The 1634 inventory of the contents of Canterbury Cathedral Library
21 November 2008
revised
David J. Shaw
An inventory of the Cathedral's movable objects was made under the supervision of Canon Meric Casaubon on the occasion of Archbishop Laud's Visitation in 1634. The inventory of the Library (Catalogus librorum qui sunt in Bibliotheca Ecclesiae Cantuariensis) recorded 31 printed books and 27 manuscripts.
Transcribed by J.W. Legg, in: J. Wickham Legg and W.H. St. John Hope, Inventories of Christchurch Canterbury. (Westminster: Constable, 1902) 263-5.
The Cathedral Archives document reference is CCA-DCc-LA/1/2.
Catalogus librorum qui sunt in Bibliotheca Ecclesiæ Cantuariensis.
A Register of the Benefactors in parchment fol.
A great English Bible in great fol.
Augustini Opera Basil: vol. 7. fol.
Auerrois Commentar' vol. 12. 4to.
Chrysostomi Opera Etoniæ vol. 8. fol.
Ieronymi Opera paris. vol. 3. fol.
Menduci Comment. super Canoñ. general. fo
Titlemanni Elucidatio in psalmos paris. fol.
Functij Chronologia et commentar. Witeborg. fol.
Catalogus librorum in bibliotheca Bodleiana 4to.
Zanchij Opera vol. 3. fol.
Clichtouij Elucidatorium Eccles. ad officium ecclesie pertinens planius opponendo fol.
Antonij Sadeelis disputac[ion]es Theolog. 4°.
King historia autore Iacobo Sobio fol.
Platina de vitis Pontificum Editio verissima fol.
Alexandri Alensis Opera Coloniæ Agrip. 8. 1. 2. fol.
Hadriani Sarauiæ tractatus Theol. Londini. fol.
Mirabilis liber prophetian Reuelationesque de monstrans 4°.
Hen: Ainsworth com[m]ent. in Pentateuch. psalmos et Cant: Canti: London. fol.
Bibliotheca Patrum vol. 16. fol.
Concilia generalia vol. 5. fol.
Biblia greca Francofurt. fol.
Ariæ Montani Biblia interlineria Edit. Plantino fol.
Apendix theatri Ortelij Maiori fol.
Liranus in Biblia cum glossa ordinar. edit. paris. Vol. 5.
Ambrosii Opera Edit paris. Vol. 2.
Bernardi Opera Edit Basil. Vol. 1.
Camdeni Britania lat. optimæ editionis.
Gregorii opera vol. 1. Edit. Basil.
Mesue Arabis Opera Medica vol.
Aristotelis Ethica et Politica 4°. vol. 1.
Ariæ.Montani Biblia 8. vol. vocata Biblia hispañi.
Catalogus librorum Manuscriptor.
Solatium fidelis animæ. Item Biblia vulg: siue Hieron. uno vol.
Ægidius de Regimine principum.
Sententiæ de Taneto liber incipit Cupientes aliquid. et penuria et tenuitate mea etc.
Joh: Scoto super summam incipit Samaritanus ille pijssimus etc.
Eiusdem tomus 2dus incipit utrum Paradisus terrestris etc.
Eiusdem tomus 3 incipit utrum homini pro statu isto etc.
Stephani moralia in Iosuam &c.
Eiusdem moralia in Esaiam &c.
Eiusdem Mor. in minores proph.
Hugo de sancto Claro in 4 lib sententiarum incipit. Iuxta sanctorum traditionem &c.
Parv. decretal. cum comment. incipit licet lectura dimu. Host. &c.
Item. Alia parv. decretal. cum comment. incipit Gregorius Episcopus &c.
Othonis Opera.
Wallensis in Exodum &c.
Item [Remigii] interpret
Nominum Heb: uno vol.
Iuil de Northwick super Esaiam
Rich[ardus] de media villa in sum[m]as incipit in nova signa etc.
Questiones Iuris incipit Prima nota quod ubi aliquis &c. fol.
Liber decretal. de vita et honestate Monach. fol.
Rob. Grosthead. Correctiones totius Bibl. &c.
Liber Iuridicus de contradictorijs &c.
Ælphegi liber summarum.
Tabula speculi Historialis.
Liber liturgicus qui incipit sanctificamini &c.
Iohes Hispani casus decretales
Pars Oculi Sacerdotum.
[Endorsed in later hand.]
Inventory of the Goods of the Church in the hands of the Dean and Sacrist 1634