Commonplace book, [ca. 1670].

Description

Title: Commonplace book, [ca. 1670].
Creator: Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685
Abstract: Holograph notebook on paper, in an Italic hand, containing detailed reading notes in English and Latin on John Selden's History of Tithes and Uxor Hebraica, as well as notes in Latin toward a revision of Marsham's own Chronicus Canon
Description: Sir John Marsham (1602-1685) was a British antiquarian who published Chronicus Canon Ægypticus. Ebraicus, Graecius et Disquisitiones in 1665; an expanded version appeared in 1672.
In Latin and English.
Laid in: MSS. in Sir Robert Cotton's Library used by Mr. Selden of Tithes (1 p.).
Binding: contemporary parchment; remains of ties.
Provenance: Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2005.
Extent: 1 21 x 17 cm. v. (49 p.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin
English

Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631
Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685.
Selden, John, 1584-1654.
Subject (Topic): Library
Antiquarians
Chronology, Historical
Learning and scholarship
Subjects: Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631 > Library
Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685
Selden, John, 1584-1654
Antiquarians
Chronology, Historical
Learning and scholarship > Great Britain
Great Britain

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Citation: Sir John Marsham, Commonplace Book. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.