Personal diary and antiquarian notes. Verse (in e. 139) in Crum, Jan 1760-18 Mar 1762, 20 Mar 1762-23 Feb 1765
File
MSS. Eng. misc. e. 139-140
Held at the Weston Library
84, 85 leaves.
Notebooks, numbered I to XX, originally intended by Stukeley for the minutes of the Brazen Nose Society at Stamford, Lincs., but mainly containing his diary, which includes many antiquarian notes and accounts of proceedings of the Royal Society.
Dates
- Creation: Jan 1760-18 Mar 1762, 20 Mar 1762-23 Feb 1765
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Eng. misc. e. 139-140
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 42261-42262
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, Sotheby's, 14 July 1924, part of lot 238.
Bibliography
- Many of the contents are printed in Family memoirs of William Stukeley , ed. W. C. Lukis, Surtees society, 73, 76 and 80 (1882-7).
Physical Facet
Vellum bindings
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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