Miscellaneous papers, mainly relating to Edmund Halley, 1691, 1701, n.d.
File
MS. Rigaud 88
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Miscellaneous papers, mainly relating to Edmund Halley, including:
- (fols. 3-7) a list of Halley's papers in the Philosophical Transactions;
- (fols. 10-12) draft in Halley's hand of a testimonial for him as candidate for the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy at Oxford, 1691;
- (fols. 13-14) two printed broadsides, n.d., 1701. The contents of fols. 3-14 are transcribed by Rigaud in MS. Rigaud 7 (Summary Catalogue no. 26207), fols. 19-43.
Dates
- Creation: 1691, 1701, n.d.
Extent
14 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Rigaud 88
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. II, no. 52043.
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