Enriched with an exquisite portrait of the Queen, in all the grandeur of her wide circumference, and with golden hair of very _prononcée_ hue; and with a great variety of beautifully-executed monograms, symbols, &c. around each page. The binding is richly tooled and covered with designs; while in the centre on either side, protected by glass, are brilliant bosses, said to be composed of humming-birds' feathers. 'Ex dono ornatissimi, simul ac optimæ spei, juvenis D. Johannis Cope, armigeri, equitis aurati, baronetti f. natu maximi, olim Reginensis Oxon, Almæ Matris ergô. 4 Cal. Jan. 1626.' On a fly-leaf at the end is attached a fragment from some English theological treatise, in wonderfully minute, although clear, handwriting. 43. The _Koran_, on a long and narrow roll, very elegantly written in minute characters. Given by Archbp. Laud. 44. A Syriac fragment, on three leaves of paper. 45. A specimen of Chinese printing, on rice-paper. 46. A specimen of the Papyrus-plant, in its natural state. 47. A fine MS. of the _Koran_, from the library of Tippoo Sahib at Seringapatam. Given by the East India Company in 1806; see p. 208. 48. A small Egyptian mummy-figure, of baked clay. Given by Archbp. Laud. 49. A Burmese MS., written in large black characters on thirty-nine gilded palm-leaves. 'Taken from a priest's chest in an idol-house of the deserted village of Myanoung, on the Irawaddy, thirty-five miles below Prome, April 17, 1825.' Given by Rev. Joseph Dornford, Oriel College, Nov. 8, 1830. IN THE OPPOSITE, OR NORTH, WING. A large glass case containing a series of MSS. executed by English scribes, arranged chronologically, so as to exhibit the progress and development of the arts of caligraphy and illuminating in England. This case was added by the present Librarian three or four years ago. The following are its contents:-- 1. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of the treatise _De cura pastorali_ of Pope Gregory the Great, being the copy sent by the King to Werfrith, Bishop of Worcester. Given by Lord Hatton; see p. 100. 2. A beautiful Latin _Psalter_ of the tenth century, written in Anglo-Saxon characters, with an interlinear translation, and decorated with grotesque initial letters. Junius MS. 37. The volume is frequently called _Codex Vossianus_, from its having been in the possession of Isaac Voss, who gave it to Junius. Facsimiles are given by Professor Westwood, in his _Palæographia Sacra_, and in his new and splendid book of _Fac-similes of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish MSS_[381]. 3. The _Four Gospels_, in Latin, written in Anglo-Saxon characters, about the beginning of the eleventh century. Noticed in Westwood's _Miniatures_, &c. (_ut supra_), p. 123.