Item 149 - J. Enoch Powell: a collation of Thucydides MS. 211

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Reference code

Add. MS c/149

Title

J. Enoch Powell: a collation of Thucydides MS. 211

Date(s)

  • Mar.-Apr. 1934 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 vol. with 4 sheets laid in loose

Context area

Name of creator

(1912-1998)

Biographical history

John Enoch Powell was born in 1912, the son of Albert Enoch Powell, a schoolmaster. Powell won a scholarship to King Edward's School in Birmingham and in 1930 entered Trinity College as an Entrance Scholar. In 1933 he graduated with a first class inread more

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Provenance unknown.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Ottob gr. 211.

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Related units of description

See also other classical papers of John Enoch Powell, Add.Ms.b.90-96, and Add.Ms.c.113-116, 118-151, 244, all of which are linked from the collection level record linked below.

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