Manuscripts collected by Paget Toynbee, with papers and correspondence, mainly relating to Dante and to Horace Walpole.
Dates
- Creation: 1876-1932
Extent
2.73 Linear metres (51 boxes)
Language of Materials
- English
- Italian
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Toynbee b. 1, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Toynbee b. 1, c. 1-2, d. 1-32, e. 1-7, f. 1-2
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 13936
Abstract
Manuscripts collected by Paget Toynbee, with papers and correspondence.
Biographical / Historical
Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932) was a Dante scholar. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
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, nos. 55405-55452.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Some of the manuscripts were given by Toynbee, 1920-31. The rest were bequeathed by him in 1932.
Topical
- Title
- Paget Toynbee Manuscripts
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Collection Level Description by Emily Tarrant; EAD version 2020 by Pauline Soum-Paris
- Date
- EAD version 2020
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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