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 458 REVIEWS OF BOOKS July but almost all those which we detected are duly amended in the Corrigenda. The few that remain are hardly worth noting. 2 C. ii. Peter Lombard is called archbishop of Paris. 2 D. ix. The Decretum Gregorianum should be the Libri Decretales. 2 F. i. The Decretak of Gratian should be the Decretum. 5 E. xiii, art. 5. Colet should be Coleti. 8 D. 2. The edition of Wycliffe's Sermons is not by F. D. Matthew but by J. Loserth. 12 D. i. It ia hazardous to describe John of Salisbury as ' chancellor ' to Archbishop Theobald. Vol. iii. 123 a. Constance is not in Switzerland. REGINALD L. POOLE. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester. By M. R. JAMES, Provost of Eton College. Vol. i, nos. 1-183, letterpress ; vol. ii, plates. (Manchester : University Press, 1921.) THE manuscript department of the John Rylands library at Manchester has made rapid growth, and now contains upwards of ten thousand manuscripts. It is equally rich in Oriental and in western literature, in manuscripts written in book form, and in papyrus rolls. Its papyri have been catalogued in various volumes published between the years 1910 and 1915 by Drs. Griffith, Grenfell, and Hunt, and Mr. Crum, who have dealt with Demotic, Greek, and Coptic papyri respectively. Now the turn of the Latin manuscripts has come, and we have two imposing volumes, one of text, the other of plates, by the provost of Eton, a cataloguer to whom all students of manuscripts are under deep obligations. These volumes deal with a portion only of the John Rylands Latin manuscripts, for many more have been acquired since the catalogue was first taken in hand. They include 183 manuscripts, of which nos. 1-118 were purchased from the earl of Crawford, nos. 137-52 were acquired from Earl Spencer as part of the Althorp library, and the remainder came from various sources. The earl of Crawford's collection quite eclipses the other manuscripts, containing, as it does, a surprising number of gems of the first water. A sixth-century Ravenna papyrus (no. 1), an eighth-century Cyprian from Murbach (15), an eighth or ninth-century homiliary from Luxeuil (12), three tenth-century Visigothic manuscripts (83, 89, 104) these last five all bought by the earl of Crawford at the Libri sale and a South Italian Exultet roll (2) are among its palaeographical treasures. It possesses a series, unrivalled except by South Kensington, of carved ivory and metal-work bindings of German workmanship, ranging from the ninth to the twelfth century, the finest examples being the Liege Gospels (10), the Gospels of Svenhilda (110), and the Altenburg Bible (4-5). And it contains some splendid examples of illumination, among which the first place may be given to the Psalter of St. Maximin of Trier (116), a wonderful piece of tenth-century illumination of the continental Celtic school. Other very beautiful manuscripts are the Flemish Horae of J. G. (39) and the Psalter of Queen Joan of Navarre (22), this last a French thirteenth-century work in the style of the great Bible Moralisee reproduced by the comte de Laborde, while the sumptuous Colonna Missal (32-7)