Collection Level Description: Papers of Robert Lowth, Bishop of London
Reference: MSS. Eng. lett. c. 572-4; Eng. misc. c. 816-17, d. 1236; Eng. th. c. 94
Title: Papers of Robert Lowth, Bishop of London
Dates of Creation: 1702-94
Extent: 7 shelfmarks
Language of Material: English and Latin
Administrative/Biographical History
Robert Lowth (1710-87) was Bishop of London. Details are given in the Dictionary of National
Biography.
Scope and Content
Papers and correspondence of Robert Lowth, consisting of:
- Correspondence of Lowth, 1755-66
- Correspondence of Lowth and James Merrick, 1761-4
- Letters to Lowth, with drafts of some letters from him, 1729-85
- Notes and collations of Hebrew texts, mainly in Lowth's hand
- Miscellaneous papers, mainly by Lowth
- Miscellaneous historical and textual notes in English and Latin, some relating to Hebrew texts
- Documents conferring ecclesiastical appointments on Lowth, 1744-55, and on his son Robert, 1789, with
deeds, 1702-94, and a will, 1768, relating to property in the Lowth family
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were found in the Library in 1965.
Access Conditions
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/services/admissions/).
Further Information
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. I, nos. 41550-6.
Access Points
Hebrew literature | Study and teaching
Lowth | Robert | 1710-1787 | Bishop of London
Lowth | Robert | fl 1789
Merrick | James | 1720-1769 | Poet and Scholar
Enquiries
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