Mr. C. T Onions, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, has generously allowed me to examine a manuscript collection of inscriptions recently acquired by him and to publish such account of it as may be of interest to epigraphists. I gratefully avail myself of his kind permission.

The collection is contained in a book measuring 12½ × 7 × 1 ins., roughly bound and covered with white vellum. On the front is written ‘Inscriptions collected by Thos Blackburne Esqr,’ and on the back of the cover ‘Foreign Inscrips. Thos Blackburne.’ The book contains inety-six folios, unnumbered, the first of which bears the title

The verso of the great majority of the folios is left blank, though occasionally, where the page was too narrow to contain an inscription, the copy extends over the verso of one folio and the recto of the next. Folios 79 and 96 are left entirely blank.

Of the collector I can learn nothing. To judge by the British Museum and the Bodleian Library Catalogues, he published no account of his travels and observations. It seems to me, however, not improbable that he may be the same Thomas Blackburne who, in 1775, published at Edinburgh (Apud Balfour et Smellie, Academiae Typographos) as a doctoral dissertation a work entitled Dissertatio de medici institutis.