Ernest James Worman: Handlist to the Taylor-Schechter Collection 1906-1909

Ben Ezra Synagogue (Cairo, Egypt)

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Cambridge University., Library

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Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), antiquary and bibliophile, was born at Manchester on 2 July 1792, and attended Rugby and University College, Oxford. Over the course of his life Phillipps developed an extensive collection of books and manuscripts, including old Welsh poetry and oriental manuscripts. Around 1822 he established a private printing press, and thereafter printed cartularies, genealogies, visitations, extracts from registers, and catalogues of manuscripts held in libraries. He was cr...

Worman Ernest James d 1909

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Worman, E. J. (Ernest James)

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Ernest James Worman matriculated at Cambridge University in 1896, but was not affiliated to a college (B.A., 1898; M.A., 1902). He was Curator in Oriental Literature at Cambridge University Library, 1908-1909, where he catalogued oriental books and fragments from the Cairo Genizah. He died in June 1909. From the guide to the Ernest James Worman: Handlist to the Taylor-Schechter Collection, 1906-1909, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives) ...