Papers of Sir R.A.B. Mynors
MS. 21147/1
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Papers of Sir R.A.B. Mynors
Shelfmark
MS. 21147/1
Summary
Comprising
Correspondence and papers concerning a projected edition of the Latin version of the Shepherd of Hermas, 1920 and 1949-1991. The correspondence was continued by Michael Winterbottom after Mynors' death. One folio is closed.
Correspondence and notes relating to Mynors' and Richard Southern's project to edit William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum and the transfer of the project to Michael Winterbottom and Rod Thomson, 1953-1989 and n.d. Correspondents include Neil Ker and Martin Brett.
Latin text of Virgil's Georgics typed out by Mynors and his unpublished translation, n.d., with letters, 1992, to Michael Winterbottom concerning the translation from Penguin Books and Oxford University Press.
Letters from Mynors to Michael Winterbottom, 1963-1988, with typescript article on 'The Manuscripts of the Gesta Pontificum' enclosed, and one letter to Leighton Reynolds, 1955.
Transcript of Brian Harrison's interview with Mynors in 1985, with letter to Michael Winterbottom, 1999. The recording of the interview is in the British Library.
Articles by Mynors including his presidential address to the Classical Association, 1966, and an annotated copy of his Mynors of Treago, Co. Hereford. A Genealogy, 1954.
Date
1920, 1949-1999 and n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
6 Leaves
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Collection contents
Papers of Sir R.A.B. Mynors, classical scholar
Papers of Sir R.A.B. Mynors
