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00206827

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      BodInc-Id: B-384(1)
      Revised by Vanessa Rossi (CERL Grant 2022).
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  provenance:
    - agent:
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          name: 'Gwynn, Edward (d. in or shortly after 1645)'
          note: "see W. A. Jackson, `Edward Gwynn', Library, 4th ser., 15 (1934/5), 92-6."
          ownerId: 00012578
      note: Edward Gwynn († in or shortly after 1645); name stamped on the upper cover.
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        - name: 'Godmersham, William (fl. 1469-1510)'
          note: "monk of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury; see Emden, BRUO, 780; there was also a monk of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury, of the same name and at the same period: see Joan Greatrex, Biographical Register of the English Cathedral Priories of the Province of Canterbury c.1066 to 1540 (Oxford, 1997), 172."
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      note: "Provenance: William Godmersham (fl. 1469-1510); see Ker, Medieval Libraries, 47, 244; inscription on a1r: 'Liber fratris Willelmi Godmersham monachi Sancti Augustini Cant.' "
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          name: 'Selden, John (1584-1654)'
          note: "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'."
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      note: "John Selden (1584-1654); Greek motto on a1r; see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 44: 'Boethius Severinus. De consolatione Philosophiæ et de disciplina scholarum cum commentis St Thomæ'."
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        start: 1501
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          type: corporate
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          name: Oxford
  shelfmark: 4° B 2 Art. Seld.
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    - timestamp: 2019-04-10T18:00:00Z
    - date: 2022-09-13T08:39:45
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00206827

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data:
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  generalNotes:
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      BodInc-Id: B-384(1)
      Revised by Vanessa Rossi (CERL Grant 2022).
  holdingInstitutionId: OxfordBodley
  hostItemId: ib00799700
  otherIdentifier:
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      source: uktextinc
  provenance:
    - agent:
        - dates: ' - 1645'
          name: 'Gwynn, Edward (d. in or shortly after 1645)'
          note: "see W. A. Jackson, `Edward Gwynn', Library, 4th ser., 15 (1934/5), 92-6."
          ownerId: 00012578
      note: Edward Gwynn († in or shortly after 1645); name stamped on the upper cover.
      timeperiod:
        end: 1700
    - agent:
        - name: 'Godmersham, William (fl. 1469-1510)'
          note: "monk of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury; see Emden, BRUO, 780; there was also a monk of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury, of the same name and at the same period: see Joan Greatrex, Biographical Register of the English Cathedral Priories of the Province of Canterbury c.1066 to 1540 (Oxford, 1997), 172."
          ownerId: 00012491
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          name: 'Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, OSB'
          ownerId: 00034509
          professionOrType:
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          type: corporate
      note: "Provenance: William Godmersham (fl. 1469-1510); see Ker, Medieval Libraries, 47, 244; inscription on a1r: 'Liber fratris Willelmi Godmersham monachi Sancti Augustini Cant.' "
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          name: 'Selden, John (1584-1654)'
          note: "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'."
          ownerId: 00014265
      note: "John Selden (1584-1654); Greek motto on a1r; see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 44: 'Boethius Severinus. De consolatione Philosophiæ et de disciplina scholarum cum commentis St Thomæ'."
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          name: 'Oxford, Bodleian library'
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          professionOrType:
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          role: R399
          type: corporate
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      place:
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          name: Oxford
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  history:
    - timestamp: 2016-06-22T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-04-10T18:00:00Z
    - date: 2022-09-13T08:39:45
    - date: 2022-09-13T13:22:57