Notebooks by Ralph Bigland, containing miscellaneous parish notes for about 65 Gloucestershire parishes, including copies of monumental inscriptions.
Dates
- Creation: 1773-1775
Extent
0.10 Linear metres (1 box)
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Top. Glouc. e. 10, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Top. Glouc. e. 10-11
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 12793
Abstract
Gloucestershire collections by Ralph Bigland
Biographical / Historical
Ralph Bigland (1712-1784) was a herald and antiquary. See the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for further details.
Custodial History
Owned by J.H. Smyth Pigott of Brockley Hall, Somerset; Brockley Hall sale, English & Son (Bath), 8 Oct 1849; two of five similar volumes numbered Phillipps MS. 13519, later numbered Phillipps MSS. 14265-14270; these two volumes numbered 14265 and 14266 (Phillipps MS. 14270 is MS. Phillipps-Robinson e. 141).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
MSS. Top. Glouc. e. 10-11 were bought by the Library, with MS. Top. Glouc. e. 12, in 1979, Stanley Crowe, cat. 89.
Geographic
Topical
Subject
- Title
- Gloucestershire collections by Ralph Bigland
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Original catalogue by Susan Thomas; EAD version 2023 by C. McIlwaine
- Date
- EAD version 2023
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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