Marshall Manuscripts
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Country
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GB
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Language of name of institution
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eng
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Contact information: postal address
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Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG
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Contact information: phone number
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0044 1865 277162 (reader services)
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0044 (0)1865 277150 (special collections)
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Contact information: email
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reader.services@bodleian.ox.ac.uk (reader services)
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specialcollections.bookings@bodleian.ox.ac.uk (special collections)
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Reference number
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MS. Marshall
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (official language of the state)
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Marshall Manuscripts
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Language of title
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eng
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Creator / accumulator
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Thomas Marshall
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Date(s)
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9th century/17th century
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Language(s)
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dut
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eng
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fra
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gre
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heb
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ita
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lat
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Extent
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17.27 linear metres (157 boxes)
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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This collection is composed of manuscripts collected by Thomas Marshall, covering a broad range of subjects and languages, including writings in Latin, English, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Anglo-Norman, Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Coptic, and Icelandic. The collection also contains some Oriental manuscripts. Of particular interest regarding the Sephardic context is a 15th-century collection of Hebrew exegetical texts, originally from Valladolid, Spain, with commentaries on the Bible, authored by Nachmanides and Joseph Kimhi (MS. Marshall Or. 73, Neubauer 341). The collection also holds a commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Perush Sefer ha-Midot) authored by Joseph Ben Shem Tov, dated 1487 and produced in Lisbon, Portugal (MS. Marshall Or. 12, Neubauer 1433).
Digital copies are available online:
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Bodleian Library MS. Marshall Or. 73
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Bodleian Library MS. Marshall Or. 12
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Archival history
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The manuscripts were bequeathed to the University of Oxford by Thomas Marshall in 1685 but were apparently not received until 1689-1690.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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Thomas Marshall (1621-1685) was born at Barkby, Leicestershire, early in January 1621. He was educated at Lincoln College, where he was successively battler (1640) and scholar (1641-1648). He graduated in 1645. Two years later, Marshall left the university and went abroad to escape the impending parliamentary visitation. He was chaplain to the company of merchant adventurers at Rotterdam from 1650 to 1672. When the merchants moved to Dort, Marshall accompanied them and remained there for 16 years.
Marshall was a philologist, studying Anglo-Saxon and Gothic. His Observationes in Evangeliorum Versiones perantiquas duas, Gothicas scil. et Anglo-Saxonicas (Dort, 1665) brought him the election to a fellowship at Lincoln college in 1668. In 1672, he became rector of this college and soon after was made chaplain in ordinary to the king. Between 1680 and 1682, he was rector of Bladon, near Woodstock, and was installed dean of Gloucester on April 30, 1681. He died suddenly in Lincoln College on Easter Eve, April 18, 1685.
Besides Observationes in Evangeliorum, Marshal was also the author of The Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer (Oxford, 1679, 1680, 1700) and editor of Josephus Abudacnus's Historia Jacubitarum seu Coptorum, in Egypto (Oxford, 1675). He also wrote a prefatory epistle to Thomas Hyde's translation of the Gospels and Acts into Malay (Oxford, 1677), and assisted in the compilation of Richard Parr's Life of Archbishop Ussher (1686).
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Sources:
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Porter, Berta, "Marshall, Thomas (1621-1685)". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, vol. 36.
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Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts — Marshall Manuscripts
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Author of the description
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Joana Rodrigues, 2022
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