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| > \\ !!Go to the [[http://provenance.cerl.org/cgi-bin/canyouhelp/start.pl|Provenance Database]].!!\\ For further information, please contact [[D.J.Shaw@cerl.org|David Shaw]].\\ | > \\ !!Go to the [[http://provenance.cerl.org/cgi-bin/canyouhelp/start.pl|Provenance Database]].!!\\ For further information, please contact [[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]].\\ |
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| |[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3832431852/in/set-72157621945824929/|{{ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3832431852_0be7301624.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|Inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper of Charles Rogers's translation of Dante's //Inferno// (London, 1782). \\ "W. Cotton" is William Cotton (1794--1863), whose grandfather was Rogers's brother-in-law. \\ But who is "**JD**"?|The book is in the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library, Northampton, Mass. USA|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Who is JD?|John Lancaster]]\\ Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus, Amherst College Library\\ ------------------------\\ Christopher Edwards tentatively identifies “JD” as John Disney (1779--1857); Disney's papers are held at Dr Williams’s Library, London (closed at present).\\ -------------------------\\ Maureen Attrill (Keeper of Art, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, UK) suggests Rev. James Dallaway, topographical writer (1763--1834), who was a friend of William Cotton.| | |[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3832431852/in/set-72157621945824929/|{{ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3832431852_0be7301624.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|Inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper of Charles Rogers's translation of Dante's //Inferno// (London, 1782). \\ "W. Cotton" is William Cotton (1794--1863), whose grandfather was Rogers's brother-in-law. \\ But who is "**JD**"?|The book is in the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library, Northampton, Mass. USA|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Who is JD?|John Lancaster]]\\ Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus, Amherst College Library\\ ------------------------\\ Christopher Edwards tentatively identifies “JD” as John Disney (1779--1857); Disney's papers are held at Dr Williams’s Library, London (closed at present).\\ -------------------------\\ Maureen Attrill (Keeper of Art, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, UK) suggests Rev. James Dallaway, topographical writer (1763--1834), who was a friend of William Cotton.| |
| |19 July 2009 |||| | |19 July 2009 |||| |
| |[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3669559178/sizes/l/|{{ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3669559178_dc201e120f_m.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}]]|Identification the book stamp of a European ducal (?) library on flyleaf. |//Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumq[ue] gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia//, Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1633.|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Arabia book stamp|John Lancaster]]\\ (Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, Amherst, Mass.)| | |[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3669559178/sizes/l/|{{ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3669559178_dc201e120f_m.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}]]|Identification the book stamp of a European ducal (?) library on flyleaf.|//Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumq[ue] gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia//, Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1633.|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Arabia book stamp|John Lancaster]]\\ (Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, Amherst, Mass.)| |
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| |**Sum Barnardi Hampton eiusque amicorum**\\ \\ Hast[e] not to[o] hastely |Books with the inscription and/or motto of Barnard Hampton, mid-16th-century clerk to the Privy Council. |Dennis Rhodes has so far traced five books which belonged to Hampton's library.|Please send further examples of books with Barnard Hampton's signature or motto to\\ [[David@djshaw.co.uk?subject=Barnard Hampton|David@djshaw.co.uk]]\\ on behalf of Dennis Rhodes.| | |**Sum Barnardi Hampton eiusque amicorum**\\ \\ Hast[e] not to[o] hastely |Books with the inscription and/or motto of Barnard Hampton, mid-16th-century clerk to the Privy Council. |Dennis Rhodes has so far traced five books which belonged to Hampton's library.|Please send further examples of books with Barnard Hampton's signature or motto to\\ [[David@djshaw.co.uk?subject=Barnard Hampton|David@djshaw.co.uk]]\\ on behalf of Dennis Rhodes.| |
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| |14 July 2009 |||| | |14 July 2009 |||| |
| |**Bibliotheca Windhagiana**|The library of the mid-17th-century Austrian aristocrat Johann Joachim Entzmüller (1600–1678), Freiherr von und zu Windhag, which was later given to the University Library in Vienna in 1787.|Dennis Rhodes has traced over 30 books which once belonged to this important collection.\\ \\ Dennis Rhodes, ‘Bibliotheca Windhagiana’, //Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2009//, p.307--312.|Please send further examples of books from the Bibliotheca Windhagiana to\\ [[David@djshaw.co.uk?subject=Windhag|David@djshaw.co.uk]]\\ on behalf of Dennis Rhodes.\\ \\ Dr Klaus Graf has discovered a number of additional items from the Bibliotheca Windhagiana: see [[http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5866759/]].| | |**Bibliotheca Windhagiana**|The library of the mid-17th-century Austrian aristocrat Johann Joachim Entzmüller (1600–1678), Freiherr von und zu Windhag, which was later given to the University Library in Vienna in 1787. |Dennis Rhodes has traced over 30 books which once belonged to this important collection.\\ \\ Dennis Rhodes, ‘Bibliotheca Windhagiana’, //Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2009//, p.307--312.|Please send further examples of books from the Bibliotheca Windhagiana to\\ [[David@djshaw.co.uk?subject=Windhag|David@djshaw.co.uk]]\\ on behalf of Dennis Rhodes.\\ \\ Dr Klaus Graf has discovered a number of additional items from the Bibliotheca Windhagiana at [[http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5866759]].| |
| |29 June 2009 |||| | |29 June 2009 |||| |
| |{{:resources:provenance:carmelites.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}|Can anyone identify the Discalced Carmelite house in this inscription?\\ //**Ex libris conuentus** //{{:resources:provenance:carmelites_query.jpg?120}}\\ //**Carmelit. discalceat**//|//L'histoire ethiopique de Heliodore//, Paris, Toussaincts du Bray, 1609.|[[francesca.galligan@ouls.ox.ac.uk]], Bodleian Library, Oxford\\ ----------------------------- \\ Chris Coppens suggests Haughton-le-Skene (Nottinghamshire, England) but David Shaw thinks that this Carmelite house was no longer in existence when the book was printed (1609).| | |{{:resources:provenance:carmelites.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}|Can anyone identify the Discalced Carmelite house in this inscription?\\ //**Ex libris conuentus** //{{:resources:provenance:carmelites_query.jpg?120}}\\ //**Carmelit. discalceat**//|//L'histoire ethiopique de Heliodore//, Paris, Toussaincts du Bray, 1609.|[[francesca.galligan@ouls.ox.ac.uk]], Bodleian Library, Oxford\\ ----------------------------- \\ Chris Coppens suggests Haughton-le-Skene (Nottinghamshire, England) but David Shaw thinks that this Carmelite house was no longer in existence when the book was printed (1609).| |
| |7 December 2008 ||||30 December 2008| | |7 December 2008 ||||30 December 2008| |
| | [[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/provpics/W_A-5-10-Wales.jpg|{{http://www.djshaw.co.uk/provpics/W_A-5-10-Wales_t.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}]]|armorial book stamp (Welsh?)|[[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/cantarmorial.htm#Wales|Canterbury Cathedral]]|[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]]| Philip Oldfield identifies this as the arms of the city of Rotterdam.\\ "Dutch arms appear frequently on prize books bound in vellum."\\ Same stamp in [[http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/early_books/pix/provenance/rotterdam/rotterdam.htm|St John's College, Cambridge]].| | | [[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/provpics/W_A-5-10-Wales.jpg|{{http://www.djshaw.co.uk/provpics/W_A-5-10-Wales_t.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}]]|armorial book stamp (Welsh?)|[[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/cantarmorial.htm#Wales|Canterbury Cathedral]]|[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]]| Philip Oldfield identifies this as the arms of the city of Rotterdam.\\ "Dutch arms appear frequently on prize books bound in vellum."\\ Same stamp in [[http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/early_books/pix/provenance/rotterdam/rotterdam.htm|St John's College, Cambridge]].| |
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