Manuscripts collected by Sir Charles Harding Firth, with some working papers. The collection includes poetry, ballads, lectures, notebooks of extracts, and letters.
Dates
- Creation: 17th-20th century
Extent
2.5 Linear metres (28 boxes)
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Firth b. 3].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Firth b. 3-5, c. 14-20, d. 4-15, e. 3-7, g. 1
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 13883, 13884
Abstract
Manuscripts collected by Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), with some working papers.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936) was a historian. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
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. 46873-900.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was given to the Library by Sir Charles, 1916-30, and his widow, 1936, except for MS. Firth d. 10, which was given to the Library in 1937.
- Title
- Manuscripts Collected by Sir Charles Harding Firth
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Collection Level Desription by Emily Tarrant; EAD version 2019 by Pauline Soum-Paris
- Date
- EAD version 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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