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Excerpt from The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vol. 3: A Descriptive Catalogue
In all there are something like twenty-three volumes in Bernard's list which are not now in the collection: but this defect is more than compensated by the acquisitions of Thomas and Roger Gale made subsequently to 1697. The total number of volumes recorded by Bernard is below two hundred, while, as we have seen, the College ultimately received about 450.
The Gale collection is of a most pleasingly miscellaneous character. Hardly a department of ancient or medieval literature is unrepresented in it; it comprises books written in every century from the ninth to the eighteenth. There are books in Greek, Latin, English, French, Italian, German, Bohemian, Dutch and Welsh. There are excellent specimens of illumination, French, English and Italian, and many of the greater monasteries of this country have made important contributions to the collection. It will probably be of use to point out in this place some of the principal elements which I have succeeded in distinguishing during the process of cataloguing.
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