Royal Appendix MS 69

TABULA librorum de historiis anitiquitatum ac diuinitate tractancium in librariis et domibus religiosis subscriptis repertorum, nulla mencione habita de libris communiter impressis seu de materiis predictis minime tractancium': list in a contemporary copyist's hand of MSS. of history or divinity seen by John Leland in thirty-five religious houses of Lincolnshire, when investigating under hiscommission (1533-4) from Henry VIII. The names of the houses are given in the Index. A note in the King's own hand against St. Catharine's, Lincoln, MSS., 'vel omnes vel antiquior istorum' (f. 2 b), and ticks against some thirty-five others doubtless mark the acquisitions to be made for the Royal Library. The list is presumably taken from Leland's Collectanea, but the existing MSS. do not contain it and it does not appear in Hearne's editions. The MS. is not noticed in Miss Toulmin Smith's introduction to her edition of the Itinerary (1907-1910).

Paper; ff. 9. Folio. 113/4 in. x 73/4 in. Circ. A.D. 1533-1543. Formerly numbered Add. MS. 6413 in the same circumstances as the preceding MSS. (notes by Sir H. Ellis and Sir F. Madden on f. 1).