A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the quarto series: with references to the Oriental and other manuscripts

Book : Catalogue

PREFACE

The general part of the Preface to vol. iii of the Summary Catalogue holds good for the present volume, which contains the collections acquired in the first half of the 19th century (from 1801 to 1850, inclusive). In all, twenty-three collections have been dealt with, containing 7,959 MSS., and the preparation has occupied three and a half years. Vol. iii contained twenty collections or 7,959 MSS., acquired in 1698-1700, and its preparation occupied rather more than three and a half years.

As before, in the place of the general Index, which will be issued in due course, a short account of the contents of the book, grouped under a few general subject-headings, is offered as a temporary substitute of a rough and ready kind. Some alterations in the pressmarks and numeration of the D'Orville and Gough collections have been introduced since the MSS. were catalogued.

Authors: Madan, F

• Alternative title: Collections received during the first half of the 19th Century, Nos. 16670-24330
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Volume: 4
• Publication date: 1897-01-01
• Language: English
• Keywords: Finding aid; Special Collections catalogue
• Subjects: Catalogue . .
• Subtype: Catalogue