Incunabula provenances and other names index
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Alphabetical list of names (surname order) associated with the incunabula, primarily relating to provenance. Including names of former owners, donors, and other names where the exact relationship to the book is unknown. Booksellers are listed in a separate index.
NB! Direct links to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) entries will only work from University of Glasgow IP addresses as this is a subscription database.
See also the institutions provenances index and the booksellers index.
C
C., P. D. -- see P. D. C.
C., R. -- see R. C.
C.H. (19th century)
Cabrias, Petrus -- see Chabrias, Petrus
Cade, Jack (16th century)
Caluerdus -- see Calvert
Calvert (17th century?)
Calvi, Ferdinando -- see Falakra, Ferdinando (perhaps = Ferdinandus Calvus or Ferdinando Calvi)
Calvus, Ferdinandus -- see Falakra, Ferdinando (perhaps = Ferdinandus Calvus or Ferdinando Calvi)
Cambon, T(?) (16th century)
Cambridge graduate, unidentified (17th century)
Cambi(?) (16th century)
Italy
Camli -- see Camilli
Cammerer, Johannes (fl. 1536)
Of Aichen, Bavaria
Campbell Fraser, Archibald -- see Fraser, Archibald Campbell, of Lovat
Cangé, Jean Pierre Imbert Chastre de -- see Chastre de Cangé, Jean Pierre Imbert
Cangey, Mathurin de (15th/16th century)
Monk and librarian of the abbey of Clairvaux (cf. Needham IPI)
Capacelli Gaddi, Girolamo -- see Gadi, Girolamo
Capello family
Venice
Bg.2.12 (possible owners)
Carr, A. (17th Century)
Cn.2.21 (item 1) and Cn.2.21 (item 2)
Cassanis, Andrea de (17th/18th century)
Italy
Cassano, Duca di -- see Serra, Giuseppe, duca di Cassano (d. before 1826)
Cassia, Paulo (17th/18th century)
Cast.s, Joseph -- see Castus(?), Joseph
Castus(?), Joseph (15th/16th century)
Franciscan friar
Cavagnetus, Johannes (fl. 1554)
Cavaleri, Michele (ca. 1813 - ca. 1875)
Lawyer and founder of a private museum in Milan (cf. Needham IPI)
Cavendish, William George Spencer (1790-1858)
6th Duke of Devonshire; see 'A catalogue of the duplicates of the library of ... the Duke of Devonshire which will be sold by auction, by R.H. Evans ...' (London: 1815) and ODNB.
César, Père (17th century)
Chabrias, Petrus (fl. 1537)
BC33-d.8 (item 1); BC33-d.8 (item 2); BC33-d.8 (item 3); BC33-d.8 (item 4); BC33-d.8 (item 5); BC33-d.8 (item 6); BC33-d.8 (item 7); BC33-d.8 (item 8)
Chamtus (fl. 1542)
Chandler, William (early 16th century)
Charles VIII (1470-1498)
King of France
Charpillet (16th/17th century)
France
Chaserandi, Johannes (fl. 1498)
Carmelite; See Benedictus Zimmerman, 'Monumenta historica Carmelitana' (Lirinae: 1907), p. 416 “Johannes Chaserandi Burgundus natione, Divionensis monasterii, provinciae Narbonae, vir plurimae eruditionis floruit Lugduni A.D. 1498”.
Chasles, Michel (1793-1880)
French mathematician and Académicien. See 'Catalogue de la bibliothèque scientifique ... de feu M. Michel Chasles' (Paris: Claudin, 1881).
Chastre de Cangé, Jean Pierre Imbert (d. 1746)
'Premier valet de chambre' to Louis XV (also known as Chastre de Cangé, Jean Pierre Gilbert)
Châtre de Cangé, Jean Pierre Imbert -- see Chastre de Cangé, Jean Pierre Imbert
Cheke (17th century?)
Chekus -- see Cheke
Cheney, Edward (1803-1884)
Of Badger Hall, Shropshire; see ODNB and 'Catalogue of the choice library of the late Edward Cheney ... which will be sold by auction, by Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... 25th ... June, 1886, and four following days'
Cherubinus, of Genoa, Frater (16th century)
Eg5-a.16 (item 1); Eg5-a.16 (item 2)
Chrestien, Guillaume (1500-1558)
Physician to Francis I, King of France
Christianus, G. -- see Chrestien, Guillaume
Christoforus (early 16th century)
Christophoros(?) (15th/16th century)
Churchill, George Spencer -- see Spencer-Churchill, George
Clarke (fl. 1828)
Clivone, Giulio (fl. 16th Century)
Of Vicenza, poet (mentioned briefly by Angiolgabriello di Santa Maria in his 'Biblioteca, e storia di quegli scrittori cosi della città come del territorio di Vicenza', Vicenza: 1772-82, vol. 5, p. 74).
Co[...], Ludovici de -- see Ludovicus
Cobertaldo, Albano -- see Cobertaldus, Albanus
Cobertaldus, Albanus (fl. 1586)
Cocket, Anthony -- see Cockette/Cocket, Anthony
Cockette/Cocket, Anthony (16th/17th century)
Colbert, Charles Eléonor, Comte de Seignely -- see Bibliotheca Colbertina
Colbert, Jacques Nicolas -- see Bibliotheca Colbertina
Colbert de Torcy, Jean Baptiste -- see Bibliotheca Colbertina
Colladon-Martin, Jean Antoine (1755-1830)
Swiss pharmacist and chemist
Combe, Charles (1743-1817)
Physician and numismatist; see ODNB.
Compton, J., Rev. (19th century)
Congley, Richard (1577-1592)
Rector of Begbroke, Oxfordshire
Connor, Eugene (16th/17th century)
Constable, David (fl. 1817)
Advocate
Constantius, Ignatius (fl. 1675)
Conway, Frederick William (1782-1853)
Editor of the Dublin Evening Post. See 'Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Frederick Wm. Conway ... which will be sold by auction, by H. Lewis ... on Tuesday, May 30th, 1854, and 24 following days ...' [Dublin: 1854].
Coq, Louis le -- see Le Coq, Louis (Ludovicus Gallus)
Cortina, Joaquín Gómez de la (1808-1868)
1st Marqués de Morante
Costan (16th/17th century)
France
Cottrell [later Cottrell-Dormer], Clement, Sir (1686–1758)
Courtier and antiquary; see ODNB.
Couthier, Jean (16th/17th century)
Coyet, Joannes (16th/17th century)
Cranmer, Thomas (1489-1556)
Archbishop of Canterbury; see ODNB and David G. Selwyn, 'The library of Thomas Cranmer', no. 509, Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications, 3rd ser., vol. 1, 1996.
Crawford, William Horatio (1815-1888)
Of Lakelands, Cork
Creuzer, Georg Friedrich (1771-1858)
Philologist and professor at Marburg and Heidelberg
Cropte, La (family, France) -- see La Cropte family (France)
Culemann, Friedrich Georg Hermann (1811-1886)
Printer, Senator, in Hannover
Cunliffe, Ellis, Sir, Bt. (1717-1767)
Merchant and M.P. for Liverpool.