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Record 5721

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"In Part I of the Religio [Medici] (i:30), [Thomas] Browne confesses himself a writer of marginalia, quoting a passage of Paracelsus that he declare 'I never could pass ... without an asterisk or annotation.'"
Century: 1600-1699
Date: unknown
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:Thomas Browne
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1605
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Physician/Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
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: Paracelsus
Title: n/a
Genre: Medicine, Astrology / alchemy / occult, Unknown
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5721  
Source - Print  
  Author: H. J. Jackson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
  Place of Publication: New Haven
  Date of Publication: 2001
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 279 n.5
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 279 n.5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5721, accessed: 28 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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