Papers by T.D. Fosbroke

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. e. 712-18, f. 419; Top. gen. d. 61
  • Dates of Creation
    • 18th-19th century
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 9 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Eight volumes of notes and transcripts, many in shorthand, by T.D. Fosbroke, with one similar volume not in Fosbroke's hand.

Administrative / Biographical History

Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1770-1842) was an antiquary. 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 bought at Sotheby's in 1974.

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. 45919-27.

Subjects

Shorthand