Nicholas Kempston and his Books

摘要

FORTY YEARS AGO, NEII, KER AND RICHARD BEADLE made an extremely interesting and fruitful intervention concerning the book activities to be associated with Robert Elyot, vice-provost of Eton College from 1482 until his death in 1499.' Even though he rather inconsistently signed his volumes, Elyot was certainly the owner of a considerable library, one Ker suspected was a good deal larger than might overtly appear. Moreover, he was a voracious reader, distinctively marking and often dating his book encounters. From the persistent annotations he left in books, Ker just about doubled the number of books to be assigned to the medieval library of Eton College.