Adams, Robyn;
Van der Laan, Sarah;
(2022)
A Tudor Family Library: Social Ambition and Continental Books in Sir Michael Dormer's Donation to the Bodleian Library.
Huntington Library Quarterly
, 85
(3)
pp. 395-446.
10.1353/hlq.2022.a903737.
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Abstract
This essay argues that an examination of the list of books donated to the Bodleian by Sir Michael Dormer in 1603 complicates our assumptions about the audience for Italian Renaissance literature in the Tudor period. Such study causes us to readjust our knowledge of the kinds of books owned by the gentry when set against the known book collections represented in the standard literature. It demonstrates that, by scrutinizing institutional donation lists in granular detail, we can increase the cumulative bibliographical data available to study book ownership across a wider social spectrum than has previously been accessible to scholars across the disciplines..
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Tudor Family Library: Social Ambition and Continental Books in Sir Michael Dormer's Donation to the Bodleian Library |
| DOI: | 10.1353/hlq.2022.a903737 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2022.a903737 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | sixteenth-century book collecting, Tudor libraries, Edward Coke, Thomas Knyvett, Thomas Bodley02 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Centre for Editing Lives and Letters |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189816 |
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