Isaac Vossius

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Isaac Vossius (1618–1689) was the son of the Dutch humanist scholar Gerhard Johann Vossius who was himself a (non-residentiary) canon of Canterbury. Isaac was at one time city librarian of Amsterdam (1644) and then librarian to Queen Christina of Sweden (1648). He came to England in 1670 and became a residentiary canon of Windsor in 1673.

His library was sold to the University of Leiden in 1690 where the books received the paste-on label and manuscript accession number seen in the volume recorded here, which was probably purchased at a sale of duplicates in 1706/1707.[1]

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Shelfmark W/K-5-19/20
Athanasius Kircher. Musurgia uniuersalis siue ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta. ... 1650.
Printed label pasted at foot of title page: Ex Bibliotheca Viri Illust. Isaaci Vossii. [with MS addition: 48].
Inscription on title page: Stephen Hunt.
References
  1. Astrid C. Balsem, 'Books from the library of Andreas Dudith (1533–89) in the library of Isaac Vossius (1618–89)', Books on the move: Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade, ed. Robin Myers, Michael Harris, Giles Mandelbrote. London: British Library, 2007, p. 82