Wills, Howel
Owner Id00015051
TypePerson
GenderMale
Biographical dates - Period of existence1854 - 1901
Other InformationBalliol College, Oxford, and Inner Temple; see Foster, 1715-1886, IV 1578; resident in Florence; also owned Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS. Bywater 2, Don. d.85, Lat. th. c.34, and Lyell 77; sale, Catalogue of the Valuable, Extensive and Varied Library of Ancient MSS and Printed Books Formed by Howel Wills... (London: Sotheby's, 11 July 1894 - before he left England for Italy). -- His shelfmark label is a square with scalloped edges (perforations, as for postage stamps?) with a blue circle, in which three lines are found (letter(s); roman numeral; arabic numeral); described by Peter Kidd (http://manuscripts.org.uk/provenance/collectors/wills.htm and https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-gradual-at-central-st-martins-from.html) -- His forename sometimes mis-spelled with double-l ("Howell"). -- Matriculated at Corpus Christi, Oxford, 1873; commoner at Balliol, 1874-1882; barrister-at-law, Inner Temple, from 1882. Active in the law until at least 1895; thereafter in Florence, Italy (see "How did Kutsuki Masatsuna’s Coins Come to the British Museum?" by Helen Wang; https://www.academia.edu/1064183/How_did_Kutsuki_Masatsuna_s_Coins_Come_to_the_British_Museum).
Variant NamesWills, Howell
Other Identifierhttps://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id=
https://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp02374955
Activity
Start (year)1874
End (year)1895
MARC Area Codee-uk-en
Profession / Type of InstitutionLawyer
CharacterisationNo characterisation/lay
Activity
Start (year)1895
End (year)1901
MARC Area Codee-it
PlaceFlorence (Geonames Id: 3176959)
Profession / Type of InstitutionScholar
CharacterisationNo characterisation/lay
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