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_id: 00012106
data:
  activity:
    - areaCode: e-uk-en
      characterisation: noc
      end: 1834
      geonamesId: 2643743
      place: London
      professionOrType: lic
      start: 1757
  biographicalInformation: '1757 - 1834'
  externalId:
    - http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01319667
  gender: 1002
  name: 'Douce, Francis'
  note: "Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, bequeathed his collection to the Bodleian Library; see Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce to the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1840); Macray 326; Craster 15-16; `Francis Douce 1757-1834', BQR 7 (1934), 359-84; Munby, Connoisseurs, esp. 35-56; David Rogers, `Francis Douce's Manuscripts: Some Hitherto Unrecognized Provenances', in Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard (Oxford, 1975), 315-40; Douce Legacy; P. R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973 (London, 1998), ad indicem; I. G. Philip, `The Bodleian Library', in Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part I, ed. M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, The History of the University of Oxford, 6 (Oxford, 1997), 585-97, at 593."
  type: per
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2018-04-10T18:31:08
    - timestamp: 2018-04-10T18:31:25
    - timestamp: 2018-08-19T10:42:39