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Excerpt from The Sources of Archbishop Parker's Collection of Mss at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: With a Reprint of the Catalogue of Thomas Markaunt's Libarary
It must be stated at once that a very great deal of the material for identification has been irrecoverably lost. Nearly all the mss. Were rebound at the end of the last century, and with that rebinding away went all the evidence that might have been gleaned from old bindings, fly-leaves, or fragments Of writing in the covers. The Parker Collection is not the only one in Cambridge which has suffered in this way. At Peterhouse, and at the University Library, equal havoc has been wrought in the past: but the loss is the more to be deplored in the case before us in view Of the higher average value Of the books concerned.
Not all, again, Of my results are new. Nasmyth in his Catalogue notes the source of many of the mss: but the examination Of a large number Of mss. In many libraries has furnished me. With more material for identifying the books belonging to different monasteries than he had at his command.
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