Madden, Sir Frederic, 1801-1873 (Knight, palaeographer and librarian)
Dates
- Existence: 1801 - 1873
Biography
Sir Frederic Madden, (1801-1873), palaeographer and librarian, was born in Portsmouth on 16 February 1801, the son of Captain William John Madden (1757-1833), Royal Marines, and Sarah Carter Madden (1759-1833), daughter of the Revd Arnold Carter, a minor canon of Rochester Cathedral. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in July 1825. He was appointed assistant keeper in the department of manuscripts at the British Museum in February 1828, and promoted to keeper on 18 July 1837, resigning in 1866. He died in 1873. John Lydgate (1370?-1451?), poet, was born in Lydgate, near Newmarket, and was ordained priest in 1397. He was engaged as a court poet, and enjoyed the patronage of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, from 1422. In his later years he lived at Bury monastery. Lydgate wrote poems, allegories, fables and moral romances.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Sir Frederic Madden: catalogues and memoranda
Catalogues of collections of ballads produced by London printers and in the Roxburghe collection; catalogues of manuscripts in Madden's collections; catalogues and information concerning oriental manuscripts.
Sir Frederic Madden: Index to John Lydgate's Poetical Works
Poems are arranged in alphabetical order of the opening line, with references to Ritson's Bibliographica poetica and other works, 496 folios.
Sir Frederic Madden: Notes of Manuscripts in the Collegiate Libraries of Cambridge, 1841-1846
Including notes on the following MSS.: Gonville and Caius 1072, 175; Trinity R.3.19-21; University Library Ll.4.14; Corpus Christi 45, 50, 80, 91; Jesus Q.I.8 (?); St John's B.6, C.9, K.26, F.18. fo. i: (signed) F. Madden / April 1838'. fo. iiv: '397-1873 / B. Quaritch' (in another hand). fos 47v-9, 54-86: blank. From the title page (fo. ii) Madden's original intention seems to have been to include MSS. from Oxford and elsewhere.
Sir Frederic Madden: Papers
Collection of papers concerning ballads. Includes lists of ballad collections and notes for a history of ballads.
Sir Frederic Madden: Transcripts of various minor pieces written by Matthew Paris
Intended for publication as an appendix to Madden's edition of Matthew Paris' Historia Anglorum (Rolls Series 1866-9), but not printed, with descriptions of certain manuscripts.
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