Si6 MEMOIRS of the 
libraries in part 2d, with thofe of the libraries of the Univerfuy 
cf Cambridge in part gd : The lecond tome gives in part ift, ca- 
talogues of the manufcripts in the hbraries of many of the carhe- 
dral churches and of leveral of the nobility and gentry; and m 
part 2d are ibme catalo|[Jues of the manufcripts in fome libraries 
in Ireland, with a peculiar index to each of thele parts; at the 
beginning of the book is prefixed an epillle concerning the nature 
and ule of it, which is followed by a preface that endeavours to 
excufe Icme faults which nice people £nd in Ibme of the cata- 
logues, and acquaints with the method taken in compofing the 
indexes, with a lilt of all the catalogues comprehended in the 
whole ; then comes the life of Sir 'Thomas Sodky the founder of 
the publick library at Oxford^ with the hiflory of it and an ac- 
count of its chief bencfa6iors; tlie firfl: catalogue is that of thole 
Greek manulcripts which once belonged to Signior Francefco 
^Barcccio a Venetian gentleman, that were highly valued in Italy 
?.nd brought over into EngkiKd, which by the perfuafions of 
archbiJiiop Zand the eld earl of 'Pevibroke bought and prelented 
to the Uiive^'fity^ thefe booli* have been oftentimes celebrated 
by many authors of note, to whom they have been highly fer- 
viceablc, containing a great number ot excellent trafis of the 
Greek tathers never yet publiPntd, beiides divere ancient hifto- 
rians and geographers ; and particularly a gopd deal of Chryfo- 
jlom, and indeed they have been condantly efteemcd as the moll 
noble parcel of Greek books, that were ever yet repoled in any 
Engliflj library: The manulcripts of Sir "Jbomas Roe, which he 
brought over with him from the eaff, and thole given by Oliver 
Cromwell have as good a chara6fer, confidering their numbers, 
this lail, being accounted as the remaining part of fhe 'Baroc- 
cian library, the earl thought fit to detain and were afterwards 
given by Crom-well ; after thele is a catalogue of the manulcripts 
of archbifl:iop Laud 1500 in number, which he gave the 67//- 
'verfity at leveral times, be(ides what he gave to St. Jobn^s col- 
lege m OsoHi, the manulcripts are written in thefe languages, ^72;. 
Hebrc-iv, Syriac, Chaldee, JEtbiopc, Armenian^ Arabic^ as 
welt African as Afiatic, 'PerfiaJU "Turhfi, Cbinefe^ Japonefe, 
JikhgaUy Jllalaba'ric, Ruffian, Greek, .'^s weil the vulgar, as 
Scbolajlic, Latin, Italian, German, 'Bohemian, Irip, Anglo- 
Sa%on, Englipy and one book of the hieroglyphics o{ Afexico, as 
there are feveral others in other parts of the library; what noble 
copies do we find here of the lacred books, fathers, hiftorians, 
poets, orators, philolbphers, phyiicians, mathematicians, ^c, 
^elides the manufvripts in the languages abovementioned, given 
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