Letter 0658

Wanley discusses Latin translations of the Bible and the age of the manuscripts Sloane had asked about. The manuscripts are from the time of Henry II and Pope Eugenius III. Wanley believes 1191 is an accurate dating. He thanks Sloane for his many favours and states his desire to repay him in any way he can. Wanley was an Old English scholar and a librarian. He contributed four catalogues to Bernards Catalogue, a collection of manuscripts published in 1697. He was appointed assistant at the Bodleian Library in 1695 (Peter Heyworth, Wanley, Humfrey (16721726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28664, accessed 19 June 2013]).