Papers of Percy Stafford Allen

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Allen 1-271
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1836-1942
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 271 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Working papers on Erasmus and his time, including collations and notes on the letters of Erasmus and reproductions of manuscripts of Erasmus and others; miscellaneous scholarly papers; family papers; general correspondence and papers; letters of condolence on Allen's death and other papers of Helen Allen.

Administrative / Biographical History

Percy Stafford Allen (1869-1933) was an Erasmian scholar and President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1924-33. 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

Bequeathed by Mrs H. M. Allen, 1952, except for MS. Allen 154 and 229 given by Blackwell's, 1961

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 37512-783.