Diploma for the Oxford DCL granted to Samuel Johnson
Diploma for the Oxford DCL granted to Samuel Johnson, 1775, composed by Thomas Warton, lacking the seal, with (fol. 3) a transcript annotated for the printer by James Boswell; printed in Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii (Oxford, 1934), 332.
Dates
- Creation: 1775
Extent
3 Leaves
Language of Materials
- Latin
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Lat. misc. c. 61, fols. 1-2].
Shelfmark:
MS. Lat. misc. c. 61
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 16804
Abstract
Diploma for the Oxford DCL granted to Samuel Johnson, 1775, composed by Thomas Warton, lacking the seal.
Biographical / Historical
Thomas Warton (1728–1790) was a poet and historian.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, no. 47910.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Found at Malahide Castle, 1937, and given by James, 6th Baron Talbot of Malahide to R. H. Isham, who gave it to the Library, 1938.
Topical
- Title
- Diploma for the Oxford DCL granted to Samuel Johnson
- Status
- Published
- Date
- EAD version 2019 by Pauline Soum-Paris
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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