Wanley holding a facsimile copy of a cruciform Greek manuscript (Lectionary 150), painting at the Society of Antiquaries, 1711.
Humfrey Wanley (21 March 1672 – 6 July 1726) was an English librarian, palaeographer and scholar of Old English, employed by manuscript collectors such as Robert and Edward Harley. He was the first keeper of the Harleian Library,[1] now the Harleian Collection.[2]
^Murphy, Michael (1982). "Humfrey Wanley on How to Run a Scholarly Library". The Library Quarterly. 52 (2): 145–55. doi:10.1086/601202. S2CID 144550735.
^"History of the Harley Library". Harley Manuscripts. British Library. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
HumfreyWanley (21 March 1672 – 6 July 1726) was an English librarian, palaeographer and scholar of Old English, employed by manuscript collectors such...
Wanley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Francis Wanley (1709–1791), Doctor of Divinity and Anglican priest HumfreyWanley (1672–1726)...
HumfreyWanley (1672–1726) both catalogued the Cotton library (in which the Nowell Codex was held). Smith's catalogue appeared in 1696, and Wanley's in...
children, among them HumfreyWanley. "Wanley, Nathaniel" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. "Wanley, Nathaniel (WNLY649N)"...
the fire at the Cotton library. However, the poem had been copied by HumfreyWanley (1672–1726), and published by George Hickes in his 1705 Linguarum veterum...
Hearne, George Hickes, Thomas Madox, John Nalson, Edward Thwaites and HumfreyWanley In 2012, a special prize was given called the 'Best of the James Tait...
scholars included Laurence Nowell, Matthew Parker, Robert Bruce Cotton and HumfreyWanley. Old English dictionaries and references were created from the 17th...
1707. This early group, conceived by John Talman, John Bagford, and HumfreyWanley, sought a charter from Queen Anne for the study of British antiquities;...
of Thomas Gale, encouraged by Ralph Thoresby, and with assistance of HumfreyWanley on Old English. He spent the majority of his time residing in Cambridge...
the offices of archbishops and bishops. Carte also had a letter to HumfreyWanley published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Carte...
1659) July 5 – Domenico Viva, Italian theologian (born 1648) July 6 – HumfreyWanley, English librarian and palaeographer (born 1672) August 12 – Charles...
Harley and his collections. C. E. and C. R. Wright, eds. The Diary of HumfreyWanley 1715–1726, 2 vols (London, 1966). Nares, Robert; Ellis, Henry; Horne...
the possession of one Robert Farrers. The manuscript was studied by HumfreyWanley, keeper of the Harleian Library, who in 1759 catalogued it with the...
imprimatur appears on the title-page), Sir Hans Sloane, Dean Aldrich, HumfreyWanley, etc. The text is written in Latin, as is that of the definitive work...
the antiquary and herald John Warburton, and was sold by him then to HumfreyWanley, librarian to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, whose collection was later...
reconstituted Society of Antiquaries of London, founded in 1717 by HumfreyWanley, John Bagford and John Talman, made it part of its mission to work towards...
Woodward. Becoming friends with fellow antiquarians such as Thomas Hearne, HumfreyWanley and Thomas Baker, he published antiquarian tracts, contributed to others...
whose correspondence with fellow scholars such as Thomas Hearne and HumfreyWanley testifies to his wide interests. He left a mass of unpublished papers...
manuscript(s) Textus Roffensis First printed edition George Hickes and HumfreyWanley, Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus...
265–67 with a further transcription of the Laws of Æthelstan. When HumfreyWanley inspected the manuscript in 1705 for his catalogue, the poem had become...
manuscript(s) Textus Roffensis First printed edition George Hickes and HumfreyWanley, Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus...
British and Irish libraries, and served as a major tool for scholars. HumfreyWanley assisted him with this compilation. Recent sources claim that his assertion...
2nd Viscount Townshend (1675–1738) Wilhelm Van Vrijberge (1656–1711) HumfreyWanley (1672–1726) "Fellows of the Royal Society", Royal Society. "Fellowship...
with scholars like HumfreyWanley and George Hickes. She was introduced to Hickes by her brother William. She worked with Wanley to design the typeface...
doi:10.1023/A:1004258008518. S2CID 150833108. Gillam, Stanley (1999). "HumfreyWanley and Arthur Charlett". Bodleian Library Record. 16: 411–429.[permanent...
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