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,
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.
Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)
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Thomas Hearne or Hearn was an English diarist and prolific antiquary, particularly remembered for his published editions of many medieval English chronicles and other important historical texts.
Humfrey Wanley
…Masses of letters to and from Wanley are in the collections of the British Museum and the Bodleian Library. Many of them are in the Pepys' diary, Thomas Hearne's Collections, John Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, Ellis's Original Letters and Letters of Literary Men, Letters from Bodleian Library, and Notes and…
Portrait of Hearne, taken from "The Life of Anthony à Wood" by Anthony Wood (1772)