Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts

Annotation

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The last edition of the Guide to the Manuscripts, Autographs, Charters, Seals, Illuminations, and Bindings exhibited in the Department of Manuscripts and in the Grenville Library was issued in 1906. It is now exhausted, and instead of reissuing it in the same shape it has been thought better to divide it into three parts sold separately, thus allowing some additional space for the elucidation of the objects exhibited, and for general remarks upon the exhibition in each section. The system of classification in the main continues unaltered, but the Opportunity has been taken to introduce into the cases new acquisitions of special interest and to make other slight changes. The occasional substitution of one example for another illustrating the same point is regarded as desirable not only for the purpose of calling attention to the wealth of the collection in certain respects, and to give a fresh interest to the cases for those to Whom their contents have become familiar, but also to minimize the injury done to the manuscripts by exposure to the light.