| Summary: | <p>PREFACE</p>
<p>After an interval of fifteen years the text of the Summary Catalogue of all MSS. acquired by the Library before 1915 is completed with the issue of the present volume. This part (volume II, part ii) contains nos. 3491-8716, thus finishing the revision of the Old Catalogue of 1697. The methods adopted are as in preceding volumes, except that it has no longer been thought necessary to invent accession numbers, which in the last volume directly followed the catalogue number. It will also be noted that the oriental cross-references are taken, as in previous volumes, from the printed catalogues or from the hand-lists, and that they are therefore neither in modern nor necessarily consistent form.</p>
<p>The bulk of e Mus., a draft for the Marshall collection, and a few other scattered pieces, were catalogued-in part many years ago by the late mr. Madan. The Hatton collection, MSS. Dodsworth 1-60, and Casaubon's Adversaria were done by dr. Craster when he was Keeper of Western Manuscripts; and MSS. Savile 1-14, with some other Greek pieces, were catalogued by mr. Lobel, the present Keeper. For the rest I am responsible, though my labours have been much lightened by the trouble which the Librarian and the Keeper have taken in reading not only their own proofs but mine as well. Others from whom I have sought assistance at one time or another are too numerous to mention and will I hope regard this expression of my gratitude as none the less sincere because it is general.</p>
<p>This volume contains the accessions of the later seventeenth century to 1697. Among the great variety of manuscripts dealt with are some notable early codices, specified below, and a high proportion of seventeenth century antiquarian collections, including the extensive and valuable papers of Dodsworth, Dugdale, Junius, and Marshall. According to former practice the more important items in several categories are listed hereunder.</p>
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