Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Collegii Corporis Christi in Cantabrigia: quos legavit Matthaeus Parkerus. Compiled

by William Stanley by Cambridge Corpus Christi College

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Woodcut ornament on title. 2 p.l., 112, 11 pp. Small folio, cont. half-calf & marbled boards joints with some careful repairs . London: G. & J. Innys, 1722. Large paper copy, limited to 50 copies, of the second catalogue of the 482 MSS. bequeathed to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, by Matthew Parker 1504-75 , “England’s first great bibliophile…It is hardly conceivable that a man who played such a prominent part in the ecclesiastical affairs

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