Evidence: | '[In Gabriel Harvey's methods of annotation] Succinct captions of one or two words placed in the margin often summarize a fairly lengthy textual discussion, e.g., in Thomas Blundevill's "The foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship" (1580) [...] On fol.5r Harvey inscribes at the top "How the Rider ought to sitt in his Saddle" [...] and on fol.51v he summarizes with the inscription, "[italics]The parts of the bit[end italics]: as they ar termed by their [italics]proper names[end italics]. Italics indicate Harvey's underlinings.' |
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Century: | 1500-1599, 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1580 and 7 Feb 1630 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Gabriel Harvey |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1545 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer/Academic |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Thomas Blundevill |
Title: | The foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship |
Genre: | Textbook / self-education |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1580 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 9540 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia F. Stern | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Gabriel Harvey: His Life, Marginalia and Library | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1979 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 141 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia F. Stern, Gabriel Harvey: His Life, Marginalia and Library (Oxford, 1979), p. 141, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9540, accessed: 04 December 2023 |
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