Evidence of an Early Modern Scholar’s Visit to the Library at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford in the Early Seventeenth Century
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(2021): 15
Robert Ashley (1565–1641) was a lawyer, translator, and the founder of the library at Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court. Although no visitor books or library registers for ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ exist for the earlier seventeenth century, there is evidence that Ashley visited the library, probably in 1622/23, and made notes about the books he viewed there.
Thomas James, Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis (London, 1600), p. 1
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Library, BAY L530