254. Gantabriziana. . Api” 
may be takert to a fellow's apartments to 
be confulted or copied. The maiters of 
Gonville and Caius College and Trini- 
ay-hall, make a yearly inipection of the 
brary, on the th of Auguit, when they 
dine with the fciety. ‘The penalty for 
every leaf of a manuicript thatmay be mif- 
fing is four pence, for every fheet twa- 
dhillings. If any book or manuftript thall 
be miting, the fepervifors may infli® 
what puntihment they pleaie, ualeis the 
book is reftored within fix weeks. But, 
if ix manuitripts in folio, eight in quarte, 
and twelve of a fimalier Gze, ave lod, and 
not reffered within fix months, then the 
whole library, 2nd the plete, which he 
left, are forteited to Gonville and Caius 
College. Tn caie the latter proves equally 
faulty, they co to Trinity Hs; and, if 
Trinity-hali thould bein default, both the 
plate and the library revert in the fame 
erder. : 
‘The monks fometimes thought that the 
mot effe&ual way to fecere a curious 
book was, to deliver the thief over to the 
wWevil, After an infoription in a mane- 
icript formerly belongiag to a monaftery, 
aad now in this library, is the following 
raaledifion :—Qaem titalam quitangae 
Jraudaleater delewerit, librumgae ab eadem 
ecdlefe alienaverit, dcleat cum Deus de Li- 
re Vite, et amathemate jeriatar.—A Frag- 
extutum icbri prim cestea Syemachew is 
accompanied with the following veries.: 
Rune gaicungue libram Acdhelmo deprefferis 
. alee, ~ 
Dazanstus femper menezs cam forte malorum; 
Sit pietate Dei fine qui vel portet ab ifto 
Cenobic ibrem Acdhelmolrenc vel wendere 
temptet. 
The terms of the archbithop were more 
gentle, -but yet perhaps uaneceilarily 
fim&. Dhel manvicripis are of the ele- 
veath, twelith, thirteeath, fourteenth, Af 
teenth, and Gxreenth centuries. Some are 
as old as the tenth, ninth and cichth. 
hey relate ft the writings of the fathers 
aad ichooldiviaity, to civil and ecclediaf- 
tical matiers, te the concerns of various 
religious houies, of the univerfity, &c. 
Many of them are ia the old Saxon cha- 
radter. 
XXXIX.~—GRIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS. 
fadependeatly of the great variety of 
Enzhth, and many Latin and Greek, ma- 
nuicripts, of witch deveral of the latter 
were purchafed-at Br. Afiew's fale, there 
are, in the public Eb:ary, many Oriental 
mameiconpis. The following infeription 
a eritten om the rae§ bezasful ef them: 
€ Preclaras ifte codex Perficus coder 
auro contra eftimandus eft, tum seme, 
argumenti preftantiam, et nitidiffimam,: 
qua fcriptus eft, manum, tum propter pics, 
turarum, et ormamentorum coum palasaligh 
{plendorem atque elegantiam. 
egan 
* Eit ili tiralus, Agiajeb Elmakloucat, . 
i.e. Mirabilia Rerum Creatarum. Au- 
thor hujus operis eft Zacharia Ben Mo- 
hammed Eleafuini, ita di€us, quia natus- 
erat in urbe Cafbin in Perfia, Quidam eum 
cognominant El Konfi, quia oriundas erat 
ex urbe Konfi in Arabia aut Chaldaa. — 
«© Hic liber continet longiffimam prefa- 
tionem: et duos traGatus, quoram prior 
compleditur res a nobis remotiflimas, uti 
fant ceeli, aftra, meteora: Potterior i 
cat illas, que nobis proxime fant, tl 
Terra, Ague, Metalla, Plante, Anima~ 
lia, Volucres, Pifces, &c. Nec non de Sci- 
entiis occultis, de Felefmatibus et ceteris 
Magiz naturalis partibus.—SaLomon 
Neceri.” or 
Whe Salomon Negri was I have not 
been able to difcover ; and, the date of the 
book being inaccurate, I have left it out. 
The Latin alia is not quite accurate at 
the end. Sir William Jones, it feems, 
iaid, that this volume was only a copy, 
the date of which was r388. Dr. Har- 
wood, the Anatemical Profeflor, has, I 
underfand, a Perfian manuicript far more 
beautiful, and much more ancient, than 
this. There are alfo, in the li of 
Emanuel College, twenty different 
manuicripts, at the Perfian, Arabic, and. 
Terkith languages, of which there isa 
critical account in the hand-writing of Sir 
W. Tones, Among them isa poem of the 
celebrated poet Sadi, called the Gardens, 
i prave of which Sir W. Jones is very 
copious ; a volume of Hafez’s, the Perfan 
Anacreon ; and a very beautiful Keran. - 
The Onental manufcripts in the public 
hbrary were given by De. Lewis. This — 
geatleman intended to have prefented them _ 
to Dr. Athton, at that time Mafter of Je- 
tus College ; but he was adviled by Dr. 
Aihton himielf to give them to the pub- 
lic library.~ A few, however, that were 
not fo diipefed of, came at length to Dr. 
Athton, who prefented them to hisown — 
college, in the hbrary of which they are — 
Row dedzed. 4 
eae. 
XL.—TRANLATION of the abowe INSCRIP- 
TION. ia 
This difiaguifhed Perfian volume iste 
be prized more than gold, as well on at- 
count of the excellence of the argun : 
and the very beautiful band in which it is 
written, as of the fplendowr and —— 
