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an obituary kept by the donor, the rest being a col- room vi, 
lection of autographs, original warrants, and other 
documents, catalogues of portraits, &c. bequeathed, 
together with a considerable library of printed books, 
by Sir William Musgrave, Bart. 
A numerous collection of manuscripts, chiefly re¬ 
lating to the county and university of Cambridge, 
bequeathed by the Rev. William Cole, M.A. 
In the presses and XVI. are two rolls of the 
Pentateuch on vellum, the former of considerable 
antiquity, and the latter much more recent: this 
latter, together with a considerable number of He¬ 
brew MSS. and printed books, was presented by 
Solomon Da Costa, Esq. 
Against the press ^ hang three specimens of mi¬ 
nute writing, forming the portraits of Queen Anne, 
Prince George of Denmark, and the Duke of Glou¬ 
cester their son. 
Against the press XVIII. hangs an original deed 
in Latin, written on papyrus, being a conveyance of 
some land to a monastery; dated Ravenna, A°572, 
bought at the sale of the Pinelli library. And op¬ 
posite to it is a large specimen of the reed ( Cyperiis 
Papyrtis) of which that kind of paper is made. 
In the second window hangs an Italian note to 
Sir William Hamilton, written on modern papyrus, 
explaining the mode of preparing it. 
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