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MYNORS, Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville
- Date of Birth: July 28, 1903
- Born City: Langley, Burrell, Wiltshire
- Born State/Country: England
- Parents: Aubrey Baskerville, rector of Langley Burrell & secretary to Pan-Anglican Congress of 1908, & Margery Musgrave M.
- Date of Death: October 17, 1989
- Death City: near Hereford
- Death State/Country: England
- Married: Lavinia Alington, 1945
- Education:
Summer Fields School, Oxford; Eton College (King's Scholar from 1916, taught there by Cyril Alington and M. R. James); Balliol College, Oxford, on the Domus exhibition (1922), reading Literae Humaniores, BA 1926, winning the Hertford (1924), Craven (1924), and Derby (1926) scholarships.
- Professional Experience:
Fellow and Classics tutor, Balliol College, Oxford, 1926–44; college librarian from 1929; wartime service at the Exchange Control Department of HM Treasury, 1940–4; Kennedy Professor of Latin, Cambridge, 1944–53); Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, Oxford, 1953–70; curator, Bodleian Library; editor, Nelson's Medieval Texts series, 1946-89; fellow, British Academy, 1944; hon. fellow, Warburg Inst., Balliol, 1963 and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1970, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1965; hon. mem., AAAS, APhS, & Istituto di Studi Romani; D.Litt. (hon.) Edinburgh; Durham, Litt.D., Cambridge; Sheffield; LL.D., Toronto; president, PCA, 1966; Knight Bachelor, 1963.
- Publications:
Cassiodori Senatoris Institutiones (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937; 2nd ed., 1961); Durham Cathedral Manuscripts to the End of the Twelfth Century (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1939); “Some Book-Markers at Peterhouse,”in Studies in Medieval History presented to Frederick Maurice Powicke, ed. R.W. Hunt, W.A. Pantin, & R.W. Southern (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948; repr. 1969) 465-8; “Rapport de la Commission de l'Union académique internationale pour le Corpus vasorum antiquorum, pour les Codices Latini Antiquiores,” BAB 34 (1948) 359; “Union académique internationale. Rapport de la commission des Codices latini antiquiores,” BAB 36 (1950) 307-8; “Union académique internationale. Rapport de la commission du Catalogue des manuscrits alchimiques,” BAB 36 (1950) 290-1; “A Fifteenth-Century Scribe: T. Werken,” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 2 (1950) 97-104; “Rapport sur l'activité de la Commission du Catalogue des manuscrits alchimiques,” BAB 38 (1952) 332-3; “Rapports sur l'activité de la Commission du Corpus philosophorum medii aevi,” BAB 38 (1952) 349-55; “How the Latin Classics Came to England,” PCA 51 (1954) 49-50; “Rapport de la Commission des Codices Latini antiquiores,” BAB 40 (1954) 496, 505; “Rapport de la Commission du Corpus philosophorum medii aevi,” BAB 40 (1954) 491-6; “Rapport sur l'activité de la Commission des Codices latini antiquiores de l'Union Académique Internationale au cours de l'année 1954-1955,” BAB 41 (1955) 371-5; 375-376; 382-3; “The Stonyhurst Gospel (a) Textual Description and History of the Manuscript,” in The Relics of Saint Cuthbert, ed. C.F. Battiscombe (Durham: Durham Cathedral, 1956) 356-62; “The Latin Classics Known to Boston of Bury,” in Fritz Saxl 1890-1948; A Volume of Memorial Essays from his Friends in England, ed. D.J. Gordon (London: T. Nelson, 1957) 199-217; C. Valerii Catulli Carmina (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1958); Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile 5, 16, IX: The Moore Bede Cambridge University Library, Ms. Kk., ed. Peter Hunter Blair, preface by Mynors (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1959) 33-7; “Codices latini antiquiores. Chartae latinae antiquiores,” BAB 46 (1960) 479; Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963); “Catalogue des manuscrits alchimiques latins,” BAB 49 (1963) 439-41; “Catalogus translationum et commentariorum,” BAB 49 (1963) 482-3; C. Plini Caecili Secundi: Epistularum Libri Decem (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963); XII Panegyrici Latini (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964); Catulli Carmina: Codex Oxoniensis Bibliothecae Bodleianae Canonicianus class. Lat. 30. (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1966); “Classics, Pure and Applied,” (Presidential Address) PCA 63 (1966) 13-17; Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami I: Ordinis primi, ed. with K. Kumaniecki, J. H. Waszink, & C. Robinson (Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1969); Bede: Ecclesiastical History of the English People, with Bertram Colgrave (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1969); P. Vergili Maronis Opera (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969); The Correspondence of Erasmus. Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500, trans. with D.F.S. Thompson, annotations by W.S. Ferguson (Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1974); M.R. James, Walter Map: De Nugis Curialium (Courtiers' Trifles) (ed. & trans.) revised by C. N. L. Brooke and Mynors (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1983); Collected Works of Erasmus, VIII: Letters 1122 to 1251: (1520 to 1521), ed. with Peter G. Bietenholz (Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1988); Collected Works of Erasmus, IX: Letters 1252 to 1355: (1522-1523), ed. with Peter G. Bietenholtz and James M. Estes (Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1989); Virgil, Georgics (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1990); Corpus of the British Medieval Library Catalogues: 2, Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum veterum. British Library, ed. Richard H. Rouse & Mary A. Rouse, Latin established by Mynors (London: British Library, 1991); Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed. with Bertram Colgrave (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1992); The Collected Works of Erasmus. The Correspondence of Erasmus, X: Letters 1356 to 1534: (1523 to 1524), trans. with Alexander Dalzel, annotations by James M. Estes (Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1992).
- Sources:
NYTimes, (21 October 1989); The Guardian (19 October 1989) 39; Harold C. Gotoff, PAPhS 135 (1991) 309-11; Michael Winterbottom, PBA 80 (1993) 371-401; The Times (19 Octorber 1989) 16; R.G.M. Nisbet, ODNB, (2004); R[oger] R[ees], DBC, 696-7; Paolo Pellegrini, “R.A.B. Mynors and Harvard: an Unpublished Letter to E.K. Rand (10/10/1944),” HSCP 110 (2019) 511-16; Bethany Hamblen, Messing about with Manuscripts: R.A.B. Mynors and Balliol’s Medieval Library (Oxford: Balliol College, 2020);