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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Dee037 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Saint Justin Martyr, Opera | Justin Martyr | Opera | Opera | 1565 | Lat | Basel | Ambrosius Froben; Aurelius Froben | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | ||||||||||
Dee001* | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Alexander the Great, Historia Alexa[n]dri magni regis macedonie de prelijs | Leo of Naples | Historia Alexandri Magni | Vita Alexandri Magni | 1494 | Lat | Strasbourg | Georg Husner | 2° | 742686 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | ||||||||
Dee025 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Lucius Florus, De gestis Romanorum | Lucius Annaeus Florus | Johannes Camers; Jakob Bedrott | De historia ro. Epitome de historia Romana libellus de progenie augusti caes. L. Flori de gestis Romanorum libri quatuor | Epitome rerum Romanarum | 1532 | Lat | Basel | Johannes Herwagen | 2° | 671355 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||||
Dee048 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Paulus Orosius, Historiarum adversus paganos | Orosius | Franz Fabricius; Johann Murmellius | Adversus paganos historiarum libri septem | Historiae adversus paganos | 1574 | Lat | Cologne | Maternus Cholinus | 8° | 683275 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||||
Dee051 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Fastorum … | Ovid | Fastorum libri VI | Fasti | 1529 | Lat | Paris | Simon de Colines | 8° | 184914 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | ||||||||
Dee052 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Saunder, Nicholas | 1563 - 1649 | Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ars amatoria… | Ovid | Amatoria | Heroides; Amores; Ars amatoria; Remedia amoris; Ibis; Consolatio ad Liviam; Nux; Medicamina faciei | 1529 | Lat | Paris | Simon de Colines | 8° | 181161 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | See also: https://archaeologyofreading.org/bibliography/dee-corpus/ovid/ The attribution of Consolatio ad Liviam and Nux is debated. | |||||
Dee025* | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses | Ovid | Metamorphoseon libri XV | Metamorphoses | 1529 | Lat | Paris | Simon de Colines | 8° | 146069 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | ||||||||
Dee055 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Pausanias, translated by Abraham Loescher, De tota Graecia | Pausanias | Abraham Loescher | De tota Graecia libri decem | Graeciae descriptio | 1550 | Lat | Basel | Johannes Oporinus | 2° | 683337 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||||
Dee075* | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Titus Maccius Plautus, Comoediae | Plautus | Joachim Camerarius; Georg Fabricius | Comoediae XX. Diligente cura, & singulari studio Joachimi camerarii | Comoediae | 1558 | Lat | Basel | Johannes Herwagen; Bernhard Brand | 8° | 674255 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||||
Dee056 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Plotinus, edited by Marsilio Ficino, De rebus philosophicis | Plotinus | Marsilio Ficino | Plotini divini illius e platonica familia philosophi, de rebus philosophicis libri lIIII. | Enneades | 1540 | Lat | Solingen | Johann Soter | 2° | 684215 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||||
Dee076* | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Porphyry, De abstinentia ab esu animalium | Porphyry | Giovanni Bernardo Feliciano | De abstinentia ab esu animalium, libri quatuor, Ioanne Bernardo Feliciano interprete | De abstinentia | 1547 | Lat | Venice | Giovanni Griffio | 4° | 850907 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||||
Dee088* | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Claudius Ptolemy, edited by Erasmus Oswald Schrekenfuchs, Omnia quae extant opera | Ptolemy | Erasmus Oswald Schreckhenfuchs | Omnia quae extant opera, praeter Geographiam | Opera | 1551 | Lat | Basel | Heinrich Petri | 2° | 604938 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||||
Dee030* | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Saunder, Nicholas | 1563 - 1649 | Claudius Ptolemy, Quadripartitum | Ptolemy | Heinrich Petri; Hieronymus Wolf | Quadripartitum | Quadripartitum | 1559 | Lat | Basel | Heinrich Petri | 2° | 604946 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||
Dee062 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Claudius Ptolemy, Quadriparti | Ptolemy | Quadripartitum | Quadripartitum | 1519 | Lat | Venice | Ottaviano Scoto | 2° | 991734 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | ||||||||
Dee063 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Saunder, Nicholas | 1563 - 1649 | Quintilian, Institutionum oratoriarum | Quintilian; Pseudo-Quintilian | Georgius Benedictus Roetelius | Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII. Declamationum liber | Institutio oratoria; Declamationes maiores | 1540 | Lat | Lyon | Sébastien Gryphe | 8° | 147840 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||
Dee070 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Opera quae extant omnia | Seneca the Elder; Seneca the Younger; Publilius Syrus | Rudolf Agricola; Celio Secondo Curione; Erasmus | Controversiarum libri declamationum libri l.annaei senecae philosophi stoicorum omnium acutissimi opera quae extant omnia | Opera | 1557 | Lat | Basel | Johannes Herwagen; Bernhard Brand | 2° | 671373 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | Includes Publilius Syrus' Sententiae | ||||||
Dee034* | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Tragoediae | Seneca the Younger | Georg Fabricius | Tragoediae. Editae emendatiores studio Georgii fabricii chemnicensis | Tragoediae | 1566 | Lat | Leipzig | Ernst Vögelin | 8° | 671371 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||||
Dee035* | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Saunder, Nicholas | 1563 - 1649 | Empiricus Sextus, Aduersus mathematicos | Sextus Empiricus | Erasmus; Gentian Hervet | Adversus mathematicos, hoc est, adversus eos qui profitentur disciplinas | Adversus mathematicos | 1569 | Lat | Paris | Martin Le Jeune | 2° | 158271 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||
Dee036* | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Sophocles, Tragoediae septem | Sophocles | Thomas Naogeorgus; Christian Pierius; Sebastian Pontanus; Jakob Schegk; Johannes Seckerwitz | Sophoclis tragoediae septem, Latino carmine redditae, & annotationibus illustratae | Tragoediae | 1558 | Lat | Basel | Johannes Oporinus | 8° | 694173 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||||
Dee071 | Dee, John | 1527 - 1609 | Saunder, Nicholas | 1563 - 1649 | Tacitus (Publius Cornelius Tacitus), Annalium | Tacitus | Andrea Alciati; Filippo Beroaldo; Beatus Rhenanus; Emilio Ferretti | Ab excessu Augusti annalium libri sedecim | Annales; Historiae; Germania; Dialogus de oratoribus; Agricola | 1542 | Lat | Lyon | Sébastien Gryphe | 8° | 140311 | Royal Copy of Physicians' Library | |||||
Devereux, Robert (Second Earl of Essex) | 1566 - 1601 | Q. Asconii Paediani in orationes M. Tullii Ciceronis enarrationes nuper ... recognitæ ... cum Georgii Trapezuntii, in ... orationem pro Q. Ligario ... interpretatione, adnotationibus(que) ac commentariis Antonii Lusci Vincētini in reliquas Ciceronis actiones. | Cicero | Quintus Asconius Pedianus | Orationes | Orationes | 1520 | Lat | Paris | Pierre Vidoué; Conrad Resch | 2° | 181959 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph014389805&context=L&vid=SOLO&lang=en_US&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=local&query=any,contains,014389805&offset=0 | Donated by Essex to Bodleian in 1600 (without Mascarena's coat of arms) - Benefactors' Register p. 5 - (shelfmark AA 104 Art) | ||||||
Devereux, Robert (Second Earl of Essex) | 1566 - 1601 | Dion. Halicarnasseus Grae. | Dionysius of Halicarnassus | Robert Estienne | Antiquitates Romanae | Antiquitates Romanae | 1546 | Gr + Lat | Paris | Robert Estienne | 2° | 153859 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph014840510&context=L&vid=SOLO&lang=en_US&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=local&query=lsr01,contains,auct.%20k,AND&mode=advanced&pfilter=dr_s,exact,15440101,AND&pfilter=dr_e,exact,15481231,AND&offset=0 | Donated by Essex to Bodleian in 1600 (without Mascarena's coat of arms) - Benefactors' Register p. 4 (Fortescue's p. 23) (shelfmark Auct.K.2.7) Provenance note: This is probably the copy donated to the library by John Fortescue in 1601. - Prev. shelfmark: E 2.13 Art. | ||||||
Devereux, Robert (Second Earl of Essex) | 1566 - 1601 | Lycophron Grae.& Jo. Tzetza Grae.& Lat. | Lycophron | John Tzetzes; Isaac Tzetzes; Paolo Lazise; Nikolaus Gerbel | Alexandra | Alexandra | 1546 | Gr + Lat | Basel | Johannes Oporinus | 2° | 673833 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph014372910&context=L&vid=SOLO&lang=en_US&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=local&query=lsr01,contains,auct.%20k,AND&mode=advanced&pfilter=dr_s,exact,15440101,AND&pfilter=dr_e,exact,15481231,AND&offset=0 | Donated by Essex to Bodleian in 1600 (without Mascarena's coat of arms) - Benefactors' Register p. 4 - (shelfmark Auct.K.3.26) | ||||||
Devereux, Robert (Second Earl of Essex) | 1566 - 1601 | Theophrastus Grae. & Max. Tirij Sermones Lat. | Maximus of Tyre | Cosimo Pazzi; Pietro Pazzi; Beatus Rhenanus; Johann Froben | Philosophi platonici Sermones | Dissertationes | 1519 | Lat | Basel | Johann Froben | 2° | 673353 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph015648037&context=L&vid=SOLO&lang=en_US&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=local&query=any,contains,MAXIMUS%20OF%20TYRE%20Platonici%20Sermones%201519&offset=0 | Donated by Essex to Bodleian in 1600 - Benefactors' Register p. 4 (not in Pogson) Possibly bound with Theophrastus in Greek | ||||||
Devereux, Robert (Second Earl of Essex) | 1566 - 1601 | Dioscorides Lat. Per Mar. Virgilium cum annot. fo. Flor. 1518 | Pedanius Dioscorides | Marcello Virgilio Adriani | De Medica Materia | De materia medica | 1518 | Lat | Florence | 2° | 827003 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph014862849&context=L&vid=SOLO&lang=en_US&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=local&query=lsr01,contains,d%201.2%20med,AND&mode=advanced&offset=0 | Donated by Essex to Bodleian in 1600 (without Mascarena's coat of arms) - Benefactors' Register p. 4 - (shelfmark D 1.2. Med) | |||||||
Devereux, Robert (Second Earl of Essex) | 1566 - 1601 | Plutarchi vitae Lat. Cruserio Interp. fo. Cum Aemylio Probo. Bas. 1573 | Plutarch; Cornelius Nepos | Donato Acciaiuoli; Hermann Cruser | Vitae comparatae illustrium virorum, Graecorum & Romanorum | Vitae parallelae; Excellentium imperatorum vitae | 1573 | Lat | Basel | Thomas Guarin | 2° | 684404 | Donated by Essex to Bodleian in 1600 - Benefactors' Register p. 4 only. Cornelius Nepos' Excellentium imperatorum vitae attributed to Aemilius Probus | ||||||||
Devereux, Robert (Second Earl of Essex) | 1566 - 1601 | Valerii Maximi dictorum ac factorum memorabilium ... collectanea, cum Oliuerii Arzignanensis cōm. & I. Badii expositione | Valerius Maximus | Nicolas Bérauld | dictorum ac factorum memorabilium ... Collectanea | Factorum et dictorum memorabilium | 1522 | Lat | Paris | 2° | 187121 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph014240696&context=L&vid=SOLO&lang=en_US&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=local&query=any,contains,014240696&offset=0 | Donated by Essex to Bodleian in 1600 (without Mascarena's coat of arms) - Benefactors' Register p. 5 - (shelfmark A 1.21 Art) | |||||||
Devereux, Robert (Second Earl of Essex) | 1566 - 1601 | Do. Nani Polyanthea | Various | Domenico Nani Mirabelli | Polyanthea, opvs svavissimus floribvs exornatvm | Polyanthea | 1539 | Lat | Solingen | Johann Soter | 2° | Donated by Essex to Bodleian in 1600 - Benefactors' Register p. 4 only | |||||||||
*Lei001 | Dudley, Robert (Earl of Leicester) | 1532? - 1588 | Xenophon | Lodovico Domenichi | Della vita di Ciro re de Persi | Cyropaedia | 1549 | Ita | Venice | Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari | 8° | 863999 | Cambridge University Library | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/683349 | On the frontispiece: "Sir Walter's study" | It may have come from Sir Walter Raleigh's study when it was bought by Jean-Paul Hennissey | |||||
*Lei002 | Dudley, Robert (Earl of Leicester) | 1532? - 1588 | Xenophon | Sébastien Châteillon | Xenophōntos hapanta. | Opera | 1548 | Gr + Lat | Basel | Nikolaus Brylinger | 8° | 606421 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | ||||||||
*Eli01 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | By Syr John Mason Threasourer of the Chamber A Case of siluer guilt with thre hower glasses and two Bookes of St Augustynes worke | Augustine of Hippo | Opera | Lat (?) | Recorded as a New Year's gift to the Queen (63.104) | ||||||||||||||
*Eli02 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | Claudian | Theodore Pulmann | Cl. Claudianus, T. Pulmanni diligentia & fide summa è vetustis codicibus restitutus. | Opera | 1596 | Lat | Antwerp | Plantiniana | 8° | 1006223 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | ||||||||
*Eli03 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | By Mr Bushop a Stationer one booke of Eclesiasticall histories in frenche | Eusebius of Caesarea | Historia ecclesiastica | Fr | Recorded as a New Year's gift to the Queen (98.171) | ||||||||||||||
*Eli05 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | By Cawodde printer Josephus in Greeke | Flavius Josephus (?) | Antiquitates Iudaicae (?) | Gr | Recorded as a New Year's gift to the Queen (59.199) | ||||||||||||||
*Eli04 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | Edward VI (King of England) | 1537 - 1553 | Isocrates | Erasmus | Institutio principis Christiani | Ad Nicoclem | 1529 | Lat | Cologne | Eucharius Cervicornus | 8° | 666725 | St. John's College Library, Cambridge | Includes Erasmus' translation of Isocrates' Ad Nicoclem | |||||
*Eli06 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | By Mr. Byshop A Stacyoner two bookes of Titus Lyvius in Frenche | Livy | Ab Urbe condita | Fr | Recorded as a New Year's gift to the Queen (00.166) | ||||||||||||||
*Eli07 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | By Petricho a boke of Italion with pictures of the lyfe & metamorphoses of Oved | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Ita | Recorded as a New Year's gift to the Queen (79.200) | ||||||||||||||
*Eli08 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | Plato | Arnoldo Arlenio | Platonis Omnia opera | Opera | 1556 | Gr + Lat | Basel | Heinrich Petri | 2° | 661591 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | ||||||||
*Eli09 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | By Mr. Byshop A Stacyoner twoe Bookes of Plynnies workes in Frenche | Pliny the Elder | Naturalis Historia | Fr | Recorded as a New Year's gift to the Queen (99.165) | ||||||||||||||
*Eli10 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | By Sir John Mason Threasourer of the Chamber in a purse of blake silke and siluer knytt xxx of frenche Crownes and two books thone is Vita Plutarchi thother is Resp. Gallie Platonis Venitie et TH: Mori | Plutarch | Vitae parallelae (?) | Gr + Engl (?) | Recorded as a New Year's gift to the Queen (65.34) | ||||||||||||||
*Eli11 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | Thucydides | Lorenzo Valla | De bello Peloponnesiaco libri viii | Historia belli Peloponnesiaci | 1588 | Gr | Geneva | Henri Estienne | 2° | 451173 | Cambridge University Library | ||||||||
*Eli14 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | Petrucho vbaldino a booke of the liues of two greke Orators | Unknown | Gr + Engl (?) | Recorded as a New Year's gift to the Queen (82.194) | |||||||||||||||
*Eli12 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | Valerius Maximus | Robert Estienne | Valerii Maximi Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla | Factorum et dictorum memorabilium | 1544 | Lat | Paris | Robert Estienne | 8° | 149155 | St. John's College Library, Cambridge | ||||||||
Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | Velleius Paterculus | Aldo Manuzio; Justius Lipsius (et alii) | C. Velleius Paterculus, cum Aldi Manutil scholiis. Justi Lipsii animadversionibus. Jacobi Scegkii notis,Vincentii Acidalii variis lectionibus | Historiae Romanae ad M. Vinicium libri duo | 1593 | Lat | Lyon | François Le Preux | Sold at Sotheby'sProperty From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts / Lot 344 | Gilt arms of Queen Elizabeth I | ||||||||||
*Eli13 | Elizabeth I (Queen of England) | 1533 - 1603 | By Thomas Phaire a book written of Eneados in Englesh verses | Virgil | Thomas Phaer | The seuen first bookes of the Eneidos of Virgill | Aeneis | 1558 | Engl | London | John Kingston | 4° | 6190595 | Recorded as a New Year's gift to the Queen (59.190) | |||||||
Gre127 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Loves of Clitophon & Leucippe 8°: Oxon: 1638 | Achilles Tatius | Anthony Hodges | The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe | Leucippe et Clitophon | 1638 | Engl | Oxford | William Turner; John Allam | 8° | 6172088 | ||||||||
Gre130 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Retorica d'Aristotele 8° Padua: 1548: | Aristotle | Felice Figliucci | Tradottione antica de la Rettorica d'Aristotile | Rhetorica | 1548 | Ita | Padua | Giacomo Fabriano | 8° | 810889 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/810889 | |||||||
Gre044 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Boezio della Consolazione della Filosofia 8°: Fiorenza: 1589: | Boethius | Benedetto Varchi | Della consolazione della filosofia | De consolatione philosophiae | 1589 | Ita | Florence | Filippo Giunti | 8° | 815114 | ||||||||
Gre040 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Comentario di Cuia Giulio 8° ven: 1539 | Caesar; Aulus Hirtius | Agostino Ortica della Porta | Commentarii di Caio Giulio Cesare | Commentarii de bello Gallico; Commentarii de bello civili; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Hispaniense | 1539 | Ita | Venice | Luigi Torti | 8° | 817494 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/817494 | See also: https://www.google.it/books/edition/Commentarii_di_Caio_Giulio_Cesare_tradot/9zRhAAAAcAAJ?hl=it&gbpv=1&dq=Commentarii.+Con+la+tavola+di+nomi+antiqui+et+moderni+de+la+Gallia,+Britannia,&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover | ||||||
Gre126 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Dione della guerre di Romani Ven: 1548: | Cassius Dio | Niccolò Leoniceno | Delle guerre de romani | Historiae romanae | 1548 | Ita | Venice | Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio | 8° | 826912 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/826912 |