Volume 1

A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

  • Bodleian Library
Date:
1895-1953
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11. * Bibliothecam Baroccianam aggreditur. Incipit a cod. i°. Desinit ad i6o^ ...... . . 12. [Incipit a cod.] Barocc: i6o, quibus ad umbilicum deductis trajicit ad Bibliothecam Cant;| ubi ab ovo (viz. ab A. i) incipiendo desinat ad A. 72 . 13. Incipit ab A. 72. Desinat ad B. 43 . 14. — B. 43. — C. 27 . 15- — C. 27. — D. 57 • 16. — H. 57- — E. 57 • 17. — E. 57- — F. 102. 18. — F. 102. — H. 25 . 19. — H. 25. — K. 26 . 20. — K. 26. — ad finem 159 154 154 154 154 154 154 154 154 145 * There is an earlier draft of parts 11-20 in MS. Wood donat. 5, p. iii. t Cantuariensem, i.e. the Laudian collection. In 1655 Thomas Barlow (Librarian, 1652-60) formed the class in MusaeOy i.e. manuscripts kept in a cupboard in the Librarian’s study.^ In this class were mainly placed the miscel- laneous donations and purchases of the period c, 1647-83.^ The shelf-mark is still retained in the form e MusaeOy but the numera- tion was altered in 1728. The remaining acquisitions up to the time of the 1697 Catalogue were all referenced with the name of the collector, although some of them were very small. They are Selden (1659), Hatton donat. (1669, 1688), Hatton (1671), Casaubon and Langbaine (1671), Fairfax (1673), James (1678), Junius (1678), Marshall (1685), Dugdale (1686), Fell (1686), Wood empt. (1690), Barlow (1691), Wood donat. (1696). II. CATALOGUES (i) Thomas James Thomas James had originally thought of a separate catalogue of manuscripts, for in the preface to the second part of his cata- logue of the manuscripts in the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge {Ecloga Oxonio~Cantabrigiensis)y dated July 1600, after the Keepership of the Public Library had been offered to him, he promised that if the manuscripts there prove, as he fully expects ^ In the Library Accounts for 1556 is the entry of 13J. 6d. for 54 feet of boards for shelves in Mr. Barlow’s study. ^ The original fonds was Nos. 1-120 (S.C. 3491-3586, 276-299). MSS. 97-120 are the Greek manuscripts given by Oliver Cromwell, the origin of which is obscured in the 1697 Cat.; Nos. 121—68 (3587-3634) were added in 1656-60; Nos. 169-266 (3635-3732) were added in 1665-83; Nos. 267-71 (3733-7) were added c. 1690.