18 May 2010
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Posted by: King's College
An eighteenth century notebook from the King's archives
has been published online. The notebook contains 400 pages of reading
notes by King's student and Fellow Edward Pordage (1687 - 1751).
Pordage
came from Eton to King's in 1707. He was elected a Fellow in 1710 but
resigned five years later to become Rector of Bere Crocombe in
Somerset. He later became Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal.
Pordage wrote the notebook in his time at King's. He jotted down
summaries from memory of books and poems he had read, including notes
on Bacon's Of the proficience and advancement of learning, Thomas Vaughan's Magia Adamica (1650) and Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. The notes show Pordage studied a diverse range of topics, including education, rhetoric, memory and alchemy.
The handwritten notes have been photographed page by page and published on the Scriptorium website, which specialises in digitising medieval and early modern manuscripts.
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