Figures
2.1 Detail of a page from Winchester College MS 202: a catalogue of the library begun in 1634. The shelf marks in the left-hand margin record a rearrangement of the library in 1669 285
2.2 Shelf N4 of Winchester College Library as it appeared in 1669. The fore-edge numbers are relics of an earlier system. One missing volume is replaced with a wooden block 286
2.3 Shelf A3 of Winchester College Library as it appeared in 1669 286
4.1 The first page of the inventory of the priest’s library in Eikenduinen (GDH, Parochie Rijswijk, inv. 276) 287
4.2 The first page of the inventory of the priest’s library in Hoogkarspel (Westfries Archief, Oud-katholieke Parochie van de HH Gummarus en Pancratius, inv. 26) 288
5.1 ‘Benefactors of the Bodleian Library’ network, in Six Degrees of Francis Bacon 132
5.2 Sir John Bennet’s network in ‘Benefactors of the Bodleian Library’, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon 135
5.3 William Hakewill, in ‘Benefactors of the Bodleian Library’, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon 137
5.4 Sir Ralph Winwood, in ‘Benefactors of the Bodleian Library’, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon 139
5.5 Sir Henry Savile, in ‘Benefactors of the Bodleian Library’, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon 141
6.1 Jean-Claude Virey’s mourning parchment bindings (Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon) 289
6.2 Detail of Jean-Christofle Virey’s armorial stamp on a parchment binding, with the urn and the inscriptions ‘B. Galoys cineres’ and ‘Hinc omnes extincti ignes’ (Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, 104383) 289
6.3 Claude Enoch Virey’s armorial stamp on a calf binding (Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, 106994) 290
6.4 Jean-Christofle Virey’s armorial stamp on a sheepskin binding, with the urn and the inscriptions ‘B. Galoys cineres’ and ‘Hinc omnes extincti ignes’ (Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, 102848) 291
6.5 Jean-Christofle Virey’s mourning parchment binding with armorial stamp (Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, 104383) 292
6.6 Giovanni Battista Cavali, De Veteribus Aegyptiorum ritibus … (Rome: Andreas Phaeus, 1644) (Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, 317063). Half-title with Jean Christofle Virey’s annotation ‘JC Virey. Ne Morte ne Tempo. Bonne Galoys. Que ne ferois ie pour elle’ (‘What could not I do for her’) 293
7.1 Charles’s travelling library (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Emmerson 1–53) 294
7.2 Charles’s inscription (‘Charles P’) in a volume of (Leiden, 1602) (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Emmerson 47) 294
7.3 Henry’s Lucan (Leiden, 1593), with his gold-tooled ‘HP’ monogram (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Antiq.g.N.1593.1) 295
7.4 Two books from the dispersed travelling library of Pietro Duodo: Petrarch (Venice, 1586) and Tragœdiæ selectæ (Geneva, 1567) (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Arch. B f.53 and Broxb. 23.20) 296
7.5.1 Unidentified gold-tooled monogram on Homer’s Odyssey (Geneva, 1574) (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Vet. D1 f.402) 297
7.5.2 Gold-tooled spines on Homer’s Odyssey (Geneva, 1574) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Paris, 1583) (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Buchanan g.32 and Vet. D1 f.402). Both books bear the unidentified monogram in Fig. 7.5.1 on their covers 298
7.6 Gold-tooled binding with coloured onlay, similar in style to the Fountaine travelling library bindings; Lewis Bayly, The practice of pietie (Amsterdam, 1635?) (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Buchanan g.38) 299
7.7 Gold-tooled vellum binding on Du Bartas, Oeuvres poetiques ([Geneva?], 1598) (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, 8° B 73 Art.Seld) 300
7.8 Vellum-bound copy of Buchanan’s Poemata (Saumur, 1621), with the crest and coronet of John Egerton tooled in gold (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Broxb. 12.9) 301
8.1 A page from the Pell list detailing folios. Item 37 is the 1491 edition of Plato. ‘John Pell’s library catalogue’ (1687) (Westminster School Archive, PRS/7/11A) 302
8.2 Pell’s pocket sundial with annotations in Richard Blome, A Description of the Island of Jamaica; with the Other Isles and Territories in America, to Which the English Are Related (London: J[oseph]. B[ennet]., 1678) (Westminster School Archive, BUS/HH/5/5) 303
8.3 An illustration of some of Pell’s books within the Busby Library, with their distinctive vellum bindings and green spine labels 304
8.4 Pell’s solution to a geometry problem in Antoine Arnauld’s Nouveaux elemens de geometrie (Paris, 1667) (Westminster School Archive, BUS/HH/1/12) 304
8.5 Pell has meticulously supplied this missing page in his edition of van Ceulen’s De arithmetische en geometrische fondamenten (Leiden, 1615) including the printer’s signatures, also then correcting and annotating the text in red ink (Westminster School Archive, BUS/HH/4/19) 305
8.6 A note indicating that this copy of de Billy’s Nova geometriae clavis (Paris, 1643) had been sent to Pell from Rouen and recording the date it has been received in both old and new style (Westminster School Archive, BUS/HH/1/11) 306
8.7 A mid-nineteenth-century print of the Busby Library, prior to its destruction in the Blitz and post-war rebuilding in Charles Walter Radclyffe, Memorials of Westminster School (London, 1844) (Westminster School Archive, PRI/1/2/1) 307
8.8 The first page of Richard Busby’s ‘A catalogue of all my best books’ (1695) (Westminster School Archive, PRS/7/8) 308
8.9 Mildred Cecil, Lady Burghley’s copy of Aeschylus Tragœdiæ VII eduntur Petri Victorii cura et diligentia (Geneva, Henri II Estienne, 1557) with Busby’s notes on the flyleaf (Westminster School Archive, PRS/7/14) 309
8.10 A receipt in Busby’s account book for the binding of books (Westminster School Archive, PPA/BUS/1) 310
8.11 Pell’s copy of François Viète’s, Opera Mathematica (Leiden, 1646) showing the volvelles in use (Westminster School Archive, BUS/AA/5/20) 311
8.12 Busby’s copy of François Viète’s, Opera Mathematica (Leiden, 1646) showing the printed page of volvelles unused, and bound and trimmed within the volume (Westminster School Archive, BUS/HH/6/8) 312
Afterword.1 Monogram of Edward Herbert as viewed through the Book Owners Online image gallery 313
Afterword.2 Properties of Thomas Travers as viewed through the ‘browse properties’ tool 314
Afterword.3 Query demonstration using semantic search displaying information about Bodleian Library benefactors on Book Owners Online 315
Afterword.4 Query demonstration using semantic search displaying information about books owned by female book owners on Book Owners Online 316
Tables
2.1 Shelves N4 & N5 in Winchester College Library, 1669 61
2.2 Shelf A3 in Winchester College Library, 1669 62
4.1 Overview of the priests’ libraries examined in this chapter 100
4.2 Number of books in the library of Eikenduinen, divided by subject 105
4.3 Most popular authors in the libraries in Eikenduinen and Hoogkarspel 108
4.4 Books in the library from Eikenduinen, divided by publication date 109
4.5 Books in the library in Hoogkarspel, divided by publication date 115
7.1 Distribution of printers in Charles’s travelling library 181
7.2 Authors present in Charles’s library, available in small-format editions at the Frankfurt fair 188
7.3 Authors present in Charles’s library, available in Plantin 24° editions at the Frankfurt fair 189
7.4 Plantin 24° editions of classical texts, purchased at Antwerp by Jan Walteneel 192