 In his life he had amassed a large collection of ancient manuscripts, and in his will he bequeathed these to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.Amongst the works included in this bequest were a major manuscript of Anglo-Saxon poetry, commonly known as the "Junius manuscript" after him, and the unique manuscript of the "Ormulum".In his later life, Junius devoted himself to the study of the Old Germanic languages.