ARTICLE XLVIII.

VITÆ felectæ quorundam eruditiffimorum ac illuftrium Virorum, ut & HELENA CORNARE & CASSANDRA FIDELIS, à clariffimis Viris fcriptæ & antehac feparatim editæ, denuo ob fummam raritatem & præftantiam recufæ, ac in unum volumen redactæ. Vratislaviæ, fumptibus Chriftiani Bauchii. MDCCXI.

That is,

THE LIVES of feveral Illuftrious and Learned Men, and likewife of H ELENA CORNARO and CASSANDRA FEDELE, Reprinted, by reafon of their great Scarcity, and now Collected into One Volume. Breflaw, 1711. in Octavo.. Pagg. 728.

THE

HE Lives, contained in this Volume, were grown very fcarce, and deferved to be Reprinted. They were compofed by learned Men, and most of them are written in a very elegant Style. This Collection contains the Lives of Helena Cornaro and Caffandra Fedele, Two Venetian Ladies, no lefs celebrated for their Learning than for many other eminent Qualities. The other Lives are thofe of Jerome Fracaftor of Verona, famous for his excellent Poem entitled Syphilis, five Morbus Gallicus, not to mention his other Works; Pibrac; Nicolas Faber; Andrew

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Maurocenus; James, John, Andrew, and Hugh Guijon, four Brothers; John Rutgerfius; Peter Cafanova; James Palmerius; Olaus Borrichius; John Vincent Pinellus; Sir Robert Cotton; Octavius Pantagathus; Fulvius Urfinus; and John Philip Pfeiffer. The Author of this Collection has thought fit to infert among thofe Lives that of John Oporinus, a famous Printer, with a large Catalogue of the Books printed by him. A Second Volume of the Lives of learned Men, that are grown very scarce, will be published hereafter by the fame Author.

M.

ARTICLE XLIX.

LET DE N.

Duker has lately published a New Edition of several Pieces concerning the Latin Style of the ancient Civilians, to which he has added several Observations of his own.

Opufcula varia de Latinitate Furifconfultorum Veterum. Functim edidit, & Animadverfiones addidit Carolus Andreas Dukerus. Lugduni Batavorum, 1711. in a fmall 8v0.

That Collection contains, 1. The 29 laft Chapters of the VIth Book of Laurentius Valla, de Elegantiis Lingue Latina. 2. The Apology of Andreas Alciatus against Valla. 3. The Defense of Valla against Alciatus by Francifcus Floridus Sabinus. 4. Veterum Jurifconfultorum adverfus Laurentii Valle Reprehenfiones Defenfio, J. C. P. J.C.A. 5. De verbis non fatis probate Latinitatis, aut non ex recepta fignificatione, vel contra Grammaticorum regulas, à Furifconfultis ufurpatis. 6. De Repetitis ifdem verbis in Digeftis. 7. De Etymologiis Juris Civilis. The Four last Pieces are little known. They were printed at Paris in

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1583.

1583 a 8vo. and added to the 4th Edition of Nicolas Valla, De rebus Dubiis & Quæftionibus in Fure Controverfis, Publifhed at Paris in the fame Year. M. Duker thinks,. that a New Edition of thofe four Pieces will be very acceptable to the Publick. They were written by one and the fame Author.

BRUSSELS.

THE Hiftory of the Dutchy of Luxemburg, written by John Bertelius Abbot of Epternac, will be shortly Reprinted.

Hiftoria Luxemburgenfis, feu Commentarius de Ducum Luxemburg. ortu, &c. ufque ad Albertum Archiducem.

A NEW Edition of Molinet's Chronicles is actually in the Prefs. Malinet was Historiographer to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

MR.

PARIS.

R. Cot, a Letter-Founder and Printer, and Bookfeller of the Royal Academy of Infcriptions and Medals, will shortly fend to the Prefs a General Hiftory of Cafting Letters, and of Printing. The Work is divided into Three Parts.

In the first, the Author treats of the Origin and Progrefs of Writing. Having difcourfed of the Characters that were used in ancient Times, he gives several Tables, wherein the Symbolical and Alphabetical Characters of feveral Nations are explained. Afterwards, fpeaking of the most ancient Libraries, and of the Manufcripts whereof they confifted, he enquires into the Rules whereby one may judge of the Antiquity of Manufcripts. From thence he proceeds to treat of all the Materials made ufe of to write Books among the Greeks and the Romans, and of the Tranfcribers who have been fucceeded by Printers:

Cafting

Cafting of Letters and Printing make the Subject of the second Part. The Author fhews how and when those two Arts were invented, and defcribes the Letters, Matrices, &c. The different Characters that have been, and are actually used in Printing, are placed in a proper Order with their Hiftory. The Author explains by the by the different Methods of Engraving, and does not forget the Chinese way of Printing. Laftly, He makes feveral Remarks upon the Compofition of the Metal of CaftLetters, upon Mufical Notes, the Figures of Aftronòmers, the Signs used in Chymiftry and Phyfick, the Notes of Civilians, and the ancient Abbreviations.

The Third Part concerns only the Work of Printing, that is, the neceffary Preparations for the Ornament of Books; the Figure of different Impofitions; the Marks ufed by Authors to correct the Proofs; the manner of making Ink; the Description of the Press, Cafes, and many other Implements made ufe of in Printing. The Author gives an Account of the best Performances of Letter-Founders and Printers in each kind of Character. He takes notice of thofe, who diftinguished themselves by the Beauty or Correction of their Works, by their Skill in Philology, and their Enquiries into Antiquity. He fhews, how feveral Popes, Emperours and Kings, have encouraged Printing, and what Charges they have been at upon that account. He discourses of the Approbation of Books, the Marks of Bookfellers, Privileges, &c. He gives a General Lift of all the Towns where Books have been printed; and concludes with a Dictionary of the Terms peculiar to the Arts of Cafting Letters, and Printing, and thofe that depend upon them. This Work will be adorned with above a Hundred Copper-Plates.

ARTICLE L.

THESAURUS THEOLOGICUS, or, a

Compleat Syftem of Divinity: fummed up in brief Notes upon felect Places of the Old and New Teftament Wherein the Sacred Text is reduced under proper Heads, explained and illuftrated with the Opinions and Authorities of the Ancient Father's, Councils, &c. By WILLIAM BEVERIDGE, D, D. late Lord Bishop of S. Afaph. London: Printed by Geo. James, for Richard Smith, in ExeterExchange in the Strand, MDCCXI. in 8vo, Vol. III Pagg. 424. Vol. IV. Pagg. 400. befides the Indexes,

THESE two laft Volumes of the Theological Treafure

are like the two firft, of which I have given an account in the fecond Volume, Art. XI. The whole Work contains fo many Hints and Obfervations upon a great number of Texts, and fo many Divisions and Subdivifions, that a Divine may eafily make a good Sermon with fuch a Help. Three things, among others, are neceffary to make an excellent Preacher: A profound Study of the Holy Scripture; a great Skill in Morals; and a great Knowledge of Men. The Holy Scripture, well underfood, affords a thoufand admirable Thoughts: It is an inexhauftible Source of folid and useful Reflexions; and a Paffage out of the Sacred Writings, well chofen, and fitly applied, never fails to produce a