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La Baume le Blanc, Louis César de (1708-1780); duc de La Vallière; French bibliophile and collector, who formed two libraries, the first (between 1735 and 1768) at the château de Montrouge, the... show more
27 entries: • A-517(1) • B-239(1) • B-369(2) • B-375(2) • B-410(1) • B-595(1) • C-006(1) • C-242(1) • C-243(1) • C-256(1) • C-258(1) • C-317(1) • C-360(1) • F-033(1) • H-078(1) • H-216(1) • I-001(1) • J-061(1) • L-065(1)? • L-086(1) • L-119(1) • L-127(1) • M-111(1) • M-286(1) • N-119(1) • P-309(1) • S-180(1)
Labia; family of Venice; coat of arms: azure, an eagle displayed or; see M. V. Coronelli, Arme, blasoni, ò insegne gentilitie delle famiglie patritie... show more
1 entry: • S-122(1)
la Cabrera, Antonio de (eighteenth century?). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 18th century. 1 entry: • D-055(1)
La Croix, [ ] (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • C-282(1)
Laetus, Julius Pomponius (1428-1498); founder of the Accademia at Rome, and the Studium Vrbis; see CE III 110-11; CTC III 379-83; Enciclopedia virgiliana (Rome,... show more
1 entry: • S-293(1)
La Fontaine, Jean de (d.1661); 'infirmier' of S. Denis-en-France; see Michel Félibien, Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Denis en France (Paris, 1706), 588. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown year to 1661. Period: unknown century to 17th century. 1 entry: • B-145(1)
La Font, Jean de (fl. 1576); of S. Chamond. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • B-310(1)
Laget, J. (fl. 1984); French bookseller. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 20th century. 1 entry: • C-282(1)
Laguillier (Laguilliez?), [ ] (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • P-129(1)
La Haye, Jacob (fl. 1842). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • J-065(1)
Laing, David (1793-1878); LLD, Librarian of the Signet Library, Edinburgh; see DNB; sale, Catalogue of the First Portion of the Extensible and Valuable... show more
1 entry: • P-467(1)
Lallemant (sixteenth century); possibly to be identified with Jean Lallemand (d.1560); for whom see CE II 282-3. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th... show more
1 entry: • A-305(1)
Lallitt, Guillaume de (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • M-145(1)
La Marcke; family of North Rhine-Westphalia; coat of arms: or, a demi-lion rampant gules, issuant from a fesse checky gules and argent, with motto, `Vive la... show more
1 entry: • B-474(1)
Lamberti, Tommaso (fl. 1479); of Brescia; coat of arms: party per fess, in chief argent a demi-lion rampant or, holding in the right paw... show more
1 entry: • S-204(1)
La Menardière, [ ] de (late sixteenth century); lawyer to the King of France. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • S-252(1)
Laminit (Luminit), Jacobus (fl. 1512-1515); of Augsburg; matric. Leipzig 1512, BA 1512, MA 1515; see Die Matrikel der Universität Leipzig, ed. G. Erler, 3 vols... show more
1 entry: • H-204(1)
Lamkyn, John, Alice, and Joan (fifteenth/sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • J-034(1)
Lammens, Pierre-Philippe-Constant (1762-1836); librarian and professor at the University of Ghent; sales at Ghent 15 Apr. and 21 Oct. 1839, 26 Oct. 1840,... show more
1 entry: • H-094(1)
Lampsonius, Dominicus (1532-1599); diplomat, poet, humanist, of Liège; canon of college of S. Croix at Liège 1587; private secretary to prince-bishop; in circle... show more
1 entry: • T-078(2)
Lampspringe, Hanover, Benedictines; see Anonymous sale of 1831.
Lampugnani, Giovanni, of Milan. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • L-124(1)
Lampugnanus, Laurentius (1458-1527); Milan, Augustinian Hermits; S. Maria coronata; see Johannes Felix Ossinger, Bibliotheca augustiniana (Ingolstadt, 1768), 491; Philippus Argelatus, Bibliotheca scriptorum Mediolanensium... show more
2 entries: • A-406(1) • M-004(1)
Landau, Baron Horace de (1824-1903); of Florence; banker (Rothschilds until 1872), bibliophile, and art collector; purchased Galletti's library en bloc in 1879; book-plate of c.1860:... show more
2 entries: • F-047(1) • M-195(1)
Landsberg, Bavaria, Jesuits; founded 1575, dissolved 1773; see Duhr II,1 257-9; Hamy 17; Polgar II(1) 60; Historische Kataloge, 256-8. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown.... show more
2 entries: • A-036(1) • V-159(2)
Landshut, Bavaria, Dominicans, S. Blasius; dissolved 1803; see Ruf, Säkularisation, I 251-66; Krämer II 474. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • B-611(1)
lanfranchini, cristoforo DBI LXIII 556-7. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Male. Dates: 1430 to 1504. Period: 15th century to 16th century. Geographical area: Italy.... show more
1 entry: • A-004(1)
Langford, Robert (sixteenth century?). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • B-440(2)
Langheim, [ ] (fl. 1673). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • P-028(1)
Langley, Henry (1611-1679); Master of Pembroke College, Oxford 1647-60; see DNB; Douglas Macleane, Pembroke College (London, 1900), 130-7; A. G. Matthews, Calamy Revised:... show more
1 entry: • G-338(1)
Langnau, diocese of Konstanz, Benedictines, S. Paulus Eremita, BVM; see Gabriel Bucelinus, Menologium Benedictinum sanctorum, beatorum atque illustrium... (Feldkirch, 1655-6), II, 51. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • E-070(1)
Lang, Sebastianus (fl. 1609-1611); of Fulda; Benedictine monk at Erfurt, SS. Petrus et Paulus; house suppressed 1803; see Cottineau I 1061-2; Krämer I 224-33. ♦ Categorisation:... show more
1 entry: • B-527(1)
Langton, Master (fifteenth/sixteenth century); for other books owned by him, see Oates 1632, 1648. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • D-084(1)
Langton, Peter (fifteenth/sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • G-190(1)
Lanham, John (sixteenth century); English. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • C-329(1)
Lapida Lhota ex Czaslaw, Johannes ex, alias Boyan (sixteenth century), Bohemia. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • E-046(3)
Lapigna, Petronius de (fifteenth century?). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century. 1 entry: • D-009(1)
La Ramée, Brabant, Cistercian Nuns; founded c.1212 and recognized 1214; transferred to Jauchelette 1215/16; dispersed 1796; the belongings of the abbey were sold in 1799;... show more
1 entry: • S-371(1)
Larwill, Humphrey and James (fl. 1766). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 18th century. 1 entry: • B-306(1)
Lasege(?), Robert (seventeenth/eighteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • A-294(1)
La Serna Santander, Charles-Antoine de (1752-1823); see BNDB XI 383-6; sale, Livres... provenant pour la plus grande part, de la Bibliothèque La Serna Santander (Brussels: P.... show more
1 entry: • A-252(1)?
La Sicardaye, Brochereul de; see M. P. Potier de Courcy, Nobiliaire de Bretagne (Saint-Pol-de-Léon, 1846), 55. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • A-236(1)
Lassize, H. de (nineteenth century?); sale, Catalogue des livres rares manuscrits et imprimés composant la bibliothèque de M. H. Lassize (Paris, 30 Jan. 1867). ♦ Categorisation: Type:... show more
2 entries: • N-069(1) • N-088(1)
Last, G. H. (fl. 1941); bookseller, 21a, High St, Bromley, Kent. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 20th century. 1 entry: • B-064A(1)
Lastres, Don Manuel de; 'Cauallero del orden de Alcantara' (sixteenth/seventeenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • C-014(1)
Lathe, Richard (1568-?1614); Caius College, Cambridge; see Venn pt 1, III 49. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1568 to 1614. Period: 16th century... show more
1 entry: • J-060(1)
La Tour, L. de; `canonicus'; probably Francis Leopold de la Tour, canon of Hildesheim; see [Paul Needham], Incunables from the Schøyen Collection (New York:... show more
1 entry: • F-026(1)
Lattner, Michael; `cooperator ad Spiritum S. Monachii'; BMC VIII 128, IA. 40099 has an owner `Martinus Lattner cooperator ad Spiritum S. Monachii'. ♦ Categorisation:... show more
1 entry: • F-088(1)
Laube, August (d.1980); bookseller, Zürich; see Adolf Seebaß, `In memoriam August Laube', Börsenblatt für den deuschen Buchhandel, Frankfurter Ausgabe, 36 (1980), pp. A128-30. ♦ Categorisation:... show more
7 entries: • A-146(1) • G-293(1) • H-231(1) • J-061(1) • M-131(1) • N-024(1) • S-148(1)
Laud, William (1573-1645); President of St John's College, Oxford 1611-21, Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1629-45, Archbishop of Canterbury 1633-45; see DNB;... show more
10 entries: • A-133(1) • B-348(2) • B-538(1) • C-389(1) • J-215(1) • M-256(1) • M-318(1) • P-510(3) • T-097(1) • BB-2
Laurentius, S., church of(?), Italy: `Il[lu ] de S. Laurencio [ ] et cor[ ]le'. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • T-207(2)
Lauter, Georg (d.1610); `Probst des Collegiatsstifts in München'; see DBInd II 2050; W. Irtenkauf and I. Krekler, Die Handschriften der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart,... show more
1 entry: • H-210(1)
Lautschlager, Johannes Wolfgang (fl. 1607); of Willmannsberg, Bavaria; see Pölnitz II 143,32. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • G-239(1)
La Vallière, duc de see La Baume le Blanc, Louis César de.
Lavender, Richard (d.1508); Scholar Winchester College 1450; New College Oxford, Scholar 1454, Fellow 1456-74; holder of various livings, Archdeacon of Leicester 1485-1508; see... show more
3 entries: • B-316(6) • C-090(1) • J-107(1)
Lawn, Brian (1905-2001); doctor and historian of medieval medicine, author of The Salernitan Questions (Oxford, 1963); for his own account of his book-collecting... show more
24 entries: • A-121A(1) • A-131A(1) • A-237A(1) • A-420(2) • A-485A(1) • A-636A(1) • B-064A(1) • B-160(2) • B-558A(1) • G-222(3) • H-047A(1) • H-167A(1) • J-091(2) • J-194A(1) • L-043(7) • M-174A(1) • N-024(2) • P-187(3) • P-537A(1) • S-112(2) • S-126A(1) • S-179A(1) • V-136(2) • V-140(1)
Lawrence, Edwin Henry (fl. 1820; d.1891); FSA; sale (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 9 May 1892). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century to 19th century. 3 entries: • D-195(1)? • E-022(3) • M-242(1)
Lawrence, John (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • R-127(2)?
Lawson, Ralph (fl. c.1600). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • P-069(1)
Layton, Richard (1500?–1544); Dean of York, and Canon of St Paul's, London; see DNB; Emden, BRUO 1501-1540, 346; John Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae... show more
2 entries: • B-493(2) • D-123(1)
Lazzari, Marco; armorial book stamp; see Oates 2050 and p. 843; also owned Walsh 2145. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 9 entries: • A-041(3) • B-005(1) • L-003(2) • M-061(3) • M-140(1) • M-179(2) • O-056(3) • O-060(1) • P-138(3)
Lübeck, Franciscans, S. Catherina; 1225-1530; at the dissolution the monastery was transformed into a school, the Gymnasium known as the 'Katharineum', and in 1622... show more
1 entry: • T-164(1)
Lübeck, Stadtbibliothek. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 3 entries: • B-177(1) • M-080(1) • T-164(1)
Le Candele, Charles-Pierre-Joseph (1761-1830); baron de Gyseghem; see Linnig; sale, Catalogue de livres faisant partie de la bibliothèque de monsieur le baron Le Candele... show more
8 entries: • A-026(1) • A-589(1) • B-209(1) • C-317(1) • G-117(2) • G-128(2) • P-052(2) • T-183(1)
Lechner, Andreas (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • P-028(1)
Lechner, Johannes (fl. 1556). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • S-367(1)
Le Coudray Duclos (eighteenth/nineteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 18th century to 19th century. 1 entry: • B-309(1)
Leder, Stephanus (sixteenth century); English. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • L-102(1)
Leeds, Kent, Augustinians, BVM and S. Nicholas. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • P-518(1)
Lee, Thomas (fl. 1697?); of Darnhall, near Over, Cheshire; see George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, I (London,... show more
1 entry: • C-197(1)
Legg, John Wickham see Wickham Legg, John
Legillon, Augustin (fl. 1809), of Bruges. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • J-038(1)
Legnago, Verona, Dominican convent of S. Maria Gratiarum [now parish church of S. Petrus]; for the convent see Giovanni Battista da Persico, Descrizione di Verona e della sua... show more
2 entries: • G-072(1) • P-176(1)
Le Gui[ ]r, Carolus (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • H-214(1)
Lehmann, Andreas (sixteenth century); `frater', Schwäbisch-Gmünd; see `lector de Gamundia' in Lists of Fifteenth-Century Books in Edinburgh Libraries, Papers of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society,... show more
1 entry: • B-344(2)
Lehmann, Ernst (fl. 1694); Bishop of Crossen, Silesia. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • V-097(1)
Leigh, Miles (fl. 1558-1582); Corpus Christi College, Oxford, matric. 1558; BA 1561, MA 1572, Doctor of Civil Law 1582, Rector of Dartington, Devon, 1570;... show more
1 entry: • B-316(2)
Leighton, Walter J. (d.1917); London booksellers; founded 1789, ceased trading 1937; Walter J. Leighton traded as J. & J. Leighton, 40 Brewer St, Golden... show more
5 entries: • B-056(1) • L-144(2)? • L-146A(1)? • O-004(1) • P-147(1)
Leipzig, Bibliothek des Reichsgericht; see Karl Ferdinand Schulz, Katalog der Bibliothek des Reichsgerichts (Leipzig, 1882-90). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • J-272(1)
Leipzig, University Library; see Handbuch der historischen buchbestände in Deutschland (Hildesheim, 1997), 18, 36-162. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • P-216(1)
Leipzig; unnamed undergraduate (fl. 1499). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century. 1 entry: • L-158(1)
Leitner, Johannes (fl. 1495-1497); of Schliersee, Bavaria; for another book owned by Leitner and with a similiar inscription see Madsen no. 2580; possibly Ilona... show more
4 entries: • H-058(1) • L-037(1) • L-081(1) • M-183(1)
Le Lohier, Nicolaus (fl. 1613); Vicar of Glons (Glaaien) near Liège; see Eugène de Seyn, Dictionnaire historique et géographique des communes belges, 3rd edn (Turnhout,... show more
2 entries: • B-171(1) • B-174(1)
Le Maistre, Philippe. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 4 entries: • C-510(1) • I-033(1) • J-016(1) • S-263B(1)
Le Mans, Benedictines, S. Vincent and S. Laurent; founded 565 by S. Domnolus; 1501 at Chezal Benoît versus orientem, affiliated to St Maur 1636, dispersed 1789-93; in 1797... show more
1 entry: • R-112(1)
Le Moyne, Simon (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • B-336(1)
Le Neve, Peter (1661-1729); FRS, PSA, Norroy King of Arms; see DNB; Fletcher, Collectors, 147-9; Walter H. Godfrey, The College of Arms, London Survey,... show more
2 entries: • A-051(1) • J-032(1)
Lenzius, Abel (fl. 1650); of Ulm, Swabia. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • V-052(2)
Leonardus de Cotzhaim; 'plebanus' in Massing, Bavaria. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • A-539(2)
Leonardus de Siradia [Sieradz, Poland] (fl. 1586); see also Vilnius, Franciscans. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 3 entries: • C-410(1) • C-413(2) • P-293(2)
Leonicus Thomaeus, Nicolaus (1456-1531); see CE II 323-24. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1456 to 1531. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 2 entries: • A-240(2) • S-216(2)
Lepper, Robert Stewart (1871-after 1945); of Elsinore, [Crawfordsburn], Co. Down; King's College, Cambridge 1889-93, various posts in colleges and universities in India 1895-1911; see Venn... show more
1 entry: • M-084(1)
Le Primost, Nicolas (fl. 1558); possibly a clerk of Louvain, Oct. 1558. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • B-292(1)
Le Sar, Roger (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • P-323(1)
Lesciver or Lescuer, Michael (sixteenth century), of Paris, possibly of S. Hilarius. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • I-037(1)
Le Tellier, François Michel César (1718-1781); marquis de Courtanvaux; see Michaud IX 374-5, Larousse V 387. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1718 to 1781. Period: 18th... show more
1 entry: • M-310(2)
Leverocke, Richard (fl. 1580). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • P-103(1)
Leveson-Gower, George, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786-1861); gilt armorial stamp, showing the coat of arms of the duke: quarterly quartered, 1 grand quarter, quarterly Gower and Leveson... show more
1 entry: • P-392(2)
Levet, Pierre (fl. 1485-1502); printer and publisher in Paris; see BMC VIII pp. xxvii–xxviii; Paul Needham, `Continental Printed Books Sold in Oxford c.1480-3', in... show more
1 entry: • L-126(1)
Levinson, Harry A. (1904-1995); bookseller, Beverley Hills, California; see Dickinson, American Antiquarian Bookdealers, 124-5. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1904 to 1995. Period: 20th... show more
1 entry: • L-037(1)
Levy, Philip (fl. 1794). Heb 2(3) ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 18th century.
Lewine, J. (fl. 1918); bookseller. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 20th century. 2 entries: • G-061(1) • M-097(1)
Lewis, C. (fl. before Aug. 1832?); sale (London: Evans, Aug. 1832) not identified. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • P-412(1)
Lewis, L. A. (fl. 1833); London bookseller, 125 Fleet Street. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • L-176(1)?
Lewis, Philip (seventeenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • W-013(1)
Lewis, Thomas (sixteenth century); Welsh. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • M-239(1)
Löffelholtz, Thomas. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • J-259(1)
Lhwyd, Edward (1660-1709); Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; see Foster III 913; B. F. Roberts, 'Edward Lhwyd's Collection of Printed Books', BLR... show more
1 entry: • C-195(1)?
`Libraria di S. Cerbone' (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • P-337(1)
Libri, Carrucci see Timoleone, Guglielmo Bruto Icilio, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia
Liechtenstein, Princes of (nineteenth century); see Hanns Bohatta, Katalog der Inkunabeln der fürstlich Liechtenstein's Fideikommissbibliothek und der Hauslabsammlung (Vienna, 1910); Liechtenstein - Fürstliches Haus und... show more
1 entry: • P-346(2)
Lienz, Austria, Carmelites; see Ambrosio, `Monasticon carmelitanum', 596. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • J-087(1)
Liesborn, Westphalia, Benedictines, SS. Cosma, Damianus, et Simeon; from 1465 part of the congregation of Bursfeld, dissolved 1803; see Helmut Müller, Das Bistum Münster, 5, Das Kanonissenstift und... show more
5 entries: • H-045(1)? • H-094(1) • J-188(1) • J-214(2) • T-157(2)
Liège, Augustinian Canons Regular, S. Leonardus; see Monasticon belge, II 375-82. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 2 entries: • C-304(1) • P-026(1)
Liège, Augustinian Canons, Sancta Crux; see Eglises de France, V c 78-9; R. A. Dalhaes, L'Église Sainte-Croix (Liège, 1963). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown... show more
1 entry: • B-157(2)
Lightfoot, [ ] (fl. 1819); of Balham Hill, London. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • A-167(1)
Lille, French Flanders, Augustinians, Canons Regular, S. Petrus; sold as a quarry in 1793; see Cottineau I 1614-5; Eglises de France, V b 73-4. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown.... show more
1 entry: • H-080(1)
Lille, French Flanders; unknown monastery (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • M-167(2)
Lilly, Joseph (1804-1870); bookseller, 19 King St, Covent Garden, London; see BBI III 1134; Pearson, Provenance Research, 161. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates:... show more
2 entries: • E-082(2) • S-217(1)
Lilly, William (1602-1681); astrologer, who left his books to Elias Ashmole, q.v.; see DNB; Elias Ashmole, ed. Josten, passim; Ann Geneva, Astrology and... show more
13 entries: • A-002(1) • A-153(1) • A-158(2) • A-201A(1) • A-205(1) • F-060(2) • F-062(3) • H-002(2) • J-183(1) • P-532(2) • P-533(1) • R-036(1) • R-127(2)?
Limay, Île-de-France, Celestines, S. Trinitas; see Cottineau I 1615. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 3 entries: • A-292(1) • A-396(1) • B-288(1)
Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse, Observant Franciscans; see Moorman 265; Zedler XVII 1248. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 3 entries: • B-397(1) • H-107(1) • T-196(1)
Linacre, Thomas (c.1460-1524); physician and clergyman, founder of the Royal College of Physicians, London; Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford 1484; see Linacre... show more
1 entry: • N-017(2)?
Linden, Georgius (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • V-085(1)
Lindner (fl. 1474); rubricator. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century. 1 entry: • L-071(2)
Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913); 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres; see DNB; Nicolas Barker, Bibliotheca Lindesiana (London 1977); Nicolas Barker, `Lord Lindsay and the Bibliotheca Lindesiana', in `A Poet in... show more
4 entries: • A-240(2) • C-121(1) • S-216(2) • Z-012(3)
Lingg, Julius; armorial book-plate, not in Warnecke. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • M-070(1)
Lion; family of Venice. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • C-311(1)
Lissa, G. (fl. 1894); booksellers(?), Berlin. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • P-486(1)
List and Francke; sale, 1879. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 2 entries: • F-060(3)? • L-177(1)
Lister, William (d.1624); matric. Trinity College, Cambridge 1582, Vicar of Wakefield, Yorkshire 1598-1620, Prebendary of York 1614-22, 1610; see Venn pt 1, III... show more
1 entry: • A-532(1)
Litherland, Miles (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 2 entries: • D-106(1) • J-118(1)
Little, William (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • M-233(2)
L[ ], Jacob (fl. c.1500); probably from Germany. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • T-214(2)
Lloyd, Charles (1784-1829); Bishop of Oxford; see DNB; sale, Catalogue of the Very Valuable Classical, Theological and Miscellaneous Library of the late... Charles... show more
1 entry: • S-286(1)
Lloyd, Henry Robert (1809-1880); Rector of Cliffe at Hoo, Kent, chaplain to Charles Thomas Langley, Archbishop of Canterbury 1864-9; see Venn pt 2, IV... show more
1 entry: • F-026(2)
Lloyd, R. W. (fl. 1944); of Treago Castle, St Weonards, Hereford; the castle is now the home of Sir Richard Mynors, and has apparently been... show more
1 entry: • T-196(2)
Lloyd, William (1627-1717); Bishop of St Asaph, Coventry and Lichfield, Worcester; see DNB. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1627 to 1717. Period: 17th... show more
2 entries: • E-079(1) • S-174C(1)
Lober(?), Johannes (c.1500); of Kalmutz. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • P-005(1)
Locrius, Ferreolus (seventeenth century); pastor of St Nicholas of Arras; see Jöcher II 2489. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • G-155(1)
Loftus, Dudley (1619-1695); Trinity College, Dublin, University College, Oxford, Master in Chancery in Ireland; see DNB XII 79-80; Foster III 934; Alumni Dublinenses,... show more
3 entries: • B-234(3) • C-107(1) • V-147(3)
Lomellini, Benedetto (1517-1579); created Cardinal in 1565; see Gulik–Eubel, Hierarchia catholica, III 46; DC 1140. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1517 to 1579.... show more
1 entry: • A-299(1)
Loménie de Brienne, Étienne Charles (1727-1794); Cardinal; see DC 1141-2; François-Xavier Laire, Index librorum ab inventa typographia ad annum 1500. Catalogue des livres de m ***... show more
8 entries: • A-231(1) • B-237(1) • B-244(1)? • E-067(1) • G-178(1) • J-174(1) • P-239(1)? • P-256(1)
London, British Museum; see Arundell Esdaile, The British Museum Library, with introduction by Sir Frederic Kenyon (London, 1946); Edward Miller, That Noble Cabinet:... show more
52 entries: • A-029(1) • A-121A(1) • A-131A(1) • A-202(2) • A-247(1) • A-349(1) • A-621(1) • B-149(1) • B-196(1) • B-280(1) • C-053(1) • C-149(1) • C-232(2)? • C-275(2) • C-308(1) • C-433(1) • D-035(1) • D-056(1) • D-105(1) • D-177(1) • D-185(1) • E-024(1) • F-031(1) • F-110(1) • G-030(1) • G-055(1) • G-114(1) • H-044(1) • H-245(1) • J-273(1) • J-304(1) • L-045(1) • L-098(1) • M-019(1) • M-254(1) • P-008(1) • P-097(1) • P-274(1) • P-535(1) • R-004(2) • S-068(1) • S-071(1) • S-085(1) • S-170(1) • S-204(1) • S-285(1) • S-306(1) • S-361(1) • T-058(1) • T-257(1) • T-258(2) • T-262(1)
London, Carthusians, Smithfield, Charterhouse of the Salutation of the BVM; founded 1370/1 by Sir Walter Manny and Bishop Michael Northburgh of London, dissolved 1538; see Cottineau I 1643; Neil R.... show more
London, City Road Methodist Library 'News and Comment', Book Collector, 16 (1967), 211-15; see also Allan, Thomas Robinson, The London Library ♦ Categorisation: Type: Corporate. Period: unknown... show more
1 entry: • I-024(1)
London, Friars of the Holy Cross (Crutched); see Ker, Medieval Libraries, 125; Knowles–Hadcock 209-10; H. Chettle, `The Friars of the Holy Cross in England', History, 34 (1949),... show more
1 entry: • P-189(1)
London, London Library, 14 St James's Square, SW1; see London Encyclopædia, 475-6; William Baker, The Early History of the London Library (Lewiston, NY,... show more
3 entries: • B-264(1) • D-115(1) • I-025(1)
London (Lund), George (1503-post 1560); Benedictine monk of Evesham Abbey, Prior of Gloucester College, Oxford; see Emden, BRUO 1501-1540, 359. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period:... show more
1 entry: • B-302(1)
London, Royal Society; on the library and its early printed books see de Ricci, English Collectors, 25-6, and Marie Boas Hall, The Library and Archives of the Royal Society 1660-1990 (London, 1992); Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society (London, 1825); R. Farquharson Sharp, Catalogue of a Collection of Early Printed Books in the Library of the Royal Society (London, 1910); de Ricci notes that in 1873 the Royal Society sold books to Quaritch; this disposal might explain why certain books are not found in the 1910 catalogue; sale (London: Sotheby's, 4 May, 1925). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1992 to unknown year. Period: 20th century. 5 entries: • C-146(1) • H-142(1) • I-042(2) • L-175(1) • T-038(1)
London, St Bride Foundation, Passmore Edwards Library; the St Bride Foundation was created in 1891, the same year in which it purchased William Blades's library; the library... show more
4 entries: • C-350(1) • M-154(1) • P-200(2) • R-110(2)
Long Crichel House, near Wimborne Minster, Dorset; formerly the rectory; see Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of... show more
1 entry: • G-326(1)?
Longden, Robert Paton (1903-1940); Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford 1926-8, Student of Christ Church, Oxford 1929-37, Master of Wellington College, 1937-40; see Who's Who.... show more
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; booksellers; see Harold Cox and John E. Chandler, The House of Longman: With a Record of Their Bicentenary Celebration (London,... show more
15 entries: • B-248(1) • C-143(1) • G-208(1) • J-236(2) • L-098(1) • M-124(1) • P-136(1) • P-145(1) • P-155(1) • P-481(1) • P-529(1) • S-149(1) • S-294(1) • T-209(1) • V-031(1)
Loën, Johann Michael von (1694-1776); see ADB XIX 86-8; book-plate with inscription `Deus nobis hæc otia fecit. Ex bibliotheca Loeniana', see Warnecke 1188. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person.... show more
1 entry: • D-186(1)
Lonk, Prussia(?), unidentified monastic house; see Oskar Brunkow, Die Wohnplätze des königreiches Preussen, III (Berlin, 1880), 332, nos 69-70; not found in Johann Joachim Steinbrück,... show more
1 entry: • H-110(1)
Lord, [ ]; doctor. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • G-042(1)
Lord, William (sixteenth century); not an owner(?). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • C-225(2)
Loretti see Moretti
Lort, Michael (1725-1790); DD, FSA, FRS; regius professor of Greek at Cambridge 1759-71; librarian of Lambeth Palace 1785; possibly also librarian to the... show more
1 entry: • S-283(1)
Lotteringhi della Stufa, Pandolfo (seventeenth century); of the Florentine family; see Crollalanza II, 34; IBI III 840. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 2 entries: • B-576(2) • P-418(2)
Louis XV (1710-1774), King of France. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1710 to 1774. Period: 18th century. 2 entries: • C-206(1)? • S-194(1)?
Louvain, Brabant, Augustinian Canons, priory of Val-Saint-Martin, founded 1447, suppressed 1795; see Cottineau I 1663; Monasticon belge, IV 1137-54. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 3 entries: • N-078(1) • P-343(1) • R-057(1)
Louvain, Brabant, Bethlehem see Bethlehem
Louvain, Brabant, Carthusians (1486-1783); see Monasticon belge, IV 1457-94; the library of the Charterhouse was dispersed in 1783; on 17 Oct. 1785 a printer... show more
Louvain, Brabant, Irish Franciscan Recollects, S. Antonius de Padua, College; founded 1601, dissolved 1797; see Edward van Even, Louvain monumental, ou Description historique et artistique de tous les édifices civils... show more
2 entries: • A-207(1) • A-209(2)
Louvain, Brabant, Jesuits; see Hamy 20; Polgar II(1) 121-2. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 5 entries: • B-292(1) • B-616(1) • L-160(2) • P-183(1) • R-129(1)
Louvain, Brabant, Pédagogie du Porc; demolished 1807; see Edward Van Even, Louvain monumental (Louvain, 1860), 295, with illustration on facing plate; The University of Louvain... show more
1 entry: • B-395(1)
Loveday; family; presumably the family of John Edward Taylor Loveday (1845-1913), who owned `Williamscote in Oxfordshire where there was an excellent library,... show more
1 entry: • B-512(1)
Lovell, Sir Thomas (d.1524); see DNB. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown year to 1524. Period: unknown century to 16th century. 1 entry: • C-191(2)
Lowndes, William (fl. 1784-1822); London bookseller, 77 Fleet St, 76 Fleet St, 38 Bedford St, Covent Garden; see Maxted, London Book Trades, 142; Mellot–Queval... show more
9 entries: • A-294(1) • A-620(1) • B-091(1) • H-209(1) • I-038(1)? • T-045(1) • T-081(1) • T-152(1) • T-154(1)
Lubrano, Luigi (fl. 1923); bookseller, Via Costantinopoli 103, Naples; see Cristiano 88, 162, 243-4. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 20th century. 1 entry: • M-089(1)
Lucas, [ ], doctor (nineteenth century); Louvain; sale (Louvain, Dec. 1825). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • G-148(1)
Lucas, William (b. 1620); of Wolverton, Buckinghamshire; Exeter College, Oxford; student at Gray's Inn 1642; see Foster III 946; Reg. Coll. Exon., 198-9. ♦ Categorisation: Type:... show more
1 entry: • B-522(2)
Lucca, Canons Regulor della Madre di Dio, S. Maria Curtis Orlandingorum [= Corteorlandini]; founded 1 Sept. 1574 by Giovanni Leonardi; see DIP, II 910-11; their library is now the Biblioteca Statale,... show more
1 entry: • V-016(1)
Lucca, Carthusians, Spiritus Sanctus; see Cottineau I 1671. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 2 entries: • A-331(1) • G-004(1)
Lucca, Franciscans; see Moorman 275. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • A-180(1)
Lucca, Franciscans, S. Miniato; founded 1221; see Moorman 430-1. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • M-267(1)
Lucchesini, Giacomo (1753-1820); of Lucca; see Parenti II 197; M. Paoli, I codici di Cesare e Giacomo Lucchesini. Un esempio di raffinato collezionismo... show more
17 entries: • A-381(1) • B-359(1) • C-205(1) • C-504(1) • F-083(1) • L-009(1) • N-008(1) • N-066(1) • P-112(1) • P-116(1) • P-135(1) • P-241(1) • P-337(1) • S-013(1) • S-247(1) • S-286(2) • V-016(1)
Lucerne, Switzerland, unidentified monastery. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • G-333A(1)
Luchtmans, S[amuel] & J[ohannes] (fl. 1824); booksellers, Leiden; Samuel I (1685-1757), and his two sons, Samuel II and Johannes, who took over the business in 1755,... show more
1 entry: • P-453(1)
Luciano, [ ] (seventeenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • V-092(1)
Ludewig, Johann Peter von (1670-1743); Chancellor of Friedrichs-Universität, Halle an der Saale; see Jöcher II 2587-8; Johann David Michaelis, Catalogus praestantissimi thesauri librorum typis vulgatorum,... show more
1 entry: • B-325(1)
Ludlow, Shropshire, parish church of St Laurence; see A Directory of the Parochial Libraries of the Church of England and the Church in Wales, by Neil Ker,... show more
1 entry: • N-017(2)
Ludo, 'frater'; Italian?. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • C-071(2)
Ludovicus of Foligno (fifteenth/sixteenth century); clerk of Ferrara. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • C-244(1)
Luegar, Wolfgang (fl. 1515-1526); Prior of S. Zeno, near Reichenhall, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons 1515-26; see Zimmermann, Kloster-Heraldik, 183. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th... show more
1 entry: • J-084(1)
Lulmius Bergomensis, Paulus (d.1484); Vicar-general of Augustinian Hermits; see Johannes Felix Ossinger, Bibliotheca Augustiniana (Ingolstadt, 1768), 522-3. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown year... show more
1 entry: • A-406(1)
Lumley, Edward (fl. 1842-1853); bookseller, 56 Chancery Lane, London; 126 High Holborn by 1853: see Munby, Phillipps Studies, IV 188. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown.... show more
2 entries: • B-611(2) • C-488(1)
Lumley, John, 1st Lord Lumley (1534?-1609); see DNB; Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley, letter 4; The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. Sears Jayne and... show more
2 entries: • C-010(1) • P-533(2)
Lund, George see London, George
Lunn, William Henry (d.1815); `Lunn's Classical Library, Soho Square'; bookseller in Cambridge 1787-97, 332 Oxford Street, London 1797-1801, 30 Soho Square, 1802-15; see BM... show more
1 entry: • R-001(1)
Lunéville, Lorraine, Minims; see Eglises de France, V a 84, which dates the foundation of the Minim house to 1620. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender:... show more
1 entry: • B-386(1)
Luppis (Lupi), Raymundus de (d.1484); on his death in 1484 he bequeathed his library to the Dominicans of Sta Maria delle Grazie, Milan; see Litta,... show more
1 entry: • S-214(1)
Lupton, Roger (d.1540); Provost of Eton College 1504-36; see Emden, BRUC, 377-8. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown year to 1540. Period: unknown... show more
1 entry: • H-190(1)
Lutz, Nicolaus (seventeenth century); of Hirschhorn, Hesse, parish priest in `Schmiederwag', possibly Schönmattenwag, Hesse. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • M-283(1)
Luxembourg, Jesuits (seventeenth century?); the Jesuits were established in Luxembourg by 1594 and finished the construction of their college in 1611; they were suppressed... show more
2 entries: • G-276(1)? • M-086(1)
Luzzatto, Samuel David (1800-1865); scholar and philosopher, Padua; see Morris B. Margolies, Samuel David Luzzatto: Traditionalist Scholar (New York, 1979). Heb 41?; Heb 55(3) ♦ Categorisation:... show more
Lyell, James Patrick Ronaldson (1871-1949); book-plate with crest and motto; bequeathed a portion of his books to the Bodleian Library; see R. W. Hunt, `The... show more
16 entries: • A-305(1) • A-363(1) • A-600(1) • E-089(1) • F-081(1) • G-313(2) • G-314(2) • H-018(1) • I-015(1) • J-073(1) • M-171(1) • P-204(1) • R-002(2) • R-004(6) • T-107(1) • T-279(1)
Lyndoch (Lynedoch) and Graham Library; this sale has not been identified from material in the Bodleian Library or in the National Library of Scotland; the... show more
3 entries: • C-410(1) • C-413(2) • P-293(2)
Lyons, Jesuits, S. Trinitas; founded 1565; see Hamy 40; Bibliographie de la Compagnie de Jésus, V 219-32. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • S-187(1)
Lyons, S. Irenaeus, college of S. Johannes Evangelus (`de la desserte de S. J. E'); see Cottineau I 1688. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • T-034(1)
Lyte, Henry Francis (1793-1847); hymn-writer; see DNB; sale (4 July 1849). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1793 to 1847. Period: 18th century to 19th... show more
2 entries: • D-095(1) • V-040(1)
Lyten, John (sixteenth century?). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • B-440(2)
Lyttelton, Hon. R.; presumably to be identified with the Hon. Robert Henry Lyttelton (1854-1939), 6th son of the 4th Lord Lyttelton. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person.... show more
1 entry: • P-248(1)

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