18 The Museum. 
By Mr. R. Brotnrernoop, Chippenham :— 
A numerous collection of Fossils and Minerals from the strata of North 
Wilts; also some fine Mammalian remains from the drift of the same district. 
By Mr. Tomas Hirt, Nettleton :— 
Fragments of armour, weapons, horse-trappings, &c., found in a tomb or 
vault formed by a wall five feet in thickness, at the south side of the Priory 
Farm house, Nettleton. 
By Mr. H. Gatz, Chippenham :— 
A limb of fossil oak from the railway cutting near Kellaways. 
By Mr. A. P. Hottann, Devizes :-— 
A collection of rubbings from monumental brasses, chiefly in the counties 
of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. 
The following information respecting the ancient Bible exhibited by P. Audley 
Lovell, Esq., and mentioned in the foregoing list, p. 18, arrived too late for 
insertion in that place. 
It is an exquisite manuscript probably of the fourteenth century, and appears 
to have been executed on the continent. The initial letters contain representa- 
tions of various saints, in gilt and rich colours. According to a note inserted in 
the title-page of one of the volumes, it appears to have belonged originally to 
a foreign convent of Carthusians. It was brought to England a.p. 1407, and 
deposited probably in the library of Malmesbury Abbey, from whence it passed 
into the hands of an ancestor of the present owner, by whom some of the Abbey 
property, including a Manor House formerly occupied by the Abbots, was pur- 
chased from the crown at the dissolution of religious houses, temp, Hen. VIII. 
The manuscript is in excellent preservation, and each volume retains the ancient 
wooden binding. 
