return he possessed all the confidence and favor of his Master, who first made him Bishop of Durham, Chancellor the year following, then High Treasurer, and Plenipotentiary for a treaty peace with France. of Richard of Bury did in England what Petrarch did in France, Italy, and Germany; he gave much of his attention, and spent great part of his fortune, to discover the manuscripts of ancient Authors, and have them copied under his immediate inspection, and kept binders, illuminators, and writers in his palaces. Richard in his Philobiblion, a Treatise which he wrote on the love and choice of books, relates the incredible expense he was at to form his famous Library, notwithstanding he made use of the authority which his dignity and favor with the King procured him. He mentions the arts he was obliged to use to compass his design, and informs us that the first Hebrew and Greek Grammars that ever appeared were derived from his labours. He had them composed for the English students; persuaded that without the knowledge of these two languages, and especially the Greek, it was impossible to understand the principles of either the ancient. Heathen or Christian Writers. Richard de Bury died in 1345, and is said to have possessed more books than all the Bishops of England together. Besides the fixed Libraries which he had formed in his several Palaces, the floor of his common apartment was so covered with books that those who entered could not with due reverence approach his presence. See some further curious particulars in the new edition of Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. i. 8vo. p. cxlvii, &e. "Nature will have her course, and dull Books will be forgotten in spite of Bibliographers." Campbell. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. Acuna Descubrimiento de las Amazonas, 4to. 1641 Annalia Dubrensia, 4to. 1636.... Arnolde's Chronicle Arthur (Kynge) and his Knyghtes, Caxton, 1485...... Barksdale's Nympha Libethris, 12mo. 1651 Baron's Cyprian Academy, 8vo. 1647... Pocula Castalia, 1650 .... Bassentinus's Free Will, a Tragedy, 4to. Bateman's Travayled Pilgrim, 1569... Bible (First Protestant) 1535 28 87 83 84 57 51 37 38 (First edition of Luther's) 1541 (Bill and Barker's) Bunyan's copy, with account of Bunyan ..... 38 Blanchardyne (King) and Princess Eglantine, Caxton, 1485 28 Boccius's Boke of Consolation, 1525 Borde's Book of Knowledge, &c. ... Brusonii Facetiarum, folio, 1518 ................. Bracelli Bizarie di Vare Figure, 1624 ..... Bry (De) Peregrinationum, &c. 1590-1634, folio Carmeliani Carmen, 4to. Pynson .... Case's (J.) Angelical Guide, 8vo. 1697 101 Chroniques de France, 1476 16 ... de Normandie, 1487 16 PAGE. Churchyarde's (T.) Works 53 Clizia, L'Infelice Amore di Giulia e Romeo, 8vo. 1553.. 43. Collins's Families of Vere, Cavendish, &c. folio, 1762.. 119 Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth Cromwell, 12mo. 1664 90 Cowley's Poetical Blossoms, &c. 4to. 1633, &c. Anacreontic Odes on Gold, the Grasshopper, and the Epicure Cromwell the Perfect Politician, 8vo. 1680 78 81. ཚད་བའི་ z? 27 14 Danse Macabre, 1485, &c. ... des Morts, 1744, &c. Darcie's Annales of Queen Elizabeth, 1625 Froissart Chroniques de France, &c. Froissart's Chronicles, Pynson, 1523, &c..... by Johnes Fuller's Worthies of England, folio, 1662, (Directions Church History (plates in)..... for Collating) Abel Redivivus (Collation of) 62 29 30 30 93 95 95 Geninge's Life and Death, 4to. 1614... Godwin's (Bp.) Man in the Moon, 8vo. 1638... .. Gower Confessio Amantis,, 1483. ..... PAGE. 71% 65 :17 61. .. 103 Greinville's (Sir R.) Briefe Report of Virginia, folio, 1590 Hall's (Jos.) Discovery of a New World, 8vo. 65 66 Han ay's (Patrick) Nightingale, &c. 8vo. 1622 1562, &c. Hearne, (T.) Acta Apostolorum, 8vo. 1715 ... Heywood's (J.) Spider and Flie and other Works, 1556 Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie, folio, 1723 104 48 63 Howleglas (Merie Jests of)..... 46 King's (Dr.) Toast; (Key to the Characters in) with extracts. 106 Languet's Junius Brutus's Defence of Liberty, 4to. 1648 88 Meliador, or the Knight of the Sun of Gold. ..... 31. Moliere, (Oeuvres de) .. 97 Nice Wanton, (Interlude of) 4to. 1560.... |