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ficent Founder of our Publick Library, with the Hiftory 
of it, and an Account of its chief Benefadcrs, the Head^ 
of whom are engraven on Copper Plates, here, and at 
the Front of the Book to be feen. 
The firft Catalogue is that of thofe Greek Manufcripts 
which once belonged to Signior Francejco Baroccio a Ve* 
nttian Gentleman, which were highly valued in Itafyy 
and by a fingular Providence brought over into England^ 
and by the Perfuafions of Archhijhop Land, were bought 
by the old Earl of Pemhroke, and-pre(enced to our Uni- 
verfity. Thefe Books have been oftentimes celebrated 
by many Authors of Note, unto whom ihey have been 
highly Serviceable : And what Reputation they were in. 
at-the beginning, you may x^^d m Archhijhop Vjhers 
Letters, pag. 400. where you have that molt learned 
Primates Opinion of them, and pag. 406. where, fays 
Sir Henry Bourgchier (who was atterwards Earl of Bath) 
Pr. Lindfell, nom Dean of Lichfiddf^ tells me^ that it (thQ 
Parcel of Barocian Manufcripts^ « a great Treafure, far 
exceeding the Catalogue \ that there are a great mmber of 
excellent Trails of the Greek Father s^ never jet publifhed;. 
leJiJes divers ancient Hiftorians and Geographers ^ and 
particularly that there is as much of Chrylbftom, as will 
wake a Volume egaalto any of thefe puhlifh'd by S/r Henry 
Savil, And indeed, they have been conftantly efleemtd 
as the moft noble Parcel of Greek Books, that were ever 
yet repos'd in any £ijg///J Library. 
The Manufcripts or Sir Thomas Roe^ which he brought 
over with him from the Eaft; and thofe given by Oliver 
Cromwell h^ve as good a Cbarader, confidering their 
Numbers: Thofe of CromweWs being accounted as the 
remaining part of the Baroccian Library ; for fome think 
tjiat the Earl did not give the whole, but that he thought 
fit to detain thofe which were afterwards given by 
Crmwell. 
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