dodsworth

What ever happened to Dodsworth's MSS? Are they still in
the Bodleian Library? Have they been/are they planned to
be, transcribed to some sort of tei/xml presentation and
public access, eventually?

Thanks, Ginny

John...

Roger Dodsworth's MSS are in the Bodleian (about 160 volumes), where I
had the pleasure and frustration of examining a few a couple of years
ago, so they are available to the public if you go to Oxford and go
through the admissions procedure to the library. They are catalogued
in the Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian and in
Joseph Hunter's Three Catalogues, both of which should be available in
major university and research libraries (I have found the latter to be
more useful, but both should be consulted). The Bodleian has a few
pieces of its Summary Catalogue on Dodsworth on its website. A few of
the MSS have been published, two I know about are the Kirkstall
Chronicle, Dodsw. 140, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
(Manchester), v. 15; and Dodsworth's Yorkshire Church Notes, Dodsw. 160
and part of Dodsw. 88, Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Record Series, v. 34.

I have not found transcriptions or images of Dodsworth's MSS on the
Internet. I do not know whether web-search, in its arrangement with the
Bodleian plans to scan the Western Manuscripts. Some of these volumes
are very tightly bound, so it won't be easy. I have obtained copies of
some pages from these volumes from the Bodleian. Of course, you have
to know exactly what to ask for (volume and folio number). Details on
ordering are on the Bodleian website. They are slow in fulfilling copy
requests, but they are cheaper than the British Library.

John Schuerman
Chicago