[2]
[1] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 197 204.
[2] See lists of Gloucester's books in Mun. Acad., 758-65; O. H.
S., Anstey, 179, 183, 232
The library's character might still further have been
freshened had Gloucester's bequest of his Latin books--the
books, we may suppose, he himself prized too highly to
part with during his lifetime--been carried into effect.[1]
[1] He also owned some French manuscripts: what he gave to Oxford
formed part of a much larger private library.
"Our right special Lord and mighty Prince the Duke of
Gloucester, late passed out of this world,--whose soul God
assoil for his high mercy,--not long before his decease,
being in our said University among all the doctors and
masters of the same assembled together, granted unto us
all his Latin books, to the loving of God, increase of clergy
and cunning men, to the good governance and prosperity
of the realm of England without end . . . the which gift
oftentimes after, by our messengers, and also in his last
testament, as we understand, he confirmed." But alas!
Gloucester's bequest was even more elusive than
Cobham's. These books they could, "by no manner of
labours, since he deceased, obtain.
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