Proctor, R. (English spelling)

Japanese: Proctor,R.(英語表記)ProctorR
Proctor, R. (English spelling)

…Francis Jenkinson (1853-1923), who succeeded Bradshaw as librarian at Cambridge University, was a bibliographer as well as a famous entomologist. When Robert Proctor (1868-1903), librarian at the British Museum, applied the natural history research methods of these pioneers to return the approximately 8,000 incunabula (early publications) in the museum's collection to their corresponding dates, places, and printers, bibliography was almost completed. When the University of Oxford published Ronald McKerrow's (1872-1940) "Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students" in the autumn of 1927, a lively debate on the purpose and content of bibliography was carried out in the weekly "Curatorial Supplement" of The Times for about six months, which helped to clarify the nature of bibliography. …

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…ブラッドショーの後をついでケンブリッジ大学の司書となったジェンキンソンFrancis Jenkinson(1853‐1923)は,書誌学者であるとともにまた有名な昆虫学者でもあった。これら先覚者の博物学的研究法を適用して,大英博物館司書プロクターRobert Proctor(1868‐1903)が,同館所蔵の約8000冊のインクナブラ(初期刊本)を,それぞれその占むべき年代と場所と印刷者とに還元したとき,書誌学はほぼその機能を完成したといえる。1927年秋オックスフォード大学がマッケローRonald McKerrow(1872‐1940)の《文学研究者のための書誌学入門》を刊行したとき,《タイムズ》紙の週刊〈学芸付録〉に書誌学の目的や内容について盛んな論戦がおよそ半年にわたって展開され,書誌学の性格をはっきりさせるに役だった。…

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