Burnett Hilman Streeter (1874-1937) was Canon of Hereford and a biblical scholar. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Letters and papers of B.H. Streeter concerning his work on chained libraries, and the restoration of the chained library in Hereford Cathedral. The collection includes photographs, drawings and plans of chained libraries and their fittings.

The papers were given to the Library in 1972.

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/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 41377-80.

Some of the visual material was used in B.H. Streeter, The chained library (London, 1931).

Chained books

Libraries | Great Britain

Streeter | Burnett Hillman | 1874-1937 | Canon of Hereford and Biblical Scholar

Hereford Cathedral Library