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surviving members of the Company, through Mr. G. T. Legg ; a Chartulary 

 of the Priory or Hospital of Little Wymondley, co. Herts., mid 13th 

 century, presented by the Friends of the National Libraries ; a Chartulary 

 of Shaftesbury Abbey, co. Dorset, 15th century ; and a Terrier of 

 Glastonbury Abbey, 1514-17. 



Among modern autograph works and letters, the papers of Samuel 

 Butler, presented by the literary executors, Dr. Geoffrey Keynes and 

 Mr. Brian Hill. Other acquisitions under this heading include the MS. of 

 Herbert Spencer's ' Social Statics,' presented by the Herbert Spencer 

 Trustees; and the autograph and signed MS. of an article by W. E. 

 Gladstone on Tennyson's " Locksley Hall Sixty Years After,"' presented 

 by Mr. Gabriel Wells. Musical MSS, include the autograph MS. of 

 Rossini's ' Stabat Mater,' presented by Mr. Julian G. Lousada, in memory 

 of Mme. Christine Nilsson. An important deposit has also been received 

 from the British Broadcasting Corporation in the shape of the autograph 

 MS. of the unfinished Third Symphony of the late Sir Edward Elgar, O.M., 

 on indefinite loan. 



Collections of papers and historical documents : — the Gladstone Papers ' 

 in 750 volumes, have been incorporated in accordance with the deed of 

 gift of 14th December, 1929. Other acquisitions include four letters, etc., 

 of Robert Clive, addressed to Robert Orme, three presented by the 

 Friends of the National Libraries and the fourth by Lieut. -General Sir 

 Gerald F. Ellison, G.C.B. ; the papers of Lieut. -General John Campbell, 

 4th Earl of Loudoun, in the campaign of 1762-3, presented by the Friends 

 of the National Libraries ; and documents relating to the early history 

 of the British settlement on Tristan da Cunha, presented by the late 

 Douglas M. Gane and Mr. Ernest F. Gates. 



Charters and Rolls, and Seals. Acquisitions under this heading 

 include a grant by Ralph de Sudeley of Toddington, co. Glouc, in exchange 

 for ' Dercet ' (Burton-Dassett, co. Warw.), circa 1160, with seal, presented 

 by Mr. G. Murray Andrews, Mr. H. Carson Andrews, Mr. M. F. Maclean, 

 and Miss Violet Maclean ; and a grant by Humphrey de Bohun, 13th 

 century, presented anonymously. 



Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts. 



Arabic MSS. : A Synaxarium of the Eastern Church, largely of the 

 11th century ; forty-four makalat or expositions of St. Matthew's Gospel, 

 with homilies thereupon, largely of the 12th century ; Bahr al-fawa'id, a 

 commentary by al-KatibI on his 'Ain al-kawa'id, A.H. 680 ; Sharh 

 'uyiin kitab Sibawaih, a commentary by Abu Nasr Hariin b. Musa al- 

 Kurtubi on Sibawaih's manual of grammar, 12th or 13th century ; 

 Al-Tadkar fi afdal il-ac^kar, by Muh. Ibn Farah al-Ansari al-Kurtubi on 

 the revelation and quahties of the Kur'an, etc., 14th century. 



Persian MS. : Divan of Shams i Tabriz, probably 15th century. 



Chinese MSS. : Yung lo ta tien, the encyclopaedia of the Emperor 

 Yung-lo ; pts. 15,955-56, 16th century ; presented by Mrs. Couling. 



Chinese Printed Books : Fo shuo ta pao fu mu en ching, an apocryphal 

 Sutra on the requital of parents' kindness. Printed from wooden blocks, 

 with many woodcuts, 15th century. Ssu k'u ch'uan shu, a collection of 

 reprints of rare books, 1934-35 ; presented by the National Central 

 Library of Nanking. 



