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See also: British See also: scholar and librarian, was See also: born in See also: London on the and of See also: February 1831, and educated at See also: Eton
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He became a See also: fellow of See also: King's
See also: College, Cambridge, and after a See also: short scholastic career in See also: Ireland he accepted an See also: appointment in the Cambridge university library as an extra assistant
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When he found that his official duties absorbed all his leisure he resigned his See also: post, but continued to give his See also: time to the examination of the See also: MSS. and early printed books in the library
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There was then no See also: complete See also: catalogue of these sections, and See also: Bradshaw soon showed a rare faculty for investigations respecting old books and curious MSS
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In addition to his achievements in black-letter bibliography he threw See also: great See also: light on See also: ancient See also: Celtic language and literature by the See also: discovery, in 1857, of the See also: Book of See also: Deer, a See also: manuscript copy of the Gospel in the Vulgate version, in which were inscribed old Gaelic charters
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This was published by the Spalding See also: Club in 1869
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Bradshaw also discovered some Celtic glosses on the MS. of a metrical paraphrase of the Gospels by See also: Juvencus
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He made another find in the Cambridge library of considerable philological and See also: historical importance
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See also: Cromwell's See also: envoy, See also: Sir See also: Samuel See also: Morland (1625—1695), had brought back from Piedmont MSS. containing the earliest known Waldensian records, consisting of See also: translations from the See also: Bible, religious See also: treatises and poems
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One of the poems referred the See also: work to the beginning of the 11th century, though the MSS. did not appear to be of earlier date than the 15th century
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On this Morland had based his theory of the antiquity of the Waldensian See also: doctrine, and, in the See also: absence of the MSS., which were supposed to be irretrievably lost, the conclusion was accepted
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Bradshaw discovered the MSS. in the university library, and found in the passage indicated traces of erasure
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The See also: original date proved to be 1400
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Incidentally the correct. date was of great value in the study of the See also: history of the language
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He had a share in exposing the frauds of See also: Constantine See also: Simonides, who had asserted that the Codex Sinaiticus brought by Tischendorf from the See also: Greek monastery of See also: Mount See also: Sinai was a See also: modern forgery of which he was himself the author
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Bradshaw exposed the absurdity of these claims in a letter to the See also: Guardian (See also: January 26, 1863)
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In i866 he made a valuable contribution to the history of Scottish literature by the discovery of 2200 lines on the siege of Troy incorporated in a MS. of See also: Lydgate's Troye Booke, and of the Legends of the See also: Saints, an important work of some 40,000 lines
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These poems he attributed, erroneously, as has since been proved, to See also: Barbour (q.v.)
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Unfortunately Bradshaw allowed his See also: attention to be distracted by a multiplicity of subjects, so that he has not See also: left any See also: literary work commensurate with his See also: powers
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The strain upon him was increased when he was elected (1867) university librarian, and as dean of his college (1857—1865) and praelector (1863—1868) he was involved in further routine duties
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Besides his brilliant isolated discoveries in bibliography, he did much by his untiring zeal to improve the See also: standard of library administration
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He died very suddenly on the loth of February 1886
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His fugitive papers on antiquarian subjects were collected and edited by Mr F
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Jenkinson in 1889
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An excellent Memoir of See also: Henry Bradshaw, by Mr G
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W
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Prothero, appeared in 1888
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See also C
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F
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Newcombe, Some Aspects of the Work of Henry Bradshaw (1905)
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Scriptorum Illustrium, cant. ix
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No
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17
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See also: Ames, Typographical Antiquities (ed
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W
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See also: Herbert, 1785; P
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