Edward Bernard
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Edward Bernard was an English scholar and Savilian professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford, from 1673 to 1691.
Charles Morton's 1759 updated version of Bernard's "Orbis eruditi", comparing all known alphabets as of 1689.
Humfrey Wanley
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Humfrey Wanley was an English librarian, palaeographer and scholar of Old English, employed by manuscript collectors such as Robert and Edward Harley. He was the first keeper of the Harleian Library,
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…1697), colloquially "Bernard's Catalogue", was a catalogue of manuscripts in British and Irish libraries, and served as a major tool for scholars. Humfrey Wanley assisted him with this compilation. Recent sources claim that his assertion that tenth-century Egyptian astronomer Ibn Yunis used a pendulum for time…
Wanley holding a facsimile copy of a cruciform Greek manuscript (Lectionary 150), painting at the Society of Antiquaries, 1711.
Wanley, 1717, by Thomas Hill. The portrait currently hangs in the upper reading room of the Bodleian Library.
Wanley, 1722, by Thomas Hill.