Papers of Edward Bensly

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. c. 724-5, d. 1103, e. 1135, f. 642-3, g. 212-13
  • Dates of Creation
      1882-1936
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      8 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of Edward Bensly, mainly relating to the identification of quotations used by 17th- and 18th-century authors, including Robert Burton, Jeremy Taylor and William Drummond of Hawthornden.

Administrative / Biographical History

Edward Bensly (1863-1939) was an English scholar. Details are given in Who Was Who.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

The papers were given to the Library, ca. 1940.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 44742-9.