Edward Pococke 1604-1691
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Edward POCOCKE 1604-91
Biographical Note
Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford.
Books
420 oriental mss from his collection were bought by the Bodleian after his death. Remainder of his library (“the theological part”) auctioned in London, 11.4.1692 (joint sale, with part of the stock of the bookseller Richard Davis).
Sources
Toomer, G. J. "Pococke, Edward (1604–1691), oriental scholar." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. I. Philip, The Bodleian Library in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oxford, 1983., 59-60. R. C. Alston, Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010.