Letters of Humfrey Wanley - Palaeographer, Anglo Saxonist, Librarian, 1672 1726. With an

Zusatztext 'a distinguished contribution to English medieval scholarship'E.G. Stanley! Pembroke College! Oxford! Notes and Queries Klappentext This collection of 243 letters, only a handful of which have previously appeared in print, covers the years from Wanley's arrival at Oxford until his death and illustrates the full range of his interests as Anglo-Saxonist, palaeographer, librarian, and historian. Zusammenfassung This collection of 243 letters, only a handful of which have previously appeared in print, illustrates the full range of Humfrey Wanley's interests as Anglo-Saxonist, palaeographer, and the greatest librarian of his age. Covering the years from his arrival in Oxford in 1694 to his death in 1726, they show the genesis and growth of Wanley's great Catalogus, his comprehensive account of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts published in 1705. They also chart his formulation of palaeography as a discipline for English scholarship from an immense range of ancient materials, and illustrate the skill and energy with which Wanley, as library-keeper to Robert Harley, built up the Harleian collection (subsequently one of the foundation collections of the British Museum).

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• Authors: Heyworth, P. L. (Professor of English Heyworth, Humfrey Wanley, Humphrey Wanley
• Assisted by: P L Heyworth (Editor), P. L. Heyworth (Editor), Heyworth P. L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.1989
• EAN: 9780198124771
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812477-1
• No. of pages: 556
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, C 1600 To C 1700, Palaeography (History Of Writing), Library & Information Sciences, C 1700 To C 1800, Palaeography, Library and information sciences / Museology