Courtiers’ Libraries in Elizabethan England is a catalogue of classical books collected in the libraries of the Elizabethan Courtiers.
E / J | List+# (e.g. R101, BU13) | Owner | Owner dates | Owner 2 | Owner 2 dates | List entry | Author | (Editor) | Title | Uniform title | Date | Language | Place | Printer | Format (2°, 4°…) | ESTC # | USTC (U) or other (SNB, etc) | Owned copy present location | Known copies | Marginalia annotations | Notes |
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Tow023 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Apuleius. in 8°. | Apuleius | Metamorphoses (?) | Lat | 4° | ||||||||||||
Tow049 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Aristotles peripateticorum &c in 4°. | Aristotle | Opera | Gr + Lat (?) | 4° | ||||||||||||
Tow029 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Aristotiles Problemata. in 8. | Aristotle | Problemata | Problemata | Gr + Lat (?) | 4° | |||||||||||
Tow037 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Aristotles de Arte Dicendi in 4°. | Aristotle | Rhetorica | Rhetorica | Gr + Lat (?) | 4° | |||||||||||
Tow160 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Augustini De Doctrinae Christiana in 4°. | Augustine of Hippo | De doctrina Christiana | De doctrina Christiana | 1482 | Lat | Cologne | Bartholomaeus de Unkel | 4° | 743115 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/743115 | ||||||
Tow164 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Augustini Encharidion. in 4°. | Augustine of Hippo | Enchiridion de fide, spe et caritate | Enchiridion ad Laurentium | 1467 | Lat | Cologne | Ulrich Zel | 4° | 743119 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/743119 | ||||||
Tow158 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Augustini meditationes & Soliloquia & manuale. in 4°. | Augustine of Hippo | Meditationes, Soliloquia et Manuale | Meditationes; Soliloquia animae ad Deum; Manuale | Lat | 4° | |||||||||||
Tow055 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Aulus Gellius. in 4°. | Aulus Gellius | Noctes Atticae | Lat (?) | 4° | ||||||||||||
Tow051 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Caesars Comentaryes in latin, in 4° | Caesar | Commentarii de bello Gallico (?); Commentarii de bello civili (?) | Lat | 4° | ||||||||||||
E | Tow123 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Comentaries de Caesar. in fol. | Caesar | Commentarii de bello Gallico (?); Commentarii de bello civili (?) | Lat | 2° | |||||||||||
Tow146 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Caesaris coment libr 8. in 4°. | Caesar | Commentarii de bello Gallico (?); Commentarii de bello civili (?) | Lat | 4° | ||||||||||||
Tow024 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Cicero De Oratore in 4°. | Cicero | De oratore | De oratore | Lat | 8° | |||||||||||
Tow025 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Cicero de Philosophia in 8°. | Cicero | De philosophia | Opera | Lat | 8° | |||||||||||
Tow026 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Cicero his orations 3. volumen in 8°. | Cicero | Orationes | Orationes | Lat | 8° | |||||||||||
Tow062 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Quintus Curtius Histor. in 4°. | Curtius Rufus | John Brende | The historie of Quintus Curcius, contayning the actes of the greate Alexander translated out of Laten by J. Brende. | Historiae Alexandri Magni | 1553 | Engl | London | Richard Tottell | 4° | 6197411 | ||||||
Tow038 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Diogenes Philoso: grec & la. in 4°. | Diogenes Laertius | De vita et moribus philosophorum | Vitae et sententiae philosophorum | Gr + Lat (?) | 4° | |||||||||||
Tow030 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Epicteti Stoici Philosophi Enchiridion. in 4°. | Epictetus | Arrian; Angelo Poliziano; Jakob Schegk | Enchiridion | Enchiridion | 1600 | Gr | Lyon | Eustache Vignon | 4° | 154740 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/154740 | |||||
Tow114 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Josippus de bello judaico. in 4°. | Flavius Josephus | Erasmus | De bello judaico, libri septem | De bello Judaico | 1528 | Lat | Lyon | Sébastien Gryphe | 2° | 155772 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/155772 | |||||
Tow027 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Heliodorus. in 8°. | Heliodorus of Emesa | Historia Aethiopica | Aethiopica | Gr + Lat (?) | 4° | |||||||||||
Tow150 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Justini ex Trogi Pompeia historia. in 4°. | Justin | Epitome historiarum Pompei Trogi | Epitome historiarum Trogi Pompeii | Lat | 4° | |||||||||||
Tow268 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Juvenall in 8°. | Juvenal | Saturae | Satirae | Lat | 8° | 835193 | Magdalen College Library, Oxford | |||||||||
Tow022 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Lactantius. in 8°. | Lactantius | Opera | Lat | 8° | ||||||||||||
Tow044 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Lucian Samosatensis Dialogs: &c. in 4°. | Lucian | Dialogi | Gr + Lat (?) | 4° | ||||||||||||
Tow045 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Lucian Dialogorum. in 4°. | Lucian | Dialogi | Gr + Lat (?) | 4° | ||||||||||||
Tow036 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Eratoshenes. in 4°. | Lysias | Andrew Downes | Eratosthenes, hoc est, brevis et luculenta defensio Lysiae, praelectionibus illustrata A. Dunaei. | De caede Eratosthenis | 1593 | Engl | Cambridge | John Legat | 4° | 6180755 | ||||||
Tow102 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Martial Epigram: [Epigrammata] in (Caesaris Amph:: in fo: | Martial | Théodore Marcile | Epigrammata in Caesaris amphitheatrum | Liber de spectaculis | 1584 | Lat | Paris | Gilles Beys | 4° | 170713 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/170713 | |||||
E | Tow032 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Ovid heroidum Epistola &c. in 4°. | Ovid | Heroides, Epistulae ab Ponto, other | Heroides; Ex Ponto | Lat | 4° | ||||||||||
Tow050 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | In Auli persi Poet &c Satyras. 4° | Persius | Eilhard Lubin | In Auli Persi poetarum doctissimi obscurissimi satyras paraphrasis scholastica nova | Satirae | 1595 | Lat | Amsterdam | Zacharias Heyns | 4° | 423484 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/423484 | |||||
Tow126 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Le Criton de Platon, ou de ce qu'on doibtfaire. in fol. | Plato | Jean Le Masle | Le Criton de Platon | Crito | 1582 | Fr | Paris | Jean Poupy | 4° | 29014 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/29014 | |||||
E/J | Tow125 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Platon del imortality de l'amee. in fo | Plato | Louis Le Roy | Le phedon | Phaedo | 1553 | Fr | Paris | Sébastien Nivelle | 2° | 27435 | |||||
Tow124 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Alcibiades. in fo: | Plato | Alcibiades | Alcibiades | Gr + Lat (?) | 2° | Attribution is debated | ||||||||||
Tow034 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Plinius Epistles. in 4°. | Pliny the Younger | Epistulae | Epistulae | Lat | 8° | |||||||||||
Tow111 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Les vies de homes illustres Grecs & Romains; tome 2. in 4°. | Plutarch | Jacques Amyot; Charles de L'Écluse | Les vies des hommes illustres grecs et romains | Vitae parallelae | 1564 | Fr | Antwerp | Willem Silvius | 8° | 49639 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/49639 | |||||
Tow128 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | les vies des hommes illustres Plutarck. in 4°. | Plutarch | Jacques Amyot; Charles de L'Écluse | Les vies des hommes illustres grecs et romains. | Vitae parallelae | 1564 | Fr | Antwerp | Willem Silvius | 8° | 49639 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/49639 | |||||
Tow110 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | 2. Plutarques moralls, Tome la 1er & la 2e (2x bookes) in 4°. | Plutarch | Moralia | Moralia | Lat | 4° | |||||||||||
E | Tow019 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Cicero ad Herenium. in 8°. | Pseudo-Cicero | Rhetorica ad Herennium | Rhetorica ad Herennium | Lat | 8° | ||||||||||
Tow057 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Quintilian li.xii in 4°. | Quintilian | Institutiones oratoriae | Institutio oratoria | Lat | 4° | |||||||||||
Tow257 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Salustii historias, in 4°. | Sallust | Historiae (?) | Lat | 8° | ||||||||||||
Tow069 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Seneca Traged [Tragedies] in 4°. | Seneca the Younger | Thomas Newton; Thomas Heywood; Alexander Neville; John Studley; Thomas Nuce | Seneca his tenne tragedies, translated into Englysh | Tragoediae | 1581 | Engl | London | Thomas Marshe | 2° | 6188459 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/509428 | |||||
E | Tow093 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Epistres De Seneque. in f°. | Seneca the Younger | Epistolae morales | Epistulae morales ad Lucilium | Fr | 2° | ||||||||||
E | Tow020 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Tragoediae Annaej et al [aliorum] in 4°. | Seneca the Younger | Tragoediae | Lat | 4° | |||||||||||
Tow021 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Tragoediae Annaej et al [aliorum] in 8°. | Seneca the Younger | Tragoediae | Lat | 8° | ||||||||||||
Tow101 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Sueton de la vie de xii Caesars. in fo. | Suetonius | George de La Bouthière | De la vie des XII Césars. | De vita Caesarum | 1556 | Fr | 2° | |||||||||
E | Tow141 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Corneilius Tacitus in fr. in 4°. | Tacitus | Opera | Fr | 4° | |||||||||||
Tow122 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Lucidide historiae. in fol. | Thucydides (?) | Historia belli Peloponnesiaci (?) | Gr + Lat (?) | 2° | ||||||||||||
Tow028 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Virgill. in 4°. | Virgil | Opera | Lat | 8° | ||||||||||||
Tow099 | Bacon, Sir Nathaniel | 1593 - 1660 | Townshend, Sir Roger | 1596 - 1637 | Xenophon de la vie & institution De Cyrus Roy des Perses. in fo. | Xenophon | Jacques de Vintimille | Cyropaedia | Cyropaedia | 1555 | Fr | Lyon | Jean de Tournes | 2° | 30053 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/30053 | |||||
Ba79 | Bacon, Sir Nicholas | 1509 - 1579 | Archimedis opera. | Archimedes | Eutocius of Ascalon; Thomas Venatorius | Archimedus tu syrakusiu, ta mechri nyn sozomena, hapanta. Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, nuncque primum & Graecè & Latinè in lucem edita. Adiecta quoque sunt eutocii ascalonitae in eosdem archimedis libros commentaria, item Graecè & Latinè, nunquam antea excusa. | De sphaera et cylindro; Dimensio circuli; De conoidibus et sphaeroidibus; De lineis spiralibus | 1544 | Gr + Lat | Basel | Johannes Herwagen | 2° | 612734 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/612734 | |||||||
Ba45 | Bacon, Sir Nicholas | 1509 - 1579 | Aristophanis comedie, cum commento Item Eustathius in 19. posteriores libros Iliados homeri | Aristophanes; Eustathius of Thessalonica (?) | Markos Mousouros; Sigmund Gelen | Komodiai ennea meta scholion. Comoediae novem cum commentariis antiquis admodum utilibus, duaeque sine commentariis | Plutus; Nubes; Ranae; Equites; Acharnenses; Vespae; Aves; Pax; Ecclesiazusae; Eustathii Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem et Odysseam (?) | 1547 | Gr | Basel | Johann Froben | 2° | 612856 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/612856 | |||||||
E | Ba33 | Bacon, Sir Nicholas | 1509 - 1579 | Aristoteles latine | Aristotle | Celio Secondo Curione; Veit Amerbach; Pietro Alcionio; Alexandre Chamaillard; Leonardo Bruni | Aristotelis Stagiritae Tripartitae philosophiae | Opera | 1563 | Lat | Basel | Johannes Herwagen | 2° | 612923 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/612923 |