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A52671	Instructions concerning erecting of a library presented to my lord, the President De Mesme / by Gabriel Naudeus ... ; and now interpreted by Jo. Evelyn, Esquire.; Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque. English	Naudé, Gabriel, 1600-1653.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1661 (1661)	Wing N247; ESTC R8116	43,800	113

universally Learn'd that are Read Travell'd Experienc'd and Stout in summ my Lord such as becomes your Honour to cherish and our Prince to glory in These are the Persons my Lord that without the least of sordid and self interest do supplicate the continuance of your Lordships Protection and by your Influences to put them into a farther capacity to proceed in that glorious Work of Restoring the Sciences Interpreting Nature unfolding the obstrusities of Arts for the Recovery of the Lost Inventing and Augmenting of new and useful Things and for whatsoever else is in the Dominion of inferiour Agents For my own part my Lord I profess it that were it in my power to choose I had rather be the Author of one good and beneficial Invention than to have been Iulius Caesar or the great Alexander himself and do range the Names of a Gilbert a Bacon a Harvey a Guttemberge Columbus Goia Metius Ianellus Thyco Galileo not to mention Hippocrates Proclus Hieron Archimedes Ctesibes Boetius and what more of the Antients who gave us the Use of the Load-stone Taught us the Art of Printing found out the Circulation of the Blood detected new Worlds invented the Telescope and other opticall Glasses Engines and Automates amongst the Heroes whom they Deifi'd and placed above the Stars because they were the Authors of ten thousand more worthy Things than those who had never been named but for their blood-shed and cruelty pride and prodigious lusts nor would any memory of them have been preserv'd from oblivion but for the Pens of such great Genius's and learned men of whom some of them did the least deserve The noble Verulam your Lordships Predecessor as he out-stripp'd all who went before him so is he celebrated as far as knowledge has any Empire and maugre the frowardness of his latter Fortune the Learned rise up at the sound of his very Name And for what is all this But his great and shining endeavours to advance the excellency of mens Spirits cultivate humane Industry and raise an Amphitheatre of Wisdom without which this publique Soul of his had slept as much neglected and forgotten as those who onely became great by their power and perish'd with it All this your Lordship knows and therefore as your Education has been amongst the most refin'd you burn with a desire to improve it also amongst others so that the Chancellours of France shall not for ever bear away the Reputation of having rendred that Spot the envy of Europe for being Fautors and Mecoenas's to so many rare Witts and laudable Societies as are amongst that Mercurial people since there is that left for your Lordship and our Nation which is as far beyond the polishing of Phrases and cultivating Language as Heaven is superiour to Earth and Things are better than Words Though even those also will not be neglected in their due Time and Order But it is prodigious onely to consider how long these shells have been plai'd with and pleased the World That after so many Revolutions in which Learning has been seen as it were at its highest Ascendent there never yet appeared any man of Power who possess'd a Soul big enough and judgement suitable to erect some considerable Foundation for Practical Philosophers and for the Assembling of such whose united and assiduous Endeavours might penetrate beyond the Walls of what is yet discover'd or receiv'd upon trust Atque omne immensum peragrarent mente animoque That might redeem the World from the Insolency of so many Errours as we find by daily experience will not abide the Test and yet retain their Tyranny and that by the credit onely and address of those many Fencing-Schools which have been built not to name them Colledges and endow'd in all our Universities I speak not here of those reverend and renouned Societies which converse with Theologie cultivate the Laws Municipal or Forreign But I deplore with just indignation the supine neglect of the Other amongst such numbers as are set apart for empty and lesse fruitful Speculations especially since I find the pretences of so many sober and qualified persons as have deplor'd this effect so very reasonable and so eminently beneficial But why do I abound Your Lordship who is already possess'd with all this is not to be instructed without presumption and impertinence which cannot be the least design of this Epistle since those who know both your Lordships affection and inclination to promote so glorious a Work know also that there is none more able to make it attain to its desired protection And this is my Lord worthily to consult your Fame and to eternize your Name in the World amongst the Good and the Virtuous which will make you live not onely in the Mouths and Pens but in the Hearts of gallant Persons and such as best skill to make Estimates of the Favours you shall confer upon them because they seek it not out of private advantage sordid purposes or artificially but to the ends propos'd The enlargement of real knowledge and for the publique benefit in sum my Lord for the most useful and noblest effects and for the Glory of God And thus my Lord I have taken the boldness in presenting your Honour with this little Discourse of Books and Libraries to put these Reflections of mine into your Lordships hands Because as having my self the honour to have some Relation to that Assembly who make these their pretences to conciliate your Esteem I think my self obliged to acknowledge with them likewise your Lordships favourable Reception of their late Addresses and because I am for so many other obligations in particular to publish to the world how perfectly I am My Lord Your most humble and most obliged Servant J. EVELYN Instructions concerning Erecting of a Library presented to my Lord the President De Mesine by Gabr. Naudeus P. TO THE READER THis Advice occasion'd by a certain dispute which was some moneths since controverted in his Library who was then pleas'd to accept of it had never been drawn out of the dust of my study and expos'd to the Light till not finding my self able to render a better or more speedy satisfaction to the curiosity of many of my Friends who desired Copies of it I at last resolv'd to print it as well that it might deliver me from the charge and inconveniency of the Transcribers as for my natural propensity to oblige the publique whom if this Advice be not worthy to satisfie it may yet serve as a Guide at least to those who desire to furnish the world with better that it may no longer be deprived of a piece which seems wanting to its felicity and for which respect alone I have been first constrain'd to break the Yce and trace the way cursorily for those who may render it more perspicuous at their leasure This if you shall accept I shall have cause to acknowledge your civility and good will If otherwise I shall at least request you to excuse my faults and

to execute it with facility You think fit to undertake it It will be requisite that before we arrive at those Precepts which may serve to put it in execution we first deduce and explain the reasons which are most likely to perswade You that it is to Your advantage and that You ought by no means to neglect it For not to go far from the nature of this Enterprise common sence will informe us that it is a thing altogether laudable generous and worthy of a courage which breathes nothing but Immortality to draw out of oblivion conserve and erect like another Pompey all these Images not of the Bodies but of the Minds of so many gallant men as have neither spared their time nor their Industry to transmit to us the most lively features and representations of whatsoever was most excellent and conspicuous in them And this is also a thing which the younger Pliny who was none of the least ambitious amongst the Romans would seem particularly to encourage us in by that handsome expression in the first of his Epistles Mihi pulchrum in primis videtur non pati occidere quibus aeternitas debetur since this curious passage not trivial and vulgar may legitimately pass for one of those lucky presages of which Cardan speaks in his Chapter de signis eximiae potentiae for that being extraordinary difficult and of great expence it can no wayes be effected without giving every man occasion to speak well of it and with Admiration as it were of him who puts it in Execution Existimatio autem opinio sayes the same Author rerum humanarum reginae sunt And in earnest if we finde it not strange that Demetrius made a shew and Parade of his Artillery vast and prodigious Machines Alexander the Great of his manner of encamping the Kings of Aegypt of their Pyramides nay Solomon of his Temple and others of the like since Tiberius well observes it in Tacitus caeteris mortalibus in eo stare consilia quid sibi conducere putent principlum diversam esse sortem quibus omnia ad famam dirigenda How much ought we then to esteem of those who have never sought after these superfluous Inventions and for the most part unprofitable well judging and believing that there was no expedient more honest and assur'd to acquire a great reputation amongst the people than in erecting of fair and magnificent Libraries to devote and consecrate them afterward to the use of the Publick As true is it that this Enterprise did never abuse nor deceive those who knew how to manage it well and that it has ever been judg'd of such consequence that not only particular persons have made it successeful to their own advantage as Richard de Bury Bessarion Vincentius Pinelli Sirlettus Henry de Mesme your Grandfather of most happy memory the English Knight Bodley the late President Thuanus and a world of others but that even the most ambitious would still make use of this to crown and to perfect all their glorious atchievements as with the Key-stone of the Arch which adds lustre and ornament to all the rest of the Edifice And I produce no other proofs and testimonies of what I say than those great Kings of Aegypt and of Pergamus Xerxes Augustus Lucullus Charlemain Alphonsus of Arragon Matth. Corvinus and that great Prince Francis the First who have all of them had a particular affection and sought amongst the almost infinite number of Monarchs and Potentates which have also practis'd this Stratagem to amass great numbers of Books and erect most curious and well furnisht Libraries not that they stood in need of other subjects of recommendation and Fame as having acquir'd sufficient by the Triumphs of their great and signal Victories but because they were not ignorant that those persons quibus sola mentem animosque perurit gloria should neglect nothing which may easily elevate them to the supream and Sovereign degree of esteem and reputation And truly should one enquire of Seneca what are to be the actions of these gallant and puissant Genius's which seem not to have been sent into the world but to do Miracles he would certainly answer us Neminem excelsi ingenii virum humilia delectant sordida magnarum rerum species ad se vocat allicit And therfore my Lord it seems very much to the purpose since you govern and preside in all signal Actions that you never content your self with a Mediocrity in things which are good and laudable and since you have nothing of mean and vulgar that you should also cherish above all others the honour and reputation of possessing a Bibliotheque the most perfect the best furnish'd and maintain'd of your time In fine if these Arguments have not power sufficient to dispose you to this Enterprise I am at least perswaded That of your particular satisfaction will of it self be sufficiently capable to make you resolve upon it For if it be possible in this world to attain any sovereign good any perfect and accomplisht felicity I believe that there were certainly none more desireable than the fruitful entertainment and most agreeable divertisement which might be received from such a Library by a learned man and who were not so curious in having Books ut illi sint coenationum ornamenta quam ut studiorum instrumenta since from that alone he might with reason name himself Cosmopolitan or Habitant of the Universe that he might know all see all and be ignorant of nothing Briefly seeing he is absolute Master of this Contentment that he might manage it after his own fancie enjoy it when he would quit it when he pleas'd entertain himself in it at his liberty and that without contradiction without travail and without pains he may instruct himself and learn the exactest particulars Of all that is that was and that may be In Earth the farthest Heavens and the Sea I shall only adde then for the result of of all these reasons and of many other that it is easier for you to conceive than 't is for any other to expresse it that I pretend not hereby to engage you in a superfluous and extraordinary expence as being not at all of their opinion who think Gold and Silver the principal nerves of a Library and who perswade themselves esteeming Books only by the price they cost that there is nothing good to be had but what is dearly purchased Yet neither is it my designe to perswade you that so great a provision can be made with a shut purse and without cost very well knowing that the saying of Plautus is as true on this occasion as in many others Necesse est facere sumptum qui quaerit lucrum but to let you see by this present Discourse that there are an infinity of other expedients which a man may make use of with a great deal more facility and lesse expence to attain at last the scope which I propose to