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and usefully supplement the existing collections of the 

 Department. 



At the sale of Lord Ashburnham's manuscripts, known as 

 the Barrois collection, in June, the Department succeeded in 

 securing 13 MSS. of great value and interest, viz. :— Jerome's 

 Commentary on Isaiah, in a late Merovingian hand of the end 

 of the 8th cent., changing into a contemporary English hand ; 

 the Laws of the Franks, ] 0th cent., being part of a MS. of which 

 the other part is already in the Museum as Egerton MS. 269 ; 

 Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica, with illuminations in 

 the North French style, 13th cent. ; the French poems known 

 as the Testament de Jehan de Meung and the Traite du 

 Rossignol, 15th cent. ; Isidore's Liber Etymologiarum, with 

 miniatures, 14th cent. ; the romance of Percival le Gallois, 

 by Chretien de Troyes, and the Life of St. Mary of Egypt, 

 14th cent. ; the romance of Godfrey de Bouillon, early 

 14th cent. ; a Franciscan missal, with miniatures executed 

 probably in East Anglia, early 14th cent. ; Chyrurgia 

 Albucasim, with drawings of surgical instruments, early 

 14th cent. ; Charters and Laws of Aragon, 14th cent. ; Mili- 

 tary Ordinances of Charles the Bold, issued at Treves in 

 1473, with a fine miniature; Instructions on Assay and 

 Coining, 1467 ; and a Memoir on the Government of the 

 Netherlands, by the French Ambassador, M. Bonrepaux, 1699. 



Special mention must also be made of the 29 volumes of 

 papers of Sir Richard Church, presented by his nephew, 

 Canon C. M. Church. They include 20 volumes of corre- 

 spondence, covering Sir Richard's service in the Ionian 

 Islands, 1809-1815, and in the war of liberty in Greece, 

 1827-1829, and five volumes of narrative of his experiences 

 during the latter period, when he was Generalissimo of the 

 Greek armies. 



Among the other acquisitions, the following deserve 

 notice : — 



Orations of St. Gregory Nazianzen, in Greek ; 10th cent. 



Martyrology for Jan. 9-17, in Greek, with Byzantine 

 initials ; 1 lth-12th cent. 



Martyrology for the month of February, in Gre.ek ; 

 llth-12th cent. 



Martyrology for Nov. 4-13, in Greek, with Byzantine 

 initials ; 11th cent. 



Grant by Edward IV. of hereditary arms to Louis de 

 Bruges, Earl of Winchester, 1472. 



Leaf from the Register of the Leathersellers' Company in 

 London ; 15th cent. ; illuminated with arms and border. 

 Presented by H. Gregory, Esq. 



Despatch, signed by Generals Monck and Blake, to Lord_ 

 General Cromwell, 4 June 1653, reporting their great victory 

 over the Dutch fleet on the previous day. 



