Routh Manuscripts 12th - 19th century
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Routh, Martin Joseph, 1755-1854
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Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854), President of Magdalen College, Oxford, was a distinguished patristics scholar and inveterate book collector, who bequeathed his large library (some 23,000 items) to the University of Durham. Apart from those manuscripts bound with printed books, however, his manuscripts were not included in the bequest, and were sold at Sotheby's on 5 July 1855, when sixteen were bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps (nos 14026-41 in his catalogue). From the guide to the Rou...
