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Ames, Joseph, (1689-1759), bibliographer and antiquary

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Surname: Ames
Forenames: Joseph
Gender: Male
Date: 1689-1759
Biography: ODNB link for Ames, Joseph (1689-1759) Bibliographer and Antiquary
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P128515 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P515 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 5151, 5831, 5834, 6210, 6216, 6219, 6402
See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
2
1747-55: notes of antiquarian journeys
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Top Gen e 58
See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
3
1717-51: minute books of Society of Antiquaries
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Eg MSS 1041-42; Add MS 18823
See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
4
1751-52: notebook and commonplace book
Society of Antiquaries of London
MSS 264B, 675
NRA 27819
5
1749: copy of Typographical Antiquities with his MS notes and additions
British Library, Modern English and Reader Services, Humanities and Social Sciences
See RC Alston, Books with manuscript, p9
6
1755-59: extracts made by him from John Aubrey's Monumenta Britannica
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Don e 127
See Annual Report 1979-80, p16
7
1756-57: corresp with Thomas Martin
Norfolk Record Office
Frere Collection/C3/2/13
NRA 42296 Frere