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Christopher WASE 1627-90
Biographical Note
Classical scholar, supervisor of the University Press at Oxford.
Books
Many of his books were subsequently acquired by Francis Yarborough, Principal of Brasenose (d.1770), who bequeathed his books to that college. His manuscripts went to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Bodleian Library ms Rawl.poet.117 contains an inventory of some of his books.
Sources
- Hodges, Richard E. "Wase, Christopher (1627–1690), schoolmaster and classical scholar." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- P. Morgan, Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian. 2nd edn, Oxford, 1980.