With the generous
support of the Friends of the National Libraries, Cambridge University
Library welcomes a new addition to their collection of books annotated
by Gabriel Harvey, far more copiously annotated with extensive and
revealing marginalia than those from his collection already held in the
Library.
Written mostly in English, these annotations
provide a vivid insight into the mind of an Elizabethan scholar in
Cambridge, and an English interpretation of the first phase of the
French Wars of Religion. Born in Saffron Walden in 1551/2,
Gabriel Harvey became a notable Cambridge scholar and fellow of Pembroke
College, notorious for his copious annotations in the margins of his
books. Until this recent discovery, 155 books were known to survive from
Harvey's library, fifteen of which are held in Cambridge libraries.
Fourteen of Harvey’s books have been digitised and transcribed on the ‘Digital Bookwheel’ of the Archaeology of Reading project,
which uses digital technologies ‘to enable the systematic exploration
of the historical reading practices of Renaissance scholars nearly 450
years ago’ and Cambridge is collaborating with the project around this
new acquisition. This latest addition has also been digitised and is
freely available to everyone on Cambridge University Library's Digital Library.
It is hoped that it will extend conversations surrounding marginalia,
reading habits and the thoughts of Elizabethan scholars. ... [mehr] https://www.cam.ac.uk/AnnotatingHistory
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