Papers of Neil R. Ker relating to book lists and medieval and early modern book owners, 1947-1996 and n.d. [c.1930-1980]
File
MS. 21050/53
Held in our offsite storage facility
Comprises:
Folder 1: list of books, extracted from Cambridge University Grace Book A, with monetary value of pledges
Folder 2: lists of manuscripts and related papers, concerning items owned by
- Sir Henry Spelman, including images of Spelman's MS. 7198 (fols. 104 and 105)
- Somers and Langley
- John Foxe, relating to manuscripts and printed books, copied from London, British Library, MS. Lansdowne 815, including a letter from Thomas Freeman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, to [Prof.] Andrew Watson, 11 Aug 1996, regarding manuscripts donated to Magdalen College in 1614 by Samuel Foxe
- Sir Walter Cope
- Francis Babbington ('Books at Stonyhurst')
Folder 3: 'Medieval book owners', papers relating to
- manuscripts owned or annotated by Thomas Gascoigne
- Grenehalgh / Sewell manuscripts, including a letter received by Ker from H[ope] E[mily] A[llen], New York, 15 Jan 1947, regarding the identification of Grenehalgh as an annotator
- Cuthbert Sherbrooke's manuscripts and printed books, including notes by Ker, an offprint of 'Some Medieval English Manuscripts in the North-East Midlands' by Thorlac Turville-Petre, published in D. Pearsall ed., Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1983), letters received from Turville-Petre concerning the Sherbrooke library, Jul-Oct 1979, and correspondence between Prof. A.G. Watson, [Ker's literary executor], and Turville-Petre, Apr-Aug 1984, concerning the possible publication of Ker's work on the Sherbrooke manuscripts
Folder 4: transcript by Ker of a catalogue of books of the benefactors to the library of the free school in Shrewsbury, 1619. Ker notes that the 'Benefactors Book' is a Shrewsbury Corporation manuscript, marked 'N. No. 2'.
Dates
- Creation: 1947-1996 and n.d. [c.1930-1980]
Extent
1 box (4 folders)
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 21050/53
Former reference:
Ker Papers Box 18
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk