A.D. 1670
Thirteen Oriental MSS. (chiefly in their possessor’s own writing) were bought from the heirs of Samuel Clarke, M.A., of Merton College, printer to the University and Esquire Bedel of Law, who died Dec. 17, 1669. He was greatly distinguished as an Orientalist, and assisted in the production of Walton’s Polyglott. A list of his MSS. is given in Bernard’s Catalogue, and another, by Prof. Nicoll, Ath. Oxon. iii. 885. He himself gave four printed Arabic books in 1663.