Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Richard of Cirencester, &c.—Bishop Barlow

By J. M. (Oxford)

Your correspondent "S.A.A." (No. 6., p. 93), who is desirous of further information respecting Richard of Cirencester, will, I am sure, peruse with much interest and gratification a dissertation on that writer by K. Wex, which first appeared in the *Rheinisches Museum für Philologie* for 1846, and was shortly after translated and inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine, with valuable notes by the translator. —Respecting the writers of notes on the margin of books, few notes of the kind, I apprehend, deserve better to be collected and published than those by the very learned Bishop Barlow, Provost…

Topics: Historical Scholarship, Philology, Library Collections

Locations: Cirencester, Queen's College, Bodleian