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Christopher Potter, Provost, gives in his lifetime a set of classical and theological books, and, dying, leaves instructions that a certain part of his own library shall be stored in the college archives, not to be readily come at by the younger sort, those authors namely who are commonly called Socinians. The tradition of THE LIBRARY AT QUEEN'S COLLEGE, Provost Potter's caution remains, it may be men OXFORD. No record of the foundation of this library appears to remain. The books for whose safe keeping the earliest statutes of the college provide (A.D. 1340) are the service-books of the chapel; and perhaps the item which Gutch quotes from the college accounts of A.D. 1362, Scribenti registrarium librorum," might refer only to these service-books. But in a document dated 1372 there are entered, after some pieces of chapel plate, unam bibliam, Crisostomum sup. Matth., Augustinum de Civitate dei, Sextum decretall. cum omnibus doctoribus, Doctorem subtilem, Polucronica Cestrienc.," and some sixteen other books. Already, then, the nucleus of a collection for the use of students and teachers had been formed, and a charge for book-chains, which is quoted by Gutch and Ingram from college accounts of an earlier date, would seem to imply the existence of a special book-room thus early. The benefaction list of the library, first drawn out in 1622, opens with the name of Simon de Bredon, Canon of Chichester, who in 1372 bequeathed certain books to various other Oxford colleges, and to the Queen's Hall "Librum Bartholomæi de naturis tioned, in the college to this day; at least books on demonology and witchcraft, Sir Walter Scott's among the number, are still locked up. The catalogue of 1663 shows a very respectable collection, including those MSS. which are, perhaps, our greatest treasures, but of fifteenthcentury printed books very few. The library of Antony Wood's day stood west of the old chapel, near the present Provost's house; Wood cannot, however, satisfy himself as to the date of its erection. From Loggan's print (1675) this room seems to have been of considerable size; but on the receipt of Bishop Barlow's bequest in 1691 the old building was found to be insufficient, and the present upper library was erected, by the aid of contributions from former members, beginning with the Bishop of Carlisle, and largely at the expense of Provost Hatton. Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, had previously been Provost of Queen's and Bodleian librarian; he ordered that the Bodleian should receive from his library any books of which it did not already possess copies, the remainder fell to the share of his college-a provision which increased our stores, and at the same time left us a cause for good natured disputes with the richer foundation. The college album benefactorum grows eloquent over the gift and the building erected to receive it :"Bibliotheca antiqua tot voluminum incapax ardens omnium excitavit desiderium ut nova ædificaretur; et quam felici auspicio jacta fuerint fundamenta, clarissima alia quæ ante annum 1720 surrexerunt moenia testantur et quæ mox futura sunt, ut spero, amplius testabuntur." I have found no clear traces of Archbishop Grindal's book-chains, and presume that these were not transferred to the new library. The older books show that they were formerly arranged, here as elsewhere, with the backs inwards, and had the names or press-mark written upon the edges. The bookcases were fitted with reading-desks, as at the Bodleian, and there were fixed oak seats in each recess. These were convenient in some ways, and helped to make the room seem a place for study rather than a store of materials, but they made the lower shelves hard of access, and were removed in 1871 to give room for new cases. In 1701 Sir Joseph Williamson, a former Fellow, who had been Secretary of State under Charles II. and a plenipotentiary at Ryswick, bequeathed his whole library, including an important collection of genealogical MSS. and various documents collected during his official career. Somewhat earlier John Michel, the creator of the new foundation, had presented a collection of Roman coins and of books upon numismatics. About 1683 some members of the college, in place of giving a dinner in the hall on being presented for the degree of B.A., gave a sum of money, usually 57., to be spent on books. The custom seems soon to have been made obligatory, and the library thenceforward derived a steady income from various degree-fees, which are entered in the accounts as "vice refectionis in aula," or "comitialis "" (a supper at the "Act" in July), or "quadragesimalis" (a supper on Shrove Tuesday). Besides these fees the library drew a few pounds yearly from land and house property, notably 6s. 8d. from an acre of land at Bletchingdon, near Oxford; provost Potter, when rector of the parish in 1603, had acquired this land and conveyed it to be held by succeeding rectors on payment of this rent charge, which should each second or third year buy a book into the library. The income continued to be drawn from such sources only, till the Commissioners' ordinance of 1859 authorized a yearly grant from the corporate revenues. By the help of these funds the collection of books was steadily increased, and it never ceased to receive further additions, by the gift of loyal members of the college, authors or others. Its greatest increase came in 1841, from the munificence of Dr. Mason, a former Fellow, who attached to his bequest of 30,000l. the condition that it must be spent within three years. From him the college further received a collection of Egyptian and other antiquities, and of philoso phical instruments. On this occasion the available space for storing books was doubled, by the conversion into a second library of the basement story beneath the original room, which had previously stood as an open cloister. The lower room has not the picturesque air of learning which bung about the heavy carved cases and desks of the great library, but it is a more convenient "book store" according to modern ideas. In 1871 the collection was rearranged upon a system modified from that of the British Museum, and an elaborate catalogue was prepared, for which purposes the college enjoyed the invaluable aid of the author of Memoirs of Libraries. To Mr. Edwards's bibliographical knowledge the notes that follow are largely indebted. Until about 1840 there was a separate library belonging to the Taberdars, or B.A. scholars of the college, which was enriched, like the other, by many gifts from members of the society which used it. The date of its foundation I have not ascertained; there is record of a gift made to it in 1726; it was refitted when "injuria temporis peritura" in 1785, and once again in 1820 when "clausa Tineisque esca "it was reopened "novis melioribusque auspiciis" by the Taberdars of the year. The books of it are now combined with the main collection. One of them was the copy of Caxton's Gower's Confessio Amantis, 1483, which was examined by Dibdin, and is one of five or six copies mentioned by him. During the last century the use of the library was apparently confined to Fellows, or at least M.A.s, of the college, and a fee was paid for the privilege of possessing a key. For many years now past undergraduates have been allowed to borrow books on making application to the librarian at fixed times. I have understood that this fact had some weight with the Commissioners of 1854 in inducing them to sanction the endowment of the library out of corporate revenue. Recently a reading-room has been formed for the use of undergraduates, in which are kept books of reference, and generally such books as are of use for the university examinations, but might probably not be bought by undergraduates for themselves. Further, a resolution passed some twelve years since empowered the librarian to lend books to any resident graduate of the university, and at different times a few holders of university office have been allowed to possess keys. Schemes for further extension of the usefulness of the library, by way of combination with other colleges, stand over for the present, notably the question of specialization. But I think I am right in saying that a scheme which should reduce college libraries to be circulating branches of the Bodleian, each confined to a special subject, would find no favour in this college. To have a particular department |