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Macray, the results of his labours being contained in forty-six small oblong volumes of MS. slips deposited in the MS. Room. He has also published an abstract of this calendar in the Reports of the Historical MSS. Commission (Fourth Report, pp. 458-465; Eighth Report, pp. 262-269), and has included much most interesting and valuable information in his Notes from the Muniments of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, Parker, 1882). Both the college and all historical students are much indebted to Mr. Macray for his unwearying labour of love, which extended over many years, and has for the first time made clear the enormous import ance and value of our muniments, the number of which is estimated at 13,000, including sixteen original Papal bulls, many papers of Sir John Fastolf (cf. Gairdner's edition of the Paston Letters, vol. ii. p. 5), and countless charters, grants, and The college seems from the time of its foundation to have possessed a library; for our founder, William of Waynflete (Bishop of Winchester, 1447-1486, and Lord High Chancellor, 1456-leases. 1460), in the statutes which he gave to his society in 1479, lays down many minute rules as to the preservation, lending, and inspection of the books presented to or bought by the college.* At present the library occupies that portion of the college buildings which is over the west walk of the cloisters, extending from the angle opposite the New Buildings to the great gateway which leads beneath the Founder's Tower to St. John's Quadrangle. It is composed of one long room, In the printed copy (Oxford, 1853), pp. 61-2. It may be mentioned that this edition differs considerably from a MS. copy (now kept in the MS. Room, and known as the Dean of Divinity's copy) which bears an inscription in the Founder's handwriting. But it is not the object of this paper to describe the muniments of the college, and I propose to notice first the contents of the MS. Room, and *These slips are arranged in chronological order and by counties. The volumes are as follows: Hants, 8; Oxford, 7; Lincolnshire and North Hants, each 4; Berks, Suffolk, Norfolk, each 3; Warwick and Sussex, each 2; Surrey, Bucks, Wilts, Bedford, each 1. Notts is bound up with vol. iv. of North Hants; Kent, London, and Somerset fill one volume, Essex and Gloucester another. Three more volumes are filled by the "Cartæ Regiæ et Concessa" and other documents relating to the Hospital of St. John Baptist (on the site of which the college is founded), the papers of Sir John Fastolf, and those of Ralph, Lord Cromwell. Finally, there is a volume of miscellanies and a volume of letters, then those printed books which seem to be specially interesting. 1. The MS. Room.-Here, besides MSS. proper and some early printed books, have been deposited many papers and documents connected with the history of the college, e. g., the original papers relating to the expulsion of the President and Fellows by James II. in 1687, including the Buttery Book, in which the names of the intruded President and Fellows are found crossed from the week Oct. 20-7, 1688. Here, also, are the original cartulary of the Priory of Sele, in Sussex (annexed to the college in 1474), and an ancient "terrier" of the Hospital of St. John, chiefly referring to Oxford. We find also a packet of papers belonging to President Accepted Frewen (consecrated 1643 to the see of Lichfield in the college chapel, and translated to York in 1660), and received by him as Vice-Chancellor of the University. Mr. Macray has described the contents of this packet (Fourth Report, p. 464), and it may, therefore, suffice to say that they include documents with the sign manual of Charles I. (dated at Windsor, September 1 of the fifth year of his reign), and with the autographs of Juxon (as President of St. John's College), Brian Duppa, Bancroft (as Master of University), Zouche (Professor of Civil Law and Principal of St. Edmund's Hall), and Laud (as Bishop of London in 1629). A curious paper which has found its way into this packet is a letter to the university from Frederick, the Elector Palatine (the "Winter King" of Bohemia), dated Sept. 3, 1626, in which he requests certain favours to be granted to some students from the Palatinate. Two other packets contain papers relating to university affairs at the end of the sixteenth century. A bound volume contains a number of letters ranging from 1460 onwards, of which many are addressed to the founder and the early presidents of the college; and one is from Henry VII., in which he appoints President Mayhew his procurator-general at Rome. There is also an autograph of John Hough, President 1687 (in 1690 Bishop of Oxford, of Lichfield 1699, and of Worcester 1717). But the gem of the volume is a letter from Cicely, Duchess of York (daughter of Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland, wife of Richard, Duke of York, mother of Edward IV. and Richard III.), to the Founder, praying for the admission of a protégé as a scholar of " your noble college." The letter is dated October 11 only, but must have been written between 1458 (date of the foundation of the college) and 1486 (date of Waynflete's death); it is in a secretary's hand except the signature, which is believed to be the only extant autograph of the lady in question. Mr. Macray has printed this letter at full length (Eighth Report, p. 268). To come now to the MSS. proper. They have been examined and catalogued by the late Rev. H. O. Coxe (Bodley's librarian) in his Catalogus Codd. MSS. qui in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (Clarendon Press, 1852); and though there are a few slips in the part relating to our library, I shall take this work as my authority for the dates of the different MSS. to be described below. There are sixteen Greek MSS. Those numbered 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, containing the works of various ecclesiastical writers, are attributed to the eleventh century. On the verso of fol. 235 of No. 4 is an inscription from which we learn that the MS. was partly transcribed in 1084 by "Michael the Deacon." No. 7 contains several of St. Paul's Epistles. No. 15 is the only Greek MS. of Aristotle's De Interpretatione which is now to be found in Oxford. The Latin MSS. (or more properly the nonGreek MSS., as they include Latin, French, Italian, and English MSS.) are 247 in number. Of these two stand far above all the others. One I have already described in these pages (6th S. iii. 181, 202, 222, 246); it is No. 93, a recension of the Imitatio Christi (here called Musica Ecclesiastica), transcribed in 1438 by John Dygoun, that is, three years before the earliest MS. which has a genuine inscription in which the name of Thomas à Kempis occurs. The extreme interest and importance of the other have only recently been discovered. It is No. 172, the Gesta Pontificum of William of Malmesbury. Mr. N. E. S. A. Hamilton, when editing, in 1870, this work for the Rolls Series, was led to the conviction that our MS. was William's own autograph copy, both because of the handwriting and from the nature of the erasures, interlineations, and marginal additions, which are such as would only have been made by an author himself. It is a small quarto volume of 103 folios, written in a singularly clear, but somewhat cramped hand of the earlier portion of the twelfth century, and despite the erasures, &c., is a fine, clean MS. Mr. Hamilton (Preface, xi, note 3) conjectures, from a shelf-mark on the first folio in a fourteenth century hand, that it once belonged to the great abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, though not mentioned by Leland as being there in 1533; and from a word on the same leaf that it was later the property of Archbishop Ussher, after whose death (1656) it was probably sold with the rest of his library. It does not seem to have been in its present resting-place in 1600, but is mentioned as being there in the Catalogus MSS. Angliæ et Hibernia of 1697. The facsimiles published by Mr. Hamilton give a very good idea of this precious little volume. Numbers 60, 77, 79, 154, 177 have all belonged to or were transcribed by John Dygoun, and have been described in my paper on No. 93 (6th S. iii, 222). Several MSS. were presented to the college by our Founder, |