Evidence of an Early Modern Scholar’s Visit to the Library at New College, 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 New College 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