Excerpt from The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vol. 1: A Descriptive Catalogue I am not at this moment in a position to write a general introduction to the whole catalogue: I propose in this Preface to give some few indications of the principal sources whence the books have come, and to say something of the methods I have employed in describing them. In the volume called I7. Which is a Register of the benefactors of the College compiled by Sir Edward Stanhope, are to be found lists of the principal donations of mss. To the library - exclusive of the Gale mss. Three donors stand out conspicuously among these. The first is John Whitgift, Master of the College from 1567 to 1577, and Archbishop of Canterbury' from I 583 to 1603 - 4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.