Item 50 - Letter from Theodor Mommsen

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS c/73/50

Title

Letter from Theodor Mommsen

Date(s)

  • 24 Feb. 1868 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Context area

Name of creator

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

Repository

Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Content and structure area

Scope and content

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.

Allied materials area

Related units of description

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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