Record

StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number MS OGDEN/30
TitleTheological Texts
Date17th century
DescriptionManuscript volume, 17th century: Collectanea Theologica et Ascetica ex diversis Patribus excerpta atque ordine alphabetico disposita (texts selected from different church fathers and arranged in alphabetical order).
Extent1 volume containing 334 leaves
CustodialHistoryThe volume bears the pressmarks 6756 and 111. It was once owned by Samuel Parr, and later belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds, some relating to the administration of Swiss towns. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. Formerly Phillipps MS 6756. Later part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century.
AcquisitionPart of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsHandlist at University College London Special Collections.
PublnNoteHans-Udo Rosenbaum, 'Der Hoheliedkommentar des Nilus von Ancyra: MS Ogden 30 und die Katenenberlieferung' (offprint; copy at University College London Special Collections).
Add to My Items