Waagen, Gustav Friedrich: Treasures of art in Great Britain: being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., etc. (Band 1) (London, 1854)

LETTER IV.

Townley Collection : Terra cottas — Statues and busts — Old Persian
and East Indian sculptures, antiquities, bronzes, &c. — Portland vase ■—
Nineveh ivories — Bronze patera? — Etrurian ornaments — Mediaeval
objects — Fragments of wall-paintings — Vases 1— Cups — Drinking-
vessels — Coins ■— Bronstedt breastplates . . . Page 73

LETTER V.

Byzantine MSS. : Remains of Book of Genesis — Evangeliarium (Additional,
No. 4949) — Ditto (Add. 5111)— Ditto (Add. 11,838) — Psalter (Egerton,
1139)— Evangeliarium (Harleian, 1810) — Ditto (Harleian, 5790). —
Carlovingian MSS. : Evangeliarium, called the Codex aureus (Harleian,
3788) — The Vulgate. — French MSS. : Evangeliarium (Add. 11,739) —
Psalter (Add. 16,975)— Apocalypse (Add. 17,333)— The Bible (Harleian,
4831) — Missal (Harleian, 29,940) — Roman de la Rose (Harleian, 4425)
— Poem and Ballads — French translation of work by Boccaccio — Book
of Prayers (Add. 728). — Netherlandish MSS. : The Vulgate (Add.
17,738) — Missal (Add. 16,949) — Psalter (Biblia Regia) — Office of the
Virgin (Add. 16,997) — Poems of Christina of Pisa (Harleian, 4431) —
Missal — Psalter (Cotton)— Some sheets of parchment (Add. 12,531) 95

LETTER VI.

Anglo-Saxon and English MSS. : Astronomical poem of Aratus (Harleian
617) — Evangeliarium (Cotton) — Psalter (Cotton) — Ditto (Harleian,
2904) — Ditto (Cotton) — Paraphrase of Pentateuch and of Book of
Joshua—Psalter (Harleian, 663)—Ditto (Cotton)—MS. containing
various treatises — Life of St. Gutlac — Latin poem of Aurelius Pruden-
tius (Cotton) — The Bible (Cotton) — Psalter (Lansdowne, 383) — Har-
mony of the Gospels (Cotton) — Psalter (MSS. Regia) —Ditto (Harleian,
5102) — Ditto (Arundel, 157) — Ditto (Lansdowne, 420) — History of the
English Nation (MSS. Regia) —MS. containing Life of King Offa, &c.
(Cotton) — Psalter (Biblia Regia) — Vulgate (MSS. Regia) — Psalter
(Arundel) —Ditto (MSS. Regia) —Albumazar's Astronomy (Sloane) —
Bible Historiale (MSS. Regia) — Fragment of Lectionary (Harleian) —
Vulgate (MSS. Regia) — Office of the Virgin (Biblia Regia) — Ditto (Har-
leian, 2900) — MS. of a religious poem (Cotton) — Life of King Edmund
the Saint, by Lydgate (Harleian, 2278) •— Missal (Harleian, 3000) —
Office of the Virgin (Harleian, 2846) — Ditto (Harleian, 2884) — MS. of
Henry VI. — Office of the Virgin — Ditto (Harleian, 2853) — Ditto (Add.
17,012) — Psalter belonging to Henry VIII.....136