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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Gre129 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Epla Familiare de Cicerone 8° Vinegia: 1552 | Cicero | Guido Loglio | Le epistole famigliari di Cicerone | Epistulae ad familiares | 1552 | Ita | Venice | Aldo Manuzio | 8° | 822157 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/822157 | |||||||
Gre141 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Ciceros office Latin & Engsh: 8°: Lond: 1596 | Cicero | Nicholas Grimald | Marcus Tullius Ciceroes three bookes of duties | De officiis | 1596 | Lat + Engl | London | Thomas East | 8° | 6179614 | http://estc.bl.uk/F/1FE86N3VHFS7DJJI8GM5N9TUSB7P3DTG3JRKJ1JVEAS9C6RBKA-48853?func=full-set-set&set_number=037284&set_entry=000007&format=999 | |||||||
Gre016 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Homers works English: Lond | Homer | George Chapman | The whole works of Homer; in his Iliads, and Odysses. | Opera | 1634 | Engl | London | Richard Field; William Jaggard; Thomas Harper | 2° | 6190588 | ||||||||
Gre046 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Riders Translation of Horace: 12°. Lond: 1638: | Horace | Henry Rider | All the odes and epodes of Horace | Carmina; Epodon liber | 1638 | Engl | London | John Havilland; Robert Rider | 12° | 6175925 | See also: https://books.google.it/books?id=9gaa51kgB5gC&printsec=frontcover&hl=it&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false | |||||||
Gre060 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | The Odes of Horace 8°: Lond: 1625 | Horace | Thomas Hawkins | Odes of Horace the best of lyrick poets | Carmina | 1625 | Engl | London | Augustine Mathews; William Lee | 8° | 6175926 | ||||||||
Gre172 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Titi Livii Histia decas 3a: 16°: 1548: Lugd: | Livy | Decas tertia | Ab Urbe condita | 1548 | Lat | Lyon | Sébastien Gryphe | 8° | 151578 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/151578 | ||||||||
Gre123 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Lucan in Engl: verse by Tho: May 8°: Lond: 1631 | Lucan | Thomas May | Lucans Pharsalia: or the civill warres of Rome | Pharsalia | 1631 | Engl | London | Augustine Mathews; Thomas Jones | 8° | 6180561 | ||||||||
Gre183 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | [Reconstruction] | Ovid | Francesco Turchi; Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara; Giuseppe Dondi dall'Orologio | Le Metamorfosi | Metamorphoses | 1584 | Ita | Venice | Bernardo Giunti | 4° | 845905 | Victoria and Albert Museum, National Art Library Clements Collection CLE CC15 | http://estc.bl.uk/F/1FE86N3VHFS7DJJI8GM5N9TUSB7P3DTG3JRKJ1JVEAS9C6RBKA-05111?func=full-set-set&set_number=037149&set_entry=000004&format=999 | ||||||
Gre06 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Sands his translation of Ovids Metam: Lond: 1632 | Ovid | George Sandys | Metamorphosis Englished, mythologiz'd, and represented in figures | Metamorphoses | 1632 | Engl | Oxford | John Lichfield | 2° | 6193244 | ||||||||
Gre151 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Ovidii Metamorphosis 8°: Lond 1620 | Ovid | Metamorphosis | Metamorphoses | 1620 | Lat | London | Richard Field | 8° | 6201983 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | ||||||||
Gre181 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | [Reconstruction] | Pseudo-Cicero | Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII | Rhetorica ad Herennium | 1546 | Lat | Venice | Paolo Manuzio | 8° | 822282 | British Library | http://estc.bl.uk/F/1FE86N3VHFS7DJJI8GM5N9TUSB7P3DTG3JRKJ1JVEAS9C6RBKA-04627?func=full-set-set&set_number=037106&set_entry=000005&format=999 | |||||||
Gre021 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Historia di Cornelio Tacito: ven: 1589: | Tacitus | Giorgio Dati | Gli annali de' fatti, e guerre de' romani | Annales; Historiae | 1589 | Ita | Venice | Bernardo Giunti | 4° | 857896 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/857896 | |||||||
Gre100 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Virgil Georg: Ven: 1549: | Virgil | Bernardino Daniello | La Georgica | Georgica | 1549 | Ita | Venice | Giovanni Griffio | 4° | 862785 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/862785 | |||||||
Gre163 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Virgills Georg: Engl: by May: 16°: Lond: 1628 | Virgil | Thomas May | Virgil's Georgicks Englished | Georgica | 1628 | Engl | London | Augustine Mathews; Thomas Walkley | 16° | 6190760 | http://estc.bl.uk/F/1FE86N3VHFS7DJJI8GM5N9TUSB7P3DTG3JRKJ1JVEAS9C6RBKA-49636?func=full-set-set&set_number=037413&set_entry=000002&format=999 | |||||||
Gre170 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Virgills Eclogues Engl. 8°: Lond: 1628: | Virgil | William Lathum | Eclogues | Bucolica | 1628 | Engl | London | William Jones | 8° | 6190627 | http://estc.bl.uk/F/1FE86N3VHFS7DJJI8GM5N9TUSB7P3DTG3JRKJ1JVEAS9C6RBKA-07027?func=full-set-set&set_number=037462&set_entry=000001&format=999 | See also: https://pbagalleries.com/lot-details/index/catalog/194/lot/56409/Virgils-Eclogves-Translated-into-English-By-W-L-Gent | ||||||
Gre154 | Grey, Lady Elizabeth (Countess of Kent) | 1582 - 1651 | Xenophonte dela Impresa di Ciro 8° in Vin: 1547 | Xenophon | Lodovico Domenichi | I sette libri della impresa di Ciro minore | Anabasis | 1547 | Ita | Venice | Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari | 8° | 863998 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/863998 | |||||||
*Hat001 | Hatton, Sir Christopher | 1540 - 1591 | Justin | Tommaso Porcacchi | Nelle historie di Trogo Pompeo, tr. per T. Porcacchi. | Epitome historiarum Trogi Pompeii | 1561 | Ita | Venice | Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari | 4° | 836757 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | ||||||||
*Hat002 | Hatton, Sir Christopher | 1540 - 1591 | Livy | Carlo Sigonio | Titi Liuii Patauini, Romanae historiae principis, libri omnes, quotquot ad nostram aetatem peruenerunt | Ab Urbe condita | 1568 | Lat | Frankfurt | Georgius Corvinus; Sigmund Feyerabend; Wilhelm Godelevaeus | 2° | 698334 | Cambridge University Library | ||||||||
*Hat003 | Hatton, Sir Christopher | 1540 - 1591 | Ovid | Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara; Giuseppe Dondi dall'Orologio | Le Metamorfosi di Ouidio, ridotte da G.A. dell'Anguillara in ottaua rima | Metamorphoses | 1584 | Ita | Venice | Francesco Turchi | 4° | 845905 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | ||||||||
*Hat004 | Hatton, Sir Christopher | 1540 - 1591 | Polybius; Plutarch; Aelianus Tacticus | Lelio Carani; Giovan Battista Strozzi | Polibio del modo dell' accampare tr. per P. Strozzi. | Historiae; Moralia (Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata) (?); Tactica | 1552 | Ita | Florence | Lorenzo Torrentino | 8° | 850250 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | https://books.google.it/books?id=iPNbAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=it&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false | |||||||
*Hat007 | Hatton, Sir Christopher | 1540 - 1591 | Procopius of Caesarea | Benedetto Egio | Procopio Cesariense de gli edifici di Giustiniano imperatore, tr. per B. Egio. | De aedificiis | 1547 | Ita | Venice | Michele Tramezzino | 8° | 851421 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | ||||||||
*Hat006 | Hatton, Sir Christopher | 1540 - 1591 | Procopius of Caesarea | Benedetto Egio | Procopio ... de la longa & aspra guerra de Gothi libri tre, tr. per B. Egio. | De bello Gothico | 1544 | Ita | Venice | Michele Tramezzino | 8° | 851424 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | ||||||||
*Hat005 | Hatton, Sir Christopher | 1540 - 1591 | Procopius of Caesarea | Benedetto Egio | Procopio Cesariese de la guerra di Giustiniano imperatore contra i Persiani, lib. ii. | De bello Persico; De bello Vandalico | 1547 | Ita | Venice | Michele Tramezzino | 8° | 851422 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | ||||||||
*Hat008 | Hatton, Sir Christopher | 1540 - 1591 | Thucydides | Tommaso Porcacchi; Francesco Strozzi | Thucidide ... delle guerre fatte fra i popoli della Morea et gli Atheniesi; tr. per F. di S. Strozzi [ed. by T. Porcacchi]. Di nuouo ristampato. | Historia belli Peloponnesiaci | 1564 | Ita | Venice | Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari | 4° | 859010 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | ||||||||
Howard, Henry (Earl of Northampton) | 1540 - 1614 | Howard, Thomas (Earl of Arundel) | 1585 - 1646 | Arnobius Disputationum libri VII 1605 | Arnobius the Elder | Disputationum adversus gentes libri septem | Adversus nationes | 1605 | Lat | Paris | Marc Orry | 8° | 6017047 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/6017047 | Sources: https://bookowners.online/Henry_Howard_1540-1614; N. Barker, "The books of Henry Howard", Bodleian Library Record 13-5 (1990), 377 | ||||||
Howard, Henry (Earl of Northampton) | 1540 - 1614 | Howard, Thomas (Earl of Arundel) | 1585 - 1646 | Seneca's De beneficiis | Seneca the Younger | De beneficiis | Lat | Royal Society Library | Northampton's marginalia | Sources: https://bookowners.online/Henry_Howard_1540-1614; L. Levy Peck, "Uncovering the Arundel Library", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 52 (1998), 3 | |||||||||||
Howard, Henry (Earl of Northampton) | 1540 - 1614 | Plat, Sir Hugh | 1585 - 1646 | Sibyllinorum oraculorum libri VII | Unknown | Sébastien Châteillon | Sibylliakōn chrēmōn logoi oktō = Sibyllinorum oraculorum libri VIII | Oracula sibyllina | 1555 | Lat | Basel | Johannes Oporinus | Privately owned (?) | https://search.worldcat.org/it/title/714775599 | Quotation from Euripides, Cicero and other writers in Latin and Greek on the title-page. | Sources: https://bookowners.online/Henry_Howard_1540-1614; N. Barker, "The books of Henry Howard", Bodleian Library Record 13-5 (1990), 378. See also: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101077881736&seq=5. | |||||
Howard, Henry (Earl of Northampton) (?) | 1540 - 1614 | Howard, Thomas (Earl of Arundel) | 1585 - 1646 | Vitruvius, ( Ital. ) da Dan. Barbaro, quarto. | Vitruvius | Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro | De architectura libri decem, cum commentariis Danielis Barbari, electi patriarchae Aquileiensis | De architectura | 1567 | Lat | Venice | Francesco De Franceschi; Johann Criegher | 4° | 863690 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/863690 | Sources: https://bookowners.online/Henry_Howard_1540-1614; M. Guerci, "The construction of Northumberland House, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), 51; Bibliotheca Norfolciana, London 1681, 121 | |||||
Howard, Henry (Earl of Northampton) (?) | 1540 - 1614 | Howard, Thomas (Earl of Arundel) | 1585 - 1646 | Vitruvii per Jocundum Edit. cum Fig. &Tabula, folio. | Vitruvius | Giovanni Giocondo da Verona | De architectura libri decem | De architectura | 1511 | Lat | Venice | Giovanni Tacuino | 2° | 863681 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/863681 | Sources: https://bookowners.online/Henry_Howard_1540-1614; M. Guerci, "The construction of Northumberland House, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), 51; Bibliotheca Norfolciana, London 1681, 121 | |||||
Howard, Henry (Earl of Northampton) (?) | 1540 - 1614 | Howard, Thomas (Earl of Arundel) | 1585 - 1646 | Philandri ( Gul. ) Caſtilonii Comment. in Vitruvii Architecturam,publicatis, octavo. | Vitruvius | Guillaume Philandrier | In decem libros Marci Vitruuii Pollionis "de architectura" annotationes | De architectura | 1545 | Lat | Paris | Jacques Kerver | 8° | 149394 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/149394 | Sources: https://bookowners.online/Henry_Howard_1540-1614; M. Guerci, "The construction of Northumberland House, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), 51; Bibliotheca Norfolciana, London 1681, 94 | |||||
Howard, Henry (Earl of Northampton) (?) | 1540 - 1614 | Howard, Thomas (Earl of Arundel) | 1585 - 1646 | Vitruvius | De architectura | 1501 | Lat (?) | Venice | 2° | Sources: https://bookowners.online/Henry_Howard_1540-1614; M. Guerci, "The construction of Northumberland House, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), 51; Bibliotheca Norfolciana, London 1681, 121 | |||||||||||
Howard, Henry (Earl of Northampton) (?) | 1540 - 1614 | Howard, Thomas (Earl of Arundel) | 1585 - 1646 | M. Vitruvii Pollionis de Architectura libri decem | Vitruvius | De architectura | Lat | Manuscript. Sources: https://bookowners.online/Henry_Howard_1540-1614; M. Guerci, "The construction of Northumberland House, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), 51; Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum: The Arundel mss. 1834, 29, n° 122. | |||||||||||||
Jam221 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Aeschyli Tragoediae gr. cum commentario, 4°., bien relié. | Aeschylus | Francesco Robortello | Tragoediae septem | Persae; Agamemnon; Supplices; Septem contra Thebas; Eumenides; Prometheus vinctus; Choephorae | 1552 | Gr | Venice | Gualtiero Scoto | 4° | 807823 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/807823 | |||||||
Jam447 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Fabulae Aesopi Camerarii, 16°. | Aesop | Joachim Camerarius | Fabulae, plures quingentis, et aliae quaedam narrationes | Fabulae | 1579 | Lat | Lyon | Jean de Tournes | 16° | 156299 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/156299 | |||||||
Jam416 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Fables of AEsope in english, 8°. | Aesop | Robert Henryson | The fabulous tales of Esope the Phrygian | Fabulae | 1577 | Engl | London | Richard Smith | 8° | 6206556 | http://estc.bl.uk/F/K659JEQFBJAB23YYU1KQE23REREMNSCFY6VTK11VGMPVHNFEXA-27685?func=full-set-set&set_number=040273&set_entry=000019&format=999 | |||||||
Jam051 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Douglas, James (4th Earl of Morton) | 1516 - 1581 | Anacreon, 8°. | Anacreon | Elie André; Henri Estienne | Anacreontis et aliorum lyricorum aliquot poeetarum odae | Anacreontea | 1556 | Gr | Paris | Guillaume Morel; Robert Estienne | 8° | 151942 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/151942 | |||||
Jam140 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Bothwell, Adam (Bishop of Orkney) | 1527 - 1593 | Appian des guerres de Romains. | Appian | Claude de Seyssel | Des guerres des Rommains | Historia Romana | 1569 | Fr | Paris | Pierre Du Pré | 2° | 24445 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/24445 | |||||
E/J | Jam266 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Wood, Arthur | Les Ethiques d'Aristote en francoys. | Aristotle | Philippe Le Plessis | Les ethiques | Ethica Nicomachea | 1553 | Fr | Paris | Michel de Vascosan | 4° | 14455 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/14455 | |||||
Jam034 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Wood, John | (?) - 1570 | Athenaeus graece. | Athenaeus of Naucratis | Deipnosophistou ten polumathestaten pragmateian nun exesti soi es gnosis elthein | Deipnosophistae | 1514 | Gr | Venice | Aldo Manuzio; Andrea Torresano | 2° | 811383 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/811383 | Maybe the same copy as Jam178 | |||||
Jam178 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Mary I (Queen of Scots) | 1542 - 1587 | Athenaeus gr., fol. | Athenaeus of Naucratis | Deipnosophistou ten polumathestaten pragmateian nun exesti soi es gnosis elthein | Deipnosophistae | 1514 | Gr | Venice | Aldo Manuzio; Andrea Torresano | 2° | 811383 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/811383 | ||||||
Jam121 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Athenagorou apologia kai peri tes anastaseos vekron, 8°. | Athenagoras of Athens | De resurrectione mortuorum | De resurrectione mortuorum | 1588 | Gr | Leiden | Franciscus Raphelengius; Plantiniana | 8° | 422582 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/ 422582 | ||||||||
Jam476 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Commentarii Caesaris in english, 8°. | Caesar | Arthur Golding | The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Cæsar | Commentarii de bello Gallico | 1565 | Engl | London | William Seres | 8° | 6178836 | http://estc.bl.uk/F/K659JEQFBJAB23YYU1KQE23REREMNSCFY6VTK11VGMPVHNFEXA-42697?func=full-set-set&set_number=043977&set_entry=000003&format=999 | |||||||
Jam190 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Commentaires de Caesar en francoys. | Caesar | Blaise de Vigenère | Les commentaires | Commentarii de bello Gallico | 1576 | Fr | Paris | Jean Poupy; Nicolas Chesneau | 4° | 24522 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/24522 | Maybe the same copy as Jam303. See also: https://books.google.it/books?id=3NnFb_EIqiUC&printsec=frontcover&hl=it&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false | ||||||
Jam303 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Comment. Caesar en francoys, 4°. | Caesar | Blaise de Vigenère | Les commentaires | Commentarii de bello Gallico | 1576 | Fr | Paris | Jean Poupy; Nicolas Chesneau | 4° | 24522 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/24522 | Maybe the same copy as Jam303. See also: https://books.google.it/books?id=3NnFb_EIqiUC&printsec=frontcover&hl=it&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false | ||||||
Jam253 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Commentarii Caesaris en francoys, 16°. | Caesar | Etienne de Laigue; Robert Gaguin | Commentaires de la guerre de Gaule | Commentarii de bello Gallico | 1545 | Fr | Lyon | Jean de Tournes | 16° | 40420 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/40420 | |||||||
Jam052 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Commentarii Caesaris, fol., Lausannorum. | Caesar | Commentarii de bello Gallico (?); Commentarii de bello civili (?) | Lat | |||||||||||||||
Jam337 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Commentaria Caesaris, fol. | Caesar | Commentarii de bello Gallico (?); Commentarii de bello civili (?) | Lat | 2° | ||||||||||||||
Jam053 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Commentarii Caesaris, fol., Lugduni. | Caesar; Aulus Hirtius | François Hotman; Aldo Manuzio; Fulvio Orsini | De bello Gallico commentarii VII ... Cum scholiis | Commentarii de bello Gallico; Commentarii de bello civili; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Africanum; Bellum Hispaniense | 1574 | Lat | Lyon | Barthélemy Vincent; Jacob Stoer | 2° | 156062 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/156062 | |||||||
Jam400 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Commentaria Caesaris, 16°. | Caesar; Aulus Hirtius | Commentarii | Commentarii de bello Gallico; Commentarii de bello civili; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Africanum; Bellum Hispaniense | 1578 | Lat | Antwerp | Christophe Plantin | 16° | 406397 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/406397 | ||||||||
Jam096 | James I (King of Scotland and England) | 1566 - 1625 | Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius com annotationibus Mureti. | Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius | Marc-Antoine Muret | Catullus, et in eum commentarius m. Antonii Mureti. | Carmina; Elegiae | 1562 | Lat | Venice | Paolo Manuzio | 8° | 821190 | https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/821190 | Maybe the same copy as Jam466 |