Papers of Neil R. Ker relating to Oxford city, university and college library materials, mainly concerning bookbinders, fragments and donors: All Souls College

Title

Papers of Neil R. Ker relating to Oxford city, university and college library materials, mainly concerning bookbinders, fragments and donors: All Souls College

Shelfmark

MS. 21050/44

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1: notebooks relating to manuscripts at All Souls College, containing notes on

'All Souls College manuscript binding leaves'

'All Souls College 1437-1576, Skeleton list of the books'

'Notes and collections for the history of All Souls College library'

'All Souls College donors'

Folder 2: 'Bindings at All Souls College with [Oxford binders'] rolls recorded by S. Gibson, Early Oxford Bindings, 1903', typescript list, apparently by Ker, with a letter from Edmund Craster, [Librarian, All Souls College], 1 Mar 1947, returning the list to Ker, 1947 and n.d. [c.1947]

Folder 3: notes on manuscripts and rubbings of bindings, comprising

notes, 'Fragments of manuscripts in bindings at All Souls'

notes, 'All Souls College, Bursars' rolls, Entries concerning the library'

notes, 'Bursars' Rolls, Service books'

notes on early printed books in order of shelfmark

notes on the textual identification of manuscripts used to wrap 'Twenty six rolls containing abstracts of charters relating to the college and its estates'

rubbings of bindings of early printed books and related notes

Date

1947 and n.d. [c.1940-1947]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (3 folders)