owever, is a Greek MS. A
volume containing poems of Milo of St. Amand is most likely a Canterbury
book. But the early books in Irish script, of which there are several,
were probably written on the Continent.

At Wolfenbuettel is a "Wycliffe" Bible, large and handsome, which
belonged to Lord Lumley (d. 1609), and also a copy of Gervase of Tilbury
(that from which the text was first printed by Leibnitz) from the
library of St. Augustine of Canterbury. There, too, are many MSS.
collected by Flacius Illyricus, who made purchases in England. He
printed many of the rhyming Latin poems attributed to Walter Map; for a
good many his edition is the only authority, his MSS. having
disappeared. I had hoped to find some of them at Wolfenbuettel, but they
do not seem to be there. What I did find was a small group of MSS. from
St. Andrews in Scotland, containing rhyming poems set to music; they are
books of the thirteenth century, well written and decorated. Scotch
monastic MSS. are of rare occurrence. There are few enough in Scotland
itself, not many in England, and, of course, still fewer anywhere else.
At Upsala is a book written by Clement Maydestone of Sion for Wadstena,
the Swedish mother-house of the Brigittine Order to which he belonged.

There were probably some English books at Turin, which was a mixed
collection, but the fire of 1904 has made away with them. The old
catalogue by Pasini notices at least one service-book with English
saints. But it is time to bring this excursus to an end. Let me only add
that the most famous English book on the Continent--the Vercelli MS. of
Anglo-Saxon poems and homilies--seems to have been where it is now since
the thirteenth or fourteenth century.

REMAINS OF MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES

Once again we return to these shores, and now we will enquire what
medieval libraries, besides those we have glanced at, have left really
considerable remains. Some few have kept their books _in situ_--the
monastic cathedrals of Durham and Worcester best of all; each has some
hundreds of MSS. The secular cathedrals, Lincoln, Hereford, Salisbury,
come next. Rochester has nothing on the spot, but a great many MSS. in
the old Royal Library in the British Museum. The two great libraries of
Canterbury (Christchurch and St. Augustine's) are well represented, but
their books are much scattered. Winchester, York, Exeter, have few but
precious books.

There are important MSS. from Thorney at the Advocates Library,