Details of provenance, owner, donor or other name
Burton, Robert (1577-1640);
Student of Christ Church, Oxford 1599, bequeathed his books to the Bodleian Library; see the inventory drawn up by Bodley's Librarian, John Rous (1574-1652), MS. Selden Supra 111, fols 163r–194r and 196v; for Burton's library see N. K. Kiessling , The Library of Robert Burton, OBS Publications, NS 22 (Oxford, 1988); idem, The Legacy of Democritus Junior, Robert Burton. An Exhibition [at the Bodleian Library] to Commemorate the 350th Anniversary of the Death of Robert Burton (1577-1640) (Oxford, 1990).
♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1577 to 1640. Period: 16th century to 17th century.
14 entries:
- A-039(1) Aegidius Romanus — Tractatus de peccato originali. — Oxford: [Printer of the ‘Expositio in symbolum apostolorum'], 14 Mar. 1479. 4°.
- A-075(1)? Alanus de Insulis — Doctrinale altum seu Liber parabolarum. — Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, [1492]. 4°.
- A-215(1) Alphabetum — Alphabetum divini amoris. — Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, [c.1477-83]. Folio.
- B-014(1) Balbus, Johannes — Catholicon. — [Cologne: Ludwig von Renchen, c.1485]. Folio.
- B-229(1) Beroaldus, Philippus — Orationes et poemata. — Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, 4 Sept. 1492. 4°.
- B-431(1) Bonaventura — Soliloquium. — [Gouda: Gerard Leeu, not after 1483]. 4°.
- B-552(4) Breydenbach, Bernhard von — Peregrinatio in terram sanctam. — Mainz: Erhard Reuwich, 11 Feb. 1486. Folio.
- B-621(1) Butrio, Antonius de — Speculum de confessione, et al. — Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, [1477-83]. Folio.
- E-009(1) Elegantiae — Elegantiarum viginti praecepta. — ’s-Hertogenbosch: [Gerardus de Leempt, 14]85. 4°.
- H-222(1)? Hortus Sanitatis — [Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, c.1507]. Folio.
- J-050(1)? Jacobus de Voragine — Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. With texts relating to Marian feasts as J‑041; legends as J‑043. — Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 25 June 1486. Folio.
- P-127(1) Perottus, Nicolaus — Rudimenta grammatices. — [Louvain]: Aegidius van der Heerstraten, [between 1485 and 19 Apr. 1486]. 4°.
- P-296(1)? Pilatus, Pontius — De vita et origine Pilati. — [Cologne: Cornelis de Zierikzee, 1498/9]. 4°.
- S-159(1) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus — Proverbia, et al. — [Paris: Pierre Le Dru], for Denis Roce, [c.1498]. 4°.
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