Wallace Martin Lindsay (1858-1937) was professor of humanity at St. Andrews University. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Lindsay's notes on and photographs of early Latin manuscripts. This material forms the mass of 'necessary statistics' on which were based Lindsay's Notae Latinae; an account of abbreviations in Latin MSS. of the early minuscule period (c. 700-850) (Cambridge 1915), and his contribution towards D. Bain, A supplement to Notae Latinae (Abbreviations in Latin MSS. of 850 to 1050 AD) (Cambridge 1936). The collection is particularly valuable since it presents the abbreviations manuscript by manuscript, rather than abbreviation by abbreviation as in the published works.

The notes were transferred between 1945 and 1954 from Balliol College Library, where they had been deposited. The photographs may have arrived in the Bodleian somewhat earlier.

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Lindsay | Wallace Martin | 1858-1937 | Professor of Humanity St. Andrews University