MS. Smith 66 - Transcripts or drafts of English letters by Thomas Smith

GEMMS-Manuscript-ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1730
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT2-1536
Title
Transcripts or drafts of English letters by Thomas Smith
Shelfmark
MS. Smith 66
Creation Date
ca. 1667 - 1710
Repository
Contents Note

Transcripts or drafts of English letters by Thomas Smith. MS Smith 66 contains letters to John Wallis, Humphrey Wanley, Sir Philip Warwick, Anthony à Wood, and Benjamin Woodroffe.

Material Features

Quarto. Quarter calf binding. 123ff.

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

Falconer Madan, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, &c., Voume III (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895), pp. 463-64; Hannah Yip.

GEMMS record created
May 11, 2023
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024