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Title: [Manuscript notes on Pseudodoxia epidemica]
Alternative Title: Pseudodoxia epidemica
Creator: Turner, Thomas
Browne, Thomas, Sir
Date Created and/or Issued: [after 1650]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Extensive contemporary underscoring and annotations in the hand of Thomas Tourneur throughout a 1650 edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica. Annotations provide internal cross-references to other passages in the printed book and external cross-references to other books and authors, including Browne's own Religio Medici as well as titles by Francis Bacon, George Sandys, Thomas Ridgley, Raphael Holinshed, Johann Heinrich Alsted, Albertus Magnus, and Christoph Scheibler. Tourneur also adds new entries to the printed index in manuscript. Tourneur's annotations occasionally comment on the printed text and index key terms.
Scope/Content: "Sum E libris Thomas Tourneur de Grayes Inn" inscribed on title page; A later owner has amended the inscription to "Eram E libris Thomas Tourneur de Grayes Inn nunc Chr. Hobson."
Type: text
Format: ink on paper
Form/Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--England--17th century
Inscriptions (Provenance)--England--17th century
marginalia (annotations)
Extent: [16], 329, [11] pages, bound ; 30 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n14w4f
PR 3327 .P91 1650 copy 2 *
Language: English
eng
Subject: Natural history--Pre-Linnean works
Common fallacies--Early works to 1800
Learning and scholarship--Early works to 1800
Place: London, England
51.50853, -0.12574
Relation: ESTC R2160
Location: CLUW

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