Royal Appendix MS 66

CATALOGUE and Papers relating to the library given by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, viz.:-

1. Copy of indenture quadripartite for the government of the library, made 1 Jan. 1574/5 between Archbishop Parker, the Master and Fellows of Corpus, the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, and the Master and Fellows of Trinity Hall, revoking previous instruments dated 6 Aug. 1569 and 1 Feb. 1571/2. Latin. f. 3.

2. Catalogue of the library, viz. (a) 'In maiore bibliotheca', printed books classed according to subject, with date of imprint (two dates later than 1574 are slips of the pen for the previous century). f. 13;-(b) 'In minore bibliotheca', manuscripts, with incipit, in presses A-W and 'on the ground under C', and 'under M'. f. 27;-(c) 'Bookes in parchment closures as they lye in heapes', printed books with date of imprint and MSS. with incipit. From the end of heap 19 to the end of the catalogue a different hand. f. 40 b;-

(d) 'Standinge on the shelues within the lockers as here directed by seauen figures', printed books, with dates. f. 49;-(e) 'Theis to be kept within the little library', viz. twenty-two volumes of 'Miscellanea, lettered A-Z, and twenty-five other MS. volumes and two rolls, all of which are more minutely described, consisting mainly of letters and autograph papers of reformers and university and other statutes. Among these are Cranmer's theological collections, now in the British Museum, Royal MSS. 7 B. XI, XII. f. 58.

3. Copy of indenture between the same three colleges relating to plate given them by the same archbishop, 6 Aug. [1569], with notes of additional gifts of plate 1 Feb. 1571/2, and a gift of money to Corpus Christi College, 2574. Engl. f. 72 b.

4. 'Bokes to remayne within the under chamber of the tenth chamber on the est syde for the comon use of all six Norwiche scollers', and 'impelmentes [i. e. furniture] to remayne within the under chamber of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh chambers . . . for the use of cartaine Norwiche scollers newe fownded in Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambryge'. f. 75.

Some notes on f. 2 b are apparently in Patrick Young's hand.

Paper; ff. 75. 8 in. x 53/4 in. Circ. A.D. 1575. The MS. belonged to John, Lord Lumley, whose name (see note by Sir Henry Ellis on f. 1) was on the old cover; Lumley cat. f. 219. It was taken from the 'refuse' of the Royal Library in 1823 and numbered as Add. MS. 6403, and was restored to the Royal collection by Sir F. Madden in 1862. Not in the cat. of 1666 or CMA.