Libraries and Founders of Libraries

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
LIBRARIES, AND THE FOUNDERS OF LIBRARIES......Page 26
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE EXTANT EVIDENCE ON ANCIENT LIBRARIES......Page 28
THE LIBRARIES OF EGYPT---OSYMANDYAS......Page 29
THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY......Page 30
LIBRARIES OF THE HEBREWS......Page 34
CLAY LIBRARIES OF ASSYRIA......Page 36
LEGEND AS TO THE LIBRARY OF ARISTOTLE......Page 38
THE LIBRARY OF THE KINGS OF PERGAMUS......Page 40
THE LIBRARIES OF ROME AND OF THE PROVINCES......Page 41
THE LIBRARIES OF CONSTANTINOPLE......Page 44
CONTRASTS IN THE LITERARY ESTIMATE OF THE MIDDLE AGES......Page 47
MERITS AND DEMERITS OF MONASTICISM......Page 50
THE BENEDICTINES AS CIVILIZERS......Page 52
THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING......Page 55
THE GROWTH AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING......Page 56
FOUNDATION OF LIBRARIES IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY......Page 58
LIFE AND INFLUENCE OF RICHARD OF BURY......Page 59
EARLY BRITISH LIBRARIES.---ANALOGIES AND CONTRASTS......Page 62
GROWTH OF THE ROYAL LIBRARY AT PARIS......Page 63
GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM......Page 64
LIBRARIES FOR THE PEOPLE......Page 66
MONTE CASSINO, AND ITS INFLUENCE......Page 69
VISITS TO MONTE CASSINO, OF BOCCACCIO, OF MABILLON, AND OF RENAN......Page 70
THE LIBRARY OF FLEURY ON THE LOIRE......Page 71
THE LIBRARY OF CORBIE......Page 72
CORBIE, ITS FOUNDERS, AND ITS SCRIPTORIUM......Page 73
THE VISIT OF DE THOU......Page 75
DISPERSION OF THE CORBIE MANUSCRIPTS......Page 76
THE LIBRARIES AT CANTERBURY......Page 78
LIBRARIES OF THE NORTHERN MONASTERIES......Page 80
THE LIBRARIES OF THE MENDICANT ORDERS......Page 82
DIVERSITIES OF THE POETS, IN THE COLLECTION AND TREATMENT OF BOOKS......Page 84
PETRARCH'S CONVERSATIONS ON BOOKS WITH RICHARD OF BURY......Page 86
PETRARCH'S GIFT TO SAINT MARK'S......Page 87
THE LIBRARY OF BOCCACCIO......Page 88
MONTAIGNE AND HIS LIBRARY IN PERIGORD......Page 89
MONTAIGNE'S INSCRIPTIONS......Page 90
HIS OWN DESCRIPTION OF HIS TOWER......Page 92
THE FAVOURITE AUTHORS OF MONTAIGNE......Page 93
MONTAIGNE'S CRITICISMS......Page 96
THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DE THOU......Page 97
HIS INTERCOURSE WITH MEN OF LETTERS......Page 98
DE THOU'S HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIMES......Page 100
HIS LIBRARY, AND ITS DISPERSION......Page 101
THE DISTINCTIVE MARKS OF THE DE THOU VOLUMES......Page 103
THE LIBRARY OF GROTIUS, AND THE INCIDENT AT LOUVESTEIN......Page 104
SWIFT'S LIBRARY, AND HIS ANNOTATIONS......Page 105
HIS FAVOURITE STUDIES AND BOOKS......Page 106
GOETHE'S LIBRARIES.---THE PATERNAL COLLECTION AT FRANKFORT......Page 107
THE FOUNDATION OF GOETHE'S OWN COLLECTION IN HIS BOYHOOD......Page 109
THE AUTO-DA-FÉ OF BOOKS AT FRANKFORT......Page 110
THE STUDIES AT LEIPSIC......Page 111
THE HOUSE AND LIBRARY AT WEIMAR......Page 112
SCOTT'S REMARKS ON THE DEATH OF GOETHE......Page 114
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ABBOTSFORD LIBRARY......Page 115
ITS PRINCIPAL CONTENTS AND CATALOGUE......Page 116
DESCRIPTION OF THE ABBOTSFORD LIBRARY BY LOCKHART......Page 117
SOUTHEY AND HIS ABODE AT KESWICK......Page 119
THE PATERNAL LIBRARY AT BRISTOL......Page 120
COLERIDGE'S DESCRIPTION OF GRETA HALL......Page 121
EXTENT AND CHARACTER OF SOUTHEY'S LIBRARY......Page 122
A BOOK-COLLECTOR OF AN ORIGINAL PATTERN --- THOMAS DE QUINCEY......Page 124
CHAPTER VI - CONCERNING THE LIBRARIES OF SOME CELEBRATED MONARCHS AND ROYAL PERSONAGES, OF VARIOUS PERIODS......Page 126
ISABEL OF BAVARIA AND HER LIBRARY......Page 127
CATHERINE OF MEDICIS, AND HER LIBRARY AT ST. MAUR......Page 129
FATE OF CATHERINE'S LIBRARY, AFTER HER DEATH......Page 131
CHARLES I OF ENGLAND, AS A COLLECTOR......Page 132
HIS LITERARY TASTES AND CHARACTER......Page 134
THE PARTIAL DISPERSION OF HIS LIBRARY......Page 135
LIBRARY OF LEWIS II DE BOURBON, PRINCE OF CONDÉ......Page 136
CONFISCATION OF THE CONDÉ LIBRARY, AND ITS PARTIAL RESTORATION......Page 138
THE STUDIES OF LEWIS XVI IN THE TEMPLE......Page 140
LITERARY CHARACTER OF FREDERICK, THE GREAT......Page 142
HIS ESTIMATES OF THE CLASSIC AUTHORS......Page 143
HIS APPRECIATION OF THE LITERATURES OF FRANCE AND GERMANY......Page 144
FREDERICK'S LIBRARIES AT POTSDAM AND BERLIN......Page 145
COMPARISON OF FREDERICK AND NAPOLEON, IN REGARD TO THEIR TASTES FOR BOOKS......Page 148
FREDERICK THE GREAT AS A WRITER......Page 149
THE EARLY STUDIES AND FAVOURITE BOOKS OF NAPOLEON......Page 150
NAPOLEON'S COMMON PLACE BOOKS AND YOUTHFUL MSS......Page 151
HIS EARLY PAMPHLETS AND DISSERTATIONS......Page 153
NAPOLEON'S LIBRARY IN EGYPT......Page 155
THE CONSULAR AND IMPERIAL LIBRARIES---DENINA AND BARBIER......Page 156
NAPOLEON'S SCHEMES OF A CAMP LIBRARY......Page 157
HIS APPRECIATION OF THE GREAT WRITERS OF FRANCE......Page 158
HIS SELECTIONS FOR A TRAVELLING LIBRARY OF HISTORY......Page 159
LITERARY ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON AT ELBA---AUSTERLITZ AND MILTON......Page 161
THE LIBRARIES AT BRIARS AND AT LONGWOOD......Page 162
NAPOLEON'S NOTES ON BOOKS......Page 164
THE READINGS AT LONGWOOD......Page 165
THE SAINT HELENA PAPERS......Page 166
EARLY BEGINNINGS OF THE ROYAL LIBRARY......Page 168
EXTRACTS FROM THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF THE PLANTAGENET KINGS......Page 170
CAXTON AND KING EDWARD IV......Page 172
HENRY VII AND HIS LIBRARY AT RICHMOND......Page 174
EXTRACTS FROM THE PRIVY PURSE EXPENSES OF HENRY VII......Page 175
THE LIBRARY OF HENRY VIII AT WESTMINSTER......Page 178
HIS LIBRARIES AT GREENWICH, AT WINDSOR, AND AT NEWHALL......Page 179
HIS BOOKS AT SAINT JAMES'S......Page 181
HIS COMPARATIVE EXPENDITURE ON BOOKS AND ON JEWELS......Page 182
THE LIBRARY OF MARTIN BUCER......Page 183
DEE'S SCHEME OF A ROYAL LIBRARY, ADDRESSED TO QUEEN MARY......Page 184
THE ROYAL LIBRARY UNDER ELIZABETH......Page 185
ADDRESS TO ELIZABETH FROM THE ORIGINAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES......Page 186
ACQUISITION BY PRINCE HENRY OF THE AEUNDEL AND LUMLEY LIBRARY......Page 187
ITS PARTIAL DISPERSION ON THE PRINCE'S DEATH......Page 188
CASAUBON'S CONVERSATIONS WITH JAMES THE FIRST......Page 189
JAMES'S INTERFERENCES WITH THE PRESS......Page 190
THE ROYAL LIBRARY UNDER CHARLES THE FIRST.---GIFT OF THE ALEXANDRIAN MS......Page 191
CHARLES'S PLAN FOR PUBLISHING GREEK MSS......Page 192
THE ROYAL LIBRARY COMMITTED TO BULSTRODE WHITELOCKE......Page 193
THE LIBRARIANSHIP OF THOMAS ROSSE......Page 194
MEMORIAL TO CHARLES II, ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIBRARY AT ST.JAMES'S......Page 195
ACQUISITION OF THE THEYER MANUSCRIPTS......Page 196
CHARLES THE SECOND ON POSTHUMOUS FAME......Page 197
THE LIBRARIANSHIP OF RICHARD BENTLEY......Page 198
DIVERSITY OF BENTLEY'S PURSUITS......Page 200
BENTLEY'S EFFORT TO OBTAIN THE LIBRARY OF BISHOP STILLINGFLEET, FOR ENLARGEMENT OF THE ROYAL COLLECTION......Page 201
CASLEY'S CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL MSS......Page 202
TRANSFER OF THE ROYAL LIBRARY TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM......Page 203
FOUNDATION OF THE PAPER OFFICE BY KING HENRY THE EIGHTH......Page 204
SIR THOMAS WILSON'S ACCOUNT OF ITS EARLY HISTORY......Page 205
THE PAPER OFFICE MADE A "SETT LIBRARYE" BY JAMES THE FIRST......Page 206
THE LIBRARIANSHIP OF SIR T. WILSON......Page 207
WILSON AND THE LORD TREASURER WORCESTER......Page 208
CLASSIFICATION OF THE STATE PAPERS......Page 210
SEIZURE OF THE PAPERS OF SIR EDWARD COKE......Page 211
THE FIRE AT THE STATE PAPER OFFICE......Page 212
THE PETITIONERS OF 1660......Page 213
THE LIBRARY OF THE PAPERS UNDER SIR JOSEPH WILLIAMSON......Page 214
THE DISPERSED PAPERS OF SECRETARY NICHOLAS......Page 215
THE LONDON GAZETTE IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES II......Page 216
THE OFFICE FOR NEWS LETTERS......Page 217
THE IMPRISONMENT AND RELEASE OF WILLIAMSON......Page 220
HIS BENEFACTIONS AND BEQUESTS......Page 221
HIS CLASSIFICATION OF THE STATE PAPERS......Page 222
THE LORDS' COMMITTEE OF 1705......Page 223
ESTABLISHMENT OF A "COLLECTOR AND TRANSMITTER OF STATE PAPERS"......Page 224
THE KEEPERSHIP BECOMES A SINECURE......Page 225
AND THE OLD PAPER OFFICE A PIGEON-HOUSE......Page 226
APPOINTMENT OF "MIETHODIZERS"......Page 227
STATE OF THE TWO OFFICES IN 1800......Page 228
THE PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY OF 1800......Page 229
THE APPOINTMENT AND LABOURS OF MR. JOHN BRUCE......Page 230
HIS REPORTS ON ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONS......Page 231
REORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER OFFICE IN 1800......Page 232
ERECTION OF THE LATE PAPER OFFICE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK......Page 233
FREE ADMISSION OF LITERARY INQUIRERS BY SIR JOHN ROMILLY......Page 234
TRANSFER OF THE PAPERS TO THE NEW ROLLS HOUSE......Page 235
CHAPTER IX - HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE REALM, IN THEIR EARLY PERIOD OF GROWTH AND SEPARATE CUSTODY......Page 236
HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS, IN THEIR PERIOD OF INCREASED SEPARATION AND OF GROSS NEGLECT......Page 271
HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS, IN THEIR PERIOD OF PARTIAL AGGREGATION AND PREMATURE PUBLICATION......Page 297
HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS, IN THEIR FINAL PERIOD OF THOROUGH AGGREGATION AND ARRANGEMENT......Page 321
HIS CAREER AT THE BAR.---TUTCHIN'S CASE......Page 352
PUBLIC LIFE OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR MACCLESFIELD......Page 353
THE SALE OF MASTERSHIPS IN CHANCERY......Page 354
LORD MACCLESFIELD'S IMPEACHMENT AND ITS RESULTS......Page 355
THE COMPENSATION OF SUCCEEDING CHANCELLORS FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SALE OF OFFICES......Page 356
PARALLELISMS IN THE CAREERS OF FOUR EMINENT CHANCELLORS, ALL OF WHOM WERE IMPEACHED......Page 357
VARIETIES OF THE GENUS "COLLECTOR"......Page 359
LORD MACCLESFIELD'S ACQUISITIONS AT THE SALE OF FOUCAULT'S LIBRARY......Page 360
THE MACCLESFIELD PAPERS AT SHIRBURN AND ATASHBURNHAM HOUSE......Page 361
THE LIBRARY OF NICHOLAS JOSEPH FOUCAULT......Page 362
FOUCAULT'S CAREER AND CHARACTER......Page 363
HIS CONVERSATION WITH KING JAMES THE SECOND AT THORIGNY......Page 365
THE BOOK-COLLECTIONS OF GEORGE, SECOND EARL OF MACCLESFIELD......Page 366
THE COLLECTIONS OF WELSH MANUSCRIPTS MADE BY SAMUEL AND MOSES WILLIAMS......Page 367
MATHEMATICAL COLLECTIONS OF JOHN COLLINS, THE FRIEND OF NEWTON......Page 368
JONES'S BEQUEST TO LORD MACCLESFIELD......Page 369
ADDITION TO THE SHIRBURN COLLECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY OF SIR THOMAS CLARKE......Page 370
PRESENT EXTENT OF THE LIBRARIES AT SHIRBURN......Page 371
THE NEWTON PAPERS......Page 372
THE BASQUE MANUSCRIPTS OF PIERRE D'URTE; THEIR HISTORY AND CONTENTS......Page 373
THE WELSH MANUSCRIPTS AT SHIRBURN......Page 374
THE CHIEF BOOK OF THE BARDS......Page 376
NOTICES OF RARE PRINTED BOOKS IN THEOLOGY---EARLY AND CHOICE BIBLES......Page 378
RABE LITURGICAL BOOKS......Page 379
MEDIEVAL CHRONICLERS......Page 380
CHOICE COLLECTIONS OF VOYAGES AND NARRATIVES OF TRAVEL......Page 381
NOTABLE BOOKS AND TRACTS ON ASTRONOMY......Page 382
OTHER CHOICE BOOKS IN MATHEMATICS AND ON NATURAL HISTORY......Page 383
FINE AND RARE EDITIONS OF THE CLASSICS......Page 384
RARE PHILOLOGICAL BOOKS......Page 385
THE VELLUM PLINY......Page 386
THE SHIRBURN CAXTONS......Page 387
PARENTAGE AND DESCENT OF LORD SUNDERLAND......Page 393
JOHN EVELYN'S CHARACTER OF HIM IN HIS YOUTH......Page 394
HIS ALLIANCES IN MARRIAGE......Page 395
HIS ENTRANCE INTO PARLIAMENT, AND EMBASSY TO VIENNA......Page 396
DREAD EXCITED AT VIENNA BY STATEMENTS OF HIS "REPUBLICANISM"......Page 397
THE STRUGGLE TO MAKE HIM SECRETARY OF STATE......Page 398
TEMPORARY DISTRUST BETWEEN SUNDERLAND AND MARLBOROUGH......Page 399
MARLBOROUGH'S REMONSTRANCES WITH QUEEN ANNE UPON HER INTENDED REMOVAL OF SUNDERLAND FROM THE SECRETARYSHIP......Page 400
CONFLICT OF OPINIONS ON THAT REMOVAL......Page 401
CHIEF MEASURES OF SUNDERLAND'S MINISTRY, UNDER GEORGE THE FIRST......Page 402
GROWTH AND PROGRESS OF THE SUNDERLAND LIBRARY......Page 404
SUNDERLAND IN RETIREMENT......Page 405
HIS DEATH, AND THE REFLECTIONS MADE UPON IT BY TWO OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES......Page 406
HIS SURVIVING FAMILY AND SUCCESSORS......Page 407
ITS TRANSFER TO BLENHEIM AND ARRANGEMENT THERE......Page 408
JACOB BRYANT'S CONNEXION WITH IT......Page 409
ITS CHOICE TREASURES, AND ITS DISPERSION......Page 410
THE MANUSCRIPTS AT BLENHEIM......Page 411
THE CHOICE PRINTED CLASSICS, AND OTHER FINE BOOKS......Page 412
EARLY AND RARE ITALIAN BOOKS......Page 413
SPECIAL CURIOSITIES AMONG THE INCUNABULA......Page 414
THE OLD LIBRARIES OF THE SPENCERS......Page 417
COMPARATIVE EFFECT, ON THE EYE, OF THE TWO GREAT SPENCER LIBRARIES---AT ALTHORP AND AT BLENHEIM......Page 418
YOUTH AND EDUCATION OF LORD SPENCER.---THE TUTORSHIP OF SIR WILLIAM JONES......Page 420
HIS MISSION TO VIENNA......Page 421
LORD SPENCER'S NAVAL ADMINISTRATION AT THE ADMIRALTY......Page 422
THE MUTINIES IN THE NAVY IN 1799......Page 423
LONDON SOCIETY AT THE ADMIRALTY AND AT SPENCER HOUSE......Page 424
LORD SPENCER'S SUBSEQUENT POLITICAL CAREER......Page 425
HIS EARLY BOOK-PURCHASES......Page 426
CAREER AND CHARACTER OF COUNT REVICZKY......Page 427
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE REVICZKY LIBRARY, ACQUIRED BY LORD SPENCER IN 1790......Page 428
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE CAXTON SERIES AT ALTHORP......Page 429
THE ALCHORNE LIBRARY AT HAFOD......Page 430
ACQUISITIONS FROM THE LIBRARY AT WHITE KNIGHTS......Page 431
THE THIRD LORD SPENCER'S ACCOUNT OF THE PURCHASE OF THE VALDARFER DECAMERON......Page 432
THE WYGFAIR SALE IN DENBIGHSHIRE......Page 433
CONSPICUOUS SERVICES RENDERED TO LITERATURE BY THE SPENCER LIBRARY......Page 434
ACQUISITIONS FROM PUBLIC AND SEMI-PUBLIC LIBRARIES.---THE CASUISTRY OF TRUSTEESHIP......Page 435
THE SUCCESSIVE RAIDS ON DEAN HONYWOOD'S LIBRARY AT LINCOLN, BY EDWABDS AND BY DIBDIN......Page 436
DIBDIN'S VISIT TO STUTTGART.---ACQUISITION OF THE RARE VIRGILS OF 1471, FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE KING OF WIRTEMBERG......Page 437
THE NOW UNIQUE VIRGILIAN SERIES OF EARLY EDITIONS AT ALTHORP......Page 438
LORD SPENCER'S OWN BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TOUR......Page 439
PURCHASE OF THE CASSANO-SERRA LIBRARY IN 1819......Page 440
THE FIFTH SALE OF SPENCER DUPLICATES (1821)......Page 441
CHARACTER OF DR. DIBDIN'S WORKS AND MIND......Page 443
HIS CATALOGUES OF THE SPENCER LIBRARY......Page 444
NOTICES OF HIS LIFE, EDUCATION, AND EARLY WRITINGS......Page 445
HIS BIBLIOMANIA......Page 446
HIS TYPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES......Page 447
HIS CLERICAL LIFE, AND SUNDAY LIBRARY......Page 448
GREAT CRITICS ON SMALL BOOKS......Page 449
SERVICES RENDERED BY THE ROXBURGHE CLUB TO EUROPEAN LITERATURE......Page 450
THE LOCAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE ALTHORP LIBRARY, IN 1811, AND IN 1864......Page 451
TABULAR VIEW OF THE CHIEF CONTENTS OF THE LIBRARY AND OF THEIR LOCAL SEQUENCE......Page 452
THE MANUSCRIPT SLIP-CATALOGUES AT ALTHORP......Page 453
THE NUMERICAL INDEX AT ALTHORP......Page 454
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SOME OF THE MOST CONSPICUOUS TREASURES OF THE SPENCER LIBRARY......Page 455
LORD SPENCER AS LANDOWNER AND MAGISTRATE......Page 469
ADDITIONS TO THE SPENCER LIBRARY, SINCE THE DEATH OF EARL GEORGE JOHN......Page 470
PUBLIC ADVANTAGES OF PRIVATE LIBRARIES......Page 471
THE INSCRIPTION IN THE BEECH WOOD AT ALTHORP......Page 472
APPENDIX A - LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF EXTANT CATALOGUES OF ENGLISH MONASTIC LIBRARIES, DISTINGUISHING THE UNPRINTED FROM THE PRINTED......Page 473
MR. J. G. NICHOLS' LITERARY REMAINS OF KING EDWARD THE SIXTH......Page 480
THE PRINTED BOOKS ONCE EDWARD THE SIXTH'S (NOW SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE PRINTED BOOK DEPARTMENT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM), AS FAR AS THEY ARE IDENTIFIABLE......Page 481
EDWARD THE SIXTH'S MSS. IN THE ROYAL COLLECTION......Page 482
APPENDIX C - SUMMARY CLASSIFICATION AND SYNOPTICAL VIEW OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE REALM......Page 483
SUMMARY CLASSIFICATION OF THE RECORDS OF THE REALM: TABLE THE FIRST: SYNOPTICAL VIEW OF THE SOURCES AND TECHNICAL HEADINGS OF THE PRINCIPAL RECORDS......Page 484
SUMMARY CLASSIFICATION, &C.: TABLE THE THIRD: ALPHABETICAL VIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS OF THE RECORDS......Page 485