CAPUT VI.

CHRONOLOGIA.

"CHRONOLOGIA: Hoc est, Omnium Temporum et Annorum ab initio Mundi usque ad annum a nato Christo M.D.LII. in prima editione ab autore deducta: post ab eodem recognita, aucta, et in annum 1566. indeque tandem ab aliis in hunc usque annum præsentem 1578. producta Computatio.

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In qua methodice enumerantur omnium populorum regnorumque memorabilium origines ac successiones. Item omnes eorum Reges, quando quisque cœperit, quamdiu regnarit, quid dignum memoria gesserit, quis status populi Dei fuerit: ac quemadmodum translata sint Imperia, a populo in populum, etc. si qui viri illustres, quæ facinora egregia, ac si quid amplius memoratu dignum existit, ea omnia breviter suis locis referuntur. Suntque in hac computatione omnia tempora, tum ex sacris Bibliis, tum ex optimis quibusque autoribus, Historicis, et Astronomorum observationibus, summa fide ac diligentia conciliata. Item Commentariorum libri decem, in quibus quid tradatur, proprio titulo indicatur. Autore JOHANNE FUNCCIO Norimburgense. Accessit etiam rerum ac verborum memorabilium Index copiosissimus." Witeberga, 1588. (Fol. 2 tomi in uno.)

De auctore videas Vossium de Scientiis Math. p. 231. "Vitam suam magnam ipse partem enarrat epistola ad Albertum Marchionem Brandeburgium; quam Chronologiæ suæ præmisit. Tristem vero exitum vitæ habuit, scil. capite truncatus an. æt. 48."

"CHRISTOPHORI HELVICI, V. C. Theatrum Historicum et Chronologicum, æqualibus denariorum, quinquagenariorum et centenariorum intervallis ;

Cum assignatione Imperiorum, Regnorum, Dynastiarum, Regum, aliorumque virorum celebrium, Prophetarum, Theologorum, Jureconsultorum, Medicorum, Philosophorum, Oratorum, Historicorum, Poetarum, Hæreticorum, Rabbinorum, Conciliorum, Synodorum, Academiarum, etc. itemque usitatarum Epo

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charum, ita digestum, ut universæ Temporum et Historiarum series a primo mundi exordio ad annum M. DC. L. quasi in speculo videri possit. Nunc continuatum et revisum a Joan. Balthasar Schuppio, Eloquentiæ et Historiarum Professore in Academia Marpurgensi. Opus ad omnium Facultatum studia accommodatum. Editio Quinta. Accessit etiam tractatulus ad Periodum Julianam spectans Chronologiæ summe utilis." Oxoniæ, 1651. Fol.

Est in fine "Index Personarum et Rerum memorabilium.” Registrum vetus Bibliothecæ memorat hunc librum fuisse datum a W. Clagett, an. 1674, cujus in eo comparet nomen. Versio hujus operis Anglicana fuit edita Londini, 1687, fol. Cæteri de Chronologia auctores, videantur sub Historia Sacra.

CAPUT VII.

GEOGRAPHIA ET TOPOGRAPHIA.

"Theatrum Terræ Sanctæ, et Biblicarum Historiarum cum tabulis geographicis ære expressis. Auctore CHRISTIANO ADRICHOMIO, Delpho." Fol.

Epistola præmissa fuit scripta an. 1589. Icones desiderantur nostro exemplari, quod nimium est madore corruptum, Accedunt p. 182. "Miscellanea variorum locorum," et p. 189 "Chronicon duplex," eodem auctore.

I. "Delle Antiche Siracuse volumine primo che contiene i due libri della Siracusa illustrata da D. GIACOMO BoNANNI e Colonna, Duca di Montalbano.

Nel primo de' quali si discorre de' luoghi della Città, e nel secondo degli vomini celebri di essa. In Palermo, MDCCXVII."

II. "Delle Antiche Siracuse volumine secundo, che contiene gli scrittori anteriori Al Bonanni, cive. Le Dichiarazioni della Pianta dell' Antiche Siracuse, e d'alcune scelte Medaglie di esse, e de' Principi, che quelle possedettero, descritte da D. Vincentio Mirabella e Álagogna Cavalier Siracusano.

Il Capitolo XII. del primo libro della Sicilia di Filippo Cluverio. Quel che ne serisse C. Mario Arezzo Patrizio della Citta di Sira

cusa. Il Capitolo primo del quarto libro della prima Deca di F. Tomaso Fazello. Le Tavole di Giorgio Gualtero. Con l'aggiunta de altre Medaglie ritrovate." Pal. 1717. (Fol. 2 vol. in uno.)

Quicquid in istis duobus voll. (simul compactis) habetur, Latine expressum reperire poteris, in tomo XI. Thesauri Græviani Antiq. et rerum Siciliæ. (1725 Fol.) Obiit nobilis auctor an. 1636. Petrus Burmannus in præf. ad illum tomum Thes. Græv. plurimum commendat Bonannum, eruditum fuisse et diligentein scribens. Cæterum hanc editionem curavit Franc. Bonannus. Præter quæ retulit Sig. Havercampus in eodem Thes. lubeat scire quod post plurima de nummis Syracusanis, Vitæ traduntur Auctorum Syracusanorum; scilicet, Archimedis, p. 146, Theocriti 154, Epicharmi 158, Ctesia 162.

"E dono Nath. Hillis Archicheirourgi Regii Naval. de Woolwich, hujus Scholæ alumnis : una cum tabula chirographa locupletissima Syracusarum." Nota præmissa. Tabula non extat hodie, nisi quæ volumini infixa priori sit, intelligatur: quod dubium.

DIONYSII Periegesis videatur inter Poetas.

"The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, from its Foundation. Extracted out of Original Charters, Records, Leiger Books, and other Manuscripts.

Beautified with sundry Prospects of the Old Fabrick, which was destroyed by the Fire of that City, 1666. As also with the Figures of the Tombs and Monuments therein, which were all defac'd in the late Rebellion. Whereunto is added, a Continuation thereof, setting forth what was done in the Structure of the New Church, to the year 1685. Likewise, an Historical Account of the Northern Cathedrals, and Chief Collegiate Churches in the Province of York. By Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE, Knt. Garter Principal King at Armes. The second edition corrected and enlarged by the Author's own hand. To which is prefixed his Life, written by himself. Published by Edward Maynard, D.D. Rector of Boddington in Northamptonshire." London. 1716. Fol.

A fine portrait of the author by Hollar is prefixed to this edition. The work has been greatly enlarged by Henry Ellis, Esq. now Chief Librarian of the British Museum, in the edition published by him in 1815.

"DUGDALE'S Monasticon Anglicanum, translated into English with considerable Additions."

The work to which this is the half-title on the engraved frontispiece, is described under the head Ecclesiastical History.

"A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament acted thereon. By THOMAS FULLER, B.D." London, John Williams. 1650. Fol.

Each of the five books is separately dedicated. The maps and plates are numerous. Between the first dedication and the map of Canaan, is a very curious plate, exhibiting 33 shields of arms of the Macenates, under whose patronage the author published his work. This work is an enlargement of the latter part of the first book of the same author's "Historie of the Holy Warre" (or the Crusades): the 18th chapter is entitled "A Pisgah-sight, or short survey of Palestine in generall; and how it might maintein 1300000 men." (2 edit. 1640, fol. p. 28.)

"PAUSANIÆ Accurata Græciæ Descriptio, qua Lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur: a Guilielmo Xylandro diligenter recognita, et ab innumeris mendis repurgata.

Accesserunt Annotationes, quæ a G. Xylandro paulo ante obitum inchoatæ, nunc vero a Frid. Sylb.[urgio] continuatæ, magnaque accessione locupletatæ, non exiguum ad genuinam Pausaniæ lectionem momentum afferunt. Addita etiam doctissima Romuli Amasæi versio, a plurimis et ipsa mendis vindicata, brevibusque notatiunculis illustrata. Appendice quoque aucta est hæc Pausaniæ eginynois, et aliis, que undecima ab hinc pagina prolixius recensentur. Cum tribus rerum et verborum Indicibus amplissimis." Francof. apud hær. Andr. Wecheti, 1583. Fol.

Amplissimum apparatum comprehendit volumen, in duas partes vel tomos divisum, quarum alter titulum præ se quoque fert. Bona editio, teste Fabricio, qui dicit (Bibl. Græc. 111. 471) tertiam editionem Sylburgianam a Kuhnio emissam Lipsiæ, esse optimam. Vixit Pausanias an. 174; vide Saxii Onom. I. 321-2.

I. "PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES. In Five Bookes.

The First, containing the Voyages and Pereginations made by ancient Kings, Patriarchs, Apostles, Philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: Enquiries also of Languages and Religions, especially of the moderne diversified Professions of Christianitie.

The Second, a Description of all the Circum-Navigations of the Globe.

The Third, Navigations and Voyages of English-men, alongst the Coasts of Africa, to the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to the Red Sea, the Abassine, Arabian, Persian, Indian Shoares, Continents, and Islands.

The Fourth, English Voyages beyond the East Indies, to the Islands of Japan, China, Cauchin-china, the Philippinæ with others, and the Indian Navigations further prosecuted. Their just Commerce, nobly vindicated against Turkish Treacherie; victoriously defended against Portugall hostilitie; gloriously ad

vanced against Moorish and Ethnike perfidie; hopefully recovering from Dutch malignitie; justly maintayned against ignorant and malicious calumnies.

The Fifth, Navigations, Voyages, Trafiques. Discoveries, of the English Nation in the Easterne parts of the World: continuing the English-Indian occurrents, and containing the English affaires with the great Samorine, in the Persian and Arabian Gulfes, and in other places on the Continent, and Ilands of and beyond the East Indies: the Portugall attempts, and Dutch Disasters, divers Sea-fights with both; and many other remarkable Relations." Lond. 1625. Fol. 4 vol.

The above is the full title of this exceedingly curious work, full of interesting geographical and historical information, both original and selected. Each of the four volumes or

parts," consists of five books, which form two decads. The second part is unfortunately wanting in our fine copy. It will be sufficient to abridge the other titles; of which the deficient one is taken from Cracherode's large copy in the British Museum.

II. The Sixth, Navigations and Land-discoveries, with other historical relations of Africa. 7. Inland regions of Africa. 8. Peregrinations in Palestina, Natolia, Syria, Arabia, Persia, and other parts of Asia. 9. Assyria, Armenia, and inland countries of Asia. 10. " Præteritorum, or Discoveries of the World, specially such as in the other books are omitted."

III. First, Peregrinations and discoveries in the remotest north and east parts of Asia, called Tartaria and China. 2. China, Tartaria, Russia. 3. Polar regions of Europe, Asia and America. 4. English navigations in Greenland, etc. 5. America, with "relations of their Pagan Antiquities," and the Islands.

In the last book is the celebrated Mexican Hieroglyphical History represented in wood-cuts, and explained throughout by Hakluit and Spelman; p. 1066-1117. The original book is preserved in the Bodleian Library.

IV. Sixth, English voyages and adventures on the coasts of America against the Spaniards. 7. South America, the like. 8. Voyages and travels in Florida, Virginia, and other parts of N. America; and in the Azores. 9. English Plantations and Occurrences from 1606 to 1624 in Virginia and the SummerIslands. 10. In New England and New-found-land; with the Patent for New Scotland: Relations of Q. Elizabeth's Fleets against the Spaniards.

There is a short account of this valuable work, by Sir Egerton Bridges, Censura Liter. IV. 404-410. The volumes are dedicated, (1) to Charles Prince of Wales, (2) to George Duke of Buckingham, (3) to John Bp. of Lincoln Lord Keeper, and (4) to George Abp. of Canterbury.