Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870, 1. kötet

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Cambridge University Press, 2010. jún. 17. - 436 oldal
This two-volume work covers the period 1570-1870, and is one of several written on book collections by Edward Edwards (1812-1886), whose three-volume Memoirs of Libraries is also reissued in this series. Volume 1 considers the gatherers of the 'foundation collections' of the British Museum. Among them were Henry, Prince of Wales, the son of James I, Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), and Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose bequest of his collections to George II led directly to the foundation of the Museum by Act of Parliament in 1753. The administrators and early donors to the Museum - archaeologists, travellers and dilettanti such as Sir William Hamilton and the earl of Elgin - are also discussed.

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The Libraries of the East The Monasteries of the Nitrian Desert
16
CHAPTER II
48
CHAPTER V
137
THE FOUNDER OF THE BANESIAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
141
CHAPTER III
153
Political Exile and Foreign Travel under Elizabeth and under James
172
BOOK THE THIRD
178
CHAPTER V
203
CHAPTER VI
247
CHAPTER I
314
and Increase of the British Museum Epochs in the Growth of
317
CHAPTER II
328
A GROUP OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS
346

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