VOL. XII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TKANSACTIOJfS. 4^ 



et Senatore, &c. Descrizzione di Lorenzo Legati Cremonese, in fol. In 

 Bol. J 678. 



Mr. Ferdinand Cospi, marquis of Petreoli, equally illustrious for his merit, 

 the employments wherewith he is honoured in the court of Tuscany, and for 

 his extraordinary learning, which has raised him to one of the highest degrees 

 in the academy of the Gelati in Bononia, having with extraordinary care and 

 expence made a collection of whatever he saw there that was curious and rare, 

 and bestowed it upon his country, the Senate of Bononia has added the same 

 to that of Aldrovandus. An ample and learned description whereof is here made 

 by M. Lorenzo Legati, philosopher, physician, and Greek professor in the 

 university of Bononia. 



He divides the work, into five books. 



The first contains a description of whatever this museum contains of rarity 

 concerning mummies, beasts, serpents, birds and human monsters. — The second 

 book contains descriptions and remarks of several rarities concerning aquatiles, 

 as of the flying fish, &c. also of corals, pearl, &c. — ^The subjects of the third 

 book are works of art. — The fourth and fifth books are concerning the medals 

 and gods of the ancients. 



IL Systema Bibliothecae Collegii Parisiensis Soc. Jesu. In4to. A Par. 1678. 



Of which library the author of the said journal says, that it contains above 

 32,000 volumes. 



in. Glossarium ad Scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitatis, in quo Latina 

 Vocabula novatae significationis explicantur ; complures aevi medii Ritus et 

 Mores ; Legum, Consuetudinum Municipalium, et Jurisprudentiae recentioris 

 formulae et obsoletae voces ; utriusque Ordinis Ecclesiastici et Laici Dignitates 

 et Officia, &c. enucleantur et illustrantur ; innumera denique Scriptorum loca 

 Graecorum, Gal. Lat. Ital. Hispan. German. Anglo-Sax. expenduntur, emen- 

 dantur, elucidantur. In fol. 3 vol. Autore Carolo du Fresne Domino du 

 Cangi * Regi a Cons, et Franciae apud Ambianos Questore. A Par. 1678. 



published his Ornithology, in three volumes, in 1599, and his seven books of Insects, which make 

 another volume of the same size. The volume of Serpents, three of Quadrupeds, one of Fishes, that 

 of Exsanguious Animals, the History of Monsters, with the Supplement to that of Animals, the 

 treatise on Metals, and the Dendrology or History of Trees, were published at several times, after 

 his death, by the care of different persons, viz. The volume of Serpents by Bartholomaeus Am- 

 brosinus ; that of Bisulcous Quadrupeds by John Cornelius Uterverius, and afterwards by Thomas 

 Dempster j that of Digitated Quadrupeds by Ambrosinus ; the History of Monsters by tlie same 

 author ; the Dendrology by Ovidius Montalbanus ; and the History of Metals by Ambrosinus. 



* Du Cange, a learned French lawyer, was bom at Amiens in 161O. He became advocate in 

 the parliament of Paris, and treasurer of France. He was well acquainted with history, both sacred 

 and profane, and left many works, both printed and manuscript, at his death, which happened in . 



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