A.D. 1683
Three MSS., containing the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac Pentateuch, and the Syriac Old Testament, were purchased at the cost of the University.
A.D. 1684
Nine Oriental and Russian MSS. were given by Joseph Taylor, LL.D., of St. John’s College. And Sir Rob. Viner, Bart., the loyal alderman of London, favoured the Library with a human skeleton, a tanned human skin, and the dried body of a negro boy!