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Swete, Henry Barclay, 1835-1917 (biblical scholar)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1835 - 1917

Biography

Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1917) was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1858-77, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, 1890-1915. He published widely in theology, church history and patristics, including The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, 1887-94.

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

 Series

Correspondence to Alan E. Brooke (1863-1939), 23 Mar. 1891-19 Sep. 1891

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/58-59
Dates: 23 Mar. 1891-19 Sep. 1891
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).
 Fonds

Harold Lang: Notes on Henry Barclay Swete's Theology Lectures

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9306
Scope and Contents

Lang's notes on Swete's lectures concerning 'The primitive conception of the Eucharist up to the Fourth Century A.D.', 1899. There is an accompanying letter from R.A. Bocking presenting the notebook and explaining its provenance (1995).

Dates: 1899
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Henry Barclay Swete: Correspondence to John Peile and Francis Jenkinson, 1892-1905

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/1362-1364
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1892-1905
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).
 Fonds

Henry Barclay Swete: Some Rivals of Early Christianity

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9390
Scope and Contents

'Some rivals of early Christianity', vol. 1, pp.1-133, and vol. 2, pp.134-187, lectures read in Michaelmas Term, 1907. At the back of vol. 2 are part of a course of lectures 'From Alexander to Herod', pp.133-194 only, from Michaelmas Term, 1909. There is also a letter from Henry Knight, Bishop of Gibraltar to James Bethune-Baker, 1920, asking whether the lectures should be published.

Dates: 1907-1920
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Series

Letter from Henry B. Swete (1835-1917) to E. Rudolf, 16 Nov. 1899

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/487
Scope and Contents

He sends a plan for the Central Society of Sacred Study; he has started the 'Journal of Theological Studies'; its aims; he might find the Exporsitory Times useful; with proof copy of plan

Dates: 16 Nov. 1899
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).
 Series

Letter from Henry B. Swete to J.A. Thomas, 13 Jan. 1908

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/488
Scope and Contents

The use of 'revelation' for 'Apocalypse' began with Tyndale, 1534; Bishop Wordsworth of Salisbury is dealing with the Deceased Wife's Sister issue in a pamphlet for S.P.C.K.

Dates: 13 Jan. 1908
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).
 Item

Letter from Henry B. Swete to John Willis Clark, 7 May 1896

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8953/82
Scope and Contents

Certificate that Revd. J. Hamlyn Hill has qualified for D.D.

Dates: 7 May 1896
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).

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