Casaubon Manuscripts
MSS. Casaubon 1-17, 19-48, 51-53, 59-61
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Casaubon Manuscripts
Shelfmark
MSS. Casaubon 1-17, 19-48, 51-53, 59-61
Summary
Casaubon Manuscripts
Date
16th-17th century
Language
Modern Greek (1453-)
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Latin
Physical extent
5.28 Linear metres
48 boxes
Custodial history
Casaubon's papers were collected and preserved after his death by his younger son, Meric Casaubon, DD and prebendary of Canterbury. Meric Casaubon died in 1671 and bequeathed his father's journal or Ephemerides to the chapter library of Canterbury Cathedral, and the bulk of the remainder of his father's papers, including six volumes of Adversaria, to the Bodleian Library, but they were not received until 1673.
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Meric Casaubon and recieved in 1673.
The following items were recorded in the Summary Catalogue as "lost" or "unidentified" at the time of cataloguing:
3964: Mappa Imperii Turcici, 16th-17th century, Not Casaubon: now lost.
SC no. 3967j (recorded in the Old Catalogue but not identified):
47d. 'Epistola Gallico Sermone ab Is. Casaubono conscripta, de Jesuitis in Gallia, dimid. Sched.'
56. 'Duae Is. Casauboni Epistolae Eruditissimae, quarum prior ad Josephum Scaligerum, posterior ad I. Lipsium scribitur, 1 Sched.'
65b. 'Theodori Canteri Epistola ad Is. Casaubonum, dimid. Sched.' (Thos. Hearne has preserved a copy of this in MS. Rawl. Q. d. 14, p. 61.)
Subject
16th century
Classical literature
Manuscripts, Greek
17th century
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