Dugdale's manuscripts, including historical and genealogical notes and extracts partly relating to Warwickshire. The manuscripts include Latin, English, French, Anglo-Norman and Old English.
Dugdale Manuscripts
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Dugdale 1-49
- Dates of Creation
- 15th-17th century
- Language of Material
- Latin, English, French, and Old English (ca.450-1100).
- Physical Description
- 49 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
William Dugdale, a Warwickshire man born in 1605, began his literary work about 1625 as a local antiquary, although his History of Warwickshire was not published until 1656. His career in the dignified and leisured Office of Arms (Blanch Lyon 1638, Rouge Croix 1639, Norroy 1660) allowed him to undertake a series of literary projects, the scale of which would have staggered a less rapid and indefatigable worker. Further details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Access Information
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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. II, nos. 6491-6536, vol. V, nos. 25275.
Custodial History
The manuscripts were bequeathed by Dugdale to the Ashmolean, where they arrived on 29 June 1686.