Henry Jacob ca.1608-1652
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Henry JACOB ca.1608-52
Biographical Note
Lecturer in Philology at Oxford; amanuensis to John Selden.
Books
A brief inventory of his goods made in 1653 (transcribed and edited as PLRE 166) shows he had a library of ca.370 books, though these are not listed by title.
Sources
Wright, Stephen. "Jacob, Henry (c. 1608–1652), philologist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. R. Nicholson, Henry Jacob, in R. Fehrenbach and J. Black (eds), Private Libraries in Renaissance England 7 (2009), 281-285.