Manuscripts collected by Captain Montagu. The collection includes:
- Papers relating to literature, including:
- copies of works by classical authors
- English and Italian poetry
- papers relating to the works of Shakespeare
- Autographs
Montagu Manuscripts
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- Bookmark:http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb161-mss.montaguc.1-6,d.1-33,e.1-16,f.1
- This material is held at
- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Montagu c. 1-6, d. 1-33, e. 1-16, f. 1
- Dates of Creation15th-19th century
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialLatin, English, Italian, French, German, and Ancient Greek (to 1453).
- Physical Description56 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (1787-1863), who entered the navy in 1799, was an author and autograph collector.
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 manuscripts were bequeathed to the Library by Captain Montagu in 1863.
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. 25397-25458.