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There are many ancient Copies of feveral Parts 
of the Bible, and Originals of fome Works that 
were formerly held in great Efteem among the 
Ecclefiaftics. 
Bur what is more particularly to be admired, is 
an Original of that great Bulwark of our Liberties, 
the Magna Cbarta ; and if fo, how can we fuffi- 
ciently lament its having been greatly injured by an 
accidental Fire that damaged the whole Colle&ion. 
As a Catalogue has alfo been publifhed of thefe 
Manufcripts, I need not any longer detain my 
Reader in this Room, but proceed to the next, 
which contains, 
BIBLIOTHECA HARLEIANA MSS. 
Thefe are a Part of the Harleian Manufcripts, 
which are a Collection on which we cannot eafily 
fet too high a Value. The Room we are now 
treating of, contains many curious Copies of the 
Bible, and the different Parts of it, in a Variety 
of Languages. 
Some original Manufcripts, treating of Divinity 
and Ecclefiaftical Matters, fuch as Paraphrafes, 
Homilies, Commentaries, Rituals, £sV. written at 
different Periods of Time, and defcribing the feve¬ 
ral SeCts of Chriftianity difperled in all Parts of the 
World where it has been eflablifhed. 
Alcorans, and other 'turkijh Books, with fome 
hiflorical Accounts of the Rife of M&bometanifm. 
A Tborab, the five Books of Mofes, finely wrote 
in Hebrew on a Vellum Roll, fuch as the Jews ufed 
to have in every Synagogue, when it was found 
very correCt. It was not ufuai for them to produce 
it but on certain folemn Occafions. 
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