King Alfred’s translation of Gregory’s Pastoral Care, 9th cent.
(4113); Rule of St. Benedict, in Latin, 7th cent. (4118);
Collectis Canonum Hibernensium, 9th cent. (4119); Anglo-Saxon
homilies, 11th cent. (5210, 5134-6).
13. _Fairfax and Dodsworth_ (1673; 114 vols.; v, vi, vii).
14. _Junius_ (1678; 121 vols.; v).
The Ormulum, the original MS. of the first English religious
poem after the Conquest, abt. 1315 (5113); Cædmon, see p. 44
(5123).
15. _Marshall_ (1685; 159 vols.; x.).
16. _Barlow_ (1691; 54 vols.; i, ii, vi, etc.).
17. _Pococke_ (1692; 420 vols.; x, Arabic, etc.).
Edrisi’s Geography in Arabic, with maps (5737).
18. _Huntington_ (1693; 646 vols.; x, Arabic, etc.).
Arabic descr. of Egypt, 14th cent. (5749); autograph signature
of Moses Maimonides (5757); Coptic Gospels, 12th cent. (5860);
a Tartar _Bakhtiar Nameh_ (MS. Hunt, 596).
19. _Bernard_ (1698; 171 vols.; iii, iv, x. etc.).
Vendôme chronicle, 11th to 14th cent. (8537, cf. 14715);
Maximianus, 12th cent. (8849).
Miscellaneous MSS.—_Seventeenth Century._
Early Latin treatises written in Cornwall, 9th-10th cent.
(2026); Early Latin treatises written in Brittany and Wales,
9th-11th cent., owned by Dunstan (2176); Old English Gospels,
11th cent. (2382); Romance of Alexander, and Marco Polo’s
Travels, in French, with notable illuminations, 14th-15th cent.
(2464); Sir Thomas Bodley’s Letters to his first Librarian,
17th cent. (2541); The Tropary of Ethelred, in Latin, 10th
cent. (2558); Cornish plays, 15th cent. (2639, cf. 10714);
Latin Gospels, Codex O, 7th cent., once called St. Augustine’s
(2698); Pliny’s Epistolæ, 15th cent., a relic of Duke
Humphrey’s library at Oxford (2934); Bible History in Latin,
Gen.-Job, with fine miniatures, xiii (2937); Latin Psalter,
13th cent., with illuminations and binding (3055); Hours of Qu.
Mary, 15th cent. (3083); the original MS. of much of Wycliffe’s
English Bible, 14th cent. (3093); Latin Acts of Councils, 7th
cent. (3686-8); Edrisi’s Geography in Arabic, with 33 maps
(3837); a “vast massy” volume of Middle English Verse, 14th
cent., known as the Vernon MS. (3938); The MacRegol Gospels,
in Latin, with Old English Version, abt. A.D. 800 (3946); the
original MS. of John Leland’s _Collectanea_ and _Itinerary_
(5102-5112*, after 6615); Anglo-Saxon Canons, 10th cent.
(5232); Terence, 12th cent., with classical drawings (27603).
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
20. _Jones_ (1708; 61 vols.; vi).
21. _Marsh_ (1714; 744 vols.; x, Oriental).
22. _Tanner_ (1736; 627 vols.; ii, v). See p. 29.
English historical papers, 1570-1699 (9841-9906, 10288-90).
23. _Carte_ (1753, etc.; 278; vi). See p. 29.
Original earliest existing journal of the Irish Parliament,
1585-6 (10507); original letter-book of the confederate
Catholics at Kilkenny, 1642-5 (10510).
24. _St. Amand_ (1755; 62 vols.; iii, iv).
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