Manuscripts

London, British Library, MS Additional 38693

  • Latin, English
  • s. xviiex
  • composite manuscript
  • English manuscripts
  • paper

Miscellany which appears to have been compiled by Thomas Tenison (1636–1715) at a time when he was rector of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. It includes a copy of a catalogue of manuscripts formerly belonging to Sir James Ware.

Identifiers
Location
Collection: Additional manuscripts
Shelfmark
Additional 38693
Type
record sources for Ireland
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin, English
Date
s. xviiex
Origin, provenance
Origin: EnglandEngland
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London, St Martin-in-the-Fields libraryLondon, St Martin-in-the-Fields library
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ass. with Tenison (Thomas)
Tenison (Thomas)
(1636–1715)
English clergyman, archbishop of Canterbury (1694–1715).

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Hands, scribes
Codicological information
UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.
composite manuscript
Material
paper
Table of contents
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Texts

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The above method of differentiating between links has not been applied yet to texts or citations from texts which are included in the context of other texts, commonly verses.

Locus

While it is not a reality yet, CODECS seeks consistency in formatting references to locations of texts and other items of interest in manuscripts. Our preferences may be best explained with some examples:

  • f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
  • f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
    • Note that marg. = marginalia, while m = middle.
  • p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

OʼSullivan, William, “A finding list of Sir James Ware’s manuscripts”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 97 C:2 (1997): 69–99.  
abstract:
This paper discusses the collection of manuscripts built up by the Irish historian Sir James Ware (1594-1666) and is particularly concerned to trace its descent through a complicated series of book sales and to establish, where possible, the present whereabouts of the manuscripts. Ware's Catalogus is reproduced in full.
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Catalogue of additions to manuscripts in the British Museum, MDCCCXI–MDCCCXV [1911–1915], London: Trustees, 1925.  
Additional manuscripts (38092-39255), Egerton manuscripts (2890-2909), Additional charters and rolls, Detached seals and casts, Papyri, Facsimiles of manuscripts.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
213–215 [‘Additional 38693’]
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
March 2022, last updated: August 2023