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Nicholas HOBART ca.1605-1657
Biographical Note
Born at Lindsey, Suffolk, son of William Hobart. BA King's College, Cambridge 1624, MA 1627, fellow 1624-50, proctor 1641; also resided for a while at Trinity Hall. Secretary to Sir Thomas Bendish, ambassador to Turkey and agent for the Levant Company at Constantinople, where he spent some time.
Books
Hobart acquired a number of oriental books, including Persian and Arabic mss, via his contacts with the middle east (some at least came via Edward Abbott, an English merchant and consul at Cairo). He gave a little over 20 of these to Cambridge University Library in 1655, and bequeathed a few more "Turkish, Arabic and Persian books" when he died, along with a collection of coins. He also bequeathed 20 marks to King's College Library, to be spent on civil law books; £20 to Cambridge University, also for civil law books; £10 to Eton, for "books for the common use of the College"; £5 to Trinity Hall, to be spent on books; and £10 to Bury St Edmunds School, to be spent on books. The residue of his goods and chattels were left to his wife Sarah.
A number of the oriental books and mss can be traced in CUL today and are described by Oates. The bookcase incorporating Hobart's initials which was built at King's College in the Chapel, to house the books bought with his bequest, is described and illustrated in Clark, The care of books. Examples: CUL Rel.d.64.1, MSS Dd.12.1, Ff.3.30, Ll.6.24.
Characteristic markings
Hobart's books in CUL are not inscribed or annotated by him.
Sources
Venn; J. C. T. Oates, Cambridge University Library: a history, vol 1, Cambridge, 1986, 289-94; J. W. Clark, The care of books, Cambridge, 1901, 254-5.