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His library, including ca.800 [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]], was [[retail sale::sold]] after his death to [[subsequent owner::Robert Scot]], who in turn [[retail sale::sold]] it to the Royal Library (hence many [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]] are now in the [[present repository::British Library]]). List of his [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]] in BL ms.Royal App.70.  Listed in [[crossreference::Edward Bernard]]'s [[book title::''catalogi manuscriptorum'']], [[date of publication::1697]], as owning 312 [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]].
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His library, including ca.800 [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]], was [[retail sale::sold]] after his death to [[subsequent owner::Robert Scot]], who in turn [[retail sale::sold]] it to the Royal Library (hence many [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]] are now in the [[present repository::British Library]]). List of his [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]] in BL ms.Royal App.70.  Listed in [[crossreference::Edward Bernard 1638-1697|Edward Bernard]]'s [[book title::''catalogi manuscriptorum'']], [[date of publication::1697]], as owning 312 [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]].
  
 
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John THEYER 1597-1673

Biographical Note

Son of John Theyer (d.1631). He entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1613, but did not graduate. Practiced common law at New Inn, London. He inherited a collection of manuscripts from Robert Hart, his great-uncle, and a family estate at Cooper Hill, Brockworth at which a library was established and used by his friend Anthony Wood.

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His library, including ca.800 manuscripts, was sold after his death to Robert Scot, who in turn sold it to the Royal Library (hence many manuscripts are now in the British Library). List of his manuscripts in BL ms.Royal App.70. Listed in Edward Bernard's catalogi manuscriptorum, 1697, as owning 312 manuscripts.

Sources

  • Fell-Smith, Charlotte, and Robert J. Haines. "Theyer, John (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • James, M. R. The history of Lambeth Palace Library, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 3 (1959) 1-31.