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bis Colledion of Catalogues of Manufcripts of the great- 
eft Libraries in Europe, which he printed but Thirty 
Years ago ; when he comes ro the Oxford Library, and 
tells you that he had learnt from Hottinger that we had 
received the great Additions of the Baroccian and Arch' 
ii/hop Laud's Manufcripts, goes on thus, fed quorum de- 
Ji^ationem a me nondum vifam, invito pmterire debut 
filentto. And Hottinger himfelf complains that he could 
not get the Catalogues of them, and was therefore forced 
to make mention of them only by Hear fay ^ The good- 
natur'd Gentleman took a deal of Pains in defcribing 
many other Books of Mr, Selden, Mr. Greaves, &c, as 
hfc could get notice of them, whicl> are now for the moft 
partj io aur faid Library. I could mention divers other 
Foreign Writers to you, but 1 fuppofe, 1 have tired you 
fu/Bciently already; I'm fure I am weary, and will 
therefore conclude this long Epiftle with a Teftimony 
of the fame Hottinger, who being an Out-landifti Man; 
may be efteem'd more unprejudiced in our behalf. It is 
in his Billiothecariuj ^uadripartitusj pag. 35. where, af- 
ter he had (as well as he could) defcribed fome of our 
Puhlick and fr/'y^^^ Libraries, that he clofes his Difcourfe 
in this manner, Quohiam vero tot Anglia Bihliothecis tri* 
umphat, tot Manujcriptis reliquas fuperat, tot Orient alium 
Monumentis ahundat^ adeoq; fuhfidiis ret litter ari£ infiru- 
iliffima eft ; quid miremur, ex hac etiam hfula, tot erudi' 
tionis Thitologicce, & Theologia Praiiiae cumprimis ha- 
ilenus proditffe monumental Which, in my poor Opinion, 
may, upon the coming forth of thefe Catalogues, be more 
firiy applied to the Nation, than ever before. I am^ 
SIR, 
Tour, &c. 
Vir. An 
