Papers of Dr. Richard W. Hunt relating to his published works, 1940-1969 and n.d. [c.1940-1975]
Comprises:
Folder 1: draft reviews by Hunt and related papers, concerning
- S.H. Thomson, The Writings of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253 (Cambridge University Press, 1940)
- C.P. Farrar and A.P. Evans, Bibliography of English Translations from Medieval Sources (New York, 1946), n.d. [c.1946]
- G. Meyer and M. Burckhardt eds., Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Basel: beschreibendes Verzeichnis: Abteilung B Theologische Pergamenthandschriften (Basel, 1960), 1961
Folder 2: draft article on palaeography, possibly for an encyclopaedia, n.d. [c.1940]
Folder 3: texts of, and papers relating to
- ['The Manuscript Collection of University College, Oxford: Origins and Growth'], published in The Bodleian Library Record Vol. III, No. 29, 1950, 1950-1957. Text not included.
- 'Notes on the Distinctiones Monasticae et Morales', [published in B. Bischoff and S. Brechter, Liber floridus. Mittellateinische Studien. Paul Lehmann zum 65. Geburtstag am 13. Juli 1949 gewidmet von Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern (St. Ottilien, 1950)]; and 'A Manuscript Containing Extracts from the Distinctiones Monasticae', [published in Medium aevum, Vol. 44, 1975], 1936-1950 and n.d. [c.1950-1975]
- 'The 'Lost' Preface to the Liber Derivationum of Osbern of Gloucester', [published in Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 4, 1958], 1944-1950 and n.d. [c.1945]
- articles for Encyclopaedia Britannica relating to Alexander Neckam [Nequam] and John Boston of Bury, 1960-1967
- ['The collections of a monk of Bardney: a dismembered Rawlinson manuscript', published in Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 5, 1961], n.d. [c.1960]
- Hunt's introduction to [Saint Dunstan's Classbook from Glastonbury: Codex Biblioth. Bodleiensis Oxon. Auct. F.4./32 (North-Holland Publishing Company, 1961)], 1959-1961 and n.d. [c.1960]. Text not included.
- ['A manuscript from the Library of Coluccio Salutati', published in Osley, A.S. ed., Calligraphy and palaeography: essays presented to Alfred Fairbank on his 70th birthday (London: Faber and Faber, 1965)], 1965. Text not included.
- 'Greek manuscripts in the Bodleian Library from the Collection of John Stojković of Ragusa', published in F.L. Cross ed., Studia Patristica VII (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1966), 1966
- 'The Deposit of Latin Classics in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance', [published in Classical Influences on European Culture A.D. 500-1500: Proceedings of an International Conference Held at King's College, Cambridge, April 1969 (Cambridge, 1971)], 1969 and n.d. [c.1969-1971]
Folder 4: papers relating to H. Walther, Carmina Medii Aevi Posterioris Latina: I. Initia carminum ac versuum medii aevi posterioris Latinorum (Göttingen, 1959), including a draft review of the work, additions to it offered by Hunt, and correspondence with Walther, 1959-1960 and n.d. [c.1960-1971]
Dates
- Creation: 1940-1969 and n.d. [c.1940-1975]
Extent
1 box (4 folders)
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 21026/16
Former reference:
Hunt 58 [part]; Hunt 59 [part]; Hunt 99 [part]
Creator
- From the Collection: Hunt | Richard William | 1908-1979 | palaeographer (Person)
Repository Details
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