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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'Gabriel Harvey Livy WorksPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'Gabriel Harvey Livy WorksPrint: Book
1500-1599'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'Gabriel Harvey Frontinus The stratagemesPrint: Book
1500-1599'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'Gabriel Harvey Frontinus The stratagemesPrint: Book
1500-1599'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this period as well as from 1580 and 1588.'Gabriel Harvey Frontinus The stratagemesPrint: Book
1500-1599'The date "1580" is inscribed by [Gabriel] Harvey on sig.Ss3v of the Florio volume ["First Fruites" (1578)] at the "Finis" of the major portion of the text.'Gabriel Harvey John FlorioFlorio his first fruites: a perfect induction to t...Print: Book
1500-1599'Despite [Gabriel] Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in Italian, in 1580 he managed to read the "First Decade" of Machiavelli's "Discorsi"'.Gabriel Harvey Niccolo MachiavelliDiscorsi ("First Decade")Print: Book
1500-1599'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and Richard Perceval's "Bibliotheca Hispanica"(1591), an ...Gabriel Harvey Antonio de CorroSpanish GrammerPrint: Book
1500-1599'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and Richard Perceval's "Bibliotheca Hispanica"(1591), an ...Gabriel Harvey Richard PercevalBibliotheca HispanicaPrint: Book
1500-1599'On sig. AIv of [John] Blundevill, ["The fower chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanship"], [Gabriel] Harvey inscribes: "I use Mr Astley [John Astley's "The Art of Ridi...Gabriel Harvey John AstleyThe Art of RidingPrint: Book
1500-1599'[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive notes in this area are found in his copies of [...]...Gabriel Harvey Niccolo MachiavelliThe Arte of WarrePrint: Book
1500-1599'[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive notes in this area are found in his copies of [...]...Gabriel Harvey Peter WhitehorneCertain wayes for the ordering of SoldioursPrint: Book
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera",...Gabriel Harvey Joannis de SacroboscoTextus de SphaeraPrint: Book
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera",...Gabriel Harvey Bonetus de LatesAnnuli ... super astrologiamPrint: Book
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera",...Gabriel Harvey Euclid First book of geometryPrint: Book
1500-1599'Next to [John] Balgrave's modest prefatory poem [in "The Mathematical Jewel" (1585)] "The Authour in his own defence", [Gabriel] Harvey comments: "An Youth, & no Univers...Gabriel Harvey John BlagraveThe Mathematical Jewel, Shewing the making, and mo...Print: Book
1500-1599'Luca Gaurico's "Tractatus Astrologicus" is a work giving horoscopes and brief descriptions of noted persons and of city-states and towns, each being illustrated by an as...Gabriel Harvey Luca GauricoTractatus AstrologicusPrint: Book
1500-1599'On sig. A2 of "A New Letter of Notable Contents" (1593) [Gabriel] Harvey refers to [Barnabe Barnes, "Parthenophil and Parthenophe" as one of the recently-read books rece...Gabriel Harvey Barnabe BarnesParthenophil and Parthenope. Sonnettes, madrigals...Print: Book
1500-1599Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February] 1570 and some in 1579.'Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum T...Print: Book
1500-1599Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February] 1570 and some in 1579.'Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum T...Print: Book


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