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Lettres (Spring 1983), and Charles Webster, _The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine, and Reform, 1626-1660_ (London: Duckworth, 1975).]
[Footnote 5: Quoted in Turnbull, 257.]
[Footnote 6: Athenae Oxonienses, vol. 2 (London, 1692), col. 400.]
[Footnote 7: The omitted works are An Idea of Mathematicks by John Pell (pp. 33-46) and The description of one of the chiefest Libraries which is in Germanie, attributed either to Julius Scheurl or J. Schwartzkopf (pp. [47]-65, in Latin). This seems to be the first printing of The description, which was published separately at Wolfenbuttel in 1653. John Pell's essay was written around 1630-34 and was prepared for publication in 1634 by Hartlib, but was only actually published as an addition to _The Reformed Librarie-Keeper_. It was of some importance in making mathematics better known at the time.]
[Footnote 8: "John Durie's _Reformed Librarie-Keeper_ and Its Author's Career as a Librarian," The Library, 1st ser. 4 (1892), 82.]
[Footnote 9: Ruth Shepard Granniss, "Biographical Sketch," _The Reformed Librarie-Keeper_ (Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1906), 31-32.]
[Footnote 10: See "John Durie's _Reformed Librarie-Keeper_," 83.]
[Footnote 11: Richard Garnett, "Librarianship in the Seventeenth Century," in his Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography (New York: F.P. Harper, 1899), 187.]

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The Reformed Librarie Keeper With a Supplement to the Reformed School (1650) is reproduced from the copy in the Folger Shakespeare Library (Shelf Mark D2882/Bd w/D2883). A typical type page (p. 7) measures 107 x 56 mm. Not reproduced here are two additional parts in the original volume: An Idea of Mathematicks by John Pell and The description of one of the chiefest Libraries which is in Germanie, attributed either to Julius Scheurl or J. Schwartzkopf.

THE REFORMED LIBRARIE-KEEPER
With a Supplement to the
Reformed-School,
As subordinate to Colleges in Universities.
BY JOHN DURIE.
Whereunto is added
I. An idea of Mathematicks.
II. The description of one of the chiefest Libraries which is in Germanie, erected and ordered by one of the most Learned Princes in Europe.
LONDON,
Printed by _William Du-Gard_, and are to bee sold by _Rob. Littleberrie_ at the sign of the Unicorn in Little Britain. 1650.

To the Reader.
_Learned Reader!_
_These Tracts are the fruits of som of my Sollicitations and Negotiations for the advancement of Learning. And I hope they may in time becom somwhat effectual to rais thy Spirit to the exspectation of greater things, which may bee raised upon such grounds as these. All which are but preparatives towards that perfection which wee may exspect by the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ, wherein the Communion of Saints, by the graces of the Spirit, will swallow up all these poor Rudiments of knowledg, which wee now grope after by so manie helps; and till then in those endeavors I rest in the Truth._
Thy faithfull and unwearied servant
SAMUEL HARTLIB.

A SUPPLEMENT TO THE Reformed School.
_Loving freind!_
You have offered to mee that which I confess I did not reflect upon, when I wrote the discours you have Published under the name of a _Reformed School_; which is, that som may think by the waie of Education, which I propose all Universities and eminent places of Learning might subtilly bee undermined and made useless, becaus therein a waie is shew'd how to initiate youths not onely to the Principles of all Religious and Rational knowledg, and in the Exercises of all Moral virtues, but in the grounds of all Civil emploiments, so far, as will make them fit for all profitable undertakings in humane societies, whence this will follow (in their apprehensions) that they shall have no advantage by beeing sent to anie Universities, to attein anie further perfection: becaus the Universities will not bee able to add anie thing unto them, which by their own Industrie, they may not afterward attein anie where els, as well as there. Truly it never came into my thoughts, either directly or indirectly to make Universities useless; nor can it bee rationally infer'd from anie thing in the matter form or end of that discours of mine: but I will grant that such as can see no farther then what wee now ordinarily attein unto; and withal think that there is no Plus ultra in nature atteinable above that which they have conceived, such as I saie may frame to themselv's this jealousie against that discours: but if they would rais their thoughts with mee a little above the ordinarie pitch, and consider what the Nature of man is capable off: and how far it may, by diligent instruction, by Method and Communication, bee improved: they might rather bee induced to make this inference, if the natural abilities of youths in a School (when reformed) may bee thus far improved: how far more may they bee improved, when they are past the age of Youth, and com to Manhood in Colleges and Universities, if namely Colleges and Universities, could in the sphere of their activities bee proportionally Reformed, as the