Storia do Mogor 8.7

8.7

At this sale Sir Thomas Phillipps, the well-known collector of Middle Hill, co. Worcester, was a large buyer. Among other purchases were the three volumes of Manucci's manuscript 'Storia.' They appear thus in his 'Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Medio Montanis Dom Thomae Phillipps ab anno 1824 ad 1837,' under 'Codices MSS. ex Bibliotheca Meerman Hagae Comitis olim ex Bibliotheca Collegii Societatis Jesu Claromontanis Parisiis nunc ante D. Bibliotheca Phillippicae,' p. 21, viz.: Codices MSS. Italianici, etca. General number, 1945. Number of this collection, 917. Historia de Mogol. In 1887 the Königliche Bibliothek at Berlin bought the Meerman manuscripts from the heirs of Sir Thomas Phillipps for a sum of 375,000 marks ('Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartes,' 1888, vol. xlix., p. 694). In the twelfth volume of the Berlin catalogues, 'Verzeichniss der Lateinischen Handschriften,' vol. i., 1893, by Valentin Rose ('Die Meerman Handschriften des Sir Thomas Phillipps'), we are informed that, whereas Baron Meerman secured 349 of the Clermont MSS., there were only 250 left at the sale in 1824, and of these 190 were bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps, and transferred in 1887 to Berlin. Between 1765 and 1824, 159 of the MSS. bought by Meerman had been lost.