490. Reports from the commissioners respecting the public records of Ireland. 3 vols. [London, 1815-25.]

These three volumes contain the first fifteen annual reports. The 16th and 17th reports are in Parliamentary Papers, 1828, vol. xii. ; the 18th and 19th, ibid., 1830, vol. xvi. The supplement to the 8th report (1819) contains valuable inventories of plea, pipe, and memoranda rolls, etc.

491. *Reports [Annual] of the deputy keeper of the public records. Parl. Papers. London, 1840, etc.-Index, 1840-61, London, 1865.-Index, 1862-78, London, 1880.

The appendixes, especially those of reports i.-x. and xxiv.-1., contain many lists and calendars of records. There is a useful abstract of their contents in Catalogue of Record Publications (No. 539). See below, app. A.

492. Reports [Annual] of the deputy keeper of the public records, Ireland. Parl. Papers. Dublin, 1869, etc.

For an abstract of their contents, see Catalogue of Record Publications (No. 539). The first report gives an account of the contents of the principal repositories of Irish public records. See below, app. A.

493. Return of all the record publications relating to England and Wales published by the late record and state-paper commissioners, or under the master of the rolls, up to the end of the year 1866, including the Irish and Scotch records. Parl. Papers, 1867-68, vol. lv. [London], 1867.

For a return of the titles of works left unfinished by the Record Commissioners, see ibid., 1842, vol. xxxiv.

494. ROBERTS, R. A. The public records relating to Wales. Soc. of Cymmrodorion, Y Cymmrodor, x. 157–206. London, 1890.

495. SIMS, RICHARD. A manual for the genealogist, topographer, antiquary, and legal professor. London, 1856.

The appendix contains brief notices of the old record repositories, public libraries, etc. See No. 311.

496. THOMAS, F. S.

London, 1853.

Handbook to the public records.

This was the official handbook to the public records until the publication of Scargill Bird's work (No. 459). The introduction and the appendix contain much information concerning the history of the public records; most of it is taken from the Notes of Materials (No. 497).

497.*] Notes of materials for the history of public departments. London, 1846.

Public Record Office, 111-216: the fullest account of the history of the public records. App. E. contains a list of the publications of the various record commissions.

§ 13. THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND OTHER

REPOSITORIES.

a. General, Nos. 498-504.

b. London, Nos. 505-25.

c. Oxford and Cambridge, Nos. 526-36.

The following lists contain only such catalogues, etc., as are particularly useful to students of medieval history. See also Nos. 310-11, 486-7, 489. For the archives of boroughs, cathedrals, etc., see Nos. 487, 489, 498-504, 787a, 790, §§ 57, 58d, and app. B. For cathedral libraries Schenkl (vols. cxxxi., cxxxix.) is particularly important, and mentions earlier catalogues. For manuscripts relating to English history in continental libraries and archives, see Deputy Keeper's Reports, xxxvi., xlii.-xlvii. ; Report on Rymer's Fodera (No. 2099); and Round's Calendar (No. 2114). An account of the manuscripts in Trinity college library will be found in T. K. Abbott's Catalogue of the MSS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (Dublin, etc., 1900). For those at Glasgow, see John Young, Catalogue of the MSS. in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow (completed, under the direction of the Young Memorial Committee, by P. H. Aitken), Glasgow, 1908. A catalogue, by M. R. James, of the Western MSS. in the John Rylands library at Manchester is now in the press; for his catalogues of medieval libraries, see No. 787a. Collections of manuscripts very important for Welsh history are preserved in the National Library of Wales, at Aberystwyth.

a. GENERAL.

498. [BERNARD, EDWARD.] Catalogi librorum MSS. Angliæ et Hiberniæ. Oxford, 1697.

Includes the Bodleian library, the university library at Cambridge, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, cathedral and private libraries.

499. BOTFIELD, BERIAH. Notes on the cathedral libraries of England. London, 1849.

500. Catalogus librorum MSS. in bibliotheca Thomæ Phillipps. 3 pts. Middle Hill, [1824-67).

A poor catalogue; cf. Schenkl (No. 504), vols. cxxvi.-cxxvii. Many of the MSS. have recently been sold.

• 501. EDWARDS, EDWARD. Memoirs of libraries. 2 vols. London, 1859.

Contains an account of the MSS. in the British Museum, the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, cathedrals, inns of court, Lambeth palace, etc.

502. HAENEL, GUSTAV. Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum. Leipsic, 1830.

Cambridge, Middle Hill, etc., 782-910.

502a. LITTLE, A. G.

Initia operum Latinorum quæ sæculis xiii., xiv., xv. attribuuntur. Manchester, 1904.

Contains incipits of nearly 6000 writings, many of them anonymous, preserved in English libraries.

503. *Reports of the royal commission on historical manuscripts. Parl. Papers. London, 1870, etc.

These reports relate to MSS. in private libraries and to the archives of boroughs, cathedrals, colleges, etc. Seventeen reports with elaborate appendixes, which since 1899 have taken the form of independent publications, have thus far been issued (more than 140 volumes or parts). For their contents, with an index of the medieval portions, see below, app. B; and there is a useful list in the Catalogue of Record Publications (No. 539). See also R. A. Roberts, Concerning the Historical Manuscripts Commission, Royal Hist. Soc., Trans., 3rd series, 1910, iv. 63-81. For Scottish affairs treated of in the reports, see C. S. Terry, An Index to the Papers relating to Scotland Described or Calendared in the Historical MSS. Commission's Reports, Glasgow, 1908.

504. SCHENKL, HEINRICH. Bibliotheca patrum Latinorum Britannica. Akademie der Wissensch., Sitzungsberichte, Philos.Hist. Classe, vols. cxxi., cxxiii., cxxiv., cxxvi., cxxvii., cxxxi., cxxxiii., cxxxvi., cxxxvii., cxxxix., cxliii., cl., clvii. 13 pts. Vienna, 1890-1908.

Includes patristic literature and Latin classical works in the libraries of Great Britain, excepting the university library at Cambridge, certain series in the Bodleian and college libraries at Oxford, and the British Museum.

b. LONDON.

Among repositories of manuscript material relating to English history, the British Museum ranks next to the Public Record Office. It contains twelve distinct collections (over 50,500 volumes and 76,000 charters and rolls), the most valuable of which for students of history are the Cotton, Harley, Lansdowne, and Additional MSS. The smaller collections acquired

from time to time, excepting those purchased with the income of the Egerton fund, are usually merged in the Additional MSS. These are numbered consecutively (up to No. 38,091 at the close of the year 1910); Nos. 1-4100 form the Sloane collection. The Additional and the Egerton MSS. are described in the Catalogue of Additions (No. 505). There is a separate printed catalogue of each of the other collections, except the New Royal or King's collection, the catalogue of which is in manuscript only. There is also accessible in the British Museum a useful General Class-Catalogue of the various collections. For facsimiles of some of the MSS., see Nos. 255, 257.

The library of the Inner 1 emple contains the valuable Petyt MSS., and the library of Lincoln's Inn the Hale MSS. In Lambeth palace will be found the registers of the archbishops of Canterbury, numerous ancient charters, court rolls of manors, rentals, etc.; and in the library of the Society of Antiquaries are Liber Winton, wardrobe accounts, the registers of Peterborough abbey, etc. The archives of the College of Arms are of special interest to genealogists.

The British Museum
See No. 2372.

505. Catalogue of additions to the MSS. in 1836–[1910]. 12 vols. [London], 1843-1912.-Index to the Additional and Egerton MSS. acquired in 1783-1835. [London], 1849.-Index to the additions in 1854-75. [London], 1880.

The additions' include Additional MSS., Additional Charters and Rolls, Egerton MSS., Egerton Charters and Rolls, etc. See below, Ayscough's Catalogue of Sloane MSS. (No. 513).

506. Catalogue of MSS. [Arundel and Burney collections]. 2 vols. and index. London, 1834-40.

507. Catalogue of the MSS. in the Cottonian library. Record Com. [London], 1802.

See No. 486.

508. Catalogue of MSS. formerly in the possession of Francis Hargrave. London, 1818.

509. Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. Record Com. 4 vols. [London], 1808-12.

510. Catalogue of Irish MSS. [By Standish Hayes O'Grady. London, 1895 ?]

511. Catalogue of the MSS. in the King's [Old Royal] library. By David Casley. London, 1734.-New edition in preparation.

512. Catalogue of the Lansdowne MSS. Record Com. [London], 1819.

513. Catalogue of MSS., including the collections of Hans Sloane, Thomas Birch, etc. [Additional MSS. to No. 5017]. By Samuel Ayscough. 2 vols. vols. London, 1782.-Index to the Sloane MSS. By E. J. L. Scott. London, 1904.

514. Catalogue of the Stowe MSS. [acquired in 1883]. 2 vols. [London], 1895-96.

515. Catalogue of the MSS. relating to Wales in the British Museum. By Edward Owen. Soc. of Cymmrodorion, Record Series, no. 4. 3 pts. London, 1900-1908.

Cf. Historical MSS. Commission, Report on MSS. in the Welsh Language, vol. ii, pt. iv., London, 1910 (Parl. Papers, 1910, vol. xxxvi.).

515a. Catalogue of romances in the department of manuscripts in the British Museum. By H. L. D. Ward. Vols. i.-iii. (vol. iii. by J. A. Herbert). London, 1883-1910.

Vol. i. contains much about the MSS. of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum (No. 1374); vol. iii. deals with homilies, etc.

516. Handbook to the library of the British Museum, containing a brief history of its formation and of the various collections of which it is composed. By Richard Sims. London, 1854.

516a. Index to the charters and rolls in the department of manuscripts, ed. H. J. Ellis and F. B. Bickley. 2 vols. London, 1900-1912.

517. Lives of the founders of the British Museum. By Edward Edwards. 2 vols. London, 1870.

College of Arms, Inns of Court, etc.

518. Calendar of the Carew MSS. preserved in the library at Lambeth [Book of Howth, etc.], ed. J. S. Brewer and William Bullen. Rolls Series. London, 1871.

Contains the texts of the Book of Howth and Thomas Bray's Conquest of Ireland (Nos. 1724-5), together with a calendar of papers relating to