Cherry's manuscripts, in Latin, Greek, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Welsh. The subject matter includes Greek language and literature.
Cherry Manuscripts
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Cherry 1-41, 43-7
- Dates of Creation
- 15th-18th century
- Language of Material
- Latin, Modern Greek (1453-), English, French, Italian, Spanish or Castilian, and Welsh.
- Physical Description
- 46 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Francis Cherry, of Shottesbrooke, Berkshire, the Nonjuror and patron of Thomas Hearne, was born in 1665, matriculated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 6 April 1682, but took no degree. He died on 23 September 1713. Further 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
There is some doubt as to the exact manner in which Cherry's manuscripts passed to the Library, but they were received in the latter part of 1729.
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. III, nos. 9775-9820.