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"I beseech God to bless and prosper you all along in this so long a journey, and to bring you back again with safety and good success; and you may be sure that you will be more welcome to but very few than to, good Sir, your very hearty well-wisher and most humble servant, "Humphrey Wanly. "26th April 1720."* * Printed in the Preface to the Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. Mr.
This glimpse of the treasures of the Harleian library will at least account for the great celebrity it attained within a comparatively short time of its foundation. Wanley was careful to enter into his Diary the names of visitors, and any interesting details connected with them, and their motives for an inspection. On the 15th January 1719/20 he observed:
v See note LLL, at the end of the volume. v* The trade's increase, in the Harleian Misc. vol. iii. v Remarks on his travels, Harl. Misc. vol. ii. p. 348. v * Naval Tracts, p. 329, 350. v Raleigh's Observations. A catalogue of the manufactures for which the English were then eminent, would appear very contemptible, in comparison of those which flourish among them at present.
It is somewhat remarkable, that perhaps the only "Voyages to the Moon," which have been published in the English tongue, should have been the productions of English bishops: the first forming a tract, re-published in the Harleian Miscellany, and said to have been written by Dr.
In his expedition into England they had followed him with wishes for his success; Father Hudleston's Relation; the True Narrative and Relation in the Harleian Miscellany, iv. 441, an account of his majesty's escape from Worcester, dictated to Mr. Pepys by the king himself, and the narrative given by Bates in the second part of his Elenchus.
To each of these was added a footstool curiously carved and inlaid with ivory, which mark of distinction was peculiar to them." A drawing in the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum is shewn on page 25, illustrating a Saxon mansion in the ninth or tenth century.
Vaillant had bought the printed Virgil at £46 he huzza'd out aloud, and threw up his hat for joy that he had bought it so cheap. The great collection was afterwards taken to Blenheim, and has been dispersed in our time; 'the King of Denmark proffered the heirs £30,000 for it, and "Queen Zara" would have inclined them to part with it. When the Earl of Sunderland died, Humphrey Wanley saw a good chance for the Harleian.
The manuscripts bought by Wanley from Zamboni number eighty-four, and comprise nearly all the important books mentioned in the Graevius catalogue. The Hesiod is the only valuable Greek MS. missing, and the principal Latin MS. of this collection, which did not pass into the Harleian library, is a Terence.
In the second volume of the "Harleian Miscellany," there is a tract, entitled the "Forerunner of Revenge," written by George Eglisham, doctor of medicine, and one of the physicians to King James. Harris, in quoting it, says that it is full of rancour and prejudice. It is evidently exaggerated; but forms, nevertheless, a link in the chain of evidence.
As soon as Edward, Lord Oxford became aware of the fact, he hastened to restore it, and received in exchange a very polite acknowledgement of his courtesy from Cardinal Fleury on behalf of the king.* * L. V. Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliotheque Imperiale. In 1725 Wanley enumerated the Greek MSS. in the Harleian collection as 173.
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