Robert Talbot (scribe)

Robert Talbot (1505/6–1558) was an English antiquary and scribe of Anglo-Saxon. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he obtained his BA in 1525 and his MA in 1529. He subsequently became a schoolmaster at Brentwood, Essex, held various ecclesiastical benefices, and served as a chaplain to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. In 1547 he became a prebendary and canon of Norwich Cathedral.[1]

He is chiefly remembered for his Annotationes in eam partem Itinerarii Antonini quae ad Britanniam spectat, a topographical analysis of the Roman Antonine Itinerary: this remained unpublished in his lifetime, but was known to scholars including William Camden.[1] He also transcribed several Anglo-Saxon charters, and attempted to analyse their topographical content.[1] Marginalia in his hand are found in the F manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, British Library Cotton MS Domitian A VIII.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Carley, James P. (2004). "Talbot, Robert (1505/6–1558)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26941. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ Ker, Neil Ripley (1957). Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 187.
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