Royal Appendix MS 86

CATALOGUES of Printed Books and MSS. in the Royal Library, circ. 1661-1666, viz.:-

1. Inventory of printed books and MSS. at St. James's Palace, signed on every page by John Durie and Thomas Ross [the outgoing and incoming librarians in 1661]. Incomplete, consisting of the following parts:-(a) Printed books, chiefly Latin and folio or quarto, the date of publication rarely noted, arranged in groups of either ten or twenty, numbered 30-112. Imperfect at beginning. f. 2;-(b) Smaller books (8vo, &c.) of the same kind, arranged in groups of ten, and also numbered individually 1-369. f. 21;-(c) A short list (marked no. 8) of only fifteen printed books, of various sizes. f. 25;-(d) Another list of printed books, chiefly Latin, folio and quarto, numbered 116-210 and 1-6. Imperfect at beginning. f. 26.-(e) Latin MSS., 8vo and smaller, chiefly addresses and verses, &c., arranged in groups of ten, numbered 5-11. About a score of these would appear to have been moved soon after, so that they appear in the shelf-list of 1666 (Roy. App. 71) in 'scrinia', nos. 17, 18, 30, 31, but the rest are not included in that list, though most of them are still in the library. Imperfect at the beginning. f. 28 (f) English printed books, folio (numbered 1-34, 1-8), quarto (nos. 1-200), and 8vo (1-45, 1-4). f. 29;-

(g) English and Latin MSS., 8vo, noted as 'in the 5th press on the West wall' and 'in the third press against the chimney'; not in the 1666 shelf-list, the 3rd and 5th presses of which contain other books, but most, or all, are still in the collection. f. 35;-

(h) French printed books, in eight groups of twenty, imperfect at the end. f. 36;-(i) Italian printed books, list marked no. 13, in groups of ten. f. 38;-(k) Spanish printed books, list no. 14. f. 40;-(l) Italian and Spanish MSS., a very short list marked no. 16. This is endorsed 'A catalogue of all the Manuscripts brought downe from the Library into the Armorie, in the seuerall Languages'. f. 42;-(m) Pamphlets in French, list no. 17. The memorandum on the last page in Durie's hand is, 'These pamphlets were reckoned by tale and found to answer this number viz. forteen, witnes John Durie (countersigned, Thomas Ross). Memorandum, there were also three and thirtie statute bookes of Henry the 7th anno 11 reckoned by tale, also eleuen broken Dutch and Welsh bookes were reckoned also by tale, witnes John Durie, Thomas Ross'. f. 44.

2. Shelf-list of Latin printed books in three presses, viz. two 'inter fenestram septentrionalem et portam occidentalem', and one 'supra portam occidentalem'; n.d. f. 46.

3. Shelf-list of Latin and Greek printed books in two presses, marked Latus Orientale, Col. IV (class. i-vi) and Col. V (class. i-x). The dates being generally added show that the list is not earlier than 1665, and the hand is apparently the same as the 1666 shelf-list of MSS. in Roy. App. 71. f. 47.

4. Catalogue of French and Italian printed books, dates rarely given, arranged in groups of twenty or ten; n.d. f. 54.

5. Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese books (in the same hand as art. 4 ?), generally with date, classified by subject. f. 65.

6. Another catalogue of the French printed books without dates of publication; n.d. f. 76.

7. A short list of French MSS. (14 quartos, 1 folio); n.d. f. 86.

8. Catalogue of Italian printed books, in groups of ten (nos. 16-27), imperfect at beginning; n.d. f. 87.

9. Shelf-list of Italian printed books, a fragment, erased; n.d. f. 89.

10. Short list of Spanish printed books; n.d. f. 91.

11. A list of duplicates, printed books; n. d. f. 92.

12. Brief list of some patristic works arranged chronologically by dates of authors. f. 93.

13. List of maps, printed and MS.; n. d. f. 94.

14. Fragment of a rough copy of the catalogue which is printed in CMA. (see description of Roy. App. 71), containing items extracted from the shelf-list of 1666 and partly arranged in alphabetical order. f. 97. Paper; ff. 99. Folio. 1293/4 in. x 73/4 in. Circ. A.D. 1661-1666. Not in the old catalogues. This MS. was formerly wrongly included in the Cotton Appendix, no. xxxiii.