Collection Level Description: Radcliffe Trust Manuscripts
Reference: MSS. Radcliffe Trust a. 1-25, b. 1-19, c. 1-45, d. 1-64, e. 2-32, f. 1-7, g.1
Title: Radcliffe Trust Manuscripts
Dates of Creation: 13th-20th century
Extent: 192 shelfmarks
Language of Material: English, Latin, Italian, French, and Middle English
Administrative/Biographical History
John Radcliffe (1650-1714) was a physician who left money in trust for, among other things, the foundation of
the Radcliffe Library, Radcliffe Infirmary and Radcliffe Observatory. Details are given in the Dictionary
of National Biography.
Scope and Content
The Radcliffe Trust Manuscripts consists of a collection of miscellaneous manuscripts acquired by the
Radcliffe Library, Oxford, including:
- Twelve volumes of letters to Richard Richardson, botanist and antiquary, and his son Richard,
1690-1777
- Sixteen volumes of drafts and notes for lectures by Thomas Hornsby, ca. 1774-1800
- Ten volumes of drawings and descriptions of shells by Joan Raye de Breukelerwaard, entitiled 'Choix de
coquilles rares et autres dessinées d'après nature avec soin sur les originaux qui se trouvent
dans mon cabinet', 18th century
- 12 volumes of water-colours of birds, 18th century
- Eight volumes of Japanese water-colours, late 18th century
- Sixty dissertations submitted for the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Oxford, 1859-95
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Most of the manuscripts became the property of the Bodleian by decree of Chancery in 1932; others were
given by the Radcliffe Trustees, 1935-8.
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. 51839-52032.
Related Units of Description
See also:
- Radcliffe Trust (MSS. D.D. Radcliffe a. 1-4, b. 1-8, c. 1-72, d. 1-39, e. 1, f. 1)
- Additional Papers of the Radcliffe Trust Concerning the Radcliffe Observatory (MSS. D.D. Radcliffe c. 73-4, d. 40-3, e. 2-4)
- Additional Papers of the Radcliffe Trust (MSS. D.D. Radcliffe a. 5-6 (R), b. 9-29, c. 76-92, e. 5-6)
Access Points
Dissertations, Academic | England | Oxford
Lectures and lecturing
Medicine
Ornithology
Shells
Raye de Breukelerwaard | Joan | fl 1700-1799
Hornsby | Thomas | 1733-1810 | Astronomer
Radcliffe | John | 1650-1714 | Physician
Richardson | Richard | 1663-1741 | Botanist
Richardson | Richard | d 1781
Radcliffe Library, Oxford
Radcliffe Trust
University of Oxford
Enquiries
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