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Record Number: 27476


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Very extensive reading notes from the sixth edition of James Howell's Epistolę Ho-Elianę familiar letters, domestic and forren: divided into four books, partly historical, political, philosophical, upon emergent occasions (1688).

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1710 and 31 Dec 1710

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Edward Pordage

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Fellow of King's College. Cambridge

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

James Howell

Title:

Epistolę Ho-Elianę familiar letters, domestic and forren: divided into four books, partly historical, political, philosophical, upon emergent occasions

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, History, Geography / Travel, Politics, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Sixth edition, 1688

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

27476

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Edward Pordage

Title:

Reading Notes

Location:

King's College, Cambridge

Call No:

MS 840.5

Page/Folio:

293-401

Additional Information:

n/a

Citation:

Edward Pordage, Reading Notes, King's College, Cambridge, MS 840.5, 293-401, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27476, accessed: 10 October 2024


Additional Comments:

Page images from MS accessed at Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online, where they appear by permission of the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. Scriptorium eds. note: 'From p. 378 onwards the pages are wrongly paginated, as Pordage omitted p. 377 from his sequence.'

   
   
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