Humfrey Wanley
English librarian, palaeographer and scholar / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Humfrey Wanley (21 March 1672 – 6 July 1726) was an English librarian, palaeographer and scholar of Old English, employed by manuscript collectors such as Robert and Edward Harley. He was the first keeper of the Harleian Library,[1] now the Harleian Collection.[2]