Thomas Browne 1605-1682
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Sir Thomas BROWNE 1605-82
Biographical Note
Born in the parish of St Michael-le-Querne, London, son of Thomas Browne, liveryman of the Mercers' Company of London. Matriculated as a commoner at Broadgates Hall, Oxford in 1623, graduated BA in 1627 and proceeded MA in 1629. He studied medicine at Huguenot Montpellier and in Padua, graduating MD from Leiden in 1633. His Religio medici circulated in manuscript before appearing in print in 1642, and he published his Pseudodoxia epidemica in 1646, which was reprinted numerous times.
Books
An auction catalogue of Thomas and his son, Edward Browne's, joint library, 8.1.1711 lists 2377 lots. Edward Bernard's Catalogi manuscriptorum, 1697, lists Edward Browne as owning 28 manuscripts.
Sources
- Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010.
- Finch, J. A catalogue of the libraries of Sir Thomas Browne and Dr Edward Browne, his son. A facsimile reproduction with introduction, Leiden, 1986.
- Gwynn, L. The library of Sir Thomas Browne, unpublished PhD thesis, Queen Mary University London, 2016.
- Richmond, G. Sir Thomas Browne’s library, Antiquarian Book Monthly Review 4 (1977), 2-9.
- Robbins, R. H. "Browne, Sir Thomas (1605–1682), physician and author." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Thornton, J. Dr Edward Browne (1642-1708) as a bibliophile, Library World 54 (1952-3), 69-73.