A draught, in English, of a prospectus of a 'Bibliotheca Britannica, sive Scriptorum qui in Angliâ, Scotiâ, et Hiberniâ vel nati fuere vel munera aliqua obierunt ab ultimâ Antiquitate usque ad sæculum xvii. Notitia', Written in about 1708-1730 (?) by T. Tanner
File
MS. Tanner 469*
Held at the Weston Library
A draught, in English, of a prospectus of a 'Bibliotheca Britannica, sive Scriptorum qui in Angliâ, Scotiâ, et Hiberniâ vel nati fuere vel munera aliqua obierunt ab ultimâ Antiquitate usque ad sæculum xvii. Notitia' (about 1708?): followed (fol. 3) by a chronological list of the authors proposed to be included, and the first section of the work including all authors before the Roman occupation, with a historical preface to the section.
The first author is Samothes Gigas, son or grandson of Japhet (d. B.C. 2014). The connexion, in form, with the Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica (1748) is slight, but the volume is interesting as showing Tanner's first conception of the work, and as being perhaps the basis of chapter 1 of Wilkins's preface to the Bibliotheca.
(fols. 6-7 are torn)
The first author is Samothes Gigas, son or grandson of Japhet (d. B.C. 2014). The connexion, in form, with the Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica (1748) is slight, but the volume is interesting as showing Tanner's first conception of the work, and as being perhaps the basis of chapter 1 of Wilkins's preface to the Bibliotheca.
(fols. 6-7 are torn)
Dates
- Written in about 1708-1730 (?) by T. Tanner
Extent
22 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Tanner 469*
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. VI, no. 32580
Physical Facet
On paper
Repository Details
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