Donor · Consul / diplomat
Thomas Roe
fl. 1626–1628 · United Kingdom
British donor and diplomat, active 1626–1628. Gave to Bodleian Library; worked with Arundel.
Life and work
- 1626–1628Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte in 1626–28 who gave a Greek Gospel manuscript brought from the East to the Bodleian Library in 1628.
- 1626Ambassador to the Porte in 1626-28, through whom Arundel secured a gift of manuscripts to the Museum; passage names him only in connection with Arundel's collecting.
- 1628Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire who inscribed and gave this Greek manuscript, brought from the East, to the Bodleian Library in 1628; no Cypriot link is stated in the passage.
Through their hands
1 record- 1628Gift
GiftManuscriptsThomas Roe gave this book, which he had brought from the East, to the Bodleian Library.
Gave to Bodleian LibraryNo. Roe 6Carr 2004, p. 1
Sources
- 1.Annemarie Weyl Carr (2004). Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades.
- 2.Unwin Ltd London, The British Museum Library.
- 3.Esdaile Arundell., The British Museum Library (1946) (1946).
- 4.Annemarie Weyl Carr, Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (2004).
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