Andrew James, of Newport, Isle of Wight, is recorded to have given 'duas
capsulas in quibus asservantur scripta vetustissima, exotici et ignoti
characteris, alia stylo, calamo alia, in corticibus exarata, ex
orientalis Indiæ partibus allata[79].' An East India merchant, John
Jourdain, gave four Arabic MSS., and Bacon's _Works_ were presented by
Peter Ince, a bookseller at Chester. It appears from the Register that
Joseph Barnes, the Oxford printer and publisher, died in this year, as
he bequeathed a legacy of £5.
[79] At the end of the Barocci collection (numbered 245, 246, in the
Catalogue of 1697) are two Javanese MSS., written on palm-leaves: the
one written with a reed in the sacred or Pali character, preserved in a
box; the other written with a style in the common character, and having
the leaves tied together in the usual manner between two boards. As
there does not seem to be any evidence for supposing that Barocci's
collection included any Oriental MSS., it is possible that these were
the writings 'ignotis characteris' given two years previously by Andr.
James.