Mynors, Roger Aubrey Baskerville, Sir, 1903 - 1989 (Knight, classical scholar)
Person
Dates and places
1903-1989. Born Wiltshire 1989. School Eton College. Admitted at Balliol College, Oxford, 1922; BA 1926. Fellow of Balliol College, 1926-40. Kennedy Chair of Latin and fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1944-1953. Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, Oxford, 1953-1970. Knighted 1963. Died 17 October 1989, Hereford.
Geographical areas
Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Legal status / Nationality
British
Sphere of activity
Classics, Latin manuscripts
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Sub-Series
Notes made by M.R. James for a catalogue of selected medieval manuscripts; with typescripts , 1926 - 1930, 1939 - 1945
Sub-Series
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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