Edward Pococke 1604-1691

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Edward POCOCKE 1604-91

Biographical Note

Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford.

Books

420 oriental manuscripts from his collection were bought by the Bodleian after his death. Remainder of his library (“the theological part”) auctioned in London, 11.4.1692 (joint sale, with part of the stock of the bookseller Richard Davis).

Sources

  • Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010.
  • Philip, I. The Bodleian Library in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oxford, 1983., 59-60.
  • Toomer, G. J. "Pococke, Edward (1604–1691), oriental scholar." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.