Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Volume 2

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-108-07934-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General

This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770–1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men' furnished by John Aubrey (1626–97) to Anthony à Wood, who was at the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813 work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the entirety of the third. Volume 2, Part 1 contains letters to and from the librarian and antiquary Thomas Hearne, as well as two accounts of Hearne's travels, on foot to Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire in 1716, and on horseback to Reading and Silchester in 1714, and the first fifty (organised alphabetically from Aiton to Fletcher) of Aubrey's 'lives'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aubrey, John

Walker, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Letters 111-62; Appendices 1-3; Lives of eminent men, part 1.