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Mynors, Roger Aubrey Baskerville, Sir, 1903-1989 (Knight, classical scholar)

 Person

Staff Only

Dates

  • Existence: 1903 - 1989

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 4 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Card from Roger Mynors; [Oxford], 17 Feb. 1965

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9846/159
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Letters and related items, mostly addressed to the editors of the Cambridge Review, and predominantly to Peter Hawkes. Some letters were intended for publication; most of the others concern the contribution (or otherwise) of articles and book reviews.

Dates: 17 Feb. 1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / The Cambridge Review: editorial correspondence
 File

John Waynflete Carter: correspondence relating to the post of University Librarian, Cambridge, 1949

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/142-156
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library, together with a number of items and fragments found in Cambridge University Library books and bindings.

Dates: 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Miscellaneous accessions
 Sub-Series

Notes by H.L. Pink and R.A.B. Mynors for a catalogue of medieval manuscripts, 1947 - 1970

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/ULIB 7/3/75
Scope and Contents Descriptions in draft of approximately 650 medieval manuscripts selected from the collection at Cambridge University Library, produced by H.L. Pink between 1948 and 1970 and R.A.B. Mynors between 1948 and 1953.Following the abandonment of plans to publish draft descriptions of University Library manuscripts that had been prepared by M.R. James between 1926 and 1930 (see UA ULIB/7/3/74), H.L. Pink was tasked with updating and preparing James’s notes for publication. Promoted to...
Dates: 1947 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Records of governance and finance are restricted for 50 and 30 years respectively by order of the Library Syndicate. Records containing personal data restricted for 80 years under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Cambridge University Archives / Teaching, learning and research records / Archives of Cambridge University Library / Holdings records / Catalogues
 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
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Records of governance and finance are restricted for 50 and 30 years respectively by order of the Library Syndicate. Records containing personal data restricted for 80 years under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Cambridge University Archives / Teaching, learning and research records / Archives of Cambridge University Library / Holdings records / Catalogues

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