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vi PREFATORY NOTE
III. Codices Carewani. Nos. 596-638
The collections, relating to Irish affairs, of Sir George Carew,
president of Munster under Elizabeth, who died Earl of
Totnes in 1629. These have been fully calendared as State
Papers, and are (with few exceptions) not described in this
catalogue.
IV. Codices Tenisoniani. Nos. 639-928
The collections of Archbishop Tenison, given by him. They
include the Bacon papers and the Earl of Shrewsbury’s
correspondence. Few are of mediaeval date.
V. Codices Gibsoniani. Nos. 929-942
Consist partly of papers given by Tenison to Edmund
Gibson (then Lambeth Librarian), the well-known Bishop
of London, with additions made by Gibson.
VI. Codices Miscellanei. Nos. 943-1174
Answering to their title. Some few books in this division
have strayed from among the Lambethani.
VII. Codices Manners-Suttoniani. Nos. 1175-1221
Most of them are Greek or Oriental MSS. collected in the
Levant in 1800/1 by Professor J. D. Carlyle and Dr (after-
wards Sir) Philip Hunt. There are a few other outlying
MSS. acquired at various dates. This group is not included
in the present volume.
The only full printed catalogue hitherto made of these MSS. is
that of H. J. Todd, issued in folio in a small edition in 1812, now
a rare and costly book.
In 1900 I issued a hand list of the mediaeval MSS., printed for
the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. The present full Catalogue
was begun by me in 1915, with the kind consent of Archbishop
Davidson and the support of the Rev. Claude Jenkins, Librarian
(now Canon of Canterbury), who has undertaken the description of
III. Codices Carewani. Nos. 596-638
The collections, relating to Irish affairs, of Sir George Carew,
president of Munster under Elizabeth, who died Earl of
Totnes in 1629. These have been fully calendared as State
Papers, and are (with few exceptions) not described in this
catalogue.
IV. Codices Tenisoniani. Nos. 639-928
The collections of Archbishop Tenison, given by him. They
include the Bacon papers and the Earl of Shrewsbury’s
correspondence. Few are of mediaeval date.
V. Codices Gibsoniani. Nos. 929-942
Consist partly of papers given by Tenison to Edmund
Gibson (then Lambeth Librarian), the well-known Bishop
of London, with additions made by Gibson.
VI. Codices Miscellanei. Nos. 943-1174
Answering to their title. Some few books in this division
have strayed from among the Lambethani.
VII. Codices Manners-Suttoniani. Nos. 1175-1221
Most of them are Greek or Oriental MSS. collected in the
Levant in 1800/1 by Professor J. D. Carlyle and Dr (after-
wards Sir) Philip Hunt. There are a few other outlying
MSS. acquired at various dates. This group is not included
in the present volume.
The only full printed catalogue hitherto made of these MSS. is
that of H. J. Todd, issued in folio in a small edition in 1812, now
a rare and costly book.
In 1900 I issued a hand list of the mediaeval MSS., printed for
the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. The present full Catalogue
was begun by me in 1915, with the kind consent of Archbishop
Davidson and the support of the Rev. Claude Jenkins, Librarian
(now Canon of Canterbury), who has undertaken the description of