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Forty-four volumes, thirty-two of which con- room vi. 
tain an obituary kept by the donor, the rest being mss. 
a collection of autographs, original warrants, and 
other documents, catalogues of portraits, &c. be¬ 
queathed, together with a considerable library of 
printed books, by Sir William Musgrave, Bart. 
A numerous collection of manuscripts, chiefly 
relating to the county and university of Cam¬ 
bridge, bequeathed by the Rev. Wm. 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 
Hebrew MSS. and printed books, was presented 
by Solomon Da Costa, Esq. 
Against the press ^ hang three specimens of 
minute writing, forming the portraits of Queen 
Anne, Prince George of Denmark, and the Duke 
of Gloucester their son. 
Against the press XVIII. hangs an original 
deed in Latin, written on papyrus, being a con¬ 
veyance of some land to a monastery; dated 
Ravenna, A° 572, bought at the sale of the 
Pinelli library. And opposite to it is a large spe¬ 
cimen of the reed (Cyperns Papyrus) of which 
that kind of paper is made. 
In the second window hangs an Italian note to 
Sir William Hamilton, written on modern papy¬ 
rus, explaining the mode of preparing it. 
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