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Record 27476

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Very extensive reading notes from the sixth edition of James Howell's Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ familiar letters, domestic and forren: divided into four books, partly historical, political, philosophical, upon emergent occasions (1688).
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Jan 1710 and 31 Dec 1710
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Edward Pordage
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Fellow of King's College. Cambridge
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: James Howell
Title: Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ familiar letters, domestic and forren: divided into four books, partly historical, political, philosophical, upon emergent occasions
Genre: Essays / Criticism, History, Geography / Travel, Politics, Philosophy
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Sixth edition, 1688
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27476  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Edward Pordage
  Title: Reading Notes
  Location: King's College, Cambridge
  Call no: MS 840.5
  Page/folio: 293-401

Citation: Edward Pordage, Reading Notes King's College, Cambridge, p. MS 840.5, p. 293-401, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27476, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Page images from MS accessed at Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online, where they appear by permission of the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. Scriptorium eds. note: 'From p. 378 onwards the pages are wrongly paginated, as Pordage omitted p. 377 from his sequence.'

 

 

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