1803. ] 
of the paintings, embellifhments, and 
binding. a 
Its title is Agiajéb Elmakloucat, that 
is, The Wonders if the Creation. The 
author of this work is Zacharia Ben Mo- 
hammed Elcafuini, fo called becaufe he 
was born inthe city of Cafbin, in Perfia: 
Some name him El Koufi, becaufe he 
{prung from the city of Koufa, in Arabia 
or Chaldea. ; 
This book contains a very long preface 
and two tracts, of which one embraces 
things the moft xemote from us, fuch as the 
heavens, the ftars, meteors; the latter ex- 
plains thofe which are nearett to us,fuch as 
the earth, waters, metals, plants, animals, 
birds, fifhes, &c. It alfo treats: of the 
occult fciences, of talifmans, and other 
parts of natural magic. — 
XLIL.=—DR. ANTHONY ASKEW. 
The learned Dr. Anthony Afkew, the 
phyfician, acquired great reputation -at 
home and abroad, on account of his col- 
lection of Greek manufcripts, which was 
more numerous and more valuable than 
that of any other private gentleman in 
England. His colleétion alfo of printed 
Greek books, when fold, was allowed to 
confift, of a greater number of fcarce and 
valuable editions of the claffics, than had 
ever before been expofed to fale in this 
country. 
The manufcripts Dr. Afkew, purchafed 
at a confiderable expence in the Eaft, and 
brought them with him into England. 
When abroad, Dr. Afkew kept an Al- 
bum, which, among other teftimonies to 
his merit from diltinguithed foreigners, 
contains a few compliments and epigrams, 
addreffed to him by modern Greeks. To 
one of thefe is prefixed the following in- 
{cription— I po¢ TOY EXAMUTPOTATOV, Xt 
evoueotauroy “ab coPutatoy Aexovra Bee- 
Tay, Kvesov Kuerwy, Avtwyov Aaytor. 
The Englith name is not properly thrown 
into Greek ; but paffing that, I quote the 
in{cription to thew what a wretched ftate 
of flavery is betrayed in the very language 
of a people once diftinguifhed above all 
the nations of the world for their love of 
liberty and literature ; for the perfon who 
wrote this infcription and epigram was an 
Athenian, moft probably one of the bett 
{cholars then in Athens. Dr. Afkew’s 
ALBUM is among the manufcripts of 
Emanuel Colleges 
XLII.—-MR. CLARKE and MR. CRIPPS of 
JESUS COLLEGE. | 
Mr. Clarke and Mr. Cripps, of Jefus 
College, who have done. themfelves and 
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their country fo much honour, by their 
zeal and perfeverance in refearch, during 
their very extenfive travels, have brought 
home a greater variety of natural and li- 
terary curiofities, minerals, plants, pic- 
tures, bufts, manufcripts, &c. than was » 
ever, asis fuppofed, brought by any indi- 
vidual into England before. Their col- 
lection of Greek manufcripts is faid to be 
more valuable than any brought from the 
Eaft fince the time of Dr. Afkew. 
Great is the pleafure commonly expe- 
rienced by travellers from the fame coun- 
tries when accidentally meeting in very re~ 
mote regions; nor could it have been a lefs 
pleafurable feeling to thefe gentlemen to 
have paid a lait tribute of refpect to de- 
parted merit. When Mr. Clarke and Mr. 
Cripps were at Athens, they heaved the 
figh of fympathy at the grave of Mr. 
Tweddle, and placed over it an ancient 
tone, with a fuitable teftimony to his 
worth, Mr. Tweddle was fellow of Tri- 
nity College, a young man, not more dif- 
tinguifhed for his talents and learnings’ 
than for his love of virtue and liberty. 
He went abroad, prompted by the fame 
fpirit of literary inquiry as the above gen- 
tlemen, and from the proofs of ability and 
attainments left behind him in the univer - 
fity, great expectations were formed of 
his refearches, and his arrival was looked 
forward to with great anxiety by his 
friends; but he fell a martyr to his pur- 
fuits at Athens. Mr. Tweddle, before 
he left England, publifhed his ProLu- 
SIONES JUVENILES, Premiis Academicis 
dignatz, being thirteen in number. This 
volume is as much diftinguifhed by a libe- 
rality of fentiment, as by a claffical ele- 
gance of compofition, and afforded a well- 
grounded expectation that the author 
would arrive at great diftinétion in the li- 
terary world, 
Among the manufcripts brought over 
by Mr. Clarke and Mr. Cripps, is one of 
the greater part of Plato’s works. It is 
more than goo years old, and throws light 
on fome parts of Plato, deemed hitherto 
unintelligible. 
XLIII.—-OLD PRINTED BOOKS. 
One of the olde printed books in the 
univerfity is in Emanuel College-library, 
which contains one of the bet collections 
of printed books at Cambridge. This is 
a copy of Tully’s Offices, printed at 
Mentz, by Fuft or Fault, anno 1465— 
arte quadam perpulchra, as the printer ex- 
prefles it. ‘here is another copy of the 
fame book, by the fame printer, in the 
public library, an. 1466; both of them 
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