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HELPS FOR STUDENTS OF HISTORY
[2]
 HELPS FOR STUDENTS OF HISTORY. No. 17
Edited by C. Johnson, M.A., and J. P. Whitney, D.D., D.C.L.
THE WANDERINGS AND
HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS
BY
M. R. JAMES, Litt.D., F.B.A.
PROVOST OF ETON
SOMETIME PROVOST OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE




LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919
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THE WANDERINGS AND
HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS
The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts isthe title of this book. To have called it the survivaland transmission of ancient literature wouldhave been pretentious, but not wholly untruthful.Manuscripts, we all know, are the chief means bywhich the records and imaginings of twenty centurieshave been preserved. It is my purpose totell where manuscripts were made, and how andin what centres they have been collected, and,incidentally, to suggest some helps for tracing outtheir history. Naturally the few pages into whichthe story has to be packed will not give roomfor any one episode to be treated exhaustively.Enough if I succeed in rousing curiosity andsetting some student to work in a field in whichan immense amount still remains to be discovered.
In treating of so large a subject as this—for itis a large one—it is not a bad plan to begin withthe particular and get gradually to the general.
 
Some Specimen Pedigrees of MSS.
I take my stand before the moderate-sizedbookcase which contains the collection of MSS.[4]belonging to the College of Eton, and with due caredraw from the shelves a few of the books whichhave reposed there since the room was built in 1729.
The first shelf I lay hands upon contains some tenlarge folios. Four of them are a single great compilation,beginning with a survey of the history ofthe world and of the Roman Empire, and merginginto the heraldry of the German noblesse. It wasmade, we find, in 1541, and is dedicated to HenryVIII. Large folding pictures on vellum andportraits of all the Roman Emperors adorn thefirst volume. It is a sumptuous book, supposedto be a present from the Emperor Ferdinand tothe King. How did it come here? A printedlabel tells us that it was given to the college byHenry Temple, Viscount Palmerston, in 1750(he had previously given it to Sir Richard Ellyson whose death Lady Ellys returned                         
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