered, but a later edition, in 1609, was +procured instead. + + +A.D. 1655. + +The stipends of the Librarian and Assistants at this time amounted +jointly to £51 6_s._ 8_d._ Of this it appears from the account for 1657 +that the Librarian received £33 6_s._ 8_d._, the 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^o _F. 2 Art. B. S._, furnishes the name of a preceding janitor, +by bearing the inscription, 'Liber Thomę Roch, defuncti, quondam +janitoris bibliothecę.' 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[122].' + +John Evelyn appears in this year, as well as subsequently, as a donor of +books. Nineteen MSS. were given by Peter Whalley, of Northamptonshire. + +[122] _Reliquę Bodl._ p. 263. + + +A.D. 1656. + +Cowley's _Poems_. See 1620. + + +A.D. 1657. + +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, 'auro gemmisque coruscum,' 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, 'Londinensis olim Episc.' 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 _Hugh +Peters_. 'Hugo Peters, serenissimo Britanniarum Protectori Olivero a +sacris, pro sua in academiam et rempubl. literariam benevolentia, +codices insequentes Bibl. Bodleianę dono dedit Maii iiii^o, Anno CI[C]. +I[C]C. LVII;' viz. the great Dutch Bible with annotations, 'edit. ult. +[scil. Hague, 1637] auro sericoque compacta,' and the Ęthiopic 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[123]. 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. + +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, _A Light Shining out of +Darkness_, which was supposed to attack the Universities and clergy. + +[123] See p. 55. + + +A.D. 1658. + +Gerard Langbaine, D.D., the learned Provost of Queen's College, died on +Feb. 10 in this year. Twenty-one vols. of his _Adversaria_, 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. ą 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 +autograph collections by purchase, the Library became possessed by +bequest from him of the very valuable MS. (_e Mus. 86_) on the history +of Wickliffe and his followers, entitled _Fasciculi Zizaniorum_, 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. + +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. + +A crocodile, from Jamaica, was given by John Desborow, the republican +Major-General, and brother-in-law to the Protector. + + +A.D. 1659. + +Thomas Hyde, M.A., of Queen's College, was appointed Under-keeper on the +expulsion of Henry Stubbe. + + +A.D. 1660. + +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[124]. + +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 _Index Librorum +prohibitorum_ printed at Madrid in 1612-14 (4^o 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[125]. + +[124] Reg. Convoc. T^a. 27, p. 57. + +[125] The memoranda are printed in Mendham's _Lit. Policy of the Church +of Rome_, second edit., pp. 152-4, and in Bliss' _Reliquię Hearnianę_, +i. 12-14. + + +A.D. 1662. + +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. + +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 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 'Liber +Bibliothecę Bodleianę Oxon.' has added the following note: 'quem ex +Ratelbandi cujusdam bibliopolę officina libraria, prope novum templum +Amstelodami, redimendum pretio persoluto curavit Tho. Mareschallus, e +Collegio Lincolniensi apud Oxonienses.' + +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. + + +A.D. 1663. + +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 +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[126].' + +[126] Reg. Convoc. T^a. 27, p. 173. + + +A.D. 1664. + +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. + + +A.D. 1665. + +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_s._ 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_s._ were bought out of his study. + + +A.D. 1666. + +Twenty MSS. were given by Sir Thos. Herbert, Bart. of York. + +An East India merchant of London, one John Ken, gave (with other MSS.) +the first Gentoo [i.e. Sanscrit.] 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 engaged 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. + +At some period between 1660 and 1667, _i.e._ 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 'ęre suo.' Dr. T. Smith remarks, in his life of Bernard, that +when the latter was preparing to edit Josephus, he used 'Sam. Petiti +largis commentariis, longe antea in bibliothecę Bodleianę gazophylacium +ex Gallia transvectis,' 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 _Evangelistarium_ of the fourteenth +century, formerly the property of a monastery described as '[Grk: tźs +panagias tźs acheiropoiźtou],' 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. + + +A.D. 1668. + +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 authority is not known) to have belonged to Henry +VIII[127], 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 _Oxford_, published in 1821[128], and +in the _Life of Drake_, published in 1828. + +[127] The style of moulding on the back seems to point to a somewhat +later date. + +[128] A description, including a copy of the verses, and illustrated by +a woodcut, is also to be found in vol. xxix. (1837) of the _Mirror_, p. +8, copied from the _Nautical Magazine_. + + +A.D. 1670. + +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, _Ath. Oxon._ iii. +885. He himself gave four printed Arabic books in 1663. + + +A.D. 1671. + +Upon the death of Meric Casaubon, on July 14, the Library became +possessed, by his bequest, of sixty-one volumes of the _Adversaria_ +(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 _Casauboniana_, with a +preface giving some account of all previous collections of _Ana_, and +with copious notes. The MSS. are catalogued in Mr. Coxe's first volume, +cols. 825-850. + + +A.D. 1673. + +Thomas, Lord Fairfax, to whose care the Library had been indebted for +preservation in 1646, bequeathed to it on his decease, 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[129]), 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[130], 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 were in danger of being spoiled by a wet season.' Fortunately the +danger was perceived by Ant. ą 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_s._ 10_d._ as having been paid for the 'carriage of +Dodsworth's MSS.' + +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_s._, 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. + +[129] A transcript of Elphinston's Chronicle is to be found among the +Jones MSS. + +[130] 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. + + +A.D. 1674. + +In this year appeared the third _Catalogus impressorum Librorum +Bibliothecę Bodleianę_, 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 +(_mirabile dictu!_) he actually had not shrunk even from the +inclemency of winter[131]. 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[132]!' 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, _e.g._, in +his preface to the _Chronicon Dunstap._ p. xii., and in his +_Autobiography_ (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. + +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[133]. Hearne describes him[134] 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[135]. + +[131] 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! + +[132] _MS. Diary_, 1714, vol. ii. p. 193. + +[133] _Reliquię Hearn._ ii. 591. But see p. 116, _infra_. + +[134] _MS. Diary_, li. 193. + +[135] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, ciii. 38. + + +A.D. 1675. + +In the Register of Benefactions, on a page faintly headed in pencil with +this date, is entered a gift from Christopher, Lord Hatton, 'Homiliarum +Saxonicarum 4 volumina antiqua.' 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 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 +(_Cat._ 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 _Codices Hattoniani_. + +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[136], 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 _Pastoral Care_, 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 _Dialogues_, with King Alfred's preface (No. 76); and a +version of the Four Gospels, written about the time of Henry II (No. +65). + +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, Nicęa, Chalcedon, &c., +which had been used by his father Christopher Justell in his +_Bibliotheca Juris Canonici veteris_, 1661. They are now numbered, _e +Mus._ 100-102. Several other MSS. given at the same time are preserved +in the same series. In return for this valuable gift Justell was created +D.C.L. by diploma. + +[136] The Register has evidently been kept very irregularly and +imperfectly during the time that Barlow and Hyde held the headship. + + +A.D. 1677. + +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 Animę' and 'Sowle-Hele,' and its +chief contents are Lives of the Saints, Hampole's _Prick of Conscience_, +Grosteste's _Castle of Love_, Hampole's _Perfect Living_, the treatise +on _Contemplative Life_, the _Mirror of S. Edmund_, the _Abbey of the +Holy Ghost_, and _Piers Plowman_; besides a multitude of smaller pieces, +several of which have been recently copied with a view to publication by +the Early English Text Society[137]. 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. + +[137] This Society has also just issued Part 1. of Piers Plowman from +this MS., edited by W. W. Skeat, M.A. (Oct. 1867). + + +A.D. 1678. + +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 _Ormulum_ ([OE: +'žiss boc iss nemmnedd Orrmulum, Forrži žatt 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. Cędmon'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 Cędmon 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 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 _Archęologia_, 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 1675[138].) Besides books, Junius left to the +University six founts of Gothic, Saxon, and other types, together with +the moulds and matrices. + +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 _Collectanea_ bearing on the history of England from +various MSS. Chronicles, Registers, and early writers, particularly with +reference to the corruption of the Church and 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. + +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[139]. Ten shillings were also paid for a 'sea +elephant.' + +[138] 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: 'Vir doctissimus Joannes Georgius Eckardus, +bibliothecę Brunsvicensis pręfectus, 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.' 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. + +[139] In the Benefaction Book this gift is assigned to the year 1672. + + +A.D. 1680. [See A.D. 1665.] + +Sir W. Dugdale gave copies of his own works. Two hundred coins were +given by Dr. George Hickes. + + +A.D. 1681. + +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 [Grk: keimźlia], called, from its donor, 'Codex +Rushworthianus.' (Auct. D. 2. 19.) In 1665, Junius mentions it in the +Preface to his _Glossarium Gothicum_, as being then still in Rushworth's +own hands[140]. It is a MS. of the Latin Gospels, written by an Irish +scribe, Mac-Regol, (who records his name on the last leaf, 'Macregol +dipincxit hoc evangelium,' &c.,) and glossed with an interlinear +Anglo-Saxon version by Owun and by Fęrmen, 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 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 _Palęographia Sacra Pictoria_. + +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. + +[140] 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. + + +A.D. 1682. + +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.' + +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 'in Schola +Linguarum,' 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. + +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 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 _Works_, a pamphlet of 103 pages dignified with that name, of +which the third edition appeared at London in 1719[141]. 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[142]. + +The names of the Speakers up to the year 1690 are given in Wood's +_Athenę_ (ii. 127) as follows. They were all M.A., and Students of Ch. +Ch.:-- + + 1682 Thomas Sparke + 1683 Zach. Isham + 1684 Chas. Hickman + 1685 Thos. Newey + 1686 Thos. Burton + 1687 Will. Bedford + 1688 Rich. Blakeway + 1689 Roger Altham, jun. + 1690 Edward Wake + * * * * + 1701 Edm. Smith + +The following list from 1706 to 1734 has been gathered out of Hearne's +MS. Diary:-- + + 1706 Rich. Newton + 1707 Thos. Terry + 1708 Will. Periam + 1709 Rich. Sadlington + 1710 Richard Frewin + 1711 -- Aldred[143] + 1712 Gilb. Lake + 1713 Hen. Cremer + 1714 Chas. Brent + 1715 John White + 1716 Edw. Ivie + 1717 Hen. Gregory + 1718 Thos. Fenton + 1719 George Wiggan + 1720 Thos. Foulkes + 1721 Will. Le Hunt + 1722 Hen. Shirman + 1723 Matthew Lee + 1724 Christopher Haslam + 1725 Will. Davis + 1726 Edw. Blakeway + 1727 David Gregory + 1728 [Rob.?] Manaton + 1729 [Hen.?] Jones + 1730 John Fanshaw + 1731 Oliver Battely + 1732 Dan. Burton + 1733 Fifield Allen + 1734 Pierce Manaton, M.D. + +[141] A long account of Smith is given in Johnson's _Lives of the +Poets_. + +[142] _Letters of Eminent Persons, &c_, ii. 111. + +[143] Doubtless an error for Chas. Aldrich + + +A.D. 1683. + +Three MSS., containing the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac Pentateuch, +and the Syriac Old Testament, were purchased at the cost of the +University. + + +A.D. 1684. + +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! + + +A.D. 1685. + +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, &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. + + +A.D. 1686. + +Fell, Bishop of Oxford, who died July 10, bequeathed a few MSS. They +consist of an early and curious collection of _Vitę Sanctorum_ in four +folio volumes, of a transcript (in nine folio volumes) of a _Glossarium +Septentrionale_ 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 _Clavis Linguę Sanctę_, 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:-- + +'MY LORD, + +'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, + + 'Your Lordship's most humble servant, + '_23 Nov., 1746._ 'THOS. FRANKLAND.' + +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. + +A few of Bishop Fell's MSS. came subsequently to the Library among those +of Rev. Henry Jones[144], who succeeded Fell in his rectory of +Sunningwell, Berks, in the church of which parish the Bishop's wife was +buried. + +At the Visitation on Nov. 8, it was ordered that notice be given that +'Nullus in posterum quemlibet librum aut volumen extra Bibliothecam +asportet,' 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. + +[144] Hearne's pref. to John Ross, p. 1. + + +A.D. 1687. + +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 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. ą Wood gives in his +_Autobiography_ a full account of all that passed, from which are taken +the quotations made above[145]. + +[145] See also Miss Seward's _Anecdotes_, Supplement, 1797, p. 72. + + +A.D. 1688. + +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_s._ + + +A.D. 1690. + +Thirty pounds were paid in this year to Antony ą Wood for twenty-five +MSS. out of his library[146]. 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 _temp._ Hen. VI, &c. + +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. + +It is said that Wood in this year estimated the number of MSS. 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. + +[146] 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. + + +A.D. 1691. + +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 _Linc._; ending, in the 8^o 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[147]. His legacy included a copy of the famous _Exposicio Sancti +Jeronimi in Simbolo Apostolorum_, 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:-- + + 1. _Ęgidius Romanus de Peccato Originali_, dated March 14, 1479. + This was one of Rob. Burton's books. Qu. unique? + + 2. _Textus Ethicorum Aristotelis, per Leonardum Arretinum + translatus_, 1479. One of Selden's books. + + 3. _Expositio Alexandri [de Ales] super tertium librum [Arist.] De + Anima_. 'Impressum per me Theodericum rood de Colonia in alma + universitate Oxon.' Oct. 11, 1481. + + 4. _Joh. Latteburii Exposicio Trenorum Jheremie_, July 31, 1482. No + place, but printed with the same type as the last. + + 5. _Liber Festivalis_, 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_s._ 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_s._ + + 6. _Opus Wilhelmi Lyndewoode super Constitutiones Provinciales_. No + place or date, but identified by the type. + + 7. _Vulgaria quedam abs Terentio in Anglicam linguam traducta_. + 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. Frater Johannes Grene emit hunc librum Oxon. de + elemosinis amicorum suorum[148].' + +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: 'Inventorium librorum quos ego +Thomas Hunt, stacionarius universitatis Oxoniensis, recepi de Magistro +Petro Actore et Johannis (_sic_) de Aquisgrano ad vendendum, cum precio +cujuslibet libri, et promito (_sic_) fideliter restituere libros aut +pecunias secundum precium inferius scriptum, prout patebit in +sequentibus, Anno Domini M^o. CCCC^o. octuagesimo tercio.' + +[147] In most of them is inscribed the motto, [Grk: aien aristeuein]. + +[148] This last book is described by Dr. Cotton in the second series of +his _Typographical Gazetteer_, 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 _Compendium totius Grammaticę_ (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. + + +A.D. 1692. + +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. + + +A.D. 1693. + +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 Ęthiopic, 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^o Z. Jur. [Arabic version of Isaiah, see +p. 81.] + +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[149]. The 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, 'varię Ęgypti regiones recensentur, agrorum +cujusque regionis mensura definitur, et annui redditus exponuntur.' +Dibdin[150] 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 _Munus Pretiosum_, 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 _zero_, is sufficient to warm the most torpid system.' No. 80 +is a copy of Maimonides' _Yad Hachazaka_, 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 _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_: part +i. 8^o. 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 (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 (M. Vaḿbery M. +Va['m]bery), the traveller in Tartary, who is engaged in forming 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 _Bakhtiar Nameh_. A +description of it, with an engraved facsimile, is given in Davids' +_Turkish Grammar_, 4^o. Lond. 1832, pref. p. xxxi. + +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. + +[149] 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. + +[150] _Bibliogr. Decam._ iii. 472. + + +A.D. 1694. + +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. + + +A.D. 1695. + +Books were bought from Mr. Bobart, and at the auction of the library of +Sir Charles Scarborough, M.D. + +_Stationers' Company._ See 1610. + +_MSS. from Wood._ See 1658. + + +A.D. 1696. + +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[151]. Wanley was no favourite +with Hearne. The following passage from the _MS. Diary_ of the +latter[152] 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. + +[151] Walker's _Letters by Eminent Persons_, 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_s._, together with a MS. Latin Bible. + +[152] 1714, vol. li. p. 193. + + +A.D. 1697. + +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 +_Adversaria_, for £200. Of 218 of the latter, Bernard has given a very +brief list in his own invaluable _Catalogus Manuscriptorum Anglię_, +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 _Adversaria_ 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 +_Ath. Oxon._ (iv. 709), who adds that this addition 'contained many of +the most valuable books, both printed and MSS., now in the Library.' + +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[153]. 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 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 _insignis insufficientia_, +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.' + +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[154], 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 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. + +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. + +[153] 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. + +[154] Ballard MSS. xiii. 45. + + +A.D. 1700. + +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 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] _Oxoniana_, iii. 16-27. + +In this year died Henry Jones, M.A., Vicar of Sunningwell, Berks[155]. +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 _Historia Regum Anglię_ 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 _History of Hereford_, 8^o, +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 _Commercium Epistolicum_, pp. +200-208. + +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, _nos +inter nos_[156].' 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 '_non causa pro causa_[157].' + +[155] Steele's _MSS. Collections for Berks_; Gough MS. 27. + +[156] Walker's _Letters by Eminent Persons_, i. 173. + +[157] Ellis's _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, Camd. Soc. pp. 302-3. + + +A.D. 1701. + +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.:-- + + 'March 10, 1700/01, + 'CHRIST CHURCH, OXON. + + 'SIR,--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. + + 'Among the Bodleian Statutes in the Appendix, in the Statute _de + causis amovendi aut libere recedendi_, 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. + + 'My reasons for leaving the place are two, viz. one is because (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[158]; seing that Lectures (though we must attend + upon them) will do but little good, hearers being scarce and + practicers more scarce. + + 'I should have left the Library more compleat and better furnish'd + but that the building of the Elaboratory[159] 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. + + '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 (_sic_) 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[160], 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. + + '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. + + 'In the mean time I remain, + 'Your humble servant, + 'THOMAS HYDE.' + +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[161]. 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] _Letters by Eminent Persons_, 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. + +In this year Thomas Hearne, the famous antiquary, was appointed Janitor, +or Assistant, in the Library. He tells us in his _Autobiography_ (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[162], and for enlarging and correcting the Catalogues of MSS. and +Coins. Extra payments of 50_s._ were also made to him in 1704 and 1706, +and of 20_s._ in 1709. + +_The Bodley Speech._ See 1682. + +[158] These were left in MS. at Hyde's death, and have never been +published. + +[159] _i.e._ the Ashmolean Museum. + +[160] Hyde was greatly mistaken here, as a calculation made by Hearne in +1714 (_q.v._) showed that the Library had then little more than doubled +since 1620. + +[161] _Reliqq. Hearn._ ii. 616. + +[162] For an account of Hearne's Appendix, see 1738. + + +A.D. 1702. + +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. + + +A.D. 1704. + +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 Academię olim alumnus, pręter Opera ab ipso edita, ob ingenii +elegantiam, doctrinę varietatem, et philosophicam subtilitatem, omnibus +suspicienda (_here follow the titles of his own works_), insuper ex suo +in optimas artes amore, animoque ad supellectilem literariam augendam +propenso, Bibliothecę huic dono dedit libros sequentes;' _scil._ +Churchill's _Voyages and Travels_, 4 vols., 1704, Stillingfleet's +_Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity_, Stillingfleet's _Answer to +Locke_, and Rob. Boyle's _History of the Air_. 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[163]. + +William Ray, formerly consul at Smyrna, presented about 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[164]. 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[165].' +Ray also gave a Turkish almanac. + +[163] Lord King's _Life of Locke_, edit. 1830, vol. ii. p. 51. + +[164] Walker's _Letters by Eminent Persons_, i. 137. + +[165] _Life_, p. 13, in _Lives of Leland, Hearne, and Wood_, 1772. + + +A.D. 1706. + +The supposed original MS. of _The Causes of the Decay of Christian +Piety_, by the author of _The Whole Duty of Man_, 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[166]. + +[166] See _Letters by Eminent Persons_, vol. ii. pp. 133-4. + + +A.D. 1707. + +Six volumes of Archbishop Usher's _Collectanea_, 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 +various printed books, to the Library[167]. 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; _e +Musęo_, 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 _Gul. Neubrig._ iii. 804. +Six Samaritan and other MSS. which belonged to Usher are now in the +class called _Bodl. Orient._ + +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. _Collectanea_. These last, amounting to +twenty-three volumes, are now numbered Bodl. Addit. 1. D. 1-4, 2. B. +1-16, 2. C. 1-3. + +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 +ą Kempis, and several other theological works, together with some in +geography, history, and science. 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[168], 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 _Annals_, Hearne +tells, in his own interesting way, in his _Diary_[169]:-- + + '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. + + '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 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, _Reverendissimi in + Christo Patris Thomę, Archiepiscopi Sanctę Crucis in Gocthan + Perso-Armenię, peregrinationis suę in Europam, pietatis et literarum + promovendarum caussa susceptę, brevis narratio; una cum dicti + Archiepiscopi ad serenissimam Magnę Britannię Reginam oratiuncula + ejusque responso. Accedunt de eodem Archiepiscopo testimonia ampla + et pręclara._ Printed upon two sheets, folio[170].' + +In another volume of memoranda[171], 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: "_Historia Nationis +Armenię, a Moise Chorenensi grammatico, doctore Armeno_. Amst. 1695. +Maii 28, 1707, Bibliothecę Bodleianę dono dedit reverendiss. Thomas +Archiep. S. Crucis in Majori Armenia. Per manum ejusd. reverendiss. +nepotis, Lucę Nurigianidis." Underneath which is written, at the motion +of Dr. Charlett, and by the direction of the said Archbishop's nephew: +"Auctorem istius libri floruisse traditur seculo quarto post Christum."' +The book is now numbered, 8^o V. 134 Th. + +[167] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, xv. 24. + +[168] And by the good Robert Nelson (_Letters by Eminent Persons_, i. +167, 9), who had also obtained ten guineas for him from the Christian +Knowledge Society (Secretan's _Life of Nelson_, pp. 113-4). + +[169] Vol xiv. pp. 64, 68. + +[170] A copy of this tract is in V. 1. 1. Jur. + +[171] Rawlinson MS. C. 876. p. 44. + + +A.D. 1709. + +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 reduced to five (British +Museum; Oxford; Cambridge; Advocates' Library, Edinburgh; and Trinity +College, Dublin) by 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 110. + + +A.D. 1710. + +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 one earlier volume containing +a list of livings in the diocese of Norwich, with their values and +incumbents. 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 _D. Linc._ + +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[172]. + +[172] _Reliquię Hearn._ i. 205, 6. + + +A.D. 1711. + +A watch which had belonged to Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is said to have +been presented by Mr. Ralph Howland, of Maidenhead. + +Grabe's _Adversaria_. See 1724. + + +A.D. 1712. + +'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 Churchyard, very privately. Upon his coffin was +put, _I. C. ag. 38. 1712_; but I heard him say some time since he was 39 +years old[173].' He is described in the following caustic terms by Zach. +Conr. Uffenbach, in a letter written in 1713, and printed in his +_Commercium Epistolicum_[174]:-- + + 'Alteri [pręfecto Bibliothecę], 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 pręmiorum, quę 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, quęvis in ordinem redigat + atque emundet.' + +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[175]; other +additional payments of £5 and 50_s._ 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 _Athenę_:-- + + '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 ----.' + +Rawlinson goes on to attribute to him (as his solitary claim to a place +in the _Athenę_) a _Poem on the late Storm_, Lond. 1704, fol., but this +was written (as well as a Latin poem _In Georgium reducem_, 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 (_scil._, 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:-- + + 'H. S. E. Reverend. Johan. Crabb, A. M. č Coll. Exon quondam Socius + Oxon., Bibliothecę Bodleianę Sub-Librarius, et a sacris olim Episc. + Fowler, hujus Parochię Minister residens amplius XXXVIII ann. Vir + doctus, pius, generosus, in Ecclesiā Orthodoxus, in Republicā + fidelis, et omnibus liberalis. Author Georgianę et aliorum Carminum + celebrium latine et anglice, Obiit tandem XIII Id. Martii, Anno + ętat. suę LXXXV., Ęrę Christianę MDCCXLVIII[176].' + +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[177],' 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[178]. + +'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[179].' + +[173] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, xxxvii. 180. + +[174] 1753, p. 182. For the reference to this passage the author is +indebted to Dibdin's _Bibliogr. Decam._ 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. + +[175] 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.' _Letter from Hyde to Hudson_, in Walker's _Letters_, i. 174. + +[176] 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:-- + + 'If I survive + I'll make them five.' + +But the lady did not afford him the wished-for opportunity. + +[177] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, xxxvii. 191. + +[178] _Life_, 1772, p. 14. + +[179] _MS. Diary_, xxxix. 120. + + +A.D. 1713. + +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 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 +(_qu._ Golius?), somewhat like in form to Selden's, but better in +spirit, '[Grk: pantachź tźn alźtheian].' 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 _Elizabeth_ +(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 'in tenebris;' 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[180]. + +At this period every stranger admitted to read in the Library had to pay +nine shillings in fees, of which 1_s._ went to the Head Librarian, 3_s._ +6_d._ to the Second Librarian, 1_s._ 6_d._ to the Janitor, 2_s._ to the +Registrar (for an order for admission, but in the Long Vacation this fee +went to the Second Librarian), and 1_s._ to the Proctor's man[181]. 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 the charge to visitors at threepence each, unless +accompanied, and in consequence _franked_, 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[182]. + +The suppression, by an order of the Heads of Houses, dated March 23, +1712/3, of Hearne's edition of Dodwell's tract _De Parma Equestri +Woodwardiana_, 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 _MS. Diary_. 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[183], 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 followed +during the exhibition of this museum is worth relating in the diarist's +own words:-- + + 'I mentioned a picture engraved and hanging there with horns and + wings, and underneath, _uxor ejus ad vivum pinxil_. 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. _that + 'twas a bawble, and that an hundred such things were not worth the + seeing_. 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 + [Grk: EIKŌN BASILIKŹ], and underneath, _Quid quęritis ultra?_ 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 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, _They are all rebells, Mr. + Mollineux, they are all rebells in this place_, 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.' + +_Hinc illę lachrymę!_ 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 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, +_Henrici Dodwelli de Parma Equestri Woodwardiana Dissertatio, &c_, 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[184].' + +[180] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, vol. lxxi. May 20. + +[181] _Ibid._ vol. xlvii. p. 89. + +[182] In an account of a visit to Oxford by an American tourist, which +appeared very recently in the _New York Times_, 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_d._ 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.' + +[183] This was the room which is now attached to the Library under the +name of the _Auctarium_. + +[184] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, 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. _Ibid._ lxxi. 3 May. + + +A.D. 1714. + +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 _Liber Admissorum_, +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. + +'In the year 1714 were in the Bodleian Library:-- + + 30169 pr. vols. + 05916 MSS. vols. + ----- + In all 36085.' + + (Hearne's _MS. Diary_, vol. xci. p. 256.) + +It is strange that, notwithstanding Selden's and Laud's large additions, +the Library had therefore very little more than doubled since 1620. + +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 _Letter containing an Account of some Antiquities between +Windsor and Oxford_. Of the renovation of the wall-paintings he thus +speaks in his preface to _Rossi Historia Regum Anglię_ (1716): 'Non +possim quin bibliothecę Bodleianę Curatores laudem, qui pictori +Academico [_i.e._ Wildgoose] in mandatis dederunt, ut veteres effigies +renovet nitorique pristino restituat: quippe quas eo pluris ęstimendas +esse censeo, quod eas in galeria depingendas jusserit ipse Bodleius, +Loci Genius.' When the Gallery was re-roofed in 1831, all these +paintings were, however, removed [_see_ p. 15]. + +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[185].' 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 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[186].' + +[185] _Letters by Eminent Persons_, 1813, vol. i. p. 297. + +[186] _Letters by Eminent Persons_, 1813, vol. i. p. 204. + + +A.D. 1715. + +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. + + 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 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[187].' + +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 _neglect of duty_! His successor +was Rev. 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[188]. But to the end of +his life he maintained that he was still, _de jure_, Sub-librarian, and, +with a quaint pertinacity, regularly at the end of each term and +half-year, up to March 30, 1735[189], 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. + +On Hearne's announcing John Ross's _Historia Anglię_ for publication in +this year, W. Whiston forwarded to him a MS. of a Latin historical poem +entitled _Britannica_, written in 1606 by an author of the same names as +the forth-coming historian, with the following note inserted:-- + + '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 + + 'WILLIAM WHISTON. + '_London, December 12, 1715._' + +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[190]. The MS. is now numbered, Bodley +573. + +A learned tailor of Norwich was in this year recommended by 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[191]. +He removed to London about 1720, and died in the following year, as we +learn from an entry in Hearne's _MS. Diary_, (xcii. 128-9,) under date +of Oct. 29, 1721, where we read:-- + + 'About a fortnight since died in London Mr. Henry Wild, commonly + called, the _Arabick Taylour_. 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.' + +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[192]. + +A thick quarto volume (1052 pages) containing a Latin treatise 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_s._ 6_d._, +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. + +[187] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, liii. 124, 5. + +[188] _Life_, 1772, pp. 18-20. + +[189] He died on June 10, in that year. + +[190] This catalogue was sold at the auction in 1855 of the MSS. of Dr. +Routh, who had bought it at Heber's sale. + +[191] _Letters by Eminent Persons_, i. 271, 300. [On p. 270 for +_Turner_, read _Tanner_.] + +[192] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, liii. 148. + + +A.D. 1716. + +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[193]. + +_Arms in the window._ See 1610. + +[193] Hearne's _Diary_, lix. 141; _Reliqq. Hearn._ i. 366. + + +A.D. 1718. + +One Mr. Hutton appears to have been employed in the Library during this +year. It seems, from a passage in a letter of C. Wheatly's, printed in +_Letters by Eminent Persons_, 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. + + +A.D. 1719. + +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. + +The bitter terms in which Hearne frequently, in the course of his +_Diary_, 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[194]. 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:-- + + 'Perpende, quęso, mecum, vir eruditissime, quantus thesaurus ex + solius Bodleianę Bibliothecę 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 + Bibliothecę cura plane abjecta, insudavit, cum hoc, quod supra dixi, + potius agendum fuisset. Nefandam hujus insignis Bibliothecę sortem + (ignosce justę 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 + Musę, vel saltem artes liberales. De librorum studiosis loquor; nam + puerorum, muliercularum, rusticorum, hinc inde cursitantium, + voluminumque multitudinem per transennas spectantium mirantiumque, + c[oe]tum excipio.... De Proto-bibliothecarii incuria jam dixi, + ejusque stupendam in historia literaria librariaque, inprimis extra + Insulam ultraque maria, ignorantiam taceo.' + +Of Hearne, however, Uffenbach writes in the following different +strain:-- + + 'Hīc scholaris, ut hīc loqui amant, esse solet, atque etiamnum est, + nomine Hearne, qui, prę reliquis, diligentiam suam non modo + scriptis, sed in novo etiam Bibliothecę catalogo confitiendo, typis + proxime exscribendo, probavit; ast, quod dolendum, ad exemplum + prioris, qui satis jejunus, inconcinnus, erroribusque innumeris + scatens est.' + +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 1715), his election +now was a matter of sore annoyance to the latter. Hearne dwells upon it +in his _Diary_ 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 Bowles to be Head-Librarian, to +the immortal scandal of all that were concern'd in it[195].' 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[196].' Bowles' +name never occurs in the _Diary_ 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. + +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. + +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_s._ + +[194] 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. +(_MS. Diary_, vol. lviii. p. 158.) + +[195] Vol. lxxxiv. pp. 59, 60. + +[196] Vol. cxxii. p. 158. + + +A.D. 1720. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +_Visitors' Fees._ See 1713. + + +A.D. 1721. + +The inscription on the Schools' Tower, beneath the statue of James I, +was renewed in this year[197]. + +Sir Godfrey Kneller presented his own portrait to the Gallery. + +[197] Hearne's _Diary_, xci. 196. + + +A.D. 1722. + +Mrs. Mary Prince is recorded to have presented heads of our Blessed LORD +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 +_Mus. Bibl. II._ Beneath that of our LORD 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^e 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 _literatim_ from some older copy. + +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, [Grk: tou makaritou].' + +_Chrysanthus, Patriarch of Jerusalem._ See 1715. + + +A.D. 1723. + +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 S[oe]ur, from a picture by Rubens, and is said to weigh about +1600 lbs. The letter of thanks from the University was read in +Convocation on April 19; it is criticized by Hearne in his _Diary_[198] +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 _in ęde immortalitatis_. Now what this _ędes +immortalitatis_, 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.' + +[198] Vol. xcvi. p. 101. + + +A.D. 1724. + +The MSS. _Adversaria_ 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' _Discourse_ prefixed to Grabe's _Defects and +Omissions in Whiston's Collection of Testimonies, &c._ (8^o. 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. + +A Zend MS. very well and clearly written (dated in the year 1005 of the +era of Yezdegird, _i.e._ A.D. 1635), of the _Leges Sacrę, Ritus, &c. +Zoroastris_, 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., 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 _Lexicon Ęgyptiaco-Latinum_. Another +MS. Coptic Lexicon, in two volumes, was purchased in 1857. + + +A.D. 1726. + +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. + + +A.D. 1727. + +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 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, _tempp. +Eliz.--Jac. 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. + +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. + +_Sale of Duplicates._ See 1745. + + +A.D. 1729. + +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 _Reliqq. Hearn._ vol. ii. p. 712. + +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[199]. Cherry himself died Sept. 23, 1713, and +Hearne says that he had intended to give his MSS. to his old _protégée_. +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 _Reliqq. Hearn._ ii. 899-906. + +In the Register of Readers admitted by favour occurs, under date of +April 19, the name of 'C. Wesley, Ędis 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. + +[199] In the Benefaction Register they are erroneously entered as coming +by the bequest of Mr. Cherry himself. + + +A.D. 1735. + +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 them to Hearne on this +condition. With them came also copies of Camden's _Britannia_ and +_Annales Eliz._, 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 _written_ +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. + + +A.D. 1736. + +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 _Gent. +Mag._ for 1782 (cited by Gough in his _British Topography_, i. 126) he +bought for eighty guineas of the bookseller Bateman, to whom Sancroft's +executors had sold them[200]. 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 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[201]. 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[202]. 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 _Memorials of the Civil War_; but the transcripts +were very carelessly made, and scarcely a single letter can be trusted +as faithfully and _verbatim_ 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^o, Edinb. 1848, entitled, _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_[203]. 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 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 +_Pore Helpe_, 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 +_Governayle of Helthe_, with the verses called _Medicina Stomachi_, 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 _Ars Moriendi_. + +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[204]. The effects of this soaking are only too evident upon very +many of them[205]. The whole of the printed 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_s._, 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. + +[200] 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. + +[201] 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. + +[202] Some collections for Wiltshire made by Tanner did not come to +Oxford with his library, but were forwarded by his son in 1751. + +[203] 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. + +[204] _Gent. Magaz._ 1732, p. 583. + +[205] None of them, however, are now in the state described in a note in +_Letters by Eminent Persons_, 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 _The Children +of the Chapel Stript and Whipt_ 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 1659, p. 81. + + +A.D. 1738. + +The fourth 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[206], 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[207]. He compared every book in the Library with Hyde's 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 _Diary_, 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[208] (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 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_s._ were paid to him. + +Alexander Pope gave, together with copies of his _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_, +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. + +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). + +[206] Pref. to _Chron. de Dunstaple_, p. xii. _Autobiogr._ p. 11, &c. + +[207] 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. + +[208] 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.' (_Rawlinson Letters_, vol. xii. f. 1.) + + +A.D. 1739. + +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 _Wood's Annals_, 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. + + +A.D. 1740. + +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_s._ +for its restoration. + + +A.D. 1745. + +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[209]. 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, 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_s._ 8_d._, 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 1620. There is a biographical +notice of him in J. Haslewood's Introduction to Juliana Barnes' _Boke of +St. Alban's_, 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. + +[209] He left a benefaction to his successor in this office, which now +produces £13 6_s._ 8_d._ yearly. + + +A.D. 1746. + +Trott's _Clavis Linguę Sanctę_. See 1686. + + +A.D. 1747. + +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[210]. +Rawlinson mentions, in a letter 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[211].' + +[210] 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.e._ 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:-- + + 'Here lies Fred., Down among the dead; + Had it been his Father, Most had much rather; + Had it been his Brother, Better than any other; + Had it been a Sister, More would have mist her; + Wer't the whole generation, Happy for the nation; + But since it is only Fred., There is no more to be said.' + +[211] Rawl. MS. C. 989. + + +A.D. 1749. + +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 +(_see_ p. 105), in the glass case near the entrance of the Library. +Pointer, in his _Oxoniensis Academia_ (p. 143), mentions that an +explanation of the Primstaff was given by himself; the Accounts show +that it was also in this year. + +A number of coins were added to the Numismatic Museum, which had been +collected by the late Librarian, Fysher. + + +A.D. 1750. + +A copy _on vellum_, 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_s._! 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, 'Comes Consistorianus,' 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[212]. + +[212] The story of this recovery has been already related by Archd. +Cotton in his _Typographical Gazetteer_, p. 339, where by mistake he +refers the original purchase to the year 1752. + + +A.D. 1751. + +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 _per ann._ 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[213]. 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. + +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 _Chronicle_, +vol. ii. pp. 343-388, from a copy made from this original; and an +inscription, in the Ph[oe]nician 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 (_Travels in the +East_, vol. ii. pl. xxxiii. 2); next by Swinton (_Inscriptiones Citieę_, +1750, and _Philos. Trans._ 1764); afterwards by Chandler, Barthélemy, +&c; and, lastly, by Gesenius (for whom former copies were collated with +the original, and corrected, by Mr. Reay) in his _Scripturę Linguęque +Ph[oe]nicię Monumenta_, 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. + +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 _Game of the Chesse_ and _Recuyell of Troye_ were given by Mr. +James Bowen, of Shrewsbury, painter[214]. + +[213] Hearne's _Diary_, xcvii. 12. + +[214] A MS. vol. of collections by him relating to the history of +Shropshire, dated 1768, is among Gough's books, Salop MS. 20. + + +A.D. 1753. + +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[215]. From these was published in 1759 (in which year the +papers appear to have been deposited in the Library) the _Life_ 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 +_State Papers_; 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 _escritoire_), +containing miscellaneous papers, were forwarded by the Clarendon +Trustees in final discharge of their trust. + +A MS. of the _History of the Rebellion_, in seven volumes, together with +one of the _Contemplations_, 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[216]. + +A complete Calendar of the _Clarendon State Papers_ 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. + +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 +_en masse_ 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 for his publication of _State Papers_, +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[217] 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 _History of England_. 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 +_Original Papers_, published in 1775, in 2 vols., 4^o. 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 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. + +[215] 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. + +[216] In the Benefaction Book this gift is entered under 1793, but it is +mentioned in the Preface to vol. iii. of the _State Papers_, dated May +29, 1786, as having been '_lately_' given. Another copy of part of the +_History_, 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_s._! + +[217] _Lit. Anecd._ ii. 514. + + +A.D. 1754. + +In this year the MS. collections of Rev. John Walker, D.D., of Exeter +(son of Endymion Walker, of Exeter; born 1674, dec. 1747[218]), from +which he compiled his valuable and laborious work, _The Sufferings of +the Clergy_, 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 (_pref._ 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[219]. 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. + +The name of Hogarth occurs in the list of donors, as presenting his two +engravings of the _Analysis of Beauty_, which he had published in the +preceding year. + +[218] His successor in his Exeter prebend was appointed in that year. + +[219] The present writer, in answer to an enquiry in _Notes and Queries_ +in 1862 (3rd series, i. 218), said that these papers were amongst the +_Rawlinson_ 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. + + +A.D. 1755. + +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. + +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 _Athenę Oxon._ (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[220]; 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[221]. He then travelled +through the whole of England, except some of the northern parts, and in +1719 went 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[222]. 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[223]. 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 +'_Jur._,' 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[224]. A few MSS. also came from him during his lifetime which +are now placed in the general Bodley collection. But at his death all +his collections came _en masse_[225]; 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[226]. 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[227], but the MSS. to upwards of 4800, besides a large number of +old charters and miscellaneous unsorted deeds. + +The staff of the Library being very small at the time, as well as +ill-paid[228], and such an accession being completely overwhelming, the +officers appear to have contented themselves with duly entering 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. + +The classes into which the whole collection of MSS. is now divided are +the following:-- + +1. _Class A_: 500 volumes, chiefly of English history, with a few +theological books. Amongst these are the _Thurloe State Papers_, 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 _Miscellaneous Papers of Sam. Pepys_, in +twenty-five volumes, containing his correspondence, collections on +Admiralty business, &c.[229] 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 +_thus et odores vendentibus_[230].' Of another acquisition Rawlinson +writes thus:-- + + '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[231]; ... 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 tho' secret history, that the prize is not to be + valued[232], 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[233].' + +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[234]:-- + + '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 quęre 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.' + +2. _Class B_ 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 _Essex_, _Norfolk_, +_Suffolk_, &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 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[235]. 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 _London_ 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[236]:-- + + '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[237], 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.' + +Under _Bucks_ are Rawlinson's own collections for a history of Eton +College, and under _Middlesex_ and _Oxon._ his parochial collections for +those counties. The _Irish_ MSS. include many of great antiquity and +value which formerly belonged to Sir James Ware, _e.g._ Tigernach's +Annals, Annals of Ulster, Lives of Saints, 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. + +Of these two classes a Catalogue, in one volume quarto, was printed in +1862, which was compiled by the writer of this volume[238]. 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. + +3. _Class C_ 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[239], +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 _Notitia Anglię_) 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 +_Miscellaneous_ and _Letters_), 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 for ten guineas[240].' Early English poets are +represented by Lydgate, Rolle of Hampole, William of Nassyngton, and +others[241]; 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. + +4. The class entitled _Miscellaneous_ 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[242], John Dunton, +and Bagford, with a very large mass of _Hearniana_. 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[243]. 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_s._[244] There is also a 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. + +5. In _Letters_ 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. + +6. The class of _Poetry_ 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. + +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 _Miscell._ only as far as No. 407); an index, in continuation, to +all the later additions is now in process of formation. + +7. Of _Sermons_ 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 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. + +8. A selection of Biblical and Classical MSS., with a few others, +amounting to 199, are placed in the case marked '_Auctarium_,' G. +Amongst these are a few Greek volumes, with critical _Adversaria_ of +Maittaire, Josh. Lasher, and J. G. Gręvius. 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. + +9. Of _Missals_, _Horę_, 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[245], of Flemish, or of Italian) are now incorporated with +a large collection of Liturgical books, which are called _Canon. +Liturg._, from their having formed part of the Canonici collection +purchased in 1818. + +10. A small collection of _Statutes_, 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 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. + +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. + +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, _Reliquię +Hearnianę_. 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 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 _Miscellaneous_ MSS. Of this Rawlinson says, in a letter dated +June 19, 1740[246]: '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. + +13. Large collections were made by Rawlinson for a continuation of +Wood's _Athenę Oxon._ 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 _ad eundem_; the +quartos contain 1331 notices, numbered but not arranged in any other +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[247]. +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[248]. 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 _per annum_ for enlarging and +continuing the set[249]. + +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. 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. + +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[250]. Another series, +between 1571 and 1663, is in the Ashmole collection. + +By his second codicil, of July 25, 1754, Rawlinson bequeathed a fee-farm +rent of £4 _per annum_ 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[251]. The receipt of this sum is entered in the Accounts for +1756, but in no subsequent year. + +The following is an alphabetical list of the principal libraries from +which Rawlinson's MSS. were collected, with the dates (so far as +ascertained) at which these libraries were dispersed:-- + + Acton (Oliver), of Bridewell Hosp. + Bacon (Thos. Sclater), 1737. + Bridgeman (Will. & Rich.), 1742. + Chandos (Duke of), 1747. + Clarendon (Henry, Earl of). Through _Chandos_. + Clavell (Walter), 1742. + Compton (Bishop). See p. 175. + Foucault (Nic. Jos.), 'Comes Consistorianus[252],' 1721. + Gale (Samuel), 1755. + Graves (Rich.), of Mickleton. Through _Hearne_. + Halifax (Montagu, Earl of), 1715. + Hearne (Thomas), 1747. + Holman (William). See p. 174. + Jekyll (Sir Joseph), 1739. + Le Neve (Peter), 1731. + Maittaire (Mich.), 1748. + Mead (Richard, M.D.), 1754-5. + Murray (John), 1749. + Oxford (Harley, Earl of), 1743-5. + Pepys (Samuel). See p. 172. + Pole (Francis), 175-. + Powle (Henry), in 1689 Speaker of House of Commons. + Rawlinson (Thomas), 1734. + Robinson (Bishop). See p. 175. + St. George (Sir Thomas). + Somers (Lord). Through _Jekyll_. + Spelman (Sir Henry). + Spinckes (Rev. Nathan), 1727. + Turner (Bishop). See p. 176. + Usher (Archbishop). Through _Hearne_. + Wake (Archbp.). See p. 174. + Ware (Sir James). Through _Clarendon_ and _Chandos_. + Whiston (William). + +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 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:-- + + '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.' + +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 _Codex_) 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. + + * * * * * + +By the death on Sept. 5, 1754, of James St. Amand, Esq.[253] (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 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[254], 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. + +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, 'Animus si ęquus, quod petis hīc est.' + + * * * * * + +By the bequest of George Ballard (the author of the _Memoirs of Learned +Ladies_), 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 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 _Letters by +Eminent Persons_, 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[255]. 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;[256] a dialogue between a tutor and his +pupil, by Lord Herbert, of Cherbury; the second book of the +_Supplication of Soules_, by Sir Thos. More, a precious little volume of +103 closely-written duodecimo pages, entirely in the handwriting of the +great Chancellor; the _Universitie's Musterings_, by Brian Twyne; +collections by Ant. ą 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.' + +Ballard was originally a stay-maker or mantua-maker at Campden, +Gloucestershire; but, following the study of antiquities with great +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 _A Register of St. Mary Magd. College_, by J. R. Bloxam, +D.D., pp. 95-102, 1857. Some letters from him are printed in Nichols' +_Lit. Hist._ iv. 206-226. + +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 ą Becket), now numbered _E. Musęo_ 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 _Patres Ecclesię Anglicanę_, in 1845. + +[220] This date is from the _Register of Graduates_; Rawlinson says, +Mich. Term, 1710. + +[221] By Bishop Jeremy Collier, in Mr. Laurence's Chapel on College +Hill, London. (See a communication from the present writer in _Notes and +Queries_, 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 _Rev._ (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.' + +[222] 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. + +[223] See _Notes and Queries_, 3rd series, i. 225. + +[224] 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 _Actions with Spirits_), which, he says, had been subsequently +in the possession of Lilly. It is now in the Ashmolean Museum. + +[225] 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. + +[226] _Apropos_ 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. + +[227] Among the printed books are two copies of Archbp. Parker's rare +_De Antiq. Eccl. Brit._, 1572. One of these is the identical copy +described by Strype in his _Life of Parker_, 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:-- + + 'The armes of Marie Queene Dolphines of ffraunce, + The nobillest Lady in earth for till aduaunce: + Off Scotland queene, and of Ingland also, + Off Ireland als, God haith providit so.' + +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 _Reliquię +Hearn._ vol. ii. pp. 960-1, where Hearne's note is printed in full. The +other is a volume entitled, _The Bloody Court; or, the Fatal Tribunal_, +being an account of the trial and execution of Charles I. The lengthy +title is printed by Dr. Bliss, _ubi supra_. Some few of Rawlinson's +printed books came to the Library among Gough's, in 1809. + +[228] 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_s._ 6_d._ 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.' + +[229] It was chiefly from these that the two volumes published in 1841 +under the title of _Life, Journals, and Correspondence of S. Pepys_ 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 +_sack_-bottle,' whereas the poor man had lost it by sitting many years +'at the _inck_-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 '_Novelles_,' or newspapers, which Mr. Hill sends to +Pepys are explained (vol. ii. p. 135) to have been the _Novellę_ of +Justinian! Throughout the book proper names are frequently made to +become anything but proper to their owners. + +[230] Letter from Rawlinson to T. Rawlins, Jan. 25, 1749/50; Ballard MS. +ii. 115. + +[231] The same volume (now A. 139^b) 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. + +[232] In his delight at his new purchase, Rawlinson seems to have +exaggerated the interest of these volumes. + +[233] Letter to T. Rawlins, Feb. 24, 1742/3; Ballard MS. ii. 78. + +[234] To the same; _Ibid._ 59. + +[235] Gough, _Brit. Topogr._ i. 370, 345. + +[236] Letter, June 24, 1741; Ballard MS. ii. 59. + +[237] Including some letters from Ken while Chaplain to Princess Mary. +These papers of Compton are in class C. + +[238] 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. + +[239] A volume of collections by him relating to the early versions of +the Bible was bought in 1858 for five guineas. + +[240] Ballard MS. ii. 87. + +[241] One curious volume is described by Sir F. Madden in his preface to +_Syr Gawayne_, printed by the Roxburghe Club in 1839. + +[242] 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). + +[243] For Parish Registers, see under 1821. + +[244] 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. + +[245] From this library Rawlinson also obtained some French editions of +the _Horę_, printed on vellum. + +[246] Ballard MS. ii. 41. + +[247] 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. + +[248] 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_s._ Carmey's letter conveying his offer of sale is preserved in +Rawlinson's copy of the sale catalogue. + +[249] It does not appear, however, that this sum was ever paid. + +[250] A curious, and probably unique, little 'Almanacke for XII yere, +after the latytude of Oxenforde,' printed in 48^o (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. + +[251] 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. + +[252] Autobiographical memoirs by Foucault, extending to 1719, were +published under the editorship of F. Baudry, 4^o. Paris, 1862, in the +French Government series of _Documents inédits sur l'Histoire de +France_. The editor remarks in the preface (p. xli.), 'On ignore en +quelles mains la bibliothčque de Foucault passa aprčs sa mort [1721]. Le +P. Le Long nous apprend seulement qu'elle fut vendue, et probablement +dispersée.' + +[253] 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. + +[254] 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 _Letters by Eminent Persons_, +1813, vol. i. pp. 15-17. + +[255] References to many particulars relative to Thoresby, Bishop +Gibson, White Kennett and Hickes (with a few others) are given in J. +Nichols' notes to the _Letters of Archbp. Nicolson_ (2 vols. 1809), an +interesting and varied biographical miscellany, but which is guilty of +the capital crime of omitting an index. + +[256] 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^ble. S^r. Edmund Warcup +(being all writ w^th his own hand at y^e Isle of Wight at y^e Treaty) +to the Public Library in Oxford, to be placed there when I thought +fitting. + + 'AR. CHARLETT. + + 'Univ. Coll. + Nov. 25, 97.' + + +A.D. 1756. + +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[257], 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. + +[257] Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, edit. 1835, vol. ii. p. 54. + + +A.D. 1759. + +Above forty Syriac, Greek and Arabic MSS. are recorded in the Registers +to have been presented by Henry Dawkins, Esq., 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 _sixty_ 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. + +Swedenborg's _Arcana C[oe]lestia_, published anonymously, in 8 vols. +were sent 'by the author, unknown.' The same donor, still unknown, sent +in 1766 _Selecti Dionys. Halicarn. tractatus_. + +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. + +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 _Letter containing an Account of some +Antiquities between Windsor and Oxford_. 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, 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. + + +A.D. 1760. + +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 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_s._ per oz., and two more in 1743 for £8 5_s._ 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 +_Bodley_ Series), together with his grandfather's portrait. + +A bequest of £70, towards the purchase of an orrery, was received from +Rev. Jos. Parsons, M.A., of Merton College. + + +A.D. 1761. + +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. + + +A.D. 1762. + +The west, or Selden, end of the Library was re-floored at a cost of £66. +Unchaining of those books which hitherto, on account of their +accessibility to all comers, were fastened to their shelves, appears to +have been commenced in this year. + + +A.D. 1763. + +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[258]. He died Feb. 13, 1767, at which time he held +three livings, besides his Chaplaincy of All Souls' College. + +[258] 'See papers in _Files_, 1763; Archiv.' (MS. note in Dr. P. Bliss' +_Collectanea_.) + + +A.D. 1764. + +The _Editio princeps_ of Homer, Florence, 1488, was bought for £6 6_s._ + + +A.D. 1768. + +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[259].' Price +appears to have been employed in the Library as early as the year 1760, +when a payment of £8 8_s._ was made to him; in 1766 he signs, together +with Owen and Thomas Parker, an account of books received from +Stationers' Hall. + +[259] Note by Dr. Bliss in the edition of Wood's _Life_ published, in +1848, by the Eccl. Hist. Soc. p. 88. + + +A.D. 1770. + +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 _Art._), +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. + + +A.D. 1771. + +A payment of £2 12_s._ 6_d._ 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. + + +A.D. 1775. + +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. + + +A.D. 1776. + +Lord North, the Chancellor of the University, presented to the Library +the observations made by Dr. James Bradley, while Astronomer 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 the editorship of Prof. S. P. Rigaud, in one vol. +quarto, entitled _Miscellaneous Works and Correspondence of Rev. J. +Bradley_. 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. + + +A.D. 1778. + +_Carte's MSS._ See 1753. + + +A.D. 1780. + +On Jan. 22, a Statute was passed which imposed an annual fee of four +shillings[260] 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 'vix unus et alter publicis sumptibus adscribi possit.' 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 commencement of the annual printed purchase-catalogues +dates in consequence from this year. + +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[261].' 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. + +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[262]. + +The Sub-librarian at this time was John Walters, an undergraduate +Scholar of Jesus College. He published in this year a small volume of +_Poems_ ('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 +_Specimens of Welsh Poetry in English verse, with some Original Pieces +and Notes_. He took the degree of M.A. in 1784, and died in 1791[263]. +We learn from a MS. note in a copy of his _Poems_, 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. + +[260] By the Statute passed in 1813, and by that on Fees passed in 1855, +an annual payment of _eight_ shillings was ordered to be made to the +Library out of the total sum (now £1 6_s._) 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. + +[261] Note by Dr. Bliss, in his MS. _Collectanea_, bequeathed by him to +Rev. H. O. Coxe. + +[262] 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 _Memoirs of the Present State of the +Court and Councils of Spain_. + +[263] Nichols' _Lit. Anecd._ viii. 122. + + +A.D. 1785. + +George III and Queen Charlotte visited the Library, from Nuneham, on +Oct. 13. Price, the Librarian, was in attendance, and kissed hands. + +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 (_qu._ Evan Thomas, of All Souls' +College, B.A., 1793?) does the same in 1790. + + +A.D. 1787. + +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 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[264], and with having but +little knowledge of foreign publications. An anecdote is related +(amongst others) of his lending _Cook's Voyages_, 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[265].' 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 'cum consensu Curatorum' instead of +'ex relatione Curatorum,' 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 appointment of these in the hands of the Librarian (in +accordance with Bodley's own Statute) instead of assigning it to the +Curators. + +Eleven Arabic and Persian MSS. were given by Turner Camac, Esq., co. +Down. + +A first part of a Catalogue of the Oriental MSS., comprehending those in +Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Ęthiopic, 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[266]. 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[267]. And upon carrying out this +re-examination, the following was found to be the result:-- + + 'Varias errorum formas deprehendi, titulis nunc charta coopertis, + nunc atramento oblitis, nunc cultro pęne abrasis; auctorum porro + nominibus paullulum immutatis quo notiora quędam referrent; numeris + etiam, quibus singula volumina signata sunt, permutatis, quo quis + opus imperfectum pro integro habeat, paginis denique pauculis operi + alieno a fronte assutis.' + +[264] Among other instances the purchase (in 1784) of Sir John Hill's +_Vegetable System_, at the cost of £140, is mentioned. + +[265] It appears incidentally, from this pamphlet, that three o'clock +was the dinner-hour at almost every College at that time. + +[266] He died suddenly at his lodgings in Oxford, Oct. 18, 1796, aged +upwards of seventy (_Gent. Magaz._, vol. lxvi. p. 884.) + +[267] The late Dr. Simonides was evidently by no means the first in his +art, although probably _facile princeps_. + + +A.D. 1789. + +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 _Auctarium_, 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. + +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. + +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:-- + + '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. 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[268].' + +[268] Nichols, _Lit. Anecd._ iii. 699, 701. + + +A.D. 1790. + +A very large number of _Editiones principes_ 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_s._; and Fust and Schoeffer's first _dated_ Latin +Bible (Mentz, 1462) for £127 15_s._ 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. + +£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. + + +A.D. 1791. + +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 _History and Antiquities_, vol. ii. part ii. +p. 949. + + +A.D. 1792. + +The collections of notes and various readings made by Joseph Torelli, of +Verona, in preparation for his edition of Archimedes, were deposited in +the Library, (F. _infra_, 2. _Auct._). 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. + + +A.D. 1793. + +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 +_Mazarine Bible_, from the circumstance that the first copy which +obtained notice was found in the Mazarine Library at Paris. + + +A.D. 1794. + +The _Editio princeps_ of the Bible in German, printed by Eggesteyn about +1466, was bought for £50. + +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.) + +Mr. Rich. S. Skillerne, of All Souls' (B.A. 1796, M.A. 1800), was +employed in the Library. + +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 in the Bodleian, +in order thereby to accomplish what would be a most useful work, and is +still a great _desideratum_, a General Catalogue of all the books in +Oxford. + + +A.D. 1795. + +A brief list (filling sixty small octavo pages) was printed at the +Clarendon Press, of the _Editiones principes_, 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. quę vel primarię, vel sęc. xv. impressę, vel Aldinę, in +Bibliotheca Bodleiana adservantur.' + +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[269]. It consists of a plain cornelian set in +silver, with the following couplet engraved on the rim:-- + + 'Against my King I do not fight, + But for my King and kingdom's right.' + +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[270], Balliol, Exeter, and Jesus; Oriel sent a list +subsequently (in 1808?); but these were all that were ever forwarded. + +[269] Lord Nugent, in his _Memorials of Hampden_, erroneously mentions +this as being preserved in the Ashmolean Museum. He also repeats two +mistaken readings first given in Miss Seward's _Anecdotes_, iv. 358 (a +volume dedicated to Price, the Librarian), where a small woodcut of the +ornament is given. + +[270] 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. + + +A.D. 1796. + +A few _incunabula_ and Aldines were purchased at Göttingen. + +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 _History of Northamptonshire_. 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' _History_, published in 1791. + + +A.D. 1798. + +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 +('_jam senior, sed mente virens_,') 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 (_ętat._ +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, 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. + + +A.D. 1799. + +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. + + +A.D. 1800. + +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 _Atlas of France_, 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 _Moniteur_ from 1789, which was bought for £66. + + +A.D. 1801. + +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[271]. 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 +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_s._ 6_d._; Mr. Vincent Novello gave, in 1849, MSS. of +Handel's _Te Deum in D_, 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 _Cantates_ in 1856; and two or +three volumes have been added by the present writer. + +[271] A short memoir of this gentleman is given in _Gent. Magaz._ 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 _dilettante_ or professor, as a sightsman in vocal execution.' + + +A.D. 1803. + +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 _Arabian Nights' Entertainments_, 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 _Oriental +Collections_, vol. ii. p. 25. + + +A.D. 1805. + +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. + +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 _Adversaria_ of +Scipio and Alberic Gentilis. There are also six Turkish and Arabic MSS. +The gem of the collection is a quarto MS. of _Euclid_, containing 387 +leaves, which was written, '[Grk: cheiri Stephanou klźrikou],' 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,) _nummi_. 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. + +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. + + +A.D. 1806. + +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. + +A beautiful copy of the _Koran_ 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:-- + + '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[272].' + +The _Catholicon_ of J. de Janua, printed at Mentz, in 1460, was bought +for £63. + +The following singular memorandum, relating to this year, is preserved +on a small paper:-- + + '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. + + 'JOSEPH WHITE. + + '_Mem._ Not returned, June 24, 1807. + 'Nor as yet, Oct., 1808. J. P. (_i.e._ J. Price). + 'And never to be ret^d.' (added at some later period.) + +This picture must have been the portrait of Professor White himself, +which was painted and presented by Rev. Will. Peters, R.A., in +1785[273]. It has never been restored. + +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 seemed to him naturally suggested: +'[Grk: Ouai hymin, hoti źrate tźn kleida tźs gnōseōs; autoi ouk +eisźlthete, kai tous eiserchomenous ekōlysate.]' 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 _scavant +inconnu_, April 19, 1806.' + +[272] _Bibliogr. Decam._ iii. 472. + +[273] Gutch's _Wood_, II. ii. 979. + + +A.D. 1807. + +A list of the books printed during the year at the University Press is +added to the annual account. This was not repeated. + +A copy of the _Speculum Christiani_, printed by Will. de Machlinia, was +given by Rev. A. H. Matthews, of Jesus College. + +Amongst the names of Assistants, written by them, _more Anglico_, 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 _Life of Bengel_, 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 _Register of Magd. Coll._ 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. + + +A.D. 1808. + +The Latin Bible printed by Ulric Zell, at Cologne, in two volumes, about +1470, was bought for £47 5_s._ 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_s._ + +A set of the Oxford Almanacks, from the commencement in 1674 to this +year, was given by a frequent donor, Alderman Fletcher[274]. + +[274] 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. + + +A.D. 1809. + +The death of the eminent topographer and antiquary, Richard Gough, on +Feb. 20, 1809[275], 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 _Illustrations of Literary History_, 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[276] and topographical prints and drawings, in +elephant-folio volumes; of this a very brief outline-list is given in +the printed catalogue, but a full list in detail exists in MS[277]. +Secondly, of printed books and MSS., arranged under the heads of General +Topography, Ecclesiastical Topography[278], Natural History, the several +Counties (with London, Westminster, and Southwark) in order[279], 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 before the Reformation, together +with a few MSS., chiefly _Horę_. 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. + + _Missals_, Salisbury use, 30 + " York " 4 + " Rouen " 1 + " Roman " 3 + " 'pro sacerdotibus in Anglia, &c. itinerantibus.' 1 + _Breviaries_ and _Portiforia_, Salisbury use, 18 + " " York " 2 + " " Hereford " 1[280] + _Manuals_, Salisbury use, 10 + " York (MS.) " 1 + _Processionals_, Salisbury use, 10 + " York " 1 + _Hours_, Salisbury use, 24 + " Roman " (besides several MSS.) 1 + +Of several of these books there are more than single copies. + +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. +Gagničres, tutor to the sons of 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[281]. + +The copy of the _British Topography_, 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[282]. 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 _Cheshire_, p. 446. The collections for +the first edition make three volumes. + +By Gough's bequest the Library became also possessed (as mentioned +above) of the very valuable copper-plates which illustrated his +_Sepulchral Monuments_, 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 _Monuments_. The brass is +now exhibited in the glass case of miscellaneous objects of curiosity in +the Picture Gallery. + +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[283] that the first 136 pages were prepared by himself. In the +_Bibliographical Decameron_ (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.' + +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. + + * * * * * + +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 +Ęthiopic, 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 _Calligraphus_) in the year 896, +for Arethas, a deacon of Patras, for the sum of thirteen Byzantine +_nummi_. The D'Orville MS. of Euclid was also written for this Arethas +(see p. 208). + +[275] A very full memoir of him is to be found in the _Lit. Anecd._ 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. + +[276] 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 _British Topography_, 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 _Topography_, 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 _Topography_, 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 _Handbook for Yorkshire_, they are said to have been made in +1579. One guinea was given by Gough for his fragments. + +[277] 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). + +[278] Mr. A. Chalmers gave, in 1813, the second volume of a copy of +Wharton's _Anglia Sacra_, 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_s._ 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 +'socius ejectus') Cole, Rowe Mores, and other well-known antiquaries. + +[279] 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 _History of +the Hundred of Wanting_ (4^o. 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. + +[280] The splendid and, as it is believed, unique vellum copy of the +_Hereford Missal_ ('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 _Annales Eliz._ 1. xxvii.) +This Hereford volume is described, together with many of Gough's books, +in a book by Ed. Frčre, entitled _Des Livres de Liturgie des Eglises +d'Angleterre imprimés ą Rouen dans les_ xv. _et_ xvi. _Sičcles_, 8^o +Rouen, 1867. + +[281] See _Gent. Magaz._ for 1860, p. 406. + +[282] So in the Library Register of accounts. Nichols (_Lit. Hist._ vol. +v. p. 559) says £100. + +[283] In his MS. _Collectanea_, in the possession of Rev. H. O. Coxe. + + +A.D. 1810. + +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. + +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. + +In this year Dr. Philip Bliss, the editor of Wood's _Athenę_, 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 _Poetry_, +the _Letters_, and the commencement of the _Miscell._) 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. + +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_s._ were paid in 1812. + + +A.D. 1811. + +Only eighteen books were purchased in this year! The list, scantly +filling one page, is consequently the _minimum_ in the series of annual +catalogues. + + +A.D. 1813. + +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 _Gentleman's Magazine_ 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' _Illustrations of the +Lit. Hist. of the 18th Century_. 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 (_see_ p. 197). '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 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[284]. 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. + +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. + +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, 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. + +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[285]. + +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). + +[284] Among the purchases is a set of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ to the +year 1810 for £52 10_s._ + +[285] 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.' + + +A.D. 1814. + +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 _Typographical Gazetteer_ +and _List of Editions of the English Bible_, afford abundant +testimony[286]. 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. + +During his continuance in the Library, a descriptive Catalogue of the +_Editiones principes_ and _Incunabula_ 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. + +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, Ęthiopic, and Sanscrit. His facility in +acquiring languages must have been truly marvellous, 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, _q. v._ + +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. + +[286] 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. _Captain._ +What are you about, Dick? _Dick._ Nothing, sir. _Captain._ Tom, what are +you doing? _Tom._ Helping Dick, sir.' Treatise 24 has for its title the +few but emphatic words, '_De Dodd_.' 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 _Clerk of the Schools_. + + +A.D. 1815. + +_Cedunt arma togę!_ 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. + +In January, Mr. John Calcott, of Lincoln College (B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, +B.D. 1825; Fellow of Linc.; deceased 1864) was appointed _Minister_ in +the room of Mr. Francis Thurland, of New 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). + + +A.D. 1816. + +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[287], 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[288]. + +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[289] announced that the Catalogue would be finished, in four +folio volumes, by Messrs. Bandinel and Cotton under the superintendence +of Professor Gaisford[290]. 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[291], 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. + +Four Greek MSS. were presented in this year by Rev. ---- Hall, Chaplain at +Leghorn[292]; a copy of Lucan's _Pharsalia_, 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. + +[287] Hooke in 1685 was one of the Chaplains attending Monmouth in his +rebellion! _Lockhart Papers_, 1817, vol. i. p. 148. + +[288] _Gent. Magaz._ vol. lxxv. ii. 569. + +[289] _Bibliogr. Decam._ iii. 429. + +[290] 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 _de novo_. And nearly thirty years +elapsed before it was finally completed. + +[291] Previous grants amounting to £260, had been made in 1820. + +[292] Three of these are described in Mr. Coxe's Catalogue, cols. +812-14. + + +A.D. 1817. + +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[293]. 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 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[294]. + +The MSS. purchased by the Bodleian amount in number to about 2045. +Dibdin, almost immediately upon the acquisition, noticed it thus[295]:-- + + '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.' + +In Greek there are 128 volumes, chiefly of the fifteenth and sixteenth +centuries, with a few of earlier date, including two _Evangelistaria_ +assigned by Montfaucon to the ninth century. Of Latin classical authors +and Medięval 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 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 _belles +lettres_, 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. + +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 _Horę_, 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. + +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[296]. 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. + +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 _Varię +Lectiones Veteris Testamenti_. The few Arabic MSS. are described in Dr. +Pusey's Continuation of Nicol's Catalogue. + +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[297]. + +A MS. of Suidas, of the fifteenth century, was purchased for £220 10_s._ +Another acquisition was a French translation, made in 1417, by Laurens +de Preme, of the _Ethics_, _Politics,_ &c., of Aristotle[298]. Some +specimens of the Javanese language were given by Capt. L. H. Davy. + +Among printed books, the most noticeable purchase (besides the _Edd. +Pr._ 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_s._ Some sets of controversial and political tracts, with +other books, which had belonged to Thomas Brande Hollis and Dr. John +Disney, were bought at the sale of the library of the latter. + +[293] 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. + +[294] De Backer's _Bibliothčque des écrivains de la comp. de Jésus_; +quatr. série, p. 93. 8vo. Ličge, 1858. + +[295] _Bibliogr. Decam._ iii. 429. + +[296] See under the year 1852. + +[297] 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 _Vocabolario Cateriniano_, 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 _Divina Commedia_, 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 _The Book of the Mousetrap_! (See _Notes and +Queries_, i. 154.) + +[298] Bodl. MS. 965. + + +A.D. 1818. + +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 _Parents' Assistant_, +Mrs. H. More's _Sacred Dramas_, Mrs. Opie's _Simple Tales_, and an +edition of _Ossian_, were all consigned to the limbo of 'rubbish.' But +the Cambridge Return (which is much more detailed than that from +Oxford[299]) 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 _Theology_ includes Owen's _History of +the Bible Society_; the _History_ includes _Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell +and his Children_; the _Poetry_, Byron's _Siege of Corinth_, L. Hunt's +_Story of Rimini_, and Wordsworth's _Thanksgiving Ode_; and the +_Novels_, [Peacock's] _Headlong Hall_, one by Mrs. Opie, and--_The +Antiquary_! 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 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 +_all_ publications sent from Stationers' Hall should in future be +entered and preserved. + +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_s._ 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 _black +negro baby_, 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. + +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, as having been admitted to read in the Library, while +still an undergraduate of Exeter College, on May 10, 1797. + +_Alderman Fletcher's illustrated copy of Gulch's Wood._ See under 1610. + +Mr. John Walker, Queen's College (B.A. 1820; Chaplain of New College, +M.A., 1823), succeeded Mr. Fenton as _minister_ in July. + +[299] The minuteness of specification is such that '_Turner's Real Japan +Blacking, a Label_' is duly entered. + + +A.D. 1819. + +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[300]; 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' _Rationale_, +printed by the same printers in the same year, but completed on Oct. 6. +This was bought in 1790 for £80 10_s._ Large additions were made to the +collection of Aldines. + +The name of Lady Hester Stanhope occurs among the benefactors as +presenting an Arabic MS. of the Romance of Antar, in thirty volumes. + +[300] The rarity of this edition was caused by its being bought up and +destroyed by the sons of Prince Radzivil. + + +A.D. 1820. + +From Messrs. Payne and Foss was bought, for £150, the famous MS. of the +Greek New Testament called, from its former possessor, the 'Codex +Ebnerianus.' 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 from the East 'ex singulari +Numinis providentia.' 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 _Notitia egregii +codicis Gręci Novi Testamenti manuscripti_, &c. 4^o. Norib. 1738. This +was incorporated by De Murr in his _Memorabilia Bibliothecarum +publicarum Norimbergensium_, 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 (coęval 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. + +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, _ubi supra_, pp. 135-7. + +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 _Verona Illustrata_ (fol. 1731), +part ii. col. 48[301]. The MSS. purchased by the Library are described +in Mr. Coxe's Catalogue, cols. 774-808. + +A collection of Arabic tracts and papers, which had formerly belonged to +Dr. Kennicott, was given by Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham. + +[301] 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. + + +A.D. 1821. + +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[302]. 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 _Shakespeare_, 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[303]; 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 _Gent. Magaz._ and Nichol's _Lit. Hist._), was +published in 1836; and, in 1861, Mr. J. O. Halliwell printed fifty-one +copies of a small _Hand-list_ 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 _Shakespeare_ 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[304]. 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 _Menagiana_. + +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 _Ames_, 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 _Ed. Pr._ of Virgil, printed by Sweynheim and Pannartz in +1469[305]. A somewhat 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_s._ were paid for an edition of Virgil printed at Venice +about 1473. + +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[306]. A volume of interest in typographical +history was presented, in the first book printed in New South Wales. It +is entitled _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_: it extends to thirty-six small octavo pages, and was printed at +Hobart Town, by Andrew Bent, in Dec, 1818[307]. + +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. + +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. + +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[308]. + +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 +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[309]. 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. + +In Feb. Mr. J. P. Roberts, New College (B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826, now Minor +Canon of Chichester) was appointed _minister_, _vice_ 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 _vice_ 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. + +[302] 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. + +[303] For notices of the purchase of several early quartos, wanting in +this series, see 1834. + +[304] These are now incorporated with the large collection called +_Godwyn Pamphlets_. A copy of Wood's _Ath. Oxon._ with MSS. notes by +Malone, was given by Mr. B. H. Bright in 1835. + +[305] Various other _editt. princ._ were bought in this year, with some +Aldines. Also a collection of modern Greek works printed at Venice. + +[306] Offor's copy sold for £41; Lea Wilson's for £61 10_s._ + +[307] The present writer has in his possession an early newspaper +printed in New Zealand, the _Auckland Times_, 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 '_Printed in a mangle_.' + +[308] 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. + +[309] 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. + + +A.D. 1822. + +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. + +'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 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 _non causa pro causa_. + + +A.D. 1823. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + +A.D. 1824. + +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_s._ They are now bound in six volumes, of which +three are lettered _Sheldon_, and three _Dolben_. 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 _State of Great Britain_ 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 +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 _Own +Times_, Dr. Routh says:-- + + '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.' + +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[310] 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. + +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 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. _Imprimis_, +Coverdale's first edition, 1535[311], 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. + +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). + +[310] These, in number thirty-eight, are described in Mr. Coxe's +Catalogue, cols. 724-773. An eighth-century copy of Eusebius' +_Chronicon_ is among the Latin MSS. + +[311] 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 '_Fs. T. H._' 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. + + +A.D. 1825. + +The sale at Paris of the library of L. M. Langlčs, 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. + +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 +_Dissertationes Academicę_, which appeared in 1832, was in a great +measure his work. + +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 _supra_, 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 _Remains_, vol. ii. p. +73. + + +A.D. 1826. + +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. + + +A.D. 1827. + +A very large collection of Academic Dissertations published in Germany, +amounting to about 43,400, was bought at Altona for £332 16_s._ 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 additions were made in 1836 and 1837, but +particularly in 1846, when no fewer than 7000 were purchased[312]. + +Mr. Henry Forster, New College (B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834; Esquire Bedel of +Divinity; deceased 1857), succeeded Mr. Bailey, in March, as Assistant. + +[312] There is scarcely an imaginable subject in law, theology, or +history, on which something may not be found in this vast collection. +The _something_ 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,--_Num Verbi ministro toga +cubicularia_ (Schlaffpeltze) _induto officio sacro defungi liceat?_ +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 _Diss. de Imprecationibus libris +ascriptis_; while the title of Sam. Schelging's discourse in 1729, _De +Apparitionibus mortuorum vivis ex pacto factis_, 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; _e.g._ those worthy Germans who had gone to sleep at Jena, in +1660, during the reading of a dissertation _De Jure et Potestate +Parlamenti Britannici_, 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:--'Casus ex jure privato. + +'I. Titius ducit uxorem Caiam. Caia, elapso uno vel altero anno, +transmutatur in virum. Q. an Caia hęc, soluto per hanc metamorphosin +matrimonio, possit repetere dotem? Dist. + +'II. Sempronia, defuncto marito Męvio, nubit Titio. Męvius divinā +potentiā in vitam resuscitatur mortalem. Q. an Męvius hic, secundum +vivus, uxorem Semproniam et bona sua repetere possit? Aff.' + +It was usual for the friends of the candidate who defended the thesis of +the Dissertation (generally written for him by the _Pręses_) 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, 'Nunc erit et seclis +Norcopia clara futuris,' 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. + + +A.D. 1828. + +A collection of 153 Northern MSS., chiefly in the Icelandic and Danish +languages, formed by Finn Magnusen, was purchased from him for +£350[313]. 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. + +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 _Historie of the Church +of Scotland_ was purchased for sixteen guineas. + +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. + +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. + +[313] Some notes by G. J. Thorkelin on Northern Antiquities were bought +in 1846. + + +A.D. 1829. + +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[314]. 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 (_col._ 50), to have numbered no fewer +than about 2100 volumes[315]. + +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 _en masse_ 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 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[316].' + +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 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. + +[314] 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. + +[315] 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 +_Bibliotheca Judaica_, 8^o. Leipz. 1863, pp. 42-51. The _Catalogus +Interpretum S. Script._, by Thomas James, in 1635, is here metamorphosed +into one by Thomas _Jones_, in 1735. + +[316] _Typographical Gazetteer_, p. 349. + + +A.D. 1830. + +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 in plate xxxi. in Mr. Leigh Sotheby's _Illustrations of the +Handwriting of Melanchthon_[317]. The book is now exhibited in a glass +case, in one of the windows of the Library. + +[317] 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_s._! + + +A.D. 1831. + +In December of this year, Viscount Kingsborough[318] presented a +magnificent copy (being one of four which were printed on vellum) of his +_Antiquities of Mexico_, 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. + +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. + +[318] 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. + + +A.D. 1832. + +A twelfth-century MS. of Scholia on the _Odyssey_ was purchased for +£100. The collection of Bibles, which had during some time past made +some slow progress, was increased by copies of various early printed +versions in European languages, and its further enlargement was steadily +kept in view in succeeding years. + +Six guineas were given for copies of Servetus' treatise _De Trinitatis +erroribus_ and his _Dialogi de Trinitate_, printed in 1531 and 1532, +which are of very great rarity, in consequence of their having very +generally shared the fate of their author. + + +A.D. 1833. + +Some precious Shakespearian volumes, consisting of the _Venus and +Adonis_ of 1594 and 1617, the _Lucrece_ of 1594 and 1616, with a +subsequent edition of 1655, and the _Sonnets_ 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. + +An anonymous pamphlet, entitled, _A Few Words on the Bodleian Library_, +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. + + +A.D. 1834. + +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[319]; and a mass of some 1100 or 1200 plays, published in the +seventeenth and eighteenth centuries[320]. Numerous early Shakespeare +editions were also obtained; _inter alias_, the first edition (1594) of +the first part of the _Contention betwixt the Houses of Yorke and +Lancaster_, for £64; _Richard III_, 1598, £17; fourth edit. of _Henry +IV_, 1608, £12 12_s._[321], &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 (_Introd. to the Classics_) 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_s._ 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[322], while +instructing his son in drawing, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. This beautiful +picture has retained its freshness of colour far more perfectly than +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 + + +DOUCE COLLECTION. + +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[323]. 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 +_Horę_, 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 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[324]. In Bibles (English and French), Horę, 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 _Illuminated Ornaments_, +pl. xxxviii[325]. 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 _Horę_, conjecturally assigned by Mr. Blades to 1478, +and the other is of an edition of the _Booke of Curtesye_, 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 chepe[326].' 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 _Connoisseur's +Repertory_, 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. + +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 _Mason Room_) 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. + +On July 5, Convocation confirmed the nomination of Rev. William Cureton, +M.A., of Ch. Ch. (afterwards so well known for 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. + +Mr. Edmund Grove, of Magdalen College (who never graduated), was +appointed Assistant in April, _vice_ Mr. Stephen Exup. Wentworth, of +Balliol (B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835). Mr. Wentworth appears to have succeeded +Mr. Forster in 1832. + +[319] Another collection of sale catalogues in forty-five vols. was +purchased in 1836. + +[320] Another collection, in twenty-eight vols., of plays chiefly dating +from 1630 to 1707, was bought, in 1842, for £6 17_s._ + +[321] In 1837 _Romeo and Juliet_, printed by Smethwicke, n. d., was +bought for £9 10_s._; in 1840, _Richard III_, 1605, for £21, and +_Hamlet_, 1611, for £10 10_s._; and in 1841 the first edit. 1595, of +part iii. of _Henry VI._ was bought at Chalmers' sale for £131! + +[322] 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. + +[323] 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. + +[324] 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 _Notes and Queries_. One book, +viz. John Weever's _Epigrammes_, 1599, containing notes by Douce, which +had somehow escaped from his library before it came to Oxford, was +purchased in 1838, for £24 10_s._ 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. + +[325] In the same beautiful volume are facsimiles from three of Douce's +MS. _Horę_. + +[326] A facsimile of this advertisement is given in the catalogue of the +Douce library. + + +A.D. 1835. + +The original MS. of Burnet's _History of his Own Times_, with a copy +prepared for the press, a portion of his _History of the Reformation_, +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 _History of James II_, being an extract +from the _Own Times_ 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[327].' + +The MS. of Lewis' _Life of Wyclif_, with some additions by the author, +was bought for £4 14_s._ 6_d._ 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 (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. + +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. + +[327] Ballard MS. ii. 88. + + +A.D. 1836. + +Aubrey's collection of notes and drawings concerning Druidical and Roman +antiquities in Britain, together with some miscellaneous historical +notes, entitled by him _Monumenta Britannica_, 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[328]. The remainder of Aubrey's MSS. +came to the Library in 1860, upon the transfer of the books from the +Ashmolean Museum. See _sub anno_ 1858. + +A collection of about 300 tracts, relating to American affairs and the +War of Independence, in forty-one vols., formed by Rev. Jonathan +Boucher[329], was bought for £8 18_s._ 6_d._ These are now included in +the series of tracts called _Godwyn Pamphlets_, 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 _History of the Revolt_, was bought in 1841 for £24 13_s._; +at the same time, the first and only volume of his _History_, which +itself was never actually published, was bought for £2 7_s._ + +_Sale Catalogues._ See 1834. + +When the new Copyright Act was introduced into Parliament in this year, +it was proposed to allow £500 _per annum_ 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. + +[328] A short description of them will be found in Gough's _Brit. +Topogr._ vol. ii. pp. 369-70, and a fuller account in Britton's _Memoir +of Aubrey_, 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. + +[329] 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 _Notes and Queries_ for 1866, vol. ix. +pp. 75, 282. + + +A.D. 1837. + +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[330]. The six volumes of the folio editions of Clarendon's _History +of the Rebellion_ and _Life_, and of Burnet's _Own Times_, are inlaid +and bound in sixty-one elephant folio volumes, 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[331]. 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[332], 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[333]. +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 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. + +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[334]. 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 found are still in the volumes.' The following letter of thanks +was addressed by Convocation to the donor[335]:-- + + 'To Mrs. Sutherland, of Merrow, in the County of Surrey. + + 'MADAM,--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. + + '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. + + '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. + + '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[336].' + +A few other books were sent by Mrs. Sutherland at the same time, +including Boydell's _Shakespeare_, Heath's _Chronicle_, Scott's edition +of Dalrymple's _Preservation of Charles II_, Faber's _Kit-Cat Club_, +Wilson's _Catalogue of an Amateur_, &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 _Royal and Noble Authors_, +enlarged from five vols. 8^o. to 20 vols. 4^o. 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. + +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_s._ 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_s._ 6_d._ 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. + +_Shakespeare_; _Romeo and Juliet._ See 1834. + +_Sanscrit MSS._ See 1842. + +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. + +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 _minister_ 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. + +[330] MS. note by Mrs. Sutherland in the Library copy of her catalogue. + +[331] As early as 1819 the collection numbered 10,000 prints, bound in +57 volumes. Clarke's _Repert. Bibliogr._ pp. 574-577. + +[332] Mrs. Sutherland died March 18, 1852. + +[333] 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. + +[334] 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. + +[335] 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 _Annals_, enclosed in a gold box. The late Rev. R. Hussey, +Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, was one of the brothers of +Mrs. Sutherland. + +[336] A very erroneous notice of the collection, written in a singularly +depreciatory tone, was inserted in an article in the _Quarterly Review_, +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' _Lit. Hist._), 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. + + +A.D. 1838. + +One of the 'curiosities of literature' was obtained by the purchase (for +£10 10_s._) of the _System of Divinity, in a Course of Sermons on the +first Institutions of Religion_, 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, 'arte meā, diurno +nocturnoque labore' (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[337]. + +A set of the _Monthly Review_, 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. VII. D. 11), was bought for £42. + +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. + +On Nov. 15, a Statute was approved by Convocation which raised the +stipend of the Sub-librarians from £150 to £250. + +From the year 1825 an annual folio Catalogue had been printed, +containing, in one list, all the accessions accruing in each year 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. + +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[338]. In accordance with this form, which is +still used, each graduate now promises: 'Me libros cęterumque 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 regressūs.' + +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[339]. Mr. Coxe's nomination was approved by +Convocation on Nov. 16. + +[337] 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, _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_, 8^o. +1840. This appears to have been partly _composed_ 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, _Elements +of Sanscrit Grammar_. A third, _A Dictionary, containing English Words +of difficult Etymology_, tracing them chiefly to Sanscrit roots, +appeared in two vols. 8^o. 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_s._ 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. + +[338] A previous proposal of this alteration had been rejected by +Convocation on March 17, 1836. + +[339] Mr. Coxe had a considerable share in the compilation of the folio +catalogue of the Arundel MSS. preserved in the Museum. + + +A.D. 1839. + +An application was made by Magdalen College for the return of a copy of +the Statutes of the College, found among the Rawlinson 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. + + +A.D. 1840. + +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' _De Octo +Partibus Orationis_, many of which were unknown; these had previously +come from the library of Dr. Kloss. A ninth-century MS. of St. Gregory's +_Sacramentary_ was purchased for £63; and early MSS. of Juvenal, Lucan, +&c. A fine and perfect copy of Caxton's _Dictes and Sayinges of the +Philosophres_, printed in 1477, was purchased for £50. It had previously +been sold, at Dr. Vincent's sale in 1816, for £99 15_s._; 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_s._, Mr. +Blades has in consequence recorded that as being the price at which the +Library secured the volume[340]. + +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 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 _Theologia +Moralis_, 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, _The +Church of Rome; a Report on the Books and Documents on the Papacy, +deposited in the University Library, Cambridge_, &c. + +_Shakespeare_; _Richard III_ and _Hamlet_. See 1834. + +The first non-academic _minister_ was appointed in Mr. H. S. Harper +(_vice_ 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. + +[340] As Mr. Blades' valuable work on _The Life and Typography of +Caxton_, 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. 155; and two fragments, among Douce's +books, are mentioned at p. 250. + + +A.D. 1841. + +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. +Dukes' _Antiquities of Shropshire_ (4^o. 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. + +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). + +Some rare and interesting books issued by English printers about the +middle of the sixteenth century were acquired in this year; among them, +the _Boke of Common Prayer_, printed by Oswen, at Worcester, in 1552, +bought for the very moderate sum of £3 16_s._ Two rare American Psalters +were purchased, the one called _The Massachuset Psalter_, 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_s._ + +_Shakespeare_, _Henry VI._ See 1834. + +_American Tracts._ See 1836. + +_Donatus._ See 1840. + +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 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 _Mason Room_ (see p. 251). 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. + + +A.D. 1842. + +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[341]. +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 (_dec._ 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. + +Some small collections towards the history of Cheshire, made by Rev. F. +Gower, were purchased in this year and in 1846. + +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[342]. + +_Bowyer._ _Italian Municipal Statutes._ See 1838. + +_Laing._ _Almanac by W. de Worde._ See 1755. + +_Old Plays._ See 1834. + +In March, Mr. J. B. Taunton, All Souls' College (B.A. 1843, M.A. 1848), +was appointed Assistant _vice_ Mr. F. E. Thurland, New College (B.A. +1841, M.A. 1846, now Rector of Thurstaston, Cheshire), who was made an +_extra_, in the place of Mr. Symonds, resigned. Mr. Thurland had, +probably, succeeded Mr. Grove in 1838 or 1839. + +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. 134.) + +[341] The gift of the first Sanscrit book (described in the +Benefaction-Register as being 'Gentuanā linguā') by one John _Ken_, in +1666, is noticed at p. 113. The book is now numbered, Walker 214. + +[342] A copy of Blackwood's _Martyre de la Royne d'Escosse_ (Edinb. +1587), among Rawlinson's books, has an autograph of Drummond: 'G[)u]i. +Dr[)u][=m]ond, a Paris, 1607.' + + +A.D. 1843. + +The valuable collection of Oriental MSS. formed by the celebrated +traveller, James Bruce, of Kinnaird, was purchased for £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 +('elegantissimum et celeberrimum') 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. + +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 _Travels_. 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 remained intact, to be +disposed of to our Library in the year following. + +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. + +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. + +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 _Dante_, 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 _London_)-O, S (from +_Shakespeare_)-Z. The whole charges of the printing of the Catalogue +amounted to £2990 12_s._[343]; the previous cost of compilation was +about £2000. + +_Bowyer._ _Italian Municipal Statutes._ See 1838. + +_Sutherland._ _Illustrated Books._ See 1839. + +[343] MS. note by Dr. Bliss. + + +A.D. 1844. + +Sir William Ouseley, the editor of the three volumes entitled _Oriental +Collections_ (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 _en masse_, +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. + + +A.D. 1845. + +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 service in India, was presented +by his son, Sir Will. Walker, of Edinburgh[344]. 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_s._ 6_d._) 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_s._); and the other in +French, consisting only of four small volumes, but containing a very +large number of '_Merveilles_,' 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. + +On Dec. 23, the present writer (then a Clerk of Magdalen College) was +appointed Assistant, _vice_ Mr. Taunton, after upwards of five years' +previous service as a supernumerary, having first entered the Library in +June, 1840. + +[344] 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, 'integritate et antiquitate eminent.' + + +A.D. 1846. + +The original MS., or first copy, of Wood's _History and Antiquities of +Oxford_, in English, was purchased for the moderate sum of £8 8_s._ +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 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. + +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[345]. + +The department of Italian topography, antiquities and art was largely +enriched by the purchase from Rev. R. A. Scott (for £234 6_s._) of a +collection of 1426 volumes made by his brother the late George C. Scott, +Esq., during ten years' residence in Italy. + +_Dissertations._ See 1828. + +_Gower's Cheshire._ See 1842. + +_Thorkelin._ See 1828. + +[345] 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. _e Musęo_, 57. + + +A.D. 1847. + +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_s._); the other, a series of State special Forms of +Prayer, from 1665 to 1840 (£10 10_s._) + +Works relating to the history of America, in which the 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. + + +A.D. 1848. + +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. + + +A.D. 1849. + +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. + +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 +_Anthologia Gręca_ (who died March 30, 1847), whence a large number of +classical dissertations, many of them authors' presentation copies, were +obtained[346], 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 _Historia +Naturalis_, 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?). + +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. + +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:-- + + 'BODLEIAN LIBRARY, + '_January_ 9, 1849. + + 'SIR,--In compliance with your letter, dated Oct. 27, 1848, desiring + certain Returns respecting the Bodleian Library, I have to state-- + + '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. + + '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. + + '3. The number of manuscripts is about 21,000. + + '4. All graduates of the University have the right of admission to + the Library; other persons must apply for admission to the regular + authorities. + + '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. + + 'I have, &c. + 'BULKELEY BANDINEL, + '_Bodleian Librarian_. + + 'George Cornewall Lewis, Esq., + 'Under-Secretary of State, Whitehall.' + +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 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 _visits_ 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. + +[346] A separate list of the books purchased at Jacobs' sale is appended +to the annual Catalogue. + + +A.D. 1850. + +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[347] 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 1693). 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, 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 _incunabula_, 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. + +A series of 600 English sermons, printed between 1600 and 1720, bound +separately, was purchased for £59. + +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. + +_Dukes' Shropshire Collections._ See 1841. + +[347] In 1845, about 320 printed volumes were purchased from a catalogue +issued at Berlin by A. Rebenstein, or Bernstein, and D. Cassel. + + +A.D. 1851. + +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 _Own +Times_ (vol. i.), with many MSS. notes written by him in the margins, +were bought for £49 10_s._ and £2 18_s._ respectively[348]. Perfect +specimens of facsimiles, which would defy detection, were obtained for +the completion of the Library copy of 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. + +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. + +On March 27, Convocation voted an addition of £50 _per annum_ to the +stipends of the Sub-librarians. + +_Recovery of Pococke MS. 32._ See p. 81. + +_Malone's Correspondence._ See p. 232. + +[348] 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. + + +A.D. 1852. + +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[349], 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 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. + +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 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. + +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 1817.) + +Among miscellaneous purchases were a few volumes which were wanted to +make the Library set of De Bry's _Voyages_ complete, an imperfect copy +of the Oxford _Liber Festivalis_ (see 1691), and a large collection of +Dr. Priestley's writings (believed to have been made by himself), in +thirty-nine vols. + +[349] 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. + + +A.D. 1853. + +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 +_Breviarium secundum regulam beati Ysidori, dictum Mozarabes_, printed +_on vellum_ 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. + +An imperfect copy of Caxton's _Chronicle_, 1480, was bought for £21; and +a large gathering of Norfolk tracts was obtained at the sale of Mr. +Dawson Turner's library. + +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 _Cornhill Magazine_ 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:-- + + '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.' + +An account of this visit was given in the _Athenęum_ 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 _Principia Typographica_, vol. ii. pp. +133-136f[350]. + +[350] The death of Simonides, from the terrible disease of leprosy, was +announced as having occurred at Cairo in last year. + + +A.D. 1854. + +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[351]. 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:-- + + 'KNOWSLEY, _Oct._ 17, 1854. + + 'MY DEAR SIR,--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 of Monmouth's Rebellion. I have no doubt + of their genuineness; and if from the connexion of the University + with the writer[352], 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. + + 'I am, my dear sir, + 'Yours sincerely, + 'DERBY.' + +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. + +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. + +[351] 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. + +[352] The Earl was High Steward of the University. + + +A.D. 1855. + +Three Greek Biblical MSS. of great antiquity were obtained from the +collection of Prof. Tischendorf, being Nos. 3-5 of the volumes +described in a small quarto catalogue issued (anonymously) by him of +_Codices Gręci_, &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. + +_Rev. T. R. Brown's Dictionary, &c. printed by himself._ See 1838. + + +A.D. 1856. + +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. + +The ever-increasing Bible collection received the addition of the very +rare _ed. princ._ of the Bohemian Bible, printed at Prague in 1488, +which was obtained for £17 10_s._, 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.e._ 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 _imprimatur_ of Paul +III. But as Pius V and Clem. VIII subsequently forbade any variation +whatsoever from the authorized Roman form, this Missal, like the +Breviary of Card. Quignones, was, with others, suppressed. And hence its +rarity. + +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. + +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 +_ex officio_ 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. + +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 1821). +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 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. + + +A.D. 1857. + +A collection of manuscripts, more interesting as to their history than +as to their actual contents[353], 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. 'Nunc in eam terram demigrant,' says the bibliopolist, 'quę, +quodcunque alicujus pretii est aut materialium aut spiritualium rerum, +in suo gremio accumulare a Providentia Divina destinata videtur.' +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. + +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 +_Memoirs of the Council of Trent_, 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. + +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. + +[353] For the most part, they consist of medięval sermons and +theological treatises by writers of no great fame, together with some of +the works of Aquinas. + + +A.D. 1858. + +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 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[354]. 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, A.D. 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. + +The next collection is that of Anthony ą Wood, containing about 130 MSS. +and 970 printed volumes[355], 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 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. + +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. + +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. + +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 _Hypomnemata Antiquaria_, form one of Aubrey's own +works[356], 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 Archęological Magazine, and a reward for information as to the +present _locale_ of the missing volume was subsequently publicly +offered, but to no purpose, by the same gentleman. A small MS. of +_Horę_, which had belonged to Sir Thomas Pope, the founder of Trinity +College, is among Aubrey's books. A MS. of Matthew of Westminster, (now +_e Mus._ 149) had been given to the Library by Aubrey, in 1675, through +Ant. ą Wood. + +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, _viz._ a little volume of _Private +Thoughts_, by Bishop Wilson, of Sodor and Man, which was presented in +1824 by Lieut. Brett, R.N. + +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. + +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. 97); together with many from the series of books of _Characters_ +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 _Athenę_, with many MS. additions[357]. + +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[358], and the edition was rigidly suppressed, all the +copies which could be found being condemned to the flames. + +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. + +[354] This number includes some fifteen or sixteen volumes given by +subsequent donors, but incorporated with Ashmole's own books. + +[355] About fifty volumes out of Wood's whole number were missing when +the Library became possessed of them. + +[356] These were printed by the Wiltshire Archęological Society in 1862, +in one volume quarto, under the editorship of Rev. J. E. Jackson. + +[357] 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. + +[358] In Burn's _High Commission Court_, 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 _Catena_ and _Theophylact_ set out by Lyndsell.' Heylin's +_Cyprianus Anglicus_, p. 228. + + +A.D. 1859. + +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 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. + +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 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. + + +A.D. 1860. + +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 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 _Gentleman's Magazine_, (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. + +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. + +A most seasonable and valuable enlargement of the Library was effected, +by an addition which henceforth marks an ęra 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[359]. Its appropriation, therefore, to the Bodleian 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 'Camera Radcliviana;' and +that it should be open from ten A.M. to ten P.M., 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 _per +annum_ towards the expense of management was made by 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. + +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[360]. + +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. + +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. + +On Oct. 25, leave was granted by Convocation for the lending two Laud +Manuscripts, 561 and 563, being copies of the _Historia +Hierosoylmitana_, by Albert of Aix, to the French Government. + +At the sale of the library of Dr. Wellesley, Principal of New Inn Hall, +a copy of Boccaccio's _Corbaccio_, 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. + +A rare Salisbury _Primer_, 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--_This prymer of +Salisbury vse is se tout along with houtonyser chyng, with many prayers +& goodly pyctures._ 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. + +[359] 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 _Prolegomena_ to Hyde's +_Dissertationes_, 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 _codices_. 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 +_Report on the transfer of the Radcliffe Library to the Univ. Museum_, +by Dr. Acland, 1861.) + +[360] 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 _Athenęum_ for Jan. 1865, p. 20. + + +A.D. 1861. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + +A.D. 1862. + +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[361]. 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. + +A Hebrew MS. of the Pentateuch, probably of the thirteenth century, was +bought for £32 10_s._ Some tracts relating to the period of the Great +Rebellion were bought at the sale of Dr. Bandinel's extensive Caroline +collection. + +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. + +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_s._ 6_d._; of which £110 5_s._ were given for a specimen of the St. +Alban's press, the _Rhetorica Nova_ 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 _Kind-Harts Dreame_ (1593), produced £101, and +Decker's _Guls Horne-Booke_, 1609, £81. The proceeds of the whole sale +amounted to £750 18_s._ 6_d._ + +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. + +[361] 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. + + +A.D. 1863. + +Among the purchases made in this year were the following: Card. Ximenes' +rare treatise entitled _Crestia_, 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. + +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, +Phędrus, Petrarch, Boileau, and Fontaine's _Fables_; a few MSS. of +Juvenal, Petrarch, &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, _more Sutherlandico_, +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 'Consulte Cisąlpine,' 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 _vis-ą-vis_ 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. + + +A.D. 1864. + +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. + +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 +_fasciculus_ of this had been issued in 1859. + + +A.D. 1865. + +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 _Shakespeare +Autograph_. The book is Ovid's _Metamorphoses_, printed by Aldus, at +Venice, in October, 1502, in octavo; and on the title is the signature +'W^m. Sh^r.' 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 itself, in the +accompanying lithograph[362]. 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^r.' 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. _Hall_ 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 +_Athenęum_ 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 +_Metamorphoses_. To this may be added a better proof of his knowledge of +Ovid's writings in the fact that two lines from the _Amores_ (I. xv. +35, 36) form the motto to the _Venus and Adonis_. 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[363]! + +[Illustration: + + OVIDII METAMORPHOSE[Grk: Ō]N + LIBRI QVINDECIM. + + W^m Sh^r. + + ALDVS + + This little Book of Ovid was given to me + by W Hall who sayd it was once Will + Shakspares + + T N + + 1682 + +] + +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 _London Gazette_, +from 1669 to 1859, bought for £200[364]; 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 _Gentleman's Magazine_ 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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[362] The lithograph represents the lower half of the title-page. + +[363] 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 +_Cornhill Magazine_ for Oct. 1867, p. 496. + +[364] The only portions of the _London Gazette_ 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. + + +A.D. 1866. + +There is not much to notice under this year, save that the _Vulgaria +quedam abs Terencio in Anglicam linguam traducta_, 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. + + +A.D. 1867. + +The closing year of these memorials is distinguished by the acquisition +of a volume described by Archdeacon Cotton, in his _Typographical +Gazetteer_, as being 'of the very highest rarity.' It is a fine copy of +the _Breviarium Illerdense_, 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 'Antonius Palares, campanarum ejusdem ecclesię pulsator, +propriis expensis fieri fecit.' The volume was bought from Mr. Boone +for £36. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +The number of printed _volumes_ 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 +_Camera Radcliviana_, making a total for 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 _Repertorium Bibliographicum_ +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. + +Floreat Bibliotheca. + + + + +APPENDIX A. + + +_Account of the Muscovite Cloak mentioned at p. 40. Extracted from vol. +vi. of B. Twyne's Collections (among the University Archives), f. 97._ + +'_Mr. Smyth's Relation of the Tartar Lambskinne garment in Bodleiana, +Oxon._ + +'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. + +'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. + +'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. + +'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. + +'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. + +'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 +ęstimation as that is or ought to be. + +'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 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. + + 'EDWARD SMYTHE. + + 'Transcribed out of the originall with Mr. Russe. + 'This Mr. Smyth was a Counsellor of the Temple.' + +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 _Agnus Scythicus_ in its fabled state; +a full-grown lamb poised on the top of a vegetable stalk, with its legs +dependent in the air[365]. But the key to the mystery is attached in the +label on the frame: '_Polypodium Barometz_. 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, _Agnus Scythicus_. 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. + +[365] 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 _Agnus Scythicus_,' but it +does not now exist in the collection. + + + + +APPENDIX B. + + +_List of Books printed on Vellum, which have been added to the Library +since the year 1830[366]._ + +1460. _Clementis VIII Constitutiones, cum glossa Jo. Andreę._ Ed. Pr. +fol. Mogunt., Petr. Schoiffer de gernssheim. Bought in 1838 for 45_l._ + +1468. _Justiniani Institutiones._ Ed. Pr. fol. Mogunt. per Petr. +Schoyffer de Gernssheym. Bought in 1834 for 52_l._ 10_s._ + +1476. _Historia Naturale da Plinio, trad, per Chr. Landino._ 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. + +1480. _Breviarium Eduense_, 4to. by order of Card. John Rolin, Bishop of +Autun, 'Symon de Vetericastro eius Secretarius, parisius hoc breviarium +cum pluribus similibus imprimi fecit.' Bought in 1838 for 2_l._ 4_s._ + +1481. _Missale Parisiense._ Ed. Pr. fol. Par., Jo. de Prato et Desid. +huym. Bought in 1842 for 10_l._ 10_s._ + +1482. _Ordo Psalterii cum hymnis et canticis suis._ Small 4to. Ven. per +Nicolaum Girardenguz. From the Canonici collection. + +1484. _Officium diurnum secundum morem monachorum congregationis Sancte +Justine, ord. S. Benedicti._ 8vo. Ven. per Bern. de Benaliis (&c.). +Bought in 1843 for 1_l._ 14_s._ + +1493. _Pars hyemalis breviarii fratrum Observantialium, ord. S. +Benedicti, per Germaniam._ 8vo. impensis Georii St[=o]chs ex Sulczbach, +civis Nurembergensis. Bought in 1841 for 14_s._ + +_S. A._ 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. + +1500, Aug. 14. _Heures a lusage de_ [_Tours_; the name left blank]. 8vo. +Paris, pour Anthoine Verard. With illuminations. Bought in 1844 for +6_l._ + +1502. _Breviarium secundum regulam beati Hysidori._ Fol. Toleti, jussu +Card. Fr. Ximenes, per Petr. Hagembach. Bought in 1853 for 200_l._ See +p. 280. + +1505. _Breviarium secundum usum Herford._ 8vo. Rothom., per Inghilbertum +Haghe. Bequeathed by Gough. + +1514. _Le Chevalier de la tour et le guidon des guerres; par Geoffroy de +la Tour-Landry._ Fol. Par., pour Guill. Eustace. Bequeathed by Mr. +Douce. + +1522. _Libri quattuor magnorum Prophetarum; his adduntur Threni_, &c. +12mo. Par., Petrus Vidoveus. Given by Rawlinson. + +1529. _S. Joannes Chrysostomus in omnes Epistolas S. Pauli_; Gr. 3 vols. +fol. Ven. Bought in 1843 for 45_l._ + +1629. _Rituale monasticum secundum consuetudinem congregationis +Vallisumbrosę._ Fol. Florent. Bought in 1843 for 7_l._ 17_s._ 6_d._ + +1642. _Bibliotheca Eliotę._ _Eliotis Librarie._ 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. + +1859. _Rotulus Clonensis, ex orig. in Registro Eccl. Cath. Clonensis, +editus cura Ric. Caulfield._ The first book printed at Cork on vellum, +and the only one so printed. Given by Dr. Caulfield in 1865. + +1861. _The Souldier's Pocket Bible_; 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. + +1866. [Heb: spr tgn] _Sepher Taghin_: 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, +J. J. L. Barges, S. Theol. facult. Paris. doctor. 8vo. Lut. Par. + +1867. [Heb: m'sh nmym] Edited by Dr. B. Goldberg, from Pococke MS. 238. +8vo. Paris. The only vellum copy printed. Bought for 3_l._ + +_N. D. Geological Map of the Environs of Oxford_; by C. P. Stacpoole. +Bought in 1850 for 1_l._ 3_s._ + + * * * * * + +The following vellum-printed _Horę_ were all bequeathed by Mr. Douce:-- + +1498. _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 4to. Par., pour Simon Vostre. + +---- ---- 4to. Par., per Gillet Hardouyn. + +1498. _Hore secundum usum Sarum._ 8vo. Par., per Phil. Pigouchet. + +1499. _Officium B. M. V. in usum Romane ecclesie._ 8vo. Lugd. Bon. de +boninis. + +1501. _Hore Virg. Mar. secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman +Kerver. + +[1501.] _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 8vo. Par., Simon Vostre. + +1502. ---- By the same printer. + +1504. ---- 8vo. Par., Anth. Chappiel. + +1505. _Officium B. M. V. in usum Rom. eccl._ 8vo. Ven., Lucantonius de +Giunta. + +1508. _Hore secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver. + +---- ---- 8vo. Par., Guill. Anabat. + +1511. ---- 8vo. Par., Theilman Kerver. + +[1512.] _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 8vo. Par., per Joh. de Brie. + +[1512.] _Heures a lusaige de Sens._ 4to. Par., Jehan de brye. + +1514. _Orationes et hore in usum Romanum._ 4to. (Aug. Vind.) per Jo. +Schönsperger. + +---- Another edition by the same printer in the same year, but without +name or date. + +1517. _Horę ad usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver. + +1522. _Horę secundum usum Romanum._ 4to. Par., Thielman Kerver. + +[1522.] _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 8vo. Par., par Germ. Hardouyn. + +1526. _Horę secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver. + +1527. _Hore in laudem B. V. Marie, secundum consuetudinem ecclesie +Parisiensis._ 8vo. Par., per Sim. du bois. + +[1528.] _Horę, secundum usum Romanum, cum multis suffragiis et +orationibus de novo additis._ 8vo. Par., Germ. Hardouyn. + +1529. _Horę in laudem, B. Mar., secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., apud +Gotofr. Torinum. + +_S. A._ _Hore B. Marie._ 8vo. M. E. Jehannot. + +_S. A._ _Hore secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., G. Hardouyn. + +---- Another edition by the same printer. + +_S. A._ _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 4to. Par., per Guill. Godar. + +_S. A._ _Hore secundum usum Sarum._ 4to. Rich. Pynson. + +_S. A._ _Les heures a lusaige Dangiers._ 8vo. [Par.] Simon Vostre. + +_S. A._ _Heures a l'usaige de Soissons._ 8vo. [Par.] Simon Vostre. + +_S. A._ _Heures de nostre dame en Francoys et en Latin._ 4to. Par., +Anth. Verard. + +_S. A._ _Heures._ 8vo. Par., Anth. Verard. + +[366] Supplemental to the list appended to Archdeacon Cotton's +_Typographical Gazetteer_ in 1831. That numbered 180 separate books; the +present additions amount to fifty-four, of which all but nineteen are in +the Douce collection. + + + + +APPENDIX C. + + +_List of MSS. formerly in the possession of Cathedrals, Monasteries, +Colleges, and Churches in England, Scotland, and Ireland_[367]. + + Aberdeen Cathedral. Ashmole, 1474. + + Abingdon. Digby, 39, 146, 227 (fine Missal, with Calendar). + + ---- John Crystall, Monk of. Rawlinson, C. 940. + + Alban's, St. Auct. F. II. 13; + Bodl. 569; + Laud Lat. 67; + Laud Misc. 279, 358, 363, 370, 409; + Rawlinson, C. 31; + Rawlinson, Auct. 99 (obtained through Brother Hugh Legat, and given + by Abbot John Stoke). + + ---- Sub-prior. Bodl. 467. + + ---- Sub-sacrist. Ashmole, 1796. + + Alvingham, Linc. Laud Misc. 642. + + Athdare, Kildare. Rawlinson, C. 320. + + Barking. Laud Lat. 19. + + Beauvale, or Bellavalle, Notts. Douce, 114. + + Bedford. The Minorites. Laud, 176 (given by John Grene, D.D. in 1471). + + Belvoir, Linc. E Mus. 249. + + Bilsington, Kent. Bodl. 127 (given by John, Vicar of Newchurch). + + Bordesley, Warwickshire. Bodl. 168. + + Boxgrave, Sussex. Rawlinson, A. 411. + + Bradsole, near Dover, Priory of St. Radegund. Rawlinson, B. 336. + + Bridlington. Auct. D. _infra_, II. 7; + Bodl. 357. + + Byland, or Bellaland, Yorkshire. Bodl. 842 (bought from a carpenter); + Laud Misc. 149. + + Canterbury, Ch. Ch. Bodl. 214, 379; + Laud Misc. 165; + Tanner, 18, 223; + Rawlinson, C. 168 (Missal, given by Archbp. Warham). + + ---- W. Bonyngton, a monk, 1483. Rawlinson, B. 188. + + ---- Another monk. Bodl. 648. + + ---- St. Augustine's. Bodl. 299, 381, 391, 464, 600; + E Mus. 223; + Laud Lat. 65; + Laud Misc. 225, 296; + Wood Donat. 13; + Ashmole, 1431; + Barlow, 32; + Hatton, 94; + Maresch. 33; + Rawlinson, C. 7, 117, 159. + + Carlisle Cathedral. Bodl. 728. + + ---- (a House at). Laud Misc. 582. + + Chichester Cathedral(?). Bodl. 142. ('de dono Seffri. Episc.') + + Cirencester, St. Mary's Abbey. Barlow, 48. + + Cokersand, Lanc. Rawlinson, C. 317. + + Coventry Cathedral. Digby, 33 (given by Rich. Luff, monk). + + ---- St. Mary's Priory. Auct. F. III. 9. + + Cropthorn, Worc. Rector in 1279. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 169. + + Croyland. Rawlinson, C. 531. + + Dore, Hereford. Laud, 138; + E Mus. 82. + + Dover Priory. Bodl. 920 (Catalogue of the Library). + + ---- Hosp. of St. Bartholomew. Rawlinson, B. 335. + + 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. 179). + + ---- Abbey of St. Thomas. Rawlinson, B. 500. + + ---- Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Rawlinson, B. 498. + + ---- St. Mary's Abbey, near Dublin. Rawlinson, B. 495, C. 60; + Rawlinson, Misc. 1137. + + ---- Church of St. John Evang. Misc. Liturg. 337. + + 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). + + Dumfermline (?). Fairfax, 8. + + Dunbrothy, Wexford. Rawlinson, B. 494. + + Durham Cathedral (St. Cuthbert). Laud Lat. 12; + Laud Misc. 368, 489; + Rawlinson, C. 4. + + ---- Thomas Dune, a monk. Douce, 129. + + Edmund's, Bury St. Bodl. 216, 240, 297, 715, 737, 860; + E Mus. 6, 7, 8, 9, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 36, 112; + Laud Misc. 742; + Rawlinson, C. 697 (all between the 11th and 13th century); + Misc. Liturg. 310 (_Martyrologium_; given by Rich. Fuller, Chaplain, + and Rich. Aleyne, Kerver, in 1472. Bequeathed by Rawlinson). + + Ely. Laud, 112. + + Evesham. Auct. D. I. 15; + Laud Lat. 31; + Barlow 7 (_Officia Eccles._); + Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 16. + + Exeter Cathedral. Auct. D. II. 16, F. III. 6; + Bodl. 579, 708 (these given by Leofric); + Auct. D. I. 7 and 12 (given by Hugh, Archd. of Taunton), 9 (given + by Adam de St. Bridget, Chanter), 13, 18; + D. II. 8; + D. _infra_, II. 9(?); + D. III. 10, 11 (?); + Auct. F. I. 15; + 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, 393,463 (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. + Wood Donat. 15 (given by Executors of John Snetesham, D.D., Canon + and Chancellor, 1448). + + Exeter. Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Laud, 156. + + Finchale, Durham. Laud Misc. 546. + + Ford, Devon. Laud Misc. 606. + + Fountains' Abbey. Ashmole, 1398, 1437; + Laud Misc. 310, 619. + + Gainford, Durham. Thomas Heddon, Vicar. Rawlinson, A. 363. + + Garendon, Leic. Ashmole, 1516. + + Gisburne, Yorkshire. Laud Lat. 5. + + Glastonbury. Laud Lat. 4; + Laud Misc. 128 (belonged to Thomas Wason, Abbot). + + Hanworth (Middlesex?); + Richard, Rector. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 165. + + Hatfield Peverel, Essex. Rawlinson, B. 189 (given by John Bebseth), + Prior. + + Hereford Cathedral. Rawlinson, C. 67. + + ---- Vicars Choral. Rawlinson, C. 427. + + ---- The Minorites. Hatton, 102. + + Hexham ('Hextildesham'). Bodl. 236. + + Hickling, Norfolk. Tanner, 194, 425. + + Holme Cultram, Cumb. (S. Mar. de Holmo); + Hatton, 101. + + Jorevall, Yorkshire. Bodl. 514. + + Kenilworth, or Kelyngworth, Warw. Auct. F. III. 13 (bequeathed by John + Alward, Rector of Stoke Bruerne). + + Kilmainham, Dublin. Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Rawlinson, B. 501. + + Kingswood, Wilts. E Mus. 62. + + Kirkstall. Laud Lat. 69; + Laud Misc. 216; + E Mus. 195. + + Langley, Norfolk. Bodl. 242 (_Registrum_). + + Leedes, Kent. Bodl. 406. + + Leicester, St. Mary of the Meadows. Laud Misc. 623, 625. + + Lesnes, or Lyesnes, or Westwood, Kent. Bodl. 656; + Douce, 287. + + Lichfield Cathedral. Ashmole, 1518. + + London, St. Paul's Cathedral. Digby 89 ('Liber Magistri Thomę Lysiaux, + decani Sancti Pauli'). + + ---- The Carmelites. Laud Lat. 87. + + ---- 'Domus Salutationis Matris Dei, ord. Carthus.;' _i.e._ The + Charter-House. Douce, 262. + + ---- Hosp. of St. Mary of Elsyng, now Sion College. E Mus. 113. + + Louth Park, Linc. Fairfax, 17. + + (Ludlow Parish Church. _Printed Book_, D. 2. 13. Art. Seld.[368]) + + Maxstoke, Warwickshire. Bodl. 182. + + Merton, Surrey. Digby, 147; + Ashmole, 1522. + + ---- John Ramsey, Canon of. Seld. _supra_, 39. + + Missenden, Bucks. Auct. D. I. 10; + Bodl. 729. + + Mottenden, or Motynden, Kent. Bodl. 643 (bought by Brother Richard de + Lansyng in 1467 for 26_s._ 8_d._) + + Muchelney, Somerset. Rich. Coscumbe, Prior. Ashmole, 189. ii. + + New Place, Sherwood. Laud Lat. 34; + Laud Misc. 428. + + Norwich Cathedral (Holy Trinity). Bodl. 151, 787; + Fairfax, 20; + Douce, 366, (see _infra_, p. 329.) + + Nutley, or Notley Abbey, Bucks. Douce, 383, iii. + + Oseney, Oxford. Bodl. 655; + Digby, 23 (bequeathed by Henry de Langley); + Rawlinson, C. 939 (_Officia Eccles._). + + Osyth, St., Essex. Laud Misc. 329. + + Oxford, Balliol College. Bodl. 252. + + ---- Exeter College. Bodl. 42; + Digby, 57[369]. + + ---- (Hertford College. _Printed Tracts_ on the Bangorian + Controversies, 8vo. I. 237, BS.) + + ---- Lincoln College. Bodl. 198 ('ex dono doctoris Thome Gascoigne'). + + ---- Merton College. E Mus. 19 (given by William, Bishop of Chichester); + 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); + Digby, 155 (given by John Burbache), 216; + Ashm. 835. (_Printed Book_ S. 9. 14. Th[370].). + + ---- St. Edmund Hall. Rawlinson, C. 900 (given by Hen. VIII). + + ---- St. Mary's College. Bodl. 637. + + ---- Staple Hall. Ashmole, 748. + + ---- The Minorites. Digby, 90 (given in 1388, by John de Teukesbury, + with the assent of Thos. de Kyngusbury, 'Minister Anglię'). + + ---- (name cut off), Bodl. 215. + + Paignton Parish, Devon. Rawlinson, C. 314 (Canons of Bishop Quivil). + + Pershore. Bodl. 209; + Barlow, 3; + Rawlinson, C. 81. + + Pesholme (? Will. Marschalle, Chaplain of). Bodl. 857. + + Peterborough Cathedral. Barlow, 22; (see _infra_, p. 328.) + + Pipewell, Northampt. Rawlinson, A. 388. + + Pleshey, Essex, Trinity College. Bodl. 316. + + Pontefract, Holy Trinity Hospital. Barlow, 49. + + Ramsey. Bodl. 883. + + ---- Welles, a monk of. Bodl. 857. + + Reading, St. Mary's Abbey. Auct. Digby, B. N. 11; + Digby, 148, 200; + Bodl. 125[371], 197, 200 (given by W. de Box), 241, 257, 550, 570, + 713, 730 (?) 772, 781, 848; + Laud Misc. 79, 91, 725; + Auct. D. I. 19; + D. II. 12; + D. III. 12, 15; + Auct. F. III. 8; + _infra_, I. 2; + Rawlinson, A. 375. + + Robertsbridge, Yorkshire. Bodl. MS. 132 (written by Will. de + Wodecherche, 'laicus quondam conversus Pontis Roberti[372]'). + + Roche, or de Rupe, Yorkshire. Rawlinson, C. 329. + + Rochester Cathedral. Laud Misc. 40. + + Rossevalle, Kildare. Rawlinson, C. 32 (_Ordo servitii_). + + Salisbury Cathedral. Digby, 173 (given by Peter Fadir, Vicar + Choral[373]); + Bodl. 407, 516, 756, 765, 768, 835; + Rawlinson, C. 400 (_Pontificale_, given by Bishop Martivall). + + Selby. Fairfax, 12. + + Sempringham. Douce, 136(?) + + Shene, Surrey, Carthusian Priory. Bodl. 797; + 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'). + + Sherston, Wilts, The Church (in 1577). Bodl. 733. + + Shrewsbury, St. Chad. Rawlinson Misc. 1131. (_Martyrol._ and _Obit._) + + Sion, or Syon, Middlesex. Bodl. 630. + + Southwark, St. Mary Overy. Ashmole, 1285. + + ---- John de Lecchelade, a Canon. Rawlinson, B. 177. + + Stafford, St. Mary. Auct. F. V. 17; + Hatton, 74. + + ---- The Minorites. Auct. F. V. 18. + + Stafford, St. Thomas, near. Auct. F. III. 10. + + Staindrop, Durham, The College. Rawlinson, A. 363 (given by Thos. + Heddon, Vicar of Gainford, in 1515). + + Tattershall, Linc. Bodl. 419. + + Thorney, Cambr. Bodl. 680; + Laud Misc. 364; + Tanner, 10. + + Titchfield, Hants. Digby, 154. + + Towcester, Northampt., H. Malyng, Provost. Bodl. 731. + + Trentham, Staff. Laud Misc. 453. + + Tynemouth. Laud Misc. 657. + + Valle Crucis, De, Denbigh. E Mus. 3. + + Waltham. Laud Lat. 109; + Laud Misc. 515; + Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 62 (given by Peter, Archdeacon of London); + Rawlinson, C. 330. + + Wardon, Bedfordshire. Laud Misc. 447. + + Warter, Yorkshire. Fairfax, 9. + + Waverley, Surrey. Bodl. 527. + + Westminster Abbey. Rawlinson, C. 425 (_Pontificale_). + + Winchcombe, or Winchelcumbe, Glouc. Douce, 368. + + Winchester Cathedral ('Domus S. Swythini'). Bodl. 767. + + Windsor. Bodl. 208, 822. + + Witham, or Wytham, Somerset. Bodl. 801 ('Ex dono Joh. Blacman'). + + Worcester Cathedral. Auct. F. _infra_, I. 3; + Digby, 150(?); + Bodl. 861 (removed in 1590), 868; + Junius, 121. + + ---- 'Fratres Prędicatores.' Rawlinson, C. 780. + + York Minster(?) Rawlinson, C. 775. + + ---- Succentor(?) Douce, 225. + + ---- St. Mary's Abbey. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 11; + Arch. A. Rot. 21; (see p. 329.) + + ---- Hosp. of St. Leonard. Rawlinson, B. 455. + +[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. + +No. 76 of Digby's MSS. was bought by Dr. John Dee, at London, May 18, +1556, 'ex bibliotheca Joh. Lelandi.'] + +[367] 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. + +[368] _Picus Mirandula de Providentia Dei_, 1508. Given to the library +of the Church by Rich. Sparchiford, Archdeacon of Salop, Oct. 19, 1557. +It had previously belonged to Linacer. + +[369] 'Hunc librum emit ... a magistro Philips, rectore collegii Exon, +a^o. Xi. 1468, una cum volvella solis et lunę.' + +[370] _Galani Conciliatio Eccl. Armenę cum Romana_, 1650. It is +satisfactory to be able to add, that the Bodleian obtained this book, as +Bishop Booth obtained the Robertsbridge MS. (_infra_) 'modo legitimo;' a +memorandum records that it was 'bought of Fletcher the bookseller.' + +[371] On the last leaf of this MS. there is a list, faintly written with +a style, of some twenty MSS. (including 'triplices cantus' for the +organ), written by one monk, to which the memorandum is added: 'Hec sunt +opera fratris W. de Wi[=c]b. per quadriennium apud Leom. (_i.e._ +Leominster, a cell to Reading) commorantis.' The list commences, 'Nota +quod frater W. de Wi[=c]b. (_probably Wicumbe_), 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.' The book may have belonged to either Reading +or Leominster. + +[372] The usual anathema is subjoined on any one stealing the book from +the house of St. Mary 'de Ponte Roberti,' or in any part mutilating it; +which is followed by this self-exculpatory note on the part of a +subsequent possessor: 'Ego Johannes, Exon. episcopus, nescio ubi est +domus prędicta, nec hunc librum abstuli, sed modo legittimo adquisivi.' +This _John_ would seem to be John Booth, who was Bishop of Exeter from +1466 to 1479. + +[373] The name of Peter Fader is found also in MS. Arch. Seld. B 26. + + + + +APPENDIX D. + + +_List of MSS. and Miscellaneous Objects of interest exhibited in the +Library._ + + +GLASS CASE NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE LIBRARY. + +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. + +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. + +3. Autograph book of distinguished visitors. + + This book commences at the year 1820. Among the autographs which + it contains may be mentioned the following in particular:-- + + Her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 8, 1832, with the Duchess of Kent; + Dec. 12, 1860. + + The Prince Consort, June 15, 1841; June 4, 1856; Jan. 9, 1857 (in + company with his three eldest children); Dec. 12, 1860. + + Prince of Wales, Jan. 9, 1857; March 27, 1860; June 18, 1863. + + Princess of Wales, June 18, 1863. + + Duke of Wellington, Oct. 20, 1835 (in company with Q. Adelaide); + Sept. 14, 1839; June 15, 1841; Aug. 20, 1844. + + Gul. Gesenius, Aug. 5, 1820. + + Sir John Franklin, 1829. + + Sir D. Wilkie, June 14, 1834. + + Bishop Selwyn, June 30, 1837. + + Chevalier Bunsen, Jan. 24, 1839; Aug. 20, 1844. + + Princes of Ashantee, June 10, 1840. + + Henry Hallam, Oct. 16, 1840. + + Bishop of Malabar, Mar Athanasius Abdelmesih, June 12, 1841. + + M. Berryer, Nov. 23, 1843. + + W. H. Prescott, June 24, 1850. + + Alfred Tennyson, June 21, 1855. + + A Siamese Prince, June 29, 1858. + + Lord Brougham, June 20, 1860. + + Lord Palmerston, July 2, 1862. + + Queen Emma of Honolulu, Aug. 14, 1865. + + Chinese Ambassadors, June 7, 1866. + + Until the year 1861 it was also the custom for all graduates of + Cambridge and Dublin who were admitted ad _eundem_ 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[374]. + +4. _New Testament_, said to be bound in a piece of a waistcoat of King +Charles I. See p. 53. + +5. Another, bound by the Sisters of Little Gidding. See p. 53. + +6. _Xiphilini Epitome Dionis Nicęi_; 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. + +7. _Bacon's Essays_; in a worked binding. See p. 51. + +8. Specimen of the early _Block-books_, 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. + + This is a copy of the edition called by Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, in his + _Principia Typographica_, the Second; it belonged to Mr. Douce, who + bought it for thirty-one guineas at Mr. Inglis' sale[375]. + +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. 202. + + 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. + +10. A copy of the first book printed in the English language, being _The +Recuyell of the Histories of Troy_, printed by Caxton, most probably at +Bruges, about 1472. + + 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. + +11. The English Bible, translated by Myles Coverdale from the Vulgate, +and printed abroad in 1535. + + 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 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. + +12. Hieronymus (_rectius_, Rufinus) _de Symbolo Apostolorum_; printed at +Oxford in 1468. See p. 111. + +13. Latin verses in the autograph of Milton. See p. 45. + +14. The original MS. of Addison's _Letter_ (in verse) _from Italy to +Lord Halifax_. + + A Rawlinson MS. + +15. Letter from Alex. Pope to H. Cromwell, Esq.; dated July 15, 1711. + + 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. + +16. Letter from Archbp. Laud to Sir W. Boswell, the English Resident at +the Hague; dated from Lambeth, Nov. 26, 1638. + + It refers to libels printed in Holland, and particularly to one + against Laud, supposed to be then printing at Amsterdam, entitled, + _The Beast is Wounded_. '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_s._, + 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. + +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. + + Endorsed by Ant. ą Wood with this memorandum: 'Given to me by Rob. + Whorwood, of Oxon, Gent., 29 Feb., 1679[376].' + +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:-- + + 'For Mr. Vicechancellor of Oxford. + + 'Good Mr. Vicechancellor, + + '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 + + 'Good Mr. Vicechancellor, + 'Your affectionate servant, + 'CLARENDON. + + 'Calice, this 7/17 Dec. 1667.' + +19. A volume of the Papers of W. Bridgeman, Under-secretary of State to +James II (bequeathed to the Library by Dr. R. Rawlinson; _see p. 173_), +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. + + The following is a copy:-- + + 'I declare y^t y^e title of King was forct upon mee, & y^t it was + very much contrary to my opinion when I was proclam'd. For y^e + satisfaction of the world I doe declare that y^e late King told mee + that Hee was never married to my Mother. + + 'Haveing declar'd this I hope y^t 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. + + 'MONMOUTH. + + 'Declar'd by Himselfe, & sign'd in the presence of us. + + 'Fran. Elien. [_Turner_]. + 'Tho. Bath & Wells [_Ken_]. + 'Tho. Tenison. + 'George Hooper.' + + 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. + + 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. + +20. A Sanscrit roll, written at the end of the last century, containing +extracts from the _Bhagavadgita_; with paintings representing the +incarnations of Vishnu, &c. + + In a wooden case. One of the Frazer MSS. + +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. + + 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. + +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. Lętitia Lane.' + + The donor was the daughter of Col. John Lane, the chief agent in the + King's escape from Worcester; she died in 1709[377]. + +23. Specimen of Javanese writing, being a letter from a Javanese Chief +to the Resident of Soorabaya. The seal bears the date of 1780. + +24. Small specimen of an Arabic MS. + +25. A fragment in large Persian characters. + +26. A specimen of Malabaric writing, upon a palm-leaf, three feet in +length. 'Aug. 9, 1630. Ex dono Jo. Trefusis, generosi Cornubiensis, e +Coll. Exon.' + +27. A Russian painting upon a shell, representing a female saint called +S. Parasceve, [Grk: hź hagia Paraskeuź], who is found in the Greek +Menology, but whose history is believed by the Bollandists to be a pious +fiction. + +28. A Hebrew _Bible_, 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. + + One of the Oppenheimer MSS. + +29. _Horę._ An illuminated MS. of the middle of the fifteenth century, +in 4to., probably by a French scribe and artist. + + From the Canonici collection. + +30. Another MS. of the _Hours_, 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. + + Traditionally said, but on what evidence does not appear, to have + belonged to Henry VIII. + +31. A third fifteenth-century MS. of the _Hours_, in 8vo. + + From the Rawlinson collection. + +32. A fourth MS. of the _Hours_, very early in the fifteenth century, or +about the close of the fourteenth. + + Also from the Rawlinson collection. All these copies of the _Horę_ + appear to be of French execution. + +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[378]. + +34. A Latin exercise book, in 4to., which appears to have been filled up +by Edward VI and his sister Elizabeth, jointly. + + 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 'ex dono doctissimi viri P. Junii, + Bibliothecarii Regii, A.D. 1639.' Patrick Young also gave another + book in Edward's handwriting in folio, containing Greek and Latin + phrases, written very neatly in 1551-1552[379]. + +35. Mexican Hieroglyphics; painted on a long skin of leather. + +36. The Book of _Proverbs_, written by Mrs. Esther Inglis. See p. 48. + +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. 105, +161. + + An engraving of the second may be found in the _Anglican Church + Calendar illustrated_, published by Messrs. Parker. And a + description of these primitive Calendars is given by Plot in his + _Natural History of Staffordshire_, 1686, pp. 418-432, where there + is an engraving of a Clog which was still in use in Staffordshire at + that time. + +38. Eight small wooden tablets, apparently a pocket-edition of a +Clog-Almanack, with very quaint figures. + + Given by Archbp. Laud. + +39. The Book of _Enoch_, in Ęthiopic. See p. 267. + +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[380]. + + One of Greaves' MSS. + +41. A specimen of Telugu writing on palm-leaves; being an almanack for +the year 1630. + + Given by Archbp. Laud. + +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. + + Enriched with an exquisite portrait of the Queen, in all the + grandeur of her wide circumference, and with golden hair of very + _prononcée_ 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. + + 'Ex dono ornatissimi, simul ac optimę spei, juvenis D. Johannis + Cope, armigeri, equitis aurati, baronetti f. natu maximi, olim + Reginensis Oxon, Almę Matris ergō. 4 Cal. Jan. 1626.' + + On a fly-leaf at the end is attached a fragment from some English + theological treatise, in wonderfully minute, although clear, + handwriting. + +43. The _Koran_, on a long and narrow roll, very elegantly written in +minute characters. + + Given by Archbp. Laud. + +44. A Syriac fragment, on three leaves of paper. + +45. A specimen of Chinese printing, on rice-paper. + +46. A specimen of the Papyrus-plant, in its natural state. + +47. A fine MS. of the _Koran_, from the library of Tippoo Sahib at +Seringapatam. + + Given by the East India Company in 1806; see p. 208. + +48. A small Egyptian mummy-figure, of baked clay. + + Given by Archbp. Laud. + +49. A Burmese MS., written in large black characters on thirty-nine +gilded palm-leaves. + + '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. + + +IN THE OPPOSITE, OR NORTH, WING. + +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. This +case was added by the present Librarian three or four years ago. The +following are its contents:-- + +1. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of the treatise _De cura pastorali_ +of Pope Gregory the Great, being the copy sent by the King to Werfrith, +Bishop of Worcester. + + Given by Lord Hatton; see p. 100. + +2. A beautiful Latin _Psalter_ of the tenth century, written in +Anglo-Saxon characters, with an interlinear translation, and decorated +with grotesque initial letters. + + Junius MS. 37. The volume is frequently called _Codex Vossianus_, + from its having been in the possession of Isaac Voss, who gave it to + Junius. Facsimiles are given by Professor Westwood, in his + _Palęographia Sacra_, and in his new and splendid book of + _Fac-similes of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and + Irish MSS_[381]. + +3. The _Four Gospels_, in Latin, written in Anglo-Saxon characters, +about the beginning of the eleventh century. + + Noticed in Westwood's _Miniatures_, &c. (_ut supra_), p. 123. + + 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 Ęlfgiva. Now + numbered Bodl. 155. + +4. The famous _Anglo-Saxon metrical paraphrase_ of parts of Genesis, +Exodus, Daniel, &c. by Cędmon[382]; illustrated, as far as Abraham's +journey into Egypt, with a very curious series of drawings. + + 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 _Fac-similes_. See p. 102. + +5. The _Psalter_, _Canticles_, &c., in Latin, with a Calendar; written in +the first half of the eleventh century. + + Noticed in Westwood's _Miniatures and Ornaments_, &c., p. 122. Douce, + 296. + +6. A twelfth-century volume containing, besides various historical +works, a _Bestiary_, or Natural History of Beasts, illustrated with very +curious drawings. + + Given by Archbp. Laud. + +7. A _Bestiary_ of the beginning of the thirteenth century, enriched +with many very curious paintings upon a ground of brilliant gold. + + Ashmole, 1511. + +8. Another _Bestiary_, of slightly later date, illuminated in the same +manner. + + Bodl. 764. + +9. The _Apocalypse_, illustrated in a series of very curious drawings, +lightly coloured. Executed about 1250. + + 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 '_Dolium_ ferventis olei.' + +10. A _Primer_, written about the middle of the fourteenth century. + + The arms of Edw. III (England 1 and 4, France 2 and 3) are painted + on the first leaf. One of Rawlinson's MSS. + +11. A beautiful _Psalter_, which belonged to Peterborough Cathedral. + + '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. + +12. A _Psalter_, with Canticles, Hymns, &c., written in the latter half +of the fourteenth century. + + Apparently one of Rawlinson's MSS. + +13. '_Ye Dreme of Pilgrimage of ye Soule_, 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. + + A precursor of Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_, with which it has been + compared. It was printed by Caxton in 1483, and his edition was + reprinted in 1859. + + This MS. was given to the Library, apparently in Bodley's time, by + Sir James Lee, Knt. + +14. _Commentary on the Passion of our B. Lord_ ('Scripta super totam +Passionem Christi a quatuor Evangelistis formatam'), by Michael de +Massa, of the order of Augustinian Hermits. + + 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. + +15. '_The Mirroure of the Worlde_, 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. + + A MS. of the early part of the fifteenth century; on paper. Bodl. + 283. + +16. _Horę_, formerly in the possession of Queen Mary I. See p. 42. + +17. _Treatise of Roger Bacon_, 'de retardacione accidentium senectutis;' +with two drawings. Middle of the fifteenth century. Bodl. MS. 211. + +18. An English astrological Calendar, in six divisions, folded for the +pocket; written in the latter half of the fourteenth century. + + 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.' + +19. An _Historical Roll_, 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. + + Illustrated with representations of various scenes up to the landing + of Brute in the Isle of Wight, and thenceforward with portraits of + the monarchs. + +20. _Map of the Holy Land_, on a paper roll, nearly seven feet long; +written, apparently, in the first half of the fifteenth century. + + 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. + +21. A _Psalter_, with the usual Canticles, Litany, &c; written about the +middle of the fourteenth century. + + This magnificent volume was given by Robert de Ormesby, a monk of + Norwich, to the choir of the Cathedral Church, 'ad jacendum coram + Suppriore qui pro tempore fuerit inperpetuum.' It is illustrated + with illuminations most beautifully executed, but, at the same + time, containing the most grotesque and profanely inappropriate + figures, resembling those sometimes found on the _Misereres_ 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 _Illuminated Ornaments_, 1833, with a + description by Sir F. Madden. It belongs to the Douce collection. + + * * * * * + +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. + +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. 245. + + +IN A GLASS CASE, WEST END OF THE LIBRARY. + +1. _Plinii Historia Naturalis_; in folio. Printed 1476. + + From the Douce collection. See p. 250. + +2. _Breviary_ and Psalter according to the use of the Carthusian Order; +written about 1480. + + A specimen of Italian art, from the Canonici collection. + +3. _Horę B. M. Virg._ 12mo. An exquisite MS., of the school of Albert +Durer, executed for Bona Sforza. See p. 249. + +4. _Psalter_, on purple vellum, written about the close of the ninth +century. From the old library of the kings of France. See p. 249. + + A MS. of the _Horę_, written on purple vellum, about 1500, is among + the Canonici MSS. + +5. _Boccaccio's Il Filocalo_; in folio, of the fifteenth century. + + 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 _Illuminated Ornaments_. + From the Canonici collection. + +6. _Horę_, quarto; fourteenth century. A beautiful book. + + From the Douce collection. + +7. _Horę_, small quarto; end of the fifteenth century. The illuminations +possess exquisite softness and delicacy. + + Also from the Douce collection. + +8. _The Miracles of the B. Virgin_, in French. A Douce MS., in folio, +executed about 1460, for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and enriched +with most beautiful paintings of the tint called '_Camaieu gris_'. + +9. _Horę_, in quarto. A beautiful Douce book, the work of a French +scribe in and about the year 1407. + +10. _Horę_, in duodecimo. Another gem from the Douce collection, +executed about the year 1500, for the Emperor Maximilian and Mary of +Burgundy his wife. + + The margins are adorned with charming figures of birds, and in one + instance a border is filled with representations of pottery and + glass. + +11. _Horę_, 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. + +12. _Horę_, in small folio. A most sumptuous volume, executed about +1410. The illuminations are of the school of Van Eyck. + + 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. + +13. _Quatuor Evangelia_; commencement of the seventh century. See p. 24. + +14. _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_ to Charles I before their +marriage; in French. + + 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. + +15. _Latin Translation by Queen Elizabeth_, while Princess, of an +Italian sermon by Bern. Ochini, _De Christo_; written entirely by +herself, and sent as a New-year's gift to her brother Edward VI[383]. + + 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:-- + + 'Augustissimo et serenissimo Regi Edvardo Sexto. Si aliquid hoc + tempore haberem (Serenissime Rex) quod mihi ad dandum esset + accommodatum, & Maiestati tuę congruens ad accipiendum, equidem de + hac re vehementer lętarer. 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, & observantię meę testimonio, + offero M. T. breuem istam Bernardi Ochini orationem, ab eo Italicč + primum scriptam, & a me in latinum sermonem conuersum. Argumentum + 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, quę + 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. Enfeldię, 30 Decembris. + + 'Maiestatis tuę, + 'humill. soror, + '& serua, + 'Elizabeta.' + +16. A Persian treatise, in prose and verse, on ethics and education, +entitled, _Beharistan, or, The Season of Spring_; by Nurruddin +Abdurrahman, surnamed Djami. + + The MS. was written at Lahore, for the Emperor of Hindustan, A.D. + 1575, by Muhammed Hussein, a famous scribe, who was called the _Pen + of Gold_; 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. + +17. _Evangeliarium_, MS. in folio; of the tenth century. + + 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_s._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. + +18. Ivory triptych eleven inches high; North Italian work, of the +fifteenth century. + + In the centre the Blessed Virgin and Child between St. Leonard and + another saint; on the wings, St. John the Evangelist and St. + Lawrence[384]. + +19. _Evangelia, secundum Matt. et Marc._ 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. + +20. Metal-Work. + + i. Crucifix; enamelled. + + ii. The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; small, on brass. + + iii. Four enamelled round tablets, bearing portraits of 'Le Conte + de Flandres, le Conte de Champagne, le Conte de Tholoze, Duc de + Normandie.' + + iv. Two small enamelled representations of March and May. + + v. Dolphin, with boy on his back (the Dauphin); motto, 'Qui pense ma + ... vy advient.' + + vi. Heads, enamelled, of the following Roman Emperors; Julius Cęsar, + Augustus, Claudius and Otho. + + 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:-- + + 'Aske me not, for ye Gett me not.--'R. P.' + + viii. A small copper figure of our Blessed Lord, crowned and robed, + with eyes open, and arms extended. + + The following account is given by Hearne in a volume of his MS. + collections[385]:-- + + '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.' + + 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. + +21. _Psalterium_; close of thirteenth century. + + 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. + + 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. + + * * * * * + +_The following objects of interest are dispersed in various parts of the +Library:--_ + + +AT THE EAST END. + +1. A drawing by Holbein, framed and glazed, being a design for a cup. + + 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, 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[386].' + +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. + + This and the preceding form part of the Douce collection. + +3. Bust of Sir T. Bodley. See p. 26. + +4. Bust of Charles I. See p. 61. + +5. Small marble bust of Napoleon. + + Bequeathed by Capt. Montagu in 1863. See p. 299. + +6. Engraved facsimile of the Rosetta Stone, published by the Antiquarian +Society in 1803. + +7. Egyptian scroll. + + [Five other Egyptian fragments hang at the other end of the + Library.] + +8. Map of England and Scotland, on parchment. Written in the fourteenth +century. See p. 212, _note_. + +9. An armillary sphere, in bronze, supported by three lions. + + Given by Capt. Josias Bodley. See p. 21. + +10. Two small bronzes; one representing Narcissus contemplating his face +in the stream; the other, Cupids disporting themselves on the backs of +Tritons. + +11. A plaster cast of young Bacchanals leading the goat. + +12. A wood carving, coarsely executed, representing Hercules spinning, +and exposed by Omphale to the ridicule of two female visitors. + +13. Bronze, in fine alto-relievo, of Curtius leaping into the gulf in +the Forum at Rome. + +14. Carving, in soap-stone, of the Judgment of Solomon. + +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. + + [Probably all the preceding articles, 10-15, came from Rawlinson.] + +16. Model, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, of the Church of the Holy +Sepulchre at Jerusalem. + + Bequeathed by Dr. Mason in 1841. See p. 265. + +17. Four specimens of papyrus-rolls from Herculaneum, burnt to a crust. + + Presented to the Library by George IV. See p. 216. + +18. Piece of wood from the south side of the curious timber Church at +Greensted in Essex, built A.D. 1013. + + Presented by Mr. James Dix, of Bristol, Feb. 10, 1865. + +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. + + 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[387]. + + +AT THE WEST END. + +20. Sir Thomas Bodley's bell. See p. 33. + +21. Maps of Oxford and Cambridge, by Ralph Aggas; the former dated 1578, +the latter 1592; about three feet by four in size. + + 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. + +22. Four drawings of heads by Raffaele, or Giulio Romano. See p. 251. + + +IN THE LIBRARIAN'S STUDY. + +23. A Roman inscription on a brazen plate:-- + + FLORAE + TI. PLAVTIVS DROSVS + MAG. II. + V. S. L. M. + + 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 'Ex regiis + Christinę thesauris.' + +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. + + +IN THE OPPOSITE SUB-LIBRARIAN'S STUDY. + +25. A warrior on horseback, enamelled on copper, and marked 'Ezechias.' + +26. A Greek painting on wood of St. George and the Dragon. + +27. Another Greek painting on wood, on a gold ground, apparently +representing two angels bowing before the Blessed Virgin, &c. + +28. Heads of our Blessed Lord, and of King Charles I, painted on copper. +See p. 148. + +29. A Ph[oe]nician inscription, on stone. See p. 162. + + +_The following Portraits hang in the Library:--_ + +1. Sir T. Bodley. By Corn. Jansen. + +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. + + There are no portraits of Fysher or Owen. + +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. + +4. Drawing of Thos. Alcock. By Cooper. + + Bequeathed by Rawlinson. + + The following note is written on the back:-- + + '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. + + 'THOMAS ALCOCK, Preceptor.' + +5. Pen-and-ink sketch of Ant. ą Wood, dated 1677. + +6. Pencil drawing of Pope. + + Bequeathed by Rawlinson. + +7. Drawing of F. Douce. + +8. Engraved portrait of Camden. + +Eighteen Oxford Almanacs, between the years 1812 and 1833, decorate the +middle of the room. + + +PICTURE GALLERY. + +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[388]:-- + +Froben, the printer. By Holbein. + + Bequeathed by Rawlinson. + +Oliver Plunket, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh; executed in 1681. +On panel. + + Bequeathed by Rawlinson. + +James Edward, the 'old Chevalier,' and his wife Clementina Sobieski. See +p. 169. + + Bequeathed by Rawlinson. + +Sir R. Chambers, Chief Justice of Bengal. + +Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart. By Richmond. + +Dr. Routh, President of Magdalen College. By Thomson. + +Dr. Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta. + +The Earl of Derby. By Grant. See p. 281. + +The Prince of Wales. By Gordon. See p. 304. + + * * * * * + +The following Curiosities and Models are exhibited in the Gallery:-- + +1. Chair made from the wood of Sir F. Drake's ship. See p. 94. + +2. Chair of Henry VIII. See _ib._ + +3. Guy Fawkes' Lantern. See p. 97. + +4. A series of casts of various ancient Temples and other buildings. See +p. 236. + +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. + + Presented in 1842 by Sir J. W. Awdry, Chief Justice of Bombay. + +6. Cases of Italian medals, medals by Dassier of English sovereigns, &c. +See p. 182. + +7. Two plaster casts of monuments from Nineveh, now in the British +Museum, with cuneiform inscriptions. + +8. Model, in papier-maché, of the Martyrs' Memorial, beautifully +executed. + + Presented in 1844 by the late Rev. Vaughan Thomas, B.D. + +9. Plaster model of the Waltham Cross. + + Presented by the same donor. + +10. Casts of the Elgin marbles. + +11. Alabaster model of the Cathedral at Calcutta. + + 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. + +12. A large and fine model in cork, of the Amphitheatre at Verona; by +Dubourg. + +13. Model of the Royal Yacht in 1697. + +14. Glass case, containing:-- + + 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. + + ii. Collection of Indian weapons presented by Mr. Elliott. See p. + 291. + + iii. Series of clay figures, coloured, representing all degrees of + rank, &c. among the Chinese. + + Brought by Col. Gibbes Rigaud, of the 60th Rifles, the donor, from + Tien-tsin, and given in 1862. + + iv. Handbell from a temple at Tien-tsin. See p. 33. + + v. Small Chinese figure of a deity, in brass; from Pekin. + + vi. Half-burned copy of a Russian translation of the _Pickwick + Papers_. + + Found in the Redan at Sebastopol, when that battery was stormed on + Sept. 9, 1855. Given by Rev. F. J. Holt Beever in 1856. + +15. Portrait, on a large roll, of the late Emperor of China, seated, +with a bow and arrow in his hands. + + Above is an autograph inscription by the Emperor, in verse, in + praise of archery. Brought by Col. Rigaud from the 'Summer Palace.' + +16. Another glass case, containing:-- + + 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. + + Believed to have been bequeathed by Rawlinson. + + ii. A series of small Chinese paintings on ivory. + + From the Douce collection. + + iii. Three sets of wooden roundels[389], 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:-- + + 'If that a bachelor thou bee + Keepe thou so, still be ruled by mee, + Leaste that repentance all to late + Reward thee with a broken pate.' + + 'Content thyselfe with thyn estate, + And send noo poor wight from thi gate: + For why this councell I thee give + To learne to die and die to lyve.' + + iv. A large set of wax impressions of seals. See p. 183. + +17. Model, in wood, of the Temple at Pęstum. + + Carved by Mr. Thomas Wyatt, of Oxford, about 1830. + +[374] 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:-- + + Joh. Jonstonus, M.D., 1633. + Joh. Fred. Gronovius, June 25, 1639. + George Bull, 'SS. Theol. Studiosus, per dispensat,' July 5, 1656. + Andrew Marvell, Sept. 30, 1665. + Sir Winston Churchill, Oct. 4, 1665. + Henry Dodwell, Oct. 20, 1666. + Thomas Rymer, June 20, 1683. + Edmund Calamy, 'Londinensis,' Aug. 18, 1691, and in 1722. + Sir George Mackenzie, Dec. 14, 1694, and several times subsequently. + Joh. Ern. Grabe, Nov. 10, 1697. + Thomas Madox, Sept. 21, 1705. + Joshua Barnes, July 22, 1706. + William Whiston, Sept. 28, 1710. + C. Wesley, 'Ęidis Xti alumnus,' April 19, 1729. + Joh. Dav. Michaelis, Oct. 9, 1741. + W. Blackstone, 'S.C.L.' Feb. 11, 1742-3. + Benj. Kennicott, 'Coll. Wadh. Schol.' July 15, 1746. + George Ballard, Dec. 9, 1747. + Edw. Rowe Mores, Commoner of Queen's College, Aug. 29, 1748. + John Uri, 'Korosini, Hungarus,' Feb. 17, 1766. + Edw. Gibbon, 'Coll. Magd. olim Soc. Com.' Oct. 17, 1766. + Joh. Schweighäuser, June 13, 1769. + J. J. Griesbach, March 22, 1770. + Hen. Alb. Schultens, Oct. 16, 1772. + John Macbride, 'ex Coll. Exon.' (the late venerable Principal of Magd. + Hall, who was only removed by death at the beginning of the present + year), May 10, 1797. + Philip Bliss, Feb. 9, 1809. + +[375] Of this xylographic _Apocalypse_ 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 'Editio princeps' by Heinecken, which was bought in 1853 +for £120 5_s._ Other Block-books in the Library are, (1) two editions of +the _Biblia Pauperum_, or Scenes from Bible History; one coloured, the +other (which belonged to Douce) uncoloured; (2) the _Historia B. M. V. +ex Cantico Canticorum_, being the edition called the Second by Sotheby; +(3) _Propugnacula, seu Turris Sapientię_, a broadside, bought in 1853 +for six guineas. A facsimile of this is given in vol. ii. of Sotheby's +_Principia_; (4) _Speculum Humanę Salvationis._ In this book, which is +the second Latin edition of the work (formerly described as the _Editio +princeps_), twenty pages are taken off from wood-blocks, and the rest +from moveable type. The copy belonged to Douce. It came previously 'ex +Musęo 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. + +[376] 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 _Remains_, 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 (_ibid._ 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 _Annals_. + + 'SIR, + + '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.' + + 'W. CANT. + 'Lambeth, Nov, 15, 1639.' + +[377] Pedigree of the family of Lane, p. 392 of the _Boscobel Tracts_, +edited by J. Hughes, A.M., second edition, 1857. + +[378] No. 7762 in the catalogue of the South Kensington Museum, in 1862. + +[379] Mr. John Gough Nichols, in his collection of the _Literary Remains +of Edw. VI_, 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. + +[380] '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 _Romances_, 1799, p. +52.) + +[381] 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. + +[382] Cędmon was a monk of St. Hilda's Abbey, and died in 680. Bede +(_Eccl. Hist._ 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. + +[383] This MS. is noticed by Warton in his _Life of Sir T. Pope_, p. 73, +where he also quotes Hearne's account of Elizabeth's New Testament, +which is described at p. 52 _supra_. + +[384] Lent to the South Kensington Museum in 1862, from the catalogue of +which exhibition (under No. 202) the above description is taken. + +[385] Rawlinson, C. 876, f. 52. + +[386] _Catalogue of the South Kensington Exhibition_, 1862, p. 672. + +[387] 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. + +[388] Besides some restorations from the Randolph Gallery of portraits +formerly removed thither. + +[389] 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 _Gent. Magaz._ 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 _Archęologia_, pp. 225-230; and a notice of the +Bodleian trenchers in _Notes and Queries_, 1866, p. 472, and other +communications on the subject in the first volume for 1867. + + + + +APPENDIX E. + + +_Numismatic Collection._ + +The collection of Coins and Medals was commenced by the gift from +Archbishop Laud of five cabinets of coins, in 1636[390], 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. 88), and +numerous small gifts came from many donors in 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, _Nummorum +antiquorum scriniis Bodleianis reconditorum catalogus, cum commentario, +tabulis ęneis et appendice_. 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[391]. + +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. 264); Mackie, Roberts, +Elliott, whose valuable series of Indo-Bactrian coins was presented in +1860 (see p. 291), 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. + +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. + +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. + +[390] Amongst these are several rare Hebrew specimens. Laud's letter of +gift, dated June 16, is printed at p. 94, vol. ii., of his _Remains_, +edited by H. Wharton. A curious collection of Roman weights came among +early benefactions; they are entered in Wise's catalogue. + +[391] The special gems are a gold Allectus, and the famous _Reddite_ and +_Petition_ 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 (_Cat._ 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_s._ + + + + +APPENDIX F. + + +_Past Librarians._ + + 1598. Thomas James, M.A. + 1620. John Rouse, M.A. + 1653. Thomas Barlow, M.A., afterwards Bishop of Lincoln. + 1660. Thomas Lockey, B.D. + 1665. Thomas Hyde, D.D. + 1701. John Hudson, D.D. + 1719. Joseph Bowles, M.A. + 1726. Robert Fysher, M.B. + 1747. Humphrey Owen, D.D. + 1768. John Price, B.D. + 1813. Bulkeley Bandinel, B.D. + +_Past Sub-librarians._ + + Before 1619[392]. John Verneuil, M.A. + 1647. Francis Yonge, M.A. + 1657. Henry Stubbe, M.A. + 1659. Thomas Barlow, M.A., afterwards Librarian. + * * * * * + About 1680-90. Rev. John Crabb, M.A. + 1695-1700. Rev. Joseph Crabb, M.A. + 1712. Thomas Hearne, M.A. + 1715. Rev. John Fletcher, M.A. + 1719. Rev. Francis Wise, B.D., appointed first Librarian + of the Radcliffe in 1748, when he, no doubt, + resigned his post in the Bodleian. + 1748? N. Foster[393]? (qu. Nath. Foster, of Magd. Coll., + M.A. in 1748?) + [1770. 'Jones and White, Price's representatives[394].'] + 1780-81. John Walters, Scholar of Jesus College. + Before 1787. Edward Morgan, Jesus College[395], M.A. + 1788. John Bown, Lincoln College[396], M.A. + 1797. Henry H. Baber, St. John's. + 1798. Henry Ellis, St. John's. + [Before 1804? Rev. Sam. Rogers, M.A., Wadham College?] + Before 1810. ---- Matthews. + 1810. Philip Bliss, St. John's College. + 1811. Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, M.A. + 1814. Rev. Henry Cotton, M.A. + ---- Rev. Alex. Nicoll, M.A. + 1822. Rev. Philip Bliss, D.C.L. + ---- Rev. Rich. F. Laurence, M.A. + 1826. Rev. Charles Henry Cox, M.A. + 1828. Rev. Stephen Reay, M.A. + ---- Rev. John Besly, M.A. + 1831. Rev. Ernest Hawkins, M.A. + 1834. Rev. William Cureton, M.A. + 1837. Rev. Herbert Hill, M.A. + 1838. Rev. H. O. Coxe, M.A. + 1861. Rev. Rob. Payne Smith, M.A. + 1865. Max Müller, M.A. + + +_Present Officers of the Library._ + +LIBRARIAN: + +Rev. H. O. Coxe, M.A., Corp. Chr. Coll., appointed Sub-librarian, Nov. +16, 1838; Head Librarian, Nov. 6, 1860. + +SUB-LIBRARIANS: + +Rev. Alfred Hackman, M.A., Ch. Ch., Assistant for the General Catalogue, +April 27, 1837; Sub-librarian, April 20 1862. + +Rev. John William Nutt, M.A., All Souls' Coll., June 25, 1867. + +ASSISTANTS: + +_First Class._ + +Mr. H. S. Harper, [entered the Library June, 1837.] + +Mr. H. J. Sides, [Dec., 1853.] + +Mr. H. Haines, [Dec., 1861.] + +_Second Class._ + +Rev. W. H. Bliss, M.A., Magd. Coll., [March, 1866.] + +Mr. Henry J. Shuffrey, [Jan., 1863.] + +_Third Class._ + +Percy W. Collcutt, [June, 1866.] + +W. F. Green, [March, 1868.] + + * * * * * + +NEW CATALOGUE. + +_General Superintendent._ + +Rev. W. D. Macray, M.A., Magd. Coll., [June, 1840.] + +TRANSCRIBERS: + +Mr. George Parker, [Sept., 1855.] + +Mr. Will. H. Timberlake, [June, 1857.] + +Mr. Fred. Prickett, [Jan., 1863.] + +Mr. Will. Burden, [Jan., 1863.] + +Mr. Will. Plowman, [Nov., 1863.] + +ATTENDANTS: + +Will. H. Allnutt, [Oct., 1864.] + +W. R. Sims, [May, 1867.] + +W. S. Plowman, [Sept., 1867.] + +BINDER: + +Edwin Hickman, [March, 1864.] + + * * * * * + +JANITOR: John Norris, [Oct., 1835.] + +DEPUTY-JANITOR: Robert Roby, [Dec., 1860.] + +JANITOR AT THE CAMERA RADCLIVIANA: W. Bayzand, [June, 1863.] + +[392] 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 _Oratio Sarisb. babita_, which records that it came to the +Library in that year: 'Ex dono Johannis Vernulii, hypobibliothecarii.' + +[393] His name first appears in 1746 as making out the accounts and +receiving money. + +[394] The reference to the source whence this quotation was taken has +been lost. + +[395] See Nichols' _Lit. Hist._ vol. v. p. 539. + +[396] _Ibid._ p. 541. + + + + +APPENDIX G. + + +_Rules of the Library._ + +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. + +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.e._ ordinarily at 11 o'clock. + +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. + +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. + + * * * * * + +The _Camera Radcliviana_, 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. + +The Statutes of the Library are printed in the general _Corpus +Statutorum Universitatis_. + + + + +INDEX. + + + ABBOT, Archbp., 36. + + Abbott, Robert, 36. + + Abel-Remusat, J. P., sale, 332. + + Abingdon, Earls of, 180, 281. + + Abulpharage, Gregory, 114. + + Acland (H. W.), M.D., 293, 294 _n._ + + Acton, Oliver, 184. + + Actor, Petrus, 113. + + Adams, Thomas, 36. + + Addison, Joseph, 223, 322. + + Adelaide, Q. Consort of Will. IV, 319. + + Ęgidius Romanus, 111. + + Ęlfgiva, Abbess of Barking, 327. + + Ęsop, 27 _n._ + + Ęthiopic MSS., 63, 113, 215, 267. + + Aggas, Ralph, 335. + + Airy, G. B., 195. + + Albert, Prince, 252, 319. + + Albert of Aix, 296. + + Albertini, Albert, 202. + + Alcock, Thomas, 336. + + Aldines purchased, 117, 204, 229, 232 _n._, 242, 262, 300; + catalogued, 203. + + Aldred, --, M.A., 107. + + Aldrich, Henry, D.D., Dean of Ch. Ch., 119, 125, 336. + + Aldworth, Rev. John, 39. + + Ales, Alexander de, 111. + + Alexander, Romance of, 17. + + Aleyne, Richard, 314. + + Alfred the Great, transl. of Gregory's _Pastoral Care_, 100; + Preface to Gregory's _Dialogues_, _ib._; + coins, 264. + + Allen, --, 158. + + Allen, Fifield, M.A., 107. + + Allen, Thomas, M.A., donor, 19; + mentioned, 58. + + Allen, Thomas, Finchley, 57. + + Allibond, Dr. John, _Rustica Acad. Oxon. Desc._, 75. + + Al-malek, Alashraf Shalian, Sultan, 114. + + Almanacks, deemed unworthy of admission by Bodley, 66; + Clog almanacks, 105, 161, 325; + various almanacks, 183; + MS. astrological calendar, 329; + brass calendar, 333. + + Alstedius, J. H., _Systema Mnemon._, 43. + + Altham, Roger, D.D., 39. + + Altham, Roger, jun., M.A., 106. + + Alward, John, 315. + + American Tracts, 253, 254, 271; + Psalters, 264. + + Ames, Joseph, 200, 232. + + Anabat, Guil., 312. + + Anacreon, 298. + + Anderson, Sir Richard, donor, 49. + + Anglo-Saxon MSS., 19, 63, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104; + the _Chronicle_, 64; + list of some, in some priests' libraries, 25. + + Anne, Queen, 127, 137. + + Anstey, Rev. Henry, M.A., 7. + + Anstis, John, 178. + + Anwykyll, John, _Compend. Grammat._, 112 _n._ + + Apsley, Sir Peter, 185 _n._ + + Aquinas, St. Thomas, 285 _n._ + + Arabic MSS., 51, 59, 63, 76, 82 _n._, 91, 95, 113 _bis_, 199, 206, + 207, 208, 215, 225, 229, 231, 233, 267, 269, 289, 290, 294 _n._ + + Arbuthnot, Alex., 304. + + _Archęologia_, cited, 338 _n._ + + Archimedes, 201. + + Arethas of Patras, 208, 215. + + Aretine, L., 8. + + Aristotle, 8, 111, 226. + + Armenian MSS., 63, 92, 113. + + Arnold, Samuel, Mus. D., 205. + + _Articles_ of 1562, with signatures of Convocation, 87. + + Arundel, Howard, Earl of, collector of Marbles and MSS., 102. + + Arundel Marbles, 138. + + Ashantee, Princes of, 319. + + Ashburnham, Earl of, 321. + + Asher, A., 275. + + Ashmole, Elias, 177; + his library, 287; + a MS. 327; + coins, 340. + + Ashton, John, or Eschyndone, 58. + + Asula, A. de, 261. + + Athelstan, King, 23. + + _Athenęum_, 281, 295 _n._, 301. + + Atkins, Henry, M.D., 37. + + Atterbury, Francis, Bp. of Rochester, 336. + + Attila, 334. + + Aubigné, Sieur d', _Hist. Univ._, 72. + + Aubrey, John, MSS., 253, 288; + _Lives_ cited, 73, 77 _n._ + + Auerbach, Dr. I., 275. + + Aufrecht, Theod., M.A., 265, 270, 272, 294 _n._, 300. + + Augustine, St., of Hippo, 20 _n._, 253. + + Augustine, St., of Canterbury, his MS. of the Gospels, 24. + + Aurung-zebe, 158. + + Awdry, Sir J. W., donor, 337. + + Ayliffe, Dr. John, _Univ. of Oxford_ cited, 31, 38, 86 _n._ + + + BABER, Rev. H. H., M.A., Sub-librarian, 204, 217. + + Backer, A. De, _Bibl., des Écr. de la Comp de Jes._ cited, 224 _n._ + + Bacon, Sir Francis, donor, 49; + _Works_, 50; + _Essays_, 51. + + Bacon, Roger, 58, 329. + + Bacon, Thomas Sclater, 184. + + Bagford, John, 112, 177, 178. + + Bailey, W., B.A., 239, 241. + + Bailly, Lud., 263. + + Baker, Thomas, B.D., 178, 212 _n._ + + Bale, John, Bp. of Ossory, 90, 239, 248. + + Ballard, George, his bequest, 186-8; + cited, 49, 52 _n._; + references to his MSS., 99, 156; + mentioned, 320. + + Balliol, Devorguilla de, 314. + + Bandinel, Bulkeley, D.D., mentioned, 82 _n._, 149, 215, 220, 237, 238, + 249, 273, 279, 336; + Sub-librarian, 217; + Librarian, 218; + resignation, 292; + death, 293; + sale of his library, 297. + + Banks, Sir Joseph, 194. + + Barges, J. J., 311. + + Barker, Christopher, 52, 171 _n._ + + Barker, E. H., 290. + + Barker, Robert, donor, 25; + mentioned, 36, 171 _n._ + + Barker, Robert, in 1631, 290 _n._ + + Barlow, Thomas, D.D., elected Librarian, 76; + draws up a paper against lending books, 79; + quotations from it, 50, 72, 77, 81-84; + Library accounts, 67, 69, 85; + mentioned, 58, 100 _n._; + resigns, 90; + interview with a R. C. priest, 91; + his books, 99, 111, 115, 119, 126, 129, 328. + + Barnes, J., mentioned, 41; + donor, 50. + + Barnes, Joshua, 178, 320. + + Barnes, Juliana, 160. + + Barocci, Giacomo, his MSS., 53-55, 130 _n._; + references to MSS., 83. + + Barrett, P., B.A., 235. + + Barrington, Shute, Bp. of Durham, donor, 231. + + Barthélemy, J. J., 162. + + Basire, James, 212 _n._, 213. + + Baskett, John, donor, 147. + + Basle, Council of, 51. + + Bassandyne, Thomas, 304. + + Bateman, --, 153. + + Bath, Countess of, 185 _n._ + + Battely, Oliver, M.A., 107. + + Bathurst, Ralph, M.D., donor, 88. + + Baudry, F., 184 _n._ + + Baxter, W. H., 309. + + Bayeux, 180. + + Beaumont, F., and Fletcher, J., 231. + + Bebseth, John, 315. + + Becket, Archbp. T. ą, 29, 42, 104, 188. + + Becon, Thomas, 248. + + Beddoes, Thomas, M.D., makes complaint against Price, 197. + + Bede, cited, 64, 102, 327 _n._; + mentioned, 104. + + Bedell, William, Bp. of Kilmore, MS. papers, 176. + + Bedford, Bp. Hilkiah, 181. + + Bedford, William, M.A., 106, 181. + + Beet, T., bookseller, 42 _n._ + + Beever, Rev. F. J., donor, 338. + + Bell, Rev. John, 39. + + Bembi, Cardinal, 58. + + Benaliis, B. de, 310. + + Bengal, Asiatic Society of, donor, 269. + + Benius, Paulus, 50. + + Bennet, Sir John, mentioned, 36; + one of Bodley's executors, and a defalcator, 37. + + Bennet, Matthew, 37. + + Bent, Andrew, 233. + + Berkshire MSS., 212 _n._ + + Bernard, Edward, D.D., his books, 116, 117; + mentioned, 133; + _Catal. MSS._, 89, 94, 95, 101, 103, 104, 108, 110, 111, 113 _bis_, + 116, 117, 130 _n._, 287. + + Bernstein, Dr., 296. + + Berryer, M., 319. + + Besly, John, D.C.L., Sub-librarian, 242, 246. + + _Bestiaries_, 327-8. + + Beverland, Hadrian, 207. + + Bible, _Paris Polyglott_, 76; + _Hebr._ MS. 324, _pr._ 1488, 201; + _Latin_, MSS., 22, 224; + _c._ 1455 (Mazarine), 202; + 1462, on vellum, 161, on paper, 201; + _c._ 1470, 210; + 1471, _ib._; + (Strasb.) _n. d._, _ib._; + _Wickliffe's Version_, 96; + _Coverdale's_ 1535, 239, 321; + -- 1537, _ib._; + _Cromwell's_ 1539, 300; + _Cranmer's_ 1540, 1541, 1553, 239; + _Matthew's_ 1551, _ib._; + _Bishops'_ 1568, 233; + _First Scottish edit._ 1579, 304; + _Auth. Vers._ 1631, 290; + 1639, 53; + _Vinegar_ 1717, 147; + _Glasgow_ 1862, 330; + _Bowyer_, 244-5; + _Douay_, 49; + _Bohemian_, Ed. Pr., 283; + _Dutch_ 1637, 89; + _German_, Ed. Pr., 202; + 1466, 233; + Luther's 1541, 245, 330; + Royal Press, Berlin, 330; + Polish 1563, 229. + Old Test., _Syriac_, 107; + Pentateuch, _Hebr._ 1482, 226; + _Samaritan_, 296; + _Syriac_, 107; + _German_, 283; + Genesis, _Greek_, 283; + Psalters, _Lat._, 179, 249, 327; + 1459, 229; + _Archbp. Parker's_, 250; + _American_, 264; + _Ęthiopic_, 1513, 89. + Apocrypha 1549, 233. + New Test., _Codex Ebner._ 229-30; + _Tyndale's_ 1534, 232; + -- 1536, 239; + _Coverdale's_ 1538, 302; + _Hollybush_ 1538, 239; + _Erasmus_ 1540, _ib._; + _C. Barker_, 52; + 1625, 53; + 1628, 53; + 1630, 53. + Evangeliaries, _Greek_, 94, 224. + Gospels, _Lat._, 104, 327; + _Lat._, (given by S. Gregory to S. Augustine), 24; + _Early English_, 100; + _Coptic_, 107; + _Russian_, 19; + _Syriac_, 56; + St. Luke, _Greek_, 283; + St. Luke and St. John, _Greek_, 283; + _Lat._, 179; + Acts, _Codex Laudianus_, 64; + _Biblia Pauperum_, 321 _n._; + _Apocalypse_ illustrated, MS., 321, 328; + MS. illustrations of the Bible, 324. + + Bill, John, 17, 53. + + Bilstone, John, M.A., + Janitor, 151, 152; + deprivation and death, 192. + + Bindings, 27 _n._, 49, 51-3, 57, 89, 230, 332. 333. + + Birch, Thomas, D.D., 172. + + Bishop, --, 205. + + Bishop, Sir Henry, 278. + + Black, W. H., 287, 289. + + Blackbourne, Bp. John, 169. + + Blacman, John, 318. + + Blackstone, Sir W., 320 _n._ + + Blackwood, Adam, 266 _n._ + + Blades, William, 155, 250, 262. + + Blakeway, Edward, M.A., 107. + + Blakeway, Rev. J. B., Shropshire MSS., 263. + + Blakeway, Richard, M.A., 106. + + Blayney, Benjamin, D.D., 198. + + Bliss, Rev. Nathaniel, 194. + + Bliss, Philip, D.C.L., his sale, 97, 289; + cited, 117, 152, 171 _n._; + mentioned, 178, 180, 192 _n._, 196, 215, 216, 219 _n._, 220, 235, + 236, 242, 245, 257 _n._, 320 _n._ + + Bliss, W. H., M.A., 117. + + Block-books, 321. + + Blow, Dr. John, 205. + + Bloxam, J. R., D.D., _Regist. of Magd. Coll._, cited, 188, 210. + + Blunt, J. H., M.A., 132 _n._ + + Bobart, J., 115. + + Boccaccio, Giovanni, 8, 296, 330. + + Bodleian Library, see 'Stationers' Company;' + central room built to receive Duke Humphrey's books, 7; + destruction of his library, 11-12; + re-foundation by Bodley, 14; + roof, 14-15; + register of benefactors, 16; + opened, 24; + styled the Bodleian by letters patent, 25; + eastern wing built, 29; + great window, _ib._; + endowments, 32; + western wing built, 60; + statute 1813, 218; + new statutes 1856, 284; + first catalogue 1605, 207; + second 1620, 46, 91; + appendix 1635, 60; + prices of these catalogues, 60; + third 1674, 97, 156-7; + Hearne's Appendix, 123; + fourth 1738, 156; + fifth 1843, 268; + new catalogue now in progress, 291; + Uri's catalogue of Oriental MSS., 199; + catalogues + of pictures, 189; + of early printed books 1795, 203; + number + of books 1620, 46-7; + of MSS. 1690, 110; + of printed books and MSS. + 1714, 137; + 1849, 274; + 1867, 305; + remonstrance from foreign readers against an order of the Curators, 68; + loan to Charles I, 37, 69; + supposed attempt to burn the library, 70; + attendance of readers + in 1648-9, 75; + in 1730-40, 152; + duplicates exchanged with Queen's College, 115; + sales of duplicates, 160, 201, 297, 298; + western end re-floored, 191; + annual payment from graduates, 195; + books not allowed to be borrowed, 50, 82 _n._; + borrowing allowed + by Lord Pembroke and Sir T. Roe, 51; + by Sir K. Digby, 59; + loan of books refused + to Bp. Williams, 50; + to Charles I, 72; + to Cromwell, 76; + to the translators of the Bible, 82 _n._; + to Archbp. Laud, _ib._; + granted by special grace, from some collections, to Selden, 79; + MSS. lent + to Marshall, 100; + to the French government by Convocation, 295; + removal of books forbidden 1686, 109; + books returned-- + to Univ. Libr., Cambr., 154; + to Emman. Coll., Cambr., 159; + to Magd. and Univ. Coll., Oxf., 215; + to Durham, 216; + to two parishes, 234; + books stolen, 74, 80 _n._, 81, 103 _n._; + denunciation of a thief by the Curators, 80 _n._; + books restored, 81, 82, 103 _n._; + chains for books, 86; + pamphlets, 66, 194, 202, 290; + dispute between the Hebdomadal Board and the Curators, 198; + poem on the Library, 196; + returns to House of Commons, 227, 273, 274; + Greek text affixed to the door, 209; + coldness in winter formerly, 98; + warming apparatus, 234-5; + the Radcliffe building assigned as a reading-room, 293, 295; + visited + by James I, 26, 41, + by Charles I, 55, 70, + by Charles II, 92, + by James II, 109, + by George III, 197, + by her present Majesty, 319; + American visitor's account cited, 134 _n._; + order in 1722 against admission of readers at unstatutable times, 74; + Anatomy Sch., 132, 134, 136, 140; + assigned to the Library, 200; + heads formerly on the wall of Picture Gallery, 138; + the clock, 182 _n._; + librarians' celibacy, 21; + stipends of officers in 1655-7, 87; + stipends of Sub-librarians, 260; + in 1856, 284; + list of officers, 341-343; + rules, 344. + + Bodley, Gerard, 160. + + BODLEY, Sir Thomas; early career, 12-13; + begins to restore the Library, 14; + his motto, 15; + bust, 26; + desires the Catalogue to be dedicated to the Prince of Wales, 27; + builds eastern wing, 29; + said to have given plate to the Stationers' Company on their agreement + with him, 32; + endows the Library, 32; + forbad the borrowing of books, 82 _n._; + his bell, 33; + his chest, _ib._; + death, 37; + charged with neglect of his relatives, 38; + petition from his grand-nephew and niece, 39; + portrait, 336; + portrait on glass at Oriel Coll., 45 _n._; + annual Bodley speech, 105; + _Reliquię Bodleianę_ cited, 14, 16, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 31, 33, 40, + 42, 88; + mentioned, 138; + books with his autograph, 32, 296; + _Justa Funebria Bodlei_ cited, 26, 37; + _Bodleiomnema_, 37. + + Bodley, Capt. Sir Josias, 13 _n._; + donor, 21. + + Bodley, Laurence, 13 _n._ + + Bodley, Miles, 13 _n._ + + Boethius, 23. + + Boileau, Nic., 298. + + Bois, Sim. du, 312. + + Bokelonde, Thomas, 8 _n._ + + Boleyn, Queen Anne, 333; + book which belonged to her, 27. + + Bolingbroke, Lord, 175. + + Boninis, B. de, 312. + + Bonner, Edm., Bishop of London, 239. + + Bonyngton, W., 313. + + Boone, T., 304. + + Booth, John, Bp. of Exeter, 317 _n._ + + Borlase, Dr. W., 289. + + Boswell, James, _Life of Johnson_, 188 _n._ + + Boswell, James, 231. + + Boswell, Sir W., 322. + + Botel, Henry, 303. + + Boucher, Rev. Jonathan, 254. + + Bourgchier, Sir H., 54. + + Bowcher, G., donor, 149. + + Bowen, James, donor, 163, 321. + + Bowles, Joseph, M.A.; Dr. Hudson's servitor, 139, 140; + elected Librarian, 144; + Hearne's character of him, 145, 146; + began to print a new Catalogue, 158; + demanded payment for making lists, 171 _n._; + death, 151. + + Bown, John, M.A., 342. + + Bowyer, Sir George, donor, 260. + + Bowyer, Rob.; his illustrated Bible, 244. + + Boyce, William, Mus. D., 205. + + Boydell, J., 258. + + Boyle, Robert; _History of the Air_, 124. + + Boys, John, D.D., 36. + + Bradley, Dr. James; MSS. of his _Astron. Observations_, 193, 195. + + Bradshaw, Henry, M.A., Cambr., 112 _n._, 155. + + Brahe, Tycho; _Astron. Mechan._, with original MSS. additions, 58. + + Braidwood, --, 234, 284. + + Breamore, Hants, 131. + + Bredon, Simon, 58. + + Brent, Charles, M.A., 107. + + Bresslau, M. H., 114. + + Brett, Lieut., 289. + + Breviaries, 213, 280, 303, 310, 311. + + Brewer, J. S., M.A., 166. + + Brewster, William, M.D., 142. + + Bridgeman, William; his sale, 173, 184. + + Bridges, John; Northamptonshire collections, 204. + + Bridges, Nath., D.D., 204. + + Brie, Joh. de, 312. + + Bright, B. H., donor, 232 _n._; + sale, 270. + + Brightwell, Rich., _i.e._ J. Frith, _q.v._ + + Bristol, Charter, 180. + + Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 240. + + British Museum; various MSS., 10, 19 _n._, 101, 102, 153, 180; + printed books, 246 _n._, 272. + + Britton, John, 253 _n._, 288. + + Broad, J., 285. + + Brooke, Margaret, donor, 57. + + Brooks, --, glass-painter, 193. + + Brougham, Lord, 319. + + Brounst, Richard, 314. + + Brown, Thomas R., M.A., 260 _n._ + + Brown, Thomas, 196 _n._ + + Browne, Arthur, M.A., 268. + + Browne, Lancelot, M.D., donor, 22. + + Browne, Sir Thomas, 177. + + Bruce, James; his MSS., 266-8. + + Bruce, John, 61. + + Bruno, S., 179. + + Bry, J. T. de, 279. + + Buckeridge, John, Bp. of Rochester, 36. + + Buckhurst, Lord. See _Dorset_. + + Buckingham, George, first Duke, 51, 54, 334. + + Buckingham, Sheffield, Duke of; portrait, 148. + + Buckinghamshire MSS., 190. + + Bugenhagen, J., 246 _n._ + + Bull, George, Bp. of St. David's, 320 _n._ + + Bull, N., Janitor, 189. + + Bulls relating to England, 110. + + Bunsen, Chevalier, 319. + + Bunyan, John, 304. + + Burbache, John, 316. + + Burdett-Coutts, Miss, 42 _n._ + + Bure, G. F. de, 200, 321 _n._ + + Bures, Suffolk, parish register, 234. + + Burgess, Thos., Bp. of St. David's, 196. + + Burgo, D. de, 8. + + Burgred, King of Mercia, 185. + + Burmese MSS., 240, 326. + + Burn, J. H., 297. + + Burn, J. S., cited, 290 _n._ + + Burnet, Gilbert, Bp. of Salisbury, 175, 238, 251, 254, 276; + _Life of Hale_ cited, 77, 85. + + Burnett, Alex., Archbp. of St. Andrew's, 155 _n._ + + Burnford, Humphrey, Librarian, 11. + + Burton, Daniel, M.A., 107. + + Burton, Robert; his gift of printed books, 65-7, 111. + + Burton, Archd. Samuel, 57. + + Burton, Thomas, M.A., 106. + + Burton, William, donor, 56. + + Bury, Philip of, Bp. of Durham; his library at Durham College, 4. + + Bury St. Edmund's, abbey register, 154 _n._ + + Butler, Charles, 247. + + Butler, Samuel, Bp. of Lichfield, 262. + + Butler, William, M.D., 333. + + Button, James, donor, 44. + + Byron, Lord, 227. + + + CADELL, T., 166. + + Cędmon, 102, 327. + + Calamy, Edmund, 320 _n._ + + Calcott, John, B.D., 221. + + Calcutta, 338. + + Caldecott, Thomas, donor, 247. + + Calder, --, coins, 340. + + Camac, Turner, donor, 199. + + Cambridge, Statutes of various Colleges, 179; + Corp. Chr. Coll., MS. there, 24; + fragment there, 112 _n._; + Emmanuel Coll., book restored to the College, 159; + St. John's Coll., fragment there, 112 _n._; + Univ. Library, 112 _n._; + MSS. restored to Moore's Library, 154 _n._; + return to House of Commons of books rejected, 227; + map, 335. + + Camden, William, donor, 19; + MS. collections, 196 _n._; + engraved portrait, 336; + _Britannia_ and _Annales Eliz._, 153. + + Canonici, M. L., his MSS., 223-6, 230 _n._, 310; + fragments of vellum Bible, 161. + + Canons, early MSS., 100, 103. + + Canterbury, MSS. from St. Augustine's, 22, 24; + Statutes of the Cathl., 179. + + Capgrave, John, 10, 178. + + Carew, Sir G., MSS., 64 _n._ + + Carleton, Sir Dudley, and Alice, 38, 48 _n._ + + Carmey, Angel, 182 _n._ + + Carte, Thomas, his MSS., 165-7; + _Letters_ cited, 75. + + Cary, Henry, M.A., 268; + _Mem. of the Civ. War_, 154. + + Casaubon, Isaac, writes verses on Bodley's death, 37; + his _Adversaria_, 95. + + Casaubon, Meric, bequeathed his father's _Adversaria_, 95. + + Cassel, D., 275 _n._ + + Cassini, --, 205. + + Castell, Edmund, D.D., 150. + + Castlemain, Lord, 173. + + Catalogues, Sale, 248. + + Catherine, S., 178. + + Cato, 43. + + Caulfield, Richard, LL.D., donor, 311, 340. + + Cave, Sir Thomas, donor, 188. + + Cawood, John, 171 _n._ + + Caxton, William, _Descr. of Brit._, 88; + _Governayle of Health_, 155; + _Ars Moriendi_, 155 + _Game of Chesse_, 163; + _Recuyell of Troye_, 163; + _Horę_, 250; + _Booke of Curtesye_, 250; + _Dictes_, 262; + _Chronicle_, 280, 321; + _Pilgrimage_, 328; + placard, 250. + + Cecil, R., Lord Burleigh, 171 _n._ + + Celotti, Abate, 230 _n._ + + Chace, Thomas, Chanc. of Oxford, 7 _n._ + + Chains for books, 86; + books unchained, 191. + + Chalmers, Alexander, donor, 212 _n._ + + Chalmers, George, sale, 248 _n._, 254. + + Chamberlain, John, 38, 48 _n._ + + Chamberlayne, Edward, LL.D., papers, 176; + _State of Great Brit._, 237. + + Chambers, Sir R., 337. + + Chambre, W. de, _Hist. Dunelm._ cited, 4 _n._ + + Chandler, Richard, D.D., 162. + + Chandos, James Brydges, Duke of, his sale, 147, 165 _n._, 184. + + Chapman, --, bookseller, 201. + + Chapman, George, 231. + + Chappiel, Anth., 312. + + Charlemagne, 250. + + Charles I, visits the Library, 55, 70; + his application to borrow a book refused, 71-2; + loan of money to him, 37, 69; + book said to be bound in a piece of his waistcoat, 53; + book that belonged to him, 178; + _Catalogue_ ded. to him in 1620, 46; + letters, 154, 289; + Treaty in Isle of Wight, 187; + bust, 61; + portraits, 148, 255; + mentioned, 54, 111, 171 _n._, 331, 334. + + Charles II, visits the Library, 92; + platter from the Royal Oak, 324; + oak planted by him in St. James' Park, 135; + letters, 173; + portraits, 255; + mentioned, 237, 258. + + Charlett, Arthur, D.D., 99, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 127, 128, 136, + 145, 171 _n._, 187; + book-plate, 186. + + Charlotte, Q. Consort of George III, 197. + + Chartier, Alan, 18 _n._, 215. + + Chaucer, Geoffrey, 96, 178, 336. + + Chaworth, Dr., 69. + + Cheke, Sir John, 56. + + Cherry, Francis, his MSS., 52, 151. + + Chester Cathedral, 179. + + Chettle, H., 298. + + Cheshire MSS., 265. + + Chichester, 180. + + _Children of the Chapel_, 156 _n._ + + Chinese books, 28, 63, 91, 208, 284, 338; + Chinese visitors, 109, 320; + Chinese figures, &c., 338. + + Chipping-Barnet, 180. + + Christian, Charles, 183. + + Christie, --, auctioneer, 267. + + Chrysanthus, Patr. of Jerusalem, donor, 143. + + Churchill, A., _Voyages_, 124. + + Churchill, Sir Winston, 320 _n._ + + Churchyard, Thomas, two of his tracts stolen, 81. + + Citium, in Cyprus, 162. + + Clapham, John, donor, 28. + + Clarendon, Edward, first Earl of, donor, 94; + his MSS., 163, 289, 294 _n._; + resignation of Chanc. of Univ., 323; + Gray's copy of his _History_, 276. + _v._ Sutherland. + + Clarendon, Edward, third Earl, 164. + + Clarendon, H., Earl of, MSS., 184, 281. + + Clarke, --, 115. + + Clarke, Edw. D., LL.D., his MSS., 215. + + Clarke, Sam., M.A., his MSS., 95, 268. + + Clarke, William, _Repert. Bibl._ cited, 255 _n._, 305. + + Clarke, W. N., D.C.L., _Collection of Letters_, 154; + Berkshire MSS., 212 _n._ + + Clavell, Walter, 184. + + Claymond, John, 11. + + Clayton, Dr. John, 81. + + Cleaver, E., Bp. of St. Asaph, 192. + + Clement VIII, Pope, 283, 310. + + Clements, --, bookseller, 144. + + Cloyne, 311. + + Cobbe, Richard, M.A., 149. + + Cobham, Thomas, Bp. of Worcester, first founder of the Univ. Library, 3. + + Cobham, Lord, donor, 22. + + Cockburn, John, D.D., and his son, 127. + + Coins and Medals, 61, 75, 88, 93, 124, 125, 182, 190, 191, 203, 264, + 291, 294 _n._; + Catalogue ordered to be made, 76; + enlarged by Hearne, 123; + coin-room, 339, 340. + + Cole, T., 212 _n._ + + Colf, R., D.D., his sons, donors, 44. + + Collier, Bp. Jeremy, M.A., 168 _n._ + + Collins, Richard, 36. + + Columba, S., 64, 176. + + Compton, Henry, Bp. of London; MS. papers, 154 _n._, 175; + mentioned, 127. + + Conde, J. Ant., 238. + + Connock, Richard, donor, 42. + + Constance, Council of, _Acta_, 9, 58. + + Cook, Captain, _Voyages_, 198. + + Cooper, or Cowper, George, M.A., 121. + + Cooper, Samuel, 336. + + Cope, Sir Walter, donor, 22. + + Coptic, MSS. 107, 149, 150, 267. + + Corbinelli, J., 296. + + Cornbury, Henry Hyde, Lord, donor of the Clarendon MSS., 163. + + _Cornhill Magazine_, 280, 302 _n._ + + Cornish MSS., 44. + + Cosin, Richard, LL.D., 170 _n._ + + Cotton, Archd. Henry, Sub-librarian, 220; + mentioned, 223, 235; + _List of Bibles_ cited, 97; + _Typogr. Gaz._ cited, 112 _n._, 162 _n._, 244, 303, 310 _n._; + donor, 311. + + Cotton, Sir R., donor, 24; + MS. from his library, 96 _n._; + mentioned 9, 86. + + Courayer, F. le, papers and portrait, 205. + + Coventrey, Thomas, 37. + + Coventry, placards, &c., 298. + + Coverdale, Miles, Bp. of Exeter, 239, 277, 302. + + Coward, William, M.D., donor, 119. + + Cowderoy, W., Janitor, 189. + + Cowley, Abraham, his _Poems_, given by him, 45 _n._; + verses on Drake's chair, 95. + + Cowper, William, 45. + + Cox, C. H., M.A., Sub-librarian, 240, 242. + + Coxe, H. O., M.A., Sub-librarian, 261; + Librarian, 293; + mentioned, 19 _n._, 29, 43, 64, 112, 169 _n._, 172, 182, 194, 196 + _n._, 279, 280, 289 _n._, 291, 298, 328; + _Catalogues_, 55, 65, 87, 89, 95, 108, 149, 186, 223 _n._, 225, 230, + 238, 251; + donor, 212 _n._ + + Crabb, John, M.A., Sub-librarian, 131-2. + + Crabb, Jos., M.A., Sub-librarian, 129-131. + + Crabb, William, 131. + + Crabeth, --, 228. + + Cranmer, Thomas, Archbp. of Cant., Autograph, 17 _n._ + + Cremer, Henry, M.A., 107. + + Crevenna, P. A., sale, 201. + + Crew, --, M.A., 92. + + Crewe, Nathaniel, Bp. of Durham, donor, 92, 162; + portrait, 336. + + Croft, William, Mus. D., 205, 206. + + Cromwell, Henry, 322. + + Cromwell, Oliver, gift of Greek MSS., 55, 89; + applies for the loan of a MS., but is refused, 76; + letters, 154; + _Memoirs_, 227; + portraits, 255. + + Cromwell, Richard, 55 _n._ + + Croydon, 180. + + Crynes, Nathaniel, M.A., his bequest, 159, 160; + had some duplicates from the Bodleian, 46. + + Crystall, John, 313. + + Cuerdale coins, 264. + + Cuper, Gisb., 207. + + Cureton, William, D.D., Sub-librarian, 251, 259. + + Curll, Edmund, 322. + + Curtis, --, 200. + + Cyprian, S., 290. + + + DALRYMPLE, 258. + + Daly, Robert, Bp. of Cashel, sale, 321. + + Damascius, 108. + + Daniel, G., 42 _n._ + + Danish visitors to the Library, 137. + + Dante, 226 _n._ + + Davids, A. L., 115. + + Davies, John, Deptford, donor, 94. + + Davies, John, Hereford, 171 _n._ + + Davis, Richard, donor, 105. + + Davis, William, M.A., 107. + + Davy, Capt. L. H., donor, 226. + + Davy, William, A.B., 259. + + Davydge, Richard, donor, 76. + + Dawkins, Henry, gift of MSS., 188-9. + + Dawson, Thomas, 36. + + Daye, John, 233. + + Decker, Thomas, 231, 298. + + Dee, Dr. John, papers, 177; + mentioned, 169 _n._, 318. + + Defoe, Daniel, 302. + + Delahogue, L. Ę., 263. + + Delaram, Francis, 171 _n._ + + Denyer, John, 238. + + Denyer, Mrs. Eliz. D., bequest, 238-9. + + Deptford, 94. + + Derby, Geoffrey, Earl of, donor, 281. + + Derby, Prior Stephen, 179. + + De Rossi, J. B., 225. + + Desborough, Major-Gen., donor, 90. + + Devonshire, Duke of, 340. + + Devonshire MSS., 268. + + D'Ewes, Sir Symonds, 10. + + Dibdin, Dr. T. F., cited, 18, 19, 114, 130 _n._, 208, 209, 215, 222, + 224, 248; + mentioned, 258. + + Dickens, Guy, donor, 161. + + Digby, Sir Kenelm, his MSS., 58, 318; + Allen's MSS. included, 20; + willing that they should be lent, 59, 79, 240; + his portraits, 196, 336. + + Dillmann, Dr. A., 65, 268. + + Dillon, Viscount, 112 _n._ + + Dionysius Halicarnassus, 189. + + Dionysius Syrus, 108. + + Disney, Dr. John, 227. + + D'Israeli, Is., cited, 326 _n._ + + Ditchley, Oxon., 112 _n._ + + Dissertations, Academic, 240-1. + + Dix, James, 335. + + Dix, John, 36. + + Djami, 325, 332. + + Dodd, --, 220 _n._ + + Dodd, Thomas, 251. + + Dodsworth, Roger, his MSS., 96, 97; + mentioned, 99. + + Dodwell, Henry, M.A., 152, 178, 320 _n._ + + Dolben, Gilbert, and J. E., donors, 237. + + Dolben, Sir J. E., Sheldon and Dolben papers, 237-8. + + Donatus, 262. + + Donkin, W. F., M.A., 277. + + Donne, John, D.D., 86. + + Dormer, Sir Michael, donor, 25. + + Dornford, Rev. Jos., donor, 326. + + Dorset, Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of, donor of books, + 17; + of Bodley's bust, 26. + + Dorset, C. Sackville, Earl of, 173. + + D'Orville, J. P., his MSS., 207-8. + + Dositheus, 143. + + Douce, Francis, his library, 249-251; + mentioned, 257 _n._, 267, 336; + references to books, 53, 310, 311, 321 _n._, 327, 329-332; + coins, 340. + + Doughty, Bp. Henry, 169. + + Douglas, James, M.D., 248. + + Douglas, John, Bp. of Salisbury, donor, 164; + mentioned, 267. + + Drake, Sir F., his chair, 94. + + Drake, Francis, donor, 96 _n._ + + Drummond, W., of Hawthornden, 266. + + Drusius, J., cited, 13 _n._ + + Dryden, John, 178. + + Dublin, 176, 179. + + Dubourg, --, 338. + + Du Chesne, Andr., _Hist. Fr. Scriptt._, 57. + + Dugdale, Sir W., donor, 104; + MSS. 177, 287, 288. + + Dukes, Leopold, 114. + + Dukes, T. F., 264. + + Duncan, J. S. and P. B., donors, 236. + + Dune, Thomas, 314. + + Dunstan, St., MSS., 20. + + Dunton, John, 177. + + Durandus, Gul., 229. + + Durham, Register of Bp. Kellow, 216. + + Dury, John, MS. papers, 176. + + Dutch tracts, 228, 258. + + Dyak language, first books printed in the, 303. + + Dysart, Earl of, 155. + + + EASTCOT, Daniel, 81. + + East India, portraits of Rajahs, 158. + + East India Company, donors, 208, 223, 260. + + Eberbach, 318. + + Ebner, J. W., 229. + + Eccard, J. G., restored some papers stolen from Bodleian, 103 _n._ + + Edelmann, H., 114, 275. + + Eden, Robert, M.A., 235. + + Edgeman, William, 165 _n._ + + Edgeworth, Miss, 227. + + Edmonds, Sir Clement, donor, 49. + + Edmund of Pounteney, S., Archbp. of Canterbury, 101. + + Edward the Confessor, 328. + + Edward I, 185, 329. + + Edward III, 328. + + Edward IV, 87. + + Edward VI, mentioned, 56, 282, 331; + exercise-book, 325. + + Edward, Thomas, M.A., account of him, 149, 150. + + Edwardes, Thomas, 36. + + Ekerman, Peter, 241 _n._ + + Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII, 120. + + Elizabeth, Queen, exercise-book, 325; + gloves, _ib._; + MSS. presented to her, 49, 326; + books bound by her, 52, 152; + books translated and written by her, 52, 331; + proclamations in her reign, 170 _n._; + roundels, 339; + mentioned, 307, 308. + + Elizabeth, Q. of Bohemia, 336. + + Elkins, W. H., 300. + + Elliott, J. B., his gift of MSS., &c., 290-1, 340. + + Ellis, Sir Henry, D.C.L., Sub-librarian, 204-5; + _Letters of Literary Men_, cited, 9, 24, 54, 121; + _Polydore Virgil_, 11; + _Remarks on Cędmon_, 103. + + Elmham, Thomas, cited, 24 _n._, 25. + + Elphinstone, Bp., _Chron. of Scotl._, 96. + + Elstob, William and Mary, 187. + + English, Thomas, 316. + + _Enoch, Book of_, 267. + + Erasmus, Des., 144 _n._, 239, 336. + + Erfurt, MSS. from, 285. + + Erpenius, Thomas, 54. + + Essex, Robert, second Earl of, donor, 17; + mentioned, 24, 48. + + Eton College, 175. + + Etty, Simeon J., M.A., 239, 259. + + Euclid, the D'Orville MS., 207. + + Eulenberg, Baron ab, 68. + + Eusebius, 238 _n._ + + Eustace, G., 311. + + Euthymius Zigabenus, 108. + + Eutychius, or Eutex, 20. + + Evans, Rev. F., 284. + + Evans, Messrs., 276 _n._ + + Evelyn, John, donor, 88; + letters, 287. + + Ewart, William, M.P., 273. + + Exeter, MSS. given by Dean and Chapter, 23; + Statutes of the Cathedral, 179. + + Exeter, Cecil, Earl of, donor, 44. + + Eyre, Dr., 190. + + Eyston, Charles, 213 _n._ + + + FABER, John, 258. + + Fadir, Peter, 317. + + Fęrmen, 104. + + Fairfax, Sir Thomas, his bequest of MSS., 95-7; + versions of Psalms, &c., 97, 289; + reference to MSS., 18 _n._, 314; + preserved the Library when Oxford surrendered, 72. + + Falkland, Lucius, Lord, 70, 71. + + Fanshaw, John, M.A., 107. + + Farmer, Anthony, 109. + + Fawkes, Guy, lantern, 67. + + Fees of Visitors, 133, 114, 266. + + Fell, John, Bp. of Oxford, his MSS., 108-9, 120; + mentioned, 125, 150. + + Fell, Samuel, Dean of Ch. Ch., 72. + + Fenton, John, 338. + + Fenton, Samuel, M.A., 222, 229. + + Fenton, Thomas, M.A., 107. + + Ferrand, William, 36. + + Ferrar, Richard, 53 _n._ + + _Festivale_, 112. + + Fetherstone, Henry, donor, 31, 54 _n._ + + Field, Richard, 36. + + Finnish MSS., 22. + + Firth, Richard, M.A., 259, 263. + + Fisher, John, Bp. of Rochester, 239. + + Fitz-James, R., Bp. of Chichester, 316. + + Fitz-William, John, D.D., 177. + + Flecher, --, Librarian, 11. + + Fleetwood, William, Bp. of Ely, 141, 170 _n._, 329. + + Fletcher, John, M.A., Sub-librarian, 141; + resigns, 146. + + Fletcher, Ald. William, donor, 29, 30, 211; + buried at Yarnton, 30 _n._; + bust, _ib._ + + Florence, MSS. sent thence with merchandise, 226 _n._ + + Foley, Lord, 147. + + Foliot, Gilbert, Bp. of London, 188. + + Folkes, Martin, 174. + + Foreigners in the Library, 68, 137. + + Forster, Henry, M.A., 241, 252. + + Foster, --, 282. + + Foster, N., 341. + + Fotherby, Charles and Martin, 36. + + Foucault, Nicholas Jos., 161, 179, 184. + + Foulkes, E. S., B.D., 277. + + Foulkes, Mrs. Edmund, donor, 319. + + Foulkes, Thomas, M.A., 107. + + Fountaine, Sir Andrew, 134. + + Fouquet, --, 236. + + Fowler, Edward, Bp. of Gloucester, 131. + + Foxe, John, 19, 318. + + France, drawings of monuments, 213-214; + atlas of, 205; + French tracts, 270; + French MSS., 63, 177, 215. + + Francis, C., M.A., donor, 113. + + Frankland, Thomas, letter, 108. + + Franklin, Sir John, 319. + + Frappaz, Jules, 214. + + Frazer, --, MSS., 294 _n._ + + Frederick, King of Bohemia, 258. + + Frederick, Elector Palatine, 336. + + Frederick, Prince of Wales, epitaph, 160. + + Freke, Ralph and William, donors, 88. + + Frčre, E., _Livres de Liturgie_, &c., 213 _n._ + + Frewin, Richard, M.A., 107. + + Frewin, Richard, M.D., 294 _n._ + + Frith, John, _pseudon._ Brightwell, 239. + + Froben, Joh., 337. + + Fry, Francis, 321. + + Fulke, Will., editions of his _Annotations_ in the Library, 41. + + Fuller, Richard, 314. + + Fuller, Thomas, _Ch. Hist._ cited, 85. + + Furney, Archdeacon Richard, his bequest, 184. + + Fürst, Jul., _Bibl. Jud._ cited, 243 _n._ + + Fust and Schoiffer, books printed by, 161, 201, 229. + + Fyloll, Jasper, 19. + + Fysher, Robert, M.B., elected Librarian, 151; + publishes a catalogue of the printed books, 156, 158; + his death, 160; + charged with neglect, 161; + coins, _ib._ + + + GAGUINUS, Rob., 26. + + Galanus, C., 316 _n._ + + Gagničres, --, 213. + + Gaisford, Thomas, D.D., Dean of Ch. Ch., 208, 215, 223. + + Gale, Samuel, 184. + + Gandy, Bp. Henry, M.A., 169, 177. + + Gardiner, Richard, 48. + + Gardner, Dunn, sale, 322. + + Garlick, F. O., B.A., 212 _n._ + + Garrett, W. W., B.A., 273. + + Garter, Order of the, 179. + + Gascoigne, Thomas, D.D., 20 _n._, 316. + + Gassendi, P., 336. + + Gent, William, donor, 17, 177 _n._ + + Gentilis, Alb. and Scipio, 207. + + George, Prince of Denmark, 185 _n._ + + George I, 131, 175. + + George III, visits the Library, 197; + donor, 198. + + George IV, donor, 216, 223. + + Gentleman's Magazine, cited, 155 _n._, 199 _n._, 205 _n._, 214 _n._, + 217, 222 _n._, 231, 293, 302, 338; + bought, 218 _n._ + + German MSS., 63. + + Gerhard, J. A., 241 _n._ + + Gesenius, Guil., _Ph[oe]n. Monumenta_ cited, 163; + autograph, 319; + sale, 270. + + Gianfilippi, P. de', 230 _n._ + + Gibbon, Anthony, 175. + + Gibbon, Edward, 320 _n._ + + Gibbs, James, 294 _n._ + + Gibson, Edmund, Bp. of London, 187 _n._ + + Gidding, Little, 53. + + Gigli, Gir., _Vocab. Caterin._ cited, 226 _n._ + + Gildas, 20. + + Giles, J. A., D.C.L., 188, 260 _n._ + + Girardenguz, Nic., 310. + + Girardot, Paul, 321 _n._ + + Girdlers' Company, donors, 49. + + Giulio Romano, 251. + + Glastonbury, Chartulary, 110; + survey of lands, 162. + + Gloucester Cathedral, 185. + + Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of, 19 _n._--_v._ Humphrey. + + Gloucestershire, 187. + + Glover, Robert, 174. + + Glynn, H., 271. + + Gocthan, Thomas, Archbp. of, his labours, 126; + visits the Library, 127; + donor, 127-8. + + Godar, Guil., 312. + + Godschall, W. M., 164. + + Godwyn, Charles, M.A., his bequest, 193; + coins, 340. + + Goetz, G. H., 241 _n._ + + Goldberg, Dr. B., 311. + + Goldenthal, Dr. J., 243. + + Golius, Jac., 133. + + Gompertz, Dr. T., 216. + + Gonzaga, Leonora, 249. + + Good, John, M.A., 90. + + Goodwin, T., 81. + + Goodyear, Aaron, donor, 105. + + Gordon, Sir J. W., 304. + + Gouda, 228. + + Gough, Richard, his library, 211-215; + _Brit. Topogr._ cited, 87, 153, 175 _n._, 212 _n._, 253 _n._; + mentioned, 257 _n._; + references to books, 57, 120 _n._, 171 _n._, 311. + + Gower, Rev. F., 265. + + Gower, John, 19 _n._, 96, 237, 336. + + Grabe, J. E., D.D., his MSS., 149; + autograph, 320 _n._ + + Gręvius, J. G., 179. + + Grafton, Richard, 300. + + Grant, Sir F. A., 281. + + Granville, Denis, D.D., Dean of Durham, 177. + + Grascome, Bp. Samuel, 177. + + Graves, Richard, 184. + + Gray, Charles, M.P., donor, 162. + + Gray, Thomas, 276. + + Greaves, T., D.D., his MSS., 103, 325. + + Greek MSS., 50, 53, 55, 63, 64, 78, 94, 108, 151, 153, 207, 215, 223, + 224, 229, 230, 238, 246, 282. + + Green, Charles, 194. + + Greene, Maurice, Mus. D., 205, 206. + + Greene, Robert, 231. + + Greenhill, W. A., M.D., 277, 278. + + Greensted, Essex, 335. + + Gregoriis, Jac. de, donor, 92. + + Gregory, St., MSS. of his _Pastorale_, 23, 100; + _Dialogues_, 100; + _Sacram._, 262. + + Gregory Nazianzen, 115. + + Gregory, David, M.A., 107. + + Gregory, David, M.D., 119. + + Gregory, Henry, M.A., 107. + + Grene, John, D.D., 112, 313. + + Grenville, Lord, 223. + + Gresham Statutes, 180. + + Greville, Col. Charles, 253. + + Grey, Sir C., donor, 240. + + Griffiths, John, M.A., 34 _n._, 211 _n._ + + Griffiths, Ralph, LL.D., 260. + + Grimani, Doge of Venice, 58. + + Grise, Jehan de, 18. + + Gronovius, J. F., 320 _n._ + + Grosteste, Roger, Bp. of Lincoln, 20 _n._, 58, 101. + + Grove, Edmund, 251, 266. + + Gucht, --, Van der, 168. + + Guildford, Earl of, 286. + + Guilevile, G., 328. + + Guillim, John, 174, 187. + + Gutch, John, B.D., editor of _Anth. Wood_, _q.v._; + mentioned, 219 _n._ + + Gutenberg, J., 202, 321. + + Guthrie, --, 164. + + Gyles, Fletcher, 172. + + + HACKMAN, Alfred, M.A., mentioned, 154, 268, 277; + Sub-librarian, 298. + + Haddan, A. W., B.D., 20 _n._ + + Haden, Messrs., 235. + + Hagembach, Petr., 311. + + Haghe, Inghilb., 311. + + Hake, Robert, M.A., 170 _n._ + + Hakewill, William, 37. + + Hale, Sir Matthew, 77, 86 _n._ + + Hale, Archdeacon W. H., 29 _n._ + + Halifax, Montagu, Earl of, 184. + + Hall, --, 158. + + Hall, Rev. --, donor, 223. + + Hall, Anthony, D.D., 28, 56, 145. + + Hall, Fitz-Edward, donor, 291. + + Hall, Henry, 73. + + Hall, Bp. Joseph, 49. + + Hall, Susannah and William, 301. + + Hall, W., 110. + + Hallam, Henry, 319. + + Halliwell, J. O., 101, 232, 298, 301. + + Halloix, P., _Eccl. Or. Scriptt._, 57. + + Ham House, 155. + + Hamilton, --, 290. + + Hamilton, William and Hubert, sons of Sir William H., donors, 285. + + Hampden, John, Letters, 154; + jewel, 203. + + Hamper, W., donor, 240. + + Handel, G. F., 205. + + Harborne, John, 328. + + Harcourt, Earl and Archbp., 212 _n._ + + Harding, John, _Chronicle_, 87. + + Hardouyn, Germ., 312. + + Hardy, Thomas Duffus, 64 _n._, 166. + + Hare, Aug. and J. C., donors, 247. + + Hare, Robert, 82. + + Harewood, Yorkshire, 104. + + Harper, H. S., 263. + + Harris, J., 239 _n._, 277, 322. + + Hart, Andr., 266. + + Haryson, John, 36. + + Haslam, Christopher, M.A., 107. + + Haslewood, J., 160. + + Hastings, Warren, 208. + + Hatton, Capt. Charles, donor, 99. + + Hatton, Christopher, first Lord, 99. + + Hatton, Christopher, second Lord, his MSS., 20 _n._, 99-100. + + Hatton, Jane, grand-niece to Bodley, petition to the University, 39. + + Havergal, H. E., M.A., 189, 206. + + Hawkins, Ernest, B.D., Sub-librarian, 246, 252. + + Hawkins, John, 147. + + Hayes, Drs. Phil. and Will., 205, 206. + + Head, Sir Edmund, _Few Words on Bodl. 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H. de, 321 _n._ + + Heinsius, Daniel, 207. + + Hendons, or Hindhay, Berks, 32. + + Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I, 331. + + Henry II, penance at Canterbury, 29; + homage of King of Scotland, 30; + grant to Gloucester, 185. + + Henry IV, granted a payment to the Librarian, 5. + + Henry VI, 29. + + Henry VIII, mentioned, 11, 271, 316; + books which belonged to him, 27; + accounts of surveyor of works, 177; + chair, said to be his, 95. + + Henry, Prince of Wales, 27, 42. + + Heralds' College, 102. + + Herbert, George, cited, 43. + + Herbert, Sir Thomas, donor, 93. + + Herbert, William, 112. + + Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, 187. + + Herculaneum, Rolls from, 216. + + Hereford Cathedral, chartulary, 120; + statutes, 179; + _Missale_ 1502, 213 _n._ + + Hermann, Godfrey, 282. + + Hermas, 13 _n._ + + Heuringius, Simon, 183 _n._ + + Heydon, Sir Christopher, donor, 25. + + Heylin, Peter, D.D., _Examen Hist._ cited, 85; + _Cypr. Angl._ cited, 290 _n._ + + Heywood, Robert, M.A., donor of Guy Fawkes' lantern, 67; + his father searched the Parliament cellars, _ib._ + + Heywood, Thomas, 231. + + Hibbert, George, sale, 246 _n._ + + Hickes, Bp. George, cited, 20 _bis_, 102, 149; + mentioned, 100, 187 _n._; + donor, 104; + papers, 177; + portrait, 336. + + Hickman, Charles, M.A., 106. + + Hickman, Henry, 36. + + Hickman, Henry, _Justif. of Fathers_ cited, 85. + + High Commission Court, confirms the ordinance of the Stationers' + Company, 36. + + Hill, Rev. --, 165. + + Hill, Herbert, M.A., Sub-librarian, 259, 261. + + Hill, Sir John, M.D., _Vegetable System_, 198 _n._ + + Hill, Rev. Joseph, 173 _n._ + + Hill, Richard, 81. + + Hindhay farm, see Hendons. + + Hoadley, Bp. Benjamin, portrait exhibited by Hearne, 135. + + Hobart Town, first printed book, 233. + + Hobbes, Thomas, 77 _n._ + + Hoccleve, Thomas, 178. + + Hodgson, B. H., donor, 265. + + Hodsall, --, 340 _n._ + + Hody, Humphrey, D.D., bequest, 126. + + Hogarth, William, donor, 168. + + Holbein, Hans, 333, 337. + + Holland, T., 341 _n._ + + Hollis, John Brande, 227. + + Holman, W., MSS. for Essex, &c., 174, 175. + + Holmes, John, 39. + + Holmes, Rob., D.D., Collations of Sept., 207. + + Home, Sir J. E., donor, 276. + + Homer, _Edit. Princ._, 192; + Scholia on Odyssey, 246. + + Honolulu, Queen Emma of, 320. + + Hooke, Col. John, letters, 222. + + Hooper, George, Bp. of Bath and Wells, 173 _n._ + + Hooper, Humphrey, 36. + + Hooper, John, Bp. of Gloucester, 239. + + Hope, F. W., D.C.L., donor, 297. + + Hope, J. T., 297. + + Hopkins, --, 67. + + Horace, 186, 248, 298. + + _Horę_, 42, 178, 213, 250, 289, 311. + + Horne, Rev. T. H., 64. + + Hornsby, Thomas, D.D., 194. + + Horsey, Sir Jerome, donor, 25. + + Hosea, peculiar reading in, 20. + + Howe, Josias, B.D., _Sermon_, 171 _n._ + + Howe, Michael, 233. + + Howell, Lawrence, M.A., 177. + + Howland, Ralph, donor, 129. + + Huber, --, cited, 83 _n._ + + Huddesford, William, M.A., 181, 288, 289. + + Hudson, John, D.D., elected Librarian, 123; + donor, _ib._; + said to have thrown out Milton's books from the Library, 46; + letter cited, 121; + mentioned, 69, 124, 127, 132, 133, 140, 157; + twice married, 22; + his widow married to Dr. Hall, 28; + account of the Library, 38; + subscribes for relief of Bodley's relations, 39; + threatens to remove Hearne, 139; + his death, 144; + neglect and incapacity, 140, 144, 145. + + Hughes, J., M.A., _Boscobel Tracts_, cited, 324 _n._ + + Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, gifts to the Library, 6-10; + motto, 6 _n._; + aided in building the Divinity School, 6; + destruction of his library, 11, 12. + + Hungarian books, 275. + + Hunsdon, Henry, first lord, donor, 17. + + Hunt, Leigh, 227. + + Hunt, Thomas, printer and bookseller in Oxford in 1483, 112. + + Hunt, Thomas, D.D., mentioned, 109, 294 _n._; + MSS., 193. + + Hunter, Joseph, Cat. of Dodsworth MSS., 96. + + Huntingdon, Earl of, 166. + + Huntington, Robert, Bp. of Raphoe, mentioned, 108, 133; + his MSS., 113, 115. + + Hussey, Edw. L., 255 _n._; + 257 _n._ + + Hussey, Robert, B.D., 257 _n._ + + Hutton, --, 143. + + Hyatt, J. C, B.A., 273. + + Hyde, Thomas, D.D., Sub-librarian, 90; + elected Head-librarian, 93; + dedication of catalogue, 97; + note on the agreement with the Stationers' Co., 31; + goes to London to claim books from the Co., 110; + letters cited, 69, 120; + MSS. bought from him, 113; + mentioned, 100 _n._, 109, 130 _n._, 294 _n._; + charged with ignorance by Wanley, 118; + wishes to have Wanley for his successor, _ib._; + resigns the Librarianship, 121; + his death, 123. + + + IBOTT, Benj., 232. + + Icelandic MSS., 242. + + Ince, Peter, donor, 50. + + _Index Libb. Prohib._, Madr. 1612-14, 90. + + Inglis, Esther, MSS. by her, 48, 49. + + Inglis, --, sale, 321. + + Inglis, Sir R. H., donor, 183; + portrait, 337. + + Ingram, James, D.D., bequest of coins, 340. + + Innocent VIII., Pope, 148. + + Irish MSS., 63, 64, 175; + pamphlets, 232, 247. + + Isaiah, 82 _n._, 113. + + Isham, Zach., M.A., 106. + + Italian printed books and MSS., 63, 177, 225, 260, 271. + + Ivan Basilides, Czar of Russia, 25. + + Ivie, Edw., M.A., 107. + + + JACKSON, Cyril, D.D., Dean of Ch. Ch., 198. + + Jackson, Rev. J. E., 288. + + Jacobs, C. F. G., 273. + + James I, grants letters patent for the Library, 25; + visits it, 26, 41; + grants books from the royal libraries, 26; + a book formerly in his possession, 44; + presents his own _Works_, 47. + + James II, visits the Library while Duke of York, 92; + Duchess of Buckingham his daughter, 148; + mentioned, 166, 173, 222, 237, 252, 255, 323, 340. + + James Edward, 'the Chevalier,' son of James II, portrait exhibited by + Hearne, 135; + portraits of him and his wife, 169 _n._ + + James, Andrew, donor, 50. + + James, Edward, B.D., donor, 40. + + James, Richard, his MSS., 103, 104. + + James, Thomas, donor, 21; + Appointment as Librarian, salary, &c., _ib._; + publishes the catalogue in 1605, 27; + a continuation of the classified index in MS., 28; + another Catalogue in MS. in 1613, 39; + proposes the agreement with the Stationers' Company, 31; + publishes the second edition of the _Catalogue_, 46; + resigns his office, 44; + death, _ib._; + cited, 13 _n._, 16, 60; + mentioned, 103; + _Catal. Interpp._, 60, 243 _n._; + portrait, 336. + + Janitors, 88, 123, 189, 192. + + Jansen, Cornelius, 336. + + Janson, Nicolas, 250, 310. + + Janua, J. de, 209. + + Javanese MSS., 50, 226, 324. + + Jehannot, E., 312. + + Jekyll, Sir Joseph, 172, 177, 184. + + Jekyll, Thomas, 174. + + Jernegan, Nicholas, 165, 166. + + Jerome, St., 111, 253. + + Jersey, Lord, 277. + + Jerusalem, 105, 265. + + Jessett, --, B.A., 158. + + Jews offer to buy St. Paul's Cathedral and the Bodleian Library, 75. + + John, a Greek scribe, 215. + + John of Aix, 113. + + Johnson, --, 77 _n._ + + Johnson, Dr. Samuel, donor, 188; + mentioned, 87, 232; + _Lives of Poets_ referred to, 106. + + Jones, --, 341. + + Jones, H., M.A. [_dec._ 1700], his MSS., 109, 120; + reference to a MS., 96 _n._ + + Jones, H., M.A. 1729, 107. + + Jones, John, 210. + + Jones, Sir William, 247. + + Jonson, Ben, 86, 178, 231. + + Jonstonus, Joh., M.D., 320 _n._ + + Jordan, John, 44. + + Jordan, William, donor, 104. + + Josephus, 94, 158. + + Jourdain, John, donor, 50. + + Jowett, Benjamin, M.A., 277. + + Joye, George, 239. + + Judge, L. E., M.A., 239. + + Jugge, Richard, 171 _n._ + + Junius, Francis, mentioned, 19; + his MSS. 102, 327; + _Glossarium Septentr._, 108; + three Hatton MSS. amongst his own, 100; + cited, 104; + portrait, 336. + + Justell, Christopher, 100. + + Justell, Henry, donor, 100. + + Justinian, 173 _n._, 310. + + Juvenal, 252, 262, 298. + + Juxon, Bishop William, donor, 88; + donor of book to Barlow, 111. + + + KEATE, --, 340. + + Keating, Geoffrey, _Hist. of Ireland_, 96. + + Keble, --, bookseller, donor, 125. + + Kedden, Rev. Ralph, 39. + + Keigwyn, John, 44. + + Keil, Prof. John, M.D., 134, 135, 136. + + Kellow, Richard, Bp. of Durham, 216. + + Kelly, Edward, his _Holy Table_, 162 _n._ + + Kemble, J. M., _Codex Dipl._, 185. + + Kempe, Thomas, Bishop of London, 10. + + Kempis, Thomas ą, 126. + + Ken, John (erroneously printed _Kerr_), donor, 93. + + Ken, Thomas, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 173 _n._; + letters, 175 _n._ + + Kennett, White, Bishop of Peterborough, 187 _n._, 212 _n._ + + Kennicott, Benjamin, D.D., _Hebr. Collations_, &c., 191, 294 _n._; + Arabic tracts, 231; + autograph, 320 _n._ + + Kennon, Mrs., 182 _n._ + + Kerver, Thielman, 312. + + Kewsch, John, 65. + + Kilby, --, 67. + + King, --, bookseller, 201. + + King, Charles, M.A., donor, 56 _n._ + + King, John, Bishop of London, 36. + + King, John, D.D., donor, 159. + + King, J., bookseller, Moorfields, 182 _n._ + + King, P., Lord, _Life of Locke_, cited 124. + + Kingsborough, Viscount, _Mexican Antiq._ 246. + + Kingsley, William, 289. + + Kingston, Felix, a London printer, 32. + + Kirkebote, Adam, Librarian, 11. + + Kloss, Dr., sale, 253, 262. + + Kneller, Sir Godfrey, donor, 147. + + Knight, Archdeacon, 153. + + Knight, Thomas, donor, 203. + + Knox, John, 242, 248. + + Koran, 76, 208, 326. + + Kyngusbury, Thomas de, 316. + + Kyrkeby, John, 7 _n._ + + + LACTANTIUS, 226. + + Lacy, Edmund, Bishop of Exeter, 315. + + La Fontaine, J. de, 298. + + Laing, David, LL.D., mentioned, 49 _n._; + donor, 183 _n._ + + Lake, Gilbert, M.A., 107. + + Lamb, James, D.D., his MSS., 93. + + Landino, Christopher, 250, 310. + + Landspring, English monastery at, 245. + + Lane, Col. John, and Mrs. Letitia, 324. + + Langbaine, Gerard, D.D., his _Adversaria_, 89; + mentioned, 59, 67, 78; + letter cited, 78. + + Langlčs, L. M., 239. + + Langley, abbey register, 154 _n._ + + Langley, Henry de, 316. + + Langford, Emmanuel, M.A., 158. + + Lansyng, Richard de, 316. + + Lascelles, R., _Oxford_, cited, 95, 234 _n._ + + Lasher, Josh., M.D., 179. + + Lathbury, T., M.A., 282. + + Lattebury, John, _Expositio in Thren. Jerem._, 112. + + Laud, Archbp., his gifts, 61-65; + placed at the west end, 62; + coins, 339; + letters, 62, 322; + references to his MSS., 43, 246, 268, 295, 325-327; + mentioned, 31, 59, 82 _n._, 240, 290 _n._; + writes verses on Bodley's death, 37; + portrait, 336; + book given to St. John's College, 53 _n._ + + Laurence, Roger, M.A., 168 _n._ + + Laurence, R. F., M.A., 235. + + Laurence, Richard, Archbp. of Cashel, 220, 221, 267. + + Laurentius Gallus, 329. + + Layfields, John, 36. + + Leake, William, 36. + + Lecchelade, John de, 318. + + Lee, Sir James, donor, 328. + + Lee, Matthew, M.A., 107. + + Lee, Sir Richard, donor of books, 22; + of a Muscovite cloak, 40, 307. + + Lee, William, 302. + + Leeu, Gerard, 155. + + Legat, Hugh, 313. + + Le Hunt, William, M.A., 107. + + Leicester, Robert Dudley, first Earl of, donor, while Lord Lisle, 17; + his watch, 129; + book that belonged to him, 320. + + Leicester, Cope, Earl of, 277, 321. + + Leicestershire, 110. + + Leighton, Archbishop, 179. + + Leland, John, his MSS., 56, 318. + + Le Long, le Pčre, 184 _n._ + + Lendon, Abel, M.A., 202. + + Le Neve, Peter, 174, 184. + + Lennox, Mary, Countess of, 44. + + Lennox, W. J., 210. + + Lenthall, --, Janitor, 189. + + Leofric, Bp. of Exeter, MSS. given to Exeter, 23. + + Lerida, _Brev. Illerdense_, 303. + + Le S[oe]ur, Hubert, 61, 148. + + Letheringham, Suffolk, 214. + + Lewis, F., 211 _n._ + + Lewis, Sir G. C., 274. + + Lewis, John, M.A., MSS., 176, 248, 252. + + Lewton, Edward, M.A., 201. + + Ley, Edwin, donor, 44. + + Leyden, 129, 133, 178, 199, 207, 228. + + Lhuyd, Edw., cited, 20, 125; + MSS., 289. + + Libri, Girol. da, 249. + + Libri, Gugl., 273, 290. + + Lichfield Cathedral, 179. + + Lichfield, Leonard, 65. + + Lilly, William, 169 _n._ + + Lilly, W., bookseller, 260 _n._ + + Linacer, Thomas, 316 _n._ + + Lindsell, Augustine, Bp. of Peterb., 51, 290 _n._, 318. + + Lister, Martin, M.D., his library, 288. + + Livermore, George, 311. + + Liverpool, Earl of, 221. + + Livy, 112, 226. + + Llandaff, 190. + + Lloyd, William, Bp. of Worc., 116. + + Locke, John, donor, 124. + + Lockey, Thomas, B.D., elected Librarian, 90; + resigns, 93; + death, _ib._ + + Lockhart, James, _Papers_, cited, 222 _n._ + + Lodge, Thomas, 231. + + Loftus, Dudley, 108. + + Logan, D., 334. + + London, Charter, 180; + houses in Distaff Lane, 32; + burned in the Fire, 38; + their rent in arrear, 58; + fire at the Temple, 86; + map of Lond. and Westm., 255; + cat. of MSS. at Lincoln's Inn, 96; + St. Peter's, Cornhill, 177; + Christ's Hospital, 186. + + _London Gazette_, 302. + + Longhi, G., 299. + + Lorenzi, --, 226. + + Louis XIV of France, 214. + + Louis XVI of France, 267. + + Loutherbourg, P. J. de, 244. + + Louveau, J., 52. + + Low Countries, 186. + + Lownes, Humphrey, 36. + + Lucan, 223, 262. + + Luard, H. R., M.A., 328. + + Lucas, --, bookseller, 290 _n._ + + Luff, Richard, monk of Coventry, 314. + + Lumley, John, sixth Lord, donor, 17. + + Luther, Martin, 245, 246, 283, 285, 302. + + Lutheran Tracts, German, 228, 283. + + Lydgate, John, 177, 178, 318. + + Lydiat, Thomas, M.A., 119. + + Lye, Edward, M.A., 336. + + Lyndewoode, William, _Provinciale_, 112. + + Lysiaux, Thos., Dean of St. Paul's, 315. + + Lyte, Rev. H. F., 273. + + + MACBRIDE, J. D., D.C.L., donor, 228; + mentioned, 278, 320 _n._ + + Macdonald, Flora, 160 _n._ + + Macfarlane, E. M., M.A., 203 _n._ + + M'Ghee, Rev. R. J., donor, 262. + + Machlinia, William de, 210. + + Mackenzie, Sir George, 320 _n._ + + Mackie, --, 340. + + Macky, John, _Journey through Eng._, cited, 86 _n._ + + Macpherson, D., 165, 166. + + Macray, W. D., 85 _n._, 176, 206, 233 _n._, 250 _n._, 270, 287. + + Mac-Regol, Abbot of Birr, 104. + + Madden, Sir Fred., 177 _n._, 281, 330. + + Madox, Thomas, 320 _n._ + + Maffei, Scipio, _Verona illust._, cited, 230. + + Magnusen, Finn, his MSS., 242. + + _Magna Charta_, 185. + + Maittaire, Michael, 177, 178, 179, 184. + + Major, G., 246 _n._ + + Malabar, Bp. of, 319. + + Malabaric MS., 324. + + Malmesbury, Chartulary, 110, 142. + + Malone, Edmund, his library, 231-2. + + Malyng, H., 318. + + Man, Thomas, 32, 36. + + Manaton, Pierce, M.D., 107. + + Manaton, Robert, M.A., 107. + + Manchester Cathedral, 179. + + Manuzzi, Giuseppe, 225. + + Maraldi, --, 205. + + Marchant, N., 336. + + Margaret of Anjou, 29. + + Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 44. + + Marlborough, John, first Duke of, 135. + + Marriott, Charles, B.D., 278. + + Marsh, Archbp. Narcissus, his bequest of MSS., 132-3. + + Marschalle, William, 317. + + Marshall, F. J., M.A., 259. + + Marshall or Mareschal, Thomas, D.D., his printed books and MSS., 107; + recovers a lost MS., 92; + said to have borrowed MSS., 100; + mentioned, 150. + + Martivall, R. de, Bp. of Sarum, 176, 317. + + Marvell, Andrew, 320 _n._ + + Mary I, her MS. _Horę_ and inscription, 42; + another inscription, 43. + + Mary II, 175 _n._, 255. + + Mary, Queen of Scotland, 171 _n._, 266 _n._ + + Maskelyne, N. S., M.A., 278. + + Mason, Robert, D.D., bequest, 264. + + Massa, Michael de, 329. + + Massey, Dr. Richard M., donor, 129. + + Massinger, Philip, 231. + + Master, Dr. Robert, donor, 9. + + Mather, Cotton, 304. + + Matthew of Westminster, 289. + + Matthews, Rev. A. H., donor, 210; + Sub-librarian (?), 342. + + Maunder, --, D.D., 157. + + Maximilian, Emp. of Germany, 331. + + Maximus, Valerius, 8. + + Maynard, Joseph, B.D., donor, 90. + + Mead, Dr. Richard, 142, 184, 340. + + Medici, House of, 182. + + Medici, Mary de, 249, 351. + + Medyltone, Ralph de, 329. + + Meerman, Ger. and John, 238. + + Meetkirk, Prof. Edward, 81. + + Melanchthon, Philip, 245, 246, 253. + + Mendean MSS., 114, 300. + + Mendham, Rev. Joseph, his bequest, 286; + _Lit. Policy_, cited, 91 _n._ + + Mentelin, --, 210. + + Mentz, 318. + + Mericke, John, donor, 25. + + Mexican Antiquities, 246, 325. + + Michael, J., Hebrew books, 272. + + Michaelis, J. D., 320 _n._ + + Middlesex MSS., 175. + + Middleton, Viscountess, 164. + + Milan, Ambrosian Library, 47 _n._ + + Mill, John, D.D., donor, 125; + mentioned, 99. + + Mill, W. H., D.D., his MSS., 272. + + Milles, Jeremiah, D.D., his MSS., 268. + + Milton, John, books given by him, 45; + these, at one time, said to have been thrown out, 46, 160. + + _Missals_, 23, 65, 179, 213, 225, 283. + + Mocket, or Moket, Richard, 36. + + Models, 49, 105, 236, 334, 337, 338. + + Mollineux, --, 134. + + Monasteries, dissolved, 271 _n._ + + _Moniteur_, 205. + + Monkhouse, Thomas, M.A., 164. + + Monmouth, Duke of, letters and dying acknowledgment, 173, 323; + mentioned, 222, _n._, 282. + + Monson, Sir W., cited, 24. + + Montacute, Lord, donor, 17. + + Montagu, Capt. M., bequest, 298. + + Montagu, Richard, Bp. of Norwich, 47. + + Montague, Edward Wortley, 206. + + Montague, George, 36. + + Monteith, Robert, _Hist. of the Troubles_, cited, 75. + + Montfaucon, Bernard, 224. + + _Monthly Review_, 260. + + Moore, --, 340. + + Morant, Philip, M.A., 174. + + Morbeck, W. de, 59. + + More, Hannah, 227. + + More, Sir Thomas, 144 _n._, 187. + + Moreri, L., 94. + + Mores, E. Rowe, 156, 212 _n._, 320 _n._ + + Morgan, Edward, M.A., 342. + + Morley, Thomas, 206. + + Morris, John, D.D., founder of the annual Bodley oration, 105. + + Mortara, Count Aless., his library, 225, 279. + + Morwent, Robert, 12. + + Moses Chorenensis, _Hist. Armen._, 128. + + Moses Maimonides, 114, 225. + + Motthe, Georges de la, 326. + + Mountjoy, Blount, Lord, donor, 22. + + Mozarabic Breviary, 280. + + Müller, A., donor, 228. + + Müller, Max., M.A., Sub-librarian, 303; + resigned, 304. + + Mummy, an Egyptian, 105. + + Munich, duplicates from, 276. + + Muris, Joh. de, 76. + + Murr, -- de, _Memorab. Bibl. Norimb._ cited, 230. + + Murray, Dr. Alex., 267. + + Murray, John, 184. + + Musca, --, 9 _n._ + + Music, printed books bought, 22; + from Stat. Hall, 189; + MSS., 205. + + Musonius, 43. + + + NAHUMUS, Jod., _Conc. in Evang._, 80 _n._ + + Nairne, David, his papers, 166. + + Nalson, John, LL.D., papers, 153-4. + + Napier, Sir Richard, letter cited, 73. + + Napier, Rev. Richard, 74. + + Napoleon I, portrait, 299; + medals, 340. + + Nash, Thomas, 301. + + Nassyngton, William of, 177. + + Naunton, Sir R., 47. + + Neal, D., cited, 68. + + Needlework, Life of our Blessed Lord, 51 _n._; + bindings, 51-53; + samplers, 53. + + Neile, Rich., Bp. of Cov. and Lichfield, 36. + + Nelson, Robert, 127 _n._ + + Nemnivus, 20 _n._ + + Neubauer, Dr. A., 272. + + Nevile, Sir H., 48. + + Nevile, Thomas, donor, 48. + + New, E. P., B.D., 236. + + Newcastle, William Cavendish, Marq. of, 216. + + Newcastle, John Holles, Duke of, 180. + + Newey, Thomas, M.A., 106. + + Newington, Kent, parish register, 234. + + Newman, F., 83 _n._ + + Newman, G., 36. + + Newman, Henry, papers, 176. + + New South Wales, first printed book, 233. + + Newspapers, 1672-1737, 302. + + Newton, Richard, M.A., 106. + + Newton, Thomas, 87. + + New-Zealand Newspaper, 233 _n._ + + Nichols, John, _Progr. of James I_ cited, 48; + _Lit. Anecd._ cited, 78 _n._, 166 _n._, 200-1, 211 _n._; + _Lit. Hist._ cited, 188, 211, 214 _n._, 217, 231, 257, 342; + _Letters of Nicolson_, 187 _n._; + mentioned, 214, 302. + + Nichols, John Gough, 325 _n._ + + Nicoll, Alex., D.D., Sub-librarian, 220; + mentioned, 65, 95, 199, 215, 233. + + Nicolson, Wm., Archbp. of Cashel, 187 _n._ + + Noel, Rev. John, 184. + + Norris, Edwin, 44. + + Norris, John, Janitor, 134 _n._, 189. + + Norfolk Tracts, 280. + + Norkoping, Norway, 241 _n._ + + North, Lord, donor, 193-4. + + Northamptonshire MSS., 204. + + Northumberland, Hen. Percy, Earl of, 87. + + Norton, John, 36, 53. + + _Notes and Queries_, 226 _n._, 250 _n._, 254 _n._, 338 _n._ + + Nourse, Tim., donor, 124. + + Novello, Vincent, donor, 206. + + Nowell, Alex., Dean of St. Paul's, 336. + + Nugent, Lord, _Mem. of Hampden_, 203 _n._ + + Nurigian, Luke, 127. + + Nutt, J. W., M.A., Sub-librarian, 304. + + + OCCLEVE, Thomas, or _Hoccleve_, _q. v._ + + Ochini, Bern., 331. + + O'Donnell, Magnus, 176. + + Offor, G., 233 _n._ + + Ogilvie, James, of Boyn, 222. + + Ogilvie, J., 75. + + O'Grady, Standish H., 176 _n._ + + Okeover family, 237. + + Opie, Mrs., 227. + + Oppenheimer, D., Hebrew library, 243. + + Orford, Lord, 212 _n._ + + Ormesby, Robert de, 329. + + Ormonde, James, first Duke of, 165, 166. + + Ormonde, James, second Duke of, 175. + + _Ormulum_, 102. + + Osborne, T., bookseller, 216. + + Oseney Abbey, book which belonged to, 176. + + Osorius, Hier., Bishop of Faro, 24. + + Oswen, H., 264. + + Ouigour MS., 115. + + Ouseley, Sir Fred. A. G., Bart., donor, 206; + MSS. bought from him, 289. + + Ouseley, Sir Gore, his MSS., 289, 290, 332; + mentioned, 269. + + Ouseley, Sir William, his MSS., 269; + _Orient. Collect._ cited, 206. + + Ousley, Rev. John, 174. + + Ovid, 20, 179, 252, 300. + + Owen, Humphrey, B.D., elected Librarian, 160; + death, 192; + mentioned, 170 _n._, 185, 192. + + Owen, John, D.D., 89. + + Owen, John, 227. + + Owun, 104. + + Oxford, statutes of various colleges, 179; + the librarians of Cobham's and Duke Humphrey's libraries were + Chaplains to the Univ., 5; + almanacks, 211; + books in the Library printed at Oxford before 1500, 111-2; + map, 335; + siege, 240; + All Souls' Coll. MS. there, 19 _n._; + Anatomy School, 132, 134, 136, 140; + Ashmolean Museum, 105, 122, 163, 169 _n._, 189, 203 _n._; + the Library transferred to the Bodleian, 286-9; + Balliol Coll. MSS. there, 5; + proposed catalogue of rare books, 201; + list of books not in the Bodleian, 203; + Ch. Ch. MSS. there, 49, 121; + Corp. Chr. Coll. MS. there, 10; + the old Univ. money chest there, 4 _n._; + Divinity School, 5; + Durham Coll., 4, 20 _n._; + Exeter Coll., list of books not in Bodleian, 203; + Hart Hall, 99; + Jesus Coll., list of books not in Bodleian, 203; + Magd. Coll. (see _J. R. Bloxam_), spur-royals, 84; + muniments, 85 _n._; + first Grammar-master, 112 _n._; + list of books not in Bodleian, 203; + catalogue of the library, 203; + account-books returned to the College, 215; + statutes refused to be returned, 261; + Merton Coll., proposed catalogue of rare books, 201; + Music School, 170 _n._; + Oriel Coll. MS. there, 10; + portrait of Bodley, on glass, 45 _n._; + proposed catalogue of rare books, 201; + list of books not in Bodleian, 203; + Queen's Coll. gave some of Junius' papers to the Bodleian, 103 _n._; + books bequeathed by Barlow, 111, 115; + duplicates exchanged with Bodleian, 115; + a person employed in the Library, 201; + Dr. Mason's bequest, 265; + Radcliffe Library, 202; + the room assigned to the Bodleian, 293; + St. John's Coll., book given by Laud, 53 _n._, and bust of + Charles I, 61; + St. Mary's Church, the first Library there, 3, 4; + west window, 3; + window of old Convocation House, 4 _n._; + Fysher, the Librarian, buried in Adam de Brome's chapel, 160; + Schools' tower, inscription renewed, 147; + Univ. Coll. MSS. there, 18 _n._, 64 _n._; + £50 due to the Bodleian from the College, 67; + account-books returned to the College, 215; + Wadham Coll., a person employed in the Library, 201; + Friars Minor, 20 _n._ + + Oxford, Rob. Harley, first Earl of, 175. + + Oxford, Edw. Harley, second Earl of, 9, 170 _n._, 184, 216. + + Oxfordshire MSS., 175. + + + PACHYMERES, 159. + + Paine, James, donor, 248. + + Palares, Anthony, 303. + + Palmerston, Lord, 319. + + Palmyra, 189. + + Parasceve, S., 324. + + Paris, Mazarine Library, 47 _n._, 202; + MS. in Bibl. Imp., 115; + Church of Holy Sepulchre, 180. + + Paris, Rev. Thomas, 39. + + Park, Thomas, 258. + + Parker, John, 170 _n._ + + Parker, John Henry, M.A., 214. + + Parker, Joseph, 271. + + Parker, Matthew, Archbp. of Canterbury, _De Antiq. Eccl. Brit._, + 170 _n._; + _Psalter_, 250; + mentioned, 19, 24. + + Parker, Samuel, son of the Bishop, 144. + + Parker, Thomas, 144, 192. + + Parkes, Mrs., 245. + + Parliamentary Committee for Augmentation of Livings, 129. + + Parr, Q. Katherine, inscription, 43; + MS. dedicated to her, 52. + + Parret, --, 11 _n._ + + Parsons, Joseph, M.A., donor, 191. + + Parthenius, Patriar. of Constant., 94. + + _Parthenope of Blois_, 178. + + Pate, William, donor, 196 _n._ + + Patrick, St., 64. + + Patrick, Symon, Bp. of Ely, 185 _n._ + + Patridge, Daniel, 125. + + Paul III., Pope, 283. + + Paulus, H. E. G., 81. + + Payne and Foss, Messrs., 229, 230, 245, 332. + + Peach, John and Samuel, 194. + + Peacock, --, 227. + + Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, donor, 76. + + Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl of, donor of the Barocci MSS., 54; + letter to the Vice-Chanc., _ib._; + gave licence for borrowing the MSS., 51, 54, 79; + statue of him, given by Thomas, seventh Earl, 148. + + Penton, Stephen, B.D., donor, 124. + + Pepys, Samuel, his MS. papers, 172. + + Percy, Thomas, Bp. of Dromore, 232. + + Periam, William, M.A., 107. + + Perrott, Sir John, letters, 150. + + Perrott, Thomas, D.C.L., donor, 150. + + Persian MSS., 22, 33, 49, 63, 91, 113 _bis_, 199, 208, 215, 228, 240, + 269, 289, 290, 294 _n._ + + Persius, 23. + + Peters, Hugh, donor, 88. + + Peters, Rev. William, 209. + + Petit, Sam, MS. Notes on Josephus, 94. + + Petrarch, 8, 298. + + Pett, Peter, LL.B., donor, 76. + + Phędrus, 298. + + Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, 331. + + Phillips, Sir Thomas, 288. + + Ph[oe]nician Inscription, 162. + + Picus, Joh., 316 _n._ + + Pickering, William, sale, 282. + + _Piers Plowman_, 101, 178. + + Pigott, Rev. G., donor, 269. + + Pigouchet, P., 312. + + Pindar, --, Consul at Aleppo, donor, 33. + + Pinelli, Mapheo, 200. + + Pipping, --, 241 _n._ + + Pius V, Pope, 283. + + Plato, 8 _n._, 9, 10, 59, 115. + + Playford, John, 206. + + Plays, their admission discouraged by Bodley as a scandal to the + Library, 66; + collections purchased, 248. + + Plenus-Amoris, various scribes of this name, 18, 19 _n._ + + Pliny, 8, 11, 250, 273, 310. + + Plot, R., _Nat. Hist. of Staff._ cited, 325. + + Plunket, O., R. C. Archbp. of Armagh, 337. + + Pococke, Edward, D.D., his MSS. and printed books, 113, 115, 268, 311; + mentioned, 78, 199; + references to MSS., 81. + + Pococke, Rich., Bp. of Meath, _Travels_ cited, 162. + + Pointer, Rev. John, _Oxon. Acad._ cited, 86 _n._, 161. + + Pole, Francis, 184. + + Polish Books, 276. + + Politian, Ang., 273. + + Polsted, Benj., donor, 92. + + Polyander, Dr. John, 178. + + _Pontifical, Salisbury_, 176. + + Pope, Alexander, donor, 158; + letters, 178, 322; + mentioned, 232; + portrait, 336. + + Pope, Sir Thomas, 289. + + _Pore Helpe_, 155. + + Porret, Gilbert, 9 _n._ + + Porter, --, M.D., 162. + + Powle, Henry, 184. + + Powney, Richard, LL.D., 164. + + _Prayer, Book of Common_, 237, 248, 264, 282. + + Preme, L. de, 226. + + Prendergast, J. P., 166. + + Prescott, W. H., 319. + + Preston, J., 81. + + Prestwich, --, 67. + + Price, Daniel, Dean of St. Asaph, 178. + + Price, John, B.D., elected Librarian, 192; + complaint against him, 197; + death, 217; + portrait, 336; + mentioned, 166, 194, 197, 204, 205, 209, 218. + + Price, J. M., M.A., 273. + + Prices of books, 65. + + Prichard, Constantine, Janitor, account of him, 98-9. + + Prideaux, Dr. John, 81. + + Priestley, Dr., 280. + + _Primer, Salisbury_, 296. + + Prince, Daniel, bookseller, 200. + + Prince, Mrs. Mary, donor, 148. + + Printers, clerical, 259-60. + + Prior, Matthew, 175. + + Proclus, 59. + + Prudentius, 23. + + Purcell, Henry, 205, 206. + + Purefoy, Humphrey and Thomas, 56. + + Pusey, Edward B., D.D., 82 _n._, 278; + _Catal._, 65, 199, 225, 233. + + Puttick and Simpson, Messrs., 245. + + Pybrac, Sieur de, 49. + + Pyne, Rev. T., 210. + + Pynson, Richard, 312. + + + _QUARTERLY REVIEW_ cited, 257 _n._ + + Queensberry, Duke of, 164. + + Quignones, Cardinal, 284. + + Quivil, Peter, Bp. of Exeter, 317. + + + RADCLIFFE, Joseph, 164. + + Radzivil, Prince N., 229. + + Raffaelle, 251, 334. + + Raleigh, Sir Walter, donor, 24. + + Ramsey, John, 316. + + Randolph, John, D.D., 198. + + Ranshoven, Bible which belonged to the church, 224. + + Rassam, Hormuzd, donor, 335. + + Ratelband, --, bookseller at Amsterdam, 92. + + Ravius, Constantine, 92. + + Rawlins, T., Pophills, 168 _n._, 173 _n._, 174 _n._ + + Rawlinson, Richard, D.C.L., account of him, 168-9; + his printed books, 170, 171, 183; + MSS., 172-182, 216, 217; + coins, seals, &c., 182, 183; + some of his portraits, 336, 337; + references to MSS., 19 _n._, 28, 38, 53, 77 _n._, 117 _n._, 126, 128 + _n._, 154 _n._, 155 _n._, 157 _n._, 160 _n._, 165 _n._, 216, 234, + 252, 261, 271, 322, 323, 325, 328, 335; + book-plate, 3; + _Continuation of Wood's Athenę_, cited, 130; + _History of Hereford_, 120; + endeavoured to compile a list of the annual Bodley Orators, 106. + + Rawlinson, Sir Thomas, 168. + + Rawlinson, Thomas, his son, 169, 170 _n._, 178, 184. + + Ray, William, donor, 24. + + Reade, William, 58. + + Reader, W., 298. + + Reay, Stephen, B.D., Sub-librarian, 242; + resignation and death, 293; + mentioned, 163, 286. + + Rebenstein, A., 275 _n._ + + Record Commission, _Report_ for 1800 cited, 151, 167, 177, 185, 205; + for 1837, 96; + _Eighth Report of Dep.-Keeper of Records_, 170 _n._ + + Red-letter books, 171 _n._ + + Reggio, J. S., 280. + + Renouard, --, 242. + + Reynolds, Edward, D.D., 45 _n._ + + Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 248. + + Richards, --, 164. + + Richmond, Margaret, Countess of, 105. + + Richmond, George, 337. + + Ridley, Thomas, 36. + + Rigaud, Lt.-col. Gibbes, donor, 33, 319, 338. + + Rigaud, John, B.D., donor, 303. + + Rigaud, Prof. S. P., M.A., 195. + + Rivers, Richard, Lord, 19. + + Rives, George, Warden of New College, donor, 22. + + Roberts, --, 340. + + Roberts, B. and E., 271. + + Roberts, J. P., M.A., 235, 239. + + Roberts, Lewis, donor, 51. + + Robertson, Prof. A., 194. + + Robertson, Rev. F. W., 297. + + Robins, George, 267. + + Robinson, --, clock-maker, Gracechurch-street, 182 _n._ + + Robinson, John, Bp. of London, MS. papers, 175. + + Robson, Charles, B.D., donor, 56, 92. + + Roch, Thomas, Janitor, 88. + + Rochester, Henry Hyde, Earl of, 163, 164. + + Rock, Dr., _Church of our Fathers_, cited, 29. + + Rodd, Thomas, 258. + + Roe, Sir Thomas, his gift of MSS., 49, 50-51; + sanctioned the lending of his books, 51, 79. + + Roger of Hereford, 58. + + Rogers, Samuel, M.A., 342. + + Roillet, Nicholas, 283 + + Rolin, Cardinal John, 310. + + Rolle, R., of Hampole, 101, 177, 178. + + Rollright, Oxon, glass from the church, 30. + + Rome, reports from agents, 177; + Rocca Library, 47 _n._ + + Rood, Theodore, printer in Oxford, 112. + + Rosamond, Fair, her coffin, 30 _n._ + + Ross, Alexander, donor, 91. + + Ross, John, _Hist. Angl._, 120, 138, 141. + + Rosse, John, 141. + + Rossingham, Captain, 77 _n._ + + Rouceby, Walter de, 328. + + Rous, John, M.A., elected Librarian, 44; + applies to Milton for his _Poems_, 45; + reception of King James' _Works_, 48; + hinders the breaking open of Bodley's chest, 45 _n._; + appendix to catalogue, 60; + complains of the neglect of the Stationers' Company, 31; + refuses to lend a book to the king, 72; + death, 76; + legacy, _ibid._; + mentioned, 56, 309. + + Routh, M. J., D.D., his printed library bequeathed to Durham, 4 _n._; + sale of his MSS., 141 _n._; + donor, 237; + mentioned, 252; + portrait, 337. + + Rowell, G. A., 309 _n._ + + Roxburghe sale, 42 _n._ + + Rubens, Sir P. P., 148. + + Runic alphabets, 20 _n._; + almanacks, 105, 161. + + Rupert, Prince, letters, 154. + + Rushworth, John, donor, 104; + cited, 31. + + Russel, Rev. Bertrand, donor, 205. + + Russell, Charles, D.D., President of Maynooth, 166. + + Russian books, 19, 22, 25 _bis_, 55, 63, 105, 107; + cloak, 40, 307. + + Ruthin School, 157. + + Ryley, William, 174. + + Rymer, Thomas, 320 _n._ + + Ryser, Jeorius, 65. + + + S. W., bell-founder, 33. + + Saadiah, Rabbi, 82 _n._ + + _Sacramentaria_, 262, 290. + + Sadler, Anne, wife of Ralph, donor, 333. + + Sadlington, Michael, M.A., 107. + + Saibante, Giovanni, 226, 230. + + St. Amand, James, his bequest, 185; + _Catalogue_, 216. + + St. Amand, George and Martha, 185 _n._ + + St. Bridget, Adam, 314. + + St. George, Sir Richard, 174. + + St. George, Sir Thomas, 174, 184. + + Sale, George, MSS., 294 _n._ + + Salisbury, books which belonged to the Cathedral, 176. + + Salt, W., 303. + + Samaritan MSS., 107, 113, 126, 296. + + Sancroft, Archbp., mentioned, 125; + his papers, 153-4. + + Sandford, Oxon, Chartulary, 110. + + Sandwich, Earl of, 166. + + Sandys, Lady K., donor, 28. + + Sanford, Jos., B.D., donor, 170 _n._ + + Sanscrit MSS., 93 (the first); + 265, 269, 272, 291, 294 _n._, 323. + + Saona, Gul. de, 298. + + Sarpi, Paolo, 207. + + Saumarez, Sir James, 218. + + Savile, Sir H., donor, 19; + mentioned, 82 _n._, 251. + + Saxon, --, 245. + + Say, William, 7 _n._ + + Scarborough, Sir Charles, his auction, 115. + + Schelging, Samuel, 241 _n._ + + Schneider, --, 283. + + Schoenleben, Conrad, 230. + + Schoiffer, Peter, see _Fust_, 310. + + Schönsperger, Hans, 310, 312. + + Schultens, H. A., 199, 320 _n._ + + Schweighäuser, Joh., 320 _n._ + + Scotland, letters of Scottish bishops, 154, 237; + Hooke's correspondence, 222. + + Scott, G. C. and R. A., Italian books, 271. + + Scott, G. G., 235, 284. + + Scott, Capt. Jon., 206. + + Scott, Thomas, first janitor? 88. + + Scott, Sir W., 227, 258. + + Scott, Will., Lord Stowell, 196. + + Scrope, Rich., D.D., 164. + + Seal, or 'sea-elephant,' a, bought, 104. + + Sebastian, St., 332. + + Secker, Thomas, Archbp. of Cant., 199. + + Secretan, C. F., M.A., _Life of Nelson_, cited, 127 _n._ + + Seffrid, Bp. of Chichester, 314. + + Selden, John, his library, 77-87; + death-bed, 77 _n._; + book in his collection which belonged to Anne Boleyn, 27 _n._; + some MSS. burnt at the Temple, 86; + some of his books at Lincoln's Inn and Coll. of Physicians, _ib._; + books placed at west end of Library, 60; + references to books and MSS., 55, 111, 239 _n._, 243, 246, 320; + gave an Arabic astrolabe to Laud, 61; + his house broken into by robbers, 83; + mentioned, 50, 51, 139; + portraits, 336. + + Seligmann, Isaac, 243. + + Selwyn, G. A., Bp. of Lichfield, 319. + + Sermons, collections of, 273, 276. + + Servetus, Michael, 247. + + Sever, Henry, 316. + + Seward, Miss, _Anecdotes_, cited, 110 _n._, 203 _n._ + + Seymour, Jane, Q. consort of Henry VIII, 334. + + Sforza, Bona, 249. + + Shakespeare, W., the first Folio, 41; + _Venus and Adonis_, and other poems, 67, 247; + editions of single plays, &c., 231, 248, 258; + his autograph, 300-302. + + Sharp, John, Archbp. of York, 127. + + Sharpe, Dr. Gregory, 294 _n._ + + Shaw, Henry, _Illuminated Ornaments_, cited, 250, 330 _bis_. + + Shaw, Thomas, D.D., donor, 163. + + Sheldon, Archbp. Gilbert, mentioned, 97; + Papers, 155 _n._, 237; + his family Bible, 237. + + Sheldon, William, 212 _n._ + + Sherfiddin Iahia ben Almocar, 114. + + Shirley, W. W., D.D., 90. + + Shirman, Henry, M.A., 107. + + Shotover, near Oxford, 29 _n._ + + Shropshire MSS., &c., 163, 263-4. + + Shuckbridge, Grace, 131. + + Siamese Prince, 319. + + Sichardus, Joh., 17 _n._ + + Siddons, Mrs. 232. + + Sigismund I of Poland, 249. + + Silk, books printed on, 170 _n._ + + Simeon, Sir John, 101. + + Simon, Thomas, 340 _n._ + + Skeat, W. W., M.A., 101 _n._ + + Simonides, Dr. Const., 199 _n._, 280-1. + + Skillerne, Richard S., M.A., 202. + + Slack, Samuel, M.A., 219. + + Sloane, Sir Hans, donor, 120. + + Slythers, --, 11 _n._ + + Smalridge, George, Bp. of Bristol, 149. + + Smith, --, 42 _n._ + + Smith, Edmund, M.A., MS. of his Bodley Speech, 106. + + Smith, Miles, Bp. of Gloucester, 82 _n._ + + Smith, Richard, 141. + + Smith, R. Payne, D.D., mentioned, 65, 189, 296, 300; + Sub-librarian, 286, 293; + Regius Professor of Divinity, 303. + + Smith, Thomas, D.D., his MSS., 55, 152-3, 178, 180; + _Vita Bernardi_, cited, 94, 114, 116. + + Smith, Thomas, 67. + + Smith, William, M.A., donor, 150. + + Smyth, Edward, account of a Russian cloak, 307. + + Smyth, Miles, 237. + + Smythe, Thomas, 19. + + Snetesham, John, D.D., 315. + + Sneyd, Rev. Walter, 226. + + Snoshill, William, grand-nephew to Bodley, petition to University, 39. + + Solly, --, 245. + + Somers, John, Lord, 172, 184. + + Somerset, Duke of, 256. + + Sonibanck, John, 120. + + Sophia, Electress of Hanover, 175. + + Sotheby and Wilkinson, Messrs., 297, 300. + + Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, cited, 45, 246, 281, 321; + mentioned, 268, 273, 276. + + South, Professor John, 81. + + South, Robert, D.D., bequest, 143. + + Southampton, Jane Wriothesley, Countess of, book which belonged to + her, 43; + her daughters, 44. + + Southwell, Sir Robert, 173 _n._ + + Spanish books, 76, 225, 238, 253. + + Sparchiford, Archdeacon Richard, 316 _n._ + + Sparke, Thomas, M.A., 106. + + Spelman, Sir Henry, 184. + + Spencer, Earl, 251. + + Spencer, or Spicer, --, 67. + + Spencer, Sir Richard, donor, 177 _n._ + + Spenser, John, 36. + + Spinckes, Bp. Nath., 177, 184. + + Sprat, Thomas, Bp. of Rochester, 173. + + Stacpoole, C. P., 311. + + Standish, Dr., 11 _n._ + + Standish, John, 36. + + Stanhope, Lady Hester, donor, 229. + + Stanley, Edward, donor, 196. + + Stapiltone, Sir Miles de, 329. + + Stark, J. M., 286. + + Stationers' Company, grant to the Library of all books printed by + them, 30; + negligent in performance, 31, 41, 73; + plate given them by Bodley, 32; + first book given by them, 32; + ordinance for supply of books to the Library, 34; + payment from the Library to the Bedel of the Company, 40; + Statutes for delivery of books, 92; + books claimed personally by Hyde, 110; + first Copy-right Act, 128; + last Copy-right Act, 254; + increased receipt of books, 218. + + Statius, 179. + + Steinschneider, Dr. M., 243, 244, 272. + + Steele, --, 120 _n._ + + Stephanus, Robert, 320. + + Stephen, King of England, 185. + + Stephen, a Greek scribe, 208. + + Stevens, Henry, 232, 272. + + Stevenson, Rev. Joseph, 18 _n._, 105. + + Stewart, C. J., 112, 143. + + Stillingfleet, E., Bp. of Worc., 9, 124. + + St[=o]chs, George, 310. + + Stoke, Abbot John, 313. + + Stow Wood, near Oxford, 29 _n._ + + Strafford, Thomas, third Earl of, 175. + + Strange, John, 202. + + Strange, Sir Thomas, 319. + + Strangwayes, Giles, 19. + + Strickland, H. E., M.A., 277. + + Strode, William, M.A., 55. + + Strype, John, M.A., 170 _n._ + + Stubbe, H., M.A., Sub-librarian, 88, 89. + + Stukeley, William, M.D., 57. + + Suidas, 226. + + Summers, Prof., 284. + + Summerset, John, M.D., 8 _n._ + + Sunderlin, Lord, donor of Malone collection, 231. + + Sunningwell, Berks, 109. + + Sussex, Duke of, his sale, 97, 321. + + Sutherland, Alexander H., 255, 258; + portrait, 336. + + Sutherland, Mrs., illustrated Clarendon and Burnet, 254-258. + + Sutterton, Lincolnshire, churchwarden's accounts, 177. + + Sutton, Sir Robert, 143. + + Swallow, Joseph, B.A., 147. + + Swedenborg, Emmanuel, donor, 189. + + Sweynheym and Pannartz, 210, 232, 273. + + Swinton, John, D.D., _Inscr. Citieę_ cited, 162. + + Sydenham, Sir Philip, 136. + + Symonds, --, 11 _n._ + + Symonds, Henry, M.A., 251, 266. + + Syriac MSS., 56, 63, 91, 107, 114, 296, 300, 326. + + + TALBOT, William, Bp. of Oxford, 116. + + Talman, J., 333. + + Talmud, 244. + + Tamil MSS., 296. + + Tanner, Thomas. Bp. of St. Asaph, his printed books and MSS., 153-156; + mentioned, 104, 106, 142, 190; + references to his books, 81. + + Tartar MSS., 115, 208. + + Tasso, Torquato, 336. + + Tattam, Archdeacon, 150. + + Taunton, J. B., M.A., 266, 270. + + Taylor, Joseph, LL.D., donor, 92, 107. + + Taylor, Richard, 231. + + Telugu MSS., 319, 326. + + Tenison, Thomas, Archbp. of Canterbury, 173 _n._ + + Tennyson, Alfred, 319. + + Terence, 230; + _Vulgaria abs Terentio_, 112, 303. + + Terry, Thomas, M.A., 106. + + Teukesbury, John de, 316. + + Te Water, J. W., 236. + + Thame School, 180. + + Theocritus, 186. + + Thomas of Newmarket, 58. + + Thomas, E., 197. + + Thomas, John, Bp. of Winch., 132 _n._ + + Thomas, John, M.A., 200. + + Thomas, Vaughan, B.D., 337. + + Thomson, --, 337. + + Thomson, Thomas, 303. + + Thoresby, Ralph, 187 _n._ + + Thorkelin, G. T., 242 _n._ + + Thorpe, Benjamin, 102. + + Thorpe, Thomas, 286. + + Thurland, Francis, M.A., 219, 221. + + Thurland. F. E., M.A., 266. + + Thurloe, John, his State papers, 172. + + Thurston, William, donor of Oriental MSS., 91; + reference to a MS., 56. + + Thwaites, Edward, donor, 333. + + Tibetan MSS., 208. + + Tickell, Rev. J., donor, 222. + + Tigernach, 175. + + Tippoo Sahib, 208. + + Tischendorf, Dr., 64, 282. + + Tomson, L., 52. + + Tonga dialect, books in the, 276. + + Tonstall, C., Bishop of Durham, 239. + + Torcy, M. de, 222. + + Torelli, Joseph, 201. + + Torinus, God., 312. + + Tour, Archd. de la, 245. + + Toynbee, Thomas, M.A., 156, 158. + + Tradescant, John, 309 _n._ + + Treacher, J., M.A., 297 _n._ + + Trefusis, John, donor, 324. + + Trent, Council of, 286. + + Trott, Nicholas, _Clavis Ling. Sanctę_, 108. + + Turck, John, 183 _n._ + + Turkish MSS., 63, 125, 207. + + Turner, Dawson, sale, 280, 290. + + Turner, Francis, Bishop of Ely, 173 _n._, 174; + papers, 176, 178. + + Turner, Dr. Peter, 55. + + Turner, Capt. Samuel, MSS., 208. + + Turner, Thomas, Dean of Canterbury, papers, 176, 178. + + Turner, William, 73. + + Twells, Rev. L., 78 _n._ + + Twine, Thomas, M.D., donor, 34. + + Twyne, Brian, MS. of _Univ. Musterings_, 187; + cited, 37 _n._, 70, 80, 307. + + Tyndale, W., 239, 248. + + Tyrrell, James, donor, 125. + + Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 196. + + + UFFENBACH, Z. C., _Commerc. Epistol._ cited, 120, 130, 144, 145. + + _Ulster, Annals of_, 175. + + Upcott, W., 299. + + Uri, John, account of him, 199; + _Catal._ mentioned, 65; + cited, 114; + autograph, 320 _n._ + + Usher, Archbp., MSS., 125, 151, 176, 318; + cited, 54; + portrait, 336; + absolved Selden on his death-bed, 77 _n._; + mentioned, 90, 102. + + Utrecht, Treaty of, papers, 175. + + Utterson, E. V., sale, 112, 321. + + + VALENTIN, Robert, 296. + + Vambéry, A., 115. + + Vandyck, Sir Anthony, 196, 336. + + Vansittart, N., M.P., 223. + + Vansittart, Robert, D.C.L., 198. + + Vaughan, H. H., M.A., 277. + + Vaughan, P., Warden of Merton, donor, 223. + + Vaux, W. S., 340. + + Ven, --, a Dane, 68. + + Venice, reports of ambassadors, 177. + + Verard, Anthony, 310, 312. + + Verneuil, John, M.A., Sub-librarian, 73-4, 341; + donor, 341; + _Nomenclator_, 31, 67, 73, 130; + Cat. of Commentators on Holy Script., 60. + + Vernon, Col. Edw., donor of the Vernon MS., 101. + + Vertue, George, 182. + + Vetericastro, S. de, 310. + + Victoria, Her Majesty Queen, donor, 264; + her visits to the Library, 319. + + Vidoveus, Petr., 311. + + Villemarqué, T. de la, cited, 20 _n._ + + Vincent, William, D.D., 262. + + Viner, Charles, 294 _n._ + + Viner, Sir Robert, donor, 107. + + Virgil, 179, 232, 233, 252; + _Sortes Virgilianę_ tried by Charles I, 70. + + Virgil, Polydore, 10, 11. + + Vivian, William, M.D., 198. + + Vossius, Isaac, 129, 178, 207, 327. + + Vostre, Simon, 311, 312. + + + WAKE, Edward, M.A., 106 + + Wake, Sir Isaac, cited, 15, 16, 27. + + Wake, William, Archbp. of Canterbury, papers, 121, 174. + + Walden, Thomas, _Fascic. Zizan._, 90. + + Wales, Albert Edw., Prince of, 304, 319. + + Walker, Gen. Alex, his MSS., 269, 270. + + Walker, Endymion, 167. + + Walker, John, D.D., his MSS., 167; + William, his son, 167. + + Walker, Rev. John, M.A., _Letters by Em. Persons_, cited, 59, 69, 106, + 116, 121, 123, 125 bis, 127 _n._, 130 _n._, 138, 139, 142, 144, + 155 _n._, 186 _n._, 187; + _Oxoniana_, cited, 120. + + Walker, John, M.A., _another_, 229, 235. + + Walker, Robert Fr., M.A., 210. + + Walker, Sir William, 270. + + Wall, H., M.A., 277. + + Wallingford, Richard, 58. + + Wallis, John, D.D., 90, 251. + + Wallis, J., M.A., 123. + + Walpole, Horace, _Anecdotes of Painting_, cited, 30; + _R. and N. Authors_, 258. + + Walters, Rev. John, 197. + + Walters, J., B.A., Sub-librarian, 196-7. + + Walton, Brian, Bp. of Chester, 95. + + Wanley, Humphrey, cited, 9, 20 _n._, 24, 90, 100; + employed in the Library, 116; + donor, 116 _n._; + selected books from Bernard's library, 117; + dispute with Hyde thereon, _ib._; + Hyde desires Wanley to succeed him as Librarian, 118; + portrait, 336. + + Warcupp, Sir Edmund, 178, 187. + + Ware, Sir James, 184. + + Warham, Archbp., 313. + + Waring, George, M.A., 105. + + Warneford, --, 160. + + Warton, Thomas, B.D., _Hist. of Eng. Poet._, cited, 18, 20, 46, 81, + 156 _n._, 188 _n._; + _Life of Sir T. Pope_, cited, 331 _n._ + + Wason, Abbot Thomas, 315. + + Waterson, Simon, 36. + + Watson, --, 11 _n._ + + Watson, James, 248. + + Watson, Thomas, 206. + + Waynflete, Bp. William, 112 _n._ + + Weelkes, Thomas, 206. + + Weever, John, 250 _n._ + + Welles, --, 317. + + Wellesley, Henry, D.D., 225, 279, 285, 296, 333. + + Wellington, Duke of, 319. + + Welwood, J., M.D., _Memoirs_ cited, 70. + + Wentworth, St. Ex., M.A., 251. + + Werden, Major-General, 185 _n._ + + Werfrith, Bp. of Worcester, 100. + + Wesley, Charles, admitted as a reader, 152, 320 _n._ + + Wesley, Samuel, Mus. Doc., 206. + + West, James, 212 _n._ + + West, Rev. W., 179. + + Westminster Abbey, 179. + + Westmoreland, Earl of, 336. + + Westphalia, J. de, 303. + + Westphaling, Herbert, Bp. of Hereford, donor, 19. + + Westwood, Professor J., 105, 327. + + Wettersten, P., 241 _n._ + + Wey, William, 329. + + Whale caught in the Severn, 104. + + Whalley, Peter, donor, 88. + + Whalley, Peter, B.A., 204. + + Wharton, Henry, M.A., 153 _n._, 240, 322 _n._ + + Wharton, Philip, Lord, 166, 178. + + Wheatly, Charles, M.A., 144. + + Whethamstede, John de, 8. + + Whetstone, George, 231. + + Whiston, William, M.A., donor, 141; + mentioned, 149, 184, 320 _n._ + + Whitchurch, E., 282. + + White, --, 341. + + White, Messrs., Appleton, 33. + + White, Edward, 36. + + White, John, M.A., 107. + + White, Joseph, D.D., 206, 208; + portrait, 209. + + White, Peter, 9. + + White, R. M., D.D., 102. + + Whiting, Thomas, B.A., 197. + + _Whole duty of Man_, author of, MS. of _Decay of Piety_, 125. + + Whorwood, Robert, 322. + + Whytt, --, Librarian, 11. + + Wi[=e]b, W. de, 317. + + Wickliffe, John, 10, 90, 96, 252. + + Wick-Risington, Gloucestershire, 58. + + Wiggan, George, M.A., 107. + + Wight, Osborne, M.A., bequest, 205. + + Wigmore, Henry, 37. + + Wilbye, John, 206. + + Wild, Henry, the learned Norwich tailor, 142. + + Wildgoose, --, painter, 138. + + Wilkie, Sir D., 319. + + Wilkins, David, D.D., 78. + + Wilkinson, John, D.D., 84. + + Wilkinson, Rev. Thomas, MS. Pedigrees, 174. + + William III, 255. + + William, King of Scotland, Homage to Henry II, 30. + + Williams, Dr., St. John's College, Cambridge, 153, 154. + + Williams, Charles, D.D., Donor, 197. + + Williams, George, B.D., 329. + + Williams, John, Bp. of Lincoln, applies to borrow a book, but is + refused, 50; + _Funeral Sermon on James I_, 51. + + Williams, Sir John, 271. + + Williams, John, B.A., 157 _n._ + + Williams, Rev. John, _Welsh Grammar_ cited, 20 _n._ + + Williams, Moses, B.A., 157. + + Williams, Zach., 188. + + Willis and Sotheran, Messrs., 245. + + Willis, Browne, Letters to Owen, 160 _n._; + Bequest of MSS. and coins, 190-1, 340. + + Willis, Thomas, M.D., 191. + + Wilson, D., Bp. of Calcutta, Portrait, 337; + donor, 338. + + Wilson, H. H., M.A., his MSS., 265. + + Wilson, Lea, 233 _n._ + + Wilson, Ralph, 147. + + Wilson, Thomas, Bp. of Sodor and Man, 289. + + Wilson, Thomas, 258. + + Wiltshire, MS. collections, 154 _n._ + + Winbolt, Thomas, B.A., 158. + + Winchelsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 94. + + Windsor, Dean and Chapter of, donors, 34. + + Wingfield family, 214. + + Winwood, Sir Ralph, donor, 25. + + Wise, Francis, M.A., Sub-librarian, 146; + defeated in election for Librarian, 151; + mentioned, 160, 294 _n._; + catalogue of Coins, 340. + + Wodecherche, Will. de, 317. + + Wolf, Jo. Christopher, 95. + + Wolfe, Reginald, 87. + + Wood, Antony ą, bequest, 89; + MSS. bought from him, 110; + a MS. given by Ballard, 187; + his Library, 287-8; + MS. of his _History_, 270; + illustrated copy of Gutch's translation of his _History_, 30; + Rawlinson's Contin. of the _Athenę_, 181; + Malone's copy of the _Athenę_, 232; + Dr. Bliss's copy of the _Athenę_, 289; + cited, 10, 17, 25, 41, 44, 45, 48, 79, 83 _n._, 85, 86 _n._, 106, + 110, 159, 201; + _Life_, 192 _n._; + mentioned, 289, 322. + + Wood, Robert, 189. + + Woodcock, John, M.A., 210. + + Worcester Cathedral, 179; + MSS. from thence, 100, 103. + + Worde, Wynkyn de, 155, 183, 239. + + Wordsworth, Dr. Christopher, cited, 53 _n._ + + Wordsworth, Will., 227. + + Wotton, Sir Henry, donor, 25, 58. + + Wren, Sir Christopher, 119, 251. + + Wright, --, 12. + + Wright, Abraham, B.A., _Delitię Delitiarum_, 65. + + Wright, Francis, 67. + + Würtzburg, books 'e Coll. Herbip.' 61, 65. + + Wyat, Sir Thomas, 336. + + Wyatt, Thomas, 330. + + Wyatt, William, M.A., 128. + + Wyberd, John, 68. + + Wyngaerde, Ant. van den, 255. + + Wyrley, William, 174. + + + XIMENES, Cardinal, 280, 298. + + Xiphilinus, 320. + + + YARNTON, Oxon, 30 _n._ + + Yonge, Francis, M.A., Sub-librarian, 74; + death, 89. + + Yonge, Nicholas, 206 + + York Minster, 30; + Tower of St. Mary, 96; + Museum, 212 _n._ + + Yorke, Sir Joseph, 199. + + Young, Edward, D.D., 178. + + Young, Patrick, 48, 51, 55, 61, 83; + donor, 325. + + Yriarte, --, 253. + + + ZAMBONI, J. J., 178. + + Zell, Ulric, 210. + + Zend MSS., 149, 191, 269. + + Zernichaus, Adam, 143. + + Zeuss, J. C., _Grammat. Celtica_ cited, 20 _n._ + + Zoroaster, 149, 159. + + Zunz, Dr. L., 272. + + + + +ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. + + +P. 3, l. 9. [The University Seal is engraved in Ingram's _Memorials of +Oxf._, iii. 17, where it is said to be '_c._ A.D. 1200.'] + +P. 15, _note_ 2 [=Footnote 20]. [The University Arms are engraved in +Ingram's _Memorials_, iii. 1, from the painted glass in the great east +window of the Library. In this representation three mottos are given: +_Dominus_, &c., on a scroll above, _Sapientia et Fęlicitate_ on the +Book, and _Bonitas regnabit, Veritas liberabit_, on a scroll below.] + +P. 50, l. 1. _for_ William _read_ Williams. + +P. 50, l. 2 from bottom. _for_ ignoit _read_ ignotis. + +P. 81, l. 19 (=Footnote [114]). _for_ Wharton _read_ Warton. + +P. 93, l. 6 from bottom. _for_ Kerr _read_ Ken. Gentoo, _add_ [_i.e._ +Sanscrit.] [See p. 265, _note_.] + +P. 115, l. 5. _for_ M. Vainbéry ... to form _read_ M. Va['m]bery, the +traveller in Tartary, who is engaged in forming. + +P. 129, l. 6. _for_ one volume of Index _read_ one earlier volume +containing a list of livings in the diocese of Norwich, with their +values and incumbents. + +P. 156, l. 14. _for_ third Catalogue _read_ fourth Catalogue. + +P. 187, _note_ (=Footnote [255]). _Dele_ comma after _White_. + +P. 230, _Codex Ebn._ [A facsimile, from the commencement of St. Luke, +with a notice of the MS., is given in Shaw's _Illuminated Ornaments_.] + + OXFORD: + + BY T. COMBE, M.A., E. B. GARDNER, E. P. HALL, AND H. LATHAM, M.A. + + PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes + +Minor punctuation and format changes have been made without special +comment here. + +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: + +Page 23: added left single quote (described in the 'Registrum +Benefactorum') + +Page 131: changed comma to right parenthesis "(as his solitary claim to +a place in the _Athenę_)" + +Page 136: changed "exspected" to "expected" (he was not one of those +good men I expected) + +Page 141: changed "2/3" (two-thirds) to footnote anchor. + +Page 253: changed "Abury" to "Avebury" (Accounts of Avebury and +Stonehenge, ...) + +Pge 314: changed semi-colon to comma in "(given by Hugh, Archd. of +Taunton), ..." + +Footnote [374]: added missing close single quote mark (John Macbride, +'ex Coll. Exon.') + +Addenda et Corrigenda: changed "P. 1" to "P. 3" (P. 1, l. 9. 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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: ASCII + +*** 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) + + + + + +Transcriber's Notes + +Variant spellings (and some apparent typographical errors) have +generally been retained (e.g. "caligraphy" for "calligraphy"), +especially in quoted documents. Where changes to the text have been made +these are listed at the end of the book. + +Minor punctuation and format changes have been made without special +comment. + +This plain text version uses the ASCII and Latin-1 character sets only. +Italic typeface is represented by _underscores_. Small caps typeface is +represented by UPPER CASE. Superscripted characters are preceded by the +caret symbol (^). + +Greek script is transliterated and identified by "[Grk: ...]." Hebrew +script is transliterated and identified by "[Heb: ...]." Old English +text is identified by "[OE: ...]" with the following substitutions for +non-Latin symbols and diacritics: + + [=A], [=e], [=m], [=rs], [=u] macron over A, e, m, rs and u + [-b], [-bb], [-ž] bar through upright of b, bb and thorn + [&] Tironian sign et + +Additional symbols and diacritics in the text are rendered as follows: + + [=a], [=c], [=o] macron over a, c, e, m and o + [C] apostrophic C in Roman numeral dates + ['m] acute accent over m + [oe] oe-ligature + [~u] tilde over u + [)u] breve over u + +Footnotes have been grouped together at the end of each dated section or +after each Appendix. + + * * * * * + + 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. + + BY THE REV. WILLIAM DUNN MACRAY, M.A. + CHAPLAIN OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE AND ST. MARY WINTON COLLEGES; + EDITOR OF "CHRONICON ABBATIAE EVESHAMENSIS," &c. + + RIVINGTONS + London, Oxford, and Cambridge + 1868 + + + + +PREFACE. + + +This volume is an attempt to tell a tale which has not been told with +any particularity and fulness since the days of Anthony a 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 _Memoirs of Libraries_. 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 _attempt_ 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 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. + +'_Bowers of Paradise!_' 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 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 _prae melle ori_. + + BODLEIAN LIBRARY, + _May_ 30, 1868. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + + PAGE. + + ANNALS 1 + + APPENDIX A. ACCOUNT OF A 'TARTAR LAMBSKIN' CLOAK 307 + + " B. VELLUM-PRINTED BOOKS, ADDED SINCE 1830 310 + + " C. LIST OF MSS. FROM MONASTIC AND OTHER + LIBRARIES 313 + + " D. MSS. AND MISCELLANEOUS CURIOSITIES + EXHIBITED IN THE LIBRARY AND PICTURE + GALLERY 319 + + " E. NUMISMATIC COLLECTION 339 + + " F. PAST AND PRESENT OFFICERS OF THE LIBRARY 341 + + " G. RULES OF THE LIBRARY 344 + + * * * * * + + LITHOGRAPH OF SHAKESPEARE-AUTOGRAPH, _to face page_ 301 + + + + + ANNALS OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY. + + +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 University seal, 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[1]. 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 _in situ_; but _this_ 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[2]. 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 'tractatus vere pulcherrimus,' the +_Philobiblion_. 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[3]. It was to be free for +purposes of study to all scholars, who might have the loan of any work +of which there 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[4]. 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. + +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 L5 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 L6 +13_s._ 4_d._, 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. + +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 failed they betook themselves to all likely +quarters to procure help. And Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, the patron of +all learning[5], 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 (_sic_) 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 made for +the observance of the Duke's obit[6]. 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 _Documents Illustrative of Social and +Academic Life at Oxford_, 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[7]. And this new building, first contemplated in A.D. 1444 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 saeculari.' + +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 L100 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[8]. +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[9]); 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; 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' _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, (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 Politeiae Platonicae;' 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[10], +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, _ubi supra_; +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 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 _Phaedo_, _Timaeus_, &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. + +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[11]. + +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[12], while tradition reported that Polydore Virgil, +the 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[13]. 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[14] 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[15]. 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 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 _in situ_, is not a whit exaggerated. One solitary entry +there is, however, in the University Register (I. fol. 157^a), 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, praeses +Corporis Christi, et Magister Wright, ad vendenda subsellia librorum in +publica Academiae 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 +_venerabiles viri_ made a timber-yard of Duke Humphrey's treasure-house. + + * * * * * + +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 +Library 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[16]. And when, after years thus spent in academic +pursuits, THOMAS BODLEY 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 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[17].' 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[18]. 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 the +University, being the open Bible, with seven seals[19], between three +ducal crowns, on the open pages of which are the words (so truly fitting +for a Christian School) 'DOMINUS Illuminatio mea[20];' 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, +'quarum merito gloriam ab Academia derivavit.' (Wake, _Rex Platon_. p. +12.) The striking motto 'Quarta perennis erit' was assigned to Bodley at +the same time with this academic augmentation[21]. 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 the roof, and +an engraving hangs in the Gallery which represents the room before its +change for the worse. + +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: '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, memoriae, virtutisque causa, dedit, dedicavit.' 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[22]. Wake (_Rex +Platonicus_, p. 120) speaks of the Register, 'aureis umbilicis +fibulisque fulgidum,' as always lying 'eminentissimo loco,' 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 _Wood's History_, 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 'e principibus principes.' 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. + +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[23], and William Gent, who gave a large collection of books, +chiefly medical. + +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. + +The famous copy of the French _Romance of Alexander_ (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 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 _Bibl. Decam._ 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 _Hist. of Engl. Poetry_, 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:-- + + 'Che define li romans du boin roi Alixandre, + Et les veus du pavon, les accomplissemens, + Le Restor du pavon et le pris, qui fu perescript + Le xviii^e ior de Decembre, lan M.ccc.xxxviii. + Explicit iste liber, scriptor sit crimine liber, + Xpristus scriptorem custodiat ac det honorem. + + (_In gold letters._) 'Che liure fu perfais de le enluminure au + xviii^e jour dauryl. Per Jehan de grise, Lan de grace, M.ccc.xliij.' + +This is followed by a continuation (of later date) of the romance, in +Northern-English verse, on seven leaves[24]; and lastly, by a French +Romance of the 'grant kaan a 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:-- + + 'Laus tibi sit Christe, quoniam liber explicit iste. + Nomen scriptoris est Thomas Plenus Amoris[25].' + +The earliest owner's name occurring in the volume is that of 'Richart +de Widevelle, seigneur de Rivieres,' recorded in an inscription on the +cover at the end, which proceeds to say that 'le dist Seigneur acetast +le dist liure lan de grace mille cccclxvi. le premier jour de lan a +Londres.' 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, _ubi supra_), and 'Thomas Smythe[26].' + +[1] 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, _Reliquiae +Hearnianae_, ii. 693.) + +[2] 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. Sec. 1. + +[3] The Bishop's Bibliomania is thus noticed by a contemporary, W. de +Chambre, in his _Continuatio Hist. Dunelm._ (_Hist. Dunelm. Scriptt. +tres_; Surtees Society, 1839, p. 130):--'Iste summe delectabatur in +multitudine librorum. Plures enim libros habuit, sicut passim dicebatur, +quam omnes Pontifices Angliae. Et praeter 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.' +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. + +[4] _Philobiblion_, cap. xix. + +[5] His love of literature was evinced by the motto which, according to +Leland, was frequently written by him in his books: 'Moun bien mondain.' +(Hearne's _MS. Diary_, 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. +(_Preface to Langtoft_, p. xx.) Was this 'sort of respect' a reverential +kiss, such as that with which (as Warton in his _Companion to the Guide_ +tells us) he saluted the pavement of sheeps' trotters, supposed by him +to be a Roman tesselated floor? + +[6] Register of Convoc. F., ff. 53^b, 54^b. The subsequent gifts are +entered in the same Register as follows:-- + + 1. Last day of Feb., 1440. A letter to thank the Duke for 126 + volumes brought by John Kyrkeby. (f. 57^b.) + + 2. Nov. 10, 1441. Letter acknowledging ten books (Treatises of + Augustine, Rabanus, &c.,) received through Will. Say, proctor, and + John Kyrkeby. (ff. 59^b-60.) + + 3. Jan. 25, 1443. Letter of thanks for 139 volumes. (f. 63.) + + 4. Oct. 1443. Letter for another gift, number of volumes not + specified. (f. 66.) + + 5. Feb. 25, 1443 (-4?). Catalogue of 135 volumes. (ff. 67-68^b.) + + 6. Feb. 1446. Letter of thanks for another gift, not specified. (f. + 75^b.) + +[7] 'Nemo illos [libros] sine admiratione conspicit, cunctis una voce +testantibus, se nunquam libros tanta claritate conspicuos, tanta +gravitate refertos vidisse.... Et uc per hoc, si quid maximo addi +possit, tantae munificentiae 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 inhaereat, aliis studere +volentibus ad tres vel quatuor pro vicinitate colligationis praecludit +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 caetera suae virtutis testimonia insigni mensura ab humo +erexit, quam nos cito, quoad exigua suppetebat facultas, promovimus. Hic +locus, propterea quod a strepitu saeculari removetur, Bibliotecae admodum +videtur conveniens, cujus fundationis titulum, si Magnanimitati vestrae +acceptabilis fuerit, cum omni devotione offerrimus.' Register F. ff. +71^b, 72. We find from an entry on the latter page that on January 13, +1444 (-5), 'liber Platonis in Phedro' (_sic_) was lent by Convocation to +the Duke. + +[8] 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^b-9.) + +[9] It contains inscriptions recording its gift by Whethamstede 'ad usum +scolarium studencium Oxoniae,' with anathemas upon those who should +alienate it, or destroy, were it but its title: 'Si quis rapiat, raptim +titulumve retractet, vel Judae laqueum vel furcas sensiat.' + +[10] 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.) + +[11] Wood MS. F. 27. (Bodl. Libr.) + +[12] 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: 'Decretum est authoritate Convocationis Magnae ut cistae 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, Doctor Standishe, Mr. Parret, +procurator, Mr. Slythers, Mr. Symonds, et Mr. Wattsone.' Reg. I. 107^b. + +[13] Wood MS. F. 27. + +[14] Ibid. + +[15] Ibid. fol. 94^a. + +[16] 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, 'Linguas vero +exoticas, veluti Italicam, Gallicam, Hispanicam, Hebraeam praecipue, +caeterarum omnium parentem, tam perfecte callet, ut illo neminem fere +scientiorem invenies.' 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, _De Quaesitis_ (1595, p. 40), Drusius +says, 'Vere dicam, Bodlaee, et intelligis optime litteras Hebraeas, et +amas unice earum peritos.' The same volume contains also one letter to +his brothers, Laurence, Miles, and Josias, on the _Pastor_ of Hermas. + +[17] _Reliquiae Bodleianae_, p. 14. + +[18] 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^a. f. 31^a. + +[19] 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. + +[20] The motto appears to have varied. It is sometimes given in titles +of books printed at Oxford about the time of James I, as 'Sapientiae et +Felicitatis;' and in an heraldic MS. of the seventeenth century as 'XX. +Exod. Decem ... Omnipotens mandata. Verbum Dei manet in eternum. Amen.' +(Rawl. B. xl. f. 81.) Others [have] this, 'Veritas liberabit, Bonitas +regnabit;' and others this, 'In principio erat Verbum,' &c. (Hearne, in +Rawl. MS. C. 876, f. 51.) + +[21] Wake notices it as a singular coincidence that the Library was +first opened on the day of the 'Quatuor coronati Martyres,' Nov. 8, +whom, by mistake, he calls 'Tres.' + +[22] See _Reliquiae Bodleianae_, p. 158. + +[23] 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 _Sicbardi Antidotum contra diversas omnium fere +saeculorum baereses_, fol. Bas. 1528. + +[24] Printed by Rev. J. Stevenson at the end of the _Romance of +Alexander_, edited by him for the Roxburghe Club in 1849, from Ashmole +MS. 44. + +[25] _Plenus-Amoris_, or _Fullalove_, 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:-- + + 'Nomen scriptoris, + Dei gracia, Plenus Amoris: + Careat meroris + Deus det sibi omnibus horis.' + +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:-- + + 'Nomen scriptoris est Jhon Wilde plenus amoris.'--(_Rawlinson B._ 214.) + + 'Nomen scriptoris Jon. semper plenus amoris, + Esteby cognomen, cui semper det Deus homen' (_sic_).--(_Bodl._ 643.) + +[26] Probably this book is the 'large liure en fraunceis tresbien +esluminez de le Rymance de Alexandre,' once in the library of Tho. of +Woodstock, Duke of Glouc. See Mr. Coxe's pref. to Gower's _Vox Clam._ +(Roxb. Club, 1850,) p. 50. + + +A.D. 1601. + +It is from this date that our notes on the history of the Library can +begin to assume an annalistic form. A gift of L20 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, 'Evangelia quatuor Saxonica, lingua et charactere vetustiss.,' +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. _editio princeps?_) of +the Gospels in the Russian language (now placed among the Bodley MSS. +213) appears among some books given by Sir Henry Savile[27], 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 +Gloucester Hall, the astrologer, gave twenty MSS[28]; 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' _Thesaurus_, p. 144) by St. +Dunstan of himself as prostrate at the feet of the throned Christ[29], 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 _Archaeol. Brit._ p. 226); the first book of Ovid _De Arte +amandi_, with similar glosses[30]; 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[31]. Capt. Josias Bodley[32] 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 +_Reliquiae Bodleianae_, 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 L5 13_s._ 4_d._ quarterly; but almost at once +he threatened to 'strike' unless it were raised to an annual stipend of +L30 or L40, 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[33]. 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 and unmeaning compromise, it was +ordered that he, as well as the Under-Librarians, should be unmarried +_at the time of election_. 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[34] 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.' + +[27] Savile's benefactions were continued in the years 1609 and 1614, +and in 1620 he sent a large number of Greek and Latin MSS. + +[28] 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 _Life of Sir T. Pope_, 1772, pp. 392-3. The +volume contains MS. notes by both Grosteste and Gascoigne. + +[29] Another relic of Dunstan is preserved among the Hatton MSS. No. 30 +of that collection. 'Expositio Augustini in Apocalypsin,' written in +Anglo-Saxon characters, has the following inscription in large letters +on the last leaf: 'Dunstan abbas hunc libellum scribere jussit.' + +[30] These glosses, together with an 'Alphabetum Nemnivi' in Runic +characters, (of which a facsimile is given in Hickes' _Thesaurus_, p. +168), and some Welsh and Latin notes on weights and measures, are +printed, with copious notes, by Zeuss in his _Grammatica Celtica_, 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 Villemarque's +_Notice des principaux MSS. des anciens Bretons_, 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 _Ancient Welsh Grammar of Edeyrn_, edited +for the Welsh MSS. Soc. in 1856 by Rev. John Williams, ab Ithel. + +[31] This reading was pointed out to the author by Rev. A. W. Haddan, +B.D. + +[32] 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. + +[33] _Reliquiae Bodl._ p. 162. See also p. 183. + +[34] _Diary_, vol. lviii. p. 157. + + +A.D. 1602. + +The largest pecuniary donor of this year was Blount, Lord Mountjoy +(afterwards Earl of Devon), who forwarded L100 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 L50 in +money, with the promise of 'divers MSS. out of St. Augustin's library in +Canterbury[35].' '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[36]. 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 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 'Registrum Benefactorum' simply as +'Missale antiquissimum.' 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 _Pastorale_.) 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): 'Hunc librum dat +Leofricus episcopus ecclesiae Sancti Petri Apostoli in Exonia ad sedem +suam episcopalem, pro remedio animae suae, ad utilitatem successorum +suorum. Siquis autem illum inde abstulerit, perpetuae maledictioni +subjaceat. Fiat. [OE: Ethas boc gef leofric [-b]. into Sc[=e] petres +minstre on exancestre žaer his biscopstol is. his aefterfiligend[=u] to +nittweorethnisse. [&] gif hig hwa ut aetbrede haebbe he ece genietherunge mid +eall[=u] deoflum.] [=A][=m].' 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 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). + +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, 'in qua,' as the University +Register records, 'tribus ferme versibus amplexus est omnia.' + +[35] _Reliquiae Bodl._ p. 92. + +[36] See _ibid._ pp. 137 and 219. + + +A.D. 1603. + +Sir Walter Raleigh appears in this year as a donor of L50. 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 _Naval +Tracts_, 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' _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, +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[37]; of which the other now exists among Archbp. Parker's +MSS. in Corp. Chr. Coll. Cambr., No. 286. They are 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 'primitiae +librorum totius ecclesiae Anglicanae.' On the last fly-leaf of the Bodley +MS. is the following list of English Priests' libraries. [OE: 'Žas bocas +haueeth Salomon p[=rs]t. [-ž]is žecodspel t{r}aht. [&] žemarty{r}luia +[&] že (_erased_) [&] že aeglisce salte{r}e [&] že c{r}ranc [&] ethe +tropere [&] wulf mer cild žeatteleuaui ('Ad Te levavi.') [&] pistelari +[&] že] (_erased_) [&] ethe imnere. [&] ethe capitelari. (_word erased_) +[&] že spel boc. [&] Siga{r} p[=rs]t. želece boc [&] Blakehad boc. +[&] AEilmer ethe grete Sater. [&] ethe litle t{r}opere fo{r}beande. [&] ethe +Donatum. XV bocas Ealfric AEilwine. Godric. [&] Bealdewuine a[-bb] [&] +Freoden [&] hu-- (_torn_) [&] ethuregise.'] 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. + +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. + +[37] Wanley, p. 172. Elmham's _Hist. Mon. S. Aug._ 1858, pp. 97, 8. + + +A.D. 1604. + +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 +_per annum_[38]. + +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). + +[38] Wood MS. F. 27. + + +A.D. 1605. + +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[39]. 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, 'more suo, summo cum judicio disceptavit.' Then, taking up +Gaguinus' treatise _De Puritate Conceptionis Virg. Mar._, 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[40] that this (somewhat hasty) grant was actually passed under +the Privy Seal about the beginning of November in the same year, and +that 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[41], 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[42]. + +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[43]. It includes both printed 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[44]. A +continuation of this classified index, embracing writers on Arts and +Sciences, Geography and History, is to be found in Rawlinson MS. +_Miscell._ 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: '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.' 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.' + +[39] This would-be witticism is made the subject of a quatrain in the +_Justa Funebria Bodlei_, p. 108. + +[40] _Reliquiae Bodl._ pp. 205, 339. + +[41] 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^o. 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 AEsop, +with the _Batrachomyomachia_, &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:-- + + 'Hec rosa virtutis de celo missa sereno, + Eternum florens regia sceptra feret.' + +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. + +[42] The account of the king's visit is given in Sir J. Wake's _Rex +Platonicus_, pp. 116-123. + +[43] At the suggestion of Bodley, who thought that more reward was to be +gained from the prince than from the king. (_Reliquiae Bodl._ 206.) + +[44] _Reliquiae Bodl._ pp. 195, 256. + + +A.D. 1606. + +Chinese literature began to make its appearance even at this early date. +Among the books bought with L20 given by Lady Kath. Sandys were, 'Octo +volumina lingua Chinensi,' while two others, '_Excusa_ in regno et +lingua Chinensi,' were bought, together with the donor's own 'Historie +of Great Britaine,' with a gift of L5 from John Clapham. + + +A.D. 1610. + +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[45]. 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[46]), 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 a +Becket. 2. The marriage (as supposed) of Henry VI with Margaret of +Anjou, representing, says Dr. Rock[47], that portion 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 _Anecdotes of Painting_, 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[48]. + +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, L5.' But one coat of arms was put up in the year 1771, (_q. v._) + +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 +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[49]. 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[50].' +Ayliffe say[51] 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[52]. In 1642, Verneuil, the Sub-Libraria[53], complained in the +Preface to his _Nomenclator, &c_, 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 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[54]. 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.' + +[45] 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 _Register of Worcester_ (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. +(_Calendar of State Papers_, Dom. Series, 1611-18, p. 28.) + +[46] See also under 1818. + +[47] _Church of our Fathers_, i. 421. + +[48] 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. + +[49] Rushworth, iii. 315. + +[50] _Reliquiae Bodl._ p. 350. + +[51] _Univ. of Oxford_, i. 460. + +[52] _Calendar of State Papers_, 1635-6, p. 65. + +[53] See _sub anno_ 1647. + +[54] See _sub anno_ 1612. + + +A.D. 1611. + +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 L91 10s.; to which he added 'certain +tenements in London,' producing an annual rent of L40. 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 L220; the +latter, which consisted of houses situated in Distaff Lane, were sold in +1853, and the produce invested in L3455 10_s._ 3 per cent. Consols. + +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^o R. 34 Th., and a note in +Bodley's own handwriting records its presentation. + +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[55]. + +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[56], '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_s._ 4_d._ 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. + +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 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 'Sapientiae et Faelicitatis') and of Bodley. + +[55] Hearne's _Job. Glaston._ ii. 637. + +[56] _Reliquiae Bodl._ p. 314. + + +A.D. 1612. + +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. + +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[57]. + + '_Vicesimo octavo Januarii 1611 nono regni regis Jacobi, at + Staconers Hall, in Ave Mary Lane in London. Present, the Masters, + Wardens, and Assistants of the Company of Staconers._ + + '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 yeare of his + Maj.^ts 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 Staconers, 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 execucon 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 Staconers 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 + 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 + + 'John Haryson + 'John Norton, Mr. + 'Richard Field } Wardens + 'Humphrey Lownes } + 'Edward White + 'Humfry Hooper + 'Simon Waterson + 'William Leake + 'Robert Barker + 'Thomas Mane + 'Thomas Dawson + 'John Standishe + 'Thomas Adames + 'John Haryson[58] + 'Ri. Collins, Clerk of the Companie. + + '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 Staconers, 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 execucon 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. + + 'G. Cant. + 'Jo. London + 'Jo. Benet + 'Tho. Ridley + 'Tho. Edwardes + 'G. Newmane + 'John Spenser + 'Richard Moket + 'R. Cov. & Lich. + 'Jhon Boys + 'Char. Fotherbye + 'Martin Fotherby + 'John Layfeilds + 'Jo. Roffens + 'George Montaigne (_sic_) + 'Rob^t. Abbott + 'Henr. Hickman + 'John Dix + 'Willm. FFerrand.' + +[57] For the use of this document the author is indebted to the Keeper +of the Archives, Rev. J. Griffiths, M.A. + +[58] Probably the son of the John Haryson who signs above. + + +A.D. 1613. + +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[59]. Two volumes of elegiac verses were thereupon +issued by the University, of which one (_Bodleiomnema_) was written +entirely by members of Merton College; the other (_Justa Funebria +Ptolemaei Oxoniensis_) 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 L150, 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 L450[60]. The entry of this +debt is carried on, together with the loan made to King Charles I in +1642, in the Library accounts[61], from year to year 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 +_Ancient and Present State of Oxford_ (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. + +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, +L7000 to the Library, and L200 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[62]. 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[63].' 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:-- + + 'To the Worshipful Mr. Vice-Chancellor and to all heads and + governors of Colleges and Halls within the famous University of + Oxon. + + '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, + + 'Humbly sheweth, + + '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. + + 'William Snoshill + 'Jane Hatton. + + 'We, whose names are subscribed to this Petition, are well satisfied + of the truth thereof. + + 'Thomas Paris, rector of Childrey + 'John Holmes + 'John Bell, vic. of Sparsholt + 'John Aldworth, rector of East Lockinge + 'Ralph Kedden, M.A., vicar of Denchworth, Berks. + + '(_Mem._) 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.' + +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 on Nov. 13, that 6_s._ +8_d._ 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. + +[59] _Calendar of State Papers_, 1611-18, p. 137. + +[60] A full account of Bennet's defalcations is given by B. Twyne, from +the University Registers, in vol. vi. (pp. 120-4) of his _Collectanea_, +now in the Univ. Archives. See also _Parliam. Hist._ vol. v. p. 462. + +[61] These accounts, as now preserved, unfortunately only commence at +the year 1653, and there is a hiatus from 1661 to 1676, both inclusive. + +[62] _Calendar of State Papers_, 1611-18, p. 169. + +[63] _Ibid._ p. 187. + + +A.D. 1614. + +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 'toga ex lana agni Tartarici [Grk: zoophyton], +magni quidam valoris, ei data (ut in publica Bibliotheca conservetur) ab +Richardo Lee, milite, qui eandem dono recepit ab augustissimo Imperatore +Muscoviae[64].' But the precious cloak had never yet arrived; the +Curators therefore resolve 'quod literae scribantur ad exequutores domini +Fundatoris pro illo pretioso pallio ex zoophyto confecto, et legato ad +nos per Ric. Leigh, militem, olim legatum apud Imperatorem Russiae, 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 praesentia eorundem.' At this +Visitation Joseph 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. + +On Aug. 29 the King visited the Library on his way to Woodstock, and, +asking for Fulke's _Annotations on the Rhemish New Test._, pointed out +the remarks at Rom. x. 15, on the calling of ministers; 'deprehendit +calumnias et imposturas quorundam pontificiorum de ordine et vocatione +ministrorum[65].' In 1620 the editions of 1601 and 1617 of these +_Annotations_ 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[66]. + +[64] '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. _Reliqq. Bodl._ 173. An account of this marvellous garment +will be found in the Appendix. + +[65] Wood's _Hist._ vol. ii. p. 319. + +[66] The extraordinary _fancy_ 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. (_Shakespeare_, second edit. vol. i. p. 239.) At the +Roxburghe sale (a sufficiently bibliomaniacal one) in 1812 a copy was +sold for L100; in 1864 Miss Burdett Coutts gave for Mr. G. Daniel's +specially fine copy, L716 2_s._; while in July, 1867, a copy belonging +to a Mr. -- Smith was sold for L410. 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. + + +A.D. 1615. + +Richard Connock, auditor and solicitor to Prince Henry of Wales, gave a +MS. book of _Horae_[67], 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 _camaieu gris_. 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:-- + + '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 any vicious thyng, the + pleasure goeth away and the vice remaynethe. Good Madame, for my + sake remembre thys. + + 'Your lovyng mystres, + 'Marye Princesse.' + +This inscription (which does so much credit to its writer) was first +printed by Hearne at the end of _Titi Livii Forojulien. Vita Hen. V._ +(p. 228) and last, in Bliss' _Reliquiae Hearn._ i. 105. Mr. Coxe has +noted (from _Alstedii Systema Mnemonicum_, 1610, i. 705) that the latter +part is taken directly and literally from Musonius, while indirectly it +comes from an oration by Cato[68]. Probably the first part may be traced +to some similar source. + +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^a are +these lines, which appear to form a triplet, although not written in +metrical form by the Princess:-- + + 'Good Madame, I do desyer you most hartly to pray, + That in prosperyte and adversyte I may + Have grace to keep the trewe way. + + 'Your lovyng frend, + to my ... [power?]' + +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^b.):-- + + 'Madam, althowe I have differred writtyng in your booke, + I am no lesse your frend than you do looke. + + 'Kateryn the Quene KP.' + +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. + +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. + +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. + +[67] The gift is omitted in the Benefaction-Register, apparently because +it was a rule not to record donations of single volumes [_Reliquiae +Bodl._ pp. 91, 283]; consequently several books of the greatest value +are omitted. + +[68] George Herbert expresses the same idea at the end of his _Church +Porch_:-- + + 'If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; + If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.' + + +A.D. 1620. + +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. + +On the 9th of the same month of May, John Rouse, M.A., Fellow of Oriel, +was elected James' successor. No account of 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 (_q.v._)[69] +He is best known as the friend of Milton, who, on Rouse's application to +him for a copy of his _Poems both English and Latin_, 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: 'Ad Joannem Rousium, +Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium, de libro poematum amisso quem ille +sibi denuo mitti postulabat, ut cum aliis nostris in Bibliotheca publica +reponeret, Ode Joannis Miltonj[70].' The volume is now numbered 8^o. 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 _Ramblings in the Elucidation of +the Autograph of Milton_, 4^o. Lond. 1861; and at p. 120 there is a +facsimile in full of Milton's inscription in another volume (4^o. 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 of the volume, is addressed as +follows: 'Doctissimo viro proboque librorum aestimatori Joanni Rousio, +Oxoniensis academiae Bibliothecario, gratum hoc sibi fore testanti, +Joannes Miltonius opuscula haec sua in Bibliothecam antiquissimam atque +celeberrimam adsciscenda libens tradit, tanquam in memoriae perpetuae +Fanum, emeritamque, uti sperat, invidiae calumniaeque vacationem; si +Veritati, Bonoque simul Eventui satis litatum sit.' Warton tells the +almost incredible story, in his edition of Milton's _Poems_, 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[71], 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. + +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 holidays[72]. 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[73]. + +On June 4, King James presented the folio edition of his _Works_ 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:-- + +'Jacobus Dei gratia Magnae Britanniae, Franciae et Hiberniae Rex, fidei +defensor, &c. Postquam decrevisset publici juris facere quae sibi erat +commentatus, ne videretur vel palam pudere literarum quas privatim +amaverat, vel eorum seu opinioni seu invidiae cedere qui Regis Majestatem +literis dictitabant imminui, vel Christiani Orbis et in eo Principum +judicia expavescere, quorum maxime intererat vera esse omnia quae +scripsit; circumspicere etiam c[oe]pit certum aliquod libro suo +domicilium, locum, si fieri possit, semotum a fato, aeternitati et paci +sacrum. Ecce commodum sua se obtulit Academia, illa paene orbi notior +quam Cantabrigiae, ubi exulibus Musis jam olim melius est quam in patria, +ubi a codicibus famae nuncupatis tineae absterrentur legentium manibus, +sycophantae scribentium ingeniis. In hoc immortali literarum sacrario, +inter monumenta clarorum virorum, quos quantum dilexit studiorum +participatione satis indicavit, in bibliotheca publica, lucubrationes +has suas Deo Opt. Max., Cui ab initio devotae erant, aeternum consecrat, +in venerando Almae Matris sinu, unde contra seculorum rubiginem fidam +illi custodiam promittit, et contra veritatis hostes stabile +patrocinium.' + +The book, which was carried to Oxford by a special deputation, +consisting of Patrick Young, the Librarian at St. James's (to whom L20 +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 _Annals_, 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 _in archivis_ ... with a great deale of +respect[74].' 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[75].' + +Another gift in this year, presented by Thomas Nevile, K.B., eldest son +of Sir H. Nevile, Knt., is thus described in the Register: +'Elegantissimum libellum diversa scripturae genera continentem, manu +Esteris Anglicae, characteribus exquisitis conscriptum.' 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, 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 _Memoirs of +British Ladies_. 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[76]. + +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: 'Clemens Edmonds, +eques auratus, consilio Regis ab epistolis, donavit egregium [Grk: +paradeigma] quinque columnarum, nunc primum inventum, secundum formam +rusticam, ex alabastrite singulari artificio confectum.' + +[69] One fact to his credit is indeed mentioned by Wood in the _Fasti_, +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 +(_MS. Diary_, 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. + +[70] Cowley followed Milton's example by inserting an Ode, in this case +in English, in a folio copy of his _Poems_ (numbered C. 2. 21. Art.), +which he gave June 26, 1656. It is printed exactly from the original in +_Reliquiae Hearn._ ii. 921-3. + +[71] See _sub anno_ 1745. + +[72] 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. + +[73] An Appendix to James' Catalogue was printed in 1635, _q. v._ + +[74] Nichols' _Progresses of James I_, vol. iii. p. 1105. Rouse's speech +(with the letter) is printed in Hearne's _Titus Liv. Forojul._ p. 198. + +[75] Letter from J. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton, June 28, 1620: +_Calendar of State Papers, 1619-23_, p. 157. + +[76] 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. + + +A.D. 1621. + +A gift of L5 is noticeable as coming from the Girdlers' Company, +'Societas Zonariorum.' Sir Francis Bacon occurs as a donor of books. + + +A.D. 1623. + +Delegates were appointed by Convocation to consider 'de modulo +frontispicii Bibliothecae publicae in parte occidentali versus collegium +Exon[77].' + +[77] Reg. Conv. N. ff. 167, 169. + + +A.D. 1624. + +'Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and then Lord Chancellor of England, would +have borrowed Paulus Benius Eugubinus _De dirimend. Controvers. de Grat. +et Lib. Arb._, but was deny'd[78].' + +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 +1654. + +[78] Barlow's MS. Arg. against lending books out of the Library; see +_post, sub anno_ 1659. + + +A.D. 1627. + +Andrew James, of Newport, Isle of Wight, is recorded to have given 'duas +capsulas in quibus asservantur scripta vetustissima, exotici et ignoti +characteris, alia stylo, calamo alia, in corticibus exarata, ex +orientalis Indiae partibus allata[79].' An East India merchant, John +Jourdain, gave four Arabic MSS., and Bacon's _Works_ 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 L5. + +[79] 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 'ignotis characteris' given two years previously by Andr. +James. + + +A.D. 1628. + +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 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, _De Synedriis Hebraeorum_. 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[80]. 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[81]. + +The copy of Bacon's _Essays_ (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[82]:-- + +1. A part of L. Tomson's version of the New Test., printed by Barker, in +16^o (in 1578?), now marked MS. _e Musaeo_, 242. This belonged to Queen +Elizabeth, and is bound in a covering worked by herself, with various +mottos, _e.g._ 'Celum patria,' 'Scopus vitae Xp[~u]s,' &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[83].' + +2. Another of Elizabeth's bibliopegic achievements is the cover of her +own translation from the French of _The Miroir or Glasse of the +synnefull Soule_, 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. + +3. _Dialogue de la Vie et de la Mort_, trans. from the Italian by J. +Louveau, and printed in imitation of MS., second edit., 12^o. 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. + +4. A Testament in 16^o, 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. + +5. Bible, 8^o Lond. 1639. Landscape, &c., worked in silk, with embroidery +in gold and silver thread. Arch Bodl. D subt. 75. + +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 +L10[84]. + +7. New Testament, printed at Cambridge in 1628, in 16^mo. This was the +first edition printed there of any portion of the Authorized Version, +and only the second of any English translation[85]. The binding of the +Library copy (which was bought, in 1859, for five guineas) is covered +with silver filigree work. + +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.' + +[80] 'Reg. Conv. R. 1628. f. 6.' MS. note by Dr. P. Bliss. + +[81] See _sub anno_ 1635. + +[82] 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. + +[83] This note is printed and the book described in Hearne's Appendix to +_Titi Livii Forojul. Vit. Hen. V_, and, from thence, in Ballard's +_Lives_; but not very correctly in either case. Also in Bliss' _Reliqq. +Hearn._ i. 104. + +[84] In the life of Rich. Ferrar, junior, in Wordsworth's _Eccl. Biogr._ +(third edit. vol. iv. p. 232) a note is quoted from a MS. stating that a +copy of Ferrar's _Whole Law of God_, 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. + +[85] The first was the Genevan Version, printed in 1591. + + +A.D. 1629. + +The extremely valuable series of Greek MSS., called from its collector +the Barocci Collection, comprising 242 volumes, was 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[86].' 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[87]. 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 L700, and that +it consists of 250 volumes[88]. It was forwarded to the University with +the following letter, which is here copied from the Convocation +Register, R. 24 (f. 9^b.):-- + + 'Good Mr. Vice-Chancelor, + + '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, + + 'Your most assured freind, + 'PEMBROKE. + 'Greenewich, the 25th of May, 1629.' + +The Earl was willing that the MSS. should, if necessary, be 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[89]. 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[90]. 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. + +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, '_Excellentissime +Vice-Deus_.' 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. + +[86] In the following year Mr. Henry Featherstone, bookseller in London, +gave to the Library a number of Hebrew books. + +[87] Parr's _Life of Usher_, Letters, p. 400. + +[88] _Ibid._ Quoted in Sir H. Ellis' _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, +Camden Soc., 1843. p. 130. + +[89] See _sub anno_ 1654. + +[90] 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.' _Reliquiae Hearn._ i. 263. + + +A.D. 1631. + +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. + + +A.D. 1632. + +William Burton, the historian of Leicestershire, gave the original MSS. +of Leland's _Itinerary_ (together with a transcript of some parts) and +of his _Collectanea_; the former filling seven volumes in quarto[91], +and the latter (including the book _De Scriptoribus Britannicis_) four +in folio. The _Collectanea_, 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 _Itinerary_ was first +published by Hearne in 1710, in 9 vols.; the _Collectanea_ in 1715, in 6 +vols.; the _De Scriptoribus_, by Ant. Hall, in 1709. The MS. of the +_Itinerary_ 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 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 _Itinerary_, 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 _Collectanea_ and the book _De +Scriptt. Angliae_, 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. + +[91] An eighth volume of the _Itinerary_ 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. + + +A.D. 1633. + +A singular motto stamped upon the binding of two books, and it may be of +more, within a border of cornucopiae, &c., attracts the attention of the +reader. The books are, vols. i. ii. of Du Chesne's _Historiae Francorum +Scriptores_, 1636 (A. 2. 9. 10. Jur.), and Halloix's _Ecclesiae +Orientalis Scriptores_, 1633 (G. 2. 3. Th.); the motto is, 'Coronasti +annum bonitatis Tuae, Ps. 65. Annuo reditu quinque librarum Margaretae +Brooke.' An explanation is found in an entry in the Benefaction-Register +under the year 1632 or 1633, where we read as follows: '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 +bibliothecae in perpetuum.' Probably the books thus stamped were the +first that were bought after the final settlement of the 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. + +A (second) gift from Sir Henry Wotton consisted of the copy of Tycho +Brahe's _Astronomiae instaurandae mechanica_, 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 _Acta Concilii +Constantiensis_, which had formerly belonged to Card. Bembi, now +numbered _e Musaeo_, 25. + + +A.D. 1634. + +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. [_See_ p. 19.] Two +additional MSS., which formerly belonged to Digby, and which each +contain his inscription, 'Hic est liber publicae Bibliothecae academiae +Oxoniensis, K.D.,' were purchased in 1825. One of these, _R. Baconis +opuscula_, was bought for L51; the other, a Latin translation, by W. de +Morbeck, of Proclus' Commentary on Plato, for L31 10_s._ They are +uniformly bound with the rest of the series, and are numbered 235 and +236 respectively. + +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[92], 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[93].' 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[94].' 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. + +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. + +[92] See under 1654-9. + +[93] Reg. Conv. R. 24, 102. From MS. note by Dr. Bliss. + +[94] [Walker's] _Letters by Eminent Persons, from the Bodl. and Ashm._, +1813, vol. i. pp. 2, 3. + + +A.D. 1635. + +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' +_Catalogus interpretum S. Script, in Bibl. Bodl._, with an Appendix of +authors who had written on the _Sentences_ and the _Summa_, 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_s._ +8_d._, that of the Catalogue of Interpreters 6_d._, of the Appendix +2_s._, and of the whole series complete 5_s._ + + +A.D. 1635-1640. + +The Register for these years presents a connected series of benefactions +on the part of Archbishop Laud. + +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., 'e Collegio Herbipolensi [Wuertzburg] in +Germania sumpti A.D. 1631, cum Suecorum Regis exercitus per universam +fere Germaniam grassarentur.' Laud directs, in his letter of gift, that +none of the books shall on any account be taken out of the Library, +'nisi solum ut typis mandentur, et sic publici et juris et utilitatis +fiant,' 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[95]. 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[96]. + +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[97]; two +idols, one Egyptian, the other from the West Indies; and the fine bust +of King Charles I, 'singulari artificio ex purissimo aere conflatam,' +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 S[oe]ur, the +artist of the statue at Charing Cross, to be, (as well as the bust given +by Laud 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 L300 was +voted by Convocation[98]. 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:-- + + 'Viris mihi amicissimis Doctori Potter, Vice-Cancellario, + reliquisque Doctoribus, Procuratoribus, necnon singulis in domo + Convocationis intra almam Universitatem Oxon. congregatis. + + '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 quae undique urgent + faciliora sunt. Quin et quo loco res Ecclesiae 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 [oe]stro perciti + sunt quam difficile sit vivere, mihi plus satis innotescit, cui (Deo + gratias!) idem est vivere et officium facere. + + 'Sed mittenda haec sunt, nec enim quo fata ducunt datur scire. Nec + mitiora redduntur tempora aut tutiora querimoniis. Interim velim + sciatis me omnia vobis fausta et felicia precari, quo tuti sitis + felicesque, dum hic inter sphaeras superiores stellae cujuslibet + magnitudinis vix motum suum tenent, aut prae nubium crassitie debile + lumen emittunt. + + 'Dum sic fluctuant omnia, statui apud me in tuto (id est, apud vos + spero) MS. quaedam, temporum priorum monumenta, deponere. Pauca sunt, + sed prioribus similia, si non aequalia, et talia quae, non obstantibus + temporum difficultatibus, in usum vestrum parare non destiti. Sunt + vero inter haec Hebraica sex, Graeca 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. Haec per vos in Bibliothecam Bodleianam + (nomen veneror, nec superstitiose) reponenda, et caeteris 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 quae nunc omnia perflant sedatis, tuto possitis et + vobis et studiis et, prae omnibus, DEO frui. Quae vota semper erunt + + 'fidelissimi et amantissimi Cancellarii vestri, + 'W. CANT.[99] + 'Dat. ex aedibus meis + 'Lambethanis, 6^to Nov. 1640.' + +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 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 _Introduction_. + +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.[100] The Greek MSS. of the collection are fully described +in vol. i. of the _Catal. Codd. Bibl. Bodl._, 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. + +One of the Wuertzburg 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, vicarius in ecclesia Herb[ipolensi] hunc librum +comparavit propriis expensis, et pro omnibus, scil. pergameno, +impressura, rubricatione, illinatura, et ligatione, xviii. flor.' 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 Missae.' In the latter place four subsequent possessors, from +1565 to 1580, have written their names, the last of them adding, 'Omnis +arbor qui non facit fructum bonum excidetur et in ignem mittetur.' The +Library reference is now Auct. i. Q. i. 7. + +[95] Reg. Conv. R. 24. f. 109^b. MS. note by Dr. P. Bliss. + +[96] Entry at the end of the Register of Readers, 1638-9. + +[97] This was given to Laud by Selden, 'vir omni eruditionis genere +instructissimus,' as Laud styles him in his letter of gift on June 16. +Reg. Conv. R. 24. f. 128. + +[98] Reg. Conv. R. 24. 156^b. 169^b. The agreements with one Thomas +Richardson for the work are found there. + +[99] Reg. Conv. R. 24^b, 182^b. + +[100] 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 +_Report to the Master of the Rolls on the Carte and Carew Papers_, 8^o, +Lond. 1864. + + +A.D. 1637. + +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, _Delitiae +Delitiarum, sive Epigrammatum ex optimis quibusque hujus et novissimi +seculi Poetis in amplissima illa Bibliotheca Bodleiana, et pene omnino +alibi extantibus, [Grk: anthologia]_. + + +A.D. 1640. + +On Jan. 25, 1639-40, died Robert Burton, of Ch. Ch., 'Democritus +junior,' and bequeathed out of his large library whatever 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: +'Porro [d. d.] com[oe]diarum, tragediarum, et schediasmatum ludicrorum +(praesertim idiomate vernaculo) aliquot centurias, quas propter +multitudinem non adjecimus.' 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[101].' 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 _Anatomy of +Melancholy_ 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^o Art. (particularly under letter L), Theol., and Art. BS. +Amongst his smaller books is one of the only two known copies of the +edition of _Venus and Adonis_ in 1602. He is specially mentioned also in +the preface to Verneuil's _Nomenclator_, 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 L100, with which an annual payment of L5 was +obtained. For some time, however, this payment was subsequently lost; +for in Barlow's Accounts for 1655, after mentioning the receipt of L40 +paid by one Mr. Thomas Smith, occurs this '_Memorandum_:--that the L40 +above mentioned amongst the _Recepta_ is a part of an L100 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 L5 per annum. He +breaking, or very much decay'd in his estate, and deade, this L40 was +payd in by his executors, L50 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 L10 +more.' The latter was paid in 1658, as appears from an entry, 'Recept. a +Dno. Spicer (_sic_) et Hopkins, ex syngrapha;' but the former was still +unpaid in 1660. + +[101] _Reliquiae Bodl._ p. 278. + + +A.D. 1641. + +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 the oaths to the recusants of that city[102]. The following +inscription is attached to it, engraved upon a brass plate: 'L[=a]terna +illa ipsa, qua usus est et cum qua deprehensus Guido Faux in crypta +subterranea, ubi domo Parlamenti difflandae operam dabat. Ex dono Rob. +Heywood, nuper Academiae Procuratoris, 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. + +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 examine it when +returned; they fortify their arguments by abundant references to the +civil law; they upbraid those who,--'internecino exterorum atque +advenarum odio aestuantes (O celebratam Britanniae +hospitalitatem!),'--have originated the calumny; and, finally, warn the +Curators against giving occasion for suspicion to the learned men of the +whole world that 'doctos Angliae viros, priscae hospitalitatis immemores, +majori exterorum quam Athenienses Megarensium odio flagrare.' The +memorial is endorsed: 'De hac re amplius deliberandum censebant Praefecti +ult. Maii, 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 _transcribe_ +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[103].' But no doubt this order also soon became dormant, even +if it were not definitely repealed. + +[102] Neal's _History of the Puritans_, i. 688. + +[103] Walker's _Letters of Eminent Men_, 1813, vol. i. p. 175. + + +A.D. 1642. + +'The Kinge, Jul. 11, 1642, had L500 out of Sir Th. Bodlyes Chest, as +appeares by Dr. Chaworthes acquittance in the same box.' (Barlow's +Library Accounts for 1657. _MS._) This loan was, of course, never +repaid. It is regularly carried on in the Annual Accounts up to the year +1782. + +Nov. 30. 'At night the Library doore was allmost broken open. Suspitio +de incendio, &c.' (Brian Twyne's _Musterings of the Univ._, in Hearne's +_Chron. Dunst._ p. 757.) + +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 _Memoirs_, Lond. 1700. pp. 105-107:-- + +'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 _Sortes +Virgilianae_, 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 AEneas, which Mr. +Dryden translates thus:-- + + "Yet let a race untam'd, and haughty foes, + His peaceful entrance with dire arts oppose, + Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field, + His men discourag'd, and himself expell'd, + Let him for succour sue from place to place, + Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. + First let him see his friends in battel slain, + And their untimely fate lament in vain: + And when at length the cruel war shall cease, + On hard conditions may he buy his peace. + Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, + But fall untimely by some hostile hand, + And lye unburi'd in the common sand." + + (AEneid, iv. 88.) + +It is said K. Charles seem'd concerned at this accident, and that the +Lord Falkland observing it, would likewise try his own 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:-- + + "O Pallas, thou hast fail'd thy plighted word, + To fight with reason, not to tempt the sword. + I warned thee, but in vain, for well I knew + What perils youthful ardor would pursue; + That boiling blood would carry thee too far, + Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war. + Oh! curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, + Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come." + + (AEneid, xi. 220.)' + +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. + + +A.D. 1645. + +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 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, _Histoire universelle du +Sieur D'Aubigne_, 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[104].' + +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. + +[104] Bp. Barlow's Argument against Lending Books. _MS._ + + +A.D. 1646. + +'When Oxford was surrendered (24^o Junii, 1646) the first thing Generall +Fairfax did was to set a good guard of soldiers to preserve 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[105].' + +[105] Aubrey's _Lives_; in _Letters by Eminent Persons_, ii. 346. + + +A.D. 1647. + +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 1635, the following small book of a similar kind in English was +issued by him: _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_. 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 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:-- + +'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.e._ 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.' + +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.' + +Verneuil was succeeded in his office in the Library by Francis Yonge, +M.A., of Oriel College. + +Milton's gift of his _Poems_. See under 1620. + + +A.D. 1648. + +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 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 +_Rustica Academiae Oxoniensis nuper reformatae Descriptio_, which is +supposed to commemorate the condition of Oxford in Oct. 1648, writes +thus of our Library:-- + + 'Conscendo orbis illud decus + Bodleio fundatore: + Sed intus erat nullum pecus, + Excepto janitore. + + Neglectos vidi libros multos, + Quod mimime mirandum: + Nam inter bardos tot et stultos + There's few could understand 'em.' + + +A.D. 1649. + +'The Jews proffer L600,000 for Paul's, and Oxford Library, and may have +them for L200,000 more[106].' 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 _History of the Troubles_ (translated by Ogilvie, +1735, p. 473) that the sum they offered was L500,000, but that the +Council of War refused to take less than L800,000: probably they +afterwards increased this their original bid to L600,000. + +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. + +[106] London News-letter of April 2; printed in Carte's _Collection of +Letters_, vol. i. p. 275. + + +A.D. 1652. + +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[107]. + +A legacy of L20 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. + +[107] Reg. 'T. 158-9.' MS. Note by Dr. P. Bliss. + + +A.D. 1653. + +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. + + +A.D. 1654. + +'April last, 1654, my Lord Protector sent his letter to Mr. +Vice-Chancellor to borrow a MS. (Joh. de Muris) for the Portugal +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[108].' + +Cromwell's gift of MSS. See under 1629. + +[108] Barlow's Argument against Lending Books out. + + +A.D. 1654-1659. + +The death of John Selden occurred on Nov. 30[109]. 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[110]) is that Selden was so offended with +the University for refusing the loan of a MS., except upon a bond for +L1000, 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 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[111]. But it is clear from Selden's will (as +printed by Wilkins in his _Works_, 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 '_said_ 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[112]. And in the Annual Accounts, under the year 1655, we find +the following entries:-- + + Pro vectura codicum MSS. a Londino Oxoniam L0 9_s._ + D. Langbaine pro expensis cum Londinum petiit, libros a + Seldeno legatos repetiturus 5 0 + D. Ed. Pococke eodem tempore in rem eandem Londinum misso. 7 0 + +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 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 _passed_ 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 L100 (not +L1000) for the return of each of them within a year[113]. 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 _Cat. MSS._, 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 personal reference[114]. 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 +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 disperse into private hands the +books intended for the public. He then proceeds as follows:-- + +'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[115]) 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. + +'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. + +'5. Lending of books makes them lyable to many casualties, as, I. +absolute losse, either 1. _in via_, by the carrier's negligence, or +violence offer'd him, or, 2. _in termino_, 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.[116] +lent out of _Archiva Pembrochiana_ 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.' + +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 (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. + +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 _Spur-royals_[117], or _Ryals_, amounting to L1400, 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 L100 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_s._ 6_d._ to 20_s._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.[118] Fuller, whose _Church History_ 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 _Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen_, gives +(in answer to a passage in Heylin's _Examen Historicum_) 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 +(_Hist. and Antiq._ 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. + +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 L20 'for his paines in procuring Mr. Selden's books,' and of +L51 for his expenses thereon. The bringing the books from London cost +about L34, and the providing chains for them L25 10_s._[119] +Unfortunately, during the interval, many books had been lost which had +been borrowed in London, and were never returned. (Life, in _Works_, 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[120].' 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 L1 1_s._ + +About 8000 volumes were, in all, added to the Library by this gift, most +of which bear Selden's well-known motto: '[Grk: peri pantos ten +eleutherian].' 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 volume (marked 4^o 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, _Richard +Cuer de Lyon_, _Syr Bevis of Hampton_ (unique edit.?), _Syr Degore_, +_Syr Tryamoure_ (only two copies known), _Syr Eglamoure_ (unique?), _Dan +Hew of Leicestre_ (unique?), _Battayle of Egyngecourt_ (unique?), _Mylner +of Abyngton_ (unique?), _Wyl Bucke_, _&c._ Among the MSS. is one of +Harding's _Chronicle_ (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, _neighbore to Scottz_.' +This map was engraved for the first time in Gough's _British +Topography_, vol. ii. pl. viii.; the description of it occupies pp. +579-583 in that volume. Another interesting volume is a copy of the +Latin _Articles_ 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. + +[109] As Aubrey (_Lives_, with _Letters by Eminent Persons_, 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.' + +[110] See also Aubrey's _Lives_, _ut supra_, ii. 536. + +[111] Nichols (_Lit. Anecd._ 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 _without sufficient caution_, he sent for +it back again. + +[112] Twells' Life of Pococke, in Pococke's _Theol. Works_, 1740, vol. +i. p. 43. + +[113] 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.' + +[114] 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.) + +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:-- + +'Cum in hac visitatione nostra anniversaria Bibliothecae Bodleianae, 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[121]) in classe Theologica, +catena abscissum et sacrilega 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;-- + +'Nos Curatores, quorum fidei et inspectioni Bibliothecae 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;-- + +'Impense rogantes omnes et singulos cujuscunque ordinis et loci genuinos +Academia alumnos, ut sicubi librum offendant, sive in privatis musaeis, +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 +publicae infamiae tuba miser experrectus, misericordiam divinam tempestive +imploret, conspecta vel Bibliothecae porta posthaec attonitus resiliat, +nec tanti putet libri contemptibilis acquisitionem ut animam pro qua +mortuus est Christus ineptissime periclitari sinat. + + JO. PRIDEAUX, Vice-Canc. et S. Theol. Professor Regius. + THO. CLAYTON, Medic. Professor Regius. + DANIEL EASTCOT, Procurator Sen. + RICARDUS HILL, Procurator Jun. + EDOARDUS MEETKERKIUS, Ling. Hebr. Professor Regius. + JOHANNES SOUTH, Graecae Linguae Praelector Regius.' + +More serious abstractions, however, than such as these, have lately +(_i.e._ within the last twenty or thirty years) been practised. It has +recently been discovered that two extremely rare tracts by Thomas +Churchyard, his _Epitaph of Sir P. Sidney_, and _Feast full of sad +Cheere_, 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 Warton as being in Tanner's +collection, _The Children of the Chapel Stript and Whipt_, 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 _locale_, it is +hoped that depredations of this character will be entirely checked. + +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. + +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 _Leben Jesu_, 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, _clothed in an entirely different German binding_, 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 _University Report upon the Recommendations +of the University Commissioners_, 1853. p. 171. + +[115] 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. (_Reliquiae Bodl._ 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.e._ 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.' (_Ibid._ p. 207.) In 1636 the University +refused leave to Archbishop Laud to borrow Rob. Hare's MS. _Liber +Privilegiorum Universitatis_ (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 _English Universities_, by F. Newman, vol. ii. p. 45.) However, +the book was at last produced before the Council. (Wood's _Hist. and +Antiq._, by Gutch, vol. ii. p. 403.) + +[116] '[Grk: Myriobiblos], num. 131' [Barocci]. + +[117] 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. + +[118] 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. + +[119] The conditions imposed by the executors (which are printed in +Gutch's _Wood_, 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. + +[120] Ayliffe's _Ancient and Present State of the Univ. of Oxford_, +1714, vol. i. p. 462. Pointer, in his _Oxoniensis Academia_, 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 +_Journey through England_ 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. + +[121] This was never recovered, but a later edition, in 1609, was +procured instead. + + +A.D. 1655. + +The stipends of the Librarian and Assistants at this time amounted +jointly to L51 6_s._ 8_d._ Of this it appears from the account for 1657 +that the Librarian received L33 6_s._ 8_d._, the Second Keeper, then H. +Stubbe, L10, and [the janitor] S. Rugleye (?), L8. A volume of curious +tracts, published during the early part of the reign of Charles I, now +marked 4^o _F. 2 Art. B. S._, furnishes the name of a preceding janitor, +by bearing the inscription, 'Liber Thomae Roch, defuncti, quondam +janitoris bibliothecae.' 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[122].' + +John Evelyn appears in this year, as well as subsequently, as a donor of +books. Nineteen MSS. were given by Peter Whalley, of Northamptonshire. + +[122] _Reliquae Bodl._ p. 263. + + +A.D. 1656. + +Cowley's _Poems_. See 1620. + + +A.D. 1657. + +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, 'auro gemmisque coruscum,' 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, 'Londinensis olim Episc.' 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 _Hugh +Peters_. 'Hugo Peters, serenissimo Britanniarum Protectori Olivero a +sacris, pro sua in academiam et rempubl. literariam benevolentia, +codices insequentes Bibl. Bodleianae dono dedit Maii iiii^o, Anno CI[C]. +I[C]C. LVII;' viz. the great Dutch Bible with annotations, 'edit. ult. +[scil. Hague, 1637] auro sericoque compacta,' and the AEthiopic 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[123]. 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. + +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, _A Light Shining out of +Darkness_, which was supposed to attack the Universities and clergy. + +[123] See p. 55. + + +A.D. 1658. + +Gerard Langbaine, D.D., the learned Provost of Queen's College, died on +Feb. 10 in this year. Twenty-one vols. of his _Adversaria_, consisting +chiefly of extracts from Bodleian MSS. and of notes concerning the +arrangement of the books in the Library, were bought for L11. Nine other +volumes were bequeathed by Ant. a 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 +autograph collections by purchase, the Library became possessed by +bequest from him of the very valuable MS. (_e Mus. 86_) on the history +of Wickliffe and his followers, entitled _Fasciculi Zizaniorum_, 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. + +The effect which civil war and confusion had had upon literature may be +commercially estimated by the fact that a gift of L5 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. + +A crocodile, from Jamaica, was given by John Desborow, the republican +Major-General, and brother-in-law to the Protector. + + +A.D. 1659. + +Thomas Hyde, M.A., of Queen's College, was appointed Under-keeper on the +expulsion of Henry Stubbe. + + +A.D. 1660. + +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[124]. + +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 _Index Librorum +prohibitorum_ printed at Madrid in 1612-14 (4^o 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[125]. + +[124] Reg. Convoc. T^a. 27, p. 57. + +[125] The memoranda are printed in Mendham's _Lit. Policy of the Church +of Rome_, second edit., pp. 152-4, and in Bliss' _Reliquiae Hearnianae_, +i. 12-14. + + +A.D. 1662. + +A legacy of L50 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. + +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 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 'Liber +Bibliothecae Bodleianae Oxon.' has added the following note: 'quem ex +Ratelbandi cujusdam bibliopolae officina libraria, prope novum templum +Amstelodami, redimendum pretio persoluto curavit Tho. Mareschallus, e +Collegio Lincolniensi apud Oxonienses.' + +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. + + +A.D. 1663. + +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 +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[126].' + +[126] Reg. Convoc. T^a. 27, p. 173. + + +A.D. 1664. + +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. + + +A.D. 1665. + +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 L6 16_s._ 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 L16 +15_s._ were bought out of his study. + + +A.D. 1666. + +Twenty MSS. were given by Sir Thos. Herbert, Bart. of York. + +An East India merchant of London, one John Ken, gave (with other MSS.) +the first Gentoo [i.e. Sanscrit.] 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 engaged 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. + +At some period between 1660 and 1667, _i.e._ 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 'aere suo.' Dr. T. Smith remarks, in his life of Bernard, that +when the latter was preparing to edit Josephus, he used 'Sam. Petiti +largis commentariis, longe antea in bibliothecae Bodleianae gazophylacium +ex Gallia transvectis,' 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 _Evangelistarium_ of the fourteenth +century, formerly the property of a monastery described as '[Grk: tes +panagias tes acheiropoietou],' 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. + + +A.D. 1668. + +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 authority is not known) to have belonged to Henry +VIII[127], 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 _Oxford_, published in 1821[128], and +in the _Life of Drake_, published in 1828. + +[127] The style of moulding on the back seems to point to a somewhat +later date. + +[128] A description, including a copy of the verses, and illustrated by +a woodcut, is also to be found in vol. xxix. (1837) of the _Mirror_, p. +8, copied from the _Nautical Magazine_. + + +A.D. 1670. + +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, _Ath. Oxon._ iii. +885. He himself gave four printed Arabic books in 1663. + + +A.D. 1671. + +Upon the death of Meric Casaubon, on July 14, the Library became +possessed, by his bequest, of sixty-one volumes of the _Adversaria_ +(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 _Casauboniana_, with a +preface giving some account of all previous collections of _Ana_, and +with copious notes. The MSS. are catalogued in Mr. Coxe's first volume, +cols. 825-850. + + +A.D. 1673. + +Thomas, Lord Fairfax, to whose care the Library had been indebted for +preservation in 1646, bequeathed to it on his decease, 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[129]), 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 L40 +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[130], 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 were in danger of being spoiled by a wet season.' Fortunately the +danger was perceived by Ant. a 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_s._ 10_d._ as having been paid for the 'carriage of +Dodsworth's MSS.' + +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 L36 10_s._, 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. + +[129] A transcript of Elphinston's Chronicle is to be found among the +Jones MSS. + +[130] 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. + + +A.D. 1674. + +In this year appeared the third _Catalogus impressorum Librorum +Bibliothecae Bodleianae_, 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 +(_mirabile dictu!_) he actually had not shrunk even from the +inclemency of winter[131]. 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[132]!' 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, _e.g._, in +his preface to the _Chronicon Dunstap._ p. xii., and in his +_Autobiography_ (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. + +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, L20 +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[133]. Hearne describes him[134] 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 L200 to the Vice-Principal of Hart Hall, +which was partly spent in building a library-room[135]. + +[131] 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! + +[132] _MS. Diary_, 1714, vol. ii. p. 193. + +[133] _Reliquiae Hearn._ ii. 591. But see p. 116, _infra_. + +[134] _MS. Diary_, li. 193. + +[135] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, ciii. 38. + + +A.D. 1675. + +In the Register of Benefactions, on a page faintly headed in pencil with +this date, is entered a gift from Christopher, Lord Hatton, 'Homiliarum +Saxonicarum 4 volumina antiqua.' 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 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 +(_Cat._ 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 _Codices Hattoniani_. + +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[136], 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 _Pastoral Care_, 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 _Dialogues_, with King Alfred's preface (No. 76); and a +version of the Four Gospels, written about the time of Henry II (No. +65). + +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, Nicaea, Chalcedon, &c., +which had been used by his father Christopher Justell in his +_Bibliotheca Juris Canonici veteris_, 1661. They are now numbered, _e +Mus._ 100-102. Several other MSS. given at the same time are preserved +in the same series. In return for this valuable gift Justell was created +D.C.L. by diploma. + +[136] The Register has evidently been kept very irregularly and +imperfectly during the time that Barlow and Hyde held the headship. + + +A.D. 1677. + +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 Animae' and 'Sowle-Hele,' and its +chief contents are Lives of the Saints, Hampole's _Prick of Conscience_, +Grosteste's _Castle of Love_, Hampole's _Perfect Living_, the treatise +on _Contemplative Life_, the _Mirror of S. Edmund_, the _Abbey of the +Holy Ghost_, and _Piers Plowman_; besides a multitude of smaller pieces, +several of which have been recently copied with a view to publication by +the Early English Text Society[137]. 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. + +[137] This Society has also just issued Part 1. of Piers Plowman from +this MS., edited by W. W. Skeat, M.A. (Oct. 1867). + + +A.D. 1678. + +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 _Ormulum_ ([OE: +'žiss boc iss nemmnedd Orrmulum, Forrži žatt 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. Caedmon'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 Caedmon 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 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 _Archaeologia_, 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 1675[138].) Besides books, Junius left to the +University six founts of Gothic, Saxon, and other types, together with +the moulds and matrices. + +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 _Collectanea_ bearing on the history of England from +various MSS. Chronicles, Registers, and early writers, particularly with +reference to the corruption of the Church and 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 L55. + +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[139]. Ten shillings were also paid for a 'sea +elephant.' + +[138] 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: 'Vir doctissimus Joannes Georgius Eckardus, +bibliothecae Brunsvicensis praefectus, 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.' 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. + +[139] In the Benefaction Book this gift is assigned to the year 1672. + + +A.D. 1680. [See A.D. 1665.] + +Sir W. Dugdale gave copies of his own works. Two hundred coins were +given by Dr. George Hickes. + + +A.D. 1681. + +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 [Grk: keimelia], called, from its donor, 'Codex +Rushworthianus.' (Auct. D. 2. 19.) In 1665, Junius mentions it in the +Preface to his _Glossarium Gothicum_, as being then still in Rushworth's +own hands[140]. It is a MS. of the Latin Gospels, written by an Irish +scribe, Mac-Regol, (who records his name on the last leaf, 'Macregol +dipincxit hoc evangelium,' &c.,) and glossed with an interlinear +Anglo-Saxon version by Owun and by Faermen, 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 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 _Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria_. + +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. + +[140] 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. + + +A.D. 1682. + +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.' + +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 'in Schola +Linguarum,' 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. + +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 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 _Works_, a pamphlet of 103 pages dignified with that name, of +which the third edition appeared at London in 1719[141]. 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[142]. + +The names of the Speakers up to the year 1690 are given in Wood's +_Athenae_ (ii. 127) as follows. They were all M.A., and Students of Ch. +Ch.:-- + + 1682 Thomas Sparke + 1683 Zach. Isham + 1684 Chas. Hickman + 1685 Thos. Newey + 1686 Thos. Burton + 1687 Will. Bedford + 1688 Rich. Blakeway + 1689 Roger Altham, jun. + 1690 Edward Wake + * * * * + 1701 Edm. Smith + +The following list from 1706 to 1734 has been gathered out of Hearne's +MS. Diary:-- + + 1706 Rich. Newton + 1707 Thos. Terry + 1708 Will. Periam + 1709 Rich. Sadlington + 1710 Richard Frewin + 1711 -- Aldred[143] + 1712 Gilb. Lake + 1713 Hen. Cremer + 1714 Chas. Brent + 1715 John White + 1716 Edw. Ivie + 1717 Hen. Gregory + 1718 Thos. Fenton + 1719 George Wiggan + 1720 Thos. Foulkes + 1721 Will. Le Hunt + 1722 Hen. Shirman + 1723 Matthew Lee + 1724 Christopher Haslam + 1725 Will. Davis + 1726 Edw. Blakeway + 1727 David Gregory + 1728 [Rob.?] Manaton + 1729 [Hen.?] Jones + 1730 John Fanshaw + 1731 Oliver Battely + 1732 Dan. Burton + 1733 Fifield Allen + 1734 Pierce Manaton, M.D. + +[141] A long account of Smith is given in Johnson's _Lives of the +Poets_. + +[142] _Letters of Eminent Persons, &c_, ii. 111. + +[143] Doubtless an error for Chas. Aldrich + + +A.D. 1683. + +Three MSS., containing the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac Pentateuch, +and the Syriac Old Testament, were purchased at the cost of the +University. + + +A.D. 1684. + +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! + + +A.D. 1685. + +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, &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. + + +A.D. 1686. + +Fell, Bishop of Oxford, who died July 10, bequeathed a few MSS. They +consist of an early and curious collection of _Vitae Sanctorum_ in four +folio volumes, of a transcript (in nine folio volumes) of a _Glossarium +Septentrionale_ 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 _Clavis Linguae Sanctae_, 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:-- + +'MY LORD, + +'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, + + 'Your Lordship's most humble servant, + '_23 Nov., 1746._ 'THOS. FRANKLAND.' + +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. + +A few of Bishop Fell's MSS. came subsequently to the Library among those +of Rev. Henry Jones[144], who succeeded Fell in his rectory of +Sunningwell, Berks, in the church of which parish the Bishop's wife was +buried. + +At the Visitation on Nov. 8, it was ordered that notice be given that +'Nullus in posterum quemlibet librum aut volumen extra Bibliothecam +asportet,' 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. + +[144] Hearne's pref. to John Ross, p. 1. + + +A.D. 1687. + +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 L160, +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 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. a Wood gives in his +_Autobiography_ a full account of all that passed, from which are taken +the quotations made above[145]. + +[145] See also Miss Seward's _Anecdotes_, Supplement, 1797, p. 72. + + +A.D. 1688. + +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 L6 5_s._ + + +A.D. 1690. + +Thirty pounds were paid in this year to Antony a Wood for twenty-five +MSS. out of his library[146]. 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 _temp._ Hen. VI, &c. + +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. + +It is said that Wood in this year estimated the number of MSS. 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. + +[146] 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. + + +A.D. 1691. + +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 _Linc._; ending, in the 8^o 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[147]. His legacy included a copy of the famous _Exposicio Sancti +Jeronimi in Simbolo Apostolorum_, 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:-- + + 1. _AEgidius Romanus de Peccato Originali_, dated March 14, 1479. + This was one of Rob. Burton's books. Qu. unique? + + 2. _Textus Ethicorum Aristotelis, per Leonardum Arretinum + translatus_, 1479. One of Selden's books. + + 3. _Expositio Alexandri [de Ales] super tertium librum [Arist.] De + Anima_. 'Impressum per me Theodericum rood de Colonia in alma + universitate Oxon.' Oct. 11, 1481. + + 4. _Joh. Latteburii Exposicio Trenorum Jheremie_, July 31, 1482. No + place, but printed with the same type as the last. + + 5. _Liber Festivalis_, 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 L6 6_s._ 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 L6 10_s._ + + 6. _Opus Wilhelmi Lyndewoode super Constitutiones Provinciales_. No + place or date, but identified by the type. + + 7. _Vulgaria quedam abs Terentio in Anglicam linguam traducta_. + 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. Frater Johannes Grene emit hunc librum Oxon. de + elemosinis amicorum suorum[148].' + +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 L12. The list is headed thus: 'Inventorium librorum quos ego +Thomas Hunt, stacionarius universitatis Oxoniensis, recepi de Magistro +Petro Actore et Johannis (_sic_) de Aquisgrano ad vendendum, cum precio +cujuslibet libri, et promito (_sic_) fideliter restituere libros aut +pecunias secundum precium inferius scriptum, prout patebit in +sequentibus, Anno Domini M^o. CCCC^o. octuagesimo tercio.' + +[147] In most of them is inscribed the motto, [Grk: aien aristeuein]. + +[148] This last book is described by Dr. Cotton in the second series of +his _Typographical Gazetteer_, 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 _Compendium totius Grammaticae_ (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. + + +A.D. 1692. + +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. + + +A.D. 1693. + +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 L600. They are chiefly in Armenian, Hebrew, and +Arabic, with three volumes in AEthiopic, 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^o Z. Jur. [Arabic version of Isaiah, see +p. 81.] + +Another large Oriental collection was added in this year by the +purchase, from Dr. Robert Huntington, for the sum of L700, of about 600 +MSS. These he had procured while holding the post of chaplain to the +English merchants at Aleppo[149]. The 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, 'variae AEgypti regiones recensentur, agrorum +cujusque regionis mensura definitur, et annui redditus exponuntur.' +Dibdin[150] 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 _Munus Pretiosum_, 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 _zero_, is sufficient to warm the most torpid system.' No. 80 +is a copy of Maimonides' _Yad Hachazaka_, 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 _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_: part +i. 8^o. 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 (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 (M. Vaḿbery M. +Va['m]bery), the traveller in Tartary, who is engaged in forming 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 _Bakhtiar Nameh_. A +description of it, with an engraved facsimile, is given in Davids' +_Turkish Grammar_, 4^o. Lond. 1832, pref. p. xxxi. + +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. + +[149] 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. + +[150] _Bibliogr. Decam._ iii. 472. + + +A.D. 1694. + +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 L13 and L14. + + +A.D. 1695. + +Books were bought from Mr. Bobart, and at the auction of the library of +Sir Charles Scarborough, M.D. + +_Stationers' Company._ See 1610. + +_MSS. from Wood._ See 1658. + + +A.D. 1696. + +From this year until 1700, Humphrey Wanley was an assistant in the +Library, at an annual salary of L12. He had also L10 at the end of this +year 'extraordinary, for his paines already past,' and L15, 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[151]. Wanley was no favourite +with Hearne. The following passage from the _MS. Diary_ of the +latter[152] 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. + +[151] Walker's _Letters by Eminent Persons_, 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, L7 +7_s._, together with a MS. Latin Bible. + +[152] 1714, vol. li. p. 193. + + +A.D. 1697. + +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 L140, and his MSS., many of which were valuable copies of +classical authors, together with collated printed texts and his own +_Adversaria_, for L200. Of 218 of the latter, Bernard has given a very +brief list in his own invaluable _Catalogus Manuscriptorum Angliae_, +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 _Adversaria_ 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 +_Ath. Oxon._ (iv. 709), who adds that this addition 'contained many of +the most valuable books, both printed and MSS., now in the Library.' + +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[153]. 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 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 _insignis insufficientia_, +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.' + +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[154], 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 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. + +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. + +[153] 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. + +[154] Ballard MSS. xiii. 45. + + +A.D. 1700. + +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 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] _Oxoniana_, iii. 16-27. + +In this year died Henry Jones, M.A., Vicar of Sunningwell, Berks[155]. +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 _Historia Regum Angliae_ 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 _History of Hereford_, 8^o, +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 _Commercium Epistolicum_, pp. +200-208. + +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, _nos +inter nos_[156].' 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 '_non causa pro causa_[157].' + +[155] Steele's _MSS. Collections for Berks_; Gough MS. 27. + +[156] Walker's _Letters by Eminent Persons_, i. 173. + +[157] Ellis's _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, Camd. Soc. pp. 302-3. + + +A.D. 1701. + +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.:-- + + 'March 10, 1700/01, + 'CHRIST CHURCH, OXON. + + 'SIR,--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. + + 'Among the Bodleian Statutes in the Appendix, in the Statute _de + causis amovendi aut libere recedendi_, 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. + + 'My reasons for leaving the place are two, viz. one is because (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[158]; seing that Lectures (though we must attend + upon them) will do but little good, hearers being scarce and + practicers more scarce. + + 'I should have left the Library more compleat and better furnish'd + but that the building of the Elaboratory[159] 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. + + '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 (_sic_) 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[160], 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. + + '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. + + 'In the mean time I remain, + 'Your humble servant, + 'THOMAS HYDE.' + +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[161]. 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] _Letters by Eminent Persons_, 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. + +In this year Thomas Hearne, the famous antiquary, was appointed Janitor, +or Assistant, in the Library. He tells us in his _Autobiography_ (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 L10 was made to +him in this year, and that, in the next year, L30 were voted to him for +his assistance in making an Appendix to the Catalogue of printed +books[162], and for enlarging and correcting the Catalogues of MSS. and +Coins. Extra payments of 50_s._ were also made to him in 1704 and 1706, +and of 20_s._ in 1709. + +_The Bodley Speech._ See 1682. + +[158] These were left in MS. at Hyde's death, and have never been +published. + +[159] _i.e._ the Ashmolean Museum. + +[160] Hyde was greatly mistaken here, as a calculation made by Hearne in +1714 (_q.v._) showed that the Library had then little more than doubled +since 1620. + +[161] _Reliqq. Hearn._ ii. 616. + +[162] For an account of Hearne's Appendix, see 1738. + + +A.D. 1702. + +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. + + +A.D. 1704. + +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 Academiae olim alumnus, praeter Opera ab ipso edita, ob ingenii +elegantiam, doctrinae varietatem, et philosophicam subtilitatem, omnibus +suspicienda (_here follow the titles of his own works_), insuper ex suo +in optimas artes amore, animoque ad supellectilem literariam augendam +propenso, Bibliothecae huic dono dedit libros sequentes;' _scil._ +Churchill's _Voyages and Travels_, 4 vols., 1704, Stillingfleet's +_Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity_, Stillingfleet's _Answer to +Locke_, and Rob. Boyle's _History of the Air_. 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[163]. + +William Ray, formerly consul at Smyrna, presented about 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[164]. 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[165].' +Ray also gave a Turkish almanac. + +[163] Lord King's _Life of Locke_, edit. 1830, vol. ii. p. 51. + +[164] Walker's _Letters by Eminent Persons_, i. 137. + +[165] _Life_, p. 13, in _Lives of Leland, Hearne, and Wood_, 1772. + + +A.D. 1706. + +The supposed original MS. of _The Causes of the Decay of Christian +Piety_, by the author of _The Whole Duty of Man_, 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[166]. + +[166] See _Letters by Eminent Persons_, vol. ii. pp. 133-4. + + +A.D. 1707. + +Six volumes of Archbishop Usher's _Collectanea_, 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 +various printed books, to the Library[167]. 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; _e +Musaeo_, 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 _Gul. Neubrig._ iii. 804. +Six Samaritan and other MSS. which belonged to Usher are now in the +class called _Bodl. Orient._ + +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. _Collectanea_. These last, amounting to +twenty-three volumes, are now numbered Bodl. Addit. 1. D. 1-4, 2. B. +1-16, 2. C. 1-3. + +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 +a Kempis, and several other theological works, together with some in +geography, history, and science. 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[168], 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 _Annals_, Hearne +tells, in his own interesting way, in his _Diary_[169]:-- + + '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. + + '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 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, _Reverendissimi in + Christo Patris Thomae, Archiepiscopi Sanctae Crucis in Gocthan + Perso-Armeniae, peregrinationis suae in Europam, pietatis et literarum + promovendarum caussa susceptae, brevis narratio; una cum dicti + Archiepiscopi ad serenissimam Magnae Britanniae Reginam oratiuncula + ejusque responso. Accedunt de eodem Archiepiscopo testimonia ampla + et praeclara._ Printed upon two sheets, folio[170].' + +In another volume of memoranda[171], 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: "_Historia Nationis +Armeniae, a Moise Chorenensi grammatico, doctore Armeno_. Amst. 1695. +Maii 28, 1707, Bibliothecae Bodleianae dono dedit reverendiss. Thomas +Archiep. S. Crucis in Majori Armenia. Per manum ejusd. reverendiss. +nepotis, Lucae Nurigianidis." Underneath which is written, at the motion +of Dr. Charlett, and by the direction of the said Archbishop's nephew: +"Auctorem istius libri floruisse traditur seculo quarto post Christum."' +The book is now numbered, 8^o V. 134 Th. + +[167] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, xv. 24. + +[168] And by the good Robert Nelson (_Letters by Eminent Persons_, i. +167, 9), who had also obtained ten guineas for him from the Christian +Knowledge Society (Secretan's _Life of Nelson_, pp. 113-4). + +[169] Vol xiv. pp. 64, 68. + +[170] A copy of this tract is in V. 1. 1. Jur. + +[171] Rawlinson MS. C. 876. p. 44. + + +A.D. 1709. + +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 reduced to five (British +Museum; Oxford; Cambridge; Advocates' Library, Edinburgh; and Trinity +College, Dublin) by 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 110. + + +A.D. 1710. + +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 one earlier volume containing +a list of livings in the diocese of Norwich, with their values and +incumbents. 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 _D. Linc._ + +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[172]. + +[172] _Reliquiae Hearn._ i. 205, 6. + + +A.D. 1711. + +A watch which had belonged to Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is said to have +been presented by Mr. Ralph Howland, of Maidenhead. + +Grabe's _Adversaria_. See 1724. + + +A.D. 1712. + +'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 Churchyard, very privately. Upon his coffin was +put, _I. C. ag. 38. 1712_; but I heard him say some time since he was 39 +years old[173].' He is described in the following caustic terms by Zach. +Conr. Uffenbach, in a letter written in 1713, and printed in his +_Commercium Epistolicum_[174]:-- + + 'Alteri [praefecto Bibliothecae], 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 praemiorum, quae 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, quaevis in ordinem redigat + atque emundet.' + +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 L10[175]; other +additional payments of L5 and 50_s._ 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 _Athenae_:-- + + '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 ----.' + +Rawlinson goes on to attribute to him (as his solitary claim to a place +in the _Athenae_) a _Poem on the late Storm_, Lond. 1704, fol., but this +was written (as well as a Latin poem _In Georgium reducem_, 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 (_scil._, 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:-- + + 'H. S. E. Reverend. Johan. Crabb, A. M. e Coll. Exon quondam Socius + Oxon., Bibliothecae Bodleianae Sub-Librarius, et a sacris olim Episc. + Fowler, hujus Parochiae Minister residens amplius XXXVIII ann. Vir + doctus, pius, generosus, in Ecclesia Orthodoxus, in Republica + fidelis, et omnibus liberalis. Author Georgianae et aliorum Carminum + celebrium latine et anglice, Obiit tandem XIII Id. Martii, Anno + aetat. suae LXXXV., AErae Christianae MDCCXLVIII[176].' + +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[177],' 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[178]. + +'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[179].' + +[173] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, xxxvii. 180. + +[174] 1753, p. 182. For the reference to this passage the author is +indebted to Dibdin's _Bibliogr. Decam._ 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. + +[175] 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.' _Letter from Hyde to Hudson_, in Walker's _Letters_, i. 174. + +[176] 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:-- + + 'If I survive + I'll make them five.' + +But the lady did not afford him the wished-for opportunity. + +[177] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, xxxvii. 191. + +[178] _Life_, 1772, p. 14. + +[179] _MS. Diary_, xxxix. 120. + + +A.D. 1713. + +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 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 +(_qu._ Golius?), somewhat like in form to Selden's, but better in +spirit, '[Grk: pantache ten aletheian].' 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 _Elizabeth_ +(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 'in tenebris;' 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[180]. + +At this period every stranger admitted to read in the Library had to pay +nine shillings in fees, of which 1_s._ went to the Head Librarian, 3_s._ +6_d._ to the Second Librarian, 1_s._ 6_d._ to the Janitor, 2_s._ to the +Registrar (for an order for admission, but in the Long Vacation this fee +went to the Second Librarian), and 1_s._ to the Proctor's man[181]. 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 the charge to visitors at threepence each, unless +accompanied, and in consequence _franked_, 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[182]. + +The suppression, by an order of the Heads of Houses, dated March 23, +1712/3, of Hearne's edition of Dodwell's tract _De Parma Equestri +Woodwardiana_, 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 _MS. Diary_. 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[183], 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 followed +during the exhibition of this museum is worth relating in the diarist's +own words:-- + + 'I mentioned a picture engraved and hanging there with horns and + wings, and underneath, _uxor ejus ad vivum pinxil_. 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. _that + 'twas a bawble, and that an hundred such things were not worth the + seeing_. 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 + [Grk: EIKON BASILIKE], and underneath, _Quid quaeritis ultra?_ 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 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, _They are all rebells, Mr. + Mollineux, they are all rebells in this place_, 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.' + +_Hinc illae lachrymae!_ 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 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, +_Henrici Dodwelli de Parma Equestri Woodwardiana Dissertatio, &c_, 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[184].' + +[180] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, vol. lxxi. May 20. + +[181] _Ibid._ vol. xlvii. p. 89. + +[182] In an account of a visit to Oxford by an American tourist, which +appeared very recently in the _New York Times_, 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_d._ 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.' + +[183] This was the room which is now attached to the Library under the +name of the _Auctarium_. + +[184] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, 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. _Ibid._ lxxi. 3 May. + + +A.D. 1714. + +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 _Liber Admissorum_, +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. + +'In the year 1714 were in the Bodleian Library:-- + + 30169 pr. vols. + 05916 MSS. vols. + ----- + In all 36085.' + + (Hearne's _MS. Diary_, vol. xci. p. 256.) + +It is strange that, notwithstanding Selden's and Laud's large additions, +the Library had therefore very little more than doubled since 1620. + +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 _Letter containing an Account of some Antiquities between +Windsor and Oxford_. Of the renovation of the wall-paintings he thus +speaks in his preface to _Rossi Historia Regum Angliae_ (1716): 'Non +possim quin bibliothecae Bodleianae Curatores laudem, qui pictori +Academico [_i.e._ Wildgoose] in mandatis dederunt, ut veteres effigies +renovet nitorique pristino restituat: quippe quas eo pluris aestimendas +esse censeo, quod eas in galeria depingendas jusserit ipse Bodleius, +Loci Genius.' When the Gallery was re-roofed in 1831, all these +paintings were, however, removed [_see_ p. 15]. + +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[185].' 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 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[186].' + +[185] _Letters by Eminent Persons_, 1813, vol. i. p. 297. + +[186] _Letters by Eminent Persons_, 1813, vol. i. p. 204. + + +A.D. 1715. + +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. + + 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 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[187].' + +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 L500, 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 _neglect of duty_! His successor +was Rev. 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[188]. But to the end of +his life he maintained that he was still, _de jure_, Sub-librarian, and, +with a quaint pertinacity, regularly at the end of each term and +half-year, up to March 30, 1735[189], 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. + +On Hearne's announcing John Ross's _Historia Angliae_ for publication in +this year, W. Whiston forwarded to him a MS. of a Latin historical poem +entitled _Britannica_, written in 1606 by an author of the same names as +the forth-coming historian, with the following note inserted:-- + + '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 + + 'WILLIAM WHISTON. + '_London, December 12, 1715._' + +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[190]. The MS. is now numbered, Bodley +573. + +A learned tailor of Norwich was in this year recommended by 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[191]. +He removed to London about 1720, and died in the following year, as we +learn from an entry in Hearne's _MS. Diary_, (xcii. 128-9,) under date +of Oct. 29, 1721, where we read:-- + + 'About a fortnight since died in London Mr. Henry Wild, commonly + called, the _Arabick Taylour_. 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.' + +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[192]. + +A thick quarto volume (1052 pages) containing a Latin treatise 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 L5 15_s._ 6_d._, +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. + +[187] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, liii. 124, 5. + +[188] _Life_, 1772, pp. 18-20. + +[189] He died on June 10, in that year. + +[190] This catalogue was sold at the auction in 1855 of the MSS. of Dr. +Routh, who had bought it at Heber's sale. + +[191] _Letters by Eminent Persons_, i. 271, 300. [On p. 270 for +_Turner_, read _Tanner_.] + +[192] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, liii. 148. + + +A.D. 1716. + +On Aug. 23, a legacy of L100 from Dr. South (who died July 8), for the +purchase of modern books, was paid to the Vice-Chancellor[193]. + +_Arms in the window._ See 1610. + +[193] Hearne's _Diary_, lix. 141; _Reliqq. Hearn._ i. 366. + + +A.D. 1718. + +One Mr. Hutton appears to have been employed in the Library during this +year. It seems, from a passage in a letter of C. Wheatly's, printed in +_Letters by Eminent Persons_, 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. + + +A.D. 1719. + +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. + +The bitter terms in which Hearne frequently, in the course of his +_Diary_, 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[194]. 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:-- + + 'Perpende, quaeso, mecum, vir eruditissime, quantus thesaurus ex + solius Bodleianae Bibliothecae 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 + Bibliothecae cura plane abjecta, insudavit, cum hoc, quod supra dixi, + potius agendum fuisset. Nefandam hujus insignis Bibliothecae sortem + (ignosce justae 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 + Musae, vel saltem artes liberales. De librorum studiosis loquor; nam + puerorum, muliercularum, rusticorum, hinc inde cursitantium, + voluminumque multitudinem per transennas spectantium mirantiumque, + c[oe]tum excipio.... De Proto-bibliothecarii incuria jam dixi, + ejusque stupendam in historia literaria librariaque, inprimis extra + Insulam ultraque maria, ignorantiam taceo.' + +Of Hearne, however, Uffenbach writes in the following different +strain:-- + + 'Hic scholaris, ut hic loqui amant, esse solet, atque etiamnum est, + nomine Hearne, qui, prae reliquis, diligentiam suam non modo + scriptis, sed in novo etiam Bibliothecae catalogo confitiendo, typis + proxime exscribendo, probavit; ast, quod dolendum, ad exemplum + prioris, qui satis jejunus, inconcinnus, erroribusque innumeris + scatens est.' + +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 1715), his election +now was a matter of sore annoyance to the latter. Hearne dwells upon it +in his _Diary_ 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 Bowles to be Head-Librarian, to +the immortal scandal of all that were concern'd in it[195].' 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[196].' Bowles' +name never occurs in the _Diary_ 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. + +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. + +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 L72 9_s._ + +[194] 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. +(_MS. Diary_, vol. lviii. p. 158.) + +[195] Vol. lxxxiv. pp. 59, 60. + +[196] Vol. cxxii. p. 158. + + +A.D. 1720. + +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 L100 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. + +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. + +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. + +_Visitors' Fees._ See 1713. + + +A.D. 1721. + +The inscription on the Schools' Tower, beneath the statue of James I, +was renewed in this year[197]. + +Sir Godfrey Kneller presented his own portrait to the Gallery. + +[197] Hearne's _Diary_, xci. 196. + + +A.D. 1722. + +Mrs. Mary Prince is recorded to have presented heads of our Blessed LORD +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 +_Mus. Bibl. II._ Beneath that of our LORD 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^e 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 _literatim_ from some older copy. + +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, [Grk: tou makaritou].' + +_Chrysanthus, Patriarch of Jerusalem._ See 1715. + + +A.D. 1723. + +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 S[oe]ur, from a picture by Rubens, and is said to weigh about +1600 lbs. The letter of thanks from the University was read in +Convocation on April 19; it is criticized by Hearne in his _Diary_[198] +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 _in aede immortalitatis_. Now what this _aedes +immortalitatis_, 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.' + +[198] Vol. xcvi. p. 101. + + +A.D. 1724. + +The MSS. _Adversaria_ 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' _Discourse_ prefixed to Grabe's _Defects and +Omissions in Whiston's Collection of Testimonies, &c._ (8^o. 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. + +A Zend MS. very well and clearly written (dated in the year 1005 of the +era of Yezdegird, _i.e._ A.D. 1635), of the _Leges Sacrae, Ritus, &c. +Zoroastris_, 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., 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 _Lexicon AEgyptiaco-Latinum_. Another +MS. Coptic Lexicon, in two volumes, was purchased in 1857. + + +A.D. 1726. + +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. + + +A.D. 1727. + +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 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, _tempp. +Eliz.--Jac. 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. + +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. + +_Sale of Duplicates._ See 1745. + + +A.D. 1729. + +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 _Reliqq. Hearn._ vol. ii. p. 712. + +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[199]. Cherry himself died Sept. 23, 1713, and +Hearne says that he had intended to give his MSS. to his old _protegee_. +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 _Reliqq. Hearn._ ii. 899-906. + +In the Register of Readers admitted by favour occurs, under date of +April 19, the name of 'C. Wesley, AEdis 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. + +[199] In the Benefaction Register they are erroneously entered as coming +by the bequest of Mr. Cherry himself. + + +A.D. 1735. + +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 them to Hearne on this +condition. With them came also copies of Camden's _Britannia_ and +_Annales Eliz._, 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 _written_ +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. + + +A.D. 1736. + +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 _Gent. +Mag._ for 1782 (cited by Gough in his _British Topography_, i. 126) he +bought for eighty guineas of the bookseller Bateman, to whom Sancroft's +executors had sold them[200]. 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 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[201]. 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[202]. 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 _Memorials of the Civil War_; but the transcripts +were very carelessly made, and scarcely a single letter can be trusted +as faithfully and _verbatim_ 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^o, Edinb. 1848, entitled, _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_[203]. 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 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 +_Pore Helpe_, 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 +_Governayle of Helthe_, with the verses called _Medicina Stomachi_, 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 _Ars Moriendi_. + +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[204]. The effects of this soaking are only too evident upon very +many of them[205]. The whole of the printed 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 L12 12_s._, 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. + +[200] 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. + +[201] 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. + +[202] Some collections for Wiltshire made by Tanner did not come to +Oxford with his library, but were forwarded by his son in 1751. + +[203] 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. + +[204] _Gent. Magaz._ 1732, p. 583. + +[205] None of them, however, are now in the state described in a note in +_Letters by Eminent Persons_, 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 _The Children +of the Chapel Stript and Whipt_ 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 1659, p. 81. + + +A.D. 1738. + +The fourth 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[206], 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[207]. He compared every book in the Library with Hyde's 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 _Diary_, 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[208] (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 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, +L194 5_s._ were paid to him. + +Alexander Pope gave, together with copies of his _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_, +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. + +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). + +[206] Pref. to _Chron. de Dunstaple_, p. xii. _Autobiogr._ p. 11, &c. + +[207] 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. + +[208] 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.' (_Rawlinson Letters_, vol. xii. f. 1.) + + +A.D. 1739. + +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 L200 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 _Wood's Annals_, vol. ii. pp. 969, 970. The pictures +themselves are now in the Randolph Gallery. Dr. King also left a legacy +of L400 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. + + +A.D. 1740. + +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 L4 4_s._ +for its restoration. + + +A.D. 1745. + +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[209]. 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, 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 L3 16_s._ 8_d._, 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 1620. There is a biographical +notice of him in J. Haslewood's Introduction to Juliana Barnes' _Boke of +St. Alban's_, 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. + +[209] He left a benefaction to his successor in this office, which now +produces L13 6_s._ 8_d._ yearly. + + +A.D. 1746. + +Trott's _Clavis Linguae Sanctae_. See 1686. + + +A.D. 1747. + +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[210]. +Rawlinson mentions, in a letter 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[211].' + +[210] 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.e._ 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:-- + + 'Here lies Fred., Down among the dead; + Had it been his Father, Most had much rather; + Had it been his Brother, Better than any other; + Had it been a Sister, More would have mist her; + Wer't the whole generation, Happy for the nation; + But since it is only Fred., There is no more to be said.' + +[211] Rawl. MS. C. 989. + + +A.D. 1749. + +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 +(_see_ p. 105), in the glass case near the entrance of the Library. +Pointer, in his _Oxoniensis Academia_ (p. 143), mentions that an +explanation of the Primstaff was given by himself; the Accounts show +that it was also in this year. + +A number of coins were added to the Numismatic Museum, which had been +collected by the late Librarian, Fysher. + + +A.D. 1750. + +A copy _on vellum_, 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 L2 10_s._! 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, 'Comes Consistorianus,' 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[212]. + +[212] The story of this recovery has been already related by Archd. +Cotton in his _Typographical Gazetteer_, p. 339, where by mistake he +refers the original purchase to the year 1752. + + +A.D. 1751. + +A benefaction from Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, of L60 to the Librarian +and of L10 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 L200 _per ann._ 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[213]. 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. + +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 _Chronicle_, +vol. ii. pp. 343-388, from a copy made from this original; and an +inscription, in the Ph[oe]nician 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 (_Travels in the +East_, vol. ii. pl. xxxiii. 2); next by Swinton (_Inscriptiones Citieae_, +1750, and _Philos. Trans._ 1764); afterwards by Chandler, Barthelemy, +&c; and, lastly, by Gesenius (for whom former copies were collated with +the original, and corrected, by Mr. Reay) in his _Scripturae Linguaeque +Ph[oe]niciae Monumenta_, 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. + +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 _Game of the Chesse_ and _Recuyell of Troye_ were given by Mr. +James Bowen, of Shrewsbury, painter[214]. + +[213] Hearne's _Diary_, xcvii. 12. + +[214] A MS. vol. of collections by him relating to the history of +Shropshire, dated 1768, is among Gough's books, Salop MS. 20. + + +A.D. 1753. + +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[215]. From these was published in 1759 (in which year the +papers appear to have been deposited in the Library) the _Life_ 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 +_State Papers_; 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 L170 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 _escritoire_), +containing miscellaneous papers, were forwarded by the Clarendon +Trustees in final discharge of their trust. + +A MS. of the _History of the Rebellion_, in seven volumes, together with +one of the _Contemplations_, 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[216]. + +A complete Calendar of the _Clarendon State Papers_ 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. + +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 +_en masse_ 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 for his publication of _State Papers_, +for which use of them L300 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[217] was informed by Price) the sum of L50, 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 _History of England_. 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 +_Original Papers_, published in 1775, in 2 vols., 4^o. 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 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. + +[215] On Feb. 4, 1868, a scheme for the appropriation of the accumulated +fund (now amounting to about L12,000), 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. + +[216] In the Benefaction Book this gift is entered under 1793, but it is +mentioned in the Preface to vol. iii. of the _State Papers_, dated May +29, 1786, as having been '_lately_' given. Another copy of part of the +_History_, 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 L1 10_s._! + +[217] _Lit. Anecd._ ii. 514. + + +A.D. 1754. + +In this year the MS. collections of Rev. John Walker, D.D., of Exeter +(son of Endymion Walker, of Exeter; born 1674, dec. 1747[218]), from +which he compiled his valuable and laborious work, _The Sufferings of +the Clergy_, 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 (_pref._ 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[219]. 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. + +The name of Hogarth occurs in the list of donors, as presenting his two +engravings of the _Analysis of Beauty_, which he had published in the +preceding year. + +[218] His successor in his Exeter prebend was appointed in that year. + +[219] The present writer, in answer to an enquiry in _Notes and Queries_ +in 1862 (3rd series, i. 218), said that these papers were amongst the +_Rawlinson_ 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. + + +A.D. 1755. + +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. + +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 _Athenae Oxon._ (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[220]; 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[221]. He then travelled +through the whole of England, except some of the northern parts, and in +1719 went 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[222]. 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[223]. 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 +'_Jur._,' 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[224]. A few MSS. also came from him during his lifetime which +are now placed in the general Bodley collection. But at his death all +his collections came _en masse_[225]; 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[226]. 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[227], but the MSS. to upwards of 4800, besides a large number of +old charters and miscellaneous unsorted deeds. + +The staff of the Library being very small at the time, as well as +ill-paid[228], and such an accession being completely overwhelming, the +officers appear to have contented themselves with duly entering 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. + +The classes into which the whole collection of MSS. is now divided are +the following:-- + +1. _Class A_: 500 volumes, chiefly of English history, with a few +theological books. Amongst these are the _Thurloe State Papers_, 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 _Miscellaneous Papers of Sam. Pepys_, in +twenty-five volumes, containing his correspondence, collections on +Admiralty business, &c.[229] 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 +_thus et odores vendentibus_[230].' Of another acquisition Rawlinson +writes thus:-- + + '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[231]; ... 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 tho' secret history, that the prize is not to be + valued[232], 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[233].' + +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[234]:-- + + '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 quaere 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.' + +2. _Class B_ 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 _Essex_, _Norfolk_, +_Suffolk_, &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 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 L10[235]. 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 _London_ 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[236]:-- + + '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[237], 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.' + +Under _Bucks_ are Rawlinson's own collections for a history of Eton +College, and under _Middlesex_ and _Oxon._ his parochial collections for +those counties. The _Irish_ MSS. include many of great antiquity and +value which formerly belonged to Sir James Ware, _e.g._ Tigernach's +Annals, Annals of Ulster, Lives of Saints, 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. + +Of these two classes a Catalogue, in one volume quarto, was printed in +1862, which was compiled by the writer of this volume[238]. 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. + +3. _Class C_ 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[239], +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 _Notitia Angliae_) 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 +_Miscellaneous_ and _Letters_), 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 for ten guineas[240].' Early English poets are +represented by Lydgate, Rolle of Hampole, William of Nassyngton, and +others[241]; 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. + +4. The class entitled _Miscellaneous_ 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[242], John Dunton, +and Bagford, with a very large mass of _Hearniana_. 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[243]. 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 L3 15_s._[244] There is also a 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. + +5. In _Letters_ 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. + +6. The class of _Poetry_ 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. + +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 _Miscell._ only as far as No. 407); an index, in continuation, to +all the later additions is now in process of formation. + +7. Of _Sermons_ 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 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. + +8. A selection of Biblical and Classical MSS., with a few others, +amounting to 199, are placed in the case marked '_Auctarium_,' G. +Amongst these are a few Greek volumes, with critical _Adversaria_ of +Maittaire, Josh. Lasher, and J. G. Graevius. 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. + +9. Of _Missals_, _Horae_, 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[245], of Flemish, or of Italian) are now incorporated with +a large collection of Liturgical books, which are called _Canon. +Liturg._, from their having formed part of the Canonici collection +purchased in 1818. + +10. A small collection of _Statutes_, 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 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. + +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. + +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, _Reliquiae +Hearnianae_. 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 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 L105. 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 _Miscellaneous_ MSS. Of this Rawlinson says, in a letter dated +June 19, 1740[246]: '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. + +13. Large collections were made by Rawlinson for a continuation of +Wood's _Athenae Oxon._ 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 _ad eundem_; the +quartos contain 1331 notices, numbered but not arranged in any other +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[247]. +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[248]. 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 _per annum_ for enlarging and +continuing the set[249]. + +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. 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. + +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[250]. Another series, +between 1571 and 1663, is in the Ashmole collection. + +By his second codicil, of July 25, 1754, Rawlinson bequeathed a fee-farm +rent of L4 _per annum_ 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[251]. The receipt of this sum is entered in the Accounts for +1756, but in no subsequent year. + +The following is an alphabetical list of the principal libraries from +which Rawlinson's MSS. were collected, with the dates (so far as +ascertained) at which these libraries were dispersed:-- + + Acton (Oliver), of Bridewell Hosp. + Bacon (Thos. Sclater), 1737. + Bridgeman (Will. & Rich.), 1742. + Chandos (Duke of), 1747. + Clarendon (Henry, Earl of). Through _Chandos_. + Clavell (Walter), 1742. + Compton (Bishop). See p. 175. + Foucault (Nic. Jos.), 'Comes Consistorianus[252],' 1721. + Gale (Samuel), 1755. + Graves (Rich.), of Mickleton. Through _Hearne_. + Halifax (Montagu, Earl of), 1715. + Hearne (Thomas), 1747. + Holman (William). See p. 174. + Jekyll (Sir Joseph), 1739. + Le Neve (Peter), 1731. + Maittaire (Mich.), 1748. + Mead (Richard, M.D.), 1754-5. + Murray (John), 1749. + Oxford (Harley, Earl of), 1743-5. + Pepys (Samuel). See p. 172. + Pole (Francis), 175-. + Powle (Henry), in 1689 Speaker of House of Commons. + Rawlinson (Thomas), 1734. + Robinson (Bishop). See p. 175. + St. George (Sir Thomas). + Somers (Lord). Through _Jekyll_. + Spelman (Sir Henry). + Spinckes (Rev. Nathan), 1727. + Turner (Bishop). See p. 176. + Usher (Archbishop). Through _Hearne_. + Wake (Archbp.). See p. 174. + Ware (Sir James). Through _Clarendon_ and _Chandos_. + Whiston (William). + +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 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:-- + + '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.' + +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 _Codex_) 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. + + * * * * * + +By the death on Sept. 5, 1754, of James St. Amand, Esq.[253] (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 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[254], 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 L120 and of the second +Librarian to L70, 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. + +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, 'Animus si aequus, quod petis hic est.' + + * * * * * + +By the bequest of George Ballard (the author of the _Memoirs of Learned +Ladies_), 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 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 _Letters by +Eminent Persons_, 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[255]. 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;[256] a dialogue between a tutor and his +pupil, by Lord Herbert, of Cherbury; the second book of the +_Supplication of Soules_, by Sir Thos. More, a precious little volume of +103 closely-written duodecimo pages, entirely in the handwriting of the +great Chancellor; the _Universitie's Musterings_, by Brian Twyne; +collections by Ant. a 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.' + +Ballard was originally a stay-maker or mantua-maker at Campden, +Gloucestershire; but, following the study of antiquities with great +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 _A Register of St. Mary Magd. College_, by J. R. Bloxam, +D.D., pp. 95-102, 1857. Some letters from him are printed in Nichols' +_Lit. Hist._ iv. 206-226. + +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 a Becket), now numbered _E. Musaeo_ 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 _Patres Ecclesiae Anglicanae_, in 1845. + +[220] This date is from the _Register of Graduates_; Rawlinson says, +Mich. Term, 1710. + +[221] By Bishop Jeremy Collier, in Mr. Laurence's Chapel on College +Hill, London. (See a communication from the present writer in _Notes and +Queries_, 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 _Rev._ (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.' + +[222] 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. + +[223] See _Notes and Queries_, 3rd series, i. 225. + +[224] 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 _Actions with Spirits_), which, he says, had been subsequently +in the possession of Lilly. It is now in the Ashmolean Museum. + +[225] 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. + +[226] _Apropos_ 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. + +[227] Among the printed books are two copies of Archbp. Parker's rare +_De Antiq. Eccl. Brit._, 1572. One of these is the identical copy +described by Strype in his _Life of Parker_, 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 L40. 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:-- + + 'The armes of Marie Queene Dolphines of ffraunce, + The nobillest Lady in earth for till aduaunce: + Off Scotland queene, and of Ingland also, + Off Ireland als, God haith providit so.' + +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 _Reliquiae +Hearn._ vol. ii. pp. 960-1, where Hearne's note is printed in full. The +other is a volume entitled, _The Bloody Court; or, the Fatal Tribunal_, +being an account of the trial and execution of Charles I. The lengthy +title is printed by Dr. Bliss, _ubi supra_. Some few of Rawlinson's +printed books came to the Library among Gough's, in 1809. + +[228] 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 L5 15_s._ 6_d._ 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.' + +[229] It was chiefly from these that the two volumes published in 1841 +under the title of _Life, Journals, and Correspondence of S. Pepys_ 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 +_sack_-bottle,' whereas the poor man had lost it by sitting many years +'at the _inck_-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 '_Novelles_,' or newspapers, which Mr. Hill sends to +Pepys are explained (vol. ii. p. 135) to have been the _Novellae_ of +Justinian! Throughout the book proper names are frequently made to +become anything but proper to their owners. + +[230] Letter from Rawlinson to T. Rawlins, Jan. 25, 1749/50; Ballard MS. +ii. 115. + +[231] The same volume (now A. 139^b) 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. + +[232] In his delight at his new purchase, Rawlinson seems to have +exaggerated the interest of these volumes. + +[233] Letter to T. Rawlins, Feb. 24, 1742/3; Ballard MS. ii. 78. + +[234] To the same; _Ibid._ 59. + +[235] Gough, _Brit. Topogr._ i. 370, 345. + +[236] Letter, June 24, 1741; Ballard MS. ii. 59. + +[237] Including some letters from Ken while Chaplain to Princess Mary. +These papers of Compton are in class C. + +[238] 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. + +[239] A volume of collections by him relating to the early versions of +the Bible was bought in 1858 for five guineas. + +[240] Ballard MS. ii. 87. + +[241] One curious volume is described by Sir F. Madden in his preface to +_Syr Gawayne_, printed by the Roxburghe Club in 1839. + +[242] 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). + +[243] For Parish Registers, see under 1821. + +[244] 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. + +[245] From this library Rawlinson also obtained some French editions of +the _Horae_, printed on vellum. + +[246] Ballard MS. ii. 41. + +[247] 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. + +[248] 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 L10 +10_s._ Carmey's letter conveying his offer of sale is preserved in +Rawlinson's copy of the sale catalogue. + +[249] It does not appear, however, that this sum was ever paid. + +[250] A curious, and probably unique, little 'Almanacke for XII yere, +after the latytude of Oxenforde,' printed in 48^o (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. + +[251] 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. + +[252] Autobiographical memoirs by Foucault, extending to 1719, were +published under the editorship of F. Baudry, 4^o. Paris, 1862, in the +French Government series of _Documents inedits sur l'Histoire de +France_. The editor remarks in the preface (p. xli.), 'On ignore en +quelles mains la bibliotheque de Foucault passa apres sa mort [1721]. Le +P. Le Long nous apprend seulement qu'elle fut vendue, et probablement +dispersee.' + +[253] 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. + +[254] 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 _Letters by Eminent Persons_, +1813, vol. i. pp. 15-17. + +[255] References to many particulars relative to Thoresby, Bishop +Gibson, White Kennett and Hickes (with a few others) are given in J. +Nichols' notes to the _Letters of Archbp. Nicolson_ (2 vols. 1809), an +interesting and varied biographical miscellany, but which is guilty of +the capital crime of omitting an index. + +[256] 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^ble. S^r. Edmund Warcup +(being all writ w^th his own hand at y^e Isle of Wight at y^e Treaty) +to the Public Library in Oxford, to be placed there when I thought +fitting. + + 'AR. CHARLETT. + + 'Univ. Coll. + Nov. 25, 97.' + + +A.D. 1756. + +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[257], 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. + +[257] Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, edit. 1835, vol. ii. p. 54. + + +A.D. 1759. + +Above forty Syriac, Greek and Arabic MSS. are recorded in the Registers +to have been presented by Henry Dawkins, Esq., 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 _sixty_ 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. + +Swedenborg's _Arcana C[oe]lestia_, published anonymously, in 8 vols. +were sent 'by the author, unknown.' The same donor, still unknown, sent +in 1766 _Selecti Dionys. Halicarn. tractatus_. + +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. + +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 _Letter containing an Account of some +Antiquities between Windsor and Oxford_. 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, 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. + + +A.D. 1760. + +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 L4 +per oz., as the best return he could 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 L150 at +L4 4_s._ per oz., and two more in 1743 for L8 5_s._ 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 +_Bodley_ Series), together with his grandfather's portrait. + +A bequest of L70, towards the purchase of an orrery, was received from +Rev. Jos. Parsons, M.A., of Merton College. + + +A.D. 1761. + +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. + + +A.D. 1762. + +The west, or Selden, end of the Library was re-floored at a cost of L66. +Unchaining of those books which hitherto, on account of their +accessibility to all comers, were fastened to their shelves, appears to +have been commenced in this year. + + +A.D. 1763. + +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[258]. He died Feb. 13, 1767, at which time he held +three livings, besides his Chaplaincy of All Souls' College. + +[258] 'See papers in _Files_, 1763; Archiv.' (MS. note in Dr. P. Bliss' +_Collectanea_.) + + +A.D. 1764. + +The _Editio princeps_ of Homer, Florence, 1488, was bought for L6 6_s._ + + +A.D. 1768. + +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[259].' Price +appears to have been employed in the Library as early as the year 1760, +when a payment of L8 8_s._ was made to him; in 1766 he signs, together +with Owen and Thomas Parker, an account of books received from +Stationers' Hall. + +[259] Note by Dr. Bliss in the edition of Wood's _Life_ published, in +1848, by the Eccl. Hist. Soc. p. 88. + + +A.D. 1770. + +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 _Art._), +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 L1050 which accrued from this source, still forms part of +the annual income of the Library. + + +A.D. 1771. + +A payment of L2 12_s._ 6_d._ 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. + + +A.D. 1775. + +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. + + +A.D. 1776. + +Lord North, the Chancellor of the University, presented to the Library +the observations made by Dr. James Bradley, while Astronomer 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 the editorship of Prof. S. P. Rigaud, in one vol. +quarto, entitled _Miscellaneous Works and Correspondence of Rev. J. +Bradley_. 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. + + +A.D. 1778. + +_Carte's MSS._ See 1753. + + +A.D. 1780. + +On Jan. 22, a Statute was passed which imposed an annual fee of four +shillings[260] 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 'vix unus et alter publicis sumptibus adscribi possit.' 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 commencement of the annual printed purchase-catalogues +dates in consequence from this year. + +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[261].' 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. + +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[262]. + +The Sub-librarian at this time was John Walters, an undergraduate +Scholar of Jesus College. He published in this year a small volume of +_Poems_ ('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 +_Specimens of Welsh Poetry in English verse, with some Original Pieces +and Notes_. He took the degree of M.A. in 1784, and died in 1791[263]. +We learn from a MS. note in a copy of his _Poems_, 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. + +[260] By the Statute passed in 1813, and by that on Fees passed in 1855, +an annual payment of _eight_ shillings was ordered to be made to the +Library out of the total sum (now L1 6_s._) 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 L2800. + +[261] Note by Dr. Bliss, in his MS. _Collectanea_, bequeathed by him to +Rev. H. O. Coxe. + +[262] 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 _Memoirs of the Present State of the +Court and Councils of Spain_. + +[263] Nichols' _Lit. Anecd._ viii. 122. + + +A.D. 1785. + +George III and Queen Charlotte visited the Library, from Nuneham, on +Oct. 13. Price, the Librarian, was in attendance, and kissed hands. + +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 (_qu._ Evan Thomas, of All Souls' +College, B.A., 1793?) does the same in 1790. + + +A.D. 1787. + +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 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[264], and with having but +little knowledge of foreign publications. An anecdote is related +(amongst others) of his lending _Cook's Voyages_, 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[265].' 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 'cum consensu Curatorum' instead of +'ex relatione Curatorum,' to the increase of the Librarian's stipend to +L150, to the appointment of two Sub-librarians instead of one, and to +the leaving the appointment of these in the hands of the Librarian (in +accordance with Bodley's own Statute) instead of assigning it to the +Curators. + +Eleven Arabic and Persian MSS. were given by Turner Camac, Esq., co. +Down. + +A first part of a Catalogue of the Oriental MSS., comprehending those in +Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, AEthiopic, 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[266]. 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[267]. And upon carrying out this +re-examination, the following was found to be the result:-- + + 'Varias errorum formas deprehendi, titulis nunc charta coopertis, + nunc atramento oblitis, nunc cultro paene abrasis; auctorum porro + nominibus paullulum immutatis quo notiora quaedam referrent; numeris + etiam, quibus singula volumina signata sunt, permutatis, quo quis + opus imperfectum pro integro habeat, paginis denique pauculis operi + alieno a fronte assutis.' + +[264] Among other instances the purchase (in 1784) of Sir John Hill's +_Vegetable System_, at the cost of L140, is mentioned. + +[265] It appears incidentally, from this pamphlet, that three o'clock +was the dinner-hour at almost every College at that time. + +[266] He died suddenly at his lodgings in Oxford, Oct. 18, 1796, aged +upwards of seventy (_Gent. Magaz._, vol. lxvi. p. 884.) + +[267] The late Dr. Simonides was evidently by no means the first in his +art, although probably _facile princeps_. + + +A.D. 1789. + +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 _Auctarium_, 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. + +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. + +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:-- + + '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 L460 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. 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[268].' + +[268] Nichols, _Lit. Anecd._ iii. 699, 701. + + +A.D. 1790. + +A very large number of _Editiones principes_ 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 L43 15_s._; and Fust and Schoeffer's first _dated_ Latin +Bible (Mentz, 1462) for L127 15_s._ To enable the Library to make the +purchases of this and the preceding year, benefactions were received to +the amount of nearly L200, and upwards of L1550 were lent by various +bodies and individuals. The repayment of the loans was completed in +1795. + +L120 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. + + +A.D. 1791. + +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 L232, 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 _History and Antiquities_, vol. ii. part ii. +p. 949. + + +A.D. 1792. + +The collections of notes and various readings made by Joseph Torelli, of +Verona, in preparation for his edition of Archimedes, were deposited in +the Library, (F. _infra_, 2. _Auct._). 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. + + +A.D. 1793. + +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 L100. It is exhibited in the first +glass case in the Library. This is the edition often called the +_Mazarine Bible_, from the circumstance that the first copy which +obtained notice was found in the Mazarine Library at Paris. + + +A.D. 1794. + +The _Editio princeps_ of the Bible in German, printed by Eggesteyn about +1466, was bought for L50. + +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.) + +Mr. Rich. S. Skillerne, of All Souls' (B.A. 1796, M.A. 1800), was +employed in the Library. + +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 in the Bodleian, +in order thereby to accomplish what would be a most useful work, and is +still a great _desideratum_, a General Catalogue of all the books in +Oxford. + + +A.D. 1795. + +A brief list (filling sixty small octavo pages) was printed at the +Clarendon Press, of the _Editiones principes_, 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. quae vel primariae, vel saec. xv. impressae, vel Aldinae, in +Bibliotheca Bodleiana adservantur.' + +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[269]. It consists of a plain cornelian set in +silver, with the following couplet engraved on the rim:-- + + 'Against my King I do not fight, + But for my King and kingdom's right.' + +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[270], Balliol, Exeter, and Jesus; Oriel sent a list +subsequently (in 1808?); but these were all that were ever forwarded. + +[269] Lord Nugent, in his _Memorials of Hampden_, erroneously mentions +this as being preserved in the Ashmolean Museum. He also repeats two +mistaken readings first given in Miss Seward's _Anecdotes_, iv. 358 (a +volume dedicated to Price, the Librarian), where a small woodcut of the +ornament is given. + +[270] 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. + + +A.D. 1796. + +A few _incunabula_ and Aldines were purchased at Goettingen. + +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 _History of Northamptonshire_. 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' _History_, published in 1791. + + +A.D. 1798. + +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 +('_jam senior, sed mente virens_,') 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 (_aetat._ +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, 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. + + +A.D. 1799. + +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. + + +A.D. 1800. + +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 _Atlas of France_, in 2 vols., no less than L104 was paid! The +interest now taken in French politics was also shown by the purchase of +a set of the _Moniteur_ from 1789, which was bought for L66. + + +A.D. 1801. + +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[271]. 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 +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 L100 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 L24 14_s._ 6_d._; Mr. Vincent Novello gave, in 1849, MSS. of +Handel's _Te Deum in D_, 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 _Cantates_ in 1856; and two or +three volumes have been added by the present writer. + +[271] A short memoir of this gentleman is given in _Gent. Magaz._ 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 _dilettante_ or professor, as a sightsman in vocal execution.' + + +A.D. 1803. + +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 _Arabian Nights' Entertainments_, was bought from Capt. Jonathan +Scott for L50. 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 _Oriental +Collections_, vol. ii. p. 25. + + +A.D. 1805. + +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. + +The MSS. of the distinguished classical scholar, James Philip D'Orville, +who died at Amsterdam, Sept. 14, 1751, were bought for L1025. 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 _Adversaria_ of +Scipio and Alberic Gentilis. There are also six Turkish and Arabic MSS. +The gem of the collection is a quarto MS. of _Euclid_, containing 387 +leaves, which was written, '[Grk: cheiri Stephanou klerikou],' 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,) _nummi_. 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. + +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. + + +A.D. 1806. + +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. + +A beautiful copy of the _Koran_ 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:-- + + '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[272].' + +The _Catholicon_ of J. de Janua, printed at Mentz, in 1460, was bought +for L63. + +The following singular memorandum, relating to this year, is preserved +on a small paper:-- + + '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. + + 'JOSEPH WHITE. + + '_Mem._ Not returned, June 24, 1807. + 'Nor as yet, Oct., 1808. J. P. (_i.e._ J. Price). + 'And never to be ret^d.' (added at some later period.) + +This picture must have been the portrait of Professor White himself, +which was painted and presented by Rev. Will. Peters, R.A., in +1785[273]. It has never been restored. + +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 seemed to him naturally suggested: +'[Grk: Ouai hymin, hoti erate ten kleida tes gnoseos; autoi ouk +eiselthete, kai tous eiserchomenous ekolysate.]' 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 _scavant +inconnu_, April 19, 1806.' + +[272] _Bibliogr. Decam._ iii. 472. + +[273] Gutch's _Wood_, II. ii. 979. + + +A.D. 1807. + +A list of the books printed during the year at the University Press is +added to the annual account. This was not repeated. + +A copy of the _Speculum Christiani_, printed by Will. de Machlinia, was +given by Rev. A. H. Matthews, of Jesus College. + +Amongst the names of Assistants, written by them, _more Anglico_, 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 _Life of Bengel_, 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 _Register of Magd. Coll._ 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. + + +A.D. 1808. + +The Latin Bible printed by Ulric Zell, at Cologne, in two volumes, about +1470, was bought for L47 5_s._ The Bible printed at Rome, by Sweynheym +and Pannartz, in 1471, had been bought, in 1804, for L35; and in 1826 a +Strasburgh edition, printed with Mentelin's types, without date, was +obtained for L94 10_s._ + +A set of the Oxford Almanacks, from the commencement in 1674 to this +year, was given by a frequent donor, Alderman Fletcher[274]. + +[274] 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. + + +A.D. 1809. + +The death of the eminent topographer and antiquary, Richard Gough, on +Feb. 20, 1809[275], 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 _Illustrations of Literary History_, 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 +L675) 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[276] and topographical prints and drawings, in +elephant-folio volumes; of this a very brief outline-list is given in +the printed catalogue, but a full list in detail exists in MS[277]. +Secondly, of printed books and MSS., arranged under the heads of General +Topography, Ecclesiastical Topography[278], Natural History, the several +Counties (with London, Westminster, and Southwark) in order[279], 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 before the Reformation, together +with a few MSS., chiefly _Horae_. 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. + + _Missals_, Salisbury use, 30 + " York " 4 + " Rouen " 1 + " Roman " 3 + " 'pro sacerdotibus in Anglia, &c. itinerantibus.' 1 + _Breviaries_ and _Portiforia_, Salisbury use, 18 + " " York " 2 + " " Hereford " 1[280] + _Manuals_, Salisbury use, 10 + " York (MS.) " 1 + _Processionals_, Salisbury use, 10 + " York " 1 + _Hours_, Salisbury use, 24 + " Roman " (besides several MSS.) 1 + +Of several of these books there are more than single copies. + +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. +Gagnieres, tutor to the sons of 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[281]. + +The copy of the _British Topography_, 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 +L150[282]. 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 _Cheshire_, p. 446. The collections for +the first edition make three volumes. + +By Gough's bequest the Library became also possessed (as mentioned +above) of the very valuable copper-plates which illustrated his +_Sepulchral Monuments_, 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 _Monuments_. The brass is +now exhibited in the glass case of miscellaneous objects of curiosity in +the Picture Gallery. + +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[283] that the first 136 pages were prepared by himself. In the +_Bibliographical Decameron_ (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.' + +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. + + * * * * * + +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 L1000. 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 +AEthiopic, 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 _Calligraphus_) in the year 896, +for Arethas, a deacon of Patras, for the sum of thirteen Byzantine +_nummi_. The D'Orville MS. of Euclid was also written for this Arethas +(see p. 208). + +[275] A very full memoir of him is to be found in the _Lit. Anecd._ 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. + +[276] 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 _British Topography_, 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 _Topography_, 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 _Topography_, pp. 309-310. +They were bought by Lord Orford at a sale at Weston for L30, 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 _Handbook for Yorkshire_, they are said to have been made in +1579. One guinea was given by Gough for his fragments. + +[277] 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). + +[278] Mr. A. Chalmers gave, in 1813, the second volume of a copy of +Wharton's _Anglia Sacra_, 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 L1 1_s._ 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 +'socius ejectus') Cole, Rowe Mores, and other well-known antiquaries. + +[279] 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 _History of +the Hundred of Wanting_ (4^o. 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. + +[280] The splendid and, as it is believed, unique vellum copy of the +_Hereford Missal_ ('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 _Annales Eliz._ 1. xxvii.) +This Hereford volume is described, together with many of Gough's books, +in a book by Ed. Frere, entitled _Des Livres de Liturgie des Eglises +d'Angleterre imprimes a Rouen dans les_ xv. _et_ xvi. _Siecles_, 8^o +Rouen, 1867. + +[281] See _Gent. Magaz._ for 1860, p. 406. + +[282] So in the Library Register of accounts. Nichols (_Lit. Hist._ vol. +v. p. 559) says L100. + +[283] In his MS. _Collectanea_, in the possession of Rev. H. O. Coxe. + + +A.D. 1810. + +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 L500 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. + +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. + +In this year Dr. Philip Bliss, the editor of Wood's _Athenae_, 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 _Poetry_, +the _Letters_, and the commencement of the _Miscell._) for which a +payment was made to him of L21. He afterwards quitted the Library for +the British Museum, but returned in 1822, as Sub-librarian, for a short +time. + +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., L26 +5_s._ were paid in 1812. + + +A.D. 1811. + +Only eighteen books were purchased in this year! The list, scantly +filling one page, is consequently the _minimum_ in the series of annual +catalogues. + + +A.D. 1813. + +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 _Gentleman's Magazine_ 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' _Illustrations of the +Lit. Hist. of the 18th Century_. 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 (_see_ p. 197). '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 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 L725 in the place of +L261[284]. 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. + +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. + +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 L400, 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 L150; of +two assistants, Bachelors of Arts or undergraduates, with salaries of +L50; and of the Janitor, with a salary of L20. An additional annual +grant, calculated at L680, 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. + +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[285]. + +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). + +[284] Among the purchases is a set of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ to the +year 1810 for L52 10_s._ + +[285] 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.' + + +A.D. 1814. + +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 _Typographical Gazetteer_ +and _List of Editions of the English Bible_, afford abundant +testimony[286]. 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. + +During his continuance in the Library, a descriptive Catalogue of the +_Editiones principes_ and _Incunabula_ 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. + +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, AEthiopic, and Sanscrit. His facility in +acquiring languages must have been truly marvellous, 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, _q. v._ + +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. + +[286] 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. _Captain._ +What are you about, Dick? _Dick._ Nothing, sir. _Captain._ Tom, what are +you doing? _Tom._ Helping Dick, sir.' Treatise 24 has for its title the +few but emphatic words, '_De Dodd_.' 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 _Clerk of the Schools_. + + +A.D. 1815. + +_Cedunt arma togae!_ 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) L250, rose in 1814, on the first sign of peace, to L424, and in +this year, on its final establishment, to L633. + +In January, Mr. John Calcott, of Lincoln College (B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, +B.D. 1825; Fellow of Linc.; deceased 1864) was appointed _Minister_ in +the room of Mr. Francis Thurland, of New 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). + + +A.D. 1816. + +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[287], 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[288]. + +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[289] announced that the Catalogue would be finished, in four +folio volumes, by Messrs. Bandinel and Cotton under the superintendence +of Professor Gaisford[290]. 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 L420 were made to +the Librarian, Sub-librarians, and Assistant, for their work on the new +Catalogue[291], 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 L5000 for the purpose; probably this idea +was abandoned for the more easily practicable one of a grant from the +Privy Purse. + +Four Greek MSS. were presented in this year by Rev. ---- Hall, Chaplain at +Leghorn[292]; a copy of Lucan's _Pharsalia_, 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. + +[287] Hooke in 1685 was one of the Chaplains attending Monmouth in his +rebellion! _Lockhart Papers_, 1817, vol. i. p. 148. + +[288] _Gent. Magaz._ vol. lxxv. ii. 569. + +[289] _Bibliogr. Decam._ iii. 429. + +[290] 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 _de novo_. And nearly thirty years +elapsed before it was finally completed. + +[291] Previous grants amounting to L260, had been made in 1820. + +[292] Three of these are described in Mr. Coxe's Catalogue, cols. +812-14. + + +A.D. 1817. + +The large Canonici collection of MSS. was obtained from Venice in this +year, for the sum of L5444, a purchase unprecedented in greatness in the +history of the Library[293]. 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 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[294]. + +The MSS. purchased by the Bodleian amount in number to about 2045. +Dibdin, almost immediately upon the acquisition, noticed it thus[295]:-- + + 'They have recently acquired a very curious and valuable collection + of MSS., which formerly belonged to an ex-Jesuit Abbe, 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.' + +In Greek there are 128 volumes, chiefly of the fifteenth and sixteenth +centuries, with a few of earlier date, including two _Evangelistaria_ +assigned by Montfaucon to the ninth century. Of Latin classical authors +and Mediaeval 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 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 _belles +lettres_, 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. + +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 _Horae_, 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. + +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[296]. His MS. was bought after his death from his executor the +Abate Giuseppe Manuzzi, of Florence, for L201, 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. + +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 _Variae +Lectiones Veteris Testamenti_. The few Arabic MSS. are described in Dr. +Pusey's Continuation of Nicol's Catalogue. + +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[297]. + +A MS. of Suidas, of the fifteenth century, was purchased for L220 10_s._ +Another acquisition was a French translation, made in 1417, by Laurens +de Preme, of the _Ethics_, _Politics,_ &c., of Aristotle[298]. Some +specimens of the Javanese language were given by Capt. L. H. Davy. + +Among printed books, the most noticeable purchase (besides the _Edd. +Pr._ 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 L17 10_s._ Some sets of controversial and political tracts, with +other books, which had belonged to Thomas Brande Hollis and Dr. John +Disney, were bought at the sale of the library of the latter. + +[293] The money was raised by loans of L2000 from the Radcliffe Trustees +and L3644 from the University Bankers. They were both repaid by the year +1820. + +[294] De Backer's _Bibliotheque des ecrivains de la comp. de Jesus_; +quatr. serie, p. 93. 8vo. Liege, 1858. + +[295] _Bibliogr. Decam._ iii. 429. + +[296] See under the year 1852. + +[297] 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 _Vocabolario Cateriniano_, 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 _Divina Commedia_, 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 _The Book of the Mousetrap_! (See _Notes and +Queries_, i. 154.) + +[298] Bodl. MS. 965. + + +A.D. 1818. + +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 _Parents' Assistant_, +Mrs. H. More's _Sacred Dramas_, Mrs. Opie's _Simple Tales_, and an +edition of _Ossian_, were all consigned to the limbo of 'rubbish.' But +the Cambridge Return (which is much more detailed than that from +Oxford[299]) 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 _Theology_ includes Owen's _History of +the Bible Society_; the _History_ includes _Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell +and his Children_; the _Poetry_, Byron's _Siege of Corinth_, L. Hunt's +_Story of Rimini_, and Wordsworth's _Thanksgiving Ode_; and the +_Novels_, [Peacock's] _Headlong Hall_, one by Mrs. Opie, and--_The +Antiquary_! 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 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 +_all_ publications sent from Stationers' Hall should in future be +entered and preserved. + +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 L95 15_s._ 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. Mueller, 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. Mueller, dated March 3, is kept in the Librarian's +study. Besides the books, Mr. Mueller 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 _black +negro baby_, 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. + +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, as having been admitted to read in the Library, while +still an undergraduate of Exeter College, on May 10, 1797. + +_Alderman Fletcher's illustrated copy of Gulch's Wood._ See under 1610. + +Mr. John Walker, Queen's College (B.A. 1820; Chaplain of New College, +M.A., 1823), succeeded Mr. Fenton as _minister_ in July. + +[299] The minuteness of specification is such that '_Turner's Real Japan +Blacking, a Label_' is duly entered. + + +A.D. 1819. + +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 L45[300]; and a folio Psalter, printed by Fust and +Schoeffer in 1459, (finished Aug. 29), on vellum, for L70. The second +vellum printed book in the Library is a copy of Durandus' _Rationale_, +printed by the same printers in the same year, but completed on Oct. 6. +This was bought in 1790 for L80 10_s._ Large additions were made to the +collection of Aldines. + +The name of Lady Hester Stanhope occurs among the benefactors as +presenting an Arabic MS. of the Romance of Antar, in thirty volumes. + +[300] The rarity of this edition was caused by its being bought up and +destroyed by the sons of Prince Radzivil. + + +A.D. 1820. + +From Messrs. Payne and Foss was bought, for L150, the famous MS. of the +Greek New Testament called, from its former possessor, the 'Codex +Ebnerianus.' 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 from the East 'ex singulari +Numinis providentia.' 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 _Notitia egregii +codicis Graeci Novi Testamenti manuscripti_, &c. 4^o. Norib. 1738. This +was incorporated by De Murr in his _Memorabilia Bibliothecarum +publicarum Norimbergensium_, 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 (coaeval 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. + +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, _ubi supra_, pp. 135-7. + +Fifty Greek manuscripts were bought for L500, which had formerly been in +the possession of Giovanni Saibante, of Verona. The library of this +collector is noticed in Scipio Maffei's _Verona Illustrata_ (fol. 1731), +part ii. col. 48[301]. The MSS. purchased by the Library are described +in Mr. Coxe's Catalogue, cols. 774-808. + +A collection of Arabic tracts and papers, which had formerly belonged to +Dr. Kennicott, was given by Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham. + +[301] 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. + + +A.D. 1821. + +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[302]. 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 _Shakespeare_, 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[303]; 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 _Gent. Magaz._ and Nichol's _Lit. Hist._), was +published in 1836; and, in 1861, Mr. J. O. Halliwell printed fifty-one +copies of a small _Hand-list_ 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 _Shakespeare_ 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[304]. 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 _Menagiana_. + +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 _Ames_, 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, L63 were given in this year for the +rare _Ed. Pr._ of Virgil, printed by Sweynheim and Pannartz in +1469[305]. A somewhat 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 L73 10_s._ were paid for an edition of Virgil printed at Venice +about 1473. + +The very rare German Bible, printed at Strasburgh about 1466, was bought +for L42, and a perfect copy of the first edition of the Bishops' Bible, +in 1568, for seven guineas[306]. A volume of interest in typographical +history was presented, in the first book printed in New South Wales. It +is entitled _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_: it extends to thirty-six small octavo pages, and was printed at +Hobart Town, by Andrew Bent, in Dec, 1818[307]. + +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. + +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. + +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[308]. + +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 +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[309]. 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. + +In Feb. Mr. J. P. Roberts, New College (B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826, now Minor +Canon of Chichester) was appointed _minister_, _vice_ 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 _vice_ 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. + +[302] 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. + +[303] For notices of the purchase of several early quartos, wanting in +this series, see 1834. + +[304] These are now incorporated with the large collection called +_Godwyn Pamphlets_. A copy of Wood's _Ath. Oxon._ with MSS. notes by +Malone, was given by Mr. B. H. Bright in 1835. + +[305] Various other _editt. princ._ were bought in this year, with some +Aldines. Also a collection of modern Greek works printed at Venice. + +[306] Offor's copy sold for L41; Lea Wilson's for L61 10_s._ + +[307] The present writer has in his possession an early newspaper +printed in New Zealand, the _Auckland Times_, 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 '_Printed in a mangle_.' + +[308] 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. + +[309] 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. + + +A.D. 1822. + +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. + +'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 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 _non causa pro causa_. + + +A.D. 1823. + +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 L400:--The Arch of +Constantine, the Parthenon, the Temple of the Sybil at Tivoli, the +Maison Carree at Nismes, the Erechtheum and Lantern of Demosthenes at +Athens, the Theatre of Herculaneum, and the Temple of Fortuna Virilis at +Rome. + +A large number of works by foreign authors, chiefly theological, was +bought (for L375) 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. + +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. + + +A.D. 1824. + +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 L40 5_s._ They are now bound in six volumes, of which +three are lettered _Sheldon_, and three _Dolben_. 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 _State of Great Britain_ 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 +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 _Own +Times_, Dr. Routh says:-- + + '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.' + +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[310] and Latin MSS., for the +most part patristic and classical. The sum expended was L925. 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. + +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 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. _Imprimis_, +Coverdale's first edition, 1535[311], 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. + +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). + +[310] These, in number thirty-eight, are described in Mr. Coxe's +Catalogue, cols. 724-773. An eighth-century copy of Eusebius' +_Chronicon_ is among the Latin MSS. + +[311] 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 '_Fs. T. H._' 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. + + +A.D. 1825. + +The sale at Paris of the library of L. M. Langles, 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. + +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 +_Dissertationes Academicae_, which appeared in 1832, was in a great +measure his work. + +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 _supra_, 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 _Remains_, vol. ii. p. +73. + + +A.D. 1826. + +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. + + +A.D. 1827. + +A very large collection of Academic Dissertations published in Germany, +amounting to about 43,400, was bought at Altona for L332 16_s._ 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 additions were made in 1836 and 1837, but +particularly in 1846, when no fewer than 7000 were purchased[312]. + +Mr. Henry Forster, New College (B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834; Esquire Bedel of +Divinity; deceased 1857), succeeded Mr. Bailey, in March, as Assistant. + +[312] There is scarcely an imaginable subject in law, theology, or +history, on which something may not be found in this vast collection. +The _something_ 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,--_Num Verbi ministro toga +cubicularia_ (Schlaffpeltze) _induto officio sacro defungi liceat?_ +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 _Diss. de Imprecationibus libris +ascriptis_; while the title of Sam. Schelging's discourse in 1729, _De +Apparitionibus mortuorum vivis ex pacto factis_, 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; _e.g._ those worthy Germans who had gone to sleep at Jena, in +1660, during the reading of a dissertation _De Jure et Potestate +Parlamenti Britannici_, 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:--'Casus ex jure privato. + +'I. Titius ducit uxorem Caiam. Caia, elapso uno vel altero anno, +transmutatur in virum. Q. an Caia haec, soluto per hanc metamorphosin +matrimonio, possit repetere dotem? Dist. + +'II. Sempronia, defuncto marito Maevio, nubit Titio. Maevius divina +potentia in vitam resuscitatur mortalem. Q. an Maevius hic, secundum +vivus, uxorem Semproniam et bona sua repetere possit? Aff.' + +It was usual for the friends of the candidate who defended the thesis of +the Dissertation (generally written for him by the _Praeses_) 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, 'Nunc erit et seclis +Norcopia clara futuris,' 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. + + +A.D. 1828. + +A collection of 153 Northern MSS., chiefly in the Icelandic and Danish +languages, formed by Finn Magnusen, was purchased from him for +L350[313]. 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. + +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 _Historie of the Church +of Scotland_ was purchased for sixteen guineas. + +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. + +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. + +[313] Some notes by G. J. Thorkelin on Northern Antiquities were bought +in 1846. + + +A.D. 1829. + +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 L2080), of the famous Oppenheimer +library, consisting of upwards of 5000 volumes, of which 780 are +MSS[314]. 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 (_col._ 50), to have numbered no fewer +than about 2100 volumes[315]. + +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 _en masse_ 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 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[316].' + +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 L2500, and a committee was formed 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 L500. Since then it has been announced for sale +at Manchester. + +[314] 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. + +[315] A notice of the Oppenheimer collection, and of the other Hebrew +portions of the Library is given in the preface to vol. iii. of Fuerst's +_Bibliotheca Judaica_, 8^o. Leipz. 1863, pp. 42-51. The _Catalogus +Interpretum S. Script._, by Thomas James, in 1635, is here metamorphosed +into one by Thomas _Jones_, in 1735. + +[316] _Typographical Gazetteer_, p. 349. + + +A.D. 1830. + +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 in plate xxxi. in Mr. Leigh Sotheby's _Illustrations of the +Handwriting of Melanchthon_[317]. The book is now exhibited in a glass +case, in one of the windows of the Library. + +[317] 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 L267 15_s._! + + +A.D. 1831. + +In December of this year, Viscount Kingsborough[318] presented a +magnificent copy (being one of four which were printed on vellum) of his +_Antiquities of Mexico_, 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. + +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. + +[318] 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. + + +A.D. 1832. + +A twelfth-century MS. of Scholia on the _Odyssey_ was purchased for +L100. The collection of Bibles, which had during some time past made +some slow progress, was increased by copies of various early printed +versions in European languages, and its further enlargement was steadily +kept in view in succeeding years. + +Six guineas were given for copies of Servetus' treatise _De Trinitatis +erroribus_ and his _Dialogi de Trinitate_, printed in 1531 and 1532, +which are of very great rarity, in consequence of their having very +generally shared the fate of their author. + + +A.D. 1833. + +Some precious Shakespearian volumes, consisting of the _Venus and +Adonis_ of 1594 and 1617, the _Lucrece_ of 1594 and 1616, with a +subsequent edition of 1655, and the _Sonnets_ 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. + +An anonymous pamphlet, entitled, _A Few Words on the Bodleian Library_, +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. + + +A.D. 1834. + +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[319]; and a mass of some 1100 or 1200 plays, published in the +seventeenth and eighteenth centuries[320]. Numerous early Shakespeare +editions were also obtained; _inter alias_, the first edition (1594) of +the first part of the _Contention betwixt the Houses of Yorke and +Lancaster_, for L64; _Richard III_, 1598, L17; fourth edit. of _Henry +IV_, 1608, L12 12_s._[321], &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 L20. It consists of +twenty-seven vols. in folio, thirty-nine in quarto, and 248 in octavo +and smaller sizes. Dibdin (_Introd. to the Classics_) 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 L8 8_s._ 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[322], while +instructing his son in drawing, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. This beautiful +picture has retained its freshness of colour far more perfectly than +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 + + +DOUCE COLLECTION. + +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[323]. 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 +_Horae_, 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 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[324]. In Bibles (English and French), Horae, 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 _Illuminated Ornaments_, +pl. xxxviii[325]. 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 _Horae_, conjecturally assigned by Mr. Blades to 1478, +and the other is of an edition of the _Booke of Curtesye_, 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 chepe[326].' 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 _Connoisseur's +Repertory_, 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. + +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 _Mason Room_) 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. + +On July 5, Convocation confirmed the nomination of Rev. William Cureton, +M.A., of Ch. Ch. (afterwards so well known for 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. + +Mr. Edmund Grove, of Magdalen College (who never graduated), was +appointed Assistant in April, _vice_ Mr. Stephen Exup. Wentworth, of +Balliol (B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835). Mr. Wentworth appears to have succeeded +Mr. Forster in 1832. + +[319] Another collection of sale catalogues in forty-five vols. was +purchased in 1836. + +[320] Another collection, in twenty-eight vols., of plays chiefly dating +from 1630 to 1707, was bought, in 1842, for L6 17_s._ + +[321] In 1837 _Romeo and Juliet_, printed by Smethwicke, n. d., was +bought for L9 10_s._; in 1840, _Richard III_, 1605, for L21, and +_Hamlet_, 1611, for L10 10_s._; and in 1841 the first edit. 1595, of +part iii. of _Henry VI._ was bought at Chalmers' sale for L131! + +[322] 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. + +[323] 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. + +[324] 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 _Notes and Queries_. One book, +viz. John Weever's _Epigrammes_, 1599, containing notes by Douce, which +had somehow escaped from his library before it came to Oxford, was +purchased in 1838, for L24 10_s._ 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. + +[325] In the same beautiful volume are facsimiles from three of Douce's +MS. _Horae_. + +[326] A facsimile of this advertisement is given in the catalogue of the +Douce library. + + +A.D. 1835. + +The original MS. of Burnet's _History of his Own Times_, with a copy +prepared for the press, a portion of his _History of the Reformation_, +and some other papers by him, was purchased, from a family descended +from the Bishop, for L210. An account of these MSS. may be found at p. +474 of the Appendix to Burnet's _History of James II_, being an extract +from the _Own Times_ 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[327].' + +The MS. of Lewis' _Life of Wyclif_, with some additions by the author, +was bought for L4 14_s._ 6_d._ 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 (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. + +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 L40. It was lot 4583 in Heber's sale, by whom it had been +bought at the Yriarte sale for more than L100. + +[327] Ballard MS. ii. 88. + + +A.D. 1836. + +Aubrey's collection of notes and drawings concerning Druidical and Roman +antiquities in Britain, together with some miscellaneous historical +notes, entitled by him _Monumenta Britannica_, in four parts (now bound +in two folio volumes), was purchased, for L50, 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[328]. The remainder of Aubrey's MSS. +came to the Library in 1860, upon the transfer of the books from the +Ashmolean Museum. See _sub anno_ 1858. + +A collection of about 300 tracts, relating to American affairs and the +War of Independence, in forty-one vols., formed by Rev. Jonathan +Boucher[329], was bought for L8 18_s._ 6_d._ These are now included in +the series of tracts called _Godwyn Pamphlets_, 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 _History of the Revolt_, was bought in 1841 for L24 13_s._; +at the same time, the first and only volume of his _History_, which +itself was never actually published, was bought for L2 7_s._ + +_Sale Catalogues._ See 1834. + +When the new Copyright Act was introduced into Parliament in this year, +it was proposed to allow L500 _per annum_ 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. + +[328] A short description of them will be found in Gough's _Brit. +Topogr._ vol. ii. pp. 369-70, and a fuller account in Britton's _Memoir +of Aubrey_, 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. + +[329] 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 _Notes and Queries_ for 1866, vol. ix. +pp. 75, 282. + + +A.D. 1837. + +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[330]. The six volumes of the folio editions of Clarendon's _History +of the Rebellion_ and _Life_, and of Burnet's _Own Times_, are inlaid +and bound in sixty-one elephant folio volumes, 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[331]. 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[332], 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[333]. +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 there of the Protector Somerset, in which the Mint was +situated. The whole amount expended on the formation of the series is +estimated at L20,000. + +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[334]. 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 found are still in the volumes.' The following letter of thanks +was addressed by Convocation to the donor[335]:-- + + 'To Mrs. Sutherland, of Merrow, in the County of Surrey. + + 'MADAM,--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. + + '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. + + '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. + + '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[336].' + +A few other books were sent by Mrs. Sutherland at the same time, +including Boydell's _Shakespeare_, Heath's _Chronicle_, Scott's edition +of Dalrymple's _Preservation of Charles II_, Faber's _Kit-Cat Club_, +Wilson's _Catalogue of an Amateur_, &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 _Royal and Noble Authors_, +enlarged from five vols. 8^o. to 20 vols. 4^o. 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. + +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 L2 +13_s._ 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 L101 +14_s._ 6_d._ 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. + +_Shakespeare_; _Romeo and Juliet._ See 1834. + +_Sanscrit MSS._ See 1842. + +A grant was made by Convocation of L400 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. + +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 _minister_ 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. + +[330] MS. note by Mrs. Sutherland in the Library copy of her catalogue. + +[331] As early as 1819 the collection numbered 10,000 prints, bound in +57 volumes. Clarke's _Repert. Bibliogr._ pp. 574-577. + +[332] Mrs. Sutherland died March 18, 1852. + +[333] 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. + +[334] 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. + +[335] 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 _Annals_, enclosed in a gold box. The late Rev. R. Hussey, +Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, was one of the brothers of +Mrs. Sutherland. + +[336] A very erroneous notice of the collection, written in a singularly +depreciatory tone, was inserted in an article in the _Quarterly Review_, +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' _Lit. Hist._), 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. + + +A.D. 1838. + +One of the 'curiosities of literature' was obtained by the purchase (for +L10 10_s._) of the _System of Divinity, in a Course of Sermons on the +first Institutions of Religion_, 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, 'arte mea, diurno +nocturnoque labore' (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[337]. + +A set of the _Monthly Review_, 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. VII. D. 11), was bought for L42. + +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. + +On Nov. 15, a Statute was approved by Convocation which raised the +stipend of the Sub-librarians from L150 to L250. + +From the year 1825 an annual folio Catalogue had been printed, +containing, in one list, all the accessions accruing in each year 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. + +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[338]. In accordance with this form, which is +still used, each graduate now promises: 'Me libros caeterumque 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 regressus.' + +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[339]. Mr. Coxe's nomination was approved by +Convocation on Nov. 16. + +[337] 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, _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_, 8^o. +1840. This appears to have been partly _composed_ 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, _Elements +of Sanscrit Grammar_. A third, _A Dictionary, containing English Words +of difficult Etymology_, tracing them chiefly to Sanscrit roots, +appeared in two vols. 8^o. 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 L5 5_s._ 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. + +[338] A previous proposal of this alteration had been rejected by +Convocation on March 17, 1836. + +[339] Mr. Coxe had a considerable share in the compilation of the folio +catalogue of the Arundel MSS. preserved in the Museum. + + +A.D. 1839. + +An application was made by Magdalen College for the return of a copy of +the Statutes of the College, found among the Rawlinson 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. + + +A.D. 1840. + +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' _De Octo +Partibus Orationis_, many of which were unknown; these had previously +come from the library of Dr. Kloss. A ninth-century MS. of St. Gregory's +_Sacramentary_ was purchased for L63; and early MSS. of Juvenal, Lucan, +&c. A fine and perfect copy of Caxton's _Dictes and Sayinges of the +Philosophres_, printed in 1477, was purchased for L50. It had previously +been sold, at Dr. Vincent's sale in 1816, for L99 15_s._; 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 L199 15_s._, Mr. +Blades has in consequence recorded that as being the price at which the +Library secured the volume[340]. + +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 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 _Theologia +Moralis_, 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, _The +Church of Rome; a Report on the Books and Documents on the Papacy, +deposited in the University Library, Cambridge_, &c. + +_Shakespeare_; _Richard III_ and _Hamlet_. See 1834. + +The first non-academic _minister_ was appointed in Mr. H. S. Harper +(_vice_ 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. + +[340] As Mr. Blades' valuable work on _The Life and Typography of +Caxton_, 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. 155; and two fragments, among Douce's +books, are mentioned at p. 250. + + +A.D. 1841. + +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 L42) of a copy of Mr. T. F. +Dukes' _Antiquities of Shropshire_ (4^o. 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. + +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). + +Some rare and interesting books issued by English printers about the +middle of the sixteenth century were acquired in this year; among them, +the _Boke of Common Prayer_, printed by Oswen, at Worcester, in 1552, +bought for the very moderate sum of L3 16_s._ Two rare American Psalters +were purchased, the one called _The Massachuset Psalter_, printed at +Boston in 1709, for L2, and the other, the Psalms in blank verse with +tunes, printed at Boston in 1718, for L1 19_s._ + +_Shakespeare_, _Henry VI._ See 1834. + +_American Tracts._ See 1836. + +_Donatus._ See 1840. + +The hitherto somewhat narrow funds of the Library received in this year +a welcome increase by the bequest of the large sum of L36,000 in the +Three per Cents. from Rev. Robert Mason, D.D., of Queen's College, +deceased Jan. 5. He bequeathed also a further sum of L30,000 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 _Mason Room_ (see p. 251). 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. + + +A.D. 1842. + +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[341]. +But in this year the real foundation of the present very large and +valuable collection was laid, by the purchase for L500 of the MSS. +obtained by Professor H. H. Wilson (_dec._ 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. + +Some small collections towards the history of Cheshire, made by Rev. F. +Gower, were purchased in this year and in 1846. + +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[342]. + +_Bowyer._ _Italian Municipal Statutes._ See 1838. + +_Laing._ _Almanac by W. de Worde._ See 1755. + +_Old Plays._ See 1834. + +In March, Mr. J. B. Taunton, All Souls' College (B.A. 1843, M.A. 1848), +was appointed Assistant _vice_ Mr. F. E. Thurland, New College (B.A. +1841, M.A. 1846, now Rector of Thurstaston, Cheshire), who was made an +_extra_, in the place of Mr. Symonds, resigned. Mr. Thurland had, +probably, succeeded Mr. Grove in 1838 or 1839. + +The stipend of the Librarian was increased by L150, by a statute which +passed on May 6. By the same statute an annual payment was ordered of +L20 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. 134.) + +[341] The gift of the first Sanscrit book (described in the +Benefaction-Register as being 'Gentuana lingua') by one John _Ken_, in +1666, is noticed at p. 113. The book is now numbered, Walker 214. + +[342] A copy of Blackwood's _Martyre de la Royne d'Escosse_ (Edinb. +1587), among Rawlinson's books, has an autograph of Drummond: 'G[)u]i. +Dr[)u][=m]ond, a Paris, 1607.' + + +A.D. 1843. + +The valuable collection of Oriental MSS. formed by the celebrated +traveller, James Bruce, of Kinnaird, was purchased for L1000. 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 +('elegantissimum et celeberrimum') 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. + +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 _Travels_. 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 L5500, 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 L500, 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 remained intact, to be +disposed of to our Library in the year following. + +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. + +Valuable materials for the history of Devon were secured by the purchase +(for L90) 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. + +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 _Dante_, 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 _London_)-O, S (from +_Shakespeare_)-Z. The whole charges of the printing of the Catalogue +amounted to L2990 12_s._[343]; the previous cost of compilation was +about L2000. + +_Bowyer._ _Italian Municipal Statutes._ See 1838. + +_Sutherland._ _Illustrated Books._ See 1839. + +[343] MS. note by Dr. Bliss. + + +A.D. 1844. + +Sir William Ouseley, the editor of the three volumes entitled _Oriental +Collections_ (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 _en masse_, +and the Library became a purchaser in this year for the sum of L2000. +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. + + +A.D. 1845. + +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 service in India, was presented +by his son, Sir Will. Walker, of Edinburgh[344]. 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 L176 14_s._ 6_d._) 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 L22 10_s._); and the other in +French, consisting only of four small volumes, but containing a very +large number of '_Merveilles_,' 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 L13. + +On Dec. 23, the present writer (then a Clerk of Magdalen College) was +appointed Assistant, _vice_ Mr. Taunton, after upwards of five years' +previous service as a supernumerary, having first entered the Library in +June, 1840. + +[344] 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, 'integritate et antiquitate eminent.' + + +A.D. 1846. + +The original MS., or first copy, of Wood's _History and Antiquities of +Oxford_, in English, was purchased for the moderate sum of L8 8_s._ +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 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. + +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 L25[345]. + +The department of Italian topography, antiquities and art was largely +enriched by the purchase from Rev. R. A. Scott (for L234 6_s._) of a +collection of 1426 volumes made by his brother the late George C. Scott, +Esq., during ten years' residence in Italy. + +_Dissertations._ See 1828. + +_Gower's Cheshire._ See 1842. + +_Thorkelin._ See 1828. + +[345] 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. _e Musaeo_, 57. + + +A.D. 1847. + +A valuable MS. of Star-Chamber Reports, from June 17, 1635, to June 4, +1638, was purchased for L11. 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 (L12 10_s._); the other, a series of State special Forms of +Prayer, from 1665 to 1840 (L10 10_s._) + +Works relating to the history of America, in which the 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. + + +A.D. 1848. + +A collection of Hebrew MSS., numbering 862 volumes and nearly 1300 +separate works, was purchased at Hamburgh for L1030. 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. + + +A.D. 1849. + +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 L350. A small remaining portion of his collection, comprising +thirty-six volumes, was bought in 1858, after his death, for L35. In all +there are 160 volumes, of which 145 are in Sanscrit. These latter are +fully described in Prof. Aufrecht's Sanscrit Catalogue. + +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 +_Anthologia Graeca_ (who died March 30, 1847), whence a large number of +classical dissertations, many of them authors' presentation copies, were +obtained[346], 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 _Historia +Naturalis_, 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 L21, 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?). + +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. + +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:-- + + 'BODLEIAN LIBRARY, + '_January_ 9, 1849. + + 'SIR,--In compliance with your letter, dated Oct. 27, 1848, desiring + certain Returns respecting the Bodleian Library, I have to state-- + + '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. + + '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. + + '3. The number of manuscripts is about 21,000. + + '4. All graduates of the University have the right of admission to + the Library; other persons must apply for admission to the regular + authorities. + + '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. + + 'I have, &c. + 'BULKELEY BANDINEL, + '_Bodleian Librarian_. + + 'George Cornewall Lewis, Esq., + 'Under-Secretary of State, Whitehall.' + +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 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 _visits_ 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. + +[346] A separate list of the books purchased at Jacobs' sale is appended +to the annual Catalogue. + + +A.D. 1850. + +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[347] 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 1693). 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, amounting to 400 volumes, was +purchased for L78; and a similar but much larger collection, relating to +the history of Poland, numbering no fewer than 1200 volumes, was +purchased for L366. Three hundred and twenty volumes of early printed +works, some of which were fine specimens of _incunabula_, 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. + +A series of 600 English sermons, printed between 1600 and 1720, bound +separately, was purchased for L59. + +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. + +_Dukes' Shropshire Collections._ See 1841. + +[347] In 1845, about 320 printed volumes were purchased from a catalogue +issued at Berlin by A. Rebenstein, or Bernstein, and D. Cassel. + + +A.D. 1851. + +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 _Own +Times_ (vol. i.), with many MSS. notes written by him in the margins, +were bought for L49 10_s._ and L2 18_s._ respectively[348]. Perfect +specimens of facsimiles, which would defy detection, were obtained for +the completion of the Library copy of 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. + +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. + +On March 27, Convocation voted an addition of L50 _per annum_ to the +stipends of the Sub-librarians. + +_Recovery of Pococke MS. 32._ See p. 81. + +_Malone's Correspondence._ See p. 232. + +[348] 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. + + +A.D. 1852. + +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[349], 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 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. + +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 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. + +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 L1000. 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 1817.) + +Among miscellaneous purchases were a few volumes which were wanted to +make the Library set of De Bry's _Voyages_ complete, an imperfect copy +of the Oxford _Liber Festivalis_ (see 1691), and a large collection of +Dr. Priestley's writings (believed to have been made by himself), in +thirty-nine vols. + +[349] 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. + + +A.D. 1853. + +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 L108. Many other MSS. in this class of literature occur yearly in +the accounts at this time. But the great acquisition of 1853 was the +_Breviarium secundum regulam beati Ysidori, dictum Mozarabes_, printed +_on vellum_ at Toledo, by command of Cardinal Ximenes, in 1502. L200 +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. + +An imperfect copy of Caxton's _Chronicle_, 1480, was bought for L21; and +a large gathering of Norfolk tracts was obtained at the sale of Mr. +Dawson Turner's library. + +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 _Cornhill Magazine_ 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:-- + + '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.' + +An account of this visit was given in the _Athenaeum_ 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 _Principia Typographica_, vol. ii. pp. +133-136f[350]. + +[350] The death of Simonides, from the terrible disease of leprosy, was +announced as having occurred at Cairo in last year. + + +A.D. 1854. + +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[351]. 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:-- + + 'KNOWSLEY, _Oct._ 17, 1854. + + 'MY DEAR SIR,--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 of Monmouth's Rebellion. I have no doubt + of their genuineness; and if from the connexion of the University + with the writer[352], 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. + + 'I am, my dear sir, + 'Yours sincerely, + 'DERBY.' + +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. + +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 L300. 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. + +[351] 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. + +[352] The Earl was High Steward of the University. + + +A.D. 1855. + +Three Greek Biblical MSS. of great antiquity were obtained from the +collection of Prof. Tischendorf, being Nos. 3-5 of the volumes +described in a small quarto catalogue issued (anonymously) by him of +_Codices Graeci_, &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 L125; another of the eighth century, containing the +whole of St. Luke and St. John, bought for L140; the third, also of the +eighth century, containing the greatest part of Genesis, for L108. + +_Rev. T. R. Brown's Dictionary, &c. printed by himself._ See 1838. + + +A.D. 1856. + +A volume containing two autograph letters of Luther was bought for L20, +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 L300. Another volume, with some small +additional papers in the Reformer's hand, was subsequently obtained. + +The ever-increasing Bible collection received the addition of the very +rare _ed. princ._ of the Bohemian Bible, printed at Prague in 1488, +which was obtained for L17 10_s._, 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.e._ in a kind of 'Prayer-book-as-read' form,) Lyons, +1550, was obtained for L20. 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 _imprimatur_ of Paul +III. But as Pius V and Clem. VIII subsequently forbade any variation +whatsoever from the authorized Roman form, this Missal, like the +Breviary of Card. Quignones, was, with others, suppressed. And hence its +rarity. + +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. + +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 +_ex officio_ 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 L700, and that of the Sub-librarians at L300, and +the assigning to the former a retiring pension after twenty years' +service of L200, and after thirty years', of L300, and to the latter, +after thirty years', of L150; 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. + +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 1821). +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 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. + + +A.D. 1857. + +A collection of manuscripts, more interesting as to their history than +as to their actual contents[353], 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. 'Nunc in eam terram demigrant,' says the bibliopolist, 'quae, +quodcunque alicujus pretii est aut materialium aut spiritualium rerum, +in suo gremio accumulare a Providentia Divina destinata videtur.' +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. + +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 L35, 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 +_Memoirs of the Council of Trent_, 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. + +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. + +[353] For the most part, they consist of mediaeval sermons and +theological treatises by writers of no great fame, together with some of +the works of Aquinas. + + +A.D. 1858. + +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 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[354]. 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, A.D. 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. + +The next collection is that of Anthony a Wood, containing about 130 MSS. +and 970 printed volumes[355], 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 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. + +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. + +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. + +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 _Hypomnemata Antiquaria_, form one of Aubrey's own +works[356], 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 Archaeological Magazine, and a reward for information as to the +present _locale_ of the missing volume was subsequently publicly +offered, but to no purpose, by the same gentleman. A small MS. of +_Horae_, which had belonged to Sir Thomas Pope, the founder of Trinity +College, is among Aubrey's books. A MS. of Matthew of Westminster, (now +_e Mus._ 149) had been given to the Library by Aubrey, in 1675, through +Ant. a Wood. + +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, _viz._ a little volume of _Private +Thoughts_, by Bishop Wilson, of Sodor and Man, which was presented in +1824 by Lieut. Brett, R.N. + +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 L500. The rest of +the collection came by gift, as will be seen under the following year. + +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. 97); together with many from the series of books of _Characters_ +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 _Athenae_, with many MS. additions[357]. + +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 L40. For this error (which looks very much +like a wicked jest) the printer was fined 1000 marks by the High +Commission Court[358], and the edition was rigidly suppressed, all the +copies which could be found being condemned to the flames. + +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. + +[354] This number includes some fifteen or sixteen volumes given by +subsequent donors, but incorporated with Ashmole's own books. + +[355] About fifty volumes out of Wood's whole number were missing when +the Library became possessed of them. + +[356] These were printed by the Wiltshire Archaeological Society in 1862, +in one volume quarto, under the editorship of Rev. J. E. Jackson. + +[357] 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. + +[358] In Burn's _High Commission Court_, 1865, it is said (from the +Reports of proceedings in the Court) that the fine inflicted on Barker +was L200 and on Lucas L100. '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 _Catena_ and _Theophylact_ set out by Lyndsell.' Heylin's +_Cyprianus Anglicus_, p. 228. + + +A.D. 1859. + +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 L43; and a copy of S. Cyprian's Epistles, also of the ninth +century, for L84. 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 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. + +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 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. + + +A.D. 1860. + +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 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 _Gentleman's Magazine_, (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. + +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. + +A most seasonable and valuable enlargement of the Library was effected, +by an addition which henceforth marks an aera 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[359]. Its appropriation, therefore, to the Bodleian 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 'Camera Radcliviana;' and +that it should be open from ten A.M. to ten P.M., 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 L200 _per +annum_ towards the expense of management was made by Convocation on +Nov. 28, 1861, which was increased to L300 in 1865, the remainder of the +charge, consisting of the incidental expenses, being defrayed from the +general funds of the Library. + +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[360]. + +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. + +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. + +On Oct. 25, leave was granted by Convocation for the lending two Laud +Manuscripts, 561 and 563, being copies of the _Historia +Hierosoylmitana_, by Albert of Aix, to the French Government. + +At the sale of the library of Dr. Wellesley, Principal of New Inn Hall, +a copy of Boccaccio's _Corbaccio_, 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. + +A rare Salisbury _Primer_, printed at Rouen by Rob. Valentin in 1556, +was purchased for L22. Its title affords an amusing specimen of a +foreigner's mode of printing English; it runs thus--_This prymer of +Salisbury vse is se tout along with houtonyser chyng, with many prayers +& goodly pyctures._ 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. + +[359] 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 _Prolegomena_ to Hyde's +_Dissertationes_, 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 _codices_. 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 +_Report on the transfer of the Radcliffe Library to the Univ. Museum_, +by Dr. Acland, 1861.) + +[360] 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 _Athenaeum_ for Jan. 1865, p. 20. + + +A.D. 1861. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + +A.D. 1862. + +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[361]. 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. + +A Hebrew MS. of the Pentateuch, probably of the thirteenth century, was +bought for L32 10_s._ Some tracts relating to the period of the Great +Rebellion were bought at the sale of Dr. Bandinel's extensive Caroline +collection. + +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. + +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 L766 +2_s._ 6_d._; of which L110 5_s._ were given for a specimen of the St. +Alban's press, the _Rhetorica Nova_ 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 _Kind-Harts Dreame_ (1593), produced L101, and +Decker's _Guls Horne-Booke_, 1609, L81. The proceeds of the whole sale +amounted to L750 18_s._ 6_d._ + +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. + +[361] 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. + + +A.D. 1863. + +Among the purchases made in this year were the following: Card. Ximenes' +rare treatise entitled _Crestia_, printed at Valentia in 1483 (L25); +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. + +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, +Phaedrus, Petrarch, Boileau, and Fontaine's _Fables_; a few MSS. of +Juvenal, Petrarch, &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, _more Sutherlandico_, +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 'Consulte Cisalpine,' 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 _vis-a-vis_ 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. + + +A.D. 1864. + +The chief acquisitions in manuscript books were various Hebrew volumes +(for L159), 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 L100. + +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 +_fasciculus_ of this had been issued in 1859. + + +A.D. 1865. + +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 _Shakespeare +Autograph_. The book is Ovid's _Metamorphoses_, printed by Aldus, at +Venice, in October, 1502, in octavo; and on the title is the signature +'W^m. Sh^r.' 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 itself, in the +accompanying lithograph[362]. 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^r.' 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. _Hall_ 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 +_Athenaeum_ 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 +_Metamorphoses_. To this may be added a better proof of his knowledge of +Ovid's writings in the fact that two lines from the _Amores_ (I. xv. +35, 36) form the motto to the _Venus and Adonis_. 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 L9[363]! + +[Illustration: + + OVIDII METAMORPHOSE[Grk: O]N + LIBRI QVINDECIM. + + W^m Sh^r. + + ALDVS + + This little Book of Ovid was given to me + by W Hall who sayd it was once Will + Shakspares + + T N + + 1682 + +] + +A small volume, containing several papers in the handwriting of Luther, +was bought for L45. 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 _London Gazette_, +from 1669 to 1859, bought for L200[364]; and the other, a collection of +London newspapers, from 1672 to 1737, arranged in chronological order in +ninety-six volumes, obtained also for L200. 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 _Gentleman's Magazine_ 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. + +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. + +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. + +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 Mueller, 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. + +[362] The lithograph represents the lower half of the title-page. + +[363] 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 +_Cornhill Magazine_ for Oct. 1867, p. 496. + +[364] The only portions of the _London Gazette_ 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. + + +A.D. 1866. + +There is not much to notice under this year, save that the _Vulgaria +quedam abs Terencio in Anglicam linguam traducta_, 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 L36. 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. + + +A.D. 1867. + +The closing year of these memorials is distinguished by the acquisition +of a volume described by Archdeacon Cotton, in his _Typographical +Gazetteer_, as being 'of the very highest rarity.' It is a fine copy of +the _Breviarium Illerdense_, 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 'Antonius Palares, campanarum ejusdem ecclesiae pulsator, +propriis expensis fieri fecit.' The volume was bought from Mr. Boone +for L36. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +Prof. Max Mueller 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. + +The number of printed _volumes_ 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 +_Camera Radcliviana_, making a total for 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 _Repertorium Bibliographicum_ +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. + +Floreat Bibliotheca. + + + + +APPENDIX A. + + +_Account of the Muscovite Cloak mentioned at p. 40. Extracted from vol. +vi. of B. Twyne's Collections (among the University Archives), f. 97._ + +'_Mr. Smyth's Relation of the Tartar Lambskinne garment in Bodleiana, +Oxon._ + +'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. + +'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. + +'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. + +'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. + +'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. + +'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 +aestimation as that is or ought to be. + +'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 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. + + 'EDWARD SMYTHE. + + 'Transcribed out of the originall with Mr. Russe. + 'This Mr. Smyth was a Counsellor of the Temple.' + +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 _Agnus Scythicus_ in its fabled state; +a full-grown lamb poised on the top of a vegetable stalk, with its legs +dependent in the air[365]. But the key to the mystery is attached in the +label on the frame: '_Polypodium Barometz_. 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, _Agnus Scythicus_. 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. + +[365] 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 _Agnus Scythicus_,' but it +does not now exist in the collection. + + + + +APPENDIX B. + + +_List of Books printed on Vellum, which have been added to the Library +since the year 1830[366]._ + +1460. _Clementis VIII Constitutiones, cum glossa Jo. Andreae._ Ed. Pr. +fol. Mogunt., Petr. Schoiffer de gernssheim. Bought in 1838 for 45_l._ + +1468. _Justiniani Institutiones._ Ed. Pr. fol. Mogunt. per Petr. +Schoyffer de Gernssheym. Bought in 1834 for 52_l._ 10_s._ + +1476. _Historia Naturale da Plinio, trad, per Chr. Landino._ 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. + +1480. _Breviarium Eduense_, 4to. by order of Card. John Rolin, Bishop of +Autun, 'Symon de Vetericastro eius Secretarius, parisius hoc breviarium +cum pluribus similibus imprimi fecit.' Bought in 1838 for 2_l._ 4_s._ + +1481. _Missale Parisiense._ Ed. Pr. fol. Par., Jo. de Prato et Desid. +huym. Bought in 1842 for 10_l._ 10_s._ + +1482. _Ordo Psalterii cum hymnis et canticis suis._ Small 4to. Ven. per +Nicolaum Girardenguz. From the Canonici collection. + +1484. _Officium diurnum secundum morem monachorum congregationis Sancte +Justine, ord. S. Benedicti._ 8vo. Ven. per Bern. de Benaliis (&c.). +Bought in 1843 for 1_l._ 14_s._ + +1493. _Pars hyemalis breviarii fratrum Observantialium, ord. S. +Benedicti, per Germaniam._ 8vo. impensis Georii St[=o]chs ex Sulczbach, +civis Nurembergensis. Bought in 1841 for 14_s._ + +_S. A._ A small duodecimo book of prayers, in German, without any title; +with woodcuts. Printed with the types of Hans Schoensperger, of Augsburg. +Bequeathed by Mr. Douce. + +1500, Aug. 14. _Heures a lusage de_ [_Tours_; the name left blank]. 8vo. +Paris, pour Anthoine Verard. With illuminations. Bought in 1844 for +6_l._ + +1502. _Breviarium secundum regulam beati Hysidori._ Fol. Toleti, jussu +Card. Fr. Ximenes, per Petr. Hagembach. Bought in 1853 for 200_l._ See +p. 280. + +1505. _Breviarium secundum usum Herford._ 8vo. Rothom., per Inghilbertum +Haghe. Bequeathed by Gough. + +1514. _Le Chevalier de la tour et le guidon des guerres; par Geoffroy de +la Tour-Landry._ Fol. Par., pour Guill. Eustace. Bequeathed by Mr. +Douce. + +1522. _Libri quattuor magnorum Prophetarum; his adduntur Threni_, &c. +12mo. Par., Petrus Vidoveus. Given by Rawlinson. + +1529. _S. Joannes Chrysostomus in omnes Epistolas S. Pauli_; Gr. 3 vols. +fol. Ven. Bought in 1843 for 45_l._ + +1629. _Rituale monasticum secundum consuetudinem congregationis +Vallisumbrosae._ Fol. Florent. Bought in 1843 for 7_l._ 17_s._ 6_d._ + +1642. _Bibliotheca Eliotae._ _Eliotis Librarie._ 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. + +1859. _Rotulus Clonensis, ex orig. in Registro Eccl. Cath. Clonensis, +editus cura Ric. Caulfield._ The first book printed at Cork on vellum, +and the only one so printed. Given by Dr. Caulfield in 1865. + +1861. _The Souldier's Pocket Bible_; 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. + +1866. [Heb: spr tgn] _Sepher Taghin_: 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, +J. J. L. Barges, S. Theol. facult. Paris. doctor. 8vo. Lut. Par. + +1867. [Heb: m'sh nmym] Edited by Dr. B. Goldberg, from Pococke MS. 238. +8vo. Paris. The only vellum copy printed. Bought for 3_l._ + +_N. D. Geological Map of the Environs of Oxford_; by C. P. Stacpoole. +Bought in 1850 for 1_l._ 3_s._ + + * * * * * + +The following vellum-printed _Horae_ were all bequeathed by Mr. Douce:-- + +1498. _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 4to. Par., pour Simon Vostre. + +---- ---- 4to. Par., per Gillet Hardouyn. + +1498. _Hore secundum usum Sarum._ 8vo. Par., per Phil. Pigouchet. + +1499. _Officium B. M. V. in usum Romane ecclesie._ 8vo. Lugd. Bon. de +boninis. + +1501. _Hore Virg. Mar. secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman +Kerver. + +[1501.] _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 8vo. Par., Simon Vostre. + +1502. ---- By the same printer. + +1504. ---- 8vo. Par., Anth. Chappiel. + +1505. _Officium B. M. V. in usum Rom. eccl._ 8vo. Ven., Lucantonius de +Giunta. + +1508. _Hore secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver. + +---- ---- 8vo. Par., Guill. Anabat. + +1511. ---- 8vo. Par., Theilman Kerver. + +[1512.] _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 8vo. Par., per Joh. de Brie. + +[1512.] _Heures a lusaige de Sens._ 4to. Par., Jehan de brye. + +1514. _Orationes et hore in usum Romanum._ 4to. (Aug. Vind.) per Jo. +Schoensperger. + +---- Another edition by the same printer in the same year, but without +name or date. + +1517. _Horae ad usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver. + +1522. _Horae secundum usum Romanum._ 4to. Par., Thielman Kerver. + +[1522.] _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 8vo. Par., par Germ. Hardouyn. + +1526. _Horae secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., Thielman Kerver. + +1527. _Hore in laudem B. V. Marie, secundum consuetudinem ecclesie +Parisiensis._ 8vo. Par., per Sim. du bois. + +[1528.] _Horae, secundum usum Romanum, cum multis suffragiis et +orationibus de novo additis._ 8vo. Par., Germ. Hardouyn. + +1529. _Horae in laudem, B. Mar., secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., apud +Gotofr. Torinum. + +_S. A._ _Hore B. Marie._ 8vo. M. E. Jehannot. + +_S. A._ _Hore secundum usum Romanum._ 8vo. Par., G. Hardouyn. + +---- Another edition by the same printer. + +_S. A._ _Les heures a lusaige de Rome._ 4to. Par., per Guill. Godar. + +_S. A._ _Hore secundum usum Sarum._ 4to. Rich. Pynson. + +_S. A._ _Les heures a lusaige Dangiers._ 8vo. [Par.] Simon Vostre. + +_S. A._ _Heures a l'usaige de Soissons._ 8vo. [Par.] Simon Vostre. + +_S. A._ _Heures de nostre dame en Francoys et en Latin._ 4to. Par., +Anth. Verard. + +_S. A._ _Heures._ 8vo. Par., Anth. Verard. + +[366] Supplemental to the list appended to Archdeacon Cotton's +_Typographical Gazetteer_ in 1831. That numbered 180 separate books; the +present additions amount to fifty-four, of which all but nineteen are in +the Douce collection. + + + + +APPENDIX C. + + +_List of MSS. formerly in the possession of Cathedrals, Monasteries, +Colleges, and Churches in England, Scotland, and Ireland_[367]. + + Aberdeen Cathedral. Ashmole, 1474. + + Abingdon. Digby, 39, 146, 227 (fine Missal, with Calendar). + + ---- John Crystall, Monk of. Rawlinson, C. 940. + + Alban's, St. Auct. F. II. 13; + Bodl. 569; + Laud Lat. 67; + Laud Misc. 279, 358, 363, 370, 409; + Rawlinson, C. 31; + Rawlinson, Auct. 99 (obtained through Brother Hugh Legat, and given + by Abbot John Stoke). + + ---- Sub-prior. Bodl. 467. + + ---- Sub-sacrist. Ashmole, 1796. + + Alvingham, Linc. Laud Misc. 642. + + Athdare, Kildare. Rawlinson, C. 320. + + Barking. Laud Lat. 19. + + Beauvale, or Bellavalle, Notts. Douce, 114. + + Bedford. The Minorites. Laud, 176 (given by John Grene, D.D. in 1471). + + Belvoir, Linc. E Mus. 249. + + Bilsington, Kent. Bodl. 127 (given by John, Vicar of Newchurch). + + Bordesley, Warwickshire. Bodl. 168. + + Boxgrave, Sussex. Rawlinson, A. 411. + + Bradsole, near Dover, Priory of St. Radegund. Rawlinson, B. 336. + + Bridlington. Auct. D. _infra_, II. 7; + Bodl. 357. + + Byland, or Bellaland, Yorkshire. Bodl. 842 (bought from a carpenter); + Laud Misc. 149. + + Canterbury, Ch. Ch. Bodl. 214, 379; + Laud Misc. 165; + Tanner, 18, 223; + Rawlinson, C. 168 (Missal, given by Archbp. Warham). + + ---- W. Bonyngton, a monk, 1483. Rawlinson, B. 188. + + ---- Another monk. Bodl. 648. + + ---- St. Augustine's. Bodl. 299, 381, 391, 464, 600; + E Mus. 223; + Laud Lat. 65; + Laud Misc. 225, 296; + Wood Donat. 13; + Ashmole, 1431; + Barlow, 32; + Hatton, 94; + Maresch. 33; + Rawlinson, C. 7, 117, 159. + + Carlisle Cathedral. Bodl. 728. + + ---- (a House at). Laud Misc. 582. + + Chichester Cathedral(?). Bodl. 142. ('de dono Seffri. Episc.') + + Cirencester, St. Mary's Abbey. Barlow, 48. + + Cokersand, Lanc. Rawlinson, C. 317. + + Coventry Cathedral. Digby, 33 (given by Rich. Luff, monk). + + ---- St. Mary's Priory. Auct. F. III. 9. + + Cropthorn, Worc. Rector in 1279. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 169. + + Croyland. Rawlinson, C. 531. + + Dore, Hereford. Laud, 138; + E Mus. 82. + + Dover Priory. Bodl. 920 (Catalogue of the Library). + + ---- Hosp. of St. Bartholomew. Rawlinson, B. 335. + + 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. 179). + + ---- Abbey of St. Thomas. Rawlinson, B. 500. + + ---- Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Rawlinson, B. 498. + + ---- St. Mary's Abbey, near Dublin. Rawlinson, B. 495, C. 60; + Rawlinson, Misc. 1137. + + ---- Church of St. John Evang. Misc. Liturg. 337. + + 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). + + Dumfermline (?). Fairfax, 8. + + Dunbrothy, Wexford. Rawlinson, B. 494. + + Durham Cathedral (St. Cuthbert). Laud Lat. 12; + Laud Misc. 368, 489; + Rawlinson, C. 4. + + ---- Thomas Dune, a monk. Douce, 129. + + Edmund's, Bury St. Bodl. 216, 240, 297, 715, 737, 860; + E Mus. 6, 7, 8, 9, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 36, 112; + Laud Misc. 742; + Rawlinson, C. 697 (all between the 11th and 13th century); + Misc. Liturg. 310 (_Martyrologium_; given by Rich. Fuller, Chaplain, + and Rich. Aleyne, Kerver, in 1472. Bequeathed by Rawlinson). + + Ely. Laud, 112. + + Evesham. Auct. D. I. 15; + Laud Lat. 31; + Barlow 7 (_Officia Eccles._); + Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 16. + + Exeter Cathedral. Auct. D. II. 16, F. III. 6; + Bodl. 579, 708 (these given by Leofric); + Auct. D. I. 7 and 12 (given by Hugh, Archd. of Taunton), 9 (given + by Adam de St. Bridget, Chanter), 13, 18; + D. II. 8; + D. _infra_, II. 9(?); + D. III. 10, 11 (?); + Auct. F. I. 15; + 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, 393,463 (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. + Wood Donat. 15 (given by Executors of John Snetesham, D.D., Canon + and Chancellor, 1448). + + Exeter. Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Laud, 156. + + Finchale, Durham. Laud Misc. 546. + + Ford, Devon. Laud Misc. 606. + + Fountains' Abbey. Ashmole, 1398, 1437; + Laud Misc. 310, 619. + + Gainford, Durham. Thomas Heddon, Vicar. Rawlinson, A. 363. + + Garendon, Leic. Ashmole, 1516. + + Gisburne, Yorkshire. Laud Lat. 5. + + Glastonbury. Laud Lat. 4; + Laud Misc. 128 (belonged to Thomas Wason, Abbot). + + Hanworth (Middlesex?); + Richard, Rector. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 165. + + Hatfield Peverel, Essex. Rawlinson, B. 189 (given by John Bebseth), + Prior. + + Hereford Cathedral. Rawlinson, C. 67. + + ---- Vicars Choral. Rawlinson, C. 427. + + ---- The Minorites. Hatton, 102. + + Hexham ('Hextildesham'). Bodl. 236. + + Hickling, Norfolk. Tanner, 194, 425. + + Holme Cultram, Cumb. (S. Mar. de Holmo); + Hatton, 101. + + Jorevall, Yorkshire. Bodl. 514. + + Kenilworth, or Kelyngworth, Warw. Auct. F. III. 13 (bequeathed by John + Alward, Rector of Stoke Bruerne). + + Kilmainham, Dublin. Hosp. of St. John Bapt. Rawlinson, B. 501. + + Kingswood, Wilts. E Mus. 62. + + Kirkstall. Laud Lat. 69; + Laud Misc. 216; + E Mus. 195. + + Langley, Norfolk. Bodl. 242 (_Registrum_). + + Leedes, Kent. Bodl. 406. + + Leicester, St. Mary of the Meadows. Laud Misc. 623, 625. + + Lesnes, or Lyesnes, or Westwood, Kent. Bodl. 656; + Douce, 287. + + Lichfield Cathedral. Ashmole, 1518. + + London, St. Paul's Cathedral. Digby 89 ('Liber Magistri Thomae Lysiaux, + decani Sancti Pauli'). + + ---- The Carmelites. Laud Lat. 87. + + ---- 'Domus Salutationis Matris Dei, ord. Carthus.;' _i.e._ The + Charter-House. Douce, 262. + + ---- Hosp. of St. Mary of Elsyng, now Sion College. E Mus. 113. + + Louth Park, Linc. Fairfax, 17. + + (Ludlow Parish Church. _Printed Book_, D. 2. 13. Art. Seld.[368]) + + Maxstoke, Warwickshire. Bodl. 182. + + Merton, Surrey. Digby, 147; + Ashmole, 1522. + + ---- John Ramsey, Canon of. Seld. _supra_, 39. + + Missenden, Bucks. Auct. D. I. 10; + Bodl. 729. + + Mottenden, or Motynden, Kent. Bodl. 643 (bought by Brother Richard de + Lansyng in 1467 for 26_s._ 8_d._) + + Muchelney, Somerset. Rich. Coscumbe, Prior. Ashmole, 189. ii. + + New Place, Sherwood. Laud Lat. 34; + Laud Misc. 428. + + Norwich Cathedral (Holy Trinity). Bodl. 151, 787; + Fairfax, 20; + Douce, 366, (see _infra_, p. 329.) + + Nutley, or Notley Abbey, Bucks. Douce, 383, iii. + + Oseney, Oxford. Bodl. 655; + Digby, 23 (bequeathed by Henry de Langley); + Rawlinson, C. 939 (_Officia Eccles._). + + Osyth, St., Essex. Laud Misc. 329. + + Oxford, Balliol College. Bodl. 252. + + ---- Exeter College. Bodl. 42; + Digby, 57[369]. + + ---- (Hertford College. _Printed Tracts_ on the Bangorian + Controversies, 8vo. I. 237, BS.) + + ---- Lincoln College. Bodl. 198 ('ex dono doctoris Thome Gascoigne'). + + ---- Merton College. E Mus. 19 (given by William, Bishop of Chichester); + 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); + Digby, 155 (given by John Burbache), 216; + Ashm. 835. (_Printed Book_ S. 9. 14. Th[370].). + + ---- St. Edmund Hall. Rawlinson, C. 900 (given by Hen. VIII). + + ---- St. Mary's College. Bodl. 637. + + ---- Staple Hall. Ashmole, 748. + + ---- The Minorites. Digby, 90 (given in 1388, by John de Teukesbury, + with the assent of Thos. de Kyngusbury, 'Minister Angliae'). + + ---- (name cut off), Bodl. 215. + + Paignton Parish, Devon. Rawlinson, C. 314 (Canons of Bishop Quivil). + + Pershore. Bodl. 209; + Barlow, 3; + Rawlinson, C. 81. + + Pesholme (? Will. Marschalle, Chaplain of). Bodl. 857. + + Peterborough Cathedral. Barlow, 22; (see _infra_, p. 328.) + + Pipewell, Northampt. Rawlinson, A. 388. + + Pleshey, Essex, Trinity College. Bodl. 316. + + Pontefract, Holy Trinity Hospital. Barlow, 49. + + Ramsey. Bodl. 883. + + ---- Welles, a monk of. Bodl. 857. + + Reading, St. Mary's Abbey. Auct. Digby, B. N. 11; + Digby, 148, 200; + Bodl. 125[371], 197, 200 (given by W. de Box), 241, 257, 550, 570, + 713, 730 (?) 772, 781, 848; + Laud Misc. 79, 91, 725; + Auct. D. I. 19; + D. II. 12; + D. III. 12, 15; + Auct. F. III. 8; + _infra_, I. 2; + Rawlinson, A. 375. + + Robertsbridge, Yorkshire. Bodl. MS. 132 (written by Will. de + Wodecherche, 'laicus quondam conversus Pontis Roberti[372]'). + + Roche, or de Rupe, Yorkshire. Rawlinson, C. 329. + + Rochester Cathedral. Laud Misc. 40. + + Rossevalle, Kildare. Rawlinson, C. 32 (_Ordo servitii_). + + Salisbury Cathedral. Digby, 173 (given by Peter Fadir, Vicar + Choral[373]); + Bodl. 407, 516, 756, 765, 768, 835; + Rawlinson, C. 400 (_Pontificale_, given by Bishop Martivall). + + Selby. Fairfax, 12. + + Sempringham. Douce, 136(?) + + Shene, Surrey, Carthusian Priory. Bodl. 797; + 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'). + + Sherston, Wilts, The Church (in 1577). Bodl. 733. + + Shrewsbury, St. Chad. Rawlinson Misc. 1131. (_Martyrol._ and _Obit._) + + Sion, or Syon, Middlesex. Bodl. 630. + + Southwark, St. Mary Overy. Ashmole, 1285. + + ---- John de Lecchelade, a Canon. Rawlinson, B. 177. + + Stafford, St. Mary. Auct. F. V. 17; + Hatton, 74. + + ---- The Minorites. Auct. F. V. 18. + + Stafford, St. Thomas, near. Auct. F. III. 10. + + Staindrop, Durham, The College. Rawlinson, A. 363 (given by Thos. + Heddon, Vicar of Gainford, in 1515). + + Tattershall, Linc. Bodl. 419. + + Thorney, Cambr. Bodl. 680; + Laud Misc. 364; + Tanner, 10. + + Titchfield, Hants. Digby, 154. + + Towcester, Northampt., H. Malyng, Provost. Bodl. 731. + + Trentham, Staff. Laud Misc. 453. + + Tynemouth. Laud Misc. 657. + + Valle Crucis, De, Denbigh. E Mus. 3. + + Waltham. Laud Lat. 109; + Laud Misc. 515; + Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 62 (given by Peter, Archdeacon of London); + Rawlinson, C. 330. + + Wardon, Bedfordshire. Laud Misc. 447. + + Warter, Yorkshire. Fairfax, 9. + + Waverley, Surrey. Bodl. 527. + + Westminster Abbey. Rawlinson, C. 425 (_Pontificale_). + + Winchcombe, or Winchelcumbe, Glouc. Douce, 368. + + Winchester Cathedral ('Domus S. Swythini'). Bodl. 767. + + Windsor. Bodl. 208, 822. + + Witham, or Wytham, Somerset. Bodl. 801 ('Ex dono Joh. Blacman'). + + Worcester Cathedral. Auct. F. _infra_, I. 3; + Digby, 150(?); + Bodl. 861 (removed in 1590), 868; + Junius, 121. + + ---- 'Fratres Praedicatores.' Rawlinson, C. 780. + + York Minster(?) Rawlinson, C. 775. + + ---- Succentor(?) Douce, 225. + + ---- St. Mary's Abbey. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 11; + Arch. A. Rot. 21; (see p. 329.) + + ---- Hosp. of St. Leonard. Rawlinson, B. 455. + +[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. + +No. 76 of Digby's MSS. was bought by Dr. John Dee, at London, May 18, +1556, 'ex bibliotheca Joh. Lelandi.'] + +[367] 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. + +[368] _Picus Mirandula de Providentia Dei_, 1508. Given to the library +of the Church by Rich. Sparchiford, Archdeacon of Salop, Oct. 19, 1557. +It had previously belonged to Linacer. + +[369] 'Hunc librum emit ... a magistro Philips, rectore collegii Exon, +a^o. Xi. 1468, una cum volvella solis et lunae.' + +[370] _Galani Conciliatio Eccl. Armenae cum Romana_, 1650. It is +satisfactory to be able to add, that the Bodleian obtained this book, as +Bishop Booth obtained the Robertsbridge MS. (_infra_) 'modo legitimo;' a +memorandum records that it was 'bought of Fletcher the bookseller.' + +[371] On the last leaf of this MS. there is a list, faintly written with +a style, of some twenty MSS. (including 'triplices cantus' for the +organ), written by one monk, to which the memorandum is added: 'Hec sunt +opera fratris W. de Wi[=c]b. per quadriennium apud Leom. (_i.e._ +Leominster, a cell to Reading) commorantis.' The list commences, 'Nota +quod frater W. de Wi[=c]b. (_probably Wicumbe_), 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.' The book may have belonged to either Reading +or Leominster. + +[372] The usual anathema is subjoined on any one stealing the book from +the house of St. Mary 'de Ponte Roberti,' or in any part mutilating it; +which is followed by this self-exculpatory note on the part of a +subsequent possessor: 'Ego Johannes, Exon. episcopus, nescio ubi est +domus praedicta, nec hunc librum abstuli, sed modo legittimo adquisivi.' +This _John_ would seem to be John Booth, who was Bishop of Exeter from +1466 to 1479. + +[373] The name of Peter Fader is found also in MS. Arch. Seld. B 26. + + + + +APPENDIX D. + + +_List of MSS. and Miscellaneous Objects of interest exhibited in the +Library._ + + +GLASS CASE NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE LIBRARY. + +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. + +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. + +3. Autograph book of distinguished visitors. + + This book commences at the year 1820. Among the autographs which + it contains may be mentioned the following in particular:-- + + Her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 8, 1832, with the Duchess of Kent; + Dec. 12, 1860. + + The Prince Consort, June 15, 1841; June 4, 1856; Jan. 9, 1857 (in + company with his three eldest children); Dec. 12, 1860. + + Prince of Wales, Jan. 9, 1857; March 27, 1860; June 18, 1863. + + Princess of Wales, June 18, 1863. + + Duke of Wellington, Oct. 20, 1835 (in company with Q. Adelaide); + Sept. 14, 1839; June 15, 1841; Aug. 20, 1844. + + Gul. Gesenius, Aug. 5, 1820. + + Sir John Franklin, 1829. + + Sir D. Wilkie, June 14, 1834. + + Bishop Selwyn, June 30, 1837. + + Chevalier Bunsen, Jan. 24, 1839; Aug. 20, 1844. + + Princes of Ashantee, June 10, 1840. + + Henry Hallam, Oct. 16, 1840. + + Bishop of Malabar, Mar Athanasius Abdelmesih, June 12, 1841. + + M. Berryer, Nov. 23, 1843. + + W. H. Prescott, June 24, 1850. + + Alfred Tennyson, June 21, 1855. + + A Siamese Prince, June 29, 1858. + + Lord Brougham, June 20, 1860. + + Lord Palmerston, July 2, 1862. + + Queen Emma of Honolulu, Aug. 14, 1865. + + Chinese Ambassadors, June 7, 1866. + + Until the year 1861 it was also the custom for all graduates of + Cambridge and Dublin who were admitted ad _eundem_ 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[374]. + +4. _New Testament_, said to be bound in a piece of a waistcoat of King +Charles I. See p. 53. + +5. Another, bound by the Sisters of Little Gidding. See p. 53. + +6. _Xiphilini Epitome Dionis Nicaei_; 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. + +7. _Bacon's Essays_; in a worked binding. See p. 51. + +8. Specimen of the early _Block-books_, 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. + + This is a copy of the edition called by Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, in his + _Principia Typographica_, the Second; it belonged to Mr. Douce, who + bought it for thirty-one guineas at Mr. Inglis' sale[375]. + +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. 202. + + A copy was sold at the auction of the library of the Duke of Sussex, + in 1844, for the moderate sum of L190; 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 L596. + +10. A copy of the first book printed in the English language, being _The +Recuyell of the Histories of Troy_, printed by Caxton, most probably at +Bruges, about 1472. + + 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 L155. + +11. The English Bible, translated by Myles Coverdale from the Vulgate, +and printed abroad in 1535. + + 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 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 L364; and a + very imperfect copy was sold for L190 in 1857. + +12. Hieronymus (_rectius_, Rufinus) _de Symbolo Apostolorum_; printed at +Oxford in 1468. See p. 111. + +13. Latin verses in the autograph of Milton. See p. 45. + +14. The original MS. of Addison's _Letter_ (in verse) _from Italy to +Lord Halifax_. + + A Rawlinson MS. + +15. Letter from Alex. Pope to H. Cromwell, Esq.; dated July 15, 1711. + + 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. + +16. Letter from Archbp. Laud to Sir W. Boswell, the English Resident at +the Hague; dated from Lambeth, Nov. 26, 1638. + + It refers to libels printed in Holland, and particularly to one + against Laud, supposed to be then printing at Amsterdam, entitled, + _The Beast is Wounded_. '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 L7 17_s._, + 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. + +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. + + Endorsed by Ant. a Wood with this memorandum: 'Given to me by Rob. + Whorwood, of Oxon, Gent., 29 Feb., 1679[376].' + +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:-- + + 'For Mr. Vicechancellor of Oxford. + + 'Good Mr. Vicechancellor, + + '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 + + 'Good Mr. Vicechancellor, + 'Your affectionate servant, + 'CLARENDON. + + 'Calice, this 7/17 Dec. 1667.' + +19. A volume of the Papers of W. Bridgeman, Under-secretary of State to +James II (bequeathed to the Library by Dr. R. Rawlinson; _see p. 173_), +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. + + The following is a copy:-- + + 'I declare y^t y^e title of King was forct upon mee, & y^t it was + very much contrary to my opinion when I was proclam'd. For y^e + satisfaction of the world I doe declare that y^e late King told mee + that Hee was never married to my Mother. + + 'Haveing declar'd this I hope y^t 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. + + 'MONMOUTH. + + 'Declar'd by Himselfe, & sign'd in the presence of us. + + 'Fran. Elien. [_Turner_]. + 'Tho. Bath & Wells [_Ken_]. + 'Tho. Tenison. + 'George Hooper.' + + 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. + + 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. + +20. A Sanscrit roll, written at the end of the last century, containing +extracts from the _Bhagavadgita_; with paintings representing the +incarnations of Vishnu, &c. + + In a wooden case. One of the Frazer MSS. + +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. + + 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. + +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. Laetitia Lane.' + + The donor was the daughter of Col. John Lane, the chief agent in the + King's escape from Worcester; she died in 1709[377]. + +23. Specimen of Javanese writing, being a letter from a Javanese Chief +to the Resident of Soorabaya. The seal bears the date of 1780. + +24. Small specimen of an Arabic MS. + +25. A fragment in large Persian characters. + +26. A specimen of Malabaric writing, upon a palm-leaf, three feet in +length. 'Aug. 9, 1630. Ex dono Jo. Trefusis, generosi Cornubiensis, e +Coll. Exon.' + +27. A Russian painting upon a shell, representing a female saint called +S. Parasceve, [Grk: he hagia Paraskeue], who is found in the Greek +Menology, but whose history is believed by the Bollandists to be a pious +fiction. + +28. A Hebrew _Bible_, 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. + + One of the Oppenheimer MSS. + +29. _Horae._ An illuminated MS. of the middle of the fifteenth century, +in 4to., probably by a French scribe and artist. + + From the Canonici collection. + +30. Another MS. of the _Hours_, 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. + + Traditionally said, but on what evidence does not appear, to have + belonged to Henry VIII. + +31. A third fifteenth-century MS. of the _Hours_, in 8vo. + + From the Rawlinson collection. + +32. A fourth MS. of the _Hours_, very early in the fifteenth century, or +about the close of the fourteenth. + + Also from the Rawlinson collection. All these copies of the _Horae_ + appear to be of French execution. + +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[378]. + +34. A Latin exercise book, in 4to., which appears to have been filled up +by Edward VI and his sister Elizabeth, jointly. + + 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 'ex dono doctissimi viri P. Junii, + Bibliothecarii Regii, A.D. 1639.' Patrick Young also gave another + book in Edward's handwriting in folio, containing Greek and Latin + phrases, written very neatly in 1551-1552[379]. + +35. Mexican Hieroglyphics; painted on a long skin of leather. + +36. The Book of _Proverbs_, written by Mrs. Esther Inglis. See p. 48. + +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. 105, +161. + + An engraving of the second may be found in the _Anglican Church + Calendar illustrated_, published by Messrs. Parker. And a + description of these primitive Calendars is given by Plot in his + _Natural History of Staffordshire_, 1686, pp. 418-432, where there + is an engraving of a Clog which was still in use in Staffordshire at + that time. + +38. Eight small wooden tablets, apparently a pocket-edition of a +Clog-Almanack, with very quaint figures. + + Given by Archbp. Laud. + +39. The Book of _Enoch_, in AEthiopic. See p. 267. + +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[380]. + + One of Greaves' MSS. + +41. A specimen of Telugu writing on palm-leaves; being an almanack for +the year 1630. + + Given by Archbp. Laud. + +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. + + Enriched with an exquisite portrait of the Queen, in all the + grandeur of her wide circumference, and with golden hair of very + _prononcee_ 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. + + 'Ex dono ornatissimi, simul ac optimae spei, juvenis D. Johannis + Cope, armigeri, equitis aurati, baronetti f. natu maximi, olim + Reginensis Oxon, Almae Matris ergo. 4 Cal. Jan. 1626.' + + On a fly-leaf at the end is attached a fragment from some English + theological treatise, in wonderfully minute, although clear, + handwriting. + +43. The _Koran_, on a long and narrow roll, very elegantly written in +minute characters. + + Given by Archbp. Laud. + +44. A Syriac fragment, on three leaves of paper. + +45. A specimen of Chinese printing, on rice-paper. + +46. A specimen of the Papyrus-plant, in its natural state. + +47. A fine MS. of the _Koran_, from the library of Tippoo Sahib at +Seringapatam. + + Given by the East India Company in 1806; see p. 208. + +48. A small Egyptian mummy-figure, of baked clay. + + Given by Archbp. Laud. + +49. A Burmese MS., written in large black characters on thirty-nine +gilded palm-leaves. + + '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. + + +IN THE OPPOSITE, OR NORTH, WING. + +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. This +case was added by the present Librarian three or four years ago. The +following are its contents:-- + +1. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of the treatise _De cura pastorali_ +of Pope Gregory the Great, being the copy sent by the King to Werfrith, +Bishop of Worcester. + + Given by Lord Hatton; see p. 100. + +2. A beautiful Latin _Psalter_ of the tenth century, written in +Anglo-Saxon characters, with an interlinear translation, and decorated +with grotesque initial letters. + + Junius MS. 37. The volume is frequently called _Codex Vossianus_, + from its having been in the possession of Isaac Voss, who gave it to + Junius. Facsimiles are given by Professor Westwood, in his + _Palaeographia Sacra_, and in his new and splendid book of + _Fac-similes of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and + Irish MSS_[381]. + +3. The _Four Gospels_, in Latin, written in Anglo-Saxon characters, +about the beginning of the eleventh century. + + Noticed in Westwood's _Miniatures_, &c. (_ut supra_), p. 123. + + 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 AElfgiva. Now + numbered Bodl. 155. + +4. The famous _Anglo-Saxon metrical paraphrase_ of parts of Genesis, +Exodus, Daniel, &c. by Caedmon[382]; illustrated, as far as Abraham's +journey into Egypt, with a very curious series of drawings. + + 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 _Fac-similes_. See p. 102. + +5. The _Psalter_, _Canticles_, &c., in Latin, with a Calendar; written in +the first half of the eleventh century. + + Noticed in Westwood's _Miniatures and Ornaments_, &c., p. 122. Douce, + 296. + +6. A twelfth-century volume containing, besides various historical +works, a _Bestiary_, or Natural History of Beasts, illustrated with very +curious drawings. + + Given by Archbp. Laud. + +7. A _Bestiary_ of the beginning of the thirteenth century, enriched +with many very curious paintings upon a ground of brilliant gold. + + Ashmole, 1511. + +8. Another _Bestiary_, of slightly later date, illuminated in the same +manner. + + Bodl. 764. + +9. The _Apocalypse_, illustrated in a series of very curious drawings, +lightly coloured. Executed about 1250. + + 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 '_Dolium_ ferventis olei.' + +10. A _Primer_, written about the middle of the fourteenth century. + + The arms of Edw. III (England 1 and 4, France 2 and 3) are painted + on the first leaf. One of Rawlinson's MSS. + +11. A beautiful _Psalter_, which belonged to Peterborough Cathedral. + + '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. + +12. A _Psalter_, with Canticles, Hymns, &c., written in the latter half +of the fourteenth century. + + Apparently one of Rawlinson's MSS. + +13. '_Ye Dreme of Pilgrimage of ye Soule_, 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. + + A precursor of Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_, with which it has been + compared. It was printed by Caxton in 1483, and his edition was + reprinted in 1859. + + This MS. was given to the Library, apparently in Bodley's time, by + Sir James Lee, Knt. + +14. _Commentary on the Passion of our B. Lord_ ('Scripta super totam +Passionem Christi a quatuor Evangelistis formatam'), by Michael de +Massa, of the order of Augustinian Hermits. + + 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. + +15. '_The Mirroure of the Worlde_, 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. + + A MS. of the early part of the fifteenth century; on paper. Bodl. + 283. + +16. _Horae_, formerly in the possession of Queen Mary I. See p. 42. + +17. _Treatise of Roger Bacon_, 'de retardacione accidentium senectutis;' +with two drawings. Middle of the fifteenth century. Bodl. MS. 211. + +18. An English astrological Calendar, in six divisions, folded for the +pocket; written in the latter half of the fourteenth century. + + 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.' + +19. An _Historical Roll_, 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. + + Illustrated with representations of various scenes up to the landing + of Brute in the Isle of Wight, and thenceforward with portraits of + the monarchs. + +20. _Map of the Holy Land_, on a paper roll, nearly seven feet long; +written, apparently, in the first half of the fifteenth century. + + 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. + +21. A _Psalter_, with the usual Canticles, Litany, &c; written about the +middle of the fourteenth century. + + This magnificent volume was given by Robert de Ormesby, a monk of + Norwich, to the choir of the Cathedral Church, 'ad jacendum coram + Suppriore qui pro tempore fuerit inperpetuum.' It is illustrated + with illuminations most beautifully executed, but, at the same + time, containing the most grotesque and profanely inappropriate + figures, resembling those sometimes found on the _Misereres_ 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 _Illuminated Ornaments_, 1833, with a + description by Sir F. Madden. It belongs to the Douce collection. + + * * * * * + +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. + +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. 245. + + +IN A GLASS CASE, WEST END OF THE LIBRARY. + +1. _Plinii Historia Naturalis_; in folio. Printed 1476. + + From the Douce collection. See p. 250. + +2. _Breviary_ and Psalter according to the use of the Carthusian Order; +written about 1480. + + A specimen of Italian art, from the Canonici collection. + +3. _Horae B. M. Virg._ 12mo. An exquisite MS., of the school of Albert +Durer, executed for Bona Sforza. See p. 249. + +4. _Psalter_, on purple vellum, written about the close of the ninth +century. From the old library of the kings of France. See p. 249. + + A MS. of the _Horae_, written on purple vellum, about 1500, is among + the Canonici MSS. + +5. _Boccaccio's Il Filocalo_; in folio, of the fifteenth century. + + 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 _Illuminated Ornaments_. + From the Canonici collection. + +6. _Horae_, quarto; fourteenth century. A beautiful book. + + From the Douce collection. + +7. _Horae_, small quarto; end of the fifteenth century. The illuminations +possess exquisite softness and delicacy. + + Also from the Douce collection. + +8. _The Miracles of the B. Virgin_, in French. A Douce MS., in folio, +executed about 1460, for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and enriched +with most beautiful paintings of the tint called '_Camaieu gris_'. + +9. _Horae_, in quarto. A beautiful Douce book, the work of a French +scribe in and about the year 1407. + +10. _Horae_, in duodecimo. Another gem from the Douce collection, +executed about the year 1500, for the Emperor Maximilian and Mary of +Burgundy his wife. + + The margins are adorned with charming figures of birds, and in one + instance a border is filled with representations of pottery and + glass. + +11. _Horae_, 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. + +12. _Horae_, in small folio. A most sumptuous volume, executed about +1410. The illuminations are of the school of Van Eyck. + + 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. + +13. _Quatuor Evangelia_; commencement of the seventh century. See p. 24. + +14. _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_ to Charles I before their +marriage; in French. + + 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. + +15. _Latin Translation by Queen Elizabeth_, while Princess, of an +Italian sermon by Bern. Ochini, _De Christo_; written entirely by +herself, and sent as a New-year's gift to her brother Edward VI[383]. + + 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:-- + + 'Augustissimo et serenissimo Regi Edvardo Sexto. Si aliquid hoc + tempore haberem (Serenissime Rex) quod mihi ad dandum esset + accommodatum, & Maiestati tuae congruens ad accipiendum, equidem de + hac re vehementer laetarer. 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, & observantiae meae testimonio, + offero M. T. breuem istam Bernardi Ochini orationem, ab eo Italice + primum scriptam, & a me in latinum sermonem conuersum. Argumentum + 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, quae + 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. Enfeldiae, 30 Decembris. + + 'Maiestatis tuae, + 'humill. soror, + '& serua, + 'Elizabeta.' + +16. A Persian treatise, in prose and verse, on ethics and education, +entitled, _Beharistan, or, The Season of Spring_; by Nurruddin +Abdurrahman, surnamed Djami. + + The MS. was written at Lahore, for the Emperor of Hindustan, A.D. + 1575, by Muhammed Hussein, a famous scribe, who was called the _Pen + of Gold_; 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. + +17. _Evangeliarium_, MS. in folio; of the tenth century. + + 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 L31 10_s._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. + +18. Ivory triptych eleven inches high; North Italian work, of the +fifteenth century. + + In the centre the Blessed Virgin and Child between St. Leonard and + another saint; on the wings, St. John the Evangelist and St. + Lawrence[384]. + +19. _Evangelia, secundum Matt. et Marc._ 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. + +20. Metal-Work. + + i. Crucifix; enamelled. + + ii. The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; small, on brass. + + iii. Four enamelled round tablets, bearing portraits of 'Le Conte + de Flandres, le Conte de Champagne, le Conte de Tholoze, Duc de + Normandie.' + + iv. Two small enamelled representations of March and May. + + v. Dolphin, with boy on his back (the Dauphin); motto, 'Qui pense ma + ... vy advient.' + + vi. Heads, enamelled, of the following Roman Emperors; Julius Caesar, + Augustus, Claudius and Otho. + + 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:-- + + 'Aske me not, for ye Gett me not.--'R. P.' + + viii. A small copper figure of our Blessed Lord, crowned and robed, + with eyes open, and arms extended. + + The following account is given by Hearne in a volume of his MS. + collections[385]:-- + + '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.' + + 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. + +21. _Psalterium_; close of thirteenth century. + + 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. + + 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. + + * * * * * + +_The following objects of interest are dispersed in various parts of the +Library:--_ + + +AT THE EAST END. + +1. A drawing by Holbein, framed and glazed, being a design for a cup. + + 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, 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[386].' + +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. + + This and the preceding form part of the Douce collection. + +3. Bust of Sir T. Bodley. See p. 26. + +4. Bust of Charles I. See p. 61. + +5. Small marble bust of Napoleon. + + Bequeathed by Capt. Montagu in 1863. See p. 299. + +6. Engraved facsimile of the Rosetta Stone, published by the Antiquarian +Society in 1803. + +7. Egyptian scroll. + + [Five other Egyptian fragments hang at the other end of the + Library.] + +8. Map of England and Scotland, on parchment. Written in the fourteenth +century. See p. 212, _note_. + +9. An armillary sphere, in bronze, supported by three lions. + + Given by Capt. Josias Bodley. See p. 21. + +10. Two small bronzes; one representing Narcissus contemplating his face +in the stream; the other, Cupids disporting themselves on the backs of +Tritons. + +11. A plaster cast of young Bacchanals leading the goat. + +12. A wood carving, coarsely executed, representing Hercules spinning, +and exposed by Omphale to the ridicule of two female visitors. + +13. Bronze, in fine alto-relievo, of Curtius leaping into the gulf in +the Forum at Rome. + +14. Carving, in soap-stone, of the Judgment of Solomon. + +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. + + [Probably all the preceding articles, 10-15, came from Rawlinson.] + +16. Model, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, of the Church of the Holy +Sepulchre at Jerusalem. + + Bequeathed by Dr. Mason in 1841. See p. 265. + +17. Four specimens of papyrus-rolls from Herculaneum, burnt to a crust. + + Presented to the Library by George IV. See p. 216. + +18. Piece of wood from the south side of the curious timber Church at +Greensted in Essex, built A.D. 1013. + + Presented by Mr. James Dix, of Bristol, Feb. 10, 1865. + +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. + + 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[387]. + + +AT THE WEST END. + +20. Sir Thomas Bodley's bell. See p. 33. + +21. Maps of Oxford and Cambridge, by Ralph Aggas; the former dated 1578, +the latter 1592; about three feet by four in size. + + 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. + +22. Four drawings of heads by Raffaele, or Giulio Romano. See p. 251. + + +IN THE LIBRARIAN'S STUDY. + +23. A Roman inscription on a brazen plate:-- + + FLORAE + TI. PLAVTIVS DROSVS + MAG. II. + V. S. L. M. + + 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 'Ex regiis + Christinae thesauris.' + +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. + + +IN THE OPPOSITE SUB-LIBRARIAN'S STUDY. + +25. A warrior on horseback, enamelled on copper, and marked 'Ezechias.' + +26. A Greek painting on wood of St. George and the Dragon. + +27. Another Greek painting on wood, on a gold ground, apparently +representing two angels bowing before the Blessed Virgin, &c. + +28. Heads of our Blessed Lord, and of King Charles I, painted on copper. +See p. 148. + +29. A Ph[oe]nician inscription, on stone. See p. 162. + + +_The following Portraits hang in the Library:--_ + +1. Sir T. Bodley. By Corn. Jansen. + +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. + + There are no portraits of Fysher or Owen. + +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. + +4. Drawing of Thos. Alcock. By Cooper. + + Bequeathed by Rawlinson. + + The following note is written on the back:-- + + '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. + + 'THOMAS ALCOCK, Preceptor.' + +5. Pen-and-ink sketch of Ant. a Wood, dated 1677. + +6. Pencil drawing of Pope. + + Bequeathed by Rawlinson. + +7. Drawing of F. Douce. + +8. Engraved portrait of Camden. + +Eighteen Oxford Almanacs, between the years 1812 and 1833, decorate the +middle of the room. + + +PICTURE GALLERY. + +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[388]:-- + +Froben, the printer. By Holbein. + + Bequeathed by Rawlinson. + +Oliver Plunket, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh; executed in 1681. +On panel. + + Bequeathed by Rawlinson. + +James Edward, the 'old Chevalier,' and his wife Clementina Sobieski. See +p. 169. + + Bequeathed by Rawlinson. + +Sir R. Chambers, Chief Justice of Bengal. + +Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart. By Richmond. + +Dr. Routh, President of Magdalen College. By Thomson. + +Dr. Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta. + +The Earl of Derby. By Grant. See p. 281. + +The Prince of Wales. By Gordon. See p. 304. + + * * * * * + +The following Curiosities and Models are exhibited in the Gallery:-- + +1. Chair made from the wood of Sir F. Drake's ship. See p. 94. + +2. Chair of Henry VIII. See _ib._ + +3. Guy Fawkes' Lantern. See p. 97. + +4. A series of casts of various ancient Temples and other buildings. See +p. 236. + +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. + + Presented in 1842 by Sir J. W. Awdry, Chief Justice of Bombay. + +6. Cases of Italian medals, medals by Dassier of English sovereigns, &c. +See p. 182. + +7. Two plaster casts of monuments from Nineveh, now in the British +Museum, with cuneiform inscriptions. + +8. Model, in papier-mache, of the Martyrs' Memorial, beautifully +executed. + + Presented in 1844 by the late Rev. Vaughan Thomas, B.D. + +9. Plaster model of the Waltham Cross. + + Presented by the same donor. + +10. Casts of the Elgin marbles. + +11. Alabaster model of the Cathedral at Calcutta. + + 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. + +12. A large and fine model in cork, of the Amphitheatre at Verona; by +Dubourg. + +13. Model of the Royal Yacht in 1697. + +14. Glass case, containing:-- + + 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. + + ii. Collection of Indian weapons presented by Mr. Elliott. See p. + 291. + + iii. Series of clay figures, coloured, representing all degrees of + rank, &c. among the Chinese. + + Brought by Col. Gibbes Rigaud, of the 60th Rifles, the donor, from + Tien-tsin, and given in 1862. + + iv. Handbell from a temple at Tien-tsin. See p. 33. + + v. Small Chinese figure of a deity, in brass; from Pekin. + + vi. Half-burned copy of a Russian translation of the _Pickwick + Papers_. + + Found in the Redan at Sebastopol, when that battery was stormed on + Sept. 9, 1855. Given by Rev. F. J. Holt Beever in 1856. + +15. Portrait, on a large roll, of the late Emperor of China, seated, +with a bow and arrow in his hands. + + Above is an autograph inscription by the Emperor, in verse, in + praise of archery. Brought by Col. Rigaud from the 'Summer Palace.' + +16. Another glass case, containing:-- + + 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. + + Believed to have been bequeathed by Rawlinson. + + ii. A series of small Chinese paintings on ivory. + + From the Douce collection. + + iii. Three sets of wooden roundels[389], 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:-- + + 'If that a bachelor thou bee + Keepe thou so, still be ruled by mee, + Leaste that repentance all to late + Reward thee with a broken pate.' + + 'Content thyselfe with thyn estate, + And send noo poor wight from thi gate: + For why this councell I thee give + To learne to die and die to lyve.' + + iv. A large set of wax impressions of seals. See p. 183. + +17. Model, in wood, of the Temple at Paestum. + + Carved by Mr. Thomas Wyatt, of Oxford, about 1830. + +[374] 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:-- + + Joh. Jonstonus, M.D., 1633. + Joh. Fred. Gronovius, June 25, 1639. + George Bull, 'SS. Theol. Studiosus, per dispensat,' July 5, 1656. + Andrew Marvell, Sept. 30, 1665. + Sir Winston Churchill, Oct. 4, 1665. + Henry Dodwell, Oct. 20, 1666. + Thomas Rymer, June 20, 1683. + Edmund Calamy, 'Londinensis,' Aug. 18, 1691, and in 1722. + Sir George Mackenzie, Dec. 14, 1694, and several times subsequently. + Joh. Ern. Grabe, Nov. 10, 1697. + Thomas Madox, Sept. 21, 1705. + Joshua Barnes, July 22, 1706. + William Whiston, Sept. 28, 1710. + C. Wesley, 'AEidis Xti alumnus,' April 19, 1729. + Joh. Dav. Michaelis, Oct. 9, 1741. + W. Blackstone, 'S.C.L.' Feb. 11, 1742-3. + Benj. Kennicott, 'Coll. Wadh. Schol.' July 15, 1746. + George Ballard, Dec. 9, 1747. + Edw. Rowe Mores, Commoner of Queen's College, Aug. 29, 1748. + John Uri, 'Korosini, Hungarus,' Feb. 17, 1766. + Edw. Gibbon, 'Coll. Magd. olim Soc. Com.' Oct. 17, 1766. + Joh. Schweighaeuser, June 13, 1769. + J. J. Griesbach, March 22, 1770. + Hen. Alb. Schultens, Oct. 16, 1772. + John Macbride, 'ex Coll. Exon.' (the late venerable Principal of Magd. + Hall, who was only removed by death at the beginning of the present + year), May 10, 1797. + Philip Bliss, Feb. 9, 1809. + +[375] Of this xylographic _Apocalypse_ 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 'Editio princeps' by Heinecken, which was bought in 1853 +for L120 5_s._ Other Block-books in the Library are, (1) two editions of +the _Biblia Pauperum_, or Scenes from Bible History; one coloured, the +other (which belonged to Douce) uncoloured; (2) the _Historia B. M. V. +ex Cantico Canticorum_, being the edition called the Second by Sotheby; +(3) _Propugnacula, seu Turris Sapientiae_, a broadside, bought in 1853 +for six guineas. A facsimile of this is given in vol. ii. of Sotheby's +_Principia_; (4) _Speculum Humanae Salvationis._ In this book, which is +the second Latin edition of the work (formerly described as the _Editio +princeps_), twenty pages are taken off from wood-blocks, and the rest +from moveable type. The copy belonged to Douce. It came previously 'ex +Musaeo 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. + +[376] 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 _Remains_, 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 (_ibid._ 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 _Annals_. + + 'SIR, + + '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.' + + 'W. CANT. + 'Lambeth, Nov, 15, 1639.' + +[377] Pedigree of the family of Lane, p. 392 of the _Boscobel Tracts_, +edited by J. Hughes, A.M., second edition, 1857. + +[378] No. 7762 in the catalogue of the South Kensington Museum, in 1862. + +[379] Mr. John Gough Nichols, in his collection of the _Literary Remains +of Edw. VI_, 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. + +[380] '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 _Romances_, 1799, p. +52.) + +[381] 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. + +[382] Caedmon was a monk of St. Hilda's Abbey, and died in 680. Bede +(_Eccl. Hist._ 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. + +[383] This MS. is noticed by Warton in his _Life of Sir T. Pope_, p. 73, +where he also quotes Hearne's account of Elizabeth's New Testament, +which is described at p. 52 _supra_. + +[384] Lent to the South Kensington Museum in 1862, from the catalogue of +which exhibition (under No. 202) the above description is taken. + +[385] Rawlinson, C. 876, f. 52. + +[386] _Catalogue of the South Kensington Exhibition_, 1862, p. 672. + +[387] 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. + +[388] Besides some restorations from the Randolph Gallery of portraits +formerly removed thither. + +[389] 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 _Gent. Magaz._ 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 _Archaeologia_, pp. 225-230; and a notice of the +Bodleian trenchers in _Notes and Queries_, 1866, p. 472, and other +communications on the subject in the first volume for 1867. + + + + +APPENDIX E. + + +_Numismatic Collection._ + +The collection of Coins and Medals was commenced by the gift from +Archbishop Laud of five cabinets of coins, in 1636[390], 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. 88), and +numerous small gifts came from many donors in 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, _Nummorum +antiquorum scriniis Bodleianis reconditorum catalogus, cum commentario, +tabulis aeneis et appendice_. 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[391]. + +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. 264); Mackie, Roberts, +Elliott, whose valuable series of Indo-Bactrian coins was presented in +1860 (see p. 291), 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. + +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. + +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. + +[390] Amongst these are several rare Hebrew specimens. Laud's letter of +gift, dated June 16, is printed at p. 94, vol. ii., of his _Remains_, +edited by H. Wharton. A curious collection of Roman weights came among +early benefactions; they are entered in Wise's catalogue. + +[391] The special gems are a gold Allectus, and the famous _Reddite_ and +_Petition_ 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 (_Cat._ p. 186), and which is noted by +Rawlinson in his copy of the sale catalogue as having been purchased +by -- Hodsall for L12. A gold Allectus was sold at the same sale to the +Duke of Devonshire for L21 5_s._ + + + + +APPENDIX F. + + +_Past Librarians._ + + 1598. Thomas James, M.A. + 1620. John Rouse, M.A. + 1653. Thomas Barlow, M.A., afterwards Bishop of Lincoln. + 1660. Thomas Lockey, B.D. + 1665. Thomas Hyde, D.D. + 1701. John Hudson, D.D. + 1719. Joseph Bowles, M.A. + 1726. Robert Fysher, M.B. + 1747. Humphrey Owen, D.D. + 1768. John Price, B.D. + 1813. Bulkeley Bandinel, B.D. + +_Past Sub-librarians._ + + Before 1619[392]. John Verneuil, M.A. + 1647. Francis Yonge, M.A. + 1657. Henry Stubbe, M.A. + 1659. Thomas Barlow, M.A., afterwards Librarian. + * * * * * + About 1680-90. Rev. John Crabb, M.A. + 1695-1700. Rev. Joseph Crabb, M.A. + 1712. Thomas Hearne, M.A. + 1715. Rev. John Fletcher, M.A. + 1719. Rev. Francis Wise, B.D., appointed first Librarian + of the Radcliffe in 1748, when he, no doubt, + resigned his post in the Bodleian. + 1748? N. Foster[393]? (qu. Nath. Foster, of Magd. Coll., + M.A. in 1748?) + [1770. 'Jones and White, Price's representatives[394].'] + 1780-81. John Walters, Scholar of Jesus College. + Before 1787. Edward Morgan, Jesus College[395], M.A. + 1788. John Bown, Lincoln College[396], M.A. + 1797. Henry H. Baber, St. John's. + 1798. Henry Ellis, St. John's. + [Before 1804? Rev. Sam. Rogers, M.A., Wadham College?] + Before 1810. ---- Matthews. + 1810. Philip Bliss, St. John's College. + 1811. Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, M.A. + 1814. Rev. Henry Cotton, M.A. + ---- Rev. Alex. Nicoll, M.A. + 1822. Rev. Philip Bliss, D.C.L. + ---- Rev. Rich. F. Laurence, M.A. + 1826. Rev. Charles Henry Cox, M.A. + 1828. Rev. Stephen Reay, M.A. + ---- Rev. John Besly, M.A. + 1831. Rev. Ernest Hawkins, M.A. + 1834. Rev. William Cureton, M.A. + 1837. Rev. Herbert Hill, M.A. + 1838. Rev. H. O. Coxe, M.A. + 1861. Rev. Rob. Payne Smith, M.A. + 1865. Max Mueller, M.A. + + +_Present Officers of the Library._ + +LIBRARIAN: + +Rev. H. O. Coxe, M.A., Corp. Chr. Coll., appointed Sub-librarian, Nov. +16, 1838; Head Librarian, Nov. 6, 1860. + +SUB-LIBRARIANS: + +Rev. Alfred Hackman, M.A., Ch. Ch., Assistant for the General Catalogue, +April 27, 1837; Sub-librarian, April 20 1862. + +Rev. John William Nutt, M.A., All Souls' Coll., June 25, 1867. + +ASSISTANTS: + +_First Class._ + +Mr. H. S. Harper, [entered the Library June, 1837.] + +Mr. H. J. Sides, [Dec., 1853.] + +Mr. H. Haines, [Dec., 1861.] + +_Second Class._ + +Rev. W. H. Bliss, M.A., Magd. Coll., [March, 1866.] + +Mr. Henry J. Shuffrey, [Jan., 1863.] + +_Third Class._ + +Percy W. Collcutt, [June, 1866.] + +W. F. Green, [March, 1868.] + + * * * * * + +NEW CATALOGUE. + +_General Superintendent._ + +Rev. W. D. Macray, M.A., Magd. Coll., [June, 1840.] + +TRANSCRIBERS: + +Mr. George Parker, [Sept., 1855.] + +Mr. Will. H. Timberlake, [June, 1857.] + +Mr. Fred. Prickett, [Jan., 1863.] + +Mr. Will. Burden, [Jan., 1863.] + +Mr. Will. Plowman, [Nov., 1863.] + +ATTENDANTS: + +Will. H. Allnutt, [Oct., 1864.] + +W. R. Sims, [May, 1867.] + +W. S. Plowman, [Sept., 1867.] + +BINDER: + +Edwin Hickman, [March, 1864.] + + * * * * * + +JANITOR: John Norris, [Oct., 1835.] + +DEPUTY-JANITOR: Robert Roby, [Dec., 1860.] + +JANITOR AT THE CAMERA RADCLIVIANA: W. Bayzand, [June, 1863.] + +[392] 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 _Oratio Sarisb. babita_, which records that it came to the +Library in that year: 'Ex dono Johannis Vernulii, hypobibliothecarii.' + +[393] His name first appears in 1746 as making out the accounts and +receiving money. + +[394] The reference to the source whence this quotation was taken has +been lost. + +[395] See Nichols' _Lit. Hist._ vol. v. p. 539. + +[396] _Ibid._ p. 541. + + + + +APPENDIX G. + + +_Rules of the Library._ + +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. + +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.e._ ordinarily at 11 o'clock. + +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. + +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. + + * * * * * + +The _Camera Radcliviana_, 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. + +The Statutes of the Library are printed in the general _Corpus +Statutorum Universitatis_. + + + + +INDEX. + + + ABBOT, Archbp., 36. + + Abbott, Robert, 36. + + Abel-Remusat, J. P., sale, 332. + + Abingdon, Earls of, 180, 281. + + Abulpharage, Gregory, 114. + + Acland (H. W.), M.D., 293, 294 _n._ + + Acton, Oliver, 184. + + Actor, Petrus, 113. + + Adams, Thomas, 36. + + Addison, Joseph, 223, 322. + + Adelaide, Q. Consort of Will. IV, 319. + + AEgidius Romanus, 111. + + AElfgiva, Abbess of Barking, 327. + + AEsop, 27 _n._ + + AEthiopic MSS., 63, 113, 215, 267. + + Aggas, Ralph, 335. + + Airy, G. B., 195. + + Albert, Prince, 252, 319. + + Albert of Aix, 296. + + Albertini, Albert, 202. + + Alcock, Thomas, 336. + + Aldines purchased, 117, 204, 229, 232 _n._, 242, 262, 300; + catalogued, 203. + + Aldred, --, M.A., 107. + + Aldrich, Henry, D.D., Dean of Ch. Ch., 119, 125, 336. + + Aldworth, Rev. John, 39. + + Ales, Alexander de, 111. + + Alexander, Romance of, 17. + + Aleyne, Richard, 314. + + Alfred the Great, transl. of Gregory's _Pastoral Care_, 100; + Preface to Gregory's _Dialogues_, _ib._; + coins, 264. + + Allen, --, 158. + + Allen, Fifield, M.A., 107. + + Allen, Thomas, M.A., donor, 19; + mentioned, 58. + + Allen, Thomas, Finchley, 57. + + Allibond, Dr. John, _Rustica Acad. Oxon. Desc._, 75. + + Al-malek, Alashraf Shalian, Sultan, 114. + + Almanacks, deemed unworthy of admission by Bodley, 66; + Clog almanacks, 105, 161, 325; + various almanacks, 183; + MS. astrological calendar, 329; + brass calendar, 333. + + Alstedius, J. H., _Systema Mnemon._, 43. + + Altham, Roger, D.D., 39. + + Altham, Roger, jun., M.A., 106. + + Alward, John, 315. + + American Tracts, 253, 254, 271; + Psalters, 264. + + Ames, Joseph, 200, 232. + + Anabat, Guil., 312. + + Anacreon, 298. + + Anderson, Sir Richard, donor, 49. + + Anglo-Saxon MSS., 19, 63, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104; + the _Chronicle_, 64; + list of some, in some priests' libraries, 25. + + Anne, Queen, 127, 137. + + Anstey, Rev. Henry, M.A., 7. + + Anstis, John, 178. + + Anwykyll, John, _Compend. Grammat._, 112 _n._ + + Apsley, Sir Peter, 185 _n._ + + Aquinas, St. Thomas, 285 _n._ + + Arabic MSS., 51, 59, 63, 76, 82 _n._, 91, 95, 113 _bis_, 199, 206, + 207, 208, 215, 225, 229, 231, 233, 267, 269, 289, 290, 294 _n._ + + Arbuthnot, Alex., 304. + + _Archaeologia_, cited, 338 _n._ + + Archimedes, 201. + + Arethas of Patras, 208, 215. + + Aretine, L., 8. + + Aristotle, 8, 111, 226. + + Armenian MSS., 63, 92, 113. + + Arnold, Samuel, Mus. D., 205. + + _Articles_ of 1562, with signatures of Convocation, 87. + + Arundel, Howard, Earl of, collector of Marbles and MSS., 102. + + Arundel Marbles, 138. + + Ashantee, Princes of, 319. + + Ashburnham, Earl of, 321. + + Asher, A., 275. + + Ashmole, Elias, 177; + his library, 287; + a MS. 327; + coins, 340. + + Ashton, John, or Eschyndone, 58. + + Asula, A. de, 261. + + Athelstan, King, 23. + + _Athenaeum_, 281, 295 _n._, 301. + + Atkins, Henry, M.D., 37. + + Atterbury, Francis, Bp. of Rochester, 336. + + Attila, 334. + + Aubigne, Sieur d', _Hist. Univ._, 72. + + Aubrey, John, MSS., 253, 288; + _Lives_ cited, 73, 77 _n._ + + Auerbach, Dr. I., 275. + + Aufrecht, Theod., M.A., 265, 270, 272, 294 _n._, 300. + + Augustine, St., of Hippo, 20 _n._, 253. + + Augustine, St., of Canterbury, his MS. of the Gospels, 24. + + Aurung-zebe, 158. + + Awdry, Sir J. W., donor, 337. + + Ayliffe, Dr. John, _Univ. of Oxford_ cited, 31, 38, 86 _n._ + + + BABER, Rev. H. H., M.A., Sub-librarian, 204, 217. + + Backer, A. De, _Bibl., des Ecr. de la Comp de Jes._ cited, 224 _n._ + + Bacon, Sir Francis, donor, 49; + _Works_, 50; + _Essays_, 51. + + Bacon, Roger, 58, 329. + + Bacon, Thomas Sclater, 184. + + Bagford, John, 112, 177, 178. + + Bailey, W., B.A., 239, 241. + + Bailly, Lud., 263. + + Baker, Thomas, B.D., 178, 212 _n._ + + Bale, John, Bp. of Ossory, 90, 239, 248. + + Ballard, George, his bequest, 186-8; + cited, 49, 52 _n._; + references to his MSS., 99, 156; + mentioned, 320. + + Balliol, Devorguilla de, 314. + + Bandinel, Bulkeley, D.D., mentioned, 82 _n._, 149, 215, 220, 237, 238, + 249, 273, 279, 336; + Sub-librarian, 217; + Librarian, 218; + resignation, 292; + death, 293; + sale of his library, 297. + + Banks, Sir Joseph, 194. + + Barges, J. J., 311. + + Barker, Christopher, 52, 171 _n._ + + Barker, E. H., 290. + + Barker, Robert, donor, 25; + mentioned, 36, 171 _n._ + + Barker, Robert, in 1631, 290 _n._ + + Barlow, Thomas, D.D., elected Librarian, 76; + draws up a paper against lending books, 79; + quotations from it, 50, 72, 77, 81-84; + Library accounts, 67, 69, 85; + mentioned, 58, 100 _n._; + resigns, 90; + interview with a R. C. priest, 91; + his books, 99, 111, 115, 119, 126, 129, 328. + + Barnes, J., mentioned, 41; + donor, 50. + + Barnes, Joshua, 178, 320. + + Barnes, Juliana, 160. + + Barocci, Giacomo, his MSS., 53-55, 130 _n._; + references to MSS., 83. + + Barrett, P., B.A., 235. + + Barrington, Shute, Bp. of Durham, donor, 231. + + Barthelemy, J. J., 162. + + Basire, James, 212 _n._, 213. + + Baskett, John, donor, 147. + + Basle, Council of, 51. + + Bassandyne, Thomas, 304. + + Bateman, --, 153. + + Bath, Countess of, 185 _n._ + + Battely, Oliver, M.A., 107. + + Bathurst, Ralph, M.D., donor, 88. + + Baudry, F., 184 _n._ + + Baxter, W. H., 309. + + Bayeux, 180. + + Beaumont, F., and Fletcher, J., 231. + + Bebseth, John, 315. + + Becket, Archbp. T. a, 29, 42, 104, 188. + + Becon, Thomas, 248. + + Beddoes, Thomas, M.D., makes complaint against Price, 197. + + Bede, cited, 64, 102, 327 _n._; + mentioned, 104. + + Bedell, William, Bp. of Kilmore, MS. papers, 176. + + Bedford, Bp. Hilkiah, 181. + + Bedford, William, M.A., 106, 181. + + Beet, T., bookseller, 42 _n._ + + Beever, Rev. F. J., donor, 338. + + Bell, Rev. John, 39. + + Bembi, Cardinal, 58. + + Benaliis, B. de, 310. + + Bengal, Asiatic Society of, donor, 269. + + Benius, Paulus, 50. + + Bennet, Sir John, mentioned, 36; + one of Bodley's executors, and a defalcator, 37. + + Bennet, Matthew, 37. + + Bent, Andrew, 233. + + Berkshire MSS., 212 _n._ + + Bernard, Edward, D.D., his books, 116, 117; + mentioned, 133; + _Catal. MSS._, 89, 94, 95, 101, 103, 104, 108, 110, 111, 113 _bis_, + 116, 117, 130 _n._, 287. + + Bernstein, Dr., 296. + + Berryer, M., 319. + + Besly, John, D.C.L., Sub-librarian, 242, 246. + + _Bestiaries_, 327-8. + + Beverland, Hadrian, 207. + + Bible, _Paris Polyglott_, 76; + _Hebr._ MS. 324, _pr._ 1488, 201; + _Latin_, MSS., 22, 224; + _c._ 1455 (Mazarine), 202; + 1462, on vellum, 161, on paper, 201; + _c._ 1470, 210; + 1471, _ib._; + (Strasb.) _n. d._, _ib._; + _Wickliffe's Version_, 96; + _Coverdale's_ 1535, 239, 321; + -- 1537, _ib._; + _Cromwell's_ 1539, 300; + _Cranmer's_ 1540, 1541, 1553, 239; + _Matthew's_ 1551, _ib._; + _Bishops'_ 1568, 233; + _First Scottish edit._ 1579, 304; + _Auth. Vers._ 1631, 290; + 1639, 53; + _Vinegar_ 1717, 147; + _Glasgow_ 1862, 330; + _Bowyer_, 244-5; + _Douay_, 49; + _Bohemian_, Ed. Pr., 283; + _Dutch_ 1637, 89; + _German_, Ed. Pr., 202; + 1466, 233; + Luther's 1541, 245, 330; + Royal Press, Berlin, 330; + Polish 1563, 229. + Old Test., _Syriac_, 107; + Pentateuch, _Hebr._ 1482, 226; + _Samaritan_, 296; + _Syriac_, 107; + _German_, 283; + Genesis, _Greek_, 283; + Psalters, _Lat._, 179, 249, 327; + 1459, 229; + _Archbp. Parker's_, 250; + _American_, 264; + _AEthiopic_, 1513, 89. + Apocrypha 1549, 233. + New Test., _Codex Ebner._ 229-30; + _Tyndale's_ 1534, 232; + -- 1536, 239; + _Coverdale's_ 1538, 302; + _Hollybush_ 1538, 239; + _Erasmus_ 1540, _ib._; + _C. Barker_, 52; + 1625, 53; + 1628, 53; + 1630, 53. + Evangeliaries, _Greek_, 94, 224. + Gospels, _Lat._, 104, 327; + _Lat._, (given by S. Gregory to S. Augustine), 24; + _Early English_, 100; + _Coptic_, 107; + _Russian_, 19; + _Syriac_, 56; + St. Luke, _Greek_, 283; + St. Luke and St. John, _Greek_, 283; + _Lat._, 179; + Acts, _Codex Laudianus_, 64; + _Biblia Pauperum_, 321 _n._; + _Apocalypse_ illustrated, MS., 321, 328; + MS. illustrations of the Bible, 324. + + Bill, John, 17, 53. + + Bilstone, John, M.A., + Janitor, 151, 152; + deprivation and death, 192. + + Bindings, 27 _n._, 49, 51-3, 57, 89, 230, 332. 333. + + Birch, Thomas, D.D., 172. + + Bishop, --, 205. + + Bishop, Sir Henry, 278. + + Black, W. H., 287, 289. + + Blackbourne, Bp. John, 169. + + Blacman, John, 318. + + Blackstone, Sir W., 320 _n._ + + Blackwood, Adam, 266 _n._ + + Blades, William, 155, 250, 262. + + Blakeway, Edward, M.A., 107. + + Blakeway, Rev. J. B., Shropshire MSS., 263. + + Blakeway, Richard, M.A., 106. + + Blayney, Benjamin, D.D., 198. + + Bliss, Rev. Nathaniel, 194. + + Bliss, Philip, D.C.L., his sale, 97, 289; + cited, 117, 152, 171 _n._; + mentioned, 178, 180, 192 _n._, 196, 215, 216, 219 _n._, 220, 235, + 236, 242, 245, 257 _n._, 320 _n._ + + Bliss, W. H., M.A., 117. + + Block-books, 321. + + Blow, Dr. John, 205. + + Bloxam, J. R., D.D., _Regist. of Magd. Coll._, cited, 188, 210. + + Blunt, J. H., M.A., 132 _n._ + + Bobart, J., 115. + + Boccaccio, Giovanni, 8, 296, 330. + + Bodleian Library, see 'Stationers' Company;' + central room built to receive Duke Humphrey's books, 7; + destruction of his library, 11-12; + re-foundation by Bodley, 14; + roof, 14-15; + register of benefactors, 16; + opened, 24; + styled the Bodleian by letters patent, 25; + eastern wing built, 29; + great window, _ib._; + endowments, 32; + western wing built, 60; + statute 1813, 218; + new statutes 1856, 284; + first catalogue 1605, 207; + second 1620, 46, 91; + appendix 1635, 60; + prices of these catalogues, 60; + third 1674, 97, 156-7; + Hearne's Appendix, 123; + fourth 1738, 156; + fifth 1843, 268; + new catalogue now in progress, 291; + Uri's catalogue of Oriental MSS., 199; + catalogues + of pictures, 189; + of early printed books 1795, 203; + number + of books 1620, 46-7; + of MSS. 1690, 110; + of printed books and MSS. + 1714, 137; + 1849, 274; + 1867, 305; + remonstrance from foreign readers against an order of the Curators, 68; + loan to Charles I, 37, 69; + supposed attempt to burn the library, 70; + attendance of readers + in 1648-9, 75; + in 1730-40, 152; + duplicates exchanged with Queen's College, 115; + sales of duplicates, 160, 201, 297, 298; + western end re-floored, 191; + annual payment from graduates, 195; + books not allowed to be borrowed, 50, 82 _n._; + borrowing allowed + by Lord Pembroke and Sir T. Roe, 51; + by Sir K. Digby, 59; + loan of books refused + to Bp. Williams, 50; + to Charles I, 72; + to Cromwell, 76; + to the translators of the Bible, 82 _n._; + to Archbp. Laud, _ib._; + granted by special grace, from some collections, to Selden, 79; + MSS. lent + to Marshall, 100; + to the French government by Convocation, 295; + removal of books forbidden 1686, 109; + books returned-- + to Univ. Libr., Cambr., 154; + to Emman. Coll., Cambr., 159; + to Magd. and Univ. Coll., Oxf., 215; + to Durham, 216; + to two parishes, 234; + books stolen, 74, 80 _n._, 81, 103 _n._; + denunciation of a thief by the Curators, 80 _n._; + books restored, 81, 82, 103 _n._; + chains for books, 86; + pamphlets, 66, 194, 202, 290; + dispute between the Hebdomadal Board and the Curators, 198; + poem on the Library, 196; + returns to House of Commons, 227, 273, 274; + Greek text affixed to the door, 209; + coldness in winter formerly, 98; + warming apparatus, 234-5; + the Radcliffe building assigned as a reading-room, 293, 295; + visited + by James I, 26, 41, + by Charles I, 55, 70, + by Charles II, 92, + by James II, 109, + by George III, 197, + by her present Majesty, 319; + American visitor's account cited, 134 _n._; + order in 1722 against admission of readers at unstatutable times, 74; + Anatomy Sch., 132, 134, 136, 140; + assigned to the Library, 200; + heads formerly on the wall of Picture Gallery, 138; + the clock, 182 _n._; + librarians' celibacy, 21; + stipends of officers in 1655-7, 87; + stipends of Sub-librarians, 260; + in 1856, 284; + list of officers, 341-343; + rules, 344. + + Bodley, Gerard, 160. + + BODLEY, Sir Thomas; early career, 12-13; + begins to restore the Library, 14; + his motto, 15; + bust, 26; + desires the Catalogue to be dedicated to the Prince of Wales, 27; + builds eastern wing, 29; + said to have given plate to the Stationers' Company on their agreement + with him, 32; + endows the Library, 32; + forbad the borrowing of books, 82 _n._; + his bell, 33; + his chest, _ib._; + death, 37; + charged with neglect of his relatives, 38; + petition from his grand-nephew and niece, 39; + portrait, 336; + portrait on glass at Oriel Coll., 45 _n._; + annual Bodley speech, 105; + _Reliquiae Bodleianae_ cited, 14, 16, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 31, 33, 40, + 42, 88; + mentioned, 138; + books with his autograph, 32, 296; + _Justa Funebria Bodlei_ cited, 26, 37; + _Bodleiomnema_, 37. + + Bodley, Capt. Sir Josias, 13 _n._; + donor, 21. + + Bodley, Laurence, 13 _n._ + + Bodley, Miles, 13 _n._ + + Boethius, 23. + + Boileau, Nic., 298. + + Bois, Sim. du, 312. + + Bokelonde, Thomas, 8 _n._ + + Boleyn, Queen Anne, 333; + book which belonged to her, 27. + + Bolingbroke, Lord, 175. + + Boninis, B. de, 312. + + Bonner, Edm., Bishop of London, 239. + + Bonyngton, W., 313. + + Boone, T., 304. + + Booth, John, Bp. of Exeter, 317 _n._ + + Borlase, Dr. W., 289. + + Boswell, James, _Life of Johnson_, 188 _n._ + + Boswell, James, 231. + + Boswell, Sir W., 322. + + Botel, Henry, 303. + + Boucher, Rev. Jonathan, 254. + + Bourgchier, Sir H., 54. + + Bowcher, G., donor, 149. + + Bowen, James, donor, 163, 321. + + Bowles, Joseph, M.A.; Dr. Hudson's servitor, 139, 140; + elected Librarian, 144; + Hearne's character of him, 145, 146; + began to print a new Catalogue, 158; + demanded payment for making lists, 171 _n._; + death, 151. + + Bown, John, M.A., 342. + + Bowyer, Sir George, donor, 260. + + Bowyer, Rob.; his illustrated Bible, 244. + + Boyce, William, Mus. D., 205. + + Boydell, J., 258. + + Boyle, Robert; _History of the Air_, 124. + + Boys, John, D.D., 36. + + Bradley, Dr. James; MSS. of his _Astron. Observations_, 193, 195. + + Bradshaw, Henry, M.A., Cambr., 112 _n._, 155. + + Brahe, Tycho; _Astron. Mechan._, with original MSS. additions, 58. + + Braidwood, --, 234, 284. + + Breamore, Hants, 131. + + Bredon, Simon, 58. + + Brent, Charles, M.A., 107. + + Bresslau, M. H., 114. + + Brett, Lieut., 289. + + Breviaries, 213, 280, 303, 310, 311. + + Brewer, J. S., M.A., 166. + + Brewster, William, M.D., 142. + + Bridgeman, William; his sale, 173, 184. + + Bridges, John; Northamptonshire collections, 204. + + Bridges, Nath., D.D., 204. + + Brie, Joh. de, 312. + + Bright, B. H., donor, 232 _n._; + sale, 270. + + Brightwell, Rich., _i.e._ J. Frith, _q.v._ + + Bristol, Charter, 180. + + Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 240. + + British Museum; various MSS., 10, 19 _n._, 101, 102, 153, 180; + printed books, 246 _n._, 272. + + Britton, John, 253 _n._, 288. + + Broad, J., 285. + + Brooke, Margaret, donor, 57. + + Brooks, --, glass-painter, 193. + + Brougham, Lord, 319. + + Brounst, Richard, 314. + + Brown, Thomas R., M.A., 260 _n._ + + Brown, Thomas, 196 _n._ + + Browne, Arthur, M.A., 268. + + Browne, Lancelot, M.D., donor, 22. + + Browne, Sir Thomas, 177. + + Bruce, James; his MSS., 266-8. + + Bruce, John, 61. + + Bruno, S., 179. + + Bry, J. T. de, 279. + + Buckeridge, John, Bp. of Rochester, 36. + + Buckhurst, Lord. See _Dorset_. + + Buckingham, George, first Duke, 51, 54, 334. + + Buckingham, Sheffield, Duke of; portrait, 148. + + Buckinghamshire MSS., 190. + + Bugenhagen, J., 246 _n._ + + Bull, George, Bp. of St. David's, 320 _n._ + + Bull, N., Janitor, 189. + + Bulls relating to England, 110. + + Bunsen, Chevalier, 319. + + Bunyan, John, 304. + + Burbache, John, 316. + + Burdett-Coutts, Miss, 42 _n._ + + Bure, G. F. de, 200, 321 _n._ + + Bures, Suffolk, parish register, 234. + + Burgess, Thos., Bp. of St. David's, 196. + + Burgo, D. de, 8. + + Burgred, King of Mercia, 185. + + Burmese MSS., 240, 326. + + Burn, J. H., 297. + + Burn, J. S., cited, 290 _n._ + + Burnet, Gilbert, Bp. of Salisbury, 175, 238, 251, 254, 276; + _Life of Hale_ cited, 77, 85. + + Burnett, Alex., Archbp. of St. Andrew's, 155 _n._ + + Burnford, Humphrey, Librarian, 11. + + Burton, Daniel, M.A., 107. + + Burton, Robert; his gift of printed books, 65-7, 111. + + Burton, Archd. Samuel, 57. + + Burton, Thomas, M.A., 106. + + Burton, William, donor, 56. + + Bury, Philip of, Bp. of Durham; his library at Durham College, 4. + + Bury St. Edmund's, abbey register, 154 _n._ + + Butler, Charles, 247. + + Butler, Samuel, Bp. of Lichfield, 262. + + Butler, William, M.D., 333. + + Button, James, donor, 44. + + Byron, Lord, 227. + + + CADELL, T., 166. + + Caedmon, 102, 327. + + Calamy, Edmund, 320 _n._ + + Calcott, John, B.D., 221. + + Calcutta, 338. + + Caldecott, Thomas, donor, 247. + + Calder, --, coins, 340. + + Camac, Turner, donor, 199. + + Cambridge, Statutes of various Colleges, 179; + Corp. Chr. Coll., MS. there, 24; + fragment there, 112 _n._; + Emmanuel Coll., book restored to the College, 159; + St. John's Coll., fragment there, 112 _n._; + Univ. Library, 112 _n._; + MSS. restored to Moore's Library, 154 _n._; + return to House of Commons of books rejected, 227; + map, 335. + + Camden, William, donor, 19; + MS. collections, 196 _n._; + engraved portrait, 336; + _Britannia_ and _Annales Eliz._, 153. + + Canonici, M. L., his MSS., 223-6, 230 _n._, 310; + fragments of vellum Bible, 161. + + Canons, early MSS., 100, 103. + + Canterbury, MSS. from St. Augustine's, 22, 24; + Statutes of the Cathl., 179. + + Capgrave, John, 10, 178. + + Carew, Sir G., MSS., 64 _n._ + + Carleton, Sir Dudley, and Alice, 38, 48 _n._ + + Carmey, Angel, 182 _n._ + + Carte, Thomas, his MSS., 165-7; + _Letters_ cited, 75. + + Cary, Henry, M.A., 268; + _Mem. of the Civ. War_, 154. + + Casaubon, Isaac, writes verses on Bodley's death, 37; + his _Adversaria_, 95. + + Casaubon, Meric, bequeathed his father's _Adversaria_, 95. + + Cassel, D., 275 _n._ + + Cassini, --, 205. + + Castell, Edmund, D.D., 150. + + Castlemain, Lord, 173. + + Catalogues, Sale, 248. + + Catherine, S., 178. + + Cato, 43. + + Caulfield, Richard, LL.D., donor, 311, 340. + + Cave, Sir Thomas, donor, 188. + + Cawood, John, 171 _n._ + + Caxton, William, _Descr. of Brit._, 88; + _Governayle of Health_, 155; + _Ars Moriendi_, 155 + _Game of Chesse_, 163; + _Recuyell of Troye_, 163; + _Horae_, 250; + _Booke of Curtesye_, 250; + _Dictes_, 262; + _Chronicle_, 280, 321; + _Pilgrimage_, 328; + placard, 250. + + Cecil, R., Lord Burleigh, 171 _n._ + + Celotti, Abate, 230 _n._ + + Chace, Thomas, Chanc. of Oxford, 7 _n._ + + Chains for books, 86; + books unchained, 191. + + Chalmers, Alexander, donor, 212 _n._ + + Chalmers, George, sale, 248 _n._, 254. + + Chamberlain, John, 38, 48 _n._ + + Chamberlayne, Edward, LL.D., papers, 176; + _State of Great Brit._, 237. + + Chambers, Sir R., 337. + + Chambre, W. de, _Hist. Dunelm._ cited, 4 _n._ + + Chandler, Richard, D.D., 162. + + Chandos, James Brydges, Duke of, his sale, 147, 165 _n._, 184. + + Chapman, --, bookseller, 201. + + Chapman, George, 231. + + Chappiel, Anth., 312. + + Charlemagne, 250. + + Charles I, visits the Library, 55, 70; + his application to borrow a book refused, 71-2; + loan of money to him, 37, 69; + book said to be bound in a piece of his waistcoat, 53; + book that belonged to him, 178; + _Catalogue_ ded. to him in 1620, 46; + letters, 154, 289; + Treaty in Isle of Wight, 187; + bust, 61; + portraits, 148, 255; + mentioned, 54, 111, 171 _n._, 331, 334. + + Charles II, visits the Library, 92; + platter from the Royal Oak, 324; + oak planted by him in St. James' Park, 135; + letters, 173; + portraits, 255; + mentioned, 237, 258. + + Charlett, Arthur, D.D., 99, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 127, 128, 136, + 145, 171 _n._, 187; + book-plate, 186. + + Charlotte, Q. Consort of George III, 197. + + Chartier, Alan, 18 _n._, 215. + + Chaucer, Geoffrey, 96, 178, 336. + + Chaworth, Dr., 69. + + Cheke, Sir John, 56. + + Cherry, Francis, his MSS., 52, 151. + + Chester Cathedral, 179. + + Chettle, H., 298. + + Cheshire MSS., 265. + + Chichester, 180. + + _Children of the Chapel_, 156 _n._ + + Chinese books, 28, 63, 91, 208, 284, 338; + Chinese visitors, 109, 320; + Chinese figures, &c., 338. + + Chipping-Barnet, 180. + + Christian, Charles, 183. + + Christie, --, auctioneer, 267. + + Chrysanthus, Patr. of Jerusalem, donor, 143. + + Churchill, A., _Voyages_, 124. + + Churchill, Sir Winston, 320 _n._ + + Churchyard, Thomas, two of his tracts stolen, 81. + + Citium, in Cyprus, 162. + + Clapham, John, donor, 28. + + Clarendon, Edward, first Earl of, donor, 94; + his MSS., 163, 289, 294 _n._; + resignation of Chanc. of Univ., 323; + Gray's copy of his _History_, 276. + _v._ Sutherland. + + Clarendon, Edward, third Earl, 164. + + Clarendon, H., Earl of, MSS., 184, 281. + + Clarke, --, 115. + + Clarke, Edw. D., LL.D., his MSS., 215. + + Clarke, Sam., M.A., his MSS., 95, 268. + + Clarke, William, _Repert. Bibl._ cited, 255 _n._, 305. + + Clarke, W. N., D.C.L., _Collection of Letters_, 154; + Berkshire MSS., 212 _n._ + + Clavell, Walter, 184. + + Claymond, John, 11. + + Clayton, Dr. John, 81. + + Cleaver, E., Bp. of St. Asaph, 192. + + Clement VIII, Pope, 283, 310. + + Clements, --, bookseller, 144. + + Cloyne, 311. + + Cobbe, Richard, M.A., 149. + + Cobham, Thomas, Bp. of Worcester, first founder of the Univ. Library, 3. + + Cobham, Lord, donor, 22. + + Cockburn, John, D.D., and his son, 127. + + Coins and Medals, 61, 75, 88, 93, 124, 125, 182, 190, 191, 203, 264, + 291, 294 _n._; + Catalogue ordered to be made, 76; + enlarged by Hearne, 123; + coin-room, 339, 340. + + Cole, T., 212 _n._ + + Colf, R., D.D., his sons, donors, 44. + + Collier, Bp. Jeremy, M.A., 168 _n._ + + Collins, Richard, 36. + + Columba, S., 64, 176. + + Compton, Henry, Bp. of London; MS. papers, 154 _n._, 175; + mentioned, 127. + + Conde, J. Ant., 238. + + Connock, Richard, donor, 42. + + Constance, Council of, _Acta_, 9, 58. + + Cook, Captain, _Voyages_, 198. + + Cooper, or Cowper, George, M.A., 121. + + Cooper, Samuel, 336. + + Cope, Sir Walter, donor, 22. + + Coptic, MSS. 107, 149, 150, 267. + + Corbinelli, J., 296. + + Cornbury, Henry Hyde, Lord, donor of the Clarendon MSS., 163. + + _Cornhill Magazine_, 280, 302 _n._ + + Cornish MSS., 44. + + Cosin, Richard, LL.D., 170 _n._ + + Cotton, Archd. Henry, Sub-librarian, 220; + mentioned, 223, 235; + _List of Bibles_ cited, 97; + _Typogr. Gaz._ cited, 112 _n._, 162 _n._, 244, 303, 310 _n._; + donor, 311. + + Cotton, Sir R., donor, 24; + MS. from his library, 96 _n._; + mentioned 9, 86. + + Courayer, F. le, papers and portrait, 205. + + Coventrey, Thomas, 37. + + Coventry, placards, &c., 298. + + Coverdale, Miles, Bp. of Exeter, 239, 277, 302. + + Coward, William, M.D., donor, 119. + + Cowderoy, W., Janitor, 189. + + Cowley, Abraham, his _Poems_, given by him, 45 _n._; + verses on Drake's chair, 95. + + Cowper, William, 45. + + Cox, C. H., M.A., Sub-librarian, 240, 242. + + Coxe, H. O., M.A., Sub-librarian, 261; + Librarian, 293; + mentioned, 19 _n._, 29, 43, 64, 112, 169 _n._, 172, 182, 194, 196 + _n._, 279, 280, 289 _n._, 291, 298, 328; + _Catalogues_, 55, 65, 87, 89, 95, 108, 149, 186, 223 _n._, 225, 230, + 238, 251; + donor, 212 _n._ + + Crabb, John, M.A., Sub-librarian, 131-2. + + Crabb, Jos., M.A., Sub-librarian, 129-131. + + Crabb, William, 131. + + Crabeth, --, 228. + + Cranmer, Thomas, Archbp. of Cant., Autograph, 17 _n._ + + Cremer, Henry, M.A., 107. + + Crevenna, P. A., sale, 201. + + Crew, --, M.A., 92. + + Crewe, Nathaniel, Bp. of Durham, donor, 92, 162; + portrait, 336. + + Croft, William, Mus. D., 205, 206. + + Cromwell, Henry, 322. + + Cromwell, Oliver, gift of Greek MSS., 55, 89; + applies for the loan of a MS., but is refused, 76; + letters, 154; + _Memoirs_, 227; + portraits, 255. + + Cromwell, Richard, 55 _n._ + + Croydon, 180. + + Crynes, Nathaniel, M.A., his bequest, 159, 160; + had some duplicates from the Bodleian, 46. + + Crystall, John, 313. + + Cuerdale coins, 264. + + Cuper, Gisb., 207. + + Cureton, William, D.D., Sub-librarian, 251, 259. + + Curll, Edmund, 322. + + Curtis, --, 200. + + Cyprian, S., 290. + + + DALRYMPLE, 258. + + Daly, Robert, Bp. of Cashel, sale, 321. + + Damascius, 108. + + Daniel, G., 42 _n._ + + Danish visitors to the Library, 137. + + Dante, 226 _n._ + + Davids, A. L., 115. + + Davies, John, Deptford, donor, 94. + + Davies, John, Hereford, 171 _n._ + + Davis, Richard, donor, 105. + + Davis, William, M.A., 107. + + Davy, Capt. L. H., donor, 226. + + Davy, William, A.B., 259. + + Davydge, Richard, donor, 76. + + Dawkins, Henry, gift of MSS., 188-9. + + Dawson, Thomas, 36. + + Daye, John, 233. + + Decker, Thomas, 231, 298. + + Dee, Dr. John, papers, 177; + mentioned, 169 _n._, 318. + + Defoe, Daniel, 302. + + Delahogue, L. AE., 263. + + Delaram, Francis, 171 _n._ + + Denyer, John, 238. + + Denyer, Mrs. Eliz. D., bequest, 238-9. + + Deptford, 94. + + Derby, Geoffrey, Earl of, donor, 281. + + Derby, Prior Stephen, 179. + + De Rossi, J. B., 225. + + Desborough, Major-Gen., donor, 90. + + Devonshire, Duke of, 340. + + Devonshire MSS., 268. + + D'Ewes, Sir Symonds, 10. + + Dibdin, Dr. T. F., cited, 18, 19, 114, 130 _n._, 208, 209, 215, 222, + 224, 248; + mentioned, 258. + + Dickens, Guy, donor, 161. + + Digby, Sir Kenelm, his MSS., 58, 318; + Allen's MSS. included, 20; + willing that they should be lent, 59, 79, 240; + his portraits, 196, 336. + + Dillmann, Dr. A., 65, 268. + + Dillon, Viscount, 112 _n._ + + Dionysius Halicarnassus, 189. + + Dionysius Syrus, 108. + + Disney, Dr. John, 227. + + D'Israeli, Is., cited, 326 _n._ + + Ditchley, Oxon., 112 _n._ + + Dissertations, Academic, 240-1. + + Dix, James, 335. + + Dix, John, 36. + + Djami, 325, 332. + + Dodd, --, 220 _n._ + + Dodd, Thomas, 251. + + Dodsworth, Roger, his MSS., 96, 97; + mentioned, 99. + + Dodwell, Henry, M.A., 152, 178, 320 _n._ + + Dolben, Gilbert, and J. E., donors, 237. + + Dolben, Sir J. E., Sheldon and Dolben papers, 237-8. + + Donatus, 262. + + Donkin, W. F., M.A., 277. + + Donne, John, D.D., 86. + + Dormer, Sir Michael, donor, 25. + + Dornford, Rev. Jos., donor, 326. + + Dorset, Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of, donor of books, + 17; + of Bodley's bust, 26. + + Dorset, C. Sackville, Earl of, 173. + + D'Orville, J. P., his MSS., 207-8. + + Dositheus, 143. + + Douce, Francis, his library, 249-251; + mentioned, 257 _n._, 267, 336; + references to books, 53, 310, 311, 321 _n._, 327, 329-332; + coins, 340. + + Doughty, Bp. Henry, 169. + + Douglas, James, M.D., 248. + + Douglas, John, Bp. of Salisbury, donor, 164; + mentioned, 267. + + Drake, Sir F., his chair, 94. + + Drake, Francis, donor, 96 _n._ + + Drummond, W., of Hawthornden, 266. + + Drusius, J., cited, 13 _n._ + + Dryden, John, 178. + + Dublin, 176, 179. + + Dubourg, --, 338. + + Du Chesne, Andr., _Hist. Fr. Scriptt._, 57. + + Dugdale, Sir W., donor, 104; + MSS. 177, 287, 288. + + Dukes, Leopold, 114. + + Dukes, T. F., 264. + + Duncan, J. S. and P. B., donors, 236. + + Dune, Thomas, 314. + + Dunstan, St., MSS., 20. + + Dunton, John, 177. + + Durandus, Gul., 229. + + Durham, Register of Bp. Kellow, 216. + + Dury, John, MS. papers, 176. + + Dutch tracts, 228, 258. + + Dyak language, first books printed in the, 303. + + Dysart, Earl of, 155. + + + EASTCOT, Daniel, 81. + + East India, portraits of Rajahs, 158. + + East India Company, donors, 208, 223, 260. + + Eberbach, 318. + + Ebner, J. W., 229. + + Eccard, J. G., restored some papers stolen from Bodleian, 103 _n._ + + Edelmann, H., 114, 275. + + Eden, Robert, M.A., 235. + + Edgeman, William, 165 _n._ + + Edgeworth, Miss, 227. + + Edmonds, Sir Clement, donor, 49. + + Edmund of Pounteney, S., Archbp. of Canterbury, 101. + + Edward the Confessor, 328. + + Edward I, 185, 329. + + Edward III, 328. + + Edward IV, 87. + + Edward VI, mentioned, 56, 282, 331; + exercise-book, 325. + + Edward, Thomas, M.A., account of him, 149, 150. + + Edwardes, Thomas, 36. + + Ekerman, Peter, 241 _n._ + + Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII, 120. + + Elizabeth, Queen, exercise-book, 325; + gloves, _ib._; + MSS. presented to her, 49, 326; + books bound by her, 52, 152; + books translated and written by her, 52, 331; + proclamations in her reign, 170 _n._; + roundels, 339; + mentioned, 307, 308. + + Elizabeth, Q. of Bohemia, 336. + + Elkins, W. H., 300. + + Elliott, J. B., his gift of MSS., &c., 290-1, 340. + + Ellis, Sir Henry, D.C.L., Sub-librarian, 204-5; + _Letters of Literary Men_, cited, 9, 24, 54, 121; + _Polydore Virgil_, 11; + _Remarks on Caedmon_, 103. + + Elmham, Thomas, cited, 24 _n._, 25. + + Elphinstone, Bp., _Chron. of Scotl._, 96. + + Elstob, William and Mary, 187. + + English, Thomas, 316. + + _Enoch, Book of_, 267. + + Erasmus, Des., 144 _n._, 239, 336. + + Erfurt, MSS. from, 285. + + Erpenius, Thomas, 54. + + Essex, Robert, second Earl of, donor, 17; + mentioned, 24, 48. + + Eton College, 175. + + Etty, Simeon J., M.A., 239, 259. + + Euclid, the D'Orville MS., 207. + + Eulenberg, Baron ab, 68. + + Eusebius, 238 _n._ + + Eustace, G., 311. + + Euthymius Zigabenus, 108. + + Eutychius, or Eutex, 20. + + Evans, Rev. F., 284. + + Evans, Messrs., 276 _n._ + + Evelyn, John, donor, 88; + letters, 287. + + Ewart, William, M.P., 273. + + Exeter, MSS. given by Dean and Chapter, 23; + Statutes of the Cathedral, 179. + + Exeter, Cecil, Earl of, donor, 44. + + Eyre, Dr., 190. + + Eyston, Charles, 213 _n._ + + + FABER, John, 258. + + Fadir, Peter, 317. + + Faermen, 104. + + Fairfax, Sir Thomas, his bequest of MSS., 95-7; + versions of Psalms, &c., 97, 289; + reference to MSS., 18 _n._, 314; + preserved the Library when Oxford surrendered, 72. + + Falkland, Lucius, Lord, 70, 71. + + Fanshaw, John, M.A., 107. + + Farmer, Anthony, 109. + + Fawkes, Guy, lantern, 67. + + Fees of Visitors, 133, 114, 266. + + Fell, John, Bp. of Oxford, his MSS., 108-9, 120; + mentioned, 125, 150. + + Fell, Samuel, Dean of Ch. Ch., 72. + + Fenton, John, 338. + + Fenton, Samuel, M.A., 222, 229. + + Fenton, Thomas, M.A., 107. + + Ferrand, William, 36. + + Ferrar, Richard, 53 _n._ + + _Festivale_, 112. + + Fetherstone, Henry, donor, 31, 54 _n._ + + Field, Richard, 36. + + Finnish MSS., 22. + + Firth, Richard, M.A., 259, 263. + + Fisher, John, Bp. of Rochester, 239. + + Fitz-James, R., Bp. of Chichester, 316. + + Fitz-William, John, D.D., 177. + + Flecher, --, Librarian, 11. + + Fleetwood, William, Bp. of Ely, 141, 170 _n._, 329. + + Fletcher, John, M.A., Sub-librarian, 141; + resigns, 146. + + Fletcher, Ald. William, donor, 29, 30, 211; + buried at Yarnton, 30 _n._; + bust, _ib._ + + Florence, MSS. sent thence with merchandise, 226 _n._ + + Foley, Lord, 147. + + Foliot, Gilbert, Bp. of London, 188. + + Folkes, Martin, 174. + + Foreigners in the Library, 68, 137. + + Forster, Henry, M.A., 241, 252. + + Foster, --, 282. + + Foster, N., 341. + + Fotherby, Charles and Martin, 36. + + Foucault, Nicholas Jos., 161, 179, 184. + + Foulkes, E. S., B.D., 277. + + Foulkes, Mrs. Edmund, donor, 319. + + Foulkes, Thomas, M.A., 107. + + Fountaine, Sir Andrew, 134. + + Fouquet, --, 236. + + Fowler, Edward, Bp. of Gloucester, 131. + + Foxe, John, 19, 318. + + France, drawings of monuments, 213-214; + atlas of, 205; + French tracts, 270; + French MSS., 63, 177, 215. + + Francis, C., M.A., donor, 113. + + Frankland, Thomas, letter, 108. + + Franklin, Sir John, 319. + + Frappaz, Jules, 214. + + Frazer, --, MSS., 294 _n._ + + Frederick, King of Bohemia, 258. + + Frederick, Elector Palatine, 336. + + Frederick, Prince of Wales, epitaph, 160. + + Freke, Ralph and William, donors, 88. + + Frere, E., _Livres de Liturgie_, &c., 213 _n._ + + Frewin, Richard, M.A., 107. + + Frewin, Richard, M.D., 294 _n._ + + Frith, John, _pseudon._ Brightwell, 239. + + Froben, Joh., 337. + + Fry, Francis, 321. + + Fulke, Will., editions of his _Annotations_ in the Library, 41. + + Fuller, Richard, 314. + + Fuller, Thomas, _Ch. Hist._ cited, 85. + + Furney, Archdeacon Richard, his bequest, 184. + + Fuerst, Jul., _Bibl. Jud._ cited, 243 _n._ + + Fust and Schoiffer, books printed by, 161, 201, 229. + + Fyloll, Jasper, 19. + + Fysher, Robert, M.B., elected Librarian, 151; + publishes a catalogue of the printed books, 156, 158; + his death, 160; + charged with neglect, 161; + coins, _ib._ + + + GAGUINUS, Rob., 26. + + Galanus, C., 316 _n._ + + Gagnieres, --, 213. + + Gaisford, Thomas, D.D., Dean of Ch. Ch., 208, 215, 223. + + Gale, Samuel, 184. + + Gandy, Bp. Henry, M.A., 169, 177. + + Gardiner, Richard, 48. + + Gardner, Dunn, sale, 322. + + Garlick, F. O., B.A., 212 _n._ + + Garrett, W. W., B.A., 273. + + Garter, Order of the, 179. + + Gascoigne, Thomas, D.D., 20 _n._, 316. + + Gassendi, P., 336. + + Gent, William, donor, 17, 177 _n._ + + Gentilis, Alb. and Scipio, 207. + + George, Prince of Denmark, 185 _n._ + + George I, 131, 175. + + George III, visits the Library, 197; + donor, 198. + + George IV, donor, 216, 223. + + Gentleman's Magazine, cited, 155 _n._, 199 _n._, 205 _n._, 214 _n._, + 217, 222 _n._, 231, 293, 302, 338; + bought, 218 _n._ + + German MSS., 63. + + Gerhard, J. A., 241 _n._ + + Gesenius, Guil., _Ph[oe]n. Monumenta_ cited, 163; + autograph, 319; + sale, 270. + + Gianfilippi, P. de', 230 _n._ + + Gibbon, Anthony, 175. + + Gibbon, Edward, 320 _n._ + + Gibbs, James, 294 _n._ + + Gibson, Edmund, Bp. of London, 187 _n._ + + Gidding, Little, 53. + + Gigli, Gir., _Vocab. Caterin._ cited, 226 _n._ + + Gildas, 20. + + Giles, J. A., D.C.L., 188, 260 _n._ + + Girardenguz, Nic., 310. + + Girardot, Paul, 321 _n._ + + Girdlers' Company, donors, 49. + + Giulio Romano, 251. + + Glastonbury, Chartulary, 110; + survey of lands, 162. + + Gloucester Cathedral, 185. + + Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of, 19 _n._--_v._ Humphrey. + + Gloucestershire, 187. + + Glover, Robert, 174. + + Glynn, H., 271. + + Gocthan, Thomas, Archbp. of, his labours, 126; + visits the Library, 127; + donor, 127-8. + + Godar, Guil., 312. + + Godschall, W. M., 164. + + Godwyn, Charles, M.A., his bequest, 193; + coins, 340. + + Goetz, G. H., 241 _n._ + + Goldberg, Dr. B., 311. + + Goldenthal, Dr. J., 243. + + Golius, Jac., 133. + + Gompertz, Dr. T., 216. + + Gonzaga, Leonora, 249. + + Good, John, M.A., 90. + + Goodwin, T., 81. + + Goodyear, Aaron, donor, 105. + + Gordon, Sir J. W., 304. + + Gouda, 228. + + Gough, Richard, his library, 211-215; + _Brit. Topogr._ cited, 87, 153, 175 _n._, 212 _n._, 253 _n._; + mentioned, 257 _n._; + references to books, 57, 120 _n._, 171 _n._, 311. + + Gower, Rev. F., 265. + + Gower, John, 19 _n._, 96, 237, 336. + + Grabe, J. E., D.D., his MSS., 149; + autograph, 320 _n._ + + Graevius, J. G., 179. + + Grafton, Richard, 300. + + Grant, Sir F. A., 281. + + Granville, Denis, D.D., Dean of Durham, 177. + + Grascome, Bp. Samuel, 177. + + Graves, Richard, 184. + + Gray, Charles, M.P., donor, 162. + + Gray, Thomas, 276. + + Greaves, T., D.D., his MSS., 103, 325. + + Greek MSS., 50, 53, 55, 63, 64, 78, 94, 108, 151, 153, 207, 215, 223, + 224, 229, 230, 238, 246, 282. + + Green, Charles, 194. + + Greene, Maurice, Mus. D., 205, 206. + + Greene, Robert, 231. + + Greenhill, W. A., M.D., 277, 278. + + Greensted, Essex, 335. + + Gregoriis, Jac. de, donor, 92. + + Gregory, St., MSS. of his _Pastorale_, 23, 100; + _Dialogues_, 100; + _Sacram._, 262. + + Gregory Nazianzen, 115. + + Gregory, David, M.A., 107. + + Gregory, David, M.D., 119. + + Gregory, Henry, M.A., 107. + + Grene, John, D.D., 112, 313. + + Grenville, Lord, 223. + + Gresham Statutes, 180. + + Greville, Col. Charles, 253. + + Grey, Sir C., donor, 240. + + Griffiths, John, M.A., 34 _n._, 211 _n._ + + Griffiths, Ralph, LL.D., 260. + + Grimani, Doge of Venice, 58. + + Grise, Jehan de, 18. + + Gronovius, J. F., 320 _n._ + + Grosteste, Roger, Bp. of Lincoln, 20 _n._, 58, 101. + + Grove, Edmund, 251, 266. + + Gucht, --, Van der, 168. + + Guildford, Earl of, 286. + + Guilevile, G., 328. + + Guillim, John, 174, 187. + + Gutch, John, B.D., editor of _Anth. Wood_, _q.v._; + mentioned, 219 _n._ + + Gutenberg, J., 202, 321. + + Guthrie, --, 164. + + Gyles, Fletcher, 172. + + + HACKMAN, Alfred, M.A., mentioned, 154, 268, 277; + Sub-librarian, 298. + + Haddan, A. W., B.D., 20 _n._ + + Haden, Messrs., 235. + + Hagembach, Petr., 311. + + Haghe, Inghilb., 311. + + Hake, Robert, M.A., 170 _n._ + + Hakewill, William, 37. + + Hale, Sir Matthew, 77, 86 _n._ + + Hale, Archdeacon W. H., 29 _n._ + + Halifax, Montagu, Earl of, 184. + + Hall, --, 158. + + Hall, Rev. --, donor, 223. + + Hall, Anthony, D.D., 28, 56, 145. + + Hall, Fitz-Edward, donor, 291. + + Hall, Henry, 73. + + Hall, Bp. Joseph, 49. + + Hall, Susannah and William, 301. + + Hall, W., 110. + + Hallam, Henry, 319. + + Halliwell, J. O., 101, 232, 298, 301. + + Halloix, P., _Eccl. Or. 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E., M.A., 189, 206. + + Hawkins, Ernest, B.D., Sub-librarian, 246, 252. + + Hawkins, John, 147. + + Hayes, Drs. Phil. and Will., 205, 206. + + Head, Sir Edmund, _Few Words on Bodl. 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Angl._, 120, 138, 141; + _Guli Neubrig. Hist. Angl._, 126; + _Langtoft's Chron._, 162. + + Heber, Richard, sale, 141 _n._, 248, 253. + + Hebrew printed books and MSS., 54 _n._, 63, 78, 108, 113, 225, 243, + 270, 272, 275, 280, 300. + + Heddon, Thomas, 315, 318. + + Heinecken, C. H. de, 321 _n._ + + Heinsius, Daniel, 207. + + Hendons, or Hindhay, Berks, 32. + + Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I, 331. + + Henry II, penance at Canterbury, 29; + homage of King of Scotland, 30; + grant to Gloucester, 185. + + Henry IV, granted a payment to the Librarian, 5. + + Henry VI, 29. + + Henry VIII, mentioned, 11, 271, 316; + books which belonged to him, 27; + accounts of surveyor of works, 177; + chair, said to be his, 95. + + Henry, Prince of Wales, 27, 42. + + Heralds' College, 102. + + Herbert, George, cited, 43. + + Herbert, Sir Thomas, donor, 93. + + Herbert, William, 112. + + Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, 187. + + Herculaneum, Rolls from, 216. + + Hereford Cathedral, chartulary, 120; + statutes, 179; + _Missale_ 1502, 213 _n._ + + Hermann, Godfrey, 282. + + Hermas, 13 _n._ + + Heuringius, Simon, 183 _n._ + + Heydon, Sir Christopher, donor, 25. + + Heylin, Peter, D.D., _Examen Hist._ cited, 85; + _Cypr. Angl._ cited, 290 _n._ + + Heywood, Robert, M.A., donor of Guy Fawkes' lantern, 67; + his father searched the Parliament cellars, _ib._ + + Heywood, Thomas, 231. + + Hibbert, George, sale, 246 _n._ + + Hickes, Bp. George, cited, 20 _bis_, 102, 149; + mentioned, 100, 187 _n._; + donor, 104; + papers, 177; + portrait, 336. + + Hickman, Charles, M.A., 106. + + Hickman, Henry, 36. + + Hickman, Henry, _Justif. of Fathers_ cited, 85. + + High Commission Court, confirms the ordinance of the Stationers' + Company, 36. + + Hill, Rev. --, 165. + + Hill, Herbert, M.A., Sub-librarian, 259, 261. + + Hill, Sir John, M.D., _Vegetable System_, 198 _n._ + + Hill, Rev. Joseph, 173 _n._ + + Hill, Richard, 81. + + Hindhay farm, see Hendons. + + Hoadley, Bp. Benjamin, portrait exhibited by Hearne, 135. + + Hobart Town, first printed book, 233. + + Hobbes, Thomas, 77 _n._ + + Hoccleve, Thomas, 178. + + Hodgson, B. H., donor, 265. + + Hodsall, --, 340 _n._ + + Hody, Humphrey, D.D., bequest, 126. + + Hogarth, William, donor, 168. + + Holbein, Hans, 333, 337. + + Holland, T., 341 _n._ + + Hollis, John Brande, 227. + + Holman, W., MSS. for Essex, &c., 174, 175. + + Holmes, John, 39. + + Holmes, Rob., D.D., Collations of Sept., 207. + + Home, Sir J. E., donor, 276. + + Homer, _Edit. Princ._, 192; + Scholia on Odyssey, 246. + + Honolulu, Queen Emma of, 320. + + Hooke, Col. John, letters, 222. + + Hooper, George, Bp. of Bath and Wells, 173 _n._ + + Hooper, Humphrey, 36. + + Hooper, John, Bp. of Gloucester, 239. + + Hope, F. W., D.C.L., donor, 297. + + Hope, J. T., 297. + + Hopkins, --, 67. + + Horace, 186, 248, 298. + + _Horae_, 42, 178, 213, 250, 289, 311. + + Horne, Rev. T. H., 64. + + Hornsby, Thomas, D.D., 194. + + Horsey, Sir Jerome, donor, 25. + + Hosea, peculiar reading in, 20. + + Howe, Josias, B.D., _Sermon_, 171 _n._ + + Howe, Michael, 233. + + Howell, Lawrence, M.A., 177. + + Howland, Ralph, donor, 129. + + Huber, --, cited, 83 _n._ + + Huddesford, William, M.A., 181, 288, 289. + + Hudson, John, D.D., elected Librarian, 123; + donor, _ib._; + said to have thrown out Milton's books from the Library, 46; + letter cited, 121; + mentioned, 69, 124, 127, 132, 133, 140, 157; + twice married, 22; + his widow married to Dr. Hall, 28; + account of the Library, 38; + subscribes for relief of Bodley's relations, 39; + threatens to remove Hearne, 139; + his death, 144; + neglect and incapacity, 140, 144, 145. + + Hughes, J., M.A., _Boscobel Tracts_, cited, 324 _n._ + + Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, gifts to the Library, 6-10; + motto, 6 _n._; + aided in building the Divinity School, 6; + destruction of his library, 11, 12. + + Hungarian books, 275. + + Hunsdon, Henry, first lord, donor, 17. + + Hunt, Leigh, 227. + + Hunt, Thomas, printer and bookseller in Oxford in 1483, 112. + + Hunt, Thomas, D.D., mentioned, 109, 294 _n._; + MSS., 193. + + Hunter, Joseph, Cat. of Dodsworth MSS., 96. + + Huntingdon, Earl of, 166. + + Huntington, Robert, Bp. of Raphoe, mentioned, 108, 133; + his MSS., 113, 115. + + Hussey, Edw. L., 255 _n._; + 257 _n._ + + Hussey, Robert, B.D., 257 _n._ + + Hutton, --, 143. + + Hyatt, J. C, B.A., 273. + + Hyde, Thomas, D.D., Sub-librarian, 90; + elected Head-librarian, 93; + dedication of catalogue, 97; + note on the agreement with the Stationers' Co., 31; + goes to London to claim books from the Co., 110; + letters cited, 69, 120; + MSS. bought from him, 113; + mentioned, 100 _n._, 109, 130 _n._, 294 _n._; + charged with ignorance by Wanley, 118; + wishes to have Wanley for his successor, _ib._; + resigns the Librarianship, 121; + his death, 123. + + + IBOTT, Benj., 232. + + Icelandic MSS., 242. + + Ince, Peter, donor, 50. + + _Index Libb. Prohib._, Madr. 1612-14, 90. + + Inglis, Esther, MSS. by her, 48, 49. + + Inglis, --, sale, 321. + + Inglis, Sir R. H., donor, 183; + portrait, 337. + + Ingram, James, D.D., bequest of coins, 340. + + Innocent VIII., Pope, 148. + + Irish MSS., 63, 64, 175; + pamphlets, 232, 247. + + Isaiah, 82 _n._, 113. + + Isham, Zach., M.A., 106. + + Italian printed books and MSS., 63, 177, 225, 260, 271. + + Ivan Basilides, Czar of Russia, 25. + + Ivie, Edw., M.A., 107. + + + JACKSON, Cyril, D.D., Dean of Ch. Ch., 198. + + Jackson, Rev. J. E., 288. + + Jacobs, C. F. G., 273. + + James I, grants letters patent for the Library, 25; + visits it, 26, 41; + grants books from the royal libraries, 26; + a book formerly in his possession, 44; + presents his own _Works_, 47. + + James II, visits the Library while Duke of York, 92; + Duchess of Buckingham his daughter, 148; + mentioned, 166, 173, 222, 237, 252, 255, 323, 340. + + James Edward, 'the Chevalier,' son of James II, portrait exhibited by + Hearne, 135; + portraits of him and his wife, 169 _n._ + + James, Andrew, donor, 50. + + James, Edward, B.D., donor, 40. + + James, Richard, his MSS., 103, 104. + + James, Thomas, donor, 21; + Appointment as Librarian, salary, &c., _ib._; + publishes the catalogue in 1605, 27; + a continuation of the classified index in MS., 28; + another Catalogue in MS. in 1613, 39; + proposes the agreement with the Stationers' Company, 31; + publishes the second edition of the _Catalogue_, 46; + resigns his office, 44; + death, _ib._; + cited, 13 _n._, 16, 60; + mentioned, 103; + _Catal. Interpp._, 60, 243 _n._; + portrait, 336. + + Janitors, 88, 123, 189, 192. + + Jansen, Cornelius, 336. + + Janson, Nicolas, 250, 310. + + Janua, J. de, 209. + + Javanese MSS., 50, 226, 324. + + Jehannot, E., 312. + + Jekyll, Sir Joseph, 172, 177, 184. + + Jekyll, Thomas, 174. + + Jernegan, Nicholas, 165, 166. + + Jerome, St., 111, 253. + + Jersey, Lord, 277. + + Jerusalem, 105, 265. + + Jessett, --, B.A., 158. + + Jews offer to buy St. Paul's Cathedral and the Bodleian Library, 75. + + John, a Greek scribe, 215. + + John of Aix, 113. + + Johnson, --, 77 _n._ + + Johnson, Dr. Samuel, donor, 188; + mentioned, 87, 232; + _Lives of Poets_ referred to, 106. + + Jones, --, 341. + + Jones, H., M.A. [_dec._ 1700], his MSS., 109, 120; + reference to a MS., 96 _n._ + + Jones, H., M.A. 1729, 107. + + Jones, John, 210. + + Jones, Sir William, 247. + + Jonson, Ben, 86, 178, 231. + + Jonstonus, Joh., M.D., 320 _n._ + + Jordan, John, 44. + + Jordan, William, donor, 104. + + Josephus, 94, 158. + + Jourdain, John, donor, 50. + + Jowett, Benjamin, M.A., 277. + + Joye, George, 239. + + Judge, L. E., M.A., 239. + + Jugge, Richard, 171 _n._ + + Junius, Francis, mentioned, 19; + his MSS. 102, 327; + _Glossarium Septentr._, 108; + three Hatton MSS. amongst his own, 100; + cited, 104; + portrait, 336. + + Justell, Christopher, 100. + + Justell, Henry, donor, 100. + + Justinian, 173 _n._, 310. + + Juvenal, 252, 262, 298. + + Juxon, Bishop William, donor, 88; + donor of book to Barlow, 111. + + + KEATE, --, 340. + + Keating, Geoffrey, _Hist. of Ireland_, 96. + + Keble, --, bookseller, donor, 125. + + Kedden, Rev. Ralph, 39. + + Keigwyn, John, 44. + + Keil, Prof. John, M.D., 134, 135, 136. + + Kellow, Richard, Bp. of Durham, 216. + + Kelly, Edward, his _Holy Table_, 162 _n._ + + Kemble, J. M., _Codex Dipl._, 185. + + Kempe, Thomas, Bishop of London, 10. + + Kempis, Thomas a, 126. + + Ken, John (erroneously printed _Kerr_), donor, 93. + + Ken, Thomas, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 173 _n._; + letters, 175 _n._ + + Kennett, White, Bishop of Peterborough, 187 _n._, 212 _n._ + + Kennicott, Benjamin, D.D., _Hebr. Collations_, &c., 191, 294 _n._; + Arabic tracts, 231; + autograph, 320 _n._ + + Kennon, Mrs., 182 _n._ + + Kerver, Thielman, 312. + + Kewsch, John, 65. + + Kilby, --, 67. + + King, --, bookseller, 201. + + King, Charles, M.A., donor, 56 _n._ + + King, John, Bishop of London, 36. + + King, John, D.D., donor, 159. + + King, J., bookseller, Moorfields, 182 _n._ + + King, P., Lord, _Life of Locke_, cited 124. + + Kingsborough, Viscount, _Mexican Antiq._ 246. + + Kingsley, William, 289. + + Kingston, Felix, a London printer, 32. + + Kirkebote, Adam, Librarian, 11. + + Kloss, Dr., sale, 253, 262. + + Kneller, Sir Godfrey, donor, 147. + + Knight, Archdeacon, 153. + + Knight, Thomas, donor, 203. + + Knox, John, 242, 248. + + Koran, 76, 208, 326. + + Kyngusbury, Thomas de, 316. + + Kyrkeby, John, 7 _n._ + + + LACTANTIUS, 226. + + Lacy, Edmund, Bishop of Exeter, 315. + + La Fontaine, J. de, 298. + + Laing, David, LL.D., mentioned, 49 _n._; + donor, 183 _n._ + + Lake, Gilbert, M.A., 107. + + Lamb, James, D.D., his MSS., 93. + + Landino, Christopher, 250, 310. + + Landspring, English monastery at, 245. + + Lane, Col. John, and Mrs. Letitia, 324. + + Langbaine, Gerard, D.D., his _Adversaria_, 89; + mentioned, 59, 67, 78; + letter cited, 78. + + Langles, L. M., 239. + + Langley, abbey register, 154 _n._ + + Langley, Henry de, 316. + + Langford, Emmanuel, M.A., 158. + + Lansyng, Richard de, 316. + + Lascelles, R., _Oxford_, cited, 95, 234 _n._ + + Lasher, Josh., M.D., 179. + + Lathbury, T., M.A., 282. + + Lattebury, John, _Expositio in Thren. Jerem._, 112. + + Laud, Archbp., his gifts, 61-65; + placed at the west end, 62; + coins, 339; + letters, 62, 322; + references to his MSS., 43, 246, 268, 295, 325-327; + mentioned, 31, 59, 82 _n._, 240, 290 _n._; + writes verses on Bodley's death, 37; + portrait, 336; + book given to St. John's College, 53 _n._ + + Laurence, Roger, M.A., 168 _n._ + + Laurence, R. F., M.A., 235. + + Laurence, Richard, Archbp. of Cashel, 220, 221, 267. + + Laurentius Gallus, 329. + + Layfields, John, 36. + + Leake, William, 36. + + Lecchelade, John de, 318. + + Lee, Sir James, donor, 328. + + Lee, Matthew, M.A., 107. + + Lee, Sir Richard, donor of books, 22; + of a Muscovite cloak, 40, 307. + + Lee, William, 302. + + Leeu, Gerard, 155. + + Legat, Hugh, 313. + + Le Hunt, William, M.A., 107. + + Leicester, Robert Dudley, first Earl of, donor, while Lord Lisle, 17; + his watch, 129; + book that belonged to him, 320. + + Leicester, Cope, Earl of, 277, 321. + + Leicestershire, 110. + + Leighton, Archbishop, 179. + + Leland, John, his MSS., 56, 318. + + Le Long, le Pere, 184 _n._ + + Lendon, Abel, M.A., 202. + + Le Neve, Peter, 174, 184. + + Lennox, Mary, Countess of, 44. + + Lennox, W. J., 210. + + Lenthall, --, Janitor, 189. + + Leofric, Bp. of Exeter, MSS. given to Exeter, 23. + + Lerida, _Brev. Illerdense_, 303. + + Le S[oe]ur, Hubert, 61, 148. + + Letheringham, Suffolk, 214. + + Lewis, F., 211 _n._ + + Lewis, Sir G. C., 274. + + Lewis, John, M.A., MSS., 176, 248, 252. + + Lewton, Edward, M.A., 201. + + Ley, Edwin, donor, 44. + + Leyden, 129, 133, 178, 199, 207, 228. + + Lhuyd, Edw., cited, 20, 125; + MSS., 289. + + Libri, Girol. da, 249. + + Libri, Gugl., 273, 290. + + Lichfield Cathedral, 179. + + Lichfield, Leonard, 65. + + Lilly, William, 169 _n._ + + Lilly, W., bookseller, 260 _n._ + + Linacer, Thomas, 316 _n._ + + Lindsell, Augustine, Bp. of Peterb., 51, 290 _n._, 318. + + Lister, Martin, M.D., his library, 288. + + Livermore, George, 311. + + Liverpool, Earl of, 221. + + Livy, 112, 226. + + Llandaff, 190. + + Lloyd, William, Bp. of Worc., 116. + + Locke, John, donor, 124. + + Lockey, Thomas, B.D., elected Librarian, 90; + resigns, 93; + death, _ib._ + + Lockhart, James, _Papers_, cited, 222 _n._ + + Lodge, Thomas, 231. + + Loftus, Dudley, 108. + + Logan, D., 334. + + London, Charter, 180; + houses in Distaff Lane, 32; + burned in the Fire, 38; + their rent in arrear, 58; + fire at the Temple, 86; + map of Lond. and Westm., 255; + cat. of MSS. at Lincoln's Inn, 96; + St. Peter's, Cornhill, 177; + Christ's Hospital, 186. + + _London Gazette_, 302. + + Longhi, G., 299. + + Lorenzi, --, 226. + + Louis XIV of France, 214. + + Louis XVI of France, 267. + + Loutherbourg, P. J. de, 244. + + Louveau, J., 52. + + Low Countries, 186. + + Lownes, Humphrey, 36. + + Lucan, 223, 262. + + Luard, H. R., M.A., 328. + + Lucas, --, bookseller, 290 _n._ + + Luff, Richard, monk of Coventry, 314. + + Lumley, John, sixth Lord, donor, 17. + + Luther, Martin, 245, 246, 283, 285, 302. + + Lutheran Tracts, German, 228, 283. + + Lydgate, John, 177, 178, 318. + + Lydiat, Thomas, M.A., 119. + + Lye, Edward, M.A., 336. + + Lyndewoode, William, _Provinciale_, 112. + + Lysiaux, Thos., Dean of St. Paul's, 315. + + Lyte, Rev. H. F., 273. + + + MACBRIDE, J. D., D.C.L., donor, 228; + mentioned, 278, 320 _n._ + + Macdonald, Flora, 160 _n._ + + Macfarlane, E. M., M.A., 203 _n._ + + M'Ghee, Rev. R. J., donor, 262. + + Machlinia, William de, 210. + + Mackenzie, Sir George, 320 _n._ + + Mackie, --, 340. + + Macky, John, _Journey through Eng._, cited, 86 _n._ + + Macpherson, D., 165, 166. + + Macray, W. D., 85 _n._, 176, 206, 233 _n._, 250 _n._, 270, 287. + + Mac-Regol, Abbot of Birr, 104. + + Madden, Sir Fred., 177 _n._, 281, 330. + + Madox, Thomas, 320 _n._ + + Maffei, Scipio, _Verona illust._, cited, 230. + + Magnusen, Finn, his MSS., 242. + + _Magna Charta_, 185. + + Maittaire, Michael, 177, 178, 179, 184. + + Major, G., 246 _n._ + + Malabar, Bp. of, 319. + + Malabaric MS., 324. + + Malmesbury, Chartulary, 110, 142. + + Malone, Edmund, his library, 231-2. + + Malyng, H., 318. + + Man, Thomas, 32, 36. + + Manaton, Pierce, M.D., 107. + + Manaton, Robert, M.A., 107. + + Manchester Cathedral, 179. + + Manuzzi, Giuseppe, 225. + + Maraldi, --, 205. + + Marchant, N., 336. + + Margaret of Anjou, 29. + + Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 44. + + Marlborough, John, first Duke of, 135. + + Marriott, Charles, B.D., 278. + + Marsh, Archbp. Narcissus, his bequest of MSS., 132-3. + + Marschalle, William, 317. + + Marshall, F. J., M.A., 259. + + Marshall or Mareschal, Thomas, D.D., his printed books and MSS., 107; + recovers a lost MS., 92; + said to have borrowed MSS., 100; + mentioned, 150. + + Martivall, R. de, Bp. of Sarum, 176, 317. + + Marvell, Andrew, 320 _n._ + + Mary I, her MS. _Horae_ and inscription, 42; + another inscription, 43. + + Mary II, 175 _n._, 255. + + Mary, Queen of Scotland, 171 _n._, 266 _n._ + + Maskelyne, N. S., M.A., 278. + + Mason, Robert, D.D., bequest, 264. + + Massa, Michael de, 329. + + Massey, Dr. Richard M., donor, 129. + + Massinger, Philip, 231. + + Master, Dr. Robert, donor, 9. + + Mather, Cotton, 304. + + Matthew of Westminster, 289. + + Matthews, Rev. A. H., donor, 210; + Sub-librarian (?), 342. + + Maunder, --, D.D., 157. + + Maximilian, Emp. of Germany, 331. + + Maximus, Valerius, 8. + + Maynard, Joseph, B.D., donor, 90. + + Mead, Dr. Richard, 142, 184, 340. + + Medici, House of, 182. + + Medici, Mary de, 249, 351. + + Medyltone, Ralph de, 329. + + Meerman, Ger. and John, 238. + + Meetkirk, Prof. Edward, 81. + + Melanchthon, Philip, 245, 246, 253. + + Mendean MSS., 114, 300. + + Mendham, Rev. Joseph, his bequest, 286; + _Lit. Policy_, cited, 91 _n._ + + Mentelin, --, 210. + + Mentz, 318. + + Mericke, John, donor, 25. + + Mexican Antiquities, 246, 325. + + Michael, J., Hebrew books, 272. + + Michaelis, J. D., 320 _n._ + + Middlesex MSS., 175. + + Middleton, Viscountess, 164. + + Milan, Ambrosian Library, 47 _n._ + + Mill, John, D.D., donor, 125; + mentioned, 99. + + Mill, W. H., D.D., his MSS., 272. + + Milles, Jeremiah, D.D., his MSS., 268. + + Milton, John, books given by him, 45; + these, at one time, said to have been thrown out, 46, 160. + + _Missals_, 23, 65, 179, 213, 225, 283. + + Mocket, or Moket, Richard, 36. + + Models, 49, 105, 236, 334, 337, 338. + + Mollineux, --, 134. + + Monasteries, dissolved, 271 _n._ + + _Moniteur_, 205. + + Monkhouse, Thomas, M.A., 164. + + Monmouth, Duke of, letters and dying acknowledgment, 173, 323; + mentioned, 222, _n._, 282. + + Monson, Sir W., cited, 24. + + Montacute, Lord, donor, 17. + + Montagu, Capt. M., bequest, 298. + + Montagu, Richard, Bp. of Norwich, 47. + + Montague, Edward Wortley, 206. + + Montague, George, 36. + + Monteith, Robert, _Hist. of the Troubles_, cited, 75. + + Montfaucon, Bernard, 224. + + _Monthly Review_, 260. + + Moore, --, 340. + + Morant, Philip, M.A., 174. + + Morbeck, W. de, 59. + + More, Hannah, 227. + + More, Sir Thomas, 144 _n._, 187. + + Moreri, L., 94. + + Mores, E. Rowe, 156, 212 _n._, 320 _n._ + + Morgan, Edward, M.A., 342. + + Morley, Thomas, 206. + + Morris, John, D.D., founder of the annual Bodley oration, 105. + + Mortara, Count Aless., his library, 225, 279. + + Morwent, Robert, 12. + + Moses Chorenensis, _Hist. Armen._, 128. + + Moses Maimonides, 114, 225. + + Motthe, Georges de la, 326. + + Mountjoy, Blount, Lord, donor, 22. + + Mozarabic Breviary, 280. + + Mueller, A., donor, 228. + + Mueller, Max., M.A., Sub-librarian, 303; + resigned, 304. + + Mummy, an Egyptian, 105. + + Munich, duplicates from, 276. + + Muris, Joh. de, 76. + + Murr, -- de, _Memorab. Bibl. Norimb._ cited, 230. + + Murray, Dr. Alex., 267. + + Murray, John, 184. + + Musca, --, 9 _n._ + + Music, printed books bought, 22; + from Stat. Hall, 189; + MSS., 205. + + Musonius, 43. + + + NAHUMUS, Jod., _Conc. in Evang._, 80 _n._ + + Nairne, David, his papers, 166. + + Nalson, John, LL.D., papers, 153-4. + + Napier, Sir Richard, letter cited, 73. + + Napier, Rev. Richard, 74. + + Napoleon I, portrait, 299; + medals, 340. + + Nash, Thomas, 301. + + Nassyngton, William of, 177. + + Naunton, Sir R., 47. + + Neal, D., cited, 68. + + Needlework, Life of our Blessed Lord, 51 _n._; + bindings, 51-53; + samplers, 53. + + Neile, Rich., Bp. of Cov. and Lichfield, 36. + + Nelson, Robert, 127 _n._ + + Nemnivus, 20 _n._ + + Neubauer, Dr. A., 272. + + Nevile, Sir H., 48. + + Nevile, Thomas, donor, 48. + + New, E. P., B.D., 236. + + Newcastle, William Cavendish, Marq. of, 216. + + Newcastle, John Holles, Duke of, 180. + + Newey, Thomas, M.A., 106. + + Newington, Kent, parish register, 234. + + Newman, F., 83 _n._ + + Newman, G., 36. + + Newman, Henry, papers, 176. + + New South Wales, first printed book, 233. + + Newspapers, 1672-1737, 302. + + Newton, Richard, M.A., 106. + + Newton, Thomas, 87. + + New-Zealand Newspaper, 233 _n._ + + Nichols, John, _Progr. of James I_ cited, 48; + _Lit. Anecd._ cited, 78 _n._, 166 _n._, 200-1, 211 _n._; + _Lit. Hist._ cited, 188, 211, 214 _n._, 217, 231, 257, 342; + _Letters of Nicolson_, 187 _n._; + mentioned, 214, 302. + + Nichols, John Gough, 325 _n._ + + Nicoll, Alex., D.D., Sub-librarian, 220; + mentioned, 65, 95, 199, 215, 233. + + Nicolson, Wm., Archbp. of Cashel, 187 _n._ + + Noel, Rev. John, 184. + + Norris, Edwin, 44. + + Norris, John, Janitor, 134 _n._, 189. + + Norfolk Tracts, 280. + + Norkoping, Norway, 241 _n._ + + North, Lord, donor, 193-4. + + Northamptonshire MSS., 204. + + Northumberland, Hen. Percy, Earl of, 87. + + Norton, John, 36, 53. + + _Notes and Queries_, 226 _n._, 250 _n._, 254 _n._, 338 _n._ + + Nourse, Tim., donor, 124. + + Novello, Vincent, donor, 206. + + Nowell, Alex., Dean of St. Paul's, 336. + + Nugent, Lord, _Mem. of Hampden_, 203 _n._ + + Nurigian, Luke, 127. + + Nutt, J. W., M.A., Sub-librarian, 304. + + + OCCLEVE, Thomas, or _Hoccleve_, _q. v._ + + Ochini, Bern., 331. + + O'Donnell, Magnus, 176. + + Offor, G., 233 _n._ + + Ogilvie, James, of Boyn, 222. + + Ogilvie, J., 75. + + O'Grady, Standish H., 176 _n._ + + Okeover family, 237. + + Opie, Mrs., 227. + + Oppenheimer, D., Hebrew library, 243. + + Orford, Lord, 212 _n._ + + Ormesby, Robert de, 329. + + Ormonde, James, first Duke of, 165, 166. + + Ormonde, James, second Duke of, 175. + + _Ormulum_, 102. + + Osborne, T., bookseller, 216. + + Oseney Abbey, book which belonged to, 176. + + Osorius, Hier., Bishop of Faro, 24. + + Oswen, H., 264. + + Ouigour MS., 115. + + Ouseley, Sir Fred. A. G., Bart., donor, 206; + MSS. bought from him, 289. + + Ouseley, Sir Gore, his MSS., 289, 290, 332; + mentioned, 269. + + Ouseley, Sir William, his MSS., 269; + _Orient. Collect._ cited, 206. + + Ousley, Rev. John, 174. + + Ovid, 20, 179, 252, 300. + + Owen, Humphrey, B.D., elected Librarian, 160; + death, 192; + mentioned, 170 _n._, 185, 192. + + Owen, John, D.D., 89. + + Owen, John, 227. + + Owun, 104. + + Oxford, statutes of various colleges, 179; + the librarians of Cobham's and Duke Humphrey's libraries were + Chaplains to the Univ., 5; + almanacks, 211; + books in the Library printed at Oxford before 1500, 111-2; + map, 335; + siege, 240; + All Souls' Coll. MS. there, 19 _n._; + Anatomy School, 132, 134, 136, 140; + Ashmolean Museum, 105, 122, 163, 169 _n._, 189, 203 _n._; + the Library transferred to the Bodleian, 286-9; + Balliol Coll. MSS. there, 5; + proposed catalogue of rare books, 201; + list of books not in the Bodleian, 203; + Ch. Ch. MSS. there, 49, 121; + Corp. Chr. Coll. MS. there, 10; + the old Univ. money chest there, 4 _n._; + Divinity School, 5; + Durham Coll., 4, 20 _n._; + Exeter Coll., list of books not in Bodleian, 203; + Hart Hall, 99; + Jesus Coll., list of books not in Bodleian, 203; + Magd. Coll. (see _J. R. Bloxam_), spur-royals, 84; + muniments, 85 _n._; + first Grammar-master, 112 _n._; + list of books not in Bodleian, 203; + catalogue of the library, 203; + account-books returned to the College, 215; + statutes refused to be returned, 261; + Merton Coll., proposed catalogue of rare books, 201; + Music School, 170 _n._; + Oriel Coll. MS. there, 10; + portrait of Bodley, on glass, 45 _n._; + proposed catalogue of rare books, 201; + list of books not in Bodleian, 203; + Queen's Coll. gave some of Junius' papers to the Bodleian, 103 _n._; + books bequeathed by Barlow, 111, 115; + duplicates exchanged with Bodleian, 115; + a person employed in the Library, 201; + Dr. Mason's bequest, 265; + Radcliffe Library, 202; + the room assigned to the Bodleian, 293; + St. John's Coll., book given by Laud, 53 _n._, and bust of + Charles I, 61; + St. Mary's Church, the first Library there, 3, 4; + west window, 3; + window of old Convocation House, 4 _n._; + Fysher, the Librarian, buried in Adam de Brome's chapel, 160; + Schools' tower, inscription renewed, 147; + Univ. Coll. MSS. there, 18 _n._, 64 _n._; + L50 due to the Bodleian from the College, 67; + account-books returned to the College, 215; + Wadham Coll., a person employed in the Library, 201; + Friars Minor, 20 _n._ + + Oxford, Rob. 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Katherine, inscription, 43; + MS. dedicated to her, 52. + + Parret, --, 11 _n._ + + Parsons, Joseph, M.A., donor, 191. + + Parthenius, Patriar. of Constant., 94. + + _Parthenope of Blois_, 178. + + Pate, William, donor, 196 _n._ + + Patrick, St., 64. + + Patrick, Symon, Bp. of Ely, 185 _n._ + + Patridge, Daniel, 125. + + Paul III., Pope, 283. + + Paulus, H. E. G., 81. + + Payne and Foss, Messrs., 229, 230, 245, 332. + + Peach, John and Samuel, 194. + + Peacock, --, 227. + + Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, donor, 76. + + Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl of, donor of the Barocci MSS., 54; + letter to the Vice-Chanc., _ib._; + gave licence for borrowing the MSS., 51, 54, 79; + statue of him, given by Thomas, seventh Earl, 148. + + Penton, Stephen, B.D., donor, 124. + + Pepys, Samuel, his MS. papers, 172. + + Percy, Thomas, Bp. of Dromore, 232. + + Periam, William, M.A., 107. + + Perrott, Sir John, letters, 150. + + Perrott, Thomas, D.C.L., donor, 150. + + Persian MSS., 22, 33, 49, 63, 91, 113 _bis_, 199, 208, 215, 228, 240, + 269, 289, 290, 294 _n._ + + Persius, 23. + + Peters, Hugh, donor, 88. + + Peters, Rev. William, 209. + + Petit, Sam, MS. Notes on Josephus, 94. + + Petrarch, 8, 298. + + Pett, Peter, LL.B., donor, 76. + + Phaedrus, 298. + + Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, 331. + + Phillips, Sir Thomas, 288. + + Ph[oe]nician Inscription, 162. + + Picus, Joh., 316 _n._ + + Pickering, William, sale, 282. + + _Piers Plowman_, 101, 178. + + Pigott, Rev. G., donor, 269. + + Pigouchet, P., 312. + + Pindar, --, Consul at Aleppo, donor, 33. + + Pinelli, Mapheo, 200. + + Pipping, --, 241 _n._ + + Pius V, Pope, 283. + + Plato, 8 _n._, 9, 10, 59, 115. + + Playford, John, 206. + + Plays, their admission discouraged by Bodley as a scandal to the + Library, 66; + collections purchased, 248. + + Plenus-Amoris, various scribes of this name, 18, 19 _n._ + + Pliny, 8, 11, 250, 273, 310. + + Plot, R., _Nat. Hist. of Staff._ cited, 325. + + Plunket, O., R. C. Archbp. of Armagh, 337. + + Pococke, Edward, D.D., his MSS. and printed books, 113, 115, 268, 311; + mentioned, 78, 199; + references to MSS., 81. + + Pococke, Rich., Bp. of Meath, _Travels_ cited, 162. + + Pointer, Rev. John, _Oxon. Acad._ cited, 86 _n._, 161. + + Pole, Francis, 184. + + Polish Books, 276. + + Politian, Ang., 273. + + Polsted, Benj., donor, 92. + + Polyander, Dr. John, 178. + + _Pontifical, Salisbury_, 176. + + Pope, Alexander, donor, 158; + letters, 178, 322; + mentioned, 232; + portrait, 336. + + Pope, Sir Thomas, 289. + + _Pore Helpe_, 155. + + Porret, Gilbert, 9 _n._ + + Porter, --, M.D., 162. + + Powle, Henry, 184. + + Powney, Richard, LL.D., 164. + + _Prayer, Book of Common_, 237, 248, 264, 282. + + Preme, L. de, 226. + + Prendergast, J. P., 166. + + Prescott, W. H., 319. + + Preston, J., 81. + + Prestwich, --, 67. + + Price, Daniel, Dean of St. Asaph, 178. + + Price, John, B.D., elected Librarian, 192; + complaint against him, 197; + death, 217; + portrait, 336; + mentioned, 166, 194, 197, 204, 205, 209, 218. + + Price, J. M., M.A., 273. + + Prices of books, 65. + + Prichard, Constantine, Janitor, account of him, 98-9. + + Prideaux, Dr. John, 81. + + Priestley, Dr., 280. + + _Primer, Salisbury_, 296. + + Prince, Daniel, bookseller, 200. + + Prince, Mrs. Mary, donor, 148. + + Printers, clerical, 259-60. + + Prior, Matthew, 175. + + Proclus, 59. + + Prudentius, 23. + + Purcell, Henry, 205, 206. + + Purefoy, Humphrey and Thomas, 56. + + Pusey, Edward B., D.D., 82 _n._, 278; + _Catal._, 65, 199, 225, 233. + + Puttick and Simpson, Messrs., 245. + + Pybrac, Sieur de, 49. + + Pyne, Rev. T., 210. + + Pynson, Richard, 312. + + + _QUARTERLY REVIEW_ cited, 257 _n._ + + Queensberry, Duke of, 164. + + Quignones, Cardinal, 284. + + Quivil, Peter, Bp. of Exeter, 317. + + + RADCLIFFE, Joseph, 164. + + Radzivil, Prince N., 229. + + Raffaelle, 251, 334. + + Raleigh, Sir Walter, donor, 24. + + Ramsey, John, 316. + + Randolph, John, D.D., 198. + + Ranshoven, Bible which belonged to the church, 224. + + Rassam, Hormuzd, donor, 335. + + Ratelband, --, bookseller at Amsterdam, 92. + + Ravius, Constantine, 92. + + Rawlins, T., Pophills, 168 _n._, 173 _n._, 174 _n._ + + Rawlinson, Richard, D.C.L., account of him, 168-9; + his printed books, 170, 171, 183; + MSS., 172-182, 216, 217; + coins, seals, &c., 182, 183; + some of his portraits, 336, 337; + references to MSS., 19 _n._, 28, 38, 53, 77 _n._, 117 _n._, 126, 128 + _n._, 154 _n._, 155 _n._, 157 _n._, 160 _n._, 165 _n._, 216, 234, + 252, 261, 271, 322, 323, 325, 328, 335; + book-plate, 3; + _Continuation of Wood's Athenae_, cited, 130; + _History of Hereford_, 120; + endeavoured to compile a list of the annual Bodley Orators, 106. + + Rawlinson, Sir Thomas, 168. + + Rawlinson, Thomas, his son, 169, 170 _n._, 178, 184. + + Ray, William, donor, 24. + + Reade, William, 58. + + Reader, W., 298. + + Reay, Stephen, B.D., Sub-librarian, 242; + resignation and death, 293; + mentioned, 163, 286. + + Rebenstein, A., 275 _n._ + + Record Commission, _Report_ for 1800 cited, 151, 167, 177, 185, 205; + for 1837, 96; + _Eighth Report of Dep.-Keeper of Records_, 170 _n._ + + Red-letter books, 171 _n._ + + Reggio, J. S., 280. + + Renouard, --, 242. + + Reynolds, Edward, D.D., 45 _n._ + + Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 248. + + Richards, --, 164. + + Richmond, Margaret, Countess of, 105. + + Richmond, George, 337. + + Ridley, Thomas, 36. + + Rigaud, Lt.-col. Gibbes, donor, 33, 319, 338. + + Rigaud, John, B.D., donor, 303. + + Rigaud, Prof. S. P., M.A., 195. + + Rivers, Richard, Lord, 19. + + Rives, George, Warden of New College, donor, 22. + + Roberts, --, 340. + + Roberts, B. and E., 271. + + Roberts, J. P., M.A., 235, 239. + + Roberts, Lewis, donor, 51. + + Robertson, Prof. A., 194. + + Robertson, Rev. F. W., 297. + + Robins, George, 267. + + Robinson, --, clock-maker, Gracechurch-street, 182 _n._ + + Robinson, John, Bp. of London, MS. papers, 175. + + Robson, Charles, B.D., donor, 56, 92. + + Roch, Thomas, Janitor, 88. + + Rochester, Henry Hyde, Earl of, 163, 164. + + Rock, Dr., _Church of our Fathers_, cited, 29. + + Rodd, Thomas, 258. + + Roe, Sir Thomas, his gift of MSS., 49, 50-51; + sanctioned the lending of his books, 51, 79. + + Roger of Hereford, 58. + + Rogers, Samuel, M.A., 342. + + Roillet, Nicholas, 283 + + Rolin, Cardinal John, 310. + + Rolle, R., of Hampole, 101, 177, 178. + + Rollright, Oxon, glass from the church, 30. + + Rome, reports from agents, 177; + Rocca Library, 47 _n._ + + Rood, Theodore, printer in Oxford, 112. + + Rosamond, Fair, her coffin, 30 _n._ + + Ross, Alexander, donor, 91. + + Ross, John, _Hist. Angl._, 120, 138, 141. + + Rosse, John, 141. + + Rossingham, Captain, 77 _n._ + + Rouceby, Walter de, 328. + + Rous, John, M.A., elected Librarian, 44; + applies to Milton for his _Poems_, 45; + reception of King James' _Works_, 48; + hinders the breaking open of Bodley's chest, 45 _n._; + appendix to catalogue, 60; + complains of the neglect of the Stationers' Company, 31; + refuses to lend a book to the king, 72; + death, 76; + legacy, _ibid._; + mentioned, 56, 309. + + Routh, M. J., D.D., his printed library bequeathed to Durham, 4 _n._; + sale of his MSS., 141 _n._; + donor, 237; + mentioned, 252; + portrait, 337. + + Rowell, G. A., 309 _n._ + + Roxburghe sale, 42 _n._ + + Rubens, Sir P. P., 148. + + Runic alphabets, 20 _n._; + almanacks, 105, 161. + + Rupert, Prince, letters, 154. + + Rushworth, John, donor, 104; + cited, 31. + + Russel, Rev. Bertrand, donor, 205. + + Russell, Charles, D.D., President of Maynooth, 166. + + Russian books, 19, 22, 25 _bis_, 55, 63, 105, 107; + cloak, 40, 307. + + Ruthin School, 157. + + Ryley, William, 174. + + Rymer, Thomas, 320 _n._ + + Ryser, Jeorius, 65. + + + S. W., bell-founder, 33. + + Saadiah, Rabbi, 82 _n._ + + _Sacramentaria_, 262, 290. + + Sadler, Anne, wife of Ralph, donor, 333. + + Sadlington, Michael, M.A., 107. + + Saibante, Giovanni, 226, 230. + + St. Amand, James, his bequest, 185; + _Catalogue_, 216. + + St. Amand, George and Martha, 185 _n._ + + St. Bridget, Adam, 314. + + St. George, Sir Richard, 174. + + St. George, Sir Thomas, 174, 184. + + Sale, George, MSS., 294 _n._ + + Salisbury, books which belonged to the Cathedral, 176. + + Salt, W., 303. + + Samaritan MSS., 107, 113, 126, 296. + + Sancroft, Archbp., mentioned, 125; + his papers, 153-4. + + Sandford, Oxon, Chartulary, 110. + + Sandwich, Earl of, 166. + + Sandys, Lady K., donor, 28. + + Sanford, Jos., B.D., donor, 170 _n._ + + Sanscrit MSS., 93 (the first); + 265, 269, 272, 291, 294 _n._, 323. + + Saona, Gul. de, 298. + + Sarpi, Paolo, 207. + + Saumarez, Sir James, 218. + + Savile, Sir H., donor, 19; + mentioned, 82 _n._, 251. + + Saxon, --, 245. + + Say, William, 7 _n._ + + Scarborough, Sir Charles, his auction, 115. + + Schelging, Samuel, 241 _n._ + + Schneider, --, 283. + + Schoenleben, Conrad, 230. + + Schoiffer, Peter, see _Fust_, 310. + + Schoensperger, Hans, 310, 312. + + Schultens, H. A., 199, 320 _n._ + + Schweighaeuser, Joh., 320 _n._ + + Scotland, letters of Scottish bishops, 154, 237; + Hooke's correspondence, 222. + + Scott, G. C. and R. A., Italian books, 271. + + Scott, G. G., 235, 284. + + Scott, Capt. Jon., 206. + + Scott, Thomas, first janitor? 88. + + Scott, Sir W., 227, 258. + + Scott, Will., Lord Stowell, 196. + + Scrope, Rich., D.D., 164. + + Seal, or 'sea-elephant,' a, bought, 104. + + Sebastian, St., 332. + + Secker, Thomas, Archbp. of Cant., 199. + + Secretan, C. F., M.A., _Life of Nelson_, cited, 127 _n._ + + Seffrid, Bp. of Chichester, 314. + + Selden, John, his library, 77-87; + death-bed, 77 _n._; + book in his collection which belonged to Anne Boleyn, 27 _n._; + some MSS. burnt at the Temple, 86; + some of his books at Lincoln's Inn and Coll. of Physicians, _ib._; + books placed at west end of Library, 60; + references to books and MSS., 55, 111, 239 _n._, 243, 246, 320; + gave an Arabic astrolabe to Laud, 61; + his house broken into by robbers, 83; + mentioned, 50, 51, 139; + portraits, 336. + + Seligmann, Isaac, 243. + + Selwyn, G. A., Bp. of Lichfield, 319. + + Sermons, collections of, 273, 276. + + Servetus, Michael, 247. + + Sever, Henry, 316. + + Seward, Miss, _Anecdotes_, cited, 110 _n._, 203 _n._ + + Seymour, Jane, Q. consort of Henry VIII, 334. + + Sforza, Bona, 249. + + Shakespeare, W., the first Folio, 41; + _Venus and Adonis_, and other poems, 67, 247; + editions of single plays, &c., 231, 248, 258; + his autograph, 300-302. + + Sharp, John, Archbp. of York, 127. + + Sharpe, Dr. Gregory, 294 _n._ + + Shaw, Henry, _Illuminated Ornaments_, cited, 250, 330 _bis_. + + Shaw, Thomas, D.D., donor, 163. + + Sheldon, Archbp. Gilbert, mentioned, 97; + Papers, 155 _n._, 237; + his family Bible, 237. + + Sheldon, William, 212 _n._ + + Sherfiddin Iahia ben Almocar, 114. + + Shirley, W. W., D.D., 90. + + Shirman, Henry, M.A., 107. + + Shotover, near Oxford, 29 _n._ + + Shropshire MSS., &c., 163, 263-4. + + Shuckbridge, Grace, 131. + + Siamese Prince, 319. + + Sichardus, Joh., 17 _n._ + + Siddons, Mrs. 232. + + Sigismund I of Poland, 249. + + Silk, books printed on, 170 _n._ + + Simeon, Sir John, 101. + + Simon, Thomas, 340 _n._ + + Skeat, W. W., M.A., 101 _n._ + + Simonides, Dr. Const., 199 _n._, 280-1. + + Skillerne, Richard S., M.A., 202. + + Slack, Samuel, M.A., 219. + + Sloane, Sir Hans, donor, 120. + + Slythers, --, 11 _n._ + + Smalridge, George, Bp. of Bristol, 149. + + Smith, --, 42 _n._ + + Smith, Edmund, M.A., MS. of his Bodley Speech, 106. + + Smith, Miles, Bp. of Gloucester, 82 _n._ + + Smith, Richard, 141. + + Smith, R. Payne, D.D., mentioned, 65, 189, 296, 300; + Sub-librarian, 286, 293; + Regius Professor of Divinity, 303. + + Smith, Thomas, D.D., his MSS., 55, 152-3, 178, 180; + _Vita Bernardi_, cited, 94, 114, 116. + + Smith, Thomas, 67. + + Smith, William, M.A., donor, 150. + + Smyth, Edward, account of a Russian cloak, 307. + + Smyth, Miles, 237. + + Smythe, Thomas, 19. + + Snetesham, John, D.D., 315. + + Sneyd, Rev. Walter, 226. + + Snoshill, William, grand-nephew to Bodley, petition to University, 39. + + Solly, --, 245. + + Somers, John, Lord, 172, 184. + + Somerset, Duke of, 256. + + Sonibanck, John, 120. + + Sophia, Electress of Hanover, 175. + + Sotheby and Wilkinson, Messrs., 297, 300. + + Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, cited, 45, 246, 281, 321; + mentioned, 268, 273, 276. + + South, Professor John, 81. + + South, Robert, D.D., bequest, 143. + + Southampton, Jane Wriothesley, Countess of, book which belonged to + her, 43; + her daughters, 44. + + Southwell, Sir Robert, 173 _n._ + + Spanish books, 76, 225, 238, 253. + + Sparchiford, Archdeacon Richard, 316 _n._ + + Sparke, Thomas, M.A., 106. + + Spelman, Sir Henry, 184. + + Spencer, Earl, 251. + + Spencer, or Spicer, --, 67. + + Spencer, Sir Richard, donor, 177 _n._ + + Spenser, John, 36. + + Spinckes, Bp. Nath., 177, 184. + + Sprat, Thomas, Bp. of Rochester, 173. + + Stacpoole, C. P., 311. + + Standish, Dr., 11 _n._ + + Standish, John, 36. + + Stanhope, Lady Hester, donor, 229. + + Stanley, Edward, donor, 196. + + Stapiltone, Sir Miles de, 329. + + Stark, J. M., 286. + + Stationers' Company, grant to the Library of all books printed by + them, 30; + negligent in performance, 31, 41, 73; + plate given them by Bodley, 32; + first book given by them, 32; + ordinance for supply of books to the Library, 34; + payment from the Library to the Bedel of the Company, 40; + Statutes for delivery of books, 92; + books claimed personally by Hyde, 110; + first Copy-right Act, 128; + last Copy-right Act, 254; + increased receipt of books, 218. + + Statius, 179. + + Steinschneider, Dr. M., 243, 244, 272. + + Steele, --, 120 _n._ + + Stephanus, Robert, 320. + + Stephen, King of England, 185. + + Stephen, a Greek scribe, 208. + + Stevens, Henry, 232, 272. + + Stevenson, Rev. Joseph, 18 _n._, 105. + + Stewart, C. J., 112, 143. + + Stillingfleet, E., Bp. of Worc., 9, 124. + + St[=o]chs, George, 310. + + Stoke, Abbot John, 313. + + Stow Wood, near Oxford, 29 _n._ + + Strafford, Thomas, third Earl of, 175. + + Strange, John, 202. + + Strange, Sir Thomas, 319. + + Strangwayes, Giles, 19. + + Strickland, H. E., M.A., 277. + + Strode, William, M.A., 55. + + Strype, John, M.A., 170 _n._ + + Stubbe, H., M.A., Sub-librarian, 88, 89. + + Stukeley, William, M.D., 57. + + Suidas, 226. + + Summers, Prof., 284. + + Summerset, John, M.D., 8 _n._ + + Sunderlin, Lord, donor of Malone collection, 231. + + Sunningwell, Berks, 109. + + Sussex, Duke of, his sale, 97, 321. + + Sutherland, Alexander H., 255, 258; + portrait, 336. + + Sutherland, Mrs., illustrated Clarendon and Burnet, 254-258. + + Sutterton, Lincolnshire, churchwarden's accounts, 177. + + Sutton, Sir Robert, 143. + + Swallow, Joseph, B.A., 147. + + Swedenborg, Emmanuel, donor, 189. + + Sweynheym and Pannartz, 210, 232, 273. + + Swinton, John, D.D., _Inscr. Citieae_ cited, 162. + + Sydenham, Sir Philip, 136. + + Symonds, --, 11 _n._ + + Symonds, Henry, M.A., 251, 266. + + Syriac MSS., 56, 63, 91, 107, 114, 296, 300, 326. + + + TALBOT, William, Bp. of Oxford, 116. + + Talman, J., 333. + + Talmud, 244. + + Tamil MSS., 296. + + Tanner, Thomas. Bp. of St. Asaph, his printed books and MSS., 153-156; + mentioned, 104, 106, 142, 190; + references to his books, 81. + + Tartar MSS., 115, 208. + + Tasso, Torquato, 336. + + Tattam, Archdeacon, 150. + + Taunton, J. B., M.A., 266, 270. + + Taylor, Joseph, LL.D., donor, 92, 107. + + Taylor, Richard, 231. + + Telugu MSS., 319, 326. + + Tenison, Thomas, Archbp. of Canterbury, 173 _n._ + + Tennyson, Alfred, 319. + + Terence, 230; + _Vulgaria abs Terentio_, 112, 303. + + Terry, Thomas, M.A., 106. + + Teukesbury, John de, 316. + + Te Water, J. W., 236. + + Thame School, 180. + + Theocritus, 186. + + Thomas of Newmarket, 58. + + Thomas, E., 197. + + Thomas, John, Bp. of Winch., 132 _n._ + + Thomas, John, M.A., 200. + + Thomas, Vaughan, B.D., 337. + + Thomson, --, 337. + + Thomson, Thomas, 303. + + Thoresby, Ralph, 187 _n._ + + Thorkelin, G. T., 242 _n._ + + Thorpe, Benjamin, 102. + + Thorpe, Thomas, 286. + + Thurland, Francis, M.A., 219, 221. + + Thurland. F. E., M.A., 266. + + Thurloe, John, his State papers, 172. + + Thurston, William, donor of Oriental MSS., 91; + reference to a MS., 56. + + Thwaites, Edward, donor, 333. + + Tibetan MSS., 208. + + Tickell, Rev. J., donor, 222. + + Tigernach, 175. + + Tippoo Sahib, 208. + + Tischendorf, Dr., 64, 282. + + Tomson, L., 52. + + Tonga dialect, books in the, 276. + + Tonstall, C., Bishop of Durham, 239. + + Torcy, M. de, 222. + + Torelli, Joseph, 201. + + Torinus, God., 312. + + Tour, Archd. de la, 245. + + Toynbee, Thomas, M.A., 156, 158. + + Tradescant, John, 309 _n._ + + Treacher, J., M.A., 297 _n._ + + Trefusis, John, donor, 324. + + Trent, Council of, 286. + + Trott, Nicholas, _Clavis Ling. Sanctae_, 108. + + Turck, John, 183 _n._ + + Turkish MSS., 63, 125, 207. + + Turner, Dawson, sale, 280, 290. + + Turner, Francis, Bishop of Ely, 173 _n._, 174; + papers, 176, 178. + + Turner, Dr. Peter, 55. + + Turner, Capt. Samuel, MSS., 208. + + Turner, Thomas, Dean of Canterbury, papers, 176, 178. + + Turner, William, 73. + + Twells, Rev. L., 78 _n._ + + Twine, Thomas, M.D., donor, 34. + + Twyne, Brian, MS. of _Univ. Musterings_, 187; + cited, 37 _n._, 70, 80, 307. + + Tyndale, W., 239, 248. + + Tyrrell, James, donor, 125. + + Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 196. + + + UFFENBACH, Z. C., _Commerc. Epistol._ cited, 120, 130, 144, 145. + + _Ulster, Annals of_, 175. + + Upcott, W., 299. + + Uri, John, account of him, 199; + _Catal._ mentioned, 65; + cited, 114; + autograph, 320 _n._ + + Usher, Archbp., MSS., 125, 151, 176, 318; + cited, 54; + portrait, 336; + absolved Selden on his death-bed, 77 _n._; + mentioned, 90, 102. + + Utrecht, Treaty of, papers, 175. + + Utterson, E. V., sale, 112, 321. + + + VALENTIN, Robert, 296. + + Vambery, A., 115. + + Vandyck, Sir Anthony, 196, 336. + + Vansittart, N., M.P., 223. + + Vansittart, Robert, D.C.L., 198. + + Vaughan, H. H., M.A., 277. + + Vaughan, P., Warden of Merton, donor, 223. + + Vaux, W. S., 340. + + Ven, --, a Dane, 68. + + Venice, reports of ambassadors, 177. + + Verard, Anthony, 310, 312. + + Verneuil, John, M.A., Sub-librarian, 73-4, 341; + donor, 341; + _Nomenclator_, 31, 67, 73, 130; + Cat. of Commentators on Holy Script., 60. + + Vernon, Col. Edw., donor of the Vernon MS., 101. + + Vertue, George, 182. + + Vetericastro, S. de, 310. + + Victoria, Her Majesty Queen, donor, 264; + her visits to the Library, 319. + + Vidoveus, Petr., 311. + + Villemarque, T. de la, cited, 20 _n._ + + Vincent, William, D.D., 262. + + Viner, Charles, 294 _n._ + + Viner, Sir Robert, donor, 107. + + Virgil, 179, 232, 233, 252; + _Sortes Virgilianae_ tried by Charles I, 70. + + Virgil, Polydore, 10, 11. + + Vivian, William, M.D., 198. + + Vossius, Isaac, 129, 178, 207, 327. + + Vostre, Simon, 311, 312. + + + WAKE, Edward, M.A., 106 + + Wake, Sir Isaac, cited, 15, 16, 27. + + Wake, William, Archbp. of Canterbury, papers, 121, 174. + + Walden, Thomas, _Fascic. Zizan._, 90. + + Wales, Albert Edw., Prince of, 304, 319. + + Walker, Gen. Alex, his MSS., 269, 270. + + Walker, Endymion, 167. + + Walker, John, D.D., his MSS., 167; + William, his son, 167. + + Walker, Rev. John, M.A., _Letters by Em. Persons_, cited, 59, 69, 106, + 116, 121, 123, 125 bis, 127 _n._, 130 _n._, 138, 139, 142, 144, + 155 _n._, 186 _n._, 187; + _Oxoniana_, cited, 120. + + Walker, John, M.A., _another_, 229, 235. + + Walker, Robert Fr., M.A., 210. + + Walker, Sir William, 270. + + Wall, H., M.A., 277. + + Wallingford, Richard, 58. + + Wallis, John, D.D., 90, 251. + + Wallis, J., M.A., 123. + + Walpole, Horace, _Anecdotes of Painting_, cited, 30; + _R. and N. Authors_, 258. + + Walters, Rev. John, 197. + + Walters, J., B.A., Sub-librarian, 196-7. + + Walton, Brian, Bp. of Chester, 95. + + Wanley, Humphrey, cited, 9, 20 _n._, 24, 90, 100; + employed in the Library, 116; + donor, 116 _n._; + selected books from Bernard's library, 117; + dispute with Hyde thereon, _ib._; + Hyde desires Wanley to succeed him as Librarian, 118; + portrait, 336. + + Warcupp, Sir Edmund, 178, 187. + + Ware, Sir James, 184. + + Warham, Archbp., 313. + + Waring, George, M.A., 105. + + Warneford, --, 160. + + Warton, Thomas, B.D., _Hist. of Eng. Poet._, cited, 18, 20, 46, 81, + 156 _n._, 188 _n._; + _Life of Sir T. Pope_, cited, 331 _n._ + + Wason, Abbot Thomas, 315. + + Waterson, Simon, 36. + + Watson, --, 11 _n._ + + Watson, James, 248. + + Watson, Thomas, 206. + + Waynflete, Bp. William, 112 _n._ + + Weelkes, Thomas, 206. + + Weever, John, 250 _n._ + + Welles, --, 317. + + Wellesley, Henry, D.D., 225, 279, 285, 296, 333. + + Wellington, Duke of, 319. + + Welwood, J., M.D., _Memoirs_ cited, 70. + + Wentworth, St. Ex., M.A., 251. + + Werden, Major-General, 185 _n._ + + Werfrith, Bp. of Worcester, 100. + + Wesley, Charles, admitted as a reader, 152, 320 _n._ + + Wesley, Samuel, Mus. Doc., 206. + + West, James, 212 _n._ + + West, Rev. W., 179. + + Westminster Abbey, 179. + + Westmoreland, Earl of, 336. + + Westphalia, J. de, 303. + + Westphaling, Herbert, Bp. of Hereford, donor, 19. + + Westwood, Professor J., 105, 327. + + Wettersten, P., 241 _n._ + + Wey, William, 329. + + Whale caught in the Severn, 104. + + Whalley, Peter, donor, 88. + + Whalley, Peter, B.A., 204. + + Wharton, Henry, M.A., 153 _n._, 240, 322 _n._ + + Wharton, Philip, Lord, 166, 178. + + Wheatly, Charles, M.A., 144. + + Whethamstede, John de, 8. + + Whetstone, George, 231. + + Whiston, William, M.A., donor, 141; + mentioned, 149, 184, 320 _n._ + + Whitchurch, E., 282. + + White, --, 341. + + White, Messrs., Appleton, 33. + + White, Edward, 36. + + White, John, M.A., 107. + + White, Joseph, D.D., 206, 208; + portrait, 209. + + White, Peter, 9. + + White, R. M., D.D., 102. + + Whiting, Thomas, B.A., 197. + + _Whole duty of Man_, author of, MS. of _Decay of Piety_, 125. + + Whorwood, Robert, 322. + + Whytt, --, Librarian, 11. + + Wi[=e]b, W. de, 317. + + Wickliffe, John, 10, 90, 96, 252. + + Wick-Risington, Gloucestershire, 58. + + Wiggan, George, M.A., 107. + + Wight, Osborne, M.A., bequest, 205. + + Wigmore, Henry, 37. + + Wilbye, John, 206. + + Wild, Henry, the learned Norwich tailor, 142. + + Wildgoose, --, painter, 138. + + Wilkie, Sir D., 319. + + Wilkins, David, D.D., 78. + + Wilkinson, John, D.D., 84. + + Wilkinson, Rev. Thomas, MS. Pedigrees, 174. + + William III, 255. + + William, King of Scotland, Homage to Henry II, 30. + + Williams, Dr., St. John's College, Cambridge, 153, 154. + + Williams, Charles, D.D., Donor, 197. + + Williams, George, B.D., 329. + + Williams, John, Bp. of Lincoln, applies to borrow a book, but is + refused, 50; + _Funeral Sermon on James I_, 51. + + Williams, Sir John, 271. + + Williams, John, B.A., 157 _n._ + + Williams, Rev. John, _Welsh Grammar_ cited, 20 _n._ + + Williams, Moses, B.A., 157. + + Williams, Zach., 188. + + Willis and Sotheran, Messrs., 245. + + Willis, Browne, Letters to Owen, 160 _n._; + Bequest of MSS. and coins, 190-1, 340. + + Willis, Thomas, M.D., 191. + + Wilson, D., Bp. of Calcutta, Portrait, 337; + donor, 338. + + Wilson, H. H., M.A., his MSS., 265. + + Wilson, Lea, 233 _n._ + + Wilson, Ralph, 147. + + Wilson, Thomas, Bp. of Sodor and Man, 289. + + Wilson, Thomas, 258. + + Wiltshire, MS. collections, 154 _n._ + + Winbolt, Thomas, B.A., 158. + + Winchelsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 94. + + Windsor, Dean and Chapter of, donors, 34. + + Wingfield family, 214. + + Winwood, Sir Ralph, donor, 25. + + Wise, Francis, M.A., Sub-librarian, 146; + defeated in election for Librarian, 151; + mentioned, 160, 294 _n._; + catalogue of Coins, 340. + + Wodecherche, Will. de, 317. + + Wolf, Jo. Christopher, 95. + + Wolfe, Reginald, 87. + + Wood, Antony a, bequest, 89; + MSS. bought from him, 110; + a MS. given by Ballard, 187; + his Library, 287-8; + MS. of his _History_, 270; + illustrated copy of Gutch's translation of his _History_, 30; + Rawlinson's Contin. of the _Athenae_, 181; + Malone's copy of the _Athenae_, 232; + Dr. Bliss's copy of the _Athenae_, 289; + cited, 10, 17, 25, 41, 44, 45, 48, 79, 83 _n._, 85, 86 _n._, 106, + 110, 159, 201; + _Life_, 192 _n._; + mentioned, 289, 322. + + Wood, Robert, 189. + + Woodcock, John, M.A., 210. + + Worcester Cathedral, 179; + MSS. from thence, 100, 103. + + Worde, Wynkyn de, 155, 183, 239. + + Wordsworth, Dr. Christopher, cited, 53 _n._ + + Wordsworth, Will., 227. + + Wotton, Sir Henry, donor, 25, 58. + + Wren, Sir Christopher, 119, 251. + + Wright, --, 12. + + Wright, Abraham, B.A., _Delitiae Delitiarum_, 65. + + Wright, Francis, 67. + + Wuertzburg, books 'e Coll. Herbip.' 61, 65. + + Wyat, Sir Thomas, 336. + + Wyatt, Thomas, 330. + + Wyatt, William, M.A., 128. + + Wyberd, John, 68. + + Wyngaerde, Ant. van den, 255. + + Wyrley, William, 174. + + + XIMENES, Cardinal, 280, 298. + + Xiphilinus, 320. + + + YARNTON, Oxon, 30 _n._ + + Yonge, Francis, M.A., Sub-librarian, 74; + death, 89. + + Yonge, Nicholas, 206 + + York Minster, 30; + Tower of St. Mary, 96; + Museum, 212 _n._ + + Yorke, Sir Joseph, 199. + + Young, Edward, D.D., 178. + + Young, Patrick, 48, 51, 55, 61, 83; + donor, 325. + + Yriarte, --, 253. + + + ZAMBONI, J. J., 178. + + Zell, Ulric, 210. + + Zend MSS., 149, 191, 269. + + Zernichaus, Adam, 143. + + Zeuss, J. C., _Grammat. Celtica_ cited, 20 _n._ + + Zoroaster, 149, 159. + + Zunz, Dr. L., 272. + + + + +ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. + + +P. 3, l. 9. [The University Seal is engraved in Ingram's _Memorials of +Oxf._, iii. 17, where it is said to be '_c._ A.D. 1200.'] + +P. 15, _note_ 2 [=Footnote 20]. [The University Arms are engraved in +Ingram's _Memorials_, iii. 1, from the painted glass in the great east +window of the Library. In this representation three mottos are given: +_Dominus_, &c., on a scroll above, _Sapientia et Faelicitate_ on the +Book, and _Bonitas regnabit, Veritas liberabit_, on a scroll below.] + +P. 50, l. 1. _for_ William _read_ Williams. + +P. 50, l. 2 from bottom. _for_ ignoit _read_ ignotis. + +P. 81, l. 19 (=Footnote [114]). _for_ Wharton _read_ Warton. + +P. 93, l. 6 from bottom. _for_ Kerr _read_ Ken. Gentoo, _add_ [_i.e._ +Sanscrit.] [See p. 265, _note_.] + +P. 115, l. 5. _for_ M. Vainbery ... to form _read_ M. Va['m]bery, the +traveller in Tartary, who is engaged in forming. + +P. 129, l. 6. _for_ one volume of Index _read_ one earlier volume +containing a list of livings in the diocese of Norwich, with their +values and incumbents. + +P. 156, l. 14. _for_ third Catalogue _read_ fourth Catalogue. + +P. 187, _note_ (=Footnote [255]). _Dele_ comma after _White_. + +P. 230, _Codex Ebn._ [A facsimile, from the commencement of St. Luke, +with a notice of the MS., is given in Shaw's _Illuminated Ornaments_.] + + OXFORD: + + BY T. COMBE, M.A., E. B. GARDNER, E. P. HALL, AND H. LATHAM, M.A. + + PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes + +Minor punctuation and format changes have been made without special +comment here. + +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: + +Page 23: added left single quote (described in the 'Registrum +Benefactorum') + +Page 131: changed comma to right parenthesis "(as his solitary claim to +a place in the _Athenae_)" + +Page 136: changed "exspected" to "expected" (he was not one of those +good men I expected) + +Page 141: changed "2/3" (two-thirds) to footnote anchor. + +Page 253: changed "Abury" to "Avebury" (Accounts of Avebury and +Stonehenge, ...) + +Pge 314: changed semi-colon to comma in "(given by Hugh, Archd. of +Taunton), ..." + +Footnote [374]: added missing close single quote mark (John Macbride, +'ex Coll. Exon.') + +Addenda et Corrigenda: changed "P. 1" to "P. 3" (P. 1, l. 9. 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