Robert Wakefield
Robert Wakefield (died 1537) was an English linguist and scholar. He studied at the University of Cambridge (B.A. 1513-1514), the University of Leuven (M.A.1519); he taught Hebrew at the Collegium Trilingue in Leuven. In 1519 he became Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He then taught at the University of Tübingen in 1522 as the successor of Johannes Reuchlin. He taught Hebrew at Cambridge from 1524 (B.D. 1525) and was appointed a royal chaplain. From 1530 he taught in Oxford. He became a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1532.[1]
After his death, his library passed to his brother Thomas Wakefield and from him into the library of Archbishop John Whitgift and then into Lambeth Palace Library. Two of his books are now in the Chapter Library at Canterbury, having been given as duplicates by Archbishop William Sancroft in the 1680s.
- Shelfmark W/R-8-22
- Johann Reuchlin. De rudimentis hebraicis.
Pforzheim: 1506.- 16c German blind-stamped pigskin binding on wooden boards; fore-edge title.
- Annotations in the hand of Thomas Wakefield (d. 1575) on pp. 5, 247, 288, identified by James Carley.
- 1650s Cambridge University Library shelfmark (Q γ 13) on front pastedown?: "13" visible as offset on free endpaper.
- Post-1660 Lambeth Palace shelfmark (8 H 12) on titlepage.
- Part of Abp William Sancroft's gift of Lambeth duplicates, c. 1680.
- Listed in the 1743 printed catalogue (p.85).
- Shelfmark W2/X-5-18
- Johann Reuchlin. De verbo mirifico.
Tubingen: 1514.- Probably purchased in Germany by Robert Wakefield and bound for him in Cambridge in 1523.
- 16c blind stamped binding by J. Siberch, Cambridge.
- Front pastedown from medieval MS, with shelf mark F.2.14.
- Fore-edge title , vertical: 'RVCH|LEN'.
- Back pastedown from medieval MS with note at foot: Alphabetum grecum.
- Inscriptions in the hand of Thomas Wakefield.
- Shelfmark 'F γ 14' at top of front pastedown (Cambridge University Library, 1650s), identified by James Carley.
- Part of Abp William Sancroft's gift of Lambeth Palace duplicates.
- Listed in the 1743 printed catalogue, p. 85.