'Old Oxford', an extensive collection of notes and extracts chiefly from printed sources relating to the history, topography and old buildings of the city of Oxford: B

Title

'Old Oxford', an extensive collection of notes and extracts chiefly from printed sources relating to the history, topography and old buildings of the city of Oxford: B

Shelfmark

MS. Top. Oxon c. 187

Summary

'Old Oxford', an extensive collection of notes and extracts chiefly from printed sources relating to the history, topography and old buildings of the city of Oxford, the whole compiled by Mr. Herbert Hurst. To each volume is prefixed an index to its contents and a list of the principal items contained in it: MS. Top. Oxon c. 191 is a general index to the whole. The longer articles in each volume are here given:

Extracts from Bodleian MSS. nos. 8515 (fol. 1), 8514 (fol. 54), 8516 (fol. 95), 10854 (fol. 247), and printed books as A. Clark's Life and Times of Anthony Wood (fols. 109, 221)

Paper by the writer on the foundations of Oseney abbey (fol. 235)

Extracts from the 16th cent. churchwardens' accounts of St. Martin's, Carfax (fol. 263)

Inventories of the church ornaments, 1547, 1552, 1553, 1560 (fol. 268)

Interspersed are notes, by the writer, of archaeological discoveries made in Oxford in 1895-7 (fols. 104, 106, 154, 159, 216, 265)

Fols. 160-202 consist of newspaper cuttings

Date

Written in 1887-1900 by H. Hurst

Language

English

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

207 Leaves