The following statistics of early Greek and Latin MSS. in the Bodleian, excluding papyri, deeds and fragments, may be interesting. Lists of the volumes, with titles, will be found in the _Bodleian Quarterly Record_, Nos. 3, 7, 11, 12 (see p. 64). Cent. Greek Latin 6th-7th 2 7 8th 1 8 9th 12 54 10th 21 63 11th 115 130 12th 87 552 The oldest complete MS. in the Library is a Chinese scroll, written by Wang Hsi Chih about A.D. 400. The oldest printed book is also Chinese, the voluminous Spring and Autumn Annals of Confucius, printed about A.D. 1150. Both were in the Backhouse donations of 1914. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 1. _Exeter Cathedral_ (1602; 86 vols.; i, ii). Persius, 11th cent. (2455); Prudentius, 11th cent. (2666); Leofric Missal, 10th cent. (2675); Latin Gospels written in Brittany, 10th cent. (2719). 2. _Windsor_ (1612; 67 vols.; ii). 3. _Twyne_ (1612; 20 vols.; ix). 4. _Savile_ (1620; 61 vols.; iii, etc.). 5. _Barocci_ (1629; 244 vols.; i, ii, iii). Canons of the Church, 11th cent. (26); Grammarians, 11th cent. (50); Chronicon John Malalæ, 12th cent. (182); Epistolæ Photii, 10th cent. (217); early MSS. of the Fathers; all in Greek. 6. _Roe_ (1629; 28 vols.; iii). Catena in Epistolas Pauli, in Greek, 10th cent. (262). 7. _Digby_ (1634-9; 238 vols.; v, vi, ix, x). Chanson de Roland, 12th cent. (1624), the earliest MS. of the first French Roman de geste; the Abingdon Missal, 15th cent., illuminated (1828). 8. _Laud_ (1635-40; abt. 1230 vols.; i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, x). Canons of Councils, Greek, 11th cent. (715_b_); Irish poems, 13th cent. (784); Sidonius Apollinaris, 10th cent. (838); Ælfric’s Heptateuch, 11th cent. (942); Gregory’s Cura Pastoralis, 9th cent. (1000); the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, to A.D. 1154 (1003); Egbert’s Penitential, in Old English, 11th cent. (1054); Codex E of the Acts, Græco-Latin, 7th cent. (1119), see p. 45; The “Psalter” of Cashel, in Irish, 12th cent. (1132); Lives of Saints, in English, 14th cent. (1486); Quintus Curtius, 15th cent., with illuminations (1526); Augustine de Trinitate, 8th cent. (1556); Martianus Capella, 11th cent. (1597). 9. _Cromwell_ (1654; 24 vols.; iii). 10. _Selden_ (1659; 351 vols.; ii, iii, iv, vi, x). Mexican records, the Mendoza Codex, 16th cent. (3134); English Carols, with music, 15th cent. (3340); The King’s Quair, etc., 15th cent. (3354); Latin pieces in the hand of William of Malmesbury, 12th cent. (3362); The Acts, in Latin uncials written in England, 8th cent. (3418). 11. _Casaubon_ (1671; 61 vols.; iii, etc.). 12. _Hatton_ (1671; 112 vols.; v, etc.).