James, Montague Rhodes, 1862 - 1936 (biblical scholar, antiquary and palaeographer)
Person
Dates and places
1862-1936. Born Goodnestone, Kent 1862. School Temple Grove, Surrey, and Eton College. Admitted at King's College 1882; matriculated Michaelmas 1882; BA 1885; MA 1889; Litt.D. 1895; Fellow, dean and tutor at King's College, 1887-1905; Provost 1905-1918; Vice-Chancellor 1913-1914. Died 12 June 1936, Eton, Bucks.
Geographical areas
Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Legal status / Nationality
British
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Notes made by M.R. James for a catalogue of selected medieval manuscripts; with typescripts , 1926 - 1930, 1939 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/ULIB 7/3/74
Scope and Contents
Descriptions in draft of approximately 1,200 medieval manuscripts selected from the collection at Cambridge University Library by M.R. James, undertaken at Eton College from around June 1926 to October 1930, and produced with the intention of publishing a new descriptive catalogue to supersede that published between 1856 and 1867.James had advocated as early as 1904 the need to revise and update the nineteenth-century catalogue, drafting an appeal to the University that more...
Dates:
1926 - 1930; 1939 - 1945
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