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HARVARD
\nCOLLEGE
\nLIBRARY <\/p>\n
THE <\/p>\n
WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS <\/p>\n
IN THE LIBRARY OF <\/p>\n
TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE <\/p>\n
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Zonfcon: C. J. CLAY and SONS, <\/p>\n
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, <\/p>\n
AVE MARIA LANE,
\n\u2022lltfffoto: 50, WELLINGTON STREET. <\/p>\n
lrip>ig: F. A. BROCK HAUS. <\/p>\n
JMs lofk: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. <\/p>\n
Bombifl: E. SEYMOUR HALE. <\/p>\n
{All KigAlt rarreaf.) <\/p>\n
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PRINTED BY J. AND C. P. CLAY,
\nAT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. <\/p>\n
if* ^ <\/p>\n
bV \/ <\/p>\n
THIS second volume of the catalogue of the Western Manu-
\nscripts in the Library of Trinity College comprises those
\nstanding in Class R. In subject they are highly miscellaneous,
\ncomprising as they do all the books that could not be classed as
\ntheological in virtue of their principal contents. History, Poetry,
\nPhilosophy, Law, Natural Science, Medicine and Music represent
\nfairly the main departments ; and the mere enumeration of these
\nshows how wide a field for errors and omissions is open to the
\ncataloguer. <\/p>\n
In truth, I have been confronted with many puzzles, and
\ndefeated by not a few. If this volume is used by an expert in
\nalchemy (if such there be) or in medieval medicine, or in later
\nItalian history, he will most likely be able to criticize me sharply \u2014
\nnot, I hope, for giving him false information, but very probably
\nfor not telling him enough. I have instanced classes of books as
\nto which I am conscious of ignorance ; but it is equally likely that
\nJ have erred where the path was plainer. I shall be grateful to
\nthose who will set me right. A third volume, be it remembered,
\nis to come, if I am spared to write it, and I shall not scruple to
\nconfess my mistakes when they are pointed out. 1 gladly borrow
\nthe words of a monk of Dover who wrote a careful catalogue of
\nthe books of his monastery : ” Et ucre non offendet compilantem,
\nset diliget euidenter quicumque hanc matriculam adhuc multi-
\npliciter defectiuam in melius duxerit.” <\/p>\n
t. c. n. b <\/p>\n
VI PREFACE. <\/p>\n
A few words as to the arrangement and provenance of the
\nbooks in Class R may be not unwelcome. In the first two shelves
\nare the accessions of recent date (none earlier than 1800). A very
\nlarge proportion of these were the gifts of Mr Samuel Sandars,
\na generous benefactor alike to his College and to his University.
\nThe third and following shelves contain books the bulk of which
\nare to be found in Bernard’s Catalogi of 1697. The principal
\ndonor, so far as numbers are concerned, was Sir Henry Puckering
\nalias Newton, for particulars of whose life the Dictionary of National
\nBiography may be consulted. He gave his library to the College
\nin 1691. Many of the manuscripts were inherited by him from his
\nfather, Sir Adam Newton (d. 1630), who was at various times tutor
\nto Prince Henry, Dean of Durham, Secretary to the Council, and
\nSecretary to the Marches of Wales. <\/p>\n
Puckering was no collector of antiquities. Hardly any of his
\nbooks are earlier than the seventeenth century : but his collection
\nis made remarkable by the presence in it of the famous Milton
\nmanuscript. The numerous books connected with Prince Henry
\nhave also an interest of their own : and the considerable mass of
\nItalian documents probably contains a good deal of interesting
\nmatter of which hitherto not much use has been made. The
\nscribe of many of the Italian treatises was Jacopo di Castelvetro,
\nwho for some time taught Italian at Cambridge. His diary is
\namong the Harleian Manuscripts (no. 3344). <\/p>\n
Other donors who come before us in this Class for the first
\ntime are Thomas Whalley, Vice-Master of the College (1637),
\nwhose tastes appear to have run in the direction of alchemy, and
\nJohn Wilson, Fellow (B.A. 17 17), a collector of old medical books.
\nThe gifts of Whitgift and Nevile are less numerous than in
\nClass B: but Willmer’s assume greater importance, including as
\nthey do four precious volumes of English poetry. <\/p>\n
Dame Anne Sadleir merits a special expression of gratitude
\nfor her gift of an Apocalypse, which must be ranked as one of the <\/p>\n
PREFACE. Vll <\/p>\n
two finest in existence, and is certainly the most beautiful book
\nin Cambridge. <\/p>\n
In my account of the most copiously illustrated manuscript in
\nthis library \u2014 the Canterbury Psalter \u2014 I have departed from my
\nusual custom of describing all the pictures I meet with in ancient
\nbooks. This omission is, I think, amply justified by the following
\nfacts. The Psalter in question forms one of a group of four books
\n(perhaps more) which all contain the same cycle of illustrations.
\nThe earliest of these is the famous Utrecht Psalter, the next in
\norder that in the Harleian collection (no. 603), and the latest, one
\nat Paris. They have been studied in conjunction by Dr Anton
\nSpringer 1 , and will be fully treated in a work now appearing by
\nDr J. J. Tikkanen of Helsingfors {Die Psalterillustration itn
\nMittelalter). Under these circumstances, and considering that a
\nfull description of the pictures would have filled a very large
\nnumber of pages, I decided to call special attention to such of
\nthem only as showed a marked divergence from their archetype,
\nnamely, the Utrecht Psalter. <\/p>\n
Comparatively few of the manuscripts in Class R can be traced
\nto English monasteries. Very many of the books are quite modern,
\nand others (especially those which treat of poetry, medicine, or
\nalchemy) are of the kind which were most likely from the first in
\nprivate hands. Still, we have books from Canterbury (including
\na Livy once the property of Thomas a Becket), Bury, Dover,
\nMalmesbury, Winchester, and other smaller houses. I am par-
\nticularly pleased at having been able to place the ‘gromatic 1
\nmanuscript (R. 15. 14) at St Augustine’s, Canterbury. It would
\nhave been impossible to do so, had not I been in possession of a
\ncopy of the unpublished catalogue of that Library. <\/p>\n
I am afraid that those who have used my first volume may
\nhave found the absence of an Index rather trying. I am con-
\nvinced, however, that if thfe three volumes were each of them <\/p>\n
1 Abh. <L A. Sachsischtn GtstlUchaft, Philos. Histor. A7. vol. VIII. <\/p>\n
bV \/ <\/p>\n
THIS second volume of the catalogue of the Western Manu-
\nscripts in the Library of Trinity College comprises those
\nstanding in Class R. In subject they are highly miscellaneous,
\ncomprising as they do all the books that could not be classed as
\ntheological in virtue of their principal contents. History, Poetry,
\nPhilosophy, Law, Natural Science, Medicine and Music represent
\nfairly the main departments ; and the mere enumeration of these
\nshows how wide a field for errors and omissions is open to the
\ncataloguer. <\/p>\n
In truth, I have been confronted with many puzzles, and
\ndefeated by not a few. If this volume is used by an expert in
\nalchemy (if such there be) or in medieval medicine, or in later
\nItalian history, he will most likely be able to criticize me sharply \u2014
\nnot, I hope, for giving him false information, but very probably
\nfor not telling him enough. I have instanced classes of books as
\nto which I am conscious of ignorance ; but it is equally likely that
\nJ have erred where the path was plainer. I shall be grateful to
\nthose who will set me right. A third volume, be it remembered,
\nis to come, if I am spared to write it, and I shall not scruple to
\nconfess my mistakes when they are pointed out. 1 gladly borrow
\nthe words of a monk of Dover who wrote a careful catalogue of
\nthe books of his monastery : " Et ucre non offendet compilantem,
\nset diliget euidenter quicumque hanc matriculam adhuc multi-
\npliciter defectiuam in melius duxerit." <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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