See also:

• SAMUEL

SAMUEL See also:

• SAMUEL AYSCOUGH (1745-1804)

AYSCOUGH (1745-1804)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English librarian and See also:

• INDEX

index-maker, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• NOTTINGHAM
• NOTTINGHAM, CHARLES HOWARD, 1ST EARL OF1 (1536-1624)
• NOTTINGHAM, EARLS OF

Nottingham in 1745 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a printer and stationer, having ruined himself by See also:

• SPECULATION

speculation, See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

• AYSCOUGH, SAMUEL (1745-1804)

Ayscough See also:

• LEFT

left Nottingham for See also:

• LONDON

London, where he obtained an engagement in the cataloguing See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum . In 1782 he published a two-See also:

• VOLUME

volume See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of the then undescribed See also:

• MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts in the museum . About 1785 he was appointed assistant librarian at the museum, and soon afterwards took See also:

• HOLY

holy orders . In 1786 he published an index to the first seventy volumes of the Monthly See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review, and in 1796 indexed the remaining volumes . Both this index and his catalogue of the undescribed manuscripts in the museum were private ventures . His first See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• WORK

work was a third See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in the British Museum catalogue of 1787, and he subsequently catalogued the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient rolls and charters, 16,000 in all . In 1789 he produced the first two volumes of the index to the See also:

• GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

Gentleman's See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine,and in 1790 the first index-See also:

• CONCORDANCE (Late Lat. concordantia, harmony, from cum, with, and car, heart)

concordance to See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare . He was a See also:

• FELLOW

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and has been called " The See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince of Indexers." He died at the British Museum on the 3oth of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1804 .