It is said that Wood in this year estimated the number of MSS. in the Library at 10,141. This must have been the number of separate books, not volumes, as in 1697 the latter appear from Bernard's Catalogue to have been about 6700. [146] In Bernard's Catalogue the purchase is said to have been made in 1692, but this is an error, as it is entered in the accounts of 1690. A.D. 1691. On Oct. 8, died Dr. Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, who, retaining his attachment for the place over which he had presided from 1652 to 1660, bequeathed to it seventy-eight MSS. (now bound in fifty-four volumes), and all the printed books in his collection which the Library did not possess, the remainder going to Queen's College. They appear to have been received in the years 1693-4, as large payments for the carriage are found in the accounts then. His MSS. are described in the old Catalogue of 1697. The printed books, which are particularly rich in tracts of the time of Charles I and the Usurpation, are still kept distinct, being called _Linc._; ending, in the 8^o series, at about the middle of the shelves marked with the letter C in that division. They are placed in the gallery on the left hand of the great central room[147]. His legacy included a copy of the famous _Exposicio Sancti Jeronimi in Simbolo Apostolorum_, which was printed at Oxford in 1468, and completed, as the colophon states, on Dec. 17. This volume was given to Barlow, as he notes at the beginning, by Bishop Juxon, July 31, 1657. It is exhibited in the glass case near the entrance. The Library possesses also seven other productions of the early Oxford press. They are as follow:-- 1. _Ægidius Romanus de Peccato Originali_, dated March 14, 1479. This was one of Rob. Burton's books. Qu. unique? 2. _Textus Ethicorum Aristotelis, per Leonardum Arretinum translatus_, 1479. One of Selden's books. 3. _Expositio Alexandri [de Ales] super tertium librum [Arist.] De Anima_. 'Impressum per me Theodericum rood de Colonia in alma universitate Oxon.' Oct. 11, 1481. 4. _Joh. Latteburii Exposicio Trenorum Jheremie_, July 31, 1482. No place, but printed with the same type as the last. 5. _Liber Festivalis_, in English, printed by Rood and Hunt, 1486. Two copies, but both very imperfect. The more imperfect one of the two formerly belonged to Herbert, and was bought for £6 6_s._ in 1832; two additional leaves have been inserted by Mr. Coxe, which were found among Hearne's scraps, having been given to him as fragments of a Caxton by Bagford. The other copy was bought in 1852, at Utterson's sale, for £6 10_s._ 6. _Opus Wilhelmi Lyndewoode super Constitutiones Provinciales_. No place or date, but identified by the type.