Difference between revisions of "William Moore 1590-1659"
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*Roberts, R. Julian. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/19152 "Moore, William (bap. 1590, d. 1659), librarian and collector of manuscripts."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. | *Roberts, R. Julian. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/19152 "Moore, William (bap. 1590, d. 1659), librarian and collector of manuscripts."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. | ||
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William MOORE 1590-1659
Biographical Note
Born at Gissing, Norfolk, son of William Moore. BA Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1610, MA 1613, fellow 1615, lecturer in rhetoric 1614; Librarian of Cambridge University 1653.
Books
Moore assembled a significant collection of ca. 150 ex-monastic manuscripts, which he bequeathed to Gonville and Caius where they remain today. He was remembered for his learning, and as a diligent custodian of the University Library.
Sources
- Feingold, M., The mathematician's apprenticeship, Cambridge, 1984, 67.
- Oates, J. C. T. Cambridge University Library: a history. Cambridge, 1986, 268-70.
- Roberts, R. Julian. "Moore, William (bap. 1590, d. 1659), librarian and collector of manuscripts." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.