Martin Litchfield West (b 1937), classical philologist, is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Microfilms of manuscripts of Aeschylus, with a few other Greek texts: collected by Professor M.L. West, with the aid of a research grant from the British Academy, for use in the preparation of his Teubner edition of Aeschylus.

The microfilms were given to the Library by Professor M.L. West with the concurrence of the British Academy in 1990.

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/).

The originals are located as follows:

• MS. Film 1839 - Cambridge, University Library
• MSS. Film 1840-4 - Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
• MS. Film 1845 - Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
• MS. Film 1846 - Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale
• MSS. Film 1847-9 - Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale
• MS. Film 1850 - Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana
• MS. Film 1851 - Salamanca, University Library
• MSS. Film 1852-6 - Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
• MS. Film 1857 - Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

A full description is available in the Library.

M.L. West, Studies in Aeschylus (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1990).

Greek drama (Tragedy)

Aeschylus | ? 525 BC-? 456 BC | Greek playwright

West | Martin Litchfield | b 1937 | Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford