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this country, who wrote again baptifm. 
He was a kind of Quaker. He feems, at 
the fame time, to have been a man of ta- 
Jents and of piety. Further ftill, he difap- 
proved of divinity degrees, fupporting 
himfelf by the authorities of Wickliffe, of 
Hus, and of Luther. 
His opinion, moreover, was, that, in- 
ftead of univerfities, as now conftituted, 
and confined to two -towns, there fhould 
be public literary feminaries in every large 
town in the kingdom. Such were fome of 
the fentiments of Dr. Dell, though it is 
not intended to difcufs them here. It is 
evident, from his difcourfes, that he ex- 
pected a change both in the church and 
univerfities; that he was waiting and 
wifhing for a change, and doing every 
thing in his power to haften it. Anda 
change did take place, though not fuch an 
one as was expected by him. That change 
oufted him and his party. Such is the 
hiftory of Dr. William Dell; and hence 
the portrait of Dr. William Dell is not 
admitted into honourable fociety with the 
Mafters of Gonvile and Caius. 
LXi].—-GRESK MANUSCRIPTS. 
Montfaucon, in his PALZZ:OGRAPHIA 
Grzca, makes mention of the Greek 
Manufcripts in the libraries at Cambridge, 
in the following order: . 
In Emanuel College, a few. 
In Trinity College, about twenty. 
In Sydney College, a few. 
In Gonvile and Caius, a few. 
In Bene’t College, a few. 
In the Public Library, a few. 
Montfaucon’s account, however, is ne- 
ceflarily very incomplete. This learned 
inao had not examined thefe libraries, as 
he had many of thofe on the Continent, 
Befides, additions have been made, more 
particularly to Trinity-college Library, 
and to the Public Library, fince the time 
of Montfaucon. The Pa zographia Gree- 
ca.was publifhed MDCCVIII. fince which 
time Trinity Library has been enriched 
with fome of the learned Dr. Rich. Bent- 
Jey’s Greek Manufcripts and of Dr. 
Thomas Gale's. . The latter were pre- 
fented to the fociety by Mr. Roger Gale, 
the Doétor’s fon, and include, among fe- 
veral other manolcripts, Piotius’s Greek 
Lexicon, which has been copied by the 
prefent Greek Profeffor, for publication. 
The Public Library has been, in like 
manner, enriched by many of Dr. Antho- 
ny Afkew’s and Dr. John ‘Taylor's © 
the learned ‘editor of Demofthenes ; 
though tne latter did but accompany 
thoie of Dr. Afkew, whofe property 
_- they were, They conlilt of Dr. Taylor's 
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own writings on various branches of 
Greek literature, and on other matters. 
Dr. Afkew’s were all Greek manu(cripts,, 
diltinguifhed among which are a copy of 
ZEfchylus’s Tragedies, of Lycophrons 
Caflandra, and many others. 
Ta thefe may be added thefe lately 
brought from various parts of Greecé 
and Conftantinople, by Mr. Clarke and 
Mr. Cripps, of Jefus College. Among 
thefe are Commentaries on the Gofpels, 
and writings of forne of the earlieft fa- 
thers ; Greek poems, with Greek mufic 5 
and many others. One of thefe manu- 
{cripts is of diftinguithed excellence, boih 
as to contents and form. This is a beau- 
tiful copy of about half of Plato’s 
‘Works, his tweaty-four Dialogues, in the 
order in which they are noticed by Dio- 
genes Leaértius and other ancient critics, 
and in which they were firft edited by Al- 
dus, and the Bafil editors. From the 
fcholia of this manufcript, Profeffor Por- 
fon has found various paflages of ancient 
authors, particularly of Ariftophanes, 
which had been torn away from their origi- 
al authors by the ravage of time. This 
manui{cript is a fifft volume; but, alas | 
it is too late in the day to expect fucha 
re-union of the two flraggiers, as happened 
to two mentioned in our lafk ! 
-LXIIL—GREEK MANUSCRIPTS of the 
NEW TESTAMENT. 
Codex Beze ; or, a Greco-Latin Ma- 
nufcript of the four Golpels, and Acts of 
the Apoftles, prefented to the Univerfity 
by Theodore Beza, in the year 1581. 
Cantabrizienfis 2. a Manufcript cf the 
A&ts of ‘the Apoitles, and. of Paul’s 
Epiftles. ‘This manufcript was collated 
by Mills, but more accurately by Mr. 
Wigley, of Cnriit’s College, for Mr. Jack- 
fon, the Chronologift. Jackfon bequeath- 
ed the collation to Jefus College, of which 
fociety he had been a member ; and there 
it is preferved with his other manufcripts. 
Cantabrigienfis 3. or, Codex of Ema- 
‘nuel College, is a Manafcript of all the 
Epiftles, in duedecimo. Itis notot grea 
antiquity. Its readings are publifhed in 
the London Polyglor, and have been 
thence copied into other editions. 
Cantabrigiesfis, No. 495, in the Public 
Library, isa Manufcript of the Adts of 
the Apoftles, and the Epiftles, of the 
twelfth century. 
An Evangelifarium ; or, the Gefpels 
divided as they were to be read on parti- 
cular Days, in the Library of Chrift’s 
College. The following notice is written 
at the beginning. —-Lvangea cum Deo 
Singuits 
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