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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2016
When in 1951 Walther Holtzmann brought to an end his survey of the English libraries which he had scoured for papal documents, he included the Phillipps collection at Cheltenham. His account was compiled on the basis of an eightday visit to the library nearly twenty years earlier. In printing it he observed that since 1932 many of the manuscripts had found their way into the British Museum, the Bodleian, and elsewhere. He therefore confined himself to describing thirty-five manuscripts which he had failed to trace to other libraries: he did not know whether they were still in the Phillipps collection or whether they had been sold. The fate of many of these manuscripts is now discoverable. Indeed, almost all which could possibly be of service in the search for papalia in England can be traced. It may be of help to users of Holtzmann's work to know their whereabouts.
1 I am under deep obligations to Dr. A. N. Munby, who is in process of tracing all the dispersed Phillipps manuscripts and who generously gave me access to his annotated catalogue in all doubtful cases; also to Dr. Godfrey Davis, for information supplementing his published Medieval Cartularies. I wish also to express my thanks to the various archivists and librarians who have kindly responded to my enquiries.Google Scholar
2 Published by the Cambridge University Press: 1. The Catalogues of MSS. and Printed Books of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1951); 2. The Family Affairs of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1952); 3. The Formation of the Phillipps Library up to 1840 (1954); 4. The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841 to 1872 (1956); 5. The Dispersal of the Phillipps Library (1960). A briefer account, with a list of the earlier sales, will be found in de Ricci's, Seymour English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts (Cambridge 1930) pp. 119–30.Google Scholar
3 Referred to hereafter as MC. The index of former owners (pp. 177–8) lists 66 Phillipps MSS which fall within the scope of MC. Google Scholar
4 This applies to several MSS which appeared in Sotheby's catalogues but which may have returned unsold to the library, since no buyer is recorded.Google Scholar
5 It is hoped that the Bradfer-Lawrence MSS (see also below, Phillipps MSS 23875,24700) will find their way into public collections or local archive offices.Google Scholar
6 To Holtzmann's bibliography of the work should be added the substantial calendar, with some texts edited in full, by Denholm-Young, N., The Liber Epistolaris of Richard de Bury (Roxburghe Club 1950).Google Scholar