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of any lmmour which ought to be evacuated ; an inter¬ 
ruption of the blood by bandages, as in bleeding ; a dif- 
eafe called a catalepfy, or impeded influx of the vital 
principle. See Medicine. 
CATAL'LIS C AP'TIS Nomine Dijiriffionis, f. Anci¬ 
ently a writ that lay where a houfe was within a borough, 
for rent going out of the fame ; and which warranted the 
taking of doors, windows, &c. by way-of diflrefs for rent. 
This writ is now obfoletc. 
CATAL'LIS REDDEN'DIS,/. An ancient writ which 
lay where goods being delivered to any man to keep till a 
certain day, are not, upon demand, delivered at the day-. 
It may otherwife be called a writ of detinue : and is an- 
Iwerable to aElio depofitt in the civil law. Reg. Orig. 139. 
CA'TALOGUE,yi [from Gr.] An enu¬ 
meration of particulars ; a lift ; a regifter of perfons or 
things one by one.-—Make a catalogue of profperous facri- 
legious perfons, and I believe they will be repeated fooner 
than the alphabet. South. —In the library of manuferipts 
belonging to St. Laurence, of which there is a primed ca¬ 
talogue, I looked into the Virgil, which difputes its anti¬ 
quity with that of the Vatican. Addijon. 
The bright Taygete, and the fhining Bears, 
With all the bailors catalogue of ftars. Addifon. 
The catalogues principally regarded by men of litera¬ 
ture and fcience, are confeftedly thole which enumerate 
the publication and various editions of books ; and thofe 
that illuftrate the number and order of the fixed ftars. With 
refpett to catalogues of books, the following interefting 
account of their origin, is given by profefTor Beckmann. 
George Wilier, whom fome improperly call Viller, and 
others Walter, a bookfeller at Augfburg, who kept a large 
jhop, and frequented the Franckfort fairs, firft fell upon 
the plan of cauiing to be printed, before every fair, a ca¬ 
talogue of all the new books, in which the (ize and prin¬ 
ters names were marked. Le Mire, better known under 
the name of Miraeus, fays, that catalogues were firft print¬ 
ed in the year 1554; but Labbe, Reimann, and Keumann, 
who took their information from LeMire, make the year 
erroneoutly to be 1564. Willer’s catalogues were printed 
till the year 1592 by Nicol. Baffaeus, printer at Franckfort. 
Other bookfellers, however, mull have foon publilhed ca¬ 
talogues of the like kind, though that of Wilier, as being 
the firft, continued a long time to be the principal. In all 
thefe catalogues, which are? in quarto, and not paged, the 
following order is obferved. The Latin books occupy the 
firft place, beginning with theProteftant theological works, 
perhaps becaufe Wilier was a Lutheran ; then come the 
Catholic; and afterthefe, books of jurifprudence, medi¬ 
cine, philofophy, poetry, and mufic. The fecond place is 
afligned to German books, which are arranged in the fame 
manner. The bookfellers of Leiplic foon perceived the 
advantage of catalogues, and began not only to reprint 
thofe of Franckfort, but alfo to enlarge them with many 
books which had not been brought to the fairs in that 
city. Beckmann had in his cuftody, Catalogus Univerfalis 
pro nundinis Francofurtenfibus Vejrnalibus, de anno.1600; 
or, Catalogue of all the Books o-n Sale in Book-ftreet, 
Franckfort; and, alfo of the books publilhed at Leipfic, 
which have not been brought to Franckfort, with the per- 
miflion of his highnefs the eledfor of Saxony, to thole new 
works which have appeared at Leipfic. Printed at Leiplic 
by Abraham Lamberg, and to be had at his fhop. On the 
September catalogue of the fame year, it is faid that it is 
printed from the Franckfort copy with additions. He 
founcLan Imperial privilege for the firft time on the Franck¬ 
fort September catalogue of 1616 : Cum gratia et privilegio 
, J'peciali f. caef. maj. Projiat apud J Krugerum Augujlanum. 
Reimann fays, that, after Willer’s death, the catalogue was 
publilhed by the Leipfic bookfeller Henning Groffe, and 
by his Ion and grandfon. The council of Franckfort caufed 
feveral regulations to be iftiied refpedting catalogues ; an 
account of which may be feen in D. Orth’s Treatife on the 
imperial Fairs at Fnyickfort. After the bufinefs of book- 
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felling was drawn from Franckfort to Leipfic, occafioned 
principally by the reftridtions to which it was fubjedled at 
the former by the cenfors, no more catalogues were printed 
there; and the (hops in Book-ftreet were gradually con¬ 
verted into taverns. 
In perufing thefe early catalogues, one cannot help be¬ 
ing aftoniftied at the fudden and great increafe of books; 
and when one refledls that a great, perhaps the greater, 
part of them no longer exift, this perilhablenefs of human 
labours will excite the fame fenfations, as thofe which arife 
in the mind, when one reads in a clmrch-yard the names 
and titles of perfons long fince mouldered into dull. In 
the fixteenth century there were few libraries ; and thefe, 
which did not contain many books, were in monafteries, 
and confifted principally of theological, philofophical, and 
hiftorical, works, with a few on jurifprudence and medi¬ 
cine ; w hile thofe which treated on agriculture, manufac¬ 
tures, and commerce, were thought unworthy of the no¬ 
tice of the learned, and of being preferved in large collec¬ 
tions. The number of thefe w’orks, however, was far 
from being inconliderable ; and, at any rate, would have 
been of great ufe towards illuftrating the early and inftruc- 
tive hiftory of the arts. Catalogues which might have 
given occafion to enquiries after books, that may be ftill 
fomewhere preferved, have fuffered the fate of tomb- 
ftones, which, being w afted and crumbled to pieces by the 
deftroying hand ot time, become no longer legible. It is 
to be lamented, however, that a complete feries of them 
is no where to be found, becaufe they would be of confi- 
derable fervice in elucidating the hiftory of ancient litera¬ 
ture. The raoft applauded catalogue extant, is that of 
Thuanus’s library. It was firft drawm up by the two Pu- 
teani’s in the alphabetical order, then digefted according 
to the fciences and fubjeTs by Iftim. Bullialdus, and pub- 
lillied by F. Quefnel, at Paris, in 1679; and reprinted, 
though incorrectly, at Hamburgh, in 1704. The books 
are here arranged with juftnefs under their feveral fciences 
and fubiedts, regard being had to the nation, feil, age, 
&c. of every writer. The beft and choiceft books on every 
fubjeft are found here, and the 1110ft valuable editions. Yet 
the catalogue of M. le Telliers archbilhop of Rheims’ li¬ 
brary, made by M. Clement, is not inferior to any pub- 
lifhed in our age, either on account of the number and 
choice of the books, or the method of its difpofition. One 
advantage peculiar to this catalogue is, the multitude of 
anonymous and pfeudonymolis authors detected in it, 
fcarcely to be met with elfewhere. Some prefer it to 
Thuanus’s catalogue, as containing a greater variety of 
dalles and book on particular fubjects. 
Catalogues of i/icStars, have ufuallybeen difpofed, 
either as collected into certain figures called conjlellations, 
or according to their right afeenfions, that is, the order 
of their palling over the meridian. All the catalogues, 
from the moll ancient down to Flamfteed’s inclufively, 
were of the firft of thefe forms, or in conftellations: but 
raoft of the others fince that have been of the Utter form, 
as being much more convenient for moll purpoles. See 
an enumeration of all the different catalogues of the ftars, 
from Hipparchus, the firft inventor, to the recent im¬ 
provement by Dr. Herfchel, under the article Astro¬ 
nomy, vol. ii. p. 426, &c. 
CATALO'NIA, a province of Spain, bounded on the 
north by France, on the eaft and fouth-eaft by the Medi¬ 
terranean, on the fouth-weft by the province of Valencia, 
and on the w'eft by Arragon ; its form is nearly that of a 
triangle, the bale towards the Mediterranean being about 
160 miles in length, the fide towards France 120, and that 
towards Arragon 140. 1 he country is in general moun¬ 
tainous, but interledled with fertile vallies, while the 
mountains themfelves are covered with valuable w'oods 
and fruit-trees. Corn, wine, oil, flax, hemp-, legumes, 
and aliuoft every kind of fruit, are abundant ; here are 
quarries of marble of all colours, of cryftal and alabafter; 
here are found topazes, rubies, jafpers, and other precious 
Hones; here are mines of lead, tin, iron, alum, vitriol, 
an 
