Evidence: | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'
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Century: | 1600-1699, 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1670 and 31 Dec 1713 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening night: "at nights" |
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Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Lyttelton |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1648 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | unknown |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Sir Thomas Browne (reader's father) |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Thomas Gage |
Title: | Travels in the New World |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Folio |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 22879 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Elizabeth Lyttelton | |
Title: | Elizabeth Lyttelton's Commonplace Book | |
Location: | Cambridge University Library | |
Call no: | MS Add. 8460 | |
Page/folio: | 22v-23r |
Citation: | Elizabeth Lyttelton, Elizabeth Lyttelton's Commonplace Book Cambridge University Library, p. MS Add. 8460, p. 22v-23r, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22879, accessed: 04 December 2023 |
By kind permission of Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online (http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/). See http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/images/index.php?ms=Add.8640&page=46 for digital images. |
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