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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Ancient Manuscripts: Belonging to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn
This Collection, although small, is valuable. When the volumes first came into the possession of the Society is not known; nor, with one exception, does it appear from what source they came. The Work of Bracton, however, (No. 21 in the List,) is known to have been presented by John Godbold, one of the Readers of the Inn: his autograph occurs twice at the end of the volume; and on the outside of the cover, under a transparent piece of horn, is a printed paper stating it to be of his gift in the year 1635.
All the volumes (except No. 24) were in the possession of the Society as early, at least, as A.D. 1697; for they are briefly noticed in the "Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ," tom. 2, pp. 42 & 43. Fol. Oxford, 1697. And, in addition, two others are there given which are now absent. Those two are thus described, "2. Le livre du roy Modus et de la royne Racio. Sive, Liber de re Venatica, idiomate Gallicano conscriptus, et pulchris figuris illuminatus.
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