DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 27 



(e.) A treatise on Physics ; 1st or 2nd century. 



(/.) Seven nearly complete poems (hitherto unknown) of 



Herodas, with several detached fragments ; 2nd or 3rd 



century. 

 (g.) Fragments of Homer's Iliad, Books III. and IV., the 



latter portion of Book IV. being complete ; 3rd century. 



Farm accompt in Greek, inscribed by a stilus on the 

 waxed surface of the inner side of one of the covers of a 

 set of wooden tablets ; 3rd century. 



Portion of a Latin deed, written in a chancery-cursive 

 hand on papyrus, in the 6th or 7th century. 



Fragment of the " Lex Wisigothica." Vellum. 8th or 9th 

 century. Presented by Prof. George Stephens of Copenhagen. 



Two Menasa, or collections of services for Saints' days, in 

 Greek. Vellum. 13th century. 



An Evangelistarium, or Lessons from the Gospels, in Greek. 

 Vellum. 14th century. 



Commentary of Servius on Virgil, 1464 ; and a Commentary 

 on Juvenal, 1474. In Latin. Presented by Prof. George 

 Stephens of Copenhagen. 



Papers relating to Antwerp, including original letters of 

 Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma ; 1521-1585. 



Theodori Amideni elogia summorum Pontificum et Cardina- 

 lium, 1564-1655. Presented by Canon E. C. Jenkins. 



Jacobite correspondence and papers, including a letter of 

 Prince James Stuart and a warrant of his son. Cardinal 

 Henry Stuart, 1688-1748. 



Letter-book of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, with 

 copies of his letters to Prince James Stuart, Card. Alberoni, 

 the Duke of Mar, and others, chiefly written from Spain and 

 relating to a projected invasion of Scotland and other Jacobite 

 Schemes ; 4 Nov. 1718—27 Sept. 1719. 



Papers relating to the annulment of the marriage of Prince 

 Jerome Bonaparte and Elizabeth Paterson ; 1806. 



Letter from Robert Browning, the poet, to W. G. Kingsland, 

 on the charge against him of obscurity, etc. ; 27 Nov. 1868. 

 Presented by P. Jenner Weir, Esq. 



Fragment of the original manuscript of Thomas deQuincey's 

 "Daughter of Lebanon"; with letters of Charlotte Bronte 

 (1850), Mark Lemon (1863), and John Leech (1864). 



Autograph addresses from John Flaxman, the sculptor, to 

 the Crown and the Royal Academy, on his plan for a monu- 

 ment of National Glory; 1801. 



Collections for the History of the Catholic Liturgy by 

 Carlo Baldassare Simelli ; 19th century. Seven volumes. 



Collections for a History of Kent, by Rev. Thomas Streat- 

 feild, of Chart's Edge {ob. 1848), continued by Rev. L. B. 

 Larking {ob. 1868). Fifty-two volumes. With a collection 

 of upwards of 500 charters, chiefly relating to Kent, tempp. 

 Edward III. — Will. & Mary. Presented by Mrs. Hanna 

 Streatfeild. 



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