Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth CenturyMacray, William Dunn
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Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century
Macray, William Dunn
Bodleian Library
_Missals_, Salisbury use, 30
" York " 4
" Rouen " 1
" Roman " 3
" 'pro sacerdotibus in Anglia, &c. itinerantibus.' 1
_Breviaries_ and _Portiforia_, Salisbury use, 18
" " York " 2
" " Hereford " 1[280]
_Manuals_, Salisbury use, 10
" York (MS.) " 1
_Processionals_, Salisbury use, 10
" York " 1
_Hours_, Salisbury use, 24
" Roman " (besides several MSS.) 1
Of several of these books there are more than single copies.
A fifth division of Gough's library consists of sixteen large folio
volumes of coloured drawings of monuments in churches of France, chiefly
at Paris, in Normandy, Valois, Champagne, Burgundy and Brie, and at
Beauvais, Chartres, Vendosme and Noyon. They form part of a large
collection extending through the whole of France, which was made by M.
Gagnières, tutor to the sons of the Grand Dauphin, and given by him to
Louis XIV in 1711. Of this collection, now preserved in the Imperial
Library, twenty-five volumes were lost amid the troubles of the French
Revolution, between 1785 and 1801; but in what way, out of the
twenty-five, these sixteen came into Gough's hands, has not been clearly
ascertained. The collection is of great value, as most of the monuments
were defaced or destroyed by the revolutionary mobs. Gough's volumes
contain about 2000 drawings, of the whole of which facsimiles were made
in 1860 by M. Jules Frappaz, by direction of the French Minister of
Public Instruction, (who made application for the purpose, through Mr.
J. H. Parker, in 1859) for the purpose of so far supplying the
deficiency in the series at Paris[281].
The copy of the _British Topography_, which Gough had prepared for a
third edition (of which a considerable part of vol. i. had been printed,
but was burned in the disastrous fire at Mr. Nichols' printing-office in
Feb., 1808,) was bought by the Curators of Mr. Nichols in 1812 for
£150[282]. It has been recently bound in four very thick volumes. A
fifth volume contains the proof-sheets of that portion of vol. i. which
had been printed, extending to _Cheshire_, p. 446. The collections for
the first edition make three volumes.
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