C 44^ ) 
After thefe, comes a Catalogue of the Manafcripts of 
Ardibifliop Laud, in Number One Thoufand Three 
Hundred, which he gave the Univerfity at Three or 
Four Donations, befides what he gave to St. John's- Col- 
lege OxoH^ and what he further intended us, had he 
not been prevented by the Iniquity of thofe times. The 
Manufcripts (as Dr, Langlain us'd to fay) are fufficient 
to make a large Library of themfelvcs, and are written 
in tbefe Languages, viz, Hebrew^ Syriac, Ckaldee^ 
thiopiCf Armenian^ Arahic (as well African as Afiatic) 
Ferfian^ Turkifh, Chinefe^ Japonefe^ Malayan, Malaharic, 
Rujftan, Greek (as well in the Vulgar Greek as the Scholar 
flic ) Latin J Italian^ German , Bohemian, Irijh, Anglo^ 
Saxon, Englijh, and one Book there is of the Hierogly^ 
phicks of Mexico, as there are feveral others in other 
parts of the Library. What immcnfe Charges muft we 
think this Prelate was put to, to fend Mellengers on pur- 
pofc^ to almoft all parts of the World, and there to buy 
up fomany of their choiceft Monuments? What noble 
Copies do we find here of the ftcred Books, Fathers, Hi- 
ftorians, Poets, Orators, Philofophers, Phy fitians, Mathe- 
matiiians, and what not > This great Variety of Langua- 
ges tiiade me ask the Library-Keepers what other Lan- 
guages they had Manufcripts of in the Library, which 
were not enumerated among thofc given by Arehbifliop 
Laud> They replied that there were Thoufands of Ma* 
nufcripts which were in the fame Languages with that 
Prelates Books ; befides which, they Ihewed me Books 
written in the Samaritan, Mend^ean, Coptic or Mgyptian^ 
Siamefe, Teguan, Indoflan, Sanfcreet, Tylingan^ Ceyloni* 
an^ Tartarian, Spanijh, Portuguefe, Britifh, Francic, Fri*^ 
fian, Gothic, and Ijlandic ; they added farther, that be- 
fides thefe, they knew not but fome might be for- 
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