Cuthbert Turner

Cuthbert Hamilton Turner FBA (1860–1930) was an English ecclesiastical historian and Biblical scholar. He became Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford in 1920.

His major work was Ecclesiae Occidentalis Monumenta Iuris Antiquissima, often known as EOMIA, published in fascicles in the period 1899 to 1939. It is a collection of sources for canon law.

He was educated at Winchester School and New College, Oxford. He became a Fellow of New College, Oxford in 1889.

Works

• C. H. Turner, The oldest manuscript of the Vulgate Gospels (Oxford 1931)

References

• Concise Dictionary of National Biography

External links

• Klaus-Gunther Wesseling (1997). "Turner, Cuthbert Hamilton". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 12. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 721–725. ISBN 3-88309-068-9.
• The contents of his Ecclesiae Occidentalis Monumenta Iuris Antiquissima.
• An index to Ecclesiae Occidentalis Monumenta Iuris Antiquissima.
• The announced reprint of the Ecclesiae Occidentalis Monumenta Iuris Antiquissima by Georg Olms Verlag.