BONIFACII (VIII. Pont. max.) Liber Sextus Decretalium, cum Glossis, Moguntiæ, per Johannem Fust et Petrum Schoiffer de Gernsheym. A. D. 1465, fol. Edit. prin. liber rariss.-A copy, printed on vellum, sold at the duke de la Valliere's sale, in 1784, for 802 livres.

Sextus liber decretalium; per Schoiffer. Editio altera. Mogunt. 1473, fol. printed partly on vellum, and partly on paper. A very scarce book, Sold at Mr. Gaignat's sale, in 1769, for 80 livres.

Boniface, whose name was Benedict Cajetan, was created cardinal in 1281, and having persuaded Celestin to abdicate the popedom in 1294, he raised himself to the papal throne. He was a fierce, turbulent, and tyrannical prince. He assumed the government of the world, and said, in a bull which he published against Philip the Fair, king of France, that God had established him over kings and kingdoms. Philip, caused this bull to be burned at Paris, and Boniface avenged himself by the constitution, Unam Sanctam, in which he subjected the temporal to the spiritual power. He founded his pretensions on the following arguments: "When Christ was about. to suffer, he asked of his disciples two swords. Now these two swords are manifestly the two powers by which the world is governed, the sacerdotal and imperial. These two swords are still in the hands of the apostles, for Christ said to Peter, Put thy sword into its sheath: i. e. It belongs to thee.-God in the beginning created two great lights: the greater, lu- . minary, the sun, means the priesthood, which, like

the sun, shines with its own light; the lesser luminary, the moon, means the imperial power, which shines only by a borrowed light from the sacerdotal power, as the moon shines by a light borrowed from the sun." These arguments were thought by most of the doctors, and several of the princes, to be conclusive! After a troublesome reign of nine years, this fierce pontiff died of a broken heart at Rome, A. D. 1303.

BONIFACII (Balthas.) Conjecturæ in Martialem, et Polynesi Origines. Venet. ex Typograph. Ducali Pinelliana, 1635, 4to.-Even in Italy this work has always been considered as extremely scarce.

BONIFACII de Vitalenis Opus de Maleficiis. Mediol. 1503, fol.

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S. BONIFACII Opera, a Nicolao Serrario, 4to. Mogunt. 1605.

This Boniface, stiled the Apostle of Germany, was an Englishman, born about A. D. 680.-Gregory II. sent him, in 719, to preach the Gospel in ~ the North. He travelled through Thuringia, Hesse, Friseland, and Saxony, and converted multitudes of idolaters. He was then brought to Rome, and consecrated bishop, and sent back again into Germany. At this time almost all Bavaria received the Gospel under his preaching. Gregory III. sent him the pallium and title of Archbishop, with authority to erect bishoprics in the newly-converted countries. He was at last murdered by the Pagans, A. D. 754. His works, which consist of Letters and Sermons,

have nothing but the zeal and piety of the author to

recommend them,

BONEFONII (Johannis) Basia, tam Latino, quam Gallico idiomate edita. Lugd. Bat. 1659, 12mo.

Pancharis. Parisiis, 1588, 12mo.

BONGARSII, Gesta Dei per Francos, sive orientalium expeditionum et regni Francorum Hierosolymitani Scriptores varii, coætani in unum editi. Hanoviæ, 1611, 2 vol. fol. 41. 4s.-This is a very curious work. It belongs properly to the Scriptores Byzantine, which see..

Templum Vaticanum et ipsius Origo, cum edificiis maximæ conspicuis, &c. editum à Carolo Fontana, Latinis literis consignatum a Joan. Jos. BONNERUE de St. Romain. Romæ, 1694, fol.

Apodeixis Antichristianismi quâ Christianismum veram Religionem, Pharisaismum Christianismo contrarium, Papismum Pharisaismo similimum esse ostenditur; auctore P. BOQUINO Biturgia Evangelii Ministro (Genevæ) 1583.

BORBONII (Nicolai) Vandoperani Singonensis, Nugarum libri octo. Basil. 1540, 8vo.

BORELLI (Joan. Alfonsi) de Motu Animalium Tractatus. Romæ, 1680, 2 vol. 4to. Edit. opt.

de vi percussionis. Lugd. Bat. 1786, 4to. Borelli was born at Naples in 1608, and was professor of philosophy and the mathematics at Florence and at Pisa. He died at Rome in 1679, aged 71 years. The two treatises above mentioned contain new and curious observations. He was the first who endeavoured to reduce the theorems of phy

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siology to mathematical demonstration. It is to him we owe the 5th, 6th, and 7th books of the Conic Sectons of Apollonius Pergaus, which he discovered in the Medicean library, in 1658, in Arabic; and which, with the assistance of Abraham Ecchelensis, he translated, and illustrated with comments. This version was printed at Florence, with the book of Archimedes De Assumptis, 1661, fol.

BORELLI (Petri,) Castrensis, Medici Doctoris Bibliotheca Chymica, seu Catalogus Librorum Philosophicorum Hermeticorum; in quo quatuor millia circiter, Authorum Chymicorum vel de transmutatione Metallorum re minerali, et arcanis, tam Manuscriptorum quam in lucem editorum cum eorum editionibus usque annum 1653 continentur: cum ejusdem Bibliotheca Appendice, et corollario. Paris. 1654, 12mo. with 12 plates. It was reprinted at Heidelberg, 1656, 12mo. with 11 plates. It is classed among the very scarcest books. What a pity! 'as the very title of it shews how absolutely necessary it is to all those who are endeavouring to transmute the baser metals into gold!

Collectanea Antiquitatum Romanarum, quas centum tabulis æneis incisas, et à Rodulphino Venuti notis illustratas exhibet Antonius BORIONI. Romæ, 1736, fol.

BORRANE (Petri) Corona pretiosa, Venet. quondam impressa, ubi e regione ponuntur vocabula Latina, Italica, Græca vetera, et Græca quorum hodie usus est. Lib. rar.

BORROMAI (Frederici) Meditamenta Literaria, Liber perrarus, Confer. Act. Erudit. 1728, p. 126.

Bos (Lamberti) Ellipses Græcæ, cum notis variorum; ex recensione Nic. Sshwebellii. Norimb. 1763, 8vo. Cura Michaelis. Halae, 1765, 8vo.-A useful work.

Vetus Testamentum, Græcè ex LXX. Interpretum, secundum examplar Vaticanum, cum tabulis geographicis. Franequera, 1709, 2 vol. 4to. Observationes in Nov. Test. Franeq. 1713, 8vo.-in quosdam auctores Græcos, 1715, 8vo. Lambert Bos was Greek professor in the university of Franecker. He was born in 1670, and died in 1717. He was a profound scholar, and his writings are all deservedly esteemed.

BOSCHE (Pet. Paul.) Hemidecas de origine et satu Bibliothecæ Ambrosianæ, Mediolani, 1672, 4to. Lib. rariss.

BOSCHII (Petri) Tractatus historico-chronologicus de Patriarchis Antiochenis. Venet. 1748, fol.This author classes with the Byzantine writers.

Bosco (Johannis a) e Coelestinorum ordine Parisiensis, Floriacensis vetus Bibliotheca, Benedictina sancta, Apostolica, Pontificia, Cæsarea Regia, Franco-Gallica sive corpuscula varia de origine, et statu ordinis sancti Benedicti. Lugd. 1605. 8vo. Lib. admodum rarus.

BOSQUET, (Fran.) Narbonensis Prætoris Ecclesia Gallicanæ Historiarum, libri IV. Accessit secunda pars, in qua acta et vetera monumenta producuntur. Editio princeps. Par. 1633, 8vo.-A second edition, much more complete, was published in 1636, 4to. but both are extremely scarce, as the work