GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001678
TitleMiscellaneous papers
ShelfmarkMS. Smith 31
Creation Dateca. 1670 - 1710
RepositoryBodleian Library
Contents NoteMiscellanous papers in Latin and English, compiled in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Includes copies of letters of Edward VI.
Material FeaturesPapers bound into a single volume.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Bedford, Williammanuscript owner - Hearne, Thomas manuscript owner - Rawlinson, Richardmanuscript owner - Smith, Thomas
Provenance
AcquisitionDr Thomas Smith left his manuscripts at his death to Thomas Hearne, on condition that sixteen should go to the Bodleian at Hearne's death. Subsequently, Hearne left all his manuscripts, including the remaining Smith volumes, to William Bedford. Richard Rawlinson purchased them from Bedford's widow for £105 (c. 1748).
Source of DataFalconer Madan, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, &c., Voume III (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895), pp. 456-57; Hannah Yip.
Other Note
Sermons Contained
Sermon Reports ContainedSermon on unidentified text -- fols. 26-28
GEMMS record createdDecember 22, 2022
GEMMS record last editedMay 11, 2023