Nicholson Papers

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 Nicholson Papers
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1818-1912
  • Language of Material
    • English, Ancient Greek (to 1453), Latin, German, and Welsh.
  • Physical Description
    • 134 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of E.W.B. Nicholson, including papers relating to Edward Nicholson, father of E.W.B. Nicholson, and correspondence of E.W.B. Nicholson.

The full list of shelfmarks is: GB 161 MSS. Eng. bibl. a. 1-4, b.1, c. 4, d. 7-8, e. 1; Eng. lang. c. 5-7, f. 1; Eng. misc. a. 4-5, b. 14-18, c. 54-64, c. 66-74, c. 76-85, d. 49-79, e. 56-73, f. 25-6, g. 7; Eng. poet. b. 2, c. 12-15, d. 21, e. 23, g. 1; Eng. th. e. 23; Gr. class. e. 97-8; Lat. misc. d. 35; Mus. c. 43-4, d. 147-8, g. 2-3; Top. Oxon. c. 179-82, d. 114-21, f. 32; Top. Scotland a. 2

Administrative / Biographical History

Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1849-1912) was Bodley's Librarian, a poet, and a Celtic and 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 bequeathed to the Library by E.W.B. Nicholson in 1912.

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. VI, nos. 36056-191.