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Title: A catalogue of the Byssch Library.
Alternative Title: Bibliotheca Byssch.
Creator: Bysshe, Edward,Sir,1615?-1679.
Date Created and/or Issued: about 1650?
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
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Description: Scope/Content: Binder's title from spine. Page and category headings in Latin.
Scope/Content: Manuscript catalog of the library of Sir Edward Bysshe. Works are arranged into sections by language (e.g. "Libri Graeci") and then by size of the volume. It is unclear when this catalog was compiled, but the latest publication date for books in the library appears to be 1650. The Byssch Library was dispersed at auction in 1679 and a catalog was published in that year; however, that catalog is organized by topic and then size.
Condition: Bound in gray boards with 19th century leather spine.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Library catalogs
Bookplates (Provenance)
Extent: 348 pages, bound ;31 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1cd08
f MS.1950.033
Language: English
eng
Latin
lat
Subject: Private libraries--17th century--Catalogs.
Place: England
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Bysshe on front free endpaper.
Location: CLUW

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