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Title: Annotations on Microcosmos
Alternative Title: Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662. Microcosmos: A little description of the great world. Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, and are to be sold by W. Turner and T. Huggins,, an. Dom. 1625.
Creator: Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.
Contributor: Grove, J. H., active 1625, former owner.
Pierce, Josiah, former owner.
Wilson, J., active 1888, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: after 1652
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 notes written by anonymous person in the margins of Peter Heylyn's Microcosmos (1625), containing notes on changes in later editions, references to other works, a reference to Shakespeare, and additions to the text. Notes are closely written in a neat and uniform mixed hand, and many pages are written edge to edge. Some text has been lost through trimming and rebinding. Although there appears to be a roughly contemporary ownership inscription on the title page ("H: Grove"), it does not appear to be the same hand responsible for the annotations. Most of the handwritten text is in English, although there are also passages in Greek and Latin.
Condition: Bound in contemporary calf in Cambridge-style binding, title in gilt on red spine label. Both boards detached, housed in marbled paper slipcase with calf spine. Printed text cataloged separately.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Marginalia (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance)--17th century.
Inscriptions (Provenance)--19th century.
Inscriptions (Provenance)--17th century.
Extent: 8 preliminary leaves, 812 (i.e. 802), [2] pages : folded table ; 20 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1gw2s
G114 .H61m 1625 *
Subject: Geography--Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, English--17th century.
Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.
Place: England.
Provenance: Bookseller description from catalog of J. Wilson of Birmingham (January 1888); pencil inscription "Josiah Pierce" in 19th-century hand on front paste-down endpaper; 17th-century ownership "JH: Grove" on title page.
Location: CLUW

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