30 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Eliot Hodgkin's extensive collection of historical autographs 

 and papers gave opportunity for the purchase of a useful 

 selection of documents, which are now arranged (except the 

 charters) in twelve volumes. Among them are original state 

 documents of Edward III. and Edward IV., an original letter 

 signed by Melancthon and other leading reformers, a holograph 

 letter of Henri IV. (as King of Navarre) to James VI., original 

 documents illustrative of Pepys' Diary and other militaiy and 

 naval papers of the 17th century, original letters of the Earl of 

 Danby, including those for which he was impeached, letters of 

 the later Stuarts, many letters illustrative of the changes in 

 social conditions, &c. 



Among acquisitions other than those noticed above are the 

 following, many of which are due to the generosity of private 

 donors (others have been purchased at the Dunn, Hodgkin, and 

 Dowden sales), viz. : — 



A collection of 36 Greek and Latin Papyri from Oxyrhynchus, 

 including portions of the Ichneutae and Eurypylus of Sophocles 

 (^these two have been allotted to the Museum, but not yet 

 actually delivered), the Meliambi of Cercidas, Phaedrus of 

 Plato, some speeches of Cicero, and documents, both Greek 

 and Latin, of interest. Presented by the Egyi^t Exploration 

 Fund. 



Two Greek vellum documents (title-deeds of a vineyard) of 

 the 1st cent. B.C., recently found (with one document in an 

 Aramaic script) in a dry cave in Western Media. The material 

 and the part of the world from which they come give to these 

 a unique palteographic interest. 



Passio S. Pancracii, with neums, lOth-llth cent. Presented 

 by Mrs. Ambrose Heal. 



Miracles of Hexham saints, metrical summary of the Bible 

 from Byland Abbey, and Foundation charters of St. Mary's, 

 York : three 12th cent. MSS. bound together. 



Beda's Historia Ecclesiastica, 12th cent. MS. from Kirkham 

 Abbey, with a story of the invention of St. Ragnar at 

 Northampton. 



Palladius de Agricultura, Vitruvius, and Vegetius, 12th 

 cent. 



Two Latin Psalters written in England, 12th and 13th-14th 

 centt. respectively. 



Latin Bible, illuminated in Italy, loth cent. From the 

 Bridgewater Fund. 



Proverbia Senecae, etc., MS. written at Tournai, 13th cent., 

 with interesting early stamped leather binding. 



Registrum Brevium, with notes for pleading in the local 

 court at Lincoln, 13th cent. 



Fragment (with 18 miniatures) of a fine but damaged MS. 

 of the Apocalypse in French, executed perhaps in England in 

 the 1-lth cent. 



