A lost Chinese inscribed stone, some Old Hungarian script, two notable copies of Angelo Rocca's Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana (1591), and an addition to John Donne's library

• Published in: The Seventeenth century Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 287 - 305
• Main Author: Poole, William
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Routledge 04.03.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Donne, John (1572-1631); Early sinology; English literature; Hungarian runes; Inscriptions; John Donne; Rocca, Angelo (1545-1620); Runes; Stone; Thomas Marshall; United Kingdom > UK; England; Oxfordshire England

This article discusses a lost Chinese inscribed stone known to have been in Oxfordshire in the late seventeenth century. It then proceeds to identify a hitherto unnoticed book in Oxford belonging to the poet John Donne, featuring extensive manuscript and printed inserts. Another copy of the same tex...