Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of English metrical Lives of Saints (No. 949) has been placed among poetry, and not with the prose Lives in Class III. The principles of cataloguing followed are in the main the same as those of the sex- ennial catalogues of “ Additions to the MSS. in the British Museum.” The descriptions, however, are generally fuller, and the collections of historical correspondence and papers in particular are treated in more detail. The index, which has been made as comprehensive as possible, will be contained in a second volume. The compilation of the catalogue has been the work of the Depart- ment generally, Messrs. Jeayes, Bickley, Herbert and Kenyon having borne the greatest share. For the Anglo-Saxon Charters and the Hyde Eegister Mr. Birch is responsible. The revision has been done by Mr. Warner, Assistant-Keeper, and I have myself revised the descriptions of the Charters. Edward J. L. Scott, Keeper of MSS. 6 June, 1895.