Thomas Bodley's letter to his library-keeper

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Thomas Bodley's letter to his library-keeper requesting the library be kept free of "Baggage Books," in Reliquiæ Bodleianæ (1703). One might compare Bodley's instructions to Gabriel Naudé's several decades later, which encourage curators to collect ephemeral or "used" materials. Digitized from the original at the John Carter Brown Library and accessed via Internet Archive.

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    Thomas Bodley
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