Thomas Wakefield

Thomas Wakefield (or Wakefeld) (died 1575) was educated at the University of Cambridge (B.A. 1522/3). He was appointed the first Regius Professor of Hebrew (1540).

He was the brother of the Hebrew scholar Robert Wakefield whose books he inherited (1537). Thomas's library passed after his death to Archbishop John Whitgift and then into Lambeth Palace Library. Three 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.

Shelfmark W/O-5-10

Biblia sacrosancta Testameni Veteris & Noui, e sacra Hebraeorum lingua Graecorumque fontibus, ... translata in sermonem Latinum. ....
Zürich: 1543.

Annotations in the hand of Thomas Wakefield; inscription at top of title page (truncated by binder): Thom[as Wake]f[ield].

Gold-tooled centre piece

Traces of label attached to fore-edge of front pastedown (Archbishop John Whitgift?)

Cambridge University Library shelfmark on front pastedown, c. 1651: A.α.3.

On front pastedown: Cambridge UL shelfmark A.β.3. with C C by the side.

Lambeth Palace shelfmark on front free endpaper, c. 1662: 1.W.11.