GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-
343
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1678)
Title
Miscellaneous papers
Shelfmark
MS. Smith 31
Creation Date
ca. 1670 - 1710
Repository
Contents Note
Miscellanous papers in Latin and English, compiled in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Includes copies of letters of Edward VI.
Material Features
Papers bound into a single volume.
Associated People
Acquisition
Dr Thomas Smith left his manuscripts at his death to Thomas Hearne, on condition that sixteen should go to the Bodleian at Hearne's death. Subsequently, Hearne left all his manuscripts, including the remaining Smith volumes, to William Bedford. Richard Rawlinson purchased them from Bedford's widow for £105 (c. 1748).
Source of Data (Contributor name)
Falconer Madan, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, &c., Voume III (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895), pp. 456-57; Hannah Yip.
GEMMS record created
December 22, 2022
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024