Manuscripts owened by Charles Towneley, including material relating to various members of the Towneley family, particularly the antiquary Charles Towneley (1737-1805).
Towneley Manuscripts
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Add. C. 203-4, D. 70-2, D. 73A-C, E. 4
- Dates of Creation
- 15th-19th century
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English, and French.
- Physical Description
- 9 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Colonel Charles Towneley (1803-1876).
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 bought at the Col. Charles Towneley sale at Sotheby's, 19-20 April 1877.
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. V, nos. 29110-18.