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mei/00208000 4° N 16(3) Th.
[00208000]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: 4° N 16(3) Th.
ISTC No.ic00869000
TitleContemplation of sinners
ImprintWestminster : Wynkyn de Worde, 10 July 1499
ownerHyde, Catalogus (1674)., 1674 - Catalogus impressorum librorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae (Oxford, 1674), the work of Thomas Hyde (1636-1703), Bodley's Librarian 1665–1700; see Macray 139-40, and Philip 50-2; for Hyde, also Laudian Professor of Arabic and Regius Professor of Hebrew, see DNB; Macray passim; Philip passim; Toomer, Eastern Wisedome, ad indicem, esp. 248-50, 295-8.
noteProvenance: Probably acquired by 1674; item 2 is in Hyde, Catalogus (1674), I 227, with the same shelfmark as the volume has today.
ownerHyde, Catalogus (1674)., 1674 - Catalogus impressorum librorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae (Oxford, 1674), the work of Thomas Hyde (1636-1703), Bodley's Librarian 1665–1700; see Macray 139-40, and Philip 50-2; for Hyde, also Laudian Professor of Arabic and Regius Professor of Hebrew, see DNB; Macray passim; Philip passim; Toomer, Eastern Wisedome, ad indicem, esp. 248-50, 295-8.
noteProvenance: Probably acquired by 1674; item 2 is in Hyde, Catalogus (1674), I 227, with the same shelfmark as the volume has today.