Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth CenturyMacray, William Dunn
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Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century
Macray, William Dunn
Bodleian Library
A thick quarto volume (1052 pages) containing a Latin treatise by Adam
Zernichaus on the controversy between the Eastern and Western Churches,
concerning the Procession of the Holy Ghost, was forwarded to the
Library through Sir Robert Sutton, ambassador at Constantinople, by
Chrysanthus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, nephew and successor of Dositheus,
an autograph Greek epistle from whom, occupying seven pages, is
prefixed. At the end is a list of eleven German scribes who were
employed upon the transcription of the volume, with the payments they
severally received. It appears from the Benefaction Register that the
volume was not actually received at the Library until 1722; and in 1731,
an entry in the catalogue records that the MS. 'was restored to Sir
Robert Sutton, by order of the Vice-Chancellor;' but no reason or
explanation is given. For more than a century the Patriarch's gift was
consequently lost from the place of its destination; but in Dec. 1864,
having turned up for sale among the well-known stores of Mr. C. J.
Stewart, it was secured by the Librarian at the cost of £5 15_s._ 6_d._,
and is once more to be found in its legitimate quarters, numbered MS.
Addit. Bodl. ii. c. 9. Chrysanthus also gave, in 1725, a copy of
Dositheus' History of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which was printed,
in Greek, in 1715.
[187] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, liii. 124, 5.
[188] _Life_, 1772, pp. 18-20.
[189] He died on June 10, in that year.
[190] This catalogue was sold at the auction in 1855 of the MSS. of Dr.
Routh, who had bought it at Heber's sale.
[191] _Letters by Eminent Persons_, i. 271, 300. [On p. 270 for
_Turner_, read _Tanner_.]
[192] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, liii. 148.
A.D. 1716.
On Aug. 23, a legacy of £100 from Dr. South (who died July 8), for the
purchase of modern books, was paid to the Vice-Chancellor[193].
_Arms in the window._ See 1610.
[193] Hearne's _Diary_, lix. 141; _Reliqq. Hearn._ i. 366.
A.D. 1718.
One Mr. Hutton appears to have been employed in the Library during this
year. It seems, from a passage in a letter of C. Wheatly's, printed in
_Letters by Eminent Persons_, ii. 116, that the learned commentator
Samuel Parker, son of the Bishop of Oxford, was also at some time
employed in the Library; for Wheatly expresses a wish that S. Parker's
son, then (1739) an apprentice to Mr. Clements the bookseller, might, if
the accounts of his extraordinary proficiency be true, be placed 'in his
father's seat, the Bodleian Library.' As Parker was a non-juror, his
employment must doubtless have been at some earlier period than this,
but his name is not met with in any of the old Account-books or
Registers. One Thomas Parker occurs in the Library accounts in 1766 and
in 1772.
A.D. 1719.
Dr. Hudson died, on Nov. 27, of dropsy. And at one o'clock on the
afternoon of the very next day, Joseph Bowles, M.A., of Oriel College,
was elected in his room.
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