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Bliss, Philip, (1787-1857), antiquary and editor

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Surname: Bliss
Forenames: Philip
Gender: Male
Date: 1787-1857
Biography: ODNB link for Bliss, Philip (1787-1857), antiquary and editor
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P132713 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P2786 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1800-56: academic and bibliographical corresp and literary notes
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 25100-01, 34567-82
See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
2
collections and official papers rel to Oxford University
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Top Oxon a 6, b 47, c 143-48, 154, d 64-71, 78-79, 83, e 98
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3
1805-55: literary corresp, annotated books, notebooks and papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Add A 227, 368, 381-82 D 18, 101-03; Eng misc e 47; Gen Top 4o 141; Oxon 4o 39; Top gen c 48; Top Oxon e 51-63
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4
c1810-48: corresp and papers rel to his edition of Wood's Athenae, incl annotated authorial copy
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Top Oxon c 81-12, 72-73, d 12-14, e 20-21
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5
papers, incl notes from MSS in the Ashmolean
Harvard University: Houghton Library
MS Eng f 540
NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS

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6
notes on Gloucs and Oxon parish registers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Top eccl e 13
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7
papers, incl annotated copy of Earle's Microcosmography
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng misc d 90-91, e 112-13; Top gen b 81
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8
1811: notes rel to medieval MSS
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng lang f 2
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9
notes rel to books in the Bodleian
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng misc d 90
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10
legal corresp and papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng misc c 503; Eng lett d 463
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11
misc corresp, notes and papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Top gen c 48; Top Oxon d 4, 22
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12
corresp and papers
Oxford University: Magdalen College Archives
MS 467, 828
NRA 20579 Magdalen Coll

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13
annotated copies of various printed works
British Library, Modern English and Reader Services, Humanities and Social Sciences
See RC Alston, Books with Manuscript (1994)
14
1852-56: letters to 14th Earl of Derby
Liverpool Record Office
920 Der 14, box 157
NRA 20084
15
c1820-54: letters to SL Giffard
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng lett c 56
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16
1814-23: letters (14) to Richard Heber
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng lett d 213
NRA 1187 Heber
17
1826-56: corresp with Sir Frederic Madden
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Eg MSS 2837-46 passim
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18
1819-57: corresp with Sir Thomas Phillipps
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Phillipps-Robinson
NRA 26260
19
1834-52: letters (29) to 1st Duke of Wellington
University of Southampton Library
MS 61
NRA 20085
20
1813-57: corresp
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Autogr c 10; Don d 46, 137; Eng lett d 184