students of history are the Cotton, Harley, Lansdowne, and Additional MSS. The smaller collections acquired from time to time, excepting those purchased with the income of the Egerton fund, are usually merged in the Additional MSS. These are numbered consecutively (up to No. 35,348 at the close of the year 1899); Nos. 1-4100 form the Sloane collection. The Additional and the Egerton MSS. are described in the Catalogue of Additions (No. 505). There is a separate printed catalogue of each of the other collections, except the New Royal or King's collection, the catalogue of which is in manuscript only. There is also accessible in the British Museum a useful General Class-Catalogue of the various collections. For facsimiles of some of the MSS., see Nos. 255, 257.

The library of the Inner Temple contains the valuable Petyt MSS., and the library of Lincoln's Inn the Hale MSS. In Lambeth palace will be found the registers of the archbishops of Canterbury, numerous ancient charters, court rolls of manors, rentals, etc.; and in the library of the Society of Antiquaries are Liber Winton, wardrobe accounts, the registers of Peterborough abbey, etc. The archives of the College of Arms are of especial interest to genealogists.

The British Museum.

See No. 2372.

505. Catalogue of additions to the MSS. in 1836-[93]. 9 vols. [London], 1843-94. Index to the Additional and Egerton MSS. acquired in 1783-1835. [London], 1849. — Index to the additions in 1854-75. [London], 1880.

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The additions' include Additional MSS., Additional Charters and Rolls, Egerton MSS., Egerton Charters and Rolls, etc. See below, Ayscough's Catalogue of Sloane MSS. (No. 513).

506. Catalogue of MSS. [Arundel and Burney collections]. 2 vols. and index. London, 1834-40.

507. Catalogue of the MSS. in the Cottonian library. Record Com. [London], 1802.

508. Catalogue of MSS. formerly in the possession of Francis Hargrave. London, 1818.

509. Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. Record Com. 4 vols. [London], 1808-12.

510. Catalogue of Irish MSS. [By Standish O'Grady. London, 1895 ?]

511. Catalogue of the MSS. in the King's [Old Royal] library. By David Casley. London, 1734.

512. Catalogue of the Lansdowne MSS. Record Com. [London], 1819.

513. Catalogue of MSS., including the collections of Hans Sloane, Thomas Birch, etc. [Additional MSS. to No. 5017]. By Samuel Ayscough. 2 vols. London, 1782.

514. Catalogue of the Stowe MSS. [acquired in 1883]. [London], 1895-96.

2 vols.

515. Catalogue of MSS. relating to Wales in the British Museum. By Edward Owen. Soc. of Cymmrodorion, Record Series. London,

1900.

516. Handbook to the library of the British Museum, containing a brief history of its formation and of the various collections of which it is composed. By Richard Sims. London, 1854.

516 a. Index to the charters and rolls in the department of manuscripts, ed. H. J. Ellis and F. B. Bickley. Vol. i.: Index locorum. London, 1900.

517. Lives of the founders of the British Museum. By Edward Edwards. 2 vols. London, 1870.

College of Arms, Inns of Court, etc.

518. Calendar of the Carew MSS. preserved in the library at Lambeth [Book of Howth, etc.], ed. J. S. Brewer and William Bullen. Rolls Series. London, 1871.

Contains the texts of the Book of Howth and Thomas Bray's Conquest of Ireland (Nos. 1724-5), together with a calendar of papers relating to Ireland ranging from the reign of Henry II. to the close of the 16th century. These papers comprise royal letters, grants, proclamations, etc. See No. 521.

519. Catalogue of the Arundel MSS. in the library of the College

of Arms. [By W. H. Black. London], 1829.

See Report of the Record Commissioners, 1837 (No. 489), 106–10.

520. Catalogue of MSS. in the library of Lambeth palace. [By H. J. Todd.] London, 1812.

See Nos. 487, 489; and app. B.

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521. Report to the master of the rolls upon the Carte and Carew papers in the Bodleian and Lambeth libraries. [By T. D. Hardy and J. S. Brewer.] Rolls Series. London, 1864.

522. Catalogue of MSS. in the library of Lincoln's Inn. By Joseph Hunter. London, 1838. Also printed in his Three Catalogues, London, 1838; and in the Report of the Record Commissioners, 1837 (No. 489), 352-91.

523. Catalogue of MSS. in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of London. London, 1816. pp. 92.

524. Catalogue of the printed books and MSS. in the library of the Inner Temple. London, 1833.

See below, app. B.

525. Catalogue of the printed books and MSS. in the library of the Middle Temple. London, 1863.

c. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.

See Nos. 487, 489, 498, 501-3; and, for the muniments of colleges, § 58 d.

526. Annals of the

Bodleian Library.

See No. 521.

Bodleian library. By W. D. Macray. London, 1868. 2nd edition, Oxford, 1890.

527. Calendar of charters and rolls preserved in the Bodleian library. By W. H. Turner. Oxford, 1878.

528. Catalogue of MSS. bequeathed by Elias Ashmole. By W. H. Black. 2 pts. Oxford, 1845-66.

529. Catalogue of printed books and MSS. bequeathed by Francis Douce. Oxford, 1840.

530. Catalogus codicum MSS. bibliothecæ Bodleianæ. H. O. Coxe and W. D. Macray. 15 pts. Oxford, 1848-98.

By

531. Index of the first seven volumes of the Dodsworth MSS. Oxford, 1879.

532. Summary catalogue of western MSS. in the Bodleian library. By Falconer Madan. Vols. iii.-iv. Oxford, 1895-97.

Oxford Colleges.

533. Catalogus codicum MSS. qui in bibliotheca ædis Christi asservantur. By G. W. Kitchin. Oxford, 1867.

534. Catalogus codicum MSS. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie asservantur. By H. O. Coxe. 2 pts. Oxford, 1852.

Cambridge.

535. Catalogue of MSS. in the library of the university of Cambridge. 5 vols. and index. Cambridge, 1856–67.

536. Catalogus librorum MSS. quos collegio Corporis Christi legavit M. Parker. By James Nasmith. Cambridge, 1777.

536 a. Descriptive catalogue of MSS. in the library of Peterhouse. By M. R. James. Cambridge, 1899.

Mr. James has also published catalogues of MSS. in the libraries of Jesus college, Sidney Sussex college, King's college, and Trinity college, Cambridge.

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CHAPTER IV

PRINTED COLLECTIONS OF SOURCES

UNDER this head are included both chroniclers and records. For works dealing with their history, see §§ 2, 12.

Much was accomplished in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries by Parker, Twysden, Savile, Hearne, and other editors (§ 16 a) to make the texts of the medieval chroniclers of England more accessible to students; but their works, judged by our present canons of criticism, were unscholarly. In 1823 the Record Commission entrusted to Henry Petrie the task of editing a new collection of chronicles and other materials of English history to the close of Henry VII.'s reign. The work was to comprise about twenty-five volumes. After the whole of the text of the first volume had been prepared and materials had been gathered for other volumes, the work was suspended, in 1835, by order of the commissioners, and volume i. was not published until 1848 (No. 537).

In 1855 the master of the rolls, Sir John Romilly, obtained permission to publish the well-known Calendars of State Papers, and in 1857 he was authorised to undertake the series of Chronicles and Memorials (No. 539). The plan of Petrie's Monumenta was abandoned, and it was determined to treat each chronicle or collection of documents as a separate work complete in itself, and to confide it to a competent editor. This series now includes most of the prominent chroniclers of England, and many of them are admirably edited. The master of the rolls has recently ceased to undertake the publication of texts, and is now devoting the money at his disposal mainly to the printing of calendars of records. The Rolls Series has given a new impulse to the study of English history. Its success in this and other directions has been in marked contrast with that of the Record Commissioners' publications (No. 538).