Lectures by H.H. Vaughan

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. hist. d. 165-78
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1852-4
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 14 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Fourteen exercise books containing lectures by H.H. Vaughan, as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, partly in the hand of an amanuensis.

Administrative / Biographical History

Henry Halford Vaughan (1811-1885) was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, 1848-58. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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 collection was given to the Library by Vaughan's daughter-in-law in 1938.

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. 40122-35.

Related Material

See also Papers of H.H. Vaughan (MSS. Eng. misc. b. 227-8, c. 364-73, d. 999, e. 970; Eng. hist. c. 1027, d. 458-78, d. 481, e. 339-40; Eng. lett. c. 457, d. 434-45, e. 153-6; Top. Oxon. c. 663, d. 716-17, e. 526).

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