[106] Petrus Borellus (Pierre Borel, ca. 1620-1689), Bibliotheca chimica (Paris, 1654).
[107] Labbé is probably referring to one or another of the preacher's guides by such men as Louis (or Jean) Bayl, Pierre Blanchot, Francois Combefis, and G. B. Pontanus, all of whom wrote before the publication of the Bibliotheca bibliothecarum in 1664. Their works were entitled Bibliotheca concionatoria.
[108] Labbé is referring to various early legal bibliographies by such men as Laurent Bochel, Henri Justel, and Guillaume Voel.
[109] Georg Draud (d. 1635), Bibliotheca classica (Frankfurt a.M., 1611, 2d ed., 1625). See a copy of the first edition of this classified universal bibliography with an index of authors' names in the Newberry Library and copies of both editions in my library. The date of Draud's death is disputed, but Richard Browne, who has investigated it, prefers 1635.
[110] Antonius Possevinus (Antonio Possevino, 1534-1611), Bibliotheca selecta, qua agitur de ratione studiorum in historia, in disciplinis, in salute omnium procuranda (Rome, 1593). There are copies of this or a later edition in the Newberry Library and my own library.
[111] Conrad Gesner (1516-1565), Bibliotheca universalis (Zurich, 1545-1555). The identification of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books that are cited by title only is often very difficult. I do not feel sure that I have always hit upon the book that Labbé was thinking of.
[112] See ed. 1704, pp. 294-298. Die neu-eröffnete Bibliothec has a title of a sort that was popular at this time. The earliest parallel that I have noted is J. U. M., Neu-eröffnete Schaz-Kammer verschiedener Natur- und Kunst-Wunder (Nuremberg, 1689). See also P. I. M. [Paul Jacob Marperger], Die neu-eröffnete Kauffmanns-Börse (Hamburg, 1704) and I. M. P. a W., Die neu-eröffnete Berg-Werck (Hamburg, 1704). The latest example that I have found is the anonymous Neu-eröffnete Vorraths-Kammer allerhand rarer und nützlicher Kunst-Stücke (Frankfurt a.M., 1760). Die neu-eröffnete Bibliothec is obviously a piracy containing an unnamed professor's lectures on the history of scholarship.
[113] For a description of this book see Jakob Burckhard, Historia Bibliothecae Augustae (Leipzig, [1744]), I, 148-150. For an ascription to Samuel Clodius see Otto von Heinemann, Die herzogliche Bibliothek zu Wolfenbüttel (2d ed.; Wolfenbüttel, 1894), p. 72, n. 2 and Adelung's supplement to C. G. Jöcher, Gelehrtenlexikon, II (Leipzig, 1787), 376-377. I am indebted to Dr. Arnold Weinberger and Professor Heinrich Schneider for these references. The date 1650 is probably wrong. The foregoing authorities give the date 1660. The Catalogi Bibliothecae Thottianae, VI (Copenhagen, 1798), 386, No. 972, cites a copy with the date 1659. The Sciagraphia is strangely lacking in the first book to which one turns: Hermann Conring, De Bibliotheca Augusta (Helmstadt, 1661; "editio nova," 1684), which is reprinted in J. A. Schmid and J. J. Mader, De bibliothecis atque archivis (Helmstadt, 1702-1705). In this famous letter Conring discusses a proposal to make a catalogue of the books at Wolfenbüttel and reaches the conclusion that it cannot be executed. His neglect of his predecessor is curious.
[114] For a reference to this book see Petzholdt, p. 584 (he did not see the book). The author's name is Fuiren. There is a copy in the Royal Library at Copenhagen.
[115] This is Michael Kirsteinius (Michael Kirsten), Memoria bibliothecae Hamburgensis (Hamburg, [1651]). There are folio and quarto editions. For references to it see J. F. Jugler (ed.), B. G. Struve, Bibliotheca historiae litterariae selecta (Jena, 1754-1763), pp. 483-484 and the British Museum catalogue.