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Title
Annotations on An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories.
Alternative Title
Prideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646? Easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories. Oxford: Printed for Leonard Lichfield, 1648.
Creator
Moore, John.
Prideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646?
Date Created and/or Issued
about 1648
Contributing Institution
UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection
Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information
Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description
Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations in printed book.
Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations by contemporary reader John Moore (in addition to another possibly slightly later reader) in a 1648 copy of Mathias Prideaux's An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories. Most annotations are brief marginal notes, but there are also some more lengthy notes on historical context or on potential inaccuracies in the text.
Condition: Bound in old quarter calf with marbled boards.
Type
text
Form/Genre
Chronologies--17th century.
Annotations (Provenance)--Germany--17th century.
Extent
[5], 1-155, [3], 159-256, [2], 257-346 pages, bound; 19 cm
Identifier
ark:/21198/n1bc78
D18 .P94
Language
English
Subject
World history--Early works to 1800.
Prideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646?--Easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories.--1648.
Place
Germany--Hamburg.
Provenance
On leaf preceding title page: "John Moore" inscribed in all capitals; "For cousin John Moore att Hamburg." On title page: "JM" inscribed multiple times. On rear paste-down endpaper: "John Radcliffe" inscribed in pencil in an 18th or 19th century hand.
Location
CLUW

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