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A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford: vol. 1, Hunt, R. W. Historical introduction and conspectus of shelf-marks. Clarendon Press, I953, xxxviiixliv, for details of the cataloguing of Bodleian manuscripts.
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cf. Garnett, R. On the system of classifying books on the shelves followed at the British Museum, in: Nicholson, E. B. and Tedder, H. R., editors, Trans. and Proc. Conference of Librarians held in London, October 1877. Trübner, I878, I08-II4 and I88-I93. Reprinted in Garnett, R. Essays in librarianship and bibliography, G. Allen, I899, 2I0-224.
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This article is based mainly on a volume of Bodleian Library records, 'Papers relating to Classification of the MSS, I887'. The author is extremely grateful to the authorities of the Bodleian Library for permission to use this material, and in particular to Mr D. G. Vaisey and Dr R. W. Hunt for their comments.
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cf. Hunt, R. W., op. cit., xlv-xlvi.
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Bodleian Library records, L.P. Corresp. 4/4, F. Jenkinson to Nicholson, 7 June I897.