Pietas Oxoniensis. in Memory of Sir Thomas Bodley, Knt., And the Foundation of the Bodleian Library
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They contain books purchased and accounts from 1780 onward, the Usts of 1 790-1 showing benefactions and loans received from Colleges and individuals. Donations are added to the lists from 1796 to 1825-, but are separate sheets till 1804. The accounts are fuller from 1 8 14. Exceptional additions are. Oriental books presented by the East India Company (i8i(J), Te Water books (1823), and Meerman books (18x4). From 1816' to i8(fi the series is in octavo, with the following additions : — Cuerdale ...coins (i 841), Wil- son's Sanskrit MSS. (1842), Jacobs books (1849), Mortara (185: z). Ini86'a the list of purchased books and the accounts were discontinued, leaving only the list of donations, which was issued annually in octavo from i%6z to 1885, the accounts appearing accidentally in 18^4, 18(^7, 1870, and 1872. The list for 1864 has a list of the Montagu bequest an- nexed, and the one for 1870 contains the Arabic books presented by the Khedive of Egypt. The accessions of printed books were also printed separately in folio form, in alphabetical order of authors' names, for the following years, 1825', 182^, 1827, 1828, 1829-30, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, i83f, i83(?, and 1837-8, the latter not continued after p.
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