Transcripts, extracts and notes relating to the university and city of Oxford, made by and for Brian Twyne, with some notes by Anthony Wood and William Smith.
Twyne Manuscripts
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Twyne 1-7, 9-25, Twyne-Langbaine 1-6
- Dates of Creation
- 16th-17th century
- Language of Material
- English, and Latin.
- Physical Description
- 30 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Brian Twyne (? 1579-1644) 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 manuscripts were bequeathed by Twyne to the University Archives and transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1921 and 1930.
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. II, nos. 55453-82.
Bibliography
The volumes are described in detail by Andrew Clark, The life and times of Anthony Wood, iv (Oxford Historical Society, 30, 1895), 204-18.