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Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts, Vol. 1: In the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge The completion of this Catalogue, of which the first Part was issued three years ago, gives me an opportunity, which I am not slow to take, of acknowledging the obligations under which various friends have laid me during the progress of the work. In the first place I am most grateful to the College which has permitted me to undertake a piece of research of unrivalled interest and instructiveness, and has at all times studied my convenience and given me facilities for carrying it out. My very especial thanks are due to Mr C. W. Moule, Librarian of the College, for his ever-ready acquiescence in all my demands on his time, his patience, and his keys, and for numberless instances of that kindness upon which, known as it is to all his friends, it would be impertinent, though by no means irrelevant, to enlarge. To Professor A. S. Napier of Oxford I owe the use of written notes, as well as information given viva voce and by letter, concerning the Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, which have proved invaluable to me in drawing up my descriptions of this important constituent of the collection. The late Professor Skeat, too, it need hardly be said, gave his assistance most readily whenever it was asked of him. Upon isolated points I have been indebted for help from Professor E. G. Browne, Professor Burkitt, Professor W. M. Lindsay of St Andrews, the Rev. Dr H. P. Stokes, who supplied a number of valuable corrections, Mr Stephen Gaselee, Mr Strickland Gibson the Rev. J. Mearns, and others to whom I hope I have made due acknowledgment in the proper places. The Index is the work of Mr A. Rogers of the University Library. I trust that its usefulness will be found commensurate with the labour expended upon it, which has been very great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.