Autograph Collection of Rev. G.J. Chester

Scope and Content

Four volumes of English autographs collected by G.J. Chester.

Administrative / Biographical History

Rev. G.J. Chester (1831-1892) was an Egyptologist.

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.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The volumes were presented to the Library by G.J. Chester on 8 May 1889.

Note

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

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, nos. 29899-902.