Royal Appendix MS 71

ROY. APP. 7I

'CATALOGUS Librorum MSS. Bibliothecae Regiae. 1666': list of the MSS. as they stood on the shelves in St. James's Palace. This is the list referred to in the present Catalogue as 'cat. of 1666'. It is the fullest extant list of the collection prior to the acquisition of the Theyer library, but is defective in the omission of many small pamphlets and 8vo books (chiefly complimentary addresses, &c.), and also of a series of more important MSS. (especially classical) corresponding to CMA. nos. 8591-8693. These were probably kept in another room, and partial lists of the small books occur in Roy. App. 83 and 86 (ff. 28, 35), see below. The numbers of the shelves or presses (each in two parts) are as follows:-'Latus occidentale, nos. 1-9, 14-18, 25-27, 29-33; latus orientale, nos. 36-38', and there are also 'scrinia' (desk-cupboards?) numbered 1-5, 14-18, 25, 26, 29-31. The catalogue printed by Bernard (CMA.) is, with the exception of its nos. 8591- 8693, a mere compilation made from this shelf-list rearranged with wholesale omissions (all the Greek, French, and English MSS.), cf. Roy. App. 86, art. 14, below. The MS. lists in Harley MS. 694 and a Pepys MS. at Magdalene College, Cambridge, are practically identical with Bernard's list, and another (including printed books) was in the Phillipps collection (no. 10307, sold at Sotheby's, May, 1913, lot 612). Paper ff. 21. Folio. 123/4 in. x 71/2 in. A.D. 1666. Formerly numbered Add. MS. 6415, but restored to the Royal collection by Sir F. Madden in 1852.