appearance in the character of an independent division of human knowledge. BOOK III. Chapter II. Classificatory Systems. Marchand's Scheme, as deve Faultrier Catalogue. Nearly at the same period Prosper Marchand was busied in elaborating a new system which, as he hoped, loped in the was to be philosophical in its basis, expansive in its scope, and practical in its adaptability to the arrangement of books. But he did not publish this scheme until 1709, when it was developed in his Catalogus librorum bibliotheca Joachimi Faultrier. In this catalogue we have the following classification: This plan, however, met with small favour. Its author had previously introduced some slight modifications into that of Bouillaud, and these seem to have kept their place. In 1709, also appeared the Dispositio Catalogi Biblio- The Fontanini theca J. Renati Imperialis (at Rome), by Giusto Fon Catalogue. BOOK III. Chapter II. Systems. tanini, (afterwards Archbishop of Ancyra, and author Classificatory of Biblioteca della Eloquenza Italiana,) under the five classes-I. Theology; II. Jurisprudence; III. Philosophy (1. P. rationalis; 2. P. naturalis; 3. P. Historia naturalis; 4. P. moralis; 5. P. politica; 6. Medecina; 7. Mathesis; 8. Astronomia;) IV. History; V. Polymathy (1. Philologia; 2. Rhetorica; 3. Poetica; 4. Grammatica.) This classification is worked out in great detail, the number of divisions or chapters being sixty-two, and that of sections no less than 1828. In the arrangement of the latter the alphabetical order appears to have been adopted wherever it was practicable. 1 Girard's Scheme. 1 Amongst the papers of the Abbé Girard-author of "Class nods at class, each section has a brother, A very brief specimen must suffice. The six classes 1 Romæ, ex off. F. Gonzage: reprinted in Koehler's Sylloge, etc., 1728. 2 This scheme is given at length in the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert, ii, 761-765, (1st edition). HISTORIOGRAPHY; IV. PHILOSOPHY; V. PHILOLOGY; VI. 1. Discipline. (i.) Christian; (ii.) Nétéronome. 2. Civil Law. (i.) Politics; (ii.) Jurisprudence. 3. Corporology. (i.) Cenobitical; (ii.) Associative. 4. Ethicology. (i.) Treatises on Morals; (ii.) Characters. 5. Thesmology. (i.) Usages: (ii.) Modes. 6. Praxetonomy. (i.) Ediology (Domestic Economy); (ii) Ludicro logy (Games of Chance, &c.) Whimsically absurd as this scheme may appear, it has not been without imitators. BOOK III. Chapter II. Classificatory Systems. ton's Scheme. In 1723, Dr. Conyers Middleton submitted to the Conyers MiddleSenate of the University of Cambridge a Scheme for the classification of the University Library, which by various munificent gifts had recently been much enlarged. The following were the principal divisions: Class I.-THEOLOGY:1. Holy Bible. 2. Hermeneutics. 6. Mystical Theology. 7. Hortatory Theology. 3. Greek and Latin Fa- 9. Councils; Canon and thers. 4. Scholastic Theology. 5. Moral Theology. Pontifical Law. 10. Sacred and Ecclesias tical History. 5. History of the Western Class VIII.-POLITE Lite Empire. 6. History of the Saracens and Turks. RATURE: 1. Works of Orators. 2. Works of Poets. 7. History of Particular 3. Works of Letter-writ This publication had the result-singular for a prelection on so harmless a topic-of subjecting its author to a prosecution for libel, but of other result it seems 1 Bibliothecæ Cantabrigiensis ordinandæ methodus. (Miscell. Works, iv, 74-82. 8vo. London, 1755). At the time of its appearance, it may be remembered, the vexed question respecting the right of appeal from decisions of the Vice-Chan BOOK III. Chapter II. Systems. to have been barren. The present University Librarian, Mr. Power, stated in his reply to the questions of the Classificatory recent Commission of Inquiry into the state of Cambridge University, that "the books are not arranged generally in classes," and that "there is no classed catalogue of this Library;" and he adds, somewhat too sweepingly, "the formation of such a catalogue would be very laborious and expensive, and its use is very much superseded by such books as Brunet's Manuel du Libraire, Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, &c." Even if these books could themselves be fairly placed in the category of "classed catalogues," it is not very easy to perceive in what way they could be used as substitutes for the proper catalogues of an individual Library. > As I have said already, the minor modifications which Marchand introduced into the bibliographical system of Bouillaud were received with more favour than were those cruder innovations which he embodied in the Faultrier catalogue. Gabriel Martin adopted the former in most of the catalogues which he published between the years 1711 and 1760-a series then certainly unprecedented in the annals of bookselling-and De Bure followed in the same track. The result of their successive labours has since been designated "the system of the Paris booksellers," and its main divisions run thus: cellor or Senate to the Courts of Law at Westminster was hotly disputed, and a sentence in Middleton's dedication was construed into a contempt of the jurisdiction in question. 1 Report of Cambridge University Commissioners, 1852. (Evid., 57.) Modifications of the scheme of Bouillaud by Martin and De Bure, resulting in the "Scheme of the Paris booksellers." |