/ en /botanist-warden-lunatic-fatal-prepossession-new-college-ms-382-context <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-12/New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20MS%20382%2C%20f.%206r%20%28list%20of%20characters%29.jpg.webp?itok=8NsOhCqa" width="655" height="435" alt="New College Library, Oxford, MS 382, f. 6r (list of characters)" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (Ï㽶ֱ²¥ MS 382) in Context </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Christopher Skelton-Foord</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 22</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/604" hreflang="en">Charles Abbot</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/198" hreflang="en">John Oglander</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/605" hreflang="en">William Anthony Glynn</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/606" hreflang="en">MS 382</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/78" hreflang="en">18thC history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/163" hreflang="en">19thC history </a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>In April 2024 I acquired from a West Country antiquarian bookdealer a late 18th-century holograph manuscript volume, produced in the West Country by a celebrated Ï㽶ֱ²¥ fellow also hailing from that region. A gilt-tooled, tree-calf bound quarto volume, its 113 paper leaves contain in a cursive script (appearance indicates a fair copy) three apparently unpublished literary works by him—and one since published—dedicated to the warden of Ï㽶ֱ²¥, Oxford.&nbsp;</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>New College Library, Oxford, MS 382, f. 6r (list of characters)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New College Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2025-01/22NCN5%20%282024%29%20Skelton-Foord%20on%20MS%20382.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=728745" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">22NCN5 (2024) Skelton-Foord on MS 382.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">711.67 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:35:45 +0000 Christopher 3258 at