The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Humfrey Wanley (21 March 1672 - 6 July 1726)
Librarian to Robert Harley (Earl of Oxford). Wanley is referred to several times in Ralph Thoresby's Diary and Catalogue. In Thoresby's diary Wanley is referred to in connection with the Earl of Oxford's library, "At eight, at Mr. Dale's, with whom I walked to the Earl of Oxford's most noble library; viewed several valuable manuscripts, ancient and modern, European and American: met there not only with my old friend, Mr. Wanley, the librarian" (Vol 2 page 98). In Thoresby's Catalogue Wanley is mentioned in connection with some curiosities Thoresby aqcuired. "Two Indian Pencils fixed in Reeds seven Inches long. Don. D. Hum. Wanley." Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28664 Relevant locations: Birth place in Coventry, West MidlandsRelationships: John Bagford (1650/1-5 May 1716) was a seller to Humfrey Wanley
Joseph Boyse (1660-1728) was a friend of Humfrey Wanley
Linked manuscript items: as Correspondent - "[Wanely to Charlett 22 Aug 1697]," Bodleian Library Ballard 13, Oxford University
Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Inkhorn from
so the Pen which is made of a Reed. Don. D.
of Brass with Flowers, inscribed,
I was inSheffield
made, and many
can, witness I was not made by any Man. (
can, witness I was not made by any Man
.)Ellen Ellis fecit
fixed in Reeds seven Inches long. Don. D.Indian
Pencils
of the same Dimension, very well painted and gilt upIndian Pictures
on their Paper.
Different Sorts ofPaper from very distant Parts of
the World.
yellow
made of the Tree
Bambuor
Cio, a paler yellow, but somewhat finer;
a
Colour finer than either:Lemon
Red
Blew
of all is that made of
.Cotton
andGerman ,
Venetian , Italian
.Venice ,
Rome , Con
stantinople , &c
stantinople
fine white transparentPaper from In
dia ; in Length a Yard, and near a Foot, though scarce two Foot broad.
dia
Don. D.
is writ upon, whichIndian Paper
gives me the Occasion of mentioning the different Characters of seve
ral Nations.
English 8vo. printed at
different Places as the
Times would permit; at the End of the fyrst
Boke of Moses called Genesis, is added,
emprinted atMalborow
in the Land of Hesse , by me Hans
Luft , the Yere of our Lorde MCCCCCXXX the xvii daye
of January .
Luft
To this is prefixed
Tyndall
a Prologe sheweinge the Use of the Scripture, wherein he answers the
Popish Objection, that they
wott not what moare profite is in many geftes
of the Scripture, if they be read without an allegorye, then in a tale of Roben
Hode. At the End is a Table
of the Scripture, if they be read without an allegorye, then in a tale of Roben
Hode
expoundinge certaine words. Exodusis
printed in a different Character; the Person, Time and Place con
cealed,
about to
purchase grace with Ceremony, to soche as sucke the Ale pope to
quench thirst. There are the Figures of the Altars, Lavers, High-
quench thirst
Priests,
&c.
the thyrde boke Leviticus,
and so to
Numeri the fourthe, which is printed in the like Character
with
Genesis, but no Place, Time, or Printer named; nor in
Deutero
nomye, which is in the white Letter, as are also the 2d and 3d Books,
nomye
and, I presume, were printed privately in
. This PentateuchEngland
was the acceptable Present of
.Mr. Richard Beard of Shrewsbury
ingenious
Wanley's
Letter, butRoman
Numbers.