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Isaac CASAUBON 1559-1614
Biographical Note
Prebendary of Canterbury, classical scholar.
Books
Edward Bernard’s Catalogi manuscriptorum, 1697, lists 110 mss which belonged to him. Many of his books were bought for the Royal Library; 61 volumes of his adversaria were bequeathed to the Bodleian Library by his son Meric in 1671. At the time of his death, he owned ca.1200 books in England and ca.850 in Paris.
Sources
- Birrell, T., The reconstruction of the library of Isaac Casaubon, Hellinga festschrift, Amsterdam, 1980, 59-68.
- Considine, John. '"Casaubon, Isaac (1559–1614), classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian."' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Craster, H., Casaubon's Greek manuscripts, Bodleian Library Quarterly 5 (1926), 97-100.
- Grafton, A. and Weinberg, J., Isaac Casaubon’s library of Hebrew books, in G. Mandelbrote and B. Taylor (eds), Libraries within the library, London, 2009, 24-42.
- Macray, W., Annals of the Bodleian Library, 2nd edn, Oxford, 1890, p.136.