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pubiiflied : If th« Works of St. Ephraim Syrusy and ma- 
ny otherFathersand Ecclefiaftical Writers, who are ftiil 
locked up in the Eaftern Languages, (hall be thought ufe- 
ful to Divines : In a Word, if the Philojophy^ Poetry, Phar- 
mavj^ Lam, Religion^ Hifiory, Policy ^ Mathematkkst 
Mechankks, or any other part of ufeful Learning, which 
has flouriih'd (o long inthe£tf/?, may be thought worth 
enquiring into then, I think, thefe Books ought robe 
confulted. Nor is the Way to them fodifficuk as fame 
may imagine, fince there is fo great Plenty among them 
of excellent Grammarians and Lexicographers^ and divers 
Books already to be had, which are printed with a Lath^ 
Verfion, and moft of the Manufcripts are written better 
than they can be printed, and fome with theutmoft ex- 
adlnefs, and with Pictures in glorious Colours, which il- 
luftrate and adorn their Books, as Prints do ours. I 
beg your Pardon, Sir, for this Digreffion, which I could 
not well forbear, in regard the Oriental Learning is not 
much cried up here, and becaufe it has been my good 
Fortune to fee many of thefe Books in Libraries, which 
feem to promife fb much, and (I had aimoft faid) are re- 
garded fo little. 
After thefe, we have an Account of the Manufcripts 
which Dr. Barlow^ the late Lord diihop of Lincoln^ be- 
queathed by Will to the Library j which is followed by 
the Particulars of the Manufcripts left by Sir William 
Dugdale to the Ajhmokan Miifeum^ moftly written with: 
his own Hand, 
Thefe are followed with a Catalogue of the Manu- 
fcripts given by Six Henry Savil \ an Account of fome 
Mathematical inftruments belonging to the Geometry 
School, and a Catalogue of the printed Books there, be- 
ing all Mathematical, which Catalogue was never before 
made Publick. 
Then 
