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Bodleian Library Catalogue. The title page is missing but this copy is probably of the 3rd edition (1674) of
Catalogus Impressorum Librorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana,
It was sufficiently comprehensive (to 1673)to
be used as the catalogue of other libraries. the user added in manuscript his own library’s press and shelf
numbers against theprinted entries and entered additional titles in theblank pages facing each printedpage.
7.4
Johann Lomeir, Pastor of Zutphen.
De Bibliothecis.
2
nd edition, revised. 1680. Utrecht. A survey of
libraries and library practice, much of it concerning the Ancient World, but Chapter XIII is about the
functions of Librarians, Chapter XIV deals with the arrangement of books in classes, the siting, design and
ornamentation of library buildings, and Chapter XV deals briefly with “the enemies oflibraries”.
7.5
Antonius Teisserius.
Catalogus Auctorum.
1686.
Geneva. A Librarian's manual of authors, libraries,
classifications, printers and publishing ...uses, arranged as a series of indexes. Prindpaliy European.
7.6
Jean Corn and dela Croze.
TheWorks of the Learned or An Historical Account and Impartial Judgement of
Books Newly Printed, Both Foreign and Domestick, to be published monthly.
Each issue contained both a
synopsis and a critical review ofthe publications ofthe preceding month. Only two issues havesurvived in
the Library: (a)of August 1691; (b)ofJanuary 1693.
7.7
Louis Ellies Dupin:
(
a)
Bibliotheca Patrum or A NewHistoryof Ecclesiastical Writers,
1692;
(
b)
Nova Bibliotheca Auctorum Ecclesiasticorum.
1692.
Paris. A late edition of the first volume of many
published by Dupin from 1686 to beyond 1704.
7.8
William Nicholson,.Archdeacon of Carlisle.
The English Historical Library.
1697.
8.1
Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
A Collection of Papers.
1715.
Thomas Plume D.D. is
included in the “Exact List ofall theMembers that are, orhave been, ofthe Society”, pp. 71-78; his legacyof
£100 is reported in:
8.2
An Account of the Foundation, Proceedings and Success of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts.
1715,
p. 86.
9.
E. S. DeBeer (ed.).
TheDiary of John Evelyn.
1955.
Oxford University Press. Other editions (such as that in
the Everyman Library) may be more accessible than this standard text, so the following entries are given
under their dates alone.
9.1
April 3rd 1659: “1 went to Greenwich to receive theBlessed Communion with my wife and family . . . where
Mr Plumepreached".
9.2
September 10th 1665 (i.e. towards the end of the great Plague in London): “Mr Plume at Greenwich on
Collossians, chapterIII verses 5 and 6, showing how our sins had drawn down God’s Judgements”.
9.3
September 16th 1666 Just after the Great Fire of London): “1 went to Greenwich church, where Mr Plume
preached very well on II Peter, chapter III verses 11 and 12 . . . taking occasion from the late unparalleled
Conflagration to mindus howwe ought to walk more holily in all manner ofconversation”.
9.4
April 1st 1687: Evelyn witnessed the use of St Alphege, Greenwich by French refugees (Huguenots), “the
congregation consisting of about 100 French Protestant refugees from the Persecution” (by Louis XIV) “of
which Monsieurde Rouvigny (present) was the chief and had obtained the use of the church after the parish
had ended their own service”.
9.5
February 13th 1684 and July 15th 1685: references to thefoundation of Thomas Tenison’s Library. It was in
Leicester Square and was sold off in the mid-19th century, the associated Grammar School being moved to
new premises at the same time.
10.
Robert Latham andWilliam Matthews (eds.).
The Diaryof Samuel Pepys:a new and completetranscription.
Eleven volumes, 1970-1983. Volume X, 1983,
Companion,
is of historical notes and specialist entries of
which many are relevant to