Volumes Compiled by William Whiston

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  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. d. 297, e. 259, f. 85-6; Eng. th. c. 60, e. 45; Lat. misc. f. 42-3; Lat. th. e. 27-8
  • Dates of Creation
      17th-18th century
  • Language of Material
      English, and Latin.
  • Physical Description
      10 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Volumes compiled by William Whiston and others, including sermons and material relating to Christianity and natural history.

Administrative / Biographical History

William Whiston (1677-1752) was Chaplain to the Bishop of Norwich and a scientist. 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 collection was bought from Blackwell's in 1948.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 45292-301.