Collection Level Description: Oxford Collections of Percy Manning
Reference: MSS. Top. Oxon. d. 179-200
Title: Oxford Collections of Percy Manning
Dates of Creation: 19th-20th cent.
Extent: 23 shelfmarks
Language of Material: English
Administrative/Biographical History
Percy Manning (d 1917) was an antiquary.
Scope and Content
Oxford collections of Percy Manning in 23 volumes, including:
- Historical and antiquarian collections relating to the City and University of Oxford, consisting of press-cuttings, leaflets,
and manuscript notes, some descriptive of local events of about 1870-1910, arranged alphabetically in 6 volumes
- Collections on Oxfordshire folk-lore
- Notes on monumental brasses in Oxfordshire
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was bequeathed to the Library by Percy Manning in 1917.
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
P.S. Spokes, Summary Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library relating to the city county and university of Oxford. Accessions
from 1916 to 1962 (Oxford, 1964).
Related Units of Description
See also Collections of Percy Manning.
Access Points
Brasses | England | Oxfordshire
Folklore | England | Oxfordshire
Manning | Percy | d 1917 | Antiquary
University of Oxford
Oxford (England)
Oxfordshire (England)
Enquiries
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09 June 2011