Presented to the Library by George IV. See p. 216.
18. Piece of wood from the south side of the curious timber Church at
Greensted in Essex, built A.D. 1013.
Presented by Mr. James Dix, of Bristol, Feb. 10, 1865.
19. Specimen of ornamental writing by Mr. Hormuzd Rassam, whose name is
so well known in England, first, from his having accompanied Mr. Layard
during his Assyrian researches, and next from his, now happily ended,
captivity in Abyssinia; consisting of various chapters from the Old and
New Testaments, in Chaldee, Arabic, and Turkish, beautifully written in
the form of two angels supporting a cross, within a border.
Presented by Mr. Rassam on leaving Oxford in January, 1849, after a
stay of some months, as a mark of thanks for the manner in which he
had been received. It occupied only forty-eight hours in execution,
as he himself told the present writer[387].