Item 50 - Letter from Theodor Mommsen

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Add. MS c/73/50

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Letter from Theodor Mommsen

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  • 24 Feb. 1868 (Creation)

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Thompson, William Hepworth (1810-1886), college head
(1810-1886)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Announces the loss of the borrowed Trinity College MS O.4.36 in his house fire, which consisted of the text of Jordanes' early history of the Goths, and texts of the Antonine itinerary, and Aethici Cosmographia.

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      See the description in the James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts: https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.4.36

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