The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Edward Paston (1550 - 1630)
Paston "kept some of his many music manuscripts in a chest, a closet and four 'trunckes' in the gallery in Appleton Hall (near Sandringham in Norfolk) as well as other items in the 'Study next the Parlor', but there were other books at his properties of Thorpe Hall and Town Barningham" (Selwyn and Selwyn, 505). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/70482 Collector (minor)Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - 'The Profession of a Gentleman': Books for the Gentry and the Nobility (c.1560-1640).
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