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=1831.= The ARUNDELIAN MANUSCRIPTS.

_Collected_, between the years 1606 and 1646, by =Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel=, &c. (Died 4 Oct., 1646); _Given_ in 1681 by his eventual heir, =Henry Howard=, Esquire (afterwards XIIth Duke of Norfolk—Died in 1701), and at the request of John Evelyn, to the Royal Society; _Transferred_ by the Council of that Society, in 1831,—partly by purchase, and partly by exchange—to the Trustees of the British Museum. The Collection includes the bulk of the Library of =Bilibald Pirckheimer=, purchased at Nuremberg, by LORD ARUNDEL, in 1636.

[See BOOK I,