Table of Contents

1. On the recovery of the long lost Waldensian Manuscripts; 2. Two lists of books in the university library; 3. An early University statute concerning hostels; 4. On two hitherto unknown poems by John Barbour, author of the Brus; 5. A view of the state of the University in Queen Anne's reign (with 1 plate); 6. On the earliest English engravings of the indulgence known as the 'image of pity' (with 1 plate); 7. The skeleton of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; 8. The printer of the historia S. Albani (with 1 plate); 9. An inventory of the stuff in the college chambers (King's College), 1598; 10. The University Library; 11. A classified index of the fifteenth century books in the De Meyer Collection sold at Ghent, November, 1869; 12. On the engraved device used by Nicolaus Gotz of Sletzstat, the Cologne printer, in 1474 (with 2 plates); 13. On two engravings of copper, by G. M., a wandering Flemish artist of the XV-XVIth century (with 2 plates); 14. List of the founts of type and woodcut devices used by printers in Holland in the fifteenth century (with 3 plates); 15. On the oldest written remains of the Welsh language; 16. On the collection of portraits belonging to the University before the Civil War; 17. Notes of the Episcopal visitation of the archdeaconry of Ely in 1685; 18. On the ABC as an authorized school-book in the sixteenth century; 19. Notice of a fragment of the fifteen Oes and other prayers printed at Westminster by W. Caxton about 1490–91, preserved in the library of the Baptist College, Bristol; 20. Note upon the various spellings of the name of St Erasmus in the churchwardens' accounts of Trinity Church, Cambridge, during the years 1504 to 1530; 21. Godfried van der Haghen (G. H.), the publisher of Tindale's own last edition of the New Testament in 1534–5; 22. The president's address at the opening of the fifth annual meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, Cambridge, Sept. 5, 1882; 23. The early collection of canons commonly known as Hibernensis: a letter address to Dr F. W. H. Wasserschleben, Privy Councillor, Professor of Law in the University of Giessen; 24. A half-century of notes on the day-book of John Dorne, bookseller in Oxford, AD 1520, as edited by F. Madan for the Oxford Historical Society; Appendix.

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First published in 1889, this volume draws together a large number of Henry Bradshaw's papers.