Blount, Charles (1563-1606); Earl of Devonshire, 8th Lord Mountjoy; see DNB; Cyril Falls, Mountjoy: Elizabethan General (London, 1955), esp. 119-20, with reference to his books, which are now in the Bodleian; apparently inscriptions in his two incunabula (the other being in Jesus College, Oxford, Martinus Magistri, Quaestiones morales. Paris: [Johannes Higman, for or with] Wolfgang Hopyl, 1 Dec. 1489 [BMC VIII 132 = Rhodes 1137]; Jesus G.8.7) are written in same way and were probably acquired at much the same time (Rhodes). See Benefactors' Register I 37-8 for books bought with his donation of £100 in 1602. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1563 to 1606. Period: 16th century to 17th century.

2 entries:

• A-032(1) Aegidius Romanus — De regimine principum. — Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 9 July 1498. Folio.
• G-260(1) Guainerius, Antonius — Opera medica (ed. Hieronymus Salius Faventinus). — [Venice]: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 14 Feb. 1497/8. Folio.

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