Papers of B.H. Streeter

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 305-7; Eng. misc. b. 111
  • Dates of Creation
    • [ca. 1928-1931]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 4 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Letters and papers of B.H. Streeter concerning his work on chained libraries, and the restoration of the chained library in Hereford cathedral. The collection includes photographs, drawings and plans of chained libraries and their fittings.

Administrative / Biographical History

Burnett Hilman Streeter (1874-1937) was Canon of Hereford and a biblical scholar. 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 papers were given to the Library in 1972.

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. 41377-80.

Bibliography

Some of the visual material was used in B.H. Streeter, The chained library (London, 1931).