Oxford University. Transcripts and extracts made by the Rev. William Smith

MSS/0072

Oxford University. Transcripts and extracts made by the Rev. William Smith

Early 18th century

Sub-fonds

Twenty-eight volumes.
Quarto (72/27 B, folio).
Leather, mottled brown, with an oblong inset of plain brown. Bookplates of George Allan, FSA, in most volumes.

Transcripts and extracts made by the Rev. William Smith (c. 1651-1735), Fellow of University College, Oxford, and rector of Melsonby, Yorks., from material, mostly manuscript, in the Bodleian Library, college libraries, university, college and city archives, etc., relating mainly to the history of Oxford University and its colleges.

Includes excerpts from the manuscripts of Anthony Wood, Brian Twyne, Roger Dodsworth and Dr Matthew Hutton in the Bodleian Library, and material from private collections and personal information. Smith described his collections in a letter of 10 May 1709 (Letters of Eminent Men addressed to Ralph Thoresby, II (1832), 164-74) and used them in his Annals of University College (1728) which was written to prove the seniority of University College. See also VCH Oxfordshire, III (1954), 69, which notes that many of Smith's sources are no longer extant. J. E. T. Rogers, ed., Oxford City Documents (Oxford Hist. Soc., 18, 1891) prints selected items from the city archives.

Notes of contents by the compiler on front pastedowns, and his detailed lists of contents in most volumes (and in MSS/0072/027 A for vols. 12-16, 18, 19, now MSS/0072/013, 015, 017, 019, 021, 025, 026). Printed titlepages added by George Allan, FSA.

Smith, William (c 1651-1735), Fellow of University College, Oxford and antiquary

SAL/MS/72/1-27/B

Latin, English

Eleven further volumes of transcripts by Smith of University College archives are in the Bursary of University College.

• MSS/0072/001 - Oxford University. Transcripts
• MSS/0072/002 - Oxford University. Statutes, papal bulls, regulations
• MSS/0072/003 - Oxford University. Register of Letters
• MSS/0072/004 - Oxford University. Register of the Chancellor's Court
• MSS/0072/005 - Oxford University. Register of the Chancellor's Court
• MSS/0072/006 - Oxford University. Registers of Congregation (and Convocation)
• MSS/0072/007 - Oxford University. Registers of Congregation (and Convocation)
• MSS/0072/008 - Oxford University. Registers of Congregation (and Convocation)
• MSS/0072/009 - Oxford University. Registers of Convocation
• MSS/0072/010 - Oxford University. Registers of Convocation
• MSS/0072/011 - Oxford University. Registers of Convocation, excerpts relating to elections, various lists
• MSS/0072/012 - Oxford University. Grants to townsmen
• MSS/0072/013 - Oxford University. Miscellaneous notes and transcripts
• MSS/0072/014 - Oxford University. Disputes between town and university
• MSS/0072/015 - Oxford University. Excerpts from the cartularies of St Frideswide
• MSS/0072/016 - Oxford University. Excerpts from various registers
• MSS/0072/017 - Oxford University. Excerpts from manuscripts of Roger Dodsworth
• MSS/0072/018 - Oxford University. Archives of the city of Oxford
• MSS/0072/019 - Oxford University. York registers from the manuscripts of Dr Matthew Hutton
• MSS/0072/020 - Oxford University. Cambridge, Oxford, miscellaneous extracts
• MSS/0072/021 - Oxford University. Lincoln registers from the manuscripts of Dr Matthew Hutton
• MSS/0072/022 - Oxford University. Miscellaneous excerpts
• MSS/0072/023 - Oxford University. Charters, accounts, registers etc.
• MSS/0072/024 - Oxford University. Excerpts from public records, city archives, register of wills
• MSS/0072/025 - Oxford University. Transcripts and extracts mostly relating to Yorkshire
• MSS/0072/026 - Oxford University. Excerpts from chronicles, ecclesiastical and public records
• MSS/0072/027 - Oxford University. Miscellaneous notes