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Rawlinson J: Academica, 17th-18th century

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This section consists of Rawlinson's collections about Oxford history, mainly biographical facts collected with a view to his projected continutation of Wood's Athenae Oxonienses. There are also volumes connected with Cambridge, Eton and other schools. The manuscripts include:

  1. Extracts and lists copied or compiled from the Archives of the University of Oxford, 18th century
  2. Notes of contemporary events, chiefly relating to Oxford men, such as institutions to benefices, appointments, deaths etc., made by Rawlinson, October 1739-March 1755

Dates

  • Creation: 17th-18th century

Language of Materials

  • English
  • Latin

Full range of shelfmarks:

MSS. Rawl. J. fol. 1-33, Rawl. J. 4o 1-38, Rawl. J. 8o 1-18.

Other Finding Aids

Full descriptions are in 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. III, nos. 15036-15123.

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