Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: 4° A 49 Art. Seld.
ISTC No.ia00256400
AuthorAlbertus Magnus
TitleLiber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam. Add: De mirabilibus mundi. Adelardus Bathoniensis: Quaestiones naturales. Quaestiones naturales philosophorum
Imprint[Antwerp : Mathias van der Goes, about 1488]
Format4°
Languagelat
Subjectmedicine-practical
Keywordsplants; animals; minerals; magic; recipes; collection
Periodmedieval
Description of Copy
Copy Id00204730
Holding InstitutionOxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
Shelfmark4° A 49 Art. Seld.
NoteBodInc-Id: A-117(1)
Provenance
1501 -
1600
Time period1501 - 1600
Provenance nameCheke, Sir John (1514-1557), 1514 - 1557 of St John's College, and Provost of King's College, Cambridge, tutor to Edward VI and secretary of state; see DNB; Walter L. Nathan, Sir John Cheke und der englische Humanismus (Bonn, 1928).
NoteProvenance: John Cheke (1514-1557); inscription on a2r: 'Joannes Chekus'.
Provenance
1501 -
1600
Time period1501 - 1600
NoteThomas Portway (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r in sixteenth-century hand.
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'.
NoteJohn Selden (1584-1654), see MS. Selden Supra 111, fol. 63v; MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 44.
Provenance
1602 -
Areae-uk
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