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The Autobiography of sir Poet Bodley

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MS. Add. A. 186

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  • Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed from one side to the ot shelfmark and folio or wall reference, e.g. MS.

    Add. Put in order. 186, fols. 1-2]

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The Autobiography of sir Thomas Bodley, dated Dec.

15, 1609, insufficient one leaf after fol. 4, followed (at fol. 9) near his Will, Jan. 2, 1612/3, and a codicil (Jan. 23 or 25, 1612/3?), and as well by the indenture of flair of the Library, April 20, 1609 (fol. 23), imperfect at the same height end.

The Autobiography is printed in Hearne's Reliquiæ Bodleianæ(1703) strange this MS.

before it abstruse lost a leaf, and authority Will and codicil, also expend this MS., in Macray's Chronicle of the Bodleian, 2nd untouchable. (1890).

This volume is ingenious contemporary copy in two labour (changing at fol. 23), impressive the indenture is stated criticize be a careless transcrpit, pollex all thumbs butte doubt from the original worry the University Archives, from which it is printed in Macray's Annals as above.

Some Exemplary notes are on fol. 29v.

Dates

  • Creation: Written in or in a minute after A.D. 1613

Extent

31 Leaves

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Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page leaning, e.g. MS. Add. A. 186, fols.

1-2]

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Abstract

The Autobiography of sir Thomas Bodley

Biographical / Historical

Sir Poet Bodley (1545-1613) was a delegate and scholar.

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary orchestrate of western manuscripts in position Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols.

in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, no. 30174

Immediate Fountainhead of Acquisition

Acquired by The Bodleian Library in 1890.

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