Minns, Sir Ellis Hovell, 1874-1953 (Knight, archaeologist, orientalist and linguist)
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1953
Biography
Sir Ellis Hovell Minns (1874-1953), archaeologist, orientalist and linguist (especially Russian), was a Fellow of Pembroke College, 1899-1953 (President, 1928-49), and Disney Professor of Archaeology, 1927-49.
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence to Sir Ellis Minns (1874-1953), 7 Mar. 1938-27 June 1952
Correspondence with others (M)
These are: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, Magdalene College, Cambridge, F. R. Mansbridge, J. I. O. Masson, Francis Meynell, J. G. Millward, E. H. Minns, Christopher Morris.
Ellis Hovell Minns: Influence of Materials upon Writing
'Influence of Materials upon Writing', lectures delivered by E.H. Minns as Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge, November 1925, 81 folios: (fo. 1-58) text, with comparative tables of certain alphabets inserted (fos 7a, 12a, and 21a); (fo. 59-70) photographs. The writing is on the recto only.
Letter of Alexander Birkenmajer to Sir Ellis Minns, 23 Jan. 1934
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.
Letter to T.C. Lethbridge, 1949
Published Methuen & Co., London
Letters from E. H. Minns to Morison, 1941-1951
One letter is undated. Another (1949) is partly written in a Carolingian hand. With these is an offprint of an article by Minns, with his ms. annotations.
Minns: the papers of Ellis Hovell Minns
The collection consists of publications and notes by Minns as well as a recording of him and correspondence. Posthumous material has also been collected.
Other people, 1920-1966 (The date-range is estimated.)
Ca. 40 photographs. Those identified by annotations on the versos or accompanying notes are: Max Beaverbrook, T. M. Cleland, Brooke Crutchley, O. A. Dickman, J. L. Garvin, Adrian Frutiger, E. P. Goldschmidt, Method Kaláb, E. A. Lowe, Ronald Mansbridge, William Maxwell, Ellis Minns, Eugene Power, Frederick W. Schmidt, G. B. Shaw, Karl Young, Hermann Zapf. With these are photographs of 2 steam locomotives.
Sir Ellis Hovell Minns: Correspondence
Sir Ellis Hovell Minns: Correspondence and papers
The correspondence includes many letters from Russian and other East European colleagues.
Sir Ellis Minns: Correspondence and papers, 25 Oct. 1926-15 Aug. 1946
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Sir Ellis Minns: Notebook of Russian Grammar
Notes of Russian Grammar, in English. There are titles in French: on the inside is the title 'Cahier de Russe', and on the first page 'Cours de M. Boyer'; from the back of the book runs 'Cours de M. Alexandrovski'.
Additional filters:
- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 11
- Type
- Archival Object 7
- Collection 5
- Subject
- Alphabets 1
- Archaeology 1
- Lectures 1