Frances Junius 1589-1677

Francis JUNIUS 1589-1677

Biographical Note

Philological scholar, librarian and tutor for the Earl of Arundel. Bequeathed important collections of books and manuscripts, to the Bodleian.

Sources

• I. Philip, The Bodleian Library in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oxford, 1983, 57-8.
• Romburgh, Sophie van. "Junius [Du Jon], Franciscus [Francis] (1591–1677), philologist and writer on art." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.