Cyril Ernest Wright papers and photographs
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- Creator
- Wright, Cyril Ernest (1907-1980) palaeographer and bibliographer
TitleCyril Ernest Wright papers and photographs
Reference codeMS893
Datec1933-1972
Scope and ContentPhotographs, accompanied by notes and correspondence of manuscripts, collected by Cyril Ernest Wright c1933-1972. The first section of the collection contains papers, plates, photocopies, photographs, translations and notebooks containing notes of certain Middle English manuscripts held in The British Library, Oxford Bodleian Library, Durham Cathedral and Cambridge University Library. There are also some items of correspondence concerning Middle English Manuscripts (1948-1977). The second section contains photographs taken from Italian Renaissance manuscripts, notebooks of notes concerning manuscripts in various Dutch, Italian and English libraries and museums. Section 3 contains photographs of manuscripts, plates and proofs for Fontes Harleiani: a Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum. In the final section of the collection is a list of Harley Manuscripts in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library.
Conditions governing accessOpen for research. Access to individual items in Senate House Library archives collections may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act. See Archivist for details. At least 24 hours notice is necessary for research visits.
Extent3 boxes
Finding aidsM.J.Grant, The C.E.Wright Papers in the University of London Library: a handlist, University of London Library (1982). A copy of this is available in the Special Collections reading room, Senate House Library. A non-searchable pdf version of this catalogue is also attached to this on-line description.
Related files
Edinburgh University Library holds notebooks; Cambridge University Library contains correspondence and notes from lectures by H M Chadwick (Ref: Add 8281-2); the British Library holds papers (Ref: Add MS 61948).
Level of descriptionfonds