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phy and hiftory; and, laftly, the Mozo- 
graphies, or feparate treatifes on different 
Yubjeéts of antiquity. It may be objected 
to this work, chat it is deficient in me- 
thod and arrangement, which might have 
been better; bur this defect is fupplied 
by two ample indexes, one of the fub.— 
jects, the other of the authors. On the 
whole, it is a work the advantages of 
which cinnot be denied, and furnifhes a 
great help to the ftudy of archeology.* 
The Bibliotheca Bunaviana, or cata- 
Jogue of the celebrated library of Count 
Bunau, is likewile of great utility in ac- 
quiring a knowledge of the books which 
relate toarcheology. It is more methodi- 
cally arranged than the Bibliotheca Anti- 
guaria of Fabricius; but, as it does not 
contain any other notices than thofe of 
the works compiazed in the library of the 
above celebrated antiquary, muft be re- 
garded as incomplete. It is certain, at 
the fame time, that the library in queftion 
was very ex'enfive. 
The Bibliotheca Hifforie of Meufe! con- 
tains likewife the titles of « creat num- 
ber of produtions ov Jewith, Egyptian, 
Greek, and Roman aniiquities. Thefe 
titles are frequently accompanied by fhort 
notices and by folid judgments, dittated 
by a jo! and found eriticifin. 
The Alphabetical Tables of the authors 
cited in the fhort elementary treatifes of 
Profeflor Oberlin, alfo prefent a vaft and 
extenfive nomenclature of works on anti- 
tiquities. Many fingular treatifes, the 
knowledge of which may be of great uti- 
lity, are pointed out in them. 
Oliverius Legipontius, among his differ- 
tations on literary hiftory and antiquities, 
has publifhed one which appears to have 
* Johannes Albertus Fabricius was born 
at Leipfic in 1667. He fpent nearly the 
whole of his life at Hamburg, where he 
had taken up his refidence, and where he 
died in 1736, at the age of fixty-eight years. 
He had a very extenfive memory, and an ex- 
treme facility in writing. He never loft an 
inftant 5 and, accordingly, the catalogue of 
his works is fo extenfive, that it is furprifing 
he fhould have been enabled to complete any 
one of them. He is juftly regarded as one of 
the beft philologifts. His principal works are, 
his Greek Library; his Latin Library; his 
Library of the middle Age} his Memoirs of 
the Men of Letters of Hamburg, and the 
Infcriptions contained in that City, with 
Commentaries ; befides feveral produ€tions of 
nearly an equal import. His life has been 
publifhed by Niceron in his Memoirs ; and in 
Germany, Reimar has co.npofed a particular 
Biography of Fabricius, 
Introduélion to the Study of Archeslogy. 
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fome relation to our fubject: it is entitled, 
De Ret Numaria ac Lithologie Studio. He 
has confined himfelf, however, to a few 
precepts on the numilmatic fcience. 
Treatifes on Archeology. 
After having treated the {ubje& of ar» 
cheological bibliography, to which the 
name of Jiterary archeology is much more 
appropriate than to the branch of the fcl- 
ence to which Ernefti has applied it, the 
general treatifes, or thofe which lead to 
the ftudy of antiquities, come under con- 
fideration. 
On this fubject nothing is to be met 
with, except a few dictionaries, more or 
lefs extenfive in their plan, and more or 
le(s perfect in their execution ; fuch as the 
Ditionary of Antiquities in the Methodi- 
cal Encyclopedia, that of Chompré, &c. 
Ido not fpeak of thofe of Pitifcus and 
Furgault, becaufe they are merely f{pecial, 
and have an entire reference to Roman an. 
tiquities 
The Thefaurus Magnus of Greek An- 
tiquities by Gravius, and that of Roman 
antiquities by Gronovius, are immenfe 
collections of Monographies on different 
fubje&ts. The catalogue of them ts con- 
tained in feveral works; but this great 
compilation does not prefent an enfembie, 
notwithftanding the editor has obferved a 
certain degree of method in arranging the 
different treatifes. 
It may, indeed, be faid that an univer. 
fal treatife of antiquities does not. exift ; 
and this fcience is fo extenfive, that it is 
perhaps not pofiible to embrace all its 
parts collefively. Relatively to the en- 
quiry, whether there are any general trea- 
tifes on the two great divifions of archeo- 
iogy, it fhould be noticed, that the only 
general work on the part of the manners 
and ulages is that of the celebrated Ment. 
faucon,* in five volumes, which form tea 
parts in folio, with five fupplementary vo- 
Jumes. The principal aim of the author 
has been to exolain the manners and ulages 
of the Ancients, conformably to the mo- 
numents he had colleéted from every part 
of 
* This learned Benedi@tine was born in 
Languedoc, in 1655. After having been en- 
gaged fora fhort time in military purfuits, 
he entered, in 1675, into the Congregation 
of St Maur, and applied himfelf, with an 
indefatigable ardour and zeal, to the fludy of 
the languages, and to that of antiquities. 
He died, in 1748, at the age of eighty-three 
years. During the courfe of a long and very 
laborious life, he publifhed a great number 
of works; of which, thofe only that have 
a reference to archeology need be cited in thi 
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