. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. ooks, of the Fathers and the Schoolmendoes not depress us with its disproportion. The collec-tion was strong in astronomy and medicine: Ptolemy,Albumazar, Rhazes, Serapion, Avicenna, Haly Abenragel,Zaael, and others were all represented. Besides these, therewas a fine selection of the classics—Plato, Aristotle, includingthe Politica and Ethica, .^schines orations, Terence, VarrosDe Originae linguae Latinae, Ciceros letters, Verrine andother orations, and opera viginti duo Tullii in magnovolumine, Livy, Ovi
. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. ooks, of the Fathers and the Schoolmendoes not depress us with its disproportion. The collec-tion was strong in astronomy and medicine: Ptolemy,Albumazar, Rhazes, Serapion, Avicenna, Haly Abenragel,Zaael, and others were all represented. Besides these, therewas a fine selection of the classics—Plato, Aristotle, includingthe Politica and Ethica, .^schines orations, Terence, VarrosDe Originae linguae Latinae, Ciceros letters, Verrine andother orations, and opera viginti duo Tullii in magnovolumine, Livy, Ovid, Senecas tragedies, Quintilian, AulusGellius, Nodes Atticae, the Golden Ass of Apuleius, andSuetonius. But the most interesting items in the list ofhis books are the new translations of Plato, and of Aristotle,whose Ethica was rendered by Leonardo Bruni; the Greekand Latin dictionary; and the works of Dante, Petrarch{de Vita solitaria, de Rebus memorandis, de Rcmediis Athenaum, Nov. 17, 88, p. 664 ; Hulton, Clerk of Oxford in Fiction, 0. H. S. 35, Anstey, 197, 204. PLATE XXV. o y, o >-< Xw D a ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: OXFORD 143 utriusque fortunae), Boccaccio, and of Coluccio Salutatisletters.^ The librarys cliaracter might still further have beenfreshened had Gloucesters bequest of his Latin books—thebooks, we may suppose, he himself prized too highly topart with during his lifetime—been carried into effect.^ Our right special Lord and mighty Prince the Duke of Gloucester, late passed out of this world,—whose soul God assoil for his high mercy,—not long before his decease, being in our said University among all the doctors and masters of the same assembled together, granted unto us all his Latin books, to the loving of God, increase of clergy and cunning men, to the good governance and prosperity of the realm of England without end . . the which gift oftentimes after, by our messengers, and also in his last testament, as we understand, he confirmed. But alas!
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