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Letter to William Osler, (July 1918 ?)
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Henry Marriott Bannister was born on March 18, 1854, in London, England.
He was an English music editor and bibliographer who studied theology and was ordained as a priest in 1878. He published valuable editions of "Monumenti Vaticani di Paleografia Musicale Latina" (Leipzig, 1913), a catalogue of the music manuscripts in the Vatican Library, which included 141 plates. He co-edited volumes 47, 49, 53, and 54 of "Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi" (1886–1922) and published some manuscripts of the Abbey of Coupar-Angus in Scotland, along with a brief description (Rome, 1910). For many years, he served as the librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
He died on February 16, 1919, in Oxford, England.
Letter to William Osler from Henry Marriott Bannister, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Answers to Osler's request on a decree.
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