[1] James (M. R.) 1, II.
[2] Notes and Q., 2. i. 485; James (M. R.), lvii, lxxxli.
Archbishop Parker himself was assiduous in garnering
books. "I have within my house, in wages," he writes
to Lord Burleigh, in 1573, "drawers and cutters, painters,
limners, writers and bookbinders." Again, "I toy out my
time, partly with copying of books." He made a strenuous
endeavour to recover as many of the monks' books as
possible, using money and influence to this end; and
accumulated an unusually large library, quite priceless in
character.[1] Most of his choice books were presented to
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and twenty-five of them
to Cambridge University Library (1574). Dr. Montagu
James, the leading authority on the provenance of Western
manuscripts, has discovered or made suggestions as to the
origin of nearly two hundred out of about three hundred and
eighty.[2] Forty-seven are traced to Christ Church, Canterbury;
twenty-six to St. Augustine's Abbey. Later Dr.
James extended his work to identifying the manuscripts
which were once in the Canterbury abbeys and in the
priory of St. Martin at Dover.
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