Lectures of Dr Edward Cardwell

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. hist. d. 84-6, d. 87/1-2, d. 88; Eng. th. d. 5/1-2
  • Dates of Creation
      1810-50
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      8 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Lectures prepared by Cardwell and delivered by him as Professor of Ancient History.

Administrative / Biographical History

Dr Edward Cardwell (1787-1861) was Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford, 1825-61, and Principal of St. Alban Hall, 1831-61. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The lectures were presented to the Library by E.H. Cardwell in 1907.

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. VI, nos. 33744-51.

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