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* * * * *
ANNALS
OF THE
BODLEIAN LIBRARY,
OXFORD,
A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867;
With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded
in the Fourteenth Century.
BY THE REV. WILLIAM DUNN MACRAY, M.A.
CHAPLAIN OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE AND ST. MARY WINTON COLLEGES;
EDITOR OF "CHRONICON ABBATIÆ EVESHAMENSIS," &c.
RIVINGTONS
London, Oxford, and Cambridge
1868