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But all thefe remonftrances and exhortations had little or no 

 effea. 



BIBLIA, or BiihiA fdraria, in a military fenfe, denotes 

 a machine ufed by the ancients for throwing ftones or darts. 



BIBLIANDER, Theodore, in Biography, whofe true 

 name was B'ruchman, a learned protcllaiit divine, was born 

 in IJC4, at Bifchoifzell near St. Gall, in Swifferland. He 

 officiated as profcffor of divinity at Zurich from 1532 to 

 1560, when he was declared emeritus, or pail fervicc, not 

 becaufe he was incapable of executing his office, but be- 

 caufe he had advanced opinions that deviated from the ftand- 

 ard of orthodoxy with regard to the doiTtrine of predeftiiia- 

 tion. He died of the plague, at Zurich, in 1564. He was 

 well acquainted with the oriental languages, and publiflied, 

 in 1550, an edition of the Koran; the text of which, 

 Baylc fays, he corrected by a collation of the Arabic and 

 Latin copies ; and he added marginal notes, pointing out 

 and refuting its abfurdities. But others fay, that this edi- 

 tion is faulty, and difpute Bibliander's Hcill in the oriental 

 languages. To this ed;tion he fubjoined the lives of Maho- 

 met and his fuccelTors, and prefixed an apology, by way of 

 preface, which gave great offence by maintaining the hiwful- 

 ncfs and utility of a free perufal of books advtrfe to true re- 

 ligion. He alfo wrote feveral other books on theological 

 fubjefts, feme of which are printed, and others remain in 

 MS. in the library at Zurich. He likewife finiihed the Bi- 

 ble of Leo Jnd^. called the " Zurich Bible," and printed in 

 1543, ^"d trandaied from the Hebrew into Latin the lall 8 

 chapters of Eztkiel, Daniel, Job, EccleCaftes, the Canti- 

 cles, and the laft j.8 Pfalms. Gen. Did. 



BIBLIOGRAPHL^, a branch cf arcbj:ographla, em- 

 ployed in the judging and perufing of ancient manufcripts, 

 whether written in books, paper, or parchment. The ftnfe 

 of it is now extended, and it fignities a uo'k intended to 

 give information concerning the firfl, or beil editions of 

 books ; and the ways of fcltcling and diftinguiftiing them 

 properly. In ihort, it is ufed for a notitia, or defcription of 

 printed books, e-ther in the order of the alphabet, of the 

 times when printed, or of the fnnjcc^-matters. In which 

 fenfe, bibliocjraphia amounts to much the fame vvith what is 

 otherwife called I'lliiothecn. 



Literarv- journals afford alfo a kind of bibliographia. 



BIBLIO.MANCY, a kind of divination performed by 

 means of the Bible. This amounts to much the fame with 

 what is otherwife called fortes h'lbi'ictt, or fortes fanciorum. 

 See SoRTES. It confillcd in taking paffages of Scripture 

 at hazard, and drawing indications thence concerning things 

 future , as in Auguftin's toUe el lege. It was much ufed at 

 the confecraiion of bidiops. F. J. Davidius, a Jefuit, has 

 publilhed a bibiiornancy, under the borrowed name of Ve- 

 rid'icus Chr'ifl'ianus. 



BIBLIOMANIA, an extravagant paflion for books, to 

 a degree of madnefs; or a dtfire of accumulating them be- 

 yond all reafon and neccflity. 



BIBLIO THEC.A, from /S.^Acr, bo-,l, and ^r.y.r., rep-jfi- 

 tory, irom tiir.fjn, I lay up, properly fignifics a hbrary, or 

 repofitorj' of books. See Library. It is alfo ufed for a 

 compilation of all that has been written on a certain fubjeil ; 

 or a digeftion of all the authors who have treated of it. In 

 this fenfe, we have hiilorical bibliothecx, as that of Diodo- 

 rus Siculus ; mythological bibliothecx, as that of Apollodo- 

 rus ; theological and lacred bibliotheca;, as thofe of Rava- 

 nellus, &e. It is alfo uled for a catalogue of the bocks in 

 a library ; fuch are the I'llliotheca Cotjfw.'iana, I'tlliotheca 

 CorJcJtann, llbliotheca Thuaned, I'llTwtheca B'l^non'iana, biU'io- 

 theca du Boifmna, &c. 



L'Abbe has publifhei a bibliot'.eea oi bbliclhec^, or a ca- 

 talogue of the namss of thjfe who have v/r.tteu biblioUittae, 



which has fince been continued and improved under ano- 

 ther title by Teffier, from 800 writers to the number of 

 no lefs than 2500. Schrammius has alfo publithed a pro- 

 gramma on the writers of theological bibiiothecae. 



Bibliotheca is a name given to the books of the Old 

 and New Teftame!:t, in refpedt of their excellency, and fuf- 

 ficiency fur the ufes of the Chriftian life ; and it is alfo a 

 title given to divers journals, or periodical accounts in French 

 of new books. 



Bibliotheca Patrum, or of the Fathers, is a colleftion 

 of the writings of the leffer fathers, printed in one or more 

 volume!. The firfl of this kind was pubhdied at Paris by 

 Marg. de la Eigne in 1576. 



BIBLIOTHECARIAN, a library keeper, otherwile 

 called librarian. 



The word is alfo ufed for the author of a bibliotheca, or 

 a catalogue of books. 



In this fenfe, P. L'Abbe has given a bibliotheca, or ca- 

 talogue of bibliothecarians. Gcfner, Lipenius, Struvius, 

 Fabricius, Sec. are celebrated bibliothecanaiis. 



BIBLIOTHEQUEMusiCALE. SeeMfsiCALZ-i'^r^zry. 



BIBLIS, in Entomology, a fpccies of Papilio, with 

 black dentated wings, and a band of fanguineous fpots on 

 the pofterior ones. It is a native of America, and called 

 pap'ulo hyperia by Cramer. Gmelin. Gbf. Tais mud not 

 be confounded with pcpilio biblis of Cramer, which is a very 

 different iiifeft, and feems to be a variety of papilio penthefilea 

 ot Fabricius. 



BiBLis Fons, in Ancient Geography, a celebrated fountain 

 of Ionia, fituate E.S.E. of Miletus. It is mentioned by 

 Paufanias and Ovid. 



BIBLISTS, bibli/ljp, an appellation given by fome Romifh 

 writers to thofe who profcfs to adhere to Scripture alone as 

 the fole rule of faith, exclufive of all tradition and the fup- 

 pofed authority of the church. In which fenfe, all protell- 

 ants are, or ought to be, biblifts. Biblifts, among Chrill- 

 ians, anfwer nearly to Caraites or Textuaries among the Jews. 

 The Chriilian dotlors were divided, towards the clofe of 

 the twelfth centuiy, into two claffes ; viz. the biblici, and 

 the fchoiaftics : the former were called doclors of the facrcd 

 page, becaufe they explained the dodrjnes of Chriflianity in 

 their manner by the lacred writings; however, their reputation 

 declined, and the fcholaitic theology prevailed in all the Eu- 

 ropean colleges till the time of Luther. See BiBLE-iJoSorj. 



BIBLUS, in Botany, an aquatic plant in Egypt, called 

 alfo papyrus; of the ikin whereof the ancient Egyptians 

 made their paper. See Papyrus, and Paper.. 



Hence alfo the Greeks gave the denomination ^ibXo; to 

 books m.ade of it. See Bible. 



BiBLUs,in.^^«<:/V«/ Geography, a river in the ifland of Naxia. 



BIBONA, a place of GaUia Aquitanica, in the route 

 from Burdigala to Segodum. 



BIBORA River and Bav, in Geography, lie to the eaft 

 of Cartago bav, on the maiu laud of Honduras, about N. 

 lat. 14° 20'. VV. long. 83'' 45. 



BIBRA, Bebra, or BiEBRA, a town of Germany, in 

 the circie of Upper Saxony, in Thuringia, 10 uules well of 

 Nann^burg, and 8 fouth of Querfurt. 



BIBlvACTE, in /Inrient Geography, a citadel of the 

 jEdui, according to Strabo, but according to Ca:far» a for- 

 tified town of Gaul, the capital of which was large and po- 

 pulous, now defolate ; about 4 miles to the noith-well of 

 Autun, and called Beureft, Bevray, and Bray. 



BIBRAX, BiEVRE, a town of Belgica, in Gaul, in the 

 country of the Rhemi, north-well of Durocortornro. This 

 town was attacked with great fury by the other Belgic na- 

 tions, becaufe it had declared for Csfar. Cxf. Bel. Gal. 

 1. 2. c. 7. 



EIBRICH, 



