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Robert Huntington

fl. 1670–1695 · United Kingdom

British donor and collector, active 1670–1695. Sold to Bodleian Library; gave to Trinity College Dublin.

Life and work

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    Chaplain to the English merchants at Aleppo who in the 1670s travelled in Palestine, Egypt and Cyprus and acquired manuscripts there, most of which went to the Bodleian Library.

    Irmgard Hutter, Corpus der Byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften, Oxford Bodleian Library III (1982)

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    Acquired manuscripts in Syria, Palestine and Cyprus while chaplain at Aleppo in the 1670s; the great majority went to the Bodleian Library.

    Julian Chrysostomides; Charalambos Dendrinos, “Sweet Land …” Lectures on the History and Culture of Cyprus (2006), p. 249

Through their hands

4 records

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Robert Huntington

Went to

Bodleian Library
Merton College, Oxford
Trinity College, Dublin
Gift or bequestPassed onWho objects came from and went to, as the sources record it
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    TransferManuscriptsThe great majority of Huntington’s manuscripts were acquired by the Bodleian Library.

    Passed objects to Bodleian Librarythe great majority of Huntington’s manuscripts, including a Cypriot SynaxarionNo. Auctarium E. 5. 10Chrysostomides & Dendrinos 2006, p. 249

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    GiftManuscriptsHuntington donated a number of manuscripts to Trinity College, Dublin.

    Gave to Trinity College, Dublinmanuscripts from Huntington’s collectionChrysostomides & Dendrinos 2006, p. 249

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    GiftManuscriptsHuntington donated a few manuscripts to Merton College, Oxford.

    Gave to Merton College, Oxfordmanuscripts from Huntington’s collectionChrysostomides & Dendrinos 2006, p. 249

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    AcquisitionprobablyManuscriptsRobert Huntington may have acquired the manuscript in Cyprus.

    this volumeNo. Oxford, Bodleian, Auct. E. 5. 10Constantinides & Browning 1993, p. 197

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Sources

  1. 1.J. Chrysostomides (ed.), Ch. Dendrinos (ed.) (2006). "Sweet Land..." Lectures on the History and Culture of Cyprus. Camberley, Porphyrogenitus.
  2. 2.C. N. Constantinides, R. Browning (1993). Dated Greek Manuscripts from Cyprus to the Year 1570. Nicosia and Washington, D.C., Cyprus Research Centre; Dumbarton Oaks.
  3. 3.Arthur MacGregor; Moira Hook; John Davies; Stephen Harris; Chris Howgego; Malgosia Nowak-Kemp; Philip Powell; Donald Sykes, Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections (Part II): The Vice-Chancellor's Consolidated Catalogue 1695 (2006).
  4. 4.Irmgard Hutter, Corpus der Byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften, Oxford Bodleian Library III (1982).
  5. 5.Julian Chrysostomides; Charalambos Dendrinos, “Sweet Land …” Lectures on the History and Culture of Cyprus (2006).
  6. 6.J. Chrysostomides et al., 2006, "Sweet Land..." Lectures on the History and Culture of Cyprus.

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