The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650) | Page 6

_Religion, the Reformation, and
Social Change, and Other Essays_, 2d ed. (London: Macmillan, 1972),
240.]
[Footnote 4: On the philosophical and theological theories of Dury,
Hartlib, and Comenius, see Richard H. Popkin, "The Third Force in
Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Scepticism, Science, and Biblical
Prophecy," Nouvelles de la Republique des 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