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mei/00204490 Byw. C. 1.11.
[00204490]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Byw. C. 1.11.
ISTC No.ip00946000
TitlePositiones circa libros Physicorum et De anima Aristotelis
Provenance nameBywater, Ingram (1840-1914), 1840 - 1914 (Male) Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, Sub-Librarian at the Bodleian Library 1879, Regius Professor of Greek 1893-1908, bequeathed his books listed in the privately printed Elenchus vetustiorum apud hospitantium ([Oxford], 1911); see DNB; Craster 281-2; `The Bywater Collection', BQR 1,4 (1915), 80; W. W. Jackson, Ingram Bywater, the Memoir of an Oxford Scholar (Oxford, 1917); the sales of Bywater's other books were: A Catalogue of the First (Third) Portion of the Valuable Library of the Late Ingram Bywater (London: Hodges & Co. 7 June, 14 July, and 2 Dec. 1915); Catalogue of Books from the Library of the Late Ingram Bywater (Oxford, B. H. Blackwell, [c.1915]); correspondence relating to the legacy is kept in the Library Archives (Library Records c. 1193), also the list of books donated in Sept. 1908 (Library Records c. 1194) and other material relating to his library and subsequent sales of duplicates (Library Records c. 1195).
Provenance nameBywater, Ingram (1840-1914), 1840 - 1914 (Male) Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, Sub-Librarian at the Bodleian Library 1879, Regius Professor of Greek 1893-1908, bequeathed his books listed in the privately printed Elenchus vetustiorum apud hospitantium ([Oxford], 1911); see DNB; Craster 281-2; `The Bywater Collection', BQR 1,4 (1915), 80; W. W. Jackson, Ingram Bywater, the Memoir of an Oxford Scholar (Oxford, 1917); the sales of Bywater's other books were: A Catalogue of the First (Third) Portion of the Valuable Library of the Late Ingram Bywater (London: Hodges & Co. 7 June, 14 July, and 2 Dec. 1915); Catalogue of Books from the Library of the Late Ingram Bywater (Oxford, B. H. Blackwell, [c.1915]); correspondence relating to the legacy is kept in the Library Archives (Library Records c. 1193), also the list of books donated in Sept. 1908 (Library Records c. 1194) and other material relating to his library and subsequent sales of duplicates (Library Records c. 1195).