Lectures by J.J. Conybeare

'Praelectiones academicae', an incomplete series of lectures on classical authors by J.J. Conybeare given while Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

John Josias (1779-1824) Conybeare was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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).

The lectures were bought by the Library in 1951.

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

P.S. Spokes, Summary Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library relating to the city county and university of Oxford. Accessions from 1916 to 1962 (Oxford, 1964).