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Wagner, Nicolaus (sixteenth century); of `Hochstett', probably Bavaria, several places of that name. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • L-160(1)
Wake, Henry T.; bookseller in Cockermouth, Cumberland, from c.1869 to c.1913; possibly to be identified with Henry Thomas Wake (b.1831), the anonymous author... show more
1 entry: • C-329(1)
Waldauf, Florian, Ritter von Waldenstein see Hall in Tyrol, Fundatio Baldaufica
Waldbott-Bassenheim, Hugo see Buxheim, Bavaria, Carthusians
Waldeck, Johannes a, Count (fl. 1575). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • M-252(1)
Waldenberg, Conrad (fifteenth/sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • M-099(2)
Waldsassen, Bavaria, Cistercian convent; see Krausen, Zisterzienser, 100-3. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 3 entries: • G-078(1) M-314(1) V-120(1)
Wales, north-east (fifteenth/sixteenth century); possibly Chirk and/or Yale. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • M-297(2)
Walgundsperger, Johannes (fifteenth century);v probably of Bavaria. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century. 1 entry: • G-102(1)
Walincourt, Hainault, near Cambrai, Williamites, Congregation of Augustinian Hermits; see Kaspar Elm, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Wilhelmitenordens, Münstersche Forschungen, 14 (Cologne, 1962), 62-3; J. B. Blin, `Notice historique sur... show more
1 entry: • B-437(2)
Walker, Dorothy (fl. 1934). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 20th century. 1 entry: • O-002(1)
Walker, Obadiah (1616-1699); Master of University College, Oxford 1676-89; for other books from Walker's library see University College, Oxford, q.v., shelfmarks FF.7.8, FF.8.4,... show more
1 entry: • P-296(1)
Walker, Sir Emery (1851-1933); FSA; printer, process engraver, and typographer; see DNB. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1851 to 1933. Period: 19th century to... show more
1 entry: • O-002(1)
Walker, Walter (sixteenth/seventeenth century?); of Lincoln. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century to 17th century. 1 entry: • G-190(1)
Wallier, Franz-Karl Bernhard (1711-1772); of Vendelincourt (Wendelinsdorf), canton of Bern, Switzerland; see Dictionaire historique et biographique de la Suisse, VII 33. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender:... show more
1 entry: • A-285(1)
Walpole, Horatio William (1813-1894), 4th Earl of Orford; see The Complete Peerage, ed. G.E.C., X (London, 1945), 90; sale (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 10June 1895). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person.... show more
1 entry: • G-051(2)
Walther, Heinrich (fl. 1790); bookbinder in London. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 18th century. 2 entries: • J-290(1) J-293(1)
Wandermark, [ ] (fl. early eighteenth century); of Haarlem; see Jean-Baptiste Michel Papillon, Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois, 2 vols (Paris, 1766), I... show more
1 entry: • S-268(1)
Wankhaus[?], Georgius (fl. 1503) `capellanus in Saldentall'. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • J-055(1)
Wannell, Richard (d. by Jan. 1546); Bachelor of Civil Law and of Canon Law 1529, Rector of St Kerrian's, Exeter 1534; see Emden, BRUO 1501-1540, 605. ♦ Categorisation:... show more
1 entry: • S-131(2)
Warcupp, Ralph (d.1605); of Christ Church, Oxford; donation to the Bodleian by July 1601; see Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley, letter 5. ♦ Categorisation: Type:... show more
1 entry: • A-384(10)
Wardle, John (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • N-121(1)
Wardropper, William (sixteenth century); possibly to be identified with the Walter Wardropper, matric. University College, Oxford 1575, Fellow 1579, for whom see Foster IV... show more
1 entry: • G-077(1)
Ward, Thomas Merriman (d. before 1890); of Warwick Road, Maida Hill, London; sale, Catalogue of Early Bibles, New Testaments & Psalms... (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge,... show more
1 entry: • S-126A(1)
Ware, Hertfordshire, St Edmund's College; founded 1793; the library contained many books bearing the book-plate of Richard Towneley, q.v.; see Edwin Burton, Catalogue of Books... show more
3 entries: • A-350(1) C-504(2) R-008(1)
Wargrave, William (fl. 1486-1498); Benedictine monk, Reading Abbey, Berkshire; listed among the monks of Reading Abbey who participated in the two meetings which elected... show more
1 entry: • F-007(1)
Waringe, R. (seventeenth century); possibly to be identified with Robert Waring (1614-1658), for whom see DNB. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • A-588(1)
Warre, John (sixteenth/seventeenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century to 17th century. 1 entry: • C-191(2)
Warren, Thomas (sixteenth century); perhaps to be identified with Thomas Warren, BA Oxford 1514, for whom see Emden, BRUO 1501-1540, 608. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender:... show more
1 entry: • B-302(1)
Warwick, Sir Philip (1609-1682); MP; see DNB, where date of death given as 1683; Foster IV 1577; E[veline] C[ruickshanks], in Basil D. Henning, The... show more
1 entry: • B-400(1)
Washbourne, Richard (1597-1672); chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford; see Foster IV 1577. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1597 to 1672. Period: 16th century... show more
1 entry: • A-403(1)
Wason, [ ] (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 2 entries: • J-316(2) P-146(2)
Waterfield, Robin (1914-2002); bookseller, publisher, missionary, and author; Robin Waterfield Ltd, 36 Park End Street, Oxford, c. 1974; now at 52 High Street,... show more
1 entry: • T-137(1)
Waterton, Edmund (1830-1887); antiquary, of Walton Hall, Yorkshire; see DNB (under the entry for his father, Charles (1782-1865)); sale (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson &... show more
3 entries: • B-459(1) M-252(1) T-249(2)
Watkinson, Richard, junior (fl. 1636); of Barnard's Inn, London, and Glemsford, Suffolk. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 3 entries: • B-234(3) C-107(1) V-147(3)
Watkinson, Richard, senior (fl. 1601-1640); Pembroke College, Cambridge, BA 1601/2, Vicar of Broxbourne from 1609; see Venn pt 1, IV 347. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown.... show more
3 entries: • B-234(3) C-107(1) V-147(3)
Watts, Robert (1683-1726); see Foster IV 1586; Fellow of St John's College, Oxford; Vicar of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1683 to 1726. Period:... show more
1 entry: • B-440(1)
Watts, Thomas (mid-sixteenth century); possibly to be identified with the Watts mentioned in the DNB entry for Anthony Browne (1510?–1567) who was burned at... show more
1 entry: • C-191(1)
Watts, William (1590?-1649); Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1606-26, DD Oxford 1639; Rector of St Alban, Wood Street, London 1625-43 (ejected); see DNB;... show more
1 entry: • B-050(4)
Wavre, Brabant, Franciscan Recollects. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • H-231(1)
W[ ]d[ ]ll, [ ] (early sixteenth century); 'master'. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • T-046(2)
Weaver, Harold Baillie (d.1926); barrister; see Who's Who, in the article about Mrs Gertrude Weaver, novelist (d.1926); sale (London: Christie, Manson, and Wood, 29... show more
1 entry: • D-041(1)
Webb, Alfred; of Dublin; possibly to be identified with Alfred Webb (1834-1908), Quaker and Irish biographer, for whom see DNB. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown.... show more
3 entries: • C-454(2) M-240(1) Q-010(1)
Webb, Benjamin (1819-1885); Trinity College, Cambridge 1838-45; see DNB; Venn pt 2, VI 386. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1819 to 1885. Period:... show more
1 entry: • T-137(1)
Webb, Christopher A. (fl. 1942-1973); Jesus College, Cambridge, part 1 History Tripos 1942; incunabulist; joined the staff of the National Central Library in 1946, and... show more
1 entry: • B-166(1)
Webber, George (fl. 1747). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 18th century. 1 entry: • H-201(1)
Webbe, Roger (b. c.1559); matric. St John's College, Oxford 1576; Vicar of Cholsey 1606, and of Witham, Essex 1617; see Foster IV 1590. ♦ Categorisation: Type:... show more
1 entry: • S-327(2)
Webb, Philip (1831-1915); architect; see DNB. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1831 to 1915. Period: 19th century to 20th century. 1 entry: • O-002(1)
Webb, Philip Carteret (1700-1770); see DNB; sale (London, 25 Feb. 1771). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1700 to 1770. Period: 18th century. 1 entry: • B-091(1)
Webb, W. (fl. c.1500). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • B-286(1)
Weddern, near Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Carthusians, Castrimaria/ Castrum Beatae Mariae; dissolved 1804; see Cottineau I 1006; Krämer I 170-71; Monastisches Westfalen, 436; Westfälisches Klosterbuch, ed. Karl Hengst, 2 vols (Münster,... show more
2 entries: • A-510(1) B-249(1)
Wedelicki, Peter (d.1544); from Oborniki, Poland; professor of medicine at Cracow; see Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ørzte (Munich and Berlin, 1962), V 876. ♦ Categorisation:... show more
4 entries: • C-410(1) C-413(2) P-293(2) R-146(1)
Weiden, Bavaria, Jesuits; see Hamy 61; Polgar II(1) 76. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 2 entries: • A-394(1) R-018(1)
Weigel, Johann August Gottlob (1773-1846); see ADB XLI 469-71; Theodor Oswald Weigel (1812-1881); booksellers, Leipzig; see Philipp Rath, `Das Haus Weigel und seine Bedeutung für... show more
9 entries: • A-022(1) A-384(7) A-566(3) B-327(2) D-058(1) D-080(1) E-007(1) G-201(2) P-291(4)
Weihenstephan, Bavaria, Benedictines; founded 1021, dissolved 1803; see Hemmerle, Benediktiner, 322-6; Historische Kataloge, 495-6; armorial book-plate: `Closter Weihenstephen 1646' (Warnecke 2394). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person.... show more
1 entry: • S-039(1)
Weil, E. (fl. 1948-1954); bookseller. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 20th century. 2 entries: • A-420(2) R-066(2)
Weiler, Anna de (fl. c.1654); possibly of Bavaria. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • B-291(1)
Weinrich, Hieronymus (fl. 1615); Jöcher IV 1864-5; son of Valentinus Weinrich, the grammarian. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • D-151(1)
Weisman, Johannes (fifteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century. 1 entry: • P-318(1)
Weiss, Adam (fl. 1521); of Crailsheim. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • P-422(1)
Weiss, Andreas (seventeenth century); parish priest in `Schmiederwag', possibly Schönmattenwag, Hesse. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • M-283(1)
Weissenau, Württemberg, diocese of Konstanz, Premonstratensians, SS. Petrus et Paulus; dissolved 1802; see Cottineau II 3439-40; MBK I 407-8 and 598; Krämer II 818-22; Gustav Hänel, `Handschriften im Schlosse Liebenau... show more
23 entries: • A-112(1) A-329(1) A-387(1) B-442(1) C-416(1) D-058(1) G-289(1) G-334(1) H-075(1) H-199(1) H-233(1) J-027(1) J-049(1) J-077(1) J-079(1) J-083(1) J-089(1) J-216(1) P-231(1) P-402(1) P-474(1) S-263(1) T-188(1)
Weiss, Georg (nineteenth century); paediatrician. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • B-501(1)
Welborn, George (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • T-045(1)
Wendt, Bernhard (fl. 1963-1968); German bookseller. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 20th century. 5 entries: • B-345F(1) H-047(1) M-133(1) P-282(1) T-242(1)
Wenman, Philip (1742-1800), 7th Viscount Wenman; see The Complete Peerage, ed. G.E.C., XII, part 2 (London, 1959), 494; Frederick George Lee, The History,... show more
2 entries: • B-488(1)? Q-016(1)?
Werden an der Ruhr (now Essen-Werden), North Rhine-Westphalia, Benedictines, S. Ludgerus, S. Salvator et BVM; dissolved 1803; see Cottineau II 3443-4; Krämer II 826-8; Hraban Haacke,... show more
3 entries: • A-500(1) H-107(1) S-162(1)
Werdenstein, Johann Georg von (1542-1608); prebendary of Augsburg and Eichstätt; armorial woodcut: see Warnecke 2434 (1534); Leiningen-Westerburg 337; his collection was sold to the University... show more
1 entry: • M-182(1)
Werder, Johannes (fl. 1495). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century. 1 entry: • S-039(1)
Werm, F. (fifteenth century); of Landau; monogram `F [surmounted by a crown] Werm In anno 1478°. Landaw'; insufficient information to determine which Landau. ♦ Categorisation: Type:... show more
1 entry: • D-186(1)
Werntz, Oswald (sixteenth century); Canon of the Chapel of S. Gertraud (from 1365 this chapel was part of the cathedral in Augsburg); see Backmund,... show more
2 entries: • E-021(1) L-054(1)
Wertheimer, Solomon Aaron see Cairo, Genizah
Weschbach, Johannes (fifteenth/sixteenth century); see Honemann, `Buxheim Collection', Bod 11 and Bod 12; Weschbach owned Walsh 556 and 1210; sale (London: Sotheby's, 25 Nov.... show more
3 entries: • C-088(2)? C-089(1) P-052(3)
Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, S. Maria, S. Johannes Baptista and S. Johannes Evangelista, Carthusians; monastery destroyed 1584, transferred to Xanten 1628, suppressed 1802; see Cottineau II 3445; Krämer II 830. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown.... show more
1 entry: • J-067(1)
Wessobrunn, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Petrus [et Paulus]; founded c.753, dissolved 1803; see Hemmerle, Benediktiner, 336-42; Historische Kataloge, 498-500; Das Bistum Augsburg. 2. Die Benediktinerabtei Wessobrunn, ed. Irmtraud,... show more
7 entries: • G-320(1) M-046(1) N-001(1) S-009(1) S-239(1) T-064(1) V-134(1)
Wessobrunn, Bavaria, Carmelites. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • N-001(1)
West, James (1704?–1772); see DNB; de Ricci, English Collectors, ad indicem; Theodor Harmsen, Antiquarianism in the Augustan Age: Thomas Hearne 1678-1735 (Oxford, 2000),... show more
7 entries: • E-024(1) J-191(1) M-235(1) P-401(1) Q-008(1) R-048(1) T-098(1)
West[on](?), Peter (d. before 1524/5); monk of Glastonbury Abbey, Benedictines, S. Maria; received Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 80 (Sinesius Cyrenensis, De laudibus Calvitii, trans. John... show more
1 entry: • C-329(1)
Westphalen (Westphal?), Johannes (eighteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 2 entries: • A-487(1) C-431(1)
Weynman (fifteenth/sixteenth century); rubricator. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • A-247(1)
Weyss, Andreas (fl. 1557); surgeon and lithotomist in Heidelberg. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • H-220(1)
Whetcombe, John; see Benefactors' Register I 54, donated money and books; probably to be identified with John Whetcombe, of Dorset (c.1580-1640), matric.... show more
1 entry: • G-026(1)
Whiston, John (1711?–1780); London bookseller, at Boyle's Head, Fleet Street 1734-66, and 64 Fleet Street 1767-76; see H. R. Plomer, G. H. Bushnell,... show more
8 entries: • A-171(1) B-220(1) B-483(1) C-196(1) C-392(1) L-146(1) P-380(1) Z-010(1)
White, [ ]; bookseller(?). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • M-194(1)
White, Henry (d.1724); draper, alderman of Oxford 1695: see M. G. Hobson, Oxford Council Acts 1665-1701, OHS, NS 2 (Oxford, 1939), 252 and... show more
1 entry: • C-196(1)
White, John (d. not after 1788); of Newgate Street, London. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown year to 1788. Period: unknown century to 18th century. 2 entries: • C-478(2) J-068(3)
White, Josias (1572/3–after June 1610); New College, Oxford, matric. 1592/3, BD 1610, Vicar of Hornchurch, Essex; see Foster IV 1615. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates:... show more
1 entry: • A-401(1)
White, Roger (seventeenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • Z-012(4)
White, Thomas (d.1460). XYL-14 ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown year to 1460. Period: unknown century to 15th century.
White, William (1604-1678); Wadham College, Oxford, Master of Magdalen College School, Oxford 1632-48, Rector of Pusey, Berkshire, and of Appleton; see DNB; E[dwin]... show more
2 entries: • G-215(1) J-063(1)
White, William (d.1547); Master of Balliol College, Oxford 1525-39; see Emden, BRUO, 2036. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown year to 1547. Period:... show more
1 entry: • A-384(2)?
Whitney, Geoffrey (1548?–1601); poet; Oxford University, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Leyden University; see DNB; Foster IV 1623; Venn pt 1, IV 396. ♦ Categorisation: Type:... show more
1 entry: • A-526(1)
Whyttok, Richard (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • S-108(2)
Wiblingen, Württemberg, Benedictines, S. Martinus; see Cottineau II 3452-3453; MBK I 419-50; Heribert Hummel, `Bibliotheca Wiblinga. Aus Scriptorium und Bibliothek der ehemaligen Benediktinerabtei Wiblingen', Studien... show more
1 entry: • B-255(1)
Wickham Legg, John (1843-1921); MD; see DNB; Craster 295, who records that the books were bequeathed by Wickham Legg; however, in the Library archives... show more
3 entries: • A-311(1) N-033(1) R-073(1)
Wickham, William (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • M-233(1)
Wickins, John (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • B-324(1)
Wideman, Johannes (d.c.1484); 'plebanus' in `Hungerhusen'; not located. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown year to 1484. Period: unknown century to 15th century. 1 entry: • G-254(1)
Widenmann, Joannes (fl. 1538). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • T-103(1)
Widman, Johannes (fl. 1654); of Feuerbach, not certain which town of that name. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • B-291(1)
Widmanstetter, Johannes Albrecht (1506-1557); orientalist; see Hans Striedl, `Die Bücherei des Orientalisten J. A. Widmanstetter', in Serta Monacensia: Festschrift Franz Babinger (Leiden, 1952), 200-44;... show more
1 entry: • H-002(1)
Widowes, Daniel (fl. c.1594-1619); matric. Emmanuel College, Cambridge c.1594, BA 1597/98, MA 1601, Vicar of Lislee, Co. Ross, Ireland 1619; see Venn pt 1,... show more
1 entry: • C-280(2)
Widowes, Thomas (d.1593); matric. Christ's College, Cambridge 1545, ordained priest 1562; see Venn pt 1, IV 401. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: unknown... show more
1 entry: • C-280(2)
Wiener Neustadt, Austria, Pauline Hermits; see Krämer II 600; on the religious order see Gregorius Gyöngyösi, Vitae fratrum Eremitarum ordinis sancti Pauli primi heremitae, Bibliotheca... show more
4 entries: • C-428(1) H-016(1) P-076(2) T-160(1)
Wiener Neustadt, Austria, S. Ulrich, Augustinian Canons. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • C-428(1)
Wienner, Johann (fl. 1475?–1480?); printer in Augsburg 1475?-80?; see ADB XLII 420. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century. 1 entry: • G-323(1)
Wijde, Nicolaus (fifteenth/sixteenth century); `vicarius maioris ecclesie Spirensis'. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • H-111(1)
Wijnmann, Johannes (fl. 1543); Carmelite in Geldern, Netherlands; mentioned among `iniqui conspiratores' against the Prior Peter von Rees in 1540; punished but reinstated in... show more
2 entries: • A-144(1) L-055(2)
Wilcox, Richard (fl. c.1500); perhaps to be identified with Richard Wilcocks (1475/6-1504), from Reading; New College, Oxford, Scholar 1493, Fellow 1495-1504, for whom see... show more
2 entries: • A-450(1)? D-107(1)
Wildenstein, Johannes de (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • M-185(1)
Wildt, A.(?) (fl. 1700). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • M-321(1)
Wiles (Wyllyes), John (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • M-237(2)
Wilhelmi, Simon see Willems, Simon
Wilkinson, R. (d. by Apr. 1797); see D. M. Roberts, `In Search of Mr Wilkinson', BLR 13,5 (1990), 406-14; sale: Catalogue of the Genuine, Elegant, and... show more
5 entries: • A-415(1) C-478(1) E-087(1) L-029(1) P-455(1)
Wilkison, Robert (fifteenth/sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • C-173(2)
Wilks, John (1765?–1854); MP for Boston, Lincolnshire; attorney, of Finsbury Square; see Michael Stenton, Who's Who of British Members of Parliament I: 1832-85... show more
3 entries: • B-454(1) B-455(1) J-220(1)
Willbrordus, Johannes (fifteenth century); priest/vicar of the church in Zwolle. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century. 1 entry: • S-240(1)
Willems, Simon (fl. 1487); pupil of S. Lebuinus chapter school, Deventer; see Nixon, Broxbourne, no. 9; see also Cempo Texaliensis. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown.... show more
1 entry: • G-079(1)
Willet, Robert (seventeenth century); possibly to be identified with the Robert Willet who matric. Sizar of King's College, Cambridge, 1626; BA 1630-1, MA 1634,... show more
1 entry: • A-434(1)
Willett, Ralph (1719-1795); of Merly, Dorset; see DNB; Clarke, Repertorium, 559-62; Ralph Willett, A Description of the Library at Merly in the County... show more
3 entries: • B-360(1) L-002(1) V-110(2)
Willey, Christopher (d.1530); Benedictine monk, Durham Cathedral Priory of St Cuthbert; and educated at Durham College, Oxford; owned several surviving books: see Emden,... show more
1 entry: • R-047(1)
Williams, E. (nineteenth/twentieth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century to 20th century. 1 entry: • M-134(1)
Williams, John (1798-1873); of Bryntirion, Rhayader, Powys, Christ Church, Oxford 1816-42, Vicar of Spelsbury, Oxon. 1841; see Foster, 1715-1886, IV 1566. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person.... show more
1 entry: • A-510(1)
Williamson, [ ] (seventeenth century?). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • M-008(1)
Williamson, Thomas (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • B-212(1)
Williams, Samuel Charles Evans (1842-1926); of Bryntirion, Christ Church, Oxford 1861-4, admitted Lincoln's Inn 1866, MP for Radnor 1880-4; see Foster, 1715-1886, IV 1570, The... show more
1 entry: • A-510(1)
Williams, Theodore (1785-1875); see Munby, Phillipps Studies, III 54-5. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1785 to 1875. Period: 18th century to 19th century. 1 entry: • B-313(1)
Williams, Thomas (late seventeenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • B-306(1)
Willock, Robert (fl. 1773); possibly to be identified with Robert Willock, bookseller in Cornhill, London (1735-1772). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 18th century. 1 entry: • B-512(1)
Willoughby, Nicholas (sixteenth century?); not an owner(?). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • B-387(1)
Wills, Howel (1854-1901); Balliol College, Oxford, and Inner Temple; see Foster, 1715-1886, IV 1578; resident in Florence; also owned Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS.... show more
1 entry: • F-042(3)
Wilmsz, David (sixteenth century); chamberlain. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • P-521(1)
Wilson, [ ] (fl. 1880). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • S-299(1)
Wilson, Henry (1797-1866); of Stowlangtoft Hall, Suffolk; MP for West Suffolk 1835-7; see Burke's Peerage, 105th edn, (London, 1970, 4th repr. 1980), 2845;... show more
1 entry: • A-396(1)
Wilson, Thomas (sixteenth century); DNB lists three men of this name active at this time. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • L-204(1)
Wimmer, Christian Friedrich Heinrich (1803-1868); editor of Theophrastus; see F. A. Eckstein, Nomenclator philologorum (Leipzig, 1871). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1803 to 1868. Period:... show more
1 entry: • A-384(7)
Wimpfen, Baden-Württemberg, Dominicans, Sancta Crux; dissolved 1803; see Krämer II 838-40; Kurt Hans Staub, Geschichte der Dominikanerbibliothek in Wimpfen am Neckar (ca.1460-1803), Studien zur Bibliotheksgeschichte,... show more
4 entries: • A-192(1) A-342(2) T-291(1) W-006(1)
Wimpfen, Baden-Württemberg, Hospitallers of the Holy Ghost; see Albrecht Endriss, Die religiös-kirchlichen Verhältnisse in der Reichstadt Wimpfen vor der Reformation, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für geschichtliche Landeskunde in... show more
2 entries: • J-247(2) J-262(1)
Winckler, Tobias (seventeenth century?); of Nuremberg. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 17th century. 1 entry: • P-520(1)
Windberg, Bavaria, Premonstratensians, SS. Sabinus et Serena; see Backmund, Praemonstratenses, I 55-7; N. Backmund, Kloster Windberg. Studien zu seiner Geschichte (Windberg, 1977); Bettina Wagner, 'The Windberg Accounts:... show more
3 entries: • L-071(2) R-113(1) T-103(1)
Windsor, St George's Chapel;v books presented by John Stokes, q.v.; see M. R. James, `The Manuscripts of St George's Chapel, Windsor', Library, NS 13 (1932), 55-76; Ker, Medieval Libraries, 203, 316. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1932 to unknown year. Period: 20th century. 2 entries: • D-165(2) D-170(2)
Winkel, [ ]ranis (sixteenth century?); 'frater'. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • G-040(1)
Winkler, Johannes (fl. 1559); of Salzburg. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 3 entries: • A-600(1) M-171(1) T-107(1)
Winningeton, Margaret (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • H-121(2)
Winter, George (d.1580); Vicar of Greatham, Co. Durham 1558-80 (the patron of the living was the then master of Greatham Hospital, Thomas Sparke,... show more
3 entries: • A-158(1) H-252(1) J-181(1)
Withypoll; family; Paul Withypoll (1480-1547), married Anne, wife of William Reede, q.v.; see G. C. Moore Smith, The Family of Withypoll, revised... show more
2 entries: • H-188(1) • XYL-32
Wittighain, Johannes (fl. 1549-1560); received into minor orders on 20 April 1549; ordained as subdeacon on 21 Sept. 1549; Vicar of S. Bartholomaeus, Würzburg;... show more
1 entry: • M-256(1)
Woburn, Ralph (d.1538); Cistercian monk, Woburn Abbey 1532, St Bernard's College, Oxford (Scholar 1533-4), Sub-prior of Woburn Abbey 1538; hanged at Woburn; see... show more
3 entries: • G-296(1) G-299(1) G-300(1)
Wodhull, Michael (1740-1816); translator of Euripides; see DNB; Fletcher, Collectors, 263-7; Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English Book-collectors [part IX 1897, by Frederick... show more
48 entries: • A-415(1) A-447(1) A-620(1) B-345(1) B-485(1) B-547(1) B-578(1) C-214(1) C-217(1) C-232(1) C-349(1) C-427(1) D-025(1) D-028(1) D-199(1) E-082(2) H-049(2) I-038(2) J-138(1) J-320(1) L-070(1) M-083(2) M-231A(1) M-269(1) M-307(1) M-323(1) N-049(1) O-014(1) O-056(1) P-104(1) P-115(1) P-120(1) P-138(2) P-148(1) P-174(1) P-186(2) P-244(1) P-273(2) P-287(1) R-045(1) R-103(2) S-023(2) S-186(1) T-141(1) T-208(2) V-025(1) V-144(1) Z-013(1)
Wodrofe, Thomas (sixteenth century?); not an owner. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • B-336(1)
Wolff, O. (eighteenth century?); `pastor Grünebergensis'. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 18th century. 1 entry: • V-135(1)
Wolf, Hieronymus (1516-1580); humanist, philologist, doctor of theology, Rector, and town librarian, Augsburg, 1578; see DBInd IV 2245; ADB XLIII 755-7. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person.... show more
1 entry: • H-002(3)
Wolf, Johannes (fifteenth/sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • B-064A(1)
Wolkenstein-Rodenegg, Georg zu (1559-1614); see Warnecke 2509-11; for an entry of 1575 in an 'album amicorum' by Georg Freiherr von Wolkenstein-Rodeneg see W. Irtenkauf... show more
1 entry: • B-589(1)
Wollofull, Harry (sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • G-341(1)
Wolthers, Dr H. (fl. 1856); of Groningen. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • L-036(1)
Wonnenstein, canton Appenzell, Switzerland, Capuchin Nuns; see Paul Staerkle, `Wonnenstein', in Der Franziskusorden: Die Kapuziner und Kapuzinerinnen in der Schweiz, 2, Helvetia Sacra, V/2-VI (Bern, 1974),... show more
1 entry: • F-107(1)
Wood, Anthony (1632-1695); his manuscripts and those printed books of which copies were not already there were bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum in... show more
8 entries: • A-021(2) E-077(3) E-078(1) G-286(1) J-015(2) J-017(1) S-174A(2) S-174B(1)
Woodward, William Harrison (1855-1941); of Crooksbury Hurst, Farnham; City of Liverpool professor of education, University of Liverpool 1899-1907; see Who's Who; sale (London: Sotheby's,... show more
1 entry: • L-040(3)
Wood (Wode), Thomas (fl. c.1500); of Clayton, Sussex; perhaps to be identified with the Thomas Wode in Foster IV 1672 and Emden, BRUO 1501-1540, 636:... show more
1 entry: • R-109(1)
Worcester Cathedral Library; founded as a bishopric in 680; see Cottineau II 3465; Rodney M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts... show more
Worcester, William (sixteenth/seventeenth century); possibly to be identified with the William Worcester listed in Foster IV, 1679; BA 12 Apr. 1570, Vicar of Watford,... show more
2 entries: • B-029(1) B-045(1)
Wordsworth, John (1843-1911); Bishop of Salisbury; see DNB. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1843 to 1911. Period: 19th century to 20th century. 1 entry: • C-504(2)
Worms, Rheinhessen, Capuchins; founded 1630, suppressed 1802; see Lexicon Capuccinorum, 1846; Krämer I 845(?). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • R-107(1)
Worthington, Thomas (1549-1622?); of Brasenose College, Oxford, DD Trier 1588, President of Douai College; see DNB; Brasenose College Register 1509-1909 [ed. C. B.... show more
1 entry: • A-403(1)
Wotton, Anthony (1561?–1626); professor of divinity, Gresham College, London 1596-98; see DNB; perhaps to be identified with the `Anton Wotton' whose name is... show more
1 entry: • A-156(1)?
Wotton, Mr (sixteenth century); of Leeds, Kent. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • P-518(1)
Wotton, [ ] (sixteenth century); witness. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 16th century. 1 entry: • S-352(1)
W., P.; rubricator; Detlef Mauss, `Der Rubrikator P W', Gb Jb (1997), 107-10. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 2 entries: • A-385(1) C-366(1)
W., Ph[ ] (fl. 1821). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 19th century. 1 entry: • B-570(1)
Wright, Edmund (fifteenth/sixteenth century). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: 15th century to 16th century. 1 entry: • C-173(2)
Wriothesley, Henry (1573-1624), 3rd Earl of Southampton; gave £100 in 1605 for the purchase of books (Macray 422); see DNB; Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, The Life of Henry,... show more
2 entries: • D-099(1)? L-108(1)
Wrocław, Silesia, Augustinian Canons Regular; see Cottineau I 490-1. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • N-027(1)
Wrocław, Silesia, Dominicans. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • B-164(1)
Wrocław, Silesia, Hospital of S. Matthaeus. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 2 entries: • P-227(1) V-135(1)
Wrocław, Silesia, University Library. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • G-179(1)
Würzburg, Bavaria, Augustinian Hermits, S. Georgius (1263-1813); see Hemmerle, Augustiner-Eremiten, 96-100; P. D. Gutiérrez, `De antiquis ordinis Eremitarum Sancti Augustini bibliothecis', Analecta Augustiniana, 23 (1954), 164-372, at... show more
5 entries: • J-249(1) M-283(1) M-299(1) T-132(2) V-108(1)?
Würzburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Jacobus, `Schottenkloster'; see Cottineau II 3468; Krämer II 848-9; Hans Thurn, Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg, vol. II/1: Die Handschriften aus benediktinischen... show more
6 entries: • B-138(1) L-097(1) M-059(1) N-011(1) N-012(1) N-013(1)
Würzburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Stephanus or SS. Salvator et Kilianus; see Cottineau II 3468. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • P-503(1)
Würzburg, Bavaria, Carmelites. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • P-171(2)
Würzburg, Bavaria, Cathedral. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • B-538(1)?
Würzburg, Bavaria, Cathedral; altar of S. Bartholomaeus; see also Keusch, Johannes. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • M-256(1)
Würzburg, Bavaria, Conventual Franciscans, Inventio crucis/Sancta crux; see Moorman 525-6; LThK X 1275; Krämer II 858-9; Bavaria Franciscana Antiqua, II 87-120; on the manuscripts in the library... show more
19 entries: • A-223(2) A-245(1) A-322(1) A-413(1) A-501(2) B-062(1) B-255(2) B-266(1) B-422(1) C-488(1) D-171(1) G-189(1) H-019(1) J-223(1) P-052(1) R-030(1) T-150(1)? • XYL-7? • XYL-22
Würzburg, Bavaria, Dominicans, S. Paulus apostolus; founded 1231, dissolved 1803; see Krämer II 857-8. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • J-018(1)
Würzburg, Bavaria; unidentified owner. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century. 1 entry: • R-050(1)
W., T. J. (fl. 1918); possibly to be identified with Thomas James Wise (1857-1937), for whom see DNB; John Carter and Graham Pollard, An Enquiry... show more
1 entry: • J-314(1)
Wurm, Andreas (fifteenth/sixteenth century); `scolasticus canonicus bambergen[sis] et plebanus in Colß'; not found in Johannes Kist, Das Bamberger Domkapitel von 1399 bis 1556, Historisch-diplomatische... show more
1 entry: • A-253(1)
Wyllyes, John see Wiles, John
Wyndham, George Francis (1785/6-1845), 4th Earl of Egremont; see H. A. Wyndham, A Family History 1688-1837: The Wyndhams of Somerset, Sussex and Wiltshire (London, 1950), ad indicem (where... show more
1 entry: • O-081(1)

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