10 BRITISH MUSEUTVI 



From Mr. Wilfred Merton : nine volumes of papers of the first Lord 

 Scudamore. 



From Mr. G. L. Lawrence : a letter of Sir Henry Irving, 1872. 



From Mrs. Stella Rose Raper : a letter of General Gordon, 1877. 



From Mr. Lawrence Binyon : an autograph copy of his poem " For 

 the Fallen." 



From Mr. A. H. Godsell (as executor of the late Samuel Smith) : 

 a volume of autograph poems of Ernest Dowson. 



From Mr. Hugh Tolson : five Briefs of Pope Alexander VI, 1666-67. 



From the Curator of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery, 

 Hereford : an impression of the obverse of the Seal of the Court of Common 

 Pleas of Henry VII or VIII. 



From Mr. A. E. G. Copp : a grant by Queen Ehzabeth, 1602, with 

 her Second Great Seal. 



By purchase : — 

 The Pauline Epistles and Apocalypse, in Greek, tenth century, part 

 of the same manuscript as Add. MS. 28875. 



The Geoponica, in Greek, eleventh century. 



A Charter of Winiam II to Battle Abbey, circa 1091-1095 A.D., with 

 Great Seal. • 



Geoffrey of Monmouth, de Gestis Britorum, with a chronicle of St. 

 Benet's Huhne priory, etc., 13th-14th century. 



Gentil Milicia, by Odoardo degli Maynardi, fourteenth century. 

 Lives, in Latin and EngHsh, of Robert of Knaresborough, circa 1400. 

 Three volumes of letters of Rainer Maria von Rilke, Hugo von 

 Hofmannsthal, Malmda von Meysenbug, and others, to Marie Herzfeld. 



By bequest : — 

 From Mrs. A. Pinto Leite : three autograph manuscripts of R. D. 

 Blackmore. 



Oriental Printed Books and Manuscrijjts. 



Five Arabic manuscripts, including a Sufic treatise on the ninety-five 

 divine attributes, biographies of famous inhabitants of Damascus, and a 

 collection of anecdotes and verses on drinking habits in Abbasid times, 



A Hebrew service book containing the Daily and Festival Prayers 

 according to an Italian rite, with paraphrases of Uturgical compositions 

 on the festival of Pentecost, fifteenth century. 



A Midhrashic commentary on the Pentateuch in Judaeo-Arabic, 

 fourteenth-fifteenth century. 



A Chinese encyclopaedic dictionary, copied 1567 A.D. 



An atlas of coloured maps of China and some adjoining countries, 

 with notes, in six volumes, seventeenth century. 



Vidura-jataka, inscribed on strips of palm-leaf, and illustrated with 

 numerous finely incised drawings, eighteenth century. 



