SION COLLEGE LIBRARY CATALOGUE

A printed copy of William Reading, 'Bibliothecae cleri Londinensis in Collegio Sionensi catalogus' (London, 1724). Interleaved and continued with additions in manuscript. The volumes replaced another interleaved copy of Reading's catalogue used from 1724 to 1785 (now Sion L40.2/E 96) and were kept up to date as the catalogue of Sion College Library from 1785 to c.1837. Provenaces of additions to the Library are often recorded. The interleaved text was written by Robert Watts (d.1842). In June 1785 Sion College resolved 'that a new interleaved catalogue be provided, and bound in two volumes, and that the Revd. Mr. Watts be employed to make a fair transcript of the whole...' [ie. a transcript of the earlier interleaved copy, now Sion L40.2/E96]. The work was completed (in three volumes including the index) in 1789. See E.H. Pearce, 'Sion College and its Library (Cambridge, 1913), p. 301. Watts was appointed Sion College Librarian in 1799. Sion L40.2/E97 Contains subject classes A-P Sion L40.2/E98 Contains subject classes Q-Z, AB-UB; printed books and manuscripts 'in archivis' (foruli A-M); and an addendum to class F. Sion L40.2/E99 Contains the index of authors, together with a separate index to the authors and principal contents of books and manuscripts 'in archivis'.

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