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mei/00204086 4° A 31(2) Art. Seld.
[00204086]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: 4° A 31(2) Art. Seld.
ISTC No.ia00359000
AuthorAlbumasar
TitleIntroductorium in astronomiam. Tr: Hermannus Dalmata
Provenance nameBruges, Flanders, Carthusians, Domus Vallis Gratiae,dissolved 1783; see Cottineau I 519; Gruys II 251; Jan de Grauwe, Historia Cartusiana Belgica, Analecta Cartusiana, 51 (Salzburg, 1985), 39-64.
Provenance
1501 -
1700
Time period1501 - 1700
Provenance nameSelden, John (1584-1654), 1584 - 1654 (Male) while his manuscripts were bequeathed to the Bodleian, his printed books were presented to the Bodleian in 1659 by the executors of John Selden's will; see Macray 110-23; SC II 594-5; D. M. Baratt, `The Library of John Selden and its Later History', BLR 3 (1951), 128-42; John Sparrow, `The Earlier Owners of Books in John Selden's Library', BQR 6 (1931), 263-71; The Bodleian Library in the Seventeenth Century, Guide to an Exhibition (Oxford, 1951), 43-7; Philip 47-8; Rogers, Treasures, 121, 130-1; A. L. Rowse, Four Caroline Portraits (London, 1993), 125-55; Graham Parry, The Trophies of Time: English Antiquaries of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1995), ch. 4; Toomer, Eastern Wisedome, ad indicem, esp. 64-71; Sandra Naiman, `John Selden (1584-1654)', in Pre-Nineteenth-century British Book-collectors and Bibliographers, ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack, DLB 213 (Detroit, Washington DC, and London, 1999), 297-306; Reid Barbour, John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-century England (Toronto, 2003); the catalogue now kept as MS. Selden supra 111 was drawn up at Selden's house in London, probably shortly after his death; MS. Broxb. 84.10 and MS. Add. C. 40 were drawn up at the Bodleian Library in 1672, the former for Chief Justice Vaughan, the other for another of Selden's executors; some of Selden's books bear his motto `περί παντός την ελευθερίαν'.
Provenance
1601 -
1700
Time period1601 - 1700
Provenance nameGoubard, David (fl. 1633)translator of the astronomical work of Philippe van Lansberge; see general catalogue of Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Hillard 437, who suggests `Belgian'.
Provenance nameBruges, Flanders, Carthusians, Domus Vallis Gratiae,dissolved 1783; see Cottineau I 519; Gruys II 251; Jan de Grauwe, Historia Cartusiana Belgica, Analecta Cartusiana, 51 (Salzburg, 1985), 39-64.
Provenance
1501 -
1700
Time period1501 - 1700
Provenance nameSelden, John (1584-1654), 1584 - 1654 (Male) while his manuscripts were bequeathed to the Bodleian, his printed books were presented to the Bodleian in 1659 by the executors of John Selden's will; see Macray 110-23; SC II 594-5; D. M. Baratt, `The Library of John Selden and its Later History', BLR 3 (1951), 128-42; John Sparrow, `The Earlier Owners of Books in John Selden's Library', BQR 6 (1931), 263-71; The Bodleian Library in the Seventeenth Century, Guide to an Exhibition (Oxford, 1951), 43-7; Philip 47-8; Rogers, Treasures, 121, 130-1; A. L. Rowse, Four Caroline Portraits (London, 1993), 125-55; Graham Parry, The Trophies of Time: English Antiquaries of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1995), ch. 4; Toomer, Eastern Wisedome, ad indicem, esp. 64-71; Sandra Naiman, `John Selden (1584-1654)', in Pre-Nineteenth-century British Book-collectors and Bibliographers, ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack, DLB 213 (Detroit, Washington DC, and London, 1999), 297-306; Reid Barbour, John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-century England (Toronto, 2003); the catalogue now kept as MS. Selden supra 111 was drawn up at Selden's house in London, probably shortly after his death; MS. Broxb. 84.10 and MS. Add. C. 40 were drawn up at the Bodleian Library in 1672, the former for Chief Justice Vaughan, the other for another of Selden's executors; some of Selden's books bear his motto `περί παντός την ελευθερίαν'.
Provenance
1601 -
1700
Time period1601 - 1700
Provenance nameGoubard, David (fl. 1633)translator of the astronomical work of Philippe van Lansberge; see general catalogue of Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Hillard 437, who suggests `Belgian'.