The manuscript was brought from the East by Sir John Chielsey, who presented it to the library in 1650.

He died very unexpectedly and tragically at the age of 45 in 1897, 10 years after the manuscript had been presented to the library.

These, about 12,000 in number, he presented to the royal library at Munich.

An additional 389 works, valued at $500, were presented to the library by English publishers Cassells and Co..

Latham presented a vial of the fermented book-pulp to the library, but this was rejected and his teaching contract was not renewed.

The statue was presented to the library by his grandchildren, the Parkyn family, in 1938.

An oil painting of Huntington, presented to the library by the citizens of West Chester in 1893, is over the fireplace.

About 125 handwritten notes between the two men are contained in one of four separate divisions of the Morgenthau papers presented to the library today.

What was not obtainable as gifts, Gluck bought, sometimes paying large sums for acquisitions that he later presented to the library.

In 1595 he presented Galen's works and other medical books to the library of Oriel, where they are still preserved.