mena and Appendix, or Variæ Lectiones, principles injurious to the Reformation, and even to Christianity itself. This was soon ably confuted by Dr. Walton, in a treatise entitled, "The Considerator considered; or a brief View of certain Considerations upon the Biblia Polyglotta, the Prolegomena and Appendix thereof. Wherein the certainty, integrity, and divine authority of the original Texts, is defended against the Consequences of Atheists, Papists, Anti-scripturists, &c. inferred from the various Readings, and Novelty of the Hebrew Points, by the author of the said Considerations; the Biblia Polyglotta, and Translations therein exhibited, with the various Readings, Prolegomena, and Appendix, vindicated from his Aspersions and Calumnies. By BRIAN WALTON, DD." London, Roycroft, 1659, 18mo. very scarce. It contains 293 pages. The Polyglott can scarcely be considered as complete without this tract, the Introductio above mentioned, and the Targum of Rabbi Joseph, edited by D. Wilkins. See vol. 1. p. 267.

The Rev. Mr. Twells, to whose Life of Dr. Pocock I am greatly indebted, concluding his account of the Polyglott, speaks in the following terms: “And thus, in about four years, was finished the English Polyglott Bible, the glory of that age, and of the English church and nation; a work vastly exceeding all former attempts of that kind, and that came so near perfection, as to discourage all future ones."

BIBLIA PAUPERUM.

A collection of designs rudely cut in wood, of the principal historical subjects in the Bible; interspersed with sentences above, below, in the middle, or in scrolls, according to the ancient manner of describing figures speaking.-A small folio.-This curiosity is accounted, by the learned in typographical antiquities, one of the first essays towards the art of print ing by blocks of wood, before the invention of moveable types, and is generally attributed to Laur. Coster, of Harlem, between 1440 and 1450. It is done on forty leaves, and that copy is the most valuable, in which the leaves are not pasted double, nor the figures painted, as most in that time were. A fine copy, at Mr. Paris's sale, brought 91. A мs. copy of this book, copied by Le Clabart, so exactly executed as scarcely to be distinguished from the original, sold at the same sale for fourteen guineas.

Those who wish to ornament their library Bibles with really valuable and curious cuts, are recommended to pay attention to the following. They are all folio size :

Raphaelis Picturæ Historicæ Sacræ, incise à Chapron, Rom. 1649. 11. 11s. 6d.

Raphael's Prints to the Bible, by De Rubeis, in 54 plates. 11. 1s.

Albert Durer's Prints of the Revelation, cut by himself upon wood: (very scarce:) 1498. 11. 11s. 6d. Krausen's Cuts to the Bible, 2 vols. 21. 2s.

Les Peintures Sacrée de la Bible, 1653. 11. Is.

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History of Sampson, on 40 Plates, by the cele brated Audlan. 11. 1s.

Wilgel's Prints to the Bible, upwards of 900 Plates, 1695. 51. 5s.

Luyken's Historical Cuts to the Bible: (first im pressions are rare.) 31. 3s.

Picart's and Houbraken's Cuts to the Bible. Fine impressions, on imperial paper, 81. 8s. common paper, 51. 5s.

Mortier's 400 Cuts to the Bible, formed for Mr. D. Martin's large Commentary, and sometimes inserted in Basket's Bible, 1723.-In working the Plates the last was by some accident broken, but it was riveted together, and the nails appear plainly in all the impressions taken off after that time. Both the engraving and designs of this work are well executed.

Biblia Æri Incisa, vel Physica Sacra, by Scheutzer, 8 vols. fol. Zurich.-A fine collection, consisting of 750 Prints, very well engraved.-Scheutzer tells us, that he formed that design with no other view but the glory of God, to confute atheists, to reconcile nature with the holy Scripture, and to give a new light to many places in the sacred writings, "which (says he) are ill understood by the ignorant vulgar, or wrongly explained by the commentators, most of whom (as he pretends) have no tincture of natural philosophy or mathematics." See Scheutzer. The Plates were all engraved by Zeffel, Amst. 1732. A set usually sells for from ten to sixteen guineas.

For the Biblia Figurata, most of which are of no great importance in Bibliography, see De Bure's

Bibliographia Instructive, vol. 1. Theolog. p. 111,

et seqq.

Machumetis Saracenorum principis ejusque successorum Vitæ, Doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran, opera et studio Theodori BIBLIANDRI, 1550, fol.

Machumetis Alcoran et Vita ex Arabico Latinè, cum Philippi Melancthonis Prefatione, et Theod. BIBLIANDRI Notis et Apologiâ. Basil, 1543, fol.

Mahumedis Testamentum, sive Pacta cum Christianis in oriente inita et Theod. BIBLIANDRI Apolo gia pro Editione Alcorani. Rostochii, 1638, 4to.Bibliander, whose proper name was Theodore Bouchman, was a very learned protestant divine, born in Switzerland about the year 1500, and died of the plague at Zurich, 1564.

BIBLIOTHECA (Magna) veterum Patruin et antiquorum Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum. Primo quidem a Margarino de la Bigne composita; postea studio doctissimorum Coloniensium Theologorum ac Professorum aucta: nunc vero additione ducentorum circiter Authorum, tam Græcorum qui in Editione Coloniensi, quam Latinorum qui in Parisiensibus desiderabantur, &c. In 17 tomos; partes vero 24 distributa. Parisiis sumptibus Ægidii Morelli, 1644. 81. 8s. This Edition is esteemed because of the lesser Greek fathers which it contains. The divines of Cologne gave another Edition, 17 vols. fol. in 1694

Sanctorum BIBLIOTHECA Patrum primitivæ Ecclesiæ, sive opera Authorum veterum in Scripturam sacram clariori methodo ornata. Lugd. 1680, fol, A scarce and curious work.

BIBLIOTHECA Chalcographica, a Boigsardo et De Bry. Franck. 1628, 4to. fol.

Fratrum Polonorum, 8 vols. fol. Irenopoli, 1656. To this collection are sometimes added, Opera Brennii et Przipcovii: the first published, Eleutheropoli, 1664; the second, ibid. 1692. These Socinian expositors contain a treasure of sacred criticism. Since the late revival and progress of Socinianism in England, the price of these Polish commentators has considerably advanced. 21. 2s. Patrum, 8 vols. cum Appendice, Pa

risiis, 1576, fol. 31. 3s.

Græcorum Patrum Auctarium per Combefis, 2 vols. Gr. et Lat. Par. 1672. 11. 11s. 6d. Græca et Latina, Comitis de Reviczki,

8vo. Berol. 1784.

BIBLIOTHECA veterum Patrum, antiquorumque. Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, ab Andrea Gallandio. Gr. et Lat. Venet. 1765-81, fol. 14 vol.-This is a reputable collection of 300 Greek and Latin authors; a great number of which are wanting in the Bibliotheca Magna of Lyons and Paris. 131.

Maxima veterum Patrum, a Philippo Despont, Lugduni, 1677 et seqq. 27 vol. fol.-To render this great work complete, the following should be added: Index Bibliotheca Maximæ, a Simeone à sancta cruce. Genuæ, 1707, fol.—and, Apparatus ad Bibliothecam Maximam, a Nicolao de Nourry. Paris. 1703, 1715, 2 vol. fol. To which some add, Sanctorum Patrum primitivæ Ecclesiæ, &c. Lugd. 1680, fol.-A scarce work.