Mr. Hailstone's bequest was practically a gift to the whole county of York, and additions from all parts of Yorkshire are frequently made to it. Since it reached its destination at least a thousand volumes have been added to it, either by gift or purchase, and it is earnestly hoped that in coming years the authorities at the Minster will assiduously care for it. The case in which the books are placed in the library was made for the Dean and Chapter by Messrs. Robson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, at the cost of £400, Mr. R. J. Johnson, of York, contributing the design. The case is worthy of its contents, and is abundantly supplied with drawers and cupboards for the reception of documents and papers. At one end of it a portrait of Mr. Hailstone has been hung to commemorate his beneficence. The time, perhaps, has not yet come when a catalogue of this grand collection should be printed. It is a mine of literary wealth, and an abiding evidence of an act of noble generosity. In 1893, John Sykes, M.D., of Doncaster, presented a number of ancient charters, and a quantity of letters from Joseph Hunter, F.S.A., the antiquary, to himself and Mr. T. N. Ince, of Wakefield. Dr. Sykes has on other occasions shown his good will to the library by giving to it rare or choice books. It has been already said that, since the year 1870 a great effort has been made to improve the library, and make it more worthy of its history and traditions. The present catalogue will show much that has been done, and many serious deficiencies. During the last twenty-five years the Dean and Chapter must have spent more than £3,000 over their library to bring it nearer to the standard of modern requirements, and at the same time to increase the stores of the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, in which it is so rich. Many thousands of volumes have been acquired, but they have been far exceeded in number by the many and precious gifts which have been made to the library. Others have been promised, and more still, I doubt not, will be bestowed in coming years, as there is a peculiar charm in a quiet cathedral precinct, and the promise of security and careful preservation. In the grime and bustle of a great city, books are exposed to many dangers, and handled by many careless readers. Here the shadow of the great minster, which almost falls on the library, seems to ensure something of its own endurance. Esto perpetua! In this age of selfishness and money-getting, when so very many think only of the aggrandisement of themselves and their families, and not of the public good, the spread of education and learning and the love of good letters, are too often neglected or forgotten. The Dean and Chapter of York, the lineal descendant of that brotherhood of which Alcuin was a member, plead in their behalf once more with the men and women of to-day. And it is no small comfort to the writer to have been able in some small way to help the advancement of a library which he trusts will be a boon and a blessing to future generations, and assure them of the good will and assistance of the brotherhood of York Minster of which he is happy to be a member. J. R. York, March, 1896. POSTSCRIPT. Ir is a very painful pleasure to add a postscript to this preface, the last piece of work undertaken and completed by a very dear friend. But it is an imperative duty, and this is the fitting place for it, that Chancellor Raine's careful account of the origin and growth of the Library of the Dean and Chapter should be supplemented by a word of appreciation of his own services; services not only to the Library, but to the whole field of Yorkshire men and historical students. Of late years a good deal of his time was spent in the Library; he devoted to the care and arrangement of it, his great bibliographical knowledge, and made it the centre of his enthusiastic and most industrious labours. It is impossible to read the foregoing pages without seeing that it was very largely to his personality, to the interest which his zeal inspired, to the trust that was reposed in his faithfulness and in his judgment, that the great benefactions, which late years have seen made to the Library, are due. Men who loved their books had a pleasure in leaving or giving them, where under his care they might hope for them to be treasured and preserved. And this is a typical illustration of a character and work known and valued far beyond the walls of the Library. Dr. Raine was a man of great and varied accomplishments: he inherited and developed literary tastes and powers of a very effective sort. He had read widely and critically; he had a most comprehensive and ready memory; a perfect genius for seeing at once the valuable points in manuscripts, books, coins, treasures of every kind, and a critical power seldom at fault in the detection of what was pretentious or unworthy. His thorough single heartedness and sincerity attracted the confidence of all who came into association with him; no man, I think, was ever trusted with a greater store of precious documents or curious relics. So he was a real authority on everything connected with the Life and History of the North of England. And, as he was so far fortunate as to be placed in a position of such influence, he was unwearied in his efforts to use it for the best purposes, and unbounded in his generous help to others working in the same fields. The Philosophical Society owes him a like debt in the order and expansion of its Museum. The Records of the Cathedral and Metropolitical See, under his exploring hand, became known and were made useful in a far greater degree than they had ever been before. Forty years of careful attention to the work of the Surtees Society have their outward and visible proof of efficacy in the seventy volumes and more issued under his supervision, in a series which may claim the character of a National enterprise. His connexion as Canon and Chancellor with the proper Church life of the Minster enabled him to make himself the authority on Statutes, Canons, Convocation, and local as well as provincial Ecclesiastical work. His own collections, and his ready knowledge of the things worth collecting, were most unselfishly put at the disposal of all who knew how to profit by them. In all this he was a worthy successor of Alcuin, of whom he spoke and wrote with so much fervour. I am glad to be able to add that, as a part of the memorial which has been planned for the commemoration of his devoted work, a large portion of his own collection of books will be added to the Cathedral library. There were other points not to be forgotten by those who knew him well in these also his memory will be sweet and lasting. Those who have known him as a personal friend, and as a Pastor, may well be thankful for the blessing. W. OXON. It seemed right that the sole sentence in the manuscript of this Preface in which the Author dwelt for a moment upon the toil and time which he had spent upon this Catalogue, should be rescued from the penstrokes with which he had cancelled it. It is given below. A. R. E. "The present Catalogue, it need scarcely be said, represents the labour of many years, to say nothing of the search after so many books recorded in it." Explanations of the Letters appended to the descriptions of the Books. An account of the Donors is given in the Preface. L. before the date of a book is an abbreviation of London. CATALOGUE OF YORK MINSTER LIBRARY. A. C. see Dominis (M. A. de) A.C.Q.D. Ratio ineundæ Concordiæ inter Ecclesias Reformatas, 4to, s. l. 1579 A.M. see Baxter (Richard) A.R. A Letter to a Friend . . . to prove that valid Ordination ought not to be repeated, B. 4to. L., Printed for J. S., 1661 A.V.D.M. (Petr.) Dissertatio de Trisagii Origine, D. 8vo. Rothomagi, 1674 A.W. Of the State of the Church in future ages, 8vo. L., 1684 Abælard and Heloisa: Opera, 4to. Parisiis, sumpt. Nic. Byon, 1616 Abarbanel (Isaac) Exordium, seu prooemium Commentt. in Leviticum; ed. de Veil, D. 4to. L., 1683 Abbadie (Jacques) Traité de la Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne, 2 vols., 8vo. Rotterdam, 1684 Abbey (C. J.) The English Church and its Bishops, 1700-1800. 2 vols., 8vo. -& Overton (J. H.) The English Church in the Eighteenth Century, 2 vols., 8vo. L. 1887 L., 1878 Abbot (Geo., Archbishop of Canterbury) Quæstiones Sex, 4to. Oxon., Jos. Barnes, 1598 -An Exposition upon the Prophet Jonah, 4to. L., Richd. Field, 1600 Oxford, Jos. Barnes, 1604 -Id. 4to. R. 4to. A Briefe Description of the whole World, 12mo. Life of, 8vo. L., Pr. by T. H., 1635 (George, nephew of Archbishop) The whole Book of Job Paraphrased, 4to. Vindicia Sabbathi, 4to. -(John) Jesus Præfigured, 4to. L., Edw. Griffin, 1640 s. l. 1623 (Robert, Bishop, brother of Archbishop) A Mirrour of Popish Subtilties, 4to. L., Thomas Creede, 1594 Antichristi Demonstratio, "Tobias Eboracen. ex auctoris dono.' 4to. B L., R. Barker, 1603 Abbot (Robert, Bishop, brother of Archbishop) A Defence of the Reformed Catholicke of M. W. Perkins. In three parts, M. 3 vols., 4to. L., imp. Geo. Bishop, 1606-11 -A Wedding Sermon pr. at Bentley in Derbyshire (on the marr. of Sir John Stanhope and Mrs. Olive Berrisford)—? if by him— L., Pr. by N. O., 1608 4to. -The Old Waye. A Sermon at Oxford. 4to. L., Eleazar Edgar, 1610 The True Ancient Roman Catholike, M. 4to. L., W. Stansby, 1611 -Antilogia adv. Apologiam Andr. Eudæmon-Johannis pro H. "Tobias Eboracen. ex dono authoris," 4to. Garneto. L., ex off. Tho. Adams, 1613 -De Gratia et Perseverantia Sanctorum, M. 4to. L. ex off. Norton. 1618 L., 1646 -Foure Sermons, 8vo. -A Triall of our Church-forsakers, or a Meditation tending to still the Passions of unquiet Brownists, 8vo. L., s.d. 1639 -Milk for Babes; or, A Mother's Catechism, 8vo. Abbotsford. Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott's Library, 4to. Edin., 1838 Abenzoar (Abhumeron) Liber Theizir, vel Rectificatio Medicationis et Regiminis, F.F. Fol. Venetiis, per M. Otin Papion, 1497 Aberdeen, Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis. Ed. for the Spalding Club, 2 vols., 4to. Edin., 1845 -Records of the University and King's College, Aberdeen. Ed. for ditto, R. 4to. Aberdeen, 1854 Abernethie, Abernethy, Abrenethee s. a. et l. -Daniel, Question d'Aubeine contre le Syndic des Pères Jesuites du Collège de Nismes, D. 4to. -(J., Bishop of Caithness) A Christian and Heavenly Treatise, containing Physicke for the Soule, 4to. L., Felix Kyngston, 1622 -(John) Discourses, B. 8vo. L., 1740 (Thomas) Abjuration by Thomas Abernethie, sometime Jesuite .. at Edinburgh, B. 4to. Edin., G. Anderson, 1638 -A Sermon preached by Master Andrew Ramsay at the receiving of Mr. Thomas Abernethie, sometime Jesuite. . . into the . . . Church of Scotland, B. 4to. Edin., G. Anderson, 1638 Abraham (Père) Declaration Chrestienne publiquement faicte en l'Église Reformée d'Uzez, 8vo. Abulpharagius (Gregorius) Historia . s. l. 1600 Dynastiarum, Arabicè et Latinè, ed. Edv. Pocockio. "J. Dolben. Donum reverendi authoris," D. 4to. Acosta (Jos.) De Natura Novi Orbis, F.F. 8vo. Oxon. 1663 Col. Agr., Birkmann, 1596 -The Natural and Moral Historie of the East and West Indies. Transl. by Edward] G[rimston], M. L., V. Sims, 1604 Actuarius (Jo.) Libri de Urinis, 8vo. Parisiis, Jo. Gangellus, 1548 Adams (H. C.) History of Winchester Coll. 8vo. -(J.) Funeral Sermon on Thos. Staynoe, F. 8vo. Oxford, 1878 |