Papers on the reform of the calendar

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MS. Don. c. 52

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Papers on the reform of the calendar:

Fols. 1-2. report by Thomas Digges, (Sir) Henry Saville, and [J.] Chambers, on John Dee's treatise on the reformation of the calendar, with notes by Lord Burleigh
Fol. 3. 'The opinion of some godlie learned mathematicians'
Fols. 4-5. 'Reasons touching the Popes callender'
Fol. 6. 'Certen reasons alleged to shewe, why that though it bee a thing indifferent to alter the Kalender, ... yet it is not expedient'

Dates

Creation: 1583

Extent

6 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Don. c. 52, fols. 1-2]

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Shelfmark:

MS. Don. c. 52

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 16795

Additional Description

Abstract

Papers on the reform of the calendar, 1583

Biographical / Historical

Thomas Digges (c. 1546-1595) was an English mathematician and menber of parliament.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991). Vol. 1, no. 38839

Custodial History

George Harbin MS. 'III' (in Phillipps's hand); bought by Phillipps with other Harbin manuscripts from Sir Alexander Malet, 1831; Phillipps MS. 4909; Sotheby's, 6 June 1898, lot 347, and 24 June 1935, lot 120.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bought, Ellis, cat. 331, item 17, given by the Friends of the Bodleian, 1936.

Bibliography

Transcripts by John Anstis of these papers are in BL, Add. MS. 14291, from which they were printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, n.s. 36 (1851), 451-9. Item a was also printed in [A. Kippis], Biographia Britannica, iii (London, 1750), 1637-8, note I, Dee's treatise on the calendar is in Bodl., MS. Ashmole 1789, fols. 3-41.