Catalogs of the Manuscript Books of England and Ireland Collected into One Volume

...reader might know which books were brought into this Library after that History of the Bodleian Library The famous research library at the University of Oxford was written and prefixed to the Catalog. Also, it should be noted that Sir George Wheeler, Knight original: "Eques Auratus"; a renowned English traveler and clergyman, gave his manuscript volumes as a gift to the so-called Lincoln College in Oxford. Also, that very ancient Greek manuscript containing the Holy Bible, along with the Letter of St. Clement to the Corinthians (commonly called the Codex Alexandrinus One of the three earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Greek Bible), still exists in the Royal Library at Westminster (at the Palace of St. James); even though it happens not to be mentioned in this Catalog.

But it also seemed necessary to advise that those authentic charters original: "Diplomata Authentica", etc., which concern the Church of St. Mary, Warwick, are the private property of Mr. Fish of Warwick; I mention this so that no dispute may arise hereafter on that matter to his disadvantage.

Finally, where a manuscript volume of Livy Titus Livius, the Roman historian is mentioned among the Laud manuscripts The collection donated to Oxford by Archbishop William Laud in the Bodleian Library at number 894 with this title: T. Livy, first, second, and fourth Decade; it should have said: T. Livy, first, third, and fourth Decade In the 17th century, finding the lost "second decade" (books 11-20) of Livy’s history was a major goal for scholars; the compiler is correcting a false hope created by a typo. And indeed, if the second Decade were held there, there is no doubt that it would have been printed long ago (for the common benefit of scholars).

And these are the matters which, since the task of arranging the Indexes was committed to my care, I thought should be noted.