Miscellaneous collections by Wilkins, including papers relating to ecclesiastical history of Great Britain.
Wilkins Papers
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Add. A. 179-184, C. 64
- Dates of Creation17th-18th century
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialLatin, and English.
- Physical Description7 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
David Wilkins, properly Wilke, (d 1745) a Prussian, was Archdeacon of Suffolk, a classical scholar and an antiquary. He was editor of the Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae, a synodo Verolamiensi, A.D. 446 ad Londinensem, A.D. 1717. Accedunt, constitutiones et alia ad historiam Ecclesiae Anglicanae spectantia (London 1737). Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
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Acquisition Information
The manuscripts were bought from Thomas Rodd for 8 10s in 1836.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the 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, nos. 28413-19.