DEPARTMENT OF MSS. 29 



Fifty miscellaneous Greek documents on papyrus, from 

 the 2ncl cent. B.C. to the 7th cent., of considerable palseo- 

 graphical importance. 



Two Latin papyri, of the 2nd and 3rd centuries. 



The Four Gospels, in Greek ; 12th century. With minia- 

 tures of the Evangelists. Vellum. 



Liturgy of St. Basil, in Greek ; 12th century. Vellum roll. 



Registrum Brevium, containing two collections of precedents 

 of writs, tempp. Edw. III. — Hen. VI. ; 15th century. Vellum. 

 Presented hy Sir A. Wollaston Franks, k.c.b. 



Anonymous Treatises on the Elements, and on Gems and 

 Metals, in Latin, in an Italian hand ; loth century. Presented 

 hy the same. 



Original letters and papers of the Family of Paston, of 

 CO. Norfolk; 15th-16th centuries ; comprising the portion of 

 the collection published by Sir John Fenn in Vols. III. & IV. 

 of his edition, 1789. 



Indulgence of Pope Eugenius IV. to Humphrey, Duke of 

 Gloucester ; 1431. 



Register of Royal Warrants to John Fortescue, Master of 

 the Wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth, for pa;y nients f or materials 

 and workmanship, with minute descriptive details of dresses, 

 etc.; 1568-1589. 



Original letters of Philip Gawdy to his father and brother, 

 of West Harling, co. Norfolk, written when he was a student 

 at Clifford's Inn, in office about the court, M.P. for Thetford, 

 and engaged on board the "Revenge," in 1591, under Sir 

 Richard Grenville ; 1579-1616. 



Five original letters of Charles I., the first to Sir Edw. Hyde 

 from Oatlands, and the others written during his imprison- 

 ment at Carisbrooke ; 1647-1648. With an anonymous letter 

 to Charles II., written on white silk, 13 Mar. 1660. 



Muster-rolls and accompts of Col. Thomas Reade's Regiment ; 

 1658-1659. Presented hy R. C. Winthrop, Jun., Esq. 



Letter from Lord Sunderland, President of the Council, to 

 the English Agent at Rome, announcing the birth of the 

 Prince of Wales ; 11 June, 1688. Presented hy Sir Edward 

 Reid. 



Instructions of Lord Holland for raising moneys to pay 

 the debts of his son, Charles James Fox, up to 100,000^. ; 

 26 Nov. 1773. With an autograph Latin Prose exercise, at 

 Eton, of C. J. Fox. Presented by the same. 



Letter from Lord John Russell to Bishop Maltby of Durham, 

 on " the late aggression of the Pope upon our Protestantism " ; 

 Downing Street, 4 Nov. 1850. The famous " Durham Letter." 

 Presented hy Lieut. G. R. Malthy. 



A Royal Charter by Simeon Mogila, Woy wode and Hospodar 

 of Moldavia; 1607. With the Great Seal. 



An appointment of a Familiar of the Holy Inquisition in 

 Seville; 1641. Presented hy Max Rosenheim, Esq. 



0.125. Life, 



