Collection Level Description: Notebooks of Alexander Nicoll
Reference: MSS. Lat. misc. b. 9, c. 23-46, e. 45-6
Title: Notebooks of Alexander Nicoll
Dates of Creation: 19th cent.
Extent: 27 shelfmarks
Language of Material: Latin
Administrative/Biographical History
Alexander Nicoll (1793-1828) was sub-librarian of the Bodleian, 1813-17, and Regius Professor of Hebrew,
1822-28. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Scope and Content
Notebooks of Alexander Nicoll, consisting of:
- Volumes containing notes of books and articles with some quotations and comments,
arranged alphabetically under subject headings
- List of books and articles on Oriental subjects, arranged alphabetically by subject
- Lists of books, arranged by author, relating to Oriental subjects
- Notes on Latin phrases
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The notebooks were transferred from Library records in 1916.
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. II, nos. 47865-91.
Access Points
Orientalism
Nicoll | Alexander | 1793-1828 | Orientalist
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