Copy of Hugh Blair, 'Lectures on rhetorick'

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MS. Eng. misc. d. 716/1-2
  • Dates of Creation
    • [? 1770s]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Copy in an unidentified hand of Hugh Blair, 'Lectures on rhetorick', containing thirty eight lectures.

Administrative / Biographical History

Hugh Blair (1718-1800) was a Church of Scotland minister and professor of Rhetoric. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The copy was bought from Hofmann & Freeman in 1972.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 45514-15.