page_title: Thomas Tanner (bishop)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Tanner (bishop) / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: view of the picture of Norwich diocese seal
context_page_description: Thomas Tanner was an English antiquary and prelate. He was Bishop of St Asaph from 1732 to 1735.
context_section_description: Tanner's chief work published during his lifetime is the Notitia Monastica, a short account of all the religious houses in England and Wales. This was published at Oxford in 1695; it was reprinted with additions by the author's brother, John Tanner, in 1744; and was reprinted again with further additions by James Nasmith in 1787. He also wrote Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, a dictionary of all the authors who flourished in England, Scotland and Ireland before the opening of the 17th century, at which he laboured for forty years. This was eventually completed by David Wilkins and published in 1748, thirteen years after the author's death. Tanner also collected materials for a history of Wiltshire and worked for some time on a new edition of the works of John Leland. His valuable collection of books and manuscripts is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. When he moved from Norwich to Oxford, his books were conveyed by water but the barge sank at Benson Lock, near Wallingford on 11 December 1731  and they were submerged   for twenty hours with lasting effects.
caption: Seal of Thomas Tanner as Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich (1700)
   Museo del sigillo, La Spezia
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