Prince; who himself employed his pains intirely in this design, and wrote the several catalogues digested in various orders, and consisting of eight volumes in _folio_, with his own hand. The present librarian is the famous Mr. _Leibnitz_, who at this time did not reside upon the place; but an assistant of his shewed the library, and observed to me the following curiosities. A collection of printed _Bibles_, the largest and most curious, which are any where to be found. A large manuscript _English Bible_ in _folio_, which seems very antient and begins thus: _In the erste made God of nought the hevens and the ery, and the ery forsooth was vein and veyd, and darknesses weren upon the face of the zee._ At the bottom of the first page is wrote _Lumley_ in later characters. A manuscript _Greek Testament_; and two printed copies, one of _Aldus_ and the other at _Hagenoa_, in which is wanting that famous testimony of _St. John_ concerning the three, that bear witness in heaven. An antient manuscript of _St. Jerome’s Bible_, written about four hundred years since, by one who subscribes himself _Abbas Gaufridus Vitulus_; and at the end of the same has delineated himself, with the head of a _calf_. A manuscript _Aethiopic Testament_, given by father _Kircher_ to the founder of the library. A copy of the _Psalms_, written in those characters, which are called _Ciceroniani_ and _Cyprianici_. A voluminous collection of modern _Histories_, in four hundred manuscript volumes in _folio_; among which are thirteen called _Chroniques d’Angleterre_. The whole number cost the Duke two thousand four hundred crowns; but it is thought, he purchased them much to dear. A fair turning desk with six leaves, like that before described in the Praemonstratensian library at _Prague_. A fair _Herbal_, with each flower delineated in its proper colours. A roll of the _Pentateuch_, and a vail now used by the Jews in reading the _Law_. Several reliques of _Luther_, as his spoon, drinking glass, leaden inkbottle, and a _Letter_ in his own hand to one of his contemporary bishops, in which he sends the salutes of his wife in these words: _Salutat te, Dominus meus, Ketha reverenter._ Two books written by Prince _Christian_ himself, founder of the library: one _De ludo scacchia_, in the German language; the other in _folio_, called _Cryptographia_, treating of cyphers and other secret devices, in the title of which he calls himself _Gustavus Selenus_, meaning _Augustus Luneburgicus_. A fair edition of the _vulgate Latin Bible_ by _Aldus_ at _Venice_, which reads in _Genesis_ iii. 15, _Ipsum conteret caput tuum_, instead of the usual _ipsa_.