The archive contains notes and manuscript copies of published works concerning Pennington's work on Serbian and Macedonian poetry, Slavonic music manuscripts, and the history of the Russian language. There is also a little correspondence.
Papers of Anne Pennington
Archive Collection
- This material is held at
- ReferenceGB 161 F. Arch. Z. Penn. 1 (1-7), 2 (1-16), 3 (1-48), 4-6, 7 (1-20), 8 (1-2), 9, 10 (1-7), 11, 12 (1-8), 13 (1-7), 14 (1-11)
- Dates of Creation20th century
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish Croatian Macedonian Russian Church Slavic (or Old Slavonic or Church Slavonic or Old Bulgarian or Old Church Slavonic), Czech Bulgarian French German Modern Greek (1453-)
- Physical Description14 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Anne Elizabeth Pennington (1934-81) was Professor of Comparative Slavonic Philology at Oxford. For further details see Who Was Who and the obituary in The Slavonic and East European Review.
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).
Note
Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
Descriptions of individual items may be found on SOLO (http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/), and in a card catalogue, arranged by shelfmark, at the Taylor Institution Library, Slavonic and Modern Greek Library.
Custodial History
This collection was transferred from the Taylor Institution to the Bodleian Library in 2016.