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Ben JONSON 1574-1637
Biographical Note
Poet and playwright.
Books
Ca. 300 books with his inscriptions are now known to survive, widely dispersed. He regularly wrote the motto ‘Tanquam exploratur’ on his titlepages.
Sources
- Donaldson, Ian. "Jonson, Benjamin [Ben] (1572–1637), poet and playwright." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Evans, R. Ben Jonson’s library and marginalia: new evidence from the Folger collection, Philological Quarterly 66 (1987), 521-8.
- Evans, R. Ben Jonson’s Chaucer, English Literary Renaissance 19 (1989), 324-45.
- McPherson, D. Ben Jonson’s library and marginalia: an annotated catalogue, Studies in Philology 71 (1974), 1-106.
- Ben Jonson inscription in Sion College Library.