reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews late Lord Bishop of Winchester in 24o. 48. A Manuall of Directions for the Sick with many sweet Meditations and Devotions by the right reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews late Lord Bishop of Winchester in 24. 49. Ten Sermons upon severall occasions preached at St. Pauls Crosse and elsewhere by the Right reverend Father in God Arthur Lake late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells in 40. 50. Six Sermons upon severall occasions preached at Court before the Kings Majesty and elsewhere by that late learned and reverend Divine Iohn Donne Dr. in Divinity and Dean of St. Pauls London in 4o. 51. Private Devotions in six Letanies with directions and Prayers for the dayes of the weeke and Sacrament for the houre of Death and the day of judgment and two daily prayers for the Morning and Evening written by Dr. Henry Valentine 24o. 52. A Key to the Key of Scripture or an exposition with notes upon the Epistle to the Romans the three first chapters by William Sclater Dr. in Divinity and Minister of the word of God at Pitmister in Somersetshire in 4o. 53. Sarah and Hagar or the sixteenth Chapter of Genesis opened in ninteen Sermons being the first legitimate Essay of the pious labours of that learned Orthodox and indefatigable Preacher of the Gospell Mr. Josias Shute B. D. and above 33 years Rector of St Mary Woolnoth in Lombardstreet in Follo ' 54. Christ's Tears with his love affection towards Jerusalem delivered in sundry Sermons upon Luke 19. v. 41 42. by Richard Maden B. D. late of Magdalen Colledge in Oam in 4o. 55 Three Sermons viz. The benefit of contentation The Affinity of the faithfull and The lost sheep found by Mr. Henry Smith 4o. 56. Ten Sermons preached upon severall Sundayes and Saints dayes by Peter Hausted Mr. in Arts and Curat at Vppingham in Rutland in 4o. 57. Eighteen Sermons preached upon the Incarnation and Nativity of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ wherein the greatest misteries of Godliness are unfolded to the capacity of the Weakest Christian by Iohn Dawson Oxon. in 4o. 58. The History of the Defenders of the Faith discoursing the state of Religion in England during the Reigns of King Henry 8. Edward 6. Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth by C. L. in 4o. 59. Christian Divinity written by Edmund Reeve Batchelour in divinity in 4o. 60. The Communion-Book Catechism expounded by Edmund Reeve Batchelour in Divinity in 4o. 61. The true and absoluce Bishop wherein is shewed how Christ is our onely shepheard and Bishop of our soules by Nicolas Darton Master in Arts in 4o. 62. A description of the New-born Christian or a lively pattern of the Saint militant child of God written by Nicholas Hunt Master in Arts in 4o. 63. Divine Meditations upon the 91. Psalm and on the History of Agag King of Amalek with an Essay of Friendship written by an honourable person 64. An Historicall Anatomy of Christian Melancholy by Edmund Gregory Oxon in 8o. 65. Lazarus his Rest a Sermon preached at the Funerall of that pious learned and Orthodox Divine Mr. Ephrim Vdall by Thomas Reeve B. D 66. The Survey of Man in a Sermon as it was delivered by Mr. John Bishop at his Fathers funerall 67. Enchiridion containing institutions Divine and Morall written by Francis Quarles 24o. Books in Divinity Lately Printed 68. THE Psalmes of David from the new Translation of the Bible turned into Meter to be sung after the old tunes used in the Churches by the Right Reverend Father in God Henry King Bishop of Chichester 12o. 69. Choice Musick for three voices and a thorough-Base composed by Mr. Henry and Mr. William Lawes brothers and servants to his late Majesty with divers Elegies set in Musick by severall friends upon the death of Mr. William Lawes 4o. 70. Letters between the Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby Knight concerning Religion 8o. 71. Essaies in Divinity by Dr. Donn D. of Saint Paul's before he entred into holy orders 12o. 72. Publike devotions or a Collection of Prayers used at sundry times by divers Reverend and godly Divines together with divine implorations and an introduction to prayer 24o. 73. The Sinners Tears in Meditations and Prayers by Thomas Fettiplace of Peterhouse Camb. 12o. 74. Quaestio Quodlibetica or a discourse whether it be lawfull to take use for mony by R. F. Knight 75. Sions Prospect in its first view presented in a summary of Divine Truths consenting with the faith professed by the Church of England confirmed from Scripture and reason composed by Mr. Robert Mossom Minister 4o. 76. Flores Solitudinis certaine rare and elegant pieces viz. Two excellent discourses 1 Of Temperance and Patience 2 Of life and death by I. E. 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Poems c. written by Mr. Edward Waller of Beconsfield Esq 8o. 84. Pastor Fido the faithfull Shepheard a Pastorall newly translated out of the Originall by Mr. Richard Fanshaw Esq 4o. 85. Poems with a discovery of the Civill Warrs of Rome by Mr. Richard Fanshaw Esq in 4o. 86. Europa Cupid crucified Venus Vigils with Annotations by Thomas Stanley Esq 8o. 87. Coopers Hill a Poem written by Mr John Denham Esq the 2d Edition with Additions 4o. 88. Medea a Tragedy written in Latin by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Englished by Mr. Edward Sherburn Esq with Annotations 8o. 89. Seneca's answer to Lucilius his Quaere why good men suffer misfortunes seeing there is a Divine providence Englished by Mr. Edward Sherburn Esq 8o. 90. Madagascar with other Poems by Sr. W. Davenant 91. Poems with a Masque by Thomas Carew Esq Gentleman of the Privie Chamber to his late Majestie revived and enlarged with Aditions 8o. 92. 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1634. and was sure that his friends would do no such thing for him he provided of his own accord and sent to the Man both sweet Liquors by most exquisite art extracted out of Gelsemine Roses Oranges Gilloflowers which he conceived would be an acceptable present for the Queen as also Images Maps and Pictures of Kings Queens and other illustrious men and women and a great bundle of Books especially Mathematical Military of Architecture perspective and such like For he thought it an unworthy thing to desert such a fortune and not to assist as much as in him lay a man so conspicuous and so far off And because he was confident he would take all very gratefully he thought he might well desire of him some Aethiopick Books obvious Inscriptions a description of Mount Amara also of Religious Ceremonies Vessels and such like things as were unknown to Europeans And this he endeavoured being in the mean time distracted with great trouble of mind because the Senate and the Marshal de Vitre the Viceroy were at variance At the same time also he entertained and obliged by continual attendance and various Offices of friendship Franciscus Comes Noallius who was going the Kings Ambassador to Rome and staied some dayes at Marseilles and at Aix Not to speak how that having in his Company a young man skilful above his years in the Theorie and practise of Physick named Petrus Michonus Burdelotius Peireskius would needs have a full enjoyment of his Company both because of his proper endowments and because of the friendship which he had with his learned Unkle Joannes Burdelotius He entertained not long after Georgius Bolognetus the Popes Nuncio who comming for France took his way through Aix Now it is worth relating how he finding Peireskius busie about the Anatomy of I know not what Eye he would needs be by and understand all his speculations For he had an insatiable defire of knowing the Organ of sight and the true place in which sight is performed by impression and reflexion of the Image so that there was hardly any kind of Birds Fishes or four-focted Beasts which were to be gotten whose eyes were not dissected that he might observe wherein they agreed and wherein they differed Nor must I passe over in silence how the better to gratifie me whom he would have his assistant in that work he gave a full account of all in writing to Franciscus Luillerius Master of the Kings accounts at Paris whom he knew to be my singular friend whose learning candour and affection to all good Arts and to Justice and all vertue if I should in this place insinuate I should do it to no other end then to shew that his friendship was not without cause most dear to Peireskius Now because there was much talk of this business though the truth thereof were not understood therefore I think it worth my labour to make a Narrative thereof Between the more ancient opinion which held that the sight was performed in the Crystalline humour and the later which held it was in the tunâ—ca retina Peireskius held one between both viz. that the sight is in the glassie or vitreous humour For seeing he judged it most fit that the visive faculty should perform its office in the middle of the eye whence it might behold the Image in its own scituation therefore he designed this place within the vitreous humour in which part the raies of the things seen being passed through the Crystalline humour and reflected from the Retina do meet together as it were in one Center For supposing that the Crystalline did by its convexity turn the Image the contrary way he was of opinion that the Retina by its concavity did set the same right again and that therefore the faculty ought also to reside in the Center of its concavity that it might contems plate the Image being reflexed by the Retina and restored and consequently see the thing in its natural scituation This when he had fixed in his mind he thought there remained nothing for him to do but to search out the verity of the said Restitution As soon as ever therefore he had gotten a little leasure by means of the Easter-Holy-dayes he began to exercise Anatomists in several kinds of Animals Now it seemed generally that the hinder and innermore circumduction of the eye was as a Concave glasse by reason of the inverted reflexion both of the Candâ—e and other objects For the Tunica choroides being diversly coloured is polished like metal being very apt to shine by assistance of that black humor which is daubed upon the back thereof that blackness also assisting with which the inner circumserence is smeared as it were that the light or Image darting upon that glasse might more strongly and distinctly be painted therein Now when I name the Choroides I do not exclude the Retina which exceeding hardly and in few eyes can be preserved so united thereunto as not to slip out of its place when the vitreous humor runs out and be drawn together appearing as it is indeed a widened production of the optick nerve but when it is preserved united to the Choroides it is so thin clear and transparent especially being moystened that it seemes to be one and the same surface one and the same Looking-glasse on which the Images of things are imprinted Now although the Optic or the middle of the Retina does not diametrically answer the Pupilla outwardly opened for it stands a little lower yet the middle of the hinder and coloured part which is bright like metal does answer the same and is divided by a certain Circle as it were an Horizon from that obscurity which is in the fore-part But Peireskius did wonderfully exsult when after all the humors were let out and the Crystalline hung so as to be restored to its proper place well near the Image of the Candle was observed to be represented inwardly in the Retina not inverted but in its true scituation and again when the bottom was so inlightened that the Crystalline could only receive the light the Image which was inverted in the Retina was found to be received by the Crystalline in its right posture For be conceived it to be manifest that his conjecture was right in all points whereupon the more to confirm the same he sought out divers Glasses and Looking glasses both convex and concave reslecting and transmitting also divers Vialls or Glasse bottles in which diversly ordered 't is wonderful how many and how frequently repeated Experiments he made Moreover he could not easily be removed from his foresaid opinion only I remember when it was objected that the faculty of Seeing residing within the Eye should not look outwards towards the things themselves but inwards towards the Looking-glass aforesaid that therefore it could not truly be said to see the things themselves besides other things which argued that the sight was rather in the Retina I remember I say that
of his judgement into several Classes suitable to the variety of the Arguments he caused them being so placed in order to be bound up into fourscore and two Volumes making a Catalogue of the names of every one of them to the very least which Catalogue I do now publish having never before seen the light With which that I might not seem to do any thing negligently I have diligently compared the several Volumes or Books aforesaid that by this meanes learned men may have a Breviary of the said Manuscripts begun by Putean and finished by my self To the making of which Catalogue that most illustrious Gentleman Claudius Fabricius Baron of Rians the Son of Palavesius Brother to our Peireskius did much contribute very readily lending all the Books to that end who being renowned by the Noble Titles of his Ancestors with which the Fabrician Family is famous to this very day has added thereunto most proper and peculiar gifts of his own minde viz. sweetness of manners Candor and Ingenuity with an industrious wit thereby to augment not only the glory of his Unkle but the growing Wealth of the Literary Republick I am so far from unthankfully passing over in silence how I owe all I have done in this business to the Gentleman aforesaid that I am ready with the most officious words I am able to return him as by these presents I do all possible thanks for his favour to me in this particular Go to therefore who ever thou art that longest after mysterious and hidden secrets of Learning go to the Peireskian Fountains which do by their streames plentifully water the field of Learning you shall finde plenty wherewith to quench your thirst whether you desire caelestial things or things terrestial natural or artificial old or new And behold in these a most intent observer the Judge of most abstruse matters and celebrate the Phaenix and miracle of his Age in one word recommend to Posterity this most worthy Gentleman deceased whose Vertues while living did merit a publick Triumph Dated at Paris the last of December 1654. A CATALOGUE OF Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk and Senator of Aix his own proper Manuscripts Printed from the Original Copy of Petrus Puteanus his own hand-writing being diligently compared with the Books themselves which are at this day in the Custody of the Baron of Rians Volume I. DUkes and Peers of France Vol. 1. Dukes and Piers of France Vol. 2. II. Divers Catalogues of Manuscripts Divers Catalogues of printed Books III. Books of divers Heralds touching Coates of Arms. A Miscellanie of divers Coates of Arms some blasoned some not Certain fragments touching kingly Robes Divers Instructions concerning Heraldry The Coats of Arms of the greatest Families in Europe blazoned Figures of divers ancient Tapestries IV. England Volume 1. England Volume 2. Scotland V. Ancient Authors Greek and Latine touching weights and measures Divers Calendars Of Looking-Glasses and Spectacles for divers purposes Observations touching the Eies of Men and divers other Beasts Effects of the Sight VI. Touching Maritim affairs Of Commerce Matters appertaining to the Law VII Inscriptions and Subscriptions of Letters written by the King Queen and others as well within as without the Realm Other Memorials touching the same subject Enlogies and Epitaphs VIII Turkes Voyages A mixture of divers Papers of the same Subject IX A verbal processe touching the negotiation between Pope Sixtus Quartus and the Princes of Italy Memorials of Queen Margaret X. For the Life of St. Lewis For the Maid of Orleance Of the City of Rhemes Enchanters Sorcerers XI Memorials of the Council of Trent Assemblies of the Clergie XII Chancellours and Keepers of the Seal of France General Rules for the Houses of the King the Queens and the Parliaments XIII Genealogies of the House of Austria Letters and Passages touching the Martiage of England 1624 1625. XIIII Acts and Memorials touching Bearn Metz Toul Verdun Commercy XV. A Discourse touching the power of the Pope Touching the power of Kings Tampin Whether or no it is lawful to bear Arms for a Prince of a different Religion The English Naaman whether the Catholicks sin that live among Hereticks Vacancies and Exactions of the Pope Bishops and a Catalogue of Bishops A Treatise of the Inquisition by Father Paul XVI Ancient Statues and other Antiquities Precious Stones Of the Tripod Seals of divers sorts Pourtraits of the Princes of the House of Anjou and other Figures XVII Regencies Portions Seats of Justice held by Kings in their Parliaments Verifications of Edicts in the Chamber of Accounts and the Court of Aides or subsidies The Chamber of Justice against those of the Exchequer Receits of the Exchequer XVIII The History of the Marshal of Fleurange The History of James de Lalain Lives of the Earles de Carcez A discourse touching the Life of Monsieur Charls de Lorraine Duke of Mayenne by Cornac The Negotiations of Monsieur de Bassompiere in Spain touching the Valtelline XIX Assises or Assemblies at Hierusalem XX. The Liberty of the French Church XXI A Catalogue of the Books in the Kings Library XXII Orations and Discourses Divers Discourses and Memorials Genealogies and other historical Treatises XXIII Ancient Genalogies of the Kings of France Extracts from Chronicles and Histories French Antiquities or Extracts from divers Histories Touching the ancient History of France Titles and Acts for the History of the second Race Priviledges granted by the Popes to the Kings of France XXIIII Ancient Inscriptions Vol. 1. Ancient Inscriptions Vol. 2. New and Christian Inscriptions XXV Divers Orders of Knighthood Vol. 1. Divers Orders of Knighthood Vol. 2. XXVI Ceremonies Consecrations and Coronations Entries Receptions Te Deum Baptisms Marriages Butials Reception of the Duke de Pustrane into France The Reception of Monsieur du Mayne into Spain Memorials of divers Ceremonies A Discourse touching Seats and Places A memorial touching Places Of the Debate ' twi xt France and Spain touching Priority of Place XXVII Criminal Process or Trials of Robert Earl of Artois of Gilles de Rail Of the Constable of St. Paul Of the Duke of Montmorancy Divers criminal Arrests and criminal Processes XXVIII A Chronicle of the Metensian Bishops Chronicon Besnense Chronicon Novaticense Chronicle of Berne Divers Letters and Acts passed between the Emperors and Princes of Germany and the Kings of France Chronicles and Statues of Monpellier Divers Chronicles XXIX Legati à latere Indulgences of Cardinals The Legation of Cardinal Barberin in France and Spain XXX Italy vol. 1. Rome Urbin Parma Este Gennes Mantua Montferat and Venice Neutrality of the free County Italy vol. 2. Milaine Savoy and Piedmont Naples and Sicilie The Empire of Constantinople XXXI Of the Huguenots or Protestants from the year 1550 to the year 1619. Vol. 1. Of the Huguenots from the year 1620. to 1629. Vol. 2. XXXII Of Genealogies vol. 1. Of Genealogies vol. 2. XXXIII The General Assembly of Estates holden at Paris under King John Other Assemblies in the years