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Product Description The Bodleian Library's holdings of western manuscripts form the second largest and most important collection in Great Britain. This catalogue reveals in sixty years of acquisitions the continuing importance of the Bodleian's western manuscript collections in all areas of the humanities,especially in English history and literature, topography and local studies, theology and the classics. Review 'They are a treasure-house... they will bear reading from cover to cover. These volumes, perhaps the last to be produced at the Bodleian in so long established a form, are in a great tradition, and they offer a great challenge.' Times Literary Supplement'a collection that has material of interest for almost every English county, and that nevertheless has hardly yet been touched by twentieth-century researchers. The publication of the new Summary Catalogue makes generally available this and a wealth of other opportunities.' Nigel Ramsay, British Library, Archives, Oct 92, No. 88 About the Author T. D. Rogers, Deputy Keeper of Western Manuscripts, both at the Bodleian Library.