Bodleian Library Tercentenary Collection

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Tercentenary a. 1, b. 1-6, c. 1-12, d. 1-6, e. 1-2, f. 1, g. 1, rolls 1-28
  • Dates of Creation
      1901-3
  • Language of Material
      Latin, and English.
  • Physical Description
      57 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Bodleian Library Tercentenary collection, consisting of:

  • Addresses
  • Papers and correspondence
  • Printer's 'Copy' for the Pietas Oxoniensis
  • Miscellanea

Administrative / Biographical History

The celebration of the Tercentenary of the Bodleian Library took place at Oxford on 8-9 October 1902.

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 bound and referenced in 1903, and was added to in 1904.

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. 33104-156, 33424-27.

Corporate Names