Ioannes Winter Jones

Ioannes, vulgo John Winter Jones (natus apud Lambeth Londinii anno 1805; mortuus apud Henley-on-Thames die 7 Septembris 1881), filius et nepos scriptorum, philologus ipse et recensor, fuit bibliothecarius principalis Musei Britannici ab anno 1866 usque ad 1873.

Ioannes Winter Jones, e stirpe Cambrico ortus, munus iuxta Commissionem Caritatum Londinii accepit ibique operam dedit usque ad annum 1837; postea in bibliotheca Musei Britannici laboravit, directoribus Henrico Ellis et Antonio Panizzi, cui in praeparatione regularum catalogizationis Ninety-One Cataloguing Rules adiuvit. Jones ipse, successor Panizzi, museum et bibliothecam direxit ab anno 1866, quo tempore aedificia collectionibus naturalibus destinata (nunc Museum Britannicum Historiae Naturalis) in pago suburbano constructa sunt.

Jones fuit vice-praeses Societatis Antiquariorum et ab anno 1877 praeses Adsociationis Bibliothecariae. Volumina tres pro Societate Hakluyt recensuit, inter quae reperimus opera Ludovici Vertomanni et Hakluyti ipsius; opus etiam Poggii Bracciolini de Indiis nuper inventis Anglice vertit.

Opera

1823 : A translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French quotations which occur in Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England. Londinii
1850 : Divers voyages touching the discovery of America and the islands adjacent, collected and published by Richard Hakluyt in the year 1582 edited, with notes and an introduction. Londinii: Hakluyt Society Textus apud Internet Archive
1851 : Commentatio de bibliotheca Musei Britannici in North British Review (Mai. 1851)
1857 : "The Travels of Nicolo Conti, from the Italian of Poggio Bracciolini" in R. H. Major, ed., India in the fifteenth century: being a collection of narratives of voyages to India, in the century preceding the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian sources now first translated into English (Londinii: Hakluyt Society) Textus apud Internet Archive
1861 : "Observations on the origin of the division of man's life into stages" in Archaeologia
1863 : (cum G. P. Badger) The travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508 translated from the original Italian edition of 1510. Londinii: Hakluyt Society Textus apud Internet Archive
1963 : (Lincoln Davis Hammond, ed.) Travelers in disguise, narratives of Eastern travel by Poggio Bracciolini and Ludovico de Varthema; English translations by John Winter Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963

Bibliographia

Necrologia in The Times (8 Sept. 1881)
"The late John Winter Jones" in Richard Garnett, Essays in librarianship and bibliography (Londinii, 1899) pp. 304-324
R. G., "Jones, John Winter (1805-1881)" in Dictionary of National Biography edd. Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee. 63 voll., 3 voll. suppl. (Londinii, 1885-1901 ~); idem a P. R. Harris recensum in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edd. H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2004) Situs venalis

Curatores Musei Britannici


Gowin Knight 1756 • Matheus Maty 1772 • Carolus Morton 1776 • Iosephus Planta 1799 • Henricus Ellis 1827 • Antonius Panizzi 1856 • Iohannes Winter Jones 1866 • Eduardus Augustus Bond 1873 • Eduardus Maunde Thompson 1888 • Fridericus Georgius Kenyon 1909 • Georgius Franciscus Hill 1931 • Fridericus Georgius Kenyon 1936 • Thomas Kendrick 1950 • Francus Chalton Francis 1959 • Iohannes Fredericus Wolfenden 1969 • Iohannes Pope-Hennessy 1974 • David Mackenzie Wilson 1977 • Robertus Anderson 1992 • Neil MacGregor 2002 • Hartwig Fischer 2016 Index bibliothecariorum et directorum Musei Britannici