
Ralph Cudworth
Library
Bibliotheca Cudworthiana, sive Catalogus variorum librorum plurimis facultatibus. Insignium Bibliothecæ instructissimæ Rev. Doct. Dr. Cudworth ... Quorum auctio habenda est Londini ... secundo die Februarii, 1690/1. Per Edvardum Millingtonum. [London,]: Mr. Mortlock, etc., 1690/1. 46 p., in 4º.
View PDFBibliotheca Cudworthiana, sive Catalogus variorum librorum plurimis facultatibus. Insignium Bibliothecæ instructissimæ Rev. Doct. Dr. Cudworth ... Quorum auctio habenda est Londini ... secundo die Februarii, 1690/1. Per Edvardum Millingtonum. [London,]: Mr. Mortlock, etc., 1690/1. 46 p., in 4º.
The catalogue of Cudworth’s library is divided into six categories: theological books (487, plus 67 ‘omissi’), miscellaneous books (historical, geographical, literary, poetical, dictionaries, etc, 664), mathematical, medical and philosophical books (392), ‘Divinity, History’ (206 volumes primarily concerning religious questions after the Reformation and English history), French, Belgian, Italian and Spanish books (72), treatises (39 descriptions, mostly miscellaneous volumes or collections of works and brochures, prevalently in Latin and about religion, but also about history, medicine, etc); the categories are further subdivided according to format.
On the back of the title page, in the notice to the reader, the trustee indicates that the section of rabbinical texts is not present in the catalogue, having been bequeathed elsewhere in Cudworth’s will (G. Musca, «Omne genus animalium», cited in the bibliography, notes that there is no indication of a similar bequest in Cudworth’s will). Cudworth’s works in manuscript form were instead left to his son John and then passed on to his daughter Damaris and are now at the British Museum.
The copy used has an addition and a modification on the back of the title page (presumably a proofreading correction) and, alongside each volume the final sales price and name of purchaser is indicated, or there is written ‘not sold’ or ‘not found’.
Location:
British Library, London
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
John Rylands University Library of Manchester