Volume 1
A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
- Bodleian Library
- Date:
- 1895-1953
Licence: In copyright
Credit: A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the money for the purchase of the Barocci collection, wrote to the University asking that leave should be given to Turner to borrow the Barocci manuscripts for the purpose of making a catalogued There are two copies of Turner’s catalogue, both autograph, MS. Barocci 243 (part ii) and AA i Med. Seld. It includes the Roe as well as the Barocci collection. In 1643^ Ed- mund Chilmead, chaplain of Christ Church, was employed to make an alphabetical index of authors. The autograph of his index has survived in MS. Barocci 244. The catalogue that came with the collection of Sir Kenelm Digby (MS. Digby 234^) is mentioned by Laud in the following letter to Convocation (19 December 1634):^ These manuscripts (many of them being very good) he [sc. Digby] hath been at the charge to bind up, and put his arms fair upon them, . .. with these he hath sent a catalogue, but that (as he himself tells me) is some- what imperfect, his man being indisposed for health at the time when he made it and whether the method of it will like you, or fit the univer- sity, I know not, but after the books are compared with this, it will be very easy to make a perfect one by it. In spite of these tactful criticisms, the catalogue was adopted for use. In 1635 5^*. were paid ‘for transcribing the catalogue of Sir Kellam Digbye’s MSS. for the use of the Librarie’. This copy (MS. Digby 234^) has the present numbers entered in the hand- writing of Gerard Langbaine with a table of concordance to the original numbers. Like the Digby collection the manuscripts of Archbishop Laud came bound with ‘his arms fair upon them’, and seemingly pro- vided with catalogues. There were three main instalments of his gifts, in 1635, 1636, 1639, and a smaller one in 1640.'^ MS. Laud misc. 705 contains a copy of the catalogue of the first and second donations, each separately. MS. Laud misc. 692 contains the first three donations with shelf-marks added in red. MS. Laud misc. 556 contains all four donations, each arranged in separate alphabetical series, according to language, first the Western manuscripts: Anglici, Gallici, Hibernici, Italici, Latini, Russici, Saxonici, and then the Oriental: Arabici, Armenici, Chaldaici, Macray, Annals, p. 72 n. ^ For the date see the Library accounts printed in Macray, Annals, p. 98. ^ Works, V. 105. S.C. II. i. 13,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29001250_0001_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
